Top
Search
What's this podcast?

Jenny & Paul Sell Out is a nearly weekly eavesdrop into conversations about the culture around us--popular, unpopular, reviled, hip and seriously unhip. We hold one truth to be self-evident: that culture matters, whether or not you like it. We think that research and understanding cultural artifacts that are strange or confounding is better than just looking down your nose at it. Everyone likes something that someone else thinks is lame.

Embrace your lameness, be proud in what you like, and you'll be happier defining your path in life.

Jenny Benevento is a taxonomist/information architect, and technically a librarian. She loves people who believe in weird things.

Paul Riismandel was podcasting back when they just called it putting audio files on a website, producing the weekly syndicatedmediageek radioshow from 2003 to 2009. He's an educational media technologist by day, and a man on a mission by night.

Tuesday
Apr232013

Episode #18: Hipster Tampons

AuthorPaul Riismandel

Kyle Riismandel joins again for this episode, where we get heavy meta and discuss podcasting, sort of, but also kvetch about internet nerd celebrities, and how subcultures get insular then turn into markets full of fans who are more interested in earning merit badges and cred than enjoyment.

 

 

 

SHOW NOTES

 

THINGS WE LIKE

 

 

Jenny and Paul Sell Out #18

CommentPost a Comment →
Wednesday
Feb202013

Episode #17: It's got some tang to it

AuthorPaul Riismandel

Jenny just quit her job, but she didn't tell anyone to take it, nor shove it. Her's was a decision made as part of a methodical plan, even if other people think she's crazy for doing it. Paul and Jenny discuss why she chose to leave her job rather than phone it in, and how she prepared to take an extended sabbatical.

We're not necessarily advising or recommending that you should quit your job, or saying that it's the best thing for just anyone to do. But if you hate your job, or feel like the thrill is gone and you're phoning it in, perhaps you'll find some useful advice or inspiration to make a plan. 

SHOW NOTES:

 

THINGS WE LIKE:

 

 

 

 

 

Jenny and Paul Sell Out #17

CommentPost a Comment →
Sunday
Feb032013

Episode #16: Whimsy reeducation hut

AuthorPaul Riismandel

Storytelling nights, Instagrams of everything you did last week, tweeting bowel movements; from these things it's easy to get the impression that everyone is a special, precious flower. But if we're all special, then really, nobody is special. 

The topic of this episode is specialness, and how the need to be special and treat every thing everyone does as special threatens to lead to a feedback loop of overadulated mediocracy. Our guest for this conversation is Eugenia Williamson, writer and contributing editor to the Baffler. It's pretty special.

 

NOTES:

THINGS WE LIKE

Jenny and Paul Sell Out #16

CommentPost a Comment →
Wednesday
Jan092013

Episode #15: In Defense of the Manchild

AuthorPaul Riismandel

Adulthood.  Why do some people avoid it? Why do some people say they can't handle it? What does it mean?

Show Notes:

 

THINGS WE LIKE

 

Jenny and Paul Sell Out #15

Comment1 Comment →
Monday
Dec172012

Episode #14: Rollercoaster with a Yeti

AuthorPaul Riismandel

After much badgering from Paul, and a 10-day trip to the Magic Kingdom, Jenny finally consents to take up authenticity. Paul's not a fan of the concept when applied to culture, thinks it's just a way to tell someone else that their taste is stupid. Jenny isn't necessarily a defender of cultural authenticity, per se, but really thinks there needs to be a concise way to call out things that are fakey simulations, like Disney World's Fake New Orleans or Fake Atlantic City. Especially when we should be concerned with maintaining and preserving Real New Orleans or Real Atlantic City. Listen to the debate and let us know what you think.

 

SHOW NOTES

THINGS WE LIKE

Jenny and Paull Sell Out - Episode #14

CommentPost a Comment →
Page 1 2 3 4 ... 4 Next 5 Entries »