I've mentioned this before, and I was going through some of my Facebook posts
and emails last night. I want to do a podcast. I think I'm
going to start setting it up next week and then put it out on the
iHeart platform. A podcast about things that are memorable that happened in katwb's history.
And the biggest one that I bring up, for an example is last
Hand Summer Dance that was you know, ninety five degrees literally and Backstreet Boys
couldn't perform and they were the headliner and everybody was so disappointed. Everybody remembers
that one. But then I looked on Facebook and I got some other ideas
of things that people remember, for example, the fake waitress bit that we
did as Latina, and when Bailey and I were talking earlier about the upside
Down ad that we recorded back in ninety three that was supposed to be huge.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you know I won't
explain all these but I will do a podcast. And probably talked to Lee
Olsick about that about how you know, we did this upside down ad that
was supposed to be just groundbreaking and so cool, and people hated it and
they hated me, and they didn't get it, and so I got a
one from a guy named Peter an email and he says, one of my
most memorable moments from KTWB is from your morning show. That is when you
did the PlayStation three for a baby bit. One morning we said we're going
to trade your baby for a PlayStation three. And I remember listening to it
live and I could not believe what these people were offering to get a PlayStation
three. I always assumed that people were real, but maybe it was also
a bit and the people offering up their baby were also part of it.
Thank you, dart Lick Peter in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Yes, I
don't remember exactly what it was, but the PlayStation three was one of those
you know, like when it came out, there was a shortage and everybody
had to get a PlayStation three. And so we did something where we came
on the air and we said, hey, you know, we'll give you
a PlayStation three, give us your baby. And I don't remember it was
like for a day or what. I don't remember. We're willing to take
care of a baby. Well, it wasn't even that, it was that
people were willing to hand us their baby in exchange for a free PlayStation three.
And we weren't going to keep the baby. That's probably illegal and you
know, hard to take care of. But if I remember right, people
were willing to give us their baby for a day in like overnight, and
I was like, wow, But I remember one time when Angie Taylor was
here, so this was twenty plus years ago, we did something where it
was and it might have been that bit in particular, where you gave us
your baby for a day. A woman came down with a snot nose,
coughing little toddler about two years old, and we watched that baby for a
few hours or so, and Angie and I were both like, this baby
is sick. I can't believe they would hand over a sick baby to get
whatever prize we were offering, but we did. We watched this snotty nose
little baby for a day. I can understand handing over a baby because it's
like, what are you going to do? You're not gonna hurt my child?
True, So it's and you're like a father of many, so I'd
be like, oh, I'm gonna trust this person who has fathered many children
to watch my kid for a day so I can get a PlayStation. Did
you take the child home with you? I don't think so. I say,
you just had to hang out of the studio with a kid you didn't
know. I don't remember. That's the funny thing. I remember that Angie
and I, who is not a mother at the time. She's a great
mother now, but she was about twenty two years old back then, and
she's like, that has got snotting nows. I'm like, God, that
is gruss coughing ah, And so we had to like wipe the baby's snotty
nose. So if you are a mom or a dad, you can't even
imagine handing over your two year old toddler to virtual strangers, even though you
know, I think my sister would probably hand over my nephew pretty big.
Yeah, yeah, I think so. Or a PlayStation three. Yeah,
I mean maybe not at PlayStation three, but something else, something, some
kind of tool. She loves to do a lot of, Like she's basically
remodeling herself or house on her own. So yeah, she'd do it.
Okay, Well, maybe we'll do that sometime. We'll do another trace.
What is a hot item? Can I tell you? I read a really
interesting article the other day speaking of hot items about how we have an abundance
of these things. Two of them are on the counter right now, giant
mega thermoses that people carry around and it's like, we don't need that much
hydration. It is a fashion piece. And they said, my daughter goes
to school every day, I think she was in high school, and she
takes two of them. One is for coffee and one is for water,
and she comes home and the water is always full because she doesn't need that
much hydration during the day. You're not carrying around your Stanley tumbler or whatever
you want to call it because you need hydration. You're carrying it around because
it's a hip thing to do. Would you guys agree? I do agree
with that. But this person's in high school and they're carrying farmis of coffee
that big too. That's what's concerning to me, Like, you don't need
that. I didn't start drinking coffee till I was in my twenties. Well,
and it could be like, you know, ice Cy, I don't
know. I was at Cariboo this morning in the Cariboo cabin over in shore
Wood. I always get short view and shot over in short Wood. It's
short Wood because yeah, and I'm almost always the first one in line.
Today I was the third person in line, and I was getting annoyed because
my coffee order is dark roast with skim Yeah. Easy, take some thirty
seconds to pour it and hand it out the window. And the person in
front of me was getting something a little bit more fufu, and it was
like, oh God, how long is this gonna take? Because you know,
coffee shops have been ruined by the fu fu. Yeah, but I
like the thing I know you do. Have you looked at the calorie count
on some of those Foo Food tree aren't that bad? I mean obviously if
you get a frappacino, those are like a blizzard. Yeah, basically like
over a thousand calories because they put the calory count right there on the menu,
and it's over a thousand. There is probably half of a normal person's
calorie intake for the day in the morning with a Foo food drink. I'm
I shocked that you say that there's like a line every time that you get
coffee. I'm always the first one in and then I grab it. I
was about four minutes late, sure, so I'm usually the very first person,
but if I'm a little bit late. I was playing Wordlin connections.
I had a hard time with strands today. Oh no, buddy, thank
you for your sympathy, Jenny says Anna. Jenny recently mentioned that her and
Andrew used to like go into the Valley High drive in, which is now
closed. Good news, there is now a drive in movie place in Lichfield,
about ninety minutes from the Twin Cities called Starlight Drive In. Just thought
i'd let you know. I think I might have heard of that one,
and it's just that it's a little bit far away. Maybe that's why I
haven't gone, because I think I wouldn't say I think I've asked for recommendation
for that, but I'll probably I mean, we'd be down to check it
out. We loved Valley High so much. I'm so sad about that not
being open anymore. Drive ins are just such a cool experience because you get
there a little bit early, the sun's not down, the kids usually play
on the swing, and you got your you know, you open up the
trunk of your car, and I like tailgate and stuff like tailgating. Yeah,
dope, I wondered do they still have the speakers on a wire.
You know you used to hang them on your car window or do you tune
it in on your car radio? Yeah, you go on an AM station
at Valley High. Yeah, we were literally at one one time where there
was tornado warnings and we were all just like stuck in the lot in our
cars, and like the craziest storm came in and like I swear Twister would
have been playing that night at the drive in. It would have been the
most perfect thing, but I think it was Jurassic Park instead. But like
we were a little bit scared, like the sky looked terrifying, but it
was so fun. An it says. Please give a shout out to my
former college roommate Olivia in Austin, Minnesota. Okay, great, I'm glad
you both listened to the podcast. Your friend Anna from Savage the DNA of
the South, So thank you. There's another one here, don't say a
name. Okay. First of all, I love that Bailey joined your show.
She is very unique and interesting to learn from. I'm catching up on
the Minnesota Goodbye, and you were discussing how you love hiking and you are
nearing your goal of hiking Pike's Peak. I'm going this weekend. I'm going
to hike on Sunday. I also love hiking and exploring new places. One
of my goals is to visit all US national parks. There are sixty three
and I have visited thirty three so far. They are so unique and Dave,
I think you should make it your new goal. Not only is it
incredible to see the amazing nature and explore new places, but you can also
discuss every place you have visited on your show when you come back. It
takes time to research the best parts of each park, best time to visit,
then plan your visit, and finally enjoy what's around you. This will
give you and susan new purpose and new hobbies to enjoy together. Some of
the parks are good for motorcycle driving and both of you can do that too.
Over twenty year, daily listener and a real surgeon and they said,
I already have a staff writer stick around my water bottle and I won't say
their name, but thank you doctor. That is cool that it is a
surgeon. I just love when like super accomplished people listen to our show.
Well, we have so many smart people that you know they're not necessarily surgeons,
but we have so many accomplished entrepreneurs and just wonderful people that listen.
And it's always fun to hear somebody's story, you know, whenever we meet
somebody, it's always fun to hear their story, like, well, what
do you do? Well? I went to school for this, but now
I own a nail salon or you know whatever. So I want to go
to Yosemite, but times a half Dome. Yeah, I'm not going to
climb half Dome, but I want to go to Yosemite. But I've heard
it is so crowded, and I think that's the only thing that would keep
me away, the crowds. It can be so just coouraging. Where is
that's in California, like northern California? I think ah, I think it's
kind of like central, like east side of California. Okay. A friend
of mine, our realtor, Jay, went to the Grand Canyon, I
think last summer. He said, the wait to get into the park in
your car was are you ready five hours to wait in your car in the
drive to get in? Hard pass? Hard pass? And I've been I'm
gonna give you a little pro tip if you go and you want to see
the Grand Canyon, go to Williams, Arizona. Take the old fashioned steam
train to the Grand Canyon. It's about a thirty or forty mile train ride
on an old fashioned steam train to the rim of the Grand Canyon. There's
no traffic, there's no cars, there's no waiting, all the same views.
You do have to pay for it, of course. Yeah, and
there's different levels. You can get the luxury car that's got cocktails and views,
or you can get regular succeeding and there's like musicians on board and they
stage a robbery and the yes. So that's my pro tip for you,
Oh I want to go on that. I think you gotta do a lot
of National Park things, like very early or in the off season in order
to enjoy them, because I mean we did Yellowstone and the Tetons at the
end of like September going into October and it wasn't busy at all. But
also like ninety five percent of people don't leave their cars in National parks.
Yeah, they basically just like maybe watch so like Andrew and I go in
and actually do the hikes and like, so we haven't had trouble when we've
done National Park visits, it's been good for us. But I think when
you go during those prime summer months, that's when, yeah, you're gonna
get stuck in those lines. Totally makes sense. Yeah, And I think
you know, prime summer months, and then then you're going to fight the
crowds. But I guess that's why you know you want to go to Yellowstone
when the water is flowing and the roads are nigh and you can go for
a high in that type of thing. Last time I went to Yellowstone,
I remember Chase was sixteen, specifically, I remember that, so it was
about seventeen or eighteen years ago or so, and we loved it. But
we didn't stay long because Chase got deathly ill and had to fly home,
so we had to drive him to Billings, Montana, to the airport to
fly him back home. Wow. So we were there for like I mean,
Yellowstone Park is just it's vast. It's not a tiny little park like
Central Park or theo Worth Park. It's vast. I mean it takes hours,
not hours maybe, but a couple of hours or so maybe more to
drive across Yellowstone. Oh, I think it takes multiple hours. So we
went into every single entrance that you could do and it would take hours like
the way we did. But we did a big road trip, so it
is really cool. I would love to ride the motorcycle through Yellowstone. We've
been to Glacier. Glacier is also vast. Grand can is basically just the
like both sides of the canyon. It's not a huge park. It's a
long park. Other national parks, we went to the one in Hawaii that's
a volcano. Yes, I went to that. Yeah, I was fourteen.
I got the coin in my pocket for something. Is it? It's
called volcano, like the city is called volcano. It is called Halakala National
Park. A volcano. I mean back in the day, I don't know.
It was on Big Island and we're like, oh, we're going to
go up into volcano. Now that's a different one though on a big island.
This was on Maui and it's Halakala. Why I have the coin in
my pocket. I was going to practice magic tricks. Whoa, it's pretty
good. Yeah. I just showed the see if you can spot this one.
I'll spot this one. Wait, hold on, I'm going to do
a magic trick for the podcast. And watching the Magic Trick. Yeah,
so that's why I have a holocolic coin in my pocket. Let's move on
Oka, Minnesota. Goodbye. Thanks for being the best radio team. I've
been listening to you, Dave ever since you started on KTBB. I named
my daughter Allison shortly after you had your Allison, and I love the name.
Thanks, thank you. I love the name Alison, and I'm glad
that it works for your daughter as well. I've met you several times,
including Lake Patrol and when I won a car on the Prices Right you had
me on the radio my big break haha. Two questions. One, I
believe it was on KTWDB. You had a KDWB member randomly go into a
large corporation and act like he was a new employee. He found an empty
cube and started decorating his desk and adding pictures. He claimed that he was
a new employee and introduced himself to other workers. I believe they ended up
calling HR and escorted him out. Is that how it ended? That was
so funny. It was probably one of the funniest bits that Jackson ever did.
Jackson did two things the show. He came up with Booty Cruise.
He also came up with a name Chrisco, so he named Chrisco. And
this one he did. He took a box with like a house plant and
some pictures and and some decorations, and he walked into an office building and
he set himself up in a cube and we were going to see how long
it took for him to get kicked out. Oh my god, and it
went exceedingly well. And he would call from his desk phone and he'd be
like, yeah, I just got my plant set up, and I went
and got some coffee and introduced myself and I don't remember how it ended,
I really don't, but it was actually pretty funny. Out No, no,
yeah, that would never reply. Nowadays, you have to have a
key card to get into any kind of building, and there's just no chance.
Security is so different now you can just walk into, especially not a
big corporation that was over twenty years ago too. So next one. Two.
Do you have any input on what songs are played throughout the day?
Absolutely none whatsoever. We really don't have any input. I mean, you
know, I told Rich, I said, Shaboozy is going to be the
song of summer, and it actually happened to be a huge song, but
it didn't get played on KATWB because of my recommendation. It just happened to
be a big song. But no, we don't have any say even really
during our show. The music is already scheduled. And I don't mind that
because honestly, I'm not here for the music. Yeah, and we're here
when the songs are on. We actually turned the radio the speakers down in
the studio so we can talk and discuss and talk about what's coming up,
so we don't listen to the music. So I'm not here for the music,
but I know that music is the heart of KATWB. This is how
you know Dave doesn't listen to the music, because literally, we played Espresso
by Sabrina Carpenter about five times around the same time every day, and they'd
be like, what's that song? And yesterday, yes after day after day,
and I was like, you gotta know this one, and I do
now, just took a while. It's kind of like if you are a
server at Bubba Gumps, you don't eat it Bubba Gumps, Oh yeah,
you do. Okay, Well, there's my analogy. Usually you always have
good analogies, but you've never worked in the service industry, so I understand
you wouldn't get that, but no, most servers eat the food at the
places that we work at. Yeah. Oh, I think I'm still a
server. Hey, this is really interesting and I'm glad I found this email.
It's from Megan and she says, I'm looking at the screenshot of the
Minnesota Goodbye Today's episode, meaning yesterday Thursday's episode was episode nine hundred and ninety
nine of the Minnesota Goodbye Today's is episode one thousand. I really had no
idea that's a lot, but you know that is is there a number on
it that she sent that she's able to see that, because I'm trying to
figure out how I can be tracking that. Yeah, okay. It says
see all okay. So it describes some episodes HERM and the German, how
Bailey has inspired people with their long walks and what motivates it to do them,
and then chicken Neck was June tenth day went to a rich person party
this weekend. There's a little description and it tells the time, and then
it says, see all nine hundred ninety nine, So yesterday we had accumulated
nine hundred and ninety nine Minnesota Goodbye podcast wild and so today's is the one
thousands. So if you want to label this one nine hundred or the episode
one thousand. Wow, yeah, that's crazy. I've listened to a couple
of women that do a podcast called Take to the Sky, the air disaster
podcast, and they gave up doing it because they just kind of it ran
its course and there weren't enough planes crashing to keep it up. So and
they did about two hundred episodes, and I remember thinking, God, that's
a lot of episodes. They do what they used to do, one once
a week, so they you know, we do one every day. Yeah,
so I don't know how many days we actually work during a year.
I subtract two times fifty two, one hundred and four from three sixty five.
So, oh, Jenny, five hundred and sixty one. No,
Jesus, five hundred, two hundred and sixty one is two hundred and sixty
one. But that doesn't include vacation. Yeah, you're on vacation days.
We still do a podcast. So well, so if we do Adam Minnesota
Goodbye okay, yeah, well, oh, sorry on vacation days. Yes,
I thought you met on like Labor Day. No, I'm vacation,
Like if I'm on vacation, Yeah, we will do podcasts. Yeah,
so we do two hundred and fifty episodes a year. Then that sounds about
right. Yeah, you know, I think we've been doing about four ish
years. Anyway, thank you Megan for pointing that out. I really had
no idea. So I'm gonna sit delete on that one, and then we're
getting into some there's some really good Minnesota goodbyes, but a lot of them
are like really long and asking for advice. For example, here's one from
Andrew I got your I got your your email, asking for advice and telling
a story. And it's a great story. It's just it's longer than we
normally do. It is literally about three pages and it's a spicy, interesting
email. I want you to know I read it, but it's probably not
going to make it on the Minnesota goodbye, So and that's going to do
it. That will wrap it up. Is there anything else you guys want
to talk about? Jenny read it by silence. Nothing good. I'm good.
I'm nothing exciting for me, but barely had a fun improv show last
night? Did I was an improv last night? What did you improv about
we improvised, well, my group, we improvise specifically, like it's called
long form narrative, and so we do like a story line and it was
stupid. We were in like a candy forest. It sounds really dumb when
I explained it. So then you just improv lines back and forth like oh
my god, look at that. It's peppermint trees. Yeah exactly, and
we're like, oh no, this is a thing that we need to overcome
somehow. And then we're all different characters and we make the story go on
and it's just like a weird party. You try to make it funny.
Yeah, of course, was it funny. We got laughs. I actually
got quite a few laughs, which is good because I am always super self
conscious about not being funny, because I feel like when you take your first
improv class, you're like, Wow, I'm good at this. This is
really fun. And then you take four improv classes and then you learn things,
and then everything that you've learned is always in your head, and so
you're always like, I gotta be better at this, I gotta be better
at that, okay, versus just having fun. So I always do mostly
humorous shows or is are there serious ones. There are serious improv shows for
sure, but like I've never been in one, but they have like one
that they do at huge theater right now that's called Family Funeral. That's like
truly like sadness. Okay. I took I like got a minor in theater
in college, and I did this acting class and I during this one monologue
I did, my teacher made me make it emotional when it was supposed to
be more like funny, and she was like, no, like that person
actually is just really self conscious. I want you to completely redo it.
And I like specifically chose it because I wanted it to be humorous and she
didn't let me do that. I had to completely redo it and make myself
like cry during it. Oh, and then she was like, oh,
brilliant, And I was like, Okay, I know everyone has their different
styles, but that was not my style. But she loved it when I
redid it, so I was like, Okay, it exists. I've never
been in it, and I've never really seen it. I mean, I've
seen plenty of awful improv. Well. Bailey and I have talked about that
that some improv is good, some improv is really good. And some improv
is painful to watch, and I would say ours is like an as like
it's or like a B but not ever great. And I've been improv where,
you know, And I'm such a critic of humor, and I can
watch something and not laugh and still think it's really funny. And Susan will
be like, don't you think that's funny? And I'll be like, yeah,
it is funny, but I don't need to laugh out loud to enjoy
it. Because I'm such a critic of humor. I'll be like, oh,
yeah, that's funny, that's funny. I'm laughing on the inside where
it counts. So if I'm rolling on the floor, best thing I've ever
seen, it absolutely a bit of real fucking funny to make us laugh.
So all right, that's it. Thank you for listening to the Minnesota Goodbye
emails. As always, Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.