- Thinker, writer and "Agent of Change" Seth Godin
- Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire, the finest music magazine in existence
- On Romantic music, poetry and philosophy with James Donelan, the only professor to ever give me an A
- Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll on the arrow of time and the challenges of science writing
- North Korea scholar B.R. Myers on the worldview of the "Hermit Kingdom" as revealed by its propaganda
- Musician, writer, and ex-blogger Nick "Momus" Currie on the occasion of his 50th birthday and the closing of his blog
- Cinematic curator and journalist Livia Bloom on the films and personality of documentarian Errol Morris
- Economist, rationalist and Overcoming Bias blogger Robin Hanson
- On advertising, marketing and narrative with New York Times "Consumed" columnist Rob Walker
- Economist Steven Landsburg on how to address philosophy's big questions with the techniques of economics
- Oxford historian Chris Wickham on how to do the history of the Middle Ages right
- B.R. Myers on North Korean propaganda
- Seth Godin on not being a cog
- Wire editor Chris Bohn on running a successful modern-music mag
- Merlin Mann on escaping "tip" culture and doing less stuff better
- WFMU general manager Ken Freedman on the craft of freeform radio
- ZBS Foundation president Thomas Lopez on audio dramatism
- Three music writers on Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left
- Nick "Momus" Currie on enjoying, and leaving, blogging
- Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt on broadcasting the best conversations with authors
- Robin Hanson on being rational and signaling status
- The Sound of Young America host Jesse Thorn on bringing something new, and apparently frightening, to public radio
- Ramin Bahrani on being a "neo-neorealist" filmmaker
- Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse
- Jia Zhangke's Still Life
- Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light
- Frederick Wiseman's High School
- Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up
- The Pipeline
- RISK!
- Superego
- Talk to Me
- Arts and Ideas
- Creative Destruction
- The SModcast
- XO
- Well-Rounded Radio
- Chatterbox Audio Theater
- The World in Words
- The Mustache Rangers
- The Popdose Podcast
- The Amateur Scientist Podcast
- KEXP: Music that Matters
- Sound Opinions
- X Minus One
- Everything from Resonance FM
Now if only any of this stuff paid a dime, I'd be sittin' pretty! I understand lives of crime are paying awfully well these days.