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Gil Roth's avatar

Thanks, Ted! I appreciate all the work you put into The Honest Broker, and I'm glad to support your work here.

My passion project (as opposed to my day-job/career running a pharmaceutical industry trade association) is The Virtual Memories Show, a weekly podcast featuring my conversations with cultural figures: writers, artists, cartoonists, musicians, critics, publishers, translators, and lots of other fascinating folks. It's on all the standard podcast platforms (incl. an audio-only YouTube feed) and you can find a lot more about it at the main site: www.chimeraobscura.com/vm

I've been making the podcast since 2012 and passed 500 episodes this summer. I think you'd dig it, and I hope to record with you sometime, nudge nudge. Some of my past guests include Harold Bloom, Roz Chast, Jules Feiffer, Clive James, Thomas Dolby, Milton Glaser, Peter Schjeldahl, Lori Carson, Posy Simmonds, Drew Friedman, Celia Paul, Jerry Saltz, Rebecca Mead, Moby, David Thomson, Stoya, Jen Silverman, JD McClatchy, Barry Blitt, Wayne White, Michael Tisserand, and many more (incl. Greil Marcus, who I'm supposed to record with in a week or two). I hope you & your readers take a moment to check out The Virtual Memories Show, because I've managed to build a really great archive of conversations with cultural figures over the years, and I love sharing it.

(It's all free, no ads, etc. That's what I mean by passion project; the day job is what allows me to do this.)

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Timothy Bailey's avatar

This sounds really interesting—looking forward to listening.

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Gil Roth's avatar

Let me know what you think! (I've been doing a free weekly e-mail around the show via MailChimp and am planning to move it here, with a paid tier that includes episode transcripts & other bonus-y stuff)

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Timothy Bailey's avatar

Will do. Listening now to the Mark Wunderlich episode.

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