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Episode 38 • 25th September 2025 • 5 Random Questions • Danny Brown
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On this week's 5 Random Questions, I chat with Colin Gray, founder of The Podcast Host, and Alitu. Answers include his approach to online movie critics, cartoon memories, tech trip-ups, and more.

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Colin Gray:

And even when they are on screens, quite often it's with their friends.

So my daughter plays a bit of Roblox, but she'll be on the phone with two or three of her friends at the same time playing it all together, which is quite cool. So yeah, maybe the art of the conversation is not lost quite yet.

Danny Brown:

Hi and welcome to Five Random Questions, the show with unexpected questions and unfiltered answers. I'm your host Danny Brown and each week I'll be asking my guest five questions created by a random question generator.

The guest has no idea what the questions are and neither do I, which means this could go either way. So sit back, relax, and let's dive into this week's episode. Today's guest is Colin Gray.

Colin is a podcaster, speaker, PhD and founder of the Podcast Host and Alitu. The Podcast Host is a huge audio, video and written resource on how to create a successful show.

Alitu is a podcast maker tool designed to help you create your podcast in the easiest way possible and with full creative control including call recording, audio cleanup, audio editing, building your episode and hosting your show. So Colin, welcome to Five Random Questions.

Colin Gray:

Hey Danny, thanks for having me.

Danny Brown:

You're very welcome.

And in a social media post last year you mentioned at the end of last year you mentioned that you were looking for a PC game to play with your 12 year old son who's now 13, where he wouldn't pummel you. I'm curious how that went.

Colin Gray:

Oh, badly. I mean, the most annoying thing is I used to be quite good at that when I was little.

It's not like I'm, you know, some old guy that's just trying to learn computer games.

I was like, I was, I was very good at it when I was small, but somehow I don't know whether it's like aging brain or whatever, but my skills have severely degraded and he seems able to pick up anything like enlightening, like lightning. So yeah, it's tricky. We've actually, we came to playing stuff together like doing cooperative stuff. So we've actually been playing through because.

Have you ever come across Hollow Knight at all as a computer game? No, it's a great little platformer. Alistair loves it and so we've been playing that kind of simultaneously at the same time.

So yeah, that's been quite good fun. That's my solution is to not play against them, but to play with them.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, I hear you. I have been a gamer since I was 12, 13 year old, so that's over 40 years. And my son I got him into Xbox Two. We got Xbox. Your PC, you mentioned. Yeah.

Did you solo PC or do you do console two?

Colin Gray:

No, we've got an Xbox Two PC. He's got a Steam deck.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, yeah. So we were the same. I got him onto FIFA on the Xbox and other platformers as well.

But FIFA was his game and there was a period when I would hold back because I knew I would beat him because he was just learning the game, etc. But now, I mean, he just pummels me anytime we try and play the game. He'll pull off these trick shots and everything. It's just.

It's like the old Jedi, you know, the pupil becomes the master or beats the master kind of thing. Right.

Colin Gray:

My one kind of saving grace over the last little while was, in fact, it wasn't even last little while, it was maybe three years ago, so he would have been about 10. But even then he was still beating me at most stuff.

But I pulled out original Halo, which was a game that me and my friends played so much when we were in our early 20s. And so we got very good at that and we could generally be any visitors that came over or whatever.

So I pulled that out and actually I managed to go about half an hour of beating him before he started to pick it up and start to win a few games. So that was about my last moment of success.

Danny Brown:

Nah, it's like you say, it's funny how quickly they pick it up. Right. And then you start to feel a lot more inadequate as a human being, not just as a parent, but you think, this was my thing. Now it's your thing.

But I mean, hopefully you've still got the podcast in the creator space at the moment. He's not going to beat you at that because for a while, hopefully not yet.

Colin Gray:

But he is helping me edit some videos and stuff. So he is getting into it now. And he's a really good coder as well. So I don't know, who knows? He'll take it all over soon.

Danny Brown:

Wow. Well, at least you can retire then.

You can start putting your practice hours in back into, you know, Halo and all your PC games that he's kind of beating you in at the moment.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, that's true.

Danny Brown:

Well, one thing that we won't do here is I won't have an unfair advantage on you when it comes to the questions because we'll see them at the same time. So, Colin, is if you're ready to jump into today's five random questions, I will bring up the random Question Generator.

Colin Gray:

Fire away. Fire away. Looks forward to seeing what we get first.

Danny Brown:

And before we start, I just want to give a shout out to Neil Velio.

He's going to be excited for this episode because he was super excited when he realized you were coming on to hear two Scots people, two Scotsmen on the same episode. So I know, Neil, if you're listening to this one, I hope it's worth it, mate. All right, let's have a look. That's a nice easy one to start with.

I feel drawn. Question number one, Colin, tell me about your dream house.

Colin Gray:

Oh, interesting. Well, I mean, I have. I have this conflict where I've always. Over the past 20, since I was a young man, I really enjoyed living in Edinburgh.

So I grew up kind of in Edinburgh. I didn't really grow up there, I went to university and that's where I actually grew up, I guess.

And so I still love the city, but it's a funny city in that it's quite small, actually, as cities go, particularly for our US cousins, who all. A city's got to be at least half a million before it's, like, even worth mapping.

But Edinburgh is quite small, but it's still got, like, everything you might need. So I really like the kind of bustle and hustle of a city, being able to walk out to a cafe, you know, everything that you need.

So I've always kind of had this tension between having a place in a city like that compared to the fact that I actually love being out in the hills too, so. And I love the idea of having a big garden and all that kind of stuff.

So these days, actually, we're quite lucky that I have close to my dream house in that we live near a city in the Highlands of Scotland. I can walk in in about 45 minutes if I need to.

But actually the house almost feels quite rural and we have a big garden and you get a lot more for your money in the Highlands of Scotland compared to probably anywhere in the rest of the. So it's quite nice. I have that. And the thing that I'm going to try to change at the moment is to add on. You'll probably laugh at this.

You'll hear plenty of this from your colleagues at Captivate Danny. But I'm looking at the idea of building a wee golf simulator and one of the. An extension of my house at the moment, but combined with a gym.

So a gym and a table tennis area. So my dream house actually is kind of what we've got just now, a nice big Garden, nice big open kitchen, all that kind of stuff.

Plenty of places to have friends over and dinners and parties and things, but to have a nice big space on the side that actually I can use as my own little gym, my playroom. Play golf in it as well, because obviously it gets a bit cold, a bit wintry, similar to where you are as well, Danny, over the winter.

So I need some kind of entertainment like that. What about yourself?

Danny Brown:

. I was with my buddy back in:

We did like the Whisky tour the first week, and then the second week is more like a sightseeing tour. And we used. I can't remember the name of the company in Edinburgh.

It was like a little touring company that has these little vans, the custom vans, minivans that take you around. And the tour guides were amazing. Local people, local guides. And we were, funnily enough, we were looking at prices just in curiosity.

changed, because that was in:

nd then obviously, Covid came:

Colin Gray:

I don't know. I never look at them unless I'm actually trying to buy something, to be honest. And I didn't hear any news about it, so I'm not sure.

It sounds about right, though.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, yeah. And you mentioned that you're close to. You could walk to a large city within 45 minutes. So you passed Inverness, then. Is that your closest one or.

Colin Gray:

We're around there. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Around Inverness. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So within the vicinity we can walk in.

Danny Brown:

No, no. And that's. I think Inverness is still classed as a gateway to the Highlands, isn't it? I think.

Colin Gray:

Yeah. It's a funny one, that, because it's kind of already in the Highlands. I suppose it is in the South Highlands, really. It's.

You kind of technically hit the Highlands, I guess, when you start passing Aviemore and get up. But there's plenty beyond Inverness as well. Another few hours before you hit the north coast. Yeah. So it's a funny place.

Danny Brown:

n the UK, I came to Canada in:

They're now called O2, but at the time they were called BT Mobile and it was like the mobile phone, cellular phone division. And we had an office up in Thurso, right at the very top north. So I, I always.

That was the thing you mentioned earlier about cities in the UK versus cities in, say, the US North America, etc. That was the thing that surprised me when I moved to Canada was I could drive seven hours from England right to the top of Scotland.

If I drive seven hours, I can still be in Ontario, in Canada, in the province I live in. Right. It's amazing. It's crazy. And I know you've. You've traveled with me. What's. Do you find that as well?

Do you find it weird to wrap your head around how big other places can sometimes be?

Colin Gray:

ears back, like back in about:

We were out there through the first Covid year actually. And so we got to travel about still though, because they were okay.

And the first thing that I noticed when we got there was that we would look at the map. You'd look at just the state that I was living in. Like I was in Adelaide, so we're in South Australia.

And you'd look at the city over here and there's something around. The fact that there's.

Well, it's such a big country in the first place, so everything looks a bit more compressed, but equally there's not really anything in between. It's very sparsely populated outside of the big cities.

So you look at the map and you think, oh, there's, there's Adelaide, there's like the other city down here that looks, you know, a British map, that would be like an hour maybe. And then you look it up in Google Maps and it's six hours. It's ridiculous. It's because there's like nothing in between.

So it just looks like football. What we would imagine in Britain you'd never get that amount of space with nothing in between it. So it's like. Just doesn't make sense. But yeah.

Is that the same, like, I'd imagine the Canadian cities are a little bit more sparse than the American ones, but it's a similar kind of scale. It's a bigger country really though, isn't it?

Danny Brown:

It is, yeah. It's weird. Very much like Australia. You've got the larger cities, so you've got your Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, et cetera.

But then outside that, apart from maybe sort of the offshoots of These cities and the little towns in between, it's a massive expanse of space, especially if you go across to the west coast, you know, like Calgary, Alberta, et cetera. Massive expanse. So it's. It's very much.

It's nice because it's quiet, but again, like you mentioned as well, it can also get a bit barren in the winter, so you've got to really stock up and make sure you've got your freezer filled in case you get snowed in, et cetera, you know. So it's nice if you want a quiet life, but you also want that city where you can be in a big city within an hour's drive or something, which is nice.

Colin Gray:

Yeah. I love the balance we've found at the moment, which is like, yeah, we've still got the city. It's definitely not cosmopolitan.

Like, still missing quite a few of the different types of food that I would like. Or, you know, there's not exactly a whole lot of choice of bars and restaurants if you want to go out for a night or something like that.

But there's enough. There's plenty enough.

But equally, I can get out on a bike and I can be in the middle of absolute nowhere in 20 minutes or go for a run and like a proper massive mountain. Well, for us at least, like within an hour. And there's all sorts of stuff. There's. Yeah. So I really like that balance now. It's. It's nice.

Danny Brown:

Nice. Well, have you ever, like. I don't know if you're a big seafood fan at all, Colin, but if you are, and you want a little. A little drive.

A little drive from where you are at the moment. If you go up towards Furzow, well past Furze, actually, there's a little.

Little tiny offshoot, like a village, a fishing port called Scrabster and the Scrabster Inn, I think that's what it was called. Do some of the best lobster and seafood that you'll ever get, just in case you're a fish food fan and you want to take a different set of things.

So that's my recommendation. Scrabster.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, really good.

Danny Brown:

No worries, no worries. So there we go. Like I say, that was a nice sort of gentle intro to the questions this week. Let's have a look at question number two.

Do you read reviews about a movie before deciding whether to watch it or not?

Colin Gray:

Not really, to be honest, I'm not really. Do you know, I've been trying to find more things to read that are kind of properly create this doesn't make sense exactly. But properly created.

Like I'm trying to get away from just reading like, you know, social media posts and LinkedIn posts and stuff like that. And I've never been huge on social media to be fair, but I want to get away from it altogether to be honest.

And actually when I have time to read, it's something that somebody's actually put some proper time and thought into it. So this is the kind of thing I'm actually looking for right now is like what do I re.

I've been trying to curate like a news feed, a good old fashioned RSS feed. Danny. In fact, good quality blogs from good quality journalistic websites, that kind of stuff.

And like movie reviews are one of the things actually I would probably want to read more of just to get an idea because I do love films. Like it's such a lovely thing to spend a couple of hours like just lost in a different world and then it finishing as well.

Do you read the reviews yourself?

Danny Brown:

I tend not to because I find especially with the kind of stuff I like. So I'm a massive Star wars fan and nerd, etc.

And that fandom can be very divisive and very toxic if they don't like it, which we've seen with some of the new movies and TV shows on Disney, etc. So I tend to try veer away from that. But I hear you.

You look at Rotten Tomatoes, for example, used to be great and now it just seems that it's a dumping place for review bombing where people, because they don't want you to enjoy the movie you want to see, they'll just rip it to pieces. Big fan of letterboxd. I don't know if you've checked that out.

I find that they're really good authentic reviews because they take the time to really dive into the reviews and the movies etc that are coming out or that they've watched. That's a good resource for you.

Colin Gray:

Cool, I'll look that up. Yeah, for sure.

The other thing I started to go down the road of actually I like, we, my wife and I enjoy, like that's kind of one of the ways we relax is to watch a good film or a good series or whatever. Same as most people, I suppose.

But like it suddenly occurred to me that, you know, you just end up watching this stuff on Netflix that comes up or on prime or whatever.

But actually there's a lot of good media talking about good television and you kind of throw it away almost because it feels like I don't know, I guess when you have kind of lofty ambitions in life or whatever, you're trying to get somewhere. It's quite easy to see TV and film and stuff like that as a waste of time. Like it's. You should be just doing a bit of extra work or whatever.

But it's absolute nonsense that you need time to like wind down. And some of this stuff is like proper art. Like it's just so well put together and it's like so like life improving and everything.

Watching certain TV series and I started looking up whether I could find a good resource that actually just talked about TV and tried to surface like great TV series that we might not have heard of. Because I started to realize all of these things that we'd never seen before.

Like in olden days, like when we grew up, Danny, like you'd put on BBC1 and BBC2 or whatever and that was what you got offered. You didn't get much chance to search around. There wasn't like hundreds of options. But nowadays it's totally different. So that was another thing.

So it was like a way to surface good movies. That was what I was looking for. Some kind of media for that but equally for TV as well.

And like surface some of the amazing kind of under talked about series on all of these streaming services that are going well. Like any good secrets from recent watching? Danny, Any tips?

Danny Brown:

No, I mean the main thing I found is I found shows that were made previously by a team of a show that I just currently watched and really enjoyed. So I watched the. The Last of Us TV show. Yeah, that was based on a video game. Really enjoyed it.

I'd heard so much about the game, but I hadn't played it because I'm an Xbox man. Never played PlayStation so I never played the game. Heard so much about it though.

So I watched the TV show blown away by how good it was and then I found out that the team had made a limited series called Chernobyl. And as growing up in the UK, as you well know, mate, back in the mid-80s, Chernobyl was a huge, you know, news story.

And everybody's thinking is this the end? Is this like, are we going to get contaminated? So I watched that mini series. There's only like six parts I believe, maybe eight tops. And that's on.

That's crave here in Canada. So I think that's probably HBO everywhere else. And that was. Even though, you know, the outcome that was still really gripping.

So I tend to find now that I'm looking for what Others have done.

So if I really enjoy a TV show or a series or something, I'll go on to, let's say IMDb and I'll just look at the creators and say, okay, what else have they done? And does that sound like something that I'd be interested in?

Colin Gray:

That's a really good tip, actually.

Yeah, I hadn't even thought about looking at like that, actually, because sometimes when you watch a series and you get to the end of it and you're just utterly bereft, aren't you? Because it's finished and you go, I.

Danny Brown:

Need more of that.

Colin Gray:

I need more of the same characters. And even if you can't get the same characters, at least you might be able to get the same feel or a similar feel if it's the same creators.

I suppose that's why films always do that, don't they? Like, you so often get that from the makers of Blah blah blah and they try and push it off. Like that's a bit of credibility.

I guess so, yeah, that's a nice one. I'm going to look that up.

I'm going to go back through my last three or five different series that I've really enjoyed and see what else they've done.

Danny Brown:

Well, that's a beauty as well. You see, you've got so many options now on streaming and even online.

Just YouTube, like YouTube has a lot of free stuff now, like free three full movies, et cetera.

But yeah, I mean, I remember the excitement in the UK when Channel 4 came out, never mind ITV, but Channel 4, that was a massive statement of, wow, we're really ahead of the curve here. And now you think four channels. If I told my kids that we only had 34 channels to tops when I was growing up, they'd laugh me at the house.

And you are really super old.

Colin Gray:

Yep, indeed. I remember Channel 5, that was even more controversial.

For some reason that was seen as the cheap little brother that came along and ruined everything, I think.

Danny Brown:

Well, didn't they say that Channel 5 and I could be, I could be mistaken, this is a while back since that came out. But wasn't that meant to be where all the sort of Euro soft porn and smart shows etc were going to come out on?

And that's why there was a bit of kickback, maybe. I think it is something completely different.

But I seem to recall Channel 5 had a bit of a, like you said, a lot of mini controversy because of what kind of content was. Was being promoted or was promised to come out, et cetera. But I could be wrong. Maybe I'm thinking something different.

I'll have to cut this part out the episode altogether. I don't want to get called out for it.

Colin Gray:

Maybe. Actually, I'm not sure. Yeah, it could have been. I do remember Channel, was it not?

Channel 4 was the one that was controversial for the fact that it did have some really weird and wonderful programming on a Friday evening. For example, it was a little program called the Word. Remember that? That was classic.

Like if you're in your 40s and meal particularly, it was very meal focused, you probably remember the word. And. Yeah. Other thing. Yeah, a few things like that that were just like dodgy as anything.

Danny Brown:

And there was like Eurotrash as well. If you remember Eurotrash, that was like always the. I think that was Friday night as well.

You'd go out for, you know, a bite, tea or coloured drinks or whatever. You come home on a Friday night and you stick Eurotrash on. That's how you started a weekend, basically.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, yeah. And it was just absolute nonsense.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, there was some weird stuff on it, but I feel for the most part it was harmless and it did actually introduce you to some really cool European culture that you would never have got otherwise, you know. And there's someone after researchers and I'll drop it in the show notes so you can check out later when you're listening to the episode.

But someone really well known today did the voice or one of the voices for Eurotrash, so. And I never knew that. I only found out because of an interview that I was watching and listening to a few weeks back or whatever.

Can't recall the person, but really famous person was involved heavily in voiceover work for Eurotrash, which I thought was interesting.

Colin Gray:

Well, yeah, I'll have to look that up.

Danny Brown:

There we go. Well, we don't have multiple questions, we only have five, but that's not too bad. We'll stick with the five because that's what we like in the show.

So let's have a look at what question number three is a little bit kind of tied into the previous one. What was and was being past tense. What was your favorite cartoon?

Colin Gray:

Oh, well, this came up quite recently actually, because I used to love. There's two of them, but one in particular, Thundercats. So Thundercats was such a good cartoon.

It was like classic early 90s, maybe even late 80s, probably late 80s, actually. Cartoon.

And a friend of mine came up to visit a couple of weekends ago and it turns out he's watching through it with his four year Old daughter again and she loves Wilykit and Wilykat, who were two of the characters in it. So it's back White. The Thundercats is back. But it was a weird one, if you haven't seen it. Have you seen Thundercats, Danny?

Danny Brown:

Yeah, I grew up with that, mate. And probably late high school, early college, I think. Early maybe.

Colin Gray:

Really? Yeah. It was. For anyone out there that hasn't seen it, it was the weirdest thing, whereby I can't. It was a different race altogether, wasn't it?

They were all basically humanoid cats from our world. So one was called Tigra and he was a tiger. The chief was called Lion. O, he was a lion. Panthero, Panther, Wellycat and Wellycat were like.

I don't know what they were. And Chitara, who was a cheetah as well, she was the fast one, obviously.

Danny Brown:

They really spent time on the names there, didn't they?

Colin Gray:

Didn't they? But they were all humanoid. They were all like two legs, two arms. They were people.

But the main kind of nod to the cat thing was their hair generally, wasn't it? And the fact that they had fangs, maybe a kind of a wee snub nose or something, as if it was a cat nose. But that was it, wasn't it?

Somehow there were cats and somehow it wasn't like their big baddie was a dog or something like that. The natural enemy of a cat. It was a mummy. An actual bad guy.

Danny Brown:

Right?

Colin Gray:

Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, that was a weird one.

Danny Brown:

My. My wife loved the Thundercats. She had, for the longest time, two massive.

I say massive, they're about maybe a foot and a half, which are kind of big for, like, action figures. I guess I was gonna say dogs, but they're not dogs, but they're action figures. And one was Lionel. Leo. Lionel.

And the other was Chitara or whatever she was called. Can't recall. But she was a massive fan. And it's funny because I'm. I'm always surprised. I've never really made a live action version of that.

When you think of all the live action comic books and cartoons that have been converted over to live action, I know there was like, on YouTube, there's a really good fan fiction version where someone's used vfx. And again, I'll leave the link to the video in the show notes, so check it out when you listen to the episode.

But it proves in existing actors that they love to see doing, you know, the characters.

And Vin Diesel's one of them, for example, and he really suits the Part well, and I would watch this live action if it was created by this person and it had, like, the script writers, et cetera, from the originals. I'm still amazed to this day, like, from the cast. They must have a big audience for that to make a decent movie.

Colin Gray:

I just thought it's very kind of like current style now again, isn't it? You get a lot of animation that looks a lot like Thundercats again. Now, have you seen the new Talking Back to Movies as well?

Have you seen the one that's gone absolutely crazy on Netflix? K Pop Demon Hunters?

Danny Brown:

I've not. My daughter has. We don't have Netflix. We watch Friends and my daughter does a lot of babysitting, et cetera.

So she's watched it and she's over the moon with it. But I haven't seen it now.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, like, not surprised it's gone crazy because it's actually genuinely very, very good. The music particularly, like, it's a really good musical as well. It's actually a great story. But the style of it is quite. I mean, it's very anime.

It's Korean, I believe, obviously. K Pop, I'd imagine it is, but it just. I don't have sophisticated enough taste to tell a difference between Japanese anime and Korean animation.

I guess they don't call it anime because that's a Japanese thing. But yeah, it just looks. It seems to have kind of.

It felt like it almost went back a little bit to a more retro style, a bit like Thundercats or He man or, you know, all those kind of 90s cartoons that we grew up with. So, yeah, it's interesting. It feels like you're absolutely right. They could remake that. No worries. As long as you don't wreck it.

Don't totally cartoonify it. I think they need to be. The way. The reason it worked in part was because they actually made them quite realistic. Like, it wasn't just cartoon cats.

It was proper, like human cats somehow. They were very good.

Danny Brown:

Yeah.

We don't want the special effects that the cats musical had, the movie version, because that got ripped, if I remember, for the makeup or the CGI that was used for creating the cats. But it's funny you mentioned that.

Demon Hunters, one of my friends, a podcaster creator, has a show called Chatsunami, and it's like a pop culture podcast. And he's always very public about sharing how many plays, views, etc.

Each episode gets, which is kind of cool because I like seeing that with creators. They show that they don't have to be super huge numbers. He's just proud of. I got 100, 200, et cetera.

And the demon hunters one, the K pop one had over a thousand in the first couple of days. So clearly the audience is right there ready for something like that and grabbing everything they can.

When you get something that takes off like that.

Colin Gray:

Well, I'm no scientist on this, but it feels like it's. The music has made the biggest difference.

I have not heard the music from a film, particularly an animated film, on the radio, like even half as much as what this one has had. I think it's golden is the kind of main song that came out of it. And it's just on the radio here like every.

At least once every half hour, something like that. It's like proper number one chart type of thing.

So that must make such a difference because it will promote the film, I guess the fact that they've created great music as well as it. It's a whole nother marketing channel, I suppose, for the. For the film. So I make. Yeah, I guess that must work. I way too.

Danny Brown:

Yeah. There was a movie that came out and there was a soundtrack created for the movie.

And I think I could be wrong, but I think it was Ed in the Cruisers, which is like a mid-80s movie with Michael Parry about a fictional band and a singer that disappeared at the height of his career. Really good movie, real cult classic, some dodgy acting, but the overall movie is really good.

Anywho, so when they were making a movie, they wanted to get a feel for the soundtrack that had to a sort of be set in the 50s, sort of 60s where the movie was based, but also be relevant to the audience in the 80s that are going to be watching and listening to the soundtrack. So they. They wanted to get a feel for Bruce Springsteen, but they couldn't afford Bruce Springsteen, you know, to do the soundtrack. So they got John.

Oh my grief, what's he called? My brain's having a brain fart at the minute. I apologize. Check out the show notes. As always, people, they got an artist in to do the soundtrack.

And when the movie first came out, the soundtrack was not a big thing. But then one of the songs from the soundtrack became big and it drove people back to the movie.

So it was like you mentioned, it was really interesting to see how music can drive interest in another medium if that medium wasn't quite as big as music and vice versa.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, yeah. There's a combo of both, isn't it? It's like double art, almost like music on its own. Obviously is huge. Films on their own are huge.

So you put the two together and then suddenly you've got dual channels to make this thing succeed. Particularly if they're both very good, which I think in this case they were.

Danny Brown:

Yeah. What's like the Back to the Future soundtrack? I just watched a Back to the Future documentary on Prime. I believe it's either prime or Disney plus.

I think it's prime. And it's called Back in Time. And again, the soundtrack, everybody just. You think of the movie and you think of. You think of power of love.

You hear that in the radio. You think of Back to the Future so entwined. Right. Which is. That's kind of gold that you want to aim for, I guess. Right.

Colin Gray:

What was your favorite cartoon then?

Danny Brown:

My favorite was. I had two. There was one called Dungeons and Dragons, which I think obviously was based on the game.

And then I think the movie that came out with Chris Pine was obviously based on the game, but had some nod back to the cartoon.

Colin Gray:

There was a cameo. Yeah. Uni. And the other four. That's the only one I remember the name of.

Danny Brown:

Right, exactly. Which was awesome. I loved that little thing. Right. And then Battle of the Planets, which was called something else in North America, I think.

But in the UK it was Battle of the Planets and that was five kids and a little robot bebop, I think. I can't recall now. It's years ago. I really enjoyed that.

Colin Gray:

And again, it's Captain Planet, wasn't it?

Danny Brown:

Yeah, yeah. It's like fun to cast.

I wish they would make a live action, because I feel a live action action Battle of the Planets would be so suited, especially with the interest in sci fi and fantasy at the moment, either through video games and TV shows, etc. But I understand the economics. It's not always feasible. Right.

Colin Gray:

I'd imagine. Yeah. Yeah. Dungeons and Dragons was quite. I feel like it was quite ahead of its time as well. And it had a really ongoing storyline as well, didn't it?

Like, it was kind of. Every episode was relatively standalone. Quite the same as.

I don't know, it feels like that's a new thing, that TV series actually had an ongoing storyline. Like 24 and the like was one of the early ones. Whereas in the olden days, TV was always designed because you couldn't watch it Netflix style.

It was always designed to be standalone. Like you could just jump in at episode 12 of season three or whatever. And they were. It's like the Simpsons.

Everything resets at the end of the episode. They made a Joke of that, didn't they?

Whereas Dungeons and Dragons actually did have an ongoing storyline where they would make it closer and closer to getting out of the dungeon because they were just brought in from the real world, weren't they? I remember in that one and I never saw the end. I think I believe there was an end episode where they actually escaped, wasn't there?

Danny Brown:

Yeah, they did get back, I think, to the park where they initially disappeared into the dungeon. So, like the. The big Ferris wheel or whatever, the roller coaster. I can't recall what it was, but I think they did eventually get back to that.

And that was the. The. The end of the show, the series. But yeah, I think part of it maybe as well.

Like there's so many big budgets now that getting thrown, you know, streaming platforms because they want to compete with cinemas. Whereas back in the day, old people like us, we didn't have that. So maybe they didn't. They thought, we don't know.

We're going to have the budget to do another two episodes. Maybe we'll just have this one and we've got the budget, we'll make another. I don't know. Maybe.

Colin Gray:

Yeah. Yeah, possibly. Possibly. Did you watch the film as well, the Dungeons and Dragons film with Chris Pine?

Danny Brown:

You know what? I haven't. I started watching it and something happened. I think maybe one of my dogs threw up or something like that. I got taken out of it.

Anyway, I didn't have time to go back to. I thought, okay, so no worries, I'll go back and watch it. And I've yet to go back and watch it, so maybe I'll do that this weekend.

I'll remind myself to go back and actually watch it because I just enjoyed it.

Colin Gray:

It was fine. It was fine. Yeah, it was decent. It was funny enough. The cameo was funny, though.

So, yeah, they're like at one point trying to escape a maze or something like that, I think, and they actually just bump into the five of them.

Danny Brown:

Awesome.

Colin Gray:

That's good.

Danny Brown:

Spoiler alert. Don't watch that part, nanny. I look forward to watching it. Let's have a look at what question number four is.

Okay, you're well versed in the text base and emails and online content, etc. So, Colin, question number four. Have you ever accidentally sent a text or email to the wrong person? And if so, what happened?

Colin Gray:

Yeah, I definitely have. Almost certainly. Because these days I have such a.

It's one of the things that I teach or try and coax my children into having as a rule for life, which is never Ever write a text version of something about someone at all if you want to say something? Well, if you want to say something negative about somebody, just don't do it.

Go and actually talk to that person and try and sort out the issue in the first place. But if you have to actually send something to somebody, phone them up and to the other person you need to talk to.

Because as soon as you have someone written down, it's either going to go to the wrong person because you're thinking of the person you're trying to send it to, or it's going to get shared at some point. So I always tell my kids that. And you know what? I can't actually. I'm just trying to think if I can think of an example.

But there must have been something happened because I've got that so strongly in my head as an aversion to ever do it. So I don't know. I don't know. Have you had that experience?

Danny Brown:

I did once when I worked for a like back in, back in Ontario. I'm in Ontario. I used to work for a company, like a marketing agency and we had like a client list obviously that you manage.

And I sent the wrong email to the wrong client and I had to try backtrack it immediately because I realized that we were offering a service that the other client wanted but we said we can't offer it because it's not something we do. But we were offering it to this higher paying client, which I get it, it's higher paying clients.

But I tried to backtrack that and the client got the email before I could recall or whatever you do with the email software. And that caused a massive stink and we ended up losing that client.

Now thankfully I kept my job because it was a simple mistake and it was, you know, it was up to the bosses if they want to offer that feature or not to the client, et cetera. But yeah, something like that, that kind of taught me. Okay, A, be really careful and double check the address line that you're sending it to first.

But it's funny you mentioned that you're teaching your kids, which I think is awesome by the way.

You're teaching your kids to pick up a phone and speak to someone, you know, face to face, so to speak, as opposed to like a generic text or a generic email.

My wife and I had this conversation the other day where someone was trying to contact us by calling, but it was like number hidden, you know, a private number. And I will, yeah, I really pick up the phone anyway, mate, I'm very much like in person or text stroke email.

But it's weird to hear you teach your kids, who are gaston going to grow up in a far different tech world than you and I, to pick up and use your voice to someone, which is like, where did that come from? Is that just like something you've always done? Is it you want to get away from that blank text email or.

Colin Gray:

I think yeah, it's a feeling I've always had around just fixing problems as they come up. Do you know, I think there's not a lot in this world that I'm much better than anyone the in else at. I'm quite good at a lot of different things.

That's probably the only reason I've got where I am just now is that I can kind of do just about anything to a competent enough level. But I'm not like world class at many things at all.

But if there's one thing I think is a superpower, it's like just being able to find a problem and just fix it immediately. And so it kind of comes to kind of. I see it as a. It's a point of pride whereby I'm quite good at that.

If somebody gives me a problem to solve, I can do it. And people come to me and ask me to try and fix things for them.

So it's one of those things whereby usually you so often see people trying to solve a problem by texting through and emailing and then you see them waiting there, sitting, waiting for the response and it's like the anxiety that just builds and builds and builds and builds and builds. Pelton especially if it's something like you're trying to, you know, talking about texting the wrong person about something.

Like if you, you know, I've seen that situation so many times and I've. I've been tempted to do it as well.

You've got a difficult thing to say to a friend or a family member or, you know, there's some kind of conflict and you need to say something difficult or bring something up and you're like, I don't want to, I don't want to do this. So you're thinking about texting them because that's kind of feels like the easy option.

And I have done that once or twice, but every time I've done it, I've regretted it immediately because then suddenly you're just sitting there with anxiety waiting for the response to come back through.

Whereas if you just pick up the phone, you get an immediate response and actually it Brings all these other benefits in as well, which are the body language. And you can.

Not on the phone, but you can hear the tone of the voice and things like that, so it's less misunderstandable and you get an immediate response and you can actually talk it through. And you, you can.

And the other person on the other side of the phone doesn't sit there and stew and think up all these terrible stories about why you're saying this or, you know, all the. All these kind of things that can happen if given time, whereas if you're on the phone, then that stuff doesn't happen.

So it just feels like often it's the best solution to any given problem, if that problem is communication related in any way. So I don't know. I think that's why it's always stuck in my head.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, no, it's like you say you can. I know, it's like a voice. I mean, obviously we're.

I say, obviously this is an audio podcast, so the listeners can't see this, but we're in a sort of green room, if you like. And we've got video. It's not video podcast, but we can see each other.

And I feel that enables a more natural, you know, back and forth, which is why I prefer this, like, for the show, for example. But it's the same, like you mentioned, with just the telephone. You can tell by someone's voice.

If someone smiles, you can hear that difference in their voice as opposed to if they're down about something. And that's really key because you can't like text and email. If you've got difficult things to say, it might be easier to start with.

But then you've got, well, did they get that sarcasm font? Did they get the tone I want to give them when I said that?

And it's like, you see, then you're stewing, you're thinking, oh, okay, now what's going to come back? And now I've got to really think about now, should I pick up the four, or is it too early, et cetera. Right.

Colin Gray:

I know. You mentioned, though, the idea that.

I think you're alluding to the fact that you think that kids are just kind of communicating, either not communicating at all or just doing it by text or whatever.

But I almost see my kids actually talking more to their friends on the phone than I think I ever did, because they'll jump on, like FaceTime or Discord or whatever, chat like Snapchat quite often, something like that, where they've got a group of Friends and there's like two or three of them just in a group call and. And I see my son. We have two days a week where we do screen free.

So they don't get to play like computer games or social media or phones or whatever, but they're allowed to talk. So they're allowed to pick up their phone if it's to make a call to somebody.

And so I'll see my son walking about in the garden, just like kicking a football about, but talking to his pals at the same time. And there's like two or three of them all on a call at the same time. And I think that's really cool. I think that's like. It's almost like.

Well, the one side of me says, why don't you just go around to their house and hang out? Like, which is what we used to do. But then on the other hand, fine. I suppose it's just a different way of hanging out. There's no real.

Well, I suppose there's some negatives to it, but it's still just social and hanging out with your friends. So I think that's quite nice to see. And even when they are on screens, quite often it's with their friends.

So my daughter plays a bit of Roblox, but she'll be on the phone with two or three of her friends at the same time playing it all together, which is quite cool. So, yeah, maybe the art of the conversation is not lost quite yet. Have you got that experience with yours?

Danny Brown:

Yeah, very similar, mate, which I'm glad you brought that up because it's a great point. And we always talk about tech often being bad for kids because they're glued to the screens, et cetera.

But it doesn't always mean that they're not doing something valuable and useful and like you say, communicating with the friends. So, yeah, our son, he's 15, he'll be 16 next year. Yeah, 15. Yeah, 15. So he'll do the same.

He'll play online with his friends and he'll talk through the headset, but they'll also have like group chats, open our phones for some friends that might have the game but not the headsets or whatever. So everybody can still be involved. And my daughter, same thing. She's 13, she loves Roblox and she'll only. It's her and her school friends.

So her classmates, et cetera, are the ones that have the lobby. They don't let anybody else in, so you feel safe that they're just playing with the right people. Not Being put in front of dodgy stuff.

And it's a great way for them because where we live it's very much a very small village, only 800 families, so really small village where we live. So it's not as easy to just go and hang out with your friends all the time, especially in the winter when you've got four foot of snow.

But it's great for them to be still hanging out with them.

So, yeah, art of conversation, I think, like you say, mate, still very much alive, even if it's not face to face or the physical rotary dial phone, you know, from when I was a kid for a example.

Colin Gray:

Absolutely. I mean, I think a good connection, it's, it's just the same like we're, we're both in good connections here, we can see each other.

Like you said, it's just, I don't know, I don't know if it takes much away from it, having it like this instead.

Danny Brown:

Exactly. 100%. Well, not taking anything else away. I'm not going to take you away from the final question. You've done well to get this far, Colin.

So let's have a look and see what question number five is. And I'm liking this one. You mentioned earlier that you're good at sorting something out and resolving things.

So question five, Colin, if you knew you couldn't fail, what would you do?

Colin Gray:

Oh, it's a tricky one. I've been asked this before and I never had a very good answer.

I mean, I think there's something around, like there's tons of stuff I would probably try related to my kind of working life, but they're probably all boring answers. Like I would try like seven or eight different ideas that I've had over the years, years of different businesses to start or that kind of thing.

Well, maybe I could go back to one of them that I find quite interesting, but it would probably be more like the fun personal projects that I really like. The idea of like cycling across, you know, the world or something like cycling around the world.

Like I was kind of inspired by the fact that I followed Mark Beaumont's journey. Did you watch any of Mark Bowman's stuff in the early days when he was first doing it? Do you know who I mean?

Danny Brown:

I don't, mate, no. I may have a song but I don't know the name. Sorry.

Colin Gray:

Cool. So he's a fellow Scott, he's a cyclist and he first came to fame by cycling around the world.

So he broke the round the world on a bike record, did the whole Thing in something. I couldn't tell you the record. I'm sure it was under a year. Like it was maybe 200 days, 300 days, something like that.

To go all the way around the world on a bike might have been way less than that. To be honest. I might be butchering that.

But anyway he did it quicker than anyone had done before and he was just like a 20 something year old Scottish guy that picked up a bike and he was a bit fit and went and did it and that's really cool. And he kind of grew a whole career out of that. He did loads of different challenges. He was from same city as me.

I met him in his younger days actually came to a party. He knew a guy that I knew. So that was kind of why I started following him in the first place because it was like this guy was doing something cool.

But also I'd met in the past and I've met a few times since. But his stuff was always quite inspiring because he just picked these random challenges that just seemed completely obscene.

Like around the world or he rode from the top of Canada actually once to the bottom of South America.

So he went like up and down as well through like I was watching the video of him going through the Atacama desert on his bike and park camping next to this. Like you know, it's barely a road and the wind is just horrible, like headwind the whole way and all this kind of stuff.

So it would be something like that. If I couldn't fail, I would plan out just some kind of adventure journey over like a month with a few friends probably that'd be much better.

With a few friends. My brother does stuff like that. It'll probably take him along and try and explore a place and see a whole bunch of cities that I've not seen before.

It's one of the things I love most in life is seeing someplace new. Doesn't really matter what type of place or what what's there or anything like that, just something new and a bit different.

So doing something like that, where you cycled through or ran through or drove through or whatever, an area that had not been before, that'd be amazing.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, it's interesting because of the whole not failing option I guess. Where I mean, is that something you'd want to do anyway, even knowing the challenges ahead?

So let's say you want to bike around the world, let's go with that. And so you want to bike around the world, but you know that that's going to take X amount of months out of your life.

So you'd have to maybe place your business on hold. You'd have to maybe pull the kids out of school, all that stuff. Your wife would have to adapt her career, maybe.

So there's lots of challenges in front of you. Would you still do it if the challenges were in front of you? Have you had the opportunity?

Would you think you'd still do or would you want that almost like comfort zone where you know you want wouldn't fail?

Colin Gray:

Yeah, it's a good point. I don't think they wouldn't fail thing even comes into it. It's just a big challenge that I would probably try anyway. You're right.

It's a funny question, actually throw it back at you. I'd be interested to know if you have a good answer, because have I actually just chosen. I'm trying to think of any.

Whenever I get asked him, I try and think of examples of things that I would have liked to do, but I haven't because I was afraid I would fail. And this is not claiming to be like super brave or anything like that, but I think part of the.

I think part of the reason I was talking about, like, solving problems and like being quite good at that part, that side of things.

I think the only reason I've ever got good at that side of things, like just figuring stuff out is because I'm often happy to look like an idiot and be rubbish at it for a while. Like, I often notice, like, I'll go along to something like a new sport. I do too many different fatty sports and stuff.

And people often kind of laugh at the fact that I move between them all and I ask people to come along, but most people won't do it because they don't like that kind of beginner stage where they look like an idiot. And I often look like an idiot, whatever I do anyway. So, like I said, not very good at many things, but I'll just give it a go, I guess.

So I suppose maybe that's part of it. I don't know. Many things that I have really wanted to do that I haven't done because of that fear. But. Yeah. What about yourself?

Do you have things in mind like that?

Danny Brown:

I mean, I guess one of them would be something like you mentioned, something outrageous. So climbing Mount Everest or Kilimanjar or something like that, but doing it properly and not do the. The touristy way.

And that's no disrespect to the people that do it because I could never do it unless I couldn't Fail, but I couldn't see myself climbing Mount Everest. And I know, you know, tragically, people do die while attempting it, so I know it's not an easy feat, but. Yeah, something like that.

And I guess maybe.

And this would be more a common sense point of view, but skydiving, you know, if I knew that it was going to be fine and there wasn't the tiniest chance that the chute wouldn't open and then there's an issue. Yeah, sure, I'd love to skydive. It looks amazing. But there's that little part of me that says there's no control.

You know, you're putting your trust in a tiny bit of fabric. So maybe that would be, you know, something there.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, I get you some. The fear of just like some kind of little accident or something like that. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I suppose there's definitely some worky ones.

Like, there's things like trying to. I mean, try like. The company that I've built over the years is quite small, and I kind of want it to be small.

And maybe that is a bit of a fear, like I might be lying and not having done something. Maybe.

Maybe part of the fact that I've never tried to grow that to like 100, 200, a thousand people and make it into $100 million company is because I fear that I might feel like that. But I don't know. I'm not sure if there's. I still quite enjoy. I also quite enjoy having a really small company and knowing everyone in the team.

And that's kind of my impression of why I've chosen that. But maybe that's nonsense. Maybe there is, like hidden psychology behind that. Maybe I need a therapist to help.

Danny Brown:

That makes complete sense. And I know a lot of founders that build companies or sell companies, et cetera. There's always that feel.

Like you mentioned, mate, you built it to a stage where, you know, the people first names, you know, everybody feels like family and it'd be great to maybe sell or to grow, et cetera, expand. But then does that change the dynamics? There's now.

Now you've got instead of five people instead of 10 people on your core team, you've now got 100 and you've got to report to another 200 and you've got XYZ. So I completely get that. I've never been an entrepreneur really myself, but I work for a lot of startups and I hear you on that one.

Colin Gray:

I almost think actually it's a weakness. What I've just described because I could probably do with trying less things and sticking with just one thing.

If there's one big weakness I have is starting too many projects and actually never not following through enough of them.

So maybe I need more fear of failure to stop me starting these new things and actually just concentrate would give you more focus I guess if you had that maybe more of that fear potentially. I wonder.

Danny Brown:

Possibly. Possibly. We shall get you back on if you do decide to try more projects.

We'll get you back on a follow up episode mate and we'll we'll make one of the questions a bonus non random question.

But speaking of the five, we've reached end of your five questions and I really appreciate your answers Colin as is only fair I've had you on the hot seat for about 45 minutes or so now. It's now time to pass the question button over to you good sir.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, I was curious to know. So it's kind of related to travel certainly you're a well traveled man as well obviously living away from where you grew up and everything.

If you could set up the ultimate annual schedule for so you could live in different places throughout the year and still work, where would be your ideal two or three places cycling through the year?

Because I think about this quite often if I was able to actually move from place to place through the year to match the seasons, my interests, all that kind of stuff. What do you think would be your ideal combo throughout the year on a permanent rolling basis?

Danny Brown:

That's a really good question.

There's some places that I've been to either I lived in work growing up or I live in work now for example and some others like on holidays and others I'd really like to go to for me I guess because Canada is pretty bad or can be pretty bad in the winter, much like the Highlands of Scotland. I might want a warmer place in the winter.

So I know a lot of Canadians go to Florida for example snowbirds less so in recent years for various reasons I won't get into but I went to you mentioned you lived in Australia for a year. I backed backpacked across Australia for six months when I was early 30s I'm going to say maybe late 20s. Loved it.

I loved the size of countryside maybe.

But from there I did like a one day stopover in Bali coming back the way to get back to Europe which was amazing but it was only one day it was a stopover so I feel I'd like to maybe go to Bali in the winter which I think is Maybe closer to the spring, summer, which is nicer and it's a lovely, gorgeous part of the world. I really like where we are in Canada at the minute, especially in the summer. We are fortunate that we live on.

We don't live on a large lake, but we're within 50 minutes walking of being on a large lake. And you can go boating, fishing, kayaking, all the good stuff, swimming. It's really beautiful in the summer. Makes up for the harsh winter.

So I'd probably stay here in the summer, to be honest, mate.

Colin Gray:

Nice.

Danny Brown:

I'd love to be back in Scotland because I haven't been in a long time. I'd probably go to the Scottish Highlands, come visit you and your good family, probably in the Scottish Highlands round about spring.

Because I like that, that sort of Drake rain that you tend to get in there in Scotland in the spring, you don't get it anywhere else. And I want my kids to experience that, right.

And then I feel that's kind of spring, summer, winter, fall, autumn probably I'm going to see for the spring, I'd love to maybe do Europe and not the spring, but the autumn, sorry, fall, autumn. I'd love to do Europe somewhere. Like my.

My son's a big football fan and he's a competitive football soccer for North Americans, but football player and he follows the sport religiously and he. He wants to go to Spain to check out Madrid, Barcelona, the proper teams there and then same wait till he's to go to see Milan, you know, etc.

So maybe in the fall when the football season's just really kicking off again in Europe, go do a month or two around Europe and pull in some games from the uk, from Germany, from Italy, from France, from Spain, et cetera, whilst introducing the kids to European culture which they haven't really experienced yet. I'd love to get them into that. So that'd probably be my long winded answer, mate.

Colin Gray:

No, I like that, I like that.

Danny Brown:

And you've been well travelled yourself. What about you? Have you got a famous favorite place? Sorry, I.

Colin Gray:

Actually my kind of. My current plan, if I ever get the chance to do this, is something like where we live for the summer.

I love, I actually love where we live in the summer and I. I don't do well with hot weather, so I did struggle with that in Australia. Even in Europe it gets too hot for me in the summer. The US as well actually. Like I was over your way.

Well, not your way, but a bit further south obviously. Like even New York, actually I was in August it was too hot for me, like 30s or you know, at least like high 20s.

So Scotland is actually perfect for me in the summer because I get to go out in the bike and the mountains and all that kind of stuff and it's not too hot but it's still nice. But then as soon as it gets into autumn I think Europe actually I would go down to Spain as well.

I love Spain, the food, the culture and I would base it around activities a wee bit.

I would go over and stay on the Atlantic coast so that I could do a bit of surfing in the autumn and like enjoy the sea and some water sports and stuff through to. Until it starts to become winter. And then by winter I'd move to Japan. So Japan would be.

Japan is I think such a nice place to live in the winter because it's got great skiing, like amazing skiing through January to March, April. But it's also got so many cool like kind of more indoorsy type activities and really cool culture and great food.

So loads of more indoorsy stuff that you can enjoy over the winter in the colder months. And I wouldn't want to give up winter altogether.

This is the thing, I wouldn't follow the summer I don't think because like I say, I don't do great with warm weather anyway. So I often crave the cold when it's too hot.

So yeah, Japan till springtime and in springtime potentially somewhere in Canada or South America actually like I love the, the landscape of Canada as well so it'd be good to go over your way around that time or. I've never actually been to much in South America but I'm tempted by Argentina, Chile, all the kind of culture and, and landscape around there too.

So yeah, still to fill in the springtime. But yeah, the rest of it I'm certain on.

Danny Brown:

Well, if you're over this way at all, give me a shout. I'd be more than happy to, you know, be a tour guide if you like for some of the cool places this, this neck of the woods.

But yeah, Japan, that's my bucket list, mate. Japan is definitely my bucket list. Being a nerd growing up with Sega video games, etc.

I need to get to Japan just as like to the one time that I can say I've been in that famous district where it's all tech and you know, you're at that big Zelda crossing, etc, that's just amazing. So that'd be my one for sure.

Colin Gray:

Yeah, that's cool I think. Is it Harajuku maybe I can't remember. I get mixed up with the areas in Tokyo, but it might be.

Danny Brown:

Yeah, I think that's similar to that. And once again, keep it cool. Just to repeat myself, I will put the links to the place in the show notes so you can check it out for yourself.

So Colin, I have really appreciated you taking the time and sharing your 5 answers with our listeners today. For anybody that wants to check out your podcast, all the cool stuff you do at Alatu, the podcast host get to know more about you yourself.

Where's the best place they can either connect with you or check out your stuff?

Colin Gray:

I've actually set up an easy link recently, just my name colingray Link and that has links to Alitude, which is our podcast maker app. It has links to a few of our free courses on launching or growing a podcast.

So if you're interested in starting your own show, we've got a seven day bootcamp that links from that as well and it links through to my YouTube channel, our podcast called Podcraft. So everything that we do really is in there. So it's just over at colengrae Link.

Danny Brown:

That'S nice and simple to remember, but I'll also put that in the show notes as well.

So if you want to check out all the cool stuff he does, just check the show notes on the app you'll listen on or if you're listening to this on the website and it'll all go straight through to Colin's site there. So again Colin, thanks so much for appearing on today's five Random Questions.

Colin Gray:

Thanks for having me. Cheers.

Danny Brown:

Thanks for listening to five Random Questions.

If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd love for you to leave a review on the app you're currently listening on or over@fiverandomquestions.com review and if you know someone else that would enjoy the show, be sure to send in this way. It's very much appreciated. Until the next time, keep asking those questions.

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