Jenny and I were just talking about things that we want to do on the
show that we haven't gotten to. And I remember that this is a true
story that last night I had a dream where I said, Jenny, I
want to bring up ABC and bring it up on the show, and you
laughed at me and you said, do not remember we did that yesterday?
And I sat there in my dream and I tried to remember, and I
couldn't remember. I think the thing is we come up with so many ideas
for the show that we we have a plethora a Shmorgas board of an ideas
that we sometimes we don't get to and there'll be one. There's a woman,
for example, and she was a guy who wrote in and I'm going
to try to get a hold of him because it happened a couple of days
ago, and I thought, oh, we need to get him on the
show. And he was saying that he went on a date with a girl,
met her on tender. I think, yeah, And he got,
you know, dressed up nice, not gorgeous, but you know, he
dressed up nice and they went to a nice Mexican restaurant and he got a
table that overlooked they don't live here. So it overlooked a lake or a
mountain or something, and it was a beautiful view. And she showed up
in a ball cap, and he was like, I was a little bit
hurt because I went to the trouble of a nice restaurant and I dressed up,
you know, a little bit. He probably wasn't wearing a tie or
anything, and then she showed up in a ball cap. And so that's
one of those things where, Jenny, we got to remember to call that
guy soon, or it's going to be so old that he won't want to
talk about it anymore. For sure. I love that in your dream,
your subconscious still has me being like, Dave, come on, like we
already did. You laughed at me, Jenny, you laughed at me.
By the way, here's another little fun fact before we get to the heart
of the show, and that is your Minnesota goodbye emails. This morning,
Jenny and I pulled in the parking garage about the same time. And I
sometimes when that happens, I'll sneak up on Jenny with my phone and try
to get a video of her as I scare her. Now, Jenny was
laughing. She said, I flashed you because I got out of the car.
She had her legs open, and she said she flashed me, and
I went dress by the way, Yes, right exactly. It wasn't like
she would Yeah, so I looked at it. I did the thing where
I didn't hit record. I'm showing Jenny the video right now. I didn't
hit record until I thought I stopped the recording. So I'm showing Jenny the
video right now, and I'll just play it for you down the phone.
Nice beautiful parking ramp. Yeah, here it is. So that was the
video. So I did not get the video, h you flashing? So
all right, let's get on with the emails for the Minnesota goodbye, and
let's get started. We're to start off with Elizabeth as she says, Hello,
David, I have a question for you. I don't remember hearing them
my eighteen years of listening to Katie WB. How did you become a pilot?
I know you went to the Air Academy high school and your dad was
an aeronautic engineer something like that. Once you say it, I'll kick myself,
assuming my answer is wrong that I I forgot it. Anyway, did
your dad teach you did you learn for a radio bit? Did you learn
to get the ladies back in your hey day? As I type that out
grammatically corrected, grammarly corrected my typing. Am I the only one who is
today years old when they learned that heyday isn't spelled like hay as in the
crop, but is in hey as in high heyday is spelled h e y
day. I didn't know that, but I don't know why it's spelled that
way or like where it stems from. I don't either. And wow,
it's fourteen. I can cross something off. Oh she wrote this at midnight
this morning? I can cross something and I learned something you new off today's
list. Anyway, would love to know the story how you became a pilot.
Do you have to keep your pilot's license up by flying x amount of
time? Or once you get the license you have it for life? Thanks?
Happy Friday. If you read this on the podcast, please send the
sticker to and So. I'm going to take a picture of that screen and
answer that. Yeah, it's interesting because there was no connection to Air Academy
High school my dad and me flying. I went to a high school located
on the Air Force Academy because when they built that high school back in the
fifties or sixties, there was a big population of military families on the academy,
but it was so remote from Colorado Springs that they needed a high school
on the Air Force Academy. It is the only public high school on a
military installation in the country, and it has nothing to do with the military.
It's just odd that were there. But back then they needed it for
the military family kids. Now a lot of there's not I don't want to
get too deep into the weeds, but no, my dad was not an
aeronautic engineer. He was a pilot, and then later he got out of
the military, and then he was a lab technician at a big lab at
the Air Force Academy. But he was not the one who taught me how
to fly. I always wanted to learn how to fly. I live by
a little airport. When I was a I always looked up when planes went
by. And for Father's Day when I was thirty ish years old, Susan
got me a gift card for an introductory flight lesson and I went down and
took the flight lesson and I was hooked, and I absolutely had to do
it. I did it for me, not for a radio bit. Did
I get ladies back in the heyday? No? Not with that. And
do you have to keep it up by flying x amount of time? Yeah?
Kind of. When I rent, they make sure that you've flown enough
in the last six months to be current and safe. And if you run
out of what they call currency, you have to go up with a pilot
to have them check you out. And then once every two years you get
a biennial flight exam from an instructor to make sure you're still safe and know
what you're doing. But once you get the license, you have it for
life. So once you get the license, you have it for life.
They can never take it away unless you do something stupid, but you have
to kind of get it renew. Knew. Yeah, so that's the way
that works. Did you think that Susan getting you that present was going to
spark such a long term hobby like or were you like kind of like oh
cool and you didn't think much of it at the time, and the nay,
did it? I knew Jenny, I knew that when she got that
for me. I knew that I was going to get my pilot's life.
Yeah, I just knew it so and it was the best thing I've ever
done for myself. That's awesome. I'm taking our night DJ Vaunt flying later
on today and I'm pretty excited about it, so that'll be cool. I
wish I liked flying, because it is one thing that I wish I could
do with you. But I just it's like I'm at a point in my
life where I try not to put myself in positions that are going to invoke
such anxiety that I could feel sick. And that is what going up in
a plane with you would do because I not like it. It's not for
everybody. I mean, I took Fallon up. She did not really like
it. Steve was never I don't think his wife wanted him to go up.
And it's funny because people ask me often to go up flying. And
somebody asked me just a boobasge the other day, said man, I know
you're a pilot. Can you take me up flying sometime? And I think
I might have been I probably came off as kind of a dick, and
I said, man, I really would love to. But if I took
everybody up that asked me to go flying, I would be taking somebody up
every single day, so but I get it, and I do occasionally.
Next one, Dave Jenny Drake wanted to ran about something quick. There is
a guy in my apartment a few doors down who either lives with or is
in a relationship with a woman who has a crippling fear of dogs. I
don't know the full story, but I've heard some details and it sounds like
it's rooted in a traumatic incident from her childhood. Now as an adult,
she will refuse to be in the elevator with a dog to where if I
want to come in and she's already inside, she asked me to wait for
the next one and won't even walk down the hallway if I'm coming the other
way with my dog. She almost always asks me, and I'm assuming another
dog owners to accommodate her and these situations. I want to respect her trauma,
obviously, but the entire building is dog friendly, Lots of the tenants
have dogs, and at least four other dogs live in our hallway. Is
it rude of me to think that she should adapt to us rather than the
other way around, As somebody's been in the building for a while now,
I know none of these dogs would actually hurt her, and I kind of
feel like she should get over this fear of hers if it's something that happens
so long ago. But again, maybe I'm being rude. Would love to
hear your thoughts. PS. Listening to you all has been extra comforting these
days, as I recently got laid off for my job for the first time
and I'm going through all the stressful life stuff that goes with that. Love
y'all. Can't wait to get my sticker. That is from Jared in Minneapolis.
Jenny, what do you think? I mean? I do have some
friends who didn't like dogs growing up, and I always, like, when
I was younger, thought that they were weird and I was like, who
are you? Everyone loves dogs, but like some of them had actual legit
fears, and I gotta be honest, I don't think I would ever tell
them to get over their fear because whatever triggered that is something that, like
potentially, if they're reacting every time that way to a dog, is something
that they haven't gone to therapy for. You can't tell someone to go to
therapy for a fear, and that's probably what that person needs to do to
get over it if they're like reacting so drastically to dogs. So I would
say, just ignore that person and do your best to keep your dog as
close to you as possible when you pass that person in the hall, and
that's all you can do. And don't take it personally that that person's reacting
that way. I got nothing to add to that, really. I mean
that she is being kind of a pain in the ass. Yeah, but
she's not going to change. You can't confront her, so, like Jenny
said, just keep accommodating her. I know it sucks. Next one,
by the way, should we ever do a topic of my friend needs to
get over? What? Would it all be a boyfriend relationship thing? Like
I'm trying to think of which ones which friends need to get over things,
and I would say most of them have to do I mean, we would
have to do with specific things in relationships, not necessarily like get over a
boyfriend. In general. It'd probably be like get over that your boyfriend doesn't
clean the dishes. That's a bad example. That's probably a bad but Yeah,
but it's like, get over it. I'm tired of hearing you bitch
about it. Yeah, I've got a wonderful friend who cannot get over her
marriage ending years ago. And she is she I love her and she's wonderful.
But if I tell her anything along the lines of you need to get
over it. It's been ten years, she gets pissed because they still have
kids, and even though the kids are adults, you know, it's still
And I listen to her and I try to be sympathetic, but it's like,
damn, it has been ten years. Yeah, you need to just
put it behind you and move on. Next one from Tammy. She's over
in Saint Paul Park. She says, Hello, friends, thought i'd send
you some questions it might be fun to answer and discuss when you need to
fill some time. Find a game, but instead a genie, sorry,
you find a genie, but instead of three wishes, you get answers to
three questions of your choice. These could be any kind of questions from an
old mystery that was never solved that's driven you nuts, to questions about the
future, questions about a loved one that passed that you never got to ask,
to situations in your life that you never got an explanation for or a
resolution to. What three questions do you ask holy crap, Wow, those
are really good. This is my first dumb one, and then I'd have
to think harder. I used to have a stamp collection from fifth grade all
the way through high school, and I had thousands of stamps, not valuable,
but they might be valuable now. And one day I went to look
for this stamp album that my grandma bought for me and I collected myself for
many many years. I went to look for it and I could not find
it. I have not seen that stamp album since I was probably twenty five
years old. I would love to know what the hell happened to it.
It was a spiral binder and it was probably it was thick, like like
a college notebook. Okay, no idea where it is. Then, of
course there's other things like, you know, I asked my mom and dad
do they know how much I love them? That type of thing? What
about you, Jenny, what would you ask the genie? You know,
that's really hard because there's like moments in my life I probably want clarity from,
but I moved on from it. So I feel like I honestly don't
have anything like super intense and I can't think of like a lost item either,
Like I think if I had someone close to me pass away early,
I'm sure there's some questions I would ask my grandma because my grandma on my
mom's side, she we were all very close with her, So maybe some
questions would that okay? But you know, like yeah, I just I
don't know. Like if I have had had knock on wood a parent pass
away, I'm sure I would have a ton of questions. But other than
that, I don't know. I guess maybe what the future looks like.
Can you ask like future questions anything? Yeah, anything you want? Maybe
so can I ask the winny and lottery numbers? Or just kidding? I
mean apparently you can ask anything you want that is really good. Tammy,
you send a bunch of these, I'm gonna pick one more because there's a
lot of them in here, and I might save your email for days when
it's a little bit of a slow day. If you became rich, what
do you think would be the craziest, weirdest thing you would do with the
money? Depends on how rich. Yeah, I would probably buy Off the
top of my head, I would buy a private jet so I can fly
anywhere I want to. I would hire a captain and she could fly my
ass around the country anytime I want to. I'd call her up and I'd
go, hello, Carol Ane, Hi, it's Dave. I'd like to
go to the Bahamas right now, pronto, meet me at the airport.
That would be dope. Yeah. I think for me, I have like
a bucket list of things I want to accomplish, one of them being climb
something bigger than just like your Colorado mountains. So if I could hire someone
to help me hike Mount Kilimanjero, so where like you have to camp along
the way, But I want to do it bougie, Okay, I don't
want to deal with like I would hire someone to come with me to carry
like extra things for me to shower with and be clean and stuff. So
I want like a bougie Mount kiliman Generoike, Jenny, your Adventuresome, you
should go hike Mount kilim and Jaro. Susan and I thought about it,
and somewhere deep in my email is a brochure about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. It
is not a hard climb. It's a long close. It's a long one.
I know, I've looked into it. It's like you got to have
like a lot of time to do it, and right now, like we
don't get to take that much time off of work. So it doesn't really
work right now at this current phase of my life. But someday, and
yeah, if I had all the money in the world, I would make
it a little bit fancier than you're just run of the mill hike up the
mountain. Susan and I briefly discussed looking into climbing Mount Everest about fifteen years
ago. Yeah, because climbing Mount Everest is it is. There's a couple
of things about it. It is not a particularly difficult climb. It's the
highest and in the world, so that's why everybody wants to climb it.
But you have to spend about eighty to one hundred thousand dollars to get trained
and get basically and they call it short roping, where basically it's an ugly,
cheating way to get pulled up Mount Everest. Do you get a shirpa
who's really good, a great climber, and they will tie a rope to
you and basically pull they call it short roping, pull your ass up Mount
Everest. A lot of rich people do it, and we, like I
said, we briefly talked about it and then we said no, just I
mean, I mean it was one of those things should we that would be
kind of nah? Okay. I have a friend who's from Nepal and he's
been doing He's done like two different trips of seeing his family. But then
I'll still doing like the base camp portion of Mount Everest. And I saw
him recently and I said, Oh, are you ever going to like actually
climb the mountain? And he's like, nah, I think I've like done
what I want to do with it. He kind of just wasn't about it.
And also, like I read online that you pass bodies that have passed
away on that trail up and I just I don't think I could do that.
That would just make me so sad. That is so true. There
are pictures if you want to look online, dead bodies on Mount Everest,
because people die on Mount Everest at a pretty regular rate. Because it is
it might not be you know, like I think the hardest mountain in the
world to climb is K two, and there are some other ones that are
hard also, but Everest is not the hardest. But at the same time,
people do die up there. There's a great book, probably one of
my favorite books of all time, called Into Thin Air, and it was
about the nineteen ninety six Mount Everest expedition. What's I mean about eight people
died because a storm came in and they didn't turn around, and they died
there on the mountain. Their bodies are still there, And if you're climbing
Mount Everest, you will find sea bodies over here, fully clothed. Over
here. You see the bootsticking out over here, you see the vest of
the jacket whatever. They can't go get them because it's so difficult to even
bring yourself up and down the mountain. Yeah, there's no way to retrieve
them. Here's a little fun fact. Our CEO Bob Pittman was at the
time married to Sandy Hill Pittman, who was on the nineteen ninety six Mount
Everest expedition. She survived, oh wow. But I think there was some
talk that she was also one of these rich people that you know, like,
basically, I don't want to say anything disparaging, because there are rich
people that basically get paid to get towed up there. I don't know whether
she was one of them or not. I really don't know, but read
the book. It's called Into Thin Air. You won't read it, but
if you ever need something to read, go check it out. I'm going
to flag this when I'm going to put it at one of those little so
it's pinned to the top so I'll find it again when we need some content.
Okay, next one, and here we go, radio friends. Been
listening to Minnesota Goodbye morning show for thirty years. Got to admit it is
the most constant things I've ever had in my life. I love the morning
show, but I cannot get enough of the Minnesota Goodbye. Thank you for
all the hard work and always being there, even if you do not know
it well, thank you. We can't hear that enough. I really appreciate
that. I am not sure it's appropriate for the Minnesota Goodbye, but here
we go. Don't say my name currently listen to your podcast and you keep
asking for emails and I would normally never do this, but something got me
this morning. This is personal and for email's sake, there won't be many
details, but maybe others have advice. I'm thirty five years old, my
significant other is thirty three, his son is fifteen. I've been mothering him
since he was one year old. I have to include I'm very grateful and
thankful to have both of these men in my life. But I want kids.
I've always wanted kids. When this all started, we were a young,
struggling couple. I did not think it was responsible to have another child
given our circumstances. But now we are much more stable. We have good
jobs, great home, supportive family, friends who would all welcome another little
one with open arms. The problem is, I don't know that we want
to start over. My son's in tenth grade. We are almost done,
which I know is not a real thing because you're never done being a parent,
but ug, we're almost done. My significant other really does not want
to start over, and I have those feelings too. But now I'm watching
all my other siblings and friends have babies, and it's so hard to go
back. She is thirty five, the significant others thirty three. I honestly
cannot watch people in movies have children because I cry. If I told my
other how important it is, he would go along with the plan, but
I am so worried he would resent me for it. As I'm writing this,
I am starting to resent him for it. Thoughts. I am questioning
this because I sound sad and lame, but ugg it's been driving me crazy.
I'm honestly considering talk therapy because I'm so sad. I scare myself away
from doing it because I'm very locked into the commitment I made so much to
my family and the only way I see it out, which is not see
it out, which is not an option. I'm done rambling. Thanks for
all you do. Dart Lick, huge fan listening for thirty years. Won't
say their name? Uh, Jenny, what do you think I say,
talk them into habit? It is bothering you, I mean. But she
also said at the beginning that she's also unsure that she wants to start over
again, so she's also a teeny bit on the fence. It sounds like
but it definitely sounds like a conversation you have to have with your partner because
you clearly are very sad about the thought of not having the kid another kid.
I mean, it's hard for me to comment on this because I don't
have kids, and I also am very on the fence about having kids and
have been most of my life. I think that they're also amazing, but
it's tough for me to say, like, oh, if you really want
one, go get one. But you have some reservations as well, So
yeah, talk to your partner about it. And the least like the worst
you could say is no, I don't want to, and then you got
to just like dive into that a little bit more. At that point,
I say, go do it. I mean seriously, because you are thirty
five. We all know that the age thing will become a factor in another
ten years. It might not be an option, and I know somebody will
write in and say no, there's in vitro and you col blah blah blah
blah blah blah. But if you can naturally get pregnant, now do it.
Do it. Do it. You will never regret having a child.
There will be times when you go, I wish I fucking hadn't done this,
but you will love that child. I say do it. I say,
talk to your partner. And it's to the point where you are writing
to the radio station considering therapy because you really want that child. I had
Carson when I was thirty eight thirty eight and half. At no time did
I ever say God, I wish I mean, I love that kid.
And I've loved every moment with him. All of my kids have been easy.
None of them have given me a hard time, none of them.
So I've had it easy. I say, go do it, because if
you don't do it, another year will go by. If you don't do
it, another two years will go by, and then your options are going
to become smaller and smaller. Yeah, next one, Hello, my dart
licking friends, this is Brianna. I wanted to reach out long time listeners
since the Corey Foley days and begin with a thank you. Thank you for
being a constant in my day. I can always rely on you to make
me laugh, smile, feel good. Dave, you especially bring joy and
feelings to my life that I don't even get from my own father. Okay,
I'm going to tear up. I hear that more often than I would
expect to. I am sad and surprised by the number of women who listen
to the show, and some guys too, that don't have a good father.
And it just breaks my heart because fathers should love their kids so much
that it shouldn't even be an issue. But I am honored that I give
you a little bit of things that you don't get from your father. You
are, in a way like a father figure to me, always there giving
steadfast advice and providing unwavering support in difficult times. Okay, I'm gonna go
cry. I'm out and see you later. David's tearing up. Hold on,
let me take you. That being said, I had the amazing pleasure
of bringing my seven year old to the Queen Adam Lambert concert on Saturday just
last weekend. Y got to watch my son experience the most fun. At
one point, he turned and looked at me and said, Mom, this
is the best day of my life. Getting to watch him with the expression
of pure joy on his face was one of the best experiences of my life.
I included a ten second clip of him having the time of his life.
I will watch that. So my question is, as a parent,
what's your favorite memory with your kids and your kids? You're with your kids
and kids, kid or kids and Jenny, since you don't have kids,
what's your favorite fun memory with your parents? Jenny Gosh, I have to
think about that. With my mom, it was growing up. I was
always the one who would sit at night and play games with her. We
would play Mancola. That's how you pronounce it? I forget and she never
let me win. I was actually pretty good and I would beat her sometimes.
It was like a fifty to fifty because I was super young, and
we would just play a lot of games, and that was like my mom
and I was time, Like we just loved doing that together. And it
probably only lasted a year or two, but I was probably like thirteen,
Like I was approaching teenage years, so it was like I was approaching the
braddy age, you know with my dad. Oh gosh, I would say,
probably my sisters and I. When we got older, we started doing
more experiences with my parents, and my dad had such a great time when
we took him to go see Anastasia, a Broadway play in which sounds really
weird cool. We grew up watching that movie with him, and so we
got tickets for Christmas one year with him, and we went to dinner ahead
of times and we had drinks and we went to the play and I just
got Now, I'm gonna tear thinking about this. It's hard because like we
don't spend as much time with my dad as my mom, and he just
like really takes in those moments, like now, at this point in life,
and he'll always say how happy it makes him when we like go out
of our way and do things like that with him. You know, it
is those little precious moments that do get us kind of emotional. So I
totally get it. Mine, You know, you gave me a minute to
think about mine, and mine were probably the trips, camping trips with the
kids. We used to have one of those pop up trailers, and we
would take Alison and Beth camping in the Black Hills. And my kids grew
up so far apart in ages that we never really were all together. But
I would say camp some of our camping trips, and Beth and Carson and
Chase and I and Alison all went camping in the pop up at one time
or another. And those are some of my favorite memories. Let me find
that email again. She goes on to say, totally separate topic, why
can't I listen to Too Lane for Radio? I looked it up on different
podcasting platforms and either I can't find it or I can find it but won't
play. What's up with that? Is it just like expired? It is?
Honestly, you're the first person who's brought it up. We changed podcasting
systems a while ago, and the system that we used to use they kind
of got rid of all. Like there's a lot of the channels that were
on it, and too Lamee was one of them. We hadn't done it
for a couple of years at that point when we switched over, so it
wasn't carried over. I'm sure I could probably bug the iHeart people about it,
but I don't know anymore, and I don't know that they would take
their time to do it because Tina no longer works here at this point,
so I apologize for that. I used to do a podcast too called take
a Shower, show up on time and don't Steal Anything, and I haven't
done it in over a year, and I don't know if that's available anymore
either, So I think it's just we're on a different platform. It's kind
of like that store is closed up, so you might be able to look
in through the window, but it won't it's not open up. Last email
and we got some really good ones today, so think you, thank you,
Thank you. Dave. Can you please clarify for me and the rest
of the staff writers so we won't have to call HR that you didn't whip
out your junk and show Jenny a cake size sprinkle on your junk. We
were talking about how there are little things, and I forget how they came
up. Oh, somebody said they the boyfriend had some stuff around his junk
area. Yeah, and so there's a name for him. They're little,
tiny red blood blisters that are harmless. And I've got a couple. And
I said they're about the size of a cake sprinkle or a sesame seed.
And I showed Jenny I've got one on my chest, so I pulled my
shirt down a little bit. No, I did not. I know I
have a horrible mind. But you didn't clarify what body part it was.
You're right, and we were already talking about that guy's junk. You might
just want to clarify it was your arm or something. It was my chest.
It just sounded funny. Cauz, You're like, I have them too.
You want to see That is from Todd. Thank you, Todd appreciate
that. And that wraps it up for today's Minnesota good Bye.