
A Producer's Life for Us with Evelien
11/30/21 • 64 min
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Episode 59 features Evelien, a producer, who is here to discuss her day job as a producer, where we both agree no one has any clue what a producer does, excepting that it is important and integral to many mediums, plus learning by doing, being organized, a few metaphors and much much more.
Throughout the conversation, we discuss:
- What is a producer?
- What does a producer do?
- Wanting to be in media?
- Culturally understanding media?
- Always Producing...
- Saying Yes vs. Saying No
- To do your own thing
- Production vs. Live Production
- Lack of Sleep
- Overreaching
- Anonymity
- Creative Creatures
- Being Bored
- Being Prepared
- Being Flexible
- Jack of All Trades
- And much more
Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode
Tweets
Other Links
The Real Frank Zappa Book is Worth Your Time, No Matter Who You Are
Declassifying a Decade: Honoring 10 Years of AgentPalmer.com
You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.
Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.
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Episode 59 features Evelien, a producer, who is here to discuss her day job as a producer, where we both agree no one has any clue what a producer does, excepting that it is important and integral to many mediums, plus learning by doing, being organized, a few metaphors and much much more.
Throughout the conversation, we discuss:
- What is a producer?
- What does a producer do?
- Wanting to be in media?
- Culturally understanding media?
- Always Producing...
- Saying Yes vs. Saying No
- To do your own thing
- Production vs. Live Production
- Lack of Sleep
- Overreaching
- Anonymity
- Creative Creatures
- Being Bored
- Being Prepared
- Being Flexible
- Jack of All Trades
- And much more
Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode
Tweets
Other Links
The Real Frank Zappa Book is Worth Your Time, No Matter Who You Are
Declassifying a Decade: Honoring 10 Years of AgentPalmer.com
You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.
Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.
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A Lawyer, Life, and Lessons with Robert Eskra
Episode 58 features Professor Robert Eskra, Esquire, a lawyer turned teacher, who is here to tell the tale of how he became a lawyer and then why he isn’t as well as higher education, the archer’s mindset, being a jack of all trades, and much much more.
Throughout the conversation, we discuss:
- Why Lawyering?
- Law School
- The Bar Exam
- College Class Attendance
- Arguing the Lawyer Way
- Is a hot dog a sandwich?
- How do you define breakfast?
- Being a Lawyer
- A false bill of goods
- The search for what's next?
- Teaching
- Jack of All Trades
- Meaningful memories
- And much more
Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode
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Other Links
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You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.
Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.
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The Origin of a Librarian with Matt Kiefer
Episode 60 features Matt Kiefer who is here to discuss his career as a librarian. As you’ll soon learn it’s not just the Dewey decimal system and shushing people. It’s a library of things and events plus, growing into being organized, helping with technology, some library myths, and much much more.
Throughout the conversation, we discuss:
- What does a librarian do?
- How does one become a librarian?
- A Library of things
- Archives and Reference Collections
- Things to do at the library
- Technology usage at the library
- Different types of librarians
- Community Space vs. Books
- Running events
- Recommendation Engines
- Library Myths
- And much more
Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode
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Create your own library at LibraryAnything.com
Tweets
Other Links
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You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.
Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.
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