#67 Patrick Willems (Night of the Coconut): Baby chefs, Baby Back Ribs, George Lucas
Patrick Willems spent six years on YouTube trying to attract an audience for his short films, before he pivoted to video essays about everyt...
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Follow Friday is the podcast about who you should follow online. Every week, Eric Johnson talks to creative people about who they follow, and why. Past guests include Tom Scott (YouTube), Al...
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#66 Roman Mars (99% Invisible): City flags, stupid walks, shearing sheep
"When you're a broadcaster, you don't have a conversation you can't use as content," jokes Roman Mars — well, mostly jokes. The host of 99%...
#65 Annie Rauwerda (Depths of Wikipedia): Living statues, #NotAllBots, the Holy Trinity Bikini
When her college internship was canceled by the COVID-19 shutdown in spring 2020, Annie Rauwerda had a lot of unexpected time on her hands....
#64 Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs): Giving up on crypto, bear chandelier, Halloween puns
When Rusty Foster started the email newsletter Today in Tabs, in 2013, "tabs" was trendy media slang for the articles open in your browser t...
#63 UNLOCKED: Bonus follows from Traci Thomas, Josh Fruhlinger, Bridget Todd, and Jesse Thorn
Today we're playing four bonus follow recommendations that originally were exclusive to Follow Friday XL , our special podcast feed for supp...
#62 Bridget Todd (There Are No Girls On the Internet): 2+2 = applesauce, bringing chaos, three-way phone calls
There Are No Girls on The Internet is an award-winning podcast about people who have always been at the forefront of technology, but whose s...
Advice for using social media after a mass shooting, with Bridget Todd (There Are No Girls on the Internet)
A preview of next week's episode, featuring There Are No Girls on the Internet host Bridget Todd Please consider donating to the Texas Eleme...
#34 Lindsay Ellis (Axiom's End): Phantom of the Opera, 50 Shades of Grey, air disasters
For more than five years, Lindsay Ellis produced video essays on YouTube , analyzing everything from the Transformers movies to Andrew Lloyd...
#61 Jesse Thorn (Bullseye): Scruffy dogs, breakfast cereal, the worst albums of the 20th century
Jesse Thorn has been podcasting since 2005, when he put his college radio show The Sound of Young America on the internet. He was a little e...
#60 Reggie Fils-Aimé (Disrupting the Game): Becoming a meme, becoming a Muppet, video game skills
Former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé first became an internet meme before most people knew what memes were: At Nintendo's p...
#59 Danielle Friedman (Let's Get Physical): Cooking in the nude, human footballs, no filters
On the internet, body shaming is alive and well, nutrition advice can be wildly inaccurate, and it's a lot easier to scroll through Instagra...
#58 T.J. Raphael (BioHacked: Family Secrets): Brooklyn moms, "monogamish," T9 texting
When her college friend Amber invited her to the beach five years ago, T.J. Raphael had no idea that saying "yes" would change the course of...
#57 Charlie Harding (Switched on Pop): Daft Funk, TikTok music, canceling Beethoven
Charlie Harding says he "procrastinates" by watching YouTube videos about sound design. But it's not an aimless hobby, because Charlie is a...
#56 Justin Myers (The Guyliner): Fear of custard, writing about yourself, mixtapes vs. d*ck pics
Justin Myers is a writer for British GQ and the author of three novels, most recently The Fake-Up . But he's probably best known for his blo...
#55 Josh Fruhlinger (The Comics Curmudgeon): Beetle Bailey, Hyperloop, bisexual lighting
Josh Fruhlinger is better known to the internet as the Comics Curmudgeon, and for something like 15 years, he's been riffing on the oddities...
#54 Traci Thomas (The Stacks): The dreamiest dreamboat, Dolphins Without Borders, banned books
( Full transcript ) Traci Thomas is the host of The Stacks , a podcast about books and the people who read them. Today on Follow Friday, she...
#53 Broti Gupta (The Simpsons): Sumo oranges, Koko the gorilla, bears aren't real
When she's not tweeting about sumo oranges or her podcast Lecture Hall , Broti Gupta is a writer for The Simpsons. And the long gap between...
#17 Ed Zitron (Where's Your Ed At): Joker memes, baseball isn't boring, the best tweet ever
( Full transcript of this podcast available here ). When he's not writing about the media and running a PR agency, Ed Zitron is probably on...
#52 Hrishikesh Hirway (Song Exploder): Dadaist art, writer's block, trolling Trebek
Hrishikesh Hirway is a prolific creator: A podcaster, a newsletter writer, a TED speaker, a composer, and more. And he's also a musician who...
#51 Alexis Gay (Non-Technical): Wool sweaters, divorcées, bonsai trees
Full transcript here Alexis Gay is one of those rare cases you hear about: For seven years, she was a tech worker who wanted to do comedy; t...