This week, Cher and James welcome guest Rashid Zakat. Topics include: creating lo-fi art online, creating content for the future while being modest, and discovering how humor in art can create community. During the after-show, Rashid talks about the VSCO app and a photography book, Cher shares her love for Issa Rae, and James discovered a new app.


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Disclaimer: Explicit Language is used in this episode


Conversation Notes:


Fortnight


Rashid Zakat


“Ghosting”


Legionnaire's Disease


MikMak


Fab.com


Philadelphia, PA


We Jet Set (WJS)


Milwaukee, WI


Rapper Vines


Negros of New York


Chicago Podcast Cooperative Shout-Out:


Making New Friends: Each week Pat invites new and old friends into a studio where anything can happen. Former guests include murderers, ghosts, milk men, centaurs, and that nice fella’ who lives down the street.


Open Call: The After-show


Rashid: VSCO app and Return to Fort Scott by Gordon Parks


Cher: Issa Rae's Insecure


James: Screens for Mac and iOS