The Nerdologues Present: Blank Cassette
Blank Cassette is the podcast that revisits your mixtapes (or CDs, or playlists, or whatever) song-by-song and block-by-block to get the stories behind them.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2018
DJ Snakedish's Holidays (Dance Dance Party Party)
This week we're spotlight Dance Dance Party Party, an international freestyle dance session where women of all backgrounds can refresh and embrace themselves! We welcome Chicago chapter den mothers C…
00:45:00 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Episode 0: Katie's Super Bowl Mix
The Nerdologues' new podcast mentoring program got me thinking about my own process for piloting shows -- which inspired me to unearth the never-before-released pilot episode for Blank Cassette, feat…
00:22:00 |
Thu 12 Apr 2018
Ben's Volume 3
Show favorite Ben Rathert is back again with a look back to pretty much the very beginning of his ever-growing series of volumes. This week, we join a high school-aged Ben looking for anything in the…
00:37:00 |
Thu 29 Mar 2018
Sam and Laura's Mouthstruments
When Sam Begich and Laura Marsh played a lot of Rock Band together on the road, they liked to joke about how fun it would be to have a Rock Band-style game where every part had to be vocalized. With …
00:30:00 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Madison's Clare Wallace
In the two years this show's been a thing, we've explored all sorts of reasons to make playlists, but here's a first for us: a mix made for an actor to better understand and inhabit her character. Th…
00:32:00 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
Jillian's BAPS Church
It's playlist-as-communion on this week's Blank Cassette, as we feature what originally was a soundtrack for an Easter show but ends up digging into some deep religious questions. We're stoked to fea…
00:44:00 |
Thu 15 Feb 2018
Fin's A Fortnight from the Heart
Longtime listeners of this podcast may rememebr last year's February 1 episode, featuring Chicago comedian Tyler Snodgrass sharing his love of power ballads in a daily ramp-up to Valentine's Day call…
00:34:00 |
Thu 01 Feb 2018
Ben's Volume 73
The spring of his freshman year of college, Ben Rathert was giving serious thought to his faith. Did he really buy into all the church teachings he'd grown up with? What were the consequences of not …
00:36:00 |
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Megan's Workin' It! On the Treadmill
Happy 2018! This seemed like the perfect time to feature, kind of unbelievably, the show's first-ever exercise playlist, as friend of the show Megan Carroll shares her Workin' It! On the Treadmill. N…
00:37:00 |
Thu 04 Jan 2018
Eric's Best of 2017
Coproducer Eric's favorite songs from the year plus a sequel to the final episode of 2016! When we last left Eric he had quit his job, was thinking maybe it was time to leave Chicago, and was listeni…
00:40:00 |
Thu 28 Dec 2017
Ian and Eric's 10 Christmas Songs from 2 People Who Don't Listen to Christmas Music
Even if you don't really celebrate any holiday traditions -- as neither producer of this show seems to -- you can't escape the ubiquity of holiday music. This week, Ian and Eric lean into that with s…
00:25:00 |
Thu 21 Dec 2017
Ian's Best of 2017
Every December, a bunch of music nerds compile lists of their favorite tracks of the year, and the dudes behind Blank Cassette are no exception. First up, producer Ian Williams shares his top songs o…
00:34:00 |
Thu 14 Dec 2017
Katie's Deep in the Disney Vault
The breadth of music Disney covers never ceases to amaze me. There's a lot to enjoy, even for non-Disney fans, on this week's episode, in which guest and lifelong Mouse fan Katie Utke shares a playli…
00:38:00 |
Thu 07 Dec 2017
Fin, Nora, and Ben's This Year's Draft
Whether it's fantasy sports or fantasy card games (or real sports, I guess), drafting is an incredibly engaging way to enjoy something you love. Why not apply that to music? That was the idea returni…
00:38:00 |
Thu 30 Nov 2017
Ben and Eric's Elton John
Last year this show took Thanksgiving off, but I put out a mini episode talking about how I made it a point to listen to a specific Elton John live album every year. In that spirit, I thought this ye…
00:42:00 |
Thu 23 Nov 2017
Ian and James' Sample Hoorah
Ian Williams not only produces Blank Cassette; he also produces beats under the name Thane Thinna. This week, Ian and his mentee James (aka Tr3asy From The Chi) share a collaborative playlist that fe…
00:34:00 |
Thu 16 Nov 2017
Craig's Election Day 2016
As your Facebook memories may have alerted you, it's exactly one year after the 2016 elections. It's also a day after off-year elections in a handful of states seemed to indicate a changing tide, may…
00:30:00 |
Wed 08 Nov 2017
Bill's Nintendo Noise
Extra Life, a fundraiser that uses video game marathons to help kids in Children's Miracle Network hospitals across the land, takes place this weekend. Friend of the show Bill Nielsen is participatin…
00:27:00 |
Thu 02 Nov 2017
Ray's Cover Me
Once upon a time (6 years ago), Eric wrote for a covers blog called Cover Me. That blog is now a book, and we've got the book's author running down some of the greatest covers in history plus his own…
00:37:00 |
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Mark's Faith, Love, and Destiny
On this week's episode, we welcome the very thoughtful Mark Robinson, who shares with us a playlist to celebrate his life and remind him of times it wasn't quite as bounteous. The songs here soundtra…
00:32:00 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
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