January 5, 2026 • 15 mins
We talk about decluttering, the evolution of music, and hear from Ranger Jessica!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye. I'm
going to give the address up front to encourage you
to send emails in case. I wonder if there are
people who listen to part of the Minnesota Goodbye and
then don't get to finish it. I mean, how many
times does that happen? You start to listen to a
podcast and then you know, you get interrupted because your
kid calls yeah, or you know there's a pizza being
delivered or something like that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That happens often.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, yeah, So the email address who send emails into
the Minnesota Goodbye is Ryan Show at katibbeat dot com.
Anna writes in, Hi, so happy to have you guys back.
It was too long on the note of getting rid
of stuff and living a more minimalist life. I'm currently
decluttering my basement and I just keep thinking if my
house burned down, would I replace any of this? And
(00:44):
quite honestly, for most of my house, I would not.
For this sentimental stuff I actually care about, I actually
care about it, or just the memory attached to it.
I spend a lot of the last year decluttering my house.
It's been the best thing for my mental health. Keep
it up, everyone from Anne, I think that's true. I
don't want to like beat a dead horse, but I've
been going through my house that we've lived in for
(01:06):
twenty two almost twenty three years, and it's just full
of so full of shit. Everything from you go to
a souvenir store, you know, you go to Wisconsin Dell's
where you go to you know, the Grand Canyon and
you buy a mug, or you buy a coin or
a shirt or a key ring or something, photos, things,
The kids drew letters from my mom and dad. They've
(01:28):
both been gone for twenty years, and I saved so
many of their letters they wrote to me in their
ninety in the nineties, and I looked at him, I said,
I don't want to save all these, so I threw
out most of them. Saved about three wow photos. My
dad had a trunk full of Air Force awards, maps,
navigation books from when he was in the Air Force.
(01:50):
Blah blah blah. I threw it all out because there's
just so much stuff. But there's still so much left
to go.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, Okay, are you anywhere near done or not?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh? God, no, we're going to making progress though.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Whatld you want us to come over and go through
things and see what we might want to take.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I can assure you that's a very nice offer, but
I can assure you there's nothing you'd want. It's really
not next one. Ashley says, Hello, Dave Ryan Crewe questioned
mostly for Dave. I was watching Bethany Watson aka Lina
Swinson and her partner Dennis's TV show The Trouble with Tessa,
and did I happen to catch an inkling of the
(02:29):
Dave Ryan on the radio in one of the episodes? Yes,
I play the part of a radio announcer in this
fictional little town, and I don't remember exactly what I said,
but it's something like and as usual. Curfew is at
nine point thirty tonight, and I had that kind of
MPR kind of a voice on Yeah. I follow Bethany's podcast.
I love hearing her occasionally mentioned tidbits about her career
(02:52):
on KATIEWB and mention her boss at her first radio job.
I feel like I'm part of a secret club who
remembers Bethany in that role before moving off to New York.
Any who, thank you for being the bright part of
my day From Ashley. PS For those who are curious
that Trouble with Tessa is a short horror series currently
streaming for free on to b I.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I didn't know it was on.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To be neat Yeah, yep, do you have to be?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I do well.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I feel like toob is just like a free if
you have a Roku, it's just there.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Next one secretary Bree rights well. Fuck, that was literally
my first thought when I woke up to mist calls
and text from Dave and Jenny. That's what I get
for sleeping past seven am, which basically never happens. We
called her on Friday, Yeah, because we wanted to play
a little game with her to you know, we would
say something about what we were doing at midnight on
(03:51):
New Year's Eve, and we would have her guests who
was doing what? Because she knows our show very well. Yeah, Brie,
do not freak out that. Well, then you missed the call.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, we just had somebody else on.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, and we will call you again another time.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Anyway, I realized something funny today and naturally felt compelled
to share it with you. I was today years old
when I realized the Alanis Morisset song You ought to Know.
The line says the cross Eye Bear, since you went away,
not cross eyed bear, the cross eyed bear since you
(04:29):
went away? Do you see the difference, like by one
letter cross eye bear? She thought it was cross eyed
bear like oh, cross eyed yeah, cross eyed bill?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh a cross eyed bear?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Like Yogi with bad eyes? She her entire life and
that song is thirty years old. She thought it was
the cross eyed Bear since you went away, or that
you gave to me. I think it's whatever, whatever the words.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Are bear, or that's your day after May.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Said, I literally thought she had a cross eyed piece
of taxidermy for the last thirty years, Brie, what the
fuck is your fucking problem? No, I'm kidding. I hope
you laughed at that. Yes, it's been thirty years since
Jagged Little Pill came out. It was the very first
cassette tape I ever owned. Oh wow, what was the
very first cassette or record or album or CD that
(05:22):
you owned?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
The Police's Greatest Hits, because the Police, Oh, only because
that was the first one I probably bought because my
first car was a nineteen ninety four Corolla, and I
needed cassette tapes, so I went and bought a bunch
of cassette tapes and the Police's Greatest Hits was my
first interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Choice for you. I wouldn't think that would be a
choice for you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I mean I played the Elton John Greatest Hits a
little bit more.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That one was really good.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Greatest Hits Volume one or two. Oh, I think you
might even have a three or four one probably that
was with a Goodbye yellow brick row.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, it was that. And then like Rocketman and all
the good ones.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
See, he came out with Greatest Hits Volume two, and
I like that one better because they had Philadelphia Freedom
levon the Bitch Is Bad.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, maybe it's both. Then my cassette possibly both, because
all of those were on it. That was such a
dope cassette. And I missed that car just for that
cassette tape.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow, you know you can go by that. I was
listening to a really interesting Instagram and it was talking
about the evolution of music and how we get fucked
every ten years because and I'll go way back to
the forties. They came out with the vinyl LP in
the forties. Mono in nineteen fifty seven they came out
with the stereo LP, so we all went crazy for that.
(06:39):
In the early sixties, they came out with the cassette
and the eight track tape and then we you know,
we all went crazy for that. Then they came out
with the CD in nineteen eighty two, so we all
went out and bought CDs to replace our vinyl collection
or our cassette collection, because we thought, well, this is
(07:00):
the epitome of sound. There is not going to be
another sound revolution, right until the MP three player came out,
little did you know? Hm, Then we didn't need our
CDs anymore, and we all went on iTunes and we
bought songs to load up our MP three player, and
we thought, well, that was it. That is the epitome
of music evolution. Until streaming came along. Yeah, and then
(07:25):
we don't need any of our CDs or albums or
assets or iPods anymore. We just stream and it hasn't
changed really in twenty years. Is streaming the end of
music delivery evolution? Jenny, you're up first?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean it's I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Thank you, Jenny. Let's go to Bailey Bailey's.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes, Because I'm not someone who can think of inventions
very easily.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yet I can't imaginate nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I can think of that's going to take it away.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I say yes, because you can play anything that's streaming
on any platform pretty much. So like you can play
it on your phone, your computer, whatever, versus a CD,
you can only play it on a CD player, do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Like a cassette player?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
True, yes, that player, yes, Versus when something is streaming,
you can play it at least, you know, on your
phone or on your computer until you know, the Internet crashes,
which you know someday maybe it'll get too big.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's so funny that you're right, Jenny, we can't even
conceive of what the next invention would be because when
the CD came out, I don't remember thinking it, but
I'm going to think, oh, well, this is the epitome
of the music delivery system. It's digital, it's small, it's
it doesn't skip, I mean kind of it can. But
(08:45):
we really thought that was it. And it reminds me
of the story like back in the early nineteen hundreds,
they there was somebody that wanted to close the patent
office because they thought that everything that would ever be
invented was already invented. Oh, because they couldn't foresee any
other invent.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That seems kind oftten.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, we already know. I mean the biggest invention they
would have missed out on was the flesh light, which
is I would say probably that and the armress cup holder.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah in your car you're conditioning well whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I mean, you know, that's fine if you need it,
But we really need the flesh light and the cup
holder arm right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's true, you do really need those period.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Jenny, what was your first cassette or CD?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I don't think I ever had cassettes that were mind
but I think my first CD was Backstreet Boys, like
the actual Backstreet Boys album, so their very first one. Yes,
either that or Britney Spears. I don't remember. I feel
like I look at album covers or CD covers and
I'm like, yeah, I think I have that at one point.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. Bri also has a really good question topic if
we need content, what songs? Are you so confident you
know every single lyric? Too? I am talking so confident
you'd be willing to bet anything on be unable to
nail it mine or a wide variety. I can do
Cold forty five and two Zigzags by Afroman. Jesus Christ
Without Me by Eminem and my biggest banger, get Ready
(10:03):
for It, Come sail Away by Sticks.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh good song.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, that's just for now. Still so sad I missed
your call blah blah blah blah blah. Thank you, Bree.
I would say I want it that way by the
Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'm dorky, but from Oklahoma David. I can't say no.
I know every single word to I can't say no,
and I could sing it from memory.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, great song.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
One day we got to do that. We got to see,
like you know I have done this. It seems like
we have. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I think mine would be want to be Spice Girls.
I know every single lyric to that for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But I can even even if there's no back tress, okay,
because I know a lot of songs, but I need
a backtrack.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No, that's the only one I can think of that
I would trust because I wanted to be a Spice Girl.
So we would have practices and rehearsals. Growing up with
me and my four other friends, and you know, we
were the Spice Girls and we're going to put on
a full performance. So I want to be was going
to be our big you know, end of the concert, performance,
So I definite knew every word to that and we
made up our little dances.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yes, I want to know, if you are listening and
you have young girls in your home, do they still
do that? Like you hang out in the basement like
for five hours, and you come up and you're like,
we are you about to perform this dance number that
we've created at because Jenny wants to sleep over and
I wanted to sleep over too, so we are going
to dance for you. And then yeah, you go like
(11:23):
hit it then if you want to be my lover,
and it's very like you take it very seriously.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's just a Taylor Swift now, I would think, or
Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Right, And I want to know do they still do
that or do they just sit and scroll on their That's.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
A really good question. If you've got thirteen year old girls,
that's probably the prime age ten to thirteen.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, I would say, like like eight, okay, okay, because
once you hit like middle school, then you're probably too cool.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, but you go down to the basement, you put
on Taylor Swift or whatever, they listen to Sabrina Carpenter
and they put together a dance routine. They work on
it over and over, and then of course they got
a sh oh mom, Mom, we're going to do this for.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You, yes, because we want to earn a sleepover. And
then you always have like the one bossy kid that's like, no,
you guys, stop, go back. We have to go back
from the beginning. And we're like, you go through it
like you're actually like a band and this is like
dance rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's larious, you guys, we.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Need to focus. Dope.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love it all right. We got one more email
for today from guess what it is, Ranger Jessica, and
she is back and she says, hello, my favorite morning show.
I'm writing this as I listened to the Minnesota Goodbye
and Wow, how my heart almost burst hearing someone ask
about me apologize about my delinquency. I am alive and well,
(12:41):
but between the government shut down and the holidays, life
has been busy. I've made notes to write into the podcast,
and I forget to write it up. But Bailey saying
the winter is quiet made me think of one of
my favorite winter facts. Did you know there is a
whole ecosystem of activity under our feet in the winter.
The subnivaan ecosystem is vital for many critters to survive
(13:05):
the winter sub as in beneath and under a nivious
as in snow, so Subnivian literally translates to layer below
the snow. Creatures living in the snow pack in our
yards snow okay, creatures living in the snow pack in
our yards and parks highly depend on this to survive
because the sub nivian label is toasty warm well relatively
(13:31):
typically twenty to thirty degrees all through the winter. This
forms due to sublimation in which snow goes directly from
solid state to gas without melting, and this creates a
gap between the ground and the snow above. As the
snow piles up over this gap, it insulates the air
the layer of air below it. We need only six
(13:52):
inches of snow for this gap to stay warm, and
the weight of the snow will compress itself enough to
prevent heat from escaping. Mice, voles, shrews, and weasels depend
on this system all winter long. It allows them warmth
that helps them conserve energy, and a way to evade
predators who might easily spot them on top of the
snow who knew this hub of activity was going on
(14:17):
during the quiet of winter. Next time you're grumbling about
shoveling the driveway after a storm, remember the little creatures
who rely on this. Wow, I saw a vole or
a mouse. I'm pretty sure it was a vole. This
morning I opened up the door let burning out, and
a little creature ran off the porch and behind the house.
But when the snow melts in the spring, you'll see
(14:39):
vole hills and trails under your grass. Anybody else ever
noticed this?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
WHOA?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I guess. I don't know what it is when I
see it.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I don't know voles very well. I just know that
I had grubs this past fucking like spring from winter
or fall or something, and that was my nightmare. But
a lot of people thought it was voles because it
makes Yeah, you have like patches of grass that can
be missing and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, and there's like little tunnels that they dig like it,
like you know, there's little I don't know, little little
tunnels tunnels. She wraps up by saying, I also appreciated
the discussion on bird population and public lands. Happy that
you are a platform to advocate for nature and the environment.
I will have more winter fun facts to send in
after the holidays. That is from Ranger Jessica. She says,
(15:25):
yours in Nature, Ranger Jessica, it was really good to
hear from you. I really appreciate that. Yeah, so's thinking.
I love that, and that is going to do it
for the Minnesota. Goodbye. Send your emails to Ryan's show
at KDWB dot com.
All right, here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye. I'm
going to give the address up front to encourage you
to send emails in case. I wonder if there are
people who listen to part of the Minnesota Goodbye and
then don't get to finish it. I mean, how many
times does that happen? You start to listen to a
podcast and then you know, you get interrupted because your
kid calls yeah, or you know there's a pizza being
delivered or something like that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That happens often.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, yeah, So the email address who send emails into
the Minnesota Goodbye is Ryan Show at katibbeat dot com.
Anna writes in, Hi, so happy to have you guys back.
It was too long on the note of getting rid
of stuff and living a more minimalist life. I'm currently
decluttering my basement and I just keep thinking if my
house burned down, would I replace any of this? And
(00:44):
quite honestly, for most of my house, I would not.
For this sentimental stuff I actually care about, I actually
care about it, or just the memory attached to it.
I spend a lot of the last year decluttering my house.
It's been the best thing for my mental health. Keep
it up, everyone from Anne, I think that's true. I
don't want to like beat a dead horse, but I've
been going through my house that we've lived in for
(01:06):
twenty two almost twenty three years, and it's just full
of so full of shit. Everything from you go to
a souvenir store, you know, you go to Wisconsin Dell's
where you go to you know, the Grand Canyon and
you buy a mug, or you buy a coin or
a shirt or a key ring or something, photos, things,
The kids drew letters from my mom and dad. They've
(01:28):
both been gone for twenty years, and I saved so
many of their letters they wrote to me in their
ninety in the nineties, and I looked at him, I said,
I don't want to save all these, so I threw
out most of them. Saved about three wow photos. My
dad had a trunk full of Air Force awards, maps,
navigation books from when he was in the Air Force.
(01:50):
Blah blah blah. I threw it all out because there's
just so much stuff. But there's still so much left
to go.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, Okay, are you anywhere near done or not?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh? God, no, we're going to making progress though.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Whatld you want us to come over and go through
things and see what we might want to take.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I can assure you that's a very nice offer, but
I can assure you there's nothing you'd want. It's really
not next one. Ashley says, Hello, Dave Ryan Crewe questioned
mostly for Dave. I was watching Bethany Watson aka Lina
Swinson and her partner Dennis's TV show The Trouble with Tessa,
and did I happen to catch an inkling of the
(02:29):
Dave Ryan on the radio in one of the episodes? Yes,
I play the part of a radio announcer in this
fictional little town, and I don't remember exactly what I said,
but it's something like and as usual. Curfew is at
nine point thirty tonight, and I had that kind of
MPR kind of a voice on Yeah. I follow Bethany's podcast.
I love hearing her occasionally mentioned tidbits about her career
(02:52):
on KATIEWB and mention her boss at her first radio job.
I feel like I'm part of a secret club who
remembers Bethany in that role before moving off to New York.
Any who, thank you for being the bright part of
my day From Ashley. PS For those who are curious
that Trouble with Tessa is a short horror series currently
streaming for free on to b I.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I didn't know it was on.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To be neat Yeah, yep, do you have to be?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I do well.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I feel like toob is just like a free if
you have a Roku, it's just there.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Next one secretary Bree rights well. Fuck, that was literally
my first thought when I woke up to mist calls
and text from Dave and Jenny. That's what I get
for sleeping past seven am, which basically never happens. We
called her on Friday, Yeah, because we wanted to play
a little game with her to you know, we would
say something about what we were doing at midnight on
(03:51):
New Year's Eve, and we would have her guests who
was doing what? Because she knows our show very well. Yeah, Brie,
do not freak out that. Well, then you missed the call.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, we just had somebody else on.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, and we will call you again another time.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Anyway, I realized something funny today and naturally felt compelled
to share it with you. I was today years old
when I realized the Alanis Morisset song You ought to Know.
The line says the cross Eye Bear, since you went away,
not cross eyed bear, the cross eyed bear since you
(04:29):
went away? Do you see the difference, like by one
letter cross eye bear? She thought it was cross eyed
bear like oh, cross eyed yeah, cross eyed bill?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh a cross eyed bear?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Like Yogi with bad eyes? She her entire life and
that song is thirty years old. She thought it was
the cross eyed Bear since you went away, or that
you gave to me. I think it's whatever, whatever the words.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Are bear, or that's your day after May.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Said, I literally thought she had a cross eyed piece
of taxidermy for the last thirty years, Brie, what the
fuck is your fucking problem? No, I'm kidding. I hope
you laughed at that. Yes, it's been thirty years since
Jagged Little Pill came out. It was the very first
cassette tape I ever owned. Oh wow, what was the
very first cassette or record or album or CD that
(05:22):
you owned?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
The Police's Greatest Hits, because the Police, Oh, only because
that was the first one I probably bought because my
first car was a nineteen ninety four Corolla, and I
needed cassette tapes, so I went and bought a bunch
of cassette tapes and the Police's Greatest Hits was my
first interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Choice for you. I wouldn't think that would be a
choice for you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I mean I played the Elton John Greatest Hits a
little bit more.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That one was really good.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Greatest Hits Volume one or two. Oh, I think you
might even have a three or four one probably that
was with a Goodbye yellow brick row.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, it was that. And then like Rocketman and all
the good ones.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
See, he came out with Greatest Hits Volume two, and
I like that one better because they had Philadelphia Freedom
levon the Bitch Is Bad.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, maybe it's both. Then my cassette possibly both, because
all of those were on it. That was such a
dope cassette. And I missed that car just for that
cassette tape.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow, you know you can go by that. I was
listening to a really interesting Instagram and it was talking
about the evolution of music and how we get fucked
every ten years because and I'll go way back to
the forties. They came out with the vinyl LP in
the forties. Mono in nineteen fifty seven they came out
with the stereo LP, so we all went crazy for that.
(06:39):
In the early sixties, they came out with the cassette
and the eight track tape and then we you know,
we all went crazy for that. Then they came out
with the CD in nineteen eighty two, so we all
went out and bought CDs to replace our vinyl collection
or our cassette collection, because we thought, well, this is
(07:00):
the epitome of sound. There is not going to be
another sound revolution, right until the MP three player came out,
little did you know? Hm, Then we didn't need our
CDs anymore, and we all went on iTunes and we
bought songs to load up our MP three player, and
we thought, well, that was it. That is the epitome
of music evolution. Until streaming came along. Yeah, and then
(07:25):
we don't need any of our CDs or albums or
assets or iPods anymore. We just stream and it hasn't
changed really in twenty years. Is streaming the end of
music delivery evolution? Jenny, you're up first?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean it's I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Thank you, Jenny. Let's go to Bailey Bailey's.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes, Because I'm not someone who can think of inventions
very easily.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yet I can't imaginate nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I can think of that's going to take it away.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I say yes, because you can play anything that's streaming
on any platform pretty much. So like you can play
it on your phone, your computer, whatever, versus a CD,
you can only play it on a CD player, do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Like a cassette player?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
True, yes, that player, yes, Versus when something is streaming,
you can play it at least, you know, on your
phone or on your computer until you know, the Internet crashes,
which you know someday maybe it'll get too big.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's so funny that you're right, Jenny, we can't even
conceive of what the next invention would be because when
the CD came out, I don't remember thinking it, but
I'm going to think, oh, well, this is the epitome
of the music delivery system. It's digital, it's small, it's
it doesn't skip, I mean kind of it can. But
(08:45):
we really thought that was it. And it reminds me
of the story like back in the early nineteen hundreds,
they there was somebody that wanted to close the patent
office because they thought that everything that would ever be
invented was already invented. Oh, because they couldn't foresee any
other invent.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That seems kind oftten.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, we already know. I mean the biggest invention they
would have missed out on was the flesh light, which
is I would say probably that and the armress cup holder.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah in your car you're conditioning well whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I mean, you know, that's fine if you need it,
But we really need the flesh light and the cup
holder arm right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's true, you do really need those period.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Jenny, what was your first cassette or CD?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I don't think I ever had cassettes that were mind
but I think my first CD was Backstreet Boys, like
the actual Backstreet Boys album, so their very first one. Yes,
either that or Britney Spears. I don't remember. I feel
like I look at album covers or CD covers and
I'm like, yeah, I think I have that at one point.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. Bri also has a really good question topic if
we need content, what songs? Are you so confident you
know every single lyric? Too? I am talking so confident
you'd be willing to bet anything on be unable to
nail it mine or a wide variety. I can do
Cold forty five and two Zigzags by Afroman. Jesus Christ
Without Me by Eminem and my biggest banger, get Ready
(10:03):
for It, Come sail Away by Sticks.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh good song.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, that's just for now. Still so sad I missed
your call blah blah blah blah blah. Thank you, Bree.
I would say I want it that way by the
Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'm dorky, but from Oklahoma David. I can't say no.
I know every single word to I can't say no,
and I could sing it from memory.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, great song.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
One day we got to do that. We got to see,
like you know I have done this. It seems like
we have. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I think mine would be want to be Spice Girls.
I know every single lyric to that for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But I can even even if there's no back tress, okay,
because I know a lot of songs, but I need
a backtrack.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No, that's the only one I can think of that
I would trust because I wanted to be a Spice Girl.
So we would have practices and rehearsals. Growing up with
me and my four other friends, and you know, we
were the Spice Girls and we're going to put on
a full performance. So I want to be was going
to be our big you know, end of the concert, performance,
So I definite knew every word to that and we
made up our little dances.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yes, I want to know, if you are listening and
you have young girls in your home, do they still
do that? Like you hang out in the basement like
for five hours, and you come up and you're like,
we are you about to perform this dance number that
we've created at because Jenny wants to sleep over and
I wanted to sleep over too, so we are going
to dance for you. And then yeah, you go like
(11:23):
hit it then if you want to be my lover,
and it's very like you take it very seriously.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's just a Taylor Swift now, I would think, or
Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Right, And I want to know do they still do
that or do they just sit and scroll on their That's.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
A really good question. If you've got thirteen year old girls,
that's probably the prime age ten to thirteen.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, I would say, like like eight, okay, okay, because
once you hit like middle school, then you're probably too cool.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, but you go down to the basement, you put
on Taylor Swift or whatever, they listen to Sabrina Carpenter
and they put together a dance routine. They work on
it over and over, and then of course they got
a sh oh mom, Mom, we're going to do this for.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You, yes, because we want to earn a sleepover. And
then you always have like the one bossy kid that's like, no,
you guys, stop, go back. We have to go back
from the beginning. And we're like, you go through it
like you're actually like a band and this is like
dance rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's larious, you guys, we.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Need to focus. Dope.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love it all right. We got one more email
for today from guess what it is, Ranger Jessica, and
she is back and she says, hello, my favorite morning show.
I'm writing this as I listened to the Minnesota Goodbye
and Wow, how my heart almost burst hearing someone ask
about me apologize about my delinquency. I am alive and well,
(12:41):
but between the government shut down and the holidays, life
has been busy. I've made notes to write into the podcast,
and I forget to write it up. But Bailey saying
the winter is quiet made me think of one of
my favorite winter facts. Did you know there is a
whole ecosystem of activity under our feet in the winter.
The subnivaan ecosystem is vital for many critters to survive
(13:05):
the winter sub as in beneath and under a nivious
as in snow, so Subnivian literally translates to layer below
the snow. Creatures living in the snow pack in our
yards snow okay, creatures living in the snow pack in
our yards and parks highly depend on this to survive
because the sub nivian label is toasty warm well relatively
(13:31):
typically twenty to thirty degrees all through the winter. This
forms due to sublimation in which snow goes directly from
solid state to gas without melting, and this creates a
gap between the ground and the snow above. As the
snow piles up over this gap, it insulates the air
the layer of air below it. We need only six
(13:52):
inches of snow for this gap to stay warm, and
the weight of the snow will compress itself enough to
prevent heat from escaping. Mice, voles, shrews, and weasels depend
on this system all winter long. It allows them warmth
that helps them conserve energy, and a way to evade
predators who might easily spot them on top of the
snow who knew this hub of activity was going on
(14:17):
during the quiet of winter. Next time you're grumbling about
shoveling the driveway after a storm, remember the little creatures
who rely on this. Wow, I saw a vole or
a mouse. I'm pretty sure it was a vole. This
morning I opened up the door let burning out, and
a little creature ran off the porch and behind the house.
But when the snow melts in the spring, you'll see
(14:39):
vole hills and trails under your grass. Anybody else ever
noticed this?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
WHOA?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I guess. I don't know what it is when I
see it.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I don't know voles very well. I just know that
I had grubs this past fucking like spring from winter
or fall or something, and that was my nightmare. But
a lot of people thought it was voles because it
makes Yeah, you have like patches of grass that can
be missing and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, and there's like little tunnels that they dig like it,
like you know, there's little I don't know, little little
tunnels tunnels. She wraps up by saying, I also appreciated
the discussion on bird population and public lands. Happy that
you are a platform to advocate for nature and the environment.
I will have more winter fun facts to send in
after the holidays. That is from Ranger Jessica. She says,
(15:25):
yours in Nature, Ranger Jessica, it was really good to
hear from you. I really appreciate that. Yeah, so's thinking.
I love that, and that is going to do it
for the Minnesota. Goodbye. Send your emails to Ryan's show
at KDWB dot com.
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