Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 16 // Mother's Day was awkward. It always is.

Matt shares his experience as someone whose parents both passed away relatively young.

Lost Cultures: Living Legacies

Ep 3 // The Ainu: A Culture Too Strong for Japan to Erase

The Ainu are one of the indigenous peoples of Japan, have survived efforts at forced assimilation, and in many ways thrive today.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 15 // Tucker Carlson: The Truth is a Terrible Business Model

Fox News sacked Tucker Carlson, but his time slot will likely continue to serve up lies to keep the audience happy.

Stereoactive Movie Club

Ep 32 // Boyhood w/ Max Goransson

Directed by Richard Linklater, 2014's 'Boyhood' tells the story of a boy and his family with the same actors over the course of 12 years of production.

ICYMI: The Maya, Real Love, Apocalypse Now, & SCREENS!

Once upon a time, there were a people called Maya – not Mayan, despite what you've heard... but actually, they didn't even really call themselves Maya until relatively recently. It's a name that was given to them and which they adopted, yet their identity and culture is of course thousands of

Stereoactive Presents

The Long Tail on 'Real Love' w/ Beat Radio & Totally Real Records

Music deserves a longer tail of attention than what it's given, so here's some love for a good album 6mo after release.

Lost Cultures: Living Legacies

Ep 2 // The Maya: Truth and Lore in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula

Many people think of the Maya as existing mainly in the historical record, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 14 // Screens, filters, and the land of lies…

Matt asks: How long has it been since you last looked at a screen?

Lost Cultures: Living Legacies

Ep 1 // The Undiscovered Story of NYC's Lower East Side

The Tenement Musuem's Dolan Cochran and Actor Luis Guzmán guide us through NYC's Lower East Side.

Stereoactive Movie Club

Ep 31 // Apocalypse Now

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 1979's 'Apocalypse Now' is a New Hollywood descent into the madness of war.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 13 // The worse the road, the better the destination…

Matt's 10 travel secrets learned from backpacking around the world.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 12 // Wabi Sabi and the poetry of imperfection…

Matt points out how imperfections and impermanence are often signs of interesting, authentic work.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 11 // In Defense of Night Owls…

As a night owl, Matt Ruby is tired of the preponderance of "morning person" propaganda in the world.

Stereoactive Movie Club

Ep 30 // Raging Bull

Directed by Martin Scorsese, 1980's 'Raging Bull' is a character study of a boxer lacking character, but pure in talent.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 10 // How to Make Weed Cookies…

Matt Ruby's recipe for weed cookies, plus a check in about his 'Substance' special.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 9 // Pay it Backward by Honoring Your Elders

Despite the ageism across much of society, many of our elders still have much to teach us.

Documentary

Joanna Sternberg: No One Really Knows You

This short documentary film featuring Joanna Sternberg and produced by Bryan Bruchman is a special presentation of Stereoactive Media.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 8 // Tech Folks Are Always Giving Us Futures That Never Happen…

On ChatGPT, Bing AI, and our ongoing naiveté about the future.

Stereoactive Presents

An Oscar Preview & Our Favorite Films of 2022

A chat about the Oscar nominations for 2022 films and the state of movies/moviegoing today.

Podcasts

Stereoactive Presents

Featuring interviews, discussions, stories, and more by Stereoactive Media associates, new and old!

Stereoactive Movie Club

Ep 29 // Pierrot le Fou

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1965's 'Pierrot le Fou' is an exercise in self-referential metatextualism on the part of the filmmaker.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 7 // How therapy-speak turned victimhood into currency...

How the language of trauma cracked the code of the attention economy.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 6 // His and Hers: Memories of My Parents

Matt shares memories of his parents

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 5 // I was not alerted: The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones…

An essay about life pre-iPhone addiction, for better or worse.

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

Ep 4 // What Tom Petty taught me about songwriting and life…

Tom Petty was a musical middle ground that all sorts of people could agree on.