A Conversation with... Dan from A Happy Moment

A Happy Moment Bob talks to Dan from A Happy Moment about film, podcasting, life, and who knows what else. A Happy Moment https://youtube.com/live/pyYVU7IZkUs Bad AI Transcript Hey, everybody, and welcome to a conversation with Dan from a Happy Moment podcast. Hey, Dan, how's it going? Good, Bob. How are you doing today? I'm pretty good. Well, today's been kind of a day, I'll tell you. I'll be honest with you. I was busy all day long, and then now this is my relaxing time. So hopefully it'll be happy for both of us going through all this. What do you think? Hey, every time I've talked to you so far, it's been a happy moment. Oh, good. All right. So Dan does a show called Happy Moment. And how long have you been doing that now, Dan? Roughly two years. I took a small break in between there, but going on about two years now. And I've got about close to 100 episodes. Oh, wow. Okay. And what was kind of the antithesis? Like, were you just sitting around one day and you're just like, you know what would be good for me to do?Have a show or how did it come about? I just wanted to try it as kind of a challenge to myself. I've always been kind of a quiet person. You know, I was in high school. I was voted the quietest. Really? That was a category? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it was. I didn't know that. Okay. At least at my school. Okay. So you kind of used it as a way to do something a little bit different that was a little bit out of your normal regular day or whatever, regular routine. Yeah. Yeah. Just kind of a, and also just kind of like a creative outlet. Okay. So how's it, I mean, whenever you started doing it, like I think you told me you concentrate mostly on,Uh, movies, uh, wrestling and pop culture or one of those maybe i made up. I can't remember now. No, I, I do a lot of, uh, movies, books, uh, gaming, wrestling. Those are probably the main ones oh okay well that there's my pop culture, movies, books, gaming. That's all on the right track. Yeah. Yeah. We could, we could crunch that into pop culture. Uh, So that's interesting. So then you decided you're going to do this in order to do kind of, I guess, break out of your shell a little bit from being the most quiet guy. Has it worked? Yeah. I'd say there's been varying degrees of success. I mean, the first thing I wanted to accomplish was just to see if I could even pull it off.And as I, as I just mentioned, I've got close to a hundred episodes, so I I'd say I'm definitely pulling it off. And yeah, I would say overall it's, it's probably, it's helped me a little bit. I'm kind of introverted by, by nature, but you know, this, this helps kind of get me out there a little bit more and, you know, it's good practice talking to a variety of people. So yeah, I'd say it's working, yeah. Oh, good. Well, I just was wondering, because that's what you said was kind of the push for it. So you kind of want it to work. Otherwise, you're like, well, what am I doing this for? But I will tell you, as a personal aside here, you probably won't believe it, but I'm a fairly introverted person as well. And doing these kind of things has helped tremendously.And in fact, um, I'm trying to think what it was now. It's had to be about 10 more. It's been more than 10 years ago anyway. So, uh, but anyway, I, I, it has helped me with doing public speaking. So I don't have to do it like with any regularity or anything like that, but because of doing shows, podcasts for a long time, um, I have been called at times to be up in front of an audience and an audience of hundreds of people. And they say, you know, if you read anything about that, they're like, that's one of the worst fears. And by doing this, I've been able to, you know, pull that off and, you know, more than once. And it went pretty well, I would say.Overall. So, you know, maybe there's something to it. I think maybe you're on the right track basically is what I'm getting at with doing this in order to kind of,