Tasteland

No guest this week on Tasteland so Daisy and Francis discuss whether Frankenstein should've shown hog, the introduction to the polycene and quote tweeting the Pope. __ Daisy Dirt Twitter/X LinkedIn Francis Creator Spotlight Twitter/X LinkedIn __ Timestamps 00:00 The hog of Frankenstein 09:55 It was all yellow 16:29 Welcome to the polycene 27:15 Gambler's wives 30:24 Don't die, take mushrooms 34:00...

This week on Tasteland we’re joined by novelist Adam Voith. Adam is the editor and publisher of Little Engines magazine. __ Adam Voith Substack Instagram Little Engines __ Timestamps 00:00 Did Zohran win? 03:14 Dirt’s new podcasts 08:01 Relationship between art and commerce 13:29 Submission culture in publishing 20:29 Conservatism in publishing 26:35 Culture reflected in literature 33:32 Monetizin...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Nick Susi, a strategy executive and entrepreneurial builder for 13+ years, exploring the technological, societal and psychological forces that shape our identity, perception and culture. __ Nick Susi Website Substack LinkedIn Instagram Twitter/X __ Timestamps 00:00 Creators are consumers of the self 07:51 Posts are the cheetle of your identity 15:19 Presen...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by startup founder, developer, and runner, Cole Townsend. Cole has been a product designer for over a decade and is the head of tech and co-founder of Sole Retriever. __ Cole Website Sole Retriever LinkedIn X/Twitter __ Timestamps 00:00 Jury duty 06:54 Post Tokyo crash 17:20 Every app is a marketplace or dating app 24:49 Running is becoming lifestyle 29:53 Cr...

This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by NYC based journalist, Claire Landsbaum. Claire is the Deputy Editor at HighSnobiety and has formerly held positions at The Cut, Vanity Fair, and Business Insider. __ Claire Website HighSnobiety LinkedIn Instagram X/Twitter __ Timestamps 00:00 Show and tell 09:02 The bowling alley is the new afterparty 11:27 Writing for magazines 15:06 Finding...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Jose Mejia, the CEO and Co-Founder at Scene Infrastructure Company, a software company building better instruments for socialization. __ Jose Mejia SIC X/Twitter LinkedIn __ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:42 Stress-induced tramp stamp 04:07 Zero-slop pop-up gets pwned 10:44 Daisy bullies Chat-GPT, again 13:16 Addison Rae Iconic Magazine scene report 15:10 Wild...

This week on Tasteland, Francis and Daisy go guest-free and dive into everything from small farms and soybeans to the future of media and paywalls. Is media all media marketing now? Life is good. __ Timestamps 00:00 Sourdough fatherhood 01:43 Venture agriculturalism 05:34 Soybean political own goal 10:06 All media is marketing 15:40 Not all media is marketing 22:37 Retiring the op-ed 27:46 The fut...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Casey Lewis, founder of the After School newsletter and Gen Z consumer trends expert. Casey has been an editor at Teen Vogue, MTV, and New York Magazine, and in 2016, she started a media company for Gen Z, which was acquired by another media company for Gen Z. __ Casey After School Newsletter Instagram LinkedIn TikTok __ Links & References A Taste of Thoma...

This week on Tasteland we're joined by Dani Loftus. Dani is a founder, writer and investor focused on the digital evolution of culture. After founding content platform This Outfit Does Not Exist in 2021, she became a leading voice in the digital fashion space working with brands like Chanel, Dion Lee, and Google and writing for publications such as HUNGER, DIRT and Jing Daily. __ Dani Substack Ins...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Andy Hunter, the founder and CEO of bookshop.org, an online bookshop with a mission to financially support local, independent bookshops. __ Bookshop Website Instagram Bluesky Andy's LinkedIn __ Timestamps 00:00 Introducing Andy and Bookshop 02:08 Press Publish NYC 06:26 Introducing e-books on Bookshop 08:00 Aligning against big tech 11:36 Best performing g...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Ben Dietz, a long-time media/entertainment business guy. __ Ben Substack LinkedIn [SIC] Talks Podcast __ Timstamps 00:00 Do not disturb 05:12 No new luxury brands 11:11 Cybertruck: a future classic 16:20 Can software be luxury? 23:23 AI email summaries, with emotion 30:34 Brand safety is dead 34:56 Podcasting for the generations 38:31 Job tenure trends 47:...

This week on Tasteland we're joined by W. David Marx, an American fashion and culture writer who works and lives in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style and Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change. Preorder Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century __ W. David Marx Newslette...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Greta Rainbow. Greta is an editor at the Creative Independent, arts columnist for the New York Review of Architecture, and she's the anchor contributor for Dirt's books newsletter, Blank. __ Greta Website Twitter/X Instagram Igno-fiction piece __ Timestamps 00:00 Introducing Greta 04:33 Genre + scene = literary movement 08:37 Disney adults of alt-lit 11:03...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined Sam Valenti IV. Sam is the founder and leader of Ghostly International, a 25-year-old collective that has grown from a dorm room-based record label to a recognized platform for the work of great artists, designers, technologists, and musicians. The New York Times says Ghostly “transcends its record label roots to sell and ethos.” Ghostly International is the...

This week on Tasteland we're joined by Reggie James, a writer, product architect and investor. __ Reggie LinkedIn Twitter/X Substack Instagram __ 00:00 02:09 Best hardware of 2024 06:11 Interviewing Jasper of Teenage Engineering 08:06 The most contemporary city in America 12:07 Secular tech vs spiritual tech 17:25 Heriticon loses its edge 22:30 The tech right and religious right cannot coexist 28:...

This week on Tasteland we're joined by Rax King, a James Beard Award-nominated writer and host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. Rax is the author of the 2021 book Tacky, and her new release Sloppy is out now. __ Rax Sloppy Podcast Instagram Twitter Bluesky __ Timestamps 00:00 Introducing Rax 02:37 Write sober, edit sober 07:26 The goal of personal writing 13:20 Reframing past experiences 20:25 Ser...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Jeremy Kirkland, host of the podcast Blamo! — a podcast exploring the world of fashion with the personalities that shape it. __ Blamo! Podcast Instagram Jeremy Instagram LinkedIn __ Timestamps 00:00 I always make my knock a little song 05:36 All podcasts are restaurant podcasts 08:13 Nine years of podcasting 14:47 The business of Blamo! 22:28 The culture o...

This week on Tasteland we're joined by writer, producer, and podcaster, Mike Rugnetta. Mike is the host of Never Post, a podcast that asks questions about why the world of the internet – and the world, because of the internet – is the way it is. __ Follow Mike Instagram Bluesky Website Linktree __ Timestamps 00:00 Sunday summer derangement 03:25 Changing the way the world changes 08:50 The age of...

This week on Tasteland we are joined by writer and award winning journalist, Cora Lewis. Cora's fiction has appeared at The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York, and she previously worked at BuzzFeed News. Cora's debut novella, Information Age, comes out on July 15th. Pre-order Cora's book Information Age __ Follow Cora Twi...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Webby Award-winning content creator, social strategist, and meme enthusiast, Ariel Rubin. Ariel is the the head of content at Air and one of Francis' greatest enemies. __ Follow Ari LinkedIn Website Twitter/X __ Links & References The Cycle Book ick.fyi on Instagram __ Timestamps 00:00 Introducing Ariel Rubin 01:40 Recent icks 07:33 LinkedIn hates Bonnie B...

This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by design strategist, writer, journalist, and educator, Nika Simovich Fisher. __ Nika Simovich Fisher Website LinkedIn Instagram __ Links & References More about Nika's Hard Pack piece Nika's piece on Digitizing and Preserving Cyrillic Typefaces in Serbia Nika's website, Wildflowers Nika's piece on The evolution of the trash icon __ Timestamps 0...

This week we have part two of Daisy and Francis' conversation with Maya Bakhai, founder of Spice Capital, a venture capital firm focused on taking big bets in areas primed for rapid change in the coming decades. Listen to part one: Spotify Apple Podcasts __ Maya Bakhai Newsletter LinkedIn Instagram X/Twitter Spice Capital Website Instagram TikTok X/Twitter __ Timestamps 00:00 Introducing part two...

This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by writer, producer and publisher Cole Nowicki. Cole runs the newsletter Simple Magic, a newsletter about skateboarding, the internet, and other means of escape. __ Cole Simple Magic Cole's books Instagram Bluesky LinkedIn __ Links & References Dirt x Simple Magic Introducing... Nosegrab Cole's piece Boom and echo Cole's piece Falling or failing...

This week Francis is joined by financial content creator, educator, and author, Kyla Scanlon. Kyla writes about everything from crypto to macroeconomics to similarities between grief and love, bringing the human aspect of economics to the forefront. __ Kyla In This Economy? TikTok Instagram YouTube Twitter Newsletter Podcast __ References Kyla's essay The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Fr...

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Maya Bakhai, founder of Spice Capital, a venture capital firm focused on taking big bets in areas primed for rapid change in the coming decades. __ Maya Bakhai Newsletter LinkedIn Instagram X/Twitter Spice Capital Website Instagram TikTok X/Twitter __ References Lenny: How tech works really feel about work right now LinkedIn Post: Why PRIME hit a $3.2B val...