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 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.

Your hair is your hair is new, darker, browner.

I have a different books.

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.

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.

So you any gray hair?

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.

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 hair bright blonde.

Yeah, and I left it that way until I think it grew out.

I don't remember exactly.

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.

I shave this beard off?

I trim it every week.

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.

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.

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 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.

I hope I can reach it.

Hopefully I can send you a happy update.

Holy buckets, that's awesome, lucky.

Thirty miles, fifty miles, sixty two miles, one hundred miles.

It's it's anything that you choose for your.

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.

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?

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.

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, 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 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 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 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.

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, thirty five forty minutes without commercials and songs.

So yeah, I guess it depends on what hour you shure.

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 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 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 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.

Clearly doesn't want to talk about it, so I just she won't period.

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 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.

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 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, 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 I don't want to.

I don't want to.

It's real fucking early.

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.

So I really am what time do you actually get up?

Like?

I put my feet on the ground usually by like five ten?

Okay, yeah, yeah, I.

Live really close to hear you live really close.

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 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 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.

Yes, it means it's off the cuff.

It's not planned.

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.

Just start talking about something and then just keep going and keep yeah.

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.

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 was a delightful email.

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 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.

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 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.

Yeah, what about I have a Honda Civik and it's fine.

I don't know.

I'm not a car person either.

As long as I know where to take it when it breaks, that's all that matters.

When do you fill up with gas?

Well, that's an odd question whenever I need it, But you know, okay, legit question.

I yeah, I guess when I when it goes down to thirty miles, it says, please fill up gas, and I go, okay, okay.

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.

Yeah.

Did you know that you're not supposed to legally get back inside your car while you're pumping gas.

I do know that, but I'm I break the law.

You do it anyway.

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.

Standing supposed to manage the in case there spillage.

Well, that's their fault.

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.

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.

I'm not a big car wash guy either.

I get it when people are like, go O, your car is filthy.

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.

It's unusual that you have so many bumper stickers because most people there truly used to be a bumper.

Yeah.

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.

Yeah, and I do.

I only have maybe like three or four of them, but I don't know.

I like bumper stickers.

And what's your favorite one.

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.

You have one that says I stop at historical markers.

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.

Stop at historical markers?

I mean, if I have time, okay, But honestly, that's just kind.

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, 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.

In eighteen ninety two.

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, 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.

Ah.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Yea.

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.

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.

And that is going to do it for the Minnesota Goodbye, Thank you for listening.

That was a fun one.

Remember I get excited when you send an email.

So send an email and I'll be checking the email box this afternoon.

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