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Poop Paths, Zombie Sharpshooters, and More with Reena Friedman Watts
Episode 2 • 27th June 2024 • 5 Random Questions • Danny Brown
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Join your host Danny Brown as he puts this week's 5 random questions to Reena Friedman Watts. These include a poop-dropping neighbour from hell, why sharpshooting would be a valuable asset in an apocalypse, and if Jesus had modern-day lineage. Let's jump in!

This week's guest: Reena Friedman Watts

Reena is a television producer, podcast host and mompreneur, whose worked on reality TV shows such as The Jerry Springer Show and Court TV, and with guests such as Howard Schultz, Barbara Corcoran, and Derek Sivers on Cathy Heller’s Don’t Keep Your Day Job Podcast. She's hosted her own show “Better Call Daddy” since 2020 and produced 350+ episodes, and interviewed guests like Evan Carmichael, Jerry Springer, Nanny Yvonne, James Altucher, Aleeza Ben Shalom, and many others.

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Danny:

And she never came and cleaned, she just let her dog

Danny:

out and just do the business.

Reena:

Yeah, and then her kids were doing it and yeah.

Danny:

Wait,

Danny:

wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up.

Danny:

Her kids were coming out pooping.

Reena:

No, no, not them.

Reena:

They would let the dog out too.

Reena:

It's like, like mother like kids, you know, but like if the mom lets the dog

Reena:

out with no leash and lets them poop and picks it up whenever she feels like it,

Reena:

then they feel like they can do that too.

Reena:

It's just crazy.

Danny:

Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show where

Danny:

every question is an adventure.

Danny:

I'm your host Danny Brown.

Danny:

And each week I'll be asking my guests five questions created

Danny:

by a random question generator.

Danny:

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

Danny:

which means this could go either way.

Danny:

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

Danny:

Today's guest is Reena Friedman Watts.

Danny:

Reena is a TV producer, podcast host, and mompreneur, who's

Danny:

worked on reality TV shows such as Jerry Springer Show and Court TV.

Danny:

And with guests such as Howard Schultz, Barbara Corcoran and Derek Savers on Kathy

Danny:

Heller's Don't Keep Your Day Job podcast.

Danny:

She's also the host of her own show, Better Call Daddy, which has been

Danny:

around since twenty twenty and has over three hundred and fifty episodes, which

Danny:

is putting this new show to shame.

Danny:

And she's interviewed guests like Evan Carmichael, Jerry Springer,

Danny:

Nanny Yvonne, and many, many more.

Danny:

So, Reena, thank you and welcome to the show.

Reena:

I'm excited to be here.

Reena:

Thank you so much.

Danny:

I'm excited to have you.

Danny:

We've we connected online and we've known each other a little bit now.

Danny:

And you kindly shared some tips of an anniversary episode

Danny:

for one of my other podcasts.

Danny:

So, I feel like we kind of know each other, but obviously we've never met yet.

Danny:

Anyway, there's always, you know, the future, so who knows.

Reena:

Yes, that would be an adventure.

Danny:

That would be an adventure.

Danny:

And speaking of adventures, did your daughter get to camp okay?

Reena:

Yes, yes, she's doing a variety of different dances at this

Reena:

dance camp this summer from hip hop to Lyra to hanging from the ceiling

Reena:

with those scarves things and hula hoops and all kinds of fun things.

Danny:

Awesome.

Danny:

I mean, my kids are going to camp.

Danny:

Well, they're not going to camp this year.

Danny:

They were at camp last year and they loved it.

Danny:

My son's off on a three day sort of university camp.

Danny:

He's not at university, but he's off to explore what university looks like.

Danny:

And they've got a three night camp.

Danny:

stay this week.

Danny:

So yeah, it's looking forward to that.

Danny:

Camp's an awesome time, especially this time of year is great.

Reena:

Yes, for sure.

Reena:

I'm glad she has a couple of friends doing it with her.

Reena:

That makes it even more fun.

Danny:

That's awesome.

Danny:

And I do have one question.

Danny:

It's nothing to do with the five questions we're going to dive into very soon.

Danny:

And whether you're allowed to answer this or not, I completely respect that.

Danny:

The Jerry Springer Show.

Danny:

What's the ratio of factual stories versus scripted stories on there?

Reena:

Well, they only wanted me to bring real ones, I'll just say that, and they're

Reena:

a lot easier to get, you know, people to react to if, if it's really going on.

Reena:

So in my time, pre internet, I was really trying to only

Reena:

bring those kinds of stories.

Danny:

Awesome.

Danny:

So you've got one hundred percent hit rate there.

Reena:

I did bust out a few, but I'm like, Oh my God, if you

Reena:

fooled me, you better fool them.

Danny:

Right.

Danny:

So as I say, we don't know what the questions are.

Danny:

I'm going to bring up my random question generation now and

Danny:

we'll see where things go.

Danny:

So let me just bring that up for us now.

Danny:

Ooh, okay.

Danny:

All right, Reena.

Danny:

The question is, question number one, what secret conspiracy would you like to start?

Reena:

Hmm,

Reena:

that

Danny:

could almost be political.

Danny:

Well, let's do a fun one.

Danny:

Is there a fun one that you'd like to start?

Reena:

Hmm.

Reena:

Maybe Jesus didn't come from Immaculate Conception.

Danny:

Oh, that's an interesting one.

Danny:

So would that be, Joseph would be the father then, or?

Reena:

Or maybe, I don't know, I recently was reading The Da Vinci

Reena:

Code and now I'm in the middle of Inferno and I was thinking about is

Reena:

it true that he could have lineage?

Reena:

That maybe he was married and he has children.

Reena:

I think that that could be interesting, too.

Danny:

That would be interesting, because you never really, obviously, you know

Danny:

I'm not a super religious, but we were obviously taught, you know, religion at

Danny:

school, we were taught the Bible, etc.

Danny:

And you never see that, because obviously Jesus was the, I guess, the single person.

Danny:

You never talked about, you know, was he ever married or, well, I guess he wasn't

Danny:

married, but if it was to go down that route, that could be interesting, like

Danny:

you say, and then, you know, If he does have lineage, what does that look like?

Danny:

You know, what would that look like in modern day?

Danny:

Who would be around now from his lineage?

Reena:

Yeah.

Reena:

And would they be believers?

Reena:

Would they want to hide the fact that they were related to him?

Reena:

Would they have to be hidden?

Reena:

Would they be social media influencers?

Reena:

Would they capitalize on it?

Danny:

I wonder what the hashtag would be for that.

Danny:

Yeah, I mean, that would be because like you said, I could go into all

Danny:

sorts of cool mystery thrillers as well.

Danny:

So do like facets or do factions.

Danny:

If they find out there's a lineage of Jesus, for example, and they're the

Danny:

complete opposite, or anything like that, that could be like a cool sort of mystery

Danny:

or danger thriller where they're trying to find out who it is and, you know, there's

Danny:

all sorts of stuff like that going on.

Danny:

That's, that's actually an interesting thought to take that to,

Danny:

you know, a conclusion somewhere.

Reena:

I think I would leverage if Jesus was my daddy or my granddaddy.

Danny:

Yeah, if that came out and you've been like, obviously you go to

Danny:

your dad for his take on every episode and then that comes out, he's got

Danny:

like this big secret that he shares afterwards one time, that'd be a whole

Danny:

new direction for your show as well.

Reena:

What

Reena:

would

Reena:

Jesus really say?

Reena:

Yeah.

Reena:

That'd

Danny:

That would be awesome.

Danny:

And I wonder, so if they were to make a movie of this because I do love this idea,

Danny:

who do you think would be a good character or a good actor, sorry, actor, actress

Danny:

to play the, the person of lineage?

Reena:

Who was the guy that was Aquaman?

Danny:

Oh yeah, that's Jason Momoa.

Reena:

Yeah, Jason Momoa.

Reena:

I choose him.

Reena:

He's kind of got that look.

Danny:

Yeah, definitely.

Danny:

And you don't mess with him either.

Danny:

He looks like someone that you really don't mess with in real

Danny:

life, although seemingly he's a very big, sort of, cuddly bear.

Danny:

He's not, you know, aggressive at all.

Danny:

He's complete opposite from the characters he plays on the movies that he does.

Danny:

That's it.

Danny:

That's an interesting first question and an interesting

Danny:

answer to kick off this episode.

Danny:

Where do we go from here?

Danny:

I'm not sure if we go anywhere from here.

Danny:

That's an awesome first question to ask.

Danny:

So let's get rid of that one.

Danny:

And let's do the second question.

Danny:

Are we ready for the second question?

Reena:

I'm ready.

Reena:

This is crazy.

Danny:

Alright.

Danny:

I'm not sure how we go from here, but let's have a look.

Danny:

Speaking of crazy.

Danny:

What is, question two, what is the craziest thing you've ever done?

Reena:

Well, this kind of goes along with that subject matter.

Reena:

When I was, I think, 19, I hitchhiked from Israel to Egypt.

Reena:

Oh, wow.

Reena:

And walked across that border.

Reena:

I don't think I would do that today, but that was crazy.

Reena:

And I yeah, I did it with a friend and I would like jump out and try to get the

Reena:

car and then he would hide in the bush.

Reena:

And then sometimes when they saw that I had a guy with me, they would pull off.

Reena:

But sometimes they'd give us a ride.

Danny:

And what's the what's that distance then?

Danny:

That's is that a big chunky distance.

Reena:

Oh, it was a half a day.

Reena:

I think It took us to do that, but it was crazy.

Danny:

What

Danny:

what made you do that?

Danny:

Then what

Reena:

We wanted to see You know, the untouched beaches of, of Egypt.

Reena:

Yeah, we went to the Sinai.

Reena:

We went to Nueva.

Reena:

We slept on the beach.

Reena:

That is so crazy now.

Reena:

Like I think about that now and I'm like, I would not want

Reena:

my own children doing that.

Danny:

Right, what I was going to ask is obviously your

Danny:

daughter's at camp at the moment.

Danny:

You, that's not something you'd want your daughter to do is an

Danny:

alternative to her camp, right?

Reena:

I feel like it was a lot safer, but it probably wasn't even.

Reena:

I think I was just a bit naive and it was, it was fun though.

Reena:

I mean, we slept on a tent in the beach and I got to see the mountains

Reena:

and, and these untouched beaches and eat these crazy different

Reena:

foods that I'd never had before.

Reena:

And it was pretty peaceful.

Danny:

And were your friend that you went with same age?

Reena:

Yeah.

Reena:

We played beach volleyball all day and yeah.

Danny:

How were your parents on that?

Reena:

I don't think they were aware I was doing that.

Danny:

Until you came home.

Reena:

Yeah.

Reena:

Glad I made it back safe.

Reena:

That was crazy.

Reena:

I didn't make it all the way to the pyramids, just kind

Reena:

of straight over the border.

Danny:

But it's like you say, I mean, that's, that's something that, you

Danny:

know, That not a lot of people would do now, primarily because of the, you

Danny:

know, the safety aspect and how things may be changed since we were, you

Danny:

know, 19 and I'm a bit older than you.

Danny:

So even further back when I was 19.

Danny:

Yeah, I can't imagine.

Danny:

Letting my kids do that, or not, not letting, I want my kids to have

Danny:

freedom, as I'm sure you do, to explore and, you know, and do things

Danny:

of their own accord and, and live a full sort of happy, fun life.

Danny:

But I think there's sometimes as well, you think, you know what,

Danny:

that's not the most sensible thing you could do is do a big hitchhike

Danny:

like that and sleep on the beach, but I don't know, would it be different

Danny:

if it, you know, now, I'm not sure.

Reena:

Yeah, it was quite an adventure and I literally walked across the border

Reena:

with my US passport and that was it.

Reena:

Yeah.

Danny:

No, would that be the same today?

Danny:

I'm not sure.

Danny:

I don't know.

Danny:

Yeah, because I'm, I'm just wondering if like, obviously with different regions

Danny:

and different, you know, what's going on in different parts of the world,

Danny:

et cetera, if that would be different.

Danny:

And if you had a passport from one country that was fine previously, it might not

Danny:

be so much, you know, today, for example.

Reena:

Yeah, that was wild.

Reena:

And I'm like, where's the customs?

Reena:

There's no customs.

Reena:

Like, they just put a stamp in there.

Danny:

Well it's like in the, in Europe now.

Danny:

So the UK, they they had a vote to leave Europe.

Danny:

I think it was maybe four or five years ago, something like that.

Danny:

And it was either just this year or maybe last year where now the UK passport.

Danny:

Can't get you into Europe as easily as it used to because you know, the

Danny:

UK is no longer part of Europe and because I'm originally from the UK,

Danny:

I still have a UK passport versus a Canadian passport where I am now.

Danny:

And I was talking to my wife about that the other day there, if we were

Danny:

to go to Europe, one of her bucket list things is to go to Greece and

Danny:

if we were to go to Europe, I think I would struggle more than she would.

Danny:

to actually get into Greece because I've got a UK passport, whereas before

Danny:

I could have just walked in basically.

Reena:

Oh wow.

Reena:

How come it would be hard to get into Greece?

Reena:

Do they have stricter rules?

Danny:

No, it's just purely because the, the passport situation now, because

Danny:

Britain is no longer part of the EU, the European Union, you can't travel

Danny:

as freely between European countries.

Danny:

Now, countries that are in the EU can still travel, you know, nice

Danny:

and freely on passports, et cetera.

Danny:

But I feel I've got to now get a travel visa for certain countries

Danny:

that I didn't have to before.

Danny:

So it's just like a weird thing.

Danny:

I think it would just be easier for me to, you to get a Canadian passport.

Danny:

Get, get that done, you know.

Danny:

So yeah, I can imagine, it just seems wild, you know, a 19 year old doing

Danny:

that hike and then just walking through, you know, over the border with no,

Danny:

no real stops or checks or anything.

Reena:

Just a backpack.

Danny:

Love it.

Danny:

So that's the craziest thing you've ever done.

Danny:

That is pretty crazy.

Danny:

We're going to give that a five pointer right on that answer.

Danny:

I'm not even sure there's points in this game.

Danny:

I'm going to start adding points.

Danny:

What the heck?

Danny:

All righty.

Danny:

Where do we go from here?

Danny:

Let's have a look at question three.

Danny:

Hmm, I feel this might be the same, the same similar as your

Danny:

previous one, I'm not sure.

Danny:

Let's ask anyway and we can always buffer it to another one if that's the case.

Danny:

But, question three, what is the strangest thing that has ever happened to you?

Reena:

I don't know, the first thing that comes to mind was I moved next

Reena:

to someone who thought that they didn't have to put their dog on a

Reena:

leash and that they could freely poop in my yard every day for 11 months.

Reena:

That felt strange.

Reena:

Was like I don't know where that's ever been okay, but Yeah, it feels personal.

Reena:

Can you please stop?

Danny:

Now, and it was this in the suburbs or was this in a city?

Danny:

Because I know some things as you get more out to say rural areas.

Reena:

It's slightly in the city, but yeah, thank goodness she moved

Reena:

after the one year lease and I am feeling freedom from that.

Reena:

But yeah, it was very strange.

Reena:

I've never seen someone who feels like they just are above the law and that

Reena:

they can poop on somebody every day.

Reena:

That was wild.

Danny:

And did you speak to her about this?

Danny:

Did she raise it with her?

Danny:

Or do you think, you know what, she's obviously.

Reena:

That that did not help the situation whatsoever.

Danny:

Oh, man.

Danny:

And she never came and cleaned,.

Danny:

She just let her dog out and just.

Danny:

Do the business.

Reena:

Yeah, and then her kids were doing it and yeah.

Danny:

Wait,

Danny:

wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up, back up.

Danny:

Her kids were coming out pooping.

Reena:

No,

Reena:

no, not them.

Reena:

They would let the dog out too.

Reena:

It's like, like mother, like kids, you know, but like if the mom

Reena:

lets the dog out with no leash and let's them poop and picks it up

Reena:

whenever she feels like it, then.

Reena:

They feel like they can do that too.

Reena:

It's just crazy.

Reena:

And I didn't even have a camera.

Reena:

Like when we first moved in, I was like, guess it's time for a camera.

Reena:

I guess it's time for Mace.

Reena:

Guess it's time for animal control.

Reena:

Like I'd never in my life had to do those things, you know?

Danny:

I would have thought there'd be by laws for that though, no?

Danny:

There wasn't any by laws?

Reena:

There are, but

Reena:

she feels like, you know, that it's, for some reason, even though according

Reena:

to the land record it was our yard, she felt like it was hers too.

Danny:

Oh my grief.

Danny:

And then she moved out, so you've got, are you still in that house now?

Danny:

Is that the same house you're in now, or?

Reena:

Yes.

Danny:

Better neighbours now?

Reena:

Well, now it's vacant.

Reena:

And let me tell you, every day I come home, I am so grateful.

Reena:

I'm like, what another beautiful day with no poop in the yard.

Reena:

It was so crazy.

Reena:

I was starting to name each time she did it.

Reena:

I was like, after school poop, good morning poop, after Christmas

Reena:

poop, you know, spring break poop.

Danny:

I feel like this could be a topic for Jerry Springer, this, you know, this

Danny:

neighbor, the poop neighbor from hell.

Reena:

Crappy neighbor be gone.

Danny:

I, like, I wonder what she would have done had she lived in

Danny:

an apartment complex and she's on the 10th floor or something.

Danny:

Does she let it poop on the balcony in the apartment?

Danny:

Does she actually take it to the park or what would she do?

Reena:

She

Reena:

only walked it in my yard.

Reena:

It was like a shared walk space, but not really because like, according

Reena:

to the land record, it was our space.

Reena:

She had like a little piece of land, like, you know, on the other side

Reena:

of where she walked into her place.

Reena:

We're in like townhomes.

Reena:

It was crazy.

Reena:

But

Danny:

that's

Danny:

mad - do you never get tempted to collect some up and leave it?

Reena:

Oh, trust me.

Reena:

I have all kinds of creative ideas of things.

Reena:

I wanted to do with it.

Reena:

I thought about, you know, creating little like eggs or poops in her wreath.

Reena:

Like when she hung that up or taking, I did one time because another thing

Reena:

that she would do, which was very odd or strange was there was like

Reena:

a drain pipe out the side of her house and she would hang the poop

Reena:

bag there for a week at a time.

Reena:

I'm like, Dude, one poop, one dispose of poop, like, I don't know why you're

Reena:

trying to be like economic on the plastic bags, but like, you know, you use one per

Reena:

every time it goes and you dispose of it.

Reena:

Like there's rules around that too.

Reena:

But yeah, she'd hang it off the drain pipe for like a week where

Reena:

like flies would start to gather.

Reena:

And I'm like, it's so unsanitary.

Danny:

And did you have kids then?

Danny:

You mentioned it was a while.

Reena:

I

Reena:

have four kids.

Reena:

And so, like, my kid's friends would come over and they're like, that is so gross.

Reena:

Like,

Danny:

I can't even imagine.

Danny:

It's like, I mean, we live, where we live, it's a small village.

Danny:

It's very rural, but people respect the poop law, you know.

Danny:

So I can't, I can't, that just flummoxed me completely.

Danny:

That's just bizarre.

Reena:

It was wild.

Reena:

Like, In the beginning, I was like, oh, hey, did you notice?

Reena:

Because she would also dog sit, so she left like pit bull mounds in my yard.

Reena:

I was like, that's kind of a lot.

Reena:

Are you going to pick that up?

Reena:

Like, that's how it started.

Reena:

And then it was like I have a five year old.

Reena:

Can you please keep your dog on a leash?

Reena:

And then I was like, hey, like, this is a yard that we walk through every day.

Reena:

Can this not be your toilet?

Reena:

Yeah,

Danny:

That's yeah bizarre.

Danny:

I'm glad obviously that the neighbor is no longer there, but I pity the

Danny:

poor person she is now moved in next to because clearly that's like a continuous

Danny:

issue That's not something that she was just doing with you unless maybe it

Danny:

was maybe she's just like didn't like you But a weird way to do it though

Reena:

It was crazy because when she moved in her boyfriend told me I can't

Reena:

I'm so glad to get rid of our last neighbors And that did not even ring

Reena:

Yeah A red flag for me, but if somebody tells you that beware, like it's coming,

Danny:

Get out of town, get out of town.

Danny:

Yeah, I'm going to be extremely grateful that I was not your neighbor two

Danny:

doors down on the opposite side of her because I feel that that might have

Danny:

been an issue to if she's like wandering about and just letting dogs all over.

Danny:

I don't know.

Danny:

People, people, what can you do with them?

Danny:

Alrighty, we're three fifths, what's that, 60%, 60 percent I'm trying to

Danny:

get my math correctly done there.

Danny:

60 percent through here, so we're doing well.

Danny:

We've had some interesting topics and interesting answers so far.

Danny:

So I'm curious where we're going to go with the last two questions.

Danny:

So let's have a look at question number four.

Danny:

Okay, then.

Danny:

I feel everybody's done this, but let's find out.

Danny:

So, Reena, question four.

Danny:

Have you ever sent a message to the wrong person?

Danny:

And as a follow up to that, if you have, where did that end up?

Reena:

Oh,

Reena:

my God.

Reena:

The funniest story, honestly, was my husband sending the wrong message.

Reena:

He was trying to message me, and he messaged a work colleague.

Reena:

And it was kind of inappropriate, but, like, there was, like, a lost in

Reena:

translation, so it worked out okay.

Reena:

You

Danny:

Okay, I feel you have to expand.

Reena:

I think he was like working for an international company at the time.

Reena:

I forgot what he even said, but I, I always remember that one because

Reena:

it was like, what does that mean?

Reena:

You know what I mean?

Reena:

Like you didn't even understand.

Reena:

And he was like, Oh, that message wasn't for you.

Reena:

It was almost like, I think we were like, you know, like saying like a

Reena:

code word between us or something.

Reena:

And it went to like one of his vendors in Korea or something and

Reena:

he was kind of like, Ah, yeah.

Danny:

And I was going to say, because you mentioned it got lost in translation.

Danny:

So I'm guessing the person that was the recipient was English,

Danny:

not the first language then.

Danny:

And that's where they started.

Danny:

Confusion arose, at least it's a message.

Danny:

Obviously the confusion was on your husband's side, sending it

Danny:

to the wrong number to start with.

Reena:

Yeah, he sent it

Reena:

to a work colleague who was in Korea.

Reena:

But yeah, I think it was maybe just like a made up word or a funny thing that

Reena:

we said between each other, you know.

Reena:

And and he wasn't sure if it was like a food or something he was supposed to do or

Reena:

those are those are fun.

Reena:

They can make you laugh.

Danny:

Yeah, I don't think so.

Danny:

It wasn't a safe word or anything.

Reena:

No, it wasn't a safe word.

Reena:

God,

Reena:

now I'm like, what was it?

Reena:

I can't remember the word even.

Reena:

But yeah, that's the first one that comes to mind is my husband sent a

Reena:

message to one of his vendors and he, I think was just like confused

Reena:

by it, which was better than like him probably understanding the message.

Danny:

You're right.

Danny:

Yeah, exactly.

Danny:

And then you get an email from HR and you're thinking, why, why

Danny:

am I getting an email from HR?

Reena:

Oh man.

Reena:

Yeah.

Reena:

I don't think I've ever done that.

Reena:

Oh, you know, one time I was helping my dad sell off like all of the equipment.

Reena:

He was closing up his manufacturing place and he had kind of a list

Reena:

of like all of his old vendors.

Reena:

And One of the people that we sent it to, I don't know what she did, but she

Reena:

hit like reply all to her entire email list of everything that we were selling.

Reena:

I mean, it was good for us.

Reena:

But yeah, like her boss was like, what did you just do?

Danny:

I never, I've never like, so my kids school, we had a bunch of emails

Danny:

from the kids school and generally you'll reply to the teacher, but

Danny:

then she'll reply all to everyone.

Danny:

So whatever question you've just asked.

Danny:

Every parent now gets to know you thinking, please don't do that again.

Danny:

And makes you, you know, wary of sending any emails to the teacher.

Reena:

Yeah, I feel like that happens a lot too with like these private,

Reena:

you know, WhatsApp groups between parents and all of the classes now.

Reena:

I'm like, sometimes I feel like those get even Too personal.

Reena:

I'm like, maybe you should take that up with one parent versus

Reena:

like, send that to the whole class.

Reena:

I kind of even stay out of the rooms.

Reena:

I'm like, I just want to know, like, when are the basketball games?

Reena:

Like, when is parent teacher night?

Reena:

Like, you know, what are the assignments?

Reena:

I don't need to know about every bullying or every, you know, uniform problem or.

Danny:

Exactly.

Danny:

And that's it.

Danny:

You join the parent groups because you want to keep up to date with

Danny:

your kid's school and anything you need relevant to your kid.

Danny:

But often there's a lot of drama gets brought into these groups too.

Danny:

And you think, no, no, no, no, no, I'm out.

Danny:

I'm out.

Danny:

I'm out.

Reena:

Totally.

Reena:

It's so crazy.

Reena:

Like, I'll drop off a kid and the moms will be like, did

Reena:

you read the WhatsApp chat?

Reena:

I'm like, I stay out.

Reena:

I'm like, there's so many messages in those chats.

Reena:

Like, I just have to pay attention to like the emails that are sent from the school.

Danny:

Although it does give you a good insight as to which parent is maybe,

Danny:

not, not weird, that's the wrong word to use, but which parent is maybe has

Danny:

very different views from yourself and maybe keep an eye on what your

Danny:

kids now saying is that impacting, you know, your kid's viewpoint or their,

Danny:

their friend's viewpoint because your kids are saying something maybe they

Danny:

shouldn't, you know, to do it both ways.

Danny:

So I'm always wary of like these kind of groups, like you say, because people that

Danny:

you like and have fun with, sometimes you can find out, Oh, they're not

Danny:

quite the person I thought they were.

Danny:

Yikes.

Reena:

Oh, yeah, you can tell a lot about people by how they communicate

Reena:

online or even in WhatsApp groups.

Danny:

Yeah, well, especially WhatsApp groups.

Danny:

Is it WhatsApp or Snapchat where it's meant to delete

Danny:

after 24 hours or something?

Danny:

Is that Snapchat?

Reena:

Yeah.

Danny:

Yeah, I can never remember.

Danny:

I don't really use the two of them.

Danny:

I use WhatsApp, I think, for podcasting events and

Danny:

conferences I go to with my job.

Danny:

But apart from that, I never use it.

Danny:

My daughter sent me a Snapchat link and I told her I don't use this,

Danny:

I've not got the app, what's this?

Danny:

And she wouldn't tell me what it was.

Danny:

I thought, okay, now we have an issue.

Danny:

But anyway, it was all good.

Reena:

Yeah, they all love snapping each other all day long.

Reena:

It's it's hard to keep up with all of the ways in which they

Reena:

communicate to talk to you.

Danny:

Yep.

Danny:

No, I'm sure as your daughter got a phone with her.

Danny:

I'm going to guess she's got a phone with her.

Reena:

She

Reena:

does, but I have not.

Reena:

Allowed her to get data yet.

Danny:

Okay.

Reena:

I feel like everywhere.

Reena:

I'm sending her.

Reena:

There's Wi Fi and She's on it enough as it is and I want to

Reena:

be Still monitoring that more.

Danny:

Yeah.

Danny:

No, I get that.

Danny:

How old your daughter is she?

Reena:

She's 13

Danny:

13.

Danny:

Yep So yeah, that's a it's a good time to start to learn about social media and

Danny:

what's up and all that stuff But it's also a good time to as you mentioned

Danny:

for the parents just to introduce them slowly and it helps it you know she's

Danny:

got a mom like you that's well versed in social media knows all the pitfalls and

Danny:

also with your background you'll see some horror stories come through as well so

Danny:

she's got a good role model there maybe not so much from the hiking part across

Danny:

Israel border or not but apart from that

Reena:

Yeah, I think I'll wait to tell her about that.

Danny:

Wait till she's 19, then you can say, Okay, you know what?

Danny:

At your age, I was doing this.

Danny:

Get off the sofa, get outside.

Danny:

Alrighty, so we've arrived at the final question, and I'm not

Danny:

sure what this is going to be.

Danny:

It's been an interesting ride so far, so let's bring up question number five.

Danny:

Alrighty, I'm sensing a theme in this week's questions, actually.

Danny:

I'm not sure how random these questions are, because there's

Danny:

a definite theme coming in here.

Danny:

Okay.

Danny:

Okay, Reena, question five.

Danny:

After you survive the apocalypse, what will your job be?

Reena:

Oh my gosh, maybe like, I don't know, some sort of, hopefully

Reena:

I'll be like a sharpshooter, I guess.

Reena:

I'll be training people on weapons.

Danny:

So you'll be like the, is it Rick that's the weapons person?

Danny:

I've never really watched that, I'm gonna I'm going to come clean here.

Danny:

I've never watched The Walking Dead, not one single episode.

Danny:

So I'm not sure who the sharpshooter is in that episode, on that show.

Reena:

Yeah, I haven't watched it.

Reena:

My husband and sons were obsessed.

Reena:

But I do feel like you have to be skilled with weapons in the

Reena:

apocalypse after watching that.

Reena:

But they use more of spears.

Danny:

And I guess it depends on what kind of apocalypse.

Danny:

Are we talking zombie apocalypse?

Reena:

Exactly.

Danny:

You know, we're talking like nuclear apocalypse and then.

Danny:

Are there any survivors?

Danny:

So I guess, I mean, for a bit of context, you'd want to know what kind

Danny:

of apocalypse, and if it was zombies, how many zombies are now there?

Danny:

I mean, I do watch the The Last of Us.

Danny:

I watched that on Prime.

Danny:

I guess it's HBO in the US, but it's on Prime, I think, over here.

Danny:

Or Crave, sorry, in Canada.

Danny:

And that was really good.

Danny:

It got kind of, it wasn't sort of so much zombies as opposed to zombies.

Danny:

Like this infection that, that turned people's brains to mush

Danny:

or controlled humans that way.

Danny:

So I guess they were like zombies then.

Danny:

What are we talking about?

Danny:

But yeah, it was interesting to see how different people survived and use their,

Danny:

like, how to completely change their outlook on life to survive, you know,

Danny:

following that, that apocalypse, I guess.

Reena:

Yeah, I always think about, would I keep my humanity?

Reena:

And those kinds of, you know, really stressful times, people who were able

Reena:

to do that, like, I just read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.

Reena:

And I thought it was really interesting how he kind of like thought of his wife,

Reena:

and he thought of the love that he had, and he thought of like, the apartment

Reena:

that he lived in and the everyday tasks that he was looking forward to doing.

Reena:

Like, I would hope that that is what would motivate me.

Reena:

would be thinking about the good times versus, you know, I got to get rid

Reena:

of all of the people around me, but like, Hey, we can all survive together.

Reena:

Like I would hope that I would keep some sense of humanity in the crazy.

Danny:

And that's like, I don't know if you've watched the last of us show

Danny:

at all, Reena, but you don't watch it?

Danny:

No.

Danny:

So obviously it's based on video game.

Danny:

And I followed it really well actually, but there's a, a couple

Danny:

of characters in it called Bill and Frank and their episode, I think it

Danny:

was episode three of the TV show.

Danny:

It focused on them How they met and survived, you know, after the

Danny:

apocalypse and it was very much about keeping their human side.

Danny:

So they grew vegetables and fruit they made a habit of going for a

Danny:

walk and doing the normal stuff and, and going to shops, even though the

Danny:

shops were closed and it was just basically their own little shops, etc.

Danny:

And making Sunday roasts and all that cool stuff.

Danny:

And that was a nice break because prior to that, the two episodes

Danny:

were very, you know, in your face.

Danny:

This is horrible.

Danny:

This is like, you know, gory, etc.

Danny:

And then you had this very, very human interlude of these two characters.

Danny:

And I feel that, like you say, that's something that's That would

Danny:

be easy to lose is the humanity because you're trying to survive.

Danny:

You're obviously protecting your family if they've survived to hopefully they have

Danny:

and you're protecting your loved ones.

Danny:

And I feel would be very easy to slip into someone.

Danny:

You're completely not because you're trying to survive.

Reena:

Yeah.

Reena:

Should I go into the question?

Reena:

I feel like it kind of ties into this, but I would love to know what you do to

Reena:

be grounded or centered or remain calm.

Reena:

What are ways that you like to?

Reena:

Relax.

Danny:

That's it.

Danny:

That's a good one.

Danny:

So, yeah, just time for our listeners every week.

Danny:

Obviously, each guest gets to ask me a random question because it's only fair.

Danny:

I'm putting them through the ringer and putting them on the

Danny:

spot with five questions that they have no planning or research for.

Danny:

So it's only fair.

Danny:

So, yeah, I like that one.

Danny:

I think for me, I mean, a lot of it comes down to my family.

Danny:

I've got two kids and obviously my wife we're still together.

Danny:

I said that a really bad way.

Danny:

Sorry, Jacqueline, if you're listening, you probably won't be, so I'm safe.

Danny:

But yeah, I've got my family, so my wife and my two kids.

Danny:

My son's 14, my daughter's 12, and we moved I mentioned earlier,

Danny:

we moved to this little village.

Danny:

That's really rural.

Danny:

There's only maybe eight hundred families here.

Danny:

It's very surrounded by nature.

Danny:

There's a lake, big massive lake about 15 minute walk away from the, the house.

Danny:

Lots of snow in the winter.

Danny:

So I'm surrounded by cowmen.

Danny:

stuff.

Danny:

So if I have a bad day, cause I do suffer from mental illness issues as, as my wife.

Danny:

So we kind of bounce off each other, recognize when that's happening

Danny:

and help each other through that.

Danny:

So it's good that we're in this nature area where I can go outside.

Danny:

I can just go breathe in the air, look at the trees, listen to the birds or go

Danny:

out in the lake on a kayak or something.

Danny:

So that's good.

Danny:

But I think seeing My kids, they're both athletes, a very competitive athlete.

Danny:

So my son plays competitive soccer for his team and my daughter

Danny:

does competitive cheerleading.

Danny:

So they do a lot of competitions and seeing the love that they have for that.

Danny:

Whereas when I was their age, I was, we didn't have that.

Danny:

We were in the UK growing up in the seventies.

Danny:

That's not something you would encourage.

Danny:

So I would say probably my family keeps me really grounded and just having good

Danny:

people around me getting to, you know, chat with good folks like yourself and

Danny:

ignoring all the drama on social media can get sucked into that so easily, you know?

Danny:

So that's why I don't have a lot of social media apps I use.

Danny:

Twitter for my conversations and Facebook just for friends and family.

Reena:

I love that.

Reena:

That's wonderful.

Reena:

It makes me want to go on a kayak.

Danny:

Ah, it's amazing.

Danny:

I mean, I, we used to have a little cottage up here.

Danny:

And this is that's how we fell in love with this area.

Danny:

And then when we decided to move here, we sold the cottage.

Danny:

But when we had it, there was also a lake nearby.

Danny:

And that's when I first got into sort of kayaking.

Danny:

It's just, it's really relaxing where you just go there, disappear and do nothing,

Danny:

not care about anything in the world.

Reena:

Yes, it is so calming.

Reena:

That's wonderful.

Reena:

Thank you for sharing that.

Danny:

Thank you for the question.

Danny:

That was a really good one.

Danny:

I like that.

Danny:

I like that a lot.

Danny:

So Reena, we're gonna be wrapping up soon.

Danny:

I really enjoyed.

Danny:

hearing your five answers.

Danny:

I'm curious, actually, if, if the first question about the, the lineage,

Danny:

the answer of lineage, if that will get any pushback online, we'll see, I

Danny:

guess, when it comes out, we'll see.

Danny:

I don't think so.

Danny:

I think we were respectful, you know, with the The whole premise and I love

Danny:

the fact that you went there and had that, that whole direction there.

Danny:

So be interesting to see, you know, we may have to, I may have to come to you

Danny:

for, you know protection or something.

Danny:

Get your dad to protect us both.

Danny:

This episode drops.

Danny:

For anyone that wants to listen, obviously to your podcast and hear your dad,

Danny:

obviously, because he shares some amazing advice and thoughts on on the episodes.

Danny:

Where's the best place to listen to your show and connect with you directly?

Reena:

Thank you so much.

Reena:

Better call daddy.

Reena:

com and I'm on most social media as Reena Friedman Watts.

Reena:

So that's Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram.

Danny:

And I'll be sure to link to all of these in the show notes.

Danny:

So wherever you're listening, be sure to check them out.

Danny:

I know not everyone does, but do check them out.

Danny:

Cause I will be linking out to every guest and I recommend you

Danny:

check them out, you know, each time.

Danny:

So thanks for that.

Danny:

So again, Reena, thank you for joining me today and opening

Danny:

yourself up to five random questions.

Reena:

What a great concept for a show.

Reena:

I really enjoyed it.

Danny:

So thanks to you for listening to 5 Random Questions.

Danny:

If you enjoyed this week's episode, be sure to follow for free on the

Danny:

app you're currently listening on or online at 5randomquestions.

Danny:

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Danny:

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Danny:

happier than that time I met Darth Vader at my local supermarket.

Danny:

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

Danny:

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Danny:

so it was obviously the real deal.

Danny:

But seriously, if you wanted to leave a review, that would be awesome.

Danny:

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Danny:

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