Speaker 1: Here we go with a Minnesota goodbye. Let's start off
Speaker 1: with a rant from our friend Juanita. You guys, ready, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: let me find her and I get to puh a
Speaker 1: couple of buttons. I should push these buttons in advance,
Speaker 1: because every week when I play her rent, I always say,
Speaker 1: let me go push some buttons. But I think we're ready,
Speaker 1: And here we go with Juanita chicken. Wait, hold on, wait,
Speaker 1: got to back it up, back it up. Here we go.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, y'all, So this week's rent is about chickens.
Speaker 2: So since when has chickens become the Beyonce Barnyard. I mean,
Speaker 2: back in the day, I did not pay the same
Speaker 2: price for a pack of chicken wings that I did
Speaker 2: for a fucking chicken breast.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is getting ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's like suddenly a six piece nugget is worth more
Speaker 2: than a bitcoin. But the other issue that I'm having
Speaker 2: with chickens is where the hell are we getting all
Speaker 2: these fucking chickens from. So I looked it up and
Speaker 2: they said that during the Super Bowl last year, America's
Speaker 2: consumed over one point four to seven billion chicken wings.
Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, and that's just for one day. Where
Speaker 2: the fuck are we getting all these chickens? For that
Speaker 2: amount of chickens that means that you usually will be
Speaker 2: able to open your door and there's just chickens walking
Speaker 2: up and down the street.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: What's up with two? It's like, damn, where the hell
Speaker 2: are we getting all these fucking chickens? Well, that's my
Speaker 2: rant for this week.
Speaker 1: I love you guys, by I have wondered the same thing,
Speaker 1: because there are think about it. There is chick fil A.
Speaker 1: They're selling canes, KFC chicken, Caesar salad, Buffalo Wild Wings,
Speaker 1: chicken is everywhere you go into cub, you go into
Speaker 1: Buyerley's Rotisserie, chickens are stacked up by the registers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are is. And it's like, these chickens are coming
Speaker 1: from somewhere, and I think, where do they? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they're being raised somewhere, probably some little town like
Speaker 1: I don't know, Wilma or man Cato or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you think about the byproduct of a dead chicken, feathers, feathers, guts, legs, beaks,
Speaker 1: and heads. Where does all this go? It's the same
Speaker 1: with cows.
Speaker 3: Well, feathers. Can't you use those for pillows?
Speaker 1: No, that's gooseh chicken feathers. Let me tell you, grown
Speaker 1: up on chicken farm, they are not soft feathers. I
Speaker 1: guess in a real pinch they would work. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that people don't realize that the food supply
Speaker 1: chain is massively demanding and chicken's gotta eat and drink
Speaker 1: water too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I can understand the reason there's so
Speaker 4: many chickens because that's like a universal.
Speaker 3: Meat that everybody likes.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone likes chicken. Huh, I love chicken.
Speaker 1: Well, there's so many though, So I thought Juanita. I
Speaker 1: think Juanita and I, in another lifetime we would be
Speaker 1: happily married until one day she got tired of me
Speaker 1: and woke up and killed me with a skillet. It
Speaker 1: was a skillet, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, just like one whack across the head. You think
Speaker 5: she Wania seems like a strong woman. She could do
Speaker 5: one song whack by Dave.
Speaker 3: The brand of the skillet is engraved on your face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I love this email. I preread it.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting and I just love it. Don't say
Speaker 1: my name close friends know this story, and I truly
Speaker 1: hold no shame, But you never know how listeners might
Speaker 1: feel about this one. It's an embarrassing coming of age story.
Speaker 1: At what point does this story become funny not traumatic?
Speaker 1: It is said that tragedy becomes comedy with the application
Speaker 1: of time. I experienced that firsthand. I'm going through puberty,
Speaker 1: so you got to figure twelve or thirteen. I'm full
Speaker 1: of the brooding frustration that came with the rejection of boys.
Speaker 1: I was a plain girl and I discovered Google Images.
Speaker 1: Not only did I discover Google Images, I discovered what
Speaker 1: porn was at the age of twelve. Only I thought
Speaker 1: it was spelled po rm, like mechanic porm. So with
Speaker 1: this horrible new information, I ran home from school and
Speaker 1: quickly googled porm. Google said, did you mean porn? Well, well, sure, sure,
Speaker 1: I suppose I did mean that carefully on my own
Speaker 1: account that the family shared the computer, I with a
Speaker 1: safe search that I didn't know how was applied. I
Speaker 1: saw all sorts of adults in various levels of undress, kissing,
Speaker 1: embracing in other ways I had no business of viewing.
Speaker 1: I googled everything boys kissing, girls kissing, any juvenile thing
Speaker 1: I could think of. Carefully and with a judgmental eye
Speaker 1: of a shrewd expert, I slowly put together a wonderful
Speaker 1: collage on Microsoft words of the images I thought were
Speaker 1: most compelling. I then admired my artful collage and printed
Speaker 1: it off on the home computer using family toner. I
Speaker 1: quickly hit it away in my room and told no
Speaker 1: one of my lacivious creation. Then my mother found my
Speaker 1: art while I was away at summer camp. Subsequently, I
Speaker 1: dealt with the horrible humiliation of my mother finding my collage.
Speaker 1: It wrecked me at the time, but now, looking back,
Speaker 1: I think the entire story is hilariously funny. I realized
Speaker 1: that every one of us has our own story of discovery,
Speaker 1: and the early teen years are truly a whirlwind experience
Speaker 1: for all of us. Anyway, hopefully it makes you laugh
Speaker 1: and look back with some forgiveness on our past selves,
Speaker 1: take care and lots of love. And she signs her
Speaker 1: initial J. I think that's adorable. I think that the
Speaker 1: first time that we discover porn is kind of shocking.
Speaker 1: Playboy was like the go to when I was a
Speaker 1: kid and my friend's dad had old Playboy magazines and
Speaker 1: we would look them up and it was like wow.
Speaker 1: I mean we were like fourth or fifth grade and
Speaker 1: we didn't get aroused. I don't think more just like cure,
Speaker 1: there's a naked woman, there's your boobies.
Speaker 4: Whoa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So anybody have a similar story to share. If not,
Speaker 1: that's okay.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's hilarious that she made a
Speaker 4: collage because I used to do that all the time
Speaker 4: with like you know, the Harry Potter actors and whatever.
Speaker 4: But I don't think I ever like discovered porn.
Speaker 3: I read the book Catcher.
Speaker 4: In the Rock and it explained like in detail masturbation.
Speaker 3: That was the first time I ever heard of that.
Speaker 1: Oh really, I read that in seventh grade. I don't
Speaker 1: remember that part.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was Catcher and the Rye.
Speaker 4: It was some kind of like you know Indie Emo
Speaker 4: book that like everybody said you should read, and I
Speaker 4: think I was in ninth grade and I read it
Speaker 4: and I was like, tho foo, it was wild.
Speaker 3: Okay, interesting, But that was kind of it for me.
Speaker 1: I think that is a very funny story, and it is.
Speaker 1: It's like at the time, you can imagine if you're
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen and your mom finds your porn collage,
Speaker 1: your collage there on pain Yeah, and then you're mortified.
Speaker 1: But looking back, it's totally normal and totally adorable and funny.
Speaker 1: Maybe not adorable, but totally understandable. Next one says, listen
Speaker 1: to the Thursday's Minnesota Goodbye podcast. You mentioned on a
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten how happy you are, and
Speaker 1: it got me thinking. I sit at a five most
Speaker 1: of the time, neither super happy nor super sad. So
Speaker 1: my question is, how do you make yourself feel happier.
Speaker 1: I was talking with partner this week about how I
Speaker 1: feel stuck in a rut. I work from home most days.
Speaker 1: The office is close by, but I choose to stay home,
Speaker 1: so it feels like I'm really just moving around my
Speaker 1: house to different rooms, or I'm in the car driving
Speaker 1: my kid all around the Metro for their sports practices.
Speaker 1: I consider myself an introvert, but I'm feeling more and
Speaker 1: more cooped up these days. I have a handful of hobbies.
Speaker 1: I enjoy them, but a lot of them are hobbies
Speaker 1: that don't involve others, like reading, crafting, walking, etc. I
Speaker 1: have one close friend outside of my partner and a
Speaker 1: few others that go through ebbs and flows of friendship.
Speaker 1: What do you suggest to make my life feel not
Speaker 1: so monotonous. That's a good story. I'm going to send
Speaker 1: that to you, Jenny, because I think that's a good
Speaker 1: story for the radio too. Jenny, there we go, So
Speaker 1: we'll maybe use that next week. What do you think
Speaker 1: what would you give her?
Speaker 4: Oh Man, I feel like if you're looking to meet people,
Speaker 4: I always tell others to take a class, take a workshop,
Speaker 4: like something that you're interested in learning. How to do
Speaker 4: that is something.
Speaker 3: Like creative that you have to like enroll.
Speaker 4: In something and start showing up every week to go
Speaker 4: and do it, like improv classes or dance classes or
Speaker 4: whatever you want to go do. Because I met pretty
Speaker 4: much everybody I know through some kind of class or.
Speaker 3: Community event like a play or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, now she does say, now it's interesting that you
Speaker 1: went to meeting people. She doesn't say she wants to
Speaker 1: meet people, although that could add to her happiness. That
Speaker 1: adds to your happiness. She wants to be happy, but
Speaker 1: she's not sure what will make her happy.
Speaker 4: So star, well, if it's not, If you don't want
Speaker 4: a monotonous life, I think that's the learning something. The
Speaker 4: learning aspect is what makes my life not monotonous if
Speaker 4: I'm constantly learning, So going to classes, yeah I get
Speaker 4: to meet people, but I'm also learning something at the
Speaker 4: same time, and I think that makes it makes my
Speaker 4: life not monotonous.
Speaker 5: I think also Facebook groups are huge right now to
Speaker 5: like either make friends like Bailey a suggesting or maybe
Speaker 5: just learn things yourself. And I think that that's less
Speaker 5: intimidating than what Bailey probably did to go out and
Speaker 5: do new things and meet people, because you don't have
Speaker 5: to go do anything I'm a part of like a
Speaker 5: camper van Facebook group, a hiking Facebook group, like all
Speaker 5: these things that are like interests of mine, and I
Speaker 5: usually just go to them to learn things or see
Speaker 5: what people are posting. But I don't really do a
Speaker 5: whole ton, but it helps me with things that are
Speaker 5: hobbies to me. So I think Facebook groups can be helpful.
Speaker 1: I would say try something new and maybe that it
Speaker 1: does involve a group like I don't know, yoga or
Speaker 1: something new, because reading, crafting, walking, that's great. You sound
Speaker 1: like a very I don't know, like they're very sedate hobbies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you need something that's a little more active. You
Speaker 1: do walk. Yeah, So I would say, maybe try something new,
Speaker 1: Maybe try learning an instrument. Maybe go down and buy
Speaker 1: a guitar and learn to play guitar. They're not that
Speaker 1: hard to learn the basics on a guitar. I did
Speaker 1: the ukulele and I love it.
Speaker 4: So or joined like a book club if you like reading,
Speaker 4: that's a good idea too. Then you're having conversation about
Speaker 4: the book and you're going to a thing. I know,
Speaker 4: like the going places isn't for everybody, and like you know,
Speaker 4: facebook groups you could join like an.
Speaker 3: Online book club. But I always I like going places.
Speaker 4: Because it holds me accountable to actually do the thing,
Speaker 4: versus holding myself accountable to do the things like on
Speaker 4: my own, Like okay, I have to rely on myself
Speaker 4: to do this versus oh well I have it. Six
Speaker 4: o'clock on Wednesdays is book club, so I have to show.
Speaker 3: Up, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I would argue though that like if it's intimidating and
Speaker 5: you go to the thing a couple times and you
Speaker 5: don't like it, don't force yourself. Because there's like something
Speaker 5: that I've done recently where I've kind of just started
Speaker 5: to bail on it because.
Speaker 1: It was yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean it's the softball league I joined.
Speaker 1: Okay, it wasn't your thing.
Speaker 5: Truthfully, I'm still going to show up to the games
Speaker 5: that are coming up, but I've bailed on one week
Speaker 5: and it's been rained out every other week, and then
Speaker 5: this past week I was at that retreat so I
Speaker 5: couldn't go. So I've literally only been to the first
Speaker 5: games of five weeks of games.
Speaker 1: Speaking of rained out, are we doing a lake patrol
Speaker 1: this summer? Have we heard anything about lake patrol?
Speaker 6: Have not turned any?
Speaker 1: Okay, because we live in Minnesota. About fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: I came up with the idea, yes, I'll take credit
Speaker 1: for it, of lake patrol. We live in the land
Speaker 1: of ten thousand lakes. Let's go out on a boat
Speaker 1: and give away prizes. Okay, brilliant. We did it every year,
Speaker 1: we maybe missed one for years, ten or fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and we'd go out on Lake Minatanka or Prior Lake
Speaker 1: or whatever, and we had a great time. But we
Speaker 1: had heard anything about doing it this summer, so I
Speaker 1: hope we do. Last summer. I think every appearance that
Speaker 1: I did on Lake Patrol, I had three of them.
Speaker 1: It was rained out every time.
Speaker 5: And I say, I don't think you the last like
Speaker 5: two summers. I think you and Fallan both like never
Speaker 5: had to do your life patrols because of rain. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and Bailey and I had ours.
Speaker 4: We had one and it was rained out, like we
Speaker 4: drove all the way there and then they were like
Speaker 4: it's rained out. They're like, well, I guess we're gonna
Speaker 4: just turn around and go back home.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: And I can't remember if because usually we do two
Speaker 5: a summer, and I can't remember if I got out
Speaker 5: for one other one.
Speaker 6: I feel like I did last summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were a lot of fun because we get
Speaker 1: a boat. We go to lake to talk on the
Speaker 1: north side of Big Island. They call it cruisers Cove,
Speaker 1: and we would pull up and get a bullhorn, and
Speaker 1: and I just tell you a little bit of what
Speaker 1: a bitch I am, but also what a perfectionist I am,
Speaker 1: because you know it's it's like my idea and I
Speaker 1: want to do it the right way. We always needed
Speaker 1: a bullhorn. You need a bullhorn when you pull up
Speaker 1: so you can go he everybody goes katieb And if
Speaker 1: you want some prizes, yell and scream and we'll bring
Speaker 1: some prizes over to you, and fifty percent of the
Speaker 1: time the interns would either forget the bullhorn or they
Speaker 1: wouldn't test it out and the batteries would be dead.
Speaker 1: And I would get so frustrated because how do you
Speaker 1: let people know you're there on lake patrol without a
Speaker 1: bullhorn yelling? Go so and you try to yell, but
Speaker 1: people can't really hear you. But if you got the bullhorn, man,
Speaker 1: people would come out of the fucking would work to
Speaker 1: get a like a key ring that said katiewb on it,
Speaker 1: or a can of PEPSI like it was liquid gold.
Speaker 1: But if you don't have a bullhorn, it was it
Speaker 1: was lame. And I would I would write to the
Speaker 1: people in charge, like, can we got to have a
Speaker 1: bull horn? Well we had one last week? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the batteries were dead. So it was just me being
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to be heard. People come out
Speaker 4: their little boats, did you hear Katie.
Speaker 1: This next one is about Jenny. Jenny, I was listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast last night, and your absence on the
Speaker 1: show was noticeable, almost as noticeable as when Dave is gone.
Speaker 1: To me, that's a huge compliment because it simply doesn't
Speaker 1: feel the same without you. Don't get me wrong, the
Speaker 1: show is still great. Everybody is wonderful, but the noticeable
Speaker 1: lack of your presence shows how far you've come on
Speaker 1: this show. Go Jenny. Thanks from one of the many
Speaker 1: many Sarah's in their thirties that ride into the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Goodbye that is Sarah. Thank you, Sarah, love it well.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Sarah. I appreciate that. I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's weird to compare my absence to Dave's because I
Speaker 5: feel like when Dave's gone its constant, like Wor's Day,
Speaker 5: wors Day. There's maybe a text one I'm gone there, he'll.
Speaker 3: Be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I found this next email kind of funny. It is
Speaker 1: basically for Bailey. Bailey, guys, aren't everything. Sixty four year
Speaker 1: old Irish singer Enya has never been married, never had kids,
Speaker 1: and lives in a castle with her nine cats. And
Speaker 1: those shows a picture of Anya sixty four years old.
Speaker 1: She's beautiful and her house is a castle. It's a
Speaker 1: freaking castle, and she has nine cats. Now, you don't
Speaker 1: have the money to live in a castle.
Speaker 3: I have any money, I can.
Speaker 4: See you with it with nine cats I could have
Speaker 4: nine cats if I had a house that had like
Speaker 4: nine rooms, because I could have a cat in every room.
Speaker 3: That'd be really nice.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't. I know, guys aren't everything. Sometimes
Speaker 4: you just want somebody to squeeze a little bit, that's it.
Speaker 4: And I don't have any money. I feel like if
Speaker 4: I had any money, i'd be way happier. Obviously, I
Speaker 4: have a sun like a sun porch.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's nice. Or yeah, you have little twinkly lights.
Speaker 1: There's an idea you and Jenny should move in together
Speaker 1: because Jenny is now she's you know, got some extra
Speaker 1: room in the house, so you should move in. Jenny's
Speaker 1: got a sun porch.
Speaker 4: I think Jenny and I wouldn't or we would clash
Speaker 4: a little bit in terms of living together because Jenny
Speaker 4: is a minimalist and I'm a maximalist. Oh, and I
Speaker 4: think we would combine.
Speaker 5: I think we probably would because I am also a
Speaker 5: clean freak. And I mean when I did have someone
Speaker 5: living with me, that person was decently clean, but like
Speaker 5: not to the extent that I wanted. And I realized
Speaker 5: once I lived alone again that like, I feel a
Speaker 5: much more at peace in my house because of the
Speaker 5: cleanliness that.
Speaker 3: I keep up with.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say I'm unclean. I just sometimes fold my
Speaker 4: laundry and let it sit there for like a week.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, before I don't do that. I don't like
Speaker 1: to mess around the house. But when I leave the show,
Speaker 1: this big pile of shit over here to my left
Speaker 1: will all disappear. There are two deck levels, A deck
Speaker 1: and B deck of my shit that is stacked over here,
Speaker 1: and once I leave, I think it'll all be thrown away.
Speaker 6: Well, you're not going to take it in a box home.
Speaker 1: I don't want that puppet. I don't want the other puppets.
Speaker 3: Hey that my aunt made.
Speaker 1: That I do, but I don't have a place for
Speaker 1: that in my home.
Speaker 3: There's a million places in your home. You have a
Speaker 3: big mansion.
Speaker 5: No, no, Well, because he has too much shit already,
Speaker 5: he's like working on getting rid of it. That's why
Speaker 5: it's like hard to get you presents now for Christmas
Speaker 5: or your birthday, because it's always like, I know, he
Speaker 5: probably already has everything, and I don't want to give
Speaker 5: him more shit.
Speaker 1: Gift card to Culver's always works for me.
Speaker 6: We do, I think we do to gift cars quite often.
Speaker 1: You guys, give me a Father's Day present.
Speaker 3: I just remembered it's in my car. I have to
Speaker 3: go get it.
Speaker 1: Are you serious to get a Father's Day present for me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's in my car.
Speaker 1: You're not joking, are you? Okay? Well let's wait, Well
Speaker 1: Bailey go, Should.
Speaker 3: I go get it right now?
Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. Okay, So we're going to wrap up
Speaker 1: the Minnesota goodbye with with that thought, thanks for the emails.
Speaker 1: These are a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the
Speaker 1: Porm story that made me giggle and smile. You got
Speaker 1: any stories that are out of the blue, please send
Speaker 1: him to us. Those are our favorite kind. Or respond
Speaker 1: to anything that we talked about. And if you want
Speaker 1: a staff writer sticker and you've never written before, please
Speaker 1: send your email to Ryan Show at KJWB dot com
Speaker 1: and if we read it on the air and put
Speaker 1: your address in there, name and his dress, and we'll
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