I think at every point in our lives, there's always this song going through
our minds. A friend of mine last night, Melissa Extreme Jamie's ex wife,
her and I are friends. She texted me and she said, thank
you forgetting Shaboozy going through my mind all day. And I'm like, well,
because I did introduce the world to the Shaboozy song. You were here,
you witnessed this. I said, it's going to be the song of
summer. It's gonna be a big, huge hit. I discovered Shaboozi and
it actually did be. Don't shake your head at me, young woman.
Then in Discover Head discovered Chaboozi. You know what? This is what happens
my entire life, Dailey, your whole life, My whole life. I
discover something like, for example, radium. I discovered radium, Radium,
the element radium. Curious exactly, God damn it. She gets credited.
She gets credited all the fucking time. I discover radium. This old bag.
I discovered radium, And I'm like, you old bag. Anyway,
you're such a big Shoozy fan. Are you going to his show that's coming
to the Twin Cities. I should, I probably will your mom's house.
Oh really, so it's in Wisconsin the so uh but seriously he's gonna be
at first have and and sold out? Oh is it really? Yeah?
Okay, yeah, Well he gave me a shout out on the radio.
He's like, thanks Dave, Ryan. Do you remember that? Yes,
you do, don't pretend you don't. That was something that Rich was like,
Hey, can you say this name real quick? He goes, sorry,
how do I pronounce it? And so shabboozy was going through Melissa's mind
last night. Right now, go through my mind? Is havanaha halfa?
Did you hear it? Or you just don't know? I don't know.
At any one point you'll have a song going through your mind. But right
now, let's get some other things going through your mind. On the Minnesota
goodbye. Let's start off with this one. And my computer is acting a
little bit slow as a matter of fact. Okay, here we go,
maybe this will work now morning, just catching up on some episodes, and
of course I have to get your thoughts on something to do with flying.
What's with all the planes dropping with crazy turbulence? Three recently that were pretty
intense, dropping thousands of feet. One was four hundred feet above the water,
another overseas, and the last one I can't remember if it dropped or
had a failure whatever. I thought they had equipment that it detects turbulence,
so they know to avoid the massive pockets. What is actually causing these really
crazy situations? Okay, they're asking me because I'm a pilot. That's christy,
and it's just this time of the year. There's a lot of hot
air that gets heated and it rises because it's hot, and then it gets
up in the cold atmosphere, and then it suddenly falls because hot rises cold
falls. So you fly through this rise fall, rise fall, but there's
no equipment that detects turbulence necessary. It's reported by other pilots. So if
you're flying out of Denver and they go, it's going to be kind of
a bumpy ride on the way back. They only know that because other pilots
on that route have reported it. It's called the pie REP, which stands
for Pilot Report pi REP. So now you know, could have gone without
having to hear any of that information. Considering I already don't like flying,
and I leave on Wednesday to go to Seattle, so I hate hearing stuff
about planes, especially right before I'm to fly. Well, speaking of you,
say you're flying to Seattle. Yeah, it's one of the bumpiest routes
in America. No, what is? And I've done it before. I
will say those Seattle's routes. To Bend was the or Bend to Seattle was
the scariest flight of my entire fucking life. It was like, it's only
like forty five minutes and the flight attendants had to be strapped in the entire
time. It was NonStop turbulence. I had a panic attack in the Seattle
airport and I almost did not get on the plane back to MSP because I
was so scared. Well, it's interesting because this kind of segues into the
next part of Christie's email. Also wanted to give Jinny a round of applause
about her vulnerability about her anxiety. I myself have struggled this year, but
it's gotten better. Most hide it until it's crippling them. I happy find
I'm happy you found help. It's not easy, but it does it,
but it does get better. Sending you an air hug, peace out homies
for keeping it real from Christy. Thanks Christine. Yeah, thank you very
much. Let's go up to this one, and I have not pre read
it, but let's see where it goes. Hillary Here, Hi friends,
I was listening to one of your podcasts today from twenty twenty. Okay,
you all were talking about irrational fear, so I thought i'd chime in.
Dave, you said, you have an irrational fear of an airplane flying into
your house. I mean, if you think about it, you could be
you think you're safe and warm and home when you're on the couch or you're
in bed, and it doesn't matter where you are. A giant airliner could
fly into Minneapolis, lose an engine, plummet nose first into your kitchen,
and kill everybody. Now you might think that this is very improbable, but
there was a light probably back in the late fifties or early sixties, that
was trying to land coming from Cottage Grove. It was a giant airliner back
in the day propeller airliners coming from the Cottage Grove area flying northwest. So
if you think of Cottage Grove toward Maple Grove landing and it was snowy and
rainy or something, and they couldn't see the runway so they kept trying to
land, kept getting lower, they missed the airport, and they crashed into
a house right by Mini Haha Creek, killed two kids that were upstairs in
bed. And so here's these kids upstairs in bed, little kids six or
eight years old, and it crashed into their house and killed them. What
kind of plane was it? Like a big a passenger plane, like a
regular passenger plane, probably TWA or Northwest or something like that. And if
you look it up, I mean, it probably wouldn't be too hard to
find. But there's a monument next to the house on Mini Haha Creek about
the plane crash back in the fifties or sixties, and it was bad weather.
They couldn't see the runway, and so when a pilot can't see the
runway back then they'd keep getting a little bit lower and a little bit lower
till they could maybe see it while they flew over it and over shot that
for sure. So yeah, at one time in nineteen fifty year, like
it could happen to me, It could happen. Well, listen to this,
This almost happened to me. I currently live in Minneapolis, but I
grew up in New Richmond, Wisconsin. When I was seventeen. My mother
and I were in our kitchen when suddenly we heard a very loud sound over
the roof of our house, followed by an incredible explosion that shook our home.
A single engineer plane had crashed into the house two doors down from me.
My mother and I ran outside, thinking of it a big car crash,
only to see a plane and the house engulfed in flames. No one
could get close to the plane as the flames were so hot. Mothers were
screaming for their children who'd been outside plane at the time. Unfortunately, both
the pilot and the training on board passed. It was a terrifying experience,
one that I will never forget. I guess my point is too that I
have that fear. I also have a concert recurring nightmare that I myself am
involved in a plane crash. AnyWho just want to let you know you're not
alone in this fear, you have some legitimate reason, Yeah, wow,
to be afraid of that. I really do not. Side note, I
also have an irrational fear of taking new medication. I have a medical background
and witnessed anaphylaxis many times. I've actually avoided taking new meds ones that I've
not been exposed to, even when I've been really sick and needed the meds.
Fears suck. Love you all from Hillary. Anybody else have any irrational
fear? I mean, I check. I checked the toilet every single time
before I go to the bathroom in the morning, because the one spot in
our house that always has centipedes or spiders is our bathroom, and I'm so
scared of there being one in the toilet and crawling up a bee hole.
Uh huh, So that's one of mine. But I have a lot of
Your fear is just like flying and dying. Yeah, I have a fear
of, like irrationally scared of very specific brand of bald man. Like it
has to be a skinny white man who's completely bald, no beard or anything,
who has kind of like creepy eyes. So clean, No, not
mister Clean, because mister Clean has a nice face. He has a pleasant
face. He's a pleasant face, and he's kind of like beefy. But
if it's like a skinny I'm thinking of like Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins.
Truly, my greatest fear of all time. If I saw that man
anywhere, I would feel like this guy instantly uncomfortable and start to cry.
I saw a guy at the State Fair. I was probably like twelve,
and this guy was leaning up against a tree talking on his cell phone.
He was wearing black pants and a blue shirt, and he was bald,
and he had the creepiest eyes and he was on his phone and I locked
eyes with him, and then he hung up his phone like smirked at me
and walked away, and I bald my eyes out the entire way home.
How old were you? Like twelve? Oh? Okay, maybe like twelve,
thirteen, fourteen or something like that. But like, ever since that
guy, I any bald man who has scary eyes freaks me out, freaks
me out so bad. Okay, you know I think that I think that
I get it. Yeah, they don't with me personally. I will agree
that Billy Corgan is kind of an odd looking guy. But you know,
I look at somebody like that and I think it's not his fault. You
know. Billy Corgan is just he's you know, he's a very talented,
like, you know, musical songwriter. Whatever. Come on. He wrote
nineteen seventy nine, shake Down nineteen seven nine, love that song one Am
I My Face, one of my favorite songs ever. But yeah, I
don't know, but I think you must have had some trauma with a bald
guy or maybe a bald movie character. Yeah. Well that guy at the
stay Fair that was the one that started it looked at me like he was
going to kill me and then eat me something like that, so dramatic.
He was probably super friendly and just a little bit odd. He was wearing
corduroy black pants and a blue shimmery button up shirt. I remember it like
it was yesterday. Can I tell you that when I'm in public as an
older guy, I try to never make contact with young girls, especially because
I don't ever want ever them to have like some trauma where like some old
guy was staring at me. So I very because I've got daughters, sure,
and I don't want to be a horrible memory of Like let's say that
I'm in line at you I don't know target, And let's say that there's
a girl in the shopping cart in front of me, and I could look
at her and it might creep around. And I don't ever want a girl
to grow up remembering the creepy motherfucker that stared at her, so I don't
look well. I wish that bald guy would have had that same kind of
ideal ideology as you. Yeah, he was probably trying to smile and be
pleasant, and you thought it was an evil smirk. He was. It
was an evil smirk. He went, Okay, all right. Next One
Morning show, crew, my name is Ben, go ahead and say my
name. On Thursday's Minnesota Goodbye, Dave was talking about his experience with facial
blindness and how he hadn't discovered it until a little bit later in life.
I don't personally have facial blindness, but listening to Dave's story inspired me to
write in about a similar experience I had a year or so ago, just
to recap incation missed it. I don't always recognize faces, especially out of
context. And I realized this ten fifteen years ago when Carson came to a
broadcast at Caribou Coffee and he was about ten years old, and he stood
in front of the table, and I didn't recognize my own son because it
was unexpected and out of context. Yeah, just for a second, And
then I did a few minutes later. But I mean, i'd like,
literally for ten seconds. I looked at this little boy and I thought,
Oh, that's cute. He came here with his mother to see the show.
Oh god, that's Carson. Last year, scrolling through social media,
I came across a post where someone was describing their inability to picture things in
my I'm in their mind. By the time I finished reading the post in
some of the comments, my mind was blown because I realized that I cannot
see or imagine images in my mind either. Well, let's try something for
a second. Imagine right now. In apple pie, Yeah, describe your
apple pie. H it is a big, round, large dinner plate size,
it's got a crumble crust on top, and it's got those little like
scent lines coming up from Yeah. Okay, but it's pretty vivid, right,
Okay, Jenny, describe your apple. I would say, just yeah,
the light brown. I was going regular crust, not crumble. You
know, the edges are overflowing with the bottom crust over the little tray and
then yeah, the little X in the middle to be able to breathe.
And I can see that in my brain, so I know exactly what that
person's talking about. I've read about that, oh four two that some people
cannot visualize something in their head. Well, this person goes on. Ben
goes on to say, upon further research, I found out this inability to
visualize mental images is called aff and affantasia. Like most things involving the brain,
there are varying levels at which people can be affected by afantasia. But
for me, if I try and visualize an image, all I see is
darkness. Wow. Wow, that's kind of scary it is, and it's
you know, like you said, varying levels. The best way I found
to demonstrate this is for people is simply have them close their eyes and visualize
something like an apple. That's where I got the idea for apple pie.
If you can see an image of an apple in your mind, then you
are likely a majority of the population. If you cannot see the apple,
or you only see the outline, or maybe a black and white version of
the apple, then you have afantasia. So let's just imagine an apple,
oh, clearly, vividly. I got a green little I gotta shine on
the corner of it, I got little black specks on it. I've got
a green little sprout coming off the side. You got an apple, Bailey,
Mine's red and round and has like a little bit of yellow in it.
Okay, Yeah, Jenny, mine is a honeycresp specifically, so it's
kind of like your reddish one, but has like the lighter color to it,
and it's more round, like a good round apple. Ben goes on
to say, I spent thirty years of my life thinking that everyone visualized things
in their mind the way I did, and that when people talked about their
mind's eye or visualizing something in their head, it was more a figure of
speech. Just goes to show you how different and unique each of us can
be, right, Thanks for the sign off. That is our that is
our alternate sign off. If you don't like to say dart lick, that's
fine, all right from Ben Ben. Really interesting. I think that you
know, we all have different things like and we talked about yesterday, how
it's like on like the autistic scale, Like you can have like somebody who
like, yeah, my son has autism, and you'd be like, I
really had no idea. I know somebody whose son has either Asperger's, which
I think is like a differences just a different form of autism. Yeah,
and you really wouldn't know except they blink their eyes really hard. They blink
really hard, and that's really their only and they do struggle with some you
know, daily challenges, but other kids do too. You know, they
will clean your fucking room. I can't. I've got aspergers. That's what
I should have done when I was a kid. I think they say that,
but you know, maybe they do. I can't ass I have aspergers.
We're definitely not making jokes about people with aspergers. We're just having fun,
so get over it. And then Alison says, hello, crew,
Dave. I want to say I totally feel your frustration when it comes to
not recognizing faces. My problem is names. I suck so much at names,
but I can do great with faces. This is the kicker. I
am an elementary art teacher, so when I run into a student I used
to have I know their face, but I immediately forgot their names. It's
the worst. I was their teacher for years and now I feel like a
jerk for not remembering their name. To be fair, I do get to
see all three hundred plus students we have, so I got to give myself
some slack for not remembering hundreds and hundreds of names. Still, I feel
like a jerk for or not for not doing this. Oh well, love
y'all from Alison. Alison, I give you a total one pass. On
that one pass, because you're expected to know three hundred kids, they're expected
to know one teacher you. Well, that's the thing, is the teacher
they will know. Let's say, little Jennifer comes up, is like,
hello, I'll miss Allison. I had you when I was in fifth grade,
and now she's twenty. She talks funny for a twenty year old.
And then Alison might remember the face, but absolutely the name right, Like
especially if you need to learn three hundred names every single year, absolutely not
give yourself a bit of a break, give yourself some grace. You're all
right, Joe writes in and says regarding episode Bleaky the Puppet. Did we
title one Bleaky the Puppet? It did because someone said that that's who Bailey
is, so that I titled it. I would like to formally accept a
position in the Minnesota Goodbye Top ten staff Writers of America, And I would
like to thank Davy Jensen, Vontell and hey for this honor. What the
fuck I leave you with the wise words of my father, Get off the
damn shed that is Joe Staff rider since two thousand and eight. This is
full of misinformation anything the damn shed that. I think he's trying to say.
I can't get anything right, not me, but him. And it's
funny because he calls me Davy, you, Jensen, Vontel, and then
Hayley instead of Bailey. I like Jenson. I want to start calling Jenny
Jensen. I'll take it. I don't mind that, Jensen. So thank
you Joe in Turlock, California. I appreciate that one. Uh, this
is one from Kim and it's not really a Minnesota goodbye, but I'm just
gonna say that her. She goes on to say, my nine year old
son Kellen is a huge KDWB fan. When I tell you he's a huge
KDBB fan, I'm not kidding. Next month he's turning ten and he has
requested a KDWB themed birthday. Boo Kay listens every single day he wakes up,
turns on his weather radio, or puts on iHeartRadio on Alex. He
listens almost all day if he can, falls asleep to it at night.
Now that he's out of school, he listens in the afternoon. He's been
doing this for so long. We go to events where you guys have been
so he could meet you. With big changes over the past year, we
have some new members of the show we have not met yet, but the
love is there nonetheless. He talks about his birthday where Dave's saying him Happy
Birthday and played the ukulele on the radio. I am sure you heard his
screens from her house all the way in Moundsview. He now has his own
yuke that I am slowly trying to teach him how to play. He knows
all the theme songs for the games and everybody plays, and is always telling
me the facts that he learned listening all day, the best of the giggles
coming from in the afternoon when he's listening to Fallon and Cult. I could
tell you a million and one stories about how Katie WB is now part of
our lives in ways I didn't realize. You are special and your voices on
the radio are special to my goofy little dude. I think that's so sweet.
She finishes up by saying, this is where I have a simple ask
from you guys, hoping to get some of your favorite but easy and kid
friendly party foods and snacks. I would also love it. If you could
get a photo of you guys or shots to print out for the food,
I can always steal them from social media if that's easier. I want a
logo, she does say. I want she said, if you have one?
Blah blah blah. She says, is their copyright problems? No,
steal the logo. We don't care. Yeah, I don't. We don't
have that issue. I want to print it out for decor. And Kellen
is really pushing my creative boundaries with his party. I would have loved to
make it extra fun for him since he's going to be double digits. That
is the sweetest email of the week. Yes, that is so cool.
I love that. I love the hyperfixation. I'm just like loving KDWB of
all things. I love it, you know. And the funny thing is,
like all kids that have a fixation or just a passion at that age,
he'll outgrow it one day, kind of like Carson used to love WWE
wrestling. He had all the figures. He had a little wrestling ring,
a little toy wrestling ring about the size of I don't know, an airport
and airliner tray that folds down in front of you, and he would watch
WWE wrestling and he would grab this wrestler and this wrestler and play along and
act out the match while he watched it. And that went on until he
was probably ten or so, and then his passion just you know went away.
Yeah, something else, because you have a passion when you're a little
kid. So one day Kellen will kind of move on. It's kind of
like Puff the Magic Dragon. You know the story, Puff the Magic Dragon.
He lives the sea. Well not only that, but he used to
play the little Jackie Paper love that rascal Puff, and he would come and
play with Puff the Magic Dragon. Yep, don't smirk at me. You
lit be word waiting for you to tell the rest of the story. Yeah,
do you not know the story of Puff the Magic Dragon? And tell
me I don't remember it. I'll go I remember the song that Love the
Magic Drag. While you're looking that up. We should give recommendations for what
she asked. She asked for foods that we think would be kid centric.
And I would say that my top one is puppy Chow, which I still
make for so many different things, but I think it's perfect for kids at
a birthday party, Jenny should make me some puppy chow. Let's be honest,
okay. So Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea. Little Jackie
Paper loved that rascal Puff and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy
stuff so they would have the fun together, and they would play together.
And then it gets sad. A dragon lives forever, but not so little
boys. Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys. One gray
night it happened. Jackie Paper came no more. I'm gonna get sad,
and Puff that mighty dragon. He seized his fearless roar. His head was
bent in sorrow. Green scales fell like rain. Puff no longer went to
play along the cherry Lane without his lifelong friend. I'm gonna get sad.
Puff could not be brave. So Puff the Mighty Dragon sadly slipped into his
cave. I'm getting emotional because we would sing this in second grade and the
girls would cry. Yeah, because it's about a little kid growing up and
he doesn't play with his dragon friend anymore. Isn't that sad? But it's
like that the toy story In Toy Story two, when she loved me Yes
and little Jesse. Yeah, was now ignored and put on a show.
Yeah, how can that not make you emotional? I thought it was about
smoking weed. God damn you, Jenny. Everything has got to be about
weed with you. Okay. So there it is, and that is the
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