No Agenda Meetups, Loneliness and Celebrity Guest Strategy
The hosts evaluate the success of recent No Agenda meetups in Berlin, Japan, and Australia, noting a shift away from "heads on sticks" props. Citing a message from Pastor Brian regarding a 57% loneliness rate among Americans, the discussion emphasizes the role of these gatherings in providing social connection. A new strategy is proposed to "up the ante" by encouraging producers to bring celebrity guests and implementing "gimmicks" like certificates or exclusive stickers from the No Agenda Sticker Club.
no agenda meetups· loneliness· instagram· sir daniel· brian brushwood· stickers· community
00:00 I'm sorry, I mean to stop talking. That's amazing. The whole Sunday shows were filled with people talking about it, that is great!
00:42 Yeah, it is great. Before we do that how was the meetup? The meetup was fair. Fair! There were about 20 people there wasn't that many but we had to do with the regulars and it was a good meet up I'll tell you that people should tag No Agenda Show on their Instagram pictures This is what you do. Oh yeah, well I think that's good advice. Tina said hey! John had a meetup look at that because she's on Instagram and it showed up for her so your evil or Jay's evil plan is working the Insta we're going viral with the Insta you know? I was thinking about these meetups now we've been doing meetups for how many years now
01:33 Ever since yeah, I actually began with you and the Hot Pockets tour right? Oh wow. So that was 2009 I want to say toothache Yeah, that's true. And then it gravitate toward the trailer that you couldn't write off Well, I tried That didn't end well for me But since then, you know we had... We were using meetups.com even for a little while and people hated it. Yes we were for a very short time People hated it and then Sir Daniel came in And all of the sudden they wanted us to pay
02:09 Oh yeah, right. We're not going to pay for a scheduling website and then Sir Daniel stepped up and said hold my beer! And he made it noagendameetups.com I was thinking because you know at first the meet-ups were you and i attended and then people started doing meet ups where we weren't there so they had our heads on sticks. I don't see as many heads on sticks anymore No, I haven't seen a head-on stick for a couple years Yeah So that's over the heads on sticks are over And it's a global phenomenon We had meet up in Ukraine. We just had one in Berlin and we have them in Japan and we have them in Australia We have them in Brazil. We have been to Netherlands the UK Not many in France actually
02:55 Well, there's the one with the Gardaire. Yes Baroness Isabel yeah You know pastor Brian had a message this morning about loneliness at 57 despite our hyper connected world 57% of Americans are lonely and it's a majority of men Now his obvious messages that you know with Jesus you don't have to be lonely But I was thinking what an important The important thing these meetups are, because I was just looking at the picture of you and your people there at the meetup. And this is a very disparate group. These are people probably don't visit the same bars normally or the same hangouts
03:42 And some people may never get out of the house or just thinking, you know like or can't find a people to hang out with. I think these meetups is that everybody knows that you can come to the meetup and you're going have one thing in common it doesn't matter what angle you approach it from or what you think about politics or the world or life we had do you have something in common? It's like oh We all uh...we all have our amygdala's in check and we just want to hang out and have a drink and chat And I think we are actually combating loneliness in the world. So, I want to up the ante on these things. All right! Here we go. Guests...
04:23 Bring a guest. I'm gonna have Brunetti come to one of the meetups he's gonna be the celebrity Oh Celebrity guests oh, that's a good one Yeah, we've had a fair amount of celebrities throughout the years yeah, but they're not celebrity guests But he's not really a celebrity guest because he listens to this show He's a producer although only an associate executive producer and No, he's been pretty executive producer don't get it mad. He won't do the gig I'm not doing a gig if this Adam keeps insulting me Come to think of it. He hasn't called me in awhile. I'm a little worried for good reason so Yes So that should I think then you know? You get the
05:12 I think the Mercy Me guys, and we got Jackie Green up here in Sacramento. He should come down... I mean there are people We have celebrities. We can use as shills. We have celebrities! We should be using people that come to the meetup we needed an extra gimmick though What do you mean, extra gimmick? Well some sort of thing like a certificate and you came to the meetup or just something Just something a little extra It's like this sticker guy who always comes to the Albany meetup and he's always dropping off stickers. Hey, the No Agenda shop? No Agenda sticker club that is a good deal! They're making some terrific... their stickers are
05:58 out of this world. They're fabulous! And, of course they're derived from no agenda art generator but the one I got like the legal tender I got in the mail the other day and some other ones it's just good and they're the perfect size for sticking anywhere you just stick them up on stuff stick em everywhere people are like oh that's a pretty... Near toll booths is my recommendation as your driving through with your EZ Pass You can do it. Well if you guys get an easy pass, it's not gonna do much good there So so what is the gimmick then when we have our celebrity appearances at the meetups? What what is that? I don't know We have to start thinking about it Okay The most emailed response To this podcast Is it about Iran isn't about the war is it about the economy is it about the midterms no
