Hour 4: Intros & Fraudulence

Summary

Don, Hahn & Rosenberg Podcast Summary Episode: Hour 4: Intros & Fraudulence
Release Date: January 31, 2025

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Introduction and Opening Banter

The episode begins with the hosts, Don La Greca, Alan Hahn, and Peter Rosenberg, engaging in light-hearted banter about the show's introduction segments. They discuss previous intros, referencing iconic shows like Michael Kay's and Mad Dog's, and express a desire to refine their own opening to better captivate their audience.

• Alan Hahn (00:43): "This is the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast."
• Don La Greca (00:35): "That sounds like heaven to me."

Podcast Intro and Opening Clips Discussion

A significant portion of the episode focuses on the podcast's intro and the effectiveness of their opening clips. The hosts reminisce about past shows and intros, debating what works and what doesn't. They consider incorporating more dynamic and authentic elements to energize the show from the start.

• Peter Rosenberg (02:05): "I kind of feel like it's a con. If Bart likes it, that's almost a reason not to do it."
• Alan Hahn (02:44): "It became a thing. Bart loved it. That's the greatest city in the world."

Caller Interactions: Authenticity in Fandom

Listeners call in to discuss the concept of being a "fraud" fan—someone who supports a team without genuine passion or switches allegiances for convenience. The conversation delves into what qualifies someone as a true fan versus a fraud, with personal anecdotes highlighting the complexity of fandom loyalty.

• Caller Edgar (08:18): "Your intro with Bart Scott. They had the best hands down."
• Alan Hahn (09:54): "That’s how winning is done."

Main Discussion: Fraudulent Fandom in Sports

The core of the episode revolves around fraudulent fandom, exploring why some fans may not be genuinely invested in their chosen teams. The hosts analyze different scenarios, such as switching teams after major wins or losing interest without longstanding support. They debate whether authenticity in fandom is essential for enjoying sports and how societal influences affect fan loyalty.

• Don La Greca (16:24): "I never grew up a big sports fan. The only thing in my house that was religion was being a Yankee fan."
• Peter Rosenberg (17:18): "You are a specific fraud."

Rivalries and Team Loyalty Across Sports

The conversation expands to discuss rivalries and loyalty within and across various sports leagues. The hosts share their perspectives on maintaining loyalty to teams despite changes in league structures, realignments, and personal experiences with heartbreak over losses.

• Alan Hahn (25:01): "If you're a Giants fan, you never... even if you despise Mahomes, you still don't want to see the Eagles win a Super Bowl."
• Don La Greca (27:33): "If the Commanders made it to the Super Bowl, I would root against them."

Evolving Nature of Sports Rivalries

The hosts highlight how traditional rivalries have evolved with league expansions and realignments. They express nostalgia for past divisions where rivalries were more intense and discuss how modern changes have diluted some of these long-standing competitive edges.

• Don La Greca (31:06): "Winning your division doesn't lock you into a top two seed."
• Alan Hahn (32:33): "There are very few real traditional rivalries that still exist, but they're not as much as they used to."

Promotional Segments and Advertisements

Interspersed throughout the episode are promotional segments for various sponsors, including Ramsey Mazda, TaxAct, Mint Mobile, and LinkedIn. These segments are seamlessly integrated into the conversation but are quickly skipped by the hosts to maintain the episode's flow.

• Alan Hahn (19:34): "Choose wisely. Choose Ramsey Mazda."
• Peter Rosenberg (34:26): "With live betting all game long, you jump in the action."

Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on the discussions and express their appreciation for listener interactions. They encourage more calls and feedback, emphasizing the importance of community engagement in shaping the show’s content.

• Alan Hahn (43:16): "Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast."
• Peter Rosenberg (43:21): "Don't listen to anything you just said."

Key Takeaways and Conclusions

• Authenticity in Fandom: Genuine support for a team enhances the sports experience, while fraudulent fandom can lead to less meaningful engagement.
• Impact of Realignments: Changes in league structures have altered traditional rivalries, making some fan bases less passionate.
• Host Perspectives: The hosts advocate for sticking with teams through both highs and lows to maintain true fan integrity.
• Community Importance: Listener interactions and feedback play a crucial role in the show's dynamic and content direction.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Alan Hahn (02:44): "It became a thing. Bart loved it. That's the greatest city in the world."
• Don La Greca (16:24): "I never grew up a big sports fan. The only thing in my house that was religion was being a Yankee fan."
• Peter Rosenberg (17:18): "You are a specific fraud."
• Alan Hahn (25:01): "If you're a Giants fan, you never... even if you despise Mahomes, you still don't want to see the Eagles win a Super Bowl."
• Don La Greca (31:06): "Winning your division doesn't lock you into a top two seed."

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This episode of Don, Hahn & Rosenberg offers a deep dive into the nuances of sports fandom, challenging listeners to reflect on their own loyalty and engagement with their favorite teams. Through engaging discussions and listener interactions, the hosts provide insightful perspectives on maintaining authenticity in an ever-evolving sports landscape.

Transcript

[Don La Greca]

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[Alan Hahn]

This is the Don Han and Rosenberg podcast.

[Don La Greca]

That sounds like heaven to me.

[Alan Hahn]

Listen live weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It gets better every time.

[Alan Hahn]

I was gonna just say, like, they name me a better show. Intro beat. I'm waiting. There is no sir.

[Don La Greca]

Turn it on and try them. That wasn't bad. Michael K. Oh, don't do that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don't do that.

[Don La Greca]

No, I'm just giving you some example. Two iconic shows.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't know.

[Alan Hahn]

Nothing can get by them. Turn it on and try to go.

[Don La Greca]

Through the whole time of this.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, I'm just saying.

[Don La Greca]

Infringement.

[Alan Hahn]

Isn't that how the. Isn't that how it went? Nothing can get by him.

[Don La Greca]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Turn it on and try them.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, that was the mic and the mad dog.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, that was it. And then doggy would open up the show. I used to do this sometimes for Rick. Cause Rick loved it. He'd do the like, ah, get after that, everybody like, oh, yeah. It was just the way he would open the show. There was just something exciting about it. And you guys hate it. So I can't do it on our show. I like the big open. You guys right away rolled up the newspaper and smacked me down until the puppy. Now I flinch now.

[Don La Greca]

Have you heard a joke that much of you?

[Alan Hahn]

Ah, he's the best.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What?

[Alan Hahn]

What did we do, Peter, you remember mocking my whole, you know, 3:00 in the greatest scene in the world?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't. I don't know.

[Alan Hahn]

You did. You said it sounds very Midwestern radio.

[Don La Greca]

But I wasn't a negative. I don't think we were negative about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Let me.

[Alan Hahn]

It was negatory.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, first of all, let me, let me. Let's show the whole thing. We were trying to come up and I still want to change the audio clips that we play at the beginning of the show when it goes Don Han. And so next week when I get back into things, I'll sit down with Anthony and try to find some. And Brown. Sure. And try to find some new clips.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But at first we said, oh, what could Alan's thing be? And Don, the idea was maybe we could have him saying it's 3 o'clock and the greatest thing in the world.

[Alan Hahn]

It's 12 o'clock in the greatest city in the world.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And when he did it, when he recorded the ones that we did, they just, it all felt very forced. And so I said, no, let's not do it. I didn't say, I didn't diss it as a concept kind of. I just said it wouldn't have fit in what we were looking to do.

[Alan Hahn]

Kind of felt like it. Don't feel like it. Don did his. I actually stole it from Don because Don used to do the whole, you know, 5:00 in the big city and I love that. So I turned it into my own thing with the greatest scene in the world. I did that at the 7 o'clock show is when I first started doing that as a way to just kick, kickstart myself into the show. Little, you know, a little energy boost right at the top. So it became a thing. Bart loved it. That's the greatest city in the world.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Greatest city in the world, man.

[Don La Greca]

You sure?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, was that a drop or was that actually.

[Don La Greca]

No, I don't know.

[Alan Hahn]

That was Jacob and Bart making a.

[Don La Greca]

Take it the way you want. I kind of feel like it's a con. If Bart likes it, that's like almost a reason not to do it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Like, he's mocking you. Like it's, it's fake.

[Don La Greca]

It's. It felt like that.

[Alan Hahn]

You don't think, like, open up the show. Like. And that was again, a Mad Dog kind of thing. Just coming in with that whole thing. Good afternoon, everybody. How are you today? Like, there was just something great about that, right?

[Peter Rosenberg]

But that's because he, that's because dog.

[Alan Hahn]

He'D say it's Tuesday, you know, like, nobody ever says that, but he does. It's Tuesday.

[Don La Greca]

You be you. I'm not going to stop you from doing.

[Alan Hahn]

Too late now. I can't be me now because you got me flinching. That's it. That's it. I, I, this is what.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Please don't. Please just keep going. Power forward. Are you guys, Are you guys seeing that Chris Carlin is doing the new food thing?

[Alan Hahn]

What thing?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Look, look, this is on the.

[Don La Greca]

Is that why he was off today?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Our opening edition of Carlin's Corner Table.

[Don La Greca]

Takes us to Brooklyn to a legendary classic.

[Alan Hahn]

Why is he talking like Aaron Rodgers?

[Peter Rosenberg]

And we are starting a little on the bougie side with Peter Lugers. This past Saturday afforded me.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay, I'm good opportunity to dine at.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This ve shrine to the.

[Alan Hahn]

When he goes into, when he goes into character, it's really funny. I love Carlos but he does sound a little bit like Aaron Rodgers there, didn't he?

[Peter Rosenberg]

He did. He did have a little bit of a little bit of a little, little bit of Aaron Rodgers there. Yeah, I love Bobby. Yeah, I love Bobby.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, he's. He's calling college basketball. That's why he's off espn. College basketball. It wasn't that he's moonlighting as a food critic.

[Don La Greca]

I didn't know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I think he's doing that though as a little fun thing on social media.

[Alan Hahn]

Why not? His tick tocks are hilarious. You ever see him when he does the caller thing when he mocks like certain calls? Those are so good. UMBC Bryant tonight at 70. Who's missing that by the way? I'm listening to Carlin.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, hold, wait. Yeah, wait, what game is he doing?

[Alan Hahn]

UMBC versus Brian.

[Peter Rosenberg]

When you said, you said umbc. You're talking about my Maryland.

[Alan Hahn]

Baltimore County.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Baltimore County.

[Alan Hahn]

Yes sir.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, he's doing a UMBC game today.

[Don La Greca]

Very best.

[Alan Hahn]

We're confirming.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I mean he's, he, he's. That means Carlin is one notch away from nothing to do for Kenny Albert on a weekend he's going to call Ping pong tournament in Somerset County. Most people would probably not know that I could play the piano by ear.

[Don La Greca]

Good for him, man.

[Alan Hahn]

Nobody better than I have to say.

[Don La Greca]

That'S one of those where you gotta love basketball.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What channels that I'm watching. Which, which ESPN is that on?

[Don La Greca]

You.

[Alan Hahn]

You.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's on the U.

[Alan Hahn]

The U world.

[Don La Greca]

The Ocho wasn't available by the way.

[Alan Hahn]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

I just texted him. I said, get some lidos tonight because lido's my pizza spot for Maryland. Yeah, you know what his response was?

[Alan Hahn]

I'm in. Bryant.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hard pass.

[Don La Greca]

Here we go. Oh, we've had this before, I think.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I know. He because. Because Chris will eat anything, but apparently not delicious Maryland pizza. Notice, but you knew the answer.

[Alan Hahn]

Angry for no reason. Hang on a second. Did you just say that's an oxymoron? Did he say delicious and Maryland pizza?

[Don La Greca]

Ooh.

[Alan Hahn]

Did you really do that?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, because New York's the only place that knows how to make a good pizza.

[Don La Greca]

I mean, no one else could figure it out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No Chicago, no Maryland. Only the. It's the water. All of a sudden, when you talk pizza, everyone becomes a water expert. It's all about the water.

[Alan Hahn]

First of all, pronounce it correctly. It's the water. The water. You can't even pronounce the word right if you wanted. That's why your pizza is not any good, because you have water, not water.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If you want a good bagel or you want a good pizza, you got to have the water from the New York pipes. Get out of here. What Carlin said is, he's even worse. He's doubling down now. This guy, he wrote. He wrote, I'll just stop by a supermarket and get some frozen Elios if I want.

[Alan Hahn]

He's not wrong. He's not wrong.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, you know what? You haven't had lidos, okay? So don't jump in on. Don't. Don't jump in with calorie Carlin when.

[Alan Hahn]

You don't even know calorie Carlin.

[Don La Greca]

Wow. Listen, he's opinionated, man. There. There's no middle ground there. You know exactly how he.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, you know, that's true. He lets it all hang out.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, I hope he doesn't. Edgar in White Plains. What's up, Edgar?

[Caller]

Hello. Hello, gentlemen. Wow. I can't believe I'm talking to you guys. I mean, I've talked to all of you separately, but I love the new show. I was just gonna say, I've been listening to this station forever, man. Like Lupica Days, Bill. Daughtry days. I love listening to Dolce at night. Anyway, and. And just a little note. They. They did Cajun Dawn. Like a full buffet of Cajun dawn this morning on the. On the morning show. It's. They were. I can't remember how it started.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, the drops Of Cajun Dawn.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Alan Hahn]

Those are hysterical.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, we got to bring them back because we're heading Super Bowls in New Orleans.

[Don La Greca]

That's right. I don't want to go to Two ball.

[Alan Hahn]

You got to do one about my homes.

[Caller]

Enough to listen to your show. And when I look through the podcast in the living room, because if I listen to another room, I have an 11 month old and my wife gets furious because I burst out into laughing.

[Alan Hahn]

So that child's being raised right, though.

[Caller]

She goes, get out. That's right. All three of my kids. But I was gonna say, I know they're talking about you with your 3:00, you know, best city in the world. Don't let them knock you because you have the best intro of all the years I've been listening to the station. Your intro with Bart Scott. They had the best hands down.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, you mean the song.

[Caller]

All of them.

[Alan Hahn]

The whole thing, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, it was. It was not. It was. It was a moment.

[Alan Hahn]

Let me. Let me tell you something you don't already know. My fate, all sunshine and rainbows. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you get hit. It's about how hard you get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done.

[Caller]

I still pump the red and then it plays itself. And then it hit somebody.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Exactly. Look at you.

[Alan Hahn]

You know what? You can't win, Rock. This guy will kill you to death inside of three rounds, by the way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's hilarious. It totally goes to show you that as Rocky older, he was on a completely different philosophical page.

[Don La Greca]

The way he sounded.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's telling you to give up, right?

[Alan Hahn]

Like one of the famous. But to beat me, he's gonna have to kill me. And then it's like. It's about how hard you can get up. Like, can you just get up? As long as you can get up, that's all it matters.

[Don La Greca]

Never mind the difference of philosophy. It's just sound. Because if. If Rocky from Rocky Balboa said you can't win, you'd be like, you can' but you can't win in Rocky. In Rocky. For you can't win, Rock. But yeah, he had a lot. He was enthusiastic about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Don La Greca]

It's like, listen, man, it's not your night. No, he's telling you. He's screaming at you. You can't do it.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, my God. Chris and Coney Island Chris.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, what's going on?

[Alan Hahn]

What's Happening, man.

[Don La Greca]

So I just wanted to comment on the. The intro. I think Alan's right.

[Caller]

I think you guys need an exciting open because like I'm sure you guys remember when Stephen A.

[Don La Greca]

Used to have a show on here. He used to open up big with a big holla at your boys.

[Caller]

You should get going.

[Don La Greca]

See, I remember listening down at school.

[Caller]

I used to bounce out the school.

[Don La Greca]

Used to listen on the app.

[Alan Hahn]

Yep.

[Caller]

And I used to be excited for.

[Don La Greca]

That because no matter what it was.

[Caller]

A bad jets take or a Knicks.

[Don La Greca]

Take, whatever it was, he got you pumped.

[Alan Hahn]

Audio caffeine, baby. That's right. That's what it's about. Great Scott. I got a bad feeling about this. Hell yeah. Listen. Come on, Chris.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh yeah. The world ain't all slightly different push ups right now.

[Don La Greca]

Let's go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You and me is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit.

[Don La Greca]

It's about how hard you can get.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hit and keep moving forward.

[Don La Greca]

How much you can take and keep moving forward.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's how winning is done.

[Alan Hahn]

You got like. Seriously, you guys can't get fired up for this.

[Don La Greca]

What is this from? I always wonder.

[Alan Hahn]

That's from remember the Titans is your. And then this of course.

[Don La Greca]

Go there and take it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Han Solo.

[Alan Hahn]

Not just. You know, we all know. Waiting for the state for a long time. Can't wait. Please. He's the Bart.

[Don La Greca]

You know what? Now I'm. Now I'm jealous now. Now I think we made a mistake.

[Alan Hahn]

How good is that?

[Don La Greca]

Now I think we made a mistake.

[Alan Hahn]

You know what I mean? You start a show off that way, you got P.E. i mean honestly, that is audio caffeine.

[Don La Greca]

And we come up with a song that came out in 79.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We just went from the beginning of the show. We said it's the best thing. We have to buy 6:20. We're done. Ready to move on.

[Alan Hahn]

Didn't age. What?

[Don La Greca]

Didn't make it through the show. Now we got to do something. We're gonna have forget about emergency pods that we're thinking about doing.

[Alan Hahn]

We need four.

[Don La Greca]

We're gonna have a meeting right here.

[Alan Hahn]

Four fitting movie clips and that's it. And we're good to go.

[Don La Greca]

I Peter, I. We can't open with that tomorrow.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well then you gotta support.

[Don La Greca]

I don't know. Is there a way to play that open and then just edit in. Take out Rosenberg like a mad Lib Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, let us marinate on this.

[Don La Greca]

Yeah, but it really was just a tremendous open.

[Alan Hahn]

Let's go to Eric in Staten Island. Eric.

[Caller]

What's going on, guys? So the first thing I want to say is, is, is, Han, if you're bringing anything over from the other show, it should be the Archer praising because you guys do so much stuff on the show that needs that drop.

[Alan Hahn]

That's a good drop. Yeah, I don't have a Drops page yet. They didn't make me one. And they. They killed my other one.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They did?

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Your old page.

[Alan Hahn]

My old Drops page is dead. They just deleted it. That's unceremoniously gone.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sad and weird.

[Alan Hahn]

And there were a lot of good drops on there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Anthony, what happened with that? Why are his drops gone?

[Alan Hahn]

They just deleted it. We cleaned everything up. No, it's not me. I don't. I don't control the time of that show anymore. Whatever they did with those old pages is up to them. Same thing with the Michael.

[Caller]

Yeah, they were.

[Alan Hahn]

They replaced Han and put Carlin so they.

[Caller]

All Hans Drops are out and Carlins is in.

[Alan Hahn]

Wait, wait, all mine are out?

[Caller]

So I see some of your old drops there.

[Alan Hahn]

Even though. Where am I looking? Where am I going?

[Caller]

Barton calling elements.

[Alan Hahn]

There's no more bar Hahn.

[Caller]

Phrasing.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, that's there.

[Caller]

Correct the noise.

[Alan Hahn]

Phrasing. Have you ever shot that shot? I'm one of my favorites.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So you still have your stuff there?

[Alan Hahn]

Well, yeah, but not like all the good. I love this one. Oh, my baby needs to play that off.

[Caller]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Alan Hahn]

Right? Or this one.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I hate it here.

[Caller]

Yeah, Like Bart.

[Alan Hahn]

Bart would go off on a tangent, and I'd know that HR is only gonna fire me, not him. And I would just go, I hate it here because I knew I was done.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right. Right. So it was time to go. For you. I listened to some of those shows.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, wow.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you. I would listen. Well, those guys aren't gonna have a show.

[Don La Greca]

He did you a favor. He did you solid.

[Alan Hahn]

Gee, thanks. So you were the guy. So, Eric, you had. You wanted to state your case about something?

[Caller]

Yes, I wanted to stay my case. So I was called the fraud Eagles fan the other day. And I just want to say, like I said, I never grew up a big sports fan. The only thing in my house that was religion was being a Yankee fan. And I grew up during their run at the end of the 90s. So the only time I've really ever been crushed by them was I was actually getting into baseball this year. And, you know, that kind of. Kind of put me back in the dirt. But when I picked being an Eagles fan, it was a Couple of years ago, it was because of the fantasy. But I really. The Philadelphia, like, the city when. When there's a game going on, everyone in that city is wearing Eagle stuff. Like they're a big sports city. And I just, you know, I just. I kind of fell in love with that. I love the city of Philadelphia. I think it's great there. You know what I mean?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Caller]

And like, that pushed me to be like, you know, and there's go birds up on the window. Like, everybody is rooting for Philadelphia.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And you jumped in, which is what makes you a fraud.

[Caller]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Alan Hahn]

No, that's not me.

[Don La Greca]

It's Peter.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I'm right.

[Alan Hahn]

Peter.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Alan. You disagree. You don't disagree with me. He got. You get so hyped up because all the other fans that you jump in. It's the definition.

[Caller]

I really never.

[Alan Hahn]

If he never was a fan. Yeah, if he really never was.

[Caller]

All in my first jersey in my life that I've ever bought myself.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And what was it? All right, so listen, how about this? Don. I think Don's gonna love what I'm saying here. Yes, you are currently a fraud. Talk to me. In 12 years, the Eagles are 2 and 15. They're restarting. You're still an Eagles fan. I will have a great conversation.

[Caller]

You're 100% right.

[Don La Greca]

And I.

[Caller]

And I will. I'm standing by this team now. I just bought my. I'm making my son an Eagles fan.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, standing by them now is.

[Don La Greca]

Wait a minute, wait a minute. So you did not have a football team before you chose the Eagles, but.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He celebrated two giant Super Bowls.

[Caller]

It was like, when I was 17, there was a girl that I was interested in and I loved Paramore in 2007. I don't like Paramore now. You know what I mean? Like, I celebrated because that was the thing to do. We all celebrated in the street. We went to the city for the parade. I hung out with all my friends.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, but you weren't a fan.

[Don La Greca]

Right, I get it. I don't think it's fraudulent. It's an origin story from how he became a fan. But he wasn't. He wasn't really a fan of the Giants. It was just there. If he had been a die hard fan and was sick of the losing and jumped the Philly bandwagon, that's a fraud.

[Alan Hahn]

Stick it out.

[Don La Greca]

But he didn't. I don't know. I just. It's. It's just weird to not be into sports and all of a sudden that late in life get into it. Kind of odd, but whatever, you know, just do you.

[Alan Hahn]

That's how I say, why do you need everybody else's rules? Isn't that what you said, Peter?

[Don La Greca]

I did, yeah. Well, no, give me your rules on who. But, but, but I do. See, I said this to Dave and Rick earlier this week when I called. Fraud is not as bad as it seems. Like my brother was a fraud because he became a cowboy fan just to stick it to my dad because he was a giant.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But your brother is to this day a, when it comes to sports, a fraud. His real thing that he's not a fraud about is wrestling. He's die hard when it comes to sports. He's a fraud. He can take it or leave it. My point is, that's what this guy is. He's a take it or leave it. Right now it's fun because the Eagles are in the super bowl again for the third time in the last eight years. And it's great. I have no problem with him being a fraud. Have fun. Enjoy yourself. I'm just saying. Are you a fraud? Yeah, of course you are. That anyone did neither of you disagree with that? Come on. I'm nailing this wrong.

[Don La Greca]

Thank you. Let's see if it, let's see if it holds up. When they go, you know, 1 in.

[Alan Hahn]

16, I always believe it. It's like being a fan is easy when a team is good, it's, it's, you know, new addition. Can you stay in the rain? Like, you got to live through that Stu stuff to really show your true colors as a fan. All right, we have more of your calls coming up because we love this time of the show. But Don's got to tell us a little more about Mazda.

[Don La Greca]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Don La Greca]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't listen to anything you just said.

[Alan Hahn]

Catch this show on demand whenever you want. Just subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts. There's always going to be that song that though maybe you're like, I'm not listening to this anymore. Like you said this Don. Right. And then 20 years, like 30 years later, the song has a different meaning to you because it feels like comfort food. It's like that warm blanket of nostalgia. Right, Peter? That's what music does for us. So the song that we thought was corny from when we were kids, you hear or teenagers, or even in your 20s, you hear it later in life and it suddenly has a new meaning. And you're like, wow, I find myself. How do I know every word to this song that I used to hate and never want to listen to?

[Don La Greca]

It just takes your back. That's what music does, right? It makes it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Is that the song we were just playing?

[Alan Hahn]

What was that, Jake? That was what the caller was referencing. He referenced Paramore, so we came. Paramore.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. Okay, Just checking.

[Alan Hahn]

All right, we're all caught up. Good.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I. I wouldn't know Paramore song if it, if it played on My radio show.

[Don La Greca]

But you said.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, exactly.

[Alan Hahn]

Mike in the Bronx. What's up, Mike?

[Caller]

What's up, guys?

[Don La Greca]

Yeah, I got an idea for your intro.

[Caller]

Why don't you use the Chicago Bull scene?

[Don La Greca]

That.

[Alan Hahn]

Hell no. No, no.

[Don La Greca]

And that would not be every day.

[Alan Hahn]

You know, that gave. That gave me nightmares. And the worst thing is it's Alan Parsons project.

[Don La Greca]

Yeah, it's serious.

[Alan Hahn]

It's called I Did that. That would give me nightmares, that song.

[Don La Greca]

And leading into the song, Where Do We Go From Here?

[Peter Rosenberg]

They can announce all your names and.

[Alan Hahn]

Heights and weights again. I'm out. Because when I heard that song, you know it was coming. You know it was coming. Michael Jordan was coming. Hell no.

[Don La Greca]

Well, you know what's coming now?

[Alan Hahn]

Alan Han at 3:00. Yeah, but not to that song. We can come up with something better, but. Thank you, Mike. It's a good try. I'll give you an effort. Dave and Wes Caldwell. Hey, Dave. Hey, guys.

[Don La Greca]

How's it going?

[Alan Hahn]

Good.

[Caller]

Your, your. Your fraud conversation had me thinking while stuck in traffic on the belt wondering, is it worse to be a fraud in a different sport? Like as a Devils fan, I can never root for the Penguins, Rangers, Flyers and Islanders. I couldn't do that.

[Don La Greca]

That's the old conference back in the day.

[Caller]

The old Atlantic.

[Alan Hahn]

Yep.

[Caller]

But in the NFC east, as a Giants fan, couldn't root for anybody else like this. I'm rooting for the Chiefs. I don't care about the. The Casey dynasty stuff. I'd rather see the Chiefs win to see the Eagles win.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you.

[Caller]

Is there. Is there is a fraud, someone being a fraud worse than a different sport kind of thing? That's really.

[Alan Hahn]

I know what you're saying.

[Don La Greca]

I'm not following him.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So I lost him completely. What did he.

[Alan Hahn]

He was talking about it like you can't root for a team that is in your division.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right, right. But that's a.

[Don La Greca]

But he was saying about crossing the sports. That's what I didn't understand. So he said, you want to re.

[Alan Hahn]

Explain.

[Caller]

So Don, if I, as a Devil's fan, start rooting for the Rangers.

[Don La Greca]

Right, right.

[Caller]

That would be a fraud. I shouldn't be rooting them because they're. They're a divisional opponent and someone that's somebody should never root for it. They're a rival. Right?

[Don La Greca]

Yes.

[Caller]

Just like the Eagles and Cowboys. But I guess everybody gets.

[Don La Greca]

Is a fraud.

[Caller]

A fraud in all sports or is there one. Is there different tiers to the whole thing?

[Don La Greca]

Well, you could Be a Die Hard in one sport and also, you know, be a fraud in another sport. I'm sure there's examples of that.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah.

[Don La Greca]

But I would think if you are a Devil fan and won't root for anybody in the old Patrick, Atlantic and now Metropolitan Division, I would think that also applies in the NFL and the NBA. But I do think there are certain exceptions for me, like, I don't hate the Commanders as much as I hate the Eagles and the Cowboys in the NFC East. So if the Commanders had made it to the super bowl, the way I'm so irritated and sickened by Kansas City, I would root for the Commanders.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Don La Greca]

There you go. Let me ask you this, then. All right, But, Jay, I got a problem. But wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Would you. Would you. After what happened with Johnny Goudreau, would you have a problem if the Columbus Blue Jackets made a run to the Stanley Cup Final? Would you root against them because they're in the Devils division, or would you say it's Columbus, they're harmless, let's root for them.

[Caller]

I think I focus on, since I'm 37, the Atlantic Division is where I have traditional.

[Don La Greca]

Well, what you're doing there, Dave, is that you're not really following a steadfast rule of you don't root for teams in your division. What you're saying is there are certain teams you hate going back to the Atlantic Division, like, so that's what I look at. It's like, I hate Patrick Division or the old Patrick, but he doesn't sound like he's old enough to remember the Patrick.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't think he would. Yeah, what's that?

[Caller]

Division.

[Don La Greca]

Yeah. See? Exactly how old are you?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That long ago?

[Alan Hahn]

It's the Atlantic.

[Don La Greca]

And how old are you?

[Alan Hahn]

He's 37.

[Don La Greca]

30.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah.

[Don La Greca]

So that would probably be. Yeah, it's probably.

[Alan Hahn]

He was a child, a little too old.

[Don La Greca]

But there's certain teams even in the old Atlantic Division. I'm just trying to remember there, because there was a time, believe me, Pittsburgh wasn't even there. Washington was in the Southeast Division, remember? Because you pick up hatred for teams in your division because how often you play them. And there's a rivalry that kind of gets built up from there.

[Alan Hahn]

Right.

[Don La Greca]

But it never happened for Giants and Commanders, for me, because the Giants always seem to come up on the winning side. So that hatred never build up the way it hate the hatred built up for the 49ers, who are 3,000 miles away. But the Giants have had some heartbreaking losses in the postseason in San Francisco. So I don't think it's a steadfast. You can't root for teams in your division. To me, it's more. You're likely not going to root for teams in your division because of the rivalries, but it doesn't mean you have a rivalry with everybody in your division.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I will say, though, even your commander's theory probably would end up changing for you because, like, a team winning the championship in your own division is the beginning of that team becoming a nightmare for you.

[Alan Hahn]

Very often that's the part, right. I would feel a certain way.

[Don La Greca]

It's very fluid. But in my lifetime, Washington, no offense, Peter, has not been.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don't. Don't bet me. It's not like they didn't win two Super Bowls, right? But.

[Don La Greca]

But it hasn't been a problem for me because there's. I can't think of too many hearts, heartbreaking losses to Washington the way I can Philadelphia and Dallas. I can't think of too many hateable players on Washington the way that I hated the Cowboys and the Eagles. So that's where it came down to. So I do think there are exceptions to the rules, especially in basketball. Do you hate. As a Knick fan, do you hate every team in your division? No, you can't possibly.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, there's only three, four. And the one team that's sort of the outlier is the Raptors. Like, it's sort of. They're just the Raptors, you know, like, so the Raptors.

[Don La Greca]

So did you root against the Raptors when they went to the Finals the other year? Because they are in the Knicks division.

[Alan Hahn]

I don't know what I did then. I was really more compelled with Kevin Durant at that point. And I don't root anymore. The only thing I told you, the only thing I really root for is the Yankees. That's it. But everybody else is just business.

[Don La Greca]

But you see what I'm like, even and honestly. But I know you can hate the Brooklyn Nets if you want, because they're really. If you're a Knick fan, really, what are you doing?

[Alan Hahn]

I don't think Knick fans hate them, right?

[Don La Greca]

So I'm just so.

[Alan Hahn]

I think they just kind of.

[Don La Greca]

It's like, I don't think you'd want them to win a title before you, so you wouldn't necessarily root for them. But you can't tell me that the Brooklyn Nets are anywhere in the same stratosphere as the Sixers and the Celtics.

[Alan Hahn]

No.

[Don La Greca]

As far as hating, no.

[Alan Hahn]

Historically, no. Not even close? No, not even close.

[Don La Greca]

So I just. Where I would go after Rothenberg is I just. To me, I don't think it's absolutely steadfast rule. You have to root against the teams in your division because then that would say you hate them all equally. And I don't.

[Alan Hahn]

But there's no way that you can root for the Eagles if you're a Giants fan. Never. Even if you despise Mahomes, if you hate Taylor Swift with everything in your body, you still don't want to see the Eagles win a Super Bowl. It doesn't matter.

[Don La Greca]

But I'll tell you this. Let's just say they did some kind of wacko realignment, all right? And they move the Eagles to the AFC east and they moved the Bills to the nfcs.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay.

[Don La Greca]

Am I all of a sudden supposed to hate the Bills?

[Alan Hahn]

No, you got no history.

[Don La Greca]

But I still hate the Eagles. Even if they're staying in the afc and I hardly ever played them and wouldn't face them unless they in a big game, unless it was the Super Bowl, I would still hate them. I wouldn't automatically be like, well, I'm going to root against the Bills because they're now in my division. Well, I got. I wouldn't automatically. Now 10 years later, they keep me out of the playoffs. They beat me then. I might build a hatred towards them, but I wouldn't all of a sudden hate them because they're in my division.

[Alan Hahn]

I used to hate the Colts.

[Don La Greca]

Yeah. They were in the jets division.

[Alan Hahn]

I couldn't stand the Colts.

[Don La Greca]

They played some big games and they.

[Alan Hahn]

Played a lot of big games against each other. There was just something about animal. And then suddenly they were in. It was realignment. They were in another division. And I haven't had an emotion about the Colts in years.

[Don La Greca]

Do you really think that it's the same thing with the Giants, with the Cardinals, the Old St. Louis Cardinals, Phoenix Cardinals? Do you think I had any kind of thought about them whatsoever?

[Alan Hahn]

No. No. I haven't thought about the Colts as anything I didn't like. But there was a time in the 80s and early 90s I couldn't stand them.

[Don La Greca]

Same thing with the Mets. I hated the St. Louis Cardinals.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, yeah. That was a major rival, you know.

[Don La Greca]

And I still don't love them. But obviously the hatred wanes over the years.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, but the Cubs hate. The more they don't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'll say.

[Don La Greca]

It's been kind of. Kind of fluid. So I just. I take it aside.

[Alan Hahn]

I guess that's the problem. With pro sports is that they're nothing ever. The tradition of things have changed so much now is that there's such confusion between generations about our emotions towards teams because it's not traditional anymore. It has changed dramatically. There are very few real traditional rivalries that still exist, but they're not as much as they used to.

[Don La Greca]

And you look at the NHL with the expansion, like, what was it? The Sharks came in in 1991. So it went from 22 team, 21 teams to 22. There's now. So fast forward 30 years later, they.

[Alan Hahn]

Added 10 teams, 10 more teams.

[Don La Greca]

They've realigned the divisions. You know, it's crazy. So you just. You hate the teams you hate. And if you. If you all of a sudden root for a team that you hate, that makes you a fraud. I don't hate Washington. I'm sorry. Like, I don't like.

[Alan Hahn]

If you think about it, the Norris Division. You remember who was in the Norris Division.

[Don La Greca]

Well, that would be the Blackhawks, the North Stars, the Maple Leafs. Blackhawks, North Stars, Maple Leafs.

[Alan Hahn]

Red Wings.

[Don La Greca]

Red Wings.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, that. Those were bloodbaths. Right, right. The Adams Division.

[Don La Greca]

The Adams Division, of course, had the. The Canadiens, the Nordiques, the Bruins and the Sabres.

[Alan Hahn]

That's right. Another one. Bloodbath. Right. Like they played each other.

[Don La Greca]

Harvard Whalers.

[Alan Hahn]

That's true. I forgot about Hartford Whalers.

[Don La Greca]

Well, because the top four teams in each division made the playoffs.

[Alan Hahn]

It was just. It was something. And the Patrick and all.

[Don La Greca]

So St. Louis was also in the Norris. Right. So they had five teams. That's right.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah. And the point is, is that those were traditional. When you played a divisional, like there was something generational about it. And now it's. It's not there. It's not the same as it once was. And that's what I love about the NFL, the AFC North. Like, you know what you're getting, right? You know What?

[Peter Rosenberg]

You get 100.

[Alan Hahn]

I just think there's something about that, that it just doesn't have that same feel that it used to have.

[Don La Greca]

And it changed again.

[Alan Hahn]

NFC East. You know what you're getting?

[Don La Greca]

I would think as a Knick fan, you hate the Miami Heat.

[Alan Hahn]

There's. That still lives. Yeah, that still lives. And then. And they haven't been in it. They haven't been together in years.

[Don La Greca]

Not in your division. So I would think you probably hate the Heat more than you do the. Right.

[Alan Hahn]

But you know what, though?

[Don La Greca]

The.

[Alan Hahn]

The NBA, they have divisions. Nobody pays attention. Nobody pays attention to division rankings because.

[Don La Greca]

Winning your division doesn't lock you into a seat.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, winning the division is, is, it's fine. But it's, it's, it's one through eight is the only thing that matters now. And it's all about the East.

[Don La Greca]

But the, but the Knicks are in.

[Alan Hahn]

Second place in the Atlantic Division. Nobody cares. It doesn't mean anything.

[Don La Greca]

Winning your division doesn't lock you into a top two seed.

[Alan Hahn]

It gives you a four. It just gives you the top, right?

[Don La Greca]

So that's the difference.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It means the least of any sport.

[Alan Hahn]

They're only by name, but nobody ever talks about division unless you win it and then you get a banner. That's it, right? Other than that, nobody really talks about it.

[Don La Greca]

I like this conversation.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, this is, this is, this is a fun conversation. We have more conversations to have with you coming up. 800 now. 193776. But first, Peter's got FanDuel.

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[Don La Greca]

Workday starting to sound the same. I think you're on mute.

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[Alan Hahn]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Alan Hahn]

Catch the show on demand whenever you want. Just subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, see this? It's a name on a blimp.

[Don La Greca]

This is right in my wheelhouse for.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, this is. This is wheelhouse food.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I would have guessed that, too.

[Don La Greca]

It's right there. Iced tea.

[Alan Hahn]

What's wrong with it? What's wrong with that? Why would you say it with such disdain in your voice?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, the disdain is for you for not knowing that that would be in his wheelhouse.

[Don La Greca]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

See what I'm saying?

[Alan Hahn]

No, I don't.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I absolutely knew that. Ice. Ice cube prime. Early 90s. Ice cube would be something Don Legreco would know.

[Alan Hahn]

But I love.

[Don La Greca]

I love Lakers because Supersonics.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, there you go.

[Alan Hahn]

The fact that, like, the early 90s, which is my favorite era of hip hop, is actually something that resonates with Don that I really didn't know was that much that moved him to the point where he's singing.

[Don La Greca]

I mean, it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Listen, it's just. It's going to be a limited wheelhouse.

[Don La Greca]

No, it's. No, we can expand that. I. I started walking around like, I'm Joe Hip Hop. You'd say that I'm a fraud, but I know what I know. I like Wu Tang.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Enter the Wu Tang.

[Don La Greca]

That's it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He likes Ice Cube.

[Don La Greca]

Ice Cube. He likes iced tea and little things.

[Peter Rosenberg]

After that, there may be a drop.

[Don La Greca]

That's pretty much it. And I was like, early.

[Alan Hahn]

There's probably stuff that you could play for him that he doesn't know that he would like.

[Don La Greca]

Probably.

[Alan Hahn]

That's what I mean. Like, it's just the sound that I need to know. Oh, if that's the sound you like. Oh, I got a lot. I got a lot I could play for.

[Don La Greca]

What was the Jay Z song that I like literally was turned on by, like, eight months ago that had been out for 20 years.

[Peter Rosenberg]

99 problems.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Don La Greca]

I always knew the song existed. And then I heard it because I. Again, I'm. I listen to Sirius XM and Tom Morello has a show, and he played it, and I'm like, this is amazing. And then I heard that. I'm like, oh, this is. This is that song. So. But I just. I don't live in that world. I'm a little. The Hawthorne suburban. It was like, it was a birthright to be into Maiden and Priest. Like, that was kind of what you did. You were a metal guy. You were a hard rock guy, classic rock guy, hip hop. I was not exposed to it until the tail end of college when I started work. You know, working at the radio station, hearing in hip hop. And then once I graduated and started working at Sports Phone, I was getting introduced to all these art, and I loved it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And 99 problems by Jay Z is a cover of Ice Tea. Even more reason for you to love it.

[Don La Greca]

Is that true?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's true.

[Alan Hahn]

If you're having girl problems, I feel bad for you, son.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's a cover of Iced Tea. There you go, doc.

[Alan Hahn]

Let's take Jerry in Queens. Jerry.

[Don La Greca]

Why did it sound like a question? Jerry in Queens.

[Alan Hahn]

Queens.

[Caller]

Because my name's not Jerry. Said it right the second time.

[Alan Hahn]

Jerry.

[Caller]

Yes, sir.

[Don La Greca]

How you doing?

[Caller]

I don't know. I don't know if the producer told you, but I am the husband of Rochelle and Queen.

[Alan Hahn]

Oh, this Rochelle we talking about? Hang on a second. It's this Rochelle.

[Caller]

I have had a relationship with you, Don.

[Alan Hahn]

In my head.

[Caller]

That's the first time I laid eyes on you.

[Don La Greca]

Well, this is awkward.

[Alan Hahn]

No, it's not awkward.

[Don La Greca]

I hope you're not mad at me. I had nothing to do with it.

[Caller]

I promise you, it's not awkward. First of all, like she said, I've been a listener since 47. So it goes way back. Exactly. I go back. So I know you, Don.

[Don La Greca]

Okay.

[Caller]

But I also know my wife.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right.

[Caller]

So she has let me not get ahead of myself. Alan. How are you, sir?

[Alan Hahn]

Good. How you doing, Jerry?

[Caller]

I'm doing well.

[Don La Greca]

Peter Rosenberg.

[Caller]

How are you, sir?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hey, Jerry. We're good.

[Caller]

All right. I don't want to disrespect. My condolences, Alan. Congratulations, Peter. Y'all know why. Okay.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you, buddy.

[Caller]

Donald Greco. So my wife has a crush on you, yet she also has a crush on dmx, so her spectrum is large. But here's the thing. Here's the thing, all right? You are a specific. You, like, fit the Dinero and Goodfellas kind of role. That's her. Like, that's her crush on that side. But I know my wife, like I said, and she's a wardrobe stylist. So she was on set with another quote, unquote, crush, who she actually liked. But that's a whole other story.

[Don La Greca]

Okay, so.

[Caller]

But she had the assignment to do this guy's manicure on set. So she had the opportunity. Opportunity to act on whatever she wanted to in this situation. And she proved to be loyal to me.

[Don La Greca]

Oh, I never for a second thought anything was going to. It felt very innocent to me.

[Alan Hahn]

I'm very much the fact that she.

[Don La Greca]

Admitted it shows you that it was all very innocent.

[Caller]

Of course. I just wanted to put that I.

[Alan Hahn]

Like it on public notice. I also like the fact, you know, how confident of a man is, Jarret, and confident in his manhood, that he could have these conversations comfortably about his wife. That he could hear her say things like that to you.

[Don La Greca]

Right?

[Alan Hahn]

And him just sitting there, just going like, no, no, she knows where her dip is.

[Caller]

But I told her to call when I heard what Jeff said.

[Don La Greca]

But it does have that feel. That does have that feel of just in case you were thinking of acting on it, Don, think again. No, it did have that feel like I'm gonna be, like, cruising the streets, Queens, just hoping to bump into her someplace, to say, hey. So you said these things. What are you doing? You want to go for a drink? You want to talk this out? No. So, no, But I hear you. That's your woman. You definitely laid the boundary down. I'm with it. I respect it.

[Caller]

He walked in, she saw you, she said, who is that? Okay, he's on the list. I said, there you go.

[Alan Hahn]

I need to know, though, Drake, you must have a list yourself. Who's at the top of the list? Who does she know that's on your list?

[Caller]

A celebrity. That's on my list.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah. Who's your celebrity?

[Caller]

That would have to be. It would have to be Taraji. It would have to be Taraji. Absolutely.

[Alan Hahn]

Okay.

[Caller]

I love the drop.

[Alan Hahn]

It's the best drop.

[Caller]

But seriously, before I let you guys proceed, we just celebrated our 17th anniversary.

[Alan Hahn]

Wow, that's great. Congratulations.

[Peter Rosenberg]

There we go.

[Caller]

And I know that you guys are gonna be on the island, I believe, Friday.

[Alan Hahn]

Yeah, next Friday. That's right. Rockville Center.

[Caller]

Next. Tap Room at Tap Room. That's what.

[Alan Hahn]

Yes, sir.

[Caller]

I would love to pull up with her, surprise her, and give her a Don Lagreca teddy bear hug, if possible.

[Alan Hahn]

That's tremendous.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's a great.

[Alan Hahn]

We'll be there. We'll be there for sure on this. It's the 7th, right? Yeah. February 7th, a week from Friday. Tap Room, Rockville Center. Jerae, all the best to you. And also Rochelle.

[Caller]

Thank you, guys.

[Alan Hahn]

Thank you. Thank you. My God, Quickly, the All Star reserves were announced in the East. No. No other Knicks. No. Josh Hart. No. Mikhail Bridges.

[Don La Greca]

That bother you?

[Alan Hahn]

No, not at all. Jaylen Brown, Cade Cunningham. Well deserved. Darius Garland, Tyler Herro, Damian Lillard, Evan Mobley and Pascal Siakam.

[Don La Greca]

So there you go.

[Alan Hahn]

Well, this was a lot of fun, especially that last hour. It was great. We got my drops back, baby. We'll see you all tomorrow. Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast. I don't want to know how the sausage is made, man. I just want to know. It's good. Hear more of Don Allen and Peter weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers.