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27th Jun 2024

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

Join your host Danny Brown as he puts this week's 5 random questions to Fuzz Martin. These include soundtracks to fight to, the person most likely to die by Fuzz's hand, and do rules equal the path to dictatorship. Let's jump in!

This week's guest: Fuzz Martin

Partner/Chief Strategy Officer at EPIC Creative. Host of Fifteen Minutes with Fuzz and Co-Host of the Tech Tools for Teachers Podcast.

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Transcript
Fuzz:

Wow.

Fuzz:

Yeah.

Fuzz:

Stay out of

Fuzz:

those storms.

Danny:

Stay out of the storms, people.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

feet and knowing it's going to happen.

Fuzz:

I know.

Fuzz:

I don't see it.

Fuzz:

I disagree with you.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

If your, boat tips over.

Fuzz:

It might take a while.

Danny:

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

Danny:

every question is an adventure.

Danny:

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

Danny:

created by a random question generator.

Danny:

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

Danny:

which means this could go either way.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

Chief Strategy Officer at Epic Creative, an advertising agency.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yep, that's right.

Danny:

Awesome.

Danny:

So, welcome to the show.

Danny:

Thanks for appearing.

Fuzz:

Thank you.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Questions, I don't know what to expect.

Fuzz:

So

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

All right, we'll find out together.

Danny:

So it

Danny:

could go any way.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

various podcasts, communities, etc.

Fuzz:

Yeah, definitely.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

in there and you're very, very helpful.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

similar thoughts on things in the world.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

First year, wow, COVID.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

when it first kicked off four years now.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

was yesterday all at the same time.

Danny:

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

Danny:

a full service advertising agency.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

Eighty five people.

Danny:

Is that correct?

Fuzz:

Yeah, that's correct.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Art was built in the thirties.

Fuzz:

And then they built onto this.

Fuzz:

So we've got this really cool old building.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

think of in the advertising world.

Fuzz:

So I came in from radio.

Fuzz:

I moved over to Epic about thirteen years ago.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

and head of strategy here at, at Epic.

Fuzz:

So, pretty fun.

Fuzz:

And we've grown tremendously and.

Fuzz:

And I love it.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

Awesome.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

So let me bring up my funny question random generator.

Danny:

Let's see where we go from here.

Danny:

And you mentioned you've got like obviously good

Danny:

advertising and PR background.

Danny:

So are you going to be spinning the questions making

Danny:

them up a positive outcome?

Fuzz:

I hope so.

Fuzz:

We'll see.

Fuzz:

We'll see.

Fuzz:

See how good I am at PR and spin.

Danny:

Alrighty.

Danny:

So let's dive in then.

Danny:

Let's see where we go.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

Let's go.

Fuzz:

Alright.

Danny:

Question one.

Danny:

You're about to get into a fight.

Danny:

What song comes on as your soundtrack?

Fuzz:

What song comes on?

Fuzz:

Okay.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

I think it was from White Zombie.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

It was like sweet in the ride, black sunshine.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

all right, I am ready to go.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah, Dirty Work.

Fuzz:

It is.

Fuzz:

It's hilarious.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

And I have to see a black sunshine

Danny:

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

Danny:

song or get you in the mood there?

Fuzz:

Yeah, it's very, very aggressive.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

And are you a fighter?

Danny:

That's the main question for us.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Yes.

Fuzz:

So I was always a big kid.

Fuzz:

Like I played football and all that.

Fuzz:

Worked out a lot.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

didn't know what to do with it.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

the dumbness that comes with being young.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

And it took getting older and maturity to.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

as I've gotten older and educated, so.

Danny:

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

Danny:

you've seen Anchorman, Anchorman 2?

Fuzz:

Oh yeah.

Danny:

Awesome.

Danny:

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

Danny:

fight in the park or something like that.

Danny:

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

Danny:

playing in the background?

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

barbed wire wrapped around it.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

That's the one.

Danny:

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

Danny:

We'll have to revisit that sometime.

Danny:

Awesome.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

Oh, interesting.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

or novel, who would it be?

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

character.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

No, I know.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

go a little controversial.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

I don't know.

Danny:

Wait a minute.

Danny:

Are you blaming Rey for somehow Palpatine?

Fuzz:

I'm not blaming Rey for that.

Fuzz:

It wasn't Rey's fault.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

lot of time to think about it.

Fuzz:

I was, I was looking for a main character.

Fuzz:

I don't know.

Danny:

I mean, Rey's a main character.

Danny:

She's getting her own

Danny:

movie next

Danny:

year, the year after, I think.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

up in like the eighties, right?

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

You asked the question and I answered.

Fuzz:

I'm not taking it back.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

There you go.

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

Rey,

Fuzz:

something.

Danny:

Darth Rey, that'd be awesome.

Danny:

Darth Radar.

Fuzz:

Yes, Darth Radar, love it.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

Yeah.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Acolyte and Ahsoka and all that?

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

recording this of Acolyte.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

Andor?

Fuzz:

Yeah.

Fuzz:

And, or, and, or it was great.

Fuzz:

And, or it was great.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

of Boba Fett that was okay.

Fuzz:

Like we, we watched them all.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

So we watched them all.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

So, yeah.

Danny:

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

Danny:

appearance somewhere down the line.

Fuzz:

Maybe it'll happen.

Fuzz:

Who knows?

Fuzz:

How about you?

Fuzz:

Are you, are you into them?

Danny:

I am.

Danny:

Yeah.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

dedicated to Luke and Grogu training.

Danny:

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

Danny:

I really enjoy the live action.

Danny:

I think Dave Filoni is doing a really good job.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

didn't really allow for development.

Danny:

I thought episode three with the different director and the

Danny:

extra run time was really good.

Danny:

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

Danny:

other versions of the force, if you like.

Danny:

So, yeah, curious to see where it goes.

Fuzz:

Yeah, definitely.

Danny:

All righty.

Danny:

So Rey is going to die.

Danny:

. Fuzz: Sorry Rey.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

. This is . Alrighty.

Fuzz:

Now, I'm the one who

Fuzz:

said, you can cancel me

Fuzz:

. Danny: Okay.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Okay.

Fuzz:

Oh, this is a good one actually.

Fuzz:

I like this.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

follow it, what would it be?

Fuzz:

All right.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

in the industry that you work in again.

Fuzz:

And that is if you.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

podcast ad that you'll be arrested.

Fuzz:

That is my rule because if you're driving.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

behind you could spell trouble.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

It's a cheap way of getting attention.

Fuzz:

Don't do it.

Fuzz:

Don't be, don't be cheap.

Fuzz:

Find other ways.

Danny:

It's actually a good rule.

Danny:

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

Danny:

of a sudden you hear a siren.

Danny:

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

Danny:

So the car behind you.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Yeah, that makes sense.

Danny:

I don't know why people would use that.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Don't do it.

Danny:

So what would you replace it with?

Danny:

What would be your ideal?

Danny:

Just like a little chime or something, or,

Fuzz:

I don't know.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

doesn't have to just be that.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

else that doesn't have to be.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

people think might actually be theirs.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

phone, but if it's like the standard.

Fuzz:

Apple ring or Android ring.

Fuzz:

Don't do it

Danny:

It's like the the movies, right?

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

get like the Empire State Building.

Danny:

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

Danny:

it just seems a bit superfluous there.

Danny:

That's that's kind of my gripe.

Danny:

I think.

Danny:

Yeah, exactly.

Danny:

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

Danny:

it's on a podcast or properly.

Danny:

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

Danny:

We're three fifths of the way through.

Danny:

So what have we got for question four?

Danny:

Killing it here.

Danny:

Killing it, mate.

Danny:

What will you look like in 20 years time?

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

20 years I'll be 65 years old.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

won't be the case in 20 years.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

I'm colorblind.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Brown.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

65 cause their profile looks like.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

at 65 these days compared to when I was.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

I wear sunscreen, I put on lotion.

Fuzz:

Hopefully I'll look all right.

Fuzz:

You moisturize.

Fuzz:

I moisturize.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

Yeah, exactly.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

sunscreen at that time, I don't think.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

been out and had harder lives, etc.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah, absolutely.

Fuzz:

And that, vitamins, access to health care.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

still do that, and that's their choice.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

point of view, do you think, or?

Fuzz:

I don't think I would.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

A model.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

And what got you into that then?

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

this, or we did this instead of this.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

And so here I am.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

We did it

Danny:

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

Danny:

Getting the dog there.

Danny:

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

Danny:

That's what you want.

Danny:

That's awesome.

Danny:

And that's good.

Danny:

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

Danny:

you know bitch and holler about it.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah, thank you.

Danny:

Alrighty.

Danny:

So, we've reached almost the end.

Danny:

We've now got question number five.

Danny:

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

Danny:

And here we go.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Hmm, okay.

Danny:

That's a good one.

Danny:

I was thinking about this today actually.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Okay, so the question is, question number five.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

family grievances on social media.

Fuzz:

I hate when people air family drama or like passive aggressive

Fuzz:

family things on social media.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

I really think if you.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

to one and, and talk to them about it.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

going to learn and see it someday.

Fuzz:

It's social media.

Fuzz:

It's there.

Fuzz:

It's pretty much permanent.

Fuzz:

And I don't think it belongs there.

Fuzz:

Also, I try to stay away from sharing.

Fuzz:

Like personal information about my kids.

Fuzz:

One of my children's is older.

Fuzz:

She's turning 20 here in a month.

Fuzz:

And my younger is nine.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

name and those kinds of things on there.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

So it's.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

partners need their place on social media.

Fuzz:

Some of it elsewhere.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

It wasn't private, anything like that.

Danny:

So obviously anybody could see it.

Danny:

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

Danny:

on cause she was part of the group too.

Danny:

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

Danny:

we're trying to stay in the back channel.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

that I screwed your best friend.

Danny:

And we thought that was just like a.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Turns out she had.

Danny:

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

Danny:

gone from Anchorman's line.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

I mean, they might've still got divorced.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

that should be, I feel private.

Fuzz:

Yeah, exactly.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

They're starting to teach kids.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

students in their classrooms.

Fuzz:

They are teaching the digital citizenship.

Fuzz:

That's what it's called.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

of baptism by fire experience with it.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

comes, that comes with it.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

or something like that, when you post.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

because other people feed off that.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

It doesn't solve anything.

Fuzz:

So it just creates more problems.

Danny:

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

Danny:

social media goes today and the pitfalls.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

She's about midway through her 12th year.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

You know about that.

Danny:

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

Danny:

They were educating.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah, absolutely.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

lessons that we've learned, right?

Fuzz:

Do I get to ask you a question now?

Fuzz:

Is that how this works?

Danny:

You

Danny:

do, yes.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Yeah.

Danny:

So yeah, just keep things fair.

Danny:

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

Danny:

We'll see.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

You're obviously a Star Wars fan.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah.

Fuzz:

Oh, yeah.

Danny:

You know, so I'm curious.

Danny:

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

Danny:

and

Danny:

see.

Fuzz:

Oh, perfect.

Fuzz:

Thank you.

Danny:

And just

Danny:

point them right to you, mate.

Danny:

But yeah, it's only fair.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

All right, Danny.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

encounter with Mother Nature?

Danny:

Ooh ooh, frightening encounter.

Danny:

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

Danny:

coming back from where was I?

Danny:

New York, I think I was in New York.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

It's not a big flight.

Danny:

And we were part of it.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

It's similar.

Danny:

The storm chased the plane.

Danny:

And you know yourself when you get it.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

feet in five seconds, 10 seconds.

Danny:

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

Danny:

So I might be exaggerating.

Danny:

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

Danny:

and almost felt like the plane got hit.

Danny:

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

Danny:

I'm not sure.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

My bad.

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

They'll be dead.

Danny:

Yeah.

Danny:

Okay.

Danny:

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

Danny:

But yes, that would probably be it.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

rock climbing and abseiling and stuff.

Danny:

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

Danny:

It was more adrenaline.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

be less because it's not a long flight.

Danny:

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

Danny:

I don't like flying at all.

Danny:

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

Fuzz:

Yeah, I don't blame you there.

Fuzz:

Yeah, that sounds, that sounds harrowing.

Fuzz:

Wow.

Fuzz:

Yeah.

Fuzz:

Stay out of those storms.

Danny:

Stay out of the storms, people.

Danny:

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

Danny:

way if you capsize, you're gone anyway.

Danny:

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

Danny:

knowing it's going to happen.

Fuzz:

I know.

Fuzz:

I don't see it.

Fuzz:

I disagree with you.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

That is true.

Danny:

That is true.

Danny:

Yep.

Danny:

I mean, you could float for a bit.

Danny:

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

Danny:

You got your life jackets.

Fuzz:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

have something to say about it.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

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

Danny:

and all that cool stuff?

Fuzz:

Yeah, sure.

Fuzz:

I'm so you can check out.

Fuzz:

Me, my stuff at Fuzzmartin.

Fuzz:

com.

Fuzz:

I should have all my links to my things there.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

com.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

com.

Fuzz:

It's the tech tools for teachers podcast.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

So smart in W I Wisconsin.

Fuzz:

com.

Fuzz:

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

Fuzz:

having me on this as a lot of fun.

Fuzz:

And I hope all the best for Five Random Questions.

Danny:

I appreciate you Fuzz, thanks so much.

Danny:

So thank you for listening to Five Random Questions.

Danny:

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

Danny:

app you're currently listening on, or online at fiverandomquestions.

Danny:

com.

Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

Because yes, that's what Darth Vader does.

Danny:

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Danny:

So it's obviously the real deal.

Danny:

But seriously, leaving a review for the show would make my day.

Danny:

Until the next time, keep asking those questions.

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Welcome to 5 Random Questions with your host, Danny Brown! Each week, Danny sits down with his special guest and uses a random question generator to come up with five unpredictable, thought-provoking, and sometimes downright hilarious questions. No topic is off-limits as Danny and his guests dive into their answers, sparking lively discussions filled with laughter, surprises, and occasional deep insights.

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Danny Brown is the host of 5 Random Questions, the show where every question is an adventure! He also hosts, and co-hosts, several other podcasts - if you called him a serial podcaster, you wouldn't be wrong! He's been in the podcasting space for over 10 years, and has the scars to prove it.

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