Lyon Daniels: ‘We Can Be Heroes’ Star and Expert on Dinosaurs

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 The last time we had Lyon Daniels on the show it ended up being one of our most popular episodes.  

He’s a down-to-earth, mature young man with his head screwed on right and it’s obvious he’s going to achieve some great things in his life.  

We talk about what it was like filming the Netflix sensation ‘We Can Be Heroes’ and the excitement that’s already buzzing around the upcoming sequel.  

Next, we dive into Lyon’s passion for dinosaurs. I surprise him with a dinosaur trivia quiz and he teaches me a thing or two about what dinosaurs were really like when they dominated the earth...  

“I like having a community and seeing different people’s perspectives on things.” - Lyon Daniels  

Time Stamps:

00:00 - Introducing our guest Lyon Daniels.
08:09 - When Lyon first got to watch ‘We Can Be Heroes’.
09:06 - What impressed him most when watching the film.
12:45 - The type of scenes Lyon’s most looking forward to shooting for the sequel.
14:00 - What the scariest parts of filming were.
16:18 - What it’s like living in Arizona at the moment.
17:18 - What it was like being involved in the new documentary ‘Why Dinosaurs?’.
20:06 - Why Lyon has such a strong passion for dinosaurs.
22:12 - ‘Protofeathers’ and the scientific inaccuracies around dinosaurs.
24:59 - How dinosaurs became extinct.
26:04 - The YouTube project Lyon’s been working on.
28:46 - The rise of TikTok and how Lyon feels about social media.
32:54 - Our surprise dinosaur trivia quiz.  

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