Danny Ricker
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101 appearances
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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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And then you can this makes people happy and you can help, you know, keep the myth going. And so then they feel like they've got a secret, which kids love, you know. When did she discover?
Well, it was a little dramatic with my daughter because she's like a trial lawyer and always has been. So when she was, I think, like five years old, she really wanted this gift for Christmas. That was ridiculous, right? And so it's a big plastic horse. And from like the second Frozen movie, it's like an ice horse, right? And this thing was like $150 and does nothing.
It's just a big fucking piece of plastic. And so she's asking for it. And my wife and I are going like, are we going to buy this thing? Like, we do not want to buy this thing. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. And the place we were living at the time was like small. I go, this is going to take up like 2% of our total square footage in our house. This stupid horse, right? Yeah.
So she's asking for it, asking for it. My wife and I are like, we're not going to buy this. But we're like, we're going to get her a bike, right? Bike. Great classic Christmas gift.
So then Christmas morning comes, and there's no plastic horse, and there is a bike. And all the gifts are open, and my daughter's face just goes blank. And she goes... I know you're Santa. And we're like, whoa. And she would put it all together, and she's like, you didn't get me the water knock. You got me the bike because the bike is cheaper. I mean, she had us dead to rights.
We're like, oh, boy. So she had figured it out. So then we start going like, do we rush out and get, I mean, it's, it's like Christmas morning is, is Walmart open? Like, can we go get this thing? And so we eventually, so we, we didn't get it for her. And then, but she entered, she had some money, like she had saved up from birthdays and stuff and she bought it.
Uh, and it's still in our house to this day. Um, she never, I mean, you know, now she's like 11, like she doesn't need a big horse, but she is like, she's very stubborn. She's digging her heels in. She goes, I love that thing. I go, Oh, do you, do you really love it? Or are you just driving me insane?
I'd say my daughter has started the cell phone conversation.
We'll make that decision. I mean, look, there's definitely some good uses for it. We have... You know, my wife, like, got a new iPhone. But we kept her old one. So there's no cell service. But if they're on Wi-Fi, you know, they can use it. And so, you know, we've had some good stuff.
Like, if they're staying with their grandparents and we're like, hey, you could, like, you could text us or you could FaceTime. Like, that's great. But so, like, that old iPhone we say is, like, the family, like, phone or whatever. And my daughter, well, she'll go, like, she'll be like, oh, have you seen my phone? I go, you don't have a phone.
You know, like, anytime she tries to claim it, I go, it's not yours. She goes, yes, it is. Like, no, it's not. But we didn't have an iPad forever, and we just got an iPad. And before we slid it across the table, we go like, you guys can have this if you agree to the following terms. There are no games on this.
This is for like, if we're going on a flight, you can watch Netflix on it, or you can FaceTime your friends, and that's it. So I think as long as you're really paying attention, I think that stuff is fine. But again, that book, Anxious Generation, really lays out some like...
crazy data and how damaging it can be to kids and you know i mean you know our daughter's 11 she feels young right now but i know she's going to middle school next year i know that's gonna like speed up real quick and so as long as we can we're just trying to keep them uh off the internet
Yeah, I mean, I'm terrible with it. I mean, like, I have a really hard time. I go, and I'm like a 40-year-old man. I go, you know, these kids, like, have no self-control. They're just, they're so young, you know? So it does, it feels like a drug. I mean, it's like giving them cigarettes or something, you know, where you just need to be like, okay, like, I mean, it's like dangerous, you know?
So I totally agree. And I think like, and again, you know, no judgment on anybody. It's like, whatever you gotta do, you gotta do. But I think-
Similarly to the car radio thing, it's like if you can not let the cat out of the bag and make these devices as like – I mean even for me, I have to like – I've taken Twitter like off my phone because I was just like I can't – like if I'm filling up a glass of water at my fridge, the 10 seconds that takes, I'm reaching for my phone to check Twitter. I go – I hate that.
It's like just that monkey brain thing and I'm – I'm having a hard time breaking myself of it. I can't imagine how difficult it would be for a kid. So, yeah.
You know, it's funny. My intention was not to have good advice in the book. I'm like, oh, I'm going to write a comedy book. But I do feel like... Like you mentioned the purgatory cabinet. I was like, that's a real thing I do. And I actually do think it's a good idea, you know, even though I wrote it for humor. So yeah, I think I accidentally put some good advice in the book. I think it's great.
You know what? We don't ask that of our guests. You can say whatever the fuck you want.
We have to bleep it out, but yeah, Jimmy is always – I think because he is – you know, he's kind of a traditional broadcaster. He often does not swear on the show. It's very rare. Um, he does like, I, we have tons of swearing in our like comedy bits and, you know, he's, he's not opposed to it, but I think he feels like as like the host, he's supposed to like the host of a party.
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