Invisibly Famous, Junk Food Jail, and More with Gareth Davies
Join your host Danny Brown as he puts this week's 5 random questions to Gareth Davies. Answers include jettisoning a certain junk food, being famous from the shadows, and a bulk sleeping challenge. Let's jump in!
Answering the questions this week: Gareth Davies
Gareth has written soundtracks for commissioned animated series for TV, and music for use in ads and programming around the world. Through his company The Sound Boutique, he has also helped a wide variety of clients with their problem audio, and created & produced original podcasts. Podcasts currently in ongoing production are The Music Room and Podcasting People.
Further reading for this episode
- Podcasting People
- The Music Room Community
- Spark of Rebellion, Star Wars Podcast, UK
- Charles Booker on X: "Please listen. The truth this woman speaks can’t be denied. https://t.co/CK8a8ul43h" / X
- How the United States Punishes People for Being Poor | Vera Institute
- Cold Tapes Podcast
- Sean Lock's OUTRAGEOUS Comment Has Everyone In Tears!! | 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown - YouTube
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Gareth: Bad news travels fast, doesn't it? So, you know, it would be nice to highlight more of the good stuff.
Speaker:Gareth: And it does. And I think, you know, there are certain situations which arise
Speaker:Gareth: like, you know, recent riots.
Speaker:Gareth: And there's a lot going on in the States at the moment. And,
Speaker:Gareth: yeah, I just think if everyone just takes a breath and if they're not,
Speaker:Gareth: you know, if you're not sure, just be kind.
Speaker:Gareth: You know, you never know what's going through someone else's head.
Speaker:Danny: Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show where every question is an adventure.
Speaker:Danny: I'm your host Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guest 5 questions
Speaker:Danny: created by a random question generator.
Speaker:Danny: The guest has no idea what the questions are, and neither do I,
Speaker:Danny: which means this could go either way.
Speaker:Danny: So sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode.
Speaker:Danny: Today's guest is Gareth Davies. Gareth has written soundtracks for a commissioned
Speaker:Danny: animated series for TV, and music for use in ads and programming around the
Speaker:Danny: world. Through his company, The Sound Boutique, he has also helped a wide variety
Speaker:Danny: of clients with their problem audio and created and produced original podcasts.
Speaker:Danny: Podcasts currently in ongoing production are The Music Room and Podcasting People.
Speaker:Danny: So, Gareth, welcome to Five Random Questions.
Speaker:Gareth: Hello, Danny, you lovely man. This is exciting and terrifying in equal measure.
Speaker:Danny: And I see you're buttering me up already to try and go easy on you with the questions.
Speaker:Danny: So, Gareth, we've been on each other's podcast. You've got a few podcasts running, obviously.
Speaker:Danny: I've got a few podcasts running. I think we've both compared each other to serial
Speaker:Danny: podcasters. and when you were on my other podcast that I'd sort of,
Speaker:Danny: that's kind of sort of archived, it was just an experiment, a fun experiment.
Speaker:Danny: But when you were on that, one of the TV shows that you had produced music for,
Speaker:Danny: Toad and Friends, hadn't been released yet.
Speaker:Danny: And obviously you're in the UK, it's a very well-known story in the UK,
Speaker:Danny: Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall, etc.
Speaker:Danny: But that's now released on Warner Brothers Discovery, if I'm correct.
Speaker:Danny: So how's that been? are you now rich and famous you driving about in the the nice you know yeah
Speaker:Gareth: Lamborghini yeah just uh yeah come down to the boat anytime um no not at all up on the Thames,
Speaker:Gareth: it literally has been released in the
Speaker:Gareth: uk last month um so
Speaker:Gareth: that's exciting. It's actually been airing around um
Speaker:Gareth: Europe and a bit further afield that way
Speaker:Gareth: previously i think it's going to
Speaker:Gareth: the US and Canada in the
Speaker:Gareth: spring of next year so it's kind
Speaker:Gareth: of this very kind of slow rollout. So in terms of royalties um we have something
Speaker:Gareth: called the PRS in this country uh in the UK where every quarter you get paid
Speaker:Gareth: out uh some money for every time your music is broadcast on tv. So when and that takes about a quarter.
Speaker:Gareth: When it goes overseas, you can add quarters to it. So in some countries,
Speaker:Gareth: it might be two years before I see anything. So, you know, really,
Speaker:Gareth: I just move on to the next thing.
Speaker:Gareth: And then at some point, there'll be a trickle of pennies, shekels coming in.
Speaker:Danny: And how does royalties work on that? Is that consistent while the show's on TV, et cetera?
Speaker:Danny: Is there a set time limit? Is it different depending on productions, artists, et cetera?
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, it really depends on not only what territory you're in,
Speaker:Gareth: but also what channel you're on.
Speaker:Gareth: So, for instance, in the UK, primetime BBC can pay a load more than maybe,
Speaker:Gareth: you know, one of the Dave channels or in the middle of the night.
Speaker:Gareth: And there's been a lot of
Speaker:Gareth: um lobbying about you know the the
Speaker:Gareth: kids at the time that kids come home from school about that
Speaker:Gareth: being prime time because it's prime time starts a
Speaker:Gareth: little bit later um but in fact there's a huge audience there and so i don't
Speaker:Gareth: know it feels a little bit like um we're not being paid you know in in in a
Speaker:Gareth: fair way in that sense but you know that's always ongoing and And the TV and
Speaker:Gareth: film industry is ever-evolving,
Speaker:Gareth: and with streaming now...
Speaker:Gareth: You know, we have to be careful that rights aren't being negotiated away.
Speaker:Gareth: But in terms of royalties, yeah, it really depends on what channel you're on,
Speaker:Gareth: which territory you're in.
Speaker:Gareth: I think I had a whole series on in Brazil and I think they take a sample.
Speaker:Gareth: And if your program isn't on on that sample day, then you don't get paid.
Speaker:Gareth: So it can be as random as that. Yeah. I'm talking about five random questions.
Speaker:Gareth: You know, it can be as random as that to be paid sometimes.
Speaker:Gareth: Um yeah so it's it really varies.
Speaker:Danny: Well and you moved nicely into that speaking of random uh i i unfortunately
Speaker:Danny: i can't pay you for your appearance today um but if we ever if i ever make loads
Speaker:Danny: and loads of money i will be sure to slot you into the prime time ongoing revenue slot beer
Speaker:Gareth: Or cake that's fine it's fine or both or both.
Speaker:Danny: Beer and cake don't don't don't sell yourself self-shot mate yeah
Speaker:Gareth: Cake goes well with tea surely i'm not sure beer and cake no i don't know.
Speaker:Danny: Well that's a new a new diet fad we can put into place so gareth are you ready
Speaker:Danny: i know we were speaking in the green room before i started recording and you
Speaker:Danny: mentioned you may be a little bit nervous about this but how are we feeling
Speaker:Danny: for the five random questions ahead i'm
Speaker:Gareth: Sure all of your guests have said this, but I have no idea.
Speaker:Gareth: And as I said, as equally excited and terrified, it'll go how it goes, I guess.
Speaker:Gareth: So yeah, fire away.
Speaker:Danny: I like that. All right. So let's bring up then the random question generator.
Speaker:Danny: Okay. This is a nice one. A nice easy one, I feel, to kick things off, Gareth.
Speaker:Danny: Question number one. Would you rather keep your current sleep schedule or hibernate
Speaker:Danny: for three months and have nine months of 24 7 alertness without being tired i
Speaker:Gareth: Love this this is so random i mean talk about random,
Speaker:Gareth: Wow. Um, I think sleep is really important.
Speaker:Gareth: I'm one of those people who has to get sleep.
Speaker:Gareth: Otherwise I'm, I'm cranky and I don't concentrate properly.
Speaker:Gareth: So I feel like sleep is something that's in my routine. It's kind of ingrained.
Speaker:Gareth: It's a non-negotiable for me.
Speaker:Gareth: Um, you know, sometimes I go out and have a late night and kind of get through the next day.
Speaker:Gareth: But yeah, so I think I'd probably like to keep my current sleep schedule because
Speaker:Gareth: it's kind of comforting and it's in well within my routine.
Speaker:Gareth: But how about you? What would you do?
Speaker:Danny: Well, I think the funny thing is as well, there is you said schedule and I said
Speaker:Danny: schedule and both from the same country.
Speaker:Danny: Obviously, originally, I'm in Canada now, but UK originally.
Speaker:Danny: And that reminds me of a part on Would I Lie to You or, oh no,
Speaker:Danny: it was 8 of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
Speaker:Danny: While the good Sean Locke was still alive and he was and John what's John's surname?
Speaker:Danny: John Richardson yeah so John Richardson answered
Speaker:Danny: a question that Jimmy Carr had asked and he says oh well you've got to have
Speaker:Danny: a schedule and then you know Sean said well what is it is it schedule or schedule
Speaker:Danny: because Jimmy Carr had said schedule and Sean had said schedule and both British
Speaker:Danny: people it just reminded me there it took me out a little bit schedule schedule
Speaker:Danny: both same not wrong um yeah i
Speaker:Danny: feel um i feel i'd want to keep kind of
Speaker:Danny: because looking at the question there it says um you can
Speaker:Danny: have your current sleep schedule or hibernate for three months so obviously you
Speaker:Danny: sleep for a complete three months so i guess about almost half of what a bear
Speaker:Danny: sleeps during the winter or maybe just under half of what a bear sleeps during
Speaker:Danny: the winter but then that part of the end where it says nine months of 24 7 alertness
Speaker:Danny: that basically means you're awake wake essentially for nine months.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah. I mean, how would you demarcate your day?
Speaker:Gareth: If you're just not tired at all. I mean, I have had jobs,
Speaker:Gareth: and I'm sure you've had this, I'm sure most working people have this,
Speaker:Gareth: of occasionally deadlines get a bit crunchy and you have to pull a few late-nighters.
Speaker:Gareth: And in those circumstances, maybe if I had a weekend every month where I could
Speaker:Gareth: stay alert for the whole weekend and then make up the time some other way,
Speaker:Gareth: that would be quite nice but yeah actually nine months of 24 7 alertness i think
Speaker:Gareth: could be a little bit disturbing it's.
Speaker:Danny: Almost like that 30 days of night um yeah where you know in alaska they've got
Speaker:Danny: it's just all night and then there's another place we've got all daylight as
Speaker:Danny: well for like three months of the year or something where it's just there's
Speaker:Danny: no darkness at all because of where they are in the world um and the skies
Speaker:Gareth: There's a there's a podcast um it's called cold tapes,
Speaker:Gareth: and it's uh set i can't remember if
Speaker:Gareth: it's in the antarctic or the arctic um but it's
Speaker:Gareth: basically a murder mystery
Speaker:Gareth: um but because they're wintering over
Speaker:Gareth: in this uh in this podcast wintering over
Speaker:Gareth: meaning there comes a point where you can't leave
Speaker:Gareth: because the weather is so bad the police
Speaker:Gareth: can't actually go to the location to investigate so
Speaker:Gareth: they have to do it all over the phone and and over
Speaker:Gareth: zoom and things um so that's where the the podcast audio becomes a really good
Speaker:Gareth: medium to tell that story so yeah absolutely they winter over so it becomes
Speaker:Gareth: very dark and weather becomes becomes too cold and to leave and things like that amazing.
Speaker:Danny: That sounds interesting as you say podcast because it's an audio medium it's
Speaker:Danny: a perfect take that you could really get enveloped in now definitely check that
Speaker:Danny: out and leave a note for our listeners and the show notes i think with this
Speaker:Danny: one as well i mean if you're married or you've got kids and
Speaker:Gareth: Do they.
Speaker:Danny: All go to sleep at the same time does everybody just hibernate or now are you
Speaker:Danny: leaving your family to you know fend for themselves for three months while you're
Speaker:Danny: you're out of action and then when you wake up does someone else take a three-month
Speaker:Danny: stint and now it's your turn or
Speaker:Gareth: Well i can see i'm not a parent myself but i can appreciate that having nine
Speaker:Gareth: months of 24-7 alertness when the kids were in bed, that would be quite nice
Speaker:Gareth: because you have the time to do what you want then, maybe.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, now you're talking Mission Impossible. I'll learn as soon as the kids have gone to bed.
Speaker:Danny: As a parent of two, I can tell you, no, that is not happening.
Speaker:Danny: So I think we agree, we're going to keep our current sleep schedule or schedule.
Speaker:Gareth: Or schedule.
Speaker:Danny: Or schedule, which I'll be fair. Speaking of schedules, let's move on to question number two.
Speaker:Danny: I think we've kind of answered this in the intro, but let's go for it anyway, Gareth.
Speaker:Danny: Question number two. What are you most likely to become famous for?
Speaker:Gareth: That's a tricky one. I don't, I'm not someone who particularly seeks fame.
Speaker:Gareth: Fame's a very strange thing, isn't it, really?
Speaker:Gareth: And it's partly why I became a composer as opposed to a performing musician.
Speaker:Gareth: I've never really been a fan of the limelight particularly,
Speaker:Gareth: but I love sitting in a dark room and creating music to support a story,
Speaker:Gareth: writing to picture, and doing it that way.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, and podcasting as well. My mantra is, it's not about me.
Speaker:Gareth: That's why it's a little bit weird being a guest, because it is about you.
Speaker:Gareth: Um but yeah it's definitely
Speaker:Gareth: i find everything i do is more
Speaker:Gareth: about other people or other people's stories um
Speaker:Gareth: and so yeah i don't really crave fame
Speaker:Gareth: but if i were to be if i
Speaker:Gareth: had to you know nail it down to what would
Speaker:Gareth: you have to become famous for i'd like
Speaker:Gareth: to think it was being kind or just basic
Speaker:Gareth: human decency because we
Speaker:Gareth: see a lot of the opposite in the world at the moment and I think you know recent
Speaker:Gareth: times are showing me that people are you know really intrinsically good you
Speaker:Gareth: do have some people who I don't know may have lost their way a little bit there
Speaker:Gareth: may be reasons for why they behave a certain way but,
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, I think if I had to become famous, it would be for those reasons rather
Speaker:Gareth: than, you know, look at my new shoes or influencing something, you know.
Speaker:Danny: I always like watching these videos or reels or whatever on,
Speaker:Danny: say, Facebook or Instagram, etc., where it shows you, to your point,
Speaker:Danny: like kindness of others without expectation of kindness back.
Speaker:Danny: And sometimes it might show famous sports people
Speaker:Danny: stepping in because all that's happening is
Speaker:Danny: like a kid might just want a selfie or an autograph and a
Speaker:Danny: security like an example is a security guard
Speaker:Danny: came over and picked this like 10 year old kid up and frog marched
Speaker:Danny: him away from his sport and idol his football idol and the
Speaker:Danny: football player stopped mid-interview and went after the guard and
Speaker:Danny: got the kid down got the selfie and all that which is no need to
Speaker:Danny: do that it's like that's just a good human being that's being
Speaker:Danny: raised the right way doing the right thing and yeah i
Speaker:Danny: feel certainly since 2019 2020 um
Speaker:Danny: obviously the world changed completely for the obvious reason of the
Speaker:Danny: pandemic and i feel that's brought a lot of people not out
Speaker:Danny: of the gutter maybe that's too strong a phrase but it's
Speaker:Danny: it's shown a lot of people in their true light because for whatever reason it's
Speaker:Danny: it's led to people being pitted against each other and a lot of bad stuff is
Speaker:Danny: coming out because of that and it's like you say it's i feel we need to highlight
Speaker:Danny: more of the the good stuff that's happening to show there is a lot of bad stuff
Speaker:Danny: but that still remains a very small minority that are just very very vocal
Speaker:Gareth: Absolutely. Yeah. Bad news travels fast, doesn't it? So, you know,
Speaker:Gareth: it'd be nice to highlight more of the good stuff.
Speaker:Gareth: And it does. And I think, you know, there are certain situations which arise
Speaker:Gareth: like, you know, recent riots and there's a lot going on in the States at the moment.
Speaker:Gareth: And yeah i just think if everyone just
Speaker:Gareth: takes a breath and and if they're
Speaker:Gareth: not you know if you're not sure just be kind
Speaker:Gareth: you know you never know what's going through someone else's head and i on social
Speaker:Gareth: media as well i take the view of don't say anything negative because it's a
Speaker:Gareth: tinderbox isn't it there's always going to be someone who's going to come back
Speaker:Gareth: at you so just you know stick Stay to your lane,
Speaker:Gareth: which is a shame in a way that you can't have that kind of frank dialogue without
Speaker:Gareth: that comeback. But that's the way of the world, I suppose.
Speaker:Danny: Well, I know a lot of my friends have started to lock down their Twitter replies
Speaker:Danny: and only allow replies from people that follow them or they're connected with.
Speaker:Danny: Because often, to your point, you just get, you know, hate bombed by,
Speaker:Danny: you know, if you're speaking politically, for example, you get hate bombed by
Speaker:Danny: the supporters of the other political rival.
Speaker:Danny: Or if you're speaking about various conflicts that are happening globally,
Speaker:Danny: always dangerous areas to walk into when you're trying to offer support from
Speaker:Danny: one side or maybe support both sides and trying to find a middle ground.
Speaker:Danny: It's not easy. And like you say, maybe sometimes do what you need to do as a
Speaker:Danny: supporter behind the scenes and just maybe stay quiet about it in front of everybody else.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah. Yeah. It is a shame, isn't it? Because...
Speaker:Gareth: Especially you mentioned politics there, especially in politics,
Speaker:Gareth: you have these conversations to make up your mind about things quite a lot of the time.
Speaker:Gareth: So to vocalize questions and opinions to kind of kick the tires of political
Speaker:Gareth: opinion to then get shot down, it's just a shame really, isn't it?
Speaker:Gareth: It's either black or white. There's never a kind of gray area of discussion. But there we go. and.
Speaker:Danny: I think we can all agree that if we all became famous for being kind the world
Speaker:Danny: would be a much better place
Speaker:Gareth: I feel like we should have the muppet show theme in here or something well.
Speaker:Danny: I can't give you the muppet show theme because licensing and all that you know
Speaker:Danny: yourself you're a composer you
Speaker:Gareth: Know I thought you were going to say you're a muppet well.
Speaker:Danny: I am that too I've been called out many many times and continue to do so but
Speaker:Danny: I can be kind and ease you on to to question number three
Speaker:Gareth: Okay so.
Speaker:Danny: Question question number three what is the most difficult challenge thus far in your life
Speaker:Gareth: Okay there yeah a really
Speaker:Gareth: easy question to answer um as you
Speaker:Gareth: know danny i've had a bit of a tragedy
Speaker:Gareth: a family tragedy recently
Speaker:Gareth: my mum passed away in july not only
Speaker:Gareth: that we lost dad beginning of 22 in fact my dad and my uncle in the space of
Speaker:Gareth: a few weeks in 22 then mum was diagnosed with cancer in beginning of 23 and
Speaker:Gareth: we just lost her in July so there's.
Speaker:Gareth: There's the brain catch-up of what's just happened there's also the milestone
Speaker:Gareth: of not having either of my parents in the in in the world uh which is really
Speaker:Gareth: strange i feel like you know,
Speaker:Gareth: i think oh i need to tell mum that
Speaker:Gareth: on the phone or i need to take a picture of that and send it
Speaker:Gareth: to her and so there's an element of disbelief at
Speaker:Gareth: the moment going on through my head um but you
Speaker:Gareth: know because neither of them are here then we have
Speaker:Gareth: the estate to handle we got the probate challenge
Speaker:Gareth: you know all of that stuff which is just
Speaker:Gareth: a constant we have to go through the house which is very strange walking through
Speaker:Gareth: their house without them there with all of their things to remind us of of them
Speaker:Gareth: and so so yeah easily the most difficult challenge thus far uh in in life I.
Speaker:Danny: Can we were speaking about this in the green room obviously
Speaker:Danny: earlier I can only imagine what that's like
Speaker:Danny: and you said there one of
Speaker:Danny: the weirdest things or the challenging things or the strangest things is going
Speaker:Danny: through your parents house and seeing mementos of the life that they created
Speaker:Danny: and built etc has there been some nice surprising things that showed you something
Speaker:Danny: about your mum or your dad that you may not have known because you come across it during that process
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah well i mean there
Speaker:Gareth: were lots of photos that we
Speaker:Gareth: hadn't previously seen yeah going through their their
Speaker:Gareth: paperwork and stuff um you know
Speaker:Gareth: just mementos that they'd kept from you
Speaker:Gareth: know they they'd lived a life you know they had lots of
Speaker:Gareth: friends around them and uh seeing all
Speaker:Gareth: that seeing a kind of life in pictures and various
Speaker:Gareth: certificates from you know whatever qualifications they
Speaker:Gareth: had and um you know all of those kinds of
Speaker:Gareth: things were quite amazing and actually um
Speaker:Gareth: from when mum was ill the last couple of months of her life her her community
Speaker:Gareth: coming around um and just not wanting to bother us too much but just bringing
Speaker:Gareth: cake or just coming for a chat and a cup of tea and seeing how we are and just
Speaker:Gareth: witnessing that caring community
Speaker:Gareth: firsthand was quite amazing.
Speaker:Gareth: And I saw, you know, these are people I've known majority of my life,
Speaker:Gareth: but I've seen them in a different light.
Speaker:Gareth: Of late yeah it's been uh it's been lovely i.
Speaker:Danny: Think often as kids we forget our parents had a life before
Speaker:Danny: us you know it's um i like um
Speaker:Danny: our kids but before kids were born my wife and i were very big concert goers
Speaker:Danny: we love live music and we'd go to three four five different bands every weekend
Speaker:Danny: we'd support you know local indie bands and if some bigger ones came to the
Speaker:Danny: toronto where we lived at the time we'd go see them and our kids look at especially
Speaker:Danny: me now because i'm a bit a a little bit older than my wife.
Speaker:Danny: So they look at me and think, you never went to concerts. Look at you, old man.
Speaker:Danny: But I watched an interview with Daley Thompson, you know, the heptathlete. Yeah.
Speaker:Danny: Or decathlete, sorry, not heptathlete,
Speaker:Danny: decathlete. Very famous British decathlete, Olympic gold winner.
Speaker:Danny: And just recently he was getting interviewed and he was saying that his kids
Speaker:Danny: can't believe that he was this athlete that was so successful.
Speaker:Danny: Successful and it's only really if he shows them his medals that they start
Speaker:Danny: to believe oh wow dad actually did do something and i think sometimes we actually
Speaker:Danny: forget our parents had very active and very different lives from what we might
Speaker:Danny: have expected prior to us you know being part of that that life yeah
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah very much so yeah my parents were very
Speaker:Gareth: active in their community and yes to to
Speaker:Gareth: your question uh there there were um things that
Speaker:Gareth: the friends came out with where i realized oh i didn't actually know he did
Speaker:Gareth: that but they were very there for their community and their friends and they
Speaker:Gareth: would they would do anything for anyone really and yeah that's that's something
Speaker:Gareth: to take away really it goes into the uh being famous for being decent doesn't it.
Speaker:Danny: Well exactly and i think that that shows and that
Speaker:Danny: outlook on life it shows you know the the impact that your parents both
Speaker:Danny: parents had on you and and that's all you can ask for if you can
Speaker:Danny: show uh be a good person that's the
Speaker:Danny: perfect legacy for you for for any parent it feels like the
Speaker:Danny: children doesn't matter they're great at their job successful
Speaker:Danny: rich whatever they can be a good human being i mean
Speaker:Danny: that's like the biggest legacy any parent can ask for yeah absolutely well speaking
Speaker:Danny: of legacies we're going to legacize this episode and move on to quit i'm getting
Speaker:Danny: really good at these like these transitions i've been working on them but we're
Speaker:Danny: going to legacize this episode and move on on to question number four.
Speaker:Danny: Okay. I'm always curious about how, I mean, I'm a British person myself.
Speaker:Danny: I'm always curious how British people answer this question.
Speaker:Danny: So Gareth, question number four.
Speaker:Danny: If you could close one fast food chain due to disgusting food, what would you pick?
Speaker:Gareth: My wife's going to hate me for this. Yeah.
Speaker:Gareth: It's not that I don't like the food. it's the the food just doesn't agree with
Speaker:Gareth: me when it's delivered and that's kfc,
Speaker:Gareth: I love it. I absolutely love it. But yeah, can't do it. Can't do it.
Speaker:Gareth: My wife absolutely loves KFC.
Speaker:Gareth: Not every day, you know, just as a treat.
Speaker:Gareth: If you gave her, you know, some chicken and a big bucket of gravy,
Speaker:Gareth: she'd be just your friend forever.
Speaker:Gareth: But yeah i mean i quite
Speaker:Gareth: like fast food as a little treat sometimes the
Speaker:Gareth: odd mcdonald's it's always very disappointing isn't it but it's quite
Speaker:Gareth: nice um just to go ah sod it i'm gonna i'm gonna have that today but yeah i
Speaker:Gareth: think it might have to be kfc i'm trying to think of the other fast foods there's
Speaker:Gareth: kfc there's mcdonald's there's burger king that actually is quite nice what other ones are have you.
Speaker:Danny: Got i'm i'm assuming the uh the uk's got taco bell now right
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah and see i quite like tacos you.
Speaker:Danny: Weirdo i like tacos don't go wrong but do you like taco bell
Speaker:Gareth: I i don't know if i've tried it actually so maybe not you know if if uh the
Speaker:Gareth: great danny brown says don't eat taco bell then uh that's fine i mean would
Speaker:Gareth: you rate chinese food as fast food as.
Speaker:Danny: Fast um i
Speaker:Gareth: Don't think it I don't think so.
Speaker:Danny: Because normally you take, I mean, I don't know, I mean, most Chinese restaurants
Speaker:Danny: that we've gone to here, for takeout anyway, they've always taken about 20,
Speaker:Danny: 25 minutes to get your order ready. So they're cooking it obviously as ordered.
Speaker:Danny: So I always feel fast food, it's either got it pre-cooked, ready to go out the
Speaker:Danny: door, kind of like a McDonald's, it's got, you know, the row of burgers or breakfast, sausages, etc.
Speaker:Danny: As opposed to where you go in and you order it and it's cooked fresh from that order.
Speaker:Danny: But my wife would probably get on really well with yours because she loves KFC.
Speaker:Danny: She'll get like the, so if we're doing like a quick, easy dinner,
Speaker:Danny: because generally I'll be doing the cooking, but because my kids both are very
Speaker:Danny: involved in sports, then there are calendars all over the place.
Speaker:Danny: So a lot of the time they are doing the sports in the evenings after school.
Speaker:Danny: So evening meals are generally reserved for the weekends.
Speaker:Danny: So because of that, That's something Jacqueline will get. You know,
Speaker:Danny: go to KFC, get a bucket of chicken, fries, gravy or chips.
Speaker:Danny: I keep forgetting. I've got to make it back to the chips and the fries difference.
Speaker:Danny: Gravy, you know, etc. So I feel they'd get on really well together.
Speaker:Gareth: So if we reframe that question and said, what one fast food chain would you save?
Speaker:Gareth: What would that answer be, I wonder?
Speaker:Danny: I'd probably save, I'm going to go for A&W burgers.
Speaker:Danny: I think that's maybe a Canadian chain, mate. Yeah. But obviously they're competitors
Speaker:Danny: to McDonald's, but if you look at McDonald's menu, you mentioned it or you referred
Speaker:Danny: to it earlier, you look at McDonald's
Speaker:Danny: menu and you see what looks like a really juicy quarter pounder.
Speaker:Danny: And then you get this little flaccid thing wrapped up in a soggy piece of paper.
Speaker:Danny: And you're like, what is this?
Speaker:Danny: I once took a picture and posted it because I could hold my thumb and forefinger
Speaker:Danny: together fairly closely.
Speaker:Danny: And that was my burger from McDonald's. It was disgusting. But A&W Burgers,
Speaker:Danny: the burgers are amazing. The fries, the chips are excellent.
Speaker:Danny: The chicken tenders, all the stuff they make is really, really good.
Speaker:Danny: So if that was classed as a fast food chain and that was under threat,
Speaker:Danny: that'd be the one I'd want to save. How about you?
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, I agree about McDonald's burgers.
Speaker:Gareth: They are pretty disgusting.
Speaker:Gareth: But they also do the strawberry shake, which feels like a real treat.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, that's like going out for ice cream, isn't it?
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, it's a tricky one. Tricky one.
Speaker:Danny: I'm going to make an executive decision here. I'm going to close down McDonald's,
Speaker:Danny: but save the drinks and move them to another chain.
Speaker:Gareth: Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Danny: Is that acceptable?
Speaker:Gareth: That's very acceptable.
Speaker:Danny: All right. I think we've saved the world there. I think we've made an important
Speaker:Danny: decision globally, you know, for global peace and health and everything.
Speaker:Danny: But let's get rid of McDonald's, save the drinks.
Speaker:Danny: All right. Well, on the premise of saving the world, it's time to save your
Speaker:Danny: answer for the last question.
Speaker:Danny: And actually it's not time to save your answer because you're going to share it
Speaker:Danny: so let's move on to question number five okay gareth i feel i know the answer
Speaker:Danny: to this um again we're kind of alluded to it in the intro when we're chatting
Speaker:Danny: a little bit but question number five do you serve money or does money serve you i'm
Speaker:Gareth: Trying to work out what that means so do you serve money as in.
Speaker:Danny: I I think, yeah, I think that's mainly around, do you serve money?
Speaker:Danny: Are you like a slave to money where everything you do is just to earn money
Speaker:Danny: to make whatever happen?
Speaker:Danny: Or is that just like a side benefit to what you're doing anyway?
Speaker:Gareth: So it's just staying alive. Yeah, that's basically it.
Speaker:Danny: It's not by eating McDonald's food, that's for sure, because that's gone.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, yeah, very much the opposite. Yeah, I don't, you know,
Speaker:Gareth: I wouldn't be a freelance composer and an indie podcaster if I was a slave to money.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, as every other indie podcaster will tell you.
Speaker:Gareth: So yes, very much the opposite. it um i think if you can get by there's a lot
Speaker:Gareth: more to life than just the pursuit of money i'd say i've had peaks and troughs
Speaker:Gareth: in my music career but i wouldn't change a second of it because it's been absolute
Speaker:Gareth: it's you know you're living the dream aren't you,
Speaker:Gareth: Some people's dream might include a speedboat and a million followers and a big sponsorship deal.
Speaker:Gareth: But no, give me a guitar and some good food and good company.
Speaker:Gareth: That's all you need, really, isn't it?
Speaker:Danny: I think it goes to that phrase where money doesn't buy you happiness.
Speaker:Danny: And often people say, well, it's only rich people that say money doesn't buy
Speaker:Danny: you happiness. Because I'm sure, you know, I'm not well off whatsoever.
Speaker:Danny: If someone gave me 10 million pounds, I'd be supremely happy.
Speaker:Danny: But then I guess it does also bring its own problems where
Speaker:Danny: because you don't have to work I mean you can still obviously
Speaker:Danny: work but because you don't have to work for a living to
Speaker:Danny: keep a roof over your head or pay bills etc then what
Speaker:Danny: are you doing with your time and if you don't have something to do with that often that's
Speaker:Danny: blame for how people fall into bad habits and you know that can cause different
Speaker:Danny: kinds of issues now that you have money that you wouldn't have had before for
Speaker:Danny: example and i feel maybe that's where it comes down to like you say at some
Speaker:Danny: point you have enough that you need to be comfortable do you really need anything after that and
Speaker:Gareth: Also to your point inherently if you're given money you're not pursuing it are
Speaker:Gareth: you so you can still be given 10 million pounds and be very happy thank you
Speaker:Gareth: very much but your decisions in life aren't all to go after that money you know
Speaker:Gareth: if there's a byproduct of something where you're given
Speaker:Gareth: lots of money, then fantastic.
Speaker:Gareth: But I don't think it's a good way to live your life, really.
Speaker:Danny: No. And I shared a tweet yesterday, late last night, actually.
Speaker:Danny: I just finished some editing, and so I went online just to finish the evening off.
Speaker:Danny: And I saw this tweet that was shared from someone in the US.
Speaker:Danny: So I re-shared it because I found it a really powerful message.
Speaker:Danny: And it speaks to this, where it was a lady that was speaking about poverty and money and services,
Speaker:Danny: healthcare, care etc i believe she was in the u.s um and
Speaker:Danny: it was a really powerful statement that she said because there's
Speaker:Danny: some governments i don't want to get political this isn't a political show but there's
Speaker:Danny: some governments whether it's in the u.s canada uk australia worldwide
Speaker:Danny: really that are criminalizing homelessness so they're you know they're moving
Speaker:Danny: away tent cities they're they're actually charging you're fining you which seems
Speaker:Danny: ridiculous if you're homeless how are you going to pay a fine but um so it's
Speaker:Danny: there's a big thing going on about that and one of the things that she mentioned was,
Speaker:Danny: what state of consciousness do you have to criminalize poverty?
Speaker:Danny: Which I thought was an incredibly powerful statement.
Speaker:Danny: Because at some stage, I feel that's where, you know, having too much gets you.
Speaker:Danny: You want more, you want more power, you want more money, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: And then that leads to the lesser, I'm trying to work this properly,
Speaker:Danny: the lesser parts of society, whether that's money, home, et cetera,
Speaker:Danny: are really struggling because of that.
Speaker:Danny: And I kind of wonder, you mentioned, you know, about comfort zones and having
Speaker:Danny: X amount of money, but then after that, you're really comfortable.
Speaker:Danny: If that can then be redistributed under something like universal basic income
Speaker:Danny: or something i don't know do you have any thoughts on that without getting too
Speaker:Danny: deep in the weeds in political or anything
Speaker:Gareth: No no i mean i mean it works for some
Speaker:Gareth: countries doesn't it to have the um what's the
Speaker:Gareth: living wage the the you get governments
Speaker:Gareth: coming and going doing pretty much the
Speaker:Gareth: same thing it would be interesting to see if
Speaker:Gareth: a government came in and went right we're just going to change everything
Speaker:Gareth: thing it's clearly not working we're clearly uh too
Speaker:Gareth: far in debt let's try this instead you just
Speaker:Gareth: don't don't do you might end up with um no riots people who are a lot happier
Speaker:Gareth: and um don't feel like they need to go and uh push police vans over and set
Speaker:Gareth: things on fire and uh you know raid gregs and things well.
Speaker:Danny: And that goes back to the whole like the the value for value that obviously
Speaker:Danny: Obviously, podcasting is really pushing at the moment where instead of supporting
Speaker:Danny: monetarily, you exchange services.
Speaker:Danny: Maybe we just need a whole big reset and just go back to trading camels and
Speaker:Danny: apples for plumbing services, etc.
Speaker:Gareth: Yeah, absolutely. I actually, interestingly, podcasting people will understand this.
Speaker:Gareth: I got an email earlier about a tape sync job, which is quite nice.
Speaker:Gareth: And it just speaks to that, doesn't it?
Speaker:Gareth: You feel like you're kind of doing a little service for the greater good.
Speaker:Gareth: So that's quite exciting.
Speaker:Danny: Well, Gareth, on that note of offering value, we've reached the end of this
Speaker:Danny: week's five random questions for you.
Speaker:Danny: And I'm pretty sure we've brought value to our listeners.
Speaker:Danny: In full fairness, it is time for you to offer your random question to me to
Speaker:Danny: even things out just a little bit.
Speaker:Gareth: Okay. So if money or time were no object, what podcast would you make?
Speaker:Danny: Oh, that's a good one. I have not been asked that before.
Speaker:Danny: Um, hmm. I think, like, I'm a massive, massive Star Wars fan,
Speaker:Danny: which I think, you know, our erstwhile, you know, connection,
Speaker:Danny: Mark Asquith, is a huge Star Wars fan.
Speaker:Danny: I think it's a prerequisite to work at Captivate where I work.
Speaker:Danny: And Mark co-founded, you need to be a Star Wars fan to work there.
Speaker:Danny: Mark's got his own Star Wars podcast. I feel I'd want to, I'd like to do a proper
Speaker:Danny: video one because I don't have the time or expertise, et cetera,
Speaker:Danny: to do a really nice video podcast.
Speaker:Danny: I've always wanted to do one, but I never had the time, expertise or money.
Speaker:Danny: It takes a lot to do it really properly.
Speaker:Danny: But I'd love to go and speak to all the extras that were hidden.
Speaker:Danny: So they didn't even have their face in the movie.
Speaker:Danny: They were underneath a java costume or they were an
Speaker:Danny: ewok but but not the well-known ones not you know not warwick
Speaker:Danny: davis for example uh but just the the ones
Speaker:Danny: that were just like there on screen for a split second and and just basically
Speaker:Danny: ask them about their experience what they felt did they feel like they were
Speaker:Danny: like going back to the original star wars did they feel they were part of something
Speaker:Danny: big or was this like a really stupid thing that they were making at the time
Speaker:Danny: because you had a big walking carpet and you had like you know like weird robots and is
Speaker:Gareth: There a documentary.
Speaker:Danny: About just
Speaker:Gareth: That they were it was to do the extras and uh people on set i can't remember.
Speaker:Danny: It's possible i know ricky gervais had extras like the tv show but that's a
Speaker:Danny: little bit different yeah i mean so yeah i mean because of my love of star wars
Speaker:Danny: and it might be a really short-lived thing they might have nothing to say because
Speaker:Danny: they just turned up got paid and buggered off home who knows well
Speaker:Gareth: This is this is where we're you know quite aligned in our podcast thinking because
Speaker:Gareth: my show that i I think I would that I would want to make is the same thing but for session musicians,
Speaker:Gareth: So this person played on that, you know, what was it like?
Speaker:Gareth: You have people like Steve Lukather who played who's who is you know,
Speaker:Gareth: the lead guitarist in Toto and,
Speaker:Gareth: toto as a band was made up of these session these
Speaker:Gareth: amazing session musicians world class who played
Speaker:Gareth: on loads and loads of things and you don't realize wow he played on that he
Speaker:Gareth: played on that so to speak to people who will have played on various hits or
Speaker:Gareth: you know you think it's a bit like i was there too you know that would be very
Speaker:Gareth: very interesting but yeah i mean star wars i'm in i mean let's do it.
Speaker:Danny: So there you go amazon you've just given 100 million to the kelsey brothers
Speaker:Danny: others for their new podcast exclusive you've got two ideas right here and we'd
Speaker:Danny: probably only charge 10 million so bonus or
Speaker:Gareth: Beer and cake you know it's absolutely fine.
Speaker:Danny: Sorted i'm going to be on it i'm going to get mark the reach out he's i'm sure
Speaker:Danny: he's got a really good contract amazon we'll get on this mate yeah nice so gareth
Speaker:Danny: we've reached the end and included my question and i have really as always i
Speaker:Danny: always enjoy chatting to you mate like i say we've sort of been on each
Speaker:Danny: other's podcasts and it's always been really enjoyable for people that want
Speaker:Danny: to check out your audio compositions your work that you do for tv movies and
Speaker:Danny: the work you do for podcast clients or even just check out your podcasts on
Speaker:Danny: their own where's the best place to listen to them and connect and reach out to you the
Speaker:Gareth: Website is always good that's the sound boutique.com i have like you mentioned
Speaker:Gareth: two active podcasts at the moment the music room and podcasting people their
Speaker:Gareth: musicroom.community and podcastingpeople.community.
Speaker:Gareth: And I'm all over social media as Gareth Sounds.
Speaker:Danny: I write social media tart.
Speaker:Danny: I mean, you need a T-shirt. I'm going to get a T-shirt printed and send it over
Speaker:Danny: to you. I'm a social media tart.
Speaker:Danny: But then you have to say it in that voice as well, though, when you're speaking to people.
Speaker:Gareth: Oh, yeah, might have to get that T-shirt made.
Speaker:Danny: I will look to see what I can do. So again, Gareth, I really appreciate your time today, mate.
Speaker:Gareth: It's been so much fun. Thanks for inviting me, Danny.
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