Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) is a journalist and co-creator of the hit podcasts Maintenance Phase—which he co-hosts with Aubrey Gordon—and You’re Wrong About, which he co-hosted with Sarah Marshall before leaving last year.
“Now, when anyone can go on Wikipedia and get a general timeline of events of what happened—that's not the hard part, putting things in chronological order. I want someone who's done a deep dive, and knows a lot more about a subject than I do, but is also able to tell me how it felt to them to read about it. ...
“The fact that both shows are one person telling another person something, I think that's one of the reasons that maybe people like listening to it. It's fun to hear somebody who's like a super nerd for something telling you about it at a bar.”
Related links:
- Michael Hobbes on Twitter
- Hobbes on YouTube
- Post 10 on YouTube
- You’re Wrong About
- Maintenance Phase
- Stories by Hobbes at HuffPost
Special thanks to Ashley Smith (@Cosmic_Bigfoot) for production support.
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03/24/22 • 37 min
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EIL: Everything I've Learned - Everything Michael Hobbes Learned About Podcasting
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Michael Hobbes: Mike's just like a normal guy with some bad opinions and some pretty tedious personality traits, just like everybody else.
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Mark Armstrong: Hi, everybody, this is Everything I’ve Learned, a podcast about lessons, mistakes and other turning points. I’m Mark Armstrong. A couple of months ago, I spotted an article from Bloomberg with the headline, “Podcasting hasn’t produced a new hit in years.” This was very confusing t
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