Jeff Grant's Evolving Podcast

The Evolving Podcast's Nintendo correspondent Richard Ohlsen returns to the show this week to help celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Rich and Jeff are BIG fanmen (mature fanboys) of this game and its franchise and jumped at the chance to talk through their journeys with this modern masterpiece. Artwork by Nintendo. Thanks for listening! Jef...

I got to talk to one of my favorite people this week: my nearly 9 year-old niece Kenzie. I had to be creative recording-wise because—and I don't know if you've noticed this—kids don't like to sit still! We ended up sitting in the cab of a pickup with the recorder on the seat, so you'll hear a lot of scooting around noise. Still, this was a very fun interview and I'm hoping to do more with this coo...

Please enjoy the highly PC 2nd half of my conversation with Cody Spencer on movies released in 2017. After discussing the 9 films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars in Part 1 we transitioned into the movies we personally enjoyed last year (that weren't already mentioned). Here are the times if you'd like to skip around: 00:00 - Intro 2:13 - The Disaster Artist 14:50 - Baby Driver 17:55 - The...

I got together with my "friend" Cody Spencer to discuss our thoughts on the 9 movies nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year. The plan was to talk about those and then move onto our personal favorites of 2017. I thought it'd be around an hour but NO, it went for 3 HOURS. So this is the first part, which covers the Best Picture nominees (Part 2 will come later this week). Here is a list...

I got together with my friends Cole Watkins, Ron Allison and James Baker so we could recommend stuff to each other. We each came with at least 3 things (though Ron didn't totally understand the prompt...). We went in a circle and talked about each thing, like you do. Here are the topics and times on the off chance some of this isn't fascinating to you: - Intro (00:00) - Introductions (2:30) - A Fu...

In this BIG episode, Jeff talks to his mom and grandma at the SAME TIME. Wanna hear people talk about facebook, ordering groceries online, This Is Us (briefly), who the cutest NFL quarterback is, what happened the day JFK was assassinated, what type of TV show our family would be and SO MUCH more? You've come to the right place. Hope you've got nothing going on for the next 100 minutes!! Thanks fo...

New episode! I'm grinding my brain trying to figure out what to fill these podcasts with but I remembered I can always fall back on tossing out some new songs. I kind of did a grab bag of a few for a quick episode. Thanks for listening! Songs: 1) Poem on Fire (3:27) 2) Tweeting @ Tokyo (7:33) 3) Ghost of a Daisy Wheel (11:00) 4) Puerto Rico is an Island (14:29) 5) Don't Be a Stranger (18:41) The p...

SOLO POD. I think I've said this about 40 times already, but I've spent the last several years trying to learn how to write screenplays. And I spent last week trying to come up with a new story for the next one and since that's where my mind has been I thought it'd be fun to just talk about the strange, often frustrating process of trying to make up stories. A lotta writer talk on this one. Thanks...

In this episode, Jeff gets on the phone with his old friend Richard Ohlsen to discuss a mutual life-long obsession: Nintendo. The audio is a little wonky but if you can survive it you'll get to hear a couple dudes in their 30s talk about video games (then you can die happy, hopefully). Thanks for listening! Happy New Year! Thanks for listening! Jeff Grant's Evolving Podcast is available on iTunes...

Today's episode is more a psychological obstacle course than a podcast. Host Jeff Grant throws down the gauntlet to see just how much pure, unadulterated boredom his listeners can bear. There is no prize at the end of this test other than the awareness that the people in your life have a TRUE LISTENER in their midst. See how long YOU can survive — THE BORING CHALLENGE!! Thanks for listening! Jeff...

STAR WARS EPISODE! I got together with my cousin Savanna White and her BFF (#confirmed) Alex Encinas in advance of The Last Jedi to talk all things Star Wars. This could be fascinating or so so boring depending on your interest in the topic or excitement about the new movie. Find out our theories, favorite characters and "ships". And try out a new drinking game: drink every time one of us says "li...

New episode! Today I decided to go through some recent things that have grabbed my interest. These are the times in case you want to skip a boring one: - Intro (00:00-2:00) - Thanksgiving/Black Friday (2:01-7:37) - Super Mario Odyssey (7:38-13:12) - Seinfeldia (13:13-15:55) - Album of the Day (15:56-21:27) - Outro (21:28-23:14) Thanks for listening! Jeff Grant's Evolving Podcast is available on iT...

Hey everyone! I did a quick episode to try and dust off the podcast. These are the segments: - Podcast Update/Brian Goes Wild plug (00:00-3:19) - Sorry, no Christmas album update this year (3:20-4:45) - My 2008 album The Human Endeavor is now on Apple Music, Spotify, etc. (4:46-7:08) - About The Human Endeavor [EDIT: I say in the podcast we worked on the album in 2007, but it was actually 2008. So...

NOTE: This was originally recorded as a direct-to-soundcloud thing, but I wanted to get it in iTunes, so I made it the 11th episode of my podcast, though that isn't mentioned during the episode. #late Check it out! I played through all 10 songs from my new album Hot Take Fight to the Death!! only, get this, on acoustic guitar and IN A BATHROOM. What are you waiting for, you know you want to hear t...