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Warp Factor 2 S2E07

This episode has Garvin and George evaluating the last two years of effort and start to rev up the engine fuelled by their enthusiasm.

There comes a time when you start to question everything you have been doing. Two years of hard graft and what's it all about? When you stop listening to the chatter box inside your head that is constantly running you down then you begin to realise what all that effort has been about. Especially when you are working together with a business partner. The energy levels you can build up enable you to achieve Warp Factor 2 (you can tell we are Trekkie fans). You begin to value the time you have put in and that there is a purpose. It's all about being Enterprising, on a Voyage of Discovery. Obviously, we're fans of Star Trek.

Keeping Focused S2E06

It's the start of 2021. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. The time of year everybody comes up with new goals and objectives, their plans for the coming year. As a new beginning we want to achieve what we didn’t last year. However, it can be different deciding what to do. Lose some weight? Make some money? Make new friends and influence people? Conquered the world? Or the Galaxy? Maybe even the universe? Or multiverses? You start off positive and it's then, usually, we quickly begin to lose focus by the middle of January. Miss the benchmarks. Drop the milestones and revert back to old ways and see the Galaxy blur above us. Yet, Garvin and George are pretty determined spending this episode building up the enthusiasm to drive things forward. What do they come up with?

Insane in the Membrane S2E05

We are in awe of being in our own universe creating new baby universes. That's the journey we are going on, and for Garvin, it doesn't sound like accountancy. George gets flustered over what 'Insane in the Membrane' is all about. The conversation then steers towards Mike Oldfield with 'Tubular Bells' and Cliff Richard on a 'Summer Holiday'. This leads to us opening our own  Pandora's Box to develop our micro-industry within the film and TV industries.

Keep on going! S2E04

Nothing is going to be the same. Each day brings a new experience, different problems. Garvin talks about buy value and not fluff. George motors on about 'Fiddler's Walk' sharing the importance of just motoring on, and how everything seems to just fall into place. The lads realise they have reached a similar point. The engine is going signalling the journey begins all we have to do is slip into gear and accelerate onwards.

The Avatar S2E03

We get all philosophical chatting about "if this was it and you died tomorrow would you have been happy?" Garvin said he enjoyed what we've done over the last year. George talks about living through the experience of the course and films we are about to do. He also got to build an avatar of Garvin, who breakdances in the video version of this podcast. We then discuss the importance of building an avatar to identify our potential customers....

Make it Real S2E02

Garvin Burke and I are starting to meet producers, directors, and other film industry professionals to talk about the Film Production Academy, making it real. The juices are really flowing but we're attempting to keep it all 'PG'. We get caught up in the word 'Pod' leading to a brief discussion on dolphins, killer whales, and sharks. Drawing us in on a reflection of our reasons for doing podcasts...

Resilience S2E01

In this episode, Garvin and I talk about resilience. About how to make sure that you can keep yourself going. And the best way to do that is in collaboration with a partner who can help bolster you when things get tough. We talk about discovering how to focus on the areas to move forward. And how the unimportant things that make you wain should be kicked out. The main focus should be how best to utilise your time to move forward. After a couple years our focus is still on our original concepts and they are now starting to sprout up. They are becoming quite green in areas we want them to be. Other people are taking notice and in the not-too-distant future we will have a harvest.

Review S1E53 This episode is the second of two parts reviewing the first 51 episodes. Our conversation was about something that came up in our minds and we went through all that the emotion that had built, in the stresses and anxieties for something that does not exist. Garvin expresses his fear of being stuck in Groundhog Day. We have the courage now to recognise our fears and put them behind us. It is hard to believe that we have been going 52 episodes, Co-hosting on a podcast. 26 hours of talking passionately about subjects we are interested in. Having opinions. Talking about things that mattered to us.

Review S1E52 This episode is the first of two parts reviewing the first 51 episodes. Our conversation was about something that came up in our minds and we went through all that the emotion that had built, in the stresses and anxieties for something that does not exist. Garvin expresses his fear of being stuck in Groundhog Day. We have the courage now to recognise our fears and put them behind us. It is hard to believe that we have been going 52 episodes, Co-hosting on a podcast. 26 hours of talking passionately about subjects we are interested in. Having opinions. Talking about things that mattered to us.

Area 51 - What's there? What's not? An "Unusual Forced Offering" some might say. Or is it that "Alien" a subject?

Garvin and I do a virtual tour of Area 51, with some of the wacky ideas that we have formulated. Like going through time in different directions, remembering past experiences, and then remembering future experiences to draw ourselves closer and closer. Garvin realises he is not the president of the free world or Captain Kirk. And we get muddle to which century we are currently in, that’s how potent Area 51 is. We may have to turn the whole thing around 180 degrees. We struggle with the timelines of our show because of our date stamp and realise we are back where we started in - Area 51, we're in that Twilight Zone where we're not sure what's happening. Parallel universes. It's been very distracting, a bit like the presidential election.