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Julia Barton and the Invisible Clock of Audio Stories
Jun 18, 2026
Unknown duration
Its Own Kind of Clock: "24 Hours at the Golden Apple" with guest Joe Richman
May 14, 2026
Unknown duration
Knob Feel: the Story of the Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
Apr 2, 2026
43m 11s
Found Footage Horror: Podcast Coverage of the Ice Invasion
Feb 19, 2026
1h 17m 13s
To Show What's Going On - Photojournalists in Minneapolis
Jan 29, 2026
29m 10s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/18/26 | Julia Barton and the Invisible Clock of Audio Stories | Overview: On this episode, Rob and Britta dig into the career of editor and writer Julia Barton, whose incredibly varied career has spanned the golden era of public radio, an experimental podcast recorded while doing the dishes, and an executive editing role at Pushkin Industries. Along the way she's traced the hidden architecture of radio—where it came from and what it costs the people who work inside it. Support Phonograph on Patreon Links for this episode: RadioWright — Julia's Website Continuous Wave — Julia's Newsletter Weekend America — A Life Changing Letter DTFD: The Podcast — Julia Barton Unsung Icons of Soviet Design — 99% Invisible The Broadcast Clock — 99% Invisible Neither Confirm Nor Deny — Radiolab If You Could Do Anything — Anxious Machine The Best Audio Storytelling According to Pushkin — HowSound Music from Blue Dot Sessions | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | Its Own Kind of Clock: "24 Hours at the Golden Apple" with guest Joe Richman | On this episode, Rob and Britta dig into the classic This American Life episode "24 Hours at the Golden Apple," (November 17, 2000) in which a team of producers spent a full day and night at a 24-hour diner on Chicago's north side, trying to interview everyone who was willing to talk. Special guest Joe Richman, founder of Radio Diaries, joins us to talk about the segment he produced for the episode, and what it felt like to revisit that story more than two decades later. Links for this episode: This American Life: 24 Hours at the Golden Apple (Episode 173) Nancy Updike's talk at the Third Coast International Audio Festival: "Die Mediocrity Die" Joe Richman's Radio Diaries Music from Blue Dot Sessions | — | ||||||
| 4/2/26 | Knob Feel: the Story of the Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time✨ | podcast advertisingmarketing campaigns+3 | Lex FriedmanJohn Siracusa+1 | Cards Against HumanityAccidental Tech Podcast+3 | — | podcast adsadvertising history+3 | — | 43m 11s | |
| 2/19/26 | Found Footage Horror: Podcast Coverage of the Ice Invasion✨ | media criticismaudio journalism+4 | — | The DailyThis American Life+6 | Minneapolis | ICEpodcasts+5 | — | 1h 17m 13s | |
| 1/29/26 | To Show What's Going On - Photojournalists in Minneapolis✨ | photojournalismICE+3 | Evan FrostBen Hovland | ICEBlue Dot Sessions+1 | MinneapolisTwin Cities | photojournalismICE+6 | — | 29m 10s | |
| 12/31/25 | Some Crazy Joyous Thing - Apocalyptic Vox Pop from Scott Carrier and Erica Heilman✨ | apocalypse2025+3 | — | Transom.orgThe End of the World+4 | — | Scott CarrierErica Heilman+5 | — | 56m 07s | |
| 11/21/25 | Weirdly Fun - What Podcast Bonus Feeds Are Offering✨ | podcast bonus feedslistener support+3 | Alex Goldman | This American LifeSlate+9 | — | podcastbonus feeds+5 | — | 58m 39s | |
| 10/23/25 | Hey Jackie - The Evolution of Jonathan Goldstein✨ | podcast evolutionstorytelling+3 | — | This American LifeCBC+11 | — | Jonathan GoldsteinHeavyweight+3 | — | 50m 07s | |
| 7/31/25 | What a Wonderful Thing - 99% Invisible✨ | audio storytelling99% Invisible+3 | — | 99% InvisibleKatie Mingle+8 | — | 99% Invisiblepodcast+3 | — | 47m 17s | |
| 7/3/25 | What Covid Did to Them - Nancy Updike's "We Were Three"✨ | Covid impactaudio storytelling+4 | — | Serial ProductionsThis American Life+3 | — | CovidNancy Updike+5 | — | 1h 14m 18s | |
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| 5/29/25 | Where People Put the Radio Tower - Signal Hill✨ | podcastprint magazines+3 | Liza YeagerJackson Roach | Blue Dot SessionsSignal Hill+4 | — | Signal Hillpodcast+3 | — | 47m 03s | |
| 4/29/25 | I Don't Know If It's God - Alix Spiegel's "Pray"✨ | Alix SpiegelThis American Life+4 | — | This American LifeTransom.org+1 | — | Alix SpiegelPray+5 | — | 43m 38s | |
| 4/3/25 | The Story Becomes the Medicine - The Retrievals (with guest Sophie Nikitas) | Rob is joined by the audio producer Sophie Nikitas to discuss Susan Burton's Peabody award winning podcast from 2023: The Retrievals. Show Notes: Sophie's online dating podcast miniseries The Zoo Sophie's horror anthology podcast Out Cold Susan Burton's story "In The Event Of An Emergency, Put Your Sister In An Upright Position" Susan Burton's story "Tornado Prom" Music from Blue Dot Sessions | — | ||||||
| 3/6/25 | I Wanted to Be a Stranger - Cement City (with guest Samantha Hodder) | Rob is joined by the podcast critic Samantha Hodder, who writes the newsletter Bingeworthy, to discuss the podcast Cement City: a sound-rich, character-rich, immersive exploration of the struggling rust belt town Donora, Pennsylvania. Show Notes: Cement City Samantha Hodder's website Samantha Hodder's newsletter Bingeworthy Music - Blue Dot Sessions | — | ||||||
| 1/16/25 | What the Evidence Shows - The Problem We All Live With | Rob and Britta discuss a ten year old story from This American Life called "The Problem We All Live With" produced by Chana Joffe-Walt and reported by Nikole Hannah-Jones. It's an example of the kind of documentary journalism we need more than ever, in a world where such journalism is increasingly under threat. Show Notes: TAL Episode 562: The Problem We all Live With Longform Podast interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones Third Coast Audio Festival Session: Make Them Care Saint Louis Public Radio's coverage of the Francis Howell town meeting "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City" by Nikole Hannah-Jones Music - Blue Dot Sessions | — | ||||||
| 12/5/24 | What's Fun About Being in the Dark - Love and Radio | Rob and Britta dig into two classic episodes of the podcast Love and Radio, "The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt" and "Choir Boy," sparking a discussion about the appeal of abrasive art. Show Notes: The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt - Love and Radio Choir Boy - Love and Radio Love and Radio on How Sound Salvatore Scibona reads Denis Johnson - New Yorker Fiction Podcast Music: Silence Kid - Pavement You're Killing Me - Pavement Prefect Depth - Pavement The Bus at Dawn - Blue Dot Sessions Orchard Lime - Blue Dot Sessions Nine Count by Blue Dot Sessions Plum Blossom - Blue Dot Sessions Calisson - Blue Dot Sessions Throughput - Blue Dot Sessions Coffero's Theme - Bill Frisell Untitled III - Calexico Gentle Chase - Podington Bear | — | ||||||
| 10/22/24 | Do We Ever Go Back to That? - TAL: Notes on Camp | Rob and Britta share a discussion they had in 2019 (but never released) about the classic This American Life episode "Notes on Camp." Topics include their own camp experiences, the power of scary stories, Rob's favorite thing ever recorded by any radio show ever, and the wild back story of the beloved camp counselor David Himmel, aka Mr. Popluar. Show Notes: Notes on Camp - This American LIfe "Ira Glass Is a Douche" - Literate Apecast Longform Interview with Julie Snyder Music: Calisson - Blue Dot Sessions Throughput - Blue Dot Sessions Coffero's Theme - Bill Frisell Untitled III - Calexico Gentle Chase - Podington Bear | — | ||||||
| 9/25/24 | Suitcase Full of Cash - Startup Part 2 | On the second of a two-part series about the podast Startup, Rob and Britta talk about how the mini-seasons of the podcast Startup about the growth of Gimlet revealed all kinds of details about the troubles at the company, the ill-fated sale to Spotify, and what all this means for the state of narrative audio. Show Notes: Skye Pillsbury's newsletter The Squeeze Galen Beebe's website Music: A Simple Plan Soundrack Nine Count by Blue Dot Sessions Within the Garden Walls by Blue Dot Sessions Gentle Chase - Podington Bear Audio Excerpts: Startup | — | ||||||
| 9/5/24 | Alarmingly Long Pause - Startup Part 1 | On the first episode of the new season Rob and Britta talk about what made them want to restart a show about narrative audio. And they discuss the complicated legacy of a podcast that's having its tenth anniversary this year. Show Notes: Music: Coffaro's Theme by Bill Frisell "Arabic Tallow" and "At Our Best Alone" from Blue Dot Sessions Gentle Chase - Podington Bear Audio Excerpts: This American Life - Double Lives Constellation Prize Startup Alex Blumberg on Longform Heavyweight TLDR | — | ||||||
| 9/3/24 | Season 2 Teaser | After more than five years of silence, new episodes of this podcast finally are on their way. Season 2 starts September 5, 2024. | — | ||||||
| 1/24/19 | S1 E5: One Long Poetic HIPAA Violation - The Job That Takes Over Your Life | Rob and Britta discuss This American Life Episode 37 - The Job that Takes Over Your Life, as well as Britta's former job fixing scandals for big companies, and Rob's former job working for Garrison Keillor. Other topics include the great radio reporter Scott Carrier and his masterpiece of a story The Test, and Rob interviews Peter Clowney, one of the original producers of This American Life, about what it was like to work on the show in the early days. Links and Show Notes: The Job that Takes Over Your Life In Particular - Blonde Redhead Defect2: Curiosidade - John Mcentire Remix Lydia - Tim Story Shatter - Liz Phair Scott Carrier interview on Tape Scott Carrier interview on HowSound Hitchhiker episode of Home of the Brave Gentle Chase by Podington Bear Rob's Twitter Britta's Twitter Before It Had a Theme Twitter Review us on Apple Podcasts | — | ||||||
| 1/10/19 | S1 E4: The Cruelty of Children - Tarantula in a Bowl | Rob and Britta discuss whether this episode is TAL's first real masterpiece, the role of David Sedaris in the show's early years, why "The Man in the Well" is the rare example of great audio fiction, the bone-chilling music of the Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, and why an effort to keep children from excluding each other makes Rob weirdly emotional. And we talk to the amazing Marlo Mack, from the podcast How to Be a Girl, about her own unique perspective on the cruelty of children. Links and Show Notes: The Cruelty of Children David Sedaris on Morning Edition Nah Dran by Couch Lydia by Tim Story Coffaro's Theme by Bill Frisell Santa Land Diaries The Writer in the Well Pilentze Pee by Bulgarian State Television Female Choir How to Be a Girl Gentle Chase by Podington Bear Rob's Twitter Britta's Twitter Before It Had a Theme Twitter Review us on Apple Podcasts | — | ||||||
| 12/5/18 | S1 E3: Accidental Documentaries - Non-humanoid Member of the Family | Rob and Britta discuss This American Life Episode 14: Accidental Documentaries, including their own experience creating accidental documentaries. The main focus of the discussion is the centerpiece of this episode, a documentary edited out of reel to reel tapes that a family sent back and forth to each other back in 1967. And Rob talks to Joe Silovsky, the man who originally found those tapes and gave them to Ira Glass, and whose work as a performance artist echos the experience he had with those tapes back when he was an art student. And since this is the final episode of the show that originally aired under the name "Your Radio Playhouse," Rob and Britta talk about some of the worst moments from those early episodes, and their awfulness is inspiring. Links and Show Notes: The Chase by Portastatic Buried at Sea by MC (900 Ft. Jesus) Coffero's Theme by Bill Frisell Quartet Pilentze Pee by The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir Episode 2: Small Scale Sin Episode 5: Anger and Forgiveness Episode 7: Quitting Episode 13: Love Gentle Chase by Podington Bear Joe Silovsky's website Rob's Twitter Britta's Twitter Before It Had a Theme Twitter Review us on Apple Podcasts | — | ||||||
| 11/21/18 | S1 E2: Double Lives - The Birth of This American Life | A discussion of This American Life Episode 10: Double Lives. Topics include Rob and Britta's own experiences leading double lives, Rob's childhood habit of breaking into schools at night, why this episode feels like the birth of This American Life, why parents so often hide secrets from their children, what Britta's parents have been hiding from her, and how it feels to hear Ira Glass talk about sex. This episode also includes an interview with Peter Bresnan, a podcast producer for Gimlet, about what it's like to listen to this old episode of TAL on the topic of closeted gay men. Links and Show Notes: Cubes by Jon Brion Kt by Bexar Bexar Coffero's Theme by Bill Frisell Quartet Episode 10: Double Lives It Might Get Loud - a documentary about Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White Another Version of You by Chris Zabriskie Tell Me I'm Funny - a podcast by Peter Alexander Bresnan A Chorus Line Maybelle by Ida Catalog & Classify by Mark Robinson Gentle Chase by Podington Bear Peter Bresnan's Twitter Rob's Twitter Britta's Twitter Before It Had a Theme Twitter Review us on Apple Podcasts | — | ||||||
| 11/8/18 | S1 E1: New Beginnings - F*** You, Django Reinhardt! | Rob and Britta discuss the very first episode of This American Life, as well as why the show is worth discussing, how they and others became fans of the show, and why they love Ira Glass's mother. Clips from following were used in this episode: Coffaro's Theme by Bill Frisell Episode of Tape with Jonathan Menjivar Episode of Tape with Ben Calhoun Ira's talk at the Third Coast Audio Festival Longform Podcast, Episode 159: Ira Glass This American Life, Episode 1: New Beginnings Ira's talk at the Gel Conference Rob's Twitter Britta's Twitter Show Twitter Review us on Apple Podcasts | — | ||||||
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