WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.799 All right, here we go with the Friday Minnesota Goodbye. We're gonna reflect 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:07.200 back to something that kind of interesting here that we've been talking about on the 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:12.919 show a couple of times, and basically it is Chicago and Fallon hate Chicago. 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:18.079 She said Chicago should be replaced by a giant gravel pit. I didn't 5 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:19.839 say that, if you go back and listen to podcast, but I did 6 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:24.399 say, pretty sure popular opinion. I just don't get Chicago. It does 7 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.120 nothing for me. And I said, I kind of get it, but 8 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.920 I've never gone there just to visit. Really. I've always gone there for 9 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.399 a show or a concert or whatever. And then I was there a year 10 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:38.840 ago exactly for a radio convention and we did take a Saturday and we said, 11 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.119 let's go down to Navy Pier. Navy Pier sucked. Navy Pier was 12 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.560 a bunch of kind of like closed up shops and ice cream stands. I 13 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.159 think we bought have gone the same day you did. And we did the 14 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.679 carousel and that was it, and I was like, cool, Yeah, 15 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:54.399 it's glad. And we walked miles to get here for this. Yeah and 16 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:57.920 so and so we said, hey, tell us what we're wrong about and 17 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:02.960 so we're getting some emails here. This one says can this as she says, 18 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:04.439 good morning, morning show. I'm writing in to respond to Fallon's comment 19 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.120 about Chicago. Was born raised in Gumi, Illinois, which is forty five 20 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:11.280 minutes south of Chicago. I don't know how you say it. I can 21 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.680 totally validate what Fallon is saying. However, I don't have much experience in 22 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.840 Chicago as an adult because I moved to Minnesota at eighteen. I would recommend 23 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:25.599 adding other towns experiences to your Chicago trip next time you come down. I 24 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.599 do recommend Gumy Oh, Gurney, hold on Gurney, Okay. It looked 25 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.879 like an eminence an R Gurney. Okay, since we have six flags Great 26 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.079 America. Way better than Valley Fair in my opinion. Hey hey, hey, 27 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.400 hey hey, you watch that? And just a smidgemore northwest of Gurney 28 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.680 is Lake Geneva, where I live now. Yeah, that's beautiful. It's 29 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.599 a small tourist town, Laketown, but still pretty in fun for a day 30 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.879 or two away. As always thinks we're being an awesome group of people from 31 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:55.760 Candice. Okay. So, in other words, to make a Chicago. 32 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.599 Visit more enjoyable. Don't go to Chicago. That's I got out of that 33 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:07.760 perfect another one. Let's see, I want to keep Chicago in the theme 34 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.159 here. Okay, some insight on visiting Chicago from Allison. I've lived here 35 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.599 eight years originally from Minnesota. Yes, there are more than five things to 36 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.000 do. Get out of Get out of the loop, core downtown areas. 37 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.319 Spending your entire trip there is the equivalent of going to New York City and 38 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.639 not leaving Times Square. Chicago has tons of neighborhoods, each with their own 39 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.960 flare, food vibe. Go up the Lake Shore. There are beautiful beaches 40 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:36.000 for miles north and south. There are so many parks. Just get out 41 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.240 of downtown. Chicago is a big city to live in. Chicago or New 42 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:44.560 York City is a big city to visit. Walk The neighborhoods of Chicago pop 43 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:46.639 into shops and restaurants in the summer. There is a street fest with music 44 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:51.599 and food every weekend in one of the neighborhoods, Garfield Park Conservatory. It 45 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.639 is incredible and so many breweries. I could go on, but cut the 46 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.439 slanders, Smiley face, more of the stories. Get out of the Loop 47 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:01.159 downtown, you'll see what Chicago really has to offer. Okay, I'll be 48 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.680 honest with you. Strolling through neighborhoods and going into a shop is not really 49 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.639 worth a six hour drive to me. Yeah, and I got breweries here 50 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:13.159 in Minneapolis. Everywhere there's a freaking brewery and they're awesome and I love it. 51 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.319 Yeah, I'm trying to think, Like, obviously I like food, 52 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:17.039 but there's only so much you can eat, so I'm sure every neighborhood has 53 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.759 their food flare. But like, okay, like Door County, for instance, 54 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:25.560 why would I think Door County is better than Chicago. Well, endless 55 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:30.919 hiking trails, you can go kayaking, powder, all kinds of water activities. 56 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.039 You can take a ferry to an island for a day. They do 57 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.120 have there. There was a day we did like cute shopping and shops, 58 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:38.560 But I don't want to do that every day, Like I would do one 59 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:43.680 day of shopping for sure. Like if I'm in like a big city, 60 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.840 Yeah, I know that's not your thing though, Well I mean I'm not. 61 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.599 I'm not really a shopper. Like if I go to Breckon Ridge, 62 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.599 Colorado, for example, there's a big main street of shopping, and it's 63 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:59.000 souvenirs and cool like wine glasses that say brecon Ridge and coats that say brecon 64 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.719 Ridge and candle that say breckon Ridge and soap that's made in Colorado. You 65 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.639 know that'll take me an hour, you know what I mean. I'm not 66 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:10.120 a big shopper. Really, I'd rather go to Best buyer them all. 67 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.560 But thank you a listen. I appreciate that one. And let's see what 68 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.800 else we get here. I want to make sure I'm reading ones that are 69 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.079 for the Minnesota. Goodbye, Okay, here we go, Hello, Dave, 70 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.439 Fallon, Jenny and Drake. I'll try to keep this short and sweet. 71 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:29.120 I've been thinking about writing you guys for a long time, recently had 72 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.480 my sign to do it. First of all, though I listen to you 73 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.600 guys every day, usually throughout the day on the podcast, through the good 74 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.040 and bad times, your guys voices have been there for me and sometimes been 75 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.040 the one thing that could get me out of bed for the day. Knowing 76 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.160 I'll get to catch up on the show and smile and laugh along with you. 77 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:47.759 I know I'm not alone when I say your show means the world to 78 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:51.079 me, and I appreciate you guys more than I can put into words. 79 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.319 I never ever want to take that for granted. I never want to read 80 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.920 something like that or hear something like that and then just move on, because 81 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:01.439 that means so much to me. And that is what one of the reasons 82 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.560 I got into radios, because radio meant the same thing to me when I 83 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:09.560 was a kid with the radio was always playing shout out to k v O 84 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.399 R in Colorado Springs k Triples and Colorado Springs KYS and in Colorado Springs because 85 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.600 Z ninety three in Colorado Springs. As those radio stations were what they were, 86 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:24.480 the background, the soundtrack of my life basically, So I get it. 87 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.879 DJ's were a big thing back then, but they were more like, 88 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.560 you know, they'd tell a little joke, yeah, and they'd give the 89 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.279 temperature in the forecast, and they would introduce the music or whatever. But 90 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.759 we're different kind of a radio show, and it's more like you know, 91 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.399 fallon samorrhoids, that type of thing, you know what I mean. We're 92 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.879 more about you're human, we're human, and we talked about the things we 93 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.040 have in common. So I will never take it for granted that you appreciate 94 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.279 us. Okay, now onto I'm writing in today. I've noticed the past 95 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.800 few weeks Dave randomly has said the name Helen on the show multiple times. 96 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:59.560 I have. My grandma's name was Helen. Here's an interesting thing. This 97 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:01.639 is Dave not reading a letter. My grandma's name was also Helen, and 98 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.079 so when I say grandma Helen, I think that's where it comes from. 99 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:14.680 Okay, Helen Wheeler was my grandma, and there's some commonalities here. She 100 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.639 grew up on a farm in Montana during the Great Depression. This is back 101 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:21.360 to the email now. Was pulled out of eighth grade to help earn money 102 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:26.040 for the family. So during the Depression they didn't have any money, so 103 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.240 she had to probably go sell peaches in you know, like I don't know, 104 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:33.240 Bozeman or something like that. She married my grandpa when he came home 105 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:40.040 from serving in the army durned World War Two, and together they raised twelve 106 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:46.199 amazing children. Helen event eventually earned her ged at the age of forty nine, 107 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:48.519 during a year she did not have a child graduating, so she could 108 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:55.399 have her own graduation year. She also earned the Honorable Montana Mother of the 109 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:00.199 Year award. But she surely didn't need the title to prove how amazing she 110 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.279 was. She was an avid pekuckle player and passed her love of the game 111 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:05.519 down to many of her kids and grandkids. So every year I hear you 112 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.639 guys mentioned pinuckle, every time I hear you guys mentioned pe knuckle on the 113 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.519 show, usually wondering what it is, because we do, We're like, 114 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.920 how do you play pinuckle? That sounds fun, Maybe we should learn it. 115 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.360 It brings a huge smile to my face. She was my best friend 116 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.959 and I miss her greatly. I took hearing her name multiple times as my 117 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.839 calling to write to you guys and all show share a bit of her life 118 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:30.040 and keep her memory alive. I love that. And what's funny is my 119 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.959 grandma Helen also lived in Montana, but she was not born there. She 120 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:39.800 was born in Kansas in eighteen eighty nine and went to Montana. We think 121 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:44.399 in a wagon. Okay, we're not positive. Maybe part way by train, 122 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:46.240 but at least part of the way by wagon. Well, I mean 123 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:50.720 that's a good story to tell anyone. Yeah, I believe our loved ones 124 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.319 send us messages once in a while to let us know they are okay, 125 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.439 and hearing Dave say something along the lines of Helen was letting loose, Oh, 126 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:01.800 Helen was letting loose in loss of Vegas made my heart so happy. 127 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.759 Ha ha. Sincerely, p one listener, Beth, Beth, I'm really 128 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:07.319 glad that it touched your heart, and I understand that you want to keep 129 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.759 Helen's memory alive. And I had great admiration for my grandma too, because 130 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:15.800 she was you know, I don't remember her young at all. I don't 131 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:20.720 remember her until she was probly seventy five years old, maybe a little bit 132 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.480 older. But she was always very sweet and she loved to play scrabble or 133 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.279 she called it, no, it was spilling spell. There was a name 134 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.839 called spilling spell where you shook up a bunch of lettercubes and you pour them 135 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:33.679 out on a TV tray and then spell words with him with a timer. 136 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.519 And she would say, do you want to spill a spell? And I 137 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:41.679 thought it was very sweet that an old lady was probably really tired, took 138 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.639 time for a lot of grandkids because there were a lot of us. So 139 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.840 thanks for bringing back that memory and I appreciate that. All right, this 140 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.039 is about sties because I have a stye in my eye. Do you just 141 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.279 see my eye patch that I wore in this morning? Oh I didn't see 142 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.639 it. Yeah, you put it in the microwave. A listener recommended this 143 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.720 to me, is little la beads in there. You put it in the 144 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.960 microwave for fifteen seconds. You put it on your eye. And Susan was 145 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.480 making fun of me last night for looking like a pirate. Well, I 146 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.080 mean, you know, some would argue pirate looks cool. I know you've 147 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.679 gotten five thousand emails about sties. My boyfriend gets them constantly. And eye 148 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.159 doctor told them to wash with a warm washcloth and baby body wash because it's 149 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.039 tear free, works like a charm. Okay, I haven't done that. 150 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.679 I don't rarely. You know, I got so many at home remedies I 151 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.639 got. There was somebody who said it. They wrote yesterday. They're very 152 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.960 charming. They said, I'm Mexican, so of course we have some sort 153 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.039 of home remedy for it. And it was something like I don't remember what 154 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.519 it was, but it was definitely something that was unique. Yeah, probably 155 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.120 to that culture, probably, And I don't remember what it was. But 156 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.000 the cookie who listens to our show said phillis shot glass with warm salty water. 157 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.000 Put it over your eye and open your eye and look into it and 158 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.039 roll your eye around in blink. And I didn't tried that one, but 159 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.080 basically warm compress on the eyes. Warm saltwater fixes a lot of things. 160 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.360 Now, you got an endorsement with the Hemorrhoid Preparation H people because you had 161 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.360 hemorrhoids and you am it paid off for you. I did. So maybe 162 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:13.759 somehow, like um, I can get the the thermal thermal on mask people 163 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.279 or I patch people to hear this and maybe they'll give me an endorsement for 164 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.360 having a stop being a victim of Styes, yeah, I will say preparation 165 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.960 H is more of a household name than what you just read, so that 166 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.440 I think you're right. Somebody use hash Do you gotta take a picture of 167 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.559 yourself, put it on Instagram, put hashtag stye and then they'll fight. 168 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.200 That's how literally how the person. But I'm not young and cute either. 169 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.360 I mean you you're you're the You're the good face of preparation age. Thank 170 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:43.159 you. I'm not young and cute. It's like exactly, yeah, so 171 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:45.720 probably something that happened like Jenny would come into with a sty and all of 172 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.159 a sudden, the thermal on people would be like, oh God, let's 173 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.039 get her, like she's young and cute, and I'm like, hey, 174 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:58.159 background with swallowed eyes a year, let's see. That is kind of more 175 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.480 for the morning show. And so there's really not a whole lot left. 176 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.919 Um. I will only say, let's talk about what we're doing this weekend. 177 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.919 Um, it is Friday right now as we record this, it's Friday. 178 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.639 We love our weekends just like you love your weekends. And I have 179 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.799 no plans this afternoon. I'm going to the gym or at eleven. Somebody 180 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:18.159 told me yesterday I looked a lot thinner, which I appreciate. You. 181 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.960 Yeah, And actually you know what I will I notice the yesterday your belly. 182 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.799 You know one thing I was going to tell you when you wear T 183 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.120 shirts, it makes you look thinner than when you wear button up shirts because 184 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.960 your button up shirts are too big. They are yea and they so they 185 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:35.399 like the make it your stomach look bigger than it actually is. I was 186 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.840 going to tell you that yesterday and forgot too, because I think we went 187 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.799 to talk. That's where I lose it. First, I think in my 188 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.320 bellies, in my face, and then Susan because she's insecure and she is 189 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:50.840 worried that young college women will now be attracted to me, which, no, 190 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.480 not well, I'll put the mask on so they want to. But 191 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.879 so she said last night, she said, you don't want to get too 192 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.080 skinny, because then your face SAgs and you look gone. And I said 193 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.919 to myself, she's trying to keep the college girls away. Yes, she 194 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:09.799 is. God, it's so hard to be I was gonna tell you a 195 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:11.360 little story, but it's it's a story for another time. What are you 196 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:16.440 doing this weekend? The girls are coming over, so Ava three, Evelyn 197 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.519 one coming over tomorrow afternoon. So that is our plan from about four o'clock 198 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:26.120 until about noon or two on Sunday. The girls need constant attention. It's 199 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.519 not a bad thing. But you really don't get to plan anything with the 200 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.200 girls there. What are you doing we I don't think we have anything today, 201 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.440 And I'm honestly so happy. I've been so busy. I looked at 202 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.320 my calendar to make plans with a friend and I only had one weekend night 203 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:46.360 open for the rest of the summer one and it was one night. So 204 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.919 I am doing nothing and it's going to be glorious. Tomorrow we have a 205 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:54.360 barbecue thing for Jake's stepdad at their his mom's house, and then Sunday I 206 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.159 have a little playdate for all of with a friend. Okay. Yeah, 207 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.519 and Jake's going Sunday to the Three thing. Oh he is going is okay? 208 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.320 That's very cool. Yeah, the three of them. I mean, 209 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.879 if you're into Gulf, that is a big, huge tournament this weekend, 210 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:09.919 So have fun with that. Thank you for listening to the Minnesota Good Buy. 211 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.759 Maybe a little bit shorter than our average episode, but only by a 212 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.399 couple of minutes, So thank you for listening. 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