January 16, 2026 • 53 mins
Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos discuss the divisional playoff matchup between the Rams and Bears and how Sean McVay and Ben Johnson are handling the build up. 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):
A Happy Friday to you. Welcome man. End of the
week is here, football is here. So much to get
to here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's right, And Dan, don't do nact like you're not
gonna mention it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Happy birthday, Dan, b Yes, so excited to be hanging
out with you. That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh wow, music and everything the whole Right.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Are you feeling? How you feeling?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
I feel all right?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
You feel alright?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I feel all right?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Okay, it's four nine. No, no, Remember we talked. You
cannot be a forty nine. That's you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They said I could be forty eight plus or fifty.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
One of the two. You can't be a fifty.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
How old are you less than fifty?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Less than fifty?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
That's your birthday, happy bird.
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
I will be completely blunt, frank and tell you the
honest truth. I usually take my birthday off. Yeah, and
what better time than on a Friday where you can
have a three day weekend and enjoy it as much
as you can. Maybe could have started celebrating last night, right, However,
(01:36):
I wanted to be here today on Fox Sports Radio
alongside Manzi, Jason Stewart Iowa Sam and Isaac Rollencrov. Now
we aren't going anywhere, but we are so for the
last few weeks, and I think people know that they've
listened to the to the network. Doug Gottlieb was in
this time slot for eight years. Doug's also the head
(01:56):
coach of the Green Bay men's basketball team that just
just decided to not lose. They are on they won
last night at Cleveland State. They're near the top of
the Horizon League standings. Doug step the focusing on basketball
in late December, so we've kind of taken over the
rains here over the last couple of weeks. But word
is out Stu Goatts in Company Live. We'll be making
(02:20):
its premiere on Monday, three o'clock Eastern time, noon Pacific.
So this is kind of the last of our run
here on FSR of doing this iteration of the show
of getting us five days a week and hearing us.
But so I wanted to be in. I wanted to
be a part of that. Otherwise, normally I would I'd
probably still be Yeah, maybe I'd be out watering flowers
(02:43):
in the backyard, who knows, maybe having lunch with the fam,
celebrating the birthday. But because of this today and the
new page that Fox Sports Radio turns on Monday, I
didn't want to leave this out.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
So I'm I'm here with you guys today.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Stop. Let's not get emotional. Don't put the iris surron. Yeah,
don't do.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Any of that reason to get emotional. We're gonna have fun.
We're gonna have fun.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We are gonna have fun, and you can still do
all the other things. You're just gonna do it a
little later.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And it's great to have great to have friends. Great
to have people that you work with that are that
are your friends. And that's what we've got here at
Fox Sports Radio. I mean, Curius is hanging out with
us as well. On this Friday. It's everybody's hanging out
and having a good time. And Sean McVay, he's got
friends as well. The rams head coach getting set for
a showed out with the Chicago Bears. Maybe getting some
(03:31):
I don't think it's insider info, Manci, but maybe just
getting some help on how to defend the Chicago Bears
from a friend of his that happens to be the
head coach of the Green Bay Packers, Matt Lafleur. Here's
Sean McVay talking about maybe any assistance he's getting from
his buddy in advance of what's happening on Sunday night.
(03:52):
Obviously your staff. He's pret three times, Yeah, what'd you guess?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You know what, we watched the tape.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
We do our work, and you know, Matt is a
very close friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Leaving that close friend to think that they don't share information,
I think would be foolish, no matter no matter who
it is. And I point out to the fact that
in this coaching tree, and there are a lot of
coaching trees in the National Football League, but Robert sala
At it is now, but at one point was, you know,
with Kyle Shanahan and San Francisco. So there's a relationship
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with McVeigh and Shanahan working together. Lafleur working with McVeigh
and so there's they're all everything is weaved together. There
was a point last year when Robert Sala was dismissed
as the Jets head coach. He ended up going to
a few Green Bay practices, helping out Matt Lafleur and
the Packers and seeing what he saw on defense. So
those those things aren't necessarily uncommon in the National Football League.
(04:57):
And Sean mcvay's answer, I think tells you all you
need to know. But then I was wondering, Manzi, all right,
if Sean McVay is getting all the horses lined up
or people are letting him get information, the SAME's got
to be happening for Ben Johnson in Chicago, right.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Ah, I don't know, Dan, Oh, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You're right, absolutely right. I don't know if there is either.
And that's what I am wondering, not does Ben Johnson
have any friends? But are there people there that want
to help out Ben Johnson? Because there are people that
are apparently helping out Sean McVay, and I think this
is a bigger picture on who the Bears are. In
one year, Chicago has gone from and also ran that
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made crazy, crazy mistakes and found unbelievably weird ways to
lose football games last year, so now being the second
seed in the NFC, being the NFC North champions, and
Ben Johnson has gone viral for a lot of reasons,
whether it be ripping off of his shirt, the quick
handshakes that he's had with Matt Lafleur. You'll probably come
(06:00):
up with some others. But the Bears have had great
success this year, and I'm not sure how many people
like it. So I'm wondering does Ben Johnson even have
friends that will help him out to try to beat
the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know, because the tree that you described
with Sean McVay and Matt Lafleur, that tree runs deep,
and I feel like if the Packers were still in
it and preparing for.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Their own game, maybe maybe they're not.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
He's not getting that much help right because he's working
on his own thing. But the fact that Matt Laflor's
got time right now, Scott time, what else is he doing? Also,
like you said, one of the videos that we'll probably
won't forget for a while is their final handshake that
just happened a week ago. I know there was another
handshake also where Matt Lafleur kind of was the one
that was quick with it, but this one, you know,
Ben Johnson took it to the next level. Like I
(06:49):
when I saw that video, I was like, oh, I
would have I would have grabbed his hand when he
tried to walk away. But then you see that Matt
laflor did it first, It's like, okay, okay, obviously there
is some sort of tension here, which we love as
the outsider getting to watch this unravel, and so there's
so much to it. But yeah, Mettlefloor has a time
to go talk to his buddy and Ben Johnson, who's
he gonna call?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Aaron Glenny doesn't want to call him?
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Who is he gonna help him?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
With zero interception?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
He are you gonna call? Hey? It's Ben? How do
you not pick off passes? Do give me?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
How do you tell me? How do you not catch
Matthew Stafford's passes? Because our defense needs to know. That's
what you would ask, Cary, That's what you would ask.
I think it's interesting because we would think that maybe
he would lean on Dan Campbell. But then again, this
is a team in the Detroit Lions and the Chicago
Bears that are now division rivals. Maybe we don't know
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how much the relationship between the two was while they
were working together, even though Johnson stayed for a year
longer than we thought. But I remember the Lions beating
the Bears fifty two to twenty one in Week one
of this NFL season, and I also remember the Lions
winning nineteen to sixteen at the end of the year,
and which could have maybe changed the playoff picture. Ultimately,
(08:01):
it didn't, as the Bears ended up being the two
seed because the Eagles didn't win their game. However, the
point is is, I don't think that there are places
that Ben Johnson can can turn to. I think that
Ben Johnson is a bit of a lone wolf. I
think that Ben Johnson likes that. I think Ben Johnson
likes to be the smartest guy in the room. He
was extremely picky in terms of the places and the
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opportunities that he could have gone, and I think there's
something there's something good about that. But in the last
day or so, Monci we were talking about how much
America seems to love the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I think that the.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Other side of the coin may be for as good
as the Bears are right now, could the Bears be
the team that is the foil to everybody? Because I
don't know if people are going to be warming up
to Ben Johnson. I don't know if people are going
to be warming up to Caleb Williams in Chicago.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think that's the big picture here too, because Caleb Williams,
since he came into the league, I feel like was
a contra virtual player from his college days. Now, whether
you like that he puts no polish on or not,
he is a controversial.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Player that people like to talk about.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And then you add Ben Johnson, who is also a
different type of rubbs. Maybe somebody the wrong way because
of I agree. I think he likes being the lone wolf.
I think he likes being the smartest man in the
room and maybe he wouldn't take any help even if
it was offered. But that may not help him in
this matchup when you're may be facing eighteen that is
(09:28):
getting more information on you than you would like. But
yesterday when I said I feel like people hate watch
Josh Allen, you guys were like, you're crazy. Maybe people
are hate watching the Bears and Caleb Williams and Ben
Johnson that I feel like I think we could agree
on that one.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I don't know how you can deny Caleb Williams's talent.
It's just been on full display for really the second
half of the season and then even what we saw
against Green Bay and the comeback on Saturday Night. It's there. Like,
if you can't see it, that is a you problem.
Whether you like it or not is a different story.
(10:06):
But if you can't see it, that's on you. If
you don't like the way that Caleb Williams plays, then
so be it. If you don't like the painted fingernails,
that's fine. If you don't like the way that he
answers questions in the press, you didn't like him crying
at USC, those are all things that end up. I
think it shows how polarizing of a figure that Caleb
Williams is. But as yeah, I think the draft process
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and leading up to that, yeah, it all comes into play.
But I think that there's something like with now Ben
Johnson as well of I'm not sure on how much.
I mean, he named Matt Lafleur in his introductory press conference,
and I think it's great for the league. I actually
have I'd much rather have this I weeks back, I
(10:49):
talked about how much I love the Jimmy Johnson Buddy
Ryan rivalry that we don't even really remember. Football fans
don't even remember of these coaches going back and forth
and jawing, and this is his close we've gotten this
something like that. I mean, if Rex Ryan's not in
the league, but hey's Son stirring stuff up. I don't
know who is, but Ben Johnson sure seems to put
(11:09):
people on edge. And I'm wondering if that's maybe why
other people are also going out of their way for
Sean McVay and for the Rams to maybe knock off
Chicago on Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Now, I think you hit it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I think most people maybe are rooting against Chicago because
of all the things that you were just listing, But
also Ben Johnson, in this one year, we've seen such
a because it's like, you have Kurt Signetti, who we've
been watching serious dude, who like also kind of.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Seems to want to be the lone wolf right, like he.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Doesn't want to join in on the fun, he wants
to separate himself. So it's like, but why is Kurt
Signetti so loved and welcomed and then you have this
other polarizing effect with a similar type of character.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yes, so polarizing. It's tough to warm up to Ben Johnson.
It is because he he does give off the sense
of smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
And when you get an A on your first test,
which is this.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Season with the Bears, immediately yeah, then you're like, okay,
all right, maybe yeah, it does. It makes people feel
very uncomfortable. Yeah, and it validates maybe some of the decisions. Again,
when he was in the coaching cycle. He was in
the coaching cycle multiple times with the Lions, and in
the most recent cycle where he didn't get the job,
(12:29):
there were eight vacancies. I remember the Seahawks were one
of the vacancies. They spoke with Ben Johnson, and after
they spoke with Ben Johnson, he was gonna meet with
the commanders and then he canceled that meeting and said
I'm staying I'm staying with Detroit for another season. So
there were eight jobs that were opened up in the
National Football League that he didn't want. That's a quarter
(12:49):
of the league. And I think that there are people
who probably said that's arrogance. You know that these jobs
are rare and you're sitting there saying, you know what,
these aren't good enough for me. And right now he
has the laugh, laugh, the last laugh over those people.
Because he picked the job that he wanted, it came open,
it came against friends within the division of the Detroit Lions,
(13:14):
and so maybe there's some bridges that were burned there.
He obviously burned bridges with Green Bay and that Packer
Bears rivalry. So yeah, so it all kind of makes sense.
But right now Ben Johnson's having the last laugh. I
think that people just want to shut Ben Johnson up,
and that's maybe why they're helping, trying to help. Not
that Scheun mcfay by the way, Sean mcfahn doesn't need help, right,
But if there are things that you see that maybe
(13:35):
would be able to end this, I think that they'd
be more than willing to help end the Bears run.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Also, like with Caleb Williams, I feel like he doesn't
get the support that a lot of young quarterbacks get.
Like it's like people wanted the Bears to maybe struggle
a little.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Bit more before having this success.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, and it's like, I don't know, Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Ben Johnson knew what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes, And this is the other thing about Caleb Williams,
and I don't want to talk about it's not all
the quarterbacks in the draft, because it's not. It's yeah,
it's not, we're not including nine in this. But when
you have when you have Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels and
Drake May one two, three, look at how look at
how we've handled those quarterbacks. And the thing, the point
(14:19):
that I'm going to make is I think that there
was a rush to judgment on Jayden Daniels last year.
Then now we had to slow down our a bit.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I think that there are people who didn't watch Drake
May in the later part of last season and maybe
weren't ready to admit that Drake May was ready for this.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
And now he's an MVP candidate, so that has changed.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Whereas Caleb Williams like he's always been there and it's
just a matter of if people are willing to actually accept.
And I think with May and Jayden Daniels, people are
changing their opinions for whatever reason. They're not changing it
about Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You would never have guessed that they were drafted the
same class because of how they're treated and how we
look at them.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yes, I think May and Daniels get a little bit more. Look,
they get more lenient, absolutely, and people aren't willing to
do that with Kayleb Williams. So that makes me then
wonder as a whole if people don't, you know, aren't
aren't warming up to your quarterback, if they don't like
your head coach. Now, are the Bears going to be
that team? They probably welcome it. The city of Chicago
and the Bears fans are like, all right, bring it on,
(15:20):
We'll be the villains. Yeah, if you want. Because I
look in this the NFC, actually look at the AFC quickly,
Bills would be the ultimate story. I think that the
Texans would be a feel good story if they were
to make it to the Super Bowl Denver. Maybe not
in New England, definitely not. But in the in the NFC,
you have teams. The Rams have been to two Super
Bowls one to one. Recently, the forty nine ers have
been to Super Bowls. Seahawks. I don't think we're that
(15:42):
far removed from legion.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Of boom, you know, right, still fresh.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, So the Bears would be the underdog story, but
we're not. I don't know if we're using that narrative
and talking about that.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Definitely not looking at them like that.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, for sure, she's Moncey Milanios. I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
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Speaker 2 (16:05):
This is why I like hanging out with Moncey. She
said something yesterday that piques an interest in me and
Jason Stewart and others, and we get to talk about
it today.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yes, on your birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
On my 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.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Jason. Great, great great job.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Gesture great great job in the stereo Iowa Sam is here,
Jason Stewart, Isaac Lowincron A quick 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,
(16:50):
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, that if you
follow up yours maybe isn't as as a welcome. It's
a little 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.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I believe he's still in the business.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Sam actually may know, but Gavin Kinsell, Gavin, you know,
producing podcasts. Gavin a great guy. People would get Sam's
last name in Gavin's last name mixed up.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Yeah, phonetically, they kind of like Kinsel and Kinsell day,
so we say the law off is of Kinsle and Kinsel.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
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
(17:56):
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,
(18:20):
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 going to 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 (18:50):
Did he tell you the next day happy belated birthday?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
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.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yes you have respect. It turned in from a question
to respect that Oh but great time.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
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 the weekend it was. Will he
be talking about the player who's under the most pressure
in the playoffs month?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold Dan,
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 it up. I wanted
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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 the end. It's the end of something. And in
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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 have fan appreciation Day. This is Dan
(20:51):
dan appreciation. I want to open up the lines one
eight hundred love Dan. And if that doesn't work, it's
what eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Call in, tell us
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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, we have different stories with Dan Byer.
(21:34):
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 Moncey Bolognos
on this network. The stardom that she has achieved could
all go back to Dan Byer hiring her as a
news anchor, and her ascension began there. Moncey Bolognos, simple question,
(22:00):
what do you appreciate most about Dan Barr?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, I'm already tearing up over here, and again we're
not going anywhere. I just yeah, but up over here.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Do not put on iris because I'm already crying over here.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Really I am.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Dan, 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.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're not.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You're if you want 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.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
And I love that because.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
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. It doesn't matter what data is.
Bring your a game, because you're gonna bring yours.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So thank you, thank you you, and and I mean,
Manzi is done.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
It's done. All the work.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I was just lucky enough to have her resume come across, uh,
come across my desk, and the rest is history. The
very kind words you do. You deserve all of the
credit is pretty incredible for that.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
Hold On, Dan, hold on, this is pretty incredible. I
don't have it.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Hold On.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
We have a full bank of calls there. They're lined
up to speak to you. I thought 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 of hundred thousand people trying to get in. We
let me have room for six of them. But the
first one we're going to go to South Pasadena. This
(23:44):
is incredible South Pasadena. Our practice much must not have
started yet. 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 6 (24:04):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
John Ramos joins us via the phone from South Pastadana, John,
what do you appreciate most about Dan?
Speaker 12 (24:11):
Byer Well, first of all, I want to say happy
birthdays to God.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
A long time.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
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 wants to he
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
(24:38):
can we get John involved in the show? How can
we do this? So the John Ramo Show started because
of Dan, all the different kind of bitch that we
would do with 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
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it's himself, but he deserves a lot of the spot
at himself too. And by the way, go Seattle, I
hope they beat the heck out of those forty nine ers.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
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
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it's just on hiatus. It's not over. Yeah, it's it's
not over. It's just on a hiatus at this point.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Thank you John. Again, we got so many calls to
get to you. Thank you very much. Yeah, THANKI And
I was hoping you got through on the one eight
hundred Love Dan and doesn'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
(25:57):
special relationship. I don't know when Isaac Longe Krown joined
Fox Sports Radio. I don't know if Dan had anything
to do with it, but I took Low and Krawn
at the news desk. What do you appreciate most about
Dan Barr?
Speaker 13 (26:09):
First of all, I noticed that Jason and Monsey were
kind of getting a little emotional there. If I'm if
I'm not, if I'm not beautiful beautiful, and so is
Jason's but I just wanted to, uh, to put this
advisory out there.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Are you crying?
Speaker 13 (26:34):
Yeah, So that was directed at Jason and Monsey. 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. I'm sick. Something's going
on with my family. I mean literally late at night,
(28:02):
early in the morning, 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
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o'clock at night on 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,
Monsy has outside things. I hope I'm not rambling too much,
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but it just I know, 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
day to day basis, and when things are going well,
but things are not going well and at your lowest,
He's a guy who I so appreciate his dignity and
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his basic human kindness. Uh, 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.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Thanks a lot, Jason, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
I just want to remind the listeners here, we're not
saying goodbye to anybody. We're not saying goodbye. It might
sound like he's not done saying goodbye, but 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
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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 going to go
to Los Angeles where a Carrie Rhodes all pro so
he gone on uh one eight seven nine in one
on Fox. He just called in, Carrie, what do you
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appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'm joking. What's up?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Carrie's gonna tell us what Pixie got right last night?
That's why he's calling in.
Speaker 12 (30:17):
Happy birthday, Danny.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Thank you very much, Carrie.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Hey, man, I really appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Man.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I know, Isaac went with a real deep soliloquy.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
I'm gonna say you.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
No, I just appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Man. I really care about people that care about what
they do. That's the ultimate praise I think I can
give anyone. It's like when you care about what you do,
when you care about being that person all the time
and showing up for everybody, not 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.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
But I see you, I feel you.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
You're a great partner to work with on Sundays.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
And yeah, man, that's it. No picks today, just praise.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And we got work to do on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Carry 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. Uh 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.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean you'll have to wait.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It'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 11 (31:53):
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 in this
shift with Dan Byer. I think like maybe two years ago,
(32:14):
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 10 (32:27):
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 going to
be fun times during the show. He really is a
reincarnated game show host turned into a sports broadcaster. There's
always going to be moments of levity. He is still
the pun king of Wisconsin. He is 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 going to get
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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 11 (33:40):
That is by far, that is by far, the most
pointed concise thing Sam has ever said.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
I wrote down a few notes on my ShredIt on time.
Speaker 11 (33:51):
He didn't waste any words. I would just say, just
just a broadcast note for Sam's that moving forward.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Whatever you just I've been trying moving four months.
Speaker 11 (34:02):
I've been trying and everything.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Thank you, Sam.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
I want to wait. Can I say one more thing?
One more thing about dance?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
I was samming it up. That's okay, and so yeah
doing it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh, old habits are hard to break. It's a new year.
We have a Midwest connection. That's why we.
Speaker 10 (34:16):
So yeah dance 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 11 (34:26):
He'll he'll let me know.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
Because the one time I gave a bunch of these
Cedar Rapids Colonels a minor league baseball team, I gave
a bunch of his 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 (34:40):
Wasn't I wasn't good enough to get a fitted hat.
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.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
But but I wasn't good enough for those. You weren't.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Dan was at that point. Now he's in the fitted
hat ketting.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
I think maybe at some point I just need to
get Dan a fitted hat from the Cedarrabits colonels. But
you know, and Dan was like, oh I see, I say,
we're in the outer circle.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
David Gascon's walking around with this fitted hap you know,
Gaskon Jonas, they all got to finish circle. Yeah, yeah,
But you know what, Dan, You're in my closest inner circle.
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Now.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
I love you man.
Speaker 10 (35:18):
You're a You are great at your job, and I
always appreciate working with you.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Oh, thank you, Sam.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
This is amazing how many calls are coming in full
bank of calls, so many that we can't get to
all of them. 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,
(35:44):
uh Brody six one, Brody and his mom Lisa, Lisa
and Brody. What do you appreciate most about Damn Meyer?
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Happy birthday, Love, thanks guys, Hi buddy, Hi buddy.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Well, we love you, Dan. 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. They appreciate you the way you
need to be appreciated, and they see all of the
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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 in what you do, and we
just I'm just so happy that everybody got to get
(36:53):
to appreciate you at work.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Well, Thank you. Love.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
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 I love it.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
I love you bothob.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Well thank thanks love. Is Brody still there?
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Oh, I'm sorry I had to go on up against
the break we sent Brody. Brody will understand when when
you play this 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
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other side.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
So there is no Sam Darnold take.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Under pressure.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Under pressure oh man. And we had Kyle Tucker thoughts
as well. That's why That's what I thought we were.
We were going for our 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 Belangos, I'm Dan Byer, that's Isaac
(38:12):
Glowing Crown, Jason Stewart Iowa.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Sam.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Thank you everybody who called in more next year on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
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Speaker 4 (38:31):
Oh it's up, everybody. Thank you for tuning in to
Fox Sports Radio. I am Monty Belanos alongside the one
and only Dan Bayer. It's his birthday today.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Well thanks guys, hek you this No Hope crew here.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
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Speaker 11 (39:17):
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.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
You know him.
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Well, it's his birthday today and we just want to
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, Covino and Rich are radio, satellite, radio,
(40:18):
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?
Speaker 9 (40:33):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (40:34):
I just came here to say I hope Drew Lock starts.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Yeah right, I.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
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 5 (40:47):
That was on Paraphraztion All.
Speaker 11 (40:49):
The success in the world except for Saturday Night.
Speaker 14 (40:52):
Well, first off, I just want to say every day
is Dan Bayer dB Appreciation Day because he makes me.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
No, he's a consummate professional.
Speaker 14 (41:04):
Look, I love dB because well, he's a Cavino guy,
he's a radio guy. 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. I love DV
(41:26):
and uh he's versatile, right. dB could work with anyone,
like he could work with MANSI, he could work with
Kerry Rhoades, he could work with anyone. He could work
with us, he could fill in anywhere, he could host
himself anywhere.
Speaker 11 (41:36):
dB is like the uh, the.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Ultimate utility guy.
Speaker 14 (41:39):
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 (41:52):
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 are relaxing.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
Like when you said we were prepping for our shows.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
Like what having a burrito.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Like Friday, I know, like Friday, and and you you
probably would have bed 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 14 (42:18):
Hey 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.
It's a special day.
Speaker 11 (42:30):
Happy happy birthday.
Speaker 14 (42:31):
And that's why were we here to say, hey, happy
happy birthday by all your dreams come true. Happy happy
birthday from cn R for you.
Speaker 11 (42:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (42:38):
Oh right, hey man, I worked there, and I was like,
someday I'll be a radio star.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
And look at me hanging out with the great dB.
Speaker 11 (42:45):
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 is a
big mic who doesn't run on anything big. Mike Linguard,
I want to say he pre exists dan Byer Fox,
(43:06):
he does forever just a little bit. And uh so,
Mike Liingard, what do you appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 9 (43:14):
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 Byer is exactly
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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
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going to mess around. He's going to be the same guy, consistently,
not duplicitous he is djb Oh.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
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.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
We just wear it around the hole because.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Then we'd probably have to get one for Vito, and
I don't want to have to do that.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
I still awe them lunch from the Dodgers beating the Brewers.
Oh yeah, that's right. Don't worry.
Speaker 11 (44:23):
I haven't forgotten. Okay, every birthday, Darren, Thank you, Mike.
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 round
here is of big Mic absolutely for dant Mike back
(44:45):
to Mike, just just for radio purposes.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
H Dan is genuine and he owes me lunch at Chili's.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Right.
Speaker 14 (44:57):
Everyone else's impression of Mike is just your impression, impression, just.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Over and over and over. That's the 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 5 (45:10):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (45:12):
Mike was quick to let us know. He's like, you know,
I've a I know Mike's white. Uh Dann Bayer's wife
before he knew her, Like those.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yeah, little jabs in like I hope your Seahawks lose,
got of like those dabs. 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
(45:40):
forty eight plus.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Ronick, Yes, some 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 Fox Sports Radio.
She's Manzi Belano. So I'm Dan Byer, the birthday guy.
Oh you guys, he's a birthday guy. I never I
never expected this this show to take this turn. Thank
(46:06):
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 Monzi like on the
topics that she wanted to hit on, so like we could,
(46:27):
you know, put them in? And I think he said, yeah,
well she had the Sam Donald 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.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
We didn't.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
We didn't have any topics for the second hour.
Speaker 11 (46:40):
You'll be spending the rest of the day piecing together
suspicious things that all of us were doing. Right, is that?
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Why 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 Mancy on the one to one
freeway in LA. She's don't worry Manzi's mom. She's doing
(47:10):
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.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
I was behind her.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
No until you called me, and I was like what
he's like, do you hear me? Howking at you?
Speaker 3 (47:24):
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 so that I was all the way
to the right.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
I exited right after you. So yeah, my bad bad.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
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 do
not have to worry about Manzy having a lead foot.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
I was all the way on the right. I was exiting, okay,
I was talking to my mom. I was keeping it safe. Okay.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Know this song is great. I love this song as
a kid.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
By the way, I know talking in Spanish, driving all that, you.
Speaker 11 (48:07):
Know, hold on, hold on, okay. So I want to
remind the listeners of what we're doing today. It's 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
(48:27):
a 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. The I think the
only way we can do, and that's to say what
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we appreciates about Dann Bayer. Now, I guess it's my turn.
Speaker 6 (48:53):
It is.
Speaker 11 (48:54):
I don't know if you guys notice this. It's my turn.
So I've been in the business for 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 seriously like
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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 the next thing,
(49:37):
Dan Byer wants to improve you while you're on the air.
I personally know that I've grown as a broadcaster just
listening 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 is the manager
(50:01):
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. And then
(50:22):
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 every time
(50:42):
Doug Gottlieb wasn't on the air each of the last
four and a half years I've been here, Dan's been hit.
So he was like the the I guess the guest
host azure for this time slot. All of our listeners
are very familiar, but from a professional standpoint, it really
doesn't get any better. You know, we do really fun things,
(51:04):
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 in that work. And I've
always appreciated about you, Dan, and just personally from a
(51:27):
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 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
(51:52):
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 I hope you had a good day,
happy birthday, and I'll let the two of you sign off.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
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
(52:32):
so it's been a pleasure of working with you and
look forward to continue to work with you and 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 castkl Tucker. I truly
(52:53):
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. We
just a just a different change.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Yes, just a shift, just a shift, Dann.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
We love you, We really do have all you guys.
Place would not run without you. And I mean that.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
It's been fun. Can't wait for the next one.
Speaker 5 (53:24):
We'll do it again soon. Yeah, but great job.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
A Happy Friday to you. Welcome man. End of the
week is here, football is here. So much to get
to here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's right, And Dan, don't do nact like you're not
gonna mention it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Happy birthday, Dan, b Yes, so excited to be hanging
out with you. That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh wow, music and everything the whole Right.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Are you feeling? How you feeling?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
I feel all right?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
You feel alright?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I feel all right?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Okay, it's four nine. No, no, Remember we talked. You
cannot be a forty nine. That's you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They said I could be forty eight plus or fifty.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
One of the two. You can't be a fifty.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
How old are you less than fifty?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Less than fifty?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
That's your birthday, happy bird.
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
I will be completely blunt, frank and tell you the
honest truth. I usually take my birthday off. Yeah, and
what better time than on a Friday where you can
have a three day weekend and enjoy it as much
as you can. Maybe could have started celebrating last night, right, However,
(01:36):
I wanted to be here today on Fox Sports Radio
alongside Manzi, Jason Stewart Iowa Sam and Isaac Rollencrov. Now
we aren't going anywhere, but we are so for the
last few weeks, and I think people know that they've
listened to the to the network. Doug Gottlieb was in
this time slot for eight years. Doug's also the head
(01:56):
coach of the Green Bay men's basketball team that just
just decided to not lose. They are on they won
last night at Cleveland State. They're near the top of
the Horizon League standings. Doug step the focusing on basketball
in late December, so we've kind of taken over the
rains here over the last couple of weeks. But word
is out Stu Goatts in Company Live. We'll be making
(02:20):
its premiere on Monday, three o'clock Eastern time, noon Pacific.
So this is kind of the last of our run
here on FSR of doing this iteration of the show
of getting us five days a week and hearing us.
But so I wanted to be in. I wanted to
be a part of that. Otherwise, normally I would I'd
probably still be Yeah, maybe I'd be out watering flowers
(02:43):
in the backyard, who knows, maybe having lunch with the fam,
celebrating the birthday. But because of this today and the
new page that Fox Sports Radio turns on Monday, I
didn't want to leave this out.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
So I'm I'm here with you guys today.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Stop. Let's not get emotional. Don't put the iris surron. Yeah,
don't do.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Any of that reason to get emotional. We're gonna have fun.
We're gonna have fun.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We are gonna have fun, and you can still do
all the other things. You're just gonna do it a
little later.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And it's great to have great to have friends. Great
to have people that you work with that are that
are your friends. And that's what we've got here at
Fox Sports Radio. I mean, Curius is hanging out with
us as well. On this Friday. It's everybody's hanging out
and having a good time. And Sean McVay, he's got
friends as well. The rams head coach getting set for
a showed out with the Chicago Bears. Maybe getting some
(03:31):
I don't think it's insider info, Manci, but maybe just
getting some help on how to defend the Chicago Bears
from a friend of his that happens to be the
head coach of the Green Bay Packers, Matt Lafleur. Here's
Sean McVay talking about maybe any assistance he's getting from
his buddy in advance of what's happening on Sunday night.
(03:52):
Obviously your staff. He's pret three times, Yeah, what'd you guess?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You know what, we watched the tape.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
We do our work, and you know, Matt is a
very close friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Leaving that close friend to think that they don't share information,
I think would be foolish, no matter no matter who
it is. And I point out to the fact that
in this coaching tree, and there are a lot of
coaching trees in the National Football League, but Robert sala
At it is now, but at one point was, you know,
with Kyle Shanahan and San Francisco. So there's a relationship
(04:33):
with McVeigh and Shanahan working together. Lafleur working with McVeigh
and so there's they're all everything is weaved together. There
was a point last year when Robert Sala was dismissed
as the Jets head coach. He ended up going to
a few Green Bay practices, helping out Matt Lafleur and
the Packers and seeing what he saw on defense. So
those those things aren't necessarily uncommon in the National Football League.
(04:57):
And Sean mcvay's answer, I think tells you all you
need to know. But then I was wondering, Manzi, all right,
if Sean McVay is getting all the horses lined up
or people are letting him get information, the SAME's got
to be happening for Ben Johnson in Chicago, right.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Ah, I don't know, Dan, Oh, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You're right, absolutely right. I don't know if there is either.
And that's what I am wondering, not does Ben Johnson
have any friends? But are there people there that want
to help out Ben Johnson? Because there are people that
are apparently helping out Sean McVay, and I think this
is a bigger picture on who the Bears are. In
one year, Chicago has gone from and also ran that
(05:39):
made crazy, crazy mistakes and found unbelievably weird ways to
lose football games last year, so now being the second
seed in the NFC, being the NFC North champions, and
Ben Johnson has gone viral for a lot of reasons,
whether it be ripping off of his shirt, the quick
handshakes that he's had with Matt Lafleur. You'll probably come
(06:00):
up with some others. But the Bears have had great
success this year, and I'm not sure how many people
like it. So I'm wondering does Ben Johnson even have
friends that will help him out to try to beat
the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know, because the tree that you described
with Sean McVay and Matt Lafleur, that tree runs deep,
and I feel like if the Packers were still in
it and preparing for.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Their own game, maybe maybe they're not.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
He's not getting that much help right because he's working
on his own thing. But the fact that Matt Laflor's
got time right now, Scott time, what else is he doing? Also,
like you said, one of the videos that we'll probably
won't forget for a while is their final handshake that
just happened a week ago. I know there was another
handshake also where Matt Lafleur kind of was the one
that was quick with it, but this one, you know,
Ben Johnson took it to the next level. Like I
(06:49):
when I saw that video, I was like, oh, I
would have I would have grabbed his hand when he
tried to walk away. But then you see that Matt
laflor did it first, It's like, okay, okay, obviously there
is some sort of tension here, which we love as
the outsider getting to watch this unravel, and so there's
so much to it. But yeah, Mettlefloor has a time
to go talk to his buddy and Ben Johnson, who's
he gonna call?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Aaron Glenny doesn't want to call him?
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Who is he gonna help him?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
With zero interception?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
He are you gonna call? Hey? It's Ben? How do
you not pick off passes? Do give me?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
How do you tell me? How do you not catch
Matthew Stafford's passes? Because our defense needs to know. That's
what you would ask, Cary, That's what you would ask.
I think it's interesting because we would think that maybe
he would lean on Dan Campbell. But then again, this
is a team in the Detroit Lions and the Chicago
Bears that are now division rivals. Maybe we don't know
(07:39):
how much the relationship between the two was while they
were working together, even though Johnson stayed for a year
longer than we thought. But I remember the Lions beating
the Bears fifty two to twenty one in Week one
of this NFL season, and I also remember the Lions
winning nineteen to sixteen at the end of the year,
and which could have maybe changed the playoff picture. Ultimately,
(08:01):
it didn't, as the Bears ended up being the two
seed because the Eagles didn't win their game. However, the
point is is, I don't think that there are places
that Ben Johnson can can turn to. I think that
Ben Johnson is a bit of a lone wolf. I
think that Ben Johnson likes that. I think Ben Johnson
likes to be the smartest guy in the room. He
was extremely picky in terms of the places and the
(08:24):
opportunities that he could have gone, and I think there's
something there's something good about that. But in the last
day or so, Monci we were talking about how much
America seems to love the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I think that the.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Other side of the coin may be for as good
as the Bears are right now, could the Bears be
the team that is the foil to everybody? Because I
don't know if people are going to be warming up
to Ben Johnson. I don't know if people are going
to be warming up to Caleb Williams in Chicago.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think that's the big picture here too, because Caleb Williams,
since he came into the league, I feel like was
a contra virtual player from his college days. Now, whether
you like that he puts no polish on or not,
he is a controversial.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Player that people like to talk about.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And then you add Ben Johnson, who is also a
different type of rubbs. Maybe somebody the wrong way because
of I agree. I think he likes being the lone wolf.
I think he likes being the smartest man in the
room and maybe he wouldn't take any help even if
it was offered. But that may not help him in
this matchup when you're may be facing eighteen that is
(09:28):
getting more information on you than you would like. But
yesterday when I said I feel like people hate watch
Josh Allen, you guys were like, you're crazy. Maybe people
are hate watching the Bears and Caleb Williams and Ben
Johnson that I feel like I think we could agree
on that one.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I don't know how you can deny Caleb Williams's talent.
It's just been on full display for really the second
half of the season and then even what we saw
against Green Bay and the comeback on Saturday Night. It's there. Like,
if you can't see it, that is a you problem.
Whether you like it or not is a different story.
(10:06):
But if you can't see it, that's on you. If
you don't like the way that Caleb Williams plays, then
so be it. If you don't like the painted fingernails,
that's fine. If you don't like the way that he
answers questions in the press, you didn't like him crying
at USC, those are all things that end up. I
think it shows how polarizing of a figure that Caleb
Williams is. But as yeah, I think the draft process
(10:28):
and leading up to that, yeah, it all comes into play.
But I think that there's something like with now Ben
Johnson as well of I'm not sure on how much.
I mean, he named Matt Lafleur in his introductory press conference,
and I think it's great for the league. I actually
have I'd much rather have this I weeks back, I
(10:49):
talked about how much I love the Jimmy Johnson Buddy
Ryan rivalry that we don't even really remember. Football fans
don't even remember of these coaches going back and forth
and jawing, and this is his close we've gotten this
something like that. I mean, if Rex Ryan's not in
the league, but hey's Son stirring stuff up. I don't
know who is, but Ben Johnson sure seems to put
(11:09):
people on edge. And I'm wondering if that's maybe why
other people are also going out of their way for
Sean McVay and for the Rams to maybe knock off
Chicago on Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Now, I think you hit it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I think most people maybe are rooting against Chicago because
of all the things that you were just listing, But
also Ben Johnson, in this one year, we've seen such
a because it's like, you have Kurt Signetti, who we've
been watching serious dude, who like also kind of.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Seems to want to be the lone wolf right, like he.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Doesn't want to join in on the fun, he wants
to separate himself. So it's like, but why is Kurt
Signetti so loved and welcomed and then you have this
other polarizing effect with a similar type of character.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yes, so polarizing. It's tough to warm up to Ben Johnson.
It is because he he does give off the sense
of smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
And when you get an A on your first test,
which is this.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Season with the Bears, immediately yeah, then you're like, okay,
all right, maybe yeah, it does. It makes people feel
very uncomfortable. Yeah, and it validates maybe some of the decisions. Again,
when he was in the coaching cycle. He was in
the coaching cycle multiple times with the Lions, and in
the most recent cycle where he didn't get the job,
(12:29):
there were eight vacancies. I remember the Seahawks were one
of the vacancies. They spoke with Ben Johnson, and after
they spoke with Ben Johnson, he was gonna meet with
the commanders and then he canceled that meeting and said
I'm staying I'm staying with Detroit for another season. So
there were eight jobs that were opened up in the
National Football League that he didn't want. That's a quarter
(12:49):
of the league. And I think that there are people
who probably said that's arrogance. You know that these jobs
are rare and you're sitting there saying, you know what,
these aren't good enough for me. And right now he
has the laugh, laugh, the last laugh over those people.
Because he picked the job that he wanted, it came open,
it came against friends within the division of the Detroit Lions,
(13:14):
and so maybe there's some bridges that were burned there.
He obviously burned bridges with Green Bay and that Packer
Bears rivalry. So yeah, so it all kind of makes sense.
But right now Ben Johnson's having the last laugh. I
think that people just want to shut Ben Johnson up,
and that's maybe why they're helping, trying to help. Not
that Scheun mcfay by the way, Sean mcfahn doesn't need help, right,
But if there are things that you see that maybe
(13:35):
would be able to end this, I think that they'd
be more than willing to help end the Bears run.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Also, like with Caleb Williams, I feel like he doesn't
get the support that a lot of young quarterbacks get.
Like it's like people wanted the Bears to maybe struggle
a little.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Bit more before having this success.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, and it's like, I don't know, Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Ben Johnson knew what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes, And this is the other thing about Caleb Williams,
and I don't want to talk about it's not all
the quarterbacks in the draft, because it's not. It's yeah,
it's not, we're not including nine in this. But when
you have when you have Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels and
Drake May one two, three, look at how look at
how we've handled those quarterbacks. And the thing, the point
(14:19):
that I'm going to make is I think that there
was a rush to judgment on Jayden Daniels last year.
Then now we had to slow down our a bit.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I think that there are people who didn't watch Drake
May in the later part of last season and maybe
weren't ready to admit that Drake May was ready for this.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
And now he's an MVP candidate, so that has changed.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Whereas Caleb Williams like he's always been there and it's
just a matter of if people are willing to actually accept.
And I think with May and Jayden Daniels, people are
changing their opinions for whatever reason. They're not changing it
about Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You would never have guessed that they were drafted the
same class because of how they're treated and how we
look at them.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yes, I think May and Daniels get a little bit more. Look,
they get more lenient, absolutely, and people aren't willing to
do that with Kayleb Williams. So that makes me then
wonder as a whole if people don't, you know, aren't
aren't warming up to your quarterback, if they don't like
your head coach. Now, are the Bears going to be
that team? They probably welcome it. The city of Chicago
and the Bears fans are like, all right, bring it on,
(15:20):
We'll be the villains. Yeah, if you want. Because I
look in this the NFC, actually look at the AFC quickly,
Bills would be the ultimate story. I think that the
Texans would be a feel good story if they were
to make it to the Super Bowl Denver. Maybe not
in New England, definitely not. But in the in the NFC,
you have teams. The Rams have been to two Super
Bowls one to one. Recently, the forty nine ers have
been to Super Bowls. Seahawks. I don't think we're that
(15:42):
far removed from legion.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Of boom, you know, right, still fresh.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, So the Bears would be the underdog story, but
we're not. I don't know if we're using that narrative
and talking about that.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Definitely not looking at them like that.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, for sure, she's Moncey Milanios. I'm Dan Byer.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
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Speaker 2 (16:05):
This is why I like hanging out with Moncey. She
said something yesterday that piques an interest in me and
Jason Stewart and others, and we get to talk about
it today.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yes, on your birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
On my 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.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Jason. Great, great great job.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Gesture great great job in the stereo Iowa Sam is here,
Jason Stewart, Isaac Lowincron A quick 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,
(16:50):
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, that if you
follow up yours maybe isn't as as a welcome. It's
a little 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.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I believe he's still in the business.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Sam actually may know, but Gavin Kinsell, Gavin, you know,
producing podcasts. Gavin a great guy. People would get Sam's
last name in Gavin's last name mixed up.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
Yeah, phonetically, they kind of like Kinsel and Kinsell day,
so we say the law off is of Kinsle and Kinsel.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
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
(17:56):
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,
(18:20):
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
(18:42):
he stood on business. He was not going to 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 (18:50):
Did he tell you the next day happy belated birthday?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
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.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yes you have respect. It turned in from a question
to respect that Oh but great time.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
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 the weekend it was. Will he
be talking about the player who's under the most pressure
in the playoffs month?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold Dan,
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 it up. I wanted
(20:05):
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 the end. It's the end of something. And in
(20:28):
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 have fan appreciation Day. This is Dan
(20:51):
dan appreciation. I want to open up the lines one
eight hundred love Dan. And if that doesn't work, it's
what eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Call in, tell us
(21:11):
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, we have different stories with Dan Byer.
(21:34):
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 Moncey Bolognos
on this network. The stardom that she has achieved could
all go back to Dan Byer hiring her as a
news anchor, and her ascension began there. Moncey Bolognos, simple question,
(22:00):
what do you appreciate most about Dan Barr?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, I'm already tearing up over here, and again we're
not going anywhere. I just yeah, but up over here.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Do not put on iris because I'm already crying over here.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Really I am.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Dan, 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.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're not.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You're if you want 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.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
And I love that because.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
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. It doesn't matter what data is.
Bring your a game, because you're gonna bring yours.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So thank you, thank you you, and and I mean,
Manzi is done.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
It's done. All the work.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I was just lucky enough to have her resume come across, uh,
come across my desk, and the rest is history. The
very kind words you do. You deserve all of the
credit is pretty incredible for that.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
Hold On, Dan, hold on, this is pretty incredible. I
don't have it.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Hold On.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
We have a full bank of calls there. They're lined
up to speak to you. I thought 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 of hundred thousand people trying to get in. We
let me have room for six of them. But the
first one we're going to go to South Pasadena. This
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is incredible South Pasadena. Our practice much must not have
started yet. 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 6 (24:04):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
John Ramos joins us via the phone from South Pastadana, John,
what do you appreciate most about Dan?
Speaker 12 (24:11):
Byer Well, first of all, I want to say happy
birthdays to God.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
A long time.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
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 wants to he
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
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can we get John involved in the show? How can
we do this? So the John Ramo Show started because
of Dan, all the different kind of bitch that we
would do with 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
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it's himself, but he deserves a lot of the spot
at himself too. And by the way, go Seattle, I
hope they beat the heck out of those forty nine ers.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
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
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it's just on hiatus. It's not over. Yeah, it's it's
not over. It's just on a hiatus at this point.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Thank you John. Again, we got so many calls to
get to you. Thank you very much. Yeah, THANKI And
I was hoping you got through on the one eight
hundred Love Dan and doesn'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
(25:57):
special relationship. I don't know when Isaac Longe Krown joined
Fox Sports Radio. I don't know if Dan had anything
to do with it, but I took Low and Krawn
at the news desk. What do you appreciate most about
Dan Barr?
Speaker 13 (26:09):
First of all, I noticed that Jason and Monsey were
kind of getting a little emotional there. If I'm if
I'm not, if I'm not beautiful beautiful, and so is
Jason's but I just wanted to, uh, to put this
advisory out there.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Are you crying?
Speaker 13 (26:34):
Yeah, So that was directed at Jason and Monsey. 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. I'm sick. Something's going
on with my family. I mean literally late at night,
(28:02):
early in the morning, 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
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o'clock at night on 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,
Monsy has outside things. I hope I'm not rambling too much,
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but it just I know, 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
day to day basis, and when things are going well,
but things are not going well and at your lowest,
He's a guy who I so appreciate his dignity and
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his basic human kindness. Uh, 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.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Thanks a lot, Jason, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
I just want to remind the listeners here, we're not
saying goodbye to anybody. We're not saying goodbye. It might
sound like he's not done saying goodbye, but 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
(29:44):
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 going to go
to Los Angeles where a Carrie Rhodes all pro so
he gone on uh one eight seven nine in one
on Fox. He just called in, Carrie, what do you
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appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'm joking. What's up?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Carrie's gonna tell us what Pixie got right last night?
That's why he's calling in.
Speaker 12 (30:17):
Happy birthday, Danny.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Thank you very much, Carrie.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Hey, man, I really appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Man.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I know, Isaac went with a real deep soliloquy.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
I'm gonna say you.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
No, I just appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Man. I really care about people that care about what
they do. That's the ultimate praise I think I can
give anyone. It's like when you care about what you do,
when you care about being that person all the time
and showing up for everybody, not 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.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
But I see you, I feel you.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
You're a great partner to work with on Sundays.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
And yeah, man, that's it. No picks today, just praise.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And we got work to do on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Carry 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. Uh 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.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean you'll have to wait.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It'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
(31:43):
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 11 (31:53):
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 in this
shift with Dan Byer. I think like maybe two years ago,
(32:14):
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 10 (32:27):
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 going to
be fun times during the show. He really is a
reincarnated game show host turned into a sports broadcaster. There's
always going to be moments of levity. He is still
the pun king of Wisconsin. He is 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 going to get
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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 11 (33:40):
That is by far, that is by far, the most
pointed concise thing Sam has ever said.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
I wrote down a few notes on my ShredIt on time.
Speaker 11 (33:51):
He didn't waste any words. I would just say, just
just a broadcast note for Sam's that moving forward.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Whatever you just I've been trying moving four months.
Speaker 11 (34:02):
I've been trying and everything.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Thank you, Sam.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
I want to wait. Can I say one more thing?
One more thing about dance?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
I was samming it up. That's okay, and so yeah
doing it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh, old habits are hard to break. It's a new year.
We have a Midwest connection. That's why we.
Speaker 10 (34:16):
So yeah dance 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 11 (34:26):
He'll he'll let me know.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
Because the one time I gave a bunch of these
Cedar Rapids Colonels a minor league baseball team, I gave
a bunch of his 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 (34:40):
Wasn't I wasn't good enough to get a fitted hat.
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.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
But but I wasn't good enough for those. You weren't.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Dan was at that point. Now he's in the fitted
hat ketting.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
I think maybe at some point I just need to
get Dan a fitted hat from the Cedarrabits colonels. But
you know, and Dan was like, oh I see, I say,
we're in the outer circle.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
David Gascon's walking around with this fitted hap you know,
Gaskon Jonas, they all got to finish circle. Yeah, yeah,
But you know what, Dan, You're in my closest inner circle.
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Now.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
I love you man.
Speaker 10 (35:18):
You're a You are great at your job, and I
always appreciate working with you.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Oh, thank you, Sam.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
This is amazing how many calls are coming in full
bank of calls, so many that we can't get to
all of them. 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,
(35:44):
uh Brody six one, Brody and his mom Lisa, Lisa
and Brody. What do you appreciate most about Damn Meyer?
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Happy birthday, Love, thanks guys, Hi buddy, Hi buddy.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Well, we love you, Dan. 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. They appreciate you the way you
need to be appreciated, and they see all of the
(36:32):
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 in what you do, and we
just I'm just so happy that everybody got to get
(36:53):
to appreciate you at work.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Well, Thank you. Love.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
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 I love it.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
I love you bothob.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Well thank thanks love. Is Brody still there?
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Oh, I'm sorry I had to go on up against
the break we sent Brody. Brody will understand when when
you play this 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
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other side.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
So there is no Sam Darnold take.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Under pressure.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Under pressure oh man. And we had Kyle Tucker thoughts
as well. That's why That's what I thought we were.
We were going for our 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 Belangos, I'm Dan Byer, that's Isaac
(38:12):
Glowing Crown, Jason Stewart Iowa.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Sam.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Thank you everybody who called in more next year on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
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Speaker 4 (38:31):
Oh it's up, everybody. Thank you for tuning in to
Fox Sports Radio. I am Monty Belanos alongside the one
and only Dan Bayer. It's his birthday today.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Well thanks guys, hek you this No Hope crew here.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
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(39:08):
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Speaker 11 (39:17):
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
(39:39):
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.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
You know him.
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Well, it's his birthday today and we just want to
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, Covino and Rich are radio, satellite, radio,
(40:18):
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?
Speaker 9 (40:33):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (40:34):
I just came here to say I hope Drew Lock starts.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Yeah right, I.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
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 5 (40:47):
That was on Paraphraztion All.
Speaker 11 (40:49):
The success in the world except for Saturday Night.
Speaker 14 (40:52):
Well, first off, I just want to say every day
is Dan Bayer dB Appreciation Day because he makes me.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
No, he's a consummate professional.
Speaker 14 (41:04):
Look, I love dB because well, he's a Cavino guy,
he's a radio guy. 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. I love DV
(41:26):
and uh he's versatile, right. dB could work with anyone,
like he could work with MANSI, he could work with
Kerry Rhoades, he could work with anyone. He could work
with us, he could fill in anywhere, he could host
himself anywhere.
Speaker 11 (41:36):
dB is like the uh, the.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Ultimate utility guy.
Speaker 14 (41:39):
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 (41:52):
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 are relaxing.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
Like when you said we were prepping for our shows.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
Like what having a burrito.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Like Friday, I know, like Friday, and and you you
probably would have bed 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 14 (42:18):
Hey 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.
It's a special day.
Speaker 11 (42:30):
Happy happy birthday.
Speaker 14 (42:31):
And that's why were we here to say, hey, happy
happy birthday by all your dreams come true. Happy happy
birthday from cn R for you.
Speaker 11 (42:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (42:38):
Oh right, hey man, I worked there, and I was like,
someday I'll be a radio star.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
And look at me hanging out with the great dB.
Speaker 11 (42:45):
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 is a
big mic who doesn't run on anything big. Mike Linguard,
I want to say he pre exists dan Byer Fox,
(43:06):
he does forever just a little bit. And uh so,
Mike Liingard, what do you appreciate most about Dan Byer?
Speaker 9 (43:14):
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 Byer is exactly
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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
(43:57):
going to mess around. He's going to be the same guy, consistently,
not duplicitous he is djb Oh.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
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.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
We just wear it around the hole because.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Then we'd probably have to get one for Vito, and
I don't want to have to do that.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
I still awe them lunch from the Dodgers beating the Brewers.
Oh yeah, that's right. Don't worry.
Speaker 11 (44:23):
I haven't forgotten. Okay, every birthday, Darren, Thank you, Mike.
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 round
here is of big Mic absolutely for dant Mike back
(44:45):
to Mike, just just for radio purposes.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
H Dan is genuine and he owes me lunch at Chili's.
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Right.
Speaker 14 (44:57):
Everyone else's impression of Mike is just your impression, impression, just.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Over and over and over. That's the 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 5 (45:10):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (45:12):
Mike was quick to let us know. He's like, you know,
I've a I know Mike's white. Uh Dann Bayer's wife
before he knew her, Like those.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yeah, little jabs in like I hope your Seahawks lose,
got of like those dabs. 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
(45:40):
forty eight plus.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Ronick, Yes, some 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 Fox Sports Radio.
She's Manzi Belano. So I'm Dan Byer, the birthday guy.
Oh you guys, he's a birthday guy. I never I
never expected this this show to take this turn. Thank
(46:06):
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 Monzi like on the
topics that she wanted to hit on, so like we could,
(46:27):
you know, put them in? And I think he said, yeah,
well she had the Sam Donald 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.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
We didn't.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
We didn't have any topics for the second hour.
Speaker 11 (46:40):
You'll be spending the rest of the day piecing together
suspicious things that all of us were doing. Right, is that?
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Why 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 Mancy on the one to one
freeway in LA. She's don't worry Manzi's mom. She's doing
(47:10):
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.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
I was behind her.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
No until you called me, and I was like what
he's like, do you hear me? Howking at you?
Speaker 3 (47:24):
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 so that I was all the way
to the right.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
I exited right after you. So yeah, my bad bad.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
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 do
not have to worry about Manzy having a lead foot.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
I was all the way on the right. I was exiting, okay,
I was talking to my mom. I was keeping it safe. Okay.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Know this song is great. I love this song as
a kid.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
By the way, I know talking in Spanish, driving all that, you.
Speaker 11 (48:07):
Know, hold on, hold on, okay. So I want to
remind the listeners of what we're doing today. It's 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
(48:27):
a 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. The I think the
only way we can do, and that's to say what
(48:49):
we appreciates about Dann Bayer. Now, I guess it's my turn.
Speaker 6 (48:53):
It is.
Speaker 11 (48:54):
I don't know if you guys notice this. It's my turn.
So I've been in the business for 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 seriously like
(49:15):
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 the next thing,
(49:37):
Dan Byer wants to improve you while you're on the air.
I personally know that I've grown as a broadcaster just
listening 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 is the manager
(50:01):
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. And then
(50:22):
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 every time
(50:42):
Doug Gottlieb wasn't on the air each of the last
four and a half years I've been here, Dan's been hit.
So he was like the the I guess the guest
host azure for this time slot. All of our listeners
are very familiar, but from a professional standpoint, it really
doesn't get any better. You know, we do really fun things,
(51:04):
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 in that work. And I've
always appreciated about you, Dan, and just personally from a
(51:27):
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 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
(51:52):
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 I hope you had a good day,
happy birthday, and I'll let the two of you sign off.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
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
(52:32):
so it's been a pleasure of working with you and
look forward to continue to work with you and 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 castkl Tucker. I truly
(52:53):
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. We
just a just a different change.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Yes, just a shift, just a shift, Dann.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
We love you, We really do have all you guys.
Place would not run without you. And I mean that.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
It's been fun. Can't wait for the next one.
Speaker 5 (53:24):
We'll do it again soon. Yeah, but great job.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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