Ask and thou shalt receive. I don't know if that's in the Bible or
not either. I haven't heard that one before the Bible. I should say,
you know, I think that there was one that said the Lord helps
those who help themselves. That's also not in the Bible. No, but
I did find out in the Bible that that Jesus apparently died in an ATV
accident. You found that out from the Bible. Yeah, the Bible and
that Bible from Uh, well, I got in the middle isle at all,
the the middle of the center isle at Aldi. So it's a it's
a it's an unusual Bible. Let's get to this. So we asked for
emails, and we got a bunch of emails. So let's get started.
I like this one. My husband wants to be a sperm donor to help
people and have some extra income. We've got three kids, we're done expanding
our family. I'm hesitant to agree because it would take time away from our
family and or work, because he'd have to drive about ninety minutes to do
this. They prefer week donations. The bigger thing for me is it seems
weird to have half of his DNA out there that our kids also have.
He crunched the numbers and even with possible lost wages and gas money, he'd
still have a net gain. Am I wrong to disagree with him? Or
should I let this go? It seems like there are other ways to help
people, right from I'm not going to say her name. I don't think
he should do it because I also don't like the idea of DNA out there,
even it's anonymous. I don't think it's fair to your children to know
they have a half sibling out there that they'll never meet or that might approach
them one day, and I don't like it. There's a lot of laws
and stuff in terms of kids finding out their biological parents, but I feel
like kids eventually do want to find out, even if they're adopted and with
it or not adopted, But if they go through whatever procedure to agree,
it's like, eventually they do probably want to find out who the actual father
is biologically. And then do they have the right to Well, they don't
need to have the right. They can do twenty three and me, I
mean think, yeah, they can do ancestry or whatever. So somewhere down
the road in thirty years when it's even more advanced, they can probably within
a few clicks find your children and they might know that dad was a sperm
donor, or they might not know. And can you imagine. And I'm
not saying that sperm nobody should be a sperm donor. I'm saying it's not
for me. It is not for me. It is not nobody would want
my sperm anyway. But no, it's it's it's something that you've got to
realize that it's not undetectable, it's not top secret anymore. Yeah. Right,
so you had a problem with it, I would say that you have
a right to his sperm. Yeah. I believe that your partners, you're
a couple, you have a big say in this. Tell them to get
a part I said. And the fact that you guys have kids together already,
I think that that plays a huge role in it. Tell him that
he should get a part time job working at the UPS store. I mean,
seriously, I would not want that. I think it's admirable that he
wants to, but doing it for money, I don't know. And it's
just no, there's our for an answer. Next one, Alexander says,
I was online shopping tonight, and I kid you not there was an option
to tip. Had to share it because it was just too funny. Picture
below to prove it. And then she is talking about how she is ordering
something for one hundred and twenty nine dollars, No, for seven dollars,
there's the coupon, blah blah blah, and then oh, I'm looking at
the part where it says tip, Oh, add a tip. There it
is add a tip. Show your support for the team at Belllement belelmint.
I don't know what that is, but you could add a tip, but
it's not really a tip. It says show your support for the team,
and so they want extra money. Would you online shopping? It doesn't say
tip us because the computer did all the work, but it says show your
support for the team at Bellament would you tip? And that's a situation No
no, my answer never absolutely not. Well, I don't under what did
they do for you. They're doing their job, you're showing support. Maybe
they need extra money. And those people are hopefully being paid a livable wage,
whereas people like servers don't get paid as much of a livable wage,
and they're providing a full time service for like an hour of your time.
There's just a very big difference. You just sat and ordered on something on
your computer. What did that person do for you? Okay, but what
about I'm just arguing for the sake of argument. What about the person who
fixes the software or installs the software, or who packs the boxes. The
tip is not going to the computer. It's going to a person behind the
scenes. What do you think now? Okay, I still say no.
I just I feel like we are getting to a place in society where every
single industry is going to start having a tip on whatever they do. We're
going to start asking listeners for tips like it's just insane. Well, I
think that's true, and I think it's part of the I'm special culture,
which is the you can't offend me. You're not allowed to offend me.
You're not allowed to have a different political opinion than me, and if you
do, I've got it is my responsibility to change your political opinion or at
least let you know how rotten you are. It is also the I'm special,
you need to tip me culture, So it's the don't offend me and
treat me like I'm somebody special. My opinion is obviously more valuable than yours.
So if you don't have the same opinion and you don't want to tip
me, then you are victimizing me. Jenny, You're victimizing me. Oh
my god. I just can't. I can't do it. It's just the
never ending argument. Now. I feel like it's bigger than who should be
the next president. It's whether you should tip out a certain place or not.
Jenny, who should be the next president? No? No, no
no. Next question, Guys, got a question for you. When it
comes to the Taylor Swift Trip contest, how is the winner picked? Is
it all luck of the draw? Do you scroll through the names with your
eyes closed and then stop with whoever the cursor is on wins? I don't
know. We don't pick them personally, but I think it's pretty close to
they do it back in promotions. I'm going to guess there is systems that
they use to draw names, yes, because I've used them at events before
where you had to go online and all the people's information were entered in and
then you call like it basically, it is like a spin situation. It
spins and picks a name, And that totally makes sense to me. I
don't know because we just don't draw. We used to draw them literally out
of a paper cup, like slips of paper. But now with computers,
I'm sure we have something that randomizes that. I personally know the winner of
the pair trip Shawna, and it was so awesome to hear her reaction live
on the radio. She was so happy. There is honestly no one who
deserves that trip more than she and her husband. They have four little ones
at home working, her running a small business on the side. I think
it's so amazing in such a luck moment, the universe works in wonderful ways.
I felt like Christmas Wish was happening all over again. And of course,
like every other email you get, I hope you're not sick of hearing
it. I wanted to end it by saying how great you guys are,
and thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to making sure all of
us listeners have that safe space and a sense of comfort when we need it.
You're so welcome, Paige. That is very nice. I really enjoy
being that space for people. It's so funny because I met a girl on
the plane last night and I actually put her a picture on Instagram because she
was so funny and charming, and she said, I don't want to be
a creep, but are you Dave Ryan? And I said you're a creep
and she laughed, which I immediately laughed. Liked her because she laughed when
I was trying to be funny and she was. She talked about how she
went to a wizard camp and I'm like, no, that's super nerdy.
But I said, I went to a magic convention and I'm nerdy too.
I said, I play the ukulele. She's like, I know you play
the ukulele. I know you went to a magic convention. I listened to
your show all the time. Yeah, And it was like, okay,
that's cool. So people come for I think the sense of connection definitely a
safe space and it's not just you know. She was thirty eight. She
told me she's thirty eight. Met a guy in the hallway painting. They're
people painting the hallways and I'm walking to the bathroom. He's like, so,
how's Carson liking his touring job in Los Angeles? And here's a guy
who's probably thirty thirty five and he also listens to the show. And I
just think It's so cool how people listen and connect to the show anyway.
She says, sorry for the long email, but thanks for taking the time
at dart Licky Dart Sticky. That was creative. Thank you. Page next
one might be long, but you said you need emails, so here you
go from Shyleen. Every time I hear that Kasha and Maclamore song, I
cry, so thanks for that. We talked about the good old days last
week or earlier this week, Yes, yesterday was yesterday. Kind of a
topic for the good old days and how fast they go by. My two
oldest kids are in flag football right now, ages ten and five. When
my ten year old was five playing flag football, I remember seeing the ten
year olds playing and thinking they're so big and they're actually playing a football game.
Five year old's playing football is like a bunch of penguins running around.
That's funny. Now my ten year old is one of those big kids,
and it's just insane to me how fast time goes by. Dave, I'm
sure you experienced that all the time with your kids growing up. Time is
such a thief. Oh absolutely, I mean it will make me tear up
and it boggles my mind how Carson was just a little boy before his voice
changed. It wasn't that long ago. He's twenty three, so literally thirteen
years ago he was in fifth grade. Yeah, and I know thirteen years
is a long time, but at the same time, it's not really in
the scope of things. Next topic from the same writer, I feel bad
for kids these days. The screens and lack of interaction with one another is
sad. Parents having Life three sixty and other tracking devices on their phones prevents
them from sneaking out and going to a party at midnight like we used to.
My parents never really knew where we were. We could say we're spending
the night somewhere and not be there and they would never know. Kind of
sucks for them in my opinion. Yeah, we track Carson, but honestly,
I don't think he cares that we track him. He knows he and
go wherever he wants to. If he wants to go to like a you
know, a crack house in downtown LA, we're not going to stop him.
Well, you also wouldn't really know what he was up to. You
just assume he's out exploring LA. If you were checking in on him,
you know. Yeah, but I mean I agree with that that it kind
of sucks for kids nowadays, because I definitely snuck out a couple times in
my like high school era. I think even in middle school I snuck out
a couple of times. But I don't know. I guess it's just like
the technology world that everyone's growing up in now. It's just what, it's
just a different time. I had a girlfriend when I was I think nineteen,
and she was eighteen, and she of course lived at home, which
is very common for anybody who's eighteen, and I lived at home too,
so we didn't have a place to go, so she sneaked well, she
didn't sneak out. She said she was spending the night at her girlfriend's house,
and she came down to the radio station with me and hung out during
my show. Afterward, we drank wine in the in my car in the
parking lot. She was underage and I'd gotten wine somehow, and then we
went to the midnight movie and slept on the general manager's couch at the radio
station. We got away with it then because nobody knew where we were.
My mom and dad didn't care. They were like, you know, whatever,
But her mom and dad thought she was at her friend's house. You
could never do that now because they'd be like, wait, why are you
at a radio station? Yeah, next topic, I think you guys were
talking about remaking songs. Got me thinking about how many old songs they use
for movies today. All my kids are always shocked to hear that all the
songs in the movie Sing are actually old songs and not songs made for the
movie. Songs by Whitney Houston and You too are in the movie with a
bunch of other old songs. My ten year old and his friends were jamming
out to Journey the other day, and they love Michael Jackson other than Taylor
Swift. Do you think there are any popular artists in the past five years
that your grandkids will be listening to in ten or fifteen years. I cannot
think of any that will still be relevant or ten to twenty years. I
love music from the seventies and eighties. I'm born in nineteen eighty five,
so they're thirty four, no, thirty eight, thirty nine years old.
Journey, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi are still so popular today and played at
every wedding. Will our grandkids be listening to? Aiming but Bobby, in
the next twenty years, that's it have a great week. That's from Shay.
That is a very true thing. Are there any artists now that are
going to create a song other than Taylor Swift that people will still be listening
to? And doesn't that speak to how amazing music was in the eighties that
all these years later, forty years later, people still play it at weddings
and on movies. Will they still play Ava Max on the radio or on
the subspeaker at cub in forty years? Cyrus? Maybe the only other one
I was thinking of was Beyonce. Maybe okay, Beyonce Ed Sheeran. But
are we are we considering anything a little bit further back, because I definitely
feel like there's got to be a couple Britney Spears songs, yep, I
think today. I mean, for example, a lot of the stuff we
play on KTWB now is great disposable pop. It's catchy and it's fun.
Like every time that Espresso song comes on by Sabrina Carpenter, I'm like,
God, that song is a great song, But is it so good that
in twenty years or thirty years somebody will play it at a wedding, probably
not. Will it ever be in a movie? Probably not. Like I'm
gonna scroll through the computer here and tell you some of the songs that are
coming up on KTWB, post Malone better Now. Will it be played in
thirty years now? Beautiful Things by Benson Boone or they're Sabrina car Carpenter Espresso.
Let me scroll down a little bit more, Ariana Grande, we Can't
Be Friends? Will that be played at a wedding? No? Not at
a wedding? No? Saturn by Sizza. And that's as far down as
the computer lets me scroll. But I think that's the thing is, there's
so many great, catchy but easily forgettable pop songs on the radio right now
for whatever reason. Yeah, yeah, it's just not a lot of them.
We've talked about this plenty of times before. A lot of pop music
sounds the same. So it's gotta be something that actually stands out quite a
bit from everyone else for it to be something like a Whitney Houston. Yeah,
And I don't know, I don't know why that is, but I
do believe that that is the truth. Let me see if we've got time
for one more. Okay, let's try this one? Why not? I
was listening to Friday's podcast yesterday and I got a few comments from Sarah.
All the is the best day. If you're gonna go check out the Isle
of Shame, you gotta go on a Wednesday for it to be fully stocked.
All all the fines are put out on Wednesday. This aisle follows the
season, so right now a lot of Mother's Day gardening stuff spring themed.
All the also does their own merch drop every three months or so. You
can get all the branded shoes, sweatshirts, joggers, belt bags, hat,
socks, everything. People including me, love all the I tell people
all these to me, what target is to other moms? Lol. I've
never set find in all the of you I have. I used to live
close to the one that was in Uptown, so I've been there. I've
been there a handful of times, and I have gone down the Isle of
Shame. I don't think I've ever bought anything from it, but I know
that I probably would get hooked if I went there frequently. I think we're
sending down the Aisle of Shame tomorrow, aren't we? Yeah? Yeah,
but what time does all the open? It just looked, it's not till
mine, so it's gonna have to be after night. I have to do
it after night. Thought the next one randomly. I love this one.
Who were you in high school? Vont brought this up last week about how
he didn't have a lot of friends. He would eat lunch a lot of
the time in the teacher's room, like in the teacher's classroom. I was
the kid that went to a teacher's room often during study halls. The homech
teacher would call me down to her room to help her prep stuff. I
really did not enjoy high school, and she told me, hold on,
you're going to make a really great adult. Oh my god, that is
so good. I think about that often. I'm so glad that I didn't
peek in high school. We put so much emphasis on it, but it
is just a small blip in our lives. Life gets so much better as
you grow up. My god, that is so true. When we are
in high school, we think that is the most important thing. We are
the most mature, oldest kids of all the kids in school. We think
that that is the real world. Like if you're a football player, or
the starting center on the basketball team, or the captain of the wrestling team
or the gymnastics team or whatever. The world is great. And if you're
kind of ignored in school and blend in you think that you don't mean much
to the world. Yeah, but then you get out of high school and
all of that is erased. It's like a magnadoodle, Jenny, you know
what a magnadodle is. How can you not know what a magna doodle is?
You know what a dog, A burn a doodle, No, a
magnadoodle. Google it right now, Google a magnadudle. I feel like once
I see it, I'm going to know what it is. You will,
of course, But as I say, high school is a magnadoodle, and
when you graduate, it's a oh okay, yeah you know what it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like you draw a little art design
on a whatever board you want to call it, and then you can just
erase it within seconds and do a brand new one. Oliver, I want
you to remember who came up with this analogy. High school is a magnadoodle
because yeah, and you can even make that the title of the podcast if
you want to, because it really is. It's like, once it's done
it doesn't matter that you were a nerd in high school, or that maybe
you didn't have a ton of friends in high school, or it doesn't also
matter that you were you know, super well. If you're smart, it
does matter because that will carry on through your life and your college. But
if you were kind of lonely or a loner, it is all erased.
It's a fresh slate. Once you get out of school, you don't have
twelve years of history. You can reinvent yourself. I was in high school,
she says, who were you in high school? I was very invisible
in high school. I was excluded from all of the popular groups. The
popular kids either didn't know me or didn't want to include me. And I
did myself no favors. I didn't try to be popular. I didn't join
clubs or sports. I was in the band. But once I got out
of high school, then I got on the radio, and I learned confidence,
and I could kind of recreate myself by being the person that I really
wanted to be by being on the radio. And eventually I learned that is
really kind of who I am is I'm not you know, I don't know,
I'm not excluded I'm not a nobody, but I had to work to
become something more. Right. What were you in high school? I mean
I was friends with a lot of different people, but I was sort of
a nerd because I got really good grades. But I also played sports and
I was in all the clubs, so I was just involved in a lot.
I feel like I kind of hung out with like the jock and popular
kids, but I wasn't super part of that group. Like there was kind
of like a split group of like I guess popular kids, and I was
in the less popular one. I would say, yeah, but yeah,
I just I remember high school being like great and bad at the same time.
Like I had really good friends, but I went through my own phases
of like I don't feel like I'm cool enough, or you know, this
one jock I have a crush on doesn't even notice me, or something like
that. So I was kind of all over the board of I went through
my insecure moments. I went through my phases of like a lot of guys
had crushes on me, and it was all over the place. I think
that you're very typical, very average. You were definitely a of my social
pecking order because me and my friends. We never thought of ourselves as losers
at all. We had a great time in high school, especially after high
school, when we'd go like, you know, drink tequila and smoke Swisher
Sweens. But at school we were just average, you know. We didn't
love it, we didn't hate it. We showed up. We had fun
in some classes and dreaded other classes. We talked to some kids, but
other kids wouldn't talk to us. The pretty girls would walk by, and
the jocks and the football players would walk by, and they didn't give us
a dirty look. They didn't scoff at us. They just didn't notice,
you know what I mean. So question to discuss. Do you think someone
from Do you have someone from high school who was super popular but turned into
a mess as an adult, never left their hometown and are just a bar
rat? I don't I was trying to think of it. I'm sure they
exist, But somebody who was like popular in high school and then never left
their hometown. Don't you know somebody who like never left their hometown and they're
a bar rat but they weren't particularly popular in high school. Do you know
anybody? Yeah, I would say there are a handful of people who maybe
left my hometown for college but then move back and now they're kind of like
bar rats and stuff. And I don't think they're necessarily unsuccessful, like they
have decent jobs, but they spend most of their weekends going to the bars.
And at this point in life, for me, that's not part of
my lifestyle. And I feel like you grow out of that eventually, and
I'm definitely at the age where you're most likely grown out of that. Yeah,
I think so. And I think that you know, you're thirty three,
so you've grown out of that a long time ago. I think that
there's some people. I mean, it's like, you know, they just
never really changed after high school. They still wanted to have those glory days
or whatever. I'm glad that I was really a nobody in high school,
so I wouldn't feel that I ever peaked in high school, because I certainly
got if I would have peaked in high school, what would my life be
like? Now? God? Okay, that is it. That was one
of my favorite emails in a really long time. So thank you for being
creative and coming up with something. I loved. All the emails today,
don't get me wrong, I love all the emails that we read, and
if we read your email, we will send you a staff writer sticker.
And there's a lot we didn't get to today, so thanks for sending those
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