Shill Podcast #4 [20:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:47 After some stammering Doug tells a graphic story of what happens to hapless cows in the Amazon and somehow believes it to be relevant to Social Media. Dave is kind enough to mute his mic while laughing up his sleeves.

2:23 Having set the stage Doug burns it down revealing that only bloody cows get skinned by piranhas. He also starts dreaming about polluting the literary world with yet another vague metaphor-based business book

3:35 Dave props up Doug’s rickety construct with some vague generalizations of his own, but agrees that brands get the terrorism they deserve and trots out the Wal-mart example.

6:30 Doug steps out of character and tries to push the conversation toward the positive. Dave trots out another tired case study: Apple.

8:00 Doug steals Collin Douma’s thought on the Brand Immune System, combining two esoteric metaphors in a blatant attempt to confuse listeners.

10:24 Dave reveals his greatest fear: throwing a party to have no one show. Kind of like the Shill podcast. Doug feints by linking Dave to PT Barnum, but actually agrees with him.

12:23 Dave talks about engaging versus parroting messages. Doug hits Dave where it hurts by bringing up Mitch Joel again.

14:00 Doug reveals a sore point of his past life as a Customer Service Rep and how he was trained to be incompetent and irrelevant. He also pulls out another ill-thought metaphor of CSRs as untrained soldiers.

15:30 Dave comes to Doug’s rescue with the RIM example of how they don’t own the relationship, the reseller does, but RIM still takes crap for the problems when reseller shifts blame.

16:00 Conversation tangents to cell phones, where lack of industry knowledge barely impedes the flow of opinion. Doug expects to be chastised by the listener for his mistakes.

17:55 Discussion of unlocked and hacked iPhones, illustrates some important point that eludes both hosts - could be the alcohol.

20:05 With the elegance of a rhino doing needlepoint, Doug slits the throat of another episode of Shill.

Theme Music:

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

Comments:

Let David and Doug know how dumb they are at shillpodcast@gmail.com or visit the blog at shillpodcast.com

Tags: Marketing, Show Notes, Tortured Metaphors by dwalker
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 Shill Podcast #3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes

0:19 False Start: Dave doesn’t make the appointed time for the podcast and leaves Doug with the audio equivalent of his pants around his ankles.

1:00 Do-over start followed by Doug’s personal cover version of the theme music for the entertainment of himself and surely no one else. Dave starts the show with an uncomfortable silence.

1:55 Drink of the day revealed 12 year old single malts.

2:30 Dave reads out a general comment about the show from Listener Lisa proving the fact that Shill has at least one listener.

3:15 Doug pulls the rug out on the audience theory by pointing out that it was his wife who made the comment. Doug and Dave agree that bias is a dish best served often.

5:00 Dave discusses the Corporate Kryptonite that keeps him from bashing his own clients, but predictably no guarantees are made about the future, unless it causes him to downgrade his net connection to High Speed Light. Doug doesn’t like talking about his clients.

7:15 Jaws drop throughout the podosphere as Dave declares Shill to be light on research and heavy on opinion. Doug and Dave declare the podcast to be under the jurisdiction of bar rules.

10:05 Dave accuses Mitch Joel of being a real person.

11:10 Doug happily begins sawing off the limb he is sitting on.

12:20 Dave ensures listeners that the Shit List door is closed to anyone who knocks. Doug question’s Dave’s gender and narrowly avoids getting on the Shit List himself.

13:25 Dave acts like the hen-pecked husband of Shill (what does that make Doug?) because he is hounded to make the podcast. Doug is unapologetic for dumping Dave to go out to dinner with Mitch Joel.

14:30 Doug takes a beating for screwing up Mitch’s promo and loses 30 geek points for not being able to operate an audio recorder under the influence.

15:04 Out of sheer pique, Dave decides to drive another episode of Shill over the cliff.

Theme Music:

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

Comments:

Let David and Doug know what you think about Shill at shillpodcast@gmail.com or visit the blog at shillpodcast.com

Tags: Navel Gazing, Show Notes by dwalker
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