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Is it OK to honor yourself in your own ring of fame?
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Limited battery warranty covers defects and materials for 10 years or 100,000 miles whichever occurs first. Sea owners manual for complete warranty details and limitations visit 100usa.com or call 5623144603 for more details. Now Danny's been chomping at the bit to talk about something all day. Frankly I don't understand it all, but I'm going to sit this one out, I'm going to put my feet up and I'm going to let you get excited and worked up about something that to me is not worth your energy, but tag your it. Arthur Blank, the owner, not former owner, the current owner of the Atlanta Falcons, is being inducted into their ring of honor while he's still the owner. This is incredible to me, eight playoff appearances in 22 years, one Super Bowl loss, ring of honor. He's going in the same time as Matt Ryan, you know the guy that put up all the yards and touchdowns. What kiss ass in the organization suggested it? I think we should induct Mr. Blank, he's really done such a great job here. That's a great plan, sir, everybody vote for Arthur Blank, on favor say hi, who's saying no, who's going to stand up? Actually this should probably be reserved for maybe after he's done here, after he sells the team, or I don't know some players that have done a lot of things here. Maybe we should get Jamal Anderson in the ring of honor before we do it. He's already there, I'm sure. I'm just aiming a couple of Falcons, I have no idea who's in the ring of honor or not. I do know that the bar has been lowered precipitously. The owner is basically forcing people to honor him while he's still the owner. He's not forcing. I don't think he went in and said I'd like to be in the ring of honor. I do. I guarantee you he dropped the hint to some secretary or somebody somewhere along the line, got the idea. We should nominate the current owner of the football team, you know, North Korea style. Let's hold a parade for the president because you're doing such a great job. What on earth is this? This is so comical. This is so embarrassing. Everyone should be lampooning this to the Instagram. He's been the owner for 23 years. It's not like it's Josh Harris who's been here for a month, although because he ripped the team away from Dan Snyder, I would gladly induct him. I'll put him in right now. Into the ring of honor. I can't grasp or understand your anger on this. It's not anger. It's disbelief. I am a gape. He's the owner of the team for a quarter of a century. How many years have they been a team? Is he the owner for a third of the time? Of course, he's going to be in the ring of honor eventually, not while he's still owning the team. And they're just middling there. So this is the off season. We do it under his leadership. They signed Kirk Cousins and drafted Michael Pennix Hall of Fame. Let's know whenever they have the last name blank again for this proud organization. What are we doing? Imagine this in any other walk of life. Imagine our boss asking to be inducted into the one oh six seven the fan Hall of Fame while he's still the boss. He's been here for decades. He's been in charge of everybody and everything. Imagine any scenario where the guy that's currently in charge asking to be honored and celebrated or not you're saying he asked. Is that known? Do we know that he asked? I'm assuming what he should do is go that's probably not appropriate. Let's let's save it for some players and if you want to do that after I'm gone or I've sold the team or posthumously, then we can do that. The idea that he's going to be inducted into the ring of honor like it's some kind of major achievement that he made his fortune with Home Depot Home Depot is an excellent company. What are we doing? Like imagine Dan Snyder declaring himself a ring of famer like I'm not saying they're the same, but imagine any owner right now despite not like Robert craft wants to go into the ring of fame while he's still the owner. All right. You got yourself nine Super Bowls where the hell the damn number is I get it. You know like Amara wants to go in or a one of the dudes from the Steelers after all the championships. I'd like to go into the ring of honor while I'm still alive. I want my family to be here. Okay. I get it. A lot of titles, a lot of winning seasons, just a middling mediocre NFC South franchise that doesn't charge that much for concessions. He owns the whole thing. Yeah. And everyone has to bow at his feet and pretend that he's excellent. The only part that I think is so funny is that you're so confident that he decided he'll go in. He has the power to do whatever he wants. Of course. So all you have to do is go that's probably not a great idea because it looks ridiculous. He could have said no, there's no reason for him to say no. They come to you and say, hey, we think you should be in the ring of fame. Why wait? Kim Jong blank. Thanks. Awesome. I don't know, man. Here's what I care about with Arthur blank or find interesting. This is the headline. I saw this week that I found interesting. Arthur blank is giving away a free hot dog chips and unlimited soda and a souvenir cup to all of the fans and attendance at their next game. And by the way, they normally are like two bucks each and they have the cheapest concessions in American sports, which is great. I go to Nat's Park every single home game. I get a souvenir Coke zero and then I drink two or three of them while I'm there. It cost me $13. I have spent probably, I don't know, I've been over 30 games this. I don't even want to do this math. This is going to be awful. I've spent $400 on soda at Nationals Park just getting souvenir drinks every time I go to the game. Think about that. Arthur blank is going. Here's your souvenir cup. Drink all the cola. You want fat. So he's giving me my hot dog and my bag of chips for free. That's what I care about. And you know what? You want to give me free food and give me $2 concessions. You know where that gets you the whole of fame, that gets you into the Falcons ring of honor, the ring of honor, absolutely reserved for the great in history, change the game on concession pricing, they go to the concessions Hall of Fame. He will be in the concessions Hall of Fame. If there was such thing, he could be he could be a first ballot. You caring about the owner of the team being in the ring of honor. Do you understand the same to me? Everyone should have the exact reaction I have. It is so absurd that the current owner of the team is just walking down the offices and it wants a round of applause just for showing up to work that day. He wants to be in the ring of honor based on what Hall of Fame for what? Running the team. Running the team. That's 25 years. He's run the hell out of it. Eight playoff appearances in 22 years. They got to a Super Bowl. They got to one. They got to one. They've had a good culture in fantastic, utterly fantastic. It's so middling. It's so embarrassing. It's a parade just to throw one. He wants the honor of being in the ring of fame. Like, here's what should happen. That's inappropriate. We should include Matt Ryan first. Let have him do it. Let's inappropriate. Let's get, you know, I'm trying to think of other Falcons. So many in his tutors and his leadership is your issue that like the lack of winning or that he's still active. I think or do you not want to pick one or the other? This dish that's being served to me, everyone should hang their heads in shame and embarrassment. Imagine tomorrow. Ted Leonce's declares, I'm going to have a Hall of Fame ring of honor induction ceremony for myself. I'm going to go into the ring of honor here in DC. I'm going to, I'm going to put my name up in the rafters with the great Stever play here in town. You go, that's patently ridiculous. I actually want to, I actually want to push this on the, let's see if anybody wants to weigh in on this because I'm, I'm curious. I don't really care either way necessarily. I'm amazed by your intrigue, but I want to know what people think. Do you see what Danny's seeing where they go? It's ridiculous that he would be in their ring of honor. Were you more in line with me where you go, of course he's going to be in the Hall of Fame for the Falcons. He's owned the team for 25 years. Of course. Why not? Who cares? He's the owner. Everyone should care. And by the way, you're, you come from a place where we hate the owner. They don't probably hate their owner. I don't know if they, they probably like him because the concessions are cheap. I'll bet you they like him just fine. Like there are organizations where the owner is never going to be that popular, but where you see a picture of the guy and you have positive thoughts, not negative thoughts. You know what I'm saying? Sure. I just, he's also one of the most beloved guys in terms of charity in the league. I know that. I don't know anything about him. So if he's not like does bad things to, I can't help you, but I do know that people always talk about all the money he spends off the field. I think there's a very positive feeling toward Arthur Blank in Atlanta. I think that's a, it's a different conversation than what you were used to. That sounds wonderful. Don't go into the Hall of Fame, stop going into the ring of honor when you haven't done anything. You're a chart. You own the team because you're, you're a billionaire. Like that's awesome. You've, you've won it like we're doing great to go in when he doesn't know on the team anymore. Okay. Or, or later. So, so you have to be dead. No. So he never gets to have the ceremony. He doesn't get to have his roses. He's not going to sell the team. It just goes to his kids when he died. Yeah. So they're, they're choices that you make. One of them is probably you're going to forego the ring of honor that honors football contributors from your own organization. No, no, no. That's not true. You get to collect. No dollars. Not football. There's executives. There's, there's referees. There's all kinds of people. Sure. He's got GMs in his history. He's got a football players in his history. I need work done in there before Arthur Blank goes. He's in there. More. Got it. I'm naming Falcons players. I know. But he's in it. Then do more Falcons players. No owners. This is state media. Everyone be upset. Stop this nonsense. Stay out of the ring of honor. Watch the game and go down to the sidelines and hold your dumb arms. You mustache zilch. You've never done anything. He owns the team. Oh, he does. Does he own the team? I haven't heard that yet. Yes. He owns the team. Put all the owners in rings of fame. Put them all in there. Jared Jones is going to be next. Ring of fame for me. He should be in the Cowboys. Ring of fame. He should watch the games and have an actual GM. He will do that too. He should shut his dumb mouth. Every owner should sit there and collect their billions, laughing at us peasants for lining their pockets. Stop putting yourself, stop honoring yourself simply for the privilege of owning the football team. The win is the money that comes your way and the endless value and huge tax breaks of the Ring of Honor, eight playoff trips in 22 years, $2 French fries, Ring of Honor. Yes. Two French fries is worthy of the accomplice. You're now just trolling. And it's adorable. I'm not. No, the owner should be in the hall in the Ring of Honor before their tenure is done. I just disagree. Agree immediately. This is so ridiculous. Congratulations to the greatest owner in Falcon's history. It's on what? Twenty five years of service. A big ability in their service. Yes. What service is happening? Running the organization, donating in the community. Cash register sounds. They give him a charity award. There's plenty of that. Give him the Roberto Clemente award for a fricking stupid football. The idea that he's going into the Ring of Fame. And who's going to tell him no? It gets suggested. It's like, I don't think Mr. Blank deserves it. It should be reserved for, I don't know, great football players to go in or GM's that picked winners. I don't think he nominated himself. He didn't say no. He's thrilled. He's going to shuck and jive out there and give a speech and it's going to go. This is great. He's great. The guy who's going to get to have his family around him for a day where he's honored for owning the team. Embarrassing. He was born in the early 40s, bro. Oh, okay. Put him in the ring then. Everyone in the 40s gets to go in the Ring of Honor for whatever they do. He owns the team. How long does he have to wait? He owns the team. He's 80. He owns the team. There's not that many opportunities. Great. He owns the team. I know. He's in 22 years. I could just do that over and over again. Well, I've given you many reasons. One, it's state media. It's embarrassing. It should, it should not be happening. We don't honor ourselves when we're in charge like this. You want to honor a general manager. He's not honoring himself though. He's 100% of himself. There's a whole group of people that run this that is honoring him. Plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. It's not just the ultra fast charging capability in long range in the Ionic 5 and Ionic 6 or the adventure seeking spirit of the Kona Electric or the groundbreaking 601 horsepower Ionic 5N. And it's not just the comfort in knowing that every Hyundai EV is backed by a 10 year, 100,000 mile limited electric battery warranty. Hyundai's EVs transform a low hum into a loud adventure. They bring color to your journey and turn energy into main character energy. So forget everything you thought you knew about EVs and turn the extraordinary into something true. 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Whatever pick pick 11,000 Falcons that actually did something instead of doing that stands on Robinson and I don't care. He's easy. No ball players in the ring of fame for football that not rich jackasses that hover on the sidelines over their coach and fold their arms. Coaches are in it. Good. I'll bet previous owners are in it. Shouldn't be. No. So no owners can't be in it at all. If they achieve, if they achieve over a long time, not just our middling at best in his ownership over 22 years. Let's go to Josh and up for Murrow Burrow and Grant and Danny. What's up, Josh? Hey, Grant, does he own the team? Yes. He owns the team. Listen, I'm with Grant H. Paulson on this one, and the reason is, one, if you can back it up with a decent amount of accomplishments, obviously we're not doing anything, you know, we wouldn't have done anything for Dan Snyder. But two, if you're an old guy and there's a decent chance in the next 10 years you're going to die, like I hate to say be that morbid or 20 years, whatever you want to say. He is at the life expectancy, bro, you know, all the organizations you've supported and have a little thing. Like Danny, is this one more thing that you hate? Are we adding this to the list now? What's going on? This is right at the top of the list. Do you hear him yelling? Yeah. I'd say hate. Hey, I got a losing record. When's my ring of honor time? When is that? I know you hate me saying this. He owns the team. No, no, I was going to say that. Does he own the team? Yeah. He owns the team. He is giving away hot dogs chips and soda this in honor of himself getting into the ring of honor. Correct. You want to do that? You could do that. He's already he's already a hero for the cheap concessions. No. Put him in the concession Hall of Fame. His concessions is cheap as him. He's I love it. I wish we did that. That's the kind of behavior that gets you in to the ring of honor to the ring of honor. There you go. Let's go to Jack and Springfield on Grant and Danny. What's up, Jack? Yeah. Grant, Grant, listen, I know what you want and I know what you're not. And you're not a cop. Right. Okay. All right. We got that out the way. We got it out the way. Both of you guys got a great point. Danny, you're still a little too long and you saw it there. I was worried about your blood pressure because you got a very good point. Now, Grant, you made you drop the mic on your point because concessions at any event, you're going to take out a loan or forfeit your kids to pay for a dog, soda, and chips up for the fam. So that right there, not only the Hall of Fame, that fellas going right to Fat Person Heaven. Yes. And I will be there by the way, I will be at the, is there a Peter at the gates? I'll be Peter at Fat Person Heaven. Okay. And I will welcome him in with open arms. Now, Danny, you will not be there at this point, okay? Because you're playing a lot of pickleball. But if you do and you interact with Arthur Blake, I will remind him about the time that you popped a blood vessel yelling about this. Let's go to Kendall and Temple Hills. What's up, Kendall? Yeah. This is radio gold right here. I am crying laughing. Danny, here's a suggestion. Sure. Me, you and Grant, we're going to pull all our resources, all of our finances together. And hopefully we'll be able to buy a team. And when we do, guess what we can do? Just honor ourselves. Let's do it. Just honor ourselves. We can put our names up there, Grant, Danny, and Kendall. And, and guess what? We can invite our families and have a great time because he owns the team. He owns the team. He owns the team. You have a losing record for two decades and we can all, he can own the team. Kendall, 23 years of service later, we're not going to do it in week one. We got to be in our eighties, stretch on down the stretch they come. Kristen has a great question. She of course, of Grant and Danny fantasy football league. Oh, indeed. Yes. You're running back here. You're not giving out waffles to the fans at any games. Good question. Yeah. Until you do, you can't be in the ring of mine. I'm going to check Ben's standings timeline to see if he has any more on that development. Jeremy's on the G.W. Parkway. Jeremy, he owns the team. He owns the team. Jeremy. That is a fact. He does. He's on the team. Thank you for taking my call. What we'll put out there though is ask yourself this. What are qualities of a good leader and answer that I'm going to give you a good leader does not does not give themselves the credit for their accomplishments. They give that. They give the line share of the credit to the people who help build the organization. And I think it's badly absurd for him to be self congratulating publicly like this. It's comical. You got this is the best radio conversation. I've heard it a while. Good job, guys. Well, thank you. We appreciate that. He's team Danny. So you do have at least one person locking arms with you. Sure, to fight the masses, I don't. I guess the part I take issue with that that's too strong because I would mean I emotionally care. But the part I disagree with the most is that this idea that he's honoring himself, someone came to him and said, Arthur, we want you to be in the ring of fame. And the 81 year old guy said, Oh, man, my grandparents will love to walk out on my grandkids. We'll love to walk out on the field with me that day. That'll be cool. Yeah. Some suck up went up to him and said, Mr. Mr. Blank, we're going to honor you, sir. And a ring of fame of before Julio Jones is I'm sure I'm sure that's what happened. Yeah. What? I mean, what? What sniveling little kiss has did that? Who's been in the building for 20 plus years? The guy that owns the building bled more, sweat more, and spent more time keeping their fingers crossed on the final drive for algae crumpler than Arthur Blake. Actual football people. Not not the Home Depot guy. There's there's a Home Depot Hall of Fame put his ass in it. You're just anti billionaire. Not even a little bit. Not even a little bit. He's been very successful. That doesn't entitle you to honors because he was the richest dude in the room. He won the bidding. So congrats. You know what your prize is? The football team. Let's go to PJ and rest. And what's up, PJ? Guys, thank you for taking my call. I'm super passionate about this. I respect both Brandon and his opinion. I'm team grand on this one. I wrote a, I wrote actually on my Facebook about this eight years ago when he dropped these two construction. When eight years. You were first on the scene. Eight years, sir. You knew he's going to be honored. No, no, no, no. What I'm saying is that when he dropped, I should add an article of myself better. So to me, there's a deep meaning to this and I'm very, very happy that he's being honored in this way. And I'll tell you what. Out of the 32 owners in the NFL, he's probably like the nicest human being for so many reasons. He's a rare billionaire that is using his wealth to not hoard everything, but to actually help people and especially since Corona, right? I went to Giant today grocery store. Guys, I got Old Spice deodorant. I have to pay $14 for Old Spice deodorant. The top 1% have completely ripped off society since Corona happened. I don't want it to be a socialist, purely social country. I want it to be. Get back. We're delving into. You're doing politics. Get back to different waters. My friend. I'm sorry about the Old Spice cost as well. Yeah. I'm sorry to pay a lot for deodorant. I'm going to, I'm going to tie it all together. All right. We'll get there quickly or we got to kick you off the stand counselor. So there is a deep meaning to this because for, for what he does, helping the working class, he's one of the few rich people that is looking at for like the common person and for people that are not that wealthy, things like that, for what he did the year and there's a lesson to be learned. The year that he dropped the concessions prices to the lowest prices ever, they had the most profit. So it's not binary. You can lower price. Right. Yeah. I appreciate the call PJ. And he showed, I will. This is not stick. I was doing a little stick with the concessions, but he did show at a time where everyone's going more and more and more. This is actually a way forward, just like Jesse tweeted here, complete left field conversation, but blank also built one of the most modern stadiums that set the mold for sports around the world. Blank also has success with Atlanta United who's won MLS cups and set attendance records. That probably not as important to the Falcons thing, but seriously, the way they built the stadium, the fact that everyone's copying it, it's the stadium, you got to go tour before you build your own thing in the same way that like owners get into the hall of fame for being transcendent and you know, being these trendsetters, he checks a lot of those boxes. So that's how you get into the ring of honor. You have been an impactful person making the Falcons look better for many, many years. So they're not by winning games or having a winning record over a couple of decades. They got to a Super Bowl. They've had an FC championship games eight out of 22. They've had nice seasons. Um, they've been middling at best. And that's to be kind for the most part. You what should be happening is not this, like we need to not honor ourselves when we haven't accomplished anything. We need to say that's probably, that's probably not appropriate. I agree with you. And when you are in so in charge and you can fire somebody because they look at you funny, he may be the nicest guy ever in public. I have no idea. I don't know how altruistic he really is or not. I know this, the owner of the football team, while they're just okay, it's probably not the right idea to say it's a great time to congratulate Arthur Blank on all the achievement when they haven't really achieved. If he walked into a boardroom and said, I want to be honored and be in the ring of fame, this year I'll feel differently, I doubt that happened. But I agree with you that we shouldn't be honoring ourselves. I would also say though, if you're in your eighties and you've been at something for your entire life and somebody wants to give you an afternoon where they clap for you and bring your family around and you all share in a moment, you should get to do that and smell those roses. Let's do a special certificate that says you gave a lot to charity. Let's do a community award that you looked out for the working man. According to what PJ was saying, there's a lot of things we can do. Let's get, let's get Julio Jones into that ring of honor. What do you say? Let's say we got a couple football players in there before the owner of the team. Let's get, let's get you ready for Nat's baseball on Grant and Danny right now with your starting lineups for the Nationals presented by the window man since 1989, the window man has been the educational window company. Get your free no pressure, no mess. The minute the window man dot com or their Fairfax showroom behind DJ. Let me off the shorts up seat, everyone's betting second to right field Dylan Cruz betting third and left field. 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That and a thousand on the season, we're going to keep it tonight. 72 degrees over at city field. Light winds coming in from the southwest region. I think it'll be a beautiful night for baseball down at city field at a boy. How do you feel? Get back on the saddle. You know, it felt good. It felt like home. I know you don't like doing the weather anymore. You retired from your dude did not retire from my duties. I'm still here. Still, still the weather guy. Daris has done a great job the last few weeks. I think. What do you think? He's been fine. He's been fine. He's been fine. Trouble in paradise. Wow. He's been fine. I don't know. He wally pipped. Clary. Last time he was out. Depends on us who's listening and how much they like that. Indeed. Daris could be in some trouble for whether off Ryan and our guy Chris behind the scenes, Grant and Danny saying so long. Remember, do not ever accept any kind of a congratulations for your hard work. Don't do that. Just be mediocre. You get honored. Thanks for listening. Clack tomorrow till tomorrow, Vargas. Thank you for coming. Plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. It's not just the ultra fast charging capability in long range in the Ionic 5 and Ionic 6 or the adventure seeking spirit of the Kona electric or the groundbreaking 601 horsepower Ionic 5N. And it's not just the comfort in knowing that every Hyundai EV is backed by a 10 year, 100,000 mile limited electric battery warranty. Hyundai's EVs transform a low hum into a loud adventure. They bring color to your journey and turn energy into main character energy. So forget everything you thought you knew about EVs and turn the extraordinary into something true. Electrifying. There's joy in every journey. 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