About the show
Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game.
Episodes
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Episode 20: Steven Masuch is a pog slammer
November 12th, 2018 | 41 mins 12 secs
ios, pogs, web
Steven Masuch is a "character actor of the web," working on a variety of projects but hosts the Slam for Hope Pog Tournament each year in Vancouver BC, Canada.
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Episode 19: Erin McKean has sewn hundreds of dresses
November 10th, 2018 | 50 mins 53 secs
sewing
Erin McKean joins us to talk about her Dress-a-Day project, her lexicographer and developer relations past and sewing in general.
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Episode 18: Dan Benjamin knows what time it is thanks to his watches
October 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
watches
Dan Benjamin on everything he loves about watches.
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Episode 17: Darius Kazemi explains his love of anime
September 16th, 2018 | 58 mins 43 secs
anime, bots, movies
Darius Kazemi, programmer, bot author, and Mozilla fellow is into anime and has a podcast about his favorite show. He explains it all to me, a person that has never really gotten into it.
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Episode 16: Todd Hamina is a winemaker that raced his bike across America
July 29th, 2018 | 42 mins 12 secs
bikes, cycling, wine
Todd Hamina has been making wine for 26 years and riding his bike for the past decade.
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Episode 15: Lucy Burningham spent a year becoming a beer sommelier
July 25th, 2018 | 39 mins 5 secs
beer
Writer, author of My Beer Year and certified cicerone
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Episode 14: Tiffani Ashley Bell is a Formula One Fan
July 13th, 2018 | 41 mins 30 secs
Tiffani is into really fast car racing around the world
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Episode 13: Amber Castaldo is a roller derby jammer
July 6th, 2018 | 37 mins 58 secs
portland, roller derby, sports
Amber tells us everything there is to know about roller derby
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Episode 12: Dinah Sanders rolls for initiative
June 23rd, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
cocktails, dungeons and dragons, games, gaming, organization
Dinah shares her knowledge of D&D, how to be a DM, and how to get into the game.
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Episode 11: Andy Baio has been eaten by a grue
June 19th, 2018 | 53 mins 53 secs
games, gaming, text adventure
Andy Baio and his love of the text adventure
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Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards
June 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
books, google, keyboard, typewriter
Our first "success story" (that is still in progress) where Marcin's hobby became so important he quit his job to pursue writing full-time, to write his first book about the history of typewriters and keyboards.
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Episode 9: Alex Cox enjoys some weed
June 3rd, 2018 | 58 mins 36 secs
chicago, marijuana, mental health, weed
Duuuuuuude. Dude. Dude. Duuuude.
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Episode 8: John Roderick on the last frontier: Alaska
May 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 26 mins
alaska, travel
John Roderick teaches us all the basics of the 49th state added to the union
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Episode 7: Erika Hall on what it takes to be a triathlete
May 19th, 2018 | 58 mins 49 secs
cycling, running, sports, swimming, triathlon
Erika Hall talks about out how much work it takes to follow a sport even though "Triathletes are worse than people who go to Burning Man."
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Episode 6: Jessie Char and her love of Disney Parks
May 11th, 2018 | 46 mins 23 secs
disney, ios
Jessie Char, co-founder of the iOS design conference Layers goes deep on her love of all things Disney parks.
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Episode 5: Jeff Atwood really loves his Yo-Yos
May 5th, 2018 | 43 mins 29 secs
tech, toys
The co-founder of Stack Overflow and founder of Discourse.org shares why he loves yo-yos so much, how big his collection is, and why he keeps sending yo-yos to everyone he knows.