Katherine Spiers

elcomfortador:

1. These are two panels from Howard & Nester, the comic that ran in Nintendo Power back in the day. 
   
2. The bowtie guy is Howard Phillips, a.k.a. @GamemasterH, who was the spokesperson for Nintendo of America.
   
3. His stepdaughter is @katherinespiers, L.A. journalist and host of the food podcast SmartMouthPod.
   
4. She’s also my business partner and this summer we launched a podcast network and production company, TableCakes Productions.
   
5. And in the newest episode of my video game music podcast, I talked to her about our new business (briefly) and then growing up having access to every Nintendo product ever. Listen to it here!
   
6. Also I kinda come out in this episode? To maybe the only group of people who didn’t know I was gay just because I don’t talk about myself all that much on my video game podcast but then it’s like, “Oh, yeah, I host another show called Gayest Episode Ever so…”
   
7. And I’m kind of curious if my listeners knew or even cared in spite of the occasional use of #gaymer. Hope they don’t all un-subscribe?

Anyway, I feel like if you’re on Tumblr and you follow me, you probably were aware I am gay.  If you’d like to hear stories about the early days of Nintendo but also meeting Macaulay Culkin and also a fun game show-like thing about video game music, please give this episode a listen. 

newyorker:

This week’s cover, “Arthur Avenue,” by Jenny Kroik. 

elcomfortador:

Short version: I’ve got a new movie podcast with my ex-boyfriend. It’s really cool and I hope you subscribe. 

A slightly more detailed version: Those of you who have followed me for a while might remember that my first foray into podcasting was a movie nostalgia series called We Are Not Young Anymore. It ended in April, and ever since I’ve been trying to plan a new movie podcast that could improve upon the original. After a lot of work, that show is now live. It’s called You Have to Watch This Movie, and I’m co-hosting it with Tony Rodriguez, an actor and my good friend and not coincidentally also my ex-boyfriend. When we dated, we’d constantly be pointing each other toward the movies that we loved but the other had somehow missed in his pop culture intake. That didn’t end when we stopped dating, and this new show is based around that principle: What’s the movie you’re always telling people to watch? Tell us about the movie that, if you found out someone hadn’t seen it, would make you respond with something like “Oh, you have to watch this movie.”

As a show being hosted by ex-boyfriends, it’s very gay, and the movies we’re looking at will frequently skew in that direction. Each week, we’re bringing in a new guest to talk about a movie that means something to them, and that list is mostly women (of varying sexual identities) and queer men.

The first episode is just me and Tony, and Tony’s pick to kick off the series is the Lily Tomlin-Bette Midler comedy Big Business. And the second episode has @katherinespiers, host of the food podcast Smart Mouth and Drew’s business partner in the new podcast network they’re starting, and her pick is the Baz Luhrmann movie Strictly Ballroom.

We will be posting new episodes every week through the end of the year, and I’m very exited to show off to you all the cool collection of people we have coming in to talk about movies they love. (Some of them are famous! Some of them are not but still!)

Please subscribe. You can do that on iTunes, on Google Play, on Stitcher or on SoundCloud. If you want, you can follow the show on Facebook or on Twitter. But most importantly, I want to hear from you about what you like about the show and what you don’t.

Smart Mouth: Thanksgiving with Gail Simmons

Gail Simmons is Canadian, so we compare the two Thanksgivings, and talk about beans, olives, root beer, her bold licorice choices, the phrase “soup to nuts,” and the mysteries of sweet potato casserole. Plus, horny soup!

https://soundcloud.com/smartmouthpodcast/thanksgiving-with-gail-simmons