Speaker 1: Here we go with the Minnesota Goodbye. And it's really
Speaker 1: interesting because I was talking to my wife Susan last
Speaker 1: night and she said, and I agreed, that people love
Speaker 1: podcasts like young people. That's their radio, that's their companionship.
Speaker 1: So if you're like twenty two twenty four, and I said,
Speaker 1: but they're missing out on the live aspect and the
Speaker 1: community aspect, Like you could listen to a great podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's say you love the Call Her Daddy podcast. That's great.
Speaker 1: But she's probably never been to Minnesota. She doesn't know
Speaker 1: what many Haha Falls is. She doesn't know like the
Speaker 1: little quirks about Mall of America. She doesn't know what
Speaker 1: the stone Arch Bridge is. But is that I really
Speaker 1: like that about local radios because we shop at the
Speaker 1: same place as you go to. We go to t
Speaker 1: Rex Cookies like you go to. We go to Smash
Speaker 1: Park like you do, and Rosedale Mall like you do.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something really relatable. But I think
Speaker 1: that they're like with podcasters, you know, if you love that,
Speaker 1: I don't know call her Daddy. She doesn't shop where
Speaker 1: you go to. She doesn't know what four ninety four
Speaker 1: is like during rush hour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I totally get that. The I prefer radio
Speaker 2: shows if I want, you know, to listen to something
Speaker 2: that's like local and it's like people having a good
Speaker 2: time and just chatting kind of thing, versus a podcast
Speaker 2: where all they're doing is just like having a conversation.
Speaker 2: Like I'll listen to a podcast that has a specific
Speaker 2: like theme, so if it's like a true crime podcast
Speaker 2: or like here's a Dungeons and Dragons podcast, because they're
Speaker 2: not just like chatting, but like if they're just chatting
Speaker 2: and they have nothing to say that and you're late
Speaker 2: to me chatting.
Speaker 1: Do you mean individually no kind of log or conversation.
Speaker 2: Like conversation like how our radio show is conversation, but
Speaker 2: we're conversating about things that people know about and care about,
Speaker 2: versus a podcast where they might just be like, so
Speaker 2: what did you do last night? I'm like, well, I
Speaker 2: was down the La Boulevard and I'm like, I have
Speaker 2: no connection to that.
Speaker 1: That's a I think that's a bad podcast, that kind
Speaker 1: of mean, And I think that's why a lot of
Speaker 1: people try to do a podcast. But if you don't,
Speaker 1: if you're not naturally an entertainer, your podcast is probably
Speaker 1: not going to do very well because I've heard podcasts
Speaker 1: friends of mine will be like, hey, well, you being
Speaker 1: on my podcast, and it's like, well, what's the theme
Speaker 1: of your podcast?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: We just talk about.
Speaker 2: Anything, right, And see, that's what I'm saying. If you're
Speaker 2: going to talk about anything, listen to the radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're talking about a variety of different things.
Speaker 1: But one of my favorite local podcasts that did really
Speaker 1: well was God, I can't remember the name, and that's
Speaker 1: too bad, but they would, oh, what's your mount Rushmore?
Speaker 1: So they would do what's your mount Rushmore of cheesus,
Speaker 1: what's your mount Rushmore of eighties artists? What's your mount
Speaker 1: Rushmore of National parks? And I thought that was really
Speaker 1: clever because every week you would tune in and find
Speaker 1: out something new. It's like, Oh, this time they're doing
Speaker 1: mount Rushmore of late night talk show hosts. That's really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Or this time they're doing Disneyland rides. I don't care
Speaker 1: about that one type of thing. Yeah. But I think
Speaker 1: one of the things about this podcast is that it
Speaker 1: is specifically non specific or non specifically specific.
Speaker 2: It's curated by you, the listeners.
Speaker 1: Well it kind of is, yeah, because We basically read
Speaker 1: emails and that's what we do. By the way, we
Speaker 1: are on short supply of emails today, so we'll see
Speaker 1: if we can milk these for all their worth. Here
Speaker 1: is Stephanie, big supporter of the show and a full
Speaker 1: time staff writer. I had a thought based on your
Speaker 1: peanut butter conversation the other day, creamy versus crunchy. What
Speaker 1: were the brand's routines, changes, etc. People have had to
Speaker 1: make when moving in with a partner. I had to
Speaker 1: switch from ragout pasta, SaaS and cremate pasta to rouse
Speaker 1: and barrilla. For example. My husband does everything from scratch,
Speaker 1: so no more instant rice in our home. We have
Speaker 1: a rice cooker with real jasmine rice. No more instant oatmeal,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I wonder what other changes people would have
Speaker 1: made when they moved in with their partner. Honestly, it
Speaker 1: has been so long for me, I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: really don't remember anything changed for you with Andrew, not
Speaker 1: with like.
Speaker 3: Brand because I'm cheap, so I just have always bought
Speaker 3: whatever is cheap. I'm not a bran loyal kind of gal.
Speaker 3: I just go with the cheap option, the on sale option,
Speaker 3: so I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I've never been brand loyal to anything.
Speaker 1: Can I ask a question, though, what laundry detergent soap
Speaker 1: do you use? Jenny Tide Tidy? Yeah, Ti Tide. Everybody
Speaker 1: uses Tide. I dare you to find somebody unless you're
Speaker 1: like really going out of your way to find the
Speaker 1: generic stuff over at cub or all they or whatever.
Speaker 1: Everybody uses Tide. Back in the day, they thought that
Speaker 1: the Procter and Gamble logo was a demonic sign because
Speaker 1: it was a half moon surrounded by like thirteen stars
Speaker 1: or something. So there was a rumor back in the
Speaker 1: late seventies or so that you, of course you use
Speaker 1: Tide because the devil made you do it. So, in
Speaker 1: other words, Procter and Gamble, the manufacturers have tiede, had
Speaker 1: to deal with the devil. Everybody use his tiede because
Speaker 1: of the demonic possession that we all experienced from Procter
Speaker 1: and Gamble products. And you really couldn't explain away name
Speaker 1: another laundry detergent arm and hammer.
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, I mean, I can think I can picture them,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't know their name because I don't think
Speaker 2: about their name. It's laundry detergent. What a lame thing
Speaker 2: for the devil to plant to our.
Speaker 1: It was all about Procter and Gamble and and the
Speaker 1: and Procter and Gamble got rid of the logo because
Speaker 1: people started a rumor kind of an Irvan legend that
Speaker 1: it was a demonic possession sign and the company was
Speaker 1: run by demon worshippers, and everybody used what kind of toothpaste?
Speaker 1: What kinds crest?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, who is crest? Made by?
Speaker 2: Really proctant Ramble? But I don't use crest. I just
Speaker 2: think that's the first thing I think, understand. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: that seems I mean, hey, power to the devil. I
Speaker 2: would give him more credit to do bigger things than
Speaker 2: just a Procter and Gamble.
Speaker 1: But I love it. I guess it wasn't the devil's work.
Speaker 1: It was Procter and Gamble using the devil. Oh, so
Speaker 1: Procter and Gamble had to put out press releases and
Speaker 1: statements and say this is a bunch of fucking hooey.
Speaker 1: We're a bunch of face, we swear. And my sister Sharon,
Speaker 1: who's a pretty level headed person back then, she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't buy tide anymore. And I do not buy
Speaker 1: Procter and Gamble products really because they are run by
Speaker 1: a bunch of devil worshipers. And I thought, okay, so
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of a deeper dive into
Speaker 1: this when, of course it's not true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: But Procter and Gamble. Look up if you will, right now,
Speaker 1: old Procter and Gamble logo and then describe what you see.
Speaker 1: They got rid of it. It used to be on
Speaker 1: all of their products. And if I remember right, it's
Speaker 1: a half moon surrounded by a bunch of stars. Is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 3: Face on it? And then yeah, it's like a half
Speaker 3: moon with a face on it. Kind of looks like
Speaker 3: a Greek god vibe, almost.
Speaker 2: Like a coin kind of yeah, and the stars interesting.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think that this is the devil, but I
Speaker 2: love that. I love that that story in general. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm going to be here to push that out to everyone. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm going to facilitate it.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, and I remember the only part that
Speaker 1: was convincing was when I was a kid, everybody used
Speaker 1: Cress toothpaste or or Colgate, but never anything like Aqua Fresh.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, who uses that? What do you use paradon
Speaker 2: tax which is for your gums?
Speaker 1: I use arm and hammer something or other. It's it's
Speaker 1: she has got a different kind of a taste to it.
Speaker 1: It's less minty, and I've heard it's less abrasive than
Speaker 1: you know, it's better for your gums. So, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: talking about gum care cares. What happens when we don't
Speaker 1: get enough emails? So let's continue. So what other changes
Speaker 1: would you have made when you moved in? The Only
Speaker 1: thing that I would have changed with Susan is she
Speaker 1: would buy cheap shit all the time, which ends up
Speaker 1: costing more in the long run. And I remember one
Speaker 1: time she bought a couch and a chair and you know,
Speaker 1: they're matching, and they were shit. She got a bargain,
Speaker 1: probably two hundred dollars for both, I don't know, And
Speaker 1: after sitting on both or laying on both for a
Speaker 1: couple of months, all of the spring had gone out
Speaker 1: of the couch and they were just foams. So it
Speaker 1: was like, this couch is only two months old and
Speaker 1: there is no cushion left. Yeah, So we put it
Speaker 1: out by the front yard and the curb and gave
Speaker 1: it away. And so that's one thing we've definitely had
Speaker 1: to compromise on. But she still leans toward buying cheap shit,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you buy cheap shit, you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. I have a cheap dresser that
Speaker 2: I bought during like quarantine. I was like, this is
Speaker 2: an investment, but it was, I mean, because it was expensive,
Speaker 2: but it's.
Speaker 1: Cheap in like the materials of all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like the material is cheap, and I wish I
Speaker 2: had just bought something on Facebook marketplace that had been
Speaker 2: like used by someone for a long period of time
Speaker 2: that's you know, like sturdy versus this like cute dresser
Speaker 2: that I was like, oh, I'll buy this. Yeah, it's expensive,
Speaker 2: but I'll use it all the time. None of the
Speaker 2: drawers are on the tracks, but really they're all like
Speaker 2: askew to it, and I just like I think, oh,
Speaker 2: is it me? Is it user error? No, it's just
Speaker 2: like the drawers are too heavy for the tiny, cheap
Speaker 2: little tracks that are in the dresser.
Speaker 1: And it's cute.
Speaker 3: When you're young, though, like that is what you do
Speaker 3: is you buy cheap things because you literally can't afford it.
Speaker 3: Eventually you do learn quality is worth it to pay
Speaker 3: a little bit more money, but if you don't have
Speaker 3: the money, you can't.
Speaker 1: And I totally get that, and that is why, like
Speaker 1: I mean, Walmart thrives on people that can't afford and
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a dick, but can't
Speaker 1: afford to spend more money. That is what Walmart does.
Speaker 1: Walmart's stuff is a lot of the time it's shit,
Speaker 1: and I will say it. I don't care. They're not
Speaker 1: a sponsor of the show. But if you can't afford
Speaker 1: to you got a family of six and you need, like,
Speaker 1: you know, new clothes or bedroom furniture, you can't afford
Speaker 1: to go to Target. Target is not cheap. Target is
Speaker 1: better quality. But one of my favorite illustration stories of
Speaker 1: that is this is a true story and I think
Speaker 1: it was Toro. So I think I'm going to say
Speaker 1: it's Toro because that's the way I heard the story.
Speaker 1: If I'm wrong, then let me know. Walmart. When they
Speaker 1: have like the Walmart brand or whatever, it's not made
Speaker 1: by Walmart, they will team up with Toro to sell
Speaker 1: a lawnmower. So it might have been a Toro brand.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Walmart approached Toro and said Hey, we want
Speaker 1: you to build a lawnmower that sells for less than
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars, and because we want to sell a
Speaker 1: cheap lawnmower. And Toro tried. They designed a lawnmower that
Speaker 1: they could sell for under two hundred dollars. But they said,
Speaker 1: it's not a good lawnmower. It doesn't work, it doesn't
Speaker 1: run right, it'll break down. And Walmart said we'll take it,
Speaker 1: and Toro said, no, we're not going to do it.
Speaker 1: Toro shout out to Toro for having the integrity. They said,
Speaker 1: we're not going to put our name on a product
Speaker 1: that is shit because we can't make a good lawnmower
Speaker 1: or even a decent lawnmower for under two hundred dollars. Now,
Speaker 1: I made up some of the you know, the numbers.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the price point was. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I learned with vacuum cleaners. Don't
Speaker 1: buy a shit vacuum cleaner because it will break down
Speaker 1: after six weeks or six months.
Speaker 2: Vacuum cleaner. You're like, why isn't it sucking? Oh, it's
Speaker 2: because you bought it for sixty bucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And it's like you look at it go, well,
Speaker 1: it's a vacuum cleaner, right right, Yeah, but you got
Speaker 1: to buy a dice in which is going to be
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. Yes, but it works, but it works.
Speaker 3: It works. I would suggest if you're listening to this
Speaker 3: on October eighth or ninth, to go on Amazon because
Speaker 3: it's prime.
Speaker 1: Day to day. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's where I got my dyce in for like
Speaker 3: a great deal on a Prime day one time last year.
Speaker 3: I will say though, that it was acting a little
Speaker 3: weird the other day when I was using it, and
Speaker 3: I'm getting stressed because that little effort for a year,
Speaker 3: And I swear I hope it was just something with
Speaker 3: the battery was like dying and that's why it was
Speaker 3: making kind of noises of like I can't do it
Speaker 3: anymore because it needed to be charged. I get it,
Speaker 3: but I was like, this needs to last me at
Speaker 3: least two years or else I'm not buying these expensive
Speaker 3: as vacuums.
Speaker 1: We have a towel warmer outside of the bathtub or
Speaker 1: outside of the shower fancy and it is the best
Speaker 1: thing ever. Once you get used to a warm towel,
Speaker 1: we get out of the bathtub or the shower. You
Speaker 1: never want to go back. It feels unnatural. So we've
Speaker 1: had this towel warmer for I want to say, six
Speaker 1: or eight years. It's worked great. It looks like a
Speaker 1: garbage can with a lid. You put your towel in it,
Speaker 1: you push the on button.
Speaker 2: I've seen those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're in the shower for you know, ten
Speaker 1: minutes or whatever. You get out of your towel is toasty, osty, warm.
Speaker 2: Toasty osty.
Speaker 1: It feels so good, it is so worth it. It
Speaker 1: stopped working. Oh, it's like the last like it didn't
Speaker 1: work yesterday and then I thought maybe I forgot to
Speaker 1: push the button today. It doesn't work. Nothing works. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna get another one, but we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: good one because we enjoy it so much. And it
Speaker 1: lasted six or eight years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, you've had it for a while,
Speaker 3: so it's had a good run, Alley, it's.
Speaker 1: Had a good run exactly. I'm going to bring up
Speaker 1: something that is not an email, but this is someone
Speaker 1: will run by you guys, especially Jenny, because you're a
Speaker 1: pet person, and we have so many pet people that
Speaker 1: listen to the show. My little girl Josie. She's my delabradoodle.
Speaker 1: She's the size of a large cat and she's fifteen
Speaker 1: and a half. She still loves her walks. Sure, her
Speaker 1: appetite is not what it used to be. She has
Speaker 1: a little trouble pooping, but she's doing fine. But what
Speaker 1: is not doing fine is she's got these moles and
Speaker 1: eruptions on her skin. They are moles. They look like hard,
Speaker 1: crusty wartz, and they're now bleeding. Oh got So we
Speaker 1: have to have her in a diaper because she peas
Speaker 1: and her little moles bleed into the diaper. And we
Speaker 1: went to the doctor and the doctor said, we can't
Speaker 1: take him off because we do not want to put
Speaker 1: this old dog under for anesthesia. So she's got a
Speaker 1: big one on her side that is it's so gross.
Speaker 1: It's about the size of it. It looks like a big
Speaker 1: pink thumb on her side and it bleeds and oozes.
Speaker 1: And she's got one above her tail, right on her butt,
Speaker 1: above her tail, and it bleeds and oozes, and it's like,
Speaker 1: am I cruel to keep her alive? When she they
Speaker 1: don't seem to hurt her. She doesn't pick or dig,
Speaker 1: but she has bleeding sores on the outside of her skin.
Speaker 1: She still runs around the yard. I took her for
Speaker 1: a two and a half mile walk yesterday. She loved it,
Speaker 1: loves her treats, loves her scratches. But is it cruel
Speaker 1: at some point to let her continue with these bleeding
Speaker 1: ulcers on her skin?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I've only dealt with Mickey being put down,
Speaker 3: which is was Andrew's dog most his life. I've only
Speaker 3: lived with her for a couple of years, and at
Speaker 3: first I thought he made the wrong decision of putting
Speaker 3: her down too early. Like in my eyes, I thought
Speaker 3: she was still good, but she really was struggling in
Speaker 3: so many different ways, because like she still liked to
Speaker 3: go on walks and stuff. And I was like, well,
Speaker 3: she's still like functioning, but realistically, like she could barely function.
Speaker 3: She couldn't see anymore. She would fall off the stairs
Speaker 3: going into the yard. We only had two stairs off
Speaker 3: our dec into the yard, and so like. And I
Speaker 3: didn't really understand the concept of like when you put
Speaker 3: a dog down, because that was my first time experiencing that. Sure,
Speaker 3: but I would say, if you think her quality of
Speaker 3: life has really derailed to a point, where you don't
Speaker 3: think she might be enjoying it as much, then I
Speaker 3: think that that's the moment. But and I do. I
Speaker 3: will say I know a lot of people who have
Speaker 3: held onto their animals for their own selfish reasons way longer,
Speaker 3: like honestly, even like years longer. Like I know one
Speaker 3: dog that was practically a walking skeleton and they finally
Speaker 3: put it down like probably three years after they should
Speaker 3: have sure. And so I just I don't know. I
Speaker 3: think you know Josie best. You need to go with
Speaker 3: what you think is best for Josie, even if that
Speaker 3: takes away from something that might be selfish for you,
Speaker 3: of keeping her longer.
Speaker 1: Right, I think that she still has got some great
Speaker 1: quality with her now because I've put her down now,
Speaker 1: I would imagine her saying, Dad, I've still got some
Speaker 1: cloth like life left in me. Yeah, because she does
Speaker 1: have life left in her. But with the bleeding moles, yeah,
Speaker 1: on the outside of her skin. It's like if I
Speaker 1: saw somebody with an older dog out for a walk
Speaker 1: and they had bleeding moles and they're not bleeding furiously,
Speaker 1: they're just oozing a little bit weeping. Would I be like, God,
Speaker 1: put your poor dog down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that with the quality of life thing.
Speaker 2: Once she stops liking walks or stops eating entirely and
Speaker 2: is like moping around, then you know her quality of
Speaker 2: life can't be high. But like if she's still enjoying that,
Speaker 2: then I mean, is there like a salve you could
Speaker 2: put on these bleeding moles?
Speaker 1: Like, so putoporin on it, right, and kind of moisture
Speaker 1: because they're dry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're like doing what you can to make
Speaker 2: those feel less like of an issue to her because obviously,
Speaker 2: like if they were that bad and she hated them
Speaker 2: and hated her quality of life, then she'd be like
Speaker 2: trying to tear them off or just like laying on
Speaker 2: the ground and letting them bleed. But I still think
Speaker 2: she has like a high quality of life. She still
Speaker 2: likes going outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to go for a two mile walk, that's a
Speaker 1: lot for an old dog. Yeah, she's not struggling. She
Speaker 1: keeps up just fine. Right, I can't run with her anymore.
Speaker 1: I stopped running with her earlier this summer when I
Speaker 1: noticed she's just struggling to keep up. Yeah. So all right,
Speaker 1: let me know what you think if you are a
Speaker 1: dog person or a VET or a VET tech. Let
Speaker 1: me know, because you know, I, like I said, I
Speaker 1: think she still got a lot of life left in her.
Speaker 1: But I also don't want to push it to the
Speaker 1: point where it's like, come on right. Let me know
Speaker 1: what you think and send those emails to Ryan's show
Speaker 1: at KDWB dot com. Let me know if you remember
Speaker 1: the Procter and Gamble thing. Let me know if you
Speaker 1: only use Tide detergent, because I think that very interesting.
Speaker 1: Send your emails on anything to Ryan Show at KDWB
Speaker 1: dot com.