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Midwest Anthem · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  Speaker 1: Big 98.7.
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  Speaker 2: Now we are kicking off Greater Moorhead Days. Well, today.
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  Speaker 2: And Moorhead, just another incredible, awesome Midwest town, Midwest city.
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  Speaker 2: We're celebrating the Midwest and Moorhead. Today here on Big 98.7,
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  Speaker 2: because we believe we have found what might be the
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  Speaker 2: greatest Midwest anthem. All that would be missing from this
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  Speaker 2: store to be the Midwest king of the world would
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  Speaker 2: be like a bottle of ranch as the... company logo
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  Speaker 2: you know so what would be your midwest anthem let
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  Speaker 2: us know at 701-280-1987 this is from kelly she said
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  Speaker 2: the midwest anthem is 100 john mellencamp.
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  Speaker 3: About this song.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she added John Mellencamp's Small Town. There's no debate.
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  Speaker 2: That's just how it is out here.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. I like that. That is a good contender.
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  Speaker 2: And that is true. You know, it's the small towns
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  Speaker 2: in the Midwest that make the Midwest what it is,
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  Speaker 2: one of the greatest places ever to live. Now, we
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  Speaker 2: do have this from Dave, and he said, I understand
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  Speaker 2: this is technically West Virginia, but every Midwest wedding plays
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  Speaker 2: it like it's ours.
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  Speaker 4: Country roads.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's one of those songs, Growing Up in the Midwest,
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  Speaker 2: you know every single word to or at least that part.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny. Have you heard the song
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  Speaker 2: from beginning to end ever?
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  Speaker 4: Literally, I guess it is West Virginia, but in my head,
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  Speaker 4: that immediately sparks Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. And every time I hear that, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know we don't got the mountains, but he is
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  Speaker 2: talking about the landscape.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here is what we have decided to be the
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  Speaker 2: Midwest anthem today. And this is a bop. If you
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  Speaker 2: are not raging right now to that song, I can't
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  Speaker 2: do anything for you.
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  Speaker 3: It's so good. My heart rates up. I feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrating life's little victories.
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  Speaker 1: Victory.
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  Speaker 5: Every morning we practice gratitude on Big 98.7. If I could, I.
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  Speaker 2: Would keep this feeling in a plastic jar. Bust it
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  Speaker 2: out whenever someone's acting hard. I just really needed a win,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 5: Share your little victories with us at 701-280-1987.
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  Speaker 2: Angie, do you have a little victory to celebrate today?
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  Speaker 4: When I get up for work every morning, nobody in
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  Speaker 4: the house is awake because it is 3 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: And I.
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  Speaker 3: Stepped on a Lego and did not scream.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. I had to call the ambulance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. So nobody woke up and I just. carried
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  Speaker 4: on with the pain until it subsided. And that is
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  Speaker 4: not a little victory.
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  Speaker 3: That's major. You ever stepped on the Lego? That's the
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  Speaker 3: worst thing that could happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have never stepped on a Lego yet, but
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  Speaker 2: I have stepped on a hard dog toy. Ooh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of the same sport.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of the same sport.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I will let you know, I was not quiet
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  Speaker 2: when that happened to me. My little victory here today,
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  Speaker 2: this is just the greatest thing The greatest thing I've
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  Speaker 2: ever been able to explain to you in Little Victories,
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  Speaker 2: if you remember back when my wife was pregnant, I
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  Speaker 2: was telling you about our OBGYN and how I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to get this lady to laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She don't think you're funny.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't think I'm very funny. Well, our daughter had her,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, whatever appointment is, whatever the appointment is
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  Speaker 2: for being a month and a half older. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: I didn't go to that one. Normally I would. But
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  Speaker 2: that one is more for it's more for Corey than
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  Speaker 2: it is for the kid.
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  Speaker 5: OK. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So Corey had an appointment, I should say. And she
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  Speaker 2: brought Kaylee with to this appointment to this same doctor
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  Speaker 2: that I had been trying to, you know, joke around
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  Speaker 2: with and have a little fun. And she just wasn't
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  Speaker 2: having it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did at least get this when Corey was
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  Speaker 2: in this appointment with Kaylee. The doctor said, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: she looks a lot like her dad. So I did
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  Speaker 2: get to have a tiny little bit of a closure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So she knows who you are.
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  Speaker 2: This woman that wanted nothing to do with me.
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  Speaker 3: But she remembered your face.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: But she remembered your face and not the bad jokes coming.
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  Speaker 1: Out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It felt like I could, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: close the chapter, close the book and move on with
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  Speaker 2: my life. I love that. Big shout out because I
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  Speaker 2: know you know who you are if you're listening this
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  Speaker 2: morning on Big 98.7. Well, first things first, I've become
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  Speaker 2: that person that loved talking about my daughter. I have
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  Speaker 2: entered that realm of parenthood where a lot of convos
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  Speaker 2: revolve around Kaylee. And I do just want to have
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  Speaker 2: one with you today if you are a parent. I
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  Speaker 2: want to know which of these was more terrifying because
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  Speaker 2: I think I came to the conclusion that where I'm
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  Speaker 2: at now is more scary than when she was a
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  Speaker 2: brand new baby. When Kaylee was born, you know, every parent,
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  Speaker 2: you're terrified. I got to keep this thing alive. Yada, yada, yada.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now I have almost a two-month-old, and she has
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  Speaker 2: reached that point where you can tell she's starting to
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  Speaker 2: kind of realize that she's a human, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: big world around her, and she looks at things and
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  Speaker 2: stares at things, and you can tell she has thoughts
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  Speaker 2: in her brain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: To me, that's a little more freaky than it was, eat, sleep, poop, dad,
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  Speaker 2: change my diaper.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Now, it's like, oh, no, like, you have thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Are you worried that you're already just... Setting her up
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  Speaker 3: to need therapy.
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  Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just kind of crazy because you realize at
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  Speaker 2: some point this is going to grow into her own human.
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  Speaker 2: She is going to go out and have to make
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  Speaker 2: decisions without mom or dad there to give her the
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  Speaker 2: right answer. Yeah. And so I have just reached the
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the you know, when the sprinters in the
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  Speaker 2: race have got their feet in the blocks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The starting shots about to go off. Yeah. I'm there.
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  Speaker 2: My feet are in the blocks for this thing that
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  Speaker 2: is about to have its own thoughts and its own
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  Speaker 2: experiences in life instead of dad just protecting her in
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  Speaker 2: her little, you know, bubble for the rest of time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you something that is a joke,
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  Speaker 4: but not really. My sister for Christmas one year gave
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  Speaker 4: my mom in her stocking a little magnet that said
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  Speaker 4: the first word. 40 years of parenting are the hardest.
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  Speaker 4: And that is absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely correct. 701-280-1987. I just wanted, you know, to hear
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  Speaker 2: from other people who have had kids. What is scarier?
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  Speaker 2: That first, like, two, three weeks where, frankly, I've said
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  Speaker 2: this once, I'll say it again, they don't do a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot. You kind of just hold them and feed
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  Speaker 2: them and change their diaper and they sleep. That is
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  Speaker 2: terrifying in and of itself. But the fact that she
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  Speaker 2: is now starting to realize that she's a person and
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  Speaker 2: she moves and makes noises and stares and focuses on things. Well,
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  Speaker 2: when she was tiny, I didn't have to worry about
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  Speaker 2: what she was thinking. Now I'm worried about what she's
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  Speaker 2: thinking 24-7. That's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: You're so in your head about it.
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  Speaker 4: For me, I really genuinely, it was that very, because
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  Speaker 4: I literally had never had to keep anything alive before.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even have a pet before. before I had kids, okay?
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  Speaker 3: So I thought that was scarier.
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  Speaker 4: I felt more when the kids, when like Aiden, for example,
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  Speaker 4: my first kid, I felt like when he was starting
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  Speaker 4: to focus on things.
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  Speaker 3: I thought now I could relate to him more.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: So I felt like we were in a sweet spot
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe it's just having dogs growing up
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  Speaker 2: and keeping something alive wasn't too scary for me or something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. But the fact that she is starting
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  Speaker 2: to become her own person is terrifying to me.
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  Speaker 5: 701-280-1987.
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  Speaker 2: Is there something no matter the cost, if you could,
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  Speaker 2: you would buy it? 701-280-1987. The reason I ask this
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  Speaker 2: is someone just paid over $ 400, 000 for a fake mosquito
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  Speaker 2: from a fake amber in a 30-year-old movie.
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  Speaker 3: And correct.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: This is from Jurassic Park, obviously. It would be awesome
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  Speaker 2: to have $ 400, 000 waste money. You know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. I want this fake thing in this
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  Speaker 2: fake thing from this not real movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What an art piece in the house.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. I think that was money well spent.
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  Speaker 3: If I had it, I would want to do it.
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  Speaker 4: I would spend wild amounts of money if I could
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  Speaker 4: on anything from Game of Thrones.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'd buy the throne or something?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'd buy the throne, convert it to a toilet.
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  Speaker 4: I would do anything for Game of Thrones, like legit merch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 701-280-1987. Taryn, do you have something that probably is
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  Speaker 2: a little unnecessary, but you'd buy it if you could?
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  Speaker 1: A movie theater in my house, not a home theater,
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  Speaker 1: a legit theater with velvet seats, popcorn machine, little ticket booths.
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  Speaker 1: completely unnecessary, but I would use it constantly.
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  Speaker 3: I like that there's a ticket booth.
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  Speaker 2: For sure. And I bet she even would have the
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  Speaker 2: movie theater with the lean back chairs or the beds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. The dream recliner. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: so sad if I could buy something unnecessarily with all
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  Speaker 2: the money in the world, it would be, I'd give
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  Speaker 2: a job to somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I know what this is.
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  Speaker 4: You want to pay someone $ 50, 000 a year to fold
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  Speaker 4: your laundry.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and you don't even have to fold it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the pants you'd have to fold, I guess, but everything
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  Speaker 2: else you can just hang right up in the closet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. You are a hang the clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of guy. I don't even know if I'd make
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  Speaker 2: you do the laundry. I'm pretty capable of carrying the
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  Speaker 2: old basket over there and dumping it in. But if
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  Speaker 2: you could transfer it to the dryer and then get
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  Speaker 2: it to the hangers, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let me know if you ever make it to
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  Speaker 4: that status of money because I would like the job.
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  Speaker 2: You'd apply? Yes, I'd apply. All right, 701-280-1987. Unnecessary purchase
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  Speaker 2: with all the money. You would buy a movie theater,
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  Speaker 2: a fake mosquito, or I guess a clothes nanny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Big 98.7.
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  Speaker 5: In the world of rules and gray areas, one morning
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  Speaker 5: show dares to ask the hard questions.
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  Speaker 2: Is it legal for a child to wear that much makeup?
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  Speaker 2: Is it legal?
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  Speaker 1: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: I understand it's funny as all get out, but is
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  Speaker 4: it even legal?
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  Speaker 5: On Big 98.7.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever wondered what age your kid can actually
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  Speaker 2: stay home alone?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I actually have.
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  Speaker 2: Well? It turns out that neither North Dakota nor Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: has an actual law on this. There isn't some magic
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  Speaker 2: number written anywhere. Instead, both states, they lean on child
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  Speaker 2: welfare guidelines to figure out what counts. And I'm using
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  Speaker 2: this in quotes, but adequate supervision. I have the breakdown
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  Speaker 2: for you. In Minnesota, under 8, never alone. Just period.
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  Speaker 2: Ages 8 to 10, less than 3 hours. 11 to 13,
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  Speaker 2: under 12 hours, and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And North Dakota, the guidelines are a little bit stricter,
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  Speaker 2: but not by much. They recommend waiting until at least
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  Speaker 2: the age of 9 for staying home alone for a
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  Speaker 2: short period of time.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have a child who's staying home, it's
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily like illegal for them to be home alone. But,
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  Speaker 2: and here's the big but, if something goes wrong and
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  Speaker 2: your kid is underprepared, that's when Child Protective Services would
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  Speaker 2: potentially get involved. So there is... The risk of leaving,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a 9, 10, 11 year old home alone
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  Speaker 2: if you don't believe they are capable of being home alone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, in our home, I really avoid living, leaving
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  Speaker 4: the kids at home for any period of time.
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  Speaker 3: For a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Now that the older one is 16 almost and then
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  Speaker 4: the younger one is nine. I feel a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more comfortable, but if I can avoid it, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Also, just because when I grew up, one of four,
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  Speaker 4: we were latchkey kids, and so we were alone always.
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  Speaker 2: Just lock the door and don't answer it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and there was a time where my little brother,
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  Speaker 4: he was five, and he was home alone because the
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  Speaker 4: rest of us were at school, and he had a
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  Speaker 4: half-day kindergarten. Home by himself, took a razor and, like,
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  Speaker 4: shaved his lips, and they were bleeding, and it was horrible.
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  Speaker 3: We get home, we're like, what happened? And he said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I saw... Chris shaving, and I wanted to do it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Like, oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I started staying home alone right around
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  Speaker 2: third or fourth grade. How old are you in fourth grade? Nine,
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  Speaker 2: I think. Nine, so right about nine. I did always,
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  Speaker 2: I have an older brother, though, so most of the
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  Speaker 2: time he was around. I don't think I was home
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  Speaker 2: alone alone, probably until sixth grade, I'd guess.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so just if you have to leave your kids
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  Speaker 4: home alone, just make sure that they're very prepared. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And know that the number to 911 is 911.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: If there was a heck instead of an H-E double
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  Speaker 2: hockey sticks. What would happen there? 701-280-1987. For example, you
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  Speaker 2: wanted a hot shower? Oh, no, no. You were in heck.
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  Speaker 2: Only lukewarm water. My wife would at that point just
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  Speaker 2: be like, actually, you just pushed me down a couple feet.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go to actual hell. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: 701-280-1987.
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  Speaker 2: This is also up on Facebook. What would happen in
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  Speaker 2: your heck, Angie?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I've spent a lot of time thinking
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  Speaker 4: about this just in life, so I'm very glad that
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  Speaker 4: you've brought this up. For me, it would be a long, like, wall,
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  Speaker 4: and then there's a bunch of ports, like USB ports.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. And then you just have.
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  Speaker 4: To go down the line plugging in a USB cord
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  Speaker 4: into the ports, but every time you get it wrong
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  Speaker 4: the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so you never, ever get the one shot?
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  Speaker 3: You never get it right.
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  Speaker 4: No. Every single time, it's always upside down, and you
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  Speaker 4: have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just that.
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  Speaker 4: Like the long hallway, the long wall of just always wrong.
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  Speaker 4: That would be my heck.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds a lot closer to HG double hockey stick there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: mine is actually similar to that. If I, you know,
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  Speaker 2: had to join heck, I have a feeling it would
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  Speaker 2: be a place where every time you go to a door,
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  Speaker 2: you guess wrong, you know, and you have push or pull.
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  Speaker 2: Every single time you go to a door, you are wrong,
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  Speaker 2: so you have to stop. Figure out which way it
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  Speaker 2: is and then go. It's always good.
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  Speaker 4: So just a room of doors and everyone you try
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  Speaker 4: to open, you push or pull the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. And that's beautiful. There is nothing worse with a
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  Speaker 2: push door or a door you think is a push door.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can put a little lean into it
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  Speaker 2: and it goes nowhere. Oh, my God. Is that a
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  Speaker 2: humbling experience? We do have this up on Facebook. Crystal
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  Speaker 2: has a great answer. This is exactly the definition of heck.
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  Speaker 2: Road construction every which way you turn. And then she
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  Speaker 2: also added, oh, wait, I think I'm confusing heck with
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  Speaker 2: Fargo right now. We had Hunter who said a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of people having conversations on speakerphone while waiting in a
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  Speaker 2: never ending line wearing dirty pajamas.
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  Speaker 3: That's very specific.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he said, oh, wait, that's just Walmart.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh. And then we did have Ricky. The little things, right,
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  Speaker 2: like trying to pick up a towel that's right in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, but somehow you can't quite reach it.
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  Speaker 2: And your shoelace insists on coming undone.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, this thing about the towel, that's so real. And
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  Speaker 4: that always happens when you're having, like, the worst day
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  Speaker 4: of your life. And then you drop the towel and
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  Speaker 4: you go to pick it up. And it's just like,
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  Speaker 4: how am I not picking this up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Also on par with I just thought of this one.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a room of doors where all of the
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  Speaker 4: it's all door handles. And then you're walking past and
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  Speaker 4: your belt loop gets stuck on every single one.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Just another very humbling experience I've experienced in public. And
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: then finally, I wanted to end on this one because
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: this is really funny. This lady's name is I believe
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: it's Trish. Trish Heck. Oh, that is her last name
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: on Facebook here. She said, I don't know. I personally
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: think it'd be a heck of a good time. Way
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: to go. I'm glad you were able to get that in, Trish.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: What is your nickname and how did you get it?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I bring this up because I have a good friend
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: of mine. We've been friends for 15 plus years and
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I talked to him on the phone yesterday and he
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: is known as Gink. We just call him Gink, like G-I-N-K.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: What's his real name? Chris. What?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: How did he get that name?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Well, it's so funny. All these years I've known him,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I've never asked him why that name is what it is.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, so you were introduced to him as Gink.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: It wasn't that you and your buddies gave him that nickname.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay, so now I need to know the lore.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: So I finally asked him yesterday. I was like, why
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: do we call you Gink? That's not even your last name.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: You know, dudes do that sometimes. They're like, hey, Miller
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: or Glidden or whatever.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: And it was when he was in first grade, he
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: had a friend who couldn't say his last name, Gurink.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: So like, Gur like a tiger, ink, basically. And he
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: just called him Gink, and it literally stuck from first
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: grade to now this dude is like almost 38, 39
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: That is crazy to me, because that's like the worst
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: nickname origin story.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: And now you gotta be Gink forever?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: You just Gink forever. And if you ever met my
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: buddy Chris, you'd be like, oh no, you're Gink. You
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: would get it. 701-280-1987. What is your nickname and how
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: did you get it? Because sometimes the story is way
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: better than the nickname itself. I've never been given one.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: On the baseball team, for a little bit or once
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: in a while, I'd get G-Baby from hardball.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, I like that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Because I was the smallest guy on the team pretty much.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: But it never stuck. It's not like I walked around
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: school and people down the hallways were like, G-Baby. I
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: you wish.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: You practiced that in your mirror before so great I
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: have never had um well I had a short-lived nickname
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: in high school and it was this terrible it was
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: flat back because I had no booty.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Oh okay and so it was like an extension cord.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Yes and it was me and my bestie brandy and
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: they'd Like in the tune of Dora the Explorer's Backpack,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: we would be walking and they'd say, flat.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Back, flat back. That is too good.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: However, after I had my first child, I gained a
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: little bit of junk in the trunk.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Not a lot, but enough to not be called flat back.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: So I'm glad it was short-lived.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Now it would just be surfboard, surfboard, right?
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: We do have Courtney who said Coco. And it's kind
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: of funny. This kind of reminds me of my buddy
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Chris's story. Coco, my oldest nephew couldn't say my name.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And when he saw a picture of me, that's what
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he said. 19 years later, I'm still Coco. That's pretty cute, actually.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I like that, yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: We had William, who said Onion. My head looked like
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: one when I was a little kid when I got
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a crew cut.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: That is so rude. That is, and he's still Onion?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, William.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: We had Jamie, who said Bieber, and it's because my
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: initials are JB. She did also add... Taco in a bag,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: but that one's too hard to explain.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, you have to let us know now.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can text us that one. All right, 701-280-1987.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Bobby said, Bossy, I don't know why they call me that,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and then tagged her friend Rebecca. It's so funny just
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: hearing some of these stories. So if you have a nickname,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: why'd you get it? How did you get it? What happened?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Let us know this morning at 701-280-1987. There are some
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: rules on nicknames, by the way. Okay.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Because I was going to say, also, if you want
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: to give our Gabe here a nickname, please come up
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: with one.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: What are the rules?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the rules are you don't pick your own nickname.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Which Mr. Worldwide Pitbull has completely broken that rule.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but he's Mr.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Worldwide. He's allowed. It has to come from a story,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: which I think is fair. Once it's given... And it sticks.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: It's just that forever. You don't, no matter how much
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you beg and plead, you're probably just going to be
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: known as gank for the rest of your life. And
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: the weirder or the more self-deprecating the better. So give
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: us your nickname at 701-280-1987 with school back. I'm sure
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the nicknames are already beginning.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Gabe, if you start calling me flat back though, we'll,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: we're going to have problems.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Drop it. Big 98.7.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Before we dive on into the tea, we were talking nicknames.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: How'd you get it? What's the story behind it? And
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: we got this text that said, thankfully, this didn't stick
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: too long. When I was little, my dad would call
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: me Little Squirt. I think that's self-explanatory.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Drop it. Drop it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Big 98.7.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I need some good.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Starting off the day with something good. This is Gabe's
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Good News on Big 98.7.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Gabe's Good News of the day has got to be
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Greater Moorhead Days kicking off. It's just a great reminder
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: of what makes, you know, that community special. Ten days
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: of events bringing neighbors together. And it all gets started
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: tonight with that cruise night with the cars being lined up,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: families out enjoying an evening together. And it's the kind
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of thing that... I just want to remind you to
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: not take for granted. Not every town does something to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: celebrate the town, its community members, the people who make
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: it go. And it's just a good reminder today to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: take one day, if a couple hours, to celebrate Moorhead, especially, obviously,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: if you live there, but the surrounding communities as well.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Moorhead. It's a hop and a skip away,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: so why not?
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I love all the Moorhead parks and the medallion hunt, okay?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Plenty of medallions to be found.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And there's the changes this year, which I think a
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: lot of people will be excited about. So if you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: do have a chance over the next week and a half,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: get out there, support a local event, say hi to
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a stranger, say hi to a neighbor, taking a little
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: bit of that hometown pride. That's what makes Moorhead special.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And you know my favorite quote, if you don't, here
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: it is. The world is full of nice people. If
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you can't find one, you got to be one. And
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: never forget that broken crayons, they still color.