Brooklyn native Gabriel Berezin and I got the chance to talk about how he started up his show, Fugues. Combining two passions of neuroscience and music, his show talks about how the 'fugue' is a term that applies to both. You'll have to listen in to find how these two concepts bridge together! Find his show everywhere online, and also at fugues.simplecast.com. 

William Mankelow got into podcasting without realizing he was podcasting! He used to be in radio shows, reading scripts, and had a radio show specifically for a hospital, so it already had the makings of being a podcast. Now his current show has to do with nature, philosophy, climate, sustainability and the human condition. The ultimate goal is to make it a live show, but for now, it's a great way to host environmental debates. Find The People's Countryside at thepeoplescountryside.co.uk and everywhere you listen to podcasts online. 

In 2007 today's guest had a big life change. He started off by getting into welding and then later, radio. Obvious pivot there. But, he later pivoted into podcasting, which definitely is more common. Sticking with his show being hosted on a table or a phone, his low-tech approach and intimate studio setup brings a nice, relaxing experience, designed to talk about simple subjects that he had deep appreciation of. The name of the show is 'Sixty Thousand', because that's how many neurons are devoted to mapping your ears to your brain. This unique, niche show focuses on passion and purity, dips into philosophy and the 'negative space' of podcasting, talking about what everybody else isn't bringing up. Find 60kpod on twitter, and the podcast everywhere you listen online. Listen in at the end for a sample trailer. 

Today's guest and I met on Reddit--which is getting to be a pretty recurrent theme--and hit it off right away. His Italian-based show called 'Wicli Gnic' combines two Italian words--Wicli for 'weekly' and Gnic, which is the squeaky sound that his bike makes. And actually, that bike is what started the show. Today he does the intro for his show by riding around between home and work, and talking about the guest and topic. Once he's settled in at home though, that's the actual interview. His show centers on dark humor 

While today's guest hasn't been a guest himself very much, the guy's got an incredible story. And wouldn't you know it, my laptop ran out of space for the recording! But we got the gist of it. Chicago's own Tony V. got his start in podcasting as a direct result of the pandemic. In his words, 'sheer desperation and loneliness' led him to start his show, and then sheer luck led him to Reddit where he uses livestreaming as a unique way to broadcast. Plus, his hat game is on POINT, son! Find him on Reddit, Monday through Friday at 7am as user libbynator and listen in to what he's got cookin'. 

I'm here today with Zach Beach, host of the Learn to Love podcast, and what he's got going on is something that could benefit a lot of people. Many of us, myself included, aren't masters at building relationships and communicating love. We all have different degrees of experience and different levels of understanding all the categories of love and relationships. But Zach's mission in life is sharing that knowledge. And one of the ways he does it is through his podcast. On this episode we talk about how he finds guests, who the perfect listener is, a bit about the process and the motivation behind why he got started. It's been a wild time since the pandemic started, but it's turned up some interesting trends that we talk about here, regarding how people really view relationships. There are things we all do that indicate we hold it in much higher regard than we let on. Find his show by searching for 'Learn to Love Podcast' anywhere you consume the medium, the-heart-center.com for his work, or zachbeachlove anywhere on social media.

It's been a little bit since the last time I talked with Veronica Kirin, and last time I had her on a different podcast she had just finished up her project called Stories of Elders, where she interviewed the older generation to find out what life was like for them. Giving them a chance to look back and providing a story for people to look forward to was a monumental project. Now, with COVID being the most notable thing happening in most of our lifetimes, a new project called Stories of COVID, where people share their stories about what life was like when the pandemic took hold. Socially distant, of course. Stories of COVID is set to go live soon and you can find it at storiesofcovid.co, and you can sign up to share your story as well. Also find her at veronicakirin.com and all over social, and check out her podcast creation course linked in the show notes (https://veronicakirin.teachable.com/courses/the-audacious-podcast-course/). Listen in at the end for the trailer for the Stories of COVID podcast. 

Man if I had today's guest around back when I was a kid, history class would've been a lot less boring. There's so much that we don't talk about in school about why the world is the way it is today. And I mean I get it, because it's hard to deeply cover thousands of years of it and still have time for other stuff. Dan Toler's podcast, Relevant History, talks about the more obscure wars, hidden agendas, conspiracies and betrayals that make up the fabric of our history, that often gets overlooked. There's some really cool stuff that he gets into. Each episode takes about eight hours of effort, from doing research, outlining the subject, editing and publishing. If you think history is boring, Dan can probably convince you otherwise. And if you're just starting, his recommendation is to begin with Episode 13, which is about The Battle of Castle Itter. I'll be giving that one a listen myself. His podast is on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you listen, and also at his site, dantolerpodcast.com. Let's find out what we've been missing being taught in this episode. 

Not every manga can make it in Shonen Jump like One Piece or Naruto. Listen in to David Weinberger and his co-host host Jordan discuss the manga that got canceled, and what they could have done to have stayed afloat instead of becoming a Shonen Flop. The Podcast: Shonen Flop. The location: shonenflop.com and @shonenflopcast on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The goal: dig deep into the world of anime and manga and find out what it is that makes new shows go flop! Enjoy the listen. 

Ben Fogt got started on his podcasting journey as a joke actually! Early in the pandemic he had surgery that kept him in bed for 3 months. And he picked up listening to podcasts to keep himself occupied. He'd noticed that a lot of people literally didn't know what day it was most of the time, and he thought, 'well it'd be funny if there were a podcast for that so that I can say, hey there's a podcast for that'. But oddly enough... there wasn't. So he started one. His first podcast is called 'Today Is...' which features quick 5 second episodes simply telling you what day it is. From there he decided to highlight the history of the small island city he lives in, close to Detroit, called 'What's the Deal, Grosse Ile?', capturing stories from the island's long history all the way back to 1776. Ben's gotten into a lot of different areas in podcasting, editing, tv broadcasts and Youtube channels that make for a really fun story that you'll have to hear because this intro's getting kinda long. The easiest way to find the 'Today Is...' podcast is by searching for him, Ben Fogt, on Podchaser. The podcast about his hometown is whatsthedealgi.com, and then an upcoming resurrection of the Dad Labs channel is coming soon at dadlabs.com. Let's jump in now.