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Going for Zero
by Rhett Weller
Thoughts on pop culture, movies, TV, music, sports, technology, business, life, and whatever. Doing something for the fun of it.
Episodes
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034: Covid with special guest Jon Madsen
We were going to discuss movie songs but talked about podcasts, COVID, what this will change, TV and movies, and how all of the home broadcasts could be so much better with just a little bit of work. Send us comments on Twitter @rhettweller and @rexbasior Donate to the United Way COVID relief.
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032: Personal Finance - Emotional with Special Guest Michael Perrone
Michael is a good friend from business school days and he recently published the book "Money Master: How to Stop Worrying and Finally Succeed with Money". We talk about his book and the emotional side of personal finance. It's more than just math! You can also check out his website...
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031: Movies during Christmas and Scott's Birthday
Scott had a big birthday this year so we watched some of his films at a local movie theater. I took the opportunity to record some friends talking about their favorite movies to watch during the holidays. Includes lots of movie trailers. Donate to The Road Home
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030: The Lost Episode with Special Guest jon madsen
The lost episode recorded while the podcast was on hiatus. Topics include: HQ Trivia Subscription models and unit economics The downfall of Moviepass Why we still can't get all the movies we want jon's jokes jon on Mutual aka Mormon Tinder (this part is long and ends at the 1hr 28 min mark)…
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029: Super Bowl Prop Game with Special Guest Joe Evans
The annual Super Bowl prop game is now a podcast. Joe and I go through the fun game for all ages you can play at your Super Bowl party. Categories include: Coin toss - who wins and is it head or tails The color of Pink's hair Will there be a safety Will Justin Timberlake cover a Prince song (and...
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028: Airing of Grievances with Special Guest jon Madsen
Jon is back for to discuss his annual airing of grievances. The blog post can be found here. In the first 10 minutes, we rank coins. Then we air the grievances. Sample of items grieved: Bathroom etiquette Keyboard layout Earphones Twitter Breakfast potatoes Shipping Ignorance Socks Merry…
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027: A Christmas Vacation with the Last Jedi Phil "the imperial" Walker (and jon)
Phil "the imperial" Walker and jon "Oreg Ano" join the podcast for late night discussion about bitcoin, Christmas Vacation (film), comedy, and The Last Jedi. 0-23 min: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency, some Twitter talk 23 min to 1hr 37min: Phil hates th movie Christmas Vacation *gasp*! A really...
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026: The Lost Episode with Special Guest jon madsen
Jon is back to discuss advertising, net neutrality, WWII, competition, and TV shows (Is Stranger Things overrated? A bit, but that's ok.) Note: A sizable portion of this episode was cut due to tone deafness. Links: A Night at the Garden - 20,000 Nazi's gathered at the Garden in NYC in 1939. It's…
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025: "That's right! Ice...man. I am dangerous." with special Guess Jon, Scott, and Joe
Have you ever wanted to fly into the danger zone? Buzz the tower? Going mach 2 with your hair on fire? Jon "Bud", Scott "Swits", and Joe "Beaver" join the podcast to review the Oscar Award winning film Top Gun. Includes a scene by scene breakdown and tidbits such as: Best song Best line Best...
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024: All Sports Stuff (and some Politics) with Special Guess Joe Evans
Joe and Rhett talk catch up on BYU football, NBA vs NFL, and some politics. Feel free to skip anything :) 0-14 min: Joe's genius talent show gimmick 14-36 min: BYU football. Worst. Season. Ever. 36-1hr 7 min: NBA vs the NFL. 1:07: Politics (the great overshadower)
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023: Hashtag Rhett with Special Guest Lewis Gunter
Lewis Gunter finally joined an episode to give his opinions on: 6 min: Rhett's Twitter battle with University of Utah football fans. He is now a hashtag 25 min: Vidangel and the future of TV. Hallmark Christmas movies are awesome. Bundling economics. 1 hour: Crypto currencies - is this a bubble...
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022: Still Not your Parents' Podcast with Special Guest Nathan Tanner
Nathan was kind enough to come back on the podcast to discuss his latest article, sports, HR, and the Bay Area. 5:30 Why watch baseball? Is it a game or a sport? (editor: a game) 11:00 NBA and Utah Jazz talk 18:00 NFL and Steve Young's biography (Nathan recommends) 20:00 The Lakers, Lonzo, and...
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021: Two Songs with Special Guest Jon Madsen
Jon and Rhett review 2 songs. This takes an hour and a half. The idea was to pick 1 song each and do a deep dive on that song. The first 15 minutes is just small talk. At the 17 minute mark, Jon introduces Rhett's song of choice (hint: it came out in 1997). At the 51 minute mark, Rhett introduces...
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020: NBA Season Wrap Up with Special Guests Brandon and Dan
Brandon Rodriguez and Dan Gould join the pod to talk about the NBA season. It's all basketball talk (except for the story about Mario Lemieux). Topics: 0:05:30 Season in review. Warriors KD's team now? 0:12:00 The KD haters are wrong 0:21:00 Lebron or KD? 0:23:00 MJ or Lebron? 0:32:00 Will Lebron...
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019: Boring and Pretentious with Special Guests Zo and Jon
Zo and Jon are back for what is probably the longest and most boring episode you will ever hear. Seriously, feel free to skip this one. Zo was mad about the 80s movie episode and wanted a rebuttal opportunity. He says things like "I'm partial to..." and "it's a derivative work" (ok that may have...
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018: The Fringe Millennial with Special Guest Jared Williams
Jared Williams is a senior at Cal Poly and all round good guy. He joins the podcast to give his thoughts as a "fringe millennial" on a variety of topics. 0-10 min Introductions, serving a LDS mission in South America, Chilean soccer stories 10 min Video conferencing gaffes 15 min LDS or LSD?…
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017: Favorite 1980's Movies with Special Guest Jon Madsen
Jon is back (from the future?) to pick favorite movies from every year between 1977 and 1989. A small sample of movies to chose from: The Empire Strikes Back vs Flash Gordon Ghostbusters vs 16 Candles vs Footloose Fletch vs Goonies vs The Breakfast Club Top Gun vs Three Amigos! vs Ferris…
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016: Pollo Loco is Healthy Taco Bell - The Fast Food Iconics with Special Guests Alexis, Paul, and Brandon
Paul and Brandon return with first time guest Alexis to hand out GFZ Iconic Awards for fast food. Categories include awards for the most iconic: Burger Fries Taco Pizza Chinese Chicken sandwich Sauce Mall food Bacon I'd rather starve than _____ Which restaurant would you choose if you had to eat...
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015: The 2017 Oscar Preview with Jon Madsen
Every year, Jon hosts the best Oscar party with an accompanying game. Listen to his picks for each category (of course he picks a Star Trek movie to win one) and his tentative foods for each best picture nominee. There is also some rapid fire TV talk. 0 min - Jon's comic book 7 min - Star Trek…
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014: The Emperor is Naked! with Special Guest Maria Merrill
This was a tough one, but had to be done. The great "overshadower" is discussed at length. Many thanks to Maria for being such an awesome guest. She'll be back on to talk about a more fun topic at some point. 7 min: Why NYC is meh. 12 min: The great "overshadower" Donald J Trump. 20 min: Degree…
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013: Superbowl 51 - Most People Would Give Up with Special Guest Joe Evans
Joe is a huge NFL fan so this episode recaps the Superbowl 51. There are also some fun stories from when he worked for the Baltimore Ravens for a year. 0:01 Joe goes to Sundance and asks Brittany Snow a question. 0:10 Superbowl 51 - The greatest comeback ever! The Edelman catch. 0:20 Not a choke...
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012: I Watched It Last Night with Special Guest Zo
Zo (he only has one name like Madonna or Cher) joins the podcast to discuss Fast and the Furious, Xander Cage, 80s action stars, old movies and why they are good (Editors note: they suck), and the top action movies of the 80s. At the 1:10 mark, the discussion changes to "top albums of your teen...
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011: Airing of Grievances with Special Guest Jon Madsen
Jon is back to air out his end of year grievances. Grievances include (but not limited to): parking garages, The Bachelor (aka the modern day gladiators), Shish kabobs, Christmas movies, the Russian complaint department, tribalism, people complaining about comic book movies, and work. This was a...
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010: PAC 12 Participation Trophy with Special Guest Brandon Woolsey
Brandon joins Rhett to talk sports. Mostly college football as Brandon is a ute fan. Topics include: the rivalry game, BYU quarterbacks, punters (lots of love), the Rams, the NBA, the Jazz, and Michael Jordan. At the very end, there is talk about possibly the greatest movie trailer of all time…
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009: My friend is going through a bad break up… oh wait that was Ted with Special Guest Stephanie Stephan
Stephanie Stephan joins Rhett to talk about TV, politics, her podcast, book recommendations, and how Facebook can be used for a purpose. TV shows: 5 min mark Her podcast Stockholm Syndrome: 30 min mark Book recommendations: 40 min mark Facebook - junk food or good purpose: 53 min mark Good cause:...
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008: We Are Not Kingmen with Special Guest Jon Madsen
Jon and Rhett talk about the 2016 US Presidential election and try to make sense of what just happened and what can be learned from it. That's pretty much the entire episode (although they talk about robots at the end and why Rhett should watch Black Mirror).
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007: The GFZ "Iconics" Sports Movie Awards with Special Guests Paul and Brandon
Paul and Brandon join Rhett to handout 38 different awards related to sports movies. Basically we made up the categories and selected our winners. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will wildly disagree with some of our selections. (And yes, Point Break is a spiritual sports movie.) Unofficial...
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006: The Edmond Dantes Syndrome with Special Guest Dave Taylor
What do MLMs, sports, and The Count of Monte Cristo have in common? Find out by listening to this lively episode with Dave and Rhett. 7 min: Blue collar worker in Silicon Valley 13 min: Dave's career path (and a Simpson's call back) 19 min: Take down of Multi-level Marketing schemes! Must listen....
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005: Not Your Parents' Podcast with Special Guest Nathan Tanner
Esteemed author Nathan Tanner joins Rhett to talk about his book Not Your Parents Workplace and a lively career discussion ensues. Here is a rough list of topics covered: 0-6 min: Dr. Dre - Apple employee 7 min: Nathan's book, advice for students, investment banking, the financial crisis 35 min:...
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004: Lithium Smells Like Teen Spirit with Special Guest Jon Madsen
Jon is back to discuss the 25th anniversary of Nirvana's iconic album Nevermind. But before they get there, they talk about Star Wars, Ready Player One, TJ Miller hosting the Crunchies, and the Rosewood hotel. At the 18 min mark, they talk Nirvana, Depeche Mode, Pearl Jam, and rank the songs on…
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003: Guitars Make Everything Better with Special Guests Brandon and Paul
Brandon Rodriguez and Paul Bryan join Rhett in a lively discussion about: Music - is Rhett just old? Apple - new iPhone and the Apple Watch (yes you should now buy one) Living in the Bay Area - cost of housing, food, & Korean Chipotle Self-driving cars Rhett's not-so-bold predictions about the...
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002: Cheering for Laundry with Special Guest Scott Steele
Rhett calls Scott to talk about the BYU/Utah football rivalry. The first part of the episode is about fandom, why they are BYU football fans, and the cultural impact of having a common interest. In the second part, they pick out their least and most favorite BYU/Utah rivalry games (spoiler…
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001: Satire Should Not Be Popular with Special Guest Jon Madsen
Rhett calls Jon to talk about the new podcast and explains where he got the name. Many tangents follow. Hilarity ensues. Sponsored by squaresp... just kidding.
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