Kill All the Reys, Songs to Fight To, and More with Fuzz Martin

Fuzz: 00:00:00

Wow.

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Yeah.

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Stay out of

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those storms.

Danny: 00:00:02

Stay out of the storms, people.

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If you have to go anywhere, take a boat and, you know, cause at least that way, if

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you capsize, you're gone anyway, you know, it's quicker than falling twenty thousand

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feet and knowing it's going to happen.

Fuzz: 00:00:13

I know.

Fuzz: 00:00:13

I don't see it.

Fuzz: 00:00:14

I disagree with you.

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See, if you fall twenty thousand feet, the end is quick.

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If your, boat tips over.

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It might take a while.

Danny: 00:00:26

Hi, and welcome to Five Random Questions, the show where

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every question is an adventure.

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I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests five questions

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created by a random question generator.

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The guest has no idea what the questions are, and neither do I,

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which means this could go either way.

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So, sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode.

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This week, I'm speaking to Fuzz Martin, who's the Partner and

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Chief Strategy Officer at Epic Creative, an advertising agency.

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He's also the host of 15 Minutes with Fuzz and co host of the Tech

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Tools for Teachers podcast, which I believe that's with your wife, Fuzz.

Fuzz: 00:01:00

Yep, that's right.

Danny: 00:01:01

Awesome.

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So, welcome to the show.

Danny: 00:01:02

Thanks for appearing.

Fuzz: 00:01:03

Thank you.

Fuzz: 00:01:04

I'm kind of nervous not, not being on a podcast, but with having Five Random

Fuzz: 00:01:08

Questions, I don't know what to expect.

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So

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And that's, I think, the, the fun thing.

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It's like, I don't know what they are.

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We're going to find out what they are when we spin the wheel.

Fuzz: 00:01:18

All right, we'll find out together.

Danny: 00:01:19

So it

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could go any way.

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And Fuzz, I mean, we've known each other for a while now, I feel.

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Obviously, we've never met in person in person, but I'd say a good

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eighteen months, maybe two years, at least, on the old Twitter and

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various podcasts, communities, etc.

Fuzz: 00:01:32

Yeah, definitely.

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It's been at least that I think with COVID it might've actually been been

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longer cause we've you never know where that time's gone with COVID.

Fuzz: 00:01:39

We definitely started talking sometime during that, that ether in there during,

Fuzz: 00:01:46

When I had started, I had switched over to to a different podcasting platform and

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started getting involved with some of the podcasting groups and you're very active

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in there and you're very, very helpful.

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And we, we connected there and we chat a lot and I think we've got a lot of

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similar thoughts on things in the world.

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So we chat a lot on online, so I appreciate, appreciate that

Fuzz: 00:02:06

and appreciate you having me on and, and yeah, it's been great.

Danny: 00:02:10

First year, wow, COVID.

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Yeah, that's like, that seems such a long time ago.

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I mean, obviously it's still around, but it seems a while when it first,

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when it first kicked off four years now.

Fuzz: 00:02:18

Yeah, it has been, it has been a while and also feels like it

Fuzz: 00:02:22

was yesterday all at the same time.

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And I mentioned, obviously you're at Epic Creative, which is

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a full service advertising agency.

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And something that caught my eye and that I just want you to talk a

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bit about was you're located in an art museum because you've got Epic.

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Eighty five people.

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Is that correct?

Fuzz: 00:02:41

Yeah, that's correct.

Fuzz: 00:02:42

So we're in an old, the old Museum of Wisconsin Arts, which is in a town called

Fuzz: 00:02:48

West Bend, Wisconsin, which is just north of Milwaukee, which is for those listening

Fuzz: 00:02:52

globally is about ninety minutes north of Chicago, Illinois in the US here.

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And we are, it's, so this, this old Museum of Wisconsin

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Art was built in the thirties.

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And then they built onto this.

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So we've got this really cool old building.

Fuzz: 00:03:06

I'm actually broadcasting in here from an old storage closet where they used to keep

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exhibits and I turned it into a studio and but yeah, we have we have 85 employees.

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We do everything from animation and 3D things like that to website design.

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Public relations, social media, and pretty much anything you can

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think of in the advertising world.

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So I came in from radio.

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I moved over to Epic about thirteen years ago.

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I had started in radio as a copywriter and on air guy, came over here as a

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copywriter and PR guy, and then bought in and now I'm one of the owners and,

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and head of strategy here at, at Epic.

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So, pretty fun.

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And we've grown tremendously and.

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And I love it.

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And I still get to do this whole podcast on the side.

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So this is, this this touch touches my, the thing I loved

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about radio was being able to do this and talk to people like you.

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And the thing that I didn't like was the pay and the long hours.

Danny: 00:04:05

Awesome.

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And no doubt, we'll find out more about you as we go through the, the episode.

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But I feel we've got five questions awaiting for us.

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So let me bring up my funny question random generator.

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Let's see where we go from here.

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And you mentioned you've got like obviously good

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advertising and PR background.

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So are you going to be spinning the questions making

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them up a positive outcome?

Fuzz: 00:04:27

I hope so.

Fuzz: 00:04:28

We'll see.

Fuzz: 00:04:29

We'll see.

Fuzz: 00:04:30

See how good I am at PR and spin.

Danny: 00:04:33

Alrighty.

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So let's dive in then.

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Let's see where we go.

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Like I say, I have no idea what the questions are.

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I've brought up my little spin the wheel question generator.

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And we'll see where we go there, Fuzz.

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Let's go.

Fuzz: 00:04:43

Alright.

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Question one.

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You're about to get into a fight.

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What song comes on as your soundtrack?

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What song comes on?

Fuzz: 00:04:53

Okay.

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So when I was a kid, I grew up in a, a little small town in kind of

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rural Wisconsin, and when we used to drive our our cars through the

Fuzz: 00:05:06

rural, like windy roads there was a A song called black sunshine by,

Fuzz: 00:05:12

I think it was from White Zombie.

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I think it's a White Zombie it's called yeah, black, black sunshine.

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It was like sweet in the ride, black sunshine.

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And I, I think that's I think it was, I think it was white zombie, but anyway.

Fuzz: 00:05:23

It is one of those songs where whenever I hear it, I'm like,

Fuzz: 00:05:25

all right, I am ready to go.

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And I think that would be the song that I would play otherwise.

Fuzz: 00:05:31

If that song was unavailable to me, have you ever seen the movie Dirty

Fuzz: 00:05:36

Work with Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange from like the nineties ish?

Danny: 00:05:43

I haven't no Dirty Work it's called.

Fuzz: 00:05:46

Yeah, Dirty Work.

Fuzz: 00:05:47

It is.

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It's hilarious.

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It's obviously a comedy but there's a scene in there where Chris Farley,

Fuzz: 00:05:52

it's one of Chris Farley's last movies.

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You could tell he was kind of on his way out at that point, and he's like,

Fuzz: 00:05:58

street fighting man, G7, and he pushes the jukebox when this bar fight's about

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to start, and he the guy goes, you just hit G8, and it starts playing.

Fuzz: 00:06:09

If you like pina coladas, you just And it's absolutely hilarious, but

Fuzz: 00:06:14

but yeah, it was a black sunshine would be my, my choice of songs there.

Fuzz: 00:06:18

And I have to see a black sunshine

Danny: 00:06:21

And is that because it's like a, it's like a really aggressive

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song or get you in the mood there?

Fuzz: 00:06:27

Yeah, it's very, very aggressive.

Fuzz: 00:06:28

It's got a, yeah, it's a, it's a from white zombie.

Fuzz: 00:06:31

It's a very aggressive, it's very like metal hard hitting and just it.

Fuzz: 00:06:38

Yeah.

Fuzz: 00:06:39

I always had adrenaline when I was listening to that song.

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And I, I think that's the first song to think of when I think, all right, I need

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a song that's going to help me funnel my adrenaline into focus and aggression.

Danny: 00:06:51

And are you a fighter?

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That's the main question for us.

Fuzz: 00:06:54

In the year of our Lord twenty twenty four, no, I am not a fighter.

Fuzz: 00:06:57

But when I was a a 17 year old kid fighting hormones maybe a little bit.

Fuzz: 00:07:03

Yes.

Fuzz: 00:07:04

So I was always a big kid.

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Like I played football and all that.

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Worked out a lot.

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So I always had like a lot of testosterone and muscle and

Fuzz: 00:07:12

didn't know what to do with it.

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So I always had to have, you know, kind of outlets for my strength and, and I guess

Fuzz: 00:07:21

the dumbness that comes with being young.

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And I, I needed to learn how to channel that.

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And it took getting older and maturity to.

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Kind of harness that, and I've definitely grown and harnessed that

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as I've gotten older and educated, so.

Danny: 00:07:36

And just a little bonus question for this actually, so Anchorman,

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you've seen Anchorman, Anchorman 2?

Fuzz: 00:07:40

Oh yeah.

Danny: 00:07:41

Awesome.

Danny: 00:07:41

So I think it's in the second one where all the news teams come together for a

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fight in the park or something like that.

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What weapon would you bring to the fight whilst this song's

Danny: 00:07:49

playing in the background?

Fuzz: 00:07:51

Oh, you know, I'm always a fan of a baseball bat with

Fuzz: 00:07:53

barbed wire wrapped around it.

Fuzz: 00:07:54

I think that's I mean, if you're gonna if you're gonna get into a

Fuzz: 00:07:59

fight with a bunch of news anchors, that's probably the best one.

Fuzz: 00:08:02

That's the one.

Danny: 00:08:04

I feel this is something from your 17 year old days.

Danny: 00:08:06

We'll have to revisit that sometime.

Danny: 00:08:09

Awesome.

Danny: 00:08:10

Alrighty, let's have a look at question number two.

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So let's clear this one up and let's spin the wheel for question two.

Danny: 00:08:19

Oh, interesting.

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If you could kill off a character from a TV show, movie, or novel, who would it be?

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And I'm going to add a bonus why there as well.

Fuzz: 00:08:30

If I could kill off a character from a TV show, movie,

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or novel, who would it be?

Fuzz: 00:08:35

This is me stalling because I'm trying to think of which

Fuzz: 00:08:38

character.

Danny: 00:08:39

And I'm going to make it harder for you.

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It's got to be a character that's not already been killed off in that medium.

Fuzz: 00:08:44

No, I know.

Fuzz: 00:08:45

And I am really trying to think of who Who I would have killed off.

Fuzz: 00:08:50

I am kind of thinking well, I guess he's kind of killed off already.

Fuzz: 00:08:55

So in one of the last movies all right, I'm going to just

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go a little controversial.

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I'm going to say I'm going to say Rey in the final Star Wars sequels and only

Fuzz: 00:09:05

because I just to make it interesting only because Somehow Palpatine survived.

Fuzz: 00:09:11

I don't know.

Danny: 00:09:12

Wait a minute.

Danny: 00:09:13

Are you blaming Rey for somehow Palpatine?

Fuzz: 00:09:15

I'm not blaming Rey for that.

Fuzz: 00:09:17

It wasn't Rey's fault.

Fuzz: 00:09:18

I, I the, the question was random and I didn't have a

Fuzz: 00:09:22

lot of time to think about it.

Fuzz: 00:09:24

I was, I was looking for a main character.

Fuzz: 00:09:26

I don't know.

Danny: 00:09:27

I mean, Rey's a main character.

Danny: 00:09:28

She's getting her own

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movie next

Danny: 00:09:30

year, the year after, I think.

Fuzz: 00:09:31

And that's the thing though, like I, as a kid, Danny, you grew

Fuzz: 00:09:36

up in like the eighties, right?

Fuzz: 00:09:37

I mean, like you're probably around the same age as I am the, I grew up

Fuzz: 00:09:42

thinking that we were never going to get any star Wars ever again.

Fuzz: 00:09:45

So I am of the ilk that no Star Wars is bad Star Wars because.

Fuzz: 00:09:50

I never thought we were going to get any, and now I'll take whatever we can get.

Fuzz: 00:09:53

I'm kind of like, whatever we get is fine.

Fuzz: 00:09:55

So I'm, I was good with, I was good with the prequels.

Fuzz: 00:09:59

I was good with the sequels, but I'm, I was also kind of like,

Fuzz: 00:10:02

Oh, what if there was a different direction that that movie went?

Fuzz: 00:10:06

What if they redeemed Ben solo and, and Rey, I don't know.

Fuzz: 00:10:13

You asked the question and I answered.

Fuzz: 00:10:15

I'm not taking it back.

Danny: 00:10:17

And I think that there was maybe, and I could be wrong here, I think maybe

Danny: 00:10:20

one of the original script treatments for either Last Jedi, or maybe I'm thinking of

Danny: 00:10:24

Return of the Rise of Skywalker, I could be wrong, but I know obviously there was

Danny: 00:10:27

that part where Rey showed her dark side, so you had dark Rey, and I think that

Danny: 00:10:32

could have been interesting, like you say, if Ben had been the one that was redeemed

Danny: 00:10:36

and Rey was the one that turned and how that whole dynamic could have shifted.

Fuzz: 00:10:40

There you go.

Fuzz: 00:10:41

I, when I said Rey died, I meant that her light side died and she turned into Darth,

Danny: 00:10:47

Rey,

Fuzz: 00:10:48

something.

Danny: 00:10:48

Darth Rey, that'd be awesome.

Danny: 00:10:50

Darth Radar.

Fuzz: 00:10:51

Yes, Darth Radar, love it.

Danny: 00:10:52

Cause then she could see ships coming as well and she'd

Danny: 00:10:54

make the beeping noises as she's sensing them with the force.

Danny: 00:10:58

Yeah.

Danny: 00:10:58

How do you find the and the Star Wars TV shows, like the

Danny: 00:11:00

Acolyte and Ahsoka and all that?

Fuzz: 00:11:03

So we, we've watched all three episodes as we're

Fuzz: 00:11:06

recording this of Acolyte.

Fuzz: 00:11:08

And I hope it picks up a little bit, but but you know, we're, we're going to

Fuzz: 00:11:14

give it, we're going to be open minded.

Fuzz: 00:11:16

I've loved the other shows the, Oh what was the blanking on the last ones

Danny: 00:11:23

Andor?

Fuzz: 00:11:24

Yeah.

Fuzz: 00:11:24

And, or, and, or it was great.

Fuzz: 00:11:25

And, or it was great.

Fuzz: 00:11:27

Obi Wan, we liked you know, obviously Mandalorian all Book

Fuzz: 00:11:31

of Boba Fett that was okay.

Fuzz: 00:11:32

Like we, we watched them all.

Fuzz: 00:11:35

And Ahsoka, you know, my youngest daughter loves Ahsoka.

Fuzz: 00:11:39

We're, we're all in on Ahsoka.

Fuzz: 00:11:41

So we watched them all.

Fuzz: 00:11:43

We, that's like our appointment TV these days are those Disney shows.

Fuzz: 00:11:50

So, yeah.

Danny: 00:11:51

No, maybe they're going to add dark Rey to make a special

Danny: 00:11:53

appearance somewhere down the line.

Fuzz: 00:11:55

Maybe it'll happen.

Fuzz: 00:11:56

Who knows?

Fuzz: 00:11:56

How about you?

Fuzz: 00:11:57

Are you, are you into them?

Danny: 00:11:58

I am.

Danny: 00:11:59

Yeah.

Danny: 00:11:59

I, I didn't enjoy Book of Boba Fett as much.

Danny: 00:12:01

I thought they wasted his character a bit and made it, it was weird how the, for

Danny: 00:12:05

me anyway, the better episodes was when Mando actually appeared as a guest almost.

Danny: 00:12:11

And like episode, I think it was a five when it was just purely

Danny: 00:12:15

dedicated to Luke and Grogu training.

Danny: 00:12:17

I thought that was kind of strange, but yeah, I, for the most part,

Danny: 00:12:20

I really enjoy the live action.

Danny: 00:12:22

I think Dave Filoni is doing a really good job.

Danny: 00:12:24

And episode three of the Acolyte, I thought the first two dragged a bit,

Danny: 00:12:28

pacing was a little bit off, and the run time was pretty slow, so that

Danny: 00:12:31

didn't really allow for development.

Danny: 00:12:34

I thought episode three with the different director and the

Danny: 00:12:36

extra run time was really good.

Danny: 00:12:37

I, I really enjoyed getting into the lore and, you know, the, the, the other, the

Danny: 00:12:42

other versions of the force, if you like.

Danny: 00:12:43

So, yeah, curious to see where it goes.

Fuzz: 00:12:46

Yeah, definitely.

Danny: 00:12:48

All righty.

Danny: 00:12:48

So Rey is going to die.

Danny: 00:12:51

. Fuzz: Sorry Rey.

Danny: 00:12:52

This is gonna be, this gonna be the shortest show ever.

Danny: 00:12:54

I'm gonna get blocked by everybody after episode one.

Danny: 00:12:56

. This is . Alrighty.

Fuzz: 00:12:59

Now, I'm the one who

Fuzz: 00:12:59

said, you can cancel me

Fuzz: 00:13:01

. Danny: Okay.

Fuzz: 00:13:02

Let's have a look now for question number three.

Fuzz: 00:13:07

Okay.

Fuzz: 00:13:08

Oh, this is a good one actually.

Fuzz: 00:13:09

I like this.

Fuzz: 00:13:10

If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to

Fuzz: 00:13:13

follow it, what would it be?

Fuzz: 00:13:16

All right.

Fuzz: 00:13:17

If I had to make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, I could go

Fuzz: 00:13:22

with like a really like, like I'm tempted to like to go for a really powerful

Fuzz: 00:13:28

rule, but then I had this rule this morning that I wish I could just snap

Fuzz: 00:13:33

my fingers and this rule would exist in the world and it could never be done.

Fuzz: 00:13:39

And if you, if you broke this rule, you would be arrested and never able to work

Fuzz: 00:13:44

in the industry that you work in again.

Fuzz: 00:13:46

And that is if you.

Fuzz: 00:13:48

Use either a siren or a cell phone ringing or vibrating in a radio or

Fuzz: 00:13:56

podcast ad that you'll be arrested.

Fuzz: 00:14:00

That is my rule because if you're driving.

Fuzz: 00:14:04

And you hear a siren or a phone ringing or vibrating and it distracts you and

Fuzz: 00:14:10

you think that it's yours or you think there's a police car or an ambulance

Fuzz: 00:14:15

behind you could spell trouble.

Fuzz: 00:14:17

So that was a gripe from today and it and it has been for for years

Fuzz: 00:14:22

and you know, having worked in the industry, but I, I don't like it and

Fuzz: 00:14:27

people still do it to this day and yes, it gets attention, but it's.

Fuzz: 00:14:31

It's a cheap way of getting attention.

Fuzz: 00:14:33

Don't do it.

Fuzz: 00:14:35

Don't be, don't be cheap.

Fuzz: 00:14:37

Find other ways.

Danny: 00:14:38

It's actually a good rule.

Danny: 00:14:40

You say you're driving and you listen to a podcast and all

Danny: 00:14:42

of a sudden you hear a siren.

Danny: 00:14:44

You're going to pull over, which could cause an accident.

Danny: 00:14:46

So the car behind you.

Danny: 00:14:47

It's just driving normal speed, and you slow and pull.

Danny: 00:14:50

Yeah, that makes sense.

Danny: 00:14:52

I don't know why people would use that.

Danny: 00:14:54

Like you say, just for attention, it seems a weird one to use.

Fuzz: 00:14:57

It does, and I think, I think it's usually just either laziness or

Fuzz: 00:15:00

people don't think about it too much, or they're like, oh, we're doing, you

Fuzz: 00:15:03

know, whatever this, you know, we're, we're putting a police officer in this

Fuzz: 00:15:07

ad, so let's use a siren sound effect to imply that there's a police officer.

Fuzz: 00:15:12

And it's it's not cool, man.

Fuzz: 00:15:14

Don't do it.

Danny: 00:15:16

So what would you replace it with?

Danny: 00:15:17

What would be your ideal?

Danny: 00:15:18

Just like a little chime or something, or,

Fuzz: 00:15:21

I don't know.

Fuzz: 00:15:21

You can like somebody, you know, tapping on the window with a I dunno, the,

Fuzz: 00:15:26

the back of a flashlight or something, or, there's so many ways there, there

Fuzz: 00:15:31

are so many more creative ways to paint a picture in somebody's mind

Fuzz: 00:15:35

than having to be on the nose with a siren that you can get away with.

Fuzz: 00:15:40

And it just depends on what, what you're trying to create, but it

Fuzz: 00:15:44

doesn't have to just be that.

Fuzz: 00:15:46

So same with cell phones, it could be, you know, pushing, you know,

Fuzz: 00:15:51

hearing the, the button like the beep when you push a button or something

Fuzz: 00:15:56

else that doesn't have to be.

Fuzz: 00:15:58

The, the phone buzzing and sounds like it's on the seat next to you,

Fuzz: 00:16:02

or, you know, especially if, if the ring is a ring that everybody knows,

Fuzz: 00:16:08

because it's like an Apple or a standard Android ring, like one that

Fuzz: 00:16:13

people think might actually be theirs.

Fuzz: 00:16:15

If it's something that's like you, you made, or that it's like nonstandard,

Fuzz: 00:16:20

then people might, you know, they won't know because it's not their typical

Fuzz: 00:16:23

phone, but if it's like the standard.

Fuzz: 00:16:25

Apple ring or Android ring.

Fuzz: 00:16:27

Don't do it

Danny: 00:16:28

It's like the the movies, right?

Danny: 00:16:30

When they're trying to set the scene or TV shows or whatever, and they'll

Danny: 00:16:33

show a picture of the Eiffel Tower and they'll say overlaid Paris, France.

Danny: 00:16:37

You think I know that most people know the Eiffel Tower or you'll

Danny: 00:16:41

get like the Empire State Building.

Danny: 00:16:43

Yeah, I know the overlay where you are and you think, but we know that

Danny: 00:16:46

it just seems a bit superfluous there.

Danny: 00:16:48

That's that's kind of my gripe.

Danny: 00:16:49

I think.

Danny: 00:16:50

Yeah, exactly.

Danny: 00:16:52

Alrighty, so yeah, so we don't want police following us at all, whether

Danny: 00:16:56

it's on a podcast or properly.

Danny: 00:16:59

Alrighty, so let's get rid of that question.

Danny: 00:17:01

We're three fifths of the way through.

Danny: 00:17:04

So what have we got for question four?

Danny: 00:17:06

Killing it here.

Danny: 00:17:07

Killing it, mate.

Danny: 00:17:08

What will you look like in 20 years time?

Fuzz: 00:17:12

In 20 years time, alright, so I am 45 as of right now, so

Fuzz: 00:17:17

20 years I'll be 65 years old.

Fuzz: 00:17:20

So, I am, well, I still have most of my hair, so I'm guessing that

Fuzz: 00:17:26

won't be the case in 20 years.

Fuzz: 00:17:28

And if I do have hair, it'll most likely be white.

Fuzz: 00:17:32

And right now it's kind of, I don't know, blondish brown.

Fuzz: 00:17:35

I'm colorblind.

Fuzz: 00:17:35

I don't even know what color my hair is.

Fuzz: 00:17:36

Brown.

Fuzz: 00:17:37

And I'm, I'm hoping that I stay you know, like working out and kind of

Fuzz: 00:17:44

hopefully like, don't, you know, like I don't look like my uncles.

Fuzz: 00:17:49

I hope my, my uncles won't be listening to this.

Fuzz: 00:17:50

I hope I don't look like my uncles and have like, go down those genes at their

Fuzz: 00:17:54

65 cause their profile looks like.

Fuzz: 00:17:57

Like, I don't know, Yogi bear kind of shape, but that runs in the family.

Fuzz: 00:18:02

And I'll be fighting that between now and then.

Fuzz: 00:18:05

So, but I just hope to stay in shape and I'm certain I'll not have hair and I'm

Fuzz: 00:18:12

probably have white skin and wrinkles, but that's you know, that like, but people

Fuzz: 00:18:17

at 65 these days compared to when I was.

Fuzz: 00:18:21

You know, a kid, people at 65 look pretty good, I'd say, most case.

Fuzz: 00:18:25

Yeah.

Fuzz: 00:18:26

So, I mean, people who live right, I guess, not, not everybody, but those

Fuzz: 00:18:30

who make good choices and are you know, go easy on the sun, they're all right.

Fuzz: 00:18:36

I wear sunscreen, I put on lotion.

Fuzz: 00:18:39

Hopefully I'll look all right.

Fuzz: 00:18:41

You moisturize.

Fuzz: 00:18:42

I moisturize.

Fuzz: 00:18:43

I go, I get my annual checkup, I go to the doctor, hopefully you Hopefully I

Fuzz: 00:18:48

still look good by the time, I'll, I'll be like getting ready for bed at night

Fuzz: 00:18:51

and my wife will be getting ready for bed and she'll take like some, I don't know,

Fuzz: 00:18:56

retinol or something and she'll like, like smear it in between my eye, like in

Fuzz: 00:19:01

between my eyes and she'll like rub that in so you don't get a she calls it a peace

Fuzz: 00:19:06

symbol because her dad's got this like big wrinkle peace symbol in between his eyes.

Fuzz: 00:19:11

So, yeah, so I guess but I'm, you know, what I'm, who am I kidding?

Fuzz: 00:19:15

I'm going to be 65 years old and I'm not going to live forever.

Fuzz: 00:19:17

So and we're allowed to age, Danny, right?

Danny: 00:19:20

Yeah, exactly.

Danny: 00:19:21

I feel you mentioned that people now about 65 generally look better than

Danny: 00:19:25

say what we remember 65 year olds as kids or teens growing up, et cetera.

Danny: 00:19:30

And I wonder if that's more to do with there being a lot more.

Danny: 00:19:33

like tech and service led jobs, etc, where you're not working down a mine

Danny: 00:19:38

or you're not out in the field, etc.

Danny: 00:19:39

So obviously you're doing harder labor and you're open to these elements, etc.

Danny: 00:19:44

And like you say, I mean, we used to play as kids out in the sun.

Danny: 00:19:47

We didn't put any sunscreen on whatsoever, didn't even have

Danny: 00:19:50

sunscreen at that time, I don't think.

Danny: 00:19:51

So yeah, I look at my My folks that are, say, older now than me, obviously,

Danny: 00:19:57

they would be, but yeah, they're, they're look older because they've

Danny: 00:20:01

been out and had harder lives, etc.

Danny: 00:20:03

So yeah, that plays a big part as well, I think.

Fuzz: 00:20:05

Yeah, absolutely.

Fuzz: 00:20:06

And that, vitamins, access to health care.

Fuzz: 00:20:10

Not smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes every day before downing a

Fuzz: 00:20:15

bottle of whiskey, you know, all that, I mean, for most of us, some people

Fuzz: 00:20:20

still do that, and that's their choice.

Danny: 00:20:22

And would you ever, I mean, maybe, maybe not, but if, if you

Danny: 00:20:25

were of a mindset, would you ever have any work done from a vanity

Danny: 00:20:28

point of view, do you think, or?

Fuzz: 00:20:30

I don't think I would.

Fuzz: 00:20:31

I don't have, I don't think I have any reason to, I mean, I am not.

Fuzz: 00:20:37

A model.

Fuzz: 00:20:39

I am a, I guess I am kind of a politician, but I'm like a local politician where

Fuzz: 00:20:44

it doesn't really matter if I, if I, what it doesn't matter what I look like.

Fuzz: 00:20:48

And I, hopefully I will not be a local politician in 20 years because I just

Fuzz: 00:20:53

wanted to get a couple of things done locally and I've gotten them done.

Fuzz: 00:20:56

So I don't think I can continue to do that forever.

Danny: 00:20:59

And what got you into that then?

Fuzz: 00:21:01

I wanted to see some change, some positive change locally.

Fuzz: 00:21:04

And there were, I was not satisfied with the people that were currently in office.

Fuzz: 00:21:10

So instead of sitting back and complaining about it, I chose to take action and

Fuzz: 00:21:16

actually do something about it and I did it and then now I'm in it and.

Fuzz: 00:21:23

Get to hear people complain and, you know, like that, we're not doing

Fuzz: 00:21:26

this, or we did this instead of this.

Fuzz: 00:21:28

And I totally understand and empathize, you know, with everybody's thought,

Fuzz: 00:21:33

but I really believe if you want to see change, you got to be part of the process.

Fuzz: 00:21:38

And so here I am.

Fuzz: 00:21:39

And then once I've finished what I want to do, I'm not going to be in it forever.

Fuzz: 00:21:43

I don't have aspirations of being a, any higher politician.

Fuzz: 00:21:47

I just wanted to wanted to improve some things and I've done it and I got dogs

Fuzz: 00:21:50

in the parks and I wanted to be able to walk my dog in our park and gosh, darn it.

Fuzz: 00:21:54

We did it

Danny: 00:21:56

Well, that's the only reason you're going to politics, isn't it?

Danny: 00:21:58

Getting the dog there.

Danny: 00:21:59

The Unleashed Dog Park or the Free Dog Park, etc.

Danny: 00:22:02

That's what you want.

Danny: 00:22:03

That's awesome.

Danny: 00:22:04

And that's good.

Danny: 00:22:04

I mean, like you said, so many people, it's easy to complain and,

Danny: 00:22:07

you know bitch and holler about it.

Danny: 00:22:09

But it's, it's not a lot of people actually do anything about it, so kudos.

Fuzz: 00:22:13

Yeah, thank you.

Danny: 00:22:14

Alrighty.

Danny: 00:22:15

So, we've reached almost the end.

Danny: 00:22:17

We've now got question number five.

Danny: 00:22:20

So, let's see what it brings up for us.

Danny: 00:22:23

And here we go.

Danny: 00:22:23

Let's spin this wheel for the final time on this episode.

Danny: 00:22:28

Hmm, okay.

Danny: 00:22:28

That's a good one.

Danny: 00:22:29

I was thinking about this today actually.

Danny: 00:22:30

I was having a conversation online which is relevant to this.

Danny: 00:22:34

Okay, so the question is, question number five.

Danny: 00:22:36

What is one thing you refuse to share in social media?

Fuzz: 00:22:40

So one thing that I refuse to share in social media, I'm

Fuzz: 00:22:46

pretty open in social media, but I do not air personal grievances or

Fuzz: 00:22:52

family grievances on social media.

Fuzz: 00:22:54

I hate when people air family drama or like passive aggressive

Fuzz: 00:23:01

family things on social media.

Fuzz: 00:23:03

I, I don't think that that's a place for it.

Fuzz: 00:23:06

I really think if you.

Fuzz: 00:23:08

You want to share that with somebody, share it with a therapist share it with

Fuzz: 00:23:11

the person you're angry with have a conversation with them, sit down one

Fuzz: 00:23:14

to one and, and talk to them about it.

Fuzz: 00:23:18

But when people, I see it all the time on Facebook or on other platforms where they.

Fuzz: 00:23:26

You know, my Oh, I can't believe my dumb husband did this or my wife did this.

Fuzz: 00:23:31

I, I don't think that's the place for it.

Fuzz: 00:23:33

I think that's even, you know, when somebody's talking about their parents

Fuzz: 00:23:37

or their kids, you know, even, even their young kids, it's like, they're

Fuzz: 00:23:43

going to learn and see it someday.

Fuzz: 00:23:45

It's social media.

Fuzz: 00:23:46

It's there.

Fuzz: 00:23:46

It's pretty much permanent.

Fuzz: 00:23:48

And I don't think it belongs there.

Fuzz: 00:23:51

Also, I try to stay away from sharing.

Fuzz: 00:23:53

Like personal information about my kids.

Fuzz: 00:23:56

One of my children's is older.

Fuzz: 00:23:58

She's turning 20 here in a month.

Fuzz: 00:24:01

And my younger is nine.

Fuzz: 00:24:03

So like, I've tried to keep them, like keep their names off social and things

Fuzz: 00:24:07

like that until like the older ones now on social and she tags me and things.

Fuzz: 00:24:11

So it's harder to like do that these days, but the younger one, I don't post her

Fuzz: 00:24:15

name and those kinds of things on there.

Fuzz: 00:24:17

And, And that, so, but like from a sharing on social, like I, you know,

Fuzz: 00:24:22

I've been on social media since it, you know, since Mark Zuckerberg flipped the

Fuzz: 00:24:27

switch, essentially actually since Tom flipped the switch on my space, I guess.

Fuzz: 00:24:31

And I've been kind of in it and using it since it came out.

Fuzz: 00:24:35

So it's.

Fuzz: 00:24:36

Kind of evolved with it and probably started oversharing back in the day.

Fuzz: 00:24:41

So the, but as I've gotten older, I think a lot of the, I'm sharing less

Fuzz: 00:24:47

these days than I used to, but it's still a, I, I don't think that personal

Fuzz: 00:24:53

grievances, spats between husbands and wives boyfriends, girlfriends, or

Fuzz: 00:24:59

partners need their place on social media.

Fuzz: 00:25:04

Some of it elsewhere.

Danny: 00:25:05

It's yeah, I this has gone back a few years.

Danny: 00:25:07

I think it was I'm going to say twenty sixteen, something like that.

Danny: 00:25:10

And there's a bunch of us have had a conversation on a Facebook

Danny: 00:25:13

group and it was a public group, so it wasn't locked down.

Danny: 00:25:16

It wasn't private, anything like that.

Danny: 00:25:18

So obviously anybody could see it.

Danny: 00:25:20

And the, the, the husband was on chatting away and then the wife came

Danny: 00:25:24

on cause she was part of the group too.

Danny: 00:25:26

And she laid into him for something he hadn't done at home and then we're saying,

Danny: 00:25:32

we're trying to stay in the back channel.

Danny: 00:25:34

We don't don't air this, you know, and they're still going at each other.

Danny: 00:25:37

And then she said something about okay, well, in that case, I'm glad

Danny: 00:25:42

that I screwed your best friend.

Danny: 00:25:44

And we thought that was just like a.

Danny: 00:25:46

you know, an insult, just throw it out there.

Danny: 00:25:48

Turns out she had.

Danny: 00:25:51

And so, so this went, that escalated quickly, you know,

Danny: 00:25:55

gone from Anchorman's line.

Danny: 00:25:58

But yeah, so it turned out, I mean, they got divorced about six months

Danny: 00:26:00

later or so, and that all stemmed from something that could have been handled.

Danny: 00:26:03

I mean, they might've still got divorced.

Danny: 00:26:05

Obviously that's a big, that's a big thing, but they would have been between

Danny: 00:26:09

them and they would have, you know, we would have been any the wiser.

Danny: 00:26:13

But then we knew, okay, well wow, she did that.

Danny: 00:26:16

And, you know, so yeah, I, I, I, I can never understand, like

Danny: 00:26:19

you say, mate, why people air so much dirty the laundry as well.

Danny: 00:26:23

It's not just little things often, it's like big personal things

Danny: 00:26:27

that should be, I feel private.

Fuzz: 00:26:29

Yeah, exactly.

Fuzz: 00:26:30

And social media is, you know, they're starting to teach it in schools.

Fuzz: 00:26:36

They're starting to teach kids.

Fuzz: 00:26:37

I forget the term for it on my wife's podcast.

Fuzz: 00:26:40

She, she talks about different tools that teachers can use for helping

Fuzz: 00:26:44

students in their classrooms.

Fuzz: 00:26:46

They are teaching the digital citizenship.

Fuzz: 00:26:50

That's what it's called.

Fuzz: 00:26:51

And, They are starting to teach students about these things and about

Fuzz: 00:26:56

your digital footprint and about how to, I guess, hold yourself online.

Fuzz: 00:27:02

And I think, you know, more and more kids of the, you know, Gen Z, Gen

Fuzz: 00:27:08

Alpha, you know, those kids coming behind them will have a more of a

Fuzz: 00:27:12

baseline because we've, Learned poorly before them and have, you know, kind

Fuzz: 00:27:18

of baptism by fire experience with it.

Fuzz: 00:27:21

But I think that, you know, we didn't get a good shot at this.

Fuzz: 00:27:25

And I think a lot of people like the attention that it

Fuzz: 00:27:28

comes, that comes with it.

Fuzz: 00:27:29

The instant dopamine spike you get when you see, you know, the, the care emoji

Fuzz: 00:27:35

or something like that, when you post.

Fuzz: 00:27:37

You know, some drama that happened and other people like to see the drama

Fuzz: 00:27:42

because other people feed off that.

Fuzz: 00:27:43

And so that but it doesn't, it doesn't belong there and it doesn't help anything.

Fuzz: 00:27:48

It doesn't solve anything.

Fuzz: 00:27:50

So it just creates more problems.

Danny: 00:27:52

And it's good to see the kids getting a better education as far as

Danny: 00:27:55

social media goes today and the pitfalls.

Danny: 00:27:57

I know my daughter I accidentally found out she had a TikTok account the

Danny: 00:28:01

other day because she liked one of my videos and I thought, I know that name.

Danny: 00:28:05

So I went over and she's only, I mean, she's not even quite 13 yet.

Danny: 00:28:09

She's about midway through her 12th year.

Danny: 00:28:11

And we've spoken to her, we've spoken to both kids about, you know, that bit.

Danny: 00:28:14

I checked out her profile and she's got it locked down.

Danny: 00:28:16

She's only got X amount of friends that are allowed to view.

Danny: 00:28:18

She's got a profile and that, so she knows.

Danny: 00:28:20

You know about that.

Danny: 00:28:21

But a lot of that as well came from school too.

Danny: 00:28:23

They were educating.

Danny: 00:28:23

They have people come in, you know, counsellors, et cetera, and social

Danny: 00:28:27

media experts that help companies come in and speak to kids about it.

Danny: 00:28:30

So it's good to see life lessons if you like being taught in school too now.

Fuzz: 00:28:36

Yeah, absolutely.

Fuzz: 00:28:37

And again, it's as we learn, we're able to teach from the

Fuzz: 00:28:42

lessons that we've learned, right?

Fuzz: 00:28:44

Do I get to ask you a question now?

Fuzz: 00:28:46

Is that how this works?

Danny: 00:28:46

You

Danny: 00:28:46

do, yes.

Danny: 00:28:47

I'm just going to suggest, I'm just going to say that to you.

Danny: 00:28:49

Yeah.

Danny: 00:28:49

So yeah, just keep things fair.

Danny: 00:28:51

So thank you for sharing your answers on the five questions.

Danny: 00:28:54

We'll see.

Danny: 00:28:55

I'm curious what the, the Star Wars Brigade makes out because I,

Danny: 00:28:58

I mean, I'm a huge Star Wars fan.

Danny: 00:28:59

You're obviously a Star Wars fan.

Danny: 00:29:01

You know what the, the fandom can be like there.

Fuzz: 00:29:03

Yeah.

Fuzz: 00:29:03

Oh, yeah.

Danny: 00:29:03

You know, so I'm curious.

Danny: 00:29:04

I'm going to make a little audio bite and just throw that out there

Danny: 00:29:07

and

Danny: 00:29:07

see.

Fuzz: 00:29:07

Oh, perfect.

Fuzz: 00:29:08

Thank you.

Danny: 00:29:09

And just

Danny: 00:29:09

point them right to you, mate.

Danny: 00:29:10

But yeah, it's only fair.

Danny: 00:29:12

I've asked you five questions, so you can throw a completely random question at me.

Fuzz: 00:29:16

All right, Danny.

Fuzz: 00:29:17

What has been, in your life, what has been your most frightening

Fuzz: 00:29:21

encounter with Mother Nature?

Danny: 00:29:24

Ooh ooh, frightening encounter.

Danny: 00:29:28

I'm gonna see probably a lightning storm that we, so I was on a plane

Danny: 00:29:33

coming back from where was I?

Danny: 00:29:36

New York, I think I was in New York.

Danny: 00:29:38

I think it was in New York and it was because it was a short flight.

Danny: 00:29:40

It's not like a two hour flight or something to Toronto something.

Danny: 00:29:42

It's not a big flight.

Danny: 00:29:43

And we were part of it.

Danny: 00:29:45

We got told it was a storm ahead, but we're going to fly around it because

Danny: 00:29:49

we still be on track and they could divert, but it's pretty heavy stuff.

Danny: 00:29:52

It's similar.

Danny: 00:29:52

The storm chased the plane.

Danny: 00:29:54

And you know yourself when you get it.

Danny: 00:29:57

into, you know turbulence and et cetera, it can be a bit heavy.

Danny: 00:30:01

So this one we probably dropped and everybody's obviously buckled up.

Danny: 00:30:04

So there was no injuries, but we probably dropped about a thousand

Danny: 00:30:07

feet in five seconds, 10 seconds.

Danny: 00:30:09

It might've been less, it might've been more than that.

Danny: 00:30:10

So I might be exaggerating.

Danny: 00:30:12

But you felt weightless and then it almost felt like a big flash outside

Danny: 00:30:16

and almost felt like the plane got hit.

Danny: 00:30:18

I don't think it did, and I believe you're safe up there.

Danny: 00:30:21

I'm not sure.

Danny: 00:30:22

I know, like, if you're in a car, if you're in a thunderstorm on the ground,

Danny: 00:30:25

one of the safest places is meant to be a car because they're earthed because of the

Danny: 00:30:28

rubber tires, I believe, if that's wrong.

Danny: 00:30:31

Don't come and sue me if you get electrocuted in a car.

Danny: 00:30:33

My bad.

Fuzz: 00:30:34

They won't be able to sue you, Danny.

Danny: 00:30:35

They'll be dead.

Danny: 00:30:36

Yeah.

Danny: 00:30:37

Okay.

Danny: 00:30:37

Well, I'll feel good for saying that then.

Danny: 00:30:39

But yes, that would probably be it.

Danny: 00:30:41

I mean, I, I've done when I was younger, anyway, I did like a bunch

Danny: 00:30:43

of, not mountain climbing, but big hill climbing and stuff like that and

Danny: 00:30:46

rock climbing and abseiling and stuff.

Danny: 00:30:48

And that's not quite mother nature, but it's kind of, and that was fine.

Danny: 00:30:52

It was more adrenaline.

Danny: 00:30:53

But I think because you don't have any control, right, you're stuck in a piece

Danny: 00:30:56

of metal, thirty thousand feet in the sky, whatever it was, you know, it might even

Danny: 00:31:00

be less because it's not a long flight.

Danny: 00:31:02

So I think that would probably be it, mate, which is why

Danny: 00:31:04

I don't like flying at all.

Danny: 00:31:07

I would do it, but I don't like it.

Fuzz: 00:31:09

Yeah, I don't blame you there.

Fuzz: 00:31:11

Yeah, that sounds, that sounds harrowing.

Fuzz: 00:31:14

Wow.

Fuzz: 00:31:15

Yeah.

Fuzz: 00:31:16

Stay out of those storms.

Danny: 00:31:17

Stay out of the storms, people.

Danny: 00:31:18

If you have to go anywhere, take a boat, you know, because at least that

Danny: 00:31:21

way if you capsize, you're gone anyway.

Danny: 00:31:23

You know, it's quicker than falling twenty thousand feet and

Danny: 00:31:26

knowing it's going to happen.

Fuzz: 00:31:27

I know.

Fuzz: 00:31:28

I don't see it.

Fuzz: 00:31:28

I disagree with you.

Fuzz: 00:31:29

See, if you fall twenty thousand feet, The end is quick.

Fuzz: 00:31:33

If your boat tips over, it might take a while.

Danny: 00:31:37

That is true.

Danny: 00:31:38

That is true.

Danny: 00:31:39

Yep.

Danny: 00:31:39

I mean, you could float for a bit.

Danny: 00:31:41

You could float for a while if you're doing the proper thing.

Danny: 00:31:42

You got your life jackets.

Fuzz: 00:31:44

Yeah, you know, just by freezing, you'd be just a frozen floating popsicle.

Danny: 00:31:49

Well, that's a nice morbid question and answer to finish off.

Danny: 00:31:53

So, Fuzz, before we wrap this up, I do want people to check out,

Danny: 00:31:56

obviously, not in that way, because I'm sure your wife would probably

Danny: 00:31:58

have something to say about it.

Danny: 00:32:00

But yeah, I do also want people to check out, you know, obviously your

Danny: 00:32:02

agency your podcasts that you do yourself and with your, your wife.

Danny: 00:32:06

So, where can people find out more about you, your services

Danny: 00:32:09

and all that cool stuff?

Fuzz: 00:32:11

Yeah, sure.

Fuzz: 00:32:11

I'm so you can check out.

Fuzz: 00:32:13

Me, my stuff at Fuzzmartin.

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com.

Fuzz: 00:32:16

I should have all my links to my things there.

Fuzz: 00:32:19

You can also my website for the business is epic creative.

Fuzz: 00:32:22

com.

Fuzz: 00:32:23

Wife's podcast is tech, excuse me, a smart in wii.

Fuzz: 00:32:28

com.

Fuzz: 00:32:28

It's the tech tools for teachers podcast.

Fuzz: 00:32:31

So it's S Martin WI that's her email address for her school.

Fuzz: 00:32:34

So, but it works cause she's a teacher.

Fuzz: 00:32:36

So smart in W I Wisconsin.

Fuzz: 00:32:40

com.

Fuzz: 00:32:41

And and you can check that out, but no, I really appreciate you having,

Fuzz: 00:32:44

having me on this as a lot of fun.

Fuzz: 00:32:45

And I hope all the best for Five Random Questions.

Danny: 00:32:49

I appreciate you Fuzz, thanks so much.

Danny: 00:32:51

So thank you for listening to Five Random Questions.

Danny: 00:32:54

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Danny: 00:33:07

Because yes, that's what Darth Vader does.

Danny: 00:33:09

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Danny: 00:33:12

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Danny: 00:33:13

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Danny: 00:33:17

Until the next time, keep asking those questions.