Kill All the Reys, Songs to Fight To, and More with Fuzz Martin

Wow. Yeah. Stay out of those storms.

Stay out of the storms, people. If you have to go anywhere, take a boat and, you know, cause at least that way, if you capsize, you're gone anyway, you know, it's quicker than falling twenty thousand feet and knowing it's going to happen.

I know. I don't see it. I disagree with you. See, if you fall twenty thousand feet, the end is quick. If your, boat tips over. It might take a while.

Hi, and welcome to Five Random Questions, the show where every question is an adventure. I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests 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. This week, I'm speaking to Fuzz Martin, who's the Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Epic Creative, an advertising agency.

Yep, that's right.

Awesome. So, welcome to the show. Thanks for appearing.

Thank you. I'm kind of nervous not, not being on a podcast, but with having Five Random Questions, I don't know what to expect. So

And that's, I think, the, the fun thing. It's like, I don't know what they are. We're going to find out what they are when we spin the wheel.

All right, we'll find out together.

So it could go any way. And Fuzz, I mean, we've known each other for a while now, I feel. Obviously, we've never met in person in person, but I'd say a good eighteen months, maybe two years, at least, on the old Twitter and various podcasts, communities, etc.

Yeah, definitely. It's been at least that I think with COVID it might've actually been been longer cause we've you never know where that time's gone with COVID. We definitely started talking sometime during that, that ether in there during, When I had started, I had switched over to to a different podcasting platform and started getting involved with some of the podcasting groups and you're very active in there and you're very, very helpful.

First year, wow, COVID. Yeah, that's like, that seems such a long time ago. I mean, obviously it's still around, but it seems a while when it first, when it first kicked off four years now.

Yeah, it has been, it has been a while and also feels like it was yesterday all at the same time.

And I mentioned, obviously you're at Epic Creative, which is a full service advertising agency. And something that caught my eye and that I just want you to talk a bit about was you're located in an art museum because you've got Epic. Eighty five people. Is that correct?

Yeah, that's correct. So we're in an old, the old Museum of Wisconsin Arts, which is in a town called West Bend, Wisconsin, which is just north of Milwaukee, which is for those listening globally is about ninety minutes north of Chicago, Illinois in the US here. And we are, it's, so this, this old Museum of Wisconsin Art was built in the thirties. And then they built onto this. So we've got this really cool old building.

Awesome. And no doubt, we'll find out more about you as we go through the, the episode. But I feel we've got five questions awaiting for us. So let me bring up my funny question random generator. Let's see where we go from here. And you mentioned you've got like obviously good advertising and PR background. So are you going to be spinning the questions making them up a positive outcome?

I hope so. We'll see. We'll see. See how good I am at PR and spin.

Alrighty. So let's dive in then. Let's see where we go. Like I say, I have no idea what the questions are. I've brought up my little spin the wheel question generator. And we'll see where we go there, Fuzz. Let's go.

Alright.

Question one. You're about to get into a fight. What song comes on as your soundtrack?

What song comes on? Okay. So when I was a kid, I grew up in a, a little small town in kind of rural Wisconsin, and when we used to drive our our cars through the rural, like windy roads there was a A song called black sunshine by, I think it was from White Zombie. I think it's a White Zombie it's called yeah, black, black sunshine. It was like sweet in the ride, black sunshine. And I, I think that's I think it was, I think it was white zombie, but anyway.

I haven't no Dirty Work it's called.

Yeah, Dirty Work. It is. It's hilarious. It's obviously a comedy but there's a scene in there where Chris Farley, it's one of Chris Farley's last movies. You could tell he was kind of on his way out at that point, and he's like, street fighting man, G7, and he pushes the jukebox when this bar fight's about to start, and he the guy goes, you just hit G8, and it starts playing.

And is that because it's like a, it's like a really aggressive song or get you in the mood there?

Yeah, it's very, very aggressive. It's got a, yeah, it's a, it's a from white zombie. It's a very aggressive, it's very like metal hard hitting and just it. Yeah. I always had adrenaline when I was listening to that song. And I, I think that's the first song to think of when I think, all right, I need a song that's going to help me funnel my adrenaline into focus and aggression.

And are you a fighter? That's the main question for us.

In the year of our Lord twenty twenty four, no, I am not a fighter. But when I was a a 17 year old kid fighting hormones maybe a little bit. Yes. So I was always a big kid. Like I played football and all that. Worked out a lot. So I always had like a lot of testosterone and muscle and didn't know what to do with it. So I always had to have, you know, kind of outlets for my strength and, and I guess the dumbness that comes with being young. And I, I needed to learn how to channel that.

And just a little bonus question for this actually, so Anchorman, you've seen Anchorman, Anchorman 2?

Oh yeah.

Awesome. So I think it's in the second one where all the news teams come together for a fight in the park or something like that. What weapon would you bring to the fight whilst this song's playing in the background?

Oh, you know, I'm always a fan of a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it. I think that's I mean, if you're gonna if you're gonna get into a fight with a bunch of news anchors, that's probably the best one. That's the one.

I feel this is something from your 17 year old days. We'll have to revisit that sometime. Awesome. Alrighty, let's have a look at question number two. So let's clear this one up and let's spin the wheel for question two. Oh, interesting. If you could kill off a character from a TV show, movie, or novel, who would it be? And I'm going to add a bonus why there as well.

If I could kill off a character from a TV show, movie, or novel, who would it be? This is me stalling because I'm trying to think of which character.

And I'm going to make it harder for you. It's got to be a character that's not already been killed off in that medium.

No, I know. And I am really trying to think of who Who I would have killed off. I am kind of thinking well, I guess he's kind of killed off already. So in one of the last movies all right, I'm going to just go a little controversial. I'm going to say I'm going to say Rey in the final Star Wars sequels and only because I just to make it interesting only because Somehow Palpatine survived. I don't know.

Wait a minute. Are you blaming Rey for somehow Palpatine?

I'm not blaming Rey for that. It wasn't Rey's fault. I, I the, the question was random and I didn't have a lot of time to think about it. I was, I was looking for a main character. I don't know.

I mean, Rey's a main character. She's getting her own movie next year, the year after, I think.

And that's the thing though, like I, as a kid, Danny, you grew up in like the eighties, right? I mean, like you're probably around the same age as I am the, I grew up thinking that we were never going to get any star Wars ever again. So I am of the ilk that no Star Wars is bad Star Wars because. I never thought we were going to get any, and now I'll take whatever we can get. I'm kind of like, whatever we get is fine. So I'm, I was good with, I was good with the prequels.

And I think that there was maybe, and I could be wrong here, I think maybe one of the original script treatments for either Last Jedi, or maybe I'm thinking of Return of the Rise of Skywalker, I could be wrong, but I know obviously there was that part where Rey showed her dark side, so you had dark Rey, and I think that could have been interesting, like you say, if Ben had been the one that was redeemed and Rey was the one that turned and how that whole dynamic could have shifted.

There you go. I, when I said Rey died, I meant that her light side died and she turned into Darth,

Rey,

something.

Darth Rey, that'd be awesome. Darth Radar.

Yes, Darth Radar, love it.

Cause then she could see ships coming as well and she'd make the beeping noises as she's sensing them with the force. Yeah. How do you find the and the Star Wars TV shows, like the Acolyte and Ahsoka and all that?

So we, we've watched all three episodes as we're recording this of Acolyte. And I hope it picks up a little bit, but but you know, we're, we're going to give it, we're going to be open minded. I've loved the other shows the, Oh what was the blanking on the last ones

Andor?

Yeah. And, or, and, or it was great. And, or it was great. Obi Wan, we liked you know, obviously Mandalorian all Book of Boba Fett that was okay. Like we, we watched them all. And Ahsoka, you know, my youngest daughter loves Ahsoka. We're, we're all in on Ahsoka. So we watched them all. We, that's like our appointment TV these days are those Disney shows. So, yeah.

No, maybe they're going to add dark Rey to make a special appearance somewhere down the line.

Maybe it'll happen. Who knows? How about you? Are you, are you into them?

I am. Yeah. I, I didn't enjoy Book of Boba Fett as much. I thought they wasted his character a bit and made it, it was weird how the, for me anyway, the better episodes was when Mando actually appeared as a guest almost. And like episode, I think it was a five when it was just purely dedicated to Luke and Grogu training. I thought that was kind of strange, but yeah, I, for the most part, I really enjoy the live action. I think Dave Filoni is doing a really good job.

Yeah, definitely.

All righty. So Rey is going to die. . Fuzz: Sorry Rey. This is gonna be, this gonna be the shortest show ever. I'm gonna get blocked by everybody after episode one. . This is . Alrighty.

Now, I'm the one who said, you can cancel me . Danny: Okay. Let's have a look now for question number three. Okay. Oh, this is a good one actually. I like this. If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, what would it be? All right.

It's actually a good rule. You say you're driving and you listen to a podcast and all of a sudden you hear a siren. You're going to pull over, which could cause an accident. So the car behind you. It's just driving normal speed, and you slow and pull. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't know why people would use that. Like you say, just for attention, it seems a weird one to use.

It does, and I think, I think it's usually just either laziness or people don't think about it too much, or they're like, oh, we're doing, you know, whatever this, you know, we're, we're putting a police officer in this ad, so let's use a siren sound effect to imply that there's a police officer. And it's it's not cool, man. Don't do it.

So what would you replace it with? What would be your ideal? Just like a little chime or something, or,

I don't know. You can like somebody, you know, tapping on the window with a I dunno, the, the back of a flashlight or something, or, there's so many ways there, there are so many more creative ways to paint a picture in somebody's mind than having to be on the nose with a siren that you can get away with. And it just depends on what, what you're trying to create, but it doesn't have to just be that.

It's like the the movies, right? When they're trying to set the scene or TV shows or whatever, and they'll show a picture of the Eiffel Tower and they'll say overlaid Paris, France. You think I know that most people know the Eiffel Tower or you'll get like the Empire State Building. Yeah, I know the overlay where you are and you think, but we know that it just seems a bit superfluous there. That's that's kind of my gripe. I think. Yeah, exactly.

In 20 years time, alright, so I am 45 as of right now, so 20 years I'll be 65 years old. So, I am, well, I still have most of my hair, so I'm guessing that won't be the case in 20 years. And if I do have hair, it'll most likely be white. And right now it's kind of, I don't know, blondish brown. I'm colorblind. I don't even know what color my hair is. Brown. And I'm, I'm hoping that I stay you know, like working out and kind of hopefully like, don't, you know, like I don't look like my uncles.

Yeah, exactly. I feel you mentioned that people now about 65 generally look better than say what we remember 65 year olds as kids or teens growing up, et cetera. And I wonder if that's more to do with there being a lot more. like tech and service led jobs, etc, where you're not working down a mine or you're not out in the field, etc. So obviously you're doing harder labor and you're open to these elements, etc. And like you say, I mean, we used to play as kids out in the sun.

Yeah, absolutely. And that, vitamins, access to health care. Not smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes every day before downing a bottle of whiskey, you know, all that, I mean, for most of us, some people still do that, and that's their choice.

And would you ever, I mean, maybe, maybe not, but if, if you were of a mindset, would you ever have any work done from a vanity point of view, do you think, or?

I don't think I would. I don't have, I don't think I have any reason to, I mean, I am not. A model. I am a, I guess I am kind of a politician, but I'm like a local politician where it doesn't really matter if I, if I, what it doesn't matter what I look like. And I, hopefully I will not be a local politician in 20 years because I just wanted to get a couple of things done locally and I've gotten them done. So I don't think I can continue to do that forever.

And what got you into that then?

I wanted to see some change, some positive change locally. And there were, I was not satisfied with the people that were currently in office. So instead of sitting back and complaining about it, I chose to take action and actually do something about it and I did it and then now I'm in it and. Get to hear people complain and, you know, like that, we're not doing this, or we did this instead of this.

Well, that's the only reason you're going to politics, isn't it? Getting the dog there. The Unleashed Dog Park or the Free Dog Park, etc. That's what you want. That's awesome. And that's good. I mean, like you said, so many people, it's easy to complain and, you know bitch and holler about it. But it's, it's not a lot of people actually do anything about it, so kudos.

Yeah, thank you.

Alrighty. So, we've reached almost the end. We've now got question number five. So, let's see what it brings up for us. And here we go. Let's spin this wheel for the final time on this episode. Hmm, okay. That's a good one. I was thinking about this today actually. I was having a conversation online which is relevant to this. Okay, so the question is, question number five. What is one thing you refuse to share in social media?

So one thing that I refuse to share in social media, I'm pretty open in social media, but I do not air personal grievances or family grievances on social media. I hate when people air family drama or like passive aggressive family things on social media. I, I don't think that that's a place for it. I really think if you.

It's yeah, I this has gone back a few years. I think it was I'm going to say twenty sixteen, something like that. And there's a bunch of us have had a conversation on a Facebook group and it was a public group, so it wasn't locked down. It wasn't private, anything like that. So obviously anybody could see it. And the, the, the husband was on chatting away and then the wife came on cause she was part of the group too.

Yeah, exactly. And social media is, you know, they're starting to teach it in schools. They're starting to teach kids. I forget the term for it on my wife's podcast. She, she talks about different tools that teachers can use for helping students in their classrooms. They are teaching the digital citizenship. That's what it's called. And, They are starting to teach students about these things and about your digital footprint and about how to, I guess, hold yourself online.

And it's good to see the kids getting a better education as far as social media goes today and the pitfalls. I know my daughter I accidentally found out she had a TikTok account the other day because she liked one of my videos and I thought, I know that name. So I went over and she's only, I mean, she's not even quite 13 yet. She's about midway through her 12th year. And we've spoken to her, we've spoken to both kids about, you know, that bit.

Yeah, absolutely. And again, it's as we learn, we're able to teach from the lessons that we've learned, right? Do I get to ask you a question now? Is that how this works?

You do, yes. I'm just going to suggest, I'm just going to say that to you. Yeah. So yeah, just keep things fair. So thank you for sharing your answers on the five questions. We'll see. I'm curious what the, the Star Wars Brigade makes out because I, I mean, I'm a huge Star Wars fan. You're obviously a Star Wars fan. You know what the, the fandom can be like there.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You know, so I'm curious. I'm going to make a little audio bite and just throw that out there and see.

Oh, perfect. Thank you.

And just point them right to you, mate. But yeah, it's only fair. I've asked you five questions, so you can throw a completely random question at me.

All right, Danny. What has been, in your life, what has been your most frightening encounter with Mother Nature?

Ooh ooh, frightening encounter. I'm gonna see probably a lightning storm that we, so I was on a plane coming back from where was I? New York, I think I was in New York. I think it was in New York and it was because it was a short flight. It's not like a two hour flight or something to Toronto something. It's not a big flight. And we were part of it. We got told it was a storm ahead, but we're going to fly around it because we still be on track and they could divert, but it's pretty heavy stuff.

They won't be able to sue you, Danny.

They'll be dead. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll feel good for saying that then. But yes, that would probably be it. I mean, I, I've done when I was younger, anyway, I did like a bunch of, not mountain climbing, but big hill climbing and stuff like that and rock climbing and abseiling and stuff. And that's not quite mother nature, but it's kind of, and that was fine. It was more adrenaline.

Yeah, I don't blame you there. Yeah, that sounds, that sounds harrowing. Wow. Yeah. Stay out of those storms.

Stay out of the storms, people. If you have to go anywhere, take a boat, you know, because at least that way if you capsize, you're gone anyway. You know, it's quicker than falling twenty thousand feet and knowing it's going to happen.

I know. I don't see it. I disagree with you. See, if you fall twenty thousand feet, The end is quick. If your boat tips over, it might take a while.

That is true. That is true. Yep. I mean, you could float for a bit. You could float for a while if you're doing the proper thing. You got your life jackets.

Yeah, you know, just by freezing, you'd be just a frozen floating popsicle.

Well, that's a nice morbid question and answer to finish off. So, Fuzz, before we wrap this up, I do want people to check out, obviously, not in that way, because I'm sure your wife would probably have something to say about it. But yeah, I do also want people to check out, you know, obviously your agency your podcasts that you do yourself and with your, your wife. So, where can people find out more about you, your services and all that cool stuff?

Yeah, sure. I'm so you can check out. Me, my stuff at Fuzzmartin. com. I should have all my links to my things there. You can also my website for the business is epic creative. com. Wife's podcast is tech, excuse me, a smart in wii. com. It's the tech tools for teachers podcast. So it's S Martin WI that's her email address for her school. So, but it works cause she's a teacher. So smart in W I Wisconsin. com.

I appreciate you Fuzz, thanks so much. So thank you for listening to Five Random Questions. If you enjoyed this week's episode, be sure to follow for free on the app you're currently listening on, or online at fiverandomquestions. com. And if you feel like leaving a review, well, that would make me happier than that time I met Darth Vader at my local supermarket. Because yes, that's what Darth Vader does. Signs autographs at local supermarkets. So it's obviously the real deal.