Hobby Horse
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsInterviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game.
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Episode 20: Steven Masuch is a pog slammer
November 13, 2018 03:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBSteven Masuch is a "character actor of the web," with a variety of projects under his belt and a day job building iOS apps. He hosts the Slam for Hope Pog Tournament (http://slamforhope.com/) each year in Vancouver BC, Canada, with the 5th one coming up (and still accepting players and donations) on November 22nd. We go deep on something I completely missed while growing up (because I was 20 years old already). It's everything there is to know about pogs. Some pogs: smasuch-pogs https://uploa...
Episode 19: Erin McKean has sewn hundreds of dresses
November 11, 2018 00:15 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBErin McKean is a lexicographer, writer, speaker, and maker that started Dress A Day about 13 years ago to chronicle her sewing projects. If you've ever seen Erin at a conference, chances are you've seen her in a really cool print fabric dress she made herself. We talk about her career, how she sews her dresses, as well as tips on how anyone can learn to sew their own clothes too. One of Erin's dresses, complete with bright red piping: erin-piping https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-...
Episode 18: Dan Benjamin knows what time it is thanks to his watches
October 20, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBdans-watch https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/PXgP6FFi.png Dan Benjamin is the creator of the 5by5 podcast network (http://5by5.tv/) and the podcast hosting service Fireside.fm (https://fireside.fm/) and he is really into mechanical watches. We talk about his career in podcasting and how he got started, when he fell in love with watches, and how he wears and collects them today.
Episode 17: Darius Kazemi explains his love of anime
September 16, 2018 22:15 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBjojos https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/RGrq6Pg3.jpg Darius Kazemi is a programmer and bot author and all-around internet artist that has a podcast with two fellow cohosts about an anime series they all love. Darius explains how he got into programming, gaming, bot authoring, and the social network mastodon, before we dive into the ins and outs of anime, what kinds of shows he likes and how one would go about getting started.
Episode 16: Todd Hamina is a winemaker that raced his bike across America
July 29, 2018 20:00 - 42 minutes - 40.4 MBwinery https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/6mnuB4ZI.jpg ☝️Todd's winery todds-bike https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/zHzoY4wb.jpg ☝️Todd's bike for the Trans Am Race Todd Hamina has been making wine under different labels for 26 years in the Pacific Northwest, from farming his own grapes to owning his own winery. We chatted a bit about how the wine industry works in Oregon before transitioning to bikes. Todd's been ...
Episode 15: Lucy Burningham spent a year becoming a beer sommelier
July 26, 2018 02:00 - 39 minutes - 37.6 MBlucy https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/kZ3dLgHB.jpg ☝️Lucy outside of the StreamPDX trailer where we recorded beer-stuff https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/XmCP06S2.JPG ☝️Lucy's book along with the three beers we sampled during the show Lucy Burningham is a writer, editorial director at Cozy (https://cozy.co/), and spent a year getting certified to become a master beer taster and wrote a book about it. She brought ...
Episode 14: Tiffani Ashley Bell is a Formula One Fan
July 14, 2018 00:00 - 41 minutes - 39.8 MBtiffani-ferrari https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/3rsr0flm.png ☝️Tiffani driving a Ferrari California in Dubai Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder of The Human Utility (https://www.detroitwaterproject.org/), which helps prevent water shut-offs in Detroit and Baltimore, all using a donation platform she's built. It's a fascinating project that was one of the first non-profits to go through Y Combinator. Tiffani is also into F1 racing and as a car guy mys...
Episode 13: Amber Castaldo is a roller derby jammer
July 06, 2018 19:00 - 37 minutes - 36.5 MBamber-rollering https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/3eBw_tvR.jpeg ☝️Amber apex jumping a turn Amber Castaldo is a recently retired veteran of roller derby, from one of the top teams in the world, based in Portland, Oregon. We spend much of the time getting into the nitty gritty details of roller derby rules, and talk about how much work it is to stay competitive. amber-kick https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/S9Qr0ltm...
Episode 12: Dinah Sanders rolls for initiative
June 23, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBdnd https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/Rnv8Jj-j.jpg Dinah Sanders has been playing D&D for nearly 40 years, and has been a dungeon master going all the way back. Her current weekly game has a handful of players that have continuously played the same campaign for the past few years. We cover Dinah's early history in blogging, her two books and her plans for a future one as well as diving into all the ins and outs of D&D with me, someone that's never playe...
Episode 11: Andy Baio has been eaten by a grue
June 19, 2018 19:00 - 53 minutes - 51.1 MBinfocom https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/U0mvOCIF.png Andy Baio is a veteran of the early web, creator of waxy.org (http://waxy.org), upcoming.org (http://upcoming.org), and playfic.com (http://playfic.com). He was the first CTO for Kickstarter and went on to create the XOXO Festival (https://2018.xoxofest.com/) in Portland Oregon. He's also into collecting original 1980s Infocom games and still plays them today despite owning modern computers and vid...
Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards
June 07, 2018 22:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBtypewriter-museum https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/9ni5X0kQ.jpg Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then...
Episode 9: Alex Cox enjoys some weed
June 03, 2018 20:00 - 58 minutes - 55.4 MBalex-iphones https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/6Va1Z4Hg.jpg Alex Cox is an Apple aficionado, technologist, and staff member of the Cards Against Humanity empire. She's currently working on four different podcasts that cover a wide range of topics but we figured out her recent obsession with smoking/eating weed is something she hadn't talked about before and would make a good subject to chat about for an hour.
Episode 8: John Roderick on the last frontier: Alaska
May 29, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBalaska https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/vHZt7aeX.png John Roderick is the creator of the band The Long Winters and a prolific podcast host and guest. He grew up in Alaska and sits down to explain every aspect of the state. He is not a man of few words. In our nearly 90 minutes of talking, we cover when to visit, what to do, and where to go, what the culture is like and why it's worth trekking to the most remote places. Don't miss John's tips on how to ...
Episode 7: Erika Hall on what it takes to be a triathlete
May 19, 2018 15:00 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBerika-book https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/zDo6qwTo.jpg Erika Hall, the author of the new book Conversational Design (https://abookapart.com/products/conversational-design), sits down to talk about how she got into doing triathlons and all the work it took to get there.
Episode 6: Jessie Char and her love of Disney Parks
May 12, 2018 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBJessie and friends bounding as Mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club jessie-gang https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/oAeNRcTQ.jpeg Jessie Char is co-founder of the Layers Conference (https://layers.is/), taking place in San Jose on June 4-6th next month, which brings a bunch of design leaders talking about iOS design during the week of WWDC. Previous she worked on Pacific Helm (http://pacifichelm.com/), an iOS design studio. Jessie's also way into Disn...
Episode 5: Jeff Atwood really loves his Yo-Yos
May 05, 2018 21:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBcalvin-hobbes-yoyo https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/JTtJCen7.png The four shapes of yo-yos: Types of YoYos https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/fFX3p2f8.png A wall rack showing off some of Jeff's 200-300 yo-yos he currently owns: Jeffsyoyos https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/PuQLrJNs.jpg Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites...
Episode 4: Erica Baker on Ancestry and Genealogy
April 28, 2018 04:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBErica Baker is a Senior Engineering Manager at Patreon and has spent the last ten plus years tracking down her family tree from every source imaginable, including family, online databases, microfiche, and documents sitting in libraries. Some may look at ancestry and genealogy as a silly hobby, but for Erica, it's about filling out the story not just for her own family but hopefully someday for every other African American family as well.
Episode 3: Cal Henderson and his sneakers
April 15, 2018 01:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBCal Henderson is really into shoes, currently owning about 100 different pairs. His criteria is whatever looks cool to him, and he makes a point of wearing all his shoes instead of merely collecting them. Cal's favorite shoes, special edition of Nike Air Max 97s shoes and keyboard https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/4Df68EJe.jpeg Cal's storage solution where he's currently got about 100 pairs of shoes (every cubby is now filled) cal's-collection https://u...
Episode 2: Jessamyn West on trivia leagues, pub trivia, and puzzle hunts
April 07, 2018 21:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBIt was fun to catch up with Jessamyn as we chat about non-librarian or online community things. We went deep into Learned League, the shadowy internet nerd trivia league with what I consider impenetrable rules and traditions.
Episode 1: Jason Kottke on Alto's Odyssey
March 30, 2018 01:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBI play Alto's Odyssey and love it, but Jason Kottke really loves the game, so much so he's got one of the highest scores in the world. We go deep on the game for 45 minutes, talking about he got into it, what sets his playing apart, and what role games play in our lives.