Tasteland

By Tasteland

Creative takes on media, marketing and technology from Daisy Alioto and Francis Zierer.

Daisy is the CEO of Dirt Media, a next-generation entertainment brand using emerging technology to tel

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The podcast currently has 81 episodes available.

Tasteland episodes:

February 18, 2026 Ep. 81: Bookseller as human algorithm ft. James Webster
Today on Tasteland we're speaking to James Webster, the co-owner of Recluse Books, an indie bookstore in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Recluse Books
Website
Instagram
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Timestamps
00:00 Doing Italian things
03:53 Recluse best sellers
07:28 Logistics of picking and stocking 6,000 books
11:40 Bookstore culture of Fort Worth
15:05 Receiving feedback on book recommendations
17:11 Current reads
24:15 Running bookstore events
29:47 Bookstore location and community impact
36:04 Making books approachable
41:57 Reading hard books because they're hard
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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51min
February 11, 2026 Ep. 80: 36 unrecognizable hours ft. Charly Wilder
Charly Wilder is writer, award-winning journalist and executive editor at Roads & Kingdoms.
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Charly Wilder
Instagram
Twitter/X
LinkedIn
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Timestamps
00:00 Respect the Quad God
05:45 Maintaining a unique travel journalism perspective
10:51 Looking at the world through many lenses
17:10 The deepest culinary tours on Earth
23:50 The Roads and Kingdoms audience
28:57 Curating contributors
34:16 Joining the Roads and Kingdoms team
37:36 Maintaining and updating city guides
45:03 Thinking about food as a storyteller
48:14 The qualities of a great travel and food writer
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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59min
February 04, 2026 Ep. 79: Not his first Rodeo ft. Sam Levy
Sam Levy is the former COO of Hinge and co-founder of Rodeo, a new app designed to wrangle the details of your social life and keep you organized.
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Sam Levy
LinkedIn
Instagram
TikTok
Rodeo
Website
App Store
TikTok
Instagram
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References
Patient Capital Will Eat the World
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Timestamps
00:00 Somebody that I used to know
03:35 Patient capital will eat the world
09:27 Infrastructure for your social life
14:15 Managing the user experience
19:44 The expectation of apps as a memory layer
23:56 Types of Rodeo users
27:47 Using TikTok as a research group
35:32 Choosing the name Rodeo
37:13 The evolution of the idea
42:14 A business plan that maintains integrity
48:06 Get offline
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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53min
January 28, 2026 Ep. 78: Panic! On the tech right ft. Julia Black
Julia Black is a tech and business correspondent at Vanity Fair and freelance writer whose work has also been published in the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, WIRED, The Verge, and others.
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Julia Black
Website
Twitter/X
LinkedIn
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Timestamps
00:00 Resy anxiety
07:35 The reality of modern genetic testing
12:38 Substack on TV
17:50 Evolving opinions and journalistic integrity
23:48 TikTok takeover conspiracies
28:32 The shifting politics of big tech
39:00 Symbolism in politics and ideology
47:44 Holding on to what's meaningful
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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54min
January 21, 2026 Ep. 77: Radiohead message boards ft. Bre Morell from crushed
This week on Tasteland we're joined by Bre Morell, one half of the duo, crushed.
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crushed
Tour dates
Listen
Instagram
Twitter/X
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Timestamps
00:00 Judging a book by its cover
09:29 Brits in an Oasis
14:46 Entering eBay flow state
19:46 Late 90s musical influences
28:11 Nostalgic corners of the internet
33:00 Video game musical influences
38:33 Driving in Texas
41:37 Touring the country as a vegan
44:28 To make timeless music, be genreless
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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52min
January 14, 2026 Ep. 76: Dry phone January ft. Natasha Hoskins
This week on Tasteland we're joined by the GM and co-founder of Boys Club, Natasha Hoskins.
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Boys Club
Website
Podcast
Instagram
Twitter/X
Natasha Hoksins
LinkedIn
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Timestamps
00:00 The asperges defense
05:38 Into the archives
07:55 Boys Club extended universe
12:23 Golden Globes Polymarket collab
17:15 The Boys Club network
20:27 Twitter muted words reveal
29:17 Trump to Tom Brady chlamydia domino effect
35:50 Traitors in the Industry
41:43 Hooked on Reels
44:12 New year, new LinkedIn strategy
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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50min
January 07, 2026 Ep. 75: The Cosmos Girl ft. Dena Yago
This week on Tasteland we're joined by Dena Yago, an artist, writer, and founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE. Dena is currently working at Cosmos, a visual discovery and inspiration platform for creatives.
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Dena Yago
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn
Twitter/X
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Timestamps
00:00 Smoking Christmas gift
4:44 No smoke without fire
10:00 GQ editor-in-chief predictions
12:40 Name that trend
16:26 Parallel thinking and Darwinism
19:45 The Cosmos secret sauce
25:25 Why books still matter in fast media
32:19 Irony is dead, long live cringe
42:25 The rise of the Cosmos girl
49:04 AI and curation
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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57min
December 31, 2025 Ep. 74: One year after another
Daisy and Francis bring 2025 to a close by looking back on their defining media of the year and looking ahead to the world of tech and media in 2026.
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Timestamps
00:00 A New England Christmas
04:09 Invisible labor of the holiday season
08:15 Dirt Books
14:13 Songs and albums 2025
18:23 Is 2026 the year of the techlash
22:37 The creator economy in 2026
29:32 Dirt reader's top books of 2025
31:44 Daisy's viral tweet of 2024-2025
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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36min
December 17, 2025Ep. 73: It goes down in the Google Doc ft. Daniel Spielberger
This week on Tasteland we're joined by writer and editor, Daniel Spielberger. Daniel is also the executive editor of Study Hall and the host of the Study Hall Podcast. Read the Farmer's Almanac article we discuss here.
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Daniel Spielberger
Study Hall Podcast
Daniel Docs
LinkedIn
Twitter
Instagram
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Timestamps
00:00 $45 well spent, $5 poorly spent
07:36 Surprise proposal and tweets going viral
11:09 Influencer culture in media
17:50 We need storytellers
24:39 Daniel Docs
28:09 Study Hall
33:08 Too much media about media
44:32 Olivia Nuzzi did it all for nothing
53:43 Grown men shouldn't have birthday parties
58:29 Worst movie of 2025
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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1h 2min
December 10, 2025Ep. 72: Minimum viable meme ft. Jamie Wilkinson
This week on Tasteland we're joined by Jamie Wilkinson, co-founder of Know Your Meme, VHX, and most recently, Glif.
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Jamie Wilkinson
Glif
Website
GitHub
Twitter/X
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Timestamps
00:00 Coke and Wall St
03:26 Memes are a business of their own
11:30 The evolution of memes
17:03 Relationships with social media by generation
26:45 Software sub-cultures of consuming and creating
34:37 The intention of creation
38:45 Creating for yourself
45:02 The state of vibecoding
50:40 The art and value of software creation
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers
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1h 3min

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How many episodes does Tasteland have?

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