Movie Reviews, Fire Trucks, and Transcribing Life

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, welcome back to the MilesPaf cast, the flagship podcast of Survivor Audition Tapes. It's that time of year again. I applied last year, I haven't ended this year, it's on the two-do list. But it's time of year where they're starting to root like cast for the next season. They record their seasons in like May and June, so like it's the fall where they start really going through all the tapes that they've received throughout the whole year. Like it's something that I couldn't apply early in the year, but like this is the time where they're gonna filter through everything, reset their hopper, and go through it. I think I'm gonna do it again. I feel like there's a little bit less pressure on it this time, like I've applied once, and obviously here I am, didn't work out, didn't get a call back or anything, and that's, I'm sure the way it goes for many, many, many people. But looking back, the things that I've kind of learned. So let me start, what they really want. Like I saw like a little video on it, for whatever reason it got, I've seen now several times. There's this video of like one of the main guys talking about how they, what they want from the video. And one of the big things is they want, you know, to see that you're a good storyteller, and they want you to obviously be yourself, and they want somebody engaging, and somebody fun to talk to, and obviously they want, like videos that are gonna stand out. When you apply, I forget what it is. I can't, I think it must be like a 90 second video, because three minutes seems like a really long time. But anyways, it's like a short video, and they give you like some criteria to cover. Like I remember it last year saying, it's like, talk about who you are, and where you're from, and how that's gonna help you win, and your job, and how that might influence how you interact with others. It actually was kind of detailed, and I remember like looking at it, and looking back, I think I took it to, seriously, 'cause I felt like I had to hit all of these different points, and I don't think that's the case. I'm not sure that's not the case, 'cause they, they're just trying to see who you are in that very brief period, and it's not like they're going through with like a rubric and saying, oh, he checked this box, he checked this box. Oh, they didn't talk about where they're from, and how that's gonna help them win, or they only hit that halfway point. Oh, he's out. That's not how they do that. I think just more about kind of capturing the big picture of it. And I think they, you know, watching the show, it's pretty clear, rather than bad. They want people who are gonna go out and it's like, I'm gonna win, like, suit people who are so, super confident, and that's always been like a pet peeve of mine, is like, like, how about a little humility here and there? But you know, that's not what they want. It's a game show, obviously, and I think I need to tone back like the humility a little bit and just be a little bit more overconfidence, like, just be more straightforward. Like, this is why I'm gonna win. Like, this is what I've got going for me. Again, I have no plan for a video yet. Like, I'd have to think about it, what I'm gonna say. But still, like, you wanna bring in, you know, past experiences and you wanna say who, where you're from and who you are, and maybe to some degree what you do. But I feel like I was a little bit too, I stuck to the script way too much. Not the literal script, I did not write a script. That's not what they want, and I feel like it's very clear when someone does something with a script, having been through a lot of school projects and seeing people speaking from the class of the script, that's not what I did. But I stuck too close like what the criteria was, and I think it's just more about going out and, you know, saying why you think you're gonna win, and being very much less humble in that regard, and, you know, just being to the point. I think if I try to get in, like, that'll be the goal, is just being more straightforward, more of a confident and trying to find things that make me unique and be engaging and be myself, and all that good stuff. And try to be good storyteller in the very, very short period of time. The other weird thing that I ran into last time when I recorded the video was you have to be within like a certain bounds of like the file size, and I have to look up how people do this, which it seems obvious now looking back. I'm sure there's some rid of board about this, but like I had to put my video, which I just recorded, like on the front camera of my phone, like I had to put it through a file compressor, and it made the video look horrible, which probably didn't help either. But I got to figure out how people do that in a way, like in this day and age where phone cameras have, you know, certain resolutions, and it comes with a certain file size, and that makes it impossible to upload these things to their specific site. I gotta figure that part out too. And also I was thinking about it. You know what, like what kind of player that I would be as far as like survivor goes? And obviously, especially like with all of my patients watch, like if I was going to show, you wanna be the guy that's, you know, the nice guy, he's not gonna backstab, he's gonna be straightforward and honorable, like Joe or like coach. But at the same time, like you've realized, like that's not the way to play this game. Like you're just not gonna win. I think that was on rhyme display last time when, you know, Joe tried to take it to the end and guess what? He had no street cred at that point when he was up for the final three votes. So I kinda look at it as like a game of Uno. And I feel like, you know, let's go crazy here. Like let's say I get on the show. And again, I work in a job where I have like a lot of kids watching me and all my patients and all my families. And the last thing you wanna do is go look horrible on TV with lying and backstabbing. But at the same time again, it's a game. And I describe it to like a game of Uno. Like when you play Uno, you're not hanging on to your, which we play Uno five, six times a day easily. When you play Uno, you're not hanging on to your draw twos because you wanna be the nice guy and honorable. You're not hanging on to your wild draw for words. You're playing a game. And when you're playing a game, that's the whole point. It's like you are now in a different person. You can act according to different rules that are as per the game. And at the end of the day, that's what it is. So I think if I was to play, it'd be more like a Jonathan player. Some guy who goes on, you try and like play it, you try and be the good guy, you try and play by the rules. But at the same time, you gotta be adaptable. And you gotta be willing to backstab and to play the game and to be strategic. And just like in Uno, that's when you're playing the game, you are allowed to be this different kind of person. And that's following the rules of the game in order to win. And that's cool. And that's, I don't know why, how I got down this path. But I remember thinking about that day, but in English, I remember thinking about that the other day when playing Uno. It's like, oh, this is just like a survivor. It's fine to go into the show wanting to be honorable and straight up guy like Joe was. But at the same time, like you're playing a game, it's okay to break all those social rules and to be maybe even a bad guy in some cases because you're playing a game. And that is what makes survivor awesome. Anyways, new season starts in like a month and a half, mid September. I think they take like applications throughout the rest of the year. So at some point, I'll have to figure out how to do that if it's what I wanna go through with. But I don't know, it's fun. I think it'd be so cool to be on that show just to do all the challenges and to be, you know, somewhere out remote, like in the beautiful beaches of Fiji, it just seems like a really cool time. Handle does not think so. Every time, every time Jess, like, hey, fly to the show, she's like, nope, but I think it'd be awesome. I think it'd be so cool to do that kind of stuff. All right, anyway, stay in the show. Tell me something good. We got our movie review, Spider-Man, Spoiler Alert. It was awesome. I owe you one for some that's long overdue. This is my, the I owe you one's from several years ago. And then Sean's What Are You Into, which is a very hippocritical, Sean's What Are You Into in a way, but we'll get to that. Anyways, tell me something good. The movie review, Spider-Man, I saw it last week. I saw it on Friday. Oh, it was awesome. It's become the number one grossing movie in the history of movies. Like it's somehow not only got to end games level, but surpassed it by a couple million bucks. And it's now the number one movie of all time. At least domestically. If you look at the global box office, it missed an end game by a couple million, I think, or a couple hundred million, something like that. But biggest domestically opening weekend, 360 million, which is just insane. But it was deserving of it. Which it's funny because in a world, like I listen to podcasts about this stuff, just nerdy nerdy podcasts. But like there's all this like talk of superhero fatigue because there's been so many superhero movies. And like Super Girl came out several months ago and it did horrible. And they're like, oh, it's just a symptom. Like Marvel movies, they haven't been making much lately. And then all sudden Spider-Man comes in. And it blows everything else out of the water. And it's awesome. But I think the biggest thing to do was that was so cool. And Marvel's been doing this much more lately. I feel like it was also the case with the new Avengers. What was that? Thunderbolts. Is it's not like the typical superhero movie. Like, you know, there's always, you're going back all of their 20s and on movies and shows. Like there's always like one main bad guy. And the script of a superhero movie is it's the good guy goes up against a bad guy who's kind of like a mere negative reflection of them and they learn their faults. But then they learn how to grow and their character arc develops and then they somehow then overcome the bad guy. And that's the third act. And there's a big battle scene and that is that. And then everyone goes off and does their own thing. Spider-Man broke that mold. Just kind of like Thunderbolts said. Thunderbolts was an awesome movie as well. But it's there wasn't like one specific like main bad guy. Like even like watching it like I realized thinking back on it because I thought about it a lot. Like the best parts of the movie had nothing to do with the fighting and had nothing to do with the bad guys. I mean it was awesome seeing Spider-Man do his stuff and being a suit. But the best parts of the movie were not that. Like there were several times where like it seemed like the theater just held its breath. Like not a single person breathe because it was just dead silence in that theater during I think like two or three parts of the movie that were just awesome. Like it was so cool to watch that and to experience that. And again these parts had nothing to do with the fighting. It was all about like the characters and their interactions and Spider-Man and MJ and just the way that it developed and the way the movie was like you can see what it did so well and why it's got such great reviews is because it broke that mold. It was awesome. Punisher was in it. He John Burnthal. That's something like that you would you put like if you were to draw like a perfect movie like that should be so cool like put those two characters together. Not only did they do that but they did it in a way that just worked flawlessly. Like if you watch the Punisher but it's like an ultra violent puns of cuss words kind of guy show and you mix that in with Spider-Man who's like the perfect nice guy and the the chemistry was was awesome. Like that was fantastic. There was several spots where like I was next to like spoiler alert there was a lot of a lot of guys in the theater. I think looking at the numbers, it was like a 60/40 split with guys who tended to this movie surprising, not at all. And I got misty eyed, but I know the guy next to me was crying, there was spots where it was powerful and it was just, and it was a good movie. It was a good movie that kind of broke the superhero mold. It was a little bit different in kind of different ways. The characters in that movie were fantastic. It was really, really well done. It was a movie, it reminded me of the Dark Knight, actually, where you think the movie's over and all of a sudden there's another third act that kind of comes into play. I don't know, it was really well done. Tom Holland, excellent Spider-Man, having the Punisher in there was a perfect choice. Hulk was great as well, but between all those guys and just like kind of what happens at the very end of the movie, it's just, it's one of those things where it's like, I can't believe they did that and they did it and it was awesome. And they did it so, so well. So highly recommend Spider-Man, if you're one of the few that have not seen it yet, it's worth seeing. And it was awesome. Another note, when I go to these movies, I always go to the Dolby Theater downtown at the AMC because they have excellent sound, the screen's super crisp and really beautifully done, the colors are great. And only the IMAX, because the IMAX seating is horrible. They have an IMAX, which I don't think is a true IMAX, but it's a super big screen obviously. And the chairs are not, they're really close together, I don't think they recline. So I never go to the IMAX version at the AMC, I always go to the Dolby. And I always sit like in the, it's like the fourth row, but the way that it's like stadium seating, it's not that close, but it's closer. When I went to this movie, I changed the time that I was going, and I took the last seat in the theater at this point when I changed it. And it was like the second row from the top. And I realized, I don't like that at all, because it made the screen look smaller, obviously because you're further away and you're higher up, I like looking up at a screen from a closer distance so it seems bigger. I don't know, that was just me, it was one of the things I noticed, but, oh, awesome movie, highly recommend. The I/O you won. ♪ You know who you are, yeah, who you won ♪ I got two here. One of them's kind of like collateral. We were out swimming at the lake the other day, and Gabby's wearing her swimsuit without a diaper, and you used your imagination as to what happened. Lori, I owe you one. I didn't have to clean that up, and grateful for that. So I'm gonna use this podcast as collateral to broadcast the thank you for that, 'cause I got me out of a very gross situation, a very sticky situation, all the wrong ways. But also, the more I owe you one, I don't think I've ever talked about this on the podcast before. Obviously, it's fire season, and it is rattled spokane in the last week. The number of stories that I've seen, and just in my job, I've already had several patients that have been evacuated and have, may or may not have lost their house. It's crazy. And I've realized that you can't possibly overreact these situations the other day, on Saturday when it was all happening. We're all out of the lake, and handle left, because one of her friends was gonna have, she had a lot of pets, and she wasn't home, and they had to rescue the pets, and it was way out of her, Kendall's way, but it's like, hey, I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna see what I can do. And you're thinking about, that's exactly what you have to do. You cannot possibly overreact these situations. You can't go, and it's like, oh, that was silly. I shouldn't have gone, the fire never got close. You can't overreact these things. And Case in Point, a couple of years ago, I actually just found the picture, 'cause I took a picture of it, 'cause we had just come back from the 4th of July, and there was big, big fires. It wasn't the big fires in Chini that were crazy two or three years ago, it was the ones like a year before that, 'cause we had a string of them. And the fire was like three miles from her house, like you could see where the flames were at. And I obviously took to the family, and we were like packing everything up. It was the first time, we've been back in it twice. This was the first time. So like we had the cats in the cat carriers, and we were trying to get everything out of the house, which, early idea that people have else now, like, oh, it relies, and I don't think it's, it doesn't now seem as brilliant as it was, but like we took a video with our phones of everything in the house, just in case, you know, God forbid something did happen. We could have that for insurance purposes, or at least our mind is what we had. Anyways, Garrett and Dad brought up a giant Peter Belt water truck. You know, a full, full blown Peter Belt, giant water tank on the back. And I'm looking at the picture right now, if it just like backed into our driveway. And that's, that was a long way out of their way. It was an hour out of their way to go out. It was a Sunday night at, I'm looking at this picture at like five o'clock, and they drove this thing up, and then obviously had to ride back together. So it was like a two hour thing, and incredibly appreciative, 'cause that like we drenched our house with this thing, and if a fire had even come close, like we would have soaked the neighborhood and hopefully have saved everything. But again, it's kind of the same situation. It's like you can't possibly overreact. Yeah, is there a chance the fire's gonna get your house? Of course, is there a better chance that it's not? Yeah, hopefully, but at the same time, like there's no point in taking that risk. There's no like what answer looking back? You gotta go all out for this kind of thing, because I think there's a lot of people right out there right now who would tell you that exact same thing because they did lose everything. And the IOU1 to get in dad for bringing up that water truck, luckily it never had to be used. We did give our house an incredible bath that day. Like everything was absolutely soaked just in case, we were ready for it if ever got close. Like we were gonna absolutely flood the neighborhood because it tank on this thing is huge, and it can spray a long, long ways. But that was awesome. And I'll never forget it, and I can have in this picture like pulled up on my screen. Like it was just nice to have that. And it looked, it just gives you like that level of reassurance that hey, the rest of the neighborhood might be gone, but at the very least we can save our house because we're fortunate enough to have the ability to do that. There's just been so many stories of that. Very, very similar. The same family that Kendall went and got their pets. Like they were gonna be fine for a while, and then all of a sudden, like the fire kind of flared back up again, a big insor house, and I should have talked to her about the story. I think so like their friends, like the husband's a cop, and like their friend was also a cop, and like he was there, and he was like trying to like protect their house with the hose or water, or whatever it may be. And he sent them like one last picture with a picture of the fire like really close. And he's like, "Hey, I did everything I could. I can't get it out. I've got to get out of here. We did our best." And then like everything kind of went, they went radio silence, and they're of course evacuated, and they're assuming the worst because this guy tried to save their house, couldn't do it, fires right there. And then they get a text that all of a sudden, like out of nowhere. Some guy who probably shouldn't have been in the area of the bulldozer was in the area of the bulldozer, it's like bulldozing lines around the fire to like block it. And he saved their house because he took his bulldozer and he bulldozed the giant line and stopped the fire and saved everything. Is that kind of a Disney movie, I guess? Like last minute, here comes a bulldozer. It's like someone summoned it and there it was. And I don't know, that kind of thing also reminds me of like when there's fires down in women county, like a couple of years ago there's a giant fire that we were able to contain up at Farmington out in the field. I talked about it. I think last week on the Harvest Podcast actually. But when that kind of thing happens, like all the farmers, they all put down exactly what they're doing. Like they're all harvesting, but they all park their combines and everyone gets in their tractor. And if it's close enough, they're out lowing with their tractors and doing everything they can do to block the flames. Like it's all hands on deck. And it doesn't matter if you're sacrificing your own time or going to someone else's spot to help them out. Like that's what people do. Like they rally around it. And that's so, so cool. Like that's, that's, it's those kind of people that, hey, hats off to you. I know you want as well, but especially to get in dad for bringing that water truck up. And we weren't a good spot. It would have saved us to say a least. And hopefully it never happens again. Hopefully the smell goes away. We'll be talking about this because it seems like this is becoming like a yearly occurrence. We're getting so dry. All right. Anyways, on to the next. Sean's, what are you into? - All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing that you didn't know Miles was obsessed with. Buckle up, it's time for Sean's, what are you into? - This, this is a little hypocritical because it has to do kind of with AI. And I'm not a fan of all of AI. Data centers, I'm out on with everyone buying up all the RAM to make their data centers, to make everything more expensive. I mean, Nintendo's raise their prices, PlayStation's raise their prices, Xbox's raise their prices. Every kind of piece of equipment is becoming more expensive, phones and laptops, Apple's had to raise their prices. Like everything is just getting more expensive for something that a lot of people aren't even a fan of. And it's all of these companies, like you gotta go balls to the wall, so you're not beat on this thing, but at the same time, it's destroying a lot of stuff and making things more expensive. And like all for like the AI pictures, like no one likes those. Like the fact that now you can't like trust like any picture on the internet right now sucks. Like there might be like, like a National Geographic photographer getting this beautiful picture of like Africa and giraffes. And now you're gonna question like, is that real or did like AI make that? It sucks that it takes that away. And it's just AI slop. Same thing with videos, like all the videos like, who do people like love that stuff? Like am I missing it? Like do people like love just like watching like fake made up videos? 'Cause no longer can you see like a puppy saving a baby. Like you're gonna see that you're like, oh that's fake, that was AI. Or at least, I mean, I'm assuming that's the case, because it's just, it's one of those things you can't trust anything now. And it sucks like, and none of that stuff's like all that good at quality, you can always kind of tell. Every time I get like a message that's done, or like an email that you can tell is like, creative through a May I and like, you can just go into pan gram and you can track it. And it's like, oh, this is fake. And it's like, oh, it's same so in genuine. (coughs) I don't know, not a big fan of it. But, with like the new assistant. So like, Gemini or in my case, Siri, like the new Apple, I download the new beta for the new software. Where like my phone and from my laptop. And it's really cool. Like, AI actually makes these things better. And that's kind of nice. Again, being very, very hypocritical here. Hate it for everybody else's purposes, but love it for this purpose. And what I've been doing is I, so the way that the new beta works is like, it has the ability to read your context. Like it goes through and it indexes like all your texts and it indexes all your emails and it indexes all your notes. And it creates like this little personal database that you can access. So like right now I could type in, to Siri or talk to an asker like, what do I like to eat? Or like, what does Kendall like to eat? Or what does Kendall like to drink? I actually asked that just to, or what do my wife like to drink? And it's like, your wife likes to drink red wine and margaritas and every now and then, like it was white wine or something 'cause it pulled up like a specific text where she said that. And so cool that it has that ability to like find these different things in your life. And then you can use that for like, what should I make for dinner tonight? And it's gonna drop all this like personal context and it's gonna create something out of that. Or you could ask it like, hey, what is my, like what is my flight time for my trip that's coming up in October when I do the Grand Canyon run? And it's gonna find that, it's gonna find, everything's gonna go search for it. Kind of cool. So I thought it was like, what if I give it more data? Like all these AI companies, like they're always trying to like teach their things more and get more and more data to do more and more of that educate. I can't think of the word for it right now. What do they, they're doing something with it. Like training data, they're training it. I'm like, what if I get more like to train mine? So what I've been doing is I found like this site that I can like type in the like shared link to my podcast and it'll transcribe episodes because it is shockingly difficult to find like transcriptions of full episodes so you can totally copy and paste. Like Spotify, they say they do it, but it's certain settings that I don't have access to. And like the Apple Podcast one, you can like copy 200 words for whatever reason and it's always time. So what I've been doing is I found this one website and this is what I meant to. Like it's podcast transcription. I should actually like here. Let me, well, it doesn't matter. It's a transcription website. I'm not having a give them their due. Oh, here we go. It is podcast transcript AI. So what I do is like I type in the link or I copy and paste the link to like a shared version of my podcast. For this one when it goes out, I can like share the link and I can post it or paste it into this like box and then it's like, all right, you are third in the queue and you got four hours to wait. And in four hours it'll email me. Like the full transcript of the episode and I'll copy and paste that like into my notes app. And I've done this for like the last, since episode 100, it's like 20 episodes now that are now all in my notes app like transcribed. Just to give it like more information. So like when I ask, you know, a serious question, it can like pull up on all this data because a lot of my life is poured into this podcast and it's a lot of information that might not otherwise be found. So I'm like, I'll be cool. I like to give it that information just to have access to. And so I'll confidential like Apple prides itself on super high security and like this doesn't get shared, which is awesome. But I have all, which doesn't make a difference 'cause these podcasts are free to access. So it doesn't matter. But anyways, it now has all this data like this, it's thousands upon thousands upon thousands of words. Like each podcast is, oh, let's see, hang on. My last podcast was yeah, over 5,000 words. And I have like 20 episodes. So I have like 100,000 words of information about my life now like posted into my notes app under the YouTube individual episode. So now like I'm gonna ask you this stuff. Now it has a lot of data about me and about my life. So when I ask it inference questions are like what, again, the simple one is like, what should I make for dinner? It can pull up on a ton of data and it's like, hey, you could make this because you talked about how you liked this or you wanted to try this kind of thing. I don't know, it just seemed cool to train it with more and more data, which again, I'll probably never even use like this is just something that I was excited about and it's something that I'll never come to pass or be more of like a party trick than anything. But it just seemed cool to give it more data because if it can do this kind of thing and maybe it can pull up some cool information or for what of a reason I forget what my wife likes to drink and I can't even hazard a guess, now I'll know. Anyways, very, very hypocritical because again, not a fan of AI, but here we are. Thank you all for listening for whatever that whole thing was. I appreciate it. It means the world to me you guys listen to this. It's always fun to do. Emmy Gabby Soundbite on the way out. Happy Harvest, go away fires, go mariners. And I will talk to y'all next week. Bye. I love you, Gabby.