Speaker 1: Minnesota, goodbye. Send emails to Ryan Show at KATWB dot com.
Speaker 1: First thing we got is about upgrading on a for
Speaker 1: like trying to get into first class. So we were
Speaker 1: talking about this last week and somebody said that they
Speaker 1: were I think they were going on a trip and
Speaker 1: they said should they spring for first class?
Speaker 2: Or they were asking if they could ask for first class,
Speaker 2: not to pay for it, but like they noticed that
Speaker 2: there were seats open, so they were wondering if there
Speaker 2: was a way to get like to be respectful and
Speaker 2: see if they could get upgraded.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Naomi writes in says, I work for the airlines.
Speaker 1: It does not work to buy treats because somebody said,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, buy them a coffee or a muffin or whatever.
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt to ask. She actually says it doesn't
Speaker 1: work to ask, but I think she means it doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt to ask. We have so many frequent flyers diamond, platinum, gold, silver,
Speaker 1: then we have paid upgrades. It just doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1: So sorry, employees used to get these upgrades that weren't
Speaker 1: paid for, and we cannot even get them. There will
Speaker 1: never be a free random upgrade nowadays. Okay, that kind
Speaker 1: of makes sense. Think about it this way, when's the
Speaker 1: last time you flew on a half full airplane? It
Speaker 1: doesn't happen anymore. And back in the day, like even
Speaker 1: in the nineties, it was like, oh, you're on this
Speaker 1: flight from you know, like Las Vegas back home, and
Speaker 1: there's like all three seats are open, like the you know,
Speaker 1: so you get a road to yourself. Never happens anymore.
Speaker 1: Most time I get on Southwest and they're like, we
Speaker 1: are completely full today, so blah.
Speaker 3: Blah blahn, move all the way down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So thank you, Naomi. I appreciate the inside information.
Speaker 1: Sarah writes in she says, you can say my name.
Speaker 1: I'm currently listening to Jenny talking about sending the wrong link,
Speaker 1: and I sympathize.
Speaker 2: What was that about when I sent the link of
Speaker 2: somebody wants to absolutely fuck the shit out of you
Speaker 2: I instead of a link to some shoes that I
Speaker 2: was trying to post.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, I remember that from last Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 1: I've been there, done that. And to the gal who
Speaker 1: sent a DM to the whole zoom, I'm sorry. It
Speaker 1: will get better from here. That was the one she
Speaker 1: was on last week. Her name was I think Cassandra,
Speaker 1: and she was on a zoom meeting that got boring,
Speaker 1: so to entertain herself and her friend, she sent a
Speaker 1: private message to her friend on the Zoom meeting, what's
Speaker 1: your favorite kind of porno? What's your favorite porn category?
Speaker 1: And it's sent to the entire fifty person meeting. She
Speaker 1: goes on to say, I've sent the wrong thing to
Speaker 1: the wrong person so many times. I now double check
Speaker 1: every recipient and every link before I hit send, texting,
Speaker 1: Instagram message, her team's email, I check it. You should too.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in regret. If you regret something, have
Speaker 1: you learned from it. If you've learned, why regret it,
Speaker 1: Just move forward and try your best not to do
Speaker 1: it again. I'm currently rapidly leaving a verbally and emotionally
Speaker 1: abusive home relationship. Listening to your show and podcast is
Speaker 1: really getting me through this terrible time. I love you, guys,
Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for each of you. Your work
Speaker 1: makes an impact on me and so many others. Thanks
Speaker 1: for all you do. Have a great day and make
Speaker 1: good choices. Sarah the nurse from South Minneapolis, Sarah, that's
Speaker 1: very sweet. We know we're not here too necessarily to
Speaker 1: get people through the day, but if that helps get
Speaker 1: you through the day because you're going through something really tough,
Speaker 1: that makes our job even more valuable and we're really
Speaker 1: glad that we can help you with something like that.
Speaker 3: We're here for you.
Speaker 1: Next one, Stephanie says, I listen to no phone screener Friday.
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree with the caller about your
Speaker 1: watch recommendations. Please, oh please do your watch of the
Speaker 1: week and post it on the Dave Ryan Show website, Instagram,
Speaker 1: Facebook are helpful too, but the website blog should for
Speaker 1: sure have it. Can you try to remember that for
Speaker 1: this week and Jenny and see if there's anything that
Speaker 1: we can like. Okay, here's your watch list for the week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I find myself so much many times sitting down at
Speaker 1: the end of a long day after the kids were asleep,
Speaker 1: to go what was that show Jenny said was great?
Speaker 1: Or what was it Dave liked and then said it
Speaker 1: wasn't worth finishing. I do the same thing. People will
Speaker 1: text in and go, oh, you've got to watch this
Speaker 1: watch Reacher, and I'm like, I remember that one because
Speaker 1: somebody recommended it to me. And I did not like it,
Speaker 1: but sometimes that happens. Ps, Dave, Netflix is different for
Speaker 1: every single person based on what you watch. Yes, recently
Speaker 1: you mentioned that the title you might be referring to
Speaker 1: will be on the Netflix homepage, but it all depends
Speaker 1: on what you're watching. Well, that's true, that totally makes sense.
Speaker 3: I also heard somewhere that even the pictures that are
Speaker 3: on Netflix are catered to who is watching it, So like,
Speaker 3: if they know that I like watching Gurly movies and
Speaker 3: Gurly TV shows, then all of the pictures will have
Speaker 3: a girl in it, and the same picture for the
Speaker 3: same show I have somebody else in it. Real, Dave, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Hello morning crew. First of all, like
Speaker 1: to thank you for putting out such a great product.
Speaker 1: I'm an airline pilot and I often find myself in
Speaker 1: cities where I don't know anyone, so on walks. It's
Speaker 1: great to put on your podcast and have my friends
Speaker 1: walking with me. That is super cool. I really appreciate that, Dave.
Speaker 1: You truly have a knack of doing an excellent job
Speaker 1: of explaining complex situations relating to airplanes without watering down
Speaker 1: but not getting too muddied in the details. I think
Speaker 1: you could do a way better job than a lot
Speaker 1: of the so called experts that media outlets use for
Speaker 1: aviation events possible retirement side gig. You know what, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that because I'm not an airline pilot and I
Speaker 1: don't even have a thousand hours of airtime, whereas, by comparison,
Speaker 1: your average airline pilot probably has a minimum of five
Speaker 1: thousand hours.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I don't even have one thousand, and that's since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. So for me, let's see, my topic
Speaker 1: for discussion was what time that your company let you
Speaker 1: down the most? For me, it was a time we
Speaker 1: flew from Minneapolis to a city in Wisconsin during a snowstorm.
Speaker 1: When leaving Minneapolis, we knew things were gonna get dicey,
Speaker 1: but I was confident they were not going to cancel
Speaker 1: any flights just to lay them. Once we got to Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: our flight back was of course delayed, and I was
Speaker 1: assuring everybody we would be on our way shortly. And
Speaker 1: as I was making my PA announcement, the company went
Speaker 1: and fucking canceled the flight and all the passengers knew
Speaker 1: before me. Wow, talk about a egg on my face,
Speaker 1: all right, And they called themselves Captain dart Lick because
Speaker 1: they don't want anybody to know who they are. They
Speaker 1: don't put their name anywhere in there at all. I'll
Speaker 1: just tell you one of my favorite insightful aviation stories.
Speaker 1: Remember the flight about ten or fifteen years ago, where
Speaker 1: they were coming from Denver or somewhere, and they flew
Speaker 1: past Minnesota by about one hundred and fifty miles or sole.
Speaker 1: They were supposed to land in Minneapolis, and they flew
Speaker 1: past about one hundred and fifty miles or so. And
Speaker 1: then finally they kept calling them from the tower and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, flight one o six, Flight one oh six,
Speaker 1: can you hear us? Can you hear ushu? Flah blah blah,
Speaker 1: And they wouldn't answer. They wouldn't answer, they wouldn't answer.
Speaker 1: They claimed they were both on their laptops and they
Speaker 1: weren't paying attention. Now, I don't know, but as a pilot,
Speaker 1: I would suspect they both fell asleep. Oh, because it
Speaker 1: does happen. But there's no way that they ever wanted
Speaker 1: to admit that, Hey, the two pilots up front, they
Speaker 1: might fall asleep. So I don't know, and that is
Speaker 1: just my speculation.
Speaker 3: Do flight attendants not like check on anybody like pilots either? No?
Speaker 1: No, no, oh no not really. I mean they could
Speaker 1: call up there, but the flight attendants likely wouldn't have
Speaker 1: known that they were approaching and then flew over Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, oh are there no cameras in a pilot cabin?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And that's one question. And then the other one is
Speaker 2: isn't there some kind of box that like you can
Speaker 2: get into when a plane crashes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, black box which is actually orange. Okay, so they
Speaker 1: can find it easier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 2: I mean that has nothing to do with anything, but
Speaker 2: that's interesting that they probably just fell asleep. So you're
Speaker 2: telling me that those planes really are just flying themselves.
Speaker 1: To a large degree. They say that flying is like
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent sheer boredom and one percent sheer terror.
Speaker 1: So the takeoff and landings, that's that's very involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the but once you get at cruise altitude, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you sit around and you're board and
Speaker 1: maybe the person. And here's another thing that in movies,
Speaker 1: the pilots always know each other. Hey, Hank, how's the kids?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good, Jim, how's your new dog? Yeah, and then the
Speaker 1: flight attendant walks on, Hi, Carol An, how's it going.
Speaker 1: They've likely never met, they've likely never flown together, So
Speaker 1: when you're sitting up there, you're kind of getting acquainted
Speaker 1: with the other pilot. They might be really boring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they might have nothing to talk.
Speaker 2: About, but don't I feel like flight attendants do get
Speaker 2: to know a lot of the pilots. My friend married
Speaker 2: a pilot, okay, and like because she was I think
Speaker 2: they were on flights together a lot.
Speaker 3: I think wherever your.
Speaker 2: Home bases as a flight attendant, that also could be
Speaker 2: the same home base obviously as pilots. So then you're
Speaker 2: probably chances are going to have more flights with those.
Speaker 1: People, and that could be Yeah. I saw a really
Speaker 1: bad movie the other day with Jack Wagner called Nowhere
Speaker 1: to Land, and it was done about nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: or so. And do you know who Jack Wagner is.
Speaker 1: He was a soap opera star and he was kind
Speaker 1: of a heart throb, and he's very handsome, and he
Speaker 1: was the pilot and he knew the co pilot, and
Speaker 1: all the flight attendants got on like, Hi, Captain Smith,
Speaker 1: oh hey, Donna, how are you. How's that new house?
Speaker 1: It is like, no, they don't know each other that well.
Speaker 1: It was terrible movie.
Speaker 3: I not about pilots or any but so I saw
Speaker 3: a play that was about planes over the weekend and
Speaker 3: they said in it that planes are meant to be
Speaker 3: flown and if they sit for too long, they like
Speaker 3: start to deteriorate fast. Do you think that's true.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that before.
Speaker 3: Really. They were like, yeah, that we got to get
Speaker 3: this plane. I mean the plane where they all were
Speaker 3: like on the ground for maybe four days and the
Speaker 3: pilot was like, we got to get this plane up
Speaker 3: in the air. It's going to start breaking down if
Speaker 3: we don't, so like we need to go now.
Speaker 1: Oh So I never heard that. Yeah, well it could
Speaker 1: be something.
Speaker 3: That's a thing.
Speaker 1: Uh Rinita writes in it says, Dave, I wanted to
Speaker 1: say that I loved your recommendation given to the woman
Speaker 1: who experienced a miscarriage. You are spot on people who
Speaker 1: reach out more than once when you're experiencing grief or
Speaker 1: something tragic. Truly means a lot. With my daughter's cancer,
Speaker 1: I have honestly been surprised that who doesn't check in
Speaker 1: to see how we are doing, and pleasantly surprised at
Speaker 1: the people who do the check ins without any agendas.
Speaker 1: So kind of helpful to feel less alone during trauma. Anyway,
Speaker 1: great advice, Dave. That is from Ranita. This came up
Speaker 1: because when my dog died a week ago, there were
Speaker 1: the wonderful friends of mine who's like check in and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I heard about Josie. I hope you're doing okay. Wow,
Speaker 1: such a hard loss. And I appreciate that, and that's
Speaker 1: all I expected, and expected might actually be the right word,
Speaker 1: you know, But it was the people who checked in
Speaker 1: like again later that weekend and checked in again like
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. That really is like, wow, that was very comforting.
Speaker 1: So a friend of mine lost her son in a
Speaker 1: motorcycle accident last fall. He was like eighteen or nineteen, no,
Speaker 1: like killed on the spot. Yeah, And so I've tried
Speaker 1: to remember to not just you know, went to the
Speaker 1: funeral and all that, and I've tried to remember, like
Speaker 1: every couple of weeks just to like start a little
Speaker 1: conversation with her to see, you know, not like how
Speaker 1: are you doing because that's a stupid question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because clearly she's probably not doing well.
Speaker 1: Ryan, So I'm just like, hey, just thinking about you,
Speaker 1: what's going on with you? And she talked about anything
Speaker 1: but her son, So I think it was good for
Speaker 1: her to just anyway get.
Speaker 3: Her mind off of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, more emails. That's not one. Here we go.
Speaker 1: What is your I get it now moment? Since becoming
Speaker 1: a mom, I feel like I've had so many moments
Speaker 1: where I thought to myself, I get it now. I'll
Speaker 1: often call my mom and say I'm sorry, I get
Speaker 1: it now. For example, my mom would go in her
Speaker 1: room and watch her shows by herself for a few
Speaker 1: hours on the weekend. I totally didn't understand why she
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to spend every possible moment with me. But
Speaker 1: now as a mom, I get wanting to have a
Speaker 1: moment to myself. It doesn't have to be about parenting.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious about your I get it now. What
Speaker 1: is your moment? Thanks? Abby? I would have to think
Speaker 1: about that first.
Speaker 2: I've got an answer.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 2: So my sister and I really wanted to go to
Speaker 2: our friends. Well, I wanted to go to my friend's house.
Speaker 2: She wanted to go to her boyfriend's house. It was
Speaker 2: a snowstorm. My sister had her license, so she was
Speaker 2: going to take us there. My mom refused to let
Speaker 2: us go because it was out on these country roads.
Speaker 2: So she's like, it's not safe, you're not going there
Speaker 2: or whatever, while we lied and said we were going
Speaker 2: to the movie theater and that we were going to
Speaker 2: a movie and.
Speaker 3: So that was in town.
Speaker 2: So she allowed us to do that, but really she
Speaker 2: went to her boyfriend's.
Speaker 3: I went to my friends.
Speaker 2: Well, I get it now because driving through snowstorms is terrifying.
Speaker 3: We were young. I get it.