May 5, 2025 • 17 mins
We celebrate the opening of Valley Fair, talk bachelorette parties and bucket lists.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big news on the Minnesota Goodbye Valley Fair opens this weekend.
A favorite ride of Valley Fair, Steel Venom Wild Thing
is a great ride. Steel Venom is terrifying. And this
is the one that's shaped like a U. So you
start at the bottom of the U. You back up
and then you go way to the top and then
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you sit there for a minute and then you wait
for it to drop and it clicks, but it doesn't drop.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Is that the one that spins at the top two
like it twirls down.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A little bit. Yeah, it does twirl a little bit
at the going forward end, I believe, And then it clicks,
but it doesn't drop, and you think, oh my god,
something's wrong, and then it drops. But now that I
say that, No, my favorite ride is Power Tower, no question.
Power Tower is ridiculously high. Every time I go on it,
I'm riding up. I can't believe how high I am.
I hate heights. But then I go, why am I
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on this ride? So any thoughts on rides at Valley Fair.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I like a roller coaster, but it has to just
be like a tame roller coaster. So is it one
of the wooden ones I can? I can deal with?
One of the wooden ones. But if it goes like
up down, up down, up down, up down, I don't
like it. And if it goes like up up up
up up up up and then has a huge drop,
like if it's more than a sixty foot drop, I'm
not doing it period. I'm too scared.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
When are you gonna start living your life?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm too scared. I like I like Splash Mountain, I
like Evers, I like the Disney roller coasters, but I
can't do I can't do a really big drop like
the wild Thing is too scary. Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I don't think ben a Valley fair like twice. I
think total in my lifetime because I didn't grow up here,
so I would say steel Venom's probably my favorite. However,
I do have a story of I grew up going
to Six Legs in Gurney, Illinois, and there was a
a wooden roller coaster called Viper, and we would purposely
not try to have our seatbelts buckle as tight or
(01:52):
like the sing as tight because it was so rickety
and it just like shut.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Like just shake really back. Yeah, and you'd like.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Fly around and stuff, and I mean obvious, they still
a common check and make sure you're like decently secure.
But I remember, like, I'm pretty sure I peed my
pants one time, laughing so hard because I was not
in secure at.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
All and I was just flying everywhere and it was
so fun.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Wow, nights bad idea. Yeah, A little myth that you
might have heard is that the wooden roller coaster at
Valley Fair used to be in the Excelsior Amusement Park.
That's not true, However, the carousel at Valley Fair used
to be in the Excelsior Amusement Park, and you might
be going, there was an amusement park in excels Here.
(02:33):
There was right where Maynards is now. There used to
be an amusement park right along the shore of Lake Minnetaka,
and it was there from maybe the thirties until like
the seventies or so, and then they tore it down.
Here's another fun fact. Yeah, and I bring this up
once in a while. There used to be in the
(02:53):
parking lot of Maynards, so you got Maynards on one
side of the road. Across the street from Maynards. There
used to be a a nightclub, like a teen dance club,
and I forget what it was called, But the Rolling
Stones played there one time before they were really really big,
and it was burnt down by some stupid thug that
(03:15):
lived around there. And I was talking to somebody who
rents jet skis in in Lake Minnetonka, and he said, yeah,
I grew up with that guy. He was an asshole.
Oh so yeah, so a little bit of history perience.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, isn't it always creepy when you see the abandoned
amusement parks? Like there aren't any around here? I know, yeah,
no one in Denver or no, there might have been.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Maybe No.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think that that actually is like running. But I
just feel like when you see those abandoned amusement parks,
it's like, how many ghosts are haunting that ghost?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm now thinking of a video game I played that
took place in an abandoned amusement park, and now I
can't remember what it is. But all right, let's get
on with the emails on the Minnesota goodbye and see
what we've got here we go. Well, here's the announcement.
We're excited to open Valley Fair for the season Monday
or Sunday, May eleventh, and if you are interested in
(04:13):
filming a story on May eleventh. Well, we don't film anything,
but yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That email too, jam, which is just always fun to
get emails that. It's like, I work in radio. Yeah,
I won't be bringing my news team out there.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We probably could though, because radio people do social media videoing.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, we could, yeah, but I just feel like the
way that it was worded was a very generic press
release sent out to all media personnel that they thought
are most likely TV people.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know. It's nice though, just speaking of ally Fair,
if you go on their website and you can actually
watch little videos of all of their rides from like
a point of view of being on the ride.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So I think I could handle Excalibur. That's the one
that I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, that's the one that me and Pattia Ebert wrote
on one hundred and one times back in about nineteen
ninety four.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This drop, I can see the bottom, so that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, it's still there, so kind of a wooden one
with a little bit of metal. I think the tracks
are met well, most roller coaster tracks are metal. Now
they think about it, How.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Long did it take you to ride it? All day.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We started it probably one Yeah, we started about eleven
o'clock in the morning, I guess it was on a weekday.
And we went out there and pat and I rode
the EXCaliber and I think we rode probably too about
thirty times, and then we started to feel sick, so
we took a break and then we rode ten more times.
Then we were really sick.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And I think it took until probably evening, like maybe
six o'clock, but we did get all one hundred and
one rides in. It was not a lot of fun, no,
and there was a plaque at the loading area of
Excalibur for years that said Dave Ryan and Patty Eberts
from KWB rode this hundred one times.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Not there anymore, No, it's not there. I mean it
would have been so cute to like go back and
remember that, though it would Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well maybe this summer you should go ride it one
hundred one times.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, never mind, I'll write it once.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Michelle writes in Hello Dave, Jenny vontam my girl, Bailey,
I hope you had a great weekend. I know I did.
We didn't do much. It was nice as always. Thanks
for keeping me fucking sane for four hours a day. Well,
you're welcome. I have one thing I would like from
you all. Please please please mix up some of the
old songs with the same ones you play every day.
I mean, what happened to Taylor Swift, Pink Backstreet Boys,
(06:25):
Eminem etc. Okay, I can't wait for the State Fair.
I will be there giving you all shit this year.
Thanks for being you. Have a great fucking week from Michelle.
A love the attitude, Michelle, Thank you very much. All right,
next one, it says, Okay, it's from Aaron, and she said,
(06:45):
I feel the need to follow up on this. Have
been catch it up on Minnesota goodbyes, and I heard
some more feedback. Let's jump in and see what she's
talking about. She is the one who wanted to write
she wrote about getting the puppy. Yes, Okay, isn't she Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Oh, I don't know if she's the one, but we've
been talking about someone who wants to get a puppy.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that's her. So anyway, So she's heard some feedback
from people saying, if you can't afford it, don't get it.
Your mom and dad shouldn't be paying for things. I
want to clear some stuff up. I've been on my
own since twenty two, paying my own bills, moved out
at twenty three, and paying rent my own rent since
the only thing my parents were paying for is my
car insurance, and that was because they bought the truck.
(07:26):
I'm not sure why we never transferred the payment. It
just never came up until I bought a new truck
and obviously was then responsible for my own insurance. Okay,
and yes, every now and then I would get a
large scary bill from my old ass truck and would
complain about it, not ask for money, and sometimes my
parents would help by giving me money to help pay
for it. I am a responsible adult who works full
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time with two part time jobs full time, two part
time jobs. I just have a very expensive hobby, and
sometimes my parents like to help me with that because
a horse truck and trailer is a lot to put
on a young adult. The maintenance of a truck alone
is a lot more expensive than a normal car. Regardless,
I've always assumed at the expense that come with orning
a horse truck and trailer. Anyway, I told my parents
(08:09):
about the puppy. They took it very well. Maybe a
little annoyed at first, but overall they know my love
for animals and they get it. They have an old
dog at home and she is my girl. We know
she doesn't have much time left, as she's been declining
fairly quickly. I think the puppy is a good distraction
for everyone but me, especially when the time comes. PS.
Somebody said, buy a fucking plant. Remember that?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, ps.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I do have many houseplants, but they do not cuddle
quite the same as a dog does. Anyway, I appreciate
the feedback. I'm very fortunate to have parents that have
been able to support my hobby growing up, and even
more fortunate to have been able to continue to enjoy
my hobby through my early adulthood. I am really excited
about welcoming a puppy into my life. You know what,
if it works for you, and it works for your parents,
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it doesn't affect me, then I don't care. Good for you.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, okay, and I hope it's cute and snuggy.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Next one, let's see, here we go. This is it
in New York City. I've been meaning to write in
for a long time, so I'm currently typing this mail
email at my desk at work. I'll try to be brief,
but here are some random questions. My sister is having
a bachelorette party in Charleston, South Carolina, and we're trying
(09:22):
to figure out a theme for one of our nights out.
We're trying to strike a balance between fun and simple.
We don't want to make everybody buy new clothes or
accessories because the trip as expensive as it is. What
are your thoughts. I have no thoughts on this. I
don't know, m.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, because they don't want to buy accessories. I was
gonna say, just buy some cheap wigs, because I always
think that that's fun and easy, and then you can
wear whatever you want. But you know you're in the
bachelorette party if you're wearing a wig. But if you
don't want to do that, I would say, just find
a color scheme of like obviously, the bridewear is white,
and I've seen a lot of like more like fluorescent
colors together, Like just see what people have or color
(10:01):
coordinates with what people have already. It's always easy to
just have everyone wear black and the brideware white too.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Okay, what about an activity? I mean, do you think
she's looking for activities.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh there's Charleston's like one of the top etcera destinations
now for hoping. So I'm sure they've got it planned
by now.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, yeah, then, Sid says commenting on the woman who
wrote in about getting a dog and still needing help
from her parents, which we just covered. In my opinion,
if you can't afford something, you don't get it. To me,
if you're making a choice like that to spend money
on something you don't technically need, you don't have a
right to ask your parents for help. You don't get
to buy your wants and beg for your needs. Believe me,
(10:41):
I totally understand early adulthood and parents helping out, but
this isn't the same thing. If you're concerned about pet cots,
look into pet insurance. Well that's when they can really
nail you, is when you take your dog in because
they're you know, they can't poop or they won't eat,
and then they go, oh, yeah, she needs surgery. It's
going to be thirty two hundred dollars, and that is
you know, I mean, it's like you have a choice,
(11:01):
then let the dog die or get the surgery.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And usually you'll get the surgery.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You will. My dog Rex could not poop. He was older,
and I think we spent five thousand dollars to tighten
up his butt anal muscles so he could poop again.
And he lived probably another year after that. But you know,
he was our boy, yeah, and we were fortunate to
be able to afford it. Question for the group, what
is on the top of your bucket list? Not your
(11:28):
wish list bucket list, but the list of things you
will actually be devastated about if you don't get to do.
For example, I have items on my bucket list like
go into Wimbledon or traveling to New Zealand, but I
only have two items on my real bucket list, having
children living abroad. So I guess what she's saying is, Oh,
it would be really cool if I could own my
(11:50):
own theme park one day, but that's not going to happen.
It's the thing that you really want to do, and
if you don't get to do it, you will feel
like you missed out on something in life. Anything come
to mine, Jenny, anything to come to mine.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Ugh, I mean mine's all just travel based. I just
wish I could go take six months off and travel
all around like South America or Southeast Asia maybe eure up,
that's probably mine.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And might's just go to Graceland with my mom and
own a house. Those are two things that I think
I could potentially do in my life, okay, and I
will likely do them both at some point in time.
Me and my mom literally talked about Graceland yesterday and
we're like, let's actually get some shit on paper, so
we do it instead of just talking about it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't really have a lot. I do want to
ride the motorcycle to Alaska one day, so cool. I
think that'd be really cool. But now we might take
the RV. The problem Jenny with the RV is it
gets and this is awful. This is what I fucking
hate about it because I'm really like, I care about
the environment. I pick up things when I go for
(12:53):
a walk. I picked up two cigarette butts and a
bread twisty tab you know the little square ones with
a hole in it. Found that on the path, So
I don't like fucking up the environment. The RV gets
about eight miles to the gallon, which is like absurd.
It is that means ten gallons of gas to go
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eighty miles. So if I'm going to go from here
to Red Wigan back, that is ten gallons of gas. Ridiculous. Yeah,
but I would like to do that. Also, would like
to go to the Cascades. Like you know, I've never
seen like mountaineer in Mount oly the Olympus. I don't
know whatever is out there now.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm blanket even though I've been.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think it's Olympia. I'm going to look it up though,
because i've literally, oh it is No, that's in Greece.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, well mountain, but that's why I don't know anything
about it. But I would love to see the Cascades,
and that is on my bucket list I really don't have.
I'm not like I want to go to Fiji. I
want to go to Iceland. I don't want to go
to Greece. I don't want to go I'm not a
traveler kind of a person. I think there's enough to
see here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of My algorithm
is travel based, so I see a lot of things
that it's like I've traveled the entire world and these
are my top countries, and the United States is always
in it because the just diverse landscape that we have here.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
But also the United States is huge, whereas like Iceland
is the size of Texas or whatever, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So it's oh, I think it's even smaller probably.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And actually probably is.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, But a lot of people say, like, you know,
people feel like they have to go to Europe to
experience different like the mountains in Switzerland and stuff, but
really there's so much in the United States too.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I've never been really to driven through Utah, but never
through the pretty part of Utah. I've never been like
northern California in like the Redwoods, Washington, Oregon, what else
is up that way?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Idaho, Washington. I just think like the Pacific Northwest is
probably my favorite area of the country. And I don't
know why, like what I could nail down, because there's
mountains in multiple different states. But it's like the smells,
it's the trees, it's just like also being close to water.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I don't know, I know about that.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But what troubles me is how crowded everything has become.
Like in Colorado, I grew up there and it was
it never seemed crowded back then, But now to get
up into the mountains on Interstate seventy. You go from
Denver up into the mountains on weekends, there's a traffic jam.
Coming back. On Sunday afternoons, there's a traffic jam in
Colorado Springs. Going up in a highway twenty four, there's
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a traffic jam and coming back. And that's what I
worry about with the crowds. A friend of mine went
to the Grand Canyon last summer with his family. There
was a five hour wait to get into the front
gate or one of the gates at the Grand Canyon.
Five hours. Yeah, and I think about going to Yosemite
because I've always wanted to see Yosemite, But it seems
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like it's just people, people, people, cars, cars, cars everywhere,
and I would be one of those. So I can't
blame the other people, but it just kind of where
can you still go in the United States where there's
not crowds.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, you got to go in the off seasons.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
But unfortunately, you know, Glacier, you can't experience most of
Glacier in the off season, like roads are closed down,
it's dangerous, like you don't have access to a lot
of stuff. So that's why it becomes so busy in
the summer and there is such a long wait because
that's the only time you can go to certain things.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, there's a thing in Glacier called going to the
Sun Road, and we tried to drive up, but we
were there, I think in July and the snow was
still too deep on going to the Sun Road and
we couldn't go. Yeah, it's like, well fuck, if you
go during the wintertime, there's no way you can go
up that road. So anyway, what is on your bucket list?
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What would you recommend? Where do you go to get
away from the crowds? What do you want to talk
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Big news on the Minnesota Goodbye Valley Fair opens this weekend.
A favorite ride of Valley Fair, Steel Venom Wild Thing
is a great ride. Steel Venom is terrifying. And this
is the one that's shaped like a U. So you
start at the bottom of the U. You back up
and then you go way to the top and then
(00:21):
you sit there for a minute and then you wait
for it to drop and it clicks, but it doesn't drop.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Is that the one that spins at the top two
like it twirls down.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A little bit. Yeah, it does twirl a little bit
at the going forward end, I believe, And then it clicks,
but it doesn't drop, and you think, oh my god,
something's wrong, and then it drops. But now that I
say that, No, my favorite ride is Power Tower, no question.
Power Tower is ridiculously high. Every time I go on it,
I'm riding up. I can't believe how high I am.
I hate heights. But then I go, why am I
(00:53):
on this ride? So any thoughts on rides at Valley Fair.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I like a roller coaster, but it has to just
be like a tame roller coaster. So is it one
of the wooden ones I can? I can deal with?
One of the wooden ones. But if it goes like
up down, up down, up down, up down, I don't
like it. And if it goes like up up up
up up up up and then has a huge drop,
like if it's more than a sixty foot drop, I'm
not doing it period. I'm too scared.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
When are you gonna start living your life?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm too scared. I like I like Splash Mountain, I
like Evers, I like the Disney roller coasters, but I
can't do I can't do a really big drop like
the wild Thing is too scary. Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I don't think ben a Valley fair like twice. I
think total in my lifetime because I didn't grow up here,
so I would say steel Venom's probably my favorite. However,
I do have a story of I grew up going
to Six Legs in Gurney, Illinois, and there was a
a wooden roller coaster called Viper, and we would purposely
not try to have our seatbelts buckle as tight or
(01:52):
like the sing as tight because it was so rickety
and it just like shut.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Like just shake really back. Yeah, and you'd like.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Fly around and stuff, and I mean obvious, they still
a common check and make sure you're like decently secure.
But I remember, like, I'm pretty sure I peed my
pants one time, laughing so hard because I was not
in secure at.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
All and I was just flying everywhere and it was
so fun.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Wow, nights bad idea. Yeah, A little myth that you
might have heard is that the wooden roller coaster at
Valley Fair used to be in the Excelsior Amusement Park.
That's not true, However, the carousel at Valley Fair used
to be in the Excelsior Amusement Park, and you might
be going, there was an amusement park in excels Here.
(02:33):
There was right where Maynards is now. There used to
be an amusement park right along the shore of Lake Minnetaka,
and it was there from maybe the thirties until like
the seventies or so, and then they tore it down.
Here's another fun fact. Yeah, and I bring this up
once in a while. There used to be in the
(02:53):
parking lot of Maynards, so you got Maynards on one
side of the road. Across the street from Maynards. There
used to be a a nightclub, like a teen dance club,
and I forget what it was called, But the Rolling
Stones played there one time before they were really really big,
and it was burnt down by some stupid thug that
(03:15):
lived around there. And I was talking to somebody who
rents jet skis in in Lake Minnetonka, and he said, yeah,
I grew up with that guy. He was an asshole.
Oh so yeah, so a little bit of history perience.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, isn't it always creepy when you see the abandoned
amusement parks? Like there aren't any around here? I know, yeah,
no one in Denver or no, there might have been.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Maybe No.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think that that actually is like running. But I
just feel like when you see those abandoned amusement parks,
it's like, how many ghosts are haunting that ghost?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm now thinking of a video game I played that
took place in an abandoned amusement park, and now I
can't remember what it is. But all right, let's get
on with the emails on the Minnesota goodbye and see
what we've got here we go. Well, here's the announcement.
We're excited to open Valley Fair for the season Monday
or Sunday, May eleventh, and if you are interested in
(04:13):
filming a story on May eleventh. Well, we don't film anything,
but yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That email too, jam, which is just always fun to
get emails that. It's like, I work in radio. Yeah,
I won't be bringing my news team out there.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We probably could though, because radio people do social media videoing.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, we could, yeah, but I just feel like the
way that it was worded was a very generic press
release sent out to all media personnel that they thought
are most likely TV people.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You know. It's nice though, just speaking of ally Fair,
if you go on their website and you can actually
watch little videos of all of their rides from like
a point of view of being on the ride.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So I think I could handle Excalibur. That's the one
that I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, that's the one that me and Pattia Ebert wrote
on one hundred and one times back in about nineteen
ninety four.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This drop, I can see the bottom, so that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, it's still there, so kind of a wooden one
with a little bit of metal. I think the tracks
are met well, most roller coaster tracks are metal. Now
they think about it, How.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Long did it take you to ride it? All day.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We started it probably one Yeah, we started about eleven
o'clock in the morning, I guess it was on a weekday.
And we went out there and pat and I rode
the EXCaliber and I think we rode probably too about
thirty times, and then we started to feel sick, so
we took a break and then we rode ten more times.
Then we were really sick.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And I think it took until probably evening, like maybe
six o'clock, but we did get all one hundred and
one rides in. It was not a lot of fun, no,
and there was a plaque at the loading area of
Excalibur for years that said Dave Ryan and Patty Eberts
from KWB rode this hundred one times.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Not there anymore, No, it's not there. I mean it
would have been so cute to like go back and
remember that, though it would Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well maybe this summer you should go ride it one
hundred one times.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, never mind, I'll write it once.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Michelle writes in Hello Dave, Jenny vontam my girl, Bailey,
I hope you had a great weekend. I know I did.
We didn't do much. It was nice as always. Thanks
for keeping me fucking sane for four hours a day. Well,
you're welcome. I have one thing I would like from
you all. Please please please mix up some of the
old songs with the same ones you play every day.
I mean, what happened to Taylor Swift, Pink Backstreet Boys,
(06:25):
Eminem etc. Okay, I can't wait for the State Fair.
I will be there giving you all shit this year.
Thanks for being you. Have a great fucking week from Michelle.
A love the attitude, Michelle, Thank you very much. All right,
next one, it says, Okay, it's from Aaron, and she said,
(06:45):
I feel the need to follow up on this. Have
been catch it up on Minnesota goodbyes, and I heard
some more feedback. Let's jump in and see what she's
talking about. She is the one who wanted to write
she wrote about getting the puppy. Yes, Okay, isn't she Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Oh, I don't know if she's the one, but we've
been talking about someone who wants to get a puppy.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that's her. So anyway, So she's heard some feedback
from people saying, if you can't afford it, don't get it.
Your mom and dad shouldn't be paying for things. I
want to clear some stuff up. I've been on my
own since twenty two, paying my own bills, moved out
at twenty three, and paying rent my own rent since
the only thing my parents were paying for is my
car insurance, and that was because they bought the truck.
(07:26):
I'm not sure why we never transferred the payment. It
just never came up until I bought a new truck
and obviously was then responsible for my own insurance. Okay,
and yes, every now and then I would get a
large scary bill from my old ass truck and would
complain about it, not ask for money, and sometimes my
parents would help by giving me money to help pay
for it. I am a responsible adult who works full
(07:47):
time with two part time jobs full time, two part
time jobs. I just have a very expensive hobby, and
sometimes my parents like to help me with that because
a horse truck and trailer is a lot to put
on a young adult. The maintenance of a truck alone
is a lot more expensive than a normal car. Regardless,
I've always assumed at the expense that come with orning
a horse truck and trailer. Anyway, I told my parents
(08:09):
about the puppy. They took it very well. Maybe a
little annoyed at first, but overall they know my love
for animals and they get it. They have an old
dog at home and she is my girl. We know
she doesn't have much time left, as she's been declining
fairly quickly. I think the puppy is a good distraction
for everyone but me, especially when the time comes. PS.
Somebody said, buy a fucking plant. Remember that?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, ps.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I do have many houseplants, but they do not cuddle
quite the same as a dog does. Anyway, I appreciate
the feedback. I'm very fortunate to have parents that have
been able to support my hobby growing up, and even
more fortunate to have been able to continue to enjoy
my hobby through my early adulthood. I am really excited
about welcoming a puppy into my life. You know what,
if it works for you, and it works for your parents,
(08:50):
it doesn't affect me, then I don't care. Good for you.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, okay, and I hope it's cute and snuggy.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Next one, let's see, here we go. This is it
in New York City. I've been meaning to write in
for a long time, so I'm currently typing this mail
email at my desk at work. I'll try to be brief,
but here are some random questions. My sister is having
a bachelorette party in Charleston, South Carolina, and we're trying
(09:22):
to figure out a theme for one of our nights out.
We're trying to strike a balance between fun and simple.
We don't want to make everybody buy new clothes or
accessories because the trip as expensive as it is. What
are your thoughts. I have no thoughts on this. I
don't know, m.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, because they don't want to buy accessories. I was
gonna say, just buy some cheap wigs, because I always
think that that's fun and easy, and then you can
wear whatever you want. But you know you're in the
bachelorette party if you're wearing a wig. But if you
don't want to do that, I would say, just find
a color scheme of like obviously, the bridewear is white,
and I've seen a lot of like more like fluorescent
colors together, Like just see what people have or color
(10:01):
coordinates with what people have already. It's always easy to
just have everyone wear black and the brideware white too.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Okay, what about an activity? I mean, do you think
she's looking for activities.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh there's Charleston's like one of the top etcera destinations
now for hoping. So I'm sure they've got it planned
by now.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, yeah, then, Sid says commenting on the woman who
wrote in about getting a dog and still needing help
from her parents, which we just covered. In my opinion,
if you can't afford something, you don't get it. To me,
if you're making a choice like that to spend money
on something you don't technically need, you don't have a
right to ask your parents for help. You don't get
to buy your wants and beg for your needs. Believe me,
(10:41):
I totally understand early adulthood and parents helping out, but
this isn't the same thing. If you're concerned about pet cots,
look into pet insurance. Well that's when they can really
nail you, is when you take your dog in because
they're you know, they can't poop or they won't eat,
and then they go, oh, yeah, she needs surgery. It's
going to be thirty two hundred dollars, and that is
you know, I mean, it's like you have a choice,
(11:01):
then let the dog die or get the surgery.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And usually you'll get the surgery.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You will. My dog Rex could not poop. He was older,
and I think we spent five thousand dollars to tighten
up his butt anal muscles so he could poop again.
And he lived probably another year after that. But you know,
he was our boy, yeah, and we were fortunate to
be able to afford it. Question for the group, what
is on the top of your bucket list? Not your
(11:28):
wish list bucket list, but the list of things you
will actually be devastated about if you don't get to do.
For example, I have items on my bucket list like
go into Wimbledon or traveling to New Zealand, but I
only have two items on my real bucket list, having
children living abroad. So I guess what she's saying is, Oh,
it would be really cool if I could own my
(11:50):
own theme park one day, but that's not going to happen.
It's the thing that you really want to do, and
if you don't get to do it, you will feel
like you missed out on something in life. Anything come
to mine, Jenny, anything to come to mine.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Ugh, I mean mine's all just travel based. I just
wish I could go take six months off and travel
all around like South America or Southeast Asia maybe eure up,
that's probably mine.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And might's just go to Graceland with my mom and
own a house. Those are two things that I think
I could potentially do in my life, okay, and I
will likely do them both at some point in time.
Me and my mom literally talked about Graceland yesterday and
we're like, let's actually get some shit on paper, so
we do it instead of just talking about it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't really have a lot. I do want to
ride the motorcycle to Alaska one day, so cool. I
think that'd be really cool. But now we might take
the RV. The problem Jenny with the RV is it
gets and this is awful. This is what I fucking
hate about it because I'm really like, I care about
the environment. I pick up things when I go for
(12:53):
a walk. I picked up two cigarette butts and a
bread twisty tab you know the little square ones with
a hole in it. Found that on the path, So
I don't like fucking up the environment. The RV gets
about eight miles to the gallon, which is like absurd.
It is that means ten gallons of gas to go
(13:13):
eighty miles. So if I'm going to go from here
to Red Wigan back, that is ten gallons of gas. Ridiculous. Yeah,
but I would like to do that. Also, would like
to go to the Cascades. Like you know, I've never
seen like mountaineer in Mount oly the Olympus. I don't
know whatever is out there now.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm blanket even though I've been.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I think it's Olympia. I'm going to look it up though,
because i've literally, oh it is No, that's in Greece.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay, well mountain, but that's why I don't know anything
about it. But I would love to see the Cascades,
and that is on my bucket list I really don't have.
I'm not like I want to go to Fiji. I
want to go to Iceland. I don't want to go
to Greece. I don't want to go I'm not a
traveler kind of a person. I think there's enough to
see here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of My algorithm
is travel based, so I see a lot of things
that it's like I've traveled the entire world and these
are my top countries, and the United States is always
in it because the just diverse landscape that we have here.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
But also the United States is huge, whereas like Iceland
is the size of Texas or whatever, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So it's oh, I think it's even smaller probably.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And actually probably is.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, But a lot of people say, like, you know,
people feel like they have to go to Europe to
experience different like the mountains in Switzerland and stuff, but
really there's so much in the United States too.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I've never been really to driven through Utah, but never
through the pretty part of Utah. I've never been like
northern California in like the Redwoods, Washington, Oregon, what else
is up that way?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Idaho, Washington. I just think like the Pacific Northwest is
probably my favorite area of the country. And I don't
know why, like what I could nail down, because there's
mountains in multiple different states. But it's like the smells,
it's the trees, it's just like also being close to water.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I don't know, I know about that.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But what troubles me is how crowded everything has become.
Like in Colorado, I grew up there and it was
it never seemed crowded back then, But now to get
up into the mountains on Interstate seventy. You go from
Denver up into the mountains on weekends, there's a traffic jam.
Coming back. On Sunday afternoons, there's a traffic jam in
Colorado Springs. Going up in a highway twenty four, there's
(15:32):
a traffic jam and coming back. And that's what I
worry about with the crowds. A friend of mine went
to the Grand Canyon last summer with his family. There
was a five hour wait to get into the front
gate or one of the gates at the Grand Canyon.
Five hours. Yeah, and I think about going to Yosemite
because I've always wanted to see Yosemite, But it seems
(15:53):
like it's just people, people, people, cars, cars, cars everywhere,
and I would be one of those. So I can't
blame the other people, but it just kind of where
can you still go in the United States where there's
not crowds.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, you got to go in the off seasons.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
But unfortunately, you know, Glacier, you can't experience most of
Glacier in the off season, like roads are closed down,
it's dangerous, like you don't have access to a lot
of stuff. So that's why it becomes so busy in
the summer and there is such a long wait because
that's the only time you can go to certain things.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, there's a thing in Glacier called going to the
Sun Road, and we tried to drive up, but we
were there, I think in July and the snow was
still too deep on going to the Sun Road and
we couldn't go. Yeah, it's like, well fuck, if you
go during the wintertime, there's no way you can go
up that road. So anyway, what is on your bucket list?
(16:47):
What would you recommend? Where do you go to get
away from the crowds? What do you want to talk
about on the Minnesota Goodbye? Send an email because we
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