And she never came and cleaned, she just let her dog
Danny:out and just do the business.
Reena:Yeah, and then her kids were doing it and yeah.
Danny:Wait,
Danny:wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up.
Danny:Her kids were coming out pooping.
Reena:No, no, not them.
Reena:They would let the dog out too.
Reena:It's like, like mother like kids, you know, but like if the mom lets the dog
Reena:out with no leash and lets them poop and picks it up whenever she feels like it,
Reena:then they feel like they can do that too.
Reena:It's just crazy.
Danny:Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show where
Danny:every question is an adventure.
Danny:I'm your host Danny Brown.
Danny:And each week I'll be asking my guests five questions created
Danny: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:Today's guest is Reena Friedman Watts.
Danny:Reena is a TV producer, podcast host, and mompreneur, who's
Danny:worked on reality TV shows such as Jerry Springer Show and Court TV.
Danny:And with guests such as Howard Schultz, Barbara Corcoran and Derek Savers on Kathy
Danny:Heller's Don't Keep Your Day Job podcast.
Danny:She's also the host of her own show, Better Call Daddy, which has been
Danny:around since twenty twenty and has over three hundred and fifty episodes, which
Danny:is putting this new show to shame.
Danny:And she's interviewed guests like Evan Carmichael, Jerry Springer,
Danny:Nanny Yvonne, and many, many more.
Danny:So, Reena, thank you and welcome to the show.
Reena:I'm excited to be here.
Reena:Thank you so much.
Danny:I'm excited to have you.
Danny:We've we connected online and we've known each other a little bit now.
Danny:And you kindly shared some tips of an anniversary episode
Danny:for one of my other podcasts.
Danny:So, I feel like we kind of know each other, but obviously we've never met yet.
Danny:Anyway, there's always, you know, the future, so who knows.
Reena:Yes, that would be an adventure.
Danny:That would be an adventure.
Danny:And speaking of adventures, did your daughter get to camp okay?
Reena:Yes, yes, she's doing a variety of different dances at this
Reena:dance camp this summer from hip hop to Lyra to hanging from the ceiling
Reena:with those scarves things and hula hoops and all kinds of fun things.
Danny:Awesome.
Danny:I mean, my kids are going to camp.
Danny:Well, they're not going to camp this year.
Danny:They were at camp last year and they loved it.
Danny:My son's off on a three day sort of university camp.
Danny:He's not at university, but he's off to explore what university looks like.
Danny:And they've got a three night camp.
Danny:stay this week.
Danny:So yeah, it's looking forward to that.
Danny:Camp's an awesome time, especially this time of year is great.
Reena:Yes, for sure.
Reena:I'm glad she has a couple of friends doing it with her.
Reena:That makes it even more fun.
Danny:That's awesome.
Danny:And I do have one question.
Danny:It's nothing to do with the five questions we're going to dive into very soon.
Danny:And whether you're allowed to answer this or not, I completely respect that.
Danny:The Jerry Springer Show.
Danny:What's the ratio of factual stories versus scripted stories on there?
Reena:Well, they only wanted me to bring real ones, I'll just say that, and they're
Reena:a lot easier to get, you know, people to react to if, if it's really going on.
Reena:So in my time, pre internet, I was really trying to only
Reena:bring those kinds of stories.
Danny:Awesome.
Danny:So you've got one hundred percent hit rate there.
Reena:I did bust out a few, but I'm like, Oh my God, if you
Reena:fooled me, you better fool them.
Danny:Right.
Danny:So as I say, we don't know what the questions are.
Danny:I'm going to bring up my random question generation now and
Danny:we'll see where things go.
Danny:So let me just bring that up for us now.
Danny:Ooh, okay.
Danny:All right, Reena.
Danny:The question is, question number one, what secret conspiracy would you like to start?
Reena:Hmm,
Reena:that
Danny:could almost be political.
Danny:Well, let's do a fun one.
Danny:Is there a fun one that you'd like to start?
Reena:Hmm.
Reena:Maybe Jesus didn't come from Immaculate Conception.
Danny:Oh, that's an interesting one.
Danny:So would that be, Joseph would be the father then, or?
Reena:Or maybe, I don't know, I recently was reading The Da Vinci
Reena:Code and now I'm in the middle of Inferno and I was thinking about is
Reena:it true that he could have lineage?
Reena:That maybe he was married and he has children.
Reena:I think that that could be interesting, too.
Danny:That would be interesting, because you never really, obviously, you know
Danny:I'm not a super religious, but we were obviously taught, you know, religion at
Danny:school, we were taught the Bible, etc.
Danny:And you never see that, because obviously Jesus was the, I guess, the single person.
Danny:You never talked about, you know, was he ever married or, well, I guess he wasn't
Danny:married, but if it was to go down that route, that could be interesting, like
Danny:you say, and then, you know, If he does have lineage, what does that look like?
Danny:You know, what would that look like in modern day?
Danny:Who would be around now from his lineage?
Reena:Yeah.
Reena:And would they be believers?
Reena:Would they want to hide the fact that they were related to him?
Reena:Would they have to be hidden?
Reena:Would they be social media influencers?
Reena:Would they capitalize on it?
Danny:I wonder what the hashtag would be for that.
Danny:Yeah, I mean, that would be because like you said, I could go into all
Danny:sorts of cool mystery thrillers as well.
Danny:So do like facets or do factions.
Danny:If they find out there's a lineage of Jesus, for example, and they're the
Danny:complete opposite, or anything like that, that could be like a cool sort of mystery
Danny:or danger thriller where they're trying to find out who it is and, you know, there's
Danny:all sorts of stuff like that going on.
Danny:That's, that's actually an interesting thought to take that to,
Danny:you know, a conclusion somewhere.
Reena:I think I would leverage if Jesus was my daddy or my granddaddy.
Danny:Yeah, if that came out and you've been like, obviously you go to
Danny:your dad for his take on every episode and then that comes out, he's got
Danny:like this big secret that he shares afterwards one time, that'd be a whole
Danny:new direction for your show as well.
Reena:What
Reena:would
Reena:Jesus really say?
Reena:Yeah.
Reena:That'd
Danny:That would be awesome.
Danny:And I wonder, so if they were to make a movie of this because I do love this idea,
Danny:who do you think would be a good character or a good actor, sorry, actor, actress
Danny:to play the, the person of lineage?
Reena:Who was the guy that was Aquaman?
Danny:Oh yeah, that's Jason Momoa.
Reena:Yeah, Jason Momoa.
Reena:I choose him.
Reena:He's kind of got that look.
Danny:Yeah, definitely.
Danny:And you don't mess with him either.
Danny:He looks like someone that you really don't mess with in real
Danny:life, although seemingly he's a very big, sort of, cuddly bear.
Danny:He's not, you know, aggressive at all.
Danny:He's complete opposite from the characters he plays on the movies that he does.
Danny:That's it.
Danny:That's an interesting first question and an interesting
Danny:answer to kick off this episode.
Danny:Where do we go from here?
Danny:I'm not sure if we go anywhere from here.
Danny:That's an awesome first question to ask.
Danny:So let's get rid of that one.
Danny:And let's do the second question.
Danny:Are we ready for the second question?
Reena:I'm ready.
Reena:This is crazy.
Danny:Alright.
Danny:I'm not sure how we go from here, but let's have a look.
Danny:Speaking of crazy.
Danny:What is, question two, what is the craziest thing you've ever done?
Reena:Well, this kind of goes along with that subject matter.
Reena:When I was, I think, 19, I hitchhiked from Israel to Egypt.
Reena:Oh, wow.
Reena:And walked across that border.
Reena:I don't think I would do that today, but that was crazy.
Reena:And I yeah, I did it with a friend and I would like jump out and try to get the
Reena:car and then he would hide in the bush.
Reena:And then sometimes when they saw that I had a guy with me, they would pull off.
Reena:But sometimes they'd give us a ride.
Danny:And what's the what's that distance then?
Danny:That's is that a big chunky distance.
Reena:Oh, it was a half a day.
Reena:I think It took us to do that, but it was crazy.
Danny:What
Danny:what made you do that?
Danny:Then what
Reena:We wanted to see You know, the untouched beaches of, of Egypt.
Reena:Yeah, we went to the Sinai.
Reena:We went to Nueva.
Reena:We slept on the beach.
Reena:That is so crazy now.
Reena:Like I think about that now and I'm like, I would not want
Reena:my own children doing that.
Danny:Right, what I was going to ask is obviously your
Danny:daughter's at camp at the moment.
Danny:You, that's not something you'd want your daughter to do is an
Danny:alternative to her camp, right?
Reena:I feel like it was a lot safer, but it probably wasn't even.
Reena:I think I was just a bit naive and it was, it was fun though.
Reena:I mean, we slept on a tent in the beach and I got to see the mountains
Reena:and, and these untouched beaches and eat these crazy different
Reena:foods that I'd never had before.
Reena:And it was pretty peaceful.
Danny:And were your friend that you went with same age?
Reena:Yeah.
Reena:We played beach volleyball all day and yeah.
Danny:How were your parents on that?
Reena:I don't think they were aware I was doing that.
Danny:Until you came home.
Reena:Yeah.
Reena:Glad I made it back safe.
Reena:That was crazy.
Reena:I didn't make it all the way to the pyramids, just kind
Reena:of straight over the border.
Danny:But it's like you say, I mean, that's, that's something that, you
Danny:know, That not a lot of people would do now, primarily because of the, you
Danny:know, the safety aspect and how things may be changed since we were, you
Danny:know, 19 and I'm a bit older than you.
Danny:So even further back when I was 19.
Danny:Yeah, I can't imagine.
Danny:Letting my kids do that, or not, not letting, I want my kids to have
Danny:freedom, as I'm sure you do, to explore and, you know, and do things
Danny:of their own accord and, and live a full sort of happy, fun life.
Danny:But I think there's sometimes as well, you think, you know what,
Danny:that's not the most sensible thing you could do is do a big hitchhike
Danny:like that and sleep on the beach, but I don't know, would it be different
Danny:if it, you know, now, I'm not sure.
Reena:Yeah, it was quite an adventure and I literally walked across the border
Reena:with my US passport and that was it.
Reena:Yeah.
Danny:No, would that be the same today?
Danny:I'm not sure.
Danny:I don't know.
Danny:Yeah, because I'm, I'm just wondering if like, obviously with different regions
Danny:and different, you know, what's going on in different parts of the world,
Danny:et cetera, if that would be different.
Danny:And if you had a passport from one country that was fine previously, it might not
Danny:be so much, you know, today, for example.
Reena:Yeah, that was wild.
Reena:And I'm like, where's the customs?
Reena:There's no customs.
Reena:Like, they just put a stamp in there.
Danny:Well it's like in the, in Europe now.
Danny:So the UK, they they had a vote to leave Europe.
Danny:I think it was maybe four or five years ago, something like that.
Danny:And it was either just this year or maybe last year where now the UK passport.
Danny:Can't get you into Europe as easily as it used to because you know, the
Danny:UK is no longer part of Europe and because I'm originally from the UK,
Danny:I still have a UK passport versus a Canadian passport where I am now.
Danny:And I was talking to my wife about that the other day there, if we were
Danny:to go to Europe, one of her bucket list things is to go to Greece and
Danny:if we were to go to Europe, I think I would struggle more than she would.
Danny:to actually get into Greece because I've got a UK passport, whereas before
Danny:I could have just walked in basically.
Reena:Oh wow.
Reena:How come it would be hard to get into Greece?
Reena:Do they have stricter rules?
Danny:No, it's just purely because the, the passport situation now, because
Danny:Britain is no longer part of the EU, the European Union, you can't travel
Danny:as freely between European countries.
Danny:Now, countries that are in the EU can still travel, you know, nice
Danny:and freely on passports, et cetera.
Danny:But I feel I've got to now get a travel visa for certain countries
Danny:that I didn't have to before.
Danny:So it's just like a weird thing.
Danny:I think it would just be easier for me to, you to get a Canadian passport.
Danny:Get, get that done, you know.
Danny:So yeah, I can imagine, it just seems wild, you know, a 19 year old doing
Danny:that hike and then just walking through, you know, over the border with no,
Danny:no real stops or checks or anything.
Reena:Just a backpack.
Danny:Love it.
Danny:So that's the craziest thing you've ever done.
Danny:That is pretty crazy.
Danny:We're going to give that a five pointer right on that answer.
Danny:I'm not even sure there's points in this game.
Danny:I'm going to start adding points.
Danny:What the heck?
Danny:All righty.
Danny:Where do we go from here?
Danny:Let's have a look at question three.
Danny:Hmm, I feel this might be the same, the same similar as your
Danny:previous one, I'm not sure.
Danny:Let's ask anyway and we can always buffer it to another one if that's the case.
Danny:But, question three, what is the strangest thing that has ever happened to you?
Reena:I don't know, the first thing that comes to mind was I moved next
Reena:to someone who thought that they didn't have to put their dog on a
Reena:leash and that they could freely poop in my yard every day for 11 months.
Reena:That felt strange.
Reena:Was like I don't know where that's ever been okay, but Yeah, it feels personal.
Reena:Can you please stop?
Danny:Now, and it was this in the suburbs or was this in a city?
Danny:Because I know some things as you get more out to say rural areas.
Reena:It's slightly in the city, but yeah, thank goodness she moved
Reena:after the one year lease and I am feeling freedom from that.
Reena:But yeah, it was very strange.
Reena:I've never seen someone who feels like they just are above the law and that
Reena:they can poop on somebody every day.
Reena:That was wild.
Danny:And did you speak to her about this?
Danny:Did she raise it with her?
Danny:Or do you think, you know what, she's obviously.
Reena:That that did not help the situation whatsoever.
Danny:Oh, man.
Danny:And she never came and cleaned,.
Danny:She just let her dog out and just.
Danny:Do the business.
Reena:Yeah, and then her kids were doing it and yeah.
Danny:Wait,
Danny:wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up.
Danny:Her kids were coming out pooping.
Reena:No,
Reena:no, not them.
Reena:They would let the dog out too.
Reena:It's like, like mother, like kids, you know, but like if the mom
Reena:lets the dog out with no leash and let's them poop and picks it up
Reena:whenever she feels like it, then.
Reena:They feel like they can do that too.
Reena:It's just crazy.
Reena:And I didn't even have a camera.
Reena:Like when we first moved in, I was like, guess it's time for a camera.
Reena:I guess it's time for Mace.
Reena:Guess it's time for animal control.
Reena:Like I'd never in my life had to do those things, you know?
Danny:I would have thought there'd be by laws for that though, no?
Danny:There wasn't any by laws?
Reena:There are, but
Reena:she feels like, you know, that it's, for some reason, even though according
Reena:to the land record it was our yard, she felt like it was hers too.
Danny:Oh my grief.
Danny:And then she moved out, so you've got, are you still in that house now?
Danny:Is that the same house you're in now, or?
Reena:Yes.
Danny:Better neighbours now?
Reena:Well, now it's vacant.
Reena:And let me tell you, every day I come home, I am so grateful.
Reena:I'm like, what another beautiful day with no poop in the yard.
Reena:It was so crazy.
Reena:I was starting to name each time she did it.
Reena:I was like, after school poop, good morning poop, after Christmas
Reena:poop, you know, spring break poop.
Danny:I feel like this could be a topic for Jerry Springer, this, you know, this
Danny:neighbor, the poop neighbor from hell.
Reena:Crappy neighbor be gone.
Danny:I, like, I wonder what she would have done had she lived in
Danny:an apartment complex and she's on the 10th floor or something.
Danny:Does she let it poop on the balcony in the apartment?
Danny:Does she actually take it to the park or what would she do?
Reena:She
Reena:only walked it in my yard.
Reena:It was like a shared walk space, but not really because like, according
Reena:to the land record, it was our space.
Reena:She had like a little piece of land, like, you know, on the other side
Reena:of where she walked into her place.
Reena:We're in like townhomes.
Reena:It was crazy.
Reena:But
Danny:that's
Danny:mad - do you never get tempted to collect some up and leave it?
Reena:Oh, trust me.
Reena:I have all kinds of creative ideas of things.
Reena:I wanted to do with it.
Reena:I thought about, you know, creating little like eggs or poops in her wreath.
Reena:Like when she hung that up or taking, I did one time because another thing
Reena:that she would do, which was very odd or strange was there was like
Reena:a drain pipe out the side of her house and she would hang the poop
Reena:bag there for a week at a time.
Reena:I'm like, Dude, one poop, one dispose of poop, like, I don't know why you're
Reena:trying to be like economic on the plastic bags, but like, you know, you use one per
Reena:every time it goes and you dispose of it.
Reena:Like there's rules around that too.
Reena:But yeah, she'd hang it off the drain pipe for like a week where
Reena:like flies would start to gather.
Reena:And I'm like, it's so unsanitary.
Danny:And did you have kids then?
Danny:You mentioned it was a while.
Reena:I
Reena:have four kids.
Reena:And so, like, my kid's friends would come over and they're like, that is so gross.
Reena:Like,
Danny:I can't even imagine.
Danny:It's like, I mean, we live, where we live, it's a small village.
Danny:It's very rural, but people respect the poop law, you know.
Danny:So I can't, I can't, that just flummoxed me completely.
Danny:That's just bizarre.
Reena:It was wild.
Reena:Like, In the beginning, I was like, oh, hey, did you notice?
Reena:Because she would also dog sit, so she left like pit bull mounds in my yard.
Reena:I was like, that's kind of a lot.
Reena:Are you going to pick that up?
Reena:Like, that's how it started.
Reena:And then it was like I have a five year old.
Reena:Can you please keep your dog on a leash?
Reena:And then I was like, hey, like, this is a yard that we walk through every day.
Reena:Can this not be your toilet?
Reena:Yeah,
Danny:That's yeah bizarre.
Danny:I'm glad obviously that the neighbor is no longer there, but I pity the
Danny:poor person she is now moved in next to because clearly that's like a continuous
Danny:issue That's not something that she was just doing with you unless maybe it
Danny:was maybe she's just like didn't like you But a weird way to do it though
Reena:It was crazy because when she moved in her boyfriend told me I can't
Reena:I'm so glad to get rid of our last neighbors And that did not even ring
Reena:Yeah A red flag for me, but if somebody tells you that beware, like it's coming,
Danny:Get out of town, get out of town.
Danny:Yeah, I'm going to be extremely grateful that I was not your neighbor two
Danny:doors down on the opposite side of her because I feel that that might have
Danny:been an issue to if she's like wandering about and just letting dogs all over.
Danny:I don't know.
Danny:People, people, what can you do with them?
Danny:Alrighty, we're three fifths, what's that, 60%, 60 percent I'm trying to
Danny:get my math correctly done there.
Danny:60 percent through here, so we're doing well.
Danny:We've had some interesting topics and interesting answers so far.
Danny:So I'm curious where we're going to go with the last two questions.
Danny:So let's have a look at question number four.
Danny:Okay, then.
Danny:I feel everybody's done this, but let's find out.
Danny:So, Reena, question four.
Danny:Have you ever sent a message to the wrong person?
Danny:And as a follow up to that, if you have, where did that end up?
Reena:Oh,
Reena:my God.
Reena:The funniest story, honestly, was my husband sending the wrong message.
Reena:He was trying to message me, and he messaged a work colleague.
Reena:And it was kind of inappropriate, but, like, there was, like, a lost in
Reena:translation, so it worked out okay.
Reena:You
Danny:Okay, I feel you have to expand.
Reena:I think he was like working for an international company at the time.
Reena:I forgot what he even said, but I, I always remember that one because
Reena:it was like, what does that mean?
Reena:You know what I mean?
Reena:Like you didn't even understand.
Reena:And he was like, Oh, that message wasn't for you.
Reena:It was almost like, I think we were like, you know, like saying like a
Reena:code word between us or something.
Reena:And it went to like one of his vendors in Korea or something and
Reena:he was kind of like, Ah, yeah.
Danny:And I was going to say, because you mentioned it got lost in translation.
Danny:So I'm guessing the person that was the recipient was English,
Danny:not the first language then.
Danny:And that's where they started.
Danny:Confusion arose, at least it's a message.
Danny:Obviously the confusion was on your husband's side, sending it
Danny:to the wrong number to start with.
Reena:Yeah, he sent it
Reena:to a work colleague who was in Korea.
Reena:But yeah, I think it was maybe just like a made up word or a funny thing that
Reena:we said between each other, you know.
Reena:And and he wasn't sure if it was like a food or something he was supposed to do or
Reena:those are those are fun.
Reena:They can make you laugh.
Danny:Yeah, I don't think so.
Danny:It wasn't a safe word or anything.
Reena:No, it wasn't a safe word.
Reena:God,
Reena:now I'm like, what was it?
Reena:I can't remember the word even.
Reena:But yeah, that's the first one that comes to mind is my husband sent a
Reena:message to one of his vendors and he, I think was just like confused
Reena:by it, which was better than like him probably understanding the message.
Danny:You're right.
Danny:Yeah, exactly.
Danny:And then you get an email from HR and you're thinking, why, why
Danny:am I getting an email from HR?
Reena:Oh man.
Reena:Yeah.
Reena:I don't think I've ever done that.
Reena:Oh, you know, one time I was helping my dad sell off like all of the equipment.
Reena:He was closing up his manufacturing place and he had kind of a list
Reena:of like all of his old vendors.
Reena:And One of the people that we sent it to, I don't know what she did, but she
Reena:hit like reply all to her entire email list of everything that we were selling.
Reena:I mean, it was good for us.
Reena:But yeah, like her boss was like, what did you just do?
Danny:I never, I've never like, so my kids school, we had a bunch of emails
Danny:from the kids school and generally you'll reply to the teacher, but
Danny:then she'll reply all to everyone.
Danny:So whatever question you've just asked.
Danny:Every parent now gets to know you thinking, please don't do that again.
Danny:And makes you, you know, wary of sending any emails to the teacher.
Reena:Yeah, I feel like that happens a lot too with like these private,
Reena:you know, WhatsApp groups between parents and all of the classes now.
Reena:I'm like, sometimes I feel like those get even Too personal.
Reena:I'm like, maybe you should take that up with one parent versus
Reena:like, send that to the whole class.
Reena:I kind of even stay out of the rooms.
Reena:I'm like, I just want to know, like, when are the basketball games?
Reena:Like, when is parent teacher night?
Reena:Like, you know, what are the assignments?
Reena:I don't need to know about every bullying or every, you know, uniform problem or.
Danny:Exactly.
Danny:And that's it.
Danny:You join the parent groups because you want to keep up to date with
Danny:your kid's school and anything you need relevant to your kid.
Danny:But often there's a lot of drama gets brought into these groups too.
Danny:And you think, no, no, no, no, no, I'm out.
Danny:I'm out.
Danny:I'm out.
Reena:Totally.
Reena:It's so crazy.
Reena:Like, I'll drop off a kid and the moms will be like, did
Reena:you read the WhatsApp chat?
Reena:I'm like, I stay out.
Reena:I'm like, there's so many messages in those chats.
Reena:Like, I just have to pay attention to like the emails that are sent from the school.
Danny:Although it does give you a good insight as to which parent is maybe,
Danny:not, not weird, that's the wrong word to use, but which parent is maybe has
Danny:very different views from yourself and maybe keep an eye on what your
Danny:kids now saying is that impacting, you know, your kid's viewpoint or their,
Danny:their friend's viewpoint because your kids are saying something maybe they
Danny:shouldn't, you know, to do it both ways.
Danny:So I'm always wary of like these kind of groups, like you say, because people that
Danny:you like and have fun with, sometimes you can find out, Oh, they're not
Danny:quite the person I thought they were.
Danny:Yikes.
Reena:Oh, yeah, you can tell a lot about people by how they communicate
Reena:online or even in WhatsApp groups.
Danny:Yeah, well, especially WhatsApp groups.
Danny:Is it WhatsApp or Snapchat where it's meant to delete
Danny:after 24 hours or something?
Danny:Is that Snapchat?
Reena:Yeah.
Danny:Yeah, I can never remember.
Danny:I don't really use the two of them.
Danny:I use WhatsApp, I think, for podcasting events and
Danny:conferences I go to with my job.
Danny:But apart from that, I never use it.
Danny:My daughter sent me a Snapchat link and I told her I don't use this,
Danny:I've not got the app, what's this?
Danny:And she wouldn't tell me what it was.
Danny:I thought, okay, now we have an issue.
Danny:But anyway, it was all good.
Reena:Yeah, they all love snapping each other all day long.
Reena:It's it's hard to keep up with all of the ways in which they
Reena:communicate to talk to you.
Danny:Yep.
Danny:No, I'm sure as your daughter got a phone with her.
Danny:I'm going to guess she's got a phone with her.
Reena:She
Reena:does, but I have not.
Reena:Allowed her to get data yet.
Danny:Okay.
Reena:I feel like everywhere.
Reena:I'm sending her.
Reena:There's Wi Fi and She's on it enough as it is and I want to
Reena:be Still monitoring that more.
Danny:Yeah.
Danny:No, I get that.
Danny:How old your daughter is she?
Reena:She's 13
Danny:13.
Danny:Yep So yeah, that's a it's a good time to start to learn about social media and
Danny:what's up and all that stuff But it's also a good time to as you mentioned
Danny:for the parents just to introduce them slowly and it helps it you know she's
Danny:got a mom like you that's well versed in social media knows all the pitfalls and
Danny:also with your background you'll see some horror stories come through as well so
Danny:she's got a good role model there maybe not so much from the hiking part across
Danny:Israel border or not but apart from that
Reena:Yeah, I think I'll wait to tell her about that.
Danny:Wait till she's 19, then you can say, Okay, you know what?
Danny:At your age, I was doing this.
Danny:Get off the sofa, get outside.
Danny:Alrighty, so we've arrived at the final question, and I'm not
Danny:sure what this is going to be.
Danny:It's been an interesting ride so far, so let's bring up question number five.
Danny:Alrighty, I'm sensing a theme in this week's questions, actually.
Danny:I'm not sure how random these questions are, because there's
Danny:a definite theme coming in here.
Danny:Okay.
Danny:Okay, Reena, question five.
Danny:After you survive the apocalypse, what will your job be?
Reena:Oh my gosh, maybe like, I don't know, some sort of, hopefully
Reena:I'll be like a sharpshooter, I guess.
Reena:I'll be training people on weapons.
Danny:So you'll be like the, is it Rick that's the weapons person?
Danny:I've never really watched that, I'm gonna I'm going to come clean here.
Danny:I've never watched The Walking Dead, not one single episode.
Danny:So I'm not sure who the sharpshooter is in that episode, on that show.
Reena:Yeah, I haven't watched it.
Reena:My husband and sons were obsessed.
Reena:But I do feel like you have to be skilled with weapons in the
Reena:apocalypse after watching that.
Reena:But they use more of spears.
Danny:And I guess it depends on what kind of apocalypse.
Danny:Are we talking zombie apocalypse?
Reena:Exactly.
Danny:You know, we're talking like nuclear apocalypse and then.
Danny:Are there any survivors?
Danny:So I guess, I mean, for a bit of context, you'd want to know what kind
Danny:of apocalypse, and if it was zombies, how many zombies are now there?
Danny:I mean, I do watch the The Last of Us.
Danny:I watched that on Prime.
Danny:I guess it's HBO in the US, but it's on Prime, I think, over here.
Danny:Or Crave, sorry, in Canada.
Danny:And that was really good.
Danny:It got kind of, it wasn't sort of so much zombies as opposed to zombies.
Danny:Like this infection that, that turned people's brains to mush
Danny:or controlled humans that way.
Danny:So I guess they were like zombies then.
Danny:What are we talking about?
Danny:But yeah, it was interesting to see how different people survived and use their,
Danny:like, how to completely change their outlook on life to survive, you know,
Danny:following that, that apocalypse, I guess.
Reena:Yeah, I always think about, would I keep my humanity?
Reena:And those kinds of, you know, really stressful times, people who were able
Reena:to do that, like, I just read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.
Reena:And I thought it was really interesting how he kind of like thought of his wife,
Reena:and he thought of the love that he had, and he thought of like, the apartment
Reena:that he lived in and the everyday tasks that he was looking forward to doing.
Reena:Like, I would hope that that is what would motivate me.
Reena:would be thinking about the good times versus, you know, I got to get rid
Reena:of all of the people around me, but like, Hey, we can all survive together.
Reena:Like I would hope that I would keep some sense of humanity in the crazy.
Danny:And that's like, I don't know if you've watched the last of us show
Danny:at all, Reena, but you don't watch it?
Danny:No.
Danny:So obviously it's based on video game.
Danny:And I followed it really well actually, but there's a, a couple
Danny:of characters in it called Bill and Frank and their episode, I think it
Danny:was episode three of the TV show.
Danny:It focused on them How they met and survived, you know, after the
Danny:apocalypse and it was very much about keeping their human side.
Danny:So they grew vegetables and fruit they made a habit of going for a
Danny:walk and doing the normal stuff and, and going to shops, even though the
Danny:shops were closed and it was just basically their own little shops, etc.
Danny:And making Sunday roasts and all that cool stuff.
Danny:And that was a nice break because prior to that, the two episodes
Danny:were very, you know, in your face.
Danny:This is horrible.
Danny:This is like, you know, gory, etc.
Danny:And then you had this very, very human interlude of these two characters.
Danny:And I feel that, like you say, that's something that's That would
Danny:be easy to lose is the humanity because you're trying to survive.
Danny:You're obviously protecting your family if they've survived to hopefully they have
Danny:and you're protecting your loved ones.
Danny:And I feel would be very easy to slip into someone.
Danny:You're completely not because you're trying to survive.
Reena:Yeah.
Reena:Should I go into the question?
Reena:I feel like it kind of ties into this, but I would love to know what you do to
Reena:be grounded or centered or remain calm.
Reena:What are ways that you like to?
Reena:Relax.
Danny:That's it.
Danny:That's a good one.
Danny:So, yeah, just time for our listeners every week.
Danny:Obviously, each guest gets to ask me a random question because it's only fair.
Danny:I'm putting them through the ringer and putting them on the
Danny:spot with five questions that they have no planning or research for.
Danny:So it's only fair.
Danny:So, yeah, I like that one.
Danny:I think for me, I mean, a lot of it comes down to my family.
Danny:I've got two kids and obviously my wife we're still together.
Danny:I said that a really bad way.
Danny:Sorry, Jacqueline, if you're listening, you probably won't be, so I'm safe.
Danny:But yeah, I've got my family, so my wife and my two kids.
Danny:My son's 14, my daughter's 12, and we moved I mentioned earlier,
Danny:we moved to this little village.
Danny:That's really rural.
Danny:There's only maybe eight hundred families here.
Danny:It's very surrounded by nature.
Danny:There's a lake, big massive lake about 15 minute walk away from the, the house.
Danny:Lots of snow in the winter.
Danny:So I'm surrounded by cowmen.
Danny:stuff.
Danny:So if I have a bad day, cause I do suffer from mental illness issues as, as my wife.
Danny:So we kind of bounce off each other, recognize when that's happening
Danny:and help each other through that.
Danny:So it's good that we're in this nature area where I can go outside.
Danny:I can just go breathe in the air, look at the trees, listen to the birds or go
Danny:out in the lake on a kayak or something.
Danny:So that's good.
Danny:But I think seeing My kids, they're both athletes, a very competitive athlete.
Danny:So my son plays competitive soccer for his team and my daughter
Danny:does competitive cheerleading.
Danny:So they do a lot of competitions and seeing the love that they have for that.
Danny:Whereas when I was their age, I was, we didn't have that.
Danny:We were in the UK growing up in the seventies.
Danny:That's not something you would encourage.
Danny:So I would say probably my family keeps me really grounded and just having good
Danny:people around me getting to, you know, chat with good folks like yourself and
Danny:ignoring all the drama on social media can get sucked into that so easily, you know?
Danny:So that's why I don't have a lot of social media apps I use.
Danny:Twitter for my conversations and Facebook just for friends and family.
Reena:I love that.
Reena:That's wonderful.
Reena:It makes me want to go on a kayak.
Danny:Ah, it's amazing.
Danny:I mean, I, we used to have a little cottage up here.
Danny:And this is that's how we fell in love with this area.
Danny:And then when we decided to move here, we sold the cottage.
Danny:But when we had it, there was also a lake nearby.
Danny:And that's when I first got into sort of kayaking.
Danny:It's just, it's really relaxing where you just go there, disappear and do nothing,
Danny:not care about anything in the world.
Reena:Yes, it is so calming.
Reena:That's wonderful.
Reena:Thank you for sharing that.
Danny:Thank you for the question.
Danny:That was a really good one.
Danny:I like that.
Danny:I like that a lot.
Danny:So Reena, we're gonna be wrapping up soon.
Danny:I really enjoyed.
Danny:hearing your five answers.
Danny:I'm curious, actually, if, if the first question about the, the lineage,
Danny:the answer of lineage, if that will get any pushback online, we'll see, I
Danny:guess, when it comes out, we'll see.
Danny:I don't think so.
Danny:I think we were respectful, you know, with the The whole premise and I love
Danny:the fact that you went there and had that, that whole direction there.
Danny:So be interesting to see, you know, we may have to, I may have to come to you
Danny:for, you know protection or something.
Danny:Get your dad to protect us both.
Danny:This episode drops.
Danny:For anyone that wants to listen, obviously to your podcast and hear your dad,
Danny:obviously, because he shares some amazing advice and thoughts on on the episodes.
Danny:Where's the best place to listen to your show and connect with you directly?
Reena:Thank you so much.
Reena:Better call daddy.
Reena:com and I'm on most social media as Reena Friedman Watts.
Reena:So that's Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram.
Danny:And I'll be sure to link to all of these in the show notes.
Danny:So wherever you're listening, be sure to check them out.
Danny:I know not everyone does, but do check them out.
Danny:Cause I will be linking out to every guest and I recommend you
Danny:check them out, you know, each time.
Danny:So thanks for that.
Danny:So again, Reena, thank you for joining me today and opening
Danny:yourself up to five random questions.
Reena:What a great concept for a show.
Reena:I really enjoyed it.
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