Sideshow Podcast

Sideshow Podcast: Giving The Perfect GIF

The guru of GIFs says the animations express “the essential human emotions: hunger, love, and sadness. If you're feeling things other than that, you're wasting your energy."

Sideshow Podcast: Giving The Perfect GIF

Sideshow Podcast: The Best of 2014's Internet

Sideshow Podcast: The Best of 2014's Internet

Boots, Before and After Beyoncé

Boots, Before and After Beyoncé

Sideshow Podcast: High Maintenance: The Internet's Best TV Show

Sideshow Podcast: High Maintenance: The Internet's Best TV Show

Sideshow Podcast: Boots, Before and After Beyoncé

Sideshow Podcast: Boots, Before and After Beyoncé

Sideshow Podcast: Issa Rae Built an Awkward Empire, But She Just Wants to Rap

Her awkwardness has won her a hit web series, an HBO pilot, and a chance to work with Pharrell Williams. But Issa Rae has yet to fulfill her dream. 

Sideshow Podcast: Issa Rae Built an Awkward Empire, But She Just Wants to Rap

Sideshow Podcast: Kutiman Keeps Making Music Thru You(Tube)

If YouTube had an A&R genius, his name would be Kutiman. He makes records by layering and sampling random musicians on YouTube. Just don't call it a gimmick.

Sideshow Podcast: Kutiman Keeps Making Music Thru You(Tube)

Sideshow Podcast: How to Make A Perfect Movie Before Turning 30 (with 'Whiplash' Director Damien Chazelle)

No one trusted 29-year-old Damien Chazelle to make a movie about jazz, so he showed producers that Whiplash was about passion, ambition, and blood.

Sideshow Podcast: How to Make A Perfect Movie Before Turning 30 (with 'Whiplash' Director Damien Chazelle)

Sideshow Podcast: Christoph Niemann, Instagram Savant

Christoph Niemann was already a successful illustrator, but the internet made him a groundbreaking storyteller. 

Sideshow Podcast: Christoph Niemann, Instagram Savant

Sideshow Podcast: Howard Kremer Is a One-Joke Comedian, and Proud of It

Most comedians have many memorable bits, but Howard Kremer has just one: “Have a Summah.” Good thing he has managed to build a comedy empire out of it. 

Sideshow Podcast: Howard Kremer Is a One-Joke Comedian, and Proud of It

Sideshow Podcast: “Rude” by Magic! Is the Worst Best Song of the Summer

“Rude” by Magic! is America's #1 song — it's also America's most hated song. Critic Jia Tolentino explains the fine line between good, credible pop and the incredibly bad stuff.

Sideshow Podcast: “Rude” by Magic! Is the Worst Best Song of the Summer

Sideshow Podcast: Bea Arthur and Unicorns Teach You the Heimlich Maneuver

There’s one item you can find in most restaurants from New York to California: A poster telling you how to save someone who’s choking. Though required by law in many states, those sim...

Sideshow Podcast: Bea Arthur and Unicorns Teach You the Heimlich Maneuver

Sideshow Podcast: Pogo is YouTube's Favorite Musician

<p>Where some mash-up artists stun with clever technique or surreal juxtapositions, Pogo is first and foremost a fan, passionate and careful with sources like <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> and <em>Fresh Prince.&nbsp;</em></p>

Sideshow Podcast: Pogo is YouTube's Favorite Musician

Sideshow Podcast: How Animation Helps Us Appreciate Good Audio

The greatest interview ever recorded won&rsquo;t get as many hits on YouTube as a cat giving a high five.&nbsp;The people behind Blank on Blank&nbsp;are using animation to make audio go viral.

Sideshow Podcast: How Animation Helps Us Appreciate Good Audio

Sideshow Podcast: Gay of Thrones and the TV Recap Revolution

The Internet was supposed to kill TV, but the two have become BFFs. Show recaps are now an&nbsp;art form, and nobody&nbsp;does it better&nbsp;than a Los Angeles hairstylist named Jonathan Van Ness.

Sideshow Podcast: Gay of Thrones and the TV Recap Revolution