It's Dan Time. Grab a seat. It's Dan Time. Yeah.
It's Dan Time. Only dance on the line. Only dance
all the time. This is the Dan Time podcast with
your host, Dan McGarrett. All right. Thanks for
checking out the Dan Time podcast. It's good
to be with you. It's good to not have to say
my name at the top of every episode, which not
a big problem there, but it's kind of nice to
have somebody say it for me. Get that out of
the way and really have to thank Mr. Danny Cole.
I hope you enjoyed. I know you did the episode
from last week with the Ottawa based guitarist
extraordinaire. And one hell of a gentleman,
Danny Cole. I appreciate you as a listener. Haven't
said it as often as I need to. It's like someone
that says, I haven't told you I love you. Why
have I been slacking on that? You do mean a lot
to me. Why haven't I told you that? It's out
of the same vein. Thanks for listening and subscribing.
And I do appreciate you. I want to make that
I have always wanted to make that a prominent
reason for doing all this Yes, I've got the gimmick
Dan talking to fellow Dan's but the show is just
supposed to be fun and I Didn't hear I still
don't hear a lot of hosts saying anything beyond.
Thanks for listening So I wanted to take it a
step further and speak to you the person that's
actually listening to this show right now, and
you're paying attention, you like it, and you've
liked all the episodes. And you just hear somebody
on the other side, on the microphone saying,
you're a big deal. You might feel like you're
not a big deal. You may or may not have questions
about where you fit in, where you belong. What's
going on in this chapter of your life? What's
why is everything going wrong? Maybe that's not
going on with you. If that's the case keep doing
what you're doing But if you need to hear some
positive words that's a big part of me doing
this is a podcast is nothing without the people
who listen to it and I listen to a bunch of shows
and they do a lot of things right, but just like
my favorite bands I think, you know, you could
use the Kiss example. Paul Stanley said something
along the lines of, we wanted to go out, we were
watching bands live and we wanted to be the band
that we weren't seeing. We wanted to put on the
show that we weren't seeing. I don't want to
take that and say, oh, I want to be the best
show that you've ever heard. But I want you to
listen to this and hear a little less vanity
from the host. It's pretty easy. To hear some
shows that are produced very well. They've got
great guests But the host it's you just know
you just know that this person is Just has a
giant ego And you know, they can't let the other
person talk they've got a interject every I mean
you just call you know, it's coming every five
six seven seconds The guest is it just into the
very first leg of telling a exciting story answering
a question, you know, drawing on their deep into
the, the archives to, to enlighten you. And then
the host has got to interject and he does it
repeatedly. The entire conversation, that stuff
drives me nuts and you won't hear it on this
show on Dan time. So always want to bring a little
something different to the table. I'm not trying
to reinvent the wheel, but you're going to hear
from people who In many cases, I want you to
come away thinking, she was incredible. Why isn't
her music all over the place? Why isn't, why
don't more people know about this musician? But
thanks for being a part of this. I wanted to,
I wanted to plug in a bonus episode here that
really has no format. This is basically a state
of Dan time and even a hundred plus episodes
in. A reveal party. An explanation of where Dantime
came from. Some background on the phrase Dantime.
First of all, the state of Dantime is strong.
It's never been stronger. We've come a long way
since the first 10 or 15 episodes. recorded using
a couple tin cans and some wire. And it's been
a real joy to assemble the body of work here
week after week, month after month, almost two
years in. And I've come to a realization that
it's okay. It is all right to step back a little
bit. And I'm here to announce that the quest
to deliver an episode every week without fail
is officially over. Now, some of you may hear
that and think, oh, well, no big deal. Whatever.
What else is going on, Dan? I don't really care
about that. Some of you may be hearing that and
thinking, what are you talking about? You've
ruined my Monday mornings. What's happening?
I imagine this to be a very, very small minority,
so I apologize. The fact is, when I started this
show, I had a five -year -old, a two -year -old,
and a one -year -old. So now we're almost eight.
We're eight, we're four, we're three. And the
demands, I don't have to explain all this. I've
been telling myself, Dan, you do not have to
go through this, but maybe this just helps me.
There are too many demands. on my Dan Time. I
once joked to John Hunter, a previous guest,
that, you know, I really and truly, this was
back then, a year ago, I don't have time to do
this. I don't really have time to spend on all
facets of the Dan Time podcast, if we're being
honest. I create that time where it really doesn't
exist and the time has come to just face reality,
let it go, let it slide and be happy about it.
So there you have it. I've always prided myself
on giving you a weekly guest. But what it's led
to is if you've been listening for two years,
you know that at some point I have somebody from
My personal network. It's a friend. It's my brothers
have both been on the show My mom has been on
the show my dad. I have stopped short and believe
me I have asked I've asked my wife Natalie and
you'd love to see these I've asked I've asked
my wife Natalie and If you could be a fly on
the wall on the times where the question has
come up You can imagine I'm at the end of the
line. I don't have I've got to create some content
here and we're in the car together or we're standing
there in the kitchen together and how you have
to lead up to or not just just pop it out there,
honey, you want to be on the show? And the answer
is always no. It's always, it's always no. And
that's okay. That's probably a good thing. If
I asked one of my kids to be on the show, they
would gladly accept. And as you know, they've,
usually Wyatt has made a couple of appearances.
So there's just not a need to do that. I am I'm
tightening up You're still gonna get some Danielle's
Would love to have some previous guests that
I think very very highly of Dana Wiley Dana Perry
Daniel Moralia, you know some of those names
like to have them back on and you may see Some
new female guests not named Dan But for the most
part, I'm going to really, really tighten up
here and focus on Dan's or people that have a
legitimate claim to Dan or Dan's story or theme
or Danny's. And if it just if I if I'm not pleased
with what I have lined up for that particular
week, well, you're just not going to get a slice
of the pie that week. And my recommendation is
dial it back. There are plenty. I think anybody
who creates anything and puts it out there for
the public to consume, you know, there are episodes
that did not set the world on fire as far as
view count and downloads that I'm thinking, man,
that was one of the best. That's one of my favorite
conversations. Go back and check out some of
the obscure or not. So obscure Episodes that
you may have missed this time last year and check
it out So that's the update on the state of the
show As you know, maybe you don't know I'm not
big into this Long drawn -out monologue. I don't
like to talk. I like to talk I'm not gonna argue
that I've been told that in the past people I've
worked with Now I can go quiet for a long period
of time, but I don't mind talking. Something
like this though, I don't really want to do an
episode where it's just me speaking for 27 minutes
or 18 minutes. And there's shows I listen to
where they do this all the time, multiple times
a week. And it's maybe 15, 20 minutes. and then
they get to the guest. And I don't know about
you, but I've got some of my favorite shows.
I'm not gonna name drop them, but a lot of times,
once they get to, all right, let's get to the
guest this week. If it's not somebody that's
really important to me, I'm out of there. I'm
done. And I loved the intro, but these people,
they're great at it. Couple of things I wanna
talk about and then wrap up. Not even that important
just some observations I just celebrated my 46th
birthday for those of you wondering how old is
this guy? Is this a midlife crisis project? Who
is he? I don't divulge a lot of details about
me and and that's by design that is not an accident
You know, I'm a firm firm believer in the idea
that the older you get I was just talking to
Travis about this earlier today. The interest
in the minutia of your day -to -day or there's
no interest. It doesn't exist. It really doesn't
exist. How many times have you gotten around
the people you work with on a Monday and they
ask you, how was your weekend? How was your weekend?
Sometimes you answer this question face to face
a lot of times you answer it on a phone call
and for some of you that question is being answered
on a Zoom call maybe with or without video When
was the last time that you launched into a blow
-by -blow recap of what how Saturday played out
and the activities that you were engaged in,
what your kids were engaged in, the outcome of
ball games, the birthday party that you took
your kids to, the movie that you saw, the rock
that you climbed, the plane that you jumped out
of, the house that you cleaned, the shed that
you reorganized. How many times have you launched
into these narratives about those two glorious
days away from your job duties only to find that
the reaction on the other end when you stop talking
is just crickets for maybe two or three or four
agonizing seconds. And then you realize not only
did you lose them, you never had them. You never
had them. And it's not that your stories aren't
important. It's not like your weekend wasn't
exciting. It was. You had a great weekend. It's
just that people in 2025 do not have the bandwidth.
Some of them don't, they're not interested, but
others, good, nice, caring people, they just
don't have the room for it. They don't. but you
don't have to ask the question, but I guess we
feel like we ought to. Eight o 'clock Monday
morning, we all jump on a team call. How was
your weekend? It's a reflexive question. I like
hearing about this stuff. I actually, I'm one
of these people, I wouldn't say it drives others
crazy, but I can remember a couple of years ago,
I get into the small talk. I get into that pre
meeting chit chat, the icebreaker talk, the obligatory
intro chatter, the zoom call while we're waiting
for everyone to waiting for the call to populate.
And you can always tell sometimes it's the meeting
organizer. Usually it is. They've been through
this motion a hundred times thousand times whatever
and They're just they're not going to explore
the mundane For more than three and a half minutes.
It's like there's there's Let's talk about the
Super Bowl. Oh, yeah, how about that that drop
pass in the third quarter? Wow, that was crazy
Yeah, we had a we had a great time We should
have won that game. All right. Well, let's look
at Q3 and our goals for Q3 and see where we are
budgeted versus actual and on and on and and
I will keep it going. I will drag it out. It's
almost like I can stop and I do. I have to stop
sometimes. Alright, been thinking about this
a lot lately. Bands, music, bands that I like.
Again, being 46, usually the bands that you're
into, they got a good 10 years on you at least,
the founding members. And in my case, you know,
if you were a kid, a teenager, when you got into
some of these groups, they're in their sixties,
maybe some of them up over 70. And I just wrote
this on my notes for today. Like I just scratched
out a couple of things I might want to talk about.
Bands getting old. When you get to be my age,
I like being able to say that now. when you get
to be my age. Or I always enjoyed this when I
was 26. And an old guy would say, now, Dan, you're
too young to remember. You're too young to remember.
Well, let's not be so sure about that, Hank.
What am I too young to remember? I might surprise
you. I don't get those comments like I used to.
Or, oh, you're just a baby. when you tell someone
I'm 32, I'm 35, they don't tell you that you're
just a baby at 46 anymore. But anyway, I look
at bands, so all of them, whoever you looked
up to, whether it was artists, musicians, actors,
actresses, and you just realize what is, they're
all aging. They all look old. And then you realize,
oh, he's 72, he's 78, he's... I didn't realize
this actor was 85 now. Of course, they look old.
You're getting older. But I see it with bands
and in the type of music that I grew up on, some
of them pulled off better than others. Some of
the heavy metal bands with members now in their
late 60s, early 70s, not saying they shouldn't
be up there on stage shredding away. but it's
just a reminder that wow the the youth of that
movement is the original group of bands is gone
now there are some up -and -coming bands, but
the forefathers and Then it got me thinking in
general if these wrinkly old dudes can get up
there on stage and people still want to reach
out and grab the fretboard or slap hands with
them and they're They're in the front row and
they're just overwhelmed with excitement. Why
do we do this? Like, why do we still remain enamored
with, you know, Metallica, for instance, my favorite
band? I'm at a point now where if I met James
Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, these are accomplished,
innovative, groundbreaking people, but they're
just people. I would just shake hands with them
and... You know, ask them how they think the
James, I guess he still follows the Raiders.
How do you feel about the upcoming season? I
wouldn't ask for anything to be autographed.
If I didn't get a photo, whatever. That's just
my take on it. Why are we so wrapped up with
these people? When, and I know this is a long
lead in, where are the all female groups that
are 60 plus years old? in rock and roll. Where
are they? Why aren't they? And this is a kind
of a loaded thinking aloud question. Why aren't
they idolized? You got the bangles. I'm proud
that Kitty from, I think their debut record was
1999. I worked in a record store at the time.
I believe they're still together. They were together
for a long time. All female groups. A lot of
bands with female. front women, and maybe another
guitarist that's female, but a couple backing
members that are male. That's a lot more common.
Why aren't there four women, all original members,
or maybe you got a bassist that's rotating in
and out that's not part of the original four?
Maybe there's not an answer for this. But number
one, why aren't there more groups of women That
have been pals since the mid 80s mid 90s Maybe
they split maybe they reconciled and then the
second part is let's just say there's one One
of these groups, which I guess you could again
go back to the go -go's the runaways I think
they get together sometimes and the fans adore
them but uh Yeah, some of some things I wonder
about on that end and then it's also just I'm
not enamored with these groups anymore. Because
once you're, you yourself are older than 16,
18, 22, you got some life behind you and your
favorite lead guitarist or drummer is not that
long haired, youthful, 27 year old stud, you
know, rock and roll hero. And they're now 66.
You know, it's like James Hetfield. I'm so identified
with with Hetfield in the 90s reading his lyrics
buying magazines wanting to read about what he
was saying in an interview and now I love Metallica
I like the memories that I have of some of my
my favorite bands but that they go back to like
the late 90s the early part of the aughts the
2002 345 kind of period and how I felt with the
music and those personalities back then. The
MLB All -Star Game. If you watched it, I'm curious
to hear what you liked, what you didn't like
about it. I think overall the game itself was
a success. Now I consider myself a traditionalist,
purest baseball fan i don't like the pitch clock
i don't like the ghost runner rule i don't like
the glove you know i really didn't like the end
of the dead ball era and installing walls around
the ball fields uh because if you read about
that those walls those fences were not Designed
to keep baseballs in and to produce home runs
They were installed to keep people out of the
ballpark who had not paid to be there So I'm
I guess you could say I'm against the home run
Very I mean very stubborn and almost unwavering
purest of the game That being said if you didn't
make the rules You better accept the roles that
have been made or find another hobby. Find something
else to get into because it ain't going to change.
So I thought the All -Star game was competitive.
You can't make baseball really any less competitive
in an exhibition game in quite the same way you
can a football or basketball. So the pitchers
are still throwing heat. Best players in the
game are still striking out when they don't want
to. But I didn't and I didn't anticipate that
I would like the swing off at the end to decide
the outcome of the game and I really I don't
want to see that outside of the all -star game
but For the event. I thought it really made for
an exciting finish for the fans the automatic
strike zone automated strike zone ABS I I can't
get behind it. I cannot get behind it I see why
some people do like it. During the All -Star
game, was it amusing to see a player challenge
a ball or strike, look up at the video board
and see that he was right? Yes. But one of the
great things about baseball is the arguments.
You don't want them every time after every play,
but I think we're going to get to a place in
the game that the manager no longer forever more
Storms out of the dugout heading right to home
plate to give the umpire a piece of his mind
and Getting tossed from the game the guy at the
plate getting tossed right behind him I think
all that's gonna be a thing of the past pretty
soon. I Just don't want to see in the playoffs
the ghost runner don't want to see any guys on
base to start any extra innings in The postseason
and I don't think they will but That's all I
got for today for this bonus episode. This is
just an appreciation event. Dan Time is running
strong. And if a week goes by and I didn't give
you some new content, I think you're going to
get over it. And I think I'm going to get over
it as well. So part of this is just me letting
go, relaxing a little bit. What are the coaches
and executives who are stepping down? They often
say, well, I'm going to spend some more time
with my family. So that's what I'm doing. I'm,
I'm stepping. I'm not stepping aside, but I am
allowing for more time with my family. They get
a lot of my Dan time. Okay. So don't, don't take
that the wrong way, but I'm going to give them
even more Dan time in the place of bringing back
somebody like a Kevin McCroskey or a Travis Dyches.
Excellent guest, or even, uh, Dr. Glenn Fleissig.
I mean some of these episodes where you've got
a non Dan and It's dr. Fleissig. It's Sean Perry
Some of these well, you have to realize Dan wine
rib referred Dr. Fleissig. He referred Gerald
Watkins from the Friends of Rickwood. I think
Sean Perry is maybe the only Guest that is not
from my network of friends And it really and
truly is just an extension of my interests. So
Sean might be Grandfather Dan. He might reappear.
I don't know. But you may not see another guest
of that variety. I'm going to let it go. I'm
going to drop pursuit on people who are just
of interest to me. It's got to be a Dan. It's
got to be a Danielle, somebody from the Danverse.
But thank you for listening. Oh, I almost forgot
the meaning of Dan time. Today this is this is
just for you guys. This is for the people who
made it this far Here it is finally I Used to
run around with a couple ladies I was not in
a relationship with either one of them, but this
is about 15 years ago and I can't remember which
one told me and I've asked both of them to appear
on the show and Haven't been able to make it
happen I'll probably keep trying But they used
to tell me, Dan, or you're on Dan time. I would
show up places 10 minutes late, 15 minutes late.
That was a recurring problem back then. I don't
think I'm quite that bad, but that's what was,
that's really where it came from. You're on Dan
time. I was told back then. And so I pulled that
out of the bag and made use of it for this podcast.
There's your answer. There is your answer. But
it's also come to mean Dan time is a time for
me, a time for you to escape the day -to -day
responsibilities and just lighten up and have
fun and have your own time. And for me, it's
some Dan time. So there you have it. Thanks for
listening, folks, and we'll see you next time.
Not next Sunday, maybe next Sunday, but next
time. And here he is like right on cue. Here's
Wyatt. I want some chocolate milk and hey, Wyatt,
it's time over. Yeah, time's over. Have a great
week and thanks for listening to the show. Tell
a friend about it.