In March 2022 I started Tomayto Tomahto. Back then, I used GarageBand to edit, and told people my podcast was about sociolinguistics and sociolinguistics only. Today, Tomayto Tomahto is an interview-based podcast about language, and I use not one, but three different platforms to edit my audio. I've interviewed academics from all different corners of academia—computer science, cognitive science, anthropology, law, theoretical physics, etc. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Select clips with video available on YouTube.
Some of my favorite guests include Steven Pinker, Sean Carroll, Nicole Holliday, Jonathan Rosa, and Emily M. Bender.
I have also had the privilege of interviewing two language journalists: Stefan Fatsis and Ben Zimmer.
Sean Carroll on Theoretical Physics and Interdisciplinarity (Sean Carroll, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University)
Data Science and Machine Translation w/ John DeNero (John DeNero, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley)
Listening, Semiotics, and So Much More w/ Michael Berman (Michael Berman, Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology at Brown University)
The Modern Dictionary w/ Stefan Fatsis (Stefan Fatsis, Journalist, Author of Word Freak and Unabridged—I'm quoted on page 107!)
Language Ideologies w/ Savithry Namboodiripad (Savithry Namboodiripad, Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of Michigan)
The AI Con w/ Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (Emily M. Bender, Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington; Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute)
Philosophy of Language w/ Justin Khoo (Justin Khoo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT)
Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, and Language Change (Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute)
Education, Anthropology, and Schoolishness with Susan Blum (Susan Blum, Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame)
A Raciolinguistic Perspective with Jonathan Rosa (Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University)
Language and Law w/ Alex Walker: Part 1: Dialectal Due Process; Language and Law w/ Alex Walker: Part 2: Optimality Theory and the Tapestry of Law (Alex Walker, Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School)
Words Words Words w/ Ben Zimmer (Ben Zimmer, Language Columnist for the Wall Street Journal)
Sociolinguistic Labor and Linguistic Oppression w/ Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright (Kelly Elizabeth Wright, Assistant Professor of Language Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Stochastic Parrots and the Information Ecosystem with Emily M. Bender (Emily M. Bender, Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington)
Historical Linguistics with Brian Joseph (Brian Joseph, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Ohio State University)
Live from NYC: Favorite Linguistics Facts (Collection of over 30 guests interviewed at the 2024 Linguistic Society of America Annual meeting in NYC. Notable academics interviewed include Michel DeGraff, Penelope Eckert, Walt Wolfram, and Heidi Harley)
Steven Pinker: Language and its Revelations (Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University)
Computational and Neurological Questions of Language w/ Cory Shain (Cory Shain, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University)
Language and Race with Professor Nicole Holliday (Nicole Holliday, Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley)
Bilingual Cognition with Professor Megan Zirnstein (Megan Zirnstein, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College)
Mathematical Linguistics w/ Donna Jo Napoli (Donna Jo Napoli, Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore)
Linguistically Conscious AI w/ Dr. Ellie Pavlick (Ellie Pavlick, Briger Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University)
Linguistic Anthropology w/ Dr. Susan Blum (Susan Blum, Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame)
Language: An Abstract Object with Dr. Roman Feiman (Roman Feiman, Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences at Brown University)
Language and Social Control w/ Prof Cook (Toni Cook, Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College)
Language Bilingualism and Pedagogy w/ Professor Danzak (Robin Danzak, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Emerson College)
Language, Power, and Prestige w/ Professor Littlefield (Heather Littlefield, Teaching Professor of Linguistics at Northeastern University)
Language and Culture w/ Professor Gorton (Luke Gorton, Senior Lecturer of Classics at University of New Mexico)