What’s Up THIS WEEK: Big Em Dash News!🫢GDPR getting Easier? Thanksgiving Issues! 😅 | Ep. 453
Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson
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5 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Getting ready for Thanksgiving has nothing on the chaos swirling around AI, privacy rules, and even Instagram trying to make you watch 20-minute reels. Before the turkey coma hits, Jay Schwedelson digs into everything from the death of the em dash to Google’s sneaky new flight deal superpower, plus a few very strong opinions on Netflix holiday movies. Somehow it all ties together in a way that’ll make your week a little smarter and a lot funnier.
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Best Moments:
(00:00) ChatGPT finally admits the M dash problem and promises to stop abusing it
(01:41) Europe’s Digital Omnibus plan could loosen GDPR and ease cookie consent madness
(03:28) Instagram quietly tests 20-minute reels, and Jay cannot handle it
(04:00) Google’s AI-powered flight deals tool is officially rolled out and wildly useful
(05:17) Three preheader words that just boosted email open rates by 19 percent
(06:44) Jay’s brutally honest reviews of The Beast in Me and Merry Little Ex Christmas
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Do This Not That, the podcast from marketers. |
| 0:05.0 | We share quick tips, things you can do right now, and then we add a little bit of chaos at the end of every episode. |
| 0:11.0 | We also keep it short, like this intro. Let's check it out. |
| 0:15.0 | We are back for what's up this week from the Do This Not That Podcast. This is our short episode. |
| 0:21.9 | We break down what's going on this week in business and marketing and life and all |
| 0:26.0 | the stuff. |
| 0:26.4 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:27.6 | You're probably getting ready to eat a lot of turkey. |
| 0:29.7 | But before we eat some turkey, what's going on this week? |
| 0:32.2 | Well, first off, chat GPT on their actual official Instagram account, they did a post themselves saying that they |
| 0:42.7 | have fixed the M-Dash issue. Now, if you don't know, the M-Dash, that's like super long dash. |
| 0:48.6 | And the reason there's an M-Dash issue is that anytime you ask something like for chat chbtee the majority of time they give |
| 0:56.5 | you back an answer and includes a lot of m dashes the long dashes and the problem is now whenever we |
| 1:02.5 | see anything with a long m dash right we think it's garbage that was written by a i and it's this whole |
| 1:08.1 | problem it's a big joke that m dash is everywhere well open a i and chat chp are in on it. And now they said they've solved the problem. So here's what they said. They said to everyone who once love the M-Dash, I'm sorry. Truly, I'm sorry. The M-Dash was supposed to be a classy little pause, a soft dramatic flourish and not a neon sign that says this was written by AI at 2 a.m. |
| 1:33.4 | And they said, going forward, the M-Dash will be used responsibly and that they've updated their latest model and will only be used occasionally. |
| 1:41.5 | So I think as we had into 2026, one of the world's biggest |
| 1:45.4 | problems, the M-Dash, might actually get solved. Speaking of other problems that might get |
| 1:51.1 | solved, have you seen this that came out from the European Commission this week? The European |
| 1:56.0 | Commission, they're like the body, government body, whatever in Europe that oversees all the stuff as relates to AI and privacy and data and all the stuff. |
| 2:04.8 | Well, it's not a new law yet, but the commission has proposed something called the digital omnibus package, which is a softening of GDPR stuff and a softening of their AI Act and the softening of Europe's |
| 2:20.8 | cookie rules, which basically means in this package, they're trying to create a set of easier |
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