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The Nightly
By Hatch PodcastsHealth & Fitness
The Nightly episodes
- When Your Cat Only Speaks KoreanGreta Johnsen talks with Caller Elsa about whether her Korean-speaking cat will understand her English-only husband, the cutest bilingual nicknames, and a plan to hire a pet psychic before the big move.
What You'll Hear:
A Cat Raised with Korean: Elsa worries that her cat, who's only ever heard Korean at home, might feel lost once she moves in with Elsa's English-speaking husband.
Translator Duties and AirPods Dreams: From filtering out her mom's nosy questions to eyeing real-time translation earbuds, Elsa shares how she's been the family's unofficial interpreter.
Enter the Pet Psychic: Elsa floats a delightfully odd plan to hire an Etsy pet psychic after the move, just to see what the cat really thinks.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Purring cats and a very busy puppy
02:21 Welcome, Caller Elsa!
03:34 Will the language barrier confuse the cat
06:57 Real-time translating AirPods for the in-laws
09:51 We need a pet psychic
16:22 Goodnight to Michael!For the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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20 min - So Your Toddler Suddenly Loves BaseballJosh Gondelman talks with Caller Corinne about her toddler's sudden baseball obsession, a kitchen spatula turned home run bat, and how to grow a family fandom without drowning in stats.
What You'll Hear:
A Bat Made of Spatulas: Corinne's two-year-old fell hard for baseball after one LA Dodgers game, and now every kitchen utensil in the house doubles as home run equipment.
The Banana Ball Debate: Corinne asks about the wildly popular, trick-filled Savannah Bananas, and Josh explains why baseball purists have some very strong feelings about them.
Fandom Without the Spreadsheet: Josh reassures Corinne that loving baseball doesn't require memorizing launch angles, just a hot dog, some sunshine, and maybe one favorite player to root for.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Josh's lifelong sports fandom
02:02 Welcome, Caller Corinne!
02:46 The spatula becomes a baseball bat
07:00 The great Bananaball debate
17:23 Falling for Ohtani and Mookie Betts
22:39 Good night, Grammy!For the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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27 min - Highs & Lows of Hosting Strangers
Josh Gondelman talks with Caller Joy about turning a spare room into an Airbnb spot and the psychology of gray floors versus a sunny yellow wall.
What You'll Hear:
The Pillow That Was Too Much Pillow: Josh opens with hotel rooms gone wrong, from outlets hidden in closets to pillows the size of a human torso.
Seven Guests, One Percolator: Joy calls in to share how their brand-new Airbnb (built in the room they rebuilt after a house fire) filled up with bookings almost instantly.
Why Everything Is Gray Now: Joy explains how a year and a half of staying in sterile, whitewashed rentals convinced them a sunshine yellow room was the way to go.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Hotel rooms that get it wrong
02:17 Welcome, Caller Joy!
04:17 From house fire to home renovation
07:00 Mini fridges, percolators, and surprise bookings
16:19 Gray floors, sterile walls, and the search for coziness
23:03 Good nights
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28 min - Sunday Edition: Cart Narcs w/ Agent SebastianMatt Bragg sits down with cart-return crusader Sebastian Garrett Davis (aka Agent Sebastian from Cart Narcs) to unpack entitled strangers and the surprising psychology behind refusing to return a shopping cart.
What You'll Hear:
A Disneyland Shove Heard Round the Cul-de-Sac: Matt kicks things off with Caller Amber's tale of an unexpected shoving match with a stranger, which somehow leads straight into tonight's topic.
Enter Agent Sebastian of Cart Narcs: Matt welcomes the internet's most famous cart-return enforcer to explain how a small annoyance turned into a full-blown, magnet-wielding operation.
The Cookie Jar Theory of Cart Abandonment: Sebastian breaks down the surprisingly deep psychology behind why a stray shopping cart can turn a perfectly nice stranger into someone ready to fight.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Amber's Disneyland shove-off
02:13 Welcome, Agent Sebastian of Cart Narcs!
04:44 The cookie-jar psychology of getting caught
11:01 Skipping confrontations with innocent bystanders
16:50 Has society actually gotten ruder?
21:22 Good night, sweet cart!For the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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27 min - Let's Unpack UnpackingMatt Bragg talks with caller Alicia about her chaotic New York move, her stash of mismatched Band-Aids and multiplying bay leaves, and the memory box she can no longer find.
What You'll Hear:
A Seal With a Splint: Matt opens the show nursing a wrist, an elbow, and a fridge-door incident courtesy of his girlfriend, setting the tone for a night of minor domestic chaos.
Twenty Boxes and a Truckload of Band-Aids: Alicia calls in fresh off a sweaty, 91-degree move, unpacking a surprising number of duplicate Band-Aid boxes and an even stranger surplus of bay leaves.
The Case of the Missing Memory Box: Somewhere in the piles is a decade-old container of letters, concert tickets, and stray poems, and Alicia has no idea where it went.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Matt's one-armed, one-day disaster report
02:13 Alicia calls in from New York City
04:04 Did anything survive the move
09:03 Band-Aids, bay leaves, and other mysterious multiples
11:35 The elusive memory box
18:17 Good night to Alicia's aunt in ChinaFor the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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23 min - Trolley Parks and Vigilante JusticeMatt Bragg talks with Caller Amber about entitled strangers, airport etiquette meltdowns, and the strange thrill of calling out a guy who wouldn't return his shopping cart.
What You'll Hear:
The Great Disneyland Shove: Amber recounts getting physically shoved aside by a stranger at, of all places, the happiest place on Earth, and she and Matt debate whether courtesy has quietly left the building.
The Trolley Park Showdown: Matt relives the supermarket parking lot moment that turned him into an accidental vigilante, and how it inspired his girlfriend to do the same.
Making Peace With Airports: The two trade honest coping strategies for staying calm when travel brings out everyone's worst behavior, from breathing tricks to full-on dissociation.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Self-help videos and contradictory advice
02:03 Amber joins the call
02:29 The Disneyland shove
03:32 A hot take on entitled elderly behavior
07:58 The trolley park showdown
10:24 Airport etiquette and staying calm
15:35 Good nightsFor the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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19 min - Chasing That Late-Night Drive Feeling
Greta Johnsen talks with Caller Jonathan about chasing the magic of a late-night convertible drive, his homebody dog Felix, and whether a quarter-life crisis (or a convertible) might be the answer.
What You'll Hear:
A Late-Night Drive Down Memory Lane: Jonathan's recent convertible joyride down the coast sends him and Greta tumbling into nostalgia for corn fields, Portishead, and driving with nowhere in particular to be.
The Case for a Quarter-Life Crisis: Together they brainstorm wholesome alternatives to another night at the bar, from paint-and-sip dates to small trips worth taking.
Dogs Who'd Rather Stay Home: Talk turns to Jonathan's anxious dog Felix and Greta's beloved dog Scout, two homebodies who somehow still made the best travel companions.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Magazine days at Fred Meyer
02:21 Welcome, Caller Jonathan!
03:33 A convertible and total freedom
10:30 Recreating the moment in a soccer-mom SUV
17:18 Introverted hobbies and one extroverted puppy
22:52 Goodnight to Jonathan's future niece!
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27 min - The Joy of Bumping Into PeopleGreta Johnsen talks with Caller Arielle about the meticulous list she keeps of every stranger and old friend she's ever bumped into, the math behind coincidence, and the particular high of an unplanned run-in.
What You'll Hear:
A Very Specific Kind of List: Arielle explains the running note she's kept since 2023, logging every chance encounter down to the circumstance, and why she's still chasing the pattern behind it all.
Subway Cars, Sound, and Spontaneity: The two swap theories on memory triggers, from tracking subway car numbers to dedicating albums to a trip, and mourn the slow death of the spontaneous hangout.
A Peek Inside the Notes App: Greta and Arielle trade the strange, wonderful ephemera living in their phones, from houseplant lists to potential company names, before saying good night to a total stranger named Max.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome to The Nightly
02:01 Caller Arielle joins the show
05:35 The origins of the run-in list
10:26 Podcasts, albums, and memory triggers
19:07 A tour of Arielle's other lists
22:35 A Roulette GoodnightFor the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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28 min - One-on-One vs. Group Hangs
Josh Gondelman talks with Caller Eleanor about ditching friend groups for deeper one-on-one connections, the quiet joy of a good double date, and the surprising magic of "one-on-two" friendships.
What You'll Hear:
The Case for the Phone Call: Josh opens up about being an unapologetic phone call guy, and why catching up voice-to-voice with far-off friends feels more intimate than any text thread.
Breaking Up with the Friend Group: Two years post-grad, Eleanor explains why the friend groups that worked in high school and college have started to feel more draining than fulfilling.
The One-on-Two Surprise: Eleanor and Josh dig into double dates, cycling buddies, and the unexpected joy of a friendship that somehow works as three.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Josh on being a devoted phone call guy
03:17 Welcome, caller Eleanor from Williamsburg
04:03 A post-grad friendship reordering
09:58 Why double dates hit different
14:13 The surprise of one-on-two friendships
20:08 Goodnight to Judy!
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25 min - The Doll She Bought Her MomJosh Gondelman talks with Caller Anne about her reverse nostalgia for wire-rim glasses and big jeans, her new obsession with friendship bracelets, and the American Girl doll she surprised her mom with this summer.
What You'll Hear:
Grown-Up Jokes Hidden in Cartoons: Josh opens with a little ode to Animaniacs and the strange thrill of catching adult humor you weren't quite ready for as a kid.
Wire Frames, Big Pants, and Reverse Nostalgia: Anne calls in from LA to compare notes with Josh on the trends from their childhoods they truly never want to see again.
An American Girl Doll Comes Home: Anne shares how a retired doll, a Christmas memory, and her mom's own childhood came together in one very sweet full-circle gift.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Animaniacs and secret grown-up jokes
02:51 Welcome, caller Anne!
04:01 Reverse nostalgia for wires and big pants
09:12 A sneaker collection sixty pairs deep
17:26 Kit Kittredge comes home to Mom
23:05 Good night to MollyFor the fully immersive, phone free light + sound experience, learn more at hatch.co. Follow us on TikTok @hatchpodcasts and YouTube.
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About The Nightly
From the publisher's feed
Where your late night thoughts go to rest. Monday through Saturday, listeners call in to share whatever's on their mind before bed. On Sunday, we take a deep dive on one of the week’s topics.…
What’s on your mind tonight? 904-NIGHTLY (904-644-4859) and [email protected]
Hosted by Matt Bragg, Josh Gondelman, and Greta Johnsen.
Produced by Hatch. To learn more, go to hatch.co.
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