Table Topics

We talk dying our hair, running a marathon, waking up early, and historical markers!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm going to make a confession that I get so
excited to see what's in the mailbox for Minnesota Goodbye,
that I look at it the afternoon before. So I
kind of have a routine, and part of that routine
is like around five or four whenever in the afternoon,
I'll open up the mailbox at home and see what's
coming for the Minnesota Goodbye. And because I get excited

(00:21):
about it. So if you don't think that I enjoy
these emails, I really really do. Thank you for participating
and basically being a staff writer on the Minnesota Goodbye.
And we haven't mentioned it in a long time, but
if you do write an email in to Ryan Show
at Katie but you beat ont Com and we read it,
put your address in there in case we read it,
and I will have a secretary pre email you a
staff writer sticker. Yeah, talk to me about your hair.

(00:43):
Your hair is your hair is new, darker, browner. I
have a different books.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Blonde highlights for the summertime. And then yesterday I died
at brown When I went in, I said, I wanted
it to look like you could eat my head. So
either chocolate or some kind of like a dark chocolate
or a milk chocolate or whatever, some kind of something
that would look scrumptious. And so she was like, bet,
I know what you're talking about, and then made it happen.

(01:09):
So now I have brown hair, okay, and I like
it because she's like, when will you want to dye
your hair again? Because I know how much you like
doing different stuff with your hair, but I just want
brown hair for now. I've had blonde in my hair
pink for like years now.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So you any gray hair?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, it's so weird. But I ask her every time
when she does my hair, I say, if you see gray,
let me know because I want to know if I
have gray hair. And she says she never sees any.
So my sister's gone quite quite a bit gray or
she not has not a ton, but like she has
a lot of gray hair. And she said it came
when she got pregnant.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
So interesting. Okay, Yeah, I have little gray hair for
somebody my age. My hair is still mostly its natural
color and I don't color it. I colored my hair
one time, is a bit when I first moved here,
because I thought, oh, to be funny, everybody in Minnesota
is Norwegian blonde, which is not true at all, but
I thought, Oh, to be funny, I will dye my

(02:07):
hair bright blonde. Yeah, and I left it that way
until I think it grew out. I don't remember exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I thought your hair was dyed when I first started
coming here, in like subbing, because I'm asking you about it,
because it's almost like too brown. It's really like consistently
like a dark brown. But your beard is all gray,
it is. Yeah, it's really wild that that is, like
that should.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I shave this beard off? I trim it every week.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I always say, you look hotter with the beard and
with glasses, and you never wear the glasses, and then
you always shave your face.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
So you know, I don't wear the glasses because I
don't like tilting my head back to look down the
bifocal version of them. Yeah, so that's often why. All right,
let's jump into the email. Here we go with I
love this email. Oh, she said, don't don't say my name. Okay, Well,
I'll go back and I'll try to remember. I will
try to remember. God, damn it, I said it again.

(03:00):
She said, I'm not going to give any identifying clues
because far too many people know. I listened to the
Minnesota goodbye. The only people who know about this are
one of my doctors and after last week's fit Club Jenny.
This Saturday, I'm running an ultra marathon. My first one
look up Ultra marathon to see how long that is.
A marathon's twenty six point two. I've been banking up

(03:21):
the Minnesota goodbyes, and I'm hoping you can give me
a shout out for being a bad bitch to do this.
I'm hoping that I'll hear this halfway through the day
and it'll help me kick my butt and keep me going.
The Ultra is a sun up to sun down. Okay,
here's where she describes it. You cover as many miles
as you can. I have a personal goal in mind.

(03:42):
I hope I can reach it. Hopefully I can send
you a happy update. Holy buckets, that's awesome, lucky.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Thirty miles, fifty miles, sixty two miles, one hundred miles.
It's it's anything that you choose for your.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
How I see. Okay, lots of things to all of
you for the daily over the air friendship. I seriously
I just to stop here for a second. I think
my best friends are people who listen to the show.
I really you're my friends, and I think that one
day when I leave, I will miss the people that
listen more than anything. So but yeah, shout out to you.

(04:19):
And I would love to give more details about what
you do for a living because it's very interesting. But
you said you don't want any identifying clues. Will you
please get back to us and let us know how
you did?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, that's perfect, that's so dope. Also, like the first
time I ever, I mean I've not done thirty one,
fifty whatever miles, but the first time I went on
like my big twenty mile walk, that's all I listened
to was the Dave Ryan Show podcast the whole time
because I was so nervous and I thought, well, this
will make me calm, and it did. It worked so well.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's awesome. Yeah, wow, wow, Okay, here's another one. It's
a little bit longer, so I saved it for today.
It's Jenny and Cameron. We both love to listen to
your morning show. We will talk about the show daily
and talk about what our favorite parts of what we
heard on the radio that morning. Also, we talk about
the topics discussed in the Minnesota Goodbye. Each day, Cameron says,

(05:09):
I've been listening to you since high school on the
bus ride to school. Since then, I've been listening to
daily on my car rides every morning. We love the
Bernie bit, but he should no longer. But he should
be no longer. And maybe Vonta have Ava join in
with Bernie. That would be sweet. That's Von's dog. Okay,
maybe once a week have a sabget called animal Chat

(05:30):
where you have callers call in as their pets and
vent to Bernie. Then Bernie gives advice. That would be amazing.
It was fun to see you guys at this strut
four months event. Earlier this year it was me and
Pi my mini Golden Doodle. I totally remember you guys.
Can we go back in time to one on one

(05:51):
Nita's rants. She was talking about how annoying it is
when somebody will get to the checkout line and buy
gum or something small with a twenty dollars bill. Check
out person has the scan to make sure it's real.
I understand her frustration, but I also work at retail,
so I understand why they do that. Even with twenty
dollars bills, I have been given a fake twenty dollars
bill before at work. Okay, interesting, three questions I have

(06:13):
for you all. How long is your morning show if
there were no commercials and no music? And also, please
get rid of a certain commercial. You probably know what
it was. It was cute the first time, first few times,
but now it's just annoying. I don't know. But if
you take out the commercials and music, do you have
any idea? Because you kind of load.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Up the podcast podcast so I think like it. Ooh,
sorry if you went on too Like the iHeartRadio app,
the like seven o'clock hour might be like forty five
to fifty five minutes because it's commercial free, but we'll
still play music in there. But like any other hour,
I don't know, the eight o'clock hour might be forty minutes,

(06:52):
thirty five forty minutes without commercials and songs. So yeah,
I guess it depends on what hour you shure.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, And we don't play a lot of music on
our show because you know, our theory is like, hey,
we love the music on Katie would you be? But
I think that there's so many people who two thoughts.
You can hear your music anywhere if you want to
hear Sabrina Carpenter. You don't have to wait for us
to play it like you did when you were a kid. Maybe,
But at the same time, there's something more magical about

(07:21):
hearing a song on the radio than there is hearing
it on your streaming service. There's just something magical about
hearing Sabrina Carpenter or Taylor Swift or whatever on the radio,
and I think people really enjoy that. So next question,
we were wondering what happened between Andrew and Jenny. Jenny
seems so happy lately, and I'm wondering if she'll be

(07:41):
open to talking about her and Andrew's breakup anytime today. Well, no, today, No,
I don't think she ever will. I don't know. I
truly don't know anything about it, and I have speculated
in private, but I don't ask Jenny, and so I
won't even speculate on the A'll joke and say that

(08:01):
he's got sent to prison or you know, he's a
drug mule and he's in Columbia right now, but I don't.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Clearly doesn't want to talk about it, so I just
she won't period.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Next one, will there be another public meetup like Bernie's
bark in the park. Last time you had it in
Coon Rapids, could you have it in Chaska this time?
And we'd also would like to have two staff writer stickers.
Please our address is and then they give their address,
Cam and Jenny. So I'm going to make sure that
I send the show. She sends adorable pictures of the
dog pie. So let me send this to Secretary Brie

(08:35):
really quick, and I take a screenshot and I send
and there we go. Love the email. Thank you, Cameron
and Jenny. Chow, longtime listener says, a few episodes go,
I heard you guys talking about how you hate waking
up day for the past thirty years or so, waking
up so early. It's actually been since I was twenty one.

(08:57):
It was a very long time ago. I've been waking
up early since then, except on vacations, and there was
a few months in those years where I was not working,
and about other than that weekends, vacations, I wake up
every morning really fucking early. And that's one of the
things that it's just getting, not harder, but more. I'm

(09:19):
tired of it, Just tired of that. Well, they go
on to say. Chow says, I get a five am
worktime or start time, and I feel you on that one.
I remember you guys used to start at five am
also we did. We used to be on five until ten.
We were on five until nine. For a while, we've
been on five thirty until ten and for whatever reason,

(09:43):
we were on Basically, I'm going to tell you a secret.
The first break of the show is recorded, so when
I talk about like fun facts and things like that,
we record that the day before. But to me, I
do it just like it's live, so it feels live
to me. And then we're on live at six am.
We could start at five there's probably a benefit, but

(10:04):
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's real fucking early.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Freaking early, Okay. I always I already like I have
three alarm set and I my first alarm goes off
at four forty five in the morning. I couldn't tell
you the first the last time I actually put my
feet on the floor for four forty five. I always
chut that one off and go with a different one.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
So I really am what time do you actually get up?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Like? I put my feet on the ground usually by
like five ten?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Live really close to hear you live really close.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'm about twenty five minutes away. And I also get
up early because I've really found that I enjoy coming
downstairs early, having my coffee made like pre made. I
put Bernie outside, I give Roger some cat treats, and
they both know they're getting treats, so they both gather
around the treat bowl around and then I sit and
I do like I got fifteen or twenty minutes of
wordal connections and strands, and so it's just a time

(10:57):
to like, you know, kind of chill before the day starts.
Next one and Sharon says, it's Sharon from Shoreview with
my second email to the Minnesota goodbye woo hoo. Dave
you help me with my answer during table topics at
my toastmaster's meeting. So table topics is where basically everybody
gets asked a question like Bayley, what TV show could

(11:19):
you watch over and over and over? Well, yeah, and
then you got to stand up and you got to
talk for like two minutes, and it's extemporaneous. Do you
know what that word means.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yes, it means it's off the cuff. It's not planned.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
And I used to kick ass at table topics, to
the point where I kind of like like threw it
a couple of times because I got I felt bad
for winning all the time, because that's what we do. Yeah,
you and I talk extemporaneously all the time and.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Just start talking about something and then just keep going
and keep yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
And so once in a while I would throw the
match just because I wanted somebody else to win. I
hated winning every time anyway. So that's table topics. So
she says the theme was sweater weather, and I was
asked if I would rather sit around a campfire for
heat or inside with a earnest. I told your story
of smelling like a campfire because of your wood burning
stove when you were a kid and being nicknamed smoky.

(12:07):
I didn't use your name, Dave Ryan, but I said
that was the reason I'd rather sit inside, even though
I do love campfires. I then gave a tip of
using a spray bottle filled with half vodka and half
water to get rid of smells. I talked for over
a minute and only had three filler words. Filler words
are um, yeah, and as a former toastmaster, I thought
you would enjoy that. Thank you, Thank you, Sharon, that

(12:31):
was a delightful email.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I saw a TikTok yesterday of this girl who said
she's gonna do this whole uh, this whole TikTok video
without using filler words and see if she can do it,
and it she I mean labored through it. But she
said she's trying to get better at it and practice
makes perfect. So she just kept going and kept going
without saying uh hmm whatever, And gosh, that would really

(12:55):
do me in because I I do try all the
time too. It's so hard understand what I'm about to
say before I say it, and it is really difficult.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
It is so hard. I was never do like like
or um or a or, but so yeah, I still
do and I shouldn't. Okay, Taylor writes in questions for
y'all Morning Show crew, what kind of car do you
currently drive? Okay, I drive a BMW twenty nineteen three

(13:26):
something or other. I don't know. I'm not a car guy,
and I don't particularly like this car because it's so digital.
You have to know digital everything to turn the fucking
heat and AC on, and I don't like it. I
want to I just want to knob and a switch. Yeah,
and everything is very complicated, and I don't I don't
hate it, but I don't I would not get another one.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, what about I have a Honda Civik and it's fine.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm not a car person either. As long as I
know where to take it when it breaks, that's all
that matters.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
When do you fill up with gas? Well, that's an
odd question whenever I need it, But you know, okay,
legit question.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I yeah, I guess when I when it goes down
to thirty miles, it says, please fill up gas, and
I go, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
I will say I'm dreading the time of the year
that we're about to get to where it sucks ass
to get gas.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Did you know that you're not supposed to legally get
back inside your car while you're pumping gas.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
I do know that, but I'm I break the law.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
You do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I do it anyway, really, because like, who cares, I'm
just gonna sit in there. It's freaking hot, or it's
hot inside my car is cold outside. No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Standing supposed to manage the in case there spillage.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, that's their fault.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's their fault, then that's their fault. Okay, when was
the last time you got a car wash? I can't
wait to hear Bailey's answer on this one.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Bailey probably last summer, honestly, because I mentioned on air
that I never get a car wash ever, and someone
sent me like vouchers so I could get a car wash.
So last summer was the last time I got a
car wash.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm not a big car wash guy either. I get
it when people are like, go O, your car is filthy.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I have new like bumper stickers I want to put on,
but I need to wash my car before I put
on the bumper stickers. But I won't. Those bumper stickers
are just gonna sit on my dashboard waiting to put
on forever.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
It's unusual that you have so many bumper stickers because
most people there truly used to be a bumper.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Back in the day, it was a metal, usually chrome bumper,
and radio stations used to give out bumper stickers. And
most people do not put bumper stickers or any stickers
on their car anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, and I do. I only have maybe like three
or four of them, but I don't know. I like
bumper stickers.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
And what's your favorite one.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
M Well, I literally just have like MVY for Mounds
View and that's the school that I coach at. I
have envy. I have the like I don't know a
quality sticker first so people know that I'm a nice
person in my car. And then I have like a
huge theater, the Improv theater, which is defunct now, but
I can't peel that sticker off of my car. It's
stuck there forever.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
You have one that says I stop at historical markers.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
That is that's like a magnet that all of my
coworkers gave us, and that's on the side of my car.
And I thought, okay, well, if it's on the side,
it's not as anoxy Do you.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Stop at historical markers?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I mean, if I have time, okay, But honestly, that's
just kind.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Of a A lot of them are disappointing, though. Yeah,
there's one on Highway seven which is the most disappointing
historical marker I've ever stopped at. On Highway seven, near
the water tower and the Holiday station, there's a weird
little park area on the south side of the road,

(16:35):
and it's got what looks like a giant fire pit
and an historical marker. And I love historical markers. It's like, oh,
the Battle of So and so took place here.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
In eighteen ninety two.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, and I think that's really cool. But this one
is like, this was the site of the town of
Christmas Lake. Christmas Lake was founded in eighteen fifty six
by Walter Christmas. Huh, and it was known for their
grain and apple fucking cares. Yeah, And it's very disappointing.
But I think it used to be Highway seven used
to be like a not primitive but an early automobile highway,

(17:10):
and it used to go from probably I don't know,
from here to way out west, and so people would
pull over and have a picanic there in their Model
t's and probably look at this sign and go, ah,
Christmas Lake.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
But now I look at him, like, I mean, it's
the sign itself is historic now, but there's nothing there
to look at.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
There's a really cool one that's like down south a
little bit that has like it's in a field and
they have like silhouettes of Native Americans that you can
look at, and then I don't know, like silhouettes of
other people and so you stop at this historical marker
and then you're actually like looking at here's where people
would be standing here and doing this, and this was
the site of you know, XYZ, and you're like, ooh, fascinating, fascinating.

(17:53):
I love those kind of things. If I have time,
I'll stop. I like history. I'm not like a history
nut or anything, but when I worked at the Historical Society,
they were just handing those little bumper stickers out like candy.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I like that. That's cool. Yeah. And then finally Taylor says,
what is your dream car? Again? Not being a big
car guy, I don't think that I want anything special
anymore because I think that really cool cars they're for
younger people, you know what I mean. Like you see
an old guy driving a Corvette and it's kind of like, hey,
good for him, he's probably always wanted one, yeah, but

(18:26):
he looks a little silly in it. I would say,
if I had a dream car, it would be a
really cool restored classic Volkswagen Bug from like nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, I was going to say Volkswagen Bus. I've always
wanted one of those buses, and they have like an
electric version now, and so I would want the electric version,
really the Volkswagen bus, because that would be so cool.
I want a yellow bus just to like drive around.
I've always wanted a Volkswagen bus.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
We grew up, we were a Volkswagen family. My dad
loved Volkswagens. We had. My first two cars were bugs
and and we had Volkswagen bugs and buses. And let
me tell you, the Volkswagen bus is probably the most
underpowered vehicle on the road.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
We would load it down with kids and boy scouts
or whatever, and I remember going literally fifteen miles an
hour up a hill in first gear, yes, because it
just had no power.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
So that's why I want the you know, new and
improve the electric one. Maybe it's going to be a
little bit better to drive.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
And that is going to do it for the Minnesota Goodbye,
Thank you for listening. That was a fun one. Remember
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