WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.519 All right, let's get started on the men is so good bye and see 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:08.640 what we got here on tap. We're gonna start off with this one. 3 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:12.759 It's a little bit longer, but it says hello to my emotional support people. 4 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:15.720 My name is Jordan. I'm a thirty year old woman. I've listened 5 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.280 to show over many years and truly love you all. The second I wake 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:23.359 up, I see this suggested app notification pop up that says listen to katib 7 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.160 to be on iHeart and it's the first thing I tap on my phone. 8 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.679 Well that's cool. I listen to the app. I get ready all the 9 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.679 way down to my car until the underground parking garage cuts me off and immediately 10 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.479 turn my car radio to Kati WB in hopes that I didn't miss anything in 11 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.560 those forty five seconds in between losing service and getting my car started. I 12 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.679 hope not. I'm writing because I have a unique story about the Taylor Swift 13 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:49.240 Eras tour, even though unfortunately and sadly, I did not attend. Now 14 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.079 I'm going to stop this email for a second to say we are tapped out 15 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:57.159 with Taylor Swift stories after today. So because you know what, hey, 16 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.399 listen, I love it. It's a whole lot of fun, but it's 17 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:03.000 also like, okay, time to move on with our lives. It was 18 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.000 a huge concert, but we're kind of made a funny, little tongue in 19 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:10.280 cheek policy that tomorrow we're not talking as much about Taylor Swift. So if 20 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:12.640 you're tired and burn out, I understand, but let's do one more. 21 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.959 When the tour was first announced, I was stoked. I did anything in 22 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:19.680 my power to get tickets for my best friend and Ice. She used to 23 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.640 stay at home mom with three kids and honestly the best friend I've ever had. 24 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.120 We have been each other's person since we were in high school. We 25 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.799 had the pleasure of seeing Taylor together in the past, and she is truly 26 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:34.640 the biggest swifty I've ever met. It scares me sometimes how insane she is 27 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:40.120 when it comes to Taylor laugh emoji. Fast forward. We've both spent ten 28 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.680 hours on Ticketmaster the first time, ten hours on ticket Master the second time, 29 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:47.159 and no tickets. Two days later, my little sister called me and 30 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.519 said, I got two tickets. I want to surprise you and take you 31 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.640 with And I cried happy tears, and I thought about my best friend, 32 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.120 how crushed she would be if she didn't get to go to this once in 33 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.159 a lifetime event. How she didn't get tickets after work so hard, how 34 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.599 she gives everybody else her all. I knew the right thing to do, 35 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.400 even though it killed me to say inside, to say to my little sister, 36 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.000 what if you took my friend instead? It means so much to her. 37 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.800 I can't imagine robbing her this opportunity if I have the chance to give 38 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:21.319 up my ticket. My little sister understood and agreed. Immediately. We merged 39 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.960 the best friend into a call and said, you're going to the heirs to 40 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.319 her? How is it possible? And I explained to her that I was 41 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.000 giving up my spot. She cried and thanked us over and over the last 42 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.719 two months, my best friend and sister have done everything to help me win 43 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:38.319 tickets. We have a group chat solely to talk about entries and taking shifts 44 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.360 listening to Katie WB. Tonight is Friday, the twenty fourth, and my 45 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:46.280 sister and best friend are at the show as I sit here drinking wine and 46 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.719 watching the Kardashians. But I'm not upset. I'm actually happy. I didn't 47 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.000 do this to be like, look at me, I gave somebody my ticket. 48 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:58.840 I'm such a good person. I did this because my gut and my 49 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:04.080 heart fully felt this is what I needed to do. As disappointing as it 50 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.479 is that I missed the show, there was one video that was sent to 51 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.240 me for my sister that confirmed I made the right decision. The video taken 52 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.719 by my sister is a quick video of her and my best friend seconds before 53 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.199 Taylor came on stage. My best friend is crying tears of happiness. My 54 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.439 little sister is giggling the most joyous giggle I've ever heard. I watched the 55 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.639 video and it is very cute. I got chills and immediately smiled at my 56 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.360 phone. It filled my heart with joy and I couldn't be happier for them. 57 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:31.319 Long story short, Love your people and love them selflessly and endlessly. 58 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:36.479 It will pay you back in happiness. I don't regret my decision, and 59 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.159 I'm positive I made the right choice. Sorry for the lengthy email. I've 60 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:43.159 always wanted to write in and this felt like the time and the right story 61 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.960 to share. Thank you day Fallon, Jenny and Drake for all you do. 62 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.680 You make the world a brighter paint place, and thank you for reading 63 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:52.680 my email. If you do, Jordan, I've attached the video of them 64 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.280 as well, and I did watch it and Jordan, it was very sweet. 65 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:00.000 So God, that is so kind, truly, what a good friend. 66 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:01.120 I think that's one of the lessons to be taken from that is that, 67 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:04.159 you know, I told that there was a girl on the show long 68 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:08.680 ago, Angie Taylor, and we were talking on the air one time and 69 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.599 we made a joke. We said, the best feeling in the world is 70 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.600 not an orgasm. It is helping somebody who needs help. And she said, 71 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:18.720 no, it's not it's an orgasm, and she was laughing, and 72 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:23.279 I said, no, it's not an orgasm. It is helping people and 73 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:27.120 doing something nice. And then I really like her angle of she didn't sit 74 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.519 there and go look at me, look at me, look at me. 75 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:31.120 Now, if I were to donate, let's say it was going to donate 76 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:35.279 to Gillette Children's Hospital, Let's say going to donate, you know, twenty 77 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:40.480 thousand dollars, Yeah, I would pretty much insist on having a room named 78 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:44.720 after me, like Dave Ryan, the Dave Ryan Room in honor of his 79 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.160 twenty thousand dollars donation. Yeah, but that's not the right thing to do. 80 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.240 The right thing is to donate it anonymously. But I'd really like a 81 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.519 plaque of some sort because I'd like accolades. Thousand dollars the least they could 82 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.519 do as a plaque, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, 83 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.519 yeah, so. But but good for you for doing it without looking for 84 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.920 any kind Well you did write in and tell us how wonderful you were. 85 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:08.040 But but but I don't. I don't fault you for that. Next one, 86 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:12.120 it says Dave in the morning. Zoo, I'm going to try to 87 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.720 make it short. Get my point across. Here's a quick example of cost 88 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:20.680 for a contractor's work. Now, this person T J. Timothy, brings 89 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:27.240 this up because I have been dubious and suspicious about the contractors doing work at 90 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.759 my house in Colorado. I got a wet basement, and every time I 91 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.360 talk to him, there's another problem, another challenge, and another you know 92 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:38.279 item on the invoice. I have to imagine it's also difficult because you're not 93 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:42.959 there to watch it, and so then your trust is even more wavering. 94 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:47.879 You are absolutely right, and contractors, let's face it, there are good 95 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.399 ones, Timothy. I'm sure you are a good one, and there are 96 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.480 bad ones, and we've had both. We had one guy that did our 97 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.240 whole remodeling Colorado twenty years ago, and he did such a phenomenal job. 98 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.920 He helped to save money, and he worked his ass off and the house 99 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:09.279 is great, just great. Well, Timothy says, it's eight pm. 100 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:13.000 For example, I get a call at I'm a restaurant, restaurant. Oh. 101 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.079 The restaurant calls and says, hey, tim, our walk in cooler 102 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.319 is down. We got a lot of product that's going to go bad. 103 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.480 If you don't come tonight, mean, no problem. I'll be over as 104 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.639 soon as I can. But it's after five o'clock and I'm with my family. 105 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.959 They go, that's fine, I get that get here asap. I 106 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.240 go over immediately. I first checked the power at the breaker and found out 107 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.319 it switched off. I turn it on and everything is working just fine. 108 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:38.439 I give them an invoice for one hour of overtime and a trip charge totaling 109 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:43.639 probably two hundred dollars. At this time, some would say I overcharge for 110 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.120 turning on a breaker, But those of us who have worked so hard for 111 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.519 so long to gain the experience and knowledge to know you check the breaker first, 112 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.279 would say well done, moral of the story. Get many quotes for 113 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.800 the job, not for the best price, but for the contractor who knows 114 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.000 what they were talking about, who's got the experience to do the job. 115 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.920 And sometimes that means you pay more because we deserve to be compensated for our 116 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:10.439 talents. It's not like buying a product from our local retailer and find it 117 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.759 on Amazon for a fraction of the price. You're paying for years of experience, 118 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.800 if not generations. In my case, lots of love and good luck 119 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.920 with the water issue and Colorado. My friend from TJ, you know what, 120 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:24.240 TJ. I think you're right. That is it's kind of like what 121 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.120 Fallon and I do for a living. People go, well, can you 122 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.079 record this? And it's like yeah, but are you going to pay us 123 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:34.000 for it? And some people will say pay you for it? Why would 124 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:39.560 I pay? It's going to take you two minutes to read it and another 125 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.800 thirty seconds to email it to us. And we you know, sometimes we 126 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.639 do that, but sometimes we say no, that is what we do. 127 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:50.680 We don't sell shoes, we don't lay asphalt, we don't test for raid 128 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:56.680 On. What we do is record and use our voices, and that's kind 129 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:59.519 of what we do as voice talent. And yeah, we can give it 130 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.480 away for because it's not that hard. But when somebody else is making money 131 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:05.480 off of our work, we got to charge him for it. And so 132 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.839 TJ, I totally understand. You are an expert, and if somebody calls 133 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.000 you while you're at a restaurant at five o'clock on a Saturday afternoon and says 134 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.959 you got to get here immediately, you deserve to be paid, even if 135 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.920 you just flipped the breaker. Yeah. I had a plumber come in at 136 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.319 my last house because something was going on with my ice machine, and I 137 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.519 think you just literally had to connect tube. It took him like three seconds, 138 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:28.920 and I think it was like one hundred, two hundred dollars. I 139 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.799 didn't get mad. I mean, I was annoyed because it's something that Jake 140 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:35.399 and I could wouldn't know, but I wasn't mad that he charged. And 141 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:37.480 I'm like, well, of course it's going to charge something. He just 142 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:41.960 had to come over here and use his time. But it's still, you 143 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.799 know, it sucks because you're like I just spent two hundred dollars, But 144 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.519 in this case, the for you to flip a switch, but you at 145 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.879 the end save a ton of money because that they would have lost a ton 146 00:08:52.919 --> 00:09:00.240 of product. So I remember I lived in Arizona and I had I think 147 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:01.240 I had two cats at a time. I might have had just one. 148 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.159 But anyway, the cat Wally, he was my buddy. He never peed 149 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.960 on the floor. Then he started peeing on the floor in the living room 150 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.080 of the house that I was renting and had a concrete floor underneath it, 151 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:20.279 and he soaked it, stunk it up so bad, and the carpet cleaning 152 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.039 guy came by and said, yeah, we do this, we do this, 153 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.200 we do this. And I don't know what he was going to charge, 154 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:31.279 but it was a lot. Let's say he was going to charge two 155 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:35.159 thousand dollars. And I said, I am not paying you two thousand dollars 156 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.000 for a job that looks like it's going to take you thirty minutes to lift 157 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.039 the pad up, spray it, rents it, do whatever. I said, 158 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.159 I am not paying you two thousand dollars. And in that case, 159 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.720 I felt like I was right. Yes, it was justified in that he 160 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.440 needed to be paid something. But I think sometimes contractors will throw out a 161 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.840 price to you and what do you You don't know, you know, you 162 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:01.120 don't know what's a fair price? You don't know. But I think that 163 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.960 the one that makes me a little bit suspicious of the one I'm working in 164 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.519 Colorado is they said, oh, and by the way, you get the 165 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.240 ten percent discount. Why do I get a ten percent discount? Is it 166 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.879 solely to make me think I'm getting a better deal and to make sure I 167 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.000 don't ask for more off? So I don't know. TJ. I respect 168 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:24.200 you, and I the good contractors respect you, but there are a lot 169 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.399 of shitty ones that they do not hesitate to take all the money they can 170 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.679 out of you. Yeah, I'm almost like like, we obviously had a 171 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.279 contractor for our bathroomory model, and he was great. He would send you, 172 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.159 know, each here's the total prize. Then like as each project was 173 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.679 done, he would send it and there'd be adjustments made, like, oh, 174 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.200 we didn't end up doing this, so it'd be a little bit cheaper 175 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.960 than it was predicted, or we added this to this next portion, so 176 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.320 it's going to be a little bit more than we predicted. And he was 177 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.600 very fair and kept me very much in the loop. I never got a 178 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.039 notification of a discount for ten percent. I'm pissed now, Lonnie, where 179 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:00.360 the hell was my ten where's a ten percent? Well it reminds me plug 180 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:01.919 this business, because it is not. They do not give me anything for 181 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.440 free. I do not get compensated. But the perfect example for me is 182 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:11.120 J and our automotive in Chanhassan. We have gone there for years. Never 183 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.679 once had we been surprised with a charge that made us go, well, 184 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.279 that doesn't make sense. As a matter of fact, J and R. 185 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:20.720 If they go, look, we didn't charge you, We just put a 186 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.559 new what I mean, I can't even think of an example. They're like, 187 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.279 we didn't charge you, we just tweaked the whatever or whatever it is. 188 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.200 And I'm like, I love that because they could have. Like, 189 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.679 for example, with my motorcycle a few months ago, it wouldn't start. 190 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.559 I took it in. They charged me a few hundred dollars, and I'm 191 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.000 pretty sure the reason it wouldn't start is the battery and the key fob was 192 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.919 dead. And if I would have thought about that myself, I could have 193 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.039 gone down to CVS Pharmacy got a couple of those two oh three two batteries 194 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.879 that looked like a nickel put it in there, and I would have been 195 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.600 fine, But that's the kind of business that and I don't know for sure, 196 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.279 but that made me suspicious that they saw me and said, we can 197 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.960 tell mister Ryan that we did two hundred and thirty dollars worth of work and 198 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.480 charging for the whole thing when all we needed was a new key fob. 199 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.399 So all right, next one, David Fallon. Last week you said Fallon, 200 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.320 or said Taylor Swift the biggest concert event of your lifetime? John and 201 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.279 Linda say maybe, but I'm gonna say that Prince's Purple Rain tour is at 202 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.960 least tied. He had multiple shows in every large city, including five in 203 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.799 Minneapolis around Christmas of eighty four. This was before the internet. You had 204 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.200 to buy tickets in person at a record store. My wife was in college 205 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.399 at the time and camped outside overnight with electric socks in the cold to get 206 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.559 tickets. I don't remember how I got my tickets, but pretty much everybody 207 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:45.559 I knew went to see one of the shows. No social media back then, 208 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.960 though, which is a big difference. True, but many ticket stubs 209 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.519 in old boxes still today. Tour dates in the link below if you want 210 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.840 to look at a few of the cities, I'd add another one to the 211 00:12:56.840 --> 00:13:01.600 list. At first, I thought you and the emailer might be talking specifically 212 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.080 about Twin Cities events. In nineteen seventy eight, the Eagles, Steve Miller 213 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:09.000 and Pablo Cruz had an outdoor concert at Met Stadium. Everybody who grew up 214 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.320 around here in the seventies remembers that one my friends and I rode our bikes 215 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:16.320 from Richfield to the Met hoping to hear some of it. Predictably, they 216 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.159 were in an intermission, it started to rain, and we biked home in 217 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.000 a storm. The Beatles, Eagles, Prince, and now Taylor. Those 218 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:31.200 are concerts people talk about forty years later. Dartlick forever from John and Linda. 219 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.799 Okay, you know what, fair enough in your right. I think 220 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.200 that one of the main things that made that made Taylor so big is the 221 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:41.960 sharing of things on social media, Because back when you went to the Prince 222 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:46.320 concert, you didn't know your friends experienced, You didn't know the collective experience. 223 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.000 You didn't know. You only know you and maybe your friend that told 224 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.480 you about it experience, and there was certainly no video cameras back then. 225 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:00.720 Video cameras in nineteen eighty four were giant, the size of a housecat, 226 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.720 and nobody took them into state, so you didn't know that. Yeah, 227 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.679 I don't want those are before my time, but yeah, thanks for bringing 228 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.200 that up. That is really very interesting. I still would lean toward Taylor's 229 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.720 being a bigger phenomenon, but I think the social media aspect probably definitely had 230 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.960 something to do with it. All Right, send in your stories, your 231 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.639 you know, let's not do Taylor Swift. If you got something that you 232 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.639 just can't wait, then send it in. But send your emails into Ryan 233 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:31.679 Show at KDWBAT dot com and we'll see you tomorrow on the Minnesota Goodbye.