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Rob Schulte is a self-proclaimed influencer who uses his powers of editing and charisma to produce more podcasts than what most people would consider “humanly possible.”

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CREDITS:

Host: Rob Schulte / Tim Barnes

Guest: Tim Barnes

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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Tim Barnes chats with comedy writer/political speech writer Chandler Dean about about Trump’s re-election, the current state of comedy and politics, and how he balances the two in his career.

Chandler Dean is a comedian and speechwriter who is currently a Senior Director at West Wing Writers, host of the comedy debate show Abolish Everything at Caveat, and a performer on UCB's Harold Night with the team FKA Deb. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vulture, McSweeney's, Reductress, and Hard Drive. He is the author of the speechwriting advice column How to Write Every Speech You'll Ever Need to Give in Your Life, and in 2022, he wrote two of the top ten most-read McSweeney's articles of the year. He was previously a Monologue Writer for Lovett or Leave It, and has also worked for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.  Explore this site or follow him on Twitter to learn more.

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CREDITS:

Host: Tim Barnes

Guest: Chandler Dean

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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Tim Barnes chats with podcaster/podcast producer Anita Flores about her early love of television, the evolution of the podcast space, and what makes Frasier stand the test of time.

ANITA FLORES is a podcast producer most recently at Marvel Entertainment. Previously, she’s worked at SiriusXM producing Earwolf and Stitcher shows such as Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, Vibe Check, Factually, This Keeps Happening, and more. She also hosted and produced for Latino USA,  I’m Listening: A Frasier Podcast, ​CareTalkers, and Doctor Horror, which explores why scary movies are comforting for some. Follow her on IG and X.

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CREDITS:

Host: Tim Barnes

Guest: Anita Flores

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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Tim Barnes chats with comedian Tim Platt about telling jokes through music, the impact of Jim Carrey, and the inspiration behind his new comedy record, TEETH LIKE BEAK, out now out now with Abso Lutely Records.

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Tim Platt is a comedian, actor, and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His debut comedy album of jokes and songs, TEETH LIKE BEAK, is dropping in September 2024 with Abso Lutely Records. He was selected as one of Comedy Central’s Up Next Variety Comedians at Clusterfest as well as a Kickstarter Creator-In-Residence. Along with being a cast member in Headgum’s award-winning podcast Rude Tales of Magic, Tim has written and performed original music for Sesame Street, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, and The Story Pirates, one of which was performed by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists. He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Masterclass with Steve Martin.

Current Podcast: Rude Tales of Magic, Oh These Those Stars of Space

He created the character comedy podcast Hampton High Archives, where he hosted in character as a high school junior trying to make “WTF with Marc Maron but for MY school!” Guests include Cole Escola, Ayo Edebiri, Jamie Loftus, and more.

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CREDITS:

Host: Tim Barnes

Guest: Tim Platt

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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Tim Barnes chats with novelist and playwright Claire Willett about the connections between her faith, queerness, and fandom.

Portland native Claire Willett is a playwright, novelist, former Catholic youth minister, and nonprofit grantwriter. She is a past recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama, has received creative project grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission, was a founding artist of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Work (for which she wrote five plays and two librettos), and spent six years as a company member of the award-winning Portland-based writers' collective Playwrights West.

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CREDITS:

Host: Tim Barnes

Guest: Claire Willett

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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Tim Barnes chats with comedian, filmmaker, and viral digital sketch creator Hoff Matthews.

Hoff Matthews has written for outlets such as Comedy Central, Paramount Network and Funny or Die. You can find him and his video sketches on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter. He also co-produced and hosted the horror movie screening/live comedy show series Hoff’s Horrorfest and created and starred in the web series #Throwback.

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CREDITS:

Host: Tim Barnes

Guest: Hoff Matthews

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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Tim Barnes chats with horror novelist and screenwriter Tananarive Due about balancing the worlds of screenwriting with prose writing, and taking the leap from journalism to fiction.

TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their upcoming Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!"

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason. 

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CREDITS:

Host: Tim Barnes

Guest: Tananarive Due

Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

Music Engineer: Adam Smith

Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

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