Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 623 of your second favourite podcast: Sneaky Dragon!
This week Ian and David talk: surprise; the reality of math; different ’80’s; students of radio; adultering; the party boys; bathroom obstruction; the Vegas of Sphere; stand-up history; do you know what’s dead; joke types; conversing versus performing; loving the blockhead; a real turkey; the nothing holiday; table talk; out-of-control kids; generational sea change; a folio of fails; talent facilitators; at the end of his rope; Godspell check; makin’ it: Ed reveals all; you gotta trapeze yourself; costumes form; seasonal songs; one measly question; pregn-aunt; baby bust; the search for self; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; ranking candy; dental plan; namesakes; Twist ending; and, finally, oakum hokum.
Question of the Week: Do you have a go-to joke that you like to tell?
Sub-question of the Week: What is a better podcast than Sneaky Dragon?
Thanks for listening.
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Dave, you owe Ian all your Starbursts, my entire in-house agency (Schawk) was booted out of Dr Pepper in May of 2007. I was a contract artist, a full time designer and in-house/on-site art director for Dr Pepper/7UP, then Cadbury Beverages in 1994, from August of 1990 to May of 2007, an almost 17 year employment with the company. It’s a wonder I lasted that long with all the changes, buyouts and re-orgs the company went through but I still feel that I could go back with as much knowledge I gained about the beverage industry. Dr Pepper is now owned by Keurig, the coffee company and it boasts about 4 billion a year…and they’re right in the next town over. In the last three or so years at Dr Pepper/Cadbury, the in-house agency we were moved over to always seemed like we were on the brink of disaster. It was still the same as working as a permanent Dr Pepper employee with the exception of any steady leadership along with the gut feeling we’d be replaced by another in-house agency…which is exactly what happened. My last days there were ugly, unprofessional and the lowest time of my career, hopefully never to be repeated. As a personal boycott, not one drop of Dr Pepper has been consumed by me since May 25th, 2007.
Concerning David Naughton, I had the chance to meet him at a local Fan Expo years ago while I was still at Dr Pepper, he was seated right next to Linda Blair who was also very delightful. A co-worker in P.R., who I’ve forgotten his name, brought a bunch of Dr Pepper materials to be signed from Naughton’s run during the “I’m a Pepper” campaign. Naughton signed everything as we watched and visited with him, telling him what we did as Dr Pepper employees. I’m sure it was framed and displayed along with all the other Dr Pepper memorabilia we had all over the building. Naughton is a solid part of Dr Pepper history from probably their strongest ad campaign.
After Dr Pepper I worked for Tic Toc…not THAT one….in downtown Dallas. We we part of a massive global company called Omnicon and our building was a network of agencies that specialized in different aspects of advertising. Our job was to take the graphic or art, sometimes designed by me, but not always, and facilitate it’s printing. We did apparel, publishing, promotional and packaging but my time there only lasted 2 and a half years. The CFO was found dead in his parent’s home and left Tic Toc with a messy backlog of bookkeeping and not enough projections to employ the whole company, so ten of us were let go.
A few short months later, I followed some breadcrumbs to Idea Planet, where I currently work for 13 years and running. We were technically bought by BDA in Seattle last year but we still do the same work we always have. We do gaming collectibles for SONY, UbiSoft and Activision to name a few. Our largest client is currently Chick-fil-A which I dedicate about 90% of my time to these days. I’ve worked for Walmart, Southwest Airlines, Disney, Warner Brothers and many, many others while at Idea Planet but my absolute favorite was the eight years working with 20th Century Fox promotions. Please visit my new portfolio website I added in the “website” area above this post if you haven’t already seen it and you’ll see what I mean. And if you want to see Idea Planet’s website and all the cool stuff we do, please visit it here: https://www.ideaplanetlp.com
One last proud factoid: Due to some strange twist of fate, I’ve had the opportunity to work on every X-Men film and both Deadpool films since 20th Century Fox was a client of Dr Pepper, Tic Toc and Idea Planet during my time with all three (with the exception of “Logan”). I can remember sitting in the theater before “Dark Phoenix” started, thinking to myself, “I’ve been promoting these damned mutants for over 20 years!”
Jesus, I did reveal it all…
Thanks guys!!
My portfolio site: https://draganski.design/#/
A better podcast to rake leaves to while wearing Bluetooth headphones is Blank Check with Griffin and David…because I don’t mind missing parts of it when I move out of range of the iPad I’m sync’d with. I would never want to miss a word of Sneaky Dragon.