Podchasm

That's three hours of my week I'll get back..

Jacob Tender and Mike Comite ponder the elective cash syphons in their lives. As former broke creatives, how do they pay it forward? What makes a subscription worth it? The guys talk about things that requires more links than usual.

Links:

• Comparing Apple One subscriptions (image)
• Jacob's reading & movie diaries on Hardcover and Letterboxd
• Marc Maron explains why he's ending WTF | The Wrap
• Supported Creators:
  • Earhustle
  • My Brother, My Brother and Me
  • Off Menu
  • This American Life / Life Partners Program
  • Love + Radio (Podcast / Patreon)
  • John Roderick / Roderick on the Line
  • Beau Miles (YouTube / Patreon)
  • Joel Haver (YouTube / Patreon)
  • Geowizard (YouTube / Patreon)
  • Fieldhouse Boys (YouTube / Patreon)
• Dropout.tv
• Mastodon
• Julia Nunes' Kickstarter
• Jacob's Cousin's IndieGoGo
• Bellwether: Sam Greenspan's speculative journalism project
• Bandcamp Friday
• Criterion Closet Picks on Letterboxd
• Don Giller: David Letterman's Unlikely Archivist
• The Spaceshipper (Bluesky / Patreon)
• Donate to Wikipedia and The Internet Archive

It was never supposed to be an obligation.

Jacob Tender and Mike Comite have returned to the mic in spectacular fashion. Lives have changed. Pockets of time have formed. Memories have been digitized. Podchasm has returned for one night only?

Links:

• Podchasm 038 | Recorded live from Terin's kitchen
• Podchasm 039 | Our (lost) episode
• Twitter acquires Breaker team to build Spaces
• Good One: A podcast about jokes
• Headgum
• COVID-19 Pandemic
• Out of the Crisis | Covid podcast hosted by Eric Reis, edited by Jacob
• Dead Eyes
  • Mike and Tom Hanks
• This American Life
  • Episode 850 with a story by Mike (transcript)
  • Julia Nunes and Mike Comite cover "Losers" by The Bell Brigade for TAL
• Jake bought a house and wrote eulogies for his grandmother and dog

“You can’t have everything, where would you put it?”

One day we recorded our last podcast and didn't know it. Then we neglected to edit and release it for 5.5 years. Edited in April of 2025, here's a backwards glance at the guys in late June 2019.

Links:

• I'm afraid you're on your own here, pal.

The boys are back in the same town. Jacob and Mike meet up to record a live episode of the show from a friend of the show's apartment. Our thanks to Terin for playing host and one man audience to us for the hour.

Podchasm's format is getting squished and the people of New York City could be too. Mike visits his wonderfully pedantic audiologist. Do you recall when The Man would weaponize frequencies to disperse loitering teens.

Links:

• How worried should New Yorkers be about falling window A/C units?
• Tinnitus | Mayo Clinic
• Tinnitus frequency matching
• Jacob's brand of hearing protection: ACS
• Westone brand
• The Mosquito sound | Wikipedia
• Coming Soon:
  • Dune (2020)
  • Avatar II (2021)
  • His Dark Materials (2019)
  • The Lord of the Rings (TV Series)
  • The Silmarillion | Wikipedia
  • Artemis Fowl (2020)

Mike takes us behind the scenes of a musical performance on Conan. This leads to a discussion of the poor preservation of late night TV. The guys see drastically different concerts and discuss glow-ups from their local music scenes.

Links:

• Mike's appearance on Conan with Julia Nunes
• The Whip Cracker teaches Conan how to do it
• Julia Michaels Live
• Pedro The Lion Live
• Fred Grzybowski, The World's Best Extreme Pogo Artist

Netflix has content. Hollywood doesn't scare our kids enough anymore. We do talk about Avengers. We'd warn you of spoilers, but know you've surely been spoiled by now.

Links:

• Spiderman and Elsa

Two pop-punk kids reminisce about seminal groups, both hard and soft. Times have changed since the year of Farley's death and Dude Ranch, surely for the benefit of Pete Davidson if not for the fans of Tom DeLonge.

If you don't get the grade you deserve, but instead get a better one, Is that okay? There's a lesson in objectivity vs subjectivity here and what might happen when you feign wisdom. Don't forget to tell yourself that you're the boss every once in a while, even if it's only when you're feeling it.

Links:

• Nardwuar
• Chad's Journey | SNL
• Serial Episode 06: The Case Against Adnan Syed
• Disney's 10 year release schedule

NPR messed up big time. Game Of Thrones is hard to watch. Jacob brought back Fall Out Boy. The guys promise this is only an Alien podcast for one more week.

Links:

• NPR presses the wrong button
• Bantha Fodder look-book
• Nick Quah's thread on his parody account going too far
• Fall Out Boy on Wikipedia
• The Cure To Growing Older, Jacob's 2012 essay about the band
• We Liked You Better Fat: Confessions of A Pariah, Patrick Stump's essay
• Mike's piece on Hop Along
• Mike on the latest Old Best Friend album
• Almost, an album by Old Best Friend
• The Hard Times
• Game Of Thrones BluRay box set.
• Alien Shorts on YouTube
• Jacob's notes on the Alien Shorts
• Introduction to David 8 on YouTube
• Meet Walter on YouTube

Was Fermi right? If Aliens are out there, should we have been visited already? If we were, what would that look like?

Your hosts speed through some movies they can't totally agree on, then chat about—you guessed it—podcasts. Jacob has a busy podcasting schedule including a new show. Luminary has launched and there's a lot to discuss. What do you call an audio program behind a paywall?

Links:

• The Fermi Paradox explained
• District 9
• Titanic
• Hateful Eight
• Dune
• Annihilation
• Alien Day (4/26)
• Bantha Fodder episode 31
• Breaking Ground
• Luminary Bad
• Luminary Worse
• Create Vinyl with Bandcamp