{"id":16693,"date":"2024-08-15T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=16693"},"modified":"2024-08-15T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:02:25","slug":"tv-shows-thatll-put-some-copywriting-hairs-on-that-sizzle-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/tv-shows-thatll-put-some-copywriting-hairs-on-that-sizzle-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"TV shows that\u2019ll put some copywriting hairs on that sizzle chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which a fine question is asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cBen, if you were in your 20s &#8211; what would you read more? Which movies\/shows would you watch? (if any) I know you&#8217;ve said in your emails you&#8217;d rather read &amp; go to the gym than sit in front of a television.\u00a0Apart from this, which other activities do you recommend to keep the brain engaged and active in leisure\u00a0time?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<p>Lots and lots and lots of walking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the greatest business and marketing &#8216;secret&#8217; I can possibly recommend.<\/p>\n<p>Also fill your head with as much info you find interesting as possible.<\/p>\n<p>And avoid ALL woke movies\/TV of all stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid social activist types, too, they\u2019ll bring you nothing but drama and make you dumber.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d also watch the show \u201c24\u201d for learning sale letter and email pacing. Watch LOST for world-building and creating intrigue\/curiosity. Watch Seinfeld for infotainment.\u00a0Watch documentaries (not Netflix documentaries, they&#8217;re nearly all so backasswards it\u2019s become a trope of itself in recent years) about men who&#8217;ve accomplished great things: \u201cKing of Late Night\u201d about Johnny Carson, \u201cChris Claremont&#8217;s X-Men\u201d on Amazon about relationship-building, \u201cEye of the Beholder art of Dungeons and Dragons\u201d about craftsmanship and branding, and the Special Effects Titan documentary about Ray Harryhausen for creating drama, craftsmanship, storytelling, World-Building, product design, and a lot of other things I teach.<\/p>\n<p>I may not have exact titles accurate above, but they are on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a very short answer to a question I could write a book of its own on.<\/p>\n<p>But I daresay the above is more than enough to keep people busy for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Besides that?<\/p>\n<p>Go here for more info on the paid Email Players newsletter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which a fine question is asked: \u201cBen, if you were in your 20s &#8211; what would you read more? Which movies\/shows would you watch? (if any) I know you&#8217;ve said in your emails you&#8217;d rather read &amp; go to the gym than sit in front of a television.\u00a0Apart from this, which other activities do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,8,20,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-content-creation","8":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","9":"category-fiction","10":"category-inner-game","11":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16737,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions\/16737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}