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Uncorking a StoryAddressing Shame, with Jim YoungAbout Jim Young: Jim is on a personal mission to help men defeat burnout. He does this through his coaching business where he is known as The Centered Coach, and is also doing it through his new book entitled Expansive Intimacy: How Tough Guys Defeat Burnout. In this episode, Mike and Jim discuss: Staking a claim to who you are. The multiple paths we take in life. Taking a risk to open yourself to vulnerability. Embracing the youness. Key Takeaways: You don’t have to know what you want to do at 18. That’s crazy! You...
2022-09-1336 min
Celluloid ZeroesEp 12: Silent RageWhen God said, “Let there be light,” Chuck Norris said, “Say please!” This is the most dangerous episode of Celluloid Zeroes as Jim and I take on a most formidable opponent—Chuck Norris. However, even Chuck can agree that 1982’s Silent Rage is not his best work. He’s never said as much, but actions speak louder than words and a sequel has never been made, even though the ending of this absolute zero set up a potential franchise. While the movie is pretty terrible, it does bring us back to a simpler time when spinning back...
2022-02-1342 min
Celluloid ZeroesThe Nude BombIn this first episode of our second season, Mike and Jim discuss the 1980 comedy The Nude Bomb—the first feature film based on the 1960s TV comedy Get Smart. Original creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had nothing to do with this film, and it shows. While there are are a number of funny gags in the movie, we just couldn't get behind the premise—a man clad only in pantyhose with sewing thimbles on his finger tips threatens to detonate nude bombs which basically eradicate whatever close anyone is wearing. Despite its title, you might...
2022-01-2942 min
Celluloid ZeroesEpisode 9: Love at First BiteThis movie came out in 1979 and captures that time period in New York with fang like sharpness. Okay, maybe that's a stretch, but unlike many of the other movies we've discussed on this podcast, this one does not smell like the Volga river at low tide. Yes this is a comedy, but as we uncover it is so much more. It is about a middle aged man, er vampire, seeking relevance. It's about a woman learning to embrace commitment. And it's about a psychiatrist looking for, well we really aren't sure what he's looking for. But he...
2020-10-311h 08
Celluloid ZeroesEpisode 8: City HeatThe year was 1984, Jim and I were ten years old, and our father took us to the movies to see City Heat. The two of us remember this movie as a comedic masterpiece and 36 years later we are questioning our sanity. Set towards the end of prohibition, the action takes place in Kansas City and stars two of the most well known actors of the day; Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. While the movie has some great one-liners from Eastwood, they aren’t enough from making this a certified Celluloid Zero. While there’s not much to disc...
2020-10-2545 min
Celluloid ZeroesEpisode 7: YellowbeardWhen asked about the movie Yellowbeard, John Cleese said that it was one of the six worst movies ever made. His co-star, and fellow Monty Python Alum, Eric Idle commented that it was one of the worst films he ever made. With those endorsements from the film's stars you know you have a certified Celluloid Zero on your hands, and Yellowbeard is just that. Jim and I first saw this move in the summer of 1983 and, looking back, our parents should have received a visit from child protective services for letting us see it. Watching this film...
2020-09-131h 02
Celluloid ZeroesEp 6: No Retreat, No SurrenderJim was always a bigger fan of martial arts movies and he lets his fanboyness shine through as we discuss the 1986 less than masterpiece No Retreat, No Surrender. The actors and director certainly took the title to heart as non of them retreated or surrendered from this movie, even though they should have. In a Celluloid Zeroes first, Jim walks us through the synopsis of this film (in great detail) and you can hear the passion in his voice build as he does so, all the while you can tell a rant is building—and he does no...
2020-09-051h 07
Celluloid ZeroesEpisode 5: Oscar (1991)Filmmaker Joe Indusi joins Mike and Jim as they discuss 1991's Oscar, starring Sylvester Stallone and a relatively unknown actress at the time—Marissa Tomei. While Oscar is, in fact, a celluloid zero, that doesn't mean there isn't anything redeeming about it. On the contrary, this film spurs discussions around the importance of taking risks in life (just as Stallone did in this film), experiences with overbearing fathers, and cases of mistaken identity. Perhaps the most interesting aspects of this discussion have nothing to do with the film itself, but Joe's non-sequitur stories about who he...
2020-08-161h 09
Celluloid ZeroesEpisode 4: The Black HoleWhen Mike and Jim saw this movie in 1979 we thought it was one of the coolest things ever. There were spaceships, robots, lasers and giant red meteors! Oh, and this whirlpool looking black hole that meant almost certain death to anything that got sucked into it. Seeing this movie through adult eyes, however, led to a newfound appreciation of it. Jim immediately takes us to a dark place because, well, he’s Jim and needs to tout his intimate knowledge of personality disorders whenever he can. Mike explores the biblical themes of the story and, somehow, they bo...
2020-07-251h 10
Celluloid ZeroesEp 3: MegaForceToday, the Carlon brothers are joined by filmmaker Joe Indusi to discuss 1982s MegaForce. When this film came out, Mike and Jim were 8 years old. Looking back, that must have been the prime demographic for this film because it included flying motorcycles, glorified dune buggies with lasers, and men with feathered hair—lots of feathered hair. For all the missiles launched from motorcycles, there we no fatalities in this movie which makes us think that the inspiration was the GI Joe cartoon which was becoming popular around the same time. Watching it at 45 is a dif...
2020-07-121h 09
Celluloid ZeroesEpisode 1: Zorro the Gay BladeIn this inaugural episode of the Celluloid Zeroes Podcast, the Carlon brothers take a deep dive into the 1981 parody Zorro The Gay Blade starring George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, and Ron Leibman. Listen in as Mike and Jim discuss what they liked about this film back in the day and their reactions to it almost forty years after they saw it for the first time. We make a link to Batman, today's social justice initiatives, and how George Hamilton's accent is actually its own character. Is there any chance this movie would see the light of...
2020-06-2755 min
Conversations in Depth: A QRCA Views PodcastInterview with Jim LorettaHe has over 25 years of marketing research experience among clients in the United States, US Hispanic and Latin American market segments. He was born and raised in Mexico and is completely bilingual and bicultural. As a strategic planner, he is adept in transferring key insights and hot buttons generated from qualitative research into actionable copy points in the development of creative execution working closely with both clients and advertising agencies. He is interviewed here by QRCA member, Maureen Quinn Olsen.
2019-12-0648 min
Conversations in Depth: A QRCA Views PodcastThe Jim Heisler InterviewJim Heisler's work in the marketing research industry spans almost four decades. In that time he has become an expert in all facets of customer experience research as well as in market segmentation, brand advertising, corporate reputation, market attitudes and behavior, and new product research. In this interview you will hear how Jim parlayed his doctorate in Social Psychology into a very successful career in market research. You will also hear his take on where our industry is going and the skills that researchers of the future will require to succeed in the "new world" of market...
2019-06-1827 min
Conversations in Depth: A QRCA Views PodcastThe Jim Bryson InterviewJim Bryson is the founder and CEO of 2020 Research; a Nashville based qualitative research firm with facilities in Nashville, Charlotte, and Miami. In addition to traditional facilities, 2020 is a leading provider of online qualitative solutions including both asynchronous and real-time interviewing solutions. In this interview, Jim talks about the irony of hating his research classes while in college while seconds later discussing how he helped to develop a very successful research business. We discuss the bet he took on online qualitative research early on, his time as a state senator in TN, and his motivations for starting...
2019-06-1847 min