Poop Paths, Zombie Sharpshooters, and More with Reena Friedman Watts

Danny: 00:00:00

And she never came and cleaned, she just let her dog

Danny: 00:00:02

out and just do the business.

Reena: 00:00:04

Yeah, and then her kids were doing it and yeah.

Danny: 00:00:07

Wait,

Danny: 00:00:07

wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up.

Danny: 00:00:09

Her kids were coming out pooping.

Reena: 00:00:11

No, no, not them.

Reena: 00:00:12

They would let the dog out too.

Reena: 00:00:14

It's like, like mother like kids, you know, but like if the mom lets the dog

Reena: 00:00:17

out with no leash and lets them poop and picks it up whenever she feels like it,

Reena: 00:00:21

then they feel like they can do that too.

Reena: 00:00:23

It's just crazy.

Danny: 00:00:26

Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show where

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every question is an adventure.

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I'm your host Danny Brown.

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And each week I'll be asking my guests five questions created

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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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Today's guest is Reena Friedman Watts.

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Reena is a TV producer, podcast host, and mompreneur, who's

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worked on reality TV shows such as Jerry Springer Show and Court TV.

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And with guests such as Howard Schultz, Barbara Corcoran and Derek Savers on Kathy

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Heller's Don't Keep Your Day Job podcast.

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She's also the host of her own show, Better Call Daddy, which has been

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around since twenty twenty and has over three hundred and fifty episodes, which

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is putting this new show to shame.

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And she's interviewed guests like Evan Carmichael, Jerry Springer,

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Nanny Yvonne, and many, many more.

Danny: 00:01:17

So, Reena, thank you and welcome to the show.

Reena: 00:01:20

I'm excited to be here.

Reena: 00:01:21

Thank you so much.

Danny: 00:01:23

I'm excited to have you.

Danny: 00:01:24

We've we connected online and we've known each other a little bit now.

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And you kindly shared some tips of an anniversary episode

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for one of my other podcasts.

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So, I feel like we kind of know each other, but obviously we've never met yet.

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Anyway, there's always, you know, the future, so who knows.

Reena: 00:01:37

Yes, that would be an adventure.

Danny: 00:01:39

That would be an adventure.

Danny: 00:01:41

And speaking of adventures, did your daughter get to camp okay?

Reena: 00:01:45

Yes, yes, she's doing a variety of different dances at this

Reena: 00:01:50

dance camp this summer from hip hop to Lyra to hanging from the ceiling

Reena: 00:01:54

with those scarves things and hula hoops and all kinds of fun things.

Danny: 00:01:59

Awesome.

Danny: 00:02:00

I mean, my kids are going to camp.

Danny: 00:02:01

Well, they're not going to camp this year.

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They were at camp last year and they loved it.

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My son's off on a three day sort of university camp.

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He's not at university, but he's off to explore what university looks like.

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And they've got a three night camp.

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stay this week.

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So yeah, it's looking forward to that.

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Camp's an awesome time, especially this time of year is great.

Reena: 00:02:17

Yes, for sure.

Reena: 00:02:18

I'm glad she has a couple of friends doing it with her.

Reena: 00:02:20

That makes it even more fun.

Danny: 00:02:22

That's awesome.

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And I do have one question.

Danny: 00:02:24

It's nothing to do with the five questions we're going to dive into very soon.

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And whether you're allowed to answer this or not, I completely respect that.

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The Jerry Springer Show.

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What's the ratio of factual stories versus scripted stories on there?

Reena: 00:02:38

Well, they only wanted me to bring real ones, I'll just say that, and they're

Reena: 00:02:42

a lot easier to get, you know, people to react to if, if it's really going on.

Reena: 00:02:49

So in my time, pre internet, I was really trying to only

Reena: 00:02:55

bring those kinds of stories.

Danny: 00:02:57

Awesome.

Danny: 00:02:57

So you've got one hundred percent hit rate there.

Reena: 00:03:00

I did bust out a few, but I'm like, Oh my God, if you

Reena: 00:03:03

fooled me, you better fool them.

Danny: 00:03:05

Right.

Danny: 00:03:06

So as I say, we don't know what the questions are.

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I'm going to bring up my random question generation now and

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we'll see where things go.

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So let me just bring that up for us now.

Danny: 00:03:14

Ooh, okay.

Danny: 00:03:16

All right, Reena.

Danny: 00:03:17

The question is, question number one, what secret conspiracy would you like to start?

Reena: 00:03:23

Hmm,

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that

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could almost be political.

Danny: 00:03:28

Well, let's do a fun one.

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Is there a fun one that you'd like to start?

Reena: 00:03:31

Hmm.

Reena: 00:03:33

Maybe Jesus didn't come from Immaculate Conception.

Danny: 00:03:38

Oh, that's an interesting one.

Danny: 00:03:40

So would that be, Joseph would be the father then, or?

Reena: 00:03:45

Or maybe, I don't know, I recently was reading The Da Vinci

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Code and now I'm in the middle of Inferno and I was thinking about is

Reena: 00:03:53

it true that he could have lineage?

Reena: 00:03:56

That maybe he was married and he has children.

Reena: 00:03:59

I think that that could be interesting, too.

Danny: 00:04:01

That would be interesting, because you never really, obviously, you know

Danny: 00:04:04

I'm not a super religious, but we were obviously taught, you know, religion at

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school, we were taught the Bible, etc.

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And you never see that, because obviously Jesus was the, I guess, the single person.

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You never talked about, you know, was he ever married or, well, I guess he wasn't

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married, but if it was to go down that route, that could be interesting, like

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you say, and then, you know, If he does have lineage, what does that look like?

Danny: 00:04:25

You know, what would that look like in modern day?

Danny: 00:04:27

Who would be around now from his lineage?

Reena: 00:04:30

Yeah.

Reena: 00:04:30

And would they be believers?

Reena: 00:04:32

Would they want to hide the fact that they were related to him?

Reena: 00:04:38

Would they have to be hidden?

Reena: 00:04:39

Would they be social media influencers?

Reena: 00:04:43

Would they capitalize on it?

Danny: 00:04:45

I wonder what the hashtag would be for that.

Danny: 00:04:47

Yeah, I mean, that would be because like you said, I could go into all

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sorts of cool mystery thrillers as well.

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So do like facets or do factions.

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If they find out there's a lineage of Jesus, for example, and they're the

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complete opposite, or anything like that, that could be like a cool sort of mystery

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or danger thriller where they're trying to find out who it is and, you know, there's

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all sorts of stuff like that going on.

Danny: 00:05:12

That's, that's actually an interesting thought to take that to,

Danny: 00:05:17

you know, a conclusion somewhere.

Reena: 00:05:19

I think I would leverage if Jesus was my daddy or my granddaddy.

Danny: 00:05:24

Yeah, if that came out and you've been like, obviously you go to

Danny: 00:05:26

your dad for his take on every episode and then that comes out, he's got

Danny: 00:05:29

like this big secret that he shares afterwards one time, that'd be a whole

Danny: 00:05:32

new direction for your show as well.

Reena: 00:05:33

What

Reena: 00:05:33

would

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Jesus really say?

Reena: 00:05:35

Yeah.

Reena: 00:05:35

That'd

Danny: 00:05:36

That would be awesome.

Danny: 00:05:37

And I wonder, so if they were to make a movie of this because I do love this idea,

Danny: 00:05:42

who do you think would be a good character or a good actor, sorry, actor, actress

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to play the, the person of lineage?

Reena: 00:05:48

Who was the guy that was Aquaman?

Danny: 00:05:51

Oh yeah, that's Jason Momoa.

Reena: 00:05:53

Yeah, Jason Momoa.

Reena: 00:05:54

I choose him.

Reena: 00:05:56

He's kind of got that look.

Danny: 00:05:57

Yeah, definitely.

Danny: 00:05:58

And you don't mess with him either.

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He looks like someone that you really don't mess with in real

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life, although seemingly he's a very big, sort of, cuddly bear.

Danny: 00:06:05

He's not, you know, aggressive at all.

Danny: 00:06:08

He's complete opposite from the characters he plays on the movies that he does.

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That's it.

Danny: 00:06:13

That's an interesting first question and an interesting

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answer to kick off this episode.

Danny: 00:06:17

Where do we go from here?

Danny: 00:06:18

I'm not sure if we go anywhere from here.

Danny: 00:06:19

That's an awesome first question to ask.

Danny: 00:06:21

So let's get rid of that one.

Danny: 00:06:24

And let's do the second question.

Danny: 00:06:26

Are we ready for the second question?

Reena: 00:06:28

I'm ready.

Reena: 00:06:28

This is crazy.

Danny: 00:06:30

Alright.

Danny: 00:06:30

I'm not sure how we go from here, but let's have a look.

Danny: 00:06:33

Speaking of crazy.

Danny: 00:06:34

What is, question two, what is the craziest thing you've ever done?

Reena: 00:06:39

Well, this kind of goes along with that subject matter.

Reena: 00:06:43

When I was, I think, 19, I hitchhiked from Israel to Egypt.

Reena: 00:06:50

Oh, wow.

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And walked across that border.

Reena: 00:06:52

I don't think I would do that today, but that was crazy.

Reena: 00:06:55

And I yeah, I did it with a friend and I would like jump out and try to get the

Reena: 00:07:00

car and then he would hide in the bush.

Reena: 00:07:03

And then sometimes when they saw that I had a guy with me, they would pull off.

Reena: 00:07:07

But sometimes they'd give us a ride.

Danny: 00:07:10

And what's the what's that distance then?

Danny: 00:07:13

That's is that a big chunky distance.

Reena: 00:07:15

Oh, it was a half a day.

Reena: 00:07:17

I think It took us to do that, but it was crazy.

Danny: 00:07:22

What

Danny: 00:07:22

what made you do that?

Danny: 00:07:23

Then what

Reena: 00:07:24

We wanted to see You know, the untouched beaches of, of Egypt.

Reena: 00:07:30

Yeah, we went to the Sinai.

Reena: 00:07:31

We went to Nueva.

Reena: 00:07:32

We slept on the beach.

Reena: 00:07:33

That is so crazy now.

Reena: 00:07:35

Like I think about that now and I'm like, I would not want

Reena: 00:07:38

my own children doing that.

Danny: 00:07:40

Right, what I was going to ask is obviously your

Danny: 00:07:42

daughter's at camp at the moment.

Danny: 00:07:43

You, that's not something you'd want your daughter to do is an

Danny: 00:07:46

alternative to her camp, right?

Reena: 00:07:48

I feel like it was a lot safer, but it probably wasn't even.

Reena: 00:07:51

I think I was just a bit naive and it was, it was fun though.

Reena: 00:07:55

I mean, we slept on a tent in the beach and I got to see the mountains

Reena: 00:07:59

and, and these untouched beaches and eat these crazy different

Reena: 00:08:04

foods that I'd never had before.

Reena: 00:08:06

And it was pretty peaceful.

Danny: 00:08:09

And were your friend that you went with same age?

Reena: 00:08:11

Yeah.

Reena: 00:08:13

We played beach volleyball all day and yeah.

Danny: 00:08:16

How were your parents on that?

Reena: 00:08:17

I don't think they were aware I was doing that.

Danny: 00:08:21

Until you came home.

Reena: 00:08:23

Yeah.

Reena: 00:08:24

Glad I made it back safe.

Reena: 00:08:25

That was crazy.

Reena: 00:08:26

I didn't make it all the way to the pyramids, just kind

Reena: 00:08:28

of straight over the border.

Danny: 00:08:31

But it's like you say, I mean, that's, that's something that, you

Danny: 00:08:33

know, That not a lot of people would do now, primarily because of the, you

Danny: 00:08:38

know, the safety aspect and how things may be changed since we were, you

Danny: 00:08:41

know, 19 and I'm a bit older than you.

Danny: 00:08:43

So even further back when I was 19.

Danny: 00:08:45

Yeah, I can't imagine.

Danny: 00:08:47

Letting my kids do that, or not, not letting, I want my kids to have

Danny: 00:08:51

freedom, as I'm sure you do, to explore and, you know, and do things

Danny: 00:08:54

of their own accord and, and live a full sort of happy, fun life.

Danny: 00:08:58

But I think there's sometimes as well, you think, you know what,

Danny: 00:09:00

that's not the most sensible thing you could do is do a big hitchhike

Danny: 00:09:05

like that and sleep on the beach, but I don't know, would it be different

Danny: 00:09:07

if it, you know, now, I'm not sure.

Reena: 00:09:11

Yeah, it was quite an adventure and I literally walked across the border

Reena: 00:09:14

with my US passport and that was it.

Reena: 00:09:16

Yeah.

Danny: 00:09:17

No, would that be the same today?

Danny: 00:09:18

I'm not sure.

Danny: 00:09:18

I don't know.

Danny: 00:09:20

Yeah, because I'm, I'm just wondering if like, obviously with different regions

Danny: 00:09:24

and different, you know, what's going on in different parts of the world,

Danny: 00:09:26

et cetera, if that would be different.

Danny: 00:09:27

And if you had a passport from one country that was fine previously, it might not

Danny: 00:09:31

be so much, you know, today, for example.

Reena: 00:09:34

Yeah, that was wild.

Reena: 00:09:36

And I'm like, where's the customs?

Reena: 00:09:37

There's no customs.

Reena: 00:09:38

Like, they just put a stamp in there.

Danny: 00:09:41

Well it's like in the, in Europe now.

Danny: 00:09:43

So the UK, they they had a vote to leave Europe.

Danny: 00:09:45

I think it was maybe four or five years ago, something like that.

Danny: 00:09:48

And it was either just this year or maybe last year where now the UK passport.

Danny: 00:09:52

Can't get you into Europe as easily as it used to because you know, the

Danny: 00:09:56

UK is no longer part of Europe and because I'm originally from the UK,

Danny: 00:09:59

I still have a UK passport versus a Canadian passport where I am now.

Danny: 00:10:03

And I was talking to my wife about that the other day there, if we were

Danny: 00:10:07

to go to Europe, one of her bucket list things is to go to Greece and

Danny: 00:10:10

if we were to go to Europe, I think I would struggle more than she would.

Danny: 00:10:13

to actually get into Greece because I've got a UK passport, whereas before

Danny: 00:10:17

I could have just walked in basically.

Reena: 00:10:19

Oh wow.

Reena: 00:10:20

How come it would be hard to get into Greece?

Reena: 00:10:22

Do they have stricter rules?

Danny: 00:10:24

No, it's just purely because the, the passport situation now, because

Danny: 00:10:28

Britain is no longer part of the EU, the European Union, you can't travel

Danny: 00:10:34

as freely between European countries.

Danny: 00:10:35

Now, countries that are in the EU can still travel, you know, nice

Danny: 00:10:39

and freely on passports, et cetera.

Danny: 00:10:41

But I feel I've got to now get a travel visa for certain countries

Danny: 00:10:44

that I didn't have to before.

Danny: 00:10:46

So it's just like a weird thing.

Danny: 00:10:47

I think it would just be easier for me to, you to get a Canadian passport.

Danny: 00:10:51

Get, get that done, you know.

Danny: 00:10:52

So yeah, I can imagine, it just seems wild, you know, a 19 year old doing

Danny: 00:10:58

that hike and then just walking through, you know, over the border with no,

Danny: 00:11:02

no real stops or checks or anything.

Reena: 00:11:04

Just a backpack.

Danny: 00:11:06

Love it.

Danny: 00:11:08

So that's the craziest thing you've ever done.

Danny: 00:11:09

That is pretty crazy.

Danny: 00:11:10

We're going to give that a five pointer right on that answer.

Danny: 00:11:13

I'm not even sure there's points in this game.

Danny: 00:11:15

I'm going to start adding points.

Danny: 00:11:16

What the heck?

Danny: 00:11:17

All righty.

Danny: 00:11:18

Where do we go from here?

Danny: 00:11:19

Let's have a look at question three.

Danny: 00:11:23

Hmm, I feel this might be the same, the same similar as your

Danny: 00:11:27

previous one, I'm not sure.

Danny: 00:11:28

Let's ask anyway and we can always buffer it to another one if that's the case.

Danny: 00:11:32

But, question three, what is the strangest thing that has ever happened to you?

Reena: 00:11:36

I don't know, the first thing that comes to mind was I moved next

Reena: 00:11:39

to someone who thought that they didn't have to put their dog on a

Reena: 00:11:42

leash and that they could freely poop in my yard every day for 11 months.

Reena: 00:11:45

That felt strange.

Reena: 00:11:46

Was like I don't know where that's ever been okay, but Yeah, it feels personal.

Reena: 00:11:52

Can you please stop?

Danny: 00:11:54

Now, and it was this in the suburbs or was this in a city?

Danny: 00:11:56

Because I know some things as you get more out to say rural areas.

Reena: 00:12:00

It's slightly in the city, but yeah, thank goodness she moved

Reena: 00:12:03

after the one year lease and I am feeling freedom from that.

Reena: 00:12:07

But yeah, it was very strange.

Reena: 00:12:09

I've never seen someone who feels like they just are above the law and that

Reena: 00:12:15

they can poop on somebody every day.

Reena: 00:12:16

That was wild.

Danny: 00:12:19

And did you speak to her about this?

Danny: 00:12:20

Did she raise it with her?

Danny: 00:12:21

Or do you think, you know what, she's obviously.

Reena: 00:12:24

That that did not help the situation whatsoever.

Danny: 00:12:27

Oh, man.

Danny: 00:12:28

And she never came and cleaned,.

Danny: 00:12:29

She just let her dog out and just.

Danny: 00:12:31

Do the business.

Reena: 00:12:32

Yeah, and then her kids were doing it and yeah.

Danny: 00:12:35

Wait,

Danny: 00:12:35

wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up.

Danny: 00:12:37

Her kids were coming out pooping.

Reena: 00:12:40

No,

Reena: 00:12:40

no, not them.

Reena: 00:12:41

They would let the dog out too.

Reena: 00:12:42

It's like, like mother, like kids, you know, but like if the mom

Reena: 00:12:45

lets the dog out with no leash and let's them poop and picks it up

Reena: 00:12:48

whenever she feels like it, then.

Reena: 00:12:50

They feel like they can do that too.

Reena: 00:12:52

It's just crazy.

Reena: 00:12:54

And I didn't even have a camera.

Reena: 00:12:55

Like when we first moved in, I was like, guess it's time for a camera.

Reena: 00:12:58

I guess it's time for Mace.

Reena: 00:12:59

Guess it's time for animal control.

Reena: 00:13:01

Like I'd never in my life had to do those things, you know?

Danny: 00:13:07

I would have thought there'd be by laws for that though, no?

Danny: 00:13:09

There wasn't any by laws?

Reena: 00:13:10

There are, but

Reena: 00:13:11

she feels like, you know, that it's, for some reason, even though according

Reena: 00:13:16

to the land record it was our yard, she felt like it was hers too.

Danny: 00:13:21

Oh my grief.

Danny: 00:13:22

And then she moved out, so you've got, are you still in that house now?

Danny: 00:13:24

Is that the same house you're in now, or?

Reena: 00:13:26

Yes.

Danny: 00:13:27

Better neighbours now?

Reena: 00:13:28

Well, now it's vacant.

Reena: 00:13:30

And let me tell you, every day I come home, I am so grateful.

Reena: 00:13:33

I'm like, what another beautiful day with no poop in the yard.

Reena: 00:13:35

It was so crazy.

Reena: 00:13:37

I was starting to name each time she did it.

Reena: 00:13:39

I was like, after school poop, good morning poop, after Christmas

Reena: 00:13:43

poop, you know, spring break poop.

Danny: 00:13:46

I feel like this could be a topic for Jerry Springer, this, you know, this

Danny: 00:13:50

neighbor, the poop neighbor from hell.

Reena: 00:13:52

Crappy neighbor be gone.

Danny: 00:13:56

I, like, I wonder what she would have done had she lived in

Danny: 00:13:58

an apartment complex and she's on the 10th floor or something.

Danny: 00:14:02

Does she let it poop on the balcony in the apartment?

Danny: 00:14:06

Does she actually take it to the park or what would she do?

Reena: 00:14:08

She

Reena: 00:14:09

only walked it in my yard.

Reena: 00:14:11

It was like a shared walk space, but not really because like, according

Reena: 00:14:14

to the land record, it was our space.

Reena: 00:14:15

She had like a little piece of land, like, you know, on the other side

Reena: 00:14:20

of where she walked into her place.

Reena: 00:14:22

We're in like townhomes.

Reena: 00:14:23

It was crazy.

Reena: 00:14:25

But

Danny: 00:14:25

that's

Danny: 00:14:25

mad - do you never get tempted to collect some up and leave it?

Reena: 00:14:29

Oh, trust me.

Reena: 00:14:31

I have all kinds of creative ideas of things.

Reena: 00:14:33

I wanted to do with it.

Reena: 00:14:34

I thought about, you know, creating little like eggs or poops in her wreath.

Reena: 00:14:40

Like when she hung that up or taking, I did one time because another thing

Reena: 00:14:45

that she would do, which was very odd or strange was there was like

Reena: 00:14:50

a drain pipe out the side of her house and she would hang the poop

Reena: 00:14:53

bag there for a week at a time.

Reena: 00:14:55

I'm like, Dude, one poop, one dispose of poop, like, I don't know why you're

Reena: 00:15:01

trying to be like economic on the plastic bags, but like, you know, you use one per

Reena: 00:15:05

every time it goes and you dispose of it.

Reena: 00:15:07

Like there's rules around that too.

Reena: 00:15:09

But yeah, she'd hang it off the drain pipe for like a week where

Reena: 00:15:12

like flies would start to gather.

Reena: 00:15:14

And I'm like, it's so unsanitary.

Danny: 00:15:16

And did you have kids then?

Danny: 00:15:17

You mentioned it was a while.

Reena: 00:15:18

I

Reena: 00:15:18

have four kids.

Reena: 00:15:20

And so, like, my kid's friends would come over and they're like, that is so gross.

Reena: 00:15:24

Like,

Danny: 00:15:24

I can't even imagine.

Danny: 00:15:26

It's like, I mean, we live, where we live, it's a small village.

Danny: 00:15:29

It's very rural, but people respect the poop law, you know.

Danny: 00:15:34

So I can't, I can't, that just flummoxed me completely.

Danny: 00:15:37

That's just bizarre.

Reena: 00:15:38

It was wild.

Reena: 00:15:39

Like, In the beginning, I was like, oh, hey, did you notice?

Reena: 00:15:43

Because she would also dog sit, so she left like pit bull mounds in my yard.

Reena: 00:15:47

I was like, that's kind of a lot.

Reena: 00:15:49

Are you going to pick that up?

Reena: 00:15:50

Like, that's how it started.

Reena: 00:15:52

And then it was like I have a five year old.

Reena: 00:15:54

Can you please keep your dog on a leash?

Reena: 00:15:56

And then I was like, hey, like, this is a yard that we walk through every day.

Reena: 00:16:01

Can this not be your toilet?

Reena: 00:16:05

Yeah,

Danny: 00:16:06

That's yeah bizarre.

Danny: 00:16:07

I'm glad obviously that the neighbor is no longer there, but I pity the

Danny: 00:16:11

poor person she is now moved in next to because clearly that's like a continuous

Danny: 00:16:16

issue That's not something that she was just doing with you unless maybe it

Danny: 00:16:19

was maybe she's just like didn't like you But a weird way to do it though

Reena: 00:16:23

It was crazy because when she moved in her boyfriend told me I can't

Reena: 00:16:27

I'm so glad to get rid of our last neighbors And that did not even ring

Reena: 00:16:31

Yeah A red flag for me, but if somebody tells you that beware, like it's coming,

Danny: 00:16:40

Get out of town, get out of town.

Danny: 00:16:42

Yeah, I'm going to be extremely grateful that I was not your neighbor two

Danny: 00:16:47

doors down on the opposite side of her because I feel that that might have

Danny: 00:16:50

been an issue to if she's like wandering about and just letting dogs all over.

Danny: 00:16:54

I don't know.

Danny: 00:16:55

People, people, what can you do with them?

Danny: 00:16:58

Alrighty, we're three fifths, what's that, 60%, 60 percent I'm trying to

Danny: 00:17:02

get my math correctly done there.

Danny: 00:17:04

60 percent through here, so we're doing well.

Danny: 00:17:06

We've had some interesting topics and interesting answers so far.

Danny: 00:17:10

So I'm curious where we're going to go with the last two questions.

Danny: 00:17:13

So let's have a look at question number four.

Danny: 00:17:18

Okay, then.

Danny: 00:17:18

I feel everybody's done this, but let's find out.

Danny: 00:17:21

So, Reena, question four.

Danny: 00:17:23

Have you ever sent a message to the wrong person?

Danny: 00:17:26

And as a follow up to that, if you have, where did that end up?

Reena: 00:17:29

Oh,

Reena: 00:17:30

my God.

Reena: 00:17:31

The funniest story, honestly, was my husband sending the wrong message.

Reena: 00:17:36

He was trying to message me, and he messaged a work colleague.

Reena: 00:17:40

And it was kind of inappropriate, but, like, there was, like, a lost in

Reena: 00:17:44

translation, so it worked out okay.

Reena: 00:17:47

You

Danny: 00:17:48

Okay, I feel you have to expand.

Reena: 00:17:51

I think he was like working for an international company at the time.

Reena: 00:17:54

I forgot what he even said, but I, I always remember that one because

Reena: 00:17:58

it was like, what does that mean?

Reena: 00:18:00

You know what I mean?

Reena: 00:18:01

Like you didn't even understand.

Reena: 00:18:04

And he was like, Oh, that message wasn't for you.

Reena: 00:18:07

It was almost like, I think we were like, you know, like saying like a

Reena: 00:18:10

code word between us or something.

Reena: 00:18:14

And it went to like one of his vendors in Korea or something and

Reena: 00:18:18

he was kind of like, Ah, yeah.

Danny: 00:18:20

And I was going to say, because you mentioned it got lost in translation.

Danny: 00:18:23

So I'm guessing the person that was the recipient was English,

Danny: 00:18:26

not the first language then.

Danny: 00:18:28

And that's where they started.

Danny: 00:18:29

Confusion arose, at least it's a message.

Danny: 00:18:31

Obviously the confusion was on your husband's side, sending it

Danny: 00:18:33

to the wrong number to start with.

Reena: 00:18:35

Yeah, he sent it

Reena: 00:18:35

to a work colleague who was in Korea.

Reena: 00:18:38

But yeah, I think it was maybe just like a made up word or a funny thing that

Reena: 00:18:43

we said between each other, you know.

Reena: 00:18:45

And and he wasn't sure if it was like a food or something he was supposed to do or

Reena: 00:18:51

those are those are fun.

Reena: 00:18:53

They can make you laugh.

Danny: 00:18:55

Yeah, I don't think so.

Danny: 00:18:56

It wasn't a safe word or anything.

Reena: 00:18:58

No, it wasn't a safe word.

Reena: 00:19:00

God,

Reena: 00:19:00

now I'm like, what was it?

Reena: 00:19:02

I can't remember the word even.

Reena: 00:19:04

But yeah, that's the first one that comes to mind is my husband sent a

Reena: 00:19:08

message to one of his vendors and he, I think was just like confused

Reena: 00:19:13

by it, which was better than like him probably understanding the message.

Danny: 00:19:19

You're right.

Danny: 00:19:19

Yeah, exactly.

Danny: 00:19:20

And then you get an email from HR and you're thinking, why, why

Danny: 00:19:23

am I getting an email from HR?

Reena: 00:19:25

Oh man.

Reena: 00:19:26

Yeah.

Reena: 00:19:26

I don't think I've ever done that.

Reena: 00:19:28

Oh, you know, one time I was helping my dad sell off like all of the equipment.

Reena: 00:19:34

He was closing up his manufacturing place and he had kind of a list

Reena: 00:19:38

of like all of his old vendors.

Reena: 00:19:40

And One of the people that we sent it to, I don't know what she did, but she

Reena: 00:19:45

hit like reply all to her entire email list of everything that we were selling.

Reena: 00:19:51

I mean, it was good for us.

Reena: 00:19:52

But yeah, like her boss was like, what did you just do?

Danny: 00:19:58

I never, I've never like, so my kids school, we had a bunch of emails

Danny: 00:20:02

from the kids school and generally you'll reply to the teacher, but

Danny: 00:20:06

then she'll reply all to everyone.

Danny: 00:20:08

So whatever question you've just asked.

Danny: 00:20:11

Every parent now gets to know you thinking, please don't do that again.

Danny: 00:20:14

And makes you, you know, wary of sending any emails to the teacher.

Reena: 00:20:18

Yeah, I feel like that happens a lot too with like these private,

Reena: 00:20:22

you know, WhatsApp groups between parents and all of the classes now.

Reena: 00:20:26

I'm like, sometimes I feel like those get even Too personal.

Reena: 00:20:30

I'm like, maybe you should take that up with one parent versus

Reena: 00:20:32

like, send that to the whole class.

Reena: 00:20:34

I kind of even stay out of the rooms.

Reena: 00:20:36

I'm like, I just want to know, like, when are the basketball games?

Reena: 00:20:39

Like, when is parent teacher night?

Reena: 00:20:41

Like, you know, what are the assignments?

Reena: 00:20:43

I don't need to know about every bullying or every, you know, uniform problem or.

Danny: 00:20:50

Exactly.

Danny: 00:20:51

And that's it.

Danny: 00:20:51

You join the parent groups because you want to keep up to date with

Danny: 00:20:54

your kid's school and anything you need relevant to your kid.

Danny: 00:20:56

But often there's a lot of drama gets brought into these groups too.

Danny: 00:21:00

And you think, no, no, no, no, no, I'm out.

Danny: 00:21:02

I'm out.

Danny: 00:21:02

I'm out.

Reena: 00:21:03

Totally.

Reena: 00:21:04

It's so crazy.

Reena: 00:21:05

Like, I'll drop off a kid and the moms will be like, did

Reena: 00:21:07

you read the WhatsApp chat?

Reena: 00:21:08

I'm like, I stay out.

Reena: 00:21:10

I'm like, there's so many messages in those chats.

Reena: 00:21:13

Like, I just have to pay attention to like the emails that are sent from the school.

Danny: 00:21:17

Although it does give you a good insight as to which parent is maybe,

Danny: 00:21:21

not, not weird, that's the wrong word to use, but which parent is maybe has

Danny: 00:21:25

very different views from yourself and maybe keep an eye on what your

Danny: 00:21:29

kids now saying is that impacting, you know, your kid's viewpoint or their,

Danny: 00:21:33

their friend's viewpoint because your kids are saying something maybe they

Danny: 00:21:36

shouldn't, you know, to do it both ways.

Danny: 00:21:37

So I'm always wary of like these kind of groups, like you say, because people that

Danny: 00:21:41

you like and have fun with, sometimes you can find out, Oh, they're not

Danny: 00:21:45

quite the person I thought they were.

Danny: 00:21:47

Yikes.

Reena: 00:21:48

Oh, yeah, you can tell a lot about people by how they communicate

Reena: 00:21:52

online or even in WhatsApp groups.

Danny: 00:21:55

Yeah, well, especially WhatsApp groups.

Danny: 00:21:56

Is it WhatsApp or Snapchat where it's meant to delete

Danny: 00:21:59

after 24 hours or something?

Danny: 00:22:01

Is that Snapchat?

Reena: 00:22:01

Yeah.

Danny: 00:22:03

Yeah, I can never remember.

Danny: 00:22:04

I don't really use the two of them.

Danny: 00:22:05

I use WhatsApp, I think, for podcasting events and

Danny: 00:22:08

conferences I go to with my job.

Danny: 00:22:10

But apart from that, I never use it.

Danny: 00:22:12

My daughter sent me a Snapchat link and I told her I don't use this,

Danny: 00:22:16

I've not got the app, what's this?

Danny: 00:22:18

And she wouldn't tell me what it was.

Danny: 00:22:19

I thought, okay, now we have an issue.

Danny: 00:22:21

But anyway, it was all good.

Reena: 00:22:23

Yeah, they all love snapping each other all day long.

Reena: 00:22:28

It's it's hard to keep up with all of the ways in which they

Reena: 00:22:30

communicate to talk to you.

Danny: 00:22:32

Yep.

Danny: 00:22:33

No, I'm sure as your daughter got a phone with her.

Danny: 00:22:36

I'm going to guess she's got a phone with her.

Reena: 00:22:37

She

Reena: 00:22:38

does, but I have not.

Reena: 00:22:40

Allowed her to get data yet.

Danny: 00:22:42

Okay.

Reena: 00:22:43

I feel like everywhere.

Reena: 00:22:45

I'm sending her.

Reena: 00:22:46

There's Wi Fi and She's on it enough as it is and I want to

Reena: 00:22:51

be Still monitoring that more.

Danny: 00:22:55

Yeah.

Danny: 00:22:56

No, I get that.

Danny: 00:22:56

How old your daughter is she?

Reena: 00:22:58

She's 13

Danny: 00:22:59

13.

Danny: 00:22:59

Yep So yeah, that's a it's a good time to start to learn about social media and

Danny: 00:23:04

what's up and all that stuff But it's also a good time to as you mentioned

Danny: 00:23:07

for the parents just to introduce them slowly and it helps it you know she's

Danny: 00:23:11

got a mom like you that's well versed in social media knows all the pitfalls and

Danny: 00:23:15

also with your background you'll see some horror stories come through as well so

Danny: 00:23:18

she's got a good role model there maybe not so much from the hiking part across

Danny: 00:23:23

Israel border or not but apart from that

Reena: 00:23:27

Yeah, I think I'll wait to tell her about that.

Danny: 00:23:31

Wait till she's 19, then you can say, Okay, you know what?

Danny: 00:23:34

At your age, I was doing this.

Danny: 00:23:35

Get off the sofa, get outside.

Danny: 00:23:38

Alrighty, so we've arrived at the final question, and I'm not

Danny: 00:23:42

sure what this is going to be.

Danny: 00:23:43

It's been an interesting ride so far, so let's bring up question number five.

Danny: 00:23:49

Alrighty, I'm sensing a theme in this week's questions, actually.

Danny: 00:23:54

I'm not sure how random these questions are, because there's

Danny: 00:23:57

a definite theme coming in here.

Danny: 00:23:58

Okay.

Danny: 00:23:59

Okay, Reena, question five.

Danny: 00:24:01

After you survive the apocalypse, what will your job be?

Reena: 00:24:06

Oh my gosh, maybe like, I don't know, some sort of, hopefully

Reena: 00:24:13

I'll be like a sharpshooter, I guess.

Reena: 00:24:15

I'll be training people on weapons.

Danny: 00:24:18

So you'll be like the, is it Rick that's the weapons person?

Danny: 00:24:21

I've never really watched that, I'm gonna I'm going to come clean here.

Danny: 00:24:24

I've never watched The Walking Dead, not one single episode.

Danny: 00:24:27

So I'm not sure who the sharpshooter is in that episode, on that show.

Reena: 00:24:30

Yeah, I haven't watched it.

Reena: 00:24:32

My husband and sons were obsessed.

Reena: 00:24:37

But I do feel like you have to be skilled with weapons in the

Reena: 00:24:39

apocalypse after watching that.

Reena: 00:24:41

But they use more of spears.

Danny: 00:24:44

And I guess it depends on what kind of apocalypse.

Danny: 00:24:46

Are we talking zombie apocalypse?

Reena: 00:24:48

Exactly.

Danny: 00:24:49

You know, we're talking like nuclear apocalypse and then.

Danny: 00:24:53

Are there any survivors?

Danny: 00:24:54

So I guess, I mean, for a bit of context, you'd want to know what kind

Danny: 00:24:57

of apocalypse, and if it was zombies, how many zombies are now there?

Danny: 00:25:02

I mean, I do watch the The Last of Us.

Danny: 00:25:04

I watched that on Prime.

Danny: 00:25:07

I guess it's HBO in the US, but it's on Prime, I think, over here.

Danny: 00:25:11

Or Crave, sorry, in Canada.

Danny: 00:25:12

And that was really good.

Danny: 00:25:13

It got kind of, it wasn't sort of so much zombies as opposed to zombies.

Danny: 00:25:18

Like this infection that, that turned people's brains to mush

Danny: 00:25:22

or controlled humans that way.

Danny: 00:25:23

So I guess they were like zombies then.

Danny: 00:25:24

What are we talking about?

Danny: 00:25:25

But yeah, it was interesting to see how different people survived and use their,

Danny: 00:25:32

like, how to completely change their outlook on life to survive, you know,

Danny: 00:25:36

following that, that apocalypse, I guess.

Reena: 00:25:38

Yeah, I always think about, would I keep my humanity?

Reena: 00:25:45

And those kinds of, you know, really stressful times, people who were able

Reena: 00:25:51

to do that, like, I just read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.

Reena: 00:25:55

And I thought it was really interesting how he kind of like thought of his wife,

Reena: 00:26:01

and he thought of the love that he had, and he thought of like, the apartment

Reena: 00:26:05

that he lived in and the everyday tasks that he was looking forward to doing.

Reena: 00:26:09

Like, I would hope that that is what would motivate me.

Reena: 00:26:14

would be thinking about the good times versus, you know, I got to get rid

Reena: 00:26:18

of all of the people around me, but like, Hey, we can all survive together.

Reena: 00:26:22

Like I would hope that I would keep some sense of humanity in the crazy.

Danny: 00:26:28

And that's like, I don't know if you've watched the last of us show

Danny: 00:26:30

at all, Reena, but you don't watch it?

Danny: 00:26:32

No.

Danny: 00:26:33

So obviously it's based on video game.

Danny: 00:26:34

And I followed it really well actually, but there's a, a couple

Danny: 00:26:37

of characters in it called Bill and Frank and their episode, I think it

Danny: 00:26:41

was episode three of the TV show.

Danny: 00:26:42

It focused on them How they met and survived, you know, after the

Danny: 00:26:47

apocalypse and it was very much about keeping their human side.

Danny: 00:26:51

So they grew vegetables and fruit they made a habit of going for a

Danny: 00:26:56

walk and doing the normal stuff and, and going to shops, even though the

Danny: 00:26:59

shops were closed and it was just basically their own little shops, etc.

Danny: 00:27:02

And making Sunday roasts and all that cool stuff.

Danny: 00:27:06

And that was a nice break because prior to that, the two episodes

Danny: 00:27:09

were very, you know, in your face.

Danny: 00:27:11

This is horrible.

Danny: 00:27:12

This is like, you know, gory, etc.

Danny: 00:27:14

And then you had this very, very human interlude of these two characters.

Danny: 00:27:19

And I feel that, like you say, that's something that's That would

Danny: 00:27:22

be easy to lose is the humanity because you're trying to survive.

Danny: 00:27:27

You're obviously protecting your family if they've survived to hopefully they have

Danny: 00:27:31

and you're protecting your loved ones.

Danny: 00:27:33

And I feel would be very easy to slip into someone.

Danny: 00:27:37

You're completely not because you're trying to survive.

Reena: 00:27:40

Yeah.

Reena: 00:27:42

Should I go into the question?

Reena: 00:27:44

I feel like it kind of ties into this, but I would love to know what you do to

Reena: 00:27:50

be grounded or centered or remain calm.

Reena: 00:27:53

What are ways that you like to?

Reena: 00:27:57

Relax.

Danny: 00:27:59

That's it.

Danny: 00:27:59

That's a good one.

Danny: 00:28:00

So, yeah, just time for our listeners every week.

Danny: 00:28:04

Obviously, each guest gets to ask me a random question because it's only fair.

Danny: 00:28:07

I'm putting them through the ringer and putting them on the

Danny: 00:28:09

spot with five questions that they have no planning or research for.

Danny: 00:28:13

So it's only fair.

Danny: 00:28:14

So, yeah, I like that one.

Danny: 00:28:16

I think for me, I mean, a lot of it comes down to my family.

Danny: 00:28:19

I've got two kids and obviously my wife we're still together.

Danny: 00:28:22

I said that a really bad way.

Danny: 00:28:23

Sorry, Jacqueline, if you're listening, you probably won't be, so I'm safe.

Danny: 00:28:26

But yeah, I've got my family, so my wife and my two kids.

Danny: 00:28:28

My son's 14, my daughter's 12, and we moved I mentioned earlier,

Danny: 00:28:32

we moved to this little village.

Danny: 00:28:33

That's really rural.

Danny: 00:28:35

There's only maybe eight hundred families here.

Danny: 00:28:37

It's very surrounded by nature.

Danny: 00:28:39

There's a lake, big massive lake about 15 minute walk away from the, the house.

Danny: 00:28:44

Lots of snow in the winter.

Danny: 00:28:46

So I'm surrounded by cowmen.

Danny: 00:28:49

stuff.

Danny: 00:28:49

So if I have a bad day, cause I do suffer from mental illness issues as, as my wife.

Danny: 00:28:55

So we kind of bounce off each other, recognize when that's happening

Danny: 00:28:59

and help each other through that.

Danny: 00:29:01

So it's good that we're in this nature area where I can go outside.

Danny: 00:29:05

I can just go breathe in the air, look at the trees, listen to the birds or go

Danny: 00:29:09

out in the lake on a kayak or something.

Danny: 00:29:11

So that's good.

Danny: 00:29:12

But I think seeing My kids, they're both athletes, a very competitive athlete.

Danny: 00:29:18

So my son plays competitive soccer for his team and my daughter

Danny: 00:29:21

does competitive cheerleading.

Danny: 00:29:23

So they do a lot of competitions and seeing the love that they have for that.

Danny: 00:29:27

Whereas when I was their age, I was, we didn't have that.

Danny: 00:29:29

We were in the UK growing up in the seventies.

Danny: 00:29:32

That's not something you would encourage.

Danny: 00:29:34

So I would say probably my family keeps me really grounded and just having good

Danny: 00:29:37

people around me getting to, you know, chat with good folks like yourself and

Danny: 00:29:42

ignoring all the drama on social media can get sucked into that so easily, you know?

Danny: 00:29:47

So that's why I don't have a lot of social media apps I use.

Danny: 00:29:49

Twitter for my conversations and Facebook just for friends and family.

Reena: 00:29:55

I love that.

Reena: 00:29:56

That's wonderful.

Reena: 00:29:57

It makes me want to go on a kayak.

Danny: 00:29:59

Ah, it's amazing.

Danny: 00:30:00

I mean, I, we used to have a little cottage up here.

Danny: 00:30:03

And this is that's how we fell in love with this area.

Danny: 00:30:06

And then when we decided to move here, we sold the cottage.

Danny: 00:30:09

But when we had it, there was also a lake nearby.

Danny: 00:30:12

And that's when I first got into sort of kayaking.

Danny: 00:30:14

It's just, it's really relaxing where you just go there, disappear and do nothing,

Danny: 00:30:17

not care about anything in the world.

Reena: 00:30:20

Yes, it is so calming.

Reena: 00:30:22

That's wonderful.

Reena: 00:30:23

Thank you for sharing that.

Danny: 00:30:25

Thank you for the question.

Danny: 00:30:26

That was a really good one.

Danny: 00:30:27

I like that.

Danny: 00:30:27

I like that a lot.

Danny: 00:30:29

So Reena, we're gonna be wrapping up soon.

Danny: 00:30:32

I really enjoyed.

Danny: 00:30:33

hearing your five answers.

Danny: 00:30:35

I'm curious, actually, if, if the first question about the, the lineage,

Danny: 00:30:40

the answer of lineage, if that will get any pushback online, we'll see, I

Danny: 00:30:43

guess, when it comes out, we'll see.

Danny: 00:30:45

I don't think so.

Danny: 00:30:46

I think we were respectful, you know, with the The whole premise and I love

Danny: 00:30:50

the fact that you went there and had that, that whole direction there.

Danny: 00:30:53

So be interesting to see, you know, we may have to, I may have to come to you

Danny: 00:30:56

for, you know protection or something.

Danny: 00:30:59

Get your dad to protect us both.

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This episode drops.

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For anyone that wants to listen, obviously to your podcast and hear your dad,

Danny: 00:31:06

obviously, because he shares some amazing advice and thoughts on on the episodes.

Danny: 00:31:11

Where's the best place to listen to your show and connect with you directly?

Reena: 00:31:15

Thank you so much.

Reena: 00:31:16

Better call daddy.

Reena: 00:31:17

com and I'm on most social media as Reena Friedman Watts.

Reena: 00:31:22

So that's Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram.

Danny: 00:31:25

And I'll be sure to link to all of these in the show notes.

Danny: 00:31:27

So wherever you're listening, be sure to check them out.

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I know not everyone does, but do check them out.

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Cause I will be linking out to every guest and I recommend you

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check them out, you know, each time.

Danny: 00:31:35

So thanks for that.

Danny: 00:31:36

So again, Reena, thank you for joining me today and opening

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yourself up to five random questions.

Reena: 00:31:41

What a great concept for a show.

Reena: 00:31:43

I really enjoyed it.

Danny: 00:31:45

So thanks to you for listening to 5 Random Questions.

Danny: 00:31:48

If you enjoyed this week's episode, be sure to follow for free on the

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And if you feel like leaving a review, well, that would make me

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happier than that time I met Darth Vader at my local supermarket.

Danny: 00:32:01

Because yes, that's what Darth Vader does on his time off.

Danny: 00:32:04

Signed autographs at local supermarkets to 12 year old kids,

Danny: 00:32:07

so it was obviously the real deal.

Danny: 00:32:09

But seriously, if you wanted to leave a review, that would be awesome.

Danny: 00:32:12

I'd be super grateful.

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Until the next time, keep asking these questions.