 Your hairs are in my food. They're in my hair. They're everywhere. I have plenty of them out there. Welcome back to Life Lessons in Film today. We'll be making a sense of life through Moneyball. It's a wonderful movie and I'm super emotional about it. It's okay. It's okay. I remember the general thing of you know the Oakland athletics are in a total slump. Don't have a high budget and they're desperate. You know they're falling apart in terms of their franchise and so the general manager Brad Pitt's character tries something radical and after going to a meeting to make some deals, some trades picks up a guy that is doing a whole new way of putting teams together which is based on statistics averages and economics and all this kind of stuff. Not based on are they attractive? Will people follow them around because they have a crush on this player or because they have a attractive partner? All this kind of stuff. They just look at you know can they get on base? Can they can you squish squeeze out some some wins you know? Everyone's put everyone is pushing back against the change, against the evolution of a way of looking at the game. The coach still wants to continue doing it all the way. The reason I'm really sad. Still hope you're going to make me cry more. The reason I'm upset is I always get super sad about when people that are that don't have the resources fight for their lives despite all the odds been being placed against them. I always feel so sad when they don't succeed in the way that they want to. This guy you know he finds Jonah Hill's character whose name is? It's Jonah Hill. They managed to get this team which the entire country doesn't believe in anymore. They are literally bottom, bottom league. Yeah bottom the laughing stock of the baseball league and he believes in them so much. He believes in the team so much. He used to he was a baseball ball player himself and he later he talks about how he in the past let himself be influenced by money and promised himself that he would never do that again. So there's a lot of I would say skin in the game for him emotionally. Despite the fact that he finds Jonah Hill's character and they make a success out of this new way of doing things they still and they obviously get 20 wins in a row and that is amazing record in world record and that's a huge accomplishment absolutely fantastic incredible without the resource without the financial resources because you know baseball there's a lot of money in there and it just spoke to the realities of a lot of teams in general that are under resourced under resourced or people in general from different walks of life that are under resourced and have to you know hustle and you know work around the system and eventually the Red Sox which does try to get Brad Spit character to you know to hire him. He doesn't want to they're offering a lot of money but he still doesn't want to because of that connection that he has to baseball it's not about the money and it's about the love for the team and he put so much work into this team and he believes in it so much and he wants to see it succeed and and so he sticks around and that is absolutely noble it says in the end of the credit they talk about how he's still working with the Oakland days and they still haven't won and it made me so sad because you know this is apparently based on a true story and it made me sad because of just that reality of you can really only go so far if you aren't if you come from a certain position in life if you're talking about people in society then then if you're poor you can only really go so far if you're talking about teams if you're an under resourced you can only go so far no matter how much heart you have no matter how much how much time you put in. How that plays a part in someone's self-esteem confidence how they see themselves right you can try a whole new way of looking at things and approaching life or or a job or any kind of method or technique but again if you're still given just the the bear like nothing right if you start from the bottom they might be winning 20 games in a row and they still lose like it'll affect people in ways that they don't intangible right they don't even understand because you know they're like but you know we're doing something that no one else has ever done but simply there's other forces at work that will still keep people only able to really achieve so much and then that's that level of confusion and stuff that's out of your control can really impact people in ways again that they they don't even understand. If you have the money and you already finding team players that already are all privileged themselves already coming from a more comfortable position versus if you are the open A's you already under resourced but then you have people that don't have confidence in themselves and then you question yourselves more like the great but at the end where Jonah Hill's like I just want to show you something and he shows a clip of a guy that gets a home run but because he's a guy that no one ever expected him himself he doesn't expect that he could ever get a home run yeah that he's that good a hitter that he just assumes I can't even try and get to second base automatically not the person that can do that exactly and that's that's the thing right you it's that complex that you have that it's so internalized that even when you do succeed you don't even realize it you can't even notice it you don't even look out for the possibility of success this guy didn't even look to see oh wait did I maybe I hit a home run I'm not gonna run he just automatically because of this internalized sense of inferiority he just decided that of course I definitely didn't hit it and he's running can't even see because you know you hit the ball and you can generally get an idea of like oh I wonder no that's because he's someone that just it's like it disappeared it's like he just assumes okay I hit it and I'm gonna go to first he's so blinded the idea of even seeing maybe that I got a home run because it's not even in his mind that that can be a possibility exactly there's no hope it's like you have been beaten down so much by life by people that you don't even have you can't even compute that there is a sliver of possibility that you could maybe even yeah come out on top that was something you're capable of yeah I feel conflicted here because you know it's one of those things where you're like okay this guy worked really hard the way of the world is that if you were him like Brad because character in that movie you started out with the small team the Red Sox wants you that means you are winning in life you go and play for the Red Sox you know and so I guess I was conflicted and probably it's just one of those things me being conditioned as well I guess this part of the conditioning in the world right there these levels and the Red Sox is another level right hierarchical you think and so that's where you'd say okay well if he'd gone there he would have won for sure because he's already applied this thing and he probably could have taken Jonah Hill's character along and would have been fantastic and so they could celebrate together look now people recognize it clearly you know we we changed the game we did what we were hoping to do yeah but again when I think about it right like I would like there's part of me that's that feels like oh that would have been great but at the same time would it have been really great because of that of the way that this guy sees this this is family to him this the Oakland A's it's like leaving it's like this this symbol it represents more than just you know he's there's that loyalty that he can't and and you know it also kind of feels like it's a baseball version of say an artist who is committed to their work and then a you know big company wants to buy it up and then it changes it exactly and it's not theirs anymore and it happens all the time and so for him to basically make that decision of no that again this isn't really what I that drives me yeah the thing that I know for for sure is that I definitely feel like he made the right decision because he says if he had gone with the Red Sox he wouldn't have really changed the game you ultimately because as much as the Red Sox adopts this new way over this new method it's still within the context of the system of it's just kind of co-opting yeah your your co-op that's basically the Red Sox appropriates this they can do that because they have money and so for it this new method to truly be a success it would be the underdog yeah if if the underdog actually succeeded that would be that would be the success to the game but with the Red Sox taking over and having that much money because even says the Red Sox talks about it he's like well you know when you have money the great thing about baseball is that the rules don't matter if you have money and that's the reality of life the great thing about life for people who have money is that the rules don't matter if you if you don't have money I mean if you have money the rules don't matter you can do whatever the heck you want but but like Jonah Hill points out is he says the fact that you had to get the big teams to consider your method that's a win too yeah and it really is it really is such a win and I think I definitely am sad that the way that I guess I'm also testament to the fact that the way that the world works is that it's really hard for people to see those little things as wins because the the things that we do see as wins you know the more publicized wins we start to forget about the little things in our lives that are successes we don't even see them because we're always driving and pushing for that bigger thing that is the much the one that's more valorized yeah but every single day you have a little win but you don't even notice it and so every time you feel unfulfilled because you're like I'm still pushing for that one big goal and I think obviously the fact that I'm sad might be testament to that I don't know I think it's it's relatable in a lot of ways it's you know it's remember to notice the other wins the little successes the the growths in your life beyond just this thing that you feel will be the thing that finally does it for you and it might not I mean I like the part too where and this is why the character is the one that is willing to actually try a different thing because he was a player no other or very few other general the managers of teams were first players so he looks at it from a player's perspective and he comes as a player that was expected to be the great one of the greats and completely dropped the ball no pun intended pun intended um when he actually got to the big league so he knows that scouts could be you know are fallible he's like you don't know you make all these promises to these young kids saying you know you're going to be big and he said people did that to me and by all accounts on paper I should have even been and yet you just can't know when it comes down to it yeah wow the commodification of human beings yeah that's a big part of that movie it's outstanding how yep I was just remembering how the news anchors were interviewing the players all of them just treat them again like they're not even people yeah asking questions that were just I don't even know well for them again but when they are that dehumanized and it shows you that you know people like dehumanization is still happening if anything it's worse than it's maybe ever been some ways but the the news anchors casters that probably they maybe they even start off and maybe they eventually get conditioned by their job where like you just have to you know they've started off maybe trying to be nice to them like I don't want to put it in that way that seems it's going to hurt their feelings and then you know they get to the point where they just say well this is what people want to know look at the numbers the people also don't see the players as people so they they want to know the hard questions they say like how does it feel like are you worried about that you're kind of you know you're you're you're you're you're you're you're damaged you're damaged goods now how do you feel about that yeah you know yeah because at the end of the day you're thinking as as a news anchor you're thinking well there's going there are 10 other people that are going to be interviewing you what is it about my interview that's going to stand out I'm going to ask the juicy gossipy questions that it's going to draw people in yeah so then I'm going to ask you about your personal life and you getting drunk and you're going to Las Vegas and party like crazy do you think you're capable and aren't you a loser right now exactly yeah they don't maybe see not even they don't have time also they're giving little snippets and back to you so they don't have time to actually get into why are you going to Las Vegas so much are you actually happy or is this actually do you find now that your life is in such turmoil that you know you have to spend all this time going to Vegas just to you know because you're actually feeling very numb inside maybe all this traveling has disconnected you from you know it could be all kinds of stuff there's no humanity and then that I guess it's also really interesting because when you think about when you go to watch a game right you have no clue what it is that these people that are you're watching entertaining you what kind of crap they just come out of exactly before they went in because this was before the game before the game you're getting asked all these personal yeah invasive questions yeah extremely oh yeah inappropriate questions about your personal life that make that really knock you down just before you go to play and play which is another reason why some team it's out of the ball in the barrel they're getting all these demoralizing questions from people that are dehumanizing them whereas if you're the top yeah they're just going to be like we just it's all praise and it's also you gonna get another home run this so they're already coming out of the gate feeling a lot better exactly which plays a big part which plays a big part yeah because I mean I can't believe it I I couldn't I don't even know if I would be able I I always I this is why I struggle to watch sports right never mind playing sport yeah I will I struggle because of things like that I struggle to watch people lose to see people lose yeah that makes me so sad you know not just the team but like people yeah who are fans yeah I think if you're maybe if you're too empathic it's tough I think what's just you feel for random fans in the bleachers exactly oh yeah I don't like seeing yeah Philip Seymour Hoffman's character my god what a nightmare yeah this guy is flunking a dead horse right because Brad Pitt's character comes in with this new method and he refuses he's like I want to be able to he already says he's already projecting that Mike won my contract and moving on yeah and he's like I want to play in a way that I'm going to be able to explain to in interviews next year exactly and he refuses for a long time to keep losing because he refuses to to apply this new method and I in my mind I'm like what is this what kind of person continues to use it's it's insanity right Einstein to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results it's insanity he keeps doing that I think it just challenges his ego too much he wants to believe that he knows what he's doing and when you have you know and it always sucks to get like you know when you when he has to take orders so there's that thing of like oh now he's trying to shake things up you know what's this guy I think he's doing I've been coaching for how long you know these little boys I'm actually down here with them in the dugout you know coaching them and this guy he doesn't even stay for the games you know so you get that you're not even connected to what's going on so how dare you tell me what I'm supposed to be doing so there's a bit of understandable that's understandable but then there's also just that ego of you're trying to do something new and he's just doesn't want to change from how things have always been exactly and I'm a lot of the people they're worried that way I've been doing this for 27 years don't you think I know and I'm like you've been doing it for 27 years and you've been losing for 27 years doesn't that tell you something and that's something I think that the Red Sox guy talks about people who don't they're going to be some teams who refuse to change despite the fact that you guys won 20 games in a row they saw you win with this new method and yet they will continue to forge on with the old two years later is only the Red Sox that were using them exactly yeah put a hair somewhere that I lost it oh honey it's okay let's record this image please your hairs are in my food they're in in my hair they're everywhere I have plenty of looking at people as objects and not as right because yeah players it's not just about how good are you at playing the game it's also you have to be be a handsome guy yeah you have to be with married to a beautiful girl sell the dream right yeah yeah it's not even that the player itself has to be good looking they also have to be with an attractive looking partner because then you've got people that are going to be looking at them together or whatever because there's so many eyes on them and then on top of that you also have to be good looking yourself you have to be with good looking partners and friends whatever and then you also have to act normal right yeah yeah that was very good but he just threw two weird yeah people so you can yeah and and he was throwing sidearm which is an allowable thing but it was very it was almost under sidearm it was almost like under throwing or under pitching underhand which is just too different for people what they're used to but it's working but it's just you know it just looks too or the guy that kind of waddles when he runs and then people just don't want to see things that is a certain aesthetic that people are used to and they want to see that reproduced over and over yeah it's like so crazy it's literally like when you go to buy produce and if the banana has um if it's like a twin banana oh no we can't sell two bananas people will be freaked out by the twin banana or maybe the banana looks really weird or it has a face on it you know that's a defective bit of a lump or something a bit of a lump you can't sell that that's literally what they're doing isn't it yeah so much food is thrown out because of that exactly so many so many people so many people are thrown out because of exactly so many actors i'm sure that would be great they don't because they're like no you got to look so much maybe i'm more symmetrical i gotta look more yeah if your beauty spot was above the eye that would be yeah but it's on smack gap in the middle of your nose we just we just can't so yeah i don't know why yeah there's some things about moneyball and if you guys have seen it if you haven't and this sounds like a good sell check it out yeah if you and hopefully at this point if you like our taste you know give it a shot yeah yeah let us know about any of that stuff down below yeah all right that's a wrap