Speaker 1: Welcome once again to the award winning Minnesota Goodbye. We
Speaker 1: haven't won anything yet, but I think we will. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be up for something. Totally made that up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go with a really really interesting email. My
Speaker 1: name is Autumn. I need some help. I'm going to
Speaker 1: Windstock on Thursday with my boyfriend and some friends. Windstock
Speaker 1: is in Winstead, Minnesota. It is a big country festival,
Speaker 1: camp in the mud type of a thing, and it's
Speaker 1: huge and I've driven by the festival grounds before and
Speaker 1: it's just I mean, it's like, wow, okay, cool. My
Speaker 1: boyfriend and I went to Windstock for the first time
Speaker 1: together last year. The campsite we stayed at had a
Speaker 1: wooden board on posts with holes cut in it, small
Speaker 1: holes to big holes, called the boobo meter. All of
Speaker 1: the boys sat in their lawn chairs passing around a microphone,
Speaker 1: offering jello shots to any woman that walked by in
Speaker 1: exchange for a flash of their bare boobs in the
Speaker 1: holes of the boobo how demeaning. To my surprise, a
Speaker 1: lot of women actually flashed everyone. I understand it was
Speaker 1: hard not to look, but seeing my boyfriend's smiling face
Speaker 1: while he stared at seventeen different bare boobs made me
Speaker 1: feel sick to my stomach. I told him how I felt,
Speaker 1: to which he said he would try his best not
Speaker 1: to look at the women. I know they're gonna have
Speaker 1: the board set up again this year, and I don't
Speaker 1: want my feelings to get in the way of having
Speaker 1: a good time. I feel like there is no way
Speaker 1: around this board. Even if we stayed at a different campsite,
Speaker 1: we'd still walk over there to hang out because his
Speaker 1: friends love to camp at that spot. My anxiety has
Speaker 1: been taking over about this dang board for too long.
Speaker 1: I feel stupid for being so butt hurt about this,
Speaker 1: and I am desperate to get some advice over this
Speaker 1: gross feeling. Maybe the boobo meter will accidentally start on
Speaker 1: fire this year laugh emoji. Or I'm going to make
Speaker 1: a ball loon meter for the men to use so
Speaker 1: it's fair for us women. Thank you in advance, my
Speaker 1: apologies if it's too long, I love you guys, keep
Speaker 1: on keeping on own. Not too long at all. I'm
Speaker 1: going to stay out of this one and let you
Speaker 1: guys talk about what you want to say.
Speaker 2: Well, your feelings are very, very valid. I will be
Speaker 2: fully honest. I have done the boob of meter before country.
Speaker 2: Every country festival has that. It's different sizes. You put
Speaker 2: your boobs through if you want, and yes, they offer
Speaker 2: you a shot. I was like twenty two years old
Speaker 2: back in the day single. Yeah, so I've done it.
Speaker 2: I don't really remember a crowd of people watching though.
Speaker 2: It was usually just random people walking by. There wasn't
Speaker 2: an entire audience watching us, so that's a little bit
Speaker 2: different than your experience. But I do think it's okay
Speaker 2: to be upset with your boyfriend enjoying it a little
Speaker 2: too much. However, I would also be looking myself if
Speaker 2: I was near it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would be looking at it. But
Speaker 3: I think the wording from your boyfriend saying I'll try
Speaker 3: my best not to look that, I like, if you
Speaker 3: said I don't like you looking at this, he should
Speaker 3: be like, okay, I won't because then he can, you know,
Speaker 3: help out your comfort, and if your comfort is none
Speaker 3: is zero, then he should respect that. So I mean,
Speaker 3: I say, if you want to put your boobs in
Speaker 3: the boobometer, like, go ahead and put your boobs in
Speaker 3: the boobometer for a free shot. It's a free shot. Heck, yeah,
Speaker 3: my boobs probably wondn't fit in the boobometer. So but
Speaker 3: I think your boyfriend should respect your your ask of
Speaker 3: him to not look Okay, yeah, all.
Speaker 1: Right, right, next one, want to tell you guys an
Speaker 1: awful story from yesterday morning that will haunt my dreams.
Speaker 1: Getting really kids ready for yesterday. And my four year
Speaker 1: old boy was like, Mama, what's all over your leg? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, all over my leg? I said, is it chocolate? Nope?
Speaker 1: Now stay with me, because your mind is going somewhere
Speaker 1: in the wrong place. So I took a look and
Speaker 1: there was blood from his knee down to his foot.
Speaker 1: I'm oh, my god. I looked for a cut, no cut,
Speaker 1: but there was a smashed full dead tick stuck to
Speaker 1: the bottom of his foot. It was on the dog,
Speaker 1: got full and detached. He stepped on it and it
Speaker 1: launched blood all the way up his leg. I was horrified.
Speaker 1: We live in the woods, so ticks are unfortunately part
Speaker 1: of life here. So that was what happened, was blood
Speaker 1: from a smushtick splattered up his leg. Yeah. Yeah, gross.
Speaker 1: Ps myself, my six year old, four year old twins
Speaker 1: and eighth month old baby finally climbed the Herm and
Speaker 1: the German yesterday. We've lived here in New Olm for
Speaker 1: ten years. I did the dang thing, trying to have
Speaker 1: a summer of just do it. Another thing off our list,
Speaker 1: that's Hannah in New Ulm. Herm and the German is
Speaker 1: the giant statue that sits on the banks of the
Speaker 1: Minnesota River right outside of New Olm.
Speaker 3: I climb that. I went to New Olm maybe like
Speaker 3: three years ago. I climbed that, and I was so
Speaker 3: terrified because once you're up on the top, it's I
Speaker 3: don't like, there's not any really thing to hold onto.
Speaker 3: So I was just hugging the wall and it was
Speaker 3: windy and I felt like it was going to fall
Speaker 3: off of it. So, hey, power to you for climbing
Speaker 3: Herman the German.
Speaker 1: When you say climb it, how I ever noticed it
Speaker 1: that it's worthy of Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like a gazebo almost, and Herman the
Speaker 3: German just stands on top of it.
Speaker 1: So like, you climb up it and it's like, how
Speaker 1: do you climb a hymn?
Speaker 3: No, So you climb the like gazebos, and.
Speaker 1: It's just a really tall ice bo okay.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of really steep steps, and then
Speaker 3: Herm and the German is like up behind you. When
Speaker 3: you're on the top of it and you can see
Speaker 3: for miles, it's really cool like from the top, but
Speaker 3: it is absolutely terrifying from way up there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, Herman the German is based on the fact
Speaker 1: that New Olm was we were largely settled by Germans
Speaker 1: and Norwegians back in Minnesota, back in like the eighteen
Speaker 1: fifties or seventies or whatever. And New Olm still prides
Speaker 1: itself on its German heritage, which I think is really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's super cute, like little German Town. They've got
Speaker 3: like a big like a cuckoo clock that plays like
Speaker 3: little German music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so cute. Yeah. I loved it there.
Speaker 3: It was really fun.
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it before. Eigels Kai is my favorite restaurant
Speaker 1: in Minnesota bar none. It is very authentic German food
Speaker 1: in a very authentic old ass setting that's probably been
Speaker 1: in the same building since the nineteen forties in New
Speaker 1: in New All.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Shells Brewery we went on tour too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I loved it there. It was so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely recommend it very cool little town. Right, Let's see, honestly,
Speaker 1: that might be it some days on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Speaker 1: We are very short on emails, but let me see
Speaker 1: if I got one right here? Did we do this one?
Speaker 1: What is your most favorite memory childhood or adult? Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. I'm going to throw this one
Speaker 1: out and I'm going to say vacations in Jordan, Montana.
Speaker 1: Every year that was the highlight of our year. We
Speaker 1: would get in the Volkswagen bus and drive two days
Speaker 1: to Jordan, Montana and hang out, camp out, ride horses,
Speaker 1: shoot off fireworks, go on picnics, go to rodeos with
Speaker 1: my cousins. In Jordan, Montana. It was the highlight of
Speaker 1: the kid year for me. That's my almost, no question
Speaker 1: favorite memory childhood memory.
Speaker 3: I mean, similarly, we used to go to Ohio. What
Speaker 3: we still do go to Ohio every year. I'm going
Speaker 3: on Thursday and we go to visit my grandma. And
Speaker 3: obviously when we were kids, like, it's fun because everything
Speaker 3: is very wide open spaces. My grandma and grandpa had
Speaker 3: a golf cart. We would drive around and it was
Speaker 3: it was really fun. Every single summer going to Ohio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even though it's just simply Ohio, just Ohio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would probably say, just like as a kid,
Speaker 2: my sister and I always play it across the street
Speaker 2: from with like other girls, and so I feel like
Speaker 2: just being the kids that were out until the street
Speaker 2: lights came on all the time and avoiding going in
Speaker 2: the house because we were scared our parents would make
Speaker 2: us come in for the night.
Speaker 3: Oh so just like playing in the Call to Sack, Like.
Speaker 2: My mom's house is in a call to Sack, so
Speaker 2: we would just be outside all the time when it
Speaker 2: was nice.
Speaker 3: I ask you a.
Speaker 1: Question, does your mom still live in the house you
Speaker 1: grew up in? Yes, what is your old bedroom now?
Speaker 2: Well, my younger sister lives there now, so she is
Speaker 2: in my old bedroom, and so it's I mean pretty much. Well,
Speaker 2: she has her own furniture from when she moved out
Speaker 2: of her ex's house, so she has her own furniture
Speaker 2: in there. But she did paint it because I used
Speaker 2: to have it, like one wall was blue and the
Speaker 2: rest were like a tan brown or something because I
Speaker 2: loved blue. So she painted it all white when she
Speaker 2: moved in, and there was a poster of I believe
Speaker 2: Zach efron on the back of the door from like
Speaker 2: a People magazine or something that hung up until I
Speaker 2: think she moved in. It was still there up until
Speaker 2: she moved back in.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was gonna say, was there any little remnant
Speaker 1: of Jenny in that room?
Speaker 3: My entire room at my mom's house is the exact
Speaker 3: same way it was when I graduated high school?
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 3: Yes? Like, like how like everything is on everything on
Speaker 3: the walls is the exact same. My bookshelf is the
Speaker 3: exact same, The bed is the exact same. I have
Speaker 3: my whole bedroom. It's like a time machine to twenty ten.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: So, which is I mean cool? But like also I
Speaker 3: should go and like clean it out, But I mean,
Speaker 3: my mom doesn't pester me to come and do it.
Speaker 1: I say, I'm going to tell you why. As a parent,
Speaker 1: there's a little tiny part of Mom's heart that loves
Speaker 1: that Bailey's room is still the same. Yeah, I really
Speaker 1: think so. When I moved out of my mom and
Speaker 1: dad's house, I had probably forty model airplanes that I
Speaker 1: built hanging from the ceiling, and they took down a bunch,
Speaker 1: but they left a few, and as a parent, now
Speaker 1: I kind of understand that was a little piece of
Speaker 1: their kid. That was still just the way I left
Speaker 1: it when I was in eighth or ninth grade. But then,
Speaker 1: you know, they turned mine into a guest bedroom and
Speaker 1: my mom had a doll collection, so she put dolls
Speaker 1: over in there. Alison's room is nothing like it was.
Speaker 1: There's a crib in there for her girl, in a
Speaker 1: little girl bed Allison's there's Allison's closet has still got
Speaker 1: a lot of Alison's stuff in there. Carson's room, he's
Speaker 1: only twenty four and he still stays in there when
Speaker 1: he comes home. His room is exactly like it was,
Speaker 1: minus a few things that he's given away. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about you, What did your mom and dad turn
Speaker 1: your bedroom into or what did you do with your
Speaker 1: kids room? So maybe that's something there. Last one, Kathleen
Speaker 1: writes in says, I've been listening to you guys forever,
Speaker 1: even though I never lived in Minnesota. You're absolutely my
Speaker 1: favorite fun podcast to listen to. Maybe one day I'll
Speaker 1: make it to Minnesota. Come to the fair. Yes, here's
Speaker 1: the obligatory. Oh, now that I got that out of
Speaker 1: the way, Dave, I need your help. I know Alison
Speaker 1: works at Target, so I'm hoping you can help solve
Speaker 1: this mystery. The good and gathered roasted Hobbannio salsa has
Speaker 1: been discontinued, replaced by an impostor called the Hot Honey
Speaker 1: hobby Nio. The og Salca was an amazing four point
Speaker 1: seven star reviews. My friends and I were all obsessed.
Speaker 1: I'd ordered ten at a time, so it was always
Speaker 1: stalked in my house. Side note discontinued for months. I
Speaker 1: ran out of my supply because I'm that obsessed. The
Speaker 1: Hot Honey Salca barely has two point five stars and
Speaker 1: is objectively not good. So why would Target throw away
Speaker 1: such a good thing. I need to know if there's
Speaker 1: any way to get back the best store bought salsa
Speaker 1: that ever existed. Please help. We need closure. That is
Speaker 1: from Kathleen, and she actually sends a bunch of Reddit
Speaker 1: threads and things, and she is very passionate about this.
Speaker 1: I asked Alison about that and she laughed, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: nothing that Alison can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she's in what department.
Speaker 1: They move her around? She's done little girl accessories, laundry baskets.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what she's in right now, but she's
Speaker 1: a buyer for something could be microwaves or I don't know.
Speaker 3: Get her into the salsa category a buyer for salsa.
Speaker 1: I think that's funny. I wish I knew more about
Speaker 1: that salsa so I could get behind her on this one.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if there's any way to get back.
Speaker 1: It was a It was the Good and Gather, so
Speaker 1: it was their own brand, so it's not available somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Here's the funny thing about Good and Gathering any generics
Speaker 1: like that is it's not made by Target. It's made
Speaker 1: by another salsa company, but it's their generic. So if
Speaker 1: you go to the store and you buy generic, I
Speaker 1: don't care. What's something that comes in generic pasta? Pasta
Speaker 1: that's a good one. So there's the one expensive stuff
Speaker 1: in the blue box. Right then there's the Good and
Speaker 1: Gathered brand of pasta. It's made by the same people,
Speaker 1: but they don't advertise it. They don't have marketing. They
Speaker 1: just put it in store, so it's cheaper, so it'd
Speaker 1: be like twenty nine cents cheaper per box. It's the
Speaker 1: same stuff.
Speaker 3: I always get the store brand version of zething. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because of why not? It's not any worse than it.
Speaker 1: I tell myself that it's a little bit better. If
Speaker 1: I buy the stuff in the blue pasta box, I
Speaker 1: tell myself it's a little bit better than the Good
Speaker 1: and Gather or the Great Value is the Walmart brand. Yes,
Speaker 1: So if you go and buy salad dressing at Walmart,
Speaker 1: there's Newman's Own, or there's what's another brand of salad
Speaker 1: press Hidden Valley. But if you buy the the Great Value,
Speaker 1: it's the same shit, same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just the packaging that's different, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Kathleen. I wish there was something we could do,
Speaker 1: and I mourned the loss of your Good and Gathered
Speaker 1: roasted habannio salsa. I'm sorry. That is it for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota goodbye. As you can tell, we need some emails,
Speaker 1: so send those in to Ryanshow at ktwdbat dot com.
Speaker 1: Or tomorrow's podcast is going to be very very short,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, and we'll see you tomorrow.