The 9 Thumbs Podcast

Episode 59 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and Matthew Paul Turner. Our likes in this episode: HonestSlogans.com, WordSwag app, The Walking Dead (season 4), the Starbucks app, Poliça, Fargo, Continuum, The Originals, and "Girls Don't Poop." (9thumbs.com).

Episode 58 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett, and Rob Stennett. Our likes in this episode: the film Zodiac, the upcoming film Gravity, Garrett's Popcorn, EW's 100 Greatest TV Shows, the USA series Graceland, The Civil Wars, "Stereotypes of Pick-up Basketball," Elmore Leonard's Rules of Writing, and Feedly (9thumbs.com).

Episode 57 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett, and Rob Stennett. Our likes in this episode: Sundance's The Writers Room, rechargeable batteries, Stephen King on novels' opening lines, Joyland, the Mailbox app, the documentary Dear Mr. Watterson, TheFresh20.com, cooking with wine, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9thumbs.com).

Episode 56 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and special guest Jamie Wright. Our likes in this episode: "20 Songs You Can't Believe are 20 Years Old," "10 Words You're Probably Misusing," tiny Gummi Bears, Orange is the New Black, Caprese Salad, Prince George, Raiders of the Lost Ark, "Dust to Dust" by the Civil Wars, and "Sad Dog Diary" on YouTube (9thumbs.com).

Episode 55 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and special guest Zack Hunt. Our likes in this episode: Chris Brecheen's "Changing the Creepy Guy Narrative," the 2013 Emmy nominations, Pope Francis, Lime & Salt popcorn, I Wear the Black Hat, Sea Bass, The Missionary Photographer, Jamaica, and King of the Hill. (9thumbs.com).

Episode 54 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and Jason Boyett. Our likes in this episode: the app Best Road Trip Ever, the band Wussy, Under the Dome on CBS, the blog Hipsters Who Dress Like Jackie from Roseanne, LMGTFY.com, maps of literal place names, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Shaklee Protein Shakes, and The Fault in our Stars (9thumbs.com).

Episode 53 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Alise Wright, and Jason Boyett. Our likes in this episode: @amandawachob on Instagram, "Convos with My 2 Year-Old," Casey Neistat's filmmaking studio, mobile check deposit, bookbub.com, the Freaknomics podcast "Should Tipping Be Banned?", the hotness of Henry Cavill, Mountain Stage Radio, and singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka (9thumbs.com).

Episode 52 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Sharideth Smith, and Jason Boyett. Our likes in this episode: Linguistic maps of the U.S., Elementary, Tolkien reads The Hobbit, Trader Joe's Thai Lime & Chili Cashews, Awful Library Books blog, reading with your kids, David Sedaris audio books, and @nickgerlich on Instagram (9thumbs.com).

Episode 51 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and Jason Boyett. Our likes in this episode: Floorplans of TV-show residences, the app Days, Iron Man 3, Matt Nathanson, the film Mud, therapeutic massage, the web series Burning Love, the short film "It's Not about the Nail," and Amy Grant's new album "How Mercy Looks from Here" (9thumbs.com).

Episode 50 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and Jason Boyett. Our "double likes" in this special episode: the final season of The Office, The Amazing Race, Gone Girl, secret FB groups, The Lone Bellow, Imagine Dragons, Almost Famous, Amelie, and Scrivener writing software (9thumbs.com).

A repeat of Episode 29 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This special Halloween episode was first recorded Oct. 25, 2012. It features Poltergeist, People Under the Stairs, Snopes.com, The Night of the Living Dead, The Walking Dead, "the Bloop," Dr. Sleep, Gordon Stewart Northcott, and BFRO.net (9thumbs.com).

Episode 49 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and Jason Boyett. Our likes in this episode: the first digital generation, Empire Strikes Back behind-the-scenes pics, the dice game Tenzi, "My avatar, my self" in VQR, Warm Bodies, Deceptive Practices, "So Totally Relidge," @prodigalsam, and Flora Borsi's "Time Travel" photo project (9thumbs.com).

Episode 48 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Joy Bennett, Rob Stennett, and Elizabeth Esther. Special controversy episode! Our likes: Huck Finn, Mary Poppins, smokin' hot pastors' wives, The Book of Mormon, the blog Jack Handey or Don Miller?, Tony Jones, Requiem for a Dream, Rob Bell, and the orgasmic Trader Joe's Cookie Butter (9thumbs.com).

Episode 47 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett, and Rob Stennett. Our "likes" this episode: Dove's Sketch Artist mini-documentary, Patton Oswalt's Parks & Rec filibuster, Neti Pot, Man of Steel, ENO SingleNest hammock, Makers on PBS, NBA playoffs, "8 Things That Will Make Your Hands Sweat," and Catching Fire. (9thumbs.com).

Episode 46 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett, and Rob Stennett. Our "likes" this episode: Rotten Tomatoes eulogizes Roger Ebert, iMagnet smart phone car mount, the Reasons My Son is Crying blog, "The Promise" short film, art in North Korea, The Lone Bellow, House of Cards, Doodle.com, and Jurassic Park 3D.(9thumbs.com).

Episode 45 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett, and Sharideth Smith. Our "likes" this episode: the app Anti-Social, ThisIsWhyImBroke.com, Thumbs & Ammo, Afrin (yes, Afrin), The Features, First Aid Kit, PicMonkey.com, Top Gear, and IPEVO Tubular Wireless Speakers (9thumbs.com).

Episode 33 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Joy Bennett. This episode was first recorded Dec. 14, 2012. Our "likes" this episode: Die Hard, illusionist Yann Frisch, Cuisinart's programmable coffee pot, New Yorker's piece on robots, @SeinfeldToday on twitter, CleanLogic Soap Sponge, Flick Golf for the iPhone, RoadID bracelets and tags, and Speck cases for MacBook Pro (9thumbs.com).

Episode 44 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett, Kristen Howerton, and Sharideth Smith. This special interview episode was recorded live at the March 23, 2013, Killer Tribes conference in Atlanta and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the worlds of blogging and writing for a living. Special thanks to Bryan Allain and Killer Tribes. (9thumbs.com).

Episode 43 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, Matthew Paul Turner, and Joy Bennett. This very special four-host episode (MPT's last) features these likes: The Frankenstein Theory, RottenTomatoes.com, "Ang Lee and the Uncertainty of Success," the app Over, "Breaking Bad 1995-style," Songs from the Neighborhood, Quiet, and MyObamaYear.com (9thumbs.com).

Episode 32 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This rerun episode was first published Dec. 3, 2012. If we won the lottery, our 9 "likes" would include a luxury yacht, the Phoenix Suns, a vacation at the Burj Al Arab, a ranch in Colorado, an indie movie studio like Focus Features, a personal submarine, an Airstream Interstate RV, a condo in Monte Carlo, and a private island (9thumbs.com).

Episode 42 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Matthew Paul Turner. Our likes this time around: Scramble with Friends, the Things Fitting Perfectly into Other Things blog, Seth MacFarlane at the Oscars, new music from The Civil Wars, The KJV on RapGenius.com, The Financial Lives of the Poets, BookBook from TwelveSouth, Wired's "74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs," and homemade cold remedies (9thumbs.com).

Episode 41 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett and Alise Wright. This episode's "likes": Burt's Bees Hand Salve, The Book of Mormon, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, smart phone alerts & reminders, Imagine Dragons, bluegrass covers of popular music, Roku, Mr. Rogers, and spicy condiments (9thumbs.com).

The "Guilty Pleasures" Episode 40 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Joy Bennett and Kristen Howerton. This episode's embarrassing "likes": Survivor, The Bachelor, the Lemonade Mouth soundtrack, popping blisters, fruit snacks for kids, Double Decker Tacos from Taco Bell, Bolt, the music of Nashville, and Instagram's Mayfair filter (9thumbs.com).

Episode 39 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Joy Bennett. This episode's "likes": The Oatmeal on making stuff on the Internet, Battlestar Galactica, Silver Linings Playbook, the AV Club's "Reasonable Discussions," the app Voxer, the app/platform Vine, Amelie, Jeff Chu's article on Megan Phelps-Roper, and Internet printing (9thumbs.com).

Episode 38 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Matthew Paul Turner. In this throwback episode, our "likes" come from our teenage years: "No Rain" by Blind Melon, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "I Go to Work" by Kool Moe Dee, G.I. Joe cartoon series, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Mariah Carey, "Ice, Ice Baby," and the series Get a Life. And at the end, don't miss a passionate disagreement between Rob and MPT about The Golden Girls (9thumbs.com).

Episode 37 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Matthew Paul Turner. Our "likes" for this episode: The Lumineers, Zero Dark 30, author Bill Bryson, kitchen scissors, John C. Reilly's bluegrass band, Oreck's Air Instinct 200 air purifier, New Girl, satirical Amazon reviews, SNL's "Starbucks Verrisimo" parody commercial (9thumbs.com).

Episode 36 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Matthew Paul Turner. Our "likes" for this episode: book cover designer Chip Kidd, "Everything Wrong with Looper," organizing books by color, Holly Williams, American Horror Story, arm warmers, "Live-Action Toy Story," Manti Te'o Twitter jokes, Worm Factory composting bins (9thumbs.com).

Episode 35 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Joy Bennett. Our "likes" for this episode: the blog When in Comments, the 2013 Oscar nominations, TheUselessWeb.com, 25 tips for aspiring writers, Looper, "The Blower's Daughter" by Damien Rice, Manic Panic's Atomic Turquoise hair coloring, the return of Community, belly button bacteria (9thumbs.com).

Episode 34 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Jason Boyett, Rob Stennett, and Matthew Paul Turner. For this episode, our "likes" are things we're looking forward to in 2013: the final season of Breaking Bad, Oz: The Great & Powerful, Season 2 of Suits, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Rob Bell's What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Stephen King's Joyland, Lauren Beukes' The Shining Girls, Monsters/Zombies/Vampires, and the film Hunger Games: Catching Fire (9thumbs.com).

Episode 33 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Joy Bennett. Our "likes" this episode: Die Hard, illusionist Yann Frisch, Cuisinart's programmable coffee pot, New Yorker's piece on robots, @SeinfeldToday on twitter, CleanLogic Soap Sponge, Flick Golf for the iPhone, RoadID bracelets and tags, and Speck cases for MacBook Pro (9thumbs.com).

Episode 32 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. Powerball! If we won the lottery, our 9 "likes" would include a luxury yacht, the Phoenix Suns, a vacation at the Burj Al Arab, a ranch in Colorado, an indie movie studio like Focus Features, a personal submarine, an Airstream Interstate RV, a condo in Monte Carlo, and a private island (9thumbs.com).

Episode 31 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This Thanksgiving week we are thankful for Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Anne Lamott, The Amazing Race, John Williams' scores, Kelly Clarkson, reruns of Friends, Family Guy, the LOTR films, and Instagram (9thumbs.com).

Episode 30 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: the app Lift, David Sedaris, directors of the next Star Wars film, Lisa Whelchel on Survivor, the iPhone game Stupid Zombies 2, FoodBeast's guide to voters and food brands, sex podcast The Wednesday Nooner, the Electoral College, and the film Argo. (9thumbs.com).

Episode 29 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: a special Halloween episode featuring Poltergeist, People Under the Stairs, Snopes.com, The Night of the Living Dead, The Walking Dead, "the Bloop," Dr. Sleep, Gordon Stewart Northcott, and BFRO.net (9thumbs.com).

Episode 27 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: Cabin in the Woods, "25 Most Powerful TV Shows," the graphic novel Blankets, Tapped Out, oil paintings on pennies, Kids Shampoo Rinse Cup, Arrested Development, The Cosby Show, and Esquire's cover designs (9thumbs.com).

Episode 27 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: Ellie Goulding's Halcyon, lucid dreaming, the blog Unhappy Hipsters, Rustoleum, Magnetic Primer, the Hitchcock trailer, the app Fontly, Dexter season 7, and Mumford & Sons' Babel (9thumbs.com).

Episode 26 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: Bad Children's Books, "A Love Story in 22 Pictures," the Dyson DC24 vacuum cleaner, drummer Kwon Soon Keun, GQ's interview with Mike Schur, Target's book section, listening to iTunes alphabetically, Ben Folds + Fraggle Rock, and the camera app Lens+ (9thumbs.com).

Episode 25 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: Searching for Bobby Fischer, Sneakers, secret Facebook groups, reading on an iPad, Humans of New York, This is How by Augusten Burroughs, new Bronco Peyton Manning, Andrew Sullivan's blog, and Starbucks Refreshers (9thumbs.com).

Episode 24 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: Breaking Bad (Season 5), The Office's final season, Coastermatic, Oprah's Lady Gaga interview, "The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win," reading with your kids, Star Wars folded flyers, Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte, and Garfield Minus Garfield (9thumbs.com).

Episode 23 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett and Jason Boyett. With Matthew Paul Turner out for the week, Jason and Rob discuss the top-shelf fiction that has most influenced them as readers and writers, from Lord of the Flies to Lord of the Rings — plus a lengthy discussion of The Passage by Justin Cronin. Also, Jason takes the VOSS Water challenge (9thumbs.com).

Episode 22 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Jason Boyett, and special guest host Trace Bundy. This week: True Romance, Josh Garrels, Longmire, the band Pokey LaFarge, Agros International, The Oatmeal, Hall of Fame Chase Scenes at Grantland, Square (the App), and a recipe for ice cubes (9thumbs.com).

Episode 21 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: AppZilla 3, Ready Player One, Fake Science 101, Jeremy Cowart, Llama Llama Loves Obama, The Night Circus, VOSS Water, Alamo Drafthouse, and the McSweeney's-Buzzfeed collaboration (9thumbs.com).

Episode 20 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: "How to Give a Compliment," re-watchable movies, Homeland, Keith Haring, Shattered Glass (the film), Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" video, horsehead mask photos at Amazon, @mashable, and the married hipster glory of jessandruss.us (9thumbs.com).

Episode 19 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett and Matthew Paul Turner. This week: a special questions-and-answer only episode, involving the guys' musical wheelhouses, the influence of celebrities on pop culture consumption, underrated favorites, memorable movie theater experiences, their shared love of early Michael W. Smith music, and MPT's experience with vampire erotica (9thumbs.com).

Episode 18 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: The 2012 London Olympics "British Invasion" episode, featuring Sherlock (the series), Annie Lennox, the Book of Kells, Radiohead, Luther (the series), Mumford & Sons, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, British accents, and British folklore (9thumbs.com).

Episode 17 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: Ping Pong, Star Wars, Lindsey Stirling, McDonald's Photo Shoots, Newsroom, Dead Trigger, BibleStdntsSay, Gone Girl, and Suri's Burn Book (9thumbs.com).

CLASSIC Episode 4 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner, and Jason Boyett. This week: A Simple Plan, Margaret Wise Brown, Canon 50mm lens, Denver Broncos/Tim Tebow, The Killing, Readability, The Newsroom, Entertainment Weekly, and Mitch Hedberg's radio spots for Jimmy John's (9thumbs.com). This episode was originally recorded April 5, 2012.

Episode 16 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rachel Held Evans, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: Brave, Good Magazine, Grasshopper Tacos, the Big Picture blog, the Dollar Shave Club, Virb.com, Colbert's "Artificial Swedener," Imogen Heap at Google Zeitgeist 2012, and The Roots' version of "Call Me Maybe" (9thumbs.com).

Episode 15 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: Hatchet, Stephen King's Glory Years, True Blood Season 5, Lens Flare app, Gas Buddy app, Catapult King app, Happy Endings on ABC, The Master trailer, Bill Gekas' flickr (9thumbs.com).

Episode 14 of the 9 Thumbs podcast, featuring Rob Stennett, Matthew Paul Turner and Jason Boyett. This week: "The Ventriloquist," Niki and the Dove, Summer TV on USA, Louis C.K., Exit Humanity, Graceland 25th Anniversary, "How to Succeed" by Seth Godin, AwkwardStockPhotos.com, and "Goal Celebrations FX" (9thumbs.com).