Various Breads And Butters

The head coach of the Lafayette football team is here. It’s John Garrett, entering his second year, bringing a lifetime of football playing and coaching to bear, giving us some of the ins and outs, walking us through the NFL, the WFL, the collegiate ranks, a lifetime of Springsteen fandom, a commitment to team and family and community....Then we go through 10-20-30 on music, there’s that quiz, Friday/Sunday, and we’re out. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus, find our guest at @CoachJMGarrett. With thanks to Michelle, Andie and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to Bahamas (Springsteen cover) and The Who.

Poet, science studies scholar, author, English professor, world traveler Megan Fernandes is here. From Canadian origins to Philly, from Santa Barbara to Boston, from Paris to Montreal, from Manhattan to Easton, her path is paved. From Tin House to Ploughshares, Guernica to the Boston Review and McSweeney’s, you’ll find her work. We get to it, most of it, some of it, we touch on it. Then to 10-20-30, the quiz, Friday/Sunday, and various ins and outs. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus, find our guest at https://meganfernandes.com/. With thanks to Michelle, Ben G., Andie, and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to Dope Melon and Modest Mouse.

Our guest is Chris Hunt, the Dean of Equity and Inclusion. See how the episode title matches? We talk small college life in Pennsylvania, Lafayette changes (or not) over the years, TSA agents, Mac’n’Cheese recipes, student concerns, and so on. Then standard fare 10-20-30 music, a quiz, and Friday/Sunday. You got it, it’s basically that. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Michelle, Ben G., and Claire for producing and interning. Credit to The O’Jays and MJ.

Film history! Film studies! Our guest is Katherine Groo of Film and Media Studies. Here’re some things: non-fiction film, silent film, ethnographic, Avant Garde, experimental film, Orlando, Emory, Tarkovsky, Aberdonians, Chaplin and Chaplin scholars. Then we’re onto first favorite/current favorite,10-20-30 music, a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the like. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Follow our guest too, @Katherine_Groo. With thanks to Michelle, Ben G., and Andie for producing and interning. Credit to Fred Wesley and Sleater-Kinney.

A lot of history about the Marquis de Lafayette here, a lot, because our guest, Director for Special Collections & College Archives Diane Shaw, knows more about the Marquis than any of us. He had 7 or 8 first names. Did you know that? He was America’s most famous visitor for a good century. We have his sword in the College collection. It’s a big deal. There’s racial history too, about the College, and other tidbits along the way. And there is, as ever, 10-20-30 music, a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the like. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle, Ben G., Andie, and Claire for producing and interning. Additional thanks to Daniel Gonzalez for the new intro. Credit to Radiohead and Miles Davis.

Easton’s Mayor Sal Panto, Jr. is on the show. Believe it or not. The Mayor. We get a lot of local history, we hear about what it’s like mayoring, there’s some town-gown chatter about the college and the city, Simon has a pretty decent joke about silly putty somewhere a ways into it, and we do the usual stuff with 10-20-30 music, a quiz, Friday/Sunday, and the like. Listeners can then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest too @sal_panto. Thanks to Michelle and Ben G. for producing and interning. Credit to Daft Punk and Pavarotti.

Syllabus: Birds, ornithology, science, biology, home brewing, animals, a new restaurant, city streets, Byrds, Idaho, Arizona, and such. It’s all with Mike Butler, professor in the biology department. Then with the music and the quiz and follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Plus follow our guest too @MWButler2. Thanks to friend and off-season producer @liamrulz. Credit to Alvvays and Real Big Fish.

You know to cut the green wire, right? You know evil overlords just sit there all day, right? You know Simon can’t Quantum Leap into a 1962 stand-up set, right? So you maybe don’t need this episode. But here we are anyway. It’s a guest-less new year foray into problem solving, as ever. Thanks to friend and off-season producer @liamrulz. Credit to Camera Obscura and Mike’s Song.

Archives, libraries, digital humanities, Rhode Island, Cornell, Austin, Montreal, NAACP, Queer Oral Histories…all with all-star guest Charlotte Nunes, Lafayette’s Director of Digital Scholarship Services. Then some music, there’s the quiz, and so on and so forth and then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest too @CharlotteLNunes. Thanks to Michelle and Ben G. for producing and interning. Credit to Ani DiFranco and The Dum Dum Girls.

Syllabus: coffee, chemistry, chemical engineering, atmospheric science, aerosol, The NYC. It’s Joe Woo, a good guy, a gifted teacher, and a lifelong New Yorker but for these past three years at Lafayette. I had a poppy seed bagel the other day and then a lemon poppy seed muffin today. It’s like all we’re doing anymore is poppy seeds and we’re okay with that. But follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest on Instagram @jlw2120. Thanks to Michelle and Andie for producing and interning. Credit to Les Baxter and Weird Al.

Syllabus: it’s mostly legal mumbo jumbo on our centenary episode, as we welcome our first-post-lost-episode guest back, our longest-serving FOTS/PG Kris Riddle, Esq. You’ve got forced arbitration, you’ve got class-action lawsuits, you've got legal clichés, you’ve got perfunctory references to The Jerk, you’ve got music and fashion (always the passion), and you’ve got your quizzes. You’ve got your bi-weekly chance to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Thomas, Jazz, Ben, and Andie for studio crowd work. Credit to Green Day and the New Pornographers.

It's a bonus episode. Simon lays out the character/personality bingo card and isn't it grand.

Season 3 begins: weirdness and/in college, Russian literature, history, sneezing etiquette, new interns, old Scandinavia, some music and passion…with guest Lindsay Ceballos of the Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES) program and host of our WJRH sister show, re:mixtape. All of this as we return with Simon’s new citizenship in hand. You can follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can also follow our guest at @re_mixtape and @REES_LafCol and say hi to the new interns Jazz, Dwayne and Ben G. Thanks of course to show producer Michelle Polton-Simon. With credit to Veronica Maggio, Abby Ahmad & Mark Marshall, and (for clips) Bill Monroe and Jeffrey Lewis.

The hiatus continues while Simon and Ben continue the search for the lost episodes. Thanks to listeners who suggested looking behind the couch. Like we hadn’t thought of that. They weren’t there. In the meantime, check back with Rachel Goshgarian in this old classic: Ep53 has for two years been consistently in our top 3 downloads. It was Michelle’s first episode. It was the one with Renan’s grocery quest. Originally aired as “Episode 53: Monks, and Dogs, and Black Magic, and Such,” October 26, 2015.

This is a rebroadcast of "Episode 61: Recorded Under Protest" (with Alan Childs), one of our all-time most popular episodes. Yes, we're into reruns during this temporary hiatus as we finish putting together our team for the new season. Here's a Demetri Martin joke to help the cause: "I have an L-shaped sofa...[wait for it]...lower case." Originally aired March 14, 2016.

Syllabus: Comedian Glen Tickle joins us. Graduate of Ramapo College and native of the Lehigh Valley; haver of thoughts on trying stand-up for the first time, McRib economics, Muppets and Fraggle Rock excellence, sheetcake politics, Harvey Danger, and Neil Hamburger; taker of quizzes and such. Then follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. And follow our guest @glentickle and our summer production team @liamrulz too. Credit to Traffic and Wilfred Burns.

Syllabus: the rhyme breakthrough, Cali-Boston-DC, hockey, Japan, robot noodles, federal reserves, Keynes, 10-20-30 music, first/most movie, and Fri/Sun + May/August. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Also follow our guest @Amyguisinger and summer producer @liamrulz, why not. Credit to R.E.M. and Madness.

Even imaginary penises on quilts are pretty bad to the traditionalists, we learn. But our guest, mathematician and nationally renowned quilter Chawne Kimber, is no traditionalist. We talk math, Florida, quilts, knitting, art, politics, cotton. We quiz, we survey, we make it work. When you find all of that out on your own, be a dear and follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Also why not follow our guest @cauchycomplete and summer producer @liamrulz? There’s so much to do. Credit to The War on Drugs and Stevie Wonder.

Summer at College means we wander off campus and so we’ve got return guests Justin Scott and Mike Smith from our sister podcast Poorly Summarized. We also have a guest producer (and past guest) Liam “Per Diem” O’Donnell (thanks, LO). The episode is full of firsts: we finally respond to reader mail with this grab-bag episode; we do a new quiz, Are You More American than a Canadian?; and we change the Fri/Sun question a scootch to July/August. Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Also follow our guests @poorsummary and our producer @liamrulz on twitter. Credit to The Beastie Boys and Bon Jovi.

This is a rebroadcast of "Episode 77: John Hodgman Skews the Data" as we enjoy our brief summer hiatus during Canada Day, the 4th of July, and Heritage Day in our hometown Easton, PA (it's a thing).