Creative Confidants - Exploring and Encouraging the Origins of Creativity

Here's a fun one!  Jason has an idea for a show he wants to write. Mick has been teaching writers workshops for years now. Can these two confidants hash out a TV show on the podcast? Let's find out!

You know Caveman Steve, right? Well, now you'll know him and some of his crazy ideas. But one of those ideas might be all it takes to take humanity into the future.

We found a thing online and now we're talking about it. Cool?

We jump into a little bit of the science behind genius and reveal 10 questions to answer whether or not you're a creative person. Of course, we already think you are. But this might help convince you as well.

Breaking down the How, What and Why of your creative pursuits. Where do you start and what do you do? Maybe first answer why you want to do it.

We lost, perhaps, the greatest American playwright a little over a week ago. So many careers were launched and forged by the tools that were his words. How did Neil Simon become the greatest comedic playwright of our time? Simple. He tried to do it.

Happy Birthday, Jason. What does the other side of 40 look like when you're chasing your creative pursuits? Time to hang up the spurs?  Dismount and pick a new metaphor? As the philosopher once said, "Age ain't nothin but a number."

Paying homage to the Queen of Soul. She earned everything she got and deserved a whole lot more. From two humble guys, here's a little more respect for Aretha Franklin.

And by "youth" we mean our twenties. What were you listening to when you were young, dumb and full of boundless optimism? We'll show you ours, if you show us yours... Also, Mick is back. Finally. And we're letting him stay--like the fools we are.  We've also started to refer to ourselves using the royal we. Oh, give us a break.

From Space Dogs HQ - Kindling Creativity

He went to some other country, shot a film or something, came back as hot snot and is off to the East Coast. So are we just doing a monthly podcast on creativity now? A seasonal podcast? NO!! ...MAYBE!! 

Long-time friend, sometime co-host and resident U2 expert Josh Covitt joins Jason in the garage for episode #221. We talk about Josh's transition from just being seen as a piece of meat in this town to a director calling the shots. Oh wait, is that where that phrase comes from?? 

We love collaboration. We praise it, we encourage it and we try our damnedest to live it. But creativity is often a lonely pursuit. And we don't always have someone who shares our vision and our struggles. So what happens when you have to do something all by yourself?  This week I explore exactly that--by doing the podcast all by myself.

We did it! We cracked the definition of creativity. And it only took 219 episodes and for Mick to quit the podcast and leave the country. This is (hopefully!) a helpful episode that puts creativity, and what it means to be a creative being, into a digestible morsel. So gobble it up!

Everyone hated "Hey-Ya" by Outkast when it started testing in markets in 2003. But it went on to be a Grammy Award-winning song and one of the top singles of the year, if not decade.  But it nearly died because it was slightly too different. Creativity can be a game of metaphorical inches. So we discuss how to make sure that what you're presenting to the world is the right amount of familiar and fresh.