Hi my name is James Brown and this is my new podcast.&nbsp; It's called Under the Sun, a minute or so meditation on the modern condition. I am many things, I am a man, I am a son, a brother, a friend, a broadcaster,&nbsp; a citizen, &nbsp; and I can help but be ambitious.&nbsp; In the eternal words of Jeff Buckley: "I’ll bring you, Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally."&nbsp; So for the foreseeable future, three times a week meet me here for all the wit, wisdom, and tools I can find to help us all through these weird times. Along with reminders that no matter what's ahead.&nbsp; There is nothing new under the sun. &nbsp; Connect with James facebook.com/jamesbrowntv twitter.com/jamesbrowntv instagram.com/jamesbrowntv Email: james@jamesbrowntv.com

Prelude

A friend of mine bought me a Christmas gift, Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey’s best selling autobiography. It's based on decades of the actor’s journals. As I read the pages I think my friend was sending me a message by accident or design. &nbsp; McConaughey described life as a college sophomore and his plans to be a lawyer.&nbsp; &nbsp; He liked the idea so much that doubt and indecision kept him up nights. &nbsp; He wrote: &nbsp; “When we know what we want to do, Knowing when to do it is the hard part So you don’t have to get on them as often Prevent before the cure Habilitate before the re” &nbsp; Just another reminder that there is nothing new under the sun. &nbsp; Connect with James facebook.com/jamesbrowntv twitter.com/jamesbrowntv instagram.com/jamesbrowntv Email: james@jamesbrowntv.com

Matthew McConaughey on following your dreams

Arians coached Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger Carson Palmer, Andrew Luck and many other before winning a title with Tom Brady.

Super Bowl winning head coach Bruce Arians on taking risks

Per Wikipedia: Charles Osgood, is an American radio and television commentator and writer. Osgood is best known for being the host of&nbsp;, a role he held for over 22 years from April 10, 1994, until September 25, 2016.&nbsp;Osgood also hosted&nbsp;The Osgood File, a series of daily radio commentaries, from 1971 until December 29, 2017. He is also known for being the voice of the narrator of&nbsp;, an animated film released in 2008, based on the&nbsp;&nbsp;by&nbsp;. He published a memoir of his boyhood in 2004.

Broadcasting legend Charles Osgood on writing

From Wikipedia: Glenn Beck is an American  political commentator,&nbsp;radio host, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network&nbsp;. He hosts the&nbsp;, a popular&nbsp;&nbsp;nationally syndicated on&nbsp;. Beck also hosts the&nbsp;&nbsp;television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on&nbsp;, from January 2009 to June 2011 on&nbsp;&nbsp;and now airs on&nbsp;. Beck has authored six&nbsp;.

Glenn Beck says fail or succeed on by being who you are

From Wikipedia Mr. Robot&nbsp;is an American&nbsp;&nbsp;television series created by&nbsp;&nbsp;for&nbsp;. It stars&nbsp;&nbsp;as Elliot Alderson, a&nbsp;&nbsp;engineer and&nbsp;&nbsp;with&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;. Elliot is recruited by an&nbsp;&nbsp;known as "Mr. Robot", played by&nbsp;, to join a group of&nbsp;&nbsp;called "fsociety".&nbsp;The group aims to destroy all debt records by&nbsp;&nbsp;the financial data of E Corp, the largest&nbsp;&nbsp;in the world.

Mr. Robot on finding a future worth fighting for

Chance the Rapper's change in strategy ahead of his critically panned "debut" album backfires. 
 Show Notes 
Reed Hastings on Inventing the Future of Television | TechFest | The New Yorker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD90x3RuyPY 
Chance the Rapper Doesn't Sell His Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlwNzIf1GmE
Chance the Rapper Reveals the Cover, Title and Release Date of His Debut Album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2jQRYMvjI
Chance, The Rapper & 'The Big Day' | The Joe Budden Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6lZkAi19g&t 
Why Chance the Rapper Makes Music for Free (and How He Actually Makes Money) The 23-year-old Chicago native, whose first two projects were released on streaming services, talks to Lisa Robinson ahead of the Grammy Awards.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/why-chance-the-rapper-music-is-free-and-how-he-makes-money
 

Chance the Rapper's perception problem

As newsrooms shrink especially at newspapers and staff members are asked to do more many papers like the Oregonian are asking them why deal with the acrimony and headaches that comes with online comments...
 
I’m a statement the paper’s leadership said:
“Some of these conversations are uncivil, even downright nasty at times. Moderating the comments for off-topic posts or personal attacks takes time and resources that are better spent producing independent local news.” they say just three percent of their unique visitors read comments
 
And asked for comments on stories to be emailed on social media where someone will no doubt police them… 
 
but in the case of social media comments they’re not on your platform and facebook or twitter carries the blame for you and the spam and the incivility of commenters. 
 
A cleaner quieter website is easier to sell to advertisers in a time where the line between newspaper content and ad content known as advertorials are increasingly blurry. Advertorials are a common tool in packages of ads sold by papers.
 
It’s unclear whether that’s the reason for the move but moving headache is rings hollow to my ears.

Death to Comments

Will Smith is not the movie star he was but that’s not completely by accident. After grossing over 6 billion dollars Smith hit a skid the late aughts. A series of box office bombs led Smith to reevaluate and return to his roots as he told the rap radar podcast….
He realized that the world and media changed....
So Will Smith reinvented himself.
This transition from distance to friendship was seamless
Smith joined social media in 2017 and less than three years later he now has more than 41 million followers and more than 7 million followers on youtube
And Smith is clearly a star to a new generation of entertainment consumers with expectations that their content meets them where they are.
And the fruits of his reinvention filmwise are mixed so far
His turn as the genie in Aladdin topped a billion at the box office in 2019 but his return to adult oriented thrillers with Gemini Man. But similar fare worked very well on netflix with Bright.
Expecting social media followers to translate in box office dollars is a new phenomenon and only time will tell if it will actually work. 

Will Smith's Theory of Social Media

After a tumultuous sound byte filled career Marshawn Lynch returned to the Seattle Seahawks for the last game of the season and the playoffs to a thunderous ovation and a thriving business 
For the better part of the last decade lynch established himself as one of football’s most memorable players and one of the most popular Seahawks ever.
During his rookie season he trademarked his nickname beast mode and during his 2015 super bowl run he established his own clothing brand and e commerce site beastmodeonline.com. 
After three late season injuries to the Seahawks’ key young running backs the team reached out to lynch and signed him for the league veteran’s minimum
 
After news broke…. ESPN says Beastmodeonline, generated around $150,000 in sales in four days which they say is about seven times what the site gross in an average month
 
And Lynch is planning Beast Mode stores in two of the three places he played Seattle and his hometown of Oakland. He’ll also have a Las Vegas store where the raiders will play next year
 
That’s a gamble that paid off

A little skeptical

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