Weekly Rundown:: Week of February 6th, 2024
In this week's Dailey Blend show, host Reed Dailey provides a comprehensive rundown of various activities and projects. Covering a range of topics, Dailey discusses the revival of music Monday features with Dr. Zilter's mix series called Coffee Room, offering an energetic and enjoyable mid-morning music mix. Additionally, he touches on the return of Throwback Thursdays, exploring alternatives to jazz and featuring Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise series. Dailey gives updates on Dailey Blend's upcoming 150th episode, mentioning potential mastering and a new Sunday session using DJ Studio. The Negronies with Greg podcast is set to resume, focusing on Ready-to-Drink (RTD) drinks and discussions with founders. The drinks of the week will highlight wintery cocktails from The Whistler, a renowned Chicago venue. Dailey also delves into tech reviews, introducing DJ Studio, and plans to share detailed workflows. The Life Optimizing Playbook is introduced, starting with the end-of-day checklist. Finally, Dailey mentions the relocation of Friday's Top Five to the newsletter and expresses excitement for upcoming travel to Boston and the Super Bowl weekend in Lake Forest
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Across Dailey Blend
Music Monday
Let us introduce you to this week's Music Monday Feature with @Dr_Zilter and his mix series, the “COFFEE ROOM.” - Mix Linked Here
Check out all past Music Monday features - Linked Here
Throwback Thursday
We are kicking off the next two months by running through the 'In Search of Sunrise' series with Tiesto. For those of you who are not familiar with this series, it is an incredible Trance early downtempo series that saw the conclusion of Tiesto focusing on Trance and moving into his EDM/Big room sounds. - Linked Here.
Check out all past Throwback Thursday features - Linked Here.
Dailey Blend Mix Series
We are getting closer to episode 150 of the show and thinking about what happens after 150. Because we are doing a whole month featuring Gabriel and Dresden, we thought it might be good to do a featured mix with a combination of originals, remixes, and bootlegs from Gabriel and Dresden.
Check out all past Dailey Blend Mixes - DaileyBlend.com | SoundCloud | Apple Podcasts
Sunday Sessions
The latest mix for February 04th, 2024 is now live - Linkedin Here.
Check out the past Sunday Sessions on DaileyBlend.com and SoundCloud.
Drink With Greg & Negronis with Greg
Drink of the Week
To celebrate The Whistler’s 15th anniversary, we produced a pocket-sized recipe guide featuring twenty-five cocktails that have appeared on our menu throughout the years. Included in the book are bonafide classics such as the Milk Maid, Delhi Cooler and Dopesmoker, as well as lesser known favorites like the Twin Engine and Free Rider. The book was written and photographed by Whistler co-founders Billy Helmkamp and Rob Brenner, with layout and design by Kyle Stewart. We are going to be spending the next couple of weeks running through some of our favorite winter cocktails from Chicago’s own Whistler Drink Book. You can purchase a copy of their book 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)
Connect with Drinks With Greg (DWG) on Instagram @DrinkWithGreg & X @DrinkWithGreg
Connect with Negronis With Greg (NWG) on Instagram @NegronisWithGreg & X @NegronisWithG
Tools & Toolkits
DJ Studio - A revolutionary new app, DJ.studio, which is redefining the way DJs create studio mixes. Undoubtedly one of the most innovative platforms on the market, the digital audio workstation specifically designed for DJs, uses advanced AI based harmonic intelligence to create flawless mixes at the touch of a button.
Read the Introduction and Overview Article Linked Here|
‘Life Optimization Playbook’ is a comprehensive set of guides designed to help you optimize your life and achieve your goals. One of the key features of the playbook is the Daily End of Day Checklist, which is a step-by-step guide that helps you plan and execute your day at the start of the week and helps you stay on track throughout the week. By regularly using this checklist, you can increase your productivity, focus, and overall well-being and feel more in control of your life.
Download the playbook chapter for EOD Check Points Linked here.
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’
Friday Top Five Archives are Linked Here
Connect Online
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.
Transcription - Dailey Blend Show Updates Website, Launches Video
# Weekly Rundown Summary
Show Overview:
Reed Dailey hosts the Dailey Blend show, offering a recap of weekly activities.
Platforms: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram (@DaileyBlend).
Dailey Blend Highlights:
Music Monday features return with Dr. Zilter's "Coffee Room" mix.
Exploring alternatives to jazz with Tiesto's "In Search of Sunrise" series.
Announcement of Dailey Blend's 150th episode, undergoing mastering.
New Sunday Session on February 4th, available on Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Tech review on DJ Studio, a music management automation solution.
Negronies with Greg:
Upcoming podcast episode after a holiday break.
Engaging with founders in the RTD drinks and Spirits space.
Drinks of the Week:
Featuring wintery cocktails from The Whistler bar in Chicago.
Highlighting The Whistler's drink book with 25 cocktails.
Tools and Toolkits:
Tech-focused reviews with a focus on workflows and multimedia content.
Introduction of the "Life Optimizing Playbook," starting with the end-of-day checklist.
Plans for tiered social media planners for different needs.
Friday's Top Five:
Moved to the newsletter, featuring Super Bowl preparations in the recent edition.
Upcoming Events:
Reed Dailey traveling to Boston.
Excitement for the Super Bowl and Winter Carnival in Lake Forest.
Open invitation for local entrepreneurs to showcase their brands.
Conclusion:
Reed wishes everyone warmth and invites them to enjoy a Negroni.
Host Reed Dailey (IG & X - @ReedDailey): - Transcript
Everyone welcome back to the Dailey Blend show with me, Reed Dailey. This is the weekly rundown for the week of February 6th. 2024. And if you are new around here, this is where I feature things going on across Dailey blend special projects. I'm involved with things that are going on in sort of business Tech and culture and what I'll call Life hacking tools templates playbooks before jumping into the show. I want to remind you that we are on Apple podcasts, Spotify and YouTube If you are a big social person, check us out on Instagram and X at Dailey Blend and with all that out of the way, let's jump into the show
So let's start off with talking about what's going on across Dailey Blend. So we've taken a couple of weeks off of doing music Monday features, but we are back with Dr. Zilter, and I think I'm saying that person's name correctly or Instagram handle? He's got a mix series called Coffee Room. I wouldn't call it down Tempo. I wouldn't call it jazz or anything. it's something a little more upbeat, and I really enjoyed it. It was like that perfect sort of mid-morning music mix DJ series.
That just took me from sort of coffee to lunchtime and then was a great again, in that sort of two thirty three o'clock slump where I need to get to four or five o'clock and knock through work. So I highly recommend you check out the coffee room mix from him and with all these mentioned topics everything's linked. So if you just go to Dailey Blend.com and find the weekly rundown, you can get all the links I put in the notes.
In terms of Throwback Thursdays. I've been listening to a lot of jazz lately, but I wouldn't say getting tired of it. I'm just looking for maybe an alternative to the Jazz. So it's kind of start at four or five in the morning with jazz and then sort of pick up before you get to the Copper room sessions at 11:00 and I've always loved the In Search of Sunrise series from Tiesto. It was somewhere between
Transfer me and I don't call it Progressive house, but it's basically trans meets deep house is probably a good way to describe Ellison all the mixes for I think he did one through seven some had one disc others had two discs and yes, they came out when their actual discs but gonna be featuring, his in search of Sunrise series for the next few weeks. And if you haven't checked it out have a listen. I really enjoyed those.
In terms of Dailey Blend we've been talking about 150. It's coming, trust me. I think I've even got someone to do some mastering for it been going back and forth on emails with them about possibly mastering it. I've actually never had a mix mastered. So it'd be kind of cool to hear the difference. But I do have a new Sunday session. So I did Sunday Session on February 4th, and that is now live you can get that on Dailey Blend. can also get that on Apple podcast and SoundCloud you cannot get it on Spotify unless you're every track's clear. It's pretty hard to get a DJ Maxx on there, but SoundCloud's great and we'll put them over on YouTube later this weekend that mix was actually done by using DJ Studio, which is a new
Music management automation solution I wrote my first tech review actually for Dailey Blend. I've done those for other, channels and other companies before but never actually for daily blood so check that out. I did an overview of that Tech just in terms of an introduction and overview of features, but I'm gonna do a ton more deep Dives on it because there's a lot to unpack there.
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In terms of Negroni's with Greg and I were both sick during the holidays and busy kind of kicking off the years. So we are going to get back to podcasting next week. be on the lookout for a fresh negronies with Greg podcast, and we've been just emailing with a ton of Founders who are doing RTD drinks and have their own Spirits. So I think we've got a nice, list of folks that were looking to get on the drink with Greg podcast pretty excited about that.
In terms of the drinks of the week. What I want to do is feature for the next few weeks why it's still pretty cold here in Chicago some of the more wintery-oriented cocktails from The Whistler. If you've never been to Chicago or haven't ever listened to this podcast, you would not know about the Whistler. It is a fantastic bar music venue record label art installation. What's call it cultural Mecca if you will, I went there maybe in year one and I've been going back with some level of regularity my good buddy. DJ Greg feels good EJ's there once a month on Saturdays and I purchased their drink book. It's like 50 or 60 pages of I think.
It's 35 recipes. I might have that number wrong, but 25 cocktails. There we go. and just looking forward to going through that, so head over to drink with Greg and you'll be able to kind of keep track of all of the drinks we do with the Whistler cookbook and what I've done in terms of Dailey Blend as I've linked that cookbook. it's not a cookbook. It's a recipe book. I think it was either 12 or 14 dollars, but it's pretty slick and it makes you feel connected to a community. it's quite frankly corporate feeling and it feels more like something, someone And you really cared about making a book and gave it to you. So there's something really great about that and I'll be kind of providing some color commentary on the drinks both on this show and then Greg and I are going to be talking about it, Audrey Greg.
In terms of tools and Tool kits already mentioned that I'm starting to do more Tech-focused reviews. And what I'm going to try to do is not just talk about what the tech is but talk about my workflow. And so I'm going to do a combination of written words, audio, and then video through YouTube of doing sort of screen shares and walking through kind of my workflow because I think that's always the secret sauce when you're talking to someone it's not what technology do you use or what workflow? It's like, how do you do it? what is your specific workflow within the service in multiple apps Etc.
The other thing that I want to drill into is the Life Optimizing Playbook and that's a working title. And I really want to use this platform as a way to Showcase kind of how I do life-hacking planning and the first piece or chapter of that is the end-of-day checklist. Now a couple of weeks ago. We talked about a social media planner, and I really like that if it's keep it simple and you have one sort of product or service or chance,
Year promoting, but if you're doing a lot of different things, personal professional, multiple channels you really need something more Deep dive. So I've got the end-of-the-day checklist and that's good for a week and I've been using that and I've really been liking it. it's not rocket science. It's kept simple, and it works great. But I want to revisit the social media one, and I'm kind of thinking there's gonna be maybe two or three tiers. There's gonna be one that's pretty basic call it fundamental or core and then one that's kind of more advanced and then there's one that's like Elite. They're all gonna be all free for download, looking for feedback Etc.
In terms of Friday's Top Five, we moved that to the newsletter. So don't forget to subscribe to that. You can check out some of the archives there last week. We featured a ton of things about getting ready for the Super Bowl. So if you missed that let me know me and I can kind of send that to you as a one-off and don't forget to subscribe. So you get all those future goodness in your inbox that wraps up for the weekly rundown. Looking forward to traveling to Boston tomorrow and looking forward to the Super Bowl this weekend Winter Carnival here in Lake Forest. So it'll be a lot of fun and if you are living in, Chicago or, Illinois,
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And you've got a small business or you're an entrepreneur. You're really looking to Showcase your brand. Shoot me a DM, and send me an email to read at Dailey Blend. We'll both come my way. And let's talk. I'd love to Showcase individual's small businesses doing something really fantastic and different in my community. And with that said, stay warm out there and enjoy your Negroni. I know I'm about to thanks for tuning in.
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!
