Smart Me Up
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA podcast by and for Dennis DiClaudio (but you're welcome to listen, too)
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Episodes
Getting to an Automatic 270 with Blue Steel
April 16, 2021 19:10 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBBlue Steel spent years working in the trenches of DC politics and has somehow managed to escape with both her humanity and her sense of humor intact. In this episode, she and I pole vault off of Charles Blow's Rescue Plan for Black America into all sorts of topics. A lot of them concerning race and politics. A fair number not. Pretty chill, fun conversation considering the subject matter. Follow Blue Steel on Twitter: @BlueSteelDC
Baking for Sanity with Jamie Schler
April 01, 2021 21:31 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBJamie Schler is an author, baker, jam maker and hotelier living in Chinon, France. In this conversation, we talk about how kitchen life kept us both sane these past few years, and she explains what it's like running a 17th Century hotel during a 21st Century plague. Oh, and she also reveals her secret association with the Project Mercury spaceflight program. Find her online: @lifesafeast Pick up her cookbooks: Orange Appeal and Isolation Baking Sleep under her roof: Hôtel Diderot
Banging on the Wall of a Production Deal with Jessica Ellis
March 25, 2021 19:06 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBJessica Ellis, the writer/director of the soon-to-be-released independent film What Lies West, takes time out of her daily routine of sheltering in place from a raging pandemic to bullshit with Dennis about getting your stuff out there in the world. Later, trusted comrade Michael Ewing pops in to talk about Ultimate Frisbee or something.
Outside-the-Boxing Yourself to Mid-Level Success with Michael Hearst
March 19, 2021 18:28 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MBMichael Hearst is a musician, composer, author, and all around good guy living in Brooklyn with his wife and son. Due in equal parts to his talent and chillness, he's well-known, well-liked, and well-respected among many well-known, well-liked, and well-respected people. You may not know his name, but there are decent odds that some of your favorite artists do. He might even have brunch with a few of them. He's one-half of the band One Ring Zero and the author of the forthcoming Unconventio...
Raw-Dogging Your Way to Success with Darci Ratliff
March 04, 2021 21:42 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBFor the introductory episode, Dennis decides to play it safe and interview his good friend Darci "Kittenpants" Ratliff. She reveals her gnostic means of following through on stuff she wants to do and tries to rename the podcast. Later, he's joined by another close friend, Michael J. Ewing, who delivers bad news about the prospects of Dennis fixing his annoying voice. Finally, Emiliano DiClaudio-Escobar illuminates a secret subsection of the DC Universe.