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Hobby Horse
by Matt Haughey
Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game.
Episodes
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Episode 20: Steven Masuch is a pog slammer
Steven Masuch is a "character actor of the web," with a variety of projects under his belt and a day job building iOS apps. He hosts the Slam for Hope Pog Tournament each year in Vancouver BC, Canada, with the 5th one coming up (and still accepting players and donations) on November 22nd. We go...
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Episode 19: Erin McKean has sewn hundreds of dresses
Erin McKean is a lexicographer, writer, speaker, and maker that started Dress A Day about 13 years ago to chronicle her sewing projects. If you've ever seen Erin at a conference, chances are you've seen her in a really cool print fabric dress she made herself. We talk about her career, how she…
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Episode 18: Dan Benjamin knows what time it is thanks to his watches
Dan Benjamin is the creator of the 5by5 podcast network and the podcast hosting service Fireside.fm and he is really into mechanical watches. We talk about his career in podcasting and how he got started, when he fell in love with watches, and how he wears and collects them today.
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Episode 17: Darius Kazemi explains his love of anime
Darius Kazemi is a programmer and bot author and all-around internet artist that has a podcast with two fellow cohosts about an anime series they all love. Darius explains how he got into programming, gaming, bot authoring, and the social network mastodon, before we dive into the ins and outs of...
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Episode 16: Todd Hamina is a winemaker that raced his bike across America
☝️Todd's winery ☝️Todd's bike for the Trans Am Race Todd Hamina has been making wine under different labels for 26 years in the Pacific Northwest, from farming his own grapes to owning his own winery. We chatted a bit about how the wine industry works in Oregon before transitioning to bikes.…
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Episode 15: Lucy Burningham spent a year becoming a beer sommelier
☝️Lucy outside of the StreamPDX trailer where we recorded ☝️Lucy's book along with the three beers we sampled during the show Lucy Burningham is a writer, editorial director at Cozy, and spent a year getting certified to become a master beer taster and wrote a book about it. She brought 3 beers…
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Episode 14: Tiffani Ashley Bell is a Formula One Fan
☝️Tiffani driving a Ferrari California in Dubai Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder of The Human Utility, which helps prevent water shut-offs in Detroit and Baltimore, all using a donation platform she's built. It's a fascinating project that was one of the first non-profits to go through Y...
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Episode 13: Amber Castaldo is a roller derby jammer
☝️Amber apex jumping a turn Amber Castaldo is a recently retired veteran of roller derby, from one of the top teams in the world, based in Portland, Oregon. We spend much of the time getting into the nitty gritty details of roller derby rules, and talk about how much work it is to stay…
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Episode 12: Dinah Sanders rolls for initiative
Dinah Sanders has been playing D&D for nearly 40 years, and has been a dungeon master going all the way back. Her current weekly game has a handful of players that have continuously played the same campaign for the past few years. We cover Dinah's early history in blogging, her two books and her...
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Episode 11: Andy Baio has been eaten by a grue
Andy Baio is a veteran of the early web, creator of waxy.org, upcoming.org, and playfic.com. He was the first CTO for Kickstarter and went on to create the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. He's also into collecting original 1980s Infocom games and still plays them today despite owning modern...
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Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards
Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so...
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Episode 9: Alex Cox enjoys some weed
Alex Cox is an Apple aficionado, technologist, and staff member of the Cards Against Humanity empire. She's currently working on four different podcasts that cover a wide range of topics but we figured out her recent obsession with smoking/eating weed is something she hadn't talked about before…
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Episode 8: John Roderick on the last frontier: Alaska
John Roderick is the creator of the band The Long Winters and a prolific podcast host and guest. He grew up in Alaska and sits down to explain every aspect of the state. He is not a man of few words. In our nearly 90 minutes of talking, we cover when to visit, what to do, and where to go, what…
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Episode 7: Erika Hall on what it takes to be a triathlete
Erika Hall, the author of the new book Conversational Design, sits down to talk about how she got into doing triathlons and all the work it took to get there.
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Episode 6: Jessie Char and her love of Disney Parks
Jessie and friends bounding as Mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club Jessie Char is co-founder of the Layers Conference, taking place in San Jose on June 4-6th next month, which brings a bunch of design leaders talking about iOS design during the week of WWDC. Previous she worked on Pacific…
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Episode 5: Jeff Atwood really loves his Yo-Yos
The four shapes of yo-yos: A wall rack showing off some of Jeff's 200-300 yo-yos he currently owns: Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites and in 2012 started his company Discourse to build software and services around better forums. In…
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Episode 4: Erica Baker on Ancestry and Genealogy
Erica Baker is a Senior Engineering Manager at Patreon and has spent the last ten plus years tracking down her family tree from every source imaginable, including family, online databases, microfiche, and documents sitting in libraries. Some may look at ancestry and genealogy as a silly hobby…
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Episode 3: Cal Henderson and his sneakers
Cal Henderson is really into shoes, currently owning about 100 different pairs. His criteria is whatever looks cool to him, and he makes a point of wearing all his shoes instead of merely collecting them. Cal's favorite shoes, special edition of Nike Air Max 97s Cal's storage solution where he's...
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Episode 2: Jessamyn West on trivia leagues, pub trivia, and puzzle hunts
It was fun to catch up with Jessamyn as we chat about non-librarian or online community things. We went deep into Learned League, the shadowy internet nerd trivia league with what I consider impenetrable rules and traditions.
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Episode 1: Jason Kottke on Alto's Odyssey
I play Alto's Odyssey and love it, but Jason Kottke really loves the game, so much so he's got one of the highest scores in the world. We go deep on the game for 45 minutes, talking about he got into it, what sets his playing apart, and what role games play in our lives.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game.
HOSTED BY
Matt Haughey
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Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game.
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Hobby Horse is created and hosted by Matt Haughey.
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