Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, hello, hey, hey, welcome to ball Chat. This
Speaker 1: is the sister podcast to Serial Killers. That's the podcast
Speaker 1: where we talk about cereal. This is the podcast where
Speaker 1: we just talk about whatever. And today is Wednesday, June seventh.
Speaker 1: We almost did not have a bowl Chat today, but
Speaker 1: Danielle stepped in to save the day. Danielle Dollila, welcome,
Speaker 1: thank you, Welcome to ball Chat.
Speaker 2: It's so exciting. I love bowls and I love the chat.
Speaker 1: You do love to chat. I mean I could seriously
Speaker 1: just be quiet now for the next thirty minutes and
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: I could talk. I can tell you the news. I
Speaker 2: can tell you what kind of shoes I'm wearing.
Speaker 1: You know, here's the problem. Okay, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it's a problem because he gets very angry. But Andrew, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: my partner in crime, my co host for many years now.
Speaker 1: You know, he wears many many hats.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's got a lot of hats that
Speaker 2: he is he.
Speaker 1: Actually should wear a hat. Is that hair I'm telling
Speaker 1: you he needs a haircut. Anyway. He does so many
Speaker 1: things here and his biggest problem is scheduling. Okay, like
Speaker 1: he should just block out fifteen minutes, thirty minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: once a week, just to do this a week. Well
Speaker 1: we do too, Okay, well that was that was That
Speaker 1: was for him. But what I'm saying is, and I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be a dick in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form, but in order for this podcast to be successful,
Speaker 1: we have to record. He's like, oh, I have intern interviews.
Speaker 1: Are you doing any intern interviews? No, I'm not, but
Speaker 1: you can schedule them for ten forty five instead of ten,
Speaker 1: and that way you have time to do this knet out.
Speaker 1: You know what, Let the interns who don't even work
Speaker 1: here wait, take care of your show first and then
Speaker 1: move on to the other things. I agree, but he's
Speaker 1: so very, very busy. So anyway, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for sitting in. Danielle dlo lo. We're both Long Island people.
Speaker 1: Yesout it so you're you were born on Long Island.
Speaker 2: I was born.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I that's a little bit south shore, right yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm not that I'm a north You know what,
Speaker 1: if you don't know Long Island, you have no idea,
Speaker 1: but you know, a Long Island looks like a big
Speaker 1: giant penis and the top part is the north Shore
Speaker 1: and the bottom part is the South Shore, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. But I'm kind of like
Speaker 1: right in the middle. But I guess we consider ourselves
Speaker 1: more north more north Shore than you are. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're Long Island kids from you know, way back,
Speaker 1: and we met here.
Speaker 2: I guess, no, I met you and I worked for
Speaker 2: Radio Disney. I don't know if you remember that, but
Speaker 2: you were at an event with Greg t Okay in
Speaker 2: New Jersey, right, and that's where I met you. And
Speaker 2: this was going back in like two thousand and four,
Speaker 2: two thousand and five, and ever since then, I know
Speaker 2: who you. I knew who you were. And then I
Speaker 2: remember when I came in for one of my last
Speaker 2: interviews and Tribeca you I saw you in the hole
Speaker 2: of the elevators. Yeah, do you remember that. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: this gutty and you're like, how you doing? You know,
Speaker 2: you get your hand in your pocket.
Speaker 1: I distinctly remember that meeting. However, I had no idea
Speaker 1: who you were.
Speaker 2: That's so crazy.
Speaker 1: And I feel like such a jerk because I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you had you have to do one of those.
Speaker 1: And I'm the worst at that because look, we meet
Speaker 1: a ton of people in this business all the time
Speaker 1: out in the street wherever, up here, celebrities and their
Speaker 1: handlers and whatnot, you know, and you see them every
Speaker 1: once in a while. And I'm the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that I cannot remember names. I know that. No, I know.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so good at remembering names.
Speaker 1: I know that. I well, yeah, you're very good at it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that I had seen you at
Speaker 1: some point, but I had no idea. I couldn't place it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I just did one
Speaker 1: of those yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great. I'm very careful
Speaker 1: now not to say nice to meet you. I just
Speaker 1: always try to say good to see you, or nice
Speaker 1: to see you again, or whatever.
Speaker 2: I do the same thing, oh good to see you again.
Speaker 2: Or they'll say, oh, no we never met Oh you
Speaker 2: look like somebody I met before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I just I don't feel like a jerk.
Speaker 1: And then after the fact, like we've been here so
Speaker 1: many times, and I know, I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry, so.
Speaker 2: And now we're pals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know what. I'm also very interested in.
Speaker 1: You also are a very established photographer.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: I love your photos.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: How did that all come about? Oh?
Speaker 2: Man? Okay, So in twenty twelve, I was working at
Speaker 2: Hofshi University and I was on campus and we on
Speaker 2: campus there's tulips. They're very well known for the tulips.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: So I went and I took my BlackBerry. Do you
Speaker 2: remember black I do.
Speaker 1: Actually had mine in here the other day, no way,
Speaker 1: because they were making fun of me that I still
Speaker 1: had one. It's not the only thing that functions on
Speaker 1: it that I use is the alarm. I use it
Speaker 1: to wake me up every morning. It actually still connects
Speaker 1: to Wi Fi believe it or not, but it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't like you can't use it as a
Speaker 1: phone or whatever. But I still I still have it.
Speaker 1: I use it every morning. Yeah anyway, No, that's okay.
Speaker 2: So I started taking photos on my BlackBerry, and my
Speaker 2: friend at work was like, Danielle, you have an eye.
Speaker 2: You have a really good eye. I said, oh, well,
Speaker 2: thank you. So then I started dabbling in photography more
Speaker 2: and more and more, and then I wound up buying
Speaker 2: myself my first camera. It was a Canon T three
Speaker 2: iye rebel. And then I just went out and I
Speaker 2: went to the beach. I went to Brooklyn. I took
Speaker 2: pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge, and then after that it
Speaker 2: just everyone's like, oh wow, this is gorgeous. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Then I bought another camera, more fans camera. Are you
Speaker 2: making No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, not at all. I mean I'm from there,
Speaker 1: so I get it. Yeah, but you don't because you
Speaker 1: know I paid to get rid of it. But that's cool.
Speaker 2: So yeah, So that ever since so eleven years now,
Speaker 2: I've been doing photography.
Speaker 1: Do you do weddings and stuff or not? You haven't
Speaker 1: really dabbled in that.
Speaker 2: So I do event photography sometimes. But I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I hate taking pictures of people. I hate it. It's
Speaker 2: so annoying. At least with the sun, you don't have
Speaker 2: to tell oh, smile this and that freaking guy's gotta
Speaker 2: oh smile and then his eyes are closed. I gotta
Speaker 2: take another picture, at least with the sun. You know.
Speaker 1: It's just in case you didn't realize that Danielle is
Speaker 1: New York on a cracker, you know, can we I
Speaker 1: have to actually back up because I mean, some people
Speaker 1: know who you are because of Elvis Durranchau. You're on
Speaker 1: every once in a while, But who are you and
Speaker 1: what do you do? Why are you here?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Well, so I'm Danielle. It's a little
Speaker 2: loud from Franklin Square along island that Scottison. I actually
Speaker 2: live in Long Beach now on the boardwalk, which is great.
Speaker 2: I don't live under the boardwalk. I live yet No,
Speaker 2: not yet. The rent is getting up there, so I
Speaker 2: might have to move under the boardwalk. But I started
Speaker 2: in radio in nineteen ninety seven at Hofstra University at
Speaker 2: w r h U.
Speaker 1: I listened to that every once in a while. I
Speaker 1: do eighty nine eight okay yep.
Speaker 2: And then from there I interned at PLJ and MTV,
Speaker 2: and I got my first job on the air at
Speaker 2: ninety two point seven w l I R. I did
Speaker 2: overnights and did.
Speaker 1: You talk like that?
Speaker 2: I did talk a little bill of Doucer okay now,
Speaker 2: But I actually can shut off my accent, which is
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Is that's a plus?
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you ever had a move to like
Speaker 1: Des Moines, you could kind of be neutral if yeah, if.
Speaker 2: I moved to des Moines, I can kind of lose
Speaker 2: the accent. I don't know. I think people will still
Speaker 2: hear it, of course, but yeah. So I've been in
Speaker 2: promotions and marketing since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: Eight ninety nine, And what's your title here now?
Speaker 2: I'm a promotions director and artist relations director publicity. I
Speaker 2: also oversee the Duncan Latte Lounge. All the emerging artists
Speaker 2: come in and perform.
Speaker 1: Is there coffee in there?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Okay? Yeah? Sometimes if I feel like go get
Speaker 2: in the box of jel, I bring it in.
Speaker 1: Oh, they didn't move the big fancy machine.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it's still there?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? That's insane?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have to move it.
Speaker 1: What's a dunkin lounge without dunkin coffee?
Speaker 2: Well, now we're getting between us. We're getting like some
Speaker 2: coffee spouts in there.
Speaker 1: Coffee spouts, Yeah, they just spouts, yep. Okay. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any plumbing in there.
Speaker 2: But there is actually, Oh i'll show you later. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's a little thing in there you put the water.
Speaker 1: I'd like for you to show me you're plumbing. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to see my plumbing.
Speaker 1: So you've been here for a long time now, I'm.
Speaker 2: Here seven years. This is my dream job working at iHeart,
Speaker 2: which was Clear Channel and when Elvis and everyone started
Speaker 2: what ninety six, I was like, oh, I want to
Speaker 2: work there one day.
Speaker 1: But you were just you were in diapers.
Speaker 2: Know it wasn't. I was in high school, Okay, wasn't.
Speaker 2: I graduated high school in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: All right, so then you're just a little bit younger
Speaker 1: than me. That's a little I mean in let's see,
Speaker 1: today is the seventh So on the fifteenth of this month,
Speaker 1: I will have been here for twenty eight years.
Speaker 2: Get out of here.
Speaker 1: June fifteenth, nineteen ninety five was my first day here.
Speaker 1: Isn't that insane?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was nineteen. I was nineteen, and I'll never
Speaker 1: forget my every first day here. They asked me to
Speaker 1: pull the big van out of the garage. Oh god,
Speaker 1: it was this giant It was a nineteen eighty something,
Speaker 1: the biggest piece of crap with old logo whatever. And
Speaker 1: I pulled it out of the garage and I was
Speaker 1: driving up metal Land Parkway because the station was in
Speaker 1: Secaucaus at the time, and like, I had a smile
Speaker 1: from ear to ear that you could not break. I
Speaker 1: was like, I cannot believe that I'm driving the Z
Speaker 1: one hundred truck and I worked for Z one hundred.
Speaker 1: Like that was it. That was insane, right at My
Speaker 1: very first event was that day they took me out.
Speaker 1: It was myself and an intern and we went to
Speaker 1: the New York City Public Library in the city, the
Speaker 1: one with the lions everything there, and we were giving
Speaker 1: out RCA draft cola. It was Brandon, you know. So
Speaker 1: we were sampling RCA draft cola in bottles and I
Speaker 1: was carrying a cooler and I dropped it as I
Speaker 1: was walking up the steps and there was broken glass
Speaker 1: all over the place. I felt like the big I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe that they didn't fire me that day. But
Speaker 1: it was you know, Bill Hesselberg.
Speaker 2: Bill.
Speaker 1: So Bill was just sitting in the truck, sitting in
Speaker 1: the street park there because he was just watching laughing.
Speaker 1: He was just he just had it was just face
Speaker 1: palm before there was a face palm emoji. He was
Speaker 1: the face palm emoji. And I was like, what do
Speaker 1: I do you know? And I was just I'm picking
Speaker 1: up pieces of glass. People are laughing at me. It's
Speaker 1: all sticky crap everywhere. But that was my very first
Speaker 1: experience in my first day at Z one hundred, and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. I never forget it.
Speaker 2: I remember my first day as an intern at PLJ.
Speaker 2: They asked me to stock the refrigerator with orange juice. Okay,
Speaker 2: And you know what I did, Scottie.
Speaker 1: The best job you could I did.
Speaker 2: I made sure all the labels were straight and foward.
Speaker 2: I made sure it was no pulp some pulp, yes, pulp.
Speaker 2: I made sure that refrigerator looked its best.
Speaker 1: Attention to detail. Yeah, we had a tropicana refrigerator in
Speaker 1: the promotion's office in Secawka is probably around the same time,
Speaker 1: so they would send us cases and cases of tropicana
Speaker 1: and I had to stock that refrigerator as well. And
Speaker 1: I would still do it today because you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not above any job here. I really don't same.
Speaker 1: It's true though, I like, I still get the trucks inspected,
Speaker 1: oil changes. I still do that since since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: That was my job and I still do it to
Speaker 1: this day. That's insane with pride and joy.
Speaker 2: Pride, joy, Yeah, look at you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know I'm a little bit grayer now.
Speaker 2: So am I. But I get I get it. I
Speaker 2: just got it done on Monday.
Speaker 1: That's That's one thing that I've always said I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna do. I'm not gonna dye in my hair. I
Speaker 1: don't nice. Well, thanks, it is. The longer it is,
Speaker 1: the more gray you can see. And if I don't
Speaker 1: put gel in my hair, definitely it's very much more salty.
Speaker 1: Like yesterday, I didn't have a lot of gel in it,
Speaker 1: and it was much so like you see over here
Speaker 1: my sidebirds. They're very they're gray. My whole head looks
Speaker 1: like that. But for some reason, the gel like makes
Speaker 1: it not salty.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. I like it too, and I
Speaker 1: vowed that I'll never die it. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would like to diet, but I will
Speaker 1: never dye it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know I need a dyet too.
Speaker 1: It's weird because I was I was down to like
Speaker 1: one eighty four, like four or five months ago in
Speaker 1: a back at. Really yeah, you know, I cut out
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff, and slowly they've worked their way
Speaker 1: back in.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know I did that. I cut
Speaker 2: out all carbs and sugar, and I mean I was
Speaker 2: eating vegetables all day. You had to see me at
Speaker 2: my desk. I was eating string beans like it was
Speaker 2: candy fried. No, it was a Friday. I went to
Speaker 2: the grocery store and I got them. I got the
Speaker 2: big five pound bag and there I was eating string
Speaker 2: beans all day.
Speaker 1: You know, are you a vegetable grower? Do you have? No?
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't have room now, right, Okay, I got
Speaker 1: When I.
Speaker 2: Had my house, I always wanted to grow vegetables, but
Speaker 2: guess what, I only grew flowers.
Speaker 1: It's good to take pictures of. It's very upsetting to
Speaker 1: me because this is the first year in I can't
Speaker 1: even remember it, like since I've had the house in
Speaker 1: you know, two thousand and seven or whatever, but even
Speaker 1: before that on my parents' house. This is the first
Speaker 1: year that I don't have a full on vegetable garden.
Speaker 1: I have one tomato plant, I have two cucumbers, and
Speaker 1: and I think that's it because the weeds. I know,
Speaker 1: I sound like an idiot, but the weeds are so obnoxious.
Speaker 1: They just take over the whole thing, and by the
Speaker 1: time it's like it's not even worth it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. It's upsetting because I like to eat.
Speaker 2: You grow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. Too.
Speaker 2: But I know my grandparents used to grow basil in the.
Speaker 1: Backyard tomatoes and can make their Sunday sauce. Yes, tomatoes
Speaker 1: and they're spices, but.
Speaker 2: They're not here anymore. Herbs. I know herbs. I went
Speaker 2: to high school.
Speaker 1: Him, Yeah, I bet they bet they're a bunch of
Speaker 1: herbs in your high school.
Speaker 2: Yes, a ton. So did you go to high school?
Speaker 1: I went to high school and plain View, which is
Speaker 1: which is weird because my kids go to the same
Speaker 1: schools as we do, as I did, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's crazy, it's crazy. And the nuttiest thing
Speaker 1: was that my oldest daughter had a teacher in elementary
Speaker 1: school that was there when I was there, which is insane.
Speaker 1: If I would have had that teacher, it would have
Speaker 1: been full circle. But that when I was in fourth grade.
Speaker 1: It was her very first year there.
Speaker 2: Oh that's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she's still there. She's still there now.
Speaker 2: She don't want to retire you.
Speaker 1: No, Well, she's not that old. I mean, you think
Speaker 1: about it. It's I don't know, forty years ago.
Speaker 2: So she started being her sixties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if she started right out of college, she was
Speaker 1: twenty two or whatever it is. And she's probably maybe
Speaker 1: maybe sixty five at best at this point, which is
Speaker 1: still relatively young. I mean, you know, so it's it's
Speaker 1: weird because when we were kids, it didn't matter. Every
Speaker 1: teacher was old, even if they were in their twenties.
Speaker 1: Ah yeah, old battle axe.
Speaker 2: When I went to Swanka, my mother went to Swanka
Speaker 2: and you know Swanica, I do, yeah, four o'pock. So
Speaker 2: my mother had Miss Foreman as a gym teacher. It
Speaker 2: was her first year. And then I had Miss Foreman
Speaker 2: back in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: And she's like, oh, you look familiar. I said, Oh
Speaker 2: my mother had you. Oh my god, your mother had me.
Speaker 1: She goes, I'm not the it's just it's crazy though.
Speaker 1: But I mean, a career is I don't know, thirty
Speaker 1: forty years at least, right, so it's bound to happen.
Speaker 2: It's oh yeah, and it's very rare in now a
Speaker 2: business to have a career of.
Speaker 1: Fat all right. And no, I always tell people when
Speaker 1: I when they asked me how long I've been here.
Speaker 1: It's that's not normal in radio year, like in radio years,
Speaker 1: I've been here two hundred years, right, you know, exactly
Speaker 1: that's crazy because and it's a very nomadic business, at
Speaker 1: least it used to be. Anyway, you know, people would
Speaker 1: move all around the country before they would finally settle
Speaker 1: down in one place. They'd be there for a bunch
Speaker 1: of years, and then they'd get fired from there and
Speaker 1: they'd move somewhere else. But I mean, I've been incredibly
Speaker 1: lucky that I started my career on Long Island. I
Speaker 1: started to be Ali when I was fifteen.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I can't believe right.
Speaker 1: So I was there fifteen sixteen, seventeen eighteen. I moved
Speaker 1: to Iowa when I was eighteen. Here's your seat, A
Speaker 1: rapid shout out, Andrew. And I was there for ten
Speaker 1: months or eleven months, whatever it was. I always get
Speaker 1: the number wrong. But I was there from from June
Speaker 1: until May, so it was ten or eleven months.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And then I came back from Iowa and I started
Speaker 1: working here in June of ninety five, and I've been
Speaker 1: here ever since.
Speaker 2: Can you believe that?
Speaker 1: No, I can't. And I love it as much as
Speaker 1: that first day, smiling ear to ear down the Medland Parkway.
Speaker 1: I still wake up every morning at three fifty two
Speaker 1: and it's miserable, but I'm like, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: the job that I love. Yeah, you know, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it may not pay the bills sometimes, but trust me,
Speaker 1: I know. I always like, is it better for you
Speaker 1: to be happy in what you do and just kind
Speaker 1: of get by or be miserable like a lot of
Speaker 1: people I know are they're in finance or they're in
Speaker 1: you know whatever, and they're miserable. They hate their lives,
Speaker 1: they hate their jobs. But you know what, they got
Speaker 1: three Mercedes in the driveway. Yeah, I mean, I there's
Speaker 1: got to be some happy medium there somewhere.
Speaker 2: But I agree. And it's it's funny you say that
Speaker 2: because I look at my friends who went to college
Speaker 2: for marketing or finance blah blah blah, and that's what
Speaker 2: they do. Like that's it, you know, Like for us,
Speaker 2: we can do a plethora of things, plan events, do production,
Speaker 2: do audio and do now we got you know, video
Speaker 2: stuff and radio which you know they say video kill
Speaker 2: the radio star go.
Speaker 1: It's happening again, right exactly.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's funny when when people are just like, oh,
Speaker 2: I do finance, I work with numbers. Okay, is there
Speaker 2: anything else you could do? No? Not really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you're kind of you're stuck doing one thing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, look, this was wonderful talking to you. Thank
Speaker 1: you for sitting in. Normally we go longer than this,
Speaker 1: but they just finished up in there, and I need
Speaker 1: Elvis to come in here and record his commercials. And
Speaker 1: he's gonna come banging on the door in a minute.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he'll join us for a chat.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for listening to bowl chat. Sorry
Speaker 1: that it was so short, but how to give you
Speaker 1: something because you know, Andrew's doing his thing and I
Speaker 1: can't knock him. I just wish that he would get
Speaker 1: to schedule a little bit better. I'll help him with yes, please, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll help. You're very multifaceted, so you can help with them.
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Speaker 1: new episode of serial Killers. Until then, say clink, Danielle DeLillo.
Speaker 2: Oh you just here.
Speaker 1: You get to drop theas in here ready, say clink
Speaker 1: clink Ooh?
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Say something very New
Speaker 2: York, very New York, very good.