The Jason Levin Show
Sup nerds. Join me for conversations with the coolest creatives on the internet. Best-selling authors, massive TikTokers, millionaire memelords, gigabrained founders, and brilliant venture capitalists. We talk about strategies and tactics to build digital worlds and content empires.
Latest episodes
Jun 11, 2022 • 34min
#20: John Swetnam - Hollywood screenwriting, intellectual property, web3
John Swetnam is an accomplished Hollywood screenwriter with projects at HBO, Netflix, Amazon, DC Comics, and more. He's working on a web3 NFT collection and TV series called Little Sinz.
Jun 4, 2022 • 41min
#19: Ben Yu - NFTs, soulbound tokens, and ADHD
Ben Yu is the founder of Curious Addys, an NFT collection that operates a web3 Q&A platform called Curious.xyz. Think Quora for web3. The coolest part is that people who answer questions right receive soulbound tokens, thus building an on-chain resume that can help them get jobs in web3!
May 28, 2022 • 21min
#18: Jason Levin - F*ck You Money, digital immortality, and getting hired in web3
Welp! For the first time in 17 weeks, I could not find a guest. So like a Buddhist, I looked within. Here's 5 questions I've been pondering and answers off the top of my head.
May 21, 2022 • 41min
#17: Charlie Light - Being John W. Rich, making $39,000 per month, the meme economy
Charlie Light is the man behind the memes. He runs John W. Rich with 170,000+ subscribers and makes $39,000/mo. ghostwriting for meme pages. Charlie drops some great writing tips like sticking to 5-10 similar themes for your tweets. Check out his Substack.
May 18, 2022 • 33min
#16: Christie Smythe - Dating Martin Shkreli aka "Pharma Bro"
Christie Smythe is a journalist and ex-girlfriend of Martin Shkreli, the infamous pharma bro who was freed from prison today. I connected with Christie after seeing a documentary about Martin. Christie writes Smirk, a book about her experience dating Skhreli.
May 14, 2022 • 51min
#15: Justin Fineberg - Heretical thoughts, the curator economy, and creating content
Justin Fineberg is a good friend and the founder of Reclists, a customizable newsletter that delivers you the reading lists and twitter likes of your favorite thought leaders like Tim Ferriss, Paul Graham, and Balaji Srinivasan. We chat heretical thoughts, content creation, Lambda School, and more.
May 7, 2022 • 57min
#14: Kevin Esherick - Fashion NFTs, impactful books, and running through NYC
Kevin Esherick is working on a fashion NFT project called Material. He lets people draw on his jeans, mints images of the jeans as NFTs, then lets NFT-holders decide where the jeans go. Kevin is also a freelance writer and frequently runs health experiments.
Apr 30, 2022 • 48min
#13: John Januzzi - Selling $300k in NFTs, working at Twitter, and How to Wear Socks
John Januzzi is a writer and artist based out of Brooklyn, NY. We connected after I minted 5 of his Avius Animae NFTs. He's written for GQ, Lucky Mag, and had the pleasure of working for Twitter curating their trending moments. We chat NFTs, Elon, and John's book How to Wear Socks.
Apr 23, 2022 • 50min
#12: Austin Schlessinger - Sleeping better, ghostwriting, and Twitter scandals
Austin Schlessinger is a writer focused on health-tech (although he may post a web3 deep dive soon...). He writes for several brands and you've probably seen his viral threads about health companies around Twitter. Check out his newsletter!
Apr 16, 2022 • 37min
#11: Megan Carnegie - History/Future of Work, Freelance Writing, and the Metaverse
Megan Carnegie is a writer for WIRED, Courier Media, Time Out London, and more. We linked up after I read her fascinating WIRED article exploring the history of remote work. We discuss the history/future of work, the business of freelance writing (also coffee shops), and where Marky Mark's Metaverse is going.
