Speaker 1: What is a tourist trap that is absolutely worth it?
Speaker 1: I would say Waldrug. I love Waldrug. A lot of
Speaker 1: people love different with me on that, but I think
Speaker 1: when you go across South Dakota, it's like it's such
Speaker 1: a rolling hills expanse of nothing and cattle that you
Speaker 1: look forward to a sign of civilization. Oh here's a town,
Speaker 1: let's stop and get a pepsi. Oh here's a town.
Speaker 1: Let's stop and get some corn nuts. Yeah, guess what
Speaker 1: wal drug. And you see the signs all the way there,
Speaker 1: and you get there and it's a little bit off
Speaker 1: the road. It's not right there, it's a half a
Speaker 1: mile off the road. And then you get there and
Speaker 1: it's like, this is the oasis that I've been reading
Speaker 1: about and hearing about all the way across South Dakota.
Speaker 1: I love Waldrug. You get back on the freeway and
Speaker 1: once again you're in the middle of an expanse of
Speaker 1: fucking nothing. But I love Waldrug. It's probab favorite tourist trap.
Speaker 2: I have never been there, so I would have no idea.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I would love it because Jenny was there
Speaker 2: a handful of months ago and she said she even
Speaker 2: like texted me when she was in there. She's like,
Speaker 2: you would love it here at Waldrog and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: bang it. I wish I always stop at like historical
Speaker 2: like any not historical markers because those are sometimes boring,
Speaker 2: but like kind of a fleshed out historical marker.
Speaker 3: There's one south.
Speaker 2: I don't know where it is south, but like it's
Speaker 2: like a silhouette of different like cowboys.
Speaker 1: And Americans or something in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so and I stopped there and that was cool.
Speaker 2: And like the Jolly Green Giant that's down south somewhere
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Way to the sewer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've stopped at the Jolly Green Giant. There's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I stopped at the Mayo Brother's house thirty years ago
Speaker 1: when I first moved here. We were coming back from
Speaker 1: man Cato. It's like, oh, the Mayo Brother's house before
Speaker 1: they became you know, famous and successful. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's an old house. Yeah, so that was kind of disappointing,
Speaker 1: but that's not really kind of what I'm talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that, like I don't know the Paul Bunyan statue.
Speaker 2: I have met there, okay, and there and that is
Speaker 2: and I've been up there during like wintertime too. And honestly,
Speaker 2: right where the Paul Bunyan statue is in Bamidgi, that
Speaker 2: whole area is all like decked out in Christmas lights. Okay,
Speaker 2: And I always stop because I'm like, this is so cute.
Speaker 2: What a wonderful world we live in, La la la.
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore is a good one. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are disappointed in Mount Rushmore. The Murdo Car Museum in
Speaker 1: South Dakota is a good one. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: about the roadside. Devil's Tower was really cool, but I'm
Speaker 1: trying to put it like a pin on what like
Speaker 1: a definition of what is a tourist trap.
Speaker 2: I know, if you go up north and you're going
Speaker 2: like towards Duluth, I always stop at Toby's for their
Speaker 2: like giant sinmon rolls and giants.
Speaker 3: That's delicious.
Speaker 2: And then further up like past Duluth, I think towards
Speaker 2: like two Harbors, there's a candy store that has like
Speaker 2: cute little cutouts outside and they have tons of taffy.
Speaker 3: I had a salted grape taffy there. Okay, delicious.
Speaker 1: I will stop there, I still open. Will you Google
Speaker 1: really take Betty's Pies?
Speaker 3: And I think Betty's Pies is still open okay, But.
Speaker 2: If you are going up in that direction, there's a
Speaker 2: different pie place called The Rustic in that has better
Speaker 2: pies period.
Speaker 3: It's just that they don't have the word pie in there.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 2: So this weekend I have literally nothing going on, so
Speaker 2: I was talking to my friend Sarah about like planning
Speaker 2: a little day trip and potentially either going to like Rochester,
Speaker 2: Red Wing, New Olm, going somewhere just for the day.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts, feelings, recommendations.
Speaker 1: Okay, New Olm is good for a half a day.
Speaker 1: The drive down there is part of the experience in
Speaker 1: New Olme. It's just a pretty drive. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: there's you know, beagles, kaiser hop, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of shopping to be one transparent. The main street in
Speaker 1: New Olm is it's okay, Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2: And I've been there before, so that's where I'm like,
Speaker 2: it was fun, but.
Speaker 1: They're trying for a still water vibe. Yeah, and with
Speaker 1: shops and candy stores and little T shirt shops and
Speaker 1: it's just not really making it's it's a cute little stop,
Speaker 1: but it's not as still Water where you can spend
Speaker 1: an afternoon wandering still Water. Yeah, I would say red
Speaker 1: Wing is a better choice because you can go to
Speaker 1: barn Bluff. There's a winery down there, there's the Saint
Speaker 1: James Hotel, eat up on the roof. There's a great
Speaker 1: restaurant up on the roof. If you don't want to
Speaker 1: sit outside, you can sit inside and you're next to
Speaker 1: the river. You can watch the boats and the barges
Speaker 1: come by, and it's just pretty. There's like a museum
Speaker 1: and there's good shopping. Their main street is not nearly
Speaker 1: as good as still Water, but there's the red Wing
Speaker 1: shoe store and that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, red Wing.
Speaker 1: I would go red Wing New Olm. I wish they
Speaker 1: did better, but their main street is a little I
Speaker 1: hate to say it because I think it's such a
Speaker 1: cute town and I go there once a year. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit dried up on the main street.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it was, yeah, either red Wing, Rochester or New Elm.
Speaker 2: And I've don't know Rochester Rochester. I wanted to go
Speaker 2: there only because they have like three different and breweries
Speaker 2: that sound pretty dope.
Speaker 1: So it's cool that you are. You're a beer drinking girl,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that because most women that I don't know,
Speaker 1: and this is just my personal experience, they're not crazy
Speaker 1: about beer.
Speaker 3: I love it. I had to teach myself how to
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: Blue Moon is a gateway beer. If you're looking to
Speaker 3: get into beers.
Speaker 1: You put an orange in your Blue Moon.
Speaker 2: Ah yeah, of initially, and honestly, I always go with
Speaker 2: Blue Moon if there's nothing else to drink at the bar.
Speaker 1: Same if I'm like, you know, pressure to order, like
Speaker 1: what can I get you? And I'm like, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yea ya, yah yeah yah, blue Moon with an orange.
Speaker 3: Yes, delicious. Gateway Okay to craft beer.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a little place that is
Speaker 1: it's a drive it's a two ish or so drive
Speaker 1: away maybe too yeah, okay. It's Pipestone, Minnesota, and it's
Speaker 1: a neglected, forgotten, very historic, very beautiful little The town
Speaker 1: is okay. Again, they try for a touristy strip and
Speaker 1: it never really came out. But they used to have
Speaker 1: the Calumet Hotel, which is like an eighteen eighty hotel.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: It looks like a castle. It's beautiful, but I think
Speaker 1: it's closed. However, the Pipestone National Monument is in the
Speaker 1: same condition it was all through history, and there are
Speaker 1: carvings on the rocks of an expedition like Father Hennepen
Speaker 1: that came through there in like eighteen oh four carved
Speaker 1: his name on a rock and it's still there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure that it's Father Hennepin, but it's somebody, yeah,
Speaker 1: And his name is still carved there on a rock.
Speaker 1: And you walk through and there's beautiful waterfalls and its wilderness.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about pipestone is pipestone is an
Speaker 1: actual rock. That's where the Indians would come. The Natives
Speaker 1: would come from miles around to quarry the pipestone and
Speaker 1: they would make pipes out of this Redish carvable stone.
Speaker 1: And the natives still have the rights to do it.
Speaker 1: The white people, Europeans, nobody else cannot quarry the pipestone,
Speaker 1: but they quarry it still, and they carve right in
Speaker 1: front of you, and you can buy the little things
Speaker 1: that they sell.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: And I just fucking lovepestone, Okay, I wrote it down
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of an ignored and there's not
Speaker 1: really much else to do there. Yeah, there's a pizza ranch.
Speaker 2: Okay, well it could potentially see other things along the way.
Speaker 1: On the way is Walnut Grove.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh, Okay, great, great, Okay, I'm writing
Speaker 2: all these things down because I have literally three days
Speaker 2: of nothing.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you have anybody to do these things with?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my friend Sarah, I said, I would like to
Speaker 2: do something with her. I said, if you want to
Speaker 2: take a day trip somewhere. She'd be like, cool, we
Speaker 2: can figure it out.
Speaker 3: Sweet.
Speaker 1: What's up with Sarah? Is she single? Is she a single?
Speaker 3: My friend Sarah, she's from college.
Speaker 1: What do you think she's doing wrong that she's single?
Speaker 3: Probably not giving a shit as much as.
Speaker 1: Like about her appearance or about her body.
Speaker 2: Odor she's she's a beautiful woman. She just is like,
Speaker 2: I don't need to find the love of my life.
Speaker 2: So she's just kind of like she's on apps. She's
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, gonna wanna just if if I want
Speaker 2: a bit of ass for the night, I'm gonna find
Speaker 2: a bit of ass.
Speaker 3: For the night.
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. She wants to say a bit
Speaker 2: of ass for the night.
Speaker 1: But she's just like, Yeah, I just kind of want
Speaker 1: to what was it with you a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: you setting it to go down to Chicago and find
Speaker 1: me some d Oh? Yeah, Now she did say this.
Speaker 1: This is a quote from Bailey. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: put words in.
Speaker 3: Her say that I did say that I have.
Speaker 2: It's I call him a long con because he's on
Speaker 2: a back burner all the time. He is not anyone
Speaker 2: who is actually someone I would probably date because he
Speaker 2: lives in Chicago. But he lives in Chicago. We talk
Speaker 2: usually every day just over Instagram.
Speaker 1: Oh every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like.
Speaker 2: None of it's suggestive. Anytime I try to be suggestive,
Speaker 2: it is not reciprocated at all.
Speaker 3: Were about himself. I'm pretty sure he just doesn't have
Speaker 3: a lot of people to talk to.
Speaker 1: Is that the worst when you flirt with somebody and
Speaker 1: and they don't reciprocate back, and honestly.
Speaker 2: Little things like well that's hot, or like, don't threaten
Speaker 2: me with a good time crickets. Wow, I'll just like
Speaker 2: move on talk about something else.
Speaker 1: But so, no D in Chicago, No.
Speaker 3: D in Chicago.
Speaker 2: He's not He's going out of town, and I literally
Speaker 2: was like, so, what's there to do in Chicago over
Speaker 2: Fourth of July weekend? Eyeballs? Eyeballs, eyeballs, And of course
Speaker 2: I want him to be like, well, you could do
Speaker 2: this D and he did not say that.
Speaker 1: He was like, wow, if he offered up the D
Speaker 1: you would be down there.
Speaker 2: Would have gone to Chicago this weekend. Yeah, because again
Speaker 2: I have nothing going on.
Speaker 1: Is he gay?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Okay. If you say you don't think so, then.
Speaker 2: Then I mean, I know he has dated women in
Speaker 2: the past, Okay, but I know gay people who have
Speaker 2: done that too.
Speaker 1: That is true. Well, have fun this weekend on the
Speaker 1: fourth of July. It's now supposed to be pretty darn
Speaker 1: nice this weekend with the chance of rain, which I
Speaker 1: can deal with. Last year was a total washout. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call Bingo at the chan fourth of July Bingo tent.
Speaker 1: I think that's actually on the fourth of July at
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: If I have nothing going on, I'll show up.
Speaker 1: Come by and then the parade is you know, it's
Speaker 1: your local parade with like the fire Department, the cub Scouts,
Speaker 1: the girl scouts, clowns on bicycles, clowns, and marching bands.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's really cool. And so it's just
Speaker 1: your typical small town parade. And then they have a
Speaker 1: lot of events and blah blah blah, and they have
Speaker 1: a big carnival beer garden in the Shanhassan City Center
Speaker 1: lawn and it's just cool.
Speaker 3: I love a beer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you want.
Speaker 3: To come by, if I got none else going on,
Speaker 3: I'll be.
Speaker 1: There Saturday and Sunday. I don't think we have any plans,
Speaker 1: so looking forward to the three day weekend for sure.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the emails here. We have
Speaker 1: just a couple little dry spell on the emails, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to read this one from Alyssa. Hello, morning
Speaker 1: show friends. It's an interesting concept to call you all
Speaker 1: my friends when it's entirely one sided. But that's how
Speaker 1: I think of you all. I love that, and people
Speaker 1: actually say words to that effect all the time. You
Speaker 1: don't know anything about me, but I know everything about you,
Speaker 1: and I think of you guys as friends. I love that.
Speaker 1: I graduated in two thousand and eight. I'd make her
Speaker 1: about thirty five, so I can relate to a lot
Speaker 1: what Ben, Jenny and Bailey say and Dave. I live
Speaker 1: in Chaska and run Errand's in chan and I've seen
Speaker 1: Susan out a few times. Love you all. I wanted
Speaker 1: to share my recent zero res experience. I use them
Speaker 1: a lot, probably a dozen times over the years. Always
Speaker 1: had a great experience. The last time was no different.
Speaker 1: But I had to laugh at what one of the
Speaker 1: techs said to me. I've recently gotten more relaxed in
Speaker 1: my skin about not always needed to be presentable, i e.
Speaker 1: Hair and makeup done. I felt fine not being made
Speaker 1: up to have a cleaning day at home. The tech
Speaker 1: is making small talk and proceeded to ask if the
Speaker 1: large family on the wall was a stock photo. Now
Speaker 1: that's my family.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: He then corrected himself when he recognized my daughter. Oh,
Speaker 1: she was there in the house of the time, and
Speaker 1: he made no mention to me in the photo. I
Speaker 1: couldn't stop laughing after he left. Photos attached to my
Speaker 1: family picture and my look that day left me very humbled. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's your daily reminder two that it's okay to laugh
Speaker 1: at yourself and not take life too seriously. So she
Speaker 1: shows a picture of herself looking very I mean no makeup,
Speaker 1: hair pulled back, a sweatshirt, very ordinary. But her family
Speaker 1: photo is gorgeous. It is her and her family holding
Speaker 1: hands in a field of wheat with hills in the background.
Speaker 1: And it looks like when you buy a photo frame,
Speaker 1: when you buy a photo frame at Target, that's the
Speaker 1: paper photo that's in there, and it's a beautiful photo.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, is that a stock photo? And
Speaker 1: then it's like, oh, well, I recognize a little girl
Speaker 1: and that's you wearing like beautiful clothing and your husband
Speaker 1: is wearing like a very Minnesota kind of a Flannelly
Speaker 1: shirt to.
Speaker 3: Be worst of the tech was like, that's you. That's right, worse.
Speaker 1: So that is a cool story, Lissa, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Next one, let's see here we go. I have it
Speaker 1: here somewhere here. It is Hello morning crew. Effective immediately.
Speaker 1: Dave must stop saying touch and tickle On the air.
Speaker 1: We were talking about morning sex yesterday and vont said
Speaker 1: morning sex is the worst. It's overrated. Nobody likes morning sex.
Speaker 1: And I said, no, you know, you roll over, you
Speaker 1: wake up and there they are, and you know, you
Speaker 1: give them a little touch and tiggle and a little
Speaker 1: fondle and a little a little loving, and then it's
Speaker 1: just kind of fun. That used to be my favorite time.
Speaker 1: A little touch, a little tickle. I am listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast. I cannot stop twitching every time he says it. EWW,
Speaker 1: thank you for your attention to this matter, Signed a
Speaker 1: concerned listener, So thank you for that. A little touch
Speaker 1: and a little tickle. Another one started the pot topic.
Speaker 1: I think everybody is deserving of the car of their dreams.
Speaker 1: I find it weird when I see men drive convertibles,
Speaker 1: and vont I totally agree morning sex is overrated, kind
Speaker 1: of gross. Yeah, don't want none of it. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why she brought up the car of their dreams.
Speaker 1: But oh, I find it weird when I see men
Speaker 1: drive convertibles. I'd never thought about that. I think convertibles
Speaker 1: are awesome, and I think, here's the thing I see.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a cliche. You see a corvettees like
Speaker 1: the coolest American sports car there is. It looks like
Speaker 1: a Ferrari if you don't know, very sleek and low,
Speaker 1: and they're fucking loud, and they're very cool. Ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of the time it's an old, gray haired guy
Speaker 1: driving it. It's kind of a cliche, and as I've
Speaker 1: gotten older, I give them a pass. I used to
Speaker 1: be like, who do you think you are trying to
Speaker 1: be young in a corvette. I figure that here's a
Speaker 1: guy who probably has wanted a Corvette his entire life,
Speaker 1: couldn't afford one, and now he's sixty five and he
Speaker 1: wants a Corvette before he dies. Right, exactly, go buy
Speaker 1: your fucking corvette.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you just.
Speaker 2: Come into your money now, or like, if you've just
Speaker 2: like now, I have the means. My kids are out
Speaker 2: of the house, they're all supporting themselves.
Speaker 3: I have the means.
Speaker 2: I want to spend my money on a corvette or
Speaker 2: a convertible or whatever.
Speaker 3: Then spend your money. Maybe I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: I love seeing little little old guys in their little
Speaker 2: red convertibles that are from like nineteen sixty two and
Speaker 2: they're just so happy.
Speaker 3: Love that.
Speaker 1: I love seeing that too. You see like a nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty seven Chevy or whatever, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a very nobody your age or even my age
Speaker 1: wants that.
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, those are my favorite cars. I would never
Speaker 2: drive one, but they're gorgeous. I would love to get
Speaker 2: married and like drive up to the ceremony in one
Speaker 2: of those.
Speaker 3: Uh beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. I wonder like in another thirty years,
Speaker 1: when all the people who own fifty seven corvettes are gone,
Speaker 1: what will become of those where they'll still be collectors
Speaker 1: for you know, your great grandpa's fifty seven Chevy.
Speaker 3: I think they.
Speaker 2: Get rented a lot for like special occasions like weddings
Speaker 2: and things. I like, I've looked into it because obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a woman, so I've planned my wedding
Speaker 2: even though I have zero prospects. But you can like
Speaker 2: rent old classic cars from just random people, like oh,
Speaker 2: I want to really go out to Wisconsin and rent
Speaker 2: this fifty Yeah, driving.
Speaker 1: Around next one and my first time writing in I'm
Speaker 1: not good at storytelling, but I'll do my best. What
Speaker 1: I saw at Costco disappointed me as putting my groceries
Speaker 1: in my car. I saw mom pushing a cart and
Speaker 1: pulling another cart behind her, walking next to her. Two
Speaker 1: sons did nothing to help. I was thinking, why are
Speaker 1: her kids not helping? They're old enough to push car.
Speaker 1: Why is she doing everything and they're just walking and
Speaker 1: skipping in La la land, not seeing that mom could
Speaker 1: use their help with the carts full of groceries and items.
Speaker 1: Growing up, my siblings and I always helped our parents.
Speaker 1: We were the ones to push the cart in and
Speaker 1: around the store. I was really upsetting and disappointing to
Speaker 1: see this mom had no help. I am now a mom.
Speaker 1: I would be disappointed in myself if I did not
Speaker 1: raise a considerate helpful son. Okay, good point. Another thing
Speaker 1: about Costco? Why are people so rude and entering through
Speaker 1: the exit while others are trying to exit to the store,
Speaker 1: the store, to their car. One time, it got so
Speaker 1: crowded it took forever from my son and I to
Speaker 1: get out. We'd walk a few steps forward, stop for
Speaker 1: people coming in through the exit because they'd walk right
Speaker 1: in front of us, walk a few more steps, stop
Speaker 1: and go and stop, and finally we made it outside.
Speaker 1: Once I shouted this is the exit, and I heard
Speaker 1: a lady say, oh, well, the reaction was lame. I
Speaker 1: didn't care. I needed to leave. I liked that Sam's
Speaker 1: Club exit and entrance doors are separated. Thanks for reading.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I go to Costco a lot.
Speaker 2: I feel the same way about Like, I just think
Speaker 2: in terms of people at Costco, your bubble does not
Speaker 2: exist anymore, and like any kind of consideration for others
Speaker 2: does not exist anymore. You walk into Costco, you're fighting
Speaker 2: for yourself, and everyone's like walking in front of you
Speaker 2: because they're only thinking about themselves.
Speaker 3: So it's like a war zone in Costco.
Speaker 1: I've been in Costco about five times and it's just
Speaker 1: fascinating that everything is sold in bulk. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: buy a Gatorade six pack. You buy a twelve pack
Speaker 1: of Gatorade six.
Speaker 3: Pack, twenty four pack?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why not Sam's Club? Uh?
Speaker 3: Why don't I go to Samswoi.
Speaker 1: General in general? Because Costco is Costco Sam's Club. From
Speaker 1: what I understand, it is the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the same thing.
Speaker 2: I just go to Costco because that's what was in
Speaker 2: andover when I grew up, and it's what's closest to
Speaker 2: my house now, it's right there.
Speaker 1: If there was a Sam's Club closer, would you go
Speaker 1: to Sam's Club?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: If I had a membership. My mom got me the
Speaker 3: membership to Costco. Okay, me and my sister share one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to start going to Costco more often
Speaker 1: because I'm Sam's Club more often because to me, it's
Speaker 1: less of a zoo. But it's the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: a warehouse shopping experience. Yeah, but it's Sam's Club, not Costco.
Speaker 2: Jenny and I said, we are going to start going
Speaker 2: together because we're single ladies who live alone. So we
Speaker 2: should buy the stuff and split it and split it
Speaker 2: out in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Oh so maybe we might interesting. What do you think
Speaker 1: of costco versus Sam's Club and any other things you
Speaker 1: want to talk about. We would love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: We always love reading your emails. And that is it.
Speaker 1: What are you doing on the fourth of July? Is
Speaker 1: there something that we should mention? What is a cool
Speaker 1: little tourist y town or what is a tourist spot
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