Weekly Rundown:: Week of April 24th, 2024

Weekly Rundown
Written By Reed Dailey
 

Plug in your headphones and prepare for a sonic and sippable journey on this week's episode of the Dailey Blend Show! Host Reed Dailey takes you on a whirlwind trip from the comfort of your earbuds, sharing tales from his latest travels and teasing you about an upcoming West Coast adventure. Get an exclusive listen to Charlie XCX's electrifying DJ set from her Party Girl Tour, a perfect prelude to her forthcoming album 'Brat.' Reed dives into the evolution of artists' branded experiences, drawing parallels between Charlie XCX's career trajectory and icons like David Bowie and Taylor Swift.

But that's not all—we're throwing it back with a Test Pilot set from Deadmau5, exploring his techno alter ego that's got the electronic music world buzzing. Then, mix up your week with a tiki twist as Reed discusses the iconic Test Pilot cocktail by Don the Beachcomber, paired with an intriguing tale of tiki culture and a rum-soaked summer goal.

For the literary inclined, Reed spotlights 'San Francisco Cocktails' by Trevor Felch, a cocktail book that's as spirited as the city by the bay itself. And for those looking to streamline their schedules, Reed shares his insights on the latest tools from the Dailey Blend, including the meeting minutes planner that's revolutionizing his productivity.

Don't miss out on the Friday Top Five newsletter for a curated snapshot of the week's highlights, and stay tuned for fresh content from Reed's West Coast escapades. Remember to like, follow, and subscribe to the Dailey Blend on Instagram, LinkedIn, and your favorite podcast platforms. Pour yourself a test pilot, settle in, and let the Dailey Blend Show elevate your week with the latest in music, mixology, and more.

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📋 Episode Chapters

  • (00:00) This is the weekly rundown for the week of April 24, 2024

  • (00:54) Daily Blend features DJ set from Charlie XCX for her party girl tour

  • (04:43) From a book of the week standpoint, I'm heading out to the west coast

  • (06:40) I've been using the meeting minutes planner in conjunction with my daily planner

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As always, you can get this episode and all previous episodes on such great platforms as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Anchor. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and have all the episodes downloaded automatically to your device. #DaileyBlendShow

Across Dailey Blend

  • Music Monday

    • This week’s music Monday feature is Charli XCX who is set to electrify audiences with her dynamic Party Girl Tour, showcasing her latest album, "Brat," with an exhilarating combination of live performances and DJ sets. The tour promises an unforgettable experience, blending her signature pop sound with vibrant energy and infectious beats. Check out the full post - Linked Here.

  • Throwback Thursday

    • This week’s Throw Back Thursday featured artist is Deadmau5's TestPilot project, his techno alter ego/alias. Over the years, he has gone from bedroom sets to festivals, and he co-plays with techno legends like fellow Canadian Richie Hawtin. He is one of his sets from his home in Canada and one of my favorite TestPilot sets. - Linked Here.

      • Check out all past Throwback Thursday features - Linked Here


 
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Drink With Greg & Negronis with Greg

    • Drink of the Week

      • Drink of the Week: The Test Pilot, A Tribute to Donn Beach's Iconic Creation. See how we did that crossover between Deadmau5's TestPilot and the Test Pilot drink :). Linked Here. Get the full recipe - Linked Here

    • Tuesday Night Negronis

      • Introducing Tuesday Night Negronis: A Tradition Brewing with the Drink With Greg Community. At DrinkWithGreg.com, we believe that every sip tells a story. From the crisp citrus notes to the herbal undertones, each Negroni is a journey waiting to be experienced. So, after a few "Working Sessions" of Negroni-fueled Zoom calls, we are thrilled to introduce our newest tradition: Tuesday Night Negronis.

      • Join the conversation by using the #TuesdayNightNegronis hashtag and sharing your thoughts on how we can make this tradition even more special. Let's raise a glass to Tuesday nights, Negronis, and the vibrant community that brings them to life. Cheers!

    • Book of the Week

      • San Francisco Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the City by the Bay - Linked Here

    • Podcast Channels

      • Check out all things from the Drink With Greg Podcast - Linked Here

      • Check out all things from the Negronis With Greg Podcast - Linked Here

    • Connect Online (DWG & NWG)

 
 

Tools & Toolkits - Life Optimization (Working Title)

Overview

Through its Life Optimization Toolkit, Dailey Blend is committed to enhancing personal productivity and efficiency. We are developing a comprehensive set of templates and playbooks to help you organize your life and optimize your execution. The Dailey Blend's Tools & Toolkits - Life Optimization - focuses on practicality and effectiveness; it equips users with strategies to streamline tasks, prioritize objectives, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. From time management techniques to habit formation strategies, the playbook serves as a dynamic guide for individuals seeking to maximize their potential and achieve their personal and professional aspirations.

Toolkit - Meeting Planner

The Meeting Planner is for helping you prep for meeting, execute meeting flawlessly, and the dominate the follow-up. Going to likely make some tweaks to this in the coming weeks, but the working DRAFT is working for me!.

 

Toolkit - Daily Planner

The Daily Planner is a resource designed to empower individuals to optimize their lives through efficient planning and strategic organization—this toolkit a daily tracker to help you accomplish those tasks based on the time of day. We will be enhancing this toolkit with different flavors over the coming weeks that examine priorities, grouping, and budget-2-actual tracking. Click the button below to get a copy of the ‘Daily Planner’ and kick your day off right by getting a jump start the night before!

Toolkit - Weekly Planner

Weekly Planning Playbook is a resource designed to empower individuals to optimize their lives through efficient planning and strategic organization. This playbook offers a weekly curated selection of tools and methodologies to enhance productivity, goal-setting, and overall well-being.

Click the button below to get a copy of the ‘Weekly Planner’ and kick your Monday off right by getting a jump start Sunday Night!

 
 

Friday Top Five

You can complement the Weekly Rundown with the Friday Top Five newsletter, where the Dailey Blend team shares things we thought were interesting that you need to know about, tips and tricks to tackle life, and of course, some music to get the weekend started right!

Friday’s Top Five (Now a Newsletter)

  • A Recap From Last Week

    • Each week in our ‘Friday Top Five’ segment, we feature five things we thought were interesting, notable, or culturally significant. Last week we covered Apps to boost productivity, prompts to enhance wellbeing, books to inspire, coloring books to decompress, and gear for the adventure ahead.

    • Friday Top Five Archives are Linked Here

  • Subscribe to the ‘Dailey Blend Newsletter’

 

Transcription - Dailey Blend Show Updates Website, Launches Video

Host Reed Dailey (IG & X - @ReedDailey): This is the weekly rundown segment of the Daily Blend Show

 

This is the weekly rundown for the week of April 24, 2024

Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Daiely Blend show with me. Reed Dailey. This is the weekly rundown for the week of April 24, 2024. Excited for you to be here. We have a lot to cover on the show in a very short amount of time. You can get this episode and all of the previous episodes on such great platforms as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button and have all episodes downloaded automatically to your device. If you are a social person, and I am, check us out at Dailyblend on X and Instagram and you can of course find me on Instagram and LinkedIn.com/in/reeddailey.

Daily Blend features DJ set from Charlie XCX for her party girl tour

And with all that said, let's jump into the show. So, been, a little bit busy just in terms of traveling on planes and trains as of late and excited to get ready to head out to the west coast for some meetings and connect with old friends and meet some new ones. in terms of what's going on at Daily Blend, we've got a really great, dj set from Charlie XCX, for her party girl tour, with, her brat album coming out. So I love just this, package. One, two punch in terms of here's my new music and then here's my, DJ sets. And it's kind of an old branded kind of experience. I think Charlie XCs has done a really nice job of kind of creating her, chapters of her career. I think she's on her fourth or fifth album and, you know, I'm a little, you know, she came in when I was sort of on the tail end of deep music exploration and late twenties, early thirties. So I'm a little aged out on some of her tracks. But, I definitely love her dj sets. And, you know, I think similar to like, you know, I heart back to a lot of like what David Bowie did, what Cher did, what Madonna did and then I wouldn't say Britney, but Taylor Swift's definitely taking a cue of this too. Of every album has sort of a branded experience. And I think Charlie X, yes, is reminding me of almost like a, early 2000 era of Nicole Richie and, what's her name? Paris Hilton. so anyway, go check out the, the full mix and brat, her album will be coming out soon. In terms of throwback Thursdays, we featured one of Deadmau's test pilot sets. if you're less familiar, test pilot is dead Mouse's techno alias. I've become a big fan of it over the years. I think about ten years ago, he did a south by Southwest presentation with Richie Houghton. I really wanted to attend that. It's one of those ones where you saw it on the web and you're like, gosh, I wish someone would have recorded that or was available that discussion. But they ended up djing together, which I thought was pretty cool for two canadian techno lovers to kind of come together in their respective, you know, environments. Richie, more of a, you know, tractor, you know, controller type person. Dead mouse. I think he still uses Ableton. but, regardless of the technology, it, was just cool to see. Anyway, the test pilot set was great. There's tie ins to what's going on over at drink with Greg, with test pilots. So I'll get into that next. but before I jump into drinks, with Greg Negronis with Greg, I want to remind you that daily blend mix series is moving forward quickly. We've got episode 151 up on Soundcloud and over on YouTube. it was definitely more of a chilled out vibe on this one. Got really good feedback. I'll be up in the air for the next, I don't know, 6 hours today. So I'm actually working on episode 151 of, that mix, series that's been going on for about ten years. So be on the lookout for 152, backside of this week, early next week, and certainly gonna highlight it on Daily blend show next week, in terms of drink with Greg.

From a book of the week standpoint, I'm heading out to the west coast

So I mentioned we did the test pilot for dead mouse, and that was because the drink of the week this week is test pilot by Don Abeach. he's the icon that created a lot of the, tiki culture, tiki drinks in the world. And I originally was on a project with people who I, will say loved to get to 04:00 I've never seen a bunch of, contractors love 04:00 not 05:00 04:00 more. They were all at the, bar drinking tiki by about 430. And so I learned a little bit about dawn beach and the other sort of, icons of the tiki culture. But this summer, my goal is to buy some fun tiki, cups and learn a little bit more about tiki culture. I was. I was, lucky enough to get a bunch of rum, from the good folks over at three gates to try and so gonna be diving into that, from a book of the week standpoint, I mentioned I'm heading out to the west coast, so I wanted to feature San Francisco based cocktail books. And so I found this, San Francisco, Francisco cocktails, an elegant collection of over 100 recipes inspired by the city, by the bay. And that book was by, the author. And it is Trevor Felch. Trevor's got two books. I've only checked out the San Francisco book, but planning on diving into his other book, down the road. And, yeah, just fired up to get back to San Francisco. Looking forward to, getting to the proper hotel. It's one of my favorites in the city. And, we'll see, what transpires at the rooftop, at the proper, in terms of optimization.

I've been using the meeting minutes planner in conjunction with my daily planner

Playbooks and toolkits. Nothing new this week in terms of, updates. I've been using, the meeting minutes planner in conjunction with sort of my daily planner. I think I need to add either a timing metric to it, for the daily planner, or reduce the number of squares. It's just not realistic. There's just too many things on there. And I end up filling it up, feeling, like that's the right way to do it. And I don't get done any, you know, I shouldn't say anything, but I don't get done as many things as I end up writing. And then I get a little frustrated with myself. So I want to adjust my, my daily planner, but really liking the meeting minutes planner that I've built out. Want, to make one or two more tweaks and then add some branding to it. But if you haven't checked those out, highly recommend it. It's been, the meeting minutes planner has been by far the most useful piece, of this toolkit that I've really enjoyed. And it's helped me stay focused in the meetings, and then recapture notes and action items coming out of those meetings. So check that out. And then over on the Friday top five, we, are, you know, moving along nicely with that newsletter. It is, I think becoming one of my favorite parts of the week is just crafting that. So if you are not on our Friday top five newsletter, go check that out over at Dailyblend, uh.com forward slash newsletter. And you can get the Friday top five in your inbox every Friday. As you would expect, in terms of everything else going on across daily blend, like I mentioned, I'm heading out to the west coast, so you're gonna see, a, post over on our adventures, you know, area of the site. It's been a minute since we've actually done one of those for a new city so looking forward to checking out a couple of the new spots in and around San Francisco as I'm out there for a couple days. And, ah, you know, as always, don't forget to, like, follow. Subscribe to the show on Instagram and X and we will catch you on the next episode of the Daily Blend show. Thanks for tuning in.

 
 
 
 

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And, as always, please give me feedback on X, formerly Twitter @DaileyBlend or Instagram @DaileyBlend. What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Which features were your favorite? Please let me know, and don’t forget to put #FridayTop5 at the end so I can find it. Enjoy the week, and catch you next week with the Dailey Blend Show weekly Rundown.

 
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