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Radio + Podcasts

I love independent and community-supported radio. I have very happy memories of making a couple of amateur podcasts and hosting a student radio show in grad school.

Steel in WSUM studio

What I've Been Listening To

Monthly curated playlists of favorite tracks

Mixtapes

An assortment of mixtapes I've made as gifts for family and friends over the years. A lost art.

Steel's Magnolias

For several months in 2012, I hosted Steel's Magnolias, a weekly music show on WSUM (91.7FM in Madison), the University of Wisconsin-Madison's student radio station. On each episode I'd play an hour or two of music organized around a single shared theme. Sadly, I had to stop making the show when I started a full-time job at the university. You can listen to old episodes below:

Off the Chain Podcast

In January 2015 I started making a Off the Chain with Dave & Steel, a DIY podcast with my old college roommate Dave Jenson. We ran it as a ramshackle variety show, with regular segments dedicated to things Dave loves (action movies, incredible feats of human endurance, children’s books), things I love (terrible haircuts, unusual names, documentary films) and things we both love (sports, music, & literature).

Theme Songs Podcast

After 70+ episodes of Off the Chain, we retired the show and started making a new music-themed podcast called Theme Songs, which ran from August 2017-March 2018. We typically invited old friends on the show as guests, giving us an excuse to catch up with them as much as anything else.