ZArchive: Various Breads and Butters

The final episode of VBB has long-time producer and graduating senior Michelle “Hyphen” Polton-Simon as our guest. It’s on to new things for all of us. We say goodbye with a quiz by Tom Polton and a sort of bonusode at the end with a call from producer emeritus Renan Sequitur Dincer bearing news about the lost episodes. Thank you to all of our listeners, all our guests, all the people who have written in, all the kind words. Thanks to all the students and friends who have helped produce and intern for the show over the years, Renan, Michelle, Eric “Wingsy” Weber, Thomas “Willitho” Williams, Johnny “Didn’t Have a Nickname” Gossick, Will “Madison Square” Gordon, Ian “Code” Morse, Andie “Star Student” Mitchell, Ben “The 4th BG” (and “Sesame St.”) Gordon, Claire “Swan Song” Swanson, Jen “Bon Jovi” Giovanniello, and Liam “Per Diem” O’Donnell. You can still follow us on twitter @somelaterdate and rate the show at iTunes. Credit to The Cure and Phish. Bye everyone.

Artist, poet, podcaster, playwright, producer, and comic book author Al Letson is on the show. He is good at everything he does and we now claim goodness by association. State of the Re:Union, that was his podcast, it won awards for broadcasting, including a Peabody; Reveal, that’s another, more awards, another Peabody; Errthang Show will soon enough win awards. So we do a 10/20/30 about comic books instead of music, a quiz, your standard Fri/Sun, and a round of How Long Is It. After listening, please follow us and our guest on twitter @somelaterdate and @Al_Letson, then rate the show at iTunes. With thanks to Michelle for producing and basically co-hosting this one and Claire for intern work. Credit to Maceo Parker and Blackway & Black Caviar.

Poetry, literary criticism, essays, fiction, and collaborative art. Our guest, Lee Upton, has published fourteen books so far. Fourteen, our goodness. She’s Lafayette’s Francis A. March Professor of English & Writer-in-Residence and you better believe she has a ton of awards, so just go to her homepage or Wikipedia page and search them out. We talk about a lot of that stuff and do some quizzes, 10/20/30 music, Fri/Sun, and the like. If you’re new to the show, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate and rate the show at iTunes. If you’re not new to the show, why haven’t you done that yet? We see you Erik. Anyway. Our thanks to the production team of Michelle, Ben and Claire, and credit to The Grateful Dead and Puffy Daddy with Sting.

Our guest’s office is right above the studio, which is the least interesting thing to report but one of the co-hosts thought we needed to lead with that. That guest is Yusuf Dahl, the Bradbury Dyer III ’64 Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lafayette. From a rough upbringing in Milwaukee, Dahl went on to start an affordable housing project, earn a degree from Princeton, and steer the Dyer Center (right upstairs). There’s more, you’ll get to that when you listen. You’ll also find we don’t skimp on the 10/20/30, we run down a few quizzes, and we have a whole time with it, so follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate the show at iTunes, and find our guest @Dyer_Lafayette. With thanks to the production team, Michelle and Claire, and credit to Talking Heads and Marvin Gaye.

Sustainability scholar, mechanical engineer, community-based designer, Pioneer Valley native, and Vermont school-goer Rachel Koh is our guest. Koh knows things. They co-host Chart Toppers too. It’s all a rich tapestry. We deviate slightly with a first/last/best concert question instead of 10/20/30, but praise be there is no deviation from the renowned quiz. Those new to the show can follow us on twitter @somelaterdate. Those long-time listeners who haven’t can rate the show at iTunes. With thanks to Ben and Claire and credit to Chaka Kahn and Rubblebucket.

Our guest is a web development, railroad, scotch, and B-movie raconteur. Not in that order, we don’t know the order. You can’t order those things. It’s Charles Fulton, Senior Web Applications Developer in ITS at Lafayette. Guess what we talk about? Web stuff, trains, scotch, and B-movies. Before that, Vans. Toward the end, 10/20/30 and a quiz. After that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @mackensen. With thanks to Ben for producing. Credit to Santana and The Band.

Angela Perkins—research and instruction librarian, screenwriter, AFI graduate, colleague of multiple talents—joins us. We talk Bronx, Hollywood, UT-Austin, Skillman Library, screenplays, movies, quizzes, music, Fridays, Sundays, black licorice, and shrimp ‘n grits and we do it all within (questionably) the New York Metropolitan Area. /

Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Ben for producing and Claire and Jen for interning. Credit to Beastie Boys and Cold Cave.

Jen Gilmore is our guest. Our friend the novelist and English professor, author of five books, four of which we smuggled into the build-a-title episode title (sorry Golden Country), comes on to talk about Chevy Chase, DC, Brandeis, Cornell, NYC, publishing, editing, teaching, Hanukkah, it’s a whole thing. For those who’ve never read the fine print, do follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @jenwgilmore. With thanks to Michelle for producing (happy birthday too) and Ben and Jen for interning. Credit to the Pixies and Springsteen.

Blood-brain barriers, thermal fluids, medicine delivery, mechanical stuff, because mechanical engineering professor Josh Smith is in studio. He’d watch people getting their brains drilled for research, that’s a thing that happens, for injecting medicine. He’s got a PhD from UVA and a Sunday kayaking habit. He’s a longtime fan, a Posse mentor on campus, and a decent enough quiz taker, but wait till you hear about Ben G.’s accomplishment. He (Ben, that is, and Josh too, we suppose) asks that you follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Michelle for producing and Ben and Jen for interning. Credit to Glass Animals and DMB.

Social psychology, stereotype research, gender studies, that’s what guest, native Californian, and professor in the Psych department Angela Bell studies. Download for all of that, but stay because it’s an episode of firsts: our first guest to quote Parks and Rec in a peer-reviewed paper, to have met Amy Poehler and been a UCB audience regular, to have shunned Zack Braff’s cupcake demands, to then get a PhD from Oklahoma State, and to co-host her own new WJRH show “Chart Toppers.” Et cetera. So all that, quiz quiz licorice, blah blah Friday, something Sunday, and we’re out. We then ask this of you: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @angelacbell. With thanks to Michelle for producing and Ben and Claire for interning. Credit to Saint Motel and Father John Misty.

We conned senior producer of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, former co-host of How To Do Everything, and current host of Everything is Alive Ian Chillag to come on the show. Then when we had a quiz we forgot to say the winner would get his voice on their answering machine, because we wanted to make public radio jokes all episode, because, but it turns out Ian won and we assume his voice is already on his answering machine so, win-win. Now we’re just filling space before saying we did a quiz and Fri/Sun and had a time of it. All good? Then take a chance to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @ianchillag. With thanks to Ben G. for producing and Jen for interning. Credit to Blind Pilot and No BS Band’s Mingus cover.

Renowned abstract expressionist Ed Kerns (who is also Lafayette’s Eugene H. Clapper Professor of Art) is our guest. He was a student of Grace Hartigan of the New York School and an assistant to Willem de Kooning. He’s art, humanities, culture, music, he’s all of that as one of our longest serving professors. We get a great round of 10/20/30, succumb to another masterful quiz, and learn a little something with Fri/Sun. We also got bread, he brought us various breads. Learn more about it all by following us on twitter @somelaterdate, rating us on iTunes, and subscribing. Thanks to Michelle and Ben for producing. Credit to Christine and the Queens and the La Boheme finale.

Music Professor Jennifer Kelly is here. She’s a singer, conductor, scholar, Director of the Arts at Lafayette (music, art, theater, writing, film and media studies), engaging conversationalist, and native Southern Californian. We didn’t bring up The Peach Pit once. But we did 10/20/30, and a quiz, and Fri/Sun, and we did talk a lot about music, naturally. So download, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Claire and Jen for interning. Credit to Lana Del Rey and Liza Minnelli.

Farmer Lisa is on the show, Lisa Miskelly. She’s our College Farmer. We have a farm. It’s called LaFarm. A good amount of the episode is thus about Farmersonly.com. But there’s also a quiz and 10/20/30 and Fri/Sun and there’s still the call to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Claire and Jen for standout intern work. Credit to The JBs and Weezer.

It’s a member of the cabinet for our season premier. VP Greg MacDonald, of Enrollment Management, takes time away from enrolling for an afternoon in studio. He’s Canadian, we learn that. He’s in charge of who gets into college, sort of. He’s affable too, a really affable guy. Before that we catch up on a few summer things, and during that we have a 10-20-30 question and a quiz, and after we get into election politics, only barely. Do follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @G_MacDonald. With thanks to Ben G. for producing and Claire for interning. Credit to Sylvan Esso and Bruce.

Athletic Director Sherryta Freeman is our guest for the Season 3 finale. Lafayette has 23 Division I sports. She’s the one who can name all of them. She’s a tempest of talent, an impressive leader, a Dartmouth grad, and a superfan of Janet Jackson and Beyonce. But we couldn’t get them to call in. Even so, [0:00-7:30] we talk about bikes, then [7:30-48:00] we talk with AD Freeman, yes, with the 10-20-30 and the quiz and the stuff. So if you would, and we we’re just cutting and pasting here, you get that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @LafayetteAD. With thanks to Claire for producing and new intern Jen for interning. Credit to Outkast and Janet Jackson.

Our guest is Wendy Wilson-Fall, Chair of Africana Studies and encyclopedic knowledge-haver of so many things. Senegal, Niger, Madagascar, eight languages—she’s a linguistic wizard—a lot of aid work, policy, development, DC upbringing, and a veritable catalog of modern musical all stars and Afro-infused bands, Afropop, Afro-rhythym. And Ohio too, because the quiz is about Akron, she worked there for a while too. Because you care, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Ben for producing and Claire for interning. Credit to James Brown and Bembaya Jazz National.

Politics, political theory, political organizing, Chicago in the ‘60s, California in the ‘70s, Acorn, get out the vote, put in a stop light, Black Panthers, Berkeley politics, empathy, care, democracy! Those are keywords. The guest is Government and Law professor Josh Miller. We talk politics and political theory, because keywords. It gets onto a nice 10-2-30 music, a quiz (on political parties, keyword), and the usual chit chat. Here’s the perfunctory: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Michelle for producing and Claire and Andie for interning. Credit to The Neighbourhood and Linda Rondstadt.

Another year, another intern breaks our hearts by graduating. With a nickname like "star student,” it stands to reason we couldn't expect Summa Cum Laude Environmental Studies/International Affairs double major Andie Mitchell @anandieandrea to stick around for a fifth or sixth year. So we send her off after talking about her Washington State upbringing, twin-hood, fencing passion, choice of the east coast liberal arts Lafayette, Study Abroad prowess, musical taste, and quizzing abilities on Real or Not (“Seattle bands”). When you’re satisfied with all of that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Michelle for producing and Claire and Ben G. for interning. Credit to Paramore (playing Drake) and Of Monsters and Men.

Anthropologist Monica Salas Landa is on the show. She’s not violent, mind you, the title’s a reference to her book title, you’ll get to that part about halfway in. Simon couldn’t decide on a title, this is on him. But the show, you were asking about the show: we’ve got Mexican history, museums, museum studies, anthropology, almost archaeology, environmental history, Cornell, it’s always Cornell, good music, good times, good people. There’s your 10-20-30. The quiz. The Fri/Sun. And that’s that. Except for the other stuff, there’re other things too. Our point is, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus, follow our guest too, @SalasLanda. We do. With thanks to Michelle and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to Bowie and The Smiths.

The head coach of the Lafayette football team is here. It’s John Garrett, entering his second year, bringing a lifetime of football playing and coaching to bear, giving us some of the ins and outs, walking us through the NFL, the WFL, the collegiate ranks, a lifetime of Springsteen fandom, a commitment to team and family and community....Then we go through 10-20-30 on music, there’s that quiz, Friday/Sunday, and we’re out. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus, find our guest at @CoachJMGarrett. With thanks to Michelle, Andie and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to Bahamas (Springsteen cover) and The Who.

Poet, science studies scholar, author, English professor, world traveler Megan Fernandes is here. From Canadian origins to Philly, from Santa Barbara to Boston, from Paris to Montreal, from Manhattan to Easton, her path is paved. From Tin House to Ploughshares, Guernica to the Boston Review and McSweeney’s, you’ll find her work. We get to it, most of it, some of it, we touch on it. Then to 10-20-30, the quiz, Friday/Sunday, and various ins and outs. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus, find our guest at https://meganfernandes.com/. With thanks to Michelle, Ben G., Andie, and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to Dope Melon and Modest Mouse.

Our guest is Chris Hunt, the Dean of Equity and Inclusion. See how the episode title matches? We talk small college life in Pennsylvania, Lafayette changes (or not) over the years, TSA agents, Mac’n’Cheese recipes, student concerns, and so on. Then standard fare 10-20-30 music, a quiz, and Friday/Sunday. You got it, it’s basically that. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Michelle, Ben G., and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to The O’Jays and MJ.

Film history! Film studies! Our guest is Katherine Groo of Film and Media Studies. Here’re some things: non-fiction film, silent film, ethnographic, Avant Garde, experimental film, Orlando, Emory, Tarkovsky, Aberdonians, Chaplin and Chaplin scholars. Then we’re onto first favorite/current favorite,10-20-30 music, a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the like. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Follow our guest too, @Katherine_Groo. With thanks to Michelle, Ben G., and Andie for producing and interning. Credit to Fred Wesley and Sleater-Kinney.

A lot of history about the Marquis de Lafayette here, a lot, because our guest, Director for Special Collections & College Archives Diane Shaw, knows more about the Marquis than any of us. He had 7 or 8 first names. Did you know that? He was America’s most famous visitor for a good century. We have his sword in the College collection. It’s a big deal. There’s racial history too, about the College, and other tidbits along the way. And there is, as ever, 10-20-30 music, a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the like. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle, Ben G., Andie, and Claire for producing and interning. Additional thanks to Daniel Gonzalez for the new intro. Credit to Radiohead and Miles Davis.

Easton’s Mayor Sal Panto, Jr. is on the show. Believe it or not. The Mayor. We get a lot of local history, we hear about what it’s like mayoring, there’s some town-gown chatter about the college and the city, Simon has a pretty decent joke about silly putty somewhere a ways into it, and we do the usual stuff with 10-20-30 music, a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the like. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest too @sal_panto. Thanks to Michelle and Ben G. for producing and interning. Credit to Daft Punk and Pavarotti.

Syllabus: Birds, ornithology, science, biology, home brewing, animals, a new restaurant, city streets, Byrds, Idaho, Arizona, and such. It’s all with Mike Butler, professor in the biology department. Then with the music and the quiz and follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus follow our guest too @MWButler2. Thanks to friend and off-season producer @liamrulz. Credit to Alvvays and Real Big Fish.

You know to cut the green wire, right? You know evil overlords just sit there all day, right? You know Simon can’t Quantum Leap into a 1962 stand-up set, right? So you maybe don’t need this episode. But here we are anyway. It’s a guest-less new year foray into problem solving, as ever. Thanks to friend and off-season producer @liamrulz. Credit to Camera Obscura and Mike’s Song.

Archives, libraries, digital humanities, Rhode Island, Cornell, Austin, Montreal, NAACP, Queer Oral Histories…all with all-star guest Charlotte Nunes, Lafayette’s Director of Digital Scholarship Services. Then some music, there’s the quiz, and so on and so forth and then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest too @CharlotteLNunes. Thanks to Michelle and Ben G. for producing and interning. Credit to Ani DiFranco and The Dum Dum Girls.

Syllabus: coffee, chemistry, chemical engineering, atmospheric science, aerosol, The NYC. It’s Joe Woo, a good guy, a gifted teacher, and a lifelong New Yorker but for these past three years at Lafayette. I had a poppy seed bagel the other day and then a lemon poppy seed muffin today. It’s like all we’re doing anymore is poppy seeds and we’re okay with that. But follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest on Instagram @jlw2120. Thanks to Michelle and Andie for producing and interning. Credit to Les Baxter and Weird Al.

Syllabus: it’s mostly legal mumbo jumbo on our centenary episode, as we welcome our first-post-lost-episode guest back, our longest-serving FOTS/PG Kris Riddle, Esq. You’ve got forced arbitration, you’ve got class-action lawsuits, you've got legal clichés, you’ve got perfunctory references to The Jerk, you’ve got music and fashion (always the passion), and you’ve got your quizzes. You’ve got your bi-weekly chance to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Thomas, Jazz, Ben, and Andie for studio crowd work. Credit to Green Day and the New Pornographers.

It's a bonus episode. Simon lays out the character/personality bingo card and isn't it grand.

Season 3 begins: weirdness and/in college, Russian literature, history, sneezing etiquette, new interns, old Scandinavia, some music and passion…with guest Lindsay Ceballos of the Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES) program and host of our WJRH sister show, re:mixtape. All of this as we return with Simon’s new citizenship in hand. You can follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can also follow our guest at @re_mixtape and @REES_LafCol and say hi to the new interns Jazz, Dwayne and Ben G. Thanks of course to show producer Michelle Polton-Simon. With credit to Veronica Maggio, Abby Ahmad & Mark Marshall, and (for clips) Bill Monroe and Jeffrey Lewis.

The hiatus continues while Simon and Ben continue the search for the lost episodes. Thanks to listeners who suggested looking behind the couch. Like we hadn’t thought of that. They weren’t there. In the meantime, check back with Rachel Goshgarian in this old classic: Ep53 has for two years been consistently in our top 3 downloads. It was Michelle’s first episode. It was the one with Renan’s grocery quest.

Originally aired as “Episode 53: Monks, and Dogs, and Black Magic, and Such,” October 26, 2015.

This is a rebroadcast of "Episode 61: Recorded Under Protest" (with Alan Childs), one of our all-time most popular episodes. Yes, we're into reruns during this temporary hiatus as we finish putting together our team for the new season. Here's a Demetri Martin joke to help the cause: "I have an L-shaped sofa...[wait for it]...lower case."

Originally aired March 14, 2016.

Syllabus: Comedian Glen Tickle joins us. Graduate of Ramapo College and native of the Lehigh Valley; haver of thoughts on trying stand-up for the first time, McRib economics, Muppets and Fraggle Rock excellence, sheetcake politics, Harvey Danger, and Neil Hamburger; taker of quizzes and such. Then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest @glentickle and our summer production team @liamrulz too. Credit to Traffic and Wilfred Burns.

Syllabus: the rhyme breakthrough, Cali-Boston-DC, hockey, Japan, robot noodles, federal reserves, Keynes, 10-20-30 music, first/most movie, and Fri/Sun + May/August.

Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Also follow our guest @Amyguisinger and summer producer @liamrulz, why not. Credit to R.E.M. and Madness.

Even imaginary penises on quilts are pretty bad to the traditionalists, we learn. But our guest, mathematician and nationally renowned quilter Chawne Kimber, is no traditionalist. We talk math, Florida, quilts, knitting, art, politics, cotton. We quiz, we survey, we make it work. When you find all of that out on your own, be a dear and follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Also why not follow our guest @cauchycomplete and summer producer @liamrulz? There’s so much to do. Credit to The War on Drugs and Stevie Wonder.

Summer at College means we wander off campus and so we’ve got return guests Justin Scott and Mike Smith from our sister podcast Poorly Summarized. We also have a guest producer (and past guest) Liam “Per Diem” O’Donnell (thanks, LO). The episode is full of firsts: we finally respond to reader mail with this grab-bag episode; we do a new quiz, Are You More American than a Canadian?; and we change the Fri/Sun question a scootch to July/August. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Also follow our guests @poorsummary and our producer @liamrulz on twitter. Credit to The Beastie Boys and Bon Jovi.

This is a rebroadcast of "Episode 77: John Hodgman Skews the Data" as we enjoy our brief summer hiatus during Canada Day, the 4th of July, and Heritage Day in our hometown Easton, PA (it's a thing).

The show has guest hosts. Recent graduates and esteemed interns Will “Madison Square” Gordon and Ian “Code” Morse take the mics to interview very special guests B.R. Cohen and Simon Tonev. Isn’t that something. And Michelle is there to produce it for us. There’s still a quiz, they still ask the 10/20/30 question, and they even fashion a variation of Fri/Sun. Eagle eyed and/or bat-eared listeners will notice we lost an episode (93), which is the first time that’s happened since the heartbreaking loss of Eps 1-42. But we manage. Please allow our extra double thanks to Will and Ian for all their interning gravitas over the past year and sincere congratulations on their election to emeritus status, now Playlist Intern Emeritus and Fact Check Intern Emeritus. They want you to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, follow us on Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Credit to Fred Wesley and Colin Hay.

If you don’t already love lava, you will after this. If you already love lava, you’re in luck. Our guest is geologist Tamara Carley, a Volcanologist. She used to live by Mt. St. Helens; then she lived with Taylor Swift. Boom. Now she globe-trots and avoids lava by jumping to the left and queues up to get hot dogs on the side of Icelandic volcanoes. She too suffers the 10/20/30 question, teaches us about Nashville in a quiz, supports the Fri/Sun data, and even brought us rocks as a gift. So then, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate—you’re not following us, we see you, though you don’t read this either so this is like when you give a big speech about class attendance but what’s the point because anyone who hears the speech is already attending class—like us on Fb, follow us on Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, Will for Playlisting, and Johnny for Talent Booking. Also note a special EP credit to Greg MacDonald for encouraging the theme. Credit to The Meters and (with apologies) Jimmy Buffet (apologies to you, the listener, not to Cheeseburger). Dead Milkmen too.

Our guest studies deception, or lying, or dishonesty, or insincerity in the workplace. He’s David Shulman, Professor of Sociology at Lafayette. After telling us about going to Detective School in Chicagoland so he could study the police, and some chit-chat about Sharknado admiration, he runs the 10/20/30 gauntlet, suffers through a "quiz," and addresses the Fri/Sun issue. Then to you: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, follow us on Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to the Digable Planets and Harry Belafonte.

The Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Michael Witmore, is our guest. He does yeoman’s work to guide us down the Bard’s path. The highbrow character of the episode doesn’t prevent a round of 10/20/30 music; another quiz; some Fri/Sun; and then your part: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, follow us on Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Thomas for Producing and Ian for Fact Checking. Credit to the Dangdut Cowboys and Radiohead.

Is it VBB’s biggest fan? Will others contest? As is our motto, We broadcast; you decide. John Lach of U.Va. is the guest. Electrical and Computer Engineer, longtime friend of one of the co-hosts (the better one), a native Wisconsian, a Science, Technology, and Society (STS) grad, a studied podcast devotee in his own right, a quick wit and former Harry Chapin fan, the list goes on. We’ve got 10/20/30/40 music; a Jeffersonian quiz; a suspect answer on Fri/Sun; and then over to you: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Will for Playlisting, and Ian for Fact Checking. Credit to Radiohead and Pearl Jam.

"Garbage people," language, religion, music, Breaking Away, museum no-nos, the whole Seal lyric debate, etc. Our most multi-lingual guest ever, Jessica “The Talent” Carr, is a professor in the Religious Studies Department, a native Floridian, a graduate of Indiana U., and a person with diverse musical taste. You’ll find that out with 10/20/30 music, after which is a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and, for you, the routine: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Will for Playlisting, Ian for Fact Checking, and Johnny for Talent Coordinating. Credit to King Missile and Sagol 59.

Surfing and sustainability, there’s a lot of that in this episode. We talk to our third in a trinity of alumni guests, Joel Cesare Lafayette Class of ’04. Sustainable Building Advisor in the Office of Sustainability and the Environment for the City of Santa Monica (come and knock on their door), entrepreneur and co-founder of StokeShare, former varsity football player, current generous and congenial guy, Joel is a breath of fresh air. That’s almost wordplay because of the sustainability stuff, because fresh air, clean air, like environmentalism—but also it’s an interview and Fresh Air is an interview show too, so we did that. Anyhoozle. As ever, 10/20/30 music, the quiz, Friday/Sunday, and your routine: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Will for Playlisting, Johnny as our Talent Acquisition intern, and Very Special Guest Episode Introducer (and Publicity Intern, European Division) Peter Van Manen. Credit to Wilco and Incubus.

DefCons 1-5 or 5-1 precede an affably ambling chat with Interim Coordinator in Lafayette’s Office of Intercultural Development (the ICLCOID, “The Icklecoid”) Liam O’Donnell. He’s a new father, he works on three great podcasts of his own (Cinepunx, Horror Business and Eric Roberts is the Man), he’s a Princeton Theological Seminary grad, he’s got a good read on religion and film and his hometown Philadelphia. We talk about that stuff and vampires and zombies and werewolfs too. Then 10/20/30 music, the quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the routine for you: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for nearly Fact Checking, and Will for probably Playlisting. Credit to Hall & Oates and The Mountain Goats.

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The history of Easton, our town, through the eyes of one of Lafayette’s most experienced alum, Danny Cohen, Class of ’65 (and no relation to the co-host). The idyll of the 1950s, economic downturn of the ‘70s, recovery in the ‘00s, it’s that kind of view. There are these parts too: how Danny lost that marathon in Moscow, about the famous alumni of Lafayette, about his fraternity brothers The Cyrkle who became this weird opener (we think) for The Beatles, and Simon loves Saved by the Bell and drink matrices, two quizzes, Friday/Sunday, equatorial apples, and the routine: be a dear and follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Renan for Producing this one. Credit to Santana and The Cyrkle.

Producer Emeritus, computer scientist, and Lafayette alum Renan Sequitur Dincer makes it to the interview room. Finally. He’s never been a guest, how about that. We talk about leaving Europe to go to Asia for school, what Christian missionaries were doing in Turkey in the 1800s, what music he’s been up to for 20-odd years, and where Boston is. Then the usual: we’ve got twitter, @somelaterdate, there’s Fb, and Spotify, and iTunes. Plus the guy gets double credit in this ep—because our thanks to Renan as well for producing. Credit to Beck and Beirut.

[recorded in December] From the XPrize to Lafayette College to West Africa to Philadelphia to a life devoted to human rights, global women’s issues, African history, and music and infectious joy, we talk to Dr. Emily Musil Church. There’s a quiz, there’s a Friday-Sunday question, there’s more good cheer and positivity than we usual have. And we need it. A note to listeners: this episode was recorded in December but thankfully available now for the respite of an optimism grounded in reality and good work.

The routine: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to G. Love and Nomadic Wax.

Engineering, environmentalism, green chemistry, algae burgers, biodiesel, Frisbee golf, music (Lion King, Boyz II Men, jazz), a quiz, Fridays, Sundays...all with the excellent Prof. Lindsay Soh. It’s good. After that, the routine: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, listen to Spotify, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. It’s exhausting, we already admitted it. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Thomas for co-producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to My Morning Jacket and Charles Mingus.

How does college work? Dean of Students Paul McLoughlin explains it, more or less. Organizing student life, meal plans, student conduct, Galaga in the student union, from Ohio to Vermont to Florida to Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. Then it’s the usual—10-20-30 music; a quiz; Friday/Sunday. Do be a peach and follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, check out our Spotify channel, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. It’s exhausting, there’s so much to do. So thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to Deer Tick and Dave Matthews Band.

Finance, money, cash, scholarships, lucre, dough, moola, large, bones, bread. We talk to Ashley Bianchi, Director of Financial Aid and native Mississippian about it all, or some of it, it’s more like some of it. It comes up, let’s just say that. Plus mayonnaise (the Sandwich Corollary), the South, the costs of college, discount rates, and all the regulars—10-20-30 music; a quiz; Friday/Sunday. Learn it all and then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, check out our Spotify channel, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sara Bareilles covering Beyonce.

We finally have a mathematician on the show, Rob Root. He and his daughter, Gina, join us to talk social justice, numbers, math, maths, equations, sharks, obscure Vassar references, some math jokes, conjectures, math stuff, and math. We have a double round of 10-20-30 music (one of them 10-15-20); we have a quiz; we have Fridays and Sundays. The usual. After you listen—or before, we don’t actually check, you know that, right?—follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, check out our Spotify channel, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to the Beastie Boys and Boz Scaggs.

Lots of Broadway, musicals, acting, and theater talk with the inestimable Mary Jo Lodge, professor in the Theater Department at Lafayette. This one makes us look cultured. This one has loads of Broadway references. I guess we already said that. This one is right in Producer Michelle’s wheelhouse, too. We also get into the 10-20-30 music question; we’ve got a quiz; there’s Friday-Sunday. If you would, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to George Harrison—because we have to believe that “All Things Must Pass”—and Springsteen.

John Hodgman is the guest. You probably got that from the title. The Daily Show, The Areas of My Expertise, The New York Times Magazine, HBO's Bored to Death, Amazon's Red Oaks, commercials about PCs and Macs--he's got a long credit list. We practice greetings, ask about our close competitor podcast Judge John Hodgman, invite John to help us judge more things—Peanut Butter v. Mint; student behaviors—get into the Friday-Sunday issue, deal with the 10-20-30 music question, and celebrate “Vacationland” in Bethlehem. Plus we make our first audio unboxing recording to find Dutch licorice. After that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Thomas and Michelle for Producing and Eric "Wingsy" Weber for his dual role as Talent Acquisition and Outreach Coordinator Intern. Credit to Billy Bragg and New Edition.

Chapter 1: Kix, because; chapter 2: our guest is here, Reference and Instruction Librarian Sarah Morris; chapter 3: her journey, from NC to PA; chapter 4: 10-20-30 music; chapter 5: quiz; chapter 6: Friday/Sunday; chapter 7: party mix. After that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Playlisting. Credit to Nellie McKay and Alison Kraus and Robert Plant.

The topics: chapter 1: Olympian quantum leap; chapter 2: modern dance and the Charleston; chapter 3: Dolly Parton; chapter 4: animal studies; chapter 5: numerology; chapter 6: 10-20-30 music; chapter 7: quiz; chapter 8: Friday/Sunday; chapter 9: pausing and holograms; chapter 10: we don’t have chapters on this show, you know that. But all of it with Prof. Carrie Rohman of the English Department. Thanks to Thomas for Producing, Ian for Fact Checking, and Will for Checking Ian’s Facts. Credit to Death Cab for Cutie and Dolly Parton.

This one has a lot of computer talk and communications talk and baseball talk, because John O’Keefe is the guest and he is Lafayette College’s Chief Information Officer and, currently, the Interim Vice President of Communications and also a baseball fan. After that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Producer Emeritus Renan for the heroic conclusion to his tenure (maybe?); credit to Miles Davis and Always Sunny.

Senior Editor/Writer for The Onion, recent digital director for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and the author of two books is on the show. He’s Jason Roeder and we have to guess he thought this was a much more popular show when he agreed to the interview. Prove him right, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Producer Emeritus Renan for his continued service; credit to The Beatles and Wings.

This one’s an environmental episode. We have Andrea Armstrong from Environmental Studies. We talk about water (big part of the environment) and correctly eating fruit (more environment), swans and ducks (they live in nature) and watersheds (guess where), plus sand, lumber, cats, and Sundays. If you get that far, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Renan for yet another return stint in producing; credit to the Tragically Hip and the Angel City Chorale (and Toto).

On the docket: Empty coffee cups (#emptycupawards), advising the undergraduate and the modern parent, hypnotized orientations, the amenities race, famous locals, Fridays, Sundays, and right turns, all with Dean Erica D’Agostino, after some chatter with Prof. Myles McNutt of Old Dominion U. Then, if you would, do follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Renan for another return stint in producing; credit to Nomo, Patrick Carney, and L’Orchestra Cinematique.

Producer Emeritus Renan finished his bucket list in ostensibly dramatic fashion, on the very last day of his college career, with the help of a past guest. Let's hear the story, with Ep70 guest Jonathan Lafky (a different past guest) on board for the retelling.

We finally have an economist on the show, Jonathan Lafky of Carleton College (née Lafayette College). He’s a behavioral economist, studying on-line rating systems, pondering celebrity guest lecturers, selling us a dollar, showing off lake-naming and board game prowess, and generally laughing and riding and cornballing. Typical, for a home-schooled hippie from Oregon. After you listen, or before, or if you don’t, who are we to judge, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on FB, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to our old friend Renan for producing; credit to Deer Tick and Pink Floyd.

There’s a lot of pizza talk here, we won’t lie, with a stab at the Chuck E. Cheese origin story plus video games. We debut a new segment, in fact: How to play Galaga. Then our guest, Amir Sadovnik, of the Computer Science department, helps out. That only leads to more tech talk, like computer vision—teaching computers how to see—and, eventually, another new segment: Tech Talk with Simon. By that point, who’s even listening? No clue, that’s who. But anyone else should follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Tom for interning; credit to Joanna Newsom and Phish.

Dean of Admissions Matt Hyde is here to talk about Deaning, Admitting, and being Matt Hyde. Good guy. He’s from Massachusetts. He’s a key gateway for Bert Lafayette’s school. Find: blurred plates, appropriate airplane foods, Matt’s favorite SNL skit, monkey screams, and the apparent reality of Chris Traeger. Hey Mark, can you give me a quick call when you get this? Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, and make an IG account for us. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Eric and Tom for interning; credit to Miriam Makeba and Lesley Grove.

The guys from Poorly Summarized are here for Round 2 of The Flintstones Meet The Jetsons. We address New Yorkers self-applauding their cultural features; they answer the show’s longest running question: how do other people know we exist?; we all get meta by talking about podcasts on podcasts; and then there are some quizzes. There’s a special bonus too. If you read this far in this summary you’re entitled to a free download of all past episodes. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate to get the prize code. Thanks to Michelle for producing; credit to The Meters and Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends.

Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Men's Journal, New York, The New Yorker, GQ, The New Republic, and ESPN: The Magazine. Stephen Rodrick’s written for more magazines than we have listeners. He’s interviewed everyone from Ringo Starr to Serena Williams to Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s also author of the critically acclaimed The Magical Stranger. So we interviewed him. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Thomas and Eric for interning; credit to Gillian Welch and The Jayhawks.

The inimitable Dean John McKnight joins us. It’s Florida, gators, educational theory, student development, various universities of Pennsylvania, gospel, Coltrane, Kendrick Lamar, Ella Vader, Renaissance, medieval knighthood, and an international hamburger museum. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Thomas for interning; congrats to Renan for his new Producer Emeritus status; credit to Miles Davis and Arcade Fire.

Pet names, band names, newspapers, websites, student government, students, governments. We charge on with student guesthood by talking to the (plausible) future president of the United States and the (possible) future editor of the New York Times. That’s L’Eunice Faust and Will Gordon and that’s something to brag about. Thanks to soon-to-be graduating Renan and soon-to-be-sophomore Michelle for producing; credit to A Tribe Called Quest and Fun/Jepsen.

The topics: on-line eyeglasses; Russian history in Maine; the lobster equivalence; golf; baseball; baseball; pens; etc., with the superb Prof. Josh Sanborn. “When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV.” Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing and interning; credit to Langhorne Slim and Matt Monro and, obv. J. Handey just there.

She writes books, she teaches fiction, she’s got screenwriting all about, she’s Canadian, she understands slap bets. She’s Prof. Alix Ohlin and your day just got better. Listen to the end for a secret code to win a prize. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing and interning; credit to Francoise Hardy and Men Without Hats.

If you like edible food, this is not the episode for you. If you like hot dogs, then yes, come on in. Prof. Alan Childs joins us. He’s a psychologist. Social psychology, healthcare psychology, that kind of stuff. Then there’s that whole thing about basketball. Then one time Simon was in line for a drink somewhere, probably Canada, and a guy behind him dropped a cup of ice down his back. Maybe not, but we’re still testing the fact-checking fidelity of podcast metadata. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing and interning; credit to Langhorne Slim and Zeppelin.

There’s a lot of McSweeney’s talk here, with their long-time web editor John Warner on the line. We talk about other stuff too, garbage disposals included, hot dogs and ice cream stores, naturally. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing and interning; credit to Zappa and Simple Minds.

When you get to the end, there’s an organic recipe for kombucha free of charge. Before that, political scientist Joel Shelton sheds light on things that were less lighted before the light shedding began. Ziplines, velcro hair, Monopoly, the EU, Swarthmore’s mascot, some other stuff. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing and interning; credit to Bowie and there are so many covers of Come On Eileen out there.

The show gets religion. Rev. Alex Hendrickson is here for a roundtable on backing up benediction files, avoiding Prezi for sermons, preferring Sonoran Mexican food, ministering Jedis, donut-based communions, fact-checking religious studies husbands, the myth of snowday glory, double parking, and typical Friday-Sunday tomfoolery. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing and for the sock disquisition; credit to Beach House and Phish for music.

The student brain, we try to figure it out. Or take a first crack at it, at least. With Student Jake Garber this episode works through chapters to:

1. Drink water, a lot
2. Arrive late to public talks
3. Wear sweats
4. Run down the text/e-mail/call chain

Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing; credit to the BBs and PF for the music.

Lafayette’s President Alison Byerly is our guest. She debriefs on it all: Crooners come under fire. Canadians also have bands. College Presidents binge shows too, but not so much. Victorian lit and sit-coms and Harry Potter, maybe not so different. The President’s house has nice wi-fi. And Ben & Jerry’s flavors are apparently well known. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing; credit to Sinatra and a Cass Lowe cover of The Shins.

Cars should not hit buildings. Airlines should fly east only. High school jobs don’t pay well, or at all. Maine is uniquely mono-syllabic. Curanderismo is fascinating. Anyone can play two bars of Beethoven. Just wait, you’ll see, with our guest Prof. Brett Hendrickson. Thanks to Renan and Michelle for producing; credit to Wilco and Lucinda Williams for the music.

Grocery etiquette, candy status, the bands of Detroit, seemingly never-ending Friday-Sunday chatter, this stuff about computer science...our guest Prof. Jeff Pfaffman works through it all. Thanks as ever to Renan for producing and our intern Michelle Polton-Simon for co-producing. And interning. Credit to G. Clinton for the intro and some guys doing a KISS cover for the outro.

This is our third Bonusode. We can’t even begin to explain it except there's cross-Atlantic remote controlling and juice content.

What do you know about monasteries? Read that like a sneer, like, what do youknow about them? Our guest Prof. Rachel Goshgarian can tell you how to do research there, read up on 13th c. Armenian black magic, and stay in Venice for $30 a night. Not to mention goobers at conferences, Renan’s weird thing about grocery stores, and other stuff we’re forgetting. Thanks to Renan for producing and our entirely new intern Michelle Polton-Simon for co-producing. Credit to the Cocek Brass Band for the music.

It’s our second Bonusode because German documentarians are waxing poetic about limited fowl intelligence and Renan wants in so why not.

Right off, this one has no discussion of blood flow. It’s debunked conspiracy theories instead, Ferrante and Franzen, post-apocalyptic discomfort, literary references real and imagined, famous locals (not including Iron Man), Renan’s favorite podcast, hype cycles and personality tests. In other words, Prof. Jenn Rossmann joins us for our first Supersode. Thanks to Renan for producing. Credit to Jerry’s old band for the music.

We have everything: spider webs, Jenga, villas; proper addresses, King’s College, Buddhism; pottery, poetry, rugs. And a modicum of Fri/Sun deliberation. It’s the 5-Day Forecast with Prof. Owen McLeod. Thanks to Renan for producing. Credit to Mr. Wonder and Mr. Denver for the intro and outro, respectively.

F-shaped reading, pupil tracking, 7th grade math in Brooklyn, how many degrees one person can have, way too much about the nation’s liberal arts colleges, audience favorite Friday/Sunday, and then something about bikes, who can keep track. In other words, it’s our golden episode with Prof. Julia Nicodemus of Engineering Studies. Thanks to Renan for producing. Credit to Utah Philips and Ani DiFranco for the intro and Atmosphere for the outro.

This is a special bonus episode of the show—our first bonusode—in the “One Question” style. We talk to ethics professor (and future full-ep guest) Owen McLeod about Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, morality, and art. We couldn’t actually stick to our “one question” decree, unfolding instead into many an uncanned worm.

It’s the last days of Vietnam, orthodontia, a philosophy of technology, the very laughable two factor authentication, weird mascots, another vote for Friday, and substantial minor league baseball coverage with, of course, our guest Jason Alley, Director of Instructional Technology at Lafayette. Thanks to Renan for producing and credit to Valerie June for the intro. PS: #TeamTwoFactor or #TeamChopper, you decide.

It’s finally shark week on the show so we welcome Kathleen Parrish, Journalism Professor and Director of Content Strategy at Lafayette College, to help us navigate it. Not just sharks, but a question-off, coffee, opera, Bryan Cranston, cigar bar stand-up comedy, another vote for #TeamFriday, and close to nothing about Sandra Bullock. Thanks to Renan for producing and credit to Alabama Shakes for the intro.

With thanks to our guest Prof. Jennifer Talarico and of course producer of the year Renan Dincer. We tackle the flavor of the season, laminated menus, the friday v. sunday competition, class evaluations, overly agreeable students, torrenting, cognitive memory issues, flashbulb memories, and Inside Out.

With thanks to our guest Annette Diorio, VP of Campus Life at Lafayette College, and of course our intrepid producer Renan Dincer. We'd also like to commend Saxelby Arusha and DiPalo Durban for their fine field work.

With thanks to our guest Prof. Nestor Gil and, as always, producer Renan Dincer.

Kris Riddle, Esq. is here for his return guest appearance and, as always, Renan Dincer is on board with his production skills.

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