Welcome to the Minnesota Goodbye. You ever listened to a podcast and that?
I listened to one, and I'm going to tell you what it is.
And I really like the woman who delivers this podcast because she's really fascinating.
Maybe not the best storyteller, but you can tell she's It's called Disaster Area,
okay, and I love disasters and earthquakes and plane crashes and hotel fires
and you know things like that. The first four minutes of her podcast are
always her giving, like commercials and plugs and telling how she did it and
whatever. But the rest of it is really good. I fast forward through
the first four minutes. For podcasts, Yeah, of course, I used
to listen to another one. I don't know why I like women podcasts,
but maybe I just it's just coincidence, but that was my favorite. The
plane crash one, the Air Disaster Take to the Sky, the Air Disaster
podcast. Two friends and I looked them up. I'd been listening to it
for probably five years. I looked them up. Finally they looked nothing like
what I expect exactly. You have a picture in your mind now like that?
What did you picture like? Any DJs that when you hear on the
radio. What did you picture they looked like. I thought you looked like
my and don't take this the wrong way. I thought you looked like my
grandpa. But he had a very specific like realtor card and it had like
a younger picture of my grandpa on it. And that's what I pictured you
as, was the picture of my grandpa as a realtor on his business card.
I'll take that. And so when I saw you in real life,
I was like, what the hell is this? What the hell? Yeah,
because DJ money never exactly DJ's Now. By the way, Jenny is
not here because we're shorthanded today. Von's on vacation. So Jenny is editing
audio and loading audio in the other room and she said, go and start
without us. I yeah, I mean that is the cliche, is like
the face for radio. And but what's interesting is more and more radio people
are more attractive, you know. And I think it's just because I don't
know, it's to get a lot of work done. Well, what now,
they get a lot of work done? Well? I think that,
Yeah, I guess the successful, super successful rich ones. Well yeah,
I mean you look at me like Ryan's he's handsome. I've done. Oh
he's had work done. I'm sure. Yeah, And there's still some DJs
that are very average looking. But I think in radio anymore, especially with
women, there are big morning shows that hire a gorgeous woman to be kind
of their face of young social media, and you know what, good for
them? If it works, what gets more views than anything else almost probably
on social media young attractive people. Yeah, which is why we have Jenny,
Which is why we have Jenny. No so well in other ways,
Let's get into the emails and some of the things we talked about yesterday and
see what we've got. Let's try this one. Okay, this one's for
you, Dave. I know Taylor Swift has over talked about and we are
over it, but I need to know. I remember you giving criticism to
the Tortured Post Apartment album cover when Taylor first released it. You said it
was in some sort of words sexual. You said something along the lines of
she knew what she was doing when she chose the album cover. Now,
if you picture it, she's laying on her back and she's like wearing like
you know, she's got some skin revealed and cut her hand approaching the groin
area in a very suggestive way, and I said, well, that's Taylor
growing. It's like Miley Cyrus getting away from Hannah Montana and being on the
swinging thing and being more sexualized. They said, I wonder now that we've
heard or heard about the deep lyrics to the songs on the album, have
you changed your views on the album cover. I have not listened to the
album. I only hear the pop songs that are on the radio, and
I mean no offense. Nobody respects Taylor Swift more than me, but I'm
not a swiftye by any means. I appreciate and admire her, but I'm
never going to go to one of her shows. I might watch her show
on Netflix, but I'm never going to listen to lyrics. My opinion,
the cover was meant to be quote provocative and vulnerable sexually, to symbolize the
provocative topis and situations that she wrote and released with such vulnerability, as if
the album was as naked as we will ever see her. I'd love to
hear your thoughts. I think that's really interesting, and I think that I
think that my judgment, if you want to use that word of the album
cover then was accurate because if you look at it. I mean I could
pull it up right now, but I'm picturing it's kind of a black and
white. Yeah, and she's got her hand approaching her crotch as if to
suggest, you know, sexuality, and she's also I think, got kind
of a poudy mony look on her face. But you can't see her eyes,
am I right? Can you see her mouth? Kind of powdy moany
you can see her mouth? Yeah? Yeah, she's just kind of holding
herself and laying in bed and it's a big fluffy bed. But yeah,
it's not I don't think it looks very provocative at all. I think she
looks cold. Okay, Now that's an interesting take on it. Maybe as
a female you're gonna get a different one, and maybe male men are programmed
to find sexuality in something that there's not sexuality meant there. Yeah. I
look at some albums that are that. We had one that the company iHeartRadio
will feed Facebook and Instagram with posts. So in other words, somebody will
sit in New York or wherever and they will force out this feed push.
So we have content on KTWB dot com and we have Facebook content. And
one came out about a month ago, and it was an artist and I
can't remember who, but she was. She had her legs spread wide open
in a way that was almost vulgar, and you could see not the genitalia,
but the skin right next to the genitalia, and it was very graphic,
sure for a KTWB post. And so I looked at the comments and
people were angered by it. They're like, KTWB is sunk to a new
low. This is disgusting. How dare you sexualize women? How dare you
post something like this? Is this is too far KTWB. So I showed
my boss, and my boss, yeah, I'll have them take it down
right away. But but I guess my point is that is nothing like Taylor's
album covering. This was aggressive, yeahs pose sexual, Yeah, but I
think Taylor that was I think I called it right that. I think it
was, you know, vulnerable and provocative on purpose. And if that's what
her lyrics are, then maybe that's a good fit. Yeah. I mean,
if it's a new a new era for her, then go off,
queen, I'm here for you. Yeah. I think it's far away from
like cute, innocent Taylor Swift with a banjo strapped around her neck. It's
just a totally different thing and good for because artists have got a The thing
that I've learned in this business and I've been in it for forty five years
god, is that an artist has to stay interesting. Yeah, you have
to like reinvent yourself a lot. And if they don't stay interesting, then
people forget about them because there's always somebody else on the doorstep, knocking on
the door, ready to come in. There's a Tate McCrae, there's a
Gale, there is somebody else who is ready. And if you pause for
even like think about Christine Aguilera. Christine Aguilera was huge in the world,
and she had an image. She had a very provocative sexual image, and
then she got tired of it and then she kind of went away and she
I think she got married and had kids. Yeah maybe, yeah, and
then she's never really come back because she decided to take a break. And
I think that's what Taylor is now doing, is she is not taking a
break because that money train is thundering down the track she has she doesn't want
to pull into the station. I honestly think that more celebrities should do the
whole I'm going to be done. Like Christina Aguilera, I mean she's I
think she's like a judge on some singing TV show where she was like on
the Voice or something like that, but like she did her time, she
had a good run, then she got married, she had kids, and
now she's like, Okay, I'm still like a celebrity, but I don't
need to be like cranking out new music and trying to stay relevant. Yeah,
because it's it's interesting because I think of like you know, Madonna or
whatever, where she's turned into you know, like a reunion to her act
where she's like everything that she does is right exactly. And now it's like
I feel, I mean, there are no real like nostalgia acts from you
know, the forties and fifties necessarily, unless like the Beach Boys, but
they're like sixties yeah. So and it's now we're kind of like entering a
new generation of like who are the new nostalgia acts? But then so many
artists from like the nineties and the two thousands are like, I don't want
to be nostalgia. I have to stay relevant blah blah blah, Like Katy
Perry, that whole thing with her, and everyone's like she's stuck in twenty
ten. Blah blah blah. I feel bad for Katy Perry in a way
because I think she's a good person and she's talented, but I think that
somehow she got stuck with the butterfly rainbow, a unicorny, cupcakey kind of
an image. Yeah, and people are like, okay, next, I'm
dying, right, And they were kind of through with that. So then
it's like, when is she going to just say, Okay, this isn't
for me anymore. It's not going to happen for me, So now I'll
just turn into a nostalgia act and just do you know that's a really really
difficult thing to do. And you know, the word pop music means pop
you lurb yeah, and popular means right now, just like your Tamagatchi is
no longer popular, your Rubics cube is no longer popular. One day you'll
look at your Lululemon and your little like you know, your little thing of
little love crossbody by bag, Yeah, and you'll kind of laugh at it
and go, oh, that was so twenty twenty four. Yeah, You'll
be like, why was I wearing that every day? Oh yeah, but
right now it's very popular, but it's really difficult to remain popular and there's
not a lot of acts that can do it. Okay, moving on,
Thanks for that one. That was very provoca Christine. Thank you. Let's
do one from Donna. Donna says, I love the listener staff writer comment
about breweries and your favorite beers. This is a totally different one you ever
gain for a road trip or a flight for you, Dave to Rochester.
We have some great breweries down here. Forager Little Thistle forger is one of
my favorite breweries. Is that in you've been there in Rochester. It's so
good and the design of the space is amazing. Tell me about that.
I just like, I've been there a couple of times and their beer is
phenomenal. But then like when you walk in, there's like, I don't
know, teacups hanging from the ceiling, their bar is made out of pennies.
They've got like just cute stuff everywhere. So it's just kind of a
vibe from the door, from the entrance. Forager Little Thistle, thestal Thesis
Lts to name a few. Also, as a follow up to your size
Matters, my boyfriend, my best friend in college dated a guy for a
hot second, and she would hold up her pinky finger and say that's all
there is to work with. He did get married. I hope she was
a virgin with no expectations, you know. And this has always been something
that's bothered me, and I think I might have brought this up maybe around
you. I'm not sure. I don't like the fact that guys with little
penises are laughed at because they can't help it, and you're gonna go,
well, Dave must have a little one, it doesn't matter whether I do.
In the same way that women will defend women who don't have boobs,
and they'll get mad at guys who say, yeah, she's flat as a
board and never been nailed. That's disgusting, in the same way that guys
will be like, yeah, she's a big old pancake flipping hog. What
pancake flipping hog? You're a pancake flipping hog. I would never date her.
She's a pancake flipping hog. I just coined that. You want to
write that down somewhere, pancake clipping hog. That's her statement that you can
title this episode pancake kipping hog and that's disgusting when guys do that. If
you don't like her body shape, then fuck you, then move on to
somebody else. But when women make fun of guys and say, yeah,
he's really nice, but he's got a little penis', that's awful because guys
can't help it. That is something that a guy can't do anything about.
And to diminish him overall as a person based on the fact that he's either
short or has a small penis that bothers me, you know, because there
are guys out there who are wonderful that are probably really embarrassed to get naked
with a woman because she might go, oh God, that he took his
clothes off it was like tiny. Yeah. Well, I think most dudes
too, in my humble experience, they always think that they're smaller than they
are. But like, I'm not the douchebag who's like, what a tiny
penis? Now you're going to make the most of it. Yeah, you're
like, Okay, well this is what I got. It's why I always
bring a spatula into the bedroom, Okay, to make up for anything that
I lacking in other areas. A spatula write it down, spading it down,
Spatula got it all right? A little bit more from the same letter
writer. Let me find the right tab here. There's tabs everywhere, the
tabs, tabs, tabs. This one says the prayer I used to say
when flying depended on if it was for work or for fun. For work,
it was please God. If I have to crash, please let it
be before my week of boring meetings. And if it was a fun trip,
I'd say, please God, let it be after my vacation. The
good news is planes almost never crash anymore, so you don't have to worry
about it. I will go ahead and say that you are never going to
be in a plane crash in your lifetime. I promise you. You.
Oh, and you can hold me to that. Yeah, knock on.
Would last question, and this is really creative. If you could be a
magical addition to any musical group, no requirement to sing or play an instrument,
just to assume that you can. What group would it be? I'm
thinking mine would be you two. Donna in Rochester said, any magical addition
to any musical group would be you two. I have not thought about it.
Yeah, I love the Beatles, so they're not together or alive anymore
half of them. But I would say probably the Beatles or I don't know,
simple plan maybe yeah. I mean it depends because like, if it's
just a band that I like that I wouldn't mind hanging out with, then
I would say, like my middle school obsession, which was they were called
Busted, But if it was like for funsies, Abba, that would Oh
you get to jam out every single song? Sounds awesome, Jenny girls.
Oh good, okay, okay, I changed my out to change your girls.
Didn't you dress up as Spice Girls? Well, I me and my
sister and our three friends were the Spice Girls and we tried to do like
a charity Spice Girls concert in our driveway that we were like, we're going
to take an add out in the newspaper and people will come. And that
never happened. But we practiced as if we were going to put on a
full performance, like every day for a few months. It's Giving nineteen ninety
nine. I live for it. Yep, last one. I think we're
gonna have time for Hello, my favorite morning show crew, P one bestie
I wrote before it auto corrected Kristen here, Oh, it says Beastie.
It corrected it to Beastie and she's a bestie. You guys do a lot
of improv on the show, which is great. It makes me think of
whose line is it? Anyway? The old TV show Love It. I
may or may not have been obsessed with that show when I was in middle
school, so much so that I can state basically all the lines from each
game. Wow. I had the biggest crush on Ryan's styles. I even
wore a necklace with his name on it. Wow. I want to ask,
do you have any not conventionally or textbook attractive crusher? Oh, humor
is the best turn on for me, so he was definitely my guy.
Thanks again, all or thanks again? Love the show? All right,
stayed dart licking. That is from Kristen. I've been asked this before,
and years ago. It was Hillary Clinton because I thought Hillary Clinton was kind
of hot, unconventionally because she was powerful and I think a powerful woman kind
of turns me on a little bit. She's too old for me now,
yeah, gross, I mean old lady, you know all gross, but
I would But back in the day, my unconventional hot crush was Hillary Clinton.
Sure, do you have anybody yeah, mine is. Rick moranis specifically
when he was in Little Shop of Horrors or like Spaceballs. He is not
conventionally cute. He's like shorty as glasses, brown curly hair. Rick moranis
does it for me? That man gorgeous? Absolutely, he's everything. I
love him and anyone who slightly resembles that brown curly hair, glasses awkward,
sign me up. Oh my god. But he's got to be seventy by
now. I don't necessarily think he's hot now because the same thing with Hillary.
Yeah you're a old man now, yeah, so not him anymore.
But like, there's even an allergist on TikTok who looks the same. His
name's doctor Rubin. What a freaking babe. Oh my god. Like no
one is in his dms, Like, hey baby, but I would,
I would. You would get on that and wiggle. God he's hot.
Okay about you? Okay, Dave. I know you're probably not watching The
Bear anymore. But there's a character in it called Neil Phack. Yeah,
I fine. I know it's probably his character that makes me like love him
so much, but I'm obsessed with him and I love his badass tattoos.
Yes, He's definitely not your like conventionally hot guy. He's like, I
just think he's so fucking funny on that show, and I hope that that's
what I think, that's what he's like in real life, because I've seen
him post things on his Instagram and that is definitely mine. The big guy
with y Yeah, Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, Paddy Matheson is his
uh actual name? You know. I think so much with like, attractiveness
comes from personality and a lot of the time human Yeah. And I think
that I've always been able to bat out of my league a little bit because
I'm funny, and Julie was way out of my league. But she liked
me because instead of sucking up to her all the time like every other guy
she dated, I was funny and she found that really attractive. Yeah.
The only crappy thing is that funny only last so long. My last boyfriend
was funny and that's pretty much what he was, and we're not gonna be
more than funny. Yeah, And you can't be funny all the time,
right, Yeah. I was making out in the back of my car one
time with Michelle Felser before I had an apartment huh. So we drive a
Palmer Park up into the mountains and we'd make out in the back of my
car, and I made a joke out of everything, and Michelle Felser told
me, you can't make a joke. You always make a joke out of
everything. So I learned at the age of nineteen, Sure, don't be
funny all the time. You got to do it in measure. You know
what I mean, in good measure. And you still make jokes that aren't
funny as well. I haven't been funny since. Oh I'm waiting where they're
right opportunity. Oh, okay, when it happens, I'll let you know.
Okay, you'll see it coming, or will you all right, that's
it for the Minnesota Goodbye. We got some more emails in reserve, but
we're always loving it. We always love to hear from you. So if
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