Gareth: Bad news travels fast, doesn't it? So, you know, it would be nice to highlight more of the good stuff.

Gareth: And it does. And I think, you know, there are certain situations which arise

Gareth: like, you know, recent riots.

Gareth: And there's a lot going on in the States at the moment. And,

Gareth: yeah, I just think if everyone just takes a breath and if they're not,

Gareth: you know, if you're not sure, just be kind.

Gareth: You know, you never know what's going through someone else's head.

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

Danny: I'm your host Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guest 5 questions

Danny: created by a random question generator.

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

Danny: which means this could go either way.

Danny: So sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode.

Danny: Today's guest is Gareth Davies. Gareth has written soundtracks for a commissioned

Danny: animated series for TV, and music for use in ads and programming around the

Danny: world. Through his company, The Sound Boutique, he has also helped a wide variety

Danny: of clients with their problem audio and created and produced original podcasts.

Danny: Podcasts currently in ongoing production are The Music Room and Podcasting People.

Danny: So, Gareth, welcome to Five Random Questions.

Gareth: Hello, Danny, you lovely man. This is exciting and terrifying in equal measure.

Danny: And I see you're buttering me up already to try and go easy on you with the questions.

Danny: So, Gareth, we've been on each other's podcast. You've got a few podcasts running, obviously.

Danny: I've got a few podcasts running. I think we've both compared each other to serial

Danny: podcasters. and when you were on my other podcast that I'd sort of,

Danny: that's kind of sort of archived, it was just an experiment, a fun experiment.

Danny: But when you were on that, one of the TV shows that you had produced music for,

Danny: Toad and Friends, hadn't been released yet.

Danny: And obviously you're in the UK, it's a very well-known story in the UK,

Danny: Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall, etc.

Danny: But that's now released on Warner Brothers Discovery, if I'm correct.

Danny: So how's that been? are you now rich and famous you driving about in the the nice you know yeah

Gareth: Lamborghini yeah just uh yeah come down to the boat anytime um no not at all up on the Thames,

Gareth: it literally has been released in the

Gareth: uk last month um so

Gareth: that's exciting. It's actually been airing around um

Gareth: Europe and a bit further afield that way

Gareth: previously i think it's going to

Gareth: the US and Canada in the

Gareth: spring of next year so it's kind

Gareth: of this very kind of slow rollout. So in terms of royalties um we have something

Gareth: called the PRS in this country uh in the UK where every quarter you get paid

Gareth: out uh some money for every time your music is broadcast on tv. So when and that takes about a quarter.

Gareth: When it goes overseas, you can add quarters to it. So in some countries,

Gareth: it might be two years before I see anything. So, you know, really,

Gareth: I just move on to the next thing.

Gareth: And then at some point, there'll be a trickle of pennies, shekels coming in.

Danny: And how does royalties work on that? Is that consistent while the show's on TV, et cetera?

Danny: Is there a set time limit? Is it different depending on productions, artists, et cetera?

Gareth: Yeah, it really depends on not only what territory you're in,

Gareth: but also what channel you're on.

Gareth: So, for instance, in the UK, primetime BBC can pay a load more than maybe,

Gareth: you know, one of the Dave channels or in the middle of the night.

Gareth: And there's been a lot of

Gareth: um lobbying about you know the the

Gareth: kids at the time that kids come home from school about that

Gareth: being prime time because it's prime time starts a

Gareth: little bit later um but in fact there's a huge audience there and so i don't

Gareth: know it feels a little bit like um we're not being paid you know in in in a

Gareth: fair way in that sense but you know that's always ongoing and And the TV and

Gareth: film industry is ever-evolving,

Gareth: and with streaming now...

Gareth: You know, we have to be careful that rights aren't being negotiated away.

Gareth: But in terms of royalties, yeah, it really depends on what channel you're on,

Gareth: which territory you're in.

Gareth: I think I had a whole series on in Brazil and I think they take a sample.

Gareth: And if your program isn't on on that sample day, then you don't get paid.

Gareth: So it can be as random as that. Yeah. I'm talking about five random questions.

Gareth: You know, it can be as random as that to be paid sometimes.

Gareth: Um yeah so it's it really varies.

Danny: Well and you moved nicely into that speaking of random uh i i unfortunately

Danny: i can't pay you for your appearance today um but if we ever if i ever make loads

Danny: and loads of money i will be sure to slot you into the prime time ongoing revenue slot beer

Gareth: Or cake that's fine it's fine or both or both.

Danny: Beer and cake don't don't don't sell yourself self-shot mate yeah

Gareth: Cake goes well with tea surely i'm not sure beer and cake no i don't know.

Danny: Well that's a new a new diet fad we can put into place so gareth are you ready

Danny: i know we were speaking in the green room before i started recording and you

Danny: mentioned you may be a little bit nervous about this but how are we feeling

Danny: for the five random questions ahead i'm

Gareth: Sure all of your guests have said this, but I have no idea.

Gareth: And as I said, as equally excited and terrified, it'll go how it goes, I guess.

Gareth: So yeah, fire away.

Danny: I like that. All right. So let's bring up then the random question generator.

Danny: Okay. This is a nice one. A nice easy one, I feel, to kick things off, Gareth.

Danny: Question number one. Would you rather keep your current sleep schedule or hibernate

Danny: for three months and have nine months of 24 7 alertness without being tired i

Gareth: Love this this is so random i mean talk about random,

Gareth: Wow. Um, I think sleep is really important.

Gareth: I'm one of those people who has to get sleep.

Gareth: Otherwise I'm, I'm cranky and I don't concentrate properly.

Gareth: So I feel like sleep is something that's in my routine. It's kind of ingrained.

Gareth: It's a non-negotiable for me.

Gareth: Um, you know, sometimes I go out and have a late night and kind of get through the next day.

Gareth: But yeah, so I think I'd probably like to keep my current sleep schedule because

Gareth: it's kind of comforting and it's in well within my routine.

Gareth: But how about you? What would you do?

Danny: Well, I think the funny thing is as well, there is you said schedule and I said

Danny: schedule and both from the same country.

Danny: Obviously, originally, I'm in Canada now, but UK originally.

Danny: And that reminds me of a part on Would I Lie to You or, oh no,

Danny: it was 8 of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Danny: While the good Sean Locke was still alive and he was and John what's John's surname?

Danny: John Richardson yeah so John Richardson answered

Danny: a question that Jimmy Carr had asked and he says oh well you've got to have

Danny: a schedule and then you know Sean said well what is it is it schedule or schedule

Danny: because Jimmy Carr had said schedule and Sean had said schedule and both British

Danny: people it just reminded me there it took me out a little bit schedule schedule

Danny: both same not wrong um yeah i

Danny: feel um i feel i'd want to keep kind of

Danny: because looking at the question there it says um you can

Danny: have your current sleep schedule or hibernate for three months so obviously you

Danny: sleep for a complete three months so i guess about almost half of what a bear

Danny: sleeps during the winter or maybe just under half of what a bear sleeps during

Danny: the winter but then that part of the end where it says nine months of 24 7 alertness

Danny: that basically means you're awake wake essentially for nine months.

Gareth: Yeah. I mean, how would you demarcate your day?

Gareth: If you're just not tired at all. I mean, I have had jobs,

Gareth: and I'm sure you've had this, I'm sure most working people have this,

Gareth: of occasionally deadlines get a bit crunchy and you have to pull a few late-nighters.

Gareth: And in those circumstances, maybe if I had a weekend every month where I could

Gareth: stay alert for the whole weekend and then make up the time some other way,

Gareth: that would be quite nice but yeah actually nine months of 24 7 alertness i think

Gareth: could be a little bit disturbing it's.

Danny: Almost like that 30 days of night um yeah where you know in alaska they've got

Danny: it's just all night and then there's another place we've got all daylight as

Danny: well for like three months of the year or something where it's just there's

Danny: no darkness at all because of where they are in the world um and the skies

Gareth: There's a there's a podcast um it's called cold tapes,

Gareth: and it's uh set i can't remember if

Gareth: it's in the antarctic or the arctic um but it's

Gareth: basically a murder mystery

Gareth: um but because they're wintering over

Gareth: in this uh in this podcast wintering over

Gareth: meaning there comes a point where you can't leave

Gareth: because the weather is so bad the police

Gareth: can't actually go to the location to investigate so

Gareth: they have to do it all over the phone and and over

Gareth: zoom and things um so that's where the the podcast audio becomes a really good

Gareth: medium to tell that story so yeah absolutely they winter over so it becomes

Gareth: very dark and weather becomes becomes too cold and to leave and things like that amazing.

Danny: That sounds interesting as you say podcast because it's an audio medium it's

Danny: a perfect take that you could really get enveloped in now definitely check that

Danny: out and leave a note for our listeners and the show notes i think with this

Danny: one as well i mean if you're married or you've got kids and

Gareth: Do they.

Danny: All go to sleep at the same time does everybody just hibernate or now are you

Danny: leaving your family to you know fend for themselves for three months while you're

Danny: you're out of action and then when you wake up does someone else take a three-month

Danny: stint and now it's your turn or

Gareth: Well i can see i'm not a parent myself but i can appreciate that having nine

Gareth: months of 24-7 alertness when the kids were in bed, that would be quite nice

Gareth: because you have the time to do what you want then, maybe.

Danny: Yeah, now you're talking Mission Impossible. I'll learn as soon as the kids have gone to bed.

Danny: As a parent of two, I can tell you, no, that is not happening.

Danny: So I think we agree, we're going to keep our current sleep schedule or schedule.

Gareth: Or schedule.

Danny: Or schedule, which I'll be fair. Speaking of schedules, let's move on to question number two.

Danny: I think we've kind of answered this in the intro, but let's go for it anyway, Gareth.

Danny: Question number two. What are you most likely to become famous for?

Gareth: That's a tricky one. I don't, I'm not someone who particularly seeks fame.

Gareth: Fame's a very strange thing, isn't it, really?

Gareth: And it's partly why I became a composer as opposed to a performing musician.

Gareth: I've never really been a fan of the limelight particularly,

Gareth: but I love sitting in a dark room and creating music to support a story,

Gareth: writing to picture, and doing it that way.

Gareth: Yeah, and podcasting as well. My mantra is, it's not about me.

Gareth: That's why it's a little bit weird being a guest, because it is about you.

Gareth: Um but yeah it's definitely

Gareth: i find everything i do is more

Gareth: about other people or other people's stories um

Gareth: and so yeah i don't really crave fame

Gareth: but if i were to be if i

Gareth: had to you know nail it down to what would

Gareth: you have to become famous for i'd like

Gareth: to think it was being kind or just basic

Gareth: human decency because we

Gareth: see a lot of the opposite in the world at the moment and I think you know recent

Gareth: times are showing me that people are you know really intrinsically good you

Gareth: do have some people who I don't know may have lost their way a little bit there

Gareth: may be reasons for why they behave a certain way but,

Gareth: Yeah, I think if I had to become famous, it would be for those reasons rather

Gareth: than, you know, look at my new shoes or influencing something, you know.

Danny: I always like watching these videos or reels or whatever on,

Danny: say, Facebook or Instagram, etc., where it shows you, to your point,

Danny: like kindness of others without expectation of kindness back.

Danny: And sometimes it might show famous sports people

Danny: stepping in because all that's happening is

Danny: like a kid might just want a selfie or an autograph and a

Danny: security like an example is a security guard

Danny: came over and picked this like 10 year old kid up and frog marched

Danny: him away from his sport and idol his football idol and the

Danny: football player stopped mid-interview and went after the guard and

Danny: got the kid down got the selfie and all that which is no need to

Danny: do that it's like that's just a good human being that's being

Danny: raised the right way doing the right thing and yeah i

Danny: feel certainly since 2019 2020 um

Danny: obviously the world changed completely for the obvious reason of the

Danny: pandemic and i feel that's brought a lot of people not out

Danny: of the gutter maybe that's too strong a phrase but it's

Danny: it's shown a lot of people in their true light because for whatever reason it's

Danny: it's led to people being pitted against each other and a lot of bad stuff is

Danny: coming out because of that and it's like you say it's i feel we need to highlight

Danny: more of the the good stuff that's happening to show there is a lot of bad stuff

Danny: but that still remains a very small minority that are just very very vocal

Gareth: Absolutely. Yeah. Bad news travels fast, doesn't it? So, you know,

Gareth: it'd be nice to highlight more of the good stuff.

Gareth: And it does. And I think, you know, there are certain situations which arise

Gareth: like, you know, recent riots and there's a lot going on in the States at the moment.

Gareth: And yeah i just think if everyone just

Gareth: takes a breath and and if they're

Gareth: not you know if you're not sure just be kind

Gareth: you know you never know what's going through someone else's head and i on social

Gareth: media as well i take the view of don't say anything negative because it's a

Gareth: tinderbox isn't it there's always going to be someone who's going to come back

Gareth: at you so just you know stick Stay to your lane,

Gareth: which is a shame in a way that you can't have that kind of frank dialogue without

Gareth: that comeback. But that's the way of the world, I suppose.

Danny: Well, I know a lot of my friends have started to lock down their Twitter replies

Danny: and only allow replies from people that follow them or they're connected with.

Danny: Because often, to your point, you just get, you know, hate bombed by,

Danny: you know, if you're speaking politically, for example, you get hate bombed by

Danny: the supporters of the other political rival.

Danny: Or if you're speaking about various conflicts that are happening globally,

Danny: always dangerous areas to walk into when you're trying to offer support from

Danny: one side or maybe support both sides and trying to find a middle ground.

Danny: It's not easy. And like you say, maybe sometimes do what you need to do as a

Danny: supporter behind the scenes and just maybe stay quiet about it in front of everybody else.

Gareth: Yeah. Yeah. It is a shame, isn't it? Because...

Gareth: Especially you mentioned politics there, especially in politics,

Gareth: you have these conversations to make up your mind about things quite a lot of the time.

Gareth: So to vocalize questions and opinions to kind of kick the tires of political

Gareth: opinion to then get shot down, it's just a shame really, isn't it?

Gareth: It's either black or white. There's never a kind of gray area of discussion. But there we go. and.

Danny: I think we can all agree that if we all became famous for being kind the world

Danny: would be a much better place

Gareth: I feel like we should have the muppet show theme in here or something well.

Danny: I can't give you the muppet show theme because licensing and all that you know

Danny: yourself you're a composer you

Gareth: Know I thought you were going to say you're a muppet well.

Danny: I am that too I've been called out many many times and continue to do so but

Danny: I can be kind and ease you on to to question number three

Gareth: Okay so.

Danny: Question question number three what is the most difficult challenge thus far in your life

Gareth: Okay there yeah a really

Gareth: easy question to answer um as you

Gareth: know danny i've had a bit of a tragedy

Gareth: a family tragedy recently

Gareth: my mum passed away in july not only

Gareth: that we lost dad beginning of 22 in fact my dad and my uncle in the space of

Gareth: a few weeks in 22 then mum was diagnosed with cancer in beginning of 23 and

Gareth: we just lost her in July so there's.

Gareth: There's the brain catch-up of what's just happened there's also the milestone

Gareth: of not having either of my parents in the in in the world uh which is really

Gareth: strange i feel like you know,

Gareth: i think oh i need to tell mum that

Gareth: on the phone or i need to take a picture of that and send it

Gareth: to her and so there's an element of disbelief at

Gareth: the moment going on through my head um but you

Gareth: know because neither of them are here then we have

Gareth: the estate to handle we got the probate challenge

Gareth: you know all of that stuff which is just

Gareth: a constant we have to go through the house which is very strange walking through

Gareth: their house without them there with all of their things to remind us of of them

Gareth: and so so yeah easily the most difficult challenge thus far uh in in life I.

Danny: Can we were speaking about this in the green room obviously

Danny: earlier I can only imagine what that's like

Danny: and you said there one of

Danny: the weirdest things or the challenging things or the strangest things is going

Danny: through your parents house and seeing mementos of the life that they created

Danny: and built etc has there been some nice surprising things that showed you something

Danny: about your mum or your dad that you may not have known because you come across it during that process

Gareth: Yeah well i mean there

Gareth: were lots of photos that we

Gareth: hadn't previously seen yeah going through their their

Gareth: paperwork and stuff um you know

Gareth: just mementos that they'd kept from you

Gareth: know they they'd lived a life you know they had lots of

Gareth: friends around them and uh seeing all

Gareth: that seeing a kind of life in pictures and various

Gareth: certificates from you know whatever qualifications they

Gareth: had and um you know all of those kinds of

Gareth: things were quite amazing and actually um

Gareth: from when mum was ill the last couple of months of her life her her community

Gareth: coming around um and just not wanting to bother us too much but just bringing

Gareth: cake or just coming for a chat and a cup of tea and seeing how we are and just

Gareth: witnessing that caring community

Gareth: firsthand was quite amazing.

Gareth: And I saw, you know, these are people I've known majority of my life,

Gareth: but I've seen them in a different light.

Gareth: Of late yeah it's been uh it's been lovely i.

Danny: Think often as kids we forget our parents had a life before

Danny: us you know it's um i like um

Danny: our kids but before kids were born my wife and i were very big concert goers

Danny: we love live music and we'd go to three four five different bands every weekend

Danny: we'd support you know local indie bands and if some bigger ones came to the

Danny: toronto where we lived at the time we'd go see them and our kids look at especially

Danny: me now because i'm a bit a a little bit older than my wife.

Danny: So they look at me and think, you never went to concerts. Look at you, old man.

Danny: But I watched an interview with Daley Thompson, you know, the heptathlete. Yeah.

Danny: Or decathlete, sorry, not heptathlete,

Danny: decathlete. Very famous British decathlete, Olympic gold winner.

Danny: And just recently he was getting interviewed and he was saying that his kids

Danny: can't believe that he was this athlete that was so successful.

Danny: Successful and it's only really if he shows them his medals that they start

Danny: to believe oh wow dad actually did do something and i think sometimes we actually

Danny: forget our parents had very active and very different lives from what we might

Danny: have expected prior to us you know being part of that that life yeah

Gareth: Yeah very much so yeah my parents were very

Gareth: active in their community and yes to to

Gareth: your question uh there there were um things that

Gareth: the friends came out with where i realized oh i didn't actually know he did

Gareth: that but they were very there for their community and their friends and they

Gareth: would they would do anything for anyone really and yeah that's that's something

Gareth: to take away really it goes into the uh being famous for being decent doesn't it.

Danny: Well exactly and i think that that shows and that

Danny: outlook on life it shows you know the the impact that your parents both

Danny: parents had on you and and that's all you can ask for if you can

Danny: show uh be a good person that's the

Danny: perfect legacy for you for for any parent it feels like the

Danny: children doesn't matter they're great at their job successful

Danny: rich whatever they can be a good human being i mean

Danny: that's like the biggest legacy any parent can ask for yeah absolutely well speaking

Danny: of legacies we're going to legacize this episode and move on to quit i'm getting

Danny: really good at these like these transitions i've been working on them but we're

Danny: going to legacize this episode and move on on to question number four.

Danny: Okay. I'm always curious about how, I mean, I'm a British person myself.

Danny: I'm always curious how British people answer this question.

Danny: So Gareth, question number four.

Danny: If you could close one fast food chain due to disgusting food, what would you pick?

Gareth: My wife's going to hate me for this. Yeah.

Gareth: It's not that I don't like the food. it's the the food just doesn't agree with

Gareth: me when it's delivered and that's kfc,

Gareth: I love it. I absolutely love it. But yeah, can't do it. Can't do it.

Gareth: My wife absolutely loves KFC.

Gareth: Not every day, you know, just as a treat.

Gareth: If you gave her, you know, some chicken and a big bucket of gravy,

Gareth: she'd be just your friend forever.

Gareth: But yeah i mean i quite

Gareth: like fast food as a little treat sometimes the

Gareth: odd mcdonald's it's always very disappointing isn't it but it's quite

Gareth: nice um just to go ah sod it i'm gonna i'm gonna have that today but yeah i

Gareth: think it might have to be kfc i'm trying to think of the other fast foods there's

Gareth: kfc there's mcdonald's there's burger king that actually is quite nice what other ones are have you.

Danny: Got i'm i'm assuming the uh the uk's got taco bell now right

Gareth: Yeah and see i quite like tacos you.

Danny: Weirdo i like tacos don't go wrong but do you like taco bell

Gareth: I i don't know if i've tried it actually so maybe not you know if if uh the

Gareth: great danny brown says don't eat taco bell then uh that's fine i mean would

Gareth: you rate chinese food as fast food as.

Danny: Fast um i

Gareth: Don't think it I don't think so.

Danny: Because normally you take, I mean, I don't know, I mean, most Chinese restaurants

Danny: that we've gone to here, for takeout anyway, they've always taken about 20,

Danny: 25 minutes to get your order ready. So they're cooking it obviously as ordered.

Danny: So I always feel fast food, it's either got it pre-cooked, ready to go out the

Danny: door, kind of like a McDonald's, it's got, you know, the row of burgers or breakfast, sausages, etc.

Danny: As opposed to where you go in and you order it and it's cooked fresh from that order.

Danny: But my wife would probably get on really well with yours because she loves KFC.

Danny: She'll get like the, so if we're doing like a quick, easy dinner,

Danny: because generally I'll be doing the cooking, but because my kids both are very

Danny: involved in sports, then there are calendars all over the place.

Danny: So a lot of the time they are doing the sports in the evenings after school.

Danny: So evening meals are generally reserved for the weekends.

Danny: So because of that, That's something Jacqueline will get. You know,

Danny: go to KFC, get a bucket of chicken, fries, gravy or chips.

Danny: I keep forgetting. I've got to make it back to the chips and the fries difference.

Danny: Gravy, you know, etc. So I feel they'd get on really well together.

Gareth: So if we reframe that question and said, what one fast food chain would you save?

Gareth: What would that answer be, I wonder?

Danny: I'd probably save, I'm going to go for A&W burgers.

Danny: I think that's maybe a Canadian chain, mate. Yeah. But obviously they're competitors

Danny: to McDonald's, but if you look at McDonald's menu, you mentioned it or you referred

Danny: to it earlier, you look at McDonald's

Danny: menu and you see what looks like a really juicy quarter pounder.

Danny: And then you get this little flaccid thing wrapped up in a soggy piece of paper.

Danny: And you're like, what is this?

Danny: I once took a picture and posted it because I could hold my thumb and forefinger

Danny: together fairly closely.

Danny: And that was my burger from McDonald's. It was disgusting. But A&W Burgers,

Danny: the burgers are amazing. The fries, the chips are excellent.

Danny: The chicken tenders, all the stuff they make is really, really good.

Danny: So if that was classed as a fast food chain and that was under threat,

Danny: that'd be the one I'd want to save. How about you?

Gareth: Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, I agree about McDonald's burgers.

Gareth: They are pretty disgusting.

Gareth: But they also do the strawberry shake, which feels like a real treat.

Gareth: Yeah, that's like going out for ice cream, isn't it?

Gareth: Yeah, it's a tricky one. Tricky one.

Danny: I'm going to make an executive decision here. I'm going to close down McDonald's,

Danny: but save the drinks and move them to another chain.

Gareth: Oh, yeah.

Danny: Is that acceptable?

Gareth: That's very acceptable.

Danny: All right. I think we've saved the world there. I think we've made an important

Danny: decision globally, you know, for global peace and health and everything.

Danny: But let's get rid of McDonald's, save the drinks.

Danny: All right. Well, on the premise of saving the world, it's time to save your

Danny: answer for the last question.

Danny: And actually it's not time to save your answer because you're going to share it

Danny: so let's move on to question number five okay gareth i feel i know the answer

Danny: to this um again we're kind of alluded to it in the intro when we're chatting

Danny: a little bit but question number five do you serve money or does money serve you i'm

Gareth: Trying to work out what that means so do you serve money as in.

Danny: I I think, yeah, I think that's mainly around, do you serve money?

Danny: Are you like a slave to money where everything you do is just to earn money

Danny: to make whatever happen?

Danny: Or is that just like a side benefit to what you're doing anyway?

Gareth: So it's just staying alive. Yeah, that's basically it.

Danny: It's not by eating McDonald's food, that's for sure, because that's gone.

Gareth: Yeah, yeah, very much the opposite. Yeah, I don't, you know,

Gareth: I wouldn't be a freelance composer and an indie podcaster if I was a slave to money.

Gareth: Yeah, as every other indie podcaster will tell you.

Gareth: So yes, very much the opposite. it um i think if you can get by there's a lot

Gareth: more to life than just the pursuit of money i'd say i've had peaks and troughs

Gareth: in my music career but i wouldn't change a second of it because it's been absolute

Gareth: it's you know you're living the dream aren't you,

Gareth: Some people's dream might include a speedboat and a million followers and a big sponsorship deal.

Gareth: But no, give me a guitar and some good food and good company.

Gareth: That's all you need, really, isn't it?

Danny: I think it goes to that phrase where money doesn't buy you happiness.

Danny: And often people say, well, it's only rich people that say money doesn't buy

Danny: you happiness. Because I'm sure, you know, I'm not well off whatsoever.

Danny: If someone gave me 10 million pounds, I'd be supremely happy.

Danny: But then I guess it does also bring its own problems where

Danny: because you don't have to work I mean you can still obviously

Danny: work but because you don't have to work for a living to

Danny: keep a roof over your head or pay bills etc then what

Danny: are you doing with your time and if you don't have something to do with that often that's

Danny: blame for how people fall into bad habits and you know that can cause different

Danny: kinds of issues now that you have money that you wouldn't have had before for

Danny: example and i feel maybe that's where it comes down to like you say at some

Danny: point you have enough that you need to be comfortable do you really need anything after that and

Gareth: Also to your point inherently if you're given money you're not pursuing it are

Gareth: you so you can still be given 10 million pounds and be very happy thank you

Gareth: very much but your decisions in life aren't all to go after that money you know

Gareth: if there's a byproduct of something where you're given

Gareth: lots of money, then fantastic.

Gareth: But I don't think it's a good way to live your life, really.

Danny: No. And I shared a tweet yesterday, late last night, actually.

Danny: I just finished some editing, and so I went online just to finish the evening off.

Danny: And I saw this tweet that was shared from someone in the US.

Danny: So I re-shared it because I found it a really powerful message.

Danny: And it speaks to this, where it was a lady that was speaking about poverty and money and services,

Danny: healthcare, care etc i believe she was in the u.s um and

Danny: it was a really powerful statement that she said because there's

Danny: some governments i don't want to get political this isn't a political show but there's

Danny: some governments whether it's in the u.s canada uk australia worldwide

Danny: really that are criminalizing homelessness so they're you know they're moving

Danny: away tent cities they're they're actually charging you're fining you which seems

Danny: ridiculous if you're homeless how are you going to pay a fine but um so it's

Danny: there's a big thing going on about that and one of the things that she mentioned was,

Danny: what state of consciousness do you have to criminalize poverty?

Danny: Which I thought was an incredibly powerful statement.

Danny: Because at some stage, I feel that's where, you know, having too much gets you.

Danny: You want more, you want more power, you want more money, et cetera.

Danny: And then that leads to the lesser, I'm trying to work this properly,

Danny: the lesser parts of society, whether that's money, home, et cetera,

Danny: are really struggling because of that.

Danny: And I kind of wonder, you mentioned, you know, about comfort zones and having

Danny: X amount of money, but then after that, you're really comfortable.

Danny: If that can then be redistributed under something like universal basic income

Danny: or something i don't know do you have any thoughts on that without getting too

Danny: deep in the weeds in political or anything

Gareth: No no i mean i mean it works for some

Gareth: countries doesn't it to have the um what's the

Gareth: living wage the the you get governments

Gareth: coming and going doing pretty much the

Gareth: same thing it would be interesting to see if

Gareth: a government came in and went right we're just going to change everything

Gareth: thing it's clearly not working we're clearly uh too

Gareth: far in debt let's try this instead you just

Gareth: don't don't do you might end up with um no riots people who are a lot happier

Gareth: and um don't feel like they need to go and uh push police vans over and set

Gareth: things on fire and uh you know raid gregs and things well.

Danny: And that goes back to the whole like the the value for value that obviously

Danny: Obviously, podcasting is really pushing at the moment where instead of supporting

Danny: monetarily, you exchange services.

Danny: Maybe we just need a whole big reset and just go back to trading camels and

Danny: apples for plumbing services, etc.

Gareth: Yeah, absolutely. I actually, interestingly, podcasting people will understand this.

Gareth: I got an email earlier about a tape sync job, which is quite nice.

Gareth: And it just speaks to that, doesn't it?

Gareth: You feel like you're kind of doing a little service for the greater good.

Gareth: So that's quite exciting.

Danny: Well, Gareth, on that note of offering value, we've reached the end of this

Danny: week's five random questions for you.

Danny: And I'm pretty sure we've brought value to our listeners.

Danny: In full fairness, it is time for you to offer your random question to me to

Danny: even things out just a little bit.

Gareth: Okay. So if money or time were no object, what podcast would you make?

Danny: Oh, that's a good one. I have not been asked that before.

Danny: Um, hmm. I think, like, I'm a massive, massive Star Wars fan,

Danny: which I think, you know, our erstwhile, you know, connection,

Danny: Mark Asquith, is a huge Star Wars fan.

Danny: I think it's a prerequisite to work at Captivate where I work.

Danny: And Mark co-founded, you need to be a Star Wars fan to work there.

Danny: Mark's got his own Star Wars podcast. I feel I'd want to, I'd like to do a proper

Danny: video one because I don't have the time or expertise, et cetera,

Danny: to do a really nice video podcast.

Danny: I've always wanted to do one, but I never had the time, expertise or money.

Danny: It takes a lot to do it really properly.

Danny: But I'd love to go and speak to all the extras that were hidden.

Danny: So they didn't even have their face in the movie.

Danny: They were underneath a java costume or they were an

Danny: ewok but but not the well-known ones not you know not warwick

Danny: davis for example uh but just the the ones

Danny: that were just like there on screen for a split second and and just basically

Danny: ask them about their experience what they felt did they feel like they were

Danny: like going back to the original star wars did they feel they were part of something

Danny: big or was this like a really stupid thing that they were making at the time

Danny: because you had a big walking carpet and you had like you know like weird robots and is

Gareth: There a documentary.

Danny: About just

Gareth: That they were it was to do the extras and uh people on set i can't remember.

Danny: It's possible i know ricky gervais had extras like the tv show but that's a

Danny: little bit different yeah i mean so yeah i mean because of my love of star wars

Danny: and it might be a really short-lived thing they might have nothing to say because

Danny: they just turned up got paid and buggered off home who knows well

Gareth: This is this is where we're you know quite aligned in our podcast thinking because

Gareth: my show that i I think I would that I would want to make is the same thing but for session musicians,

Gareth: So this person played on that, you know, what was it like?

Gareth: You have people like Steve Lukather who played who's who is you know,

Gareth: the lead guitarist in Toto and,

Gareth: toto as a band was made up of these session these

Gareth: amazing session musicians world class who played

Gareth: on loads and loads of things and you don't realize wow he played on that he

Gareth: played on that so to speak to people who will have played on various hits or

Gareth: you know you think it's a bit like i was there too you know that would be very

Gareth: very interesting but yeah i mean star wars i'm in i mean let's do it.

Danny: So there you go amazon you've just given 100 million to the kelsey brothers

Danny: others for their new podcast exclusive you've got two ideas right here and we'd

Danny: probably only charge 10 million so bonus or

Gareth: Beer and cake you know it's absolutely fine.

Danny: Sorted i'm going to be on it i'm going to get mark the reach out he's i'm sure

Danny: he's got a really good contract amazon we'll get on this mate yeah nice so gareth

Danny: we've reached the end and included my question and i have really as always i

Danny: always enjoy chatting to you mate like i say we've sort of been on each

Danny: other's podcasts and it's always been really enjoyable for people that want

Danny: to check out your audio compositions your work that you do for tv movies and

Danny: the work you do for podcast clients or even just check out your podcasts on

Danny: their own where's the best place to listen to them and connect and reach out to you the

Gareth: Website is always good that's the sound boutique.com i have like you mentioned

Gareth: two active podcasts at the moment the music room and podcasting people their

Gareth: musicroom.community and podcastingpeople.community.

Gareth: And I'm all over social media as Gareth Sounds.

Danny: I write social media tart.

Danny: I mean, you need a T-shirt. I'm going to get a T-shirt printed and send it over

Danny: to you. I'm a social media tart.

Danny: But then you have to say it in that voice as well, though, when you're speaking to people.

Gareth: Oh, yeah, might have to get that T-shirt made.

Danny: I will look to see what I can do. So again, Gareth, I really appreciate your time today, mate.

Gareth: It's been so much fun. Thanks for inviting me, Danny.

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