Podcasts by Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
A longform freewheeling monthly recap of site doings, with the original MeFi team.
Further podcasts by Matthew Haughey, Jessamyn West, and Josh Millard
Podcast on the topic Technologie
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193: What was previously my discretionary time from 2023-08-14T20:05:32
cortex has a new job and was hard to track down and we had a few months of missing each other. We found some time on August 14th and tried to play catch-up. Runs about 97 minutes.
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192: The week between last week and this week from 2023-03-05T17:20:13
A nerdy debate about the relative term "this week" and "last week" and that mystery week in between them. We got together on March 4th and tried not to talk about the weather too much. Runs about ...
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191: Thoroughly insinuated into the normalcy of our life from 2023-02-11T22:45:35
More or less on time! New theme song! We talk about heating up water and heating up ourselves. cortex read a lot of MetaFilter this month, Jessamyn's still reading old FanFare threads. Runs about ...
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190: New Year, New Me... Fi from 2023-01-09T02:27:17
Back on track this year. We resolve to get these out on time. More or less. Maybe. Cortex and I talked on January 3rd about our usual nonsense for a tight 87 minutes. Thanks for listening.
189: Snowperson Trauma from 2022-12-11T21:53:53
Cortex and I decided to make up for lost time after the delayed previous episode by knocking out another one quick-like, and here it is! Catching up on what we can of the last couple of months of M...
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188: Big Stride Moonshot from 2022-12-05T16:55:45
Some difficulties hitting escape velocity with this one. We recorded it in October 5th and, well, here it is now.
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187: Man, It's A Hot One from 2022-08-30T15:50:01
Belated podcast for August, American summer is just like that. No idea what we talked about, but I know we had a good time.
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186: Am I Being A User Right Now from 2022-07-05T16:01:19
It's episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with Jessamyn and I...andloup! Who joined us to talk a bit about their experiences with internet past and...
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185a: V Rising and Severance from 2022-06-15T00:52:32
Random podcast bonus content! Jessamyn and I decided to do a mid-month episode to just chat about a couple media things we liked. Is it a FanFare podcast? I dunno! Will we keep doing it? I dunno!...
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185: A very wearing my bathrobe all day day from 2022-05-31T19:40:12
It's episode 185 of the MeFi Monthly Podcast, with Jessamyn and I talking for a good chunk up front about the whole process over the last couple months of figuring out transferring ownership of the...
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184: Sentences are music from 2022-05-08T22:13:05
I didn't edit or write this month's podcast (other than this little bit)! Thanks so much to eotvos for all his work on this; note his note at the end of the podcast about other possible contributi...
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183: Severance, not Succession from 2022-04-11T16:32:25
It was a very busy turn of the month so we're wandering in pretty late with this episode. I talk a little bit aboutListen
182: too many trees, not enough goats from 2022-03-07T22:21:15
Psst, hey kid, wanna buy a podcast?
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181: Pivot Table the Calendar from 2022-02-04T20:13:46
I love podcasts, woo woo woo! I love podcasts, how 'bout you? Here's episode 181, with jessamyn and I contemplating the idea of a week and a month and talking about misc. MetaFilterian stuff. Runs...
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180: Is Sunset A Local Phenomenon? from 2022-01-06T18:40:36
I checked in with management and apparently we have to do a 2022 now even though we just finished wiht 2021. Jessamyn and I do our best to roll into the new year and talk about MetaFilter stuff an...
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179: Calendrical Is Totally A Word from 2021-11-30T23:32:07
In our triumphant return to posting podcasts at the turn of the month, Jess and I talk about time management and reminders, complicated conversational dynamics, the assassination of JFK (but only v...
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178: Leisure Suit Larry's, Uh, Pixels from 2021-11-10T17:38:49
We got a rootin' tootin' podcast here. Darn tootin'. Can you both rootin'- and darn'- something that's tootin' in the same paragraph like this? I don't know. I really don't know. I might be go...
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177: Good Soup from 2021-10-13T17:50:04
I accidentally wrote "make a podcast" on a colander instead of the calendar, so on the downside this episode is pretty late but on the upside it has been thoroughly rinsed. Is that anything? Can ...
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176: Low-Key Podcast from 2021-09-02T20:52:03
Jessamyn and I managed to stumble our way into and through a podcast despite both having the needle pegged hard to E this afternoon, and here is recorded evidence of that fact, at about 75 minutes....
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175: Don't Throw The Banana Peel In The Toilet from 2021-08-02T00:26:57
It's only the first day of August, but the weather in Portland is such that it already feeling like plural dog days have elapsed. And yet, through it all, a podcast episode drags itself through th...
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174: Knobs and Dials from 2021-07-03T00:47:09
Jessamyn and I were both feeling excessively chatty today so this one clocks in at about one hour fifty five, with discussions about MeFi, Ask, etc. along with a bunch of wanderings and heat wave c...
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173: No That's A Different Penguin from 2021-06-01T16:21:33
My dog ate my podcast synopsis. It's me, it's Jessamyn, it's a podcast recorded in the deep past of before the long weekend, it's about 90 minutes.
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172: I'll Get There At Some Point from 2021-04-30T03:49:52
I'll be straight with you: this is an episode, of a podcast, and it's me and Jessamyn, and we talk about MetaFilter and stuff adjacent to MetaFilter. There's no sugar-coating it: this is 90 minute...
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171: Was I Weird from 2021-04-05T21:29:13
We've made it through the dark tunnel that is April 1 online and jessamyn and I are here with that good good MetaFilter chatter and a little bit of linguistics speculation. Runs about 85 minutes.<...
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170: Through A Paper Towel Tube Darkly from 2021-03-04T00:02
number one victory royale / yeah podcast with Jess who's my pal / 90 minutes running time oh wow / just cleaned out my Chrome tabs now
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169: Soon May The Podcast Come from 2021-02-01T19:47:40
It's Febuary, Februr, uh, it's Ferbur—it's not January anymore and here's a new podcast episode. We're catching up since episode 168 a couple months ago because last month we did the live-st...
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149: IROC-Z FOMO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PODCAAAAAAAST because this is an episode of one. It's me and Jessamyn and a whole passel of Januarial content from MeFi, along with some youthful car stories and our belated ...
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148: 2019 New Year Call-In Episode from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sheesh, it's a week into the year and I still keep trying to write "2018" on my podcasts. But it's the new year, and Jessamyn and I catch up on what's happened on the big blue linky sea lately. Als...
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168: Marquee Biz from 2020-12-02T23:30:30
When the sound hits your ear
Like a Jess/cortex schmear
That's apodcast
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167: The Gang Records A Podcast from 2020-10-02T21:42:40
Back on something resembling a schedule, jessamyn and I chat about MetaFilter and also...other things? I am very punchy! This has been successfully posted! Have a great weekend!
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166: The Metafilter Monthly-ish Podcast from 2020-09-11T20:40:32
After an August break, jessamyn and I are back to talk about Metafilter, bad weather, libraries, Metafilter, blaseball, and Metafilter.
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165: Take What We've Got from 2020-07-03T21:22:07
It's July, which is podcast season, or so the man at the podcast store told me. So jessamyn and I bought ourselves a podcast and took it out on the lake and, honestly, I don't know where I'm going...
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164: It's Been A Rough Week from 2020-06-03T00:30:24
Podcast time, and jessamyn and are I back talking about a bunch of stuff we liked from MetaFilter as usual, and talking a bit about the hard stuff surrounding George Floyd and Minneapolis, and also...
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163: You must understand! from 2020-05-01T17:14:30
It was a time known as The Great Resetting, when, after a months of wandering in a week late or so with episodes, jessamyn and I finally managed to release a new episode smack dab on the 1st. It w...
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162: Grip It And Rip It from 2020-04-04T01:38:39
Jessamyn and I do what we do best: manage to show up and record a podcast despite it all. We talk about (a) a bunch of COVID stuff and (b) a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with COVID and (c...
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161: Change Your Ding-Dang Clocks from 2020-03-06T19:40:50
Podcast? Podcast! Me and jessamyn, podcasting. It's the podcast thing, with jessamyn and with me, and it's this! Here you go. Seventy-five minutes? Podcast. Hi. Hello. Don't forget to reset your cl...
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160: That Was A Bood Posscat from 2020-02-08T01:14:26
Like Frodo and Sam enduring the travails of Mordor, Jessamyn and I have managed somehow to surmount the difficulties of the world to produce a podcast episode this month. Instead of getting a finge...
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159: Enter The Talkredoers from 2020-01-10T19:51:45
Kicking off the year with a podcast that tried very hard not to happen, but by god me and jessamyn pulled it off after all, despite reschedules and weird recording problems that cost us a little bi...
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158: Keep Them Scrollwheels Scrollin', Though The Browser's Slowin' from 2019-12-03T17:27:06
It's me! It's jessamyn! It's episode 158 of us podcasting about about the sort of MetaFiltery things we're wont to podcast about! It's about ninety minutes! Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe wit...
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157: That's The Title, Everyone Get Back To Work And Thank You from 2019-11-01T20:54:30
It's our Halloween episode, which is not particularly spooOOOOooOOoooky because I accidentally left it out on the counter overnight after we recorded it yesterday. But jessamyn and I catch up on th...
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156: Wasting All My Time Time from 2019-10-04T19:35:07
Jessamyn! Me! Podcast! MetaFilter! Talking! Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc - some facts about the number 156 - Lurking, by Joanne McNeil Jobs - Help plan ...
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155: No curses, no whammies from 2019-09-01T23:38:27
After several technical hiccups, Jessamyn and I managed to record a podcast, and here it is! Lots of MeFi and Ask; lots of users' first posts, lots of animal posts, even several first animal posts....
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154: I Learned It By Reading from 2019-08-02T13:59:42
We're back after a skipped month with an unsurprisingly longer-than-usual podcast episode, as jessamyn and I chatter about all the ususal site stuff (a month's worth is generally too much, two mont...
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153 - Josh Ruins Taiga from 2019-06-05T18:23:34
It's time for that monthly podcast: jessamyn and I caught up yesterday on the last month or so of all things MetaFilter, Ask MetaFilter, Projects, and so forth through the ol' enumeration of subsit...
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152: Get Jobbed At Steve MetaFilter Jobs from 2019-05-09T23:45:22
P O D C A S T Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc - Library of Congress WWII book evac stickers Jobs - I'll pay you to tell me how you do money by chesty_a_art...
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151: A Birdwatching Mecha from 2019-04-05T21:30:05
It's podcast time, and it's a (relatively) brief, (relatively) under-produced episode this time, with me and Jessamyn chatting about MeFi stuff for about 70 minutes because my voice was a little wo...
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150: Taking a Dinger from 2019-03-04T19:16:53
Here it is. A podcast. It's a podcast and here it is. Yes. Yes? Yes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc. - jessamyn's photo of a funny tombstone racking up un...
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