How to Waste $10 Million, Live Streaming Metallica at the North Pole, and More with Matt Cundill
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Matt Cundill is a recovering broadcaster turned podcast producer and host. He is the founder of The Sound Off Media Company, where he develops and produces a diverse portfolio of original and branded shows spanning industry commentary, culture, tourism, lifestyle, and music storytelling. His flagship program, The Sound Off Podcast, is now in its 10th year, approaching 500 episodes, and remains a leading voice in North American podcast and broadcast industry conversations. He also publishes the Sounding Off newsletter, widely followed by media professionals across Canada and the United States. Through strategic storytelling, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of audio audiences, Matt continues to shape modern podcasting by connecting brands, creators, and listeners through compelling, high-quality content.
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Matt: I might also point out that that's a bit of a fault of mine.
Speaker:Matt: And that's sometimes you wait too long.
Speaker:Matt: If only I had known, if only if I had acted sooner.
Speaker:Matt: I can't tell you how many times in business people said, if only I had acted
Speaker:Matt: sooner, I would have, it would have been different. It would have worked out better.
Speaker:Matt: It could have worked out worse. But often when we talk about if only I had acted
Speaker:Matt: sooner, we're talking about something that could have been better.
Speaker:Danny: Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show with unexpected questions
Speaker:Danny: and unfiltered answers.
Speaker:Danny: I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests five questions
Speaker:Danny: created by a random question generator.
Speaker:Danny: The guest has no idea what the questions are, and neither do I,
Speaker:Danny: which means this could go either way.
Speaker:Danny: So sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode.
Speaker:Danny: Today's guest is Matt Cundill. Matt is a recovering broadcaster turned podcast producer and host.
Speaker:Danny: He's the founder of the SoundOff Media Company, where he develops and produces
Speaker:Danny: a diverse portfolio of original and branded shows spanning industry commentary,
Speaker:Danny: culture, tourism, lifestyle, and music storytelling.
Speaker:Danny: His flagship program, The Sound Off Podcast, is now in its 10th year,
Speaker:Danny: approaching 500 episodes, and remains a leading voice in North American podcast
Speaker:Danny: and broadcast industry conversations.
Speaker:Danny: He also publishes The Sounding Off newsletter, widely followed by media professionals
Speaker:Danny: across Canada and the United States.
Speaker:Danny: So Matt, welcome to 5 Random Questions.
Speaker:Matt: Thanks for having me. I've actually always wanted to be on this show
Speaker:Danny: Ah you're you don't have to say that mate i got you on anyway so thank you i appreciate that,
Speaker:Danny: And we've known each other a little bit. We've met actually in person.
Speaker:Danny: I think we met online first, obviously, but then we've met in person at podcasting events.
Speaker:Danny: And as I mentioned in the intro there, your leading podcast,
Speaker:Danny: your main podcast, 500 episodes or almost 500 over 10 years,
Speaker:Danny: which is almost, I think, if my math is correct, about an episode a week.
Speaker:Danny: So what's the secret to consistency and just essentially longevity keeping going?
Speaker:Matt: I think I got, it's jealousy is the answer. And I was really jealous of people
Speaker:Matt: who are really good at this.
Speaker:Matt: And one of the things I said, well, how do you keep doing? And they said,
Speaker:Matt: well, I keep creating every week and I'm always trying to reinvent what I'm doing.
Speaker:Matt: And I'm always adding to it. I said, well, if I can just be consistent with
Speaker:Matt: the, with the whole thing, then good things will happen.
Speaker:Matt: And consistency is really, you know, one of the keys to building audience
Speaker:Matt: I had Aaron Monkey from Lore sort of say, well, why do you release sometimes
Speaker:Matt: on Thursdays and sometimes on Tuesdays?
Speaker:Matt: And he said, if you can be consistent with it, you can build a great audience from it.
Speaker:Matt: And, of course, I should have known that being a radio broadcaster because you
Speaker:Matt: should see the number of people who go to the Radio Hall of Fame just by showing
Speaker:Matt: up every day at the same time and putting in a mediocre job,
Speaker:Danny: Right? Just shipping it. And it's funny you mentioned Hall of Fame there,
Speaker:Danny: because obviously your background is in media production, podcasting, etc.
Speaker:Danny: And the creative front. But obviously you've got many interests outside of that.
Speaker:Danny: And being Scottish, from Scotland originally, I've been in Canada for the last 20 years now.
Speaker:Danny: But I don't know a lot about American football.
Speaker:Danny: And yes, I'm calling it American football because my football is a proper one.
Speaker:Danny: But I don't know a lot about American football. And I noticed on a recent social
Speaker:Danny: media post that you said there are a lot of truly petty people in the world.
Speaker:Danny: And those people are the ones who did not vote Bill Belichick to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker:Danny: So what's all that about? Why are they all petty?
Speaker:Matt: Well, it's sports writers who vote on this stuff. And it's very odd.
Speaker:Matt: You know, we're punishing Pete Rose all the time for, you know,
Speaker:Matt: he can't go to the Hall of Fame because of something that he did.
Speaker:Matt: Bill Belichick got caught up in something called deflate gate,
Speaker:Matt: where there was a little cheating involved, where the footballs were not quite
Speaker:Matt: as inflated as they should be, which led to, of course, less fumbles.
Speaker:Matt: But media has it in for some of these sports professionals, and it's just petty.
Speaker:Matt: Listen, this is the winningest head coach of all time.
Speaker:Matt: This is a simple, simple thing to do. You put him in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker:Matt: but on the first ballot and in his first year of eligibility,
Speaker:Matt: they didn't do it. And it's, I guess, some people have got an axe to grind with the sports media.
Speaker:Matt: And if you go back and look at a number of his media conferences,
Speaker:Matt: he would often hold them at seven in the morning.
Speaker:Matt: He would force the media to get out of bed. There were a lot of curt answers.
Speaker:Matt: There's a lot of great sound bites.
Speaker:Matt: He would answer the same way every time. He had tremendous disdain for the media.
Speaker:Matt: And this was their way of getting back in a minute. It's petty.
Speaker:Danny: So I guess it's the media, like I said, I don't really understand or don't know.
Speaker:Danny: I understand. I know American football. I understand that. I've played it on
Speaker:Danny: the Sega Genesis way back in the day.
Speaker:Danny: So I'm guessing the Hall of Fame, it's all primarily media-led for nominations,
Speaker:Danny: recognition awards, et cetera, then?
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, there's people inside football who get to vote on this too,
Speaker:Matt: but it's perpetuated in a strange way. Listen, he's not a likable guy. That's fine.
Speaker:Matt: Is this the way we should be sort of getting back at him and judging him?
Speaker:Matt: It seems like a petty way to do it.
Speaker:Danny: Okay well what we will try and thanks for explaining that
Speaker:Danny: and we will try not to be we will try not to be petty with our questions and
Speaker:Danny: answers here but and continuing the hall of fame like theme i'm going to invite
Speaker:Danny: you now to the hall of fame collection that have been on the random question
Speaker:Danny: hot seat are we ready for this i'm ready awesome let's bring up the random question generator,
Speaker:Danny: OK, yeah, I think this may have been up before, but it's been a while since
Speaker:Danny: it came up. And I'm always curious for questions like this.
Speaker:Danny: So, Matt, question number one, if you had $10 million, would you still be working
Speaker:Danny: or going to school if that was an option too?
Speaker:Matt: Absolutely. I absolutely would still be working.
Speaker:Matt: I don't know what I would do if I didn't have work. And I know these are kind
Speaker:Matt: of like the words of somebody who may be a workaholic,
Speaker:Matt: but I've been getting out of bed and working and excited
Speaker:Matt: to go to work too every day for like a very long
Speaker:Matt: time now if i didn't like my job and it didn't involve microphones
Speaker:Matt: and recording audio dealing with audiences making people happy that sort of
Speaker:Matt: thing you know what i might i might quit but i have made it a part of my life
Speaker:Matt: to do something that i really really enjoy and be sure to wake up every morning
Speaker:Matt: to something i want i like to wake up to the future every day i think podcasting's
Speaker:Matt: got a great future in front of it and i'm excited so absolutely 100 if i had
Speaker:Matt: 10 million dollars i would still be doing exactly what i'm doing so
Speaker:Danny: What would you and i kind of figured you might know you as a person um what
Speaker:Danny: would some of the changes be that we'd make with that extra money so events
Speaker:Danny: you go to more events more podcast events would you create bursaries would you
Speaker:Danny: create x y studios what would you do with the 10 million.
Speaker:Matt: I'd probably work in a little bit more travel, uh, into, into it.
Speaker:Matt: So let's say there's podcasting events I couldn't afford to go to.
Speaker:Matt: I would definitely find a way to afford to go in and explore the world and as
Speaker:Matt: well, you know, see what podcasting is like in, in other parts of the world.
Speaker:Matt: I'm sure that I could probably have just one too many drinks that I would part
Speaker:Matt: with some of that money and into some company or something.
Speaker:Matt: In fact, actually just before, you know, we started recording this,
Speaker:Matt: I had a phone call from somebody who was looking for a little bit of money for their app.
Speaker:Matt: And I thought, well, if I had that, I would probably do it.
Speaker:Matt: And if I had $10 million, I definitely would have given this person the $1,500
Speaker:Matt: they wanted as a contribution towards the development of their app.
Speaker:Matt: So I would definitely be a little bit more.
Speaker:Matt: I would be spending a little bit more if I had the $10 million.
Speaker:Matt: I got a soft spot, you know?
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, no, 100%. And it's funny you mentioned what you would do to help app developers,
Speaker:Danny: for example in podcasting you know pros and people new to industry i'm curious
Speaker:Danny: is there anything you would use the money to kick out with the podcasting space
Speaker:Danny: or the production or media space that's kind of bad and holds people back if you like yeah.
Speaker:Matt: So i've often thought about this and the question that comes up quite often
Speaker:Matt: is what would you do if you had a hundred thousand dollars to to market your podcast.
Speaker:Matt: I think I would probably be looking for ways to make shows more popular.
Speaker:Matt: I'm not sure that there's a direct spend with any of that money,
Speaker:Matt: but it would be something that I would look to, to try to increase voices.
Speaker:Matt: I just don't know how to spend that money. You see, I'm very cautious with money.
Speaker:Matt: I'm like, well, I have it. I'm not really sure if I should be jumping into that.
Speaker:Matt: I'm going to take a year to think about this idea.
Speaker:Matt: And if I wake up in about a year and I still love the idea, then I would probably jump at it.
Speaker:Matt: And I might also point out that that's a bit of a fault of mine.
Speaker:Matt: And that's sometimes you wait too long.
Speaker:Matt: If only I had known, if only if I had acted sooner, I can't tell you how many
Speaker:Matt: times in business people said, if only I had acted sooner, I would have,
Speaker:Matt: it would have been different. It would have worked out better.
Speaker:Matt: It could have worked out worse. But often when we talk about if only I had acted
Speaker:Matt: sooner, we're talking about something that could have been better.
Speaker:Matt: That's my characteristics.
Speaker:Matt: That's what would happen with $10 million. In the end, I would still have $10
Speaker:Matt: million plus interest and I wouldn't have acted. I'd still be thinking about it, though.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah. I mean, interest would rack up pretty quickly, I feel, on 10 million.
Speaker:Danny: So then you've got like an added problem of, well, now I can't spend it.
Speaker:Danny: Now it's 10 and a half. Now it's 11. Now it's a loan and a half.
Speaker:Matt: You know, there's a B part to that because of the question that says,
Speaker:Matt: you know, going to school, would you still go to school?
Speaker:Matt: I think I love working in this space because I'm a student of podcasting.
Speaker:Matt: You know, even though I've got, you know, 10, 15, 20 years of experience having,
Speaker:Matt: you know, very simply even uploading to what was iTunes, you know,
Speaker:Matt: at the time, I still want to be a student of, you know, audio and learn every
Speaker:Matt: day. I think that's part of it.
Speaker:Danny: No, I like that. And like I say, yeah, I mean, I think once we feel we've learned
Speaker:Danny: all we can about podcasts in this space that we both love, clearly,
Speaker:Danny: that's time to hang up the mic, personally.
Speaker:Matt: Hey, I just got $10 million. I don't even know how to grow the space yet.
Speaker:Danny: Well, I can help you with that for a mere $3 million. So I'm not even taking
Speaker:Danny: a big chunk yet. So you're all good there, Matt.
Speaker:Danny: But okay, I like that. And that's a nice, informal, easy one, I feel.
Speaker:Danny: A gentle one to kick off proceedings. So let's have a look and see what comes
Speaker:Danny: up with question number two.
Speaker:Danny: Okay. Question number two. And I'm wondering, we were speaking,
Speaker:Danny: you mentioned Green Room earlier prior to recording there, Matt.
Speaker:Danny: We were speaking about Netflix and stuff like that.
Speaker:Danny: So question two, what is the worst movie that you've seen?
Speaker:Matt: Well so there are a lot of them um i
Speaker:Matt: thought zapped with scott baio back in
Speaker:Matt: 1980 something that that was terrible uh i
Speaker:Matt: thought gone girl more recently i think it was like 2015 maybe 2014 that was
Speaker:Matt: terror i didn't like that movie i didn't like the movie with matt damon going
Speaker:Matt: to space and i'll tell you in terms of quality of movies i don't find movies
Speaker:Matt: to be i've never thought it was time well spent.
Speaker:Matt: And, you know, if you only go to see one movie a year, you'd hear that in the
Speaker:Matt: trailer. If you only see one movie a year,
Speaker:Matt: Uh, well, I'm the person who actually only sees one movie a year.
Speaker:Matt: And I made it a point for many, many years to just see one movie a year that,
Speaker:Matt: you know, was word of mouth that people said I had to go see,
Speaker:Matt: then I would be excited to go see the movie. But there are so many movies out there.
Speaker:Matt: And I thought there was a turning point with, with gone girl.
Speaker:Matt: I met my, my now wife and she said, I love going to movies. Let's go.
Speaker:Matt: And what are we going to see? We're going to see gone girl. Okay.
Speaker:Matt: And I went to watch it. I was impatient. I didn't like it.
Speaker:Matt: I don't remember much. I don't, it didn't identify with what was going on.
Speaker:Matt: Some people found it clever.
Speaker:Matt: I, I thought I'm never getting, you know, two hours of my life back after that investment.
Speaker:Matt: So I'm quite, I'm quite careful with it. What I look for in a movie is I like good writing.
Speaker:Matt: I'll have a great story and I love characters that, that make me laugh at,
Speaker:Matt: you know, make me love them, make me hate them, something like that.
Speaker:Matt: But if your movie doesn't have that, don't bring it around here.
Speaker:Matt: Don't bring your two star movie here and do not bring your three or three and
Speaker:Matt: a half star movie here either. I want fours and fives.
Speaker:Danny: And you mentioned that you make it, or made, I'm not sure if it's still the
Speaker:Danny: case now, but you made it a point of just seeing one movie a year.
Speaker:Danny: So do you prefer just staying at home and wait until it comes on the streaming
Speaker:Danny: then or buy it on digital to watch?
Speaker:Danny: Or is it, you mentioned obviously that's how you met your wife.
Speaker:Danny: Was that a movie? Or going to the movie, not that movie. Didn't go in there
Speaker:Danny: and met her in the dark or whatever. But going to a movie theatre.
Speaker:Danny: Is it still something that you still go, even knowing that you probably won't
Speaker:Danny: enjoy the movie you're going to see, or are you just like, you're fair to stay at home now?
Speaker:Matt: If I sense I'm not going to enjoy the movie, I'm not going to the movie.
Speaker:Matt: Often, and this is where my wife has a great job, she will, she knows I love documentaries.
Speaker:Matt: So we will watch, like, for instance, the Bruce Springsteen movie,
Speaker:Matt: which not everybody loved.
Speaker:Matt: I enjoyed it. I did like that one when it came out, which talks about Bruce
Speaker:Matt: Springsteen's time between recording Born in the USA and Nebraska in that 1982,
Speaker:Matt: 83, 84 period. I really enjoyed that one.
Speaker:Matt: But yeah, she'll bend over for that. But, you know, to help me,
Speaker:Matt: you know, to make it so that we can watch the movie together.
Speaker:Matt: It's just not often we can do that
Speaker:Matt: because there's only so many history documentaries she's going to enjoy.
Speaker:Danny: And that's your jam then, History Docs?
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, I love nonfiction. I love history. I'm a history major.
Speaker:Matt: Just love studying history. When I went to Acadia University,
Speaker:Matt: the professor, he was giving me C's and C minuses, but that didn't matter.
Speaker:Matt: I fell in love with the whole thing.
Speaker:Matt: And he taught me how to study it and how to appreciate history.
Speaker:Matt: And I've kind of been in that space ever since.
Speaker:Danny: It's also expensive to go to the movie theatre now. We've got two teen kids,
Speaker:Danny: so if we were to go as a family of four and buy the tickets,
Speaker:Danny: then the popcorn, drinks, whatever.
Speaker:Danny: And then let's say we're hungry either before the movie or after it.
Speaker:Danny: You're talking probably, I don't know, $300 for an evening out maybe?
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, I'm sad actually because we don't go to movie theatres as much and inside
Speaker:Matt: the theatres there's only movies that we are familiar with. You know,
Speaker:Matt: they're generally a bunch of reboots. There's a bunch of remakes.
Speaker:Matt: I did go see, for instance, you know, the Barbie movie.
Speaker:Matt: That was my one movie for that year, actually, that I did go out to go see.
Speaker:Matt: You know, I enjoyed it. But I feel that we've lost a little bit with streaming into the house.
Speaker:Matt: It's nice to have the convenience, but I just moved to a very small town.
Speaker:Matt: There's only a few thousand people in Saint-Henri-Dal-Quebec,
Speaker:Matt: where I live now. But we have a movie theater.
Speaker:Matt: And the movie shows movies in French and in English. And this is a predominantly
Speaker:Matt: Francophone town, too. So I am happy to be in a town where there's a nice movie theater.
Speaker:Danny: That's awesome. We're actually in a small village, too. Probably about the same kind of numbers.
Speaker:Danny: There's 800 families, so let's say that's about 3,000 people, probably.
Speaker:Danny: We don't have a movie theater, but if we drive 15 minutes away,
Speaker:Danny: there's an old-fashioned one.
Speaker:Danny: It's got just two rows, leather chairs, a little dinky screen,
Speaker:Danny: no huge Dolby Atmos or whatever.
Speaker:Danny: And I do enjoy that because that takes me back to when I was a teen going to see a movie, right?
Speaker:Danny: Perfect perfect so we know that maybe with your 10 million you could like make
Speaker:Danny: a little indie movie that could go to these little theaters.
Speaker:Matt: You know i i probably would um do that and in fact in my top desk drawer there's
Speaker:Matt: about three or four podcast ideas that are sitting there that would probably
Speaker:Matt: go straight from we'll skip the podcast and we'll take it right to to make a documentary with it i
Speaker:Danny: Showed i was going to say i'll take you up and up but i won't because i want
Speaker:Danny: my three million for the idea so i'll leave you with a seven to make the movie then but.
Speaker:Matt: Listen this is what we make you executive producer for i
Speaker:Danny: Like it i'm going to put that on my side of my desk my little i'm going to get
Speaker:Danny: a background sign for that matt's executive producer sounds good all right i
Speaker:Danny: like that then let's have a look then at question number three what is the last
Speaker:Danny: thing you do before you go to sleep.
Speaker:Matt: I put on a podcast i
Speaker:Danny: Can't i wasn't sure if you're going to say that or not but it's kind of feel
Speaker:Danny: that you might have but okay cool.
Speaker:Matt: And that's because of the way i grew up i grew up in montreal
Speaker:Matt: i grew up with an am radio beside my am fm
Speaker:Matt: clock radio actually beside my bed but predominantly i would listen
Speaker:Matt: to am 10 o'clock at night i would listen
Speaker:Matt: to sports with ted tevin who is a detroit broadcaster also montreal broadcaster
Speaker:Matt: but you know montreal canadians hockey game or the montreal expos game would
Speaker:Matt: end and i would listen to the phone calls And I learned to fall in love with
Speaker:Matt: the radio and that got a little bit boring.
Speaker:Matt: I would turn the dial and I could move it from 600 down to six 60, which is WNBC.
Speaker:Matt: Oh, wow. I'm getting a New York radio station piping right into my bedroom.
Speaker:Matt: You could turn it a little further. You get to, uh, get to eight,
Speaker:Matt: 10, get to Detroit. You pick up, you know, WLS.
Speaker:Matt: It was 800 actually was Detroit. Eight, 10 was WLS.
Speaker:Matt: I'm, I'm going off memory. These are all call letters and frequencies that are,
Speaker:Matt: that are, you know, that nobody talks about as much anymore.
Speaker:Matt: But I fell in love falling asleep.
Speaker:Matt: Listening to the radio. And that really hasn't changed today.
Speaker:Matt: I'm not much for a TV in the bedroom.
Speaker:Matt: This has been a bit of a sticking point with my wife and I, she loves the TV
Speaker:Matt: in the bedroom. I do not like the blue light.
Speaker:Matt: That doesn't stop me from picking up an iPad every once in a while.
Speaker:Matt: And I do know that if I wake up in the middle of the night, I do not want to
Speaker:Matt: check the phone. I do not want to look at an iPad or anything because that's blue light.
Speaker:Matt: Blue light will keep you awake. And I like to get my sleep. I think that's important to get your sleep.
Speaker:Matt: So I find it wonderful to drift off with uh with the sound of of a voice and
Speaker:Danny: Do you have like um set podcasts you listen to because i'd imagine maybe there's
Speaker:Danny: some genres like true crime which maybe maybe not but if you got like a really
Speaker:Danny: gory scary true crime story that might keep you or keep some people awake is
Speaker:Danny: there any genre or certain podcast you you drift off to.
Speaker:Matt: Oh i have a story because this happened the
Speaker:Matt: other night i went to sleep listening to christy lee
Speaker:Matt: canadian true crime and the story
Speaker:Matt: involved you know bad things of course and my
Speaker:Matt: wife woke up in the morning she said i dreamt of this bad thing and
Speaker:Matt: this bad thing and i said well i take responsibility because i was the podcast
Speaker:Matt: was on and it probably put that in your mind and that's how
Speaker:Matt: you got to dreaming about that sort of thing so when i do fall asleep it will
Speaker:Matt: be sports it could be politics i love falling asleep to politics is so dull
Speaker:Matt: that you just sort of lose yourself and and then you fall asleep to it um if
Speaker:Matt: it's something instructional if it's something that's going to be good for me it's You know,
Speaker:Matt: I used to do this at university. I would read a textbook before going to bed.
Speaker:Matt: I was done after a page and a half of political science. I'm done. I'm asleep.
Speaker:Matt: You know, it's, it's, it's good stuff to, uh, to fall asleep to.
Speaker:Matt: I like to listen to some sports, but I, sometimes if I'm emotionally invested,
Speaker:Matt: it will get my heart racing. It will have the reverse effect.
Speaker:Matt: So I don't need to hear anything else about the Buffalo Bills and their tragedies.
Speaker:Matt: Because that just makes me sad and it keeps me up at night. They literally keep me up at night.
Speaker:Matt: So I can't listen to any sports that talks about something sad like that.
Speaker:Danny: No, I hear you. So obviously you mentioned that your wife woke up and she couldn't
Speaker:Danny: sleep while she was having nightmares and dreams about the topic of the true crime.
Speaker:Danny: Do you feel, not buy into, that's the wrong word, do you feel that subconsciously
Speaker:Danny: what we listen to prior to going to sleep can help, or even while sleeping.
Speaker:Danny: So if you want to learn a new language, for example, like people say,
Speaker:Danny: well, go to sleep, listen to learning Spanish or learning French or whatever.
Speaker:Danny: Or if you want to learn history, you know, and be better prepared for your exams,
Speaker:Danny: go to sleep, listen about the topic.
Speaker:Danny: You're going to be examined, examined on, examined, I think that's a verb.
Speaker:Matt: Tested.
Speaker:Danny: Tested, there you go, thank you. Do you believe that? Is that something you have seen?
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, it actually happened just last night. And
Speaker:Matt: And she said, well, she woke up this morning and said, well,
Speaker:Matt: I was dreaming of being in a hotel. And I said, well, maybe you wouldn't be
Speaker:Matt: dreaming of being in a hotel if you weren't booking hotels as the last thing
Speaker:Matt: you were doing before you went to sleep last night.
Speaker:Matt: We often, and this goes back to the television too.
Speaker:Matt: I don't like the television in the room, you know, especially if the show is
Speaker:Matt: going to be of a nature where there's like murder or crime or something sad happening.
Speaker:Matt: I'll bring that feeling to bed with me and I won't feel good about it.
Speaker:Matt: So, I mean, I like to go to sleep with butterflies and unicorns and,
Speaker:Matt: you know, my wonderful chicken farm and other things that I'm imagining and in faraway places.
Speaker:Matt: But yeah, if you, if you bring, you know, for instance, the Sopranos is a tough
Speaker:Matt: one before bed because it's heavy storylines, heavy conversation.
Speaker:Matt: There's murder, there's blood, you know, it gets the heart going and,
Speaker:Matt: you know, you can sleep a little bit of discomfort.
Speaker:Matt: So that's why I'm not a fan of, of the TV in the bedroom. I've managed to keep
Speaker:Matt: the television out of the bedroom to this point since we moved about a year ago.
Speaker:Matt: And I think as a couple, we're better for it.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah. I know my wife used to watch Dexter a lot. She'd binge watch Dexter before bed.
Speaker:Danny: And then she'd wonder why she wasn't getting good night's sleep and having nightmares and stuff.
Speaker:Danny: And I said to her, well, what are you watching before you go to sleep? Well, Dexter.
Speaker:Matt: It's a heavy watch.
Speaker:Danny: Exactly. And I couldn't. And I enjoy scary movies, but I wouldn't watch them
Speaker:Danny: late at night before going to sleep.
Speaker:Danny: I'd watch them middle of the afternoon or early evening when they're still, you know, light, etc.
Speaker:Matt: Okay, so scary movies. I know we did movies earlier in this conversation.
Speaker:Matt: That is, we are not doing scary movies ever. That is out.
Speaker:Matt: I like lighthearted comedies, things that make you smile, things that make you laugh.
Speaker:Matt: That's where I am. But I've got a wife who loves true crime shows,
Speaker:Matt: listening to it. And she also watches trials.
Speaker:Matt: She loves like the lawyer, you know, the YouTube channels with the lawyers,
Speaker:Matt: the lawyer, you know, and stuff like that. So very invested.
Speaker:Matt: She has a law background.
Speaker:Matt: She loves watching that stuff, but not for me.
Speaker:Danny: Not for you. But I'd imagine that's good because like often couples,
Speaker:Danny: many couples I know, and watch the same stuff, enjoy the same stuff.
Speaker:Danny: But it sounds like you've got two very different, you know, things that you
Speaker:Danny: enjoy, which I'd imagine offers some great conversation as well when you're
Speaker:Danny: talking about and trying to maybe explain why you enjoyed X,
Speaker:Danny: Y, Z, and she's the same, you know, with her stuff.
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, so, you know, we meet in the middle. At some point we have to settle on
Speaker:Matt: something on Netflix or, you know, Amazon Prime or, you know,
Speaker:Matt: one of those streaming services. We do have to land on something.
Speaker:Matt: So we do, we do find stuff. So the studio with Seth Rogen is something I watched. We loved it.
Speaker:Matt: You know, we watched it together, loved it. Hopefully there's going to be more in the near future.
Speaker:Matt: So we have our shows and we meet in the middle and, you know,
Speaker:Matt: she, I live, I live in American football lifestyle for, for a number of months
Speaker:Matt: of the year where we travel, we'll go to see the team maybe even twice.
Speaker:Matt: You know, I watch my team and, you know, she watches alongside.
Speaker:Matt: Side so she's gotten into it you know just just watching me go through my my
Speaker:Matt: sad emotions on Sundays well
Speaker:Danny: I won't keep you uh with the sad emotion mindset
Speaker:Danny: there but I like that and I like the um like you say it's just like um I am
Speaker:Danny: with you 100% in the blue light I need my sleep I'm an agent now I've if I don't
Speaker:Danny: get my sleep I'm grump I'm Scottish I'm a gen X Scotsman so I'm grumpy anyway
Speaker:Danny: by default if I don't get my my night's sleep no I'm just don't come near me that.
Speaker:Matt: But also Danny we work in front of screens all day so
Speaker:Matt: yeah you know we have our fill of screens I don't need any more screens as well
Speaker:Matt: I'm making content all day and listening to other people's stories and making
Speaker:Matt: stories I don't need some to watch somebody else's story because I'm going to
Speaker:Matt: watch go well they missed the writing there well I can see that coming I go
Speaker:Matt: watch it from such a different perspective it's almost like not fun to be with me almost I said I
Speaker:Danny: Know well I've met you And I know what you mean. So we'll leave that there. I jest, I jest.
Speaker:Danny: So on that note, before Matt reaches through the screen and rearranges my face,
Speaker:Danny: let's have a look at what comes up on question number four. And I like this one.
Speaker:Danny: It's come up before, but I do like this. So Matt, question four.
Speaker:Danny: What is one of the top things on your bucket list?
Speaker:Matt: Wow. Okay, so I haven't really thought about my bucket list for a long, long time.
Speaker:Matt: Because I thought as I was going through life, I was checking them off when
Speaker:Matt: I didn't even really need to check them off.
Speaker:Matt: I want to see Metallica. Well, I've seen Metallica now 10 times.
Speaker:Matt: I had the luxury of working in radio and even got to see Metallica play at the
Speaker:Matt: North Pole at one point in my life where I met Adam Curry, who if you know anything about podcasting,
Speaker:Matt: was one of the very first to create a podcast.
Speaker:Matt: And there was Adam Curry who was, And I don't know why I'm telling the story
Speaker:Matt: because I haven't answered the question yet, but there he was doing some live streaming.
Speaker:Matt: And I said, well, what's his live stream? He said, well, I'm live streaming
Speaker:Matt: the concert from the North Pole. And I thought, wow.
Speaker:Matt: Anyway, that was, that turned out, I mean, at one point just seeing Metallica
Speaker:Matt: was, was, was on my bucket list.
Speaker:Matt: Today, it's just simply, you know, travel to Asia.
Speaker:Matt: I've never been. um i also have never been to africa so i've got two things
Speaker:Matt: and they both involve travel
Speaker:Matt: in places to go and i'm beginning to really think about
Speaker:Matt: it now that i've you know i'm well into my 50s and
Speaker:Matt: you know is it japan or is it thailand you know and where do i go in africa
Speaker:Matt: and i've got a lot of podcast listeners in nigeria and i've made connections
Speaker:Matt: with people there and i thought that might be an interesting place to go but
Speaker:Matt: people tell me kenya is is remarkable. So the bucket list
Speaker:Matt: is it definitely involves travel and those two parts of the planet are just
Speaker:Matt: under traveled in my on my passport
Speaker:Danny: It's interesting it's like um i think
Speaker:Danny: travel is such a key thing as well like um a few of the past episodes on this
Speaker:Danny: season funnily enough uh we've been talking about why people should travel if
Speaker:Danny: they get the opportunity and for so many reasons and like africa and asia it
Speaker:Danny: just it seems like because they're so far away from where we are as well,
Speaker:Danny: it makes it such an interesting and desirable place to go.
Speaker:Danny: And I know we probably know some of the, we probably have some fellow creators
Speaker:Danny: from Africa that we both know.
Speaker:Danny: Is there like, what's the main reason for choosing there as opposed to,
Speaker:Danny: let's say, Europe, I guess that's easier to get to maybe, or Australia or,
Speaker:Danny: you know, Or is it just a completely different culture from what we might get in North America?
Speaker:Matt: So I picked out two continents, and they're just two places I have not been.
Speaker:Matt: I think they'd be challenging places to go. I wouldn't find Australia very challenging to go to.
Speaker:Matt: I feel like I know Australia just from getting on the lift at Whistler.
Speaker:Matt: I've met enough of the lifties there who can help me.
Speaker:Matt: I feel like those places would be the challenging ones.
Speaker:Matt: But Europe, I've been to quite a lot. And, uh, I've spent a lot of time in Spain.
Speaker:Matt: You know, I love it. It's an easy place to work from. I can spend one month of my life there.
Speaker:Matt: It's, you know, in the South of Spain is, is Malaga.
Speaker:Matt: The weather's nice. I can get out of the Canadian winter for a little bit.
Speaker:Matt: It's, it's kind of an easy place to do it, but it's not travel.
Speaker:Matt: I'm actually living there for, you know, anywhere between four and six weeks.
Speaker:Matt: And, you know, I enjoy it and I enjoy the food.
Speaker:Matt: I know a little bit of the language. I like to practice the language,
Speaker:Matt: but it's time to probably leave the box and, and, you You know,
Speaker:Matt: try, you know, try Thailand, try Japan.
Speaker:Matt: Something in asia just you know sort of travel a little bit further than normally
Speaker:Matt: than what i would be used to again this takes a little bit of research it takes a little bit of
Speaker:Matt: definitely some preparation to go to places to it definitely takes preparation
Speaker:Matt: to go to a new place because you want to get the most out of it in the amount
Speaker:Matt: of time that you're going to spend there
Speaker:Danny: Well that's the thing it's like that's what i was going to ask you actually so
Speaker:Danny: i'm glad you brought that little segue perfect there it's
Speaker:Danny: like it's like you're a pro mate it's like you're a pro but um would you i guess
Speaker:Danny: how long would you want to go there for and would you do a mix of the larger
Speaker:Danny: metropolitan metropolitan areas getting my words out properly um and then go
Speaker:Danny: deeper into the country to discover off the beaten track or how would you mix that up.
Speaker:Matt: Probably with research and a lot of word of mouth so i would probably ask other
Speaker:Matt: people who have been there you know and this is another thing and that's youtube
Speaker:Matt: youtube has really opened up the
Speaker:Matt: world to travel to say Oh, here's an experience. I'd like to do this too.
Speaker:Matt: Instagram as well has told us some of the great places we can go try and what we can eat.
Speaker:Matt: It, it's, it's changed the game and it's changed the game in another way.
Speaker:Matt: And by the way, Anthony Bourdain did this as well.
Speaker:Matt: He would go to places and he would sort of show the experiences and then people began to mimic it.
Speaker:Matt: And he realized, and a lot of successful YouTubers are really realizing if I
Speaker:Matt: go and promote this restaurant, if I go to promote this tourist attraction,
Speaker:Matt: this place is going to get slammed if I do it right and I make it look good.
Speaker:Matt: And it happens. There are, there are specific restaurants I know in,
Speaker:Matt: in, in Barcelona that are largely tourists.
Speaker:Matt: Tourists go there. There's still some locals, but by and large,
Speaker:Matt: it's a lot of tourists who go and they've been sold by other Instagrammers or
Speaker:Matt: by other YouTubers, uh, to go in. So yes, I would fall down that trap.
Speaker:Matt: I would definitely use YouTube to help me sort of, sort of frame my experience.
Speaker:Matt: Uh, cause if you see one person do it, then we can mimic it and then we can go copy it.
Speaker:Matt: We used to use the voters book to find out where to go those are very good too
Speaker:Matt: but now we've got YouTube and we can see for ourselves what the experience is
Speaker:Matt: like and I preface that by saying for better or worse
Speaker:Danny: No, I agree. I wish I had usual.
Speaker:Danny: I did a backpacking trip to Australia in my early to mid 30s or 20 plus years ago.
Speaker:Danny: And it was all about, I knew one person from Australia and he was like a waiter
Speaker:Danny: at one of the diners I went to.
Speaker:Danny: So you'd say, okay, well, if you're going to New South Wales,
Speaker:Danny: you have to do this and this, but then you have to do that. But if you never
Speaker:Danny: knew that guy, I'd have no idea what to do with us now.
Speaker:Danny: I know we give a lot of sticks sometimes to YouTube and some of the creators
Speaker:Danny: on there and TikTok, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: But it's such a great platform, or these are great platforms as well,
Speaker:Danny: to help you, you know, when it comes to decisions like that, I think.
Speaker:Matt: One of the things that really comes up when I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker:Matt: Metropolis is easy. You know, I want to learn how to use public transportation.
Speaker:Matt: That's the first thing I want to learn. To leave, though, and go to the countryside,
Speaker:Matt: how am I going to do it? Can I take a train?
Speaker:Matt: Fine, I will take a train. Is there a bus? Okay. I'll take a bus.
Speaker:Matt: Do I have to rent a car? Is that easy? What side of the road do I drive on?
Speaker:Matt: You know, is there a stick shift that doesn't bother me? I have a stick shift.
Speaker:Matt: I know how to work that thing.
Speaker:Matt: These are some of the questions that get asked when I wanted to leave the metropolis
Speaker:Matt: and head to the countryside.
Speaker:Matt: I did some driving in Italy and Spain, and then I realized I wasn't necessarily
Speaker:Matt: on holiday because I found myself paying so much attention to what was going
Speaker:Matt: on on the road that I said, well, this doesn't feel as much like a holiday.
Speaker:Matt: So I learned to use public transportation wherever possible.
Speaker:Danny: Especially like if you go to Rome, there's like a massive roundabout smacking
Speaker:Danny: the middle of Rome that's a nightmare.
Speaker:Matt: I did it. You did that one? I survived it. And it's not far from the train station
Speaker:Matt: and across the street from the train station is where you can rent the cars.
Speaker:Matt: And it's like one of the first things you encounter. All I can tell you about
Speaker:Matt: driving in Italy is it's twice as bad as you've been told in Rome and only half
Speaker:Matt: as bad when you're in the countryside.
Speaker:Danny: I can imagine that. I've never been, like I've not been far out in Italy,
Speaker:Danny: but I just remember that roundabout.
Speaker:Danny: There's another one in Paris as well, near the Arc de Triomphe,
Speaker:Danny: where it's just, and my wife, she's Canadian, so she's used to doing little
Speaker:Danny: dinky roundabouts that have got two lanes tops, but normally one lane.
Speaker:Danny: And then she looks at that and she has palpitations even thinking about driving there.
Speaker:Matt: I've got one worse, and I'll throw it at her, and that's called Bermuda,
Speaker:Matt: where they've got the roundabouts, but they're going around on the left side in the other direction.
Speaker:Danny: Oh.
Speaker:Matt: So I'm a regular visitor to Bermuda, and driving on the left on a scooter is, I enjoy that.
Speaker:Matt: Actually, I really do enjoy that. And then I can deal with the roundabouts.
Speaker:Matt: You just got to be prepared to give way.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, because Bermuda, so you mentioned the left there. So I'm assuming Bermuda
Speaker:Danny: does the same side of the road driving as the UK and Australia then.
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, it's a British island.
Speaker:Danny: Oh, it's a British island. I forgot that completely.
Speaker:Matt: And listen, this is one of the cleanest places on the planet.
Speaker:Matt: They serve tea at four o'clock and everybody is dressed well.
Speaker:Danny: High tea.
Speaker:Matt: High tea is served at four.
Speaker:Danny: High tea with scones and cream and strawberries and such as.
Speaker:Danny: Oh, man. Done it again. Last week's episode, I mentioned to my guest we were talking about pizza.
Speaker:Danny: And I said, I've got to stop talking about food on the show because every time
Speaker:Danny: I do, I want to have what we're talking about after the episode finishes recording.
Speaker:Danny: Now I need to make like a scone. Well, I've not got a scone,
Speaker:Danny: but I've got muffins, English muffins. I have to try to find some cream and jam for that then.
Speaker:Danny: Thanks for that, Matt. I appreciate you making me think about food again on an episode.
Speaker:Danny: Alrighty, we're doing well. We've got to the last question. So let's see what
Speaker:Danny: question number five brings up.
Speaker:Danny: And yeah, okay. This may tie into your first answer, actually,
Speaker:Danny: about procrastination, maybe. I'm not sure.
Speaker:Danny: Anyway, Matt, question number five, mate. What's one thing that you would like
Speaker:Danny: to change about yourself? Not necessarily would, but would like to?
Speaker:Matt: Um that's a hard one and i'll tell you why it's because i i think about that a lot
Speaker:Matt: and and what i would like to be and it's
Speaker:Matt: something that i work on quite often and that's i would like to learn
Speaker:Matt: how to let go of control i have control issues and i don't have a fear of flying
Speaker:Matt: but i'm very very nervous about flying so before the plane takes off i'm saying
Speaker:Matt: a little mantras i'm calming myself down but what i learned was i don't really
Speaker:Matt: have a fear of flying i've got a control problem.
Speaker:Matt: And that's letting somebody else operate the plane to take me to my next destination.
Speaker:Matt: So which also leads to a little bit of trust issues. So there's control and trust in there.
Speaker:Matt: I'd like to learn a little bit more about being more comfortable with not being in control.
Speaker:Danny: Interesting.
Speaker:Matt: Yeah. So this goes to producing a radio show. I had to have my finger on the
Speaker:Matt: buttons. I like to be in control of what's going on.
Speaker:Matt: I like to be in control of the sound and the production. And,
Speaker:Matt: you know, it's to my detriment.
Speaker:Matt: If I could let go of a little bit more, I'd probably get more done in the day.
Speaker:Matt: If I could let go of a little bit more, things might flourish a little bit better.
Speaker:Matt: I'm kind of like the person who overwaters their plants, probably spends too
Speaker:Matt: much time hovering over a situation.
Speaker:Matt: Spends too much time over focused on
Speaker:Matt: something that just doesn't need to be doesn't need
Speaker:Matt: any attention we've written the program the program works what are we doing
Speaker:Matt: well me i like to fiddle with it a little bit more right because it because
Speaker:Matt: i'm comfortable being in control it gives me a good feeling uh i'd like to be
Speaker:Matt: told i'd like to know when to knock it off and to not worry about having a controlling moment.
Speaker:Danny: Do you think this might have, like, I'm not sure if it was like before or after?
Speaker:Danny: Obviously, you've spent many, many years in production, you know, in the media space.
Speaker:Danny: Was that a trait that you had prior to going into that?
Speaker:Danny: Or do you think you picked that up as you learned more and you started to control
Speaker:Danny: more of productions, you know, studios, et cetera?
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, that's a good question. So I would probably...
Speaker:Matt: I think I've been to enough therapy to know that I got into radio in this particular
Speaker:Matt: space because there were things that I could control.
Speaker:Matt: And because I could control what was going on the radio or what the content
Speaker:Matt: was or the direction we'd be headed,
Speaker:Matt: that led me to being a manager, which led me to running radio stations and then
Speaker:Matt: starting my own company and having degrees of control over it.
Speaker:Matt: And, yeah, I mean, it's something that was ingrained at me at a younger age
Speaker:Matt: where I wanted to sort of have or exert a little bit of control.
Speaker:Matt: So I'm not controlling in a sense of I'm going to control this relationship
Speaker:Matt: or I'm going to control the outcome of something. I just like to have my hands on the wheel.
Speaker:Danny: Now, that makes me wonder. So obviously you've got various podcasts,
Speaker:Danny: you produce various podcasts.
Speaker:Danny: And one of the ones you do is podcast Super Friends with you and for co-hosts normally.
Speaker:Danny: And you, not control, you produce that.
Speaker:Danny: Would you be willing to hand the reins over to one of the other co-hosts to
Speaker:Danny: produce that or would that have to be you?
Speaker:Matt: So we actually had a guest on from Riverside, Kendall, who is the community manager there.
Speaker:Matt: So it only makes sense that we would use Riverside in order to record this episode.
Speaker:Matt: So happy to let that go. Yeah, I would totally let that go and let somebody else do it.
Speaker:Matt: I would probably find a little bit of joy for a day. But there's a little bit
Speaker:Matt: of that rush that when I'm sort of driving, I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker:Matt: there's a little bit of a rush there to how we're going to be producing with
Speaker:Matt: five or six people on the screen.
Speaker:Matt: And is it all going to work? And what are we going to bring in at what point?
Speaker:Matt: But yeah, I'd be more than happy to pass it off now because I'm running the recording system.
Speaker:Matt: We do share hosting duties. And I think that's, that's part of it is just,
Speaker:Matt: you know, maybe today I should let go.
Speaker:Matt: What can I let go of today that will serve the greater good of our group?
Speaker:Matt: And by the way, that's something that I've had to learn in my thirties,
Speaker:Matt: late twenties, into my third, especially in my younger thirties was just,
Speaker:Matt: just to let go a little bit.
Speaker:Matt: But eventually I found my way to a yoga mat and they really,
Speaker:Matt: really taught me how to let go just to this, let that go into the universe and
Speaker:Matt: it's going to be okay. And they didn't lie.
Speaker:Matt: Everything's fine. It's going to be okay. And it, you know, it's also my,
Speaker:Matt: my dad, my late father, he, he, he would say to me, um, after I would come back
Speaker:Matt: from a day's work of blah, blah, blah, this, this, this, this,
Speaker:Matt: and this, all this is wrong in my life.
Speaker:Matt: And he would say, you know what, it's going to be okay. Why don't you just let
Speaker:Matt: that go? It doesn't matter.
Speaker:Matt: You'd be surprised by the number of things that we worry about that just don't matter.
Speaker:Matt: And I'm still learning that I'm still to say, and now often I find myself just
Speaker:Matt: saying to Pete, to my kids too,
Speaker:Matt: you know, that doesn't matter you know when i see somebody riled up or and especially
Speaker:Matt: in this day and age post pandemic seeing people on the street or they go off
Speaker:Matt: and there's a tweet or this or that
Speaker:Matt: you'd be surprised how that doesn't matter and i find myself telling other people
Speaker:Matt: this stuff and sometimes i also have to tell myself that too no
Speaker:Danny: It's funny you mentioned that like um like i say we live in a little village
Speaker:Danny: um but we moved here from just north just west of toronto a few years back.
Speaker:Danny: So we went from a big place to a really small place.
Speaker:Danny: So it took a bit of a mindset change to adapt to that. And one of the things
Speaker:Danny: that we have up here is like because we've got a lot of snow in the winter,
Speaker:Danny: we have a lot of trails, etc.
Speaker:Danny: So there's a lot of snowmobilers, I guess. And it took me, and even now sometimes
Speaker:Danny: if someone goes by and the snowmobile is just a little bit loud,
Speaker:Danny: I think, oh, turn that down. You don't need that loud. But I'm thinking, but who cares?
Speaker:Danny: You know, you're not hurting anyone. You're not, or my wife says that to me, I should say.
Speaker:Danny: But who are they hurting? They're not doing drugs. and not terrorizing pensioners
Speaker:Danny: or out on their snowmobiles enjoying the outdoors. What's bad about that?
Speaker:Danny: So I get you. And it's like you say, it's hard to, when you've been so long
Speaker:Danny: of one mindset, it's hard to try to forget it at times that,
Speaker:Danny: you know, don't let that upset you.
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, we used to have these discussions in radio where we get together and we
Speaker:Matt: say, well, this is the way it's done and this is the way it should be.
Speaker:Matt: And we get hung up on it and then the results wouldn't be there.
Speaker:Matt: And one of the things I learned was just, let's try somebody else's idea.
Speaker:Matt: Even if it's bad, Let's try the idea. One of two things is going to happen.
Speaker:Matt: It's going to be bad and we will then know it is bad or it's going to work out and be good.
Speaker:Matt: But both the results are great because you get feedback.
Speaker:Danny: And you might get a really awesome outcome for that change.
Speaker:Matt: Yeah. So as controlling as I am, as much as I know that I like to be in control
Speaker:Matt: of things, I like trying other ideas as well because you never know.
Speaker:Matt: And if I knew, then I would know. But I just have to admit, sometimes I just don't know.
Speaker:Danny: No, I like that. And I feel that's a nice one to finish off your time in the hot seat, mate.
Speaker:Danny: But speaking of handing over control and, you know, driving the train or driving
Speaker:Danny: the car, whatever, I've had you in the hot seat for around about 40 minutes or so there, mate.
Speaker:Danny: So it's only fair to take that pressure off and hand over the question asking baton to you.
Speaker:Matt: So I gave some thought to this one. And then about just between question three
Speaker:Matt: and question four, I thought, oh, I see.
Speaker:Matt: This is, yeah, Danny gets on about food and I've got a food question.
Speaker:Danny: He's swine. I'm going to edit this as no be no guest question this week.
Speaker:Matt: Well, I brought it back up. So I may let you pass on this one,
Speaker:Matt: but I know that you're in Huntsville, Ontario, and I know the region well.
Speaker:Matt: It can be cold, especially over the last number of weeks, some long nights,
Speaker:Matt: cold ones. And I'm wondering what your favorite comfort food dish is on a cold
Speaker:Matt: night in Huntsville, Ontario.
Speaker:Matt: And how do you make it if you do make it yourself?
Speaker:Danny: Ooh. So generally, if I'm looking for comfort food, I might just get something from a drive-thru.
Speaker:Danny: But it's too much effort to get out there, especially in the winter, to do that.
Speaker:Danny: So I guess my comfort food, the one I like, which is fairly easy to make as well.
Speaker:Danny: I will do, and this is going to sound disgusting, it's like a Scottish thing,
Speaker:Danny: so it probably is disgusting.
Speaker:Danny: So I like warm food, if comfort is going to be warm, for one.
Speaker:Danny: So I'll make some toast, so that's pretty easy.
Speaker:Danny: And then I'll get some cold meat, so it can be ham, it can be turkey slices, whatever it is.
Speaker:Danny: And I'll bang that in and warm that up. And then I'll throw on some hot sauce
Speaker:Danny: and mush that in with that.
Speaker:Danny: Throw on a lot of mayonnaise, but that's got to be hot and warm as well.
Speaker:Danny: And so you, depending on what you want to do you can slice the meat up and throw
Speaker:Danny: it in the mail and like put that in the microwave and heat that up,
Speaker:Danny: and then get some little, so once you get the toast and you've got all this
Speaker:Danny: meat that's on there and if you want to put more hot sauce on,
Speaker:Danny: you'll do that, throw it on there as well so it's nice and hot and spicy,
Speaker:Danny: but then, and this is the disgusting part,
Speaker:Danny: I'll get chips or crisps as I call them, but chips so it can be any flavour
Speaker:Danny: but I tend to like just a plain one because you've already got the flavour on
Speaker:Danny: there and dip the the chip into the bread and the sandwich or the toast or what
Speaker:Danny: you've got made there and scoop that up and just eat that.
Speaker:Danny: And sometimes just if I'm feeling really lazy, I won't even bother making toast.
Speaker:Danny: It'll just be like the bread with all that stuff on it and then crinkle up a
Speaker:Danny: bunch of chips, sprinkle that on top and then fold the bread over it and then
Speaker:Danny: eat it that way. And that would be my comfort food.
Speaker:Danny: There's no name for it, just a hot shot mess.
Speaker:Matt: Okay, excellent. I like that. And I love how you walked us through each step to do this.
Speaker:Danny: Well, I'm sure you want to make this now. You know, you're going to come off
Speaker:Danny: this recording, mate. You might have some work to do this afternoon,
Speaker:Danny: but you're going to come off this recording.
Speaker:Danny: And I know you're going to make that. And you're going to tell me exactly how
Speaker:Danny: much awesomeness it was.
Speaker:Matt: So I'm finding that a lot of my comfort food does revolve around bread.
Speaker:Matt: And there's something in bread. It must be the sugars or something that has
Speaker:Matt: me coming back all the time.
Speaker:Matt: And of course, every once in a while, I need to, you know, slow down and
Speaker:Matt: maybe eat something that doesn't involve bread. And that's kind of the week that I'm in this week.
Speaker:Matt: We're just having a no carbs kind of week. But I find when I get hungry and
Speaker:Matt: I get a craving, it generally involves something, you know, bread.
Speaker:Matt: And what's better than a sandwich? Who doesn't have a favorite sandwich of some
Speaker:Matt: sort that they can rely on? And who wouldn't eat a sandwich every day for lunch if they could?
Speaker:Danny: Oh, that's it. My favorite, and I used to hear it as well. My mom would make
Speaker:Danny: cheese and onion sandwiches for my dad.
Speaker:Danny: So slices of cheese, sliced onion, and then just throw it on top of the cheese,
Speaker:Danny: butter, big, thick Scottish bread, and then serve that up.
Speaker:Danny: And I got to like onion because of my mom making these sandwiches years and years ago.
Speaker:Matt: You know, Scotland has some of the most unique stuff in the world.
Speaker:Matt: I was waiting for something involving haggis. I was wondering if haggis would show up.
Speaker:Matt: There's also the deep fried and the battered Mars bar.
Speaker:Matt: Battering a whole bunch of stuff and seeing whatever comes out of it.
Speaker:Matt: So that's why I sort of reserved this question for you and put it off to the
Speaker:Matt: side because I knew I would get something unique.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, I would make. I guess it's really hard to get here and battering stuff.
Speaker:Danny: It's just, it takes too much time. For me, I'm lazy. If I want something really
Speaker:Danny: fast and comfort, I just want it quick.
Speaker:Danny: So that's why microwave, bread, toast, whatever, meat, mayo, you're good to go.
Speaker:Danny: But I don't know, I appreciate the fact that now I will probably have to go
Speaker:Danny: make myself some food again.
Speaker:Matt: Well, of course, we're going to conclude this show and then we're going to go make food.
Speaker:Danny: Exactly. Maybe even some of that comfort food. So I appreciate that,
Speaker:Danny: Matt, and I appreciate you being on the Random Question hot seat today.
Speaker:Danny: For anybody that wants to check out your production stuff and your media stuff,
Speaker:Danny: listen to your podcast, watch the videos that you do, or maybe even get in touch
Speaker:Danny: with you to work with you, where's the best place to connect,
Speaker:Danny: reach out, all that good stuff?
Speaker:Matt: All the podcasts we make are at soundoff.network and my podcast is a Sound Off
Speaker:Matt: podcast, which you can find at soundoffpodcast.com.
Speaker:Danny: That sounded super professional. You've done this before, Matt.
Speaker:Matt: Yeah, I didn't even mention that I do voiceover.
Speaker:Danny: I was going to say you do voiceover work as well. And I will leave links to
Speaker:Danny: Matt's voiceover page, if that's okay.
Speaker:Matt: That's great. You can find that at mattcundlevoice.com.
Speaker:Danny: And there you go. And you've got a sample, so you know exactly what you're going to get.
Speaker:Danny: As always, I will leave links to that in the episode show notes.
Speaker:Danny: So whatever app you're listening on, or even you're listening on the website,
Speaker:Danny: check out the episode show notes. All the good stuff will be there.
Speaker:Danny: So again, Matt, thanks for appearing on today's 5 Random Questions.
Speaker:Matt: Thanks for having me.
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Speaker:Danny: Until the next time, keep asking those questions.
