It's cabinets, Danny, it's me, Mike Siroy, and we're gonna do
this thing now. All right, this is probably waiting for epic failure,
itten all over it. I'm not even gonna set it up because I've reset
it up multiple times. I'm gonna quickly reset it up. I'm going to
reset it to him right when I get on the phone. But uh,
it's a guy I worked with thirty years ago, thirty two years ago,
if I do my math correctly. We worked at a golf course together in
Sarasota, Florida. I remember being a cool guy. He really helped me
understand the game of golf. Compressed the ball with your irons, hit down
into it. But he was a NASCAR fan. I was going to the
Daytona five hundred. I believe that you're Derek Cope one. He said,
hey, man, can you bring me something back? I'm like, sure,
who's your favorite race car driver? And he said, I don't know,
Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. It's a big ask. It's the and
I'm like, well, I'll see what I can do. My dad got
us pit passes, so we were kind of right in all the good stuff
at Daytona. I got Richard Petty's autograph on the back of this pit pass,
the King, and he was cool. He was signing for everybody.
Dale Earnhardt crashed in the last lap. He famously could not win the Daytona
five hundred. He was at one of the lowest moments of his career and
he was walking through the pits. The intimidator mustachioed scary, and I said,
well, my friend Ron Gilligan said this was his favorite driver, so
I went for it. I was a little kid. He autographed the back,
so it's a pit pass with both the King, Richard Petty, and
Dale Earnhart written on the back of it. I drive all the way back
to Sarasota, I go to work, and I hand it over to a
guy named Ron Gilligan. I don't regret it. It felt good to do
something nice for somebody, and I think from when I remember, he was
excited to get it. I haven't really made much of an effort to find
him, but we yesterday tracked Ron Gilligan down. He doesn't know what this
is because we talked to a coworker of his yesterday. We're gonna cold call
him right now and tell him this whole story. There's a chance he blinks
and says I have no recollection of that. He may not even agree to
be on the radio. Yeah, I'm gonna skew a lot of different ways.
I'm gonna try to just kind of sneak that one by him. So
let her up. We were cold yesterday that he'd be here, be in
the office today, cold calling Ron Gilligan. If you're just to everyone pins
and needles. Okay, Ron, Okay, So here was three yesterday.
It was three or four. Come on after that setup two days we told
them it was dangerous. Okay, it's climb back. Just that right.
It's a big auction warehouse. Huge. Look at their website, My god,
massive, try to look at a Ron Gilligan. Please, this is
the younger Rock can help you. Uh, this is the son of the
original Ron Gilligan. I suppive y all right. My name is Mike Siroy,
and I think I was a coworker of I believe your dad's then about
thirty years ago in Sarasota. That was me then, that was me?
Okay, Ron. My name is Mike Siroy. I'm hosting a morning show
in Dallas, Texas. We are live on the air with me and my
buddies Kevin and Danny. How are you doing, my friend, I'm doing
well. Thank you. You had two minutes to chat with us, sure,
so were you? This is all nice, This is all kind.
There don't to worry about. Here. Was it Laura Loake Country Club that
you worked at? Yes, it was all right. My name is Mike
Siroy. I was a little blonde, blonde teen and we worked together in
the cartbarn and golf operations. That is correct. Do you have any recollection
of that name or that person. I can't put a face to it,
but I remember Mike, and sorry, I can't do better than that.
After thirty years, that's quite all right. I think thirty two years if
I do my math right. And to credit you, I've always had you
in my head as the man who we were on the back of the range
right next to Monica Seles's house. That's exactly where, and that was This
is awesome. That was the day, yes, an of my friend's Danny
Ron. Alright, you have no idea how excited we are. We trying
to track you down for twenty four hours and we've heard this story for years.
I've known Mikey for like twenty years, and he's always told this story
and we rot to get to it. But Kevin and I are like,
just I mean, it's like we've got Kareem ab Duel Jabbar on the phone
or something. It's Ron Gilly. I remember the day that we were hitting
on the back of the range and you were a good golfer and you got
me to hit the hit down on the irons and really compress the ball,
And in my head, at some level I kind of credit you with getting
me to properly hit a golf ball. Well, thank you, and you're
you're exactly right, And that was a rare day. That place was so
exclusive and we're barely allowed to hit golf balls at the golf course. I
just told them earlier. I actually got fired from that place. I don't
even remember an old guy named Aubrey, but I broke Oh yeah, this
is awesome, yep, I remember Aubrey. Aubrey was the one he was
stick to tens and twenties in his right pocket and just put his ones in
his left pocket and trying screwy about all the kids out of their tip money.
Yeah, we pulled our money and he would have the five and ten
dollars pocket back left right. Yep. I remember I was older than you
guys, and I actually called home and said something to my mother. Asked
about what was going on. She says, well, don't get yourself in
trouble and get fired. I said, this is a bunch of bs.
So I called Aubrey out, and then Aubrey and I didn't get along very
well after that. At least everybody got their fair shake. Well, I
got fired indirectly by Aubrey because I broke his wooden chair the day that the
Orlando Magic got the number one pick overall, meaning they would get Shaquille O'Neill.
Oh, that's funny, that's funny. Yep. I remember Aubrey.
And then was Bob, Bob Dombroski I think was his name. Was the
guy was like in charge of us. Okay, that's right, there was
a Bob. Was he the GM that scared us? Yep? Yeah,
And Aubrey was always the one that was the church goer and holier than now
and stealing from us. Yep, exactly right. I hope I don't offend
anybody on the air that tracks. Actually that's all pretty much. Rice,
all right, well, amazing. I'm happy to talk to you. Ron.
I know you're doing well. You're in Pennsylvania, you got an auction
house, and we'll be glad to pub it a little bit later. But
the main reason I wanted to have you on is because I brought you a
gift once. And this is sort of a seasonal gift because yesterday was the
Daytona five hundred. Do you have any idea what direction I'm going with that?
No? I always went to the Daytona five hundred. What did you
bring me? Was it a hat? No? No, I went with
my dad, who was a boat racer, and he was sort of off.
Yeah, it was something. Yeah, it was a signed Was it
a signed press pass from Dale Earnhardt? Wow? Okay, yes, holy
crap, Yes, validated once again. What it was exactly was I was
going to Daytona. We had talked a little racing, and I asked you
who your favorite drivers were, and you said Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.
That's correct, And I said all right, and I went there and because
we had a pit pass, I got Richard Petty to autograph it. Early
in the day I saw the King, and then after Dale Earnhart had crashed,
I said, screw it, my man, Ron Gilligan, that's the
second driver, and I got both Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. To
autograph the pit pass, and I went back to Sarasota and I gave it
to you. Yeah, I guarantee I have that somewhere in my collection of
items. I'm actually going to go find it now. You mentioned that,
well, amazing. I would love nothing more than to just see a photograph
of both sides of that pit pass to ensure that it didn't all happen in
my head. But I'm glad you kind of remember. Oh I do remember
now, yep, yep. But it took me a second. I knew
you got me something signed. That's what it was. So Ron, how
old would you have been about this time, because Mike you had been twenty
three, So Mikey you were probably what like sixteen? Maybe probably sixteen?
Yeah? Is that right? Yeah? Okay, Okay, that's awesome.
So my question was to Mikey earlier or yesterday, It's like, I wonder
if you giving him this, you know what's prop now it might be I
don't know worth a few bu if that was maybe starting the end or created
the inspiration for you to get into the business that you're in now. I
know what started me to get in the business I got into is Mike and
I working down there, and I wasn't gonna make much money doing that I
was doing, so I came back home and got in the auctioneering business,
which is the best thing I ever did, really, And now I played
golf once a year, believe it or not. Oh, come on,
he had a sweet swamy. I mean, we're very lucky. We're busy
as we are. See you run. We saw the website. You run
an you get pubt, I'm pubb whatever you want. Man. We had
a big audience here in Dallas. Oh. I just do everything local.
But it's great to talk to everybody in Dallas. I'm glad to help.
I think I actually got fired because Aubrey was friends with some assistant pro who
hated my guts because we used to get in so much trouble down there,
and I think he said that I was stealing golf balls out of Monica Sellus's
bag. My god, right, yep, that would be like him to
do that. Yeah, sucks. Yeah, Aubry sucks. That's the thing
is, see when you were and Ron knows this, when you work at
a golf course, like you're working there so you can play free golf,
you know, and they were. It was a kind of a new course.
It was beautiful, I remember, very kind of exclusive. But they
wouldn't let us out there at all. No, he couldn't do anything.
Yeah, well damn it, Ron, that's amazing. Honestly, I've had
your name in my head for a long time, mainly because you taught me
how to hit an iron properly, but also because of that Dale earned heart
Richard Petty thing that I remember giving you thirty two years ago. Oh I'm
glad I could remember all that and verify all your truthfulness. Thank you with
Ron's recollection of detail and facts. I mean, but Mike even told us
earlier about Aubrey is like, yeah, you had the one dollar pocket and
the five dollar part pocket, but I mean Ron's only difference is it was
a ten and a twenty dollars pocket. Oh yeah, yeah, he was
definitely he was definitely knew what he was doing. Ron. You may not
know it, but you're a legend here. In DFW. I mean,
our listeners are like, we're getting like instant feedback. I can't believe it.
The real life Ron Gilgan on the phone. People were asking for his
autograph, like, we've been talking about you for a couple of days now,
for longer than that, Ron, because I've had a show on and
off in Dallas for almost twenty years, and every time Daytona comes around,
we'll kick around some old stories and I'll always tell that one about how because
that's an incredible you know, Dylor or Aunt Richard Petty's a pretty cool thing
to have on a pit pass for sure. And I'm like, I had
it, and I gave it to this guy who said he was fans of
them both. So I bring up the story a lot, and it's obviously
a memorable name, Ron Gilligan. So yesterday I was like, we're gonna
we're CONRADN. Gilligan and someone texted, Oh my god, you're gonna get
effing get Ron Gilligan on the phone. Yeah, right, What do you
think that press pass would actually be worth? I mean, you probably have
a good idea of being in this type of business in the NASCAR world.
It probably worth good money. I'm going I'll have to find that thing you
got. Whenever you're off the air, give me a buzz back. I'll
get your number, and if I will find that, I'll text your photo
of it. I would love to just see a picture of both sides of
that thing. Ron, I can do that. What a day. That's
really cool And honestly, I feel very very happy to talk to you.
Great memories, And honestly, he's right, there was some if you work
country clubs, yeah there are some mean people and some snooty people, but
I remember and when you're sixteen, someone who's twenty three is like older and
yeah, cool, And I just remember Ron being a really cool dude who
took good care of the youngsters. And it's just good to hear from you,
and really cool to hear that you're doing well. Man. Man,
let me to say one more thing. When you talk about working at the
country club, Mikey, what I've learned about if I go to a restaurant
and tip, I learned everything I learned at that golf course. I learned
that a guy that worked for himself and made his own money would hand us
five dollars as fans. You to get out of his pocket. And the
guys that their parents worked and made the money or their grandparents made the money.
And these people didn't do anything in their life. They couldn't get a
dollar out to give you for taking the clubs out of the car or cleaning
their clubs for them. And I've always made my own money, and I've
always taken good care of people out and about tipping wise, I learned that
from that job. Hey, amen to that. I try to be a
very good tip for myself. I don't know if it's the exact same lesson,
but maybe it's working in that industry set us. You need to give
me a call on college football season. Located about in the shadow at Penn
State Beaver Stadium, soever Texas is back up on top of Penn State is
again. We'll talk some more. Let me tell you this. I don't
I wouldn't have told you this back in the day, but I grew up
with before I met you and to this day, and I'm great friends with
Manny Diaz. You're departed, right, Yeah, yeah, he grew up
in Miami. We we all went to school together. Well, we just
lost him to Duke yep. I know, boy, he was made with
our defense was outstanding this past year. Yeah, he's a stud. Ron
Gilligan, man, I can't believe that the Ron Hey, Ron stannhold our
producer JJ will get your cell phone number so Mikey can text you. Yeah,
good god, how cool was that? The hell? That is like
the best guests we've ever had ours, Like, Ron is awesome. I
want to drink a beer with to Rob freaking so he had me by seven
years Yeah, exactly, your age So awesome, dude. I'm so happy
because even when I said it, he was like, I don't know,
you bring me a hat or something, but then he stopped me. Wait
a minute. Yeah no. By the way, he sounds like he could
have been on dragnet. Yeah, dude, what a great fifty five.
That's the power of a landline. Dude. Yeah, but that too,
like if you someone brought up something from twenty five years ago, thirty thirty
thirty two years, Well, it's something that you haven't thought about sis,
Yeah you know. Yeah, well and he still has it. Yeah,
that's to see it. He probably knows pretty close to where it's at too.
Of where it is. I remember how they signed it, like kind
of diagonally. I just I can see it, but obviously I haven't held
it in thirty plus years. How do you feel right now? I'm really
stoked. Man. It's good. I mean it's cool to hear just some
memories of working there and just the money thing with Aubrey. I don't know,
but just somebody that you haven't actually spoken to in over thirty years.
And to have that, I mean it took a second or two, but
not long. Yeah, to have all that, the clarity and the memories
and the recognition come back and being able to kind of have that conversation,
that's gotta be a really kind of a cool feeling, like being reunited with
a long lost family member to a certain degree. Yeah, I smearer being
a cool dude,