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# Zoom For Dummies Book Trailer
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/zoom-for-dummies-book-trailer/
- Published: 2020-07-06T13:21:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-02T02:07:58.000Z
- Description: A hopefully humorous video on my latest creation.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Announcements, Breaking Bad, Marillion, Rush, Slack For Dummies, Zoom For Dummies, #no-crop, #not-too-tall

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/zoom-for-dummies-cover-7.jpg)

Even under normal circumstances, July in Phoenix is a tough slog.

Toss in a pandemic and travel restrictions and it's tough to find an escape.

For the *Zoom For Dummies* book trailer, I decided to geek out and interview a cartoon version of myself. (A few years ago, I had created [a few caricatures](https://www.philsimon.com/tag/travails/) via the defunct site BitStrips.)

Seth MacFarlane certainly doesn't have to worry, but I'm reasonably pleased with the result. Oh, and that [beeping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhEXjM7iTw&ref=philsimon.com) is very much a hat tip to Buster Bluth of *Arrested Development*.

[Pre-order the book now](https://bookshop.org/books/zoom-for-dummies/9781119742142?aid=9608&ref=philsimon.com). We're targeting shipment by the end of the month.