Starting the New Year off right with a 7 hour (!!) podcast with non profit co-founder, philanthropist, and Executive Producer Mike McGowan. This is some of the most fun I’ve had doing a podcast. We discuss everything life and filmmaking, including the value of networking-how chance encounters can lead to some of our greatest opportunities (it’s who you know), the importance of breaking through your fears- how the pain of inaction can be much worse, and how it’s much better knowing you helped someone- than getting recognition for it. 

0:02:58 - Why Mike is awesome - and foray into mediation

0:17:15 - Difference between whoppers and double cheese burgers

0:20:40 -  Don't be opportunistically extroverted

0:25:09 - How not to network

0:32:10 - Landing a job with no description

0:35:20 - Random acts of kindness

0:42:30 - Film Sixes and Sevens, how Tom and Mike met

0:45:04 - Ryan preyed on the old man

0:51:55 - 80/20 Filmmaking and shitting on Ryan (Start here Ryan)

1:21:22 - King Missile

1:27:45 - Sixes and Sevens Title (Shitting on Ryan again)

02:00:49 - How fast creations can be superior to things you labor on for years