Imperfect Humans, A Giraffe's Christmas Fib, and More with Freddy Cruz

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The orange Toys R Us sticker made me scratch my head, but again, I was four.

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I had no idea and somehow I was convinced that Geoffrey, who

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was the Toys R Us character, the giraffe Geoffrey helped Santa Claus.

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Shop for toys for good boys and girls and I mean hook line and sinker I fell

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for it as I should have I was only four and four year olds believe anything

Danny: 00:00:27

Hi, and welcome to Five Random Questions the show where

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every question is an adventure.

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

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questions created by a random question generator The guest has no idea what

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the questions are and neither do I 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 Freddy Cruz, whose voice has entertained the greater

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Houston area for more than 17, 000 hours across three decades.

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He also likes to test his ability to not sound like a movie villain while

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jogging in his local neighborhood.

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Freddy's the founder of Speke Podcasting, helping a wide variety

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of podcasters, media personalities, organizations, and more take

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ownership of their brand's messaging.

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He also hosts the Cruz Through HTX podcast and is the author of three novels with

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his work being praised by Publishers Weekly, Black Texas Magazine, and more.

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So, Freddy, quite the old details there.

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Welcome to Five Random Questions.

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How are you?

Freddy: 00:01:22

Fantastic, Danny.

Freddy: 00:01:23

Thank you so much.

Freddy: 00:01:24

Such an interesting, interesting format for a podcast.

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I do have to know though, where is your random generator?

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Is, is he or she in a basement locked away?

Danny: 00:01:34

I would have to pay for that.

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That would probably be my kids and I'd have to give them extra credits for that.

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So, no, no, no.

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We're just using an online one, the good old RandomWord.

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com generator.

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So that's the one we'll be using for this job.

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Before we start, actually, and obviously we'll get into the questions

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soon, a couple of quick things.

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Obviously, we were speaking in the green room.

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You had a little bit of an adventure with your car and a flat tire pre recording.

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And my question is, this is not part of the five questions,

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this is just out of curiosity.

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We can create so much technology for cars.

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We can, you know, get them talking to satellites in space

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and get maps on GPS, et cetera.

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Why can't we solve the flat tire problem?

Freddy: 00:02:10

Oh my goodness, because humans happen.

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That's why,

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you know, humans happen.

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These random nails we, so here in the Houston area, and technically I live in a,

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in a, Suburb called Richmond, Texas, about 30 minutes outside of downtown Houston

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and suburgatory, suburgatory, suburgatory.

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I mean, it is suburban sprawl.

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We have a three school complex being built across the street from our neighborhood.

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And so I'm convinced that, that we must have run over debris on the

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way to taking my daughter to work.

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I mean, listen, we, you know, people just random stuff flies out

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the construction sites, or maybe somebody just lost a load of nails.

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Or some diabolic, diabolical individual decided, Hey, let me just

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throw a bag of nails on the road.

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Freddy's coming down.

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I'm going to stop him from getting to this podcast recording.

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Just waiting at the side of the road there.

Freddy: 00:03:06

Yeah.

Freddy: 00:03:06

Yeah.

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And speaking of, like I mentioned there, the part of that,

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and I'm really curious about this.

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Part of the your A daily routine is taking jogs around the neighborhood,

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and you mentioned that you're trying not to sound like a movie villain.

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So are you running along, guffawing and chuckling evilly?

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What's going on there, Freddy?

Freddy: 00:03:26

I love running.

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It's my sort of my form of meditation.

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It gets harder and harder as the summer months pass on and so no matter how well

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trained I think I am, I still sound like a horror movie villain and there are still,

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there's still going to be the elderly couples walking early in the morning.

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The mother with the stroller walking through the neighborhood

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who I'm running behind and I'm like, all right, here we go.

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I'm she's going to turn around and mace me.

Freddy: 00:03:57

This is the morning.

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This is the morning I get maced, but yeah.

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You need to get like a little clown horn or something, something

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that's non threatening that you can sort of, you know, ask people to move

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out of the way and make them aware that you're on the, on the jogging route.

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A little waka waka?

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There you go.

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Like, there you go.

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Perfect, perfect.

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So, what we're going to do then, we're not going to scare anybody, hopefully,

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with these five questions, so I'm going to bring up the random question generator,

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Freddy, and we'll take it from here, where we're going to go with these questions.

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All right, Freddy, here we go.

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Question number one.

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What is the source of your procrastination?

Freddy: 00:04:34

Oh, the source of my procrastination has got to be

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the what if part because as much as I say I don't, that the, that

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the, Careful how I phrase this.

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As much as I say that I am not concerned with the opinions of others, at the end

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of the day, I am a perfectly imperfect human, and so the opinions of others

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actually does matter to me, and I think in the big grand scheme of things,

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the opinions of others actually should matter to us, because some of these

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opinions are what pays the bills, some of these opinions are are related to us.

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Some of these opinions belong to people who live with us,

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who, who mean the world to us.

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So in that regard, you know, it's, it's the opinions of others good or bad.

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It's well, golly, if I'm procrastinating on this one thing, not so much because

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I don't feel like doing it, but.

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But it's like, okay, well, what if it goes, what if it goes awry?

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What if nobody likes it?

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What if, what if it's the equivalent of shouting into an empty forest, at which

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point people I love and care for and admire and respect, what would they think?

Freddy: 00:05:49

Now, obviously they wouldn't think anything bad of me.

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It's just, oh, well, you know, it was.

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The thing happened and you didn't get the result.

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So the source of the procrastination almost always is going to

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be the opinions of others.

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And I continue to work on it, even as I'm.

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Nearing 50

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now.

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Do you have a filter for these opinions?

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Because as you mentioned, we should care about opinions because it helps

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us, you know, a grow and be better people, but also improve anything

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we're working on and better the lives of those that we care for.

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But is there a filter that you put on for whose opinion you do take on board

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and who's you think I'm not listening to you at all because it's not valid

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or do you look at all opinions equally?

Freddy: 00:06:30

It's like a case by case basis.

Freddy: 00:06:32

So we were talking before we started, you know, we're talking about the,

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the flat tire incident my, I have two daughter, two daughters, 18 and 19.

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My wife is you know, I'm married also.

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And those are three opinions who, who I value, you know, their opinions.

Freddy: 00:06:47

I value very much.

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And sometimes I'll, I'll think that I put something really cool

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together and objectively speaking, because I've been between podcasting

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and broadcast radio broadcasting.

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I've been doing this for close to 27 years, so I know that you don't

Freddy: 00:07:03

get to do this kind of stuff for this amount of time if you suck.

Freddy: 00:07:09

So objectively speaking, I'm pretty good.

Freddy: 00:07:13

Am I the best?

Freddy: 00:07:14

No, I don't want to be the best.

Freddy: 00:07:15

I expect to chase excellence.

Freddy: 00:07:18

So when I asked my, my younger daughters, Hey, what do you think of this?

Freddy: 00:07:21

And the opinion is, eh, well, yada, yada, yada, yada.

Freddy: 00:07:26

And then they give me their detailed explanation of why, what I did is not

Freddy: 00:07:30

as cool as I think or thought it was.

Freddy: 00:07:33

And then I have to look and be like, instead of, you know, 19

Freddy: 00:07:37

year old Freddy, if it was 19 year old Freddy asking 19 year old cat,

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Hey, What do you think of this?

Freddy: 00:07:42

And then she said the same answer.

Freddy: 00:07:44

I probably would have been like, well, forget you.

Freddy: 00:07:46

You're not my real friend anyway.

Freddy: 00:07:48

But the 48, almost 49 year old dad version of Freddy's like, Hmm, well,

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you know, you got a point, however.

Freddy: 00:07:58

I'm going to move forward with what it is as it is.

Danny: 00:08:02

And, and the kids are we've got two kids they're 12 and 14.

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And as you say, they're great barometers of whether you're making a good ball.

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They're not always great barometers.

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They're great barometers for their age group.

Danny: 00:08:13

Yeah.

Danny: 00:08:13

Oh yeah.

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So if I say something to my 14 year old son, for example he usually comes

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back pretty quickly with something that disagrees with it and why.

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And then, as you say, you've got to choose, okay, am I going

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to listen to that or am I not?

Danny: 00:08:25

And if I don't listen to that, it's because you're 14 or it's because

Danny: 00:08:28

it's just you being sarcastic, you know, so yeah, I completely

Danny: 00:08:32

hear you and my daughter's 12.

Danny: 00:08:33

So that sounds like something I've got to look forward to in the next

Danny: 00:08:36

6 or 7 years on that, that side.

Freddy: 00:08:39

Yeah.

Freddy: 00:08:39

Well, let me tell you nothing you will do for the next probably 7, 8, 9,

Freddy: 00:08:44

possibly 10 or 11, 12 years will be cool.

Freddy: 00:08:47

Just as a parent I speak from personal experience, although I will say, I say

Freddy: 00:08:52

that lightheartedly there are moments when they're like, wow, that was really cool.

Freddy: 00:08:55

And it makes me feel good.

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There are things sometimes that I'll do, and this goes for anybody when whether

Freddy: 00:09:02

it's helping to design podcast cover art or an episode or mixing down something

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that I'm not really used to mixing down and, and getting, you know, getting

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right that if I receive a compliment.

Freddy: 00:09:17

On it, when I was second guessing myself, the entire process that actually

Freddy: 00:09:21

feels really good and that tells you that it's directionally correct.

Freddy: 00:09:25

So I mean, I as much as I like the positive feedback, I've learned to

Freddy: 00:09:29

really, really enjoy the not so positive feedback and generally the positive.

Freddy: 00:09:36

Did I say that right?

Freddy: 00:09:37

I have learned to enjoy the negative feedback.

Freddy: 00:09:39

Yeah, there you go.

Freddy: 00:09:40

I've learned to enjoy the negative feedback and the positive feedback.

Freddy: 00:09:43

It's it's something that I'm I'm thankful for.

Freddy: 00:09:46

I'm especially thankful for for it when when it's something that I know for

Freddy: 00:09:53

a fact I'm not necessarily all that good at, but am steadily improving.

Danny: 00:09:59

And then I guess you just gotta decide whether to procrastinate

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on taking action on that feedback or not, or just, you know, next

Danny: 00:10:05

time I'll do it differently.

Freddy: 00:10:06

Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.

Freddy: 00:10:08

Of course, deadlines matter too, so.

Danny: 00:10:12

Oh yeah, I hear you.

Danny: 00:10:13

And speaking of deadlines, and that's a really tenuous link, but

Danny: 00:10:16

I'm not a comedian, so there you go.

Danny: 00:10:17

Speaking of deadlines, we're on question two.

Danny: 00:10:21

Okay, Freddy, do you get along with your parents?

Freddy: 00:10:25

Absolutely,

Freddy: 00:10:26

all three of them.

Danny: 00:10:27

Okay, you got to expand on that.

Danny: 00:10:28

I'm not letting you go there.

Freddy: 00:10:30

Yeah, so I've got my, my mom and dad divorced when I

Freddy: 00:10:33

was seven and I have a stepdad.

Freddy: 00:10:35

Name is David.

Freddy: 00:10:36

And they're all three incredible individuals in their own unique ways.

Freddy: 00:10:41

You know, my mom, I mean, what can you say?

Freddy: 00:10:44

You know, my mom is the best.

Freddy: 00:10:45

She had me when she was really, really young.

Freddy: 00:10:47

She had the opportunity to go to Miami University on a merit scholarship.

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And then I happened.

Freddy: 00:10:56

And so that changed your life forever.

Freddy: 00:10:59

And you know, not a, not a day goes by that.

Freddy: 00:11:01

I'm not just thankful that I'm even alive.

Freddy: 00:11:04

You can choose at least, you know, you're, you're in a Australia and I'm in the U

Freddy: 00:11:11

S and for better or worse, you can make the case that, Oh, things have never been

Freddy: 00:11:16

better or things have, you know, whatever.

Freddy: 00:11:18

But the fact of the matter remains, we're alive in the 21st century in this moment.

Freddy: 00:11:23

And for the most part, we, we have agency in our lives.

Freddy: 00:11:26

We don't get to pick our parents.

Freddy: 00:11:29

And I won, I won the lottery because not only am I here, but I was

Freddy: 00:11:35

born into a family that loves me.

Freddy: 00:11:37

And that once, that once and wanted when I was a kid that one did the best for me

Freddy: 00:11:44

and was not discouraged from wanting to pursue the things that I wanted to pursue.

Freddy: 00:11:50

It was like, well, I want to play football.

Freddy: 00:11:52

Okay, well, we'll go play football.

Freddy: 00:11:54

Oh, you want to play t ball?

Freddy: 00:11:55

Oh, you'll play t ball.

Freddy: 00:11:56

Oh, you want to be a radio DJ?

Freddy: 00:11:58

Okay.

Freddy: 00:11:59

But it was never one of those things.

Freddy: 00:12:00

Well, you know what, you're going to be a doctor and you're going to like it.

Freddy: 00:12:04

It wasn't, of course, I, I would have to be intelligent enough to get

Freddy: 00:12:08

into university and go to pre med.

Freddy: 00:12:10

I've fumbled my way through, through college over eight years and eventually

Freddy: 00:12:13

got a marketing degree somehow.

Freddy: 00:12:16

But no, I, I love my parents very much and very, very thankful for them.

Danny: 00:12:22

And you mentioned that obviously all three of them get along really well.

Danny: 00:12:25

And that's.

Danny: 00:12:26

helped you, you know, from when you were seven growing to where you are now.

Danny: 00:12:30

Do you feel that because of societal changes and, you know, views towards,

Danny: 00:12:35

you know, adults separating or adults getting divorced has really changed from

Danny: 00:12:40

say 50, 60, 70 years ago to, you know, maybe when your parents got divorced

Danny: 00:12:45

and when parents are separating now and raising kids separately, et cetera.

Danny: 00:12:49

Do you think that's also helped when that happened with yourself

Danny: 00:12:53

and and the dynamics between.

Danny: 00:12:55

You know, your mom, your dad and your step your step parent, or is that

Danny: 00:12:58

just the three people that they are?

Danny: 00:12:59

That's what made it, made it work.

Freddy: 00:13:02

It's a function of the three people that they are.

Freddy: 00:13:04

And my, my grandparents, I was fortunate to have all four of them.

Freddy: 00:13:09

One of them was not a very kind man, but you know, I still even was able

Freddy: 00:13:14

to learn some things from, from him.

Freddy: 00:13:17

My stepdad did not come into my life until I was already a young adult.

Freddy: 00:13:22

So I didn't grow up with him per se, but I just think that I was just

Freddy: 00:13:27

really fortunate because there was the, the sort of looking down upon

Freddy: 00:13:32

single moms, especially being a brown guy, looking down on, on single

Freddy: 00:13:38

motherhood and single parenthood.

Freddy: 00:13:40

And there wasn't really much of of we didn't really experience that when growing

Freddy: 00:13:46

up and I spent a lot of time with her and she spends a lot of time with us

Freddy: 00:13:50

and she worked really hard to ensure that we had Christmas presents under the

Freddy: 00:13:56

tree that when we were little kids, the Easter bunny came and left us chocolates

Freddy: 00:14:02

and, and we had birthday presents and, and all that sort of a thing.

Freddy: 00:14:06

So we were really lucky.

Freddy: 00:14:08

And that's not to.

Freddy: 00:14:09

Just because I didn't experience any of that doesn't mean that it didn't exist.

Freddy: 00:14:13

Cause I'm sure it, it didn't, you know.

Freddy: 00:14:16

It'd be really, it'd be really easy to fall into that into

Freddy: 00:14:19

that sort of silo of thinking.

Freddy: 00:14:21

Oh, well, I, I didn't experience that.

Freddy: 00:14:23

So what are you talking about, Danny?

Danny: 00:14:26

Yeah, no, it's like you say.

Danny: 00:14:27

I mean, just because you don't experience it, there's a lot goes

Danny: 00:14:30

on a weird and a very, and actually, sorry, just a quick correction.

Danny: 00:14:34

And this is not a correction.

Danny: 00:14:35

So let me.

Danny: 00:14:35

Take that phrase back, right?

Danny: 00:14:37

I'm in Canada.

Danny: 00:14:38

I think my accent throws people sometimes.

Danny: 00:14:40

But yeah, but yeah, all I was going to say was, so we don't like a really small

Danny: 00:14:44

rural village in central northern Ontario.

Danny: 00:14:47

So it's about three hours north of Toronto and people are really friendly.

Danny: 00:14:52

But we know that there's also.

Danny: 00:14:54

a lot of, and Canadians by nature are meant to be friendly people,

Danny: 00:14:58

you know, that's the stereotype of Canadians, but there is a lot of like

Danny: 00:15:01

racism towards indigenous people and First Nations people in Canada that

Danny: 00:15:06

we're, you know, there's a lot of reconciliation going on and has been

Danny: 00:15:10

going on for the last sort of few years.

Danny: 00:15:12

So I completely hear you like where we are, we're sort of cocooned

Danny: 00:15:15

away from that, but I know my kids know when they get taught that

Danny: 00:15:17

at school that it has happened.

Danny: 00:15:19

So they are aware of it.

Danny: 00:15:20

So it's, as you say, it's, it's something that we always

Danny: 00:15:22

have to be aware of for sure.

Freddy: 00:15:24

I don't know why I thought you were in Australia.

Freddy: 00:15:25

Maybe one of your guests was from Australia and that's

Freddy: 00:15:28

why I got it mixed up.

Danny: 00:15:30

You know, it's possible.

Danny: 00:15:31

And I've got a funny accent.

Danny: 00:15:32

I mean, I was in Australia for six months, so I don't know.

Danny: 00:15:35

Maybe I picked up a little bit there.

Danny: 00:15:36

I've got a lot of Australian friends, so who knows?

Danny: 00:15:38

Maybe that's where it came from.

Danny: 00:15:40

And my lighting's really funny at the moment.

Danny: 00:15:41

I don't know if that makes me look Australian.

Freddy: 00:15:44

Well, it's funny because now you don't sound

Freddy: 00:15:46

like you are from the UK at all.

Freddy: 00:15:48

Now you sound like completely Canadian.

Freddy: 00:15:50

That is wild.

Freddy: 00:15:51

That is wild.

Danny: 00:15:52

I know it's strange.

Danny: 00:15:53

I've been away.

Danny: 00:15:54

I mean, I'm from Scotland originally, but I left Scotland when I was

Danny: 00:15:56

21, 22 and I lived and worked in England for about 15 years.

Danny: 00:16:01

But during that time, as I mentioned, I went to Australia for six months

Danny: 00:16:05

and I've been in Canada since 2006.

Danny: 00:16:08

So again, almost 20 years.

Danny: 00:16:09

So there's a whole bunch of weirdness going on there.

Danny: 00:16:11

Now you sound Scottish.

Danny: 00:16:14

It's just to keep the listeners on their toes and think they've got about four or

Danny: 00:16:17

five people speaking all at the same time.

Danny: 00:16:19

Keep them entertained.

Danny: 00:16:21

All right.

Danny: 00:16:22

All righty.

Danny: 00:16:23

So let's have a look then.

Danny: 00:16:24

That's awesome.

Danny: 00:16:25

Thanks a lot for sharing that, Freddy.

Danny: 00:16:26

Yeah.

Danny: 00:16:27

Let's have a look at question number three.

Danny: 00:16:32

Okay.

Danny: 00:16:32

Now I think I know some of this because we mentioned it in the sort of introduction.

Danny: 00:16:36

But what is your favourite type of workout?

Freddy: 00:16:39

I love a good four mile run through the neighborhood.

Danny: 00:16:43

Now, is that your only sort of workout or do you have

Danny: 00:16:44

more sort of exercise routines or fitness or just healthy routines?

Freddy: 00:16:49

I hate lifting weights.

Freddy: 00:16:51

I would rather suffer in the 110 degree heat index of a Houston summer than

Freddy: 00:16:57

even lift weights for 20 minutes.

Freddy: 00:17:00

And as we get older, our body mass, you know, our, our, our bone density,

Freddy: 00:17:06

our, our muscle mass, rather our bone density or whatever, all, all

Freddy: 00:17:09

the things that starts to decline.

Freddy: 00:17:11

I think it's by the time you're 30 or 40, you lose like a certain percentage

Freddy: 00:17:15

of your of your oxygen capacity your lung capacity, rather, and so all that

Freddy: 00:17:21

kind of stuff scares the crap out of me.

Freddy: 00:17:23

And yet at the same time, I hate lifting weights.

Freddy: 00:17:27

So the go-to workout is always gonna be a a four mile run.

Freddy: 00:17:32

I used to go between five and six days a week I used to run, and

Freddy: 00:17:37

now it's more like three to four.

Freddy: 00:17:39

If that.

Freddy: 00:17:40

I had talked to a trainer who, who specializes in helping founders and

Freddy: 00:17:47

entrepreneurs, and he essentially gave me permission to not run so much.

Freddy: 00:17:52

He was like, okay, first off, you're overtraining, you're going

Freddy: 00:17:55

to hurt yourself really bad.

Freddy: 00:17:57

And then second off, you should be working on building your business.

Freddy: 00:17:59

And I'm like, Oh, okay.

Freddy: 00:18:01

Permission granted.

Freddy: 00:18:02

I don't have to run as much.

Freddy: 00:18:03

And the crazy thing is Danny, is that combined with the exercise and a little

Freddy: 00:18:10

bit of weights and then intermittent fasting, don't try this at home.

Freddy: 00:18:15

Talk to your physician first.

Freddy: 00:18:16

Don't do anything stupid.

Freddy: 00:18:18

The intermittent fasting and the adjustment in my workout and doing some

Freddy: 00:18:23

weights has caused a really cool weight loss to the point that I am now less

Freddy: 00:18:31

than what I weighed in high school.

Freddy: 00:18:33

And so I'm like, All about it.

Freddy: 00:18:35

And in high school, I was even more active because I played football.

Freddy: 00:18:38

Well, I mean, I sat the bench on the football team, but who's, who's counting.

Danny: 00:18:43

But you were active on the bench.

Danny: 00:18:44

So that still counts.

Danny: 00:18:45

I feel, you know, I still can't.

Danny: 00:18:47

And so what kind of intermittent fasting do you do?

Danny: 00:18:49

Is it the 16 8 or something different?

Freddy: 00:18:51

It is between 13 and 15.

Freddy: 00:18:54

And if I'm feeling sexy, I'll go 16.

Freddy: 00:18:57

But I mean, fatty loves food.

Freddy: 00:19:00

So

Danny: 00:19:03

I've tried the intermittent fasting and I know a lot of people,

Danny: 00:19:06

as you mentioned, it definitely works.

Danny: 00:19:07

I, but I do love my food and I found it really difficult to, to stick to

Danny: 00:19:12

that and to really, you know, be, you know, disciplined to do it properly

Danny: 00:19:17

for the results to come through.

Danny: 00:19:18

So if you I know you mentioned the running issue, your favorite, because you don't

Danny: 00:19:22

like weights and I'm with you on that.

Danny: 00:19:24

I've got like a TRX system downstairs.

Danny: 00:19:26

I use now and again, but I don't use it.

Danny: 00:19:28

As you can tell by this fine physique that you're seeing in front of you, I

Danny: 00:19:31

don't use it quite as often as I should.

Danny: 00:19:34

But if you couldn't run for whatever reason, what would be

Danny: 00:19:38

your go to exercise after that?

Freddy: 00:19:41

You know, I've, I've considered that before.

Freddy: 00:19:43

I think I would do the arms, the arm bicycle thing.

Freddy: 00:19:48

And that's assuming that I have the capacity to use my arms.

Freddy: 00:19:51

So we're talking about like a knee injury or hip injury or hamstring or whatever.

Freddy: 00:19:57

Yeah, I would totally go into the the arm bicycle.

Danny: 00:20:00

And is that the one that's got like the big sort of arms, like the metal arms

Danny: 00:20:02

that stick up and you sort of do the back and forth movement with your shoulders,

Danny: 00:20:05

etc?

Freddy: 00:20:06

I don't even know if that's what it's called, but yes, that thing.

Danny: 00:20:09

Well, we've got one downstairs and I think that what we, so what's

Danny: 00:20:13

weird, we've got like a, an elliptical.

Danny: 00:20:15

Which I think is maybe what you're on about.

Danny: 00:20:17

And then we've got like a wind bike where you can do with the wind biking,

Danny: 00:20:21

obviously you can pedal, but you've also got the option to attach these long arms.

Danny: 00:20:25

And just use your upper body, you know, to power the bike.

Danny: 00:20:28

So it might be something like that.

Danny: 00:20:29

But yeah, that'd be fun actually, because that's, that's still working

Danny: 00:20:32

out and it's not too, not too bad.

Danny: 00:20:34

And you're not doing weights, which is always nice.

Freddy: 00:20:36

Yes.

Freddy: 00:20:36

And you're still getting the burn too.

Freddy: 00:20:38

And it's been a long time since I've done.

Freddy: 00:20:41

That particular exercise, I don't even know how long, I would say probably

Freddy: 00:20:47

high school which is a long time ago, but if I remember correctly,

Freddy: 00:20:52

you still get the burn factor.

Freddy: 00:20:54

You probably, you're probably as I'm doing the movements, probably working your

Freddy: 00:20:57

triceps, probably your, your shoulders.

Freddy: 00:21:01

I don't know if it's your delts or what, but yeah.

Danny: 00:21:04

So we're going to work on the arms.

Danny: 00:21:06

If we don't have the legs, we're going to work on the arms.

Danny: 00:21:08

And when the legs come back, we'll be like Popeye upstairs.

Danny: 00:21:11

There you go.

Danny: 00:21:12

It'll be awesome.

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Moving on to question number four.

Danny: 00:22:05

Let's see what the random generator brings up for this one.

Danny: 00:22:09

Mm.

Danny: 00:22:10

Okay.

Danny: 00:22:10

I'm looking forward to this answer because I feel there could

Danny: 00:22:12

be a few things with you here.

Danny: 00:22:14

All right, Freddy, question number four.

Danny: 00:22:16

What are you most likely to stay up all night talking about?

Freddy: 00:22:23

You're right about there being numerous things.

Freddy: 00:22:26

Ah.

Freddy: 00:22:27

I would probably say, in no particular order, Midjourney, failure, podcasting.

Freddy: 00:22:36

American history.

Danny: 00:22:38

Oh, no, that's quite the random collection there.

Danny: 00:22:40

So Midjourney, is that the AI tool Midjourney or is that mid-Journey

Danny: 00:22:43

as in the best part of Journey of the band in the 70s and 80s?

Freddy: 00:22:48

That is hilarious.

Freddy: 00:22:49

I'm talking about the AI tool text to image.

Freddy: 00:22:52

Oh, it is.

Freddy: 00:22:53

It is just a fantastic program that I love, love, love, love, love using.

Danny: 00:23:00

Now, I know there's a lot of fears around AI and the use of it by creators

Danny: 00:23:04

and voiceover actors, especially there, we, we saw the Scarlett Johansson OpenAI.

Danny: 00:23:09

Court case recently where her voice was used, you know, without permission.

Danny: 00:23:13

Do you feel there needs to be maybe some kind of regulation?

Danny: 00:23:16

Is it more about the platforms themselves should self regulate?

Danny: 00:23:20

Or do you feel we're maybe worrying a little bit too much on on the AI?

Freddy: 00:23:24

I

Freddy: 00:23:26

will say that as a user of AI who hasn't quite yet figured

Freddy: 00:23:32

out how to monetize any of it.

Freddy: 00:23:33

So there are some, I mean, even if you use Canva, that's all AI generated, right?

Freddy: 00:23:40

I mean, let's, let's be honest, anyone who uses Canva, who's worried about

Freddy: 00:23:44

artificial intelligence should take a good hard look in the mirror, but.

Freddy: 00:23:48

I would say that as a user who has not quite monetized any of his AI

Freddy: 00:23:55

renderings, et cetera, et cetera, I can tell you that the programs, the ones

Freddy: 00:24:01

that I'm using, are self regulating.

Freddy: 00:24:03

So, for instance MidJourney has some things has some, I guess,

Freddy: 00:24:08

Structures in place to where you can't use certain names or even

Freddy: 00:24:14

certain like I'll give you an example.

Freddy: 00:24:17

I Have got this bank of of images and podcast names.

Freddy: 00:24:24

It's like a strange hobby.

Freddy: 00:24:25

I have where I just create podcast names.

Freddy: 00:24:28

And so I was trying to create an image of a teenager with her parents in the

Freddy: 00:24:34

office of a therapist, and it would not create that image on Midjourney.

Freddy: 00:24:38

It said something about guidelines, et cetera, et cetera.

Freddy: 00:24:41

And I'm like,

Freddy: 00:24:44

And just what about my business?

Freddy: 00:24:46

There's another program that I use for just the heck of it.

Freddy: 00:24:52

I just create things and send them to my family.

Freddy: 00:24:55

It's called Parrot.

Freddy: 00:24:56

And it's got, it's got celebrities, politicians, internet influencers,

Freddy: 00:25:03

Spongebob, Peter Griffin, Eric Cartman, and you can select whatever person

Freddy: 00:25:09

or character and you could write a message and so I had tried to write a

Freddy: 00:25:15

message using a certain politician in the United States and it wouldn't let

Freddy: 00:25:20

me and I was just using it for private.

Freddy: 00:25:23

It was for private message and in a in a.

Freddy: 00:25:26

What I thought was a humorous context and it wouldn't and there was another program

Freddy: 00:25:31

that I can't remember off the top of my head that I again tried to use I actually

Freddy: 00:25:36

try to use two names that are at the top of global headlines who are both running

Freddy: 00:25:42

for a certain political office in the United States and the guidelines were.

Freddy: 00:25:48

It was something I'm paraphrasing, but it was users have agreed

Freddy: 00:25:51

to not allow these names to be used during the election season.

Freddy: 00:25:58

And I'm like, that is amazing.

Freddy: 00:26:01

Like, I think that is the perfect example of self regulation.

Freddy: 00:26:06

Like, I don't know how much more better that could be.

Freddy: 00:26:10

Like, the community has spoken.

Freddy: 00:26:12

The Dans and Freddys of this, that are using this platform, have all banded

Freddy: 00:26:16

together and said, we are not going to use those two names during the election cycle.

Freddy: 00:26:20

Afterwards, you know.

Freddy: 00:26:22

Fair play.

Freddy: 00:26:23

Yeah, fair point, right?

Danny: 00:26:25

No, that's awesome.

Danny: 00:26:26

And I feel that, like you say, the community regulation is always the most

Danny: 00:26:30

effective because you will get some bad people that want to do whatever.

Danny: 00:26:33

But I feel if you've got the community where you've got 95, 96 percent

Danny: 00:26:36

upwards that won't use that, that shows the end user could be worried.

Danny: 00:26:42

Look, we're here.

Danny: 00:26:43

We understand that we're going to regulate it and make sure it doesn't

Danny: 00:26:45

happen as opposed to maybe leaving it to a platform that's looking to you.

Danny: 00:26:49

Yeah.

Danny: 00:26:49

You know, appease shareholders, for example, so don't care what goes on there.

Danny: 00:26:53

So that's great.

Danny: 00:26:54

That's great example.

Danny: 00:26:55

Great to see.

Danny: 00:26:55

And speaking of like Midjourney and a I like that.

Danny: 00:26:58

Have you ever tried to create anything involving Sparrow, your dog?

Danny: 00:27:02

And if so, what happened?

Danny: 00:27:05

What was the best one?

Freddy: 00:27:06

Okay, I feel like, okay, so Speke Podcasting is my podcast

Freddy: 00:27:12

production company and it is spelled S P E K E because Sparrow and Zeke

Freddy: 00:27:19

are the namesakes of the company.

Freddy: 00:27:22

And so, yeah, I threw in this what I thought was going to turn out to be

Freddy: 00:27:27

the perfect blend of Sparrow and Zeke.

Freddy: 00:27:29

Sparrow being, we, in Houston, we call them a Houston, like a

Freddy: 00:27:33

Houston special because the homeless animal population is just terrible.

Freddy: 00:27:37

So he's a mix of something shepherd and God knows what Zeke was a

Freddy: 00:27:43

cattle dog, Jack Russell mix.

Freddy: 00:27:45

So I typed into Midjourney, please design a cattle dog, Jack Russell.

Freddy: 00:27:52

Shepard mix wearing headphones set against the backdrop of Houston, Texas, primary

Freddy: 00:27:57

colors, orange, red, and Navy blue.

Freddy: 00:28:00

And it spit out several iterations of really cool looking dogs.

Freddy: 00:28:04

And one of them ended up being the logo of Speke Podcasting.

Freddy: 00:28:08

And I'm like, That's the one when I saw it, I'm like, that is, that is the one.

Freddy: 00:28:13

So when you see the, the logo that, that is exactly, it's an AI rendering.

Freddy: 00:28:18

And I don't know that the logo will ever change because I love it.

Freddy: 00:28:22

It just looks cool.

Freddy: 00:28:23

And you could turn it black and white.

Freddy: 00:28:25

So if it's too many colors, if some sort of brand coach.

Freddy: 00:28:28

Tells me there's too many colors.

Freddy: 00:28:29

I'm like, okay, make it black and white.

Danny: 00:28:32

That is very cool.

Danny: 00:28:33

And that, there you go, folks.

Danny: 00:28:34

If you're into branding and you're not sure what to do with your next

Danny: 00:28:37

artwork, logo, et cetera, for either your podcast, your company, use your

Danny: 00:28:41

dog or use your pet as an inspiration.

Danny: 00:28:44

Then your logo awaits.

Danny: 00:28:45

That is awesome.

Danny: 00:28:45

I love that.

Danny: 00:28:46

Thank you.

Danny: 00:28:47

Thank you very much.

Danny: 00:28:48

Very cool.

Danny: 00:28:49

So moving on, we're doing really well here.

Danny: 00:28:51

We're up to the final stage and I've really enjoyed this so far.

Danny: 00:28:55

Curious as to what's happening now with the final question.

Danny: 00:28:57

So let's bring this one up for you.

Danny: 00:28:59

Ready?

Danny: 00:28:59

Yep.

Danny: 00:29:00

Let's do it.

Danny: 00:29:02

All right, here we go.

Danny: 00:29:03

Question number five.

Danny: 00:29:05

What is your first memory of being really excited?

Freddy: 00:29:09

Okay, the first memory of being really excited has to

Freddy: 00:29:13

be when I was, I think, four.

Freddy: 00:29:15

It's one of my earliest childhood memories.

Freddy: 00:29:17

It was Christmas morning and I had gotten some Star Wars toy.

Freddy: 00:29:24

I forget what it was, but it was a Star Wars toy.

Freddy: 00:29:27

I was elated.

Freddy: 00:29:28

I was beside myself because I got this toy and the orange Toys R Us sticker

Freddy: 00:29:36

made me scratch my head, but again, I was four, I had no idea, and somehow

Freddy: 00:29:43

I was convinced that Geoffrey, who was the Toys R Us character, the giraffe

Freddy: 00:29:48

Geoffrey helped Santa Claus shop for toys for good boys and girls, and, I mean,

Freddy: 00:29:54

hook, line, and sinker, I fell for it.

Freddy: 00:29:56

as I should have.

Freddy: 00:29:56

I was only four.

Freddy: 00:29:57

I mean, four year olds believe anything.

Danny: 00:29:59

And did you ever, so, was there ever a point after?

Danny: 00:30:02

I mean, I'm guessing there's a point at some stage where everyone,

Danny: 00:30:04

if there's any kids listening to this podcast, Santa exists forever.

Danny: 00:30:09

Yes.

Danny: 00:30:09

But was there a point where you found the reason for that sticker being on there?

Freddy: 00:30:15

Oh, I'm sure it was probably the, the typical last, last minute parent deal.

Freddy: 00:30:21

I mean, don't we all wait until the last minute to buy, to buy the, the.

Freddy: 00:30:25

The highly coveted Christmas present.

Freddy: 00:30:27

There was a movie made about that too.

Freddy: 00:30:29

It was Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Freddy: 00:30:30

Mm Ah, what was that movie?

Freddy: 00:30:32

Ah, I'm

Danny: 00:30:33

not that was the one where like the, it was, it was

Danny: 00:30:35

based around the same time.

Danny: 00:30:36

Toy Story was really big with Buzz Lightyear.

Danny: 00:30:38

Right.

Danny: 00:30:38

And it was like the space, like Soldier toy that was, that had come out, I think.

Danny: 00:30:43

Yeah.

Danny: 00:30:43

Jingle All The Way.

Danny: 00:30:44

I think Jingle all there.

Danny: 00:30:45

You.

Danny: 00:30:45

Yeah, that's it.

Danny: 00:30:46

Yeah, we've watched that.

Danny: 00:30:47

We like we said, we take a there's a tradition in our family

Danny: 00:30:50

where from December 1st right up until Christmas Day, we watch a

Danny: 00:30:55

Christmas movie every single day.

Danny: 00:30:57

Love that.

Danny: 00:30:57

And there's four of us.

Danny: 00:30:59

So me and my wife, two kids.

Danny: 00:31:00

We each get to choose.

Danny: 00:31:01

You know on alternate days what the movie is going to be and Jingle All The

Danny: 00:31:04

Way i think that normally happens in the second week usually and we still enjoy

Danny: 00:31:08

it's it's it's irony what's not to love

Freddy: 00:31:11

Oh yeah absolutely fun fact we lived in in Minneapolis for three years

Freddy: 00:31:16

which is where that movie is set and there's a place i don't know if it's open

Freddy: 00:31:20

anymore i think it's called Mickey's Diner or Mickey's U Train house or something

Freddy: 00:31:25

rather, and when my wife and I had moved, this is before we had kids, we had moved

Freddy: 00:31:30

to Minneapolis for the first, it was the first time for both of us to ever move

Freddy: 00:31:33

away from home, much less out of state and we, I took a radio gig up there and we're

Freddy: 00:31:40

like, Oh, we get to finally go to Mickey's in downtown Minneapolis and Yeah, it was

Freddy: 00:31:46

a rat hole, like literally had a rat hole.

Freddy: 00:31:50

Oh,

Danny: 00:31:50

that's right.

Danny: 00:31:51

So it would be more pulled down or it was just like it was worse than

Danny: 00:31:54

what your memory had left it as

Freddy: 00:31:56

it was.

Freddy: 00:31:56

It was pretty bad to the point where I mean, my wife and I were not snobs

Freddy: 00:32:00

by any stretch of the imagination.

Freddy: 00:32:01

But I think when you see a rat hole, you kind of stay away.

Freddy: 00:32:05

But I mean, it was there's a scene in that movie.

Freddy: 00:32:08

Where they're fighting, it's Sinbad plays the role of the guy who, who I

Freddy: 00:32:12

think he steals the toy from Arnold and so I, I think it's toward the end,

Freddy: 00:32:17

spoiler alert, and so I think we're past the statute of limitations, but

Freddy: 00:32:23

yeah, there's, there's the, the little diner car where they're fighting and

Freddy: 00:32:28

yeah, so we're like, Oh, we'll go there.

Danny: 00:32:30

That is cool.

Danny: 00:32:31

And that came from, so that car, that was from Mickey's Diner

Danny: 00:32:34

then, that actual car thing?

Freddy: 00:32:36

Yeah, the actual restaurant, yeah.

Danny: 00:32:37

That is very cool.

Danny: 00:32:38

I, we don't have any of these like things here.

Danny: 00:32:41

I think that might be a good thing if it's such a bad place now, but

Danny: 00:32:44

yeah, it'd be awesome to have like a memorabilia or a movie place nearby

Danny: 00:32:47

to go to, but that sounds cool.

Danny: 00:32:49

Yeah.

Danny: 00:32:50

Well, we've reached the end.

Danny: 00:32:51

That's, I, you know, we've made it.

Danny: 00:32:52

We've done, we've done well and I appreciate you sharing these very

Danny: 00:32:56

different questions and answers with us, Freddy, as is only fair because I put you

Danny: 00:33:01

on the spot for the last 30 minutes or so.

Danny: 00:33:03

It's only fair that I, you know, you have your own random

Danny: 00:33:06

question to ping over this way.

Danny: 00:33:08

So over to you, good sir.

Freddy: 00:33:10

All right, I love this part, claps his hands, rubs them together

Freddy: 00:33:16

because you are a fellow podcast professional slash connoisseur yourself.

Freddy: 00:33:21

On a scale of one to 10, 10 being absolutely ridiculous.

Freddy: 00:33:26

How ridiculous is it, Danny, when you see a random podcaster or YouTuber doing

Freddy: 00:33:33

the man on the street interviews and they're holding a lav mic, not using

Freddy: 00:33:37

the lav mic the way it was meant to be wearing it, but they're holding it.

Freddy: 00:33:42

Holding the lav mic.

Freddy: 00:33:43

How ridiculous is it?

Danny: 00:33:46

I'm going to, I'm going to get a lot of hate for this.

Danny: 00:33:48

I apologize in advance, podcasters, I'm going to say at least a nine.

Danny: 00:33:52

I'm not going to go quite full scale 10, but I'm going to say at least a

Danny: 00:33:55

nine because yeah, as you mentioned, it's meant to go, it's, it's, it's

Danny: 00:33:59

built for a certain reason and how to pick up the vocal frequencies,

Danny: 00:34:02

which is below your throat.

Danny: 00:34:04

Obviously that's where, you know, you need it in close, close vicinity.

Danny: 00:34:07

So yeah, yeah.

Danny: 00:34:08

It's not a great wind rejector.

Danny: 00:34:10

It's not a great noise rejector.

Danny: 00:34:12

It's not a great X, Y, Z, unless you maybe get a top of the range one.

Danny: 00:34:14

So if you're waving about, you're picking up all sorts of crap.

Danny: 00:34:18

And then when you go to a podcasting event, you must have been here.

Danny: 00:34:20

Loads of events where you'll see the same thing.

Danny: 00:34:23

And then you listen afterwards.

Danny: 00:34:24

And there's so much noise in the background.

Danny: 00:34:26

You think, no, no, please don't do that.

Danny: 00:34:27

There's so many good options that you can use.

Danny: 00:34:29

So yeah, the lav mics are I feel there's maybe a reason they're doing it.

Danny: 00:34:33

And I don't want to give them too much you know, crud.

Danny: 00:34:36

But yeah, I'm when I see something like that, I can be a bit of a

Danny: 00:34:39

podcast snob and I've been told that and I'm trying to be better at that.

Danny: 00:34:42

Me too.

Danny: 00:34:44

I would give that a good, a solid nine.

Danny: 00:34:45

So that was a great question.

Danny: 00:34:47

I was not expecting that at all.

Danny: 00:34:49

So thank you.

Freddy: 00:34:51

And you can also address your hate mail to Freddy at Speke Podcasting.

Freddy: 00:34:54

com.

Freddy: 00:34:55

By the way, Freddy with a Y.

Danny: 00:34:56

Oh, I'm going to set up filters now, mate.

Danny: 00:34:57

And then anything that comes in about it's got love or whatever in the title

Danny: 00:35:01

or tweet or whatever, that's going to be pinged straight over to you.

Freddy: 00:35:04

Oh man.

Freddy: 00:35:05

Yeah.

Danny: 00:35:06

So

Danny: 00:35:06

Freddy, I, as I say, I really enjoyed chatting with you today.

Danny: 00:35:09

For people that want to know more about

Danny: 00:35:11

speke Podcasting that want to know more about your, you know, your work.

Danny: 00:35:15

or want to find out more about Sparrow, for example,

Danny: 00:35:18

or Zeke or anything like that.

Danny: 00:35:19

Where's the best place to connect with you, connect, et cetera.

Freddy: 00:35:22

I'm most active on LinkedIn and on Instagram.

Freddy: 00:35:25

Just look for the Freddy Cruz.

Freddy: 00:35:27

That's Freddy with a Y C R U Z.

Freddy: 00:35:29

And then the website is Speke Podcasting dot com.

Freddy: 00:35:33

If you want to learn more, I got some stuff going on.

Freddy: 00:35:35

Our client shows are incredible, ranging from Breast cancer awareness to healthcare

Freddy: 00:35:41

economics to entrepreneurship and more.

Danny: 00:35:46

And I will be sure to leave all these links in the show notes.

Danny: 00:35:48

So whichever app you're listening on, make sure you check them out and

Danny: 00:35:51

they'll link straight through to Freddy.

Danny: 00:35:52

So you can find out more about what he does and who he helps.

Danny: 00:35:55

So again, Freddy, thanks a lot for appearing today on Five Random Questions.

Freddy: 00:35:58

Really appreciate

Freddy: 00:35:59

you,

Freddy: 00:35:59

sir.

Danny: 00:36:01

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Danny: 00:36:03

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Danny: 00:36:22

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Danny: 00:36:24

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Danny: 00:36:27

Until the next time, keep asking those questions.