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Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
My name is Jon Eks and I spent more than a decade talking to people about work on the award-winning Jon of All Trades Podcast. I’m sick of talking about work. I want to talk about everything else in our lives. Men are traditionally not good at this. So, I’m talking to people I love, respect, and admire. I’m trying to embody the axiom “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Expect candor, vulnerability, profanity, and a wide range of topics.
Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
Meeting the Deadline with John
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On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my pal and ace reporter John. Here’s some of what we talk about:
First Question: What is your favorite song and why?
- imparting your taste onto your kids and why we do that
- kids destroying the cultural world of their elders, building it in their own image, and nostalgia
- the paranoia of early fatherhood
- the current state of news media and how he views his place inside it – is it still his dream job?
- how do you prepare for interviewing someone as high profile as Ringo Starr?
- why journalism should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and why arts journalism still matters in times of large scale crisis
- we spend some time talking about the one and only Lynn Bartels (R.I.P.) at about the 31 minute mark
- the ethics of covering people you have a friendly relationship with, influencers, and the like
- how does John maintain his joie de vivre?
- falling asleep to horror movies and/or punk rock
Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.
Logo by Nebulus Visions.
Produced by Deft Communications.
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Recorded at Prodigy Coffeehouse.