Follow Friday Podcast
1) #44 Bijan Stephen (Eclipsed): A quest for cookies, Tinder robots, imaginary video games
(Full transcript)Today on Follow Friday, journalist and podcaster Bijan Stephen talks about his new history podcast Eclipsed and recommends four of his favorite accounts to follow online: Someone he'd...Show More
2) #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 everything from baseball movies to Francis Ford Coppola's filmogra...Show More
#67 Patrick Willems (Night of the Coconut): Baby chefs, Baby Back Ribs, George Lucas
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3) #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% Invisible says he's trying to use the internet more thoughtf...Show More
4) #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. And instead of learning to bake bread or speak Esperanto, sh...Show More
5) #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 that you were hate-reading. That meaning has faded into obscu...Show More
6) #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 supporters on Patreon. If you want to get five follow recommendat...Show More
7) #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 stories are often ignored or misrepresented. That's a big and...Show More
8) 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 ToddPlease consider donating to the Texas Elementary School Shooting Victims Fund. 100 percent of the money ...Show More
9) #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 Webber musicals to popular tropes in film and TV. And in 202...Show More
10) #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 early to the party: Six million Americans had listened to a ...Show More