Full host introductions and loose banter
The four introduce themselves properly. Ben works downtown at an insurance company; Mike, his brother, is an electrician with a wife, a two-year-old daughter, and another baby due in about two weeks; Zach works at an insurance company, DJs weddings part-time, and has a two-year-old son and a five-month-old daughter; Dan is the pastor of Pathway Church in Johnston, married 25 years, with a 20-year-old daughter at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky and a 13-year-old daughter. Loose banter follows about Wendy's and Subway breakfasts and the cost of eating out with a family.
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