Category Archives: podcast

Jun 11 2018
podcast

SaMcast Episode 85 – “YUGGHCK”

This week the Mike and Adam link minds, sharing a pick and then each bringing rap and videogames:

Footnotes/Follow Up

May 29 2018
fun, podcast

SamCast #84 Garth Brooks Chris Gaines Countdown Dot Com

We had a great time with Michael Eades as a guest on the show for this episode.

Special Guest: Michael Eades

The Picks

Followup and Footnotes

May 16 2018
art, podcast

This is the giant, flame throwing mantis I was talking about.

The night is full of terrors.

A post shared by Michael Flynn (@falfa) on

I do not like the Lumineers.

May 15 2018
podcast

SaMcast #83 – “Very Brown, Dumb Hats”

I get to talk about my 1st ever trip to Las Vegas and Adam brings a song, a book, and a movie (no spoliers!).

May 07 2018
podcast

SaMcast Episode 82 : Scum Bum

This is a good one.

Adam and I talk on the Theme of “Reawatchable Movies”, and I have to tell you that I was very surprised by his picks. It’s a fun listen.

Apr 16 2018
podcast

SaMcast Episode 81 “Hangout Experiments”

We’ll get back to guests soon, we promise. In the meantime, listen to how different we sound when we use Google Hangouts for recording instead of Skype.

(spoiler: It’s not different at all)

Apr 03 2018
podcast

SaMcast Episode 80 “It’s April now, but we’re no fools.”

I am excited to share this 80th(!) episode of our little podcast. No guest this week, but don’t hold that against us.

Mar 12 2018
podcast

Slow Burn Podcast


Slow Burn is a recent podcast from Slate that i’ve been enjoying. The narrator, Leon Neyfakh, presents Watergate as it unfolded, taking special care to present some smaller characters that have been forgotten over the years. The Martha Mitchell story is sad and very interesting. She was wildly famous in the 60’s for her part in Watergate, but she’s also not someone I’ve ever heard of. Neyfakh drew a parallel between her and Anthony Scaramucci because everyone knows that name right now, but in 20 years, no one is going care or remember someone who served in the White House for 11 days. He also makes some really obvious connections between the way the Watergate scandal unfolded and the current Russia Election Tampering/Collusion investigation we’re living through. It doesn’t take much to connect those dots.

The episodes are pretty short so it’s an easy binge over a weekend.

Mar 09 2018
podcast

adidas Boost

After hearing Gabe describe the adidas Boost as “the most comfortable shoe I’ve ever worn” I felt like I had to try them. I’m a shoe dork, which is different from a sneakerhead, but I figured if I could find a pair at a steep discount it would be worth the investigation.

These are not the most comfortable shoe I’ve ever worn. They’re not even the most comfortable sneaker I own. Maybe I chose the wrong model, or maybe I’m too big for the Boost to cushion, but they’re only okay. I’m going to rock them hard this summer to see how they hold up. I’m not optimistic.

Dec 07 2017
podcast, tv

Rolling Stone : Stories from the Edge

Rolling Stone : Stories from the Edge is a 4-hour, 2-part documentary from HBO about Rolling Stone Magazine. It tells the story from the magazine’s start in 60’s San Francisco and runs through the most recent US Presidential election.

I remember liking RS in high school (which was the mid-late-80’s ). My folks weren’t Rolling Stone people but I have a friend whose parents were and I usually read it when I was at his house.

There was a lot for me to enjoy in this documentary:

  • The nostalgia of 60’s San Francisco is a well-trod path, but the John Lennon bits were interesting since I just came off of that massive Bob Spitz Beatles biography.
  • Hunter S Thompson is someone I’ve always known as the “gonzo journalism” guy, but I didn’t realize all of that was done under the Rolling Stone banner. These are crazy stories. Hearing the now is like hearing someone tell stories about all of the parties they “got supppper fucked up and trashed the Denny’s” Except in this case, the Denny’s is the Democratic National Convention.
  • I actually remember some of the magazine’s coverage of the Reagan years and new wave music, but none of their 90’s boy band writing. Thank goodness. That was the height of ‘zine culture for me and I was way more into reading The Big Takeover than the bullshit dinosaur Rolling Stone. Turns out I missed some great writing.
  • Ice-T and the “Cop Killer” controversy also gets a deeper look. This is something I remember well so it is cool to hear Ice-T talk about it now.
  • The UVa rape case was a huge editorial failure on the part of RS and the interview with the publisher and the article author are really well done.



    • A lot of it was also a handjob to Baby Boomers. I get frustrated at the way a whole generation will take credit for simply being alive when large cultural shifts happened. You know how that Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine show sure did a great job of telling us how important Dr, Dre and Jimmy Iovene were? This RS thing is kind of like that. Yes, the magazine had an effect on culture, but it’s silly to suggest that it was a driving force of the culture.

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