Speaker 1: Here we go with a Minnesota goodbye, Let's get started,
Speaker 1: and this one is from Neil, who is a regular contributor.
Speaker 1: Neil lives in Atlanta, and Neil writes, I had a
Speaker 1: random thought of the weekend thought i'd ask you about it.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about artist writers, the things that they
Speaker 1: request when they tour, and I wanted to throw this
Speaker 1: out there. Do artists get billed for the items on
Speaker 1: their riders? If you're not sure, maybe Carson can, Dave
Speaker 1: can reach out to Carson. And that's a good question
Speaker 1: because Carson is the tour manager, so proud of him.
Speaker 1: For David Kushner, and they do have their writers, and
Speaker 1: usually when you're at a David Kushner level, it's very simple.
Speaker 1: It's like bottled water, hot tea honey, deli tray, maybe cookies, milk,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, w R I T or R
Speaker 1: R I d R I d E R and I
Speaker 1: don't honestly know, but I think the venue provides for
Speaker 1: it absolutely.
Speaker 2: I'm almost positive that the venue provides either that or
Speaker 2: like who over's hosting, I know, I'm pretty sure that we,
Speaker 2: like katiewb bought Paul Russell stuff to have in the
Speaker 2: little side room before you performed for Boobash, So it's
Speaker 2: usually on whoever's hosting it. I don't think that the
Speaker 2: artist pays for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll ask Carson when he's home. He gets home today. Also,
Speaker 1: are there any odd items that artists have requested who
Speaker 1: Carson has worked with? I actually asked him that and
Speaker 1: he said no. He basically said no that there's never been.
Speaker 1: You know. The legend is that back in the day,
Speaker 1: like I think van Halen wanted M and MS with
Speaker 1: all the green ones removed. Yeah, And I don't even
Speaker 1: know whether that's true or not.
Speaker 3: Are the green ones the sexy ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But I think maybe they said the brown ones.
Speaker 1: I don't remember one. Yeah, And I think that van
Speaker 1: Halen did that just because they wanted to prove that
Speaker 1: you really really did read the concert writer. Sure, so
Speaker 1: in other words, if you've removed all the brown eminems,
Speaker 1: then you read the concert writer. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know that Chris Hockey has said when they first
Speaker 2: started doing whatever festival was not on Canterbury. I think
Speaker 2: it was Twin City's Summer Jam that they had Aerosmith
Speaker 2: there the first year, and Stephen Tyler requested that the
Speaker 2: water be a certain temperature that's in his toilet, and
Speaker 2: he was a super huge diva, and Chris Hockey did
Speaker 2: the whole thing of like never meet your heroes with
Speaker 2: him because he always loves Stephen Tyler, and then he
Speaker 2: was just like a pretty big diva at that festival.
Speaker 1: I can see Stephen Tyler being a big diva because
Speaker 1: he's old and he's been in the business for fifty
Speaker 1: something years, so it's probably like, look, if I'm going
Speaker 1: to go do this, I want to have exactly what
Speaker 1: I want. But that seems weird.
Speaker 2: I'll do just one get your toilet water to be
Speaker 2: a certain temperature though.
Speaker 1: That's a really good question. Finally, if you're working an
Speaker 1: event like Star Party or jingle Ball, what would you
Speaker 1: put on your rider? I would say charcoterie board, different cheeses, sausage,
Speaker 1: some nice Deli mustard yeah, and really no, don't know,
Speaker 1: coke zero.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the diet coke kombucha, and then maybe like the
Speaker 4: little Debbie nutty bars.
Speaker 1: Okay, very simple.
Speaker 2: I would definitely get like some nice coffee in there.
Speaker 2: I'd probably ask for us some Starbucks, some like go
Speaker 2: to iced coffee, and then I you know, if I'm performing,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get all bloated, so I probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't eat anything super unhealthy. I'd probably be annoying and
Speaker 2: ask for like a veggie tree, but not because that's
Speaker 2: what I want, just because I want to look good
Speaker 2: on stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that. You know what's fun. I've seen
Speaker 1: some videos on Instagram lately and it must be in
Speaker 1: my algorithm of artists getting ready to go on stage.
Speaker 1: So they're backstage, they're walking through the tunnels and then
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, here we go. And I think that's
Speaker 1: really interesting because how would you feel if you've been
Speaker 1: doing it for a long time? Like I think the
Speaker 1: last one I saw was def Leopard, and they're all
Speaker 1: about to go on stage. They've been doing this for
Speaker 1: forty something years, and so maybe they're a little bit nervous.
Speaker 1: But you open up the curtains and you see like
Speaker 1: forty thousand fans out there, and I just thought that's
Speaker 1: really interesting. When you see Taylor Swifty backstage about to
Speaker 1: go on stage, it's like, that's really cool. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: do you feel have in that moment?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do wonder if they're nervous or if they've
Speaker 4: done it so many times that it just doesn't FaZe
Speaker 4: them anymore. And it's kind of like clockwork almost. But
Speaker 4: I mean if it was me, I'd be like pooping
Speaker 4: my pants over it.
Speaker 1: Nervous, absolutely. I see what else we got here? A
Speaker 1: quick question or heard y'all on cool When I wait? Sunday?
Speaker 1: Was that prerecorded or live? That was pre recorded? We
Speaker 1: did that on Thursday because they don't want us to,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to come in on a
Speaker 1: Sunday too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was saying, we don't want to mess it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want to mess it up. This is
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. I guess you can listen to the
Speaker 1: entire Straight Out of Coon Rapids Best of the Dave
Speaker 1: Ryan Show CD on YouTube. So Morgan provided us a
Speaker 1: link and you if you don't, I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: buy the CD anymore obviously, but if you wanted to
Speaker 1: listen to it, it's on YouTube. Just search for Straight
Speaker 1: Out a Coon Rapids on YouTube. Let's see what else
Speaker 1: we got here? All right, Hello, my friends. I Friday
Speaker 1: night found myself treating me to Happy Hour and dinner.
Speaker 1: I was sitting at the bar, one stool between myself
Speaker 1: and another regular couple. So picture this. So they're at
Speaker 1: the bar, there's a stool. Then another regular couple, a
Speaker 1: woman came over and asked if the stool was available.
Speaker 1: We both looked at her and said yeah. So she
Speaker 1: proceeded to pull the stool out and move it to
Speaker 1: another area of the bar, and then ask five people
Speaker 1: to move down. These are people, including myself, that have
Speaker 1: drinks and meals we are enjoining. I semi snapped, and
Speaker 1: I looked up and I said, no, I'm enjoying my
Speaker 1: meal as others are, and if you're looking to squeeze in,
Speaker 1: there are other areas that'll be less disruptive, as I
Speaker 1: pointed across the bar to people with just drinks. After
Speaker 1: the interaction, I kind of felt like a bitch, But
Speaker 1: I also felt like she was a bitch asking for
Speaker 1: numerous people to accommodate her needs until her table was ready. Bitch,
Speaker 1: please stand around the fire with your drink. Don't disrupt
Speaker 1: my wine and dinner with your necessity to sit. Make
Speaker 1: a reservation next time. I'm the single celebrate celebrate, I'm
Speaker 1: the single celibate bath house flight attendant. Yes, and now
Speaker 1: I can add to the list. Bitch, what does that.
Speaker 3: Mean she emailed in you might have been gone, but
Speaker 3: Sani was here. We're here. Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, then she's a single lady that went to a
Speaker 4: bathhouse once and wanted.
Speaker 2: And we asked her clarification on it, and she's single.
Speaker 2: I think she lives with her kid or something, so
Speaker 2: does know how to get it on or do anything
Speaker 2: when her kid's like living in the house.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, gotcha. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It is a weird kind of a thing
Speaker 1: when you go to a bar, like there's a restaurant
Speaker 1: in Chan that we go to just be called Axles.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's called anymore. And if there's somebody
Speaker 1: at the bar, you always put a bar stool between
Speaker 1: you and a stranger. And so sometimes there will be
Speaker 1: another bar stools for a couple, but they're not next
Speaker 1: to each other. Yeah, so then can you ask the
Speaker 1: person to slide down? I don't know. I sometimes people
Speaker 1: look at you and go, oh, let me slide down, right.
Speaker 1: That happens a lot.
Speaker 4: I would hope that they would offer themselves. I so
Speaker 4: before I worked here, before COVID, I worked at a
Speaker 4: theater and I was the box office manager. So I
Speaker 4: sold tickets to plays and we would often sell out,
Speaker 4: like our Christmas show, or there would be like two
Speaker 4: seats in the back row, and like this bar situation,
Speaker 4: they would be far away from each other and someone
Speaker 4: there would always be a person to call in and
Speaker 4: they'd be like, yeah, I'd like to bring me and
Speaker 4: me and my husband want to come see this show.
Speaker 4: And we see that there are two tickets available. Can
Speaker 4: you have everyone else move down? Can you like move
Speaker 4: everyone's seats? And I was like, no, I cannot. They'd
Speaker 4: get so mad at me for not moving these people's seats,
Speaker 4: the seats that they paid for and like have every
Speaker 4: right to sit in. And I said, you know what,
Speaker 4: on the day of you can test your luck, show up,
Speaker 4: ask the people to move down, see if they will.
Speaker 3: But like, I'm not forcing anybody. They don't down now,
Speaker 3: they don't have to.
Speaker 4: So I feel like I would like maybe they would
Speaker 4: offer it to move down at the bar on their own,
Speaker 4: but like, they don't have to move down.
Speaker 3: So no, I don't think you're a bitch. I don't
Speaker 3: think that you have to.
Speaker 2: But I think that is it really that big of
Speaker 2: a deal that you have to move your food.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've always been I've always been the one who will
Speaker 2: ask someone to move if they don't offer it up,
Speaker 2: because we want a spot at the bar. Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, that's me And maybe you might think that's rude,
Speaker 2: but I just don't see, Like the bar tenders want
Speaker 2: the business, the restaurant should want the business, so like,
Speaker 2: I think it makes sense to move over a little
Speaker 2: bit to accommodate someone who's just trying to like sit down.
Speaker 1: I guess she maybe her point was she was asking
Speaker 1: five people to slide down, yeah, which I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't really know. I guess if I was, you know,
Speaker 1: if I came into a bar with you know, Susan,
Speaker 1: and there was a person and a stool, and then
Speaker 1: two people in a stool and a person in a stool,
Speaker 1: and I think I would feel maybe okay with like saying, hey, right,
Speaker 1: would you mind sliding down?
Speaker 3: Just like one person sliding one seat versus five.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If I saw there were two seats available and I
Speaker 4: had two me and somebody else, and there were two
Speaker 4: seats super far away from each other, I would just think, well,
Speaker 4: there's no room at the bar.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 2: Also a lot of times when it's really busy, a
Speaker 2: bartender will like make the situation happen for them too,
Speaker 2: Like I've been to I don't know Park Tavern or
Speaker 2: something in Saint Louis Park, and they will The bartenders
Speaker 2: want the business, so they'll be like, hey, you guys,
Speaker 2: mind moving down. Let's get these guys in here now.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of saying maybe a good bartender would
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, yeah, I mean Buffalo wild Wings definitely,
Speaker 1: because it's freaking buffalo wild wings. But in a nicer bar,
Speaker 1: maybe you'd feel a little bit funny about somebody's got
Speaker 1: like his seventy five dollars, you know, Philet Mignon with
Speaker 1: barcels sprouts, and you feel bad about asking to move down.
Speaker 1: We always eat at the bar. We when we walk
Speaker 1: into a restaurant, we prefer to eat at the bar.
Speaker 1: Might number one because we get to watch TV.
Speaker 3: Another one to each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to talk to each other, but
Speaker 1: you know you're right there in case you do want
Speaker 1: to talk to each other, So all right, Next one,
Speaker 1: Mick writes in Mick says, Dave, I'll hit you with
Speaker 1: the obvious line. I've listened to you for thirty plus years,
Speaker 1: and I think my wife has done the thing, the
Speaker 1: same thing. I've had several lasts over the years, several haha.
Speaker 1: I even had several laps in person when my idiot
Speaker 1: brother became your guy who will do anything to be
Speaker 1: on the radio and had to walk on mouse traps,
Speaker 1: get shot by paintballs and some other dumb stuff that
Speaker 1: he deserved. Yeah, we used to do a bit many
Speaker 1: years ago called the guy who will do anything to
Speaker 1: be on the radio. Yes, and I remember him, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember a lot about it. As long time ago.
Speaker 2: It was just one singular person, or consistently one guy.
Speaker 1: There was one guy, let's say his name was Stephen,
Speaker 1: and Stephen would come in every Thursday, and he would
Speaker 1: do anything to be on the radio, like walk on
Speaker 1: mouse traps or get shot by paintballs, or Hi would
Speaker 1: have stune or whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh, I guess it's her brother.
Speaker 1: Uh. Through all this time, I've never quoted you, not
Speaker 1: that there was any value in the things you said.
Speaker 1: The other day, my wife's side put some wall spackling
Speaker 1: on the counter rather than putting it away upstairs. She
Speaker 1: started giving me a hard time, and of course I
Speaker 1: laughed and made some stupid excuses. Then she hits me
Speaker 1: with you know, Dave Ryan said the other day, don't
Speaker 1: put it down, put it away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had no way to respond to that, Dave, how
Speaker 1: dare you are my wife? With such a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: insurmountable statement that I just had to sit there and
Speaker 1: stumble over how to respond. I thought i'd pass this
Speaker 1: along to you to know that people really do value
Speaker 1: what you have to say, and it resonates and has
Speaker 1: for over thirty years. I don't have a beef because
Speaker 1: it was correct and a great way to think about things. However,
Speaker 1: as I draft this email, the spackle is still on
Speaker 1: the kitchen island. I should probably put it away before
Speaker 1: she gets mad, And he actually sends a picture of
Speaker 1: the fucking spackle sitting on the kitchen counter.
Speaker 3: How dare you arm my wife?
Speaker 1: That's funny, It's true, though, don't put it down, put
Speaker 1: it away? And I do this all the time. I'll
Speaker 1: come in from a walk with Josie and I got
Speaker 1: my mittens or my gloves, and I've got my wool
Speaker 1: hat on and I'll throw them down on the bench
Speaker 1: in the mudroom. Yeah, and I know that's putting it down,
Speaker 1: not putting it away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's me and all my socks. I'll just take
Speaker 4: my socks off for comfort while I'm like sitting watching TV,
Speaker 4: and then the socks just sit on the floor until
Speaker 4: I have to, you know, like go through and clean everything. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just my clothes, just pepper around my apartment.
Speaker 2: Guys, I don't think I could live with either of you.
Speaker 2: I am so strict with Andrew because he always puts
Speaker 2: shit just like wherever he feels like it.
Speaker 1: And I'll be like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, here you go, we're gonna put this away now,
Speaker 2: and I just pile things up and I give it
Speaker 2: to him. And then half the time he'll throw it
Speaker 2: into like the laundry room and just like store it
Speaker 2: in there until he actually decides to put it away.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I do that, and I remind myself it
Speaker 1: is like, oh, don't put it down, put it away.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. While you're cooking, do
Speaker 1: you clean up as you're cooking or do you clean
Speaker 1: up at the end of.
Speaker 3: The cooking at the end if not days later?
Speaker 1: Okay, really, Jenny, I clean up.
Speaker 2: As I'm cooking, but then I almost always leave like
Speaker 2: the big pan that you had to use till the
Speaker 2: end for like the next day.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I actually, yeah, it's got a soak, you know, before
Speaker 2: you can start scrubbing it.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the whole process. I made a crockpot meal
Speaker 1: yesterday and it really was so good. It was crock
Speaker 1: pot a pizza casserole, and I spiced it up with
Speaker 1: some Italian sausage and some banana peppers and some other
Speaker 1: things in there. But it was really good. But as
Speaker 1: I'm doing this, there's a mess all over the kitchen.
Speaker 1: But I'm constantly putting things into the sink as I'm cooking,
Speaker 1: and at the end of it, I it's weird, but
Speaker 1: I actually enjoy cleaning up and making the whole space
Speaker 1: look new again, really wiping off the little stains off
Speaker 1: the counter and the splashes off the stove, and putting
Speaker 1: everything and scrubbing the pan and putting it back in
Speaker 1: the cabinet. I really enjoy that. And I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but I think I enjoy order, So I like turning
Speaker 1: disorder into order.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, not me.
Speaker 4: I think the kitchen and is the least my least
Speaker 4: favorite thing to clean, like dishes, hate it, hate it.
Speaker 3: I do hate dishes too.
Speaker 4: I wish I had a dishwasher. I've never once had
Speaker 4: a dish washer in my adult life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll credit Andrew. He definitely does more of the dishes.
Speaker 2: Like I put everything away in the dishwasher as often
Speaker 2: as I can. But a thing is like need to
Speaker 2: be hand washed. I let those pile up sometimes. And
Speaker 2: Andrew always like gets up in the morning and does dishes.
Speaker 2: If there's dishes in the same.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't Okay. Let me ask you this one.
Speaker 1: When you come home from a trip, do you unpack
Speaker 1: immediately or do you unpack over the next few days?
Speaker 2: Jenny, ninety percent of the time, Yes, it depends on
Speaker 2: what time I got home. If it had been a
Speaker 2: long day, then I'm probably not doing it right away.
Speaker 2: But most of the time, yes, I unpack right away.
Speaker 4: Okay, Bailey, No, I wait and wait and wait and wait.
Speaker 4: So or if I do laundry or something, I bring
Speaker 4: home my laundry, it's all like you know, folded and
Speaker 4: everything I take, it takes me forever to put it away.
Speaker 1: Really really for about you, Dave, first thing I do
Speaker 1: before I can do anything, before I can relax, before
Speaker 1: I can sit down, before I can do anything I
Speaker 1: absolutely unpack. I bring the suit case in. I unpack
Speaker 1: my briefcase which has got my laptop or whatever and
Speaker 1: my Nintendo switch, and then I put that all away.
Speaker 1: Then I do the suitcase. I put it on the
Speaker 1: kitchen counter. I take the laundry the laundry room, I
Speaker 1: take the shoes to the shoe place, and then I
Speaker 1: take the bathroom stuff upstairs. Then I take the suitcase
Speaker 1: back down to the basement. Then I can finally relate
Speaker 1: to do it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, not me.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you make your bed?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I don't either. I don't. I don't make my bed.
Speaker 1: I just don't. It's just one side.
Speaker 3: So if I needed to make it, I just go
Speaker 3: flip it over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. That is it for the Minnesota goodbye.
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