1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,840 Hey, welcome to the very first episode of Dan Time. 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,440 I'm your host, Dan McCardle. 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:12,440 You're here. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:13,440 You made it. 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:14,440 You're back. 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,080 You're back. 7 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:17,080 You showed up. 8 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:18,640 You followed through. 9 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,360 You heard something on the trailer that made you think, eh, okay. 10 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,360 Alright, I'll check it out. 11 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:25,680 I'll give it one shot. 12 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:26,920 I'll see what it's all about. 13 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,120 Or, alright, I know Dan. 14 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,600 I know Dan from somewhere. 15 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,600 This is interesting. 16 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:32,600 I got 15 minutes. 17 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,800 What, you know, I'll, I'll burn it on, on his show. 18 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,140 Well, you're going to be glad you did. 19 00:00:38,140 --> 00:00:40,280 You came to the right place. 20 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:47,640 And this show, like I said on the trailer, is going to deliver impactful guests on a 21 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,760 weekly basis that mostly happen to be named Dan. 22 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,680 You're going to laugh. 23 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:55,840 You're going to think. 24 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,600 You're going to draw on some old experiences. 25 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:05,800 You're going to, uh, draw some inspiration from these guests for week one. 26 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,720 Now, this is something that just happened in the past 24 hours. 27 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,160 We had a schedule change. 28 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,320 My first guest, I'm going to have to move to week two. 29 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:22,400 Won't get into the details, but that left an opening with about a 24 hour window to 30 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,640 fill it. 31 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:31,880 And I, I was in a little bit of a predicament, but I thought, okay, option A is to move the 32 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,120 start back one week. 33 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:35,120 Don't want to do it. 34 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,320 Do not want to do it. 35 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:39,000 We're going to be consistent. 36 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:47,760 Option B would be to scramble and try to find any Dan, any old Dan at the last second. 37 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,880 I walk into a store and see a guy with a name tag that says Dan, Hey, you look like you'd 38 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,240 be a good, a good guest for Dan time. 39 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,040 Come on, let's do it here. 40 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Let's do it on the spot. 41 00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:59,240 You got 15 minutes. 42 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,560 So that was not an option. 43 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:09,760 So in order to keep this thing going in the direction that I had planned on, I had one 44 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,720 call to make one phone call. 45 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,020 You've been there. 46 00:02:14,020 --> 00:02:15,800 You know who it is. 47 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,400 You know who you need when it's, when it's go time and something has fallen through. 48 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,520 Who's that person in your life? 49 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:30,840 You know who it is for me, for this show, for right now, that person was Jim Powell, 50 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:38,440 Jim Powell, ladies and gentlemen, not a household name, unless you grew up around us, uh, 20 51 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:48,840 years ago, 15, 16 years ago, but a massive presence, a giant of a man, a heart of gold, 52 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:55,920 the guy that I asked to marry me and my wife almost five years ago, Jim Powell. 53 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:01,120 This is a guy that I spent several years working in the service industry alongside admittedly 54 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,560 spent a few late nights with Jim Powell. 55 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:13,240 Jim and I have been through a lot together and in the past 10 years, because, um, we 56 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:20,000 were best friends in Birmingham and for the past 10 years, we have not physically been 57 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 around each other. 58 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,680 And with the advent of smartphones, I'm sure you can relate. 59 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:31,120 You just don't, you don't talk on the phone a lot, even with a very close friend. 60 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,300 We're texting most of the time with a lot of people. 61 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:42,560 So Jim and I, you know, back in 2005 and six and seven and certainly oh two or three, a 62 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,280 lot of phone calls, a lot of, Hey, what are you doing? 63 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,280 What's going on? 64 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,280 What are you doing tonight? 65 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,240 What's going on this weekend? 66 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,140 Watching a game and picking up the phone and calling and talking about it. 67 00:03:53,140 --> 00:03:58,160 So to have this conversation with Jim was really special because we just don't get to 68 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,920 do it very often anymore. 69 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:07,720 So luckily I asked him to step in and of course he said yes, of course he said yes. 70 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:16,400 What I was wanting to do was to more or less save Jim Powell for a, for like a bonus episode. 71 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,840 I mean, this is in my opinion, such an A-lister that I wanted to keep him in the back pocket 72 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:28,040 and probably, you know, pull him out in a year or two. 73 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,080 That's how important, that's how highly I think of this guy. 74 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,220 So obviously with someone that you're very close with and you go back a couple of decades 75 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:41,800 or even five or 10 years, there's a lot of inside jokes, a lot of anecdotes that only 76 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,000 you two remember. 77 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,160 I kept that in mind and I realized, Hey, this is a broad audience. 78 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:51,000 We're not going to walk down every one of those paths because we're just going to lose 79 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,220 the average listener. 80 00:04:52,220 --> 00:04:58,160 So you'll see here, I hope that we spared you some of that stuff and a couple of times 81 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:03,720 it just comes out because it naturally does with the two of us, but you're going to enjoy 82 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,560 this episode. 83 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,400 So I tried to avoid it. 84 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,400 I wanted it. 85 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,600 I wanted to stack the deck with Dan's and instead we're going to start out with a, it's 86 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,960 still a three letter name, Jim. 87 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:23,040 I call him Jimmy sometimes, but this is Jim and he knows about Dan time. 88 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,160 He knows about Dan time. 89 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,000 I let him off the hook. 90 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,040 I let him off the hook or maybe I let myself off the hook. 91 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:38,640 You'll see in this conversation, I did not ask him, what does Dan time mean to you? 92 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,160 He knows exactly what it means. 93 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,160 Trust me. 94 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:47,160 He knows exactly what Dan time means or what it once meant. 95 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,680 So we didn't get it. 96 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:49,920 We didn't cover it. 97 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,640 So we'll see how much of a cliffhanger we can make this thing. 98 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,020 We're both huge Cubs fans. 99 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:59,280 We did not talk about the Chicago Cubs really should have. 100 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:05,800 They are four games over 500 at this point in August and just having a pretty exciting 101 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,920 second half and we didn't touch on that, but that's okay. 102 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,160 Another thing you'll notice and I want to, I want to quote my dad here. 103 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:19,080 My dad's got a lot of great lines and you know, when you're 10 years old, you think 104 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,520 that he came up with all of them. 105 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:22,680 You don't realize it. 106 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,600 Some things are just kind of in the vernacular, but it, maybe he didn't come up with this 107 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,080 one either, but I like to think that they're mostly original. 108 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,840 Done is better than perfect. 109 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:37,960 Done is better than perfect. 110 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:44,920 You'll notice that Jim's audio quality is much stronger than mine. 111 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,520 And there's a reason for that. 112 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:53,400 There's a switch that I didn't flip and, uh, and it caused some degradation in the quality 113 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,400 of my microphone. 114 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:57,400 I listened to it. 115 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,760 It bothered me a little bit, but we're going to move forward. 116 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,640 The conversation is great. 117 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,840 That's what, that's what we're here for. 118 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:05,400 So you're going to love this episode. 119 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,720 I'm not going to continue talking here. 120 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:12,200 If you like Dan time, if you want to reach out to the show to me, you can reach me at 121 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,280 Dan time pod at gmail.com. 122 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:20,820 I'm on all the socials at Dan time pod on X there's the Facebook page. 123 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:23,380 There's Instagram Dan time pod. 124 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:26,160 Enjoy this conversation with me and Jim Powell. 125 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,160 You're going to love it. 126 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,400 Thanks for listening to Dan time. 127 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,440 Jim, how are you doing, man? 128 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,400 Man, Dan, I am fantastic. 129 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:39,120 I am thrilled, thrilled, uh, to be the first guest on a podcast dedicated to Dan speaking 130 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,760 with other Dan's. 131 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,040 Um, the irony is not lost on me. 132 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,040 I love it. 133 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,960 Uh, you know, my wife's maiden name was Daniel. 134 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,920 So, and I think that qualifies me and my first name is three letters, uh, just like Dan. 135 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,960 So I think that's good enough for me and should be good enough for your listeners. 136 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,240 And if they have a problem with it, you know, they have your Twitter. 137 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,640 Well, listen, you're, you're checking enough boxes there. 138 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:09,040 I would be lying if I said that I'm not slightly disappointed that we didn't save you for a 139 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:14,560 bonus episode or, you know, just this was 24 hours ago. 140 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,240 Jim Powell was not going to be the kickoff guest on Dan time. 141 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:24,640 I mean, why would you be this is, I did not bill it to be somebody other than a Dan. 142 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,600 I I've been basically been lying to my listeners. 143 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:34,440 I mean, you know, those, those two people out there are been like for at least two people 144 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:35,440 for the past week. 145 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,480 I mean, I've been promoting, I've been, I've been tweeting or seating or whatever they call 146 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,480 it. 147 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,520 Are you going to have to go into hiding when this drops for fear of repercussions that 148 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,400 your listeners will revolt because you're not having a Dan on the start Dan time. 149 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,360 We're not barely making a lift off here. 150 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:56,080 I mean, this thing is D O H M. No, it's not. 151 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,080 This is fantastic. 152 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:58,400 credibility has been lost. 153 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,040 No, this is great. 154 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,040 You're Dan. 155 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,720 And so this is time with Dan Dan time. 156 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,160 You know, if people get dual Dan's, that's just a bonus. 157 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:16,720 Well, listen, so Jim and I, Jim and I, Quim and I, we go back, we go back over 20 years. 158 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,640 So we graduated high school together. 159 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,900 We became really close pals in the early two thousands. 160 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:26,440 And back then we always talked on the phone. 161 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:32,040 I probably called Jim Powell daily, usually after hours, usually, Hey, what are you doing 162 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,600 tonight? 163 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:40,320 And so for those of you listening, who may be 27 years old or even 34 years old, and 164 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,560 you really don't have any experience with this, you kind of had to do it out of necessity. 165 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:48,720 And some ways I miss it other ways, you know, you know, when you pick up the phone to call 166 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:54,480 your buddy to see what was going on that weekend or that night, you're not staring forlornly 167 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,900 into a blue screen, posting out a message that you know, it's pretty straightforward 168 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:01,760 or you're saying, Hey, man, what's going on? 169 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,060 But you know, you just get animated. 170 00:10:04,060 --> 00:10:08,560 And I'm rambling here, Jim, but that's what that's what we used to do. 171 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:11,200 And we don't really, you and I don't talk anymore. 172 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,200 Like we used to. 173 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,480 This is a real treat for me, even though, like I said, I couldn't deliver a Dan out 174 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:21,240 the gate, ladies and gentlemen, this is by far the next best thing. 175 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:22,240 Absolutely. 176 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:27,800 The next best thing to another Dan Dan quail or, you know, Dan Deardorff, as you've said 177 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:28,800 in the past. 178 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:34,520 And of course, the Mount Rushmore has to the head at the top is your boy, Dan Marino. 179 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:40,840 So I'm happy just to be here, you know, and love speaking to you about, you know, things 180 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,440 that are going on in the Dan inverse, as it were. 181 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,400 So you know, I'm happy to talk to you as long as you'll have me. 182 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,560 And again, I'm just, you know, honored to, to be your first guests. 183 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:55,800 And you know, I'm sorry to everybody who comes after me because they're going to have a whole 184 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,240 lot to live up to. 185 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,440 You know, big shoes to fill. 186 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:05,880 Well, and you would think that starting a show called Dan time that I would just have 187 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:13,080 Dan's from near and far just beating down my door, trying to get on, trying to get on 188 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,080 the show. 189 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:19,480 And maybe I had a little bit of that expectation. 190 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:20,480 Not that they've come out of the Woodworth. 191 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:21,480 What did I say? 192 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:29,520 Woolworth, Woolworth, the, the old drugstore for the five and dime. 193 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,480 They haven't come out of the Woolworth episode. 194 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:36,920 Another episode idea, but yeah, I thought, okay, well I just kind of reach up and grab 195 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,600 a Dan and we'll, we'll have an episode. 196 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,840 Let me tell you, if you're thinking about starting something like this and your name 197 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:50,080 is Josh or your name is Susan or whatever, they're just not, people like to talk. 198 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:51,800 People like to be heard. 199 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,960 People aren't, aren't just crazy about being recorded though. 200 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:55,960 Probably a little hog. 201 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:00,400 I'm proud of you for just approaching, you know, every Dan on the street you come across 202 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,520 and asking them to be on a podcast with you. 203 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,680 And trust you know me, I'll do it. 204 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:08,880 The thought crossed my mind this week because I had a late cancellation, which is no big 205 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:09,880 deal. 206 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,520 This guy is going to, you're going to love our first Dan out the gate. 207 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,360 But I thought, okay, if I go to the store, if I could a dollar general or something and 208 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:22,400 I see a name tag and that name tag says Dan, I have pitched this guy about being on the 209 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:23,400 show. 210 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,400 Oh sure. 211 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,200 The light would shine down. 212 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,680 Angels would say it would be Kismet. 213 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:32,480 You better believe it, but no, it's, this is, this is going to be fun. 214 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,920 And Jim, what better, what better way to start off than to have you here? 215 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:43,120 You married my wife and I, we, we worked some of our best years, our formative years, our 216 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,160 wasted youth time period. 217 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:50,680 We worked together in an awesome pizza restaurant, Mellow Mushroom, which regionally some of 218 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:52,120 you might be familiar with. 219 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,840 Jim, let's, let's kind of jump off right there and I've got a lot of things I want to hit 220 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,240 on, but Mellow Mushroom. 221 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:58,760 Oh my goodness. 222 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,720 We ate there, oh man, maybe two weeks ago. 223 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:09,520 You know, they opened a second location on down on highway 280 down yonder and we just 224 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:10,520 happened to go in there. 225 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:11,520 We, we love it. 226 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:17,200 My daughter is just enraptured with their pretzels with beer cheese, which is not the 227 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,680 beer cheese we didn't have when we worked there. 228 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:23,840 But their beer cheese dipping sauce is outstanding. 229 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,560 It's literally one of the, you know, four food groups from my daughter along with real 230 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:31,520 pizza, chicken nuggets, and Texas toast. 231 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:40,560 Does she ever take a carrot or a celery stick and scoop ranch and basically use that, use 232 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:43,480 that as a vehicle to get ranch? 233 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,280 That would, you would, if good parents would probably have worked that in with their kids, 234 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,560 we were not able to do that. 235 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:55,200 She may use a, you know, a piece of a pizza crust and dip it in ranch, but she is sure 236 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,200 she never would. 237 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,980 She put a carrot or a piece of celery in ranch and, and eat it. 238 00:13:59,980 --> 00:14:02,080 She is not a vegetable eater. 239 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:07,520 Unfortunately we're, we failed in that, in that category, but, but yeah, she'll, she'll 240 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,080 eat some fruits, but yeah, Mellow Mushroom is one of our, let's stay on target here with 241 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:13,080 Mellow Mushroom. 242 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,960 We're, we're, we're not going to sit here very long, but Mellow Mushroom pizza bakers. 243 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,960 I mean, I didn't know I'd be plugging them, but what, tell me about, tell me your thoughts 244 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,160 when you think about 2002, I know, I think you started in 01 there and I came out, came 245 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,600 on in 02, but what do you remember? 246 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,360 What's, you know, what's your takeaway from that time period? 247 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,840 Well, I mean, I loved it, you know, obviously super fond of it and have fond memories because 248 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,160 I met my wife later. 249 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:44,320 It's also, you know, we had very, yeah, with New Girl, we had very little turnover. 250 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:49,520 I felt like even for that time and nowadays you go down to Southside or just about anywhere 251 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:55,300 in the country and there's these, you know, boutique pizza places. 252 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:58,400 Back in 2002 when Mellow Mushroom came in, that was, it was it. 253 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,760 It was the spot, you know, you didn't have Slice or any of these other hundreds of, like 254 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:08,000 I said, boutique pizza places you had at that time, you had all the chains, Papa John's, 255 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,400 Caesar's, you know, Pizza Hut, Domino's. 256 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,960 And then when Mellow Mushroom came, it was like, wow, you can go eat pizza, have beer, 257 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:20,160 different crazy toppings, you know, artichokes, you know, I mean, spinach. 258 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,020 It was just, it was different. 259 00:15:22,020 --> 00:15:23,480 So the restaurant was really cool. 260 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:24,480 The vibe was cool. 261 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,920 Southside was still a really happening place. 262 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,120 When Jim said Southside, it's the Southside of Birmingham, Alabama. 263 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:36,640 It's I haven't been down there in quite some time, but 20 years ago it was a hotspot. 264 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:37,640 It was a fun place to be. 265 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:43,440 We were right across the street from a dance club that, boy, that was fun, Jim. 266 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,400 Remember when we closed down the restaurant and just people watched? 267 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,560 Yeah, just people watch out on the porch with the lights off was just a highlight of every 268 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:53,560 day. 269 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,640 And yeah, it was just a great place to work. 270 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,680 I, we, Kelly and I went through my wife and thought about it one day, like the amount 271 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,440 of couples and kids that came from people that worked there. 272 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:11,560 I think there's like 10 kids from people that met at Mellow Mushroom back in that day. 273 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:16,960 I think it was unique in that way and it was a real family atmosphere and still talk to 274 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,880 some of those people regularly. 275 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,280 You know, everybody show up. 276 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,280 There you go. 277 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:23,840 The owner was great. 278 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:24,840 Yeah. 279 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:25,840 Big fan of his. 280 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,960 He was the father of the two guys who originally opened that he was a real hands on and just 281 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,920 a great guy, you know, as were the two original owners. 282 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,200 But yeah, I loved it down there, man. 283 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,560 Got to meet you good friends for life. 284 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,560 So it was just a fun time. 285 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:43,560 Yeah. 286 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:49,560 One thing I want to, I'll keep coming back to this and other future episodes of Dan Time, 287 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,960 but is the topic of service and the interest in service. 288 00:16:54,960 --> 00:17:01,760 And Jim, you're like me, you've always been in some kind of role where service is at the 289 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:09,520 forefront and it calls on your skills to relate to people, empathize with people, understand 290 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,720 people's needs and care about what you're doing. 291 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:20,680 Even back then when we were college students and like you said, we're kind of got one eye 292 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:26,160 peeled and in this direction of, you know, going out and doing these things and hanging 293 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:27,160 out with friends. 294 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,280 But can you remember even back then where it was important to you when you showed up 295 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,400 at work to, Hey, I'm going to do a good job tonight. 296 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:39,040 And how do you relate that back then and where your head was versus today? 297 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,600 Like with the staff of restaurants currently when I go in and have service? 298 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,400 Or just like how you feel about how you go about your business. 299 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:53,320 You know, we won't really talk a lot about your day to day life in that regard. 300 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,200 Do you still have this, do you still carry that mindset of service? 301 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,440 Oh yeah, absolutely. 302 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,880 I mean, if you're dealing with the public or dealing with other people in your industry 303 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:09,560 or in business, you want to be as professional as possible and as approachable as possible. 304 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,840 And you know, just want to get out there and shake hands and or shake hands and kiss babies 305 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,760 as much as possible and service and the service industry has changed a lot in the past 20 306 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,360 years, just from us going out to restaurants. 307 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:27,560 You know, now there's still great servers, but there's also a lot of people who, I don't 308 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,480 know, don't seem to care. 309 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:30,480 Maybe sometimes. 310 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,800 Yeah, yeah. 311 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,800 But that could have been the same way back then, you know, we weren't the ones going 312 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:36,800 to restaurants. 313 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:37,800 We were the ones working in restaurants. 314 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,800 So back then there could have been people who said, you know, 20 years, 1980s, they 315 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,680 weren't like that, you know, so I don't know everything. 316 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,620 It's always there's always going to be older folks that say things were better back in 317 00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:50,620 their day. 318 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:54,880 And there's always going to be younger folks who say that they're just crotchety and need 319 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:55,880 to get over it. 320 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,560 But yeah, I think, you know, don't know how to segue that into something else. 321 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:06,040 But I think that service today is a little different than it was. 322 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,040 Sure. 323 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,080 Yeah, I do see it. 324 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,680 And when I when I see I don't know if you're this way. 325 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,440 And maybe this is me becoming like the dad at the restaurant that's saying, what's your 326 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:17,640 name young lady? 327 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:24,400 You know, but when you notice someone that's going the extra mile, maybe you like I mean, 328 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,280 there's an ice cream store here locally that I'll take the kids to. 329 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,280 And there's this really nice teenage guy that's like, he started telling me about what he 330 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,760 wants to do after high school. 331 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,080 You know, I take notice of some of those people that are working in service roles and seem 332 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,760 like they care about what they're doing. 333 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,400 Oh, yeah, they yeah, they stand out. 334 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,000 So that's that's one thing I'll touch on with with with each guest as we go along. 335 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,300 Another thing with you, Jim, and we'll get back to some specifics here in a minute, but 336 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:58,080 a consistently positive outlook, no matter what's going on. 337 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,840 I think you as my friend over the years, you've been through a lot. 338 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:06,040 You've been through a lot of things that I probably haven't even heard about. 339 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:11,320 But you always seem to put a good face even on a bad situation, as they say. 340 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:16,880 Is there anything that you do in particular that keeps driving that positive attitude 341 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,160 or that interest in just succeeding? 342 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:20,160 Who? 343 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,800 That's a good question, Danimal. 344 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,560 I don't. 345 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,320 It's always easier to say just look on the bright side, you know, than to do it sometimes. 346 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:36,360 But you know, I was raised by a lady, my mom, who's wonderful, you know, always did everything 347 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,360 with a smile. 348 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,440 I only remember her one time ever getting so mad that she swore. 349 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,600 And it was when I was a little jerk and didn't want to go to church like four weeks in a 350 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:50,760 row and she finally threw her hands up and was like, then fine, you don't have to go. 351 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,400 You know, so but I imagine it's just learned behavior. 352 00:20:54,400 --> 00:21:02,840 You know, being a dad and raising kids, man, kids and eventually young adults and adults 353 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,760 are a big reflection of what they learned as children and what they saw as children. 354 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,560 And so, you know, I would attribute I appreciate you saying that. 355 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,440 And I would attribute, you know, my attitude to my parents and how I was raised and the 356 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:20,240 people I was raised around and learned a long time ago that, you know, if you can't laugh 357 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,280 at yourself, you're going to be miserable. 358 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:31,040 You know, yeah, well, I mean, you got to be you got to be you got to be happy. 359 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,120 I do not think that way about myself personally. 360 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:35,280 I sometimes feel like I'm just a storm cloud. 361 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,240 But but maybe that's inward and I'm a little too. 362 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:43,760 One thing I always thought was just I mean, it's hilarious on one end and very unique 363 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:44,760 on another. 364 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,480 A lot of people don't know this because the world just doesn't know about Jim Powell. 365 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,840 That's what I'm trying to improve upon here. 366 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:51,840 Yes, Jim. 367 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,640 Over the years, Jim, I don't know if you still do this. 368 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:00,440 I started to notice that you had a different expression in almost every picture that you'd 369 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:05,680 be captured in, whether it was with me or another group of friends. 370 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,600 I don't know if that was like deliberate or your thing, but I just thought that was so 371 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:17,080 cool and kind of speaks to here's a guy who does not take himself too seriously. 372 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,600 It is hard in this world, I think, now to be more relaxed. 373 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,120 Don't take yourself so seriously. 374 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:25,800 Don't worry about what people are thinking about you. 375 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,880 It's probably particularly hard on teenagers. 376 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,120 And when my kids get older and start going through middle school to just, oh, don't worry 377 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,440 about what they say. 378 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,640 I think that was a lot easier when we were growing up. 379 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,240 And when we were growing up, it wasn't that easy. 380 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,240 But it's hard. 381 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,080 I think it's really hard now. 382 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:50,800 But you really have just embodied that quality and is one of the reasons why you're one of 383 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,360 my closest friends. 384 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,080 I'm getting real close to the edge here, Jim. 385 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,080 So we're not. 386 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,080 Oh, my goodness. 387 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:02,320 I mean, I'm just sitting here blushing and wiping away. 388 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,480 There's cutting onions in here. 389 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,040 I'm so appreciative. 390 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,040 Thank you for bringing me on. 391 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,080 There's been a real boost to my confidence. 392 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,000 No, thank you. 393 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,560 This is what downtime is going to be every week. 394 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,680 You can have me as a guest twice a week. 395 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:16,680 I'm fine with that. 396 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,680 But yeah, that's you're too kind. 397 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:25,280 And I'd say the same about you, man. 398 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,640 Friends are very important to me because I'm not an only child, but my brother and sister 399 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,760 were a good bit older than me. 400 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,200 So much older that I really don't remember them living in the same house. 401 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,560 They were 14 and 12 years older than me. 402 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,160 And I had cousins, but they lived far away. 403 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,660 They weren't in the same city. 404 00:23:42,660 --> 00:23:49,080 And so once I started making friends when we moved back to Birmingham in second grade, 405 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,760 friends from then on were just really important to me because they were like family. 406 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,400 So it's always been important to me that my friends are happy and that I surround myself 407 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,200 with mostly positive people. 408 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:07,400 Especially as you move along in life, I think it's as important as ever. 409 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:12,880 And there's almost a point where you have to make that split with maybe a pack of friends 410 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:19,700 or a group that you enjoy being around where you have to say, all right, who's going places 411 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:20,700 and who's not. 412 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:21,700 Yeah. 413 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:23,760 We're just going different directions. 414 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:29,580 Or really in the age that we live in with FaceTime and group texts, you can get out 415 00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:30,580 of your hometown. 416 00:24:30,580 --> 00:24:35,000 I mean, I know not everybody, I mean, I did, but you don't have to. 417 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,560 But if some people are considering it and you have the means, it's like if you're still 418 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:44,280 single and you're just running around with the same three or four people and let's just 419 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,920 say they're not doing anything productive and there you go and hang out with them and 420 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,360 they don't have anything uplifting to really talk about. 421 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,120 This is me speaking to the listeners, to both of you guys. 422 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:03,400 Get out of that and think about, make a plan about how you're going to get out of it. 423 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,800 Don't just say, oh, it'd be really nice to move to Nashville. 424 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,320 Oh, you know, maybe I'll do that next year or maybe I'll think about that. 425 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:16,480 Make a plan and small steps, but you really don't even have to move. 426 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:22,960 You don't have to move to another state or move from a physical address. 427 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,820 Sometimes it's just changing the job and figuring out what are the little steps that I can take 428 00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:30,720 that I could just start making this happen. 429 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,720 But I'll talk about that more in future episodes. 430 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:38,320 Yeah, Jim, I've always just found you to be someone and you're probably a little too hard 431 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:43,120 on yourself in that regard, but people are drawn to. 432 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:50,560 You seem to have an easy ability to just talk to the guy on the street, which is something 433 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:58,760 that I really seek out in friends is if we're out somewhere and all of a sudden I turn around 434 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,760 and say, where's Jim? 435 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:00,760 Where'd he go? 436 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:08,160 And you're across the bar and you're just standing there talking to someone that I don't 437 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,000 recognize and it's been going on for 12 minutes. 438 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 That's a good quality. 439 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:17,160 Well, there's an interesting story and you may have a few of them, but haven't there 440 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,800 been some public figures that you've seen out in public and said, hey, man, not so much 441 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,760 can I get your autograph, but any story you want to talk about? 442 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:33,280 Yeah, I talked about it on the podcast I have or used to our on hiatus podcast, give me 443 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:40,200 10, but we were in me and a couple of our friends went to Nashville to watch a Titans 444 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:46,560 game and so after the game we had to stop at White Castle because we don't have those 445 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:52,280 here in Alabama for our, for the day and time international listeners and White Castle is 446 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,740 just a miniature slider burger place. 447 00:26:55,740 --> 00:26:57,720 And they basically have two tables. 448 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,480 It's all order and then stand there and wait. 449 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,200 And my goodness, the wait is, it feels like 30 minutes when you've had four beers at the 450 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,280 Titans game. 451 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:12,160 And so we're standing there and after we order, I look over my shoulder and it's James Carville, 452 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,920 who I'm sure you know, I know, you know, JT on our podcast episode had no clue, but he's 453 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,000 a political pundit. 454 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,280 He used to work for Clinton, right? 455 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,560 I think anybody gets younger than 42. 456 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:30,240 Probably it's not a household now, but no, but he's a, I mean, he's wasn't his wife a 457 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,360 conservative and he was pretty liberal. 458 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:33,760 It was an op care. 459 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,800 Um, they didn't, they have a debate show or something or, I mean, you'd know the guy though. 460 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,760 He's super, I think he's from Louisiana. 461 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,840 He's from Louisiana. 462 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,280 He was decked out in LSU gear cause LSU had played Vanderbilt before. 463 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:50,640 If your dad had CNN on in your house during the Clinton administration, you've heard this 464 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,400 guy, which might not be. 465 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:54,400 Yeah. 466 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,400 Yes. 467 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,020 Oh yeah. 468 00:27:57,020 --> 00:27:58,520 And so I was like, James Carville. 469 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,240 And he was like, yes, how are you? 470 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,240 And I was like, good. 471 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,880 He's he's he's he's waiting for his burgers. 472 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,880 He cannot get away. 473 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,880 Yeah. 474 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:07,880 Yeah. 475 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,760 He can't, there's, there's a tiny restaurant, you know, he can't like get his drink. 476 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,040 So I'm just, and like I said, I'd had a couple of drinks at the Titans game and was even 477 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,240 more, um, open to social interaction. 478 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,560 So I was just chatting him up and for the first couple of minutes it was okay. 479 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,880 But then it was, when it was done, he, you know, he basically did the whole full three 480 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,320 quarter body turn away from me, um, to just look at the wall. 481 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,520 So I kind of got the, I got the hint and just stopped talking. 482 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,120 But, but yeah, I loved seeing him and yeah, seeing random folks out, uh, famous people's 483 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,080 always always wonder like some people that talk for a living, uh, they're analysts, they're 484 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,480 on TV a lot or they're, um, on radio. 485 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,480 I don't know. 486 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,920 Maybe there's some of them that, that like to just talk nonstop and they'll engage everyone 487 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:55,920 on the street. 488 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,600 And there's probably others who are like, let me just get my to go order here from Applebee's 489 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,120 and get just get out of here. 490 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,120 Yeah. 491 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,120 Leave me alone. 492 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,800 Well, he, I mean, again, he was nice. 493 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:14,680 Um, but heck, I don't like talking to just, I, you say that I like talking to random people. 494 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:20,160 It depends on if they have something interesting to say, you know, so he, he probably gets 495 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,240 tired of just every rando coming up. 496 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,320 You know, I don't know if you watch and well, actually I know you do cause I sent you a, 497 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:32,760 uh, the first season, um, DVD, but impractical jokers just in the past year or so when that 498 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,920 shows the popularity has exploded. 499 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:40,200 I get told once a week that I look like the fat guy Sal from that show. 500 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,960 And I am just so over being told that I look like him. 501 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:51,640 It's the first time in my life I've ever been, um, you know, had a celebrity doppelganger. 502 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,880 And so I was always wondered, cause I would tell people they look like somebody and it 503 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:56,880 would frustrate them. 504 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,560 You know, like our friend Dave would get so tired of people telling me look like Russell 505 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,480 Crowe and this was when Russell Crowe was a good looking dude, you know, 20 years ago, 506 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,520 I was like, man, better Russell Crowe than John Lovitz or something, you know, it's 507 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:09,520 a great example. 508 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,360 It's hard to, uh, to think of celebrities, celebrities where across the board, if you 509 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,720 were to say to your friend, Hey, you look just like Sandra Bullock, you know, it's like 510 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,640 probably five or 10% of them where it's just an automatic compliment. 511 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:28,680 And then there's like the vast majority youth would think that that would be cool for that 512 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:29,680 person. 513 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,600 But yeah, but people do not like it. 514 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,200 You could say, man, you look like Brad Pitt. 515 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,200 They'll shut up. 516 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,480 I've been told that, you know, it's like better than Sal from impractical. 517 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:46,320 Jokers, the fat guy with the, you know, now I recognize that, uh, 10, 12 years ago when 518 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,760 I'm like, I kind of looks like Jim, but I thought it was like, I was like, man, that 519 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,920 was kind of cool, but it's not, you know, it's not me. 520 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,240 So I'm not comparing myself. 521 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,680 Um, I haven't gotten too many of those celebrity comparisons. 522 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:00,680 Who have you gotten? 523 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,720 You've gotten some long, long time ago. 524 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:09,080 I think somebody, when I was working at TGI Fridays, uh, mentioned you and McGregor. 525 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,000 I don't know if he's what that guy does. 526 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Yeah. 527 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000 I've got that once. 528 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,480 Yeah, I could see that. 529 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:15,880 That's a good one. 530 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:16,880 Yeah. 531 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:17,880 He's, um, Obi-Wan Kenobi. 532 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:23,320 That's a good one, Dan. 533 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:29,000 Rick Smith's maybe from the, uh, the flying Dutchman. 534 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000 No, you didn't. 535 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,560 You guys always, uh, debt left shrimp. 536 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:41,600 Man, a lot of those guys, uh, really good memories there. 537 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,240 Jim, we got to touch on the gimme 10 podcast. 538 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:52,200 And this is something that I've, uh, if you guys are following me on X, um, I just, uh, 539 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,760 posted about gimme 10. 540 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:55,880 This is worth checking out. 541 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:01,400 This is, I don't think is out to a broad audience either, but if you enjoy listening to two 542 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,720 guys just sit around and talk about a bag of peanuts, I mean, you don't, you're not 543 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:12,120 expecting that it's going to be funny, but give one of these episodes a shot. 544 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:18,560 I mean, just one, the great thing here, and you'll see if you go, um, to their Spotify 545 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,680 link, the last episode says, this is the end. 546 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,760 Now, in most cases, that's pretty declarative. 547 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:31,320 That's it's over, but, uh, there's, and we may clear up some rumor here that, uh, there's, 548 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:38,080 that we may have a fall to 2023 return of gimme 10. 549 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:43,400 Uh, before I get confirmation on that, let me just kind of pop off a few of these episode 550 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:52,200 titles Christmas gifts, movie theaters, uh, Halloween candy in two parts. 551 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,680 There's a part one and part two Halloween candy episode. 552 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:03,240 Oberkei there is, uh, the eighties. 553 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,240 Great episode. 554 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,400 Uh, they might be giants. 555 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:14,020 Some of these cultural musical, um, footnotes in history, they're just peppered in here. 556 00:33:14,020 --> 00:33:15,720 One of my favorites was the birthdays episode. 557 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,920 I think that's one of the later ones. 558 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,960 Of course I recommended way back drywall repair and they actually jumped on it and did an 559 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,200 episode on drywall repair. 560 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,920 We did Dan said he could listen to us talk about anything, even drywall repair. 561 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:35,200 So our, our, the followup episode was about drywall repair and it was exhilarating. 562 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:41,360 If you could, uh, confirm or deny the rumor that you guys are coming back sometime this 563 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,240 fall, that would be awesome. 564 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,440 And, and regardless, just give us a little rundown of what gimme 10 is all about. 565 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:53,640 First things first, the, you know, the reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated. 566 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,640 I think that's the quote. 567 00:33:54,640 --> 00:34:03,000 But yes, we are coming back, um, in the fall, uh, JT poker face, my podcast partner and 568 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:09,360 the creator gimme 10 is, uh, he moved away, uh, about three years ago and we tried to 569 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,640 do, um, remote episodes. 570 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,600 And when he would come back to Birmingham, we would record episodes, but it just wasn't 571 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,440 the same and, uh, had lost a little bit of its luster there. 572 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:23,240 So we called it, we decided to hang it up and, um, but lo and behold, he has decided 573 00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:24,480 to move back to Birmingham. 574 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,480 Thank goodness. 575 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,080 So we are going to start back, um, date TBD, but hopefully here soon. 576 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,960 So everybody, if you're listening to this, please go listen, like, and subscribe to the 577 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,080 gimme 10 podcast. 578 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,600 The audio is nothing compared to what day and time has got set up here. 579 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:46,000 Um, but we're going to work on getting that cleaned up, but the, the, uh, the format and 580 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,280 the subject matters are spectacular. 581 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,760 If you ask me and it started because it's called gimme 10 was, uh, we did a hard stop 582 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,280 at 10 minutes every episode. 583 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,040 So no matter what we talked about, we were in and out in 10 minutes. 584 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,440 Um, JT's idea, it was JT's idea. 585 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,360 You guys really kept to it also. 586 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,640 I mean, there's very little variation, especially towards the end. 587 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:13,080 I think you kind of just let it fly, but most episodes you're clocking out at 10,01, nine 588 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,400 59 10 on the dot. 589 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,400 And so folks, people throw stuff at you. 590 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,940 You get recommendations, people text you, oh, you got to watch this show. 591 00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:22,940 You need to watch this on Netflix. 592 00:35:22,940 --> 00:35:25,960 You need to listen to this podcast. 593 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,560 You got 10 minutes to just take a shot on something. 594 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:34,520 And if, uh, on this, on, uh, gimme 10 and, um, listen, you know, listen to, listen to 595 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:40,080 12 or 13 episodes, you know, and make your mind up after that, but, uh, you know, give 596 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,440 it an hour and, you know, uh, 102 hours would be at 12 episodes. 597 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:50,160 So you know, that's, you could get to Auburn and back and listen to, you know, 12, 10 minute 598 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,160 episodes. 599 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,200 And then if you don't like it, maybe listen to 10 more episodes. 600 00:35:54,200 --> 00:36:00,160 But then after that, if it's still not got you hooked, you can unsubscribers or stop. 601 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,120 But yeah, just give us a fair shake. 602 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,120 So you know, 40 episodes. 603 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,920 Well, Jim, this has been an excellent, uh, reconnect with you. 604 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,000 I mean, it's, I say that like, we're not going to talk again for the next two years, but 605 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,760 I got, I got a few little rapid fire questions that I'm probably going to shoot out at most 606 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:17,760 guests here. 607 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,120 What do you, if you're, are you listening to a band right now? 608 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,160 Is there anything that's really set in your world on fire that you're prepared to say, 609 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,560 Hey, you guys need to check out this song or this group. 610 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,720 Oh, uh, let me pass and come back to that. 611 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:31,720 Okay. 612 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:36,640 What are you watching when it's eight o'clock, eight 30 at night and there's not a game on, 613 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:37,640 what are you watching? 614 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,680 Uh, you know, mostly stuff from my DVR. 615 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,960 And right now I'm watching what we do in the shadows. 616 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,520 I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but it's a phenomenal, it's one of the funniest 617 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:47,720 TV shows I've ever seen. 618 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:52,080 It's like a mockumentary about Dracula's who live in, I'm not Dracula, vampires who live 619 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,440 in Staten Island, New York, a shot mockumentary style. 620 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,680 So you know, like the office or this is spinal tap. 621 00:36:58,680 --> 00:36:59,680 It's hilarious. 622 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,680 So I've been watching that. 623 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,080 Um, I go down YouTube rabbit holes a lot too at night. 624 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:10,520 Uh, you know, love, uh, rasslin stories or, um, yeah, anything like that. 625 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,680 There's all kinds of different YouTube stuff I get into. 626 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,840 Jim, if you had to just stand outside in the middle of your yard and it's either one of 627 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:19,840 these two options. 628 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:20,840 All right. 629 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,040 So you, you're just, let's just say you're in your work clothes. 630 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:30,120 Do you want to stand outside where it's heat index 108 degrees for 30 minutes or stand 631 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:37,000 out there when it's a wind chill of, let's just say 14 degrees, which one are you going 632 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000 for? 633 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,000 14 degrees. 634 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,840 I think I'm part Viking. 635 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:42,840 Yeah. 636 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:43,840 I do not want to stand in the sun. 637 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,840 I do not like the sun. 638 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,600 You got a button down shirt on when it's blazing hot. 639 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:52,040 You got that same button down on when it's frigid cold, no jacket. 640 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,040 You're still out there. 641 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,400 Yeah, I can just jump. 642 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:55,400 Yeah. 643 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:56,400 I can jump on. 644 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,080 I kind of jumped on one foot back and forth, get the blood flowing. 645 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,080 Yes. 646 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,440 I would much rather do that than just stand and, um, have sweat form in places that we 647 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,200 can't talk about on a, on a PG podcast. 648 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:17,120 That is something from 1997 or 1998 that you think was just awesome for being that age 649 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,000 at that time that you just feel like kids are missing out on right now. 650 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,720 So at that time, you know, we graduated that year. 651 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:25,520 What was cool about the late nineties? 652 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,760 We'll just say the late nineties that just ain't so cool right now or people don't have 653 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,320 the same access. 654 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:38,720 Uh, I think we've already kind of touched on it, but I think the technology and especially, 655 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,400 you know, communication technology. 656 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,600 So cell phones, they're great. 657 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:48,560 Listen, I couldn't live without my phone, but, um, if I could go back to 1997 and just 658 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,280 have a phone that gave me directions to places, I think I would be a lot. 659 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,480 I would, I would love that. 660 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:59,740 If kids these days only used headphones that could call people or, you know, if we could 661 00:38:59,740 --> 00:39:05,480 pick one of the parts of current technology to take back, it would be, you know, uh, ways 662 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,680 or instant directions. 663 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,600 Just the fact that you can get in touch with anybody anytime, anywhere. 664 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,600 It's it's just kind of a bummer, you know? 665 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,440 So when you go on vacation, are you really, do you really feel like you're on vacation 666 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,080 when you still have the work email icon? 667 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:20,080 Absolutely. 668 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,280 Jim, last question. 669 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:28,280 Did you ever have to speak to a girl's dad on the phone because she had to call her house 670 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,960 number to talk to her and ask her either out to a date where she's already your girlfriend 671 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,720 and this is just the primary way they can connect with her after hours. 672 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:37,720 Uh, yes. 673 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:41,160 That is never happening ever again for any teenager. 674 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:42,160 He's that he's in the clear. 675 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,160 No, no, no. 676 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:50,200 Well, I mean, if he goes to her house to pick her up, you know, if, uh, if somebody is going 677 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,600 to come over to take ever out, he's going to have to come in and sit and talk to me 678 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,200 for a couple of minutes before they leave. 679 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,840 So I remember several girls dads being pretty intimidating. 680 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,760 I mean, they weren't doing the whole pull out of shotgun and shine it up while we talk, 681 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,920 but it was always nerve wracking. 682 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,640 But yeah, you don't have to worry about that nowadays with the phone. 683 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,480 I remember, I think it was the homecoming dance. 684 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:18,880 This may have been 10th grade, my date to the dance, her dad picked me up at my house. 685 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,560 So he's already got my date in the car. 686 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,720 So he drops us off at the dance. 687 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:28,560 When he picks us up, he drives all the way to their house, drops her off. 688 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:37,640 And then it was like an hour drive home and it was long enough. 689 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,400 Did he get you in the front seat or do you make you stay in the back? 690 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:47,840 And he wasn't too hard on me, but it was just that again, this is 1994. 691 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,840 So you don't have any phone to fiddle with. 692 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,560 You don't have anything to just, oh, let me just burn away the time here in this uncomfortable 693 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:56,560 situation. 694 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:01,400 You're just riding with this girl's old man for what seems like an eternity. 695 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,960 Did he talk or was he nice? 696 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,640 Not a big talker, nice guy. 697 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:13,320 I wouldn't even say was dead in conversations because I was too frozen to even talk freely 698 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,280 or loose with him, but that probably still goes on a little bit. 699 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:23,880 I've got my kids and it's kind of fun thinking about how you're going to treat the girlfriends 700 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:30,440 and the boyfriends and I'll be easy on them, but have some fun at the same time. 701 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,440 Yeah. 702 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,640 I can see you pulling a lot of legs and messing with guys and gals for sure. 703 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,360 Well, Jim, we could go on and on. 704 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,000 We're going to have to do a part two. 705 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,920 Oh, hey, before you sign me off, I got to circle back to your music question and it's 706 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,760 recently watched the Ken Burns country music documentary from PBS. 707 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,920 If people haven't seen that, they need to search it out. 708 00:41:52,920 --> 00:42:00,000 I've been on a real big golden age of country music kick, so I'm listening to a lot of older, 709 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,960 I guess silver age is what it would be. 710 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,760 Merle and Waylon and George Jones and all those folks. 711 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:09,760 That's what I've been listening to. 712 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,520 Now you can sign off and tell me how great I am again and talk about it. 713 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,440 Jim, since you mentioned that and I'm going to have to put you to the test here. 714 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,920 You want to sing us out with some George Jones? 715 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:29,880 Maybe she thinks I still care or just because I asked a friend about her perfection. 716 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,000 Oh gosh, that's terrible. 717 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,000 You got to cut that. 718 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:41,160 All right, Jim, Jim Hammer, Jimmy, however many nicknames that you've had over the years. 719 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,760 This has been awesome. 720 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:49,240 This has been more than I expected and hopefully you guys at home or in the car have enjoyed 721 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:50,240 the episode as well. 722 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,840 The first episode of Dan Time in the books. 723 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,840 Remember you can look us up on X it's at Dan Time pod. 724 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,000 We're also on Facebook or on Instagram. 725 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,660 Jim, I don't know that we talked a lot back in the day, but did we ever have a 40 minute 726 00:43:03,660 --> 00:43:05,280 conversation on the phone? 727 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,840 Man, maybe on one of our way or one of us being on the way to the beach or something. 728 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,560 But yeah, I don't think so. 729 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:11,680 This has been great. 730 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,400 Thank you so much for having me Dan. 731 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,840 It's been awesome. 732 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:21,040 And I'm just honored to be the first guest on a podcast dedicated to Dan speaking with 733 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,040 people named Dan. 734 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,500 Jim, thanks for being on. 735 00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:29,400 And remember, wait until it is 7 48 at night to go out and cut your grass. 736 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,100 Do not give yourself a heat stroke. 737 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:42,080 You guys have a great week and we'll be back next week on Dan Time.