RiYL
Recommended if You Like: longform conversation with musicians, cartoonists, writers and other creative types.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 726
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Episode 126: (Bonus) Alex Winter Talks Frank Zappa
The moment I heard Alex Winter was working on a Zappa documentary, I wanted to get him on the phone again. For starters, their was our first conversation, which ranks among my top RiYL episode — and …
00:24:43 |
Sat 19 Sep 2015
Episode 125: Dean Haspiel
We delve into insecurities almost immediately. It’s a surprising way to kick off a conversation with an artist infamous for going topless at regular intervals in public gatherings. Surprising, but ap…
01:05:06 |
Wed 16 Sep 2015
Episode 124: Kate Beaton, Jeffrey Brown and Jeff Lemire
As we prep ourselves for the onslaught of belated Comic Con interviews, here’s a trio of quick conversations with comics creators, Kate Beaton, Jeffrey Brown and Jeff Lemire. Our conversation with Be…
01:09:09 |
Wed 26 Aug 2015
Episode 123: (Bonus) Roderick on Politics
With his Seattle City Council campaign behind him, I suggested to John Roderick that we sit down for a short conversation to reflect on the run. But as fans of the Long Winters singer’s popular podc…
00:50:12 |
Fri 21 Aug 2015
Episode 122: Bobby Tisdale
This conversation with Bobby Tisdale begins with a story in which he picks a scab until he starts bleeding on a woman on the subway, segues into a conversation about the time a kitten bit into his sc…
01:26:46 |
Wed 19 Aug 2015
Episode 121: John Leguizamo
Some days nothing goes right with an interview. Other days the stars align and you score someone like John Leguizamo on a bit of a whim, because he happens to be promoting a new graphic novel at Book…
00:39:07 |
Wed 12 Aug 2015
Episode 120: (Bonus) Mike Mignola
The contents of this interview originally appeared as a Q&A for my day job at TechTimes. I enjoyed speaking with Mike Mignola so much I thought it would be fun to run the piece in its entirety as a b…
00:30:02 |
Mon 10 Aug 2015
Episode 119: Darren Murph
Nothing says reunion of old friends quite like a few cups of tea and a couple of microphones. It had been a year or two since I’d last seen my former Engadget colleague and current world record holdi…
01:12:22 |
Wed 05 Aug 2015
Episode 118: Leah Hayes
The indie comics booths present a perfect sort of eye in the middle of the Comic Con storm. Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics form a perfect sort of triangle where the costumed self-madn…
00:55:08 |
Wed 29 Jul 2015
Episode: 117: Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith made comics safe for kids again. In 1991, the cartoonist began self-publishing, an all-ages adventure story rendering in a style reminiscent of legends Walt Kelly and Carl Barks that felt …
00:55:18 |
Wed 22 Jul 2015
Episode 116: Sam Seder
Some context before we get started: I met Sam Seder five or so years back when he cohosted a video show in the Air America break room. By then the progressive talk station was on its last legs. Both …
01:34:26 |
Wed 15 Jul 2015
Episode 115: Lisa Wilde
I would have been more than content to discuss Wild Cat Academy, the New York City second chance high where Lisa Wilde has taught for more than a decade and a half. What resulted from our hour-long c…
01:03:43 |
Wed 08 Jul 2015
Episode 114: Kevin Allison
This isn’t the first time this has happened, the realization that an upcoming guest has recently been on WTF fills me with an immediate sense of dread. Surely Maron has mined this person for all of t…
00:57:23 |
Wed 01 Jul 2015
Episode 113: Jeffrey Lewis
I’m pretty sure I first heard about Jeffrey Lewis through his music. By the time I arrived in New York City, the singer-songwriter was already a veteran of the same Lower East Side antifolk scene tha…
00:38:31 |
Wed 24 Jun 2015
Episode 112: Ayun Halliday
I’m fairly certain the phrase “mommy blog” is tossed around once or twice over the course this interview. I only mention it here as I’m sure it sends up a few red flags, though undeservedly so. For s…
01:03:51 |
Wed 17 Jun 2015
Episode 111: Bruce McCulloch
For me, it goes Kids in the Hall, Kurt Vonnegut and punk rock, in that order. I shudder to think what sort of person I might have become had Comedy Central not started airing the Canadian sketch show…
00:40:33 |
Wed 10 Jun 2015
Episode 110: Jon Spencer
Jon Spencer is tired of talking about music. Perhaps it’s the fact that he’s been talking about it professionally ever since Pussy Galore emerged from the garages of Washington DC 30 years back. Or m…
00:59:19 |
Wed 03 Jun 2015
Episode 109: Mark Stewart (The Pop Group)
Mark Stewart doesn’t want to talk about music. Least of all his own. A few hours ahead of The Pop Group’s appearance at The Bowery Ballroom in support of their first record in 35 years, he makes that…
00:55:22 |
Wed 27 May 2015
Episode 108: Shannon Wheeler (Again)
The Too Much Coffee Man creator became a member of the extremely rare two-timers club, with a second RiYL appearance. Shannon Wheeler was among the show’s original guests early on when the interviews…
01:22:29 |
Wed 20 May 2015
Episode 107: Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal)
Kevin Barnes has a cold. He looks tired, taking swigs of coconut milk from one of those oddly-shaped cartons, but his face is sparkling in the mid-day sun. It’s the first truly nice day in New York C…
00:54:55 |
Wed 13 May 2015
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