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57.17 - 74.294 Neil Freiman

I am a great parallel parker, actually. I learned in the mean streets of South Philadelphia where everyone is watching you. I didn't even have a backup camera at that time. So I just want to clear the air there. I am a good parallel parker. But I don't want to talk about that. What I do want to talk about to start the show is... Mariah Carey.

74.615 - 98.82 Neil Freiman

The queen of Christmas has made music history after her ubiquitous holiday bop, All I Want for Christmas is You, notched 20 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest reign of any song in the chart's 67-year history. What's also remarkable is that this song didn't hit number one for the first time until 2019, 25 years after it was released in 1994. Toby, I think

98.8 - 114.328 Neil Freiman

It is extremely well-deserved. All I Want has got infectious energy, classic Christmas flourishes, an impeccable vocal, and enough complexity to keep you listening again and again. Musicologists have identified 13 different chords in the song, far more than the average pop track.

114.308 - 131.068 Toby Howell

Never heard it. You want to sing it for me, Neil? As your parallel parking for me? No, I think this is indicative of just the holiday music craze era that we are in right now because I want you to pull out your phone right now and check the top 50 songs in the U.S. on Spotify.

131.048 - 154.436 Toby Howell

33 of them are christmas related in some way amongst stalwarts like taylor swift's ophelia golden from k-pop demon hunters it's a sea of christmas songs right now if you had done the same thing back in 2019 just around 15 christmas songs would appear as of the start of december so We all have a little bit of a case of the blue blaze right now.

1099.285 - 1114.548 Toby Howell

Notion has a 10-person storytelling team, while USAA is hiring its fourth staff storyteller, which is about four more than you'd expect for a military-focused financial services company. Over on LinkedIn, there's been an outbreak of storytellers.

1114.828 - 1139.345 Toby Howell

The percentage of job postings that reference the term doubled in the past year, with more than 70,000 self-proclaimed storytellers across marketing, media, and communications. It's happening at the upper echelons of companies too. Executive used storyteller or storytelling 469 times through December 11th, up from 147 times a decade ago. What is a storyteller?

1139.785 - 1164.581 Toby Howell

It's sort of a modern Frankenstein's calm monster. Part media relations manager, part corporate writer, part content marketer, and 100% a new rebrand of an old position that tech companies love pulling off. Maybe a decade ago, this would be called a story ninja or a words guru. Now the invoke title is storyteller. Neil, unfortunately, I think we're storytellers too. Should we update our LinkedIn?

1164.802 - 1187.675 Neil Freiman

I mean, podcaster is bad enough to have that as your title. This is something that companies do when a department maybe has a little taboo around it. They change the name to get people thinking that it's something else. There are a lot of HR departments that are now people operations, and this is exactly what's going on. So I'm sure a lot of you listening to this are rolling your eyes.

1187.735 - 1206.765 Neil Freiman

But at the same time, you might be applying because these storytellers make a lot of money. The compliance technology firm Vanta began hiring for a head of storytelling this month. The salary is up to $274,000, which shows you how in demand or important communications are for big companies.