The Multiverse of Marv: Jamie East, Fake Trailers and a Week in Podcasting - The Week's Roundup
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Marv interviews Jamie East about his podcast on living with cancer and discusses the week's podcasting news.
This week on Pods Like Us Chronicles , Marv sits down with Jamie East — Head of Podcast at DGM, and creator/host of Bad Blood: Life of a Cancer — for an unfiltered conversation about turning a chronic myeloid leukaemia diagnosis into one of the most honest podcasts around. Jamie talks about recording the first phone call within days of diagnosis, why he refused to cut the swearing out in the edit, using dark humour as a coping mechanism, his trip to Glasgow with Leukaemia UK to meet the researchers behind the science, and why he called out a rival podcast's trailer for peddling "big pharma" conspiracy nonsense. He also explains why, one year on, he's not sure there's more to say — and why that might be exactly the right place to end a show. Content warning: this episode contains strong language throughout. After the interview, a trailer for fellow July Podcasting Month show Fallacious Trump , followed by Marv's usual round-up of the week's biggest podcasting news and views — and closing out with a trailer for Sports Are Dumb . The back half of this episode is Marv's usual whirlwind tour through the podcasting industry's week, pulling together insight from across the newsletter…
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