Thank You for Spieling podcast

Let's talk about sex! This week, I am joined by Karen Yates of the Wild & Sublime podcast (formerly live show in Chicago) for an episode that is an important coming-of-age moment for myself as a podcaster. Karen is used to talking about the subject in her capacity as a somatic sex educator ("somatic" meaning, "of the body"), and her compassion and great knowledge make for a tremendously insightful...

On this very special episode, I am joined by Andrea Wakely, of Twin Roses Designs , with whom I've been working since 2004! Andrea is a costume designer, small business owner, and marine biologist operating out of Bristol, VA. She's the woman who made my Gryffindor Harry Potter robes back when you couldn't get those anywhere, even before the 3rd HP movie! Tune in as Andrea discusses what got her s...

For this episode I am joined by Derek of Down in Front and Drew of Gamer News Radio to discuss our personal history with Naughty Dog's classic Crash Bandicoot video games. For two of us,  Crash was our first game on the PlayStation. We walk through what made each game great, what was improved in the 2017 "N. Sane Trilogy," and of course cover CTR: Crash Team Racing, too. Then, we look forward to n...

Fomites! Droplets! Aerosols! B-Cells! T-Cells! Vaccines! The only thing that's missing from this episode is a big yellow school bus! In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Preeyam Patel, an immunologist, to talk about what happens inside our immune system after a COVID-19 infection. Not only that, but Dr. Patel highlights some of the most interesting contemporary studies of the day and catches me up on...

This episode, I am joined by my oldest friend, Josh Sullivan, who I've known since I was 4 years old. We discuss our shared history of video gaming, what made our friendship last this long, and MOST of all, our favorite skateboarding games  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater,  and  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 . The original games are seeing a remaster, available Friday, September 4! This is a can't-miss episode...

In this special crossover episode I am joined by the hosts of Popcorn Psychology, a podcast that regularly analyzes pop culture films from a therapeutic lens. The hosts Ben, Brittney and Hannah are all licensed psychotherapists, and this time they're helping me understand WHAT IS GOING ON with the continuing surge of Coronavirus cases in the world. It was wonderful hearing them discuss and diagnos...

If the shortest story ever written can be six words (and some have purported to beat that), my guest Dave Jorgenson has produced novels and novels of work. He's the Washington Post writer/producer doing all of those COVID Quarantine TikToks (and their TikToks in general), and he's here to tell me how it gets done! This episode is a hugely fun conversation that is jam-packed with discussion on the...

The Doctor is in. My friend, Angela Kuras, DNP joins this episode of TYFS to discuss her real, lived-in experiences with COVID-19 in her capacity as CRNA working in an ICU during Chicago's first wave of Coronavirus. A lot of acronyms, but we do our best to break them all down. What you'll find on this episode is a discussion on what members of the medical profession have experienced these last fou...

In keeping with the trend of having guests on to talk about things OTHER than their usual, I am THRILLED to have on Episode 3 special guest David J. Peterson, language creator of (among others) the Valyrian and Dothraki languages for HBO's "Game of Thrones." David and I discuss something we were both really excited about, our tastes in MUSIC and the songs that we are most glad exist. Everything fr...

In this episode, one of my guests has a birthday coming up and another guest has COVID-19 antibodies! Neither of those facts was known when I first asked them to join me to talk about how THIS Fourth of July, I'm as unexcited as I've ever been to celebrate America. We discuss as a group what 4th of July meant to us as children, the thoughts and ideals we learned back when and how reality has slowl...

In what has proven to be a topic strong enough for me to make a podcast just to talk about, it's time to talk The Last of Us, Part II by Naughty Dog! I'm joined by my buddy Chad Hopkins of The Cinescope Podcast with whom I had been texting all last weekend during my play-through of the game for the first time. There is a SPOILER-FREE portion of this episode which contains only mild details regardi...

Welcome to "Thank You for Spieling," dear listener. In this brief introduction, I (Eric Scull) explain what I'm hoping to accomplish with this project, the first of many podcasts that I've been on which I can wholly call my own. This intro accompanies Episode 1 of the podcast, where I get right down to talking about things I love, with good friends. MASSIVE shout-out to Yike Lu of XYZ Podcast with...