If you have read my blog in the past, you likely know that I am a big fan of The Seinfeld Recap Podcast. Each week, the hosts, Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur, recap one episode of Seinfeld. If you ever listen to this podcast, you will start to realize the Akiva has a ton of knowledge about certain pop culture topics but there are also many things that basically every human on the planet knows...
I listen to a lot of podcasts. In a given week, I spend more hours listening to podcasts than watching television, movies or listening to music. Most of the podcasts I listen to are TV-related. In fact, almost every TV show I do watch, I listen to at least one and sometimes more podcasts related to that show. It’s a little crazy. There’s tons of podcasts out there. It’s hard to...
During the last two voicemail shows on Rob Has A Podcast, Rob Cesternino and his co-host have discussed the question, “What winner of Survivor had the largest net worth prior to their win?“ In this blog post, I explain how I came up with the answer of Yul Kwon, winner of Survivor Cook Islands. Before I dive too deeply into my research, I want to setup why this question is interesting...
Recently I wrote about calculating the “peak” season of Seinfeld. In that post, I ranked the seasons by computing a single metric based on the results of twenty top 10 and worst 10 episode lists that I collected from various online sources. In this post, I use the same sources to compute the answers to who are the best performing and worst performing Seinfeld writers and guest...
During a recent voicemail segment on Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP), Rob Cesternino and Angie Caunce, discussed former-NBA player Scot Pollard’s performance so far in Survivor Kaoh Rong. Specifically, they asked the question: Is Scot Pollard the best big man to ever play survivor? There’s been a number of rather tall men that have played Survivor: Mitchell Olson, Australian Outback...
I am a big fan of both Survivor and the Survivor-related podcasts on Rob Has a Podcast (RHAP). One of the weekly segments Rob does during the Survivor season is a voicemail segment with a guest host. Rob and his guest host spend about an hour each week answering questions related to the latest episode. In a recent voicemail segment with Amy H, they talked about how it would be interesting to...
The Seinfeld Recap Podcast is one of my favorite podcasts on Post Show Recaps and if you’re a Seinfeld fan, I highly recommend it. Recently I wrote about how I extracted 20 questions from the The Seinfeld Recap Podcast. One of the hosts, Akiva Wienerkur, has ranked all 180 episodes of Seinfeld. In each episode, he lets us know where the episode falls in his rankings. In the last episode...
Well I’m back again with a follow up project to my original Seinfeld Recap Podcast work that I posted about a few weeks ago (you can here me talk about this project here). The genesis of my latest project came from a suggestion by Mike Bloom. He had contacted me and suggested that it might be interesting to look at how different podcasts and their hosts use language. I started thinking...
If you are unfamiliar with The Genius, then you can read my summary and pitch below. If you are already well-versed, then you can skip ahead to my discussion of the game Monorail. Even without ever watching the show if you enjoy strategy games, you will likely love Monorail. Just want to play the game and don’t care about what I have to say? Go to www.MonorailTheGame.com. Check out the code...
I recently started watching History channel’s show Smartest Guy in the Room. The basic premise of the show is there’s three kind of regular guys with regular jobs, but each of them have high IQs. Each episode one of the three designs two challenges in an attempt to stump the other two. If the challenge designer stumps them, he gets the title of “Smartest Guy in the Room”...
