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Welcome to clipboard, a weekly newsletter about good shit and Tāmaki Makaurau, by me, Reilly Hodson. This week, I’m discussing my favourite podcasts, in the hope that you’ll find some cool, clipboard-y things out there in the world. If you enjoy clipboard, you can chip in financially by clicking the button below:
what I’m listening to
I always love finding out what media people like. It’s a very intimate thing to discuss, and it’s instructive for what makes that person how they are. Also, I’m always looking for new podcasts to listen to, so I thought I would share my favourites, because what better do we have to do at the moment than consume?
I’ve been an avid podcast listener since before Serial, and they continue to be the core of my media consumption - I probably listen to 15 hours or so of podcasts every week. I particularly love the deep connection you develop with the hosts of a podcast over time, it’s something you can’t easily replicate elsewhere. Here are the ones I never miss an episode of.
Gone By Lunchtime
Toby Manhire, Annabel Lee-Mather, and Ben Thomas are three very smart people who know lots about New Zealand politics, and if you take the average of their opinions, you (hopefully) come out with a very informed view on the news of the day. Plus, they’re pretty funny.
Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review
BBC Radio 5 Live’s movie show, hosted by two lovely old white guys, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, is a delight. Great, wholesome fun that keeps you informed about all the movies coming out, and does a remarkable job of involving the audience in the fun.
You’re Wrong About
The title says it all. In this podcast, Sarah Marshall and her guests tell you about things in recent history, often in the 90s, are misremembered or misunderstood by popular culture. Recent highlights include Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch, Catherine the Great, and the McDonald’s hot coffee legal case. Every story is told with empathy and care, and leaves room for complexity and nuance, which I love.
Throwing Fits
Throwing Fits is a guilty pleasure podcast, and it’s also the only podcast I pay real money for. James Harris and Laurence Schlossman, two late-thirties fashion-adjacent media guys in New York, host it, interviewing figures in pop culture including rappers, fashion designers and Instagram meme page admins, with a distinctive voice and point of view. Some (lots) of the jokes are off colour, but they care deeply about things that I also care deeply about, and at the end of the day, it’s all about the joys of male friendship. Heartwarming. Plus, the show’s Instagram page is crack up, if you’re into deep menswear lore.
Honourable Mentions:
How Long Gone for US coastal snobbery, The Trojan Horse Affair for nuanced consideration of British Islamophobia and a rollicking good yarn, Mediawatch and The Fold for nerding out about the NZ media industry, and The Anthropocene Reviewed for existential crises in essay form.
clips
I wrote the cover story for Stuff’s Life magazine this week, all about the new generation of Kiwi menswear, featuring conversations with the bright minds behind Checks Downtown and Thom Morison, and stylist Robert Niwa. If you like this newsletter, you’ll love this article, I reckon.
Thom Morison is having an archive sale, snag yourself a deal like the best shirt I own, my favourite work jacket, and this amazing trench coat
I love the dark blue wash on these new Checks jeans.
If the last week has proven nothing else, it’s that quality journalism is worth paying for. If you’ve read a story about the protests, the war, or any of the other stuff going on recently that helped you, and you can afford to, pay the people who created it some money!
Metro Magazine has a new newsletter, Metro Arts, by arts editor Lana Lopesi. I’m excited to read more, as someone who knows people in the arts but isn’t an art person. You know where to find me if you decide to start Metro Clothes, Metro editors!
I applied for an apartment without a carpark this weekend, and am now officially beginning a search for an e-bike which doesn’t look like shit for my commute. Please send me recommendations of good e-bikes with VanMoof vibes, preferably without an insane price tag.