Speaker 1: And now podcast known as The Minnesota Goodbye. Basically, we
Speaker 1: maure the writer of the Minnesota Goodbye. So if you
Speaker 1: write in a letter or an email and we read it,
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Speaker 1: never gotten one you want to write in, then please
Speaker 1: do that. Let's get into our first one from Mikayla
Speaker 1: good Morning, KDWB crewe question I've been pondering for the
Speaker 1: past four years off and on. I'm a dunk Trump
Speaker 1: Dunk Dump. Okay, I'm a dump truck driver and I
Speaker 1: often ask to use a porta potty on job sites
Speaker 1: or in pits and quarries. My question is, when you
Speaker 1: got to open a new toilet paper roll, what do
Speaker 1: you do with a paper wrapping? Do you put it
Speaker 1: in the liquid or do you put it on the
Speaker 1: side somewhere in the porta potty. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: the proper etiquette is. That's a really good question, because
Speaker 1: she's in a porta potty where it's got the blue
Speaker 1: liquid in the bottom. I'm doing you can wad it
Speaker 1: up and throw it in the trash outside. I know
Speaker 1: that you're not supposed to put anything but oop and
Speaker 1: toilet paper into that thing, but you see everything in there, Yeah, diapers, books,
Speaker 1: not a book. Not sure what the proper etiquette is.
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, probably the proper etiquette is
Speaker 1: take it outside and throw it in a trash can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or stick it in your pocket or put it in
Speaker 1: your truck for later. But I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: maybe somebody who cleans porta potties for a living, yeah
Speaker 1: can tell.
Speaker 2: I shn't say that I've ever had to deal with
Speaker 2: that because most porta potties I feel like I go
Speaker 2: into there's just no toilet paper period, like it's empty,
Speaker 2: because you're usually like one. Do you use porta potties
Speaker 2: as something that usually involves drinking?
Speaker 3: For instance?
Speaker 2: Okay, when I did the why is that a chili open?
Speaker 2: Like a month ago, the porta potties were all out
Speaker 2: of toilet paper are like halfway through, So that's awful.
Speaker 1: It is the worst l I guess. I don't use
Speaker 1: one often enough. Usually the only time is before a run,
Speaker 1: and usually those are they were they were put there
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, so they still have a good stock at
Speaker 1: toilet paper. So hey, shout out to toilet paper porta
Speaker 1: potty cleaners, because what a thankless awful job. That is
Speaker 1: how awful and gross. But you know, somebody get I
Speaker 1: hope you get paid well because that is a great, awful,
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing that you provide. Yes, listen to your
Speaker 1: show every day while I'm driving. Thanks for all the
Speaker 1: laughs and thought provoking segments from Mikayla. Thank you, Michayla.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate that. Next one, Hello, Dave Ryan, goodbyers from
Speaker 1: Kayla Bailey. You're my girl and I love you. Hold
Speaker 1: on one second, I'm going to edit a little bit
Speaker 1: as I read here. Okay, I'm going to come back
Speaker 1: to that email because it's very long, and I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I give it justice because I
Speaker 1: don't know whether to read the whole thing or whether
Speaker 1: I am whatever. So I'm going to come back to
Speaker 1: that one respectfully because i want to give it the
Speaker 1: credit the credit is due. Okay, Bailey, there's a fantastic,
Speaker 1: reputable vacuum store in Saint Louis Park called Park Vacuum
Speaker 1: par Now, this came up on the show yesterday because
Speaker 1: Bailey bought a cheap ass vacuum a dirt devil from
Speaker 1: down at the Walmart.
Speaker 3: I don know if it was from Walmart.
Speaker 1: But well it makes the story better for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good for the bit. Oh, okay, the bit for
Speaker 1: the bit. So and I always say, don't buy appliance
Speaker 1: electronic moving part things from Walmart because Walmart, from what
Speaker 1: I understand, they will contact a manufacturer like Toro and say,
Speaker 1: build as a lawnmower that we can sell for seventy
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine. So Toro, if they want the business,
Speaker 1: they will come up with a lawnmower that is seventy
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine but also will break after three hours
Speaker 1: of use.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My experience with vacuum cleaners at Walmart is they break
Speaker 1: after three hours of use.
Speaker 3: So where did this person tell me to go.
Speaker 1: It's called Park Vacuum in Saint Louis Park.
Speaker 3: Park a Vacuum.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think that's kind of buy my place. Actually
Speaker 2: not super close, but I've walked past it on like walks.
Speaker 4: Before I can wave at you while I go get
Speaker 4: my new vacuum.
Speaker 1: Jennifer goes on to say the people, they are super
Speaker 1: knowledgeable and helpful. I bring my vacuum there when it
Speaker 1: stops working and they look at it and sometimes fix
Speaker 1: it at no charge. They are awesome. Check it out
Speaker 1: since it's fairly close to the station, and it's a
Speaker 1: block away from my favorite cheers bar, the American Legion
Speaker 1: Post two to eighty two, where you can get cheap
Speaker 1: drinks and strong poors.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I definitely know where.
Speaker 2: It is now, Ye yeah, I like, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not close to my house, but I do walk in
Speaker 2: that vicinity sometimes, and I remember like paying attention one
Speaker 2: day to like a vacuum shop, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I've never noticed that before.
Speaker 1: Now. She goes on to say, on your podcast from
Speaker 1: March nineteenth, you were talking about podunk bars in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and the Gray Fox Bar in green Isle, Minnesota, where
Speaker 1: you can get cheap drinks, and there's not many places
Speaker 1: in the cities like that. Let me introduce you to
Speaker 1: and then she goes back to the American Legion in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Park. Everybody that is so friendly. Beer is
Speaker 1: three to four bucks poors. Your generous cocktails are not
Speaker 1: fourteen dollars. You can get two to three stronger cocktails
Speaker 1: for that. I Stab is quick, friendly and the food
Speaker 1: is really good. I got there. Pull dabs, eat dabs,
Speaker 1: bingo karaoke. You don't need to be a member. It's
Speaker 1: open to the public. Bailey, I know plenty of single
Speaker 1: people there that might want to get to know Wow.
Speaker 4: Writing down American Legion Saint Louis Park got it.
Speaker 1: Bailey just hanging out looking at people at the American Legion,
Speaker 1: Cydity at the bar, nursing a cosmo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a cosmo like beer.
Speaker 1: Another Jennifer says, I know it's a long shot, but
Speaker 1: I think I thought i'd asked, since Bailey knows a
Speaker 1: lot of theater people. Do you know anybody who does
Speaker 1: singing telegrams? For my mom's seventy fifth birthday March twenty sixth, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: that's tomorrow. I know it's short noticed, but I thought
Speaker 1: i'd ask. I thought it'd be really nice. I think
Speaker 1: she would really love it and it would make her smile.
Speaker 1: Do you know anybody who does sing I don't think
Speaker 1: they do singing telegrams?
Speaker 4: Am I know people who do, like princess parties, that
Speaker 4: could potentially record a video of them singing. I know
Speaker 4: a bunch of singers that would maybe sing a song
Speaker 4: for you on a video, but I don't know. I've
Speaker 4: never heard of a singing telegram that like shows up somewhere.
Speaker 1: They used to do them. They used to be in
Speaker 1: the Yellow Pages, and it was called Eastern Onion instead
Speaker 1: of Western Union. It was called an Eastern onion.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they would come by in a penguin suit or
Speaker 1: a giraffe suit or whatever, or a waiter or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they would sing you a singing telegram.
Speaker 3: That sounds fun. I would love to get a singing telegram.
Speaker 3: But no, I don't know. I wish I had the
Speaker 3: correct answer for.
Speaker 1: You, Jennifer. I would say, look it up online. If
Speaker 1: you listen, she writes it into the general show. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say Minnesota goodbye in the subject, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if she listens or not to the Minnesota goodbye.
Speaker 1: But look it up online. Yeah, singing telegrams. I have
Speaker 1: not heard of a singing telegram in many years.
Speaker 2: I you could probably find something like that on like
Speaker 2: a TikTok. Yeah, I mean locally, it might be a
Speaker 2: little bit harder. Which, by the way, can I bring
Speaker 2: this up real quick? Did you guys know my TikTok
Speaker 2: was hacked?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I heard that. Yeah, peop, we are.
Speaker 2: Fucking pissed because, like I've had that account for like
Speaker 2: five years and somebody just like got in somehow. I
Speaker 2: had gotten a text message at like eight in the
Speaker 2: morning on Saturday, like hey, like you have a new code,
Speaker 2: and someone signed in from like Illinois blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Oh and so I go to TikTok and literally it
Speaker 2: won't let me sign in and someone's like taking over
Speaker 2: my account. It changed the name, deleted all my posts.
Speaker 3: How did they even get I have like the.
Speaker 2: Verification that you have to send to your phone yea,
Speaker 2: to your email, and I didn't get I did get
Speaker 2: an email sent to me, but it was like they
Speaker 2: somehow changed the phone number on my account and so
Speaker 2: now they're getting verification codes to that phone number.
Speaker 3: So anyways, we can move on.
Speaker 1: I'm just well, no, that is frustrating because it is
Speaker 1: it is such a personal thing. That's your TikTok that
Speaker 1: you built up over five years, yeah, and somebody hacked
Speaker 1: into it. I can never figure out what you gain
Speaker 1: from hacking into somebody's Facebook or TikTok, Right, why would
Speaker 1: you do that?
Speaker 4: And the like posting random stuff too, like what's the
Speaker 4: point of your what's the point posting and deleting all
Speaker 4: of the stuff that you already had.
Speaker 3: That's what's confusing.
Speaker 1: What joy do you get? And that's why I think
Speaker 1: it's got to be a bot, because I can't imagine
Speaker 1: some human and you got to figure it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: some other country or you know, it could be somebody
Speaker 1: here with it that's bored. But you can't imagine somebody
Speaker 1: would be like, oh, here's a random girl from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: M right, you know it would be fun is to Okay,
Speaker 1: I broke into it and now I'm going to replace
Speaker 1: it with a bunch of garbage posts. Where's the joy
Speaker 1: in that? So I think it's a bot and I
Speaker 1: don't know why somebody would do that. Okay, next one,
Speaker 1: Rebecca writes in she is a Calf and Heifer Nutrition
Speaker 1: specialists and AGG partners. I think she might have been
Speaker 1: on the show before because that title sounds interesting. Calf
Speaker 1: and Heifer Nutrition Specialists, Dave, I'd like to thank you
Speaker 1: for always defaulting to women when referring to a job.
Speaker 1: If you ask your doctors, she'll likely And I do
Speaker 1: that because it's like, okay, yeah, you get on the
Speaker 1: airplane and the pilot shows up and she's drunk. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll always make it a woman just because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just do. Women are almost always drunk, You're almost
Speaker 1: always drunk, And I do it because the default seems
Speaker 1: so sexist to say, you get on the airplane and
Speaker 1: the pilot he comes on and he says, it just
Speaker 1: seems like, well, why should it always be a he
Speaker 1: mm hm. So I just default to a woman and
Speaker 1: she's usually drunk. Classic, Yeah, so not true. I'm reading
Speaker 1: a book called Invisible Women. It really opens my eyes
Speaker 1: to understanding the importance of gender data gaps and how
Speaker 1: much the world is really not designed to account for
Speaker 1: our needs. I'm the middle of the road politically but
Speaker 1: probably lean to the right and personally, even as a woman,
Speaker 1: I've discounted a lot of things that just and just
Speaker 1: taken them for what the world is. Actions like Dave
Speaker 1: shouldn't need to be applauded, but really do make a
Speaker 1: difference for quality. I think she means equality, and then
Speaker 1: she goes on to talk about how last year I
Speaker 1: was at Pike's Peak after my hike a couple of
Speaker 1: months later, and I ran to a bunch of people
Speaker 1: who were like a traumatic brain injury brain coalition hike
Speaker 1: of Pike's Peak. Oh yeah, And I said, oh, I
Speaker 1: kind of want to do that, and she says, I'm
Speaker 1: a survivor of a serious traumatic brain injury. I'm going
Speaker 1: to Colorado next month and I'll be close to Pike's
Speaker 1: Peak and be willing to hike it with you. After
Speaker 1: I acclimate to the altitude you mentioned you might want
Speaker 1: to do it again. I am in good shape. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. I will tell you this one. I don't
Speaker 1: recommend hiking up Pike's Peak when there's snow because it
Speaker 1: is up to your knees yees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's up to your kneesying honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's icy. You might need like spikes, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you were going to do it, Rebecca, good
Speaker 1: do it in probably July, August or early September. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are about three months out of the year when
Speaker 1: there is no snow on Pike's Peak. All right, another email,
Speaker 1: and here we go. This one starts off with pictures
Speaker 1: of a dog and it's from Mia and I love it.
Speaker 1: People are just so kind. They're sending me pictures of dogs,
Speaker 1: and they're sending me links to foster a dog and
Speaker 1: links to the you know, and it's just so kind
Speaker 1: and people. Really, I had a dream about Josie last night.
Speaker 1: I was pumping gas and there she was sitting next
Speaker 1: to me. Why, I don't know, looking up at me.
Speaker 1: She's so happy and she was just I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get teary, but I just look around, like when
Speaker 1: you lost Mickey a year or two ago, two years ago, over.
Speaker 2: Two years ago, you.
Speaker 1: Know, you find yourself coming into the house and they're
Speaker 1: there to greet you, and they're excited, and they get
Speaker 1: up and they do that stretchy thing where they put
Speaker 1: their paws on the floor in front of you, big
Speaker 1: stretch and they come over and wag their tail and
Speaker 1: they let them outside, and you know, you, oh, then
Speaker 1: you got it's five o'clock. He got to feed him,
Speaker 1: and they're so excited and they come running in and
Speaker 1: I just miss all that, and I look around for
Speaker 1: and I think I see her out of the corner
Speaker 1: of my eye, and it's not her. It's that fucking cat, Roger,
Speaker 1: that fucking cat. Anyway, No, I love Roger, he's just
Speaker 1: not he's not I'm not his person. Yeah, I'm nice
Speaker 1: to him. I give him treats every morning, and he
Speaker 1: meets me at the treat bowl every morning, and I
Speaker 1: give him treats, but he is not he doesn't jump
Speaker 1: up on my lap. I'm not his person. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Mia writes in Dave, Jenny Bayleyvant, First of all, you
Speaker 1: brighten my day every day. Dave. I thought of you
Speaker 1: recently because I went to my first bar trivia night
Speaker 1: and the team that won got every single question right.
Speaker 1: Just a little suspicious if you ask me, because when
Speaker 1: I go to bar trivia, I almost always see somebody cheating,
Speaker 1: and it's like, why, it takes the fun out of it.
Speaker 1: There's no joy in winning. It's kind of like I
Speaker 1: can cheat on my wordle every day. I can, like
Speaker 1: you know, I can do it and get it and
Speaker 1: then clear my history, my cash or whatever, and now
Speaker 1: I know the word is like you know, raise type
Speaker 1: and raise and go. Look, everybody, I got wordle in
Speaker 1: one word and one guess there's no fun in that,
Speaker 1: so white sheet. It goes on to say, I'm so
Speaker 1: incredibly sorry about Josie. I know she was more than
Speaker 1: just a dog. She was your best friend and constant companion.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine how much you're missing her, and
Speaker 1: my heart goes out to you. I just know you
Speaker 1: gave her so much love and that she knew in
Speaker 1: her life, and that's all she knew in her life.
Speaker 1: Thinking of you and sending so much love. I got
Speaker 1: my first dog last year. She is on Instagram little
Speaker 1: Miss Georgia. It looks like in the word miss there's
Speaker 1: three s's, or that could be a typeo Little Miss Georgia.
Speaker 1: She's half Cavalier, half poodle, but on the smaller side.
Speaker 1: She's about eleven pounds now great energy level. Also loves
Speaker 1: rainy day snuggle on the couch. I know it's hard
Speaker 1: to think about getting another dog, and I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: gotten enough advice, but I truly think Josie would want
Speaker 1: you to give that attention and love to another deserving dog.
Speaker 1: Georgia and I love the entire Morning Crew and listen
Speaker 1: every day while I work from home. Cheers from me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. The middle picture of you of little
Speaker 1: Georgia sitting there looking at you like, are you a treat?
Speaker 1: We can look up.
Speaker 3: Little miss George on Instagram. She is cute?
Speaker 1: Is it I S? S S?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: It is okay? Little miss with three s's little miss Georgia.
Speaker 3: She's very cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for sending those and thanks for I mean
Speaker 1: really that is very sweet, So thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Do you think you are going to get a new dog?
Speaker 1: So I want to. Yeah. We were driving around the
Speaker 1: other day and I said, hey, we're in the vicinity
Speaker 1: of the Golden Valley Humane Society. Let's go look. And
Speaker 1: Susan can be really stubborn sometimes and she she is like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to go look until we're serious about it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there's no harm just looking in going by
Speaker 1: and looking just to look. She's like, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: and she just and I didn't you know you learn
Speaker 1: pick your battles, right, So I said no. But honestly,
Speaker 1: on the way home today, I've got kind of a
Speaker 1: free afternoon, I might go buy the Golden Voundy Humane
Speaker 1: Society just to look.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I drive by it and if i'm if I'm
Speaker 4: not going somewhere specifically and i have, like, you know,
Speaker 4: an hour to kill or something, I'll just skirt right
Speaker 4: into the Golden Valley to look at all of the
Speaker 4: dogs and the cats.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I did that in Colorado a week after Josie died.
Speaker 1: I went by the Pike's Peak Humane Society and it
Speaker 1: was kind of disappointing because you can't go in the
Speaker 1: room where the cages are. You stand in the hallway
Speaker 1: and look through the glass at the cages. And there
Speaker 1: was only a few dogs, and there was one that
Speaker 1: kind of spoke to me a little bit, but you know,
Speaker 1: it was I'm not going to adopt a dog on
Speaker 1: a whim.
Speaker 4: In Colorado, this humane society where I got my cat
Speaker 4: was a very very small town humane society that was
Speaker 4: truly just like a shed almost, and it.
Speaker 3: Was so weird.
Speaker 4: I felt like I was in the wrong place when
Speaker 4: I showed up. But they had maybe like seven cats
Speaker 4: total in this little shed, and he was so cute,
Speaker 4: and there was just like one lady just taking care
Speaker 4: of all of it on her own and worth it.
Speaker 3: So I would go and get a dog.
Speaker 1: My dream dog is a tannish brownish, short hair, kind
Speaker 1: of a wiry, smallish dog like a cat, with longer legs.
Speaker 1: He's got an adorable little face with white streaks, and
Speaker 1: he looks a little bit like a tiny greyhound.
Speaker 3: Do you want a boy dog? I don't care, okay.
Speaker 1: But this in my mind is a boy dog, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he loves his snuggles and he loves to be held.
Speaker 1: But he's energetic and loves to run, so I can
Speaker 1: take him out on walks and hikes and he won't
Speaker 1: be like, you know, lagging behind me. So if you
Speaker 1: find that dog, let me know. That is the Minnesota
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