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Business Movie: The Matrix 😎

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How the heck is the Matrix as business movie?

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Business movie, The Matrix.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Where we discuss a lot of business ideas, we talk about principles, tactics and strategies to help you with your business.

I saw this movie years ago in the theate and today’s talk is going to be about this movie, but also about what leads me to talk about this movie.

So this is an old DVD. This is one of the original DVDs that I owned, I got a DVD player, I believe in around 2000, 2001, probably, that I received my first DVD player and this was one of the first DVDs I got.

I was so excited about it. It looked so good if you went from back in those days, you went from VHS cassettes, to DVDs, that was a huge step forward, in the visuals and everything else.

It’s just amazing what was available, both insight and sound that the DVDs brought to the world. This is my original copy.

This is my original copy of the case, the DVD disappeared years ago, I don’t know where it went, I held on to the case forever because I was hoping that the DVD would show up.

Nowadays, you could watch it through different streaming services. I think HBO is showing it right now because they are also showing the newest Matrix movie Matrix.

I believe it’s Matrix Revolutions, which I haven’t seen yet but I wouldn’t be rewatching all of these. Now, how does this apply to business?

I’m going to tell you that in a second. But first, I’m going to tell you how I came about this. It’s stupid for me to hold on to this. This thing is called the trash all it is a cover.

It has no value whatsoever. It brings nothing to my life but it’s part of an issue that I’ve had for a long time, which I refer to myself as a casual hoarder.

I don’t really hold on to things because I need to hold on to them. I’m not I’m not an over the top hoarder.

But I do hang on to things a lot longer than I should. And one of the ideas I came up with years ago, I knew if I could tell the story about the thing that I have, then I can get rid of it. And I won’t have to hold on to it anymore. It’s kind of a strange deal.

I can ever go through the process of making videos or audios about each of these things because it just seemed like it didn’t have anything to do with business or anything else.

So I’m going to try to find a way for some of these items that I get, tie it back into business and talk to you about it, and then I can toss it away. So this is going to be a sub-series.

One of the sub-series that I have is on like business movies, business books, and so forth. So while this is part of the business books sub series, this is also the first of a sub series on casual hoarding.

This is, The Matrix.

Let me talk about the movie to give you kind of a basis of this, if you haven’t seen this movie, or haven’t seen it recently, it’s worth watching or rewatching.

For one of the things, there’s a lot if you watch it with somebody younger, you’ll notice that a lot of the technology that was pretty high end at the time, and kind of playing off of the growing concept of the internet is very antiquated nowadays.

So that’s kind of a funny thing too but overall, this is a mythic journey.

The hero’s journey, from beginning to end, you could tie directly to the story of Jesus Christ or any great hero throughout time, that has a mythic nature to it.

That’s what you have right here. It’s one of those movies you can’t, you really need to watch more than once because once you realize where it’s going you, you start to see, okay, if I rewatch this, I’m going to get all the clues that they’re laying out throughout the entire movie.

That’s one of those stories, but the hero’s journey is really about all of us. It’s about any of our journeys. And a person that is building a business, like you or me is they are in the place of the hero, you are in the place of the hero.

You have to realize that you’re trying to achieve something, you’re going somewhere.

You’re on a journey.

There’s a lot of people out there that aren’t. They’re just living their lives.

They’re just surviving.

They’re just trying to get their next high, or what have you that that’s and that’s all there.

Honestly, that’s all they’ll ever be.

I hate to be so gloom about that, but it’s the truth.

There’s a lot of people that they’re not going to have much more to their lives than that and that’s fine, that’s fine for them.

For you and me, we’d have a tough time doing that. And that’s why I like adventure stories like this because it brings to the idea of destiny. It brings the idea that you have something in front of you, that you can be more than everyone else thinks you’re capable of being.

There’s all these lines and everything else placed in this to show that it also brings up the idea, you know, are you destined beyond even your own control?

You know, would you have eaten the cookie?

Otherwise, you know, are you actually making a choice?

Are you choosing between the red pill and the blue pill 0r is it something that’s beyond you?

So, a lot of I mean, so much philosophy, everything else, it’s a corny movie. The acting is not out of this world, fabulous. The lines are not the most amazing thing ever but all together, it flows.

It’s a great movie, and one that I like to go back to over and over and over again because so much of it can be tied back into our personal lives into any type of mythic storytelling.

If that’s anything that you’re studying, in terms of trying to communicate better with business, which is definitely worthwhile. And also, politics, just world politics and everything. It’s all in this movie.

But when you’re talking about control versus freedom, all those type of things. This movie’s got it all. So the original matrix, definitely one I would recommend beyond all the others. I don’t care what the new one is, like I’ve heard from some people, it’s great.

It’ll never be the original, the original Matrix.

I saw this. I mentioned I saw this in the theater, and it didn’t quite grasp me. I didn’t quite get it. It was like okay, it reminded me of one that Keanu Reeves had already done called Johnny Mnemonic.

It reminded me of that one. But it wasn’t something that I I grasped right away. And then a few years later, somebody had mentioned its ties to the real world and oh, I missed all that.

Normally I’m on top of symbolism and all this stuff that literature and movies can provide. But this is one that kind of got past me the first time after I saw it a second time I was hooked. I’ve seen about a million times I got the darn thing memorize. So holding on to this is useless. So good to be dumping that cover.

Just wanted to get and there’s a lot of great stuff out there. We’ll talk more about it as as time goes on. I’m sorry, I’m in my junky t shirt today and everything are just taking it easy tonight is going to be New Year’s Eve tomorrow, which will be the final day for the leg lamp.

Then we’re opening up 2022 and regardless of when you’re watching this, I hope you have a great day go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

Get a Free copy at AmazonProofBook.com And we’ll be back tomorrow. You have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Business Movie: Fake Famous 🎥

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Brian reviews a movie from HBO Max called Fake Famous from a business-minded perspective.

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Business movie, Fake Famous.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, sorry, I was trying my best duck lips there.

Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. I want to talk about this movie called, Fake Famous, not sure if you’ve heard of it yet. It’s out on HBO, one of these direct to TV deals, it’s just a movie, documentary, real life story, as much as you can take it as being real life being that it’s a movie, but it’s really worth watching.

And it isn’t very often that I’ll recommend a movie when I’ve only watched it once. Oftentimes, the movies I watch are ones that, that once I bring to you, or once I’ve watched over and over again, gotten multiple things from it.

This is one of those that I’ve seen once, I know I’m going to reread watching it not only that, I’ll probably bring you a string of videos all about this one movie.

It’s that impactful.

It’s very timely. But I think also in 20 years, its impact will be even stronger. Because we’ll have it to be able to look back on I think we’ll see it as quite cute at that point.

But I think that where it is right now, I think there were some points that were made really well by the film. And there are some points that were not that were really missed, because the filmmakers lack of business acumen.

So what’s the movie about fake famous is all about this filmmaker that basically takes three people in a group group of others, take three people, not three of the most likely people but three of the most unlikely people to ever be famous online as an influencer as one, especially the Instagram style influencer.

So very visual, very all about taking pictures and videos, and playing to a certain youth category. And in order to get to the door, their whole plan is to get to a point to where they can be what’s known as an influencer, which is, are these people online that do nothing but put themselves into situations to get attention, so that they can then become ambassadors for different brands all over the place.

Make money that way and use Instagram the whole time for doing that. What they expose with this movie, is the fact of how the game it can be cheated. And that no way can it be cheated. It’s expected to be cheated.

Some of the top famous people that you know, have have cheated this game and they goes into detail, I’m not going to ruin it for you.

But these three people is a very, very interesting story of what it takes to be able to move ahead, what you trade off in that process of moving head, and what you really consider to be success.

Not only that, what it takes to get attention, what it takes to become famous, what famous actually means.

Why would you want to be famous?

We talk a lot about the power of celebrity here on this show. We discuss a lot about how becoming a celebrity even in just a small little group, becoming a celebrity within a very small niche can make you very powerful in your industry and allow you to be seen allow you to stand out. Everything on this show is all about standing out.

In fact, I wrote a book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, it’s all about standing out standing apart from the competition, so that you can really be the next thing so that you can gain the exposure necessary in order to market whatever you want to the masses, whatever that may be, maybe it’s your cause that you’re behind.

Or maybe it’s the widget that you’re trying to sell. Maybe it’s your network marketing makeup, you know, it could be anything.

The point is how does a person goes about standing out and what are the barriers?

What are the short cuts and all the rest. This movie is fabulous for this stuff. Because it just exposes a lot of it without not a whole lot of

moralizing or anything about it. It kind of gives both sides of it. But at the same time, I think it’s really, really, really worth watching. I’m going to go into more details about what I got out of it. And I’d love to hear what you think. Go out, go watch this on HBO. If you’ve got HBO Max, I know there’s a whole lot of deals going on with HBO Max.

There’s different ways you can get it relatively inexpensively. If you don’t have it yet. It’s worth getting on a number of levels. They’ve got a lot of great material I’ve mentioned other movies that you could find on HBO Max, this is exclusive to them currently.

So go check it out Fake, Famous, good movie, really worth watch. And I like to thank Frank Kern for recommending it. He’s the one that mentioned it not not long ago on a video that he put out, and that’s why I went out and watch it.

So it kind of shows you the power of influencing online, especially even in the business space. Apart from Instagram, apart from a lot of the more poppy things. There’s definitely an area for we’re always influencing each other one way or another. Whether you consider that an influencer or not.

Hopefully, you’ll go out and check that out. We’re going to be back here tomorrow night. In the meantime, Hey, get out there and you let the magic happen.

Business Movie: Mary Poppins ☂️

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When you can stretch Mary Poppins into a business movie, you know you’ve got problems.

By hey, checkout what Brian has to say and perhaps you’ll see this classic in a different light.

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Business movie, Mary Poppins.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I’m going to give you a quick review of an older movie, okay, 1960s. And this is Mary Poppins, the original Walt Disney version.

I’m not talking about the new one that came out a few years back. This is the original one with Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke. And I want to go into this because it is, believe it or not a business movie. And it’s a personal business movie.

If you haven’t seen in a long time, or you haven’t seen it at all don’t let the name fool you. This isn’t just some, some silly little kid’s movie it is but it isn’t. There’s extra elements to it, that are very subtle, but indistinguishable.

When you when you watch it as an adult, especially if you’ve had kids, if you’ve been a parent, it can make a huge impact. I’ll get into that in a second.

But first, I wanted to remind you about the book that I have called, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. Be sure and get your own free copy over at night over at AmazonProofBook.com.

AmazonProofBook.com that’s where you can get a free one.

Now if you want to pay for it, you go get go get a hardcopy over at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com or any of the places that books are sold online, you could find it, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business go check it out.

Now, let’s get into Mary Poppins.

Why is Mary Poppins a business movie?

Well, it’s not as much a story about Mary Poppins, if you’ve ever seen the movie Saving Mr. Banks. That’s a lot of what that movie is about the behind the scenes of it. And it a lot of it is fantasy in that movie also.

But that movie, points to the fact that this was a story about the father more than anything else. Who’s the Father, the father’s Mr. Banks, he is the busy the consummate businessman. He is the guy that’s focused on the bottom line.

He’s focused on the numbers and has very little time for his family. Now, this brings up a point that I I like to talk about called virtuous diversions.

One of the major themes of the movie is, you’ve you’ve probably heard the tune or heard the expression, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, you know, or let’s go fly a kite.

You all these different little songs in the movie, it’s all about having virtuous diversions, away from business with your family if you have a family, but even if you don’t have a family, if you have something to do that isn’t bad for you. That is it habit forming or something like that, where it it’s it’s a diversion that pulls you away from reality, but more of a thing that lightens the mood that allows you to step away from business, it can improve your business, everything improves.

If you allow yourself the chance to step away once in a while, you’ve got to get outside of that world. And then step back into it, you can’t be in a 24 seven, you will burn out something will happen where it just will not end well.

It doesn’t matter what personnel, some personalities handle it a little better. If you have certain coordination, you might be able to handle nonstop work a lot better. But there’s other things to life.

For your own mortal soul, you’ve got to step back. And you’ve got to be able to smell the roses and that’s what this movie is really all about. In the end, that they do it. They tell the story through a little bit of the perspective of the children.

But through the perspective of the children, you see how crazy everyone else is in the story. And how Mary Poppins is just this correcting figure that helps to kind of straighten things out using chaos as a tool. But eventually, since things in a proper direction by the end of the movie worth saying. Absolutely, I mean, it’s got you’ve got amazing acting, you’ve got incredible music.

The Sherman Brothers wrote the music for this. You got incredible acting, the colors, the scenes, everything else you got, you got a whole lot of combination of animation, and matte paintings and all this stuff in the background. It’s just quality movie well worth seeing.

If you haven’t seen it since you were a kid, rewatch it now as an adult, if you haven’t seen it, since you’ve had children if you’ve had the pleasure of having children, go and check it out, because my wife said this is a completely different movie because she hadn’t seen it since we had our kids. Our oldest is six years old.

So it’s been a while and completely different movie, right?

So go check it out. Marry Poppins is a business movie, look at it from a personal perspective and see how you can apply the lessons to your life. So, hopefully that makes sense.

We’ll be back here tomorrow with another concept, another idea of principle, a strategy or tactic that you can use directly in your business to really explode your profits and defeat the competition. You have a great night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Business Movie: A Man For All Seasons 👀

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Now how can A Man For All Seasons be considered a business movie?

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Business movie: A Man For All Seasons.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I got to bring up a movie. That is, I don’t think in a million years you’ll ever hear someone refer to it as a business movie. But that’s what I like doing. I love really pointing to the ones that people wouldn’t normally think of.

This happens to be one of my favorite movies and it was different. It’s an odd type of movie. It’s not a very action packed movie. It’s very heavy on dialogue. It’s very old fashioned. It’s a slow running movie.

But there’s a real value to it in the long run. And what it is, this is a story of Thomas Moore, this guy here, who was the chancellor of England during the Reformation that took place in England when King Henry the Eighth kicked out the Catholic Church, and Sir Thomas Moore had an issue with it, but he couldn’t outright say it.

Because the way the laws were set up, that he could be tried for treason if he outright came out against it. But at the same end, he didn’t want to completely go with it. And so because he was a lawyer, found a way in between.

And what it really speaks to, there’s a whole bunch of different levels in this movie.

But one of the main things and I’m not going to ruin it for you, if you haven’t seen it yet, but one of the main themes that gets talked about over and over again, in subtle ways, is the idea of how to be very strong in your convictions, how to stick to your convictions, while at the same time not being so stupid as to be loud and obnoxious about them, in order to put yourself and your family in harm’s way.

Which is an interesting concept, especially nowadays, when a lot of people want to be as loud and, and outrageous with their opinions as possible and you just don’t know where that’s gonna lead.

Nowadays, things are things are crazy, you know, there’s people on all sides that are that don’t want you to have the opinion that you have, I guarantee it, regardless of what your opinion is, I guarantee there’s people that don’t want you to have it. And in power they may keep you from having it or keep you from expressing it.

And there’s a time and place for everything, not that you shouldn’t express your opinions. But at the same time, you have to consider all the options on the table and know when the right time and the wrong time is to say things and also be willing to face it when when you when you’re really being railroaded by government or anything else.

That’s a lot of what goes into this story here. It is a very deep story, it deals a lot with religious tones. But if you look beyond that point, you know, regardless of whether you have a Catholic perspective, or this was the beginning of the Anglican Church and Anglican perspective, or something completely different, it doesn’t matter if you can look past the religion, there’s a deeper, deeper, deeper meaning there.

And it’s the same concept in your business, it comes down to if you can be very careful about how you run your business, and very calm. That’s the one thing that this character has throughout the entire movie.

Once again, this isn’t necessarily based on pure This is based on a play, which isn’t necessarily completely true to history. So I don’t care as much about the historical person of Thomas Moore as I do about how he is portrayed in this movie, and how he holds himself in a very calm and even tone manner in order to have control it not control over others, but control over his own situation.

That’s what I really appreciated about the movie is he’s able to control in every situation in the scene, or at least keep others from trying to control him. He does that not by screaming them down. But he raises his voice when necessary not by being too quiet.

He just he keeps a calm manner and thoughtful and keeps his wits about him all the time and doesn’t get so wound up in some conviction that he makes it more important than what’s right in the moment.

So I don’t know if that makes us you go and watch the movie. I’d love to hear your opinions of it.

Leave a comment down below after you’ve seen it, and let me know if if you think that it’s a business movie, because I think it is. I think it’s a human movie. It’s about humans. But the leadership that is shown is the same leadership that you need in your business if you don’t already have it.

So, hopefully that’s helpful to you, hey, if you want to find more concepts to really be able to directly relate back to your business instead of just in a

metaphorical way, okay, if you want to direct relations, go check out my book, 9 Ways To Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can buy it anywhere that you buy books, and you can also get it over at AmazonProofBook.com.

Nowadays, Amazon is getting in some hot water for shutting down apps and everything else and taking away people’s hard drive cloud space, because they disagreed with how they’re running their company.

It’s a very interesting world we’re living in right now. And I think I happened on a very, a very popular title. So it’s, it’s interesting to see what’s happening, so hang in there. We’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, you get out there and let the magic happen.

Business Movie: Soul (2020)

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Brian reviews new Disney Plus, Pixar movie called Soul.

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Business movie soul from 2020.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. I just got to see Disney’s Disney Pixar’s new movie, which they released directly to Disney plus probably some other places, I’m not sure if you can get them all for free. But it comes along with a Disney plus subscription. And that’s the movie Soul. really worth seeing.

First off, if you have any experience with watching Pixar films, and you enjoy them, then it’ll be right up your alley. It’s a it’s a solid Pixar movie for sure. The topics that are handled are surprisingly adult, but my kids watch them, I’ve got kids, let’s say my oldest is six, my youngest is one.

And it kept their attention pretty well too, even though most of the stuff was way over their heads. There’s enough slapstick humor and everything in it, they kept going.

So I’m not going to ruin anything, there’s not gonna be any spoilers or anything. But I’m going to tell you, it has a lot to do with the mentality. That I mean, as humans, we all have, to some extent, but specifically to entrepreneurs, even though it doesn’t, there’s no one that’s directly talking about business, although there are a few conversations having to do with that.

And a lot of the conversations that have to do with being an employee v being versus an entrepreneur, or going to college versus doing it on your own, a lot of those things get battered around in this movie. And so that a lot of cool ideas there and a lot of different ways of looking at it.

One of the things that they spend a lot of time on is a person’s passion in life, the specific focus of the passion of your passion of the thing that gets you going, the thing you’re most interested in the thing that you talk about the most and think about the most, the thing that you almost feel like you were born to do, and whether that’s really the real thing that you’re meant to do.

Or whether that’s a placeholder or a description of what you’re about, or whether it really is something deeper than that, that you’re after. Is there something deeper in your life than merely your business than merely where you’re going what your goals are. Are you nothing more than your dreams?

Or is there something deeper Is there a deeper meaning behind what you’re doing in life, and it’s a great movie to be able to watch during New Years during this time of reflection.

Because I’m recording this story New Years of this new year days, specifically of 2021. And it’s a good one to go and watch. It’s very rare. For one thing, just artistically fabulous. I mean just amazing what they were able to do with the artwork in this movie, if you know anything about animation and computer animation, they’ve come so far leaps and bounds in what they’re able to do. And while at the same time Pixar is good at really making sure they keep it a cartoon, they keep it that cartoon stretch and feel to it.

That makes it superior in some ways to a live action movie, you could tell the same story in a live action movie, but there’s just a value that comes along with telling it via computer animation that makes such a big difference. So worth seeing. I wish I could be more specific at this time. But I’m not going to be because there’s a lot of people who haven’t seen it. I don’t want to spoil it for you.

Love to hear what you think if you saw it, did you not like it?

Did you like it?

Leave a comment down below. We’ll be back tomorrow, go check out Get yourself a free copy of my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

If you’re really looking for some strategies to really take things to the next level this year. If you’re looking to double, triple or whatever your profits, this is going to be a huge difference. The huge difference is really getting the competition that’s touch you in your mind getting them out of the way as much as possible.

And that’s what this book is all about, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. Go to AmazonProofBook.com for your own free copy AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back here tomorrow. Come on back and we’ll have another chat. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Friends & Enemies On The Internet

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Maybe you love it and maybe you’re repulsed by it (like me Producer Sean).

But Brian’s gonna talk about a little movie called the Social Network.