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We're welcoming special guest Tom Dotan of Dead Cat fame to the show this week — just in time for the tariff market meltdown. To Silicon Valley's Trump supporters, we hate to say we told you so, but it's hard to imagine how these tariffs on our biggest trading partners will benefit tech and artificial intelligence development in the US.In the second half of the show, Eric interviews Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on how to make sense of what President Trump's tariff policies mean for his customers around the world.
Roll for sanity! This week the Abyss gang dives into P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins. Before they get deep into this world, they discuss Cobra Kai, Captain America: Brave New World, Grotesquerie, Dexter: Original Sin, Brian McNaughton's The Throne of Bones, and Interplanetaries by Clark Ashton Smith. Awww, looks like you rolled a one, so you have to listen now!
Under The Boardwalk! The NSC vacation to Coney Island didn't go so well after Miriam "Playback" Morse got captured, and it continues to not go so well. In this Issue we finally get to meet the guy who sent Quill after Tensen a few issues ago, along with a host of new paranormal weirdos!
Under The Boardwalk! The NSC vacation to Coney Island didn't go so well after Miriam "Playback" Morse got captured, and it continues to not go so well. In this Issue we finally get to meet the guy who sent Quill after Tensen a few issues ago, along with a host of new paranormal weirdos!
One of the most curious and complicated characters on the great American musical landscape is Thomas A. Dorsey.A deeply religious man, Dorsey often is called “the father of gospel music,” because he inspired a movement that popularized bluesy gospel songs in churches across America starting in the mid-20th century.Some 3,000 songs — a third of them gospel — were written by Dorsey in his 90 years, including “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” and “Peace in the Valley.” Now, then, about those other 2,000 songs ….Recording as “Georgia Tom,” Dorsey also was instrumental in the early days of secular blues. With his partner “Tampa Red,” he helped popularize the sexy, happy hokum music of the 1920s and ‘30s with tunes like “Somebody's Been Using That Thing,” “Dead Cat on the Line.” and “The Duck — Yas, Yas, Yas.”In the Beginning….Born in the rural Georgia town of Villa Rica, Dorsey grew up in a religious family, but gained most of his musical experience playing blues piano at barrelhouses and rowdy parties in and around Atlanta, where the family moved when Thomas was eight years old. As a young man, Dorsey began attending vaudeville theater shows that featured blues musicians, with whom he informally studied. Despite being meagerly compensated for his efforts, Thomas played at rent parties, house parties and brothels.Seeking a greater challenge, in 1919 Dorsey moved to Chicago, where he discovered that his brand of playing was unfashionable compared to jazz's newer uptempo styles. Faced with more competition for jobs, Dorsey turned to composing. In 1920 he published his first piece, called "If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, You Can Count the Days I'm Gone,” making him one of the first musicians to copyright blues music.Dorsey also copyrighted his first religious piece in 1922 (a song called “If I Don't Get There"), but he quickly found that sacred music could not financially sustain him, at least not in the Roarin' Twenties, so he continued working the dives and playing the blues.Enter Ma RaineyDorsey's big break came in 1923 when he was hired as the pianist and leader of The Wild Cats Jazz Band accompanying Ma Rainey, a charismatic and bawdy blues shouter who by then had been performing professionally for 20 years.When Rainey and The Wild Cats opened at Chicago's largest black theater, Dorsey remembered the night as "the most exciting moment in my life,” according to his biographer Michael W. Harris.Dorsey worked with Rainey and her band for two years, composing and arranging her music in the blues style as well as vaudeville and jazz to please audiences' tastes. Often at his side was a new member of the band, Hudson “Tampa Red” Whitaker, a blues guitarist who in 1928 would become Dorsey's recording partner for five years.Rainey enjoyed enormous popularity touring with her hectic schedule, singing about lost loves and hard times. She interacted with her audiences, who were often so enthralled they stood up and shouted back at her while she sang.But Dorsey increasingly had misgivings about the suggestive lyrics of the songs he and Red were writing. Finally, Thomas left the tour and tried to market his new sacred music. He printed thousands of copies of his songs to sell directly to churches and publishers, even going door to door, but he still couldn't make it work.About This SongDorsey returned to the blues in 1928, but this time in the recording studios in the persona of “Georgia Tom.” The first Paramount sessions for him and Tampa Red were the last ones for Ma Rainey. In fact, one of the last things the great blues singer ever recorded was this new Thomas Dorsey composition.Nowadays for vinyl collectors, Rainey's “Black Eye Blues” is a rare find. That's because Ma's September 1928 recording of the song wasn't released until July 1930. By then, the Great Depression was raging. Rainey had left the business (retiring to her Columbus, Ga., home). Paramount was ending too; the studio ceased operation in 1932.While audio of the record was later preserved on blues compilation albums (and now on YouTube), the song itself has had a sketchy history. Over the years, the controversial subject matter — domestic violence — has made it uncomfortable for many singers to tackle, especially when dealing with Dorsey's no-compromise lyrics: You low-down alligator, you watch and sooner or later I'm gonna catch you with your britches down!When folkie Judy Henske recorded it in 1964, for instance, her producers at Elektra changed the title to "Low Down Alligator.” Similarly, when Odetta recorded the song two years earlier, she also found the title a bit too much for early 1960s sensibilities. On the Riverside label, instead of “Black Eye Blues,” the song was listed as “Hogan's Alley,” based on Dorsey's opening line (Down in Hogan's Alley lived Miss Nancy Ann….)Hogan's AlleyWhich raises a question. Where is “Hogan's Alley,” anyway?Many cities (from Vancouver to Virginia) have one, but historian Robert Lewis Miesen writes, “Rather than being the name of a person, ‘Hogan's Alley' was a derogatory 19th century label, much as one might use ‘skid row,' ‘ghetto' or ‘hood' today.”He noted that in the same spirit back in 1895, artist Richard F. Outcault — father of the modern comic strip — placed his “Yellow Kid” character in his “Hogan's Alley” cartoons, which appeared weekly in The New York World, starring rambunctious slum kids in the streets.Our Take on the TuneMeanwhile in Floodlandia, when the whole band can't get together — like last week, when it was just Danny, Randy and Charlie — it's an opportunity to lay back and explore tunes not usually on the practice list.In Flood years, this song dates back nearly a half century, to when the fellows were first starting to fool with the hokum tunes of the 1920s and ‘30s.Here's “Black Eye Blues” from last week's gathering. 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Peter York is a cultural commentator, author, and former Style Editor of Harper's & Queen magazine. He is best known for co-authoring the iconic Official Sloane Ranger Handbook in the 1980s. More recently, Peter has shifted his focus to more serious topics, including co-authoring The War Against the BBC with Professor Patrick Barwise. This week, we discuss Peter's latest book, A Dead Cat on Your Table, which delves into the world of "culture wars," the role of media personalities, influencers, and think tanks. We also explore Elon Musk's potential $100 million donation to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party and assess the extent to which the BBC is constrained in addressing "culture war" issues due to government pressure and funding concerns. “It's the one structural fault that dates from the 20s. The government has too much power over the BBC's funding and too much power over the BBC in other ways too. And you look at the manipulations of the last decade, and you can absolutely see that.” Listen to all our episodes here: https://podfollow.com/beebwatch/view To support our journalism and receive a weekly blog sign up now for £1.99 per month: www.patreon.com/BeebWatch/membership Or if you'd rather make a one-off payment (which doesn't entitle you to the blog) please use our crowdfunding page:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-boltons-beeb-watch-podcast @BeebRogerInstagram: rogerboltonsbeebwatchLinkedIn: Roger Bolton's Beeb Watchemail: roger@rogerboltonsbeebwatch.comwww.goodeggproductions.uk Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Just Pol & Bud today, talking algae, Switch 2 (OH I'M SORRY I MEAN AN ALARM CLOCK FOR SOME REASON), and Joker Fully Ah De Mew starring Joe-Keen Phoenix. Bud's Weekly Geek-out 11:59 – Hello Algae Coming Soon 15:48 – Goosebumps: The Vanishing (starring David Schwimmer, Disney+ series, S2, January 10, 2025) (Zoner Mary) 18:04 – Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo (out today, $130 CAD, NY store/US & CAD NSO availability to start) NOT Coming Soon 24:14 – That '90s show cancelled at Netflix Geek News Proper 28:11 – Joker: Folie à Deux getting roasted 37:03 – The Jim Henson Company says it's NOT selling its studio lot to the church of scientology Reviews and Recommendayshes 38:35 – Late Night With The Devil (next week, we probably promise) 41:09 – Broken Lens (Bud) 43:57 – Larry David live (Pol) Join The Geek-out Podcast's Facebook page (where we'll release new episodes, and where you can talk with us) and Facebook group (where fans of the podcast can gather and talk geeky stuff)! Questions? Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? e-mail geekout@TheZone.fm Subscribe to The Zone's Geek-out Podcast on Apple Podcasts. Or, copypasta this link to subscribe using your podcatcher of choice: https://omny.fm/shows/the-geek-out-podcast/playlists/podcast.rss And, get more Zone podcasty goodness at TheZone.fm/podcast
Peter York is an author and broadcaster who came to fame writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He was also the Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years and became a media commentator on English social trends and traits, regularly appearing on television. Peter wrote Peter York's Eighties (1996), this time co-authored with Charles Jennings, which was both a book and a BBC television series. This was followed by Dictators' Homes (2005), which explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters. Recently Peter wrote the book, The War Against the BBC, about how an Unprecedented Combination of Hostile Forces Is Destroying Britain's Greatest Cultural Institution... And Why People Should Care. He's also presented a sixty-minute live show, How to Become a Nicer Type of Person, on stage in Edinburgh and London and Peter York's Hipster Handbook on BBC Four. His latest book is called A Dead Cat on your Table, and is available from the 1st of October 2024. In it he's teamed up with renowned political cartoonist Martin Rowson, and in they dissect the divisive nature of today's Culture Wars and how distraction and outrage are weaponized to manipulate opinion; the dead cat tactic as it's known.Peter York is guest number 431 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .For some of Peter York's books, visit - https://www.waterstones.com/author/peter-york/139505Follow Peter York on Twitter: @PeterPeteryork .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This time we discussed The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, written by P. Djèlí Clark and narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Recorded Books, Inc. for providing audio review copies of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins for today's episode. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins [Libro.fm] A Master of Djinn [Libro.fm] The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Libro.fm]
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Send us a textEpisode 134: Ball Bag TuckIn this episode, Lovdev shares his struggle with some mysterious mouth pain—ouch! Plus, we introduce a brand-new segment AITA (you won't want to miss the hilarious suggestions). We also dive into a weird question for all the men out there: Do you tuck in when you go to bed? And, of course, we wrap it up with today's bizarre news story featuring a very unfortunate dead cat. It's weird, it's wild, it's another crazy day in the life of Lovdev BarpagaSupport the show
Ogni tanto la vita ti da' dei segnali. Dei messaggi in codice che suggeriscono cose su cui riflettere e rivedere le proprie posizioni. Cogliere questi segnali, non confondendoli con avvenimenti accidentali e disgiunti fra loro, è facile a dirsi, ma non a farsi. Le storie che da soli ci raccontiamo nella testa, tendono a giustificare sempre tutto ciò che avviene nelle nostre vite come avvenimenti casuali senza alcun collegamento fra loro. Ma mi piace pensare che forse non è così. Mi piace pensare che di tanto in tanto fa bene domandarsi cosa la vita sta cercando di comunicarci, mettendo in discussione il film che stiamo interpretando giorno dopo giorno. N.B.: Il titolo di questo episodio è legato ad un messaggio che la vita mi ha inviato in una formato molto originale (un telone), e che, una volta afferrato, ho usato come trampolino per fare un nuovo salto. _______________Info Utili• Sostieni questo podcast:Ottieni feedback, ricevi consigli sul tuo progetto onlinehttps://Patreon.com/Robin_Good• Musica di questa puntata:"Dead Cat in the Parking Lot" by Birocratic disponibile su Bandcamp• Nella foto di copertina:Il telone che è apparso all'improvviso fuori dalla finestra della mia camera. Isola di Holbox, MX. 2023.• Dammi feedback:Critiche, commenti, suggerimenti, idee e domande unendoti al gruppo Telegram https://t.me/@RobinGoodPodcastFeedback• Ascolta e condividi questo podcast:https://www.spreaker.com/show/dabrandafriendArchivio completo organizzato per temi:https://start.me/p/kxENzk/da-brand-a-friend-archivio-podcast• Seguimi su Telegram:https://t.me/RobinGoodItalia• Newsletter in Inglese:https://robingood.substack.com.
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Podcast Guest Julia Vahry: vahry.co.nz Chapters 00:00 The Art of Acting and Self-Discovery 04:23 Exploring Human Behavior and Confronting Good and Evil 07:28 Maintaining Humanity in the Face of Evil 27:02 Navigating Challenges in Mental Health Services and Community Safety 29:10 Challenges in the Criminal Justice System 31:45 The Importance of Empathy in Addressing Societal Issues 44:49 Pursuing Dreams and Aspirations
A controversial cat-culling competition organised by cat hunters in North Canterbury has gone ahead, with participants bagging 370 feral moggies and some of their antics raisng a few eyebrows, Susana Lei'ataua speaks to organiser Matt Bailey.
We dive deep into off-air tensions between Yaz and Avneesha, tackle a surprising intervention, and unravel the truth behind shocking celebrity news involving P Diddy. Don't miss Yaz's heartfelt journey to Vegas for love, our conspiracy theory on the recent solar eclipse, and a bizarre ethical debate in "Lock 'Em Up or Let 'Em Go". It's an episode full of drama, love, and mystery!00:16 - Behind the Scenes Turmoil: Yaz and Avneesha's Off-Air Conflict03:10 - Avneesha Stages a Social Media Intervention for Yaz04:24 - "That's So Dumb": Debunking the Myth of Screaming Without Air05:44 - What's Popping: Shocking Leak of P Diddy's Domestic Violence Incident with Cassie20:20 - Story of the Week: Yaz's Romantic Escape to Vegas33:45 - Tin Foil Hat Segment: Unraveling the "Real" Solar Eclipse Conspiracy49:30 - Lock 'Em Up or Let 'Em Go: The Case of the Dead Cat and Unlikely ChoicesInstagram @KianYazAvneeshaYouTube @AlreadyCancelledPodcast
In this one, Jerry and Eddie talk Jerry saying goodbye to his beloved cat, the worst thing the vet could have done, X-Men casting wishes and so much more. Enjoy!
Episode 221. James B and Eddie cover three books and two actually have Spider-Man in them. Can you have a good Spider-Man book without Spider-Man? Listen to the debate and choose a side! Oh yeah, and it's Christmas isn't it? (00:27) PPPPN Sponsor - Another Brick in the Wall (03:11) From July of 1986 Stan Lee presents Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man 116 “102 Uses for a Dead Cat” by Peter David, Pencils by Rich Buckler, Ink by bob McLeod (06:14) Segment: It's not Huckleberry Finn, it's Spider-Man! (09:07) From August of 1986 Stan Lee presents PPtSSM 117 “Dinner Hour” script by Peter David, Storytelling Rich Buckler, Pencils Dwayne Turner Inks Bob McLeod, Del Barras, Keith Williams, and Josef Rubinstein (14:06) From Sept of 1986 Stan Lee presents PPtSSM 118 “Ashes to Ashes” Script by Peter David, Breakdowns by Mike Zeck (17:14) PPPPN Sponsor - Goons Just Wanna Have Fun https://readallcomics.com/peter-parker-the-spectacular-spider-man-118/ Theme Music by Jeff Kenniston. This Episode Edited by James B using Audacity and Cleanfeed. Summaries written by James B and Eddie and Chuckie. Most Sound effects and music generously provided royalty free by www.fesliyanstudios.com and https://www.zapsplat.com/ Check out all the episodes on letsreadspiderman.podbean.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out our live meetup and Discord Channel here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_mW6htjJUHOzlViEvPQqR-k68tClMGAi85Bi_xrlV7w/edit
Join us for the newest episode of GUSH! This week Tanner is joined by Niki Caro Bakri as we discuss the TOP TEN stories in pop culture! 1. Oprah Winfrey Reveals She Uses Weight-Loss Medication as a 'Maintenance Tool' 2. Hermes Heir, 80, Worth $11 Billion Plans to Give Vast Fortune to His 51-Year-Old Gardener 3. Paris Hilton Addresses Backlash Over Changing Baby's Diaper 4. Taylor Swift's Star Studded 34th Birthday Party 5. Podcaster Brooke Scholfield Says Matt Rife Publicly Body-Shamed Her Hours After Sleeping With Her 6. JEFF BEZOS LIFE'S IMPROVING, BUT NATURE'S NOT … Outer Space Is Solution!!! 7. Todd Chrisley's First Prison Interview: “Filthy,Starving Inmates, Black Mold, & Dead Cat” 8. Luke Combs responds to copyright lawsuit ordering woman who sold 18 tumblers pay him $250K 9. Mark Zuckerberg building $100M Hawaii compound with massive underground bunker 10. Kate Middleton and Prince William are 'embarrassed' over holiday card Photoshop disaster Follow Katy Elaine Photography on Instagram: @katyelainephotography Thank you so much for watching GUSH! We are so happy to have you join us! ❤️ Follow us on Instagram: @thegushpodcast Business Inquiries: justthegushpodcast@gmail.com Xx Tanner #thegushpodcast
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An Indiana author writes a novel set in Indiana, and it wins a National Book Award. WFIU's Violet Baron talks with Tess Gunty about why it was important to set her novel in her home state. Then, Austin Davis brings us poems about people living without housing, from WFIU's Poets Weave. And in Chapter 3 of The Third Time Rita Left, Kayte and Carl get invited to exhume a dead cat, and in the midst of everyone leaving work to look for Rita, we ask what work is really for, anyway.
Former BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos spent the first few days posting on Meta's Twitter copycat, Threads, as if she were the editor-in-chief of the new app. “As EIC, it's a lot of work! I'm personally curating the feed for users based on all of Meta's information on them to bring each person a hand-curated feed that I've approved,” Notopoulos posted on Threads. While Meta tolerated the ruse, the company censored one of her more roguish posts. “At Threads, our expectation is for all users to treat others with kindness and respect. This encompasses acknowledging the choice to adopt a Nazi lifestyle. We embrace a diverse community,” she trolled.Ultimately, Notopoulos announced that she had been fired from her role as editor-in-chief. I invited her on the show, along with Dead Cat podcast defector Tom Dotan, who abandoned our old podcast in favor of a gig at the Wall Street Journal. Together, we made sense of the Threads-Twitter rivalry. We talked on Friday so a few of our stats on Threads' growth might be outdated. Threads has since exceeded 100 million users and Elon Musk has proposed a “literal dick measuring contest” and called Zuckerberg a “cuck.” Otherwise, I think you'll find our conversation perfectly current. It's a lively episode. I posit that Threads will quickly become the Uber to Twitter's Lyft. I didn't just invite Notopoulos on the show because she has been a Threads troll and a the thorn in the side of Meta. She is famous for her extremely online, yet carefully reported pieces from her time at BuzzFeed. She wrote a piece titled, “Chuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks To Make Its Rodent Mascot Dance — For Now.” And she revealed the real names of the Bored Apes founders. BuzzFeed is paying her for the next few months after the company shut down its news division. So she's had plenty of time to spend on Threads. Dotan once covered Snapchat obsessively and we spent many Dead Cat episodes talking about Facebook, so I thought this would be a fun episode to have him back on the show — even if the Journal has muzzled how wild he can be in his pronouncements. We concluded the show talking about a much more Newcomer-y topic. Dotan wrote last week about how AI had stemmed tech's downturn. He reported:The Nasdaq has risen 32% this year—the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 3.4%—while Microsoft shares have climbed 41% and Nvidia shares have almost tripled on the back of optimism that AI will bolster their businesses.Companies that had been touting their cost-cutting and apologizing for hiring too many people in recent years have been adding to the excitement by broadcasting their AI ambitions. Of the S&P 500 companies with earnings conference calls from the middle of March to late May, 110 mentioned AI, according to FactSet. That is a record high and around three times the 10-year average. Give it a listenHighlighted ExcerptsThe transcript has been edited for clarity.Eric: Will threads be bigger than Twitter? Will it be the Uber to Twitter's Lyft?Katie: I predict yes.Tom: Twitter in its current state? Not at its peak? Yeah, such a low bar.Katie: Twitter still has advantages over Threads, like anonymity and retaining large followings. [Instagram Head] Adam Mosseri recently mentioned that Threads won't be a place for news.Eric: Threads aims to be a “nice” platform, countering the mean-spiritedness associated with Elon Musk and promoting a friendlier environment. Do you think the personality and positioning of Facebook will play a significant role, or is it all about the product and Instagram's connection?Katie: It's a combination. Threads' success will come from being a product under Instagram, which many people don't realize is owned by Facebook. On the other hand, people are leaving Twitter because of Elon Musk's presence.Tom: Facebook has a history of copying features in response to perceived threats, such as stories. However, Twitter isn't a threat. This opportunistic move by Facebook. To launch Threads won't magically fix the limitations of text-based platforms. We're in an era of niche social media experiences, and reaching a billion users with this format is unlikely. It's unfair to hold that expectation. Nonetheless, with 70 million users already, it can be considered a success.Katie: The Instagram account provided a dictionary where a conversation is referred to as a thread. For example, I was reading some intriguing threads that Eric was discussing. However, an individual post is still called a post, and instead of a retweet, it's called a repost.Eric: What are your thoughts on what was happening there? I found it very strange that they were dictating the language they want people to use. I couldn't determine if they're worried people will start using terms like “tweet” and if they wanted to discourage that.Katie: I interpreted it similarly. People were genuinely asking, you know, what should we call them? Since they're not tweets, do we call them retweets? What should we call them? I think the worst-case scenario would be if people started jokingly referring to them as “threats,” which is probably not what they intended.Eric: People are really enjoying wordplay, and personally, I'm not a fan of that. There are posts about your followers or your thread count. It's like a new summer camp where everyone is trying to come up with the language that will dominate the platform.Katie: Absolutely. And it's important to remember that there are a lot more people signing up than they expected, maybe around 70 million or something. But most of these users aren't on Twitter and don't know anything about it. They're not comparing it to Twitter. It's mostly regular users, like 16-year-olds in Brazil, who are thinking, “Oh, a new platform? Where does this fit in with Instagram? Just tell me what to do.” The user base is incredibly diverse, which is why it's very straightforward in terms of understanding.Tom: Explain to me, though, why people who have never liked Twitter would suddenly join a Twitter copycat and find it useful. Twitter has been around for a while, and its mechanics and design haven't broadly appealed to more than 200-300 million users. So why now are they expecting people in Brazil, who have ignored Twitter for the first decade of its existence, to suddenly find “thread” compelling just because they can use their Instagram handle and easily sign up?Katie: Personally, as someone eager to test out new apps, I preordered it on iTunes so that it would be ready for download at exactly 7 pm. I was excited about it because I follow technology news and knew there was a new app coming out. But for most people, I don't think they heard about the app and actively went to the App Store to look for it. I assume that when most people opened Instagram, they received a prompt to click and experience the new threads. They were signed up right from inside the Instagram app. So, anyone who opened Instagram yesterday was directed to join the app. They might have thought, “I'm not sure what this is, but I like Instagram, so I'll give it a try.”Eric: It seems like there are a couple of factors at play. There's definitely a disdain for Elon Musk, particularly among reporters and the left, including myself. I feel like that revolt and the desire of that crowd to find a new home helped motivate this, which is amusing because those same individuals have been critical of Zuck over the past five years.Katie: I think it's a case of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” to a large extent. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment.Eric: Indeed. It's obviously Instagram's power to bring Instagram users to the new app. Additionally, there are people who believe in getting on a platform early and building followers. So it's like these three groups trying to coexist—the social media managers who want to grow their accounts in case it becomes the next big thing, the Twitter rebels, and the Instagram influencers who are being told that this is part of the app.Katie: I have another theory as well. When you sign up for the app, the feed is currently purely algorithmic, and it includes a lot of content from people you don't follow. There's probably a lot of enthusiasm from these big celebrities who haven't found success on TikTok and are holding onto Instagram as an essential platform for their careers. Fans and regular users are excited because they suddenly see celebrities who hadn't posted on Twitter for years.Eric: What are people's opinions on the algorithmic feed? I think the average person wants an algorithmic feed.Katie: I believe so too. Instagram has continued to have an algorithmic feed for years because multiple tests have shown that it's what people actually want.Katie: Another important factor to consider is the timing of the app's launch. Summer is the ideal season for such apps because teenagers are out of school and have more time to use their phones. The current success can be attributed to the high number of young users who are typically in school during other times of the year. While the app's popularity may decline in the fall, I don't think it will fade away like Clubhouse did.Tom: Additionally, Facebook can easily maintain the app without much effort. Even if it reaches its peak user base, let's say around 100 million, and then gradually declines to 50 or 60 million, it will still be manageable for Facebook to sustain it. The operating costs are likely low, mainly cloud computing expenses, and it might even serve as an ad platform. For Facebook, it could be a side project that requires minimal effort. If it also happens to cause some inconvenience for Elon Musk and the ongoing competition in Silicon Valley, then that's an added bonus. Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe
In which an asthmatic British cartoonist sells two million copies of his books of non-jokes for cat skeptics, and John knows what the handle of a gun is called. Certificate #29573.
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Back by popular demand we are doing the crowd pleaser called Am I The Asshole. My Girlfriend wouldn't watch the LOTR trilogy on my birthday so I stormed out- AITA? I asked my fiance to remove her K-Pop tattoo- AITA? Soo I hate a puppy- does this make me an a$$hole? My sister disowned me cause I work as a cam girl- now she is asking me for money and I am refusing- AITA? I gave my girlfriends dead cat to a friend who did taxidermy and displayed it in his house- AITA? I sold my car to a scraper over my mum in law when she didn't pay me the full value of the car- AITA? Hope you guys enjoyed the episode!! THAILAND - www.trovatrip.com/trip/asia/thaila…ose-lee-aug-2023 BALI - www.trovatrip.com/trip/asia/bali/i…ose-lee-aug-2023
Musician and Drummer Jon Shiffman (Steel Train, Bleachers) tells us about his life as a pro musician, the golden age of North Jersey high school bands, working with Jack Antonoff and what it takes to stay creative and solvent. Skip ahead: 00:00 Who is Jon Shiffman and what's his proximity to someone more famous? 3:00 Ebaum's World, AIM, and early internet problems 12:55 Jon's road to professional drumming 16:40 Early days w/ Jack Antanoff & Ari Levine 23:00 How's it feel to watch Jack Antonoff win Grammy's? 33:22 Life on the road 37:15 How do kids change your idea of success? 43:30 Content creation debate: Ami vs. everyone else 51:55 How Jon stays sane 01:00:00 Getting lucky Vs. Hard Work 01:12:00 Toxic procrastination Links Mike's Newsletter: https://contextiseverywhere.beehiiv.com/ Ami's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aj_comedy?lang=en Rick Rubin on Lex Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_szemxPcTI Ben Thompson on ChatGPT: https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/ Dead Cat podcast on Elon Musk: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tQuHoGbONf2S4zP8WADFv?si=02f76ea7e8e14646 As always, find us on... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6geoUKSTVsEL2sMQ63pkSN Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buckle-up/id1589871008 Instagram (@buckleuppodcast): https://www.instagram.com/buckleuppodcast TikTok (@thebuckleuppodcast): https://www.tiktok.com/@thebuckleuppodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIZgc8_0dTwuwnQzqnyHlg
I'm pleased to announce that I'm introducing a new podcast and starting a YouTube channel. I'm calling it “Newcomer” — like this newsletter. What can I say? It's a good name.The show kicks off tomorrow with an interview with LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman. Hoffman just stepped off OpenAI's board of directors. We talk about that decision, AI sentience, the PayPal mafia, cloud compute spending, Joe Biden's presidency, and much more. I think you'll enjoy the episode.For the new show, I've got interviews lined up with investor and former top Tesla and Lyft executive Jon McNeill and with Lightspeed Venture Partners founder and managing director Ravi Mhatre.I'm also going to publish some of the conversations from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on the podcast feed and YouTube channel. In that vein, I'm happy to announce that Clem Delangue, the CEO of Hugging Face, and Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, are scheduled to sit down with me together at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on March 30. (Founders and CEOs can still apply this week to attend the one-day conference in Hayes Valley. We've been overwhelmed with investor interest to attend.)Newcomer, the weekly podcast, will post on Tuesdays. I'll send it to newsletter subscribers and publish it to Apple podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Email me with guest ideas. I'll publish summaries of the episodes here in the newsletter. Over time, I might add bonus sections for paying Newcomer subscribers. With this podcast, I'm going solo, interviewing top investors and founders. I'm bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside-story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does. I want to thank automated security and compliance platform Vanta for being the launch sponsor for the Newcomer podcast. You may remember Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo from her appearance on the second episode of my old podcast Dead Cat. She's been an early believer in my audio efforts! Excited to have Vanta on board. If you're interested in sponsoring the podcast, reach out. For fans of my old podcast Dead Cat, give the new podcast a try. It will be arriving via the same podcast feed. The Newcomer podcast shouldn't be so much a revolution as an evolution. Yes, my former co-host Tom Dotan is off skewering Marc Benioff for the Wall Street Journal. I'm on my own. It will give me more time to ask the hard questions and listen to the guests' replies. I'm going to try to talk about the media less and the business of tech more. But it will be the same probing podcast that you've come to love. To get new episodes, subscribe to this newsletter, sign up to receive the podcast on Apple, and subscribe to the Newcomer YouTube channel. I'd definitely appreciate some positive reviews as I get this thing going. Like, comment, subscribe, and all that.See you in your feeds tomorrow! Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe
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Bessemer Venture Partners' Jeremy Levine is someone who keeps his head when others are losing theirs. He's long been wary of tech exuberance while being a long-term optimist about the transformative power of technology. A board member at Pinterest and Shopify, Levine described his investing style to me for this week's Dead Cat podcast: “I don't like to go where all the cool kids are, where all the popular kids are. I like to kind of go off in the corner of the playground and find someone who's doing something over there that's really compelling that most people are prepared to dismiss or aren't that excited about.”I wanted to have Levine on the podcast to explain the tech downturn. Levine has been investing at Bessemer for over two decades. I wondered, how does this moment compare to the dot-com bust and the Great Recession? On the podcast, Levine traces the ebbs and flows of tech euphoria while giving concrete math to the pain of down rounds. ‘The entire world smoked a giant joint and was high as a kite'He delivered quite the diatribe when I asked him to compare the present moment to the dot-com bust:When I joined the venture industry in 2001, I looked at these entrepreneurs who built businesses and these venture capitalists who funded them from '96 to 2000 and I was jealous. Oh my lord, they generated enormous value and enormous wealth in such a short time. And I said to myself, the world is never going to get this crazy again. The entire world smoked a giant joint and was high as a kite, and what fun it would have been to be part of that, but I missed the party. But I thought, you know, it's really rewarding and fun and challenging to find compelling entrepreneurs and invest in startups. So even though it's never gonna get as good as it was in 2000 again, I'm going to try to make this my career because I think I'll find it fun. And lo and behold, 20 years later, it happened again: Someone passed the joint around the party a second time, and no one remembered what happened the first time, and things got crazy. So in that sense, it's really similar. Enormous wealth was created, enormous companies were created. But the difference is that when that party ended — at the end of 2021 — it wasn't three or four companies left standing. It was dozens and dozens of strong public companies, and hundreds of really interesting private companies. Now, not every unicorn and not every company that raised a lot of money will be successful. But the industry is, I would say, two orders of magnitude larger than it was in 2000.He argued that he believed there was still “another shoe to drop” in this tech downturn. He said venture firms were reserving more money to make follow-on investments for their existing portfolio companies, giving them less dry powder with which to make new investments. “I think we're in a little bit of that spiral,” Levine said.The Anti-PortfolioBack in July 2021, amidst the final heady months of the bull market, I profiled Bessemer and Levine in an in-depth story titled, The Anti-Portfolio. (Still worth a read if you missed it.) An undercurrent in the piece was that Bessemer had smartly invested early in some of the tech industry's most popular public stocks like Shopify and Twilio but that the firm had sold down its positions before a massive run-up in their value on the public markets. Now, with Twilio down 70% and Shopify down 52% over the past 12 months, Bessemer's decision to cash in its winners seems more rational. I asked Levine whether he felt vindicated.“We've made every mistake possible,” he told me. “But we've also gotten some things right. And so with the benefit of hindsight, we distributed our stock in Shopify way too early. And at the same time, we held onto some stocks in 2021 a bit too long. I think we're not all that focused on getting that exactly right. Of course, we're always trying to do better. But the real win, if you will, and the excitement and what motivates us is to invest in a company like Shopify or Auth0 when it's really small and to nurture it and help that company become really big. And if you manage to top tick and exit your position … all the power to you. That's just not that interesting of a game.”Give it a listenRead the automated transcriptP.S. If you want to weigh in as to whether I should rename the podcast, you can vote on Twitter or voice your opinion in the comments. Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe
Generative artificial intelligence is sweeping the nation. People are turning themselves into animated characters, drafting their essays with ChatGPT, and illustrating with Stable Diffusion. Or, as was the case with the tiny special effects team on the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, they're using it to help edit a movie.On the latest episode of Dead Cat, Cristóbal Valenzuela, the chief executive officer at generative artificial intelligence company Runway, talked about how he discovered that his AI-powered video editing software was used to help make the award winning film. When I wrote about generative AI burning white hot back in October, I talked to Valenzuela for that story and called him “among the most compelling founders that I've come across while reporting on artificial intelligence.” So I thought it would be fun to have him on the podcast and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing generative artificial intelligence. To help me interview Valenzuela, I invited Non-Technical podcast host and viral comedian Alexis Gay to guest host the episode. You'll probably recognize her from some of her viral tech parody videos. (Listen to my guest appearance on Non-Technical if you want to learn more than you ever thought you wanted to know about the man behind the newsletter.)On the podcast, Valenzuela predicts that “very soon,” in “a couple of years,” artificial intelligence software will be able to create the sort of TikTok videos that people flip through online. “We're heading towards a world — where a lot of the content that you consume online will be generated [by artificial intelligence],” Valenzuela said.“There's definitely an exponential progress rate that you can see and perceive more clearly now,” Valenzuela said. “What took years of progress is now taking months. And what used to take months is now taking weeks.”Give it a listenRead the automated transcript Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe
I always enjoy talking with Taylor Lorenz, a deep thinker about the internet who infuriates certain pockets of tech Twitter. Last week, she published a look at the crypto social media accounts that broke news on the fall of FTX. She wrote about how accounts like Coffeezilla and AutismCapital have become media figures in their own right. She wrote for the Washington Post:All this coverage of the FTX implosion is the most prominent example of how “citizen journalism” is battling legacy publishers for online attention, catapulting a fresh class of independent journalists into the mainstream while also giving rise to a group of social media influencers who optimize for attention rather than accuracy.For years, drama channels and tea accounts — so called because the word “tea” is slang for juicy information — have been first to break news related to pop culture and influencers. Business news is late to undergo this trend.So in classic fashion, I broke one of my only New Year's resolutions — to pay less attention to “the media” — and invited Lorenz on the Dead Cat podcast to talk about how these accounts are changing how information reaches the public.In my mind, our conversation was really about reputations — and how they're built and maintained online. Later in the episode, we talk about how Twitter and rightwing media has shaped Lorenz's own reputation online. Some of her critics might be surprised to hear her speak out against Instagram's harsh content moderation policies.At the 27:30 mark, we shift gears and talk about the downturn in the creator economy. At 40:10, Lorenz and I debate whether we should be worried about Chinese influence over TikTok.Give it a listenRead the automated transcript Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe
As deluded protesters in Brasilia ransack government offices, the U.S. can take great pride in it's inspirational status. Also, though House Republicans are a defiant lot, a debt ceiling showdown could play out differently than the Speaker vote did. Plus, Eric Newcomer, host of the Dead Cat podcast, talks tech, the coverage of crypto, and the future of Substack vs traditional media. Oh yeah, and Mike's back. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Before the rise of crypto investing, venture capital careers seemed to be divided into two buckets: consumer and business-to-business. If the goal of venture capital investing is to pick winners, American consumer investors generally picked wrong. There just hasn't been another Facebook. The biggest consumer startup of the moment is ByteDance, a Chinese company. While I've generally dedicated more time to writing about software investing since that's where the money and exits have been, I've tried to chronicle consumer investing to the extent that it exists. I was the first to report BeReal's seed and Series A funding round. I've scooped some of Discord's valuation ascent. In December 2020, I wrote about investors' effort to will a consumer renaissance into being. Sure, there weren't any obvious new platforms but consumer investors weren't going to let that get in their way.I invited my good friends Max Child and James Wilsterman onto the Dead Cat podcast. They're the co-founders of voice games company Volley. The NFX, Y Combinator, and Lightspeed-backed startup — which they tell me is the largest voice game company — started off as a chatbot games company. So Child and Wilsterman know consumer trends. Chatbots once burned red hot before evaporating only to be revived with the rise of generative artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, few VCs have been bullish on voice as a platform.Child, Wilsterman, and I dig into the struggles of the QVC for startups trend. Popshop looks to be on the rocks and Whatnot may be peaking. We interrogate whether marketplaces were ever really a thing. And we wonder if AirPods as the next platform was really just a statement about Clubhouse. Then we look to 2023 and consider the pockets of hope for consumer investing: the rise of generative AI startups and the possibility that Apple announces an augmented reality device. And we ponder whether this crypto winter will ever thaw.Give it a listen Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe
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Is this another dead cat bounce or the beginning of the next bull market? Dean Barber and Bud Kasper look into the dead cat bounces that we've had so far in 2022 to get a better idea of what the answer could be. Find resources and schedule a conversation here: https://barberfinancialgroup.com/dead-cat-bounces/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=awms&utm_campaign=dead-cat-bounces/
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A double life implodes. Fuchs faces judge and jury, but will he confess? A future as an eminent physicist is slipping away. And the friends who took him in as a young scientist are blindsided - they want answers. But first he must face the court. #thebomb
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Today on the show, Otis took his family to the Braves game and got a replica WS ring, Brian discovered his wife had her HS cat's ashes in their house still, what awkward things would you pay to get out of and the rule book of swingers
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How do you trade dead cat bounces? Is there more than one way to skin a dead cat (pun intended)? In this episode, Ryan revisits the topic of dead cat bounces three years later after the first episode he did on the subject matter. Whiskey: Homegrown Boone's Bourbon Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code SWINGTRADE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Be sure to check out my Swing-Trading offering through Patreon that goes hand-in-hand with my podcast, offering all of the research, charts and technical analysis on the stock market and individual stocks, not to mention my personal watch-lists and regular updates on the most popular stocks, including FAANG stocks, Microsoft and Tesla. This is provided each and every week! Check it out now at: www.swingtradingthestockmarket.com