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I think I'd want my face to be proportionate. It would just,

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you know, like having, you know, having a melon head is weird enough as it is,

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but that if you have like a tiny face inside your melon head,

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you know, children are going to run screaming every time that they see you. Right.

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Danny:
Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, a show with unexpected questions and unfiltered answers.

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

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created by a random question generator.

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

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which means this could go either way.

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

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Today's guest is Rob Lynch. Rob says he's always been a jack-of-all-trades,

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but with the common thread of the written word connecting everything together.

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He's written music reviews, screenplays, short stories, movie reviews,

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sports and articles and just released his first full-length novel,

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Voudon Caliber, available on Amazon.

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With the deaths of many important family members in the last few years and the

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complicated presence of addiction in his family, Rob's whole way of thinking

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and negotiating life has been turned on its head and he works to understand

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life a little more day to day.

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Life is about gratitude and service, as Rob says, and finding out what that looks like to you.

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Danny:
So Rob, welcome to Five Random Questions.

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Rob:
Thank you so much for having me. And it's so great to see you again.

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Danny:
I know, mate. I was just thinking that. I mean, we've known each other.

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I was thinking about this as I was getting ready to come on and record with you.

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We've actually known each other for almost 20 years. And you were actually a

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groomsman at my wedding in 2008.

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So that's at least how long we've known each other.

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Now, most people find increased wisdom as the years progress.

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In 20 years or almost 20 years is quite a long chunk.

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But, I mean, in that time, you still support Tottenham Hotspur.

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So what's your excuse there, mate?

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Well, actually, I have to...

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My support with Spurs has kind of fallen by the wayside, if I'm being completely honest.

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And it's got nothing to do with their dubious performance. it's more about I really

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And I know that this is probably going to come off sounding a little naive,

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but I really, really hate the way that most European football,

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especially English Premier League, has been monetized and made so exclusive, right?

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From the moment that we started getting it here, and I want to say it was around

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maybe 95, and we were getting like one game on a Saturday morning, right?

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And it felt like it was always a Man U game, I might add. But it really sort

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of gained in popularity.

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And then we started getting full slates or games, like three on a Saturday morning,

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three on a Sunday morning.

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Sometimes you get one on a Monday evening when you got home from work.

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And then all of this subscription type service started.

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And it was just one of those things that I said to myself, you know what?

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Like, it's just, it's, it's, it's one commitment too far.

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And I just don't want to be part of this anymore.

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And like, I, I follow like the tables randomly and I'll look for highlights

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and, you know, that sort of thing.

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But yeah, I've kind of, I've kind of like walked away from it.

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You know, I'm more about the national program and MLS and, you know, Scottish league.

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Danny:
Yeah. I hear, I mean, especially, I mean, like this year we've seen the world

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cup prices that were released by FIFA.

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And it's just got crazy, crazy scandalous. And the amount of games that you

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mentioned, the pressure that's put on players and we're seeing more injuries

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than that, it's definitely not,

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it doesn't feel like the common fans game anymore. I 100% get you there.

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I'm still going to stick to the fact that Spurs are crap. And I'm saying that

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as an Arsenal fan, so I'm obviously biased. And you just came to your senses, Mick.

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Rob:
Okay, well, I'll give you that. This is your room, your show,

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so I'll give you that for now, okay?

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Danny:
No, no, I hear you. I hear you. It's like ridiculous life. The subscription for Fubo is just crazy.

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And your book, you just published your first book. So congratulations on that.

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And it's a mash of different genres with crime, adventure, horror,

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and more between the pages.

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So I'm curious, and we'll get two or five random questions soon.

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But I'm curious, what's the most difficult thing in bringing multiple genres together like that?

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I think maybe creating a level of plausibility. would be the biggest challenge.

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I've always really been...

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Attracted to mashup stories a lot

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of them don't do particularly well whether we're

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talking about a movie or a book um or

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any other kind of media because i think it's

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a very sort of foreign idea to a lot of people

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like for example done a little bit

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differently and better marketing the movie cowboys versus

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aliens should have been huge that movie

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should have been huge you know but uh for whatever reason that just didn't work

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and um over the course of the last few years i think i've maybe kind of been

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emboldened a little bit because um very quickly my favorite genre of novel has

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been the horror western which which is really making a lot of headway

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And, uh, you know, makes for some absolutely fantastic stuff.

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So I'll finish off your question, you know, by going back to,

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you know, where the idea first sort of sprang into my head.

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And it was actually something that I had been carrying around for 35 years.

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And I'm going to be dating myself here, um, by saying that, uh,

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when I was in college, I worked in a video store, right.

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And it was like a January night where there

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was a snowstorm going on inside and me and one of my friends um who

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i'm still in touch with today we were sitting there nobody was

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coming in we were bored we're just talking about

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different things we're going back and forth and we were talking about the um

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the virtues of um the western film which is my favorite genre and the gangster

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film which is his favorite genre right and we're going back and forth and no

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mine's better because of this and no, mine's better because of this.

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And then one of us, and I don't remember who one of us had said,

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but it would be really cool to figure out a way to get them both in the same movie, wouldn't it?

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And I carried that around with me for like over three decades.

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And then when lockdown hit and I decided that I was going to finally do this,

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I was going to write this.

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I started out with, it was going to be gangsters and cowboys.

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And then I thought to myself, wait a

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If I'm in for a penny, I'm in for a pound. I'm going to stretch this as much

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as I possibly can, right?

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So I took every kind of pulp fiction action archetype and put them all in the same story.

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And I think, you know, at least based on test reads and based on the feedback

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that I've been getting so far, since I released it at the end of October,

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I figured out a way to make it work.

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So I'm very grateful for that.

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Danny:
And I know the reviews on the Amazon page, the sales page, they say,

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they speak to that where a lot are saying they're grabbed from the first page,

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the genre mash-in works really well and the plot threads tie together well.

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So obviously I'll be sure to leave the link to that in the show notes.

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Danny:
So whatever app you're listening on, make sure you check that out and check out Rob's book.

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Danny:
And we'll speak about where to find that later for sure.

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Danny:
But as is our want, we're here for five random questions, mate.

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Danny:
So if you're ready, I will bring up the random question generator and we'll jump into it.

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Rob:
I am ready as I'm going to be.

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Danny:
All right, let's have a look. Okay. Question number one, Rob.

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Would you rather be rich and ugly or poor and good looking?

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Rob:
Nothing like, you know, nothing like coming out of the gate slow,

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Rob:
huh? We're going to go right to the heavy hitters.

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Danny:
We're going to put you right in the spot, mate.

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Rob:
Oh, I think that my answer to

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this would be based upon how it is that I'm feeling on any particular day.

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Rob:
But considering that we're doing this today, I think I would probably say...

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Rob:
I think I would say poor and good-looking.

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Danny:
Poor and good-looking. So you're going for, I'm not going to say vain,

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but what's your reason in there?

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Because if you're ugly, if you're rich, you could probably get work done maybe.

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Danny:
I'm not sure how much work and how bad it might look. But what's your reason behind that choice?

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Rob:
So I was just having a conversation with somebody a couple of days ago.

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And we were talking about people who have really kind of shaped the landscape

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of the economic Western world.

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You know, your Rockefellers, your Carnegie's, Henry Ford, uh,

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JP Morgan, you know, stuff like that.

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And I don't know that I 100% looked at the question as what would traditionally

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be considered physically ugly.

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Rob:
Um, I know that based on my limited knowledge of a lot of these people,

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um, while some of them may have been very, you know, striking specimens of human

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beings, I don't think that they were particularly nice.

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I think that some of them actually had some pretty ugly souls.

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And I think that maybe looking at it both from an inside and an outside perspective

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is what shaped my answer.

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I don't believe that it has to be an inevitability that just because you become

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rich and famous, that you have to become rich.

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Ugly or corrupt but i think

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a lot of times by default that does happen with people

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um just because you're forced to make a lot of really unkind

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and um inhumane decisions just for that extra million so i think maybe i was

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a quote i was i was equating that not just uh as much to physical good looks

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but maybe sort of kindness of soul as well too does that make sense it does Yeah,

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Danny:
And it's interesting you mentioned some of the names that you mentioned and

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Danny:
whether you're born into riches, for example, or you work your way to riches.

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And I think using your metaphors, I think if I think of some of the people that

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have been given riches by their parents, a lot of them are actually very toxic people.

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Whereas if you've got people that have worked their way up and know what it's

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like to be poor and struggling and and recognize that there's a really well

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known actor. My brain's taken a dump on me and I can't remember who it is.

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But a really well-known actor who came up through hard times and he makes sure

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that he knows that his kids know about that and that their lifestyle isn't normal.

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It's not what everybody experiences and you have to work hard and kindness is

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so key to that and you can't treat people like crap just because you've got the power to.

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So it's interesting. You feel like there's more if people are given riches in

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later life either through parents or they've come into it with not working too hard for it.

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Danny:
Do you think that's easier, you've got this newfound power, like you say,

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to become less of a nicer person as opposed to people that don't have riches to start with?

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Rob:
I think that maybe that comes down to the responsibility of the person who has provided those riches.

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I know somebody who is...

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She is really, really successful in her field and, um, is very much a mentor to me.

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And, um, I know that at least up until recently, every, I could be wrong.

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I think it was every Easter, every Thanksgiving and every Christmas,

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she would take her kids on the actual holiday to work in a soup kitchen, right.

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And say, this is, this is how you, you know, this, this is how you keep yourself

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in check and remember that you're owed nothing, right?

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This is, you know, what we have is from hard work and that, you know,

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what it is that we're contributing to right now, that can easily happen to anybody.

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So, you know, count your blessings and, you know, never forget what it is,

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you know, to retain your humanity.

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And, you know, further to that, I would also say that all of my,

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You look at anybody who has helped shape generational culture, right?

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You go Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, Zeppelin, all of those people,

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they each represent a different decade.

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They all came from abject poverty.

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They all came from, well, maybe abject poverty is a bit of a stretch,

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but they all came from very lower working class.

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And you know even Kurt Cobain could be thrown in there as well too but these

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are the people that are hungry and these are the people that are always going

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to change things because they know what it's like to need and want

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Danny:
Yeah it's you were telling me um in the green room before we started recording

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uh about a fan uh event that you went to uh where tamora morrison the guy that

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plays boba fett in the star wars movies um had a really nice interaction with

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you and your daughter that He was looking for a fan stamp.

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And I feel that's a good example where, you know, that kindness was something

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that didn't need to be shown, but he took that moment and showed kindness.

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And I feel he's probably come from a working class background where he realized

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that it doesn't take a lot to be kind, but it means such a lot to be that person.

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Absolutely. I completely agree. It's a great example for sure.

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That's awesome. I like that. I loved your answer, by the way,

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but I like that question as I want to ease us in.

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So poor and good looking, but not in the vain, you know, Carly Simon,

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you're so vain approach to, you know, good looking. I like that.

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So let's have a look then, Rob, at what question number two brings up.

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All right, I'm curious about this because you've got a lot of different experiences.

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So and you obviously you're well written, well traveled.

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Question two, Rob, what was your least favorite subject in school?

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Math.

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Math easy particular

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One because i know there's like various subcategories right or.

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Yeah i never um i never got to

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the point uh through my uh educational career

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that i was sort of um for lack of a better term specializing um i like you know

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calculus trigonometry um functions all that kind of stuff i dropped that from

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my curriculum i don't know what it is like now but in my day you had to,

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once you hit high school,

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you had to do two years. You had to do grade nine and grade 10.

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After that, it became an optional subject, right?

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And based on your very kind intro that you gave regarding me,

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I've always been a word person.

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My entire life, I've always been a word person.

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And I just think that I have somewhat of an intellectual allergy to numbers.

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It has just never worked for me.

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And funnily enough, both of those grades of math, grade 9 and grade 10,

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I failed them both and had to do summer school.

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Yeah, I think it's still the same now, actually. Our kids, our son's now in

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high school. Our daughter starts after the summer, so she'll start in September.

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And I think it's the same way we were trying to help him select these courses.

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And there were some that were mandatory, and I'm pretty sure English,

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math, maybe even French, because obviously we're in Canada. That may have been mandatory too.

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French was mandatory for two years when I was a kid. I don't know if it still is.

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Yeah, I think it is. I'm not sure. But I'm with you. I hated math.

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I was in the UK at the time when I was in high school and my subjects were always

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English, art and history. I loved history of a passion.

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But I'm curious, I mean, you're a creative person and you mentioned obviously

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you skew more towards the written word.

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Do you feel like English and art and subjects maybe like that are more suited

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and more natural to move towards as someone that's creative?

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And maybe math and geography, for example, Possibly, you know,

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science like physics, chemistry are more for people that are very,

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not strict, but more structured in their way of thinking and learning, etc.

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Partially, yes. Only because, and I apologize if I'm sticking on your terminology

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or tripping on your terminology too much.

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Despite the fact that I, that I lean towards more of a creative vein,

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I still have a lot of, a lot of discipline and regimen in my life.

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I was just thinking before we had met up in the green room and,

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uh, we're shooting the breeze.

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I was just thinking about, um, have you read, uh, Stephen King's on writing?

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I haven't, no. Okay.

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So he released it a few years ago, and it's sort of his, into the look,

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you know, through the looking glass, this is how I created what I created. This is how I work.

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This is how I would suggest that you work, and that kind of thing.

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And I am by no means Stephen King's greatest fans.

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I would take up the whole show if I talked to you about all the problems that

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I have with the way that he does things, right?

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But you can't deny his success, and you

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can't deny his popularity and what an

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absolutely amazing book i couldn't recommend it higher um because

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he talks a lot about discipline and he talks about what it is that you need

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to do uh to get to where you want to be and you know he says oh you know and

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it's and i think it's a little a little millennial sparring that he throws in

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there in that he says oh you know you're you're tired.

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You've got a part-time job. You have to go to school.

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You're having grief with somebody in your life. Well, let me explain to you

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that when I wrote, I think it was The Shining.

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It might've been The Shining or maybe it was The Stand, but it was one of his like magnum opuses.

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And he had said that he was living in a trailer with his wife and two kids,

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was working a full-time job during the day and then at night after the kids

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went to bed he wrote that book on a

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Fallout ironing board that came out of the wall of the trailer

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And did that probably until the wee hours of the morning, then went to sleep

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for a few hours, and then the cycle started over again.

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So if that isn't discipline, then I don't know what is. And then the proof is

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in the pudding. You look at where the guy is right now.

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He is considered the master of the genre and probably will be for some time.

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So there's my long-winded intro to your question.

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Uh i would say that the uh short answer is that i do think that there are certain people

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that are i i believe that the the common colloquialism is left brain right brain

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right the one is more one is more hard fact which is you know science and you

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know maths and uh that sort of thing and the other side of the brain is a little

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bit more creative that's where

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your musicians your painters your actors uh your writers uh that that sort of

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thing comes from i think there's also been maybe some kind of correlation that has been made between

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left-handed and right-handed people that there's maybe something there that

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is tied with creativity versus hard sciences but uh that would be a whole other

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vein of discussion i think i

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Thought it'd be interesting because i know i can i only know i think one left-handed

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person And I always was amazed.

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And this was like, again, when I was in the UK, I was always amazed watching

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her ride because it's natural.

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Obviously, the right hand person, you're moving from left to right.

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It's a natural course or flow of your hand.

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But to be left handed and do the same, it looks more awkward because you're

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now kind of pushing your hand over as opposed to, you know, just letting it flow over.

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Well, tangent. but yeah it makes sense because like the left brain right brain

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if that ties into the left hand right hand and what you know what part of your

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brain is more creative virtually structured it'd be kind of cool to to dig into

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that might have to do just some uh some good old googling to use that term if

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we can still use googling after this mate i.

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Think it's okay i am a lefty myself so i know exactly what it is you're talking

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about um and i also recently read speaking of Googling.

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I also recently read online that the amount of left-handed people in the world

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is actually increasing.

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It's very slow, but it is increasing. It isn't so much a rarity as what it used to be.

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Yeah. Well, now I can say I know two people. So now my knowledge of left-handed

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is doubled. So that's a result.

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I am sure that I am in excellent company.

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She, I don't know, I lost touch with her years ago, but yeah, she was awesome.

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She's a very creative person as well, though. She became an artist,

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opened her own sort of art studio, like saw a ton of stuff.

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So, you know, definitely a creative side there, I feel, of left-handed anywhere.

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Lovely.

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So, there we go then. Left-handed, don't like math. We can live with that one, I feel.

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So, let's have a look then. Rob, doing well here, mate. Let's have a look at

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what question number three brings up. okay and remember this is a family podcast

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so question for you rob do you shower in the morning or the evening.

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Morning morning

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Always mornings mate.

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Uh not always uh if it has been a day of hard stringent yard work or i don't

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really play in any beer leagues anymore um for you know football or hockey or

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anything like that um so sometimes that would warrant an extra one.

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But, um, yeah, it is almost always morning.

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I feel that it's just such a natural beginning to the day, right?

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There's again, like what I was saying in the last question about,

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you know, discipline and about routine.

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I am such a slave to routine.

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Um, it's almost embarrassing, but, uh, I, I find that if it,

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if it gets thrown off too much, it, um, really creates a lot of problems for me.

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And it can really throw my day off. I will always tell people the story that

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for a brief period in my late teen years, I was flirting with the idea of joining

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either the police or the military.

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And I am actually the first generation of my people,

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meaning to say the lynches that go all the way back to, I think it's 400 years

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in Scotland and then maybe 700 years in Ireland previous to that.

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And then I think before that we might've been Gauls, but I'm not sure before

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he passed, my father was fooling around with this stuff, doing a lot of genealogy.

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So, you know, it was very, it

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was very interesting. It's a shame that he never got finished with that.

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Maybe I should pick that up one day, but I'm the first person in my,

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in my generation as far, or I'm the first generation, I should say.

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I was people within my family that was not military.

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I had military running through what looks to be hundreds of years.

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And for years i looked at it as a dig that when i talked to my my folks about it you know

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both of which were gone now and they both served um when

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i talked to my folks about it i had said you know i'm thinking about this i

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had a good friend in high school um that i used to play like dungeons and dragons

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where and he was in the reserve and he ended up i think he ended up pursuing a full career.

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And I think became an officer if I understand correctly, but I think maybe he inspired me.

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And I had said to my folks, you know, I'm thinking about maybe doing this.

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And I remember my father who was a very stern man, you know,

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grew up in a, in a port town

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during world war II, you know, so he, he, he saw some hard stuff and, you know, he said to me

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with as tender a voice as his

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brogue could muster the military is not for

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you son right and i took that as an

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affront for you know for for a long period of time and

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what you know what's he saying is he saying that i'm soft and you know

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whatever else and you know what yeah he was saying that i was soft

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and i think that this maybe ties in with one of the earlier conversations that

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we were having that um i think that i think that hardship breeds necessity and

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you know my folks were really really hardworking people and they really understood

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the difference between want and need.

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And we had everything that we needed. We didn't necessarily have everything that we wanted.

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And there's some, my father served in a live theater in his late teens and early 20s.

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And he never spoke about it. He never wanted to talk about it.

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And I talked about this at great length in his eulogy when I eulogized him a few years ago.

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And I think that whatever it was that he saw and whatever it was that he experienced,

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it shaped the way that he did things for the rest of his life.

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And he was always grateful for quiet moments.

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He was always grateful, even just for an orange, something like that,

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something that we completely take for granted.

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And even though my father wasn't the most day-to-day regimented person,

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he had an incredible conviction of character.

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And um i think that some of that ended up getting

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passed down to me in terms of discipline as well too

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uh again if i was talking

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about the differences between my father and i we would be here until

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the sun went down but i think that that

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probably ties in maybe there's even something like kind of genetic there about

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the fact that my showers always have to be uh first thing in the day you know

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for me it's like you know it's wake up stretch shower coffee out the door morning

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commute right i even feel it sometimes on the weekends that you know when it's like i wake up

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i realize it isn't as early as what i'm used to it being um and it can sometimes

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throw me off a little bit that oh i'm used to you know i'm i'm used to things

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just being a b c d e right it's probably also why i'm a relatively simple eater as well too

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simplified even more since i became a vegetarian but uh

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Yeah. Man, I really made a meal of that question.

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None at all, mate. And this is why I love the show, because it does take my

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guests into tangents and lets you open up and just tell your story, which I always love.

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So I appreciate you sharing that, mate. And it's weird, because where we live,

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we live on a well, so our water is limited.

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We have to sort of manage it, especially in the warmer weather.

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But our son, both our kids are competitive athletes.

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My son does soccer, football. My daughter does cheer.

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So obviously they love showers. But in warm weather, it's because we have to limit it more.

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Danny:
It kind of messes up with the routine. So I can completely 100% get that, mate.

397
00:28:01,710 --> 00:28:08,870
Rob:
You know, it's a creature comfort. It's a simple comfort. But it's all part and parcel.

398
00:28:09,230 --> 00:28:13,750
Rob:
It's all like a piece in the juice out it gets us through day to day.

399
00:28:14,510 --> 00:28:18,270
Rob:
I think. Right. So yeah, morning showers all the way.

400
00:28:18,630 --> 00:28:23,710
Rob:
That being said, before we move on, I do understand people who do it in the evening as well too.

401
00:28:24,050 --> 00:28:28,210
Rob:
My, my, my oldest, for example, my oldest daughter, she's an evening shower person.

402
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,300
Rob:
Because she wants that time to get herself together in the morning and focus

403
00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:36,920
Rob:
on other things and reserve energy for, you know,

404
00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:41,440
Rob:
maybe, you know, what her ensemble is going to be for the day or her hair or,

405
00:28:41,460 --> 00:28:44,820
Rob:
you know, thinking about if she's got a presentation at school,

406
00:28:45,060 --> 00:28:48,340
Rob:
you know, how am I going to tackle this, that sort of thing.

407
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:55,080
Rob:
So not taking away anything from the evening people, but the morning shower

408
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,440
Rob:
just works better for me.

409
00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:59,540
Danny:
I like it. I like it. and speaking of

410
00:28:59,540 --> 00:29:02,720
Danny:
what's working better that's a terrible segue

411
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,640
Danny:
no i like it and i i'm

412
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,500
Danny:
a i i for me i'd probably be an evening person but

413
00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:12,640
Danny:
i'd be an evening bath person as opposed to shower i feel shower is

414
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,700
Danny:
there to like freshen and make you really feel refreshed so

415
00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,480
Danny:
i feel we probably if we had like the unlimited water supply from the

416
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,180
Danny:
city i'd probably have more baths but yeah um nice

417
00:29:22,180 --> 00:29:25,460
Danny:
warm bath in the evening but i get you i hear you talk completely on

418
00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:28,240
Danny:
that mate like i say our son he prefers the winter

419
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,120
Danny:
because the water is more plentiful you know so he's

420
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,600
Danny:
good to go there so all good all good but yeah i like that that's a good one

421
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,840
Danny:
to have for question number three mate let's have a look and see what question

422
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:45,620
Danny:
number four is and you just mentioned you become a vegetarian so rob question

423
00:29:45,620 --> 00:29:49,820
Danny:
four do you prefer to cook or order takeout cook.

424
00:29:49,820 --> 00:29:53,920
Rob:
I have found um so it's almost six years

425
00:29:54,970 --> 00:29:58,930
Rob:
that I've been a vegetarian. Uh, it was actually, uh, and I'm about to date

426
00:29:58,930 --> 00:30:01,010
Rob:
myself here. It was my 50th birthday.

427
00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:08,430
Rob:
That was the last time that I ate meat and, uh, it was a steak and ale pie as

428
00:30:08,430 --> 00:30:11,330
Rob:
a matter of fact. So I know that I'm looking at you right now.

429
00:30:11,510 --> 00:30:14,390
Rob:
You can, uh, wipe that drool off your mouth.

430
00:30:14,670 --> 00:30:18,490
Rob:
Um, but that was, that was the last one that I had.

431
00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:21,370
Rob:
Um, I, I don't want to oversell it though i do sometimes still

432
00:30:21,370 --> 00:30:28,310
Rob:
eat fish but i would say that cook is is better like so and and and that's really

433
00:30:28,310 --> 00:30:36,310
Rob:
it's for a few different reasons one it's economic unless uh you are one of

434
00:30:36,310 --> 00:30:38,550
Rob:
you know one of the people that we were talking about in one of the earlier

435
00:30:38,550 --> 00:30:40,990
Rob:
questions life isn't as fluid

436
00:30:41,570 --> 00:30:46,650
Rob:
as what it was prior to lockdown right and uh money doesn't go as far as it did

437
00:30:48,050 --> 00:30:52,730
Rob:
And i was just having this conversation with somebody not that long ago and

438
00:30:52,730 --> 00:30:57,210
Rob:
i once i once saw um bill morris say the exact same thing on his television

439
00:30:57,210 --> 00:30:58,530
Rob:
show that when you were a kid

440
00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:02,090
Rob:
like going out for dinner or having something delivered

441
00:31:02,090 --> 00:31:06,990
Rob:
to your door right it was one of the greatest treats on the planet it was such

442
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:11,310
Rob:
a big deal it was such a big deal right oh we're going we're going to swish

443
00:31:11,310 --> 00:31:14,550
Rob:
la for dinner tonight oh my god i think i'm going to pass out i'm so excited

444
00:31:14,550 --> 00:31:19,690
Rob:
whereas now it has become

445
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:26,580
Rob:
Such a mundane act. Whenever I, on a rare occasion, when I do walk into a restaurant,

446
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,060
Rob:
whether it be, you know, sit down, take away,

447
00:31:29,740 --> 00:31:36,800
Rob:
whatever, the lobby is invariably always full of Uber Eats delivery people that

448
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,220
Rob:
are standing there waiting for orders for people who have put theirs in ahead of time.

449
00:31:41,460 --> 00:31:45,940
Rob:
It doesn't feel as though maybe there's so much ceremony about going out to

450
00:31:45,940 --> 00:31:48,560
Rob:
eat anymore as what there used to be or ordering something in.

451
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:54,420
Rob:
It's it has been made so easy now there's a lot to be said about progress and

452
00:31:54,420 --> 00:31:58,880
Rob:
i know that there are a lot of people who make a living off of any of the uh

453
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:06,780
Rob:
delivery services uh that come out of that and uh so you know i don't want to

454
00:32:06,780 --> 00:32:09,060
Rob:
i don't want to begrudge anyone or step on their toes

455
00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:16,400
Rob:
for uh pursuing their hustle but i'm trying to bring back the whole idea perhaps

456
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:23,840
Rob:
on a subconscious level of maybe, um, making that sort of thing more of a treat, um,

457
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,900
Rob:
than what it has become.

458
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:32,340
Rob:
Uh, but then, so, you know, it is, it is somewhat economic, but beyond that as well too.

459
00:32:32,940 --> 00:32:37,320
Rob:
For example, if I were, if I were to walk into a McDonald's right now,

460
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,480
Rob:
there is legit four things on the menu that I can eat.

461
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:49,420
Rob:
It is getting better, mind you, with finer dining, with more mid-level dining and up.

462
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:54,440
Rob:
Even the keg, which for anybody who isn't aware that is in Canada,

463
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,820
Rob:
is a big steakhouse franchise here.

464
00:32:59,580 --> 00:33:05,140
Rob:
They even offer some plant-based alternatives to things.

465
00:33:05,140 --> 00:33:13,220
Rob:
So it is getting a little bit better, but a lot of times the idea of going out

466
00:33:13,220 --> 00:33:18,560
Rob:
to eat doesn't hold as much of a thrill for me as what it used to when I was

467
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,060
Rob:
younger and when I was eating meat.

468
00:33:22,420 --> 00:33:26,760
Rob:
Because a lot of the excitement alternatives and options just aren't there anymore.

469
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,540
Rob:
Yeah, yeah. I don't know that I have anything else to add to that.

470
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,580
Danny:
No, no, it makes perfect sense. I mean, I think of, I used to love going to the movies.

471
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:43,680
Danny:
Loved it. And again, pre-lockdown, I feel so much has changed in the world, obviously, since 2020.

472
00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:47,400
Danny:
But the movie theatres are suffering now because people realise,

473
00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:50,560
Danny:
hey, I don't need to go out and, like, you've got kids, I've got kids.

474
00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:55,260
Danny:
I don't have to go out and spend $100, $150 on movie tickets, popcorn, Coke, drinks.

475
00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,300
Danny:
If we're hungry after the movie, now we've got another $100 plus for dinner

476
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,660
Danny:
or whatever. That's like one night out.

477
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:06,080
Danny:
Now it becomes $200, $300, which is ridiculous, where you get a decent sound

478
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,640
Danny:
system at home, decent-sized TV screen, make your own food, as you just mentioned, Matt.

479
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,660
Danny:
And you don't have to worry about people rustling chip papers or crisps.

480
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,760
Danny:
Or talking or a phone popping up, a little light screen on their phone with messages.

481
00:34:18,220 --> 00:34:23,180
Danny:
It's just, it's very different. So I completely hear you. And I know we used

482
00:34:23,180 --> 00:34:24,740
Danny:
to love going out to dinners as well.

483
00:34:25,140 --> 00:34:28,480
Danny:
And like you say, it was treats would go maybe at the weekend,

484
00:34:29,420 --> 00:34:32,600
Danny:
more than likely once a month though, to make it a proper treat.

485
00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:34,040
Danny:
But even now we don't do that.

486
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,780
Danny:
And again, I feel a lot of that is done to the kids being super busy with sports.

487
00:34:38,060 --> 00:34:41,540
Danny:
So we don't have a lot of time anyway. As a family in the evenings,

488
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:43,520
Danny:
they're super busy with what they're doing.

489
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,540
Danny:
Um so i i 100 hear you

490
00:34:46,540 --> 00:34:52,560
Danny:
and it's do you feel like you obviously mentioned um economics but also choices

491
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,660
Danny:
do you feel things are getting a bit better or we're still struggling when it

492
00:34:57,660 --> 00:35:03,680
Danny:
comes to good alternatives for vegetarian or vegan options as opposed to standard

493
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,840
Danny:
you know steaks at the keg for example.

494
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,940
Rob:
I uh i don't want to take any sake glory

495
00:35:08,940 --> 00:35:11,840
Rob:
here because um i i i don't have

496
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,200
Rob:
and this ties in with our earlier discussion about discipline um

497
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:22,140
Rob:
i i don't have the discipline yet to be a full-blown vegan there's a lot of

498
00:35:22,140 --> 00:35:26,820
Rob:
one of my daughter's friends is a full-blown vegan and it's like my hat is off

499
00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:32,040
Rob:
to you man like it whoa like yeah that is that is serious and um

500
00:35:32,990 --> 00:35:40,090
Rob:
But I do think that options are getting better, but maybe in a few more unlikely places.

501
00:35:40,990 --> 00:35:49,510
Rob:
A lot of your franchises, your North American franchises, they've been really slow on the uptake.

502
00:35:49,910 --> 00:35:52,930
Rob:
I listen to UK radio during the day while I'm working, right?

503
00:35:52,930 --> 00:36:00,410
Rob:
And I know for a fact that at least for two, maybe three years,

504
00:36:00,830 --> 00:36:05,850
Rob:
McDonald's already had their vegetarian hamburger in place over there.

505
00:36:06,410 --> 00:36:12,270
Rob:
We only just got it here in Canada, I think maybe seven months ago, something like that.

506
00:36:12,810 --> 00:36:19,770
Rob:
So I think that maybe a lot of your more conventional outlets have been really slow.

507
00:36:20,810 --> 00:36:26,550
Rob:
To jump on it because if, if it ain't broke, um, don't fix it.

508
00:36:26,790 --> 00:36:28,910
Rob:
Right. Uh, at least as they see it.

509
00:36:29,690 --> 00:36:34,570
Rob:
But I also think that one of those, uh, you know, one of the, uh,

510
00:36:35,250 --> 00:36:40,310
Rob:
many faceted benefits of multiculturalism, like what we have here is that you

511
00:36:40,310 --> 00:36:44,290
Rob:
have people coming from all corners of the world and there,

512
00:36:44,290 --> 00:36:49,990
Rob:
there are entire cultures that are based on vegetarianism or that at least a

513
00:36:49,990 --> 00:36:54,210
Rob:
large amount of the food, uh,

514
00:36:54,470 --> 00:36:57,930
Rob:
that comes from there is, is a highway vegetarian component, right?

515
00:36:58,070 --> 00:37:02,310
Rob:
Like, you know, you look at Indian food, for example, um, which I've always

516
00:37:02,310 --> 00:37:08,390
Rob:
been, I had, I hadn't had a lot of exposure to up until recent, uh, recently in my life.

517
00:37:08,770 --> 00:37:11,670
Rob:
And like, I am samosa daft now.

518
00:37:11,970 --> 00:37:16,830
Rob:
Right. Um, and it's, it, it, there's, you know, not only are they delicious

519
00:37:16,830 --> 00:37:21,510
Rob:
but you know it's it's like a real treat that has been added to my rotation

520
00:37:22,130 --> 00:37:25,810
Rob:
in terms of of what it is that my my

521
00:37:25,810 --> 00:37:29,250
Rob:
current way of living will support and then

522
00:37:29,250 --> 00:37:34,890
Rob:
you know you get a lot of your even even further east asian foods as well too

523
00:37:34,890 --> 00:37:43,230
Rob:
almost everything can be made without chicken or beef even as a kid like i it's

524
00:37:43,230 --> 00:37:46,510
Rob:
funny because i remember you know going back to when it was a big treat.

525
00:37:46,650 --> 00:37:47,770
Rob:
Like if it was somebody's birthday

526
00:37:47,770 --> 00:37:50,510
Rob:
or we were going on vacation for two weeks or something like that.

527
00:37:50,830 --> 00:37:53,630
Rob:
And then the folks decided to order Chinese food.

528
00:37:54,370 --> 00:37:56,530
Rob:
We'd be looking at the menu. Like all of us would be, you know,

529
00:37:56,630 --> 00:37:59,170
Rob:
me and my sister and my folks would be hovering over the menu.

530
00:37:59,470 --> 00:38:04,010
Rob:
And I'd be thinking in my head, why would anybody ever get that vegetable fried rice?

531
00:38:05,050 --> 00:38:08,790
Rob:
Why would anybody ever get vegetable chow mein? You know, when you've got chicken,

532
00:38:08,930 --> 00:38:10,610
Rob:
you've got beef, and you've got pork, and you've got shrimp,

533
00:38:10,770 --> 00:38:13,970
Rob:
and stuff like that. Well, you know, now I understand that.

534
00:38:15,750 --> 00:38:22,810
Rob:
But I think that we certainly live in a corner of the world where such a lifestyle

535
00:38:22,810 --> 00:38:28,030
Rob:
and such a diet has been made a lot easier by the doors that we've opened.

536
00:38:28,530 --> 00:38:31,510
Danny:
Yeah. No, I hear. And the great thing that you say, I mean, Canada,

537
00:38:31,690 --> 00:38:36,690
Danny:
we're very fortunate and that we have a lot of resources that can make that,

538
00:38:36,770 --> 00:38:38,750
Danny:
you know, hopefully make that lifestyle easier.

539
00:38:38,910 --> 00:38:42,490
Danny:
I say this as a non-vegetarian, so I apologize if I get that wrong,

540
00:38:42,530 --> 00:38:46,250
Danny:
but I feel Canada's definitely got a lot of resources, natural resources,

541
00:38:46,530 --> 00:38:49,870
Danny:
you know, for, you know, different lifestyles, which is awesome, obviously.

542
00:38:50,650 --> 00:38:54,350
Rob:
You know, economic trends and

543
00:38:54,350 --> 00:38:58,690
Rob:
grocery purchasing trends and general

544
00:38:58,690 --> 00:39:03,430
Rob:
lifestyle trends are all zeering in

545
00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:08,890
Rob:
the direction of a lesser consumption of meat with things going forward and

546
00:39:08,890 --> 00:39:13,970
Rob:
please don't misunderstand me here danny i am not trying to say to anybody i'm

547
00:39:13,970 --> 00:39:20,430
Rob:
right and you're wrong right i would never ever want to be that person but

548
00:39:22,850 --> 00:39:29,250
Rob:
it's a decision that you make and you do your best to stand by it and I think that

549
00:39:30,610 --> 00:39:34,110
Rob:
Yeah, a lot of, you know, a lot of changes are being made, like,

550
00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:35,850
Rob:
especially in the agricultural world.

551
00:39:36,730 --> 00:39:40,650
Rob:
But I don't think it's a wholesale shift at this point, but I think that there

552
00:39:40,650 --> 00:39:44,670
Rob:
are some subtle hints that are going on that, you know, things are not going

553
00:39:44,670 --> 00:39:48,410
Rob:
to remain the way that they have up until this point forever.

554
00:39:49,510 --> 00:39:53,210
Danny:
Yeah, I say it's funny. My daughter made me laugh.

555
00:39:53,930 --> 00:39:57,070
Danny:
Maybe last year, two years ago, it was during lockdown.

556
00:39:57,390 --> 00:40:02,390
Danny:
So maybe even before that. But anyway, she came to us, you know,

557
00:40:02,470 --> 00:40:05,890
Danny:
my wife, Jacqueline, you know, you guys know each other before I knew you, actually.

558
00:40:06,650 --> 00:40:10,470
Danny:
But she came up to us and she says, OK, I want to be a vegetarian.

559
00:40:11,030 --> 00:40:15,490
Danny:
Can you make me this tomorrow instead of, you know, whatever we normally have? Yeah, OK, no worries.

560
00:40:16,030 --> 00:40:19,630
Danny:
That's not a problem. So we made it. And she's like, I'm real hungry for lunch.

561
00:40:19,730 --> 00:40:21,530
Danny:
Can I have a sub sandwich? OK.

562
00:40:22,490 --> 00:40:27,550
Danny:
And then she went back. It's like, you know, I feel, and I know it's just like

563
00:40:27,550 --> 00:40:29,570
Danny:
a random, you know, addition to you.

564
00:40:29,770 --> 00:40:32,950
Danny:
I don't want to take away from that at all, mate. But she did make me chuckle

565
00:40:32,950 --> 00:40:36,710
Danny:
and you just made me think of that when, you know, what's available and how

566
00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:39,290
Danny:
we change, you know, how people's minds change in that.

567
00:40:39,890 --> 00:40:42,050
Danny:
But yeah, I hear you 100%, mate.

568
00:40:42,510 --> 00:40:48,770
Rob:
I don't think it's uncommon. I think that, I know, I know my youngest went through that as well too.

569
00:40:48,770 --> 00:40:57,010
Rob:
And even to this day she still will have periods where I haven't eaten in a

570
00:40:57,010 --> 00:41:00,150
Rob:
week, I haven't eaten in two weeks that kind of thing and then

571
00:41:01,370 --> 00:41:05,510
Rob:
You know, she's at a point in her life where there's other things that I think

572
00:41:05,510 --> 00:41:06,830
Rob:
are taking a priority for her.

573
00:41:07,390 --> 00:41:11,450
Rob:
And again, this is, you know, strictly about my own personal choice.

574
00:41:11,670 --> 00:41:16,330
Rob:
I, you know, would never, ever, you know, if I walk into a restaurant with somebody

575
00:41:16,330 --> 00:41:21,430
Rob:
and they, you know, order a steak across the table from me, I'm not going to sneer at them.

576
00:41:21,490 --> 00:41:24,630
Rob:
And I'm not going to, you know, wag the finger and, you know,

577
00:41:24,730 --> 00:41:26,810
Rob:
and preach the Holy gospel or anything like that.

578
00:41:26,970 --> 00:41:30,410
Rob:
It's just, it's, it's, it's a lifestyle change. And I'll tell you this.

579
00:41:31,250 --> 00:41:34,150
Rob:
Anybody who knew me prior to me making my

580
00:41:34,150 --> 00:41:40,130
Rob:
change and if they didn't know before i know people who have been floored by

581
00:41:40,130 --> 00:41:45,490
Rob:
the fact because oh man i was just i was all meat and potatoes and the rarer

582
00:41:45,490 --> 00:41:52,690
Rob:
the better yeah so um how's and is your daughter like where is she with her eating now

583
00:41:52,690 --> 00:41:55,530
Danny:
Yeah she's still like um she she likes

584
00:41:55,530 --> 00:41:58,570
Danny:
her um chicken she loves chicken she likes

585
00:41:58,570 --> 00:42:01,290
Danny:
that but she loves her veggies as well she's on that happy space where she's

586
00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:04,530
Danny:
got her protein if she wants it but she loves her

587
00:42:04,530 --> 00:42:07,570
Danny:
healthy you know um sides and the

588
00:42:07,570 --> 00:42:10,590
Danny:
way we cook chicken it's like healthy anyway it's not deep fried or anything so

589
00:42:10,590 --> 00:42:15,210
Danny:
um but yeah she still enjoys on meat currently i'll i'll say very good very

590
00:42:15,210 --> 00:42:21,970
Danny:
good see she's 13 gonna be 14 in next month oh my gosh um 14 year old where

591
00:42:21,970 --> 00:42:26,030
Danny:
did that go so yeah we'll see how she goes and like i say you mentioned it um

592
00:42:26,030 --> 00:42:29,590
Danny:
you know earlier it's you know and I mentioned it in your intro,

593
00:42:30,210 --> 00:42:33,690
Danny:
it's the decisions we make for ourselves, right? That's what's key at that time.

594
00:42:33,810 --> 00:42:36,450
Danny:
And I support others and the decisions they want to make that's right for them.

595
00:42:36,910 --> 00:42:37,390
Rob:
And so really.

596
00:42:38,110 --> 00:42:44,090
Danny:
Well, speaking of decisions that are right for us, it's time to get to question number five.

597
00:42:44,270 --> 00:42:47,910
Danny:
And we've done well to get to this point, Matt. So I'm going to finish with

598
00:42:47,910 --> 00:42:50,810
Danny:
this one because I feel it ties in with the first question kind of.

599
00:42:50,910 --> 00:42:52,530
Danny:
It kind of brings that back full circle.

600
00:42:52,750 --> 00:42:56,750
Danny:
So Rob, question five of your time in the random question hot seat.

601
00:42:56,750 --> 00:43:03,890
Danny:
Would you rather have a grapefruit sized head or a head the size of a watermelon oh.

602
00:43:03,890 --> 00:43:11,190
Rob:
My god i oh man i don't even know where to go with this um

603
00:43:13,170 --> 00:43:19,550
Rob:
I guess that both of those, or either one, would create a pretty conspicuous

604
00:43:19,550 --> 00:43:20,730
Rob:
physical appearance, right?

605
00:43:21,070 --> 00:43:24,610
Danny:
I feel so. I feel maybe one's a little bit less conspicuous,

606
00:43:24,690 --> 00:43:28,190
Danny:
but yeah, I feel you're going to be noticeable right away when you're walking down the street, mate.

607
00:43:29,150 --> 00:43:34,230
Rob:
Yeah, yeah. So with the first option, I'm thinking about that guy who's in the

608
00:43:34,230 --> 00:43:39,390
Rob:
waiting room in Beetlejuice, you know, smoking the cigarette and, you know, yeah, yeah.

609
00:43:39,830 --> 00:43:43,510
Danny:
He's almost like Beaker out of The Muppet Show, I feel. He's got that kind of vibe.

610
00:43:44,450 --> 00:43:49,670
Rob:
Yeah, yeah, because he has that bottom trap mouth and the big bug eyes, right?

611
00:43:50,290 --> 00:43:54,390
Rob:
I think I'll go for the watermelon, and I'll tell you why.

612
00:43:55,350 --> 00:43:56,390
Rob:
How anticlimactic would that

613
00:43:56,390 --> 00:43:59,070
Rob:
be if I just said, I think I'll go for the watermelon. See you, Danny.

614
00:44:00,950 --> 00:44:01,670
Danny:
Recording over.

615
00:44:01,990 --> 00:44:08,510
Rob:
Yeah. I think I'd go for the watermelon because I think that a reasonable assumption Thank you.

616
00:44:09,540 --> 00:44:13,760
Rob:
There would be enhanced brainpower. If you've got a bigger head,

617
00:44:14,820 --> 00:44:16,720
Rob:
that probably houses a bigger brain.

618
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,460
Rob:
Now, of course, if you're into dinosaurs, that throws my whole theory out the window.

619
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,180
Rob:
But I would like to think that we've maybe advanced a little bit beyond the

620
00:44:27,180 --> 00:44:28,420
Rob:
T-Rex and the Stegosaurus.

621
00:44:28,780 --> 00:44:32,640
Rob:
But yeah, I think I would probably go for the watermelon head.

622
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:38,400
Danny:
When I feel the watermelons, it's more similar to a natural-sized head drive.

623
00:44:38,420 --> 00:44:40,900
Danny:
You think about the size, unless you get like a massive watermelon it always

624
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:44,460
Danny:
makes me think of so i married an axe murderer you know would you look at the

625
00:44:44,460 --> 00:44:47,680
Danny:
size of that cranium he'd move the size of.

626
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:48,560
Rob:
That boy's yeah

627
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,420
Danny:
That's but yeah i feel yeah i feel like

628
00:44:51,420 --> 00:44:54,940
Danny:
a watermelon unless it was like a super big massive plump

629
00:44:54,940 --> 00:44:57,900
Danny:
ripe one that's probably closer to a human head size

630
00:44:57,900 --> 00:45:01,480
Danny:
as opposed to having that tiny little lemon but it'd

631
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,940
Danny:
be it'd be interesting to see because obviously your your body would say the

632
00:45:05,940 --> 00:45:11,160
Danny:
same size but then does your physical features of your face adapt i'm going

633
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,000
Danny:
to assume they adapt right you're not going to have like the same size mouse

634
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,680
Danny:
you've got now on a lemon it's like it pokes over the side or it looks small

635
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,160
Danny:
because now you've got this big massive watermelon head,

636
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,560
Danny:
and would you wear anything in disguise like a hat or a scarf or anything yeah.

637
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,000
Rob:
Yeah i'm sort of you know going back into the because i studied from in college

638
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:36,720
Rob:
and you know i'm such a i'm such a student of a film um i'm going back now to

639
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:40,280
Rob:
there was a villain in the dick tracy movie

640
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:47,360
Rob:
um who i think his name was little face and he has this big melon head but with

641
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,740
Rob:
a face that's about you know the size of a dessert plate right in the middle

642
00:45:50,740 --> 00:45:56,260
Rob:
of it uh which is just the oddest but also the bizarrely funniest thing that

643
00:45:56,260 --> 00:46:00,780
Rob:
you've ever seen so i think i'd want my face to be proportionate

644
00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:06,100
Rob:
um it would just you know like having you know having a melon head is weird

645
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:09,820
Rob:
enough as it is but that if you had like a tiny face inside your melon head

646
00:46:09,820 --> 00:46:14,340
Rob:
you know children are going to run screaming every time that they see you right it'd

647
00:46:14,340 --> 00:46:17,060
Danny:
Be yeah it'd be something else man.

648
00:46:17,060 --> 00:46:22,140
Rob:
It also the the the visual the visual in my head the first thing that comes

649
00:46:22,140 --> 00:46:27,460
Rob:
to mind too is i'm reminded of the appearance

650
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:33,580
Rob:
of one of my favorite batman enemies who is the scarecrow he's got that pumpkin

651
00:46:33,580 --> 00:46:38,300
Rob:
for a head right with the with the floppy straw hat on top of it and that's

652
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:43,260
Rob:
actually kind of a cool look so i think that i think i definitely made the right choice there but

653
00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:44,720
Danny:
You'd have to be a villain though as well right.

654
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:50,240
Rob:
Yeah yeah yeah yeah he's just he's he's just misunderstood

655
00:46:51,820 --> 00:46:55,600
Danny:
We will like that we will like that well speaking of misunderstood i don't think

656
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,440
Danny:
it's misunderstood that we've reached the end of your time in the random hot

657
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,440
Danny:
seat mate and I like that I like how that kind of came around a whole 360 angle

658
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,520
Danny:
there from good looking, ugly,

659
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,960
Danny:
rich, poor to watermelon head I think that was a nice you know,

660
00:47:11,060 --> 00:47:15,240
Danny:
nice segue there so Rob, I appreciate your time on the five random question hot seat,

661
00:47:15,860 --> 00:47:20,700
Danny:
as is only fair I've had you on the hot seat for about 45, 50 minutes now it's

662
00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:22,460
Danny:
only fair to put the question,

663
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,780
Danny:
master task over to you.

664
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,200
Rob:
All right i thought long and hard on this one

665
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,220
Rob:
oh dear there we go this this permeated my

666
00:47:31,220 --> 00:47:33,900
Rob:
thoughts so i hope i don't let you down this permeated my

667
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:36,740
Rob:
thoughts all week long as i was like you know winding down

668
00:47:36,740 --> 00:47:41,300
Rob:
from christmas and then moving into new years and um you know binging a couple

669
00:47:41,300 --> 00:47:46,620
Rob:
of things and doing some household chores and everything else so what is the

670
00:47:46,620 --> 00:47:52,440
Rob:
most important film book or movie that you have experienced so far in your life

671
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,560
Rob:
not favorite most important most

672
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,360
Danny:
Important film book movie,

673
00:48:01,050 --> 00:48:02,410
Danny:
Ooh, that's a good one, mate.

674
00:48:03,830 --> 00:48:04,550
Rob:
And why?

675
00:48:05,090 --> 00:48:09,550
Danny:
That's a good one. I'm trying to think of what's really impacted me,

676
00:48:09,690 --> 00:48:13,350
Danny:
as opposed to your favourite, like you say. There are two very different things.

677
00:48:14,210 --> 00:48:22,230
Danny:
I would say the most important, maybe, maybe, and I might change my mind here,

678
00:48:22,330 --> 00:48:26,750
Danny:
so be prepared for that, but the most important movie, I'm going to say anyway,

679
00:48:27,790 --> 00:48:30,670
Danny:
is the original Star Wars back in 77.

680
00:48:30,670 --> 00:48:35,010
Danny:
78 when it was released in the UK It was 77 in North America But we got it in

681
00:48:35,010 --> 00:48:40,150
Danny:
78 And the reason for that is like There's a few reasons actually So I'd lost

682
00:48:40,150 --> 00:48:42,910
Danny:
a lot of family members to cancer In the summer of 77,

683
00:48:43,390 --> 00:48:48,070
Danny:
I'd lost a very dear school friend To an asthma attack Also in the summer of

684
00:48:48,070 --> 00:48:51,750
Danny:
77 So 77 was like a horrible horrible Shitty crappy year,

685
00:48:52,550 --> 00:48:57,650
Danny:
And prior to the passing, one of the people that passed was my stepdad.

686
00:48:57,810 --> 00:49:00,830
Danny:
Now, we didn't really get on, but we tolerated each other.

687
00:49:01,050 --> 00:49:05,050
Danny:
It's typical Scottish stepdad, stepson environment.

688
00:49:05,390 --> 00:49:08,810
Danny:
But he had promised to, he'd heard of this big movie. He saw how excited all

689
00:49:08,810 --> 00:49:11,990
Danny:
the school kids were, me being one of them, about this movie that just released

690
00:49:11,990 --> 00:49:13,250
Danny:
in the US called Star Wars.

691
00:49:13,310 --> 00:49:16,730
Danny:
And it was getting amazing, amazing reviews and word of mouth and all that.

692
00:49:16,990 --> 00:49:22,950
Danny:
And being a big sci-fi geek, even at that young age, I was 8 at the time so that's aging me.

693
00:49:25,030 --> 00:49:28,390
Danny:
He said he was going to take us and then obviously he couldn't because he passed,

694
00:49:29,230 --> 00:49:35,030
Danny:
so eventually my uncle took us to see it me and my cousin took us to see it

695
00:49:35,030 --> 00:49:40,230
Danny:
probably early winter of 78 it got released in London,

696
00:49:40,970 --> 00:49:45,270
Danny:
Christmas 77 the rest of the UK 78 so I went to see it, sat there,

697
00:49:46,270 --> 00:49:49,310
Danny:
and I'd never seen anything like it like that

698
00:49:49,310 --> 00:49:52,210
Danny:
opening shot where the blockade runner that princess liaison

699
00:49:52,210 --> 00:49:54,890
Danny:
is getting chased by Darth Raiders star destroyer and

700
00:49:54,890 --> 00:49:57,610
Danny:
that big massive spaceship when you're eight year old

701
00:49:57,610 --> 00:50:00,530
Danny:
or nine year old in a darkened theater we're in

702
00:50:00,530 --> 00:50:03,390
Danny:
the odian uh which is like a chain in the uk we're in

703
00:50:03,390 --> 00:50:06,370
Danny:
the odian in edinburgh smacking the middle of edinburgh and this massive massive

704
00:50:06,370 --> 00:50:09,390
Danny:
spaceship came over my my head it was like changed my

705
00:50:09,390 --> 00:50:12,310
Danny:
thinking of what movies could be like um and because

706
00:50:12,310 --> 00:50:15,090
Danny:
of that i got into writing i wanted to write my

707
00:50:15,090 --> 00:50:17,690
Danny:
own version of star wars and fantasy stuff like that so i

708
00:50:17,690 --> 00:50:20,850
Danny:
wrote some stuff that um i got an award

709
00:50:20,850 --> 00:50:24,210
Danny:
at my my school for a fantasy story or whatever um

710
00:50:24,210 --> 00:50:27,630
Danny:
and that kind of put me into my creative like path

711
00:50:27,630 --> 00:50:32,070
Danny:
if you like it i disappeared and did you know educational stuff what have you

712
00:50:32,070 --> 00:50:38,290
Danny:
but it kind of lit that spark of uh let's use this pun lit the spark of rebellion

713
00:50:38,290 --> 00:50:42,170
Danny:
or spark you know to to use it from one of the movies like one of the recent

714
00:50:42,170 --> 00:50:47,070
Danny:
sequels but yeah that kind of got me into my love of A Star Wars creativity,

715
00:50:47,190 --> 00:50:49,810
Danny:
storytelling etc that I feel was kind of.

716
00:50:50,820 --> 00:50:53,580
Danny:
Put me where i am now and even though i've gone on

717
00:50:53,580 --> 00:50:56,600
Danny:
different paths throughout my life i've always come come back

718
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,440
Danny:
to this love of spectacle you know

719
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:04,820
Danny:
excitement adventure like your book mate you know where it's just it's escapism

720
00:51:04,820 --> 00:51:08,340
Danny:
to take you out of what can be a crappy world and at that time it was a really

721
00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:12,600
Danny:
crappy world for me and this movie changed that completely so that that's probably

722
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:17,420
Danny:
i feel yeah that's my most impactful movie well.

723
00:51:17,420 --> 00:51:20,360
Rob:
Said man well said and i i i

724
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:24,320
Rob:
don't i don't think that your answer is dissimilar to a lot of people and it

725
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:32,180
Rob:
is so funny how many times i have read you know famous and just everyday people

726
00:51:32,180 --> 00:51:38,740
Rob:
alike how that one particular shot when you know the the the Imperial Starship,

727
00:51:38,940 --> 00:51:43,040
Rob:
like how long it takes for its full length to crawl into the frame.

728
00:51:43,860 --> 00:51:47,240
Rob:
Like that just blew everybody's mind. It's like, Oh my God. It's like,

729
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,880
Rob:
you're practically looking to watch how long is it going to take until we see

730
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,020
Rob:
the jets at the back. Right.

731
00:51:51,660 --> 00:51:54,280
Danny:
Well, especially in a big theater where you've got like the massive screen,

732
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,500
Danny:
you're like a boy, you're not even 10 years old.

733
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,120
Danny:
And it's just like the sound and everything is just vibrating and shaking your

734
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,280
Danny:
whole body. You're thinking, Holy crap. You know?

735
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:07,880
Rob:
So putting aside, or maybe keeping in mind the original three films.

736
00:52:08,740 --> 00:52:13,940
Rob:
How do you feel that the franchise has done as a whole? Like leading up to this

737
00:52:13,940 --> 00:52:15,740
Rob:
moment, what is today, January 3rd?

738
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:16,560
Danny:
Yeah.

739
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,400
Rob:
January 3rd, 2026, right up to here. How do you feel like with all the TV series,

740
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,420
Rob:
with the animated series, with the supplementary theatrical releases?

741
00:52:24,860 --> 00:52:30,840
Danny:
Yeah, I feel like, it's funny, the company I work at, we're all Star Wars nerds, all Star Wars fans.

742
00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:36,320
Danny:
It feels like a requisite to work there, to be a Star Wars nerd and we have

743
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:37,760
Danny:
definite opinions on this I feel,

744
00:52:38,740 --> 00:52:41,760
Danny:
Movie-wise, they peaked with the original trilogy.

745
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,160
Danny:
I was never a fan of the prequels. I still am not a fan of the prequels,

746
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,060
Danny:
whereas my colleagues are big fans of the prequels.

747
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:52,540
Danny:
And then the new trilogy that came out with The Force Awakens and finished with

748
00:52:52,540 --> 00:52:57,780
Danny:
The Rise of Skywalker, I enjoyed them, but they didn't feel strong.

749
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:04,680
Danny:
They kind of felt like there was just bookending a story, basically, and tying up loose ends.

750
00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:08,160
Danny:
It weren't really there even. I've been more impressed with the TV shows.

751
00:53:08,740 --> 00:53:13,500
Danny:
So first season of Mandalorian and or season one and two, best Star Wars around, period.

752
00:53:14,260 --> 00:53:18,200
Danny:
I loved the Han Solo movie. I'm one of the few that actually really enjoyed that. So I'm more...

753
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:18,960
Rob:
Yes, you are.

754
00:53:21,220 --> 00:53:25,560
Danny:
I'm more of like a fan of the TV stuff. I loved Skeleton Crew.

755
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,820
Danny:
I thought that was so different from Star Wars. Right?

756
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:33,100
Danny:
It was basically the Goonies in space in the Star Wars universe, I feel.

757
00:53:33,260 --> 00:53:36,900
Danny:
And it was amazing. I did not have high hopes for that when I saw the initial

758
00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:40,820
Danny:
trailers and you saw, like, lampposts or streetlights and, you know,

759
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,460
Danny:
suburban houses, essentially, suburban streets.

760
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,960
Danny:
I thought, what is going on here? And I was more pumped for the acolyte.

761
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:51,840
Danny:
But then I watched both shows and I loved, loved, loved Skeleton Crew.

762
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:58,160
Danny:
So, yeah, I would say from a creative point of view, the original trilogy for me is where it peaked.

763
00:53:58,980 --> 00:54:03,580
Danny:
I'm all about the TV shows. I'm not even, this new Mandalorian Grogu movie that's

764
00:54:03,580 --> 00:54:06,240
Danny:
coming out in the summer, I'm not even bothered about that.

765
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,160
Danny:
I'll probably wait until that comes on streaming and see how it goes.

766
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:16,400
Danny:
But yeah, I could speak all day. Maybe we'll get an offshoot show called Five

767
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,020
Danny:
Random Fantasy Crapshoots or whatever.

768
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,880
Danny:
But I could talk all day about Star Wars, mate. So yeah, thank you for that

769
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,540
Danny:
question and making me remind myself of that.

770
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,320
Rob:
Pleasure, man. Pleasure. And great answer too.

771
00:54:27,660 --> 00:54:30,940
Danny:
No, no. And you're welcome. thank you for asking me it hey

772
00:54:30,940 --> 00:54:33,760
Danny:
rob i've had you on five random questions and thank you again

773
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,480
Danny:
for sharing your answers with me for people that want

774
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:41,180
Danny:
to check out your book and dig into the the genre and see why people are loving

775
00:54:41,180 --> 00:54:44,280
Danny:
it so much to find out some of the cool stuff that you're doing in your own

776
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:48,220
Danny:
life or maybe even just to reach out to you and say hey what's a good vegetarian

777
00:54:48,220 --> 00:54:52,540
Danny:
dish to introduce to someone where's the best place to connect and hang out

778
00:54:52,540 --> 00:54:54,500
Danny:
and see what you're up to uh.

779
00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:57,360
Rob:
So um you can get as you mentioned

780
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:03,520
Rob:
in the intro you can get my book on amazon i have um an instagram uh which uh

781
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,560
Rob:
you know supports and promotes the book um that my daughters are actually running

782
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,520
Rob:
for me um gives them something to do because us old guys you know social media

783
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:16,860
Rob:
is a foreign language to us um so it is official underscore voodon caliber

784
00:55:17,820 --> 00:55:22,100
Rob:
and then I also have an email address which is set up in support of the book

785
00:55:22,100 --> 00:55:28,100
Rob:
vc-thenovel at rogers.com so that's everywhere that you can reach me

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Danny:
And I will be sure to leave the links to that in the show notes so whatever

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Danny:
app you're listening on or even if you're listening to this episode on the website

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Danny:
just check the show notes out and that will link through to the book site Instagram

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Danny:
and everything cool that you can do there with Rob so again Rob I appreciate

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Danny:
you appearing today on five random questions.

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Rob:
Cheers man thank you so much for having me it's been great catching up uh it's

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Rob:
been a great experience and it's just been really good seeing you again man happy new year

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Danny:
Ditto mate ditto cheers boss,

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Danny:
Thanks for listening to five random questions. And if this is your first time

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Danny:
here, feel free to hit follow and start anywhere.

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Danny:
If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd love for you to leave a review on the

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Danny:
app you're currently listening on.

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Danny:
Or if you know someone else that would enjoy the show, be sure to send them

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Danny:
this way. It's very much appreciated.

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Danny:
Until the next time, keep asking those questions.