It is 10 minutes after the hour of 1 AM on this a Tuesday, and I am now recording the podcast. I went on chat GPT and I said, Hey, you know me, I've been asking you all these questions. Tell me what you think my top five favorite movies are. You know, this thing is supposed to get to know you.
It's supposed to understand you. Let's see how it did. And this is a daily grateful. I am Michael, and I'm just trying to get my sound right here.
Hang on. There we go. All right, we're moving along. Yeah.
How well does your computer know you? Google seems to know an awful lot about you, but now they're saying that chat GPT is going to know you better. I don't know. I said, I went on chat GPT and said, okay, based on, you know, or knowing me like you have learned from my questions, please make a list of what you think are my five favorite movies.
So they made a list. The first one they said, the big short, never saw it. I kind of know what it's about. It says a movie about the financial crisis and political undertorn turn tones appealing to someone interested in political projects like Project 25.
I don't care about it. Okay. The social network. My son, Zachary's favorite movie.
It's all about how Facebook was created. And it's, you know, really he loves that movie. By the way, my favorite movie is not on this list. I just, spoiler alert, spoiler alert, I have tried to watch the social network on three different occasions and I get like 20 minutes into it and I am bored to tears and it's actually have you watched it.
You know I haven't. All right. Number three, the Florida project. Now we're kind of talking.
Have you ever seen this movie? It says, it's set in Florida with a deep look into a family dynamics of societal issues and it may resonate with you with your connection with Florida. Well, it kind of does because you know what the movie is about? The movie is about international drive in Orlando, which is a real place.
If you've ever come to Disney World, as my kids used to call it, Disney World, where if you've gone to a convention, you have been on international drive. There's nice parts of international drive. And there's weird, there's this giant, you know, merry-go-round, but there's a lot of weird crap and there's a lot of El Chippo motels and they went there and they filmed this movie in one of those motels. By the way, that motel is still there as a different name now, but it is exactly like it was.
It's about a mother and her little daughter living in the motel and all their friends and the kids hanging out on international drive. If you've ever been on international drive, you see the store that looks like a giant orange. That really exists. It's there.
I've been there. I have gone into that store. It shows these kids acting, you know, in there. The girl that plays the mom in this movie had never done a movie before, but she had all kinds of tattoos and she was, you know, she looked like she would live on international drive and with other people.
And she had friends and not only the motel she lived in, but the one next to it and I mean, all of that is real. It was, you know, we're going to move to Florida and start a new life and we have nothing to happen. You know, make this happen with. We don't have a job.
You know, we're moving to Florida and we're moving into this motel and there's a bunch of those motels. There's motels like that where I live. There's motels like that on Fort Harrison Avenue in Clearwater where people come and they pay by the week and these are filthy, roached, filled up motels that people are living in because they can't get an apartment because they don't have first, last, and security and a credit check. They don't have any of that.
But this movie follows a six year old named Mooney and her rebellious mother who's Haley in the movie. And it's really good. Who's the guy? William DeFoe plays the motel manager and it is just really an interesting movie.
I'm not going to say it's a pleasant movie, but it's an interesting, interesting movie. So so far on the list, there's one that I like. Next one, Moneyball. Never heard it.
Never even heard of it. A film about data driven strategies, innovations and baseball. No, no. And then number five, you got me on number five.
I love number five, The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. Is that his name? Yeah. Oh, man.
A product of television near future where they built this dome around a building. Or they built this dome around this little town that they created and everybody that lives in the town and works in the town are all actors, including Truman's parents, including Truman's wife, the only one who doesn't know that it's a TV show is Truman and it is totally fascinating. The woman that plays his wife and got pregnant by him and have, you know, all of this. She was an actor, all of them are actors.
And Truman is just trying to figure things out his best buddies there. And there's a lake, you know, the ocean is right there and you can't go beyond the ocean. That's because the ocean's in his television cameras hidden everywhere, following his every move. And it's a, you know, and here's what's interesting about it.
It was the most popular show on television, according to the movie. And in the end, he figured it out. He absolutely figured it out. He sat there and he looked that bus goes that same bus with the same people and he'd go by every, you know, and then he opened up a door in a store and a bunch of the actors were in like a backlot.
They're all back there smoking cigarettes and stuff. And you know, somebody shut the door on him real fast and he decided he was going to leave. He got in a boat and he left and oh, they made him terrified of the water when he was a kid. They had him almost drowned in the water.
So he was terrified of the water. So he knew not to go into the water and, but he got in a boat and he went in the water and he went to the other side and he ran into the wall and there was a stairway and he walked up the stairway and he opened the door to the outside world and the Truman show was over. Now then you, the next thing you see, the next, the very next thing you see is, and by the way, this made me think of this, you see everybody watching the Truman show and then it's over. The Truman show is done and it's shut down and everybody that you see all the people watching TV are changing channels.
Wow, just really good. I'm so grateful I saw it. But out of the five movies listed here, only one of them is actually my, one of my favorites and that would be the Truman show, although I did like the Florida project. And one of these days I'm going to watch the social network because I'm going to be forced to the things we do for our children.
I swear, but I will do it. I will, I will sit through it. I'd like I said, tried twice, maybe three times, can't get past the first 20 minutes. Yeah.
Yeah. All time favorite movie. Can you guess what it is? It was made by the way, any movie that Mike Nichols makes is an excellent movie because of the photography, because of the music, because of the actors that he gets.
And my favorite was a 1968 movie called the graduate. So what is your favorite movie? Or what are your top five favorite movies? I'm, you know, movies have evolved.
They don't shoot them on film anymore. They're all shot on digital. I have digital cameras. I could make a movie.
Holy cow. Yeah. Like, do you remember Mickey Rooney when he was, when he was a kid actor, he needed one of the things that him and Judy Garland would do, Hey, let's go do a show in the garage. You know, okay.
Yeah. Let's, let's go make a movie. I hope you're having a grateful day and I hope you have a terrific one. I have to write a newsletter yet.
I'm busy and it's now what time is it is one 20 in the morning. See you tomorrow.