I have allergies, never really grew up with them, I'm, I always feel like you don't know what you're thinking, like you have like the Chandler Bing. Answer, right, of why he doesn't like dogs. But three, like the, the smell of wet dog does not bother me nearly as much as people who stink.
Hey, 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. Today, I'm posing the questions to Joe Casabona, who helps busy solopreneurs take back their time.
Some even say he perfectly blends content creation and technology. Like it's the best cup of coffee you've ever had. Okay, Joe says that. Joe's got a lot of experience over 10 years when it comes to creating podcasts, as well as more than 15 years in teaching, and over 20 years as a web developer. So, he's probably going to have a few things to say, which is perfect for this show. So Joe, welcome to 5 Random Questions.
Thanks so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.
For sure, and you've got, like, just reading that out there, that's a lot of experience, mate.
Yeah, it's Thanks I started when I was 14, like web development, but to put it in context, I was watching a Instagram reel today that personally attacked me by, by saying Grand Theft Auto Vice City, right? It came out in 2002. It takes place in, in 1986. If it came out today, it would take place in 2008.
And that, that is gross to me, like I'm like, I was like a full blown adult, like a voting, voting in elections that like, at that age, I don't, I don't appre, so I feel like, I feel very old today.
Well, and I was going to say, when I mentioned that you've got like 20 plus years in the, the web development, you don't look old, mate. You know, you're a little bit grey in your beard, but you don't look old.
Well, thank you. I have three kids, so that's like, that's where the grey comes from.
You know what, I hear you, I don't know as many of you, I've got two, but I definitely greyed out big time after they were born. I think that's just a, a thing, right? It's just like, it adds greyness.
Yeah. You know, it like gets you, like, you know, there's like the, yeah, like kids do whatever they want and it's frustrating, but then there's also the constant worry you have about them and everything they're doing. And it's like, you know, it's, it's wonderful. I love being a dad, but you know, they had like a concert for us this morning and that was like adorable. But You know, you do worry about them. So, I'll take the grays, though. I'll take the grays for the good experience.
You're looking very dapper with the grays, especially with your yellow hat there. That's nice. It's, you know, countering it really well.
Thank you.
So, what we're going to do, Joe, as I mentioned, we've got five random questions. I have no idea what they are. They're just going to pop up when I open the generator, and we'll just see where it goes. So, I'm going to bring the generator up, and let's just get that now. Alrighty. So, question one. Let's just spin the generator here. Alright. Here we go, then. Alright. Let's get the ball rolling. Who from your past do you really wish you'd stayed in contact with?
Man, this is quite a question.
It's a good opener.
Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, there's a lot of people, but I think that I have a, a couple of friends from college who predictably we lost touch with each other after college. So you know, I have like my friend Kat, we would text each other. In direct rela like, the amount of time that would go between how often we texted each other after graduation was directly related to how much time had gone by, so, Six months after college, we would text each other every couple weeks.
Six years after college, it was the high holidays. And now it's, hey, remember that time in college we did that thing? So I wish I'd stayed in touch with her and, you know, that group of people a little bit better.
And what do you find? Is it because you're in different, like, states or cities, etc? Just different paths? Or what do you think's the main reason for that?
Yeah, I mean, we live So, I mean, that particular group of friends and I, we live all over now. But Kat specifically, she, you know, she lives probably five or so hours away from me. We both have. Three small children, as a, as a matter of fact and, you know, we, we both have pretty busy careers. And so you know, if we lived closer to each other, we'd probably see each other more often, but, you know, with, with the kids and the jobs and. The distance makes it hard.
Did you ever do that thing, I know like you see it on TV shows and movies all the time, where you're on Facebook I'm going to use Facebook because that's the big connector, obviously, pretty much everybody on the planet's on that. Do you ever see someone from your old school, college, workplace, and they've taken a completely different path in life from what you might have expected that. When you knew them, you ever see that?
Oh, absolutely. I don't, I don't mind. I won't name her specifically, but you'll know who I'm who if I'm talking about her, but I had a friend in college who was, she was like a big hippie, like kind of flower child type of person. Go with the flow. And at our five year College reunion, I, we were talking and I'm like, so what do you do? She's like, Oh, I'm a lawyer now. I'm like, you're a lawyer now? I'm like, five years ago, me wouldn't believe that.
She's like, five years ago, me wouldn't believe it either.
Well, and that's, that's almost like the complete opposite of what you'd expect. you know, someone that's following the hippie lifestyle to do, especially, I mean, a moving to corporate, but I guess moving to being a lawyer, was she a prosecutor or defender?
You know, at this point I forget, I, you know, I, it felt like, I feel like she was in public defense. And so that, that makes like a little bit more sense, but yeah, it was, it was really shocked. And I mean, you know, like people go through, something I have a problem with is, The person I knew at that stage of their life is who they are today, and that is almost, it should never be the case, and it is almost never the case.
And that's true, like, I mean, they do say you can choose your friends, right? You can't choose family, you choose friends, and then you choose who, I guess, well, I guess you don't always have the choice as to who stays in your life, but, as you mentioned, at least you can still stay connected, I mean, we've got this great thing called internet that allows us to, You know, to keep connected.
And who knows, because, you know, obviously you and Kat's got the similar life with the, the kids, et cetera. But maybe that's something that's a bucket list, you know, let's spend a summer just, you know, re reconnecting with either at yours or theirs or vice versa or in between.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
I love that. Nice. Okay. So that's question one. That's a nice one to start off with. Let's see what we got for question two. Ooh, okay. Interesting. All right, Joe, question two, spontaneity or stability.
The adventurous people pleaser person in me wants to say spontaneity, but the responsible business owning dad in me wants to say stability. So I'm going to go with stability at this point in my life. You know, 38 I'll be 39 years old.
You're just a kid, mate.
But you know, got school tuition and house and things like that. Of course, I am a small business owner, right? So like how, like how much stability Am I really leaning into here? But I like the idea of knowing a little bit. At least a little bit of what I'm going into. And I feel like that's more the side of stability, right? Spontaneity is like, hey, let's just do this random thing today. And I'm like, can I do this random thing today? I could do that in college. I can't do that today though.
Well, okay, so let's go, let's go with a bonus. Question on top of this then. This isn't question three, this is like 2.a1654, whatever you want to call it. Let's get into the pie equations almost. Okay, so obviously stability makes complete sense as you mentioned. You've got the business to run, you've got bills to pay, family to feed, etc. So completely 100 percent get that. If you could do one single spontaneous thing.
Anything at all, and it doesn't impact your job, your life, etc. You just do something really, you know, out of the world that would normally be associated with you. What would it be?
Ooh, Just to put you on the spot. Anything in the world I could do that maybe wouldn't So I love traveling, so I feel like I'm not going to give the coolest answer, but I would take my wife to New Zealand. We've been, you know, we went to Italy for our honeymoon, we've both been to Ireland. And I do want to make it to Scotland to have Lagavulin straight from the source, but she's a huge Lord of the Rings fan and so, and I've always wanted to be on that side of the world.
So I think if, if we could, we would spontaneously take a trip to New Zealand.
And like, and they've got Hobbiton there, right? They've like, they've recreated Hobbiton essentially and it's actually there.
Yeah, yeah. It was shot in New Zealand. So they have all sorts of movie era sets and, and museum esque stuff over there. That would be cool.
Okay, so there you go, bucket list. Yeah. We're off to New Zealand. Alrighty, nice one. Moving swiftly along. We're getting there fairly quickly today, but I like it though, I like it. Alright then. Okay, I'm looking forward to this for some strange reason. Question number three. Would you rather be trapped in an elevator full of men with B. O. and body odour or three soaking wet dogs?
I am famously not a dog person. I'm not an animal person at all. Actually. I don't like animals. Yeah. I have allergies. Never really grew up with them. I'm, I always say like, you don't know what you're thinking. Like you have like the Chandler Bing answer, right? Of why he doesn't like dogs, but three, like the, the smell of wet dog. Does not bother me nearly as much as people who stink. Like I knew, I knew somebody in a previous life who was a close talker who also had like intense halitosis.
And like, like close, like, he would like grab my head and like say something real close to me and I'm like, bro, you need a mint, like, so I will, even though I don't like animals, I will pick the three soaked dogs because I, I would prefer that smell versus men with B. O.
And I always feel like, I mean, wet dogs don't really smell that bad, you know, and I'm thinking we've got two dogs. That being said, our two dogs are Chinese Crested, so they're pretty much hairless. They've only got hair on their face, their tail, and a little bit on their paws. That's it.
The rest of them, they're naked, and we got these because my wife suffers from allergies, so these dogs are hypoallergenic, so it was perfect, but when we bathe, okay, when we bathe them, that's not a great example, because then they smell nice and clean, before we bathe them, they don't smell bad, and when they're out in the rain or whatever, maybe it's because they don't have hair, Even dogs that, like, my wife's mum's got a big dog, and even that doesn't
smell bad, bad, at least, when it's wet. So it's, like you say, I can't think of three wet dogs being anywhere as bad as, especially men would be, or women, I feel, don't often have. But I had to be all problems not as much as men for some reason, whether it's the pheromones, whatever it is, it's a nice. Mm hmm.
Yeah. Testosterone is probably very smelly.
Oh yeah. Yeah. I know. Like to your example, I worked before I like moved into sort of a a different career. I used to work in a knitwear mill back in Scotland. That was my very first job after leaving school. And that's where you make, you know, sweaters and jerseys, et cetera, and you hand make them. And we used to work in a knitwear mill in the summer. It got really, really stinky hot. There was no AC back then. So it was really hot.
And we were a couple of guys that had really bad issues and they tried to hide it. Fair play to them. They tried to hide it with lots of showers, lots of soap, and body spray, but because they were lathering all that stuff on and then that was on top of the BO that was fighting back through again, that just, I, I still can vividly remember that smell today.
Yeah, sounds like they needed like prescription deodorant, right? So yeah, I guess the other side of this question is not the smell, but it's like three soaked dogs will probably be like shaking themselves off and like, again, I don't know, like being, being wet in dry clothing doesn't really bother me also. Okay. Like, I know I keep bringing up my kids, but like, you know, when I'm out and about or my, my youngest still wears diapers. So like.
You know, I get like foreign substances on my hands that I kind of have to deal with so like that maybe it's just like I'm Especially sensitive to smells like I can tell if someone's smoking outside like several. I don't I was gonna say blocks Outside of eyesight, right? Like if someone is smoking in the vicinity, even if they're not next to me Like I'll smell it and I smoke cigars.
So I'm also like aware of that hypocrisy so like maybe it's just like You Really smelly people are like, that is definitely low on my list. I would rather like dogs like shaking off and getting me all wet and like smelling like a wet dog way more than like really stinky men, like really stinky men. Right.
And when you, when you said that, I thought you were going to go somewhere else with that. When you said, I'd rather have dogs, you know, Oh, where are we going here? Cause now that's a different question. That's a different question. So I guess then, so I, and I, I completely, I think I one hundred percent agree with you here, mate. I'm curious, if you're with someone so whether you're in a work situation, et cetera, and someone's got that bad B. O., do you let them know gently?
Do you ignore it and let it go? What would be your approach there?
I'd probably let it go unless it was like a friend, like if it was like a friend and we're like getting ready to go out maybe or something, I'd be like hey, did you like poop your pants or something? Like you smell terrible. Definitely my brothers. But if it was like, if we're already out.
Almost definitely no, right, because at that point, I don't know, my, my wife and like a lot of her friends like tend to have deodorant on them, but like my wife's also a nurse, so like she's running around, I, I don't know any guys who carry deodorant on them, and so like, certainly if it's a guy friend, like probably not able to do anything about that, so like why make them self conscious.
So what we're saying here is, man, smarten up, you guys stink, we stink. Let's not say you guys, we stink.
Yes, yeah, we stink, yeah, right? Give yourself a sniff test, right? If I'm going out on a date, I reapply, like with my wife, I reapply deodorant, right? Like, even though I do maybe one of the least physically strenuous jobs on the planet, I'm still like, hey, I was just living, so I'm gonna freshen up a little bit before I go out.
Well, that's, I mean, and that's the thing, I mean, obviously you're in the creator space, so you've got a lot of lights, etc. that are going on, you know, in your office, so that can get fairly warm anyway, even though you might not be doing anything strenuous, it can get warm, so yeah, I hear you. So, like we say, smarten up, not smarten up, freshen up, man, let's do this. Freshen up, I love it. Freshen up. Alrighty, question number four, moving on.
We're eight, we're approaching 80 percent through here, all good stuff. Yeah. Okay, let's find out what kind of healthy or non healthy person you are, Joe. What's in your fridge right now?
So this is really good, right? I, cause the fridge is stuff that I've purchased from the grocery store and then stuff my wife has selected to buy. And I'll just say right now, the healthy stuff is all for my wife and the not healthy stuff is for me. So in our fridge right now, we're in a farm share our Chester County, Pennsylvania, famously, I guess, or at least locally, famously. Lots of farm land. We are the number one exporter of mushrooms.
And so we know a lot of people with farms are part of a farm share. So we've got like some onions, some lettuce, carrots. We have eggs, fresh eggs, right from the chicken. And that's all part of the farm share that my wife signed us up for. In the other part of the fridge, we have. An assortment of frozen food that could easily be thrown in the oven to eat. So tortellini, pizza bagels, pierogies and then this rebel ice cream that is very low carb.
Because even though I just rattled off a bunch of things, I have type 2 diabetes. And so I, I try to draw the line at sweets, right? I'm Italian, so I have a hard time completely cutting out pasta. But I, I will draw the line at sweets. And so Rebel ice cream, great alternative, like, keto friendly, low carb ice cream.
And, so have you always been type 2 diabetes, or did that come in later in life?
I was diagnosed about three years ago. But we've like, I, I was a lock for this. Both of my parents have type two, type two, my, my maternal grandmother had type two, our family dog had type two diabetes. So like I was, not that that's genetically related, but it's definitely like lifestyle related, I'm sure. So I was like pretty much a lock. It's under, it's under good control and so but yeah, I found out a few years ago, but I've known for a while this is probably in my future. And
I'm guessing because it's such a new, you know, diagnosis, is there anything you'd mention, you know, what you have in your fridge, what your wife gets, what you get? And that you do have that, that special ice cream because obviously ice cream, everybody wants ice cream, you know, but is there something that you can't have anymore that you did have prior to three years ago that you really,
really miss? Regular soda. Which is probably what got me into the situation in the first place, right? So, I've loosened up since the diagnosis, but like, when I was first diagnosed I spoke to a nutritionist who was like, Alright, because of your situation, you should have like, 40 carbs, 40 to 50 carbs per meal, and then 15 to 20 carbs per snack. And so I was like, all right, well, if I'm eating like salmon, right. For dinner, I'm only eating like salmon and asparagus or something.
There's no carbs in that. I could probably have a can of regular Coke, right? Nope. 42 carbs in a can. 12 ounces of regular coke. So once I figured that out, I was like, all right, like, I live in a world where not only can I easily get my blood sugar at any point during the day, but there's also lots of alternatives. So like, Coke Zero? pretty close. Diet Dr. Pepper, pretty close.
And so I do miss the taste of especially cherry Coke, but there are enough close enough alternatives that I'm, I'm not down in the dumps about it. You know, I guess if you really love food, you'll get that statement. If you don't care about food, you'd be like, why would you ever be down in the dumps about food?
Oh, no, I hear you. I'm a huge foodie. I mean, I love cooking. I find it really therapeutic. And just messing about with flavours. Oh, is this going to work? Let's try it. If it doesn't, okay, I'm not doing that again. But at least you tried it, right? It's just that experimentation.
Yeah, I do that with cocktails. I love making cocktails.
Oh, I'll have to manoeuvre my way out that way sometime at a podcast conference or something. Absolutely. Sounds like a plan. So, and obviously because it is a new I'm guessing, how old are your kids again, Joep? You mentioned you've got a little one.
Yeah, seven, four and two and a half.
And do they work around your diabetes? Do they still have what they want?
Yeah, yeah. I was I'm very much a, you know, I did this to myself. It's my personal responsibility. You know, it's like there are some people who are like, Oh, I know you're not drinking, so I'm not going to get a drink. I would never impose that on other people, right? Like, Oh, sorry, I'm getting dessert. No, no, no, no. You live a largely healthy life and you got a salad for dinner and I got like a hamburger for dinner. So like, don't be sad for me.
Right. So no, I, we, they get their treats after dinner. I want to reign that in a little bit. I'm like, I, I get like, they're, they're still young and their metabolism is different and they're still growing. But I definitely don't want them to have the bad habits that I had. So like, they, even my oldest, like, hasn't had a regular soda yet.
Because when I, like, I had it too early, and like, that's all we, like, my dad doesn't drink water, like, that's a true, that's not an exaggeration, like, and so, thankfully after I started dating Erin, I, my, my now wife, I started drinking more water, I tell people I'd be dead without her, but so, like, we grew up in a household, we didn't grow up in a healthy habits household, and I want to change that for my kids.
And that's the thing, right, you always want to do differently from what your parents did with you, not that your parents ever did a bad thing or anything, but you always, I feel as a, as a child you always want to do things differently from how you perceive maybe your parents raised you, and I tend to think you still do stuff that your parents did anyway.
Oh my gosh, I'm like a carbon. I mean, like, I'm not kidding anybody. I'm a carbon copy of my old man. Like, the only difference between my dad and me is I read more books than he does. Which is like, the, like, that's a purely academic thing and I probably got that from my, my mom, right? Because my mom loves reading. But other than that, like, We, we have the same mannerisms, we're short with our temper in the same sort of way and the same sort of things bother us.
But yeah, my, my parents did a good job, but it was the eighties, nineties, things were different, right? Like way more processed food was coming out. My mom was working, right? Cause she had four, like my parents had four boys that they had to feed, which is an impossible task when they're all teenagers. And so you know, we would go for the easy and the fun thing and we do the same thing. It's just, we live 30, 20 or 30 years on. There's a lot more healthy, easy food out there.
And I'm curious what our kids will have in 30 years time. Will they still have nice food to have? Will it be just these little cubes?
Yeah, right. Yeah. Little bouillon, like the impossible bouillon cube, right? Or it's like, it tastes like a steak dinner, but it's not. Made from water or something.
Exactly. Good luck to them. I'm not I'm hoping Well, you know what? 30 years time, maybe I'll still be alive. Maybe not. But I'm not worried if I'm dead because I'm missing that food. I will take that as a trade. Yeah, absolutely. Alrighty, Joe. We're almost at the end here. I feel like Sean, Sean Evans on Now We Feast, you know, he's like, Oh, yeah, we're under the last dab here. Yeah. Got the same kind of hair as Sean Evans. I think he's a little bit balder than me, but we'll see.
Anywho, so yeah, we're on to question five. So let's have a look at this and let's reel this one in. Okay, then. Now, this will tie back a little bit to your spontaneity or, you know, Whatever that question was. Spontaneity or stability. That was it. Yep. So question five. Here we go. What's the craziest or most out of character thing you've ever done?
Oh, man. Okay, I people who have heard all of, no, that's probably not the most, I was like protecting a friend. Okay, the most out of character thing for me probably, in my early 20s and stupid, mostly. But I try not to be outwardly mean to people who who don't deserve it. And I wrote a very mean blog post about somebody. It was like, it was, I like cringe just thinking about it. And then they read it and confronted me twice about it. And I doubled down both times. Like I never apologized.
And I think about it now. And it's just like, I hate that. Like, I don't, I don't have a lot of regrets. I regret. writing it, and I regret the way I handled it. And like, sure, stupid 18 to 20 year old guy who's like not thinking about long term ramifications, but in other situations, I'm direct and I will, I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong and I just was neither of those things in that situation.
So something I think about every few months and not, I'm not like haunted by it, but I do think about it sometimes. And I'm just like, man, I was an idiot. Like every, every time I think about it. And
like you say, I mean, you, you were young and we've all done silly things. I'm curious, E, did you ever? Clear the air after these two times and then I guess B maybe, is there anything in that you find specific that makes you think of that times that just pop into your, your head from nowhere?
Yeah, that's like the, that's like the horrible thing about just random thoughts, right? Is it'll just like pop in from time to time or like, you know, and when I'm even prompted like this and I thought about it, it like doesn't, it's when it just like creeps in and I'm like Yeah.
We never cleared the air and it's part of me is because so like it upset this person so much and they've more or less like disavowed themselves of me that I worry that just like sliding in and like my very like existence will upset this person, you know and so, you know, I feel like it's a very let sleeping dogs lie thing. Now, if, if, you know, If they're listening they know I don't know. You know, but if they are they know exactly who they are.
And I, I do regret the way I acted because it's not. It's not me. It wasn't me then. It's definitely not me now.
Well, I think that's part of human growth though, right? We, we do things and it's, it's as we get older and we see, you know, why it wasn't the right thing to do. And then we try, you know, espouse that to our kids and explain, okay, don't ever do anything like this because it's wrong and explain why. Right. So it's it's not nice because obviously, as you mentioned, it ruined a friendship and it's, it's hurt someone. But if it's a learning thing, I feel it's.
Not good, because that's the wrong word, but it's good for our personal growth and to, we can try our best to make it right, but as you mentioned, at some stage we just have to step back and say, okay, I hurt that person and You know, I'll let them be now.
Yeah, right. And if I ever run into this person in the street, it'll be the first thing I say. Until then, if they have not thought about me and never think about me again, then that's, that's perfectly fine as well.
That's a good way, that's a good way to think about it, I think. Alrighty, so we made it. We got through the five questions.
We got real deep there. I don't usually get this deep. I don't usually get that deep.
Well, this is what I like about this, this format. I mean, as I mentioned, we don't know what the questions are. And it kind of, it doesn't force you, but I think it encourages you to, to maybe answer, you know, something that you hadn't thought of for a while. So it's, and I like the fact that it can be, one minute it can be something silly. You know about B. O. and dogs in an elevator, and then the next thing would be something like that. So, yeah, I appreciate you sharing with that.
Yeah, of course, of course. And I think, in fairness, this is the part of the show that it's fair to the guests who've put themselves out there and open up, honestly to myself and you, the listener. I think it's only fair to allow Joe the random question he can throw my way.
Well, it's not gonna be as deep as that. I was thinking about this. It's also, I guess it's not really random either for those who don't have access to the video, I'm currently wearing an Obi Wan Kenobi shirt. I see Boba Fett in the background, and I know Danny that you're a Star Wars fan, right? And so my question is, who would you want to be your master? in all of Star Wars and the extended universe.
So I was going to say Jedi Master, but I don't want to assume you're picking the light side, right? So like who, whose apprentice do you most want to be in all of Star Wars and the extended universe?
Oh,
that's a really good one.
And there's so many as well. I mean, I'm, I'm a huge Star Wars fan, but I'm not, Like one of the ones that are super into every aspect and faucet of the, the Lord behind it and everything. I know Mark, my colleague, you know, Mark, Mark Asquith and Garry Aylott they would know so much more than me. Because that's, that's a thing, right? That they have their own podcast about Star Wars.
Yeah. So. I, I think of the, the books I've read and of the shows and the movies, et cetera, I'd probably go with Kanan Jarrus, Kanan Jarrus from Rebels. If you watch the Rebels TV show, you'll know who he is. He may have appeared in comics beforehand. I'm not sure, but obviously that's where. Rebels is where I got to know him and he's, he's been name dropped in the Ahsoka, which I thought was awesome because that tied these two universes together.
He also, he also makes a little cameo in Bad Batch.
Yes, he does. Yes. Right at the start, I believe, right? Isn't he the kid that runs off or something? He's the kid. Yep. Yep. Yeah, I forgot about that. Good, good one. I forgot. Yeah, I don't know. I feel he's the most pure, like how he taught Ezra. You know, he took Ezra on board and taught Ezra. And how he, and I don't want to give any spoilers away for anyone that's not watched Rebels, but might want to watch it to catch up on.
You know, the backstory to Ahsoka and, you know, all that stuff, but how he did what he did at an important time that completely changed the direction of the show. So yeah, I would say Ken, and I'm going to get his name wrong, so I please, I know what the Star Wars fans can be like, I'm just going to unline it at the minute. Oof, it's, it's, it's all Wild West. Showdown over there at the minute. But yeah, Kanan Jarrus, that'd be my, my master I feel. What about you?
I'm going to ping it back to you, I think.
Oh so I, I love that answer. Cause I don't think you would hear it a lot, but yeah, Kanan's great. I'm, I mean, I love Obi Wan, but I feel like that's such a boring answer, but I don't, I think now that the show is out, this answer is also going to be boring, but I love Ahsoka Tano. I think she's great. I think she has like the, you know, the the spontaneity of Anakin, right. With a little bit of like the, the wisdom and stability of, of Obi Wan.
And so she's not afraid to do the right thing, but she, you know, She acts prudent, and much like a self employed person, she realized that she wanted to continue her practice, but could not live within the co Well, I guess I'm, like, really spoiling Clone Wars here. But Of the Jedi order. So really, I, you know, I, I really liked that about her and like, I read her the book about her and it was just really, really great character. So that's, that's who I'd pick.
I like it. That's a good one. And the show, I thought Rosario Dawson nailed that. Yeah. And even when she appeared in the Mandalorian, you know, I thought she nailed that character introduction. So it'll be interesting to see where season two, hopefully they're going to have it, where that goes.
This is the thing I like about Ahsoka, right? Cause like, when we're introduced to Ahsoka in the first episode of Clone Wars, which was like a Clone Wars movie she was like 14 and very immature. And then like, we see her fast forward 50 or so years later, you know, and she is There's a lot of character development for us to witness, which is great.
Yeah, I'm 100%. And I know they're drawn about doing a like Dave Filoni's on about bringing all these disparate universes together, like all the shows together. So the Rebels Era, Ahsoka, Thrawn. Bad Batch, everything's leading up to this big Mandalorian, this big movie event, you know, in a couple of years time. So I'll be curious to see what that is.
Yeah, super exciting. I love that we got to see on screen Thrawn. Or like real life Thrawn, I guess.
Yeah, real life on screen, we'll go with both. Live action. Live action, that's the word. Live action. And we're not cutting that out. We're going to let Joe sound really, you know, off the chart when he's trying to describe what an animation to live action is called.
That's good. People, people should see that. You know, it's I know it's hard to believe, but I'm not brilliant all the time.
So Joe, I really appreciate you coming on today's episode and opening up and talking to me about the five questions that you were asked. For people that want to find out what you do from a work point of view, podcast point of view, or just in life in general. Where's the best place to connect and find you?
I think casabona. org is the place. You know, usually I come on these shows, I have like a landing page set up, but you know, this was a really good, casual kind of open conversation. Casabona. org has been my blog since two thousand and two. And so you can go there and, and. It's been cleaned up, obviously. But yeah, there's a lot of stuff about me there. And then I'm on almost every social network as Jay Casabona, which is also linked over at casabona. org.
That makes it nice and easy. And speaking of links, I'll be sure to leave the link to that in the old show notes. So whatever app you're listed on, make sure to check that out. And I'll link that right over to Joe's site. So, Joe, again, thanks so much for being here today.
Thanks for having me. This was so much fun.
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