Show Notes

0:00 Dave asks his mother a personal question

0:30 Doug drops the bomb that Shill has gone from an annual podcast to a weekly podcast – at least this week

0:55 Rare Shill Episode lost somewhere on the Internet – If found please destroy immediately

1:18 Shill welcomes Summer’s Eve as our new sponsor for the show, makers of fine douching products.

2:12 Shill immediately devolves into a pubescent romp through scrotal hydro dynamics. Doug makes two references to bollocks and Dave wants the sponsor to quit being sexist and help fight bag sweat.

3:55 Continuing the phallic theme, the subject turns to Sprouter and an answer from Saul Colt.

5:25 Its SXSW time, so Dave and Doug display characteristic ignorance by deciding to judge some presentations by the titles. Perhaps this will stop the non-stop “vote for my bloody panel” emails and tweets

7:21 Doug picks a topic apparently about native indian hockey players, Dave tries manages claims to be phobic of an entire culture, let the complaints rain down.

8:33 FU 2.0 puzzles Dave and results in a characteristic digression into how Dave pisses off his coworkers. Doug’s tongue trips over a word he invents “discontempt”.

11:30 Doug geeks out with Asimovs laws of Robotics (or is it the hypocratic oath?)  Dave has a man crush on Duoma and knows jack about Warcraft

12:50 Dave and Doug puzzle over the value of iPhone photography

13:45 Doug asks Dave to get personal about monogamy and Dave wants a harem better hope his wife doesn’t listen to this podcast

14:50 Surprise! Agencies aren’t screwing you, or they are, but you shouldn’t be surprised about it.

14:31 Doug and Dave agree that Facebook Fans have no value and podcasting has as big an audience as radio – huh? Dave thinks the announcer is smoking something very good.

17:35 This is your tweet – you know who you are. Doug amounts to nothing and tries to edit out the boring parts out of his life with Foursquare. Dave is the mayor of the Ass Doctor’s office

19:30 Thin-slicing Foursquare venues and Dave has abandoned Foursquare for a heroin addiction

20:39 Dave insults Doug’s wife. Doug’s life is complete with the “i’m on a boat” badge

21:57 Show’s over – or is it?

And like a drug addict out of cash trying to steal from his dealer, Shill’s emaciated body is easily wrestled to the ground and with one swift kick of steel-toed boots can  no longer be a drain on society.

Music:

“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.

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 Shill Podcast #18: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:00 The podcast your podcast could sound like

0:50 We’re back, Doug doesn’t work for The Man anymore and instead plans on teaching others to douche like he can douche.

3:20 This is your Tweet. If a tree falls in the fishbowl and no one tweets, did it really happen.

4:29 Dave takes leave of his senses and procreates. Podcasting is so out that Doug and Dave now think they are bleeding edge.

5:00 Doug projects his inner dissappointment at not being a superhero onto Shill.

5:35 Collin Duoma’s six-month old comment inspired us to re-animate Shill after 1 year in the grave. Dave dumps his podcast wife for his slutty mistress Shill.

6:20 Sprouter is a twitter money-laundering scheme. Remember there are no stupid questions, only stupid people.

8:10 Dave and Doug try a sprouter question of their own on how Chatroulette (aka “The Penis Channel”) can be effectively used to promote transparency – so to speak.

9:55  Doug rails agains the cult of entitlement. I have a platform, therefore my opinion matters, says the idiot with a podcast.

11:00 Dave agrees in a very long-winded way and thinks that entrepreuners should focus on making money rather than making Twitter friends.

13:05 Doug beats the social media Twintern down a peg or two. Dave says that opinion goes both ways you are entitled to your and I am entitled to think you are full of shit.

14:45 Doug gets medieval on the intern’s ass and suggests Social Media Apprenticeship, you know like Blacksmiths. It ain’t the millenials ego, it is the social media ego.

16:20 Doug channels Chuck Klosterman for insight into the self-indulgent mess that is the social media maven’s mind.

17:05 Does social media matter for business? No really, like in the sense does social media affect the stock price? ummm… no. Corelation is not causality. Dave says a social media tempest still exists inside the teapot.

21:30 Cracking out the old Kryptonite lock story.

23:05 Dave wonders why anyone bothers to lie anymore about anything that can be verified.

24:05 Dave & Doug commiserate on having out of date iPhones which stutter with iphone 4 OS update. Doug is too big a fool to downgrade and too cheap to buy a new phone.

25:55 Doug and Dave close the 2010 edition of Shill, see you next year!

And like a muck-covered zombie emerging from the grave, Shill utters a brief and heedless plea for “Brains!”, before entertaining a sawed-off shotgun blast in its face.

Music:

“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.

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 Shill Episode #16 [31:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:00 Doug explains the difference between being funny and being Dave

0:24 Dave introduces another live Shill debacle and Shill’s first (and likely last) guest the cackling Tamera Kremer [this would be where Tamera's blog link would be if we ever bothered linking - Google it you lazy ass listener!]

0:57 Doug coins the Shill T-shirt slogan “I am the listener”. Girlish giggling ensues and it isn’t coming from the girl.

2:40 [TEXT REDACTED - Due to wives who only read the show notes]

3:01 Dave surprises everyone with (Gasp!) a topic: “Blogging: Who gives a shit?” Tamera says there is no value left to add. Dave says it has all been written. Doug injects his personal bias into Dave’s words thus breaking into the conversation, calls blogs the class notes of the douchebag.

5:40 Dave doesn’t read blogs anymore, Doug hardly does either. Tamera pitches for Friend Feed, Doug and Dave scoff audibly at Scoble’s prize adopted child. Dave brings up Rubel again (yawn), Tamera brags about her shiny Chrome. Dave says that Twitter is now the fishbowl and off-handedly wishes Dave Fleet’s crotch a speedy recovery.

7:45 Dave says Facebook isn’t dead. Tamera chimes in on the overlooked value of MySpace for minorities. And a new term is coined… “Whitebook”. The graveyard exhumations continue with Doug unearthing Forums.

11:15 Tamera spits out a cheap shot at Shill. Doug and Dave are ill-prepared to raise the monster from the depths – The Tamerant! Direct Mail takes a few punches from the group – fighting spam with spam.

14:00 Dave strokes “true” Vancouverites and bashes the imports to Vancouver. Dave tries to stir shit with people’s bosses, Tamera suggests recruiters might want to think about the actual purpose of Linked In. Dave and Doug wonder where all the douchebags will come from to fill demand. Dave hits upon Doug’s secret fear.

17:55 Tamera breaks in on the social media “experverts” who haven’t learned the lessons from Web 1.0 communities. Dave pleases himself by finding a way to insert the word “wang”.

19:55 Dave has a problem with Customer Service via Twitter being a new media fasttrack for the old boys club. Dave tries to pin a cowboy hat on Doug, but it doesn’t fit. Doug comes to the defence of companies paying attention to Twitter, since the consumer bitching is done in public and therefore a branding issue.

25:10 Tamera compares her dick size to Dave, Dave gets touchy and Doug sticks his Twitter between his legs. The conversation devolves into should famous people get better service. Doug quotes himself and calls bullshit on the democratization of media because he chooses to take the long way around. Dave confirms the A-listers as the new mass media.

29:00 Forecasters call for a hurricane force tamerant, but instead get a minor breeze of sniggers.

And like a drugged up lead singer, Shill spills its stomach onto the stage, gives the finger to the audience and pulls down the mic stand on top of itself as it faceplants with a sickening crunch.

Thanks to Sammy Lovelace for all her hard work on editing and production.
Music:

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 Shill Episode #15: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:00 Doug and Dave attempt to calibrate Skype lag and introduce Sammy Lovelace Shill’s new producer

0:50 Dave and Doug bicker like a couple considering an open marriage, Doug opens the Spinal Tap doors which leads to an obscure reference contest.

2:12 Doug promises to bring his AAA game (minor league and beefy). Dave introduces Shill’s new sponsor The Flavor Wave and then proceed to gush all over Mr. T.

3:20 Doug and Dave beat the Twitter horse senseless. Doug laments the human race and gives up on Twitter when Ashton beats out CNN for biggest posse. Doug lamely tries to justify his elitist distaste for Twitter going mainstream.

4:58 Dave admits to following celebs, but draws the line at counting the days he was on Twitter before Oprah. Dave likens Twitter to be of equivalent value to watching re-runs. Doug hopes lunch time tweets are finally off the menu.

9:24 Doug hates re-tweets and nearly exposes his fears of the schoolyard bully and his sidekick. Dave disagrees in a characteristically wishy-washy way.

11:48 Dave says that he can dive in and out of the twitter stream, enjoy being snide while he’s there and jump out when his privates are sufficiently shrunken. Dave name outs Toronto’s top 10 Twitterers as a bunch of PR Flacks.

14:00 Doug reveals anti-social tendencies by wondering of the value of cocktail parties, Dave reveals the obvious and suggests that Twitter is no place to get laid. Dave suggests, Warcraft isn’t either, ouch, that smarts! Dave suggest followers are just another form of experience points.

16:57 Armed no more info than a screenshot, Dave and Doug try to bluff their way into an opinion on Google Wave. Doug dons the tin-foil hat and gets spooked by Google having everything. Dave goes post-apocalyptic.

22:20 You heard it hear first: Dave has no time for Bing and Doug isn’t smart enough to work Wolfram Alpha.

24:45 Doug and Dave have a Stoner’s moment. Corporate social media response time and Dominoes pizza debacle briefly mentioned.

28:20 Doug gets up a head of steam on how customer service is most important for crappy products. Dave promotes listening and drops the call, Sammy drops in the sad trombone.

31:00 A word from our sponsor: Mr. T. vs The Flavour Wave.

33:35 Dave comes alive briefly, Rogers is mentioned and conspiracy theories abound and sinisterly Dave drops off again.

And like a newb at the punk show, Shill is tossed around the mosh pit before falling down in the broken beer bottles and slowly kicked into bloody unconsciousness by Doc Martens.

Thanks to Sammy Lovelace for all her hard work on editing and production.
Music:

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 Shill Episode#14: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:00 Doug acts like a pompous ass while ordering a single malt, while Dave’s thought train derails. Looks like another Shill is off to the races.

0:58 Doug opens the show and Dave announces ShillstivalTO 2.0 in session.

2:30 Doug discloses his former career as a social media douchebag, apparently he has graduated to a colostomy bag or something. Dave claims that not updating your blog is a badge of honour.

3:10 It’s spring again, the natural meetup season of the geek. Twestival holds little appeal for Dave as he is a natural misanthrope. PodCamp, Mesh, Third Tuesday, SXSW, are all on the horizon, expect TwitterLynching.

6:40 Doug admits to having no idea where the cool kids treehouse will be relocated now that Twitter has gone mainstream. Dave narrowly avoids saying that there are no mountains left to climb, Doug calls Dave shallow-brained.

9:00 Dave and Doug agree that Facebook needs another look since they mercifully buried the bloody Zombie apps and turned it back into a slightly interactive contact list. Dave comes out in favour of walled-gardens.

11:25 Dave says it doesn’t matter what clients do anymore so long as they have a community manager.

12:29 Doug questions where the line is drawn between corporate brands and personal reputation.  Dave tries to drag the conversation back to @scotmonty, but Doug wisely avoids the bait. Further musing on corporate twitter accounts and podcast dress codes.

16:55 Why would anyone follow a corporate twitter that wasn’t backed by a person. Dave says that a little client shilling is okay, so long as it is not the only reason to be on Twitter.

18:45 Exciting guest appearance from the waitress and the Scotch list.

19:25 EDIT ALERT – several minutes of discussing Scotches with the bartender was mercifully cut from the podcast. Don’t worry we promise not to make editing a habit or anything.

19:37 iPhone interference makes a guest appearance. Good think no one listens to this podcast.

19:45 Dave brings discussion to client’s paying for strategy versus paying for execution. Doug leaps to the defence of his companies business model and warns clients of the risk of expecting ideas without paying for development of them. Dave brings up the ghost of “spec creative” and that you get what you pay for, so cough up cheapskates or you will get the agencies who have nothing better to do.

24:15 Conversation drifts to pitches and the sometimes dumb expectations of clients, like “cheat the other clients and pass the savings on to us.” Dave tries to justify the client perspective (or perhaps his own past behaviour).

27:45 Doug tries to steer the HMS Shill back on course by saying any jackass can have an idea, but will the idea work for a given cleint at a given time. Dave tries to pose a question, but Doug interjects with Norse mythology.

31:25 Dave spits in the eye of everyone who calls him a cheap bastard over the years, by grabbing the cheque, while Doug quietly regrets not opting for the expensive hooch.

34:40 Stay tuned for next year’s Shill for the most excting rose ceremony yet! And a little more iPhone interference to round out the show.

And like a squirrel crossing a bare spot on the electrical lines, Shill stops, jitters a bit and then falls to the street below waiting for a passing car to turn it into a stain.
Music:

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 Shill Podcast Episode #13: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:00 The Shill Podcast complaint line

1:08 Doug opens the show, tips a wee dram to the great Robbie Burns and  compares Shill to a pubescent prank involving fecal matter. Dave isn’t quite awake yet.

2:11 A comment from Sally Goetsch (rhymes with something) puzzles Doug and fails to make an impression on Dave. Moving on.

3:10 The Pope launches a YouTube Channel and Doug accuses Dave of being an osmotic Catholic, Dave blames his family.

5:00 Dave compares the Pope to President Obama at least on YouTube and the Shill Research Department has taken inauguration year off again.

6:30 Doug and Dave discuss the consistency of the Papacy by allowing comments (like prayers) to disappear into the ether. Doug asks about Blogma and Dave proves the audiences suspicions by admitting he knows nothing.

7:35 Dave breaks it down and wonders why Vatican content isn’t going viral, only to answer his own question: they turned the viral switch to off.

8:51 In a grand display of contradiction Doug and Dave start to actually figure out that the Vatican may have some legitimate reasons for their choices. Dave shameless crowbars in a client reference.

10:30 Doug and Dave agree that YouTube commenters have roughly the intellectual capacity of slime moulds.

12:00 Doug speaks as a Catholic (which he isn’t) and marvels at how nice it would be to preached at by his laptop rather than schlepping to the Church. Dave stops just short of calling Doug a “moran” by pointing out that mass has been on TV for years.

13:20 God has His own .com address.

13:50 Doug calls an early close to Shill. Dave threatens the audience with more frequent episodes of Shill.

14:45 Dave closes the show with an unintelligible comparison of podcasts to Catholic mass.

16:28 Rasta Doug erupts on the offbeat and Dave smacks him down by calling him a glory-hounding drummer at the end of the show.

And like a urethral swab, Shill is over quickly, with excruciating pain, and leaves you uncomfortable for a few days.
Music:

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 Shill Episode #12: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:00 – Hour 3 of the Annual Shill Phone-in Show gets its first caller

1:00 – Dave opens the show and makes some very thin excuses for the
frequency of Shill releases.

1:37 – Dave introduces Shill’s new Sponsor Zombo.com and blames Doug’s
inept finger for creating Shill – The Lost Tapes

3:05 – <shill>Zombo.com magically gets worked into the conversation</
shill> We prove to Joe Jaffe that the 30-second spot is not dead!

3:39 -Dave goes off on a rant about the perpetual 101 discussions at conferences, meetups and blog posts.  Social media “experts” asking questions they know the answers to and writing blog posts that have been written over and over again is lame and embarrassing. He proceeds to pucker up and kiss the mighty Steve Rubel’s New York Jets loving rear.

7:00 – Doug wonders why social media experts sit through introduction to podcasting sessions at conferences.  Flashes the SM gang sign.  He could be whiter, but then he’d pee snowflakes.

8:10 – Doug suggests there are two types of social media practitioner:  Doers who are getting shit done for clients and Time Lords.

9:20 – Dave says that social media evangelists are crawling up their own asses due to all the hand-wringing around Forrester’s report showing how low the trust in corporate blogs is.  The boys agree that if you think blogging is inherently trustworthy, you are an idiot.  Blogs aren’t trustworthy. People are trustworthy.

11:25 – Doug recounts a conversation he had with a former ink-stained wretch.  “These bloggers can’t be trusted,” said the reporter in question.  Of course they can’t…neither can reporters.

12:45 – Doug is pretty sure Viagra spelled wrong will help him with his ED problems.

13:00 – Dave and Doug put their personal brands on the line and discuss the ridiculousness of the personal brand concept.  The whole “good try”, “everyone’s a winner” Special Olympics of blogging is annoying and holding evolution back.

14:32 – Doug wants to inaugurate the “thanks for coming out social media participation award.”  It’s given to people who make pathetic tries.

15:45 – There’s discussion about recent polls and the kool-aid soaked belief that marketing cuts, means more money for social media.  Uh, no it doesn’t.  Cuts come across the board.  Don’t buy that new Hyundai yet.  Alec Baldwin will be sent on a mission of mercy from downtown, from Mitch and Murray, to adjust your attitudes.

21:10 – Dave recounts a boring story about a Share This button.  Seriously, the show you’ve waited months for has devolved into this.

24:24 – There is some concern that the show is not quite profane enough.  Dave does his best to get a NC-17 rating applied by iTunes.

24:30 – Doug puts in a shameless plug for Shill sponsor, Zombo.com.  That’s Zombo.com.  Zombo.  Dot.  Com.

24:58 – Doug’s back-of-matchbook broadcasting school technique comes through as he mangles the closing again…

26:06 – This is the part where we play the post-roll Zombo.com sponsor ad.

27:54 – And like hemorrhoid surgery on podcasting’s pasty white butt, Shill is lanced and comes to a close with excruciating pain, yet anticipation of sweet relief until the next flare up.

Music:

“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.

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 Shill Episode #11 [42:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes:

0:30 – Dave admits to flaking out on Shill (again) and so begins Shill like a rafter of turkeys released from a helicopter.

1:22 – Discussion of Microsoft’s recent “ads” elicit a characteristic F-bomb response from Doug. Dave verbally scratches his head in confusion and starts trying to conjure up bad celebrity mash-ups with no help from Doug. The Shill boys regret even drawing attention to it.

4:30 Dave rails at Apple for not allowing podcast updates via WiFi on the iPhone. Doug passes the Mac Fan Boy hat to Dave only to have him set it on fire, leaving both hatless and showing some embarassing bald spots.

7:55 Dave hands over the rights to Shill to Apple for free (which is still a sucker’s deal). Doug uses one of his three wishes for his car to synch up with his WiFI, but the genie in the bottle gives flips him the bird.

9:09 Doug waves from the anti-DRM bandwagon and discusses how the totalitarian DRM on the video game Spore resulted in a user comment backlash on Amazon. Meanwhile Dave sits on his life-preserver, preferring to watch Doug drown in his own drivel. Doug attempts to discuss the financial consequences of misguided mobs, but Dave thinks gaming the system is part of the system.

16:30 Dave crowns the new heavyweight YouTube Champion, Avril Lavinge, but has issues with the auto-loading website landing all the punches for her. Dave wonders if the rules need to change,

19:44 Doug booze-addled brain splutters out, while Dave reveals his inability to take an editing cue. Apology to Shill audience: Shill Bloopers Vol. 1 will not be issued – we used up all the outtakes in the content. Doug struggles to get the chain back on his mental tricycle.

21:20 Dave tiptoes through the big ad agency minefield and struggles to find meaning in Cossette’s Bloom. Doug makes a truly pointless scatological reference and pleads with agencies to have an opinion on the future, or at least a point. Doug and Dave long for some specifics and wave their favourite protest sign: “Community not Campaigns”.

29:30 Dave wonders aloud how ad people get money from clients for Social Media. Doug believes agencies need to find a way to make money or production instead of media. Dave believes that agencies have managed to wedgie themselves with their own business model and thinks digital people should be driving the bus.

34:35 As if Shill weren’t long enough, Dave tries to squeeze in a discussion on Social Vibe. Doug laments that advertising is more than slapping a logo on a charity sponsorship.

37:20 Dave drops his mic, Doug loses his train of thought again, while the audience wonders why he continues to listen. Adding insolence to injury Dave gets lost in Facebook’s facelift, while Doug calls 700,000 Facebook users “ingrates”.

39:55 Dave gives the agencies a thanks-for-coming-out participation award, while waxing poetic about the good old sexist days of MAdvertising. And like a salaryman getting the pink slip, Shill is not allowed to clear out its desk before being escorted from the building.

BONUS HIDDEN TRACK (after theme music): Dave fails to be funny, Doug reverts to an old standby joke. Girlish giggles ensue.
Music:

“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.

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 Shill Episode #10: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes:

00:00 A key insight into how the show is made is revealed or Doug takes a cheap shot at Dave? You be the judge.

1:14 Results of Shill’s first and last ever focus group with our listener. Turns out you hate the show and the feeling is mutual and thus Shill lurches out of the gates, like a sprinter with a gammy leg.

3:25 Dave brings out the obligatory Glengarry Glen Ross reference and then tells Doug he has the worst haircut in his whole office – Doug works from home and his dog feels insulted. Dave reveals that the Shill research team have yet to show up for work.

5:16 The frequency of Shill episodes is discussed and soundly blamed upon Jones and his alcoholic neighbors. Dave pointlessly name drops Steve Rubel, admits to swilling domestic suds, and sleeping around. Doug barfs.

8:01  Dave finally gets to the point of the episode: NBC Olympic-sized media research project. NBC unleashes the research hounds on how people consume the Olympics in a desperate (or perhaps brilliant) effort to figure out how audiences gorge on the content. Will it prove NBC’s inevitable irrelevance?

10:45 Doug believes that the Olympics is an interesting case, but may be too unique to be applicable to back episodes of Everybody Love Raymond.

12:30 Dave gets cynical about whether NBC will actually reveal their soiled underpants. Doug says one way or another the stench will reach everyone’s nostrils.

14:30 Doug reminds the listener (needlessly) that even though most TV sucks, there is still a lot of money growing in the analogue trees and quotes someone much smarter saying “don’t trade analogue dollars for  digital pennies yet”- UCG still needs to push out some greenbacks. Dave figures there have been no winners yet in the Social Media lottery.

17:01 Doug suggests that the Olympic media coverage should be amateurs-only event with the likes of Robert Scoble and his cell phone camera broadcasting to the world. Let’s see how long before we all start screaming for big budget mass media pros.

19:00 Dave claims his favourite Olympic sport is the 24 Hour Cash Grab Relay and proceeds to crap all over the Olympic ideals. Research again lets down the hosts, by being unable to answer basic questions. Doug admits to being current affairs ignorant, culturally obtuse, and perhaps somewhat less than a man. An on-air spat ensues regarding topics sprung at the last minute on unsuspecting co-hosts.

22:40 Dave and Doug profess their loathing for opening ceremonies and other forms of half-time shows. Dave refuses to watch any half-time shows unless they show some nudity and proposes synchronized swimming as a pre-requisite for watching the rest of the Olympics.

24:31 Doug beats the “amateurs should cover the games” drum again and Dave pops his bubble resoundingly by reminding him of the amateur podcasts they listen to – Doug tucks his tail between his legs.

25:30 Another spat breaks out over tonight’s topic, where Doug cleverly lures Dave into making a sexist comment. Please send complaints to shillpodcast@gmail.com.

26:35 Dave apologizes to Shel Israel for running out of time and being unable to play his comment. And like a mammoth going for a dip in the tar pit, Shill struggles helplessly before marking its demise with a few oily bubbles on the surface.

Music:

“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.

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 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes:

00:31 A lot has happened since the week between shows and Doug and Dave launch right into the topic: themselves. Doug’s been in South Africa to see if this anti-apartheid movement is catching on. Apparently, it’s a hit. And all because Dave and Doug bought a record in the 80s.

1:52 Dave outs Doug’s move to Social Media Group to become a competitor and another full-time new media douchebag on the scene. Dave’s jealousy bubbles to the surface and he counterpunches by name-dropping Collin Douma ex of Social Media Group. Doug parries with the fact that he has inherited Douma’s old Blackberry.

2:45 Dave notes the disturbing clubiness of the echo chamber and feels there is a musical in it somewhere. Doug believes bong water has been ingested.

3:13 Other names are dropped for a variety of hard-to-understand reasons: Scott Monty’s move to Ford to become Doug’s client; Bryan Person to Texas to run for Governor and then the Republican nomination; Doug Haslam to Shift; Dave going to hell; Doug claims to be making some other moves that will see Shill become the #1 podcast in the scat category on iTunes.

4:04 Doug riffs on the state of music, 70s swinging culture and his love of mustaches and tight pants. Freddie Mercury would have been proud.

6:30 The discussion meanders to the popularity of ringtones. Doug butts in to let everyone out there know that you are dead to him if you have a real music ringtone. Dave sticks it to straight-edge white guys with gangsta rap ringtones and uber-geeks with the Darth Vader music.

8:32 Dave defers to Doug’s knowledge of how video games incorporate music due to the fact that Dave believe he is an adult. Doug puts up zero resistance to this quip for obvious reasons.

10:20 Doug thinks of music as an impulse buy like penny candy. Doug is partial to the pixie sticks (see Freddie Mercury reference.) Dave apparently has an oral fixation.

10:50 Dave pretends to be an audiophile and economist (two words he clearly had to look up for these show notes) and stumbles through the historical thread of the history of recorded and packaged music, filthy rich artists and invites Doug to reminisce about how great things used to be when they browsed through record stores, looking at Klaatu album covers.

13:26 Having not fully bludgeoned the music topic to death, Doug brings up PVRs and in a strange Shill moment, starts talking up one of Dave’s clients: Overlay.TV. Dave seizes the opportunity to shamelessly promote them as well. (Hey Rob and Ben! Overlay.TV rocks.)

16:30 Still going with music. Seriously. Dave eventually gets round to insulting people in the TV advertising business. And how Doug and Dave laugh! You can hear their sides splitting.

17:06 Gleefully, the topic comes to a conclusion as Doug considers hiring bards and troubadours in the future. This leads to discussions about strange English things to do with a certain lead singer of The Police.

20:00 Nothing gets a too-long episode back on track than when Doug and Dave turn on each other.

21:10 Discussions about James Spader, Bill Shatner, Christian Slater and Colin McKay clearly affect Dave in a homo-erotic way and he makes a pass at Doug.

23:51 Dave tries to introduce the topic of virtual worlds and not the launch of the iPhone 3G, but like Doug’s first girlfriend, he will have none of it. Dave insults the first guy in line in Toronto, Apple, Rogers, and City-TV’s breakfast television program.

26:15 Doug’s Apple fan-boy side comes out and he proclaims his love for the iPhone and claims Blackberrys are for stockbrokers and PR people. Dave smugly believes that he menas people with the power and authority to make shit happen. iPhones are for people who think they are important…like Doug.

30:18 After a trip down the convergence rabbit hole, Doug notes that multiple gadgets require Chewbacca’s bandolier…yup, the kind all the stockbrokers get at Louis Vuitton. Dave immediately lays down a triple world score and bingo on the word “geekass”.

30:51 Like that tingly sensation you get before a cold sore, the virtual worlds topic finally surfaces. Any salient points are lost in discussions about Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, World of Warcraft and crack.

36:40 Dave admits to having tuned Doug out. Bur for show notes purposes, it was something like: blah blah blah…dungeons and dragons…blah blah blah.

37:47 Doug is an idiot for losing the audio comment received from cowboy-hatted legend David Armano. And like a fudgesicle within striking distance of a fat kid, Shill is inhaled, leaving only a few brownish remnants and a wicked brain freeze.

Music:

“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.

Comments:

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