Bang, it's recording, so go and start whenever you want. Okay,
well, let's dive into the Minnesota Goodbye and get right to some emails,
because that is the heart and soul of the Minnesota Goodbye. If you've never
listened to the Minnesota Goodbye before welcome, thank you. It is basically fifteen
minute chunk of things we don't get to talk about on the radio and things
that you bring up via email, and a lot of the time it's in
reaction to something that's going on or something we have we talked about before.
Here's one from the Minnesota Goodbye from Stephanie. She said, you were just
talking about how you don't like when people answer the phones on radios and say
caller one, then hang up, called her into tube, then hang up,
caller number three, hang up, and then they said that has happened
to me. It does get frustrating. Another thing that is really annoying that
I've noticed your morning show has worked on fixing is letting people call in before
they're supposed to to answer a question to win something. If you try to
call in sometimes after something has been asked, like a trivia question or to
name a song, you won't in anything. The people who get through and
win at these times are the ones who happen to have their call answered as
the question is being asked to them. With the delay, there's no possible
way people are hearing a question and then calling in. They call in,
then DJ will then say I'll give you the question again, and then and
then they get a chance to answer, even to see they're already on the
phone. So people are calling in early. And she goes on to say,
I noticed Dave will purposely make them answer the question without letting them hear
it again to make sure they were listening, and then called thanks Dave for
caring about us who listen. You know, it might seem like a little
thing, but I used to try to win things from the radio station too,
and it's people. People are clever. It's kind of like getting to
the store before they they open and then you get to rush in and you
get to buy the thing that's going to be sold out on Black Friday.
And so I just want to be respectful everybody who's like trying to call,
and you know, it's not that they're not playing by the rules, they're
just playing from different rules than you are. So just trying to help you
out. I think that's nice. I mean, I like I one of
the things we have the ability to like clearer lines, Like that's what I
used to do when I, like did my night show or whatever. We'd
clear the lines to make sure it's not people that were just calling because they
knew what time we were giving it away. It would clear those so that
it was fresh people calling in because they actually heard the giveaway time. Yeah,
looking for the next one. I've been contemplating sending this email all day.
And this is basically from a guy. I read his email last week,
Damante, and basically he said, you know you kind of hurt my
feelings. Dave, I wrote an email. I didn't feel it was super
long, and that Dave could have probably gotten through it with the almost three
minute story that he told about his friends sending long Marco Polo's a story that
he's told twenty times before. I try to make my emails short, but
they get longer because I'm trying to have a personality and tell the story.
And there were things that were relevant, is why I emailed in. I
just feel like I'm sending an email to people who I think of his friends,
and I thought they might think the same thing. Sorry if I sound
like a whiny baby. I get super excited to write you all about something
and then I see the podcast as loaded earlier than normal and the title is
my Balls Are on Fire. A good way to listen to it. I
usually save it for after the show podcast My heart sunk once Dave started talking
about emails being too long. Sorry, this one as long as well.
But I'm the type of person that needs to get things off my chest or
it will eat me alive. Demante Listen, certainly wasn't picking on you.
Our challenges were always crunched for time and we don't always get to preread emails.
If I get to preread an email, then I can be like,
oh, this is long, but it's good. But the problem is if
I don't get to preread it. A lot of the time, I'll get
like halfway through a long email and realize that it's not as it's longer than
it needs to be. So I apologize that I cut your email short,
but I'm just kind of trying to make a new guideline as far as send
an emails to like if you want to make sure it's read then try to
keep it shorter. So that's all, but thank you, Demante. That
one is for something else. This is we were talking about the fiefeed device.
Remember last week brought up a fiefeed device. Yes, and we said,
well, what's a fee fee device? Well, this person says,
sorry for the vague email. I should have explained. A fiefee is a
handheld masturbation device, like a homemade fleshlight, but they're usually made out of
shampoo bottles and rags and lots of lube. You learn something new every day,
Love you guys. From Kristen. Kristen, How in the world did
you know what a fiefeed device is? Apparently it's something that they make in
prison. Oh okay, well I learned something new every day. I guess
absolutely. Yeah. This one says I was talking to my husband about wedding
day diamonds and how they don't do commercials anymore, and it made me think
Dave has not done Shane Company commercials in a very long time. Just wondering
if they stopped advertising. Molly. That's a really good question. One that's
kind of an unusual one. Advertisers they change their plans, they change their
campaigns and sometimes they include KATWB and sometimes they don't include kt WB. And
it's not because anything wrong happened or whatever. It's just because, you know,
they'll do radio for a little while. Then they'll mix it up and
they'll do you know, the posters above a urinal. They'll do the side
of a bus, side of a bus, or they'll do a TV or
they'll do newspaper, or they'll do internet. So Shane Company was a client
for a very long time, and you know, they'll probably be back.
They still advertise, but I don't do the commercials myself anymore. So,
yeah, that's happened to all of us, you know, Yeah, and
it just happens. I mean, it's kind of like, you know,
it was a great thing. We had a great run with Shane Company.
I'm still friends with those guys. If I was going to buy some jewelry,
that's where I would go, because I really do, I really do
believe in them. This one is interesting. My niece has needs and competed
at the Minnesota Special Olympics this weekend in gymnastics. She is twelve and such
a joy. My seat was right where the vault was, so I get
to see every athlete land their vaults. Some landed, some rolled, some
just bypassed the springboard altogether. But every single athlete had as huge smile in
their face as they landed and turned to face the crowd, and every single
time I had tears in my eyes. It was such a moment of pure
bliss. They were so proud as they skipped back to their coaches, and
their coaches had their arms open to congratulate them. It was two hours of
pure joy. If you coached or volunteered this weekend, thank you for supporting
this great cause. Totally different subject from the same email. Two medium trees
removed and three trees trimmed at our house this week. Okay, I told
you it was different. The bid was about five thousand dollars, two medium
trees removed and three trees trimmed. My husband wanted to do it himself to
save a little money. I immediately booked the tree removal company. As five
guys approached our house four hours on this project while bringing in multiple heavy pieces
of equipment and also have any removed debris and grindstumps. My husband said,
you were right, So that felt good to hear. Yeah, tree removal
is outrageously expensive. I'm sitting in Colorado where I'm looking right now at two
hundred and three hundred year old pine trees. They're thick, you can't put
your arms around most of them, and they're probably seventy to eighty feet tall.
I would not want to do My dad, he took forestry in college
so he could remove trees. He would like tie a pulley to another tree,
cut a little bit, tightened the pulley, cut the tree, tightened
the pulley so it would fall exactly where he wanted it to go. You've
you've seen YouTube videos of some notthead cutting down the tree and it falls on
their house. Yeah, you've probably seen them, yeah, absolutely, or
worse, you know. Yeah, And it's very expensive. It's dangerous.
A lot of people get crushed by falling trees. They do have to grind
the stump and if they're good, they'll cut it up and they'll stack it
for you or haul it away. It is not cheap now, so we've
had several trees removed here and it's like nine hundred dollars a tree. Yeah,
it's crazy. I don't know how. I mean, I'm sure Colorado
is comparable to hear for pricing, because we had I think like four trees
removed, two huge ones and the two kind of average sized pines. And
we did it last year and we had one company come out and they quoted
us so much we were like, oh my god. No. Then we
had another company come out and they said they wouldn't do it because we live
on such a steep hill. They just said no. And then we had
one of the huge companies that everyone knows the name of. They came out
said well, yeah, we'll send you the quote. Never sent us one.
And then our neighbor Carol was like, I got a guy and it's
like him and his brother and their friend. And he was like, I
go, oh, they probably won't do it either because it's on a hill.
She's like, yes, they will. And the guy came over.
He was like, yep, problem. You could tell. He was just
like a seasoned older guy. And they knocked him out like in a day
and a half, and it was it was like less than half of what
the other company had quoted us. And I think that's the thing is you
can get different estimates. I'll just tell a little story about my basement here
in Colorado. So it's the house was built back in nineteen sixty two,
and it's always had like a little bit of water intrusion in the basement,
but never really bad. It's kind it smells like an old house's basement.
But with all the reins that we've had here, and I had guys put
on new gutters a year or so ago. These guys, I should have
checked their work. They aimed one of the gutter downspouts four feet away from
the foundation. So the dirt around a foundation is softer and more porous because
it's not virgin soil anymore. So they've dug it up to put the foundation
in. They put fil dirt back in and they pack it down, but
it's never going to be a s so it drained into the basement. My
wife came out here a month ago and said the basement smells, and I
said, yeah, it's probably not that bad. It smells kind of funny.
In the basement. The carpet is sloshy. Water has crept up the
side of the walls, kept crept out the side of anything would would absorbs
everything, and it sucks it up like a sponge, just more slowly.
And the drywall in the basement. There's some dry wall. It's sucked it
up too, and they've got their little infrared cameras and basically they walked around.
They said, we need to put drain tile in. This will take
care of everything. It is going to cost sixteen thousand dollars. Oh my
god, I said, we got to save some money. I said,
I can't pay that. I don't. I mean, sure I can afford
it. But there's some corners we can cut. And the guy said,
yeah, well, we don't have to do it around the entire perimeter of
the house. We'll do it around like eighty percent of the house where it's
really bad. Put drain tiles in, pump it out, and you know
it'll be now eleven thousand dollars. Okay. So then he's like, well,
before we can do any work, you've got to have this mold removed
and mitigated because we can't work in mold. That's against like government policy whatever.
So all right, I got to have the mold guy come out.
The mold guy comes out on Saturday or was it, Yeah, it was
yesterday. Actually, he looks around the house and he's like, okay,
this is going to be. We got to take out the carpet. We
got to take out the drywall. We got to rip the drywall out four
feet up from the floor. Anything that is soaked up, the carpet,
the pad of the carpet, this is made out of wood. This is
what we got to take that out too. Seven thousand dollars. So on
top of eleven, there's now eighteen thousand dollars worth of work. Well,
then that doesn't include what if you get carpet put back in. Things like
that. Yeah, good time, and you know, we're fortunate that is
not going to break the bank. We've got that in savings and we can
do it. But it is a big chunk of money. And I think
it's it's almost like a renovation of the basement because all the carpet's got to
come out, all the doorframes that are would have got to be rebuilt,
the sheet rock, drywall has got to be replaced. There are mushrooms growing
in it. I couldn't believe it. I pulled aside some furniture and there
were mushrooms. You can see these mushrooms on my blog page on Dave ryanshow
dot com. They looked like little potato chips growing out of the carpet,
mushrooms yuck awful, and I don't know whether it's toxic to be down there.
He said, you can come down here. I wouldn't sleep down here.
I said, I'm sleeping down there. No, So, but I
will give you one little life lesson. Ask them for a better price.
Give at sake. I need a better price than that because they're building in
you don't know how much profit. So when he says seven thousand dollars,
I said, in my mind, I'm like, how much of that is
pure sheer profit? I have no idea? I said, can you give
me your better price? He says, I'll give it to you for six
Okay, Well, I mean that's thousand dollars. Just for asking for a
better price, I saved a thousand dollars. Amazing. So if you have
somebody come to your house, they're building in an unknown amount of profit and
you don't know how much because you have no ideas, so ask for a
better price. And honestly, like Falon did, get another opinion, because
if I've been to do it again, I would probably have another guy come
in and say, yeah, you know what we can do? Didn't you
have somebody come in for mold and they won. You've got such different offers.
Yeah, the one guy was said, it's going to be thousands.
Here's what you have to do to remove this, and then do that.
Another guy came and he's like, this is surface. It is not in
your walls. You need to spray and you need to put a cock in
this little crack on your floor, and you're fine. So instead of spending
thousands, we spent about thirteen dollars. Thirteen dollars, that is amazing.
Well, the funny thing is is with mold, if it's there, it's
inside and you can't just wipe it off, right. So in other words,
you can take this bleach cleanser or whatever and you can wipe the mold
off, but the moisture in the mold is still inside the wall. It
doesn't work that way with cinder blocks. That's what our house is made of,
as cinder blocks. But would and all that stuff. He ripped up
the carpet to see whether there was moisture under a certain carpet, and the
tax trips that they nail the carpet down with were black. They were originally
like a light wood color. He said they are black because they've been wet
many many times. They're ruined. I'm like, bro, God, so
well, I'm glad you're getting it figured out. That sucks that it is
that expensive. I'm going to call today's episode Dave's mold, and that is
I think we have a just a few minutes left total, Dave, So
I don't know if we're at fifteen minutes. If you want to wrap it
up everything, I'd like to get in here. If you mentioned taking your
sisters out to eat a red lobster, it triggered a memory that I had.
I didn't happen to me, but a coworker twenty years ago my co
workers told me he went to red Lobster. He went with a group of
people. When they left, one of the guys in their crowd grabbed a
live lobster out of the lobster tank and took it home with them. Okay,
so apparently had the lobster crawling around on the front seat of the car.
God knows what they get did with the lobster. Hopefully they cooked it
and didn't just let it loose in a field or something. Did you read
the email? Yeah, but I didn't want to, oh okay, to
want to actually tell what they did because it's a little bit dark. But
okay, well the lobster, yeah, okay, I kind of want to
leave that. I'm sorry. I was like, it's in there, so,
yeah, the idiot toss a live lobster out of the car. We're
such animal people. We just hate hearing that. Absolutely, okay, that
is going to do it. Send your emails to Ryan Show at KDWB dot com.