Follow along on Mark Zuckerberg's 'Great American Road Trip' with this fiction podcast
Mark Zuckerberg's personal challenge for 2017 is to visit every state in America, and boy does he have stories to tell.
While he's been sharing some updates on his Facebook Page interspersed with apology notes for threatening democracy, two guys thought all these adventures should be chronicled in podcast form.
The fictional podcast "Mark's Great American Road Trip" launched this week and is available on the team's site and on iTunes and Stitcher.
Mashable got wind of it via an emailed press release from the creators, impersonating Mark Zuckerberg's PR team:
MENLO PARK — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday the launch of a new podcast that will chronicle his travels across the United States as he attempts to fulfil a promise to visit all 50 states in the country.
The new podcast, ‘Mark’s Great American Road Trip,’ will function as Zuckerberg’s personal podcast diary as he “meets regular people, laughs, and shares moments with friends."
"Over the years, I've made over two billion friends. And now, I'm going to make friends with everyone," a fictional Mark Zuckerberg says in the intro podcast.
If anything, it's entertaining -- at least for those who know keep tabs on the daily happenings of Zuckerberg like myself.
The first episode is on Zuckerberg's trip to Georgia. The 11-minute episode includes him meeting and chatting with a group of farmers and attempting to help birth a cow. He also visits a strip club in Atlanta because someone told him they have the best wings.
The project is created by Nick Zarzycki and Matthew Parsons, according to the website.
On Twitter, Parsons described the project as a "weird, funny, disturbing fiction podcast."
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Judge it for yourself here.
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Kerry Flynn is a business reporter for Mashable covering the tech industry. She previously reported on social media companies, mobile apps and startups for International Business Times. She has also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine. Kerry studied environmental science and economics at Harvard College, where she led The Harvard Crimson's metro news and design teams and played mellophone in the Band. When not listening to startup pitches, she runs half-marathons, plays with puppies and pretends to like craft beer.
