Gini: It's a tough one. We live in the city and there are always dead rats in the alley. Gini: I might swap for that. That's how much I hate laundry. Danny: Are you the rat collector? Gini: I'm not the rat collector now, but I might actually become the rat collector Gini: if I didn't have to do laundry again. Danny: Hi, and welcome to 5 Random Questions, the show where every question is an adventure.
Danny: I'm your host, Danny Brown, and each week I'll be asking my guests 5 questions Danny: created 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 Gini Dietrich, the founder, CEO, and author of Spin Sucks, Danny: host of the Spin Sucks podcast, and author of the Spin Sucks book.
Danny: She's the creator of the PESO model and has crafted a certification for it in Danny: partnership with Syracuse University. Danny: Gini has run and grown an agency for the past 15 years and is a co-author of Danny: Marketing in the Round, as well as co-host of the Inside PR podcast and co-host Danny: of the Agency Leadership podcast. Danny: So Gini, welcome to Five Random Questions. Gini: I'm so excited for this. Yay. I'm a little scared too.
Danny: We'll be good. We're very gentle here at Five Random Questions. Danny: And I don't know why I said we, I'm not the queen. I couldn't be the queen, Gini: She's dead. You could be. Danny: And going by that intro, obviously, you've got quite a lot of stuff going on. Danny: But you're also a mom. You're also married to someone who's heavily into politics.
Danny: I can imagine that's pretty busy at the moment. What with school holidays for Danny: your daughter and the political scene for your husband.
Gini: Let's just say that when Biden decided not Gini: to run again the world erupted as Gini: you know and his world like exploded um he runs a super pac and they raise Gini: money you know that's how they they grow and they had i think that first week Gini: they had probably their best week in history which has been almost 10 years Gini: so it's been a little crazy yeah. Danny: I can imagine. And just, I mean, I don't like to, I went to the wee again there
Danny: for some reason. I don't like to talk politics on this show. Danny: But as an outsider, you know, I'm in Canada from the UK originally, Danny: and we've seen elections recently in the UK. Danny: We've got election coming up in Canada next year. But obviously, Danny: the US election impacts a lot of people because of the country that it is.
Danny: And a lot of people are saying, as you mentioned, you know, there was a lot Danny: of questions around Biden and his capability of running against Trump in the election in November. Danny: But it seems rejuvenated with the Harris and Walsh ticket.
Danny: advocate and a lot of people were saying from a democrat point of view anyway Danny: and which obviously which is where your husband is on right it seems a lot of Danny: like feeling around the 2008 election when obama was running are you seeing Danny: that as he's speaking about that at all or yeah Gini: I mean it's it's funny because i read an article that said if you've already Gini: decided who to vote for don't pay attention to all of the noise because it's
Gini: stressful and it's chaos and i mean as we know Trump likes to have, Gini: he likes to create drama and create chaos. Gini: And it feels like you're, you wake up every day with on a cliffhanger and you're Gini: like, okay, what's, what's going to happen today? Gini: And so I've been joking with him that I'm not participating in politics until Gini: November, November 5th. Gini: Cause I'm like, ah, la, la, la, la, la, la. Every day he comes home and he's like, did you see?
Gini: And I'm like, I'm not participating in politics. Gini: Yes, it does. It does feel like it's been rejuvenated. And I think the biggest Gini: thing that we've seen is the younger generation, you know, the 18 to probably Gini: 30 year olds who are voting, you know, the 18 year olds are voting for the first time. Gini: They did not want to vote for Biden. They didn't want to vote for Trump.
Gini: So they weren't going to vote. And now I think they've been they've got we sort Gini: of they've sort of like, what do I want to call it, push that or helped raise Gini: that awareness around that among that younger generation to get them excited Gini: to vote, which is what we need.
Danny: And speaking of younger generation obviously you've got your 11 year old daughter Danny: how school holidays been going because i know they can be i've got two kids Danny: 14 and 12 i know that can be quite a challenging time i Gini: Don't know what you're talking about and the funny thing is is that i'm sure Gini: it's the same in canada but here in the u.s nobody starts school at the same Gini: time and so some people are going back to school right now and we don't go back
Gini: to school until september so there's most of the month of august there aren't any Gini: camps or anything so you have June and July are pretty well taken Gini: care of but August is like a free-for-all so she's spending some time on the Gini: lakefront biking and kayaking and swimming and she comes home exhausted and Gini: full of sand every day which is great I think she went to bed at 7 30 last night Gini: fantastic yeah so you're just kind of piece things together.
Danny: I need to get some tips from you because I wish like Salem's really good um Danny: our daughter she's really good Danny: at being outside and you know you and us as well but she's really good at doing Danny: trampolining and you know got in a lake and such like um so yeah i might have Danny: to like hit you up for some tips there too because we've still got another yeah Danny: about a month still of um kids at home yeah Gini: It's a lot.
Danny: Trying to keep them occupied uh yeah that's fun and Gini: Not on their screen. Danny: Speaking of keeping occupied it's time to keep you occupied with five random Danny: questions so i'm just going to bring up my random question generator so you Danny: can see that and we'll jump in. So we're ready for this, Jenny. Gini: All righty. Danny: Question number one. Do you dance crazy when no one is looking? Gini: Yes. And I also dance crazy when people are looking.
Gini: So one of my favorite things to do, you know, I live in Chicago and my neighbor's Gini: house is literally six feet away, Gini: maybe five feet away like I can see in her her window right now and one of my Gini: favorite things to do is pick up the dog and dance with the dog past all the Gini: windows so that she can see me so yes I do dance crazy do you you have to answer that.
Danny: I don't dance at all I have no coordination well Gini: Then you don't have to have coordination to dance crazy. Danny: Well that is true but um even when no one's looking even if I'm at home on my Danny: own and like my wife's got the kids at a sports event or something i i'm just Danny: a lazy person i don't like physical or a lot of physical energy you know so Danny: my physical energy is switching channels on the tv with a remote with a remote
Danny: So what kind of music do you have? Do you have music on in the background or Danny: are you just doing it on your own some? Gini: The aforementioned 11-year-olds always has Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Gini: Joja Cat, that kind of stuff on. So it's, yeah, I've been Post Malone. Gini: I've been dancing to that because she has it playing and then I dance. Danny: Well, I was going to say, I mean, you mentioned obviously Taylor Swift and Olivia Danny: Rodrigo and Post Malone.
Danny: And I mean, I love Taylor Swift. I haven't really listened to a lot of Olivia Danny: Rodrigo. I've listened to like two or three of her songs. Danny: And they don't, not always anyway, they don't like spring me as being songs Danny: to dance to often because they're not like a lot of them aren't super uptempo Danny: or maybe I've just listened to the wrong songs. Gini: She's a couple. I would generally agree with you.
Gini: Yes. But also the dance crazy part is you can dance to almost anything, Gini: especially when you're holding the dog and you're like swinging back and forth Gini: with the dog. You can make it work. Danny: Well that is true that is true and if you had to pick just one song then to Danny: dance crazy to what would it be and why that one Gini: Dang um i don't know would.
Danny: It be an up-tempo one Gini: Yeah it would be up-tempo it'd probably be actually you know what song i really Gini: really like is the ed sheeran what's the name of it where he it's the ode to Gini: his grandparents and it's very Scottish. What is it called? Danny: I'll look that up and I'll drop that in the show notes so you can check it out Danny: on whatever you listen on, whether it's Spotify, YouTube, whatever, Danny: but I'll check that out. So Ed Sheeran, huh? Interesting.
Danny: I would have thought, because you were dancing with the dogs, Danny: I would have thought like the Venga Boys, you know, who let the dogs out and Danny: then open the window and just chuck the dog out. Gini: That's a good one too, yeah. Danny: Don't come back to me if you see a dog running down Chicago streets. Danny: Right. That was not my idea. Gini: She would not run down. She'd come right back. She doesn't like to be away from me.
Danny: Awesome. So there you go. If you want to get Ginny dancing, it doesn't matter Danny: what kind of music it is, and it doesn't matter if you're watching or not, she's going to dance. Gini: Ha ha. Danny: Let's have a look at question number two. Okay, so this could go back a little Danny: bit in time because obviously you're a supremely happily married woman and have been for a while. Gini: You can still look at people.
Danny: Oh, okay then. Question number two. When you meet someone you're attracted to, Danny: what do you first notice about them? Gini: Well, it depends on if you're watching the Olympic swimmers or not. Danny: Okay. Gini: If you are, it's their abs for sure. Danny: Or the Olympic pole vaulters. Gini: That's literally one of the funniest things I've ever seen, ever, ever. Gini: And the internet is made for stuff like that. You get, I mean, Gini: made for it. What is the first thing I notice?
Gini: Honestly and truly, it's probably been way too long for me to even say, Gini: to answer this question. Danny: Do you think it'd be like a physical attribute? Gini: Yeah, it'd probably be like smiles, like the way that they engage smiling or Gini: looking at eye eye contact or something like that I would imagine so.
Danny: Let's take us back then when you first met Kelly your good husband how did that Danny: go what was the the attraction let me rephrase that why are you attracted to Danny: Kelly sorry Kelly that's not what I mean what was the first thing you noticed about them Gini: Uh well I was drunk so it's Gini: a hard question to answer but we were in a dance club Gini: of all places going back to our first question and my Gini: friends were all dancing and I was just sort of standing there and
Gini: I saw him just sort of standing there while his his friends were dancing and Gini: I looked at him and he looked at me and we were like let's do you want to do Gini: this and so we did so I don't I mean it was more of that and then it was you Gini: know after we started dating it was very much his personality and I remember Gini: we were at dinner one time and this has always stuck with me, Gini: Every time somebody came to the table, the server, the busboy,
Gini: whoever it happened to be, somebody to fill the water, he always looked them Gini: in the eye and said, thank you. Gini: And I remember how impressed I was by that. Gini: And it's something that we instill in our little one, too, is like, Gini: always make eye contact, always say thank you, always treat people the same as you. Gini: But he just does that innately. And I was always really impressed with that.
Danny: No, that's a great point. I feel you can always tell what someone's like when Danny: they do something like that. Or if they're out grocery shopping and they always Danny: take the cart back, whether someone's there to see if they take it back or not. Danny: Yep. Even like we used to see, our kids would ask, well, why did you take the cart back?
Danny: Because, you know, nobody else was. And it was, like you say, Danny: it's just a lesson because it's nice to be nice to someone else whose job that Danny: is and who doesn't have to trek all around the car park to get someone, you know. Danny: So is that something that, because obviously you've been married a while now, Danny: so that's when you were first attracted to them. Danny: Is that something that still attracts you now?
Danny: Or what's the secret, I guess, to keeping the attraction alive, if you like? Gini: Yeah, I'm definitely still attracted to that. He's also one of the kindest people on earth. Gini: I think if he weren't as kind as he is, we probably wouldn't still be married because I'm kind of not.
Gini: I'm also really hot-headed. but he's just Gini: he knows how to and this probably Gini: is why he's in politics but he knows how to diffuse a Gini: situation really quickly and like make everybody feel good about the situation Gini: and I actually was thinking about this the other day because he's a really good Gini: people leader and one of the things that he does extraordinarily well is you Gini: know he's growing a business and as you know when you're of growing a business,
Gini: there are people who come in at certain points of the business who are great for a couple of years, Gini: but then the business outgrows them and they're not, they, they don't grow as Gini: quickly as the business does. Gini: And he's phenomenal at making people, Gini: helping people realize that they're not going to continue to grow with the business Gini: and helping them exit the business without them realizing that almost that that's what's happening.
Gini: Like he makes them, he makes them feel so good about it and he helps them find Gini: their next job and he you know he he is really supportive about it and it's Gini: it's really kind of cool to watch because I on the other hand I'm like you're Gini: fired get out and I don't care if I ever hear from you again.
Danny: And do you find that um I know like um Jackson Danny: I laugh um there was one example where um Salem Danny: we're in the car and Salem had said there was Danny: a question we're asking some like this basically were Danny: just like Salem had a trivia book or something so Danny: she was asking questions on a car ride and one of the questions was who's the Danny: strictest parent and she immediately went to Jacqueline and that caused all
Danny: sorts of chaos like she was Jacqueline was not impressed with that at all and Danny: I wonder do you think it's like these kind of vibes where I believe Gini: That though I believe that.
Danny: Well I'm not gonna let Jacqueline listen to this episode she Danny: will be after you with pitchforks and in flames it's just Danny: funny how like you mentioned obviously you know you're trying to instill that Danny: kindness into your daughter um and maybe less of your hot-headedness but keep Danny: a healthy dose of that because that's always a good trait to have there are Danny: times when you need it so yeah it's interesting how kids pick up on different
Danny: vibes etc and you know how the traits come across to kids but Gini: That it's funny you say that because kelly is definitely the strict one the Gini: disciplinarian I am not at all. He calls me a rock of jello. Gini: At work, I'm great. Home, nope. Danny: Not so much. Danny: So there you go. If you want to get into Jenny's good books, Danny: have good abs and be kind, which seems a realistic option to go for. Gini: It's realistic. You can do that. Yeah, exactly.
Danny: All right. Let's move on to question number three. Danny: Okay. Question three, Jenny. What chore do you absolute hate doing? Gini: Laundry. Danny: Laundry. Gini: Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate laundry. Danny: Have you always hated it or is that since becoming a mom? Gini: No, I've always hated it. Danny: Okay, because I would have thought being a mom, I mean, because we've got two Danny: kids, so we've got twice as much laundry for youngsters.
Danny: And Ewan especially, he seems to grow laundry. Danny: Like his basket, we'll take the laundry upstairs, let's pull it from the dryer Danny: or off the line if it's like a nice summer day. We'll put it in his room. Danny: And within a day, it's full again. We're thinking, what the heck? Gini: What the heck? Danny: So I get you with the laundry. Now, so what is it about laundry that you hate? Danny: It's just a process, like after folding and whatever.
Gini: I think it's because there's, there are so many steps. You have to wash it, Gini: then you have to dry it, then you have to fold it and then you have to put it away. Gini: And it never seems like it's finished. Like at least with other things you have Gini: at least a day before it's finished, before you feel like it's not finished, dishes, whatever.
Gini: But with laundry, it's, there's always laundry. laundry and Gini: I have found that you know I have a preteen who Gini: will try something on and then throw it into her laundry basket and it's not Gini: dirty but I don't know that so I'm washing twice as many clothes just because Gini: she's too lazy to hang them back up like I hate it I'm waiting for a robot to Gini: I need artificial intelligence to do it for me.
Danny: Well seeing that's the thing like everybody's talking about AI for creativity Danny: right so hey create the next masterpiece from an art point Danny: of view or create the next you know storybook audio video whatever Danny: one but where's the ai that makes our Danny: lives easier that does the laundry for us you know thank you Danny: that answers robocalls for us from thank you people collect them for super packs
Danny: and all that kind of stuff right exactly so if if you could i mean do you swap Danny: chores at home with kelly can does he do the laundry or is no no so this is Danny: why obviously it's not up on your your list of favorites i Gini: Don't would love it no. Danny: So if there's a chore that you could swap it out with that Danny: you so let's say you're doing multiple chores because a working mom i'd imagine
Danny: you do multiple chores and multiple stuff at home what chore would you happily Danny: swap out that you don't already like as well so you've got laundry but what Danny: other chore would you say okay if i had to take that all the time over never Danny: doing laundry again which would it be it's Gini: A tough one, Gini: We live in the city and there are always dead rats in the alley. Gini: I might swap for that. That's how much I hate laundry. Danny: Are you the rat collector?
Gini: I'm not the rat collector now, but I might actually become the rat collector Gini: if I didn't have to do laundry again. Danny: Wow, that's how much you hate laundry. Gini: That's how much I hate laundry. Danny: Yeah, I'm not a squeamish. I don't mind animals and, you know, Danny: I was going to call it a bug, but it's not a bug. It's a rodent.
Danny: that'd be a big bug but yeah i wouldn't like to be the rat collector i remember Danny: um a big rainstorm last year and we had like a wheelbarrow outside in the backyard Danny: and that filled with water and i went out the other like the day after the storm Danny: to empty it and it was two dead rats oh Gini: No they had drowned.
Danny: They had drowned unfortunately uh now i Danny: didn't have to collect them i just tipped the wheelbarrow over and let them Danny: you know float away which was nice but uh yeah i couldn't be out in the streets Danny: doing that um and then a quick lesson i learned is always put a branch into Danny: your wheelbarrow in case an animal gets in there oh i Gini: Wouldn't know that either that's interesting because then they can climb on it and get out.
Danny: Yeah exactly i didn't know that till last year and you know poor rats they didn't Danny: know either or they probably did and wondering where's the where's the branch dude where's my Gini: Branch what kind of asshole are you. Danny: So we're going to pass on the laundry and switch that over to rat collecting. Gini: Maybe. Danny: And I guess if the PR stuff, you know, stops working out for you, Danny: there's always like a fallback. Gini: Fair.
Danny: Take your daughter out. You could be like a mother and daughter team. Danny: Dietrich destroys, something like that. Gini: I love it. I love it. I'll give you royalties on the name. Danny: All right, we're moving swiftly on from talking about rats, which may send some Danny: people off scampering away. Danny: Let's have a look at question number four. Oh, this is a great one. Danny: Question four, Jenny. You're in the circus.
Danny: Would you rather be the person with their head inside the lion's mouth or get shot out of the cannon? Gini: Oh, get shot out of the cannon, for sure. Danny: So you don't worry about being shot super far and there being no net at the end? Gini: Well of course but i think the risk on that is less than a lion deciding he's Gini: mad and he chomps your head off what.
Danny: If the line was like a super old line that just you had to prop his head open Danny: and the teeth were all prosthetic teeth or false teeth because all his natural Danny: teeth were falling out i just still Gini: I think he still would have enough jaw strength to top and take your head off Gini: i mean didn't that happen to uh shoot which what were the performers in in vegas oh in vegas Gini: sigfried and roy sigfried and sigfried and roy yeah that happened to one of
Gini: them although i think it was a tiger did. Danny: He die because of that or was he attacked i can't go Gini: He was attacked he didn't die because of that but i think he did die a couple of years ago so. Danny: There you go i mean you know someone's been attacked by a lion he lived so Gini: But how many people do you know that That have been shot out of a cannon that have died. Danny: I don't know anybody that's been shot out of a cannon, to be honest. Gini: Okay, that's fair.
Danny: That's not something, like, I know we've got weird stuff in Scotland where I'm Danny: originally from, but it's not a pastime. Danny: I remember getting into trouble once for a mutual friend of ours at the time Danny: for discussing some stuff that happened at circuses. Danny: So I try not to stay away from that topic. Danny: Have you ever, do you get circuses in Chicago? Like the other company town? Danny: Yeah, you take the family along?
Gini: Long um I don't think I don't think Addie's ever been to one, Gini: I don't think she has. Danny: So that's something to look forward to then. You'll have to take her to the Danny: next one and say, okay, I'm going to prove to you why it's better to get shut Danny: out of this canon than put your head in that lion's head. Gini: So obviously it sounds like you'd rather have your head inside the lion's mouth.
Danny: I think, maybe. Because I feel like if the lion was going to bite you and take Danny: your head off, that'd be quick. Danny: You probably wouldn't know about it. I'd assume. I've never seen it happen. I don't want to.
Danny: see that happened right whereas i feel if Danny: you're in a cannon and there's so many things can go wrong so the cannon could Danny: backfire and explode so you're inside a cannon it explodes you get shot 100 Danny: feet instead of 50 feet you're traveling at twice the velocity and there's no Danny: net so i feel from a speed point of view anyway um a lion chomping down on me as opposed to me Danny: mooshing along on the ground i don't know that i feel that'd
Danny: be i know in an early episode of the the show um with Danny: fuzz martin it was episode one actually and we're speaking about like being Danny: in an airplane that's going through turbulence and falling to the ground or drowning Danny: in a you know being capsized in a boat and drowning what would be the preference Danny: really morbid question to finish the episode off and especially the first episode Danny: right but i feel it's the same kind of vibe it's like that speed thing right
Danny: where one thing could be real quick another thing could be a bit slower do you Danny: go for the quick or the go slower yeah Gini: I think both of those would be terrifying that's a tough question too.
Danny: And you travel i don't know if you still travel as much now but you used to Danny: travel a lot right yeah yeah so i'd imagine you must have had some interesting Danny: examples of turbulence in your time yeah Gini: I mean turbulence but nothing like you're going to crash to the ground.
Danny: Okay so gentle turbulence then yes Danny: so just like a gentle line okay so Danny: we're gentle lion that is gentle lions look at the wizard of oz love it so we're Danny: definitely settling on preferred shot out of the cannon absolutely yes okay Danny: if that ever pops up make sure you've got your daughter filming it i do want Danny: to see that unless unless it's not got a good ending then obviously don't film it well i Gini: Mean it might be filmed and she just won't share it.
Danny: Well there you go moving from that not generic horrific question whatsoever whatsoever. Danny: Let's have a look. We're doing well here. We've got to the end of the questions Danny: almost. Question number five. Danny: Okay, I feel, well, yeah, we can go for this because I know we can do both versions. Danny: So, Jenny, question number five. Danny: Would you rather have unlimited sushi for life or unlimited tacos for life? Gini: Tacos, tacos, tacos.
Danny: And that would be the non-meat version, obviously, right? Gini: Yes, I would love tacos. I love tacos. I love them all.
Danny: And is that because, like, well, obviously, I know why you like the non-meat Danny: version, but is that because you prefer like the tacos over sushi and fish or Danny: what's the the reason in there well Gini: I am vegetarian so there's that but also i don't Gini: know i'm i love tacos you can have hard shell tacos you can Gini: have soft shell tacos you can have without shell tacos you can have meat Gini: tacos you can have bean tacos you can have avocado tacos your others the the
Gini: options are limited or unlimited so you can have all sorts of options you never Gini: get sick of it and i feel like you would gets tired of seaweed and sushi and Gini: rice and fish eventually.
Danny: And i always feel i mean sushi i know well Danny: i don't know i've only tried it once but i've only really tried the rice and Danny: the seaweed because i don't i can't get my head around the idea of raw fish Danny: but i don't know if it's raw or not i don't know if it's cooked or not or some Danny: of it's raw yeah so and i mean i'm sure it's fine i mean i've not seen anybody Danny: die from sushi poisoning but um you never know and you're a
Danny: good cook you'll love cooking you're always sharing you know whether it's a Danny: family you know family get-togethers you're always sharing your the meals you're Danny: preparing or if you're preparing dinner you know just for yourselves what would Danny: be your ultimate taco presentation if you're cooking a taco dinner for just Danny: you and your family and then a bunch of people if Gini: It's just the family we have a favorite we actually just had the other night
Gini: um where i do beans and black beans and corn and wrap them up in homemade tortillas. Gini: Everybody loves that one. Gini: I'm actually having, we have a bunch of family in town next week, so I'm doing a taco bar. Gini: So I'll have chicken and pork, refried beans, cheese, my homemade tortillas, Gini: and then I'll do some hard shell tacos for the kids because they love that. Gini: Probably some hamburger meat for the kids.
Gini: But I do a taco bar, so it just sits up on the counter and everybody can make their own tacos. Danny: Do you make your own sauce at home? I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gini: Yeah. Danny: What's in the sauce? Do you like to share that or is that a secret? Gini: It depends. I really like to, for the chicken, I really like to do chicken thighs Gini: instead of breasts because it holds flavor better differently.
Gini: And then I usually marinate it in lime juice, garlic, onion, Gini: some cilantro and some spices overnight. Gini: And then I just grill it, chop it up. Danny: That sounds delicious. And you say this is just for your family. Danny: There's no invites for certain Canadians. Gini: Oh, you can. Absolutely. Next Wednesday. Danny: Next one so there you go and by the time unfortunately this episode will come Danny: out after that but that's too bad Gini: You can be invited nobody else can.
Danny: Dang i was going to put like the address in you know just google map and put Danny: the address in the show notes links there Danny: And what about the, what about your daughter? Is she like, we were talking in Danny: the green room earlier about her, you know, different preferences that she got. Danny: And is she like a taco person as well? Is she got a favorite meal that you prepare?
Gini: Oh, her favorite meal is pasta. And it's funny because I'll say, Gini: well, let's go somewhere and have Italian. Gini: And she's like, but it's not as good as yours. Gini: And I'm like, oh, I'm so tired. I don't want to cook. Gini: she told me the other day that she doesn't want to do hot school lunch next Gini: year because she just wants me to make her lunch every day and i was like oh Gini: i remember when we were kids and all we wanted was hot school lunch but okay.
Danny: Yeah i feel kids now not to say they're spoiled because i know there's a lot Danny: of kids that don't have that luxury of you know having meals being able to cook Danny: at home and then you know take lunches into school but i feel now there's so Danny: much choices for kids at schools um when we were growing up like i mean i'm Danny: much older than you i know we you know Danny: we do talk about our age and that but i'm much older than you and when i was
Danny: a kid at school it was basically whatever the meat thing was that they had and Danny: then a lump of potato and that was it yes that was Gini: It yeah and on fridays they made the like canned pizza that was it. Danny: Yeah yeah whereas now we get a menu sent home prior to the school you're starting Danny: do you want to sign up for pizza do you want some for peter's do you want to Danny: sign them up for the food truck that comes out what What?
Gini: Right. Salad bar, sandwich bar, soup bar. You're like, what is happening? Yeah. Danny: Exactly. And that's elementary. I mean, high school is even more, Danny: right? You've got a whole bunch of stuff at high school. Gini: Crazy. Danny: Okay. So I'm going to try and sneak my invite in to the old, Danny: I probably won't get over next week. Danny: I'm going to pretend I can get over next week and come over for that. I'll tell you what, Gini: I will make tacos for you anytime you visit.
Danny: Oh, I'm going to hold you to that. I'm going to steal the recipe from you as Danny: well. Wow, that sounds delicious. Danny: I'd love to try that. But Ginny, we've reached the end of your five questions Danny: and I don't think they were too difficult. Danny: It wasn't too bad. I think it was okay. Danny: But as is the want on this show, to be fair on every guest, because we do, Danny: I do put, we, I've got to stop saying we.
Danny: I do put you on the spot for the 30, 40 minutes, whatever of the episode. Danny: So to make it fair, it's time for your random question to ping over this way. Gini: I have 10 here. So I have to narrow it down to one. Gini: Okay, if you could have any superpower for just one day, but you had to use Gini: it for the most mundane tasks, what would it be and why? Danny: That's a good one. Um, yeah.
Danny: superpower it's going to be a mundane task has Gini: To be a mundane task it could be laundry. Danny: Yeah you know what i'm not going to do laundry Danny: but i am going to do i'm going Danny: to have flashes the flash his superpower of speed yep love it and i'm going Danny: to do housework and clean because kids just dump everything everywhere uh-huh Danny: um at the moment um like if you're a regular listener you'll know that I've Danny: had some flooding issues in the basement.
Danny: So the family's living in half a house. So it's hectic at the moment. Danny: And as much as we try to encourage the kids to clean up after them, Danny: they're kids. They don't clean up after them. Right. Or they forget. Danny: So yeah, I would have the flash, the speed, just to go around and do everything Danny: in, what would that be? 10 seconds probably? I love it. Danny: And then probably use that speed afterwards to mow the backyard and do yard
Danny: work. So you've got a two for one there. Gini: I love it. It's kind of like Mary Poppins where you just go snap and everything gets done. Love it. Danny: But I wouldn't be dancing because, as I mentioned, I don't dance. Danny: But I could do my pencil trick where I could play the tune on my pencil. Gini: I'd forgotten you can do that. Danny: Yeah, that's just a blast from the past. I appeared on Jenny's blog once on a live Q&A or something.
Danny: And there was a question popped up. So I can't remember how it popped up, Danny: but it was about, do you have any special tricks or something like that? I don't know. Danny: So I made a video of where I get a pencil or a pen. Danny: And if you give me a tune, as long as I know that tune, I can play that on my pen or pencil. Gini: That's amazing.
Danny: And so, yeah, so that's what I'll do. I'll be wandering about super fast, Danny: doing the housework, doing yard work, playing a tune on my pencil, Danny: and it's all done within a minute or so. Gini: You please record all of that for us. Danny: I should do like a pencil version of the theme music for the show. Do that as a special. Gini: You totally should. Danny: Maybe for this episode, we'll see what I can hang up for that. Gini: You should, absolutely.
Danny: So Ginny, it's been an absolute blast. I mean, we've known each other for years. Danny: We've met a few times, a good few times and spoken at events, etc. Danny: So it's always nice to catch up. And we still have to talk about getting that Danny: This Is Us podcast off the ground. Gini: Yes, yes, we should do that.
Danny: But for anybody that wants to catch up with what you're doing Danny: now whether it's on the spin sucks blog the pr agency the Danny: various podcasts you're doing etc or maybe even reach Danny: out to you to see if they're in chicago for a nice invite to a Danny: dinner sometime where's the best place to Danny: catch up with you online and connect spinsucks.com and everything's there your Danny: social handles everything's there yep excellent and obviously the link to the
Danny: podcast but i'll be sure to leave the links to that in the show notes as usual Danny: so whatever app you're listening on be sure to check the links out and And I'll Danny: link straight over to Spin Sucks where you can check out all the cool stuff Ginny's doing. Danny: So Ginny, thanks for appearing on 5 Random Questions. Gini: Always good to hang out with you, my friend.
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