Danny:

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.

Danny:

So thanks to you for listening to 5 Random Questions.

Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

Because yes, that's what Darth Vader does on his time off.

Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

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