Point by Point

It's a Thanksgiving miracle! Point by Point re-emerges from the depths with an episode we've been sitting on since April: our deep dive into Enneagrams! Also a few other random things, you know the deal.

Links:

• Enneagrams
• Bat exclusion
• Improv classes

This week, our main topic revolves around mentors, but ultimately lands on personality traits we inherited from our parents and how different we are from them.

We also speculate wildly about:

SPOILER WARNING: At about 32:00, we spoil 10 Cloverfield Lane

This week, we’ve talk about a topic fans of the show have been asking us to talk about for awhile: Our finances.

Within our main topic, we talk about:

Links:

• Our YNAB Referral Link — If you decide to use YNAB, we'd certainly appreciate you using this referral link since it helps benefit the show!
• Book Order Now | YNAB
• Dave Ramsey Homepage | DaveRamsey.com — Dave Ramsey has a big beautiful face and likes to put it on his books!
• NerdWallet: Get more from your money — The site with OK advice that JP likes to use
• The Points Guy – Maximize your travel. — The site JP uses to totally maximize his points

We're releasing a pretty late one! This one was about black panther, our trip to Arizona, being rusty, eating poorly, and God's mistake in letting Adam name everything.

Links:

• Black Panther
• How old is the universe?
• The great state of Arizona
• Gregg's Restaurant

Alright, alright… we admit it. We’ve been totally off our game lately, and this one came out way later than we had hoped for, but exactly when we’d predicted. But, we don’t talk about the show in the show notes so move along now…

This week, we speculate a bit about what makes a movie good for the theater, whether movies have gotten worse in spite of the surprising number of great movies that came out in the last year, and if movies on the average are getting more average.

We talk about the overall moviegoing experience and what might help to make it better. We also briefly touch on some snacking strategies, some sneaky theater tricks for increasing revenue, and reveal a deep, dark secret about JP’s movie-going habits.

We then discuss an absolutely insane trans-continental race that involves a ridiculous amount of speeding across the country in a little over a day and a half.

JP shares a bit about one of his New Year’s Resolutions — to learn Japanese. Steve learns nothing.

Links:

• 28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month - The New York Times — Black History Month is in February — so, since this episode got released close to May, here's your chance everybody — You get a few more days in the month to get through the list!
• The Fountain - Wikipedia
• Arrival (film) - Wikipedia
• The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory | WIRED
• Two guys did a coast-to-coast ‘Cannonball Run’ in a Tesla Model S for a new record - The Verge
• Alex Roy Shatters Electric and Autonomous Cannonball Run Records in a Tesla - The Drive

Cold opens!

Links:

• Enneagrams Personality Test
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• Myers-Briggs
• Carter needs his nuggs
• @MoonPie — The greatest twitter handle.
• @Arbys — Nerd culture
• 5 Love Languages — Bringing it back! Great book, and re-discussing what Steve's love language really is
• Usher - I Don't Mind

Boy! What a week.

JP and Steve talk about a lot of things, including the new Star Wars movie... although they don't spoil it, really, they do make some great spoiler horn noises.

The conversation moves from holiday plans and what we both got as presents into JP asking Steve about whether or not he feels brands are necessary... and wow, did he step on a landmine!

We get into talking about Apple, whether or not they were successful without Steve Jobs, how the brand continued through the Next era and into the return of Steve Jobs, and whether or not Apple is still innovating.

Spoiler: One of us says yes, and the other is skeptical. YOU'LL HAVE TO LISTEN TO KNOW WHO!

Links:

• Apple Watch Service Pricing - Apple Support
• Apple Watch Edition - White Ceramic Case with Soft White/Pebble Sport Band - Apple — The most expensive Apple Watch offered today
• Apple Watch: Most Expensive Model Is $17,000 | Time — The most expensive Apple Watch ever
• Rolex Cellini Time Watch: 18 ct white gold - 50509 — The watch that's on Steve's holiday list next year
• Congruence Between Brand Personality and Self-Image, and the Mediating Roles of Satisfaction and Consumer-Brand Relationship on Brand Loyalty by Seong-Yeon Park and Eun Mi Lee
• The 12 Brand Archetypes: Hero, Outlaw, Caregiver, Sage…
• why do so many people think apple isn't innovating? - Google Search — Just Googling this and reading the results makes Steve angry at the internet.

Black roast is not a coffee type

Links:

• The origins of the english accent (the-toast.net)
• The origins of the english accent (mental floss)
• The origin of the english accent (industrial revolution - mental floss)
• A brief history of flat earth truthers

Topics this week range from a super secret surprise, to the best mashed potato recipe... and we question whether or not we could stomach a horse.

If this feels like two podcast episodes rolled into one, it kind of is. The computer crashed in the middle of recording so we had to recover some data, reset, and start over... but the second half has a great surprise. Hoot Hoot!

We talk about something good we saw, or read, or listened to in the past few days that we enjoyed. It really rolls off the tongue.

No, but really — we talk about our favorite thing we did/watched/read in the last three days.

Links:

• Home Try-On | Warby Parker
• I Made 6 Famous Mashed Potato Recipes And Found The Very Best One
• Mensch - Wikipedia
• Veal - Wikipedia
• Could Congress put horsemeat back on the menu in America? - The Washington Post
• Calories in Ostrich Egg - 1 ostrich egg from Nutritionix

This week, we talk about Steve's new job, a would you rather, the need to read, and some of our favorite recent things.

We talk about the desire to work, reading more for fun rather than a goal, how long steve is willing to talk in a werner herzog accent, and a couple of picks: "What is the Bible" by Rob Bell, and "Thor: Ragnarok" by a thousand people.

Also JP accidentally swears for maybe the first time, and he's sorry.

Links:

• Vocal Cord Recovery
• Providence highway shooting
• The Circle (book)
• What is the bible (book)
• Thor (movie)