Flaming Hydra Round Table

"Small-minded people with such large bank accounts." Special Guests: Dave Karpf and JOE MACLEOD.

"They launched Frankenstein's Monster, but inside of Frankenstein's Monster is a really good tool that can summarize lots of PDFs." Special Guest: Paul Ford.

Special Guest: JOE MACLEOD.

Special Guests: JOE MACLEOD and Leila Brillson.

Special Guest: JOE MACLEOD.

Editor and writer Maria Bustillos, Diana Moskovitz, Investigations Editor/co-owner/resident cat lady & BTS fan at Defector, and today's guest of Flaming Hydra: cartoonist, zinester, teacher, sculptor, and illustrator Carmen Johns immerse us in the KPop Demon Hunters movie. And soundtrack! LOADED WITH SPOILERS: K-Pop power defeats shame and self-doubt! Pod producer: Joe MacLeod. Special Guests:...

A distinguished panel who will be yelling at each other most entertainingly for the next 35 minutes or so about the new ALIEN EARTH series. Editor and writer Maria Bustillos, Leila Brillson, a writer and strategist who used to work in media and then sold out for entertainment and then became CMO of The Onion, and Josephine Reisman, the New York Times bestselling author of Ringmaster and True Belie...

A distinguished panel who will be yelling at each other most entertainingly for the next 40 minutes or so. Josephine Reisman, the New York Times bestselling author of Ringmaster and True Believer, S.I. Rosenbaum, a journalist and artist, Zach Rabiroff, a writer on books, comics, and culture, living in Brooklyn, Sam Thielman, a reporter, critic, essayist, and editor and graphic novel columnist for...

Joe MacLeod and Sam Thielman discuss Sam's Flaming Hydra piece "My Ten Favorite Superman Stories," and Sam goes way past ten. Special Guest: Sam Thielman.

Nathan Munn, Canadian, and Zach Rabiroff, New Yorker, discuss the recent and somewhat surprising results of the big election in Canada. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Here's "Poilievre Ran on Anger. Fanjoy Knocked on 15,000 Doors," a good interview with Bruce Fanjoy, the Liberal MP who beat the Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in his own riding: https://thewalrus.ca/poilievre-ran-on-an...

Carrie Frye, book editor at Black Cardigan Edit and Maria Bustillos talk about The Awl The Book! Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Special Guest: Carrie Frye.

Sam Thielman at the Round Table with Luke O'Neil, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, David Moore, and Jonathan M. Katz. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Special Guests: David Moore, JOE MACLEOD, Jonathan M. Katz, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, and Luke O'Neil.

Maria Bustillos at the Round Table with Tom Scocca, Arwa Mahdawi, Sam Thielman, David Moore, and Mark Yarm. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Special Guests: Arwa Mahdawi, David Moore, Mark Yarm, Sam Thielman, and Tom Scocca.

Maria sits at the Round Table with Shirley Wang, Gabriel Snyder, Sam Thielman, Jennie Rose Halperin, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Special Guests: Gabriel Snyder, Jennie Rose Halperin, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Sam Thielman, and Shirley Wang.

Maria is joined by Shirley Wang, Anna Merlan, Ben Ehrenreich, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, and k.e. harloe. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Special Guests: Anna Merlan, Ben Ehrenreich, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Shirley Wang, and k.e. harloe.

Shirley Wang insisted on reading her piece in FLAMING HYDRA aloud.

Maria is joined by Emily Flake, Jonathan M. Katz, David Roth, Shirley Wang, Laurie Woolever, and Mark Yarm. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button. Special Guests: David Roth, Emily Flake, Jonathan M. Katz, Laurie Woolever, Mark Yarm, and Shirley Wang.

Here's a chunk that got left off our first episode, Maria Bustillos leads a digression about Twitter with Joe MacLeod, Luke O'Neil, Tom Scocca, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, and Clive Thompson. Special Guests: Clive Thompson, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Luke O'Neil, and Tom Scocca.

Luke O’Neil, Clive Thompson, Tom Scocca, Harry Siegel, and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd talked with Maria Bustillos about their recent pieces in FLAMING HYDRA. We had to cut a lot out, maybe we’ll make a coupla extra editions? Special Guests: Clive Thompson, Harry Siegel, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Luke O'Neil, and Tom Scocca.