For the past three and a half years, each week, I’ve been listening to the Seinfeld Recap Podcast. If you are unfamiliar with the podcast, each week, the hosts, Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur, recap one episode of Seinfeld. Our Seinfeld Recap heroes, Rob and Akiva, are closing in on the series finale and I wanted to do something special to commemorate the occasion. Starting in episode...
A Brief History of Hot Takes from The Seinfeld Recap Podcast
The Seinfeld Recap Podcast, hosted by Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur, is closing in on episode 150 of Seinfeld. At the time of this writing, they have released 147 episodes. With less than 40 episodes to go, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of the great “hot takes” that have come out of discussing Seinfeld for nearly 240 hours. These hot takes come from both...
Analyzing 2-Tuple Phrases from the Seinfeld Recap Podcast
It’s been a little while since I’ve written up any of my projects on the blog and after listening to the Seinfeld Recap Podcast this week, I thought I was overdue for a write up. If you are unfamiliar with the podcast (then honestly, I don’t know what you are doing here), each week, the hosts, Rob Cesternino and Akiva Wienerkur, recap one episode of Seinfeld. A listener recently...
Predicting the “Dateability” of Survivor Players
With all the great pre-season Survivor coverage happening on RHAP, I was inspired to do my own pre-season project. We have all witnessed the awesome power of “Nicoletradamus” when it comes to winner picks, but what about predicting the “dateability” (i.e. whether a contestant makes the merge) of Survivor contestants? To address this age old question, I went back through...
Akiva’s Lost Pop Culture References
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...
Seinfeld: A Metrics Driven Approach to Calculating the Best (and Worst) Writers and Guest Stars
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...
Calculating “Peak” Seinfeld
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...
Solving Peg Solitaire as Seen on Smartest Guy in the Room
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”...
Digging for Questions: Audio to Text Analysis of The Seinfeld Podcast
It’s been almost three years, but I’m back again with another super nerdy blog post! I’ve written a lot in the past about different computer programs or stats stuff that I’ve written, usually related to programming competitions, ontologies, and CrossFit, but today, something a little different. I have been a big fan of Rob Has a Podcast and PostShowRecaps almost since...