All right, here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye. Let's dive right in
with an email from Damante. He says, this is Damante. I suppose
I'll let y'all know why you're Alexis still promoting the Barbie movie because we play
Alexa password and when we say something like, let me try it right now,
Alexa, good morning, good morning for me and Barbie going it's the
best day ever. It is the best day ever. Alexa. Stop Alexa.
So he goes on to say, Alexa stop. Although I've been getting
a chuckle out of seemingly to be the only person that remembers what's going on.
When the movie was coming out, y'all were doing one of your games
that involves Alexa. Alexis said there was a Barbie mode. Would you like
to activate it? Fallon yelled yes, Alexa activate. I don't have Alexa
devices. I'm not sure how you can turn it off. You're welcome,
all right, Demante, We're gonna try this right now. Alexa. Hey,
Alexa, deactivate Barbie Mode. Okay, I've disabled it. Now let's
try it again. Okay, I did not remember that. How long would
that have stayed on? So let me try it again, Alexa. Good
morning, Alexa, good morning, good morning. On this day in nineteen
thirty, Bobby Jones became the first and only golfer ever to win all four
major tournaments in the same year, which is known as the Grand Slam,
and afterwards he received a full tick or tape parade in New York, which
is kind of like the Grand Slam of golf. Claps. Okay, thanks
Alexa. By the way, shout out to my friend Shannon. She is
a friend of the show. I met her when she was in the Katib
Running Club a few years ago. And Shannon is a teacher. I think
she teaches third or fourth graders and she has learned things on our show that
she plays with her students. Alexa Password is one of them, and she
sent me a video. Let me see if I can find it. It
might be worth sharing with you. Hold on one second, okay, listen,
here they are. These are the kids in her classroom playing Alexa Password.
Here we go, what's something white? And it looks and it's dead
and it's not Halloween? Can you this money? Answer your question? The
cotton ghost is Asia. So the word was ghost and a little kid got
Alexa to say ghost, and I am just so tickled at Jenny that what
we do on our show made a classroom somewhere. Maybe we should do a
version where I play Alexa and you try to get me to say a word
like Drake gives you a word. Okay, you try to get me to
It's pretty much like catchphrase. Never mind it's catchphrase. Oh yeah, Okay,
that sounds good. I like it. Okay. And then also Shannon,
shout out to you, Shannon. But she said they also do roses,
buds and thorns, which we did for a little while. We'd come
back on a Monday morning from the weekend and we'd be like, okay,
roses, buds and thorns, which is something I learned in Scout camp.
At the end of the day, the Scout leader would say, okay,
roses, buds and thorns. What was good about the day? Oh well,
we had a great spot for lunch. What was bad about the day?
Those are the thorns? Oh well, I got bit by a rattlesnake.
And then buds are like what are you? What is buds? What
you're looking forward is what it is? What are you looking forward to?
Okay? So anyway, Shannon, thanks for sharing that. I really appreciate
that one and shout out to all teachers, and I would try maybe playing
Alexa Platt password in your class because it is kind of cool. All right,
thank you Demante for helping us figure out how to disable that. That
was really annoying. Moving out of the next one, This is from Sandy.
We were talking about airplane seats. Remember the other day on Monday,
a woman paid for a seat on the aisle and was asked by an elderly
woman in the middle to switch with her so she could sit with her by
her husband who was on the opposite aisle, And she didn't want to,
but she did anyway, And people have had different opinions like you were a
good person to do it, or you're a bad person for even thinking that
you shouldn't do it. Blah blah blah, Sandy says, airplane seat.
The girl should have said no, but I'll trade aisle seats with your husband
because I paid extra to have the aisle. Okay, didn't even think about
that. Yeah, I mean she totally could have. She should have said
no, I'm not going to trade and take the middle, but I'll gladly
trade with your husband. Now he'll have the aisle and I'll have the aisle.
I will say that she did say in her original email, though,
that the lady because she offered up, like can you ask the person in
the middle seat and the other row that your husband is in, can you
switch with them? Yeah, because then it's a middle seat for a middle
seat, And the lady goes, no, I don't really, I don't
like the middle seat. So I'm pretty sure that that woman might have just
wanted to have the aisle, but that would have been an option obviously.
I probably would have asked that too, like, oh no, I'll switch
with him though, That's probably what I would have right, Yeah, thank
you Sandy, but I never thought of that one. Next one question,
where is the best place to retire? Okay? Interesting, Not a lot
of people that listen to the Minnesota Goodbye are at retirement age, I'm going
to guess, but there are a few, and hopefully you all will get
to retire somewhere you want to go someday. Sandy goes on to say,
we'd like to go out west, but too many wildfires and water shortages.
South is too humid, New Hampshire is north and no income taxes. Our
fear is all the drought and water shortages, so we feel like we should
stay near Lake Superior. Did you know that it's emptied? All of North
America and South America would be under one foot of water, that is wild,
your fellow dart liquor Sandy smoker, Lake Superior was emptied. It was
emptied. All of North America and South America would be under one foot of
water. That is wild. It must be one deep fucking lake. Jenny
told you. I did like a deep dive of Lake Superior over Labor Day
weekend when we were staying at an airbn beyond like a very tiny lake,
because I was looking at how deep that lake was that we were on,
because we were canoeing in it and like kayaking and stuff, and Lake Superior
terrifies me, Like I know that the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald at the
bottom of it, multiple other shipwrecks, so many dead bodies are probably at
the bottom of it. I just it is a scary lake to me because
of the deepness, the aggressiveness of it. The waves get super scary when
they're storms or even like in the winter, the ice shards that come up
on the shore. It's just a creepy lake to me. I never thought
of it as a creepy lake, but I can kind of see that.
I do know. I've been up there a couple of times when the waves
coming off a lake Superior