I Like Your Shoelaces
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -I Like Your Shoelaces is a podcast about the social media and blogging platform Tumblr, home to some of the funniest and most bizarre things to happen online in the 2010s. In 2013, the website was purchased for over a billion dollars, and in 2019, it was sold for less than $3 million. Every episode, Michael Walsh is joined by a guest to dredge up unpleasant memories of what happened in between.
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The Barack Obama Plaza in County Tipperary, Ireland
May 25, 2020 04:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBIrish graphic designer, activist and Ireland Simpsons Fans Facebook moderator Dearbhla Ní Fhaoilleacháin Ryan (@punchedmonet_) joins me live from the bathroom stall she's self-isolating in at the Barack Obama Plaza in County Tipperary, Ireland to explain just what exactly the Barack Obama Plaza in County Tipperary, Ireland is. We also talk about Ireland's most wanted criminal, a zipline that will kill your kids, a roller coaster that will kill your ability to have kids, the infamous Toe Po...
My Woke Sons
May 11, 2020 04:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBI'm joined by Sie Morley (Twitter), the community editor for SB Nation NHL communities Fear the Fin, Anaheim Calling and Jewels from the Crown, to talk about their days in a very specific Harry Potter fandom on Tumblr. We also have an insightful discussion about how J.K. Rowling's less-than-stellar ideological views may have influenced her writing and her endless desire to explain every single aspect of how wizards life. There's also some stuff about hockey, the best way to make sure no one ...
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April 30, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBI'm back from my hiatus to talk about Tumblr role-play blogs and posts, both legitimate and ironic, with my friend Carissa (@JustCarissa). We discuss some of our favorites, I reveal too much about the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Kingdom of Prussia, share a heartwarming tale of two brothers that would be prime material for Hollywood if it wasn't for where it was first told, and then we end with a table read of a few of the most "famous" open role-play posts out there in a segment that ...
Homestuck.exe
March 23, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBI'm joined by (another) Australian, this one being a graphic designer named Libby Wright (lbtvs on Instagram). Libby is here to educate me on the one topic from Tumblr I've been extremely resistant to learn anything about - Homestuck. We talk about what it was, its e-boy creator, the Homestuck cop, how one Homestuck fan almost died trying to turn their skin grey, and about some Australian spiders, one of which looks like a chicken wing. Yum! I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all th...
Communism Killed the Radio Star
March 09, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBI'm joined this week by my close friend & terminal Lawyer Brain sufferer Elena for an episode about Tumblr's most (in)famous right wing libertarian economics blogger. Before that, I ask Alaina a vital question for not the first time. Other stuff includes Alana reacting live to an insane r/relationships post, us discussing instances of people not understanding how time works, Elaine's time in the Tumblr Les Mis fandom, a fraud in that community, and two mentions of Sodom and Gomorrah. I Li...
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February 24, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 44 MBI'm joined by Battle of Brisbane war hero and the former eighth-best blogger in all of Australia, Danny Hebdon (@_hebdon on Twitter), whose name I immediate mispronounce out of the gate, for a great chat about the very early days of Tumblr from two decades ago and Tumblarity, Tumblr's botched impressions method. There's also some fun chat about Uluru, Bob Katter and other great Australian things (like Pauline Hanson making a fool of herself), plus me viscerally remembering All Time Low and h...
Ball Pit, at Capacity
February 10, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBI'm joined by Thali Tilbrook (Twitter, Tumblr) for a second time as we discuss some scams from Tumblr and learn more about ball pit liability, interpersonal advice from Tumblr and bad Australian tattoos. I also share an incredibly embarrassing case of Tumblr crossing over into my own personal life in 2020. I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that happened during the blogging platform Tumblr's heyday. Each week, I am joined by a gu...
Federally Mandated School Lunch Posting Standards
January 27, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBI'm joined this episode by the extremely talented digital media artist, occasional podcaster, and graphic designer Jack Grimes (Twitter, Instagram, website), who's here to talk about his many, many attempts and failures - some far more embarrassing than others - to create viral content on Tumblr during his high school days, one online success and one local success that created a big change in his community. We also talk about Italians in Japan and why one Barcelona midfielder is a huge hit o...
Harry Potter and the Second Amendment
January 06, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBI'm joined this week by Jade Evans (Twitter, Instagram, website) to talk about West Country accents, whether or not a patronus can stop a bullet, why West Ham United is the only canon football club in Harry Potter (unless you're Danish!), Macklemore, and her 2013 Tumblr experience. I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that happened during the blogging platform Tumblr's heyday. Each episode, I am joined by a guest to talk about an ev...
Camerband
December 23, 2019 05:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBI'm joined this week by my friend Wera for an awful episode that left both of us feeling extremely depressed. It starts off on a bad note as Wera explains how Swedish people butcher pizza, and it ends on a worse one as I talk about how I learned what "lolitics" is and read a painful piece of fan fiction. What's in the middle isn't great either - we talk about Sonic for Real Justice and then read a piece of Avengers fan fiction set in an escape room for no reason. I Like Your Shoelaces is a...
Web Developer Countess Boochie Flagrante
December 16, 2019 05:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBI'm joined by Will Schneider (@habitual_shaker on Twitter) and his cat Twix (can't tweet due to lack of thumbs) for an episode about Tumblr as a website, what people working there thought about it and how that might have affected the site's users, how it was bought for over a billion dollars and sold for less than three million, and how Will caused one Austrian man to delete his account. I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that ha...
Salem Bone Trials
December 05, 2019 22:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBI'm joined by Carley Laughead (@gorgonlover1993 on Twitter) for what was originally supposed to be an episode about she and I making up bad posts to try to get notes on Tumblr in 2015, but, due to a surprise discovery while finding said posts, is instead about that most seminal of Tumblr moments: the infamous Bone Thief. We also discuss Carley learning one of her favorite Tumblr posts is fake & spend far too long talking about the Fallout video game series. I also come off like a huge asshol...
Episode 2 - And Then Everyone Clapped
November 29, 2019 20:48 - 48 minutes - 35.8 MBI'm joined by my close friend Emily Barry for I Like Your Shoelace's second episode, in which we dissect and debate blatantly fake posts from Tumblr. Before that though, I dig up her extremely embarrassing posts from 2010, and we spend far too long talking about Poland. I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that happened during the blogging platform Tumblr's heyday. Each episode, I, Michael Walsh, am joined by a guest to talk about a...
And Then Everyone Clapped
November 29, 2019 20:48 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBI'm joined by my close friend Emily Barry for I Like Your Shoelace's second episode, in which we dissect and debate blatantly fake posts from Tumblr. Before that though, I dig up her extremely embarrassing posts from 2010, and we spend far too long talking about Poland. I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that happened during the blogging platform Tumblr's heyday. Each episode, I am joined by a guest to talk about an event or tren...
Pee is Stored in the Ball Pit
October 20, 2019 18:37 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBI'm joined by Thali Tilbrook (@thalixcx on twitter, merriweatherpostpaviliontshirt on tumblr) for I Like Your Shoelace's inaugural episode. We discuss bizarre anonymous messages sent to her, her dad's embarrassing tattoo, and, of course, dive deep into the failed 2014 convention for Tumblr users, Dashcon and its cursed ball pit.I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that happened during the blogging platform Tumblr's heyday. Each week,...
Episode 1 - Pee is Stored in the Ball Pit
October 20, 2019 18:37 - 52 minutes - 41.4 MBI'm joined by Thali Tilbrook (@thalixcx on twitter, merriweatherpostpaviliontshirt on tumblr) for I Like Your Shoelace's inaugural episode. We discuss bizarre anonymous messages sent to her, her dad's embarrassing tattoo, and, of course, dive deep into the failed 2014 convention for Tumblr users, Dashcon and its cursed ball pit. I Like Your Shoelaces is a deep dive into all the hilarious, surreal and possibly illegal stuff that happened during the blogging platform Tumblr's heyday. Each week...