We are a little light on emails today's, but we're gonna get to some
of a second. I found an article that was really interesting because so many
people It's coming up on wedding season, and there's so many people who are,
you know, wrestling with everything from guest lists to prices to finding a
good venue an outdoor indoor and should we do this and should we say no
kids, no gifts or whatever. So I found an article from the Atlantic.
It's called the Wedding Trend that couples love and guests hate, Okay,
and I was like, oh, that sounds really good. The headline is,
why do newlyweds seem to think that people want custom wedding merch taking up
space in cabinets and drawers for years to come? And the article goes on
to talk about, you know, like, okay, you go to a
wedding and you get a jake and fallon set of golf balls, or you
get a jake and fallon deck of playing cards, or you get a little
a pair of shot glasses or a wine glass that says jake and Fallon September
third, twenty seventeen, I will be honest, I don't see that stuff
as often as I used to for a while, probably like I don't know,
seven or ten years ago, it was cankouzies yea that they had.
But I really don't see that many because I think that it's the top spot
couples have been cutting for their budget. I will tell you one thing that
we did that gave everyone a souvenir that they would actually baby. What is
We had a caricature artist and it's silly and funny. But then like everyone,
we had something they could take home. It was just of them,
you know. Yeah. They say that basically, during peak wedding season,
the junk drawer of somebody with a large family or wide circle of friends might
look like the inside of a swag bag from a newly wed themed business conference.
Sunglasses, coozies, matchbooks, bottle openers, deck playing cards, anything
that says like little slogan like two of a kind or This is a woman
named Jane Hendel. She's a wedding planner in New York. She said the
spoiler alert is no, guests do not want them. This the author says,
I asked her, I said, I'm the only one that didn't want
a single piece of glassware emblazon with somebody else's wedding date. She says,
instead of giving somebody a golf ballan a golf ball you would actually use,
and if you lose a big deal, it's not going to sit a junk
drawer. But then again, not everybody plays golf. But a deck of
cards. You know what if I get a deck of cards that says Fallon
and Jake on it, I already got seventeen deck of cards. It's going
to go into my junk drawer, and then one day in five years,
when i'm cleaning it out, I'm gonna throw it away. So they said,
don't nobody needs another water bottle. You don't need a Fallon and Jake
water bottle. But she said something consumable, So let's read on and find
out what she means by something consumable. And of course it is one of
those paywalls, so I'm not really sure what that means. Maybe like Eminem's,
like you know how that people about Aaron initial about Eminem's there, like
a little truffle, candies, cookies, maybe stuff like that. It's probably
what they're talking of. It's if it's consumable. Okay, I don't know
yeah, so, um, whatever that means. But I think it's good
news or good advice for anybody who's getting married this summer and they're like,
oh, well, where can we cut corners? We don't need a candle
that says Gretchen and Roberts on it, because you know, I mean,
maybe give it to the people that are your closest to, Like your mom
would love a little wine glass that says Alison and Justin on it, one
that had our names on it, Like I love my sister very much,
but she got Jake and I like wine glasses with our names. I don't.
I'm like, I don't. I never pull those out. I just
pull the regular wine glasses out. Yeah. I thought it was interesting.
So, um, just because it's wedding season, love to hear your thoughts
on that. Maybe you're wrong and maybe you really would love a wine glass
that says Jake and fallon on it. You can have mine, hey U.
My brother in law and they were just all in Mexico for a destination
wedding. It was one of those destination weddings were actually like everyone goes,
so it was like a hundred something people and I was like that always seemed
like kind of cool and kind of just so much more exhausting. What a
destination wedding because you do it. I think a lot of people do it
because they don't want to deal with all the stress of a regular wedding,
and also they know a ton of people won't go because it's expensive. But
then I think that the people I do go, you almost have to entertain
them for like a full week, and that sounds exhausting too. Well,
I think it is. I've never been to a destination wedding, although I've
been invited to one before, but it was like, yeah, I don't
know you that well. I mean, and I think that their line was,
you know what, you go to the wedding, You're on your own
the rest of the week to do whatever. And it's like, well,
I mean, thanks for choosing my vacation destination for me. I appreciate that
we do have on like a little call or tomorrow. I'm not going to
be here tomorrow, but I think we're gonna talk and I'll give you a
preview about Memorial Day and three day week end weddings. And I haven't read
it because I didn't want to, you know, whatever, I've read through
it a little bit, and then Folan said, we're gonna read it on
the radio tomorrow. But it was something along the lines of it is on
a three day weekend that happens to be my son's first birthday. I want
to go to the wedding because it's my friend and I love her and I
want to be there for her, but I don't want on a three day
weekend when normally we could go to you name it for my son's birthday.
I've pretty much got to stay in town for the wedding. I think I
think it was more than that. I think she had to travel out of
town for the wedding, so it was an extra expense on top of like
not being there that weekend and all these It was a bunch of stuff out
it on. Yeah, we'll cover that tomorrow. Like I said, I'm
not here, but you can listen to that tomorrow on the actual show.
I know we've touched on it before, but I'm at an age where,
you know, my friends aren't getting married, and if they do get remarried,
they usually go to Las Vegas, or they haven't done like in their
backyard or something like that. But I still think that it is rude to
have it's little selfish and inconsiderate to have your wedding on a three day weekend,
and especially if there's travel involved, because now there we don't have a
lot of summer weekends in Minnesota. We've only got three three day summer weekends
in Minnesota, and usually it rains on Memorial Day. It almost like clockwork,
rains on Memorial Day. So if you were going to have a wedding
on one of the rare to three day weekends in the summer in Minnesota,
you're taking away people's opportunity to go do something they want to do because they
want to be at your wedding. They do, but they don't want to
do it on a three day weekend. But people will say, you know
what, node because now it becomes your vacation. You can come to treat
yourself. We're gonna go get married and but Midgee is going to be great
to get a little hotel room and go fishing. And it's like, nah,
like I said, not a big problem to me. I don't get
invited to a lot of weddings anymore. But I think that there are people
who will defend it and people will think it's rude. The one holiday wedding
I always support is a New Year's Eve wedding because I think that's so fun.
It actually gives you a reason to do something on New Year's Eve,
because if you're like me, you spend a lot of them on your couch
and you don't want to go to a busy club or bar and wait in
line for drinks. So it's like gives you a reason to dress up.
You have like easy access to a bar. My friend Kimberly got married Unto
Year's Eve and I loved it. Now, granted you don't want to spend
your it's just like a destination wedding. You could be like, I'm not
that close that I want to spend New Year's Eve with these people and their
family. But you make that decision, you know. But I think that's
like the one holiday one that I support and get behind. I can see
that, Yeah, it is fun to because you know, you get to
a certain point in your life and you're either going to go out. And
we used to do the New Year's Eve at International Market Square back when I
first started here. It was so much fun and you'd go have dinner first
with a group of people. Then you go to International Market Square and it
was just fun and there was bands and costume contests or I don't know,
maybe not costume, maybe that was Halloween. It was something else. But
it was a lot of fun. But then you get a little bit older
and you're like, ah, you know, I stay home and watch Ryan
Seacrest. And we did go out a few years ago on New Year's even
really enjoyed it. We went to Inky Brewing and they had a comedy night,
so they had a buffet and they had comedians, and the comedian that
they flew in was really good. Because you know, you go to a
place that doesn't normally host comedy nights, you're kind of gambling a little bit.
But they hired somebody who was really good. The food was good and
food was great, so it was a fun night and at midnight we did
our toast and like sea failed. Yeah. Absolutely. Next email says Hi,
I work at a Minnesota state park. I've been listening for the last
thirteen and fourteen years. I love you all. Today five ten, that's
yesterday, Wednesday. At the park I work at. We were doing a
prescribed burn, says Sonja. We had a call over the radio from an
inexperienced firefighter asking if a plane flying over our burn area was a concern.
Our burn boss said no, unless it was coming down fast. Well,
we saw it dip down to about two hundred feet right through our burn cloud.
We all held our breath. This was low. We were about to
end our burn and the plane almost plane almost started Another one, soda.
You're a pilot, how do you handle burning season in recreational flying? And
also do you ever fly with the Saint Croix River? I'll answer the second
question first. Yeah, I fly with the Saint Croix River a lot,
because it's beautiful, and you know, it's more beautiful on the Wisconsin side
of my airport than it is on the Minnesota side. I fly out a
flying cloud. If I fly west, it's farm fields. If I fly
east over Wisconsin, it's the Saint Croix River and it's that beautiful Newish river
bridge. And so yeah, I do a lot. Actually, so yes,
I do. The other one, how do you handle burning season in
recreational flying? I don't go anywhere near a burn cloud. I don't.
I think I saw one yesterday. And as a matter of fact, I
think I might have saw your burn cloud the other day. They're doing a
controlled prescribe burn and there was something going on west, like west out somewhere.
I couldn't even tell you, Glencoe Ish, I'm not even sure.
I wouldn't go anywhere near it. Number one, I'm not allowed to fly
in any clouds. Number two, any pilot that's dipping down to two hundred
feet is dangerous. You're not supposed to do that for several reasons, because
if your engine goes out at two hundred feet, you're going down right there.
If your engine goes out at five thousand feet, you've got a lot
of choices to glide to. So that's pilot was a dumb ass. You
should have been in your burn cloud. They probably were just showing off for
their dopey buddy, so intry. We'll never have that question again. Yeah,
probably never. We'll bring that up again. Let's see if there's were,
like I said, a little bit low on Minnesota goodbye, But let's
try this one. I've been listened for a long time, first time emailer
ever since I graduated college a year ago and worked full time, I've been
listening you guys during the day and it passes the time so much faster.
Keep this short. I had to email. When you read the email about
Deputy Alex and the c AT team more specifically, each day is a different
theme and it gets a little bit into things that you Basically, it's an
appreciation from Kevin from Woodberry Forum for People of Law Enforcement, and he put
some photos in there, and and then there's a picture of me with Kevin
when he was about fifteen ish years old. And I can tell it's old
because I'm wearing my Harley Davidson watch which I got from my birthday ten years
ago and I haven't worn that in years. And just see that, is
that your butt right there? But um, I haven't warned that watching years
because I have an Apple watch and now I got a Harley Davidson watch that
I don't want to give away because it was a birthday present, but I
never wear it anymore. You want it, Harley Davison watch, I'll take
anything, Okay, cool? Hey, I honestly, like I said,
it's kind of like you can come over and go through my garage. He'd
be like a hog in heaven. Can I tell you some things that I
don't want to give away Carson's skateboard. I don't want to give away I
keep hoping that Carson will look at his stuff and go, oh, I
want that, or I want that, or I want that. But I
think that a lot of kids they just abandoned their ship at their parents home
and they never wanted again. I am. I have like a ton of
stuff like my dad's that I honestly will probably never get. Like, what
do you have any idea? Yes, all Star Wars collectible still in the
packaging. What they could be Star Wars collectible still in the packaging. They
could be worth a ton of money for all I know, all prom stuff,
it all stinks now, like cigarette smoke and everything. He hasn't smoked
ears, He hasn't smoked in ears, but it'll still smell like that,
and like his gross basement. But it's honestly probably flooded down there for all
I know and ruined everything. But let's hope so then you can throw it
away easily, don't have to worry about it. Alison left her closet,
She had a walk in closet, left a lot of stuff, like I
don't know, her piggy bank and some of her music boxes when she was
a little girl that you don't want to throw away, her graduation cap and
gown from college. I think some other things in there. Her rock collection.
She used to collect rocks when she was little, just some other things.
It's like, I hope she comes and gets them, because I don't
want to throw out her rock collection. But I don't want her rock collection
either. Now. I mean, you can't keep everything thing that your kids
to toss it or key but that's what my mom does you want this?
Nope to Well, Well, little Ava, who was two and a half
years old, was over a couple of weeks ago, and we've been Alison
has a shelf in her old bedroom, a bookshelf full of little chotchkey nick
knaki kind of things like, um, what was the ones? It was?
The birthday train? Precious precious moments? Is that what it is?
Precious moments? I think like little ceramic like little babies and things like that.
And she has little music boxes and she used to love collecting those Russian
nesting dolls where you open one and it's got another doll inside, and you
open it up and it's got like five dolls inside. Whatever and she loved
those. And we've been saying, Alison, you got to take some of
this home. You gotta take some of this home. So I took Ava
up in her room the other day and Ava was fascinated by the little Russian
nesting dolls. I said, great, we're gonna put them in a zip
lock and you're gonna take them home. Yep. Ava opened them all up
and got them all mixed up, so I couldn't feel, You're out which
ones. It was like putting together a puzzle, figuring out which ones.
Anyway, if any of what we talked about on the show today gave you
an id in inspiration to write in for the Minnesota Goodbye, we'd love to
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