Active Interrupting

By Jackson Dahl and Andrew Ettinger

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The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.

Active Interrupting episodes:

June 06, 2024 10: Jackson’s Party Powerpoint, Challengers, Movie Stars, London, Turning 30
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00:00 Intro
02:22 Jackson's Powerpoint on Nuclear Semiotics
15:44 Jacob Collier and King's Theater
17:42 Block Party Music and Paul Dano
20:11 Challengers
22:23 The Lack of Movie Stars
28:31 London
30:50 Hockey and Basketball Playoffs
33:39 Celebrity Mt. Rushmore
37:18 Jerry Seinfeld
39:59 Sleep
43:45 TikTok
45:46 LA and Farcon
49:26 In person vs. zoom
51:56 Andrew Turning 30
55:51 Paul Graham Essays

More on nuclear semiotics and the atomic priesthood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force
https://media.getmatter.app/media/content_file/2024/04/25/religions-12-00741.pdf

A much better movie stars under 35 analysis than ours:
https://www.theringer.com/2024/4/30/24144968/2024-movie-star-ranking-35-under-35-zendaya-margot-robbie-timothee-chalamet-tom-holland

...more
58min
May 15, 20249: Dickbutts, A Broken Wrist, Short Podcast Kings, Journalism, and Journeys in Electronic Music
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro

1:30 Adam Friedland at The Club & Right Heights Of Right Men

6:12 Podcast Rebranding

8:20 Jackson's Wrist Fracture

10:26 Taking Health / Concerts for Granted

13:41 Concert Experience, Brooklyn Venues

21:15 Listening to & Discovering Music

26:59 Civil War and Modern Journalism

33:37 Twitter & Criticism

39:26 Inspiration Lately, Social Media, Co-working Space

46:57 Speaker Systems

50:16 Outro
...more
51min
March 26, 20248: Wedding Gifts, Dune Popcorn Bucket, Chalamet, Oscars, 30 Days of Writing
Timestamps:
00:14 Weddings: Cash Gifts, Engagements, Destination Weddings

10:26 Utah Trip

12:34 30 Day Writing Challenge

21:53 Social Media

27:25 New York Field Report

30:15 Dinner with Toby + Writing

32:36 Sun Valley Trip + Skiing

34:24 LA Trip

37:37 Newsletter Promos

38:37 Dune

41:17 Anyone But You + Madame Web

45:01 Dune: Popcorn Bucket, Zendaya's Last Name, Book v. Movie

49:59 Oscars, KOTFM

52:13 Timothee Chalamet Can Hang?

56:54 John Mayer watch

58:03 Outro
...more
59min
February 26, 20247: Dylan Abruscato & Crypto The Game, HQ Trivia, Cities & Suburbs
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Dylan Abruscato on Twitter
Crypto The Game on Twitter
Crypto The Game

Timestamps:
05:15 Choosing where to live

07:14 Traffic

12:06 Being around strangers

15:11 Terminal Online-ness

19:34 Superbowl & Sportsbetting

23:02 OpenAI & Sora

24:53 Jackson's Writing Challenge

32:51 Dylan Joins

34:25 Crypto the Game Basics

36:08 Dylan's intro: Hollywood, HQ Trivia

40:05 Designing the game

46:10 Season 2

51:49 Season 1's Winner

57:43 Work life balance while running CTG

58:35 Bringing Other Reality Shows Online? (The Amazing Race)

01:01:12 Other Ideas

01:04:41 Flappy Bird Woes

01:06:11 CTG bringing people into crypto

01:06:49 The HQ Trivia Documentary

01:10:03 Wrap-up
...more
1h 14min
February 19, 20246: Crypto Adjacency, Andrew's Agency, Drake's Big Week, The Lonely Vision Pro
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Social Metronomes

John Exley's (mintable) Review of Active Interrupting

A great video essay on Her

Kenzo World ft. Margaret Qualley

Spike Jonze

Timestamps:
00:44 Crypto The Game

06:13 Andrew launched Use Your Words

17:38 Leaning in and taking things seriously

18:36 The Artist Way

22:42 Growing the podcast

24:07 Crypto adjacency

26:43 Drake's big week

28:58 Drake, Taylor Swift, and peforming to cool

31:57 When We Cease to Understand the World

42:22 Other Reading

43:40 Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

47:33 The Vision Pro

51:17 Watching 'Her' in the vision pro

58:30 Technology and presence

01:00:28 Superbowl and Superbail
...more
1h 5min
February 12, 2024Ep. 5: Our first guest, Oscar noms, Murder Accusations, Trump and the Flag, Taking Back Sunday
Our first guest, Uncle Dan Ettinger comes on to talk movies and 2024 Oscar Nominations. Sorry for the weird thumbs up and animations-- weird iOS camera bug.
⁠Jackson's podcast with Laz and Jake on Barbenheimer⁠
Framed
00:01 Cold Open: Clapper

03:05 Zoom Mics + Guess This Song

05:42 Alarm Clocks

10:05 Natural Deodorant

15:13 Doctors + AI

18:34 Squeaky chairs and murder accusations

19:22 Tampopo

20:12 Clips + Biden

23:15 Trump's taken over the flag (Nate Silver article)

26:19 Taking things back

29:47 Dan Arrives

30:52 Framed.wtf

32:13 Astrology

32:40 Dan intro

35:50 What makes a great movie

46:10 Oscar Prediction

47:47 Miyazaki

49:49 American Fiction

51:58 Anatomy of a Fall

56:36 Barbie

01:01:26 The Holdovers

01:05:34 Killers of the Flower Moon

01:08:53 Maestro

01:13:56 Oppenheimer

01:14:33 Past Lives

01:17:02 Poor Things

01:20:23 Zone of Interest

01:24:52 Dan Favorites

01:26:02 Wrap Up
...more
1h 28min
February 02, 2024Ep. 4: resisting the algorithm, dating older women, controlling the weather, and Vision Pro parties
00:00 Beverages & Real Water Heads
01:18 Water and Air Travel
04:37 Maybe the fancy gyms are worth it
06:32 Los Tacos #1 is the In N Out of NYC
07:28 Dating (Older Women)
11:28 Winter Clothes
16:09 The weather isn't that interesting and you'll be fine
19:14 Pushing past the cache
21:32 Andrew leaving NYC for February
22:49 Fooling the highway patrol
26:28 Watching Podcasts & SNL
28:59 Jackson's Subscription Stack
34:47 Early Listeners
35:51 Kyle Chayka: taste and curation in an algorithmic world
42:37 Instagram Reels
45:45 Twitter's evolution toward algorithm and away from taste
54:50 The Rewards of Putting in the effort
58:44 Art exists with context, not in a vacuum
01:02:55 The Vision Pro Pre-Order
01:06:24 Listener Shoutouts

(Some of) Jackson’s subscriptions:
Descript

Adobe Premiere

Copilot (my referral for 2mo free is 88WM34)

Krisp.ai

Clay

Obsidian

Flighty

Audible

YouTube Premium

Spotify

Twitter
Stratechery

Blackbird Spyplane

Avabear.xyz
Eugene Wei on Twitter: How to Blow up a Timeline
...more
1h 11min
January 19, 2024Episode 3: Talking to the Audience, Non-Boredom, Floor Pillows, and Donkey Kong
Sorry about the audio sync issues. They may be occasionally bad but should be tolerable throughout most of the episode.
00:00 Intro

02:33 Our First "Sponsor"

05:06 Breaking the Fourth Wall

07:43 Morning People and Night People

11:38 Underemployment & Lack of Boredom

13:46 Hyperattention on the Internet

16:02 Silent Retreats and Dipping Below Top-Level Consciousness

17:44 A Year without the Internet

20:29 Cliff's Notes, Podcast Interviews with Authors, and The Founders Podcast

25:32 Internet vs. Social Life: Pick One

30:45 Living Room Warfare: TVs, Floor Pillows, and the Anti-Couch Movement

36:55 The Value & Difficulty of Furnishing a Space

40:05 "I Know What We Do Here"

45:25 The King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters (2007)

49:49 Vision Pro (ft. Off-Camera Guest Dylan)

53:20 Paul Giammati on Marc Maron

57:24 Hillary Duff, The Olson Twins, and Eyes with Secrets

01:00:56 Audience Mailbag
...more
1h 8min
January 03, 2024Episode 2: Racket Sports, A Great Time for Movie Theaters, and Mental Health
Andrew and Jackson discuss.
4:23 — White Elephant Gifts & Manslaughter

15:01 — The Mind; see also, my newsletter excerpt on it

19:45 — Padel (and Pickleball)

25:10 — Golf Course Tax Breaks, Malcolm Gladwell, and Running or Picnicing on courses

27:54 — Can Jackson return a 115mph Tennis Serve?

33:12 — Best time for in-theater movies in years, and why movie pass is a great deal in 2023: Poor Things, Saltburn, The Holdovers, Maestro, Killers of the Flower Moon, May December, Anatomy of a Fall, Zone of Interest, Wonka, The boy and the Heron, Godzilla -1, Napoleon, The Killer, Dream Scenario, Priscilla, Ferrari, Taylor Swift, Beyonce

44:48 — Jeff Bezos on Lex Friedman

57:09 — Psychoanalysts, mental health, vocabulary, generationals differences
...more
1h 13min
December 11, 2023Andrew Ettinger: Chef (2014), Stop Making Sense, and xx by The xx
0:00: Intro

03:02: start

03:41: Watch: Chef

14:28: Chef’s star studded cast

17:33: rise of food content and decline of critics

23:02: Watch (or Listen): Stop Making Sense

30:44: why it’s the best concert movie

32:36: seeing SMS for the first time during covid

34:41: SMS in theaters and impromptu dance parties: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8MQKJjb/

37:21: SMS intermission and Byrne’s little toot and a big suit

40:55: David leaving the band

43:25: Listen: xx by The XX

57:26: the MSG Sphere in Vegas and how new media experiences could evolve live music
David Byrne interviewing himself
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1h 3min

FAQs about Active Interrupting:

How many episodes does Active Interrupting have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.