Podcast

About once a month (or so) MetaFilter publishes a podcast discussing the best of MetaFilter. The podcast features mathowie, jessamyn, and cortex. The first MetaFilter podcast was posted to MetaTalk on February 16, 2007. All past podcasts are available at podcast.metafilter.com.

Transcripts

Out of the Blue

• Podcast 1 - The Snail That Wouldn’t Die. (July 21, 2015)
• Podcast 2 - "On emotional labor, with Jess Zimmerman" (2015-09-15)

Best of the Web

2023

• Episode 190: New Year, New Me... Fi (2023-01-08)

2022

• Episode 189: Snowperson Trauma (2022-12-11)
• Episode 188: Big Stride Moonshot (2022-12-05)
• Episode 187: Man, It's A Hot One (2022-08-30)
• Episode 186: Am I Being A User Right Now (2022-07-05)
• Episode 185a: V Rising and Severance (2022-06-14)
• Episode 185: A very wearing my bathrobe all day day (2022-05-31)
• Episode 184: Sentences are music (2022-05-08)
• Episode 183: Severance, not Succession (2022-04-11)
• Episode 182: too many trees, not enough goats (2022-03-07)
• Episode 181: Pivot Table the Calendar (2022-02-04)
• Episode 180: Is Sunset A Local Phenomenon? (2022-01-06)

2021

• Episode 179: Calendrical Is Totally A Word (2021-11-30)
• Episode 178: Leisure Suit Larry's, Uh, Pixels (2021-11-10)
• Episode 177: Good Soup (2021-10-13)
• Episode 176: Low-Key Podcast (2021-09-02)
• Episode 175: Don't Throw The Banana Peel In The Toilet (2021-08-01)
• Episode 174: Knobs and Dials (2021-07-02)
• Episode 173: No That's A Different Penguin (2021-06-01)
• Episode 172: I'll Get There At Some Point (2021-04-29)
• Episode 171: Was I Weird (2021-04-05)
• Episode 170: Through A Paper Towel Tube Darkly (2021-03-03)
• Episode 169: Soon May The Podcast Come (2021-02-01)

2020

• Episode 168: Marquee Biz (2020-12-02)
• Episode 167: The Gang Records A Podcast (2020-10-02)
• Episode 166: The Metafilter Monthly-ish Podcast (2020-09-11)
• Episode 165: Take What We've Got (2020-07-03)
• Episode 164: It's Been A Rough Week (2020-06-02)
• Episode 163: You must understand! (2020-05-01)
• Episode 162: Grip It And Rip It (2020-04-03)
• Episode 161: Change Your Ding-Dang Clocks (2020-03-06)
• Episode 160: That Was A Bood Posscat (2020-02-07)
• Episode 159: Enter The Talkredoers (2020-01-10)

2019

• Episode 158: Keep Them Scrollwheels Scrollin', Though The Browser's Slowin' (2019-12-03)
• Episode 157: That's The Title, Everyone Get Back To Work And Thank You (2019-11-01)
• Episode 156: Wasting All My Time Time (2019-10-04)
• Episode 155: No curses, no whammies (2019-09-01)
• Episode 154: I Learned It By Reading (2019-08-02)
• Episode 153: Josh Ruins Taiga (2019-06-05)
• Episode 152: Get Jobbed At Steve MetaFilter Jobs (2019-05-09)
• Episode 151: A Birdwatching Mecha (2019-04-05)
• Episode 150: Taking a Dinger (2019-03-04)
• Episode 149: IROC-Z FOMO (2019-02-06)
• Episode 148: 2019 New Year Call-In Episode (2019-01-08)

2018

• Episode 147: We Forgot What We Were Gonna Call This One (2018-11-30)
• Episode 146: GO VOTE (2018-11-05)
• Episode 145: I Don't Own A Cellphone! (2018-10-03)
• Episode 144: Give Myself A Cold Goose (2018-09-04)
• Episode 143: Sisters, Am I Right? (2018-08-02)
• Episode 142: The World Didn't End (2018-07-06)
• Episode 141: Is Cereal A Sandwich (2018-06-04)
• Episode 140: We Usually Come Up With A Title (2018-05-07)
• Episode 139: The Joke Show (2018-04-03)
• Episode 138: Don't Leave Me Hanging (2018-02-28)
• Episode 137: It Descended Into Butts (2018-02-06)
• Episode 136: 2017 year-end call-in show (2018-01-06)

2017

• Episode 135: It's A Dang Podcast (2017-12-03)
• Episode 134: Stuff and Things (2017-11-01)
• Episode 133: Eggs On Your Pegboard (2017-10-02)
• Episode 132: During Pre-Roll We Talked About The Dacia (2017-09-01)
• Episode 131: Today. Server Time. (2017-08-04)
• Episode 130: ...And Special Guest Star Robocop Is Bleeding (2017-06-30)
• Episode 129: We're Blaming Everything On Pancakes (2017-06-04)
• Episode 128: DUMPIN' M' BEEF with Jess and Josh (2017-05-11)
• Episode 127: I Have No Tabs And I Must Stream (2017-04-03)
• Episode 126: Ask A Moderator (2017-03-02)
• Episode 125: It's Been A Weird, Weird Time (2017-02-07)
• Episode 124: Happy New Year Call-In Show (2017-01-03)

2016

• Episode 123: NOT ME THAT DAY (2016-11-30)
• Episode 122: "Your Dumb Early Feet" (2016-11-01)
• Episode 121: "The Gold Medal For Restraint" (2016-10-04)
• Episode 120: "Hard Out There For A Nerd" (2016-09-07)
• Episode 119: "We're Very Helpful You're Here" (2016-08-04)
• Podcast 118 - We Should Have Asked a Chemist (July 1, 2016)
• Episode 117: "Voting For Anarchy" (2016-06-03)
• Podcast 116 - "Escape from Pony Island, with pb" (2016-05-03)
• Podcast 115 - Boaty McBoatface, with barchan (2016-04-08)
• Podcast 114 - "I Say It's Spinach, And To Hell With It" (2016-03-03)
• Podcast 113 - "It's Been A Deluge, with griphus" (2016-02-03)
• Podcast 112 - "FUCK ALL THE REST OF THE LETTERS" (2016-01-06)

2015

• Podcast 111 - "It's Too Late To Play The Accordion" (2015-12-01)
• Podcast 110 - Stealin' Lincoln, with Eyebrows McGee (November 2, 2015)
• Podcast 109 - Rhymes With Picard, feat. Greg Nog (October 8, 2015)
• Podcast 108 - That's A Solid Three-er, with ignignokt (September 9, 2015)
• Episode 107: "Breakin' the Dowels with ColdChef" (2015-08-03)
• Episode 106: "I Cleaned Out The Bathroom Closet" (2015-07-03)
• Episode 105: "Have Fun At Space Camp" (2015-06-03)
• Episode 104: "I've Got Wheelhouse In The Head Now" (2015-05-06)
• Episode 103: "Strictly Non-Palindromic" (2015-04-10)
• Episode 102: "Retired" (2015-03-05)
• Episode 101: "More Elegant Website for a Civilized Web" (2015-02-03)
• Episode 100: "The Big 100" (2015-01-07)

2014

• Episode 99: "HOW DID IT BE THE 2ND?!" (2014-12-02)
• Episode 98: "A Land of Contrasts" (2014-11-04)
• Episode 97: "The Perfect Hermit Crabitat" (2014-10-07)
• Episode 96: "The Great Flip-Offening" (2014-09-05)
• Episode 95: "#dickmove" (2014-08-02)
• Podcast 94 - "Incremental RPGs" (2014-07-08)
• Podcast 93 - Midlife Crisis Machine (June 4, 2014)
• Podcast 92 - Numb and Number (May 13, 2014)
• Podcast 91 - Because Math? (April 3, 2014)
• Podcast 90 - Pic Pedantic (March 6, 2014)
• Podcast 89 - Bookie Clicker (February 6, 2014)
• Podcast 88 - Owls as Pets (January 6, 2014)

2013

• Podcast 87 - Dungeons and Dragons (December 10, 2013)
• Podcast 86 - Attenblurrowed (November 2, 2013)
• Podcast 85 - Silk Road 2.0 (October 8, 2013)
• Podcast 84 - Pumpkin! (September 10, 2013)
• Podcast 83 - Legally throwing up on the subway (July 26, 2013)
• Podcast 82 - Good for July! (July 2, 2013)
• Podcast 81 - Does the Dog Die? (June 4, 2013)
• Podcast 80 - Your Go-to Salad (April 30, 2013)
• Podcast 79 - Kibo Was Here (March 31, 2013)
• Podcast 78 - Finishing Moves (March 4, 2013)
• Podcast 77 - Gay Teen Denouement (January 29, 2013)
• Podcast 76 - Slicing up a Menger Sponge (January 3, 2013)

2012

• Podcast 75 - goodnewsfortheinsane interview (December 6, 2012)
• Podcast 74 - LobsterMitten interview (November 6, 2012)
• Podcast 73 - Direct to DVD (October 4, 2012)
• Episode 72 - Best Post Contest Results (September 6, 2012)
• Episode 71 - Best Concert Ever (June 12, 2012)
• Podcast 70 - phylactery, gegenschein, narthex, miasma & catarrh (April 11, 2012)
• Podcast 69 - Internet History Whooshing Over My Head (February 15, 2012)
• Podcast 68 - Best Post Contest Results (January 2, 2012)

2011

• Podcast 67 - Dam (December 7, 2011)
• Podcast 66 - Better Know a taz (October 24, 2011)
• Podcast 65 - Unreliable Wet Ware Factor (September 19, 2011)
• Podcast 64 - Unsticking a dead mouse (August 13, 2011)
• Podcast 63 - The Intern Speaks (July 12, 2011)
• Podcast 62 - Magical Ponycorn Adventure (June 9, 2011)
• Podcast 61 - Know Your Moderators II - Restless Boogaloo (April 29, 2011)
• Comic Podcast 1 - Ziggy, Garfield, Cathy, Mary Worth (April 1, 2011)
• Podcast 60 - Quakes and QWOP (March 31, 2011)
• Podcast 59 - The Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling (February 25, 2011)
• Podcast 58 - December Awesome Post Contest Results (January 10, 2011)

2010

• Podcast 57 - Letterpress Waffles (December 9, 2010)
• Podcast 56 - Who Set What on Fire? (November 12, 2010)
• Podcast 55 - Minecraft all the way down (October 4, 2010)
• Podcast 54 - The Ballad of Hardcore Taters (August 31, 2010)
• Podcast 53 - Raw Milk Talk (July 22, 2010)
• Podcast 52 - Llama xrays (June 18, 2010)
• Podcast 51 - Human Centipede (May 5, 2010)
• Podcast 50 - Zer0 day with MC Frontalot (March 31, 2010)
• Podcast 49b - Snowplow Trains! (February 23, 2010)
• Podcast 49a - Better Know a Moderator: vacapinta (February 15, 2010)
• Podcast 48 - Sitting or Standing (January 14, 2010)

2009

• Podcast 47 - Creepypasta (December 17, 2009)
• Podcast 46 - Help, I'm trapped in my room (November 5, 2009)
• Podcast 45 - The one we recorded live at Jessamyn's house (September 25, 2009)
• Podcast 44 - Sex Dreams & Unicorns (August 21, 2009)
• Podcast 43: 10th Party Memories (2009-08-06)
• Podcast 42 - Elvis Costello is adenoidal (June 16, 2009)
• Podcast 41: Yet another mention of Diplomacy (2009-05-20)
• Podcast 40: scatterplots and baseball porn (2009-04-21)
• Podcast 39: Tenth Anniversary Plans (2009-03-28)
• Podcast 38: Zombie Bot Army (2009-03-02)
• Podcast 37: SongSmith comes before the hack (2009-01-26)
• Podcast 36: Thousands of little poops (2009-01-02)

2008

• Podcast 35: Overeducated and underpaid (2008-12-08)
• Podcast 34: cortex drives the bus (2008-11-17)
• Podcast 33: Grains of rice (2008-10-31)
• Podcast 32: This kid doesn't even know how to drive (2008-10-03)
• Podcast 31: The Big Picture (2008-08-28)
• Podcast 30: Punched in the dick (2008-08-08)
• Podcast 29: Happy Happy Joy Joy (2008-06-27)
• Podcast 28: Burning logs (2008-06-13)
• Podcast 27: Bigger than a breadbox (2008-05-30)
• Podcast 26: Equine Stylist (2008-05-09)
• Podcast 25: The Train Episode (2008-04-14)
• Podcast 24: Jill Sobule Interview (2008-03-25)
• Podcast 23: One Year Down (2008-03-02)
• Podcast 22: Librarians, librarians, everywhere (2008-02-01)
• Podcast 21: Jesse Thorn Interview (2008-01-18)

2007

• Podcast 20: Call-in Show (2007-12-03)
• Podcast 19: The Daring Interview (2007-11-16)
• Podcast 18: The MeFites Have Been Drinking (2007-11-06)
• Podcast 17: Piles all the way down (2007-10-23)
• Podcast 16: $40 Bridge to PEI (2007-09-30)
• Podcast 15: Call-ins and recaps (2007-09-10)
• Podcast 14: Race Car Bed for Adults (2007-08-26)
• Podcast 13: Viewer Mail (2007-08-17) - not started
• Podcast 12: Melissa May and a Harvey Girl (2007-07-30)
• Podcast 11: Music Challenge, TravelFilter, and the Party (2007-07-06)
• Podcast 10: Advice for Introverts (2007-06-15)
• Podcast 9: ColdChef goes six feet under (2007-05-25)
• Podcast 8: jjg interview (2007-05-11)
• Podcast 8 Preview: This American Parody (2007-05-08)
• Podcast 7: LA Meetup at the Strip Club (2007-05-02)
• Podcast 6: Chatting with the father of the permalink (2007-04-13)
• Podcast 5: YES I LIKE SEXY SEX AS IF I WERE A PROFESSIONAL SEX PERSON (2007-04-09)
• Podcast 4: Codex Seraphinianus (2007-03-23)
• Podcast 3: Adam Savage Interview (2007-03-05)
• Podcast 2: Cortex Interview (2007-02-22)
• Podcast 1: The First One (2007-02-16)

automated transcripts

most otter.ai transcripts have been moved up from here

• Podcast 107 Transcript (automated) - via the Google web speech API
• Podcast 117 Transcript (automated) - via IBM Watson
• Podcast 135 Transcript (automated) - via Bing Speech
• Podcast 136 Transcript (automated) - via CMU Sphinx
• Podcast 136 Transcript, alt (automated) - via Scribie
• Podcast 137 Transcript, Scribie
• Podcast 137 Transcript, Google
• Podcast 141 Transcript, Scribie
• Podcast 157 Transcript (automated)
• Podcast 157 Transcript (automated, temi)
• Podcast 179 Transcript, Otter (incomplete, there's a complete one above)
• Podcast 184 Transcript, Vosk
• Podcast 185 Transcript, Vosk
• Podcast 185a Transcript, Vosk
• Podcast 186 Transcripts:
  • Vosk
  • Fireflies.ai