Richard Pekárek (muzikálový herec)

Quick welcome if you're new here. This is five random questions. If this episode makes you laugh, think or say, "Oh, that's good." Hit follow so you don't miss the next one. And maybe she'll have a friend who'd enjoy it too. I think the main takeaway is I should not be giving a wish because I will use it very frivolously. Maybe give a better thought leader that wish. Maybe I'll wish that somebody else can make this wish that has a better perspective. I'm not giving a word on it. I went no responsibility. Hi and welcome to five random questions. The show with unexpected questions and unfiltered answers. And your host Danny Brown, in 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 Austin Gray, an Austin-based comedian and writer who can't help but laugh at the little things. Austin loves to write self-indighting essays that use comedy as a shield and also a spotlight. He's also the host of Rambler, live from the city that never works, a podcast audio diary from inside a city addicted to being addicted. So Austin, welcome to five random questions. Thanks Danny, it's great to be here. I'm excited. Excited to see where we go and what questions are we about to pop up for us. Well, this is always the fun little part as well, just like the gentle easing into whatever lies behind you know, our lies ahead. So this is always a nice gentle start as well. So good to have you here. Appreciate you being on there. The show today, mate. Right. Thank you. Thanks for having me. And you, as I mentioned in the introduction to our Euro-Comedian, who's also got the podcast. Do you take inspiration from some of the audience interactions for your podcast in vice versa? Or are they two separate things? Yeah, I would say they're mainly two separate things, but I'd be lying if this podcast just wasn't influenced by every single thing in my life. It's very much so. Me just rambling about what I've seen recently and what's inspired me. What's influenced me and interestingly enough, as I've written for the podcast and started sharing smaller things are more noticeable in their larger impact. So definitely audiences influence what I find funny and what I want to share. And it said that a crowd work, how do you feel in crowd work? Because I've spoken a couple of meetings before on the podcast, and I know one of the the chaps I work with does improv. And it's always interesting to hear each one's take on audience work and do the like it, do the not like it. So what's yours from take on it? Yeah, it's definitely a learned art for sure. It's not something I think a lot of people like to go up and do crowd work. And just like the chit chat. It's a learned art. I think when it's on, it's perfect. Sometimes the audience doesn't realize it's a joke and that can be brutal. It can go sideways quickly. But as long as the audience is an engaged audience and they're there to have fun, it's really my favorite thing to do when the audience is there to be the comedian themselves. Sometimes it's not quite as fun. Now here, yeah, it's like I could imagine if you're up there on a stage in the spotlight and you're not getting a reaction. I can imagine what that could be like for sure. And as I mentioned, you've got your podcast. And what I found interesting before we get into your random questions is your podcast description mentions, we're not interested in answers, but I'm going to ask you a lot of questions. So how do you feel you'll do on five random questions? That's all about your answers. I think your five answers to your questions may not be complete answers either. So we'll see if there's other questions that come up as I'm answering. It's the old political move. You know, answer a question with a question. That's the best way to avoid an answer. So I'll try my best to give complete answers and they threw it. But I never know where it's about to hit. So a fair warning. That's good enough for good enough for me. Good enough for me. So without further ado, then, are you ready to jump into the five random questions? Hot seat. Absolutely. Let's get into it. All right. Let's bring up the random question generator. Okay, Austin. Nice easy one. I feel too to jump into for question number one. How have you changed since you were younger? That's a good, that's a reminiscent question that I don't think I was ready for that, that deep of a question. It's interesting what has changed and what hasn't changed. Funnily enough, as a child, I would probably say I was more introverted. Got a lot of energy from books, a lot of energy in my academics. But I think that energy came from a place of being someone who likes to please and like have people pleased with my performance and what I'm doing. And funnily enough, as I get older, I find the easiest way to please people and get them happy with me is to entertain them. And so it kind of has evolved from this place of being a very expert student to being a bit more of an entertainer out in the wild, kind of doing random things, doing things that people will react to and people will interact to. Still with the end result of trying to make them happy and trying to bring a smile to their face. I just went from getting a's on your report, covering a smile to your family, your parents face to telling a good joke that lands is what brings a smile to your friends face. So definitely same motive, but I guess different result interestingly enough. And you mentioned that about wanting to make people happy. Is that something that's just always been a natural thing? Is it something that's an end in this isn't like an end on paying its family, et cetera, teachers or whatever, our friends? Was it looking for approval from your circle? Whoever that circle may have looked like? I was just like natural to you that you wanted to please people. That's a fantastic question. And as far as I can remember, I've always wanted to be somebody who pleases my circle and is a good student, a good child, a good son, a good friend. But is it nature or nurture? My family definitely has all of those similar tendencies across my family or all people who like to be engaged and like to make people around us comfortable and like to make people around us have a good time and enjoy themselves. Was I born like that genetically? Possibly. I mean, it almost seems like it. But then again, we all had to save up bringing in the same environment. My dad is a coach or was a sports coach. And so it's definitely very much so like, I want to tell you what you want you to do and you're going to go execute it. And I can't help but say I'm sure that had something to do with my desire to do what I'm asked to do in a positive way. So. Yeah, and I think that's a good thing. I think the world needs more people that want to please help others and make others happy. I think that that's like certainly nice, like, something the last city about 10 years, whatever you want to look at. It just seems that we've kind of moved away from serve to self if you like. And I feel it's a good thing to want to make other lives enjoyable. So, you know, like I say, no critique on anybody there. Just to make that clear, just what it's enough. Yeah, but it's great to see that. There's plenty to critique parents on, but we'll give them a pass on that one. There's definitely a selfishness to society these days. Maybe it's always been there. We just haven't noticed it, but it's maybe less opportunity to be selfless. So I definitely think in any way you can be and serve the people around you. In my opinion, what we're here for to make our lives more enjoyable and to have a collective enjoyable experience. So. Well, I like that. And I say I like that a lot. I think it's a really nice, you know, outlook to have. So I'm all for that and could us to you for that. And I feel that's a great way to end your time on question one. And let's have a look at what question number two brings up. All right, question number two, Austin and I, because of your background as a comedian writer, etc. And also a podcaster, I like this one from a question point of view. So question two, what are your favorite topics to talk about? This is a, this is a loaded one. So I'm a contrary and at heart. And I've got to be honest, I will never tell that to in the middle of a conversation, but I'm a contrarian. And I like to take the opposite side of something that someone else is passionate about. So basically all the things that you're not supposed to talk about at the dinner table are my favorite topics to hit on, you know, politics, being being a being a good one and challenging the status quo, but also sports, you know, getting into someone's against someone's favorite sports team and telling them why they're kind of a little trash talk is always a good time. But it kind of goes back to the first question where it's about people for me. And I wanted to talk about something that the other person is passionate about. Conversations get rather dull if it's me talking the entire time. So I don't know how this is going to go, but it will be fine. But I, I definitely like to have other person passionate and engaged and poking holes in their point of view and getting them going. And you mentioned that about being contrarian and you'll love to offer the counterpoint to someone else's, you know, beliefs, topics, understanding of a certain topic, for example. So you mentioned family, close family, and you like to make each other happy. So based on that, if you're a man, I think I think it's given get together. Everybody's around the table and you're talking maybe politics, maybe religion, maybe sports, anything that you always get to very much a positive side generally. With your mindset of also wanting to, you know, please and make people happy. Is there any topic that you tend to or conversation you've found in the past where you've had this back and forth and you've realized, oh, this is going to be a path I shouldn't go in a longer and you've pulled back. Oh, many, many times. I have a, I have a role, I think every comedian should live by is it's too far when it's not funny. If people are laughing and engaged, you're right on the knot. If it's no longer funny, you went too far. And I know that's not really a fair role because you know, you normally don't know it's not funny until you present it. But a large part of cancel culture, I feel like is people getting offended by these jokes. And in my teens, because the jokes are malicious, they're not funny. They're coming, they're saying things that are just shock humor to get people surprised, to get people riled up. There's no real innovation, no real thought behind the joke. And I think when people know that intent behind what you're saying is to be ironic or be funny. And honestly, a huge part of humor is irony. And so you've got to know, if I say one thing, that I'm really kind of meaning the other and highlighting how crazy what I'm saying actually is. But oh my gosh, it goes too far. More than once in my life. And it's always a a beat red moment in my life because I can say that I don't want to offend somebody. I find a argument and discussion stimulating. And I like to think that other people do as well. But I don't want it to be a negative thing. And it shouldn't be arguing doesn't necessarily have to always be negative. It can be a civil discourse that can bring about good new ideas. Well, that's a really good point you may hear about the defiance between comedy, Storks, satire, and just pure maliciousness. One of my favorite comedies, George Carlin, always, you know, his mantra was, you can basically make humor out of anything, but never punch down. You know, punch straight ahead and make sure that you're at a level playing field. If you're giving someone, you can take it back, never punch down because that's an easy cup out. What's your sort of like get out a jail free card, if you like, if you realize, if you're on stage and you realize, oh, this isn't going, I'm now upsetting someone. If you got like a process, you know, do or you stop and say, I apologize, we'll move on. What you take there, but how do you do? Yeah, I try to move on as quick as possible. I don't, I would like to apologize after the show. If I try, like I truly offended someone, because like I said, that's never, ever my intent. My intent was to bring happiness, to bring laughter. And in fact, that's the quite the opposite thing. You know, sometimes you offend someone they may leave, which is, you know, the biggest cut point because you get no opportunity to remedy it. But I normally don't address it on stage. Like I said, it makes me really beat red and awkward. And so a fortuitous shut off my creative spirit. I try to get away from it and run as fast as I can in the other direction. Maybe someday I'll be comfortable enough to, you know, loop back around and add live off of it and maybe do some crowd work off of it with that person. Make fun of myself would probably be my preferred route there and probably lean into like an archetype of some, you know, red neck or some extreme liberal. It go from there. So yeah. Well, I always wondered as well. And this is just me stereotyping. So I apologize if this is completely off of, sorry, off, off, off base. But there's a stereotype that a lot of Americans don't understand irony. Whereas it's more like a European kind of humor or kind of thing. Do you think that's true? And if so, is that maybe where misunderstandings can happen on your, you know, your comedy stage, for example? I think Americans don't have as developed of a sense of irony as many Europeans do. You can, I mean, I think the best example is the office where the UK version was very a lot more subtle and quiet than the American version, which is very in your face with Steve Krel doing insane tactics. There's still some of the ironic portions and what's funny is a lot people will tell me they don't like the office. Well, not a lot of people don't like the office. A lot of people that don't like the office will tell me they don't like it because it's uncomfortable. I think that uncomfortableness is the irony and kind of the lack of grasping what's ironic there. We remind me of the name of who is the boss in the office in the UK version. I can see his face. David Brent, who's played by Ricky Jovey. Yes. And Ricky has this sense of humor that's very much so ironic. And he did the, I believe it's the Oscar's Grammied's a few years ago. And he did a pretty brutal opening monologue. And I don't think it went as well in the US as it might have gone in Europe just because we're a group that takes ourselves so serious. We don't love, we don't love being the point that run the joke because we failed to realize that it's ironic. So I do think Europeans maybe have a better grasp on iron teeth than the Americans. Well, I mean, they didn't fight them back four times. I think they did it five times in a row. What was it? The Golden Globes maybe? Yeah, Golden Globes. That's what it is. So maybe who knows? Maybe. Somebody understood. Yeah, exactly. So the audience and the dollars coming up for you, let's get this guy booked back on. Yeah, no, it's like, I mean, stereotypes are hard because sometimes the proper stereotypes other times are not. And I've obviously, I've got many, many American friends and had many American guests on the show. And it's always nice to sort of break down, well, that's not quite true. This is maybe true, etc. But yeah, I think I really is one of these ones as well. Even as someone from the UK that never listened to Canada, I find Canadians have got very much a similar sense of humor as the Brits or us from the UK. But it's still that fine line at times between irony and satire and no one exact, you know, where that's where that's been crossed. Yeah, I think every region, every audience has a difference in humor. So to say, you know, a full audience, America, you know, has always proud of itself on being a melting pot. So surely there's somebody here who gets irony. But in general, you know, it probably is a little a little more towards sensationalism and shock humor in America than maybe the little ironic tidbits here and there in the dry, the dry comedy. Well, I think what we'll do, and I appreciate that. I think we'll work together to break these barriers down and we'll continue to do that as we look at more questions. So you ready for question number three? Absolutely. All right. Let's see what comes up on question number three. Okay. What's your ideal question three? What's your ideal way to celebrate your birthday? This past birthday was probably my favorite birthday I've had a whole time. So I've probably can just describe this one. I recently moved into a house, which is a big upgrade for me in my condo life. It did come with roommates, which has been an adjustment. But it's nice to have the this square footage to be able to host and entertain them a big entertainer, like I said. And so I invited probably 30, 30 close friends to my birthday this year at my house for for a Halloween. I'm a I'm a October. I'm a Scorpio of any of your listeners are into astrology. So I had a nice Scorpio Halloween party in October. And everybody came dressed up. There was some really insane outfits. And then a couple of people brought, you know, the gift of alcohol, which was quickly shared with the whole group. And it went very late. My guitar was brought out around the two in the morning, which is a terrible terrible side, which means go home as the final call for everyone to leave. But it was a great time because I was with the people I liked the most, with the friends who liked the most, that care about me and that I care about. So my brought a cookie cake and didn't have a candle. So they took a pretzel I bought and put a piece of tissue on top of the pretzel and lit it on fire so they could see me happy birthday and have me blow it out. And just spontaneous stuff like that that shake your body to the other and you're going to do whatever and have a good time with each other. That sounds an awesome, like, a) there's so many good things there because you've just moved into the new house. You're surrounded by friends, there's nothing fans, it's all fun. You've got the guitar out. It's funny. You mentioned David Brent from the office in the UK, his favorite. Well, one of the favorite lines was in an episode where he was someone like a team meeting and he says, "Garrett, go get the guitar." So he got his guitar and status thing, except I just reminded him of that. I feel is that generally how you would prefer to have, if you could have any birthday celebration you want, no budget limitations, no location limitations, would you always want to go for that kind of close friends only or would you ever want to have like a big kind of bash? No, it would always, I would always want to be close friends only. I was thinking about that actually. There was a camera with TV show but somebody threw a big birthday party every year was a big event and it just like, it wouldn't be as fun. I got said, I find the purpose in life, sharing love with each other and making lead by having a joy book experience and I feel like you lose that, the bigger the audience, even in comedy, some venues are so unintimate that there's no way you can do crowd work. I don't know how some of these comedians who are doing these specials are able to do a crowd work like they do. It just seems so disconnected from the audience but I'm a person that craves intimacy in not a romantic way but in just a platonic way with your friends. It's a fun thing for me and it's what I enjoy the most. Yeah, it's interesting. You mentioned that about the crowd working the comedians. I've seen some of my favourite comedians now get more successful and playing massive venues. So Jimmy Carth for example, UK, medium, started off with small stand up TV shows and I was doing these big stadiums. It still seems to be good but I feel like to your point, it's like when you watch your favourite indie band and they're playing little dive bars and then all of a sudden get a massive record deal and they're playing Wembley Stadium, Jett Stadium etc. Something disappears when you have that. But yeah, I like the intimacy and I guess with the with birthdays especially, if you're having a big birthday each year, now you're trying to top the previous year and I guess there's some stage where it's a diminishing return that you cannot top it. Absolutely. I can just imagine like spark wars and go-go girls coming through the door with a birthday cake and the morning show there's a Steve Carell as a birthday and Steve Martin pops I mean the Martin Short pops out of a cake with with rocket dancers behind him. I don't think I'll ever have the wealth to be able to do a birthday party of that level and I'm very comfortable where I'm trying to outbeat the next year. Well as an introvert I'm not about crowds. I feel comfortable if I know people as you mentioned and you've got that comfort level, I wouldn't feel comfortable at a big party. I'd be in the corner eating the cake or the pretzel stick with the candle light on and just standing there. That would be me in the corner there. It's funny but I think most comedians are introspective people and they are very perceptive and parties can probably be a little overwhelming a lot of times and it's too much to take you and all at once. Absolutely. Well I like that and it's an October birthday person myself. I'm just beyond you though. I'm a Libra so I must be I must be Eric tober. I'm like smack in the middle. Yeah. But yeah it's a good time of year to have a birthday as well because you're in that sort of fall or computer to up you can you know have colours on that if you have an outdoor party. So it's a nice temperature to have an outdoor party. It's a nice time of year to have I feel absolutely. I live in Texas. So the summer it's like you don't you don't go outside unless there's a body of water that you can get into so that you don't have heat exhaustion. So it was an indoor outdoor party and it actually rained torrentially during the party and I had some people get stuck in a little tent outside and I was trying to throw them drinks so that they could have had something to stay hydrated while they're in the tent but it was definitely an event and it was a good time. You wake up in the morning the tent's no longer there. It's half way to another state floating down the river. The the chairs and the tent were just stuck in the mud. 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It helps keep the lights on, the questions weird and the podcast proudly independent. Totally optional no pressure from zero guilt but hugely appreciated. Just turn on over to fiverunmoquestions.com/support and whether you donate or not thanks for listening and now back to this week's episode. Let's have a look at what question number four brings up. Question four, what accomplishment are you most proud of? That's a hard one. There's definitely a recency bias. I recently, the first thing that pops in my head is I recently lost around 65 pounds in the last I guess two years and I am pretty proud of that accomplishment because I did it for my health. Make sure I have a long life, a long mobile life where I can get around and do things. So I would be remiss to say that I'm not very proud of that and that's probably what I'm most proud of at the moment. It's funny how things that you're most proud of when you're younger and doing other things kind of disappear. They don't disappear necessarily but the farther away they get the less proud you are of them. Like thinking high school, how important it was that I got into a good college. I mean you get into the good college and you go to the great college and suddenly all your friends also got into the good college and the accomplishment that getting into that good college once was is not as big of a deal because everybody that you know also did it. So yeah, I'm going to stick with it. I'm going to stick with losing that weight and hopefully keep it an off here in the future. Well that's amazing. Congratulations for that. That's kudos. What brought the, if you don't make me ask, what brought the way on earlier? Was it just like like lack of movement? Well you know, a rut, what was the idea that caused there? Yeah, it's a great question and I was always a heavier child. I grew up playing football. There's a term for women or used to be for women. That's not for men but you'd be in a pretty plus sizing. Unfortunately it's just husky for men, which is not as as nice of a sound. But I was a bigger child. Struggled with, I guess just being born that way. Most of my family's on the on the bigger side of my dad was a football player. I was a football player and weight is an important aspect. Football is in American football. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Not the proper football. Not the one with the ball that you roll around. But so it was important to be of size so that you can mass, mass. I'd done playing football. I lost a little bit of weight actually but then college and COVID happened and I ballooned up during COVID. I actually spent some time at home and my dad six four, like I said, played college football with a large fella and I went in step on the scale at his home, at my hometown, House and it was like 265 and he comes behind me and he steps on the cell and he's 255. I look, oh absolutely not. I'm not going to weigh more than my dad. My dad, I call Biggin because of his stature. I'm not going to be weigh more than Biggin. So after that, I have to do something. We have to get this weight down. So his lifestyle changes. Activity was definitely one. Walking more, eating healthier. It wasn't, it was more so not eating too much, eating unhealthy is so much fast food and options you can go to canes or in an out burger and get a 1200 calorie meal and still be hungry afterwards. So that's what it was. Yeah, no, it's funny. Healthy food is so expensive whereas the fast food is bad for you is real cheap and I feel I know there's been so many documentaries, et cetera and studies, et cetera about that. Do you feel like that? I don't know who'd be responsible. Retailers probably markets, better selling food, et cetera, companies that make them. Do you feel there needs to be like a change in mindset where we have to make healthy food and healthy choices and healthy education at schools, I guess. More easily accessible as opposed to just going, "Durna, I'll block on one main street and you've got five fast food places but only one salad bar." Is that a really basic example? Right. Now, it's a great example. It's a result of what I would say capitalism and that the salad bar at the greens will relatively quickly and this frozen patty epidemic, Donald's is going to be good for my entire life. I don't know if it expires. So there definitely should be an effort, I think, in the US to make sure that what we're eating is up to standards of health. But ultimately, I don't think our regulation is what fixes that. It has to be a lifestyle, complete lifestyle change. If you look at the diets of some of the European countries, they don't have particularly healthy diets, but they have active lifestyles. They don't sit at a desk for eight hours a day and work away. So it's a whole cultural change, in my opinion, more so than just saying, "Oh, we're going to have more healthy options to eat." If it's so hard for me to pick a salad bar over a canteen a day of the week, so unless I have some sort of internal motivation, even if Cain's was $20 and the salad was 10, I'd probably still find myself at Cain's every once in a while. So it's a mixture. It's a whole mixture and it's a case by case person by person war, that you're going to have to fight in your own head in my opinion. No, that's a good point about the COVID-19 pandemic and obviously everybody is at home, which I feel could also help maybe when you think of remote working, for example. And obviously it gives you a much better work life balance, much healthier work life balance. But I found I used to work in Toronto before I moved where we are now, which is like a really small village about three hours north. So I commute two hours each way every day then. I'd sit on a desk for eight hours. So I put on weight as well over the pandemic. Sorry, I put on weight because of all that commute, but during the pandemic, because it was at home, I could finish and get outside and go for a walk, etc. Much like you did. And I found that helped a lot, whereas now there's like mandates to get people back into the office and I'm on there with that to your point, you know, all the cultural side. And that's going to make it harder for people to continue. I can't imagine it not. It just you give up so much of your life and the first starting part is you give up so much of your life and a commute sitting in a car going to in front of an office and you could spend so much of that time, productively in your own life. But you're not giving that you're giving that to the company in reality. You're not giving it to yourself, but even though it's your own personal time. So I can't imagine it helping. I think I lost 10 pounds when I used to work in person, moved to remote. And that in that first six months, I moved to remote. I lost like 10 pounds because suddenly I had time to actually go to a gym and enjoy the gym. So although I do still hate the gym with everything about being, but it's a lot easier when you're not brain dead from driving a traffic for an hour to go get back in the traffic and go to the gym. So yeah, exactly the last thing you want to do you comment, you know, you finished a day's work, you tired, you know, you want to work out, but your brain's saying you should and you're body symptom. Yeah, exactly. I'm tired. I'm done. Let me go to sleep. Exactly. Well, hopefully. And again, like I say, could us to you for that lifestyle change? Hopefully, you know, more people can have the opportunity to do that if culture allows for that. So fingers crossed fingers crossed. Absolutely. fingers crossed. And on that note, let's have a look at what question number five is. And I feel this is a good one actually to finish off your time in the hot seat here, Austin. Question five, would you rather be granted three wishes of your choice ten years from today or be granted one wish today? It's complex because I have to think about what my wishes, three wishes in one wish would be. I'm a finance person. So there's a time value of money too, you know, if you get a, I guess you would get a scientific about it there. I can get I guess I can wish for any amount of money. So maybe not that maybe not no need to get that scientific. I'm going to go. I'm going to go with one wish today because who knows in ten years, I don't know if I get to make a wish from the grave. I don't know if so you never know you never know what's going to go. So I go one wish today, which kind of starts to beg the question of what that wish would be. The give me answer that makes me look like a hero is I'd wish that the coach for an America allowed for everyone to live a healthy lifestyle. That is not what I would use the wish on to be. But that would be a good one. So it would probably be something like some skill or something that I could instantly have I find enjoyment in. But as I think through that, part of the enjoyment comes from warning the skill. So probably not that. I don't know. I mean, I think about it. Well, I think that's what I like about it as well. It's like say, I mean, you've got the easy choices. All right, make me super rich. Make me super a beautiful partner, for example, you know, any sort of the typical, you know, materialistic things that yeah, we bring happiness, but I guess maybe long to a might not. And then, Lucy, because you got one wish, is it something that can do more for many or is it more for you that allows you to do more for many, etc? You know, I could totally agree with your point about you may be dead and Tanya, hopefully you're not. Hopefully not. Put it out there right now. Maybe dead. So that's a wasted three wishes. I guess your first wish could be, no, it couldn't be because it's ten years. You know, your first wish could have been, keep me alive for ten years, but then you can't do that. That's not allowed. You know, three other years alive at that point with no wishes. I think I think it would have to be something for it to help the many. Because something as I was thinking through it, you know, a large part of white where you could have been this from life, in my opinion, it's from the process of getting there. If I wish for anything, I really, really wanted right now and instantly got it. I wouldn't, I don't think I'd really wanted it anymore. It kind of goes back to those accomplishments that you have earlier in life. Like, you want that accomplishment and you're working so hard to get there and that's what's bringing you purpose and bringing you joy. And then once you get it, it's not really, it's an accomplishment and it's great and you're super proud of yourself, but it's not where you get the joy from in my opinion. You get the joy from all the hard work and doing something hard and prevent yourself that you can do something hard. So I don't know if I would want money. I mean, that's not my money. I was giving it. I don't know if I want love. I didn't earn love. I was given love. I think I want something for the group to benefit from. Maybe we could bring Richard prior back from the dead or something like that. So everybody could get one more show or something. Now I was talking about Richard Brian, George Colin, double bill for one night only. There we go. That's a wish I could get behind. I'm there. I like the fact that it's a bug. And again, and there's nothing wrong with it. It could be super easy to say, well, end world hunger, but that also brings other issues that you don't even think about when it comes to what it's easy to do. But then you've got these issues. If you make it easy for people to eat, does that take away skills of farm and culture, cultivate and etc. So yeah, I like that answer where it's for the many bit. That'd be super cool to get Richard prior back and say, what a legend he was. I think the main takeaway is I should not be given a wish because I will use it very frivolously. So maybe give a better thought leader the wish. Maybe I'll just be I wish that somebody else can make this wish that has a better perspective on the world. That is very meta of you. And again, you know, kudos for taking away the responsibility to put it on your shoulders. And like put it on someone else's shoulders. It doesn't want that responsibility. Yeah, you do it. That I want it. Awesome. Well, I love that answer. And I appreciate your time in the random question hot seat, Austin, as is only fair, I've had you on a hot seat for about 35 minutes now. So it's now time to hand over the question asking, but on to you. Yeah. And so I think I have a good one. But I do this a lot. I want to get see if you do as well. But I will state things that I am confident or true to later find out that I was in fact lying. But didn't know I was lying. It was I was just misguided. So I wanted to know what was the dumbest thing if you've done it. And if you have what's the dumbest thing you stated as a fact that you later found out to be false. So finally enough, my wife says I'd be really good at ballad dash and game ballad dash. I don't know you guys are currently states. Is ballad dash a thing in the States? I don't think I've seen it. Okay. So basically you tell what you what you're stating a fact with such a lie. So you tell something and then the audience is got to guess like the people pulling the game. I've got to guess is that an actual fact or is it a lie you've made up? We call that politics. Yeah. Oh, thank you. So because I tend to make crap up. But I say it with such conviction. So it's a little bit slightly different from from your question. I will make stuff up just for fun with such, you know, belief and stubbornness that's correct. My wife, especially my kids, my kids, hate me for it. Our tiny workout is that true or not. And I'm trying to work out, I'm trying to remember a specific example recently where I'd say something known for a fact that's a lie. It's not true. And not malicious lie. But I just be so steadfast at my belief that and I just continue to make it up as I go along with little facts. So I guess for one example would be and this is like a really crappy one from a few years back. But how Friday got its name? I'd talk about days a week and how they got their names. I said, you know how Friday got its name and you know yes, they do with a Latin Gregorian calendar or whatever that used to be would be the answer back. But I said no, no, no, no, no, no, Friday got its name from my ancestors in Scotland, the Celts. And it is basically back in the day when the Highlanders and that were living off the land to get the protein has to go out and hunt, you know, highland cows and bulls and stuff like that and bring it back. And normally they just bring it back and maybe eat it raw and a lot of them get up systemics and they die because of no doctors etc. So a lot of people were dying and the big chiefs that we said, well we have to do something better than this. So what they decided to do then was get the animal fat and put it over the fire on a big smelting pot and that got really hot. Then it could put the meat on fry it. So every day we'd become a fry day. But we don't have to do that once a week because that's when they go out hunting. So Friday became Friday down there. So I stuck with that for years. And then I had to come clean my wife and she was so yeah every time I come out work at a statement she'll double check me because she knows it could be done a different path. It was your wife that was going around telling me she thought was for effect true. Was that Friday came from frying a cow. Yeah exactly. At least she was like telling her friends that were working on my stuff and and so when I told her no that was not not a good time. She was fine but she was pissed. Whoops. That's a good one. Yeah so I hope I think that can answer your question. But that's a good one. I like that. Absolutely does. Thank you. I find myself I'm not dumb but it's just sometimes you know somebody tells you something that cows are fried on Friday and that's why it's called Friday. You're excited to share and turns out you're rock. It's always the best thing. And that's I think as long as you're if you're so convicted in your belief. Right. It's you can't fool people you know it's when it starts getting super ridiculous and you can start to feel yourself break you think okay it goes back to you. You're maybe you first question. Your first answer where you realize you're going too far so you you need to move on step back and say okay come and clean it's a balancing act. Everything is alive is a balancing act that goes to a lying as well. 100% 100% well last night I really really enjoyed having you in the random question hot seat today for our listeners that want to know more about you your podcast maybe we'll catch a live show. I stand up if they're in you vicinity etc. Where's the best place to connect with you online and listening to your podcast all that good stuff. Yeah. Remblerlive.com r-a-m-b-l-e-r live.com is where I host my podcast and post everything that I'm doing so if you could check out that website it'll be fantastic that my emails on there feel free to shoot me an email. I'm not very popular so I will actually reply to it so yeah look forward to it. Awesome and as always I will leave that link in the show notes so whatever app you're listening on or if you listen to this on the other website just check the show notes out for the episode and the link to Austin's website will be there and you can hop on over and do all that good stuff that just mentioned so again Austin I really appreciate appearing on today's five random questions. Awesome thank you was a good time. Had a great time. Thanks for listening to five random questions and this was your first thing here feel free to hit follow and check out past episodes. 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 if you know someone else that would enjoy the show be sure to send them this way it's very much appreciated until the next time keep asking those questions.