Dan, Carly and George share some of their favorite, or at least most watched, movies, and talk about what a Trump media company (heaven forbid) may look like. Carly breaks her creative block, George licenses his first song from RAIDAR, and Dan shares advertising tips for creatives. For the first time ever, there is an overlap in the three things too, and it’s a very well-deserved double mention.
Show Notes
- Some Girls, an underrated Rolling Stones album. Or listen to Exile on Main St. until it makes sense to you, which George promises it will
- Need something to watch? Try Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride, Def Leppard - Historia / In the Round, In Your Face or Still Crazy all available on Amazon
- Would you do anything for love?
- Lorraine Crosby, not Cher, sang alongside Meatloaf. Cher did however star in Moonstruck, not Moonlight, as both George and Carly claimed
- I Saw What You Did podcast, for those looking for movies to watch or just for movie lovers (if our suggestions above just don’t cut it)
- Interregnum, use it in a sentence this week
- Will there be a Trump branded media company? We hope not, but Business Insider and Axios say he’s considering it
- Fox Nation streaming service has an 85% conversion rate from free trials to paid subscribers
- Do Trump supporters have a look? The Guardian thinks so
- Reply All’s The Confetti Cannon episode where they opened up the phone lines and a youth pastor talks about how the Trump presidency and fake news has changed his job
- George’s article: Eating Your Own Dog Food and Scratching Your Own Itch
- Parler, the conservative version of Twitter
- Carly’s article: It’s OK to Stop Creating, as Long as It’s Temporary
- If you want to write a piece, we want to publish it for you!
- Join Medium’s Partner Program and you too can earn cents per piece, something that really grinds Dan’s gears
- Dan’s article: Advertising for Creatives, Part 1: Building Awareness
- Found.ee, an advertising platform which Dan has lukewarm feelings about
Three Things
Dan
- Watching: willyj1234’s (who is Will Anderson, the lead singer of Parachute) TikTok videos where he recreates what he imagines it was like for bands in the recording studio, like the one where the Fleetwood Mac drummer is oblivious that the rest of the band hate each other or the band AHA recording Take on Me and the band members’ reaction to the singers high notes
- Building: (Sometimes wedding) websites with Webflow, a no code option that he finds far superior to Wix or Squarespace
- Half loving: The 1975’s Mindshower Digital Detox, a virtual meditation spa where you can walk to the fountain and listen to music, or you can go to the couch and read journals from the graphic designers and creative consultants, or go to the computer and download stems for some of their songs and photoshop, illustrator and video files for fans to download and use. Josef shared this after listening to the Blue Cheese and Imprimatur episode. Thanks Josef (you look great!)
George, our quote master
- Quoting: Janis Joplin, “To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.”
- Quoting pt 2: A Mary Shelley character from The Last Man, a novel published in 1826 but set in 2073 in a pandemic. “Let us seek peace near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave 'life,' that we may live,” and “There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.”
- Quoting pt 3: Dave Chappelle from his SNL monologue, one of the most profound things he’s ever seen, “And I don’t hate anybody, I just hate that feeling. That’s what I fight through. That’s what I suggest you fight through. You got to find a way to live your life. Got to find a way to forgive each other. You got to find a way to find joy in your existence in spite of that feeling.”
Carly
- Repeating: George and seconding Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue, which has over 10 million views on YouTube but she thinks it deserves more
- Listening: To Gimlet’s new podcast Resistance, a show about refusing to accept things as they are with stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change
- Donating: To Atlanta’s Black Women’s Health Imperative and supporting their mission to “protect and advance the health and wellness of Black girls and women.” The Black community have been disproportionately affected by COVID and still they showed up, waited in lines for hours, and are the reason why Biden is now the president-elect. Black women are also 3-4 times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women, have higher infant mortality rates and have a 40% higher chance of dying of breast cancer than white women. If you can’t donate money right now, please find a way to thank and support Black women, no one deserves it more
