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Universal Mind E2S12 Garvin and George explore robotic technologies, and in some universities, they've managed to implant a chip into the brain of an insect. Things do get a bit weird, with the Universe expanding and contracting as though God was playing with an accordion. This sets Garvin off on a merry dance, perceiving Chocolate Eclairs being unconsumed and the shop assistance buys the bun off...

Nineteen Eighty-Four S2E11 We can read our dreams and our thoughts. We can watch them as films on powerful cinematic screens with no budgetary restrictions. If you get a chip put into your head and think of all your fantasies, everything cut out you don't want. Learn new recordings, not saying too much about playing the game. Can this really help us to develop? By editing our thoughts, asking a fe...

Seal of Approval S2E10 We're on the journey, and this journey is going to be for the long haul. This is our “Going for Gold”. We’re going for the final journey. It’s still a long journey. It's still going to take us a fair bit of time to actually accomplish this. It could be a 10-year journey. It could be a 15-year journey. We are not young fellows anymore, but the great thing is, the experiences...

Ctrl+Alt+Del S2E09 George explains how a family unit was being monitored all the time constantly by a robot. It was out there and once they got their family to a certain point, the parents had served their purpose and were disposed of. This freaked Garvin out he wanted to have a new improve $6 million-man, woman, or anywhere in between as long as we can afford to build us.  

Burnout S2E08 Be careful you don't get burned out.  In this episode, we talk about burnout that can come from work, where we start off being very enthusiastic about what we're doing, and we become so focused that we forget about other things. Yet if we keep on doing this massive workload, there's an expectation that will keep on doing it, and eventually we can get burnt out. We can get depressed....

Warp Factor 2 S2E07 This episode has Garvin and George evaluating the last two years of effort and start to rev up the engine fuelled by their enthusiasm. There comes a time when you start to question everything you have been doing. Two years of hard graft and what's it all about? When you stop listening to the chatter box inside your head that is constantly running you down then you begin to real...

Keeping Focused S2E06 It's the start of 2021. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. The time of year everybody comes up with new goals and objectives, their plans for the coming year. As a new beginning we want to achieve what we didn’t last year. However, it can be different deciding what to do. Lose some weight? Make some money? Make new friends and influence people? Conquered t...

Insane in the Membrane S2E05 We are in awe of being in our own universe creating new baby universes. That's the journey we are going on, and for Garvin, it doesn't sound like accountancy. George gets flustered over what 'Insane in the Membrane' is all about. The conversation then steers towards Mike Oldfield with 'Tubular Bells' and Cliff Richard on a 'Summer Holiday'. This leads to us opening our...

Keep on going! S2E04 Nothing is going to be the same. Each day brings a new experience, different problems. Garvin talks about buy value and not fluff. George motors on about 'Fiddler's Walk' sharing the importance of just motoring on, and how everything seems to just fall into place. The lads realise they have reached a similar point. The engine is going signalling the journey begins all we have...

The Avatar S2E03 We get all philosophical chatting about "if this was it and you died tomorrow would you have been happy?" Garvin said he enjoyed what we've done over the last year. George talks about living through the experience of the course and films we are about to do. He also got to build an avatar of Garvin, who breakdances in the video version of this podcast. We then discuss the importanc...

Make it Real S2E02 Garvin Burke and I are starting to meet producers, directors, and other film industry professionals to talk about the Film Production Academy, making it real. The juices are really flowing but we're attempting to keep it all 'PG'. We get caught up in the word 'Pod' leading to a brief discussion on dolphins, killer whales, and sharks. Drawing us in on a reflection of our reasons...

Resilience S2E01 In this episode, Garvin and I talk about resilience. About how to make sure that you can keep yourself going. And the best way to do that is in collaboration with a partner who can help bolster you when things get tough. We talk about discovering how to focus on the areas to move forward. And how the unimportant things that make you wain should be kicked out. The main focus should...

Review S1E53 This episode is the second of two parts reviewing the first 51 episodes. Our conversation was about something that came up in our minds and we went through all that the emotion that had built, in the stresses and anxieties for something that does not exist. Garvin expresses his fear of being stuck in Groundhog Day. We have the courage now to recognise our fears and put them behind us....

Review S1E52 This episode is the first of two parts reviewing the first 51 episodes. Our conversation was about something that came up in our minds and we went through all that the emotion that had built, in the stresses and anxieties for something that does not exist. Garvin expresses his fear of being stuck in Groundhog Day. We have the courage now to recognise our fears and put them behind us....

Area 51 - What's there? What's not? An "Unusual Forced Offering" some might say. Or is it that "Alien" a subject?   Garvin and I do a virtual tour of Area 51, with some of the wacky ideas that we have formulated. Like going through time in different directions, remembering past experiences, and then remembering future experiences to draw ourselves closer and closer. Garvin realises he is not the p...

Any Road Will Do S1E50 We may not know what path or what road we want to take, but we are not too scared to just go. We can randomly pick one and see what happens. Then we may change if we need to. If it is not the right path and it is taking us away from where we wanted to go. Then we can swap over, take a trunk road, go up and down a side lane until we get on to the right track. None of us know...

Show Me The Money S1E45 In this episode, Garvin and I talk about understanding your target audience so that you can build up a relationship with them. Then you will be able to understand what they want, what their needs are, and why they will engage with you. And if you are a writer, what they want is to watch the stories that you are telling, and that's why you need to understand your target audi...

Inspiration S1E48 “Someone has to win the day, but not necessarily the war,” remarks Garvin. “We keep on fighting the war because if we don’t, we're dead.” Garvin sees conversations as battles, ones full of entertainment, information, and education. All through meeting new people. This is the inspiration, and we are planning the future looking for the next person to join us and win them over. And...

Once in a lifetime. S1E47 This could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So, understand the person before you go to pitch to them. Then if you know what they want, you will probably get more out of them than you would if you just going very, very cold. “Is it still there with you, Garvin?” “I've no plug to power it, but what if the camera still doing?” “Is the camera still going?” “ Yeah, well it...

Be The Leader - Others Will Follow S1E46 We are driven but we might get burned out. It's not because we're not turning upon us, or because we don't believe, and it's not because we don't have a dream or vision. It's actually the dream is getting bigger, the visions getting bigger. We need to narrow it down and decide what's achievable with the resource to hand. Can we get someone else to value the...

The Third Person. In this episode, Gavin and I talk about how we are expanding and part of what we have been talking about is the relationship we have been building up. And we feel a bit of anticipation because we are looking at the potential of having a third person join our little team. Part of that process is developing the relationship with them and how to build up connections in the work, to...

Kettle of Fish - #FILMACADEMY #FILMSCHOOL #PODCASTSHOW Kettle of Fish S1E44 I think what's coming out of everything at the moment is that it is when you do have a chance to sit back and cool down, knowing you can't rush ahead like you once did. Then you suddenly realise: “Actually, life isn't as bad as we thought it was. There's a lot of really good stuff going on. And this is an opportunity to re...

K.I.S.S. S1E43 There are trucks, planes, trains, and automobiles, and staff, stock, and data all out there for you to have that little package come in the door. Remember, simplicity is highly complex so don’t undervalue based on what you're hearing about your perception of it. If we go back to what we started off with, we had a little saying that Garvin was talking about which is generating the id...

Forty-Two = 6 x 9 (Base 13) S1E42 If you own a supercomputer? Turn it on. Learn how to code is and basically use your power to make real your life. Most of us construct a world that we want to live in. Whether it's for good or for bad or, but we end up being the ones that construct it based on the information that we have gathered. What we often don’t realise is that we can change that construct a...

What's in the Cookie Jar - Life Self Business Coaching for the Over Forties What lifestyles do you want that will print money? Garvin attempts to contextualize the art of scriptwriting and how backstories are often missed. He was struggling to picture the scene confusing a castle with the Death Star. George got stuck on Anglo-Saxon names that were peppered with Europeans. Garvin gasped at all the...