Let's get into the Minnesota goodbye. But before we do, do you know
anything about OJ Simpson? What do you know? You were barely alive when
OJ was the whole trial and all that. What do you remember about OJ
Simpson? I know that he will he was proven or not. Do you
get proven innocent? No, you don't get proven innocent. That's a good
question. You don't get proven innocent. You get found not guilty, so
proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I think he was not guilty, correct,
But every sign points to that he absolutely was guilty. But he got really
great lawyers, and most people, I think do believe that he was guilty.
But he got off. And but did he go to jail at one
point for something he did? Because he apparently somebody stole some of his football
memorabilia and he tried to take it back from them at gunpoint, which you
cannot use a gun in commission of a crime like that. So he went
to jail, prison for nine years, and his life was never really the
same. But it's funny because I don't want to get too into this because
it's boring and a lot of people don't remember it or they've heard about it.
So much. But he died a couple of days ago. He was
seventy six, I want to say. And a lot of people back then
believed that he was guilty, and then he was found to be not guilty.
And it was because he was able to because he was a rich,
rich rich man. He was able to buy the dream team of lawyers.
So he had these dream team of lawyers, and the prosecutors were inept and
the judge was inept, and the trial went on for nine months. It
should have gone on for about six weeks. The evidence was so overpowering,
but he was because he had great lawyers and the prosecutors were weak that he
was found not guilty. And I remember when we listened to the verdict live
on KTWB and we couldn't believe it. Yeah, and back then a lot
of people believe that he was innocent, But now nearly everyone believes that he
absolutely was guilty. One haven't there been plenty of documentaries about his court case.
The evidence was overwhelming, Yeah, I was telling Jenny, I said,
the biggest you know, there was all kinds of physical evidence. They
found his blood dripping as he was walking away from the crime scene. They
found drops of his blood. They found his victim's blood on OJ's socks,
because if you know anything about the murder, it was not just like a
stab stab stab walk away. It was a struggle, and it was ugly
and brutal, and they fought for their lives, and so there was blood
everywhere. OJ had it on his socks. They found his bloody socks at
his house, they found their blood inside of his car, and then the
Dream Team lawyers convinced the jury that all it was planted by bad cops.
But I told Jenny yesterday, I said, one of the biggest things was
OJ. After he murdered them, he got on a plane and he flew
to Chicago for some sort of an appearance, and they called him. The
cops called him in Chicago and said, Oj, your wife is dead,
and he didn't ask how she died. To me, that's it right there.
That's the biggest tell, because if you found out somebody that you love
died, the first thing, I mean, you're shocked. Number two,
you wonder what happened? Yeah, was it a car accident, did they
fall down the stairs, did they have a heart attack? He didn't ask.
So that's what we're going to say about that. If you got any
comments on it, then send me an email. But we don't want to
spend much more time on that one. Andrew and Ohio writes in and he
says, I've been fairly quiet this week, but I've listened to the show
each day. I have not had any comments. I guess he's a regular
contributor. And he said, I have not heard the fu king kitchen high
room call in years. I've actually heard it on my local morning show,
even Jimmy on WNCI, which I used to work there years ago. Do
you know the fou king kitchen call? Yeah, I mean we've played like
all the highrom calls, like probably it was around COVID time that we did
a little like throwback thing, so we played a lot of them, but
we have decided not to play those anymore. We don't play that one anymore.
We really don't play high room calls anymore because I don't know. It
just doesn't I don't know it belongs back in the day. But Hiram called
he was a character on our show called a Chinese restaurant called the fuk king
Kitchen foo k ki ng something like that kitchen. And he's like you got
any fu king rice, you got any fu king egg rolls? And to
me, it's like, listen to it now, it's so dated and offensive.
So no, we'll never play it again. And what's funny is back
then nobody complained about it. Yeah, because times have changed so much,
but we would never do that one. Thank you Andrew in Ohio. Let's
move on to some more emails. Next one, here we go, Hello
friends from Samantha. Question O. J. Simpson died and everything I've seen
or heard in the media seems to be positively presenting him in his football career
and mourning his death. Why he either deserves to be negatively publicized or deserves
no publicity at all. Right, he's a freaking murderer, for God's sake.
Why is his death not only being highlighted but in a way that presents
only positive things about him? Am I missing something? Would love to hear
your thoughts, love y'all from sam It could be because a lot of the
reporters that are you know that we're ten years old back then and that are
now forty. They don't know how enormous and awful that was. They see
it as kind of like you know you and I don't remember when JFK was
shot, so we don't get emotional about it. We only know that he
was shot, so we never, like, you know, get choked up
or whatever. I think it's possible because reporters today, like Chase, if
he's doing a TV report on it, he's not gonna he's just gonna report
the facts. I don't. I don't know that I saw him presented positively
there. I did not, if anything, I saw him get dragged by
a lot I did. I saw him Actually, Steve Latart shared something that
this guy that's part of barstool shared and he was like, why do we
care? We're not giving like simple thoughts and prayers or anything. I mean,
he he felt bad for the family because obviously the family didn't have anything
to do with him being a murderer. So he said, like it's sad,
but the family putting out a statement of like we please respect our privacy
and ever. And this guy was like nobody cares, Like I'm sorry,
nobody cares that OJ's dead. Yeah, And so I have seen like more
I saw more of like why do we even care? It's a it's a
headline, sure, but that's about it. Yeah, I don't If you
saw something that was like remembering him fondly, then I'm going to guess it
was from somebody who doesn't know the story, or maybe a younger reporter that
doesn't realize, you know, the enormity of what he did, because he
basically murdered his wife because he was He'd beat her, he'd beat the shit
out of her for years, and she would call the police and they would
let him go because he was a famous, rich athlete. And so she
even told her sister, if anybody kills me, it's OJ, and she
called. There's nine one one calls of her recorded where she's like, yeah,
my husband OJ Simpson just beat me up and the cops wouldn't do anything
because they would come to the house and OJ would be like hey guys,
and he was super charming the way a narcissist psychopath would be. So yeah,
I'm glad that he did get dragged. Caitlin Jenner said something like the
world is better off without him, and I thought, wow, I'm kind
of surprised that she said anything. She usually likes to say the thing that
pisses people off more so than like go with what most people think they had
a connection because the connection is Robert Kardashian was one of OJ's lawyers. That's
right, and that's where the name Kardashian comes from. He's dead now,
And I'm going to leave this one more thing because I don't want to go
off on this for too long. I don't know how those lawyers on OJ's
team could have slip at night knowing that they got off someone that they fucking
knew was a murder, didn't I Because they got paid so much money?
Why didn't do it for me? I know? But that's what I mean.
I don't know. I can't obviously speak for lawyers, because there's a
lot of people who defend people who deserve to be put into prison, I
think, and then they get off sometimes. But I think it all comes
down to money because and maybe something else in their head, because I don't
know who would be okay with doing that otherwise. Yeah, I don't be
right. There's no explanation, Okay, next one, Amanda writes in something
brought up on Thursday's podcast, it sparked a thought for me. Someone said
they were no longer teaching cursive in school. While I don't think it's really
necessary to learn, meaning. I don't think it would hinder a child's life
not to know. What are they going to do when they have to sign
a loan or give their signature for a legal document. Will cursive signatures eventually
just be extinct and everyone will have signatures in normal handwriting. Just an odd
thought, thank you. That's from Amanda. I don't know. I don't
know that Carson knows cursive. I don't know. Maybe he learned it,
but I think he just signs his name in printing, does he really?
Okay, I didn't even think about that because yeah, I've always signed my
name in cursive, but I also write in cursive a lot, just in
general. That's interesting. Also, though a lot of things are eedocs.
Now you like go in and you sign, and you have like an already
made signature and a PDF filer and you just throw that in there, so
you don't even have to sign physically with your hand anymore for half of the
things that are out there. Yeah, DOCU signed, I mean like yeah,
you just like put whatever. Yeah. Next one, David Jenny wanted
to reply back to the parent who's deciding between private and public school for her
preschooler. I just wanted to clear a little thing up about the holiday parties
because she talked about how they don't celebrate or recognize any holiday, not even
Valentine's Day. Yes, public schools still do these parties, but they may
be called harvest party, winter party, and a friendship party for Halloween,
Christmas, and Valentine's Day. Why do we rename them because we want to
be in lusive to the families who have religious beliefs that don't celebrate those holidays.
That way, they can opt out of dressing up for Halloween, but
can still celebrate and play little kid party games with their classmates. Kids still
pass out Valentine's two again, it's called friendship party. Maybe not true for
all public schools, but the one elementary school I teach in Minneapolis still honors
our fun little holiday parties, even if they are just renamed. Ha ha.
Wanted to throw my two cents in. Obviously, choose a school that
is best for you and your family and kiddo with love and dart lickin Alison,
I think that's true. I think it's why some people choose a private
school or a Catholic school. If you still want your school to celebrate Easter
and Christmas and whatever. Valentine's is not a religious holiday. But then you
know, that's why I think some people choose a Catholic school or you know,
a private school that celebrates whatever. Okay, next one, Dave kind
of a long email, but I've got a what would Dave do? Question.
A previous neighbor of mine has two cats she used to let roam the
neighborhood. She has since moved away, but we're still friends on Facebook.
Several years ago, one of her cats came into my yard and bit my
three year old while we were out playing. It was a serious bite.
Blood was drawn, the cops were called, We went to the er.
My daughter was put on a round of antibiotics, but no stitches or anything
required. The case went to court and the owner was charged. I don't
know what with though. Fast forward, this cat owner makes lots of Facebook
posts about how great her cats are and how much she loves them. A
part of me wants to tell her to stop or go and make a comment
about her cats being a danger to children. Would I be the asshole if
I confronted the cat owner about her posts and how they're misleading people into feeling
safe around her cat or is that a catty thing to do? And should
I just leave it alone and bury my concerns. Yeah, just let it
go. You know you're not gonna win that one. You're gonna feel better.
Then she's gonna be pissed and she'll write back something shitty. So do
it for your sell. You're not doing it for her, you're not doing
her a favor. You're doing yourself a favor to just let it go.
Yeah, it's tough though, because that's her neighbor. She said they don't
live there anymore, she moved away. Yeah, then I yeah, she's
either going to ignore it whatever you like, confront her about if you like,
confront her on Facebook, or she will respond in a way that you
won't like and it'll make the situation worse. I think. Yeah. So
I would say it's don't do it for her, but do it for yourself
so you're not engaged with this person who's kind of a dumb fuck. Hello,
don't use my name today on the Minnesota Goodbye or the MNG as they
call it. I like that. Somebody wrote in and said her area public
schools don't celebrate holidays. Here in the Blaine and Noka, Hennepin school district,
holidays are celebrated. My daughter's in elementary school. They have parties for
everything. They dress up in Halloween costumes. They have a Christmas party in
class, and have a holiday event for in the evening for found families,
Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, one hundredth day of school, etc. Not sure
why I felt the need to write in about this, but not everything about
you hear about public schools is true. Shout out to all the amazing public
schools and teachers. Love you guys. Look forward to the show and podcast
every day. Isn't that interesting that some people are absolutely no religious whatever holidays
and this school. They're like, yeah, totally fine. Yeah. I
don't know how I feel about that. I mean, I recognize that not
everybody celebrates Christmas. I will say that it's such a big part of our
culture. You go into the mall at Christmas time, there's Santa, there's
lights everywhere. I think that Christmas again, I don't know. It's one
of those just joyful holidays that even if you don't celebrate it religiously. Listen,
most Christians, most people don't even they think Christian. If you ask
Carson what Christmas is all about, he might know that it has something to
do with Jesus, but he doesn't think about that. He does lebrated as
a religious holiday. It's fucking Christmas time. Yeah. We I mean,
we grew up going to church every single Sunday. But at this point,
my sisters and I have all kind of stopped going to church, and we
really don't celebrate it as a religious thing either anymore. It's the Lord's prayer,
I think so, our Father who art in heaven, hallo be that
name the Kingdom Come. That will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. Did I skip something? Yeah? Got it? Okay, there's
more. There is more. There's more on earth as it is in heaven.
Hella be th. No, now I screwed up. Give us,
give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us for our trust passes,
as we forgive those who trustp ass against us. For Thine is the
Kingdom and the Power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Okay,
I don't think it's forever and ever, but it might be. That might
be a song lyric I put in there. But I also know I'm good
to love you forever, forever and ever. Amen. It is a song
lyric. I think also, because I grew up Lutheran, I think the
Catholic one might be a little bit different. There's a couple words I think
that might be a little different. I think I grew up saying forgive us
our debts as we forgive our debtors. Oh, okay, we didn't do
that, But I think that Catholics say forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us. And that's what we did for Lutheran so maybe
it is the same. Okay, uh, Let's move on from the Lord's
prayer to Hannah's email Dave Ryan Crewe. First things first, I don't care
who is pissing in my lawn, dog or not. People who are picky
about that seriously need to get a life and are worried about the wrong things.
However, I was home one morning saw the Amazon driver drop off a
package at my door. I couldn't help but notice he was smoking a cigarette
while on the clock. Personally, I don't care if somebody is a smoker.
I just think I pay mister Bezos enough money to give his workers a
proper smoke break, one that is off my lawn. Okay. Secondly,
I get to give a shout out or my input to the whole vegan runner
situation to bring up to speed. We talked about a next door post the
other day where somebody said, I'm a vegan runner. I run at dinnertime.
If you're cooking meat in your house, close your windows. I don't
want to smell your meat. It's offensive to me. Have some empathy for
us vegan people, and maybe you should learn that cooking meat is wrong.
And we all laughed at it, like, okay, sorry, I'm a
fellow vegan. I have been a vegan for four years. My friends consider
to me a b to be a tolerable vegan, as I don't bitch when
my friends are trying to down their butter burger. I think this runner is
completely insane because as a vegan, I don't expect people to make accommodations for
me. We live in a free will to do what we live with,
a free will to do whatever the fuck we want. So go and grill
your meat. Make that runner smell it. I still kind of enjoy the
smell of meat. Don't know if that makes me any less vegan. However,
with that being said, people need to get a live Thanks for all
you guys do, right, Hannah. You know there are certain things where
you can't say, well, I'll do whatever I want want, Like we
go back to the drummer that drums in his parents' garage and he's thirty years
old and he drums, or the guy who runs his lawnmower late at night
or blames their music while you're trying to enjoy a peaceful night in your backyard.
There's certain things that people do, but cooking meat is just to me,
not one of them. Yeah, I was gonna say the same.
How sketchy is this? Says Katie. My sister in law is a thrift
shop queen, one of those women who thrift almost every day. She finds
cool stuff and resells it on Facebook and makes a shit ton of money doing
it. Okay, here's where I think it's borderline thievery. She'll find clothing
and household items that still have the tags on them from Winners, which is
a store in Ontario, Canada that's like a Marshal's or TJ Max. She
brings those taged items to the store, obviously with no receipt, and returns
them and gets store credit in the form of a gift card. Yo.
Is this smart or stealing? So it sounds like she goes to the thrift
store, Yeah, finds tagged items, takes them back to the original retail
store, and she paid less at the thrift store for them. Yes,
so, because I was like, why would that? Why would what's the
benefit there? She must have paid left less at the thrift store. Yep.
Oh wow, Okay, I do think that that's kind of why.
I mean, it is stealing. You can't return something you didn't buy from
a Marshall's. Yeah, that's stealing. I'll be honest with you, I
don't care. But you know what, it doesn't I don't care. I
know it's interesting. I mean I didn't most thrift stores that I stumbled upon
that shit is so expensive. They don't undercharge at thrift stores that I go
to. Maybe it's different in Canada, but I don't really thrift much because
I can't find things that you can find cheaper at like Target. So and
then you're also digging for forever to try to even find anything in the thrift
store because nothing's organized. You have no idea what you're looking for. You're
just going through racks. So I don't know, maybe I need to go
to Canada and go thrifting. Ahah. You know, I agree with you,
Jenny that I went to the I've never been. We used to shop
a good Will when I was a kid all the time, and I would
get toys that were used, but I was thrilled to have them because they
were toys. And I went to the Goodwill in Chan not too long ago,
and I was a little surprised that things aren't as cheap as I thought
they would be, you know. And it's like just looking at toys and
crock pots and utensils and things like that. I think I was looking for
something for the show and I don't remember what it was, but yeah,
I mean they're not particularly cheap. Yeah, Goodwill is a different thing.
I'm talking more clothing thrift stores. Those ones are the ones that I think
are like not really priced that much less just because it's thrifted clothes. I
feel like sometimes it's priced more because it's like some archaic shirts that you can't
find anywhere, you know what I mean. That could be next one,
Jenny, I'm stealing a topic from I'm Still Fun. You and Fallon were
talking about things you guys were obsessed with. It reminded me of myself when
I was about twelve. The year was nineteen ninety seven and Titanic came out
in theaters. I was upset. I went to see the movie probably five
to seven times. Shout out to my mom and dad were dropping me and
my friends off that many times so we could see it. The walls in
my room were covered in Titanic shit. Every teen bop, teen beat magazine
that had anything Titanic in it was ripped out and plastered on my wall.
I printed off the entire script. Ha. My dad was not happy about
that. I'm pretty sure it was one hundred pages front and back. Wow,
anything you were obsessed with, that's all from Shay Jenny, anything you
were obsessed with. So I already talked about this on I'm So Fun.
But my only thing that I became I've become a little bit obsessed with is
the Bachelor and Bachelorette franchise. Just following a lot of them on Instagram,
listening to some of their podcast stuff. That's kind of the only thing.
But it was sparked from a listener who started reading like the Akatar series,
and she went through all like into the fandom hole of finding so much information.
And I've never done like that much research about something that I really liked.
But that was kind of for me. What about you. I wouldn't
say obsessed, but I was really into a love history. I was into
two things. The Battle of the Little Big Horn, which was a battle
with the with you know, George Custer and the Native Americans in the middle
of nowhere, Montana in eighteen seventy six. And I stopped there one time,
just like we were driving through. Oh you want to stop, Yeah,
let's go stop. But it was like, oh, this is really
interesting. And then I started studying more and I bought so many books about
it, and I went back to the battlefield so many times. Because you
can, like anything historical, you can do a very precursory examination of it,
or you can do a deep dive. And I was so into it.
I had shelves of books about it, and I still own a couple
of bullets and shell casings that were found on the battlefield, and even a
button that was found on the battlefield. From a US Army soldier that died
on the battlefield. And then years later they were you know, metal detector.
They found this button, so I still own it. I think that
qualifies for obsessed, then, you know, I I think I was.
I was obsessed. We had a lot of memorabilia. You went and saw
or to buy it because I sold all the books. Got bored with you
talking about it. Just good okay. And then the other one was the
jfk assassination, which again not obsessed, just really interesting, but all right,
next wee we got Hello, Dave and Gang. I listened to the
show. I want to talk about the person who was confused about when to
brush your teeth after listening to a nursery rhyme before or after eating? Did
I fall for some sort of joke? Or is this not the dumbest question
you've ever been asked? Brushing after eating? It's like saying I like to
take a shower before I work out, or I put the condom on after
I'm done having sex. The entire point of flossing or brushing is to re
move plaque and other food remnants. Why the f would you do this before
you eat? I can't be the only person who was screaming at the radio
during this. I kind of agree because this became a thing a couple of
days ago. When do you brush your teeth after you eat or before you
eat? I mean, I don't eat right away in the morning, so
I always brush my teeth as soon as I'm getting up. Yep, even
on a weekend, I don't eat, usually at least for like an hour
or two until after I get up. So I just like to get up,
brush my teeth and start my day that way. Yeah, I don't
really associate it with eating necessarily. I don't eat and then go, oh,
I'm gonna go brush my teeth. I brush my teeth in the morning,
and then I've taken as flossing them at night because I don't want to
sleep with all the gunk that gets in your teeth and just leave it there.
On a different note, I also heard you talking about the a hole
drivers of the cars they drive. This subject turned to AUTI I drive a
black on black outing, and I can assure you I was not the jerk
who cut four lanes without signaling. Those dart liquors are giving us audit drivers
a bad name. I'm very courteous on the road, and I baby that
car. Stop that stereotype. Love the entertainment. You guys are great,
Thank you. I appreciate that. Sure sounds like an audio owner though black
on black. I baby that car. That sounds like someone who loves their
audio. You know what. Good and you know what. I'm not a
car person, but if you love your car, good for you. I'm
going to go back to a longer one that I skipped because I was worried
we wouldn't have time. But this is our last Minnesota goodbye email, and
it's longer. David, Jenny, don't use my name. Longtime listener,
first time email, or had to share my misheard lyrics story. Listen to
the podcast. On Wednesday show, you played the AI generated version of Hat
Williams Junior singing Beyonce's Texas hold them. Here's what I heard, part your
legsis and hold your teas up. My reaction was, wow, that's a
little much. Then you played it again later in the podcast. I realized
the lyrics are park your lexus and throw your keys up, not park your
legsis and hold your teas up. That's funny. Wow, totally crack me
up. Also, if you're looking for content. I missed Drake's hot takes,
so here are my hot takes, all food related of course. Yeah.
Wait, First, Reese's peanut buttercup blizzards and butterfinger blizzards are garbage,
and I vowed and never order either again because they're always a let down.
The blender pulverizes the candy and it tastes like vanilla soft serf only Snickers and
cookie dough for this gal. We saw an ad on TV last night for
the frosted animal crackers animal cookies blizzard. Have you seen that one? I
haven't. It's pink frosted animal cookies that are chopped up in a blizzard.
And Susan said that looks disgusting, and I said, it looks really good
to me. Yeah, I love the frosted animal crackers. Yeah, so
good. Second, large scale barbecues never tastes good. The meat, whether
it's burgers brought to hot dogs, are either way underdone or completely overdone.
It's never a good meal. So large scale barbecues. So I'm not sure
if she means like a restaurant. Probably, you know, like when you
have a backyard barbecue and then you're cooking like twenty brods twenty burgers at once,
and you're you're definitely not getting the temperature right on all of those burgers
and bros. Good point. Third, Mayo is disgusting and tastes rotten.
So does miracle whip. Any food that contains these should be banned from earth.
Okay, I know that some people find mayo disgusting. I love it
me too. I mean, I love mayo. It's good on so many
things. You make an egg sandwich, Mayo, make a meat sandwich Mayo,
so it's turkey ham whatever. Yeah, Mayo. One of my favorite
sandwiches because we grew up without a lot of money. This was a typical
one was a hot dog sandwich, not a hot dog. But you take
two hot dogs, you slice them down the middle, so now you've got
four hot dog halfs. Okay, put them on a slice of bread,
slather it with mayo and mustard, another slice of bread. You've now got
a messy, delicious hot dog sandwich. You ever had that, No,
I have not. I usually just use a bun like a normal person.
No, this is different experience, Jenny. It is a hot dog sandwich.
Lastly, I know you said before that. You don't do follow ups
on War of the Roses because people don't don't respond. But an id I
had was to offer to have people right in with their update and see if
you get some can't help, but wonder what happened in some of those situations.
Thanks for all the entertainment over the years, and I'm loving the edition
of vont Thank you. She said, don't say a name, but I
will say thank you very much, and I might have one more. I'm
not sure. Bear with me for a second. No, that's it.
That is all for the Minnesota Goodbye. We are tapped out on emails.
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