Reed Fish and his wife Liz took off a year to travel the world, collecting memories like FDR collected stamps. After his return to California, he set up shop in Ojai as a photographer and videographer, raising his family and working hard.
Before those adventures, he made a well-received film called "I am Reed Fish," which came out in 2007 and starred Jay Baruchel, Alexis Bledel, Schuyler Fisk and Katey Sagal. The whole experience was great fun, including the premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Very loosely based on Reed's life story, it involves a story of a young man who is torn between duty and imagining a different future for himself. We talk about the trials and travails of the film industry.
Fish is also a podcaster, with his "Workin' It" podcast available wherever you get them. We talk about a few of his guests, retired pro tennis player Lester Cook, professional poker player Jeremy Kottler, and Mikael Jurgensen, keyboardist of Wilco - exploring the ways and means by which people make a living. We talk about how difficult it is to get the signal heard through the noise, especially with Spotify dropping hundreds of millions on podcasts. "We're still at a stage with podcasts where it's the one thing that's growing," Reed says, "30-40 percent of people haven't even listened to a podcast."
We did not talk about Errol Flynn's steelhead fishing adventures in Ojai, the writings of George Orwell or the docuseries "The Last Dance."
