What Clean Underwear and Mother's Day Have in Common

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Introduction and Political Commentary

Speaker 1 0:00

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 0:21

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 1:38

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 2:14

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 3:32

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 4:19

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 4:52

Hey , sherbourne's going small .

Feeding Our Future Scandal Discussion

Speaker 1 4:56

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 .

Tiny Homes Coming to Sherbourne

Speaker 1 5:26

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 6:00

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 6:43

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 7:18

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 7:34

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 7:59

Anyway , let's see here I'm just kind of scanning the paper here for a second , checking

Local News & Community Updates

Speaker 1 8:10

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 8:35

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 8:54

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 9:39

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 9:58

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 10:41

Blessings of the Bikes

Sports and School Achievements

Speaker 1 10:42

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 11:31

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 12:22

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 12:50

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 13:36

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 14:04

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 14:17

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 14:55

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 15:28

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

Mother's Day and Rural Life

Speaker 1 15:57

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 16:13

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 16:38

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 17:14

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 18:09

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 18:50

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 .