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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome once again to the award winning Minnesota Goodbye. We
haven't won anything yet, but I think we will. I
think we're gonna be up for something. Totally made that up. Yeah,
here we go with a really really interesting email. My
name is Autumn. I need some help. I'm going to
Windstock on Thursday with my boyfriend and some friends. Windstock
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is in Winstead, Minnesota. It is a big country festival,
camp in the mud type of a thing, and it's
huge and I've driven by the festival grounds before and
it's just I mean, it's like, wow, okay, cool. My
boyfriend and I went to Windstock for the first time
together last year. The campsite we stayed at had a
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wooden board on posts with holes cut in it, small
holes to big holes, called the boobo meter. All of
the boys sat in their lawn chairs passing around a microphone,
offering jello shots to any woman that walked by in
exchange for a flash of their bare boobs in the
holes of the boobo how demeaning. To my surprise, a
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lot of women actually flashed everyone. I understand it was
hard not to look, but seeing my boyfriend's smiling face
while he stared at seventeen different bare boobs made me
feel sick to my stomach. I told him how I felt,
to which he said he would try his best not
to look at the women. I know they're gonna have
the board set up again this year, and I don't
want my feelings to get in the way of having
a good time. I feel like there is no way
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around this board. Even if we stayed at a different campsite,
we'd still walk over there to hang out because his
friends love to camp at that spot. My anxiety has
been taking over about this dang board for too long.
I feel stupid for being so butt hurt about this,
and I am desperate to get some advice over this
gross feeling. Maybe the boobo meter will accidentally start on
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fire this year laugh emoji. Or I'm going to make
a ball loon meter for the men to use so
it's fair for us women. Thank you in advance, my
apologies if it's too long, I love you guys, keep
on keeping on own. Not too long at all. I'm
going to stay out of this one and let you
guys talk about what you want to say.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, your feelings are very, very valid. I will be
fully honest. I have done the boob of meter before country.
Every country festival has that. It's different sizes. You put
your boobs through if you want, and yes, they offer
you a shot. I was like twenty two years old
back in the day single. Yeah, so I've done it.
I don't really remember a crowd of people watching though.
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It was usually just random people walking by. There wasn't
an entire audience watching us, so that's a little bit
different than your experience. But I do think it's okay
to be upset with your boyfriend enjoying it a little
too much. However, I would also be looking myself if
I was near it.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, I mean I would be looking at it. But
I think the wording from your boyfriend saying I'll try
my best not to look that, I like, if you
said I don't like you looking at this, he should
be like, okay, I won't because then he can, you know,
help out your comfort, and if your comfort is none
is zero, then he should respect that. So I mean,
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I say, if you want to put your boobs in
the boobometer, like, go ahead and put your boobs in
the boobometer for a free shot. It's a free shot. Heck, yeah,
my boobs probably wondn't fit in the boobometer. So but
I think your boyfriend should respect your your ask of
him to not look Okay, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Right, right, next one, want to tell you guys an
awful story from yesterday morning that will haunt my dreams.
Getting really kids ready for yesterday. And my four year
old boy was like, Mama, what's all over your leg? Oh?
I'm sorry, all over my leg? I said, is it chocolate? Nope?
Now stay with me, because your mind is going somewhere
in the wrong place. So I took a look and
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there was blood from his knee down to his foot.
I'm oh, my god. I looked for a cut, no cut,
but there was a smashed full dead tick stuck to
the bottom of his foot. It was on the dog,
got full and detached. He stepped on it and it
launched blood all the way up his leg. I was horrified.
We live in the woods, so ticks are unfortunately part
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of life here. So that was what happened, was blood
from a smushtick splattered up his leg. Yeah. Yeah, gross.
Ps myself, my six year old, four year old twins
and eighth month old baby finally climbed the Herm and
the German yesterday. We've lived here in New Olm for
ten years. I did the dang thing, trying to have
a summer of just do it. Another thing off our list,
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that's Hannah in New Ulm. Herm and the German is
the giant statue that sits on the banks of the
Minnesota River right outside of New Olm.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I climb that. I went to New Olm maybe like
three years ago. I climbed that, and I was so
terrified because once you're up on the top, it's I
don't like, there's not any really thing to hold onto.
So I was just hugging the wall and it was
windy and I felt like it was going to fall
off of it. So, hey, power to you for climbing
Herman the German.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
When you say climb it, how I ever noticed it
that it's worthy of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's kind of like a gazebo almost, and Herman the
German just stands on top of it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So like, you climb up it and it's like, how
do you climb a hymn?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
No, So you climb the like gazebos, and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's just a really tall ice bo okay.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And there's a lot of really steep steps, and then
Herm and the German is like up behind you. When
you're on the top of it and you can see
for miles, it's really cool like from the top, but
it is absolutely terrifying from way up there.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Okay, Now, Herman the German is based on the fact
that New Olm was we were largely settled by Germans
and Norwegians back in Minnesota, back in like the eighteen
fifties or seventies or whatever. And New Olm still prides
itself on its German heritage, which I think is really cool.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it's super cute, like little German Town. They've got
like a big like a cuckoo clock that plays like
little German music.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, I'm so cute. Yeah. I loved it there.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I've mentioned it before. Eigels Kai is my favorite restaurant
in Minnesota bar none. It is very authentic German food
in a very authentic old ass setting that's probably been
in the same building since the nineteen forties in New
in New All.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, and the Shells Brewery we went on tour too. Yeah,
I loved it there. It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, definitely recommend it very cool little town. Right, Let's see, honestly,
that might be it some days on the Minnesota Goodbye.
We are very short on emails, but let me see
if I got one right here? Did we do this one?
What is your most favorite memory childhood or adult? Oh, okay,
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that's a good one. I'm going to throw this one
out and I'm going to say vacations in Jordan, Montana.
Every year that was the highlight of our year. We
would get in the Volkswagen bus and drive two days
to Jordan, Montana and hang out, camp out, ride horses,
shoot off fireworks, go on picnics, go to rodeos with
my cousins. In Jordan, Montana. It was the highlight of
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the kid year for me. That's my almost, no question
favorite memory childhood memory.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean, similarly, we used to go to Ohio. What
we still do go to Ohio every year. I'm going
on Thursday and we go to visit my grandma. And
obviously when we were kids, like, it's fun because everything
is very wide open spaces. My grandma and grandpa had
a golf cart. We would drive around and it was
it was really fun. Every single summer going to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, even though it's just simply Ohio, just Ohio.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, I would probably say, just like as a kid,
my sister and I always play it across the street
from with like other girls, and so I feel like
just being the kids that were out until the street
lights came on all the time and avoiding going in
the house because we were scared our parents would make
us come in for the night.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh so just like playing in the Call to Sack, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
My mom's house is in a call to Sack, so
we would just be outside all the time when it
was nice.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I ask you a.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Question, does your mom still live in the house you
grew up in? Yes, what is your old bedroom now?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, my younger sister lives there now, so she is
in my old bedroom, and so it's I mean pretty much. Well,
she has her own furniture from when she moved out
of her ex's house, so she has her own furniture
in there. But she did paint it because I used
to have it, like one wall was blue and the
rest were like a tan brown or something because I
loved blue. So she painted it all white when she
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moved in, and there was a poster of I believe
Zach efron on the back of the door from like
a People magazine or something that hung up until I
think she moved in. It was still there up until
she moved back in.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay, I was gonna say, was there any little remnant
of Jenny in that room?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
My entire room at my mom's house is the exact
same way it was when I graduated high school?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yes? Like, like how like everything is on everything on
the walls is the exact same. My bookshelf is the
exact same, The bed is the exact same. I have
my whole bedroom. It's like a time machine to twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
So, which is I mean cool? But like also I
should go and like clean it out, But I mean,
my mom doesn't pester me to come and do it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I say, I'm going to tell you why. As a parent,
there's a little tiny part of Mom's heart that loves
that Bailey's room is still the same. Yeah, I really
think so. When I moved out of my mom and
dad's house, I had probably forty model airplanes that I
built hanging from the ceiling, and they took down a bunch,
but they left a few, and as a parent, now
I kind of understand that was a little piece of
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their kid. That was still just the way I left
it when I was in eighth or ninth grade. But then,
you know, they turned mine into a guest bedroom and
my mom had a doll collection, so she put dolls
over in there. Alison's room is nothing like it was.
There's a crib in there for her girl, in a
little girl bed Allison's there's Allison's closet has still got
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a lot of Alison's stuff in there. Carson's room, he's
only twenty four and he still stays in there when
he comes home. His room is exactly like it was,
minus a few things that he's given away. Yeah. Yeah,
what about you, What did your mom and dad turn
your bedroom into or what did you do with your
kids room? So maybe that's something there. Last one, Kathleen
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writes in says, I've been listening to you guys forever,
even though I never lived in Minnesota. You're absolutely my
favorite fun podcast to listen to. Maybe one day I'll
make it to Minnesota. Come to the fair. Yes, here's
the obligatory. Oh, now that I got that out of
the way, Dave, I need your help. I know Alison
works at Target, so I'm hoping you can help solve
this mystery. The good and gathered roasted Hobbannio salsa has
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been discontinued, replaced by an impostor called the Hot Honey
hobby Nio. The og Salca was an amazing four point
seven star reviews. My friends and I were all obsessed.
I'd ordered ten at a time, so it was always
stalked in my house. Side note discontinued for months. I
ran out of my supply because I'm that obsessed. The
Hot Honey Salca barely has two point five stars and
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is objectively not good. So why would Target throw away
such a good thing. I need to know if there's
any way to get back the best store bought salsa
that ever existed. Please help. We need closure. That is
from Kathleen, and she actually sends a bunch of Reddit
threads and things, and she is very passionate about this.
I asked Alison about that and she laughed, Yeah, there's
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nothing that Alison can do.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, because she's in what department.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
They move her around? She's done little girl accessories, laundry baskets.
I'm not sure what she's in right now, but she's
a buyer for something could be microwaves or I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Get her into the salsa category a buyer for salsa.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I think that's funny. I wish I knew more about
that salsa so I could get behind her on this one.
And I wonder if there's any way to get back.
It was a It was the Good and Gather, so
it was their own brand, so it's not available somewhere else.
Here's the funny thing about Good and Gathering any generics
like that is it's not made by Target. It's made
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by another salsa company, but it's their generic. So if
you go to the store and you buy generic, I
don't care. What's something that comes in generic pasta? Pasta
that's a good one. So there's the one expensive stuff
in the blue box. Right then there's the Good and
Gathered brand of pasta. It's made by the same people,
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but they don't advertise it. They don't have marketing. They
just put it in store, so it's cheaper, so it'd
be like twenty nine cents cheaper per box. It's the
same stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I always get the store brand version of zething. Yeah,
because of why not? It's not any worse than it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I tell myself that it's a little bit better. If
I buy the stuff in the blue pasta box, I
tell myself it's a little bit better than the Good
and Gather or the Great Value is the Walmart brand. Yes,
So if you go and buy salad dressing at Walmart,
there's Newman's Own, or there's what's another brand of salad
press Hidden Valley. But if you buy the the Great Value,
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it's the same shit, same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, it's just the packaging that's different, you.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Know, Kathleen. I wish there was something we could do,
and I mourned the loss of your Good and Gathered
roasted habannio salsa. I'm sorry. That is it for the
Minnesota goodbye. As you can tell, we need some emails,
so send those in to Ryanshow at ktwdbat dot com.
Or tomorrow's podcast is going to be very very short,
so send those in Ryan Show at ktwdb dot com.
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Thank you for listening, and we'll see you tomorrow.