Creative Complaint

Dirt Media

Creative Complaint is a podcast about taste informed by distaste. Published by Dirt Media and hosted by founder, writer and investor, Dani Loftus. Season one is sponsored by Air, the creative operations tool actually built for creatives. Visit us on Instagram at instagram.com/ick.fyi

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  1. No trophies in heaven ft. Sophia Benoit

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    No trophies in heaven ft. Sophia Benoit

    Writer and comedian Sophia Benoit joins Dani Loftus to discuss the art of complaining as a form of connection. They touch on texture-based food aversions, surveillance culture, and people who take jokes too literally online. Also, we learn what a "rat room" is. *** Sophia's podcast Sophia's website Dani's newsletter *** 00:00 — What is this podcast 00:54 — How Sophia doesn't like talking about herself (despite writing a memoir) 02:20 — Sophia's approach to complaining and how it got her all her jobs 04:11 — European-style complaining as connection, not misery 05:29 — Biggest industry ick: pretending writing is hard work 07:41 — When your dentist wants to discuss your sex writing career 08:00 — How writing about relationships affects personal expectations 12:27 — Is messiness a personality trait or a diagnosis? 14:15 — Being seen as negative online when you're actually positive 15:00 — The wealthy patron system vs. needing hundreds of thousands of followers 17:42 — The guy in Ohio who thinks you're the worst person alive 18:16 — "Can they eat you?" Sophia's grandfather's motto for anxiety 18:41 — Good morning texts...ick 19:47 — Cottage cheese and other aversions 21:11 — American individualism and pretending cities are that different 22:39 — Surveillance culture 24:38 — People taking jokes too literally online and explaining things back *** Our music, Stamford Brook Style, is by Adrian Michna.

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Creative Complaint is a podcast about taste informed by distaste. Published by Dirt Media and hosted by founder, writer and investor, Dani Loftus. Season one is sponsored by Air, the creative operations tool actually built for creatives. Visit us on Instagram at instagram.com/ick.fyi