#49 Eric Johnson (Follow Friday): Evil coconuts, Disneyland, dog selfies
Follow Friday
English - January 28, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 74.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSociety & Culture Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Follow Friday is one year old today, so happy birthday to us! To celebrate, Garbage Day writer Ryan Broderick — one of the first-ever guests on the show — takes the reins and interviews Eric Johnson about four of his favorite people to follow online:
Someone he doesn't know in real life but wants to be friends with: Video essayist Patrick H. WillemsSomeone who's an expert in a very specific niche he loves: Kevin Perjurer, founder of DefunctlandSomeone he is embarrassed to admit he follows: Korean a capella group MayTreeSomeone who makes the internet a better place: Engineer Simone GiertzAnd on our Patreon page, you can pledge any amount of money to get access to Follow Friday XL — our members-only podcast feed with exclusive bonus follows. That feed has an extended-length version of this interview in which Eric and Ryan talk about why the history-comedy podcast Something True needs to come back for a third season.
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Follow Ryan on Twitter @broderick and listen to his podcast The Content MinesFollow us @FollowFridayPod on Twitter and InstagramFollow Eric on Twitter @heyheyesjTheme song written by Eric Johnson, and performed by Yona Marie. Show art by Dodi Hermawan.
Thank you to our amazing patrons: Jon, Justin, Amy, Yoichi, Shinri, Elizabeth, Odette, Jay, Danny, Lauren, and Sylnai