Chuck Caruso was a hero of mine when I was a young actor in college, and he remains so today, for many reasons. He’s managed to make a meaningful and dynamic career of musical theatre performance,

Episode 10: Apple and the Church of Whizbang, with Chris Sawyer and Matt Licata

Oct 28th, 2013 1h 35m

On October 22, Apple held another big product-unveiling event, with new iPads as the main attraction, but also a lot of news about OS X, iWork, and other aspects of Apple’s arsenal. It raised myri

Episode 9: "Transformers: The Movie" Discussion with Matt Licata and Ryan Koronowski

Oct 14th, 2013 2h

My little 8-year-old world was changed forever when I saw the behemoth mechanical beings that I loved so dearly, loudly and violently portrayed on the big screen in all their glory. Transformers:

Episode 8: Lauren Milberger - How I Met My Genre

Oct 6th, 2013 1h 22m

"I went into the piece thinking I was Gracie, and I came out realizing that I'm George." I last saw Lauren in person about 12 years ago when we were both students at the Actors Studio Drama School

Episode 7: Peggy Revell - Training Yourself to Tell Stories

Sep 24th, 2013 1h 2m

If you take nothing else away from this episode of the Obcast with Canadian journalist Peggy Revell, I hope it's that it takes time and training to learn how to tell a story. A politics and writin

Episode 6: Chris Sawyer - On Being More Than Just That Weird Guy on Twitter

Sep 11th, 2013 1h 21m

Chris Sawyer has a regular job in which he helps people who are languishing in unemployment. He is a conscientious and loving dad. He's also a hypernerd who talks about washing his "fat parts" on

Episode 5: Catherine Dunphy - Escaping from Religion, Lighting a Path for Others

Sep 6th, 2013 1h 27m

Catherine Dunphy might have been a nun. Luckily for the world, as she asked tough questions and opened her eyes to the dark machinery of institutional Catholicism, Catherine cast her faith aside.

Episode 4: Ken Kennedy - Recovering from Libertarianism and the Crypto Wars

Aug 27th, 2013 1h 21m

Who on Earth has an encyclopedic understanding of 1990s crypto-wars, knows what it is to look into the terrifying face of the Republican primary electorate, and can tell you which open source data

Episode 3: Kylie Sturgess - Being a Conduit for Science, Despite the Zombies and Judgmental Fish

Aug 19th, 2013 1h 8m

Skyping in from the other side of the planet, Kylie Sturgess is a nop-notch podcaster who uses her media platform to help us get to know various figures in science and skepticism. Rarely, however,

Episode 2: Ryan Koronowski - Progressive Politics, Good Books, and the Never-Ending Job Interview

Aug 14th, 2013 1h 6m

Ryan Koronowski is deputy editor of Climate Progress at the Center for American Progress, and for a young guy he's had a long and grueling career in liberal politics (including time with me on the

Episode 1: Gia Mora - Loving Science, Living on the Stage

Aug 6th, 2013 1h 36m

Super-performer Gia Mora joins me for the first "official" episode of the Obcast. Gia is an actor, singer, model, writer, educator, and science communicator, now touring an original one-woman show

Episode 0: Matt Licata - Design, Glasses, and How Stuff Should Work

Aug 2nd, 2013 1h 37m

For our zeroth episode, our beta-test edition, I'm joined by Matt Licata. We talk about glasses, web design, how stuff should work, and we preview an upcoming epic discussion of Transformers: The

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