All right, let's get started in the Minnesota Goodbye today. It's me and Jenny Fallon is Indoor County. I'm sure we'll hear all about that when she gets home. We're gonna start off with this one from Justin. Justin says, and by the way, when I say this one, I mean emails, because that is basically the heart of the Minnesota Goodbye is we read and discuss your emails, and you just have the great variety of things, and you think of things to think of and talk about that we don't think of.
So we appreciate that. Dave and all. You're all amazing and have helped me stay sane through a lot of struggles. Dave, I actually met you once at a Settlers of Gatan game nighted studio, and I had a lot of fun playing and meeting you in person. I'm very impressed and jealous of how you were able to make your listeners feel as though we are actually hanging out with friends. Anyway, I heard one of the Minnesota Goodbye episodes,
the one where you mentioned trying lock picking. Okay, it is no secret that any hobby interests me. Any hobby that you have interests me. Yeah, whether it is Rollerblade, Ukulele magic. Did I tell you that I ordered a crochet thing in the mail, Jenny? He did not. Something came up on Instagram and it is like about the size of maybe an orange, and you crochet a little bumblebee or a little ladybug, and each kid is thirty bucks and it talks about how easy it is to do.
And I ignored it several times, but it must know that I like it, So I ordered one. And I think it's a little bumblebee and you crochet it and it's supposed to be easy, and it's supposed to be really relaxing. And I said, that looks really cool. My wife, Susan said, what the fuck is this? What the god? What the And I said, hey, it could be really fun. I said, if I don't like it, then I throw it away. It's thirty bucks.
If I if I didn't know you personally like I do, and know that you've got like a financial advisor and you know like you're putting money away from retirement and stuff like that, I would be genuinely concerned about you spending all these money, all this money on a hobby. Is because I love hobby. I love a hobby, but you get a new one every single week. I feel like, yeah, no, I got the unicycle and I haven't learned to write it yet, but I'm certainly not given up on it.
Rollerblades are the same thing. They're not. None of them are terribly expensive. I'm not somebody who's like, you know, what I want to do, start collecting Star Wars figurines and spend you know, eight thousand dollars on them. Mine are all moderately expensive, but okay. Anyway, he recommends lock pick picking, and he goes on for quite a while, and that is actually I bought a lock picking kit about ten years ago and I never even opened it. But he said it's a hobby and it's really cool.
He said, it's fun to learn how different locks work and in turn, how to defeat them. It's very rewarding. They're actually useful in certain emergencies. All legal. Of course, I recommend for Dave you to give it a try. I will. I would say yes, but right now I'm kind of fun. But I'm gonna save your email because there might be a time when I want to get back to that. Jenny, what hobbies do you want to try. Is there any hobbies you want to try?
Um? My latest is I do want to get into mountain biking because Andrew got into that like two summers ago and he loves doing it, and I like doing outdoor stuff. But it's like another very expensive hobby, like bikes are so expensive, and then like you know, you might you fall often when you mountain bike, and so I'm also not trying to like end up in the er. So that's probably like the newest one I've been very much
interested in. But that's all I can think of right now. You know what, I think that some hobbies and passions and activities like that, there is a danger of injury. So like with rollerblades for me is slight danger and the unicycle slight danger. With a mountain biking, yeah, you're going to go over the handlebars at one point or another. You can fall off and hit a tree or you know, crack your two front teeth out on the handlebar. Jenny, how would you look with that without two front teeth?
Well, I would say I look like someone who shops at Walmart, just getting I shop at Walmart. I'm not making fun of Walmart. I shop at Walmart, but you know, can I just tell you tomorrow on the show, speaking of Walmart, we're going to have a conversation about Costco. Yes, we didn't have room to put it in the show on Monday, so we're gonna build it on on Tuesday. And I would love to hear what you think, because I posted on Dave Ryan Show on Facebook do
you hate Costco or do you love Costco? I have been in Costco three times. I went for the third time on Saturday here in Colorado Springs. And I don't know that I hate it or love it, but it is. It was packed. It was amazed to get in the parking lot and amazed to get out and people waiting and cutting people off and letting people in.
It is crrowded. Everything is a bulk item. I thought I need to buy paper towels, but I literally didn't have room in my her for the size of paper towels that they were trying to sell, and people go through. Even the carts are bigger in Costco. If you notice the carts are so much, man, they're bigger. You got to because you get packs of things. It's not just like one almond milk. You get a
pack of eight of them. My daughter Alison has two little girls, ones three and one's one, and she says for an activity, they'll go to Costco. It's like a family activity, And I'm like, that's interesting that you go for a family activity. I think Walmart used to be the family activity place because they had everything from a claw machine to a little cafeteria, to a place to get your hair cut, to a place to get your
nails done, your glasses fitted, whatever. So Walmart used to be kind of an activity, like, hey, kids, get the car, we're all going to Walmart. Did you ever do a Walmart activity your family. I don't know if we did activity, but I remember Walmart was always was that the one that always handed out the smiley stickers I believe, so okay, So I remember like we absolutely had to get those every time that we went in, and I know that there was like an iclinic attached to it.
There was a subway that they put in eventually to the one in my hometown. So sometimes we would get stuff like that, but for the most part, we were just trying to get those cheap prices, you know what I'm saying, Rolling down prices every day, trying to get the cheapest. No. So we did that with Kmart when I was a kid because it was kind of an activity. I didn't have to buy anything to be happy.
We would go get lunch. They used to have a cafeteria in the back of Kmart, and then I would go look at toys and model planes and bikes and you know, baseball stuff or whatever, and it was just kind of an activity, all right. Next email from Amanda, she says, Hey, Dave, Phalingini, and Drake, you can feel free to use my name of a hand A handful of weeks ago, you guys were
talking on the show about how you are better than you think. I texted in and I thanked Dave for a speech, and I went on to explain that I'm thinking of leaving my seventeen year career in childcare. Dave took a little bit of time to remind me that I am better than I think I am, and that I want to expand my knowledge and my expertise that I should well. I went on a couple of interviews. I got a job offer that's really amazing. I would be able to work from home and have
a capacity to help my sister with my niece and nephew. I would also be able to flex my hours and finally be able to have a job that works with a better work life balance. I just want to say I'm so grateful for what you said one day. I don't have a dad in my life, and sometimes your advice is really helpful when I could use a fatherly type of love or fatherly advice. So I just wanted to say I was better than I thought, and I'm so excited for my new journey. All
my love, thank you for doing what you guys do. From Amanda. That's awesome. That is Amanda. Thanks. You didn't have to write back, but it means the world that you did. And I think that's true that you know. There's a chapter in my book that is I think it's called you are good Enough All. And I was twenty three years old and I was working in Columbus, Ohio, and I got a job offer in Philadelphia. Now that is a huge jump in a radio market, going from
number thirty five or so to about number four or five. And I was only twenty three, and so I went out for the job interview and I said, man, I don't think I'm ready. And the guy said, no, you're ready, you are good enough. I wouldn't be talking to if I didn't think you were ready. And I listened to him, and I turned down the job because I didn't think I was ready for Philadelphia.
So I learned at that point it's like, you are good enough, you know, and if you just believe you are good enough, that's definitely better than thinking, well, I'm really not sure. This one also has to do with well, it has to do with the city on the East coast, so let's start there. Hey, Dave, I'm going to Boston next week for a short trip to see Fallout Boy at Finnway Park. I would love some recommendations on things to do and eat. Your bestie, Megan.
PS, thanks for letting me do the COVID wedding on the year three years ago. We are still happily married. Wow, that's awesome. I'm not good with Boston. I've only been a couple of times. My son Carson went to school there. I would say, take a harbor cruise, go on the either Liberty Trail or the Freedom Trail, go to the JFK Library and Museum, and then go to Boston Commons. Because Boston Commons is I mean beautiful and amazing, But I wouldn't. I would look it up.
There's not besides the Harbor Cruise and some of the history stuff. I could not tell you where to go in Boston, and I would not want to leave anything big off the list. Do you remember any good food place as you want to anyway? Like they go to Quincy Market. Quincy Market is a cool place. But there is a part I think it's called Little Italy where all the great Italian restaurants are and they have great pizza and great Italian
and great steakhouses in Boston. But I would say if there's a segment of town called Little Italy, and I think there is, go and then Quincy Market is really tooled too, So have fun. Let me know where it worked out. Okay, next one hold on one second. My mouse isn't working. It's really frustrating, Jenny. Oh, did you try turning it on and training it back off, turning it off and turning on? Well, no, I just tap it on the counter. Okay. Had to
send a follow up email regarding the baby Kim yea bit. Remember a couple of weeks ago, a woman rode in and said, I remember ten or twelve years ago you guy played a bit about baby kim Ya being still in the womb and talking about pleasant their new fragrance. Firstly, I want to say thanks so much for playing it. I had actual tiers of laughter listening to it during my baby contractions, and have saved the podcast audio so I can listen to it while on maternity leave when I need to pick me up.
I love this. I had to share that my two friends and I ended up having our water's break within twenty four hours of each other. All were at Maple Grove Hospital together and it ended up baby having our babies on seven eight and seven ten, two of us delivered on the same day in rooms next door to each other. You can't make this stuff up. Two three four, they say, as an inside joke. Thanks for keeping us in our new babies company on our maternity leaves. That's from Anna in Plymouth.
That is amazing that you and your friend delivered on the same day in rooms next door to each other. That is crazy. That's what all friends dream of doing. They dream of like, yeah, like having kids at the same time, growing up together, but like actually delivering together. Just pop right over there, afterwards and be like, all right, what does your baby look like? All right, here's mine. That is amazing. That's crazy. I'm glad that all worked out. And next one not able
to do that one. Okay, Dave and Fallon, I heard you this morning talking about how you pay with a credit card tap or insert. I had to share this story. I was at Olive Garden with some friends, like all us cool suburban moms do, and when it was time to pay, I inserted my card in the tablet and paid my check. Then I passed the tablet to my friend and she inserted her card, but it didn't work. The waiter came over and we asked for help. She said,
well, that's where the receipt comes out. But I'm like, well it worked for me. Then I realized I had unknowingly tapped it on my way to insert. We could not stop laughing at ourselves, and I haven't felt that old sense. A waiter had to explain QR code to me. That's funny. Anyways, love you both, Thanks for making me laugh every morning. That's from Lindsay. Yeah, we had a big discussion last week on the show whether you tap, insert or swipe your credit card, and I
don't tap because it doesn't occur to me. I usually insert what about you? I'm the same, but I also get a little nervous because I'm not entirely sure where to tap. And that's the thing you really sometimes you don't know. I do my Apple Watch and that is really easy, but I would say one time out of ten, it does not work. Okay, let's see what we got here, Good morning, Morning Show. My husband and I are about to bark embark on our honeymoon for two weeks next Saturday.
That would have meant a week from this weekend or this coming weekend to the UK. Believe it or not, I only have one third of the vacation plan due to the stress of graduate school, being on a cruise, and now coming off a stint of the flu. Anyway, we plan on hitting all the UK countries, England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. And any of you ever been to any of these locations. I believe Fallon has said she in the past she's been to Ireland. Any tips,
tricks, advice must see while we are there. Thanks in advance, and don't worry. I always wait till the last minute to plan vacations and always typically save money that way due to last minute ticket sales. Dartlick from Kayley. I have nothing for you, Kayley at all. Jenny, do you have anything. No, I've never been to Europe, so unfortunately I've
got nothing to offer either. But Kayley, you send me out because I am a planer, and for you to not have any of that plan yet, even though you said it always works out, I would be stressed. I would say this. If you heard Kaylee's email and you got something that she should go to, we can do a couple of emails tomorrow or the next day with where she should go. I've heard Alison went, and when she described to me what they did, it really didn't seem interesting to me.
I would like to go to England and you know, Great Britain and all that someday, but it's not like, oh, I really want to see this, I really want to see this. I guess I'd see Big Ben and the Tower of London and maybe that giant Ferris wheel, and then I wouldn't know what else to do. I really don't know what people do there for fun. You have tea, That's what I heard you go and
you have a little tea party. Well, what's funny is a friend of mine, nurse Wendy, is in the UK right now on a work trip, and she said that they preserved I think they call it high tea, where you go into a restaurant and you do a very formal afternoon tea. Yeah. I only know any of that because of web girl Tina, because she went and studied abroad there and then I know she's got a visit a couple of times since then, and I was like, this is actually a
full blown thing. And also Naima, who lives works down the hall from US at City ninety seven, her and I went to a tea party here in the Twin Cities and then she told me how a proper tea party is in London. That's funny. Yeah, I don't know anything about it. Sorry, we're no good at this one. But I'm gonna hope the Kaylee that somebody will call right in tomorrow for the Minnesota goodbye and we'll have some information for you, or maybe we can ask Tina later on today and she'll
have something for you. So we'll see if we can do that. And that is going to be it for the Minnesota goodbye for this time. Send your emails too, or Ryan Show at katwb dot com for tomorrow's Minnesota Goodbye