About this episode

Casey Rand discusses her journey in marketing, comedy, and climate activism with Jason Farr.

We were joined by writer, climate activist, and creative director, Casey Rand! Casey has done a ton and she talks about it all with Jason in this expansive chat! Casey discusses growing up in Montreal, doing odd jobs (including trying to get a musician on iTunes), then discovering advertising creativity and moving to New York. She also talks about finding improv and sketch at Magnet and how she started writing for Reductress, McSweeney’s, and The New Yorker. She shares her side of the story on how she encouraged Howard Finkelstein (friend of the podcast) to pursue comedy via an email prank that reached comedy Jon Glaser. She also talks about co-writing "People Who Deserve It" and how it came to be from a blog, cofounding the climate nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition, writing a pilot that won a Black List fellowship, freelancing with Gooder (which she founded), and making entertaining messaging to counter disinformation. It's a great discussion! www.caseyrand.com Instagram: @CaseyRand @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Threads: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

People in this episode

Host: Jason Farr

Guest: Casey Rand

Topics covered

• marketing
• satire
• climate storytelling
• advertising creativity
• improv
• sketch comedy

Keywords

• Casey Rand
• climate activism
• advertising
• improv
• sketch comedy
• Potential Energy Coalition
• Reductress

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Reductress, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, Potential Energy Coalition, Gooder

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