All right, let's get started on the men is so good bye and see
what we got here on tap. We're gonna start off with this one.
It's a little bit longer, but it says hello to my emotional support people.
My name is Jordan. I'm a thirty year old woman. I've listened
to show over many years and truly love you all. The second I wake
up, I see this suggested app notification pop up that says listen to katib
to be on iHeart and it's the first thing I tap on my phone.
Well that's cool. I listen to the app. I get ready all the
way down to my car until the underground parking garage cuts me off and immediately
turn my car radio to Kati WB in hopes that I didn't miss anything in
those forty five seconds in between losing service and getting my car started. I
hope not. I'm writing because I have a unique story about the Taylor Swift
Eras tour, even though unfortunately and sadly, I did not attend. Now
I'm going to stop this email for a second to say we are tapped out
with Taylor Swift stories after today. So because you know what, hey,
listen, I love it. It's a whole lot of fun, but it's
also like, okay, time to move on with our lives. It was
a huge concert, but we're kind of made a funny, little tongue in
cheek policy that tomorrow we're not talking as much about Taylor Swift. So if
you're tired and burn out, I understand, but let's do one more.
When the tour was first announced, I was stoked. I did anything in
my power to get tickets for my best friend and Ice. She used to
stay at home mom with three kids and honestly the best friend I've ever had.
We have been each other's person since we were in high school. We
had the pleasure of seeing Taylor together in the past, and she is truly
the biggest swifty I've ever met. It scares me sometimes how insane she is
when it comes to Taylor laugh emoji. Fast forward. We've both spent ten
hours on Ticketmaster the first time, ten hours on ticket Master the second time,
and no tickets. Two days later, my little sister called me and
said, I got two tickets. I want to surprise you and take you
with And I cried happy tears, and I thought about my best friend,
how crushed she would be if she didn't get to go to this once in
a lifetime event. How she didn't get tickets after work so hard, how
she gives everybody else her all. I knew the right thing to do,
even though it killed me to say inside, to say to my little sister,
what if you took my friend instead? It means so much to her.
I can't imagine robbing her this opportunity if I have the chance to give
up my ticket. My little sister understood and agreed. Immediately. We merged
the best friend into a call and said, you're going to the heirs to
her? How is it possible? And I explained to her that I was
giving up my spot. She cried and thanked us over and over the last
two months, my best friend and sister have done everything to help me win
tickets. We have a group chat solely to talk about entries and taking shifts
listening to Katie WB. Tonight is Friday, the twenty fourth, and my
sister and best friend are at the show as I sit here drinking wine and
watching the Kardashians. But I'm not upset. I'm actually happy. I didn't
do this to be like, look at me, I gave somebody my ticket.
I'm such a good person. I did this because my gut and my
heart fully felt this is what I needed to do. As disappointing as it
is that I missed the show, there was one video that was sent to
me for my sister that confirmed I made the right decision. The video taken
by my sister is a quick video of her and my best friend seconds before
Taylor came on stage. My best friend is crying tears of happiness. My
little sister is giggling the most joyous giggle I've ever heard. I watched the
video and it is very cute. I got chills and immediately smiled at my
phone. It filled my heart with joy and I couldn't be happier for them.
Long story short, Love your people and love them selflessly and endlessly.
It will pay you back in happiness. I don't regret my decision, and
I'm positive I made the right choice. Sorry for the lengthy email. I've
always wanted to write in and this felt like the time and the right story
to share. Thank you day Fallon, Jenny and Drake for all you do.
You make the world a brighter paint place, and thank you for reading
my email. If you do, Jordan, I've attached the video of them
as well, and I did watch it and Jordan, it was very sweet.
So God, that is so kind, truly, what a good friend.
I think that's one of the lessons to be taken from that is that,
you know, I told that there was a girl on the show long
ago, Angie Taylor, and we were talking on the air one time and
we made a joke. We said, the best feeling in the world is
not an orgasm. It is helping somebody who needs help. And she said,
no, it's not it's an orgasm, and she was laughing, and
I said, no, it's not an orgasm. It is helping people and
doing something nice. And then I really like her angle of she didn't sit
there and go look at me, look at me, look at me.
Now, if I were to donate, let's say it was going to donate
to Gillette Children's Hospital, Let's say going to donate, you know, twenty
thousand dollars, Yeah, I would pretty much insist on having a room named
after me, like Dave Ryan, the Dave Ryan Room in honor of his
twenty thousand dollars donation. Yeah, but that's not the right thing to do.
The right thing is to donate it anonymously. But I'd really like a
plaque of some sort because I'd like accolades. Thousand dollars the least they could
do as a plaque, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, so. But but good for you for doing it without looking for
any kind Well you did write in and tell us how wonderful you were.
But but but I don't. I don't fault you for that. Next one,
it says Dave in the morning. Zoo, I'm going to try to
make it short. Get my point across. Here's a quick example of cost
for a contractor's work. Now, this person T J. Timothy, brings
this up because I have been dubious and suspicious about the contractors doing work at
my house in Colorado. I got a wet basement, and every time I
talk to him, there's another problem, another challenge, and another you know
item on the invoice. I have to imagine it's also difficult because you're not
there to watch it, and so then your trust is even more wavering.
You are absolutely right, and contractors, let's face it, there are good
ones, Timothy. I'm sure you are a good one, and there are
bad ones, and we've had both. We had one guy that did our
whole remodeling Colorado twenty years ago, and he did such a phenomenal job.
He helped to save money, and he worked his ass off and the house
is great, just great. Well, Timothy says, it's eight pm.
For example, I get a call at I'm a restaurant, restaurant. Oh.
The restaurant calls and says, hey, tim, our walk in cooler
is down. We got a lot of product that's going to go bad.
If you don't come tonight, mean, no problem. I'll be over as
soon as I can. But it's after five o'clock and I'm with my family.
They go, that's fine, I get that get here asap. I
go over immediately. I first checked the power at the breaker and found out
it switched off. I turn it on and everything is working just fine.
I give them an invoice for one hour of overtime and a trip charge totaling
probably two hundred dollars. At this time, some would say I overcharge for
turning on a breaker, But those of us who have worked so hard for
so long to gain the experience and knowledge to know you check the breaker first,
would say well done, moral of the story. Get many quotes for
the job, not for the best price, but for the contractor who knows
what they were talking about, who's got the experience to do the job.
And sometimes that means you pay more because we deserve to be compensated for our
talents. It's not like buying a product from our local retailer and find it
on Amazon for a fraction of the price. You're paying for years of experience,
if not generations. In my case, lots of love and good luck
with the water issue and Colorado. My friend from TJ, you know what,
TJ. I think you're right. That is it's kind of like what
Fallon and I do for a living. People go, well, can you
record this? And it's like yeah, but are you going to pay us
for it? And some people will say pay you for it? Why would
I pay? It's going to take you two minutes to read it and another
thirty seconds to email it to us. And we you know, sometimes we
do that, but sometimes we say no, that is what we do.
We don't sell shoes, we don't lay asphalt, we don't test for raid
On. What we do is record and use our voices, and that's kind
of what we do as voice talent. And yeah, we can give it
away for because it's not that hard. But when somebody else is making money
off of our work, we got to charge him for it. And so
TJ, I totally understand. You are an expert, and if somebody calls
you while you're at a restaurant at five o'clock on a Saturday afternoon and says
you got to get here immediately, you deserve to be paid, even if
you just flipped the breaker. Yeah. I had a plumber come in at
my last house because something was going on with my ice machine, and I
think you just literally had to connect tube. It took him like three seconds,
and I think it was like one hundred, two hundred dollars. I
didn't get mad. I mean, I was annoyed because it's something that Jake
and I could wouldn't know, but I wasn't mad that he charged. And
I'm like, well, of course it's going to charge something. He just
had to come over here and use his time. But it's still, you
know, it sucks because you're like I just spent two hundred dollars, But
in this case, the for you to flip a switch, but you at
the end save a ton of money because that they would have lost a ton
of product. So I remember I lived in Arizona and I had I think
I had two cats at a time. I might have had just one.
But anyway, the cat Wally, he was my buddy. He never peed
on the floor. Then he started peeing on the floor in the living room
of the house that I was renting and had a concrete floor underneath it,
and he soaked it, stunk it up so bad, and the carpet cleaning
guy came by and said, yeah, we do this, we do this,
we do this. And I don't know what he was going to charge,
but it was a lot. Let's say he was going to charge two
thousand dollars. And I said, I am not paying you two thousand dollars
for a job that looks like it's going to take you thirty minutes to lift
the pad up, spray it, rents it, do whatever. I said,
I am not paying you two thousand dollars. And in that case,
I felt like I was right. Yes, it was justified in that he
needed to be paid something. But I think sometimes contractors will throw out a
price to you and what do you You don't know, you know, you
don't know what's a fair price? You don't know. But I think that
the one that makes me a little bit suspicious of the one I'm working in
Colorado is they said, oh, and by the way, you get the
ten percent discount. Why do I get a ten percent discount? Is it
solely to make me think I'm getting a better deal and to make sure I
don't ask for more off? So I don't know. TJ. I respect
you, and I the good contractors respect you, but there are a lot
of shitty ones that they do not hesitate to take all the money they can
out of you. Yeah, I'm almost like like, we obviously had a
contractor for our bathroomory model, and he was great. He would send you,
know, each here's the total prize. Then like as each project was
done, he would send it and there'd be adjustments made, like, oh,
we didn't end up doing this, so it'd be a little bit cheaper
than it was predicted, or we added this to this next portion, so
it's going to be a little bit more than we predicted. And he was
very fair and kept me very much in the loop. I never got a
notification of a discount for ten percent. I'm pissed now, Lonnie, where
the hell was my ten where's a ten percent? Well it reminds me plug
this business, because it is not. They do not give me anything for
free. I do not get compensated. But the perfect example for me is
J and our automotive in Chanhassan. We have gone there for years. Never
once had we been surprised with a charge that made us go, well,
that doesn't make sense. As a matter of fact, J and R.
If they go, look, we didn't charge you, We just put a
new what I mean, I can't even think of an example. They're like,
we didn't charge you, we just tweaked the whatever or whatever it is.
And I'm like, I love that because they could have. Like,
for example, with my motorcycle a few months ago, it wouldn't start.
I took it in. They charged me a few hundred dollars, and I'm
pretty sure the reason it wouldn't start is the battery and the key fob was
dead. And if I would have thought about that myself, I could have
gone down to CVS Pharmacy got a couple of those two oh three two batteries
that looked like a nickel put it in there, and I would have been
fine, But that's the kind of business that and I don't know for sure,
but that made me suspicious that they saw me and said, we can
tell mister Ryan that we did two hundred and thirty dollars worth of work and
charging for the whole thing when all we needed was a new key fob.
So all right, next one, David Fallon. Last week you said Fallon,
or said Taylor Swift the biggest concert event of your lifetime? John and
Linda say maybe, but I'm gonna say that Prince's Purple Rain tour is at
least tied. He had multiple shows in every large city, including five in
Minneapolis around Christmas of eighty four. This was before the internet. You had
to buy tickets in person at a record store. My wife was in college
at the time and camped outside overnight with electric socks in the cold to get
tickets. I don't remember how I got my tickets, but pretty much everybody
I knew went to see one of the shows. No social media back then,
though, which is a big difference. True, but many ticket stubs
in old boxes still today. Tour dates in the link below if you want
to look at a few of the cities, I'd add another one to the
list. At first, I thought you and the emailer might be talking specifically
about Twin Cities events. In nineteen seventy eight, the Eagles, Steve Miller
and Pablo Cruz had an outdoor concert at Met Stadium. Everybody who grew up
around here in the seventies remembers that one my friends and I rode our bikes
from Richfield to the Met hoping to hear some of it. Predictably, they
were in an intermission, it started to rain, and we biked home in
a storm. The Beatles, Eagles, Prince, and now Taylor. Those
are concerts people talk about forty years later. Dartlick forever from John and Linda.
Okay, you know what, fair enough in your right. I think
that one of the main things that made that made Taylor so big is the
sharing of things on social media, Because back when you went to the Prince
concert, you didn't know your friends experienced, You didn't know the collective experience.
You didn't know. You only know you and maybe your friend that told
you about it experience, and there was certainly no video cameras back then.
Video cameras in nineteen eighty four were giant, the size of a housecat,
and nobody took them into state, so you didn't know that. Yeah,
I don't want those are before my time, but yeah, thanks for bringing
that up. That is really very interesting. I still would lean toward Taylor's
being a bigger phenomenon, but I think the social media aspect probably definitely had
something to do with it. All Right, send in your stories, your
you know, let's not do Taylor Swift. If you got something that you
just can't wait, then send it in. But send your emails into Ryan
Show at KDWBAT dot com and we'll see you tomorrow on the Minnesota Goodbye.