Episodios

  • Ep. 56 - It Tastes Good!
    Mar 11 2026
    Ep. 56 - It Tastes Good!

    One human trait AI cannot replace.

    M.G. Siegler, "Tasty AI"

    "Can Robots Be Jewish?"

    Zoe Scaman, "The Brand That Thinks"

    Agnes Martin

    Sigman Polke

    John Lonczak

    Living the Slop Life

    The AI:ROI Conference

    AIs and "punability"

    Heidegger: The meaning of being is "care"

    School of Visual Arts Masters In Branding Program

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    58 m
  • Ep. 55 - Escaping Velocity
    Jan 27 2026
    Ep. 55 - Escaping Velocity

    Here comes everything!

    Om Malik: "Velocity is the New Authority"

    "The Society of the Spectacle" Guy Debord

    James Glieck: "Faster"

    Clayton Christensen: "The Innovator's Dilemma"

    Talking Heads: "Mind"

    Richard Dawkins: "The Selfish Gene

    W. Edwards Deming: "Out of the Crisis"

    K-shaped economy

    Postmodernism

    "Blazing Saddles" scene

    Essentialism

    "Phaedo" Plato on "essence"

    David Hume on Identity

    Tom Guarriello:" The Meaning of Branded Objects"

    "Being and Time" Martin Heidegger

    "Mother's Little Helper" The Rolling Stones

    School of Visual Arts Masters In Branding Program

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    1 h y 3 m
  • Ep. 54 - Scraping The Barrel
    Sep 15 2025
    Ep. 54 - Scraping The Barrel

    Southern Branding on The Skids. The Cracker Barrel rebrand.

    Cracker Barrel Rebranding

    Howard Johnson's Restaurants

    Cheerleaders re-enacting 9/11

    "The Meaning of Branded Objects: Why Some Things Matter More Than Others" at Amazon

    School of Visual Arts Masters In Branding Program

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    1 h y 45 m
  • Ep. 53 - Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
    Jul 31 2025

    The anxiety of the white-collar worker.

    • Ezra Klein - Kyla Scanlon Podcast
    • "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber
    • "Immaterial Labor"
    • "Affective Labor"
    • Veo 3 Demo video
    • Kyla Scanlon "Zero Sum Thinking" Essay
    • "Abundance" by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein
    • "Brands In The Age of AI" by Mark Kingsley
    • "The Meaning of Branded Objects," by Tom Guarriello
    • School of Visual Arts Masters In Branding Program

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    1 h y 7 m
  • Ep. 52 - Bye Buy American Pie
    May 2 2025
    Ep. 52 - Bye Buy American Pie.

    Took our Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.

    • Fast Company Headline: "America, The Brand, Is Becoming Toxic"
    • Forbes 2005 Article: "Is Brand America In Trouble?"
    • "Abundance" by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein
    • Georges Bataille
    • School of Visual Arts Masters In Branding Program

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    1 h y 5 m
  • Ep. 51 - Super Markets
    Mar 31 2025
    Ep. 51 - Super Markets

    Brands in the age of backlash.

    • Recent Target and Costco Customer Numbers
    • Walter Benjamin's "Arcades Project"
    • Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
    • Merchandise availability in stores vs. online
    • Reverend Billy
    • Georges Bataille
    • School of Visual Arts Masters In Branding Program

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    52 m
  • Ep. 50 - STFU
    Feb 19 2025
    Ep. 50 - STFU

    Brand speech swings to "the other side."

    • NYTimes Op-Ed "Corporate Leaders Need To Keep Their Mouths Shut"
    • Gartner Hype Cycle
    • Kondratiev Wave
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion origins
    • Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • Citizens United Supreme Court decision
    • The New Deal
    • Sputnik I
    • Maurizio Lazzarato

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    1 h y 1 m
  • Ep. 49 - Fan-tasies
    Aug 31 2024
    Ep. 49 - Fan-tasies

    The contributions of fandom to life.

    • Swifties
    • Why are Beyoncé's fans called BeyHive? Meaning, origin, and everything to know.
    • Beatlemania
    • Beyoncé fans left disappointed after rumors of a DNC performance proved false.
    • Insane Clown Posse
    • Juggalo
    • Juggalo Outreach Program | Buffalo NY
    • Buffalo Juggalos
    • If you want to understand modern politics, you have to understand modern fandom.
    • Walden Pond
    • FBI 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment
    • Juggalos Classify FBI as a Gang
    • Deadhead
    • Effective Psychotherapy: The Contribution of Helmuth Kaiser
    • Kevin Kelly "1000 True Fans"
    • Nietzsche's three metamorphoses
    • Sunk cost
    • Shalom Auslander "Feh: A Memoir"
    • The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
    • "Such was the demand for (ABBA's) music that their management had to arrange for royalties from the Soviet Union to be paid in oil commodity rights rather than the embargoed rouble."

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    57 m