One of my favorite hobbies is yammering on about pop culture topics and books on podcasts. If you’re interested in having me appear on your show, please reach out.

Here’s a smattering of my recent podcast appearances, with a few interviews mixed in there:

Strong Sense of Place: In which I discuss my fierce, guilty love of Nightwing comic books and the Batman universe in general. My novel THE DIVIDE is also reviewed in this episode.

Fade Out: I discuss the film career of the great Raul Julia, with an emphasis on his final role, the much-maligned (but secretly awesome) 1994 Street Fighter. I’m one of the world’s preeminent Street Fighter apologists. So help me, that is a hilarious and strangely wonderful film, and I will arm-wrestle anyone who says otherwise.

Surely You Can’t Be Serious: I analyze the Miami Vice soundtrack, track by track. Yeah, sure, it’s a great soundtrack, but something like five of the tracks on it are Jan Hammer instrumentals, and there’s really not a lot to discuss about them, so the hosts and I end up doing a lot of riffing on other songs linked to Miami Vice, like The Tubes’ “She’s a Beauty.”

Junk Filter: I discuss three of the grimmest, bleakest, most nihilistic, most utterly soul-destroying episodes of Miami Vice. Holy hell, I love that series.

The D-Side: I discuss the book The Advanced Genius Theory with its author, Jason Hartley.

The D-Side: I talk about the golden age of MTV with music video expert Stephen Pitalo. I used to think I was a music video expert, and then I met Stephen, and I realized I’ve been a poseur all these years.

The D-Side: I give my first impressions of Duran Duran’s Future Past album on its release day.

Track by Track: In an episode on Duran Duran’s Rio album, I share my childhood memories of “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

SandySaysRead: A conversation about my novel THE DIVIDE, with some detours into Duran Duran, with fantasy author Sandy Lender.

Shelf Talk: A nice interview with me about my Writers Room Residency at the Seattle Central Library.