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Personal Improvement is Stanger than Fiction
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Brian and Dave give updates on their personal improvement goals and the challenges and insights they have gained in their journey. Then talk about employment and nature of the job market. Finally, reveal a new segment where they are speaking about underrated pieces of media each week.
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Transcript
Introduction & Theme: Personal Improvement
00:00:01
David Isaacs
Hello, everybody, and welcome back. I am David here with Brian.
00:00:06
Brian Leithead
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast where we can't afford therapy, so we try and talk it out here.
00:00:12
David Isaacs
That is correct. And episode five is personal improvement is stranger than fiction.
Personal Goals & Challenges
00:00:20
David Isaacs
So we're going to touch on a little bit with our goals that we'd set for the coming months. Talk a little bit about employment journeys. I know I've been dealing a lot with that and I know a lot of other people have as well. And then.
Underrated Media Segment
00:00:39
David Isaacs
We're also going to talk about, we're releasing a new segment, new segment time, and that is underrated pieces of media. I'll be a book, movie, TV show, and kind of expand on it and let other people take a look at it, see what they think about it.
00:01:01
David Isaacs
So you want to start us off, Brian.
00:01:02
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I'm kind of, kind of curious about what it is.
00:01:08
David Isaacs
Yeah, yeah.
Financial Discipline & Health Goals
00:01:09
David Isaacs
So as far as ah personal improvement, I know we talked a little bit about it last episode as a refresher. I'm setting goals for myself for kind of challenges for each month. And this month has been not spending money on anything other than gas and groceries. I've kind of cheated on it a little bit because I'm still addicted to nicotine, but that's somewhere down the pipeline where I'm going to have to deal with that. But currently just trying to continue stacking good habits and gaining some insight in kind of why I have these habits.
00:01:52
David Isaacs
Brian, if you want to talk about your
00:01:55
Brian Leithead
Oh, ah sorry. Wasn't cute. My bad. Um, yeah, I've been, uh, also on a bit of a personal goal setting, um, weight loss challenge and kind of doing setting sales goals for my side business. Um, you know, I have a $12,000 sales goal I'm looking to reach. And, um, so far I have some pending leads. Um, I don't have anything set in stone, but, um, as I say, you kind of always want to front load that stuff. So.
00:02:26
Brian Leithead
you know I post in local Facebook groups and um on LinkedIn, kind of looking for business. I have a call with a client on Friday, potentially it's for you know i paid websites. I'm excited about that.
00:02:41
Brian Leithead
um But other than that, as far as my my weight loss, um you know also kind of cheating on on that a bit. ah you know i've I've been clean eating for the most part since the first.
00:02:54
Brian Leithead
you know Uh, I'm, I've been trying to go into like a clerk deficit. I don't, if you were to ask me what, what that is fully, i you know, not sure.
00:03:04
Brian Leithead
ah I couldn't give you a full definition other than X.
00:03:07
David Isaacs
It's like trying to explain traffic to somebody or like why traffic happens.
00:03:10
Brian Leithead
Yeah. Yeah. Why do people just all of a sudden slow down? Um, yeah, I don't, again, don't have an exact definition, but right now I'm just, I'm eating, you know, more leafy greens and more vegetables and.
00:03:25
Brian Leithead
Um, not, you know, McDonald's and, uh, jets pizza. So, although I did, I did go to Costco the other day and once the food court and got a pizza, cause it's oh, so tempting, uh, and had a lot of that, but it's really been kind of only my, I would say major setback. Um, so mostly been good on my goals, uh, I would say, but.
00:03:52
Brian Leithead
a lot of room for improvement. I try not to get down on myself too much with it, especially early on.
Learning from Football Strategy
00:03:59
Brian Leithead
Cause if I, if I start bulldogging myself now, I'll just quit. So just 1% better every day is what I'm looking to get. And you know, that that's really, I mean, that's really just what I'm just step by step. You know, I feel like I'm in a, I feel like I'm in a football interview where it's like, yeah, just got to execute, just got to execute X play.
00:04:20
Brian Leithead
yeah Uh, we just didn't execute. We did coach. We just didn't execute. You know, that's what I'm saying. Just like, we gotta go watch the film. Got to go back, watch it, do better next time. So that's where I'm at mentally.
00:04:33
David Isaacs
Yeah, no, I think that's a I think that's a good comparison because a lot of times even watching the Lions this year and some of the losses that they had, it really brought out what you thought like their weaknesses. And I felt like it helped them to kind of understand where they were thin at where teams are going to try to attack them. And the Bills did it and then the 49ers did it. And Both those games they came back and the games that they had after those obviously they beat the 49ers lost the bills but the game after the 49ers was against the Vikings for the vision and the number one seed and they came out and basically shut down very high powered offense and scored a lot of points on a very
00:05:19
David Isaacs
good defense, but I think the Really those times where we're challenged kind of open our eyes a little bit more and give us a different perspective on these things but yeah, you're exactly right and kind of what we talked about last week with the shame thing if shame yourself and feel like you You're not
Positivity & Self-Reflection
00:05:41
David Isaacs
disciplined. You can't listen to yourself you like you don't deserve the change that comes from the effort you're putting into it and The other part of it is trying to balance. Okay. Well, I can't get too down on myself about these things, but it's it's very hard to look at what you've been doing more positively compared to the times that you slip up and And for me, that had been a pretty big issue. I know we talked about a topic habits by James Clear last week or maybe a week prior. I know you said you were going to order it. Have you had a chance to look at that more?
00:06:18
Brian Leithead
Yeah, i I ordered it off of Amazon. I actually checked my mail and it wasn't here, but I'm looking forward to actually you know reading that and implementing that too.
Physical vs Digital Media
00:06:30
David Isaacs
Are you a you physical book guy?
00:06:33
Brian Leithead
I am, yeah. I ah like i think, especially when it comes to learning like that, like I still, um when it's something that's not like a ah maybe coding or something where I'm typing out, you know if I'm
00:06:34
David Isaacs
okay yeah
00:06:48
Brian Leithead
I want to be able to like read the instructions or read the guide. I'm ah very tangible when it comes to that sort of thing. So um yeah, I did order the physical copy of it, the softcover.
00:06:58
David Isaacs
Okay, yeah. Nice. Yeah. I, I usually do physical copies as much as I can. The kind of trying to get past, I wasn't so context I'm 29, I'll be 30 in May, but growing up, everything was printed for the most part. And at least when I was in elementary school, we had accelerated reader.
00:07:25
David Isaacs
on the computer which was basically a test for the books that you had read but all the books were printed you know we would write things hand write a lot of things in elementary school it really didn't get to until middle school or high school where a lot of these things were being typed out but It is kind of interesting and it's hard to think about kids nowadays. um With the basement flooded, I was helping my mom clean some stuff out. and She had a box of notebooks and binders and was asking me if my my friend, who's a teacher, wanted any of it. I'm like,
00:08:02
David Isaacs
Mom, they don't they don't write notebooks anymore. Like she just had no premise for it, but it's it's yeah, it's crazy with the technological technological advancement in things like I, I learned cursive.
00:08:09
Brian Leithead
Right.
00:08:19
David Isaacs
Right. I don't even know how many months it took me to learn cursive and it's useless now. I know how to sign my name, I remember how to write things, but it's just one of those things that it's just become so obsolete, like a lot of other things that we had learned growing up, I feel like.
00:08:38
Brian Leithead
Yeah, ah cursive, especially like I have, you know, I've always kind of, especially in my adulthood, I've kind of always like written like a doctor and you know, their, their order or um on their prescription. Remember, you always had to take those in, it wasn't always electronic, you know, sent directly to the pharmacy and physically get take it your your order, your prescription order to it, you know, wait in line, then come back the X amount of hours later. Now it's, you know, almost since instantaneous.
Nostalgia & Technology Changes
00:09:05
Brian Leithead
um Yeah, the um I but like a doctor. I can't even read it my own handwriting. It's gotten so bad just because I'm typing out notes or or letters or emails rather than actually like writing letters or writing down notes. I'll occasionally jot stuff down in like a meeting. I do enjoy that um getting because I think I talked about this last time. It's, you know, I forget what the actual percentages of um
00:09:36
Brian Leithead
you retaining knowledge if you write and physically writing or typing it rather than just you know kind of watching something um it and help it just also helps me remember things later that i need you to accomplish after said meeting one on one or something like that so um
00:09:52
David Isaacs
Yeah. Yeah. What is, ah what is the prerequisite for becoming a doctor? Do you have to prove that your handwriting's terrible?
00:10:01
Brian Leithead
ah
00:10:01
David Isaacs
Like I don't, I never really understood it or even how the pharmacist was able to transcribe these like ancient cave drawings on a sticky note for what prescription you had.
00:10:17
David Isaacs
Like it was, I don't know, it, that, that whole thing was just mind blowing to me, but yeah i mean it yet
00:10:32
Brian Leithead
Yeah. Yeah. And then you'll like, you know, if you have like, um, if you like text messages from like Walgreens or CVS and you know, it's like, yep, we got your prescription on, you know, it's ETA is, you know, 45 minutes or whatever it is. Um, yeah, you didn't have that. You would have to call, like, if you didn't get a call from the pharmacy, you'd have to give them a call, like, you know, 15 minutes before they close and go, Oh yeah, we got it right here for you. Um, and, uh,
00:10:58
Brian Leithead
Yeah, just like you said, i don't I don't know how pharmacists or pharmacy texts translated that ancient hieroglyphics and so into tangible ah prescription. Sometimes it's, you know, it's like, I feel like if I were to order or have to get like an inhaler and I'm with boner pills, like, but you know, now it's, ooh,
00:11:23
Brian Leithead
if that happens now today it' somebody oh the doctor mis clickcks somehow i don't or typed in the prescription drug name wrong so yeah oh
00:11:32
David Isaacs
It's like the doctor's like, oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and the pharmacist's like, oh, uh, uh, ibuprofen 800, 800 milligrams right here.
00:11:45
David Isaacs
Like that's
00:11:46
Brian Leithead
Yeah, it's like a history of the world, ah part one where they ah learn how to make music. I was just throwing rocks on cavemen's feet.
00:11:53
David Isaacs
yeah.
00:11:54
Brian Leithead
They get different tones.
00:11:57
David Isaacs
Yeah, it is. I'd like to feel like a history of music would be kind of cool because a lot of that stuff I still don't really understand. Like how it is. How does a violin sound like that? I don't get it. Like how does an electric guitar take what you're playing on a string and turn it into a sound like that? Like it just I know there's you talk to me all you want about vibrations or whatever the fuck you're going to say. I'm not going to be able to understand any of it.
00:12:27
Brian Leithead
Yeah I know it's like how does having better china when you like take you know take your finger around the rim how does that like how does how does having better glass better quality glass make it make that sound again miss me with like the all the science behind it it just you talk to me it's gonna be a glass eyes in one ear out the other
00:12:49
David Isaacs
yeah like all that luxury stuff and if we've talked about it here before but yeah i be i just i don't i don't know give me ah give me a plastic cuff a plastic bowl i don't need china ceramic fucking crystal glasses or whatever the heck it is like it's a cup it it It holds liquid. I'm good. The only time I'm kind of a snob about it is if I do iced coffee at home and I'll have
00:13:21
David Isaacs
ah Not like a Yeti, like, I don't know what they would consider it, but it's like a tumbler, like a stainless steel tumbler. And anyone that I've bought before keeps ice cold. Like Yeti's marketing department has to be top notch to get people to pay hundreds of dollars for these coolers, these, you know.
00:13:43
David Isaacs
upwards amounts of like $35, $50 for these cups when I've bought my Tumblr from Bucky's that I think was $8 does like the same exact thing. I don't get it.
00:13:56
Brian Leithead
Yeah, it's like the, uh, what do you call those? Like the vacuum. Um, uh, yeah, there's like, ah there's a specific name for them. Um, but yeah, same thing with like Stanley. It's like some jackass on like tick tock who's like, Hey, cool. I just spent $50 on this, uh, buy it. And then everyone's like, Oh, it's on tick tack. Now it's cool. Um, so now everyone has like the, the Stan, uh, Stanley turbists, whatever it's called tumbler thing.
00:14:27
Brian Leithead
feel like every every time I get into somebody news car they always have like some sort of different color of like a Stanley or fucking turbists it's annoying and you always gotta like remember like in the early 2000s where it's like different fast food restaurants would have like different sized cups. And so like car manufacturers didn't know what to do. So they, some would fit someone. And then it's like the fast food restaurants were, I feel like we're kind of getting into that new era of that with these like Stanley, like turbist, Yeti cups, where it's like, they're they're not gonna fit in a standard size, you know, Chevy Blazer or something like that.
00:15:10
David Isaacs
Yeah, it's kind of like a chicken or the egg thing is like who I guess just like a game of chicken rather like who's going to change first the size of these cups or the car manufacturers. But that is that is another thing that I want to talk about because I have. Two, maybe three, if one of them is ah one of those yeti tumbler things, but the bottom isn't The diameter isn't smaller than the rest of the cup, so it doesn't fit in the cup holder.
00:15:42
David Isaacs
And I really liked the cup. My sister got it for me for whatever reason. It has my full name on it. So I don't know why the, I don't, I want to say mammogramming, but I know that's not it.
00:15:54
David Isaacs
what Whatever the name is for.
00:15:55
Brian Leithead
that's No, you're not you didn't get a couple of the pap smear on it.
00:15:59
David Isaacs
Yeah, I mean, I wasn't getting my titties felt up, but I have a cup with my name on it. I forget what it's called when your name's on something. But anyways, I don't know why she does that because my best man gift gifts that she obviously did was a Arctic.
00:16:17
David Isaacs
collapsible cooler that says David on it. I have a golf towel that has my name on it. That Yeti cup that has my full name on it for whatever reason, but I don't, I don't know what her deal is with having my name on stuff for the gifts that she gives me.
00:16:33
David Isaacs
But regardless, um, to get back on topic, at least a little bit, the
00:16:40
Brian Leithead
yeah Welcome to the podcast where we get off
00:16:44
David Isaacs
Yeah, so I hope it's entertaining. I hope you also have ADD like we do. Mine's undiagnosed, ah but there's there are there have been signs throughout the years and
00:17:00
Brian Leithead
you but You just miss them because you have ADD so you look at the ceiling instead.
00:17:04
David Isaacs
Yeah. Well, it's like they talk about there's a scientific studies or they've done scientific studies and it's if a kid really enjoys doing something when they have ADD, then they can stay on task when it's something that they don't enjoy. They can't stay on task. I'm like, that literally sounds like anybody.
00:17:23
David Isaacs
So how do you like, what is the, the deviations show me the parabola that shows like they are more likely to not stay on task on something that they're not interested in versus just or another average person.
00:17:23
Brian Leithead
Oh yeah.
00:17:39
David Isaacs
But regardless, uh, the, as far as me not spending money, it's kind of, it's, it's snowballed into eating better because I'm not spending money on fast food.
Healthier Eating through Budgeting
00:17:51
David Isaacs
I. still have a unbridled nicotine addiction which i don't know if unbridled is the right word but uncontrolled whatever it is and i haven't really this is what i wanted to talk about too like i haven't really started counting calories either i just know that the foods that i've bought and So Taylor, I believe it's called Taylor Farms, but they make this buffalo buffalo salad and I usually get two salads out of it and they're like four or five bucks and I'll do frozen Tyson chicken. So recently it's been pulled chicken, but I like to do the season like grilled chicken strips.
00:18:38
David Isaacs
And that is that side of me, over like those things are very good and they might be a little bit more expensive, but it everything's chopped up. There's a ton of different vegetables that are in there. They give you the buffalo ranch dressing, buffalo croutons like mozzarella cheese. So say what you want about how fatty the dressings are. i I can't get away from cheese. I don't know what it is. Like pizza is my nemesis. I love pizza.
00:19:08
David Isaacs
But that has been kind of like a staple currently. And what I've done in the past and I need to do now again is overnight oats, which is I'll do old fashioned oats, a half serving of this vanilla protein powder I have.
00:19:28
David Isaacs
almond milk, unsweetened almond milk and chia seeds and this like powdered peanut butter, like P2. Have you ever seen this, Brian? Like seeing it at the store or whatever.
00:19:40
Brian Leithead
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:19:42
David Isaacs
Yeah. So it helps, it helps a little bit with the flavoring, but I, as a kid, and I never really liked oatmeal. We had back in the early 2000s, we had the, the dinosaur eggs oatmeal.
00:19:56
Brian Leithead
Yeah, oh yeah, I forgot about those.
00:19:56
David Isaacs
So.
00:19:59
David Isaacs
Yeah, I kind of liked that, but I i remember me basically just picking out the the dinosaur eggs to eat with like a tiny bit of oatmeal. So, but I've learned I like.
00:20:12
David Isaacs
I like cold oatmeal. I don't know the consistency that I get it to. It's kind of lumpy. It's not like soup. I don't know. My mom always made it like soup and I kind of like cold things regardless. Like I enjoy cold brew coffee a lot more. It has more caffeine in it. It is smoother, less acidic, like it's great. I'll i'll drink cold coffee all year long, no matter the weather, whatever. So I think I'm just a cold food guy. And that's kind of been where I've been at. But
00:20:48
David Isaacs
that That helps me in the morning times, good amount of fiber, carbs to start the day, the protein from the powdered peanut butter and the protein powder that I have. and yeah so By trying to spend less money eating out or ordering food, it's kind of allowed me to also eat better and in doing that i'm not really counting calories as much because i'm trying to eat to a point where i don't get so hungry that i just want to order something or i get too busy at work where i want to order something so now i'm being more productive at work to try to make sure i have enough time to make something or have enough time to put something together real quick and eat it and
00:21:38
David Isaacs
that's been another positive benefit but even thinking about it today and I don't know if other people share in this issue, but I think the Ordering food going out to eat my friends.
Financial Awareness & Spending Habits
00:21:54
David Isaacs
I think it is it allows me a certain amount of luxury like a small snippet of luxury because I don't make a lot of money I love my mother I'm a loser anyone hasn't picked up on the ship but
00:22:10
Brian Leithead
Oh David, you're not a loser. You're only sort of a loser. I'm kidding.
00:22:13
David Isaacs
<unk>ll stop ah i yeah i think I don't know. And I was thinking about it too. Like is maybe the reason people will buy.
00:22:27
David Isaacs
you know, maybe like really nice furniture for their house or maybe a, you know, pretty expensive car on a lease or maybe be spending too much on rent for an apartment or something. Like I wonder if it gets to a point where they're, they just want to feel like certain points of luxury, even if it's taken away from the money that they could be saving because I i put away money.
00:22:55
David Isaacs
for investment purposes through my job and then additional money I pay to a friend of mine that I know that's financial advisor. but I had dreams of goals, goals, dreams, whatever, of owning a house. And it is taking me a lot longer even looking at my bank statements and that, that I really wasn't gaining too much money. So between the ah trips that I have had planned, the bachelor parties, weddings, but really going out and ordering food, they're just
00:23:28
David Isaacs
small transactions that really pile on and even going through amazon and picking stuff for like 15-20 bucks that i probably don't need or whatever but it's the convenience is the killer and it's also a lot of it is pretty easy not to look at your credit card statement or your bank account to really know how much you're spending each month. It's like going through all these transactions, like you you look at them and, you know, oh, that was just 20 bucks. That was just 30 bucks. But then you look at the date and it's like three of these on one day, three of these the day before. So when you start adding those together, then, yeah, it becomes more of a full picture. So it's it's really opened my eyes and kind of made me realize that
00:24:19
David Isaacs
I can't really be thinking of these small windows of luxury that I like to have if I have the goals to have my own house one day.
00:24:35
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat. um You know, I'll get like, I don't like eating in the office, even though we have like, you know, I'll eat at my desk while I'm kind of working, um have like a sort of mini working lunch so I can have at least a little bit of extra time to kind of go out and go for a drive or go to like the store or whatever if i if I need to. um Sometimes that just kind of turns into an excuse to go to like,
00:25:04
Brian Leithead
You know, I have like a Costco, I have a Walmart, I have um a Meijer, which is a local chain here. I have a Target, like I have all of the retail places around here where I can go and, you know, it's like buy a pop, get gum, buy, um, you know, detergent, whatever, whatever I need. Um, but then I'll be like, there's a checkout and I'll be like, Oh, there's a pop in there.
00:25:29
Brian Leithead
There's a Coke Zero in there, I like Coke Zero, I'll get that. And then so like, you know, buying something of' can not even can of convenience, buying something of necessity and standing in line long enough, I kind of follow for the the retail game of adding on to the your average order value, or their average order value of getting like pop and gum and chips and whatever is,
00:25:54
Brian Leithead
way over its unit price that I should be paying um because it's simply right there. um That adds up. like know oh' I'll go grocery shopping for my stuff maybe once every two weeks. you know I'll get ahll go to Costco and get a huge bag of lettuce so I can make salads or I'll get chicken or or steak, whatever whatever type of protein I feel like eating.
00:26:20
Brian Leithead
I'll make, you know, two or three meals for that. And then, you know, kind of plan out the rest. All that savings that I feel like I'm like, well, you know, I only spent 30 bucks on meals for the next two weeks. And what, you know, what's it gonna hurt to spend an extra $20 today? Well, I keep having that mentality um too often. And it just kind of comes back to bite me in the ass, especially when I look and I have like a thousand dollar credit card,
00:26:49
Brian Leithead
payment that I need to make that I was like huh I was supposed to be saving money so it's the things you don't it's kind of those silent killers you don't really think about that really start adding up like you were saying earlier
00:27:04
David Isaacs
Yeah, it just, it it becomes just such so automatic. And when that starts happening, it becomes a problem because you really have to have these things and thinking about them in the forefront of your mind. Because as a, like, I only use one credit card, it gets paid off every month. I don't have any long standing credit card debt. I know that's a killer for a lot of people and trying to get that down because the APR that they charge is fucking criminal.
00:27:35
David Isaacs
So I it now after a few months of having it knowing that I am making enough money to the point my spending habits aren't going to caused me to have a credit card payment where I'm not going to have enough money in the bank to be able to pay it. I think that was kind of a killer for me. But at the same time, my bank balance doesn't really increase too much. And if it does, then it's, oh, here's your insurance, auto insurance payment that comes every six months or, oh, here's a medical bill.
00:28:14
David Isaacs
or something else that comes along and just shoots that amount down so not only like saving up to be able to get a house and have more financial freedom later on in life but also the the payments that you might have to make you know hopefully nothing ever happens to me but getting into a having a medical emergency or something like that and being stuck with the ER bill for whatever it is you know like that I wouldn't be able to pay that straight away so yeah it's with the the zen is something else that I need to work on but that has been
00:28:58
David Isaacs
I don't know. It's difficult for me. It's difficult for a lot of people, but that's one of the bigger negative feedback loops that I have, and that I know a lot of people that are have been addicted to nicotine have as well, that you start it, you use it, you like it, and then you get addicted to it and your body makes you feel like you need it, and it makes you feel better when you use it because you are addicted to it.
00:29:26
David Isaacs
so it's not really a good feeling having having to rely on something like that yeah not as bad as a not as bad as a vapor but still pretty bad
00:29:34
Brian Leithead
Yeah, i you're a zinner, huh?
00:29:45
Brian Leithead
Yeah, Jesus Christ didn't die on the cross for to forgive you of your zens, but, you know.
00:29:52
David Isaacs
Oh yeah. Tucker, Tucker Carlson, Mount kill, kill is in Jaro. We're going to go climb the summit.
00:29:58
Brian Leithead
Yeah. Yeah, sorry, I had to sneak that that joke in there. I had one earlier at work. So I work for a plumbing supply company and um there's a particular type of like elbow or like piping fitting, it's called PEX. We've been running into issues with how are our PEX pipes are um listed,
00:30:25
Brian Leithead
like People kind of are under the manic the assumption that when they buy one, it's going to be like a pack of 10 or a pack of 50 because that's how they, you know, you would purchase them at like a Home Depot or a Lowe's. Well, we had them kind of single listed. So they wanted our salespeople wanted us to kind of take it down for now so we can figure out what the right quantity is that we need to list. um I said, yeah, I'll help you tear down the established pexing order and Everyone kind of just looked at me blinking. I was like, you know, and instead of pecking order, they go, ah, it's like, yeah, I had to explain it. It's not as great anymore. So anyway, moving on.
00:31:09
David Isaacs
Yeah, it never is when you have to explain it, right?
00:31:13
Brian Leithead
Yeah, that's the worst. Sounded good in my head, but read the audio, read the read the room.
00:31:18
David Isaacs
But.
00:31:20
Brian Leithead
And I didn't do that.
00:31:21
David Isaacs
Yeah, oh yeah, I was thinking about this and I was going to talk about it, too, like what you said, at least for me when it comes to the way that I can do the mental gymnastics to buy stuff at the gas station, at least how I have in the past is that I'm not going to buy a two liter of pop or soda for anyone that doesn't live in the Midwest or a 12 pack of soda, because I know I'm just going to drink it.
00:31:50
David Isaacs
So the mental gymnastics for me is, Oh, I'll just get a 20 ounce or I'll just get this small bag of chips or the little can of Pringles.
00:31:51
Brian Leithead
Yep.
00:31:59
David Isaacs
And that's fine, even if I'm paying more for it. So I don't think it's necessarily always about the convenience for most people. Well, not for most people, maybe for some people, it's that they don't want to buy something because they don't want to eat too much of it.
00:32:16
Brian Leithead
Yeah, and then in that you're kind of paying a higher unit price especially for Or just a higher price because if you're you don't want to pay a 12 pack when I got to get a 20 ounce um, which is I don't around here for like a coke or pepsi I think is like I think like 250 now or something Um, but you know you look at it's like a two-liter I think is Slightly more than that or a ah one liter is actually even cheaper than that. They're a dollar 75 just because they don't sell um But then they go flat, you know quickly because you don't you're not gonna be able to finish that unless you're an animal so um Yeah, like I'm kind of in in the boat like i I own a house not to brag but you know kind of like what you were saying earlier with like
00:33:13
Brian Leithead
you know, people talking about like, or when you were talking about, you know, if I buy my house, and I i also have to keep money saved, because there are some and mortgage companies that require you to have maybe two depending on like, what program you get into, there's some that will require you to have at least two or three months payment saved up at the time of closing. So you have to keep money of that but even not with the loan requirements, you know, just having money to, you know, if you lose your job or something happens to you that have money saved up for, you know, like you say, going to the ER or even though that you own a home, you have to take care of all of these, you know, the maintenance yourself. Most of them you got to pay out of pocket unless it's like some sort of a disaster that you have in your insurance coverage for it. So, um, yeah, sometimes,
00:34:07
Brian Leithead
people don't always take that into account when they make big purchases like that. And you know, unfortunately shit happens and you're going to figure something out quickly. Otherwise you're screwed. Um, but yeah, planning, also planning ahead of like that is very important too, especially when making said that big purchase. Uh, I spent two years in the marketing industry, so I kind of hear, heard all sorts of stories, uh, especially before and after purchase.
00:34:37
Brian Leithead
um It doesn't even have to come necessarily to the house, even if you're like a a car, right? Like you got to pay insurance on that. That's a different expense. So just all types of things that you kind of have to like figure out and research before. And that's just, you know, adding on to the rotation of, you know, this pack of gum is the equivalent of you know X, Y, and Z. If I keep buy this every week, you know if I spend $200 a month on gum and pop, then hey, that's like my insurance payment for the month. I should probably stop doing this.
00:35:10
David Isaacs
Yeah, trying to not exactly live outside of your means, but kind of things that bring you joy each day.
Job Satisfaction & Economic Views
00:35:20
David Isaacs
It's not that you're delaying that joy, but trying to find joy in other things other than.
00:35:26
David Isaacs
whether or not you consider it to be a negative habit if i if i had made if i made more money am i spending habits that i currently have remain the same and i would be saving a good amount of money and they might have talked about it on here I know I've talked to you about it before but my current job the amount of work that I do and even trying to go above and beyond is really netted me nothing so I'm not really incentivized to do more work harder and it's kind of harder for me to
00:36:00
David Isaacs
stay motivated, stay on task at home, because I can do pretty much whatever I want, you know, get up, make something to eat, let the dog out, or whatever it is. And I was even talking to somebody today, like just then the nationality,
00:36:19
David Isaacs
ah the, how but how to explain this, like businesses used to be smaller, you know, national lampoons, Christmas vacation, you try to not give anyone Christmas bonuses, then someone's cousin is going to come and kidnap you.
00:36:35
David Isaacs
Right. Like they're in his we've grown as a country and big bank take little bank, which is also a ah real problem that the big banks continue to get bigger, even though they were.
00:36:36
Brian Leithead
Great.
00:36:51
David Isaacs
They weren't supposed to after the 2008 housing crisis, but corporations, private equity that have come in and bought some of these smaller companies and even at my company that owns different ah website of portfolios for different.
00:37:06
David Isaacs
ah four different market segments and the people that are my bosses really have no say in the amount of money that I make which is just so stupid to me and what I wish being able to work kind of back in the days in the 70s or 80s were if you were a good worker and you You worked hard and kind of set yourself above anybody else that you could have you would be relatively successful and If you had a wife Like they could work if they wanted to but a lot of times they didn't have to you could have a family, you know how big families were back in that time and I you had enough money to maybe pay for your house and maybe a vacation home or setting money aside or whatnot. And you knew you're going to have a pension once you retired or social security or whatnot, kind of getting off topic. It's a very big problem. I think about a lot, but just all the competition that's come and businesses looking to
00:38:17
David Isaacs
kind of cut employees' wages because the, you know, they're trying to keep up with the Joneses and the Joneses are their competition. And I can't afford to pay people more because they have to remain competitive or whatever it is. But luckily I do have an interview tomorrow. So after this, I'll be studying up for it. And for me, yeah, it has been hard. Like I imagine it has been hard for a lot of people, especially those that don't currently have a job right now to stay motivated. And even today I overheard a conversation of somebody that used to work in the tech world and is now working sales at my office, which is not great to hear about, especially considering we paid for that coding bootcamp and I looked at it today and I still owe like half the money that was taken out.
00:39:11
David Isaacs
but
00:39:13
Brian Leithead
ah Yeah, well well first off congrats on your you know job interview and um That's exciting, you know, I was unemployed for three and a half months myself last year so I know the Stress of looking for a job um You know, especially with having a family and all that stuff but um Yeah, put all your your focus into that and use chat EBT to ask questions. Do you know who you're interviewing with or like what their position is?
00:39:48
David Isaacs
Yeah. Yeah, no other name. ah I looked at their LinkedIn. It looked like they've been at the company for 12 years. So during the interview, I'll probably bring up something like that about how they've been there for so long.
00:39:58
Brian Leithead
Okay.
00:40:04
David Isaacs
So if they can kind of talk about the company culture and what they like about working there, maybe the position that they're in, I know I The recruiter gave me a bundle of knowledge on a lot of that department and relatively small department and they're looking to bring somebody in like to Continue growing that specific. ah They have like an e-commerce website for materials company and they want to continue kind of defining roles and building out more and understanding where they need to place bodies at.
00:40:44
David Isaacs
So it kind of fits into what I do now, where I have for the last few years have found more work for me to do even today with trying to do more process improvement and understanding what data we gather, being able to use that data to be able to do things. But it kind of seems like more of a business analyst position, whereas I would be a liaison between the business side and the tech side and redefining user stories.
00:41:15
David Isaacs
and kind of documenting current processes on how things are happening. But yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to be able to talk to somebody about it. But I also got news that, well, they're trying to hire fast, but they're also doing after the initial phone screening, I guess you would call it that I have with a recruiter yesterday, they're going to have two, maybe three rounds of interviews after. So even if I move past tomorrow, then I'm going to have to move past another round and then have to do the final round. And yeah, I've not had, I've not had good experiences in making final rounds of interviews. Uh, I.
00:42:04
David Isaacs
The job I have currently was one round of interviews and I was hired, but I was also in the running to get a different job that would have paid me.
00:42:16
David Isaacs
like 75% more than my current job is. And I got to the final round there and lost basically. And I've had four rounds of interviews, two hours on site for the final round of the interview process. And I didn't get the job for that either. So the only job I've gotten The only jobs I've gotten have only been one round of interviews. That was like pizza places, a place that turned out to be a multi-level marketing scam. Don't really like talking about that. um And then my current job.
00:42:53
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I feel that I felt for, or felt for an MLM or a Ponzi scheme like, or almost did like when I was like 19. Um, don't like talking about that. I had to go into the, what was their quote unquote office and have them rip up all of the papers that I filled out after I kind of realized what had happened. Um, yeah, that was, that was kind of embarrassing cause I had my friend with me. Um,
00:43:22
Brian Leithead
But yeah, I mean, just like I was talking about earlier, um you know, learn from what didn't happen with those round interviews or maybe kind of do some introspection on what you thought maybe possibly went wrong and go back and look at the tape. Just execute next time.
00:43:40
David Isaacs
Yeah. And it's tough just because each interview process is different, but there's always questions that kind of stump me. And I've written out probably 15 to 20 answers to tell me about a time when.
00:43:56
David Isaacs
I wanted to tell you about a time when I was in an interview where the questions that they ask are actually relevant. you know i don't need to be I don't know why they do it. I'm sure there's like some reasoning behind it. but ah i like to and I like interviews that are a little bit more loose in the fact of kind of trying to just drill you down to understand exactly what you had accomplished. And I mean, it's it's on my resume. I love talking and going over about the things that I've done and a lot of the things that come back to is like this made company money. This made company more money.
00:44:41
David Isaacs
How did you make company more money? Let me tell you about how I made more money for a company. Like, that that stuff's easy to me, but it's like, tell me about a time when he had a dispute with a coworker.
00:44:54
David Isaacs
Like what what classifies it as spute? Like i we have not exactly spirited discussions about things. There's things I don't agree with. And I let it be known that I don't agree with it, but I really just work underneath my manager and my manager's boss.
00:45:16
David Isaacs
So I can't really talk about the disputes that I have because at the end of the day, I just have to agree to it, even if they don't agree with what the thing is that I'm saying.
00:45:26
Brian Leithead
Yeah, collaboration's hard sometimes, especially with people you, you know, feel, uh, uh, I don't know, or maybe not as, uh, like they don't get it as much as you do. Right. So, um, especially another reason just to kind of get out of that place. Um, yeah. Uh, again, kind of good luck. I would, you know what, one thing that I did say, I was kind of touched on it earlier was, uh,
00:45:52
Brian Leithead
If you haven't done this already, I mean, you're smarter than I am, I feel, but, uh, I would, you know, use chat GBT to do like, uh, give you if like 15 or 20 questions on what, you know, if that person you're in meeting with was withs like, you know, a VP of sales, what would a VP of sales ask? You know, a business analyst for, you know, target Walmart or something, you know, whatever the position is or the company.
00:46:17
Brian Leithead
Um, what would they ask in our interviewing? Can you provide like sample answers? Cause that way, at least for me, when I did that, it kind of got me like my brain thinking of almost like a, um, acting exercise, um, or football drill. I forget what's called, but you know, you're always like on the edge and you're trying to like, people are trying to always try and tackle you. So you kind of always got to be on the edge. Um,
00:46:39
Brian Leithead
ah you know kind of just get your bone brain flowing and brain pumping on answers or you know kind of get open up that that tree of potential responses. um The other thing that I did you kind of touched on was the XYZ method is you know I did X save company Y so or A plus Y equals Z so you know this is my job title I did this and it saved company this amount of money or whatever the case is. um And then thirdly was always have a good story and a, a good story, a bad story. And then what you learned from those, those situations, um, uh, rule of three. So like, you're not trying to like dig up for, you know, if somebody asked you like, well, how much. Name, maybe me a time that you, you know, save the company money or what was it your worst experience that ever happened? You already have those and you don't have to like, kind of just dig one out of your, you know, back here.
00:47:37
Brian Leithead
back of your brain, it's always, there's only so much, like you said, you can prepare for in an interview. Um, but kind of controlling what you can control and especially practicing just based on one or two examples. Um, we'll kind of give you the best results in my opinion.
00:47:57
David Isaacs
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate the advice and yeah, and of course I'm going to do a lot of those things like chat GPT. I even use today for.
00:48:09
David Isaacs
Like there are newer versions of Excel that you can do things. So that was going to be one of my questions tomorrow actually is like what version of Excel that they ah use because since i we use an older version of Excel, some of the newer functions that they've come out with over the years aren't available.
00:48:28
David Isaacs
So you have to create your own macro to be able to use those formulas.
00:48:32
Brian Leithead
Oh.
00:48:33
David Isaacs
So.
00:48:34
Brian Leithead
Gross.
00:48:35
David Isaacs
Yeah, so it ended up just being another step in using chat GPT to really understand. um Well, if I do it in visual basic and then putting the visual basic into the module and saving it to that file. So now I can use that and then getting the data together and like, well, the data has come out.
00:48:58
David Isaacs
And I used text to column, separate them from the commas that the data came out with and then figuring out a way to get all the rows in a single column. So I could use that because we were looking at like zip code coverage for specific OEMs.
00:49:17
David Isaacs
and all this is very boring but that's um yeah i mean it's just like something off the top of my head something i've done recently that i can talk about because it just happened today so i feel like that's that's good going in there when talking about refactoring or kind of going above and beyond or
00:49:20
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
00:49:40
David Isaacs
the data analyst perspective of I have knowledge of how these systems work. So I can use that knowledge to kind of pull pieces from different areas of data to fit them together to be able to make a story out of it and put it to use. So that's definitely something else that I'll be talking about.
00:50:05
Brian Leithead
Yeah, one win that I had the other day, uh, was actually a text to the column story to, uh, I had data that somehow got within
Excel Techniques & Competitions
00:50:14
Brian Leithead
the cell. I just got, it was like a line break. Um, but I needed to like move those line breaks to different like columns for our product listings. And I think, come on, there's gotta be a way that I could separate these. Well, yeah, within text to the column, if you go to like, so select the delimiter and go to other, if you do control J.
00:50:34
Brian Leithead
It automatically like ah picks it up as lineme to separate it as a line break. And it did like 30 rows of data and separated out them into 10 different columns.
00:50:48
Brian Leithead
So saved me probably hours worth of work just by doing that.
00:50:53
David Isaacs
Nice.
00:50:54
Brian Leithead
So a little Excel nerd back and forth.
00:51:00
David Isaacs
Yeah, I want to go visit one of those national Excel competitions.
00:51:05
Brian Leithead
Oh, yeah, the Excel speed runs.
00:51:07
David Isaacs
Yeah, I've been seeing videos on it and I'm like, what? I mean, it's it's interesting, just as fast as they can do it. I know it peaks my interest, but it's not going to keep my interest ah watching stuff like that, because I think I only watch for like a couple of minutes because, yeah, it just becomes boring. Like a lot of other things, I respect the knowledge and skills that it takes to be able to do it, but I just don't like watching it. You know, I'm not going to watch somebody play chess. ah It's it's just not going to happen.
00:51:36
Brian Leithead
Yeah, you're right. Yeah. um
00:51:40
David Isaacs
But I know we got to move on just because the credit system and Zencaster is really fucking me and cost me a lot of money.
00:51:50
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
00:51:55
Brian Leithead
um Yeah, you want to move on to the our new segment?
00:51:55
David Isaacs
so
00:52:00
David Isaacs
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00:52:07
Brian Leithead
Brought to you by David.
00:52:11
David Isaacs
Uh, coming soon to a store near you available everywhere, March 35th. Uh, the, uh, yeah.
00:52:22
Brian Leithead
February 31st.
00:52:23
David Isaacs
yeah
00:52:24
David Isaacs
Nope.
00:52:25
Brian Leithead
Yeah, all right. and um yeah So yeah, we're going to be kind of switching up maybe doing books or TV or just whatever we feel is an underrated kind of piece of media that maybe we grew up with or watch recently. um Kind of going might switch it up every week. But you know, David had one particular one this week that he wanted to kind of give out his homework.
00:52:57
David Isaacs
Thanks, Brian.
00:52:59
Brian Leithead
Sorry.
00:52:59
David Isaacs
Let's talk about Will Ferrell. What's Will Ferrell's best movie, Brian?
Exploring Will Ferrell's "Stranger than Fiction"
00:53:06
Brian Leithead
Uh, Ooh, like objectively or like just personal.
00:53:11
David Isaacs
What's your favorite Will Ferrell movie?
00:53:15
Brian Leithead
All of them because I've literally like say you're turning 30.
00:53:17
David Isaacs
Nope. Don't be that guy.
00:53:20
Brian Leithead
No, no, no, no. There's a story behind it. Okay. Like I'm 30. I turned 36 at the end of March. I was unsupervised as in my youth and I would always watch like Saturday night live on a comedy central cause they always do reruns.
00:53:36
Brian Leithead
And Will Ferrell was like the late 90s, early 2000s cast. I literally have grown up with Will Ferrell. there He is an acquired taste and I understand that. um I love everything that he does, even these stupid new PayPal commercials. He just makes me laugh. He's like, my sense of humor is Will Ferrell. He commits to a bit and just goes with it. Even if it's,
00:54:06
Brian Leithead
doesn't land he just he commits and I love that um if I had to stick to just one it would probably be Talladega Nights because that movie is just absurdly ridiculous and it makes me laugh no matter how many times I watch it
00:54:23
David Isaacs
Oh, that's really insightful, but wrong. The correct answer is stranger than fiction.
00:54:32
Brian Leithead
Uh, sorry. I hi see you came up with that episode, man. That's cool.
00:54:37
David Isaacs
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. a Little, uh, little wordplay, which we have to come up with a kind of wordplay segment name for this other than underrated piece of media. Like that's a little, uh,
00:54:51
Brian Leithead
Is it stranger than fiction? No.
00:54:55
David Isaacs
Yeah, no, it's it's not. It's kind of boring. um But the the movie itself. So it's a mid 2000s movie. And I had gotten into. i I was kind of done with the whole Hollywood thing and wanted to go back and see you know movies that were made, however, 10, 20 years ago that were might be considered underrated or that many people hadn't heard of or hadn't watched and Stranger Than Fiction came up on one of the lists on IMDB and I looked at it and it's you know Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Queen Latifah, Tony Hale who plays Buster and rest the developments in it, ah Maggie Gyllenhaal and like one or two other
00:55:44
David Isaacs
bigger name actors that are in it you are like the sonic commercials with the two guys like sitting in their car
00:55:50
Brian Leithead
yeah Yeah, he was.
00:55:50
David Isaacs
like those those two guys are in there so but it is its very It's like a romantic at comedy but the premise is that Will Ferrell is the main character of a book and he starts hearing the author Emma Thompson as the narrator in his mind and she is narrating everything that he's doing the way that he brushes his teeth the way that he schedules things or when his alarm goes off like when he shows up to the bus and he is a
00:56:22
David Isaacs
accountant for the IRS s and Eventually meets Maggie Gyllenhaal. He's supposed to audit this bakery and she didn't pay all her taxes because she didn't want to pay the taxes for That went to like the military or whatever So they you know that she is the love interest essentially in the movie but the oh Dustin Hoffman's also in it and So he's hearing this narrator in his mind and eventually here's like, little did he know he's going to die. And he's like, what?
00:56:55
David Isaacs
Huh? And just like yelling like into the air, it's like trying to figure out who this narrator is. And he goes to Dustin Hoffman, who is a professor, like literary professor at one of the colleges, and he kind of like helps them narrow down who this narrator is, who this author is of his own story.
00:57:18
David Isaacs
And it's just very good, very heartwarming, such a good concept for a film. I don't know how original the concept is, but I really enjoy it. Seeing Will Ferrell in more of a serious role, like he is comedic at times, but the the style of comedy is a lot different.
00:57:41
David Isaacs
And I don't know. i I really enjoyed the movie when I seen it a few months ago and rewatched it here recently. And I really can't recommend it enough. It's probably going to be one of my top comfort movies kind of going forward. And I recommend it to just about anyone that likes those style of movies. But feel free to look it up. It's rated pretty high. I rate it pretty high.
00:58:10
David Isaacs
I don't know what I put it on letterbox, but probably like four out of five. And yeah, I know, Brian, you've seen it, but it's been a long time since you've seen it. Right.
00:58:22
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I don't and don't think I've seen it since it came out in the middle of the late 2000s. So yeah, it's definitely something I'm interested in checking out again. I was willing to go back and watch Will Ferrell's catalog for you know literally no reason at all. But now that I kind of have like a homework assignment, I'm down.
00:58:44
David Isaacs
Yeah.
Future Reviews: Books & Movies
00:58:45
David Isaacs
And Brian will be assigning me homework for next week and we'll go over. Whenever we get to reading or watching these pieces of media from the other side, or maybe we had both seen it and we'll talk about it. So I already know there are a few movies that I'd like to talk about that I know you've seen before. So we can kind of play off each other. But other than that, we can do like homework assignments and kind of come back and discuss like how, what we liked about it and whatnot.
00:59:21
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I mean I have actually one if you want I could suggest it's very off the beaten path um How do you feel about Jim Jarmusch movies Okay, he did ah He did The dead don't die movie like the remake that came out.
00:59:29
David Isaacs
Go on.
00:59:35
David Isaacs
How do you feel about me not knowing who the hell that is?
00:59:44
Brian Leithead
I think like four or five years ago I was with Bill Murray and Adam Driver where they're two cops like our deputies in the middle of like this town and nowhere and then all of a sudden like a zombie apocalypse kind of happens.
00:59:58
Brian Leithead
um his His movies tend to be kind of ah very meta, like almost meta-meta if you will. um The movie that I'm recommending that he did was called um Only Lovers Left Alive.
01:00:14
Brian Leithead
which is a 2013 movie with Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, where there are vampires. um And they're they've been married. They don't really necessarily say how long they've been alive, but a long time. um He lives in Detroit. His name's Adam. And then Eve lives in French Algier. And they like They've been married so long that they've just, like for whatever reason, decided to separate and live in different continents just because they have their own way of living. It's interesting from perspective from that point. And then he has like written music for like every conceivable artist ever. like He talks about going to see Eddie Cochran live. um He drives around in a car that was designed by Nikola Tesla.
01:01:05
Brian Leithead
like not you know Elon Musk Tesla, like Nikola Tesla, the famous inventor from the late 1800s, sort of a call of different things, but I believe you can actually find this on Starz, which you can get like a free seven-day trial and watch it, but or if you stream it
01:01:29
David Isaacs
I have my means. It, uh, oh no, the dead don't die is streaming on Netflix, actually. Not the other one, but I was just looking at this because it kind of looks like a, almost like a scouts guy to apocalypse.
01:01:44
David Isaacs
Like a comedic apocalyps movie buddy car apocalypse movie, movie.
01:01:44
Brian Leithead
Yeah, yeah.
01:01:47
Brian Leithead
don yeah Pretty much, yeah. It's very, very dry humor. Very, very dry. um Anyway, this movie, Only Lowers of Light, has an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, and then it's like a 7.2 in IMDB. So it's actually fairly well, but it just never really saw the light of day as far as, and it was also Anton Yelchin, one of his last movies that he ever made. So um if you liked Anton Yelchin, he'd, you know, as a check off from Star Trek or gosh, I can't remember all the movies that he had when he was the type of the head, but he was my favorite actor, one of my favorite actors. um So that was kind of the reason, really the real reason that I watched it.
01:02:36
Brian Leithead
um in the first place, but I recommend watching it. It's actually a good movie.
01:02:40
David Isaacs
Yeah, let's take a look. I'm always interested in directors. I don't know what it's like, the the auteur theory, a real believer in that, that the directors are kind of the narrators of the story and the sense that these directors have a specific style, kind of the way that they introduce stories. um Alex Garland is actually one of my favorite directors writers, the way that he has stories the ways that he can make you feel like uncomfortable throughout the length of a film is
01:03:19
David Isaacs
just, I don't know, so, so different from a lot of other directors. And of course you have Nolan and Phil nove who vanilla, the new is probably my number one, um, next to Nolan and then garland's a close third. But yeah, I am always interested to kind of look at some of these directors and you see with, um, who is, uh, God, who's the guy snatch, um,
01:03:45
Brian Leithead
Oh, Gary G.
01:03:46
David Isaacs
Yeah, Guy Ritchie and kind of his approach to directing, ah you have
01:03:55
David Isaacs
not really a great listening experience is what you have right now but david lynch which i again it's one of those things where i appreciated twin peaks but i felt like it was just so dated so it was probably revolutionary for the time and people really enjoyed it but watching it now and all the media that i've consumed which that my brain is kind of rotted into trying to get to a place where If something was very influential at a time, it's probably just been iterated over so many times or other things that have pulled inspiration from it. So by the time I get to watch it, it's just stale. So yeah, maybe once my, if I ever have kids, once they become sentient, I'll just start them in like the 1970s, you know, watching the original Star Wars, and then we'll move to the 1980s.
01:04:44
Brian Leithead
Yeah, do like a ah ah decades piece or decades ah build up to kind of see where we began and or so to speak and kind of come to present. That'd be good.
01:04:58
David Isaacs
Yeah, their iPad. I'm gonna make it so that they can't do anything but watch old movies.
01:05:02
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
01:05:07
David Isaacs
No, no TikToks, no ah Disney Plus, none of that stuff. No Roblox streaming or Minecraft streaming. You get to watch A New Hope, you get to watch the original Star Wars trilogy, and then we're gonna move into 1980s films.
01:05:25
David Isaacs
We can we can skip Blade Runner. Again, one of the ones that cult following like really any of those like dark side, darker sci-fi movies from that era that I would have really liked growing up and going to the movies and seeing. But now they've just been kind of caked over with every other sci-fi movie that's pulling inspiration from it.
01:05:50
Brian Leithead
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Um, I like later on around or like the premise, a a lot of it's kind of, uh, some of the themes and stuff are kind of coming true today, but, um, you know, it's a story for a different day. Um, do you have anything else that you want to talk about?
01:06:07
David Isaacs
No, that's pretty much it. But yeah, I mean definitely recommend Stranger Than Fiction to anybody that is a ah fan of good movies. And let me actually look up now that we're talking about directors, because I usually go down a rabbit hole when it comes to this stuff. ah Mark Forster.
01:06:31
David Isaacs
And looks like he had some other stuff. Oh, he did Quantum of Solace. I don't know if he directed it or not. But that was that was the other thing I watched. Mrs. Doubtfire the other day with Pierce Brosnan, who literally did that film and then did Golden Eye, which is just like crazy to think about, especially when he's doing an American accent and Robin Williams is doing an English accent.
01:07:00
Brian Leithead
yeah
01:07:01
David Isaacs
Yeah, he directed Quantum of Salas and World War Z. The 2018 Christopher Robin movie with Hugh and McGregor.
01:07:13
Brian Leithead
kind Which one's kind of a sauce?
01:07:17
David Isaacs
I think that was the one that wasn't very well received.
01:07:21
Brian Leithead
Yeah, that was like the one that was like down in South America, right?
01:07:28
David Isaacs
Yeah.
01:07:28
Brian Leithead
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, it was Mark Worscher. Interesting. Oh, Casino Ray, that was what I'm thinking of. That was Martin Campbell, who also directed GoldenEye.
01:07:42
David Isaacs
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a, that's it. Just kind of wanted to give a nod to the director of the films since we got in the director talk, but yeah, it was a nice hearing from you. We had a pretty good episode out for you all y'all this week. So I hope you enjoy it. I hope you, if you take the chance on stranger than fiction, I hope that you enjoy it and we'll talk to you again next week.
01:08:08
Brian Leithead
Bye everybody.