Matt in the Time of Corona: Recent Episodes
Matt Fennell
Join the temporarily unemployed host Matt Fennell (@mattster895) as he calls his friends and talks to them about what it’s like to be living through a global pandemic!
The feed is not dead! In this episode (released almost 4 months after it was recorded!) I sat down with one of my best friends, Jarrod Lutz (@BenderJ24/@jlutz24) and we talked about everything from old memories to wild dreams to video games and sick scooter stunts! Stick around for some patchy audio and some world-class foreshadowing, it's a good one!
10 EPISODES DOWN! And what an episode to hit #10 on! I sat down and talked to one of the coolest people I know - my friend Mandy Marx (@mandybears). (She's an actual rocket scientist!) We talked about some of the factors that have compounded the weirdness of this time, returning to old hobbies, not taking your friends for granted, and the infinite sea of podcasts!
In this episode, I caught up with my friend Catherine Tetz (@cat_tats)! It had probably been at least 10 years since we had a full on conversation, so we spent some time catching up, talking about all the good stuff: banana bread, Fire Emblem, podcasts, books, and fighting that semi-unhealthy urge to transform yourself into a new person for the post-quarantine!
In this, the 8th episode, I sat down with one of my oldest friends, Dustin Rose (@thedustinrose on Twitter and Instagram and @asthtk for his art) and we talked about why cooking is never as fun as you think it's going to be, the podcasts we like to listen to, and what we thought of that last Kanye album!
I sit down with one of my best friends - Ethan Beaver - and we talk about working from home, following international sports and local news, and (finally) sourdough bread!
(Here's a link to the Waypoint Radio episode I mentioned!)
Look, I know I said these would be semi-daily again, but so many people from my office needed help working remotely this week!
Anyways, on this episode Angelica Chan (@angelicakchan on Twitter, @akcpenguin on Instagram) joined me and we talked about TikTok, what qualifies someone to be a historian, and life in Japan throughout this time of Corona.
Here's the Bernie Sanders "Thank you Soccer Mommy" clip I mentioned, and here is the aloe vera TikTok that Angelica brought up!
Look, this still counts as being on kind of a mostly-daily schedule! In this episode I talk with my friend Josie Baird (@bairdpride) about the joys of manual labor during the quarantine, all the ways that time has gotten weird, and how the truth to our situation can be found in memes! Enjoy!
This feed is still live! I'm back with a double-length episode where I interview my cousin Scott (@scottec12) and he simultaneously interviews me! Enjoy our conversation about everything from how a factory works remotely to how Animal Crossing is related to the housing crisis maybe?
Watch the documentary that Scott mentions and support the work that Preemptive Love is doing by going to loveanyway.com.
Episode 3! I interview Greg Macalinao (@sogregarious on Twitter and Instagram) and we talk about washing your hands, rediscovering old hobbies, and thinking ahead to what things will be like once this is all over!
Episode 2! Matt interviews Amelia Pekar (@asingleamelium on Twitter, @one.in.amelia on Instagram) and they talk about books, taking things at a slower pace, and the once common item that has become the true currency of corona time. (The answer will surprise you!)
The first episode! Matt interviews Ryan Rabello (@devrabello) and they talk about quarantine beards, pan de queso mix, and video games that may or may not be cryprocurrency miners?