The only time I always raise my eyebrow is if I'm with somebody who's going

to show me their awesome memory.

And I'm like, yeah, I want this with this, but not that.

And be sure to put this on the side and blah, blah, blah. And they're not writing anything down.

That's where I'm always like, okay, if you get this wrong, I'm sending it back

because that's just stupid.

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

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

created by a random question generator.

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

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Now to this week's guest.

Today's guest is Dave Jackson, who began podcasting in 2005 and launched the School of Podcasting.

His School of Podcasting show has over 3 million downloads, and he's helped

hundreds of people plan, launch, and grow their podcasts.

He's the author of the book Profit From Your Podcast and is a featured speaker at events.

In 2016, Dave joined Libsyn, the largest podcasting hosting company,

as part of their tech support team.

And in 2018, he was inducted into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame.

So, Dave, welcome to 5 Random Questions.

Danny, glad to be here, buddy. Now, we're recording this on July 27,

and I know on July 29, you start a new role.

So I guess the bio will have to be updated a little bit there. A little bit.

But I'm not going to tweak out the name of the company.

When does this come out? This will come out at the end of August, early September.

Can you keep a secret, my friend? I'm awesome at keeping secrets,

and I will keep a secret in all seriousness, yeah.

I am going to be the head of podcasters at Podpage.

Oh, nice. Along with, that's Brennan, right? Yeah. That suits you really well.

I know you use Podpage for your site, and you're always recommending them.

That's an awesome connection there, mate.

Yeah. So that's, uh, you know, you're the only person I've told.

And that's, I was like, Hey, you know what? I trust Danny.

He's not going to go run out and we've got a whole big hoopla going on with James Cridland.

Who's going to announce it. And then I announced it and blah,

blah, blah. So yeah, that's where I'll be.

I will definitely keep that a secret. I'm not going to jump on a twirl after

this recording and say, hey, by the way.

Appreciate it. NDA. Well, congratulations. That's awesome.

And quickly as well, actually, how are your knees, Dave?

My knees, believe it or not, are almost healed. But it's weird because that was 23 days ago.

And I think by the end of the weekend, because at this point,

the scab on my right knee, which really took the biggest hit,

is about as big as my pinky fingernail.

So it's almost to the point where I'm really tempted to just grab the scab and yank it.

But it's been a very long road because every day you wake up and you think it's

healing and then you move and then you're like, oh, wait, look,

it's not happy again. But I appreciate you asking.

And just for the listeners, Dave had a bit of an accident whilst walking and

recording on your phone, if I recall.

Yeah, I was looking at my phone and it was raining. So I was trying to kind

of walk fast to get home and my neighborhood, the, the sidewalks are supposed

to be flat and they're not.

And this one had like a, it easily like a two inch gap.

And so there was just like this little wall in my right leg just stopped dead.

And I'm looking at my, my phone is in my right hand.

And I noticed my left hand is going out to brace. And I'm like,

why is it in it about this?

This is one of those things where like a million things go through your mind.

I'm like, why is my left hand?

Oh, I'm falling. crawling and so i put my left hand out to brace i flipped my

phone so i landed on my phone so kudos to otterbox because it didn't get a scratch

but the big problem was i just skidded on my knees and i woke i got up and.

All my neighbors, because this was on the 4th of July. And the reason I was

out was to look at fireworks. So everybody's in their front yard.

They're like, are you okay? And I'm like, yeah, just embarrassed. Thanks.

And then I walked home. It was only like three houses from mine.

I get in and I turn on the kitchen light and I've just got blood in my socks.

And I'm like, oh, that's not good.

And I looked down and I'm like, oh yeah, that's, it was not good.

So yeah, don't look at your phone while you're walking. That is the lesson I've learned.

And what's funny is I didn't even realize until when I could finally walk without

really causing all sorts of issues.

I started walking. The first thing I did was pull out my phone.

I was like, you idiot, don't do that.

So now I've developed a new habit of when I'm getting ready to leave the house,

I figure out what podcast I'm going to listen to and then put it in my pocket and continue on.

Because I was like, I didn't realize that was a habit. And it's a bad habit to have.

And there was, I mean, injuries, like you say, you had blood in your socks.

Injuries were quite horrible. You shared some pictures of your knees online.

Lying and yeah they were um they were a bit of a mess mate so as you

say don't watch your phone when you're walking

and maybe wear pants made out of otter

yeah that's it something yeah it was the other thing i normally don't wear shorts

because i'll blind you with my legs and uh you know it was night time out and

it was hot it was july here in ohio and yeah so no nothing covering those so

that's what you get so don't look at your phone well glad you're on the mend

and speaking of of looking at your phone.

If you're listening to this episode on your favorite podcast app,

obviously check out the show notes afterwards because they'll have all the Dave's

links that we'll share soon.

But don't do that while you're walking. So Dave, speaking of questions,

how are we feeling for the five random questions?

I am, it's weird. I'm excited and yet I have no idea what's coming.

So this could be, I'm like, all right, I got to think on my feet.

So we'll see how this goes.

All right, I'll try be gentle with you. Let's bring up the first question.

All right, Dave, here we go. A nice easy one, I feel, but easy-ish to kick things off.

Question one, in what situation or place would you feel the most out of place in?

Boy, it's weird because it doesn't sound true.

But if I, I'll give you an example one.

If I'm in a room of doctors and nurses, I used to be married to a nurse and

going to the yearly early Christmas party where you just have zero in common with everybody.

And they're all talking this medical language filled with jargon.

And I was just like, I have nothing to bring to the table.

And it was funny because my now ex-wife looked over at me. She said,

oh, no, no, no, don't do it. I go, don't do what? She's like, don't be shy, Dave.

She goes, I don't like shy, Dave. Stay with me. And I'm like,

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

So that's one where I was just Just like, why am I here?

This is so weird. But just so, it was a lot of like, yes, and this is what my

husband looks like. I'm like, okay, can we leave now? Like, I'm done.

I mean, that's it. I mean, your ex-wife, which you mentioned,

she doesn't like shy Dave.

And, you know, seeing you interact at conferences and, you know,

online when you're live streaming with Jim on your weekly show over on YouTube, etc.

You always seem a very approachable person and happy to talk,

happy to chat. But I guess, like anybody, if it's a topic that's completely

out of your wheelhouse, it's kind of difficult.

Are you introverted by nature or are you pretty much extroverted,

but it's just that topic that held you back there?

Yeah, my first job, I was a grocery bagger, stocker guy, and I got fired because

I was too shy. I wouldn't talk to people.

And still, there are times when it creeps in.

I remember I was at an event and they had a dinner for the speakers.

Speakers so i'm in a room filled with speakers and

if anybody needs a podcast it's speakers they know how to speak let's

get them some exposure and it was funny because i was sitting on this one bench

and everybody else was kind of over by the food and i'd got my food and walked

away and i was like well you idiot you came here to find people who need a podcast

and they're all over there in

your way over here and i just kind of had to manually manually kind of uh.

Grab myself by the shirt and just go and i just found

something like okay see that woman over there with the

green shirt yes okay can you walk over there and say what

brings you to the show mike yeah i can do that and i just did

but it was just one of those things where i look up and i'm like oh i'm being

shy dave again i gotta quit doing that so yeah it's something i easily fall

into and that's especially i'm getting ready to go to event and over the years

i've i've met a lot of people so usually i can walk into a room and know somebody

and when i walk in and know nobody buddy, that's when I'm like, oh, here we go again.

And again, it's just a matter of like, can you go to that person and say,

what brings you to the show? And I'm like, yes, I can do that.

Okay, well, that's where we're going to start.

It's interesting. I find a lot of podcasters, at least ones I know of,

are introverted by nature.

I'm an introvert and podcast movement was my first one last year in Denver.

And some of the networking events, I felt really uncomfortable.

I know I had to be there and networking it to know people, but it just felt

really weird and strange, which my wife says all the time, but you talk to people

all the time via your podcast. But yeah, they're not in front of me.

There's a better difference than a human being being stood a foot away from you.

Yeah. And when I lost my job as a teenager, that was through a school program.

And so the teacher that got me the job said, well, what I want you to do in

the future is if you act the way you want to be, someday you will be the way

you act, which we now just call fake it till you make it.

And he pointed at my best friend who was super outgoing.

He's like, you need to be more like your buddy, Scott. And I'm like,

you're asking me to grow a third arm. That's just not me.

And he's like, I just act that way. And so in those situations,

I just kind of like, all right, what would an outgoing person do?

And I just kind of, not so much like a persona, but I just like,

okay, let's, this isn't, you know, nobody's going to punch you in the face.

So let's, let's go see what happens.

And eventually Eventually, once I get going, it's the thought.

Is more frightening than the actual act. Once I go and start talking to people,

I'm fine. But it's that whole like, oh, I don't know anybody.

And, you know, I'm going to look stupid or sound stupid. And I've come to the

conclusion I'm not going to look or sound stupid unless I'm in a room of doctors and nurses.

But that rarely happens. So, yeah, I'm getting much better at it.

Well, you can always ask him what the favorite medical podcast is. There you go.

So there you go, folks. If you don't want to act stupid, just ask yourself,

what would Dave do? There's your new mantra for moving forward.

And speaking of moving forward, let's see what question number two has for us.

Ooh, okay. Question two, Dave. If you inherited a private jet from a stranger,

what would you do with it?

That's a great, there's a lot of countries. The only country I've ever been

to outside of the US is I've been to London once and I've been to Australia.

So there are a lot of, there's Ireland and Scotland. And when

I see pictures of them like oh you know that's i gotta see those and there are

a lot of places in the like i've never seen the grand canyon i've never seen

really like um whatever it is the pacific coast highway looks like fun you know

so i think i just go around and see the world for me just to uh.

You know, it's one thing to see the pictures. It's another thing when you're

looking at it, that's just, that'd be my quest, I guess.

And would you have a bucket list? So you mentioned, obviously, some countries there.

Do you have like a top 10 that you could ring off right away that you would

say, yeah, these would be my 10 I'd immediately go to?

Yeah, well, Ireland, Scotland, Japan is amazing.

I know people that have gone over there and they're like years ahead of everybody

when it comes to technology.

So I'd definitely do that. I'd like to see China. you

can't go there now but i'm there are great things in russia and

romania that uh would be interesting um

let me think what other countries are we missing uh never

been to canada so actually i have i've been to niagara falls but that's you

know that's just putting your toe over the line and that's got amazing you know

forests and trees and parks and all that kind of because it's huge so i definitely

got to go to canada and uh what else am i missing um africa would be fun that That would be,

I know people that have gone to Africa and have seen the poorest areas and they

say it's life-changing because you don't realize how good you have it until

you see somebody who has nothing.

And so as much as that sounds depressing, that would be something that would

be interesting to see, but just basically hit all the continents,

I think would be, and Germany, I've never been to Germany, so there's another one.

So just all the places you've heard of. Let's fire up the jet and here's where we're going to go.

Just grab an atlas and spin it around and see where they're...

That's it. Put your finger on it.

I've never been to Italy. I've never been to Rome. So I've never been to Egypt. So all those places.

It's funny you mentioned Canada. And if you ever do come over Canada,

give me a shout. I'll be sure to be a nice host for you.

But one of the things I always found weird is like I moved from the UK to Canada back in 2006.

And you mentioned the size of it. I was blown away. I didn't realize how big

Canada was. was if I was driving in the UK and I drove for nine hours,

I would be able to go from the tip of Scotland to the very southerly tip of

England in that nine hours.

If I drive in Canada for nine hours, I'm still in Ontario. I've not left the

province I live in, which is, to me, that's crazy, you know,

that the amount of space that a country can have.

I'm in Ohio and it takes me four hours to get out of Ohio and then I can drive

through West Virginia and Tennessee and all this stuff. And one time I went

to see some friends in Texas and I went from Houston, Texas to Fort Worth and it was six hours.

And I'm like, how long? And they're like, oh yeah, we're not even,

you know, it's, it's, we're still in the same state.

So Texas is ginormous. And like you said, Canada is huge.

And it's one of those things you, you see it on a map, but when you're there,

you're like, oh, I didn't realize that's hours and hours and hours.

So, yeah. Yeah. And just a quick bonus question for this one.

Who would you take? You're not allowed to take the obvious. You can't take a partner, for example.

So who would you take on a private jet? You can only take one person to share

these experiences with you.

Ooh, that's a tough one. Because on one hand, it'd be my brother.

My brother and I are, you know, people look at us and go, why you guys look like brothers?

I'm like, yeah, we are. And we have the same sense of humor and that whole nine yards.

But that means I got to pull him away from my, both the people I would take are married.

So that's the tricky part. So probably my brother, and if not him,

I would say, I have a friend of mine that I've known since I was 11.

So that's over 40 years. And we still, it's one of those things where he was

in the military for a while, so we kind of lost touch.

But anytime we do touch base, you just pick up right where you left off.

And he also like my brother has the same warped

sense of humor that i have so uh and and just

all the inside jokes and things like that that come along so that'd be one of

those two is coming with me and their wives are just going to be not happy that

i you know they're not invited so i can only take one they can maybe get out

of the jet for weekends or something yeah there you go and and yeah i could

imagine you know it for doing something like that and going you know traveling in so many places,

having someone that's got a funny sense of humor would be a boon for sure.

Yeah, my buddy and I just, we've been in bands together and things like that.

One of our favorite things to do is just people watch and just like,

what is that? You know, kind of thing.

So would that be, either one would be a good time.

Nice. So there you go, listeners. If anybody's got a private jet,

just hanging about doing nothing, we know someone, take off your hands for a little bit.

So all inquiries to Dave Jackson. Let's have a look at question number three,

So I know you must stay at hotels because you go to quite a few events,

etc. So question three, Dave, what's the wildest thing you've ever done in a hotel room?

It was in New York City and I was going to do, I was going to be part of a webinar

for Libsyn and the hotel didn't have great lighting.

A lot of the lighting was in the ceiling, those little cans that are very,

you know, It's almost like a spotlight, and I couldn't really find a place where

I could sit and be lit. And I was like, huh.

And so, because I really, most of the time, I'm not in the hotel room.

I'm out talking to people, and I sleep in the hotel room.

But in this case, I ended up doing a webinar from the bathtub.

I was sitting in the bathtub, and they had this thing that kind of went across

the bathtub to put your soap and whatever else you're going to do.

And that just worked perfect to put a laptop on.

And so I did this. Now, it wasn't the best for acoustics because it's a bathroom.

But the other ones, it literally just was super dark.

And we just couldn't find a light that it either looked like I was being interrogated

because there's this light flashing on my face and nothing else.

And so I ended up doing it from the bathroom just because it looked the best,

but it didn't sound the best.

So that's probably the wildest thing. other than that

i really the only thing i do in hotel rooms is

sleep so there's no like you don't take any instruments with

you and you know relive your who you know

a beatles moment or anything no i

mean the only thing i can think of when i was 15 i went with my brother to uh

this touristy thing called mammoth cave in kentucky and i remember we're both

like because he was i think 18 at the time um and let's see if i was 15 he's

22 and we're like hey we're not at home we can

jump on the bed and so here are these

you know stupid teenagers and young men jumping on

the bed like there's no tomorrow uh we have a picture somewhere

that where my brother's like mid-air and i took a picture of

him but other than that i just sleep in hotels so and for

that webinar then so it was for libsyn so i'd imagine it'd be a few people on

it did you offer any explanation or just go you know what i'm in a bath just

deal with it yeah that was basically it they're kind of like where are you you

know coming from and i'm like well i'm at an event i'm in new york city and

And the hotel has really horrible lighting and that whole nine yards.

I think I had a Samson Q2U, but it's still going to be pretty boomy.

But I did my best to keep it. I think if you go to School of Podcasting,

I have a picture of that on my latest episode.

Because it was kind of a whole thing about sometimes you start with where you

are. And in that case, I was like, well...

I need Wi-Fi, and I need lighting, and I need a microphone and a laptop.

And I was like, well, the only place I can find that has all those right now is the bathroom.

So it's a picture of me sitting in the tub.

I'm going to check that out. Because if you listen to this episode on a podcast

app that supports chapters, I do put chapters into each episode.

And I'll try and grab a screenshot of that picture and upload it so we can see that.

But that sounds awesome. Awesome. And this is another reason why hotels should

have these middle shelf things for bathtubs, because you don't see them that often now.

No, you don't. That's why I was kind of like, oh, well, this is cool. And it was a nice hotel.

It was just very, they wanted to be kind of swanky and cool and,

you know, just these little spotlights everywhere.

And I'm like, yeah, I need like a big overhead light.

And they just didn't have one. so well that's the thing with

video it's a reason i only do pretty much audio only

podcast is everything needs to be you know bang on

so lighting is key and i i can never get lighting good i'm either too bright

i'm too dark i can never get it just so so i'm 100% with you on that with the

lighting so there you go if you need somewhere really simple to do your next

work zoom call get to the bathroom it's super comfortable and you can relax

afterwards and pull yourself off a nice hot one.

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

Okay, Dave, question four. If your food is bad at a restaurant,

would you say something?

That is a great question. I

use this analogy a lot because if I really think about it, yeah, I'm not.

I usually don't. I will just like, eh, is it edible?

Okay, that's fine, but I'm not coming back.

In most cases, I'm not coming back. And that's where I always tell people with

podcasts, I go, there are plenty of people like that.

They listen to your show. This is their first impression.

And if you're podcasting from the bathroom and it sounds like you're in a bathroom,

they might not come back because they're like, this sounds horrible.

So, yeah, I'm not usually, unless it's something that I go, ooh,

wait, I didn't order this and I can't eat this.

I was at, I forget where I was at, it was some podcast event and they gave me somebody else's food.

And it was, a lot of times at restaurants, I'm usually, I stay very safe.

Like, give me a burger or something that I know what I'm going to get.

I don't want to experiment when I'm on the road.

And so it was something some sort of

cuisine that i normally don't eat so they gave me a plate i'm like oh that's

what this looks like i've never had this before and so i started

eating it and then it was wasn't till like somebody brought this

they're like wait where's my stuff and i go well wait a minute that like i had

fries that's that's mine and so i felt bad because i'd already half eaten somebody

else's stuff and i felt stupid they're like why did you eat it go i didn't know

what it looked like it was the first time i've eaten this so and if it's something

like that i I would then send it back because I hate,

for whatever reason, I was not born to eat mushrooms.

And so if you throw mushrooms on something, I'm going to go,

I didn't order this. And I need those out of here for me to eat it.

Now, do you have anybody, if you have, say, regular dining companions,

do you have anybody in your group that would speak up?

My ex-wife would. It used to be a thing where it always seemed like she,

I don't know, I don't want to speak ill of her because she's not here to defend herself.

But I always got the feeling that, and I guess it is, when you go to a restaurant,

you expect to have people do things to your liking.

And if it was, you know, medium and she wanted medium well, to me,

I'm like, is there really that much of a difference?

Yeah, this one's a little more pink. But she'd be like, nope, I'm sending it back.

And I'm like, we're going to be here another 20 minutes while they kick your, nope, I paid money.

I'm not eating that. And I was like, okay. So we ended up getting a lot of free

steak if we would go out on, we'd have date nights. And I'm like, oh, here we go.

Again, you know, but yeah, but that's, that's the person that will definitely send it back.

It's funny. My wife's grandma, she's very picky about her food and she'll be the first.

My wife and I are like you, we'll grumble at the table, we'll bitch and mourn

about the service and the food.

But when the waiter or the waitress comes up and says, how is everything?

We'll say, oh, fine, good, good. We'll never take the opportunity.

But my wife's grandma, she is, oh yeah, she's a firecracker.

Um so if she even if she's got like little bits um so let's say they're seasoning

the steak or something in the kitchen and one little strand of a pepper what's

that it's not caramel it's a,

peppercorn i think i guess yeah that that strays onto her plate she will notice

it and she will complain about the whole meal because that one tiny little bit

of peppercorn landed on her plate so yeah i i hear you i feel maybe my wife's

grandma and your ex-wife would enjoy dinner together Yeah.

Well, I worked in a restaurant. I was a waiter putting myself through college.

So maybe I know, you know, most of the time these people are doing the best

they can and they're trying to get it out to you as fast as they can.

And, you know, sometimes, you know, I don't know.

So the only time I always raise my eyebrow is if I'm with somebody who's going

to show me their awesome memory.

And I'm like, yeah, I want this with this, but not that.

And be sure to put this on the side and blah blah blah and they're not writing

anything down that's where i'm always like.

Okay if you get this wrong i'm sending it back because that's just stupid so,

and that seems to be a lot more popular now like if we go

eating i i can't remember the last time someone's

actually had a physical notepad or even an ipad or something like

that yeah you know to to take the the items off

the menu check it through they'll just memorize it and you think you're

dealing with let's say 10 tables and 30 40

people and you're just it doesn't drive

me crazy it just drives me mad thinking about the mental capacity

you must have to remember all that because i'm i'm

sure they must get some wrong but it generally seems that they don't get

a lot wrong yeah it's it's a

skill i guess the more you do it the better you get at it but i'm always like

you could make this a whole lot easier on yourself if you just wrote it

down but you know i guess it's it's cool

or something who knows maybe it's part of the entertainment of the

evening like you know you're waiting to see how are they going to get my

food right but i don't want to that's not

something i want to put into uh you know to leave up

to chance well and if you go back to niagara um

just on a slight tangent but if you find yourself back in

niagara on the canadian side go to a restaurant called remington's which

is on like the main strip i guess and that's a steak and seafood restaurant

like some of the best steak you'll ever have but they have singing waiters and

waitresses so they'll wander about and they'll serenade you while you're eating

sometimes it's fun other times maybe not so much when you just want to have

a quiet meal when someone's there belting out Celine Dion or something.

I'll have to check that out, yeah. Real good food. It's up to you whether you

want to sing it or not. So just a quick warning there.

So, Dave, we're almost at the end here. We've flown through that.

This has been amazing so far. So how are we doing for coming up for question

number five? Ready to take this one home?

I am ready to take this one home, my friend. All righty. Let's have a look.

Okay, Dave, I like this one. Question five, what's the best on-screen bromance?

Oh, I had to think about that. The first one that came to my mind,

and it's due to awesome Amazon marketing, is Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

They have a new, I can't remember even what the chain's called.

It's the one, they're cops.

Oh, the bad boys? Bad boys, yeah.

And when I think of bromance, that's the first thing that popped in my head.

I'm sure later I might come up with some other ones, but both those guys are pretty entertaining.

So I think right now that would be at least the only one I can think of at the moment.

So it's funny how a lot of the the cop kind of shows and movies and i always

have that bromance i think of say lethal weapon for example with mel gibson

and danny glover that's a nice sort of,

banter going on there but i've really been enjoying i'm going

to watch the um the new deadpool and wolverine movie this weekend and all the

press junkets and the marketing that there that's been you know put out around

that movie it genuinely seems that ryan and reynolds and hugh jackman have a

lot of love and respect for each other it's not just two actors you know doing marketing.

It seems that they've got off-screen romance as well going on there.

Yeah, I just saw them on Hot Ones, that YouTube channel, and they're both just

trying to get through this where they're eating these really hot wings and things like that.

And at one point, one of the questions was, you know, say something nice about

each other and then say something you wish they would change.

And it was, I'm with you. I think those two really, especially appreciate each

other because they're, they're similar, but they're.

They're apparently have things that they're a little different on and

uh yeah that's that's another great bromance i watched

that episode actually on thursday maybe just after

it came out and uh yeah there was one like what

hugh jackman said about ryan reynolds was so sweet and really

nice about his family and how he loves his kids etc um but

some of the stuff coming out ryan reynolds mouth um you

know i mean it's ryan reynolds that's his his persona uh but

when he says yeah he wants to mouth sex a volcano when he's trying to

describe what the the wing heat was like yeah you're

thinking that makes sense i love that show by the way hot ones first

we feast amazing well the the amazing thing

about that was how many times both ryan

and and uh hugh both said oh man

that's that's a real like it was so obvious that that uh

the host had really done his job on researching like

he was asking hugh jackman about being a clown

and i guess he used to be like a a birthday clown and i

never knew that so they did their research and multiple times

both those guys are like oh man that's a question

so that's half the reason why i like watching that show is

because he does do interviews that are completely different so

and everybody wants to know danny is is it a thumbs up or a thumbs down on the

movie because i was thinking about going to see that yeah i know i'm i'm going

to see it tonight oh okay so i'm after we finish recording i've got i'm going

to spend some time at the lake we're very fortunate we will live there's a lake

about about a 50-minute walk away from us because I went for a long walk last

night and I've got some blisters on my feet. Not smart.

So I'm just going to relax in a lake and do that. But yeah, tonight.

So I will make sure to give you the thumbs up or thumbs down.

But by all accounts, everybody's got the thumbs up for that. Yeah.

It'd be hard to mess that up. You've got two great actors and yeah.

Exactly. Now, would you do the hot wings challenge? Do you like hot food at

all? Would you do that? No.

I don't like painful food in general. In fact,

even just going to a Mexican restaurant, run i'm always

like okay what's like i'm like honey

barbecue like you know what i mean like when we started getting the hot

stuff i'm like that's just not not my jam

i i'll like it sweet and tangy and things like that but when it starts like

making my eyes water or things like that i'm like yeah that's that's enough

of that so there you go sean evans have you ever listened to this episode which

i'm sure you will somewhere down the line that dave jackson will send your wings

back. He'll speak up and he'll say, nope, not for me.

So Dave, we're at the end of the questions. That's amazing, bud.

I really appreciate that.

In fairness to each guest, I do throw it over to you to ask a random question

of me. I've put you on the spot for the last half hour or so.

So in all fairness, it's only good that you can ask your own question too. So over to you, good sir.

Okay. So as a dumb American, now I know you're Scottish, but some dumb Americans

might think I think you're Irish.

And so my question is, if somebody goes, oh, what part of Ireland are you from?

Is that offensive to call a Scottish person an Irish person?

It's not because they do share, I say they, see I'm speaking in third person

already, even though I'm Scottish.

We do share a very similar dialect and similar accent, I feel.

And that comes back from the Celts and the Picts back 800 years ago,

whenever it was, when the Scots went over to Ireland and vice versa.

So I feel we share a lot of commonalities that way, especially accent.

The best I've had is, my accent can be all over the place at times.

And funnily enough, on the episode that just dropped this week,

as we record this, the episode with Freddy Cruz.

We mentioned during the episode that my accent can be a bit hit and miss because

I'm from Scotland, but I moved away from Scotland when I was 21 and I lived

and worked in England for 15 years, 20 years maybe.

During that time though, I also spent six months in Australia backpacking and

just doing the whole thing over there.

And then I moved to Canada in 2006. I've almost been here 20 years.

So you throw all that together and And I never really had the strongest Scottish accents to start with.

I went to a particular school in Edinburgh called George Herriot's.

And I was fortunate I got a kind of bursary, I guess, to go there because it's

a private school, super expensive.

And I was fortunate to get a bursary there.

And that kind of had to make me change the way I speak a little bit because

it's very proper, very blah, blah.

And I found since then I've had a softer accent.

So that's a long winded way of saying no offence there.

If you say to me what part of England are you from now that's a different conversation

that goes back to the whole scuttle and England you know hatred blah blah blah

strong word etc excellent alright well good to know because I always uh.

I love accents. Like I know Colin Gray, that's one where I'm like,

I don't know, could be Irish, could be Scottish. It's one of those two.

And I always wonder, like, is it offensive if I ask that question?

So I'm glad to hear that if I ever want to know, I can ask somebody not worry

about getting clocked in the face.

Yeah, or get a Glasgow kiss. And Colin's got a very strong accent anyway,

or much stronger than me for sure.

So, yeah, it is, yeah, Scottish and Irish pretty similar, Welsh completely different.

And then, you know, English, I can see that for sure. But yeah,

that's a good question, buddy.

All right. Score one for Dave. Score one for Dave. So Dave, we've reached the end of the episode.

For people that want to check out the School of Podcasting and all the awesome

stuff you do, as well as Podpage, now that we can mention this,

the episode is now clear to the NDA date, so we'll be okay to mention that.

Where's the best place for people to connect with you online and check out all

the awesome stuff you do?

Yeah, I mean, you can always go to schoolofpodcasting.com, but I do more than

that. So if you want to check that out, I have a website at powerofpodcasting.com,

which is just your typical link tree kind of thing that shows you can get my

book there and all my other shows.

So either one of those are kind of my home where you can find out what I'm doing.

And I'll be sure to drop that in the show notes. So whatever app you're listening

on, be sure to check them out. And I'll link straight over to Dave.

So again, Dave, I appreciate your time today and good luck with the new position at PodPage.

Yeah, thank you, Danny. Always great hanging out with you.

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