Dave Blanchard

Logging back on after years of Twitter silence to share this new show we're making with the world. Wild Card is an interview show unlike any other with a host who is the best in the business. Follow us and enjoy! First ep is out Thurs.

@TeaPartyBeauty Hi @TeaPartyBeauty - I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. We're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat with us for a few min

These medical adverts and the side effects though. American healthcare truly is a business 🙄

@ItsJacobEdward Hi @ItsJacobEdward - I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat with us for a few min

@lousimprint Hi @lousimprint - I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat with us for a few min

HELP why are all american ads about medicines??

@IngaRochelle Hi @IngaRochelle I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat

American adverts make me feel like I’m in some post-apocalyptic world 🥴#OprahMeghanHarry

@jalexws Hi @jalexws I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat

@TaureanRoye @ArchieLawson1 Hi @TaureanRoye -- I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast -- we're doing a show about U.S. pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them during the Markle interview. DM me if you're interested in talking with us.

@ArchieLawson1 Bro it’s insane how’s the cream for your joints gonna give you cancer loool WHY

American medical adverts are some real dystopian shit how you gonna tell me I might die

@siIverskyy Hi @siIverskyy -- I'm a producer with NPR's Planet Money podcast in the U.S. We're doing an episode about American pharma ads and we're interested in hearing from Brits who saw them during the Markle interview. DM me if you're interested in chatting with us!

i’m watching the meghan interview recording and yet again i can’t understand why american tv ads are like “ask your doctor for…” or “tell your doctor…” why the fuck would you be the one to tell a DOCTOR what medicine to give you????? maybe i’m too european to get it but wtf

@mdc @CardiffGarcia @planetmoney 😂

@CardiffGarcia @planetmoney ONLY @blanchardd liked it (which is to say he responded w a laughing emoji)

I'm guest-hosting @planetmoney's Summer School series this year (Season 2), and the first episode of six just dropped. The series is aimed at young students and people with no formal exposure to finance or econ, check it out! twitter.com/planetmoney/st…

@BryanMVance @planetmoney It's SUCH a great team! Hope you're doing well @BryanMVance

@justiceputnam Beautifully said

This is my pinned tweet since 2016. Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men had the most profound impact on my own study of landscape as a character. #RIPBarryLopez

I wrote this remembrance for the writer Barry Lopez, who died Friday. I think often of the lesson he took from beaver sticks he'd find on walks. "I imagined the beaver were saying 'What the hell's wrong with you? You get back in there and do your work.'" npr.org/2020/12/26/948…

When I spoke to Lopez's friend John Luther Adams for the obit, he shared one I hadn't seen before, but is a new favorite: "If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive" /end

He'd be the first to say his work isn't for everyone. But if you like any of this, I found this essay (and the collection it comes from, "About This Life") an excellent introduction to his work: outsideonline.com/1916541/whaleb…

As sad as the conditions of Lopez's passing were, he also offered so much hope, lightness and grace in his work. A thread of some of my favorite Lopez-isms 1/x