Danny Ricker
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101 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Danny Ricker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The general theme is don't do it.
Hey, Dad, can I buy a pack of cigarettes?
On this episode of The Commercial Break... there's these dramatic examples of like, yeah, I sent my toddler, you know, into the gas station by herself or whatever. But then there's two just going like, yeah, you can like take care of yourself. Like you can, you can make yourself a bowl of cereal if I'm not awake yet and you're hungry and all these things.
And I think it's like, you can start small and once they start to get those feelings of confidence and independence, it's infectious for them, I think. And And now, now my daughter, she'll ask for like a little too much, you know, she'll be like, you know, like she'll, and we'll go, eh, maybe when you're a little bit older and you know, whatever, but Hey dad, can I buy a pack of cigarettes?
Exactly. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
Thanks for having me, guys. This is an honor to be on, so thank you.
Yeah, it's a lot. We have a great team at our show. I mean, from the writers to our producers to our props department. I mean, everybody is really, really good at their job, which makes it a lot of fun. So, Uh, it is chaotic. It's crazy. It's weird. So, you know, we started about 6 AM and we're doing a show at 4 30 and we don't know what's going to be in the show that night.
But, uh, because we have such a great group of people, it gets done every day, uh, by hook or by crook.
say in what goes on the show he does he he's very you know i'm i'm one of the head writers i'm one of four head writers at our show but jimmy is really our showrunner and he's the final say on everything and um he's you know he does a ton of writing he does a ton of producing we i i often say for his own good i think he's probably a little too involved just because he is i mean he'll he's up all night going through scripts and stuff but um i think that's what makes the product uh good to have a host that cares that much but but yes he's he's always the final say
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, part of my job is one of the, you know, one of the heads of the writing department is to sort of have like a little mix of everything, right? Like sometimes we have that great idea that can only go that day. It's based on kind of the big story of the day. We love to have one of those.
And then if the news is such where we're like, yeah, to me today wasn't one of those days where there's like the, you know, the Pete Hegseth like signal story. We didn't have like, you know, like we have a couple of good things we're going to cover. So I always try to plan and have like a couple of things in our whole, so it'd be like, Oh, you know what?
We shot that bit last week, but that'll work tonight. And then we have some stuff that's not remotely related to the news that we can always mix in. So we always kind of feel like we're, you know, we're kind of putting the menu together for Jimmy every day. And we'd be like, yeah,
All right, here's all here's all the items and you can kind of pick and then he kind of sees how he feels that day and what's going on and he assembles what feels like the best collection of stuff. So we have another head writer named Josh who sits with him all day and looks at all that stuff and pieces it all together. So we just try to prepare for all possible scenarios.
Yeah, you know, there's not as much thought into it as you might think, you know, like I, someone asked me the other day, you know, they went like, you know, well, when did you all decide to get political? And I was like, you know, we didn't have like a meeting where we all sat down and went, okay.
now our show is political i we feel like our goal every day is to get up and look at what's happening and decide how we feel about it and then talk about it and you know for many years like when i started as a writer um you know every day like our main story was like who got voted off american idol and and that's not because we were particularly interested in american idol but it's like that's what our country was talking about i mean that was exactly
I mean, literally like that season, Sanjaya was on American Idol, whatever year that was. Like CNN would cover that. Like a story on CNN was Sanjaya didn't get eliminated from American Idol.
So we try to be a mirror to what's going on. Jimmy always says, I want to talk about what people are talking about. And so I think over the course of the last 10, 15 years, our country has started talking about different things and we've just kind of gone along with it.
So I feel like just the very small cog that I am in this process, I just look at what's going on and I go, what is my reaction to that? Do I feel that's hypocritical? Do I feel like that's a Good idea. Good thing. You know, and then I just try to word that as humorously as I can. And sometimes the news is sad and we still got to do a show that night.
And so we try to find our little angle that maybe we can add a little levity to it and help other people digest it, too. And so one of the biggest compliments we can get is. You know, we do a monologue on a kind of a big news day, even if it's something that's kind of serious. And people will text me the next day and go, you know what?
I really that helped me kind of think through what was going on. And and it made me laugh, too, when we go, OK, well, then I think we're doing our job if that's going on.
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