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All right. Welcome to episode number 16 of the

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Dan Time podcast. I'm your host, Dan McCardell,

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back with you for your benefit. I hope presenting

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to you the best that I can find and book from

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the Daniverse. What a run of guests we've had.

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I'm not just saying that. What a bunch of just

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decent people doing great things, things that

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you ought to check out or go see. How about Dan

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Thomas? Did you like that episode? Are you going

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to be in Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg

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in December? If so, I recommend, of course I

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do, but really go catch a Dan Thomas performance.

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We've had standup comedians, Dan Altano and Daniel

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Iches on the show over the past few weeks. Both

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these guys are going to be out there on the road

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into 2024. Make sure. You follow all my guests

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on social media to stay current with their whereabouts.

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So the holidays have officially begun. Thanksgiving

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is behind us. You made it. You got through. How

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was that experience for you? How was the traveling,

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the hosting, the visiting, whatever you were

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doing, the chatting and hugging and smiling and

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hey, how are you guys doing? How you been? How

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are you doing? How's she doing? How's your job

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going? How's all that working out? How are the

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kids doing in school? What's going on with that

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thing that you were dealing with? Let's hear

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all about that. Looks like you got your hands

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full. What went down for you over the holidays?

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Whatever, you made it. You're here. You're back

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on the Dan Time Podcast, back in your work week.

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And you don't have to deal with that for another

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few weeks, but you know, hopefully you did have

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a great time and you saw some people that you

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only see a couple of times a year that you really

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love to see. My guest today is New Orleans musical

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theater actor and performer, Danny Rubio. This

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is a big deal for me and I'm so happy to introduce

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Danny to you. Performing is just in his blood.

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Nowhere is he happier nowhere than on stage.

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You'll notice right away that Danny is not your

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average guy and when you say go, he's on. He's

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on 100%. We had a short history together in person

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12 or so years ago and the bond was formed and

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we are forever friends. Danny studied theater

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at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and

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was always involved in theater growing up. However,

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It would be about two decades after graduating

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before Danny returned to the stage. He shares

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the story in this conversation about why it took

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so long and what inspired him to make his grand

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return to performing in musicals. Some of the

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roles that Danny has portrayed have included

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Peter in Company, Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar,

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Ed Solmanke in the Bessel Whorehouse in Texas,

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the Mayor in Newsies, and R .F. Simpson in Singing

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in the Rain. If you're in the New Orleans area,

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you can catch Danny this weekend, December 1st

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through 3rd, in Scrooge the Musical at Dockville

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Farm, also March 15th through 24th in Jesus Christ

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Superstar at Jefferson Performing Arts Society.

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Later in May, the 3rd through the 19th, you can

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see Danny in Sister Act the Musical at Rivertown

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Theaters for the Performing Arts. All right,

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to keep up with all of Danny's performances in

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2024 and beyond, please follow The Company, a

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St. Bernard Community Theater, also Jefferson

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Performing Arts Society, and Rivertown Theaters

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for the Performing Arts. Check out their social

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media pages, like and follow. And if you'd like

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to talk to Danny directly, I'm sure he'd love

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to hear from you. Send him a message, send him

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a friend request on Facebook. Danny Rubio, Danny

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Boy in parentheses. And he tells the story in

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our conversation about the Danny Boy nickname.

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You're going to love it. We also talk some Saints

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football, New Orleans restaurants, and of course

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a good bit of side chatter. I think you're going

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to love this conversation. So let's get to it

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now. Ladies and gentlemen, it is Danny Rubio

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time. Man, I can't believe it's been so long

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since we have spoken. connected. And by way of

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this podcast, we're actually I've facilitated

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a conversation with you. And if nothing else,

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that's a success. I am just thrilled to have

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you on the show and be talking to you today.

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How are you doing, Danny? I am doing great, Dan.

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Thank you so much. It has been a long time, man,

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like 12, 13, 14, some odd years. But you know,

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Dan's have to stick together. So that's right.

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Oh, that's why I'm here. Yeah, man. Thank you

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so much for having me on the show I listened

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to quite a few of them and Man, do I love listen

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the stories about dance, you know, how could

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you not? How could you that we are a community?

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You know, I heard the Ryan convention I really

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wasn't up to speed on that type of stuff where

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they actually all these Ryan's get together Have

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you heard of that? I have heard of it. I've seen

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some some social media posts about them and and

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whatnot. I feel like if we had our own Dan get

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together, it would be even a smaller group. I

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feel like there's less Dannys or Dan or Daniels

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around and there are Ryans and Bryans and stuff.

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So I feel like we would be like even on a higher

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tier than those Ryans. You know, I agree. I appreciate

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what they're doing. For me, I don't know if I

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want to take it that far. And I kind of agree

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with you that I don't know if we'd have the turnout,

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but we actually, I like to on this show, catch

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a few extra names. Like Danielle, or Danny, D

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-A -N -I. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the

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idea of female Danies. Keep going, yeah, yeah.

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So I'm just having fun with this, and really,

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I don't know if I brought this up on a previous

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episode. But I think it's important for people

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to find ways to root for each other, you know,

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to kind of get out of their bubble and say, hey,

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look what that guy's doing over there. Look what

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she's doing. That's that's awesome. So it's kind

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of me getting people thinking whether their name

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is Dan or Danny like us or it's Alfonso. But

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like just to find a common thread. So that's

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my contribution is getting people thinking along

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those lines that Hey, there's someone out there

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kind of like you and maybe it's just because

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you had the same name. That's true. I agree with

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that. I think that I think your mission here

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is. Is very commendable man. Well, thanks Danny

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and I understand I didn't know that it had been

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this long, but you actually. You're in musical

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theater and that's your that's your love. That's

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your passion. I didn't realize that a 20 year

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gap had taken place between here the here and

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now. and what you're doing, the projects, and

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the performances that you're working on, and

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how long it's been since you've been back in

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the game. That's absolutely true, man. You are

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right, first off, let me say. You say musical

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theater to me, and you say passion, and that

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is absolutely true. Man, there's nothing else

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that I want to do than to be on stage and sing

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and dance and act. It's like, hey, Dan, just

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give me a microphone and a spotlight and put

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me on stage and just let me go. And that's why

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this podcast is great. especially for me right

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now, because you've given me that microphone

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and you're basically putting me on stage and

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saying, let's just go. So I'm a little nervous

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with all those people listening out there. I'm

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just kidding. I'm just kidding, dude. I don't

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get nervous anymore. I mean, I remember back

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in the day when I did back in the day, like 20

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years ago, you're right. It has been a long time

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for me. And let me tell you why it took so long.

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So I did musical theater in, you know, middle

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school and high school. and in college at the

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University of Alabama. And then when I was done

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with college, like I haven't, you know, it's

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been 20 years and I did not do any theater. And

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the reason for that I feel like I've learned

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is because I guess I didn't realize that I needed

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to pursue that kind of thing. You know, when

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you're going to school and you're doing theater

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class, you're gonna be in shows. uh because you

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just you know you audition in class but when

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you're no longer in that kind of uh environment

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you have to like go out and find it yourself

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so um I love the musical Hamilton it came to

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New Orleans which is where I live now where I'm

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originally from and I went to go see Hamilton

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four times within eight days and then I see the

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entire cast on the stage taking their final bows

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and I get goosebumps and I'm like man oh man

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that's all I want to do that I want to do that

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again yeah thinking it's really hard and so like

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you know that next week I went and auditioned

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uh and I got a show and and now we're here a

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year and a half later and I got so many shows

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and I've done so many Danny do you think that

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uh even with people that or loaded with talent,

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or it's just like I say, in the DNA, if enough

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time passes and you're on the sidelines, do you

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think some doubt can creep in about your capabilities?

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You know, I didn't think about that, but now

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that you bring it up, I guess so, man. Yeah,

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because I auditioned for this show, that first

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show that I was in, and I had all my lines learned,

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and we're going up, so... you know run it and

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not like in a production or a performance but

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just for rehearsal and like I get so hesitant

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and I was really nervous about it but that's

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because there was like a 20 -year gap there but

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after I did that show I lost that nervousness

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until I moved to a bigger theater and then I

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got that nervousness again because I'm like oh

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wow now I'm with all of these people who are

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so much better than me what am I gonna do I'm

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gonna mess it up but then like once we opened

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that nervousness went away. And then I went to

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a different theater, a professional one, where

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they actually paid me money to sing and dance

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and act on stage. Dan, can you imagine getting

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paid for like having fun? Right? So like, that's

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what happened. And I didn't have any nervousness

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there, I guess maybe because like they, I feel

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like them paying me was like them saying, okay,

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dude, you're good enough to be here. So I guess

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I didn't get nervous at all. And I'm not nervous

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about the people in the audience. I'm just like,

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nervous about messing it up for my other castmates.

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But now that I'm like past any of that nervousness,

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I can just go up and perform. I'll tell you this,

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if anybody out there that is listening that is

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interested in performing in any like way at all,

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whether it be like reading poetry slams or playing

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guitar and singing, the number one thing that

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will make you successful is to not care. about

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what people think and to not have that nervousness.

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It just allows you to be yourself and to really

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like provide people with that entertainment that

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they either want or they don't know that they

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need. Yeah, I think that's great how you just

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put that and people maybe imagine that others

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are judging them or watching their every imperfection

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or misfire or whatever and The reality is, most

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people aren't. They're not hyper -focused on

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you. I mean, unless you just haven't prepared

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or something, but by the same token, would you

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say that it's good to just run through those

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situations where you're a nervous wreck to just

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feel it? To just feel nervous and have that experience

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where you just sweat in all the places that you

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don't usually sweat? and have your heart racing

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for a little while and just get past that so

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that you know what you're done you're like okay

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I don't think I I think I've got myself worked

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up to the max I don't have to reach that again

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I don't have to go quite that far I'm okay now

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wait what's the question do I think it's a good

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idea for people to embrace that situation where

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they're feeling nervous yes Uh, yes, definitely

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it's important because once you do that, like

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you say, you get past it and then next time you'll

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either be less nervous or you won't be nervous

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at all. The more you do, it's like they say,

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you know, the more you do something, the better

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you're going to be at it. I don't know if anybody

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actually ever said that, but I feel like somebody

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should have said that. Uh, it's all about that,

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uh, repetition, man. Repetition is what makes

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you feel comfortable to do those things. So yes.

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even if you feel like it and it's the terrible

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and you're right sweating everywhere just go

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up there man and just do it what would you say

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about just the camaraderie being in music theater

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how big of a role does that play in your enjoyment

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uh well being a person that is addicted to musical

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theater uh like i need to shoot musical theater

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up in my arm like every three hours every day.

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That's what it's like for me just to kind of

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give you an idea of how my life is. Yeah, man,

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that camaraderie is like amazing to me because

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I'll sit with my friends or whatever and make

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jokes or like they'll say a word and I'll sing

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a show tune. I'll sing a song with those words

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that they just said and they're just like, what?

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But, you know, backstage with these people who

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are uh is fiercely like dedicated to that same

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uh thing that you know just like takes over your

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mind and body is amazing uh like some of my best

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times are sitting backstage in the dressing room

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here for the for instance in newsies uh in the

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summer of this year uh so that's a huge cast

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the best show i was ever in by the way anyway

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we had like four different dressing rooms and

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i was in the older people's dressing room because

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well i'm an older person And we're just sitting

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there and we're just like waiting for cues or

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whatever. And I just say something like, let

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me think of one in particular. There's a place

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for us. And like the next person will sing, somewhere

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a place for us. And it's just like a game that

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we play. But if you know musical theater, then

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you know all of these things. And it's like in

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your brain. And it's just like a great games

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for us to play. Those people are amazing. uh

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you should everybody should have a musical theater

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friend in their life because everything is coming

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up roses and that's a line from a song from gypsy

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so like see we like talk in musical theater terms

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and i can't do that with like you i can't do

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that with like my other best friends in real

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life but we have like this secret language and

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uh and all we want to do is just like do that

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thing man which is just perform and you know

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what people are like well Do you like the rehearsals?

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I mean, you got to hate the rehearsals to get

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to that performance stage, right? And it's like,

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no, I don't hate the rehearsal process. Every

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single day I have rehearsal. I cannot wait to

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get to rehearsal because I get to see all my

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people and we're all loving and hugging. And

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look, we all may not, we probably all definitely

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don't share all the same, like political beliefs

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or religious beliefs or things like that. But

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that doesn't, it doesn't even come up, man. We're

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not there for that. We're just there. To like

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have a good time and do what we love I'll tell

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you what I'm a part of like three different theaters

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now and I have like these new groups of friends

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over the last year and a half who I will now

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go and Like next week. We'll have a friends giving

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at one of their houses. So like we just kind

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of like take anybody in and like You're part

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of the family and I feel like that has a lot

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to do with like people being addicted to that

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same Weirdness that you're addicted to like no

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matter what the situation is I'm gonna accept

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you man because you're like the same weirdness

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as me and like we have that same thing we call

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ourselves like theater nerds and theater nerds

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just need to stick together and I really do love

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all of these new people in my life over the last

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year and a half man I Knew when I first met you

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like you said it was about 2010 or so that I

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couldn't put my finger on it, that you're in

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that community or destined to be a part of that

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community. But I knew you were, I knew that you

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were a performer at heart and you liked doing

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some wacky stuff. I remember, I'm sure you do

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too, the coed softball team, the dirty birds

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that Emily and I assembled and your involvement.

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Maybe we only did one or two games like that,

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but do you remember when you - How could I forget?

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How could I forget? You don't even need to ask

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me. Yeah, man, I remember. How could I forget?

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You gave me, look, everybody out there, I just

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want you to know that I have a game softball.

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They gave me the game ball for going to the recreational

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baseball field, the local recreational baseball

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field in Birmingham with a megaphone and with

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an iPad and an amplifier. And I'd be like, next

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up, ladies and gentlemen. Standing at six three

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the first basement And like I'd play some music

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for y 'all I think I even like let y 'all pick

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your play on music or whatever. Yeah, but yeah,

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man Awesome. Awesome. And you know to have received

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I still have that softball. It's in my garage.

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So like receive that that's awesome Because I

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was just being like a weirdo Just like I said

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just put me on stage. Let me do some weird stuff

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and you gave me like a game ball and I was just

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having fun man I was there because my friends

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were there playing a game and I wanted to be

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a part of it But I was on the team so like I

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found my own way to do it and and to do that

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and to get A ball for like doing nothing in my

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eyes Like a little trophy ball was was a good

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thing for me. It makes me think of like Here

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recently earlier this year. I did Jesus Christ

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superstar and I played Caiaphas So then we had

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our annual gala for the 2022 -2023 season and

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then I was nominated for best actor in a musical

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for that particular role which you know I won

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and like they gave me like a standing ovation

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and a trophy that said best actor in a musical

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and I went up there and I told the people look

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guys I've been doing this for like 14 months

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and this is like the most amazing thing because

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I don't know how y 'all feel about it but i'll

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tell you for someone to give me this type of

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uh award for an accomplishment it doesn't even

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seem like an accomplishment to me i should be

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like giving all of those people an award an award

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for them for like putting me on stage and an

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award for the people in the audience for like

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clapping for me it's like i said earlier it's

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like getting money or getting accolades for like

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not doing anything for just being myself so like

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thank god i found this thing again because what

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if I wasn't getting those accolades? I'd just

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be being myself without accolades. And accolades

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make me feel a lot better about life, you know

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what I mean? Absolutely. Danny, you've been in,

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like you said, you portrayed the mayor in Newsies,

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Edsel Mackey in The Best Little Whorehouse in

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Texas, Young Frankenstein earlier this month,

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singing in the rain earlier in the fall. um you've

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got some some great stuff coming up i can't wait

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i wish i could go maybe i can i will see the

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sister act the musical at rivertown theaters

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which one that you've done in 2023 have you just

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had the most fun performing oh that's a good

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question oh they're probably all i've had enjoyable

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for different reasons they are the one that i

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had the most fun though personally it would have

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to be Well, let me think because I just told

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you that Newsies was like the best show that

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I was in but that's because like all of the tap

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dancing and and the big the big orchestrations

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and stuff like that, but I'm gonna have to say

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like probably Singing in the rain. Oh my god,

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probably singing the rain. How'd you know that?

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Why why'd you say that? I was just guessing I

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was following a little bit when you're sharing

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updates about that show and that performance

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and I like it just seemed like Guess what I was

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seeing in the photos like this is This is all

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Danny. This is he's in his element. This is great.

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I loved it You're right, man. It is that is what

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I am I'm like in my element and it would have

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to be I feel like it has to be singing the rain

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only for like personal like greed reasons because

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that was the biggest role that I've had since

00:22:02.099 --> 00:22:05.490
I played mr. Gilberth in Cheaper by the Dozen

00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:08.750
in sixth grade at Simmons Middle School, directed

00:22:08.750 --> 00:22:11.890
by Philip Butler. I had like over 200 lines in

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that show, but my brain was a lot younger then,

00:22:14.410 --> 00:22:16.170
so I was able to learn those lines. And then

00:22:16.170 --> 00:22:20.589
now that I'm 41, I had like 90 lines, I believe,

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in Singing in the Rain. Anyway, it was the biggest

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part that I've had here recently. And when I

00:22:26.829 --> 00:22:30.369
started this journey, after I saw that Hamilton

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stage show and was like, I want to do this. After

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I started that journey, I was like, oh, well,

00:22:35.829 --> 00:22:38.470
you know, can you would just imagine like, I

00:22:38.470 --> 00:22:41.089
feel like I will have made it. I will feel like

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if I had made it once I get a leading role at

00:22:45.650 --> 00:22:48.170
Rivertown theaters, because like that's a regional

00:22:48.170 --> 00:22:50.430
theater here in New Orleans, and it's very well

00:22:50.430 --> 00:22:53.269
known and very professional and things like that.

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So then I got that role and it was like, whoa,

00:22:56.650 --> 00:22:59.710
I've got like a leading role in a musical at

00:22:59.710 --> 00:23:03.430
a like a regional professional theater. But then

00:23:03.430 --> 00:23:06.589
when I was done with that role, I was like, well,

00:23:06.589 --> 00:23:08.710
what's next? Now that I've made it. And then

00:23:08.710 --> 00:23:11.430
I realized, well, there's other places I can

00:23:11.430 --> 00:23:14.670
go from here. So then I auditioned with J -Pass,

00:23:14.890 --> 00:23:17.829
the Jefferson Performing Arts Society. And they

00:23:17.829 --> 00:23:23.349
gave me a role in Young Frankenstein. And then

00:23:23.349 --> 00:23:26.049
after that show, they gave me another role in

00:23:26.049 --> 00:23:28.930
Jesus Christ Superstar, which is coming up in

00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:32.059
March of next year. And not only are they going

00:23:32.059 --> 00:23:33.720
to be performing it here in New Orleans, they're

00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.039
also going to be touring around. So like now,

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:40.039
I feel like I've really made it. But really,

00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.539
have I really made it? Because no, there's like

00:23:42.539 --> 00:23:45.240
another step beyond that. And that's like national

00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:47.599
tours. And then there's a step past that, which

00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.099
is, you know, Broadway and stuff. But look, that's

00:23:50.099 --> 00:23:54.019
not, I don't have my set site on, my sites, excuse

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:56.140
me, set on those types of things. Like that's

00:23:56.140 --> 00:23:59.059
not why I do it. I'm not doing it for money or

00:23:59.059 --> 00:24:01.710
to become Like famous or anything. I just do

00:24:01.710 --> 00:24:04.210
it because it's what I like to do I just want

00:24:04.210 --> 00:24:06.369
to sing and dance and act like I said several

00:24:06.369 --> 00:24:10.430
times Long answer to your question, but yes so

00:24:10.430 --> 00:24:12.430
far. It was singing in the rain. What am I following?

00:24:13.450 --> 00:24:17.529
You're you're following your bliss Yes, hey,

00:24:17.630 --> 00:24:19.630
did you have anybody come come up to you any

00:24:19.630 --> 00:24:22.710
directors after some of those first couple performances?

00:24:23.490 --> 00:24:26.150
That were a little taken aback like they thought

00:24:26.150 --> 00:24:28.549
well this guy's been out of the game a long time

00:24:29.250 --> 00:24:32.569
Had a good audition Debbie have you surprised

00:24:32.569 --> 00:24:35.289
some people with your I don't know if you call

00:24:35.289 --> 00:24:38.930
it your chops Yeah, I feel like maybe so in that

00:24:38.930 --> 00:24:42.549
first show in Stephen Sondheim's company like

00:24:42.549 --> 00:24:45.750
the very first show that I got Back doing and

00:24:45.750 --> 00:24:47.910
I told you I felt really nervous about because

00:24:47.910 --> 00:24:50.490
it was the first time being back He had I went

00:24:50.490 --> 00:24:54.150
up there during rehearsal and was like very hesitant

00:24:54.150 --> 00:24:59.430
and like Reluctant because of my nerves But after

00:24:59.430 --> 00:25:01.430
that rehearsal, when I had all the nerves and

00:25:01.430 --> 00:25:03.529
I was like, well, shoot guy, in my brain, I was

00:25:03.529 --> 00:25:04.789
thinking to myself, well, shoot, I learned all

00:25:04.789 --> 00:25:06.769
my lines. There's no reason for me to be nervous

00:25:06.769 --> 00:25:08.930
about it. I did fine up there. And then I wasn't

00:25:08.930 --> 00:25:11.529
any nervous. I wasn't nervous any longer. And

00:25:11.529 --> 00:25:13.690
then like just something like kind of like popped.

00:25:14.269 --> 00:25:18.390
And yeah, that show had a couple of producers

00:25:18.390 --> 00:25:21.230
and the director. The director doesn't really

00:25:21.230 --> 00:25:24.130
speak much. I used to say I don't really think

00:25:24.130 --> 00:25:26.769
that guy even likes me but you know other people

00:25:26.769 --> 00:25:28.450
were like no no no no he's just like that to

00:25:28.450 --> 00:25:30.390
everybody he doesn't speak much but yeah the

00:25:30.390 --> 00:25:31.549
producers came up to me and they're like wow

00:25:31.549 --> 00:25:33.410
we didn't know that you had that in you and I

00:25:33.410 --> 00:25:35.369
was like well I knew it was in there somewhere

00:25:35.369 --> 00:25:37.230
I just had to like figure out how to get it out

00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:40.109
uh so I was like appreciative of that and one

00:25:40.109 --> 00:25:42.809
of my cast mates came up to me and said oh Danny

00:25:42.809 --> 00:25:45.549
you're so talented and I was like whoa and I'm

00:25:45.549 --> 00:25:47.869
like I thought about that sense of like well

00:25:47.869 --> 00:25:51.420
I love hearing that because look i'm never like

00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:54.740
taking voice lessons or or dance lessons or i

00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:59.039
mean i was in acting classes in school but so

00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.920
for somebody to tell me that i have a talent

00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.819
for that thing and to not have worked on it uh

00:26:04.819 --> 00:26:08.059
that's pretty crazy uh but i attribute that and

00:26:08.059 --> 00:26:09.839
i know i'm rambling on but i attribute that to

00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:14.880
like you know my parents uh my dad who has written

00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:17.839
a bunch of musicals for Nord, which is the New

00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:19.819
Orleans recreation department. They have like

00:26:19.819 --> 00:26:21.619
a theater department. And he did that when he

00:26:21.619 --> 00:26:23.720
was he started writing music for musicals when

00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:27.980
he was a teenager here in New Orleans. And my

00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:31.319
mom was always a singer. She was like Maria in

00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:33.799
West Side Story as a freshman in high school

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.180
and and then like sang professionally and clubs

00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:41.700
in Chicago. And so I feel like I was born with

00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:45.460
like something in me that like Allows me to sing

00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:50.440
on key and to like take in those choreograph

00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:54.400
Sorry, there's choreography Movements and like

00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:58.240
I'm able to like mirror them. I Don't know like

00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.940
I'm just lucky to have like been born to these

00:27:00.940 --> 00:27:04.460
people Who like gave me that stuff and I don't

00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:06.440
want you to think like I'm just like living off

00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:09.579
of that man I spent the last like a year and

00:27:09.579 --> 00:27:13.400
a half singing Somewhere between six to eight

00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:16.420
hours a day five days a week. So like 30 hours

00:27:16.420 --> 00:27:19.400
a week I've been singing and working on my voice

00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:22.599
and And that's what Mike my current job allows

00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:25.579
me to do which is awesome for me So like I can

00:27:25.579 --> 00:27:28.680
do my work and get paid like doing a real like

00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:31.019
nine to five job But I can also like work on

00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:35.059
my passion at that same time yeah, and you got

00:27:35.059 --> 00:27:39.160
a you know have your your nose in a book or reading

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:41.259
over lines and studying lines, there's a lot

00:27:41.259 --> 00:27:47.109
of I'm sure quiet reflective time or it's not

00:27:47.109 --> 00:27:51.730
all the stage lights and show time. You really

00:27:51.730 --> 00:27:53.990
got to put in the effort and the hours behind

00:27:53.990 --> 00:27:57.009
the scenes. That's true. And you're right. It's

00:27:57.009 --> 00:27:59.230
not. I mean, the being on stage and performing

00:27:59.230 --> 00:28:02.890
is a small percentage of what all of, you know,

00:28:02.950 --> 00:28:05.759
all the time that we put into it. Here's let

00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:07.180
me just tell you this real quick for anybody

00:28:07.180 --> 00:28:09.519
that's out there that wants to learn or that's

00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.319
interested in to like know how you learn So many

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:15.619
lines and so many lyrics in a four to six week

00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:17.579
period which is the amount of time that it takes

00:28:17.579 --> 00:28:22.099
to produce a musical This is what I do and I've

00:28:22.099 --> 00:28:24.500
learned that it works well for me I Instead of

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:26.200
just like reading the book and having the book

00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:28.279
in my hand at all times and reading my lines

00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:31.059
and try to memorize them What I do is I will

00:28:31.059 --> 00:28:34.500
go through the scene and I'll record it Then

00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:37.160
I will play that scene back with my lines in

00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.880
it and everybody else's lines and I'll listen

00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:42.319
to it in my Headphones and then the next thing

00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:44.640
I'll do is I'll take my lines out. I'll rerecord

00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:46.339
it. I'll use everybody else's lines I'll leave

00:28:46.339 --> 00:28:50.400
my lines blank and that way I can Listen to all

00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:53.440
of them and then perform my lines to myself in

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:56.759
my head And then if you do that enough, like

00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:59.180
I said, man repetition is the cue at all So you

00:28:59.180 --> 00:29:00.980
do that enough you're gonna have all of those

00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:03.460
lines memorized once you have them all memorized

00:29:03.609 --> 00:29:05.670
You can then start listening to these recordings

00:29:05.670 --> 00:29:08.650
that you've made and you can work on your inflections

00:29:08.650 --> 00:29:11.670
and your intonations and things like that, like

00:29:11.670 --> 00:29:13.990
how I'm going to say the line or where I'm going

00:29:13.990 --> 00:29:16.650
to put the emphasis on the line and things like

00:29:16.650 --> 00:29:20.650
that. So you're right. It does take a lot of

00:29:20.650 --> 00:29:22.710
preparation, but that's my little trick for it.

00:29:22.789 --> 00:29:26.009
Here's like an even further step into that. Not

00:29:26.009 --> 00:29:28.369
only do I do it that way, but I will also run

00:29:28.369 --> 00:29:31.569
those lines through my headphones. at like 1

00:29:31.569 --> 00:29:35.609
.5 times the speed and then like two times the

00:29:35.609 --> 00:29:39.490
speed and then three times the speed uh and then

00:29:39.490 --> 00:29:42.650
I'll I'll say my lines at that speed at these

00:29:42.650 --> 00:29:44.109
quicker speeds that they're so you know they're

00:29:44.109 --> 00:29:47.210
like talking like uh getting into uh chipmunk

00:29:47.210 --> 00:29:50.250
territory here that's right chipmunk territory

00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:52.890
you're right because look the way I do that is

00:29:52.890 --> 00:29:55.490
if I go so fast once I'm on stage performing

00:29:55.490 --> 00:29:58.599
with people everything slows down It's like what

00:29:58.599 --> 00:30:00.539
they say when you're like a quarterback in the

00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:04.059
NFL And the older you get the game kind of slows

00:30:04.059 --> 00:30:06.420
down for you and that's kind of how it is for

00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:10.099
me which allows me to be more Real to more to

00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:14.000
be more believable. I I feel like Speaking of

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.480
quarterbacks every once in a while on the Dan

00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:20.339
time podcast. I will Just go way off track for

00:30:20.339 --> 00:30:22.900
a second because I just got to ask Danny. Okay,

00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:27.400
I know you're a huge New Orleans Saints fan Who

00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:32.220
do you miss more? Coach Sean Payton or Drew Brees?

00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:39.579
Who do I miss more or who dat I miss more? Sorry,

00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:45.019
bad joke. Oh, that's an easy answer, man. And

00:30:45.019 --> 00:30:48.420
let me explain it like this. When I saw that

00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:51.259
the Denver Broncos had lost so many games early

00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:57.339
in the season, I was ecstatic. because Sean Payton

00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:59.859
is their coach. Yeah. Look, let me put it to

00:30:59.859 --> 00:31:02.960
you like this, Dan, for those Dan Time listeners.

00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:06.880
Look, if Sean Payton didn't have Drew Brees,

00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:09.099
he would have never have won a Super Bowl. Let

00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:12.680
me put it to you like this. If Sean Payton wasn't

00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.059
the head coach of the New Orleans Saints, and

00:31:15.059 --> 00:31:17.460
Drew Brees was the quarterback, we would have

00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:21.099
won so many more Super Bowls. Oh. And that's

00:31:21.099 --> 00:31:24.160
the truth, man. Look, Sean Payton, whatever.

00:31:24.420 --> 00:31:28.220
The dude quits because like, I don't have a quarterback.

00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:30.880
And then he quits and takes a year off and then

00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.299
goes to Denver. And I just hope that they just

00:31:33.299 --> 00:31:35.779
do terribly. Not because I hate Denver, but because

00:31:35.779 --> 00:31:39.039
I hate Sean Payton. Drew Brees was an amazing

00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:42.559
man. Look at the stats. That dude is the reason

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.920
why the Saints were name worthy for a decade

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:48.680
and a half. And it was not Sean Payton. You think

00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.220
Payton really said, hey, wait a second. I better

00:31:51.220 --> 00:31:53.200
get out of town here because I'm about to be

00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:58.400
exposed. I do. I absolutely do. I gotta go find

00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:02.680
a real quarterback. Now, Breeze, did he get drafted

00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:04.859
by San Diego? I'm trying to remember now. He

00:32:04.859 --> 00:32:07.000
did. That's correct. Yeah. So what if he stays

00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.079
with the Chargers, never goes to New Orleans?

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:13.019
Nobody's ever heard of Sean Payton, right? Right.

00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:16.759
Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I mean, he would

00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:19.440
have been the Saints coach and then Drew would

00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:23.819
have been over in San Diego. Yeah, probably not,

00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:25.779
man. He probably would have been like a a couple

00:32:25.779 --> 00:32:29.279
of your coach, I think, I think Sean Payton was

00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:33.019
carried by Drew Brees on his back. Danny, what

00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:37.980
is going on with the Patriots? This is getting,

00:32:38.140 --> 00:32:41.539
this is getting pretty ugly. Well, look, I can

00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:43.160
assure you that it's not the quarterback's fault

00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.579
because he's a good Alabama boy. Well, University

00:32:45.579 --> 00:32:50.059
of Alabama boy. I don't know, man. I feel like,

00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:55.289
you know, Tom Brady left. And that was it. Maybe

00:32:55.289 --> 00:32:58.009
Bill Belichick is in the same boat as Sean Payton.

00:32:58.210 --> 00:33:00.569
I mean, I find it harder to believe, but you

00:33:00.569 --> 00:33:03.630
know, Tom Brady won those championships for Bill

00:33:03.630 --> 00:33:06.710
Belichick for sure too. What's happening to them?

00:33:07.190 --> 00:33:08.690
I don't know. I think they're going through the

00:33:08.690 --> 00:33:11.269
regular pains of losing the greatest player of

00:33:11.269 --> 00:33:14.410
all time. You just can't replace a once in a

00:33:14.410 --> 00:33:18.069
generation quarterback. Once in two generations.

00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:19.859
Right. You're talking about the Saints, right?

00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:21.579
Yeah, you're right. And we're learning that now.

00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.220
I mean, we're trying with their Oh, you're talking

00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:26.740
about the Patriots. Well, look, both of them,

00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.759
Brady and Breeze were generational talents, man.

00:33:30.619 --> 00:33:33.500
And no, you can't you can't replace them. You

00:33:33.500 --> 00:33:35.680
got to get lucky. You got to hope that the guy

00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.640
that's going to be a star is out there and you

00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:40.619
go pick them up. And that's what we do with Breeze.

00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.779
And we just got lucky, man. We just got lucky.

00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:46.220
That's it. I feel like Breeze. He was never my

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:48.970
guy, but I I just feel like he's a really good

00:33:48.970 --> 00:33:54.309
dude, a good dad. And just everything that I've

00:33:54.309 --> 00:33:57.190
read about him. And, you know, when you see him

00:33:57.190 --> 00:34:00.150
kind of post NFL career, he just carries himself

00:34:00.150 --> 00:34:02.930
with such class. And I don't feel like it's contrived

00:34:02.930 --> 00:34:06.670
either. I agree with you. I think that's very

00:34:06.670 --> 00:34:11.090
true. I don't know. I don't know if it's contrived

00:34:11.090 --> 00:34:15.489
or not. I feel like it needs to be something

00:34:15.489 --> 00:34:18.380
that's contrived. by more starting quarterbacks

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:21.000
uh because like that's what you want kids to

00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:22.739
emulate you know what i mean they're gonna look

00:34:22.739 --> 00:34:24.739
up to the sports star and they're gonna do what

00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:27.320
he does but you want that sports star to be like

00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:32.860
a drew breeze and not a uh just john watson or

00:34:32.860 --> 00:34:35.519
a little a little girly girl like tom brady you

00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:39.440
know i mean i hate throwing tablets breaking

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.780
tablets on the side because he can't get a guy

00:34:41.780 --> 00:34:45.539
to catch come on dude be a be a Be a real person

00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:47.980
be like a nice dude and just like go over to

00:34:47.980 --> 00:34:50.519
the guys and talk about it and stop being a little

00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.300
I hate to say the word woman or girl about it.

00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:55.039
But yeah, stop being I just don't want to use

00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:59.539
a bad word. You know what I mean? Yeah We uh,

00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:01.980
yeah, don't don't uh push it right up to the

00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:05.619
edge here. I may run off some of my uh fervent

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:09.039
lady listeners All right. I know I hear you.

00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.280
I'm sorry ladies. Uh, I'm just trying to like

00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:14.719
make it kid -friendly too ladies, right? Danny,

00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:17.579
speaking of New Orleans, you absolutely love

00:35:17.579 --> 00:35:23.440
this town. You love the sights, the smells, the

00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:27.500
buzz, the atmosphere, the restaurants. When you

00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:31.420
guys wrap up a multi -night performance, do you

00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:33.280
all go out to eat somewhere or do you sometimes

00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.480
split off solo? What's a restaurant that maybe

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.039
people haven't heard of that you're like, you

00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:43.360
gotta try this out? Get it. I do love New Orleans

00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.059
and I might love it more than normal New Orleans

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:48.780
and I and I attribute to that to the fact that

00:35:48.780 --> 00:35:51.400
I was born in New Orleans and then Went to high

00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:54.659
school and college in Alabama and then was lucky

00:35:54.659 --> 00:35:57.360
enough to find myself back home in New Orleans

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.780
So like I was out of New Orleans for 15 or 16

00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:02.460
years. So Missing it for that amount of time

00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:06.099
I feel like made me love it even that much more

00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:08.380
and now that I'm here like I'm not gonna waste

00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:13.559
anytime uh doing new orleans stuff uh and you're

00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.900
right the sights the sounds the smells i mean

00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:20.300
they could go both ways but you're right like

00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:23.079
even like a crazy nasty smell you're like oh

00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.539
that smells like the french quarter like the

00:36:25.539 --> 00:36:30.340
good old days um and that's that's true uh but

00:36:30.340 --> 00:36:32.739
after it smells like smells like late night's

00:36:32.739 --> 00:36:36.590
gone by Yeah, and that's like not the only thing

00:36:36.590 --> 00:36:39.789
going by but yeah, you're right Normally after

00:36:39.789 --> 00:36:44.289
a show we do try to get together. Um, I Like

00:36:44.289 --> 00:36:47.530
to I like to offer to everybody in the cast After

00:36:47.530 --> 00:36:51.030
a Saturday evening show to go to the French Quarter.

00:36:51.289 --> 00:36:54.090
Um, I mentioned my dad earlier So he has a gig

00:36:54.090 --> 00:36:56.309
four nights a week in the French Quarter at the

00:36:56.309 --> 00:37:01.179
Maison Bourbon, which is a bar On this at 641

00:37:01.179 --> 00:37:03.380
Bourbon Street and he's got a band and he plays

00:37:03.380 --> 00:37:05.840
either piano or the tuba It just depends on what

00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:09.780
he has available to him at his disposal as as

00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:13.760
far as other As far as other musicians are concerned

00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:15.400
if he doesn't have a piano guy. He's gonna get

00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.519
on piano obviously and and vice versa, um, so

00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.539
I try to bring them down there Because it's live

00:37:22.539 --> 00:37:25.679
music. It's New Orleans. It's uh alcohol we all

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:28.480
get to like hang out and and party and and have

00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:32.469
fun and And sometimes if somebody's feeling that

00:37:32.469 --> 00:37:34.670
they want to do it, my dad will get them up there

00:37:34.670 --> 00:37:37.250
to go and sing a song. But you know, those theater

00:37:37.250 --> 00:37:41.550
guys are real, real hesitant about that. So they

00:37:41.550 --> 00:37:43.030
don't like it in front of people. I'm just kidding,

00:37:43.309 --> 00:37:47.409
man. It goes off. It goes off really well. And

00:37:47.409 --> 00:37:52.150
then in regards to the restaurants, man, it is

00:37:52.150 --> 00:37:54.449
really cool. But, you know, that could be like

00:37:54.449 --> 00:37:56.610
a whole discussion for another day. As a matter

00:37:56.610 --> 00:37:59.460
of fact, you should holler at my father and get

00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:02.380
him on here, because let me just say one thing

00:38:02.380 --> 00:38:05.920
real quick. My dad was Debbie Reynolds rehearsal

00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:10.519
pianist in New York City for a Broadway show.

00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:14.059
And when Debbie Reynolds show was opening, she

00:38:14.059 --> 00:38:17.420
asked my father if he would escort her daughter

00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:20.239
to the opening night performance that night.

00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:23.059
And her daughter, as I'm sure some of your listeners

00:38:23.059 --> 00:38:26.840
know, is Carrie Fisher. who I'm sure some of

00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:29.420
your listeners know was Princess Leia. So you

00:38:29.420 --> 00:38:32.019
know my dad took Carrie Fisher on a couple of

00:38:32.019 --> 00:38:34.699
dates way back in the day and that's just like

00:38:34.699 --> 00:38:38.019
one little thing about my dad because he spent

00:38:38.019 --> 00:38:40.639
a lot of time everywhere doing music internationally.

00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:44.280
That's a terrible segue but to segue into the

00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:47.659
restaurant situation, man there's so many good

00:38:47.659 --> 00:38:49.639
restaurants in New Orleans. I have friends come

00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:51.440
in town and say where should I go eat? Honestly

00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:53.380
you could go eat at a gas station and that's

00:38:53.380 --> 00:38:55.449
like I'm not even making a joke man. There are

00:38:55.449 --> 00:38:57.429
gas stations here where you can go and get like

00:38:57.429 --> 00:39:01.309
a full, you know, like meal with sides and everything,

00:39:01.309 --> 00:39:04.769
or you can go get a po -boy, which other people

00:39:04.769 --> 00:39:07.670
would call a subway sandwich, but it's totally

00:39:07.670 --> 00:39:10.590
different than like the subway, the store. If

00:39:10.590 --> 00:39:12.869
you were in town tonight, Dan, I would tell you

00:39:12.869 --> 00:39:16.929
to go to Mandina's on Canal Street in Mid City

00:39:16.929 --> 00:39:20.989
in New Orleans. It's an Italian restaurant with

00:39:20.989 --> 00:39:24.489
a lot of New Orleans. seafood and local favorites

00:39:24.489 --> 00:39:28.909
and The amount of food that you get on one plate

00:39:28.909 --> 00:39:32.150
is Well, it will feed you for like two or three

00:39:32.150 --> 00:39:35.469
sittings. So I'm all ready to go home directly

00:39:35.469 --> 00:39:38.409
afterwards so that you can get to your Refrigerator.

00:39:38.409 --> 00:39:40.889
Yeah, well if you got like a hour and a half

00:39:40.889 --> 00:39:44.110
hour 15 minute drive and it's just Your car is

00:39:44.110 --> 00:39:46.730
gonna be filled with the the smell of that dish

00:39:46.730 --> 00:39:48.989
that you ate It's well worth it. Absolutely.

00:39:50.110 --> 00:39:52.510
Oh, I hear you guys again It's like an air freshener.

00:39:52.550 --> 00:39:54.710
That's a good idea, man. Right. I should just

00:39:54.710 --> 00:39:56.150
leave it in there next time and just see how

00:39:56.150 --> 00:39:58.090
it turns out. I'll probably get all the chicks

00:39:58.090 --> 00:40:01.210
that way. Danny, speaking of gas stations, and

00:40:01.210 --> 00:40:03.590
this is just what, it's not really way out there,

00:40:03.829 --> 00:40:06.010
but people don't ask these questions on shows.

00:40:06.050 --> 00:40:08.550
They take themselves pretty seriously. What's

00:40:08.550 --> 00:40:11.829
your take, Danny, on Hunt Brothers Pizza? I guess

00:40:11.829 --> 00:40:14.010
they have them out there in New Orleans. The

00:40:14.010 --> 00:40:15.690
gas station. I know what you're talking about.

00:40:15.849 --> 00:40:19.130
Ready by the slice. The logo is the two Italian

00:40:19.130 --> 00:40:22.099
guys. you know, flopping the dough in the air.

00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:25.380
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Do you

00:40:25.380 --> 00:40:28.059
ever succumb to that when you're just, it's lunchtime,

00:40:28.099 --> 00:40:29.980
you're busy, you're in a hurry, you're like,

00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.639
well, I guess this is gonna be lunch today. I'm

00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:35.780
gonna grab a slice here at this Shell station,

00:40:36.059 --> 00:40:40.539
and I'm just gonna eat this pizza. No, I don't

00:40:40.539 --> 00:40:43.139
do that. Under the lamp. No, I don't do that.

00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.659
I don't do that. I've had a piece of that pizza

00:40:45.659 --> 00:40:48.820
before, and it reminds me of like high school

00:40:48.820 --> 00:40:51.469
cafeteria pizza. Just like a lot of oil. It doesn't

00:40:51.469 --> 00:40:53.929
have much taste to it. I feel like if you were

00:40:53.929 --> 00:40:57.530
to buy a DiGiorno or like a whatever out of the

00:40:57.530 --> 00:41:00.210
freezer section of that gas station, you would

00:41:00.210 --> 00:41:02.150
be better off and get more taste to it. But if

00:41:02.150 --> 00:41:04.489
you need like sustenance to fill you up, I understand

00:41:04.489 --> 00:41:07.449
people doing that. But here in New Orleans at

00:41:07.449 --> 00:41:09.449
those gas stations, like I said, you can get

00:41:09.449 --> 00:41:12.090
a pizza, piece of pizza, or you can like talk

00:41:12.090 --> 00:41:13.849
to the guy behind the counter and be like, hey

00:41:13.849 --> 00:41:18.050
man, let me get a roast beef poor boy dressed.

00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:21.460
You know and then you just eat that and it's

00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:25.380
just a lot better. I bet you the hunts of the

00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:29.179
hunts company is not Really too profitable in

00:41:29.179 --> 00:41:31.280
New Orleans for that reason. Also, there's a

00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.039
lot of fried chicken that they sell at gas stations

00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:37.880
here They call it crispy crunchy chicken and

00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:42.400
I think they probably have a monopoly on on the

00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.679
fast food at Gas stations. Yeah, we've got them

00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:48.750
here. Usually wherever they're located They've

00:41:48.750 --> 00:41:52.170
got the window decals where you all you see is

00:41:52.170 --> 00:41:56.449
just a crispy crunchy chicken photo up close

00:41:56.449 --> 00:41:59.769
photos of all this fried chicken as you're approaching

00:41:59.769 --> 00:42:03.309
the the store Well, i'm glad you know, there's

00:42:03.309 --> 00:42:06.070
not just a new orleans thing then so I feel like

00:42:06.070 --> 00:42:08.710
they're I feel like their market or their monopoly

00:42:08.710 --> 00:42:11.190
on the market is probably Definitely better here

00:42:11.190 --> 00:42:13.210
in new orleans than in other places just because

00:42:13.210 --> 00:42:15.889
like I feel like the real food is going to cancel

00:42:15.889 --> 00:42:20.949
out those uh those pizza pieces Danny do you

00:42:20.949 --> 00:42:23.869
have a routine just speaking of every day Do

00:42:23.869 --> 00:42:26.329
you like have to get up and have that bagel and

00:42:26.329 --> 00:42:29.070
that coffee and the creamer and and if anything

00:42:29.070 --> 00:42:31.989
is out of whack it's it's just not right or do

00:42:31.989 --> 00:42:36.449
you just roll out of bed and Here we go. Whatever

00:42:36.449 --> 00:42:42.050
happens happens I like to have my sandwich in

00:42:42.050 --> 00:42:44.440
the morning. I know that sounds weird, but Like

00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.659
wake up and then I get in my car and I eat my

00:42:47.659 --> 00:42:50.920
sandwich in my car to go to work I need that

00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.960
sandwich man sandwich because like Sandwich for

00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:55.579
breakfast. Do I know what kind I'm gonna tell

00:42:55.579 --> 00:42:58.239
you whether you do or not. It's Cajun turkey

00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:02.440
with Swiss mayonnaise Creole mustard with some

00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:06.599
Tony Sacheres on a French bread loaf so that's

00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:09.500
basically like Cajun turkey and Swiss po -boy

00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:13.139
and like I feel like if I go to the McDonald's

00:43:13.139 --> 00:43:14.699
or I cook something in your home. It's not gonna

00:43:14.699 --> 00:43:17.280
be filling you Do you agree that like breakfast

00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:20.260
foods not filling? Kind of leaves you want more

00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:24.260
unless you really I've got a system down for

00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:28.659
myself. It's a lot of oatmeal eggs Toast I mean

00:43:28.659 --> 00:43:32.159
I basically cram as much down and it's usually

00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:34.539
all pretty healthy, but it's just a lot of little

00:43:34.539 --> 00:43:37.280
things and it's like okay, that's enough, but

00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.019
if you just I don't understand people have like

00:43:39.019 --> 00:43:43.739
one hard -boiled egg or one piece of dry toast

00:43:43.739 --> 00:43:49.039
like that yeah or like a sausage bacon or a sausage

00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:51.699
biscuit or whatever from the fast food place

00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:53.519
that'll fill you up for like an hour and then

00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:56.179
you're hungry and it's like three hours until

00:43:56.179 --> 00:43:59.679
lunch anyway i want that big sandwich in the

00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.300
morning so i can eat it and like get my work

00:44:02.300 --> 00:44:05.719
done and then go to lunch and be full for the

00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:09.000
rest of the day i don't like feeling um hungry

00:44:09.210 --> 00:44:11.269
So I need that big sandwich in the morning. And

00:44:11.269 --> 00:44:12.909
honestly, if I don't have that big sandwich in

00:44:12.909 --> 00:44:15.469
the morning, if I failed to have made it the

00:44:15.469 --> 00:44:18.309
previous evening, prior to waking up, then yeah,

00:44:18.429 --> 00:44:21.469
dude, things get out of control. Like I'll, I

00:44:21.469 --> 00:44:23.510
don't know what I'll do. I mean, I got to find

00:44:23.510 --> 00:44:25.510
something to eat and it's just like, and then

00:44:25.510 --> 00:44:27.329
it's like taxing on my brain. Cause I got to

00:44:27.329 --> 00:44:30.170
get to work and I just need to have my sandwich.

00:44:30.170 --> 00:44:31.710
Look, I need to have my sandwich ready for me

00:44:31.710 --> 00:44:35.250
when I wake up. Okay. Yeah. I think you and I

00:44:35.250 --> 00:44:38.179
are probably similar. I'm a hungry guy. I'm ready

00:44:38.179 --> 00:44:40.639
to eat when I'm ready to eat and I do not want

00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:43.840
to think about where am I going to get a meal

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.800
here in the next 20 minutes because I am just

00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:48.980
famished and you're trying to focus. Like you

00:44:48.980 --> 00:44:53.039
said, you're at work and you're like, I don't,

00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:57.559
this is all out of whack. Can't handle it. Right.

00:44:57.659 --> 00:45:00.099
Hey, do you know what kind of work I do? No,

00:45:00.099 --> 00:45:02.360
I don't. Okay. Well, I'm just going to say it

00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.360
real quick. Uh, I work for the federal government.

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:11.239
I work as a clerk for the United States Postal

00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:13.360
Service. Well, as soon as you said federal government,

00:45:13.460 --> 00:45:15.300
I was about to say, you know, you must know all

00:45:15.300 --> 00:45:19.500
about me. Yeah, well, I mean, your address and

00:45:19.500 --> 00:45:21.420
stuff and what kind of mail you get sent to you,

00:45:21.460 --> 00:45:23.780
but not all about you. Like, it's not like, you

00:45:23.780 --> 00:45:26.340
know, the Department of Justice or anything like

00:45:26.340 --> 00:45:28.840
that. It's just like the United States Postal

00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:32.099
Service. But when I moved to New Orleans, like

00:45:32.099 --> 00:45:36.179
12 years ago, I started working at the Hustler

00:45:36.179 --> 00:45:39.099
Club on Bourbon Street. And I remember walking

00:45:39.099 --> 00:45:43.139
down Bourbon to get to my job at Hustler. And

00:45:43.139 --> 00:45:45.639
I literally say to myself, well, look, there's

00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:48.760
like a brass band coming down Bourbon Street

00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:51.079
towards me as I'm walking past it to get to work.

00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.519
And there's guys playing drums on the sidewalk

00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:56.980
on their buckets. And I say to myself literally,

00:45:57.309 --> 00:46:00.130
I am in my element because you know I've been

00:46:00.130 --> 00:46:02.769
away from New Orleans so long but now for real

00:46:02.769 --> 00:46:06.469
the new me being in my element is just like doing

00:46:06.469 --> 00:46:09.309
musical theater so like I feel like every single

00:46:09.309 --> 00:46:11.510
decision that I've made in my life then whether

00:46:11.510 --> 00:46:14.190
they were bad or good were good because that's

00:46:14.190 --> 00:46:16.869
where I am now and I don't want to be doing like

00:46:16.869 --> 00:46:19.949
anything other than that so that is a great way

00:46:19.949 --> 00:46:22.170
of putting it and especially for people who listen

00:46:22.170 --> 00:46:26.019
to this show that regardless of how you just

00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:28.380
blew off the past seven or eight years, maybe

00:46:28.380 --> 00:46:31.079
if you did, or you lived in that town and you're

00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:34.679
like, that wasn't right for me. That city wasn't

00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:39.280
me. That girlfriend that I spent four years with,

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:42.920
what in the world happened there? It's all about

00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.880
the here and now. Would you agree? Yeah, absolutely.

00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:50.239
You're here and now's the time to seize the moment.

00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:53.519
I'm actually having more fun in my 40s than...

00:46:53.789 --> 00:46:55.869
And I thought I was having fun in my thirties.

00:46:55.989 --> 00:46:59.929
I really did. Same, man. Same. I mean, I was

00:46:59.929 --> 00:47:04.210
having fun in my thirties or twenties, but like

00:47:04.210 --> 00:47:06.550
having fun in your forties, I feel like the fun

00:47:06.550 --> 00:47:09.710
that I'm having now is like more beneficial.

00:47:10.110 --> 00:47:13.409
It's like a growing kind of fun as opposed to

00:47:13.409 --> 00:47:16.590
a like staying where you're at kind of fun. You

00:47:16.590 --> 00:47:18.590
know what I mean? And you finally, when you've

00:47:18.590 --> 00:47:21.389
got that creative outlet that you've been seeking

00:47:21.389 --> 00:47:24.750
for so long. and you're finally sinking your

00:47:24.750 --> 00:47:27.449
teeth into it. There's got to be no better feeling,

00:47:27.929 --> 00:47:30.849
right? No better feeling, man. No better feeling.

00:47:31.710 --> 00:47:34.050
It's all I want to do. Sorry. How about when

00:47:34.050 --> 00:47:35.949
you're on stage? I know the lights are bright,

00:47:36.090 --> 00:47:39.630
but can you ever see faces out there and just

00:47:39.630 --> 00:47:41.190
you're in the middle of your performance, middle

00:47:41.190 --> 00:47:44.030
of your lines. But do you ever see people and

00:47:44.030 --> 00:47:46.650
you're thinking, look at them? They are having

00:47:46.650 --> 00:47:48.690
the time of their lives and I'm a part of this

00:47:48.690 --> 00:47:51.050
show. Can you tell when people are just filled

00:47:51.050 --> 00:47:55.510
with joy? Yeah, but it's like not really a visual

00:47:55.510 --> 00:47:57.369
thing because you're right the lights are bright

00:47:57.369 --> 00:48:01.150
and you can't really see Faces out there or even

00:48:01.150 --> 00:48:03.949
if the house lights are on and you can see the

00:48:03.949 --> 00:48:06.489
faces out there You don't want to be like seen

00:48:06.489 --> 00:48:09.730
as looking into the audience because like that's

00:48:09.730 --> 00:48:12.530
not acting not acting gonna be like making eye

00:48:12.530 --> 00:48:16.070
contact with your Your other people and you know

00:48:16.070 --> 00:48:18.679
the other people in the cast but I'll tell you

00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:21.099
this though if you're sitting backstage or in

00:48:21.099 --> 00:48:25.820
the wings and you can hear the audience's response

00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:28.840
like their vocal response and their response

00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.719
when they're applauding like when you hear it

00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:34.440
man you know it and you're like oh wow oh wow

00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:37.099
that is a good audience and you know what that

00:48:37.099 --> 00:48:38.739
just for you that just like gives you that more

00:48:38.739 --> 00:48:40.800
energy and that more excitement and you go out

00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:42.659
there and you continue to give us you give even

00:48:42.659 --> 00:48:45.000
more than you were giving earlier and you feel

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.260
like earlier you were giving 110 but now you're

00:48:47.260 --> 00:48:49.150
like They're like, OK, well, these people appreciate

00:48:49.150 --> 00:48:51.849
it. OK, now we're really going to do it. And

00:48:51.849 --> 00:48:54.289
then the house, and then the roof blows off,

00:48:54.349 --> 00:48:59.989
and it's a big party. Wow. Danny, I also like

00:48:59.989 --> 00:49:03.210
to bring up or ask my guests, when you're in

00:49:03.210 --> 00:49:07.389
some of those transitional periods or jobs that

00:49:07.389 --> 00:49:09.050
it's not really what you wanted to be doing,

00:49:09.190 --> 00:49:11.190
or maybe you were where you wanted to be at the

00:49:11.190 --> 00:49:15.389
moment, like at Hustler Club, did you make some

00:49:15.389 --> 00:49:18.070
contacts that You hang on to this day like some

00:49:18.070 --> 00:49:22.289
of your best friends maybe came from some period

00:49:22.289 --> 00:49:27.570
in 2015 or something or. Yes, for sure. Me and

00:49:27.570 --> 00:49:30.969
you, we met in I think 09 or 10 in Birmingham.

00:49:32.309 --> 00:49:34.690
For sure, man. Yeah, there's like some relationships

00:49:34.690 --> 00:49:39.170
that I still hold close to me from those times

00:49:39.170 --> 00:49:42.909
in the quarter from from all my quarter rat friends.

00:49:43.329 --> 00:49:44.769
That's what we used to call ourselves. Still

00:49:44.769 --> 00:49:47.360
do. the quarter rats that's what we are or we

00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:49.860
I was and there still are people that are quarter

00:49:49.860 --> 00:49:51.719
rats who I'm still friends with uh as a matter

00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.699
of fact uh I had uh some people came in town

00:49:55.699 --> 00:49:57.960
for a bachelor party and they went I think it

00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:01.099
was Saturday night uh or no Friday night two

00:50:01.099 --> 00:50:03.739
nights ago uh and they're like hey Danny what

00:50:03.739 --> 00:50:06.780
can we do and I you know I called the GM over

00:50:06.780 --> 00:50:09.219
at hustler because we're good friends this lady

00:50:09.219 --> 00:50:11.880
look there's a oh my god it's a holding of the

00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:13.780
tangent Look, New Orleans has a lot of Mardi

00:50:13.780 --> 00:50:15.300
Gras parades. One of the Mardi Gras parades is

00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:17.480
called Muses. Muses is an all -female parade.

00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:20.280
This all -female parade has a signature throw

00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:24.480
that they throw from their floats. That signature

00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:33.179
throw is a individually decorated stiletto shoe.

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:38.420
So this lady who's in charge of like three clubs

00:50:38.420 --> 00:50:41.360
on Bourbon Street Three gentlemen's clubs on

00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:45.619
Burma Street contacts my mother like every Several

00:50:45.619 --> 00:50:48.900
weeks and says okay. Miss Peggy. We got another

00:50:48.900 --> 00:50:51.980
bag for you And those bags are like garbage bags

00:50:51.980 --> 00:50:56.139
full of these shoes that are huge Some of them

00:50:56.139 --> 00:50:58.539
are not huge, but like man these are like professional

00:50:58.539 --> 00:51:00.500
entertainer shoes They're not like stilettos

00:51:00.500 --> 00:51:04.300
that a lady would wear to like a ball these are

00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:06.719
like huge shoes and they're like a canvas for

00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.380
my mother and then she's able to decorate these

00:51:09.380 --> 00:51:11.619
and You need to see amuses shoe one of these

00:51:11.619 --> 00:51:13.199
days anybody that's listening y 'all need to

00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.000
google what amuses shoe looks like and they're

00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.300
like absolute beautiful pieces of art so like

00:51:19.300 --> 00:51:20.960
that connection that I made back in hustler way

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:23.059
back in the day is helping my mom out and has

00:51:23.059 --> 00:51:26.079
also gave my friends a free bottle of alcohol

00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:28.800
the other night for their friends bachelor party

00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:32.320
um I also have friends who who are really good

00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:35.829
friends and we will go out to like the festivals

00:51:35.829 --> 00:51:37.769
that we have during festival season like Jazz

00:51:37.769 --> 00:51:39.389
Fest and French Quarter Festival, just meet up

00:51:39.389 --> 00:51:42.429
down there and hang out or you'll just see them

00:51:42.429 --> 00:51:44.610
when you're on the parade route. New Orleans

00:51:44.610 --> 00:51:46.570
is like the biggest little city in the world

00:51:46.570 --> 00:51:49.010
or like the littlest big city in the world. Like

00:51:49.010 --> 00:51:51.449
if I go out today anywhere, I'll definitely like

00:51:51.449 --> 00:51:54.550
see somebody that I know and like those relationships

00:51:54.550 --> 00:51:58.670
stay the same. The reason like I had to leave

00:51:58.670 --> 00:52:01.869
that quarter rent life is because the timing,

00:52:02.369 --> 00:52:05.469
you know, the time that I worked, uh among other

00:52:05.469 --> 00:52:09.070
things was not conducive to friends and family

00:52:09.070 --> 00:52:10.670
like working in the middle of the night and getting

00:52:10.670 --> 00:52:12.750
off of work at like six or seven in the morning

00:52:12.750 --> 00:52:14.869
and then going to the bar and hanging out with

00:52:14.869 --> 00:52:17.730
all your co -workers and uh and entertainers

00:52:17.730 --> 00:52:20.030
like that's not conducive to having like family

00:52:20.030 --> 00:52:22.469
and friends time and i'm not talking like family

00:52:22.469 --> 00:52:25.090
time like wife and kids because i don't have

00:52:25.090 --> 00:52:29.349
that um i'm young at heart and i feel like uh

00:52:29.349 --> 00:52:32.630
i'll continue to be that way as long as i'm like

00:52:32.630 --> 00:52:36.070
not kind of tied down that way and I don't like

00:52:36.070 --> 00:52:39.190
judge anybody that is that does have their family

00:52:39.190 --> 00:52:40.869
like that but what I'm saying is I want to be

00:52:40.869 --> 00:52:43.050
able to like hang out with my mom and dad and

00:52:43.050 --> 00:52:45.010
my nieces and nephews and sister and all that

00:52:45.010 --> 00:52:47.750
jazz and you know and like I said that was a

00:52:47.750 --> 00:52:51.070
time that's why it was time to change from managing

00:52:51.070 --> 00:52:55.250
hustler to going to the post office well at least

00:52:55.250 --> 00:52:57.829
you had the support of your family while you

00:52:57.829 --> 00:53:01.329
were there and you meet some people I mean I

00:53:01.329 --> 00:53:04.360
don't recommend that everybody gets into just

00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.960
even a service industry job late at night. I

00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:09.860
mean, maybe it's better for a teenager or someone

00:53:09.860 --> 00:53:13.599
that's 21, 22 to work retail. I mean, I saw a

00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:18.139
lot of ugly things in the late night lifestyle

00:53:18.139 --> 00:53:21.659
that some of those establishments kind of spit

00:53:21.659 --> 00:53:25.599
you out into, you know, if you're ready for it

00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:27.780
and you want to jump in, it's all there, but.

00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.860
But you do meet some people that have some redeeming

00:53:31.860 --> 00:53:35.940
qualities and you meet people who are kind of

00:53:35.940 --> 00:53:38.480
a mess and then they get themselves together

00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:41.579
and yep, you stay friends and you do I'm sure

00:53:41.579 --> 00:53:44.219
you saw some people who carried it a little too

00:53:44.219 --> 00:53:48.619
far and yeah It's just kind of like a shame to

00:53:48.619 --> 00:53:51.179
see the deterioration with some people. It's

00:53:51.179 --> 00:53:54.340
just bound to happen That's true. I feel like

00:53:54.340 --> 00:53:56.320
you have to go in with like a certain mindset

00:53:56.320 --> 00:54:00.019
and some people don't necessarily have that mindset

00:54:00.019 --> 00:54:02.800
but it's important for you to like make sure

00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:05.219
that you know like there's another life outside

00:54:05.219 --> 00:54:11.159
of late night craziness. It's a very insulated

00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:14.079
world like it's you're living in this bubble

00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.559
and you wake up you know you get up whenever

00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:20.400
you need to or have to noon or one or two and

00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:22.820
you go take care your business do some online

00:54:22.820 --> 00:54:26.539
bill pay if you've got a yard to cut maybe cut

00:54:26.539 --> 00:54:28.679
the yard you do things that you have to do but

00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:32.119
then you go back to that lifestyle that a lot

00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:34.539
of people don't live don't have any interest

00:54:34.539 --> 00:54:38.400
in living but but you obviously found a way to

00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:43.099
navigate just the different trails and not go

00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:44.880
too far off the deep end while still having a

00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:48.400
good time you're right well like I said man every

00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:51.690
decision I've made was the right decision Put

00:54:51.690 --> 00:54:54.329
me where I am right now, which is like the happiest

00:54:54.329 --> 00:54:58.909
I've like been in life for real And I love hearing

00:54:58.909 --> 00:55:02.210
that Danny you're one of the guys I mean this

00:55:02.210 --> 00:55:05.150
sincerely that I wish I could see you more often

00:55:05.150 --> 00:55:07.889
You made such an impression the short time that

00:55:07.889 --> 00:55:11.369
we did have hanging around each other You're

00:55:11.369 --> 00:55:14.050
an unforgettable guy. I'm not just saying that

00:55:14.050 --> 00:55:16.449
I think anybody that's that's kind of meant for

00:55:16.449 --> 00:55:19.809
the stage has that that quality to them Just

00:55:19.809 --> 00:55:22.250
they don't really remind you of somebody else

00:55:22.250 --> 00:55:26.090
that you know So I'm glad that we made our connection

00:55:26.090 --> 00:55:29.429
when we did Absolutely. I'm glad that it's a

00:55:29.429 --> 00:55:32.329
it's like stayed strong through since then as

00:55:32.329 --> 00:55:35.469
well. I think it all really kind of blossomed

00:55:35.469 --> 00:55:41.730
Dan with our mutual love of Those Northsiders

00:55:41.730 --> 00:55:44.829
Chicago Chicago. Yeah, you're right. I was about

00:55:44.829 --> 00:55:47.969
to bring that up. I Ruined it everybody. I'm

00:55:47.969 --> 00:55:52.769
sorry Danny Are you okay with the way the season

00:55:52.769 --> 00:55:55.789
ended? I mean, I think most cups cup fans are

00:55:55.789 --> 00:56:00.469
just You know, we had the disappointment of Missing

00:56:00.469 --> 00:56:02.550
the playoffs, but then all of a sudden we got

00:56:02.550 --> 00:56:06.030
Craig council So yeah, you just immediately talking

00:56:06.030 --> 00:56:08.809
ahead. We could talk all about that if you want

00:56:08.809 --> 00:56:10.650
to but you know what? It just occurred to me

00:56:10.650 --> 00:56:16.369
that Since you and I have spoken last The Saints

00:56:16.369 --> 00:56:18.849
have won a World Series. So why don't we just

00:56:18.849 --> 00:56:20.929
kind of like focus on that, dude? Let me ask

00:56:20.929 --> 00:56:23.050
you. What were you... No, no, no. Did I say the

00:56:23.050 --> 00:56:25.570
Saints? My bad. The Cubs. The Cubs won a World

00:56:25.570 --> 00:56:28.449
Series. That's right. Since I spoke to you last.

00:56:28.670 --> 00:56:32.329
So what are you... What were you doing when the

00:56:32.329 --> 00:56:34.130
Saints... I'm sorry, the Cubs. I keep on getting

00:56:34.130 --> 00:56:37.789
crazy. What were you when the Cubs won? I was

00:56:37.789 --> 00:56:41.349
at O 'Reilly's Irish Pub in Pensacola. My brother

00:56:41.349 --> 00:56:45.239
Travis drove down, spent the night and... It

00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:48.219
was a long night. We made a couple other stops

00:56:48.219 --> 00:56:53.780
and it was You know, I wasn't I'm not a part

00:56:53.780 --> 00:56:56.280
of some Cubs community down here I mean, there's

00:56:56.280 --> 00:56:58.199
all those drinking clubs if you want to join

00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:01.199
them, but I Had to go out to watch it. I could

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:03.719
not just sit in my living room and watch game

00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:08.099
7 on TV I had to be out somewhere and And go

00:57:08.099 --> 00:57:10.400
someplace where I knew they'd have the game on

00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:13.650
nothing else and the sound And I really, at that

00:57:13.650 --> 00:57:17.150
time, loved that bar. But that's where we were,

00:57:17.190 --> 00:57:19.110
and I was fortunate enough to watch it with my

00:57:19.110 --> 00:57:23.949
brother. He was a little concerned. I was having

00:57:23.949 --> 00:57:26.909
a good time. So by the time we reached, I think,

00:57:27.329 --> 00:57:31.449
the ninth, tenth inning, the rain delay, I was

00:57:31.449 --> 00:57:32.989
never really concerned that we were going to

00:57:32.989 --> 00:57:37.610
lose. But looking back, I mean, wow. If the delay

00:57:37.610 --> 00:57:40.429
hadn't happened, I think it was about a half

00:57:40.429 --> 00:57:43.199
hour delay. We're probably gonna lose that series

00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.360
if we were down three games to one yeah, people

00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:50.300
forget that and That was right on the edge. I

00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:53.159
mean the Cleveland Indians Almost should have

00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:56.280
been world champions that year, but yeah, that's

00:57:56.280 --> 00:57:58.699
what we were doing and it was it I'll never forget

00:57:58.699 --> 00:58:03.860
it. How about you? What a great day to to be

00:58:03.860 --> 00:58:08.699
alive as a Cubs fan man perennial Perennial losers

00:58:08.699 --> 00:58:11.559
and then we we win the big one. So like, you

00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:15.260
know, look at us. Look at us go Where was I I

00:58:15.260 --> 00:58:18.960
was that I was at work. I was gonna say I was

00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:22.280
gonna say 2016 Was probably the best time that

00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:25.320
this could have happened because I just met Natalie

00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:29.119
that summer We didn't have any kids yet Yeah,

00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:31.340
it gets a little harder sometimes with the little

00:58:31.340 --> 00:58:35.360
ones to watch complete games or to certainly

00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:38.099
go out downtown and hang out for three hours

00:58:38.099 --> 00:58:40.500
and watch a ball game. So for them to win it

00:58:40.500 --> 00:58:43.400
when they did, it was good. I can't have a night

00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:48.480
like that again. Well look, I bet you if the

00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.539
Cubs make it to the World Series, you could probably

00:58:50.539 --> 00:58:54.139
find a night off. I'm sure a wonderful wife would,

00:58:54.219 --> 00:58:57.019
yeah. So like, you don't try to trick us, man.

00:58:57.099 --> 00:58:59.420
Come on, Cubs in the World Series, you'll find

00:58:59.420 --> 00:59:02.579
your three hours, I assure you. But now, so you're

00:59:02.579 --> 00:59:05.599
at work. I was at work and at the time I was

00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.880
working at the Hustler. So I was just in the

00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:11.699
manager's office in the back with the TV on watching

00:59:11.699 --> 00:59:14.619
it. I couldn't miss it, man. Were there fans

00:59:14.619 --> 00:59:17.139
there? Were there guys in the club that were

00:59:17.139 --> 00:59:18.980
watching the stage but also maybe looking over

00:59:18.980 --> 00:59:23.940
at the bar TV? Yeah, when there were big games

00:59:23.940 --> 00:59:27.079
like that, yes. And we put the projector in the

00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:29.659
courtyard on the wall. So yeah, there was a lot

00:59:29.659 --> 00:59:32.800
of people around there to watch the baseball

00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:36.030
game. But never never is it always everybody's

00:59:36.030 --> 00:59:37.929
watching sporting events in an establishment

00:59:37.929 --> 00:59:40.650
like that Danny does the talent ever stop what

00:59:40.650 --> 00:59:43.570
they're doing because they're just a huge Saints

00:59:43.570 --> 00:59:46.809
fan or LA Lakers fan. There's just this big game

00:59:46.809 --> 00:59:50.070
going on Does that can that ever happen where

00:59:50.070 --> 00:59:52.190
they're not on stage at the moment and they're

00:59:52.190 --> 00:59:54.610
just chatting up some guy and they just Hey,

00:59:54.670 --> 00:59:57.929
I gotta watch this this inning here Honestly,

00:59:58.170 --> 01:00:03.130
no Dan, uh, the stages are never empty. Now look,

01:00:03.150 --> 01:00:05.349
if there's an entertainer that says, uh, this

01:00:05.349 --> 01:00:07.170
guy wants to spend a thousand dollars on me right

01:00:07.170 --> 01:00:11.329
now, uh, we will find another entertainer to

01:00:11.329 --> 01:00:13.809
take the stage. But I'll tell you this, you can't

01:00:13.809 --> 01:00:17.190
ever have the stage empty. So like even before

01:00:17.190 --> 01:00:19.829
that entertainer comes off the stage, that second

01:00:19.829 --> 01:00:23.690
entertainer has to be on the stage. I could see

01:00:23.690 --> 01:00:26.730
that. Yeah. It's important, man. That's what

01:00:26.730 --> 01:00:30.110
those clubs are all about. Danny would do is

01:00:30.110 --> 01:00:33.050
security pretty busy. Are there many altercations

01:00:33.050 --> 01:00:36.710
or fewer than yes there are yeah Yeah, there

01:00:36.710 --> 01:00:39.170
are man. This could be like a whole nother podcast.

01:00:39.170 --> 01:00:43.610
Oh, yeah But yes, look as the manager of the

01:00:43.610 --> 01:00:49.889
club at times I would drill my hospitality or

01:00:49.889 --> 01:00:52.769
Security guys because you know there would be

01:00:52.769 --> 01:00:57.039
like shootings down the street and we say go

01:00:57.039 --> 01:01:00.119
into lockdown and you know we close these doors

01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:02.099
and put the big piece of wood through the doors

01:01:02.099 --> 01:01:04.599
like it's a castle and then close the door on

01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:07.219
the balcony until we hear the all clear from

01:01:07.219 --> 01:01:10.340
our eye in the sky who's the guy that watches

01:01:10.340 --> 01:01:13.179
all the cameras um because he's got external

01:01:13.179 --> 01:01:15.300
cameras on the building and internal cameras

01:01:15.300 --> 01:01:17.719
as well so we wait for the all clear but yes

01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:20.460
there's been a lot of situations um like that

01:01:20.460 --> 01:01:24.619
even situations in the club man um which were

01:01:24.619 --> 01:01:28.349
like just crazy to have witnessed. For instance,

01:01:28.510 --> 01:01:31.650
look, this one particular club hustler has a

01:01:31.650 --> 01:01:34.309
pole from its main stage to the top of the ceiling

01:01:34.309 --> 01:01:36.989
on the second floor. So it's like a 30 -foot

01:01:36.989 --> 01:01:38.969
pole. And then the second floor, which is the

01:01:38.969 --> 01:01:41.730
VIP, you can overlook that main stage. But also

01:01:41.730 --> 01:01:43.010
if you're overlooking that main stage, you're

01:01:43.010 --> 01:01:46.030
also overlooking other guests of the establishment.

01:01:46.409 --> 01:01:49.369
So in this particular case, there's a bachelor

01:01:49.369 --> 01:01:52.170
party or something. It was a party of these sorority

01:01:52.170 --> 01:01:55.409
guys not sorority fraternity guys right hey it's

01:01:55.409 --> 01:01:57.349
new orleans it's new orleans and in the french

01:01:57.349 --> 01:01:59.389
quarter it could be sorority guys calm down stop

01:01:59.389 --> 01:02:02.090
judging um but yeah it was like fraternity guys

01:02:02.090 --> 01:02:04.250
up there and they spill their drink over the

01:02:04.250 --> 01:02:07.050
edge onto these marines and these marines run

01:02:07.050 --> 01:02:09.730
up the stairs run over to the bottle service

01:02:09.730 --> 01:02:13.070
grab the bottle out of the ice bin and like hit

01:02:13.070 --> 01:02:15.650
this dude over the head and knock him out and

01:02:15.650 --> 01:02:17.449
there's like blood everywhere and then these

01:02:17.449 --> 01:02:19.980
marines run out of the building I don't believe

01:02:19.980 --> 01:02:21.840
ever to have been caught. And then, you know,

01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:24.940
of course we have the cops come and EMS come

01:02:24.940 --> 01:02:27.280
and take the dude out. And the dude lived and

01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.320
everything. He survived. That was fine. Thank

01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:32.300
God. I'll tell you this, working the quarter,

01:02:32.739 --> 01:02:39.059
state police are like military compared to city

01:02:39.059 --> 01:02:42.460
and local police. Like they, those state, those

01:02:42.460 --> 01:02:45.539
state troopers do not mess around, man. I could

01:02:45.539 --> 01:02:48.840
see that when it's time to throw down. They're

01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:52.260
not going halfway. And like they'll even throw

01:02:52.260 --> 01:02:54.659
down before it's time to throw down how, how,

01:02:54.659 --> 01:02:59.000
how crazy and hardcore they are. Well, yeah,

01:02:59.059 --> 01:03:01.079
we could go down in the bud in that case, you

01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:02.920
know, it just like get into the point where they

01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:05.579
need to be before it takes time to get there.

01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:08.760
Well, you definitely had to be all business.

01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:11.679
I never saw that side of you, but I could see

01:03:11.679 --> 01:03:16.280
it. I could visualize Danny Rubio. No nonsense.

01:03:18.239 --> 01:03:20.500
I suppose so. I mean a little bit of nonsense,

01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:22.780
but when I needed to be there was no nonsense.

01:03:23.139 --> 01:03:24.840
But always at that establishment they called

01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:27.800
me Danny Boy. Just so you know, it wasn't Danny.

01:03:28.340 --> 01:03:30.760
Right, yeah, Danny Boy Rubio. I was gonna ask

01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:34.239
when did the nickname come about? Obviously you

01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:37.679
don't shoot out the gate so to speak. Is Danny,

01:03:37.860 --> 01:03:41.400
is your given name Daniel? It is Daniel, yes.

01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:45.760
I was always called Danny. And my father's name

01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:49.630
is Danny. or Daniel as well. So everybody growing

01:03:49.630 --> 01:03:52.869
up, I was little Danny, you know, anyway, I started

01:03:52.869 --> 01:03:55.829
working at Hustler and we all have these radios,

01:03:55.829 --> 01:03:58.730
right? And people on the radio is like, come

01:03:58.730 --> 01:04:00.630
back, Danny. And I'll be like, I'll be like,

01:04:00.730 --> 01:04:03.130
yeah, what do you need? But at the time, there

01:04:03.130 --> 01:04:05.969
was three managers, one of which his name was

01:04:05.969 --> 01:04:08.550
Jamie, the other's name was Kelly, and then I'm

01:04:08.550 --> 01:04:10.489
Danny. And sometimes people don't know how to

01:04:10.489 --> 01:04:13.250
use the radios. So like, so instead of saying,

01:04:13.369 --> 01:04:16.269
Danny, come back, it sounds like eat, come back.

01:04:16.489 --> 01:04:18.190
So I don't know if they're saying Jamie Kelly

01:04:18.190 --> 01:04:20.889
or Danny. So I tell them all right guys look

01:04:20.889 --> 01:04:24.489
if you want me just call me Danny boy So at least

01:04:24.489 --> 01:04:27.269
that way I get eat boy come back and I'm like,

01:04:27.489 --> 01:04:28.989
okay Well, they're actually asking for me. Thank

01:04:28.989 --> 01:04:31.409
god. Um, so that's how it started and then I

01:04:31.409 --> 01:04:33.829
never knew so Yeah, that's how that started and

01:04:33.829 --> 01:04:36.789
like uh, I started putting Danny boy on my business

01:04:36.789 --> 01:04:39.110
cards for hustler and then everybody just started

01:04:39.110 --> 01:04:42.030
calling me Danny boy and somebody gave me a St.

01:04:42.210 --> 01:04:44.590
Jersey that said Danny boy on the back and then

01:04:44.590 --> 01:04:46.230
I became Danny boy like well I guess I should

01:04:46.230 --> 01:04:51.250
change my name on Facebook to Danny boy But I've

01:04:51.250 --> 01:04:53.550
since taken the boy out of it because I don't

01:04:53.550 --> 01:04:58.389
want to be known as Danny boy for like When your

01:04:58.389 --> 01:05:01.849
theater reviews and stuff, you know, I mean Okay.

01:05:01.949 --> 01:05:05.010
Yeah, I could see that I I never knew the backstory

01:05:05.010 --> 01:05:08.920
but That's the backstory, man. Yeah, they're

01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:12.719
they're reviewing Sister Act or Jesus Christ

01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:17.579
Superstar and Danny Boy Rubio. Right. But look,

01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:19.519
I think I'm going to change my name another time

01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:22.039
because, you know, I got this review that said

01:05:22.039 --> 01:05:26.059
like Danny Rubio did some great dancing or whatever

01:05:26.059 --> 01:05:30.099
in in this last show, Young Frankenstein, and

01:05:30.099 --> 01:05:31.780
I'm eating lunch with my dad like a couple of

01:05:31.780 --> 01:05:34.000
days later. and one of his friends from like

01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:35.860
four years ago says oh Danny it's good to see

01:05:35.860 --> 01:05:37.920
you talking to my dad he goes wait a minute were

01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:40.420
you were you in Young Frankenstein and he's like

01:05:40.420 --> 01:05:43.659
no no that was my son Danny so like uh you know

01:05:43.659 --> 01:05:45.880
my dad being like a local musician in New Orleans

01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:48.360
and me doing like what I'm doing I don't want

01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:50.300
to get that confusion so I think I'm changing

01:05:50.300 --> 01:05:54.079
my name officially to Daniel C Rubio which is

01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:56.960
my given name so I'm not really changing it I'm

01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:01.349
just uh Look, everybody on Facebook, if you see

01:06:01.349 --> 01:06:03.150
it say Daniel Rubio, just know it's the same

01:06:03.150 --> 01:06:05.929
guy. It's like something I'm like fighting myself

01:06:05.929 --> 01:06:07.969
with. I want to do it, but I don't want to do

01:06:07.969 --> 01:06:10.730
it, you know? This is an internal struggle going

01:06:10.730 --> 01:06:14.449
on as we speak. It really is, man. I haven't

01:06:14.449 --> 01:06:16.389
even talked to anybody about it yet, and now

01:06:16.389 --> 01:06:18.730
I'm just opening myself up to everybody out there.

01:06:21.829 --> 01:06:25.590
Danny, are you the type of person that can spend

01:06:25.590 --> 01:06:29.579
a significant Amount of time alone on a day and

01:06:29.579 --> 01:06:31.760
a half or something where you got just some some

01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:35.800
downtime Can you do you wander the city by yourself?

01:06:36.780 --> 01:06:39.760
Do you like it or do you like to be with a buddy

01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:44.360
with a pal with a few people? What's your? What's

01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:50.360
your I prefer to not be all by myself I would

01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:57.340
say yeah, if I am all by myself it would be I

01:06:57.340 --> 01:06:59.960
feel like the World War II Museum is down here

01:06:59.960 --> 01:07:02.840
in New Orleans and I love history. So I feel

01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:07.440
like I go to the World War II Museum a lot, probably

01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:10.260
like over 100 times since I've had a membership

01:07:10.260 --> 01:07:13.579
there. But that's like if there's nobody to like

01:07:13.579 --> 01:07:15.159
hang out with. But yeah, I would definitely like

01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:19.119
to just like hang out with people and like create

01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:22.800
if we can. Like my friends know that if we're

01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:24.860
hanging out, and there's nothing to do they're

01:07:24.860 --> 01:07:27.460
like hey dude do you have your car tar and i

01:07:27.460 --> 01:07:30.219
always do because i always have my guitar in

01:07:30.219 --> 01:07:33.360
my car so i always have my car tar uh it's called

01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:35.239
my car tar for a reason so like we just like

01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:38.059
to create and stuff and uh like me and a couple

01:07:38.059 --> 01:07:40.820
of my friends right now are writing a musical

01:07:40.820 --> 01:07:45.900
about the battle of 1812 but more specifically

01:07:45.900 --> 01:07:49.639
about the pirate jean lafitte and how he and

01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:55.579
his men and his uh his canons like shaped that

01:07:55.579 --> 01:08:00.159
battle and saved I mean even though the battle

01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:03.780
was already over due to the Treaty of Ghent but

01:08:03.780 --> 01:08:06.400
it never you know it never made it to America

01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:08.239
in time so they actually fought this battle of

01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:11.280
New Orleans with Andrew Jackson at the helm anyway

01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:14.480
so you know we tried I try to be creative all

01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:17.680
the time man so and it I find it easier for me

01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:21.930
to be creative with other people's input in that

01:08:21.930 --> 01:08:23.770
situation. So I'd rather just like hang with

01:08:23.770 --> 01:08:26.510
people than to be by myself. And if I am by myself,

01:08:26.710 --> 01:08:28.390
I'm going to use that stuff like researching

01:08:28.390 --> 01:08:31.609
or learning. And I guess that's why the World

01:08:31.609 --> 01:08:33.630
War II Museum kind of like jumps in, you know.

01:08:34.409 --> 01:08:37.350
Danny, if someone puts you to the test and you're

01:08:37.350 --> 01:08:40.529
just in a park and there's a fountain and said,

01:08:40.590 --> 01:08:43.689
Danny, just go up there, stand up on the ledge

01:08:43.689 --> 01:08:47.710
of the fountain and just launch into a performance,

01:08:47.909 --> 01:08:51.229
maybe about. Yes. Five, six, seven minutes long.

01:08:51.329 --> 01:08:54.649
Yes. Yes. You would do it. Yes. I don't know

01:08:54.649 --> 01:08:56.890
the question, but I said yes. Not that I know

01:08:56.890 --> 01:09:00.010
the question. I'm going to have to say yes. Uh,

01:09:00.109 --> 01:09:02.710
yeah, dude. Absolutely. I said it before. Give

01:09:02.710 --> 01:09:04.970
me a stage. Give me a spotlight. Give me a microphone

01:09:04.970 --> 01:09:07.470
and let me just go. Yeah. It doesn't even have

01:09:07.470 --> 01:09:10.670
to be on a fountain. It could be like on a sidewalk.

01:09:11.390 --> 01:09:14.569
Uh, right. Uh, if, if somebody just think inspires

01:09:14.569 --> 01:09:17.979
me or, or whatever they want me to I want to

01:09:17.979 --> 01:09:20.760
perform all of the time, Dan, so if somebody

01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:24.220
shows interest in that, it's going to happen.

01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:28.500
What about, this is just another New Orleans

01:09:28.500 --> 01:09:31.140
question, and I'm going to have to rein it in

01:09:31.140 --> 01:09:33.539
because I could just keep going and going. I

01:09:33.539 --> 01:09:36.720
could too, dude. Danny, are you a Willie Nelson

01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:42.420
fan? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Do you like his version,

01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:44.819
I guess it's his version of City of New Orleans?

01:09:47.599 --> 01:09:52.319
I don't feel like I'm well enough versed in that

01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:55.439
to say whether I do or don't. There's a lot of

01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:59.039
New Orleans songs or with New Orleans in the

01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:03.359
song title. Or do you have a favorite song about

01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:07.520
the city? It's kind of like an ode to the city.

01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:14.720
Chicago's an easy one. Sweet Home Chicago. I

01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:16.079
wouldn't even think of that one. I would think

01:10:16.079 --> 01:10:20.439
like my kind of town Oh, yeah, I go is or Chicago

01:10:20.439 --> 01:10:24.399
Chicago. That's subtle in town You also like

01:10:24.399 --> 01:10:27.039
here I go again, but Frank Sinatra. Yeah, I know

01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:29.260
I read took out your mouth Didn't I the crooners

01:10:29.260 --> 01:10:33.899
the Sinatra Dean Martin? Love them Love them.

01:10:33.899 --> 01:10:36.560
Look in high school. My license plate said Sinatra

01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:38.760
So that kind of like explains to you and people

01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:41.800
were like who's this Sinatra guy? and it's in

01:10:41.800 --> 01:10:44.039
Birmingham, Alabama. I feel like that has to

01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:47.239
just do like with who I was born to and where

01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:50.899
I kind of grew up, my love for like those jazz

01:10:50.899 --> 01:10:55.800
standards and those dudes. I do love those crooners,

01:10:55.859 --> 01:10:58.159
man. That's my stuff. To answer your question

01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:01.279
about the song about New Orleans, I'm gonna have

01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:06.199
to say like... One that was made popular by Louis

01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:32.260
Armstrong. Here, I'll just sing it for you. You

01:11:32.260 --> 01:11:34.659
never know how nice it seems or just how much

01:11:34.659 --> 01:11:38.300
it really means. Uh, that one's called Basin

01:11:38.300 --> 01:11:41.180
Street Blues. Uh, stop it. Oh, stop it. This

01:11:41.180 --> 01:11:45.260
old thing, this old thing. Stop it, Dan. Folks,

01:11:45.260 --> 01:11:47.800
that was your price of admission right there.

01:11:47.939 --> 01:11:49.779
You had to wait about an hour, however long we've

01:11:49.779 --> 01:11:51.720
been talking, but I hope you made it this far.

01:11:52.439 --> 01:11:54.300
Wow. I'm going to have to have you back on just

01:11:54.300 --> 01:11:58.060
so you can sing us. You can regal us. What's

01:11:58.060 --> 01:12:00.899
the word I'm looking for? Serenade. I don't know.

01:12:01.620 --> 01:12:04.619
I don't know what the word is, but I'll do it.

01:12:04.779 --> 01:12:07.479
If you need me somewhere to sing a song, I will

01:12:07.479 --> 01:12:10.619
do it. And if anybody finds themselves in the

01:12:10.619 --> 01:12:14.180
New Orleans area, they should come and see Scrooge

01:12:14.180 --> 01:12:17.800
at Docville Farms, and that's December 1st through

01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:21.279
3rd of this year. They should also come and see

01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:24.020
Jesus Christ Superstar, which is the third week

01:12:24.020 --> 01:12:28.479
of March of 2024 at Jefferson Performing Arts

01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:32.789
Society. Or they can come see Sister Act, the

01:12:32.789 --> 01:12:35.069
musical, which is also located in New Orleans

01:12:35.069 --> 01:12:38.489
at Rivertown Theaters. And that is going to be

01:12:38.489 --> 01:12:41.590
in May of 2024. Sorry, I have to put those plugs

01:12:41.590 --> 01:12:44.869
in. Oh, you beat me to it. And I was going to

01:12:44.869 --> 01:12:47.930
say this episode will be out on the 26th. So

01:12:47.930 --> 01:12:49.989
folks, you got plenty of time. Should have about

01:12:49.989 --> 01:12:53.069
a week if you want to catch the Scrooge performance,

01:12:53.189 --> 01:12:56.069
Scrooge the musical. Danny, this is this has

01:12:56.069 --> 01:12:58.449
been wonderful. Can we? Can we just talk through

01:12:58.449 --> 01:13:00.890
the evening and just see how long? No, I'm just

01:13:00.890 --> 01:13:04.590
kidding. We could, man. We could. But look, you're

01:13:04.590 --> 01:13:06.949
right. I do have some. I know you're kidding,

01:13:07.350 --> 01:13:10.029
but I totally would. I do also have to like learn

01:13:10.029 --> 01:13:12.329
some lines and lyrics for the Screw Show. So

01:13:12.329 --> 01:13:14.029
that's kind of what's on my plate for the rest

01:13:14.029 --> 01:13:16.710
of this Sunday. But definitely look, man, let's

01:13:16.710 --> 01:13:19.449
have me back again if you want, for real. And

01:13:19.449 --> 01:13:21.829
I'll sing you a song or two. I'll get my dad

01:13:21.829 --> 01:13:24.210
to hop on the piano. We'll just do some live

01:13:24.210 --> 01:13:28.260
jamming for you, bro. Oh, I can't wait. Are you

01:13:28.260 --> 01:13:31.479
and your dad or are you and your sister, everybody

01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:34.420
texts each other, you know, family members and

01:13:34.420 --> 01:13:37.180
sends pictures. Do you do all the liking and

01:13:37.180 --> 01:13:41.939
the loving and the hearts and those types of

01:13:41.939 --> 01:13:44.380
replies? Are you in on that with the family group

01:13:44.380 --> 01:13:48.680
text? Wait, are you saying do I put the like

01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:50.920
thing or the heart thing on people's text? Yeah,

01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:52.960
somebody sends you a picture and it's a cute

01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:58.760
picture. Lovely. Yeah, I'll put a little heart

01:13:58.760 --> 01:14:05.060
or a like but I like tend to tend to more Often

01:14:05.060 --> 01:14:08.340
than not like make a real response with like

01:14:08.340 --> 01:14:12.819
words and stuff Do you ever use the double exclamation

01:14:12.819 --> 01:14:19.600
point? Yes after after oh, oh, I don't know if

01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:21.939
you're I do what you mean Oh, I'm an iPhone.

01:14:22.060 --> 01:14:23.939
I know exactly what you're talking about. Yes,

01:14:23.939 --> 01:14:27.100
I do use the double exclamation, but those are

01:14:27.100 --> 01:14:31.739
very limited. I feel like it's hard to know when

01:14:31.739 --> 01:14:35.520
and where to use a double exclamation. I find

01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:39.020
it easiest for me to use that double exclamation

01:14:39.020 --> 01:14:43.699
when I'm like, hey, damn. So what is your answer

01:14:43.699 --> 01:14:47.430
on the... the question that I asked and people

01:14:47.430 --> 01:14:48.949
are like, I don't even know what question. And

01:14:48.949 --> 01:14:50.829
there's like, oh, you're fricking idiot. Well,

01:14:50.850 --> 01:14:53.109
I'll scroll up and I'll just double the explanation,

01:14:53.229 --> 01:14:55.390
that question, but I already texted them just

01:14:55.390 --> 01:14:58.329
to like be like, I feel like the double explanation

01:14:58.329 --> 01:15:01.430
is like an upside down I and that I am my brain

01:15:01.430 --> 01:15:03.430
stands for like idiot. So it's just like idiot.

01:15:03.609 --> 01:15:09.250
Look at this. Yeah. Where's that coming from?

01:15:09.930 --> 01:15:12.430
I don't know. And there's also the question mark.

01:15:13.410 --> 01:15:15.409
Yeah, the question mark is obviously understandable

01:15:15.409 --> 01:15:18.989
look I Understand I appreciate you asking about

01:15:18.989 --> 01:15:21.529
this but like let me that makes me think about

01:15:21.529 --> 01:15:24.289
people on Facebook Liking and hearting things.

01:15:24.689 --> 01:15:27.689
How hard is it to make a like or a heart? If

01:15:27.689 --> 01:15:29.449
I see something post some stuff that I like I'm

01:15:29.449 --> 01:15:31.329
gonna like it or I'm gonna heart it and then

01:15:31.329 --> 01:15:33.090
I have people come up to me in real life and

01:15:33.090 --> 01:15:35.609
they're like, oh I saw your post the other day.

01:15:35.609 --> 01:15:37.750
I really like that. It's like dude. Why didn't

01:15:37.750 --> 01:15:40.170
you like it or heart it? Why do you have to tell

01:15:40.170 --> 01:15:42.380
me in real life? You know what I mean? How hard

01:15:42.380 --> 01:15:45.199
could that have been? How hard could it have

01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:47.159
been? You looked at it for three and a half,

01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:50.359
four seconds. You studied it. You zoomed in.

01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:53.460
You looked at the picture. But you couldn't be

01:15:53.460 --> 01:15:57.880
troubled to just throw your name in the bucket

01:15:57.880 --> 01:16:03.500
of the hearts and the thumbs up. Yeah, it's not

01:16:03.500 --> 01:16:06.880
a good thing. People really need to stop hiding

01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:12.470
behind that curtain. I agree with you, man. And

01:16:12.470 --> 01:16:14.729
pay no attention to man behind the curtain, but

01:16:14.729 --> 01:16:18.789
stop hiding behind it, too. OK, Danny, we got

01:16:18.789 --> 01:16:22.550
to wrap up here. But do you have a favorite musical

01:16:22.550 --> 01:16:25.689
of all time? I mean, that's maybe a tough question.

01:16:25.989 --> 01:16:29.189
Maybe it's an easy question. Is there anything

01:16:29.189 --> 01:16:30.829
that you just like, I could watch this thing

01:16:30.829 --> 01:16:33.529
a dozen times and never get tired of it? Yes.

01:16:34.130 --> 01:16:36.409
Yes. And look, it's not really a hard question,

01:16:36.630 --> 01:16:38.609
only because I've been asked it a lot. And the

01:16:38.609 --> 01:16:40.670
only reason I've been asked it a lot is because

01:16:40.670 --> 01:16:43.729
that's like a common question that I'd like to

01:16:43.729 --> 01:16:46.750
ask my castmates. Like when there's downtime,

01:16:47.250 --> 01:16:49.489
like what else is there to do? Oh, hey, what's

01:16:49.489 --> 01:16:52.569
your favorite musical? And we'll go through that

01:16:52.569 --> 01:16:55.609
conversation. So I feel like my favorite musical

01:16:55.609 --> 01:17:00.970
has to be Les Miserables. It's a great, I don't

01:17:00.970 --> 01:17:03.130
know, I just love the music and stuff. But there's

01:17:03.130 --> 01:17:05.630
definitely other ones that are in there. I like

01:17:05.630 --> 01:17:07.590
to answer the question with like a top three

01:17:07.590 --> 01:17:09.529
or a top five because I don't want to leave any

01:17:09.529 --> 01:17:12.630
out and I don't feel like Les Mis is really worthy

01:17:12.630 --> 01:17:14.569
to be my favorite. I feel like there's probably

01:17:14.569 --> 01:17:16.649
other ones that should be up there but I just

01:17:16.649 --> 01:17:19.130
like that music so much that that's like my kind

01:17:19.130 --> 01:17:22.010
of go -to answer and the other ones are kind

01:17:22.010 --> 01:17:24.210
of like you know you can't like leave Hamilton

01:17:24.210 --> 01:17:26.909
out of that. I know it's not like classical Broadway

01:17:26.909 --> 01:17:29.569
which is what I really love but it's like New

01:17:29.569 --> 01:17:32.340
Age Broadway and it's just like a great form

01:17:32.340 --> 01:17:35.600
of entertainment. But also, I'd like to go back

01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:40.619
to, you know, Oskar Hammerstein and Richard Rogers

01:17:40.619 --> 01:17:45.539
is like Carousel, the guys who wrote a lot of

01:17:45.539 --> 01:17:47.760
those famous shows like The Sound of Music and

01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:50.380
stuff. But Carousel is probably up there as well.

01:17:50.579 --> 01:17:54.020
What about Cats? No, I hate that show. Won't

01:17:54.020 --> 01:17:56.000
ever listen to it. I'm glad you brought it up.

01:17:56.300 --> 01:17:58.449
I don't know what the heck. I mean I know what

01:17:58.449 --> 01:18:00.409
Andrew Lloyd Webber was thinking he's got a lot

01:18:00.409 --> 01:18:02.130
of cats and he loves cats and he's like oh hey

01:18:02.130 --> 01:18:04.170
guys watch me I want to write a musical about

01:18:04.170 --> 01:18:06.329
cats it'll never do anything and they put it

01:18:06.329 --> 01:18:09.090
on stage and all these freaking people are loving

01:18:09.090 --> 01:18:13.770
it dude waste waste of time and effort uh I have

01:18:13.770 --> 01:18:15.170
no interest in that show I can't even believe

01:18:15.170 --> 01:18:17.930
you brought it up to me but no no cats I'll tell

01:18:17.930 --> 01:18:19.550
you what though Andrew Lloyd Webber does have

01:18:19.550 --> 01:18:21.909
a great one out there I mean he's got Jesus Christ

01:18:21.909 --> 01:18:23.569
Superstar which is great but that's not like

01:18:23.569 --> 01:18:26.670
a classical Broadway musical but he also has

01:18:26.670 --> 01:18:29.609
Phantom of the Opera which is a classical Broadway

01:18:29.609 --> 01:18:32.789
musical and that one's gonna have to be in my

01:18:32.789 --> 01:18:36.489
top five musicals as well. So it's really hard

01:18:36.489 --> 01:18:38.310
to like pinpoint one down but if somebody held

01:18:38.310 --> 01:18:40.649
a gun to my head I'd say Les Miserables just

01:18:40.649 --> 01:18:42.310
because I don't want to be killed and that's

01:18:42.310 --> 01:18:45.270
an easy answer to say pretty quickly. What's

01:18:45.270 --> 01:18:49.729
your favorite musical? Oh gosh of all time maybe

01:18:49.729 --> 01:18:54.689
maybe Encanto. Okay okay and look No, it's a

01:18:54.689 --> 01:18:56.149
good answer. I don't want you to get it wrong.

01:18:56.590 --> 01:19:00.449
Look, Disney cartoons are Broadway musicals.

01:19:00.649 --> 01:19:03.329
Yeah, they are. It is. Do you like the new batch

01:19:03.329 --> 01:19:07.510
of children's movies that are seems like most

01:19:07.510 --> 01:19:12.350
of them are musicals? Yes. What kind of question

01:19:12.350 --> 01:19:13.970
is that? Look, I don't want to be like labeled

01:19:13.970 --> 01:19:21.560
as a Disney lover, but Disney. movies are Broadway

01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:24.500
musicals and they're mainly like focused towards

01:19:24.500 --> 01:19:26.760
the younger generations or that you know towards

01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:29.819
kids and stuff but yeah man I love them you know

01:19:29.819 --> 01:19:32.239
and well Miranda did those shows for Disney and

01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:37.100
that's that's great I wasn't I don't think I'd

01:19:37.100 --> 01:19:40.479
ever watch the sound of music until seven or

01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:44.119
eight years ago and was just dating someone who

01:19:44.119 --> 01:19:46.840
loved it and we were watching it one night and

01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:49.779
Mm -hmm. I guess I would throw that in the mix

01:19:49.779 --> 01:19:52.560
You know, I don't know how you feel about that

01:19:52.560 --> 01:19:56.520
as far as top five type top ten Yeah, I hear

01:19:56.520 --> 01:19:58.560
you Well the guys that wrote that show have other

01:19:58.560 --> 01:20:01.159
shows that are better than that show and sound

01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:03.439
of music is one of the greatest Musicals of all

01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:05.920
time if I mean if you ask if you ask people that

01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:08.920
know But they have even better ones that aren't

01:20:08.920 --> 01:20:12.760
like mainstream as popular as the sound of music

01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:17.539
like like I said carousel and West Side Story,

01:20:17.560 --> 01:20:21.699
what about it? Is that a favorite? No. But I

01:20:21.699 --> 01:20:23.439
mean, it's good. Nothing wrong with it, nothing

01:20:23.439 --> 01:20:28.260
wrong with it. But the music is not like, the

01:20:28.260 --> 01:20:32.760
music is not, it's not like big showy musical

01:20:32.760 --> 01:20:35.739
music to me. And that's what I need in my life,

01:20:35.899 --> 01:20:41.239
is big showy musical music. Yeah, Rocky Horror

01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.819
Picture Show. Is that a musical? I thought it

01:20:44.819 --> 01:20:50.250
was a movie. I guess Encanto is a musical, too.

01:20:52.149 --> 01:20:55.069
Man, I don't want to alienate myself from everybody,

01:20:55.270 --> 01:20:57.909
so I'm not going to say anything. Well, Danny,

01:20:59.109 --> 01:21:03.189
I've taken up way too much of your time. To be

01:21:03.189 --> 01:21:05.529
fair, you've taken up a lot of my time, too.

01:21:07.529 --> 01:21:11.729
But wow, time well spent, time well wasted. Did

01:21:11.729 --> 01:21:14.390
we spend it? Did we waste it? Doesn't sound like

01:21:14.390 --> 01:21:17.920
a waste to me, man. Never. I had so much fun

01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:20.779
speaking to you. I look forward to the time when

01:21:20.779 --> 01:21:23.039
I can ask you the questions, because I know you

01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:25.199
have a lot inside of you that you need to get

01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:27.399
out too. Yeah, you know, that's something as

01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:31.020
this podcast evolves, I want to flip the script

01:21:31.020 --> 01:21:33.600
maybe towards the end of the episodes and let

01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:37.380
the guest just ask away. But it's something that

01:21:37.380 --> 01:21:41.119
I really try not to put too much of myself and

01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:44.130
my opinion out there. Unless the conversation

01:21:44.130 --> 01:21:46.909
starts calling for it, but I understood but you

01:21:46.909 --> 01:21:50.390
are a Dan as I understand So it would totally

01:21:50.390 --> 01:21:52.329
make sense for you to do. So you are a Dan as

01:21:52.329 --> 01:21:54.789
I understand Yeah, I think that's I think that's

01:21:54.789 --> 01:21:59.369
a lyric man. I think so Okay, thanks for having

01:21:59.369 --> 01:22:01.989
me so much dude, it was it was really fun. Thanks

01:22:01.989 --> 01:22:04.630
for asking the questions Yes, and please come

01:22:04.630 --> 01:22:07.789
back on Let's just say I don't know in the spring

01:22:07.789 --> 01:22:09.970
sometime as we get close to next summer whenever

01:22:09.970 --> 01:22:12.899
you get another little break. Let's Let's check

01:22:12.899 --> 01:22:16.420
back in. Danny Rubio, just the perfect guest.

01:22:18.180 --> 01:22:23.779
Oh, once again, this old thing, stop it. Okay,

01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:26.720
folks, remember, it'll be this coming weekend,

01:22:26.920 --> 01:22:30.180
Scrooge the Musical at Dockville Farm. We got

01:22:30.180 --> 01:22:33.220
Sister Act, the musical at Rivertown Theaters.

01:22:33.659 --> 01:22:37.699
That's coming up in March. May. In May, I'm sorry

01:22:37.699 --> 01:22:40.619
about that. Jesus Christ Superstar at JPEG, presented

01:22:40.619 --> 01:22:44.210
by Jefferson Performing Arts Society, March 15th

01:22:44.210 --> 01:22:48.630
to 24th. That's right. Go see what I know about

01:22:48.630 --> 01:22:50.850
Danny and things that I don't know about Danny

01:22:50.850 --> 01:22:57.210
Rubio. And there's your ride, so... Hey, that's

01:22:57.210 --> 01:23:00.489
New Orleans for you, baby. It's good to hear

01:23:00.489 --> 01:23:03.010
them moving around. Thank you again so much for

01:23:03.010 --> 01:23:05.409
having me, Dan. I'll continue to listen to your

01:23:05.409 --> 01:23:08.909
show. And I hope everybody continues to... to

01:23:08.909 --> 01:23:11.770
tune into it and I do look forward to our spring

01:23:11.770 --> 01:23:14.949
our spring fling that we have here soon and I'll

01:23:14.949 --> 01:23:19.090
have the you are a damn as I understand song

01:23:19.090 --> 01:23:22.770
ready to perform for you that night yes Danny

01:23:22.770 --> 01:23:25.329
one final quick question would you if someone

01:23:25.329 --> 01:23:28.909
gave you a gift card to a spa for a mani -pedi

01:23:28.909 --> 01:23:32.630
are you are you all in I've never done it before

01:23:32.630 --> 01:23:37.109
but sure why not okay On that note, I don't know

01:23:37.109 --> 01:23:40.210
why that one came out, but it did. Folks, remember,

01:23:41.189 --> 01:23:44.949
if you've got the itch for whatever it is, and

01:23:44.949 --> 01:23:47.529
you feel like, no, I've been on the sidelines

01:23:47.529 --> 01:23:50.569
too long, it's a young man's game, I don't know

01:23:50.569 --> 01:23:53.229
if I got it anymore, get that thinking, that

01:23:53.229 --> 01:23:56.750
negative thinking out of your head, start scratching

01:23:56.750 --> 01:23:59.529
out some ideas, look for an opportunity, use

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your network. You know people, if you're of a

01:24:01.689 --> 01:24:04.430
certain age. and find a way to get back in there.

01:24:04.609 --> 01:24:09.229
Danny's a great example of somebody who had to

01:24:09.229 --> 01:24:12.229
twist around for a while, do some stuff, whatever.

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And he's back and he's back in a big, big way.

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And I'm so proud and better than ever and better

01:24:18.250 --> 01:24:20.489
than ever. I'm so proud to call him, call him

01:24:20.489 --> 01:24:25.529
a friend, call the fellow Cub fan and other things

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that we share in common. And Danny, you have

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a great rest of the evening. And folks, you have

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a great rest of the week and we'll see you next

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Sunday on the Dan Time Podcast. Thanks so much,

01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:46.720
Danny. Thank you. Love you. Bye bye. All right.

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