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The James Altucher Show

836 - Trung Phan: The untold obstacles of 'The Godfather'!

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Do you know that "The Godfather" almost didn't happen?In this episode, Trung Phan, a contributor for SatPost, and Bloomberg, and co-hosted the Not Investment Advice (NIA) podcast, came on to talk about the obstacles and challenges that were faced by "The Godfather", and even Hollywood during that time faces a lot of challenges itself too! We also talked about the origin of  "The Godfather", how was it written, why was it written, and how did the casting go! Also, you can read his Twitter thread about The Godfather here: https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/thread/1502687845831503872Also, make sure you follow him on his substack! https://trungphan.substack.com/Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger show.

0:10.0

Let's get right into it.

0:14.0

Thanks for joining us again, Fron.

0:15.8

Absolutely.

0:16.8

100% my pleasure.

0:17.8

Well, so interesting about the last podcast we did, which was on certain aspects of Doritos

0:22.9

that you had uncovered and then I hopefully added to.

0:26.2

But it shows that how many life lessons can be learned from the obscure parts of our

0:33.7

life that we just take for granted.

0:35.8

No, absolutely.

0:36.8

I mean, it was like 37 years I never thought about Doritos and I'm like, oh my God.

0:41.6

Look at him.

0:42.6

Like this is absolutely wild and a complete afterthought like you said, right?

0:46.8

Never thought about it, but the amount of effort that goes into it is astounding.

0:50.7

Right.

0:51.7

He was lessons on food, lessons on investing because why did Archie West decide that this

0:58.4

was the product he was going to put his entire life behind, lessons on the value of data

1:04.9

because they use data in the, they spent $50 million on data in 1994 when they redesigned

1:09.8

the Dorito and on and on.

1:11.3

There are so many lessons for business for life, everything.

1:14.4

So I just want to say is what these consumer products have actually realized when you dig

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