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This week’s Beancast covers my favorite topics above along with fired CEOs, and is joined by John Wall and Angela Natividad. Download the show directly here. Topics here. (Subscribe through iTunes here.) You can also follow us on Twitter: TheBeanCast, mtlb, John and Angela.

Now that it’s been 427 episodes with me on, I wanted to give a shout out and thank Mr. Knorpp for having me as a guest so frequently, and also to give a little background on the show. I’m not a marketing or PR guy in the tradition of others, even though I cover a lot of those topics on the podcast and at times here on the blog. I’m an art director interested in every area of advertising. (Except for SEO. While I understand it, it can still bite me.)

Give it a name if you need to, tradigitalist, media agnostic, etc. I love it all. (It’s my own little version of Art Director’s Deficit syndrome.) I’ve been digging the opportunity to dabble in the podcast world and work within a rigid format like this. Consider it a rehearsal/forboding of other things to come.

It's also good to see a show from the inside and how you can pull people together from literally four corners of the globe using a free service like Skype—and some caffeine on a Sunday evening. (If, the globe had corners.) Is it the same as if we were all together in one room? No. No podcast with remote guests is because the dynamic is different. Not being able to read the reactions of others next to you so you know when to jump in takes getting used to, something which accounts for a slight lag or dead air at times between questions.

As for the actual show, Bob usually hits us up with topics the day before or day of along with extensive background articles. We have no idea until then what the show will cover. (See typical show notes page and referring links.) Generally, I scramble, read and review it all, then try and sound intelligent. Remembering too that ultimately it’s his show, I try to answer things accordingly and contain myself.

It has a different approach than I take here. That’s not good or bad, just sayin. So here, I swear a lot, there, it’s bleeped. (Something I forgot several times last night.) There, Bob riffs off Ad Age stories while I troll YouTube.

On a technical note, everything is done straight through in one take, recorded in his home studio with a real mic and mixer not the Staple’s $9.99 mic special either while the rest of us conference in. Little is edited except for s*** I let slip. Then he runs it through SoundSoap and adds compression to make us sound amazinger and to also hide the occasional Skype noises. (Helps too that the dude already has a voice for radio.) Further props as he jams for three-four hours after the show to edit it then get us back a complete set of links and notes for posting.

So listen, like, hate, discuss, whatever. Later kids.

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