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You're listening to Episode 73: The Shining Miniseries, directed by Mick Garris.

And why was this adaptation of The Shining forgotten? I don't know, but we're gonna find out today on Video Villa Podcast.

[upbeat music] All right, everybody, welcome back to the channel.

We got a new episode, and we're back on our Stephen King ride.

And today I've got a special guest.

Introduce yourself, Mr. Tony.

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Are there patterns in the types of questions you find yourself getting bogged down in?

There is one general pattern.

I think it tends to be the most challenging questions on a section.

I think what I mean by that is the answer choices aren't particularly strong.

You know, there might be two or three that are clearly just not correct, but between two of them, it could be, you know, neither one of them seems like a particularly strong answer, and it could be hard for me to figure out which one is the correct answer.

Or, like, a more concrete example, if there's a stimulus and you're supposed to identify the, the flaw in the argument, and there's multiple different flaws in the stimulus, there's a lot wrong with the argument, and maybe two of the answer choices sort of touch on some of those flaws but don't fully capture it, at least in my mind, I have...

I can have trouble picking out which one of those answer choices is correct.

It's all gonna help.

[door closing] The flurry of the snow outside is as nothing compared to the turmoil in his mind.

Why didn't they tell us? I don't understand.

Jean, she's alive.

How can she be alive? But it's definitely her.

I got her scent, and I never forgot her scent.

[car roaring] It's really Jeanie, but how? And why didn't they tell us? Summers, you should have told us.

[growls]

That, lady, is my choice.

Oh.

So in the lawsuit they say that.

I was doing s- now, Reddit is not the best source ever, but based on what I read, and I think their, I think their counter to the lawsuit said that the script was sent to Dave and Alison Brie's agency-That manages them or whatever, and I don't think the script for Better Half was ever read by anybody because I think it was sent, like, one of those, like, Hail Marys.

I'm gonna send this and see if I'm gonna get picked up by this studio or whoever, whatever agency.

And Dave and Allison, uh, or yeah, the...

Their, their, their agency basically said, like, "We're not gonna do this movie." Like, they immediately rejected it.

And the other thing too is the director for this movie submitted the script for the movie back in 2019.

Yeah

And, and how has it been? I mean, was it how you imagined it would be?

Oh, yeah, it's phenomenal.

I enjoy it.

I mean, it's hard, but it's not deathly hard.

It's...

Anybody can do it if you're cap- ab- able-bodied.

And are you by yourself a lot, or are you... 'Cause I know you've been hiking around a bunch of people on the trail.

During the...

Yeah.

Um, so yeah, I felt like that all went really well.

And then, um, you know, went out to dinner a few days later, had a bunch of drinks.

Um, and she was really touchy feely throughout dinner.

I was like, "Okay, I'm digging this." Like, I don't know if this is the drinks or this is her personality, but either way.

She had drank enough that she didn't wanna drive home.

Of course, she shouldn't drive home.

Logan, so you're saying to protect her, because she's had a lot of alcohol, you trust her more in an Uber than you giving her a ride home.

So I, I still got them in seven, maybe six

sixThat's pretty bold.

I mean, I think that, like you said, uh, Ox, I think that some of these games could come down to clutch time offense, but I don't wanna undersell how dominant that third quarter was for Detroit.

I mean, that's one of the most dominant quarters we've seen from a team all year long.

Like, that point differential, 22, was the biggest that any team tied in a single quarter this season, and was all on that defense.

And you're talking about the Magic having more options to turn to offensively.

If we're looking at them in a vacuum, I don't necessarily disagree, but I fail to see how any of these guys create real advantages against a Detroit defense that has athletic advantages all over the court.

... it's a new game.

Okay.

I mean, and, and back to the comment that you made, you know, you didn't think we were gonna work out.

Nobody did.

I think anybody in the cast, you can ask everybody, because of the bickering, because of the arguments, a lot of people didn't think we were gonna make it.

But that's why, you know, one of the things that you saw, and, and I just wasn't able to articulate my thoughts sometimes because of some of those arguments.

And some of the things that happened on the show, I'm just...

I was really, really trying to figure this woman out because I w- I saw the essence of this woman who had been broken, but has gone through a past that, you know, we're not gonna talk about today, but I saw and heard the things that she's gone through, and, um, it led her to where she is today.

I'm gonna push past my limitations."

There's also Theo, who is 16 and lives in Toronto.

In grade six, I got an Instagram page that I shared with my sister, and it was, uh, run by my mom and dad.

And we'd just, like, post random stuff, I guess.

And then I started-- Like, the first I'd say, like, social media platform where I started, like, adding my friends was probably, like, Instagram in, like, grade eight.

Here's what Logan had to say about that.

I think I get a lot of misinformation, but it's mostly on different things that I don't care about, like, uh, the NFL.

I saw a post on Instagram, and it was, like, a stat card for, um, can't remember what his name is, but it was saying something about 1.2% body fat.

Like, [laughs] a human would die on less than five.

It made me very proud about my writing.

Yeah, we're just getting, like, really deep into, like, I wanna say philosophy.

Here's the author to introduce it.

Hi, I'm Logan.

I live in Texas, and I'm 10 years old.

This is my dolly, Farmageddon.

[upbeat piano music]

And what would you like to be doing with that?

Um, be- because, um, Logan, he's got one last Christmas, and I've wanted one because I've t- I've tried playing on his.

And I thought it was really fun, so I want one for myself because we always fight over who can play it.

Yes.

So, like, we have this elf.

In the, the morning, we have to find it.

Uh, and, like, like, in the morning, like, after special, um, we get to, uh...

My teacher gets to pick a student to hold it 'cause if, only if they be good.

Uh, when was the first one, and kinda walk me into what happened.

Sure.

Um, so to preface it, you know, I've always been interested in the subject.

The topic kinda really got more vamped, like, right before COVID, in that era.

Started really getting into podcasts and documentaries, but I was listening to Coast to Coast one day, and I actually heard Todd Standing talking about, you know, his documentary and his, his site and everything.

So I got intrigued, um, by him, 'cause I'd never really heard of him.

So I did a lot of deep research on him and, you know, and went down the rabbit hole, like everyone does, I think.

What is it? I, I know it's an app, and it's subscription-based, but tell me about this app that you created.

So my question for you, we'll go to you, Logan, if you're keeping Dylan in the short term, how does this work in terms of the basketball trying to work alongside Fox, alongside Victor Wembanyama in this system?

It's the question after you make this pick.

Me and Carson have talked about this recently on a couple of our draft shows, but all- (laughs) all three of these guys are in the exact same archetype, and that's what makes it hard to make it viable with all of them.

They're all downhill guards who need the ball in their hands, and you've got questions maybe about Castle's jumper, you've got questions about Harper's jumper.

To me, it's kinda what you were saying before we got this thing started, Jason.

I think you're probably gonna have to pick the guy that you're gonna rock with long term, uh, at some point in this season and move off of one of these guards.

I think the odd man out is De'Aaron Fox, and it's nothing against Fox.

Logan, what's your take on getting this, uh, you know, obviously not an on-ball guard, but a guy who plays, in my opinion, at- at the NBA level, a two, to fit inside the Sixers' big-picture plans?

How do you compete head-to-head with a firm like an Andreessen Horowitz?

Our flagship fund invests from pre-seed to B, but our sweet spot is, is seed and A.

How we out-compete the generalists, um, which we do every day, uh, is through that reverse pitch, through our reputation in the market for delivering value beyond capital, the two big things.

These are our two superpowers: business development and corporate development.

On the business development side, Stephanie Perez, who's fantastic, leads that, uh, effort for us.

And we're helping our companies connect into our strategic LPs, of which we have a large number, and we're also helping them connect into our broader network.

And we know all the end-customers that are gonna care about in terms of banks, asset and wealth managers, insurers, Fintechs, and corporates.

Tell me about how you went about executing this, and what were your learnings from the first three years of founding FinCapital?