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☕📰 04.12.25 The Saturday Rundown: A duct-taped podcast, an aching playlist, and everything polite society won’t talk about.
THE PODCAST IS LIVE!
Revived from the depths of 2023 like a caffeinated cryptid, the Coffee with Steve Podcast is back. The only podcast bold enough to drop three episodes and vanish for two years is now leveling up with a whopping, whole five-episode complete season in 2025.
It’s got Minecraft movies.
It’s got penguin tariffs.
It’s got Margaret Thatcher, HAL 9000, and a spreadsheet with suspiciously round numbers.
It's not just a podcast—it's a descent into economic conspiracy, cultural chaos, and whatever’s lurking beneath the decimal point.
If Prof G is the polished, irreverent Manhattan podcast with a blazer and a brand team,
Coffee with Steve is the chipped mug on the counter in a converted kid’s bedroom.
No studio. No filters. Just duct-taped Facebook Marketplace equipment, local interviews, and better questions.
🥤 OH! And I have a sponsor too (sort of)! Brought to you by Big K Mountain Lightning: This ain’t soda. It’s a way of life.
No, but seriously—
If you want to sponsor the next episode—or hell, the rest of the season—this is the time. Your name across four episodes, baked directly into the lore, tangled up in tariffs, vinyl records, and public theology.
How many people are listening?
Seven. Maybe eight if my mom figures out Spotify.
So if you’ve got something bold, weird, beautiful, local, or loud—let’s talk. You won’t get a better CPM than "literally name your price."
COMING UP on the Podcast:
May 10th: I’m sitting down with Heidi Carrington Heath, Executive Director of New Hampshire Outright. We’ll talk queer youth advocacy, public theology, political resistance, all the bold, sacred stuff that didn’t make it into the official interview. Want to prep? Read the full Wicked Moxie profile here
June 14th: We’re turning up the volume with Skeletone Records of Rochester, the punk rock vinyl shop with a heart. That Wicked Moxie feature drops next week so you can come to the show fully wired and ready to go.
After that?
I have no flipping clue.
But I promise—it’ll be interesting.
🥃 The Big Sip:
If you forward this newsletter to someone today, tell them it includes pickles, debt, and volcanoes (you have to hunt for the volcanoes, but they are there). If that doesn’t hook them, they’re not your people.
💭 This Week’s Big Ask:
What’s one moment where something didn’t make sense but still felt true?
The teenagers are bored. The adults are broken. Everyone’s reaching for connection—sex, silence, cigarettes. But no one really knows how to hold each other and nothing big happens and yet everything changes. That’s the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, about a small Texas town in the 1950s, based on Larry McMurtry’s 1966 novel of the same name. The move is about what happens when the world keeps going but the meaning slips out the back door. And still, somehow people stay human: messy, tender, really
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Most weeks, I’ve a personal essay teed up along with a detailed real estate market report. Other weeks, like this one, life’s been mostly about sorting through mail, prepping for taxes, cleaning the kitchen. The Bare Bone Numbers (💀📉) are below as usual. But first, I thought I’d share a story I wrote a few years ago. For my lit nerd fans out there, th…
🎧 What’s Playing on the Gas Station Radio When the World Ends | A Playlist by Coffee with Steve
This is not “sad boy playlist #382.” This is the music playing when you realize your youth wasn’t wasted, but was documented in ways that no one ever taught you how to recognize. There’s no big crescendo. No arrival. Just an unfolding in real time, each track half-written.
The playlist lives in liminal space. With Modest Mouse and Pavement, songs that don’t know where they’re exactly going and keep playing anyway. Fiona Apple’s lyrics like overhead diary entries paired with Bruce Springsteen—the old man still pumping your gas for some reason (probably because he lives in Massachusetts).
💬 What’s one song that you would never play for someone you were trying to impress because the song knows something about you that they don’t? Hit “Message Steve” and tell me.
Okay, listen. No one’s actually sent me a song to one of these questions yet. I get it, if this one is too personal. But come on. Send some songs! 🙃
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