Podcast
Only One AirPod
Hosted by Alex Hysel, Nicholas Padesky · EN
Only One AirPod is the modern world told through podcasts. While co-hosts Alex Hysel and Nicholas Padesky may get into playful discussions about their personal lives and other media consumptions, the one common ground between the two, and between each episode of this podcast, is other podcasts.
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Trillbilly Podcasters Party w/ Tom Sexton
2w ago01:02:58Tap to summarizeThis week, we are joined by Tom Sexton, co-host of the Trillbilly Workers Party, one of our favorite independent leftist podcasts. We talk to Tom about everything from the proliferation of chiclet-like veneers (see Harry Kane at the World Cup) to the apparent extinction of properly-sized button down collars, and much in between.
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How to Podcast?
3w ago00:54:48Tap to summarizeWe're trying to get back into the swing of things coming to you live and uncut from the Bushwick Rooftop (and Nick's couch), covering such cutting edge topics as Alex's baseball adventures and Nick's way too deep in the weeds breakdown of grassroots Wisconsin politics, to the newest LinkedIn game that has us asking 'Is this too hard?' and 'Does LinkedIn have too many games now?', among other things.
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Three Pack of Ahh
May 2100:59:45Tap to summarizeATTENTION: if your name is Alex Hysel and/or Nicholas Padesky, or any variant spelling thereof, we would like to podcast with you. If not, we still invite you to listen to us muse this week about everything from the recent Republican primaries to our recent hand injuries to our shared disinterest in Drakes surprise triple album release, with much more in between.
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Always Recording w/ Courtney Rawlings
May 701:07:16Tap to summarizeWe are joined this week by Courtney Rawlings, co-host of the Quincy Institute podcast Always at War. After briefly discussing the similarities between her valley and our Wisconsin accents, we discuss how she ended up as a podcaster, her relatable way of communicating about foreign policy, the shadowy AI blame game gripping our military, the cost of living crisis and its suspected effects on birthrates, the urban/rural divide, reality TV, what its like living with a fellow podcaster, and more.
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Pubchair Vernal Fracture
Apr 2300:39:13Tap to summarizeWe discuss making your own creme brûlée at home (and other things you can do with a kitchen torch), Alex's men's league baseball highlights, and the hottest reality show on TV (Barstool Beach House, airing on X the everything app).
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Wiscomaxxing
Apr 1000:38:29Tap to summarizeWe react to the new MLB City Connect jerseys, Michigan winning the NCAA Tournament, How Long Gone TV, our shared disinterest in Ye's new album, the dire outlook of the next generation of internet celebrities and who follows them, NASA's trip back to the moon, and Trump delaying Armageddon for at least two weeks.
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That's Baseball
Mar 2801:10:15Tap to summarizeIn a sports heavy episode this week, we discuss MLB Opening Day and Alex's thoughts ahead of the Brewers season. We also follow up on last episode's discussion about the WBC, with team USA recovering from the brink of elimination but falling short in the championship. Then we discuss March Madness and Nick's idea to revamp the bracket scoring format. We also discuss the hilarious Afroman trial, ICE doing TSA's job because TSA isn't being paid because no one wants to pay ICE, and 2,000 special ops paratroopers reportedly being deployed to the Middle East.
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Trump's Holy War on Iran
Mar 1200:58:12Tap to summarizeWell, he finally did it folks! Some are calling it a "short term excursion", but it's already been almost 2 weeks at a cost of $1-2B per day to the American taxpayer - with no end in sight - so we're calling it a war. We debate whether this is a signal that Trump and MAGA have fully shed their GOP exoskeleton as a distinctly fascistic movement, and whether calling that out is even helpful in making the case for a left alternative to the status quo. We also discuss Ben Shapiro's eyebrows, Marco Rubio's ears, ill-fitting, cheap shoes on cabinet members, Bam Adebayo's insane night, the U.S. team's near-collapse in the WBC, and Timmy Chalamet in hot water on the internet ahead of the Oscars.
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State of the Cabal
Feb 2601:15:58Tap to summarizeWe react to the state of the union address and the olympics, bemoaning how it's impossible to feel patriotic in 2026, as well as how cowardly the DNC is in pushing centrists like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris for 2028. We also talk about the subpar snow at Milano Cortina and the "conspiracy theory" that Bush did 9/11 as a "new Pearl Harbor", inspired by our lovely comrades at TrueAnon.
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SbLX
Feb 1201:13:21Tap to summarizeWe’re back in top form, in high spirits from the warmer temps following an extended freeze in both NY and WI. We discuss the New York Times reporting on the federal playbook following ICE/BORTAC shootings, and what it means that DHS Sec. Kristi Noam has no qualms about lying to the American people and slandering the names of innocent victims. Then we get to our main story, Super Bowl LX, covering the lackluster commercials, the alt [right] halftime show, the official halftime show (Bad Bunny killed it), and the mostly boring, but satisfying, game.
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