December 22, 2025 • 21 mins
We talk overcoming illnesses, a new sport, and Juanita has a rant about hosting Christmas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, guess what is time to do the Minnesota Goodbye?
Guess who are special guest is today? No the album No,
it is Wanita here comes for Christmas rant? Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
So just like you guys, once I get these two
days knocked out, I'll be gone till January sixth, So
this will be my last rant for twenty twenty five.
So usually whoever hosts Thanksgiving will also host Christmas, so
I'll be hosting Christmas this year. So this week's rant
is pretty much a replica of the brand I had
(00:39):
for Thanksgiving, but instead I have some rules for Christmas,
and yes, Bailey, I have notes. So Rule number one,
whatever's on the counter to drink is what I intend
for you to drink.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So Uncle Maurice, get.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Your ask from in front of my liquor cabinet telling
about some I didn't know you had remy.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's because I.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Had no intentions of you knowing, because that's why it's
not on the counter. Whatever's on the counter is what
the fuck I intend for you to drink. Now get
your ass over there and drink what's on the counter.
Rule number two, Shanikwa, make sure you keep an eye
on your two little fucking rugrats. Don't have these motherfuckers
running around tearing up my shit and taking my ornaments
(01:22):
off my damn trees, tearing them up. Trust me, Just
because they not my kids don't means that I won't
break their ass off a little something.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Rule number three ain't Brenda.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
When people bring food to the house, it's not your
job to go re seasoning anything. That's not your job.
They season it the way that they wanted to. If
you want to season the food, you season.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Whatever you put on your plate. Don't go running around.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Taking those seasons out of my damn cabinet. Season re
seasoning the whole pot or the whole pan of food.
Season what you put on your plate. Don't be seizing
everybody else's shit. Rule number three White jail and white tim.
Now these are my white friends that we've been knowing
these people for over ten years. They don't have anything
(02:10):
going on this Christmas, so they wanted to They wanted
to come and spend Christmas with me and my family.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So of course I invited them. But here's the rule.
Do not bring y'all white shit over here to my family.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Keep your camping trip suggestions to yourself My family does
not go cap and I keep telling y'all that we
don't go cap it. Do not invite anybody up north
because they gonna think you bringing them up there to
try to kidnap them, mistha. Do not invite anybody to
go ice fishing. We don't ice fish. And do not
suggest anything about no lutifists. First of all, my family
(02:47):
can't even fucking spell ludifits, neither do they even know
what that is. Do not bring up anything about no
damn lutifits. Well, that's my rant for this week. I
just want to say, Jenny, I wish you guys a
merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I wish the same to all the kd w.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
B family, BFF, Mike, fine ass, Tony, and I just
want to say rest in peace to my friend Tim.
You guys may not have noticed, but I've known Tim.
I used to work with him over at RMS for
like four years, and he used to call me his
his beautiful bodyguard. And I just want to say Tim
(03:27):
that there will always be a place in my heart
for you, and I'm pretty sure that where you are
right now, God.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Has got your back.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now, I just want to say, I love you guys,
and I will talk to you guys next year.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Bye time.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh, I mean, we love you so much. You're such
a character and but you have just got a heart
of gold and we just love you. I would have
never expected to have like a permanent special guest on
the show, but here is Janita, and when she came
to the live broadcast, live podcast, she did great and
we just we just love it. So one person in
(04:02):
the family that I don't want to feel slighted, Secretary Breeze. Yeah, so,
Secretary Brie. She did not forget you. She just did
not mention you. So I'm sure one need it right
now is going God damn it. I fucking can't believe
I forgot Secretary pri That shit pisses me the fuck.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Off, the fuck off.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
All right, let's get into the emails here and here
we go. This one starts off Katie wb Crewe from Sarah,
Thanks for providing a sense of familiarity, laughter, and entertainment
last several years of my life. Like anybody who's ever
written in who appreciates you as much as I do,
too need, I too need to express how much you
(04:40):
all mean to me, The ways your familiar voices call
me when I drive or get through anxiety or clean
my apartment. I always make me feel like I'm never
really alone, or at least I can escape it for
a little bit. To the woman or guy who asked
about jackets, what was that? Do you remember? Where do
we get our jackets? Is that what it was?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Wearing jackets?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
They someone did specifically ask where a good place is
to get winter jackets or like a brand?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, they say, I would try opitz op t z
in Saint Louis Parker Minataka designer brands seventy percent plus off.
I myself have two Canada Goose jackets that I got
off of eBay, and let me tell you, I love
them over every jacket I've ever worn for cold winters.
I'm always warm or sweating, and I usually tend to
be on the cold side no matter where I am.
(05:27):
So opits Canadian Goose jackets. My friend sells paddle courts
pad el courts around the world and says that the
next upcoming sport is paddle pa and.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I was just talking about today.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, It's like this crazy combo of racquetball, tennis, and pickleball, Okay,
way more intense than pickleball and racketball probably and tennis honestly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Because pickleball can be pretty leisurely, and I think that's
one of the things that people like about it is
it's leisurely where you don't have to do a lot
of running like in tennis, and it's just basically you
have fun getting the ball back and forth across the net.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, yeah, well paddle like it's literally a big box
and so you just I'm sorry if they're going to
continue to explain it, so you can keep going the
email none.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It says it's already a big sport in other countries,
but it's not made its way here yet. Big name
celebrities already participating. I don't know why I care. I'm
the least athletic person you'll ever meet, but I thought
i'd let the sports enthusiasts know how to be in
front of the trend.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
The only reason I knew about it because I literally
want to play pick a ball at a place yesterday
that has racketball, pick a ball and paddle courts, and
we watched the some people playing paddle for a little
bit and it was just so intense. They just like
they hit the ball. It's in a big, you know,
glass box. You can hit it off of anything. It's
kind of the same. Maybe a little bit bigger size
than a paddle or a pickleball court, but yeah, you
(06:48):
can hit it off anything. So the only way you
like lose a point pretty much is if you miss the.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Ball, all right with Okay, in racketball, you're both standing
next to each other, you and your opponent in paddle,
are you on up it sides of a net?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, so it's doubles. Same with pickleball.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It is double.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh yeah, it's the same. Usually most people play doubles
with pickleball. It's kind of rare that there's singles, but whatever.
But yeah, so it's two against two, and yeah, it's
just it's crazy, it's intense. It's it really looks like
a way harder workout than pickleball. So now I'm like
kind of want to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, Merry Christmas, Happy Holliday, safe travels wherever you all
go to the break. I'm sad to go without hearing
your voices over the break, but I guess I'll wait
till next year. Thank you. Sarah, appreciate that one. Next one, Okay,
this is interesting. I will be quick with context to
(07:43):
get to my point, says Jen. So last weekend, it
was having a very difficult time breathing. Now I've been
having a little hard time breathing because I've gained weight
and I've never been this size. I've been winded for
a long time, which I thought was the extra pounds.
I took my son to school on Monday, and I
told my boss, I'm gonna stop at the urgent care
for some meds so I can breathe better from there.
(08:05):
It was all a fucking crisis mode and happened so fast.
I was taken to the hospital by ambulance and put
in ice you with terrible pneumonia in both lungs. Here
is why I'm writing to you. I want to say
thank you all for being there for me. You see,
I couldn't talk for three days with machines helping me breathe,
(08:25):
but I could listen and hear you all. I was
so scared of what was going to happen, and you
brought me comfort and calmness while I listened to your show.
I am now home recovering. I hope that when you're
tired and of getting up early or having a shitty day,
you remember this. Some people are fighting for their life
and can still hear and listen to you, which brings
a sense of comfort. Thank you for being you, all
(08:49):
of you. You matter to me more than I can
express to you. Jen, And she sent photos from the
State Fair and she says, Dave signed his book for
me at the fair, met Jenny at the high ve
and case you're wondering, and if you saw her picture,
you totally would remember her because there she is just
a few months ago at the State Fair. Jen. I
wrote her back and I said, I'm so glad that
(09:11):
you're doing well and back home recovering.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
What happens with pneumonia?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Like what kind of your lungs are filled with fluid?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Because I had a kind of foot in mouth moment
this weekend because I was like out and about and
so of course I want to text my friends who
are like just habitually out all the time. I was like,
what are you doing tonight? And my friend he's like,
I'm home and I literally go, what are you sick?
And he goes, I have pneumonia. But it was like
a joke, right, he's always out and I was like,
well shit, I was like, I'm sorry, I didn't know.
(09:39):
I didn't know you were sick, like actually sick. And
then I felt like an asshole. But anyways, I didn't
know how intense pneumonia was.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I had pneumonia when I was in ninth grade. I
got sick for I missed school for three weeks. I
had pneumonia and scarletina, which I still don't know what
it is, but it felt like it was awful, and
I remember my mom told me later she thought they
were going to lose me. And I didn't remember being
(10:07):
that sick, but I do remember, because there's kind of
different kinds of sick. There's the sick when you sit
on the couch and you watch Prices right, and you're
in your bathrobe and your pj's yeah, and you get
chicken soup and you know you're really you don't feel
good enough to go to school. I was so sick
that I laid in bed, I didn't watch TV. I
laid in bed for about probably a week or so,
(10:32):
but I missed school for three weeks, and I remember
my dad came in one night because I kept throwing up,
and he said, do you want to go to the
hospital and I said no, and he got annoyed and
he said, well, you're not getting any better here, and
I remember that. So they dragged me the hospital and
it was the Air Force hospital and they didn't have
room to put me in the hospital. And my dad
(10:54):
was pissed because you know, he was like a you know,
a moderately powerful officer, but he didn't have the juice
to get me into the hospital. So they brought me
back home. And I did get better, but I was pneumonia.
So that was my point. Pneumonia, and it's basically you're
and when you're getting better, you cough up things that
look like green sponges grow. And it was awful, yeah,
(11:18):
because it's your lungs clearing out. And here's a little
ninth grade me, deathly sick, laying in bed. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I feel like every time we want to get sick
in the way that you just lay on the couch
and eat soup and watch TV, and that's like, oh wow,
what I would give for one of those chill sick days.
But it's always like nope, I'm in bed and I
can't move and I if I moan, I'll feel a
little bit better, So I'll just layter and go.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Huh isn't that true? If you moan, it's like a release,
you feel better.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I literally laid in, Ben just went.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It was awful.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, that is awful. Next one totally different, Dave Jenny Bailey.
My family and I are coming from Virginia to Minnesota
to spend Christmas there with my brother and parents. We
got two sons, five and one. Keep that in mind,
five and one. While we're there, we want to take
a night to stay up in the Twin Cities with
our five year old. My husband and I are big
footies and the five year old is in picky ether.
(12:15):
What are your must go to restaurants in the area.
Cost is not a factor, but it must be kid
friendly since our five year old is not an iPad kid,
and we'll be acting like a respectful but mildly fairal
five year old boy. Kate from Virginia. First of all, Kate,
thanks for listening out of state. Don't know how you mean.
She must have used to live here because she's coming
to see relatives. Matt's Bar, Matt's Bar five a club
(12:40):
and also the Lion's Tap is also another burger fry place,
but Matt's Bar is probably if you're going to go
one place. I'm not going to say go to Morton's
or Kincaid's or whatever, because that's not fun. That's expensive
and delicious and wonderful. But I would say Matt's Bar
five a club for the juicy lucy or just a
(13:00):
fun hamburger, Lions Tap in eaton Prairie, anybody else.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I mean class I'm so bad at with restaurant recommendations
because I don't go out to eat a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, I would say, I mean, if you're I don't
know if they're like beer drinks kind of people, but like,
we have so many really great breweries around here too,
so go to like a local brewery. Depending on wherever
you're at staying, there's probably at least three near you.
I mean, people are always like, oh, Surly is great,
it's just because it's a big But there's so many
really great breweries, like all over the Twin Cities, and
(13:30):
I would say go to one of those because they
usually if they have food, the food's usually good, Okay,
the beer is usually good. They probably got something going on,
so Yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah. I can't think of any other place that I
would say like, oh, you've got to go here, because
I keep in mind the five year old and five
year olds at Spendee restaurants. They get bored right five
and one? Yeah, yeah, okay, Well, good luck, have fun.
Let us know where you end up going. That is
from Katie in Virginia NEXTX one, Hello Morning crew, first
time email. Are long time listener all my life. I
(14:02):
don't know what I will do with my mornings without
Dave on the air. The main reason I wanted to
write in is because I want to say I would
pay one hundred dollars for Vont to shave all his
facial hair. It's been getting out of control as long
as he's been on the show, and I can't hold
back anymore. This is not an attack, more of a
realization that he's part of a group of men that
just don't look good with facial hair. Now he does
(14:26):
ask for a staff writer stickery, saying that it's a
guy yeah Marco.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
But at the same time, I feel like Vont looks
like a tiny little child.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
When he'sace yeah facial hair.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
He looks so.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Young I'm sure he would take one hundred dollarson and
shave it off.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, he definitely probably would. He'd be like, hell, yeah,
give me that, can.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Give me that money.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Vant's gonna like Carson. I think that Carson grows a
beard and facial hair because he thinks it makes him
look older, because Carson looks fifteen without his facial hair.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, he does look young, but so does Yeah, vont
does have kind of a a child like bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
If he didn't have fair child like bobblehead. Uh, let's
see here. Okay. So on Thursday, you guys talked about
getting the wrong reaction if you try to correct somebody
or let them know there's something like Dave was talking
about telling people please don't walk on cross country ski trails,
and if you mentioned that to somebody in person, they
(15:22):
might go, oh god, I didn't know. But they're just
as likely to go like, don't judge me or tell
me what to do. I'll funk yourself.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So, she says, I totally had that happen to me
this summer. I work for an outdoor bike camp during
the summer and we take kids around the Chain of
Lakes mostly people may recognize us in the summer cruising around. Well,
this past summer, one of the lakes was getting construction
done on the path and this forced walkers to take
over the part of the biker lane. It was annoying
(15:53):
for a few weeks, but I was fine, no big deal.
One day there's a couple almost taking up the entire
whole bike path, and as we passed by, I let
him know in my nicest voice, just letting me know
that a lot of kids gonna pass you on the
left side with bikes. This ass motherfucker shouts at me,
then maybe you should stay on the left, bitch. I
(16:15):
was not trying to start something with you. No, I
truly don't give a fuck that a third grader wipes
you out on their bike. Fuck you just trying to
be nice. I read these verbatim by yes, yeah, pretty much,
and sadly that altercation made me crabby the rest of
the day. He could have just said, Okay, thanks for
the heads up, hug people. Well, have a great holiday season.
(16:36):
You guys will be missed over the holidays. From Alison.
You were clearly in the right on that one, Alison,
and it does suck that somebody had to mouth off
like that, I hate you.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I feel feels That's something I'm happy about at this
point in my life is that random strangers who are
assholes like that don't bother me anymore. Whereas I will
never forget when I was on a path around the
lakes one time and I was rollerblading, but I was
like on the left side because there was a ton
of cracks on the right, and a biker like berated
me for being on the left side as he was
trying to get past, and I didn't hear them because
(17:09):
I had headphones in, and I remember that haunted me
all day. Now I'm at a point where I'm like, whatever,
you're go have a cranky day or do whatever. Yeah,
Like I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Anymore that they say, like, go have the day you deserve.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking up something because you're talking about
putting your earbuds in and then you can't hear. This
is a recommendation. I love mine. I used it last night.
It is a little tiny speaker about the size of
a box of tic TACs that you can magnet or
clip to your caller or your jacket or whatever, and
(17:46):
it's a speaker that lets you hear like oncoming bikes
or runners or whatever. So you know, everybody loves their
air pods and their earbuds or whatever, but I don't
dislike mine. I just prefer this this speaker, and I
canna recommend it. It is called the Knox Gear in
Ox gea R Speaker, and there's different price points. There's
(18:10):
one for fifty nine ninety nine, there's one for seventy
nine ninety nine. I don't know what the difference is.
But it's called Knox Gear and I really love mine,
and I it bluetooths to your phone and it's got
a little speaker.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, so you can walk or bike or whatever and
enjoy your music without being muted to the rest of
the world. Let's see what else we got here. This
is a long email, and I appreciate every bit of
it from Christopher. He is basically writing in about ads
on the podcast. Here's one. The Dave Ryan podcast episode
(18:49):
from twelve to fifteen had fourteen minutes and five seconds
of ads. Now that is on the Minnesota Goodbye fourteen
minutes and five seconds of ads. Is that even possible?
He said? That was thirty eight point two seven percent
of your podcast was ads. I'm annoyed. I'm angered about
(19:10):
the recent changes with the ad breaks. I admittedly only
listened to Apple podcasts, but prior to the recent changes,
and like I said, it goes on for quite a while.
The ad breaks have been inserted to the podcast as well.
So not only is it three minutes before and three
minutes after, but there are three minutes in the middle
of the podcast, and the volume is always way off.
(19:31):
The ads are out of control. I don't I know
you don't have anything to do with it, but I
wanted to pass this along. Too many ads it makes
it difficult to enjoy the podcast while working or doing
anything when I'm not holding my phone, because when you
got your phone in your hand, you use the skip button.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Anyway, thanks for doing what you do. Despite the ads,
I still laugh every time I listen Dart Dart lick
lick Right. Your seventh listener, Chris, formerly from Miami but
now in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yeah, I I don't have any any like power over
the ads whatsoever, so I know they're annoying. But now
with our new like podcast uploader thing, I cannot publish
any podcast if I don't put an ad in it,
So it's either they have the fourteen minutes of ads
or they're not uploaded. Like that's kind of that's all
(20:21):
I have a say in.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It is frustrating.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I can't I can't adjust the volume. I can't adjust anything.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I will adjust the volume of one Nita this time.
But that is all the time we have for the
Minnesota Goodbye. We'll do one more episode Toosday and then
that's it. We'll have to hold us over because we
love doing the Minnesota Goodbye and we appreciate you so much.
It is such a fun thing to do. Because we
prepare the show on the radio. We always know what's
(20:46):
coming up. We always know what's coming to like Jenny,
what's coming up, what's coming up? But we never know
what's coming up on the Minnesota Goodbye, and you make
that a lot of fun. It's kind of like open
up our little Christmas pressuent every time we open up
an email. So whether your commenting, complain, teaching us something. Ranger, Jessica,
we hope you're okay. Jannita, we love you, Sidney, all
(21:07):
the other regular staff writers. Thank you for being you
and we'll catch you next time on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Send an email to, as always, Ryan's show at KDWB
dot com.
Well, guess what is time to do the Minnesota Goodbye?
Guess who are special guest is today? No the album No,
it is Wanita here comes for Christmas rant? Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
So just like you guys, once I get these two
days knocked out, I'll be gone till January sixth, So
this will be my last rant for twenty twenty five.
So usually whoever hosts Thanksgiving will also host Christmas, so
I'll be hosting Christmas this year. So this week's rant
is pretty much a replica of the brand I had
(00:39):
for Thanksgiving, but instead I have some rules for Christmas,
and yes, Bailey, I have notes. So Rule number one,
whatever's on the counter to drink is what I intend
for you to drink.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So Uncle Maurice, get.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Your ask from in front of my liquor cabinet telling
about some I didn't know you had remy.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's because I.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Had no intentions of you knowing, because that's why it's
not on the counter. Whatever's on the counter is what
the fuck I intend for you to drink. Now get
your ass over there and drink what's on the counter.
Rule number two, Shanikwa, make sure you keep an eye
on your two little fucking rugrats. Don't have these motherfuckers
running around tearing up my shit and taking my ornaments
(01:22):
off my damn trees, tearing them up. Trust me, Just
because they not my kids don't means that I won't
break their ass off a little something.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Rule number three ain't Brenda.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
When people bring food to the house, it's not your
job to go re seasoning anything. That's not your job.
They season it the way that they wanted to. If
you want to season the food, you season.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Whatever you put on your plate. Don't go running around.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Taking those seasons out of my damn cabinet. Season re
seasoning the whole pot or the whole pan of food.
Season what you put on your plate. Don't be seizing
everybody else's shit. Rule number three White jail and white tim.
Now these are my white friends that we've been knowing
these people for over ten years. They don't have anything
(02:10):
going on this Christmas, so they wanted to They wanted
to come and spend Christmas with me and my family.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So of course I invited them. But here's the rule.
Do not bring y'all white shit over here to my family.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Keep your camping trip suggestions to yourself My family does
not go cap and I keep telling y'all that we
don't go cap it. Do not invite anybody up north
because they gonna think you bringing them up there to
try to kidnap them, mistha. Do not invite anybody to
go ice fishing. We don't ice fish. And do not
suggest anything about no lutifists. First of all, my family
(02:47):
can't even fucking spell ludifits, neither do they even know
what that is. Do not bring up anything about no
damn lutifits. Well, that's my rant for this week. I
just want to say, Jenny, I wish you guys a
merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I wish the same to all the kd w.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
B family, BFF, Mike, fine ass, Tony, and I just
want to say rest in peace to my friend Tim.
You guys may not have noticed, but I've known Tim.
I used to work with him over at RMS for
like four years, and he used to call me his
his beautiful bodyguard. And I just want to say Tim
(03:27):
that there will always be a place in my heart
for you, and I'm pretty sure that where you are
right now, God.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Has got your back.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now, I just want to say, I love you guys,
and I will talk to you guys next year.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Bye time.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Oh, I mean, we love you so much. You're such
a character and but you have just got a heart
of gold and we just love you. I would have
never expected to have like a permanent special guest on
the show, but here is Janita, and when she came
to the live broadcast, live podcast, she did great and
we just we just love it. So one person in
(04:02):
the family that I don't want to feel slighted, Secretary Breeze. Yeah, so,
Secretary Brie. She did not forget you. She just did
not mention you. So I'm sure one need it right
now is going God damn it. I fucking can't believe
I forgot Secretary pri That shit pisses me the fuck.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Off, the fuck off.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
All right, let's get into the emails here and here
we go. This one starts off Katie wb Crewe from Sarah,
Thanks for providing a sense of familiarity, laughter, and entertainment
last several years of my life. Like anybody who's ever
written in who appreciates you as much as I do,
too need, I too need to express how much you
(04:40):
all mean to me, The ways your familiar voices call
me when I drive or get through anxiety or clean
my apartment. I always make me feel like I'm never
really alone, or at least I can escape it for
a little bit. To the woman or guy who asked
about jackets, what was that? Do you remember? Where do
we get our jackets? Is that what it was?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Wearing jackets?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
They someone did specifically ask where a good place is
to get winter jackets or like a brand?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, they say, I would try opitz op t z
in Saint Louis Parker Minataka designer brands seventy percent plus off.
I myself have two Canada Goose jackets that I got
off of eBay, and let me tell you, I love
them over every jacket I've ever worn for cold winters.
I'm always warm or sweating, and I usually tend to
be on the cold side no matter where I am.
(05:27):
So opits Canadian Goose jackets. My friend sells paddle courts
pad el courts around the world and says that the
next upcoming sport is paddle pa and.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I was just talking about today.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, It's like this crazy combo of racquetball, tennis, and pickleball, Okay,
way more intense than pickleball and racketball probably and tennis honestly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Because pickleball can be pretty leisurely, and I think that's
one of the things that people like about it is
it's leisurely where you don't have to do a lot
of running like in tennis, and it's just basically you
have fun getting the ball back and forth across the net.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, yeah, well paddle like it's literally a big box
and so you just I'm sorry if they're going to
continue to explain it, so you can keep going the
email none.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It says it's already a big sport in other countries,
but it's not made its way here yet. Big name
celebrities already participating. I don't know why I care. I'm
the least athletic person you'll ever meet, but I thought
i'd let the sports enthusiasts know how to be in
front of the trend.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
The only reason I knew about it because I literally
want to play pick a ball at a place yesterday
that has racketball, pick a ball and paddle courts, and
we watched the some people playing paddle for a little
bit and it was just so intense. They just like
they hit the ball. It's in a big, you know,
glass box. You can hit it off of anything. It's
kind of the same. Maybe a little bit bigger size
than a paddle or a pickleball court, but yeah, you
(06:48):
can hit it off anything. So the only way you
like lose a point pretty much is if you miss the.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Ball, all right with Okay, in racketball, you're both standing
next to each other, you and your opponent in paddle,
are you on up it sides of a net?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, so it's doubles. Same with pickleball.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It is double.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh yeah, it's the same. Usually most people play doubles
with pickleball. It's kind of rare that there's singles, but whatever.
But yeah, so it's two against two, and yeah, it's
just it's crazy, it's intense. It's it really looks like
a way harder workout than pickleball. So now I'm like
kind of want to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, Merry Christmas, Happy Holliday, safe travels wherever you all
go to the break. I'm sad to go without hearing
your voices over the break, but I guess I'll wait
till next year. Thank you. Sarah, appreciate that one. Next one, Okay,
this is interesting. I will be quick with context to
(07:43):
get to my point, says Jen. So last weekend, it
was having a very difficult time breathing. Now I've been
having a little hard time breathing because I've gained weight
and I've never been this size. I've been winded for
a long time, which I thought was the extra pounds.
I took my son to school on Monday, and I
told my boss, I'm gonna stop at the urgent care
for some meds so I can breathe better from there.
(08:05):
It was all a fucking crisis mode and happened so fast.
I was taken to the hospital by ambulance and put
in ice you with terrible pneumonia in both lungs. Here
is why I'm writing to you. I want to say
thank you all for being there for me. You see,
I couldn't talk for three days with machines helping me breathe,
(08:25):
but I could listen and hear you all. I was
so scared of what was going to happen, and you
brought me comfort and calmness while I listened to your show.
I am now home recovering. I hope that when you're
tired and of getting up early or having a shitty day,
you remember this. Some people are fighting for their life
and can still hear and listen to you, which brings
a sense of comfort. Thank you for being you, all
(08:49):
of you. You matter to me more than I can
express to you. Jen, And she sent photos from the
State Fair and she says, Dave signed his book for
me at the fair, met Jenny at the high ve
and case you're wondering, and if you saw her picture,
you totally would remember her because there she is just
a few months ago at the State Fair. Jen. I
wrote her back and I said, I'm so glad that
(09:11):
you're doing well and back home recovering.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
What happens with pneumonia?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Like what kind of your lungs are filled with fluid?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Because I had a kind of foot in mouth moment
this weekend because I was like out and about and
so of course I want to text my friends who
are like just habitually out all the time. I was like,
what are you doing tonight? And my friend he's like,
I'm home and I literally go, what are you sick?
And he goes, I have pneumonia. But it was like
a joke, right, he's always out and I was like,
well shit, I was like, I'm sorry, I didn't know.
(09:39):
I didn't know you were sick, like actually sick. And
then I felt like an asshole. But anyways, I didn't
know how intense pneumonia was.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I had pneumonia when I was in ninth grade. I
got sick for I missed school for three weeks. I
had pneumonia and scarletina, which I still don't know what
it is, but it felt like it was awful, and
I remember my mom told me later she thought they
were going to lose me. And I didn't remember being
(10:07):
that sick, but I do remember, because there's kind of
different kinds of sick. There's the sick when you sit
on the couch and you watch Prices right, and you're
in your bathrobe and your pj's yeah, and you get
chicken soup and you know you're really you don't feel
good enough to go to school. I was so sick
that I laid in bed, I didn't watch TV. I
laid in bed for about probably a week or so,
(10:32):
but I missed school for three weeks, and I remember
my dad came in one night because I kept throwing up,
and he said, do you want to go to the
hospital and I said no, and he got annoyed and
he said, well, you're not getting any better here, and
I remember that. So they dragged me the hospital and
it was the Air Force hospital and they didn't have
room to put me in the hospital. And my dad
(10:54):
was pissed because you know, he was like a you know,
a moderately powerful officer, but he didn't have the juice
to get me into the hospital. So they brought me
back home. And I did get better, but I was pneumonia.
So that was my point. Pneumonia, and it's basically you're
and when you're getting better, you cough up things that
look like green sponges grow. And it was awful, yeah,
(11:18):
because it's your lungs clearing out. And here's a little
ninth grade me, deathly sick, laying in bed. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I feel like every time we want to get sick
in the way that you just lay on the couch
and eat soup and watch TV, and that's like, oh wow,
what I would give for one of those chill sick days.
But it's always like nope, I'm in bed and I
can't move and I if I moan, I'll feel a
little bit better, So I'll just layter and go.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Huh isn't that true? If you moan, it's like a release,
you feel better.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I literally laid in, Ben just went.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It was awful.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, that is awful. Next one totally different, Dave Jenny Bailey.
My family and I are coming from Virginia to Minnesota
to spend Christmas there with my brother and parents. We
got two sons, five and one. Keep that in mind,
five and one. While we're there, we want to take
a night to stay up in the Twin Cities with
our five year old. My husband and I are big
footies and the five year old is in picky ether.
(12:15):
What are your must go to restaurants in the area.
Cost is not a factor, but it must be kid
friendly since our five year old is not an iPad kid,
and we'll be acting like a respectful but mildly fairal
five year old boy. Kate from Virginia. First of all, Kate,
thanks for listening out of state. Don't know how you mean.
She must have used to live here because she's coming
to see relatives. Matt's Bar, Matt's Bar five a club
(12:40):
and also the Lion's Tap is also another burger fry place,
but Matt's Bar is probably if you're going to go
one place. I'm not going to say go to Morton's
or Kincaid's or whatever, because that's not fun. That's expensive
and delicious and wonderful. But I would say Matt's Bar
five a club for the juicy lucy or just a
(13:00):
fun hamburger, Lions Tap in eaton Prairie, anybody else.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I mean class I'm so bad at with restaurant recommendations
because I don't go out to eat a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, I would say, I mean, if you're I don't
know if they're like beer drinks kind of people, but like,
we have so many really great breweries around here too,
so go to like a local brewery. Depending on wherever
you're at staying, there's probably at least three near you.
I mean, people are always like, oh, Surly is great,
it's just because it's a big But there's so many
really great breweries, like all over the Twin Cities, and
(13:30):
I would say go to one of those because they
usually if they have food, the food's usually good, Okay,
the beer is usually good. They probably got something going on,
so Yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah. I can't think of any other place that I
would say like, oh, you've got to go here, because
I keep in mind the five year old and five
year olds at Spendee restaurants. They get bored right five
and one? Yeah, yeah, okay, Well, good luck, have fun.
Let us know where you end up going. That is
from Katie in Virginia NEXTX one, Hello Morning crew, first
time email. Are long time listener all my life. I
(14:02):
don't know what I will do with my mornings without
Dave on the air. The main reason I wanted to
write in is because I want to say I would
pay one hundred dollars for Vont to shave all his
facial hair. It's been getting out of control as long
as he's been on the show, and I can't hold
back anymore. This is not an attack, more of a
realization that he's part of a group of men that
just don't look good with facial hair. Now he does
(14:26):
ask for a staff writer stickery, saying that it's a
guy yeah Marco.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
But at the same time, I feel like Vont looks
like a tiny little child.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
When he'sace yeah facial hair.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
He looks so.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Young I'm sure he would take one hundred dollarson and
shave it off.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, he definitely probably would. He'd be like, hell, yeah,
give me that, can.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Give me that money.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Vant's gonna like Carson. I think that Carson grows a
beard and facial hair because he thinks it makes him
look older, because Carson looks fifteen without his facial hair.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, he does look young, but so does Yeah, vont
does have kind of a a child like bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
If he didn't have fair child like bobblehead. Uh, let's
see here. Okay. So on Thursday, you guys talked about
getting the wrong reaction if you try to correct somebody
or let them know there's something like Dave was talking
about telling people please don't walk on cross country ski trails,
and if you mentioned that to somebody in person, they
(15:22):
might go, oh god, I didn't know. But they're just
as likely to go like, don't judge me or tell
me what to do. I'll funk yourself.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So, she says, I totally had that happen to me
this summer. I work for an outdoor bike camp during
the summer and we take kids around the Chain of
Lakes mostly people may recognize us in the summer cruising around. Well,
this past summer, one of the lakes was getting construction
done on the path and this forced walkers to take
over the part of the biker lane. It was annoying
(15:53):
for a few weeks, but I was fine, no big deal.
One day there's a couple almost taking up the entire
whole bike path, and as we passed by, I let
him know in my nicest voice, just letting me know
that a lot of kids gonna pass you on the
left side with bikes. This ass motherfucker shouts at me,
then maybe you should stay on the left, bitch. I
(16:15):
was not trying to start something with you. No, I
truly don't give a fuck that a third grader wipes
you out on their bike. Fuck you just trying to
be nice. I read these verbatim by yes, yeah, pretty much,
and sadly that altercation made me crabby the rest of
the day. He could have just said, Okay, thanks for
the heads up, hug people. Well, have a great holiday season.
(16:36):
You guys will be missed over the holidays. From Alison.
You were clearly in the right on that one, Alison,
and it does suck that somebody had to mouth off
like that, I hate you.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I feel feels That's something I'm happy about at this
point in my life is that random strangers who are
assholes like that don't bother me anymore. Whereas I will
never forget when I was on a path around the
lakes one time and I was rollerblading, but I was
like on the left side because there was a ton
of cracks on the right, and a biker like berated
me for being on the left side as he was
trying to get past, and I didn't hear them because
(17:09):
I had headphones in, and I remember that haunted me
all day. Now I'm at a point where I'm like, whatever,
you're go have a cranky day or do whatever. Yeah,
Like I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Anymore that they say, like, go have the day you deserve.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking up something because you're talking about
putting your earbuds in and then you can't hear. This
is a recommendation. I love mine. I used it last night.
It is a little tiny speaker about the size of
a box of tic TACs that you can magnet or
clip to your caller or your jacket or whatever, and
(17:46):
it's a speaker that lets you hear like oncoming bikes
or runners or whatever. So you know, everybody loves their
air pods and their earbuds or whatever, but I don't
dislike mine. I just prefer this this speaker, and I
canna recommend it. It is called the Knox Gear in
Ox gea R Speaker, and there's different price points. There's
(18:10):
one for fifty nine ninety nine, there's one for seventy
nine ninety nine. I don't know what the difference is.
But it's called Knox Gear and I really love mine,
and I it bluetooths to your phone and it's got
a little speaker.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, so you can walk or bike or whatever and
enjoy your music without being muted to the rest of
the world. Let's see what else we got here. This
is a long email, and I appreciate every bit of
it from Christopher. He is basically writing in about ads
on the podcast. Here's one. The Dave Ryan podcast episode
(18:49):
from twelve to fifteen had fourteen minutes and five seconds
of ads. Now that is on the Minnesota Goodbye fourteen
minutes and five seconds of ads. Is that even possible?
He said? That was thirty eight point two seven percent
of your podcast was ads. I'm annoyed. I'm angered about
(19:10):
the recent changes with the ad breaks. I admittedly only
listened to Apple podcasts, but prior to the recent changes,
and like I said, it goes on for quite a while.
The ad breaks have been inserted to the podcast as well.
So not only is it three minutes before and three
minutes after, but there are three minutes in the middle
of the podcast, and the volume is always way off.
(19:31):
The ads are out of control. I don't I know
you don't have anything to do with it, but I
wanted to pass this along. Too many ads it makes
it difficult to enjoy the podcast while working or doing
anything when I'm not holding my phone, because when you
got your phone in your hand, you use the skip button.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Anyway, thanks for doing what you do. Despite the ads,
I still laugh every time I listen Dart Dart lick
lick Right. Your seventh listener, Chris, formerly from Miami but
now in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yeah, I I don't have any any like power over
the ads whatsoever, so I know they're annoying. But now
with our new like podcast uploader thing, I cannot publish
any podcast if I don't put an ad in it,
So it's either they have the fourteen minutes of ads
or they're not uploaded. Like that's kind of that's all
(20:21):
I have a say in.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It is frustrating.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I can't I can't adjust the volume. I can't adjust anything.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I will adjust the volume of one Nita this time.
But that is all the time we have for the
Minnesota Goodbye. We'll do one more episode Toosday and then
that's it. We'll have to hold us over because we
love doing the Minnesota Goodbye and we appreciate you so much.
It is such a fun thing to do. Because we
prepare the show on the radio. We always know what's
(20:46):
coming up. We always know what's coming to like Jenny,
what's coming up, what's coming up? But we never know
what's coming up on the Minnesota Goodbye, and you make
that a lot of fun. It's kind of like open
up our little Christmas pressuent every time we open up
an email. So whether your commenting, complain, teaching us something. Ranger, Jessica,
we hope you're okay. Jannita, we love you, Sidney, all
(21:07):
the other regular staff writers. Thank you for being you
and we'll catch you next time on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Send an email to, as always, Ryan's show at KDWB
dot com.
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