Podcasts & Public Radio

A couple of my favorite episodes I produced at the Vox.com philosophy interview show The Gray Area:

• The jazz musician's guide to the universe - Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist AND a jazz musician. Do these seemingly disparate interests share anything in common? If the answer was no, the podcast would be pretty short. I scored this episode with Alexander's own music!
  
  
• Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence - Bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari speculates on some consequences of the AI revolution that kept me awake for days!

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When Taylor Lorenz is interested, you know you should pay attention! Here's a couple episodes I produced that particularly enlightened me: 

• Do you speak brain rot? - It's June 2024, and an etymologist explains why the extremely online are casually slinging around terms that originated in the worst corners of the internet.
  
  
• Is a tech utopia a dystopia for everyone else? - In which we detail an actual plan to take over San Francisco being promoted by a tech centimillionaire

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A couple of my favorite episodes I produced at the Vulture/New York mag pop culture show Into It with Sam Sanders:

• The Weird, Wild World of 'Big Brother,' 25 Seasons In - Why is the CBS reality show Big Brother still going strong, despite even the superfans admitting that, most of the time, it's not a very good TV show?
  
  
• Country Music's Race Problem - I got to cut together this absolute banger of an episode about what the heck was going on with country music in 2023.

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A couple of my favorite episodes I produced at Recode Media with Peter Kafka:

• How Dropout found success streaming comedy for $6 a month - Dropout CEO Sam Reich is an absolute delight in this frank conversation about how he and his team saved CollegeHumor by killing it.
  
  
• Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy! - As a former game show producer and Jeopardy! obsessive, the opportunity to ask Ken Jennings about the intricacies of Daily Double placement was too good to be true.

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I was the senior producer and head writer for Ask Me Another. Here are my all-time favorite episodes:

• The World Turned Upside-Down - Starring Hamilton's Javier Muñoz and Stranger Things' David Harbour, this episode contains the all-timer 20 Sided Quiz, in which Harbour must explore a dungeon filled with Shakespearean monsters.
  
  
• A Quiz-mas Carol - We turned Ask Me Another into the ultimate holiday special with an episode of trivia themed around the past, present and future -- and guest-hosted by Ebenezer Scrooge himself.
  
  
• The Final Round - Endings are sad, but it's also a privilege to craft a finale. I'm very proud of what we pulled together during this pandemic episode.

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Somehow they let me on the air at NPR's Morning Edition and Weekend All Things Considered. Here's a selection of some of my favorite things I got away with saying to millions of people:
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• ​'Lifespan': What Are The Limits Of Literary License? - Before Daniel Radcliffe did it on Broadway, I reported on this book for Morning Edition. No spoilers, but my journey reporting it forced me to become a character at the very end of this piece. I've heard from multiple people that their teachers played this piece for them in class, which is wild and makes me feel old.
  
  
• Enough With The 40th Anniversaries Already - Ever get the feeling that anniversary stories are a lazy way to fill time? Guy Raz and I demolish the fourth wall to explore the phenomenon.
  
  
• Passing One Of Many, Many Gavels - The Speaker of the House "passing the gavel" is a cliche well-adjusted people would ignore, but not me. Turns out there are A LOT of gavels.​

​And here are some of my favorite interviews I produced at NPR:

• Bill Clinton 
• Willie Nelson
• Amy Poehler
• Terry Pratchett
• ​Michael Stipe

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I'm the co-host and co-creator of Seltzer Death Match, the podcast that pits two seltzers against each other in a head-to-head battle. What began as a joke project turned into an interview on Dan Pashman's The Sporkful and an actual, paid seltzer marketing consulting gig.

• 17 Times Seltzer Bubbles Tickled Your Fancy - Hint Fizz Peach vs. Rocchetta Brio Blu
  
  
• Finale - When the winner is announced, experience one of the most electric moments ever recorded on tape. Seriously.
  
  
• JAM.14: Grapefruit Dragonfruit - In 2022, we switched it up and tackled the Bonne Maman advent calendar in a 24-days-straight jam jamboree.

RPGs & Interactive Experiences

I caught the RPG bug pretty hard, and have had the good fortune to facilitate as game master some RPG one-shots and campaigns for friends.

• m1n0taur - A cyberpunk retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur (Forged in the Dark homebrew)
• Gracey Manor - Inspired by a popular spooky, some would say "haunted," theme park ride (Fate Condensed homebrew)
• GUSS 113 - A spacestation's crew mediates a boiling conflict between two planets (Fate Condensed)
• The Void Complex - A "mystery box" inspired campaign about a Brooklyn apartment complex that exists within an inky black void (Fate Condensed)
• Castoreum University - Students find adventure at an institution of higher magical education in the Hudson River Valley (Kids on Brooms)

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I love creating tactile storytelling experiences using interactive audiovisual installations.
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• The Time Machine: A Scientific Romance arrived at the dawn of the room escape craze. The innovative format was a collection of puzzles that could be completed in any order, each part of a secret "uber-puzzle," leading to a climactic finish where teams literally had to join hands to create a human circuit.
  
  
• Learn more about my work with Science Fiction Trope.