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The Radio Ronin Show is on the air. Okay, guys, you know, I've got a little bit of a bone to pick about something here. Oh, you're still going. Oh, no. I saw this. Oh, no. Earlier today, I saw this. I'm not angry about this, but I am disappointed about this. No, you're angry. This face is very red. Well, there's a little bit of anger in there. Is this the Ash thing? You're mad at Ash? Well, I'm not mad at Ash. I love the guy. You know, we can have differences of opinions, but the way that this went about, I'm kind of upset about how this...

whole thing happened. This all happened because you've been doing this thing on Facebook that now it's become kind of a trend. And I think it's really cool because you got these now playing stands for Christmas or something. Very cool. And so every day you're posting, you're putting your album art in the now playing thing. You're saying, this is what I'm listening to right now. And I find myself like looking every day to see what it is you're listening to. I love it. I love that you do this. Great pleasure to a lot of people.

Yeah, I'm happy that it does. You know, and I posted it up there because these are things that I enjoy. So, you know, my picks for today were a couple of Van Halen albums that, you know, have Sammy Hagar as the lead singer. Yes. And so I posted those up. And the first comment, Ash, I love you, dude. But I mean, that first comment, dude, I mean, and this is something that does drive me nuts in general. When you put up something you enjoy personally.

And somebody's got to shit on it. Yeah. So that made you mad, first of all, because he does not care for Sammy Hagar. Yeah, it's not Ash. It's the posting up shitting on something that I enjoy personally. You know, it just comes down to if you enjoyed something, you know. It is the seedy underbelly of social media. Yeah, exactly. Everyone's opinion has to be heard. Ash, just imagine if I said Axl Rose can suck my fat one. You know what I mean? Would you be offended by said comment? He'd drive down and kick your butt. I don't know how he could be offended because Axl would probably do it. Exactly. And I did post a bad meme at one point.

where it was comparing Axl Rose to Mama Fratelli because you've never seen him in the same room. And it was just a joke. It wasn't to, you know, to shit on something somebody likes. It was just a joke, an observation more than anything. You know, but when I saw that, I was just like, Ash, you're breaking my heart, dude. I love you, man. What exactly did he say? So he went into it saying, he's like, Sammy, and I love it because Autocorrect didn't even want him to talk shit about Sammy Hagar. It said, Sammy Hazard sucks. Hazard.

Okay, a couple of things. You've got to know, Panda. This is one of those things where you've got to know you put something out into the public. You're going to get 50 people that have a different opinion, every one of them different. And that's fine if they have a different opinion. I just don't need to hear about it constantly. It is one of those things that makes you hate social media right there. The other problem is that I think Ash may not realize that had they not...

picked Sammy Hagar. Van Halen was, they were done. I mean, they were on the ropes. They had no idea. David Lee Roth was out of the band. Yeah, but you have to understand why David Lee Roth is out of the band. For so many people, David Lee Roth just wanted to do covers. He didn't really like doing original stuff, and the reason he didn't like doing original stuff is because he couldn't really come up with it, which meant Ed and Alex were coming up with it, and that made him mad, because he didn't like Ed and Alex doing all of the stuff that they were doing, because that put the attention on them.

He was even hardcore against Eddie doing anything with synthesizers or keyboards. That's what he didn't do at all. No, that's what, I mean, Jump, that was the kind of thing. And the problem is, here's the problem. You had a lot of bands. You got to put yourself back in that era. Van Halen was getting a lot of pushback because that sound was gone. The whole... The 70s metal. The 70s metal, all that stuff. You Really Got Me. All that stuff that they did was all very, very passe. And the record label was saying, we want Duran Duran, guys. We want Elvis Costello. This is literally what happened. Ed told me.

Elvis Costello and Duran Duran, we want you to sound like that. Yeah. Or we're going to drop you because they weren't anticipating getting any album sales. So Ed added in the synthesizers to kind of modernize the sound. Didn't you wave it up then? Yeah, it was massive. Yes. They didn't have a choice. They were basically, the label told them, look, you're going to find a way to modernize your sound or we're not interested in doing it. Van Halen was done. And that's what, history doesn't remember it this way because history is always hindsight.

And so when David Lee Roth pushed back the way that he did and Eddie insisted on doing it, he knew that they were toast. They had to have a more modern sound. And Sammy Hagar was willing to bring in that more modern sound. And if you take a look at 5150. which was the next album. Amazing album. My favorite Van Halen album. Yeah. They had no choice. They didn't have the street cred. They didn't have the clout. In fact, they were all in horrific debt from the elaborate tours that they were doing. Had David Lee Roth stayed in the band, they would have been toast and they'd be remembered as like Thin Lizzy or Foghat or something like that. They wouldn't be remembered as what they are. It's not the legacy that it is now. Not even close. So Ash, don't hate the player. Hate the game, my friend. You have to hate the game. I think a lot of the reason people end up hating Hagar if they were a big Roth person too is because they assume that Hagar stole

that position when that's not even true. Oh, not even close. Before Hagar, before they got Hagar in the band, they were actually on a completely different course. Go back to the story I just told you. Exactly. They had to modernize their sound. And they were going to go with a female lead singer. They actually recorded with her. Patti Smythe was recording. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm so glad they went with Sammy, of all people. Sammy's the man. Sammy's the coolest dude on Facebook. Yeah, Sammy's the man. Yeah, and I think, honestly, too, Eddie was wanting to go even a little bit more into kind of a bluesier sound, and that's kind of what you got when Sammy came in, because he's got the voice for it. He's more soul.

And don't get me wrong. I appreciate all the, well, I shouldn't say all the David Lee Roth stuff because there was a couple albums in there that I'm just going, I didn't really care for that one. Yeah. Fair one. Well, you know, to his credit, Dave worked hard on his vocals and everything else, but he didn't have, he just didn't have, it was just different. It was Apples and Oranges, but he didn't have the depth that Sammy Hagar had. If he would have stopped those karate moves and all those times in that dojo, he probably would have been better. Yeah. And it's fine if David Lee Roth is your guy, but don't hate on Sammy just because, honestly. Well, they're two different bands. That's what I'm trying to say. Apples and Oranges, like, you can't look at Van Halen with Sammy Hagar and say, well, they, that's just crap. No, they had no.

choice right yeah um and and have they if you like van halen with david lee roth appreciate that area era and that's just the end of it i guess but i say i'm telling you right now they would have been boss gags or thin lizards they would be remembered as somebody that's just was around in that time and that's where they tried to go after uh hagar was gone from the band and i i love gary charone but he just did not fit them no he had an odd deal he did yeah it wasn't it wasn't fair no what happened to him so but yeah i just did a googling on patty smythe and she was like seven and a half months pregnant when eddie van halen was joined the band he says i'm too pregnant i'm too freaking tired i'm sick of being sick i'm Frankly, I don't want to move to California. Well, it works. It works. You know, they did demos. She did record demos for him, and apparently it was phenomenal. I haven't heard those demos. I know that those demos do exist in the Sunset Sound studio. Are they really? Are they available now? There's a couple on YouTube. There's no video. It's just an audio, but I found a couple. It's called The Offer.

Yeah, so there's a few things. That must be fairly new because I've looked for him and haven't been able to find him. So that's good stuff. Yeah, there's like a 111 second clip I can find. That's it. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, well, and, you know, even if you're not a fan of the Hagar era of Van Halen, Sammy released an autobiography that he actually even narrates on the audio book. Oh, he does it himself. Yeah, because he goes into the whole, you know, joining Van Halen, talking about how it actually took, you know, Eddie quite a while to finally talk Sammy into joining the band. And he's also got some fascinating stories about some of the lyrics he put in.

some of the songs, you know, because he had an experience where he saw a UFO. Wow. And, you know, and it's a fascinating story. Yeah. Well, this is, again, this is the thing. Van Halen was a big, they were brought up and big fans of a band called Montrose, which Sammy was the lead singer of the band Montrose. And not only that, that Montrose was heavily involved with Gene Simmons. And Gene Simmons was the person that formed Van Halen, essentially. And tried to get him a Gene Simmons of Kiss. And so, you know, they had worked heavily with Montrose. And so Sammy Hagar was a very organic fit because they were all together. Kiss, Montrose, and Van Halen were all kind of in the same bloodline and ecosystem. So it's really great. It's a crazy story.

If you love music history, I would encourage everybody to go check it out. But when you learn the history, you totally understand why Sammy's there. Well, if you even read Eddie's book, Eruption, it's absolutely fascinating because he chased Sammy for months and months and months. Sammy wanted to be a solo artist. He was doing very well as a solo artist. Yeah, so it wasn't like, you know, he stole the spot from David. Did you ever read Sammy Hagar?

Sadly, I never did have a chance to meet him. I actually would show up to his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Las Vegas. Every time I've been out there, I always just randomly show up there. Because he does show up there every so often. So I'm just hoping today can be the day. Listen, all those guys that own their different things out here in Vegas, they're there all the time. Oh, Bruno Mars, I think he's always hanging out all the time. It's reasonable that you would expect that. Chris, did you ever meet him? I didn't meet him, but I did speak to him. Oh, you did? You spoke to Sammy Hagar. What was this? Yeah, so this is maybe like 2000, gosh, maybe 2012, 2013.

And I was just sat on my sofa in the UK and it was like, I don't know what time it was like about... 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, I was watching something on TV, couldn't sleep, and my phone goes off, and it's a buddy of mine called Tracy Ford. So, hey, Tracy, he does lessons. So, he was a colleague from the Grand America during the Olympics, and he moved down to Cabo St. Lucas for a five-year period as a hotel manager. So, I got a phone call, he's like, hey, it's Tracy. And I'm like, what's up, dude? How's it going? He's like, oh, really, really good. He says, wait, dude, I'm just drinking some tequila. You know, I'm just in Cabo Wabo. And I'm like, that's awesome. He says, somebody wants to speak to you. And I'm like, okay. So, he hands me, this random guy goes, hello? And I'm like, hi. He goes, you know who this is? And I'm like, no. Some random dude. You're in

He says, you don't know who this is? And I'm like, your voice does a bit sound familiar. He goes, I'm in Cabo Wabo. And I'm like, holy shit, is this Sammy Hagar? He's like, yeah, man, Sammy Hagar. He goes, your dude's really, really drunk, but he keeps buying tequila. So I'm going to wait till his wallet's empty. Then I'm going to let him go home. Nice. I love you waking up the next morning. Was that a melatonin dream? Like, did I ever talk to Sammy Hagar? I think the time was like, maybe like 9 a.m., 10 a.m.

Like in Cabo Cabo late afternoon, early evening for me. I was like, Oh my God, what are you doing? That's awesome. Yeah. I never met him. No, I never had the pleasure. Sammy's my guy. I'm a Sammy guy. If I'm picking the team, I'm definitely a Sammy Hager fan. You lean Sammy. Very much. I was doing the show and I'm doing the radio show one day and we were like in the middle of a newscast or something. It was like, it was just kind of a standard, like a Tuesday, you know, just going through the motions of doing a daily morning show.

And the door kicks open. Chris, we used to call the studio the clubhouse because I had this open door policy where anybody could just kind of come in. I wanted it that way. So sure enough, the door kicks open and Sammy Hagar comes walking in with a guitar and like crates of tequila. Hey, Sam. So he comes walking in and he starts handing away bottles. He starts giving away bottles of tequila, which, by the way, is highly illegal.

per the FCC. Alcohol is, well, anywhere in the country, alcohol is not allowed in a FCC regulated facility. Whoa, really? Not allowed to drink alcohol on the air. When you see it happen on CNN with guys taking shots on New Year's and stuff, technically it's against the law. Wow. The consumption of any real alcohol on anything mandated by the FCC is highly, highly illegal. Okay, really? So Sammy comes in, kicks open the door, starts handing out blue bottles of tequila to everybody. It's my new tequila. It's the greatest stuff ever. He's got a guitar with him.

Does some acoustic stuff. Does a quick thing. We basically throw the show out the window. Oh, dude, I would totally throw the show out the window for that guy. Yeah, and it was about 45 minutes of pure chaos in the studio, which was great. And he played some stuff. I commented on his guitar, as I do, being a guitar player. I'm like, dude, he had a red kind of Takamine guitar that he probably picked up, I don't know, at Guitar Center or something on the way over to the studio and played it and had fun with it. And then he was like, that guitar's great. He goes, it's yours. Gave me his guitar. Oh, man, what a dude. And he was out, he signed it and he was out the door. So, yeah, very, very cool. I've gotten guitars from celebrities before.

and uh and prince and brooks and dunn and you know but that i mean that's yeah sammy yeah you know yeah and that's all very cool well panda all right well listen this is um it's uh hopefully we can put the sammy uh david lee roth yeah because it's really like new darren and original darren on bewitched one was kind of zany and madcap and the other one was an actual actor you know and that's kind of a That's kind of how I look at Dave and Sammy, right? Sammy Hagar for me is life goals. I talk to you about that all the time. To be 80 years old, Chandler and I each want to be Sammy Hagar when we're 80 years old. Yeah, just killing it. Still super hip and cool. I actually think about Sammy Hagar. I played a show at Bel Air last week with Chandler. It was a big industry show. It was a big deal. There were a lot of the Raiderettes were there. A couple Cowboys players and Raiders players were there.

Very chichi. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, the Cowboys is a place without nothing to do for like months. And they're on a nice little vacation. Thanks for hanging out. And a big shout to the guys. Don't shoot some of the things that people love. Yeah, nice job, Panda. Good job, Panda. I want to go shout to Residency Apparel. Yes. For signing Chandler and I. We're really excited to be part of their team and their family. In fact, Chandler's very nice. I'm rocking out of the house right now. They hooked us up with a ton of merch, which is awesome. I'm still looking for that UK-US baseball cap that we spoke about. I actually talked to them about that. You talked to them about it. I talked to Zach the clothing, the maker of the clothes. It's cool, because Residency, they're blowing up as a brand. So Residency is an apparel company, and what they do is they have you represent your own city.

So just go check it out because they've got SLC hats. Oh, cool. They've got San Francisco, New York, Orlando. They've got all this hat. And they're signing some pretty big names. Yeah. Huge, huge names. It's actually really cool because if you hop on their Instagram page, they're posting tons of pictures of all these athletes and stuff like that. And so it's like, yeah, a picture of Tom Brady, then a picture of Chunga, then a picture of me, and then a picture of John Gruden. Yeah, John Gruden. And I'm just like, what the hell is this? It's very surreal. It's actually really sick. To go through their Instagram page, to go through their thing and see a picture of Chandler and then see a picture of Tom Brady. Yeah, just next to each other. I'm like, huh. That's really cool. Yeah, rocking the same hat, by the way. But anyway, to my point, to my point, because we've got a big show. Yes

So I'm there and I'm playing the show for residency and I'm like, you know, I'm 56 years old and all these guys are, you know, all these 20 year old football players are there and where Chandler's an old guy. Yeah. I'm one of the older ones in the crowd. Chandler is one of the older ones in the crowd. But, you know, you've got John Gruden there and you've got a bunch of people there and I'm thinking to myself, well, you know, me doing this at my age, never in a million years thought this was possible. I want to be like Sammy Hagar. Hell yeah. This is, you know, Sammy Hagar's still kicking. 80 years old. No one gives a crap about that. You know what I mean? It's awesome. He's still touring.

He is the touring. Yeah, and still looks fantastic. Yeah, I love that dude. Sounds great. He still sounds great. All right, let's start the show. Let's start the show. Oh, yeah, we're doing a show. We got to get stuff going here. We got to get stuff going. Welcome! Welcome!

Nice. Welcome everybody to the often imitated, never duplicated radio runner show. I am Chunga. Hello. Join with me as always, Way Cool Junior Chandler Smith. What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? The Butterscotch Panda is wearing a neon pink and neon yellow bowling for soup shirt. And it looks fantastic. Yes, I am. Yeah. Good for you, Panda. You know, they're coming to town with Simple Plan. Simple Plan. I know. It's so sick. And right over there, everybody, please say hello to our British friend who's an American. It's like, it's like, with the Olympics, all the controversy around the Olympics, like I don't even know how to frame you, dude.

Oh, Canada. There we go. You stopped right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris the American 2. There he is right there. Wow, it's so good to be back. And I tell you, we miss one show and the whole world changes. Like, everything's happening. Oh, my goodness. Everything, everything, everything is happening. Like, two weeks ago, we had nothing going on. Like, so, you guys want to talk about Iran and ICE? And now it's like, there's actually nothing to talk about. Yes. Hey. Show today brought to you by Quench It. Quench It! Quench It!

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I have not checked in with my evil twin sister in a couple of days. And I want to... You know, you'll look out after the people you love. Absolutely, yeah. Angela Hammond, my evil twin sister, she owns that question. It's just one of those 400 East and Lehigh. Get down there and support her, will you? Go get a strong keto. Yeah, I mean, it's the dreary months of February, right? So throw it a pool cider. Get a nice drink. Go watch a James Bond movie or something nice. How is it over there? Is it baldy? Is it baldy? Is it nice? Is it spring-like yet? It depends on the day. It's getting kind of warm. Yeah, yeah. Like Chris said, it depends on the day. It depends on the day. Neither does it know. It's been getting to about the mid-50s with a couple days in the 40s, but it's going to climb back up. So, I mean, hey, why not...

Bust out those pool signers and shorts and go get a quench. Yeah, absolutely, man. Get a Naughty Little Mango. Get the Rocket Chan. It's really good. Get yourself a Chungito for sure. 611 North 400 East in Lehigh. They've got snacks and drinks. Oh, yeah. Check it out. Do we have Chris? Do we have a new Patreon activity, sir? Yes, we do. We have a new Patreon. Editing their membership from $50.55 to $50.56. Hey!

Let's go! Thank you, Angela. Angela Plotz knows something all too well about all four of us. We are whores. Oh, yeah. You want to give us a penny? We'll take that penny. Yes, for sure. Angela Plotz, we love you. Thank you so much. Yeah! Angela Plotz, she's hooking up her boys. Piano birthdays, what do we have? Oh, yeah. So we've got a few belated birthdays to start the episode off with here. Okay. So the belated birthdays are...

Jill Reesey PC Reese Celebrated a birthday Jill I hope you had a fantastic birthday Yeah Happy birthday She's a lifer She's a lifer Yep she's been with us forever Happy birthday Jill So who else Panda Yeah so another person Who celebrated a birthday On the same day as Jill Would be one Mark Peterson Oh there he is Mark I hope you had a great birthday Mark So I'm going to start calling him My fairy godmother Right. Mark Peterson. Taking care of your foot. Yeah, because Mark Peterson is a guy who, he's a big man, played an orc in Lord of the Rings, by the way. He's a Kiwi, he's from New Zealand, and he's a damn good friend. And the guy looks after me like he is my Jiminy Cricket. Yeah. The guy's amazing. And so, yeah, my fairy godmother, Mark Peterson. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, man. Happy birthday. Who else, Panda? Yeah, so also one of the reasons why, you know, we had to show off because you guys had to help celebrate Shannon Smith's birthday. Yeah.

So, happy birthday, Shannon. Yeah. Happy birthday, Mom. We had a great birthday, by the way. We had a wonderful birthday. Oh, so much. Yeah, it was kind of a last minute thing. By the way, thank you, Panda. That's it, right? We're done? No, we've got one more, and this will fall between this episode and the next. Nice. Yes, who is it? So, happy birthday to Isaiah Ford. Ford! Ford! Dude, I hope you have a great birthday, Isaiah.

Yeah. Ronan invasion veteran. He's a survivor. He is. He's a survivor. Yes. Well, happy birthday. Stop it right there. Stop it. You close that British mouth of yours. Take your ass. The washy washy. All right. Well, there you go. So if you have a birthday, let us know. Yes, absolutely. Send us messages. Just send it in. Also, I neglected to say this. If you would like to join our Patreon family. Oh, yes. Patreon.com forward slash Radio Ronan. Get your bonus episodes. Get your goodies. Get you all kinds of fun stuff. Nice. Private events. Different things that we're doing. And of course, the bragging rights that you are a Patreon member of Radio Ronan. Exactly. Patreon family member. That's good stuff. Okay. So my goodness gracious, we have.

It's the biggest show ever. I know, right? We missed one damn shot. So now that we're all back, Panda is back from his Moab trip and Chris is back from his England trip and we're back from doing what we were doing. I think we're going to have a pretty good run here where we're all here for a while and you can get a pretty good clip. Yeah, yeah. I believe so. We can settle in and just set your clock by the fact that Ronan is there on your Mondays and your Thursdays. I love it. So thanks for your patience, everybody. We did take a quick trip to Disneyland. It was a last minute thing for Shannon.

Because last year she was on a plane with no air conditioning, pissed off, and she was like, oh, yeah. No, actually, she was very, very supportive and very cool. And I said, I will never do this to you. Exactly. Yeah. So we decided last minute to take a quick trip to Disneyland. Had a great time. The Seahawks were there. Yeah. Well, two of them were there. Yeah. And every douchey fan on the planet was there. In fact, I almost beat a guy up in the parking lot. Yes, he did. He was in your car twice. Nearly hit my car twice without paying attention. And it nearly became a throwdown. But then I remembered he's a Seahawks fan. And that would be like abuse, you know, like a child. Oh, gosh. Yeah. He was a very little man. Yeah. A lot of, a lot of, it was weird.

having that parade there was it not i mean yeah we honestly we usually do this for my mom's birthday which is around the super bowl time right so it's not the first time we've been in the parks during a super bowl parade yeah and you know it was the seahawks so you had some some you know very uh very wrinkled glitter that they broke out of the warehouse you know because it's the seahawks and they had a couple dudes in bad wrinkled jerseys because you know those have been in closets for a while guys with steve larch in jerseys the last oh wow and then other than that it was just a normal day in disney like no one really cared to be honest they did a quick parade down the thing and i guess it mattered because uh darn darn darn He's from he's from Orange County went to USC. And so there are a lot of local folks there with UFC jerseys. Yeah, there was a lot of there was a lot of teal and navy blue confetti everywhere all over Main Street USA. But for the most part, they came down Main Street and that was it. It was like a 45 minute thing. That was it. Yeah, if that. But congratulations to the Seahawks. Yes. All jokes aside, congratulations to Seahawks fans. And we had a great time at Disneyland. It was it was wonderful. The park was fantastic. And yeah, it was wonderful. I mean, we did surprise her. So she didn't know until like the night before, basically. So Kennedy and I had something planned out for her. Yeah, brand new, Chris knew, Greg knew his book and

reservations behind Shannon's back for us and you know doing the whole thing and yeah we went out there and uh weather was great it's like 85 degrees able to see some of the new Star Wars land switch over which was nice that was fantastic seeing some of the OG characters pop up trees are blooming and it was just it was fantastic it was mellow too there was like we didn't wait longer than what 30 minutes for any ride so she loved that it was fantastic and Chris Panda, Bren, Kennedy. Thanks to all of you guys for making it happen because you guys all knew. A lot of people behind the scenes making that work for us. I talked to Bren a lot, talked to Chris a lot, and Panda. You guys were instrumental in making it possible so that we could skip a show and go do that. Her Disneyland button had a lot of people wishing her happy birthday. It was a very special trip. Like I said, yet again, she deserves it 100%. She needs to be treated.

And she doesn't get a lot of privacy. She doesn't get a lot of family time. And so between the gigs and Ronan and everything else, she doesn't get a lot of time. So for her, it was a very special thing. So thanks to you guys for making it happen. It was awesome. We loved it. It was awesome. So anyway, we've got a lot of stuff to talk about with that, but we've got so much to cover. I know. So we may have to come back. Disneyland was awesome, you guys. It was fantastic. I can already feel the magic starting to come back.

to the place without the obsession over mobile ordering and the app and all that. They're changing a lot of stuff there. It was really cool. It was really easy. The cast members were fantastic. The cast members were great. Yeah, I mean, we didn't have any drama other than the douchey Seahawks fan. Everything else was so easy and a beautiful trip. Yeah, that was weird. I have a theory about the staff as well. We can come back to that. We need to, Chris. It was a night and day difference from the last time we were there with me. It was. It felt like old school Disney. It was like the Disney of yore. Yep. When I was kind of wondering, too, when it would come back to the whole, you know, you just won the Super Bowl. What are you going to do now? I'm going to Disneyland because that...

actually really hasn't happened much in the last, I don't know, however many years. Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. It kind of fell out of the light, and I was back. It was cool. Anyway, it was just wonderful. It was so much fun, and thanks to everybody who came up and said hi. Oh, yeah. A ton of Ronan fans. There was a ton of Ronan there. All right, so listen, again, I've got to truncate everything because we've got so much. Right. Oh, my gosh, the anxiety. Anxiety. We've got a lot of stuff that we have to cover. So, Chris.

We decided to do this thing with Brent, bad meme games. Oh, yeah. Last minute to skip down. So we had this whole thing happen. It was melatonin dream memes, which was bad meme games that we started. We're doing this thing for the Olympics, right? And so week number one, we had this whole thing. It was disturbing. Oh, very much so. It was trippy. It was everything that I thought it was supposed to be. Yeah, I felt weird and creepy and felt like I needed to take a shower on a lot of them, which I think is exactly how it should be. You did. Chris, I don't know. I mean, seriously, I can't remember who did it. Was it Rob Wetzel? He did a meme of you and Brent mashed up, Chris. Oh, my goodness. And I was loud. Oh, yeah.

you know Chris gets into it I do want to apologize Ronan fam and call shenanigans on me and you know part of it was my own fault because I didn't double check things before I went to bed very early I was really worried Panda I'm not gonna lie because I was like what is he doing and then you commented on somebody else's post but you didn't comment on their post you just did your own post I pulled that one down I'm like yeah is Panda having a stroke not a stroke but I came down with a really nasty virus So what happened? Well, and it's weird too, because in years past, whenever I've gone to Moab, every time I get home and I get, you know, rested up a little bit, I somehow either get the cold or a flu or some sort of a virus. And this one, I don't know if it was a cold or a flu or whatever, because a lot of the symptoms never showed up, but I had probably some of the worst fatigue I've ever had. You were just tired. Yeah. Like to a point where I would wake up.

and I would move around a little bit trying to get out of bed to start the day, and I'm like, no, I've got to lay back down. Oh, dude, you're hiking 10 miles a day. You know what it sounds like to me? It sounds like you've got COVID. I certainly hope it wasn't that. That's what it sounds like. He was really tired because I texted him saying, hey, buddy, you in? I've got some licorice to deliver to you. And I didn't hear anything for a while, and I'm like, oh, he must be really busy. He's like, dude, I'm not feeling great. I'm going to bed. I'm already in bed now. I knew something was wrong. And it's just like at 6.30, and I'm like, oh, are you okay? Every night I was in bed at least by 6 p.m. Holy crap. Well, yeah, and when I loaded up some of the memes,

because there was two that I was intending to post, and I'll pre-load them up, because as an admin, I can kind of do that. You can schedule it. Yeah, I can schedule it for the next day, and usually I'll double-check it right after I do it to make sure that they're set up for the right day. And it did happen. Yeah, well, because sometimes, too, Facebook really screws you over. So was it a Facebook post problem? Was it a Facebook problem or a Panda problem? I think it was a combination of both. I was in a haze, not realizing everything I was doing 100%. And then also, Facebook's kind of done this to me before, but usually I've been able to catch it and immediately delete it before anybody sees it. But this time, no, I did not see it. You were saying that it was Facebook and Chris was screaming bullshit. He's on the creatines. Once I saw it the next day, like I...

I deleted it because I'm like, nah, I can't allow it to stay up. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay, so Chris, all in all, pretty good first week, right? Yeah. I know we're late because we decided to skip the show last minute, but it went as well as I thought it was going to go. Oh, it was fantastic. It was fun. It was weird. Do we want to quickly announce the names now? Every one of these people, you're all getting your own custom meme that you can display. They will be posted today. It's like a congratulatory thing. And Chris, do you want to give us the bronze and the silver and the gold winners if you would? I will. I feel like we'd like an American Eagle screaming overhead with the national anthem in the background. Da, da, da, da. There you go. You're welcome, Planet Earth.

Yep, so here we go. So this is the Bad Meme Games Week 1 Melatonin Dreams bronze medal winner. Yes. First on the podium, Robert Wetzel. Let's go! Yay! Robert! Yes! USA! USA! Is this the one I was talking about, Chris? No, this is not the one you were talking about. Okay, okay. So this is what was this? This is when Melatonin Dreams become reality. Happy Bad Meme Friday. You've got a picture of Karl Malone with, like, pigtails and bunches, like, you know. And he says, I just want to come home, Larry. There's no place like home. And then Larry Miller's like, who dis?

oh yeah well that's what that remember that skit that we did I don't even know that we talked about it on the show which means Rob clearly remembers what happened was Carl Malone calling the bear begging to come back to Utah yes exactly and then Carl says yo hey where Larry Larry can I come home and Larry Miller is there and he goes out to bear and he says no the Larry Miller was part of the sketch. And he walks out there and he goes, no, Carl, you can't come home. And that's why everybody got fined. Yep. Bear got fined 18. Bear had to pay his. John had to pay his. Larry had to pay like $29,000. And I was fined $18,000. Woo! Larry had to pay. I didn't have to pay. Larry paid it for me. So there you go. Anyway. Okay, so that's the bronze. Now, who got the silver? That's bronze. So in the middle place, silver medal winner overall is Gifford Pete. Hey! Good job, Gifford Pete. Let's go, man.

And he's got a picture of Carl Malone, weirdly enough, fast asleep. And there's a bronze statue of him outside of the Delta Center. You know, because we did mention about Marta. Oh, Marta. He's cleaning the statue. Marta's polishing his Nono Square. He's a custodian of the janitorial services. Yes. Touching his Nono Square. Yeah, I got that. You go get my Nono. So, okay, so that's a silver. Nice, I love it. Then who got the gold? The first week of the Badmeme Games, the gold medal goes to whom, Chris? This week, the gold medal goes to Carl Parkinson. Yay!

This one was amazing. This is the one where it's basically Bren's hair and, you know, and wearing shades and it's my face, which kind of looks like the bird you pick up in Wendover. Boys, you know what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. Facial hair. You know what I'm talking about. Chris and Bren, zero overlapping podcast appearances. Coincidence? It is an oddly disturbing picture. Yeah, you're absolutely right, Chandler. Oh, my gosh. Please don't show us anymore. I can't see it. I can't see it. It's so creepy. Oh, my gosh. Sorry, here's the thing.

Wow. He's falling back on that hole. You never saw Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson together. Right, right, right. So he's playing on that, but he's basically saying you never hear Chris Amber on the show at the same time. Right. Right. Because he's intimating they're the same. They're the same. There it is. Oh, man. There it is. Winning the gold. Ruma has it. Ruma has it that they do share the same bed, so. Ah, hey. This one was intriguing and disturbing enough that I was eating my eggs for breakfast. And you were like, oh. And stared at them for so long. I had to reheat them because I got cold because I looked at this thing for so long dissecting every detail. I'm just like, what? You know what? So I saw this. I was like, this is sheer genius on Karl Parkinson's part. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so good. But here's the thing. What was your reaction?

More to the point, what was Bren's reaction? Right, right. When you guys saw this. I was like, Carl, what have you done? AI has just gone too far. It is too far. I kind of laughed a bit, and I was like, hey, I look pretty good. And I'm like, oh, Bren's going to be pissed. And Bren's like, this is really weird. And I'm like, yeah, but I think it's going to win. Oh, yeah, I know. It's going to win handsomely. Now we know what needs to happen for Halloween this year. Oh, my gosh.

Switch up. Yeah, Carl gets dressed up like Chris and Brad. Yeah, that's nothing to do with Chris and Brad. Carl needs to be Chris and Brad together. Well, there you go. So that's your bad. I mean, we're a little bit late. So thank you to everybody who participated. It was an epic week, right, Chris? We did pretty well, I think. I saw a ton. It was fabulous. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Yeah, the custom memes will be posted today as of the show coming out. And you can take these memes and display them on your own. You can post them in a group. You can do all that stuff. In fact, Chandler, what I recommend you do is you message everybody with their memes. Oh, yeah. I'll probably do a post congratulating the winners as well. Everyone can see. Fantastic. So the next round comes your way tonight if you're listening to the show on Thursday. It is Friday morning at midnight. The next.

Theme for the bad meme games. The next event, I should say, for the bad meme games is memes that make you go, hmm. Memes that make you go, hmm. Memes that make you go, hmm. So we're talking thinking man memes. Thinking man memes. Like the one that I did with the, well, I always do a thinking man meme. Let's be honest. My memes are the smartest. I always do the thinking man memes. It's like opposite day or something? Yes.

I think my melatonin meme was like a worm with Quentin Tarantino's head and a foot on it. I saw that one. No, these are smart memes. These are thinking man smart memes. Memes that make you, when you look at it, you're like, oh, hold on a second. Let me think about that for a minute. Yeah, it takes a minute to dissect. Bren does a lot of thinking man memes. This is where she dominates. Yeah, she works very well. So there you go. That is the category, the event for this week's Bad Meme Games. I love it. It's cool. All right.

Moving on. And if you have any questions about this, hit us up because we want you to be able to compete. Oh, yeah. For those of you who don't know, maybe you're new to the show. This only happens in the Radio Ronin Fam Facebook group. Oh, yeah. No, that's it. That's it. So you have to know before you get into the Radio Ronin Fam Facebook group, you have to know that you're going to get a lot of stuff coming through your timeline. You get bombarded. You get bombarded. And it's okay. That's the whole point. That's why you opt into it. So if you want to join, you search Ronin Fam in your Facebook search bar. Yep. And then you have to fill out like four questions just so that we know you're not a bot. But it's very important that you do so. You have to answer the questions. Nice. Super easy. Super easy. Cool. I have people that I know personally that I'm very close to that have gone in and asked

led into their own Facebook group that have not answered the questions and they have been dismissed. You have to answer those questions because we got to know that that account is not a bot account that's going to hack everybody. Exactly. Cool. Okay, so this is, I hate this part of the show. We've had to do this way too much lately. We have lost a lot of friends. 2026 alone has been brutal. 2025, 2026. You know, we...

We've lost a lot of people, and I'm sad to report that, well, we'll start here, James Van Der Beek. Oh, man. Dawson's Creek. He's another one of these guys kind of like that's forever young, kind of like Ricky Schroeder, who I always thought would just kind of be like a young guy forever. Jason Priestley is another one of these guys from 90210, and Tiffany Amber Thiessen, all these people, they always seem forever young to me. You know what I mean? So to lose James Van Der Beek was disturbing. Lost it today. Just earlier today. Well, yeah, I mean, and this one did hit hard.

Most people, I think, knew that he was having a very long battle with cancer. Yeah. He was even trying to raise money for his treatments, which just sucks for a guy who's been in the media for so long. And even though I didn't really see any of that Dawson's... Dawson's Creek. Dawson's Creek. I never saw it. Yeah, I never saw that one, but I had seen him in other movies. My first introduction to him was actually... It's actually my movie pick for this episode, so I'm not going to give it away right now. Oh, okay. But that movie, he was so good in it that it actually kind of made me hate him a little bit because he's such a good villain. Oh, wow.

And, you know, and that's when I started to realize, yeah, how good of an actor he is because, you know, whether he's playing a villain or a good guy, he does so well at both that I'm like, he's a good actor. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Great. He died really young. You're younger than me, dude. Yeah, man. 47? Holy crap.

He's 48. Oh yeah, he's 48. It's the other one who's 47. Oh yeah, and that's... And then Brad. Yeah. So... Oh man, this one hurts. James Van Der Beek, may he rest in peace. This sucks. Chris, you talked about getting your colorectal cancer, so go get your colorectal cancer. He's 45 years old, you know, catch the stuff and stuff that's pretty close to everybody's thoughts as well with some of the people in their own community. I'm not going to mention names. Yeah.

The leading killer for cancer for people under 50 now. That's why it's really, really, really dangerous now. Scary stuff. Yeah. And so, I mean, tragic there, but we also have a personal friend who has passed away. Yeah. A guy that... Oh, man, this one hurts. Panda was a personal friend of his, and as was I, and that's Brad Arnold, the lead singer of Three Doors Down. Yep. Back in the day, The End was one of the first stations in the country, first radio stations in the country, too.

to buy into three doors down. We were one of the first stations to play them. We always had a great relationship with the entire band, but specifically with Brad. You know, there's a couple, we've talked about some people here on the show, Dave Grohl. There's been a handful of people that we've talked to that we, Robbie Williams, that we become friends with personally away from the show. And Brad was absolutely one of those guys. Yeah. He actually tried to steal my car once. I remember this. Yeah. No, like legit tried to steal my car.

got ahold of my keys without me knowing and was snuck away. He was, he was in the car when I stopped him. Uh, he was in a very altered state, my aunt. Um, yeah, I mean, and Brad too, like he was a good old boy from the South. I mean, he was, I mean, super nice, super sweet. He's one of those guys, too, when you talk to him, you want to find out more about him, but he wants to find out more about you than anything. And then also, I remember, too, the one big thing that him and the other guys from the band kept wanting to do is they all wanted to go to the go-kart tracks. Every time. That was the number one thing they wanted to do. He was obsessed with cars. Chris, he was a lot like you in the sense that I had a sports car at the time. You guys go karting with me. I told you.

Yeah, he did try to steal my car. And I was like, get out of the car. And he's like, wow, man, I'm ready. This is a kick-ass car, man. I'm like, get out of the car. Why can't I drive it? Because you're high, Brad. Get out of the car. And so I eventually... What's the fight for? It was not. It was a Porsche. Yeah, no.

Yeah. Yeah. And he, yellow one, very cool, and wouldn't allow it to dry. I did let him take it the next day. Okay. And I went with him, and yeah, we had a great time. But no, he, you know, even young kids in a rock band, you know what I mean? This was years ago, but we knew him for years and years and years, and I was devastated when he did the announcement and announced that he had been battling pancreatic cancer, because as you know, even from John from a couple weeks ago, the Jazz Bear.

You get pancreatic cancer. I mean, that's it. It's horrible to say. And he fought one hell of a battle and I'm crushed. These guys, I can't even post about these guys. They're one of us. Like Chris mentioned, we've definitely lost one of our own. I remember he was always in the studio just hanging out with you guys. The nicest guy ever. The band was around a lot. But specifically, Brad was in town a lot just doing different stuff. I'm going to have to go through one of my external hard drives too because I know I've got a photo in there of me and him together.

I think there's several, actually. I've got pictures of you and him together. Just a great guy. And you're right, Panda. He was a Southern gentleman who was... Man, it's hard to explain, but he really was... I felt like I talked more about me and about the station and about what was going on in music and just talking about different bands and things like that than we ever talked about him. Because he was just kind of that way. Just a humble guy. Very humble guy. A lot of fun. And I loved hanging out with him. Really, really good dude. Yeah, Panda. And I, for one, want to say this with a lot of bravado, but...

F*** cancer. Yeah, man. Don't even bleep that one out. F*** cancer, man. Thanks, Chris. Anyway, I couldn't agree more. I think the last person that I was actually able to post about was probably Ace Freely because I didn't really know Ace Freely even though I really, really wanted to. But yeah, just, oh my gosh, just...

Rough, rough couple of months. 2026 is it. Kicking us all right in the taint. Just really rough stuff. There are good things. You know, there are good things going on so far this year. The Olympics being one of them. We'll talk about that. Yeah, actually. Also, we've got a new chunga pole. Yeah, but I'm bummed about Brad and it's kind of affected me over the past couple of days as Adam did, you know. Yeah.

Oh, man, it's been rough. All right, let's do this. Tell you what, let's turn the page on this. Producers. Oh, yes. Producers, yes. Our beautiful, our ultra sexy Radio Rowan producers are official producers of the show. Oh, yes. And we are damn grateful for each and every one of you. A new bonus episode is coming out soon. And thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you for making this show possible. You're sending in a lot of stuff for us to talk about. I've got a pile of stuff. I do, too. We've got a backlog of things. I'm sorry, it's just because we're just getting in, but we will get to all of your stuff. It goes right to the front of the line. And thanks to all of our Radio Rowan producers for making this show possible. Oh, yeah. I say it everywhere. You guys are fantastic. So thank you, thank you, thank you. And we do have the, you know, not

theory, but a Convo Obscura about the Olympics. Convo Obscura, wow. This is like really like, there's like a seedy underbelly to the Olympics. Yes, there is. Nicolette sent me a bunch of like, what is happening? So make sure to go listen to that if you haven't. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, but these are our super producers today. So it's going to be over $20, which is absolutely insane. So starting us off at 2001 is Patrick. Patrick. Yeah, 2006 is Emilio. That is Nance. Hi, Nance. Not in the Rocks, Mary. There we go. 2023.

I'm not dead yet. I'm getting better. I don't want to go on the cot. That is Tim. He's in New York right now. Change up the quote, bud. Change up the quote. He's in New York. He's looking pretty thin. I think the fact that he can't actually move his arms to his mouth has made him lose some weight. He's great with a spoon in his toes. He's real good there. He's like that kid in the Shriners commercial. Oh, no. No. Yeah. Good job, Tim. I love you, Tim. I'm proud of you. You're going to see him in those commercials. That's 2023. G. G. G. G.

Oh, my goodness. I'm sorry. Quit making me laugh. That is horrible, man. That is horrible. $21. We have Josie says, Happy Valentines to all the Ronin fam. We love you, Josie. We love you, Josie. $21. We also have Ellen B. Schmelin. That's nice. Thank you. $21 is Dallas and Wonderland. You owe me $7, man. Yeah? What for? For teaching you how to dance, sucka.

Oh, wow. That's a new one. Yeah. We've done that one once. We've done that one once. We have done it. We have one more show on this one, though. So, yeah. Thank you, Dallas. 21. 21. We have Quarrel. I like people who are friends of people. Yeah. No, it's Quarrel, and it is from Dr. No. Oh, is it? Oh, Dr. No. Quarrel's a local boat guy. We'll go to Crab Key.

So that makes sense. I was like, I know this was a movie. We just watched it. That would make sense. Man, I'm getting old. We just watched it. You guys suck. And I'm like, yeah, we do. He's right. We should have got that one, yeah. 21, 22. That is Greg and Kelly West. That was so cute. These guys are awesome. Thank you. 21, 54. That is Andy with Sam and Lincoln. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Yes. Let's hear 22. We have the birthday boy himself. That's Isaiah Ford. Isaiah Ford. Yeah. 22, 22. That is Jaren Cahoon out in Alabama. Thank you, sir. Roll time. Roll time. Roll time. Yes. Also 22, 22. That is Andrea. And she says, I'm sorry. The last hand nearly killed me. That is Casino Royale. Oh, yeah.

I can see the one. Yes, thank you. 22, 22. But oh, heart. Oh, heart. Oh, heart. Oh, bleeding drops of red. We're on the deck. My captain lies fallen cold and fallen dead. That is Daniel Dean. I have no idea. Yeah, that's a...

I have no idea where you can start with that. That's a joke to make you go, hmm. Yeah, honestly, right? Thank you, James. Yeah. 24, 24, that is George Antate, fellow Mustang driver. Thank you, George Antate. 24, 91, Cherum. Wow, no, Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jerum. Jer

Yeah, well, can you imagine an Americans Gladiator-style battle with snowballs? Yeah, like a whole, like, fort thing? That needs to be an event, dude. That'd be great. That'd be so cool. And then there could be art with your pee. Pee art in the snow? Yeah, that would be fun. I'd like to win. Hands down. I'd like to totally win, yep. Oh, yeah. I'd love to like a camel. It's good. Don't worry. I got this. That's 25. We have Kelly on the free letter. Thank you, Kelly. Hope you're doing well. Thank you, Kelly. You're sweet, too. $25, that's Jillian Terry. Thank you, Jillian. Thank you, Jillian. Thank you, Jillian. 25 is Corey Richens. That's Corey with an I, Corey.

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No, that was not Angela. Yeah, no, Angela would probably agree with Sammy being great. Yeah, absolutely. Also, 25 is Joey Wakefield. Thank you, Joey. Joey! Yeah, I love you, man. Love you, Joey. Also, 25 is Super Suzy Sunshine. Thank you, Suzy. Yeah, Suzy. Love in the new car, yeah. And then 25 is Andy Daly. I'll see you in hell, Andy Daly. I'll see you in hell. Also, 25 is Becky Parkinson. Give yourself a gift of better health and less pain. Go to bkpcoaching.com. Thank you, Becky. I wonder if Carl looks even more attractive now. He's got that kind of gold medal, you know, like from the Batman League Olympics. Oh, you know what? He's like, look at me. He's our first gold medalist.

for the bad news games. I mean, that's a swag. You need to frame that. Yeah, put it right above the toilet. 2555, the Duke of Duchess of Wustashaya. Thank you, guys. Hey! Wustashaya, these two. 2802, that is DG Custom Rail and Fabrication. The website is drgills.com. Handrails because gravity has a perfect attendance record. That's right. Except in August when the world's going to lose gravity for seven seconds as the new conspiracy theory. What? Oh, you guys talked about this? Yeah, Chris, I talked about this. I know all about it, yeah. Let's, let's, yeah, that's a different, that's a different day, but the world's going to lose gravity. I think we need to separate these two. It's new desk arrangements in the classroom. Yeah, we're trying to separate Chandler and Chris. To schedule them on different bathroom break schedules.

than anything. Yeah, yeah. We share a cubicle and I still stay pool all the time. We're going to lose gravity for seven seconds. Seven seconds of gravity loss is catastrophic, just so you know. Yeah, cat and dog's mass hysteria. It's going to be crazy. I don't have the upper body strength to hang on to a railing for seven seconds. Don't go outside. You don't anyway now. I'll just be in the studio floating on the ceiling. It's chilling in the booth. It's like a mojo and a Felicia and a Rusty and then land on a cat. Yeah, bouncing off the studio foam. I'd probably let Rusty go. Oh, Rusty. At $30, that's Angela Jensen. Thank you, Angela.

Love you, Angela Jensen. We're classing this thing up. At 33, 33, we have Sid, M, and Scott. Great, Scott. These are fantastic. Thank you. And then at 36, we have Punch It Chewy. There he is. We saw Chewy. I went up to Chewy in Galaxy's Edge and I tried to speak to him. I went up to him and I was like, and he kind of looked at me and ran away. Yeah, he did not approve of him. I'm from Long Beach, dude. I don't know what you're doing, man. There's your super sexy producer. Thank you so much. Wow.

Thank you to all of you for making the show what it is. And yeah, I mean, we thank you guys every show, but please don't think that that is in any way routine. We are sincerely grateful for what you guys do. So if you'd like to join our ranks, just go to patreon.com forward slash radio. Ronan, we can get you signed up in a few seconds. Oh yeah, super easy. Super, super easy. Super Suzy easy. You apologize to her right now. Sorry, Super Suzy. Easy there. Okay, listen, real quick, before we get into the Chunga Bowl.

Because we're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about the jungle. We got a lot of stuff. One thing we've not covered yet is the Savannah Guthrie's mom. Oh, gosh. Oh, yeah. It's amazing how much stuff goes down when you miss a show. Holy moly. So we've had a lot of producers that have sent in, you know, like all of you. Basically. You know, we want to talk about this. So I want to let you know that we've all seen that and we're going to be talking about it. But we need to spend a little bit more time with it than what we can on this show. And not only that, we don't know a lot. Well, there's a lot that is changing like hour by hour.

On this show, by the time it airs, you know, for you on Thursday, it being late Tuesday night, it's going to be way different. So we're going to hold off. The one thing that I will tell you is that this kind of thing is terrifying when you work in the public eye. It's something that you are constantly, constantly worried about. When this happened, I was like, yep. Like, I wasn't surprised. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more, to be honest. Yeah, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more. And that is horrible. I can't believe I just said that out loud. It happened to Frank Sinatra's son. It's crazy to me that this is going on. And it's crazy to me that this is not.

something that happens more. Yeah. Scary stuff. But we'll talk about it in detail on Monday's show. Nice. Okay, cool. Well, hopefully you have some more information. We'll be able to kind of sort this out a little bit better. But for all those of you who have sent this stuff in, you know, all four of us are following this very, very closely. Like the whole country is. Oh, yeah. I mean, everybody's following this. This is in the Olympics, basically, right now. Yeah. Yeah. And we're going to hold off until we know a little bit more. Okay. Because as of like yesterday, there's, oh, they had somebody in custody. No, they don't. It's just like, nobody really knows anything right now. There's a Bitcoin transfer, but no one knows if that's real or not. Well, they said that they paid it. They paid the ransom. Yeah, but nothing happened. And there's a whole thing with that, too. So it's almost a whole show unto itself.

You know what I mean? Screw you, KSL. We can do that podcast thing. We can do our own cold. Stick it to the man. Whatever. Nerds. News nerds. Anyway, so we'll talk about it. In the meantime, though, we do have a Chunga poll. All right. Chunga poll. It's a Chunga poll time. Now, this is. Oh, yes. I just want to give a shout out to everybody who contributed to the last Chunga poll. Everybody go to the Ronan fan Facebook group and our radio Ronan page and all of our socials to read up on who said what. Big response. The category was where would you go on vacation alone if you could. Yeah. A lot of different answers, which is cool. A lot of history nerds. That's all I'll say. So shout out to my nerds out there. It was fun. Yeah. A lot of people. A lot of people. They were bonding with Chandler and I and they wanted to do history stuff. They went alone. DC or London or World War Two battlegrounds.

stuff like that would be really cool so nice i'm totally feeling it like the tower of london would be a great place to go that would be yeah you've been there multiple times haven't you oh yeah but probably a couple of dozen times i've been to the tower london over the years yeah so yeah so it's definitely a tourist hot spot and it's a lot you don't realize the history that the country has you know i don't think you'd really appreciate until you go and see some of the big monuments and some of the big museums ago wow, this plate, you know, like the UK has been conquered more times than the Kardashian, but it brings a lot of heritage, a lot of history with it, so. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of which, Lewis Hamilton is dating a Kardashian. I don't think he's talking that way. Both in the town. I was like, well, hold on a second. He's straight. Yeah, I didn't think he was dating a gold Olympic medalist. He didn't say which Kardashian, but he could have been like. Oh, yeah, yeah. Good point. All right. So anyway, so we had we had a lot of great responses and thank you very much. Yes. Yeah. Everybody who.

who contributed a lot of history, a lot of that kind of stuff. So I felt like I was like, oh, yeah, I get you guys. Oh, yeah. That's all I'm saying. Good point, Chris. Very true. Okay, so halftime show, Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Talk about Super Bowl in general. Well, so here's the thing. I didn't watch it because we were in Disney. Nor did I. But I did go back and I did watch the halftime show after the fact. I did too, actually. Yeah. To see. Yeah, because, well, I heard a couple of different things. Number one, I heard it was the worst thing on the planet. And then I heard it had huge ratings.

And then I heard that the Turning Point USA tried to do a counter. They did. Listen, Turning Point USA, you have 5 million people show up. You should be proud of that. But the thing is, you can't just keep putting Kid Rock on your events. That's not going to get you viewers. Kid Rock is like, you can't just put some old crazy white guy up on your thing and expect everybody to show up out of...

principle. You have to actually have somebody who's entertaining. Turning Point needs to hire Kid Rock to start going to the Olympics to just try all these different events like Snoop. He's like the one dude that's like they're just leaning into out of everyone. I don't get it at all. So then I found out that the halftime show at the Super Bowl had huge ratings. Second most watched halftime show in history. We predicted no one would watch.

We predicted nobody would watch this thing. No, you guys will remember, too. We were kind of talking about Bad Bunny as a whole. Bad Bunny sucks. Let's be honest. I can't stand Bad Bunny. I'm not a fan. I don't like reggaeton or moubaton or whatever. Whatever that shit is, I hate it. But as a DJ in very, very popular areas like Las Vegas and stuff like that, like Chunk and I do all the time, you can't go through a set without getting requests for Bad Bunny. And so when that happened, I'm like, you know, OK, I get it. You know what I mean? And then to see the ratings back up, I'm like, all right. I will not play Bad Bunny. Nope. I have had to many times. But I haven't. We just played the Bel Air set and people like Bad Bunny. I'm like.

F*** you. And they just went, okay. Yeah, we get it. And then I took the $20 tip and I refused to run away. Yeah, because I mean, you know, first of all, I didn't watch the Super Bowl because I didn't have a dog in the fight whatsoever. And then also like, you know, I don't have anything against the Bad Bunny. I've never heard any of his music and it's most likely not my kind of music anyway. It's not good.

Yeah, but he does have an audience, and it's good for his audience to be able to see him. And from everything that I've heard, I guess he's in a little bit of trouble with the FCC because he threw in some Spanish swear words in there. He did, yes. He dropped the Spanish F-bomb, and so people are very, very angry with him about that. I don't even know. I'm from West Jordan. So here's the thing. This is what I thought was going to happen was that it was going to be a big anti-ice political thing. And so I watched it solely for the sake of being able to report on it here on the show. Right, yeah. Just so that I could say, look, it's not really possible for us to...

I haven't seen it But it's crap Right You know what I mean So I went in And what I've always tried to do As long as I've been doing this is going with an open mind because I don't want to just be a shill, right? I have to be honest with you. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be. No, not at all. And I don't like his style of music. It's just not my thing, but it wasn't bad. No, I completely agree. And it didn't have all those... It was just a tribute to Puerto Rico and their heritage and everything. And I didn't have a problem with it. I really didn't. It was not at all what I expected it to be. Not at all. The most political thing they did was just the banner that said the only thing more powerful than hate is love. That's it. That's as political as it really got. And you know what? I don't disagree with that. I don't disagree with that. But you had Kendrick Lamar last year and that was extremely political for what he did. Yeah. And so... Anyway, I just say to me...

I didn't really see what all the hate was about. A couple of things on my opinion and my opinion. I can tell you about beef. A couple of things. One, how the Seahawks kicker did not get player of the match, I do not know because he's got all the points just to say out loud. One hell of a foot and I'm like, really? Okay. Another bit is like, I had the same kind of issue when The Weeknd did it a couple of years ago and you guys remember me having a rage about this. It's like, if I spend like $20,000 for a ticket to the Super Bowl, which is like, you know, a premier ticket is like going to the FA Cup in the UK. These things cost a fortune, right? I think the cheapest ticket was six grand or something. Oh man. Six grand. $6,000 to go there. And obviously, the game's the most important thing, but the halftime show is kind of seminal and it's part of that package. It's something you're meant to be able to go and enjoy. And the same issue I had with The Weeknd three years ago, four years ago,

You know, you couldn't see anything from where you're sat. If you went to the game to actually watch the halftime show, you couldn't see it. You could see it if you were at home because of the cameras down low and the jumbotron or whatever else, or you couldn't see it from your seat because it was all hidden behind people dressed as trees. The weekend went backstage and went underneath all the bleachers. Yeah, that was weird. He was in tunnels and doing weird stuff. I'm like, well, this is not about you and your ego there, mate. This is about you actually putting on a show for the people who have paid to be here tonight. And that was my issue with Bad Bunny. It's like, come on, dude. This is what we went with. You know, just trying to hide it all the way so only people can see it is people watching on TV. That's just ridiculous. It shouldn't be just those.

I agree with you 1000%, but my question is, is how much was he involved with the planning of this? Or was it just, you know, a production team? It's still your brand. It is your brand. You're absolutely right. It is your brand. Yeah, 100%. Well, yeah, you know, and just to go along with what Chris was saying there, too, about how most of the people in the stadium weren't able to see most of what was happening. And to me, too, a lot of it, the halftime show, I'm like, why are we still doing this particular type of thing for the halftime show? Because it makes me think that the NFL, and especially the Super Bowl, has kind of lost its way, where now it seems like it's less about the game and more about the spectacle than anything.

Yeah, it's been that way for a while. It's been that way for a long time. It's been that way for a while. It's a long time. It's honestly too bad. Yeah. I don't anymore. Back in the day, and I was talking to Joey about this a little bit, Joey Snow. Back in the day, the Super Bowl was a holiday. Oh, absolutely. It was. Yeah, for sure.

It was a big spectacle. It was a whole big thing. You would have big dinners, and I still think that's the case for a lot of people, but it isn't for me. I don't even watch it anymore. Unless it's like, if it were the Raiders or the Chargers, the two teams that I follow, I would probably watch it, but beyond that, I'm just not. Maybe the Niners, because Panda loves them so much. We just knocked away to Disneyland the last three Super Bowls. If it's at least two teams that I can appreciate that I actively don't dislike, if they're in there, then I'll watch the Super Bowl, no matter who it is. I didn't care what team it was. I would pick a team to root for, and that's a big thing, but not anymore. I'm kind of with you there, Panda, a little bit.

I think there's some truth to that. And Chris, to your point, you know, with a halftime show, I agree with you all the way, man. I think back to when Prince did it and it was raining. Michael Jackson, you know what I mean? Even like Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. There was times where it was like a huge event. If you didn't watch it for the teams, you watched it for the halftime. And I'm like, now it's like, eh.

Yeah. Because, I mean, I even enjoyed Bruno Mars when he was up there because you could actually see what he was doing. And he was switching off to different instruments to where you could tell that's a live show right there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I'm with Chris and I'm with Panda. Yeah. And I think the halftime show could have been a lot better. I think the Super Bowl, there's a lot that they could go, different steps that they could take.

to make it back to what it once was. And I think you can have it all. You can have the pageantry, you can have the circus, you can have all that stuff and still keep it focused on the game. Oh, of course. You can do it all. But I do have to wonder, is it just because I don't care about the teams and that's why I'm feeling like it's not focused on the game? I don't know. I'm with you because the ratings are showing that it's growing, which is cool, especially in the international markets. It's growing and a lot of people are watching that. I think I'm just getting so set in my ways of being a hockey fan that I'm just like, whatever. I'm watching hockey. That's all I care about. So yeah, it's weird.

Yeah. All right. So the chunk of poll today, it goes back to the halftime show. Yes. OK. Again, you know, I know I know what's going to happen here. It always happens. You know, and it's why it's why Greg and it's why Chandler and Chris have all said, well, we don't want to do politics on the show. You know, I'm saying I don't have a problem with the Bad Bunny show. And there's going to be people out there that just rage. Oh, yeah, of course. There's going to be other people that has nothing to do with politics. If Bad Bunny would have done it, would have made it more political. I would have had a real problem with it. Yeah.

I just didn't see that. Personally, I just didn't see that. Was it a good halftime show? No. Because I don't like the music in my book. Yeah. But I didn't have a problem with it. It was an offensive show. Exactly. But I would like to see a different type of halftime show, which is what we've talked about. Oh, okay. Get back to what it was back in the day. You know what I'm saying? Yes. I like this. Continue. You know where I'm going. I think I do, and I'm excited for it. Nice. Okay, here we go.

I want you all to build your own Super Bowl halftime show. Let's go. Build your own. Yes. Build your own Super Bowl halftime show. What would it be? If you were the person that is responsible for producing the Super Bowl halftime show, what would you do?

In your world, how would you do this? What would you do? And who would perform it? Yeah. Okay. Panda, you seemed really excited. You want to go first? You want to do this first, Panda? Yeah, I'm super excited about this because I filled out petitions for this one. Here we go. We've talked about this on the show with Panda before. We've talked about this a couple times. Chris is shaking his head and drinking many bottles.

Yeah, yeah. I'm passionate about this, man. As you should be, Panda. As you should be, my friend. So lay it on us for the people who haven't heard this. We know where you're going, but that's all right. Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah. So my pick would definitely be Weird Al Yankovic. Weird Al Yankovic. And what I would love to see is Weird Al get some of the artists that he's parodied before and have them join him on stage during that particular parody. Yeah, Coolio. Oh, yeah. Well, he might have to break out the Ouija board for that one. Oh, my gosh. Let me see. You've got the My Sharona guy.

Michael Jackson, Julio. I think Madonna's still alive. Yeah, well, I mean, he could always get the red hot chili peppers. And there's been several bands that, you know, they still have people, you know, very much alive that he could. I don't know if people know this. He is one of the greatest selling artists of all time. He is. Yeah. Of all time. It would be it would be completely reasonable to have him do a halftime show. Well, yeah. And to have an artist that essentially started out just recording in a bathroom to get the acoustics and an accordion. And that was it. Yeah.

Yeah, to go from that to a half-time show? Well, let's be honest. I mean, the whole bathroom thing, Nuno Betancourt wrote more than words from Extreme while sitting on the toilet with a 12-string guitar. Yes, he did. So, there's a lot of bathroom stuff. From Eddie Van Halen, he had a pedal board mounted underneath his toilet for the same thing. It's a great place, Panda, the toilet. It's a great place. It's a great place. How do you think I know about gravity going away in August? I'm just saying. There you go. There you go. Okay, so Panda, so you would do Weird Al Yankovic, and then you would have...

all of the stars that are still living. Well, yeah, not all of them because it would be hard to coordinate that many people, but at least to get a lot of people for some of his bigger songs, like White Nerdy and just quite a few of those. That was one of his big songs, man. Donny Oswood. I can't believe Donny Oswood did that video with him. That was crazy. Okay, would there be anybody else? Would you transition out of Weird Al to anybody else or that would be the whole halftime show? I think with the various styles of music that he's done parodies of, I think you could just do the entire thing of his stuff.

just with those other artists joining him. I think that's great. Very good. Yeah. All right. Sweet. Chris, you want to go next? I guess, because mine's going to mirror exactly what Panda said. Weird Al. I have also signed petitions for Weird Al. Get out of here. I've discussed this on many, many occasions, and he's somebody who's really close to our hearts, because not only is he one of the best-selling artists of all time, he's stood the test of time. He's had movies made against him. I mean, we watched movies. I think Weird Al would be phenomenal. I think he'd probably break records for the show, and I think he would put on one hell of a good time. Wow.

Man. All right. Easily. We have two. We have two of the four. I'm absolutely shocked by this. Probably for Weird Al Yankovic. Yeah. All right. That's crazy. Okay, Chandler.

All right, for me, this is probably coming from the recent kind of switch here in Vegas of disco being a thing. Nice, okay. And so that's pretty much all the gigs I'm playing recently. It's like 90% of them are just disco and just fun, right? So my halftime show, it's a couple different artists, but it would be the headlining act would be Sheik with one now, Rodgers. Hey, nice. If he wants to throw on a party, any country, any language, you know, whatever, he can absolutely throw down featuring Bruno Mars and probably, let's say, Daft Punk and like Pharrell. So do some Get Lucky in there, have Daft Punk in there. Oh, yeah, okay. That would be good. Have Bruno. I'll be on blue with that, too. Just a big ass, just fun party. That is the sound now. That's kind of for live musicians.

that is the sound is kind of a return to funk and 70s and 80s kind of tip you know in there a little bit and stuff like that so have nyle do just kind of like a big tribute to just you know the 70s with bruno daft punk pharrell maybe robin thick or jt or some of these guys coming out you know i think it would be a ton of fun we're seeing it in this town this town absolutely they're calling it the new hub of disco new york's blowing up with disco everywhere it's huge it's massive i know there's a lot of you hearing this that are just kind of cringing what i would tell you to do is um is when you look at the alternatives that are out there now of just retreads of old stuff. And I know this is in a way kind of a retread, but when you think about mumble rap and everything else that's out there right now, it's very refreshing to have everything in Vegas that's happening happening. It's crazy the energy. Do you know what it is? It's fun. The music's fun. The mumble rap, you got away from the hand claps and the whistles and the smelly feet. The Imagine Dragons and Illumineers and that bullshit. You want to have fun with music again. And I think it would be just an absolute blast. I think it would be a ton of fun. That would be my vote. Yeah, good job. Thank you. I'm there with you, Chandler, because, you know, as well as that music can translate across many generations of people because

You know, like you said, it's upbeat, fun music. But hey, if you bring Justin Timberlake out on that one, just be careful. He's not near any women with loose clothing. Or harnesses where you can see his little dong. You'll never get Timberlake back in a Super Bowl. No, never again. Get your point. Yes, just kind of that funky kind of feel. And I mean, we saw, we were able to see Na Rodgers and Sheik live. And every other band, including Duran Duran, absolutely sucked. Like, not even close. Seeing them live, the party that they can bring to Sheik annihilated Duran Duran. Yeah, I mean, not even close. I think you got a bum deal on that one because when we saw Duran Duran and Sheik, you know, it was good. I mean, like, was Sheik better than Duran Duran? Yeah.

not Miles Better. It was still a really, really good show, The Delta Center. Yeah, so I talked to him. I'm a fan with that with me as well. So I think he's maybe just got a rough... We saw them in T-Mobile and Aunt Sid was with us and...

Here's my take on this You ended with good times Confetti Confetti and mirror balls All kinds of stuff going And then Duran Duran opened With a slow song From their new album Dance Macabre And it was very moody And dark and slow And it ruined Duran Duran was their own Worst enemy They should have come out With Rio or Hungry Like the Wolf Or something like that Something more danceable And then segued Into that stuff And I think it would have Been a much better show But I was bored And wanted to go home You went from The coolest most fun Environment vibe And everyone's off their feet To a really bad Bond sound Like a James Bond Starting song What is this They were one of my favorite Bands of the 80s Duran Duran I was really bummed Yeah, so chic, chic, daft punk.

Bruno Mars. A great choice. Yeah, thank you. So for me, Chris, you've heard this, Panda. I know you've heard this as well. And I think that's a great choice, too, to bring Bruno Mars back because he is such an entertainer and brings that energy up. Like his newest single. It's fantastic. It's fantastic. And the video is great. And there's like a new movement for people going to nightclubs. They're practicing and learning all of the, almost like the electric slider, the hustle. They're learning all of the movements from the Bruno Mars video so that their friends can all do it together. I was playing a disco set at the Click Lounge of the Cosmo and played that song from Bruno. And everyone did the moves from the video. And I was like, you gotta be kidding. This is so cool. So it's a movement. It's a huge.

wave going on. I love it. I'm all for it. I think it's a great choice, Chandler. What would be your pick? So, Panda, you've heard this. I know because you and I have talked about it. Chris, actually, I've talked about it with all three of you. If you ask anybody right now, who are the real rock stars in the world right now? It's DJs. Yes, it is. DJs, dance music, and the sound that Chandler was talking about, that is the sound right now. And I think that there is still, especially in Utah,

and some of the other flyover states, they think that a DJ is just simply playing something off of iTunes or Apple Play or something like that. So I think it'd be cool to do a halftime show where you have some really old DJs like Jellybean Benitez who produced the Carl Cox. Yeah, from Studio 54. Yeah, Jellybean is an original Studio 54 DJ. Carl Cox. Yeah, Louis Vega. Little Louis Vega. There's a bunch of guys that have been around since the 70s all the way until now. And a lot of these guys, even guys that are in there that are still very contemporary.

are in their 60s. Guys like David Guetta and Tiesto and things like that. Paul Okenfeld. All of these guys... get them all to do a set that highlights different kinds of electronic dance music with actual artists performing live with the DJs, very much like the Walk This Way with Run DMC and Aerosmith. Oh, yeah. I love it. One of Aerosmith and Run DMC's best decisions. Yeah, yeah. It saved Aerosmith. It saved a career. It did. And what you can have is this kind of this live mashup of live music and DJs together, similar to what Panda was talking about with Weird Al. But you would have a live artist come out and then you would have the DJ take it from there and do different stuff and then hand it off to another DJ in a different era, playing a different type of electronic music. And then you just have

them all over the stadium doing different things with lights and lasers and pyro and fireworks and the whole thing that would be epic i think it'd be pretty fun you just had a chris lake is one for people who aren't familiar he's a very legendary dj in the world right now yeah i mean one of the one of the best he's very very popular right and he just played the halftime show for the chargers uh one of their games and it went off. Absolutely. There's videos all over the place and there was like no show, no pizzazz. He was just in the corner just DJing. Everyone went nuts. It would change the perceptions of what a DJ does. I think it would break down some barriers for our friends in Iowa. Yeah, exactly. It'd even be cool too if they brought back some of the old school hip hop DJs like DJ Herc and some people who even kind of create. Jazzy Jeff would kill it. He's still gigging too, which is fantastic. Every time we do Bash music, we're always the number one live stream globally for electronic dance music.

And we usually get beat by Jazzy Jeff, who starts after us. How many years has he got under his belt? Way more. He was mixing way back when it was, you know, all vinyl. Back in the 70s. Yeah, exactly. There's a legendary DJ called Pete Tong. He's a British DJ like Carl Cox. Pete Tong is pushing 70 years old now. He's kind of getting up there in years. People don't realize it. But back in 2017, he did a thing called Ibiza Classics, where he brought together a producer by the name of Jules Buckley, which you guys may or may not know the name of. I don't know him. I don't know him, no Pete Tong. And in all the Ibiza Classics from the 80s,

The 90s and 2000s Live with the Philharmonic Orchestra So imagine like Metallica at S&M We did the San Francisco Philharmonic He did all like Galvanized And Club to Death And Killer from Seal And he did it all live Him DJing with a live Philharmonic Orchestra That's why See this is what I brought EDM to a new level to me in 2017. And if anybody wants to take a look at all that stuff we're talking about now, check that out. It's on YouTube, yeah. Okay, all right. So a couple of things. Above and Beyond did this at the Hollywood Bowl. Yes, they did. Great DJ trio. Cascade's done it as well. And Pete Tong and I, we were in talks to do a show in Miami together. We talked about here on the show how I almost moved to Miami at one point. It was to do a show with Pete Tong. And as it turns out, Pete was not able to do the show. It turned out that Pete was booked to do something and then there was something else that happened. And so for once, it had nothing to do with me. I was all the way in and it would have happened had I had something to do with it.

Pete's a great guy. Oh, an amazing dude. And we had a lot of fun getting that thing set up together. Yeah, you know, and I've just got this vision in my mind too where, because you know how a lot of the more recent halftime shows, like they have changing sets all throughout the performance, which to me, I'm just like, no, just have a stage, have all the artists up on it and, you know, just run it from that. So everybody can see it to Chris's point. They've actually seen what's happening. No, the camera's on the gear. So you can see what they're doing. That's exactly what I'm talking about, how they're scratching and doing all this different stuff and all the talent that it takes. It's really hard to do. Think about the sphere in Vegas. They're doing that and it's working so well. Every show sold out. It's fantastic.

And then if you think about even bigger scales than the Super Bowl, you have the Olympics. Tiesto's played the opening ceremonies. So is Mark Garris, a DJ that I've met. And he's my age, and he played the Olympics. It would totally, totally work, what you're thinking. That'd be a fantastic show. That would be, yeah. I love that. That'd be cool. I'm going to agree. I think this would be fun. It would be way cool. It would be fantastic. I think it would be a really, really good time. And it would, I think, change a lot of perceptions of what a DJ does. Chandler and I have worked really, really hard to do this. We incorporate everything from classical symphonic music to country music in our sets a lot just to try and kind of win hearts and minds. There's no limits to any of it, which is cool.

So it's always fun taking people that are a hard no. on the dance music. And then the next thing you know, they're like, hey, this is like Adam Adair is like our good friend Adam Adair. Yeah, Hemi. Hemi. Definitely Hemi. Another one of these guys, like they listen to Bash music just out of curiosity to see what we're doing. And then they get about halfway through and they're like, you know, this stuff is badass. This is so much fun. We love this stuff. And then you win somebody over that was a hard no just a few minutes earlier. And then they become a fan of the electronic music and the live production and the live mixing and everything else. And I think something like that would do wonders. That would be really cool. That would be really, really cool. And you haven't really seen that for a halftime show yet. No, and you have like events like Ultra Music Festival and EDC and things like that. They'll bring out like one of them. They brought out Slash to do a guitar solo over an EDM song. And it

Slash is a big performer. He's all for it. He's all for it. That'd be cool. That'd be very cool. As was Ed, which we talked about earlier and everything else. Anyway, there you go. So now it's your turn. What would you do for your own Super Bowl halftime show? What would that look like? Yeah. Who would it be? It doesn't have to be groundbreaking. It doesn't have to be. It's just because you like it. It's like I would bring out David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar together in The Ghost of Eddie Van Halen and I would make it. Have them do a duel. They would duel with pistols. A 3D kind of hologram. If they did it before, it'll happen again.

And like Andrew Jackson, whoever wants, they get to sing their song. Ghost of Andrew Jackson? No, no, I'm saying like you would have Sammy and Dave. So you would have Sammy and Dave and they would walk around and they would then turn pistols. Dave would do some sort of weird karate and hurt himself. Sammy would just take a couple shots of tequila. You know it would just repeat that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark when the guy's doing all those moves and Harrison Ford just pulls out a pistol and shoots him. And then Super Bowl halftime show starts. Whatever you want it to be. Is it Sinatra? Is it Elvis? Is it, I don't know, the Oak Ridge Boys?

Whatever it is, we want to know what your ideal Super Bowl halftime show would be. Do they have to be alive? Or could they be dead? I would say no. You can say no. It doesn't matter if they're dead. This would be my ideal. Elvis would be fantastic. That one would be amazing. Wouldn't that be cool? Or the Beach Boys or something like that.

We just want to know. And no, they don't have to be alive. It's your ideal performance. Nice. Yeah. All right. So just go to the Radio Rona fan Facebook page, a regular Radio Rona page, and just we'll go from there. It should be fun. Awesome. Cool. Coming up on the next show, because we've had so much stuff to cover. It's a good problem to have, right? Again, we're going to be talking about the whole Savannah Guthrie's mom thing. Yeah. And we're going to be giving you our Olympics review so far. I have so much to talk about. There's a lot, man. There's a lot. So much that we could not, we couldn't even start on this show. And it'll give us a couple more days to get more stuff to talk about. More goodies. I have all kinds of Olympic observations. Okay. And I think Chris and I are in agreement. I don't know if Chandler and Panda are in agreement, but we'll talk about the opening

Okay. Phenomenal. I would agree with that. They're so good. Chris, was that your take on it? We kind of touched on it before we started the show, but I do want to talk about it when we do the next show. I think it was a reset back to normality, which was long needed after what we saw in France. And I think, well done. Well done, Italy. You did great. I would agree with that. Yep. Bravo. Bravo. All right. Anyway, we'll talk about that on the next show. Just about Brian the Pump. Nice. Cool. Now, we need to say thank you to some goblins. Goblins! Goblins! Goblins!

This is you, Goblins. Thank you very much for supporting the show. Thank you so much for making it what it is. I just opened up a thing to see a meme of John Travolta and Nicky. Oh, this is Panda. That's the one that didn't make it done. Thanks, Facebook.

Yeah, I don't know what happened there. That just showed up. Oh, goodness. All right, let's take the goblins. Here we go. Amy B, thank you. Amy! Yeah! She's going to Disneyland. I hope you have a good time. It is scheduled to rain. It rained a little bit while we were there. Not a big deal. It was fine, though. Yeah, it was totally fine. Amy B, 5555. Thank you for being a goblin. Love you, Amy. Taylor Casper, 50 a month. Taylor! Thanks, dude. Everybody's 50 till I say otherwise, by the way. Stay on the Small Screen Podcast with Becky and Jake. We got to get these guys going. Yes, Becky. Oh, yes. We love you, Becky. Fantastic show. Thank you, Becky and Jake. Thank you. Denver Robbins Creative. She's fantastic. Wait, okay. All right, hold on a second. It took me a minute. Yes, yes. I'm ready. This may be the most brilliant

quote that Denver has ever given us. In a pile of brilliant quotes. Denver Robbins creative. She's fantastic. Made of plastic. Microchips here and there.

I don't know this. She's fantastic. Made of plastic. Microchips here and there. Do you know this one? I do, but I want to say it. What is it? Yeah, because it's bouncing in my head. I know these lyrics. It's lyrics. Yeah. It's not a quote. I just got to think of the right song. I'm going to let it sizzle. Okay. I don't want to say it yet because it's brilliant. Okay. One more time. She's fantastic. Made of plastic. Microchips here and there. Is that weird science? Everybody just... I'm just going to let it sizzle. All right. We'll know the next show then. Yeah, not weird science. Dang it.

Yeah, sorry. The Perez sisters. Annyeong. Annyeong. Aloha. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Jimmy Bean. Thank you, Jimmy Bean. Yeah. Thank you, Jimmy Bean, for being the amazing person you are. And also, Nicolette, you made Shannon cry with your gift. Oh, the birthday gift was so cute. Big crocodile tears, Nicolette. So you're awesome. Yeah. Let's see. Here's St. Shannon and Sir James West. Oh, the royalty. There they are. Thank you very much, St. Shannon and Sir James West. I love you guys. Lieutenant Daniel Caffey, one of the finest men you will ever meet in your life. LT, baby. LT, we love it, dude. Damn good sneakerhead. I'll say that. Yeah. Not nearly enough time I get to spend with this man. I would agree with this. Yeah. The boot boy, screw up. This is your time now. Go out there and take it.

Ah, I know exactly what this is. What is this? I know what this is because this is a guy that I've studied relentlessly. Okay. Screw him. This is your time. Now go out there and take it.

Nicky Cage. Once again, this sounds familiar. I just... Give this one up. You want me to give this one up? Yeah, yeah, please do. Oh, oh, oh, because I watched this. Yeah, you did, Chris. Go for it. I watched this because I researched it for part two of the bonus episode. Yes. Is it Kurt Russell? It is. In Miracles. Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. I'm so mad that I missed that one. I watched that, and I also watched a documentary on Netflix called Miracle 80 as well, which is kind of in there too, which is a great argument. Fantastic piece of documentary if anybody wants to learn about it. Play your game, play your game. Play your game. He had the most brilliant strategy. He was an absolute genius.

coaching women's hockey in the Olympics fairly recently. Died right before the movie Miracle came out. And killed in a car accident. Oh, really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Damn. That sucks. He was an amazing guy. And if you ever want to, I mean, just talk about overcoming adversity. Right. That guy's an inspiration. Go study that man. Yeah. For sure. Well done. Yeah, that's cool. Way to go, boot boys. That's impressive. Yeah, right. Her Royal Highness was Jessica Terry. 50 bucks. Thank you. Gina and Janae Green. Later.

Thank you very much, ladies. We love you. Angel, two things. I'm cruising, bitches. Yay! There we go. Yes! I'm cruising, bitches. And then she says, Greg, Chris, and Bren, I have three tickets to the Salt Lake Banana Ball game that are on 815. Holy crap. Just reach out to Angel, you guys. That's okay. I will definitely be hitting you up for that. He tried so hard to get tickets. Every time, I've always entered to try to be able to get tickets, and I've failed every time.

Angel's a legend. Angel actually wrote this. Greg, Christ, and Bren. So Chris, I don't know if she's talking to you. Skylar! Skylar! Always be yourself after all yourself is one of my favorite people. Jody College, I've spoken with an angel. It showed me how I can be a mother again. So this is the last week we could read this one. Yeah, I think we can look this one up. I'll find this one. Alright, thanks, Chandler. So that's Jody College's quote. Moving on, heathersnowtravel.com. Heathersnowtravel.com, your travel concierge, so you can enjoy planning your vacation.

cheat sheet. Yes. You don't have to pay to use a travel agent. You can use Heather free of charge. Yep. Yep. All you have to do is just look her up and say, you've got a vacation you want to go do. Have Heather do it for you. Travel.com. She'll set you up. Cool. College girl. Did you find it? I do actually have Jody's Jody's quote here. It's from a movie called Bring Her Back. It came out in 2025 directed by Danny and Michael Philippow.

Okay. Obscure there, Jody. I have no idea how we would get that one. Thank you, Jody. Is it the home teacher's obscure? Yes. Is this trick ball? Yes, it is, Jody. I mean, that's a little much. Wouldn't you agree, Jody? That's a little in the weeds there. Cripes. All right, here we go. College girls. These are Jody's daughters, by the way. It's a simple choice that should not be made simply.

Belief or disbelief? Now, I love this. I've never heard it before. Great quote, yeah. We need to look it up, though. Okay, I'm looking this one up, too. Okay, so actually, I do have the college girls quote. We have looked this one up. It's the heretic. Oh, it's a heretic. I still need to see this one. That's right. It is awesome. Yeah, I've seen it. You'll love it. It's creepy. It is creepy as hell, and it's definitely not where I thought that I would see a quote like this. I thought it was a Herb Brooks kind of thing. Yeah, super motivational. Tony Robbins? Yeah. No. Not enough jokes. Not enough. Amelia!

There she is. I got nothing but homework and track practice. I'll do better next time. Hey, that's all right. That's okay. I'm impressed that you're in track. It's okay. Being in track is awesome. I'm impressed you're in homework. I sucked at everything in the track and field. Me too, dude. Yeah. I actually ran cross country. I just sucked academically. So, yeah.

And that's, I definitely suck. Millie, good job. We love you. Ryan, have a Shelton, 50 bucks a month. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. Cindy, queen of bash. We love you, Cindy, queen of bash. Cindy. I hope you guys, Trey, is watching the Olympics and having a good time. Oh, yeah. He's a little Olympian right there. Yeah, you guys watching the Olympics? I hope you're having fun. Riach, 5010. Hey, Riach. By the way, Cindy is our first Super Goblin. Oh, nice. Riach is our second Super Goblin. Cool. Angela Plotz at 5056. Hey, Angela. There he is. Thank you, thank you. Coming in at 5111. It's Marty Lords and Sissy Echo. Oh, and aren't they just lovely?

Aren't they just lovely? Doing their twizzles, doing their sow cows. They are in perfect sync and unity. It is graceful. Look at their nails. Marta Lords and Sissy Echo. It is like poetry in motion. I give them so much glitter and a 10. I like this one. This is great. I'm Johnny Weir. Or as I like to call myself, Johnny Weird. Watching Marta and Sissy Echo move, it's like a night in Saint-Tropez with people yelling at me.

With the pants off. Including the cabbie. I hope that Johnny can commentate while having a bird's nest in his hair at the same time. It's a live bird. It's a finch. Poetry. Crabs. Oh, easy there, Johnny. I've got a live bird in my hair and I've got live crabs on my... Never mind. There you go! That was great, yes.

I'm sorry, Marta. I'm all for that. That was fantastic. Thank you. Sorry, Marta. I'm sorry. The Olympic Spirit is alive and well. Thank you, Johnny Weird. There you go, Johnny Weird. Johnny Weird. All right. Captain Lane Hilton. There he is. Lane. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you to our dear friend, Captain Lane Hilton. Yeah, thank you, man. Thank you. And his new Nightmare Before Christmas thing that he had Becky at Pop Culture do. That's so cool. Oh, yeah. Crazy. Blue Line Mom, Krista Windsor. We're a Blue Line Mom with you, Krista. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to do one. Alexi, don't knock Pitch Perfect too hard. It's my equivalent of the Ocean's movies. Well, Alexi, I'm sorry.

Okay. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. You know what? I don't knock it because it's bad. I knock it because those people in Utah got a little too into it. Yes. Yeah. And it was just, it was like a little too much. It was when I was in radio and there was just a lot of the kind of flash mob, you kind of pitch perfect, you kind of thing that was happening. A little intense for the time period. Yeah, right, you guys. Put your clothes on and get out of the Target with your dance moves. All right, here we go. Lord and Lady Starvingham. Yeah. 56.33 per month. Thank you for holding down the same GZ force for us. Yeah, thank you. Oh, by the way, Alexi's at 52.33. Oh, hey, thank you. Thank you. 56.33 for the Lord and the Lady. Coming in at 57.77. It's the golden voice.

voice of Radio Ronan himself, Mr. Ken Krueger. Ken, I love you, man. We love you, man. The Ronan Dentist, Dr. Steve McKiff. I don't know what kind of... Oh, here we go. Steve, I love you, but you gotta show on your quotes. It's like a whole paragraph, and they keep getting cut off. Steve McKiff, I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, buddy. Oh, no. Yeah. What is that? I know. That's a problem. That sounds so familiar. What is that? Yeah. 6007 for the good doctor. Sorry, Steve. The Ronan Dentist, Dr. Steve McKiff. Brandon Chris, too. 6222. Thank you. Thank you. One in the same.

So they say. So they say. Pulter Geisky, the legend Geisky. Phil Johnson is ready for the Winter Olympics. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! 70 bucks a month. Becky and Eric with Pop Culture Pumpkins, who I was just talking about. PopCulturePumpkins.com. Go check them out. They are amazing. They are amazing. There's a lot of places that people that talk into these things.

They tell you to go check out. Like, I don't know, Minky Couture. The Shane Company. No, go check out popculturepumpkins.com. Do it. You're going to love it. You're going to be so happy that you did. Superman is indestructible, and you can't be brave if you're indestructible. No, wait a minute. Hold on a second. This is Panda. I don't know what this quote is. Superman is indestructible, and you can't be brave if you're indestructible. That's true, Panda. Yeah.

It's a quote that I've always loved from this movie. I watched this one so much as a teenager. It has James Van Der Beek in it. I will dispute the quote a little bit because I played Doom in God Mode all the time and I felt pretty brave. I forgot about God Mode in Doom. That was fun. That was great. Let's see here, Christine Davidson. $100. Thank you, Christine. Accent doors and trim.

That's the name of the company. The website is accentdoors.co. Hey, very nice. Accentdoors.co, $100 a month. Thank you very much. So Christine Davidson, accentdoors.com. There are Hunsky twins right there. Thank you very much. Thank you. Just a girl, Jean, $111.11. Oh, there she is. Puppy yoga and all right there. She is amazing. She's cool as hell. She's got an awesome family. Yeah, thank you. Takes all the boxes in. She's doing puppy yoga. Don't know what the hell it is, but man, it looks fun. I would enjoy it. I want to do puppy yoga. Hey, listen, I'm there. I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in them and they get all antsy in their pantsy. It's $150.77. Super Troopers. Super Troopers. That's Tammy and Denise. I love that movie so much. Tammy Huntson.

Denise is my spirit animal. Yes, she is. GGH, thank you very much, guys. Love you guys. Love you so much. Let's see. Okay, coming in at 175, our dear friend Spank. PC load letter? What the f*** does that mean? Ah, Spank. Michael Bolton fighting a preacher. That's coming, buddy. That's so good. Yeah, PC load letter. I didn't even say the F word. Thank you. Chandler didn't have to make an edit. That's a fist. Yeah, I know. Sorry.

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Anonymous has been out there for years supporting this show. In the best way possible. Thank you, Anonymous. There have been many of you that have met Anonymous at our different events and activities. Yes. You have rubbed shoulder to shoulder with Anonymous and have engaged in meaningful conversations with Anonymous without ever knowing that that is Anonymous, and I love that. So much fun. Anonymous wants it that way, and Anonymous will have it that way. Until Anonymous says I can reveal who it is. I remember Cindy walking up to an individual who wasn't Anonymous and being like, are you Anonymous? And I'm looking at the real Anonymous, and we're like...

Who sat there kind of laughing. Just smirking. I was like, yes, I know. While they were at the party at the cruise. It's so good. Love it. Thank you, Anonymous. We love you very much. Evil Twin, Queen of Quench, five years now. Miss Angela Hammett coming in at $300.

$380. So crazy. Thank you, Angel. I love it very much, sis. And there is your super sexy goblin list. Thank you so much. That's awesome. If you would like to become a goblin, patreon.com forward slash Radio Ronan. Our second Olympic episode is coming up. We had Olympic corruption. Yep. And Convo Obscura. So we had a Convo Obscura focused on the Olympics. Now we will have Olympic conspiracies that are happening this month. I've got some good ones. Mine is about rubbers. Oh. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.

Yeah, the thing that you raised with is a ripper. So we call rubbers erasers. Yeah, there it is. That's very true. I was like, no. Then I was like, yes. Yes, we invented the language. You need to go all the way off my back about this one. Panda, it's time for a movie. It's time for a movie, sir. You said it's a James Van Der Beek unemployed movie update. Yeah, yeah. Shout out, I mean.

James Van Der Beek is in this one. And I, you know, and it was weird because even before I found out about his death, I was already planning on doing it because I learned about his battle with cancer. And, you know, the whole thing about what a good actor he is because, you know, for a little while after watching this movie, I hated him because he plays a villain so well. He's a bad guy. Yeah. So the movie is from 1995 and it's called Angus.

I don't know if I know this one. I have no idea what this is. Yeah, no clue. So this is very much one of those coming-of-age kind of story movies, and I identified with the main character of Angus in this. So the premise is a miserable fat teenager secretly has a crush on a class beauty, ends up becoming the surprising participant to dance with her at the high school prom, meaning he's got to get his act together with the help of his best friend. Yeah. I think we all have one of those coming-of-age movies that we relate to. For me, Powder. Oh, yeah. It was Powder. It wasn't Heather's?

I never saw Heather's, actually. You never saw Heather's? No, I need to watch it. What? Yeah, I never watched it. I completely derailed Japan, and I'm so sorry. Oh, no, no, that's okay. So let's go Vegas.

Yeah, so Angus, you know, and I still love this movie to this day. Very 90s. I mean, you've got like Green Day on the soundtrack. Soundtrack is fantastic because there's a lot of alternative and punk rock in it. Yeah, and starring in this movie, the main guy, I think his name is Charlie Talbert. I never noticed anything he went on to do after this movie. Okay. But you've also got greats in this, like George C. Scott is in this. Oh, wow. Kathy Bates is in this. You've also got Chris Owen, where you may not know his name, but if you've ever seen American Pie, he was the Shermanator.

Oh, wait a minute. I have seen this. I saw it on a plane. Okay. Yeah, the ginger kid. Yeah, right. That kid was much younger. You've also got Ariana Richards in this. She was the little girl in Jurassic Park. She's also the little girl in Tremors. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's right. Lexi in Jurassic Park. Yes.

This movie is awesome. I remember seeing this on a plane going, wow, this is a powerful movie. It's a really good movie that no one is going to watch. And it's really sad because I honestly don't know anybody else outside my family that have ever seen this movie. I've seen it and it's fantastic. Show this to all your kids.

Honestly, it's a really good movie. There's a lot in it about bullying and just learning to be okay in your own skin. And, you know, like I said, you know, James Van Der Beek is in this and he plays the high school bully. He plays it so well that you just want to kind of punch him in the face, which I don't remember him in this. That's funny. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, he's great at playing the bully in this.

Just constantly picks on the poor main character of Angus. Yeah, a powerful movie, great movie. George C. Scott is great in this, as he always is. Yeah, for sure. So yeah, I recommend checking this one out. Nice. Okay, well, I second that, Panda. It's a good movie. It's a heavy movie, so you need to know that. It's not fun. It's not Monty Python, for heaven's sake. Yeah, I mean, there is humor in it, but it's like what they call a dramedy. So it's drama and comedy together. Yeah, I like that. All right, very good. What rating is this, Panda, for those people out there who will want to watch it? Is it like an R, or is it like a PG-13? Yeah, I think it's a PG-13.

Yeah, it's definitely not an R. So you can actually watch this with most of the family. Okay, well, I do have one question. Yes, sir. Where can we watch this, Panda? Well, sadly, it is not streaming for free anywhere, but you can rent it or buy it. And this is one of those two. It gets put up on a lot of the really cheap buy-sells, so you could probably find it for around $5. A couple bucks here or there. Nice. Good stuff. All right, well, listen, that is your show for your Thursday. Get ready for the Bad Meme Games. Yes. Memes that make you go, hmm. And congratulations to our bronze, silver, and gold winners this past week. Yeah, yeah. Way to go, Carl Parkinson, for freaking everybody out. Again, the event for this week's Bad Meme Games is Memes that make you go, hmm.

All right. It gets underway if you're listening on Thursday. It gets underway tonight at midnight. Nice. Cool. And we will be talking about the whole Savannah Guthrie mom kidnapping. There's so much there. And it's changing so fast. We have not forgotten about it. We are watching it very closely, but we want to know a little bit more before we talk about it. And Olympic stuff coming up on the next show. It's going to be a big show. It's coming your way Monday. It'll be here before you know it. So until then, Chandler. We'll see you when we see you. You guys say. You guys say. You guys say. You guys say.