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So who exactly was as fluid characters referred to earlier? His name was floyd ray Wilson, and he was thirty seven. And for a year and a half, in the late nineteen seventies, he lived in my house.

He used to date my mom's best friend, jackie. In years earlier, he would visit the apartment that my mom and I shared with her two roommates, jackie and Lillian. And every time he came by, IT was exciting, because I thought florida was really cool and I could talk movies with him.

And since he was a hip guy who saw a lot of shit, he could keep up. I remember when jacky introduced us, I was ten years old. And SHE said quinton floyd's who you should talk to about movies he knows as much as you do.

So I, A ten year old, started testing this grown ass man on his knowledge of movies. Finally, I was able to talk to somebody about movies who knew what the fuck I was talking about. Also during this time, I realized the hard way that floyd was a flaky guy who couldn't be canada.

On at least two occasions, he told me he would come over next saturday and take me to the movies. Oh boy, I thought not just talking about movies of yid, but actually going to the movies of laid. But when saturday came, no floyd, no call, no excuse, no apology, just no show, he either forgot or he didn't give a shit.

And I was so excited, too, as the hours passed, and I waited, and I waited, and I waited and he got later. Later I finally realized he wasn't coming. I wasn't mad.

I was hard, broken. I didn't think of myself as a kid, but even I knew you didn't do that to a kid. But I forgave florid and played a cool the next time he came by.

And a few visits later, he promised take me out again. I made sure when he left that he remembered that we had plans and i'd be waiting for him. And he said, of course, no problem.

See you next saturday. And a fucking guy did IT to me again. But this time I wasn't hard broken.

I felt lousy, but not crushed. IT was just now. I knew who flayed really was. He was an adult I couldn't count on.

This is a theme that's gona reappear over arrogant queen, fierce self belief and fierce independence. Because he was surrounded by a bunch of adults he couldn't count on. He was an adult I couldn't count on.

I also promise myself, when I grew up, that i'd never do that to a kid. Now cut to nineteen, seventy eight and fifteen, going on sixteen, my momeby work is requiring her to spend more and more time away from the house, or he wanted to. And that was a good excuse.

So SHE ran with IT, which happened to coincide the age that I started getting in trouble, light lot of fights in school, skipping school and staying out late. I was a Young, wise guy who thought he was tough. So mom rented, flayed, a spare room in our house with the provision that SHE keep an eyes on her sixteen year old sun.

I still thought layd was the coolest. Yeah, yeah. Years ago he stood me up.

But since that time, I had gone to the whole trauma of being sent to tennessee and put in the care of hillBilly alcoholics. I think that was his grandparents. So by that time, floyd d being a flake was easy to forgive.

But IT equipped with two pieces of information that would prove valuable as our relationship move forward. One, I could not count on floyd, and two, I cared more for floyd than he cared for me. I'm sure my mom thought he came up the perfect solution for the whole what to do with the problem.

At the time, I don't think he was aware of what a shady cat floyd really was, nor did he consider the ramifications of having her very impressionable Young son spends so much time around such a sketchy dude. IT was sort like moving Samuel Jackson character and jackie Brown or robbie into your home and having him look after your sixteen year old boy for over a year. And if you seen jackie Brown and you know that ordeal, robby was a character that was a gun runner, killed people and attempt to to manipulate single persons around him.

During the year of one thousand hundred and seventy eight and some of nineteen nineteen seventy nine floor. And I saw a lot of movies together. During this time, the only family I had around me was my mom.

But to us, her close circle friends were our family. Her best friend jackie was like my second mom. Her friend William was like my unt.

Jackie's brother don was like my uncle, and they all look out for me, florida in his own way. Look for me too. The difference between floyd and them was, while they love me, floyd d didn't give a shit about me.

Don't get me wrong. Floyd, like me, we had a good time together. You see a guy like floyd could like you and simultaneously not give a fuck whether you lived or died. One doesn't contradict the other if your guy like floyd, not to say floyd didn't have affection for me, but he was always looking out for number one and that wasn't mean that very much like ord, robby and jacky and jacky Brown.

And he was in working the world to hang around an adult who didn't treat you with kid gloves, who told you to you like IT is without too much concern for your feelings. Fluid, never lie to me about me. He didn't care enough about me to lie to me.

Obviously, sometimes I hurt my feelings, but through floyd, I received an authentic glimpse on the impression I was making on others. Fluid moved out in nineteen, nineteen seventy nine. When floyd moved out, he was gone, never to be seen or heard from again.

And that was the story of floyd. I didn't hold IT against floyd for not keeping in touch. I'm sure he had enough of me. And by that time he had done things to this chat. Everybody in our circle, he was persona on grow with my mom due to some jewelry and a punch shop, and i'm sure other things that I wasn't aware of.

Nevertheless, floyd ray Wilson left the last impression on the fifteen and sixteen year old boy he meant tored in the year of one thousand nine, seven, eight, as well as a bit of legacy that he could have never imagined. What exactly fluid did for a living all these years was open to wild speculation. Like everyone i've ever met like him, he always had stories of the days when he was living the high life, but if is thirty seven years old and moving into his old girlfriends best friends spare room and made to keep a look out on her teenage sun, he couldn't have been doing so well.

Floyd was a very personable guy, yet he never had friends in old days visit him, which I can't say ring any bells back then. But now, I think is due to the fact that he didn't have any old friends, people in floy's life for a while, and then they weren't. But floyd did have an ambition.

Floyd wanted to be a screenwriter. By the time he moved into my house, he had writing two screen place flayed, two, two screen plays with the first two screen place I ever read. The script that I loved.

The first script I ever read was floyd epic western saga called Billy Spencer. The story featured an incredibly cool black cowboy named Billy sencer. The essence of what flay'd was trying to accomplish in that script, an epic western with a black heros cowboy at its center, was the very heart of what I wish trying to accomplish with jane le unchained.

But even more influential than any script was having a man trying to be a screenwriter living in my house, him writing, him talking about the script. Me reading IT made me consider for the first time writing movies. IT would be a long road from that year of one thousand nine hundred and seventy eight to me, completing my first feature length screen play, true romance, in september nineteen eighty seven.

So another thing that's eleven years between the idea and the completion of idea that give me another main theme, in course, life. The in fact, that he uses ideas, know, sometimes decades later, after he discovers them. But due to flood inspiration, I tried writing screen place.

I usually never got that far, but I tried, and eventually I succeeded. So what happened to the script for Billy sencer? nothing.

I'm sure. At the time of his death, floyd was the only one who started a copy of IT. And whenever he died, wherever he was, he was disposed of with the rest of his meager possessions. And whatever trash can IT was toast into was the final resting place of floyd ray Wilson's dream of a black cowboy hero.

Nam Billy Spencer, my dream of a black cowboy hero, jack and chained, was not only red IT was made by me into a worldwide smash, a smash that resulted in me winning the academy award for best original screenplay. By the time I walked up to that podium and accepted the Oscar, floyd was long since dead. I don't know how he died, where he died or where he's buried, but I do know that I should have thank him.

That was an expert from the book and tark about today, which is cinema speculation in his written by quinton teti. O titania is probably my favourite filmmaker. This book is unlike any other book that i've read so far for the podcast i'm onna read from uh the front flap like the front cover about what like what what's going on here um and one of my favorite lines and I jumps out, I says, teti o is possibly the most joyce's infectious movie ever alive.

He's been obsessed with movies for fifty three, fifty four years and so describes what this book is. Unusual book is at once, film criticism, film theory, a feet of reporting and a wonderful personal history. IT is all written in the singular voice, recognizable immediately as Quentin tinos, with a rare perspective about cinema, possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the art form ever.

That idea is that it's written in the singer voice, recognizable immediately as quantity. Tino, I think the lesson for you and I is the importance of having a very distinct, distinctive brand. I've seen all of those movies multiple times.

I've watch all interviews. I hear his voice when I read this book. I don't hear the words in my voice.

I hear in his and that idea that he has a singular voice that's recognizable immediately as his own minor or something more about IT said on the power of brand, a warn said, everyone has something in their mind about disney. When I say universal pictures or chinese century fox, you don't have anything special in your mind. If I say this that you have something special in your mind.

So is a mother going to walk in and pick out a universal pictures, video and preference? To disney, that's not going to happen. And that is what you want to have in a business that is the mode and you want to know you want to wide that mode.

And that is exactly what trentine has. And that, what I would argue is one of his most valuable assets. And so I think this book gives you, gives gonna give you an an idea like how did that come to be? It's very unusual.

It's not really autobots phy. You're gonna like learn about his life. But what he's doing is like writing these in depth reviews of these movies that he watched in the seventies and then early eighty sce, maybe like eight to ten, that he goes in detail.

And it's through this analysis that we get an idea of what was going on in his life at the time. And so here's something is gonna mp up, because that starts out. He starts becoming obsessive movies at seven years old.

This idea that true interest is revealed early. It's certainly true for trentino and his mom. This is going to a meaning, his mom let him watch adult movies at a very, very Young age.

And so something I thought about a lot with other parents would say, this is a bad idea. In fact, some, some other parents ouldn't let their kids play with quant because said he was watching on this crazy movies. So other parents would say, OK, this is a bad idea.

Yeah, this supposed bad idea leads quint to his life's work. And if you think about IT, like he's watching them and say a decade before, you know you're like seven, eighteen. You're prior watching a bunch of rating movies he's watching at seven and eight.

And so it's almost like he had a decade of extra practice and study because of his mom, quote on quote, irresponsible decision. So let's jumping today. He says my Young parents went to a lot of movies around this time, and they usually brought me along.

I'm sure they could have found someone else to point me off on, but instead they allowed me to tg. g. along. But part of the reason I was a attacker along was because I knew how to keep my mouth shot.

I was encouraged to act mature and well behaved, because if I acted like a child's pain in the ass, i'd be left at home with a babysitter. I didn't wanted stay at home. I wanted to go with them.

I wanted to be part of adult time. When they took me to the movies, I was my job to sit and watch the movie, whether I liked IT or not. And so this is the first example of this, a lifelong hobby that he's gona have, where it's just, you know, the front cover.

He is possibly the most joyous, sly, infectious movie lover alive. This idea of being love movies and then analyzing them is going to be the foundation of his life's work when he starts making his own. So he starts asking questions about the meaning of films from very Young age.

There's a ton of examples like this in the book. So he's talking to his mom after they just watched bridge capacity and the sun dense kid. And so that movie ends with the implication, but they do not show IT that all the people died.

And so he said, what happened? I remember asking. They died, my mom.

And for me, they died. I helped. Yes, quinton, they died. My mother shared me.

How do you know? I asked, because when IT throws, that was what I was meant to imply. Why didn't they show that? I asked almost indignantly.

They should have shown IT, as you know, from his movies. He definitely chose to show IT. When the child read this ism. The main point, one reading a child is going to be one understand. But depending on the context and the paragraphs rounding the sentence, sometimes they can figure that out.

Same thing when a kid watches an adult movie on the right home for the movies, even if I didn't have questions, my parents would talk about the movies we had just seen. These are some of my fdd memories. These are some of my fondest memories.

IT was interesting to review the movie that I had just seen from there from the perspective of their analysis. So this in dept. Study of movies forms the basis of his entire career.

By the time he starts writing his own scripts and making his own movies, he has a comprehensive database of movies in his head. If you were to have some kind of contest for movie history trivia of all the filmmakers alive, I highly suspect that currently you would win back to this. In that year of nineteen seventy, I saw a lot of intense shit here.

Seven, he is seven in the year of one thousand, thousand and seventy. Because I was a lot to see things that other kids weren't. I appear sophisticated to my classmates.

And because I was watching the most chAllenging movies of the greatest movie making error in the history of hollywood, they were, were right. I was at some point when I realized I was seeing movies other parents weren't letting their children see. I ask my mom about IT SHE, said, quinton, I worry more about you watching the news.

A movie is not going to hurt you. This was quaint response when his mom said that to him, his mom's name is Connie and is interesting that he refers to her by her first name. But he says, right fucking on tony.

And so before I go on, it's it's really fascinating. Think about this. Most parents would say that queen's mom is making the wrong decision, letting her Young son watched these violent r rated movies, executing the movies in the one thousand nine hundred and seventy.

He feels like that was the best age of movies. If you go back and actually analyze, took a bunch, this can be incredible. This is, again, why you and I know they were on the right path over and over, over again.

We see the people get to the topic profession. They have this comprehensive database in their head of the history of all the great work to came before them. There's a ton of know I been watching change to move forever.

I didn't know how I read this book. There's exact lines, there's themes, there's ideas that all he was doing is taking ideas on the seventies and then adapting him to his own work. But going back to this IT is impossible to read this book and not think that her decision was helpful to his future career.

And this is something I was talking about myself, because I was watching these movies when I was, I was watching scarface and godfather and all these violent movies when I was like a small ID. Yet with my own kids, I don't let them do that. I was watching, you know, a part.

I think I watched I this is crazy. So if people were to ask me they are like, you know, I look at founders is like one giant conversation on the history interpreteth ship, and i'm just constantly update every week and I hope to have been for. So I really don't look at IT is that they're updated in separate episodes, which just one conversation.

But if you are asked me like what I think the best episode ever was capable making, I think the best episode ever made so far was episode three eleven on James Cameron. And what happened with that is I kept trying to sit down a record. I couldn't stop finding more interesting things about James Cameron and I pushing a back and pushing a back and pushing a back.

I did the exact same thing. I've been in this quinta deep pool for, you know, two over two weeks because I can't stop finding interesting, fascinating things about the sky and to read this book and you mention the movie or watching what your interview the same time. So I go back and watch the movie they even understand at the first time.

And so during this time, I mean, my daughter was only eleven. SHE comes just as like, you can like this, I love you. I love to spend time.

And there's no way that you can watch inglis bastard or jingle and chained or pop fiction, which are the movies i've been watching and are making the decision with my daughter. And part is the right decision in the face of the fact that everybody said this is a responsible. They are literally not letting the friends at school.

Their parents are not letting them hang out of point because what is mom and see? And there's just impossible IT is absolutely possible to read this book and not realized that that was actually the right decision. The obsession of movies grabs him right at a very Young age, and I never let him go.

I love this idea that people don't have ideas. Ideas have people. And I think that's a great explanation of what happened to know.

There is a podcast. I listen to the a bunch protest in interviews to listen to to prep for this conversations well. And one of them was on, uh, he was, he was interview best friend brian complement on on the podcast the moment.

And what is fascinating, tino says that, like this comes naturally. He thinks in movies. So he's gona talk over and over again about all the books he reads his obsessed with his, uh, he's obsessed with reading by graphs and autobiographical filmmakers, actors, all kinds of people.

But he says when he reads books that he thinks in terms of movies. So he literally will make the book that is reading into a movie in his head. And so he says, as he reads, he puts a no pad next time, where then he starts writing casting list.

You know, there be fifteen characters and noble reading, or graphs or auto bites reading. And he started, I like OK, if this book was a movie who would play that? He starts adapting.

The plot is like, OK. Why can I would add, uh, I would add to this like a plot line, or I would remove that, or I would do IT this way. And he was like that from a very Young age.

He was very fast. The reason I brought is because he talks about, you know, I felt I was more sophisticated than my classmates because I was watching the most chAllenging movies of the Grace movie, making error in the hide of hollywood. What was interesting as he was so uninterested in school because he was sold as a movies that people thought he was done.

And so if he didn't care about school work, he was like a hundred of movies. Anyone score does not. Movies I don't care about, but he was reading an an adult level.

He's obviously not stupid. He was reading in a doll level way before a lot of other kids. And so people would make fundament because he got bad.

great. And he said that there was one supportive teacher getting mr. Simpsons and Quentins in like a public school and he's like, this is mr. Simpson saw something at me, thought I was, especially he didn't. He thought I was.

Vache under performing because I would know, read, I can read and have intelligent conversation about what i'm reading, but I won doing a school work. And so this guy, this teacher, devise an entire support curriculum just for him. And when other people in the class would make fun of quinton and say, oh, quints kind of dumb, mr.

Simpsons would get up and he would stop like the bowling. He said, listen, quinton is reading on a level so far superior to you. He's reading on an adult level.

He's reading on my lover s what mr. Simpson would say and then are another interesting clue about the depth of his obsession is that he starts writing screen plays. He said that doing a school work, and he know why is in the school he says, I was a little surprised that the school wasn't looking at.

This is an academic thing. They looked at my writing and creating stories define act of rebellion. And they did that because essentially the tinos creating his own curricula instead of just reggina ating or accepting what they're giving him to learn.

So then in the book he starts to talk about his childhood. There is a million notes that I have left to the left to myself as a reads book. Where's quin's dad? Where's his dad? Where's his dad? And asking is over over again. Because his step father, he referred to his parents, uh, earlier that his step for the turns out I didn't know it's never mentioned in this book, but it's obvious that he's like yearning for some kind of male, like positive male, a role model or figure in his life and I don't think you were found one.

As you heard he's hanging out or dell robby floyd ray Wilson when he's like, you know, sixteen seventeen that's not a person I want my son with a when he sixteen or seventeen and what I found out later that he never knows dad, I think his mom got pregnant per early. I would guess I couldn't find the exact date. But my guess on my what I like the context around, it's like to eighteen, maybe twenty, something like that, maybe twenty one.

And so he never met his biological dad. His dad was never there, but his mom wides up getting divorce from his stepped dad. And then when quent is ten years old, this is what I meant about one of the many themes that this kid, he had to grow up this.

So I guess he was a kid. This kid grow fast. And so now he's living with his mother in an apartment. He grow up an OK. They are all cocktail dresses, and its his mom, his, her and her two best friends, jacky and Lillian.

And so he describes this time in his life he says all three were Young, hip, good looking women in the funky seventies with a penchant for dating professional athletes. Remember, he is ten. During this time, my mother is dating a professional football player name regi.

Reg asked to hang out with me being a football player. He asked this quite like football. He told him, no, he likes movies. Well, as luck would have its so did reggie. This ones are being a very important regis, not going to stick around. And this is where the weird thing is in the book, like these guys know, is like a, let s say, a steady stream of, uh people coming in and out a series of men ah that his mom were dating and in some of those men could would watch movies with and one of those guys introduced him to this genre that's going to be that came out in the seventies that is hugely influential to quinta movie career and I think it's pronounce the black plotting and so regi introduced him to this genre because he says my little face was the only White face in the audience that was my first movie and all black movie theatre, a black neighborhood and he absolutely loved that he says, as far as I was concerned, mom could marry this cat to one degree now this is crazy.

This organ, try together and then you see the influence on this work glitter but says to one degree or another, I saw my entire life since both attending movies and making them, trying to recreate that experience of watching a brand new gym Brown film on a saturday night in a black cinema in nineteen seventy two, the mass. This is the interesting part, which I didn't put together again. This is why I think I was so helpful me to constantly like, put off, like, I SAT down as I go.

I'm not ready. I'm not ready. A cap. I keep finding more interesting things because I didn't understand the four context around this.

Two, two weeks. Maybe we can half. After I read this, the massive theatre full of black males cheered and away.

The nine year old little me had never experienced in a movie before. At the time. Member, I keep.

Dsc, where's quin's dad? Where's quin's dad? At the time, living with a single mother, IT was the most masculine experience I had ever been part of.

Remember the scene that reappears over over again in these books? You can always understand the son by the story of his father. The story of the father is embedded in the sun.

Coin didn't know his father. And so i'm watching this. I might do IT completely separate episode on IT because it's so it's so I am going to have to do another queen episode down the line.

But he's he's being interviewed by a guess in this series called director's chair. And what they also do is, you know, directors interviewing directors, and then they also take questions from other directors. And one of them was very surprising.

no. OK are you ever going to do? I think maybe Francis, for couple, was asking the question too, which is fascinating, because you can always understand the son by the story of his father, the story of the father's bet.

And the sun comes from Francis. Four copies biography that I covered back on two forty two while I didn't put together to now. So that's incredible, he adds.

I'm almost positive friends for couples when asked me the question, cy, are you even doing anything more? Autobiographers always can be like somebody. I write all of his movies.

I think you about every single one, except for jackie Brown. And so he says, like he did do auto. This is going to be surprising.

This is shocking to me that the most autobiographical film that he did was kill bill. What the hell? What do you mean? How is the impossible you've think koba wanted to? We're also interesting enough.

One thinks is just one movie. He thinks of kill bill. One, two was one movie, but he said he was the most autobiographical.

E that he did, he just did on a bunch of metaphor, ign stories and everything else. And so i'm really watching kill bill. And there's a line about bill in cuba, too, that I think applies to talents ino.

If you combine this book with his movies, with these interviews, with a random question, and he says, like most men who never knew their father, bill collected father figures. I think that was what quinton was doing in the way he did. IT was by movies. He was looking for this male father figures in movies.

And what's fascinating, how much I relate to that, my friend a jermy gathon has his ability to get get right to her matter one time and one time just Randy said me so pretty obvious ous you're doing with the podcast an and he said in the entire family has never been a successful role model so that's what you're doing at this biofidelity obsessive search for a successful blue print that you can emulate. And I had never consciously that thought before, but as soon as I came out, his mouth like always, right? And so let's go back to tyranny of childhood later on in life.

He was he was well known for his film knowledge in his video recommendation. So like when he was working at his job, was working minimum wage, trying to write scripts. He's working at video archives, which is a video rental place in hatton beach.

But everybody in the local community knew about the, the, the weird movie nerd at the video archives because he had this extensive film knowledge and video recommendations that would come directly from his brain. Later in people, he said, when people asked me if I went to the film school, I tell them, no, I went to films. And so this entire book is teaching you the importance of reps, reps, reps.

Teti was kidding on a lot of reps at a very Young age. He talks about the fact that he would go to double and triple features. I don't think they even do this in movie theres in anymore.

Like you watch one movie, then they immediately after start playing a second movie, and then in some cases, they immediately playing a third movie or sitting in the movie there for seven, eight, nine hours. The depth of his obsession cannot be understated. A Young tarantino, he, for some reason, he does not mentioned why, but he has a child psychologist.

And he says, when he does sessions with her, all they would talk about is the movies that they saw. And so this is what a typical weekend would look like, are between the ages of eight to eleven years old. My mom would drive me to the cinema on a saturday, on saturday and sunday afternoon, then dropped me off and come back and pick me up four or five hours later.

And so this goes back to his moms unusual, unusual, relaxed attitude about movies leading directly to his phenomenal career. Because by the time he starts making movies and writing zone scripts, you know, leve, in fifteen years later, he's got this psychologic knowledge of his industry, just like charly monger, just like saml, just like kobe bryant, just like magness carson, the dominant ss player I was assigned to my friend Patrick. Uh, pat cast best like the best.

It's episode three forty eight i'll linked down below but it's uh, Patrick and john calls and sure, the founders stripe and the title of the episode is A A business state of mind. But they mentioned something that episode is very faster. That magness carls and was no dominating chess when he was Younger.

He entered some chest trivia contest. IT was just chest riva and he wanted he knew the most chest trivia out of anyone who is in this contest and that this is i'm i'm coding from the he knew the most chest trivia out of anyone who is in this contest. And that's not a coincidence that the world's the number one player has also studied the most about all chess history.

He's extremely knowledgeable on that. You could say the exact same thing about the tino. And so if you studied talented as love and dedication to his craft, you can help up compare to your love and dedication to your own.

So there's an incredible story about, and it's very simple, like how bad you actually want IT. You can tell that teti o deeply, deeply wanted to destroy, to tell you, takes place a decade, a decade before he writes his first, he successful sells his first screen play. So when I saw the movie rolling thunder with my mother and her boyfriend marco in nineteen seventy seven, IT blew my fucking mind.

I loved rolling thunder for a period of ten years. I followed IT all over los Angeles. S whenever and wherever IT play, this is way before home, deep home.

This is before home video. This before streaming. You literally had to wait until was they replay movies over.

Never again. I don't think they do this now. And then he would joke all over the city, los Angeles, looking for this. I did this before I knew how to drive a car.

Or before I had a car, I would travel by bus hours away from my home to some really sketchy neighbor, ods, to see rolling thunder. After I watched the film a few times, I began to have a deeper understanding of IT. Again, this is another thing he will tell all over the world.

You hear this in conversation. You hear this and writing. He agree, I watch a movie fifty times.

I watch a movie six times. It's not one or two movies he did this for. He repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

He wasn't sing, tell tino made his own read wise. He made his own founders notes. He he has scrap box so this is what he does.

He's comparing, uh, his love and dedication to the films, compared red to this other director and he says this guy didn't, nor did he keep scrap box, make notes and keep files on index cards of all the movie he saw growing not like I did that is really wise. And founders notes before software, he's got the analog version of that. He's got a database of index cards of every single thing and files on all the movies he had growing up.

I would be almost impossible to approach whatever you are working on, like a tino approach when he was working on and not come out success on the other time. But this story is not over. So yeah, i'll get on a bus.

I will travel by bus for hours just to see this movie. I will watch IT over and over over again, so I can have a deeper understanding. The film, this is exactly like napoli, the vice open gave you in a couple days ago on episode thirty seven.

What I said, do you watch one movie one time? You, you read a book one time, you will listen to pocket one time or good. You're gonna dusted by the people that repeat, repeat, repeat and put more reps.

The police said, read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander haniel seizure, uh, frigid the great. Make them your models. This is the only way to become a great general to master the secrets of the art of our with your own genius.

Enlighten by city lightning genius study by building this database, by taking these notes, by going to such great length. And what does he do next? That film rolling dunder, maybe a champion of its director, john fine, so much so that I thought out I saw him about at nineteen to interview him.

How does he do that? How did I manage that? Simple, but not easy.

I looked up every john flint in the phone book, call them up and ask them, is this john flint? If they say yes, then I asked them the john flint who directed rolling thunder till eventually one said, yes, he is. Who is this? Wow, it's fucking him.

I had never spoken to a movie director before, no less the director of one of my favorite movies. So I introduced myself and told him I was writing a book on film directors. And could we get together in interview, and could I interview him about his career? And he agreed, and we set a time, and he invite me over a to come over to his house and conduct the interview.

As we SAT down in his living room to conduct interview, I began asking my questions and testing my theories about rolling thunder. I was so inexperienced at what I was doing that I brought my taper quarter with me, but I only brought one cassette. I could not imagine him giving me more than an hour.

So what obvious ly did? So once both sides of the taper done, I didn't want to a look quicking idiot. So I just kept flipping IT over and rerecording over what I had just recorded.

So all the stuff on his early career was lost forever. That is the end of that story. That is why I titled that story.

How bad do you want? IT? There's another story that we unite talked on the past.

Steve jobs was fourteen years old. Looks up. Bill hill.

IT was a good founder. The covert of H. P.

right. He said a question wants to make frequency counters. He calls him up, bill answers of phone. He's AKM c job and fourteen years old. I want to make frequency counters.

Can I have some mixture parts, build laughs and laughs and law solarium gives them the parts and gives him a summer job on assembly line at hp when he's, like, fourteen years old, assembling frequency counters. So I want to go back to where they started. This unexpected benefit of his mom's unusually relaxed attitude.

Hope about these violent movies, these already movies, these adult movies, right? That directly leads to the, you know, a decade action of time and reps and study and which that intern leads to this PC and psychopaths knowledge of his industry, the the the people I mentioned earlier. In addition to nova was charlie monger, sam and kobe.

I didn't get a chance to meet kobe before he passed away. Important, but I got a chance to meet both charlie monger and saml before they died. Tell you right now, I spoke directly.

Charly monger for three hours, could ask any question I want. IT I spoke to seems for two hours, could ask any single question I want. They know the stuff download, and I met same well before I met charly monger. And I remember coming back to my house and telling my wife, I was like, I want that.

I want that at eighty one years old, right? I didn't know he was going to die six months later, or maybe even lesson at four month later, but you know to be, he was still so fired up about what he was doing. He wanted IT like he.

He didn't he? Like, what am I retire? There's nothing. Retire from billions not doing that for money, doing IT for the love, and he's going to do deal. So he dies.

But what I when I came back from that, that conversation was he started. He was hit sixty one years experiences as entrepreneur. And i'm going to be the business history guy.

And for two hours, there's not one thing that I could bring up that says i'll didn't already know and I came back and never tell my wife. I was like, I know i'm on the right path. You don't sell a company for thirty eight billion dollars like sam I did.

Then you learn all the shit. You don't make incredible movies like jingle and chain and and glorious bastard and perfection and then learn all the shit. You learn a way before, in some cases, decades before you use IT.

There's no way you can tell me that you and I are not on the right path that this this complete dedication of trying to condense, clarify this comprehensive knowledge of his grades were clearly on the right path. You see IT over and over and over again in these people that get to the top of the professionals. And people are literally get become great at what they do, whether it's war, chess, politics, business, filmmaking, it's all the same.

Athletics, you see IT over and over and over again. And the great thing is, time to is much holder than I am, much more complishment him. And I like others I thought was dedicated to this.

I like all those levels to this. This is a great example, is a constant comparing, contrasting in something more cracks likes. But he like it's it's a job to them.

It's in the obsession with me and so he talks about a directors, uh like sam packing pal and down signal sigal who made great films don't city made, uh, dirty Harry they were general film masters that's what tina calls them but he says but they didn't make janua film films the way that I do as students of john a similar we make films because we love john refills. They made john refills because they were good at IT, and that's what the studios would hire them to do. And so when titi o studies other people, just like what I said him, like all that fires me up.

I want that just like what I said to my wife when I met, seems so I want that titi. Before he makes movies, he starts seeing other people that aren't treating this like a job. They're treating IT like something they have to do.

The people he's about to go into and you know, tell to do, even if he couldn't figure out a way to do a professions, he was going to make films no matter what, for money or not for money, he was going to do IT no matter what. And so he started to seeing the movie brats. This is in the ninety seventies, and he's like, oh my god, their film nerds like me.

And so I have a bunch episodes on the movie, brats. These are the first ten tinos gonna. Give some background here, right? There are the first for film school educated generation of Young directors that were raised on television.

So you're think in france for copa brand pala, marn, gracy, George lucas, Stephen silbert, this part is important, right? So he saying, what's set the movie brats apart from the earlier generation of directors that had come before them even more than than their youth? And the film school education was the fact that they were film geeks.

True interest is revealed early, right? You can find somebody is gonna to make film once like basketball, once to our businesses, once to invest you you look at the child, there's going to be signs early. People don't have ideas.

Ideas have people. The ideas grab them early. When i'm reading this, I listen.

I H should be. Obviously, this is not a job to me. I am completely and orderly obsess. I work on founders parks seven days a week.

Well, what was I doing before that I did the first time discovered podcast was in two thousand and ten. I had been obsessed with a radio spoken word, like I was so hard to fine. Like I grew up. There was no, no, obviously internet ah later on of my character is internet, but you would have to listen to like A M radio. And then I remember the the day where like he was magic, where I had to be in the car trying to listen to A M radio.

Uh, you know, I listen A M radio, everything, politics, sports, uh, religion, advice, coins, everything and I member the day when you could, the first time you could actually, uh, listen not in your car, you could you could stream IT on in your browder like the internet speech or slow back then he would like buffer times even those was just. So this is incredible, but the first time I discovered an actual podcast which change everything because it's like old is independent, that you have a radio in your pocket and you can listen anytime you want with in two thousand from two thousand to two thousand and sixteen, right? I started this park das in two thousand sixteen.

I just the thousands of episodes. And so you seeing a very small thing with A T know and then the movie breaks because he's like, oh, their names and he says they loved movies. They dreamed of movies.

They even received degrees and movies back when that was a dubious major. And so this is what a tina is realizing, why that's so important. Because that's how you truly get great, what you're doing, get to top your profession.

He sees jos. And so this is currently no on steam speeder g and greatness. When jaws came out in one thousand nine seventy five, IT was easily the best movie ever made. Nothing ever mabe before I came close, because for the first time, the man at the home wasn't executing a studio assignment, but a natural born filmmaker genius who grooved on exactly the this kind of movie and would kill himself to deliver the exact version of IT that was in his head.

And there's another time in the book that he brings up, jaws and Stephen silver, he said, Stephen spoiler's, jaws is one of the greatest movies ever made, because one of the most talented filmmakers who ever lived when he was Young. Remember this part because quinton has made a public that his next movie is, he intends his next move to be his last. Now get there right after this.

So I don't forget, just remember this, that when he was Young, part seva sweer jaws is one of the greatest movies ever made, because one the most towns of filming because you ever lived. When he was Young, got his hands on the ray material, knew what he had, and kill himself to deliver the best version of that movie that he could. So let me put the book down.

I need to go to my note. Oh, in fact, this is a areas. One of the things I was doing was I bought all of the, all of those movies, and a few of them came with like extra, like, you know, this, like back the day we need buy dvds that have like not even extra scenes, but like interviews and self.

And so one of the extra scenes from his movie, once upon a time in hollywood, ends with tt, no, leading a chant while their own set. I think they close on hollywood bullier to do that scene. And he is leading a chant with the entire crew, because we love making movies, because we love making movies, because we love making movies.

That was his last, the last film is made so far. He's got to be close, you know, six years all of the time. And yet you can picture, if you read this spoke and you spend time setting him, you knew that he he would do the exact same thing when he was ten, fifteen, twenty five.

And so one of the area of the tino was when teti o came on geo rogan's podcast to promote his book once of a hollywood. And, you know, he was joke at portion. I was like, why? Like, i'm a huge fan.

Why are you trying to like, I don't want you to stop making movies and ttl says, because I want to leave on top. So i'm planning my next move to be my last. I want to leave the audience wanting more.

But also, the fact that I know know about film history influences that decision. So what you mean, I know about film history. Film directors do not get Better as they get older, o said.

Film directors do not Better as they get older. I don't want to leave my powers of movie making, and movie making ability are diminished. And he used the example of mohamad leave fighting too. You know, he wants to leave. He wants to be the muhamad I leave that leaves before he fighting on spinks.

But again, I love this idea, this, this historic database, his mind of film history, he knows, like, i'm not learning, is not memorizing information, right? Learning is changing your behavior question clearly is learning from history, because using those ideas in his work, and you can see them. And so this one is like, I have to do this.

Film directors do not get Better as they get older. So then I want to bring up the fact that he starts making movies in the nineties, right? He was his invoices in the seventies.

And the way he made movies in the nineties were not only influences by the seventies, so they are also influenced by the eighties. In the seventies, he was emulating what he liked. In the eighties, he was trying to do the opposite of what he hated.

And so he says, after growing up in the anything goes seventies, the eighties market as they play at safe decade, the eighties was a horrible decade. The restrictions hollywood impose on their product, we're self imposed. The harsh st form of censorship is self censorship.

And so he talks about the eighties where when every movie had to have a happy ending, everything had to be predictable. And so the only way to fight against that is to build memory. No point criticising, just build what you want to see in the world.

And that's exactly what he did. And so give one he's writing. So I don't know if I think I really, but just in case exit.

So just kids I T knows, like making one hundred and fifty dollars a week working at a video rental store. That's what he was doing when he is writing his first script. The plan was to try to self script. The first script sells as to romance, then use that money to fund his first movie, which ones of being rest for dogs. And so this is a tino looking back on this point of his life, where he's just refusing to self sensor and he's refusing to play safe.

And so he write, I remember when I worked at me, the manhattan video store video archives, and I would talk to the other employees about the types of movies that I wanted to make and the things I wanted to do inside of those movies, and their response to be quite, they will all let you do that. To which I replied back, who the fuck are they and who is going to stop me? They can go fuck themselves.

I wasn't a professional filmmaker back. I was a brush at all firm. Gee OK his self confidence.

Uh, obviously, when you hear speak, when you were right, excessively high, IT was like that way before. Belief comes for a ability. He, before you ever made a movie, he had self confidence that he could make the movie.

And one of his great friends as the other filmmaker, robbery guys. And he even brought up in the area, area, I go, you're obviously very self confident. And they were self confident back when they were like kids.

They were talking about hanging out when they were. They were first trying to make IT. They go like quints like crappy apartment and watch movies all day.

I think they were like they're early twenty when they were doing, and quinton was like that back then. And so you, no, I not going to let them stop me. Forget them.

I was in a professional filmmaker back then. I was a brush, or at all geek at once. I graduate to a professional filmmaker.

I never did let they stop me. Viewers can accept my work or rejected. They can.

Dem IT good, bad difference. But i've always, this is such interesting. This is a great line, such an interesting idea.

But i've always approached my cinema with a fearlessness of the eventually outcome, a fearlessness that comes to me naturally. I've always approach my cinema with a fearless ness of the eventual outcome, a fearlessness that comes to me naturally. And you know, that is true because he is he, he is going against the trend.

He is swim. Remember last week, David, all we said only dead fish go with the flow. He is not a dead fish. He is not going to the flow. He is making reservoir dogs coming off the eighties.

And so he says the people making movies at the time didn't think audience cared whether or not the happy endings they gave them made center, or because the tino, they don't make sense, like you had this whole story, then you have to, you have to do this real trees that doesn't any sense, just to give you a happy ending. So audience are are happy right now. This is facing tertio makes the movies he wanted to see.

Even at the time, he knew that the mass audiences liked movies that he hated. great. He's like, list.

I hate what the people making movies are doing. And he says, well, i'd like to say those hollywood professionals were wrong. I'm not sure they were.

How would he knew that? How would they know that? You know, he's K, I would love for the wrong.

I'm not sure that they were. And what he's not sure that they were. But he still goes back. He still be.

He's still fearless in making an approaching the single and making the movie that he wants to sit, right? Because a video archives member, while this is going on, he's working in the videos. So he's talking to customers, viewers of movies.

And so he says that video archives adult closely with the movie watching public, usually on a one or one basis, much closer than any hollywood executives. And for the most part, they didn't care how ck are implausible. The Jerry rigged climactic they were, spoonfed were.

They just didn't want the movie to end like obama. It's very obviously, trentine has a perspective. He has a set of ideals.

He has a way he wants things done. In fact, I watched this a clip of Jamie fox being interviewed by Howard z turn. He talks about what was like working with quinton dino.

And Jimmy fox says that on set titi is a tyre and he quote, won't let you fuck his film up and so how ward turn was surprised about, I am not like that and as all point was like, no with him, Jimmy fox, very, very obvious. Like cartoner know this stuff. He cares deeply, not going to let this fail.

He's going to get the best performance possible out of you. And so the follow question was like expecting a negative answer, you know, oh, of course you would they like, would you work with quantity? again? The expected answer would know.

course. I A tired, be yelling and screaming, very adam, about how things he wanted to be and yet Jimmy fox said a thousand times, a thousand times I would work with quantity anti oo again. And what incredible is this approach is like dedication to the fact, hey, i'm going to make my movies with a fearlessness of the eventual outcome.

Everybody, even early in his career, okay, everybody tries to get him to do things the way that they want him to do things. And he just refuses. He just says, no.

Over over. Gan, no, no, not to an APP. Early in his career, a lot of his movies were financed, the whine scene company and harvey.

One scene walks up, tom, and there they are, uh, showcasing reserves as before, it's released to on like the like the film festival circuit. And what their noticing is there's a scene in resa dogs where are cutting. The guys are off and some persons of the audience is just not reacting well to that.

They get up and walk out. They are upset. And so they they're trying to make the point to the tinos OK.

If you just remove that scene, then you know more people watch the movie and you just said no over over again like no, it's saying and it's my movie that seems important that exactly the movie is exactly what I wanted to be that is saying. And this is constant. No, no, no.

And refusing to budge everybody else budget, because IT is is more important to quinton than IT is to them. Another example that titi o gives is he has some unusual cases. You see that over over again.

At the time he cast john travolta and port fiction, john travolta was thought of us like a husband right now. He went up. His career was revived after projection goes on to a bunch of the movies.

I was I O, that was a guide dancing in the in one thousand nine hundred and seventy. He's doing like the baby movies now like, no. And so they told him he sends this cast list and they're like, we like all the names, but you have to take your photo off there and he like, i'm not taking judge photo off there.

And again, he just says, no, no, no. IT goes back to this idea that I am approaching my cinema with a fearlessness of the eventual outcome. And in the case of pop fiction, this is faster.

He think about movies to me, right? The filmmakers, curious facing you can think about each individual movie as like a little military business, right that's put together for a certain set of time. I think there's a lot of similarities to train a director and an entrepreneur.

R does align from a bag for Robert freezing, which I over five years ago. He was a the guy that was a huge influence on Steve jobs. I am in his life.

But he says, promoting a stock or building a businesses like making a movie, you've got to have stars prop in a good script. And so you can think of every single film that turn, or the film va matter has made as like a minium business. And so look at some of the capital efficiency here.

Poll fish on cost, eight million dollars to make. You got two hundred and thirteen million just as the box office. So all these numbers, I went poled eight out of the ten movie so reserve dogs you know made a little bit of money um at box office you know but IT costs very little.

I think I think he was like one point two million and made like three million like that. And then the only one that kind of flop to our broke, given none of his movies lost money, but he considers the death proof of flop because I think I just made back what they invest. But if you take the top eight out of the ten movies that ten tinos made so far, they've cost up four hundred million dollars to make and they've yielded IT almost two billion at the box office.

And that's just the box office. I just said this week, I bought a bunch fifteen dollars a pop on on apple. They're streaming, they're still selling. But poll fiction, eight million to make, two hundred and thirty million to box office. Jackie Brown, twelve million, eight, seventy four million at the box office.

Kill bill one in one thirty million, hundred and eighty million at the box office in glorious bastards said that by my favorite to in a movie, seventy million to make three hundred twenty twenty one million at the box office jungle cost a hundred million to make britten, four hundred and twenty six million, almost a half a billion dollars at the box office. And IT goes on and on and on. But this idea like this, like miniere businesses are eight.

And so everything like you can have john ter words, you know, probably be the most important, argue the most important character in that movie. Maybe Samuel Jackson, you know, a import fiction play, the bigger, bigger robot at eight million dollars and a yelled at two hundred thirteen million at the box office. Movies were not let for twenty five, thirty years.

How much money have made since then? okay. So there's one more story that want to tell you.

It's about quantitate o's favourite film critic and I think that is a lot of the ideas um that I took away from studying kentaro. One is that if you love your work, that will increase your enjoyment of your life. Uh number two, the importance of knowing more about your industry than anyone else.

Number three is that passion and enthusiasm is infectious. You are i've never seen, you know, these are movies that came out fifty years ago. In some cases, i've never seen them.

And you just reading about the tino's interpretation of in love of them makes you love them or love his enthusiasm for them. And then for the importance of building this historical database that you can then use, and that can influence and benefit your work many, many years into the future. We have no ideas were about to see here.

There is going to be examples of books you read, hopefully podcast you listen like this one, where you're gona hear something and you're going to use that ten, fifteen, twenty years into the future. And so he starts out comparing and contrasting. The way that Kevin Thomas approaches his work is the direct opposite of how most people approach there is in the same, uh, industry.

Most critics writing for newspapers and magazines set themselves up as superior to the films that they were pay to review, which I could never understand because judging from their writing, this was clearly not the case. They look down on films they gave pleasure, and on filmmakers who had an understanding of the audience that they did not. As a kid who loved movies and pay to see pretty much everything.

I just thought they were slight assails today. As a much older, wiser man, I realized the extent of how unhappy they must have been. They wrote with the minor of somebody who hates their life and hates their job.

Kevin Thomas reviewed movies for the los Angeles times. The the L A. Times was the morning newspaper that most agents and studio executives read. So it's influential not only to a Young and tanti, but also be working in the industry, you know, a decade before maybe decay, maybe half a decade before the tino breaks him.

Years later, at the current public library, I looked up one of his reviews, okay, if you find yourself, add a public library looking for a review of a movie that came out twenty years earlier. That is a sign that europe sess. That is a sign that you have manuvred ourself into the exact industry you should be working in.

And so we talks about the fact that Kevin loved, he was very passionate and passionate to sam and infectious, that Kevin love the movie for the review days reading. We krank goes to watch IT. He says, after twenty minutes, I walked out on this one too, but I never brigge Kevin Thomas his enthusiasm.

Did I waste money? Yeah, but i'm like to pretend I even gave a shit about that. I liked Kevin time so much. I was glad that he at least had a good time.

Think about the contrast right where he started this, where he's like, you know, i'm reading these critics for newspapers oh, and then you realize, oh, they hate their lives and hate their jobs and then he's reading Kevin. Tom is Kevin like high tub about this movie queen who loves movies, goes to sea like and like this movie. But i'm still happy because at least Kevin loved IT passion and enthusiasm is infectious.

And so what's never stated, but it's also implied if you read the story, is like o Kevin was just like quin in the sense that he manuvred himself into a job he loved, which then increases your enjoyment of overall right. Then he goes into the the importance of having the historical database in your head, because you never know when you going to use these ideas. And so here's an example.

That one review Kevin Thomas wrote in nineteen eighty that I read when I was eight years old was to have a significant impact on my film seventeen years later. So IT was a review, this is gona, so this is eighteen. I going to use this seventeen years later, right? Uh, IT was a review for a jaws rip off called alligator in his review of this giant allegation movie, okay, which which Kevin called well, made in lots of fun.

Kevin focus on two lead performances. One of those lead performances was this was a Young Robert Foster. Quite is eighteen years old when he's reading this review about this performance of this actor in robber Foster.

Fifteen years later, when I was writing my adaptation to what would turn into a movie, jackie Brown, I had to consider who was gonna play the likeable lead mail character, bail bonds man max Cherry. There was something about Foster, an allegation or that really stuck with me. I watched the movie again, and I felt that the character from alligator could be max Cherry just fifteen years earlier.

So I started writing the script as if he was, would I have done that without Kevin Thomas highlighting forester so positively in his review? No, in the end, made Kevin. Time is so unique in the world of the seventies and a film criticism, he seemed like one of the only few practitioners who truly enjoying their job and consequently, their life.

I loved reading him growing up and practically considered him a friend in nineteen ninety four, I want an award for pope fiction from the los Angeles film critics association. When I stepped up to the podium and looked out before the audience of L. A.

Critics, my first reMarks to the room. war. G, thanks. Now I finally know what Kevin Thomas looks like, and that is where I leave IT for the full story. Highly recommend reading the book.

If you buy the book using the link that's in the shown as your pocket, yer are available filters that come, you'll be supporting the dcs at the same time. That is three hundred and forty four books down one thousand ago, and I talk to again soon, spending two weeks studying tt now has got completely fired up. I don't know if i'm done making podcast on them.

I might make the next episode might be on him again. Have a lot of material that I still want to talk about. But the main thing I want to talk about real quick, and I I can keep this real short, is I can get over the fact that you know how trentino had this historical database in his head.

Of the movie industry, like the tire history of the movie industry, he was in his head and something that he could call on and that he now in cocoon. But he called on motor times and he would use in his work later on. I really believe that stage, which is the new feature founders notes, is that for you. But for the entire history of entrepreneurship, for the entire entrepreneurship industry, it's kind of blowing my mind how you know because I told you since two thousand and eighteen i've been fit. I I did what terri know did.

I didn't even know that he did this until I read this book, but just like he was catalog ging and making index cards and other things of all the movies ahead been watching since since he was a kid since two thousand and eight, all the books for every single book that I read for this podcast, i've been adding in all my highlights, all my notes, into this database called read wise, into this APP called read wise, which allows me to search IT, to review IT. Uh, go. There's a bunch ways you can like you can search by book, you can search by highlight feed, you search by keyword.

And so for the last six months, I think you are you know this. But for the last six months, I partners with them was okay. I was getting a bunch of messages over the years of people saying, hey, I want access to all your notes and highlights.

And so I ordered with a team, a revise to build founders note sacco's. Founders note sacco's, where you signed up to get this, if you haven't done so already. And you could see exactly what I see. You see every single note, every single highlight.

You can search through everything that I have ah that all the notes and highlights that I have is a giant search able database about like the collected knowledge of the years that i've gathered over since two thousand eight so six years, whatever. That's then I started adding other features like putting in every single transcript into founder notes for every single episode. Then you could search every single word ever other on the podcast.

And then I had this idea of a feature to build an AI assistant on top of that. And so in addition to you being able to read all my no highlight, searching everything, reading all the transition, you can do that. Sage can do this for you.

And it's insane because, you know, I have you've heard me speak on other podcast hearing, which he publicly, you know, I don't know what people are going to ask me in advance, and i'll just use that historical databases in my mind to answer. Just take another question, run IT through everything i've learned from settings, ding specter, and then answer the question except sage as as as a perfect memory. So what sage is, I was calling this, know this feature, couldn't figure what named IT.

I was going to call a founders ChatGPT or founder GPT. I was going to call founders chat. And I said, what this time, really what IT is.

And so somebody that was actually in the private beta. So sage is available to every single person that has access to founders notes to IT. You can use this immediately. If you haven't signed up, you should sign up like exactly.

I mean, I don't know how you're going to listen to the packets if you just listen to and not realize how valuable is to have this historical databases in your head. And sage allows you to have this on demand anytime you want. And so somebody there was in the private beta was testing stage as a bunch of people that existing to scribers of founders notes.

They were testing IT and he seme emails and founders chat all these other names that you have A I system. It's not actually is not of a good description of what you build and is like when you call stage. And then he sent me the the definition.

And when I think of sage, I think of truly monger. This is exactly what truly had in his mind. And so the sage has two main definitions.

It's a profoundly wise person, this supposed to someone with a deep understanding of life, accumulated knowledge and sound judgment, that is, every single person that you and I ve ever studied in the pot cast, except sage, allows you to do this with across hundreds of thousand of people they are often look to for guidance and advice. That's exactly why i'm reading these books, exactly why i'm making the podcast right. And then he says, say, is wise decision discerning or prun? This describes someone who shows good, judged and makes well considered decisions.

And so what page does right when you ask sage a question and all leave a list of the questions a bunch of people of intending me questions you've ask. They've got ten great responses, uh, from about the questions they have. They work like how do I find new customers? Questions of distribution, marketing, all kinds of different things that that you decisions you have to make in your career.

And so what i'm eventually going to do is a person al say, dry now is available. Founders, no, sam, go to founder and get IT OK now, eventually already realized. I called the one of the founders I read wise this week, because, like, sage needs to be its own APP.

We've gotten figure out away, but start building immediately. This one feature will be, it'll always be available founder notes, right? But I want this for myself. I wanted on my phone as an APP as I stand alone feature.

And so what sage does IT automatically, you asked a question, right? IT automatically searches every single highlight for every single book that ever over, every single note for every single book that every for the progress. IT searches every single transcript for every single episode of this podcast to give you the best thing as possible, which means sage searches every word i've ever udea on the podcast to help answer your question.

Every week i'm adding more notes, more highlights, more transcripts. I have so much more data on putting into this with the goals over time, just like currently know, took decades, right, to get to the historical databases in his head. Charly monger, took decades due that could be brand took to do in a pony.

sam. Zl, all these week I mentioned the pot test. sage. L, of every single person that uses IT to have that exact same, except for all of history's greatest treasure, urs, all the ones that have something on the podcast of all, and all the ones that I will ever study on the podcast over time.

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