Speaker 1: Welcome to the Minnesota Goodbye. It's so funny because yesterday
Speaker 1: we didn't have very many emails. Today we've got it
Speaker 1: looks like too many. So if you don't hear your
Speaker 1: email and you're going I wrote in, then listen for
Speaker 1: it maybe on tomorrow's Minnesota Goodbye. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: hot and cold sometimes with emails. People are busy. It's
Speaker 1: the summer. People are out doing things. Jananita is a
Speaker 1: staple of the Minnesota Goodbye. And here is the latest
Speaker 1: rent from one Nita.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: Hey, So this week's rent is about the doctor visits.
Speaker 3: So you know when you go to the doctor and
Speaker 3: they give you that form before you actually go back,
Speaker 3: and you're supposed to fill it out, and it ranges
Speaker 3: from either not at all or extremely high or every
Speaker 3: day or whatever. But they ask you those questions like
Speaker 3: do you feel depressed or do you feel like you
Speaker 3: don't belong? Do you have any loss of appetite?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: So I think the highest that you could score on
Speaker 3: that forum is like a twenty seven. But it's like
Speaker 3: every time I feel that form out and I give
Speaker 3: it to the nurse, she never pays it attention. She
Speaker 3: never even looks at it. This she shoves it in
Speaker 3: all my own the paperwork, gives it to the doctor,
Speaker 3: and the doctor comes in. She never says anything about it.
Speaker 3: So I said, hmm, I'm gonna see if they actually
Speaker 3: pay this forms any attention. So I literally felt that
Speaker 3: form out to where I got his twenty seven and
Speaker 3: like I said, twenty seven is like bad.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 3: Nurse looked at it. Nurse Lebert even looked at it.
Speaker 3: She got the form, she shoved it in my paperwork,
Speaker 3: gave it to the doctor. I walked right out of
Speaker 3: the doctor's office. Now, the way that I felt that
Speaker 3: form out, I was at the break of committing suicide.
Speaker 3: But nobody said anything. Stop having me fucking waste my
Speaker 3: time feeling that form out. If you're not gonna even
Speaker 3: pay attention to doing anything about it, Hell, you just
Speaker 3: made me miss ten minutes of playing chumpbucker. Say no
Speaker 3: fell out that stupid ass form. Goddamn it, that shit
Speaker 3: pisses me to well. You guys have a happy and
Speaker 3: say fourth of July, Dave. If I'm not too busy,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try. I'm not making any promises. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: try to get down there to the Bingo. You'll know
Speaker 3: I'm there because I'm gonna wait for you to call
Speaker 3: off old sixty nine and I'll be the one that
Speaker 3: jumps up and says, O, all soock and sick, and
Speaker 3: I well, I love you guys next week, all right.
Speaker 1: You know I love you ONEA. But I I'm impressed
Speaker 1: that you got four swear words into one sentence. That
Speaker 1: shit fucking pisses me. That shit fucking pisses me the
Speaker 1: fuck off? Is that what it was like? So that
Speaker 1: was impressive. Juanita is talking about me calling bingo at
Speaker 1: the Chan Bingo tent on the fourth at eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. And I've never really thought about those forms.
Speaker 1: I thought that they would look and be like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you don't feel safe at home? Or they
Speaker 1: usually ask you that one yea, And they usually do
Speaker 1: ask you in vocal in person, do you feel safe
Speaker 1: at home? Yeah? And I kind of almost smile a
Speaker 1: little bit because yeah, I totally feel safe at home,
Speaker 1: but I know probably some people don't yeh. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. Wjaneda. I wonder if they keep that
Speaker 1: as just kind of like well, she said she was
Speaker 1: doing good. We didn't catch the fact that she was,
Speaker 1: you know, super depressed. Yeah, because she didn't mention. And
Speaker 1: I don't know. There must be a reason.
Speaker 2: My problem at the doctor's office is I always have
Speaker 2: the visceral need to make jokes, and so often the
Speaker 2: nurse that's attending me is not funny, is not a
Speaker 2: funny person.
Speaker 1: They don't get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just like, oh, god, tough crowd.
Speaker 1: No, I know what you mean. I like to do
Speaker 1: that too. When to relieve the tension a little bit.
Speaker 1: I went to the doctor the other day and she
Speaker 1: taps me on the knee with that hammer and I said, no,
Speaker 1: she pulls out the hammer. No, wait, let me get
Speaker 1: this joke right. She hits me on the knee with
Speaker 1: the ham. I know what it was. She hits me
Speaker 1: on the knee with the hammer, and I said, what's
Speaker 1: that for. She said, that's for not returning my phone calls.
Speaker 1: So another time she pulls out the hammer and she
Speaker 1: hits me on the knee and I'm like ouch, and
Speaker 1: she said, now you do me see stupid? Now these
Speaker 1: are doctor jokes. I go to the doctor, I said,
Speaker 1: I take my coat off. It's cold winter day. I
Speaker 1: take my coat off and I'm like, is there a
Speaker 1: hanger that I can use to hang this up? She said,
Speaker 1: it's being sterilized for surgery. Nothing. So I go to
Speaker 1: the doctor.
Speaker 2: Is sterilized for surgery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not fun It is funny. And this is the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Goodbye. I can do stuff that's offensive on here,
Speaker 1: so go fuck yourself. Okay. So I go to the
Speaker 1: doctor and he gives me one of those robes and I,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like naked under this robe. And I said,
Speaker 1: why does my riot robe open in the front or no?
Speaker 1: I said, why is my robe open in the back?
Speaker 1: And he said, because mine opens in the front.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: And we had the best sex ever. You're so stupid
Speaker 1: bent right over the examining table.
Speaker 2: And we had the best sex ever.
Speaker 1: So those are all the doctor jokes that I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I have to use any more for the
Speaker 2: rest of this time together.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next roun. Kristen
Speaker 1: back with another random question, going back to the Daily
Speaker 1: Bailey about food you can't have in your house because
Speaker 1: you'll just open the container, tip your head back and
Speaker 1: chomp the whole thing in one What is a favorite
Speaker 1: discontinued food that you can't have anymore. For me, it's planters,
Speaker 1: Peebee crisps, the little peanut shaped hollow crackers filled with
Speaker 1: peanut butter. Oh my god, they were so good. Plus
Speaker 1: just thinking about them brings me back to my childhood.
Speaker 1: Bring them back. Have a safe, yet exciting dart licking
Speaker 1: fourth weekend, Kristin, Thank you. Space food sticks. This was
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. Space food sticks were supposedly
Speaker 1: what the astronauts ate and they looked like a slim
Speaker 1: gym but they had the texture of a soft TOUTSI
Speaker 1: roll and they were about maybe six or seven inches long,
Speaker 1: and you would open them and you would eat space
Speaker 1: food sticks. If you want to look them up. They
Speaker 1: were a thaying back in the way back of the day,
Speaker 1: and I always loved space food sticks. We didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of money, so we didn't have them very often,
Speaker 1: but that was my favorite that they don't make anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we When I was a kid, I lived in
Speaker 2: an ingredient household, so if we said we were hungry,
Speaker 2: my mom would say, well, we have all of the
Speaker 2: ingredients to make a salad, so why don't you go
Speaker 2: make yourself a salad or you know, cook yourself some foods.
Speaker 2: So we didn't really have snacks, but occasionally when I
Speaker 2: was at my dad's house, he would buy the nutty bars.
Speaker 2: I realized, like, you can still get those, but like
Speaker 2: that's those are the things that I would eat way
Speaker 2: too much of and I am shocked. I wasn't morbidly
Speaker 2: obese as a child, but it's because my parents were divorced,
Speaker 2: so I only saw my dad every other weekend. Those
Speaker 2: were the only times I could eat like a box
Speaker 2: full of nutty bars and Reese's peanut butter cups.
Speaker 1: I was very skinny as a child. My mom used
Speaker 1: to call me skinny Mini, and I think it was
Speaker 1: because we couldn't afford or did not want, or my
Speaker 1: dad would not buy junk. We never had junk in
Speaker 1: the house. We never had pop in the house. If
Speaker 1: we did have it in the house, my mom would
Speaker 1: hide it in her closet and would dole it out
Speaker 1: if you were good or it was a special occasion,
Speaker 1: and he would buy the giant family bag of ruffles
Speaker 1: for all of us six kids, and ruffles were great,
Speaker 1: but when you buy the family bag, they sit open
Speaker 1: and they get stale. So, and my mom was not
Speaker 1: a good cook, so I didn't eat much and I
Speaker 1: was just a skinny little kid. But I certainly had
Speaker 1: it in me to be fat because when I got
Speaker 1: out and started cooking my own food and buying garbage food. Oh,
Speaker 1: I definitely put on the weight then. So all right,
Speaker 1: another email, love this one. I had mentioned yesterday about
Speaker 1: New Olm and I said, New Alm is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite little Minnesota getaways. You were talking about red
Speaker 1: Wing versus New Olm, versus still Water versus Rochester.
Speaker 2: I wanted to go on a day trip this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I said, New Alm is great. It's
Speaker 1: it's a few hours. I said, the New Olm main
Speaker 1: Street is really making a really vigorous attempt to be
Speaker 1: still Water and it's not working. I said, it's like
Speaker 1: the shops are kind of a little bit sporadic, and
Speaker 1: there's not a lot to do in New Olm. But
Speaker 1: I love New Olm. But I said it's not the
Speaker 1: best getaway you have to go because you want to
Speaker 1: do the Shells Brewery or something like that. Well, I
Speaker 1: am wrong, oh, Ashley writes in Dave is so wrong
Speaker 1: about New Olm. There's so much more to do than
Speaker 1: the small strip and I'm listening, so here we go.
Speaker 1: Here's some of my recommendations. The Graffiti Park. It's a
Speaker 1: small park where graffiti artists can go and express their art.
Speaker 1: Love to take my kids there to paint. They started
Speaker 1: this park to help the modern the vandalism problem. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh herm and the German. Yes, I know Bailey's been there,
Speaker 1: but what a sight. Flandrou State Park, A beautiful hike
Speaker 1: and a little man made hole for a beach. I
Speaker 1: went there camping one time. It is a man made
Speaker 1: swimming hole. Not a cool a hole, but a swimming hole.
Speaker 1: It's great. Not sure if they're still around, but thrift
Speaker 1: stores were always great. Turner Hall, the Way of the Cross.
Speaker 1: I'm not religious, but it is so beautiful. The path
Speaker 1: leads to a hidden church chapel at the end, Shell's Brewery. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a few. Dave's hot, but wrong, let's stop right there.
Speaker 1: Nobody's called me hot since probably in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was the last time you were hot.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'd love a sticker, please, it'll look so nice
Speaker 1: in my collection. Love you guys, have a wonderful, nice
Speaker 1: long weekend. Love Ashley. Thank you ash Yeah.
Speaker 2: I did like it when I went, but it was
Speaker 2: a handful of years ago. I think, based on because
Speaker 2: I talked about this yesterday that I wanted to go
Speaker 2: on a day trip this weekend, and I got so
Speaker 2: many messages on Instagram recommending red Way. So I think
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to red Wing on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good good call. Here's an email
Speaker 1: specifically about red Wing from Rochelle. Guys, this is for Bailey.
Speaker 1: We just took my kids on the train down the
Speaker 1: red down the red Wing. I think theming to the
Speaker 1: Red two red Wing for an experience. It turns out
Speaker 1: there is nothing to do there. Bo Okay. This may
Speaker 1: have been heavily affected by not having a car and
Speaker 1: it was a hot day, but there was literally nothing happening.
Speaker 1: The streets were dead. We got some lunch in one
Speaker 1: of the only open cafes. All the coffee shops were
Speaker 1: closed at two or three. Well, this is not looking
Speaker 1: good for red Wing. And this is on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: the week before the fourth I thought something would it
Speaker 1: would be a happening place. Luckily, there was some kind
Speaker 1: of fairy event for kids where we killed an hour.
Speaker 1: If my kids hadn't been able to do the mile
Speaker 1: walk through the Rundown neighborhoods to barn Bluff, that would
Speaker 1: have given us something else to do. We arrived at
Speaker 1: one pm, and by three we had already eaten ice cream,
Speaker 1: been to a bookstore, and had lunch. Our train didn't
Speaker 1: pick us back up until six, so I was dying.
Speaker 1: I think the Amtrak goes down there.
Speaker 2: Because I looked at that, I thought, oh, that might
Speaker 2: be fun, but I think we're just gonna.
Speaker 1: Drive eventually, had the kids watch a show on my
Speaker 1: phone on a picnic beach. Couldn't find any playgrounds. What
Speaker 1: a dead place. Sorry, don't come for me. That was
Speaker 1: my experience. I feel like if a town wants to
Speaker 1: be a cute little destination, I shouldn't have to do
Speaker 1: CIA level research to enjoy it. The fun was The
Speaker 1: train was fun though. Glad we tried that. Okay, I
Speaker 1: was really expecting like a positive review of red Wing.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of antique stores as far as I
Speaker 2: have researched, a lot of museums, and there's like the
Speaker 2: Frontneck State Park, so I thought we could maybe go
Speaker 2: hiking or something. And people are telling me that there's
Speaker 2: like wineries around, so I think that'd be fun.
Speaker 1: That is true. I think that we should talk about
Speaker 1: the top main streets in Minnesota. I went to Brainerd
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and I thought brainer Downtown
Speaker 1: main street would be like popping, Like still Water. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was very.
Speaker 2: Deadnoka it's got a good main street.
Speaker 1: I've heard I've never been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's cute because I mean I grew up
Speaker 2: around there, so it's cute. I think same thing though,
Speaker 2: Like on week days pretty much everything is closed, so
Speaker 2: you have to go on like a Saturday mid day.
Speaker 1: I got youa Hopkins main Street is really cool. I
Speaker 1: love the Hopkins main Street. It's got stores, it's got
Speaker 1: a music store, restaurants, bars. Love the Hopkins main Street.
Speaker 1: Still Water, of course, is a classic main street. Excelsior
Speaker 1: has a great main street.
Speaker 2: Victoria is cute. Two which is past Excelsior More West,
Speaker 2: and they have a cute like smaller main street.
Speaker 1: Very small main street.
Speaker 2: Still cute.
Speaker 1: Okay, like Victoria a lot.
Speaker 2: When I was there for the first time, I was like, dang,
Speaker 2: this place is nice.
Speaker 1: I'm going to just differ a little bit. I like Victoria.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that it's a destination main street.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wouldn't necessarily make a day out of it.
Speaker 2: But if you're going through and you're already in Excelsior, okay,
Speaker 2: as well, like drive the extra five minutes to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is another main street? Maybe I've missed one.
Speaker 1: Let us know what is a good main street in Minnesota?
Speaker 1: And if you've never been to Hopkins or you've never
Speaker 1: been to Excelsior, go out. I mean, it's cool. And
Speaker 1: the great thing with Excelsior is you can stop at
Speaker 1: like Maynard's, you know it's a block or two away,
Speaker 1: and sit there out on the deck and watch rich
Speaker 1: people in their boats. That's pretty cool fun. Let's see.
Speaker 1: That is a question. Here is a server story. Because
Speaker 1: we talked about server stories yesterday. I said, is there
Speaker 1: anything better in life than a great server? Didn't we
Speaker 1: say that yesterday?
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 1: I was a waitress all through high school, says Nicole,
Speaker 1: and college, a few different restaurants on Lake Minnetonka, and
Speaker 1: boy do I have stories. The first that popped in
Speaker 1: my mind was the worst customer I ever had to
Speaker 1: deal with. Picture this beautiful weekend evening sitting lakeside. Obviously
Speaker 1: it's packed prior to the table. Even being sat, our
Speaker 1: host let customer know the kitchen is backed up and
Speaker 1: food's going to be an hour. Now that's a long wait,
Speaker 1: but you know you can either go or not. I
Speaker 1: greeted this table that had two couples mid forties, got
Speaker 1: them their drinks, and ordered their food in a typical
Speaker 1: amount of time. I reminded them the food is going
Speaker 1: to take about an hour to come out, and bought.
Speaker 1: I brought them complimentary chips and salsa. One of the
Speaker 1: women was wasted, and her husband requested, hey, can this
Speaker 1: be her last drink? Because when you got a drunk
Speaker 1: sometimes they keep ordering and you need to say and
Speaker 1: don't get them anymore. Ten minutes go by, I check
Speaker 1: on him and wasted, Karen says, where's the food? At
Speaker 1: ten minutes later, wor starving, I reminded her of the
Speaker 1: kitchen wait time was what it is and said it's coming.
Speaker 1: She flipped me off. Her husband found me around the
Speaker 1: corner and gave me a ten dollar bill and apologized.
Speaker 1: Then another ten minutes later, I walk out to their
Speaker 1: table with their food ready, earlier than expected. Mind you
Speaker 1: only to see wasted Karen yelling profanities and flipping me
Speaker 1: off from the back of a boat driving away.
Speaker 2: Geeze.
Speaker 1: So they didn't wait for their food, they just took off.
Speaker 2: Oh why.
Speaker 1: I honestly found the situation funny and felt bad for
Speaker 1: the people she was with. How embarrassing. Other tables recognize
Speaker 1: what happened and let me know I was doing the
Speaker 1: best that I can and that, my friends, is the
Speaker 1: worst customer I've ever had. Happy forth from Nicole. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe there's a theme rite in and tell us about
Speaker 1: a bad customer if you were a server. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: might be something to go off on. And that is
Speaker 1: going to kind of do it for the min Minnesota Goodbye.
Speaker 1: We will do one more before the fourth. And I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever looked forward to a three
Speaker 1: three day weekend as much because we are probably going
Speaker 1: to take the RV to the Dluthe Air Show.
Speaker 2: Just do it.
Speaker 1: Commit Well, that's what I told Susan. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: the thing is, you go to the Dlute Air Show.
Speaker 1: You're parking in a field that there is no water hookup,
Speaker 1: there's no sewer, there's no electric hookup. You have to
Speaker 1: provide all of your own. Now we're new at our ven,
Speaker 1: we've never done that before, and I think that we can.
Speaker 1: You know, the worst that can happen is a fire,
Speaker 1: now I'm making that up. The worst that can happen
Speaker 1: is it doesn't work out and we don't like it
Speaker 1: and we can't figure out how to do it, and
Speaker 1: we turn around, we come back.
Speaker 2: Home right and then it's like, well it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: That was the worst that can happen. But we kind
Speaker 1: of want to take Bernie. And the thing is if
Speaker 1: we take Bernie, then we don't want to leave him
Speaker 1: in the camper. So I would go, and Susan volunteered.
Speaker 1: She doesn't care about the air show as much as me.
Speaker 1: I love air shows, so I would take the shuttle
Speaker 1: over to the air show, which is very close by,
Speaker 1: and Susan would stay at the camper with Bernie. But
Speaker 1: I really want to try this. So I was telling
Speaker 1: Bailey about how you know, if you go to the
Speaker 1: camper and you're not hooked up to facilities, there's no
Speaker 1: bathroom close by, so you do if you have to
Speaker 1: go poop, you got to poop in the RV. Now
Speaker 1: we had a rule no pooping in the RV. Yes,
Speaker 1: but there are poop bags there. It looked like a
Speaker 1: trash can liner, and you basically you put it in
Speaker 1: the toilet, you do your business, and when you're done,
Speaker 1: you you know, I guess, pull the draw string or
Speaker 1: the zip block or whatever, and you dispose of it
Speaker 1: somehow and then you go on with your day. Bailey said, show,
Speaker 1: do you reuse the same one?
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, you said, it's like a trash liner,
Speaker 2: So I imagine an entire trash bag.
Speaker 1: Full of poop, big one full of poop.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think it's so wasteful to poop one
Speaker 2: time and something that big.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, open it up again, put it back
Speaker 1: in the toilet. Yeah, no, you're I don't know where
Speaker 1: you get your ideas. And that is going to wrap
Speaker 1: it up for the Minnesota Goodbye. Love to have you
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