Geek TV—The Land Geek Recommended Shows

Hey, it's Mark Podolski, the land geek with your favorite niche real estate website, www.thelandgeek.com. and we've got the usual suspects, minus two missing. We've got Eric Peterson for this week's roundtable. Eric, how are you? I'm good. The technician, Eric Peterson, I should say. We got Bearland. Aaron Bearland. How are you? Welcome back.

Hey, I'm glad to be back. Too long of a hiatus.

It was too long. You were missed. Of course. We've got the nightcap meister, the nightcap OG dude, buddy. Scott Bossman. Scott, how are you?

Great, Mark. Thank you.

Good to see you. And then, of course, breathe in. The mailing, not the marketing. The zen master, Mike Zeno. Mike, how are you?

I'm doing wonderful. How are you, Mike?

I'm good. I'm good. And last but not least, Scott Todd, the flight school Sherpa. The professor, the brain from Scott todd.net landmodo.com and if you want to automate your Craigslist and your Facebook postings, posting domination.com the language. Scott Todd, how are you? Barking?

Great.

How are you?

I'm great. Speaking of Flight School and Flight School Live, today's podcast is sponsored by Flight School, Flight School Live. And if you want to start doing deals in real time with the Sherpa himself and Tate Litchfield at Flight School Live, learn more. Go to thelangeek.com training, schedule a call with either Scott Bossman or Mike Zano, and really start going up that mountain quickly, safely, efficiently, and save yourself so much time and headache. For sure. So we got that out of the way. We're in the. In summer, and I've got two of my three kids out. And, you know, so that. Dog days of summer, if you will. You know what my wife and I are doing every night? Well, you probably don't, because we're watching a lot of tv. I know what Boston was thinking, and I'd like to say that, you know, it. It's. It's all good there. But we have a.

Drinking wine. We talking about drinking wine?

Drinking wine. Napa wine. Absolutely. But we should be talking about our favorite, because last week we talked about our favorite books, our summary list. What are we watching these days? Netflix, Hulu, Amazon. I assume everyone who's listening has already cut the cord except for me, their favorite shows. So I promised Zano I wouldn't pick on him first. So let's just pick on the technician. Eric Peterson. What have you been watching these nights, these days? What's Your show recommendation, I'm gonna give you three.

So first of all, the family show for, you know, kind of nighttime before the kids head off to bed. We've been watching America's Got Talent. The kids enjoy that a lot, and it's. It's fun sometimes to watch. So we've got that. I won't give you my wife's pick. We'll skip over that one. But from Netflix, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say this. There's a show called Chef's Table. I don't know if anyone has seen it, but it's all about chefs and kind of like their whole process, like, getting their ingredients, and it's just like their whole story.

It's.

It's really interesting to me to see kind of like how they're coming up with their dishes and different things and just hear their stories. So I found that to be pretty cool. And we've got Jack Bauer moved to Netflix with Designated Survivor season three. Obviously, he's not Jack Bauer anymore, but I recently had the privilege of seeing him here in Franklin, Tennessee, at a local theater. He also sings. That was interesting. But, no, I like Designated Survivor. I watched the other two seasons on regular tv, and I'll be checking out the one on Netflix here soon.

Fantastic. Fantastic. Bearland. Aaron, what are you and Bearland Melissa watching these days?

Well, I. Melissa doesn't really watch too much tv, so the watch lists are pretty much just my stuff. So basically, you'll find an extensive collection of anything sci fi or car motorcycle related. But I'll give you my kind of my three picks on major platforms. Amazon, really like Grand Tour. It's the European guys, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May that used to do Top Gear, and they have their own Amazon special now called Grand Tour, and they're up to all kinds of zany antics with cars that none of us can afford on Netflix. I just finished 3%. It's kind of Hunger Games, ish, kind of, you know, series, but it's actually, I think, Spanish or something. But they, you know, it's. It's dubbed in English and it's done well, so it's not very distracting. Currently I'm watching DC's Legends on there, but. And then Hulu. This would be my adult selection. It is a show called Letterkenny, and it's kind of some country. Country farm guys in Canada. And it's a comedy, but it's fairly raunchy, so you definitely don't want to watch that with the kids.

Awesome. Awesome. All right, fantastic. And then the nightcapmeister, Scott Bossman.

Yeah.

What are you and Aaron watching? You got the, you know, if you're, if you're mixing in the family fun.

We do, we do mix in the family fun. Aaron and I are, we're slowly working our way through Game of Thrones. I read most of the books except the last, but then my son and I are watching one together. And this is definitely, it's definitely in line with the geekiness of our community. Mark, I don't know if you've ever seen Battlestar Galactica, the series that came out in 2005.

I have. I've seen the old Battlestar Galactica, but not the 2005 one.

Oh, it's. That series is actually very well written. The special effects are very good, and it's very suspenseful. Geeky show. So my son and I are making our way through Battlestar Galactica. For me, it's my second time.

Nice.

And then the show I watch when I'm folding laundry or whatever in the, in the living room, I like on Netflix, the David Letterman show. My next guest needs no introduction. I don't know if you guys have seen that, but Dave interviews a lot of celebrities, people in politics, and sits down with them for an hour and does a pretty in depth interview on where they're at in life. So he's done, you know, former presidents, movie stars, the woman who was. Or the young woman who was shot by the Taliban in her school bus a number of years ago, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. So that, that's a great show that I've enjoyed as well this summer.

Fantastic. Fantastic. Zen Master, are you ready?

I am ready. So, like Scott, we waited to all the, you know, all the media was gone. We're doing Game of Thrones, so we're currently on Season five is starting. So we got a ways to go with that. Really loving it. It's got the power, I think I said last week, to really depress you. So it's kind of interesting. And then once that's done, we get to finish the last season of Billions because we put that on hold because, you know, we got hooked into Game of Thrones, Although I haven't been too overwhelmed with this, what's happened so far with the Billions this season. I'm hoping that same thing with Ray Donovan. We never finished that one. That's a great series. But I don't know, sometimes these, see these shows, they go like maybe a season too long or something and it kind of dwindles. The rage at the Fire station everybody's talking about is Chernobyl.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And so they. They keep saying how phenomenal it is. I remember probably 15 years ago, we had a group of young kids from Chernobyl came over to the fire station for a tour and know the timeline, but they were definitely affected by that whole circumstance. And so there's a picture on the wall at the stations of me and other guy with those kids. So, you know, I didn't know that it was this series, and it's got a lot of, like, a really. A bunch of high reviews, so looking to do that. And then there's a standbys. I wait till everybody's done. I've heard great things about two other shows that I. Well, Marco Polo I want to see because I'm reading Genghis Khan and the Conquering of the Modern World. And this is about Kublai Khan, I think is in Marco Polo. And so that one. And then I've heard a great bunch of things about Dexter. I mean, I never really got into it, but I've heard people say, that's incredible. We could binge watch that. So try that.

Nice. Nice. I love it. All right, Scott, Todd. In between. In between, you know, probably having to reprogram your Surface when you have the time after you run that. That virus software a few times. And then you probably get a chance to, you know, relax and watch some. Some tv.

Well, first of all. First of all, the service that the two of them that I have, they run rock solid.

Okay.

Like, I can't imagine life without them. And in fact, they raised the bar, I think, for everybody else. I'm surprised that you guys haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet. However, just to set the record straight, the Surface is great. I'm able to watch great shows on them as well because they're so stable and rock solid, but I don't do a lot of TV watching. Okay. So, you know, like, basically, it's kind of weird. There are some things that have caught my attention, though. Let me tell you what we're doing. My wife and I are now, for the third time, I think. Third time, we are going back and watching Lost. Why? Because we just got back from Hawaii and we're like, oh, we were there. We're on that beach. We've been there, and we've forgotten them through time. So we're on a Lost kick right now. I think we just started season two last night, so. So we'll keep chiseling away at that. I did recently enjoy The HBO documentary the Inventor about the bad blood lady. That was really good. So if you haven't seen that, go watch it. It's forcing me or getting me to read the book. I talked about that last week. There's a new Showtime miniseries coming out, which I cannot think of the name of it. And it was really. It's. It just caught my attention. But sadly, I can't even think of.

The name of it right now.

But whatever. The newest miniseries on Showtime. Go check that out, because I'm going to. That's it.

All right. Fantastic. Fantastic. Well, wait, one more thing.

You know what your favorite series is, though, Mark, for nighttime watching, is it.

The Story of Steve Jobs?

No. The nightcap. The nightcap. Just go watch all. Go, go binge. All those. They're great.

Yeah. Between nightcap and lots. That is some really good watching there, Mike.

Yeah, Mark, I was wondering, Scott said this is a third time watching. I'm curious, have you figured out the ending yet or is that why you're watching it?

Well, I think we have. I think we have come to. We've noticed a few things in Lost. So one, it's interesting because what we've noticed is that whatever happened in their real lives kind of gets exponentially blown up on the island. So as an example, the character that plays Michael in the show, you know, he, He. He was not married, but the mother of his child kind of took the child away from him and moved to another country. And, you know, so, like, that's on a small scale. But then he gets them back. They, they. They're on this plane, they end up on the island, but then on the island, the others come and take the child away again. So it's whatever happened exponential. Charlie is a. Charlie has a heroin problem in real life, and then on the island, he gets a bigger heroin problem because the plane filled with heroin crashes on the plane, and he becomes addicted to it. So everything that happens in their real lives, we think kind of gets blown up in proportion on the island. And basically the, the ending, we obviously, they. All the people that are there have died and they've moved on to heaven. And that's kind of like the conclusion of it. So we're picking up some spoiler alert. They've all seen Lost. If not, they're like, yeah, it's taken me three times to figure out what the heck happened. So, you know, spoiler, Spoiler. Mark, just put in the warnings. Put in the warning. Don't listen to Scott's thing. It's a spoiler like 10 years old. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, at what point do we not care anymore?

That's true. All right. So for me, as far as, like, being a good dad with each one of my kids, it's very important that I watch with them Arrested Development. So, yes, that's like. That is like a family tradition with each child. We watch Arrested Development together because there's always money in the banana stand. Alright, so that's one of them. Now the other, the other documentary that we have to watch together, which I think is a phenomenal sort of way of explaining success in life, is Jiro Dreams of Sushi. And here's this guy that takes a very simple thing and is the best in the world at it. Right? I mean, just what is it? It's rice, little soy sauce, little wasabi and fish. But he's the best in the world at it. And it's a really interesting documentary, especially to watch with the kids. And if you're not even a sushi fan, you might be after watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi. And then as far as adult, the adult shows are, for me, I love Black Mirror, especially being techie and geeky. Really just love Black Mirror. And then, you know, Mike, I did finish Billions. I do recommend Billions as far as for those of you that you know, I think it's a great show, especially if you're an entrepreneur. You have this sort of sense that you never have enough. Right now you get to watch the ego run rampant in Billions because even the billionaires don't feel like they have enough. They don't have enough power, they don't have enough money, and it's just never enough. And he's just watching real time how that. That void destroys almost every important relationship to them. So Billions is this great show, but also a cautionary tale. And then another cautionary tale, of course, is Handmaid's Tale, which we are now current on. And that's a tough show to watch. But if you can, I think it's really well done, for sure. Those are. Those are my picks. I'm expecting Scott Todd to, you know, come up with some kind of snarky comment about, like, oh, well, you know, everyone in the Handmaid sales using a surface. So.

No, I wouldn't know because I've tried to watch that show and it's like, yeah, it doesn't catch me. So I don't know, give it another run. Well, I've given it two seasons. I gave it maybe.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, I gave it a season And a half. And I don't know, it's. They kind of creep me out when they wear their little hats and stuff. So I think I'm out.

And then you.

Then you see the people, like, wearing those costumes at like, you know, protest, and it really freaks me out. They're like clowns.

Okay, look, chocolate. Some people vanilla.

But it probably was all created on the surface.

Well, I can tell you for sure it wasn't because there's no stoppage. Like, okay, now run your antivirus during the show. Okay. It just runs continually. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

Yeah.

So. So it's really cool to watch. So we are now at that point in the podcast on this very light roundtable where we have not discussed one piece of land investing. I feel like, Scott Bossman, you should give us like one case study of something.

One case study, huh? Yeah, I mean, I just did a deal last week. I picked up a piece of land wholesale in an area that I had a strong buyers list because I came across it, I thought it was a good deal and I thought I had a buyer on the hook. And turns out I had a buyer on the hook. So I got a nice terms deal out of that for 135amonth for 60 months, and I get my money out in 12 months. So it's kind of a nice way to acquire property without mailing and make it happen pretty quickly.

I love it. I love it. I want to congratulate our coaching client, Luke Harris for completing his hundredth deal and he's at now 7200amonth in passive income. Congrats to Luke. And again, if you want to learn how to be like Scott or Luke, just go tolandgeek.com training and now we're at that point where we are going to get a really valuable tip from Bearland. Aaron. Bearland, Aaron, what's the tip of the week?

Well, I was trying to figure out a way to kind of do a landing page for my deal week and maybe my first look, properties for my VIPs and, and my mailing platform has landing pages, but they don't really work for that kind of purpose the way they're laid out and stuff. So I was looking around and there's Leadpages and some companies that offer landing pages services. And it's really nice, but it's an additional cost and I didn't feel that I was quite ready to take on that additional cost at this point in my business. And I got a notification from Dropbox that, you know, said that they'd revamped or creating this service called Paper. So I looked into it and it's really quite nice. You can set up a template that you can utilize over and over. It's, you know, very rich as far as media goes. You just kind of drop in pictures, drop in videos, you can create tables on it, all kinds of neat stuff. And then you've got a shareable link. So, you know, it's not necessarily going to be indexable by Google. But I don't know that that's really the purpose of, you know, that sort of landing page that you would use for your email list and that sort of thing. So, you know, you can just include that shareable link right in your email. People click through it. You can even put your down payment link in the paper and, and everything will work. It's a nice little, nice little area. They also, you can link to various folders within your Dropbox if you want to share some further information for people to look at too. So I think it is a nice little solution for your emails. And it's free.

I love it. I love it. I feel like we should really have Eric Peterson pick it apart graphically to see if it's, you know, a good enough landing page. But on the surface of it, without looking at it and without having Eric give him, give the aesthetic seal of approval, I think it's great. Oh, here he just. Wow, that's bold. All right, Eric.

Well, it's just the template in real time.

Let's take a look at the template. I'm opening mine now. Let's see. It's, it's opening. By the way, I'd be curious, am I the only one that has Firefox as their, their site? Like are you guys Chrome or browser?

No way, man.

I mean, I know, I know Scott's probably Internet Explorer, but besides, you know.

Actually called Edge.

Wow.

Wow. That's because they had to rebrand it because it was so bad.

Tell me. I thought I have to log in, barely.

Oh, you don't, you don't have to open.

You have it open.

Yeah.

Why can't I open it?

Aaron, where's your Animoto video?

I had to log in as well.

I didn't place a video in it yet, but you can, you can drop a video right in there.

Okay.

In it. I, I, a lot of, some of mine I'll do through YouTube and I'll just send them to private but or non, non public or whatever. But it will, it'll do the, the frame. So you can drop your video right in there and you know, it's got the iframe. Why are you smiling?

Oh, no. Bear land.

He just.

He just hacked it.

What did he do? See, that's because I shared it.

You shared the live link?

Well, to you guys.

All right, so you wouldn't normally do that. What do you think, Eric Peterson? I mean, looking at. I'm looking at the nearest town, nearest major city, amenities list, property details, additional images.

No, I think as long as you can protect it so people can't change it, you know, I think it's a decent solution for a free landing page. I mean, you could. You could easily put your animoto video here. You could put all your images, your content. I mean, to link your deal a week off to that. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.

It's that a way to say you don't like it.

A decent solution sounds like a technical way to say you don't like it.

I'm not gonna use it myself because I like using lead pages, but it's paid. So I think for people getting started, just like we recommend Mailchimp because it's free, but, you know, I use ConvertKit. You know, it's the. It's the same philosophy there.

Yeah. You know, speaking of free, there was a new free course about how to train your VA's that people are going crazy about. Scott Todd, you want to talk about that?

Yeah.

If you go to investor ninjas.com free and register for free, there's a class in there. It's called My Favorite Favorite tool for training VAs. And in, like, less than 40 minutes, you will have the tool, the ultimate tool that you need to train your VAs to keep them up to date. And it's beautiful because, Mark, like, I know that you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but, you know, like, you go. You go and you make a training video, for example, like a zoom call. And you're like, hey, this is how you do it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You train them, and then like two weeks later, the developer of the website goes in there and they change something so the screen looks different. And then the VA is like, well, I don't see it anymore. Or maybe it's a couple years later, and the new VA is like, this looks different. So then you're like, okay, well, let's get on an update call or let me update it for you. Or let me just do an addendum. Then you get this, like, kooky database of training Videos, whatever. This tool is so cool. You do screenshots. You type in what you want it to say, like, and it will, it will create a video for them with annotations. It will speak it in a voice that you wouldn't even believe is a computer generated one. It's so dang real. And if you ever need to change a screen on the fly, you just go to pop in a new screenshot, just modify it and it updates it automatically. No processing, whatever. Here's the link. Just go ahead and use it again. It is a rock solid tool, is a free tool. And I gave them free training. I gave away free training@investorninjas.com I just.

Ruined my microphone from the drool.

Yeah, yeah. I'm telling you, this is a game changer. This free product is a game changer. Like, I'm in love with it.

I'm not.

Like, literally the other day someone on my team asked me something and I sat on an airplane, not flying. I was passenger 35,000ft and I'm like typing out the training video and like, literally 10 minutes I sent the video. It turned out to be a one minute video, but it was screenshots of do, do, do, do, do. This is what I want to say. And it's editable, easy on the fly, easy on the eyes. It makes training vas easy. I wish I would have had this five years ago. I probably would have been like, I don't know. As big as you are now.

That's a bold statement, but okay, that's great.

Go big or go home.

I'm gonna go watch. Oh yeah, exactly. I'm gonna go watch the video. So I want to thank all the listeners. And if you're enjoying the roundtable, if you're enjoying the podcast, the biggest favor you can do, share it on the social medias, on the interwebs, send it to a friend, email to a friend, and then for the, for just send us some love. You know, Eric Peterson, the technician looks at me every day and says, mark, has anyone subscribed, rated or reviewed the podcast today? And do you know what type of shame spiral I have to go into when I say no? And the look of disappointment on his face. So for my sake, subscribe rate, review the podcast, send us a screenshot of that review to support@thelandgeek.com we're going to send you for free the passive income launch kit. Eric, was that good?

That was awesome.

All right, are we good?

We're good.

Maryland Aaron.

We're great.

Scott Bossman.

Awesome.

Zen master, very good surface.

I mean, Scott, Todd, look, I want.

To tell Aaron I like what you have here. Only problem is, like, I'm messing with paper here and I'm adding stuff to it like my own. And I can't figure out how to delete the little, little elements that they put on there. It doesn't make sense. Like, what's wrong with Dropbox you can't delete the stuff you put on there. What do you mean? Like these little elements, you can't delete them. Well, there's a delete button on that one, but this one doesn't even have a delete.

Deleting all his elements.

No, I'm deleting my own elements.

I changed everybody's access.

Oh, man. Doggy.

Yeah, that's why, because I, I said you can comment now, you can't edit.

So hit delete all.

I trusted you guys and you let me down. You messed with my stuff.

That was funny, though.

There was a lot of Greek in there.

I like it.

We're good.

Are we ready to do this?

1, 2, 3, let.

It never sounds good ever.

In person it does at the boot camp.

Yeah, in person it does. I know boot camp's coming up in a month. Holy cow. Are we ready for that? I'm excited. Vegas. Vegas.

We gotta figure out, we gotta figure out a summer destination, man, because this summer is Vegas. Last summer was Phoenix. The summer before that was Vegas. We gotta find somewhere that's like, I don't know, not, not like 100 and.

Something degrees in Mississippi, in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin's got mosquitoes. And, you know, that's not so good. It's like the, you know, their national bird is the mosquito.

It's true.

I don't know, maybe we maybe got to go to like California.

California is great. It's just that, you know, no one wants to spend 500 bucks night at the Holiday Inn Express.

I'm sure you can work some magic deal, man. Danielle's magic. She. She can negotiate and get us a good deal somewhere.

No, I know, but you know, the Westin Vegas, it's gonna be great. Air conditioned. It's air conditioned the whole time. When do we ever go outside? We don't go outside, but the attendees do. Okay.

All right.

I think it's a great way to vet the attendees who are serious about land investing because the ones who are serious on that Saturday morning are there for the bonus session. Everyone else in Vegas, they come in bleary eyed like, oh, land investing.

Because this is the first one we've had near the strip.

Right.

Are we going to require people to blow to, like, get access to the room?

Like, illegal.

Crossman's gonna stand there with the breathalyzer.

Yeah, that would be interesting. Should we put an under over?

Yeah, seriously, I think we're gonna have some new games.

Listen, we might have some good stories.

Yeah, for sure. All right, well, I got another call soon, so I gotta run. But what do you guys have going on the rest of the day?

It's nice to buy a car.

Car. Yeah.

Go buy a car, maybe.

Nice.

What are you getting scattered about? A boat?

A BMW 3 Series. It's not a new one. It's a few years old, but my wife's tired of the gas that the Escalade sucks down. And the kids have their own vehicles now, so I think she's wanting to downsize into something more fun.

Get the Model 3. Get the Tesla. No. Then you have to worry about gas prices.

We're not. We're not. Yeah, we're not quite in that price range yet. We're not buying anything.

Travel too far.

I was gonna say two hours away.

There's no charging stations out here. I mean, there's like. Wouldn't be able to go anywhere, but I mean, that's the charging station.

I've got.

Watering trough.

Why wouldn't they add like a solar panel to it so it can charge itself?

There's like $120,000. One that has a solar panel on top. Like the Fisker, but it's not called the Fisker anymore. I forgot what it was. We saw it at Newport beach, but had like a. Like a solar panel on top, you know, that'd be fun, I guess.

Yeah.

Fiskers are like a 200 mile an hour car too, I think.

Yeah, no, it's. It's fast. You don't see too many of them, though. I've seen like one out here, but I don't know. All right, well, I'm gonna go start and text the wife about all the new shows we have to watch. Now, Battlestar Galactic is gonna be a tough sell, but I'm gonna try.

She'll enjoy it. Actually, there's a great drama component to that show. Drama, Action, Sci Fi. It'.

Yeah, I think. I think the negotiation might be okay. I watch Battlestar Galactica, but you gotta watch Big Little Lies.

That's a good show.

I like that one. Good show. Aaron and I watch that one.

All right, all right. I'm not afraid.

Tell her Galactica's a love story, because that's really what it is?

Yeah, I'll tell you. It's like a Hallmark based in space.

Hey, man, my sister and my niece were in a Hallmark movie.

Really?

True, man, true. Like, I think it was Memorial Day weekend. They were. Whatever they filmed, they had filmed one here in Florida, and my sister and niece, they were in there, like, in one of the scenes. They were there. They had to go there all day as a stand in or extra. They were in the show all day, and it was really kind of cool to see them. When the show started, I was like, asking everybody, like, does anybody have any idea how this one's gonna end? It can't. I'm clueless. I did not win any fans that day by asking that question.

You know what? You're the guy in the beginning of the show. Yeah, yeah. You're like. You're like the slick corporate guy in the beginning of the show. Not present on his phone.

Not paying attention to the wife.

Paying attention.

No, no.

It's never the wife. It's always the girlfriend.

The girlfriend. Right, right.

Well, that.

That would be a pretty good one, I think, if they. If they had that with the wife, and the wife's like, I'm shutting this shit down and add it more into real life, you know, I think that would be the better way to go. Maybe you and I should collaborate on.

A Hallmark show, Mark.

Think it would be, like, based on a piece of Roland. I think the plot is that, you know, there's. There's like some. Some tension between the two companies. Right. And then, you know, all of a sudden, the wives discover we have hearts of gold, and we're really, you know. Yeah. Initially, we were going to buy the property 25 cents the dollar, but then they discover that, yes, we are still going to buy 25 cents on the dollar, but it's because we're handling their tax problem, actually help the community collect tax revenue. And then that final kiss at the end of appreciation for it.

Listen, I have the perfect filming locations. I know. Sure it is.

We'll.

We'll talk later, Mark.

Okay, awesome. All right, thanks, guys.