WEBVTT 00:00:02.189 --> 00:00:11.810 It's Dan Time. Grab a seat. It's Dan Time. Yeah. 00:00:11.949 --> 00:00:22.230 It's Dan Time. Only dance on the line. Only dance 00:00:22.230 --> 00:00:27.730 all the time. This is the Dan Time podcast with 00:00:27.730 --> 00:00:40.259 your host, Dan McGarrett. Uh, welcome back. I 00:00:40.259 --> 00:00:42.840 guess I can say that. Welcome back from hiatus. 00:00:43.219 --> 00:00:47.240 I'm actually still on Dancation. I'm not really 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:52.380 back. So let me backtrack here. I am jumping 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:57.579 in to say hello. You may have noticed a precipitous 00:00:57.579 --> 00:01:02.600 drop off in DanTime content. It's not on accident. 00:01:03.539 --> 00:01:06.939 You probably deserve an explanation. Here you 00:01:06.939 --> 00:01:09.879 are thinking wow, I found a show that it's it's 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:13.040 right up my alley. This is for me. I love it 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:15.879 I'm looking forward to it every Sunday new episode 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:20.159 two years in and however long you've been listening 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:24.299 and then all of a sudden I ghost you and disappear 00:01:24.299 --> 00:01:28.180 Well, it's been bothering me enough that I feel 00:01:28.180 --> 00:01:32.299 like I've got to jump in And make an announcement 00:01:32.299 --> 00:01:37.060 so to speak Nothing big to announce here But 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:41.099 I haven't had a lot of Dan time for Dan time 00:01:41.099 --> 00:01:48.780 if you will my Family my kids need me My wife 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:56.640 needs me my cats Need me My job needs me my customers 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:04.019 my All the various stakeholders they just need 00:02:04.019 --> 00:02:10.340 more Day and time then I can provide and also 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:17.240 churn out this podcast Every seven days like 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:22.860 it's been done over the past two years I've actually 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:27.639 taken a step back and these past three weeks 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:31.840 of not working on the show really at all and 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:37.620 I've had more than a few reflective moments where 00:02:37.620 --> 00:02:41.300 I think, wow, that takes a little bit of time. 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.340 The hours that I have usually spent on this production, 00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:50.780 when you completely step away from it, all of 00:02:50.780 --> 00:02:52.599 a sudden you're participating in things, your 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.620 places, you're with people, you're open ended 00:02:56.620 --> 00:03:03.270 and stretched out without the caps. on your time 00:03:03.270 --> 00:03:06.530 that were in place. And I got to tell you, it 00:03:06.530 --> 00:03:09.930 has been pretty nice. Now remember, when I started 00:03:09.930 --> 00:03:15.030 this project, my kids were something like five 00:03:15.030 --> 00:03:22.110 and a half, two and one, I think. So now it's 00:03:22.110 --> 00:03:25.550 seven and a half, four, going on four and a half 00:03:25.550 --> 00:03:29.610 and three. So there's just a lot more to. to 00:03:29.610 --> 00:03:33.650 do that you need to do. And you just, I always 00:03:33.650 --> 00:03:38.509 carved out Sundays to spend on the podcast beyond 00:03:38.509 --> 00:03:40.990 just the conversation with the guest as far as 00:03:40.990 --> 00:03:44.610 editing and everything that goes into it, the 00:03:44.610 --> 00:03:49.949 social media updates. And so Sunday, late afternoon, 00:03:50.069 --> 00:03:54.349 mid afternoon to all of the evening, I've reclaimed 00:03:54.349 --> 00:03:59.250 it. I gotta tell you, I like it. And I'm always 00:03:59.250 --> 00:04:03.430 going to do what's best for my family. I don't 00:04:03.430 --> 00:04:05.509 feel like I have to over explain this. This is 00:04:05.509 --> 00:04:09.409 kind of just me making a journal entry, a diary 00:04:09.409 --> 00:04:12.169 entry here. I don't know. I don't think you guys 00:04:12.169 --> 00:04:15.650 care in great detail. What's where I've been, 00:04:15.650 --> 00:04:19.250 what's going on, but it's been good. It's been 00:04:19.250 --> 00:04:23.750 really good. With that being said, I do plan 00:04:23.750 --> 00:04:26.990 for the show to continue just not at such a rapid 00:04:26.990 --> 00:04:30.720 clip. Because you got to remember in order to 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:36.259 turn out new guests every week Without repeating 00:04:36.259 --> 00:04:40.399 anybody or bringing in my friend Kevin or my 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.300 brother or you know Some of these guests to fill 00:04:44.300 --> 00:04:46.579 in the gaps because yeah, there's there's millions 00:04:46.579 --> 00:04:50.980 of bands across the world but I've got a Run 00:04:50.980 --> 00:04:56.410 it through a filter of a funnel here that That 00:04:56.410 --> 00:04:59.529 narrows the type of Dan the type of Dana the 00:04:59.529 --> 00:05:04.149 type of Danny Danielle that fits what the show 00:05:04.149 --> 00:05:08.089 has become There are guests that appeared on 00:05:08.089 --> 00:05:12.189 the show of the first say three months that were 00:05:12.189 --> 00:05:16.529 great for that time period and Probably won't 00:05:16.529 --> 00:05:19.889 have that type of guests going forward Without 00:05:19.889 --> 00:05:22.589 naming names. It's not like anything's been no 00:05:22.589 --> 00:05:26.709 guest has been an ill fit for the show. But as 00:05:26.709 --> 00:05:28.990 you can see, there's been more of a focus on 00:05:28.990 --> 00:05:32.870 the creative type, the songwriters, the touring 00:05:32.870 --> 00:05:37.670 musicians, the performers, and as I can, as I'm 00:05:37.670 --> 00:05:40.689 able, and I'd love to have more of them, current 00:05:40.689 --> 00:05:45.970 and former athletes. Let me try to, this is actually 00:05:45.970 --> 00:05:49.410 a good opportunity if you've ever wondered how 00:05:49.410 --> 00:05:54.089 an amateur podcaster slaps it together. Where 00:05:54.089 --> 00:05:56.670 do these guests come from? How does this get 00:05:56.670 --> 00:06:02.069 queued up? well When you don't have any Larger 00:06:02.069 --> 00:06:06.250 backing and it's just you And this is it's all 00:06:06.250 --> 00:06:08.790 me. I don't have a staff. I don't have a social 00:06:08.790 --> 00:06:12.790 media director. I Don't I don't farm out anything. 00:06:13.290 --> 00:06:16.149 I don't have any sure. There's no shortage of 00:06:16.149 --> 00:06:19.750 email solicitation from marketers and promoters 00:06:19.750 --> 00:06:23.319 and and such but So if you take an independent 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.519 artist, for example, they got to be one of the 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.660 names that we've mentioned Then I check out their 00:06:29.660 --> 00:06:32.699 music. Do I like it? Because you might like it, 00:06:32.699 --> 00:06:34.560 but if it doesn't really appeal to me I'm not 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:35.939 gonna have somebody on the show and say hey, 00:06:35.939 --> 00:06:39.040 I love your work. Wow. This song is spectacular 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.019 Just to say it It's got to be something that 00:06:43.019 --> 00:06:46.980 I get some enjoyment out of To then effectively 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:52.379 promote it to you then You like this? I craft 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:57.019 an email. There's nothing boilerplate. If you're 00:06:57.019 --> 00:06:59.899 listening and I've sent you a message, I wrote 00:06:59.899 --> 00:07:04.720 that message that day, that moment. I don't copy 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.660 and paste stuff. Now, I might kind of fall back 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:12.259 on some of my old patterns of how I write an 00:07:12.259 --> 00:07:17.279 email, but I'm batting this stuff out. I'm trying 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:21.379 to personalize it. Cause you know, depending 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:23.980 on who it is, they might not see your message. 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:28.500 So I found that it's obviously a lot easier to 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:34.240 get a communication flow created with an independent 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.779 artist than it is to go through management or 00:07:38.779 --> 00:07:42.680 an agent. Now those individuals do communicate 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.759 with me. I have had some contact where you're 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.980 trying, I'm trying to line up a signed artist. 00:07:49.850 --> 00:07:54.829 a bigger name and it just, it doesn't start and 00:07:54.829 --> 00:07:58.569 stop. It starts, let's get some, some, uh, some 00:07:58.569 --> 00:08:00.810 more information. Okay. Here's the more information. 00:08:00.990 --> 00:08:04.230 Okay. Let's, uh, when could we do this? Let's 00:08:04.230 --> 00:08:07.189 look ahead. Let's follow up. Let's follow up. 00:08:07.209 --> 00:08:11.009 And then it just, you know, and, um, it didn't 00:08:11.009 --> 00:08:13.370 happen every time. Cause obviously I've had some 00:08:13.370 --> 00:08:17.569 guests that, but went entirely through the media 00:08:17.569 --> 00:08:20.589 contact until it was time to connect with the 00:08:20.589 --> 00:08:25.689 conversation. Athletes have been more of a challenge 00:08:25.689 --> 00:08:29.389 if you're trying to get, say, a current professional 00:08:29.389 --> 00:08:31.730 baseball player or current, I'm sorry, major 00:08:31.730 --> 00:08:34.909 league baseball player. Those media contacts, 00:08:34.929 --> 00:08:39.110 they often do respond, but it's a longer process 00:08:39.110 --> 00:08:42.970 to the eventual no, or it's a long process to 00:08:42.970 --> 00:08:47.389 the eventual nothing to the eventual figure it 00:08:47.389 --> 00:08:49.309 out. figure out that this isn't going to happen. 00:08:50.330 --> 00:08:53.590 So, and then with all that considered, I think 00:08:53.590 --> 00:08:56.389 about where this show started. Where did it come 00:08:56.389 --> 00:08:59.990 from? Why did I want to do it? Where's the heart 00:08:59.990 --> 00:09:03.250 behind it? What am I trying to do here? A lot 00:09:03.250 --> 00:09:07.049 of cases, the people that are the public figures 00:09:07.049 --> 00:09:11.190 that are already household names, 20, 30 years 00:09:11.190 --> 00:09:14.470 into a very successful career, they don't need 00:09:14.470 --> 00:09:18.519 to do this. And there may be some perceived pitfalls 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:23.460 attached to doing a show like Dan time. So the 00:09:23.460 --> 00:09:26.639 magic really happens when I connect with an independent 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.259 artist whose material I like, I'm excited about 00:09:30.259 --> 00:09:33.340 promoting. They love doing something like this. 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.700 They're talking to other podcasters, other journalists, 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.960 promoting their music on various platforms, maybe 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.899 doing some self promotion. And when they come 00:09:43.899 --> 00:09:47.220 on the show and Think about this, the theme of 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:49.480 the show, Dan time. So when I send out those 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:54.700 emails, I've got to qualify it and say, Hey, 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.220 the premise of the show is Dan talking to fellow 00:09:57.220 --> 00:10:00.159 Dan's. Now I lose people. There are people who 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.980 never respond. A very, very small slice actually 00:10:03.980 --> 00:10:08.860 reply. No thanks. But the people who commit to 00:10:08.860 --> 00:10:11.659 doing the show, it's like I've weeded out a lot 00:10:11.659 --> 00:10:15.700 of folks who maybe don't have a great sense of 00:10:15.700 --> 00:10:17.700 humor or they don't even think that this this 00:10:17.700 --> 00:10:21.700 is funny and I respect that because in all honesty 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:27.879 this thing is pretty it's pretty corny okay Dan 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:32.360 talking to fellow Dan's it's it's almost nothing 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:37.019 R rated going on here on the surface I mean it's 00:10:37.019 --> 00:10:40.279 something that my second grader thinks is funny 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.740 and even then he doesn't think it's hilarious 00:10:43.500 --> 00:10:46.460 It just, uh, I think you know what I'm saying. 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:51.820 So that's what it takes to get unique guests 00:10:51.820 --> 00:10:55.080 all the time. And I've just gotten to a place 00:10:55.080 --> 00:11:00.620 where my kids are two years older now. I'm enjoying 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:04.259 doing as much with them as possible. And even 00:11:04.259 --> 00:11:07.480 before I step back, you know, we're spending 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.500 Saturdays together. We're spending as much time 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:13.360 as I possibly can. and we're doing little league 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.179 and all that stuff. And so it's just time for 00:11:18.179 --> 00:11:22.019 Dan time to be maybe something that I never really 00:11:22.019 --> 00:11:25.559 wanted it to be or envisioned as far as being 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:30.080 a on call versus recurring, but probably looking 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.759 at once a month, surely I can churn out something 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.639 once a month, or if you're lucky, two or three 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.820 times a month, when it happens and never just 00:11:40.820 --> 00:11:45.230 because But I have thoroughly enjoyed this project 00:11:45.230 --> 00:11:48.350 Just on a personal level. I love the music that 00:11:48.350 --> 00:11:51.850 I've discovered that I would have never found 00:11:51.850 --> 00:11:56.690 otherwise never the creative Personalities out 00:11:56.690 --> 00:11:59.529 there like Danny Cole who created the theme song 00:11:59.529 --> 00:12:02.250 would have never found Danny Well, I may have 00:12:02.250 --> 00:12:04.850 found him on Instagram, but I don't know if I've 00:12:04.850 --> 00:12:07.129 mentioned this before I wouldn't have been on 00:12:07.129 --> 00:12:12.220 Instagram without the podcast account I went 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:16.279 12, 13, 14 years, however long social media has 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.340 been prominent. I've known about it. I've known 00:12:20.340 --> 00:12:23.419 about, about Instagram and I've stayed away. 00:12:23.500 --> 00:12:27.080 And now I'm in it. I don't, I don't like it all 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:32.240 the time, but yeah, Dan Orlando, Muscle Shoals 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.980 area bassist, Dan Williams, a couple episodes 00:12:35.980 --> 00:12:40.059 there, part one and two, when we talk about Lindy 00:12:40.059 --> 00:12:43.409 Urban. in the first episode and Ghost River Revival 00:12:43.409 --> 00:12:46.830 in the second. Dan Guevara, love. Dan Guevara 00:12:46.830 --> 00:12:49.710 is just an awesome guy. This is a fun thing about 00:12:49.710 --> 00:12:51.789 the show. Most of these guests, if I have them 00:12:51.789 --> 00:12:54.730 on, I like them. They're all nice, cool people. 00:12:54.909 --> 00:12:59.409 But Dan, Dan Guevara is just really, really salt 00:12:59.409 --> 00:13:03.070 of the earth from my experience with him. Some 00:13:03.070 --> 00:13:05.409 of the ballplayers I still, you know, root for 00:13:05.409 --> 00:13:08.970 them for their success. Dan Brown, Dan Beebe. 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.899 Uh, the comedians, it's been some of the most 00:13:12.899 --> 00:13:16.019 exciting episodes and challenging ones for me 00:13:16.019 --> 00:13:19.000 to prepare for. But anyway, I hope you guys have 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.740 enjoyed this podcast. There's a lot of material 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:25.600 there. If you've had no downtime the past three 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.080 weeks, you'll go back three months, six months, 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.679 a year. Most of the content is still relevant 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:37.799 and timely. So I appreciate you listening again. 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.139 I'm still on. Dancation. You may not hear from 00:13:41.139 --> 00:13:46.000 me from for another few weeks. I don't know how 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.899 long. It might be two weeks. It might be another 00:13:48.899 --> 00:13:51.899 four weeks. I'm having a good time out here. 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:55.259 I'm in a good place. That's what I said back 00:13:55.259 --> 00:13:59.440 on the on the trailer episode. You're in a good 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.179 place. Well, don't worry about me. I'm in a good 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:07.700 place right now. Kids are happy. The wife's happy. 00:14:08.029 --> 00:14:11.649 You've heard that. Happy wife, happy life. That's 00:14:11.649 --> 00:14:14.870 not just, not just a saying, but the wheels are 00:14:14.870 --> 00:14:17.789 always spinning every day of the week. The wheels 00:14:17.789 --> 00:14:21.169 are always spinning and I'm still thinking about 00:14:21.169 --> 00:14:23.970 and making some outreach to potential guests 00:14:23.970 --> 00:14:28.250 for the show. So stay tuned. There will be a 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:32.009 surprise in the near future, but I hope you're 00:14:32.009 --> 00:14:35.750 doing well. I appreciate you as a listener. Always 00:14:35.750 --> 00:14:39.240 have, always will. I don't know what other people's 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:43.100 motives are in this sphere. Might be some podcasters 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:46.840 who are in it for themselves. And I don't want 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.720 to question anybody's intentions who is behind 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.019 a microphone, but I said it a long time ago, 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.759 but it's where my heart is. I want this show 00:14:55.759 --> 00:15:00.519 to stay underground. Not that I'd never wanted 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.419 to, that I never want the audience to grow, but 00:15:05.419 --> 00:15:08.019 I'm not going to compromise. I'm not selling 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:13.139 out. I'm not focused on the white whale because 00:15:13.139 --> 00:15:17.220 the best guests that this show has had are the 00:15:17.220 --> 00:15:20.139 guests that you'd never heard of. And when the 00:15:20.139 --> 00:15:24.139 episode's over, you're thinking, where was this 00:15:24.139 --> 00:15:27.860 artist all my life? This is fantastic. And you 00:15:27.860 --> 00:15:30.500 want to keep listening. So that's what I'm doing 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:33.840 here. Thanks for following. Thanks for subscribing. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:38.419 If you're on social media. I'm not crazy active. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.879 I could do a lot more, but there is a lot more 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:47.120 to do than the doom scroll, the endless sitting 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:53.220 and cradling the phone. And there's a real truth 00:15:53.220 --> 00:16:00.320 to brain rot. Put the phone down every so often 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:06.179 and read a book or go for a walk or play. I'm 00:16:06.179 --> 00:16:08.139 not lecturing you. I was starting to say play 00:16:08.139 --> 00:16:13.700 with your kids, but take your eyeballs off of 00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:16.960 the screen and put your eyeballs on something 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.820 in nature or a friend of yours or your, you know, 00:16:19.899 --> 00:16:22.799 someone you love and you'll be happier. You'll 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.700 be happy that you did. All right. That's all 00:16:25.700 --> 00:16:30.059 I got. I'm going back to it here. Back to my 00:16:30.059 --> 00:16:32.820 off time. Take care of yourself. There will be 00:16:32.820 --> 00:16:35.740 a fun episode coming up. If you have any requests, 00:16:35.779 --> 00:16:38.259 if you want to see certain people who have been 00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:40.100 on the show in the past and you want them back, 00:16:40.659 --> 00:16:45.919 message me on social media or dantimepod at gmail 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:50.039 .com. Have a great week. Be good to yourself 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:53.519 and take care of your friends and take, take 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.379 your dog outside. That dog yours has been, it's 00:16:58.379 --> 00:17:01.159 been needing to go to the bathroom for hours 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.599 now. Take your animal out. Go ahead and load 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.380 the dishwasher now. You know, you know that it 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:10.359 needs to be done Don't wait till tonight. Don't 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:12.880 say I'll do it first thing in the morning Get 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.220 that loaded dishes started right now Take the 00:17:16.220 --> 00:17:18.660 garbage out. Don't wait. Don't try to crunch 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:22.839 it down That's not no one's you know You're not 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:27.079 fooling anybody Get that garbage bagged up walk 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.140 it outside if you need some help Someone will 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:32.000 help you. I'll give you a hand with it. Okay 00:17:32.190 --> 00:17:34.269 but get that out of the house and dispose of 00:17:34.269 --> 00:17:38.630 it properly. When you leave the house, do not 00:17:38.630 --> 00:17:44.630 turn your AC all the way off. Kick it up to 76, 00:17:44.690 --> 00:17:50.509 77 because you want positive airflow at all times. 00:17:51.410 --> 00:17:55.329 Don't snooze on that. And that's all I got. So 00:17:55.329 --> 00:17:57.210 long. See you next time.