If you're a fan of Anxious Machine, you might enjoy Rob's new show Phonograph, an audio zine about podcasts. On this episode, as the 15th anniversary of 99% Invisible approaches, Rob and his co-host Britta Greene dig into four very different episodes from the first four years of that show’s run (as well as the story of the time Rob met Roman Mars back in 2009):
Episode 6: “99% Symbolic”
Episode 29: “Cul de Sac” (Produced with Katie Mingle)
Episode 103: “U.T.B.A.P.H” (Produced with Sam Greenspan)
Episode 83: “Heyoon” (Produced with Alex Goldman)
To support Phonograph, subscribe to our new bonus feed, which features experiments in audio storytelling, including this month’s story about a young mother’s relationship to her hearing aids, having refused to wear them since she started losing her hearing in the 6th grade.
Show Notes:
Invisible Ink (https://transom.org/2004/invisible-ink/) (featured on Transom.org)
“Genesis Object” on 99% Invisible
HowSound episode on 99% Invisible
HowSound episode on Heyoon (https://transom.org/2013/heyoon/)
Alex Goldman’s new podcast Hyperfixed
Music from Blue Dot Sessions (https://www.sessions.blue)
19 May 2020
The News
I’ve always had a problematic relationship to the news, and I’ve struggled to navigate that even more since this pandemic began. I talk to my father about the night I yelled at him over his insufficient fear of the virus, and I look back on a 1954 essay by E.B. White about the disparity between his experience of a hurricane and the coverage he hears of that hurricane on the radio.
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Music:
Blue Dot Sessions (https://www.sessions.blue)
Links:
The Eye of Edna by E.B. White
Cancel Everything by Yascha Mounk
28 Apr 2020
Contagion
Like most people, I imagine, I've been having a lot of anxious thoughts these days. And I’ve been wishing I could get those thoughts out of my head. Then I remembered that I used to have a podcast called Anxious Machine.
So here’s my first episode in three years, part of a planned, ongoing audio journal. This episode starts with some thoughts about how this virus first entered my consciousness, how it felt to watch the movie Contagion with my daughter, and trying to stay awake to what's happening.
Music:
The House Glows with Almost No Help by Chris Zabriskie
Contagion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Cliff Martinez
Links:
Contagion by Steven Soderbergh
Dana Stevens on the Slate Culture Gabfest
Wesley Morris on On The Media
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