Because I wrote a chapter of The Anthropocene Reviewed about the history of Diet Dr Pepper, the Dr Pepper Snapple Company reached out to me one day to inquire a brand relationship.
I am not one to turn my nose up at Big Soda money, so I agreed to meet with them. Two nice people showed up on zoom and they said what kind of relationship with Dr Pepper would interest you, and I said:
"I would like for Dr Pepper to be the official sponsor of humanity's relationship with the moon." My idea was that Dr Pepper and I would share stories from history about how humanity has understood and imagined the moon, and then at the end there would be a little tag line that was like, "Dr Pepper: Sponsoring Humanity's Relationship with the Moon Since 2023."
I still think this is a great idea. Who needs an Official Soda more than humanity's relationship with the moon???
Then they asked me if I would, like, make tiktoks about how much I liked Diet Dr Pepper, and I said of course not that would be extremely boring.
Oh dang oh gosh oops JetPens came out with more Japanese Kirby writing utensils and my wallet magically opened and now I own them! Oh golly!
Well I always advocate for fancy stationary and office supplies whenever possible! I mean my pencil case in that photo is very well loved lol
Side note, that beige Waddle Dee Pentel pen is, for lack of a better term, one of the sexiest pens I have ever written with. It’s got a NEEDLEPOINT tip and it’s delicious feeling. Makes meetings almost worth it lol
Anyway I’m not sponsored by JetPens but I wanna be ;)
I made a Riolu cheesecake to celebrate the Pokemon World Championships - and I was sponsored by Pokemon to do it! 🥹
This was my first-ever sponsorship, and I'm so incredibly honoured by the opportunity! It was a ton of work developing the recipe, filming/editing the videos, and it all culminated in a Twitch stream on August 15th! I don't often produce videos, but my wife and I are so proud of this 3-part series - we hope you check it out on my IG!
Eagle-eyed viewers may notice that I recreated the underwater scene on the Worlds website - and since the incredibly talented @miscellaneousmao created a stunning Gimmeghoul cake pop, she put them together to fully recreate the scene!
This baked coconut cheesecake has a dyed graham cracker crust, and is topped with blue jelly and graham cracker sand, with a chocolate Riolu to celebrate this cutie in Mass Outbreaks (more info here)!
Full recipe on my Substack - it's delicious and has gotten rave reviews from my taste testers (and you can totally skip the dyed crust)!
This week’s content is sponsored by Mint Mobile (you know, the Ryan Reynolds company).
This ad isn’t as good as his, but we wanted to let you know that right now you can get three months of unlimited service for just $15/month. No need to get a new phone if you don’t want, they’ll just send you a SIM card in the mail or an e-SIM.
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Ever since I've hit 10k subscribers I started getting offers to run sponsored in-video ads. Let the record show that I would rather blow my fucking head off with a rocket launcher than read so much as a single sentence of an advertisement in my audios.