Summer of content

0:00 Half the globe is now having summer starting, so what are your recommendations? For books, can be fiction, nonfiction, it can be poetry, it can be podcasts, it can be movies, it can be TV series, anything we can consume, just throw it in. If you're fan of Isaac Asimov and you think you have missed something or you have never checked his foundation series, here's your chance. This is a treasure for audiobook versions. They are all available free of charge and I will also put into the comments the link where you can directly download all the files and you can just upload your phone with goodies and you are good to go. If you love fiction there's a lot of already copyright experts, so if you are interested in fiction, I recommend you to check out the books here. The quality varies, but for the K probably you will find something.

0:58 And as long as I don't understand certain authors thoroughly like Deutsch or Popper or Krishnamurti or Osho or Anthony de Mello or Nisargadatta Maharaj, for example, a lot of these Eastern philosophers, Western philosophers, if as long as I haven't read every Borges short story, as long as I haven't read The Great Scientist, I'm not going to read any of them. I'm going to read a lot of this as long as I haven't made it through Feynman's six not-so-easy pieces. Why do I need to pile up more books? A book that took me a whole summer to read some 30 years ago was "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Peirzig. I just enjoyed it so much. It is a lovely, beautiful story of a father trying to reconnect with his son after having had a big, I don't know what you could call it, a big health issue, mental health issue.

2:07 And then also rediscovering his philosophy and his philosophy around quality. The reason it took me so long time is because it is profound and I had to reread some sentences and some chapters many, many times. And I don't think I still quite grasped it. I think it might be one of those last books on my pile, using Naval's criterion for piling up another book. What did you do last summer? Last summer, my son and I did something very fun. He was curious about movies that I have been talking about as my best movies. So we started with downloading "The Raven Flies" from YouTube and watching that. And it was good enough for him to wanting to see more of the movies that I have been talking about.

3:17 Yeah, that was super fun. And we also started to look at his favorite movies. I got to see "Baby Driver", which is awesome, and a lot of them. And from there, we just went on to looking at "Rotten Tomatoes" and "IMDb" for movies with particularly high ratings or particularly low ratings. And just, yeah, we had so much fun that summer. Here's the big hack. If you have kids, read to your kids. Both of you win. This is a great read. It's about a Swedish guy who headed off into the forest when he was 20 to kind of deal with some personal problems. And he found himself and through his love of running. Yeah, I can definitely recommend it. I've lent it to a few people and they've already enjoyed the book. So yeah, it's a good read.

4:15 Pro tip. There's about an extra hour to two's worth of Rick and Morty content on YouTube that is actually not in Rick and Morty itself. It's various promos and trailers from Adult Swim put together. I highly recommend you to look up Mr. Meeseeks Battle and to look up Run the Jewels, as well as there's kind of like a Samurai parody. Really, really good stuff that's not in the normal Rick and Morty episodes. This French new series is pretty similar with the previous ones like Frequency, Dark and Alice in Borderland. So it's the past and the future talking to each other and solving things together. But when you do that, things start to become messy and complex. In some of these series, the effects become so chaotic that you cannot predict and you don't really know what to do because whatever you do is changing things. So we're getting back to the multiverse.

5:34 If you liked the first John Wick movie, Nobody is pretty much on the money and you probably will enjoy this one as well. The Japanese, the blacklist imitation is, well, let's put it this way. It's more watered down version of the original, more family friendly and more silly dialogue. If you remember the TV series called Married with Children, this is the next upgrade where instead of a shoe salesman, there's a football coach. And the twist is that the boy in the family, the young one, is young Sheldon. And why does Sheldon ring a bell? Well, Big Bang Theory. This is pretty decent, high quality production, which is playing with a theme of post-COVID era world where things are not going as they are here with us now.

6:30 Light entertainment, a little bit of car chases, which are decently done and mixed with some musical tracks.