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Episode 11 – The Bar Lowering Episode
Liz and Matt reconvene after a long absence. An absence due to factors beyond their control. No, that’s not true. Beyond their interest? Probably. In the the spirit of this […]
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Episode 10 – Election Day 2020 Reaction
Matt and Liz return, guestless, hollowed-out, confused. It’s our most 2020 episode yet. It’s also our only 2020 episode yet. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Episode 9 – Megan Wilkes – on entrepreneurship, pies, politics, and the modern plague of alliteration as a substitute for headline craft.
Megan makes, markets and manages the best pie game we’ve ever seen/tasted. If you’re writing a hard-bitten noir novella with a pie magnate in it, we’d recommend you just steal […]
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Episode 6 – Chris Smith on advertising, hair metal, Tom Bodett, and historical perspective
Chris is the creative director for Motel 6 and HEB. He’s won the Mercury Award for radio 7 times. He’s a two-time jeopardy champion, an improv comic, a serial event […]
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Episode 5 – Kim Alexander on teaching, painting, and How to Actually Be Best
For the new year, we wanted to invite on someone who inspires us to be better people. So the natural choice was our amazing friend Kim. Unfortunately she couldn’t inspire […]
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Episode 4 – Thorne Anderson on war zones, journalism, and competitive marriages
Thorne is our friend, and also an award-winning photojournalist who covered, among other wars, the run up to the Iraq War and the Bosnian civil war. This conversation touched on […]
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Episode 3 – Alice Laussade on curing disease with BBQ
Our very first non-us guest, Alice Laussade, discusses the meaty fruits of her bone-deep hatred of MS. She’s a James Beard award-winning food writer. Also founder and CEO of Meat […]
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Episode 2 – Matt Bull on advertising, coffee, and UFOs.
Liz grills an audibly uncomfortable Matt, who somehow landed this gig as the podcast’s cohost, for the better part of an hour, after heavy editing. Topics discussed include advertising, do-gooderism, […]
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Minisode 1 – Bell Jar Avocados
A short bit where we taste test a recreation of Sylvia Plath’s peculiar childhood avocado preparation, as mentioned in The Bell Jar. [Also please note that after recording we realized […]
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The Ted Cruz ad
Here’s a quick and dirty video version of the fake attack ad from episode 1 to share, modify, steal, whatever. If you’d rather have the audio only, it’s below as […]
Recent Posts
- Episode 11 – The Bar Lowering Episode
- Episode 10 – Election Day 2020 Reaction
- Episode 9 – Megan Wilkes – on entrepreneurship, pies, politics, and the modern plague of alliteration as a substitute for headline craft.
- Episode 6 – Chris Smith on advertising, hair metal, Tom Bodett, and historical perspective
- Episode 5 – Kim Alexander on teaching, painting, and How to Actually Be Best