Here we are, watching Drake and Josh as they go on down to Hollywood. It's the worst movie we've watched so far.

Here we are, watching Drake and Josh as they go on down to Hollywood. It's the worst movie we've watched so far.

Drake and Josh Go Hollywood

We watched the 2008 hit movie - Jumper - featuring Hayden Christensen. The only way to talk about this bad boy is to jump right in.

We watched the 2008 hit movie - Jumper - featuring Hayden Christensen. The only way to talk about this bad boy is to jump right in.

Jumper, and the smell of Teak Wood

Hey y'all, we're sorry about this but we all watched Crank 2. We then also recorded a podcast episode about watching Crank 2.  

Hey y'all, we're sorry about this but we all watched Crank 2. We then also recorded a podcast episode about watching Crank 2.

Crank 2: The Lifetime Membership

We watch Crank, and it only takes us about 9 minutes to start doing Jason Statham impressions.

We watch Crank, and it only takes us about 9 minutes to start doing Jason Statham impressions.

Crank, also, Grandma Did I Leave My Zune at Your House?

Well if you're anything like Nic Cage, you've already read this caption with your 2-minute future vision. That's probably a good call, with a power like that you've always gotta make sure something is worth your time. In this episode we've just watched the 2007 hit blockbuster, Next!

Well if you're anything like Nic Cage, you've already read this caption with your 2-minute future vision. That's probably a good call, with a power like that you've always gotta make sure something is worth your time. In this episode we've just watched the 2007 hit blockbuster, Next!

Next Too You: With Nicolas Cage

Well y'all, we collected all seven dragon balls, and we made the wish to watch what might be the worst movie we've seen so far - Dragon Ball Evolution. Listen, hindsight is 20/20, maybe if we'd known how bad it was we would've wished for something more helpful or spectacular, sure. But this is where we are. 

Well y'all, we collected all seven dragon balls, and we made the wish to watch what might be the worst movie we've seen so far - Dragon Ball Evolution. Listen, hindsight is 20/20, maybe if we'd known how bad it was we would've wished for something more helpful or spectacular, sure. But this is where we are.

Dragon Ball: Creationsim

We watched Strange Wilderness! There's a lot to talk about here, including:The turkey sceneDanny getting eaten by a sharkThe audio qualityBigfootMilk Bongetc!

We watched Strange Wilderness! There's a lot to talk about here, including: The turkey scene Danny getting eaten by a shark The audio quality Bigfoot Milk Bong etc!

Strange Wilderness: Danny Boy’s Seal Adventure

Here we go gang, we watched Happy Madison's Grandma's Boy. This film is an absolute cult classic (?), so we're diving in. Notes include:Lions loose in the neighborhood, playing video games to blow off steam, grandmas, and staying over at friends' houses. 

Here we go gang, we watched Happy Madison's Grandma's Boy. This film is an absolute cult classic (?), so we're diving in.  Notes include: Lions loose in the neighborhood, playing video games to blow off steam, grandmas, and staying over at friends' houses.

Watching Grandma's Boy, Don't Pray for Me

Right, so this time we watched Smokin Aces. We're talking about terrible accents and even more terrible jacket stains, both of which are integral to the movie. 

Right, so this time we watched Smokin Aces. We're talking about terrible accents and even more terrible jacket stains, both of which are integral to the movie.

Smokin Aces: The Laundry Mystery

Yo, get on your 3D headphones because we're talkin' about Spy Kids 3D. We're talking about Kyle's email response, grandpa's downtime, grandpa's energy force, chief quiche, reality vs. perception, biblical parallels, and more! Before you ask, this isn't the one with George Lopez in it. 

Yo, get on your 3D headphones because we're talkin' about Spy Kids 3D. We're talking about Kyle's email response, grandpa's downtime, grandpa's energy force, chief quiche, reality vs. perception, biblical parallels, and more! Before you ask, this isn't the one with George Lopez in it.

Spy Kids 3 and Grandpa's Energy Force

These are our favorite movies of all time, no exception.

Kyle Emails

Welthumb back everybody. In this one, we're talking all about Steve Oedekerk's thumb-centric masterpiece and Blair Witch parody - The Blair Thumb. We discuss gender identities and shark attacks, we find out some shocking news, and Kyle sends an email. 

Welthumb back everybody. In this one, we're talking all about Steve Oedekerk's thumb-centric masterpiece and Blair Witch parody - The Blair Thumb. We discuss gender identities and shark attacks, we find out some shocking news, and Kyle sends an email.

Blair Thumb and Kyle Emails His Hero 

Monkey bone? More like monkey groan. Okay, now that everyone with a reasonable sense of humor is gone we can begin. We're talking about our 2000s sweetheart Brendan Fraser, the beginning of Adult Swim, and a lot of Kyle's nightmares. All aboard!

Monkey bone? More like monkey groan. Okay, now that everyone with a reasonable sense of humor is gone we can begin. We're talking about our 2000s sweetheart Brendan Fraser, the beginning of Adult Swim, and a lot of Kyle's nightmares. All aboard!

Monkeybone and the Brenaissance

This week we decided to test a new format, where we only watch the first half of the movie and we bring our BEST guesses to the table as to how the movie ends. Did we nail it? Did we guess how the movie Gamer ends? Are WE the Gamers now? 

This week we decided to test a new format, where we only watch the first half of the movie and we bring our BEST guesses to the table as to how the movie ends. Did we nail it? Did we guess how the movie Gamer ends? Are WE the Gamers now?

Gamer and Who's Playing You?

SO, we watched Click. Then before we started recording the episode we fast-forwarded using our universal remotes and ended up with this! We hope it's good? 

SO, we watched Click. Then before we started recording the episode we fast-forwarded using our universal remotes and ended up with this! We hope it's good?

Click and the Future Man of Business

Here comes our first episode, hot and ready. We watched Delta Farce and discussed the problematic nature of the film, Larry the Cable Guy's twitter, and DJ Qualls portraying the role of the world's most substantial pervert. 

Here comes our first episode, hot and ready. We watched Delta Farce and discussed the problematic nature of the film, Larry the Cable Guy's twitter, and DJ Qualls portraying the role of the world's most substantial pervert.

Delta Farce and Why Did We Do This

I won’t say how. You’ll have to listen to it yourself.

This podcast helped me find my dad

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 Rahul Moodgal has spent 20 years as a fund raiser across long only strategies, hedge funds, fund of funds, customized solutions, start-ups, and non-profits.  Collectively, Rahul has raised and helped raise $60 billion for firms since 2005.  He started his career in the industry at powerhouse TT International, and later joined The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI) where he led the marketing effort that raised $20 billion in just 3½ years.  Within TCI’s affiliate model, Rahul also was responsible for the largest India fund raise in history ($1 billion for TCI New Horizon Fund), and the largest sector fund launch in history ($1.1 billion for Algebris Investments).  Our conversation covers capital raising lessons learned from teaching, the value of transparency, the gold rush before 2008, the lean times afterwards, modern fee structures, the three key points to effective marketing, the three traits that will kill you, the two biggest issues start-up funds face, the best questions asked by leading allocators, and some of the worst horror stories in attempted capital raising. We close comparing by fund raising for charities and investment firms.   Learn More   Discuss show and Read the Transcript    Join Ted's mailing list at CapitalAllocatorsPodcast.com    Join the  Capital Allocators Forum   Write a review on   iTunes   Follow Ted on twitter at  @tseides    For more episodes go to CapitalAllocatorsPodcast.com/Podcast

Capital Allocators

Rahul Moodgal has spent 20 years as a fund raiser across long only strategies, hedge funds, fund of funds, customized solutions, start-ups, and non-profits.  Collectively, Rahul has raised and helped raise $60 billion for firms since 2005.  He started his career in the industry at powerhouse TT International, and later joined The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI) where he led the marketing effort that raised $20 billion in just 3½ years.  Within TCI’s affiliate model, Rahul also was responsible for the largest India fund raise in history ($1 billion for TCI New Horizon Fund), and the largest sector fund launch in history ($1.1 billion for Algebris Investments). Our conversation covers capital raising lessons learned from teaching, the value of transparency, the gold rush before 2008, the lean times afterwards, modern fee structures, the three key points to effective marketing, the three traits that will kill you, the two biggest issues start-up funds face, the best questions asked by leading allocators, and some of the worst horror stories in attempted capital raising. We close comparing by fund raising for charities and investment firms.  Learn More <a href="http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/transcripts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discuss show and Read the Transcript</a> Join Ted's mailing list at <a href="http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CapitalAllocatorsPodcast.com</a> Join the <a href="http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/forum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Capital Allocators Forum</a> Write a review on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/capital-allocators-with-ted-seides/id1223764016" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iTunes</a> Follow Ted on twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/tseides" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> @tseides</a> For more episodes go to <a href="http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CapitalAllocatorsPodcast.com/Podcast</a>

Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (Capital Allocators, EP.87)

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Joseph H. Davis, global chief economist at The Vanguard Group. Davis is also head of Vanguard's investment strategy group and a member of the senior portfolio management team for Vanguard's fixed income group, which oversees more than $500 billion in assets under management. He earned his doctorate in macroeconomics and finance at Duke University.

Masters in Business

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Joseph H. Davis, global chief economist at The Vanguard Group. Davis is also head of Vanguard's investment strategy group and a member of the senior portfolio management team for Vanguard's fixed income group, which oversees more than $500 billion in assets under management. He earned his doctorate in macroeconomics and finance at Duke University.

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1 quote:[topic-start]
"When feeling a lack of control, we sometimes try to impose control by seeing patterns where none exist."[topic-end]


I. 
How much we like an explanation should have nothing to do with how good it is.[topic-start]
Good explanations gives us pleasure whilst no explanation can leave us dissatisfied.[point-end]

Furthermore, some explanations are more pleasurable, they feel like they fit better, so they're more enjoyable to contemplate.[point-end]

The risk is, we end up seeking explanations when there isn't any, or we end up drawing the more pleasurable conclusion rather than the more accurate one.[topic-end]

II. 
Uncertainty is one of the first steps when it comes to acquiring knowledge.[topic-start]

We often find uncertainty as a negative thing. However, we should view uncertainty as an opportunity for us to learn something.[point-end]

When there's uncertainty, it's often a sign that there's something that's worth paying attention to, that we can better understand.[topic-end]

III. 
The ease in which we construct stories can often distract us from the underlying facts.[topic-start]
In the jury system, an influential model called the story model, details how, if you change the order in which people hear testimonies, such that it makes it easier or harder to construct a story that's consistent with the prosecution, it can affect how likely it is that juries think that that story is true or false.[point-end]

In other words, how we present the facts and construct the story around the facts, can significantly impact on the outcome, even if the facts are the same.[topic-end]

1 question:[topic-start]
Can you think of something that you tried to find an explanation for where none existed or where it was wrong?[topic-end]

What else is in the episode:[topic-start]
Simple vs complex explanations, and how we can better see the bigger picture.[point-end]

How we often don't understand things as well as we thought.[point-end]
The importance of intentionally explaining and understanding the opposing side.[topic-end]

Who is Tania Lombrozo:[topic-start]
Professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.[point-end]
Her work dives into the drive to explain things and its relationship to understanding, aspects of causal and moral reasoning and different kinds of learning.

Tania Lombrozo - Our drive to explain, uncertainty as an opportunity & stories around facts

Why is my friend late? How does nuclear fission work? What occurs when I sneeze? We all need to understand why certain things happen. Some researchers think the drive to explain the world is a basic human impulse, similar to thirst or hunger. This week on Hidden Brain, we begin a three part series on why we tell stories. Psychologist Tania Lombrozo discusses how explanations can lead to discovery, delight, and disaster.

Hidden Brain

Why is my friend late? How does nuclear fission work? What occurs when I sneeze? We all need to understand why certain things happen. Some researchers think the drive to explain the world is a basic human impulse, similar to thirst or hunger. This week on Hidden Brain, we begin a three part series on why we tell stories. <a href="https://psych.princeton.edu/person/tania-lombrozo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Psychologist Tania Lombrozo</a> discusses how explanations can lead to discovery, delight, and disaster.

The Story of Stories

How our mind explains things:[topic-start]
“The way that the mind works, very frequently, is that we start from a decision, or we start from a belief, and then the stories that explain it come to our mind. Conclusions come first, and rationalizations come later.”[topic-end]
How we come to believe things:[topic-start]
"The real cause of your belief in a political position, the real causes are rooted in your personal history. They’re rooted in who are the people that you trusted and what they seemed to believe in, and it has very little to do with the reasons that come to your mind, why your position is correct and the position of the other side is nonsensical."[topic-end]
Who is Daniel Kahneman:[topic-start]
Nobel prize winning psychologist and economist who helped created the field of behavioural economics.

The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist on why we think and act the way we do — and why facts matter less than we think in forming our beliefs.
With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for helping to create the field of behavioral economics — and is a self-described “constant worrier.” It’s fun, helpful, and more than a little unnerving to apply his insights into why we think and act the way we do in this moment of social and political tumult.
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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