Jonah, I'm not sure if you noticed, but Chris is wearing a black armband today. Why is that? Well, because, you know, Canada lost. Oh, yeah. I had to look down. I was like, I'm wearing a black armband? Chris, you okay? I'm good. You sure? This free bird is not going to trigger you, is it? Because this is, of course, the song that Team USA played when they would score a goal against Cannon. Now, listen, if you want to say Canuck you to me, I totally understand. You know I'm not a boot that life, Dan. We're peaceful people. Yes, sure. The funniest thing I saw, I didn't watch the game, but the funniest thing I saw all weekend was the White House quote tweeting Justin Trudeau from back in February of 2025 where he said, you can't take our country and you can't take our game. They quote tweeted that and they just added a picture of an American eagle tackling a Canadian goose. Oh, that was the best. Oh, that's awesome. It's so good. Yeah. By the way, a quick congratulations, Joan, to 6229. Yeah. Getting ready to retire. Yes. Yes. This is what I love about what we do, right? So, and I spoke about this a little bit with our friend when our friend Aaron passed away. where we truly appreciate our listeners and we truly love to hear what's going on with you, what's going on with your life. 6229, congratulations to you. The only thing that I ask is that you wake up early still to listen to us at 5 a.m. I did request that of this person. Did you? We just have to make sure they're retiring from work, not the morning show. That's exactly right. And that's why we always make sure the 5 a.m. hour does not suck. And everybody knows it. Because we want to make it worth it to wake up for the 5 o'clock hour. Now, if you miss it, you can always go back and listen to the podcast at 99.7WTN.com. By the way, we apparently only, Chris, have 11 tickets left to the big shindig at the Legends Pizza. Legends Steakhouse. How do you like your pizza, Dan? Legendary. So what I like. Well done. Well done with ketchup. The absolute madman. So we only have 11 tickets left. So if you want to go. It's the biggest game on the planet and nobody breaks it down like Jim Rome. Super Bowl run. Who do you think will be the last one standing this year? Fearless debate and the best callers in sports. Okay, what'd you say? Defense wins Super Bowl. That defense absolutely is Super Bowl caliber. The quarterbacking sure as hell wasn't. He's the spitfire of sports smack. A lot to get to, and I'm not sure you're going to like all of it. Honestly, I don't even care if you like all of it or not. I have a job to do. The Jim Rome Show. Get up in here. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Tickets are going fast. Now, there's no truth to the rumor that says that if you are the last person to buy Ticket 100, that you get an elongated hug from yours truly. There's no truth to that rumor. I don't know who it was that started that rumor, but if you are the 100th person, I may give you a high five. Oh. There you go. Oh, a whole high five. No, there's only 11 tickets left. I never in a million years would have thought that we'd be able to sell this many tickets to this thing. Well, you're a constant pessimist. I'm a Gary Downer. You are Jeb Bush when it comes to our events. You're like, please come. Please. Please come. Please come. Please. Please clap. No, 2712. Joan is not retiring. 62-29 is retiring. Come on, guys. Come on, man. You know, 30, 40 years down the road, Joan's going to be our Mitch McConnell in there. She will be. She'll, like, freeze up in the middle of a newscast. Yeah, we'll be like, you all right? I'll just stop. Like, no more questions for the newswoman. Thank you, guys. And you guys can lead me away. Perfect. Yeah. Trevor says, I take my pizza with double pineapple, Chris. Oh, that's a Canadian thing. Do you know what? Pizza is actually really good with pineapple. Yeah, it's not really pizza. I don't mind it. We need to do that. No. Canadian bacon. It's just ham. Canadian bacon or ham and pineapple and listening to Brian Adams. That's a day right there. It's the most Canadian you can get. And watch the Canucks. Yeah. Right? Have a little Tim Hortons. Have a little Tim Hortons coffee for your post meal. A little Timmy's. A little Timmy's. That's exactly right. Wash it down with some poutine. Sure. Remind me what poutine is again. It's cheese curds and gravy over french fries. That just sounds... Cheese curds and gravy over french fries? Oh, okay. It's awesome, Joe. Yeah, all right. I'd be down for that. I'm just telling you, that actually sounds really nasty. It's been really hard in Murfreesboro. They got rid of the party fowl, and they used to do hot chicken on top of their poutine, which was just so good. The party... The party fowl restaurant Oh the party fowl No more R I think all of them closed I don think so The one in Nashville is still going on isn it I don think so I think it done Really I think it cooked Is it because the It cooked From what I understood the parties turned foul and that why they had to close. That's what I heard, too. Joan, can I get a, that's funny, Dan? Dan, whew, that was, that was amazing. Hey, is my audio up in there, guys? Audio up? Hello? Is that why they weren't laughing at your great jokes? Shut up, Chris. I'm not left in the game. Do you believe in miracles? Yes! Unbelievable. Were you even alive in 1980? I was negative eight, Dan. You were negative eight. So that was February 22nd, 1980. U.S. beats the Soviet Union for the gold. Al Michaels, miracle on ice. You know that Al Michaels wasn't even the guy for that game. They wanted a more seasoned sportscaster, but the ones that they had signed were football guys. So they didn't really know the game. So he was like, OK, yeah, I'll do hockey. That's fine. And it became one of the most iconic calls in all of sports history. The crazy thing is Al Michaels, I don't want to nerd out on sports people, but Al Michaels is not even necessarily known for hockey. He's known for football and for baseball. That's what I'm saying. And he was known for that back in the day when he was starting up his career. and all of the seasoned broadcasters kind of got their claim on what they wanted. Yep. And he got stuck with hockey. And then out of all the calls from that Olympics, are any of them remembered like that one? No way. Would you say that is one of the most iconic play-by-play calls ever? You've got the Giants win the pennant, right, from way back when. The Giants win the pennant. Mazeroski, Bill Mazeroski hits that home run, right? I should have planned this better. And then you've got this, and I don't know what else. You've got that one from Philadelphia where the guy was crying because they kept throwing batteries at Santa Claus. Yes, that as well. I remember that one. I don't know where I was going with that. Joan was in the audience during that. She was throwing the batteries. She was hucking the batteries at Santa Claus. Were you there, Joan? No. Yeah, that's what she would say. Then this was this weekend. Watch across it comes. Jeff Hughes wins it. The golden goal for the United States. for the first time since the 1980 miracle. The United States takes the gold. So Jack Hughes, the best part of the whole thing, we were talking about this earlier, the best part of the whole thing was Jack Hughes being interviewed. He's got like two or three teeth that are either cut in half or missing. This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong, and we have so much support from next players. I'm so proud to be American today. This was such an incredible game to grind out. I mean, you're bleeding right through it just looking at you right now. Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal was to win? Unbelievable game by Hellebuck. I mean, he lost teeth. He was our best player tonight by a mile. Unbelievable game. Unreal game by our team. That's just a ballsy, gutsy win. that's american hockey right there that's a great canadian team but we're usa we're so proud to be americans tonight was all for the country what does this gold medal mean to usa hockey it's everything like i said the usa hockey brotherhood means so much look at these guys we're such a team we've been together for two weeks we're such a team the usa hockey brotherhood is so strong and we're so proud to win for our country so there you go very cool you know trump called in So people are freaking out. Yeah, I saw it. Because Cash Patel was in the locker room chugging beers with the team. Okay. So I don't really care that he was in the locker room. Oh, I don't either. But he looked so corny. Can we just agree on that? He did. Like he looked like an absolute cheese ball. So you're saying that. Like just a tweet. Do you know what he looked like? He looked like the little brother. Yes. He looked like the water boy. Yeah. Is what he looked like. It was embarrassing. Or the beer guy. Like a. Every week on the Stacking Benjamins podcast, we talk personal finance trends. Not paying attention to the headlines is the strategy proven to work. One headline, economists fear global recession. Literally the next headline, stocks hit all-time highs, investors optimistic on the future. They're even doing it to the weather now. 28 million people in the path of this snowstorm. That means 340 million people have got good weather. It's just weather. Layers, people. Layers. Stacking Benjamins. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. All the politics aside, it was embarrassing. This is Donald Trump calling in. Unbelievable, and you were all unbelievable. And that team is pretty good you played. I don't know. You know, I'll tell you what. I just told my people two minutes ago, I didn't know they'd be calling. I said, we're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. I could send a military plane or something But if you would like to it the coolest night It the biggest We in Can you pick us up in Miami on Tuesday morning Yeah, Tuesday morning. Close the northern border. We'll get the cash and we'll get the military to get you guys over. Let's go. Boys are going to the State of the Union. So I have didn't watch regret. I've coined a new phrase because that's what I do. didn't watch regret. I regret that I didn't watch the game. You can replay it. I mean, it's like, honestly. But Joan, I already know the ending. It doesn't work like that for sports, Joan. No, it doesn't. Sorry. What's wrong with you, Joan? Hey, did you guys see what the Huffington Post posted? No. Oh, you didn't? No. They have a piece on social media that was captioned, if waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. What? Yeah. There's a name for the Discomfort your feeling watching the Olympics right now. TDS? Yeah. What's the name? Like, what did they say? They say, so let me, oh, it doesn't link to it. It's called stupid is what it is. Yeah, well, I mean, who needs to read beyond that? You're feeling uncomfortable with being a patriotic American? Honestly? If you're uncomfortable with the American flag, then go to Iran and wave their flag. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like there's nothing wrong. If you're uncomfortable with other people's patriotism, that's a you problem. Yeah. Get over it. You know what I mean? Especially on the hockey game. Just chill. Yeah. It's a hockey game. Yeah. At the end of the day. Yeah. Nothing but a hockey game. And that was the Olympics. And we could we apparently we kicked that. We could. But. I'm trying not to curse. Two T's. Most gold medals that we've ever won. Right. Is that what they said? Yes. Yes. So. Yes. Most gold medals that we've ever won. You know, though, Joan, I've sent note to my contacts within the Trump administration. Much like Greenland, we have to take over Norway because they're the ones winning all the gold medals. Oh, yeah. That's rightful American, Clay. That's exactly right. We need to take over Norway so that we can get all the gold medals. 18 Norway got. 18 gold medals. What did we get? 17? No, we got 12. We got 12. We got 12. Team USA won a total of 12. Women's hockey won the gold. Yep. Can I? No, never mind. No, no, no. No, no, no. What? What? Come on, Dan. No, I shouldn't. You're going to get in trouble? What's going on? You can talk to us, Dan. We'll listen. We're here for you, dude. We're all ears. Hey, Chris. It's just us, Dan. Hey, Chris, just you and I talking. Were you surprised at how good-looking some of the women's hockey players were? I didn't. No, honestly. There were some pretty good-looking women's hockey players. I didn't think they would be so good-looking. Because let's be honest. Women's roller derby back when we were in elementary school. You were expecting the 80s gym teacher type build. Yes, I was. But they had some very attractive women's hockey players. Do they all have teeth? I didn't see them smile, actually. It's a plausible question. It's a great question. I don't know how to answer that. Chris is in here. You know what's so funny? Chris can feel the awkward and he's not going to help me out. Say something, Chris. What? I'm just saying. No, I didn't watch much of the women's hockey. I didn't watch any of it either. I saw the highlights. I was leaning into your expertise. I wanted you to relay what you saw. Gold, 12 gold medals, including women's hockey. Silver, 12. That is very excited about. Bronze nine, what? You're very excited about the women's hockey, clearly. We had a total of 33 medals. That ranks second overall in golds and total medals. So we got to fight Norway. We do. We got to take them over by the next Winter Olympics in four years. Did you guys hear the story about how President Trump sent a mercy ship over to Greenland? No. He sent a mercy ship. It was a hospital ship, right? Yeah. They were planning to, and then Greenland and Denmark said, no, thank you. Don't do it. Don't bring your ship over here to help our people. What's going on in Greenland that they need a mercy ship? Why did Greenland... You brought it up, Joan. Need a mercy ship. What did they hit with something? Winter Ebola. Winter Ebola. Delivering pizzas to the great white cold, whatever it is. Many residents are sick and not receiving proper care. However, Greenland's government firmly rejected the offer, stating it was not needed. They have a free public health care system. I having shade you know flashbacks to the hospital ships during COVID going to New York that were never used Yeah Dan going to sleep in the doghouse tonight says Tim The women hockey play Oh, 51. Oh, God, I'm not reading that. What? 51.94. I can't. No, no, no. Don't read it. No, I have to read it. Well, you know. I think it's just a dentist joke. It's a dentist joke. I think so. Oh. Something about women and teeth. Anyway, so Chris. Oh, my gosh. I just read it. Your thoughts, Joan? My thoughts are we have some incredible listeners. And when she says incredible, that could go either way, right? We love our listeners. By the way, we are going to meet the listeners at Legend Steakhouse. You know what I love about these events is meeting listeners. Do you know what I don't love about these events? Meeting listeners? No, I love listeners. I thought you were going to do the double. I love meeting the listeners. I don't like meeting the listeners. No, no, no. I never get to eat. Like everybody's talking about how great the steak is at Legend Steakhouse. You have to make some time for you. Yeah, you just don't eat because you don't like to eat in front of people. Let's be honest, Dan. It's true. That might be true, yes. I don't like to eat in front of people, but I also feel like if I'm going to spend 30 minutes eating by myself, that's 30 minutes that I could spend meeting people. Why is it taking you 30 minutes? To eat a big old Legend Steakhouse steak? I feel like you could hustle that thing down at 15. When you cook it over, Dan, it's kind of hard to get down. Wipe it on your pants and move on. Yeah, it's because Dan gets it well done. It's hard to chew. Yeah. Well done. You have to chew twice as long, apparently. Is that what it is? I think so. I mean, it's jerky. I can get you one of those little pop-up tents. We can set up like a single table in there for you. We can't use the velvet rope. That's for the leftists that are joining. Yeah, we have to create a safe space for all of our leftists. Is that what it is? You know, to our credit, I don't think we've ever had like a blocked off area for just WTN personnel. We've never done that. No. We're always hanging out with people. We like to mingle. We very much like to mingle. I mean, no offense, Chris. I like talking to listeners more than I like talking to you guys on the air. Likewise. Yeah? I take offense. Well, you're not there, Joan. Joan, if you were going to be there and on the air with us, we would totally like talking to you more than listeners. Yeah. 100%. But you, Joan, have decided not to show up. And Joan, that is okay. Thanks, Dan. Thank you for okaying my not being there. I don't think Joan's come to any of our events since Dan was sticking his fingers in her pizza. No, no, she stuck her fingers in mine. She's the one that stole the pepperoni off my pizza. I don't recall it happening that way. See, it was another instance of you weren't eating the pizza. It was driving me crazy. You got pizza there. Eat it. So just so we're clear now, both the women in my life are angry with me. Amy for saying that the Team USA women's hockey team, some hot girls in there, women. And Joan now for, you know, reminding her of how angry I was as a member of the patriarchy that she took a pepperoni off my pizza. Let's see here. 8886, be sure to tell them you love hugs from listeners, Dan. I don't mind hugs from listeners. That got way overplayed early on. I'm totally cool with hugging listeners. Well, then what? If it's true, you... All right, let's address the elephant in the room. Please, Joan. It's about time. You don't have a warm embrace. It's very cold. What are you talking about? He's very cold. He's a very cold individual, Joan. When have you and I ever embraced Chris? I've watched from afar. somebody somebody get al michaels in and we can do play by play on my embracing of listeners we will that's that's i already talked to the social team we're gonna get all the reels joan i'm reasonably certain you and i have never embraced either we have oh we have not we have too when joan said to me and i quote would have rather hug the cactus that's what she said oh my goodness gracious this is what we're doing now so that seems too far joan she said not far enough So what you're saying, Joan, is I need to practice my embracing? Well, yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know what? Amy's available later today. Not anymore. Dan was talking about the women's hockey team. Oh, yeah. Sorry. You know what? Football teams have, like, tackle dummies. I need an embracing dummy. Dan's the guy that's going to get that punching bag that looks like a scary dude, but he's going to get it to practice hugging. That's exactly right. Mic drop. Hosted by former Navy SEAL Mike Ridland. 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