Podcast appearances and mentions of casper mattresses

Background actor Brandon Adams joins Matt this week to discuss his role as a guy on the shuttle - aka Jim Shuttle - in the 2009 Star Trek reboot. Brandon talks about having his face featured right alongside the films stars in the trailer, the joke he made to J.J. Abrams that he thought would get him fired, and the lengths he had to go to in order to fulfill his NDA. Plus, Brandon shares the story of how he became best friends with Chris Pine while working on set.This episode is sponsored by HelloFresh (code: IWTT30) and Casper Mattresses (code: IWTT). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Background actor Brandon Adams joins Matt this week to discuss his role as a guy on the shuttle - aka Jim Shuttle - in the 2009 Star Trek reboot. Brandon talks about having his face featured right alongside the films stars in the trailer, the joke he made to J.J. Abrams that he thought would get him fired, and the lengths he had to go to in order to fulfill his NDA. Plus, Brandon shares the story of how he became best friends with Chris Pine while working on set.This episode is sponsored by HelloFresh (code: IWTT30) and Casper Mattresses (code: IWTT). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Military.com reporter Steve Beynon stops by to update us on some of his more recent stories, such as a four star general greasing the wheels for a subordinate to be promoted, Special Forces once again getting caught with Nazi patches, and Chow Hall dining kiosks Special Forces - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/27/army-shared-image-of-special-forces-soldier-wearing-nazi-patch.html  General Hamilton suspended - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/22/army-4-star-who-pressured-panel-help-career-of-unfit-officer-suspended-facing-pentagon-investigation.html DFAC Kiosks - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/29/army-going-all-food-kiosks-base-dining-facilities-struggle.html  If you like what we do here, consider giving to the Patreon. For five bucks you get access to seven years of bonus content and will never have to hear us shill for Casper Mattresses - https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie  Check out our new stuff in the store. Patches, pins, stickers and buttons available - https://www.hellofawaytodie.com/shop 

Jamie Donnelly aka "Brush-a Brush-a Brush-a" Jan the Pink Lady is back to talk more about the 1978 musical Grease. We'll hear if Jan was a snacker onstage as much as she was in the film, what would be the future of all the Grease characters, and possible inspiration for the end of the film. Plus, Jamie shares stories of stagnant LA river water, Seabreeze shammies, and Johnny Depp finger kisses.This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron, Casper Mattresses, and Now Hear This Podcast Festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jamie Donnelly aka "Brush-a Brush-a Brush-a" Jan the Pink Lady is back to talk more about the 1978 musical Grease. We'll hear if Jan was a snacker onstage as much as she was in the film, what would be the future of all the Grease characters, and possible inspiration for the end of the film. Plus, Jamie shares stories of stagnant LA river water, Seabreeze shammies, and Johnny Depp finger kisses.This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron, Casper Mattresses, and Now Hear This Podcast Festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of America's best and most versatile actresses Piper Laurie joins Matt to talk about initially approaching the role of Carrie's mother in Brian De Palma's Carrie as a comedy, her experience working alongside Paul Newman and George C. Scott in the 1961 film The Hustler, and many other gems from her fantastic autobiography 'Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir.' Plus, Amanda Lund joins Matt to share a special talent that will enhance your listening enjoyment of certain songs in the return of I Was There Tune.This episode is sponsored by Mack Weldon, Blue Apron, and Casper Mattresses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of America's best and most versatile actresses Piper Laurie joins Matt to talk about initially approaching the role of Carrie's mother in Brian De Palma's Carrie as a comedy, her experience working alongside Paul Newman and George C. Scott in the 1961 film The Hustler, and many other gems from her fantastic autobiography 'Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir.' Plus, Amanda Lund joins Matt to share a special talent that will enhance your listening enjoyment of certain songs in the return of I Was There Tune.This episode is sponsored by Mack Weldon, Blue Apron, and Casper Mattresses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Magnifique! Diane Franklin, the princess of 80s movies, joins Matt to chat about her role as the French foreign exchange student Monique Junet in Better Off Dead. Diane talks about her character being an ace baseball pitcher, expert skier, and overall bad-ass, why you should have to be able to act without words, the controversy surrounding John Cusack being upset after watching Better Off Dead for the first time, and more. Diane also tells us about her cut prom scene in Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, her book Diane Franklin: The Excellent Adventures of the Last American, French-Exchange Babe of the 80s, and her idea for a Babes of the 80s party. Plus, Matt has a special assignment for all of you Siri users in a new segment called I am Always There Too!Todays sponsor is Casper Mattresses - obsessively engineered American-made mattresses at a shockingly fair price. And now, you can get $50 toward any mattress purchase by going to casper.com/iwtt and using code iwtt! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Magnifique! Diane Franklin, the princess of 80s movies, joins Matt to chat about her role as the French foreign exchange student Monique Junet in Better Off Dead. Diane talks about her character being an ace baseball pitcher, expert skier, and overall bad-ass, why you should have to be able to act without words, the controversy surrounding John Cusack being upset after watching Better Off Dead for the first time, and more. Diane also tells us about her cut prom scene in Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, her book Diane Franklin: The Excellent Adventures of the Last American, French-Exchange Babe of the 80s, and her idea for a Babes of the 80s party. Plus, Matt has a special assignment for all of you Siri users in a new segment called I am Always There Too!Todays sponsor is Casper Mattresses - obsessively engineered American-made mattresses at a shockingly fair price. And now, you can get $50 toward any mattress purchase by going to casper.com/iwtt and using code iwtt! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Current Events 1) New Mariner dropped! You know Tim Salmon, Mike Trout and even Mike Carp, but can I interest you in an AJ Pollock? Righty mashes lefties. We also traded Joseph Hernandez for Justin Topa. Mid-tier prospect for reliever reclamation project. Whatever.  2) Huskies Corner! Woof! No news is good news on the Rome Odunze front. Meanwhile, UW mens bball struggled in the desert, good thing they were only down there for 4 nights, not 40 years. Tough loss to UA in Tucson was followed up by an 8 point loss in the valley 3) 1-2-3 eyes on me, 1-2 eyes on you! PeeWee Preschool. Each week Adam and I are going to learn a new stat, phrase or concept in hockey and teach it to eachother so we can both sound qualified to talk about Seattle's newest pro sports team.  4) Today's Kraken check-in is brought to you by Casper Mattresses. Much like a new Casper mattress, the Kraken have bounced back. Taking their winning streak on the road.  Main Event | -All we did last week was reverse-jinx the Seahawks. We're talking about them again! Can you believe the Lions helped do our dirty work?  -It took OT but the Hawks beat the Rams. Abe Lucas and Charles Cross shined, Geno and K9 set franchise marks, and Tyler Locket sure is similar to Steve Largent. |  |  |  -Let's take a look at K9's OROY case:  - Niners on Saturday. Can they get it done? Who's to say...  V Robby's Hot Take (5 second intro music... 30 seconds w/ 2 mins of discussion and banter) Lightning Round LISTENER QUESTION! 1) From Billy: pick up hoops question 2) From Jessie... Is this the biggest Screen you've ever seen in any stadium? Referring to the T mobile Park TV 

Ecommerce and Retail - Can You Do Both? It's no secret that ecommerce has absolutely skyrocketed over the last couple of years. But what about retail? As shops are opening up again, more and more customers are craving that in-person shopping experience. International retail executive and consultant, Stephen Rector, has extensive experience leading merchandise strategies in both retail and ecommerce. In 2017, Stephen helped establish Macy's supply chain in China, creating a multimillion-dollar international expansion business. Now he works with several startups to accelerate growth for digital and in-store businesses. It's safe to say that Stephen knows how to scale! We're very excited to welcome Stephen to The Ecom Show. Our CEO and podcast host Daniel Budai chats to Stephen about: ✔️ Stephen's Journey into Retail and Ecommerce ✔️ Ecommerce Retail ✔️ Building Brand Awareness ✔️ Breaking Into Retail Stephen's Journey into Retail and Ecommerce Like many marketers, Stephen didn't study digital strategy and marketing at university. Instead, he studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Writing papers and preparing and delivering presentations, although unrelated to retail and ecommerce, proved invaluable to Stephen's communication skills. Stephen says that he's been utilizing the skills he acquired at university throughout his entire career. Whilst in university, Stephen worked full time in retail as a Manager in a music store. When he graduated, his experience attracted companies in...you guessed it, retail! Since then, Stephen has worked in merchandising, branding, sourcing, and pricing, swiftly honing his skills in retail to ecommerce in the 2000s Ecommerce Retail Huge ecommerce stores have an interesting relationship with retail. Amazon, for example, implements ecommerce tactics for data collection in all their physical stores. Cameras and shelf stock collect buyer data, behaviour, and conversion rates. Stephen also points out that many Amazon stores across the US don't have a checkout. Instead, customers are automatically charged when they add items to their basket. Amazon isn't alone in its efforts to enter the world of retail. The Founder of Gymshark, Ben Francis, speaks openly on his YouTube channel about opening physical stores with gyms where customers can work out and try on clothing. If you're thinking about moving your ecommerce store to retail, make sure to continue using all that valuable data you've been collecting! Building Brand Awareness Stephen points out that it's harder to get brand awareness in-store than it is online because retail is saturated with brands that so many people are familiar with. Stephen advises that the vast majority of sellers need to build brand awareness online before even thinking about trying to get into a retail store. And brand awareness building doesn't stop once you get to retail. Stephen praises Casper Mattresses for having a fantastic ecommerce strategy and partnering with Target and Bed, Bath and Beyond. In order to scale, it's clear that you need as many eyes on you as possible both online and offline. Breaking Into Retail Daniel and Stephen agree that building brand awareness online is the first step towards breaking into retail. Other than this, Stephen identifies the 2 biggest challenges of doing business with retailers: Breaking through the wall to get through to them Managing costs correctly Getting through to retailers isn't a walk in the park. Aside from online branding, use your network as much as you can. If you have anyone with retail connections - get in touch! You can also find specialists on how to enter retail relationships or partnerships on LinkedIn. Evaluate how much it costs to make your merchandise before meeting your retailer. Your retailer will be aggressively pushing down costs on their end as much as possible. Know your stuff, and know your profit margin. Take a look at your competitors in your chosen store, their price point and category. What's your differentiation? It's all about presentation and profit. TL;DR - If you're thinking about going into in-store retail, your first step is ecommerce. For more advice on retail, ecommerce, and merchandising strategy, reach out to Stephen on LinkedIn. Follow Daniel Budai: Daniel's LinkedIn Daniel's Facebook

Episode 175: An entrepreneur since age 15, Alex Hodara tells us why he created Rocket Club to teach 9 to 14-year old students robotics, coding, and entrepreneurship.  Guest Biography Entrepreneur Alex Hodara is the owner of Hodara Real Estate Group, an investment and development company he founded as a brokerage in 2008. Hodara launched the venture during his junior year at Boston University, hiring 15 of his classmates and launching what CNBC coined as “America’s first student run real estate brokerage.” Upon graduation with his B.B.A. from the distinguished Questrom School of Business, the success of Hodara’s firm landed him on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Best Young Entrepreneurs” lists. Hodara bought, renovated, and rented his first building in 2011, and today owns 200 multifamily units between Boston and Jersey City, just outside of Manhattan. In 2018 Hodara sponsored a STEM competition at Westfield High School in New Jersey. Inspired by the student’s brilliant engineering ideas and desire for elevated entrepreneurial support, he developed Rocket Club, an award winning, selffinanced robotics, coding and entrepreneurship club for kids. Hodara officially launched this passion project in February 2019 in Hoboken, New Jersey and word spread fast; with new locations popping up in Montclair, NJ, Upper West Side New York, Lower Manhattan, The British International School of NYC, and a free program in Newark, NJ during the first year of operation. Rocket Club went on to win the 2019 NJ Tech Council’s Innovation and Education Award, and STEM Leader to Watch Award. Each location was near capacity when COVID-19 hit the world, in March 2020. Hodara and the Rocket Club team quickly pivoted to a fully virtual model, providing free education to members through the fall of 2020. In the process, enrollment soared as parents sought out additional resources for their children who were distance learning. Rocket Club’s virtual curriculum is four semesters, and teaches members to develop their own businesses, learn Python coding, and build robotics. Each day, Rocket Club hosts Rocket Club Live, an interactive, educational game show and Q&A featuring a successful guest. Guests have included the founders of Netflix, Beyond Meat, Casper Mattresses, Harry’s Razors, Vonage, and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics to name a few. In this episode, you'll learn: We get a glimpse into the entrepreneur’s mind. Building a curriculum designed to expose kids to as much as possible to inspire and help them decide what they want to be when they’re older. How Alex is investing his own money to cultivate entrepreneurs of the future. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/175 Find more from our guest: rocketclub.com hodararealestate.com LinkedIn Mentioned in the episode: Jeffrey M. Zucker Vin Vomero Keith Harrington Morgan McDowell - Host of Rocket Club Live Marc Randolph, co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix Josh Dobbs - NFL Quarterback and NASA Rocket Scientist mightyquinnsbbq.com Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser.com, or wherever you listen. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

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Please enjoy this preview of this week's bonus, a live episode of Trashfuture recorded on March 6 the 2020 Bristol Transformed festival. You’ll hear Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) join special guest Angie Speaks (@speaksangie) to discuss an app that retroactively places products in existing films -- who hasn’t wanted to get ads for Casper Mattresses when watching 1970s noir films -- and a long story about a man who wants to remake Bishop Auckland in his own, uh, slightly vampiric image.  If you want to get the whole thing, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35020006

In this episode, Jay and Ramon discuss Casper’s IPO launch and how it’s been built on influencers.Casper is the first company to mention in their S-1 filing that influencers adversely affect the brand and subject them to penalties.They are also the most recent money-losing “unicorn” to go public. We’ve seen it with Uber and Lyft, both of which haven’t gone so well.It’s incredible that Casper reached a $1 billion valuation, sometimes selling themselves as a tech company with an app, podcast ads, and more.How will they fare in the public market though?As of this podcast publishing, Casper’s stock has already dropped almost 20% from its initial list price.If you’d like to learn more about Trend and our influencer marketing platform for users and brands visit trend.io. You can also follow us for tips on growing your following and running successful campaigns on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Wow, Ear Nibbles finally has a sponsor! A big thank you to Casper Mattresses for sponsoring the latest episode of the world's premiere 69 second podcast! On the latest edition, the dynamic duo Brendan O'Hare and Cory Snearowski ("This Is Branchburg" podcast)swing by the studio to chit chat with with Shane. Give it a listen!

Nick D'Amelio, Director of CRM at Slice, shares his passion for CRM and pizza! He also gives us look under Slice's martech hood to see how they're creating interactive emails with Google AMP. Search functionality, feedback forms, browsing… all within an email!!       TRANSCRIPT: [0:00:18] PJ Bruno: Hello again. Welcome back to Braze For Impact, your MarTech Industry discuss digest. So thrilled to have with me today Gurbir Singh, Product Manager and good friend here at Braze. How are you doing Gurbir?   [0:00:31] Gurbir Singh: Good. How good of a friend are we? You still don't play video games with me, so.   [0:00:35] PJ Bruno: That's true. Also, he's my Rocket League compatriot that I haven't been able to get a game with yet, but now apparently he's a higher level and I'm a little nervous. To my right, your left, I have with me Nick D'Amelio, client of ours, Senior Manager at CRM at Slice. Nick, how are you?   [0:00:56] Nick D'Amelio: What's up guys? It's very great to be here. Beautiful new Braze office,. Very impressive. I need to get in on this Rocket League situation.   [0:01:04] PJ Bruno: Oh man.   [0:01:05] Nick D'Amelio: If anyone's ever done for some Smash Brothers, I'm definitely the guy to go to.   [0:01:08] PJ Bruno: Wow, wow.   [0:01:09] Gurbir Singh: You know what? Forget the podcast.   [0:01:11] PJ Bruno: We're done. So for all you listeners today, our focus is Google AMP. AMP is accelerated mobile pages. So we're going to talk a little bit about what that means, what that is, how it affects email, and Nick was willing to give us some of his time to show us how he's using it at Slice. So email has been largely the same for the past 40 years or so. People constantly talk about the decline or death of email, but it's still the standard for customer communication. But in the past few years, email has experienced a big level up in terms of interactivity, and no surprise, one of the leading trailblazers is Google as they released Google AMP. Gurbir, you're our resident expert with Google AMP. Can you tell us a little bit about what this is, how it came about?   [0:01:59] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. First of all, I hate that I'm the resident expert. I hope I'm not marked that way. But ...   [0:02:07] PJ Bruno: You mean a lot more to me than that. You're not ...   [0:02:08] Gurbir Singh: Thank you.   [0:02:12] PJ Bruno: ... Just an SME.   [0:02:12] Gurbir Singh: So Google AMP, as you said, is the accelerated mobile pages. So Google launched this initiative more than five, six years ago. The goal was to have mobile pages render faster, right? So websites that are being shown on a mobile device, just render it faster. One of the big things about this particular initiative was to get rid of JavaScript because JavaScript was viewed as bloat on a website. It caused a lot of loading issues and a lot of server to server exchange of data. So that's how AMP kind of started. Then from there, very recently, I would say in the last two years, Google basically created a AMP for email version of this. So it takes a subset of this overall project. This is all Opensource now and it creates an email version of this. A lot of the functionality that you would normally want to do an email, a lot of that interactivity, which people would do around, that they would want for JavaScript reasons, they now can leverage AMP HTML to do this, right? So that's how AMP email got to be born. Google basically pioneered this. They led the way and made it Opensource, so huge community behind this. Now you're seeing other vendors kind of attach themselves and say, "We also want to support this. This is great." We have a lot of clients who are super excited about it and they see the power that this can have.   [0:03:43] PJ Bruno: So the impetus for AMP pages was more about size, I guess, right? But for email it's less about size or ...   [0:03:52] Gurbir Singh: It still is about size. So as the mobile device came and people started using more and more of it, it became like, okay, anything I load on a device, the faster it is, the less bloated it is, the better it's going to work on my devices. So we live in a great country where we have fast access to internet, some really powerful phones, but if you think about globally, that's not always true, right? People still have older phones, older 3G systems that they connect to, so Google's attempt was to say I want information spread throughout the world. That's their mission and they want to make sure that can happen regardless of where you are. So AMP was kind of born through their mission statement and said I want to make sure that people can figure out how to get websites loaded on an older phone, things like that. So from their email kind of benefits because email can have a lot more information shown in it, but using this more lightweight newer technology so you can actually send in things like Java forms or carousels and you can have all this interactive cool features that email marketers always wanted to do, but have always been fearful for because it requires a lot more coding, a lot more specialized skills. Now Google's like here's a template. Here's basic components that you can use. Here, just do it. It's kind of cool.   [0:05:13] PJ Bruno: Very cool. Also just considering like so many times a blocker is not having the engineering resources to get something done, just putting the power in a marketer's hand, I think it's a beautiful thing. Nick, any hot takes on Google AMP as far as the origin story that Gurbir just gave us? Is it total BS or is it ...   [0:05:34] Nick D'Amelio: Lies and forgery, all of it. Yeah. No, 100% correct. Yeah. I only really started paying attention to it when it was announced for email since that's kind of my specialty. But yeah, everything Gurbir said, totally correct. I'm really excited about the speed benefits. You have about maybe three seconds of an email loading before a user just says, "Oh, this is blank. I'm going to close out, delete it." Also the functionality is just going to be incredible. It's a total step change in email.   [0:06:08] PJ Bruno: Nick, let's hear a little bit more about your story before we jump into all the facets of Google AMP and the functionality. So you're pretty excited about interactive email obviously.   [0:06:18] Nick D'Amelio: Yep.   [0:06:19] PJ Bruno: And I read on your LinkedIn passion for CRM and pizza, and I've learned now that you are also a pizza maker.   [0:06:28] Nick D'Amelio: That is correct. Yeah. So that actually came before my time at Slice and I think resulted in my time at Slice, but always been a big chef, but pizza I developed a serious love for. I've got a ton of equipment in my apartment. I have a baking steel, which is kind of like an enhanced version of a baking stone. I once hacked my oven to get to temperatures that probably were not safe for a Weehawken, New Jersey apartment.   [0:06:58] PJ Bruno: Hacked the oven.   [0:06:58] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, very irresponsible, but all in the name of good pizza. Yeah, and I've always just been really passionate about kind of the craft and artisianry of pizza making.   [0:07:08] PJ Bruno: So a passion for CRM, a passion for making pizza, and you play Smash Brothers. Are you single?   [0:07:16] Nick D'Amelio: No.   [0:07:18] PJ Bruno: See there's the rub.   [0:07:19] Nick D'Amelio: I have a very wonderful girlfriend.   [0:07:19] PJ Bruno: There is the rub.   [0:07:20] Nick D'Amelio: There you go.   [0:07:21] PJ Bruno: Well, I hope she plays Smash with you.   [0:07:22] Nick D'Amelio: Yep, she does.   [0:07:25] PJ Bruno: Awesome. Well dude, why don't you just take us through your journey because it looks like you got a lot of really cool things that you've had on your plate.   [0:07:31] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, totally. It's been kind of an interesting little journey. So I majored in Media Studies and Communications and German in college, so a bit of a weird combination. Where that landed me was a little German medical publisher actually in the same neighborhood my office is in now, Flat Iron District. So yeah, they said basically, "Hey, you're a child and you know about the internet. Why don't you handle our content management system? Why don't you handle our social media and why don't you handle our email marketing?" And not knowing anything about any of these things I said, "Sure, that sounds great." Yeah. So I kind of learned as I went and of those three kind of components I really kind of honed in on email marketing. That was where I saw the most impact. At the time at that company it was really the channel that was most trackable so I could directly see the impact I was having on the business, how many textbooks we sold as I was sending out these emails. So pretty exciting for a young kid. That led to my next role, which was purely email marketing, email marketing specialist at Macmillan Publishers, a little bit bigger of a publisher. They had a really interesting program. I was kind of in charge of the technical aspects. We had a grand total of around 20 users in our ESP at the time, which was exact target, none of whom had any coding experience. So I was on kind of QA duty, cleanup duty, so I got to learn a ton about kind of the ins and outs of email and email coding in particular and really kind of coming to grips with the frustrations that Google AMP, is actually going to address in terms of layout, in terms of functionality, stuff like that. So eventually I got a little tired of dragging a very ancient industry behind me in terms of trying to do new things and digital marketing, so I moved over to the startup world. I was at an ad tech company in the travel space called Intent Media. That was mostly B2B focused, which wasn't quite as exciting to me. I was still kind of longing for that kind of interaction with a customer. So eventually that led me to Casper, the mattress guys. That was a really exciting phase.   [0:09:58] PJ Bruno: I have a Casper actually.   [0:09:59] Nick D'Amelio: Oh nice. How do you like it?   [0:10:00] PJ Bruno: I do like it. Great mattress.   [0:10:01] Nick D'Amelio: How do you like their emails?   [0:10:03] PJ Bruno: I ...   [0:10:05] Nick D'Amelio: Tread lightly.   [0:10:06] PJ Bruno: Yeah. You know what? Are they a client? Are they a client? Do we know? They're not. It doesn't matter. You know why? Because I love the branding. It's all over the subway. Simple. Beautiful. Sold me on the branding and sold me at the end of the day, the product. Big fan, Casper.   [0:10:21] Gurbir Singh: And if anybody from Casper is listening, you should come join Braze.   [0:10:24] PJ Bruno: Yeah, come join Braze. Why not? We'll take good care of you.   [0:10:26] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah. Go for it.   [0:10:27] PJ Bruno: We'll take your email marketing campaigns. We'll make them beautiful.   [0:10:29] Nick D'Amelio: It's funny. We're on a podcast right now and maybe we could get them to sponsor us considering that's kind of what they do.   [0:10:36] PJ Bruno: That is what they do.   [0:10:37] Nick D'Amelio: This is brought to you by Casper Mattresses.   [0:10:40] PJ Bruno: I may or may not edit that out. So from Casper then, I guess how long have you been at Slice now?   [0:10:47] Nick D'Amelio: A little over two years now.   [0:10:49] PJ Bruno: Okay. So about two years ago made the jump from Casper to Slice. Pizza's your passion. Everything was starting to coalesce. This makes sense. What was the email programming like when you inherited that at Slice?   [0:11:06] Nick D'Amelio: Needed a little work. It was at a period of time where they were struggling to find an identity. They had just rebranded from an entirely different experience a couple of years earlier. Slice was formerly known as My Pizza and then kind of brought in some new people and rebranded. Yeah, so still trying to find their identity in terms of the branding, and then in terms of the technical aspects of the email program, very limited. Not much in the way of engaging email templates. Their audience size was incredibly small. They had limited it for effectively no reason. I had the suspicion that the IPs actually had not been properly warmed because we were seeing incredibly low open rates that really shouldn't have been like that.   [0:11:58] PJ Bruno: You didn't find out whether it was improperly warmed or not? You just were like, All right, well let's just find a solution.   [0:12:03] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, kind of the assumption based on what I knew at the time about engagement levels and now based on kind of the improvements we've seen, I think there was definitely some behind the scenes stuff wrong with the deliverability.   [0:12:15] PJ Bruno: You got got to warm those IPs.   [0:12:17] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah. Yeah, Very important.   [0:12:19] PJ Bruno: Like a pizza.   [0:12:20] Nick D'Amelio: Exactly.   [0:12:21] PJ Bruno: You're going to eat cold dough?   [0:12:23] Nick D'Amelio: The difference is pizza is still good cold. IPs are no good when they're cold.   [0:12:26] PJ Bruno: You've got to preheat. Get those IPs up.   [0:12:29] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, that's true.   [0:12:31] PJ Bruno: For those of us who don't know what Slice is, why don't you explain what Slice is for those sad, sad folks that don't have it in their lives.   [0:12:39] Nick D'Amelio: Oh yeah. We've got to correct that. So yeah, Slice is basically online ordering for pizza. People have used online ordering platforms for their favorite restaurants before. We are exclusively focused on pizza, which lets us do a couple of things. We can provide an experience that's explicitly tailored to pizza. So a lot of other places, getting half pepperoni and half peppers and onions involves writing out special instructions that the shop may or may not see. We kind of have a little bit of a pizza builder within the app so you can choose which items you want on each half, which is technology that local pizzerias have been kind of slow to adopt.   [0:13:27] PJ Bruno: Because that's the charm of the mom and pop set up, right?   [0:13:31] Nick D'Amelio: Exactly. Yeah. It's kind of low tech. It's very homey, very local, but the problem is these guys are kind of getting killed in the space by some of the larger pizza players. So we really want to kind of get them into the digital age and get people ordering online because that's where our customers want to be. Yeah.   [0:13:53] PJ Bruno: So what's the differentiator for Slice? What makes you guys stand out above the rest?   [0:13:58] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, so there's a couple of things. A lot of the other places you can get pizza online, you've got the big chains and then you've got kind of the, what we call aggregators, kind of the big, big online ordering companies. Main difference between us and the larger chains, you're getting that mom and pop quality, which is really important. Main difference between us and the big online ordering companies is that those companies actually take kind of an enormous cut out of the restaurant's pocket when a user orders online. Basically what we do is provide marketing and technology and online ordering, paid search, a ton of services to these pizzerias for a very small flat fee on every order, which really allows them to grow their businesses and keep local pizza alive.   [0:14:52] PJ Bruno: God, I love that. Gerb, you're a pizza guy I've got to assume.   [0:14:55] Gurbir Singh: I do. I love pizza. [crosstalk 00:14:57].   [0:14:57] PJ Bruno: What's your type? What's your poison?   [0:14:59] Gurbir Singh: I actually just like a nice, good margarita pizza.   [0:15:02] PJ Bruno: Oh yeah.   [0:15:03] Gurbir Singh: If you can do that well, I'm a customer.   [0:15:05] Nick D'Amelio: Oh yeah, absolutely. Did you know that yesterday was the official birthdate of the margarita pizza?   [0:15:11] Gurbir Singh: I did not know that.   [0:15:12] PJ Bruno: What year was that?   [0:15:15] Nick D'Amelio: 1889. Queen Margarita of Italy visited a small Focacceria in Naples and he kind of adorned the pizza with the traditional tomato sauce, but also basil and mozzarella to represent the colors of the Italian flag. She apparently wrote a letter kind of praising this creation and yeah, that was the birth of the margarita pizza.   [0:15:38] Gurbir Singh: I'm surprised you didn't order some margarita pizza today for this podcast. I'm kind of disappointed now.   [0:15:43] PJ Bruno: Well, you know what? You guys just ruined the surprise because when we wrap up, guess where we're going?   [0:15:48] Nick D'Amelio: Oh man.   [0:15:48] Gurbir Singh: Margarita pizza.   [0:15:50] Nick D'Amelio: Nice.   [0:15:50] Gurbir Singh: Or is it just Margaritas?   [0:15:52] PJ Bruno: When was the birthday of buffalo chicken slice?   [0:15:54] Nick D'Amelio: Oh, I do not know that.   [0:15:56] Gurbir Singh: It was like 10 years ago.   [0:15:57] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, probably.   [0:15:58] Gurbir Singh: It doesn't matter. It's not real pizza.   [0:16:00] PJ Bruno: Not my slice, man. Not my slice.   [0:16:02] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah. Yeah.   [0:16:04] PJ Bruno: All right, cool. Let's jump back into your time at Slice because you take the reins. You had to clean house a little bit with IP, with deliverability. Obviously you have to create some of kind of like your first onboarding user journey things. When did interactivity become a priority for you?   [0:16:23] Nick D'Amelio: So yeah, we've always wanted to provide kind of a delightful experience to the user because pizza is inherently delightful, so we explored some other vendors for interactivity a couple of months into my time, but none of them were really a great fit. But now with Google kind of putting this out there, basically giving it away for free, we're really excited to start jumping into it again.   [0:16:49] PJ Bruno: It's just free then.   [0:16:51] Nick D'Amelio: Pretty much. I mean, Gurbir, correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no charge to use it and yeah, it's just ... Yeah.   [0:16:58] Gurbir Singh: Yeah, AMP's free. You just have to basically register with Google right now. But I believe that's also going to change in the long run as it becomes a more community-focused initiative.   [0:17:10] PJ Bruno: Of course. They're probably looking for champions and then eventually it's like ...   [0:17:12] Gurbir Singh: Yeah, I think right now it's like you get registered so your email can render within Gmail, but as soon as some of the other ISPs like Yahoo and Outlook who have signed on make this change on their end, I think that process is going to slightly get updated as well.   [0:17:30] Nick D'Amelio: Right, makes sense.   [0:17:32] PJ Bruno: Let's get into the nitty gritty details. How is Slice leveraging Google AMP for email?   [0:17:37] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, so we've got a couple of use cases lined up. We have a working prototype of our AMP emails right now, which is awesome. We have an email coder out in Macedonia on my team. His name's Arso. Arso, if you're listening, you are the man. He basically was able to ...   [0:17:53] PJ Bruno: Shout out to Arso. He is the man.   [0:17:55] Nick D'Amelio: He is the man. He was able to put this thing together in no time flat. So we are ready and raring to go once we have everything in place for him. But yeah, there's a couple of use cases that we've gotten really excited about. One as we've kind of alluded to is just the layout and design options that you get. Anything just as simple as an accordion menu or a sidebar or an image carousel, who doesn't want to scroll through a bunch of images of delicious pizza? It just kind of gets people in the mood.   [0:18:26] PJ Bruno: I'm starving right now actually.   [0:18:28] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, I know me too.   [0:18:29] PJ Bruno: Just talking about it I felt my salivation gland just start going insane.   [0:18:33] Nick D'Amelio: This is my life every day by the way, is just stock imagery of pizza and photo shoots from pizzerias just constantly on my screen. Oh, it's torture.   [0:18:44] PJ Bruno: All right, so what else? Other functionality.   [0:18:47] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, other stuff that we're incredibly excited for, gathering customer feedback just directly within the body of the email. So Google AMP will have form submission available for emails. I would love to just have a user review a pizzeria just right in their inbox. Just make it incredibly easy so we can surface that data up to all our other users and continue our mission of just being the authority on pizza.   [0:19:11] PJ Bruno: That's exciting, man. You guys are on that. That front wave.   [0:19:14] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, exactly. It's exciting times. As we've talked about email hasn't changed in, you know, basically since the inception of HTML email. So this is the first real turnabout in a very long time.   [0:19:27] Gurbir Singh: I'm curious how this change for you guys, because I've heard this comment from other email marketers where a lot of the attribution they do today is driving traffic towards a website and a lot of the functionality you're actually talking about right now will allow customers obviously to remove that friction and just do it within the inbox, but now you're not going to be able to track website traffic.   [0:19:48] Nick D'Amelio: Exactly.   [0:19:49] Gurbir Singh: Email budgets when they're handed out at corporations, they're typically on what can you drive to the website? Now all of a sudden you're going to lose that. I'm wondering does Slice have a strategy for that or any thoughts on that area?   [0:20:04] Nick D'Amelio: We have not gone into it yet. You're right, just because this is such a step change, it's going to be kind of difficult to explain this to a lot of folks, especially when there's money involved. But if we can prove out the ability to kind of interact and eventually hopefully even transact in the body of an email, I think things will start to change slowly over time.   [0:20:29] Gurbir Singh: Cool.   [0:20:30] Nick D'Amelio: So no plan yet, but thank you for putting that in my head because I'll probably need to plan for that.   [0:20:36] Gurbir Singh: I just want to make sure Arso gets paid. That's all.   [0:20:38] Nick D'Amelio: Oh yeah.   [0:20:40] PJ Bruno: Well guys, this has been awesome. Nick, thanks so much for coming in.   [0:20:42] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, absolutely.   [0:20:44] PJ Bruno: Gurbir, thanks for giving me some of your time, bud. Always appreciate it.   [0:20:46] Gurbir Singh: Anytime.   [0:20:47] PJ Bruno: And Rocket League.   [0:20:49] Nick D'Amelio: Yeah, let's do it.   [0:20:50] Gurbir Singh: Rocket League and pizzas?   [0:20:51] PJ Bruno: Rocket league and pizzas.   [0:20:52] Nick D'Amelio: Boom.   [0:20:53] PJ Bruno: Thanks for listening, guys. Come back again and see us. [0:20:55]

Episode 40: Making Boring Chores Fun ________________________________________________________________ The laundromat has always been a place fit for purpose, and not much else. For many, the trip to this location was considered nothing more than a chore. But some businesses have converted this somewhat dreary and tedious experience into something exciting and fresh, by adding cafes and in some cases a full restaurant and bar. Casper Mattresses and Dental Spas in New York are other examples of businesses looking to change an otherwise dreary experience into something fun and exciting. In this episode, Kiran and Tom discuss how the concept of businesses converting an otherwise bad or predictable user experience into something exciting and unexpected could yield impressive results. ________________________________________________________________ Leave some feedback: • What should we talk about next? Please let us know on Twitter - twitter.com/rumjog or in the comments below. • Enjoyed this episode? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, and please be sure to subscribe. ⚡️ Subscribe to Podcast: Google Play: bit.ly/2F2FAB4 iTunes: apple.co/2F2qpHV Spotify: spoti.fi/2CnC0Rt Stitcher: bit.ly/2W1rHtJ SoundCloud: bit.ly/2O7fOQ5

Ditas Katague is currently the Director of the California Complete Count Office for the State of California. Ditas and Jonathan sit down to discuss the importance of the census, what you need to know, and dispel myths about the population count. For more music from Quiñ head to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Also Twitter and Facebook. Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix. Socials:  Twitter- @cacompletecount Instagram- @cacompletecount Hear ad-free new episodes of Getting Curious plus two weekly bonus episodes only on Stitcher Premium. For a free month, go to stitcherpremium.com/jvn and use promo code ‘JVN.’ This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (www.betterhelp.com/jvn code: JVN), Allbirds (www.allbirds.com), Thomas' English Muffins, Grove (www.grove.co/jvn), and Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/CURIOUS code: CURIOUS).

Hearing other people talk about themselves makes this caller uncomfortable. "It makes me cringe," he says, "being on the show is a terrible idea." Will this be Chris' second-ever hang up, or will the caller stay on the line to reveal what about human interaction freaks him out. This episode is brought to you by Magoosh (www.magoosh.com code: BEAUTIFUL), Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/BEAUTIFUL code: BEAUTIFUL), and Circle (www.meetcircle.com/beautiful code: beautiful).

This episode is brought to you by Casper Mattresses! For up to $50 off select mattresses visit Casper.com/5MG and use the code "5MG" at checkout. Terms and Conditions Apply.This episode we breakdown our thoughts and general excitement about the Microsoft conference at E3 2019. Enjoy.The Boys:James Fritz- Twitter:@KloneSixFour - Email: Fritz@DriveByDogs.comMorgan Cahill- Twitter:@DBDMorgan - Email: Morgan@DriveByDogs.comRylee Mcnemar- Email: Rylee@DriveByDogs.comIan Whitefield- Twitter:@IanWhitefield - Email: Ian@DriveByDogs.comAdam Roche-Higgins- Email: Adam@DriveByDogs.comThis is a Drive By Dogs Podcast. For more of us, visit DriveByDogs.com

“Leading with the who is something people want to jump right past.” No, my guest this week wasn’t talking about the band The Who. We were talking about why it’s so important to start with the customer—the who—in mind. This seems easy enough and yet … I discussed being a generalist, naming, and customer-journey mapping with Nancie McDonnell Ruder, fonder of Noetic Consultants, this week on the On Brand podcast. About Nancie McDonnell Ruder Nancie McDonnell Ruder’s 25-year career began at the Leo Burnett Company where she worked in account management and strategy for Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly, The Gap, Lexmark Computers and Hoerchst Marion Rousseau. In 2002, Nancie founded Noetic Consultants with the goal of becoming an effective extension of her clients’ teams. The word “noetic” is related to one’s intellect and thinking. Nancie chose this name for the company because it reflects her team’s commitment to helping clients strategically think through their challenges so that, together, they can take the actions necessary to get to the best possible outcomes. Noetic’s clients have included Samsung, PepsiCo, Nike, Marriott, Mayo Clinic and Discovery, Inc. She is also the author of Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill: How Senior Marketers Scale the Heights Through Art and Science, and the creator of the Noetic Art & Science Assessment ™. Nancie is actively involved in many industry, education and community endeavors: 2018 Enterprising Women Champion: an international award for female entrepreneurs whose fast-growth companies also invest in significant community efforts Speaker at the 2016 and 2017 4A’s Strat Fest Adjunct professor at Georgetown University (my undergraduate alma mater) teaching Marketing Strategy Member of DC Chapter of the Women’s Presidents Organization Advisory Board member of Accelerent, a business development consortium designed to serve the business community and Enterprising Women Organization Episode Highlights What does Jack and Jill have to do with marketing? Nancie used this classic storytelling framework to tell stories on how marketers succeed today. She also used it to address the common misconception “jack of all trades, master of none.” “Today it’s important to be a generalist.” This runs counter intuitive as many—especially in the agency world—are told to specialize. That doesn’t matter as much as being a good leader and, as Nancie notes, deciding “who you assemble on your team.” What are the biggest things most marketers and marketing students miss? As an educator at Georgetown and ANA workshop leader, I couldn’t wait to ask Nancie this. “Starting with the customer in mind.” How can we do better at this? “I’m a big believer in the Who, What, How Framework. We also do a lot of customer journey experience mapping." What brand has made Nancie smile recently? Nancie pointed us to Casper Mattresses. They have a “make-you-smile voice” that reinforces our “love affair with sleep." To learn more, follow Nancie on LinkedIn and Twitter and check out her marketing book Jack and Jill Went Up a Hill on Amazon. As We Wrap … Did you hear something you liked on this episode or another? Do you have a question you’d like our guests to answer? Let me know on Twitter using the hashtag #OnBrandPodcast and you may just hear your thoughts here on the show. On Brand is sponsored by my new book Brand Now. Discover the seven dynamics to help your brand stand out in our crowded, distracted world. Order now and get special digital extras. Learn more. Subscribe to the podcast – You can subscribe to the show via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, and RSS. Rate and review the show – If you like what you’re hearing, head over to Apple Podcasts and click that 5-star button to rate the show. And, if you have a few extra seconds, write a couple of sentences and submit a review. This helps others find the podcast. OK. How do you rate and review a podcast? Need a quick tutorial on leaving a rating/review in iTunes? Check this out. Until next week, I’ll see you on the Internet!

This episode is brought to you by Casper Mattresses! For up to $50 off select mattresses visit Casper.com/5MG and use the code "5MG" at checkout. Terms and Conditions Apply.This episode is also brought to you by Gamefly! For a free trial of the ultimate Video Game Rental Experience, visit GameFlyOffer.com/Smart. Thanks to GameFly for supporting the show!This episode, we discuss Shazam releasing to moderately good reviews, what to expect from Borderlands 3, and what you non playstation losers missed last generation. Enjoy.The Boys:James Fritz- Twitter:@KloneSixFour - Email: Fritz@DriveByDogs.comMorgan Cahill- Twitter:@DBDMorgan - Email: Morgan@DriveByDogs.comThis is a Drive By Dogs Podcast. For more of us, visit DriveByDogs.com

A past caller who’s made strides in living with grief, learning to tell her story and finding a path of acceptance catches up with Gethard in studio (no phones!). They ask: Are we living in a simulation? What’s dark matter? What type of scientist parties the hardest? This episode is brought to yo by ProFlowers (www.proflowers.com code: STORIES), Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/beautiful), Stamps.com (www.stamps.com code: BEAUTIFUL), and ZipRecruiter (www.ziprecruiter.com/BEAUTIFUL).

Ep. 9 - Eli Attie "A Constituency of One"   This episode, we're talking to Eli Attie - speechwriter for NYC Mayor David Dinkins, Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt, and Vice President Al Gore; AS WELL AS a writer for the West Wing, House, Rosewood, For the People, and others!  He gives us some great insight into what makes for good and bad political speechwriting, and how it dovetails and differs with dramatic writing. The overarching theme of the episode is the "constituency of one" - who is your actual audience, who are you trying to please… Something we've all become a lot more familiar with in the political realm these past two years. A couple of other things that get mentioned that I just want to address really quickly: 1. My Medicare plan would not suck. 2. It's not that hard for ME to see Aimee converting to Catholicism. 3. It's true - Air Force 2 IS, in fact, a tiny fraction of the size of Air Force 1, AND, apparently, there's no booze served on it! I also really wanted to include some examples of the speeches Eli's worked on, but it's frustratingly hard to find anything by former Mayor of New York City, David Dinkins, NYC's first and only black mayor, from his time in office (the time of Eli's tenure as speechwriter), but I did find a video of election night coverage, that adds a lot of context and includes his concession speech, which you can find at around the 24:00 minute mark.  Incidentally, this is the night that he lost to a man I cannot say enough bad things about, current cable news ghoul, Rudy Giuliani.  I'd forgotten how contentious this loss was, and it's interesting to watch this speech, given what Eli mentions about being gracious to the point of making oneself nauseous, aaaand unfortunately, it gets cut short in the video.  Check it out here. Here's Dick Gephardt handing the gavel, and the role of Speaker of the House, to Newt Gingrich. Gore's concession speech (madder about this now than I was back then, and I was mad back then.   Visit our sponsor for this episode, Casper Mattresses, and get $50.00 off by entering the promo code "ART" at casper.com/art   Find us on Twitter: @artodprocesspod @AimeeMann @TedLeo @EliAttie @MaxFunHQ

This episode is brought to you by Casper Mattresses! For up to $50 off select mattresses visit Casper.com/5MG and use the code "5MG" at checkout. Terms and Conditions Apply.In this episode, we discuss both the movie and game trailer for the Star Wars filled Fall we're about to have. Enjoy.The Boys:James Fritz- Twitter:@KloneSixFour - Email: Fritz@DriveByDogs.comIan Whitefield- Twitter:@IanWhitefield - Email: Ian@DriveByDogs.comMorgan Cahill- Twitter:@DBDMorgan - Email: Morgan@DriveByDogs.comThis is a Drive By Dogs Podcast. For more of us, visit DriveByDogs.com

Good morning good afternoon and good evening sports fans. This is a big show for a lot of reasons. The boys are joined by college basketball legend Dee Brown to talk all things March Madness and he doesn't disappoint. Dee relives the best game ever while going in depth on what made the 2005 Illini basketball team one of the greatest teams ever. In and and around that interview the boys go into the Sweet 16 weekend, the end of the Hawks season, Jordan Howard trade emotions, opening day reactions and the first deep dive into baseball of the year. It's a tight show so no voicemails and limited grabbag but we find time for a beef because of course we do. Thanks to Miller Lite, Roman, Seat Geek, Casper Mattresses and Napleton River Oaks Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram for making this show happen. All Gas No Brakes I-L-L

This episode is brought to you by Casper Mattresses! For up to $50 off select mattresses visit Casper.com/5MG and use the code "5MG" at checkout. Terms and Conditions Apply.Time Stamps:(00:15) Piracy Fight(02:30) The Outer Worlds/Epic Games Store Controversy(10:13) Halo MCC Coming to PCThe Boys:James Fritz- Twitter:@KloneSixFour - Email: Fritz@DriveByDogs.comIan Whitefield- Twitter:@IanWhitefield - Email: Ian@DriveByDogs.comMorgan Cahill- Twitter:@DBDMorgan - Email: Morgan@DriveByDogs.comThis is a Drive By Dogs Podcast. For more of us, visit DriveByDogs.com

Dr. Stan Tatkin is author of the new book We Do, he returns to talk with Jonathan about relationships, couples therapy, what goes into forming a functional relationship, the physical effects of a bad relationship, determining happiness, stress, and more. Find Dr. Tatkin’s work at https://stantatkin.com. He’s on Twitter https://twitter.com/DrStanTatkin and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stantatkin. Find Dr. Stan Tatkin on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/drstantatkin For more music from Quiñ head to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Also Twitter and Facebook. Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix. This episode is sponsored by ADT (www.adt.com/podcast), Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/CURIOUS code: CURIOUS), Grove Collaborative (www.grove.co/JVN), and thredUP (www.thredup.com/JVN).

This episode is brought to you by Casper Mattresses! For up to $50 off select mattresses visit Casper.com/5MG and use the code "5MG" at checkout. Terms and Conditions Apply.This episode is also brought to you by our Youtube Channel. If you like the show click the link below to watch our Live Action Video Game Short Films!Youtube.com/DriveByDogsTime Stamps:(00:28) Pokemon Direct(12:22) Google's Entrance To The Gaming MarketCast:James Fritz- Twitter:@KloneSixFour - Email: Fritz@DriveByDogs.comMorgan Cahill- Twitter:@DBDMorgan - Email: Morgan@DriveByDogs.comThis is a Drive By Dogs Podcast. For more of us, visit DriveByDogs.com

We aren’t sponsored by Casper Mattresses yet. But we have figured out how to completely blow a plan out of the water. Things get real …

Sean and Hayes have a little fun doing a talkshow with JULIE KLAUSNER and TOM SCHARPLING live at The Bell House. This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses ( www.casper.com/savings ) and LinkedIn ( www.linkedin.com/THEBOYS ).

This is one of the rarest stories of all: a man who publicly experiences a profound change of heart.This is a profile of one of the gods of psychotherapy, who through a reckoning with his own work (oddly enough in the pages of Playboy magazine), becomes the first domino to fall in science’s ultimate disowning of the “gay cure.”This episode is sponsored by RXBAR (www.RXBAR.com/unerased code: unerased), Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/unerased code: unerased), Audible (www.audible.com/unerased or text unerased to 500500), and Care/Of (www.takecareof.com code: unerased).

Her home is engulfed in flames. She brings the geckos, kittens & dogs to safety and checks on the donkeys, mules, chickens and horses to make sure they are safe as well. Three days later, lying under an electric blanket with her cat, this week’s caller tells Gethard and the live audience in Los Angeles how she can’t sit around and cry all day, so she laughs through it.  This episode is brought to you by Stamps.com (www.stamps.com code: BEAUTIFUL), Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/beautiful code: BEAUTIFUL), and Caffe Monster.

This is a modern day story of Job. It starts with Garrard Conley, a young gay kid growing up in rural Arkansas, trying to find a place to stand between a devout father and unforgiving God, and ends in a dramatic escape from an ex-gay camp and the smuggling out of a book that overturns an industry.This episode is sponsored by Care/Of (www.takecareof.com code: UNERASED), Audible (www.audible.com/unerased or text unerased to 500500), Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/unerased code: unerased), and RXBar (www.rxbar.com/unerased code: unerased).

Nevada is the land of legalized prostitution. At the Bunny Ranch brothel, Noor explores a model of sex entirely as a business – just like any other. She meets a highly paid prostitute who plans to leave the ranch with hundreds of thousands in savings. The infamous pimp who runs the place argues that if you're selling sex for money in America and you're not doing it legally in a brothel, you're a criminal. But Noor learns that only a select few can meet the standards for working in the brothel. You can hear ad-free episodes of Sold in America only on Stitcher Premium. For a free month of premium, go tostitcherpremium.com and use promo code 'AMERICA'. This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/NOOR code: NOOR).

Andy and Matt are giving ol’ August Lindt another shot with Travel Bug recorded live at The Largo in Los Angeles. August is joined by other famous travel bugs, Werner Herzog, Pope Benedict XIII, and H.R. Giger to discuss their favorite travels. Then the whole Lindt family pop's by to update us on what they've been up to since we last heard from them four years. And to close out the evening German super-group, Spyryt performs their hits. Special Guests: Matt Besser, Paul F. Tompkins, Jeremy Carter, James Bladon, Chris Tallman, Mark McConville, Erinn Hayes, Todd Cooper, and Tony Thaxton This episode is brought to you by Heineken and Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/andydaly code: ANDYDALY).

Hilarious comedian, Bert “The Machine” Kreischer is on this week’s episode! He’s sharing stories about how he makes lifestyle changes out of spite, the time he came home and his dog was putting away dishes, and how he won his wife back with Coldplay. Bert also set a pant shitting story record. - Follow Bert on Twitter: @bertkreischer - Bert’s Website: https://www.bertbertbert.com/ - Check out our website: www.nottoodeep.com - This episode is brought to you by our wonderful sponsors: Krave, Third Love, Casper Mattresses, and Rothy’s. Please support them for help keeping our podcast free!

Usidore and Chunt invite in Stick the Squire to apprentice under Arnie, in case anything ever happens to him. Credits: Arnie: Arnie Niekamp Chunt: Adal Rifai Usidore: Matt Young Stick the Squire: Felix Trench Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Ryan DiGiorgi, Evan Jacover Editor: Garrett Schultz Theme Music: Andy Poland Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban Audio Assistance: Jason Knox Production Assistance: Garrett Schultz Get your copy of the next Book Club read, Pride and Prejudice here! This episode is brought to you by Squarespace (www.squarespace.com/TAVERN code: TAVERN), Heineken, and Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/chunt code: CHUNT).

The Boys talk to CEDRIC YARBROUGH about his career and try to do a show with him.This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses ( www.casper.com/theboys  code: THEBOYS), Simple Contacts ( www.simplecontacts.com/THEBOYS20  code: THEBOYS20), and Harry's ( www.harrys.com/HANDBOOK ).

Welcome to the very first episode of Matt Besser's new podcast, Screw It, Were Just Gonna Talk About How Twist And Shout Is The Worst Beatles Song. Matt is joined this week by engineer Brett Morris, rock and roll doctor David Fricke of Rolling Stone, and Beatles guitarist John Lennon as they call up notable Beatles podcaster Will Hines to help Will understand why Twist and Shout is not just the worst Beatles song, but also the worst song of all time. This episode is brought to you by "Improv Nation" by Sam Watson and Casper Mattresses (code: IMPROV).

It's Monday morning, the final day of cuts for the 53-man roster for improv4humans. It's an agonizing ordeal for humans, and it's come down to Coach Besser's final cut. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace (www.squarespace.com code: IMPROV) and Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/IMPROV).

It's Monday morning, the final day of cuts for the 53-man roster for improv4humans. It's an agonizing ordeal for humans, and it's come down to Coach Besser's final cut.This episode is brought to you by Squarespace (www.squarespace.com code: IMPROV) and Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/IMPROV).

The boys are back to discuss Arcade Fire's double album REFLEKTOR, as well as to discuss the prospects of EVERYTHING NOW, Arcade Fire's recently-announced forthcoming record.  Zac is in full-on Honeymoon mode with everybody's favorite Indie Arena Rock Band, but Morgan has since soured on The Suburbs.  Along the way, they check in with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discuss San Fermin's "Belong," contemplate the whole concept of Gorillaz, worry about the futures of Death Cab for Cutie and Vampire Weekend, and go pretty deep into the Orpheus myth -- especially the part where he dies from getting fucked to death.  This episode is not sponsored by Blue Apron, Casper Mattresses, and Bonobos.  Thanks to Scott and Scott, as always.  Morgan's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/themildrevolution

Special musical guests The Staves join John Gemberling, Eugene Cordero, Shaun Diston, and Matt Besser for this week's improv4humans. The Staves play songs that inspire scenes about a prison tattoo with terrible side effects, misunderstanding the concept of an Xbox, and a band that compliments every city but the one they're playing in. Plus, John has a hard time getting his name spelled correctly at Starbucks, and telekinetic children push the boundaries of acceptable behavior. This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/improv) and MVMT Watches (www.mvmtwatches.com/improv).

Special musical guests The Staves join John Gemberling, Eugene Cordero, Shaun Diston, and Matt Besser for this week's improv4humans. The Staves play songs that inspire scenes about a prison tattoo with terrible side effects, misunderstanding the concept of an Xbox, and a band that compliments every city but the one they're playing in. Plus, John has a hard time getting his name spelled correctly at Starbucks, and telekinetic children push the boundaries of acceptable behavior. This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses (www.casper.com/improv) and MVMT Watches (www.mvmtwatches.com/improv).See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Wild Horses (Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland and Erin Whitehead) join Matt Besser for a live episode at the Now Hear This Podcast Festival in Anaheim, CA. Their scenes will include only having experiencing kissing the TV, what happens when everyone can hear your internal monologue, and reusing the Hunger Games Katniss cleavage for future Halloween costumes. Plus, everyone figures out whether they fall into the millennial or Gen X category. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace and Casper Mattresses.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Live at Now Hear This Festival with Wild Horses - The Wild Horses (Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland and Erin Whitehead) join Matt Besser for a live episode at the Now Hear This Podcast Festival in Anaheim, CA. Their scenes will include only having experiencing kissing the TV, what happens when everyone can hear your internal monologue, and reusing the Hunger Games' Katniss cleavage for future Halloween costumes. Plus, everyone figures out whether they fall into the millennial or Gen X category.This episode is brought to you by Squarespace and Casper Mattresses.

Plerk of Plersonality - Adam Pally, John Gemberling, and Gil Ozeri join Matt Besser for this week's episode of improv4humans. They navigate a convenience store that deals in specific kinds of tape, pick the best cereal to put in their kids' hair, and mount a less literal garage door ad campaign. Later, they explore the autotune dimension and then feel out a new house by its hardcore tunes.This episode is sponsored by Squarespace and Casper Mattresses.

Adam Pally, John Gemberling, and Gil Ozeri join Matt Besser for this week's episode of improv4humans. They navigate a convenience store that deals in specific kinds of tape, pick the best cereal to put in their kids' hair, and mount a less literal garage door ad campaign. Later, they explore the autotune dimension and then feel out a new house by its hardcore tunes. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace and Casper Mattresses.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.