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See stores for details. There was a very important point brought up at the end of the show, I want to make sure that we're all aware of it. I'm serious because sometimes people bypass the stir in the microwaving process. It's the most important part of the process. Do not just I'm telling you, do not throw something in there. If it says three minutes, take out stir and then put it in front of it to do not just throw it in there for five minutes because you're lazy.

Because the stir three minutes. Yes.

It makes everything the same thing goes for frozen vegetables in the oven. You get to get out midway through and shake it up a little bit, toss it about and then put it back in.

Roy, the point is, is don't be beholden to these times that you see on these boxes. Like, do it for three minutes, give it a stir and taste it. If it needs more time, give it more time. But don't force the time just because it says six minutes on the box.

Chris, you can't stir a pot pie. The you know, Roy, you were saying you don't care about the Wantage, I get really annoyed when there's different instructions for different Wantage and obviously there's that for a reason. But how am I supposed to know off the top of my head, my microwave's Wantage? And then I feel like I have to open it and I'm like looking at inside the door, like if I'm putting air in the tire of a car and I'm trying to figure out like, how many watts is this microwave and how many seconds do I put?

It's too much.

Just always go with the least time. Always assume your wattage is the highest, go with the least amount of time and see where you're at.

I think what you're saying is release all microwaves with the same wattage. That's you know, that that's I don't want have to think about it, throw something in and just throw it in for four minutes.

But there are different sized microwaves, though. So you got you have a small microwave is going have a smaller wattage.

Are you guys popcorn setting guys, are you the putting in three minutes on the popcorn because I'm a staunch popcorn button guy, you must burn.

You haven't done that. It comes up every single time. I undercooked the popcorn.

Unfortunately, I've ever seen Chris disappointed. I mean, it's just terrible.

Where do you put it in for three minutes and then you'd stop it once you go about three or four seconds without hearing a pop, because, you know, about a minute in, you put the popcorn in, you start the microwave about a minute, then you're going to just get a flurry of pops. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.

And then a minute and forty five seconds in. Those are going to decrease.

It's going to start like you do forty five to thirty five at about two thirty.

You're going to hear pop that one Mississippi and then you start burning your popcorn once you go a few seconds without a pop.

Idun, I'm going to tell you guys something that you might find shocking here. It is one of the few things that I am able to actually cook. I make what is known. I'm not making any of this up in my family and friends circle as Dan's world famous popcorn.

It's not like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Oh, don't make a mistake. What do you think it is making it a microphone? And we're not in the inner circle where we've never tried the popcorn. Have had the popcorn. Oh, you have. I've had the popcorn. I have it.

I have no I think I know this price. All right.

Hold on a second. Just to be fair to me, Agent Guy who is going to descend into the sewage here, I was going to correct microphone to microwave, but all of you started yammering at the same time and there was no room for me to even make the correction because all of you were so amazed by what it is that I had revealed and what I'm telling you, I can't tell you any of the ingredients I have in my entire life always told people when I'm about to give them the popcorn.

This is Dan's world famous popcorn. It will be better than you would ever think it is. And I have never had a single disappointed customer. Not one. Not one.

Well, with all the high gas that you put into that microphone, I'm surprised it doesn't actually pop my popcorn.

Wow. Ouch. I'm disappointed. Watch.

You got to be kidding me. Hey, is that Roy's first ever loser game show sound? Have you ever had a loser game show sound?

No, I have not. I'm very disappointed. Well, congratulations, Dan.

I'm not accepting this. Give it up. What's the recipe? What seasoning do you put on it? Give it up.

Now, people ask me for the recipe and I will not give it to you. Go to popcorn, don't you? And you just buy.

I'm you make them your own dog buys like the microwave popcorn from some fancy store no one's ever heard of. So it's like I'm not Amish.

Colonel is Amish kernels is what I will offer you. Just Amish kernels. But also it's made in an old fashioned way. Like Consuela, like an old fashioned one. It's not microphone. It's not microwaved.

It's probably like some quinoa popcorn or something. Popcorn, honestly, one of those things, that one, it's not corn difference. It's like some of it's OK and some of it's bad, but there's not that much difference. I think they're really good in the really bad times of forty five minutes maybe. But who do you pay to make this Mike. What's in the popcorn.

It's kale. It's taking that's all it is. A nice I mean it's good. It's tasty. I like that my citrus like be honest. Is it really good. And I never thought about putting that seasoning on popcorn. It's really good. It tastes like one of the ingredients is there. But is there butter on the popcorn.

I don't recall. Is there butter on that butter. An oil.

Oh, olive oil and oil and oil. I can add this amount to the popcorn.

Yeah, you mentioned that you are not in any way a popcorn gourmet passing off. Your opinion is the right opinion, but you don't have a world famous popcorn. You're filled with envy. That I do.

I feel like if I went to the Philippines, no one would have heard of your popcorn. So how world famous is it really?

Our show's really big in the Philippines because of us, but no one's ever had your popcorn. But they may know about it because there are listeners there who may rave about my world famous popcorn because they're listening to this podcast. We are big in two places that are weird, right? In the Philippines. In Australia, Australia.

Yeah, yeah. I'm telling you, there was a time when my friends still have it goes Monty Gomez. These it's like the Taco Bell of Australia. And they have so many stores now. But we once did a podcast that I mentioned them and I said, go into any goose Monte Gomez and get a free taco. And all these people started going to my friend's stores. That likes to gossip me for free Taco. And there were no protocols because what did you do?

So there were no free tacos? No there no promotion going rocko's.

Yeah, I don't know if it's still the case, but I also think that we were simulcasts so people could watch the radio show as we do it here in the Clevelander studios in Australia at some ungodly time over there. But it was available to watch out there.

Are there any other weird places where we have a footprint? You're the one who is Fort Wayne, Indiana, although I think we've recently been kicked off of that affiliate. So there goes our affiliate out more Dan Dakich more Dan Dakich And we were kicked off.

Wait wait you know this isn't it's been explained to me that we're not appointment radio, which is weird because we have 100000 people consistently listening to every episode we put out even though we put out five a day.

I want to hear more about this, though. I don't know any of the science. I think actually people I think people would actually be interested in whatever the science is.

If you're if you're noticing what's happening around us and with us, we're in the middle of a sort of audio revolution that has been, you know, last fifteen years in the making where I saw a video the other day of Steve Jobs talking about where podcasting was the future. And it probably goes without saying that. Then the entire time we've been here on the radio, AM radio, every year gets less and less relevant as society and technology evolve in a way that's just absurd.

You can have whatever you want when you want it. So the idea that anyone on this. Terrestrial lineup is appointment listening, like they're listening to different shows than I am because I just heard every show promo that tonight Browns Bengals game is a who's who game like.

That's what they were doing, bragging rights for Ohio, which is, you know, national talking point, no doubt.

I think appointment listening, though, is are they going to be topical on the show? Right. Which were not. But that's because we're playing more towards a digital age.

It was just it was framed in that, you know, people listening terrestrially don't seek you out on the dial. Right. But I can if we're just throwing the blanket of appointment listening subscriptions are more quantifiable metric, I think.

So how explain this to me, though. So for Wayne, we had a big footprint. We had like I don't understand and don't take inventory. I'm not a radio guy. I don't know much of anything about the business that's stewardesses department in terms of knowing things like that in my department, in terms of executive ESPN stuff. But we were getting a foothold at the very beginning in New York, like we had a big show. We had done bigger things.

They told me we rated better than any ESPN national radio show in that day. Part had basically our our comp was Colin Cowherd and our show was rating better on that station for a short period of time than Cowherd had ever since we're here, the demographic that we're going for, if the audience is interested, is meant twenty five. Fifty four. So at the time that they took us off, we were the only ESPN radio show in this time slot to be in the top ten in that market.

And I never got an explanation for why that was. I never cared to get an explanation for why that was because honest to God, as we do this and I, I feel like all of us feel this, especially during a pandemic, like we can't believe we get to do any of this. So the turn on the microphones extend our reach and we are hugely grateful. But they have done things like that where you're like scratching your head in retrospect, as we all now shift into the next evolution of the show.

But I don't understand how it is that Fort Wayne happens. So we put our footprint there because you go when you do, we involved Fort Wayne in the show for a couple of weeks and it it made an impact there. We don't do much of that. In fact, Cowherd does all that stuff like he knows how to do the studies on regions.

Well, he used to study I was getting scalped massages and and regions of like, how do I make an imprint in Los Angeles?

We've never done this.

You talk so much USC and so much Lakers, even when they weren't very good. This is beyond that. And I should probably confirm this. I saw a graphic somewhere that we're no longer there.

Larger agreements expire and the landscape is ever changing and better syndication deals are out there. It's not just a wildly popular show in a certain day part that you have to worry about. You have to worry about your evening programming. What's what's that going to cost you? How much inventory I can clear and this is this is a wacky show, man. This is a very weird show, especially now it's two hours. It's very weird to make sense of this show.

If you are a traditional sports talk radio station.

I look forward to where we're headed, though, because the digital space is a fascinating space. I enjoyed it when I first started doing stupidity. I would tell Mike I feel like I'm in a lab and I have the freedom to do whatever I want. But I've always wondered because our show competes very well with the two other big podcast in our category, part of my take on it.

Yeah, and those don't those aren't as overexposed as ours, but those are original content.

That's the only way you can get that. Those shows that I've always wondered how our show would do, because it does pretty well against them now. But this is a you know, it was until now a repurposed we were repurposing our show. I've always wondered if the only place you can get the Dan Leveton show was on digital, what we do better and be bigger than them. But I think our answer is yes.

I mean, you have year over year stats and month over month. We've seen our our podcast boose. Now, the majority of where you find our show is in that digital only space. And it's it's quantifiable. You see the increased numbers to it. So thank you, guys.

Look, it's got to be like a sweet and spicy popcorn, like a Creole seasoning, maybe with a little dab of honey in it. I feel like that's like I've already sent a text the value that I never thought I'd send to her. What's in Dan's secret popcorn. But she's not giving up the goods. Well, what does she say? Do you want to talk? She said it's top secret. Do you want me to?

I think that's actually the popcorn that she uses. OK, I am going to I am going to put on a group text here for you, Chris, an assortment of people and you and what would you like them to be asked of the world famous popcorn eaters?

Give it up. Give us I don't know.

Do you want anyone to say whether it's bad or not or overrated or whatever? I'm not giving you the ingredients.

I mean, I think when you're handing someone food, you and you're saying I personally, you've set the bar so low that it has to exceed expectations. How do you play by.

I need to find out the oil that uses in it. I got the tahini. At the time, the oil tried it a little jealous, it's good, bring some popcorn in tomorrow. Oh, please wait. I'm not you're not there.

How we even talked about this in a while is the show has gotten more and more comfortable with the zoom. And I do miss the chemistry. God Almighty, do I miss the chemistry of having these guys here and just eye contact and them knowing exactly when to talk. But are you guys going stir crazy at this point? Because Billy was in here one day and Roy was in here for about a week, but otherwise you've been working at Holy Day.

It wasn't one day. No, I was there like two weeks.

I was there three weeks for some reason. I remember Billy coming in on a Monday and just and because you get a lot of time off, remember, you got it. You were forced to come in and it was an uncomfortable situation because you've been very pandemic cautious. No. Possible, I'd say I've been responsible. Yeah, me too. I like working from home. Am I alone? No, no.

I like work, I like being able to just like take my not have pants on, but I do miss there's part of me that misses being oh does that mean naked, Chris?

I think that means naked.

Chris, if you don't do this again. Yes. I mean, this is such a bad spot, I guess two days in a row, naked Gretton of.