Sarah

We talk Taylor, the best shoes, and buying flowers on a first date!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I went through last night, cleaned out the email box
of the Minnesota Goodbye and found some old emails. We're
gonna go way way back and look at some of
the old emails that we did not get to. For example,
from July seventh, Wow, you were talking about good and
bad waiter customer stories, and this is Ashley saying, I
want to share One years ago pre COVID, I was

(00:23):
the sales manager at a convention center that was also
a wedding venue. Table of about four or five people
at least in their mid sixties were building the pyramid
of their empty plastic beer cups. One of my banquet
staff members walked up at the table and started clearing
off the table. One of the drunk old hags had
the audacity to grab my server's wrist and said, don't

(00:43):
take down that pyramid. We've been working really hard on it.
My server informed me of the situation. I was fuming.
Nobody puts their hands on my staff. I walked over
the table explained putting hands on my staff or being
rude was unacceptable, and if it happened again, you're gonna leave.
I told the banquet staff to avoid that table. I
also stationed one person from security to watch over the
guests at that table and to radio me the second

(01:06):
they left the table unattended. I got a call from
security that everybody at the table went up to the
bar for another round. It's my time to strike. Like
I was in a national cup stacking competition. I took
down their massive pyramid of beer cups and had the
table cleared in seconds and walked out with a stack
of cups. Man, I do wish I had eyes in

(01:26):
the back of my head, because the security guard said
the look on their faces when they noticed their pyramid
was gone was priceless. I was absolutely shocked to their behavior.
A beer pyramid is something we see guys in their
early twenties doing, not retirees. All right, have a great day,
guys from Ashley. Wow. I don't know. I think it's
kinda harmless unless they were like drunk and you know, annoying.

(01:52):
Let them make their beer pyramid.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Mean, But like how classy was the venue?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I think it depends on I think there are some
situations that maybe we just don't fully understand.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Be all right, another one, this goes to July sixteenth.
My random topic from kendre is running slash walking. I
need advice. What kind of shoes do you recommend? I
would go down to a dedicated athletic foot store. I'm
not going to say one of the big box stores

(02:23):
in the mall because I went to a big box
store in the mall and they were, you know, seemingly helpful,
but I did not get the best shoes. And they'll
be like, oh, yeah, this one's great. So if you
go to a dedicated athletic foot store, like and I
can't think of one, is marathon sports still around?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Maybe Mill City running?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
One that like we'll see what kind of arch you
have in your foot and stuff like that you're with
and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, they have you stand The good ones have you
stand on like a little it looks like a mat
that will you know, map your foot and they'll be like, oh,
you have a small arch, you have no arch, you prone,
you overpronate, which means your ankle's tilt in. Oh, and
if you're serious about it, I mean, walking is probably
one thing. Running is definitely something you should invest in.

(03:10):
Good shoes. I went to Walmart one time because I
was on vacation and got a six dollars pair of
running shoes from Walmartkes ran ten miles in them, and
I could definitely feel the difference.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Tear them away.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yea, truly. I've had cheap shoes before too, which and
I go on a lot of walks, so I started
investing in nice shoes changes the whole thing. You got hokahs, right,
and I do have hokahs, yeah, I got mine at
Peterson's Shoes and a nooka. It's I don't know if
they like map your foot kind of thing, but the
people actually know what they're talking about there, which is nice.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay. Yeah. Also, I live in southern Minnesota. I hate
being stuck on the treadmill all winter, so when I
can get outside, it's glorious. However, do you know what's
the safest way to run outside on country roads against
traffic or with it no trails around here unless I'm
driving to the next county, I would say definitely always

(03:58):
run against trap That way, you can see if a
car is coming, especially with people texting and driving, you
can see if they're, like, you know, moving over for you.
If they're not moving over, you can hop into the
ditch or run off the side of the road or whatever.
So I would say always run with the traffic, against
the traffic, yeah, yes. And then for safety tips, vests

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and in protective measures, the I would say, yeah, I
mean sure you'd wear an orange or a yellow vest. Sure,
why not? Why not? It doesn't hurt, or just a
shirt that's bright orange or bright yellow.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I mean I would say that, like sometimes if it's
dark though, you do need the reflective gear. So if
you are.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Running crue and a headline.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I think I don't know. I had a really awkward
situation last spring when it was dark out and a
guy like came at me and yelled at me because
I did not see him. And I'd pulled into a
caribou parking lot right at that intersection and I almost
hit him, and he was wearing a bright shirt, but
it was it was dark out and it wasn't reflected. Yeah,
so I didn't see him. Still, and I apologize, but

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this man was fucking angriest hell at me, and I'm sorry,
like I didn't see you.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
She finishes by saying thanks time, thanks for taking time
to read this, Love you guys, and Bernie calling the
show bit top tier entertainment.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Appreciate it. Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Thank you, Kendra. Next one, this one says, I've been
listening to the Minnesota Goodbye and I've always wanted to
write in. What caught my attention was all the women
named Sarah writing in I'm an eighties baby. Grew up
with several other Sarah's in my grade. I feel this
is largely due to popular songs Sarah Smile, Starship Song Sarah,

(05:39):
and Fleetwood Mac Sarah. It's interesting to look at how
music has influenced people's lives, or how many memories are
associated with music. I can remember singing Queens, we Will
Rock You in the truck with my dad clapping along,
listening to Billy Joel's cassette tape Stormfront over and over
in the car with my mom, listening to Boys to
Men and Spice Girls from my boombox with my friends outside,

(06:01):
buying my first CD Shanaia Twains Come On over, and
listening to CDs over and over again in my room.
There are so many more. I have two older stepdaughters
who were in high school, and they could care less
about music. They don't listen to music in their rooms.
They don't talk about music, and I've asked them who's
their current favorite artists, they wouldn't be able to answer.

(06:22):
I was talking to a coworker about this. She feels
the same way about her too high school age girls.
Why do you think this is? She feels it's due
to how disposable music is now. You can easily access
and then dump music, so you don't have a commitment
to your whatever album you're Shania Twain CD.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Also, to add on to that, I feel like we'll
start playing a song on the radio and we won't
know the artists, we won't know the song name or anything,
but we start hearing it and we realize it's like
a trending song on social media. So maybe that's something too,
where it's like, Oh, these kids might know the trending
song they're hearing, but they don't know the artists, they
don't know the name of the song. Yeah, they just
like the song and they hear and they're like, oh,

(07:04):
that's a cute song with this trend.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah. I'm hoping to teach my younger daughters more about music.
I feel I have so many core memories associated to music.
It has helped me through some challenging times. Huge thank
you for the four of you for lifting my spirits daily.
I'm a social worker and like to listen to the
Minnesota Goodbye on my way home to de stress. I
appreciate all of you. Dart Lick from a nineteen eighties Sarah.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I just checked in my phone. I have six Sarah's
just in my phone and really best friends Sarah.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I definitely went to school with a lot of Sarah's
I don't have. I'll let me say, okay, because I feel.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Like if of all the names, it's Sarah Sarah, like Sarah, Katie, Andy,
and Ryan are the ones that I have the most of.
I think, no four.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I have two to Sarah to Sarah, Yeah, and I
don't recognize either of their names. Oh no, let's see.
Here's a note one listening Monday morning to the show
when the babysitter came on and wondered why the family
she sat for ghosted her. Then she revealed that she
drank their wine and took the bottle with her. I
sensed that you were all trying to see her point

(08:13):
of view and not completely roast on the air. But
I got to know what did you really think? Because
come on, I wouldn't be calling a sitter back either
if I came home and saw an entire bottle of
wine and disappeared. I was on her side until that
review reveal she was playing plurretty loose and wild with
their invitation to quote help herself. I think we were

(08:34):
pretty honest about it. I do, if you didn't hear it.
She was a babysitter and they said help yourself to anything.
She was legal age, she had a bottle of wine.
She opened it, and then she didn't want them to
know that she had a bottle of wine, so she
took it with and she's worried they found out or
maybe sorry drinking wine on it? And what about the
glass unless she chugged it right out of the bottle,

(08:55):
you know, the glass ends up in the sink. I guess, sir, Well,
if you're cleaning the glass, is that admitting to yourself
that you know you shouldn't have done it? Because if
you had a glass of milk, would you put it
in the dishwasher?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
No? I mean when I baby said, I always did
the dishes of any kind of dish that I dirtied,
So I don't think that that necessarily provides guilt.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
But oh, okay, next one, howdy, says Kaylee. First of all,
like to say how I appreciate all four of you.
You helped me get through the passing of my mother.
I wrote in last October when she was diagnosed with als,
and she passed last month. I'm so sorry to hear
that because of her passing, I'm behind on the podcast
listening of The Big Show. My two dogs always yanked

(09:41):
our arms when walking. Then we found the brand Halty
on Amazon works tremendously, and she goes onto some details
on that one because I'm really trying to figure out
how to get Bernie to not pull. He's a strong boy,
and sometimes if he's going this way then darts the
other way, he'll like really really pull. Also, you discussed

(10:03):
the cashiers with pens the check and see if your
hundred dollars bill is counterfeit. The pens aren't for marking.
Then holding the bill up to the light. A real
bill will mark a very light, almost translucent yellow, whereas
the counterfeit marks a deep brown. It tests the level
of linen in the bills. I didn't know, huh.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I didn't know that either, and I used to work
in retail and we used to have to mark stuff,
but they would just be like, yeah, you're gonna write
this thing on here, and then we weren't like told, Okay,
what do we do with that now that we have
this marker on here?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Like okay, really I knew that, like I think we
only I think we only ever looked at like one
hundred dollar bills when I worked at it, anyway, But yeah,
I knew that if it had like a dark mark
on it, that that was kind of fit. Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
That is from Kaylee from Ohio. Kaylee, thanks for listening
all the way in Ohio. Hello morning crew. Sarah here
from Hudson. Thanks for bringing the energy as always, All Rock.
I love Theday motivation this week, which was I will
read it to you again. I actually put it on
my Instagram because people seem to like it so much.
So the Monday motivation was most people's work ethic is

(11:11):
trash because they're waiting to feel motivated. Motivation is for amateurs.
Discipline is doing it when you don't feel like it
every single day. That's the difference. Stop waiting for feelings
and start operating on standards. And I read that yesterday,
expecting a big backlash from people who didn't want to,

(11:33):
you know, do it on days that they don't feel motivated,
but so many people support it. Everybody did so, she says,
I'm the manager of college aid students and it can
be exhausting to constantly try and motivate them. I found
the quote you shared so relatable because you really are
the driver of your own success. I often think one
word that describes it is grit. People that have a goal,

(11:55):
set their mind to it, and follow through with intention,
and they succeed even if you miss. You tried and
learned something along the way. Thanks to each of you
for sharing your success and failures with us. Both are
important to grow and set and you guys set great examples.
And then she goes on to talk about slow cooker
Sundays and I'm gonna save these recipes for french onion

(12:19):
pot roast, turkey meat turkey meatball soup, green chicken chili,
and for vauant my favorite crock pot pork chops with
apples and stuffing. PS. Jenny, you were right, opal Lite
is great. That's my favorite. What are the rest of
you like? From Taylor's album Go Pack Oh, go, pack go,

(12:40):
She says, Oh, have a great day. I don't know
about Taylor's album, and I'm not particularly interested, just like
you might not be interested in passions of mine. Yeah,
and I don't have anything against it. It just is
not that interesting to me.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
It is also not my I'm not interested in Taylor
Swift either, and not because I don't like her. I
just don't care about her music, that's all.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I will still stick with Opelite as my favorite. I
would say The Fate of Ophelia probably comes in second,
and then The Life of a show Girl is third
for me. And there's some songs on that I could
care less about, ruin the friendship eldest daughter. Don't really
care about any of.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Those, Okay, last one on the Minnesota Goodbye Dave, Jenny Bailey.
I need a little advice. This is from a guy
named Austin. I have a first date later today. This
was written this morning, about an hour ago, and it's
my first in a while, and I'm thinking about bringing
her a bouquet of flowers or a single rose? Is

(13:36):
that a little too much for a first date. We've
never met and only talked on dating sites the Internet.
Gives me mixed reactions. I'm looking for your feedback. Thanks,
don't share my name please. Okay, I'll go back and
I will delete the part of this conversation where I
said your name Jenny, What do you think?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I personally think it's sweet. I don't know what your
date is, so I think that that maybe would play
a role. But I do think it's sweat to show
up with a bouquet of flowers. I think some people
might take it the wrong way, but I would not.
I would think that that it was very like chivalrous,
very kind, and very thoughtful.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, if you're going to get a bouquet, don't get
a single rose. YEA, The single rose is weird.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
I like going to like either if there are any
farmer's markets open today, they always have bouquets that are
like put together already. If not, go to like Trader
Joe's and get a bunch of different flowers and then
make your own bouquet. Because if you go to like,
I don't know, any grocery store and just get daisies
and then keep it in like the plastic and just
hand it to her.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Mmm.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
But if you like go out of your way and
make a bouquet look nice and maybe you know, put
in some like orange roses and some like yellow and
then like eucalyptus. I don't know, like do whatever you
want and make your own so it looks like you
actually put an effort and didn't just grab the cheapest one.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
I want to say, Trader Joe's does have like those mixed.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I know they do. Oh, but you could make your own.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
If you if you if you're nervous about doing that,
because I think that some people try to put together
boquet and they don't know how well. So I would
I would go with a already pre made bouquet if
you're able to.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Question does he need to put it in water? Or
just hand her flowers in a bouquet because she.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Can put it in water. I always make that joke
every time I give flowers, because I do a lot.
I give flowers and then the hold on they're like, oh,
thank you so much, Ago put those in water, And
it's just the you say that all the time because
course you're going to put them in water. Good bit,
so don't put them in water that if you bring
a vase that's too much.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I would bring a picture framed of yourself and give
that to her.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
This is why you're single.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm not single.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh well.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
The reason I bring that up is many years ago
I dated a woman in Las Vegas and she was
talking about how on her first date with a boy
one time and not a boy probably in their twenties,
he brought her a I think probably a rose and
a framed picture of himself, I guess, And I thought, Wow,
no clueless. Hey, thanks for all the emails. That was

(15:57):
a lot of fun. Send more. We have now, how
exhausted every single email because I cleaned out the email
box and all of the ones if we never got
to your email. There are some that are really long,
and honestly, I look at the ones that are really
long and I kind of skim through them to see
if there's something I can get from there, and sometimes
there is and sometimes there's not. And I hate to

(16:19):
reject anybody's email because I feel that if you wrote
to the show and you care enough to write, I
really want to read your email. But you know, some
of them just really are a little bit too long,
or there's something that we've talked about many many times,
or you know, for whatever reason, but always thank you
for writing. And if you wrote before and we read
it right again, and if you've never written, write for

(16:42):
the first time. And if you wrote before and we
didn't read it, hey, try us again. We'd love to
get your email on send it to Ryan's show at
kadiwb dot com and tell a friend about the Minnesota Goodbye.