Favorite TV Shows

• Diff’rent Strokes
• The Wonder Years
• Night Court
• Married with Children
• The A-Team
• Magnum PI
• Family Ties
• Golden Girls
• Who’s the Boss
• Dukes of Hazzard
• Mr. Belvedere
• Growing Pains
• Perfect Strangers
• Friends
• Growing Pains
• Three’s Company
• Cheers
• Cosby Show
• Alf
• Coach
• Roseanne
• Saved By the Bell
• Taxi
• In Living Color
• Good Times
• Chappelle’s Show
• Narcos
• House of Cards
• Silicon Valley
• The League
• Billions
• Friends from College
• Ozark
• Sneaky Pete
• Breaking Bad (the greatest show of all time)

Favorite Books

• The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Tribe by Sebastian Junger
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• Stephen King’s non-horror books (Misery, Shawshank Redemp-
  tion, On Writing)
• Anything by Steven Pressfield
• Anything by Tim Ferriss
• Anything by Ryan Holiday
• Anything by James Altucher
• Anything by Malcolm Gladwell
• Anything by Seth Godin
• Anything by Kamal Ravikant
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
• Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
• The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall
• The Gas We Pass by Shinta Cho
• Everyone Poops by Taro Gome
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Favorite Movies

• The Shawshank Redemption
• Talladega Nights
• Step Brothers
• Goodwill Hunting
• The Breakfast Club
• Weird Science
• Happy Gilmore
• Swingers
• Tommy Boy
• Heat
• Ghostbusters
• There’s Something About Mary
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Naked Gun
• Billy Madison
• Caddyshack
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
• Police Academy
• Animal House
• Sixteen Candles
• Scarface
• Goodfellas
• The Godfather 1 & 2
• All Mission Impossible movies
• Argo

Favorite Podcasts

• Tim Ferriss
• James Altucher
• Your Mom’s House
• Bertcast
• Joe Rogan Experience
• TED Talks
• Smart Passive Income
• Gimlet Podcasts
• Serial
• Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast

Favorite Places

• The entire country of Italy
• Negril, Jamaica
• Charlotte, North Carolina
• Oriole Park at Camden Yards
• San Francisco
• Chicago
• The Dock/beach in front of my old house
• Frank’s Pizza
• Charleston/Isle of Palms
• Any comedy club
• Any trampoline place
• Irish bars

Favorite Food

• Pizza
• Ice cream
• Turkey burger and tots from Bad Daddies
• Zucchini and squash
• Brussel sprouts
• Giant salad
• Fish
• Lemons

Favorite Possessions

• Cards you guys have given to me
• Pictures you have given me (but not the crappy ones)
• My dad’s wedding ring
• My books
• Family photos
• Notebooks and pens
• PS4
• Sports equipment

Favorite Concerts

• Prince (fifth row) @ Time Warner Arena
• Better Than Ezra @ Hammerjacks
• Tesla @ Hammerjacks (Music was so-so. Friends were amazing)
• Everclear @ The Electric Factory
• Red Hot Chili Peppers / Foo Fighters @ PNC Amphitheatre
• Rage Against the Machine / Wu-Tang Clan @ Merriweather Post
• Jack Johnson @ PNC Amphitheatre
• Tibetan Freedom Festival @ RFK Stadium
• Bruno Mars @ Spectrum Arena
• U2 @ Cow Palace (Dreamforce Event)
• Bad Company @ PNC Amphitheatre
• Zac Brown @ PNC Amphitheatre

Things I Don’t Like

• Cats
• Feet
• Coffee
• Other people’s farts or dogs
• Old people
• Other people

Favorite Days In My Life

• Wedding day
• Birth of my kids
• Any day in Italy
• The day I heard my mom drop a surprising f-bomb

Favorite Clichés / Sayings

• Follow the money.
• The truth is somewhere in the middle.
• There’s a positive and negative to almost everything in life.
• Cash Me Outside. How Bout ’Dat?
• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
• A penny saved is a penny earned.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• All good things come to those who wait.
• All things must pass.
• Beggars can’t be choosers.
• Better late than never.
• Better safe than sorry.
• Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
• Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
• Don’t try to walk before you can crawl.
• Easy come, easy go.
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
• Fo’ shizzle.
• Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
• History repeats itself.
• If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well.
• If at first you don’t succeed try, try and try again.
• If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
• If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
• It’s better to give than to receive.
• It’s the early bird that gets the worm.
• It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
• Misery loves company.
• Money doesn’t grow on trees.
• Money makes the world go round.
• Money talks.
• Never judge a book by its cover.
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
• Opportunity only knocks once.
• Out of sight, out of mind.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Rome wasn’t built in a day.
• The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
• The ends justify the means.
• The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• The pen is mightier than sword.
• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
• There’s no time like the present.
• Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
• Worrying never did anyone any good.
• You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Favorite Comedians

• Louis CK
• Mark Normand
• Bert Kreischer
• Tom Segura
• Joe Rogan
• Bill Burr
• Bobby Lee
• Dave Chappelle
• Eddie Murphy
• Nick Di Paolo
• Dave Attell
• Jim Florentine
• Anthony Jeselnik
• Jeff Ross
• Artie Lange
• Jim Norton
• Ricky Gervais
• Theo Von

Favorite People

• Mike Rowe
• Tim Allen
• Sara Blakely
• James Altucher
• Tim Ferriss
• Austin Kleon
• Ron Paul
• Derek Sivers
• Peter Thiel
• Joe Rogan
• Jason Bateman
• Tom Segura
• Bert Kreischer
• Penn Jillette
• Ryan Holiday
• Anthony Bourdain
• Courtney Luck Weaver
• The Honorable Bill Murray

Favorite Blogs

• Austin Kleon
• Wait But Why
• Brain Pickings
• James Altucher
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree

People I Follow For Advice

• Tim Ferriss
• James Altucher
• Austin Kleon
• Ramit Sethi
• Seth Godin
• Charlie Hoehn
• Scott Adams
• Kamal Ravikant
• Ryan Holiday
• Jason Fried
• Matt Mullenweg
• Reid Hoffman
• Marc Andreessen
• Oren Klaff
• Hiten Shah
• Pat Flynn
• Brian Clark
• Derek Siver

Favorite Things To Do

• Hang out with my kids and wife
• Watch football
• Watch movies
• Go to concerts
• Go to comedy shows
• Work on my businesses
• Make fun of others
• Send inappropriate text messages to my friends
• Travel for fun (traveling for work sucks)
• Make people laugh
• Play sports
• Play games

Favorite Drinks

• Cold water
• Any lager
• Lemon and lime tonic

Favorite Bands / Genres

• Better Than Ezra
• Pearl Jam
• Bruno Mars
• Zac Brown
• Counting Crows
• DMB
• Everclear
• Hole
• Jack Johnson
• Live
• Matchbox 20
• Wu-Tang Clan
• Michael Jackson
• Biggie
• Nirvana
• OutKast
• Rage Against the Machine
• The Smashing Pumpkins
• U2
• Skynyrd
• CCR
• Kid Rock
• 2Pac
• Dr. Dre
• Snoop
• Audioslave
• 90’s Rap
• 90’s Alternative
• 70’s Classic Rock