Tasteland
Creative takes on media, marketing and technology from Daisy Alioto and Francis Zierer. Daisy is the CEO of Dirt Media, a next-generation entertainment brand using emerging technology to tell the coolest stories about culture and collecting. Francis is the editor of Creator Spotlight, a weekly newsletter about creators across the world of newsletters. New episodes every Wednesday.
Episodes
This week on Tasteland we're joined by Reggie James, a writer, product architect and investor.
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Reggie
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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
28:41 Faith and doubt in startup tech
35:31 P...
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.
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Rax
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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 Service industry draft
29:11 Banjos in the s...
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.
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Blamo!
Jeremy
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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 of criticism online
29:29 You sho...
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.
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Follow Mike
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Timestamps
00:00 Sunday summer derangement
03:25 Changing the way the world changes
08:50 The age of the platform has ended
14:16 The ri...
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
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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.
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Links & References
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Timestamps
00:00 Introducing Ariel Rubin
01:40 Recent icks
07:33 LinkedIn hates Bonnie Blue
11:45 Wife guys, one hel...
This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by design strategist, writer, journalist, and educator, Nika Simovich Fisher.
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Nika Simovich Fisher
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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
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:41 Berlin frag...
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:
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Maya Bakhai
Spice Capital
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Timestamps
00:00 Introducing part two
03:11 The role of small bu...
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.
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Cole
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Links & References
- Dirt x Simple Magic Introducing... Nosegrab
- Cole's piece Boom and echo
- Cole's piece Falling or failing
- Cole's piece Is social media d...
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.
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Kyla
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References
- Kyla's essay The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
- Kyla's essay Economic Lesson...
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.
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Maya Bakhai
Spice Capital
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References
- Lenny: How tech works really feel about work right now
- LinkedIn Post: Why PRIME hit a $3.2B valuation overnight
- TBPN: Techno...
This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by comedy, culture, and perfume writer, Carly Silverman. Carly is also a TV and video producer, and host of the new podcast Smell That Movie.
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Carly
Links & References
- Dirt / Greta Rainbow: Where will the next literary movement come from?
- Cosmo / Carly Silverman: The PerfumeTok influencers have got it all wrong
- Substack / Kyla Scanlo...
This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Matt Rodbard, a seasoned writer, editor and author in the food and culture space. Matt is the Editor in Chief of the award winning food publication TASTE and co-host of podcast This is TASTE.
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Matt
Taste
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Links & References
- Nieman Lab piece on Clone
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Introducing Matt Rodb...
Francis is out of town this week and Daisy is joined by Tove Danovich, a journalist and writer who has featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Ringer, and Dirt. She is the author of the 'Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them', an immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting.
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Tove
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Links & Refere...
This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Sarah Leonard, editor in chief of Lux Magazine, a feminist magazine of politics and culture founded in 2021. Sarah is also a contributing editor to Dissent and The Nation, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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Lux Magazine
References
Interview with Sarah: Creative Independent
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Timestamps
00:00...
This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins of Boys Club, a media and creative studio. They're also the hosts of the Dumb B!tch Hour, a podcast for the deeply online, where they chat about all things tech, crypto, and pop culture news.
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Boys Club
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References
- Ben's play: Rich Beyond Our Wildest Dreams
- Francis' essay: What is the creator econo...
This week Daisy and Francis are joined by versatile writer and editor, Paula Mejía. Paula specializes in arts and culture journalism and is currently a leading contributor at Dirt.
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Paula
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Other references
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Timestamps
00:00 Introducing Paula Mejía
00:28 Festival experiences
03:40 Coachella emergency dental
07:15 The best and worst of Co...
This week Daisy and Francis talk to travel and hospitality writer, Colin Nagy. Colin is also the co-creator of the newsletter 'Why is this interesting?'
Colin: https://x.com/CJN
Why is this interesting?: https://www.interesting.us
00:00:00 Long live the girl moss
00:04:08 The podcast mic and illusion of authority
00:06:20 Credibility laundering: How to industry plant yourself
00:11:01 Blockchain taste formalization
00:13:51 Abstract theor...
This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange from the Future Commerce podcast. What is the future of art in an AI world? Do we need more friction in our lives? Should AI feel shame?
Listen to Future Commerce: https://www.futurecommerce.com/episodes
00:00 Introduction to Phil and Brian
01:46 Blank launch party
05:52 OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli marketing ploy
11:45 All that we’re left with is aura
19:27 The value of...
This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Kori Fuerst, co-founder of Retrospekt, a consumer electronics company specialising in reviving retro tech for a new generation.
Retrospekt: https://retrospekt.com
00:00 Introducing Kori and Restrospekt
02:35 Awkward police encounters
06:12 Defaulting to the classic
08:09 The unique Retrospekt office space
11:14 Retro collaborations and IP licensing
14:53 Transitioning from hobby to business
22:28 C...
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