January 16, 2026 • 37 mins
Monse, the crew, friends and family tell Dan what he means to them on an edition of "Dan Appreciation Day".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is why I like hanging out with Monsey. She
said something yesterday that piques an interest in me and
Jason Stewart and others, and we get to talk about
it today.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, on your birthday, on.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
My birthday, birthday, thank you, Thank you very much. I
appreciate you guys have all been very kind. Lunch provided
to me by one Jason Stewart. Thank you very much. Jason. Great,
great great job. Gesture great great job in the stereo
Iowa Sam is here, Jason Stewart, Isaac Lowincron A quick
(00:39):
happy birthday, a quick birthday story before I tell you
about the pressurized cooker that is the NFL playoffs or
Moncey does I'll never forget here at Fox Sports Radio.
Do you have Monzi? Do you like to be the
first to give the happy birthday wishes? Do you feel
when somebody else says it, like in a room full
of people, well that if you follow up yours maybe
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isn't as as a welcome. It's a water down because
he followed somebody else We had a guy that worked
here and I don't mind naming his name because he's
a good guy. I believe he's still in the business.
Sam actually may know, but Gavin Kinsell, Gavin, you know,
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producing podcasts. Gavin a great guy. People would get Sam's
last name in Gavin's last name mixed up.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah, that phonetically. They kind of like Kinsel and Kinsell.
They so we say the law off is of Kinsle
and Kinsel.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So Gavin was here and he was producing in the
down the hall in the old set, which if you're listening,
you don't know what I'm talking about. That's just more
for the people here. But there was that law of
diminishing returns where there were four or five people. One
person knew it was my birthday, so they said happy birthday.
I think John Ramos probably said Dan, have a great
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birthday or something like that. And then there was a
different host like, oh, it's your birthday, Happy birthday. Then
in turn maybe says happy birthday. Gavin refused. Gavin was
sitting there on the computer, there were five people in there.
Four of them wished me happy birthday, and Gavin refused
to jump on the bandwagon. And I thought about. I'm like, okay,
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is this rude? And then and then I came, I'm like,
you know what that's like respect? Because Gavin knows being
fifth it's just gonna be completely watered down. He didn't
want to be bandwagon, so he just decided to not
say anything at all. And I will never forget that.
It actually makes me laugh to this day that he
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he stood on business. He was not gonna be the
fifth or fourth. If he was gonna be first, fine,
but he wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna jump on any
birthday bandwagon.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Did he tell you the next day happy belated birthday?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't think so, but I did think I asked
a good Gavin. Remember that one day when everybody was
wishing me happy birthday, you just sat silent. I go
was that on purpose? He was like yeah, yeah, he goes.
Everybody was saying it, and so he just didn't want
to get in on. He wasn't bad. Way goed and
I'm like, you know what, I appreciate that respect. Yes
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you have respect. It turned in from a question to
respect that oh but great time. So I appreciate everybody
uh here having some fun on the birthday. We are
hanging out on Fox Sports Radio. Steve Gotts and Company
Live debuts coming up on Monday, three o'clock Eastern time,
noon Pacific. I'm sure Stuve Gotts will be talking about
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the weekend it was. Will he be talking about the
player who's under the most pressure in the playoffs month?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on second,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on a second.
The reason why I'm interrupting Dan with a drop of
Dan could be confusing to listeners, But I'm about hold on.
We're gonna go ahead and hijack the rest of the show. Dan,
take that run down in front of you and rip
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it up. I wanted to do something for the very
reason that Dan was about to lay out. Stu Gots
joins us on Monday. We're excited. Nobody's going anywhere. We're
not saying goodbye to anybody. But it is Dan's birthday,
and as he has laid out, it's also the last
day of this incarnation, whatever this is, it's the end.
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It's the end of something, and in this business filled
with bitter jerks who don't appreciate anything, it's so rare
that we could pay appreciation to one individual, and I
don't want to lose that today because this might be
the last time. In fact, I kind of want to
open up the lines. You know how stadiums around sports
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have fan appreciation Day. This is Dan dan appreciation. I
want to open up the lines. Eight hundred love Dan,
Oh Love. And if that doesn't work, it's what eight
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. Eight seven seven
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ninety nine on Fox. Call in, tell us what you
appreciate most about Dan Byer. We have a lot of
loyal listeners Dan, A lot of what we got what
two hundred and ninety stations? Call in, tell me what
you appreciate most about Dan. But I was hoping to
start with the inner crew here. Between the four of us,
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we have different stories with Dan Byer. It's really kind
of neat. In fact, I want to start with the
one sitting next to you. Listeners might not know this,
but Dan is responsible for Monci Bolanos on this network.
The stardom that she has achieved could all go back
to Dan Byer hiring her as a news anchor and
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her ascension began there. Want belongs simple question, what do
you appreciate most about Dan Barr, Well.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I'm already tearing up over here, and again we're not
going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I just yeah, but I'm up over here.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Do not put on iris because I'm already crying over here.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Really I am Dan.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
As Jason said, I owe you a lot, and I
know you know that. But something that I truly love
about you, and I appreciate you getting me here, I
really do. But something that I love about you, Dan,
is that you expect everyone to bring their A plus
game every single day. You're not you're if you want
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to be good in average, it's fine, but you don't
want that in people, and you bring that out in
all of us. And I love that because I know,
like it's hard to always ask the most of people,
but you bring the most of yourself and so you
bring it. You ask all of us to bring the best,
and I don't know if many people do that. And
that's what I love about you, that I know, like
you want everyone to bring their A game every single day.
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It doesn't matter what data is, bring your A game,
because you're gonna bring yours.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So thank you, thank you, and and I mean, manzi
is done. It's done. All the work. I was just
lucky enough to have her resume come across, come across
my desk, and the rest is history. A very kind word.
You do. You deserve all of the credit. Is pretty
incredible for that. Hold On, Dan, hold on, this is
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pretty incredible. I don't have it. Hold On.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
We have a full bank of calls there. They're lined
up to speak to you. I felt that we can
kind of go around the room to create a primer
to buy time for all these calls. In fact, I'm
looking at the extension of the calls. There are another
couple hundred thousand people trying to get in. We let
me have room for six of them. But the first
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one we're going to go to South Pasadena. This is incredible.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
South Pasadena.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Our practice much must not have started yet.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
The person I think that might know Dan the best
and the longest former technical producer at Fox Sports Radio.
He's a radio legend. Everyone knows him.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
John Ramos joins us via the phone from South Pastadana. John,
what do you appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Well, first of all, I want to say happy birthdays
to God.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
For a long time.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Oh I'm sorry, Happy birthday, Dan, Dan. Dan knows exactly
how I feel about him. The one thing I appreciate
the most about Dan, and I think Monty touched a
little bit on that, is a fact like Dan really
wants to promote everybody. So when we were doing the
show together for many years, Dan always tried to find
a way to promote me, to say, how can we
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get John involved in the show, how can we do this?
So the John Ramo Show started because of Dan. All
the different kinde of bits that we would do was
all of Dan wanting to get everybody involved, wanting other
people to be part of the show. And that part
I really appreciate about Dan the most is his willingness
to put the spotlight on other people besides himself. But
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he deserves a lot of the spotlight himself too. And
by the way, go Seattle. I hope they beat the
heck out of those forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's great to hear John's voice and John is you know,
John is not doing his thing at South Pass High
longtime at Fox Sports Radio. I still keep in touch
with John. We still talk on a on a regular
basis in terms of life. So it's great to have
John as a friend and I appreciate the very very
kind words. And the John Ramos Show is still it's
(09:32):
just on hiatus. It's not over. Yeah, it's it's not over.
It's just on a hiatus at this point.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Thank you John again. We got so many calls to
get to you. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank and
I was hoping you got through on the one eight
hundred Love Dan and don't eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox Now, this next person has again, He's been
in the business forever and he and Dan have another
(10:00):
special relationship. I don't know when Isaac low Kron joined
Fox Sports Radio. I don't know if Dan had anything
to do with it, But Isaac Lowe and Krawn at
the news desk, what do you appreciate most about Dan Barr?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
First of all, I noticed that Jason and Monsey were
kind of getting a little emotional there. If I'm if
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
If I'm not a beautiful man, beautiful man.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
And so is Jason's. But I just wanted to, uh,
to put this advisory out there.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Are you crying?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah, So that was directed at Jason and Moncy. So
I'm a dude, and uh, you know how dudes are
with emotions. So I'm literally going to lower my head,
so I don't make eye contact with Dan here. But
you know, the true measure of a person and a
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friend is how they are when times are bad. And
you know, when I first met Dan, I was a
free wheeling bachelor and I believe he was two. And
now we're both married with kids. And the thing about
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sports and radio is it's a twenty four to seventh thing.
And as long as Dan and I have known each other,
there have been so many times when real life has
gotten in the way of what we do, which is
the toy department of life around here. And so countless
times over the years, I've had to call Dan literally
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at all hours of the day, late at night, two
o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning, five
o'clock in the morning and say, yeah, so and so
is sick, So and so is in the hospital. I
can't I can't come in today, something's going on with
my family. I mean literally.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Late at night, early in the morning.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
And I dread having to do that because I feel
so like guilty and whatever. And each time Dan has
just made me feel so much better, and he's just
been so cool and kind at a time when you know,
four o'clock in the morning, eleven o'clock at night on
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a Saturday night. And you know, for people who don't know,
Dan is the guy who's responsible for keeping ninety three
different plates in the air with all the people here
and all the various other things we have to do,
like I have outside things, moncias outside things. I hope
I'm not rambling too much, but it just I know,
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it just has meant so much to me over the years.
I mean, Dan is just a wonderful friend and a
wonderful colleague on a data today basis and when things
are going well, but when things are not going well
and at your lowest, He's a guy who I so
appreciate his dignity and his basic human kindness.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
And I will never never take that for granted. And
me and my family appreciate that so much. And now
I'll never be able to make eye contact with him again.
Thanks a lot, Jason, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Just to remind the listeners here, we're not saying goodbye
to anybody.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We're not saying goodbye.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It might sound like he's not done saying goodbye.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
In fact, I think professionally, I think the best of
Dan's years are yet to come. I think he's only
going to do something bigger and better as we go
on in the years. We're not saying goodbye at all.
So another phone line, I can't believe. Just a full
bank of calls, millions of listeners trying to get in
telling us what they appreciate most about Dan Byer. We're
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going to go to Los Angeles where a carry Rhodes
all he got on UH one eight seven ninety one
on Fox. He just called in, Carrie, what do you
appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'm joking.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Carrie's gonna tell us what Pixie got right last night?
That's why he's calling in.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Happy birthday, Danny.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Thank you very much, Carrie.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Hey, man, I really appreciate you, man. I know, Isaac
went with a real deep soliloquy. I'm gonna say, no,
I just appreciate you, man. I really care about people
that care about what they do. That's the ultimate praise
I think I can give anyone. Like when you care
about what you do, and you care about being that
person all the time and showing up for everybody, not
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just yourself. I see you sometimes coming in and I
can tell sometimes it's a lot, but you won't show
it or you won't say it outwardly. But I see you,
I feel you. You're a great partner to work with
on Sundays. And yeah, man, that's it. No picks today,
just praise.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And we got work to do on Sunday. Car You know,
I love working with you. Thanks so much for taking
the time. We'll do it five o'clock Eastern time on Sunday.
Monty will be where Isaac is sitting as well. Yeah,
And that's the great thing is and I know there's
there's probably more to get to and I appreciate the
words so much, Isaac Monty. Yeah, I mean you'll have
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to wait. That's Is that why Verizon was here to
open the phone bank earlier this week or the issues?
I really appreciate it. But I am fortunate enough to
work with a lot of different people and all of
our roads end up crossing. So that's what's roads. You know,
no pun intended, right, but but uh, you know, I really,
I really do appreciate the kind words. I I know
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it was my birthday obviously today and told you I
wanted to come in and do this and have this opportunity.
But this is this is very overwhelming in a way.
I've been embarrassing to be.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Well, yeah, we knew you would we knew you would
fight it. That's why we had to do it this way.
Now that this next person needs no introduction, but he'll
tell you that he's worked on the show for eleven years,
but he really actually started working full time.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
In this shift with Dan Byer.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I think like maybe two years ago, maybe a year
and a half ago, whatever it was. You hear him
every day on the show. He works closely with Dan.
He's a technical producer. Djure Iowa, Sam, Iowa, Sam. What
do you appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Hello, everybody. I have known Dan the whole time. I've
worked here since May of twenty sixteen. And I'll tell
you this, Dan Byer is the picture perfect mullet. And
let me explain. Okay, what is a mullet. A mullet
is business in the front, party in the back. Dan,
when he shows up, the preparedness is at one hundred.
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The details on the stories are at one hundred. Okay,
Dan is ready to go. He's he is a really,
really solid sportscaster and sport and anchor and sports broadcaster
and takes originator. He is ready. He is detail oriented.
He is prepared, but then the party is in the
back of the mullet. Okay, Dan is always going to
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come prepared with the details, but there's always gonna be
fun times during the show. He really is a reincarnated
game show host turned into a sports broadcaster. There's always
gonna be moments of levity. He is still the pun
king of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He is.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
He is ready to do game shows on the show
and have a good time. So it's a mix of
business in the front, party in the back. You know
you're gonna get the whole mix with Dan Byer. That's
why he is the perfect mullet of sports talk radio.
All Right, that's a really great way to put it.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
That is by far, that is by far the most pointed,
concise thing Sam has ever said. I wrote down a
few notes on my shred on time. He didn't waste
any words. I would just say, just just a broadcast
note for Sam, moving forward.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Whatever you just did.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I've been trying moving for four months. I've been trying
and everything. Thank you, Sam. I want to wait can
I say one more thing, one more thing about dance?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was samming it up. That's okay, and so I yeah,
you doing it.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh, old habits are hard to break. It's a new year.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We have a Midwest connection.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's why we so yeah, dance for Wisconsin. I'm from Iowa.
Thing about Dan, though, is he's a great gift giver.
But if you don't, if you don't give him a
gift with the same thought put into it, the thoughtfulness,
he'll he'll notice it.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He'll he'll let me know.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Because the one time I gave a bunch of these
Cedar Rapids colonels a minor league baseball team. I gave
a bunch of these hats out to everybody in my
inner circle. But I didn't have enough to buy everybody
fitted hats. But I bought Dan a snap hat, and
that I.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Wasn't I wasn't good enough to get a fitted hat.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Dan was in the adjustable hat, was in the slightly
outer circle of hosts I was working with. And those
hats were still like thirty five forty bucks. Well the
fitted ones were the adjust No, well, the the fitted
ones were even more. But but I wasn't good enough
for those you weren't. Dan was at that point. Now
he's in the fitted hat Kenning, Oh wow, I think
maybe at some point I just need to get Dan
a fitted hat from the Cedarrabits colonels. But you know,
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and Dan was like, oh I see, I say, we're
in the outer circle. David Gascon's walking around with his
fitted hat. You know, Gascon Jonas, they all got to
fitish circle.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, but you know what, Dan, You're in my closest
inner circle.
Speaker 12 (19:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I love you man. You're a You are great at
your job and I always appreciate working with you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh, thank you, Sam.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
This is amazing how many calls are coming in full
bank of calls, so many that we can't get to.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I'm sorry, uh seven seven ninety nine on Fox. I'm
obviously a very trained host. Now this call is crazy.
We go to the six six one, Uh, Brodye, Brody
and his mom Lisa. Lisa and Brody. What do you
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appreciate most about Damn Meyer?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
So that a body?
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Love thanks guys, Hi buddy, Hi.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
Buddy, Well we love you Dan.
Speaker 14 (20:16):
You are such an amazing father to our Brody and
and your husband to me, and I have to say,
listening to all of your coworkers talk about you the
way they have, and it just made me cry.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
They appreciate you the way you need to be appreciated,
and they see all of the qualities that I see
on a daily basis, The hard work you put into
even putting a show together. You prep for hours the
night before for the show the next day. You are
so great at what you do, and you take pride
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in what you do, and we just I'm just.
Speaker 14 (20:54):
So happy that everybody got to get to appreciate.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
You at work.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, Thank you, love. I I you do a great
job in keeping a secret because I had no idea
with any of this. I love you guys so much.
I was as we were going through the phone calls,
I'm like, okay, all right, who could actually be on
the line. And I didn't expect you guys, And so
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I love it. I love you both. Job well, Thank
thanks Love. Is Brody still there? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'm sorry. I had to go up against the break,
we said, Brody. Brodie will understand when when you play
the dot form, he'll understand. We were up against a
break that was not fair. See if we can get
them back on the line. I want Mons and John
and Dan, not John, but Monsey and Dan to take
us a break and then more fun on the other side.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So there is no Sam Darnold take.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Under pressure.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Under pressure oh man. And we had Kyle Tucker thoughts
as well. That's that's what I thought we were. We
were going for amazing surprise. Thank you so much, guys.
I guess there's more. I hope we have more year
in review because I would love to hear what's twenty
twenty six. She's Monty Belangjos, I'm Dan Byer, That's Isaac
(22:16):
Glowing Crown, Jason Stewart Iowa. Sam. Thank you everybody who
called in more next year on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
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Speaker 10 (22:32):
Oh what's up everybody? Thank you for tuning in to
Fox Sports Radio. I am Monty Bolanos alongside the one
and only Dan Bayer.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's his birthday today.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well thanks guys. Look you this your whole crew here.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
That's right, that's right now.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
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Speaker 5 (23:18):
Now, MANSI, a couple of radio and digital and satellite
radio legends are sitting to your left, and so these
these are the newest kids on the block, the newest
kids to the daily lineup until Monday. So for listeners,
just to catch you up here, this is kind of
the last of an era. This is the last of
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this entity of this time slot. As Stu Gotts joins
us on Monday, we're all gonna be here. We are
all excited to have him. But Dan Byer, who has
been hosting each show for the last three weeks, he's
the main fill in for the Doug Gottlieb Show for
the last three or four years. You know him well,
it's his birthday to day, and we just want to
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appreciate Dan and I want the listeners to know what
Dan means to other people in this business. And of
course we have a full biker calls one eight hundred
Love Dan if that doesn't work eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox Now.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Covino and Rich.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Are radio, satellite, radio, TV personality legends. They are in
studio right now. They were nice enough to join us
as they prep for their show coming up in thirty minutes.
Coveno Rich Steve Rich, how are you? What do you
appreciate most about Dan? Byer Oh, I just came here
to say I hope Drew Lock starts.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah right, I got I got a wonderful birth I
got a I got a wonderful birthday card from everybody
except I noticed one line Rich is like, happy birthday.
I hope your Seahawks lose Like that.
Speaker 15 (24:49):
That was I'm paraphraidh all the success in the world
except for Saturday Night.
Speaker 16 (24:54):
First off, I just want to say, every day is
Dan Bayer dB appreciation Day?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Does he make it?
Speaker 14 (25:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
He's a consummate professional.
Speaker 16 (25:05):
Look, I love dB because well he's a Cavino guy.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
He's a radio guy.
Speaker 16 (25:10):
As a former fellow radio guy, I also respect that
he loves what he does and I feed off that passion.
But he's also just a good guy. He's a good
guy and that goes a long way with me. So
love working with the dude. I just think Dan Meyer's
the best.
Speaker 15 (25:26):
I love DV and Uh He's versatile, right, dB could
work with anyone, Like he could work with MANSI, he
can work with Kerry Rhodes. He could work with anyone.
He could work with us, he could he could fill
in anywhere. He could host himself anywhere. dB is like
the uh, the ultimate utility guy.
Speaker 16 (25:41):
Really, And can I say, of course dB knows his facts,
he knows his stuff, he lives it. But I don't
know if he gets enough credit for being a really
funny dude, like you can always count on him with
a good quip to make the show even better.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, I will say, I appreciate you guys, because Friday's
kind of your lax day, like right, Like it's not
that you guys start relaxing, like.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
Like when you said we were prepping for our shows,
Like what having a burrito.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Like Friday? I know, like Friday and and you you
probably would have had it. It's thirty minutes before the show.
But still I appreciate you guys taking out. They had
birthday cupcakes and a candle and the whole thing during
the commercial break. So thanks guys.
Speaker 16 (26:20):
Hey, I want to give you a personal Bennie. You know,
before I got into radio, I worked at Bennie. Yeah, yeah,
if you don't mind, Yeah, alrighty, yes, happy happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
It's a special day.
Speaker 16 (26:31):
Happy happy birthday, and that's why we're here to say, hey,
happy happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Day, all your dreams come true. Happy happy birthday from cn.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
R for you.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (26:40):
Oh right, Hey man, I worked there and I was like,
someday I'll be a radio star.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And look at me hanging out with the great dB.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Oh thanks, guys, Rich We're gonna let you go back
to looking at Dante Bichett Google images. Somebody just joined
the studio that doesn't run anything down here. He's uh
big Mike who doesn't run anything, Big Mike Linguard. I
want to say he pre exists Dan bier Fox.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He does.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
He does absolutely forever just a little bit and uh so,
Mike Lingard, what do you appreciate most about Dan Byer.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
Well, Dan Bayer and I have worked together for over
twenty years, and I don't think there's anyone here that
I've worked more closely with in that time. And the
thing about Dan Byer that you all need to understand is, well,
it's really one word. It's genuine. Dan Bayer is exactly
(27:36):
who you think he is. He genuinely cares about everybody
around here. He is genuinely dedicated to this place. He's
genuinely dedicated to his family. And it's just really nice
to be able to work with the guy for more
than two decades who I know every day. He's not
(27:59):
going to mess around. He's gonna be the same guy, consistently,
not duplicitous he is djb Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I appreciate that we should get like a patch, like
twenty year patch. I know, like it's like me and Lingard,
you know, like we've worked twenty years together. We just
wear it around the.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
Hole because then we'd probably have to get one for
Vito and I don't want to have to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I still all the lunch from the Dodgers beating the Brewers.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Don't worry. I haven't forgotten Okay, rappy birthday, Darren, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
They talked about how funny Dan is, and there's a difference.
I think Dan is funny, but he also knows funny
and he knows what funny content is, and he does impressions,
and I think maybe his his number one impression around
here is of big Mindy. Absolutely, I'd like for Dana
Mike back to Mike, just just for radio purposes. Dan
(28:54):
is genuine and he owes me lunch at Chili's.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Right.
Speaker 16 (28:58):
Everyone else's impression of mine is just your impression. Impression,
just over and over and over. That's a great thing.
Is I love doing it to his face. Usually like
you're doing impressions and the person's not around. I love
doing it to Mike's face.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Mike was quick to let us know.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
He's like, you know, I've a I know Mike's white,
uh Dann Bayer's wife before he knew her, like you.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Those yeah little jabs in like I hope your Seahawks
lose got of like those jabs. I hope you lock
starts like the card was one rich You wonder why
I'm a Cavino guy, you know, Like I told, I
told Mancy, and she's and her friend Grace is banning me.
You know, I'm a forty nine er. I'm forty nine today,
so yeah, so so I'm either less than fifty or
(29:42):
forty eight plus. That's what it is. Ron, Yes, how
about that. We're digging for gold by the way, after
the show. So if you guys are interested, we've got
our picks. We're just gonna go over to the canyons
and maybe sift through the creeks a little bit. Yeah,
what better way to bring in forty nine.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
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Speaker 2 (30:04):
App Fox Sports Radio. She's Mancy Belano.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
So I'm Dan Byer, the birthday guy.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You guys, Uh, he's a birthday guy.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I never I never expected this, this show to take
this turn. Thank you to you Manzi, to Jason Stewart,
to Iowa Sam, to Isaac Lohnkron. I said in our
pre show meeting, I got here a little bit early
today and we are going over topics. And I said
to Jason, I had no idea that this second hour
was happening. I said, did we get an email from
(30:34):
Monzi like on the topics that she wanted to hit on,
so like we could, you know, put them in and
I think he said, yeah, well she had the sam
Donold thing from yesterday that we wanted to talk about.
I'm like, okay, and so I never thought and now
like I knew why she didn't. We didn't. We didn't
have any topics for the second hour.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
You'll be spending the rest of the day piecing together
suspicious things that all of us were doing.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Right, is that?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Is this why you were driving fifty five and the
one oh one yesterday? I randomly got behind her in traffic,
but there was no traffic. She has personalized plates. I
won't say what they are, but so I knew it
was her and I had to go that way because
that's kind of towards where my father in law lived.
So randomly, I'm behind Manzi on the one to one
freeway in LA. She's don't worry Monzi's mom. She's doing
(31:20):
the speed limit or under like she was in the
far right lane going slow. I'm hanking my horn waving
like what randomness? She had no clue I was behind her.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
No until you called me and I was like, what
he's like, do you hear me hawking at you? And
I was like right now, like when I was on
the phone with my mom, and so you know, I
was concentrated why she was telling me, and I was
going home.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So that was all the way to the right. I
exited right after you. So yeah, my bad bad.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
There was a song prior to Manzi being born called
I Can't Drive fifty five by Sammy Hagar, and that
was correct because she was going fifty two yesterday. There
was cars flying past her, just cruising along. You'll not
have to worry about Manzi having a lead foot.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I was all the way on the right.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I was exiting, okay, I was talking to my mom.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I was keeping it safe. Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You know this song is great. I love this song
as a kid.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
By the way, I know, talking in Spanish, driving all that, you.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Know, hold on, hold on, okay. So I want to
remind the listeners of what we're doing today. It Stan's birthday,
and we're not saying goodbye to anybody. We're not saying goodbye.
I think Dan's best days are ahead of him. On
this network, you're gonna hear us all moving forward. No
one's saying goodbye, but I thought it would be a
(32:38):
great day to appreciate Damn Byer. This is the end
of an era that what we have been doing, what
you have been listening to in this time slot is
changing on Monday, and we are very excited about welcoming
Stu Got's in. But I did want to say goodbye
to this kind of entity. Uh the I think the
only way we can do, and that's to say, well,
(33:00):
we appreciate moth about Dan Byer. Now, I guess it's
my turn. I don't know if you guys notice this,
it's my turn. So I've been in the business forever.
I've been in the business longer than anybody in this room,
and there just are certain people that I gravitate to
at work. And it's people that carry themselves professionally and
(33:25):
seriously like Dan Byer does. He's the kind of guy
that like he just gets it on and off the
air right. He's a very generous broadcaster in a field
of bitter jerks who don't want to be generous. Most
people are looking for fame, they're looking to get to
(33:46):
the next thing. Dan Byer wants to improve you while
you're on the air. I personally know that I've grown
as a broadcaster. Just listen to Dan and Dan putting
me in great spots on the air. That's what he does.
So for those who don't quite know Dan's resume, he
(34:11):
is the manager of the news anchors at Fox Ports,
so he has that hat. So he does all the hiring,
all the scheduling. When people call him sick late, he
often fills in and during hours when someone twenty years
in doesn't really need to do that. So he's that guy.
(34:31):
And then he's the host for all the shows that
need a guest host, and he is going to sit
in with anybody and he's gonna make it work in
this generous way that I describe. He is the most
versatile broadcaster I have ever been around. And also also
(34:52):
every time Doug Gottlieb wasn't on the air each of
the last four and a half years I've been here,
Dan's been hit. He was like the the I guess
the guest host as you are for this time slot.
All of our listeners are very familiar, but from a
professional standpoint, it really doesn't get any better.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
We do really fun things like when you talk to
people off air, and you're like, I work in sports radio. Oh,
I'm a huge sports fan. That must be so fun.
It can be fun, and it is fun, but it
takes a hell of a lot of work to get
to that fun. And Dan is always willing to put
(35:33):
in that work. And I've always appreciated about you, Dan,
and just personally from a friendship standpoint, that generosity and
that's an unselfishness and consideration also blends into your personal life.
As your wife had described earlier this hour, you have
(35:53):
made me a better friend. In other words, I've learned
how to be a friend being your friend. I've never
had a guy friend put thought into gifts, but it
makes me rethink and recalibrate how I associate with friends.
So with all that said, Dan, I appreciate you, and
(36:16):
I hope you had a good day, happy birthday, and
I'll let the two of you sign off.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, thank you very much, Jason, very very kind words.
I respect so much of what you do, even before
you even came to Fox Sports Radio, before we knew
each other and worked with each other. And yeah, we've
been side by side for the last four and a
half years. We were side by side in Buffalo. I
think that tells us how our friendship has grown. And
(36:43):
so it's been a pleasure of working with you and
look forward to continue to work with you in the
future here on Fox Sports Radio. So this was amazing, guys.
I never expected we had yearine review and the whole deal.
We're gonna talk about the Manning.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Cast, Kyle Tucker ruining baseball.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I truly appreciate all of the wonderful things that you
said in anything that I say cannot match actually how
I feel about you, guys. So thank you so much.
And that goes to to everybody who We're not going anywhere,
just a just a different.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Change, just a shift, just a shift.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Dann We love you, We really do have all you guys.
Place would not run without you, and I mean that.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
It's been fun.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
Can't wait for the next one.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
We'll do it again soon. Yeah, but great job.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is why I like hanging out with Monsey. She
said something yesterday that piques an interest in me and
Jason Stewart and others, and we get to talk about
it today.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, on your birthday, on.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
My birthday, birthday, thank you, Thank you very much. I
appreciate you guys have all been very kind. Lunch provided
to me by one Jason Stewart. Thank you very much. Jason. Great,
great great job. Gesture great great job in the stereo
Iowa Sam is here, Jason Stewart, Isaac Lowincron A quick
(00:39):
happy birthday, a quick birthday story before I tell you
about the pressurized cooker that is the NFL playoffs or
Moncey does I'll never forget here at Fox Sports Radio.
Do you have Monzi? Do you like to be the
first to give the happy birthday wishes? Do you feel
when somebody else says it, like in a room full
of people, well that if you follow up yours maybe
(01:02):
isn't as as a welcome. It's a water down because
he followed somebody else We had a guy that worked
here and I don't mind naming his name because he's
a good guy. I believe he's still in the business.
Sam actually may know, but Gavin Kinsell, Gavin, you know,
(01:22):
producing podcasts. Gavin a great guy. People would get Sam's
last name in Gavin's last name mixed up.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah, that phonetically. They kind of like Kinsel and Kinsell.
They so we say the law off is of Kinsle
and Kinsel.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So Gavin was here and he was producing in the
down the hall in the old set, which if you're listening,
you don't know what I'm talking about. That's just more
for the people here. But there was that law of
diminishing returns where there were four or five people. One
person knew it was my birthday, so they said happy birthday.
I think John Ramos probably said Dan, have a great
(01:59):
birthday or something like that. And then there was a
different host like, oh, it's your birthday, Happy birthday. Then
in turn maybe says happy birthday. Gavin refused. Gavin was
sitting there on the computer, there were five people in there.
Four of them wished me happy birthday, and Gavin refused
to jump on the bandwagon. And I thought about. I'm like, okay,
(02:23):
is this rude? And then and then I came, I'm like,
you know what that's like respect? Because Gavin knows being
fifth it's just gonna be completely watered down. He didn't
want to be bandwagon, so he just decided to not
say anything at all. And I will never forget that.
It actually makes me laugh to this day that he
(02:45):
he stood on business. He was not gonna be the
fifth or fourth. If he was gonna be first, fine,
but he wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna jump on any
birthday bandwagon.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Did he tell you the next day happy belated birthday?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't think so, but I did think I asked
a good Gavin. Remember that one day when everybody was
wishing me happy birthday, you just sat silent. I go
was that on purpose? He was like yeah, yeah, he goes.
Everybody was saying it, and so he just didn't want
to get in on. He wasn't bad. Way goed and
I'm like, you know what, I appreciate that respect. Yes
(03:17):
you have respect. It turned in from a question to
respect that oh but great time. So I appreciate everybody
uh here having some fun on the birthday. We are
hanging out on Fox Sports Radio. Steve Gotts and Company
Live debuts coming up on Monday, three o'clock Eastern time,
noon Pacific. I'm sure Stuve Gotts will be talking about
(03:39):
the weekend it was. Will he be talking about the
player who's under the most pressure in the playoffs month?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on second,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on a second.
The reason why I'm interrupting Dan with a drop of
Dan could be confusing to listeners, But I'm about hold on.
We're gonna go ahead and hijack the rest of the show. Dan,
take that run down in front of you and rip
(04:05):
it up. I wanted to do something for the very
reason that Dan was about to lay out. Stu Gots
joins us on Monday. We're excited. Nobody's going anywhere. We're
not saying goodbye to anybody. But it is Dan's birthday,
and as he has laid out, it's also the last
day of this incarnation, whatever this is, it's the end.
(04:27):
It's the end of something, and in this business filled
with bitter jerks who don't appreciate anything, it's so rare
that we could pay appreciation to one individual, and I
don't want to lose that today because this might be
the last time. In fact, I kind of want to
open up the lines. You know how stadiums around sports
(04:50):
have fan appreciation Day. This is Dan dan appreciation. I
want to open up the lines. Eight hundred love Dan,
Oh Love. And if that doesn't work, it's what eight
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. Eight seven seven
(05:11):
ninety nine on Fox. Call in, tell us what you
appreciate most about Dan Byer. We have a lot of
loyal listeners Dan, A lot of what we got what
two hundred and ninety stations? Call in, tell me what
you appreciate most about Dan. But I was hoping to
start with the inner crew here. Between the four of us,
(05:34):
we have different stories with Dan Byer. It's really kind
of neat. In fact, I want to start with the
one sitting next to you. Listeners might not know this,
but Dan is responsible for Monci Bolanos on this network.
The stardom that she has achieved could all go back
to Dan Byer hiring her as a news anchor and
(05:57):
her ascension began there. Want belongs simple question, what do
you appreciate most about Dan Barr, Well.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I'm already tearing up over here, and again we're not
going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I just yeah, but I'm up over here.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Do not put on iris because I'm already crying over here.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Really I am Dan.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
As Jason said, I owe you a lot, and I
know you know that. But something that I truly love
about you, and I appreciate you getting me here, I
really do. But something that I love about you, Dan,
is that you expect everyone to bring their A plus
game every single day. You're not you're if you want
(06:36):
to be good in average, it's fine, but you don't
want that in people, and you bring that out in
all of us. And I love that because I know,
like it's hard to always ask the most of people,
but you bring the most of yourself and so you
bring it. You ask all of us to bring the best,
and I don't know if many people do that. And
that's what I love about you, that I know, like
you want everyone to bring their A game every single day.
(06:58):
It doesn't matter what data is, bring your A game,
because you're gonna bring yours.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So thank you, thank you, and and I mean, manzi
is done. It's done. All the work. I was just
lucky enough to have her resume come across, come across
my desk, and the rest is history. A very kind word.
You do. You deserve all of the credit. Is pretty
incredible for that. Hold On, Dan, hold on, this is
(07:22):
pretty incredible. I don't have it. Hold On.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
We have a full bank of calls there. They're lined
up to speak to you. I felt that we can
kind of go around the room to create a primer
to buy time for all these calls. In fact, I'm
looking at the extension of the calls. There are another
couple hundred thousand people trying to get in. We let
me have room for six of them. But the first
(07:45):
one we're going to go to South Pasadena. This is incredible.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
South Pasadena.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Our practice much must not have started yet.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
The person I think that might know Dan the best
and the longest former technical producer at Fox Sports Radio.
He's a radio legend. Everyone knows him.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
John Ramos joins us via the phone from South Pastadana. John,
what do you appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Well, first of all, I want to say happy birthdays
to God.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
For a long time.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Oh I'm sorry, Happy birthday, Dan, Dan. Dan knows exactly
how I feel about him. The one thing I appreciate
the most about Dan, and I think Monty touched a
little bit on that, is a fact like Dan really
wants to promote everybody. So when we were doing the
show together for many years, Dan always tried to find
a way to promote me, to say, how can we
(08:41):
get John involved in the show, how can we do this?
So the John Ramo Show started because of Dan. All
the different kinde of bits that we would do was
all of Dan wanting to get everybody involved, wanting other
people to be part of the show. And that part
I really appreciate about Dan the most is his willingness
to put the spotlight on other people besides himself. But
(09:03):
he deserves a lot of the spotlight himself too. And
by the way, go Seattle. I hope they beat the
heck out of those forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's great to hear John's voice and John is you know,
John is not doing his thing at South Pass High
longtime at Fox Sports Radio. I still keep in touch
with John. We still talk on a on a regular
basis in terms of life. So it's great to have
John as a friend and I appreciate the very very
kind words. And the John Ramos Show is still it's
(09:32):
just on hiatus. It's not over. Yeah, it's it's not over.
It's just on a hiatus at this point.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Thank you John again. We got so many calls to
get to you. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank and
I was hoping you got through on the one eight
hundred Love Dan and don't eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox Now, this next person has again, He's been
in the business forever and he and Dan have another
(10:00):
special relationship. I don't know when Isaac low Kron joined
Fox Sports Radio. I don't know if Dan had anything
to do with it, But Isaac Lowe and Krawn at
the news desk, what do you appreciate most about Dan Barr?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
First of all, I noticed that Jason and Monsey were
kind of getting a little emotional there. If I'm if
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
If I'm not a beautiful man, beautiful man.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
And so is Jason's. But I just wanted to, uh,
to put this advisory out there.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Are you crying?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah, So that was directed at Jason and Moncy. So
I'm a dude, and uh, you know how dudes are
with emotions. So I'm literally going to lower my head,
so I don't make eye contact with Dan here. But
you know, the true measure of a person and a
(10:59):
friend is how they are when times are bad. And
you know, when I first met Dan, I was a
free wheeling bachelor and I believe he was two. And
now we're both married with kids. And the thing about
(11:19):
sports and radio is it's a twenty four to seventh thing.
And as long as Dan and I have known each other,
there have been so many times when real life has
gotten in the way of what we do, which is
the toy department of life around here. And so countless
times over the years, I've had to call Dan literally
(11:41):
at all hours of the day, late at night, two
o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning, five
o'clock in the morning and say, yeah, so and so
is sick, So and so is in the hospital. I
can't I can't come in today, something's going on with
my family. I mean literally.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Late at night, early in the morning.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
And I dread having to do that because I feel
so like guilty and whatever. And each time Dan has
just made me feel so much better, and he's just
been so cool and kind at a time when you know,
four o'clock in the morning, eleven o'clock at night on
(12:29):
a Saturday night. And you know, for people who don't know,
Dan is the guy who's responsible for keeping ninety three
different plates in the air with all the people here
and all the various other things we have to do,
like I have outside things, moncias outside things. I hope
I'm not rambling too much, but it just I know,
(12:51):
it just has meant so much to me over the years.
I mean, Dan is just a wonderful friend and a
wonderful colleague on a data today basis and when things
are going well, but when things are not going well
and at your lowest, He's a guy who I so
appreciate his dignity and his basic human kindness.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
And I will never never take that for granted. And
me and my family appreciate that so much. And now
I'll never be able to make eye contact with him again.
Thanks a lot, Jason, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Just to remind the listeners here, we're not saying goodbye
to anybody.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We're not saying goodbye.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It might sound like he's not done saying goodbye.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
In fact, I think professionally, I think the best of
Dan's years are yet to come. I think he's only
going to do something bigger and better as we go
on in the years. We're not saying goodbye at all.
So another phone line, I can't believe. Just a full
bank of calls, millions of listeners trying to get in
telling us what they appreciate most about Dan Byer. We're
(13:56):
going to go to Los Angeles where a carry Rhodes
all he got on UH one eight seven ninety one
on Fox. He just called in, Carrie, what do you
appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'm joking.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Carrie's gonna tell us what Pixie got right last night?
That's why he's calling in.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Happy birthday, Danny.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Thank you very much, Carrie.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Hey, man, I really appreciate you, man. I know, Isaac
went with a real deep soliloquy. I'm gonna say, no,
I just appreciate you, man. I really care about people
that care about what they do. That's the ultimate praise
I think I can give anyone. Like when you care
about what you do, and you care about being that
person all the time and showing up for everybody, not
(14:44):
just yourself. I see you sometimes coming in and I
can tell sometimes it's a lot, but you won't show
it or you won't say it outwardly. But I see you,
I feel you. You're a great partner to work with
on Sundays. And yeah, man, that's it. No picks today,
just praise.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And we got work to do on Sunday. Car You know,
I love working with you. Thanks so much for taking
the time. We'll do it five o'clock Eastern time on Sunday.
Monty will be where Isaac is sitting as well. Yeah,
And that's the great thing is and I know there's
there's probably more to get to and I appreciate the
words so much, Isaac Monty. Yeah, I mean you'll have
(15:22):
to wait. That's Is that why Verizon was here to
open the phone bank earlier this week or the issues?
I really appreciate it. But I am fortunate enough to
work with a lot of different people and all of
our roads end up crossing. So that's what's roads. You know,
no pun intended, right, but but uh, you know, I really,
I really do appreciate the kind words. I I know
(15:46):
it was my birthday obviously today and told you I
wanted to come in and do this and have this opportunity.
But this is this is very overwhelming in a way.
I've been embarrassing to be.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Well, yeah, we knew you would we knew you would
fight it. That's why we had to do it this way.
Now that this next person needs no introduction, but he'll
tell you that he's worked on the show for eleven years,
but he really actually started working full time.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
In this shift with Dan Byer.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I think like maybe two years ago, maybe a year
and a half ago, whatever it was. You hear him
every day on the show. He works closely with Dan.
He's a technical producer. Djure Iowa, Sam, Iowa, Sam. What
do you appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Hello, everybody. I have known Dan the whole time. I've
worked here since May of twenty sixteen. And I'll tell
you this, Dan Byer is the picture perfect mullet. And
let me explain. Okay, what is a mullet. A mullet
is business in the front, party in the back. Dan,
when he shows up, the preparedness is at one hundred.
(16:53):
The details on the stories are at one hundred. Okay,
Dan is ready to go. He's he is a really,
really solid sportscaster and sport and anchor and sports broadcaster
and takes originator. He is ready. He is detail oriented.
He is prepared, but then the party is in the
back of the mullet. Okay, Dan is always going to
(17:14):
come prepared with the details, but there's always gonna be
fun times during the show. He really is a reincarnated
game show host turned into a sports broadcaster. There's always
gonna be moments of levity. He is still the pun
king of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He is.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
He is ready to do game shows on the show
and have a good time. So it's a mix of
business in the front, party in the back. You know
you're gonna get the whole mix with Dan Byer. That's
why he is the perfect mullet of sports talk radio.
All Right, that's a really great way to put it.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
That is by far, that is by far the most pointed,
concise thing Sam has ever said. I wrote down a
few notes on my shred on time. He didn't waste
any words. I would just say, just just a broadcast
note for Sam, moving forward.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Whatever you just did.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I've been trying moving for four months. I've been trying
and everything. Thank you, Sam. I want to wait can
I say one more thing, one more thing about dance?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was samming it up. That's okay, and so I yeah,
you doing it.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh, old habits are hard to break. It's a new year.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We have a Midwest connection.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's why we so yeah, dance for Wisconsin. I'm from Iowa.
Thing about Dan, though, is he's a great gift giver.
But if you don't, if you don't give him a
gift with the same thought put into it, the thoughtfulness,
he'll he'll notice it.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He'll he'll let me know.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Because the one time I gave a bunch of these
Cedar Rapids colonels a minor league baseball team. I gave
a bunch of these hats out to everybody in my
inner circle. But I didn't have enough to buy everybody
fitted hats. But I bought Dan a snap hat, and
that I.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Wasn't I wasn't good enough to get a fitted hat.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Dan was in the adjustable hat, was in the slightly
outer circle of hosts I was working with. And those
hats were still like thirty five forty bucks. Well the
fitted ones were the adjust No, well, the the fitted
ones were even more. But but I wasn't good enough
for those you weren't. Dan was at that point. Now
he's in the fitted hat Kenning, Oh wow, I think
maybe at some point I just need to get Dan
a fitted hat from the Cedarrabits colonels. But you know,
(19:07):
and Dan was like, oh I see, I say, we're
in the outer circle. David Gascon's walking around with his
fitted hat. You know, Gascon Jonas, they all got to
fitish circle.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, but you know what, Dan, You're in my closest
inner circle.
Speaker 12 (19:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I love you man. You're a You are great at
your job and I always appreciate working with you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh, thank you, Sam.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
This is amazing how many calls are coming in full
bank of calls, so many that we can't get to.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I'm sorry, uh seven seven ninety nine on Fox. I'm
obviously a very trained host. Now this call is crazy.
We go to the six six one, Uh, Brodye, Brody
and his mom Lisa. Lisa and Brody. What do you
(19:54):
appreciate most about Damn Meyer?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
So that a body?
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Love thanks guys, Hi buddy, Hi.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
Buddy, Well we love you Dan.
Speaker 14 (20:16):
You are such an amazing father to our Brody and
and your husband to me, and I have to say,
listening to all of your coworkers talk about you the
way they have, and it just made me cry.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
They appreciate you the way you need to be appreciated,
and they see all of the qualities that I see
on a daily basis, The hard work you put into
even putting a show together. You prep for hours the
night before for the show the next day. You are
so great at what you do, and you take pride
(20:50):
in what you do, and we just I'm just.
Speaker 14 (20:54):
So happy that everybody got to get to appreciate.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
You at work.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, Thank you, love. I I you do a great
job in keeping a secret because I had no idea
with any of this. I love you guys so much.
I was as we were going through the phone calls,
I'm like, okay, all right, who could actually be on
the line. And I didn't expect you guys, And so
(21:19):
I love it. I love you both. Job well, Thank
thanks Love. Is Brody still there? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'm sorry. I had to go up against the break,
we said, Brody. Brodie will understand when when you play
the dot form, he'll understand. We were up against a
break that was not fair. See if we can get
them back on the line. I want Mons and John
and Dan, not John, but Monsey and Dan to take
us a break and then more fun on the other side.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So there is no Sam Darnold take.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Under pressure.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Under pressure oh man. And we had Kyle Tucker thoughts
as well. That's that's what I thought we were. We
were going for amazing surprise. Thank you so much, guys.
I guess there's more. I hope we have more year
in review because I would love to hear what's twenty
twenty six. She's Monty Belangjos, I'm Dan Byer, That's Isaac
(22:16):
Glowing Crown, Jason Stewart Iowa. Sam. Thank you everybody who
called in more next year on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 10 (22:32):
Oh what's up everybody? Thank you for tuning in to
Fox Sports Radio. I am Monty Bolanos alongside the one
and only Dan Bayer.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's his birthday today.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well thanks guys. Look you this your whole crew here.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
That's right, that's right now.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Before we continue celebrating, who is Dan Byer facing a peak?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
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Speaker 5 (23:18):
Now, MANSI, a couple of radio and digital and satellite
radio legends are sitting to your left, and so these
these are the newest kids on the block, the newest
kids to the daily lineup until Monday. So for listeners,
just to catch you up here, this is kind of
the last of an era. This is the last of
(23:40):
this entity of this time slot. As Stu Gotts joins
us on Monday, we're all gonna be here. We are
all excited to have him. But Dan Byer, who has
been hosting each show for the last three weeks, he's
the main fill in for the Doug Gottlieb Show for
the last three or four years. You know him well,
it's his birthday to day, and we just want to
(24:02):
appreciate Dan and I want the listeners to know what
Dan means to other people in this business. And of
course we have a full biker calls one eight hundred
Love Dan if that doesn't work eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox Now.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Covino and Rich.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Are radio, satellite, radio, TV personality legends. They are in
studio right now. They were nice enough to join us
as they prep for their show coming up in thirty minutes.
Coveno Rich Steve Rich, how are you? What do you
appreciate most about Dan? Byer Oh, I just came here
to say I hope Drew Lock starts.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah right, I got I got a wonderful birth I
got a I got a wonderful birthday card from everybody
except I noticed one line Rich is like, happy birthday.
I hope your Seahawks lose Like that.
Speaker 15 (24:49):
That was I'm paraphraidh all the success in the world
except for Saturday Night.
Speaker 16 (24:54):
First off, I just want to say, every day is
Dan Bayer dB appreciation Day?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Does he make it?
Speaker 14 (25:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
He's a consummate professional.
Speaker 16 (25:05):
Look, I love dB because well he's a Cavino guy.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
He's a radio guy.
Speaker 16 (25:10):
As a former fellow radio guy, I also respect that
he loves what he does and I feed off that passion.
But he's also just a good guy. He's a good
guy and that goes a long way with me. So
love working with the dude. I just think Dan Meyer's
the best.
Speaker 15 (25:26):
I love DV and Uh He's versatile, right, dB could
work with anyone, Like he could work with MANSI, he
can work with Kerry Rhodes. He could work with anyone.
He could work with us, he could he could fill
in anywhere. He could host himself anywhere. dB is like
the uh, the ultimate utility guy.
Speaker 16 (25:41):
Really, And can I say, of course dB knows his facts,
he knows his stuff, he lives it. But I don't
know if he gets enough credit for being a really
funny dude, like you can always count on him with
a good quip to make the show even better.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, I will say, I appreciate you guys, because Friday's
kind of your lax day, like right, Like it's not
that you guys start relaxing, like.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
Like when you said we were prepping for our shows,
Like what having a burrito.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Like Friday? I know, like Friday and and you you
probably would have had it. It's thirty minutes before the show.
But still I appreciate you guys taking out. They had
birthday cupcakes and a candle and the whole thing during
the commercial break. So thanks guys.
Speaker 16 (26:20):
Hey, I want to give you a personal Bennie. You know,
before I got into radio, I worked at Bennie. Yeah, yeah,
if you don't mind, Yeah, alrighty, yes, happy happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
It's a special day.
Speaker 16 (26:31):
Happy happy birthday, and that's why we're here to say, hey,
happy happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Day, all your dreams come true. Happy happy birthday from cn.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
R for you.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (26:40):
Oh right, Hey man, I worked there and I was like,
someday I'll be a radio star.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And look at me hanging out with the great dB.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Oh thanks, guys, Rich We're gonna let you go back
to looking at Dante Bichett Google images. Somebody just joined
the studio that doesn't run anything down here. He's uh
big Mike who doesn't run anything, Big Mike Linguard. I
want to say he pre exists Dan bier Fox.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He does.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
He does absolutely forever just a little bit and uh so,
Mike Lingard, what do you appreciate most about Dan Byer.
Speaker 12 (27:16):
Well, Dan Bayer and I have worked together for over
twenty years, and I don't think there's anyone here that
I've worked more closely with in that time. And the
thing about Dan Byer that you all need to understand is, well,
it's really one word. It's genuine. Dan Bayer is exactly
(27:36):
who you think he is. He genuinely cares about everybody
around here. He is genuinely dedicated to this place. He's
genuinely dedicated to his family. And it's just really nice
to be able to work with the guy for more
than two decades who I know every day. He's not
(27:59):
going to mess around. He's gonna be the same guy, consistently,
not duplicitous he is djb Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I appreciate that we should get like a patch, like
twenty year patch. I know, like it's like me and Lingard,
you know, like we've worked twenty years together. We just
wear it around the.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
Hole because then we'd probably have to get one for
Vito and I don't want to have to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I still all the lunch from the Dodgers beating the Brewers.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Don't worry. I haven't forgotten Okay, rappy birthday, Darren, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
They talked about how funny Dan is, and there's a difference.
I think Dan is funny, but he also knows funny
and he knows what funny content is, and he does impressions,
and I think maybe his his number one impression around
here is of big Mindy. Absolutely, I'd like for Dana
Mike back to Mike, just just for radio purposes. Dan
(28:54):
is genuine and he owes me lunch at Chili's.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Right.
Speaker 16 (28:58):
Everyone else's impression of mine is just your impression. Impression,
just over and over and over. That's a great thing.
Is I love doing it to his face. Usually like
you're doing impressions and the person's not around. I love
doing it to Mike's face.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Mike was quick to let us know.
Speaker 15 (29:15):
He's like, you know, I've a I know Mike's white,
uh Dann Bayer's wife before he knew her, like you.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Those yeah little jabs in like I hope your Seahawks
lose got of like those jabs. I hope you lock
starts like the card was one rich You wonder why
I'm a Cavino guy, you know, Like I told, I
told Mancy, and she's and her friend Grace is banning me.
You know, I'm a forty nine er. I'm forty nine today,
so yeah, so so I'm either less than fifty or
(29:42):
forty eight plus. That's what it is. Ron, Yes, how
about that. We're digging for gold by the way, after
the show. So if you guys are interested, we've got
our picks. We're just gonna go over to the canyons
and maybe sift through the creeks a little bit. Yeah,
what better way to bring in forty nine.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 2 (30:04):
App Fox Sports Radio. She's Mancy Belano.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
So I'm Dan Byer, the birthday guy.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You guys, Uh, he's a birthday guy.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I never I never expected this, this show to take
this turn. Thank you to you Manzi, to Jason Stewart,
to Iowa Sam, to Isaac Lohnkron. I said in our
pre show meeting, I got here a little bit early
today and we are going over topics. And I said
to Jason, I had no idea that this second hour
was happening. I said, did we get an email from
(30:34):
Monzi like on the topics that she wanted to hit on,
so like we could, you know, put them in and
I think he said, yeah, well she had the sam
Donold thing from yesterday that we wanted to talk about.
I'm like, okay, and so I never thought and now
like I knew why she didn't. We didn't. We didn't
have any topics for the second hour.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
You'll be spending the rest of the day piecing together
suspicious things that all of us were doing.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Right, is that?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Is this why you were driving fifty five and the
one oh one yesterday? I randomly got behind her in traffic,
but there was no traffic. She has personalized plates. I
won't say what they are, but so I knew it
was her and I had to go that way because
that's kind of towards where my father in law lived.
So randomly, I'm behind Manzi on the one to one
freeway in LA. She's don't worry Monzi's mom. She's doing
(31:20):
the speed limit or under like she was in the
far right lane going slow. I'm hanking my horn waving
like what randomness? She had no clue I was behind her.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
No until you called me and I was like, what
he's like, do you hear me hawking at you? And
I was like right now, like when I was on
the phone with my mom, and so you know, I
was concentrated why she was telling me, and I was
going home.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So that was all the way to the right. I
exited right after you. So yeah, my bad bad.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
There was a song prior to Manzi being born called
I Can't Drive fifty five by Sammy Hagar, and that
was correct because she was going fifty two yesterday. There
was cars flying past her, just cruising along. You'll not
have to worry about Manzi having a lead foot.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I was all the way on the right.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
I was exiting, okay, I was talking to my mom.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I was keeping it safe. Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You know this song is great. I love this song
as a kid.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
By the way, I know, talking in Spanish, driving all that, you.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Know, hold on, hold on, okay. So I want to
remind the listeners of what we're doing today. It Stan's birthday,
and we're not saying goodbye to anybody. We're not saying goodbye.
I think Dan's best days are ahead of him. On
this network, you're gonna hear us all moving forward. No
one's saying goodbye, but I thought it would be a
(32:38):
great day to appreciate Damn Byer. This is the end
of an era that what we have been doing, what
you have been listening to in this time slot is
changing on Monday, and we are very excited about welcoming
Stu Got's in. But I did want to say goodbye
to this kind of entity. Uh the I think the
only way we can do, and that's to say, well,
(33:00):
we appreciate moth about Dan Byer. Now, I guess it's
my turn. I don't know if you guys notice this,
it's my turn. So I've been in the business forever.
I've been in the business longer than anybody in this room,
and there just are certain people that I gravitate to
at work. And it's people that carry themselves professionally and
(33:25):
seriously like Dan Byer does. He's the kind of guy
that like he just gets it on and off the
air right. He's a very generous broadcaster in a field
of bitter jerks who don't want to be generous. Most
people are looking for fame, they're looking to get to
(33:46):
the next thing. Dan Byer wants to improve you while
you're on the air. I personally know that I've grown
as a broadcaster. Just listen to Dan and Dan putting
me in great spots on the air. That's what he does.
So for those who don't quite know Dan's resume, he
(34:11):
is the manager of the news anchors at Fox Ports,
so he has that hat. So he does all the hiring,
all the scheduling. When people call him sick late, he
often fills in and during hours when someone twenty years
in doesn't really need to do that. So he's that guy.
(34:31):
And then he's the host for all the shows that
need a guest host, and he is going to sit
in with anybody and he's gonna make it work in
this generous way that I describe. He is the most
versatile broadcaster I have ever been around. And also also
(34:52):
every time Doug Gottlieb wasn't on the air each of
the last four and a half years I've been here,
Dan's been hit. He was like the the I guess
the guest host as you are for this time slot.
All of our listeners are very familiar, but from a
professional standpoint, it really doesn't get any better.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
We do really fun things like when you talk to
people off air, and you're like, I work in sports radio. Oh,
I'm a huge sports fan. That must be so fun.
It can be fun, and it is fun, but it
takes a hell of a lot of work to get
to that fun. And Dan is always willing to put
(35:33):
in that work. And I've always appreciated about you, Dan,
and just personally from a friendship standpoint, that generosity and
that's an unselfishness and consideration also blends into your personal life.
As your wife had described earlier this hour, you have
(35:53):
made me a better friend. In other words, I've learned
how to be a friend being your friend. I've never
had a guy friend put thought into gifts, but it
makes me rethink and recalibrate how I associate with friends.
So with all that said, Dan, I appreciate you, and
(36:16):
I hope you had a good day, happy birthday, and
I'll let the two of you sign off.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, thank you very much, Jason, very very kind words.
I respect so much of what you do, even before
you even came to Fox Sports Radio, before we knew
each other and worked with each other. And yeah, we've
been side by side for the last four and a
half years. We were side by side in Buffalo. I
think that tells us how our friendship has grown. And
(36:43):
so it's been a pleasure of working with you and
look forward to continue to work with you in the
future here on Fox Sports Radio. So this was amazing, guys.
I never expected we had yearine review and the whole deal.
We're gonna talk about the Manning.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Cast, Kyle Tucker ruining baseball.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I truly appreciate all of the wonderful things that you
said in anything that I say cannot match actually how
I feel about you, guys. So thank you so much.
And that goes to to everybody who We're not going anywhere,
just a just a different.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Change, just a shift, just a shift.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Dann We love you, We really do have all you guys.
Place would not run without you, and I mean that.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
It's been fun.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
Can't wait for the next one.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
We'll do it again soon. Yeah, but great job.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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