WEBVTT 00:00:04.299 --> 00:00:08.640 Well, hey everybody welcome back we are on episode 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:13.439 number 21 of the Dan time podcast and this is 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.780 your your Christmas episode, it'll be coming 00:00:16.780 --> 00:00:20.760 out Christmas Eve and I Really couldn't think 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.219 of a better guest for this occasion. I'm so happy 00:00:23.219 --> 00:00:27.420 we could line this up Today's guest is from episode 00:00:27.420 --> 00:00:31.480 8 Dan gabelka. I'm very happy to be pronouncing 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:37.890 his name correctly today If you haven't heard 00:00:37.890 --> 00:00:41.210 the first episode I would recommend jumping off 00:00:41.210 --> 00:00:43.990 of this one go back and listen to episode one 00:00:43.990 --> 00:00:46.850 with or Part one with Dan and then come back 00:00:46.850 --> 00:00:49.090 to this one and you'll get the full background 00:00:49.090 --> 00:00:52.909 Dan Cabelka launched the challenger baseball 00:00:52.909 --> 00:00:56.469 program for special needs individuals in Chatham 00:00:56.469 --> 00:01:01.640 Kent Ontario Canada over 30 years ago and has 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:06.980 just has a remarkable life story and Impact in 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:09.659 his community. I really don't know that you could 00:01:09.659 --> 00:01:13.640 quantify it What he's been able to do? Some people 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:16.680 get a new lease on life one time around he's 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:20.500 actually had two heart transplants and a brain 00:01:20.500 --> 00:01:25.420 tumor removed and Has just made it his life's 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:28.239 work to impact other people and particularly 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:33.849 those the margins as you might say but So I'm 00:01:33.849 --> 00:01:35.650 just thrilled to have Dan here. We're gonna talk 00:01:35.650 --> 00:01:38.750 a little bit about the spirit of Christmas On 00:01:38.750 --> 00:01:40.969 the eve of Christmas here, and we're gonna have 00:01:40.969 --> 00:01:43.650 some fun as well at the end of the episode I 00:01:43.650 --> 00:01:46.310 guess it was the part that we had stopped recording 00:01:46.310 --> 00:01:49.870 Dan and I got to talking about Fantasy football 00:01:49.870 --> 00:01:53.310 and I had no idea so I it was then where I said 00:01:53.310 --> 00:01:57.969 Dan we have to do We got to do a follow -up episode 00:01:58.189 --> 00:02:01.329 where we do a little fantasy football talk. And 00:02:01.329 --> 00:02:03.329 he's also got some research for me that will 00:02:03.329 --> 00:02:06.370 get into a good trivia question for you guys 00:02:06.370 --> 00:02:10.229 to see if you can rack your brains a football 00:02:10.229 --> 00:02:12.969 related trivia question without, you know, you 00:02:12.969 --> 00:02:15.710 know me, I can talk another few minutes. So I'm 00:02:15.710 --> 00:02:18.530 going to pump the brakes and introduce and welcome 00:02:18.530 --> 00:02:21.490 back Dan Kabelka. Thanks for being here, Dan. 00:02:22.389 --> 00:02:24.930 Thank you very much. Just want to show your listener, 00:02:25.169 --> 00:02:28.979 your viewers, my shirt. As Jan said, I've had 00:02:28.979 --> 00:02:32.219 a bit of a medical history, and I've had two 00:02:32.219 --> 00:02:34.159 heart transplants, and I've been living with 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.699 a donated heart for 35 years now. And three years 00:02:37.699 --> 00:02:40.840 ago, I had a brain tumor. And the next time I 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:42.319 went up to London to get my checkup, they said, 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.080 Jan, you're a cockroach. We just can't kill you. 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:47.759 They said, when nuclear war happens, it's you 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:49.539 and the cockroaches get to repopulate the earth. 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:54.060 And I said, it's worth a shirt. Because people 00:02:54.060 --> 00:02:56.939 get shirts, and they say the beat goes on. same 00:02:56.939 --> 00:02:59.819 body rebuilt motor and I thought this was a better 00:02:59.819 --> 00:03:03.039 symbol of my journey was the cockroach they just 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.460 can't get rid of me. So I had my first transplant 00:03:05.460 --> 00:03:09.639 in 1989 and my second one in 2000. Now because 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.460 Christmas is coming up I have a Christmas story 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:16.039 for you. Christmas of 1981 I was 26 and I was 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.159 taken from my hometown here in Chatham up to 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.960 London Ontario where they have a coronary care 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.729 unit. And they checked me over, and I knew I 00:03:25.729 --> 00:03:28.750 was really, really sick. In fact, they told my 00:03:28.750 --> 00:03:31.330 parents that I might not make the night. And 00:03:31.330 --> 00:03:33.449 they told me I was in grave condition. But over 00:03:33.449 --> 00:03:36.530 the public and the speakers in the coronary care 00:03:36.530 --> 00:03:39.370 unit, they were playing Christmas carols. And 00:03:39.370 --> 00:03:41.389 to this day, whenever I hear Anne Murray singing 00:03:41.389 --> 00:03:43.849 a silent night, it just reminds me of solo life. 00:03:44.550 --> 00:03:45.849 And that's what those Christmas carols mean to 00:03:45.849 --> 00:03:51.349 me. And I'm a sucker. That's a great memory. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.360 And with it being Christmas Eve, do you always 00:03:56.360 --> 00:04:00.400 go back to that occasion? I'm sure it's not always 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.080 pleasant to think of that night. Let me just 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.780 ask you, that day in 1981, were you feeling okay 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:10.300 during the day? Oh no, I'd been getting sick 00:04:10.300 --> 00:04:13.580 for quite some time. I was in congestive heart 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:17.120 failure. As a way of explaining it to your viewers, 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:20.660 imagine you start blowing air into a balloon. 00:04:21.159 --> 00:04:23.279 and the balloon gets bigger. And as it gets bigger, 00:04:23.300 --> 00:04:24.939 it gets weaker. So it can't take the pressure. 00:04:24.980 --> 00:04:27.540 So it gets bigger and weaker. And once that process 00:04:27.540 --> 00:04:29.800 starts, there's not a whole lot they can do for 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.920 it. My only option was a transplant. So that's 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.519 the Reader's Digest version of congestive heart 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.060 failure. Because pretty soon your body just cannot 00:04:39.060 --> 00:04:43.759 function well enough, stay alive. And the worst 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.300 thing is your kidneys kind of shut down and you 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:47.860 start picking on fluid. And that I think was 00:04:47.860 --> 00:04:49.279 the worst part and one thing they had to do. 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:52.300 You know, I'm still here 35 years later, so we'll 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:55.560 take it. Another thing that we touched on, and 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:59.160 we really didn't explore on the first episode, 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:03.519 was your nursing home ministry. And are you still 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:07.120 involved there? I am as involved as COVID will 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.139 let me. Yeah. Yeah, there's some nursing homes 00:05:10.139 --> 00:05:12.839 here that are still down. I go in, I have to 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.600 wear a mask in one nursing home. It's tiring 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.439 to wear that mask, but, you know, that's a mission, 00:05:17.459 --> 00:05:21.920 so you do it. And we've been doing, I've been 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.019 doing Christmas, our nursing home ministry now 00:05:26.019 --> 00:05:29.360 for over 10 years. So I just want to mention, 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.180 if I kind of stopped talking, it's because the 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:32.860 brain injury, sometimes words just don't come 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:34.519 and I have to fish around in my brain for another 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.040 word. So that's what happened. If I pause, it 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.600 just doesn't seem to make sense. And last week 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:42.620 I was talking to someone from my church and I 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:44.660 wanted to say, that's a beautiful nativity scene. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.720 I couldn't come up in the nativity scene. So 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.319 I used the word crash. And they had no idea what 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:53.199 that was. So if I stutter a little bit, that's 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.699 why. Well, that's quite all right with me and 00:05:56.699 --> 00:06:00.379 with my viewers as well, I'm sure. Another thing, 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.699 another quote that I made a note of from the 00:06:02.699 --> 00:06:06.959 first episode. This just kind of speaks to the 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.060 cars that you're dealt in life. Make it work. 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:13.339 I remember you shared a quick anecdote on that. 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:17.879 Make it work. Most everybody has some... situation 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:22.000 going on it may appear sometimes as we're passing 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.839 through our days and we're at the grocery store 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.319 and we're in public and well look at that guy 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.819 he looks you know like he's got everything going 00:06:29.819 --> 00:06:33.139 on is look at that lady getting out of that nice 00:06:33.139 --> 00:06:36.920 car and they don't look like they have problems 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.980 everybody's got some situation but you've really 00:06:40.980 --> 00:06:45.620 had to make it work for almost 40 years or over 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:50.259 40 years. Are there some days where you get a 00:06:50.259 --> 00:06:53.120 little down sometimes and you have to draw on 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:59.420 some reserves? I get up some mornings and I look 00:06:59.420 --> 00:07:02.500 at all those medications and it reminds me that 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:05.379 I'm mortal and sometimes I don't even want to 00:07:05.379 --> 00:07:08.899 look at them and it goes through periods and 00:07:08.899 --> 00:07:13.079 almost everyone who has a heart transplant goes 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.589 through severe depression. Sooner or later, it's 00:07:16.589 --> 00:07:19.649 gonna happen and When I'm contacted by other 00:07:19.649 --> 00:07:22.050 recipients or advice one of the things I say 00:07:22.050 --> 00:07:25.149 is just your social work is being paid user or 00:07:25.149 --> 00:07:30.550 him So yeah those days happen Yeah Then we kind 00:07:30.550 --> 00:07:33.129 of talked a little bit about sports and and some 00:07:33.129 --> 00:07:36.949 some baseball talk and football Fantasy sports 00:07:36.949 --> 00:07:39.209 people on the outside kind of think it's it's 00:07:39.209 --> 00:07:41.170 a joke. It's it's something that grown men do 00:07:41.170 --> 00:07:44.009 that is maybe more designed for a 10 -year -old, 00:07:44.310 --> 00:07:47.610 but it really is something to sink your teeth 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:50.810 into and have some fun with and the drafting 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:54.550 and the free agents. Let me just ask, how are 00:07:54.550 --> 00:07:58.629 you doing this year? You know what? You win some, 00:07:58.629 --> 00:08:02.990 you lose some. That's just fantasy sports. You 00:08:02.990 --> 00:08:05.069 don't like to complain, but in one of my leagues, 00:08:05.250 --> 00:08:07.430 my three quarterbacks were Joe Burrow, Justin 00:08:07.430 --> 00:08:12.600 Herbert, and Kurt Cousins. For those of you who 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:15.879 don't keep up all the time, those are pretty 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.540 top -tier quarterbacks who all have just so happened 00:08:18.540 --> 00:08:21.420 to sustain injuries in the regular season. Yeah. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:24.779 And then during that nightmare that happened 00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:27.060 a few weeks ago, my opponent had Devontae Adams 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:31.220 win Las Vegas beat the Los Angeles Chargers. 00:08:32.460 --> 00:08:34.779 And it's kind of a bad way of losing to say the 00:08:34.779 --> 00:08:37.639 other guy's team just gave up and basically the 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:39.740 Chargers just gave up that night. So he made 00:08:39.740 --> 00:08:41.570 some pay on that one. And those are things you 00:08:41.570 --> 00:08:44.169 can't control so you just don't get upset about 00:08:44.169 --> 00:08:47.090 it I just think about people who pay to play 00:08:47.090 --> 00:08:50.070 And then my suggestion is just i'll give you 00:08:50.070 --> 00:08:52.210 my email address and you can send me the money 00:08:52.210 --> 00:08:56.250 Because you have no control over what happens 00:08:56.250 --> 00:09:00.730 yeah fantasy sports whether it's baseball basketball 00:09:00.730 --> 00:09:05.690 football It's kind of a crap shoot. I mean We 00:09:05.690 --> 00:09:07.470 I look at our standings our league standings. 00:09:07.470 --> 00:09:10.519 We've had some of the same guys for Well, we've 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:12.519 we've moved in a couple new players, but for 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.600 we've been going about 15 years and You'll look 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.379 at like I'm in last place this year and I've 00:09:20.379 --> 00:09:23.399 been playing since 2005 and then I look at some 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.139 guys that are in third and fourth place and I 00:09:25.139 --> 00:09:27.320 remember the draft because we do a live draft 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:32.279 and they made some ridiculous picks and Odd rounds 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.940 they drafted a kicker and the fifth, you know 00:09:34.940 --> 00:09:38.379 stuff like that and they're here they are Locking 00:09:38.379 --> 00:09:41.559 up the third the number three seed in the playoffs 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.179 and it just things happen But it's part of the 00:09:44.179 --> 00:09:49.220 fun. I think I Started out oh and four with I 00:09:49.220 --> 00:09:52.519 think I had Saquon Barkley hurt I had my top 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.600 running back and top receiver Cooper Cup. I believe 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.220 they were both injured to start the year Yes 00:09:59.220 --> 00:10:03.679 The guys who draft the kicker in the fifth round 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.460 we call them guys who didn't show up for the 00:10:05.460 --> 00:10:14.539 draft They got who they got yeah They've also 00:10:14.539 --> 00:10:16.000 learned you can really build your team throughout 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.480 the year If you're smart, you know how to use 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.039 like I picked up And you know the names Kyron 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.720 Williams and Rashad white out there right off 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.200 the waiver wire and so you got to keep your eye 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.679 out for those guys Have you been playing with 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.879 the same group of people or do you have different 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.789 leagues that you get into? Well, I get in different 00:10:36.789 --> 00:10:38.830 leagues because of different settings, but I 00:10:38.830 --> 00:10:40.870 have one league I've been in for over 20 years 00:10:40.870 --> 00:10:44.509 and Kind of like the baseball program. I ran 00:10:44.509 --> 00:10:46.570 after a while. It's not about fantasy football. 00:10:46.570 --> 00:10:50.070 It's about the guys the relationships and I've 00:10:50.070 --> 00:10:53.210 been to Atlanta to visit a couple friends from 00:10:53.210 --> 00:10:55.570 the the from our league and they've been up here 00:10:55.570 --> 00:10:58.049 and and that was a real bonus was getting to 00:10:58.049 --> 00:11:02.450 know those guys and I wrote sit down a little 00:11:02.450 --> 00:11:05.610 note for for for fantasies especially the Yahoo 00:11:05.610 --> 00:11:08.690 folks. Don't ever post on the message board when 00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:12.889 you're drunk, stoned, or angry. And if you notice 00:11:12.889 --> 00:11:14.350 the message boards this year, if you're drunk, 00:11:14.470 --> 00:11:15.950 stoned, or angry, you can't find the message 00:11:15.950 --> 00:11:23.110 board. Yeah. We have a traveling trophy. It's 00:11:23.110 --> 00:11:25.610 a shadow box trophy that the winner's name is 00:11:25.610 --> 00:11:28.529 engraved in it every year. So we just play for 00:11:28.529 --> 00:11:33.509 that. There's no money at stake. And we have 00:11:33.509 --> 00:11:36.529 fun with it, but it's it's competitive I would 00:11:36.529 --> 00:11:39.070 sure like to be doing a lot better than uh, I 00:11:39.070 --> 00:11:42.649 did this year with uh, 10 losses i'm I'm in the 00:11:42.649 --> 00:11:44.610 consolation bracket. So we actually when you 00:11:44.610 --> 00:11:48.330 get into the consolation bracket All of our managers 00:11:48.330 --> 00:11:51.370 are still active because you want you don't want 00:11:51.370 --> 00:11:54.450 to finish last Now you're fighting to not finish 00:11:54.450 --> 00:11:57.110 last because we have a uh used to have a loser's 00:11:57.110 --> 00:12:01.190 trophy Okay We've kind of done away with that 00:12:01.190 --> 00:12:05.539 and now it's just a designation that Now, if 00:12:05.539 --> 00:12:07.299 you finish last, you get first pick next year. 00:12:08.820 --> 00:12:12.240 I wish it worked that way. That's how we do it. 00:12:12.500 --> 00:12:14.700 That's how we do it. And I play in a keeper league. 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:19.179 And I play interesting format. It's a team league. 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:24.340 So my team this weekend is the Lions. So I'll 00:12:24.340 --> 00:12:27.879 have all the Lions, that's my team. And the opponent, 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:29.980 whoever he has, that's his team. So you're just 00:12:29.980 --> 00:12:32.940 playing team against team. And it's really a 00:12:32.940 --> 00:12:37.340 cool format. But you quickly learn passing touchdowns 00:12:37.340 --> 00:12:39.639 that were 12 in a team league, but running touchdowns 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.919 that were six. So you kind of go for the quarterback 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.659 that's going to throw the most touchdowns. But 00:12:43.659 --> 00:12:45.659 that's a matter of the first rule of fantasy 00:12:45.659 --> 00:12:49.879 sports is learn the rules of your league. That's 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.159 the most important thing is know your setting. 00:12:53.139 --> 00:12:57.000 Dan, when I was a teenager, I guess I was maybe 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:01.570 14 or 15. rotisserie baseball that was I guess 00:13:01.570 --> 00:13:05.990 what started all this and I found out about a 00:13:05.990 --> 00:13:08.509 rotisserie baseball league in the back of a magazine 00:13:08.509 --> 00:13:14.070 this was probably the early 90s or mid 90s and 00:13:14.070 --> 00:13:19.269 it was so much fun to conduct business that way 00:13:19.269 --> 00:13:22.129 in a league where there was a voicemail box where 00:13:22.129 --> 00:13:25.809 you could put in your waiver request you got 00:13:26.750 --> 00:13:30.230 A packet in the mail every week or two with the 00:13:30.230 --> 00:13:33.629 updated standings. It was all paper and mail. 00:13:33.629 --> 00:13:38.730 Oh, yeah, and there's a salary cap and It was 00:13:38.730 --> 00:13:41.029 so exciting. I played a couple years my teenage 00:13:41.029 --> 00:13:43.750 years until you know, you start driving and you 00:13:43.750 --> 00:13:46.950 your interest Move around a little bit. But did 00:13:46.950 --> 00:13:49.409 you have a league? You're saying your interest 00:13:49.409 --> 00:13:56.080 turned a girl? 16 years old, he's on a cruise. 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.200 He's changing his lineup. He's on a cruise. He's 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.820 16. I said, you should be looking at the girl. 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:07.620 Come on. My first baseball league was like your 00:14:07.620 --> 00:14:10.139 magazine. It was the back of a newspaper, one 00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:12.200 in free press. And you picked your team. But 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.039 once you mail it in, that's your team. You can't 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.320 make changes. And there was like 80 ,000 people. 00:14:17.580 --> 00:14:19.799 And one week I was in first place. That'd be 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.779 80 ,000 people. And then Benito Santiago broke 00:14:22.779 --> 00:14:28.480 his arm. What a great catcher. Oh yeah. Dan, 00:14:28.659 --> 00:14:31.840 I love sports talk in general with people who've 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.399 been around a while because a name will pop out 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.940 like that. Benito Santiago. I had his baseball 00:14:36.940 --> 00:14:41.379 card. I still remember his throws to second and 00:14:41.379 --> 00:14:44.419 he's a great defensive catcher and pretty decent 00:14:44.419 --> 00:14:47.590 offensively too. I want to say. At least a one 00:14:47.590 --> 00:14:51.809 or two time all -star Yes In our league one of 00:14:51.809 --> 00:14:54.389 our leagues we have we call it the dr. John award 00:14:54.389 --> 00:14:57.129 That's when you bench some guy who scores four 00:14:57.129 --> 00:14:59.830 touchdowns and you say I was in the wrong place 00:14:59.830 --> 00:15:03.769 at the right time So if you know you have to 00:15:03.769 --> 00:15:07.029 solve for pork those awards, yeah A few weeks 00:15:07.029 --> 00:15:09.610 ago or was it O'Donnell for Las Vegas before 00:15:09.610 --> 00:15:11.690 touchdowns? I guarantee you nobody started him 00:15:11.690 --> 00:15:13.889 So they get the award for being in the wrong 00:15:13.889 --> 00:15:17.539 place at the right time What about as far as 00:15:17.539 --> 00:15:20.580 just the NFL the playoff picture? Do you have 00:15:20.580 --> 00:15:27.879 a team? Are you a Lions fan? Are you? What players 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:29.460 are you following? Do you have guys that you 00:15:29.460 --> 00:15:34.000 root for? Sam LaPorta mm -hmm tight end for the 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:39.879 Lions rookie really impressed and And if the 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:43.080 Detroit Lions coaches are listening They always 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.779 do pretty against running quarterbacks So they'll 00:15:45.779 --> 00:15:47.659 get as far as Philly and then Jamal or hurts 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:50.679 will kill him. So I don't think this is their 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:54.179 year Baltimore looks solid San Francisco. I think 00:15:54.179 --> 00:15:55.360 it's probably gotta be the favorite. They're 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.019 the most solid team You know, they have no weaknesses. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.100 Yeah, the Baltimore Ravens. That's my favorite 00:16:01.100 --> 00:16:05.139 football team in the NFL This year is kind of 00:16:05.139 --> 00:16:07.720 unique where my best friend who's he's been on 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.000 the podcast Jim Powell is a Cleveland Browns 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.360 fan For whatever reason, maybe because I've been 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:16.179 talking about the guy, he's had to hear me talk 00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:19.159 about him for over 10 or 12 years, Joe Flacco. 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:24.659 He just doesn't like Flacco and I can't pin him 00:16:24.659 --> 00:16:29.480 down to give me a good answer why. When Flacco 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:35.519 got invited to the practice squad and found himself 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:39.519 starting against the Rams, Jim just didn't know. 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:42.379 Just had no explanation and and I kept asking 00:16:42.379 --> 00:16:45.600 him. Hey listen We got to watch some games now. 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.080 This is my favorite player on your favorite team 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.059 All right, and he's still not comfortable with 00:16:50.059 --> 00:16:52.639 it, but I got to say personally. I love what 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.580 Joe's out there doing He's he's showing people 00:16:56.580 --> 00:17:02.039 this 32 teams in 31 of them Didn't have a place 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.380 for him and and now there's They actually try 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:06.160 to make a play for him a couple weeks ago or 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.700 last week when he was on the back on the practice 00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:14.009 squad Sure procedurally Yeah Well, if there's 00:17:14.009 --> 00:17:16.470 one guy I like to watch from the current NFL, 00:17:16.470 --> 00:17:20.410 it would be Jibo Samuel. Yeah Because he does 00:17:20.410 --> 00:17:23.769 everything and does everything really well You 00:17:23.769 --> 00:17:25.829 know, he blocks he they can run him out of the 00:17:25.829 --> 00:17:29.069 wildcat and he catches well in capacity has to 00:17:29.069 --> 00:17:31.630 so I just enjoy watching him play Although my 00:17:31.630 --> 00:17:33.250 all -time favorite to watch is Barry Sanders 00:17:33.250 --> 00:17:35.750 Yeah, because when he got the ball, you just 00:17:35.750 --> 00:17:37.109 didn't know what was gonna happen, but it was 00:17:37.109 --> 00:17:40.900 gonna be good So he's worth the he's someone 00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:44.059 I'd pay to watch play Well, you had a trivia 00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:46.940 question for me and I'll let you ask it for the 00:17:46.940 --> 00:17:52.359 listeners because all right there is a Hall of 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:57.700 Fame Super Bowl winning coach and His grandparents 00:17:57.700 --> 00:18:01.420 are from my county Chatham Kent and his grandfather 00:18:01.420 --> 00:18:07.200 was a minister at Union Baptist and His father 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.470 is Canadian by birth his mother isn't and he's 00:18:10.470 --> 00:18:12.289 in the hall of fame and there's the question 00:18:12.289 --> 00:18:15.750 because we not a lot of people around here you 00:18:15.750 --> 00:18:19.289 know know this fact and for your listeners it's 00:18:19.289 --> 00:18:23.710 Tony Dungey his grandfather was Albert Dungey 00:18:23.710 --> 00:18:25.990 he was the head pastor at a union Baptist church 00:18:25.990 --> 00:18:30.150 in Dresden this is not very far from here so 00:18:30.150 --> 00:18:34.269 great little trivia question yeah I have another 00:18:34.269 --> 00:18:36.309 one for you okay yeah go ahead you want to talk 00:18:36.309 --> 00:18:38.109 about the underground railroad so here we go 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.079 Yeah. Famous. He's a good actor, not a great 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.180 act. Probably the most famous person in the world. 00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:48.680 And his great, great, great grandparents came 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.220 to Canada at the Underground Road. They settled 00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:54.819 in Nova Scotia. They call it Africaville. And 00:18:54.819 --> 00:18:56.940 one of their great, great, great descendants 00:18:56.940 --> 00:18:59.460 was a professional wrestler. And his name is 00:18:59.460 --> 00:19:03.019 Rocky Johnson. So you know who Rocky Johnson's 00:19:03.019 --> 00:19:09.880 son is? The Rock. I was about to say Johnson, 00:19:10.180 --> 00:19:11.619 and I was thinking, is he old enough, Dwayne 00:19:11.619 --> 00:19:16.339 Johnson? Yeah. Yep. His parents are from Nova 00:19:16.339 --> 00:19:20.680 Scotia. And they crossed the border right after 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:22.839 the American Revolution to get away from the 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:27.220 slavery. Well, I enjoyed doing some research 00:19:27.220 --> 00:19:31.700 on Mary Ann Shad. Yes. And understand she's got 00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:39.380 a bronze statue. unveiled a few years ago and 00:19:39.380 --> 00:19:43.000 In Buxton, is that right? That's correct. That's 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:46.559 correct. Just the distinction of Well, I guess 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.960 it was her father that brought the family and 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.079 this is a lot of kids. She's the oldest of 13 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:56.160 To southern Ontario after the fugitive slave 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.099 act the fugitive slave act was passed in 1850 00:20:00.099 --> 00:20:04.480 and Just remark. It's always remarkable when 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.670 I'm reading about historical figures, especially 00:20:08.670 --> 00:20:11.769 African Americans back then who, you know, were 00:20:11.769 --> 00:20:16.609 able to enter politics or enter these professions 00:20:16.609 --> 00:20:20.170 where if they had just been in Tennessee or Alabama 00:20:20.170 --> 00:20:23.430 or North Carolina, there would just be no chance 00:20:23.430 --> 00:20:25.730 for them to have a life like this. And you know 00:20:25.730 --> 00:20:32.009 that there were plenty of creatives and intellectuals 00:20:32.009 --> 00:20:35.710 in the Deep South And it just saddens me to know 00:20:35.710 --> 00:20:39.029 that that they were there and they just didn't 00:20:39.029 --> 00:20:41.750 have the opportunity. But getting back to Marianne 00:20:41.750 --> 00:20:48.670 Shad, she was the first. The first black woman 00:20:48.670 --> 00:20:51.470 publisher in all of North America, is that right? 00:20:52.710 --> 00:20:58.430 Yeah. And I don't recall her her brother's name, 00:20:58.470 --> 00:21:01.630 but this really surprised me. He actually is 00:21:01.630 --> 00:21:04.309 he one of her brothers moved down to Mississippi 00:21:04.309 --> 00:21:09.829 and became, was elected to the state house, I 00:21:09.829 --> 00:21:13.549 think, and then served as speaker of the house, 00:21:14.349 --> 00:21:22.910 Mississippi in the 18, 1870s, I think. And then 00:21:22.910 --> 00:21:28.369 the publication, the Provincial Freeman. Okay. 00:21:28.809 --> 00:21:32.930 Yeah. But, but yeah, so Mary Ann Shad and her 00:21:32.930 --> 00:21:36.690 family, they were responsible. I mean, who knows 00:21:36.690 --> 00:21:41.349 how many fugitive slaves they were able to bring 00:21:41.349 --> 00:21:43.109 to freedom through the Underground Railroad. 00:21:44.150 --> 00:21:47.029 Actually, she started a school on Buxton and 00:21:47.029 --> 00:21:49.029 the education at her school was so good that 00:21:49.029 --> 00:21:51.829 the white folks, the middle class folks, sent 00:21:51.829 --> 00:21:55.410 their kids out to be educated by her. That's 00:21:55.410 --> 00:21:57.970 how sterling that her education was or what she 00:21:57.970 --> 00:22:00.670 taught. And don't forget, in the 1800s, if you 00:22:00.670 --> 00:22:02.369 were a woman, you were not going to get published, 00:22:02.829 --> 00:22:06.789 or not under your female name. And one of my 00:22:06.789 --> 00:22:09.009 favorite songwriters is a woman named Fanny Crosby. 00:22:09.349 --> 00:22:11.190 She wrote 8 ,000 hymns, but she couldn't publish 00:22:11.190 --> 00:22:14.750 in her own name. So she had to publish by pseudonyms. 00:22:15.210 --> 00:22:17.349 And I can name some of her songs, and your folks 00:22:17.349 --> 00:22:18.970 who go to church would know these songs. They're 00:22:18.970 --> 00:22:21.769 just very simple songs. But that's just the way 00:22:21.769 --> 00:22:25.509 it was back then. Well, that's something I'm 00:22:25.509 --> 00:22:28.390 glad that you You put that name out to me and 00:22:28.390 --> 00:22:31.390 said Dan You know, you'll enjoy doing some research 00:22:31.390 --> 00:22:34.450 here because we didn't touch on it much on the 00:22:34.450 --> 00:22:38.910 first I'll call it Dan Cabelka part one that 00:22:38.910 --> 00:22:44.009 Chatham has such a rich Culture or a rich history 00:22:44.009 --> 00:22:48.190 It is becoming a settlement for African Americans 00:22:48.190 --> 00:22:53.829 in the the late 19th century Yeah The other thing 00:22:53.829 --> 00:22:57.829 about Chatham this isn't one of our more sterling 00:22:57.829 --> 00:23:00.329 moments if you're here, you'll notice there's 00:23:00.329 --> 00:23:03.609 a lot of Japanese names and There's a reason 00:23:03.609 --> 00:23:05.430 for that is because we had an internment camp 00:23:05.430 --> 00:23:09.750 just south of Chatham hmm, and they brought the 00:23:09.750 --> 00:23:11.670 The Japanese are moving in from the coast. They 00:23:11.670 --> 00:23:13.329 had a little camp outside Chatham. I didn't know 00:23:13.329 --> 00:23:16.750 that till a few years ago myself Well as a nation 00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:18.789 we kind of said, you know, we should have done 00:23:18.789 --> 00:23:24.730 that. Yeah Well, you've just to our connection 00:23:26.029 --> 00:23:30.750 I definitely want to visit the area and I can't 00:23:30.750 --> 00:23:33.150 put a date on it but I know there'll be a time 00:23:33.150 --> 00:23:36.690 where you and I can connect and sure slap hands 00:23:36.690 --> 00:23:40.329 and break bread and go and you could show me 00:23:40.329 --> 00:23:45.390 around town. Well you put Jack Miner's bird sanctuary 00:23:45.390 --> 00:23:48.450 on your list of things to do. It's world famous 00:23:48.450 --> 00:23:51.390 as right around Leamington Ontario and for some 00:23:51.390 --> 00:23:53.349 reason the birds know where to fly and it's a 00:23:53.349 --> 00:23:55.900 sanctuary so Sometimes in the fall that you can't 00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:58.079 see the ground for the geese and it's a very 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:01.579 very famous bird sanctuary and like an animal 00:24:01.579 --> 00:24:06.160 place Well, Dan, let's talk a little bit about 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:09.859 Christmas and The spirit of Christmas. What are 00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:12.700 some things that you? Like to do around this 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:16.079 time of year. Are you are you out there stringing 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:19.900 the lights and doing the yard stuff or What is 00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:23.769 your? I see I live in an apartment. I live in 00:24:23.769 --> 00:24:27.549 an apartment. So, okay, ringing the lights. The 00:24:27.549 --> 00:24:30.390 one thing I do, I do the Salvation Army kettle. 00:24:31.549 --> 00:24:36.269 And I love it. And they said, Dan, they found 00:24:36.269 --> 00:24:38.150 your perfect job to hand out candy to people 00:24:38.150 --> 00:24:42.509 and you talk to them. And I said, Yep. And, and 00:24:42.509 --> 00:24:47.210 it just to me, and for your listeners, you could 00:24:47.210 --> 00:24:48.809 be on the other side of that kettle very quickly. 00:24:49.250 --> 00:24:51.009 Yeah, you know, I mean, everybody has a story. 00:24:52.940 --> 00:24:55.519 And when I was coaching the kids in the challenge 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:59.680 of baseball, there's a couple of young 12, 13 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:01.460 year old boys on their bikes outside the fence, 00:25:01.539 --> 00:25:03.819 making fun of them. And I went over and I said, 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:05.960 boys, you like those bikes? They said, yeah. 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:07.980 And they said, one slip on the bike and you're 00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:10.599 on the other side of the fence. That's all it 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:13.799 would take. Yeah. Then I invited them out onto 00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:16.200 the field to meet the players. But people have 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:19.500 to know Southern Ontario in Canada is not unlike 00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:22.319 in the United States and we are having a real 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:25.339 crisis with homelessness right now. And that's 00:25:25.339 --> 00:25:28.920 kind of where my heart hits. And when people 00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:30.839 will question whether they should be homeless 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:34.180 or whatever, I say buy them a coffee, hear their 00:25:34.180 --> 00:25:37.140 story. Because everybody has a story, you know. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:39.579 And we actually have people who have jobs that 00:25:39.579 --> 00:25:43.160 are living on the streets. And that's a sad statement. 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:48.519 But I will say our county is very good about 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.680 Helping us the homeless and getting them on the 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:53.299 right track We can give them food, but we can't 00:25:53.299 --> 00:25:55.420 make an apartment. I don't know where so that's 00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:58.900 the first step, right so but we're just like 00:25:58.900 --> 00:26:00.440 any other country in terms of the homelessness 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:05.079 issues and It saddens me but we do what we can 00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:12.019 Yeah, I Purposefully selected a downtown church 00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:16.319 for our family to begin attending January of 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:18.880 this year so almost Almost a full calendar year. 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.579 I didn't grow up going to church. I didn't attend 00:26:22.579 --> 00:26:25.000 church or seek out a church in my bachelor years 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:28.579 and You know when our family was complete we 00:26:28.579 --> 00:26:32.279 went a couple times before Vivian was born, but 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:35.119 I Just it was something that I wanted to get 00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:38.500 us involved in but it had to be the right place 00:26:38.500 --> 00:26:43.259 And so our church as soon as we open the doors 00:26:43.259 --> 00:26:46.539 and there's a Every few Sundays I volunteer with 00:26:46.539 --> 00:26:50.000 the guest services But sure there's anywhere 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:56.059 from 8 10 or 15 or so of the area homeless that 00:26:56.059 --> 00:27:01.299 will come in Grab some coffee a Good many of 00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:03.400 them will grab the coffee and go on their way 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:05.740 and that's no big deal and a few of them will 00:27:05.740 --> 00:27:08.559 stay for the service But I like that that our 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.579 service when you walk in You've got the people 00:27:11.579 --> 00:27:14.839 who are dressed. Well They smell nice. They look 00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:17.259 nice. And then you've got this guy over here 00:27:17.259 --> 00:27:18.900 that has been wearing the same pair of clothes 00:27:18.900 --> 00:27:23.000 for a couple weeks or longer. And that's important 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.519 to me. I don't want to go to a church where it's 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:31.200 just all people that are smiling and glittering 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:34.240 and pulling up in similar SUVs. I don't need 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.299 that. I need to be a little closer to the people. 00:27:37.579 --> 00:27:42.490 So I like that you mentioned that. People just 00:27:42.490 --> 00:27:45.809 need to see that the the folks who are struggling 00:27:45.809 --> 00:27:49.569 Don't have a place to live like you said Maybe 00:27:49.569 --> 00:27:52.849 even working and getting paid every week or two 00:27:52.849 --> 00:27:55.009 and still don't have a place to live You need 00:27:55.009 --> 00:27:59.210 to lay eyes on these people You need to get out 00:27:59.210 --> 00:28:04.309 of your Your area sometimes and just like I said 00:28:04.309 --> 00:28:08.450 Be aware that they're there and help. Yeah, just 00:28:08.450 --> 00:28:12.460 It's it is a huge problem all over the place 00:28:12.460 --> 00:28:15.119 but there's always little ways that you can help 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.819 and sometimes that may just be smiling at them 00:28:18.819 --> 00:28:21.680 putting your hand on a shoulder I try to do that 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:24.099 as we're leaving just I'll put my hand on a guy's 00:28:24.099 --> 00:28:26.940 shoulder just acknowledging him some of these 00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:29.599 people don't get acknowledged they don't get 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.460 um well I could go on but I appreciate you bringing 00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:37.299 that up and there's a story about a young fellow 00:28:37.299 --> 00:28:40.079 who committed to a church and he was dirty and 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:43.210 smelly and hair was a mess and he sat on the 00:28:43.210 --> 00:28:45.869 front and he really enjoyed the service and on 00:28:45.869 --> 00:28:47.490 the way out one of the elders grabbed him and 00:28:47.490 --> 00:28:49.289 the elders got the black seat you know the red 00:28:49.289 --> 00:28:52.470 tie the white shirt and he said son i want you 00:28:52.470 --> 00:28:54.710 to go home and pray to god as to what's the appropriate 00:28:54.710 --> 00:28:57.690 wear for this church kid goes home comes back 00:28:57.690 --> 00:29:00.650 a week dirtier a week smellier hair's a bit worse 00:29:00.650 --> 00:29:03.769 and as he's leaving the elder says to him did 00:29:03.769 --> 00:29:05.329 you do what i asked you to do did you go home 00:29:05.329 --> 00:29:07.250 and pray to god as what's appropriate attire 00:29:07.250 --> 00:29:08.950 attire for this church and the young fellow says 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:10.740 I did, but God said he wouldn't know because 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:18.180 he's never been here. And that struck me, you 00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:21.759 know. And I like to have a church with different 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:24.279 cultures as well, because Christianity fits into 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:26.680 different cultures. And to go to the church with 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:29.839 everybody's the same. And as we're talking about 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:32.019 the baseball program, you have to be used to 00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:33.859 being around people that aren't just like you. 00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:36.980 That's really important. And some people aren't. 00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:41.160 That's just the way it is. Yeah, I I went back 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:44.460 and listened to our episode I usually don't listen 00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:47.859 to the old ones once I've recorded them but But 00:29:47.859 --> 00:29:51.180 I wanted to brush up on on ours and I remember 00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:53.299 you saying that with your volunteers. He said 00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:55.359 hey listen I appreciate you wanting to get involved 00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:58.839 in the program here Make sure you're okay with 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:01.819 Working hand -to -hand with someone who's not 00:30:01.819 --> 00:30:06.559 Didn't grow up like you did Yeah Yeah, or has 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.380 challenges that you don't face Yeah, I was thinking 00:30:11.380 --> 00:30:16.319 when you email me Some of the traditions we used 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:17.960 to have I'm wondering if you have the same had 00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:22.460 the same ones grown up so Our living room was 00:30:22.460 --> 00:30:26.319 full of Christmas cards hundreds and people just 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.940 don't do that anymore now, maybe you do But I 00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:32.380 think back to those hundreds of cards and it 00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:35.099 reminded you of how many French are Yeah, which 00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:38.579 is really nice And we always got the real Christmas 00:30:38.579 --> 00:30:41.940 tree. And you may, in Alabama or wherever you 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:44.099 were, you may not have twigged onto this little 00:30:44.099 --> 00:30:46.140 tradition. But everybody threw their trees out, 00:30:46.259 --> 00:30:47.880 we would take them in the park and make forts, 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:50.660 and then we could have snowball fights. So it 00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:53.779 was one of our little Christmas traditions. Yeah. 00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:56.720 You know, I was fortunate to grow up in a very 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.220 close -knit neighborhood. And that really helped. 00:31:00.980 --> 00:31:05.539 And whenever I meet... My friends from back then 00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:07.079 just reminisce about how great it was going up 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:09.079 to that little street different goofy things 00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:14.880 we did We moved around a lot when I was young 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.480 up until third grade and so I remember being 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:23.099 like I'd be in second grade and I would Miss 00:31:23.099 --> 00:31:26.180 my friends from first grade, you know, we moved 00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:30.759 from Chicago Chicago to Northern Virginia To 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.460 Florence, Alabama. That was a culture shock then 00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:38.380 to Birmingham and Yeah, so and then in Birmingham, 00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:41.420 it was nice. Well, we didn't have the kids down 00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:44.680 the street. It was Our house was a little more 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:47.359 isolated as far or they're just weren't as many 00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.220 kids our age in the neighborhood But I do remember 00:31:51.220 --> 00:31:54.779 my mother had She always had Christmas music 00:31:54.779 --> 00:31:58.019 playing and there's this cassette tape that still 00:31:58.019 --> 00:32:00.059 survives and that's so I've got it now and it's 00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:04.700 about 40 years old and it's country music artists 00:32:04.700 --> 00:32:09.759 Performing some of the classic songs Hark the 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:13.579 Herald angels sing holy night. Oh holy night 00:32:13.579 --> 00:32:16.920 and silent night winter wonderland, so you've 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:23.759 got Shed Atkins Willie Nelson Sure Tammy wine 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:25.960 that it so I've played a few times. I don't think 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:27.920 that my kids are really they're not grabbing 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:31.329 on to it I'll put it on last night and Warren 00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:35.750 said hey, can we watch my cartoons now? But yeah, 00:32:35.809 --> 00:32:38.109 there's always candles lit the music the music 00:32:38.109 --> 00:32:41.250 playing the live tree we don't we don't have 00:32:41.250 --> 00:32:45.569 a live tree this year, but Now we'd go out and 00:32:45.569 --> 00:32:48.190 my dad would take us to a Christmas tree farm. 00:32:48.190 --> 00:32:51.410 We cut one down and Had that whole experience 00:32:51.410 --> 00:32:56.049 with the hot chocolate in the wagon, right? Yeah 00:32:56.049 --> 00:33:01.970 the the live Christmas tree place in our area. 00:33:02.769 --> 00:33:06.250 During the summer, it's a nudist colony. So, 00:33:06.349 --> 00:33:07.829 where'd you get your tree? Go around to the nudist 00:33:07.829 --> 00:33:10.990 colony. I said, I hope they weren't closed when 00:33:10.990 --> 00:33:12.589 you got out there in December. I said, yeah. 00:33:13.289 --> 00:33:16.650 And my father was a first -class stationary engineer, 00:33:17.430 --> 00:33:19.210 but his singular talent was picking up the worst 00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:21.710 tree on the lot. So we would spend hours after 00:33:21.710 --> 00:33:23.450 we got home trying to hide all the bear spots. 00:33:24.309 --> 00:33:29.019 So that was a bit of our tradition as well. And 00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:32.140 this is not culturally, your listeners may not 00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:34.359 kind of tweak onto this, but it's kind of a growing 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.160 up thing for us. If I got all my friends from 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:38.859 the neighborhood together and I said cars, they'd 00:33:38.859 --> 00:33:41.539 all run to the side of the road. Cause we played 00:33:41.539 --> 00:33:44.059 road hockey. That was the big thing. And a car 00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:45.660 comes down, you say cars and everybody gets off. 00:33:45.819 --> 00:33:49.160 And that was, that was a big deal for us. And 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.099 if I said cars to my friends, they just jumped 00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:53.240 to the side of the road. Cause that was part 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:55.059 of our Christmas day growing up was playing road 00:33:55.059 --> 00:34:02.589 hockey. And do you have any of those kids from 00:34:02.589 --> 00:34:04.750 from way back that you still keep in touch with 00:34:04.750 --> 00:34:10.909 or exchange cards? Oh, yes, absolutely Where 00:34:10.909 --> 00:34:13.670 I grew up it was like a circle and maybe a third 00:34:13.670 --> 00:34:16.550 of a mile around and I think of one time we may 00:34:16.550 --> 00:34:19.030 have had a hundred kids on that street and we 00:34:19.030 --> 00:34:22.469 had our own school and Those streets called Oriel 00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:24.969 Parkway and we have a saying wherever we go in 00:34:24.969 --> 00:34:26.809 the world. We're gonna be somebody with a connection 00:34:27.329 --> 00:34:30.630 to Oriole Parkway. And when my ex and I were 00:34:30.630 --> 00:34:33.550 on our honeymoon in PEI, we signed in a guest 00:34:33.550 --> 00:34:35.550 book and all of a sudden we hear, who's from 00:34:35.550 --> 00:34:37.230 Oriole Parkway? It was about some of my neighbors 00:34:37.230 --> 00:34:39.570 when I was growing up. So I said, honey, wherever 00:34:39.570 --> 00:34:40.849 we go in the world, we're gonna meet somebody 00:34:40.849 --> 00:34:43.989 with an Oriole Parkway connection. And we had 00:34:43.989 --> 00:34:46.050 our own school, a little four room school house. 00:34:47.070 --> 00:34:50.510 Dan, as always, I just enjoyed these conversations. 00:34:51.070 --> 00:34:53.789 I know we're, so this one is two months removed 00:34:53.789 --> 00:34:58.099 from the last one. There's gonna have to be a 00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:00.860 part three a part four. We're just gonna have 00:35:00.860 --> 00:35:05.820 a series of Dan Kavalka episodes until someone 00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:08.659 says yeah, you guys got to cut it out, but I 00:35:08.659 --> 00:35:12.840 hope everyone is enjoying our newly formed friendship 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:16.860 a friendship, excuse me You're the first guest 00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:19.659 north of the border Really first international 00:35:19.659 --> 00:35:22.139 guest. I've got a an Australian guest coming 00:35:22.139 --> 00:35:27.860 up and a week or two I've had a musician from 00:35:27.860 --> 00:35:31.260 the UK, and so that's really important for me 00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:36.019 to bring people in touch with folks that are 00:35:36.019 --> 00:35:40.000 well out of their backyard. That's cool for me. 00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:43.980 We've had several female guests this month, planning 00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:47.780 to have a few more, so this is a big net. It's 00:35:47.780 --> 00:35:49.440 easy to forget when you and I are talking right 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.980 now that the whole world gets to hear it. Right. 00:35:54.579 --> 00:35:57.340 Radio interviews like I remind myself watch the 00:35:57.340 --> 00:35:59.400 language because everybody can hear you it's 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:01.920 easy to forget when you're a small studio. Yeah 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:06.980 I've got no there's uh Go ahead. No, I was gonna 00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:10.360 say I do have some listeners from different parts 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:13.360 of the world and that really brings me special 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:19.219 joy to Present a show for someone Where they 00:36:19.219 --> 00:36:22.780 get to hear two guys talking or me talking? to 00:36:22.780 --> 00:36:25.920 like I said one of our female guests and you 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:27.639 just get to hear a conversation you don't maybe 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.559 get to hear at your local coffee shop and not 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.920 that you should be eavesdropping but yeah hopefully 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:40.280 that's the value sometimes when with my friend 00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:44.719 and I gotta explain Tim Horton's to you that's 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:46.780 our coffee chain up here it's like your version 00:36:46.780 --> 00:36:50.829 our version of Krispy Kreme And he played, Tim 00:36:50.829 --> 00:36:53.130 Horton played hockey for the Tour of Italy. And 00:36:53.130 --> 00:36:55.570 he started this doughnut franchise. And there's 00:36:55.570 --> 00:36:58.349 like, Chatham's 45 ,000 people, there's 11 Tim 00:36:58.349 --> 00:37:00.969 Horton's franchises. And Chatham, like, we tell 00:37:00.969 --> 00:37:02.550 them this is like a virus, Tim Horton's virus, 00:37:02.710 --> 00:37:05.789 once he gets in there. And if you ever meet anybody 00:37:05.789 --> 00:37:07.650 from Canada again, just tell them you like the 00:37:07.650 --> 00:37:11.050 Tim Horton's coffee. And, you know, I went to 00:37:11.050 --> 00:37:12.769 a Krispy Kreme with my friend in Atlanta, and 00:37:12.769 --> 00:37:15.210 my first thought was, where's the tables? Because 00:37:15.210 --> 00:37:16.710 Tim Horton's is famous because they have the 00:37:16.710 --> 00:37:18.530 tables and Tim Horton realized people want to 00:37:18.530 --> 00:37:21.269 sit down and gabble or their coffee Yeah, and 00:37:21.269 --> 00:37:25.489 that's why the success that was success We think 00:37:25.489 --> 00:37:28.170 of it as like the challenge Facebook. That's 00:37:28.170 --> 00:37:32.550 where you get all the gossip. Yeah Well, Dan 00:37:32.550 --> 00:37:34.409 anything else you want to add I forgot to ask 00:37:34.409 --> 00:37:37.190 what are you in the playoffs in your fantasy 00:37:37.190 --> 00:37:40.469 football league? They already I got a second 00:37:40.469 --> 00:37:45.099 in play in my keeper league I mean, I finished 00:37:45.099 --> 00:37:47.420 second, so I'm probably in the third place team 00:37:47.420 --> 00:37:51.000 this week. So we'll see how it goes. Because 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.380 it's the keeper league, I may keep somebody who 00:37:53.380 --> 00:37:55.739 maybe is going to play this year that's going 00:37:55.739 --> 00:37:59.639 to contribute next year. And just getting back 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:03.500 to the fantasy football for a sec, I have what 00:38:03.500 --> 00:38:07.599 my friends and I call the LeBion Bell role. Never 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:09.679 pick a running back who held us the year before, 00:38:10.019 --> 00:38:13.719 because they always have trouble. And the woods 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:16.280 are full. I'm thinking like Austin Neckler this 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:18.980 year or Delvin Cook went from an all -star to 00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:22.340 backup in New York Yeah, you know, so we have 00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:24.480 somebody like I traded away Jonathan Taylor this 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:26.239 year because I knew he was gonna have a lot of 00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:29.980 injuries because he held out So this little things 00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:32.780 that you know the Axioms if you will that I've 00:38:32.780 --> 00:38:35.659 kind of picked up over the year What do you think 00:38:35.659 --> 00:38:39.389 of the quarterback situation in Pittsburgh? I 00:38:39.389 --> 00:38:42.409 know Roethlisberger is Understandably not very 00:38:42.409 --> 00:38:46.869 happy about what's been going on since he stepped 00:38:46.869 --> 00:38:51.030 away But I think they're using Mason Rudolph. 00:38:51.349 --> 00:38:55.030 Is it Mason Rudolph? Yeah. Yeah, I think that 00:38:55.030 --> 00:38:58.869 kid's got some promise Well, anytime you have 00:38:58.869 --> 00:39:02.409 to rely on Mitch Stravinsky That's gonna be a 00:39:02.409 --> 00:39:04.570 problem. In fact, I don't even heard of the guy 00:39:04.570 --> 00:39:07.570 who's starting for the Chargers tonight I have 00:39:07.570 --> 00:39:09.889 a friend who I talk football with and we both 00:39:09.889 --> 00:39:11.570 agree there's been some really awful football 00:39:11.570 --> 00:39:13.989 this year. Yeah. And if it wasn't for fantasy 00:39:13.989 --> 00:39:17.269 football, I would not be watching Las Vegas or 00:39:17.269 --> 00:39:19.289 a team like that because I've had a player, but 00:39:19.289 --> 00:39:21.230 there's been some really, and a lot of it is 00:39:21.230 --> 00:39:23.469 because of my opinion is they're using a lot 00:39:23.469 --> 00:39:26.349 of backup quarterbacks. Yeah. I've heard it's 00:39:26.349 --> 00:39:28.349 guys getting hurt and it really has affected. 00:39:29.090 --> 00:39:32.150 Yeah. It really has affected. I mean, I had Justin 00:39:32.150 --> 00:39:35.050 Jefferson in my, well, as soon as Kirk Cousins 00:39:35.050 --> 00:39:37.489 got hurt. the value is going to go down but there 00:39:37.489 --> 00:39:39.230 are games I watch just because the players that 00:39:39.230 --> 00:39:43.809 are just to me they're unwatchable so right um 00:39:43.809 --> 00:39:45.769 I want to put out a little a request for you 00:39:45.769 --> 00:39:49.530 yahoo if that's okay oh yeah okay yahoo fantasy 00:39:49.530 --> 00:39:53.829 football gods or managers and that's where we 00:39:53.829 --> 00:39:57.889 play on yahoo okay and you'll identify with it 00:39:57.889 --> 00:40:01.670 every team needs to have four na positions and 00:40:01.670 --> 00:40:04.949 anybody who is on a bye week it's an na designation 00:40:05.659 --> 00:40:07.480 So they can, you can keep them on your team. 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:11.679 And I've been in a situation where I basically 00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:13.380 forfeited a game because I didn't want to drop 00:40:13.380 --> 00:40:16.119 one of my better players. And we call that the 00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:19.000 strategic loss. And that's just experience you 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.460 learn those things. I'm looking at some of the 00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:25.760 way I. Okay, go ahead. No, I was looking at some 00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:31.440 of the. Offensive stats leaders right now. Yep. 00:40:32.340 --> 00:40:33.699 You know, you look at some of the names just 00:40:33.699 --> 00:40:36.710 at quarterback. Hard to believe that Brady's 00:40:36.710 --> 00:40:41.849 gone Breeze Yeah, well Manning's been a few years 00:40:41.849 --> 00:40:48.030 Philip Rivers Matt Ryan All these guys it was 00:40:48.030 --> 00:40:50.789 kind of nice I think it was going back to Flacco 00:40:50.789 --> 00:40:53.449 when he started against the Rams he had Flacco 00:40:53.449 --> 00:40:56.789 opposite Matt Stafford and I think those those 00:40:56.789 --> 00:40:58.829 guys were separated by a year as far as their 00:40:58.829 --> 00:41:01.929 draft year 08 and 09 and to see both of them 00:41:01.929 --> 00:41:06.539 still starting in the NFL, I think it's good 00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:08.920 to have at least a couple of the old dogs still 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:14.019 left and playing well, not just out there making 00:41:14.019 --> 00:41:17.440 a mess themselves. So it's good for the league. 00:41:17.699 --> 00:41:21.300 The idea is a consistent production. You can 00:41:21.300 --> 00:41:24.099 count on this year. And one player who's killing 00:41:24.099 --> 00:41:27.639 me is Tony Pollard because some games they just 00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:31.300 don't give him the ball. And he's not been a 00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:34.829 consistent producer. fantasy points Because you 00:41:34.829 --> 00:41:36.030 get you like I said, you got to count on the 00:41:36.030 --> 00:41:38.530 guy who's who's gonna be consistent game week 00:41:38.530 --> 00:41:42.849 in and week out Do you have a you prepare to 00:41:42.849 --> 00:41:47.389 make a Super Bowl prediction? As far as matchup, 00:41:47.389 --> 00:41:50.050 this is for my nephew. This is my nephew. I think 00:41:50.050 --> 00:41:51.889 it's gonna be San Francisco. They're just solid 00:41:51.889 --> 00:41:56.110 Yeah, they're just solid and Brock Purdy is not 00:41:56.110 --> 00:41:58.510 gonna say get on my back boys I'm gonna carry 00:41:58.510 --> 00:42:01.269 it but he gets the ball to the people who can 00:42:01.269 --> 00:42:04.389 make the plays It would be fun to see you know, 00:42:04.389 --> 00:42:09.670 if we saw a Ravens 49ers rematch Yeah, this would 00:42:09.670 --> 00:42:15.409 be it was the 2013 Super Bowl So it's always 00:42:15.409 --> 00:42:18.010 the the 20 like that would have been the 2012 00:42:18.010 --> 00:42:20.949 Versions of those teams. It's not quite a little 00:42:20.949 --> 00:42:22.670 bit more than 10 years later. That would be really 00:42:22.670 --> 00:42:28.690 cool Well, I was around when the Cleveland Browns 00:42:28.690 --> 00:42:33.239 became the Baltimore Ravens The hand -wringing 00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:35.019 like that team was very important Cleveland. 00:42:35.380 --> 00:42:43.280 Oh Yeah, maybe Indianapolis or Baltimore moved 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.780 to Indianapolis and then they were without it 00:42:46.780 --> 00:42:50.059 Baltimore was without a team for a while Yeah 00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:54.719 I Think and I keep saying this I think that Cleveland 00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:58.679 with their defense I'm not ready to go out and 00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:01.340 say that they'll they will reach the AFC title 00:43:01.340 --> 00:43:04.940 game But I will not be shocked if they if Cleveland 00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:09.619 gets to the AFC championship game It's gonna 00:43:09.619 --> 00:43:11.679 be fun to watch when you've got the number one 00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:16.900 Yeah, I'm sure that yeah, you got to go to the 00:43:16.900 --> 00:43:21.179 Ravens like With the Lions if you got through 00:43:21.179 --> 00:43:23.800 the silver don't or the Ford feel for all your 00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:25.760 games the Lions have a chance Whether they don't 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:27.519 do well outdoors, they do not do well against 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.679 running quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson just killed 00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:31.119 him. Well, you've probably watched that game. 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:35.039 Yeah. Yeah. They were just helpless against him. 00:43:35.300 --> 00:43:37.300 And they played Justin Fields and he really, 00:43:37.300 --> 00:43:40.460 you know, had an impact there too. What about, 00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:42.960 do you have a prediction on Bill Belichick? Is 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:46.579 he going to retire after this year? Do you see 00:43:46.579 --> 00:43:50.719 him? Can you picture him on the sideline? I think 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.420 he's going to retire. He's going to retire. He 00:43:53.420 --> 00:43:58.630 doesn't need this. Yeah. Well, I noticed a lot 00:43:58.630 --> 00:44:00.929 of the coaches that are away from his staff do 00:44:00.929 --> 00:44:03.369 not do well with their new teams. Yeah. They 00:44:03.369 --> 00:44:07.730 try to institute the Belichick system, and they're 00:44:07.730 --> 00:44:09.989 not Bill Belichick. I mean, Matt Patricia just 00:44:09.989 --> 00:44:12.610 destroyed the Lions. Yeah. I mean, it was bad. 00:44:13.409 --> 00:44:15.329 It's like in the Chargers game, the team just 00:44:15.329 --> 00:44:19.030 quit on them. They want to get rid of them, and 00:44:19.030 --> 00:44:24.480 that's unfortunate. Well, Dan. It has been a 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.519 pleasure and I truly mean that sometimes I say 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:29.760 this a lot on all the episodes It's been so great 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:32.900 talking to you. It's I so enjoy this I've so 00:44:32.900 --> 00:44:35.739 been looking forward to this since we reconnected 00:44:35.739 --> 00:44:40.500 again and I can't wait to Yeah, if we if we stay 00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:44.079 on track here, we'll do another episode in say 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:48.760 March sure Talk a little just one final thing 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:51.119 for your viewers and just really struck me the 00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:56.449 other day God only made one race. The human race. 00:44:56.869 --> 00:45:01.710 Love it. And the anti -Semitism and the vitriol 00:45:01.710 --> 00:45:06.949 towards the Palestinians really saddens me. It 00:45:06.949 --> 00:45:11.750 does. Yeah. And someone told me that if you put 00:45:11.750 --> 00:45:14.730 100 black ants in a jar with 100 red ants, they 00:45:14.730 --> 00:45:17.070 will not fight each other. But if you shake the 00:45:17.070 --> 00:45:19.610 jar, they'll fight each other. So maybe we should 00:45:19.610 --> 00:45:22.090 focus on the one who's shaking the jar. Yeah. 00:45:22.769 --> 00:45:25.349 And that's just something that's really been 00:45:25.349 --> 00:45:28.250 on my heart lately. There's only one race, the 00:45:28.250 --> 00:45:31.469 human race. And if you want to find differences, 00:45:31.469 --> 00:45:39.329 you will. Yeah. I see my small children, especially 00:45:39.329 --> 00:45:43.829 my two -year -old in his preschool class, and 00:45:43.829 --> 00:45:46.090 there's black kids and white kids and you know 00:45:46.090 --> 00:45:48.650 that their parents take them to different churches 00:45:48.650 --> 00:45:53.539 and some maybe... Christians or maybe Jews Little 00:45:53.539 --> 00:45:58.320 kids and whether they're two or eight They don't 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.300 argue about this stuff. They don't make divisions 00:46:01.300 --> 00:46:04.599 over this stuff. They play they have fun they 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.199 and they realize okay, I like we I get along 00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:10.199 with this guy better this girl better, but they 00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:16.909 Kids children are not born to hate No So hopefully 00:46:16.909 --> 00:46:19.849 we'll make some progress there. I'm so glad you 00:46:19.849 --> 00:46:24.949 said that. Well, it's true. And I did a message 00:46:24.949 --> 00:46:27.449 once, a Christmas message, about how the shepherds 00:46:27.449 --> 00:46:31.349 were actually children. And why would God announce 00:46:31.349 --> 00:46:33.090 the birth of his son to children? And I realized 00:46:33.090 --> 00:46:34.909 it's because the adults would have screwed it 00:46:34.909 --> 00:46:37.550 up. Yeah. So he had to tell the children because 00:46:37.550 --> 00:46:40.389 they wouldn't have messed it up. And there's 00:46:40.389 --> 00:46:44.360 a lot of truth to that. That's right. You will 00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:47.159 see as you and I saw you got baptized by the 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:49.380 way. Congratulations Thanks, Dan, but as you 00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:50.980 continue when you're walking your faith, you 00:46:50.980 --> 00:46:52.619 are going to see there's divisions of the church, 00:46:52.699 --> 00:46:56.500 too Oh, yeah, it doesn't stop that stuff there. 00:46:56.539 --> 00:47:00.179 No and By the way those who complain all their 00:47:00.179 --> 00:47:02.119 lives in their church they get to the nursing 00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:04.960 home. They don't stop I mean, that's just them 00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:11.829 Yeah All right. Well what an episode Can't wait 00:47:11.829 --> 00:47:14.150 for the next one. I hope you guys will be will 00:47:14.150 --> 00:47:17.190 be eager for the next conversation to remember 00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:20.369 There's really no need I do the remember thing 00:47:20.369 --> 00:47:24.349 at the end, but you've said it all Dan Only thing 00:47:24.349 --> 00:47:27.769 I could say is remember if you're sitting here, 00:47:27.889 --> 00:47:31.289 it's Christmas Eve and You don't have anybody 00:47:31.289 --> 00:47:33.829 to hold on to you don't have a lot of presents 00:47:33.829 --> 00:47:37.030 under the tree Don't have much money in your 00:47:37.030 --> 00:47:42.289 wallet You can still Make a difference with somebody 00:47:42.289 --> 00:47:47.190 if you get out around your community just Flash 00:47:47.190 --> 00:47:49.750 a smile put your hand on a shoulder of somebody 00:47:49.750 --> 00:47:52.789 as you're going to get a cup of coffee or something 00:47:52.789 --> 00:47:55.429 It'll make it really will make you feel better. 00:47:55.510 --> 00:47:58.210 So focus on the small stuff Don't don't think 00:47:58.210 --> 00:48:00.829 that you're not important or you don't matter 00:48:00.829 --> 00:48:04.510 or someone might not benefit from Crossing paths 00:48:04.510 --> 00:48:07.820 with you. So thank you Dan. Thanks so much Go 00:48:07.820 --> 00:48:09.599 ahead. I'll let you have the last word. I was 00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:13.119 going to say, just remember I said earlier, everybody 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:17.760 has a story. Everybody has a story. And someone 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:19.300 said, why can't they pull themselves up by the 00:48:19.300 --> 00:48:20.760 bootstraps? And I said, because they have no 00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:25.780 boots. All right. Well, and remember, make it 00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:29.320 work. Yep. Always remember, make it work. OK, 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:33.659 Dan, plan to talk to you again in the new year. 00:48:33.659 --> 00:48:35.960 Just let me know when. OK, everyone. All right. 00:48:36.059 --> 00:48:41.880 Happy holidays and best to everyone in 2024. 00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:44.400 Thanks for listening to the Dan Time podcast. 00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:48.840 Take care, Dan. All right. God bless. 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