The Carousel Podcast

On episode 8 of The Carousel Podcast I chat with restaurants veteran Michael Nemcik about shifts in mainstream culinary propaganda. He began his career as a line cook at Hooters Orlando and worked his way up to manager/beverage director at some of the best restaurants in LA. He possesses encyclopedic knowledge of food and wine and has as close to perfect taste as one can get. Recent trends have hi...

“The idea of the outsider in the sense of brand identity versus being truly on the outside, not having any group at all.” Writer Caleb Caudell plays outsider to an outsider movement. In this episode of The Carousel: * There’s grifters in any movement. How do you identify them? Should you? * The scrubbing away of human longing and its replacement by branding and products. * Individual freedom as a...

Dan Baltic and Matt Pegas of New Write Podcast join me to talk about the advertising industry, why it’s so hard to break into, why it’s reviled, and why we should take it seriously. In the second half, we discuss literature, specifically Matt’s awesome book Dragon Day , Terror House Press , Michel Houellebecq, and whether books should be judged by their covers. This is a public episode. If you'd l...

In this podcast, I converse with legendary dissident writer and author Delicious Tacos . We talk about a whole buncha stuff including… * Delicious Tacos’ brand or lack thereof. * What’s hack and what isn’t. * How to think about Twitter. * Whether marketing people should all be killed. * The future of men and women. Here is his website . Here are two of my favorite things he’s written: Mark , Autop...

As a raw milk drinker, I try to avoid pasteurized milk in my coffee. Oat milk so effectively replaced it, there had to be a catch. Indeed there was. Spin around a box of Oat Drink Barista Edition and you’ll find it’s made of rapeseed oil, AKA canola oil. Imagine guzzling canola oil straight from the bottle—totally disgusting, no matter how cute Oatly’s copywriting might be . Originally developed a...