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Let's start with this one, Meredith, love the way you spell your name.
By the way, a few days behind in the podcast, I wanted
to mention the package that showed up at our house that we didn't order.
Now this has come up on with in my life the last couple of times.
I didn't talk about one today, but another one. Yeah, I
never got a chance to talk about it. I'm in Colorado. I look
on the front porch of the house and there's a package from Susan's business in
chan Hassen. I pick it up and it's very light and I'm like,
oh, I don't know what it's in. I open it up. Jenny,
it was empty. Okay, it was empty. That's weird. And
it's the size of a kid's shoe box. To give you some content,
and so I called her, did you send an empty package? No?
And she said was it tape shut? I said absolutely. It took me,
like, you know, like some good effort to get it open up
because it was tape shut. And she said, I know what it was.
It was some Pool chemicals that I sent that arrived in Minnesota and I
sent them to Colorado for the jacuzzi. And I said, yep, and
I looked underneath her label and sure enough it was from the Pool Chemical Company.
There was nothing in it and it was tape shut. Oh. I
can't even imagine if maybe Susan didn't tape it shut and it burst open and
the post office post office taped it shut again, or somebody decided, well,
there could be something good in here. It's kind of heavy, maybe
it's something good. They open it up. Then they said, but why
would they take it? Why wouldn't they just tape it back shut? So
I don't think Susan would have sent an empty package. Yeah, it's super
weird, Like, I don't feel like she would do that either, I
don't think. I think the most likely story is that Susan didn't do a
good job of taping the box shut because I opened it to see what it
was. Oh, it's pool chemicals. Then she taped it back shut.
It didn't do it, It didn't. She didn't do a good job of
taping it. And then it arrived empty after that fell out. But then
why would the post office tape it shut again so securely? Yeah, here's
another story that has to do with mailing. And then Susan and I got
really pissed at each other this weekend and I didn't bring it up, but
we did not speak for a day. Oh I did want to ask about
that because you brought that up a little bit over the weekend and I was
like, what happened? And I didn't And I could bring it up on
the show. We just never got around to it today. But my mom,
in about nineteen fifty five, so years before I was born, was
with my dad in the Air Force in Germany. Back then there was a
thing called Hummel figurines that were very collectible. Do you know what those are,
Jimmy, yeah, mohammed my mom my grandma. So my mom's mom
had Hommels everywhere. That is a very older person kind of thing to collect.
They're not really popular anymore, but my mom had three or four and
they sat in the china cabinet my entire childhood. And when my mom died,
all of us kids got one or two or whatever, and I took
one just because it was like, ah, that was Mom's thing. So
I took it home. It was a little boy with two little piglets,
and it was adorable. And I kept it in our little display case for
years, and I said, I don't want it. I wanted to go
to somebody who would appreciate it. So I sold it on eBay and you
know, people would think, oh, it's collectible, it's worth four hundred
dollars. No, I got thirteen dollars for it. Yeah, Susan part
of our deal is I list things on eBay. I do all the listing,
description whatever. She wraps packages and mails them out. Okay, she
doesn't always do a good job, and it really irks me because use this
hummel, a little figurine that's about the size of a coffee mug. It'd
ride broken. The woman that got it sent me a picture of it broken,
and I said, send me a picture of it broken, so although
she's not lying, and also send me a picture of the packaging. And
so she sent me a picture of the packaging. How would you, Jenny,
wrap a brittle, ceramic, humble figurine? What would you do to
wrap it? What would you do to I would have the kind of thick
paper you wrap something, so, not your tissue paper, but like the
thicker paper. I would wrap it in that first, and then probably put
some more around it in a box on top of that, and then put
it in a box. I would do something close. I would wrap it
in bubble wrap, and then I would wrap it in something else, and
then I would put those little pods of air in there too, And I
would make sure the box was big enough so if the box did get dropped,
it'd have a little room to move in the but it would also shake
the box to make sure they ain't move it in there. She did a
shitty job wrap at it. She the lady showed me a picture. Susan
dropped it in the box with some of those air bubbles, not bubble tape,
but the air bubbles, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah,
They're about the size of a Twinkie. Yeah, and they're full of air.
And she wrapped it in that, and she didn't tape it or wrap
it with tape, and she just and so it arrived broken, and I
was pissed. It was like, Susan, you're so smart, What the
hell were you thinking? And I said, it's not even about the thirteen
dollars. I don't care about refunding the woman's money. It was more that
this sat in my mom's possession for years and years. She gave it to
me and sat with mine for another twenty twenty five years, and now it's
worthless garbage that's going to be thrown in a trash. I would have much
rather had it go to somebody who would appreciate it, pass it along to
her kids, and really treasure it. And I think that would have made
mom happy. But now it's garbage. And I was just pissed, and
so I said and I told her that, I said, you wrap this
wrong, and now it's garbage. And then she didn't text. She didn't
call me back or text me for a day, and it was like,
I was just pissed. And listen, couples get angry at each other and
couples don't speak, so it's not like anything that's you know, going to
be a horrible thing. And we're fine. But I was just pissed.
Yeah, I would be upset. I mean, especially if it's like you
both have your roles and then one person's role didn't really follow through with what
is expected. Yeah. So and then I sent on some more stuff this
weekend, and I said, you know, I don't want to harp on
her, but I'm like, please make sure you wrap it securely because this
item is expensive and if it's broken or crushed when it gets there, I'm
going to have to give him a refund. So anyway, so Meredith,
who was talking about a minute ago, said a package showed up at our
house that we didn't order. My husband sent me a picture while at work
of a large box and said, you order anything. I said, no,
he'll It's a large black Michael Core's purse, no return address or receipt
inside, but there was a card stating thank you for your purchase from some
boutique that I couldn't track down online. We live in Texas now, but
I'm from Egan originally, and oddly enough, the box did have a shipping
label on it that showed it went through the packaging center in Egan. We
gave it a few days to see if anybody would come by our house to
ask if we mistakenly got a package, but no one ever did. I
even checked the community Facebook groups a few times, but nothing. I ended
up keeping the purse and it is one of my favorite accessories. Oh,
Michael, just thought how funny it can be with how lucky some of us
get with these bizarre package deliveries. Thanks Dave, Jenny Drake for all that
you do, staff writer Meredith, and thank you in advance for the sticker.
So I'm going to take a picture of that right now because if I
don't take a picture, then I'm going to forget to send your sticker.
So just a moment while I where's her name? Hold on on a second.
Sorry, Jenny, You're good, Okay, Meredith. This is the
best part of the Minnesota Goodbye. When Dave was taking pictures of his computer
screen. Oh so I can tell you're talking super far away from the mic
aus You're oh yeah, sorry, because no, you're fine. It doesn't
matter. You're only doing that while you're trying to take a picture. But
I was like your level one solo and we started the podcast and had to
restart it because I was like, eh, people are gonna complain about the
audio levels on this one. This is really interesting. Last week, you
guys were talking about buying a house where somebody died or someone had been murdered.
I am a realtor and I have a few tidbits for you on this
subject. A few years ago, I showed a house where a suicide had
taken place. You would think they would have cleaned it up or at least
given us a heads up, but nope. We walked into the bedroom and
there was blood all over the bed and the wall. Needless to say,
my clients did not purchase that house. Let's stop for a second right there.
This is something that I didn't know. You would think that when somebody
dies in a house, or sadly kills themselves in a house, that the
police come by or the coroner come by and take the body and somebody cleans
it up. They do not. The cleanup is left to the family or
the friends, or the relatives or there are some companies I think there used
to be one called crime scene cleaners, where if somebody is murdered, the
cops will come by and pick up the body, but the cops do not
clean up the blood and the gore that's left on the floor. Yeah,
did you know that? Uh, I'm debating if I want to tell a
story, I don't think he'll be upset. So Andrew, unfortunately, one
of his tenants passed away over the summer in one of his units, and
he had to deep clean the unit himself to get out, like the stains
and stuff. She had some addiction issues, and so, yeah, I
guess I kind of I knew that now, but I did not know that
the family has to come and take care of the body. Didn't you think,
well, not the body, but the gore. Yeah, the gore
and the blood. Yeah, I didn't. So I mean, for example,
let's say that somebody died of a drug overdose. You call the cops,
the cops call the coroner, the corner comes, get the body,
because you don't get to take care of the body yourself. But the gore
and the blood and the you know, the stains on the carpet. So
anyway, they did not buy the home because nobody had cleaned up the blood
on the wall and on the bed. That is awful. She goes on
to say, I think it was about five years ago a man murdered his
family in their Lake Minnetonka mansion. That house ended up selling for about seventy
percent of the market value. When you sell a home in Minnesota, you
must disclose if there was a murder in the home, but not what not
if somebody died of natural causes or suicide. Happy Monday from Rebecca. I
remember that story. It was a husband and he had a wife, and
then I believe four kids are three kids, and nobody knews that knew the
story, but they he was an entrepreneur and things weren't going well financially,
I believe, so he killed his kids, killed his wife, and killed
himself. And it was so fucking sad because there were pictures all over the
news of this sweet little family, and you know, if it was financial,
you know, the kids would rather be poor and alive than dead.
And I can never understand, you know, something like that. You know,
people go, oh, mental health, mental health, mental health,
Yeah, no shit. But at the same time, if you have a
mental health issue yet you decide to kill your kids, I'm sorry. You
don't get a pass on that one. You just don't get a pass on
that one. Those are your kids. You're supposed to protect them. So
Okay, deleting that one so I don't reread it. That one I'm going
to pass on now because it's more of a group therapy. This one says,
I'm so thankful that you are all on in the mornings. Personally,
I really enjoyed listening to the morning show on iHeart. So there is no
music and all talk. Guess that's what happens when we get older. Lol.
Hey, a lot of people listen to our show not because they love
the music, but because they love, you know, all the conversations and
stories and things like that. But we love the music too, because,
you know, we take a little break and we play a little boothang or
Taylor Swift and so it's all good. As far as the woman with a
dating age difference, this come up last week. My husband and I started
dating when he was twenty two and I was thirty four. Okay, big,
huge, weird story on how it all happened. But ten years later
we got two kids and had been married and we're happy. Then she goes
on to say, as far as the guy that called the woman the C
word, there are papers I've seen that say something about the shitty part job
that you can put on somebody's windshield. Okay, I'm not sure what that
means, but if somebody parks shitty, there's a paper you keep in your
glove compartment you put on their windshield pretty much. I think there's like stickers
too, you can like do something else to their car. And then I
have questions about dealing with my biological mom, who has the same birthday as
you, Dave. But this email is already getting long enough. Side note,
if all of you want to try or buy Sensi products, give me
a holler. Love each and every one of you. That is from staff
writer Kelly in Webster, Wisconsin. And Kelly, I'm gonna pot Jenny Stall
for me while I take a picture of her address, I'll stall. So
let's see what did I do this weekend that I wasn't I didn't get a
chance to talk to on the show. Oh it was really funny. So
I was at Costco over the weekend and Andrew was with me, and we
ran into Fallon's old trainer, Jerome. And Jerome is very built in buff
and one of the nicest people ever. And later on, after we'd gotten
done talking to him, we're back home. Andrew goes man, I feel
like Jerome was judging my skinny arms, and I just laughing because Jerome is
the nicest human ever. And yes, he's very in very good shape,
and he's a buff man, he's a trainer, all that good stuff.
But I sat there and I go, he was not. Jerome just cares
about people being healthy. He doesn't care whether you can squat three hundred and
fifty pounds or not. You know, like he cares about people's health,
like genuinely. And so I was kind of laughing at that, and Andrew
was kidding, but I feel like there was a tiny part of him that
did get a little self conscious. I mean, I guess it's probably like
being around somebody who's really tall and gorgeous men or woman or whatever gender you
are, that if you look at like somebody who's like, you know,
in comparing yourself to them, Like for example, if I was going to
be around Joe Alwyn or the guy that plays Harvey from Suits, I'd be
like, he is so much better looking than me. But I wouldn't worry
about that. Andrew, you know, I know you might be grannie,
but you have a nice personality. So I love I love everything about that
man. He does not need to change anything. I don't care if he
has muscles, no muscles, muscles, all that. It doesn't matter to
me. Last email. I've been listening to your show for the last twenty
years, and that's saying something because I'm only thirty one. I remember tuning
in on my alarm clock each morning getting ready for middle school. Fondly.
It was only a few months ago that I heard on the morning show that
you have a podcast. So I've been binging on the Minnesota Goodbye from the
beginning. Today, on my drive home from a particularly draining clinical at the
hospital, I listened to the Larry Mondela as an Asshole episode from November thirteenth,
twenty nineteen. I laugh cried, and it was just to pick me
up I needed. I highly recommend you go back and listen to it too.
It's funny because I kind of remember it, but it was something around
the lines. There was a show back of the day that I used to
watch called Leave It to Beaver, and Beaver was a boy that was nickname,
and he was ten or twelve years old, and he had a friend
named Larry Mondelo who was a fat kid that was always eating an apple.
He's like, hey, Beaver, what you're doing? And Beaver was always
a sweet kid, but Larry would always get him into trouble trouble. And
I remember one episode, and I'm not going to try to recreate this because
it was funny and I'm going to go back and listen to it. But
in one episode, Beaver's dad had a Babe Ruth autographed baseball and it was
sitting on a little pedestal in his office and he's showing it to Larry Mondello,
the kid that's the fat kid eating an apple, and he goes,
look at this, Larry, it's Babe Bruce autograph. And Larry's like,
let's go throw it around outside, Beaver, let's go play catch. And
Beaver's like, ah, gee whiz, I don't know whether we should.
And so they go outside. The ball lands in the street and the truck
runs over it and it ruins the ball. And I was talking about how
Larry Mondello is an asshole, and I'm going to go back and listen to
this episode because apparently it's really funny, and that's not the first time somebody
has brought it up. So if you want to go back and listen to
November thirteenth, twenty nineteen to the Larry mondelo is an a whole episode.
Thank you Jessica for bringing it up. She goes on to say, I
never emailed in before, but I love it when you read listener emails on
the podcast. Maybe I will hear my own email when I catch up to
twenty twenty three. Thank you so much for being a constant in my life
all these years. You bring me so much joy. That is the nicest
thing you can say, seriously, that we bring you joy because to us,
we're having fun. We want you to enjoy the show. We want
you to enjoy the podcast. But when we hear that it works, that's
the best because that's what our goal is. You know, sure, our
goal is to make a living, But to make a living by bringing you
joy, that's the best. So I'm glad it's working. Lots of love
from Jessica l and thank you, Jessica. Really appreciate that. I think
we're out a time. How long we gone this time? Jenny in Minnesota,
buy a little over eighteen minutes? Oh okay about right? All right?
Thank you so much, and we will see you next time on the
Minnesota. Goodbye,