All right, here we go with the Minnesota goodbye, and we're gonna have
a bunch of emails, so hey, let's get started. The first thing,
I find this one interesting because it is all about Taylor Swift and that
is what everybody's on their mind, and so I hesitated, what is it
going to read this one or not? But I thought, you know,
it's interesting because the station posted, you know, we're all tady able to
be this weekend. I think it's really super cool. I'm not a big
swifty. I respect Taylor Swift, but it's kind of like, you know,
if they had like a I don't know, Miley Cyrus weekend, some
people would be really into it and some people would be like, yeah,
not really into it. And it's like if they had a pizza weekend,
there would be a few people who would say, you know, I don't
like pizza. I like taco. So you know, we get we can't
please everybody, but this is somebody who they just want to say it.
They said, don't even say my name. I don't need the swifty army
attacking me. So here we go. Sorry, Fallon, I know you're
a big swifty, but am I the only one that can't wait for this
week and to be over. I feel like I'm hearing about the Taylor Swift
concert everywhere and it just seems so overblown to me. People are acting like
we've never held a concert in downtown Minneapolis before. I like some of her
recent music, but I am just sick of her brand and the overkill on
the clues and everything in the easter eggs, etc. That she does all
the time. Most people see her as America's sweetheart, but I think everything
seems so calculated with her that she's more of a business entity now than a
real person. Sorry for the long ranting email, but I just had to
vent in You guys seem like the best place for that. Do you have
anything anyone like this where you just get sick of hearing about them all the
time? Nothing comes to mind, necessarily maybe certain movies, but this is
I mean, I've said this before several times. This is the biggest concert
event in my lifetime yea, and probably ever, because the biggest concert event
before this in Minnesota had to been them when the Beatles came. None of
us remember that. I totally under Dan you be like there. We've had
other texts that are like, I am so ready for Taylor So to be
over because they're sick of hearing about it. So I'm not surprised. I'm
not offended. I know, I don't get when people hate her because that
always is like weird to me because I just think she has palatable music.
So I'm like, if you know, if you're indifferent, I get it,
but I don't get hating her. But I also get not being into
it. So no, I mean, I get it, and I'm sure
a lot of people will be ready, but yeah, there's just for it
to be over. There's Dave's right, there's never been anything like this in
my like, and we both work in radio, so like we've seen the
hype for any possible concert pretty much ever. You know, yeah, absolutely,
m I there's somebody brought up and I'm looking for the email right now,
and I think here it is, right and here they say hello morning
show crew with all the tad wb buzz I had some nosy besign the scenes
questions to ask you about your work, perks, and how concert tickets work
in general for Radio Number one, says Hannah, How does the company get
the tickets? Does a lowly intern have to sit through Ticketmaster and buy event
tickets or less ridiculously, I'm sure you're given a certain allowtment for shows.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. We get them from usually the record
company and if there's another way that I don't know, but basically the record
label. It's all above board because we can't. You know, they give
us tickets to give away to promote the show. So we play Taylor Swift's
music, the record company says, thank you, here are some tickets to
give away on your show. Now there might be some other ways, and
maybe it's through the power of iHeartRadio, but we have a great relationship with
Taylor Swift because iHeartRadio is the biggest radio company in the world that I know
of, and we've worked a lot with her back even when she wasn't the
phenomenon that she is, and so they appreciate that. So I think that's
how we get them. I don't think so, but I think like personal
tickets, like for our boss, he gets them through the record label.
Typically because I worked in promotions for you, you get them through the promoter.
And what you do as a radio station is like the promotions director at
the radio station creates a proposal, like the promoter will email the promotions dirrector
and say, you know, many months in advance, like when they're before
the on sale even happened, they're coming. The promotion instructor creates a proposal.
And what the proposal is is you request a certain number of tickets and
then you write out what they're going to get in return, the number of
mentions, the number of giveaways. How you So it's a promotion for concert
sales basically, yeah, and then you submit it and they may completely agree
to all of that, or they may go back and forth a little bit.
But I'm going to guess that's kind of how it happened for Taylor as
well. I had no idea. I really thought it was like, you
know, whatever her record label is is like, oh, here you go,
here are some tickets. So and I have ano promotions here at KATWB,
So maybe it is different, just but in Indiana. So like I'd
get an email from Susan with Live Nation, and that's who I would work
with. Okay, gotcha. Next question from the same listener, do you
personally have access to any show tickets or for large scale evench like Taylor Swift,
would you have to buy your own? We It depends if it's an
artist that we play. For example, let's say Selena Gomez was coming to
town just randomly chose somebody and I really wanted to go. I could go
in and I could say, hey, can I get some Selena Gomez tickets?
And depending on the availability, I mean usually the bigger the act,
it's like, uh maybe. And but for Taylor Swift, no we don't.
We would not get any because they're way too valuable. Yeah they yeah,
I think I paid for my Taylor Swift, but typically I don't know.
The other concert I went to was John Maren had to pay for those
tickets too, but we don't play John Mayer, so it wasn't. But
the boss will ask sometimes yeah, I mean usually yes, but like for
instance, I really hard to get into. It was Olivia Rodrigo that's selled
out within seconds. I asked her boss. He's like, uh, probably
not. And then I think, like a day or two before, he
found an extra pair somehow, I don't know how he got I'm at it.
Ask he goes I found an extra pair, and I was like,
oh, okay, yeah, I mean, if there's something like jingle Ball,
then it's our show or Star Party, it's our show, so we
can almost get as many as we want within reason. I think at one
time I asked for like fifteen pair for jingle Ball tickets or something like that,
and I got them because everybody that I know wanted to go to that
jingle Ball. So all right, Being a next question, same listener,
being that I've never won tickets from the radio. Are seats desirable or more
in the nosebleeds? I think that it can be. They're almost never great
seats, unless we say their front row, second row, third row.
They're usually good seats. But sometimes I've never had anybody call after a show
that they won tickets for on Katie being said those seats were shit. But
I'm sure it happens once in a while, but from what I know,
it is free. Lastly, have you ever seen a show with such demand
in hype like Taylor Swift maybe Prints back in the day or Madonna no even
with Prince back in the day, or Madonna. No. The last one
that I remember being hyped so much was the Michael Jackson Jackson's Victory Tour.
Now this was a long time ago, Michael Jackson had just did the Thriller
album and so they people wanted a concert, and there they were. They
did a tour and I remember tickets were thirty five dollars a piece, which
people couldn't believe that anybody would charge thirty five dollars, and you had to
buy a block of four. And it was not just Michael Jackson, it
was his brothers and maybe LaToya and maybe Janet, I don't remember, but
it was because Michael Jackson was so big after Thriller, and it was it
was huge, but not even on this level. It was huge in a
different way because nobody had ever done a big concert tour like that before.
Sorry for asking all the questions. I get so interested with huge events and
how behind the scenes works for media people. I hope I rented a Fallon
at t Swift on Saturday. Much love for my on demand friend group Hannah.
Thank you Hannah. I'm gonna skip past this one and come back to
it, but this is kind of funny. My husband and I just pulled
into the Woodberry Target only to be greeted by the most beautiful violin music.
We see two women playing, and my husband is like, Wow, they're
really good, and I said, no, it's a scam. I heard
about it from David Fallon, so so thankful I knew better and didn't fall
for it. And that is from Sarah. Thank you, Sarah. I'm
glad. I hope more people spread the word about that because it's just it's
just so annoying that it's just such a scam and that people in their the
you know, the goodness of their heart to give money for it to them.
This is a good one. I like it a lot. It says,
I love your show in the Minnesota. Goodbye. I'm binge listening to
the podcast. I heard the show where you asked listeners what they came back
from. Yeah, so I want to share my story. You can use
my name on the show. It's from Tricia. I came back from losing
my mom to pancreatic cancer her. I was very close to my mom and
she was my best friend. So I was devastated when she was diagnosed with
stage four pancreatic cancer in twenty seventeen. She passed away just thirteen days after
her diagnosis. Thirteen days, not even two weeks, and I was devastated.
I really didn't think I would get through it. I had eleven days
left in the last courses of my doctorate program before moving on to the comprehensive
exam and the dissertation. It was difficult for me, but I could hear
my mom telling me, you gotta finish. I finished my last term and
passed my comprehensive exam about three months after her passing. I was very motivated
to complete the dissertation after all I had been through. I became doctor Tricia
in twenty nineteen. After completing my dissertation, I dedicated it to her,
as I knew she would have been so proud. Although grief never ends,
Oh my god, I'm gonna tear up, Tricia. I am happy that
I listened to my mom and finished my degree. Doctor Tricia. That is
I mean, I don't even know what kind of doctor you are. Could
be a doctor of sociology or a doctor of engineering, but I'm going to
guess probably a medical doctor, because I think she would have probably said different
otherwise. But that is so amazing, and I'm so sorry. I mean,
it's been a long time since your mom passed, but yeah, it's
just I think it's it's a different kind of grief. My mom and dad
both lived a long time. They didn't die young or suddenly, but it
bet it does. It stays with you and it just kind of like evolves
into something a little bit different over the years. And let's see, Dave,
you mentioned that you were waiting for your bird watching device because of it
being back ordered. I got my bird buddy. I ordered it in January
or so. It came to mail the other day, and then I was
texting Foulon last night about where to hang it on my house because she's gotten
a similar one. Well, my vehicle needs new tranny and it's on back
order. I've been waiting since Memorial Day and they say it might take a
few months months. The only good thing they gave me a free loaner,
and my vehicle is still covered under warrantine that is from Chow Chow. Yep,
there's a lot of stuff on back order. I think that's just something
that we are all dealing with. Holly says, I love the show so
much. You make my morning's bearable. Thank you. I appreciate that one.
Dave. A while ago, you were holding a picture of Evelyn and
I think she might have been sick and that was the one. I think
she was coughing and she and she just laid on me and just kind of
like snuggled and passed out. And she's like eight months old, and it
was very sweet. I took a screenshot of this picture and I sent it
to my sister, saying, why can't our dad be like this? And
she immediately agreed. Our dad was an amazing dad when we were growing up,
coach sports, field trips, etc. But he seems less than interested
in the grandkids, and it makes us so sad. We always thought he'd
be just as an amazing grandpa as he'd been a dad, and he's just
not. I just wanted to tell you that all of your grand kids are
so lucky to have you. I love that you went on the field trip
with your grandson and that you and Susan take the kids from sleepovers. Our
parents would never do that. If you're ever looking for some grandsons that live
close, my sister and I have six between the two of us. Kind
of joking, kind of serious. I just thought I would let you know
that we think you're amazing. I hope you have a wonderful day and fallon
have an amazing time at the concert. Thank you. I don't understand it.
I mean, it's like dads that don't pay attention to their kids.
I don't understand it. You're missing out on such a gift. And at
the distance, the challenge of the distance with the best kids, they do
make it hard, they do because I don't get to see them that often
and we're not really that close. But there was something when I saw them
that it was like we just saw each other yesterday. You know. They
weren't like shy around me, and they know what grandpa is and I'm the
only grandpa they have sold their kids are. I wonder if he's the rush
grandpa, that will be more like if there are a lot of you know,
under seven, Like, will he be a lot better when they're a
little bit older because he's better interacting with that age, you know what I
mean? It could be. Yeah, you are just not baby people like
even me, I'm like a little bit like huh, But I guess I
hope that I'm not like that. If Olive and Dillon have kids, yeah,
well yeah you never I guess, you know, never know. All
right, let's chat mom guilt when sending kids to daycare. If you have
the day off to work, listen to this one. I got two kids
five months and three years on July third and fourth. That is a Monday
and Tuesday next week. I am off work, well not next week,
but you have the idea. I'm off work, but I'd like to spend
time with my husband on July third and still send the kids to daycare?
Are we horrible for not doing family things on that day? We are already
paying for daycare even if we don't send them. Mom guilt is so real.
Do dad's ever feel like that? Thanks, besties, I'm gonna say,
go ahead and do it and don't feel guilty. They won't know.
They're not gonna understand. They're three and five months. If you want to
go spend time with your partner, then obviously you need that time. And
I think if you've got a chance to take a break from your kids,
I say go ahead and do it. Yeah, one hundred percent. And
the mom guilt is real. I can't speak on dad guilt, but I
you do you feel guilty, You feel like and especially if you aren't doing
anything, like if you stayed at home and lay it on your couch and
just watch TV. Like you used to be able to do. You feel
so guilty, like you should be at least cleaning the house. And I've
had Jake before and be like, fallon, no, you have one day
off without olive. Stop feeling like you clean the house, like just actually
lay there like a lazy slug and relax. And I'm like, okay,
but it's uh, I think, yeah, I think do it and you'll
be happy. Yeah. I wouldn't even worry that much about it. You
know, they're kids, they're little. I would say, they're not going
to know. They'll be fine. This is just kind of a different one.
Hey, besties, I have a friend who has a terminal genetic illness.
She has about ten or so years left to live. She is truly
living her life to the fullest, traveling a ton and planning to hopefully have
a baby with her spouse. It got me thinking, if you had ten
years left to live, what would you do differently? Thanks always love listening
to you wall from Jamie. I would stop working, for sure, and
then I would do all the things that you know that I think that I've
wanted to do. I would take long motorcycle rides. I'd buy an RV.
I'd go, you know, camping. I would go to all the
national parks. I would I'm not a traveler necessarily, but I do enjoy
traveling RV camping, So I'd be at every KOA in town or everyr K
away in the country and doing that whole thing. And I think that's what
I would do. And then I would spend as much time as I could
with Alison, Carson, Beth Chase and family. Yeah. I mean that's
pretty dead on with me, aside from the camping bugs. No, I
mean I feel like I feel that would be you know, the weird thing
about that what Jake do, because we couldn't just neither of us couldn't just
not work for ten years. We wouldn't have money. Yeah, So then
it's like, but I wouldn't want to work if I only had ten years.
But luckily, Jake, I think can work remotely, so maybe we
could still do things and work remotely. And I don't know. I admire
your friend though, I mean good for her. I'm glad that she's got
a supportive partner, and it sounds like she's still in a condition healthy enough
to have children. And you know, the first thing that my mind went
to was if she has a child, the child won't be able to see
mom, you know, like grow all the way up. You know what
I'm saying. Yeah, And that kind of struck me as sad. But
if that is going to be rewarding to her to give another human life,
even if she's only going to be here for a short time, I think
that is still a great gift to give that other human life. I'm going
to give you one more. It's a little bit long, but it's somebody
who says, call me Stacy. I'm writing to feel better about my decision,
and I want to get your thoughts. I quit my teaching job and
got a new job. Very excited we do something new. Mental health was
a problem. I dreaded going to work. I didn't want to be happy.
Then I came home to my own kids and I had no energy left
to my kids. It just felt wrong because my kids need to be my
priority. Here's the hard part. The new job is actually a paycut,
and I'm very stressed out about childcare. My husband and I are planners.
We had our whole lives mapped out. I was continuing my education, so
I was making a pretty good salary as a teacher for being thirty. My
husband makes good money, so I was able to pull at least of my
paycheck into our savings at least half of my paycheck in our savings. Not
to mention, I took care of the pickup and drop offs, and I'm
always the one that can stay home at the kids are sick, etc.
I'm scared. The new job has perks, great retirement contributions, and I
won't have to pay for any premiums for my whole family's healthcare. It is
almost fully remote too. The hours are trickier for picking up my kids from
daycare in school. I'm not sure how much time I'll really be able to
take off if my kids get sick, and I'm very worried about my income
effect in our future plans. My husband is supportive, but I can sense
he is worried about the income as well. Uugh make me feel like I'm
making an okay decision. Now. I'm really glad she put this part in,
because this part, I believe is the answer for reference. Together,
my husband and I make about one hundred seventy thousand dollars a year. It
will go to about one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year before taxes. Two
thoughts. Obviously, you had planned out your financial future with an income of
one hundred seventy thousand dollars a year, you'd plan that. So a deficit
of twenty thousand dollars a year when you're a careful planner is a big dent.
Twenty thousand dollars a year before taxes is that's going to make a big
dent. However, I want you to put it in perspective. One hundred
fifty thousand dollars a year between the two between the two of you is a
great income. It is a great income. There are people who wore listen
to the show right now going between me and my partner, we make ninety
yea and we're doing okay. I'm not going to name anybody in my family,
but I know that most people in my family make way less than that
as a part of a couple, and they are around your age. So
I would say, put it in perspective, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year is a really good salary. I would also say, you're thirty,
so it's not like you have to stay at this job forever. It's
not like there is no chance. I guess, I don't know. Does
this chance have opportunity for growth where you could get promotions and raises? Yeah?
If not, then maybe that's somewhere you go just for now for your
mental health, until you find something that is higher paying. Again, I
mean, you don't have to stay at this job for the rest of your
life, so exactly. Yeah, I think that you're making the right decision
for your mental health. You'll make better, not better, additional good decisions
moving forward to maybe get you, guys back where you were before. It's
always Dave. I think Dave said this. I think everyone says it's easier
to get a job when you have a job. So if you have that
job, you'll find another job. Yeah, And I think I think it'll
be fine. I think that if you are planners, you will be able
to I will say this, twenty thousand dollars a year when you're a superplanner
is a big amount. But also if you're such a superplanner, you'll be
able to plan around that. I know two adult women in their forties and
fifties right now who are so financially strapped they give plasma as often as they
can because they need to give plasma. And they're doing okay. You know
that they're a little bit paycheck to paycheck, but they're doing okay. All
right. That is it. I'm not saying go donate plasma, but have
your husband do it. All right. That's it for the Minnesota goodbye.
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