Wow.
Fuzz:Yeah.
Fuzz:Stay out of
Fuzz:those storms.
Danny:Stay out of the storms, people.
Danny:If you have to go anywhere, take a boat and, you know, cause at least that way, if
Danny:you capsize, you're gone anyway, you know, it's quicker than falling twenty thousand
Danny:feet and knowing it's going to happen.
Fuzz:I know.
Fuzz:I don't see it.
Fuzz:I disagree with you.
Fuzz:See, if you fall twenty thousand feet, the end is quick.
Fuzz:If your, boat tips over.
Fuzz:It might take a while.
Danny:Hi, and welcome to Five Random Questions, the show where
Danny:every question is an adventure.
Danny:I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests five questions
Danny:created by a random question generator.
Danny:The guest has no idea what the questions are, and neither do I,
Danny:which means this could go either way.
Danny:So, sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode.
Danny:This week, I'm speaking to Fuzz Martin, who's the Partner and
Danny:Chief Strategy Officer at Epic Creative, an advertising agency.
Danny:He's also the host of 15 Minutes with Fuzz and co host of the Tech
Danny:Tools for Teachers podcast, which I believe that's with your wife, Fuzz.
Fuzz:Yep, that's right.
Danny:Awesome.
Danny:So, welcome to the show.
Danny:Thanks for appearing.
Fuzz:Thank you.
Fuzz:I'm kind of nervous not, not being on a podcast, but with having Five Random
Fuzz:Questions, I don't know what to expect.
Fuzz:So
Danny:And that's, I think, the, the fun thing.
Danny:It's like, I don't know what they are.
Danny:We're going to find out what they are when we spin the wheel.
Fuzz:All right, we'll find out together.
Danny:So it
Danny:could go any way.
Danny:And Fuzz, I mean, we've known each other for a while now, I feel.
Danny:Obviously, we've never met in person in person, but I'd say a good
Danny:eighteen months, maybe two years, at least, on the old Twitter and
Danny:various podcasts, communities, etc.
Fuzz:Yeah, definitely.
Fuzz:It's been at least that I think with COVID it might've actually been been
Fuzz:longer cause we've you never know where that time's gone with COVID.
Fuzz:We definitely started talking sometime during that, that ether in there during,
Fuzz:When I had started, I had switched over to to a different podcasting platform and
Fuzz:started getting involved with some of the podcasting groups and you're very active
Fuzz:in there and you're very, very helpful.
Fuzz:And we, we connected there and we chat a lot and I think we've got a lot of
Fuzz:similar thoughts on things in the world.
Fuzz:So we chat a lot on online, so I appreciate, appreciate that
Fuzz:and appreciate you having me on and, and yeah, it's been great.
Danny:First year, wow, COVID.
Danny:Yeah, that's like, that seems such a long time ago.
Danny:I mean, obviously it's still around, but it seems a while when it first,
Danny:when it first kicked off four years now.
Fuzz:Yeah, it has been, it has been a while and also feels like it
Fuzz:was yesterday all at the same time.
Danny:And I mentioned, obviously you're at Epic Creative, which is
Danny:a full service advertising agency.
Danny:And something that caught my eye and that I just want you to talk a
Danny:bit about was you're located in an art museum because you've got Epic.
Danny:Eighty five people.
Danny:Is that correct?
Fuzz:Yeah, that's correct.
Fuzz:So we're in an old, the old Museum of Wisconsin Arts, which is in a town called
Fuzz:West Bend, Wisconsin, which is just north of Milwaukee, which is for those listening
Fuzz:globally is about ninety minutes north of Chicago, Illinois in the US here.
Fuzz:And we are, it's, so this, this old Museum of Wisconsin
Fuzz:Art was built in the thirties.
Fuzz:And then they built onto this.
Fuzz:So we've got this really cool old building.
Fuzz:I'm actually broadcasting in here from an old storage closet where they used to keep
Fuzz:exhibits and I turned it into a studio and but yeah, we have we have 85 employees.
Fuzz:We do everything from animation and 3D things like that to website design.
Fuzz:Public relations, social media, and pretty much anything you can
Fuzz:think of in the advertising world.
Fuzz:So I came in from radio.
Fuzz:I moved over to Epic about thirteen years ago.
Fuzz:I had started in radio as a copywriter and on air guy, came over here as a
Fuzz:copywriter and PR guy, and then bought in and now I'm one of the owners and,
Fuzz:and head of strategy here at, at Epic.
Fuzz:So, pretty fun.
Fuzz:And we've grown tremendously and.
Fuzz:And I love it.
Fuzz:And I still get to do this whole podcast on the side.
Fuzz:So this is, this this touch touches my, the thing I loved
Fuzz:about radio was being able to do this and talk to people like you.
Fuzz:And the thing that I didn't like was the pay and the long hours.
Danny:Awesome.
Danny:And no doubt, we'll find out more about you as we go through the, the episode.
Danny:But I feel we've got five questions awaiting for us.
Danny:So let me bring up my funny question random generator.
Danny:Let's see where we go from here.
Danny:And you mentioned you've got like obviously good
Danny:advertising and PR background.
Danny:So are you going to be spinning the questions making
Danny:them up a positive outcome?
Fuzz:I hope so.
Fuzz:We'll see.
Fuzz:We'll see.
Fuzz:See how good I am at PR and spin.
Danny:Alrighty.
Danny:So let's dive in then.
Danny:Let's see where we go.
Danny:Like I say, I have no idea what the questions are.
Danny:I've brought up my little spin the wheel question generator.
Danny:And we'll see where we go there, Fuzz.
Danny:Let's go.
Fuzz:Alright.
Danny:Question one.
Danny:You're about to get into a fight.
Danny:What song comes on as your soundtrack?
Fuzz:What song comes on?
Fuzz:Okay.
Fuzz:So when I was a kid, I grew up in a, a little small town in kind of
Fuzz:rural Wisconsin, and when we used to drive our our cars through the
Fuzz:rural, like windy roads there was a A song called black sunshine by,
Fuzz:I think it was from White Zombie.
Fuzz:I think it's a White Zombie it's called yeah, black, black sunshine.
Fuzz:It was like sweet in the ride, black sunshine.
Fuzz:And I, I think that's I think it was, I think it was white zombie, but anyway.
Fuzz:It is one of those songs where whenever I hear it, I'm like,
Fuzz:all right, I am ready to go.
Fuzz:And I think that would be the song that I would play otherwise.
Fuzz:If that song was unavailable to me, have you ever seen the movie Dirty
Fuzz:Work with Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange from like the nineties ish?
Danny:I haven't no Dirty Work it's called.
Fuzz:Yeah, Dirty Work.
Fuzz:It is.
Fuzz:It's hilarious.
Fuzz:It's obviously a comedy but there's a scene in there where Chris Farley,
Fuzz:it's one of Chris Farley's last movies.
Fuzz:You could tell he was kind of on his way out at that point, and he's like,
Fuzz:street fighting man, G7, and he pushes the jukebox when this bar fight's about
Fuzz:to start, and he the guy goes, you just hit G8, and it starts playing.
Fuzz:If you like pina coladas, you just And it's absolutely hilarious, but
Fuzz:but yeah, it was a black sunshine would be my, my choice of songs there.
Fuzz:And I have to see a black sunshine
Danny:And is that because it's like a, it's like a really aggressive
Danny:song or get you in the mood there?
Fuzz:Yeah, it's very, very aggressive.
Fuzz:It's got a, yeah, it's a, it's a from white zombie.
Fuzz:It's a very aggressive, it's very like metal hard hitting and just it.
Fuzz:Yeah.
Fuzz:I always had adrenaline when I was listening to that song.
Fuzz:And I, I think that's the first song to think of when I think, all right, I need
Fuzz:a song that's going to help me funnel my adrenaline into focus and aggression.
Danny:And are you a fighter?
Danny:That's the main question for us.
Fuzz:In the year of our Lord twenty twenty four, no, I am not a fighter.
Fuzz:But when I was a a 17 year old kid fighting hormones maybe a little bit.
Fuzz:Yes.
Fuzz:So I was always a big kid.
Fuzz:Like I played football and all that.
Fuzz:Worked out a lot.
Fuzz:So I always had like a lot of testosterone and muscle and
Fuzz:didn't know what to do with it.
Fuzz:So I always had to have, you know, kind of outlets for my strength and, and I guess
Fuzz:the dumbness that comes with being young.
Fuzz:And I, I needed to learn how to channel that.
Fuzz:And it took getting older and maturity to.
Fuzz:Kind of harness that, and I've definitely grown and harnessed that
Fuzz:as I've gotten older and educated, so.
Danny:And just a little bonus question for this actually, so Anchorman,
Danny:you've seen Anchorman, Anchorman 2?
Fuzz:Oh yeah.
Danny:Awesome.
Danny:So I think it's in the second one where all the news teams come together for a
Danny:fight in the park or something like that.
Danny:What weapon would you bring to the fight whilst this song's
Danny:playing in the background?
Fuzz:Oh, you know, I'm always a fan of a baseball bat with
Fuzz:barbed wire wrapped around it.
Fuzz:I think that's I mean, if you're gonna if you're gonna get into a
Fuzz:fight with a bunch of news anchors, that's probably the best one.
Fuzz:That's the one.
Danny:I feel this is something from your 17 year old days.
Danny:We'll have to revisit that sometime.
Danny:Awesome.
Danny:Alrighty, let's have a look at question number two.
Danny:So let's clear this one up and let's spin the wheel for question two.
Danny:Oh, interesting.
Danny:If you could kill off a character from a TV show, movie, or novel, who would it be?
Danny:And I'm going to add a bonus why there as well.
Fuzz:If I could kill off a character from a TV show, movie,
Fuzz:or novel, who would it be?
Fuzz:This is me stalling because I'm trying to think of which
Fuzz:character.
Danny:And I'm going to make it harder for you.
Danny:It's got to be a character that's not already been killed off in that medium.
Fuzz:No, I know.
Fuzz:And I am really trying to think of who Who I would have killed off.
Fuzz:I am kind of thinking well, I guess he's kind of killed off already.
Fuzz:So in one of the last movies all right, I'm going to just
Fuzz:go a little controversial.
Fuzz:I'm going to say I'm going to say Rey in the final Star Wars sequels and only
Fuzz:because I just to make it interesting only because Somehow Palpatine survived.
Fuzz:I don't know.
Danny:Wait a minute.
Danny:Are you blaming Rey for somehow Palpatine?
Fuzz:I'm not blaming Rey for that.
Fuzz:It wasn't Rey's fault.
Fuzz:I, I the, the question was random and I didn't have a
Fuzz:lot of time to think about it.
Fuzz:I was, I was looking for a main character.
Fuzz:I don't know.
Danny:I mean, Rey's a main character.
Danny:She's getting her own
Danny:movie next
Danny:year, the year after, I think.
Fuzz:And that's the thing though, like I, as a kid, Danny, you grew
Fuzz:up in like the eighties, right?
Fuzz:I mean, like you're probably around the same age as I am the, I grew up
Fuzz:thinking that we were never going to get any star Wars ever again.
Fuzz:So I am of the ilk that no Star Wars is bad Star Wars because.
Fuzz:I never thought we were going to get any, and now I'll take whatever we can get.
Fuzz:I'm kind of like, whatever we get is fine.
Fuzz:So I'm, I was good with, I was good with the prequels.
Fuzz:I was good with the sequels, but I'm, I was also kind of like,
Fuzz:Oh, what if there was a different direction that that movie went?
Fuzz:What if they redeemed Ben solo and, and Rey, I don't know.
Fuzz:You asked the question and I answered.
Fuzz:I'm not taking it back.
Danny:And I think that there was maybe, and I could be wrong here, I think maybe
Danny:one of the original script treatments for either Last Jedi, or maybe I'm thinking of
Danny:Return of the Rise of Skywalker, I could be wrong, but I know obviously there was
Danny:that part where Rey showed her dark side, so you had dark Rey, and I think that
Danny:could have been interesting, like you say, if Ben had been the one that was redeemed
Danny:and Rey was the one that turned and how that whole dynamic could have shifted.
Fuzz:There you go.
Fuzz:I, when I said Rey died, I meant that her light side died and she turned into Darth,
Danny:Rey,
Fuzz:something.
Danny:Darth Rey, that'd be awesome.
Danny:Darth Radar.
Fuzz:Yes, Darth Radar, love it.
Danny:Cause then she could see ships coming as well and she'd
Danny:make the beeping noises as she's sensing them with the force.
Danny:Yeah.
Danny:How do you find the and the Star Wars TV shows, like the
Danny:Acolyte and Ahsoka and all that?
Fuzz:So we, we've watched all three episodes as we're
Fuzz:recording this of Acolyte.
Fuzz:And I hope it picks up a little bit, but but you know, we're, we're going to
Fuzz:give it, we're going to be open minded.
Fuzz:I've loved the other shows the, Oh what was the blanking on the last ones
Danny:Andor?
Fuzz:Yeah.
Fuzz:And, or, and, or it was great.
Fuzz:And, or it was great.
Fuzz:Obi Wan, we liked you know, obviously Mandalorian all Book
Fuzz:of Boba Fett that was okay.
Fuzz:Like we, we watched them all.
Fuzz:And Ahsoka, you know, my youngest daughter loves Ahsoka.
Fuzz:We're, we're all in on Ahsoka.
Fuzz:So we watched them all.
Fuzz:We, that's like our appointment TV these days are those Disney shows.
Fuzz:So, yeah.
Danny:No, maybe they're going to add dark Rey to make a special
Danny:appearance somewhere down the line.
Fuzz:Maybe it'll happen.
Fuzz:Who knows?
Fuzz:How about you?
Fuzz:Are you, are you into them?
Danny:I am.
Danny:Yeah.
Danny:I, I didn't enjoy Book of Boba Fett as much.
Danny:I thought they wasted his character a bit and made it, it was weird how the, for
Danny:me anyway, the better episodes was when Mando actually appeared as a guest almost.
Danny:And like episode, I think it was a five when it was just purely
Danny:dedicated to Luke and Grogu training.
Danny:I thought that was kind of strange, but yeah, I, for the most part,
Danny:I really enjoy the live action.
Danny:I think Dave Filoni is doing a really good job.
Danny:And episode three of the Acolyte, I thought the first two dragged a bit,
Danny:pacing was a little bit off, and the run time was pretty slow, so that
Danny:didn't really allow for development.
Danny:I thought episode three with the different director and the
Danny:extra run time was really good.
Danny:I, I really enjoyed getting into the lore and, you know, the, the, the other, the
Danny:other versions of the force, if you like.
Danny:So, yeah, curious to see where it goes.
Fuzz:Yeah, definitely.
Danny:All righty.
Danny:So Rey is going to die.
Danny:. Fuzz: Sorry Rey.
Danny:This is gonna be, this gonna be the shortest show ever.
Danny:I'm gonna get blocked by everybody after episode one.
Danny:. This is . Alrighty.
Fuzz:Now, I'm the one who
Fuzz:said, you can cancel me
Fuzz:. Danny: Okay.
Fuzz:Let's have a look now for question number three.
Fuzz:Okay.
Fuzz:Oh, this is a good one actually.
Fuzz:I like this.
Fuzz:If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to
Fuzz:follow it, what would it be?
Fuzz:All right.
Fuzz:If I had to make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, I could go
Fuzz:with like a really like, like I'm tempted to like to go for a really powerful
Fuzz:rule, but then I had this rule this morning that I wish I could just snap
Fuzz:my fingers and this rule would exist in the world and it could never be done.
Fuzz:And if you, if you broke this rule, you would be arrested and never able to work
Fuzz:in the industry that you work in again.
Fuzz:And that is if you.
Fuzz:Use either a siren or a cell phone ringing or vibrating in a radio or
Fuzz:podcast ad that you'll be arrested.
Fuzz:That is my rule because if you're driving.
Fuzz:And you hear a siren or a phone ringing or vibrating and it distracts you and
Fuzz:you think that it's yours or you think there's a police car or an ambulance
Fuzz:behind you could spell trouble.
Fuzz:So that was a gripe from today and it and it has been for for years
Fuzz:and you know, having worked in the industry, but I, I don't like it and
Fuzz:people still do it to this day and yes, it gets attention, but it's.
Fuzz:It's a cheap way of getting attention.
Fuzz:Don't do it.
Fuzz:Don't be, don't be cheap.
Fuzz:Find other ways.
Danny:It's actually a good rule.
Danny:You say you're driving and you listen to a podcast and all
Danny:of a sudden you hear a siren.
Danny:You're going to pull over, which could cause an accident.
Danny:So the car behind you.
Danny:It's just driving normal speed, and you slow and pull.
Danny:Yeah, that makes sense.
Danny:I don't know why people would use that.
Danny:Like you say, just for attention, it seems a weird one to use.
Fuzz:It does, and I think, I think it's usually just either laziness or
Fuzz:people don't think about it too much, or they're like, oh, we're doing, you
Fuzz:know, whatever this, you know, we're, we're putting a police officer in this
Fuzz:ad, so let's use a siren sound effect to imply that there's a police officer.
Fuzz:And it's it's not cool, man.
Fuzz:Don't do it.
Danny:So what would you replace it with?
Danny:What would be your ideal?
Danny:Just like a little chime or something, or,
Fuzz:I don't know.
Fuzz:You can like somebody, you know, tapping on the window with a I dunno, the,
Fuzz:the back of a flashlight or something, or, there's so many ways there, there
Fuzz:are so many more creative ways to paint a picture in somebody's mind
Fuzz:than having to be on the nose with a siren that you can get away with.
Fuzz:And it just depends on what, what you're trying to create, but it
Fuzz:doesn't have to just be that.
Fuzz:So same with cell phones, it could be, you know, pushing, you know,
Fuzz:hearing the, the button like the beep when you push a button or something
Fuzz:else that doesn't have to be.
Fuzz:The, the phone buzzing and sounds like it's on the seat next to you,
Fuzz:or, you know, especially if, if the ring is a ring that everybody knows,
Fuzz:because it's like an Apple or a standard Android ring, like one that
Fuzz:people think might actually be theirs.
Fuzz:If it's something that's like you, you made, or that it's like nonstandard,
Fuzz:then people might, you know, they won't know because it's not their typical
Fuzz:phone, but if it's like the standard.
Fuzz:Apple ring or Android ring.
Fuzz:Don't do it
Danny:It's like the the movies, right?
Danny:When they're trying to set the scene or TV shows or whatever, and they'll
Danny:show a picture of the Eiffel Tower and they'll say overlaid Paris, France.
Danny:You think I know that most people know the Eiffel Tower or you'll
Danny:get like the Empire State Building.
Danny:Yeah, I know the overlay where you are and you think, but we know that
Danny:it just seems a bit superfluous there.
Danny:That's that's kind of my gripe.
Danny:I think.
Danny:Yeah, exactly.
Danny:Alrighty, so yeah, so we don't want police following us at all, whether
Danny:it's on a podcast or properly.
Danny:Alrighty, so let's get rid of that question.
Danny:We're three fifths of the way through.
Danny:So what have we got for question four?
Danny:Killing it here.
Danny:Killing it, mate.
Danny:What will you look like in 20 years time?
Fuzz:In 20 years time, alright, so I am 45 as of right now, so
Fuzz:20 years I'll be 65 years old.
Fuzz:So, I am, well, I still have most of my hair, so I'm guessing that
Fuzz:won't be the case in 20 years.
Fuzz:And if I do have hair, it'll most likely be white.
Fuzz:And right now it's kind of, I don't know, blondish brown.
Fuzz:I'm colorblind.
Fuzz:I don't even know what color my hair is.
Fuzz:Brown.
Fuzz:And I'm, I'm hoping that I stay you know, like working out and kind of
Fuzz:hopefully like, don't, you know, like I don't look like my uncles.
Fuzz:I hope my, my uncles won't be listening to this.
Fuzz:I hope I don't look like my uncles and have like, go down those genes at their
Fuzz:65 cause their profile looks like.
Fuzz:Like, I don't know, Yogi bear kind of shape, but that runs in the family.
Fuzz:And I'll be fighting that between now and then.
Fuzz:So, but I just hope to stay in shape and I'm certain I'll not have hair and I'm
Fuzz:probably have white skin and wrinkles, but that's you know, that like, but people
Fuzz:at 65 these days compared to when I was.
Fuzz:You know, a kid, people at 65 look pretty good, I'd say, most case.
Fuzz:Yeah.
Fuzz:So, I mean, people who live right, I guess, not, not everybody, but those
Fuzz:who make good choices and are you know, go easy on the sun, they're all right.
Fuzz:I wear sunscreen, I put on lotion.
Fuzz:Hopefully I'll look all right.
Fuzz:You moisturize.
Fuzz:I moisturize.
Fuzz:I go, I get my annual checkup, I go to the doctor, hopefully you Hopefully I
Fuzz:still look good by the time, I'll, I'll be like getting ready for bed at night
Fuzz:and my wife will be getting ready for bed and she'll take like some, I don't know,
Fuzz:retinol or something and she'll like, like smear it in between my eye, like in
Fuzz:between my eyes and she'll like rub that in so you don't get a she calls it a peace
Fuzz:symbol because her dad's got this like big wrinkle peace symbol in between his eyes.
Fuzz:So, yeah, so I guess but I'm, you know, what I'm, who am I kidding?
Fuzz:I'm going to be 65 years old and I'm not going to live forever.
Fuzz:So and we're allowed to age, Danny, right?
Danny:Yeah, exactly.
Danny:I feel you mentioned that people now about 65 generally look better than
Danny:say what we remember 65 year olds as kids or teens growing up, et cetera.
Danny:And I wonder if that's more to do with there being a lot more.
Danny:like tech and service led jobs, etc, where you're not working down a mine
Danny:or you're not out in the field, etc.
Danny:So obviously you're doing harder labor and you're open to these elements, etc.
Danny:And like you say, I mean, we used to play as kids out in the sun.
Danny:We didn't put any sunscreen on whatsoever, didn't even have
Danny:sunscreen at that time, I don't think.
Danny:So yeah, I look at my My folks that are, say, older now than me, obviously,
Danny:they would be, but yeah, they're, they're look older because they've
Danny:been out and had harder lives, etc.
Danny:So yeah, that plays a big part as well, I think.
Fuzz:Yeah, absolutely.
Fuzz:And that, vitamins, access to health care.
Fuzz:Not smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes every day before downing a
Fuzz:bottle of whiskey, you know, all that, I mean, for most of us, some people
Fuzz:still do that, and that's their choice.
Danny:And would you ever, I mean, maybe, maybe not, but if, if you
Danny:were of a mindset, would you ever have any work done from a vanity
Danny:point of view, do you think, or?
Fuzz:I don't think I would.
Fuzz:I don't have, I don't think I have any reason to, I mean, I am not.
Fuzz:A model.
Fuzz:I am a, I guess I am kind of a politician, but I'm like a local politician where
Fuzz:it doesn't really matter if I, if I, what it doesn't matter what I look like.
Fuzz:And I, hopefully I will not be a local politician in 20 years because I just
Fuzz:wanted to get a couple of things done locally and I've gotten them done.
Fuzz:So I don't think I can continue to do that forever.
Danny:And what got you into that then?
Fuzz:I wanted to see some change, some positive change locally.
Fuzz:And there were, I was not satisfied with the people that were currently in office.
Fuzz:So instead of sitting back and complaining about it, I chose to take action and
Fuzz:actually do something about it and I did it and then now I'm in it and.
Fuzz:Get to hear people complain and, you know, like that, we're not doing
Fuzz:this, or we did this instead of this.
Fuzz:And I totally understand and empathize, you know, with everybody's thought,
Fuzz:but I really believe if you want to see change, you got to be part of the process.
Fuzz:And so here I am.
Fuzz:And then once I've finished what I want to do, I'm not going to be in it forever.
Fuzz:I don't have aspirations of being a, any higher politician.
Fuzz:I just wanted to wanted to improve some things and I've done it and I got dogs
Fuzz:in the parks and I wanted to be able to walk my dog in our park and gosh, darn it.
Fuzz:We did it
Danny:Well, that's the only reason you're going to politics, isn't it?
Danny:Getting the dog there.
Danny:The Unleashed Dog Park or the Free Dog Park, etc.
Danny:That's what you want.
Danny:That's awesome.
Danny:And that's good.
Danny:I mean, like you said, so many people, it's easy to complain and,
Danny:you know bitch and holler about it.
Danny:But it's, it's not a lot of people actually do anything about it, so kudos.
Fuzz:Yeah, thank you.
Danny:Alrighty.
Danny:So, we've reached almost the end.
Danny:We've now got question number five.
Danny:So, let's see what it brings up for us.
Danny:And here we go.
Danny:Let's spin this wheel for the final time on this episode.
Danny:Hmm, okay.
Danny:That's a good one.
Danny:I was thinking about this today actually.
Danny:I was having a conversation online which is relevant to this.
Danny:Okay, so the question is, question number five.
Danny:What is one thing you refuse to share in social media?
Fuzz:So one thing that I refuse to share in social media, I'm
Fuzz:pretty open in social media, but I do not air personal grievances or
Fuzz:family grievances on social media.
Fuzz:I hate when people air family drama or like passive aggressive
Fuzz:family things on social media.
Fuzz:I, I don't think that that's a place for it.
Fuzz:I really think if you.
Fuzz:You want to share that with somebody, share it with a therapist share it with
Fuzz:the person you're angry with have a conversation with them, sit down one
Fuzz:to one and, and talk to them about it.
Fuzz:But when people, I see it all the time on Facebook or on other platforms where they.
Fuzz:You know, my Oh, I can't believe my dumb husband did this or my wife did this.
Fuzz:I, I don't think that's the place for it.
Fuzz:I think that's even, you know, when somebody's talking about their parents
Fuzz:or their kids, you know, even, even their young kids, it's like, they're
Fuzz:going to learn and see it someday.
Fuzz:It's social media.
Fuzz:It's there.
Fuzz:It's pretty much permanent.
Fuzz:And I don't think it belongs there.
Fuzz:Also, I try to stay away from sharing.
Fuzz:Like personal information about my kids.
Fuzz:One of my children's is older.
Fuzz:She's turning 20 here in a month.
Fuzz:And my younger is nine.
Fuzz:So like, I've tried to keep them, like keep their names off social and things
Fuzz:like that until like the older ones now on social and she tags me and things.
Fuzz:So it's harder to like do that these days, but the younger one, I don't post her
Fuzz:name and those kinds of things on there.
Fuzz:And, And that, so, but like from a sharing on social, like I, you know,
Fuzz:I've been on social media since it, you know, since Mark Zuckerberg flipped the
Fuzz:switch, essentially actually since Tom flipped the switch on my space, I guess.
Fuzz:And I've been kind of in it and using it since it came out.
Fuzz:So it's.
Fuzz:Kind of evolved with it and probably started oversharing back in the day.
Fuzz:So the, but as I've gotten older, I think a lot of the, I'm sharing less
Fuzz:these days than I used to, but it's still a, I, I don't think that personal
Fuzz:grievances, spats between husbands and wives boyfriends, girlfriends, or
Fuzz:partners need their place on social media.
Fuzz:Some of it elsewhere.
Danny:It's yeah, I this has gone back a few years.
Danny:I think it was I'm going to say twenty sixteen, something like that.
Danny:And there's a bunch of us have had a conversation on a Facebook
Danny:group and it was a public group, so it wasn't locked down.
Danny:It wasn't private, anything like that.
Danny:So obviously anybody could see it.
Danny:And the, the, the husband was on chatting away and then the wife came
Danny:on cause she was part of the group too.
Danny:And she laid into him for something he hadn't done at home and then we're saying,
Danny:we're trying to stay in the back channel.
Danny:We don't don't air this, you know, and they're still going at each other.
Danny:And then she said something about okay, well, in that case, I'm glad
Danny:that I screwed your best friend.
Danny:And we thought that was just like a.
Danny:you know, an insult, just throw it out there.
Danny:Turns out she had.
Danny:And so, so this went, that escalated quickly, you know,
Danny:gone from Anchorman's line.
Danny:But yeah, so it turned out, I mean, they got divorced about six months
Danny:later or so, and that all stemmed from something that could have been handled.
Danny:I mean, they might've still got divorced.
Danny:Obviously that's a big, that's a big thing, but they would have been between
Danny:them and they would have, you know, we would have been any the wiser.
Danny:But then we knew, okay, well wow, she did that.
Danny:And, you know, so yeah, I, I, I, I can never understand, like
Danny:you say, mate, why people air so much dirty the laundry as well.
Danny:It's not just little things often, it's like big personal things
Danny:that should be, I feel private.
Fuzz:Yeah, exactly.
Fuzz:And social media is, you know, they're starting to teach it in schools.
Fuzz:They're starting to teach kids.
Fuzz:I forget the term for it on my wife's podcast.
Fuzz:She, she talks about different tools that teachers can use for helping
Fuzz:students in their classrooms.
Fuzz:They are teaching the digital citizenship.
Fuzz:That's what it's called.
Fuzz:And, They are starting to teach students about these things and about
Fuzz:your digital footprint and about how to, I guess, hold yourself online.
Fuzz:And I think, you know, more and more kids of the, you know, Gen Z, Gen
Fuzz:Alpha, you know, those kids coming behind them will have a more of a
Fuzz:baseline because we've, Learned poorly before them and have, you know, kind
Fuzz:of baptism by fire experience with it.
Fuzz:But I think that, you know, we didn't get a good shot at this.
Fuzz:And I think a lot of people like the attention that it
Fuzz:comes, that comes with it.
Fuzz:The instant dopamine spike you get when you see, you know, the, the care emoji
Fuzz:or something like that, when you post.
Fuzz:You know, some drama that happened and other people like to see the drama
Fuzz:because other people feed off that.
Fuzz:And so that but it doesn't, it doesn't belong there and it doesn't help anything.
Fuzz:It doesn't solve anything.
Fuzz:So it just creates more problems.
Danny:And it's good to see the kids getting a better education as far as
Danny:social media goes today and the pitfalls.
Danny:I know my daughter I accidentally found out she had a TikTok account the
Danny:other day because she liked one of my videos and I thought, I know that name.
Danny:So I went over and she's only, I mean, she's not even quite 13 yet.
Danny:She's about midway through her 12th year.
Danny:And we've spoken to her, we've spoken to both kids about, you know, that bit.
Danny:I checked out her profile and she's got it locked down.
Danny:She's only got X amount of friends that are allowed to view.
Danny:She's got a profile and that, so she knows.
Danny:You know about that.
Danny:But a lot of that as well came from school too.
Danny:They were educating.
Danny:They have people come in, you know, counsellors, et cetera, and social
Danny:media experts that help companies come in and speak to kids about it.
Danny:So it's good to see life lessons if you like being taught in school too now.
Fuzz:Yeah, absolutely.
Fuzz:And again, it's as we learn, we're able to teach from the
Fuzz:lessons that we've learned, right?
Fuzz:Do I get to ask you a question now?
Fuzz:Is that how this works?
Danny:You
Danny:do, yes.
Danny:I'm just going to suggest, I'm just going to say that to you.
Danny:Yeah.
Danny:So yeah, just keep things fair.
Danny:So thank you for sharing your answers on the five questions.
Danny:We'll see.
Danny:I'm curious what the, the Star Wars Brigade makes out because I,
Danny:I mean, I'm a huge Star Wars fan.
Danny:You're obviously a Star Wars fan.
Danny:You know what the, the fandom can be like there.
Fuzz:Yeah.
Fuzz:Oh, yeah.
Danny:You know, so I'm curious.
Danny:I'm going to make a little audio bite and just throw that out there
Danny:and
Danny:see.
Fuzz:Oh, perfect.
Fuzz:Thank you.
Danny:And just
Danny:point them right to you, mate.
Danny:But yeah, it's only fair.
Danny:I've asked you five questions, so you can throw a completely random question at me.
Fuzz:All right, Danny.
Fuzz:What has been, in your life, what has been your most frightening
Fuzz:encounter with Mother Nature?
Danny:Ooh ooh, frightening encounter.
Danny:I'm gonna see probably a lightning storm that we, so I was on a plane
Danny:coming back from where was I?
Danny:New York, I think I was in New York.
Danny:I think it was in New York and it was because it was a short flight.
Danny:It's not like a two hour flight or something to Toronto something.
Danny:It's not a big flight.
Danny:And we were part of it.
Danny:We got told it was a storm ahead, but we're going to fly around it because
Danny:we still be on track and they could divert, but it's pretty heavy stuff.
Danny:It's similar.
Danny:The storm chased the plane.
Danny:And you know yourself when you get it.
Danny:into, you know turbulence and et cetera, it can be a bit heavy.
Danny:So this one we probably dropped and everybody's obviously buckled up.
Danny:So there was no injuries, but we probably dropped about a thousand
Danny:feet in five seconds, 10 seconds.
Danny:It might've been less, it might've been more than that.
Danny:So I might be exaggerating.
Danny:But you felt weightless and then it almost felt like a big flash outside
Danny:and almost felt like the plane got hit.
Danny:I don't think it did, and I believe you're safe up there.
Danny:I'm not sure.
Danny:I know, like, if you're in a car, if you're in a thunderstorm on the ground,
Danny:one of the safest places is meant to be a car because they're earthed because of the
Danny:rubber tires, I believe, if that's wrong.
Danny:Don't come and sue me if you get electrocuted in a car.
Danny:My bad.
Fuzz:They won't be able to sue you, Danny.
Danny:They'll be dead.
Danny:Yeah.
Danny:Okay.
Danny:Well, I'll feel good for saying that then.
Danny:But yes, that would probably be it.
Danny:I mean, I, I've done when I was younger, anyway, I did like a bunch
Danny:of, not mountain climbing, but big hill climbing and stuff like that and
Danny:rock climbing and abseiling and stuff.
Danny:And that's not quite mother nature, but it's kind of, and that was fine.
Danny:It was more adrenaline.
Danny:But I think because you don't have any control, right, you're stuck in a piece
Danny:of metal, thirty thousand feet in the sky, whatever it was, you know, it might even
Danny:be less because it's not a long flight.
Danny:So I think that would probably be it, mate, which is why
Danny:I don't like flying at all.
Danny:I would do it, but I don't like it.
Fuzz:Yeah, I don't blame you there.
Fuzz:Yeah, that sounds, that sounds harrowing.
Fuzz:Wow.
Fuzz:Yeah.
Fuzz:Stay out of those storms.
Danny:Stay out of the storms, people.
Danny:If you have to go anywhere, take a boat, you know, because at least that
Danny:way if you capsize, you're gone anyway.
Danny:You know, it's quicker than falling twenty thousand feet and
Danny:knowing it's going to happen.
Fuzz:I know.
Fuzz:I don't see it.
Fuzz:I disagree with you.
Fuzz:See, if you fall twenty thousand feet, The end is quick.
Fuzz:If your boat tips over, it might take a while.
Danny:That is true.
Danny:That is true.
Danny:Yep.
Danny:I mean, you could float for a bit.
Danny:You could float for a while if you're doing the proper thing.
Danny:You got your life jackets.
Fuzz:Yeah, you know, just by freezing, you'd be just a frozen floating popsicle.
Danny:Well, that's a nice morbid question and answer to finish off.
Danny:So, Fuzz, before we wrap this up, I do want people to check out,
Danny:obviously, not in that way, because I'm sure your wife would probably
Danny:have something to say about it.
Danny:But yeah, I do also want people to check out, you know, obviously your
Danny:agency your podcasts that you do yourself and with your, your wife.
Danny:So, where can people find out more about you, your services
Danny:and all that cool stuff?
Fuzz:Yeah, sure.
Fuzz:I'm so you can check out.
Fuzz:Me, my stuff at Fuzzmartin.
Fuzz:com.
Fuzz:I should have all my links to my things there.
Fuzz:You can also my website for the business is epic creative.
Fuzz:com.
Fuzz:Wife's podcast is tech, excuse me, a smart in wii.
Fuzz:com.
Fuzz:It's the tech tools for teachers podcast.
Fuzz:So it's S Martin WI that's her email address for her school.
Fuzz:So, but it works cause she's a teacher.
Fuzz:So smart in W I Wisconsin.
Fuzz:com.
Fuzz:And and you can check that out, but no, I really appreciate you having,
Fuzz:having me on this as a lot of fun.
Fuzz:And I hope all the best for Five Random Questions.
Danny:I appreciate you Fuzz, thanks so much.
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Danny:Because yes, that's what Darth Vader does.
Danny:Signs autographs at local supermarkets.
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Danny:But seriously, leaving a review for the show would make my day.
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