Loveless Laundry, Cannon Calamities, and More with Gini Dietrich

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Gini: It's a tough one. We live in the city and there are always dead rats in the alley.

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Gini: I might swap for that. That's how much I hate laundry.

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Danny: Are you the rat collector?

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Gini: I'm not the rat collector now, but I might actually become the rat collector

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Gini: if I didn't have to do laundry again.

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Danny: Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show where every question is an adventure.

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Danny: I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests 5 questions

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Danny: created by a random question generator.

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

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Danny: which means this could go either way.

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

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Danny: Today's guest is Gini Dietrich, the founder, CEO, and author of Spin Sucks,

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Danny: host of the Spin Sucks podcast, and author of the Spin Sucks book.

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Danny: She's the creator of the PESO model and has crafted a certification for it in

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Danny: partnership with Syracuse University.

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Danny: Gini has run and grown an agency for the past 15 years and is a co-author of

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Danny: Marketing in the Round, as well as co-host of the Inside PR podcast and co-host

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Danny: of the Agency Leadership podcast.

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Danny: So Gini, welcome to Five Random Questions.

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Gini: I'm so excited for this. Yay. I'm a little scared too.

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Danny: We'll be good. We're very gentle here at Five Random Questions.

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Danny: And I don't know why I said we, I'm not the queen. I couldn't be the queen,

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Gini: She's dead. You could be.

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Danny: And going by that intro, obviously, you've got quite a lot of stuff going on.

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Danny: But you're also a mom. You're also married to someone who's heavily into politics.

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Danny: I can imagine that's pretty busy at the moment. What with school holidays for

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Danny: your daughter and the political scene for your husband.

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Gini: Let's just say that when Biden decided not

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Gini: to run again the world erupted as

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Gini: you know and his world like exploded um he runs a super pac and they raise

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Gini: money you know that's how they they grow and they had i think that first week

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Gini: they had probably their best week in history which has been almost 10 years

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Gini: so it's been a little crazy yeah.

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Danny: I can imagine. And just, I mean, I don't like to, I went to the wee again there

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Danny: for some reason. I don't like to talk politics on this show.

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Danny: But as an outsider, you know, I'm in Canada from the UK originally,

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Danny: and we've seen elections recently in the UK.

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Danny: We've got election coming up in Canada next year. But obviously,

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Danny: the US election impacts a lot of people because of the country that it is.

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Danny: And a lot of people are saying, as you mentioned, you know, there was a lot

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Danny: of questions around Biden and his capability of running against Trump in the election in November.

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Danny: But it seems rejuvenated with the Harris and Walsh ticket.

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Danny: advocate and a lot of people were saying from a democrat point of view anyway

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Danny: and which obviously which is where your husband is on right it seems a lot of

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Danny: like feeling around the 2008 election when obama was running are you seeing

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Danny: that as he's speaking about that at all or yeah

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Gini: I mean it's it's funny because i read an article that said if you've already

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Gini: decided who to vote for don't pay attention to all of the noise because it's

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Gini: stressful and it's chaos and i mean as we know Trump likes to have,

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Gini: he likes to create drama and create chaos.

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Gini: And it feels like you're, you wake up every day with on a cliffhanger and you're

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Gini: like, okay, what's, what's going to happen today?

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Gini: And so I've been joking with him that I'm not participating in politics until

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Gini: November, November 5th.

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Gini: Cause I'm like, ah, la, la, la, la, la, la. Every day he comes home and he's like, did you see?

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Gini: And I'm like, I'm not participating in politics.

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Gini: Yes, it does. It does feel like it's been rejuvenated. And I think the biggest

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Gini: thing that we've seen is the younger generation, you know, the 18 to probably

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Gini: 30 year olds who are voting, you know, the 18 year olds are voting for the first time.

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Gini: They did not want to vote for Biden. They didn't want to vote for Trump.

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Gini: So they weren't going to vote. And now I think they've been they've got we sort

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Gini: of they've sort of like, what do I want to call it, push that or helped raise

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Gini: that awareness around that among that younger generation to get them excited

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Gini: to vote, which is what we need.

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Danny: And speaking of younger generation obviously you've got your 11 year old daughter

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Danny: how school holidays been going because i know they can be i've got two kids

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Danny: 14 and 12 i know that can be quite a challenging time i

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Gini: Don't know what you're talking about and the funny thing is is that i'm sure

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Gini: it's the same in canada but here in the u.s nobody starts school at the same

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Gini: time and so some people are going back to school right now and we don't go back

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Gini: to school until september so there's most of the month of august there aren't any

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Gini: camps or anything so you have June and July are pretty well taken

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Gini: care of but August is like a free-for-all so she's spending some time on the

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Gini: lakefront biking and kayaking and swimming and she comes home exhausted and

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Gini: full of sand every day which is great I think she went to bed at 7 30 last night

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Gini: fantastic yeah so you're just kind of piece things together.

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Danny: I need to get some tips from you because I wish like Salem's really good um

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Danny: our daughter she's really good

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Danny: at being outside and you know you and us as well but she's really good at doing

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Danny: trampolining and you know got in a lake and such like um so yeah i might have

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Danny: to like hit you up for some tips there too because we've still got another yeah

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Danny: about a month still of um kids at home yeah

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Gini: It's a lot.

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Danny: Trying to keep them occupied uh yeah that's fun and

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Gini: Not on their screen.

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Danny: Speaking of keeping occupied it's time to keep you occupied with five random

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Danny: questions so i'm just going to bring up my random question generator so you

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Danny: can see that and we'll jump in. So we're ready for this, Jenny.

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Gini: All righty.

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Danny: Question number one. Do you dance crazy when no one is looking?

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Gini: Yes. And I also dance crazy when people are looking.

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Gini: So one of my favorite things to do, you know, I live in Chicago and my neighbor's

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Gini: house is literally six feet away,

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Gini: maybe five feet away like I can see in her her window right now and one of my

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Gini: favorite things to do is pick up the dog and dance with the dog past all the

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Gini: windows so that she can see me so yes I do dance crazy do you you have to answer that.

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Danny: I don't dance at all I have no coordination well

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Gini: Then you don't have to have coordination to dance crazy.

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Danny: Well that is true but um even when no one's looking even if I'm at home on my

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Danny: own and like my wife's got the kids at a sports event or something i i'm just

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Danny: a lazy person i don't like physical or a lot of physical energy you know so

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Danny: my physical energy is switching channels on the tv with a remote with a remote

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Danny: So what kind of music do you have? Do you have music on in the background or

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Danny: are you just doing it on your own some?

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Gini: The aforementioned 11-year-olds always has Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift,

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Gini: Joja Cat, that kind of stuff on. So it's, yeah, I've been Post Malone.

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Gini: I've been dancing to that because she has it playing and then I dance.

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Danny: Well, I was going to say, I mean, you mentioned obviously Taylor Swift and Olivia

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Danny: Rodrigo and Post Malone.

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Danny: And I mean, I love Taylor Swift. I haven't really listened to a lot of Olivia

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Danny: Rodrigo. I've listened to like two or three of her songs.

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Danny: And they don't, not always anyway, they don't like spring me as being songs

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Danny: to dance to often because they're not like a lot of them aren't super uptempo

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Danny: or maybe I've just listened to the wrong songs.

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Gini: She's a couple. I would generally agree with you.

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Gini: Yes. But also the dance crazy part is you can dance to almost anything,

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Gini: especially when you're holding the dog and you're like swinging back and forth

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Gini: with the dog. You can make it work.

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Danny: Well that is true that is true and if you had to pick just one song then to

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Danny: dance crazy to what would it be and why that one

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Gini: Dang um i don't know would.

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Danny: It be an up-tempo one

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Gini: Yeah it would be up-tempo it'd probably be actually you know what song i really

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Gini: really like is the ed sheeran what's the name of it where he it's the ode to

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Gini: his grandparents and it's very Scottish. What is it called?

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Danny: I'll look that up and I'll drop that in the show notes so you can check it out

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Danny: on whatever you listen on, whether it's Spotify, YouTube, whatever,

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Danny: but I'll check that out. So Ed Sheeran, huh? Interesting.

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Danny: I would have thought, because you were dancing with the dogs,

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Danny: I would have thought like the Venga Boys, you know, who let the dogs out and

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Danny: then open the window and just chuck the dog out.

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Gini: That's a good one too, yeah.

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Danny: Don't come back to me if you see a dog running down Chicago streets.

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Danny: Right. That was not my idea.

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Gini: She would not run down. She'd come right back. She doesn't like to be away from me.

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Danny: Awesome. So there you go. If you want to get Ginny dancing, it doesn't matter

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Danny: what kind of music it is, and it doesn't matter if you're watching or not, she's going to dance.

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Gini: Ha ha.

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Danny: Let's have a look at question number two. Okay, so this could go back a little

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Danny: bit in time because obviously you're a supremely happily married woman and have been for a while.

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Gini: You can still look at people.

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Danny: Oh, okay then. Question number two. When you meet someone you're attracted to,

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Danny: what do you first notice about them?

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Gini: Well, it depends on if you're watching the Olympic swimmers or not.

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Danny: Okay.

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Gini: If you are, it's their abs for sure.

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Danny: Or the Olympic pole vaulters.

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Gini: That's literally one of the funniest things I've ever seen, ever, ever.

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Gini: And the internet is made for stuff like that. You get, I mean,

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Gini: made for it. What is the first thing I notice?

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Gini: Honestly and truly, it's probably been way too long for me to even say,

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Gini: to answer this question.

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Danny: Do you think it'd be like a physical attribute?

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Gini: Yeah, it'd probably be like smiles, like the way that they engage smiling or

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Gini: looking at eye eye contact or something like that I would imagine so.

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Danny: Let's take us back then when you first met Kelly your good husband how did that

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Danny: go what was the the attraction let me rephrase that why are you attracted to

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Danny: Kelly sorry Kelly that's not what I mean what was the first thing you noticed about them

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Gini: Uh well I was drunk so it's

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Gini: a hard question to answer but we were in a dance club

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Gini: of all places going back to our first question and my

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Gini: friends were all dancing and I was just sort of standing there and

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Gini: I saw him just sort of standing there while his his friends were dancing and

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Gini: I looked at him and he looked at me and we were like let's do you want to do

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Gini: this and so we did so I don't I mean it was more of that and then it was you

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Gini: know after we started dating it was very much his personality and I remember

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Gini: we were at dinner one time and this has always stuck with me,

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Gini: Every time somebody came to the table, the server, the busboy,

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Gini: whoever it happened to be, somebody to fill the water, he always looked them

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Gini: in the eye and said, thank you.

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Gini: And I remember how impressed I was by that.

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Gini: And it's something that we instill in our little one, too, is like,

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Gini: always make eye contact, always say thank you, always treat people the same as you.

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Gini: But he just does that innately. And I was always really impressed with that.

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Danny: No, that's a great point. I feel you can always tell what someone's like when

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Danny: they do something like that. Or if they're out grocery shopping and they always

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Danny: take the cart back, whether someone's there to see if they take it back or not.

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Danny: Yep. Even like we used to see, our kids would ask, well, why did you take the cart back?

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Danny: Because, you know, nobody else was. And it was, like you say,

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Danny: it's just a lesson because it's nice to be nice to someone else whose job that

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Danny: is and who doesn't have to trek all around the car park to get someone, you know.

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Danny: So is that something that, because obviously you've been married a while now,

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Danny: so that's when you were first attracted to them.

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Danny: Is that something that still attracts you now?

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Danny: Or what's the secret, I guess, to keeping the attraction alive, if you like?

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Gini: Yeah, I'm definitely still attracted to that. He's also one of the kindest people on earth.

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Gini: I think if he weren't as kind as he is, we probably wouldn't still be married because I'm kind of not.

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Gini: I'm also really hot-headed. but he's just

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Gini: he knows how to and this probably

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Gini: is why he's in politics but he knows how to diffuse a

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Gini: situation really quickly and like make everybody feel good about the situation

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Gini: and I actually was thinking about this the other day because he's a really good

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Gini: people leader and one of the things that he does extraordinarily well is you

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Gini: know he's growing a business and as you know when you're of growing a business,

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Gini: there are people who come in at certain points of the business who are great for a couple of years,

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Gini: but then the business outgrows them and they're not, they, they don't grow as

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Gini: quickly as the business does.

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Gini: And he's phenomenal at making people,

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Gini: helping people realize that they're not going to continue to grow with the business

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Gini: and helping them exit the business without them realizing that almost that that's what's happening.

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Gini: Like he makes them, he makes them feel so good about it and he helps them find

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Gini: their next job and he you know he he is really supportive about it and it's

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Gini: it's really kind of cool to watch because I on the other hand I'm like you're

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Gini: fired get out and I don't care if I ever hear from you again.

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Danny: And do you find that um I know like um Jackson

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Danny: I laugh um there was one example where um Salem

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Danny: we're in the car and Salem had said there was

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Danny: a question we're asking some like this basically were

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Danny: just like Salem had a trivia book or something so

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Danny: she was asking questions on a car ride and one of the questions was who's the

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Danny: strictest parent and she immediately went to Jacqueline and that caused all

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Danny: sorts of chaos like she was Jacqueline was not impressed with that at all and

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Danny: I wonder do you think it's like these kind of vibes where I believe

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Gini: That though I believe that.

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Danny: Well I'm not gonna let Jacqueline listen to this episode she

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Danny: will be after you with pitchforks and in flames it's just

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Danny: funny how like you mentioned obviously you know you're trying to instill that

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Danny: kindness into your daughter um and maybe less of your hot-headedness but keep

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Danny: a healthy dose of that because that's always a good trait to have there are

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Danny: times when you need it so yeah it's interesting how kids pick up on different

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Danny: vibes etc and you know how the traits come across to kids but

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Gini: That it's funny you say that because kelly is definitely the strict one the

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Gini: disciplinarian I am not at all. He calls me a rock of jello.

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Gini: At work, I'm great. Home, nope.

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Danny: Not so much.

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Danny: So there you go. If you want to get into Jenny's good books,

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Danny: have good abs and be kind, which seems a realistic option to go for.

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Gini: It's realistic. You can do that. Yeah, exactly.

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Danny: All right. Let's move on to question number three.

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Danny: Okay. Question three, Jenny. What chore do you absolute hate doing?

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Gini: Laundry.

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Danny: Laundry.

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Gini: Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate laundry.

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Danny: Have you always hated it or is that since becoming a mom?

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Gini: No, I've always hated it.

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Danny: Okay, because I would have thought being a mom, I mean, because we've got two

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Danny: kids, so we've got twice as much laundry for youngsters.

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Danny: And Ewan especially, he seems to grow laundry.

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Danny: Like his basket, we'll take the laundry upstairs, let's pull it from the dryer

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Danny: or off the line if it's like a nice summer day. We'll put it in his room.

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Danny: And within a day, it's full again. We're thinking, what the heck?

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Gini: What the heck?

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Danny: So I get you with the laundry. Now, so what is it about laundry that you hate?

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Danny: It's just a process, like after folding and whatever.

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Gini: I think it's because there's, there are so many steps. You have to wash it,

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Gini: then you have to dry it, then you have to fold it and then you have to put it away.

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Gini: And it never seems like it's finished. Like at least with other things you have

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Gini: at least a day before it's finished, before you feel like it's not finished, dishes, whatever.

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Gini: But with laundry, it's, there's always laundry. laundry and

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Gini: I have found that you know I have a preteen who

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Gini: will try something on and then throw it into her laundry basket and it's not

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Gini: dirty but I don't know that so I'm washing twice as many clothes just because

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Gini: she's too lazy to hang them back up like I hate it I'm waiting for a robot to

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Gini: I need artificial intelligence to do it for me.

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Danny: Well seeing that's the thing like everybody's talking about AI for creativity

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Danny: right so hey create the next masterpiece from an art point

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Danny: of view or create the next you know storybook audio video whatever

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Danny: one but where's the ai that makes our

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Danny: lives easier that does the laundry for us you know thank you

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Danny: that answers robocalls for us from thank you people collect them for super packs

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Danny: and all that kind of stuff right exactly so if if you could i mean do you swap

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Danny: chores at home with kelly can does he do the laundry or is no no so this is

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Danny: why obviously it's not up on your your list of favorites i

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Gini: Don't would love it no.

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Danny: So if there's a chore that you could swap it out with that

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Danny: you so let's say you're doing multiple chores because a working mom i'd imagine

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Danny: you do multiple chores and multiple stuff at home what chore would you happily

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Danny: swap out that you don't already like as well so you've got laundry but what

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Danny: other chore would you say okay if i had to take that all the time over never

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Danny: doing laundry again which would it be it's

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Gini: A tough one,

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Gini: We live in the city and there are always dead rats in the alley.

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Gini: I might swap for that. That's how much I hate laundry.

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Danny: Are you the rat collector?

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Gini: I'm not the rat collector now, but I might actually become the rat collector

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Gini: if I didn't have to do laundry again.

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Danny: Wow, that's how much you hate laundry.

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Gini: That's how much I hate laundry.

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Danny: Yeah, I'm not a squeamish. I don't mind animals and, you know,

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Danny: I was going to call it a bug, but it's not a bug. It's a rodent.

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Danny: that'd be a big bug but yeah i wouldn't like to be the rat collector i remember

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Danny: um a big rainstorm last year and we had like a wheelbarrow outside in the backyard

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Danny: and that filled with water and i went out the other like the day after the storm

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Danny: to empty it and it was two dead rats oh

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Gini: No they had drowned.

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Danny: They had drowned unfortunately uh now i

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Danny: didn't have to collect them i just tipped the wheelbarrow over and let them

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Danny: you know float away which was nice but uh yeah i couldn't be out in the streets

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Danny: doing that um and then a quick lesson i learned is always put a branch into

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Danny: your wheelbarrow in case an animal gets in there oh i

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Gini: Wouldn't know that either that's interesting because then they can climb on it and get out.

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Danny: Yeah exactly i didn't know that till last year and you know poor rats they didn't

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Danny: know either or they probably did and wondering where's the where's the branch dude where's my

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Gini: Branch what kind of asshole are you.

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Danny: So we're going to pass on the laundry and switch that over to rat collecting.

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Gini: Maybe.

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Danny: And I guess if the PR stuff, you know, stops working out for you,

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Danny: there's always like a fallback.

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Gini: Fair.

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Danny: Take your daughter out. You could be like a mother and daughter team.

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Danny: Dietrich destroys, something like that.

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Gini: I love it. I love it. I'll give you royalties on the name.

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Danny: All right, we're moving swiftly on from talking about rats, which may send some

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Danny: people off scampering away.

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Danny: Let's have a look at question number four. Oh, this is a great one.

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Danny: Question four, Jenny. You're in the circus.

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Danny: Would you rather be the person with their head inside the lion's mouth or get shot out of the cannon?

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Gini: Oh, get shot out of the cannon, for sure.

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Danny: So you don't worry about being shot super far and there being no net at the end?

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Gini: Well of course but i think the risk on that is less than a lion deciding he's

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Gini: mad and he chomps your head off what.

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Danny: If the line was like a super old line that just you had to prop his head open

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Danny: and the teeth were all prosthetic teeth or false teeth because all his natural

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Danny: teeth were falling out i just still

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Gini: I think he still would have enough jaw strength to top and take your head off

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Gini: i mean didn't that happen to uh shoot which what were the performers in in vegas oh in vegas

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Gini: sigfried and roy sigfried and sigfried and roy yeah that happened to one of

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Gini: them although i think it was a tiger did.

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Danny: He die because of that or was he attacked i can't go

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Gini: He was attacked he didn't die because of that but i think he did die a couple of years ago so.

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Danny: There you go i mean you know someone's been attacked by a lion he lived so

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Gini: But how many people do you know that That have been shot out of a cannon that have died.

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Danny: I don't know anybody that's been shot out of a cannon, to be honest.

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Gini: Okay, that's fair.

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Danny: That's not something, like, I know we've got weird stuff in Scotland where I'm

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Danny: originally from, but it's not a pastime.

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Danny: I remember getting into trouble once for a mutual friend of ours at the time

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Danny: for discussing some stuff that happened at circuses.

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Danny: So I try not to stay away from that topic.

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Danny: Have you ever, do you get circuses in Chicago? Like the other company town?

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Danny: Yeah, you take the family along?

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Gini: Long um I don't think I don't think Addie's ever been to one,

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Gini: I don't think she has.

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Danny: So that's something to look forward to then. You'll have to take her to the

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Danny: next one and say, okay, I'm going to prove to you why it's better to get shut

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Danny: out of this canon than put your head in that lion's head.

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Gini: So obviously it sounds like you'd rather have your head inside the lion's mouth.

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Danny: I think, maybe. Because I feel like if the lion was going to bite you and take

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Danny: your head off, that'd be quick.

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Danny: You probably wouldn't know about it. I'd assume. I've never seen it happen. I don't want to.

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Danny: see that happened right whereas i feel if

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Danny: you're in a cannon and there's so many things can go wrong so the cannon could

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Danny: backfire and explode so you're inside a cannon it explodes you get shot 100

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Danny: feet instead of 50 feet you're traveling at twice the velocity and there's no

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Danny: net so i feel from a speed point of view anyway um a lion chomping down on me as opposed to me

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Danny: mooshing along on the ground i don't know that i feel that'd

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Danny: be i know in an early episode of the the show um with

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Danny: fuzz martin it was episode one actually and we're speaking about like being

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Danny: in an airplane that's going through turbulence and falling to the ground or drowning

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Danny: in a you know being capsized in a boat and drowning what would be the preference

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Danny: really morbid question to finish the episode off and especially the first episode

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Danny: right but i feel it's the same kind of vibe it's like that speed thing right

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Danny: where one thing could be real quick another thing could be a bit slower do you

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Danny: go for the quick or the go slower yeah

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Gini: I think both of those would be terrifying that's a tough question too.

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Danny: And you travel i don't know if you still travel as much now but you used to

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Danny: travel a lot right yeah yeah so i'd imagine you must have had some interesting

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Danny: examples of turbulence in your time yeah

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Gini: I mean turbulence but nothing like you're going to crash to the ground.

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Danny: Okay so gentle turbulence then yes

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Danny: so just like a gentle line okay so

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Danny: we're gentle lion that is gentle lions look at the wizard of oz love it so we're

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Danny: definitely settling on preferred shot out of the cannon absolutely yes okay

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Danny: if that ever pops up make sure you've got your daughter filming it i do want

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Danny: to see that unless unless it's not got a good ending then obviously don't film it well i

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Gini: Mean it might be filmed and she just won't share it.

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Danny: Well there you go moving from that not generic horrific question whatsoever whatsoever.

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Danny: Let's have a look. We're doing well here. We've got to the end of the questions

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Danny: almost. Question number five.

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Danny: Okay, I feel, well, yeah, we can go for this because I know we can do both versions.

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Danny: So, Jenny, question number five.

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Danny: Would you rather have unlimited sushi for life or unlimited tacos for life?

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Gini: Tacos, tacos, tacos.

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Danny: And that would be the non-meat version, obviously, right?

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Gini: Yes, I would love tacos. I love tacos. I love them all.

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Danny: And is that because, like, well, obviously, I know why you like the non-meat

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Danny: version, but is that because you prefer like the tacos over sushi and fish or

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Danny: what's the the reason in there well

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Gini: I am vegetarian so there's that but also i don't

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Gini: know i'm i love tacos you can have hard shell tacos you can

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Gini: have soft shell tacos you can have without shell tacos you can have meat

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Gini: tacos you can have bean tacos you can have avocado tacos your others the the

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Gini: options are limited or unlimited so you can have all sorts of options you never

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Gini: get sick of it and i feel like you would gets tired of seaweed and sushi and

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Gini: rice and fish eventually.

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Danny: And i always feel i mean sushi i know well

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Danny: i don't know i've only tried it once but i've only really tried the rice and

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Danny: the seaweed because i don't i can't get my head around the idea of raw fish

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Danny: but i don't know if it's raw or not i don't know if it's cooked or not or some

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Danny: of it's raw yeah so and i mean i'm sure it's fine i mean i've not seen anybody

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Danny: die from sushi poisoning but um you never know and you're a

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Danny: good cook you'll love cooking you're always sharing you know whether it's a

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Danny: family you know family get-togethers you're always sharing your the meals you're

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Danny: preparing or if you're preparing dinner you know just for yourselves what would

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Danny: be your ultimate taco presentation if you're cooking a taco dinner for just

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Danny: you and your family and then a bunch of people if

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Gini: It's just the family we have a favorite we actually just had the other night

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Gini: um where i do beans and black beans and corn and wrap them up in homemade tortillas.

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Gini: Everybody loves that one.

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Gini: I'm actually having, we have a bunch of family in town next week, so I'm doing a taco bar.

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Gini: So I'll have chicken and pork, refried beans, cheese, my homemade tortillas,

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Gini: and then I'll do some hard shell tacos for the kids because they love that.

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Gini: Probably some hamburger meat for the kids.

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Gini: But I do a taco bar, so it just sits up on the counter and everybody can make their own tacos.

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Danny: Do you make your own sauce at home? I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Gini: Yeah.

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Danny: What's in the sauce? Do you like to share that or is that a secret?

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Gini: It depends. I really like to, for the chicken, I really like to do chicken thighs

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Gini: instead of breasts because it holds flavor better differently.

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Gini: And then I usually marinate it in lime juice, garlic, onion,

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Gini: some cilantro and some spices overnight.

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Gini: And then I just grill it, chop it up.

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Danny: That sounds delicious. And you say this is just for your family.

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Danny: There's no invites for certain Canadians.

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Gini: Oh, you can. Absolutely. Next Wednesday.

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Danny: Next one so there you go and by the time unfortunately this episode will come

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Danny: out after that but that's too bad

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Gini: You can be invited nobody else can.

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Danny: Dang i was going to put like the address in you know just google map and put

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Danny: the address in the show notes links there

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Danny: And what about the, what about your daughter? Is she like, we were talking in

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Danny: the green room earlier about her, you know, different preferences that she got.

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Danny: And is she like a taco person as well? Is she got a favorite meal that you prepare?

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Gini: Oh, her favorite meal is pasta. And it's funny because I'll say,

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Gini: well, let's go somewhere and have Italian.

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Gini: And she's like, but it's not as good as yours.

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Gini: And I'm like, oh, I'm so tired. I don't want to cook.

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Gini: she told me the other day that she doesn't want to do hot school lunch next

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Gini: year because she just wants me to make her lunch every day and i was like oh

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Gini: i remember when we were kids and all we wanted was hot school lunch but okay.

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Danny: Yeah i feel kids now not to say they're spoiled because i know there's a lot

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Danny: of kids that don't have that luxury of you know having meals being able to cook

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Danny: at home and then you know take lunches into school but i feel now there's so

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Danny: much choices for kids at schools um when we were growing up like i mean i'm

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Danny: much older than you i know we you know

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Danny: we do talk about our age and that but i'm much older than you and when i was

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Danny: a kid at school it was basically whatever the meat thing was that they had and

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Danny: then a lump of potato and that was it yes that was

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Gini: It yeah and on fridays they made the like canned pizza that was it.

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Danny: Yeah yeah whereas now we get a menu sent home prior to the school you're starting

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Danny: do you want to sign up for pizza do you want some for peter's do you want to

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Danny: sign them up for the food truck that comes out what What?

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Gini: Right. Salad bar, sandwich bar, soup bar. You're like, what is happening? Yeah.

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Danny: Exactly. And that's elementary. I mean, high school is even more,

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Danny: right? You've got a whole bunch of stuff at high school.

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Gini: Crazy.

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Danny: Okay. So I'm going to try and sneak my invite in to the old,

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Danny: I probably won't get over next week.

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Danny: I'm going to pretend I can get over next week and come over for that. I'll tell you what,

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Gini: I will make tacos for you anytime you visit.

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Danny: Oh, I'm going to hold you to that. I'm going to steal the recipe from you as

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Danny: well. Wow, that sounds delicious.

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Danny: I'd love to try that. But Ginny, we've reached the end of your five questions

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Danny: and I don't think they were too difficult.

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Danny: It wasn't too bad. I think it was okay.

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Danny: But as is the want on this show, to be fair on every guest, because we do,

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Danny: I do put, we, I've got to stop saying we.

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Danny: I do put you on the spot for the 30, 40 minutes, whatever of the episode.

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Danny: So to make it fair, it's time for your random question to ping over this way.

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Gini: I have 10 here. So I have to narrow it down to one.

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Gini: Okay, if you could have any superpower for just one day, but you had to use

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Gini: it for the most mundane tasks, what would it be and why?

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Danny: That's a good one. Um, yeah.

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Danny: superpower it's going to be a mundane task has

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Gini: To be a mundane task it could be laundry.

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Danny: Yeah you know what i'm not going to do laundry

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Danny: but i am going to do i'm going

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Danny: to have flashes the flash his superpower of speed yep love it and i'm going

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Danny: to do housework and clean because kids just dump everything everywhere uh-huh

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Danny: um at the moment um like if you're a regular listener you'll know that I've

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Danny: had some flooding issues in the basement.

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Danny: So the family's living in half a house. So it's hectic at the moment.

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Danny: And as much as we try to encourage the kids to clean up after them,

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Danny: they're kids. They don't clean up after them. Right. Or they forget.

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Danny: So yeah, I would have the flash, the speed, just to go around and do everything

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Danny: in, what would that be? 10 seconds probably? I love it.

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Danny: And then probably use that speed afterwards to mow the backyard and do yard

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Danny: work. So you've got a two for one there.

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Gini: I love it. It's kind of like Mary Poppins where you just go snap and everything gets done. Love it.

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Danny: But I wouldn't be dancing because, as I mentioned, I don't dance.

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Danny: But I could do my pencil trick where I could play the tune on my pencil.

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Gini: I'd forgotten you can do that.

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Danny: Yeah, that's just a blast from the past. I appeared on Jenny's blog once on a live Q&A or something.

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Danny: And there was a question popped up. So I can't remember how it popped up,

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Danny: but it was about, do you have any special tricks or something like that? I don't know.

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Danny: So I made a video of where I get a pencil or a pen.

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Danny: And if you give me a tune, as long as I know that tune, I can play that on my pen or pencil.

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Gini: That's amazing.

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Danny: And so, yeah, so that's what I'll do. I'll be wandering about super fast,

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Danny: doing the housework, doing yard work, playing a tune on my pencil,

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Danny: and it's all done within a minute or so.

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Gini: You please record all of that for us.

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Danny: I should do like a pencil version of the theme music for the show. Do that as a special.

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Gini: You totally should.

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Danny: Maybe for this episode, we'll see what I can hang up for that.

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Gini: You should, absolutely.

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Danny: So Ginny, it's been an absolute blast. I mean, we've known each other for years.

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Danny: We've met a few times, a good few times and spoken at events, etc.

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Danny: So it's always nice to catch up. And we still have to talk about getting that

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Danny: This Is Us podcast off the ground.

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Gini: Yes, yes, we should do that.

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Danny: But for anybody that wants to catch up with what you're doing

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Danny: now whether it's on the spin sucks blog the pr agency the

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Danny: various podcasts you're doing etc or maybe even reach

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Danny: out to you to see if they're in chicago for a nice invite to a

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Danny: dinner sometime where's the best place to

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Danny: catch up with you online and connect spinsucks.com and everything's there your

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Danny: social handles everything's there yep excellent and obviously the link to the

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Danny: podcast but i'll be sure to leave the links to that in the show notes as usual

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Danny: so whatever app you're listening on be sure to check the links out and And I'll

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Danny: link straight over to Spin Sucks where you can check out all the cool stuff Ginny's doing.

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Danny: So Ginny, thanks for appearing on 5 Random Questions.

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Gini: Always good to hang out with you, my friend.

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Danny: Thanks for listening to 5 Random Questions. If you enjoyed this week's episode,

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Danny: all the times I beat Ginny in the Adage Power 150 ranking for marketing blogs

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Danny: and would happily remind her of that,

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Danny: which was quite a few times but seriously i thought

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Gini: I was gonna get away with the whole episode dang it.

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Danny: Come on i could not let you away with that one i can't believe it but seriously

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