February 27, 2026 ⢠26 mins
Why is Bears hockey announcer Jarrod Wronski out in Hershey?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know all the inner workings of the Hershey Bears,
but so the PA announcer, let's come back to the
capitals for a second. The PA announcer of the capitals
is Wes. Right, we like Wes. No problems there the Wes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Of Hershey. And this is probably where Wes would like
me to stop using his name.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The PA announcer in Hershey is a guy named Jared
Ronsky w r n Ski. Will it be possible to
find anybody who knows the Hershey Bears?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
People go up to the games all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Kristen, Will you see if you can find somebody who
knows the Hershey Bears, like knows the and I don't
mean all the players.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I need to know about Jared Ronsky.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
How long has he been there?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
He has been there since twenty sixteen, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
People definitely know this guy.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, well not if they went yesterday. They went there.
Jared Ronsky is who I'm trying to learn about.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Chris ed Oh, I didn't give the number eight six
six to Elliott eight six six two three five five
four six eight. So yeah, somebody who goes up regularly,
somebody who's been up a little bit. Just somebody, somebody
who's into the Hershey Bears, even if you just follow
them online regularly.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But would you know that voice? Do you need to
have an arena experience with him?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I don't think so. Oh okay, I don't think so.
I just need to know what he did? May I read?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The Hershey Bears public address announcer is out after an
incident at the Giant Center. Jared Ronsky announced on Facebook
that he is no longer announcing for the Bears because
of a February seventh incident at the center's concourse. According
to his LinkedIn profile, he'd been a PA announcer for
(02:05):
the bear since twenty sixteen. Fine Ronsky says he acted unprofessionally,
but did not provide additional details about what the incident
was that led to his firing. Darry Township that's where
the arena is. Police said they were not called to
the incident. Ronsky writes, I regret my actions on the
(02:30):
corn on the concourse, and I'm so sorry that I
acted this way. Hershey means so much to me and
my family. My heart breaks every time I think about
what those actions did to those who have supported me
so positively over the years.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
What did you do? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
There he is? Oh wait a minute, do you know him?
I know him?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You do? Yes, so Jared, Oh my, what did he do? Wait?
Do you know him well enough that I don't have
his number out? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
His number same and ask him yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, no, but you know what?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He would come up and do events, like like if
the Caps were doing something like community events or something.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
He was there. I've talked to him a million times.
Well a million's overstated.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So does this make your reporting on this story uncomfortable?
Uncomfortable for you?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I still want to know what he did, Jared call me.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, he, they said, is the one who made the post,
but did not lay out exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right, But this.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Would be, he says a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
This would be the perfect avenue for him.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So how many times have you met him?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Oh my god, maybe I spent you were asking people, Hey,
do you know this guy?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
But I do.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I have to see his I have to see his
face twenty five times.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I haven't texted my brother since December.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, like like there was like you know what, like
he does? He does a lot of he does a
lot of events for like like not not just not
just caps events, but he would do stuff like I
remember spending one day with him, like they were doing
like a like a like an all day hockey like
community thing at skate quest and resting, and he was.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He was like the DJ for the whole event.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And what was your feeling then about him?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He was, well, this is that's an unfair question.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Because he was very nice? I I I I have
I can't say anything bad about him. He's very nice.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
That's all I was asking you.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, but if he what, I don't know what he
did on the concourse. Now all of a sudden, it
looks like I'm supporting.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The bad guy.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
But I know what.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Kevin Spacey was always nice to me.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Ron Sky, What did you do?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Now we're calling him by.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
A nickname the that's his last day?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh but I know him as is Jacob Darren. I
don't even know the guy.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't think I have his number. Do I have
his number?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
My god, I.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Don't think I do. Wow, this is wow? This is yeah, No,
this is this is alarming.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
When the mugshot resembles the anchor and the co anchor
is like, oh.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Line too, were you involved the I was not at
the No, no, no, no, I was not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was not at the game. What did Ronsky do?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
M My heart breaks every time I think about what
those actions did.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What did he do? Did he like beat up an
old lady?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Sounds like there was something with security security needed to
be called. No, but if you read his actual his
post is really long.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
His face was a talker. He's a talker.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But he said that.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
There was an incident that involved my self, my family,
and Giant Center security where I acted unprofessionally toward the
personnel on the concourse.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, let's let's even say that you had an argument
with them over something.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You quit your job that you've had for ten years.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
And I'm supposed to be the calm one in the storm. Regretfully,
this time, I was the gentleman that was stationed there
talking about security was only doing what he was instructed
to do. I knew that I failed.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, what did he do?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That doesn't That doesn't tell me Security have to come
over because something else was happening.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Was he kicking that lady?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Who was that old woman who was laying on the
ground I'm just trying to find it he quit his
job or was he fired?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's a gray area. Yeah, line two, Hi Elliott in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Hey this Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hey? This is hey Nick. How are you?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
I'm doing great things?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
So I I used to I know Jared sort of.
I mean I used to work with him a little
bit when I was doing high school sports back in
Northern Virginia, right, I mean he was. He was a
nice guy. I never had any issues with him. And
I'm this is the first I'm hearing about this, and
I'm not sure. I'm not sure what happened, but yeah,
it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
What's his number?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I don't know his number.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I want to say that I don't have.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
No I want to say, like when my son was
playing at Yorktown, I want to say he like what,
did announce the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Game or was there? Yeah? He was.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
He was pretty involved in hockey up there, and he
did a lot of high school sports in the area,
doing PA for a ton of different things.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, I thought you said, and I hate to invoke
his name again, I thought you said West did your town.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
His senior year, my kid's senior year.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He did, like the like the player announcements and stuff. Yeah,
but I think Ronsky was there. Now, there was always
a lot of cops at that game. Was it because
Ronsky was there?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, I just can't.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I shouldn't say that. I don't know what he did in.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
The comments on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Very nice guy, right, you worked with him. I'm not
going down alone.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Sure, he had a nice guy.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
I mean, I've never had any problems with him. He's
not a chatter, but you know that's not unusual for
that industry. But never had a problem with him.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, No, he is a talker, right, you'll back me
up on that.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, yeah, he is a talker.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He is. Yeah, I'm a hugger, all right, very good.
That not a good time to invoke that.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I'm a very good I'm doing what Tyler's doing, frantically
looking at the comments like, please say, somebody, somebody say
what was done?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, well what's done?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Somebody give me his number?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
My heart is broken. That's basically the gist of all
of him telling you he's a nice They should give
you another chance. Oh damn, this post is so brave,
brave it's hard to admit, but we wish you the best.
You should be given a second chance. Everybody makes mistakes.
(08:56):
That sounds like that person may know.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What they did, but what's the mistake?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And you said this was with family, that's what his
The first part of the post says.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That that he was with his family. Yeah, was he drunk?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
What is his family is it? Is it older kids,
younger kids? Is there a wife? A hub?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I believe his kids are younger than mine?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Because for would why do I feel like that I
should separate myself from the family?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Here the No, why do I feel like his kids
are younger than mine?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now? He does reference does he have his number?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
And no, he doesn't put his phone number in his
face him, but he does say when I was going
through my divorce, there were so many hugs and smiles
and waves from different parts of the arena, and no
matter how bad of a day I had, you all
turned it around, you know. So he's acknowledging how much
the fandom in her she means to him.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So there's not going to be a partner with him,
just children.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It just said family unless he's dating again, My family,
I mean yeah, because they.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Could be okay. Also, what if his mom, what.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
If his mom could be like you've been encouraging to
get out, or I want to see your phone. When
did you last have contact with him?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'd have to look. I'm one, Oh damn it, I
thought you were calling.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
He had flashed up the phone number.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh, I would call him, my heart saying I would
call him.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Man, I'm trying to think somebody give me his number,
like somebody's got it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He's been contacted to do enough stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
People are sending over basically what the Facebook post says.
That doesn't really blame the story. I know, and you
want to know, especially being so close.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
To him, Christian, will you grab my phone real quick.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You see if it's in there.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, he definitely gave me a card at one point.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Now our social media is saying.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Here comes to the support you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No, they are saying, he's clearly embarrassed by what happened.
Maybe we shouldn't try to dig deeper, like people are
supporting him on his Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Listen, we've all done stuff we're embarrassed by.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Our lounge is asking us to stop.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Why do they know?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
No, God, damn it, I don't have it. I could
call other people from the caps and see if they
have it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Who have done time in hersy.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
No or yeah or just no the ec I call Alex.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I've let you down with all my actions, so that
doesn't tell you anything. I did not represent the organization
in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Do you know how many times I've done that?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Oh? And left you all in a precarious situation.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No announcer. How do I know who started the starting lineup? Oh,
I'll look at the names on their back.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I was thinking on the concourse. I wasn't thinking about
the job.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, Yeah, no, somebody they can
find an announcer. I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You rely on me, here we go. You relied on
me to maintain the status quo, and I did not
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, they probably don't do that there.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm supposed to be the calm one in the storm.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, Yeah, yeah, no, that dian.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm just I'm trying to find clues in each sentence.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's a good picture of him.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well he posted it. I post most of the photos
of you.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Why didn't he posts the one where he's like face
down on the concourse with like his hands And you're right,
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
God, this is the longest post t L d R.
He does seem very remorseful.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Wait, hold on one second, is that him seriously? No,
it's not is.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Hey Elliott, how's it going. Last time I saw you,
I introduced you to my wife Julie at the skate quest.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All right, this is Jared. How are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I wish I was doing better?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, okay, so let me back up for a second.
Let me back up for a second. The what the
hell did you do.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
It's still kind of raw, and I really don't want
to paint hershey in a negative light. There was going
on both sides. I'm just I'm admitting my side of it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Did you get did you let me ask you? Let
me ask you this first? Did you get fired or
did you leave?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
They that have to be separated.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So is that like when they don't renew your contract?
You got fired? I mean, listen, I've been fired a
million times in my life. There's no shame in it.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Uh, I totally understand. I remember a couple of them
that you went through. I remember we've also talked about
this in war too.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okay, thanks the okay? So what what?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What? And I know they use, and I'm sorry if
it's raw, but I'm going to ask anyway. That's I'm
a I'm a journalist. What is the So what you
were at the Who were you at the game with.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
My wife and her her son who is technically my
step son, but I consider him my son as well.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Okay, all right, very good, very good? And so were
you were you at the game in a working capacity? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I had announced the game.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So the game is over, yes, and everybody's filing out,
as are you.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah, And I went down to the concourse them and uh,
where we park? Uh, there's only one either to get
there or to a flight of stairs that's outside. It
was it was like ten degrees that night with a
twenty degree windchill or twenty mile an hour gusts of
wind and whatnot. It was like minus six or something.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I gotta be honest, I don't care. I don't at this.
I don't care how fast the wind was, Jared, I
don't care. You're a talker.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I know you're a talker, but nobody is on the
edge of their seat right now trying to figure out
what's the wind blowing at twenty miles an hour?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, basically what it was they I could go down
the elevator, but they wouldn't let them go down the
elevator with me to watch our car. So I was
trying to figure out why, and it just, I, you know,
like kind of let my emotions away from me. And
I've been in situation that before and I've controled them before,
but that time, it just it kind of got away
from me. I didn't hit anybody, I didn't push anybody,
(15:52):
you know, it was just my voice got loud.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Something doesn't add up, though, Jared, and I'm going to
tell you why.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And I think Diana and I and everyone within a
mile or two of the CEO can attest to this.
We had a talent fit a half hour ago.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You're getting ready to have another one because the fund
keeps clicking.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But it just sounds like a run of the mill
talent fit.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That's what I don't understand, is so you you're gonna
take the elevator and I mean, listen, I don't know
what the Hershey or the Giant Center layout is, but
I know what it's like at Capitol One, and there
is an elevator that goes downstairs to a special special
eight parking place where where staff and players and stuff
part and so you can go, but your your wife
(16:36):
and your step son can't go. Nobody got hit, nobody
got shoved, nobody. All you did was raise your voice
and yell at them, and after ten years you get fired.
Something doesn't add up, Jared.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, and that's why. I mean, I've reached out to
Hershey Entertainment, and I've reached out to my boss up
there and said, hey, I would love to sit down
talk about this. You know, it's I mean, it doesn't
add up to me either, And to give you an
idea to basically, the elevator that I would go down
is like the media elevator at Capitol One.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Sure, you know where it goes down to certain points
that only certain people can get to. But you know,
and you know, I have my credential with me. I
had it around my neck and I was taking it
off because it was starting to bug my neck a
little bit. And I guess they felt that I was
trying to hide my identity or something like that. I
don't know, but it was just you know, I mean,
(17:33):
people there know who I am. You know, I never
want to say I've never said to anybody you know
who I am. I'm not you know, you know I'm
joking me with my friends. I'm not Elliott.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Pardon me, don't invoke me. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
We all know who you are, Elliott.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So but but so, but again, I'm missing something. So
when you call your ball and you go, hey, we
got it, did you go I'm good?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Jared? I got to like, were you calling the person
who who you got into it with? Were you were you?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Were?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Were you calling them like reprehensible names? Did you go racial?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I mean I was just asking him, why can't they
go down with me? You know, That's where I've parked
every game that I've ever worked. They've gone down with
me before. They went down to me the last game
and I'm just trying to get answers.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And they said no, and then you you yelled at them,
like when you say you went off? What is your
version of God? I know what my version of going
off is. I would have rightfully have been fired.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
What did what was you? What did you go off?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Honestly for for me and people who have known me
a long time and have seen you know, like the
the quote unquote dark side of me that were really
there for my divorce know that I can get really
upset and really loud.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It was not bad.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Because I've got to protect my voice. That's my bread
and butter.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Listen to how good mine is. That's why I smoke.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
To code it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Jared, what did so when you called your boss back?
What did he say to you?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
I sent a couple of text messages and then it
just kind of died off a little bit. And then
the next day I was announcing a couple of hockey
games and ended up breaking my elbow. Go figure. And
I didn't hear back from Hershey until the day after
my surgery.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
And what did they say?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
They it was Hershey hr They got on explained it
a little bit, gave me a little bit of a
chance to explain myself, and then it just kind of
spiraled from there. I was also still on oxy because
I literally was surgery, so you know, and I'm like, seriously,
can we just sit down and talk when I'm not
(19:53):
you know, yeah, well I can actually think.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And Hershey said, no, You're you're done here.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yeah, and you know, we have seen I guess, and
they revoked them from us and you know, we've had
people say well can you come up and like, you know,
we we can't for a while.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
So wait, so wait have you been have you been
what's the word I'm looking for?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Dan banned or told like, you can't, you can't, you
can't go to you can't even be in the arena.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, Bear's events.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Okay, so you're good for wrestling the okay, no time
to go to hearsy a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The Hey, what happens if you what happens if you
step on Like if I bought a pair of tickets
and I was like, you know what, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Seen my good friend Jared in a while. Eliminate that.
What is the you can't go?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
If I walked in there you were beating Jerry Township
police officers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, you did not What what did you say when
you were on oxy? I don't I don't buy it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Does he think it was a foregone conclusion ahead of
that phone call? Or did the phone call that's.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
A good or have they hated you? And they were like, okay, listen,
I've been places long.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I've been here how long?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I bet there'd be a couple of people happy for
me to leave. Today, Like, were they looking for a
reason where they're like, oh, we finally got it, Thank god,
we can get rid of Ronsky.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I honestly don't know. I mean, there have been places
where I've been before where I know they wanted to
get rid of me. And because you know, and I've
learned from those mistakes, you know, and I didn't want
to ever repeat that, especially up there because of all
the you know, the Teddy beartosses. I mean, I know
you saw the bin that we had over it at
skate Quest, right, you know, probably got two to five
(21:36):
thousand last year if I remember, right, Hey, what.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Is the answer Tyler's question?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Was it already a foregone conclusion before you got on
the phone with them, or did something happen during the
call that where they were like, we're done.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I don't like to speculate for other people, but it
kind of had the feeling that it was a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That's good, that's good, but it can.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You get arrested if you show up at the arena
and all you did was question security about why your
wife and.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Kid can't go downstairs with you?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Who does ted own the Hershey Bears?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Like, no, because something the entertainment does, thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
The something's not right? Where's Jim Hershey? I like, who
something does? Something doesn't add up? Hey? Can we conference
in your boss?
Speaker 7 (22:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't get it?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Honestly, I don't think they would talk.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
They're upset with us too because of Brad Reese.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So what so what happens now? What happens that you
don't get severance if you got fired?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
I mean I was day game and at the end
of last season, I even posted something on my Facebook about,
you know how I treat each game as a one
game contract because you know, I felt to be there,
and you know, this isn't the way I wanted it
to end. I wanted to be able to say one day, Okay,
I've had a great run, and thank you every Hershey
for everything. You're fantastic and keep being fantastic, and you know,
(23:13):
I just there were a lot of people that were
asking why I wasn't there for a Friday and Saturday
game when they knew that I had nothing else on
my calendar that would conflict. So I put it out
there so you know, you know, hopefully people could get
some sort of.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Closure on it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Have you been told because you like you'll do stuff
for the capitals. Have you been told that you're that
you're a persona non grata?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Did I say that right?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
For the capitals.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I mean I haven't done much of the caps recently
since since COVID because there's been a big ship there. Yes,
but I mean I haven't heard anything on that side
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, I want to show up at a game with
you in Hershey, just to watch you get arrested.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Really only you're good now, and I let you use
that microphone?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
All right? So well, I don't know, I don't know what.
I don't know how to lead this something.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
To speedy recovery. No, no, but is the best moving
forward if what he's saying is true? No?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I believe him.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I believe him right all right, Jared, let me I'm
gonna put you on hold, no hoodie, and let me
get uh, let me get a number from you, and
then that way, if if anything else comes out, ask
a send send Hershe a text.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Asked if they want to talk to me.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
You'd actually have to reach out to them.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh okay, oh yeah, they probably blocked you. Yeah, or
or the court says, is this going to go to court.
I don't know how it can.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I mean, like you know, it's a part time employee.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Part timers could sue companies. Part timers here have sued
the company.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
M I don't know. Honestly, I'm just trying. I'm still
just trying to decompress from everything and get it all
figured out.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I'm actually on my way down to Saleem today. I'm
announcing a basketball tournament this weekend, so I still have
some stuff on the announcing schedule. It's just not the
Bears anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right, very good, Well listen, hold tight one second.
Let me let me make sure I have your number.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
All right, Jared sounds good?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All right, brother, all right, Jared, hold on one second,
hold on one second. I don't get it. I don't
get it now.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It was certainly big of him to call.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, see what I mean. Nice guy talker, but yeah,
nice guy, nice guy.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
But I do believe he sounds kind of dumbfounded by
it himself. So even if he's leaving a part out,
he wouldn't sound so confused because he would know I'm
omitting the right.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But he repeat on him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Jesus put that out there. Yeah, seriously, Wes Johnson could
be listening. No, but it just he he seems baffled
by it all.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm baffled by it, That's what I mean. Yes we are,
did you go racial?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
But he was the one. He's the he's one of
the principles, and he's baffled by it.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I don't know what to tell you. You know him
better than me.
I don't know all the inner workings of the Hershey Bears,
but so the PA announcer, let's come back to the
capitals for a second. The PA announcer of the capitals
is Wes. Right, we like Wes. No problems there the Wes.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Of Hershey. And this is probably where Wes would like
me to stop using his name.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The PA announcer in Hershey is a guy named Jared
Ronsky w r n Ski. Will it be possible to
find anybody who knows the Hershey Bears?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
People go up to the games all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Kristen, Will you see if you can find somebody who
knows the Hershey Bears, like knows the and I don't
mean all the players.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I need to know about Jared Ronsky.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
How long has he been there?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
He has been there since twenty sixteen, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Ten years.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
People definitely know this guy.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, well not if they went yesterday. They went there.
Jared Ronsky is who I'm trying to learn about.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Chris ed Oh, I didn't give the number eight six
six to Elliott eight six six two three five five
four six eight. So yeah, somebody who goes up regularly,
somebody who's been up a little bit. Just somebody, somebody
who's into the Hershey Bears, even if you just follow
them online regularly.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But would you know that voice? Do you need to
have an arena experience with him?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I don't think so. Oh okay, I don't think so.
I just need to know what he did? May I read?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The Hershey Bears public address announcer is out after an
incident at the Giant Center. Jared Ronsky announced on Facebook
that he is no longer announcing for the Bears because
of a February seventh incident at the center's concourse. According
to his LinkedIn profile, he'd been a PA announcer for
(02:05):
the bear since twenty sixteen. Fine Ronsky says he acted unprofessionally,
but did not provide additional details about what the incident
was that led to his firing. Darry Township that's where
the arena is. Police said they were not called to
the incident. Ronsky writes, I regret my actions on the
(02:30):
corn on the concourse, and I'm so sorry that I
acted this way. Hershey means so much to me and
my family. My heart breaks every time I think about
what those actions did to those who have supported me
so positively over the years.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
What did you do? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
There he is? Oh wait a minute, do you know him?
I know him?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You do? Yes, so Jared, Oh my, what did he do? Wait?
Do you know him well enough that I don't have
his number out? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
His number same and ask him yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, no, but you know what?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He would come up and do events, like like if
the Caps were doing something like community events or something.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
He was there. I've talked to him a million times.
Well a million's overstated.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So does this make your reporting on this story uncomfortable?
Uncomfortable for you?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I still want to know what he did, Jared call me.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, he, they said, is the one who made the post,
but did not lay out exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right, But this.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Would be, he says a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
This would be the perfect avenue for him.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So how many times have you met him?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Twenty twenty five?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Oh my god, maybe I spent you were asking people, Hey,
do you know this guy?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
But I do.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I have to see his I have to see his
face twenty five times.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I haven't texted my brother since December.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, like like there was like you know what, like
he does? He does a lot of he does a
lot of events for like like not not just not
just caps events, but he would do stuff like I
remember spending one day with him, like they were doing
like a like a like an all day hockey like
community thing at skate quest and resting, and he was.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He was like the DJ for the whole event.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And what was your feeling then about him?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He was, well, this is that's an unfair question.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Because he was very nice? I I I I have
I can't say anything bad about him. He's very nice.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
That's all I was asking you.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, but if he what, I don't know what he
did on the concourse. Now all of a sudden, it
looks like I'm supporting.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The bad guy.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
But I know what.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Kevin Spacey was always nice to me.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Ron Sky, What did you do?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Now we're calling him by.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
A nickname the that's his last day?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh but I know him as is Jacob Darren. I
don't even know the guy.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't think I have his number. Do I have
his number?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
My god, I.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Don't think I do. Wow, this is wow? This is yeah, No,
this is this is alarming.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
When the mugshot resembles the anchor and the co anchor
is like, oh.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Line too, were you involved the I was not at
the No, no, no, no, I was not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was not at the game. What did Ronsky do?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
M My heart breaks every time I think about what
those actions did.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What did he do? Did he like beat up an
old lady?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Sounds like there was something with security security needed to
be called. No, but if you read his actual his
post is really long.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
His face was a talker. He's a talker.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But he said that.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
There was an incident that involved my self, my family,
and Giant Center security where I acted unprofessionally toward the
personnel on the concourse.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, let's let's even say that you had an argument
with them over something.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You quit your job that you've had for ten years.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
And I'm supposed to be the calm one in the storm. Regretfully,
this time, I was the gentleman that was stationed there
talking about security was only doing what he was instructed
to do. I knew that I failed.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, what did he do?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That doesn't That doesn't tell me Security have to come
over because something else was happening.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Was he kicking that lady?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Who was that old woman who was laying on the
ground I'm just trying to find it he quit his
job or was he fired?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's a gray area. Yeah, line two, Hi Elliott in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Hey this Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Hey? This is hey Nick. How are you?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
I'm doing great things?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
So I I used to I know Jared sort of.
I mean I used to work with him a little
bit when I was doing high school sports back in
Northern Virginia, right, I mean he was. He was a
nice guy. I never had any issues with him. And
I'm this is the first I'm hearing about this, and
I'm not sure. I'm not sure what happened, but yeah,
it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
What's his number?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I don't know his number.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I want to say that I don't have.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
No I want to say, like when my son was
playing at Yorktown, I want to say he like what,
did announce the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Game or was there? Yeah? He was.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
He was pretty involved in hockey up there, and he
did a lot of high school sports in the area,
doing PA for a ton of different things.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, I thought you said, and I hate to invoke
his name again, I thought you said West did your town.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
His senior year, my kid's senior year.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He did, like the like the player announcements and stuff. Yeah,
but I think Ronsky was there. Now, there was always
a lot of cops at that game. Was it because
Ronsky was there?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, I just can't.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I shouldn't say that. I don't know what he did in.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
The comments on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Very nice guy, right, you worked with him. I'm not
going down alone.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Sure, he had a nice guy.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
I mean, I've never had any problems with him. He's
not a chatter, but you know that's not unusual for
that industry. But never had a problem with him.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, No, he is a talker, right, you'll back me
up on that.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, yeah, he is a talker.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He is. Yeah, I'm a hugger, all right, very good.
That not a good time to invoke that.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I'm a very good I'm doing what Tyler's doing, frantically
looking at the comments like, please say, somebody, somebody say
what was done?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, well what's done?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Somebody give me his number?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
My heart is broken. That's basically the gist of all
of him telling you he's a nice They should give
you another chance. Oh damn, this post is so brave,
brave it's hard to admit, but we wish you the best.
You should be given a second chance. Everybody makes mistakes.
(08:56):
That sounds like that person may know.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What they did, but what's the mistake?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And you said this was with family, that's what his
The first part of the post says.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That that he was with his family. Yeah, was he drunk?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
What is his family is it? Is it older kids,
younger kids? Is there a wife? A hub?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I believe his kids are younger than mine?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Because for would why do I feel like that I
should separate myself from the family?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Here the No, why do I feel like his kids
are younger than mine?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now? He does reference does he have his number?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
And no, he doesn't put his phone number in his
face him, but he does say when I was going
through my divorce, there were so many hugs and smiles
and waves from different parts of the arena, and no
matter how bad of a day I had, you all
turned it around, you know. So he's acknowledging how much
the fandom in her she means to him.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So there's not going to be a partner with him,
just children.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It just said family unless he's dating again, My family,
I mean yeah, because they.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Could be okay. Also, what if his mom, what.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
If his mom could be like you've been encouraging to
get out, or I want to see your phone. When
did you last have contact with him?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'd have to look. I'm one, Oh damn it, I
thought you were calling.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
He had flashed up the phone number.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh, I would call him, my heart saying I would
call him.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Man, I'm trying to think somebody give me his number,
like somebody's got it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He's been contacted to do enough stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
People are sending over basically what the Facebook post says.
That doesn't really blame the story. I know, and you
want to know, especially being so close.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
To him, Christian, will you grab my phone real quick.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You see if it's in there.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, he definitely gave me a card at one point.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Now our social media is saying.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Here comes to the support you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No, they are saying, he's clearly embarrassed by what happened.
Maybe we shouldn't try to dig deeper, like people are
supporting him on his Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Listen, we've all done stuff we're embarrassed by.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Our lounge is asking us to stop.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Why do they know?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
No, God, damn it, I don't have it. I could
call other people from the caps and see if they
have it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Who have done time in hersy.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
No or yeah or just no the ec I call Alex.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I've let you down with all my actions, so that
doesn't tell you anything. I did not represent the organization
in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Do you know how many times I've done that?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Oh? And left you all in a precarious situation.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No announcer. How do I know who started the starting lineup? Oh,
I'll look at the names on their back.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I was thinking on the concourse. I wasn't thinking about
the job.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, Yeah, no, somebody they can
find an announcer. I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You rely on me, here we go. You relied on
me to maintain the status quo, and I did not
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, they probably don't do that there.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm supposed to be the calm one in the storm.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, Yeah, yeah, no, that dian.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm just I'm trying to find clues in each sentence.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's a good picture of him.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well he posted it. I post most of the photos
of you.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Why didn't he posts the one where he's like face
down on the concourse with like his hands And you're right,
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
God, this is the longest post t L d R.
He does seem very remorseful.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Wait, hold on one second, is that him seriously? No,
it's not is.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Hey Elliott, how's it going. Last time I saw you,
I introduced you to my wife Julie at the skate quest.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All right, this is Jared. How are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I wish I was doing better?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, okay, so let me back up for a second.
Let me back up for a second. The what the
hell did you do.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
It's still kind of raw, and I really don't want
to paint hershey in a negative light. There was going
on both sides. I'm just I'm admitting my side of it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Did you get did you let me ask you? Let
me ask you this first? Did you get fired or
did you leave?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
They that have to be separated.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So is that like when they don't renew your contract?
You got fired? I mean, listen, I've been fired a
million times in my life. There's no shame in it.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Uh, I totally understand. I remember a couple of them
that you went through. I remember we've also talked about
this in war too.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Okay, thanks the okay? So what what?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What? And I know they use, and I'm sorry if
it's raw, but I'm going to ask anyway. That's I'm
a I'm a journalist. What is the So what you
were at the Who were you at the game with.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
My wife and her her son who is technically my
step son, but I consider him my son as well.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Okay, all right, very good, very good? And so were
you were you at the game in a working capacity? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I had announced the game.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So the game is over, yes, and everybody's filing out,
as are you.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah, And I went down to the concourse them and uh,
where we park? Uh, there's only one either to get
there or to a flight of stairs that's outside. It
was it was like ten degrees that night with a
twenty degree windchill or twenty mile an hour gusts of
wind and whatnot. It was like minus six or something.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I gotta be honest, I don't care. I don't at this.
I don't care how fast the wind was, Jared, I
don't care. You're a talker.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I know you're a talker, but nobody is on the
edge of their seat right now trying to figure out
what's the wind blowing at twenty miles an hour?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, basically what it was they I could go down
the elevator, but they wouldn't let them go down the
elevator with me to watch our car. So I was
trying to figure out why, and it just, I, you know,
like kind of let my emotions away from me. And
I've been in situation that before and I've controled them before,
but that time, it just it kind of got away
from me. I didn't hit anybody, I didn't push anybody,
(15:52):
you know, it was just my voice got loud.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Something doesn't add up, though, Jared, and I'm going to
tell you why.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And I think Diana and I and everyone within a
mile or two of the CEO can attest to this.
We had a talent fit a half hour ago.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You're getting ready to have another one because the fund
keeps clicking.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But it just sounds like a run of the mill
talent fit.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That's what I don't understand, is so you you're gonna
take the elevator and I mean, listen, I don't know
what the Hershey or the Giant Center layout is, but
I know what it's like at Capitol One, and there
is an elevator that goes downstairs to a special special
eight parking place where where staff and players and stuff
part and so you can go, but your your wife
(16:36):
and your step son can't go. Nobody got hit, nobody
got shoved, nobody. All you did was raise your voice
and yell at them, and after ten years you get fired.
Something doesn't add up, Jared.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, and that's why. I mean, I've reached out to
Hershey Entertainment, and I've reached out to my boss up
there and said, hey, I would love to sit down
talk about this. You know, it's I mean, it doesn't
add up to me either, And to give you an
idea to basically, the elevator that I would go down
is like the media elevator at Capitol One.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Sure, you know where it goes down to certain points
that only certain people can get to. But you know,
and you know, I have my credential with me. I
had it around my neck and I was taking it
off because it was starting to bug my neck a
little bit. And I guess they felt that I was
trying to hide my identity or something like that. I
don't know, but it was just you know, I mean,
(17:33):
people there know who I am. You know, I never
want to say I've never said to anybody you know
who I am. I'm not you know, you know I'm
joking me with my friends. I'm not Elliott.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Pardon me, don't invoke me. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
We all know who you are, Elliott.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So but but so, but again, I'm missing something. So
when you call your ball and you go, hey, we
got it, did you go I'm good?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Jared? I got to like, were you calling the person
who who you got into it with? Were you were you?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Were?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Were you calling them like reprehensible names? Did you go racial?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I mean I was just asking him, why can't they
go down with me? You know, That's where I've parked
every game that I've ever worked. They've gone down with
me before. They went down to me the last game
and I'm just trying to get answers.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And they said no, and then you you yelled at them,
like when you say you went off? What is your
version of God? I know what my version of going
off is. I would have rightfully have been fired.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
What did what was you? What did you go off?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Honestly for for me and people who have known me
a long time and have seen you know, like the
the quote unquote dark side of me that were really
there for my divorce know that I can get really
upset and really loud.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It was not bad.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Because I've got to protect my voice. That's my bread
and butter.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Listen to how good mine is. That's why I smoke.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
To code it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Jared, what did so when you called your boss back?
What did he say to you?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
I sent a couple of text messages and then it
just kind of died off a little bit. And then
the next day I was announcing a couple of hockey
games and ended up breaking my elbow. Go figure. And
I didn't hear back from Hershey until the day after
my surgery.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
And what did they say?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
They it was Hershey hr They got on explained it
a little bit, gave me a little bit of a
chance to explain myself, and then it just kind of
spiraled from there. I was also still on oxy because
I literally was surgery, so you know, and I'm like, seriously,
can we just sit down and talk when I'm not
(19:53):
you know, yeah, well I can actually think.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
And Hershey said, no, You're you're done here.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yeah, and you know, we have seen I guess, and
they revoked them from us and you know, we've had
people say well can you come up and like, you know,
we we can't for a while.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
So wait, so wait have you been have you been
what's the word I'm looking for?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Dan banned or told like, you can't, you can't, you
can't go to you can't even be in the arena.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, Bear's events.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Okay, so you're good for wrestling the okay, no time
to go to hearsy a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The Hey, what happens if you what happens if you
step on Like if I bought a pair of tickets
and I was like, you know what, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Seen my good friend Jared in a while. Eliminate that.
What is the you can't go?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
No?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
If I walked in there you were beating Jerry Township
police officers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, you did not What what did you say when
you were on oxy? I don't I don't buy it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Does he think it was a foregone conclusion ahead of
that phone call? Or did the phone call that's.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
A good or have they hated you? And they were like, okay, listen,
I've been places long.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I've been here how long?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I bet there'd be a couple of people happy for
me to leave. Today, Like, were they looking for a
reason where they're like, oh, we finally got it, Thank god,
we can get rid of Ronsky.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I honestly don't know. I mean, there have been places
where I've been before where I know they wanted to
get rid of me. And because you know, and I've
learned from those mistakes, you know, and I didn't want
to ever repeat that, especially up there because of all
the you know, the Teddy beartosses. I mean, I know
you saw the bin that we had over it at
skate Quest, right, you know, probably got two to five
(21:36):
thousand last year if I remember, right, Hey, what.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Is the answer Tyler's question?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Was it already a foregone conclusion before you got on
the phone with them, or did something happen during the
call that where they were like, we're done.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I don't like to speculate for other people, but it
kind of had the feeling that it was a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That's good, that's good, but it can.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You get arrested if you show up at the arena
and all you did was question security about why your
wife and.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Kid can't go downstairs with you?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Who does ted own the Hershey Bears?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Like, no, because something the entertainment does, thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
The something's not right? Where's Jim Hershey? I like, who
something does? Something doesn't add up? Hey? Can we conference
in your boss?
Speaker 7 (22:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't get it?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Honestly, I don't think they would talk.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
They're upset with us too because of Brad Reese.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So what so what happens now? What happens that you
don't get severance if you got fired?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
I mean I was day game and at the end
of last season, I even posted something on my Facebook about,
you know how I treat each game as a one
game contract because you know, I felt to be there,
and you know, this isn't the way I wanted it
to end. I wanted to be able to say one day, Okay,
I've had a great run, and thank you every Hershey
for everything. You're fantastic and keep being fantastic, and you know,
(23:13):
I just there were a lot of people that were
asking why I wasn't there for a Friday and Saturday
game when they knew that I had nothing else on
my calendar that would conflict. So I put it out
there so you know, you know, hopefully people could get
some sort of.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Closure on it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Have you been told because you like you'll do stuff
for the capitals. Have you been told that you're that
you're a persona non grata?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Did I say that right?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
For the capitals.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I mean I haven't done much of the caps recently
since since COVID because there's been a big ship there. Yes,
but I mean I haven't heard anything on that side
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, I want to show up at a game with
you in Hershey, just to watch you get arrested.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Really only you're good now, and I let you use
that microphone?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
All right? So well, I don't know, I don't know what.
I don't know how to lead this something.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
To speedy recovery. No, no, but is the best moving
forward if what he's saying is true? No?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I believe him.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I believe him right all right, Jared, let me I'm
gonna put you on hold, no hoodie, and let me
get uh, let me get a number from you, and
then that way, if if anything else comes out, ask
a send send Hershe a text.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Asked if they want to talk to me.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
You'd actually have to reach out to them.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh okay, oh yeah, they probably blocked you. Yeah, or
or the court says, is this going to go to court.
I don't know how it can.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I mean, like you know, it's a part time employee.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Part timers could sue companies. Part timers here have sued
the company.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
M I don't know. Honestly, I'm just trying. I'm still
just trying to decompress from everything and get it all
figured out.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I'm actually on my way down to Saleem today. I'm
announcing a basketball tournament this weekend, so I still have
some stuff on the announcing schedule. It's just not the
Bears anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All right, very good, Well listen, hold tight one second.
Let me let me make sure I have your number.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
All right, Jared sounds good?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All right, brother, all right, Jared, hold on one second,
hold on one second. I don't get it. I don't
get it now.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It was certainly big of him to call.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, see what I mean. Nice guy talker, but yeah,
nice guy, nice guy.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
But I do believe he sounds kind of dumbfounded by
it himself. So even if he's leaving a part out,
he wouldn't sound so confused because he would know I'm
omitting the right.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
But he repeat on him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Jesus put that out there. Yeah, seriously, Wes Johnson could
be listening. No, but it just he he seems baffled
by it all.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm baffled by it, That's what I mean. Yes we are,
did you go racial?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
But he was the one. He's the he's one of
the principles, and he's baffled by it.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I don't know what to tell you. You know him
better than me.
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