The Office Hours Interview w/ Ernest Wilkins
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Office Hours Interview w/ Ernest Wilkins is a companion podcast to Office Hours Magazine. Honestly, it's an excuse to talk to people who are specialists in the business of culture—those whose knowledge is as deep as it as wide. This also is apodcast curated for busy people looking for the best conversations about culture, music, and marketing. Read the newsletter at officehoursmag.com
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The Office Hours Interview: Lauren Sherman
July 09, 2021 22:31 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBThe Office Hours Interview is a blunt and enlightening conversation with the people who power the cultural industries. For more Office Hours Mag, sign up for the newsletter at OfficeHoursMag.com or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn @OfficeHoursMag.
The Office Hours Interview: Jack L. Carlson (of Rowing Blazers)
May 25, 2021 17:05 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBThe Office Hours Interview is a blunt and enlightening conversation with the people who power the cultural industries. For more Office Hours Mag, sign up for the newsletter at OfficeHoursMag.com or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn @OfficeHoursMag
The Office Hours Interview - Maria Cristina Sherman
March 11, 2021 20:45 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBMaria Cristina Sherman is a music writer and culture critic currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked as a senior writer at Jezebel, managing editor at Gizmodo Media Group, senior correspondent at Fuse TV, and contributor at BuzzFeed Music. You may have seen her work at NPR and in Billboard, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and many other quality publications. Her debut book, LARGER THAN LIFE: A History of Boy Bands, NKOTB to BTS, was published by Hachette imprint Bl...
The Office Hours Interview: Folu Akinkuotu
February 18, 2021 16:48 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBFolu Akinkuotu is a home cook, prolific baker and rare snack aficionado. Her newsletter Unsnackable features rare snacks, drinks and fast food from around the world and has been in The New Yorker, SBS Australia and The Face Magazine. Folu is one of those world-class talents that manages to hide in plain sight. With one tweet almost a year ago, she’s influenced some of the biggest names in the cultural industry of food and drink media, despite you likely never hearing her name until...
The Office Hours Interview: Simon Owens
February 11, 2021 19:17 - 58 minutes - 27.1 MBSimon Owens covers the media industry for his Substack newsletter and podcast The Business of Content. He writes about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. There's this misconception that the average newsletter reader is clamoring to pay for content, when in reality converting a free reader into a paid subscriber is like pulling teeth. We discuss this, tactics that newsletter operaters should think about, where we think Substack is going, and the st...
The Office Hours Interview: Jarrod Dicker
February 11, 2021 18:12 - 56 minutes - 26 MBJarrod Dicker is currently the commercial chief at the Washington Post. There, he oversees the business of The Post across advertising, subscriptions and R&D as well as new ventures (like WaPo’s Zeus, which we discuss in-depth during this interview) and is a former CEO/founder in the crypto space (po.et). Prior to his days at the Post, he ran product, engineering and business teams at RebelMouse, The Huffington Post and Time Inc. Before his current media role, he started his career...
The Office Hours Interview: BNAC
January 28, 2021 21:15 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBBrand New A Collective is an enlightened think-tank that translates ideas into actionable, memorable and exciting experiences, which come to life in live events, partnerships, and digital/social content. Let Clubhouse tell it, marketing across cultural industries is a series of tactics or sheer luck that can only be manifested in a reactive way — say, your brand goes viral because a guy did a Tiktok while drinking your product on a skateboard while listening to Fleetwood Mac — versu...
The Office Hours Interview - Josh Spector
December 31, 2020 19:16 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBOffice Hours with Ernest Wilkins is written and curated by Ernest Wilkins in Chicago, IL. For more, check out officehoursnewsletter.com
The Office Hours Interview - Ana Andjelic
December 12, 2020 03:29 - 56 minutes - 26.3 MBAna Andjelic is a strategy executive and Forbes CMO Next who specializes in building brand-driven modern businesses. Ana earned her doctorate in sociology and worked at the world’s top brands and advertising agencies. She is a widely read columnist, speaker and advisor. She is the author of “The Business of Aspiration”, a book that I strongly encourage anyone working in a cultural field to read over the holiday break. I would go ahead and bookmark this piece of hers. Ana was kind e...
The Office Hours Interview - Amanda Mull
December 12, 2020 03:26 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBAmanda Mull is a staff writer at The Atlantic covering health and consumerism. She lives in Brooklyn but is originally from Atlanta. In 2020 alone, she’s written about why Millenials love canned cocktails, why we shouldn’t believe in free shipping, why the post-pandemic office shouldn’t have a dress code, and the difference between feeling safe and being safe. Her story of spending $1300 on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Finesse-tival GOOP products is one of my favorite reads of the year. Her ...
#149: Long Live A$AP Yams
November 13, 2020 20:44 - 1 hourIn honor of Yams birthday today, I’m releasing a never-before-heard interview with him from 2012. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#148: The Janitor Generation
November 03, 2020 23:53“When I’m gone, let the work I’ve done speak for me" This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#141: Black Gold
September 18, 2020 17:09 - 3 minutesJames Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#139: Raise Up
September 11, 2020 13:30 - 4 minutesOn Fridays, we listen to music. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#136: September 5th, 1963
August 31, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutesListen to the full debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#131: Super Cool
August 14, 2020 20:35 - 2 minutesOn Fridays, we listen to music! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#126: Can't Get Out The Game
August 03, 2020 16:59 - 4 minutesIt's Monday! It's Monday. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#119: The Last Of The Big Seven
July 18, 2020 13:00 - 7 minutesThe Big Seven —Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Dorothy Height and Whitney Young—were the leaders of seven prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#114: In Search of a Colder Ice
July 08, 2020 12:30 - 46 secondsWhat does "making it" in media look like in 2020? This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#107: Tellin' It Like It Is, Not Like It Was
June 19, 2020 13:00 - 4 minutesHappy Juneteenth! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#101: Why It Feels Different This Time.
June 02, 2020 12:03 - 2 minutesThere's a looming cloud over these protests. The energy feels different this time. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
#90: House Party 1998
May 11, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutesA daily roundup of interesting links about music, culture and marketing! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
Balance and Fit - A conversation with Joe Freshgoods and DJ Clark Kent
February 25, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBOffice Hours with Ernest Wilkins is also a newsletter! Subscribe so you don't miss out. Office Hours with Ernest Wilkins is a production of Wilkins & Associates LLC.
#52: Balance and Fit - A conversation with Joe Freshgoods and DJ Clark Kent
February 19, 2020 17:32 - 1 hourOne of the biggest stories of the 2020 NBA All-Star weekend was the release of designer Joe Freshgoods “No Emotions are Emotions” collaboration with New Balance. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
The Office Hours Interview: Andrew Hampp
December 17, 2019 09:00 - 46 minutes - 52.2 MBAndrew Hampp is a brand partnerships specialist, copywriter and journalist who founded consultancy 1803 LLC in 2018. Andrew currently works with a wide range of brand, agency and media clients to help them achieve their goals within the music and advertising industries. Prior to forming 1803 LLC, Andrew spend three years with MAC Presents as a VP-Brand Strategists where he focused on helping blue-chip brands and A-list artists build industry-leading music strategies and experiences. He also s...
The Office Hours Interview: Chris Classick
November 26, 2019 14:00 - 58 minutes - 61.8 MBSongs!: FRANK LEONE - Solid Gold Ghetto Sage - Haagen Dazs
#45: The Office Hours Interview - Chris Classick
November 26, 2019 13:00 - 58 minutes(Chris “Classick” Inumerable, at Classick Studios. Pic by @nos.pov) Chris “Classick” Inumerable discovered his love and talent for music at a young age. The native Chicagoan comes from a musically-inclined family and in 2006 built a small recording studio in his parents’ basement. Chicago being the big small town that it is, his clientele list quickly grew via word-of-mouth. The creative output from Classick Studios this decade has gone worldwide, with Classick’s studio being the home of som...
OFFICE HOURS LIVE!!!!
November 21, 2019 18:00 - 56 minutes - 65 MBSubscribe to the newsletter: https://officehours.substack.com/
#43: Office Hours Live! - The Podcast
November 19, 2019 14:00 - 56 minutes(This is what I look like, in case you’ve been wondering) Before we begin, a little housekeeping: Beginning today, subscribers will begin receiving two weekly issues of the newsletter. On Tuesdays, you’ll get the newest episode of the Office Hours podcast and Thursdays will be a written newsletter. If you’re getting value from what I’ve done so far, please consider a paid subscription so I can put more time towards creating stuff you love. Also! We’re approaching 500 subscribers and it wo...
Love Thy Neighbor(hood)
November 07, 2019 20:20 - 28 minutes - 36.2 MBOffice Hours w/Ernest Wilkins was Made by Mess, a design, development and content studio located in Chicago. Mess helps brands tell their story, online and off. Found out more by visiting www.madeatmess.com
#42 - Love Thy Neighbor(hood)
November 07, 2019 14:00 - 28 minutesProject Nande is a $5/month membership club that gives its members access to curated neighborhood guides spotlighting cool s**t going on in Chicago. The guides are curated by an editorial team comprised of Chicagoans who got tired of SEO-driven listicles that felt phony compared to their daily experiences. Subscribers get access to hundreds of past guides, a new guide every week, first crack at physical guides (the one above was done as a partnership w/Intelligentsia Coffee) and a concierge-v...
The Office Hours Interview: Phil Chang
October 17, 2019 21:40 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBOffice Hours w/Ernest Wilkins was Made by Mess, a design, development and content studio located in Chicago. Mess helps brands tell their story, online and off. Found out more by visiting www.madeatmess.com
#39: How to Create A Cultural Movement Vol. 1
October 10, 2019 13:00 - 2 minutes🚨LISTEN TO THE CLIP BEFORE YOU READ THE ARTICLE🚨 Back in 2012 on the dearly-departed The Champs Podcast, the immortal Questlove laid out the strategy for what became The Soulquarians, a loose collective of musicians that dominated rap and R&B in the late-90s and early 2000’s. What he says in this clip is the secret behind creating a “movement”. That secret is the driving force behind every major music movement over the past 30 years. For the sake of understanding, a “movement” in this conte...
The Office Hours Interview - Carly Fisher
October 04, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBThis podcast was Made by Mess, a design, development and content studio located in Chicago. Mess helps brands tell their story, online and off. Found out more by visiting www.madeatmess.com
38: The Office Hours Interview - Carly Fisher
October 03, 2019 22:16 - 1 hourCarly Fisher is an award-winning journalist who’s byline has appeared in publications like GQ, Fodors Travel, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, High Times, Leafly, Wine Enthusiast, Brides, Saveur, Edible and NBC. Her work on CNN's "Family Meal" earned her a prestigious James Beard Award nomination in 2018. She’s one of the people in my life who I have to clear my schedule to hang out with because we will talk for hours about anything. This episode, we discussed how legalized cannabis is going to make...
36: Meet the ESPN of HBCU Sports
September 05, 2019 20:56 - 36 minutesThere are 48 historically black colleges across the US that operate football programs. These programs don't receive the same media coverage as the larger D-1A (also known as FBS, think Florida State and Michigan) schools despite averaging crowds that rival some of the programs in big conferences. Don’t believe me? Here’s last season’s football attendance data from the NCAA itself: The schools in green are HBCU’s. Now look at the average attendance for FBS schools overall: 4 HBCU programs...
Steven Gaither, owner of HBCUGameday.com
September 05, 2019 20:55 - 36 minutes - 32.3 MBOffice Hours with Ernest Wilkins is a podcast about the business of culture and is Made at Mess, a design, development and content studio located in Chicago. Mess helps brands tell their story, online and off. Found out more by visiting www.madeatmess.com
35: The Office Hours Interview: Danny Daniels, owner of AAW Wrestling
August 31, 2019 17:44 - 29 minutes(AAW Wrestling at Chicago’s Logan Square Auditorium) When’s the last time you watched professional wrestling? If you’re like most Americans over the age of 30, you grew up in a world where promotions like WCW, WWE and ECW were on television nationally and names like Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock and Goldberg were household names. After years of falling out of the mainstream, this fall will see the biggest slate of wrestling programming on TV since the late 90s. I felt like it was time to...
Danny Daniels, owner of AAW Wrestling
August 30, 2019 21:30 - 29 minutes - 24.1 MBOffice Hours with Ernest Wilkins is Made at Mess, a design, development and content studio located in Chicago. Mess helps brands tell their story, online and off. Found out more by visiting www.madeatmess.com.
The Art Of Finessing w/ Eddie "Esquire" Sanders
August 08, 2019 22:00 - 44 minutes - 55 MBSong of the Week: Guapdad 4000 "Flossin" Office Hours with Ernest Wilkins was Made by Mess, a design, development and content studio located in Chicago. Mess helps brands tell their story, online and off. Found out more by visiting www.madeatmess.com.
33: The Art Of Finessing
August 08, 2019 21:33 - 44 minutesTHE OFFICE HOURS INTERVIEW: Eddie “Esquire” Sanders Esquire — that’s what I call him, as do most folks — is an intellectual property lawyer based here in Chicago. In his career, he’s been a part of Chicago’s creative community as both an artist manager as well as a legal aide to countless members of the superstar musical talent the city cranking out on the regular these days. Hear about his upbringing, the steps creatives need to build their business structures, how he pulled off getting ...
32: Let's Fix the XXL Freshman List!
August 01, 2019 17:00 - 50 minutesThe reveal of XXL Magazine's Freshman List is one of the biggest moments on the hip-hop. Ernest and Alex discuss ways to market around the List to increase it's relevance -- and revenue. If you enjoyed this story, forward to a friend and tell them to sign up for the newsletter!Office Hours is written by Ernest Wilkins. Follow him everywhere @ErnestWilkins This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at officehours.substack.com/subscribe
We Fix The XXL Freshman List
August 01, 2019 13:00 - 50 minutes - 67.5 MBFor more information on Office Hours, go to OfficeHours.substack.com Office Hours is Made At Mess. For more information, check out MadeAtMess.com
29: 4th of July weekend 2019 ALL-RECOMMENDATION EPISODE!
July 03, 2019 18:00 - 49 minutesWe put together a full episode of recommendations for interesting things that live at the intersection of culture and business. Recommendations: Partying with Australians (1:14) Japanese men's magazines like Popeye (that’s a copy up above) and Hail Mary’s (that’s a copy below this blurb) as well as a “personal research” line item in your budget (8:46) Khan Academy (15:20) Creative Strategy and the Business of Design (20:30) Rap music! 26:43 Every Stevie Wonder album from 1972 -...
4th of July weekend ALL-RECOMMENDATION EPISODE!
July 02, 2019 23:00 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBRecommendations: -Partying with Australians (1:14) -Japanese men's magazines like Popeye and Hail Mary/a personal research line item in your budget (8:46) -Khan Academy (15:20) -Creative Strategy and the Business of Design (20:30) -Rap music! 26:43 -Every Stevie Wonder album from 1972 - 1980 33:15 -"The Beneficiary" (41:12)
28: Money Team (feat. Big Homie Doe)
June 27, 2019 21:35 - 1 hourThe Office Hours Interview with Darryl “Big Homie Doe” Williams Former rapper-turned-manager-turned-minority cannabis business owner, Doe has built a house at the intersection of business and culture by now. Currently managing King Louie (one of the most influential rappers of the last 30 years, no hyperbole) and recently moved into the cannabis space. This week, Illinois became the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana and with the surge in business, there’s a lot of people who i...
Money Team (feat. Big Homie Doe)
June 27, 2019 21:20 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBWhat is something that the average person doesn’t understand about A&R (8:34) Pivoting to marijuana (39:45)
27: "Whatcha Drinkin, Whatcha Thinkin'?"
June 20, 2019 21:19 - 1 hour(The bar at Chicago’s Rossi’s Liquors. If you know, you know.) What are the most 5 popular cocktails in Chicago? What are emerging trends to watch in the world of booze? Is natural wine a fad or the future? Wine + Spirits Guru Max Heinemann from Nielsen CGA — a data analytics firm for the on-premise market (aka bars) in the United States — stops by to give us the biz behind the booze. EPISODE NOTES: Ernest creates a brand-new segment mid-episode! - 7:30 What category of spirit does Ch...
Whatcha Drinkin, Whatcha Thinkin'
June 20, 2019 20:45 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBErnest creates a brand-new segment mid-episode: 7:30 What category of spirit does Chicago drink the most? 10:00 "Y’all ever had a drink called the Incredible Hulk?” 15:23 What cocktail does Chicago consume more than any other city in America? 27:40 Chicken Finger syndrome 28:50 The Top 5 cocktails ordered in Chicagoland 30:00 Emerging trends in wine and spirits to watch 38:00 Natural wine: Fad or Here to Stay? 48:00 SONG OF THE WEEK: Big Lean Feat. Nipsey Hussle, “Cal...
26: "Watching you drink this is my entertainment"
June 13, 2019 19:35 - 36 minutesLearn about the culture and marketing strategy around Chicago's most famous (infamous?) liquor with Sam Mechling, the cultural ambassador for Jeppson's Malort. This episode is so Chicago it HURTS. I’m really excited about this one because I feel like this episode encapsulates the whole point of Office Hours: “How/Why did this cultural moment happen and what lessons can we learn from it to apply to our own businesses?” Also, I just hastily did my research and this episode = the only place w...