Season 3 - Episode 4 - Nick Hopwood

Send us Fan MailIn Episode 4 of Season 3 Mike welcomes his all around solid (and financially savvy) friend Nick Hopwood onto the podcast to discuss travel mishaps around sporting events, a truly epic roaad trip to Miami, FL for the Orange Bowl and their favorite movies involving finance/the markets and why they're each amazing films.Follow the podcast on Twitter: @friendsofmikedEmail the podcast at [email protected] moments from the pod: 0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to S3E featuring Mike’s good friend Nick Hopwood.1:50: Mike then corrects some major errors from past episodes, including S3E2 featuring Nick Kacher (specifically about a wrestler left off of the guys’ best wrestlers list, the true inspiration behind one of Nick’s classic failed nicknames, where they guys actually DID eat on their way back from Miami (OH) as well as a mistake from S3E2.5 featuring Ryan Lewin.6:00: Mike then updates the listeners on a HUGE upcoming trip to London that was hugely helped plan by the amazing team at Wanderlark Travel (wanderlark.com) in Ann Arbor, MI.8:30: Mike welcomes Nick Hopwood into the virtual podcast studio.10:45: Nick then gives some background on himself and how he and his family recently moved to the fine city of Plymouth, MI and their new summer house in Pinckney, MI.13:40: Nick then gives the listeners what they want: a deep give about his career in building his own business in Peak Wealth Management (www.peakwm.com).16:20: Mike and Nick talk about how Nick also hosts his own podcast (The Retire WIth Confidence Podcast with Nick and Jim), which the Talking Friendship with Mike D podcast endorses as the TOP personal wealth podcast out there, as well as Peak Wealth’s sponsorship of leading University of Michigan sports fandom blog and podcast Mgoblog.19:00: Nick then talks about who his oldest friend is and what’s made that friendship tick all of that year (GRAUF!).21:30: The guys talk about the last time they saw each other in person which was in Madison, WI for Michigan’s drubbing of the Badgers and how Nick almost never made it out of Milwaukee for the game and then how he almost missed the Orange Bowl due to travel mishaps.29:00: Mike and Nick then trace the origins of their friendship like amateur anthropologists, including joining the legendary IM Flag Football Team and hanging out at Mike’s college house, the BC.33:02: The guys then discuss their epic road trip to Miami, FL to go to the 2000 Orange Bowl, just in time for the Willenium, including touching on Nick’s sweet Nextel cell phone, crashing in a bare bones apartment on hard tile floors, how they had no real set plans, being introduced to Roll Tide, partying with the band Blondie on South Beach on New Year’s Eve 1999, and the legend of of Richard “Rich” Grauf,  44:40: Mike and Nike talk about their feature film debut as actors in a classic, Oscar-nominated motion picture.47:50: The guys then each rank their top 3 favorite movies of all time revolving around the stock market/high finance.  48:30: Glengarry Glen Ross50:20: Boiler Room54:00: Wall Street57:20: The Big Short1:00:25: The Wolf of Wall Street1:03:00: Quicksilver1:06:05: Nick gives his key to a good friendship1:07:20: Mike takes Nick through the (not so) Rapid Fire segment, including talking about Nick’s favorite place to eat as a kid in Haslett, MI, favorite place to get late night food during undergrad at the University of Michigan, his all time favorite University of Michigan sports moment, and how he has a dream to take his family to Hopwood, England.1:09:50: Nick turns the tables on Mike and asks him about Mike’s former main nickname of Danny Boy.