WEBVTT 00:00:04.179 --> 00:00:07.500 All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Dan 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:12.759 Time podcast. I'm your host, Dan McArdle. My 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:15.419 dad listens to the show, as you know, sometimes 00:00:15.419 --> 00:00:19.300 I don't ever know when, how frequently, but he 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:22.859 did call me a week or so ago and he said, remember 00:00:22.859 --> 00:00:26.140 son, it's not Ma -car -dle, it's Mick -ar -dle. 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.859 And he's correct. And I have known that and that 00:00:29.859 --> 00:00:33.520 is on me completely a hundred percent for being. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.159 a little inattentive to the correct pronunciation 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.280 of the name. Folks, today is a really special 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.399 episode. They're all special. I hope you've enjoyed 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.159 the last few guests. Dan Sharp, all the way from 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.520 New Zealand. Fantastic episode. Great body of 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.399 work there. A lot of variety in his sound. Please 00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:00.560 follow Dan Sharp Music across the socials. Dan 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.439 Slotnick. from Westchester County, New York. 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:06.819 Another singer songwriter. Huge fan of Dan Zlotnik. 00:01:06.819 --> 00:01:11.299 In fact, was just listening to DZB 2023 on the 00:01:11.299 --> 00:01:14.500 way back home this afternoon. I just, I love 00:01:14.500 --> 00:01:18.980 it. Today, it is St. Patrick's Day as we are 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:23.579 recording this episode. And I thought it's only 00:01:23.579 --> 00:01:27.900 fitting that I bring a fellow Irish descendant. 00:01:29.009 --> 00:01:32.250 uncomfortable calling ourselves Irishmen, but 00:01:32.250 --> 00:01:37.709 we come from a line of Irish ancestors. Kevin 00:01:37.709 --> 00:01:43.170 McCroskey is my guest today and this is a dear 00:01:43.170 --> 00:01:46.609 friend from Birmingham, Alabama. Again, we don't 00:01:46.609 --> 00:01:50.010 get to talk a lot. We are on some text chains. 00:01:50.329 --> 00:01:55.430 We are fantasy football combatants and we enjoy 00:01:55.430 --> 00:02:00.099 a real hearty relationship. But a conversation 00:02:00.099 --> 00:02:02.959 is few and far between. This is a big thrill. 00:02:03.099 --> 00:02:05.439 Kevin, thank you for making time. I know you 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.980 got a lot of balls in the air today, as many 00:02:07.980 --> 00:02:11.800 dads do. Thanks for talking to me and being on 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.520 Dan Time. How are you doing, my friend? Good, 00:02:14.659 --> 00:02:18.479 Dan. Thanks for having me. Yeah, my name is not 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:22.120 Dan. But I will change it for money. I just want 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:29.780 to let you know. You know, I don't know if this 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:32.520 gig pays anything, but if it does, as part of 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:37.680 it, I'll change my name. Kevin, let me just say, 00:02:37.740 --> 00:02:39.120 I've never asked you this question. What's your 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.219 middle name? Wade. OK, I was hoping to get a 00:02:43.219 --> 00:02:47.099 Dan or some... Yeah, yeah. That would have been 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:53.620 good for the show, yeah. Well, Kevin also also 00:02:53.620 --> 00:02:56.680 as you as you were talking about your dad I also 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:00.199 say my cross key even though it is to make cross 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:03.340 key. So it's a it's a common and maybe it's a 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:05.840 southern thing Yeah, yeah be careful around the 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.979 the old guard with those pronunciations and and 00:03:08.979 --> 00:03:11.580 I like to get it straight and you know our children 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:15.900 are gonna follow in our example and how you how 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:20.900 you treat your Your surname and her name. Yes 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:26.080 Very important Are you wearing green today? I 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.580 am wearing green. I was gonna ask you the same 00:03:28.580 --> 00:03:31.219 question What what kind of because this is not 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:33.460 a video call today? This is just a direct phone 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:38.159 call Kevin is is making use of a very short window 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.139 here He's on his way to a soccer game a kids 00:03:40.139 --> 00:03:44.810 soccer game and what a guy what a friend to say, 00:03:44.969 --> 00:03:47.009 you know what, for you, I got 20 minutes, I got 00:03:47.009 --> 00:03:50.949 25 minutes. He's gonna get off this call, his 00:03:50.949 --> 00:03:54.330 wife is gonna say, honey, we are 15 minutes behind 00:03:54.330 --> 00:03:56.909 because you had to do that, whatever you were 00:03:56.909 --> 00:03:59.689 doing on the phone. Yeah, what kind of green 00:03:59.689 --> 00:04:03.389 are you wearing today? Well, number one is you're 00:04:03.389 --> 00:04:06.990 building me up more than I'm worth. I'm going 00:04:06.990 --> 00:04:10.750 to let down your listeners. I'm wearing a green 00:04:10.750 --> 00:04:13.729 long -sleeve shirt with no insignia of any sort. 00:04:14.129 --> 00:04:16.170 That was the one I could find so that somebody 00:04:16.170 --> 00:04:21.290 didn't pinch me and anger me. Kevin, are you 00:04:21.290 --> 00:04:24.930 a fan of buttons? You know, where you put a button 00:04:24.930 --> 00:04:28.170 on the article of clothing that you're wearing? 00:04:30.029 --> 00:04:33.970 Not a lot of buttons. I would say a medium amount 00:04:33.970 --> 00:04:37.550 of buttons. The kiss me I'm Irish or some of 00:04:37.550 --> 00:04:42.670 the more cartoonish St. Patrick's Day catchphrase. 00:04:42.670 --> 00:04:45.730 A pin on button. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, 00:04:45.910 --> 00:04:50.470 I like to keep it to clovers. You know, they 00:04:50.470 --> 00:04:53.750 can be three or four leaves. That doesn't bother 00:04:53.750 --> 00:04:56.490 me. One or the other. You know, I don't want 00:04:56.490 --> 00:05:00.170 the kiss me, I'm Irish. I'm a traditionalist. 00:05:01.670 --> 00:05:05.410 What do you think over here in the States? at 00:05:05.410 --> 00:05:08.529 how we celebrate really any holiday. You know, 00:05:08.629 --> 00:05:11.870 Cinco de Mayo rolls around and you reflexively 00:05:11.870 --> 00:05:15.850 go to your favorite Mexican restaurant. St. Patrick's 00:05:15.850 --> 00:05:19.649 Day, do you think we treat it respectfully over 00:05:19.649 --> 00:05:23.170 here? Even folks like us that, you know, we're 00:05:23.170 --> 00:05:27.350 branding the name. We've got the MC. That's right. 00:05:27.350 --> 00:05:31.230 Yeah. I mean, we can speak to this being our 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:34.490 culture, I believe, at least in the distant past. 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:37.449 You know, I don't know. I mean, dying anything 00:05:37.449 --> 00:05:41.009 green like a river seems like a really respectful 00:05:41.009 --> 00:05:47.129 way to honor any holiday. It's nothing like a 00:05:47.129 --> 00:05:50.589 holiday that celebrates by drinking excessively 00:05:50.589 --> 00:05:55.870 and promotes that there's a small green man with 00:05:55.870 --> 00:05:59.689 a hat that has gold. I think that's very indicative 00:05:59.689 --> 00:06:04.579 of what Irish stands for. I feel like... we as 00:06:04.579 --> 00:06:08.240 Americans are just eager to celebrate anything 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:12.319 that involves popping some tops, uncorking some 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:17.660 bottles. Hey, well, yeah, yes, there's a most 00:06:17.660 --> 00:06:20.000 holidays have to involve something to drink or, 00:06:20.379 --> 00:06:23.500 you know, if you're dressed up in any way, it 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:26.139 then becomes more embarrassing if you're not 00:06:26.139 --> 00:06:30.930 also, you know, inebriated. Kevin. We could and 00:06:30.930 --> 00:06:33.649 I want to go back to some of this topic here 00:06:33.649 --> 00:06:37.629 in just a minute, but You're a dad your kids. 00:06:37.629 --> 00:06:39.529 I don't remember how old they are. I don't see 00:06:39.529 --> 00:06:43.569 them very often I'm not liking and loving your 00:06:43.569 --> 00:06:46.410 Facebook Pictures if you post them, I miss a 00:06:46.410 --> 00:06:50.529 lot of that stuff. I feel like my my scroll Tolerance 00:06:50.529 --> 00:06:52.910 has I don't know I was gonna ask you that question 00:06:52.910 --> 00:06:55.189 when you're on the social media And you know, 00:06:55.189 --> 00:06:57.290 it's a bottomless pit though. They will never 00:06:58.260 --> 00:07:02.000 I think they'll never actually put put a an end 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.019 What do you call it to? You know Facebook where 00:07:05.019 --> 00:07:06.620 they you just get to the bottom and there's a 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:08.339 point where it says that's the end That's it 00:07:08.339 --> 00:07:11.819 for today folks. See you tomorrow. I'm actually 00:07:11.819 --> 00:07:13.819 Pulling back a little bit, you know, I scroll 00:07:13.819 --> 00:07:15.939 a little bit but I think I miss a lot of people's 00:07:15.939 --> 00:07:18.800 updates because I just can't do it. I can't sit 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:23.019 there I am I am almost not even on the social 00:07:23.019 --> 00:07:27.149 media. I I'm the guy that does not, I don't know. 00:07:27.449 --> 00:07:31.329 I don't have a lot of, I feel like I could post 00:07:31.329 --> 00:07:34.329 a lot of things about things, but I don't know. 00:07:34.589 --> 00:07:38.389 I just don't. If you look on my actual Facebook, 00:07:38.509 --> 00:07:40.629 I believe it's a picture of when my children 00:07:40.629 --> 00:07:46.129 were like infants. They're now, my oldest is 00:07:46.129 --> 00:07:50.050 now nine. So, you know, it's not, I don't do 00:07:50.050 --> 00:07:52.189 a lot of posting, don't do a lot of reading on 00:07:52.189 --> 00:07:56.199 it either. You know, I just, Kind of kind of 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:58.680 swore it off. That's that's a good place to be 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.379 Kevin. Yeah, I think it's you know for the podcast 00:08:02.379 --> 00:08:04.819 here I don't have a personal Instagram account, 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:08.779 but I do it for Dan time and I don't I don't 00:08:08.779 --> 00:08:12.800 shun those platforms I I use them a Good bit 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.000 of engagement on Instagram for the podcast But 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.079 I just me personally when I'm perusing There's 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:23.540 just a I get to a point where I think all right 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:30.199 I'm seeing a lot of similar stuff here. Yeah, 00:08:30.980 --> 00:08:34.759 I'm active on the most boring one of them all, 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.379 LinkedIn. I would say, but strictly for business 00:08:39.379 --> 00:08:43.860 purposes. So it's kind of like you can learn 00:08:43.860 --> 00:08:46.539 about something. Though it has done a lot more 00:08:46.539 --> 00:08:50.500 casual nature to it now. But I would say that 00:08:50.500 --> 00:08:52.220 that would be the one I'm the most active on. 00:08:52.509 --> 00:08:57.269 But that's where I also get to see updates about 00:08:57.269 --> 00:09:01.490 the end time. I've seen them on there. If people 00:09:01.490 --> 00:09:04.169 are not on the lookout for that on LinkedIn, 00:09:04.289 --> 00:09:09.210 they should be. Yeah, LinkedIn's good. Like you 00:09:09.210 --> 00:09:11.230 said, you start to see some of the memes creep 00:09:11.230 --> 00:09:14.750 in there. LinkedIn, I like it. It is a very good 00:09:14.750 --> 00:09:18.379 tool, depending on what business you're in. A 00:09:18.379 --> 00:09:20.679 little bit of venting going on and that's fine, 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:22.940 but I'm starting to see a lot more of the venting 00:09:22.940 --> 00:09:26.259 about workplace Yeah, yeah grievances and it's 00:09:26.259 --> 00:09:29.039 like, okay. Well, what's Let's stop complaining 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:32.860 and let's just start Here you're with that toxic 00:09:32.860 --> 00:09:36.580 toxic boss and the toxic work Some people's not 00:09:36.580 --> 00:09:39.000 not easy enough to get away from that. But just 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:44.539 let's think about solutions Are you are you going 00:09:44.539 --> 00:09:48.580 to any parades today? Well, no today it is soaking 00:09:48.580 --> 00:09:51.899 wet it's it's storming yesterday was nice we 00:09:51.899 --> 00:09:55.440 were out most most of the day Yeah, we we went 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:58.860 to the MLK parade a few months ago did not do 00:09:58.860 --> 00:10:01.600 Mardi Gras When the kids get a little bit older, 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:04.500 we'll probably start hitting up more of those 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:08.080 events Yeah, so the Mardi Gras was was a was 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.120 a question we had about going to you know There's 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:13.139 the one down down in Mobile and we thought maybe 00:10:13.139 --> 00:10:15.039 that one would be a little more family -friendly 00:10:15.830 --> 00:10:18.889 Than the then necessarily hidden up Bourbon Street, 00:10:19.110 --> 00:10:22.710 but You know the that's we haven't gone to one 00:10:22.710 --> 00:10:25.909 either because it is also raining here. So it's 00:10:25.909 --> 00:10:29.190 not We're only going to the soccer game because 00:10:29.190 --> 00:10:30.830 there was a soccer game. Otherwise, we would 00:10:30.830 --> 00:10:33.850 be at the house Kevin let me ask you so you're 00:10:33.850 --> 00:10:37.549 about about a decade or so into being a family 00:10:37.549 --> 00:10:43.789 man a Dad a responsible member of society Questionably, 00:10:43.850 --> 00:10:52.399 but yes Do you look back at 2009, 2010 or 11, 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.019 those last few years before you entered to this 00:10:56.019 --> 00:10:58.000 stage of your life and the things that you enjoy 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.779 doing and the social life, do you look back and 00:11:03.779 --> 00:11:06.539 think, man, I wish I could plug more of that 00:11:06.539 --> 00:11:10.639 in or are you at peace with what you're not able 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:14.740 to do? that sounds like like as if i've died 00:11:14.740 --> 00:11:18.720 i'm at peace i'm at peace with the current situation 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:24.620 and i shall you're into into uh eventual old 00:11:24.620 --> 00:11:28.220 age you resigned yes that's right i have resigned 00:11:28.220 --> 00:11:32.779 uh yeah it's my resignation was uh did happen 00:11:32.779 --> 00:11:36.019 it was tendered yeah it was tendered in those 00:11:36.019 --> 00:11:38.620 in those time periods around the uh you know 00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:43.740 i'd say 11 12 um Uh, yeah, you know, uh, that's, 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.620 uh, you know, I, I, there's some of it is, uh, 00:11:46.620 --> 00:11:50.000 that, that would be, uh, fun to go do occasionally, 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.120 uh, that, you know, you don't get to do quite 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.120 as often. But yeah, you know, overall it's, uh, 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.279 it's, it's good. The, uh, um, you know, having 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:59.539 kids, I will say that, uh, and what you had mentioned 00:11:59.539 --> 00:12:02.419 as we were trying to get the, the, the call to 00:12:02.419 --> 00:12:04.360 connect here at the beginning was, uh, you do 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.779 feel like you're somehow always sick with something 00:12:06.779 --> 00:12:09.580 with children. And I don't, and I imagine at 00:12:09.580 --> 00:12:13.250 some point, that goes away uh like as the children 00:12:13.250 --> 00:12:15.769 age yeah but i don't know i don't know because 00:12:15.769 --> 00:12:19.789 i don't i feel like i have had a cold for probably 00:12:19.789 --> 00:12:23.990 going on at least 10 years it's a decade cold 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:27.250 yeah yeah the constant clearing of the throat 00:12:27.250 --> 00:12:30.830 and and i blame my children makes you an old 00:12:30.830 --> 00:12:34.129 man yeah my little girl likes to like come you 00:12:34.129 --> 00:12:36.710 know over there and she's five and she likes 00:12:36.710 --> 00:12:39.879 to she likes to come sit and then she just coughs 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:42.840 directly like into my mouth and then and you're 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.779 like you're like why why did you wait to come 00:12:45.779 --> 00:12:48.059 over here to do that that seems like you could 00:12:48.059 --> 00:12:49.980 have you could have done it prior to sitting 00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:55.669 next to me right yeah And, uh, yeah, that's, 00:12:55.830 --> 00:12:58.110 that's, that's the joys of fatherhood and of, 00:12:58.110 --> 00:13:00.029 uh, being a parent in general, I would imagine. 00:13:00.409 --> 00:13:03.970 But, uh, I imagine also about 15, you're going 00:13:03.970 --> 00:13:06.269 to start like, that seems to me for some reason, 00:13:06.409 --> 00:13:08.370 the age that you will not get sick anymore. I 00:13:08.370 --> 00:13:12.009 don't know why, but I've decided this that that 00:13:12.009 --> 00:13:14.610 that's the age to shoot for. I think that's because, 00:13:14.610 --> 00:13:16.370 uh, from what I understand, that's what they 00:13:16.370 --> 00:13:19.669 spend very little time in close contact with 00:13:19.669 --> 00:13:22.139 you. Yeah, that must be why I have that in my 00:13:22.139 --> 00:13:28.360 head. Okay, moving along. Well, real quickly. 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.679 So you are any parent, whether they want to be 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:34.519 or not, you're an influence over your children. 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.220 Do your kids draw pictures of the family and 00:13:38.220 --> 00:13:41.240 they say, Hey, dad, this is you. This is me. 00:13:41.299 --> 00:13:43.820 This is a little sister or whatever. And it's 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:47.059 these, these crazy little pictures and stick 00:13:47.059 --> 00:13:50.399 drawings. And it's like, Oh, that's your impression 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:55.120 of me. Yes. They draw me like I'm like the Jolly 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.100 Green Giant. That makes sense in your case a 00:13:58.100 --> 00:14:01.360 little bit. I gotta say, you're a very tall man. 00:14:05.379 --> 00:14:09.799 In my case, I'm about as average as you can be 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:13.659 all the way around as a human being. All the 00:14:13.659 --> 00:14:18.299 way around. Personality, I mean, you know body 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:21.320 proportions. It's it's you know, so when they're 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:22.720 drawing me they have a lot They don't have a 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.179 lot to work with I guess Kevin I do understand 00:14:26.179 --> 00:14:30.399 that you are at least at one time was Blessed 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.080 with some athletic talent on the soccer field. 00:14:33.379 --> 00:14:37.899 Take me back to your glory days and maybe some 00:14:37.899 --> 00:14:40.759 Some games that you remember or not just games, 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:43.620 but you know, were you ever hoisted up where 00:14:43.620 --> 00:14:47.429 the team? Carried you off the field and and you 00:14:47.429 --> 00:14:50.470 got a picture from the local newspaper and you're 00:14:50.470 --> 00:14:56.289 just You know, you know that if nobody will ever 00:14:56.289 --> 00:15:00.669 look it up so I could say yes, but No, they you 00:15:00.669 --> 00:15:05.629 know, my glory days as junior varsity Was was 00:15:05.629 --> 00:15:08.850 never was never really realized into the the 00:15:08.850 --> 00:15:12.179 game -winning goal. I was I was a defender The 00:15:12.179 --> 00:15:16.519 unsung hero of the soccer or football for your 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:21.820 international listeners. I mostly played left 00:15:21.820 --> 00:15:29.539 defender. It didn't get a lot of glory. I went 00:15:29.539 --> 00:15:34.379 to Auburn and Auburn elects to have, as part 00:15:34.379 --> 00:15:37.519 of the sport, they do not have a soccer team. 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.220 for the men. So there was no, I knew I was probably 00:15:41.220 --> 00:15:43.779 going there and that my soccer career would end 00:15:43.779 --> 00:15:47.799 at high school. So that was kind of the tale. 00:15:48.139 --> 00:15:52.379 You aren't drawing attention from college recruits 00:15:52.379 --> 00:15:59.019 or college recruiters. You know, is that even 00:15:59.019 --> 00:16:02.419 a thing in the United States for soccer? I mean, 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.419 I assume it is. Maybe now. Are there recruiters? 00:16:06.460 --> 00:16:09.500 I'm like I want I I wish it to be true. I like 00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:12.179 is the mls recruiting I I don't even know like 00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:14.740 you you would think that somewhere somehow there's 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:17.340 like A guy that's good enough to make it from 00:16:17.340 --> 00:16:20.419 high school to to start being on the you know, 00:16:20.419 --> 00:16:23.360 like that teams are actually looking for it But 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.580 I are they are the programs funded that well, 00:16:25.580 --> 00:16:28.340 I don't know Yeah, i'm not really plugged in 00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:31.759 on in soccer I think my children one of them 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.000 probably will begin playing that sport. We're 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:39.419 in t ball now Nice and swimming and So you quickly, 00:16:39.419 --> 00:16:42.159 you know your college days start and you transition 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:45.980 to just becoming a full -time Sports fan and 00:16:45.980 --> 00:16:48.799 this is yeah when you're when you're a fan headlong, 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:50.960 you've basically pushed all of your personal 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:55.240 ambitions aside This is you've jumped on the 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:56.980 bandwagon of other people's accomplishments. 00:16:57.059 --> 00:17:00.960 Yes, that's that's what I What I like to do in 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.799 fandom and I refuse to learn a lot about any 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.640 team. I am also a big fan of Just in order to 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.180 be you know, like not even like I'm just the 00:17:11.180 --> 00:17:13.819 guy that can have a very surface level conversation 00:17:13.819 --> 00:17:16.819 about any any team It's uh, it's just enough 00:17:16.819 --> 00:17:19.519 for a very quick, you know kind of conversation 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.039 at a party Speaking of that do you uh, I mean 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:26.079 you hear some of the pundits and the people that 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:27.579 get paid to do this for a living and they'll 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:32.099 be talking about You know the afc south and a 00:17:32.099 --> 00:17:34.240 particular team and their offensive line and 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:36.799 the struggles and the injuries and Well, here's 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:38.480 the question marks here and if we get this short 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.900 up here, then we'll be in good shape like I wonder 00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:45.859 how the average working man or woman That's baby 00:17:45.859 --> 00:17:48.880 got two or three kids. Like how can you get that 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.099 familiar? With a team. I mean, I want to get 00:17:52.099 --> 00:17:56.720 the I really am I listen to sports uh radio and 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.740 uh like just because I'm too lazy to make my 00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:04.400 car attached to my phone and It's it's amazing 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:06.420 that like you can you can listen at the beginning 00:18:06.420 --> 00:18:07.980 of the day and the end of the day And they're 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:11.099 still talking about somehow football or whatever 00:18:11.099 --> 00:18:14.720 it is and it's it's they still are saying something 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:16.380 that's somehow different than what they said 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:20.000 earlier in the day and I the the amount of knowledge 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.980 they have about it is it's it's more than I could 00:18:22.980 --> 00:18:26.200 have I I would run out of things to say about 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:28.740 20 minutes after I got on the radio. And then 00:18:28.740 --> 00:18:31.400 I believe that's also why that's not my career. 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:37.119 What's your favorite panel? Like, do you like 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.880 NBA on? Is it TNT where you got Shaq and Barkley 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.559 and Ernie and those guys? Or do you like the 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:47.920 MLB panel discussions? Do you ever sit and watch 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.759 those halftime reports? NFL on CBS and Howie? 00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:57.339 I will watch the NFL one. Yeah, I'll sit there 00:18:57.339 --> 00:18:59.940 and watch the NFL one. I occasionally will watch 00:18:59.940 --> 00:19:06.859 the one with Sir Charles and the others. But 00:19:06.859 --> 00:19:13.259 yeah, most of the NFL. I like the analysis to 00:19:13.259 --> 00:19:17.779 some degree. Sometimes I'm not sure what they're 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:20.619 talking about, but yes. What about when like... 00:19:20.490 --> 00:19:23.670 When boom and Sims are are cutting up and they're 00:19:23.670 --> 00:19:25.650 and they're laughing. Are you laughing with them? 00:19:25.670 --> 00:19:27.789 You're sitting there on your couch and they're 00:19:27.789 --> 00:19:31.549 they're They're really having a ball What is 00:19:31.549 --> 00:19:33.730 Kevin McCroskey? How are you taking that in and 00:19:33.730 --> 00:19:37.809 what's coming out? Are you? You know, I uh, it's 00:19:37.809 --> 00:19:40.890 it's uh, it's probably more like background noise 00:19:43.700 --> 00:19:47.240 Anything at my house that requires any concentration 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.359 is almost a no -go I feels like between the children. 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:54.720 It's like if I No matter what program if it's 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:57.880 you know a movie it needs to be something where 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:00.440 I could dive in and out of whatever the storyline 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:04.240 is because it will immediately be broken up by 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.200 by some sort of You know question about juice 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:10.940 Kevin's children's programming. I always like 00:20:10.940 --> 00:20:16.539 to ask this. Do you have a a least favorite children's 00:20:16.539 --> 00:20:18.720 show that you've had to sit through and watch 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.420 with one of your kids? I would go with maybe 00:20:22.420 --> 00:20:25.039 Blippi. I don't know if anybody's familiar. That 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:28.519 was a tough one. That age, I think, is maybe 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:32.319 on the... I'm over the hump on that one, you 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.240 know? Yeah. But I don't know if you ever saw 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.180 it. Have you ever seen Blippi? Unfortunately, 00:20:38.180 --> 00:20:40.839 I have, and I think we've actually talked about 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:45.460 this. way back in another episode. Oh yeah, huh. 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:49.440 The guy who plays Blippi, he cannot possibly 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:54.599 be oblivious to the Blippi backlash. Like he 00:20:54.599 --> 00:21:01.359 has to know of just how intolerably annoying. 00:21:05.299 --> 00:21:09.279 My question is this. Her name is something else, 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.319 but she wears purple. I don't remember her name. 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.000 But, uh, that was also had some time at my house. 00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:18.480 I just, I watch, I watch things like Blippi, 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.160 for example, and do, is that, do we think that 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:25.339 three and four and five year olds, uh, want to 00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:27.920 be spoken to in that fashion? I'm not talking 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:30.799 about what he wears, but just that. I believe 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:33.720 that it's just the success is, you know, like, 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:36.900 uh, it's, it's kind of evident. I, uh, it must, 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:42.369 it must work. I don't know the, uh, I mean, the 00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:44.869 guy is, I think, wealthy beyond any measure than 00:21:44.869 --> 00:21:47.569 you would have thought capable of doing that. 00:21:47.809 --> 00:21:50.549 So it must be a success. Children must love it. 00:21:50.589 --> 00:21:53.069 I don't know. At least they're learning something. 00:21:53.230 --> 00:21:55.369 That's the only positive on most of the show 00:21:55.369 --> 00:21:57.950 is it seems to be that they're teaching something. 00:21:58.029 --> 00:22:00.309 It was kind of like Barney. I believe Barney 00:22:00.309 --> 00:22:05.329 was a generation of, I don't know if it was ours 00:22:05.329 --> 00:22:07.970 or kind of in between, but that was... There 00:22:07.970 --> 00:22:10.329 was a long period of time where Barney, I think, 00:22:10.450 --> 00:22:13.910 was kind of that it filled that void in the children 00:22:13.910 --> 00:22:17.289 programming arena. Yeah, I missed that one because 00:22:17.289 --> 00:22:19.569 I was already a teenager at that point but I 00:22:19.569 --> 00:22:21.609 was I knew about it. That's what I mean. I think 00:22:21.609 --> 00:22:24.269 it was a I think that that was the parents of 00:22:24.269 --> 00:22:26.750 that whoever had children that would have watched 00:22:26.750 --> 00:22:29.690 it would have thought that same of Barney. I 00:22:29.690 --> 00:22:33.289 think I'm strangely okay with a you know a mascot 00:22:33.289 --> 00:22:37.000 type figure that's behaving like that and Uh, 00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:40.180 the dialogue or whatever you call it, but not, 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.700 not an actual man that's bouncing, bouncing around 00:22:43.700 --> 00:22:47.200 and flopping around and just, yeah, that's when, 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.920 that's when it makes you uncomfortable. I understand. 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:52.480 I, you know, I get it. The, the, the plushy nature 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:57.180 of a, of a, of a giant thing that's, uh, I will 00:22:57.180 --> 00:23:00.240 say this. Yeah. It's yeah. If you, if you sit 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.339 there and watch Blippi, you understand that what 00:23:03.339 --> 00:23:06.569 he's doing, it's all about engagement and. Once 00:23:06.569 --> 00:23:08.250 you're locked in you're not gonna take your eyes 00:23:08.250 --> 00:23:11.549 off of him you You know whether you're me or 00:23:11.549 --> 00:23:14.890 you or our children He's carrying you around 00:23:14.890 --> 00:23:17.809 and you're in so that's what it that's what all 00:23:17.809 --> 00:23:21.029 the big eyes you ever notice on the kids cartoons 00:23:21.029 --> 00:23:24.869 every Thing on Netflix everything on Disney's 00:23:24.869 --> 00:23:28.990 these giant Eyeballs the frozen movies. What 00:23:28.990 --> 00:23:31.730 are they? Ah, you know, it's a good point. It's 00:23:31.730 --> 00:23:36.529 the uncanny into the soul of whatever creature 00:23:36.529 --> 00:23:43.230 that is. Yeah, it's something about then I guess 00:23:43.230 --> 00:23:45.329 that the children feel like it's seeing them 00:23:45.329 --> 00:23:47.109 while they're seeing it. I don't know. Maybe 00:23:47.109 --> 00:23:49.549 there's a lot of there's some psychology probably 00:23:49.549 --> 00:23:51.630 here that we don't understand. We're not, you 00:23:51.630 --> 00:23:55.829 know, we're not in the how to make money off 00:23:55.829 --> 00:23:59.329 of this demographic. I think that that's it's 00:23:59.329 --> 00:24:01.049 all you've brought up an interesting point. It's 00:24:01.049 --> 00:24:05.200 all about the eyes. Okay, Kevin, let me bounce 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:11.019 around way across the field here Is there something 00:24:11.019 --> 00:24:13.240 that you like to do whether it's the people just 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:15.660 wouldn't Wouldn't imagine I know a lot of people 00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:18.140 listening have never heard of Kevin McCroskey 00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:20.759 and what you heard of him now Thanks to this 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:24.819 podcast Do you do you have a green thumb? Do 00:24:24.819 --> 00:24:31.579 you like to escort? elderly ladies across crosswalks 00:24:31.289 --> 00:24:35.809 Only if I put my jacket down over a puddle. For 00:24:35.809 --> 00:24:38.849 some reason, that seems excessive in any environment. 00:24:40.170 --> 00:24:48.470 Can you sing? I know we used to... It depends 00:24:48.470 --> 00:24:51.769 who you ask. I think that that would be a... 00:24:51.769 --> 00:24:57.789 If you ask me, maybe. If you ask others, probably 00:24:57.789 --> 00:25:04.500 no. It depends on the day, how I'm feeling, that 00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:07.920 kind of thing. Are you a big singer, Dan? We've 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:10.099 never had this conversation. Do you like to sing? 00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:18.160 I like to sing. I wish I could sing more... Open? 00:25:19.220 --> 00:25:22.400 Yeah, I mean... From behind closed, not behind 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:24.380 closed walls? Right. Now, when I'm driving down 00:25:24.380 --> 00:25:26.200 the road and the songs that I like to listen 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:29.180 to, I'm singing. And there are some times where 00:25:29.180 --> 00:25:31.380 you got the music up kind of loud and you're 00:25:31.380 --> 00:25:34.059 singing, you know, reasonably loud, but nobody 00:25:34.059 --> 00:25:36.299 else is in the car. There's been a few times 00:25:36.299 --> 00:25:40.180 where I'm like, man, I wonder how just ridiculous 00:25:40.180 --> 00:25:43.579 that would sound if you suspended or just pulled 00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:46.579 away the music from the track and just isolated 00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:50.960 my vocals as I sang that song. Like I just shudder 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:54.039 to sometimes think like, wow, that was enjoyable. 00:25:54.059 --> 00:25:56.099 That was a great song. Now I've gotten to my 00:25:56.099 --> 00:26:00.140 destination, but. I bet that sounded atrocious. 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:02.799 Yeah. Well, if you, you know, if when the volume 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:04.980 is up, everybody sounds a lot better. So that's, 00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:07.019 that's the key to that is that's kind of like 00:26:07.019 --> 00:26:09.900 the auto tune. I mean, I think now you, if you 00:26:09.900 --> 00:26:12.500 just had the ability to have auto tune, you'll 00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:15.099 sound okay. Like that's, I think that that's 00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:17.380 just the, like, as long as you can have like 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:19.339 hit some notes, then the auto tune will take 00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:22.019 care of the rest of it. So, you know, I mean, 00:26:22.059 --> 00:26:25.799 that's, it seems like you too. To be famous in 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:28.119 that field, you know, I mean now now I will not 00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:30.619 say there are some That they are good without 00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:33.200 it so that they are probably the reason why they're 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:35.380 more famous But there's plenty of singers that 00:26:35.380 --> 00:26:37.319 I don't think they if you actually heard them 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.700 sing like in open You know without it without 00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:43.900 a without a speaker without a without a microphone. 00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:46.880 They would be terrible Kevin I got to ask another 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:50.200 question. So it is this is not a Prediction who 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:51.799 do you think is gonna win who's gonna get in 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:54.559 the tournament? But we're right here on the cusp 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:58.259 of March Madness Baseball is my favorite sport 00:26:58.259 --> 00:27:03.299 But I think March Madness is the best sports 00:27:03.299 --> 00:27:07.700 tournament spectacular in All of sports I could 00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:09.920 have said that better, but here's my question 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:13.819 Do you like you like attending basketball games? 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:19.609 football games when you can I do Yeah, we went 00:27:19.609 --> 00:27:24.410 and saw because my wife went to the University 00:27:24.410 --> 00:27:27.250 of Alabama and so it's also relatively close 00:27:27.250 --> 00:27:29.390 to our house. So we went and took the kids up 00:27:29.390 --> 00:27:31.269 there to watch an Alabama game and that was a 00:27:31.269 --> 00:27:35.369 lot of fun. We go to the Auburn football games 00:27:35.369 --> 00:27:39.880 and we can, but I will say that my... because 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:43.299 it's uh you know the alma mater here in me is 00:27:43.299 --> 00:27:45.119 gonna say that auburn's gonna win it all even 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.660 though uh i'm not sure that's true but that's 00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:52.160 gonna be my my pick um for the uh tournament 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:55.859 um to win the tournament yes to win the tournament 00:27:55.859 --> 00:27:58.220 because if it happens i look like i knew something 00:27:58.220 --> 00:28:01.039 and if it didn't then it was just you know i 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:03.380 can blame it on a fluke i can there's a lot of 00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:06.759 reasons i can get away with you know there's 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:09.819 a lot of ways i can look as if i uh They should 00:28:09.819 --> 00:28:13.900 have done better, but Kevin have you ever been 00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:17.680 carrying a child in one hand a thing of popcorn 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:20.660 or some drinks like is What's the max that you 00:28:20.660 --> 00:28:25.259 can climb up? Those steps to get to get to your 00:28:25.259 --> 00:28:30.619 seats on row 57 Seat 13 and 14. How many beverages 00:28:30.619 --> 00:28:32.980 and hot dogs and stuff? I know they give you 00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:35.799 the carrying cases Sometimes but have you ever 00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:39.769 had any close calls? But you know, no, the key, 00:28:39.990 --> 00:28:43.549 the key though is piggybacks. If you're gonna 00:28:43.549 --> 00:28:47.049 take, you have to have a child to, now if they're 00:28:47.049 --> 00:28:49.509 an infant, obviously this isn't a possible carry 00:28:49.509 --> 00:28:54.410 method, but I say, look, piggyback, then you 00:28:54.410 --> 00:28:56.269 can hold as much stuff as you can ever hold. 00:28:56.549 --> 00:29:00.829 So it's, you do get choked constantly while you're 00:29:00.829 --> 00:29:04.460 doing the piggyback. But, you know, I mean, it's 00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:06.880 about as good a method as there is, I think. 00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:10.059 You have to be careful because if you do fall, 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.339 then you fall down the stairs with a child, which 00:29:12.339 --> 00:29:16.140 is obviously, you know, not good for anyone. 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.039 Kevin, I know we're probably running short on 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:25.140 time. You've got places to be, children to shuttle 00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:29.039 around. We play in a fantasy football league 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:33.720 together. You have made some draft picks at times 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.220 that are quite questionable or have drawn the 00:29:37.220 --> 00:29:41.839 ire of some of the guys in our live draft setting. 00:29:43.660 --> 00:29:48.220 When you reflect back on your strategies and 00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:51.579 on those draft days, is there ever regret? Is 00:29:51.579 --> 00:29:53.539 there ever, you know, well, I guess, you know, 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:55.440 that he was onto something I probably should 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:59.150 have waited around or I should or are you? You've 00:29:59.150 --> 00:30:03.210 got a plan and you're executing that plan and 00:30:03.210 --> 00:30:10.130 Yes, I know it's It's sleepers, you know As I've 00:30:10.130 --> 00:30:13.630 said to everyone Just draft a team of sleepers 00:30:13.630 --> 00:30:16.109 get get a good quarterback and get some sleepers. 00:30:16.210 --> 00:30:18.769 That's you know, it's it's you're gonna roll 00:30:18.769 --> 00:30:21.589 the dice You're gonna either have a great season 00:30:21.589 --> 00:30:35.869 or you're gonna have a terrible one I like it. 00:30:53.029 --> 00:30:57.869 is sleepers and kickers. I love it. I want somebody 00:30:57.869 --> 00:31:00.369 to take my advice when you're in. I want to see 00:31:00.369 --> 00:31:06.049 how it actually worked out for them. I never 00:31:06.049 --> 00:31:11.549 regret my decisions. I have a solid middle of 00:31:11.549 --> 00:31:15.509 the pack showing usually. So it says something 00:31:15.509 --> 00:31:19.869 either about the entire thing that that's possible 00:31:19.869 --> 00:31:25.269 with a terrible strategy. I don't know. Well, 00:31:25.269 --> 00:31:29.589 Kevin we've got we are Some of these conference 00:31:29.589 --> 00:31:34.210 championship games college basketball are Tipping 00:31:34.210 --> 00:31:37.430 off here in a few minutes. It's a Sunday afternoon 00:31:37.430 --> 00:31:42.130 My alma mater the the UAB Blazers with a shot 00:31:42.130 --> 00:31:46.430 to win the American Athletic Conference Championship 00:31:46.430 --> 00:31:50.390 and They'll be into the tournament here What 00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:54.920 a big day Kevin. I wish we were Bellied up somewhere 00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:58.400 talking sports talking life, but but that time 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:00.980 will come again Our children will age and as 00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:05.759 and we will age as well I'd prefer not to age 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:12.880 anymore. But yes, I If we do the the ceremonial 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.039 watching of the the March Madness on the either 00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:19.779 first or second day that it comes around. And, 00:32:19.779 --> 00:32:21.940 you know, if you were only in town, you could 00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:24.599 belly up with us. Well, Kevin, I know you got 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:28.240 to run here. And this has just been a blast. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.680 I hope I haven't caused any undue stress with 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:35.319 you and what you got to do. But oh, no, thanks 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:38.000 for being on. But no, hey, I appreciate I appreciate 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.500 you having me on, Dan. And, you know, the offers 00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:42.880 on the table still for money if you, you know, 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.519 I'll change my name to Dan. If it makes the podcast 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:48.940 go smoother, I would love to have To have you 00:32:48.940 --> 00:32:50.980 back for another episode. I think the second 00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:55.319 episode will be the theme of Kevin's hopes dreams 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.799 and fears so we will We will get past a lot of 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:01.299 this nonsense and we will talk something. No, 00:33:01.339 --> 00:33:05.099 i'm kidding. We will do another episode of this 00:33:05.099 --> 00:33:07.960 type of Well good. Yeah. Thanks for having me 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:11.359 on dan and uh, yeah, I uh, I hope all of the 00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:15.619 teams you pick win Okay, buddy. That's it, folks, 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:19.220 for this episode of the Dan Time Podcast. Thank 00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:22.779 you, Kevin McCroskey, for gracing us with your 00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:25.799 presence. There's only one Kevin, and only one 00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:29.720 Kevin McCroskey of his caliber. Have a great 00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:31.880 weekend and be safe out there, and we'll see 00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:35.019 you next Sunday for the Dan Time Podcast. Today 00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:38.119 it was Kevin McCroskey time. Thank you, Kevin. 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:46.000 Thanks, Dan. Hey, if you love that episode, tell 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.859 a friend about it. I always appreciate you downloading 00:33:48.859 --> 00:33:51.839 and subscribing to the show. That way you catch 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.579 every weekly episode as soon as it's released. 00:33:55.299 --> 00:33:59.759 DanTimePod at gmail .com, at DanTimePod across 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.500 the socials. 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