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September 3, 2025 • 18 mins
We read a beautiful love story, talk cruising alone, and how to get over ghosting.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a Minnesota goodbye, BoNT is joining us today, and
then of course Bailey and myself and no Dave, no
day only three. All right, we are going to jump
into this long email and just bear with me because
I think it's a really cute story, but it is
very long. So it says, hello, my name is CJ.

(00:20):
And I'm driving to work this morning, and I was
thinking about how so many love stories are based on
real life couples and romance, and how the next the
notebook is being lived out somewhere right now.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
So get this. I have a friend, let's call her CALLI.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
After graduating in high school, Callie went to Ireland, and
just before leaving on this trip, Callie's high school boyfriend
broke up with her. She was bummed, but on the
plane she told her friend, I'm over it and to
prove it, I'm going to kiss an irishman while in Ireland.
So on their journey in Ireland, she's losing hope because
they didn't go to cities in Ireland where she might

(00:54):
find a young man to kiss. They were in the countryside.
She was going to give up until they landed in Dingle, Ireland.
After dinner Callie and her friend went walking about the
town and happened upon an ice cream shop. Inside of
the shop, there were two young men working, and Callie
flirted but couldn't catch the guy, so she went back
to the hotel that night and came up with a
new plan. The next night, after dinner, they went back

(01:16):
to the same ice cream shop, and sure enough, one
of the same guys was working. She flirted harder this time,
but the guy was not picking up what she was
thrown down. He started to clean up for the night,
count the cash, et cetera. They had failed again until
Callie said on her way out, Gee, wouldn't it be
nice if someone showed us around town? And finally the

(01:37):
guy gets the hints. He smiles and offers to walk
them around with his brother, who was waiting for him
to get off of work. They laughed, danced, shared beers
through rocks in the ocean. He was handsome with black
hair and striking blue eyes. She was a petite Minnesota Blanna.
I do feel like I'm reading a story right now.
His accent took her breath away. He was equal parts

(01:57):
funny and respectful, raised by a single mom, took care
of his other her siblings a good guy. Then the
girls realized it's midnight and they had to be back
at the hotel by eleven, because of course they're only seventeen,
so they run back to the hotel, both O'Malley boys
in tow, just in time to catch Callie's mom ready
to call the police. She yells for them to get
the fuck back in the hotel and they wouldn't be

(02:19):
allowed to leave for the rest of the trip. Callie
started to follow her orders, but then remembered the kiss.
She turned around and ran back up the hill and
kissed the O'Malley boy as he lifted her off her feet.
She recalls feeling a spark like the earth was electric
around her. Then she looked one last time in his
striking blue eyes and immediately turned and ran back to

(02:40):
her hotel room. She knew there was something cosmic about
that night. I remember hearing this story from Calli in college,
when it was only months after this had happened. She
used to say that she was only dating in college
because but she wouldn't marry anyone until she had found
the O'Malley guy again, because she had known if the
fire were because she had to know if the fireworks

(03:00):
really meant something. Well, turns out she found him and
he had never stopped thinking about her too, the perfect woman,
he would refer to her as. After a whirlwind romance,
moving across the ocean, first her to Ireland, then him
to Minnesota. They are currently living an exceedingly cosmic life

(03:22):
with four children with the brightest blue eyes you'll ever see.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Come on, baby, I think about them now.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
When I doubt that true love exists, there had to
be some reason they found each other. I never believed
in destiny or the universe in that sense until I
met these two together. They're just perfect thought. I would
share this adorable story with you, guys. Everyone needs a
good butterfly story every once in a while. I love
that story. I was smiling the entire time reading that.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Can I tell you, I just watched Titanic for the
first time, and I know that's a movie. But you
also said, like Notebook and stuff, that shit I believe
does happened in real life.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah, stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I don't know if it's like divine intervention or I
just believe in like true love and like fate and
all that stuff will come when.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
It's supposed to come.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Also, not to make this about me. I was Alyssa
and I my girlfriend. We were having this deep conversation
about like us and just everything we've been through and
like me and Alyssa. Fucking nobody can take away the
fact that Alyssa and I did long distance for a year.
Nobody can take away the fact that I not Eve.
Nobody in this room knows this. I told Alyssa the
day I got this job in Jersey, I said, I'm

(04:33):
giving you a year until I bring you with me.
Alyssa moved here to the day a year after I left.
So I say all that to say I believe in
stories like that, like fate will bring you two back together.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
What is meant to be will be. I don't care
what anybody says. Love like true love, that shit actually exists.
So yeah, good job, and like God blessed.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's such a sweet story. I'm very curious how they
found it each other, because if they, I mean maybe
since this.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Year, the years were when they were in when she
was in high school, like.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right, because they have four kids now, so I'm assuming
they're at least maybe thirty or something, and so it's like,
was she capable of finding him on social media and
that's how they reconnected.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
But anyways, great story.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I mean I've had vacation romances before where I've been
on a trip and I like, I don't know. I
was in Mexico once and me it was like my
girlfriend's company was rewarding them for being good salespeople or something,
and then it was another group of people who was
there also because their company rewarded them for being good salespeople.

(05:42):
So linked up with some guys from that company. Me
and one of the guys had like a little bit
of a vacation romance, aka, we just had sex a lot.
But he is the only other person I've ever said
I love you too besides my last X.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Really like not in a way, not in a way
like that, No, not in a way like that.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
It was like it was more like I love you.
And then he said that to me one of the
first days we hung out, and I'm like okay bye.
He's like say it back, and I was like, love
you too, and okay, yeah, No, it wasn't in it.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
It wasn't in them like I love you.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
And when we were up posessed.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Like no, no, no, no, this was a very sex
heavy vacation romance. It's not not anything where we were
like super connecting on like a soul level.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Okay, next one, h Uh, do you guys.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Want to learn about grand living at Coral Cables because
that's my next femail. Okay, not that one, all right.
So it says Greedians Day run show crew. First of all, yes,
you can say my name, although if possible, I'd like
for this to wait until Dave is back. Okay, I'm
gonna hold off then, so hang on, won't read that

(07:00):
one just yet.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
I was so looking forward to understanding what it was.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, well, wait till Dave is back. So this one
says happy Monday. This Sunday, we went to the Renaissance Festival,
and on the bus ride there, I was wondering if
Bailey would be working there. Sure enough, we were walking
and I found Bailey. I got so excited and felt
like I've known you for years because I know so
much about you that I forgot you have no idea
who the heck I am.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
So Bailey.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I wanted to say thank you for coming back to
take a picture with me. After you put down the
tray you were carrying it was, yeah, well that's what
you do at the rest.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah I was. I was delivering.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Yeah, I wasn't just eating it.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
It was the first time I've ever met any of
you from a show. I've attached the picture my husband
took of us. Bailey's in her Renaissance.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Ear and just lay in that picture. We look so good.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, she says, We'll have a great day. Everyone, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
I had a lot of people come out who are like,
this is where I am at instead of the fair
because the fair's too busy, and I was like, gosh,
this is busy too. Then there's dirt all around here.
But to each their own. I mean, I love the
Renaissance Festival. It's kind of I mean I used to
go like once a year every year and it was
so fun. And now I work there, so it's a
tiny bread lost its luster, but it's still fun. Like

(08:19):
anytime I have a like a my lunch off, I
just go get some kind of delicious food because unless
you work there, you don't know where all the good
food is.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Man. Man, there's some good food there.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
And I sit and listen to somebody like play the
lyre or the tiny banjo or something somewhere.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Fun Oh, it's I've still never been.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
I don't know if you would like it, Jenny. I
don't know.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
I think I would really mean, no, you wouldn't, okay,
because if my mom doesn't like it, you wouldn't like it.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm glad, not only that you know that about Jenny,
and I like whether we would or wouldn't. But it's
still so funny that I fall in categor with your mom.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
Well, yeah, my mom.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
My mom came to see me there one time, and
she like brought her purse and like she wore like
sandals and she just was not dressed for it at all.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
She's like, it's dusty here.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
I'm like, I know, it's dusty, and then she was
like there for a minute and left.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
So it's dusty.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I mean, I guess I don't know exactly what goes
down there, but I have friends that go every year
and it looks interesting to me.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think I would be entertained.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
If you just started drinking meat early, then you would
enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I probably am on the side
of your mom of like, it's.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Dusty, it's here. People are weird.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, So the last person who said wait till Dave
is back, I will hold off on that. But he
also sent another email that we can read now, so
it says I would like to give my two cents
on something. So he says, I've been listening to the
discussion about solo travel and just wanted to say that
I cruise twice a year, been on about twenty so far,

(09:49):
and while most have been with family, I have done
two completely solo, with another book.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
For next summer.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
At first, I was very nervous, but I quickly discovered
that as a cruise expert, once I got to the
port terminal, I knew exactly what I was doing. It
was more so the air travel, taxis and navigating Miami
that intimidated me, but I managed it both times. Cruising
solo is a very unique experience and that you can
do everything you want to do on your own schedule.
They take great care of you, particularly in the on

(10:17):
board restaurants, and you even get double loyalty points for
going alone. My last solo one was actually a four
and three day back to back, meaning halfway through my
trip we changed passengers and I got to stay on
after everyone else got off. I had never done this
process before, and the guest services staff was very helpful
and informative with my questions about the changeover point being

(10:39):
going alone allows you to really travel at your own speed,
and the ship's crew takes note of this and treats
you very well. The only thing I'm wondering about for
next summery is does it look weird in a restaurant
on land to eat alone.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
The city that one.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Port's out of has a restaurant I really like, and
I want to eat there, but I'm afraid of looking
weird sitting alone. I'm considering just doing door dash to
the hotel or something, but either way I will be
having my beloved ribs, wings and tater tots combo.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Anyway, That's all I have.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
I could expand, but don't want to ramble thinks as
always for the entertainment, and that comes from Kevin.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Who this guy is?

Speaker 5 (11:14):
The fair he did?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
He had?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
He sent the picture in the last email and this
must have been when I was grabbing food because I'm
not in it.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
It's like a bear. So I think you were going
to bears credit card?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yes I did, No, I mean Bailey and I have
talked many times I haven't actually done it myself where
I've gone to a restaurant and ate by myself. But
we're all for like going to a restaurant and doing it.
I don't think you look.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I never look at someone and think that they're weird.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Because by themselves.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
I mean, I wonder is he asking specifically, like in
another country, because I've done it in one other country
one time, But I mean, I don't.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
I guess I don't know what the.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
It. Probably it probably is like in a different country
because he's going to be cruising.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
So like, I don't know what's normal in other countries
if people eat alone, but I can't imagine that they don't.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I would assume that so many people eat alone in
different countries because like so many people travel alone, or
maybe their partner or whoever they're with doesn't want to
come with them, or they're off doing their own things.
So I say, go for it, Kevin, I think that
is totally normal to go and eat alone and do
door dashing.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Just isn't as fun.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, don't door dash. As soon as I read that,
I was.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Like, no, you're also already getting on a cruise by yourself.
I think that's much bigger than going to a restaurant
by yourself.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
So if you already take like pulled the big plug, yeah,
I can go to a restaurant.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Also, we talk about this all the time.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Nobody really gives a fuck about you, Like when you
when Bailey look at the gym, she's always scared people
are looking at her.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Nobody is looking at you.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
I know, everyone's worried about themselves.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, when you're at a restaurant, nobody's looking like, dude,
look at that lose over there by himself.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
That's never happening. You are like, go go crazy, goat
movies by.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yourself, exactly all right.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Next email, it says, what up zoo creatures? Hearing you
guys talk about that hat. CEO taking the sign hat
away from the kid at the US Open made me
think about the time I got unfairly robbed.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
At a sporting event.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was around two thousand and four and I was
with my dad at a Twins game at the Old
Metrodome and we had seats down the first baseline right
by the field. Joe Mauer, a rookie at the time,
was up to bat and hit two foul balls down
said baseline during an at bat, and of course the
kid to my right got a ball and the kid
to my left got a ball, but none for me.

(13:31):
Nearly in tears, I asked my dad why I didn't
get a ball. He told me sometimes that's just how
the cookie crumbles. No more foul vulks for the rest
of the game were hit in our general direction.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Apologies for the long email. I just wanted to share
a story that was not long.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Don'torry involving ball theft from my youthy years. Keep on
darting and licking and that comes from Kyle. That's so funny,
your dad said, that's just how the cookie crumbles.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Like I haven't heard that le a while.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
What a bummer, though, and what the for fun? Everyone
around you guts one, not you. But you got to
see Joe Mauers a rookie.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's dope.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
I know that is super cool. All right, we'll read
one more from our friend Charise. It says, Hello, Jenny
Bailey and Vant It's Cherise. I'm hoping you guys can
cheer me up or give me a new perspective. I
was recently ghosted by someone I met on Facebook dating
and for some reason, it's really bothering me more than
it should. I barely knew him, but it still hurt
my self esteem. Have you ever had your feelings hurt
by someone who ghosted or dumped you unexpectedly? Did you

(14:32):
feel silly for letting it affect you? Any advice would
be appreciated, all right? And then she also attached pictures
of her girls on their first day of school, and
she has just like such beautiful girls, So thanks for
sending those chi.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
I remember I was in high school in some shitty
relationship that I didn't really care about looking back at it.
But I remember throughout like the six seven months I
was with the girl, she wouldn't like open up to me,
like I remember, just kept trying to poke and I
just couldn't get through. We broke up, and the next
guy she got with she kind of rubbed it in
my face. And then like they were together for two
weeks and like she took him to her sister's baby shower,

(15:07):
and I was like, I was like, fuck you for
like whatever, And she texted me back and said, you
know what's crazy you always say I never like opened
up to you, But it was so easy for me
to open up to him like legit said that to me.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
I remember being like, Okay, the fuck you.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Just I mean, there is no I guess one size
fits all ants on like how to get through that.
I mean, the good thing is that I don't know
how long you two were talking, but that it's you know,
early enough that you know.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Didn't get all heartbroken.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're not attached, because I would hate that
for you.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
I think that going through like dating and stuff in life,
I've just learned that anybody who ghosts is just worthless
to me then, because you don't have enough balls to
like tell me why are.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Not talking to me anymore.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't know that I've truly been just like flat
out ghosted. I've definitely had the people who just started
to like fall off or something, and I was kind
of shocked because I was like, oh, I thought we
had a thing. But I just think it says more
about them than it ever will about you. And I
just like want to remind people of that because I
don't know, I'm a mature person who if I haven't
felt it with someone, I have straight up said I'm.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Sorry, I'm not feeling this.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, And I also once again, Like I feel like
that hurts someone's self esteem, but it just like means
that you're not a good fit, you know, Like I
just I want to reiterate that just because someone does
not like you the way you like them back does
not say anything about you. It just means that you
guys are not a good fit.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
I don't know, I think that's sound advice because honestly,
like I've been ghosted, but I'm like unhealthy amount of compartmentalizing.
So the second someone ghosts me, I'm like, well, they
don't matter anymore, and then I just start thinking about
something else good and I'll be like well bye, instead
of like dealing with that at all. So but I mean,
I agree with Jenny that like, hopefully hopefully they're not

(16:53):
giving you like I'd rather. Honestly, I'd rather be ghosted
than being told here's what's wrong with you. Though I'd
also have like, hey, I don't think it's a good fit,
and then it's like okay, great, period, I can move
on at least some type of closures, some type of closure,
But I don't want them to tell me what's.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Wrong with me and why. I mean, yeah, not interested.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'll be like, oh, okay, cool, that's an immature way
to go about like anything.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I've never ever told someone like that.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
The only time I think the only time I ever
like ended things was because I like and flat out
said why was because the person like didn't tell me
they had a kid for a couple of months of
us dating, and so I gave it a month and
I was like much younger at the time, and I
after a month was like, I'm sorry, it just like
doesn't work for me, Like I'm not ready to have

(17:41):
a kid in my life if this keeps progressing in
the way that it is. And so I did flat
out say that, But other than that, no, I have
just straight up told people like I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'm just not feeling it.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't say like I'm not interested because I think
you're a little weird or you're a little socially awkward.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I don't like straight up saying those things.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
But trust me, there are some times where but once again,
it doesn't matter, like that just wasn't a fit for me.
That's their personality. I'm not going to like tear them
down because it didn't work for me.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
So and look at it as fate telling you don't
waste any more time on this person.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yes, because you are worth so much more.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Exactly good advice font take. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
All right, well, we are going to wrap up today's
Minnesota Goadbye. If you have any emails for us, feel
free to email them into Ryan's show at KDIWB dot
com
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