Turning Creativity into Culture With John Jay

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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After spending 20 years crafting campaigns for the likes of Nike, John Jay jumped into a new role as President of Global Creative for Uniqlo—and there’s a lot more he wants to do yet. Dave calls up John to talk about finding inspiration in unexpected places, DJing at Space Lab Yellow, learning from Juan Mari Arzak, the glory years of Bloomingdale’s, an invitation from Ralph Lauren, invisible improvements, Mark Parker, skaters as food scouts, Ja Morant, Tadashi Yanai, omotenashi, pairing instant ramen with fresh abalone, and the problem with being obsessed with success. Host: Dave Chang Guest: John Jay Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Jordan Bass and Lala Rasor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Dave Chang here. Just want to talk about the noodles from Momofuku. You can get them
0:05.1	at Target at Whole Foods. You can also buy them directly from shop.momofuku. Check out Cook
0:10.4	any day for the amazing bowls that I cook every meal every day with legitimately. I will say,
0:17.6	we'll change your entire culinary game at home, been drinking a tremendous amount of
0:22.7	comment here with coconut water, defrosted every day. These are things I do every day. And the beer
0:30.9	that we work with athletic brew is out called Athletic Light. Go check that out. Today we have
0:37.0	John Jay on as our guest. You may not be familiar with the name John Jay. He does sound like one of
0:43.0	our founding fathers, but I'm sure you have bought or watched something he's been a part of
0:50.4	behind the scenes. One of the most influential people in culture I guarantee you are familiar with
0:56.0	the things that he's worked on. And now onto the show.
1:12.9	Welcome to the Dave Chang show, part of the Ring of Podcast Network. He's an amazing
1:15.6	major company. Thank you. You're a lot to him as always. John Jay is awesome. I could talk to him
1:23.9	for hours and hours and hours because I find him to be an OG. He really is. And one of the things
1:30.6	we talk about is travel. He says something extremely important. That travel is a humbling experience.
1:38.7	I don't know if a lot of people understand what that is. To go to a country where you don't speak
1:43.6	the language that you don't have access to the things you may normally have in your home country.
1:50.8	Not everybody does it. A lot of people are scared to do it. I have complete understanding and
1:55.6	sympathy. Why? Somebody might not want to do that. But I can't recommend it enough. It's something
2:01.1	that I always have to constantly do to remind myself to be to be grateful for the opportunities
2:06.4	and the privileges that I have. But I'm really looking forward to traveling again. I think for a while
2:12.4	I was extremely dower and down on it. All you have to do is hear some of the podcasts where I
2:18.2	said I don't want to go to Italy for this wedding. I'm just trying to be not so depressed about
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