Bailey got her first letter versus snail mail letter. Do you want to open
it up? But we're not on the air, we're doing the Minnesota Goodbye.
Oh okay, yeah, I'm sorry it's confuse, So yeah, do
you want to open it? And see? This is a big deal because
it's not anthrax, and a lot of people it's not anthrax. A lot
of people they don't let it. They don't write letters anymore. But Bailey
got a letter and it looks colorful. Oh that's funny. It is,
oh cool. It's for car wash honestly, but like it's because they were
listening and I during Vont doing his slow jam about washing a car, I
said that I didn't want to waste my money on washing my car, so
she sent me some coupons. So are you serious? Yeah? And oh
it's uh it's in Arden Hills because she said she heard I worked at Mountaine
High School. Go mustangs. Yay, that's dope. Cool, Okay,
that's cool. It would be as sexy or exciting as Von's rendition of how
to get a car clean. But there's laser lights and rainbow colored soap and
it will offer really get the job done. Cool. I love it.
Okay, good, Well we didn't get anything. Did you get anything?
I dope that I did not, But that's okay, because you know what,
I don't need anything. I just need your love. Got this?
Why you cry? It's uh, it's fun to get snail mail, So
okay, cool. I'm looking for something and I can't find it right now.
But I found this online yesterday and it was really interesting. And I
don't want to talk about this on the radio. So this is something because
I don't I don't want to come across as weird and this definitely makes me
feel weird, and it worries me that if people meet me, they will
think that I am weird and they won't appreciate my joy in meeting people.
What do I mean by that? So we've talked about this before, but
I don't want to talk about in the air. I found an article yesterday
in National Geographic online about propygnosia, which which is facial blindness, and I'd
never read an article about it. But that is something that I have had
a problem with over the last ten or fifteen years, where if you have
trouble recognizing the difference between faces, and they say it is a neurological thing
where your part of your brain doesn't recognize faces the way other people do.
Now, of course I recognize Bailey because I come in every morning and I
expect to see you. In context, I recognize every face. But my
biggest story when I realized there was a problem was years ago, and I've
told this story before. Carson was about ten years old and we were doing
a broadcast from Caribouo Coffee and Chan Hassen and so I'm sitting there at the
table talking on the microphone on the radio and a little boy comes up to
the table and he's probably about six or eight feet away, and he's like
really cute. And I'm like, oh, this little boy came by and
his mom brought him by. Oh fuck, that's Carson. And I recognize
my own son because out of context, I wasn't expecting him. So I
read this article and that is exactly how they describe it. They say,
in context, if you walk into your home and you see your wife,
well it's in context if you are at the State Fair and you don't expect
to see your wife there. I don't know why you wouldn't, but let's
say you see her there out of context. I might not recognize my own
wife's face. Now that's a bad example, because I've seen her face so
many times. I would a lot of times too, so I know.
And they say that people will find coping tricks. If you are talking to
somebody that you don't recognize and you know that you should recognize them, you
can say things like, oh, well, hey, what have you been
up to lately, hoping they'll give you a clue about who they are.
This happened at Allison's grad party. There was a woman that lives down the
street and she's in my kitchen and I'm standing next to her. I'd met
her a dozen times and I'm talking to her and I had no idea who
she was, no idea, And later I found out that it was a
woman that lives about four houses away, but I couldn't place it. Angie
Taylor worked with my show for years. I saw her at a morning show
convention. She comes up behind me, she grabs my ass because that's Angie
Taylor's style. She's funny, you're using context clothes based down right. I
turn around and I'm like, hey, hey, what's going on? And
she's like, Dave it's Angie. I did not, out of context,
recognize Angie's face. So they say a lot of the time, we feel
like we're am I to aloof Am I too selfish? Do I feel like
I don't care about people? And it's like no, no, and no.
It's more like I just don't recognize. And there's different degrees kind of
like autism. Yeah, there's a spectrum where it's really bad or it's just
kind of a slight nuisance. Mine is like a slight nuisance. Yeah.
I have a friend who also has face. Do you really Yeah? Yeah.
And they're always on about like if we're in a public place together,
I will just consciously like go out of my way to explain who people are
as they walk up. Yes, And I do that with Susan. Two.
If we go to like a neighborhood party, I'm like, I'm going
to meet somebody that I've met a dozen times. You're going to need to
help me because there's nothing more. It's fucking embarrassing. And Jenny and Steve
and Fallon used to give me a hard time. They're like, don't introduce
yourself to anybody in the hallway because you've met them before. You just did
something the other day actually at an event that we had, and you introduce
yourself to someone. But to be fair, I don't want to like call
it specifically what it was, but you introduce yourself to someone. And I
saw that person be like, yeah, I've been working here for two years.
And I was like, oh, Dave, no, Lie, is
that Tessa? No, her name is Ellie. Oh, and she was
a little bit hurt. Yeah, she was yeah, And I was like,
oh, like I just I felt I feel bad because, to be
fair, we rare like we have so many Street Team members and we don't
work like it's not like if we work an event, we work with the
same ones. It's always like randomly that we see them around. Yeah.
So I saw that happen and I was like, oh, Dave, you
know better than to be like, it's nice to meet you. Oh.
I said, well, hi, who are you? And she's like it's
Ellie and I'm like and then she she didn't give me the stink eye,
but I could tell that it doesn't make people feel good, and that's one
of the really shitty things about it is it makes people feel like they were
never important enough for you to remember and it's like, oh, Dave,
Ryan must think he's like, you know, the big shot or whatever because
he doesn't remember me. There's this lovely couple that comes to my Rogers rescue
ride every year. They're lovely, they're so sweet, and I never remember
their faces. But I think she knows that I have trouble with that,
so she introduces herself and her husband every time. I just introduced myself to
people constantly, even if I know they've met me before, because they're going
to forget me anyway. You're a pretty memorable person, really, No.
I've a lot of people I've met millions of times and they're like, hey,
have we met I'm like, yeah, like four times, let's see.
I totally disagree with that. I don't think you give yourself enough credit,
Bailey. No, I'm telling you real things that have happened in my
life to try and relate to your conversations. Dinged, Okay, sorry,
And it does. It kind of makes you feel like it's embarrassing. Sure,
and you don't like to make other people feel like And we meet a
lot of people. That's part of our job. So I did I do?
I just try to avoid Oh, here's a trick that I've learned.
Yes, so, uh, there is somebody who works here that and I
want to give too much because I don't know who listens. I don't want
to embarrass anybody. But they worked here in the past and now they work
here again, and I did not remember their face. And I said,
hey, but I recognize their face from a poster, like the TV monitor
in the lobby says welcome, so and so. So I recognized the face
from the TV monitor. I saw him in the hallway, but I did
not recognize his face from years ago. He's like, hey, good to
see you again. I'm like, yeah, it's been a while. He
says, yeah, I used to work here back in two thousand and four.
I'm like, yeah, I was going to say it was about twenty
years ago. All of this has made up, sure, but it got
me out of something embarrassing where I literally didn't remember the face last comment.
I'll watch TV shows and I won't I'll get the characters mixed up. It's
like, who's that again, and Susan will have to say, well,
that's the sister of the main character. Oh well, they all look the
same anyway, they all got long blonde, curly hair, a lot of
work done on their face. OK. Yeah, So anyway, if I
ever meet you and I introduced myself to you, please don't be offended.
But that's one of the things that I didn't want to talk about on the
radio because I don't want to seem weird and I don't want to seem like
I don't care, because I do care deeply for people who listen to the
show. I appreciate you more than you'll ever know that you're here. But
if you meet me and I say HI, good to meet you, just
say you dumb motherfucker something like that we've met before, and then you're gonna
forget that you told people to say that, and then you're like, wow,
that person question me. Jenny knows me too. Meat. All right,
let's get into our Minnesota goodbyees. We're gonna start off with one that
says, don't same a name. The more I listen to the Minnesota Goodbye,
the more I understand how non traditional your work schedules are. Of course,
I understood that you're waking up and starting work very early, but I
didn't realize how many additional things you do all day long. Now I wonder
with such a non traditional work schedule, how do you schedule the rest of
your life without going crazy or is it disrupting your personal relationships too much?
For example, if you're during the morning show, then stay at the office
for several hours of meetings, then you have to go to a do scheduled
postings on your social media channels that evening, plus occasional events you have to
attend, et cetera. Do you try to protect certain hours of the day
for personal things like every day we're always going to spend certain hours with our
partner or exercising, or are you required to be constantly flexible and moving your
schedule around on a daily basis? How does that impact your ability to keep
up with self care routines with your partner and friends. Jenny, I'll let
you start. I don't think it's as difficult as you think it might be.
I think we're like pretty set of being here during a certain amount of
time, usually like noon, we can bank on being here till like eleven
thirty noon, and that's like for sure. Throughout the day. There might
be random things that happen, but we know about events well in advance,
so that's not like that hard to plan around. I think it's just that,
like certain things happen in the world and we have to like be on
top of it as a morning show. So like when something big happens,
like the damn in Mankato, it's like, Okay, I like might go
out of my way at three pm in the afternoon to DM someone and try
to get someone on the show. Right. So it really I don't think
it's as difficult as you might think. I don't know, but I also
live with a real estate agent, so like he's on call at all times,
so I feel like we're able to balance each other's schedules because I mean
we don't have weekends together like we like I have weekends, he's out,
yeah, so we're just constantly kind of having to work around random schedules.
I try to be respectful of people's weekends. I don't bother people on the
show on Saturday or Friday afternoons. We work together on Sunday, but I
don't expect everybody to like be right there answering text messages on Sunday afternoons from
like the time we get out of the building until in the evening. I
don't really bother people on the show. If I'm like, oh, Jenny,
I need you to do this, I'll send her an email rather than
a text message, because it's like, you know what, you get a
few hours off every day, and Saturday is a our really only true day
off every week except for in the summer. Basically, we've got events a
lot of times. Yeah, lake patrol or whatever it might be. But
it's not bad, and honestly, most of it is kind of fun,
Like going to the Pride five K is kind of fun. Have you noticed
anything like dealing with like personal time, Bailey, No, Honestly, like
I'm just going off of what my job was before this, and I work
less now than I did before. In our busy seasons, I work like
fifty to sixty hours a week. So like being able to walk out here
by noon and then like go on a walk and enjoy beautiful weather and not
have to think about work is lovely. And also like some of the stuff
that I just do in my pastime is work now, So like scrolling on
TikTok counts as work, especially if I'm like saving ideas, Yes, it's
actually kind of true, and that what I would have been doing anyway,
so might as well just to capitalize on that. Next one is from a
regular staff writer that says, please don't say my name. The other day,
I heard you guys talking about a lady with a neighbor being loud.
I've got a different issue. I live in a smoke free building and I
have neighbors who smokes pot. We can smell it through the event. I
already let the office know about it. We can smell it every now and
then. Still the neighbor has their bathroom fan on all day and all night.
That'd be annoying. I think one of the things about living in an
apartment is like neighbors and I don't like to smell a pot. I don't
smoke pot. I don't like it. You know, I wish I did
like it. I wish it did relax me. It makes me anxious.
But I don't know what to tell you, but that sucks. You know,
people do love their weed, and you're supposed to be able to,
like what, legally smoke it in your house or no. I think you
are. But if I mean, if you're in a smoke free apartment,
then that's like a whole different story. So I guess I don't know where
you legally can. I mean, I was just at a kick Paul Field
last night and there was a good portion of people smoking weed there. That's
heard. Yeah, But I don't know if that's legal or not to do
out in public. I don't think it is, definitely. I think even
in Colorado, it's absolutely permissible in a private residence or building, but not
out in public. Even in Colorado. I go to Colorado, I smell
it all the time. You walk downtown, you smell weed all the time,
and it's like, really, there, could you the invented weed?
There is like can you really not go without weed long enough that you have
to smoke it on the streets in Colorado Springs? Yeah? I mean yeah,
I don't know. Some people can't. I guess. Sesna, a
regular staff writer, writes in Good Morning, wanted chime in about the hiker
that went missing and how Jenny isn't sure she believes it. Tell us the
story. My gu went missing, and I think the Santa Cruz Mountains in
California for ten days, and then when they found him. I just thought
his statements were a little bit weird, like he was able to find water
and drink water, but like usually water can help you bring you back to
civilization, so you should follow the water to civilization. And he also said
something about like it was a really cool experience or something. I don't know.
So it just was like kind of strange. It was a little bit
saying so, Sesna writes in and she says, last year, there was
a story of this girl in Alabama, and you might remember this, when
she saw toddler on the side of the road late at night and she called
the cops. While on the phone with the cops, she pulled over,
got out and went missing. There were some weird things about how she went
missing, like she bought snacks and a robe, and those items weren't in
her car anymore. After like forty eight hours or so, she was quote
found unquote running down the street to her home. The whole thing was made
up. She was just trying to scare her on again, off again boyfriend
or something crazy. She had somebody pick her up on the other side of
the trees, on the side of the interstate. You were family, knew
and faked not knowing. It was a crazy story. Anyway, I'll link
it if you want to know more. I don't have the woman's name,
but if you want to google, the story is like missing Alabama woman fake
just google that. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you it's spoiler
alert the Sherry Panini story. Yeah, because we talked about it on the
radio. But I don't want to spoiler it on the radio, So I'll
tell you on this and if you don't want to hear it, then fast
forward, fast forward, fast forward, or skip. But it's a great
show on Hulu and it's fairly new, it's trending, and it's the perfect
wife the kidnapping or whatever of Sherry Panini. Sherry Panini was probably about thirty
five is years old, and she was beautiful, but one of those faces
where you look at him and you go, something's amiss. Got a crazy
way, yes, and she was beautiful, but something was a miss and
it turned out okay. So she went missing. They found her cell phone
at the end of the driveway and she was missing for twenty two days,
and they did the searches and the posters and the TV appeals and and it
was, you know, interesting. It was kind of the missing white woman
syndrome, which you've heard of, right, Yes, of course, Yeah.
Is it like gone girl kind of thing. No, it's go ahead.
Well, what they mean by missing white girl syndrome is like when a
white woman, especially if she's attractive, it goes missing. It's all over
the news. Yeah, it's all over NU see nightly news, it's all
over CNN. But if it's a woman of color and maybe she's not as
attractive, then it's like, oh well, it doesn't get the attention.
So missing. So because it was a beautiful, youngish white woman, the
world went crazy. I mean every news outlet in the world was wondering where
this woman is for twenty two days. So twenty two is late. Days
later, she shows up running down the road, partially chained up, covered
with bruises, covered with burns. They branded the word exodus into her back,
and she is like, oh my god, I was kidnapped by two
Mexican women. I don't know why she chose Mexican women. One was young,
one was old, one was cruel, one was nice. After twenty
two days of mistreatment, malnutrition, beatings, burnings, the younger one drove
her out and let her go. So she comes home. She's found by
the side of the road crying screaming, and she says she really can't remember
anything, and they absolutely believe her story at first. Now I'm getting into
the spoiler part. She made the whole thing up. Wow. She was
picked up by her ex boyfriend, taken to his house not hour drive away,
where she basically watched news stories about her being missing, and she would
have him beat her, like she ran across the floor. And he was
a hockey player, like a former hockey player, and so we would hold
up a hockey stick. She'd run across the floor, break her nose by
because he wouldn't actively beat her, he wouldn't do it, Yeah, but
she would beat herself up. She ran nose first into the hockey stick,
broke her nose. She said, shoot hockey pucks at me. So she
was covered with bruises. She had a burn on her arm from cleaning with
some sort of bleach that burned her arm. And then he actually was asked
by her to go to the Ace hardware store to buy a wood burning kit
to burn the words exodus into her back. Wow. Crazy Yeah, And
little by little this story broke down and her poor husband didn't know whether to
support her or not. She's like you've got to believe me. You're the
only person left in the world who I can trust. So he didn't.
And then finally the cops found out without a doubt that she made the whole
thing up. And the whole question is why. Yeah, that's what I
was gonna say. Did you find that out? And know that? It's
like she was having marital troubles, so she ran off to this old boyfriend,
but they never had sex, and the boyfriend was so enamored of her
that he would do all of the things that she asked. So they finally
busted her. She pleaded, you know, she did a plea deal,
and she got like eighteen months in prison, got out early, and then
there's some other salacious, awful things. But it's such a good show.
But yeah, I guess that is actually not terribly uncommon, which is a
shame because when a real crime happens, then you go and tell the real
crime and people go, well, did you make it