{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Terrible Creative","title":"Mute - You've Spent Years Getting Good. Do You Have Anything Left to Say?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2656,"description":"There is a man standing in a clearing in Arkansas with a yellow guitar, singing about insulin prices to nobody in particular.Three million people found him. Not because of the production value. Because he was saying the thing.\nThis episode is about the gap most professional creatives never talk about — the distance between the skills that pay your rent and the thing you actually have to say. How years of executing other people's briefs can quietly atrophy a different kind of muscle. And what happens when you finally try to use it.\nI talk about Jesse Welles, Oliver Anthony, a series of images I made in 2024 that landed in silence, and why Marcus Aurelius titled his most important work \"To Himself.\"\nThis one took a while to say out loud.\nIn This EpisodeJesse Welles — \"War Isn't Murder\" Watch on YouTube wellesmusic.com Jesse Welles on BandcampOliver Anthony — \"Rich Men North of Richmond\" Watch on YouTube oliveranthonymusic.comCNN News Coverage — Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 14, 2012 Watch on YouTube Used for editorial purposes.\nThe BookLessons From a Terrible Photographer\nSupport the Showtheterriblecreative.com/support\nStay ConnectedSubscribe to Pub Notes (the newsletter)The Terrible Creative on InstagramPatrick Fore on Instagram\nPodcast written, produced, and hosted by Patrick Fore Music licensed through Epidemic Sound and Blue Dot Sessions\nRecorded from my garage in San Diego, California","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qsOnUwMbUF-PHJZ7RwOm0Uh1mXJoqDwCz1nHN0z7r7Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMTIy/MjM3Yzk2YTUzZDE5/ZjNiODE0Y2MxOTgz/MGRiNC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}