Shill Podcast - Piranhas, Cows and other awkward metaphors
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
Hamburger.
Okay, Collin I am obviously missing something here…
What’s the deal with Hamburger?
The gloves-off nature of your show has inspired me to comment on the cell phone segment of your conversation. Boasting the largest number of subs nationwide, Rogers is arguably the most powerful Canadian cellco. Naturally, this has provided Rogers with the power to dictate exclusive arrangements with the handset providers in the past (e.g. Blackberry) and potentially in near future with the iPhone. However, contrary to Doug’s point – Rogers no longer has the Blackberry deal locked up. They did originally enjoy exclusivity back in 2000. However, that ended in 2003 with Telus and Bell gaining access to the device. Regardless, your point about the tenuous relationship between the service providers and the handset manufactures remains sound. Hopefully, the continued entrance of desirable products like the iPhone will lead way to a future model where unlocked handsets are legitimately available enabling consumers to independently select a handset and their carrier based on the their respective merits.
Incidentally, the quality of your show notes could easily lead me to believe that the two of you are actually copywriters. Considering that I have first hand knowledge of your daytime jobs, I am beginning to believe that you may have struck a deal with a desperate television writer prior to the end of the strike.
In doing the show notes, I realized that Rogers indeed does not have the blackberry lock, but I appreciate you pointing out my idiocy on that Mike I deserved it.
Otherwise thanks for listening and glad the show notes are appreciated, no actual copywriter’s were harmed in the creation of our show notes.
Great meeting you guys this weekend at PodCamp Toronto. I love the format of the show. The not-minding-the-bollocks look and feel is awesome.
Great metaphor too. Now all I can picture are logos dripping in blood - yikes.
Cheers,
Dave
Now, how did I miss your blatant promotion of this new blog? No spamming by e-mail to let your faithful fans know about it?
Must be because I’m behind schedule on listening to Inside PR episodes.
Nice to hear the casual format. Looking forward to hearing more.
Can you do a celebrity interview with Tiger Woods for your next show?