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1938Media Doesn’t Own Internet Shtick

Loren Feldman says he’s a genius and I’m a dope. Yep, he’s talking about me, Shawn, Sam and Lisa for our little puppet spoof/online war thing we made up around my Twittermethis project. Here’s the latest Geekcast where we come come clean about the whole thing.

So if you haven’t been following the drama, here’s a good rundown from Kevin at System0. Anyway, as you’ll hear in the video below, I think Feldman is a funny and talented dude and he’s also very smart. I do think he’s got some issues though. My biggest point is that he doesn’t own shtick on the Internets. Anyone can do what he did, even badly like we did, and make it work. Yeah, he does it better, but so what? It can be done, by anyone.

The funniest part about all of this is now he’s super pissed at us/me for doing what we did and he’s unfollowed and blocked me on Twitter and is now insulting me publicly. It doesn’t matter, he did the same to everyone else he’s now good buddies with, so I imagine you’ll be seeing us on video together hamming it up in 6 months someplace. I’m open to that. I think the guy is funny as hell. If not, I’ll live. I’m sure he will too.

FYI, 1939Media on Twitter isn’t me or anyone else I know. If we were going to do that we’d tell you we did it.

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13 Awesome Comments So Far

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  1. Kevin
    April 22, 2008 at 11:58 am #

    Mike from 1115? I'm Kevin from System0 :):)

  2. Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach
    April 22, 2008 at 12:03 pm #

    Sorry Kevin, fixed.

  3. lisamariemary
    April 22, 2008 at 12:53 pm #

    I'm thrilled it wasn't true! I half thought it wasn't, and considered emailing you several times to ask you – 'come on, dude, just tell me if it isn't true so I'll feel better – I won't tell a soul – I promise!'

    Haha!

  4. koyofur
    April 22, 2008 at 2:09 pm #

    Hi Jim,
    What is a zlister anyway? Feldman is to Springer (Mr. Shocker) as Shock Talk shows is to Universal Masuganas.

  5. Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach
    April 22, 2008 at 2:49 pm #

    Koyofur, I'm the zlister I guess. I'll take it. No big deal.

    Lisa, yeah, it wasn't true. I get along too good with those guys to be mad at them.

  6. Shawn Collins
    April 22, 2008 at 4:31 pm #

    Loren is the one stealing our shtick with this faux taunting of you, Jim

    His work is derivative of the groundbreaking efforts from Sam and myself.

    His amazing, genius formula:

    1. rages at somebody
    2. elicits a response
    3. cozies up to target of his rage
    4. hits rewind and starts over with somebody else

    Transparent… boorish… lame.

  7. Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach
    April 22, 2008 at 4:37 pm #

    I'm tired of saying shtick today. What else can we call it?

  8. Shawn Collins
    April 22, 2008 at 4:40 pm #

    How about comedy stylings from rank amateurs?

  9. Des Walsh
    April 22, 2008 at 9:25 pm #

    Interesting story, Jim, quite entertaining, as you always are, and I learnt a few things. The fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf! comes to mind. By which I mean I won't know now, will I, when you guys are being serious? A calculated risk, no doubt.

  10. fearlessparent
    April 23, 2008 at 9:47 am #

    Good morning Jim,

    Thanks for being so transparent! Having only watched your clip the first thing that came to mind for me as a replacement word was “frizzamyer” or an age appropriate, need signaling child behavior. It is a term that I have coined to replace negative labels altogether. Not knowing the age of the gentleman I mean no harm: just talking from a Pre-school and Family Life coaching perspective. Take care. :)

    There's a fearless parent in all of us.
    Seen yours lately?

    Adelaide Zindler, FP (Fearless Parent)
    http://www.FearlessParenting.com

  11. Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach
    April 23, 2008 at 10:35 pm #

    Hey Des, thanks for stopping by. Just having some fun!

  12. Jeff the Abunza Guy
    May 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm #

    Thanks for being so transparent! Having only watched your clip the first thing that came to mind for me as a replacement word was “frizzamyer” or an age appropriate, need signaling child behavior. It is a term that I have coined to replace negative labels altogether. Not knowing the age of the gentleman I mean no harm: just talking from a Pre-school and Family Life coaching perspective. Take care. :)

    -Jeff

  13. FanZan
    May 8, 2008 at 2:57 pm #

    Interesting story really

    thank you

    mohamed
    http://egymasterz.com