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David Schatsky's avatar

Your newsletter is a frigging delight.

Jared Blank's avatar

Awwww that's very kind. Tell your friends :) (Preferably your friends with messaging consulting budgets). But other friends are good too.

Gary Schnierow's avatar

You would think Dan was responding to me, but for the record, he was not.

Gabbi's avatar

The sarcasm score of this newsletter was so high that I don't know if you actually played against Burger King in little league or not.

Jared Blank's avatar

The sarcasm score is exactly right if it's plausible that we beat Burger King but also plausible that I made the whole thing up. Also, the fact that you sorta want to know, and that I sorta want to tell you makes this all amazing.

(Burger King was, in fact, a team in the Morristown American Little League). And there is something incredibly 1980s about the fact that we were a team named after a chemical manufacturer playing a team named after a fast food restaurant.

Gary Schnierow's avatar

I mean, he had to fire Scott Pelley, right?

Jared Blank's avatar

It was a setup. He probably had to fire him, even though he knew the lawsuit is coming. That said - 60 Minutes has a history of clashes between Don Hewitt (the first EP) and his correspondents. It's just sort of the style there. But he took the bait, which maybe is actually worse than not firing him now that I think about it.

There was a great PBS documentary called 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes that somehow doesn't exist online that had some good scenes of Hewitt and Mike Wallace going at it.

Gary Schnierow's avatar

Lawsuit?

I'm pitching a squeekuel to "The Insider," called "The Oustider," starring Remy as Nick Bilton and Mickey Mouse as Scott Pelley.

Gary Schnierow's avatar

That Solstice video certainly wins the award for adjectives per second. I can't wait to tell Sadie she was 'born from a unifying purpose." And, I guess, Ben.

Jared Blank's avatar

Just tell them that one of them was, and which isn't important.