How Shea Serrano used the internet to become a best-selling author
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 1:04.7 | Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. |
| 1:13.6 | And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life. |
| 1:18.6 | This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might someday do your laundry and wash your dishes. |
| 1:30.9 | All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts. |
| 1:36.9 | This is RICO, Peter Kafka. |
| 1:39.1 | That is me coming to you live on tape from New York City at Vox Media headquarters. |
| 1:44.1 | I'm here with an extra awesome guest today. Shea Serran, I'm going to introduce him in one second. coming to you live on tape from New York City at Vox Media Headquarters. |
| 1:46.6 | I'm here with an extra awesome guest today. |
| 2:36.0 | Shea Serrano. I'm going to introduce them in one second, but first, I want to remind you the Code Media is coming up in November. And if you like this kind of discussion, actually, I don't know how many of these discussions we're going to have on stage, but if you want to hear me talk to people who run the media business. Come to Code Media, November 18th and 19th, you can find out on the website. Here is Shea Serrano, who's alternately described as the king of Twitter, and also Oprah for millennial men. Have you Googled yourself recently? No, I made it a point a couple years ago to just stop. Welcome, Jay. Because there was nothing good on there. That sounds good. Oprah for Millennium, man. Can I continue? This is from something I found online. Quote, he's Tony Robbins for guys who think Tony Robbins is an empty shill. Jack Welch for guys who don't care about business. Joel Osteen for guys who find more religion in sports than at church. In short, he's fast becoming an Oprah-like oracle for men. I bow down to you, Shay Serrano. That sounds like an over-exaggeration. |
| 2:41.5 | It's something. I can describe he's a New York Times bestseller. Best-selling author. |
| 2:45.8 | Say number one New York Times best-selling off. There it is. There it is. |
| 2:51.6 | Let's go, baby. |
| 2:52.6 | That was for two books. The basketball book was number one on the list. The rap book, I think I, like four. There's a new book, movies and other things. By the time you hear this, you can buy this. If you know who Shea is, you probably have bought it already. Oh, God, I hope so. If you have never heard of Shay by the end of this interview, |
| 3:07.2 | you will go out and buy it. |
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