It is for ride Day Minnesota Goodbye time you guys ready, yay, let's get going here we go on the Minnesota Goodbye. Let's start off with this one. Imagine my surprise listening to the Minnesota Goodbye doing my summer chemistry research project for the University of Wisconsin River Falls, and I hear Bailey name drop the school I attend. I must say that while his graduation's rate is not particularly grade fifty eight percent, there are other University Wisconsin schools that are a
little more questionable than us. You w Plattsville and Oshkosh with rates of fifty two and fifty five percent, respectively. That's really interesting to me. I never thought about graduation rates out of college. I thought, if you're going to go to college, you have determined that you want to go, and of course you want to graduate. Half the people at these schools don't graduate. Hey, I looked it up yesterday for Saint Cloud and it's a ninety
five percent percent acceptance rate and a forty five percent graduation rate. Forty five five. But it's like it's wild because people I would say, oh, I'm going to Saint Clown, they go like, oh, party school and I'd be like, no, because I went to school the entire time and I graduated with a degree. I learned everything that I needed to learn for my degree, and so like, yeah, okay, I threw River Falls under the bus, but that's because that's what I it's my defense mechanism.
When people make fun of Saint Cloud, I would be like, yeah, well River Falls and but hey, well that kind of makes sense that they accept everybody, and so therefore they're going to lose a lot more people over the next couple of years. Kind of like if we hired everybody that applied, half of them would not work out, probably more than half. So they say fun of River. What she's saying Platteville and Oshkosh because okay,
because fifty two and fifty five, got it. I think you said University of Wisconsin Plattevil in Oshkosh and I was like, platfel Is its own city, like southeast or West Wisconsin. Was confused. She goes on to say, I also wouldn't call at a party school only because it's considered a suitcase college. If you don't know, that is where the majority of students leave almost every weekend. Also, no extraculurricular event activities happen Friday afternoon through Sunday.
If I'm being honest, it's a little sad and has been like that since my mom graduated there in ninety seven. Can't party if you don't have any else to party with? Loll. All in all, we're still a great school, ranked high in agriculture, teaching, and stem fields. My friends and I really enjoy it there. I'll leave you guys with the conversation I overheard a year ago. Is River Falls a party school or a school school? Oh? Please? Every school in Wisconsin is a party school?
Dart Lick from Cassie. Interesting, I you know, I guess it would be. I never thought about going to a school that doesn't have like Saturday afternoon football, you know what I mean. Yeah, that's strange that there's no extracurriculars on the weekend. But if you go to the MEU river Fall, that is the University Wisconsin. So the main school is in what Madison?
Well, I mean there's a lot of UW's, So Madison in Milwaukee are like the two big ones, but Madison's definitely the main big ones, Okay, because like there's you know, u of M, Like, you know, I don't know Morrisville or Montevideo or whatever, but the main one where they play football is here in Minneapolis, right. I mean deLuce has hockey though, so that's what they sing up there. So they have their own hockey team, yes, And I mean the U of M obviously has
all those sports too, but yeah, UW's have. There's quite a few UW's. I was kind of shocked because Mankato is a state university in Sant Clouds too, but there's like a UW in practically every bigish city in Wisconsin. Next one, please don't same a name. P one freak listener here. P one is an industry term for somebody who listens all the time. It is an industry term that people have kind of got the word out.
I don't like using it because it's a buzzword. It's kind of like, you know, using like I don't know, medical term that we don't know. But P one people understand what it is. P one is a big listener. I absolutely love you guys and listen every single day. I'm pathetic, No, we love you any who. I need to chime in on stealing. I've always believed that stealing is wrong, no matter the circumstances.
With that being said, my heart genuinely aches for those who struggle, and I have felt so strongly about this that I made a career change into outreach. I felt called to serve some of the most vulnerable, especially those living in poverty. Through this work, I've gained a deeper understanding and want to offer my perspective. I am angered by the mentality of, well, you
don't know their situation, or maybe they really need to steal. There are several ways people like you and me who do not live in poverty already serve these people. Number One, we pay for our stuff. Yes, it's that simple. We buy what we want we need we keep businesses running. Two taxes. Our taxes fund government programs that provide financial assistance for those in need, whether we like it or not. Three extra giving to charities.
Many people donate money or volunteer their time to non governmental organizations that help the less fortunate. Then, after all that, we get punched in the gut if someone steals Uugh, despite all this support, it's infuriating when somebody steals because it ultimately causes prices to rise for everyone. There is no excuse for stealing. There, I said it. There is a wealth of resources available for those who need help. Several places, just in the Twin Cities have
food resources where there are no questions asked. Absolutely anyone can get food without any sort of proof of need, et cetera. There are also many options to help with rent, assistance, abuse, job help, whatever to get them got them in their current situation, all free, all paid by you and me. Dave, you are not a dick, except when you call my girl Mary Joe Copeland old bag. That's the ones I'm married, Joe
Copeland. I'm here with sharing and caring hand. I'm here on your TV every Christmas, and I'm dancing with young people on this video that makes me look so cute. Mary? Is that you God? She does good work? But whatever, anyway, we should all feel this way. We should be contributing to society in any way that we can. Those facing hardship have so many options to get the help they need and can be met by some
of the most amazing kind people. Trust me, these agencies care about people and are trying their very best to give them any of the help they need. I've seen it I live it every day. Rant over all. Right, that's interesting because she was so Yeah, she was so passionate about helping people that live in poverty that that's what she does now. But she says, fuck, you don't steal. It's like she really does. And it's like I totally agree, so and there, and I think that's true.
And I don't claim to know that much about it. I know that there are many many agencies. So I will go ahead and be a make a guess an observation that if you are a food poor, then you're not using the resources that are around you unless you don't have the resources around you, because you might be in like a food desert, like where the food that you need are the especially like the accessible food like shelves and stuff that you
need aren't near you. Like where where would that be? I'm well, I'm just like, what if you're in a rural area and you don't have a way of transporporting yourself to a food shelf, so you can't get there, so you're that's that's like a food desert, is that you just don't have like the availability of cheap or free food near you. I guess I think about the show made on Netflix. When I hear certain things like this, and I know you watched it too, Dave, because we had someone
on to talk after. I was about a woman who was in a domestic abuse situation. She had, I mean, she's basically brainwashed to like stay home with their kid and stuff, so she didn't have a job. She had like no ability to get a job because she had like no resume whatever. And when she left that situation, like the resources for her to get
a job were very minimal. And I know she went to like food shelves and stuff, and she got into a shelter at some point, But it was really like an eye opener for me to see how difficult it is to leave like such a bad situation and how hard it was still for her to get herself into a right situation when she was going to these women's shelters and stuff like, it was still very hard. So I don't think that stealing's
great and everything. I totally understand that, but I do feel like, I mean, I shouldn't speak because this person who emailed then literally works in the system. But watching that show, and granted it is entertainment, so I don't know how much is exaggerated. Did open my eyes a little bit to how hard it is to get what you need. I'm going to guess that there are probably a few people who justify their steam and maybe they think
that it is justified. She does not think it's justified. But I'm gonna guess that just like most people that you see begging for money on a street corner could go get a job if they wanted to, but then they would have to work a schedule, be responsible, and pay taxes, and maybe not make as much as they do begging on a street corner. I think the same thing is probably most of the people that are stealing are doing it because they don't want to go to the other sources, right, And I
totally agree with you. I think that there's really shitty human beings out there who probably do not need money on the street corner, and that's just what they do. I totally agree with you. I do not give people money on the street corner. I am like, I don't either, Yeah, I just give them. I don't I don't make eye contact. Yeah. I was on the motorcycle the other day and this is one that I just
fucking hate to see it. Was a family. They had set up a little umbrella ish tent to sit under the tent, and mom and a couple of three dirty babies are sitting under the They weren't dirty. I didn't look, but they were none of the umbrella tent. And Dad's got a sign and I didn't read it, and he waved at me, and I didn't wait back, because it's like, man, is this the best you can do for your family? I mean, there's got to be something. Go
to some agency that will help you. There's got to be And if I'm wrong, let me know if there's nowhere for these people to turn right. Yeah, I think if I was a parent in that situation, I would try to do something better for my family then sit under an umbrella tent holding
the cardboard sign. Yeah, I mean I agree. I saw a family, like just a couple weeks ago, sitting on a corner and I like, immediately my heart hurt because had a baby that was probably under one years old, and it was mom and dad, and I was like that poor baby. It was hot out. And Andrew's in the car with me and he goes John like, look at them, they look very clean. They don't really look like they've been living under a bridge somewhere. They probably live
in that apartment across the street. And Andrew is he does give money to people and stuff like he's very I don't know giving in that way, but he was like, ah, I feel like they probably live across the street, Like look how clean they are. Whatever. Well, I think we've all been burned. I told you this story a couple of months ago.
I'm in Colorado in a big major grocery store, their version of cub and I'm back by the frozen foods, dairy whatever, and a woman who's not from America originally by her accent, she said, excuse me, sir, can you help me pay for some groceries? And I firmly said no. And then about fifteen seconds later, I thought, man, I've heard about people like this who they don't have any money for food and they've got a kid. And I thought, man, I've got an abundance. I am
fortunate enough that I have an abundance of money. I'm not rich, but I've got money that I could afford to give her. So I had one hundred dollars bill in my pocket. I pulled it out. I gave it to her, and one of the things that I noticed that she didn't look at it. And I gave her a hundred, and I thought that she would be like, Wow, this paid for my whole carter close to it and this is great, And I thought she didn't even look at it.
She seemed very grateful. Two things I heard when I got back that this is a common scam. They do it in grocery stores, they get kicked out. It's a very common scam. So I felt like a dumbass, and it was angry also, And then I thought there are people who will force people like that to go to the grocery store, not to collect money for themselves, but to collect money for whatever bad group of people there are. So she didn't care that I was giving her a hundred because it wasn't
going to her anyway. Sure, I feel like there's a lot of bad actors where like they'll ruin it for the rest of the people. Well that's the way life is, yes, And that's why we have, you know, safety caps on medicine bottles because you and I would never poison a bottle of medicine or a bottle of contact solution. But one person and a million
would do it, and that it's like TSA. We are never going to try to do something at TSA that we shouldn't do, but one motherfucker is going to try to do it. That's why we all have to go through TSA bad actors. Yeah, yeah, but though I will say I disagree with like not making eye contact with the people on the on the street because they're still people and I don't I don't want to treat anyone like they're below me, because I mean, we're all just like kind of like that.
That's why you don't make eye contact. You don't make eye contact because you feel bad in a way that you're not giving them money. That's why I don't make eye contact, Like I understood that is, you don't make eye contact because these are why are these people asking for money on the side of the street. No, I don't want to form any kind of like connection. Yeah, that's for me, Like I just don't want them to come up and start talking to me and then me having to be like, sorry,
I'm not giving you any money. That's why I don't have a nice day and I don't know enjoy the weather. I don't know I always I always say something to them. I rarely give them anything unless I have food in my car, and then I'll give them food. But like I mean, sometimes I feel like for some of those people, that might be the
option for them, even if like there are other options around. Like I mean, we all grow up seeing those people on the side of the road with a sign, So like if that's what you see in that you're like, Okay, that's how I can get some money, then you're gonna copy it, even if like it's not the best necessarily way to do it.
Like you said, Jenny, like the system is really hard to get into and to like benefit from, I believe, and maybe this email put the person who emailed can like verify, but I think it's like harder to get yourself out of it than we know. I think it's true. And I think that one of the things that I have And this maybe sounds like you're privileged, old white guy. Don't get into a situation that you are going
to regret later. In other words, if you see a red flag from this guy that you've been dating, get out before you get in your ear said than done either well, and I think that's true. If you think that. I mean the I just read an article from a woman who has tracked abuse and serial killers here in entire career. She said, you have a gift, and you've heard of this book too, the Gift of fear. It's your gut will tell you something's not right, something's not right.
And if you get that vibe from a guy, then get out before it becomes dangerous. Also, don't find yourself, you know, don't spend your twenties drinking and partying, because then all of a sudden, you're going to be thirty and you're not going to have an education and you're not going to be able to and if you have a couple of kids, then you're really going to be screwed. Now, this comes from somebody who came from nothing. We had no money, I didn't know anybody in the business. I
worked hard to get where I am. But at the same time, I am a white guy in a white culture who definitely did have an advantage. So I can kind of see it both ways. But what I'm going to do from now on? Now here we go, Yeah, what what do you mean? You know, set something up? And what are you going to do from now on? Hand now coupons. Okay, yeah, coupons hand to the tator coupons that we got top potato, could pot Yeah.
So no, I'm just gonna give them a tub of top potato. Oh, because who doesn't love top potato just to eat it out of the container. Pa'm gonna buy them everything, Jenny, Well, gosh, at least buy them some potato chips and buying everything for these people. Just buy a box of granola bars. That's what I do. Buy a box of granola bars and be like, want a granola bar? Are you? Are you serious? Yeah? And they take it yeah, okay, and then I
say, here you go, and then you gave them something. One you look at a person who is a person who's going through a hard time, probably maybe, and then they have a granola bar so they can eat. See you, the world needs people like you, and it needs people like me. It does crab asses. No, that's funny, that was funny. You could say that. But I think if everybody was like you,
then everybody would take advantage of people like you. Sure, if everybody was like me, i'd be everybody be a crab ass, you know what I mean. But at least you'd be responsible for yourself. So I think that the world needs people like you, and it needs people like me. And this is what we don't realize in this country is we need every point of view. I mean, some are way out there and not good. I get that. But if everybody agreed that this should happen this way all the
time, that is called a dictatorship, I believe. I think it's a dictatorship. If you are forced to believe like Adolf Hitler, and if you don't believe like Adolf Hitler or Stalin, that is a dictatorship and you will be taken out and you will be shot and killed. So we've got to have people that believe both ways, and if we don't, then we're in a really dangerous situation. Does nobody? Does anybody agree? I agree? I nobody. We've talked about this before, like this euphoric community world that
people like strive to have and stuff utopian. Sorry, that's what I meant, and obviously that's unattainable. But yeah, I mean I agree, everyone's different. The world goes by well well, I mean it's harder for some people. But yeah, okay, next one, changing the subject completely. That was really interesting if you have any thoughts on that, send your email. Next one Brie, who is our friend, our secretary. She sends out staff writer sticker. She says, it's me. I'm sitting in a
hospital bed, and she did say she had surgery. She wrote in an ambulance yesterday, first ever ride in an ambulance. She's thirty seven. And we are not asking what's wrong with Brie, but I think she's got some, you know, problems that are more than like they're They're different than like a broken leg or a back problem. I'm gonna guess there are some internal
belly problems or something like that. I was just thinking a good question might be, have you any of you ever had to write an ambulance before? And if so, why, if you're comfortable sharing, My hope is none of you, but for content's sake, maybe not Secretary Bri. I'll go first. I was in Dayton, Ohio five ish years ago, and I'm sitting at the bar. I'm down there by myself to see the big airplane museum. They have a huge airplane museum. It's fucking cool and I love
airplanes. And so I was down there for two days and I'm sitting at the bar at the hotel, and I'm like, you know, probably drinking, and like, you know, not there just to drink, but having dinner and sitting at the bar, and my Apple Watch says your pulse rate is really high and you're not doing anything. And then it said it again, your pulse rate is really high and you're not doing anything. So I called my friend Wendy, and I started to feel like a little nervous about
this one. Yeah, She's like, have some gator raid and go lay down. Didn't do anything. So I drove myself to the minute clinic or the urgent care or whatever, and they were very concerned. They're like, yeah, this should not be happening. We've already called the squad. And when she said she didn't say ambulance, she said squad. I'll never forget it. So I rode to the hospital. They checked up on everything. It was an anomaly. Nobody knows why it happened. I spent like five
hours in the hospital in Dayton, Ohio. And then another time I just felt this is a couple of years ago, about two or three years ago, I just felt really dizzy, woozy, and I felt like it was going to pass out, and I was really worried that I couldn't even walk, so I called no, I said, Susan helped me out. What if I do? She called nine one one because she wasn't around, and the ambulance came by and took me down to the hospital over here. And
here's a little thing that you don't know. When you get to the hospital in an ambulance, they don't treat you right away. They put you in the waiting room. You wait eleven hours like everybody else. They should have just driven in anyway. Any ambulance stories, Bailey at all, I do not. I rode in a fast car with my friends on the way to a hospital when I had a blood clot. Oh yikes, that was it. That's essentially you had a blood clot. I had it in college in
my leg and you're okay, I'm fine, didn't die. I didn't die, but I had a bad Charlie horse for a week and then I thought, this doesn't seem right. It was nikes, yeah, Jenny, nothing for me. Just my little sister. When we were in York County, she hit her head on a tree so on a trail when we were biking to a beach. Oh my god. So she had to ride in one with my mom, and then my dad took me and my other sister in the car. So that's the only experience I kind of have with it.
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