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Making Television for Your Phone with Ari Cagan and John Connor Hammond

When I first discovered Submit Your Ick on Instagram, I was instantly hooked. Each episode is equal parts cringe, comedic, and relatable. The Ick is a weekly anthology series that takes real, crowd-sourced dating stories and turns them into scripted mini-films. Each one captures that very specific, very human moment when "this could be something" becomes"I'd rather be anywhere else." It's the internet's most unromantic romantic comedy, and in under a year, it's grown to 15 million monthly viewers and 580,000+ followers, making it the fastest-growing scripted social show ever. Ari Cagan and John Connor Hammond are the co-founders of American Picture Company, a New York-based studio making television for your phone. They're the creators of award-winning films and viral series, including Keep the Meter Running and Boy Room, and The Ick is their first original series. In this conversation, we get into The Ick’s origin story, what it actually looks like to startup and run a production studio, and why they believe the future of storytelling lives outside the traditional film and TV distribution pipeline. I sat down with Ari and John earlier this year during a trip to New York, and I left genuinely energized. They have such a sharp read on where storytelling, internet culture, and community-building are all heading, and this episode gets into all of it. Oh, and I also share a little personal news in this episode. (I’m moving to NYC this summer—GAH!!!) Super stoked, a little nervy, and looking to connect with listeners based there. Hmu!