Jon Powell: Riding an Elephant to the Taco Drive-Thru
This week on 5 Random Questions, podcaster and geeky dad Jon Powell tells us about riding his elephant to the taco drive-thru, what devious prank he'd play on his daughter, how to spend a million dollars, and more.
Answering the questions this week: Jonathan Powell
Oh man...uhhh I'm gonna do clift notes because I am awful about writing about me: 1) 10 years as a Silicon Valley Corporate Drone 2) Gave that up to work for a local school district and actually try and impact my community instead of some douchbag CEO's wallet 3) Used to manage a Homeless Shelter and still dream about going back to that 4) Divorced Father of 3 girls 5) Loves Video games and pop culture in most forms even if I don't actually like it 6) My happy place is sitting by the firepit with a book and cooking something on the smoker or grill 7) I have a lot of strong opinions 8) I am incredibly liberal and left leaning 9) I stream on Twitch because I just like sharing things I love with people 10) I am on a podcast with my friends because of the same reason 11) Don't drink 12) Huge advocate of cannabis and responsible rec use of psilocybin I will get you a head shot a bit later because none of mine are actual headshots that I have on hand
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Jon: With a million dollars, I can afford an elephant. Probably see if I can find
Speaker:Jon: a decently affordable warehouse in the industrial district nearby and create
Speaker:Jon: a nice little, you know, decent sized space for the elephant to live.
Speaker:Jon: Almost like a stable. And I guess I would just drive over and hang out with that.
Speaker:Jon: And I'll put a little office in there for myself so that I could do some work
Speaker:Jon: while I hang out with my pet elephant.
Speaker:Danny: Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show of unexpected questions and unfiltered answers.
Speaker:Danny: I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests 5 questions
Speaker:Danny: created by a random question generator.
Speaker:Danny: The guest has no idea what the questions are, and neither do I,
Speaker:Danny: which means this could go either way.
Speaker:Danny: So sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode.
Speaker:Danny: Today's guest is Jon Powell.
Speaker:Danny: Jon is the co-host of the Time Pals podcast, where four geeky dads squander
Speaker:Danny: their midlife crises by diving headfirst into the best, worst,
Speaker:Danny: and weirdest corners of geek culture.
Speaker:Danny: He spent 10 years working as a Silicon Valley corporate drone before he left
Speaker:Danny: to work for a local school district so he could impact his community as opposed to a CEO's wallet.
Speaker:Danny: He loves video games and pop culture in most forms, and his happy place is sitting
Speaker:Danny: by his fire pit with a book and cooking something on a smoker or grill.
Speaker:Danny: So Jon, welcome to 5 Random Questions.
Speaker:Jon: Thank you for having me. I'm very excited.
Speaker:Danny: I'm excited to have you here, Matt. And we were speaking about this in the green
Speaker:Danny: room just before we started recording, but you like to get your cook on with your smoker or grill.
Speaker:Danny: What would be your go-to that you would cook if I was coming over or you got
Speaker:Danny: friends or people that have never been to your place before?
Speaker:Jon: Probably cooking several different chickens.
Speaker:Jon: Chickens um it's one of the things that's kind
Speaker:Jon: of nice about having space on the smoker and with the u.s economy the way it
Speaker:Jon: is for you know beef and other things chicken is still relatively affordable
Speaker:Jon: so you know grabbing four chickens four roll chickens for a reasonable price
Speaker:Jon: and seasoning them up each differently
Speaker:Jon: and having a bit of variety for folks. That's something I, that's kind of a go-to for me.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah. The price is crazy. I know there was like, I'm in Ontario.
Speaker:Danny: So I'm based in Ontario, Canada and there's an Ontario subreddit and it shows
Speaker:Danny: you prices from various stores across the region.
Speaker:Danny: And it's mad like beef at the minute. It's just out of the stratosphere.
Speaker:Danny: So yeah, chicken, great. And it's a good little food as well.
Speaker:Danny: It's easy enough, you know, to make up.
Speaker:Danny: And one thing that I did, I mentioned, I've been listening to catching up on
Speaker:Danny: your podcast. and one of the recent
Speaker:Danny: episodes of Time Pals stated that your favourite TV character sucks.
Speaker:Danny: And the one that stood out for me among many good examples was Scrappy-Doo.
Speaker:Danny: So what is it about this little dog that seems to rile pretty much everybody up?
Speaker:Jon: It's a really good question. You know, the way we usually do the episode formats
Speaker:Jon: is me and my co-hosts will each grab, you know, three, four,
Speaker:Jon: five, depending on what we're going for for length or...
Speaker:Jon: If one of us can't make it. So then we're down a co-host.
Speaker:Jon: And that was, that was my co-host, uh, Doms.
Speaker:Jon: And I almost don't have an answer, at least an answer that is logical for it.
Speaker:Jon: It's just kind of like, uh, the character has always annoyed me.
Speaker:Jon: It's kind of like they force-fed this nepotistic nephew character into your face in Scooby-Doo.
Speaker:Jon: We had a great crew of them, you know, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker:Jon: here's an extra character.
Speaker:Jon: It didn't seem like it was there for, I mean, we already had comic relief.
Speaker:Jon: That was kind of the entire show, really. And there was some,
Speaker:Jon: you know, oh, we seriously need to figure out who the bad guy is.
Speaker:Jon: Is it old Mr. Johnson, the farmer? Is it, you know?
Speaker:Jon: I don't think he, I don't think Scrappy Doe lended anything to the series.
Speaker:Jon: And I, I feel like a lot of people felt that way, including...
Speaker:Jon: You know, current and future writers. Because another thing that my co-host
Speaker:Jon: brought up was that in the newer series that HBO made, Velma,
Speaker:Jon: in that television show,
Speaker:Jon: Scrappy-Doo was the bad guy and was just a being of pure evil.
Speaker:Jon: And I think people took that annoying character and said, he is so annoying
Speaker:Jon: what if we just make him a complete bad guy for it yeah i wish i wish i had
Speaker:Jon: some sort of justification almost but i don't really
Speaker:Danny: No i think you you you covered it well then like you say i mean i'm i'm from
Speaker:Danny: the og scooby-doo series back in the 70s basically i'm watching in the uk uh
Speaker:Danny: and and for me i i think he reminds me i'm a big star wars fan he reminds me
Speaker:Danny: of the Jar Jar character.
Speaker:Danny: You know, you had your established characters and maybe he was put in there
Speaker:Danny: for comic relief and, you know, merchandise or whatever.
Speaker:Danny: So I don't know, maybe that's it. But yeah, Scrappy-Doo is just one of these
Speaker:Danny: characters that seems to, there's very few people I know that actually like
Speaker:Danny: that character you know, or tolerate him anyway.
Speaker:Jon: Yeah, I don't think of anybody, I mean, I've seen plenty of people with Scooby-Doo
Speaker:Jon: tattoos and things like that.
Speaker:Jon: I don't think I've ever seen anybody with a Scrappy-Doo tattoo.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, exactly. Or it's like colored out, scrapped over or whatever.
Speaker:Danny: But yeah, no, I like that. And as I mentioned, and obviously I'll be leaving
Speaker:Danny: the links to your podcast in the show notes, but that's a fun episode to listen
Speaker:Danny: to if it's one of your first, you know, you catch up on the episode.
Speaker:Danny: But speaking of episodes, it's your time to jump into the 5 Random Questions hot seat.
Speaker:Danny: So if you're ready, Jon, I will bring up the question generator and we'll see where we go.
Speaker:Jon: By all means, sir.
Speaker:Danny: Okay, let's have a look. Question number one, kind of a superpower,
Speaker:Danny: maybe, I'm not sure. Question number one, Jon, if you're invisible for a day, what would you do?
Speaker:Jon: Oh, that is a, oh, nothing nefarious.
Speaker:Jon: I'll start off by saying that nothing, nothing evil, but, um,
Speaker:Jon: I mean, there would be, no, chaos is too strong of a word.
Speaker:Jon: I'm a big practical joker. At least I used to be. I found that now as a father,
Speaker:Jon: I'm surrounded by people who don't like that.
Speaker:Jon: So finding a way to pull off some overall innocent practical jokes on people
Speaker:Jon: for the day and at least making myself laugh,
Speaker:Jon: readjusting things on their desk if they leave for the bathroom or something
Speaker:Jon: innocuous, turn off the microwave when they're heating up their food and they come back.
Speaker:Jon: I swear I'd hit start on the microwave.
Speaker:Jon: I almost miss being able to pull small little pranks on people and the ability
Speaker:Jon: to get away with that relatively scot-free for 24 hours would be fantastic
Speaker:Danny: Well you mentioned there because obviously you've got kids now you
Speaker:Danny: have three kids um uh so maybe some
Speaker:Danny: of your practical jokes that you would have done previously are less you know
Speaker:Danny: to do now but maybe going back before credits then would you would you have
Speaker:Danny: done something more nefarious would you have just like done something not to
Speaker:Danny: hurt people obviously but you know would there be stuff that you would have
Speaker:Danny: done differently then as opposed to now Oh.
Speaker:Jon: Absolutely. As a suburban youth who idolized jackass?
Speaker:Jon: I mean, the amount of absolute stupidity,
Speaker:Jon: you know, I would have happily snuck into my friend's house and then when they
Speaker:Jon: were in the shower just gave them a swift tap right in the balls and then walked away.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, just something completely asshole-ish, you know, just snuck in,
Speaker:Jon: popped a couple of firecrackers on the floor while they were asleep and then left.
Speaker:Jon: Really, yeah, it's stuff like that. Again, nothing that was,
Speaker:Jon: I would say, truly dangerous.
Speaker:Jon: I always at least had somewhat of a mind for the safety of others,
Speaker:Jon: safety for myself a little bit less so, as I think a lot of us were prone to in our youth.
Speaker:Jon: Yeah I think it would just nothing extreme but again a little bit more fun a
Speaker:Jon: little bit more youthful exuberance for it and yeah yeah.
Speaker:Danny: Well it's funny you mention Jackass I love that show and again I've been in
Speaker:Danny: Canada 20 years now so my time watching Jackass was primarily in the UK before
Speaker:Danny: I moved over and then watched them over here you know once I moved over but
Speaker:Danny: they always use them I always see these little memes online where,
Speaker:Danny: it's basically a simple statement it's like this is why women live longer and
Speaker:Danny: then you see the jackass guys doing stupid shit right, it's just this is why
Speaker:Danny: we die, why we get hurt, why we get injured but I do appreciate that you still want to keep it,
Speaker:Danny: respectful to others as well right, so you don't want to because there's so
Speaker:Danny: much you could do from a bad point of view if you're invisible you had no morals,
Speaker:Danny: didn't give a crap, there's so much you could do so it's nice to hear that you still keep it within,
Speaker:Danny: the boundaries And I guess because you've got three kids, is there one thing
Speaker:Danny: that you know would not set your kid off in a bad way, but you know that would
Speaker:Danny: be like the best thing to do to them because you were invisible?
Speaker:Jon: So my oldest plays violin in orchestra and several mariachi groups.
Speaker:Jon: I would absolutely detune her instruments when she wasn't looking.
Speaker:Jon: Just not a ton, enough to wear just a couple twists back in,
Speaker:Jon: you know, but enough to make her sit there and wonder, like, didn't I prepare?
Speaker:Jon: I swear I just did, you know, I did my waxing, I did my this,
Speaker:Jon: I did it on it, and I made sure it was in tune.
Speaker:Jon: But doing something like that and doing it, I almost want to say repeatedly
Speaker:Jon: through the course of the day.
Speaker:Jon: Towards you like no i know i just did it now something's going on that's probably
Speaker:Jon: yeah that would probably drive her nuts and i would i would enjoy doing that
Speaker:Danny: And then pay the price afterwards exactly.
Speaker:Jon: As proud as i am i have to it was like one of my proudest parenting moments
Speaker:Jon: that she got first violin at university orchestra and all of that stuff i would
Speaker:Jon: still absolutely love to screw with her on that
Speaker:Danny: You love it i i love when like parents you
Speaker:Danny: can always tell a parent um because to know the kids well i i
Speaker:Danny: love it that you do something that would be fun but still really mess
Speaker:Danny: up you know because it's it's something that she knows that she did like you
Speaker:Danny: mentioned the microwave earlier right you you know you put the stuff in the
Speaker:Danny: microwave and it's not cooking what happened there yeah yeah i enjoyed that
Speaker:Danny: one it's a good one it's a nice easy one i feel nice nice good one to to kick
Speaker:Danny: things off with so let's have a look then at question number two,
Speaker:Danny: Okay, question two, Jon. If you were asked to teach a class,
Speaker:Danny: what class would you teach?
Speaker:Jon: So I have always wanted to, and just the way my life kind of flowed,
Speaker:Jon: I've always wanted to be a history teacher.
Speaker:Jon: I found that history is one of the things that is incredibly lacking in the
Speaker:Jon: American education system.
Speaker:Jon: And I had an amazing, amazing history teacher when I was in eighth grade.
Speaker:Jon: And one of the things that was so great about it is he definitely went off book,
Speaker:Jon: but also he would do certain things to make it a little bit more interactive.
Speaker:Jon: So when we were learning about the Revolutionary War,
Speaker:Jon: you know, it's all well and good to say like, oh, okay, so you have your first
Speaker:Jon: line of people kneeling, they load their musket, okay, they fire and the people
Speaker:Jon: behind them fire, then they fall back and then, great.
Speaker:Jon: I've brought in a 30-pound sack of flour and several boxes of tissues.
Speaker:Jon: We're going to make flour bombs. Half of you are going to go on this side of
Speaker:Jon: the field. Half of you are going to go on this side of the field.
Speaker:Jon: And we are going to recreate a musket fight with flour bombs.
Speaker:Jon: And so I'm sure to the rest of the school, if people are walking by looking,
Speaker:Jon: seeing just a bunch of kids kneeling, throwing firebombs at each other and then
Speaker:Jon: falling back in line. And then the next line.
Speaker:Jon: And it was, it was a lot of interactive stuff like that, that really took something
Speaker:Jon: that would just be, I don't want to say mundane, but the method of teaching it.
Speaker:Jon: And that's probably just because I'm not really a sit in a classroom and learn
Speaker:Jon: type and just listen to somebody, just drone on and on.
Speaker:Jon: But that coupled with his knowledge of kind of deeper history of things like
Speaker:Jon: the civil rights movement and even kind of like the American Wild West and going into...
Speaker:Jon: More than just what the books went into was it
Speaker:Jon: was really it made it so much more interesting so much more
Speaker:Jon: fun it was one of the classes I was an awful student you
Speaker:Jon: know I barely graduated middle school
Speaker:Jon: by the skin of my ass but history
Speaker:Jon: class was the class that I actually was interested in and got a decent grade
Speaker:Jon: in because of that teaching style and so that's that's one of the things that
Speaker:Jon: i thought would be or i have felt would be an absolute wonderful career for me
Speaker:Jon: were i able to sit through classes to get my teaching credentials and become a teacher
Speaker:Danny: Yeah because it's like it's a long it's a long thing to do as well right it's
Speaker:Danny: like one of these professions you have to go for so such amount of time to actually
Speaker:Danny: get your your qualification uh i'm with i loved history school history english
Speaker:Danny: and art that was my three that i loved,
Speaker:Danny: But it's interesting you mention, and I've had a conversation about this with
Speaker:Danny: TK Dutas on, I think it was the first episode of the last season,
Speaker:Danny: or it might have been the second of the last season, and that came up about
Speaker:Danny: education and whether it was down to stereotypical,
Speaker:Danny: what's often stereotypical of views of, say, Americans that they don't travel
Speaker:Danny: much compared to, say, Europeans or Asians, et cetera. I'm not sure if that's the case or not.
Speaker:Danny: But I wonder when you mention about the education system in the US,
Speaker:Danny: Is it that the education system teaches more about American history as opposed
Speaker:Danny: to other external history? Or what would you say?
Speaker:Danny: It's something like that's a European looking in on the U.S. system.
Speaker:Jon: I feel that it's definitely a focus on American history, of course,
Speaker:Jon: because we want you to learn about the country you're living in and how it was started.
Speaker:Jon: And all of the, frankly, the lunacy that came with that, because that was not
Speaker:Jon: a smooth, that was not a smooth thing.
Speaker:Jon: But all of it, be it US history, be it world history.
Speaker:Jon: Seems to be so tightly focused through like a, a, a filtered lens.
Speaker:Jon: Like I, you know, it's, it's the way it's, it's the same idea of mostly in other countries.
Speaker:Jon: I hear this now, all of your news is filtered. All of your news is controlled.
Speaker:Jon: All of the things that you're learning are controlled.
Speaker:Jon: That's whatever they want to put in the books that are being sold to you.
Speaker:Jon: And I feel like it, especially when it comes to the natives and people of color's
Speaker:Jon: experience in the United States, it's extremely filtered.
Speaker:Jon: You know, I don't think, I think when I grew up the most, I think the most important
Speaker:Jon: black man I learned about, I want to say, was George Washington Carver.
Speaker:Jon: And that's because he created peanut butter and everyone's like,
Speaker:Jon: Oh, peanut butter. We all love peanut butter. We're kids.
Speaker:Jon: And I mean, I think everybody knows that there's thousands and thousands of
Speaker:Jon: other incredible people who, who are responsible for,
Speaker:Jon: for not just political changes, but scientific agricultural and it's just like,
Speaker:Jon: well, why are we focused on just these things?
Speaker:Jon: And it's, it's, it's the same thing, especially, I feel like there's a huge
Speaker:Jon: gap on European and history.
Speaker:Jon: What did we learn? We learned about the Romans. We learned about,
Speaker:Jon: and even that was much we learned about, you know, Greece and,
Speaker:Jon: and, and kind of that historical period.
Speaker:Jon: And then kind of nothing from there, it would seem like, you know,
Speaker:Jon: then it just, just jumps ahead.
Speaker:Jon: It's like, Oh yeah, there was all this bit. There was, there,
Speaker:Jon: there was Romans, there was Greece and then some, some stuff happened.
Speaker:Jon: And then this guy, Winston Churchill came around and this Hitler dude what happened
Speaker:Jon: in the middle you know it's it's yeah I do understand that it's
Speaker:Jon: I mean, there's obviously a ton of material to cover, so you have to be somewhat
Speaker:Jon: selective, but I feel like a restructuring is in order.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, there's nothing that says you can't start teaching kids about the world
Speaker:Jon: in elementary school and primary school, you know, more than just like,
Speaker:Jon: oh, Big Ben, oh, the Eiffel Tower, these are so cool.
Speaker:Jon: And then that's it because it's in a picture book for kids. It's really interesting
Speaker:Jon: because even now I'm watching my younger two are 12 and 9.
Speaker:Jon: So they're going through very different educational phases.
Speaker:Jon: And looking at how my 12-year-old went through the end of her elementary school,
Speaker:Jon: I'm realizing that it did not do a good job of preparing her for that next stage.
Speaker:Jon: And then looking at what she's learning in this middle school,
Speaker:Jon: I do not think that it is properly preparing her for high school.
Speaker:Jon: Both from kind of like a workload perspective, as well as just like the breadth
Speaker:Jon: of education of love that like the topics she's learning.
Speaker:Jon: So, I mean, saying you should restructure the entire U.S.
Speaker:Jon: Education system is probably a big, big, big ask.
Speaker:Jon: So I'm not sure what I would really do with that. But, yeah,
Speaker:Jon: it's it's it's interesting because I feel like it's changed even a significant
Speaker:Jon: amount since since I was in school. And that's, you know, that's been a couple of decades.
Speaker:Jon: I don't know. I don't know if it's like an overall, I don't know.
Speaker:Jon: Sometimes it's, sometimes I feel like I let internet and news propaganda get the better of me.
Speaker:Jon: And I think things to myself like, oh, they are purposely trying to dumb us down.
Speaker:Jon: They are lessening education so that they can.
Speaker:Jon: And then I'm like, okay, well, let's, let's, let's not get sucked down a rabbit
Speaker:Jon: hole and then spend, you know, 12 hours on Reddit reading conspiracy theories.
Speaker:Jon: And I have to kind of pull myself out of that.
Speaker:Danny: No, and especially Reddit can be a crazy place, as we both know.
Speaker:Danny: It's interesting you mentioned about the learning about other countries or other
Speaker:Danny: continent's histories.
Speaker:Danny: I know, like, here in Canada, there was a big reckoning,
Speaker:Danny: I'm going to say about four or five years ago, but maybe a little bit less,
Speaker:Danny: but certainly in that timeframe,
Speaker:Danny: about how the Indigenous people and the First Nations of Canada were treated
Speaker:Danny: and how kids were pulled from their families and put into these,
Speaker:Danny: reformation schools that were led by the church, etc.
Speaker:Danny: And not a lot of Canadians knew
Speaker:Danny: the full horror, and I certainly didn't as someone coming into Canada.
Speaker:Danny: I've been here 20 years, but what I've found interesting following that,
Speaker:Danny: so there's been a big conversation about reparation to First Nations people,
Speaker:Danny: but in the school, so my daughter's elementary school, she's in grade eight
Speaker:Danny: now, she'll be starting high school next year.
Speaker:Danny: And obviously they're teaching the kids about that and having conversations
Speaker:Danny: about that. But they're expanding it and using examples of other countries.
Speaker:Danny: So the Australians and how they are racist towards the Aborigine people.
Speaker:Danny: The British and how they were horrible to the Indians that they colonised in
Speaker:Danny: the last century, for example.
Speaker:Danny: So it's interesting, I feel, sometimes it might take a bad thing to happen to
Speaker:Danny: learn, you know, more about your country and how its place in the world as well, you know.
Speaker:Danny: And yeah, it was always true because when I think of the US education,
Speaker:Danny: I think of Jon Hughes movies from the 80s, right?
Speaker:Danny: That's my take on the US education system.
Speaker:Danny: And I know that's a very, you know, glamorized, ideal world kind of thing, you know.
Speaker:Danny: So yeah, but it's always interesting. I always like hearing about other countries and what they do.
Speaker:Danny: But yeah, that was like, I think, yeah, an overhaul in an education system,
Speaker:Danny: it's one of these things that, you know, it's probably above our pay grade, mate.
Speaker:Danny: Be nice, you know, be nice. But speaking of education, it's time to be educated
Speaker:Danny: on your answer for question three.
Speaker:Danny: And that was a really bad segue. I'll have to work on these.
Speaker:Danny: Terrible, terrible pun there.
Speaker:Danny: Question three, and it's a music one. I always love when a music one comes up.
Speaker:Danny: Question three, Jon, what is your favourite song of all time?
Speaker:Jon: Oh, my. Oh, my.
Speaker:Jon: I feel like I could almost tell you which of my children is my favorite easier than that. Jeez.
Speaker:Jon: I feel like that's, that's, I'll have to go with just one that I know I will
Speaker:Jon: always and forever enjoy because I think picking a favorite is akin to a true
Speaker:Jon: favorite is akin to dividing by zero, you know?
Speaker:Jon: So I think that one, one song that I will, I will never dislike.
Speaker:Jon: And I've probably answered it in the past when I, when I just kind of turned
Speaker:Jon: my brain off and answered questions, similar to this would be,
Speaker:Jon: um, don't stop me now by queen.
Speaker:Jon: The, the overall pacing and composition of that song, I almost always have to
Speaker:Jon: stop what I'm doing unless it's something where,
Speaker:Jon: you know, I'm on the road and if I stopped what I was doing would be very bad to sing or enjoy it.
Speaker:Jon: I, I, I, I can't even really tell you specifically.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, I know I think everybody is just like when you hear Freddie Mercury's
Speaker:Jon: voice, it's hard to it's hard to ignore it.
Speaker:Jon: It's hard to not just be drawn to whatever song is playing.
Speaker:Jon: But there's something about that one that just gets me every time and it puts me in a better mood.
Speaker:Jon: It makes it I mean, it makes whatever I'm doing kind of better.
Speaker:Jon: You know, a bit of a pep in your step, as it were, just, yeah.
Speaker:Danny: It can be hard because obviously as you get older in life and your music tastes change as well.
Speaker:Danny: My music taste as a teen is far different than my music taste as a man in my 50s.
Speaker:Danny: And there's all these songs in between. So I completely get you on that.
Speaker:Danny: And in that song, was that when Queen sort of moved or they were starting to
Speaker:Danny: move more from their rock that they got known for to start with?
Speaker:Danny: More into like a sort of disco pop vibe at the time?
Speaker:Jon: It definitely comes off as one of their more poppy songs, yeah.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, I was like you say, like Fred and Mercury, did you watch the Queen movie
Speaker:Danny: that came out, the biopic?
Speaker:Danny: I think it was Bohemian Rhapsody, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A couple years back.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker:Danny: I know there's been some back and forth, how factual some of that was,
Speaker:Danny: but I thought all the actors nailed their roles brilliantly.
Speaker:Danny: Oh, yeah, the cast was amazing. Yeah, so, so good.
Speaker:Danny: And it was just interesting to see the story like how they met and how he became
Speaker:Danny: their singer and some of the stuff that happened like I said,
Speaker:Danny: I don't know how much of it was or how much of it was glamorised for Hollywood
Speaker:Danny: but I did, I actually was at the Live Aid concert,
Speaker:Danny: in 1985 at Wembley and I was sort of,
Speaker:Danny: so if you're watching the movie you'll see obviously the crowd is massive and
Speaker:Danny: in sort of the centre of the crowd maybe about 100 rows from the stage you've
Speaker:Danny: got the big sound stage area where the engineers are and everybody so I was
Speaker:Danny: to the right of that stage a little bit in front of it so I know exactly where
Speaker:Danny: I was when I'm watching that movie,
Speaker:Danny: I was so impressed at how much they pulled that 20-minute concert scene off. It was incredible.
Speaker:Danny: It just took me back in a heartbeat to that moment in July in the UK.
Speaker:Jon: I bet. That's one of those things where when I hear people who had the ability,
Speaker:Jon: or had the ability, had the, I don't know,
Speaker:Jon: the luck, the the the fortune of being alive
Speaker:Jon: when queen was at
Speaker:Jon: the height of their their fame and being able to not only see them just in you
Speaker:Jon: know a regular arena or or a decent sized concert hall but but i mean to see
Speaker:Jon: the show that you saw i'm i'm blown away because that's something that that
Speaker:Jon: I would kill to see Queen live with Freddie Mercury.
Speaker:Jon: It's the same thing with, I mean, I'm sure we all feel that way about a lot
Speaker:Jon: of musicians who, over the years, we've, oh, you know what, I can't get off work for this.
Speaker:Jon: Or, oh, it's too far away, I wouldn't make it in time.
Speaker:Jon: And then that happens for sure. And unfortunately, then somebody passes away.
Speaker:Jon: I never got a chance to see Ozzy Osbourne. I never got a chance to see Ronnie James Dio.
Speaker:Jon: I'm finally going to go see Rush for the first time this October.
Speaker:Jon: And that's a close second to Don't Stop Me Now, which is 2112 in the Temples of Syrinx by Rush.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, it's able to reach out and touch the one leading the pack there.
Speaker:Jon: But the fact that Neil Purtis passed away, it's like, I wish I would have done
Speaker:Jon: this years ago, but I still am going to love seeing Rush in concert.
Speaker:Jon: And I knew as soon as I saw that the tickets were up, I'm like,
Speaker:Jon: this is my last opportunity for that.
Speaker:Danny: And the drummer they've got in, she's amazing. Yeah. She is really, really good.
Speaker:Jon: Yeah i went i was i was curious about i'm like oh
Speaker:Jon: who is drumming for them now and i saw some clips i saw
Speaker:Jon: some some some clips from the actual shows and
Speaker:Jon: then just clips of her and i was like holy shit she
Speaker:Jon: is amazing this is oh it's good it's i
Speaker:Jon: i don't need to worry about that i'm just going to go and enjoy this
Speaker:Jon: concert and i'm taking my girlfriend who's never listened to rush before oh
Speaker:Jon: wow yeah and so i think it's a bathtub some before i exactly i was like this
Speaker:Jon: is something I've been waiting for for years and years and this is going to
Speaker:Jon: be your first experience of it I'm going to enjoy that
Speaker:Danny: That's amazing no i i think yeah i think it'll
Speaker:Danny: be a blast it'll be amazing because obviously you've got the two
Speaker:Danny: front guys and the drummers are excellent so it'd be excellent i know
Speaker:Danny: my first concert was a meatloaf funnily enough back in 85
Speaker:Danny: which i i feel is a nice one is your first concert as a teen like going to a
Speaker:Danny: meatloaf concert when he was at his peak yeah like his stage theatrics were
Speaker:Danny: amazing um so yeah i i'm i always speak to my wife my wife's a little bit younger
Speaker:Danny: than me and she's always called me old man you know because he's something about
Speaker:Danny: what we're older But I'll say, yeah,
Speaker:Danny: but I went to these concerts that you'll never see, unfortunately.
Speaker:Danny: So it's just like the Foo Fighters when Taylor died.
Speaker:Danny: And the Foo's are still gone, obviously still as great as ever,
Speaker:Danny: but it just doesn't feel quite the same, right? There's just that little thing
Speaker:Danny: because you know Taylor's not behind the sticks.
Speaker:Danny: But yeah, it's just one of these things. That's one of the things you're getting
Speaker:Danny: older. People you admire, love, they start to go, they start to pass, right?
Speaker:Jon: Yeah.
Speaker:Danny: Well, let me know how the Rush concert goes because I love the live music.
Speaker:Danny: And I love rock music so let me know how that goes because I think it was probably
Speaker:Danny: in Canada as well at that time.
Speaker:Jon: I would hope so. I'm actually curious because I remember reading some years
Speaker:Jon: back about Rush that there was actually somewhere in Canada RushCon which was
Speaker:Jon: a convention dedicated entirely to Rush and I'm not sure if that,
Speaker:Jon: I haven't checked to see if that's still going on but it was a very interesting
Speaker:Jon: concept to me to have a convention of any size around a specific band like that. And it just really
Speaker:Jon: kind of points to the popularity of them you know that especially the home field popularity of rush
Speaker:Jon: so i would hope because yeah it's the 50th anniversary tour so so i'm expecting
Speaker:Jon: it to be big and i would really hope they did some some amazing shows uh up north
Speaker:Danny: Yeah i'll look at once we finish recording actually i'm going to check that
Speaker:Danny: out i didn't know there were touring this year but yeah i will definitely check
Speaker:Danny: that out i'll go myself i don't care that'll be that'll see me but i like that
Speaker:Danny: so like i say i always like it when uh a music question comes up,
Speaker:Danny: So on that note, then, let's have a look at question number four.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, OK. I'm not sure that a million is a big enough number these days.
Speaker:Danny: So anyway, I'm rambling there.
Speaker:Danny: Jon, question number four. If you won $1 million playing the lottery, what would you do?
Speaker:Jon: So interestingly enough, another question similar to this came up on Reddit
Speaker:Jon: the other day for a significantly higher amount.
Speaker:Jon: And then I was going through the math of certain things, age versus retirement
Speaker:Jon: versus my current salary and things like that.
Speaker:Jon: And I had settled on $1 million would be the right amount for me to place in
Speaker:Jon: my – it's a very boring answer.
Speaker:Jon: It's a very boring answer to put into my bank account and pull out just $2,000
Speaker:Jon: a month to supplement my income and effectively put me into net positive each month.
Speaker:Jon: So I didn't have to do any sort of side gigs or I have a pretty sizable comic book collection.
Speaker:Jon: And so now that I've gotten older, I've realized these are just sitting in boxes.
Speaker:Jon: They do me no good. it. It brings me, there's, brings me no joy and I don't interact with them.
Speaker:Jon: Um, so I'll sell them. So, so a little bit less pressure to sell those, you know,
Speaker:Jon: it's, it's like I said, and, and, and you said in my intro, you know,
Speaker:Jon: I, I work for a local, I work for a school district and, and I,
Speaker:Jon: I think, I think school district employees from the teachers,
Speaker:Jon: maybe not the top, top folks.
Speaker:Jon: I've seen those salaries. They're doing okay.
Speaker:Jon: But the rest of us, especially in an incredibly expensive place like the San
Speaker:Jon: Francisco Bay Area where I'm from, the salary doesn't... It does most of your bills.
Speaker:Jon: So I was looking at them like, what would it take me to be
Speaker:Jon: You know, just comfortable, have a bit of money to, to, you know,
Speaker:Jon: do something fun or go on a small holiday without, you know,
Speaker:Jon: having to save up, save up. I could just pull a little bit of money out.
Speaker:Jon: The interest on it would be nice year over year as well. Make a little bit off of that.
Speaker:Jon: But yeah, it's, it's a, it is a relatively boring answer because 1 million would
Speaker:Jon: be kind of, kind of the perfect amount and i i did that math against you know
Speaker:Jon: the next 40 years for myself
Speaker:Danny: Well that's and that's why i said like i'm not sure if a
Speaker:Danny: million is a good amount anymore i mean
Speaker:Danny: if i've been speaking you know speaking about this maybe five years ago
Speaker:Danny: um you know like you say put it in the bank get a
Speaker:Danny: nice interest account for it's actually the interest is paying your your wage
Speaker:Danny: essentially if you wanted it to be like you said you you'd use it to top up
Speaker:Danny: your income which is nice because you work for a local school district so you
Speaker:Danny: continue to do that because i know sometimes people wouldn't win a decent chunk
Speaker:Danny: on a lot or they say okay that's it i hate my job i'm out here get out here
Speaker:Danny: but you obviously you love what you do i.
Speaker:Jon: Do i do and and and you know it was it was very much i enjoyed making silicon
Speaker:Jon: valley money i don't think anybody wouldn't they they don't have a concept of
Speaker:Jon: work-life balance there so everybody i'll say the blank the blanket of my age, quote unquote,
Speaker:Jon: I will say anybody 35 and up, you know, because there's always going to be some
Speaker:Jon: 24 year old from, you know,
Speaker:Jon: Idaho, who's like, I'm going to go, you know, become a software developer.
Speaker:Jon: I'm going to go work in Silicon Valley, who is happy to take a little bit less
Speaker:Jon: money in exchange for a cool title to put on LinkedIn and work 12 hour days.
Speaker:Jon: And there's, there's no competing with that when you have common sense of wanting
Speaker:Jon: to have a family and work-life balance. It just, it just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker:Jon: So when I got caught up in, I don't know if you remember, I don't know how,
Speaker:Jon: I think this is one of those things I have kind of the tunnel vision on.
Speaker:Jon: I don't really know how it impacts as far as other countries go,
Speaker:Jon: or even a lot of the U S but, uh, when there was that, I think it was 2023,
Speaker:Jon: Maybe the end of 22 mass, mass technology layoffs. I mean, almost,
Speaker:Jon: I think a million people.
Speaker:Jon: I was one, I was one of those.
Speaker:Jon: And so, you know, I started applying for jobs and
Speaker:Jon: And I'm looking and I'm like, oh, this is, you know, I know people are looking for jobs right now.
Speaker:Jon: I know there's a lot of people out, but jobs that I would apply for that three
Speaker:Jon: months prior would have only had 20 to 40 candidates now had 800 to a thousand candidates.
Speaker:Jon: And, you know, I wanted to make sure I was doing the best that I could on applying for a job.
Speaker:Jon: So I paid for the premium version of LinkedIn. So I could see analytics on it.
Speaker:Jon: Okay. There's a thousand people, 50 of them have master's degrees.
Speaker:Jon: Holy shit. I didn't even graduate college, you know?
Speaker:Jon: Oh, another 80 of them have five or more years on top of mine of experience too.
Speaker:Jon: And so I was like, this is like, you know, it's trying to beat a brick wall
Speaker:Jon: down with my face, you know, at this point.
Speaker:Jon: So I just kind of made a decision that I was going to take the opportunity to
Speaker:Jon: pivot and finally get out of that, that I feel like it really was a soulless Silicon Valley grind.
Speaker:Jon: You are, you're just part of a machine that pads a CEO's bank account.
Speaker:Jon: And frankly, 90% of the software that gets created in Silicon Valley is solving
Speaker:Jon: a problem that the people who created the software themselves thought up you know
Speaker:Jon: And there's so many people that are there. I'm not going to turn this into a
Speaker:Jon: rant about Silicon Valley, actually. Let me stop myself there.
Speaker:Jon: I know where I'm going on this.
Speaker:Jon: I'll spend the next 30 minutes shit-talking Silicon Valley.
Speaker:Danny: It's funny you mention that, though,
Speaker:Danny: because back, I used to work for a marketing agency a few years back.
Speaker:Danny: And one of our clients, this was around a time when influence marketing was a big thing.
Speaker:Danny: And you had, like, social platforms like Cloud, Cred, Tracker,
Speaker:Danny: all that kind of stuff coming out of the woodwork.
Speaker:Danny: And one of our clients was one of these platforms and the main guy,
Speaker:Danny: I wasn't CEO, but one of the main execs or whatever would email you at one in
Speaker:Danny: the morning and four in the morning, 10 in the morning, seven at night,
Speaker:Danny: emails all over the place.
Speaker:Danny: You're thinking, do you ever sleep? When? When do you sleep?
Speaker:Danny: And it got to the stage where my boss just cut the client basically because
Speaker:Danny: he was being ridiculous, you know.
Speaker:Danny: And like you say to your point about work life, I think as you get older as
Speaker:Danny: well, you appreciate it.
Speaker:Danny: Certainly when family comes along, I used to commute two hours each way every
Speaker:Danny: day for the first three years of my kid's life.
Speaker:Danny: So I missed a lot of big moments and it sucked the life out of me.
Speaker:Danny: And when I quit, it was the biggest, it was like a massive weight was lifted
Speaker:Danny: off me. I'm sure you were the same, even though you got let go, it wasn't ideal.
Speaker:Danny: But I'm sure looking back now, that was a good thing that happened to you.
Speaker:Jon: Absolutely. Absolutely. And it was just like you said, a weight.
Speaker:Jon: That decision to say, you know what, no, I'm not going to keep applying and
Speaker:Jon: applying and applying to go back to...
Speaker:Jon: Some company where I feel the same way. I feel just, you know,
Speaker:Jon: one of the many nameless people working there, that was so incredibly freeing.
Speaker:Jon: And I know that at my job now, you know, it's, it's a big school district.
Speaker:Jon: There's, you know, several thousand employees. I'm very sure that
Speaker:Jon: all except for, I don't know, maybe 40 people there know who I am because of
Speaker:Jon: just the way it's structured because I work specifically in purchasing.
Speaker:Jon: So the way the approval flow is structured and how it goes from the teacher
Speaker:Jon: to the school administrator, to this, to that, to me, most people don't interact with me.
Speaker:Jon: It gets funneled very tightly because otherwise I would just have people just
Speaker:Jon: fucking coming at it, coming every direction at me.
Speaker:Jon: But it's okay because I get to look at these things and like I said a big a
Speaker:Jon: big driver for me was looking at at the way the world is
Speaker:Jon: And realizing that there's a certain amount of effort that I feel people haven't
Speaker:Jon: been making in their communities, which is focusing on your local community.
Speaker:Jon: And for me, that's not necessarily just the city I live in.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, I'm sure you know that the Bay areas are very densely populated,
Speaker:Jon: you know, and just city, next to city, next to city, next to city,
Speaker:Jon: just all crammed together.
Speaker:Jon: But being able to review these contracts, vet the people that are coming into
Speaker:Jon: the schools, ensure that we're spending our money as best we can to make sure
Speaker:Jon: it's benefiting the kids as much as possible.
Speaker:Jon: Even though I have to be a bad guy a lot, I do a lot of saying no.
Speaker:Jon: There's a lot of things that get delayed up to the wire because I'm telling
Speaker:Jon: people like, no, we need to do this.
Speaker:Jon: We need to do that. No, your person cannot start without a valid contract.
Speaker:Jon: It's a lot of tedious work, but it's rewarding because when I talk to school
Speaker:Jon: administrators who put these requests in and they're telling me,
Speaker:Jon: you know, I'll see a really cool performance coming to the school.
Speaker:Jon: And I asked, well, how did it go? This looked amazing.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, just the other day we had, we approved a couple of contractors to come
Speaker:Jon: and help the kids at the school right next door
Speaker:Jon: build a garden so that they could learn about gardening and growing vegetables
Speaker:Jon: and herbs and things like that.
Speaker:Jon: It's right out my window. So I can open my window,
Speaker:Jon: hear all of the kids laughing and playing and on a, on a particularly quiet
Speaker:Jon: day, I can even hear the lecture that they're getting about the garden and things
Speaker:Jon: like that. And it's just like,
Speaker:Jon: There's nothing better. There's nothing better than hearing all the kids being
Speaker:Jon: happy and enjoying themselves, knowing that even though it's this much,
Speaker:Jon: it's 1% of it, I somehow helped with that.
Speaker:Jon: I mean, I know our teachers are the forefront of that. The teachers are giving them these words.
Speaker:Jon: But the fact that I can benefit them, it's breathed life back into me.
Speaker:Danny: And I think that's it. I mean, the sound of a kid's laughter,
Speaker:Danny: it's like the most, or one of the most choice things you can hear, I feel.
Speaker:Danny: You know, because you know it's natural, it's not tainted by any,
Speaker:Danny: you know, adult mindsets that you might grow into in here down the line.
Speaker:Danny: So yeah, and yeah, I'm always a huge supporter.
Speaker:Danny: Kudos to anybody in the schooling system that helps that. So even though you
Speaker:Danny: say you're like a small part of it, it's a pretty big part when you think of,
Speaker:Danny: you know, what it's doing.
Speaker:Danny: And like it's, you said about, He's going to be a bad guy sometimes.
Speaker:Danny: It kind of reminds me of the Wreck-It Ralph movie where they're doing their therapy group.
Speaker:Danny: And I think it's Zangief, the Street Fighter guy, that says,
Speaker:Danny: just because I'm a bad guy, does it mean I'm bad guy? Or the way he words it or whatever.
Speaker:Danny: So I thought that just reminded me of that anyway, just like a little tangent for that.
Speaker:Jon: A hundred percent, a quote I go back to very regularly. It is a good one.
Speaker:Jon: I'm happy you pulled that one out.
Speaker:Danny: Kindred spirits, mate. Kindred spirits. Speaking of kindred spirits,
Speaker:Danny: We're both, well, I say we're both arriving, you're arriving at question number five.
Speaker:Danny: So let's, I'm going to go with this one, actually. This has been on before,
Speaker:Danny: but it's a very, very early episode. I think probably even season one,
Speaker:Danny: midway through or something.
Speaker:Danny: So question five, Jon, if you needed to hide an elephant, how and where would you hide it?
Speaker:Jon: I mean, part of me wants to ask more questions. Who am I hiding it from? Why?
Speaker:Jon: You know, are we dodging? I've reported, like, what's going on?
Speaker:Jon: Can I just stick them in the house?
Speaker:Jon: Or, like, you know, there's so much clarification that I want.
Speaker:Danny: So, I guess, let's maybe clarify a little bit for you.
Speaker:Danny: Let's see, you really want a pet elephant, but your girlfriend hates elephants.
Speaker:Danny: And you've gone, you've won the $1 million lottery that we just talked about.
Speaker:Danny: And you thought, you know what? Screw it. My first purchase,
Speaker:Danny: I'm going to get me an elephant. Go.
Speaker:Jon: Huh. Maybe instead of hiding it, it's more of a misdirect.
Speaker:Jon: I've bought an elephant, but also, look, here is a brand new car or a brand new Tiffany bracelet.
Speaker:Jon: Look, just look over this direction. You know.
Speaker:Danny: The Tiffany bracelet's at the end of the elephant's trunk. Yeah.
Speaker:Jon: And hopefully her vision is so but
Speaker:Jon: uh you know it's that wouldn't work though she's not she's
Speaker:Jon: she's very she likes she likes some
Speaker:Jon: jewelry things and she's got her her her piercings and things but she's not
Speaker:Jon: she's not really a material person so that would be that'd be a poor that'd
Speaker:Jon: be a poor one um well with a million dollars i could afford an elephant probably
Speaker:Jon: see if i could find a decently affordable warehouse in the industrial district
Speaker:Jon: nearby and create a nice little, you know,
Speaker:Jon: decent sized space for the elephant to live almost like a stable.
Speaker:Jon: And I guess I would just drive over and hang out with that. I'll put a little
Speaker:Jon: office in there for myself so that I could do some work while I hang out with my pet elephant.
Speaker:Jon: I don't know if there are any laws in California about riding an elephant down the street.
Speaker:Danny: That'd be awesome.
Speaker:Jon: In my city, there are definitely people just kind of up in the hill areas.
Speaker:Jon: There's several smaller ranches.
Speaker:Jon: And there's people that are riding their horses around through, you know, the other.
Speaker:Jon: We have a lot of wonderful street vendors. and i went to go get tacos a couple
Speaker:Jon: weeks ago and turned around and boom there's two guys on their on horses at
Speaker:Jon: nine o'clock at night going to pick up tacos if i could do that with the elephant then i mean a
Speaker:Danny: Dry through of an.
Speaker:Jon: Elephant yeah exactly take take him out for a a quick walk bring bring him to
Speaker:Jon: the local schools to to so they can see an elephant at the same time i would
Speaker:Jon: be concerned about the liability i've seen enough videos of like elephants charging
Speaker:Jon: people in southeast asia then i'm like maybe that's not a good idea well
Speaker:Danny: And they're big they're big old beasts as well that's right they're not the smallest of things.
Speaker:Jon: No yeah that's what i think it's it's if i'm spending the money on an elephant
Speaker:Jon: i need to spend i need to spend the money on a a proper place to uh to house
Speaker:Jon: it and uh i think that the hiding of it would just be um saying yeah yeah Yeah,
Speaker:Jon: I am. I am driving to work every day.
Speaker:Danny: Well, that was going to be kind of like a little follow-up question because
Speaker:Danny: I mean, I guess at some stage you're going to have natural things that you can
Speaker:Danny: be doing, you know, when you're going to visit that.
Speaker:Danny: So you could be going just grab some groceries or like you say,
Speaker:Danny: you know, I've got to work coming back.
Speaker:Danny: But would there ever be a time maybe where your girlfriend's getting a little bit suspicious?
Speaker:Danny: Well, why are you going out and disappearing for an hour or two at a time?
Speaker:Danny: Because I know you're not going to work. You're not at the gym or whatever.
Speaker:Jon: So I am an awful liar to the point where
Speaker:Jon: And fortunately, my younger brother backs me up on this every time,
Speaker:Jon: which I greatly appreciate.
Speaker:Jon: I just start laughing when people
Speaker:Jon: ask me questions to the point of it just immediately getting guilty.
Speaker:Jon: And there's been so many times where my brother has had to tell my parents like,
Speaker:Jon: no, no, no, he's telling the truth.
Speaker:Jon: I would get found out immediately.
Speaker:Jon: I am so bad at lying. I cannot lie. Most of the time.
Speaker:Jon: There are certain times at work where I'm trying to spare somebody's feelings about things.
Speaker:Jon: Yeah, so I think there would not be... The first time she asked, the ruse would be up.
Speaker:Danny: Guilty, guilty. It may just be easier building an extension in your backyard or something.
Speaker:Danny: Let's be done with it. this happened let's do it let's deal with it.
Speaker:Jon: I mean it could also be one of those situations where i tell her the truth and
Speaker:Jon: it's so unbelievable that her response is oh fine if you don't want to tell
Speaker:Jon: me then don't tell me because i'm like well yeah i bought a warehouse and i've
Speaker:Jon: got my pet elephant and it's just like what shut up what do you think why won't
Speaker:Jon: you tell me i'm like i'm i'm telling you
Speaker:Danny: Well if you do win that million um again you know keep me updated i would love
Speaker:Danny: to share updates about your elephant and how your girlfriend accepts that.
Speaker:Danny: So it's a nice way to finish off your time, I feel, in the random question hot
Speaker:Danny: seat, and thank you for that.
Speaker:Danny: As is only fair because I've had you in the hot seat for about 45,
Speaker:Danny: 50 minutes now, it's time to hand the question asking Baton over to you. Good sir.
Speaker:Jon: So if you could, so first off, what is the, in your opinion,
Speaker:Jon: the best and at the same time, okay, well I'll ask it as two parts instead of combining it to one.
Speaker:Jon: So what is the best decade?
Speaker:Jon: For music in your opinion
Speaker:Danny: For me it's an easy one i'm going to say the
Speaker:Danny: 80s like i was born very late end of the
Speaker:Danny: 60s so i was kind of not really any music in the 70s i was
Speaker:Danny: listening to some but not into it my teen years
Speaker:Danny: were the 80s and that's i feel where a lot of your music is informed um living
Speaker:Danny: in the uk um i kind of covered a lot of um genres if you like so i got into
Speaker:Danny: the new romantics so juran juran spando ballet uh i guess i stick camera would
Speaker:Danny: be part of that And then from there, moved into more rock.
Speaker:Danny: So like I say rock, we got Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, ACDC.
Speaker:Danny: I went to the Monsters of Rock concert at Donington for a few years.
Speaker:Danny: Always good times there.
Speaker:Danny: So I would say for me, 80s for the decade.
Speaker:Jon: Okay. And then the follow-up question to that would be,
Speaker:Jon: if you could travel back to that period to relive that era of music,
Speaker:Jon: but you could not travel back to the present, would you do that?
Speaker:Danny: So I could go back to the 80s, but I can't come back to my time now.
Speaker:Jon: You cannot go back. So you would travel back to the 80s.
Speaker:Jon: You'd be able to experience firsthand that decade of music in its entirety,
Speaker:Jon: knowing everything you know now about who, you know, seeing small bands before they got started.
Speaker:Jon: But that from that point, you would live out the rest of your natural lifespan. Right.
Speaker:Danny: See, this shouldn't be a hard question because I'm a parent.
Speaker:Danny: I'm married, so I've got a family.
Speaker:Danny: And I would never, ever want to give that up. That being said,
Speaker:Danny: the 80s, for me, the 80s were like, music-wise, it was great.
Speaker:Danny: But the 80s were also a really, really good time of my life.
Speaker:Danny: I was in the Army Cadets, which taught me a lot about responsibility and teams and community, etc.
Speaker:Danny: I had got my first job. So I had my first love. You know, a lot of major events,
Speaker:Danny: if you like, happened in the 80s.
Speaker:Danny: So that's actually a harder one. And it should be because, like I say,
Speaker:Danny: as a family and you, you're a family man yourself.
Speaker:Danny: You know, you wouldn't want to leave your kids. Right. You'd want to come back. Right.
Speaker:Danny: So it's it's I'm going to give you two answers. And they're both bad.
Speaker:Danny: Not bad. So they're both a cop out. Sorry. If I was single.
Speaker:Danny: Yes. 100%. 100% I would go back
Speaker:Danny: and I would be super happy and live out my life, you know, at that time.
Speaker:Danny: But because I don't have, you know, I've got a family, my two kids who I adore.
Speaker:Danny: I couldn't, I just couldn't not come back. I'd either have to banjax him and
Speaker:Danny: bring them with me and they just wake up and he's pissed off because now they're
Speaker:Danny: having to live through my decade and then we're all stuck there.
Speaker:Danny: Or I would just have to stay.
Speaker:Danny: I would love, and then just, you know, stick a Spotify playlist on or something
Speaker:Danny: like that. and, and, you know, live vicariously through that one.
Speaker:Danny: That, that would be my, my cop-out answer.
Speaker:Jon: Awesome. I like it. And I, I 100% understand it. You know, I'm, I'm the same way.
Speaker:Jon: I'm, I'm sure it's, it's the same with you, but, but the, the family,
Speaker:Jon: the kids are the driving force behind most things, the, the drive to constantly
Speaker:Jon: get promotions and move up and get better jobs and better everything.
Speaker:Jon: That happened when I became a dad the job that I had before I became a dad I was delivering pizza
Speaker:Jon: And then, or sorry, no, I was working in an insurance call center, actually.
Speaker:Jon: And that was a step up from delivering pizza. And then from there,
Speaker:Jon: I got my first job in software doing customer support.
Speaker:Jon: And I mean, that was just, and every, I just kept pushing higher and higher
Speaker:Jon: and higher, better wages, better positions, everything, because I wanted to
Speaker:Jon: be able to take care of everybody.
Speaker:Jon: So, so, I mean, the question that it's, I would give the exact same answer with, without hesitation.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, and it's like you say, it's like you do things that you don't want to
Speaker:Danny: because it's for a better life down the line, right?
Speaker:Danny: It's like a tired old saying that you want to give your kids a better life than
Speaker:Danny: you had, but it's true. You know, you don't want to spoil them,
Speaker:Danny: but you don't want to struggle either.
Speaker:Danny: So anything you can do to make it simple and a good life, you'll do it, right?
Speaker:Danny: It's just a parent thing, whether you're a mum, dad, or someone that's in that
Speaker:Danny: position because mums and dads aren't around for whatever reason,
Speaker:Danny: but they're taking that role on, right?
Speaker:Danny: But yeah, great question. It's something I've never even thought of.
Speaker:Danny: Been asked before, obviously.
Speaker:Danny: Never been asked before, but never thought of. So a great question,
Speaker:Danny: especially because of that decade.
Speaker:Danny: If I didn't have that decade, easy peasy, but no, no, that's a good one.
Speaker:Danny: So thank you for that, mate.
Speaker:Jon: Awesome, yeah.
Speaker:Danny: So thanks for that, mate. I really enjoyed that question. And I've enjoyed chatting
Speaker:Danny: to you and hearing your answers and how you'd get around some things and maybe
Speaker:Danny: not get around some things.
Speaker:Danny: For the listeners that want to find out more about the podcast that you run
Speaker:Danny: with your co-hosts, find out more about what you do, you know um in general
Speaker:Danny: catch up with you online connect etc where's the best place for everybody to check you out.
Speaker:Jon: So for anybody that wants to find us um it's google
Speaker:Jon: is the easiest way honestly just searching up
Speaker:Jon: time pals podcast i believe it's buzzsprout that we use and that hosts our episodes
Speaker:Jon: but it also hosts links to you know all of the other podcast platforms you would
Speaker:Jon: use and our social media as well um if you want to find us on social media of
Speaker:Jon: choice uh time and pals are separate words.
Speaker:Jon: I don't know if it comes up if you serve it together, but yeah,
Speaker:Jon: we strive to keep it easy.
Speaker:Danny: Yeah, and that's Time Power's podcast. It's as easy as it comes from search.
Speaker:Danny: And I'll be sure, as always, to leave all the links in the show notes anyway.
Speaker:Danny: So whatever podcast app you're listening on or you're listening to this on the
Speaker:Danny: website, just check the episode show notes out, as always.
Speaker:Danny: And all the cool links will be there over to Jon and his co-hosts,
Speaker:Danny: podcasts and socials, etc.
Speaker:Danny: So again, Jon, thanks so much for joining me on today's 5 Random Questions. thank.
Speaker:Jon: You so much for having me it was it was a blast and you know i did not know
Speaker:Jon: what to expect with the questions but they were a lot of fun and i was i was
Speaker:Jon: surprised by how fun and how much i had to think for some of these answers
Speaker:Danny: Well that's always good to hear one of the reasons i love this show because
Speaker:Danny: it just gets everybody thinking which is always nice and there's no pressure
Speaker:Danny: to come up with the best soundbite answer so i'm glad you enjoyed yourself man i appreciate it,
Speaker:Danny: thanks for listening to 5 Random Questions and if this was your first time
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