This Podcast Will Change Your Life.

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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Four - Perpetual Motion Machine. Jul 31, 2025

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This episode stars Hosho McCreesh (Psalms from the Badlands, Chinese Gucci, A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and McCreesh's New Mexico compound in July 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Three - Animating Force. Jul 19, 2025

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This episode stars former (and forever) guest Giano Cromley (American Mythology, The Prince of Infinite Space, What We Build Upon the Ruins, The Last Good Halloween). It was recorded live and on a walk along Division Street in Chicago, IL that started and concluded at Rite Liquors in July 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Two - In The Moment. Jun 27, 2025

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This episode stars Hannah Pittard (If You Love It, Let You Kill You, We Are Too Many & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Pittard's home in Kentucky in June 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-One - Unresolvable Paradoxes. Jun 13, 2025

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This episode stars Seth Rogoff (The Castle: A Novel, Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, The Kirschbaum Lectures). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Kafka's (and Rogoff's now) home city of Prague in April 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty - The Message Within The Message. May 29, 2025

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This episode stars Dr. Stacey Diane Arañez Litam (Patterns That Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children for Immigrants). It was recorded in-person at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Chicago Downtown* in April 2025.

*Please do ignore the occasional outside noise, unlike the host and guest, there were people actually working the day of the recording.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine - How Many Masterpieces Does Someone Have To Create (also known as the After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema edition). May 16, 2025

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This episode stars Judy and Adam Tanzer, the host's mother and brother respectively. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and their homes which are located in greater Philadelphia-land in April 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight - A Rich Life. Apr 30, 2025

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This episode stars Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir; Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja: A Dreamoir) just as all three of her groundbreaking books have been simultaneously re-released. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Ortiz' home in the City of Angels in March 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Seven - Always Bleeding. Apr 16, 2025

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This episode stars David Scott Hay ([NSFW], The Fountain). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Hay's home in the City of Angels in February 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Six - Surreal Moments. Mar 28, 2025

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This episode stars Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion, Jane /La Segua, and more). It was recorded in-person and in the host's South Loop office in February 2025.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Five - A Farewell To Kings. Mar 11, 2025

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This episode stars Kurt Baumeister (Twilight Of The Gods, Pax Americana). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Baumeister's home in greater Philadelphialand in February 2025.