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What Clean Underwear and Mother's Day Have in Common
There we go Three, two, one. We are on Season two, episode 11 here, and good morning or afternoon, whenever you're listening, I'm Mike Ennis, host here of Newsmakers Podcast, and we are located in Trimont, minnesota. That's where we start. This is the Martin County Star newspaper. So good to be with you today.
Speaker 1:A couple of points I wanted to make before we really get into this thing here today. A couple of points I wanted to make before we really get into this thing here today. First of all, for those of you who think that Trump is just an idiot and we're all going to die from tariffs, I was watching the news just this morning and Great Britain and the US have come to an agreement and you know we're not all going to die. It looks like they've come to a really good agreement. You know what happens is these tariffs? All these other countries have tariffs on us, on America. We pay more, but they're fine. You know they get it Because our past leaders didn't either know how to negotiate or didn't care. And so Trump comes into office and he says, no, we're going to make this thing equal and fair for everybody, and especially for America. You know, put America first. I love that If you live in a different country, then put your country first. See what I'm saying. And so, anyway, tariffs how about that? Great Britain and the US made a deal and it's going to make us, the country, billions of dollars because they dropped the tariffs on our products. Just let it play out. It's going to happen. It's going to happen all over.
Speaker 1:But you know the Democrats want to, they want to attack and just say oh my goodness, I've gotten you in and believe how many emails and things, letters to the editor, from people in Minneapolis trying to and I don't write those, I don't put them in the newspaper. If you're not local, it's not going in the paper. I could care less about people in Minneapolis telling me how to run the newspaper down here. Not that I don't want you to listen, not that I don't want you to be a part of the paper. I just don't want the politics from Minneapolis here. You know it's like saying I want California's policies. Oh my gosh, I don't want that either.
Speaker 1:Look, am I a conservative? Yes, and I'm not going to make an apology for that. Am I Republican? No, not really. You know the Republican Party as it stands, I really hardly can stand. They go whichever way the wind blows, it seems Right now, they're conservative because Trump is in office and he's conservative. And next thing, you know, a lot of the Republicans are really just Republican in name only, and so I don't just vote a straight Republican ticket because, wow, that's my guy. No, because it's not, and I believe that we all should be that way. Look at the issues, look at who they are. I voted for Bush Jr and I regretted it ever since. However, the alternative was somebody I couldn't go with either. So you know, america sometimes is kind of it's the lesser of two evils, it seems like, and so. But I believe that President Trump is doing an excellent job, I believe that the country is going forward in the right direction and I believe the social ramifications of him being in office is changing things, and I think it's all for the good. So, with that being said, let's get into the show today.
Speaker 1:Front page it says Attorney General Ellison discusses feeding our future scandal before House Fraud Committee. This guy, holy smokes, I don't even know what to say about him. Let me just read the first paragraph to you. When audio was uncovered recently Involving Attorney General Keith Ellison and people who were later found to be Associated with the Feeding Our Future Debacle. Many legislators were stunned. One more paragraph. The leaked tapes found Ellison expressing sympathy For East African businesses under investigation by state agencies. This included individuals later indicted and convicted in the largest fraud case in Minnesota history feeding our future, which cost taxpayers $250 million.
Speaker 1:Way to go, that's how I want to spend my money. How about you? Why don't we take care of? Look? I've got sympathy for East Africa and other countries too, but let's take care of America first. We have a lot of people in this country who don't have health care. We have people who maybe have health care but it doesn't do anything, or maybe you know they're hungry. Let's take care of our people first before we worry about East Africa. Anyway, okay, that's enough.
Speaker 1:Hey, sherbourne's going small. Let me see. The Sherbourne Council approved of this new small community tiny home community. So I drove by, took a picture of the first one. Tiny is the word for it. Holy moly, I don't know how big that is. It can't be 10 foot wide. I think it's like an eight foot wide by about 12 foot. I may be wrong, but it may be 16 foot by 10, which is only 160 square feet. That's tiny. That's a shed. That's really small, but anyway you can drive by and it's out there in Sherbourne the old, where the mobile home court used to be. I don't really know the name of it. Let's see if I have a street address. No, I don't. You guys probably know where it's at if you live locally. Anyway, you can drive by and see it. He's going to do a lot of landscaping, all kinds of stuff, so I'm really happy for him. In fact, I want to invite him to be on the show. So I'm going to try and get a hold of Matt is his name and I'm going to invite Matt to be on the show and see if we can talk a little bit about tiny homes.
Speaker 1:I'm fascinated by that. You know, we have our own apartments which we've turned into condos now and we'll be selling those off in just a matter of weeks and they're small themselves, right at 600 square foot per apartment or per condo. And currently Candy and I live in one because, well, we're getting our apartment ready and it's a little bit bigger, but we live in one. I like it, I don't have a problem with it. It's a one-bedroom, one-bath, kitchen, living room. You know, about 620 square feet is what we have and I love it. You know we had a much larger house in Fairmont and it just means that you had a lot more to clean. I don't know Trimont.
Speaker 1:Sixth graders visited the Capitol last week. I guess that's been two weeks ago now. Sixth grade students they study Minnesota government and history, social studies class and then at the end of the year, every year they go and they visit the Capitol and I got a picture from Senator Bill Weber who sent it to us. Very nice of him and unfortunately it's from a long ways away and you can't make and I can't make out any of the kids to know who they are, but I bet Mama will. Mama will know who they are. So if those are your children, congratulations. Look like they all behaved themselves, look like they all were good boys and girls right.
Speaker 1:Front page. You've got to see the front page of this week's paper. I'm talking about the May 7th paper. This week's paper. I'm talking about the May 7th yeah, may 7th paper. It's a dancer from the Martin County West CER dance program performed their annual dance recital and they range from pre-K to sixth grade.
Speaker 1:The front page of one picture is about as cute as they come. They're all little yellow dance outfits. Okay, there's one little girl got her arms crossed on the front. I do not know her name, but she looked like I do not want to be here. Who put me in this outfit? Anyway, it's about as cute as they come, and if that's your child then you ought to be proud because she's just as cute as they come.
Speaker 1:Anyway, let's see here I'm just kind of scanning the paper here for a second, checking out the police reports. There's always good stuff to read there. Police reports are kind of fun. Also Martin County Sheriff's. And then the courts the Martin County courts. That's worth the price of admission Just reading them. Here's a guy Fired $285 for no proof of insurance. Well, that stinks. Serves you right, though you don't carry insurance and you get caught. You're going to pay because you put me in danger.
Speaker 1:And then some sad news. This week we had Lois Schmidke. She was our next door or across the street neighbor for several years. We lived in Trimop the first time and Lois is about as nice as a lady you'll ever want to meet. She was so sweet. Her family is such a wonderful family. We got to know them a little bit and watched them grow up some.
Speaker 1:And Lois passed away and I'm so sad to see her go, but she was certainly a wonderful young lady, a wonderful lady. She was very nice to us and my you know my condolences out to the family. I'm so sorry she's really. It was a wonderful family. Also, cindy Holtzbach I do not know Cindy, but her picture of her she's just a smile. She looks like about as nice as they come Another really nice lady. And then Dennis Christinger, and he passed away this week also. So we had three pass away this week and I'm so sorry to see them all go. But you know, if they're Christian then I guarantee you they're not. They don't want to come back here, you know.
Speaker 1:So anyway, down at the bottom, happy birthday, 90th birthday to Martin Rosenberg. The May 16th he's celebrating his birthday. Grab a paper, send him a paper, send him a card. Send him a card for his 90th birthday. Let me see. Oh, okay, page six, community calendar page. I'm taking a look.
Speaker 1:We're taking the van today. We're going to park it in Truman, right outside of the China House Cafe or China House Restaurant. They're in Truman and look if you're out and about, stop by, take a picture of the van, send it to me. It's all the instructions are in the paper. Send it to me and then we will enter you in a registration. I've got two $20 gift certificates to China House Cafe in Truman and we're going to be giving those both away. It looks like May 23rd, all right, so you've got a couple of weeks. Anyway, go out there and take a picture. I don't have to be in it, take a picture. I'm not going to be there, we're just going to park it for the afternoon Anyway, so don't forget to do that.
Speaker 1:Blessings of the Bikes May 17th in Downtown Plaza. They'll In downtown Plaza. They'll be having the blessings of the bikes for the upcoming motorcycle season. Right, all right? Hey, page seven looking at the pets and kids page, this week we have 11 reasons chickens make a great pet, 11 reasons why they make a great pet. I'm not going to read them to you. You got to do that yourself. Go buy a paper or get your paper out. Take a look there. What else is going on here? I'm kind of scanning the paper real quickly. Page 10. Traxors, place third oh, no wait, they place in three invitationals in a week's time. How about that? Good job, good job. A couple of pictures there. Brayden Tate. He hands off to Bitley Mueller in the 4x200 relay. That's a good rate.
Speaker 1:See now, when I ran track in high school I ran the 100 and the 200. Longer than that I was not good at the 400. No, no, that's one lap and man, that thing. You know. I would go stop about halfway through, have a donut or something and then go and finish the other 200 meters. They hated me, but 200 meters I'm fine, I was pretty good. 100, I was pretty good, but no, no, 400. And on Hurdles, nope, nope. I ran those like a high jump. I would jump over them. You know I was too short to step them like you're supposed to. So I flat out just a dash, give me the dash, and I was fine. Also, thea Larson exploded out of the blocks at the start of the 4x200 relay. That's for the girls, and they did well also. So congratulations.
Speaker 1:Church Page, fur Babies and God's Lessons it's a really good read. And also Dogs and Cats another really good read. So you're going to want to look at both of those. Last week's paper I had a story in there about not liking houseflies. And of course the week before I had a story on the pet page about housefly as a pet. I was playing and I told Candy I said, hey, how about a housefly as a pet? She goes, oh, I love it. And I got in the newspaper and I told Candy. I said, hey, how about a housefly as a pet? She goes, oh, I love it.
Speaker 1:And I got in the newspaper and I started looking and I actually found a guy who had this whole list of houseflies as pets and how to have them as a pet and how to take care of them, and I thought seriously, so I couldn't resist, I had to put it in. This was two weeks ago, I think. I had to put it in and the whole time I'm just laughing because this guy's serious. You know how to build them a home, the whole bit. And I'm thinking it's a house fly Anyway. And so then I came across this article for house flies, why I hate them. And this was on the church page, believe it or not. And the lady who wrote it, she's kind of funny and anyway it's a good read. If you have both papers, go back and read them again, put them side by side, you know, read one, then read the other. It's kind of funny. That way, I enjoy this. All right.
Speaker 1:Then page 12 is the Welcome Times. Welcome, we did. You know the Welcome Through the Years. And let me see Trinity Lutheran Church. Hey, they've been in business for 151 years. Wow, yay for them. And Sins, of course this was his. Let me see his first year. October of 2024 is when he started, so this is year number one. Congratulations to Ian and the folks at Sins Family Also.
Speaker 1:Then there's other. You know, there's between Feliz, nine years, and all the way up to City of Welcome, 135 years. There's about 15 or 20 people there. Go ahead and take a look at it, it's pretty nice. And then read the stories too.
Speaker 1:This comes from 1963. From 1963. Is this the one? Hold on just a second. I've got to see no, yeah, yeah, yeah, there, it is June one. Hold on just a second. I got to see no, yeah, yeah, yeah, there, it is June 1963,. The new five-digit zip code to be used by residents of Wellcome were announced today by the postmaster, may Okafor, with instructions for proper use of the approved system to speed mail deliveries. I wonder what the instructions were Put at the bottom of the letter. You know what are they? 5-6-1-8-1?. I think that's their zip 5-6-1-8-1. It works, it speeds mail right along.
Speaker 1:And then page 13. More sports Area Legion Post chooses boys and girls state representatives, and there's a couple of people there that I recognize. And also, let me see who is it? Yeah, riley. Yeah, riley Ebeling is one of them. Riley is such a good kid, he really is, and I know Riley personally. Most of them I don't really know, but Maverick golfers, second at the MCW Triangle Triangular. All right, so that's what's on page 13.
Speaker 1:Page 14, more sports Mavericks rally for wins over the Hayfield and Medelia. Mavericks fall short and lost to Cleveland. And anyway, that's the paper. There's a lot of good read in there, a lot of good read. So what's going on? Let me see this is Mother's Day weekend. Are you ready, you know? Let me see this is mother's day weekend. Are you ready? You know, I'm trying to decide now as a, as a husband, do I get my wife a present for mother's day, or is that up to the kids to do that? Trying to figure it out. Oh, by the way, hold on, I gotta go back for a second, go back to page number four. Uh, aunt ivy, oh, my gosh, this was hysterical, says it. Says Dear Aunt Ivy, hi, I just wanted to write and tell you how much I enjoy reading your column.
Speaker 1:Now my question my daughter, who is 15, was going out with her friends and I said to her remember to wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident. She said what, ew? What does that mean? I said I don't know. It's something my mother always told me. She said well, don't say that again please. So my question is where did that saying come from?
Speaker 1:All my friends have said that they heard their mother say the same thing, signed wearing clean underwear, just in case I got to make a comment here. My mother said that to me and I asked her one time I go, well, where'd it come from? She said I don't know. My mom said it to me. So obviously this has just been handed down. Nobody really knows where it comes from. I went to the internet, looked it up and, sure enough, no origin. It says that nobody knows where it came. Started Just, everybody says it to their kids. So anyway, okay, now Aunt Ivy's response. Dear Justin Case, my mother also said that to me and I have said that to my kids.
Speaker 1:See, but to your question, no one seems to know the origin of the saying, but checking with doctors and nurses, the consensus is they don't care if your underwear is clean or dirty, they just want to treat the problems All right. However, I did read about a lady who was told this by her mother all her life. One day she left the house in a hurry with unclean underwear and, lo and behold, was in an accident. When she woke up in the room after surgery, the first thing she asked was oh my, what about my underwear? And to this day she cannot leave the house unless her underwear are clean. Just saying, aunt Ivy. So I guess it worked, mom. You know, you drummed it into her head so much that she made sure from this point on she has clean underwear. So anyway, I thought that was funny. I thought that was funny. I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1:So anyway, it's Mother's Day weekend. Where are you going for lunch? Because you got to take mom out. I mean, that's the rule. I don't know who started it, but I know it's a rule. So we're going to take mom out today or Sunday. I mean, candy and I are going to take my mom out and we're going to go I'm not sure where. I have a few unfavorite restaurants in town I won't tell you who they are and then I have a few that are my favorites, and you know, unfortunately my favorites are always packed full. But anyway, we'll find one to go to. I hope you did the same. I hope you have a great Mother's Day. And you know, love your mom, right, love your mom and call your mother. There we go, got to call mom on Mother's Day.
Speaker 1:What else is going on? Let me see it's warmed outside, no snow. We're done with that now. It looks like until at least maybe October. Oh man, am I glad Farmers are out. I noticed just this morning, in fact, that I saw several tractors out there. They're tilling the ground. Some are already planted. I've already seen some corn coming up. It's about an inch or two inches tall in some of the fields around the area. So you know they're getting on with it. I love this time of year. I love the smell of the ground being turned. You know that dirt smell. I love that. And otherwise, have a great week. I will talk to you next week, all right. So that's it. That's it for us today. Take care Bye.
