It is the Minnesota Goodbye. I'm going to give you a heads up right
now. We're a little bit short on emails, so we'd love to hear
your email. And I know sometimes like, well, you know, I
don't really have anything to write about, or they already talked about dogs off
leashes, so I don't know what to bring up. But if you have
anything that's the heart and soul of the Minnesota Goodbye is you're the staff writers,
so you get to come up with what we're going to talk about on
the Minnesota Goodbye. And let me start off with this one, which we
got just a couple of hours ago on Monday morning. It says, hey,
there, Dave, Jenny, and Nubivant, you're all talking about the
good old days this morning. In case she missed it, I read something
from Rain Wilson, who played Dwight Shret on the Office, and briefly he
said, when The Office was filming and in production, you know, it
was great. We were the number one show. We had a great craft
and crew and writers and whatever he said. But I was unhappy for a
lot of it because I was like, I'm on this big TV show,
but I'm not getting the big movie offers, So he spent a lot of
time being bitter and unhappy instead of living in the moment and realizing these are
the good old days. And now he looks back at the time on the
office and he's like, man, those were the good old days. And
it's kind of funny to see Dwight Shreut talking intelligently because you know, he's
such a goofball, and when you see Rain Wilson, it's kind of hard
to not see him as Dwight Shrut. But we talked about what were your
good old days? And remember that your good old days might be right now
and you don't even realize it, but in ten years, when you have
a different job and more responsibility, or your kids are grown or whatever,
your good old days will be now likely. So she says, you were
all talking about the good old days. This morning made me think of a
line from the book and movie The Art of Racing in the Rain. And
here's a line. It says, the racing driver cannot think about the future,
does not dwell on the past, and must be fully in the present.
Well that's true, I mean, think about it. They're not thinking
about the future. They're thinking about where they are right now, totally true
to me. You can't fix the past, and tomorrow is never a promise,
but you are you get this moment right now. I have a seventeen
year old and a six year old, and I'm enjoying every moment with them
because i know they will not be seventeen and six forever. Thanks for everything
you guys do on and off the air. All right is our signature sign
off if you don't like to say dart Lick, and that is Nicole from
Hayfield, Minnesota. One of my favorite names for a city in Minnesota,
Hayfield, Minnesota. Why not count by Rochester, I believe, and I
think that's really true. You don't have kids, Jenny, But I remember
when Carson was about six or eight, I knew he was going to be
my last kid, and I would try to take a mental snapshot and be
right there in the moment. I remember one time, I think he was
sitting on the kitchen counter and I was talking to him or working on legos
or something with him, and I said, I'm going to try to remember
this very moment forever, because right now it seems like you know he's going
to be a kid forever, but I know he's not. So I tried
to take a snapshot and I remember it, but I remember mostly just kind
of like how cool it was to have a little boy around the house,
you know. And I would tell myself, like, you've got a little
boy, and even five years ago, not that long ago, I had
a kid in high school. And now he's you know, grown and lives
in la and he's going to Singapore with the Love Tour on Tuesday. He'll
be gone for a week and he doesn't really need us. Fortunately, we
have a good relationship and he wants to talk to us, and he wants
to text and wants to FaceTime. But yeah, those were I mean when
he was a little kid, when Alison was a little kid, those were
the good old days. But I try to appreciate these for the good old
days as well. I feel like there's a lot of instances in life where
you can look back and be like the good old days. You know.
There's not just like only when Carson was eight years old, were those the
good old days? You know? I'm sure there's like so many different instances.
What were your good old days, Jenny, I would say, I
mean, I loved college. It was so fun. I loved being I
feel like high school was like, h it was alright. It wasn't like
my favorite, but I feel like elementary school when you're just naive and you
just get to do whatever you want, and you know, you like my
friends and I that lived on the block together, we'd be out till the
street lights went on and played until we could until our parents were like,
all right, time to come in, you know all that stuff. I'd
feel like, those are some great moments in my life. And then just
I don't know, I would say like my mid twenties were really fun.
I got out there. I really put myself out there and did a lot
of things, like i'd gotten out of a relationship, and I really just
became very independent after that and made a lot of friends. Honestly, I
just became extra social and I did a lot of things. And now I
have plenty of friends from those years of just being pretty independent. You know,
you mentioned your childhood, and I think everybody's childhood should be the good
old days. But I'm going to guess there are people listening right now whose
childhood was not the good old days. They were either like in a bad
household or a very very dysfunctional family, or they had to take care of
their mom because she was, you know, addicted to something or whatever.
But I think that everybody's childhood should be the good old days. I think
I look at any part of my life that I don't really have a bad
period of my life. I didn't love living in Phoenix because I got fired
twice out there and it was just hot all the time, and I didn't
love living in Phoenix. But I look back at it now and isn't funny
how our minds kind of filter out this stuff that really bugged us and we
remember the fun, pleasant times. And I think the reason we filter out
this stuff that bugged us is because we survived it. Yep, we survived,
you know, like whatever your bad job was, or your bad relationship
or you know, you're like maybe you broke your leg or whatever, and
it was like a bad but you survived it, so your mind kind of
blots it out because it's not important anymore. Exactly No, I think that's
exactly right. And now you remember the good times because they still they still
live on and they still make you happy. So I thought that was a
really interesting thing that Dwight Shrewd said, and it's something to think about next
one Dave Jenny Vaunt. I'm looking for some advice, says Taylor. I
want to start by saying this is about Mother's Day, and I know it
can be a difficult topic for some in case someone wants to skip through this,
So if you don't want to hear about Mother's Day, there's your head's
up. Taylor says, I have my first Mother's Day as a mother myself
this year. My parents and my husband's parents live on the exact opposite sides
of the cities, so it could be like maybe one lives in Plymouth and
one lives in Woodbury, so it's difficult to see everyone in one day.
In previous years, we've done the rounds for every holiday, which can get
exhausting. You know, you go over to mom's house in the morning,
and then you cross town and you drive the forty five minutes over to Woodbury
and then you spend a couple of hours there and it's exhausting, but you
know, it's what you do. This year for Mother's Day, I really
want to spend time as our family and not have to drive all over the
Twin Cities with our babies. On the other hand, I want our mothers
to feel appreciated and loved. How do we celebrate them? And I get
to take time to celebrate with my family. Thank you, Taylor. What
do you got, Jenny? Well? I was going to ask you what
Alison started doing once she had the girls, because does she still do something
with you guys for those days and then also with just like her and her
little family, or does she do do you guys do it all together?
We are I think we're really good at compromising on this one. I think
it was Easter. It was this past year where it was the first year
it was just Susan and I on Easter in forever because it was either Carson
was there or they were still kids, or Alison and the kids came over
with Justin and we had Easter dinner. This time, they went to Justin's
mom and dad's and we were alone on Easter and we were fine with it.
It was a little bit lonely and we missed it, but you got
to respect the fact that sometimes your kids want to do their own thing.
And I think that if Alison said, you know what, I love you,
mom. I really want to have Mother's Day with just our family.
That is absolutely understandable. But I think here is my suggestion for you,
Taylor, do Mother's Day for yourself on Mother's Day, and then do a
Mother's Day light with your mom and your husband's mom on a couple of different
days, Like you know, maybe take them out to Golden Corral on the
Saturday before or the Saturday after, you take them to Red Lobster or Benny
Hannah, whatever, or you just go over and like hang out. Yeah,
I think that's fair. I think a lot of people start doing that
once they have kids of their own. They do spend it with just like
their family, but then they try to do something with their moms if they
have a good relationship with them on a different day. Yeah, and I
think that moms and dad's you know, if your mom is he's really going
to feel hurt and make you feel guilty. Well, I think that's probably
on her and I know Susan would feel a little bit sad if Alison said,
yeah, you know what, it's Mother's Day. We want to do
it on our own. We got two kids where our own family. We
want to do our own Mother's Day that's fine. You should get to experience
your own mother's day. I think any mom would understand that. M Yeah,
Okay, a couple of more. Let me scroll down a little bit.
Like I said, we're a little light on emails. We're going to
go back to some that we did not get to before. I don't think,
Hannah writes in Okay, you know what's funny. I called the State
Farm office in my small town. Somebody said Hello, this is Jake from
State Farm. How can I help you? And I didn't say anything because
I thought it was automated, and then he said hello. Turns out the
owner's son is Jake. He's in his thirties, so well before Jake from
State Farm thing. It just makes me laugh to even think about it.
Happy Friday from Hannah. That's funny. Totally random email. But the Jake
from State Farm thing is such a classic. You remember the commercial that originally
started it where the wife comes downstairs in the middle of the night and her
husband's on the phone and she's like, who are you talking to? Yes,
and he's like, it's Jake from State Farm, and so she grabs
the phone and she's like, hello, Jake from State Farm. And it
shows this kid like sitting in a darkened cube kind of in the middle of
the night, answering phone calls and she's like, what are you wearing,
Jake from State Farm and he's like, uh, khakis. And it was
like the commercial's got to be ten or fifteen years old, but classic.
Okay, and next one and this is probably going to be the last one.
But there is something that I was gonna bring up with you that you
found out is illegal, and I thought this is really unusual and totally random
and perfect for the Minnesota Goodbye. And it involves a word propagating, Jenny,
if you will. Yes, my mother taught me about something called where
you can't It is illegal to propagate some plants, which basically means certain kinds
of plants that you buy from a store, you can't split them up to
then develop your own plants where it would like grow a ton more because then
you're taking away from the store's profits. And there probably is a lot more
to it than what I'm explaining, because she went into very big detail,
but that's what I took out of it, and I just thought that was
so strange that it's illegal to split up a plant is basically what it comes
down to, certain plants, not everything. That is the weirdest thing to
me, because you would think that if you buy, I don't know,
a Christmas cactus is a classic one where somebody will take a Christmas cactus and
cut off a little clipping and then give it to their daughter or their mom
and then they can regrow it. We had one that we got from my
grandma that lived for like forty or fifty years. It was crazy. And
is it illegal or is it just something that the flower industry doesn't want you
to do. No, I'm pretty sure it's illegal, but only like not
with every kind of flower. There are certain ones, Like I want to
say, she was talking specifically about a hosta when she was describing that to
us, So she was giving us a bunch of plans to use in our
yard. She's a landscaper, so that's why we got into this conversation and
didn't just come out of nowhere. But yeah, it's certain, it's specific
ones. Okay, that's just interesting to me. It's kind of like,
I don't know, I'll do it anyway. I mean, I pay for
the damn plan if I want to propagate the plan, I'm going to do
it. You're probably never going to get caught, is what it comes down
to. Like, it's just something that you're supposed to abide by. We
do kind of got to wrap it up here though. Okay, well then
let's wrap it up and that'll do it for the Minnesota Goodbye for this time.
Short on emails means a shorter podcast. So if you want to write
in, you know, about anything we brought up, if you want to
use the word propagate or bring up something completely new, we are here for
those emails to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com and seriously, thank you for
listening to the Minnesota Goodbye.