Earlier this week I listened to the Bullseye interview with Tom Hanks, and it’s one of the best I’ve ever heard from host Jesse Thorn. Tom tries to keep things light and deflects Jesse’s early queries with attempted goofs, but soon after, Jesse gets deep and I probably learned half a dozen things about Tom …
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Stepside: episode 12 is up
I just uploaded the newest episode of Stepside, which is our last show of this year plus it’s also our holiday spectacular, aka we didn’t have an agenda or plans and about 3/4ths of the hour is Joel sweating through his next truck purchase, which he’s already been sweating over for a year. I think …
Decoder ring on the history of big butts
The Victorian bustle made way for the big butt obsession The new Slate Decoder Ring podcast episode on the history of butts and bustles is pretty amazing. As always, what starts as an innocent question “why is having a big butt popular now when 30 years ago people tried to get rid of them?” then …
🤔 Apple Podcast algorithms
I went on a long road trip recently and I was bored so I brought up the Apple Podcasts default app. I was only subscribed to one or two shows I’d already listened to, so I popped over to the Browse tab to see what it offered from the millions of options out there. The …
A new StepSide episode up
I just added the 11th episode of my podcast about trucks with Joel. This time out we talk about the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas that happened last week, then a bunch of recent truck news from Ford, and then we talk about motorcycles in the back half.
New from Michael Hobbes: If Books Could Kill
If Books Could Kill — Overcast If Books Could Kill — Overcast A few weeks ago, Michael Hobbes, one of the original cohosts of arguably the best podcast of all time, You’re Wrong About, asked on Twitter what super popular paperback books of the last 10-20 years did people find the most damaging to society. …
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New Hobby Horse with Darius Kazemi
Back in March of this year, I started a podcast, talking to friends about their hobbies they don’t normally discuss. I took it pretty seriously from the start and steadily did at least one interview a week for a few months. After all that work, I decided to take a break for the summer and …
New podcast: Surprisingly Problematic
It started as some jokey posts on Twitter, but lots of my fellow Gen-Xers have experienced rewatching an old 1980s movie they loved, only to find out it had a lot more casual homophobia and misogyny or awkward nakedness or generally just didn’t hold up when viewed today. So I said, “that should be a …
My podcast diet: August 2018
I listen to several dozen podcasts, usually when doing boring tasks like errands, dishes, or car trips, on the order of 5-8 hours per week, and mostly at the expense of time I used to spend listening to music. Podcast discovery is still a mostly-broken problem, so I thought I’d share what I normally listen …
New Hobby Horse with Todd Hamina
In March of 2018, I decided to start my own interview podcast called Hobby Horse, with the aim of talking to people about their hobbies and passions they normally didn’t talk about much. I found of all the creative people I met, they often were totally into some weird hobby they rarely talked about, and I …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 