Follow Friday
By LightningPod.fm
Follow Friday is the podcast about who you should follow online. Every week, Eric Johnson talks to creative people about who they follow, and why.
Past guests include Tom Scott (YouTube), Alie Ward (Ologies), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Alexandra Petri (The Washington Post), and Kara Swisher (The New York Times). On Follow Friday, you'll have fun, you'll learn more about your favorite creators, and you'll discover how to make the most of your time online by following the right folks.
New to the show? Start here: https://www.followfridaypodcast.com/start-here
Visit FollowFridayPodcast.com for full episode transcripts, links to people who have been recommended on the show, and more. For extended episodes and more, back us on Patreon starting at $1/month: https://www.patreon.com/followfriday
Past guests include Tom Scott (YouTube), Alie Ward (Ologies), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Alexandra Petri (The Washington Post), and Kara Swisher (The New York Times). On Follow Friday, you'll have fun, you'll learn more about your favorite creators, and you'll discover how to make the most of your time online by following the right folks.
New to the show? Start here: https://www.followfridaypodcast.com/start-here
Visit FollowFridayPodcast.com for full episode transcripts, links to people who have been recommended on the show, and more. For extended episodes and more, back us on Patreon starting at $1/month: https://www.patreon.com/followfriday
Latest episode
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#67 Patrick Willems (Night of the Coconut): Baby chefs, Baby Back Ribs, George Lucas
https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickhwillems (Patrick Willems) spent six years on YouTube trying to attract an audience for his short films, before he pivoted to video essays about everything from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elXLAcl363A (baseball mo… -
#66 Roman Mars (99% Invisible): City flags, stupid walks, shearing sheep
"When you're a broadcaster, you don't have a conversation you can't use as content," jokes Roman Mars — well, mostly jokes. The host of https://99percentinvisible.org/ (99% Invisible) says he's trying to use the internet more thoughtfully than he use… -
#65 Annie Rauwerda (Depths of Wikipedia): Living statues, #NotAllBots, the Holy Trinity Bikini
When her college internship was canceled by the COVID-19 shutdown in spring 2020, Annie Rauwerda had a lot of unexpected time on her hands. And instead of learning to bake bread or speak Esperanto, she began curating weird and amusing things she foun… -
#64 Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs): Giving up on crypto, bear chandelier, Halloween puns
When Rusty Foster started the email newsletter Today in Tabs, in 2013, "tabs" was trendy media slang for the articles open in your browser that you were hate-reading. That meaning has faded into obscurity, but https://www.todayintabs.com/ (Today in T… -
#63 UNLOCKED: Bonus follows from Traci Thomas, Josh Fruhlinger, Bridget Todd, and Jesse Thorn
Today we're playing four bonus follow recommendations that originally were exclusive to Follow Friday XL, our special podcast feed for supporters on Patreon. If you want to get five follow recommendations per week instead of the usual four, you can d… -
#62 Bridget Todd (There Are No Girls On the Internet): 2+2 = applesauce, bringing chaos, three-way phone calls
https://www.tangoti.com/ (There Are No Girls on The Internet) is an award-winning podcast about people who have always been at the forefront of technology, but whose stories are often ignored or misrepresented. That's a big and sometimes contentious … -
Advice for using social media after a mass shooting, with Bridget Todd (There Are No Girls on the Internet)
A preview of next week's episode, featuring https://www.tangoti.com/ (There Are No Girls on the Internet) host Bridget Todd Please consider donating to the https://www.gofundme.com/f/mtdrdc-texas-elementary-school-shooting-victims-fund (Texas Element… -
Encore - Lindsay Ellis (Axiom's End): Phantom of the Opera, 50 Shades of Grey, air disasters
For more than five years, Lindsay Ellis produced https://www.youtube.com/c/LindsayEllisVids (video essays on YouTube), analyzing everything from the Transformers movies to Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals to popular tropes in film and TV. And in 2020, a… -
Jesse Thorn (Bullseye): Scruffy dogs, breakfast cereal, the worst albums of the 20th century
Jesse Thorn has been podcasting since 2005, when he put his college radio show The Sound of Young America on the internet. He was a little early to the party: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2005/04/03/podcasting-catches-on/ (Six million) Ameri… -
Reggie Fils-Aimé (Disrupting the Game): Becoming a meme, becoming a Muppet, video game skills
Former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé talks about his new book Disrupting The Game and four of his favorite people he follows online.