Tasteland
Creative takes on media, marketing and technology from Daisy Alioto and Francis Zierer.
Daisy is the CEO of Dirt Media, a next-generation entertainment brand using emerging technology to tell the coolest stories about culture and collecting. Francis is the editor of Creator Spotlight, a weekly newsletter about creators across the world of newsletters.
New episodes every Wednesday.
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Recent Episodes
July 9, 2025
Ep. 50: Information Age ft. Cora Lewis
This week on Tasteland we are joined by writer and award winning journalist, Cora Lewis. Cora's fiction has appeared at The Yale Review , Joyland Magazine , Epiphany , and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Pres...
July 2, 2025
Ep. 49: Icks from the Six ft. Ariel Rubin
This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Webby Award-winning content creator, social strategist, and meme enthusiast, Ariel Rubin. Ariel is the the head of content at Air and one of Francis' greatest enemies. __ Follow Ari L...
June 25, 2025
Ep. 48: Planting the internet ft. Nika Simovich Fisher
This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by design strategist, writer, journalist, and educator, Nika Simovich Fisher. __ Nika Simovich Fisher Website LinkedIn Instagram __ Links & References More about Nika's Har...
June 18, 2025
Ep. 47: Venture Capital Culture ft. Maya Bakhai
This week we have part two of Daisy and Francis' conversation with, Maya Bakhai, founder of Spice Capital, a venture capital firm focused on taking big bets in areas primed for rapid change in the coming decades. Listen to pa...
June 11, 2025
Ep. 46: State of Skate ft. Cole Nowicki
This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by writer, producer and publisher Cole Nowicki. Cole runs the newsletter Simple Magic, a newsletter about skateboarding, the internet, and other means of escape. __ Cole Si...
June 4, 2025
Ep. 45: In defense of friction ft. Kyla Scanlon
This week Francis is joined by financial content creator, educator, and author, Kyla Scanlon. Kyla writes about everything from crypto to macroeconomics to similarities between grief and love, bringing the human aspect of eco...
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