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OK, folks, happy Easter. It is Easter Sunday

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and this is the latest installment of the Dan

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Time podcast today. This is a day that I'm not

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going to say I've been waiting for. We've been

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waiting for the collective here and you're a

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part of this. You, the listener, you're a part

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of this this club, OK? Last week, if you hear

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some background noise, hey, let me just cut to

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the chase here. This is the very first walk and

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talk episode. I'm not walking, I'm not exercising,

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but my guest today is absolutely checking that

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box today. This is a long time coming. I want

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to thank my friend and a previous guest, Emily

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Haynes -Cook, for tipping this thing over into

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the win column. We're in a good place You're

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in the right place, but we've gotten Somewhere

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we didn't think Let me just stop here today's

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guest folks my brother my younger brother Travis

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McArdle It is Travis McArdle time today on the

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podcast never thought I would say those words

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I'm gonna do a re ramble Travis, but I've got

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to just stop and say because you may be done

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with your walk by the time I finished talking

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here Thanks for being here, my friend, my brother,

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my confidant. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for, I

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guess, penciling me in. This is, like you said,

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a long time coming. I know you've asked me for

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quite a while, and you are 100 % correct. It

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was our old friend, Emily, but with the little,

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what's the word, the thing in your ear, thing

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in your brain, whatever it may be. And that's

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where we are. And that was quite the intro. I've

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literally been walking for three miles through

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the first half of the intro. And then I actually

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went grocery shopping at one point. I played

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Bordel. It was a hard one today. But here we

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are. Yes, here we are. And yes, I am walking.

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It's the only way I can actually have them. 30

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minutes or an hour. I actually penciled in seven

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hours if you want to get the whole you know,

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the full tight seven we can do that You're in

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a similar situation with the kids at home and

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when you're inside the house at the same time

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that they are inside the house You can't shake

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them away. You can't get them off of you. No,

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there's always a request up to and including

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a demand for either various resources various

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nutritional products food and How is that going?

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I guess you're past some of the just immediate

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needs from From your oldest boys But in general,

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are you you're pretty well needed? Yeah, I mean

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for the most part our youngest is five but you

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know Robin and I have subscribed to the mantra

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of Hungry people don't say hungry for long and

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if you withhold You know sandwiches and milk

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and cereal they'll find a way Anyway Well, we've

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we've trained them through neglect so to speak

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Okay, I can't I can't endorse that but Listen

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Travis, we you know Robert was the first it folks.

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Let me let me jump ahead of something here. There

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is no Nepotism going on with this podcast. This

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is not Travis taking away somebody's at bats.

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I want to be very clear that Sometimes you just

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you got to give the people what they want Not

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what you want in my position here You've it's

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time to get give the people what they want and

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what they have wanted for months now is Travis

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McArdle My brother. Who are these three people

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that wanted me to come on? I don't understand.

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Because I'll tell you, I'll tell you, it's really

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unfortunate that I had to follow your previous

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guest, Dan Winkler. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. That was one of the best episodes you've

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had. This guy was totally down to earth, played

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in the big leagues, gave some really good insight

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into stuff that we don't ever get to see. And

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I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous

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this week saying, how am I going to follow that?

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I thought, you know, it really was the most appropriate

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slot for you to come in at this point and not

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so much, you know, episode 9 or 16 or something.

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But yeah, I think it's who else can I plug in

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other than you? And look, the people the people

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here, they I think there's something Travis about

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somebody who is as elusive as you are, who is

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kind of a tough get a lot of times. You know

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a lot of times I'll call you on a Tuesday or

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something and Everybody knows you know the the

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message you get while the you hear the ringtone

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and then the message comes through I'll call

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you back and it's that that Automated response

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that you know that other person just tapped That

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suggested response because they're they're busy.

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This is a busy guy This is a busy brother of

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mine that just can't always get on the phone

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Okay, yeah, I'm just a busy little brother So,

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uh, we do connect we do have great conversations

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and we have had for decades now, but you've got

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a lot going on and To even line this up this

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this took some strategy To get us on the phone

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It did and and I just want to be above board

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here You know shine light on this process. We've

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got 30 minutes past two. I won't call it unprofessional

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Some people would i'm not saying that um, I was

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waiting um hiddling around the house if you will

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just kind of moving things in the kitchen not

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really accomplishing anything just Waiting for

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the phone to ring And eventually at long last

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it did here we are I don't blame you i'm just

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Stating my feelings. Okay. Well listen Let's

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jump ahead a little bit here. We were talking

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yesterday. I had an experience that I think a

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lot of people go through. If you've got kids,

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you go to birthday parties. You need to show

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up. And if you have children, you have to host

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these parties. So we were texting about it yesterday.

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I had to take the kids to a birthday party down

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the street. We just would walk down there. I

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don't know if anyone else, I think this goes

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on more than people talk about. But do you ever

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go to a birthday party and the adults who are

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putting on this event? They just barely I mean

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Barely acknowledge that you were there Mom or

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dad, you know that you don't know each other.

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I get it. We've never spoken the conversation

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is not it's easy for everybody, but I Was not

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greeted I had to greet Was not offered a chair.

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I had to go bring a chair from my yard. I was

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not offered to come inside the house What that

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wasn't mandatory, but wasn't offered a beverage

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I wasn't even told when we were having cake and

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I was just Hanging around watching the kids with

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the you know the same Fixed and sometimes genuine

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grin that you might have at the playground. You're

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standing around some other adults and and you're

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just watching your kids, and it's nice, but have

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you experienced that? And I've got another part

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of that question, but - Oh, it's a two -part,

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okay. I wanted to get your thoughts on just the

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birthday party stuff. What if I made this the

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most unlistable podcast? I'm just like, no, this

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never happened. Never happened. Next question,

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let's go. No, but - But being serious, yes, I

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have been a part of that catastrophe. It's horrific.

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You go to a party and you're not even greeted.

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You're not even told thanks. You're not even

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told where to put the gifts. And you're just

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sitting there. You're in a bowling alley. But

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you're not bowling. You're just sitting there.

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It's tough. Everybody's just watching the kids.

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And I love my kids. And I do like kids. But when

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they're in a party, they're not that interesting.

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It's hard to explain. I went to Allie's Easter

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party on Thursday, and she's five, and all the

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other kids are five, and all the tables are low.

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You're just standing there, cowering above the

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children, and nobody's talking. What are you

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supposed to do with your hands? What are you

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looking? Allie's just interested in her cupcakes.

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But I guess back to your point, I think as the

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host of the party, you should just... making

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a point to just acknowledge everybody and say,

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Hey, thanks for coming. How you doing? I don't

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know. I think it, you know, I mean, on the, on

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the total problems in the world, it's probably

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not that high up, but you know, I, I realized

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that a child's birthday party, if you're an adult

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and you've got a five year old and you're the

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type of person you don't, you know, you don't

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go out much. You don't engage with people socially.

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You're just not, um, And I'm fine. I am completely

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fine with all walks of life all different types

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of people But a birthday party is an imposition

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that you you will not escape if you're a parent

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So you you've got to put it on you got to come

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up with a theme perhaps and Got a set of time

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and a date and a place and you got to be there

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But some people just that's about as far as they

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take it this is not gonna be Hey, how are you

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doing? What's your name? I'm Steve. Moving along.

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Anyway, we got to acknowledge the University

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of Alabama. Now I talk about UAB on the podcast.

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That's my alma mater. I do root for the tide.

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I did not go to Alabama, but I am an Alabama

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fan. and admittedly have not watched much basketball

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this year, but Travis got to get your thoughts

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on the tide reaching the final four last night.

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It is absolutely incredible. Myself and my oldest

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Michael and middle son, Joe, all stayed up and

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watched it. I've followed, you know, bamboo basketball.

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No, I'm not. It's not like football. where football

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is life. Basketball is just kind of in the periphery.

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But, you know, I'll watch it as it gets to the

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tournament. I'm making a point to tell Jim and

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Lowell and everybody else, I'm clearly a bandwagon

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fan here. I'm not living and dying with this

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team. But I've seen us lose so many times in

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the Sweet 16. I remember, I think it was 1990,

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we lost to Loyola Miramount. It was like a layup

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at the end, and it was just heartbreak. And then

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we finally made it in 2004, and then we swiftly

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got you know beaten in the elite eight but to

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get to the final four it probably doesn't mean

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as much to me as other other people that you

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know absolutely follow Bama basketball from your

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first tip to the last second but it's just it's

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just cool to just watch something like that last

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night and say I never thought in my lifetime

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I'd see Bama in the final four and real quick

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you mentioned a second ago you didn't go to Alabama

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I didn't go to Alabama I did go to Shelton State

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for Couple semesters, which is in Tuscaloosa.

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I lived on campus at Alabama, but I do have to

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point out There's a lot of people that say we

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you know Bama has sidewalk fans and you know,

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if you didn't go there You can't pull for them.

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But what do you tell somebody? when their earliest

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memory of College football is sitting in their

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dad's lap when they're eight Watching Bama play

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Texas A &M. Am I not allowed to be a fan of that

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team because I didn't necessarily go there So

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yeah, I think it does help if you didn't go to

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the school But you can say, hey, I remember the

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Mike Dubose years in football. Oh, yeah. I remember

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Coach Franchoni. You know, we met Franchoni.

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And if you can kind of speak to some of those

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drier periods or whatever you call it, the mediocre

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seasons, and you've been around, you just haven't

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been a Bama fan since 2008 or nine. Right. Yeah,

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I think it's gonna be difficult for a lot of

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fans, I guess, you know, younger fans moving

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forward, because, you know, my earliest memory

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is Bill Curry, 1988 -89, and then getting into

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the Stallings years, and then watching us win

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a national championship, and we were just, you

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know, winning all the time. And then, right as

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I got into my adulthood, DeBose comes on, and

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then he's the coach, I guess, I think he started

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ninth. 98 97 or 98 97 97 Yeah, and he had some

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success. I mean he won the SEC in 99 98 2000

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Okay, yeah, but but in 2000 we all I Was remembering

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that the the game I didn't mean to cut you off

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again But the the outback bowl and I was thinking

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that was 97 but then I remembered. Oh that was

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January 97 But that was Stalin's last game. Yeah,

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we did, Michigan But anyways, so and then you

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you know, yes and success and you're thinking

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oh my gosh, this is he's gonna bring us back

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the mountaintop and then we go out to Los Angeles,

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California in September of 2000 number three

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in the nation and I'll never forget First ride

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of the game UCLA get stopped probably three and

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out who knows and they put the Freddie Millings

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and he returns that ball into the end zone at

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the Rose Bowl There's 35 ,000 Alabama fans that

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have made that track from, you know, Alabama

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and parts otherwise. And I remember hugging Robert

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and I literally said the word national champions.

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We're going to be national champions. This is

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after one, one number three in the nation. Yeah.

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We ended up losing that game and then we ended

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up winning three games the entire time. Uh, and

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then the both fired. So, yeah, it was, you know,

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it was a bad take. I'm not, I'm not going to

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lie premature, but no, and then after that. You

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know, we had, uh, was it Franconi right after?

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Yeah. It was right after the bows. Uh, yeah,

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I believe it was Franconi. He only coached a

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couple seasons. He did. And, and I think that

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the story is, and I'll get corrected too. Yeah.

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But then he left because I think the president

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at the time of the university kind of misled

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him as to the sanctions that we were about to

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get for the whole Albert Means saga. And I think

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he saw it riding on the wall, reduced scholarships.

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It was going to be very difficult to win, so

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he jumped ship. And then he had the very brief

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tenure of Mike Price, and he was fired after

00:15:48.789 --> 00:15:53.230
a hilarious episode at the gentlemen's joint

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over there in Pensacola Beach. In Pensacola,

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yeah. And that establishment is still, it's in

00:15:59.190 --> 00:16:01.029
operation, different ownership, different name,

00:16:01.649 --> 00:16:05.519
but... Is it really? Yeah. Good. They still have

00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:09.519
the, um, the, uh, all you can eat buffet on Sundays

00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:13.820
with the deviled eggs. No, but seriously, but

00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:16.360
seriously after that, then, you know, Shula comes

00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.759
in and he, he, he tries to write the ship, so

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to speak, but he was never going to be the long

00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.419
-term solution. So I'll never forget. And I guess

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your original question was, what was it like

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to go through those lean years? I'll tell you

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what it was like every game. Mississippi State,

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South Carolina, whoever it was, it was, this

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is the first time since 1954. This is the first

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time, whatever it may be, all these records were

00:16:40.769 --> 00:16:43.269
just falling. And then I think people stopped

00:16:43.269 --> 00:16:44.950
rushing the field after beating us because it

00:16:44.950 --> 00:16:47.409
just wasn't a big deal. We were just, you know,

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middle of the road at that point. And I will

00:16:51.610 --> 00:16:55.330
never forget Paul Fondom announced Rick Rodriguez

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is gonna be the new coach. And I called our father

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that night, it was 2007. And I said, I'm happy

00:17:02.230 --> 00:17:04.990
we have a coach because it went on forever. And

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I said, I just wish that we would have gotten

00:17:06.390 --> 00:17:08.569
Nick Saban because his name was getting floated.

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And then the very next day, the whole deal fell

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apart and we had no coach for like a month. And

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then Mal Moore, however he did it, and I'm sure

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I know that they've written books and everything

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about it, but man, whatever Mal Moore did literally

00:17:23.109 --> 00:17:26.769
transformed the university, the city program

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by getting Saban. Those were the biggest gets

00:17:30.309 --> 00:17:33.470
of all time. It's just simply incredible. Yeah.

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And he wasn't going to get back on that plane

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from Miami. I believe as the story goes, he couldn't

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return back to Tuscaloosa without Saban. No.

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And even getting Saban, it wasn't guaranteed

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that it was going to be what it was. Now I'm

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going to look back on it. But just the fact that

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he was able to convince Saban to leave the NFL,

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you know, I mean, I think that goal has got to

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be the NFL. That's the top tier, you know? Yeah.

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And to convince somebody You need to leave this

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and come back and come down stuff It was just

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again. It's just remarkable and then you know

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mountain war His legacy will live on forever

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Just just wonderful. Yeah the power of persuasion

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of one man I want to ask you a question here.

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We talked about it a little bit but The next

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generation and their ability to converse and

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be persuasive Express themselves Kind of have

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these long open -ended conversations. Do you

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have any concern really about the current generation?

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Do you think that they're gonna come out of the

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shell as the old tech shell and be just fine

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when they're 30 something 40 something and talk

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like we have over the years and Uncle Mike and

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and some of that ribbing and just just the way

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that We've grown up grown up. Do you think that

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that is getting lost a little bit or is it? We

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should maybe pump the brakes on our worries.

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Oh This is perfect. I tell you what the way I

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see it this generation notes here, so I get so

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irritated With every generation looking backwards

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or I guess forwards at the new generation and

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saying these little whippersnappers They're just

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no good for nothing these long hair and they

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don't have any work ethic. It's like no Every

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generation complains about the newer generation.

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It always happens. But I had the unique ability

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in a previous job for about five years to work

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with people in the generation directly below

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me. You know, guys and women in their early 20s.

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And you know what I've learned is, yeah, they

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do things differently. It's not exactly what

00:19:46.289 --> 00:19:49.529
you expect, but they do have good ideas and we

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can listen to each other. And if they listen

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to us and we listen to them, I think we can do

00:19:54.170 --> 00:19:57.349
okay as opposed to saying You know, oh this really

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changed and this is different now. Yeah, they

00:19:59.390 --> 00:20:01.369
communicate differently because we communicate

00:20:01.369 --> 00:20:05.369
differently You know back In our parents generation,

00:20:05.390 --> 00:20:07.230
they didn't even you know, they they they have

00:20:07.230 --> 00:20:09.970
a telephone but that was it Now we have text

00:20:09.970 --> 00:20:14.130
messages You know email Instant messages you

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have discord you have all these different avenues

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to communicate and I think to automatically dismiss

00:20:21.369 --> 00:20:23.809
the younger generations or think that they don't

00:20:23.809 --> 00:20:27.009
have anything to bring is not wise. And if everybody

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just comes together, we're going to be great.

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Yeah, I think so. I think if one thing that is

00:20:34.809 --> 00:20:40.289
a good practice is, you know, when you, if you

00:20:40.289 --> 00:20:43.910
just go back to small children, if you've got

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a three or four or five year old and you're at

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the playground and you're constantly Diverting

00:20:49.339 --> 00:20:52.539
them and saying no. No, don't do that. Let me

00:20:52.539 --> 00:20:54.480
get you away from that You're not supposed to

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be over there and you're just I see it sometimes

00:20:57.220 --> 00:21:00.359
and there may be some times I need to check myself

00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.339
and let the kids off the leash a little bit I

00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:07.619
think if you go way back to or go to to the little

00:21:07.619 --> 00:21:11.039
little kids and Realize hey, I was four years

00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.259
old once I was five once and I wanted to explore

00:21:15.259 --> 00:21:20.059
and check things out and I was also 15 once and

00:21:20.059 --> 00:21:23.980
I was awkward and I didn't know how to talk to

00:21:23.980 --> 00:21:35.680
everybody I hadn't I Think by 15 I was probably

00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:45.680
at the size it that I met now Think I wore a

00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.539
15 at one time and it was a maybe a size and

00:21:48.539 --> 00:21:50.599
a half too big so I could probably wear a 14

00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.380
but 13 is usually good enough but But yeah, I

00:21:54.380 --> 00:21:57.460
think that's if we I'm a little concerned I gotta

00:21:57.460 --> 00:22:01.480
say I mean I do see some kids that I've got and

00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:04.579
I don't want to get on any Soapbox on this show

00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:07.220
because this is about the current guest so I'm

00:22:07.220 --> 00:22:08.920
gonna hold back on that but I do think that we

00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:17.410
can To the ether why kids are ruining this country

00:22:17.410 --> 00:22:23.250
Do it Oh, no, it's your soapbox. You don't have

00:22:23.250 --> 00:22:25.150
to do anything. You stand on it. You don't even

00:22:25.150 --> 00:22:32.150
have to talk two rolls so boxes Travis the we're

00:22:32.150 --> 00:22:34.309
right on the cusp. Well, we've actually just

00:22:34.309 --> 00:22:37.250
started a new baseball season How many games

00:22:37.250 --> 00:22:39.670
do you get to watch? Are you watching the cubs?

00:22:40.410 --> 00:22:44.750
pretty often or Just as you can Are you excited

00:22:44.750 --> 00:22:47.430
about the new year? Oh, yeah, you know, I love

00:22:47.430 --> 00:22:50.349
baseball. I love putting games on. I will say,

00:22:50.769 --> 00:22:53.029
I dare, I could be over -under on full games.

00:22:53.089 --> 00:22:54.549
I'll get to watch this year, especially Cubs

00:22:54.549 --> 00:22:59.190
games, seven. Partly because MLB does a ridiculous

00:22:59.190 --> 00:23:02.529
job of making that product available. After the

00:23:02.529 --> 00:23:06.069
Spectrum, ESPN, whatever that was back in August

00:23:06.069 --> 00:23:08.109
when you couldn't get ESPN on Spectrum, I switched

00:23:08.109 --> 00:23:11.569
to YouTube TV. What I gained was ESPN. What I

00:23:11.569 --> 00:23:14.519
lost was MLB TV. is what I like to do back in

00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:17.019
the day. You know, at night in the spring and

00:23:17.019 --> 00:23:20.480
summer, just put MLB TV on, they're usually just

00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:22.720
going to game. And I just, you know, watch the

00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:25.519
Padres against the Angels or whoever it may be.

00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:28.119
But now that I don't have that, I just have to

00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:29.900
wait for a Cubs game to be on or I have to wait

00:23:29.900 --> 00:23:33.920
for what are the thoughts or ESPN is it, I think

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:36.579
it's on TBS now too. So I just get random games.

00:23:37.180 --> 00:23:39.519
But most games I do get to see are Braves games.

00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:42.259
And I've never been a Braves fan, but over the

00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:44.289
years I've caught myself just kind of following

00:23:44.289 --> 00:23:46.450
them because that's all I can get. It's kind

00:23:46.450 --> 00:23:50.089
of like us back in the day with WGN. You know,

00:23:50.109 --> 00:23:52.970
we were born in Chicago, but I think WGN being

00:23:52.970 --> 00:23:55.869
available after school and catching the Cubs

00:23:55.869 --> 00:23:58.809
games and Harry Harry, that really helped cement

00:23:58.809 --> 00:24:02.710
that fandom. It's kind of happening to me with

00:24:02.710 --> 00:24:03.950
the Braves right now, but I mean, I'll always

00:24:03.950 --> 00:24:07.569
be a Cubs fan. But yes, I would watch it if I

00:24:07.569 --> 00:24:10.049
could, but you know, MLB just does not make it

00:24:10.049 --> 00:24:11.750
easy. I don't want to spend 300 bucks for the

00:24:11.750 --> 00:24:18.029
season pass. Yeah, I sure miss WGN. I loved Harry

00:24:18.029 --> 00:24:22.650
and Steve. Harry and Steve, yes. I mean really

00:24:22.650 --> 00:24:26.529
every, I remember when Joe Carter was the color

00:24:26.529 --> 00:24:28.829
man for a season or two. I loved when he was

00:24:28.829 --> 00:24:33.910
on there. Bob Brinley. A lot of people didn't

00:24:33.910 --> 00:24:37.390
like Chip Carey. I was generally okay with Chip.

00:24:38.269 --> 00:24:42.880
Len and JD. Len Casper took me a few years. Not

00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.819
that I didn't accept him, but when Harry passed

00:24:45.819 --> 00:24:49.279
away in 98, at that time, I'm about 19 years

00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:52.240
old. And you knew that you were listening to

00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:55.619
an old man, even when you're like 15, 16, 17,

00:24:56.059 --> 00:24:57.740
and that he's not going to be around forever.

00:24:58.759 --> 00:25:00.619
But it was this weirdest thing with Harry Carey

00:25:00.619 --> 00:25:07.119
that I just, I didn't. Harry kind of made you,

00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.880
uh, Just forget about the outside world which

00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.880
not not that other announcers don't but You couldn't

00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:16.480
wait to hear what he was gonna say how he was

00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.180
gonna describe something He had little jokes

00:25:19.180 --> 00:25:23.039
that you'd never hear anymore Right, and he was

00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:25.420
but he was from a different era like you just

00:25:25.420 --> 00:25:27.460
can't have that type of broadcaster. I don't

00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:31.660
think anymore I hate that because I mean all

00:25:31.660 --> 00:25:34.519
the announcers today, I know there's several

00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:36.859
in our text chain that like to complain about

00:25:36.859 --> 00:25:39.299
the answers and I just don't ever hear them and

00:25:39.299 --> 00:25:40.880
that's the thing is I can't complain because

00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:43.799
I'm not listening to them really and I hate that

00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:47.859
they can't you know recreate or do whatever Harry

00:25:47.859 --> 00:25:50.460
Carrey did some of the other old timers there

00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:54.539
was the gentleman for the Dodgers yeah it's just

00:25:54.539 --> 00:25:56.940
like I think Harry Carrey was just uniquely him

00:25:56.940 --> 00:26:00.400
yeah he wasn't polished he wasn't corporate he

00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:04.160
was just it was like You know talking to a friend

00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.819
or hearing a friend describe the game as opposed

00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:11.619
to something that's safe and generic and sterile

00:26:11.619 --> 00:26:14.559
Yeah, and if you if you look at the landscape

00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:19.180
now anybody who is the the play -by -play man

00:26:19.180 --> 00:26:23.920
for a major league baseball team You can't get

00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:27.950
you simply cannot get to that position with Harry's

00:26:27.950 --> 00:26:31.130
personality in 2024. You can't let it rip. Let

00:26:31.130 --> 00:26:33.809
it fly You got to be pretty buttoned up to just

00:26:33.809 --> 00:26:36.430
get to that level but not to say that there's

00:26:36.430 --> 00:26:40.170
not some great talent out there But Harry yeah

00:26:40.170 --> 00:26:42.549
as a kid it was just what the doctor ordered.

00:26:42.549 --> 00:26:45.549
He was funny. He was exciting I mean the home

00:26:45.549 --> 00:26:48.849
run calls Just the base hit calls I mean the

00:26:48.849 --> 00:26:51.309
way that he would say base hit and I'm not even

00:26:51.309 --> 00:26:54.049
saying it right, but it was Wow, it was like

00:26:54.049 --> 00:26:57.250
a bolt of lightning and But anyway, I forgot

00:26:57.250 --> 00:26:59.930
what we were talking about. Yeah, the Cubs and

00:26:59.930 --> 00:27:05.329
WGN just coming home turning on the TV and We

00:27:05.329 --> 00:27:08.529
grew up when the Braves you could go to TBS for

00:27:08.529 --> 00:27:11.829
the Braves and WGN for the Cubs Travis I got

00:27:11.829 --> 00:27:16.170
to ask your favorite cub player. I Don't want

00:27:16.170 --> 00:27:18.470
to say of all time. But just when you think of

00:27:18.470 --> 00:27:21.210
who's my favorite guy in the Chicago Cubs Past

00:27:21.210 --> 00:27:23.430
or present say all time. It's okay. You can say

00:27:23.430 --> 00:27:28.559
it All -time favorite Cub. David Bodie. What

00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:34.000
he did in that game, it was bases loaded, Cubs

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:38.480
were down 3 -0 in the bottom of the ninth. 2

00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.359
-2 count, pinch, hitter, and he hits a grand

00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:44.240
slam to win it. It was called a super slam. It

00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:45.519
was literally one of the coolest moments I've

00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.140
ever seen in baseball. It is the background to

00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:51.119
my phone, my lock screen. It has been since the

00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:55.299
moment it happened. I had a baby girl in between.

00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:58.259
She did not knock it out. It's still there and

00:27:58.259 --> 00:28:00.200
it's always gonna be my back screen. It is one

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:02.980
of the coolest pictures I've ever seen. Just

00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:05.779
jubilation from the crowd, from the players.

00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:09.660
It was such an improbable moment. If you watch

00:28:09.660 --> 00:28:12.180
sports enough, you'll see a lot of the same stuff.

00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:14.859
But if you watch long enough, you'll see something

00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:18.079
special. And that was something special. It was

00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:20.579
just such an improbable. That's what makes baseball

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:24.539
so much fun. is every pitch matters. Every pitch

00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:28.880
is a 50 yard field goal. Yeah. In football, you

00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:31.019
know, you get a first down, get a catch, go out

00:28:31.019 --> 00:28:34.220
of bounds, but baseball, every swing can, can,

00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:36.200
you know, change the outcome of the game. It's

00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:39.759
crazy. It's the only sport like it. David Bodie.

00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:45.380
Yeah. August 12th, 2018. Yeah. Allie was born

00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:47.460
in November. So she just, I mean, she would have

00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:49.599
been a few months earlier. She would have been

00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:52.339
a lot screen. I love her to death, but. She hasn't

00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:56.160
hit a super slam. It is girl, but I love tremendous

00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.539
it I want to watch it again. I know and I need

00:29:00.539 --> 00:29:03.039
to send you the picture You can make that the

00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.039
background of this of this podcast because it

00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:07.579
seriously is one of the coolest sports pickers

00:29:07.579 --> 00:29:10.920
I've ever seen him rounding her his arms outstretched.

00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.539
You see I think hobby bias Others I think there's

00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:18.079
yeah, just all the cups from that team. They're

00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.289
all just at home plate just Exuberant cannot

00:29:22.289 --> 00:29:24.849
believe that this is just happened. Just just

00:29:24.849 --> 00:29:29.589
incredible and he's forever your hero forever

00:29:29.589 --> 00:29:37.029
I Guess him or or Sean Dodson I don't want to

00:29:37.029 --> 00:29:38.710
hear after that story. I don't want to hit. I

00:29:38.710 --> 00:29:43.509
don't want to hear a Him or it is David Bodie

00:29:43.509 --> 00:29:48.230
It was the Andre Dawson who is bad expense. I

00:29:48.230 --> 00:29:50.809
still If I get a bat in my hands, I'm kind of

00:29:50.809 --> 00:29:51.950
squaring up, pretending like I'm going to hit

00:29:51.950 --> 00:29:54.609
a ball. I'm doing Andre Dolphin all day. That

00:29:54.609 --> 00:29:57.130
was so cool. Even as like an eight -year -old,

00:29:57.269 --> 00:29:58.789
I was like, yes, that is the batting stance.

00:29:59.230 --> 00:30:03.390
With that left leg. Yeah. Kind of bouncing at

00:30:03.390 --> 00:30:08.130
the shin. Yes. Mm -hmm. I didn't think we'd talk

00:30:08.130 --> 00:30:09.470
about so much because of baseball today. This

00:30:09.470 --> 00:30:13.509
is incredible. I love it. I love it. As we're

00:30:13.509 --> 00:30:15.150
talking, they're in the ninth inning trying to

00:30:15.150 --> 00:30:18.259
close out the Rangers to avoid a sweep. You know

00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:21.759
started out over to I Don't get too concerned

00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:25.420
with April Opening series if we got swept so

00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:29.019
be it, but I like this Cubs team Let's just for

00:30:29.019 --> 00:30:32.599
fun here prediction time. I like the Cubs to

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:35.539
claim the I'm gonna say the second wild card

00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:38.420
this year not win the division and and not be

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:41.200
on the edge either I think that we're gonna You

00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:43.930
know by mid -august end of August We're going

00:30:43.930 --> 00:30:46.069
to hang on to that second wild card. Maybe be

00:30:46.069 --> 00:30:47.849
in line for the first and slip a little bit,

00:30:47.849 --> 00:30:51.710
but that's what I think. And I don't think, I

00:30:51.710 --> 00:30:53.529
don't think we win the World Series, but I like

00:30:53.529 --> 00:30:56.230
them reaching the playoffs, maybe advancing around.

00:30:57.309 --> 00:30:59.109
Hey, can we talk about that though, the World

00:30:59.109 --> 00:31:04.410
Series in 2016? Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, you're

00:31:04.410 --> 00:31:07.890
asking me all my favorite things. Favorite sports

00:31:07.890 --> 00:31:11.450
memory is not the 92 national championship, Alabama

00:31:11.450 --> 00:31:16.259
over Miami. It's not. 2008 bam over texas It

00:31:16.259 --> 00:31:19.180
is game seven of the world series in pensacola

00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:21.839
florida. I remember feeling robin after after

00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:26.279
we won game six In um, one of those games my

00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:28.059
power went out. I had to listen to on the radio

00:31:28.059 --> 00:31:30.839
like it was the Any better game? I think he did

00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.279
the 17th stretch. Yeah game five But I remember

00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:36.799
after we won game six. I told robin I said I

00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.640
think I want to go down to pensacola and watch

00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:41.220
this video and she said I don't I don't think

00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:42.920
that's a good idea, and I'm trying to explain

00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:46.599
to her the Cubs have not won the World Series

00:31:46.599 --> 00:31:51.220
since. Was it 1908? 1908. Yeah, and this is 2016,

00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:53.799
so we're talking about 108 years. I said this

00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:57.160
is a once -in -a -lifetime opportunity, and I

00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:59.759
think it registered with her, and she said okay.

00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:02.200
But sitting at that bar, what was the bar in

00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:05.400
Pensacola we went to? O 'Reilly's. O 'Reilly's,

00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:08.259
yeah. And watching that game, the ups, the downs.

00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:12.319
and then the inexplicable rain delay in the eighth

00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:15.059
and ninth inning and then we went to extras and

00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:17.599
then for us to win that I will never forget that

00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:21.380
night that was a sports fan just absolutely incredible

00:32:21.380 --> 00:32:23.380
and it was more for you than it was for me because

00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:25.940
you follow the Cubs a lot closer than I do but

00:32:25.940 --> 00:32:28.119
it was just cool to be there with you and it's

00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:30.140
so much different than you know me sitting on

00:32:30.140 --> 00:32:32.740
my couch and texting you go Cubs go or wow this

00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:35.200
is incredible but just being there and seeing

00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.880
it know and knowing that you know this is gonna

00:32:40.309 --> 00:32:43.930
It was such a special memory for me. I was prepared

00:32:43.930 --> 00:32:46.890
to watch it by myself. I didn't really have the

00:32:46.890 --> 00:32:49.490
means at that time to get up to Chicago for it.

00:32:49.490 --> 00:32:51.269
Well, actually, they were playing in Cleveland.

00:32:52.569 --> 00:32:56.069
But yeah, what a night. It was something I'll

00:32:56.069 --> 00:32:59.069
never forget. We got our pictures, you know,

00:32:59.329 --> 00:33:01.950
a couple of those pictures will never be posted

00:33:01.950 --> 00:33:05.480
as the night wore on, but we're both And the

00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.720
cubby blue, your shirt, my shirt, and the hats.

00:33:09.099 --> 00:33:11.519
I had my new beard. I had just grown a beard.

00:33:12.059 --> 00:33:14.859
I didn't know I could do that. The beard was

00:33:14.859 --> 00:33:19.579
new, yeah. The game was tied. Some people were

00:33:19.579 --> 00:33:21.700
listening. You might remember this. We were tied

00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:25.819
at six after nine innings. Yeah. And then about

00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:29.279
close to a 20 -minute rain delay occurs. And

00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:34.589
Jason Hayward's famous speech to the club. basically

00:33:34.589 --> 00:33:37.829
saying you know we stick together we're gonna

00:33:37.829 --> 00:33:40.630
we're gonna pull this thing out you know I want

00:33:40.630 --> 00:33:42.529
to speak to that people were always critical

00:33:42.529 --> 00:33:46.349
of Hayward during his time in Chicago but there's

00:33:46.349 --> 00:33:48.289
something to be said we've had a close friend

00:33:48.289 --> 00:33:51.490
I'm not gonna mention his name who will will

00:33:51.490 --> 00:33:54.910
criticize players all look at this this bloated

00:33:54.910 --> 00:33:58.049
contract for this guy that only hit 242 or something

00:33:58.049 --> 00:34:02.430
in a clubhouse presence clubhouse leadership

00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.619
I've never played at that level, but you need

00:34:06.619 --> 00:34:09.380
somebody like that in that moment. It doesn't

00:34:09.380 --> 00:34:15.079
matter how that player fell short offensively,

00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:18.760
defensively during the year, but you've got them

00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:22.719
there in game seven at the 11th hour. Right.

00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:25.619
I mean, at that point, you're talking about a

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:27.659
run and three outs. That's all you need. How

00:34:27.659 --> 00:34:30.110
do you get it? Who's going to get it? And the

00:34:30.110 --> 00:34:33.170
Cubs got it, and it was just remarkable. I mean,

00:34:33.190 --> 00:34:35.849
it's akin to the Red Sox winning and was at 03.

00:34:36.750 --> 00:34:39.349
Just these iconic franchises that have been out

00:34:39.349 --> 00:34:43.090
in the wilderness for a century and finally find

00:34:43.090 --> 00:34:44.949
a way to do it. And I don't know if the Cubs

00:34:44.949 --> 00:34:47.349
will ever get back, but man, that was a special

00:34:47.349 --> 00:34:49.829
night. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, and I gotta

00:34:49.829 --> 00:34:54.349
say, I mean, and most Cubs fans will agree, without

00:34:54.349 --> 00:34:57.710
the rain delay, and I think Anthony Rizzo spoke

00:34:57.710 --> 00:35:03.280
to this as well, I you know, I was never nervous

00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:05.099
about the game and some of that may have had

00:35:05.099 --> 00:35:08.480
to do with with the Beer that we were drinking,

00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:11.179
but I wasn't really nervous. I always thought

00:35:11.179 --> 00:35:13.079
we were gonna pull it out. But I think the rain

00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:17.460
delay We're down three games to one we get back

00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:20.300
to game seven We did a lot of things to give

00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:23.000
the game to Cleveland, but but we're world champions.

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:25.360
I've still got the hat I wear the hat from time

00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.519
to time. Oh, yeah, I wore this shirt So often

00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.920
it just started getting torn and tattered that

00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:32.639
I think I've retired it. I can't even sleep in

00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:35.440
it It's just like, you know half the pit and

00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:37.739
that that stitching that goes down the side of

00:35:37.739 --> 00:35:41.900
the you know from your pits your ways What a

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:43.599
surprise though your favorite sports memory.

00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:48.000
Oh, yeah hands down Now if Saladin wins the national

00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:50.300
championship for maybe that but but even so I

00:35:50.300 --> 00:35:54.360
have to go back. I I Followed them a basketball

00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.519
like I would follow Yeah, if they're in it, I'm

00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:59.800
watching. But I'm not living and dying. I didn't

00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.679
know any of these players until two weeks ago

00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:03.840
during the SEC tournament. So I'm not going to

00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:05.920
sit here like I'm some huge fan that's going

00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.980
to be elated or devastated if we win, which I

00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:11.780
don't think will beat UConn. But we might. But

00:36:11.780 --> 00:36:16.699
either way, it's just nice. Well, we talked a

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:19.239
lot of sports here. I think a lot of my listeners

00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:23.059
are sports fans. Some of them who are not maybe

00:36:23.059 --> 00:36:28.940
checked out by now, I hope not. A few other questions

00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:32.480
here How important is this to you when you go

00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:35.460
into a store and you remember we worked at the

00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:40.000
the drugstore big B that was acquired by CVS

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:43.099
I think Hold on. It was required by Revco first

00:36:43.099 --> 00:36:47.920
Revco and then CVS Revco actually initiated a

00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.980
hostile takeover. I remember this it was really

00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:53.380
interesting You know learning enjoy store wars

00:36:53.380 --> 00:36:57.119
of 97. Yeah classic But at that time, you know

00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:59.420
the the store manager who was a big influence

00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:03.099
on me as far as customer service and Just taking

00:37:03.099 --> 00:37:06.039
pride in what you do and work ethic cabina. Yeah,

00:37:06.179 --> 00:37:11.360
Ron cabina People of a certain age do remember

00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:14.159
going into a store and the manager is very clearly

00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.179
identified You know, the sleeves are rolled up.

00:37:16.219 --> 00:37:18.860
There's a pencil behind the ear. There's a clipboard

00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:22.460
in one hand and there's a warm friendly smile

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:24.639
ready to greet you as you approach that aisle

00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:27.159
as he's you know taking inventory whatever he's

00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:30.039
doing and Do you miss that Travis when you walk

00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.420
into a store and you realize? Oh that there's

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:34.739
the guy or there's the you don't need their help

00:37:34.739 --> 00:37:36.360
or there's the there's the woman who owns the

00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:40.280
store and They're gonna say Can I help you find

00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:47.070
something? and he wasn't represented anywhere

00:37:47.070 --> 00:37:51.489
in the 90s or the 2000s or now. No, I don't and

00:37:51.489 --> 00:37:54.230
I'll tell you why because I've been in enough

00:37:54.230 --> 00:37:58.650
CVS's like I know where the Q -tips are. I don't

00:37:58.650 --> 00:38:01.630
need help. I know where the deodorant is. I pretty

00:38:01.630 --> 00:38:02.829
much know where everything is because I've been

00:38:02.829 --> 00:38:06.829
in a CVS or one of those drugstores so I get

00:38:06.829 --> 00:38:09.469
the sentiment to your question for the answer

00:38:09.469 --> 00:38:11.210
and I'm just gonna be truthful. No, I don't miss

00:38:11.210 --> 00:38:14.940
that and I don't need that. And I don't want

00:38:14.940 --> 00:38:20.179
it Well, I think that I was looking for I'm sorry,

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.880
I was not looking for that answer I was But you

00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:26.579
know, I have to accept it I will say down here

00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:29.519
locally if you compare maybe Home Depot to ace

00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:32.360
Hardware if you go into an ace at least the one

00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:34.440
I've never been in ace in my life. What is it

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.639
like? I highly recommend it Not every ace is

00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:41.460
the same but the one that's closest to our house

00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:46.619
There are like at least three Employees on guard

00:38:46.619 --> 00:38:49.260
ready. They're not gonna swarm you really but

00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:51.659
if you go to the paint aisle you go to the plumbing

00:38:51.659 --> 00:38:55.519
fixtures you go on any given aisle they are ready

00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:57.880
and if they see that you're a little lost they're

00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:02.239
gonna walk up it very neighborly and say gonna

00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:06.699
This is incredible, would you say that ace is

00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:12.210
the place for the friendly hardware folks? Yeah,

00:39:12.769 --> 00:39:17.769
I like that Yeah, they walk the walk so big I

00:39:17.769 --> 00:39:21.929
don't plug Many companies on this show, but I'm

00:39:21.929 --> 00:39:24.610
very happy to give ace hardware a plug. I've

00:39:24.610 --> 00:39:26.909
had a great experience I like this stuff Travis.

00:39:26.909 --> 00:39:30.309
I like things from another era. I like music

00:39:30.309 --> 00:39:34.570
from another era. I enjoy running into an 87

00:39:34.570 --> 00:39:39.469
year old person and having a brief fleeting conversation

00:39:39.469 --> 00:39:42.019
with them Let me ask you something else specific.

00:39:42.619 --> 00:39:44.579
Yeah, let me ask you something else. Alright,

00:39:44.619 --> 00:39:48.500
let's just say that Mmm, this is two parts. So

00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:51.699
the first part is on a on a phone call And you've

00:39:51.699 --> 00:39:54.219
had to call your insurance company. You've had

00:39:54.219 --> 00:39:57.000
to call someone where you it's like a 20 -minute

00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:59.860
conversation and they're they're set they're

00:39:59.860 --> 00:40:02.619
working something out for you and a little bit

00:40:02.619 --> 00:40:06.679
of side talk a little bit of laughter and Banter

00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:08.820
and banter and connection and you're like me.

00:40:08.820 --> 00:40:11.630
I really like this person this is fun and they're

00:40:11.630 --> 00:40:14.070
making this a good experience and you realize

00:40:14.070 --> 00:40:17.989
that your your issue is close to being resolved

00:40:17.989 --> 00:40:23.510
and that call is wrapping up do you ever get

00:40:23.510 --> 00:40:26.230
to the end of that phone call call and it it

00:40:26.230 --> 00:40:28.670
dawns on you i'm never going to speak to this

00:40:28.670 --> 00:40:33.050
person ever ever again i'm a little sad about

00:40:33.050 --> 00:40:36.030
it but i've got to wait for the survey because

00:40:36.030 --> 00:40:39.170
i agreed to do a brief survey and then I'm not

00:40:39.170 --> 00:40:42.690
going to speak to them ever again. Does that

00:40:42.690 --> 00:40:46.489
ever happen? Yes, it does. It happens to me all

00:40:46.489 --> 00:40:50.449
the time and it's something I've thought about

00:40:50.449 --> 00:40:52.889
a lot. Talked to my therapist about it a little

00:40:52.889 --> 00:40:56.190
bit. She tells me that, um, forget about it.

00:40:56.449 --> 00:40:58.050
There's 8 billion people in the world and you

00:40:58.050 --> 00:41:01.969
can't get hung up on, um, the person that's helping

00:41:01.969 --> 00:41:04.170
you cancel your spectrum. And it's something

00:41:04.170 --> 00:41:08.199
I'm having to work through daily actually. I'm

00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:09.719
gonna feel it. Yeah, I'm not past people on the

00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:11.320
street and it's like I'll never see them ever

00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:14.380
again And then Michael my 12 year old was like

00:41:14.380 --> 00:41:17.480
daddy, you know, this is insane behavior to be

00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:23.539
exhibiting Connecting on such a deep Yeah, it's

00:41:23.539 --> 00:41:25.440
like you have to accept the reality of what we

00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:27.980
live in That you cannot connect with all eight

00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:30.559
billion people. It's just not possible and I'll

00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.400
get there one day I Just I met somebody just

00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:35.019
passed me a minute ago and before you even ask

00:41:35.019 --> 00:41:36.559
the question. I was like, oh, I'll never see

00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:41.710
them again They live in my neighborhood. Travis.

00:41:42.929 --> 00:41:49.469
Yes. Are you still on your walk? I am. This call

00:41:49.469 --> 00:41:51.829
has been going on for close to an hour, but you

00:41:51.829 --> 00:41:54.670
were walking prior to the start of the call.

00:41:55.170 --> 00:41:58.449
How? I'm doing five miles now. Five. If we're

00:41:58.449 --> 00:42:00.989
doing an hour? Yeah, probably five. You want

00:42:00.989 --> 00:42:03.150
to talk about walking? I do want to talk about

00:42:03.150 --> 00:42:06.170
walking and you've been on some hikes and this

00:42:06.170 --> 00:42:08.710
is something that you're a few years into, you

00:42:08.710 --> 00:42:12.409
really enjoy not just getting the steps in. I

00:42:12.409 --> 00:42:15.309
mean, that's important, but it's more about,

00:42:15.969 --> 00:42:17.949
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but

00:42:17.949 --> 00:42:27.150
just self -exploration and... What? What? Self

00:42:27.150 --> 00:42:30.630
-exploration. I love it. Well... Alright, so

00:42:30.630 --> 00:42:34.449
what's the question? Alright, so during the pandemic...

00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:37.360
I got sent home. I was lucky enough to be able

00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.820
to work from home. My wife Robin, she got sent

00:42:40.820 --> 00:42:44.139
home. She could work from home as well. And she's

00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:47.059
sort of taking our youngest Allie out in the

00:42:47.059 --> 00:42:48.619
stroller. I'd watch them go. Every single day

00:42:48.619 --> 00:42:50.840
they would go and they'd come back for 30, 45

00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.480
minutes. And then one day, it was probably May

00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:55.239
of 2020, I was like, I'm gonna join you because

00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:56.639
I still get a lunch break even though I'm working

00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:58.920
from home. And I walked with them and I was like,

00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:00.280
so we just moved to this neighborhood and it's

00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:03.780
very walkable. And I was like, that was actually

00:43:03.780 --> 00:43:06.260
really cool. But it was kind of boring, you know,

00:43:06.780 --> 00:43:10.840
and so I got some headphones And I downloaded

00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:13.360
a podcast. It was one i've recommended to you

00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.699
before I think you've listened to it, but it

00:43:14.699 --> 00:43:18.679
was stl And i'll never forget may of 2020 every

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:22.400
day I would put on this podcast stl which is

00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:24.420
still to the day the best podcast i've ever listened

00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:26.340
and it's not like a traditional podcast, it's

00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:31.039
more of a Auditory documentary, but either way

00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:34.690
I recognize at that moment I can exercise because

00:43:34.690 --> 00:43:37.690
I try to run. I got plantar fasciitis. I tried

00:43:37.690 --> 00:43:40.530
to do the exercise bike. I got bored. I tried

00:43:40.530 --> 00:43:42.369
to do the stair stepper, and that thing's a nightmare.

00:43:42.510 --> 00:43:44.789
I never want to do that again. But I found what

00:43:44.789 --> 00:43:47.510
worked for me was just getting 10 ,000 steps

00:43:47.510 --> 00:43:49.610
a day. Sometimes you get more, but if you just

00:43:49.610 --> 00:43:53.349
put that goal at 10 ,000 and then put the headphones

00:43:53.349 --> 00:43:56.349
on, listen to a podcast and listen to a book

00:43:56.349 --> 00:43:59.969
on tape, wherever it may be, it was a way I could

00:43:59.969 --> 00:44:03.070
take a break from work. get some exercise in

00:44:03.070 --> 00:44:05.909
and also be entertained at the same time. And,

00:44:05.989 --> 00:44:07.530
you know, for some people, they want to do the

00:44:07.530 --> 00:44:10.170
rower or they want to do, they want to run or

00:44:10.170 --> 00:44:12.050
what it's like, you have to figure out what works

00:44:12.050 --> 00:44:13.849
for you. And walking doesn't work for everybody,

00:44:13.989 --> 00:44:18.170
but it works for me. And after about once I really

00:44:18.170 --> 00:44:20.789
got serious about it, you know, I ended up losing

00:44:20.789 --> 00:44:22.630
like a hilarious amount of weight. It was like

00:44:22.630 --> 00:44:26.150
40 or 50 pounds and it was just insane. And then

00:44:26.150 --> 00:44:29.289
I've kept it, you know, for four years now. I

00:44:29.289 --> 00:44:31.190
just walk 10 ,000 steps a day and if I watch

00:44:31.190 --> 00:44:34.269
what I eat, I'm good. Wow. So that's my journey.

00:44:36.090 --> 00:44:40.530
Well, I really, I mean this sincerely. I commend

00:44:40.530 --> 00:44:45.090
you for, for sticking to it. Um, this was not

00:44:45.090 --> 00:44:51.130
just a fleeting exercise for you. This was something

00:44:51.130 --> 00:44:54.369
that you're committed to. This is, you'll probably

00:44:54.369 --> 00:44:56.750
be doing this the rest of your life. Oh yeah.

00:44:56.750 --> 00:44:59.260
Forever. Without a doubt. And I have a treadmill

00:44:59.260 --> 00:45:02.760
at home that I use when it's dark or if it's

00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:07.800
bad weather. How much waving do you do as a walker

00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.860
to passersby? Yeah, it's a struggle. I'm not

00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:15.719
going to lie. It's expected. It's awkward. I

00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:17.519
wave to everybody. But I usually wear sunglasses.

00:45:17.579 --> 00:45:19.260
I don't even look at them. I just wave and assume

00:45:19.260 --> 00:45:21.619
they wave back. Just go through the motions.

00:45:23.179 --> 00:45:26.360
It's part of the game, man. I'm telling you.

00:45:26.590 --> 00:45:28.889
You can be a walker, you got to be able to walk

00:45:28.889 --> 00:45:32.329
the life. There's, you know, because Vivian,

00:45:32.510 --> 00:45:36.070
I take her to a, and for some folks, I apologize,

00:45:36.170 --> 00:45:38.489
some of this may be getting a bit, a bit dry,

00:45:38.869 --> 00:45:42.550
but this is, this is compelling. There are some

00:45:42.550 --> 00:45:45.010
faces and some people that, that I know in this

00:45:45.010 --> 00:45:47.269
other neighborhood where her caregiver lives.

00:45:47.550 --> 00:45:50.110
And I see them every morning or every afternoon.

00:45:50.690 --> 00:45:53.670
And we don't do the waving anymore because I've

00:45:53.670 --> 00:45:55.909
been seeing them for years. Talking to you, I

00:45:55.909 --> 00:46:00.130
just realized they don't wave because they're

00:46:00.130 --> 00:46:03.150
seeing 30 or 40 of me, like all these different

00:46:03.150 --> 00:46:05.949
vehicles. You can't just constantly be. If there's

00:46:05.949 --> 00:46:08.170
like a line of three cars, I'll often wonder,

00:46:08.369 --> 00:46:10.010
is that third car going to be like, are you just

00:46:10.010 --> 00:46:11.829
waving at everybody? Cause like I'll like wave

00:46:11.829 --> 00:46:15.489
and stop and wave and wave. But no, I just, it's

00:46:15.489 --> 00:46:17.389
just exercise. It's getting outside and it really

00:46:17.389 --> 00:46:19.250
took the pandemic for me to figure it out. I've

00:46:19.250 --> 00:46:21.400
been trying for years. Yeah to get something

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.440
that would actually work for me and this is the

00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:26.039
only thing that I can do consistently that I

00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:28.400
enjoy Yeah, I get to listen to podcasts like

00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:31.960
I listen to more podcasts than probably the normal

00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:34.239
person but And i'm going to listen to this one

00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.539
now on an infinite loop forever because it was

00:46:36.539 --> 00:46:39.539
really talking to you myself and it's hard to

00:46:39.539 --> 00:46:42.480
explain but I've kind of ruined podcasts for

00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:45.380
myself now But i've never been on a podcast.

00:46:45.380 --> 00:46:49.230
This is the first time Well you exciting And

00:46:49.230 --> 00:46:52.369
you have international listeners? Absolutely.

00:46:53.250 --> 00:46:55.250
Where's the farthest somebody's listened? What

00:46:55.250 --> 00:46:58.489
country? I've got people on every continent.

00:46:58.650 --> 00:47:00.809
I think there's not huge pockets. Even Antarctica?

00:47:01.889 --> 00:47:07.369
I think there is one. What? No, no, not that

00:47:07.369 --> 00:47:14.210
far, but. I mean, Australia, New Zealand, Eastern.

00:47:14.210 --> 00:47:16.570
You've got some Australian guests, too. Yeah.

00:47:17.829 --> 00:47:20.320
That's cool. There's people everywhere and some

00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:23.840
folks I hear from and I'm thinking, I'm glad

00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:26.079
this is interesting. I don't always feel like

00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:29.880
I talk about topics that are near and dear to

00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:33.480
everybody at every corner of the globe, but we're

00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:36.000
doing something right. Can I tell you something

00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.480
into your listeners who are going to listen to

00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:39.599
this? And hopefully I'll be a certain number

00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:42.860
that only I know. This is one of the few podcasts.

00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:44.340
I'm not just saying this because you're my brother.

00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.000
But I listen to a lot of podcasts, and all the

00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:50.420
podcasts I listen to are sports, or they're,

00:47:50.420 --> 00:47:52.659
you know, politics, but it's like famous people

00:47:52.659 --> 00:47:55.539
that have a million followers and they're interviewing

00:47:55.539 --> 00:47:58.059
other famous people or comedians or whatever,

00:47:58.380 --> 00:48:00.820
or sports stars. This is the first podcast I've

00:48:00.820 --> 00:48:03.119
ever listened to where you talk to a tax assessor

00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:07.380
from Trusco, Alabama. And some people might scoff

00:48:07.380 --> 00:48:09.000
at that and say that's boring, but it's like

00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.300
a slice of life that nobody is reaching out to.

00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:13.500
And then you get singer -songwriters, you get

00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:16.320
comedians, you get friends, you get family. And

00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:21.159
it's just like getting to, it's like an every

00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:23.400
person's podcast where you can just learn something.

00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:25.860
And I don't have to like a certain genre of music

00:48:25.860 --> 00:48:28.039
that the person does, but I can at least hear

00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.699
their story and hear their experience and their

00:48:30.699 --> 00:48:34.400
struggle and what kind of goals they have. And

00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:35.880
I just think it's fascinating. So I'm going to

00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:37.599
go ahead. You give a lot of praise to your guests.

00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.800
I'm going to go ahead and turn the praise back

00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:45.059
on you. It's a year the best Wow, I'm I'm speechless

00:48:45.059 --> 00:48:47.300
speechless. Aren't you? Yeah, of course you are

00:48:47.300 --> 00:48:51.199
I really appreciate that. That is that's What

00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:55.179
I aim to do is you know, this is a weekly podcast

00:48:55.179 --> 00:48:57.440
every Sunday Sometimes as you folks have seen

00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:00.820
it's the wee hours of Monday morning Depending

00:49:00.820 --> 00:49:10.800
on my schedule schedule as we say here Really,

00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:17.880
any man above the age of 52, if you live in Alabama,

00:49:18.099 --> 00:49:20.619
Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, you're going

00:49:20.619 --> 00:49:24.920
to hear Skid U. They just drop the L -E and just

00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:28.920
hang on the U and let it ride out. I like it.

00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.099
We could go on about the Southern dialect, which

00:49:32.099 --> 00:49:34.840
is so funny. We're from Alabama, obviously born

00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.059
in Chicago, but raised in Alabama. And I'm sure

00:49:38.059 --> 00:49:39.820
I'm going to listen to this or hear parts of

00:49:39.820 --> 00:49:42.079
it and be like, I sound so country. I don't feel

00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.800
like I do, but it's infectious. Just that accent.

00:49:46.780 --> 00:49:49.260
It is. I'm really, you know, we were born in

00:49:49.260 --> 00:49:51.820
Chicago, but I'm glad when I was a kid, I was

00:49:51.820 --> 00:49:53.679
like, why do we have to move from Chicago? I

00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:56.380
mean, I could go to the Cubs games if, if that

00:49:56.380 --> 00:49:59.050
never happened, but it's a, it's a a different

00:49:59.050 --> 00:50:04.670
experience i'm glad that we grew up in um what's

00:50:04.670 --> 00:50:08.230
going on now are you making a cracking the ice

00:50:08.230 --> 00:50:10.550
oh i just got back home yeah i just got back

00:50:10.550 --> 00:50:12.250
home i'm about to start cooking here in a minute

00:50:12.250 --> 00:50:16.230
we're gonna have steaks uh for easter it's a

00:50:16.230 --> 00:50:18.289
easter tradition but i'm i'm gonna keep going

00:50:18.289 --> 00:50:21.309
i hate we got six more hours already told you

00:50:21.309 --> 00:50:25.449
i've cleared the schedule we're taking it to

00:50:25.449 --> 00:50:28.269
like midnight Alright, so whoever is listening

00:50:28.269 --> 00:50:31.349
to this and you're you're on your way to See

00:50:31.349 --> 00:50:33.949
your in -laws and it's another five hours on

00:50:33.949 --> 00:50:36.309
the road. You are in luck. We're gonna carry

00:50:36.309 --> 00:50:40.010
it all the way there No, I think we should just

00:50:40.010 --> 00:50:42.110
start reading the dictionary at some point. We

00:50:42.110 --> 00:50:44.409
got it like burn some time somehow All right.

00:50:44.409 --> 00:50:46.849
I do have a question. This is pretty important

00:50:46.849 --> 00:50:51.030
When you when you go through your sock drawer

00:50:51.030 --> 00:50:54.190
and you've just got I'm having I'm having a big

00:50:54.190 --> 00:50:56.420
problem with this right now Don't know how it

00:50:56.420 --> 00:50:59.440
started. I don't know how we got here, but I've

00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.579
got a variety of socks of dress socks for the

00:51:03.579 --> 00:51:09.000
day and I am having an impossible time pairing

00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:15.280
up two socks of you know the style and The ones

00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.440
that I like the ones that I really like I'm just

00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:19.699
thinking where is that other one? I've got the

00:51:19.699 --> 00:51:22.940
first one in my hand and I can't find that other

00:51:22.940 --> 00:51:25.590
green sock and I'm thinking well Never mind.

00:51:25.610 --> 00:51:28.610
Let me move on and so I pick up the blue one

00:51:28.610 --> 00:51:30.570
and I'm thinking okay Where's the other blue

00:51:30.570 --> 00:51:32.510
one? Where is it? And I can't find it so I'm

00:51:32.510 --> 00:51:35.210
moving on and I guess about six or seven times

00:51:35.210 --> 00:51:39.489
and then I think what is what has happened in

00:51:39.489 --> 00:51:42.510
my house and and I just grab something a pair

00:51:42.510 --> 00:51:45.849
of socks that are Horrible or not horrible, but

00:51:45.849 --> 00:51:49.050
just way down the line of what I prefer to wear

00:51:49.050 --> 00:51:56.000
Where do they go? And is your size? You just

00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:59.000
asked me where the socks go. Yeah. That took

00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:03.679
20 minutes. That was the biggest setup for where

00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:07.599
did the socks go? That's the question. All right.

00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:11.099
I'll give you a serious answer. Big sock makes

00:52:11.099 --> 00:52:14.519
a variety pack of six or 12 socks. Each sock

00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:16.880
is just a little bit different, right? I'm sorry.

00:52:17.059 --> 00:52:19.000
You're always going to lose them. You just say

00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:23.320
like like big ag big agriculture big sock Yeah,

00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:26.440
it's a thing big sock exists. I guarantee you

00:52:26.440 --> 00:52:30.539
Publicly traded sorry publicly traded sock companies.

00:52:30.539 --> 00:52:33.280
There's got to be one They do this on purpose

00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:35.039
because they know the more variations of socks

00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.460
that they make the more likely you are to lose

00:52:37.460 --> 00:52:40.320
them so if you were to go to Costco and you know

00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.940
buy up a jumbo 48 pack of all blues you're gonna

00:52:43.940 --> 00:52:45.659
be fine Costco is gonna make a little bit of

00:52:45.659 --> 00:52:49.559
margin but The real big sock they do make all

00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:51.599
these different variations where like I'm in

00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:53.960
the same boat as you I literally cannot find

00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:56.300
a matching pair of socks to save my life now

00:52:56.300 --> 00:52:59.340
luckily I work from home, but we do go into the

00:52:59.340 --> 00:53:02.360
office It's every second and fourth Tuesday of

00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.679
the month and so it's always you know in the

00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:09.079
background line it's you know my my daily struggle

00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:12.579
is what am I gonna do in two weeks when the office

00:53:12.579 --> 00:53:16.070
is calling and I gotta be there and I've got

00:53:16.070 --> 00:53:18.150
gotta look good blue stripe socks and the black

00:53:18.150 --> 00:53:20.590
stripe socks, but I don't have the pair of blue

00:53:20.590 --> 00:53:23.369
or the pair of black It's a real it's a real

00:53:23.369 --> 00:53:25.969
thing that um that I have to deal with and it's

00:53:25.969 --> 00:53:28.789
bad When you've got a pair that you you especially

00:53:28.789 --> 00:53:31.489
you're especially fond of um, you know, you've

00:53:31.489 --> 00:53:33.449
had them since all this out, right? Are you gonna

00:53:33.449 --> 00:53:38.889
edit all this out? Because this is Okay Moving

00:53:38.889 --> 00:53:42.929
along. Um, I feel like I had a better question

00:53:42.929 --> 00:53:46.940
here Books that you enjoy that you've enjoyed

00:53:46.940 --> 00:53:48.940
in the past or do you have a book that you're

00:53:48.940 --> 00:53:53.300
reading now? I really and I want to kind of Throw

00:53:53.300 --> 00:53:57.679
a disclaimer in here. I can't believe That I

00:53:57.679 --> 00:53:59.280
never asked this question. I think it's what

00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:01.920
I don't want to put people on the spot a lot

00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:04.400
of guests I will I'll give them the alright.

00:54:04.500 --> 00:54:07.579
Hey, we're gonna discuss favorite movies Music

00:54:07.579 --> 00:54:10.039
podcasts and just you know think of some stuff

00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:13.119
before we get started But I never ask about books

00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:16.320
and I really should because I love them and What

00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.019
she what she got going on now or book that you

00:54:19.019 --> 00:54:22.460
really love? Yeah, I don't have any books like

00:54:22.460 --> 00:54:26.840
now. I don't get a lot of time father father

00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:34.260
three I don't get to read a lot of books. I used

00:54:34.260 --> 00:54:39.079
to before I love to read books One of my favorite

00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:45.889
authors He wrote Fight Club. He wrote some other

00:54:45.889 --> 00:54:49.469
phenomenal books. Rant was one of them. Lullaby.

00:54:50.389 --> 00:54:53.849
He's a very kind of counterculture type author

00:54:53.849 --> 00:54:55.909
that writes just bizarre stories. If you've seen

00:54:55.909 --> 00:54:59.050
Fight Club, that's a very strange, unique story.

00:54:59.650 --> 00:55:03.230
But I loved his writing. I like historical books.

00:55:04.210 --> 00:55:06.789
There's a book that our father gave me. It's

00:55:06.789 --> 00:55:08.789
called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

00:55:09.110 --> 00:55:11.590
It was the history of Nazi Germany. But it was

00:55:11.590 --> 00:55:16.530
written about 15 years after Nazi Germany fell.

00:55:16.570 --> 00:55:19.190
So it's from that perspective. It's not some

00:55:19.190 --> 00:55:22.150
historian in 2024 saying this is what happened.

00:55:22.269 --> 00:55:25.130
It's people that lived during that time. Phenomenal

00:55:25.130 --> 00:55:28.869
book. But without being able to really read books

00:55:28.869 --> 00:55:31.849
now with having kids, I tried to listen to books

00:55:31.849 --> 00:55:34.519
on tape. If I had to pick my favorite author

00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:36.500
of all time, this is not going to be somebody

00:55:36.500 --> 00:55:39.900
that's like, you know, the most brilliant or

00:55:39.900 --> 00:55:42.059
unique or cool or whatever, but it's Stephen

00:55:42.059 --> 00:55:45.480
King. I mean, it seems kind of like McDonald's

00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:48.019
of writers, but he is such a phenomenal writer.

00:55:48.539 --> 00:55:51.079
His stories are so unique and I've always liked

00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:53.739
the horror genre, but then he also did the Green

00:55:53.739 --> 00:55:58.559
Mile and, you know, other just drama type books.

00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.059
He's just, I read an interview with him where

00:56:01.059 --> 00:56:02.900
he said it just pours out of him. He'll just

00:56:02.900 --> 00:56:05.099
sit down and you start typing and he doesn't

00:56:05.099 --> 00:56:07.980
have to think about it. It's like he could be

00:56:07.980 --> 00:56:10.019
nothing except for an author, because if he was

00:56:10.019 --> 00:56:13.099
an accountant or if he was something else, he'd

00:56:13.099 --> 00:56:16.019
go crazy because he just has to, you know, provide

00:56:16.019 --> 00:56:17.719
this. And I think certain people's brains are

00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:20.280
just wired differently where he just can create

00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:23.780
these just absolutely amazing stories and landscapes

00:56:23.780 --> 00:56:27.199
and characters. So, yeah, it'd be Stephen King.

00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:30.440
His short stories are phenomenal. You know, it's

00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:33.420
not even a long read. It could be basically a

00:56:33.420 --> 00:56:36.039
chapter of a book, but it's still just a phenomenal

00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:40.239
short story. He's got tons of short story books

00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:43.400
out there that I've really enjoyed. What about

00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:47.119
favorite movie of all time? Do you have an all

00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:50.579
time favorite? Absolutely. And it's been my favorite

00:56:50.579 --> 00:56:54.199
movie since I saw it. People walked out of the

00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:56.139
movie theater when I was watching it. I went

00:56:56.139 --> 00:56:58.739
there with our father and our brother Robert,

00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:01.670
and I don't know if they liked it, but There

00:57:01.670 --> 00:57:05.110
Will Be Blood with Daniel Day Lewis is by far

00:57:05.110 --> 00:57:07.630
my favorite movie of all time. I've never seen

00:57:07.630 --> 00:57:11.230
a story crafted that way, acted that way. The

00:57:11.230 --> 00:57:14.670
first 15 minutes, there's no dialogue. It's just

00:57:14.670 --> 00:57:17.110
the character Daniel playing view, you know,

00:57:17.269 --> 00:57:19.929
in a hole in the ground trying to find oil. And

00:57:19.929 --> 00:57:23.130
it is... They talk about character actors, but

00:57:23.130 --> 00:57:26.369
Daniel Day Lewis... is probably my favorite actor.

00:57:26.469 --> 00:57:28.170
He's not been in my favorite movies, but just

00:57:28.170 --> 00:57:31.250
a guy that just completely commits and will never

00:57:31.250 --> 00:57:34.349
be typecast as a character. Every movie he does

00:57:34.349 --> 00:57:37.010
is just phenomenal. And even though There Will

00:57:37.010 --> 00:57:40.429
Be Blood is probably three hours long, I've never

00:57:40.429 --> 00:57:43.829
seen a movie before or after like that one. And

00:57:43.829 --> 00:57:45.909
it will be my favorite movie until something

00:57:45.909 --> 00:57:50.010
surpasses it. I've got to rewatch it now. And

00:57:50.010 --> 00:57:51.789
I'm not recommending it to everybody. I'm not

00:57:51.789 --> 00:57:53.800
saying that you would like it or... where everyone

00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:56.139
should like it. It's just mine. And a lot of

00:57:56.139 --> 00:57:58.619
people took a lot of umbrage with the fact the

00:57:58.619 --> 00:58:00.340
name is There Will Be Blood, and it was a very

00:58:00.340 --> 00:58:03.340
slow, plodding type movie. And there was no love

00:58:03.340 --> 00:58:06.139
interest. But I think people did miss the point

00:58:06.139 --> 00:58:08.800
a little bit, because it was all about a man's

00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:12.099
pursuit of greed and money. And his love interest

00:58:12.099 --> 00:58:15.559
was oil and money. And that was the other side.

00:58:16.059 --> 00:58:18.900
But again, a lot of these, your favorite music,

00:58:19.019 --> 00:58:21.920
your favorite book, this is me. and I know a

00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.539
lot of people don't agree with the things that

00:58:24.539 --> 00:58:27.760
I'm interested in, and I'm okay with that. At

00:58:27.760 --> 00:58:30.940
the end of the day, if music or movies or books

00:58:30.940 --> 00:58:33.059
bring somebody happiness, even if it's a Judy

00:58:33.059 --> 00:58:36.360
Blume book, think good for them, you know? Let

00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:38.719
people enjoy what they want them to enjoy, and

00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:40.380
don't knock people for their opinions on what

00:58:40.380 --> 00:58:41.920
they think's cool. You know, I might like There

00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:44.099
Will Be Blood, and somebody might like, what

00:58:44.099 --> 00:58:46.119
was it, Paul Blart, Mall Cop, you know, that

00:58:46.119 --> 00:58:48.860
movie that's just silly, and that's fine. So

00:58:48.860 --> 00:58:51.480
again, I don't... I don't like to knock people's

00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:57.320
interest, be it pop music or sitcoms or something

00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:02.139
like Designated Survivor. I knew that was coming.

00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.260
I was setting that one up. I did finish the whole

00:59:07.260 --> 00:59:10.119
entire series and that show was absolutely hilarious.

00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:14.869
I've never seen one FBI agent. Go into so many

00:59:14.869 --> 00:59:18.730
warehouses alone every time never having any

00:59:18.730 --> 00:59:21.590
backup It was the biggest national security threat

00:59:21.590 --> 00:59:24.510
to the entire nation one person in a warehouse

00:59:24.510 --> 00:59:30.610
How probable would that did miss administration

00:59:30.610 --> 00:59:34.789
and just the way that certain policies or orders

00:59:34.789 --> 00:59:38.409
were carried out and I'll tell you it's crazy

00:59:38.409 --> 00:59:41.250
how quickly the country forgot that the entire

00:59:41.250 --> 00:59:45.079
Congress was killed and immediately the political

00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:47.320
divisions crept in. It was like, Jesus, like

00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:50.900
they literally, like one of our own, and I'm

00:59:50.900 --> 00:59:53.199
sorry, spoiler alert, you know, it was that,

00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:56.099
it was that businessman over there in Texas or

00:59:56.099 --> 00:59:59.699
Tennessee, wherever it was. But yeah, they, so

00:59:59.699 --> 01:00:03.380
I've seen the show, The West Wing, that was on

01:00:03.380 --> 01:00:08.239
NBC, and Designated Survivor is the West Wing

01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:11.840
on steroids, where they still, like had the issue

01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:13.880
of the day we want to do infrastructure we want

01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:15.780
to do this or that and then oh yeah by the way

01:00:15.780 --> 01:00:17.980
there's a bioterrorist you know threat that's

01:00:17.980 --> 01:00:22.559
gonna kill 50 million people every single episode

01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:24.980
i've never seen such chaos in my entire life

01:00:24.980 --> 01:00:30.500
it was insane like the country could not physically

01:00:30.500 --> 01:00:34.000
get through the day if these threats were looming

01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.420
at every you know step of the way it was outrageous

01:00:39.420 --> 01:00:41.039
The most outrageous I've ever seen in my life

01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:42.260
and I know I said that people can have their

01:00:42.260 --> 01:00:44.219
opinions and whatever it was it was the most

01:00:44.219 --> 01:00:46.679
absurd show I've ever committed and I watched

01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:48.920
it just because I want I know you watched it

01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:51.000
and I want to say that I'd watch it too, but

01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.980
they know that was that was a chore To get through

01:00:53.980 --> 01:00:59.400
that thing Well, I think I just want I stuck

01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:01.440
through it because of Kiefer Sutherland I thought

01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:04.960
anything he's he's gonna be a part of I'm in

01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.480
President Strickland. Yeah They killed his wife

01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:10.440
for no reason. You know that right like that

01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:13.539
made no sense. It did it really didn't She was

01:01:13.539 --> 01:01:15.539
a great actress. There's probably some sort of

01:01:15.539 --> 01:01:18.320
contract negotiation, but her death made absolutely

01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.639
zero sense But I know that you know your loyal

01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:24.440
listeners aren't aren't here to hear about designate

01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:32.179
a survivor Well, maybe they are What about and

01:01:32.179 --> 01:01:36.300
we probably need to wrap up here but Yep, but

01:01:36.300 --> 01:01:41.239
one and a half hours left. What would you rather...

01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:44.139
It's one of those nights you haven't gone to

01:01:44.139 --> 01:01:46.559
the grocery store when you should have, and you're

01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:48.840
scrambling, you don't have much to go on, and

01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:51.360
you need to eat something or feed somebody. You've

01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:54.260
got two choices. So you've got a perfectly good

01:01:54.260 --> 01:01:58.519
package of ballpark frank hot dogs. And you've

01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.380
got to microwave either one of these. So a fresh

01:02:01.380 --> 01:02:06.639
hot dog or a two -day old slice. of Little Caesars.

01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:09.599
You know, the oven can kind of whip it into shape

01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:11.920
a little bit, but you can't do that. You got

01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:14.460
to use the microwave. What are you eating? The

01:02:14.460 --> 01:02:17.699
ballpark frank. Just kind of take the knife and

01:02:17.699 --> 01:02:20.579
cut some. You got some little slits in it so

01:02:20.579 --> 01:02:24.119
it doesn't explode. Can I not cook the hot dogs

01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:25.920
on the stove? Like, I have a skillet. I can just

01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:29.099
do that, right? Or was my stove inoperable at

01:02:29.099 --> 01:02:32.579
this point? Am I really hard up or like, ugh?

01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:35.900
You don't have much time. You gotta be somewhere.

01:02:36.900 --> 01:02:39.480
Gotta be somewhere. I could just not eat and

01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:41.820
just wait or get something when I'm out, like

01:02:41.820 --> 01:02:44.159
a honey bun. But yeah, all right, I'll play along.

01:02:44.659 --> 01:02:48.800
I'm going hot dog all day. Little Caesar's is,

01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:52.019
when it's hot and ready, it's fantastic. When

01:02:52.019 --> 01:02:55.780
it's two days and not ready, it's trash. It is

01:02:55.780 --> 01:02:58.739
the worst pizza I've ever had reheated. Even

01:02:58.739 --> 01:03:00.980
after like an hour, it's done. You have to get

01:03:00.980 --> 01:03:03.679
it immediately. Like seriously, when it's ready,

01:03:04.940 --> 01:03:08.300
It's a good little slice of pizza for five bucks.

01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:13.300
You got to get at it very quickly. Maybe even

01:03:13.300 --> 01:03:17.980
on the way home. Yeah. Oh, man. Back in my larger

01:03:17.980 --> 01:03:20.300
days, I'm not proud of this, but I housed an

01:03:20.300 --> 01:03:24.639
entire Little Caesar's large pizza. I was driving

01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:28.280
to Mississippi for a work thing. It was the Super

01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:31.599
Bowl. It was the Saints versus the Colts. Remember

01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:35.469
when the Saints won? Yeah. I literally ate an

01:03:35.469 --> 01:03:38.030
entire large Little Caesars on the way to Mississippi.

01:03:39.329 --> 01:03:47.289
Oh God. How'd you feel? It was good. Huh? Now

01:03:47.289 --> 01:03:50.670
we'll talk about it. How'd you feel, let's just

01:03:50.670 --> 01:03:53.630
say half an hour later? Didn't feel good at all.

01:03:53.929 --> 01:03:56.349
I felt terrible. I felt like I just ate an entire

01:03:56.349 --> 01:04:00.809
large Little Caesars pep. Like it was, it was

01:04:00.809 --> 01:04:03.980
bad. This is back in the days when I was a little

01:04:03.980 --> 01:04:06.820
bit heavier. I would say that I ate recklessly.

01:04:07.480 --> 01:04:11.159
Anybody that can down an entire large pizza obviously

01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:18.380
needs help. And I found out how to do it. Can

01:04:18.380 --> 01:04:22.440
I really, real quickly just tell you a funny

01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:24.980
anecdote about a point where I knew that I needed

01:04:24.980 --> 01:04:27.059
to make some changes. I've told this story before.

01:04:27.059 --> 01:04:29.659
I don't know if I've told you, but I'm probably

01:04:29.659 --> 01:04:34.510
about I'd be 165 right now, 5 '9", so just normal,

01:04:34.630 --> 01:04:39.030
yeah. I got up to 210. I don't have any business

01:04:39.030 --> 01:04:41.429
being over reduced, let's just say that much,

01:04:41.670 --> 01:04:45.690
no business. I was driving, this is back years

01:04:45.690 --> 01:04:48.230
ago, I think we didn't have kids yet, but I was

01:04:48.230 --> 01:04:52.690
literally driving a Burger King and had pants

01:04:52.690 --> 01:04:56.250
on, shirt, had a belt, you know, the belt broke.

01:04:57.030 --> 01:04:58.789
It literally was hanging on for dear life and

01:04:58.789 --> 01:05:04.440
it broke. And most normal people are like, okay,

01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:07.179
let's just go get a salad and call it a day.

01:05:07.400 --> 01:05:10.019
This is life talking to you at the moment. I

01:05:10.019 --> 01:05:13.280
didn't. I went to Burger King. I got a Whopper.

01:05:13.559 --> 01:05:15.579
I sat there in the parking lot. I didn't even

01:05:15.579 --> 01:05:17.400
go in because I didn't have a belt at this point.

01:05:17.739 --> 01:05:22.420
My stomach had basically exploded it. And I ate

01:05:22.420 --> 01:05:25.400
my Whopper. It was probably the lowest point

01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:27.789
of my life. And then I still waited 15 years

01:05:27.789 --> 01:05:32.309
to make any changes. And it honestly took walking

01:05:32.309 --> 01:05:34.269
in podcasts for me to say, oh, this is how you

01:05:34.269 --> 01:05:36.170
do it. Because everything else that I tried didn't

01:05:36.170 --> 01:05:39.610
work. It didn't stick. Didn't you say that you

01:05:39.610 --> 01:05:42.110
had a lot of cleaning up to do on this episode?

01:05:42.150 --> 01:05:46.690
I'm sorry. Wasn't there a favorite kind of road

01:05:46.690 --> 01:05:49.949
snack of yours where you would go get a pack

01:05:49.949 --> 01:05:54.150
of these? Oh, don't do this to me. I know exactly

01:05:54.150 --> 01:05:56.889
where you're going. Was it the the tropical fruit

01:05:56.889 --> 01:06:01.010
skittles and a 20 ounce Coke and just? Yeah,

01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:03.530
it was like diabetes on wheels. It was just it

01:06:03.530 --> 01:06:07.389
was a pack of skittles and 20 ounce Coke and

01:06:07.389 --> 01:06:11.670
you know mouthful skittles and then take a big

01:06:11.670 --> 01:06:18.989
swig of Coke and let them all swish around. Look.

01:06:20.170 --> 01:06:23.119
It's a lot easier when you're 22. than when you're

01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:26.920
42. Yeah, and look, there's people that have

01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:31.340
these habits. There's good, nice, decent people

01:06:31.340 --> 01:06:36.400
that have, you know, a lot of little secret indulgences.

01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:39.059
No, and again, I'm not telling these stories

01:06:39.059 --> 01:06:41.119
to make fun of anybody. I'm making fun of myself.

01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:43.480
But yeah, Robin's always said everybody's got

01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:45.840
advice, whatever it may be. Somebody's got something.

01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:47.840
And if somebody's struggling with that, then

01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:50.420
so be it. Again, this is all self -deprecating

01:06:50.420 --> 01:06:54.710
against myself. your fault anybody else for struggling

01:06:54.710 --> 01:06:57.969
with food or whatever it may be. This is all

01:06:57.969 --> 01:07:01.090
just me saying, gosh, that was being silly. The

01:07:01.090 --> 01:07:03.409
way you tell it, I mean, you can absolutely laugh

01:07:03.409 --> 01:07:05.929
at it now. I'm sure at the time you just kind

01:07:05.929 --> 01:07:08.650
of felt like, well, what, what can I do about

01:07:08.650 --> 01:07:12.590
this? I mean, you probably realize I could exercise,

01:07:13.170 --> 01:07:16.650
but I don't really want to start doing that or

01:07:16.650 --> 01:07:20.679
what exactly. I think that's my point of everybody,

01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:23.980
if you can find a way to exercise that works

01:07:23.980 --> 01:07:26.940
for you, then do it. Like there's somebody out

01:07:26.940 --> 01:07:28.659
there that they just want to do the rowing machine,

01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:30.519
or they just want to do the boat flex, or they

01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:33.559
want to lift weights, or they want to run a marathon,

01:07:34.099 --> 01:07:37.800
and none of that stuff spoke to me. Walking and

01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:40.619
listening to stuff in my ears as I'm doing it,

01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:43.500
or watching an iPad on a treadmill, and then

01:07:43.500 --> 01:07:47.300
also just kind of being conscious of Hey, you

01:07:47.300 --> 01:07:50.440
had McDonald's for lunch. Let's not have a huge

01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:52.360
dinner. And just really trying to think about

01:07:52.360 --> 01:07:55.460
calories. It's not rocket science. It's just

01:07:55.460 --> 01:07:59.400
find what works for you and do it. And luckily,

01:07:59.460 --> 01:08:02.360
this has worked for me because I was, again,

01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:05.840
for years trying to find something. And I finally

01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:10.699
found it. And I'm grateful for it because I've

01:08:10.699 --> 01:08:13.719
got a beautiful wife. Robin been with her 20

01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:16.539
years. I've got three great kids and I want to

01:08:16.539 --> 01:08:19.720
be around as long as I can for them because,

01:08:19.979 --> 01:08:22.359
you know, you only get this one life. And I want

01:08:22.359 --> 01:08:23.939
to see Alabama win a national championship in

01:08:23.939 --> 01:08:29.220
basketball. That's it. But yeah, I think it's

01:08:29.220 --> 01:08:31.380
definitely, you know, you have a wonderful life.

01:08:31.739 --> 01:08:36.300
I do. It helps ground you and. Yeah. Well, all

01:08:36.300 --> 01:08:39.420
right. Let's see here. Will you do the rapid

01:08:39.420 --> 01:08:41.560
fire? Will you do the rapid fire? Let's do the

01:08:41.560 --> 01:08:45.079
rapid fire. Let's do it. All right. You're at

01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:47.619
line at McDonald's and no, sorry, go ahead. Okay.

01:08:47.819 --> 01:08:50.939
I still love your question to Kevin. We were

01:08:50.939 --> 01:08:53.819
joking about this. Have you ever been walking

01:08:53.819 --> 01:08:55.920
up the stairs at a concourse at a basketball

01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.619
game? It was the most insane question I've ever

01:08:59.619 --> 01:09:01.899
heard. I loved it. So I want something like that.

01:09:02.340 --> 01:09:06.260
All right. Let's see here. Okay. You go up to

01:09:06.260 --> 01:09:09.180
the jukebox. You just, you find yourself, you

01:09:09.180 --> 01:09:11.609
got... You know, what in the world is going on

01:09:11.609 --> 01:09:14.869
here? I've got a free three hours. I'm at some

01:09:14.869 --> 01:09:18.109
local watering hole that I would never be at

01:09:18.109 --> 01:09:21.250
and they got a jukebox and well, let's go play

01:09:21.250 --> 01:09:23.170
something here. And you walk up to it and you

01:09:23.170 --> 01:09:26.670
realize this is not an internet jukebox. This

01:09:26.670 --> 01:09:30.810
is a glam jukebox. So all you can choose from

01:09:30.810 --> 01:09:37.449
is anything from rat to Cinderella to white lion,

01:09:37.729 --> 01:09:44.140
poison. Motley crew who? And you got four plays.

01:09:44.300 --> 01:09:46.880
What are you playing? I think the biggest thing

01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:49.520
and I gotta wrap this up quick because I gotta

01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:52.039
start cooking here, but alright good question

01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:54.840
I think that glam rock I missed it a little bit

01:09:54.840 --> 01:09:58.300
just at my age. I know you and Robert obviously

01:09:58.300 --> 01:10:00.979
Pretty much grew up on it, but I'm gonna give

01:10:00.979 --> 01:10:03.760
you four I'll give you four this first one's

01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:07.989
gonna be round and round by rat Second is probably

01:10:07.989 --> 01:10:10.909
my favorite glam song of all time. It was Wait

01:10:10.909 --> 01:10:14.170
by White Lion. I remember y 'all taped it off

01:10:14.170 --> 01:10:17.689
of the old I -95 radio station. Was that it?

01:10:17.689 --> 01:10:21.289
I -95? Yep. Y 'all taped Wait. We had to put,

01:10:21.289 --> 01:10:24.890
I think, tape over a blanket set to... I still

01:10:24.890 --> 01:10:27.090
don't understand how that simple little hack

01:10:27.090 --> 01:10:30.789
got us to tape stuff off the radio. Wait by White

01:10:30.789 --> 01:10:35.409
Lion. And then it's gonna be Motley Crue. It's

01:10:35.409 --> 01:10:39.710
gonna be... Same old situation, maybe mmm like

01:10:39.710 --> 01:10:45.710
it and then it's going to be Gonna make you sweat

01:10:45.710 --> 01:10:50.649
by no just joking If I gotta go poison probably

01:10:50.649 --> 01:10:53.569
nothing but a good time, I know that's easy Maybe

01:10:53.569 --> 01:10:56.390
love on the rocks. That was a fun song. I love

01:10:56.390 --> 01:10:59.670
that one I just I'm just not that well versed

01:10:59.670 --> 01:11:02.829
in I mean, I know the glam metal I've heard it

01:11:02.829 --> 01:11:05.409
my entire life, but it was never my thing. I

01:11:05.409 --> 01:11:09.149
grew up with Rage Against the Machine, New Metal,

01:11:09.949 --> 01:11:13.109
and that kind of stuff, but I always did appreciate

01:11:13.109 --> 01:11:16.689
the glam rock and all that kind of stuff. It

01:11:16.689 --> 01:11:20.229
was a cool time of music. One final question.

01:11:20.270 --> 01:11:22.970
There's so many we'll have to get to for another

01:11:22.970 --> 01:11:27.409
episode, Travis, but do you ever miss the last

01:11:27.409 --> 01:11:30.050
flip phone that you had and just the way that

01:11:30.050 --> 01:11:33.050
it felt in the pocket, the way that it felt when

01:11:33.050 --> 01:11:36.979
you flipped it and just The, the functions, the

01:11:36.979 --> 01:11:40.859
functionality or are you fine? I do. I do miss

01:11:40.859 --> 01:11:43.520
it. And I was one of the last holdouts. I'll

01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.359
never forget. You got an iPhone. I lose a four

01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:49.520
was the first iPhone that you got in the family.

01:11:49.859 --> 01:11:52.899
Yeah. And we were at the beach. I think Robin

01:11:52.899 --> 01:11:57.739
was pregnant with Michael and I remember taking

01:11:57.739 --> 01:11:59.859
your phone and playing with it. And I was like,

01:11:59.859 --> 01:12:04.289
ah, it's just not for me. And you and Jim both

01:12:04.289 --> 01:12:06.390
had an iPhone. He probably didn't have an iPhone

01:12:06.390 --> 01:12:08.689
at that time, but he had a smartphone. And y

01:12:08.689 --> 01:12:12.729
'all were like, you need to get one. And I'll

01:12:12.729 --> 01:12:16.369
never forget, and this is a tip for sales jobs

01:12:16.369 --> 01:12:19.909
or people in sales. It's how is this gonna benefit

01:12:19.909 --> 01:12:23.090
me? And this is not a knock on you at the time

01:12:23.090 --> 01:12:26.949
or Jim or anybody else that had one, but everybody

01:12:26.949 --> 01:12:29.609
was like, you gotta get a smartphone. And I'd

01:12:29.609 --> 01:12:31.939
say, why? And people would say, oh, well, they

01:12:31.939 --> 01:12:34.060
can do this and they can do that. They can do

01:12:34.060 --> 01:12:36.579
whatever. But nobody ever once asked me, what

01:12:36.579 --> 01:12:39.939
do you want a phone to do for you? And somebody

01:12:39.939 --> 01:12:41.460
would have said, what do you want a phone to

01:12:41.460 --> 01:12:43.180
do for you? I would have said, well, I'd like

01:12:43.180 --> 01:12:45.340
to have GPS on it. I'd like to listen to music

01:12:45.340 --> 01:12:50.380
on it. I'd like to do X, Y, and Z. And so I fought

01:12:50.380 --> 01:12:52.800
it for the longest time. I didn't get my first

01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:59.090
iPhone, I think was a six. I think the craziest

01:12:59.090 --> 01:13:03.069
thing about smartphones and especially Apple,

01:13:03.729 --> 01:13:07.850
it is insane how they were able to create a product

01:13:07.850 --> 01:13:11.850
that's gonna basically rope people in for their

01:13:11.850 --> 01:13:14.310
entire life. And I'll give you a really quick

01:13:14.310 --> 01:13:17.670
story. Me and Michael, my oldest, 12, he was

01:13:17.670 --> 01:13:19.710
gonna get a new phone for Christmas and we had

01:13:19.710 --> 01:13:22.649
to go to the Spectra store. And we walked in,

01:13:22.729 --> 01:13:28.310
he was trading in his old iPhone 8 and we had

01:13:28.310 --> 01:13:31.189
to look at new phones and he immediately found

01:13:31.189 --> 01:13:33.670
one it was the iPhone 14 or 15 where the newest

01:13:33.670 --> 01:13:37.109
one is and then we had to go to the kiosk and

01:13:37.109 --> 01:13:38.829
you know talk to the lady and get everything

01:13:38.829 --> 01:13:41.829
set up and It always takes forever when you're

01:13:41.829 --> 01:13:44.029
doing this stuff and I'll never forget we're

01:13:44.029 --> 01:13:46.090
sitting there and I looked at Michael I said

01:13:46.090 --> 01:13:48.550
Mike, you know, it's crazy. Like we did not look

01:13:48.550 --> 01:13:51.670
at any other phone But the iPhone is the only

01:13:51.670 --> 01:13:55.970
one we looked at and that is a company Apple

01:13:55.970 --> 01:13:59.319
to get Somebody like, you know myself and now

01:13:59.319 --> 01:14:02.239
First with you and then you got me and our family

01:14:02.239 --> 01:14:05.060
and now my kids like we're not looking at Android

01:14:05.060 --> 01:14:07.399
We're not looking at anything else and this will

01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:10.500
be forever. I think it's absolutely incredible

01:14:10.500 --> 01:14:14.880
You're right. You're at 100 % It doesn't even

01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:16.939
cross your mind. I think some people make the

01:14:16.939 --> 01:14:18.600
switch if I don't know what the percentages are

01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:22.939
But I can't imagine doing it. No, and I think

01:14:22.939 --> 01:14:24.659
the biggest part of it too is, you know Apple

01:14:24.659 --> 01:14:27.399
music Think you can get after music on other

01:14:27.399 --> 01:14:29.920
phones. I'm not sure but I don't even want to

01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:33.119
know like I just Apple music I use it every single

01:14:33.119 --> 01:14:36.640
day in my life. I put it on the car Every album

01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:39.439
is immediately accessible on that Thursday night

01:14:39.439 --> 01:14:43.060
at midnight Whenever it drops all the apps that

01:14:43.060 --> 01:14:45.979
they have everything like it's just I and I don't

01:14:45.979 --> 01:14:48.000
have an Apple computer and I will never have

01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:50.220
an Apple computer I'll have a Microsoft computer

01:14:50.220 --> 01:14:53.279
or a you know HP computer, whatever it may be,

01:14:53.600 --> 01:14:55.869
but I will always have an Apple phone I don't

01:14:55.869 --> 01:14:59.029
like it, but it just is what it is. Last question.

01:15:00.050 --> 01:15:01.829
Okay. Robin's giving me this thing. Don't put

01:15:01.829 --> 01:15:07.909
that in there. Good timing. How happy are you

01:15:07.909 --> 01:15:11.689
or indifferent are you about one of the biggest

01:15:11.689 --> 01:15:18.010
global cultural phenomenon, phenomenons? Taylor

01:15:18.010 --> 01:15:22.130
Swift and her Current bow, let's just say that

01:15:22.130 --> 01:15:24.449
they last a while. I mean it seems like there

01:15:24.449 --> 01:15:27.689
would probably be an end date But the guy she's

01:15:27.689 --> 01:15:32.930
with now is Travis Kelsey, how tickled are you?

01:15:33.289 --> 01:15:37.130
How delighted are you that that a guy named Travis

01:15:37.130 --> 01:15:43.390
is? filling that role here in 2024 maybe they

01:15:43.390 --> 01:15:46.069
die old together, maybe this thing lasts another

01:15:46.069 --> 01:15:49.920
eight months, but How does this make you feel?

01:15:50.119 --> 01:15:53.119
Are you attached to it? It's a great question.

01:15:53.180 --> 01:15:56.680
I was talking to my oldest son, Michael. This

01:15:56.680 --> 01:15:58.960
was on Friday night. And he said, let me talk

01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:03.579
to you about a story about a chimpanzee named

01:16:03.579 --> 01:16:07.000
Travis. And I stopped him. And I knew exactly

01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:08.840
what he was talking about. There was a chimpanzee

01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:13.840
in Texas named Travis that literally ate a woman's

01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:16.539
face, right? It was terrible. I think the woman

01:16:16.539 --> 01:16:20.810
survived. the hater face whatever that was a

01:16:20.810 --> 01:16:24.829
low point for travis's across the world and then

01:16:24.829 --> 01:16:30.529
we got thrown a lifeline in 2022 when or no sorry

01:16:30.529 --> 01:16:34.869
2023 when travis kelsey started dating the biggest

01:16:34.869 --> 01:16:37.750
pop star in the world i said michael a rising

01:16:37.750 --> 01:16:42.109
tide lifts all ships and travis kelsey did more

01:16:42.109 --> 01:16:46.760
for the travis name than anybody has before And

01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:49.380
so I'm very much in favor of Travis Kelsey and

01:16:49.380 --> 01:16:54.020
Taylor Swift. I hope they have a long courtship

01:16:54.020 --> 01:16:56.579
and marriage and I want to see grand babies.

01:16:57.380 --> 01:17:01.079
We'll see it all. So I'm in favor. I want to

01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:07.279
see grand babies. Yes. And these are grand. I

01:17:07.279 --> 01:17:08.600
thought that was my last question. I think I

01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:11.220
have one more. What do you think about and do

01:17:11.220 --> 01:17:12.800
you think you and Robin will do this when you

01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:17.060
get? later in life, what do you think of the

01:17:17.060 --> 01:17:20.279
parents who, you know, they're joking but they're

01:17:20.279 --> 01:17:22.960
not joking and they pressure their adult children.

01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:26.100
When are you gonna give us some grand babies?

01:17:28.460 --> 01:17:31.939
When are you gonna give us, not, when are you

01:17:31.939 --> 01:17:33.460
gonna have children that now you've got to be

01:17:33.460 --> 01:17:37.180
responsible for, but give us some little... Give

01:17:37.180 --> 01:17:40.569
us grand babies. Yeah. I think it goes back to

01:17:40.569 --> 01:17:44.430
our discussion on generations and I think you

01:17:44.430 --> 01:17:47.550
gotta have some grace for the older generations

01:17:47.550 --> 01:17:51.270
because they're, you know, getting older in years

01:17:51.270 --> 01:17:54.369
and, you know, they raise their own kids and

01:17:54.369 --> 01:17:57.350
I think there was a certain pull toward, you

01:17:57.350 --> 01:17:59.470
know, you want grandchildren because it's not

01:17:59.470 --> 01:18:02.550
only who doesn't like, you know, babies and toddlers

01:18:02.550 --> 01:18:06.369
and, you know, kids but it's also a legacy for

01:18:06.369 --> 01:18:08.340
them. it's that they've done everything right

01:18:08.340 --> 01:18:10.479
in the world and they've raised good kids and

01:18:10.479 --> 01:18:13.159
their kids have met and you know coupled up with

01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:15.680
other people and then they have kids and then

01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:19.060
I think uh it's probably nice to know that you

01:18:19.060 --> 01:18:23.479
know you can you know exit stage left so to speak

01:18:23.479 --> 01:18:25.239
you know when you're in your 80s or 90s and just

01:18:25.239 --> 01:18:29.140
know everybody's okay yeah is that the answer

01:18:29.140 --> 01:18:33.020
that you're looking for that's your answer that's

01:18:33.020 --> 01:18:36.680
my answer I don't know what I'm talking about

01:18:38.260 --> 01:18:41.319
I will say this. I will say this too. It is funny

01:18:41.319 --> 01:18:45.539
to me that we raise our kids and we tell them

01:18:45.539 --> 01:18:48.920
rightly, you know, make sure that you're, you

01:18:48.920 --> 01:18:51.020
know, safe when you're in high school and college

01:18:51.020 --> 01:18:53.060
and you don't have, you know, kids before you're

01:18:53.060 --> 01:18:56.020
ready and you try to say, don't, don't, don't,

01:18:56.020 --> 01:18:57.939
don't, don't. And then all of a sudden once they

01:18:57.939 --> 01:18:59.920
get a job and get married, it's like now do,

01:19:00.060 --> 01:19:02.340
do, do, do, do, you know? Yeah. Oh, that's a

01:19:02.340 --> 01:19:04.359
great point. It's like a flip that gets switched

01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:07.250
that you're just like, whoa, what happened? But

01:19:07.250 --> 01:19:09.149
I think it's I think it's coming from a good

01:19:09.149 --> 01:19:12.029
spot. It's like don't have kids be ready Because

01:19:12.029 --> 01:19:14.869
as you know with three, it's the hardest thing

01:19:14.869 --> 01:19:19.630
you'll ever do Wow, yeah, that's I really feel

01:19:19.630 --> 01:19:24.430
like I have aged about 17 years in the past five

01:19:24.430 --> 01:19:27.510
or six. I know there's there's times right, you

01:19:27.510 --> 01:19:28.869
know, you look in the mirror you're brushing

01:19:28.869 --> 01:19:35.270
your teeth and you're shaving you're doing okay,

01:19:35.369 --> 01:19:39.550
but You feel sometimes like you're an old man

01:19:39.550 --> 01:19:44.189
in a kind of reasonably young frame, body, but...

01:19:44.189 --> 01:19:51.069
Yeah. No, 100%. It's the hardest thing, and it's

01:19:51.069 --> 01:19:54.069
something that I know if you blink it's over,

01:19:54.670 --> 01:19:56.350
but when you're in the middle of it, it's still

01:19:56.350 --> 01:19:58.869
hard. And it's hard to just stop and say, no,

01:19:58.890 --> 01:20:01.470
this is fine, even though, you know, one kid's

01:20:01.470 --> 01:20:03.630
yelling at the other, somebody's crying, somebody's

01:20:03.630 --> 01:20:05.960
sick, whatever it may be. It's really hard to

01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:07.920
explain, and I think that any parent that's listening

01:20:07.920 --> 01:20:14.640
could understand that... I want my children to...

01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:17.319
I've always said this, when they grow up and

01:20:17.319 --> 01:20:20.819
they still want to initiate contact with me,

01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:22.880
maybe that's a phone call, but maybe for them

01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:26.739
that'll be a text message or something, but if

01:20:26.739 --> 01:20:30.899
they want to do that more than me having to try

01:20:30.899 --> 01:20:33.369
to... Pester them and saying hey, when are you

01:20:33.369 --> 01:20:35.869
coming to see me or hey, what's been going on?

01:20:35.869 --> 01:20:39.470
I haven't taught you in a month If my children

01:20:39.470 --> 01:20:44.430
still want to reach out to me Unprompted then

01:20:44.430 --> 01:20:48.869
I'll feel happy and that will be and and you

01:20:48.869 --> 01:20:52.270
know and maybe probably more importantly, I want

01:20:52.270 --> 01:20:56.329
my children to be close with each other and Right.

01:20:56.329 --> 01:20:58.189
That's probably what brings me the greatest joy

01:20:58.189 --> 01:21:02.890
is when we get all them together and we take

01:21:02.890 --> 01:21:06.310
them somewhere or they're playing and it just

01:21:06.310 --> 01:21:09.989
reminds me of what we had with me, you and Robert

01:21:09.989 --> 01:21:15.189
as little kids. Yeah, 100%. Absolutely. And,

01:21:15.250 --> 01:21:18.109
you know, I think about this a lot. You know,

01:21:18.210 --> 01:21:20.149
I'm gonna be gone at some point, Robin will be

01:21:20.149 --> 01:21:22.529
gone, and all these kids are gonna have for each

01:21:22.529 --> 01:21:24.510
other. You know, Michael, Joe, and Ali, they're

01:21:24.510 --> 01:21:27.090
gonna have each other. And they'll be like, you

01:21:27.090 --> 01:21:30.170
know, our father and our aunts and uncles and

01:21:30.170 --> 01:21:33.229
all the cousins and at some point, you know,

01:21:33.350 --> 01:21:35.789
we'll be in a picture commemorating, you know

01:21:35.789 --> 01:21:39.069
Easter 100 years from now and someone will say

01:21:39.069 --> 01:21:41.149
who was that person? Who was that person? Yeah

01:21:41.149 --> 01:21:46.510
Well We have waited Yeah, let's see about five

01:21:46.510 --> 01:21:49.909
months into the the Dan time podcast and we have

01:21:49.909 --> 01:21:52.869
folks Thank you so much for for sticking it out

01:21:52.869 --> 01:21:55.829
here. I hope this has been entertaining but Travis

01:21:55.829 --> 01:22:00.079
McArdle my brother We've gotten the first appearance

01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:03.520
in the books. There will have to be a second.

01:22:03.859 --> 01:22:06.819
We'll have Robert back on here, but won't be

01:22:06.819 --> 01:22:10.640
stacking the deck with the brothers and the family

01:22:10.640 --> 01:22:13.720
and the friends. You're going to hear more episodes

01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:18.079
from athletes, songwriters, and people from around

01:22:18.079 --> 01:22:20.600
the world. But hopefully this is fun when we

01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:23.619
do this. Wait a second. Can I ask you a question?

01:22:24.399 --> 01:22:29.630
Yeah. Have we started? Have we already started?

01:22:31.689 --> 01:22:37.989
Have I hit record yet? Yeah. I don't get it.

01:22:38.689 --> 01:22:41.130
Hey, can I say though, I really do. I want to

01:22:41.130 --> 01:22:44.890
shout out Jim Powell. He broke the glass ceiling

01:22:44.890 --> 01:22:48.909
for all the non -Dans. He made it possible for

01:22:48.909 --> 01:22:52.289
me to be here on Dan Time. He did it inexplicably

01:22:52.289 --> 01:22:56.789
on episode one, which is hilarious. But I just

01:22:56.789 --> 01:23:01.750
like that you're given the non -DANs a soapbox

01:23:01.750 --> 01:23:05.829
to stand upon. It's important. We'll see more

01:23:05.829 --> 01:23:10.050
of that, but you've got Steaks to Grill. Yes.

01:23:10.670 --> 01:23:12.649
I always like to ask, is there something you

01:23:12.649 --> 01:23:16.689
want to plug and promote? Yes. I have a podcast

01:23:16.689 --> 01:23:18.430
that I guess would directly compete with your

01:23:18.430 --> 01:23:21.550
podcast, but in the podcast world, I guess that's

01:23:21.550 --> 01:23:25.659
a good thing. Senses Working Overtime with David

01:23:25.659 --> 01:23:28.819
Cross. He's my favorite comedian of all time.

01:23:29.640 --> 01:23:32.020
He's famous for Mr. Show with Bob and David.

01:23:32.140 --> 01:23:35.140
He's also done movies. He was on Arrested Development.

01:23:35.300 --> 01:23:39.260
But his podcast, Senses Working Overtime, is

01:23:39.260 --> 01:23:43.960
my second favorite podcast after Gantime. So

01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:46.920
yeah, that's what I want to promote. It is phenomenal.

01:23:47.819 --> 01:23:50.060
Folks, that is it for this week. I hope you've

01:23:50.060 --> 01:23:53.710
enjoyed the past Few episodes. Stay tuned. I've

01:23:53.710 --> 01:23:56.270
got some great guests coming up as we tip into

01:23:56.270 --> 01:23:58.989
April here. Couple guests that I've had in the

01:23:58.989 --> 01:24:00.750
past that I always want to draw. I always like

01:24:00.750 --> 01:24:04.189
to draw attention back to the songwriters, the

01:24:04.189 --> 01:24:08.069
musicians, comedians. If you follow me on Instagram,

01:24:08.170 --> 01:24:11.510
you'll see that I like to share Dan Altano and

01:24:11.510 --> 01:24:14.670
what he's doing and repost, retweet, whatever

01:24:14.670 --> 01:24:18.109
they call it. Daniel Iches. I think he's wrapped

01:24:18.109 --> 01:24:20.489
up some Carnival Cruise dates, but he's in San

01:24:20.489 --> 01:24:24.689
Diego. the 5th and 6th of this month. Thousand

01:24:24.689 --> 01:24:28.350
Oaks, California. After that, Danielle Moralia

01:24:28.350 --> 01:24:32.569
has been out playing some gigs. Next Friday,

01:24:32.630 --> 01:24:35.930
this coming Friday, she's in Meriden, Connecticut

01:24:35.930 --> 01:24:39.689
on the 8th in Wakefield, Massachusetts. I'm just

01:24:39.689 --> 01:24:43.750
looking at my handwriting. And don't miss a chance

01:24:43.750 --> 01:24:46.789
to see Danielle Moralia and the Glory Junkies

01:24:46.789 --> 01:24:50.880
back together. Friday, June 7th, Rockport, Massachusetts.

01:24:52.579 --> 01:24:55.060
That's... Wow, we've covered a lot here, Travis.

01:24:55.619 --> 01:24:58.479
And one final, because, you know, we can never

01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:01.819
wrap up these shows. It's been two hours. We've

01:25:01.819 --> 01:25:04.340
got five more to go. Let's go. All right. Quickly

01:25:04.340 --> 01:25:08.199
here. I want you to speak to the work from home

01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:11.779
community, and maybe some of us who don't understand

01:25:11.779 --> 01:25:15.359
it. We don't imagine you people to be as happy

01:25:15.359 --> 01:25:19.939
as you are. Are you? Quite pleased with working

01:25:19.939 --> 01:25:24.420
from home. Do you miss? Not you know, how do

01:25:24.420 --> 01:25:28.399
you feel about it? Do I miss the water cooler

01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:31.479
talk in the hey, how was your weekend? No, I

01:25:31.479 --> 01:25:34.600
love it. I'm working from home I'm here when

01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:37.500
a contractor has to be here if your kids sick

01:25:37.500 --> 01:25:40.100
I'm here if your kids out of daycare because

01:25:40.100 --> 01:25:43.199
it's Good Friday and they're closed. I'm here

01:25:43.199 --> 01:25:46.279
and I can get work done. I love it so much I

01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:50.600
think more people should be able to do it. It's

01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:53.979
extremely efficient. When I was in the elevator

01:25:53.979 --> 01:25:56.180
industry, I worked from home during the pandemic

01:25:56.180 --> 01:25:59.520
and I sold more working from home than I did

01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:03.899
when I was in the field. So I think that there's

01:26:03.899 --> 01:26:09.079
a disconnect with companies and the amount of

01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:12.699
resources they spent on real estate in offices.

01:26:13.039 --> 01:26:15.439
and they feel a need to bring people into the

01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:18.640
office, but I think you can get just as much

01:26:18.640 --> 01:26:21.880
work done, if not more, if you're working remotely.

01:26:22.399 --> 01:26:25.140
I mean, the technology with Zoom and other video

01:26:25.140 --> 01:26:30.920
conferencing, Microsoft Teams, it's really hard

01:26:30.920 --> 01:26:33.239
to explain until you do it, but we've been able

01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:35.100
to do it. I mean, our father worked from home

01:26:35.100 --> 01:26:40.449
in 1994, so that was 30 years ago. It's not a

01:26:40.449 --> 01:26:43.369
new concept and I don't know why it's it's very

01:26:43.369 --> 01:26:46.649
controversial. I don't think it has to be What

01:26:46.649 --> 01:26:50.130
an episode what? I'm just I'm so spun around.

01:26:50.130 --> 01:26:51.850
I don't know what we did what we accomplished

01:26:51.850 --> 01:26:54.470
what we talked about Was it you never editing

01:26:54.470 --> 01:26:56.489
until 2 30 this morning? You know that right?

01:26:56.770 --> 01:27:01.670
Yeah I'm looking at this an hour 46 until I decided

01:27:01.670 --> 01:27:12.579
to trim some things but Cut it all. Okay, everybody

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Remember, bye everybody. This is Travis McCardell's

01:27:17.899 --> 01:27:21.779
first appearance on the podcast my brother remember

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to Whether it's a brother a friend Yeah, cultivate

01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:31.460
your friendships strengthen your friendships

01:27:31.460 --> 01:27:36.079
and have Have a laugh with somebody today have

01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:39.180
don't try to solve the world's problems or fix

01:27:39.180 --> 01:27:44.000
your vices today or lose the 40 pounds that you

01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:47.659
need to lose and your belt's about to snap don't

01:27:47.659 --> 01:27:51.760
just you know get a plan together but find a

01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:56.119
way to just laugh with with somebody or laugh

01:27:56.119 --> 01:27:59.020
with us here on this podcast hey i love when

01:27:59.020 --> 01:28:00.899
you had jim off in a couple weeks ago he's like

01:28:00.899 --> 01:28:04.479
dude just stop yeah yeah he was he was uh welcoming

01:28:04.479 --> 01:28:08.260
off the the stage if you got a brother if you

01:28:08.260 --> 01:28:11.909
got a mom if you got a Yeah, literally any group

01:28:11.909 --> 01:28:14.909
of people get that home bonded get get your termite

01:28:14.909 --> 01:28:17.250
bond renewed. Don't let that thing laugh laughs

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Okay What an episode Folks have a great week

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and we will see you next Sunday on the Dan time

01:28:25.470 --> 01:28:28.430
podcast. I always forget but if you're on social

01:28:28.430 --> 01:28:33.489
media Look up it's at Dan time pod Instagram

01:28:33.489 --> 01:28:37.189
X Facebook and YouTube trying to get a little

01:28:37.189 --> 01:28:40.270
better about the YouTube Some of these podcast

01:28:40.270 --> 01:28:43.449
episodes do have a video component. Many of them

01:28:43.449 --> 01:28:47.449
do not, but some do. And I'm actually working

01:28:47.449 --> 01:28:50.350
on getting some more video uploaded. So stay

01:28:50.350 --> 01:28:52.069
tuned to that. Make sure you subscribe to those

01:28:52.069 --> 01:28:55.810
channels. Okay. Travis, have a great rest of

01:28:55.810 --> 01:28:59.189
the evening. Thank you. I have one last question.

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Yeah. Can I be your guest next time? Next week,

01:29:03.109 --> 01:29:05.729
folks. Travis McArdle is the guest next Sunday.

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Can I just be your permanent guest? We just do

01:29:10.180 --> 01:29:13.020
this every Sunday. We have reached the end of

01:29:13.020 --> 01:29:15.880
the Dan Time podcast and we're changing the theme

01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:19.539
next week. So hope you've enjoyed it. Trap time.

01:29:20.260 --> 01:29:23.100
Yeah. Trap time. That's all she wrote for this

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week. All right. You guys have a great week and

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we'll see you next Sunday on the Dan Time podcast.

01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:30.739
Thank you, Travis. Bye. I'll talk to you next

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Sunday.