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Stuff it in the Cornucopia
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Adult Swim
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David Isaacs
nostalgic things that I've missed.
00:00:26
David Isaacs
Oh, it's over. All right, great.
Nostalgic TV Shows & Adult Swim
00:00:29
David Isaacs
Hey, everyone. Here with Big Dog. It is April 8th at time of recording. What up, Big Dog?
00:00:36
The Big Dog
Nothing much, man. You just gave me quite the trip down memory lane. Still cracking up about it.
00:00:45
David Isaacs
Oh, yeah, the the cornucopia thing.
00:00:48
The Big Dog
Yeah. Put it in the cornucopia.
00:00:53
David Isaacs
Podcasts. Stuffing in the cornucopia.
00:00:55
The Big Dog
Yeah. Chatting for 30 to 45 minutes. Put it in the cornucopia. Yeah.
00:01:02
David Isaacs
um yeah but even like before me and brian got on here we're talking about this weird adult swim which used to run on cartoon network this commercial they would play around thanksgiving where they would just be stuffing a bunch of stuff in the cornucopia and that was the the song they would just name what they were stuffing in the cornucopia and it's So good.
00:01:26
David Isaacs
um Have you ever watched like Too Many Cooks? Adult Swim?
00:01:31
The Big Dog
No.
00:01:31
David Isaacs
They would play it all the time.
00:01:31
The Big Dog
no
00:01:32
David Isaacs
Oh my god, Brian. I'm already sending you some links, man. There's like this Too Many Cooks and it was like a an intro to a sitcom.
00:01:46
David Isaacs
But it was like fever dreamish. Very strange. But very good. like Some of the best...
00:01:56
David Isaacs
obscure absurd comedy that I've seen.
00:02:02
The Big Dog
Yeah, uh...
00:02:06
The Big Dog
That's what... i mean, that's pretty much on brand with anything that Cartoon Network has... Or, excuse me, Dalsam has ever put out. Just absurd comedy.
00:02:19
David Isaacs
Yeah. Um, But that is kind of one of the the main things, drivers, nostalgia. Problem is, like nostalgia like that doesn't hit the same anymore because you don't have all the the inputs to get it. you know On a big box TV, you're staying up late at night, you're not supposed to be, and you see too many cooks on the TV, and it's like one of the weirdest things.
00:02:44
David Isaacs
being a kid was there was so much weird shit you would see before bed like courage to cowardly dog something on adult swim it was very absurd or whatnot and we would just go to sleep now it's like um you don't have the fundamentals of like nostalgia of like you know if i'm staying up late at night it's not like i have the energy to get through the day tomorrow so um it is kind of tough to uh Tough to to get back to that place fully, but a little trip down memory lane is always good.
Iconic Comedies & Seth Green
00:03:23
The Big Dog
Yeah, it was actually listening another podcast. Spoilers. We do it listen to other podcasts, but this one particular, where they're talking about how,
00:03:35
The Big Dog
um like, they're talking about if Seth Green never really had community chops before um Robot Chicken, and like, you know, if did he really have it before Austin Powers, and then they're like, you know,
00:03:53
The Big Dog
yada yada yada but i don't know i just kind of like was a good point somebody made he's like yeah like we'd always like watch robot chicken kind of just out of like we'd either would miss you know you'd be up at like and drunk or high at however long you know in your like early 20s or we'll say post high school um and you know you try to catch like american dan or family guy or something and it just missed it for whatever reason and you know catch a robot chicken and that ah but the the show would just be funnier than like you would kind of give it credit for i don't know like just like optimus prime in therapy optimus prime and dying from cancer like i don't know just the some of the storylines that are like uh
00:04:48
The Big Dog
was the other one? Oh, or if Arkham Asylum were filmed a movie like Shawshank Redemption.
Creative Animation Styles
00:04:58
The Big Dog
That's joke.
00:05:00
The Big Dog
Oh, God. Going off the rails this episode earlier already, but. Yeah, I mean, we don't really have that type of nostalgia anymore. Like, yeah, like you said, like sitting in front of a TV, you know, at 12 to two o'clock in the morning, you know, like.
00:05:18
The Big Dog
during a weekday when you're playing video games or something, you just want something in the background noise or, you know, just like you couldn't sleep and just adult swim is always on. And you'd kind of like watch this like WTF show. And you're like, why am I liking this? This is so freaking weird. what was that show that, ah you sent, sent me like a year ago. Maybe was like within the last six months.
00:05:43
The Big Dog
Uh, it's on HBO max. And it's like, cartoon with like the the super forest or the with uh it's like a guy who looks like hugh hefner and he just says like all these magical creatures at his disposal and they all just like work you office work like
00:06:02
David Isaacs
I don't know if that was me. It might have been. ah I don't know what that is. What?
00:06:08
The Big Dog
yeah oh my god what what is that show called it's gonna bother me but I don't know. like i think maybe you would Maybe I thought you mentioned it, but i then I just started seeing clips on my social media, and it was actually really... This was a really funny show. The art was just so random, but it was actually really
Nostalgia & Media Consumption
00:06:28
The Big Dog
good. like They did you know
00:06:30
David Isaacs
Smiling friends?
00:06:31
The Big Dog
Smiling Friends, yes, that show.
00:06:33
David Isaacs
I'm like, what the hell are you talking like Hugh Hefner with magical friends? Like what?
00:06:37
The Big Dog
e Yeah, the dude looks like whatever that guy's name, the old guy, and they they like their building is just like a giant... um It's like what giant smiling face, right?
00:06:49
David Isaacs
Yeah, that's their office building.
00:06:51
The Big Dog
yeah yeah, And then they're like... He's like... When they had like the random city inspector and he was trying to... i't She was trying to kill him. He's like, I'm going to take care of it.
00:07:03
The Big Dog
But it just has randomly good art. the ah They brought the... lake the one little creature into the office and he's exploring. He's like, yeah, he's like, I got my GameCube and I got Super Monkey Ball.
00:07:15
The Big Dog
All of a sudden, he's like, they're like dapping up and like it was like rotoscoping. Like, I don't think
00:07:20
David Isaacs
Yeah, yeah, they do. um Sorry to cut you off. But they're one of their big shtick is that they get a bunch of like different animators with different like creativeness. Rotoscoping is a big one. It's always hilarious. But yeah, they'll have like different. i don't know if it's like YouTube animators or what, but they give a lot of their a lot of their budget goes to like different animation styles coming from different animators.
00:07:46
The Big Dog
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, they have, like, rotoscoping. There's, like stop stop motion. Like, i don't know. it's Yeah, I don't... Clearly, they, like, obviously don't have, like, one consistent...
00:07:58
The Big Dog
um like art style which is fine and and it's great actually it enhances the show if anything but I don't know I was just like i kind of wanted to start watching it but then I feel like I would just like go down that adult swim train where I'm just like staying up till three o'clock in the morning watching it for absolutely no reason and my wife's like are you okay I was like I'm fine it's it's a great show
00:08:23
David Isaacs
Yeah, I feel like that's what kept me up um some nights of just like trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. And that's what kept me hooked. um Yeah, there's that show, obviously very good. And even some of the comedy.
00:08:41
David Isaacs
of like they're trying to help this guy's like very silly and he can't stop being silly and no one takes him seriously and they're like trying to make him smile or like try people to take him more seriously but he has like this ability to create like a silly sausage uh sounds a lot worse than it is but it's like an actual sausage and They're like trying to help him out. He's like, dude, come on, just one more silly sausage. I'm sorry, I haven't had breakfast. He's like freaking out. He's like, dude, come on. i Just like the way that they do like conversational humor is very good um in some of the concepts and things.
00:09:12
The Big Dog
Yeah.
00:09:15
David Isaacs
So yeah, Adult Swim really has been pretty big breeding ground for some of those more absurd obscure comedies and people that just like to experiment i think in today's day and age everything's kind of the same you know tim robinson obviously with i think you should leave um is the chair company show detroiters like people just kind of grown to wanting something that's different and i i've always had you know quite a big respect for
00:09:49
David Isaacs
some things maybe they're not like the funniest ever um but somebody that's like trying something different and it it really shows the like video games like you don't have to have there's a lot of video games that have fantastic graphics and they're pieces of shit tv shows that have you know great acting great visuals visuals terrible don't get me started on house of the dragon season two but like there's Smiling Friends. There's another one called Ha Ha You Clowns.
00:10:22
David Isaacs
It's also very good. Very terrible like animation. But it's so good that you just like look past it. And it's one of those like brotherly feel-good shows.
00:10:34
David Isaacs
So they're they're like so positive. It's three brothers and their dad. And they're always supportive of each other.
00:10:40
The Big Dog
Oh.
00:10:44
David Isaacs
And yeah, it's just different. You know, and and that's one of the things like getting older that I've tried to keep about myself of like, you know, listen to new music, try different things, watch different shows.
00:11:01
David Isaacs
Like you don't have be watching something that other people are watching or just like watching it. Let's see if you would enjoy it And ah there's a lot of stuff that I listen to and a lot of stuff that I watch that I can't recommend to anyone because they're of they're going to look at me differently, but that's okay.
00:11:19
David Isaacs
It's what I enjoy and it's kind of like one of those ways to you know cheaply have a ah different ah new experience.
Inside Jokes & Cultural Moments
00:11:31
The Big Dog
Yeah, it's like, um, like Adult Swim, I think, especially, like, all those random shows where like, the original, like, TikTok, because, like, I feel like, or, like, I guess maybe Vine or something, in a way. um ah my, like, reasoning for that is, like, I feel like with all your friends, like,
00:11:48
The Big Dog
or your family members, whatever, you're just going to have, like, some random show or random thing that you're going to quote that happened. Like, I have inside jokes with my wife all the time about something my son says, and then it's just, like, he'll say something and just makes us laugh because it's kind out of the blue.
00:12:04
The Big Dog
Like, he calls, i gave him I got a couple of lightsaber toys on clearance at Walmart for like five bucks each. And like, I gave him, I just happened to give him the dark saber, but for whatever reason, he thinks it's a vacuum.
00:12:20
The Big Dog
Like I, it's like he'll grab it by the blade and then he'll just start vacuuming. Like he'll hit the button. And then like every time he like starts swinging it or like in a vacuum motion,
00:12:31
David Isaacs
Oh, he associates the noise.
00:12:33
The Big Dog
Yeah, he's socially so nice with the um but the vacuum, so... ah but Yeah, I mean, I find myself quoting um squid bellies with my friends all the time. Like that was like an adult swim show like 10, 10 ish years ago. Because he's like, my friends like, we got to dial back the bears. i was like, what the what the fuck does that mean? It's like, and he like sent me this video clip of it's like grandma from squid bellies telling kind of like their origin story. He's like, thank God made bears.
00:13:09
The Big Dog
He made too many bears. He had to dial back the bears. and Just like every once in while, I'll just text him, dial back the bears. No meaning, no context.
00:13:20
The Big Dog
um You know, but it's things like that that really make life enjoyable. Even if it's like a small random, random moment, you know, the, but and my cornucopia of my brain, you know, I just, I just shove all the stuff that I see, like consume somewhere in this, my cornucopia of my, my mind and we'll bring it up one day. Won't be the most appropriate time, but I'll find a way to do it.
00:13:48
David Isaacs
Yeah, it's I hold on to a lot of those like quotes and things like talk about all the time. We've been the playing a lot of our creators, not so much over the last couple days, but anytime we. there's like a zip line in a game that you can put down or you can take like zip lines that are on the map.
00:14:07
David Isaacs
And there's a South Park episode of like, why did I go zip lining?
00:14:07
The Big Dog
Hmph.
00:14:10
David Isaacs
And it's like set up documentary style and friends always, there's a quote in the show. So anytime it like take a zip line in the game, was like, Hey Cartman, out how was it?
00:14:22
David Isaacs
it's like Kind of fucking sucks, dude. So let's, yeah, just really like pattern recognition and, you know, like good time quotes or like some of those things are always just so great.
00:14:38
David Isaacs
It's kind of come back to. And yeah, I think I'm
Impact of Streaming on Recommendations
00:14:42
David Isaacs
always kind of like a kid. in that I'm very curious. I like to experiment with stuff and, you know, try to associate things that are funny um constantly. So, yeah, we're always talking about that or somebody bringing up like some stupid stuff that we used to do in high school
00:15:04
David Isaacs
just in school in general, like stupid things like kids say and, you know, whatever else.
00:15:08
The Big Dog
Thank you.
00:15:10
David Isaacs
Yeah. So it's cool just to go back and yeah, just have the that nostalgic experience and then kind of associating that with still looking for new new things not trying to be too caught up in the past but you know like what was the main driver of some of that and it's like well we wanted to you know stay up late we wanted to maybe watch some TV shows that we weren't supposed to be watching And now it's kind of the same thing.
00:15:43
David Isaacs
It's like, well, I could stay up late, but now I have, it's available to me through streaming all the time. So I can just watch it whenever. And it's like shows that I shouldn't be watching. it's like, yeah, I shouldn't be watching them because I can't tell anyone that I'm watching them because if I ever recommend them to somebody, they're go be like, what the fuck, man?
00:15:56
The Big Dog
right
00:16:03
The Big Dog
yeah and like i feel like um like there's kind of like less of that now because like content moves so quickly that like if you go like to the like me growing up with like my friends like we'd always watch movies or tv shows and like you know like chapelle show obviously is a popular one there's there's memes of it of you know before tic tac we had the chapelle show where you just like walking down the hallway and then be like charlie murphy you know it's like thing you'd get a minimum um of 12 20 responses if if not more but um you know and like in my my opinion it's like
00:16:46
The Big Dog
like kids and things and that's fine like i understand like we're at a different
Exploring Michael Crichton's Works
00:16:51
The Big Dog
place in time obviously but um you know kids are quoting more like tiktok and instagram and stuff like that more so just because everything moves so quickly and it's like hey did you see ah you know xyz series no i don't have that subscription service and then like when you finally end up getting it like six months later you know like hey i finally watched this and you start quoting the show they're like oh yeah i remember watching that and you're like oh fuck you know so um
00:17:23
The Big Dog
Cause I feel like I've watched more variety of TV like now than I did when I was younger, but like, you know, like quarter group of friends watch different things and it's like, you know, kind of like, it feels like more of an exchanging of information, like of or recommendations more than like getting back to like the, you know, kind of limited, I guess, viewing that we had when we were younger. yeah.
00:17:54
David Isaacs
Sorry. Yeah, unfortunately. When you get older, you're checking emails at 8.43 at night. um
00:18:02
The Big Dog
Right.
00:18:03
David Isaacs
Yeah, but you're right. It's like you don't have that. um i mean, some shows that are like coming out um like on a weekly basis, they might talk to some people like the next day about...
00:18:16
David Isaacs
um It's kind of few and far between. I mean, like the water cooler conversations are not as prevalent. It's really just talking about for me, it's like books, like books is a big one.
00:18:28
David Isaacs
Like I'd get somebody to like start reading the series that I'm reading and then it's cool because they're. you know, send me a text like, oh, really enjoying this. Like, oh, my God, like, you know, this big thing happened. And I was like, yeah, it was crazy.
00:18:42
David Isaacs
And then eventually they just like, you know, pass me up. So I'm like, oh, fuck. you're like oh you You're like, oh, did you like this? I'm like, no, I haven't gotten there yet. um And sometimes it's good, too, because you talk about something so much and someone's like, yeah, I finally started that series and I'm on book two really enjoying it I'm like, what?
00:19:02
David Isaacs
You didn't think to let me know about this? like you fuck You little fucker, man.
00:19:05
The Big Dog
right
00:19:06
David Isaacs
i mean I need to know these things. There's something just so great that makes you feel real good when people take your recommendations on things.
00:19:17
The Big Dog
yeah and and like you said i think it's or like we talked about it's like it's it's less these days and you know it's like um i in my would say estimation i feel like people have like maybe two streaming services if they're not like on cable um And i feel i I even feel like a lot of people who I know, like, at my age are, like, getting cable again. Like, just for, like... I just want to be able to watch some random thing. Like, sports, more specifically. But, you know, like, I just want to, like, be able to, like, watch, like, Friends or something. And not have to worry about, like, finding the streaming service that it's on.
00:19:58
The Big Dog
um I feel like if you... the common one is, is Netflix and then maybe like HBO or something. But I think those are like the top two that most people have. Like at my office, we're not really much readers per se. i mean, we do have like, um, I think the things we kind of all have in common are a lot of us are doing like cork deficit kind of diet working out. um the pit that hits a big one, um, on HBO.
00:20:27
David Isaacs
Yeah, yeah. m
00:20:27
The Big Dog
I've, I haven't watched it. Um, but every time, you know, I think they're in the second season, it's coming too close to a close, but they kind of talk about it every week. So, um,
00:20:42
The Big Dog
righteous gemstones was one that kind of stuck around for a while i love that show if you haven't seen it or to any your listeners i recommend watching it it's a great show danny mcbrides i mean has been in comedy like a comedic writer performer for pretty much most of my lifetime it feels like at least in my my adult life and i love everything that he does so um but
00:21:10
The Big Dog
Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's, ah
00:21:15
The Big Dog
you know, especially when you get close away from high school, you know, you're kind of, it feels like sometimes you're close friends group or maybe you're coworkers or something, you know, and you don't have, don't have that tight knit community. i can kind of suck sometimes. So glad that you at least found like something with like common ground with like books, if not, if nothing else.
00:21:38
The Big Dog
Maybe bring up by your random adult swim shows.
00:21:42
David Isaacs
Yeah, a lot of my friends, like we talked about like the, you know, AquaTween, Hunger Force, Squidbillies, those are two that I can never really get into. But a lot of people love them growing up.
00:21:55
David Isaacs
But yeah, it's tough. Like if you don't, if you're not able to see people as frequently to you know, talk to them like talk about like books and things uh it is good to you know kind of see what they're up to and what are they watching what are they reading and uh so those conversations are always good um even if you're not able to you know kind of keep up with whatever like the the next big show is and the pit's very good i would recommend it um you
00:22:28
David Isaacs
take it back to michael cricton who graduated harvard md in 1969 and he became a doctor and then started writing books about dinosaurs and that's what became the jurassic park movies he also wrote westworld which fun fact was the first movie i think i believe it came out in the 1970s the first movie to use cgi and
00:22:32
The Big Dog
Jurassic Park.
00:22:45
The Big Dog
You got yourself a dinosaur. You did, yeah.
00:22:55
David Isaacs
And after he had wrote the Jurassic Park stuff, he decided he wanted to write about being a doctor. There became e r with Noah Wiley as the, what do they call that?
00:23:07
The Big Dog
yeah
00:23:13
David Isaacs
It's like a resident doctor. And George Clooney, I believe, started as the attending. don't know. I didn't watch the entire show. But,
00:23:22
The Big Dog
there's a lot of There's a lot of seasons.
00:23:24
David Isaacs
Yeah. um So Noah Wiley, during the pandemic, got with some of the other producers or creators, what writers, whatever they were on yeah ER, and they wanted to basically reboot yeah ER.
00:23:40
David Isaacs
And they went to Michael Crickton's estate because he had passed at the time. And they were thinking about rebooting it.
00:23:46
The Big Dog
Oh, I didn't know he did.
00:23:48
David Isaacs
They couldn't come to a deal, so they decided to make something else. So the pit is basically ER 24. It covers like each hour that a doctor, like each hour in the hospital.
00:24:00
David Isaacs
So all the doctors, nurses, patients, like each episode is like an hour in a doctor's shift at the hospital. Um, Crickton's estate sued them because they didn't get a deal, um, to get like the yeah ER reboot.
00:24:07
The Big Dog
Oh, that's cool.
00:24:14
David Isaacs
And they argue like, it's basically an yeah ER reboot with a different name. Um, I think I read somewhere else like they were kind of pissed that Crickton wasn't given recognition or they didn't get money from like the Westworld reboot that became the TV show because it was originally a movie that came out in the 70s.
00:24:34
David Isaacs
So i've I've found that whole story pretty interesting in Michael Crickton how do you graduate doctorate from Harvard MD and start writing about dinosaurs and fictitious western places with robots and that but he certainly did pretty well for himself not becoming a doctor so or you know not practicing medicine don't know the whole story about him
Health & Fitness Journey Updates
00:25:04
David Isaacs
and being a doctor but in any case like very uh very interesting how that you know the chain of events that created the pit
00:25:15
The Big Dog
Yeah, I actually didn't know that second part of... I knew it was like... It was ER-based. I know that he did want to get together for all that. I guess he was ah running on MTV with TNT in the library and movies or something. i don't know. that's other After he left ER, that's all I remember while Noah Wiley doing.
00:25:40
The Big Dog
was like made-for-TV movies on TNT. So... so um yeah Westworld I feel like ah you'll Brenner those was like one of you'll Brenner's very last movies to you who he played Ramsey's the Ten Commandments and he was also in King like king and i um just for movie nostalgia um
00:26:09
The Big Dog
But I feel like Westworld always gets, the TV show specifically, it was like, people always say it was like an underrated sci-fi show. And it's like, it really lost its way after like season one. Like season two was okay. And then just like three and four, you're like, what the hell is this?
00:26:26
The Big Dog
It had no direction after a certain point. um or Getting off on a tangent here.
00:26:34
David Isaacs
Yeah, sorry, I was just looking up, I wanted to make sure the Michael Crichton stuff was correct about ER and Jurassic Park. I'm not seeing, I'm seeing, yeah, Westworld here.
00:26:49
David Isaacs
Was involved in the film and television industry in 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, the first film to use 2D computer generated imagery.
00:27:02
David Isaacs
He also directed Coma 1978, The First green Great Train Robbery 1978, Looker 1981, Runaway 1984, and Physical Evidence 1989. He was creator the television series ER, which by God ran from 1994 to 2009.
00:27:19
David Isaacs
And several of his novel novels were adapted in films, most notably the Jurassic Park franchise. And he did not practice medicine, but did graduate from Harvard Medical School.
00:27:32
David Isaacs
Very interesting.
00:27:34
The Big Dog
yeah yeah
00:27:34
David Isaacs
And yeah, Westworld sucked. Season one was great. And then they just kind of shit. I mean, yeah, really shit the bed. And season three is like, hey, we got Aaron Paul.
00:27:44
The Big Dog
all right yeah who all right yeah and they're like hey marshall lunch everybody likes that guy and he was in it like for one or two episodes and
00:27:46
David Isaacs
I was like, we don't fucking care.
00:28:00
The Big Dog
ah But used them in all sorts of promotion. um
00:28:06
The Big Dog
So... Let's see. Crichton originally went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. after But after learning that two minutes of animation would take nine months and cost $200,000. Different.
00:28:21
The Big Dog
Complete the animation faster and cheaper. Okay. Interesting. yeah I did not know that that was very first movie of the UCG. I just remember... With Crichton, I don't know how you're actually pronouncing it.
00:28:38
The Big Dog
I want to say it's Michael Crichton, but that's shit.
00:28:40
David Isaacs
Crickdown.
00:28:41
The Big Dog
Kirk Dunn? Okay. oh
00:28:42
David Isaacs
I don't know. I'm just fucking around.
00:28:44
The Big Dog
Okay. ah Jurassic Park, when it came out, was like the oh was laser printed onto the film, those dinosaurs, and that was...
00:28:56
The Big Dog
and it was one it was I think at the time it was the most expensive movie ever made until Titanic came along. Also the highest grossing movie until Titanic came out. so
00:29:07
The Big Dog
Fun stuff.
00:29:12
The Big Dog
What else is going on, Dave? Tell me, man. How's your week going?
00:29:17
David Isaacs
that's fine i am busy still uh went to the doctor today the high blood pressure is under control for now with medication i went to the gym twice last week and easter kind of screwed up my diet plans but uh still making healthier choices than i would have made and then um
00:29:31
The Big Dog
Nice.
00:29:42
David Isaacs
As far as the exercise and that, yeah, I was planning on going this week at some point and hadn't gotten around to it. Today I got up early. Not as early as I would have liked, but, um, got up early because had some work to do and, uh, got in early and did my work and that was basically it.
00:30:02
David Isaacs
So, um, yeah, in terms of mood and things, I feel good. Um,
00:30:08
The Big Dog
Nice.
00:30:09
David Isaacs
But yeah, nothing, nothing else like too out of the ordinary.
Routines & Mental Health
00:30:14
David Isaacs
Um, as far as, i don't know if talked to you about this, but like sleep hygiene, was talking to my therapist and like trying to get my sleep hygiene back under control. It's basically like, you know getting into bed and like journal about how the day went.
00:30:29
David Isaacs
Um, typically I have goals for the day from the night before. So check in on how did with my goals. If I wasn't able to reach them, then work to figure out the next, uh, how to fold them in into what I'm trying to do for the next day.
00:30:38
The Big Dog
Oh,
00:30:47
David Isaacs
um, you know, also just write about, you know, how I'm feeling, how the day went. what I hope to feel tomorrow, what I hope to accomplish tomorrow, and then read.
00:30:57
David Isaacs
So I think, at least for me, like kind of getting to the identification of, okay, well I'm going to be more productive in the morning, so I'm going to go the gym in the mornings.
00:31:09
David Isaacs
um and monday and friday i can do that at my gym which i like to do because sauna steam room hot tub you know um and then during the week you'd be like one day in the office because we have an office gym to work out there which doesn't have sauna steam room hot tub and what have you but does have showers make private showers and in that. So I did that one day this week.
00:31:33
David Isaacs
Unfortunately, my AirPods wouldn't connect. So I had to work out without music, which sucked. But thankfully I got that figured out.
00:31:40
The Big Dog
you
00:31:42
David Isaacs
So I'm hoping to go tomorrow. But if I don't, it's, it's okay. Still just, I'm trying to build that foundation. So what about you?
00:31:54
The Big Dog
Yeah, a little bit opposite, um I guess. I mean, I'm i'm doing good. Let me me preface with that. But a little opposite, I've been crushing the diet side of things, just getting into exercise. It's it's always been my my biggest thing that I don't want to do that I know that I have to do.
00:32:15
The Big Dog
I'm so slowly I'm just doing some like kind of just basic chair exercises almost like physical therapy kind of just training retraining my muscles slowly to amp up and I talked about this a couple weeks ago but I'm still kind of just stuck in that mode of light exercise all kind of just like cardio and I like a walking pad going for walks at night or in the afternoon when I work from home going up and down the air trail that we have by work, um, doing all, all of that. But, uh, my focus has been better towards the diet. Like, yeah, yeah. Easter, went over my calories, but I think, um, like think I think I think it was 300 calories over my, my maintenance weight or my maintenance goal. Um, for that week and entirety, I still wasn't
00:33:16
The Big Dog
uh, 2,700 calorie deficit. So, um, yeah, still really good.
00:33:21
David Isaacs
Nice.
00:33:23
The Big Dog
Um, yesterday I went over my calories cause we had a team builder, but, um, I didn't account for like all the physical stuff that and that's the thing with like this app.
00:33:34
The Big Dog
I don't necessarily count. Like when I go for a walk, I don't count like burning calories or anything like that. Cause they really don't burn that much. Um, But, I mean, I'm down two belt sizes now.
00:33:48
The Big Dog
Like, two belt loops, if you will. So, yeah, feeling good.
00:33:52
David Isaacs
Fuck yeah.
00:33:54
The Big Dog
had to buy a new belt. um And it's at the very end of that. So, hoping to work more inward over the next couple of months. But, you know, I feel like I have more energy in the day. Things are a bit clearer. Don't have as much brain fog.
00:34:10
The Big Dog
um Meal prepping. i mean, even dieting. I I've been meal prepping dinner now, but I are usually just with how I eat, I don't really make it that far into the day. So i kind of just like, we'll drink liquids, water more towards like late afternoon into the evening then be done.
00:34:29
The Big Dog
Um, you know, by about six o'clock and then I I'll get up the next day, five 36 o'clock. Um, and I, I am a very bad Huberman listener. I do not, um,
00:34:44
The Big Dog
Don't do the, you know, wait 30 minutes until or 90 minutes, whatever it is. I see. Even I don't know about drinking coffee. i drink it right away and break my fast. And, you know, I feel fine.
00:34:57
The Big Dog
I feel fine.
00:34:58
David Isaacs
Well, you can't be a listener because you ain't listening.
00:35:01
The Big Dog
Exactly. so right.
00:35:03
David Isaacs
So you just hear it. You're just hearing them. You're not listening. Yeah.
00:35:06
The Big Dog
All right.
00:35:08
David Isaacs
but yeah
00:35:11
David Isaacs
Really, for me, I think honing in on those feelings and what journaling kind of helps with that of like, you know, how did I feel today? What did I eat? Did I work out?
00:35:22
David Isaacs
Did I get enough sleep? And like, really just trying to reinforce like my my dumb caveman brain to be like, No more, no eat pizza, no, no stay up late, drink water.
00:35:34
The Big Dog
Yeah. Right.
00:35:37
David Isaacs
And I, cause it's hard. Cause sometimes it's easy just to get lost in the process of doing things without, you know, just me specifically. Right.
00:35:49
David Isaacs
But it's hard to get, to kind of stay present and not get too lost in the process of trying to do things instead of like, you know, really, honing in and feeling like, you know, how am I feeling right now? What are these choices? What are they doing affecting me? And how are they affecting me positively? Um, and going back and seeing like, you know, where I was a month or two ago and how I was feeling and just kind of the small changes and the, what that's done for me health wise, mentally, physically, um
00:36:24
David Isaacs
It's really important because, you know, for me, I feel like I lose that sense of accomplishment. I lose that sense of like knowing like this is what you're supposed to feel like. This is what normal is supposed to feel like compared to like how I was feeling before.
00:36:40
David Isaacs
So for me, I feel like it's ah easy to kind of fall off because it takes so long to feel those things. And like, again, my caveman mind just forgets.
00:36:54
David Isaacs
and just wants to switch back to this this too hard, go back, eat, fast food, no sleep, coffee only, no water, no need.
00:37:08
The Big Dog
Yeah, I i feel that. I was had a couple of we ah we had a team builder. We went to Novite to the the putting edge, which is like this putt-putt place, obviously, or mini golf. But Blacklight's got, like, Blacklight art and, obviously, a crazy putt-putt. And then afterwards, we went to Buddy's, which is a couple doors down Um, I already had most of my calories for the day at this point. It's like five or six at five o'clock, I think.
00:37:42
The Big Dog
And, uh, my boss had bought appetizers and, you know, there's like a little thin slice of Detroit style cheese pizza. And I'm like, you know what? I deserve this. And I had a couple of slices. So
00:37:56
David Isaacs
Hey, can't blame you.
00:37:59
The Big Dog
yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, but like that, you know, uh, Like today, i you know, I went over my calories, but I think like ah smell double check is I think it's like 300 calories or something over my maintenance, which is whatever.
00:38:14
The Big Dog
But then today I'm 1400 calories under like I just was not hungry like that. That pizza just like carried over to the next day. So, um you know.
00:38:23
David Isaacs
Yeah, I think I've heard. This could just be bro science and I'm pretty sure it is bro science because one of my bros told me this, but I think like calories are more of like a, you're more on like a 48 hour blue rather than 24.
00:38:41
David Isaacs
And, uh, like, I mean, it could, it could be complete nonsense. Some are something RFK said or something, but, um, I, I feel like that sometimes if I eat too much, like the day before, then the next day I'm just like, not as hungry.
00:38:57
David Isaacs
So maybe, maybe that's the key all these calorie counters out here.
00:38:57
The Big Dog
Yeah.
00:39:01
David Isaacs
Just switch to two days.
00:39:03
The Big Dog
Maybe. I mean, you know, it's like when you... I guess there's some truth in that, because, like, when you eat, you know... the day before, like it doesn't really even fully process until through your body to like the next day. So like, you know, unless it's like completely contaminated food, like you're not really going to feel the effects or anything until obviously besides the sensation of feeling full and all that until, you know, usually about 24 hours later. So I guess there is some truth to that. and it makes sense to my case now, or is this like had a couple of slices of pizza and like I had like, uh,
00:39:42
The Big Dog
I like little quiche that I made and then I made like a uh a taco tortellini style thing and i only ate half of what I made so um and what I made was not a lot I don't want like people thinking I just like binged on like tortellini and like ground beef but yeah
00:40:00
David Isaacs
Ain't no judgment here, brother.
00:40:04
The Big Dog
So, yeah, I mean, like, I feel, ah feel great. Like meal prep is, is easy. Um, for me now, I, you know, knock on wood and when I have to like rerecord my weight and keep dropping calories where i have less and less every day and, you know, just cut back on portions, I guess at that point, but, um, I, I'm a good, good place, you know?
00:40:28
The Big Dog
um you know i just turned 37 feel like it's like my new my new year almost where it's like i want to accomplish actually accomplish getting my certified comptia a plus which is like the baseline certification for like help desk type roles um not that i'm looking for a new job i just want like the training basic knowledge of like networking and all that like and it's actually have a well-respected certification I didn't go off like yeah Udemy or if I can Corsair or something, you know,
00:41:08
David Isaacs
Yeah. It's good to be working towards something always. And something tangible like that, like a certification, i you put that at the end of your name on LinkedIn.
00:41:20
David Isaacs
You know, it's like David Isaacs, comma, MBA.
00:41:21
The Big Dog
exit exactly.
00:41:26
The Big Dog
Hey, yeah. I don't, I could be like, um
00:41:32
The Big Dog
I could hang that next to my boot camp ah certificate that I printed off, hanging up next to my WWF championship belt, you know?
00:41:38
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:41:40
David Isaacs
Hey, you, you, you earned it.
00:41:44
The Big Dog
i I sure did, and I'm still...
00:41:46
David Isaacs
You are the, you are the w WWE champion of the world.
00:41:51
The Big Dog
i
00:41:51
David Isaacs
There's no one, no one can tell you you're not. You have the belt. You have evidence.
00:41:55
The Big Dog
I am literally looking at the WWF world heavyweight wrestling champion belt right here. Okay. Like that is me. And I was saying that as a reminder as a stupid motivate, like a bro motivation, motivation to that.
00:42:10
David Isaacs
Brodivation sounds bad, but I like it.
00:42:10
The Big Dog
I'm always champion. I, I know.
00:42:13
David Isaacs
Well,
00:42:15
The Big Dog
um
00:42:18
David Isaacs
guess it would be brodivation, not brodivation.
00:42:20
The Big Dog
Yeah. Whatever. You know.
00:42:24
David Isaacs
I'm a brodivator.
00:42:25
The Big Dog
a That sounds like a wrestler, too. That's what if I ever do like backyard wrestling or make it professional, I want to be the Brotovator.
00:42:34
The Big Dog
Put the Brotovator in the in the cornucopia.
00:42:39
The Big Dog
um
00:42:42
The Big Dog
But yeah, i'm i but I mean, that's what I'm working towards and getting this fucking website that I'm working on. we're i've been on feel like four or five calls in last week just to like finalize the statement of work for this thing and then my boss is like i'm going on vacation i'm like cool oldest we're just going to delay approving this or denying this another two weeks great got it fun yeah
00:43:08
David Isaacs
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00:43:10
The Big Dog
that's neither here nor there um yeah i i just felt like for like the last few months just with like everything that's been happening with like my son and you know, my wife's business taking off. I kind of just like took a backseat to what my goals were. And, you know, we have to say i can make some sacrifices thing for the things that we love or the people that we love. We're not on it the season finale of shrinking today. Watch that great show.
00:43:38
The Big Dog
Um, hope that wasn't a spoiler alert, but, uh, yeah. Yeah. We make sacrifices for the ones we love. And um i I've spent a lot of time when my son's asleep and my wife's working of me just playing video games. So now I'm going to actually like use that to be a little bit more productive.
00:43:58
The Big Dog
You know, like I took a lot of time for myself of a few hours that I had in the day. I'm going to study, like study for a test. And like do all these labs, make a virtual machine, all all the fun IT stuff.
00:44:08
David Isaacs
Nice.
00:44:13
The Big Dog
And and work towards that. Because why not? you know It's been three years since I graduated from a boot camp. Why not you know just go through that struggle again?
00:44:27
David Isaacs
Sometimes it's good. Neuroplasticity. Definitely good.
00:44:31
The Big Dog
Yeah.
00:44:32
David Isaacs
Experimenting, trying different things. Watching the 7 minute clip of Ha Ha, you clowns I just sent you. So, yeah, yeah you know you can all wrap it up.
00:44:40
The Big Dog
Yeah, maybe.
00:44:41
David Isaacs
i mean it's Wrap it up into just neuroplasticity in general. Like, no, you don't understand, honey. I have to watch this. It's it's new. it's It helps my brain.
00:44:56
The Big Dog
Yeah, when I go to click on an answer, if it doesn't say hot tub extended scene, I don't know what going to do with myself, though. might freeze up on the test.
00:45:05
David Isaacs
It's not bad. It's about the the brothers wanting to take their grandma's old hot tub now that she's in a nursing home after they performed at the nursing home for her and the other residents.
00:45:19
The Big Dog
Oh, that's very nice. But yeah, that's... As you said, working towards something is always good. That's what i'm working towards besides a less chunky version of myself.
00:45:30
The Big Dog
You know, right now I'm a chunky miles. Also, I want to be light and chunky, you know, little bit, little bit lighter, a little bit leaner, you know, something, something can be, yeah, meat brain, the big dog.
00:45:43
David Isaacs
Meaner, cleaner, and meaner. It's the new Brian. There you go.
00:45:51
The Big Dog
yeah but yeah i mean that's that's all that i'm working towards you know right now um i haven't really felt like working in wordpress or anything for people i mean i've kind of had to forward some clients other people just because i haven't i don't like working doing this full time now and i just like i don't know i want to learn something different because i i feel like as far as like
00:46:23
The Big Dog
I've kind of just plateaued in terms of my knowledge. I kind of like want to expand it in a different area for my, my own career growth. So um also just hate not knowing things.
00:46:39
The Big Dog
It's very, it's very weird thing that I have where it's like, Oh, what's this?
00:46:40
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:46:46
The Big Dog
It's ADHD. I don't know. I get curious about things that i don't know. And I just fall down a two hour rabbit hole.
00:46:53
David Isaacs
Yeah. um Luckily for me, it works out at work. So like, Hey, you know, I'm a total fucking idiot, but, um, is this a problem? And then I have, you know, somebody explained it to me. I'm like, Oh, okay, cool.
00:47:07
David Isaacs
Or, um, Yeah. No, it's not bad. It's not bad to be curious and want to experiment. And that's why I say all the time, like i'm still just kind of a kid, you know, cause I seek out shit that I don't know.
00:47:21
David Isaacs
i mean, when you're a kid, you're pretty fucking dumb. I was a pretty fucking dumb kid, but, um, just got better with time just cause tried to learn about shit that I didn't know about. And I mean,
00:47:33
David Isaacs
The fact of the matter is there's never a shortage of shit that I don't know about. So I can kind of still take that mentality of like, all right, well, yeah, I am a I'm a total idiot.
00:47:46
David Isaacs
But, um you know, what's going on here?
00:47:52
The Big Dog
yeah
00:47:52
David Isaacs
Explain what the fuck this is.
00:47:56
The Big Dog
yeah like i think this all started well i shouldn't say all started but got really curious like with like christopher nolan movies this was like i think right around the time that the dark knight came out and then i just became like the world's for foremost expert on christopher nolan and like all those his styles his uh themes that he likes to stick to you know and then like a co-worker of mine's like listening to podcasts he's getting like all like amped up for the odyssey coming out in july and he's like well i looked up christopher i'm like listen pal i'm a fucking phd when it comes to christopher no one you want to know it you you ask yeah i'm the big dog in this situation okay like
00:48:41
David Isaacs
you come You come talk to me
00:48:47
The Big Dog
Oh, cool. You looked up on Wikipedia that shoots in 70 millimeter. Well, tell me what was the overarching theme for Oppenheimer? Oh, you don't know. Well, let me tell you a two hour seminar. Come incoming, pal.
00:48:59
The Big Dog
But
00:49:02
The Big Dog
anyway, I'm kind of ranty on this episode. um
00:49:10
David Isaacs
oh yeah to sit through the Michael Crichton kitchen cornucopia so yeah I mean you get it there's like just some things that I find interesting i don't know why they're interesting to me but they are you know
00:49:17
The Big Dog
Michael Kitchen, liked it.
00:49:27
David Isaacs
You come talk to me, you might hear something about how Westworld was the first movie to use 2D CGI. um So you know more than you did then.
00:49:41
David Isaacs
You might worry that I've cluttered to your brain with useless information, but hey, that's the trade-off.
00:49:50
The Big Dog
you either reopen my eyes to the cornucopia video or you give me a new experience either way i just my eyes are open now and then I got a ah seven minute clip I gotta watch
00:50:01
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:50:04
David Isaacs
Yeah. Have fun with that. I'm not, I'm not being facetious either. I think you'll enjoy it or I hope you enjoy it. If not, it's seven minutes you've wasted. Not too bad.
00:50:15
The Big Dog
Yeah, I've wasted seven minutes on other things that are far worse, my friend. So I'll be okay with this.
00:50:21
David Isaacs
Right. All right. Well, that's it for me.
00:50:25
The Big Dog
Yeah, same. I got nothing. um Glad you're doing well. And yeah, we'll be back next week.
00:50:32
David Isaacs
Alright, glad to hear you're doing well as well. Hope everyone listening is doing well. If you're not, then yeah, sometimes you, I don't know. You'll figure it out.
00:50:43
David Isaacs
I believe in you.