Rye Voss: One House, Two Words = Meltdown
This week on 5 Random Questions, podcaster and amateur beekeeper Rye Voss talks about letting kids just be children while they can, did the CIA plant media operatives, how two simple words can break a household, why he wants to revisit his 22 year old self, and more.
Answering the questions this week: Rye Voss
Rye the Codega is the host of Codega’s Codex of Curiosities, a podcast exploring high strangeness, ancient civilizations, hidden histories, and the spiritual forces that shape human experience. A researcher and storyteller by nature, Rye approaches fringe and controversial topics with curiosity, discernment, and a commitment to thoughtful conversation. He is a husband, father, and beekeeper who has returned to walking the path with Christ, grounding his work in faith while encouraging listeners to question narratives, think critically, and seek understanding for themselves.
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Further reading for this episode
- Arab Spring | History, Revolution, Causes, Effects, & Facts | Britannica
- User Clip: CIA Operation Mockingbird | Video | C-SPAN.org
- O-R (IV-FF), Project MOCKINGBIRD - Telephone Tap of Newspaper Columnists
- Antarctica = Atlantis? : r/GrahamHancock
- Hitler's Secret Expedition to Antarctica | HISTORY
- Did Hitler have a base in the Antarctic? : Nature News
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Rye: But if people are attacking you and they start saying, oh, you were you were the other side then.
Speaker:Rye: No, no, no, I'm not. I'm just a realist. I can see things for what they truly are.
Speaker:Rye: And we all need to do that. We all need to be to hold people more like the accountability
Speaker:Rye: is lost, completely lost now these days.
Speaker:Rye: And people just follow blindly. And that's that's the biggest issue.
Speaker:Danny: Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show with unexpected questions and unfiltered answers.
Speaker:Danny: I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests 5 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 Rye Vos. Rye is the host of Corriga's Codex of Curiosities,
Speaker:Danny: a podcast exploring high strangeness, ancient civilizations,
Speaker:Danny: hidden histories, and the spiritual forces that shape human experience.
Speaker:Danny: A researcher and storyteller by nature, Rye approaches fringe and controversial
Speaker:Danny: topics with curiosity, discernment, and a commitment to thoughtful conversation.
Speaker:Danny: He's a husband, father, and beekeeper who's returned to walking the path with
Speaker:Danny: Christ, grounding his work in faith while encouraging listeners to question
Speaker:Danny: narratives, think critically, and seek understanding for themselves.
Speaker:Danny: So, Rye, welcome to 5 Random Questions.
Speaker:Rye: Thank you so much for having me on, Danny. I'm really looking forward to this
Speaker:Rye: and to the unexpected questions that we'll be facing today.
Speaker:Danny: You're very welcome. and your podcast, as I was explaining there in the intro,
Speaker:Danny: it's one of these that truly can have something for everyone because of the
Speaker:Danny: topics and niche involved.
Speaker:Danny: And as a history fan or a fan of history myself, I'm curious,
Speaker:Danny: one of the ones you mentioned, one of the topics is hidden histories.
Speaker:Danny: So I'm curious, is there a hidden history you've covered that really blew your
Speaker:Danny: mind when you were digging into it?
Speaker:Rye: Well, I have guests on who have, I let my guests do all that digging and I get
Speaker:Rye: to listen to it, But I would definitely have to say that the top two would be
Speaker:Rye: Atlantis and Antarctica, actually.
Speaker:Rye: And Antarctica comes up so often because of the elusiveness and the secrecy that surrounds it.
Speaker:Rye: And I'll go with Antarctica, actually, because the more and more I find out
Speaker:Rye: about it, the more interesting it gets, such as.
Speaker:Rye: Prior to World War Two, the Nazis were investigating Antarctica and they conducted
Speaker:Rye: many missions there and they actually set up bases as well.
Speaker:Rye: Now, leaked information that was discovered was diving charts and instructions
Speaker:Rye: for submarines to enter below the ice and enter into what some might call inner earth.
Speaker:Rye: Some people might say, oh, this is inner earth, when in fact it's just finding,
Speaker:Rye: the best way to say it is bubbles under the ice created by geothermal volcanoes
Speaker:Rye: that have created these large cavities under the ice.
Speaker:Rye: And the Nazis had found a way to enter into these.
Speaker:Rye: And we're talking very specific diving charts, like what degrees they need to
Speaker:Rye: go down when they come back up.
Speaker:Rye: It is really crazy that these types of things were discovered.
Speaker:Rye: And it's kind of like that's the type of information you don't really hear much about.
Speaker:Rye: And then you actually are presented with these documents that show it.
Speaker:Rye: And it blows your mind because when people hear inner earth,
Speaker:Rye: you know, they think of the movies, you know, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Speaker:Rye: Well, this could be considered that. Some people would consider that as inner
Speaker:Rye: earth or center of the earth when it's fact you're just accessing a landmass
Speaker:Rye: that's just covered with ice.
Speaker:Rye: But you're just going through caves is more or less through caves and rivers is what you're doing.
Speaker:Danny: And I wonder what they're because obviously the Nazis were very known for their
Speaker:Danny: interest in their cult or Hitler's interest in their cult. I wonder if that
Speaker:Danny: was part of what they were looking
Speaker:Danny: for there, what secrets could they pull from, you know, inner earth.
Speaker:Rye: Well, there's a lot of theories and that's what those other speculation theories.
Speaker:Rye: And I love diving into them.
Speaker:Rye: But to find the actual truth behind it, that is a little more hidden as to what was there.
Speaker:Rye: Like, of course, there's rumors that there was crashed UFOs.
Speaker:Rye: There was an advanced civilization. And the advanced civilization,
Speaker:Rye: this is actually more of my belief, is that was a branch of Atlantis that was
Speaker:Rye: living in Antarctica in this inner Earth.
Speaker:Rye: If you look at the Roman Empire, it wasn't just in Rome. It wasn't just in Italy.
Speaker:Rye: It expanded out completely.
Speaker:Rye: So it wasn't like, oh, when you talk about the Roman Empire,
Speaker:Rye: you don't say it's just here.
Speaker:Rye: It expanded to these other satellites. So when you talk about Atlantis,
Speaker:Rye: it had expanded its reach much further out, including that there is strong evidence
Speaker:Rye: in Mexico, where I live here, of influence from Atlanteans.
Speaker:Rye: You know, they talk about their historical ancestors coming from Atlas.
Speaker:Rye: Atlas, which is Atlantis.
Speaker:Rye: It's clear as day when you go to some of these historical or these archaeological
Speaker:Rye: sites, there is places there's like the House of the Atlantean that literally says that.
Speaker:Rye: Why did that traverse across the oceans to these locations that...
Speaker:Rye: We would think wouldn't have any knowledge of it, but there is.
Speaker:Rye: So that's what I think actually Atlantis is, is a break-off civilization that
Speaker:Rye: survived cataclysmic events, and they were much more advanced than us.
Speaker:Danny: No, it's fascinating. And as you say, because of the underwater aspect,
Speaker:Danny: the ability to travel further distances, as opposed to trying to walk on land, big difference.
Speaker:Danny: So yeah, I love history, but I also love supernatural and, you know,
Speaker:Danny: unexplained, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: So, you know, I've got your podcast on my list for one to really binge on.
Speaker:Danny: I've got a few days off next week, so I'm looking for spikes from Ontario,
Speaker:Danny: Canada next week. There we go, there we go. There you go.
Speaker:Danny: And quickly, I'd also mention there, you're a beekeeper.
Speaker:Rye: Yes.
Speaker:Danny: Now, is this beekeeper or is this Jason Statham type beekeeper and you're an
Speaker:Danny: ex-CIA operative that, you know, takes out the trash?
Speaker:Rye: Yeah, that's funny. No, it's literal beekeeper.
Speaker:Rye: I've always wanted to get involved with bees. When I was in Canada,
Speaker:Rye: I used to live in Canada as well.
Speaker:Rye: I always wanted to get involved with bees, but I never made that jump. I didn't have a place.
Speaker:Rye: And then, you know, jump forward to now when my father-in-law has some land
Speaker:Rye: and definitely a spot to put some bees on.
Speaker:Rye: And a good friend of mine was raising bees. And I was like, oh,
Speaker:Rye: this looks awesome. I love this.
Speaker:Rye: And he kind of pushed me forward. He's like, well, let's go get you some bees.
Speaker:Rye: I know the guy is selling them.
Speaker:Rye: He's selling them for real cheap. We'll go buy you some bees.
Speaker:Rye: And sure enough, I bought two colonies and put them on the property.
Speaker:Rye: And last year was my first year harvesting honey. So it was quite an experience.
Speaker:Rye: And you get to actually know your bees. It's strange. You feel the vibe, the vibration.
Speaker:Rye: And, you know, we always talk about, everybody talks about, oh,
Speaker:Rye: everything's in vibrations and whatnot. But they truly do create vibrations when they're buzzing.
Speaker:Rye: And you can feel it. And you can feel when they're getting aggressive.
Speaker:Rye: You can feel when they're calm. There are many times when they're extremely
Speaker:Rye: calm and I just hang out there and just watch them. And it's just amazing.
Speaker:Danny: I can imagine. It's like you said, they've got their own little patterns,
Speaker:Danny: vibration patterns, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: So you can tell when Steve is getting a bit aggressive, you know,
Speaker:Danny: to pull him back and sort it out.
Speaker:Danny: I mean, I love the fact that you connect with nature that way. You know, it's awesome.
Speaker:Danny: And bees are such a core part to human existence, which sometimes we forget,
Speaker:Danny: I feel. So it's great to see that for sure.
Speaker:Rye: Awesome. Thank you. Yes.
Speaker:Danny: You're very welcome. And one thing will also be great to see for sure,
Speaker:Danny: with such a tenuous link there to the next stage, is our random question generator.
Speaker:Danny: So, Rye, are you ready for me to bring up the generator and jump into your time in the hot seat?
Speaker:Rye: Let's do it.
Speaker:Danny: Okay, here we go. Question number one. What is one thing you would change about your home? Yeah.
Speaker:Rye: About my home, I would definitely say this house that I'm living in right now,
Speaker:Rye: I would love to have some green space.
Speaker:Rye: The house that we're living in, because like I said, we're living in Mexico.
Speaker:Rye: Sometimes it's not so common to have a yard and you and the houses are always so tight.
Speaker:Rye: There's no room. So we don't have a yard. We have three stories and no yard.
Speaker:Rye: And it's at first I was like, oh, yeah, it's no problem, no problem,
Speaker:Rye: because I have my father-in-law's land that I can go to.
Speaker:Rye: But it's, you know, it's difficult just to get away.
Speaker:Rye: You'd rather just step outside, step into the yard, put your feet on the grass and just enjoy that.
Speaker:Rye: Also, it's very common here if you do have a yard to have a little like pool, swimming pool.
Speaker:Rye: We call them plunge pools because they're usually no circulation.
Speaker:Rye: You just kind of fill it up with water, maintain it with chlorine,
Speaker:Rye: and you vacuum out as necessary.
Speaker:Rye: And we had another house that we lived at, and we sold that one.
Speaker:Rye: We wanted to be closer to my wife's family.
Speaker:Rye: And so now we are here, and there's no yard.
Speaker:Rye: So it's something that, in essence, you're living in an apartment.
Speaker:Rye: Even though it's a house, it's
Speaker:Rye: kind of like an apartment. And it's just concrete and it gets a little...
Speaker:Rye: Uh draining sometimes you know we are putting in a lot more plants outside and
Speaker:Rye: inside but that it does it's a little bit of a part for that to kind of try
Speaker:Rye: to offset that uh that deficit.
Speaker:Rye: But unfortunately yeah no yard no green space yeah.
Speaker:Danny: I know when um and we were talking in the green room before coming
Speaker:Danny: on and i mentioned uh you used to be in canada i'm here
Speaker:Danny: in canada in ontario um we used to live in in
Speaker:Danny: toronto or close to toronto it was like big cities big you know apartment block
Speaker:Danny: etc and one of the things that we did really appreciate when we
Speaker:Danny: moved where we are now is yard green space
Speaker:Danny: trees etc completely hear you on that is there um is it an opportunity for you
Speaker:Danny: to i know a lot of people um depending on ownership rights etc uh sometimes
Speaker:Danny: build yards on their roofs have you got a flat roof for example and put you
Speaker:Danny: know foliage and grass etc up there
Speaker:Rye: There is a possibility but it can
Speaker:Rye: degrade the actual roof like we'd have to maybe engineer
Speaker:Rye: it and it's kind of it would be very difficult yes
Speaker:Rye: we do have flat roof we do have a large i'm gonna
Speaker:Rye: say large but we have a large patio on the on the third floor you know we have
Speaker:Rye: one room on the third floor and you can exit out and then we have like a covered
Speaker:Rye: patio but unfortunately we barely ever use that area due to one of the main
Speaker:Rye: things is the sun here is so intense,
Speaker:Rye: that it just makes it unbearable at times, you know, at night, yes, it would be great.
Speaker:Rye: But again, we run into an issue, as I said, that the sun here is so unbearable,
Speaker:Rye: the sun will destroy anything that you put out there.
Speaker:Rye: So we don't have any furniture out there.
Speaker:Rye: Like, it's so incredible how fast the sun will break down things.
Speaker:Rye: If you have like plastic chairs, you know everybody's like
Speaker:Rye: oh plastic will last a lifetime not here it actually
Speaker:Rye: breaks down extremely fast it becomes
Speaker:Rye: very brittle and it just destroys any type
Speaker:Rye: of fabric it will destroy you know aluminum
Speaker:Rye: is okay if you put aluminum up here but what
Speaker:Rye: kind of furniture you're making out of aluminum um so even
Speaker:Rye: if you if people like oh why don't you put covers over okay but
Speaker:Rye: then the covers will become disposables is in
Speaker:Rye: essence what you need to consider um
Speaker:Rye: so that that is an issue i really would
Speaker:Rye: like to maybe cover the patio more uh we have we it is covered but it's kind
Speaker:Rye: of like a see-through covering i'd like to extend it out further and then make
Speaker:Rye: it solid um so it's not so the sunlight cannot come through and maybe then it
Speaker:Rye: will become much more usable yeah.
Speaker:Danny: I can all imagine um i mean i've only been to mexico on vacation i can imagine
Speaker:Danny: living there how you know how hot it could be and the difficulties that that
Speaker:Danny: can bring you know when uh you're trying to plan for as you say yard space foliage
Speaker:Danny: furniture anything you know any entertainment places i guess
Speaker:Rye: Extremely like the for instance here in we'll say the month of may is the hottest
Speaker:Rye: it's going to be one of the hottest months um that we will have and uh just
Speaker:Rye: for example the temperatures that will be hitting.
Speaker:Rye: If we take into account the Humidex, it will be hitting above 50.
Speaker:Rye: On average, you know, normal without the Humidex, it'll be somewhere in the
Speaker:Rye: 40s, usually around 44 degrees Celsius.
Speaker:Rye: And I try as best as possible to not use the air conditioning here because it's,
Speaker:Rye: it's too drastic of a change. You have the AC and then you go outside and it's
Speaker:Rye: just like, oh, I can't do this.
Speaker:Rye: Or certain areas of the house, you don't have AC because it's not central AC.
Speaker:Rye: It's just these mini splits that just do rooms.
Speaker:Rye: And then you exit and you're like, oh, I can't do this. So just to become more
Speaker:Rye: accustomed to it, we try not to use the AC as much.
Speaker:Rye: Though right now I have the AC on because I didn't want to have the fan blowing
Speaker:Rye: on me and disrupting the sound on here.
Speaker:Danny: I appreciate you doing that I could have fixed it in post as we mentioned as
Speaker:Danny: both podcasters but I appreciate you doing that yeah a parent with two kids
Speaker:Danny: when we moved here were young kids
Speaker:Danny: and then the pandemic hit etc it was nice to have some yardage to just let them
Speaker:Danny: play in the back and keep them active so I hope you managed to get that for
Speaker:Danny: sure and maybe we can bandy all our listeners together and send some worker
Speaker:Danny: bees over to help you get that set up for you
Speaker:Danny: what we will do though is we will have a look at question number two.
Speaker:Danny: Question number two, what do you miss most about being a kid?
Speaker:Rye: That's a great question. It's something that I think we, maybe some of us not,
Speaker:Rye: we don't think about, we kind of overlook that.
Speaker:Rye: But I would say maybe the lack of care and responsibilities,
Speaker:Rye: I would say the lack of care of what's going on further outside of your smaller world.
Speaker:Rye: You know, we as kids, you know, it's like, what's for lunch?
Speaker:Rye: I'm going to go play with Bobby. I'm going to play with Joe.
Speaker:Rye: It's not what's happening in these other countries.
Speaker:Rye: What type of political discourse is happening over here?
Speaker:Rye: What type of issues are we having over here?
Speaker:Rye: You're not worrying about putting food on the table. You're not worrying about any of that.
Speaker:Rye: You, you're, you're much more, it's much more simpler times and you just want
Speaker:Rye: to hang out with your friends and you don't care about, I mean, this is a nice way.
Speaker:Rye: Like you don't care about your friends or what they are per se.
Speaker:Rye: Like you are friends because you guys get along and you have a good time.
Speaker:Rye: You're not saying, well, well, you're, you're a Democrat or you're Republican
Speaker:Rye: or you're a liberal and you're a conservative.
Speaker:Rye: I can't be friends with you or something like that. it's just
Speaker:Rye: like oh hey do you got a bike yeah i got a bike
Speaker:Rye: let's go to the park and you go
Speaker:Rye: to the park and you play on the playground and he just there's not
Speaker:Rye: this built i don't
Speaker:Rye: know i don't say prejudice but sometimes there is these prejudices that slowly
Speaker:Rye: evolve um with maybe different types of scenarios and different you know the
Speaker:Rye: media is is pushing you one way and pushing you this way And it creates this
Speaker:Rye: division and this divisiveness between us all.
Speaker:Rye: But as a kid, and I'm talking about when I was a kid, because now I see a lot
Speaker:Rye: of children on cell phones and mobile devices.
Speaker:Rye: But when I was a kid, we didn't have any of that.
Speaker:Rye: Call your friend on the phone, the landline, and hey, let's go to the park.
Speaker:Rye: Hey, you want to come over and let's play?
Speaker:Rye: Yes, let's do that. So I would say would be just the carefree,
Speaker:Rye: the carefreeness that we had, just the lack of concern of not,
Speaker:Rye: I don't want to say real world problems, but of maybe of adulting.
Speaker:Rye: It's just to be a kid and be carefree. And I make sure I try to do that with my daughter.
Speaker:Rye: I want her to not have the concerns that I have.
Speaker:Rye: I kind of want to shield her from any of these things that she should not be
Speaker:Rye: worrying about at this time.
Speaker:Rye: And it's just be a kid and enjoy those times.
Speaker:Rye: And don't worry about, like, I'm not letting her watch the news or anything like that.
Speaker:Rye: I will let her know if there's things that she needs to know.
Speaker:Rye: But other than that just to have fun and just to not have these this fear yeah
Speaker:Rye: that would be it maybe this these fear that uh that is just not necessary for children.
Speaker:Danny: No i and i hear you on the like the i guess like the tech side i'm uh i love
Speaker:Danny: tech um i'm a nerd i love geeky stuff but i also understand how that's changed
Speaker:Danny: children and how that's you know very different like you I didn't have, we didn't have phones,
Speaker:Danny: we had landlines, but that was it, you didn't have mobile phones.
Speaker:Danny: I think the earliest tech that I ever had was at a job, it was a pager,
Speaker:Danny: that shows you how old I am.
Speaker:Danny: So, yeah, trying to keep our kids, give them access to phones,
Speaker:Danny: but also warn them of the dangers of it, and then, like you say,
Speaker:Danny: protect them from what can be some very horrible things that go on in the world.
Speaker:Danny: It's always that, I've got two teens now, and it's always that sort of balancing
Speaker:Danny: act, where you miss when you're younger, and to your point, right?
Speaker:Danny: Just carefree all they worried about was okay I'm on my bike I'm going to go
Speaker:Danny: down to the beach I'm going to meet my friends there and we're going to you
Speaker:Danny: know jump into the lake or whatever you know and now it's less so and
Speaker:Danny: I feel there's so much easier access now as well that can take away innocence and, you know,
Speaker:Danny: drive certain narratives that can guide kids that might not have experience
Speaker:Danny: of being shown that narrative to follow that narrative, whether it's right or
Speaker:Danny: wrong for them. And I kind of rambled there. I apologize.
Speaker:Rye: No, no worries.
Speaker:Danny: It's a long-winded way of saying, yeah, I completely agree. And what do you
Speaker:Danny: feel is the way, the best way that, you know, we can continue to,
Speaker:Danny: like you mentioned yourself or your daughter, you know, there's ways that you can share, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: Is that what we just all need to do and then try our best to shield from the
Speaker:Danny: stuff that they don't need to access at the moment
Speaker:Rye: I think so to a degree because you
Speaker:Rye: don't want all of a sudden them to be just smacked on
Speaker:Rye: the side of the head with hey now
Speaker:Rye: this is this is what's going on i think a gentle
Speaker:Rye: like as they grow older slowly allow
Speaker:Rye: them in but allow them a space to make up
Speaker:Rye: their own mind um and not to be you
Speaker:Rye: know to make to make common sense choices and not to
Speaker:Rye: be influenced by and i'll say this over and over again especially because of
Speaker:Rye: my podcast i always just i i tried to take everything with a grain of salt especially
Speaker:Rye: with the media and and one thing i learned is and i get into conspiracy things
Speaker:Rye: but this is true was something called operation,
Speaker:Rye: mockingbird where they infiltrated the media with cia plants and what they did is it was so successful,
Speaker:Rye: that they said they stopped doing it was so successful we stopped doing it um
Speaker:Rye: so we have to be careful and i i say that when you're and so this is what i'm
Speaker:Rye: getting the point to is is when you're watching media always say whenever they
Speaker:Rye: give you a story say maybe.
Speaker:Rye: Maybe, you know, the, this is happening.
Speaker:Rye: Maybe this is happening. Maybe don't take everything they say as truth.
Speaker:Rye: You should always do your own research.
Speaker:Rye: And that's what I want to, you know, to instill in my daughter is,
Speaker:Rye: yeah, you'll hear these things. Like she, she does watch YouTube and she's like,
Speaker:Rye: oh, they said this and this.
Speaker:Rye: Okay. Now go look, look further.
Speaker:Rye: Is that the truth? Or is that just being embellished?
Speaker:Rye: And uh or is that a flat out lie and so it's very important to take your time
Speaker:Rye: when you're doing these kinds of things and just to you know just approach things
Speaker:Rye: logically and so like i was saying is i want my daughter to slowly be able to
Speaker:Rye: question things and look into things herself
Speaker:Rye: but i don't want her to be just smacked over the head with it it's kind of like
Speaker:Rye: okay it's time to introduce a little bit more and a little bit more and we have
Speaker:Rye: been it's not like we shield her 100 percent she doesn't know what she's what's
Speaker:Rye: happening it's like okay here we go here's a little bit more this is what's
Speaker:Rye: going on what do you feel about this you know and then you know you need to
Speaker:Rye: look into these things yourself and that's what we do and.
Speaker:Danny: I like the question of what do you feel about this because that's a great talking
Speaker:Danny: point you know instigator for children that may not want to talk but there's
Speaker:Danny: less pressure when you mention it what do you feel about it because now it's
Speaker:Danny: opening up their feelings and now we can talk talk about that So I really like that.
Speaker:Danny: And obviously, don't trust GPT as your main source of, you know,
Speaker:Danny: your main source of research and contact, etc.
Speaker:Danny: Because that's just driven by humans anyway. So it's all coming from the same
Speaker:Danny: place. But yeah, I like that. I like that. It's a nice question.
Speaker:Danny: And I appreciate the answer for that. And it's time to appreciate question number three.
Speaker:Danny: Okay, question three. I feel this maybe kind of builds on the second question a little bit.
Speaker:Danny: Question number three, right? What has been or what was the best moment of your life?
Speaker:Rye: Ooh, this is a very tough question because there's a lot of moments. Yeah.
Speaker:Rye: Probably one of the best moments was, you know, and of course,
Speaker:Rye: everybody says this was the, but it was the birth of my daughter.
Speaker:Rye: It changed absolutely everything.
Speaker:Rye: And, and it was, she became my greatest teacher, so to speak.
Speaker:Rye: It's, uh, I, I never knew how much I didn't know until you have a child.
Speaker:Rye: And so once you have a child or a child of your own, you realize you don't know squat.
Speaker:Rye: And no matter how much you try to prepare yourself, the moment until giving
Speaker:Rye: birth, like life did change when my wife was pregnant, things did change,
Speaker:Rye: we know we're expecting.
Speaker:Rye: Once that baby comes, that's when everything, everything changes.
Speaker:Rye: And, and it sounds, it's like an, it's so anecdotal and it's so everybody says
Speaker:Rye: that it's so, um, it's just so common for people to say that,
Speaker:Rye: but it is absolutely true.
Speaker:Rye: Um, my life changed completely. And I feel at some point I was,
Speaker:Rye: and I still fought some things.
Speaker:Rye: I still took time to, to learn and some things I just wanted everything just to be normal and insane.
Speaker:Rye: I mean, and sane, but now, now it's kind of gone into insane sometimes,
Speaker:Rye: you know, there's so many more things that you need to look into.
Speaker:Rye: And it's not just a quick search on Google.
Speaker:Rye: Okay, there's my answer. And, and I, and I did that in the beginning.
Speaker:Rye: It's like, Oh, okay, that's my answer. But you can't do that.
Speaker:Rye: You got to dive deeper in so many things.
Speaker:Rye: And that's what kind of started this journey as well. You know,
Speaker:Rye: I have always, I've always questioned things, but it would be that I made some
Speaker:Rye: big mistakes in the beginning.
Speaker:Rye: And now I've really learned that I can't, I can't wing it.
Speaker:Rye: I got to, I got to really take my time. So that was, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker:Rye: The most amazing thing in my life was my daughter.
Speaker:Rye: Still to this day, she still impresses me. Of course, sometimes she makes me, she upsets me as well.
Speaker:Rye: But, you know, the stuff that she's able to do. And just the other day I was
Speaker:Rye: looking at her, I'm like, we made that, you know, like we created this, this being, this life.
Speaker:Rye: It's just fascinating, fascinating. And yeah, I, I would say my daughter, my daughter.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah. And as a fellow parent, I completely get where you're coming from.
Speaker:Danny: But that's the thing. Nobody tells
Speaker:Danny: you there's not really a guidebook for becoming a dad, becoming a mom.
Speaker:Danny: There's obviously parents that have gone through all this before,
Speaker:Danny: but that's specific to their children and their experiences in them as a person. as a new parent.
Speaker:Danny: So I can remember just like you
Speaker:Danny: Googling crap out of things at two in the morning. What does this mean?
Speaker:Danny: Do I have to go to the hospital? What's going on here? What's going on there?
Speaker:Danny: How old is your daughter, if you don't mind me asking?
Speaker:Rye: She is 10 years old.
Speaker:Danny: Oh, good age. So what's been sort of, obviously you mentioned she still makes
Speaker:Danny: you, she still impresses the heck out of you.
Speaker:Danny: What's been your proudest moment from her growth in that 10-year period?
Speaker:Rye: Well, she has joined, I would say actually my proudest moment is that she has
Speaker:Rye: joined a gymnastics club and trampoline.
Speaker:Rye: And right now she's like the number one in the state here. And she's competed nationally as well.
Speaker:Rye: And she's going to another state in a couple weeks here to compete again.
Speaker:Rye: That's not the nationals, but the nationals will be coming up and she'll be competing nationally.
Speaker:Rye: And after every time she competes, I almost like cry. I'm like,
Speaker:Rye: oh my gosh, like I can't believe that's her.
Speaker:Rye: You know, when you say trampoline, so you're like, Oh, they just jumped around.
Speaker:Rye: No, no, it's very acrobatic. It's amazing.
Speaker:Rye: And she trains two to three hours, Monday to Friday, and about two,
Speaker:Rye: two and a half hours on Saturday as well. This is every week.
Speaker:Rye: So it's a big, big commitment. You know, this is what she wanted to do. This was her choice.
Speaker:Rye: You know, my wife wanted her to be in swimming, but she got bored of that.
Speaker:Rye: My wife was a swimmer as well.
Speaker:Rye: And my daughter got bored of that. She's like, and we put her into the summer
Speaker:Rye: camp where they had all these different activities and the coach of the trampoline.
Speaker:Rye: She was too young at that time, but he's like, no, no, I think she'll be perfect.
Speaker:Rye: And brought her in and sure enough, she's climbing up through the ranks.
Speaker:Rye: So I'm very, very proud of her and her dedication to this.
Speaker:Rye: It's just, it's amazing to see her.
Speaker:Rye: To see her do what she's able to do.
Speaker:Danny: Our daughters are competitive to your athletes so
Speaker:Danny: i know exactly what you mean when it comes to commitment training
Speaker:Danny: you know the hard work that they put in and it's not like
Speaker:Danny: one of the the training things that our daughter does is
Speaker:Danny: tumbling or power tumbling and i thought power tumbling okay
Speaker:Danny: that's roly-poly you know you're just going to go on the ground roll about that's
Speaker:Danny: tumbling right oh heck no it's like standing still doing back clips and everything
Speaker:Danny: it's crazy so gymnastics etc yeah that's that's a lot of you know commitment
Speaker:Danny: and and kudos to her for putting that effort in at such a young age as well
Speaker:Danny: and knowing that's what she wants to do and go for it.
Speaker:Rye: Yeah, it definitely, definitely is. You know, sometimes, of course,
Speaker:Rye: she's a kid and sometimes she's like, I don't want to go.
Speaker:Rye: I just want to like watch YouTube or something like that.
Speaker:Rye: But no, she goes, she goes. And, you know, she developed some amazing relationships
Speaker:Rye: with the other girls and it's really, really great to see.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, it's definitely a community. I was watching a video, a competition video the other night there.
Speaker:Danny: And the athletes, the girls that were on stage at the time doing the routine,
Speaker:Danny: the music cut out about 20 seconds in, and all of a sudden you get about 10,000
Speaker:Danny: other cheer girls from other teams in other states and other countries
Speaker:Danny: counting out the moves, you know, because you go by moves, you go by three,
Speaker:Danny: five, seven, nine, and that's the beat that the girls all shout while they're
Speaker:Danny: doing their competition.
Speaker:Danny: So even though the competitors, they were there to support the girls that were
Speaker:Danny: having this issue on stage because their music cut out.
Speaker:Danny: So the community is amazing, like you say, mate. It's just like,
Speaker:Danny: you know, you make friends and I feel that's probably friends you're going to
Speaker:Danny: have for life as well, or certainly a good chunk of your younger life as a growing girl into a young lady.
Speaker:Rye: Yeah, it's amazing. It is amazing. And I'm really looking forward to,
Speaker:Rye: well, I don't want to jump ahead with her, you know, like I want to be like,
Speaker:Rye: oh, I'm looking forward to what she, what happens.
Speaker:Rye: But it's like, I really feel that it also...
Speaker:Rye: Because she's growing up so fast. It's funny people say that.
Speaker:Rye: Oh, the children grow up so fast.
Speaker:Rye: But it's like, oh my gosh, where did this time go? And I want to hold on and
Speaker:Rye: save her every moment and every up and down that she has.
Speaker:Rye: And just, you know, try to log it in up here so I never forget.
Speaker:Danny: Well, you never know. Maybe the girls like our daughters will be in the same
Speaker:Danny: competition and different events, et cetera, at some point.
Speaker:Danny: And we'll bump into each other and just meet in proper real life.
Speaker:Danny: So that's something to look forward to. Or maybe not.
Speaker:Danny: But yeah, so no, that's awesome. I really like that. And yeah,
Speaker:Danny: becoming a parent is amazing.
Speaker:Danny: Let's have a look at what question number four is.
Speaker:Danny: Okay, question four. Could go either way. Question four, Rye.
Speaker:Danny: What are some things you shouldn't say at work?
Speaker:Rye: Well, it depends on which work we're talking about. If we're talking about regular
Speaker:Rye: work, religion and politics kind of stays out.
Speaker:Rye: That's something that I don't... And current affairs of everything.
Speaker:Rye: But in my podcast, it kind of... We talk about everything. We talk about politics.
Speaker:Rye: We talk about religion. We talk about current affairs.
Speaker:Rye: Everything that is going on in this world.
Speaker:Rye: So technically, I...
Speaker:Rye: I try to cover everything when I'm podcasting. Another thing,
Speaker:Rye: so like you said, I do beekeeping, but another job that I also do is I'm an ESL tutor.
Speaker:Rye: So I teach, I tutor English as a second language, and I try to keep religion and politics out of it.
Speaker:Rye: But a lot of times my students are from around the world and their politics are different.
Speaker:Rye: And it just comes up naturally in these conversations. So myself, it all seems to come out.
Speaker:Rye: There's not really anything that I don't talk about.
Speaker:Rye: Maybe perhaps my own personal, personal life. Like I try to keep that a little,
Speaker:Rye: a little shielded because I don't want people knowing everything that goes on in my life.
Speaker:Rye: So that would be, I think would just be some personal, personal parts of, of my life.
Speaker:Rye: But for most part, I, I tackle just about everything. Like I have a gentleman,
Speaker:Rye: he is from the, he lives in Egypt.
Speaker:Rye: One of my students lives in Egypt and he is part of the, um, Arabic union.
Speaker:Rye: So of all the Arabic, uh, other countries that get together.
Speaker:Rye: And so we talk politics every class, every class.
Speaker:Rye: And, uh, you know, he talks about what's going on with Iran and,
Speaker:Rye: uh, Saudi Arabia. And it's quite enlightening to hear someone else's perspective,
Speaker:Rye: you know, who is living there and they're experiencing everything right there.
Speaker:Rye: It's quite interesting, you know, because he sees it from that point of view.
Speaker:Rye: You know, he is Muslim and he sees things from that point of view,
Speaker:Rye: but it's still interesting.
Speaker:Rye: It's not any different than ours. You know, it's kind of like we don't like war.
Speaker:Rye: We don't like violence. Like we don't like that the aggression is happening,
Speaker:Rye: but we also don't like what Iran was doing as well.
Speaker:Rye: It's it's very interesting. So they're condemning both sides,
Speaker:Rye: which myself, I agree with that.
Speaker:Rye: I'm like, yeah, this this and this like there's things that are happening.
Speaker:Rye: I don't agree with war at all.
Speaker:Rye: So back to the question, is there anything we shouldn't talk about at work?
Speaker:Rye: It's just your very personal life that that's about it everything else i think
Speaker:Rye: is fair game for me personally.
Speaker:Danny: Well it's funny you mentioned like not funny funny um
Speaker:Danny: i just mentioned no one likes war but it's it's interesting you mentioned um
Speaker:Danny: you know the the the colleague there because i remember when the arab spring
Speaker:Danny: was happening it was kind of i guess in the early days of social media as well
Speaker:Danny: like that was going up rising so you were seeing it live tweeted that's when
Speaker:Danny: twitter was massive and used for stuff like that.
Speaker:Danny: Not so much now, but at the time it was an incredible communication tool for
Speaker:Danny: the Arab uprising, no, the spring uprising, I have to get the name correct.
Speaker:Danny: I apologise if I've got the name wrong.
Speaker:Danny: I will leave a link to the show, in that in the show notes.
Speaker:Danny: But the same when Ukraine was invaded and you were having people live streaming
Speaker:Danny: on TikTok and they were Ukrainian citizens basically sharing what was happening
Speaker:Danny: at the time as a live invasion was taking place.
Speaker:Danny: And we weren't seeing that at that time in the West because,
Speaker:Danny: you know, at this part of the world anyway, because it wasn't making its way
Speaker:Danny: out, you know, of like TV wasn't coming, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: So it's always, and this goes back to one of your other points,
Speaker:Danny: right, where maybe, maybe it is happening, maybe it's not.
Speaker:Danny: We need other perspectives and other, you know, points of view to sort of counter
Speaker:Danny: and educate and, you know, make us invest time in learning about it.
Speaker:Danny: It's funny how like religion and politics are always the two things,
Speaker:Danny: right? If you're at a family dinner, what should not talk about religion and politics?
Speaker:Danny: If you're on a first date, what should not talk about religion and politics?
Speaker:Danny: It's crazy how sometimes, you know, something simple, like two words,
Speaker:Danny: can make for such a, you know, a divide and, you know, a line between two people
Speaker:Danny: that otherwise would get on like a house on fire.
Speaker:Rye: Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker:Rye: You can divide a house so quickly by bringing up, I would say politics is the number one right now.
Speaker:Rye: And then religion, it seems to come up a little bit later, but politics is the
Speaker:Rye: most volatile discussion rate at this point in time. And, and I think that's by design.
Speaker:Rye: It's by design to create this division between us all.
Speaker:Rye: And if we, if we actually got together and instead of like arguing and actually
Speaker:Rye: had a conversation, we'd realize that there's a lot more bridges we have than
Speaker:Rye: chasms, you know, or canyons.
Speaker:Rye: There is a lot more, and we're just told to, many people are told to think one
Speaker:Rye: way or to, you know, to think that that person's that and this person's that.
Speaker:Rye: But there's a lot more similarities that we have than we care to realize.
Speaker:Danny: It reminds me of like, there's like a little meme that goes about saying,
Speaker:Danny: I'm just going to use like a liberal and conservative as an example.
Speaker:Danny: So a liberal music fan is listening to a band, loves it, and then someone comes
Speaker:Danny: in and says, oh, what are you listening to? So they tell them,
Speaker:Danny: oh, I didn't know you listened to that because the lead singer is a heavy conservative,
Speaker:Danny: for example, with views that are unlike your own.
Speaker:Danny: So immediately the person that was previously loving the music and enjoying
Speaker:Danny: it now doesn't want to listen to anything.
Speaker:Danny: Even though previous to that, it was enjoying it and everything was okay in the world.
Speaker:Danny: It just shows you, like you said, how it can flip so quickly,
Speaker:Danny: without any additional context.
Speaker:Rye: Yeah, that's exactly it. You know, if we just...
Speaker:Rye: If we just realize that we're we're all in the same boat.
Speaker:Rye: I personally, my personal belief about politics is, you know,
Speaker:Rye: the left wing and right wing are both from the same bird.
Speaker:Rye: In essence, they're trying to accomplish a goal, but they're doing it in two different ways.
Speaker:Rye: And it depends on which way you like that goal. And I think that goal doesn't benefit us, the people,
Speaker:Rye: but it benefits the corporations and the politicians and the left and the right
Speaker:Rye: are trying to accomplish it and they will try to get you get you to follow them.
Speaker:Rye: And then, you know, I think it's very important that we pay attention to everything and it's OK.
Speaker:Rye: Like if you follow the left or if you follow the right, you need to criticize your own.
Speaker:Rye: You know, it's if you're not able to, you're in a cult.
Speaker:Rye: I'm going to come out and say that you know,
Speaker:Rye: If you don't like Donald Trump, but you support the, I don't know,
Speaker:Rye: we'll just say if you like the left, but the left is doing something bad,
Speaker:Rye: you should call them out on that one. Same for the right.
Speaker:Rye: If you support the right and they're doing something bad, you need to call them out.
Speaker:Rye: But if people are attacking you and they start saying, oh, you're the other
Speaker:Rye: side then. No, no, no, I'm not. I'm just a realist.
Speaker:Rye: I can see things for what they truly are.
Speaker:Rye: And we all need to do that.
Speaker:Rye: We all need to be, to hold people more, like the accountability is lost,
Speaker:Rye: completely lost now these days.
Speaker:Rye: And people just follow blindly. And that's the biggest issue. Yeah.
Speaker:Danny: Yep. Again, 100% agree, mate. And I feel to your point there,
Speaker:Danny: doing it internally, you know, from your own side, that's where it needs to
Speaker:Danny: start because, you know, the other side is just going to, you know,
Speaker:Danny: brush you off because you're from the other side, so to speak.
Speaker:Danny: But if you're complaining from the inside and that's when change can start to
Speaker:Danny: happen, hopefully anyway, hopefully.
Speaker:Danny: And speaking of change, we're doing really well here, Rye. It's time to change
Speaker:Danny: it up to your final question in the hot seat.
Speaker:Danny: So let's have a look at what question number five brings up.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, I'm going to finish with this one. Question number five,
Speaker:Danny: right? If you could be any age, what age would you pick?
Speaker:Rye: Great question. I think if I could be any age.
Speaker:Rye: Now, would it be to do things over?
Speaker:Rye: I think I would love to be in my 20s again and do that over because I was not
Speaker:Rye: paying attention to the world.
Speaker:Rye: I was paying attention to what do we let's go party.
Speaker:Rye: Let's go do this. and it was so such a
Speaker:Rye: waste of a decade of my my 20s i
Speaker:Rye: thought was a was a huge waste i feel that
Speaker:Rye: i could have made so many more changes so
Speaker:Rye: many such like a bigger difference at
Speaker:Rye: that age if i only realize the potential that i have and we don't realize the
Speaker:Rye: potential until we're much older you know i'm almost i'll be 50 this year and
Speaker:Rye: i'm like what i have so many ideas i have so many entrepreneurial ideas that I'm trying to get off.
Speaker:Rye: But I'm like, if I would have started that 30 years ago, where would I be now?
Speaker:Rye: Well, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker:Rye: But I would love to have this mindset that I have now back then.
Speaker:Rye: I could have done so much more, saved so much more money, done different things.
Speaker:Rye: I did go traveling the world. I did manage to save up money and I traveled the
Speaker:Rye: world for a year on my own, went backpacking.
Speaker:Rye: And it was great. But as soon as I came back, I fell right back into that, that rut.
Speaker:Rye: And it was like, okay, let's go back out with our friends. And one thing I did
Speaker:Rye: notice is when I traveled the world for a year.
Speaker:Rye: I changed. And I changed a lot, a fair amount. And then when I came back,
Speaker:Rye: I noticed that everything was exactly the same.
Speaker:Rye: So maybe if I could go back, and I could, we'll say, 22, be 22.
Speaker:Rye: And at that age, I would look at things differently, and just,
Speaker:Rye: you know, change my point of view and how I see things, change my, my life.
Speaker:Rye: And from there move forward you know
Speaker:Rye: allow myself to be stronger in
Speaker:Rye: my own shoes and by by that
Speaker:Rye: i mean is not to be so persuaded by peers
Speaker:Rye: or outside influences and to be okay that if i make a choice or something i
Speaker:Rye: may be standing alone but that's okay i would love to have that when i was that
Speaker:Rye: much younger and you know where would i be now i don't know it would be quite interesting.
Speaker:Danny: But i guess that does raise two kindy questions almost um because it's like
Speaker:Danny: that old you know time travel thing if you go back in time you change one thing
Speaker:Danny: what does it mean 30 years down the line so does it mean you're a completely
Speaker:Danny: different person than the one you are today that was
Speaker:Rye: Sorry to interrupt you that's always on my mind and i was going to say that
Speaker:Rye: like if i change something then i will not be who i am now but yes please please keep going danny.
Speaker:Danny: No no no and that's the thing i sometimes wonder if
Speaker:Danny: i take in because i'm a big believer in like fate
Speaker:Danny: um you know some things are fate and are meant to happen so if i'd my wife and
Speaker:Danny: i for example she's canadian i'm from the uk and we would never have met had
Speaker:Danny: i not been online at a certain time on a music band's website in the community
Speaker:Danny: forum leaving a view of scottish punk you know had i not been doing that at
Speaker:Danny: that exact time, we would never have met.
Speaker:Danny: I would not be here in this place right now.
Speaker:Danny: So I'm always curious to see
Speaker:Danny: it'd be awesome, like you say, to go back and do things properly,
Speaker:Danny: for want of a better word, that you didn't do at 22.
Speaker:Danny: But then what's the knock-on effect? And does that negate the things that happened
Speaker:Danny: since then compared to what may have happened had you done X when you were 22?
Speaker:Rye: I completely agree. And to take it one step further, I have these,
Speaker:Rye: well, I'll tell you a little bit about, I have some very intense, crazy dreams.
Speaker:Rye: My dreams are very realistic, real life
Speaker:Rye: there was one where i traveled back in time and i
Speaker:Rye: traveled back and i had the opportunity to
Speaker:Rye: interact with myself at a much much younger age
Speaker:Rye: and i was going to warn myself about my ex-wife and
Speaker:Rye: i was gonna say don't ever get involved stay away stay away you know that is
Speaker:Rye: damaging but i realized though if i did that it would exactly like you say it
Speaker:Rye: would cause this branch in this timeline i would not have met my wife now you
Speaker:Rye: know i would not have my daughter,
Speaker:Rye: everything would change so i it then
Speaker:Rye: i like backed off like can't i can't interact with
Speaker:Rye: myself i can't warn myself i have to go through those
Speaker:Rye: trials and tribulations so that i can be
Speaker:Rye: who i am now and it's it's true it's a paradox you
Speaker:Rye: know you've created this paradox and it's like i would
Speaker:Rye: not know or be who i am now if i didn't
Speaker:Rye: go through the things i did though i do look back and i'm like oh man that was
Speaker:Rye: such a waste you know like such a waste i was more interested in in partying
Speaker:Rye: and having a good time with my friends on the weekends you know working for
Speaker:Rye: the weekend is exactly what i was doing it's let's work hard make some good money.
Speaker:Rye: And instead of like investing in gold or silver or stocks, it's like,
Speaker:Rye: let's invest in Goldschlager or something else, you know, or what is that?
Speaker:Rye: Jose Cuervo silver, you know, it's like, that's what I was investing in that
Speaker:Rye: gold or silver and not into the real, real thing.
Speaker:Danny: It's like that saying, what is it? Youth is wasted on the young or something like that.
Speaker:Danny: I can't remember what the exact saying is. But we've all been there. we
Speaker:Danny: all you know make mistakes when we're younger forwards are
Speaker:Danny: passing hopefully down the line we'll learn from you mentioned
Speaker:Danny: yourself when you came back you were changed and you know your eyes were
Speaker:Danny: open to different experience and different cultures etc so
Speaker:Danny: without that we you know you wouldn't have had that ability to change
Speaker:Danny: and then realize oh this place isn't changing maybe i
Speaker:Danny: need to do more stuff now that are different now so it's always
Speaker:Danny: that weird thing like say it's the whole back to the future you know uh don't
Speaker:Danny: stamp on that beetle because oh no it's like that simpsons episode right when
Speaker:Danny: he's there they go back in time and just all kinds of craziness happens down
Speaker:Danny: the line they have to keep going back to try fix it and then they mess something
Speaker:Danny: else up and it just never ending yeah
Speaker:Rye: Once you change one thing you know you you create this ripple effect and it
Speaker:Rye: just it gets bigger and bigger as it branches out.
Speaker:Danny: Well right that's your time on the random hot seat um over you've come through
Speaker:Danny: unscathed i feel hopefully unscathed with some excellent questions and some even better answers.
Speaker:Danny: So I really, really appreciate that.
Speaker:Danny: As is only fair, I've had you on the hot seat for about 40, 45 minutes now, maybe.
Speaker:Danny: It's now time to hand over the question asking baton to you, good sir.
Speaker:Rye: All right. So being from my background, being from the show that I host,
Speaker:Rye: I definitely wanted to do something that, you know, gives you thinking.
Speaker:Rye: So let me ask you this.
Speaker:Rye: Now, what if one of the major historical facts you've trusted your entire life,
Speaker:Rye: something taught in school and reinforced by the media, turned out to be completely fabricated?
Speaker:Rye: Not a minor error, but something big.
Speaker:Rye: Now, if you discovered a lie like that, would you dismiss it as an exception
Speaker:Rye: or would it push you to start questioning everything you've been taught if it's true?
Speaker:Rye: Because if one major truth can be manufactured, doesn't that open the door to
Speaker:Rye: asking how much of our accepted history might need to be re-examined and why
Speaker:Rye: the lie would be maintained in the first place?
Speaker:Danny: Wow. So that's an outstanding question, first off.
Speaker:Danny: And as someone who loves history, that was my favorite, one of my favorite subjects
Speaker:Danny: at school as well. Thank you for that double down.
Speaker:Danny: There we go. Even better. Another reason for that question to be appreciated.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, I mean, I feel if you're, if there's like something that's such a key part of your growing up.
Speaker:Danny: So for me, I guess, even though I wasn't, I was there, but I wasn't there.
Speaker:Danny: So the moon landing, let's talk the moon landing, 1969.
Speaker:Danny: I was born in 68, so I was a little baby. I was alive at the time of this monstrous event.
Speaker:Danny: And obviously after that, as a young person watching on TV, I could watch some
Speaker:Danny: of the subsequent moon landings, discoveries, you know, etc.
Speaker:Danny: That's been one of the ongoing things since the grainy footage came back to TV stations.
Speaker:Danny: Is that real? Was it not? Is that a studio in the back of Warner Brothers just,
Speaker:Danny: you know, doing all this?
Speaker:Danny: And if so, why? Was it because of the space race and trying to get ahead of the Russians?
Speaker:Danny: And, you know, all the reasons it could be from if it was fake kind of thing.
Speaker:Danny: And I think because that was such a massive cultural event that the whole world
Speaker:Danny: was basically following and watching as it happened.
Speaker:Danny: And what it meant for space exploration after that and, you know,
Speaker:Danny: funding going into space programs that have been pulled, et cetera,
Speaker:Danny: and all the stuff that came after that.
Speaker:Danny: If it turned out, or it turns out, it could still be proven,
Speaker:Danny: maybe it was just a fabrication.
Speaker:Danny: But if it turned out that it was a lie for X reason, I feel you have to go down
Speaker:Danny: and follow the path and say, OK, well, why? Why was this fabricated?
Speaker:Danny: It can't have just been to put Russia in its place, you know,
Speaker:Danny: from the American space programme point of view.
Speaker:Danny: Was there something else? Was there political reasons? Was there monetary, usually, reasons?
Speaker:Danny: There's always finances and money and someone benefiting involved.
Speaker:Danny: And start to go down, and how far down the rabbit hole would you go there?
Speaker:Danny: So I feel if it's something that's so key to your history,
Speaker:Danny: whatever that looks like, and it's a lie, I feel you owe it to yourself to dig
Speaker:Danny: and not accept the first or second or even third answer that's placed to you.
Speaker:Danny: Continue digging. Well, that doesn't make sense because this happened,
Speaker:Danny: so now I'm going to continue researching and digging, et cetera.
Speaker:Danny: So yeah, I would want to definitely dig in.
Speaker:Danny: Again, history. I'm a massive, massive, I'm a big, not fan because that's the wrong word.
Speaker:Danny: A part of history that really fascinates me was the First World War and how
Speaker:Danny: it happened and Archduke Franz Ferdinand being assassinated.
Speaker:Danny: But was that actually the case or was another reason?
Speaker:Danny: Lee Harvey Oswald. I mean, there's so many that you could go,
Speaker:Danny: you know, you could start to look into. too.
Speaker:Danny: All right. So yeah, the basic simple answer would be, yeah, if that was a big
Speaker:Danny: part of my life and what shaped my beliefs and interests, et cetera,
Speaker:Danny: turns out to be a lie, I really want to know A, why, and B, who was involved, and then go from there.
Speaker:Rye: Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. I think that's very important for if you realize that
Speaker:Rye: you've been lied to on one thing, what's to say that it's not many other things?
Speaker:Rye: And let's go to an event. Let's just say it was the moon landing.
Speaker:Rye: If they lied on one thing that happened during that, I think you need to bring
Speaker:Rye: everything into the spotlight.
Speaker:Rye: Like perhaps there was a picture that,
Speaker:Rye: you can prove was false. But oh, everything else is real. Well,
Speaker:Rye: no, now we need to question everything.
Speaker:Rye: So I think it's very important. And that's what I implore to everybody that
Speaker:Rye: listens to my show is just question everything.
Speaker:Rye: It's okay to ask questions.
Speaker:Rye: It's unscientific to tell people, no, no, you can't question things because
Speaker:Rye: that's what science is about.
Speaker:Rye: Science is always about questioning and asking questions.
Speaker:Rye: There's nothing wrong with asking questions, whether it be for your own well-being,
Speaker:Rye: for your own health, for your own safety, or just for your own curiosity.
Speaker:Danny: Well, I've got a show called 5 Random Questions, so of course I agree with that.
Speaker:Danny: But no, I 100% agree, and I feel we owe it to ourselves just to grow as people
Speaker:Danny: and continue growing as people, always ask.
Speaker:Danny: And that is a perfect segue for letting listeners where they can listen to your
Speaker:Danny: awesome podcast, which I mentioned, I will be catching up on Big Style next
Speaker:Danny: week. I've got it lined up for binging.
Speaker:Danny: But where can listeners, where's the best place to start to check out some episodes,
Speaker:Danny: connect with you online, even YouTube, all the good places that they can find you in your podcast.
Speaker:Rye: For sure. I really appreciate that too. And again, Danny, thank you for having me on.
Speaker:Rye: So if people are looking for my show, of course, it can be found on every platform.
Speaker:Rye: The most common places, of course, is YouTube and Spotify.
Speaker:Rye: But I'm on Apple. I'm on Podbean. I'm on Rumble. I have accounts on Facebook,
Speaker:Rye: Instagram, TikTok as well.
Speaker:Rye: And if people want to reach out to me, You can contact it. You can leave me a message.
Speaker:Rye: I try to answer every single one of my messages on my videos.
Speaker:Rye: Specifically, I will answer all the questions on Spotify.
Speaker:Rye: I've had some videos kind of go viral on YouTube, so they kind of...
Speaker:Rye: They get away from you when you're like thousands of comments.
Speaker:Rye: You're like, okay, I'm not going to be able to answer all those ones.
Speaker:Rye: But on the smaller videos, if you've noticed that one doesn't have as many views,
Speaker:Rye: I definitely 100% answered every single question.
Speaker:Rye: If you have an experience yourself or if you're like a researcher or you have
Speaker:Rye: some questions, by all means.
Speaker:Rye: And I'm open to any type of discourse as long as it's coming from a place of
Speaker:Rye: respect. I've had some people who are just plain out rude and it's like,
Speaker:Rye: no, no, I don't have to give you my time.
Speaker:Danny: Exactly. Nobody got time for that. But we will definitely give you time on the
Speaker:Danny: episode show notes and I will link out to all the apps and all the places that you can be found.
Speaker:Danny: So whatever podcast app you're listening to this episode on,
Speaker:Danny: or if you're listening to it on the website, just check out the episode show
Speaker:Danny: notes as usual and all the links to the good stuff will be there.
Speaker:Danny: So again, Rye, thank you for appearing on today's 5 Random Questions.
Speaker:Rye: Thank you so much.
Speaker:Danny: Thanks for listening to 5 Random Questions. And if this was your first time
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Speaker:Danny: Until the next time, keep asking those questions.
