Oh my god, look who our guest host is today on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Who are you? Tell us all about yourself? Oh? My name's
Bailey. You know. I'm just here for a good time, not a
long time. Thanks for having me on. Do people ever tell you you
have a Minnesota accent? I used to when I lived in Florida briefly.
I would say, like people you know all the time ask you where you're
from, because it's a very international area working for Disney, and I'd say,
oh, I'm from Minnesota. And I always said, oh, I'm
from Minnesota, which is so stupid. I didn't realize I did that,
but oh, I'm from Minnesota. They'd go, oh, Minnesota and make
fun of me for it, and so then I would just lay it on
real thick. I'd be like, oh, yeah, I'm from andover Minnesota.
They'd be like, I can't believe that's what you sound like, not
what I sound like, you idiot. Some people have a stronger Minnesota accent.
I have many, many friends here who lived here all their lives or
most of their lives, and like Nurse Wendy has like oh yeah, oh
no, oh no, and I'm like, oh and I'll make fun or
I'll be like, oh, no, are you gonna go home? And
she will, you know, like basically say fuck off whatever. She's funny.
Allison's got a little one. She's been here since she was one and
a half, so Allison's got a little bit of one. And so she
was in like DC for work and they're like, oh, where are you
from? And she's like what And they're like, well, you got a
Minnesota accent and she's like, no, I don't. I don't think I
have one. But I do say oap once in a while, which I
never deliberately learned the phrase or expression oak. But when you sneak by somebody
and you go, oh sorry you drop oh a squeeze past you here,
I don't say oops. I say op. And I never intentionally did,
but I found myself saying, oh, oh, well, dang, I
mean you gotta have something op op. Oh no no. But I've known
people Chris who used to be our promotions director. She had the big,
strong Minnesota accent. Hear them on the on the commercials a lot, the
Minnesota accents, especially the local ones. They're like, come to White Bear
Lake, Mitch, all right, I have not pre read these, so
let's see how these go. Don't share my name. Listen to your show
on Wednesday. You were talking about Susan getting hand surgery. Hope she's recovering
well. She is, thank you. I wanted to share my husband's story
about his ex wife who was addicted to prescription meds that weren't painkillers. His
wife was addicted. His ex wife was addicted to adderall. She would go
as far as taking their kids to the doctor and requesting him to put their
kids, three total, on the meds, and then taking them herself.
My husband found out and told her to get help while he took care of
the kids, but she ended up taking the kids away without his knowledge.
She was not a stable person, so he filed for divorce soon after,
and he ended up with dominary custody of their two kids, but not the
other one since he was not their biological dad. It's a sad situation because
when they're divorced, their kids never saw them regularly. And she died back
in twenty twenty two at the age of forty six, and we're thinking because
her demon's finally caught up to her, which I don't know, but I'm
going to guess that sounds like suicide. Honestly, when somebody says they're demons,
I'm going to guess that sounds like she took her own life. Also,
can I get a staff writer stick or please? And thank you?
Yes? And I will only say this person lives out of state, in
a far distant state. And I always love when people find our podcast and
listen to it above their local radio show. I really find that so flattering.
And thanks for the story. You know. This happened to come up
because Susan had hand surgery, and I even talked to the doctor yesterday and
I said, hey, can she's in a lot of pain with her prescription
medication? Can she take something over the counter on top of it? And
so we talked about it and he said, yes, I know that you've
expressed to me you're very very careful about any kind of oxy kind of drugs.
He said, if her paying gets to be too much, we can
go to oxy and there's another one. And I said, now I think
she's doing okay. Sure, yesterday was hand surgery, as it turns out,
is a very painful recovery. I can imagine they're like teeny tiny little
bones in your hand, and they basically they break your bones and maneuver your
bones and win that nerve block wears off. I mean, imagine slamming your
hand in the trunk of your car and recovering from that. And that's what
she's got to recover from. So course, Susan, she's doing fine,
by the way, So thank you for that. Let's go to another one.
This one says Minnesota, Goodbye, Jenny in the morning Zoo featuring Dave
Ryan. Just clarify, this man wasn't at all trying to stay in at
o'spas. He In fact, he was intentionally sitting with his elbow over the
armrest at least two inches. Oh, we were talking about airplane etiquette and
this came up the other day, and there was a larger guy in the
middle seat. And this person was writing from the airplane if I remember right,
Yes, she was. She was on the airplane right now. She
says, I'm in a window seat that I picked a sit in. A
man in the middle seat larger than average. He is sitting with his broad
shoulder spreading way into my seat and into the aisle seat. And so she
was talking about whether people that are heavier should pay more for a bigger seat.
And she said, if you go to Valley Fair and you want to
go on steal Venom and you're four hundred pounds, I'm sorry you just they
don't have a heavy section. There are just certain things that you just should
not get to do, and it's not anybody's fault, so she writes back
to clarify, I put my arm right next to his and pressed right back
into him, since he was using some force to keep his arm where it
was. An hour and a half or so into the flight, I pressed
really hard into his elbow with my forearm. After he elbowed me in the
side multiple times and wiggled back and forth in my seat. He glared at
me and said, what do you want me to do? Not in a
polite way at all, and I said, I'm just trying to sit up
right on my own seat that I paid for. He replied with well,
I either sit like this or this. The options he gave were his elbows
basically into my side or hovering over my lap. I said, neither works
for me. I paid for this seat, and I pressed my arm right
back into his. Wow. Now this is intriguing because usually you don't say
anything. Yeah, And when I've been in that situation, I've leaned over
like to you know, like I'll lean into the aisle or I'll lean into
the window, just to kind of try to make myself as small as humanly
possible. Yeah, and I know that person is big and it's not going
to change. Sure. And I had mentioned yesterday we were on a first
class flight back from Hawaii and a very large man, probably close to four
hundred pounds, bought himself a first class ticket because he probably knew I ain't
gonna be able to sit back in the little, skinny little time me.
No. No. It goes on to say, if he were just a
big dude sitting there and it couldn't help being in other people's space, that's
a completely different scenario than intentionally pressing your way into someone else's space. It
was so bizarre that I looked for hidden cameras, thinking this had to be
a prank. There's no way people can be this rude. Well I guess
they are. Anyway, I'll stop venting for now unless you need me to
content you that is from well, I'm not going to say her name is.
I don't think she wants me to. I want that to be like
the start of their love story. Though, wouldn't that be a time this
turns into a romantic comedy. And we met when he was pressing his arm
into my space's taking up all of my bubble. I just and now we're
in love. We two kids. She goes on to say, I think
I'd still rather be dart licking. So, in other words, she would
rather be dart licking than the situation she was in. Thanks for the follow
up on that. That was really really interesting. Okay, next one,
You guys are not alone. I've been a podcast listener for fifteen or twenty
years, and I've been over over fifty podcasts I subscribe to, so I
have some experience. Almost half the shows I listened to have ads inserted at
odd times and when using a vp N. Who do you know what a
VPN is? Yes? I do. Yes. Do you want to describe
it? I couldn't tell you what it is, but I know that it
exists. It's like so you can get on the on the Internet in places
that it's like block. I don't think that's exactly it. I think it's
so you're anonymous. Okay, So in other words, let's say let's say
that I'm on Oh, I don't know. Let's say I have Comcast Internet.
I don't even know if Comcast is still a thing, but let's say
I have that, and then I want to go on Adult friend Finder and
it'll go through Adult friend Finders servers, and then they can go, oh,
well, Dave Ryan is on Adult friends Finder address, there's his IP
address. But if I go through a VPN, my IP address is hidden
by this VPN, so Comcast can't see that it's me. It'll send them
a randomly maybe generated VPN, and then the VPN company doesn't know who I
am, or they keep it secret or whatever. So when I go on
Adult friend Finder and I'm looking for I call it men seeking men or men
for men, or I'll shorten it to M the number four M M four
M yeah, M for m oh. But now I do you can call
this episode M four M. That's literally what I wrote them and anyway,
so that's what a VPN is. So let's continue. I get ads from
different states and languages, even an ad with with Dave Ryan Forlivia on one
of the beer brewing podcasts that I listened to Wow really on a VPN too,
because the VPN will think it will tell a site you're in Baton Rouge,
or you're in Schenectady, or you're in Turlock, California, rather than
you're in Chanhassen, Minnesota, so VPN hides you. So anyway, basically,
podcasts are more popular than ever and make money and ad companies don't care
less about listeners. And with the ad being a location based I would think
they are added in the download process and I'm not sure the creators can control
where the ads show up, but I could be wrong, and they finish
off with thank you. That is from Jimmy B. If you have any
left eye, would I have room on my beer fridge for a sticker taking
a picture of your address right now, Jimmy B. All I know about
VPNs is that high schoolers use them so that they can get on the websites
that are blocked at school. Oh seriously, yeah, that's why I That's
why I said, like, oh, you do it to get onto things
that are blocked, because that's all I know it from is like, oh,
if you want to get on the discord app or if you want to
get on Instagram and you're in a high school that has it blocked to use
a VPN to get to it because you do a lot with high school students.
To clarify, it's not like you're hanging out with you shirts hanging out
with high schoolers. I literally, like work in high schools all the time.
So yeah, I and I actually had like one of the ninth graders
on my speech team. She taught me how to do it, and I
felt like a fuddy duddy old lady. I was like, could you why
does my phone not work every time I'm here? She's like, how do
you idiot? Hear? Give it to me? I learned, do you?
I want to make sure that something's not happening here because I had Jenny's
volume up in the other room. So I'm gonna stop this recording for an
instant. You won't even notice it. I'm in double check our audio quality
and we're safe. Okay. So I told you it'd be an instant you
wouldn't even notice it. It's kind of like getting surgery. Okay, You're
gonna go out in three two and then you wake up and you're like,
would huh wake up? Like, where's my mom, uh what else?
Okay, so here is Oh, I know what it was gonna ask you,
what do high school kids think about you being on KWDB? Do they
think that's cool? Or you know, in all transparency, fewer high school
kids listen to the radio. Yes, a lot doing they love it,
But a lot listen to their podcast or they're streaming or whatever. I honestly,
I don't think any of them know that I'm on the radio. Really,
yeah, truly, I think the more it's more the other speech coaches
that I work with, they know that I'm on the radio. So like
yesterday I coached a section speech tournament and literally just like sitting in the judges
lounge, people would come up to me and they'd be like, hey,
Bailey, look at you, like radio girl. Isn't that fun? I'm
like, I haven't talked to you in years, Like, how is it
right now you're interested in talking to me? Ha ha, that's funny.
Coach like community is very like clicky at times. So yeah, people come
up to me, but they're all like adult people. But no, So
in a way, it's kind of like the cliche episode of a sitcom where
the ordinary girl who has glasses and a goofy hairstyle in dresses like it's you
know, the nineteen seventies. Yes, she has a friend that's from California.
Yes, that remakes her, gets rid of her glasses, gets some
makeup, has her hair done, and buys clothes down at at forever twenty
one, forever twenty one, I don't know. And now she comes into
school and all the boys are like, Hi, Jennifer, how are you
a friend there? I've been going here this whole time, So now you're
are you cooler than you were? Because you're on the radio. I'm either
cooler than I was or they think that they can like suck up to me
and they're like, you know what you could talk about on the area And
I'm cool. I don't care, Thank you bye. So now what I
want you to do? In the same cliche sitcom episode, has become a
bitch and a snob because I think that happened one time on The Brady Bunch
back when I was a kid, Marcia taught a plain girl how to be
cute, and now the plain girl became a bitch and a snob. Takes
over from Marsha and Marsh's like, but I'm the gorgeous right so, and
that all happened like in the half an hour episode you remember, right.
So, Anyway, I was never cool until I was on the radio.
And being on the radio didn't make me cool, but it made people think
that I'm cool. Yeah, I mean same, Yeah, No one thought
I was cool until literally October. And I'm still not cool. I mean,
if you saw me during the rest of the day when I'm not on
the radio, you'd be like, I don't like him because I go home
and I take a nap and I watched Masters of the Air and then I
watched Suits and I'll get something cold out of the fridge, and I'm not
cool at home. I'm not talking on the phone with the Jonas brothers.
I'm not I'm not cool, but being on the radio in a way kind
of gave me a little bit of credibility. Yeah, all right, next
one again, this one, I have not pre write it, but let's
see what happens. Don't say an ame, I'm gonna get spicy for a
minute. To the girl that said she would probably get torn apart for commenting
about bigger people on the airplane, yes you should. How about you get
mad at the airline company for mathematically figuring out how small they can possibly make
the seats to fit as many as possible on an airplane and take up every
possible square inch of space so they can make every possible dollar that they can
instead of making it a more comfortable ride for their customers. How about you
get mad at America and the FDA for allowing companies to put such terrible shit
in our food and make garbage food cheap and healthy food expensive. Or how
about you get mad at our way of life for being so stressful and causing
people to overeat as a way to cope, and actual access to good mental
health care so out of reach. I could go on, but honestly,
the last person you should get mad at for inconveniencing your world on an airplane
is a big person. And it's not just fat people. I'm five seven,
but fairly broad and thick. Even I have a hard time keeping to
myself narrow enough in the seat to not get nailed by the drink cart or
intentionally hog the arm rest. My husband is six foot six and just a
big dude in general. Just forget about it. He's never gonna be comfortable
on an airplane, and I'm doomed to spend the rest of my lifetime giving
up half of my seat to him. We once waited in line for two
hours for a ride at a theme park and he ended up not being able
to go because his legs were too long, not because he was too big.
The world is not made for people his size, and his bigness is
no fault of his own. But then there's people like you. This is
doocy that exists in the world that are mad about something that he has no
control over. What are they supposed to do? Just not travel? Travel
than when they can afford a thousand dollars first class ticket. Your issue lies
with the airlines, and they're absurdly small seats, not the big people.
In other word, in other news, since I've been meaning to email for
a while, here are some random topics. Well let's stop there for a
second. I really like her thoughts, and it's always always good to get
another side of the story and put it really well too. She really did,
and it was a little bit spicy, But I really appreciate that because
I think one of the things that we are very prone to do as humans
is only see our side and when somebody else starts to present their side,
you get shouted down. It's kind of like arguing with a bad partner that
won't listen but interrupts you constantly. And now they raise their voice because they
don't want to hear what you're saying, and they only want to get their
word in. So I think it's always good in almost anything in life to
listen to the other side. And you might go, Nope, you still
crazy, but I think it's good to listen. So thank you for that.
I appreciate that. So onto the other topics. What happened to the
old traffic guy, Tom something? It's a lady now, I believe she's
fine, but the older guy's voice was so soothing. I truly don't know.
I'm gonna give you a little behind the scenes peak. Those traffic people
aren't even in Minnesota. They are in Chicago last I heard, and they
monitor the traffic cams out of a big traffic new Nerve center. And I'm
gonna guess they don't get paid a lot, so they probably changed jobs fairly
frequently. I'm going to care. I remember one time you said, I
remember you saying that on the air one time that they were not local because
they would mispronounce like names of Starpenteur, Yeah yeah, shack apee. So
I think about that every time I hear the traffic people on her and that.
You know, it's funny because when I first started here, we had
a real traffic guy in a real airplane, Pete Bush. Oh you remember,
And Pete Bush was a wonderfully funny guy. And we used to do
a bit called get naked on your roof, And if you got naked on
your roof, Pete Bush would fly over with binoculars and verify that you were
naked on your roof. Good bit, and we would give you whatever concert
tickets we had at the time. Oh my god. But Pete had a
little like one assessment of one seventy two or something, not a helicopter.
Helicopters are outrageously expensive. But he would fly over with his pilot and he
would do traffic and and those days have been gone for I mean a very
long time. That's cute. Also, I'm always blown away by how people
remember the names of songs, especially when the title isn't in the chorus.
I understand that you guys see the names more often than most in your systems.
But unless I'm building my own playlist from back in the CD days,
following along on the CD jacket, I have no clue what the actual name
of a song is. I don't have a fancy display in my car that
shows that info info. I am flying blind and I usually just listen to
pre made playlists on Spotify. Don't tell iHeart. Obviously I know the well
known ones, but for newer ones, absolutely not. It's wild to me
when people can pull a song name out of nowhere. Oh okay, yeah,
I never really thought about that one. I will say that iHeart has
a super legit system just like Spotify, and there is a paid version of
the iHeart app that is just as legit as Spotify. I listened to all
my podcasts on iHeart, do you yeah. I think it's there's way more
options than there are on Spotify. Actually, well, I think the thing
with Spotify is, and there's a slogan that I wrote up that we use
occasionally that's Spotify can't Katie w b No, it can't. And Spotify has
you know, podcasts, and they have music, but they don't have radio
shows, and they don't have Heart and soul. You're never gonna go to
Spotify to hear Bailey talk about being from Andover or me talking about my wife
having surgery at Fairview Southdale. It just doesn't exist on Southdale or on Southdale
on Spotify flavor that I know of. I don't think they Probably they maybe
have their national radio stations like okay, here's the yacht rock radio station on
Spotify, but they're you know, that's from somebody who's working in you know,
like I don't know, Boise, Idaho or something. Yeah, and
they're not local, but we're local here in Denver, Colorado. We're your
friends here in Denver, Colorada. Let's see one more. That's all I
already have. I already have a sticker. I just need to chime in
because that plane shit fired me up. Have a great day everyone, except
the apparently appropriately for flying apparently appropriately for flying sized woman. Hey, you
know what, I think that if I always tell people, if you met,
you would find each other charming. You will have your differences, just
like anybody has differences. But I always tell people that call in or write
in, they say, you're a piece of shit, Dave Ryan, And
I said, you know what, what what what what were you going to
say? Have a point? But no, Carrie. Wait, but I'll
write them back and I try to be nice until they just won't see it,
and then I'll be like, you know, if you don't want to
listen anymore, you don't have to. But most of the time I'll write
them back and I say, hey, I still love you, and they'll
be like, I still love you too. Yeah. If you respond to
like a nasty comment with like, hah, yeah, I am kind of
kind of crap, aren't I, And then they'll be like, oh my
god, Dave's funny. They have a sense of humor exactly. I don't
know that I've got another one. This is from Andrew. And Andrew writes
quite often, and we do have some extra time for Andrew. So he
says, I was listening to her show's podcast from yesterday. You were talking
to the girl about the date with the guy that was wearing the captain's hat,
and she said, who the fuck wears that? I was just curious
if you guys caught that. You didn't acknowledge it on the recording at all.
And my guest says, if it aired that way, that you hit
the dump button, but I was curious if you caught it or not.
I'm not offended, I just know some people might be if it was heard
an unexpected dart lick dart lick dart lick dart dart lick. Oh, two
darts in the dart lick dart. Uh. That's from Andrew and Ohio who
finally signs off. All right, Andrew, thanks for being a regular staff
writer. Nobody else caught that. I think Andrew seriously might have been the
only one. We got one text, and I think it might have been
from animate because I don't think anybody else heard it. And we do go
through these and it's possible that we missed an F bomb, but I don't
think we did because nobody else heard it, and usually something else it's possible,
like like who the f wears that? And maybe what I'm not sure,
but the standard that I usually go by if somebody call or texts in
and says, hey, iHeartRadio is not working right now, and then if
they're the only text that says that, then I go, oh, it
could be your phone. Try to you know, delete the app and reload
it or whatever, and they'll write back and go yep, that did the
trick. But if somebody, like a couple of weeks ago, when was
it Facebook that went down all day? We got one text, then we
got an other text, and then Jenny said Facebook's not working, and so
then all of a sudden we're like, oh, yeah, Facebook's not working.
Yeah, and then we knew. But if we get just one like
Andrew, it might have and you it might have just been you heard it
wrong. But either way, Andrew, thank you very much, and thank
you for writing into the Minnesota Goodbye, and thank you for listening to the
Minnesota Goodbye that we always need emails. I won't be here on Monday,
so that'll probably be Jenny and Drake uh, and then Bailey will be here
again. I think you're coming in next Tuesday and Wednesday. So we appreciate
you listening. We totally do. Whether you're listening in the in the far
South, or Boise, Idaho, or here in our hometown of Denver,
Colorado. There's somebody listening right now. Who's going dag I thought they were
Minneapolis, I swear, she said, andover didn't she? You? Thank
you for being here. Ryan Show at Katie dot com to become a staff writer,