The final episode of VBB has long-time producer and graduating senior Michelle “Hyphen” Polton-Simon as our guest. It’s on to new things for all of us. We say goodbye with a quiz by Tom Polton and a sort of bonusode at the end with a call from producer emeritus Renan Sequitur Dincer bearing news about the lost episodes. Thank you to all of our listeners, all our guests, all the people who have written in, all the kind words. Thanks to all the students and friends who have helped produce and intern for the show over the years, Renan, Michelle, Eric “Wingsy” Weber, Thomas “Willitho” Williams, Johnny “Didn’t Have a Nickname” Gossick, Will “Madison Square” Gordon, Ian “Code” Morse, Andie “Star Student” Mitchell, Ben “The 4th BG” (and “Sesame St.”) Gordon, Claire “Swan Song” Swanson, Jen “Bon Jovi” Giovanniello, and Liam “Per Diem” O’Donnell. You can still follow us on twitter @somelaterdate and rate the show at iTunes. Credit to The Cure and Phish. Bye everyone.

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130: Goodbye-phen to Hyphen

Artist, poet, podcaster, playwright, producer, and comic book author Al Letson is on the show. He is good at everything he does and we now claim goodness by association. State of the Re:Union, that was his podcast, it won awards for broadcasting, including a Peabody; Reveal, that’s another, more awards, another Peabody; Errthang Show will soon enough win awards. So we do a 10/20/30 about comic books instead of music, a quiz, your standard Fri/Sun, and a round of How Long Is It. After listening, please follow us and our guest on twitter @somelaterdate and @Al_Letson, then rate the show at iTunes. With thanks to Michelle for producing and basically co-hosting this one and Claire for intern work. Credit to Maceo Parker and Blackway & Black Caviar.

129: Al’s Even Cooler Than He Lets On

Poetry, literary criticism, essays, fiction, and collaborative art. Our guest, Lee Upton, has published fourteen books so far. Fourteen, our goodness. She’s Lafayette’s Francis A. March Professor of English & Writer-in-Residence and you better believe she has a ton of awards, so just go to her homepage or Wikipedia page and search them out. We talk about a lot of that stuff and do some quizzes, 10/20/30 music, Fri/Sun, and the like. If you’re new to the show, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate and rate the show at iTunes. If you’re not new to the show, why haven’t you done that yet? We see you Erik. Anyway. Our thanks to the production team of Michelle, Ben and Claire, and credit to The Grateful Dead and Puffy Daddy with Sting.

128: What’s Lee Upto(n)?

Our guest’s office is right above the studio, which is the least interesting thing to report but one of the co-hosts thought we needed to lead with that. That guest is Yusuf Dahl, the Bradbury Dyer III ’64 Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lafayette. From a rough upbringing in Milwaukee, Dahl went on to start an affordable housing project, earn a degree from Princeton, and steer the Dyer Center (right upstairs). There’s more, you’ll get to that when you listen. You’ll also find we don’t skimp on the 10/20/30, we run down a few quizzes, and we have a whole time with it, so follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate the show at iTunes, and find our guest @Dyer_Lafayette. With thanks to the production team, Michelle and Claire, and credit to Talking Heads and Marvin Gaye.

127: Valley of the Dahl

Sustainability scholar, mechanical engineer, community-based designer, Pioneer Valley native, and Vermont school-goer Rachel Koh is our guest. Koh knows things. They co-host Chart Toppers too. It’s all a rich tapestry. We deviate slightly with a first/last/best concert question instead of 10/20/30, but praise be there is no deviation from the renowned quiz. Those new to the show can follow us on twitter @somelaterdate. Those long-time listeners who haven’t can rate the show at iTunes. With thanks to Ben and Claire and credit to Chaka Kahn and Rubblebucket.

126: Topping the Charts with Rachel Koh

Our guest is a web development, railroad, scotch, and B-movie raconteur. Not in that order, we don’t know the order. You can’t order those things. It’s Charles Fulton, Senior Web Applications Developer in ITS at Lafayette. Guess what we talk about? Web stuff, trains, scotch, and B-movies. Before that, Vans. Toward the end, 10/20/30 and a quiz. After that, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @mackensen. With thanks to Ben for producing. Credit to Santana and The Band.

125: How to Train Your Senior Web Applications Developer

Angela Perkins—research and instruction librarian, screenwriter, AFI graduate, colleague of multiple talents—joins us. We talk Bronx, Hollywood, UT-Austin, Skillman Library, screenplays, movies, quizzes, music, Fridays, Sundays, black licorice, and shrimp ‘n grits and we do it all within (questionably) the New York Metropolitan Area. / Follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Ben for producing and Claire and Jen for interning. Credit to Beastie Boys and Cold Cave.

124: Angelibrarian

Jen Gilmore is our guest. Our friend the novelist and English professor, author of five books, four of which we smuggled into the build-a-title episode title (sorry Golden Country), comes on to talk about Chevy Chase, DC, Brandeis, Cornell, NYC, publishing, editing, teaching, Hanukkah, it’s a whole thing. For those who’ve never read the fine print, do follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @jenwgilmore. With thanks to Michelle for producing (happy birthday too) and Ben and Jen for interning. Credit to the Pixies and Springsteen.

123: If Only the Mothers Were Never Something Red

Blood-brain barriers, thermal fluids, medicine delivery, mechanical stuff, because mechanical engineering professor Josh Smith is in studio. He’d watch people getting their brains drilled for research, that’s a thing that happens, for injecting medicine. He’s got a PhD from UVA and a Sunday kayaking habit. He’s a longtime fan, a Posse mentor on campus, and a decent enough quiz taker, but wait till you hear about Ben G.’s accomplishment. He (Ben, that is, and Josh too, we suppose) asks that you follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. With thanks to Michelle for producing and Ben and Jen for interning. Credit to Glass Animals and DMB.

122: Mr. Smith Goes to Easton

Social psychology, stereotype research, gender studies, that’s what guest, native Californian, and professor in the Psych department Angela Bell studies. Download for all of that, but stay because it’s an episode of firsts: our first guest to quote Parks and Rec in a peer-reviewed paper, to have met Amy Poehler and been a UCB audience regular, to have shunned Zack Braff’s cupcake demands, to then get a PhD from Oklahoma State, and to co-host her own new WJRH show “Chart Toppers.” Et cetera. So all that, quiz quiz licorice, blah blah Friday, something Sunday, and we’re out. We then ask this of you: follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @angelacbell. With thanks to Michelle for producing and Ben and Claire for interning. Credit to Saint Motel and Father John Misty.

121: The Bell of Oechsle Hall

We conned senior producer of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, former co-host of How To Do Everything, and current host of Everything is Alive Ian Chillag to come on the show. Then when we had a quiz we forgot to say the winner would get his voice on their answering machine, because we wanted to make public radio jokes all episode, because, but it turns out Ian won and we assume his voice is already on his answering machine so, win-win. Now we’re just filling space before saying we did a quiz and Fri/Sun and had a time of it. All good? Then take a chance to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @ianchillag. With thanks to Ben G. for producing and Jen for interning. Credit to Blind Pilot and No BS Band’s Mingus cover.

120: Everything is an NPR Pitch Reel, with Ian Chillag

Renowned abstract expressionist Ed Kerns (who is also Lafayette’s Eugene H. Clapper Professor of Art) is our guest. He was a student of Grace Hartigan of the New York School and an assistant to Willem de Kooning. He’s art, humanities, culture, music, he’s all of that as one of our longest serving professors. We get a great round of 10/20/30, succumb to another masterful quiz, and learn a little something with Fri/Sun. We also got bread, he brought us various breads. Learn more about it all by following us on twitter @somelaterdate, rating us on iTunes, and subscribing. Thanks to Michelle and Ben for producing. Credit to Christine and the Queens and the La Boheme finale.

119: Ed Kerns from Bo Diddley to La Boheme

Music Professor Jennifer Kelly is here. She’s a singer, conductor, scholar, Director of the Arts at Lafayette (music, art, theater, writing, film and media studies), engaging conversationalist, and native Southern Californian. We didn’t bring up The Peach Pit once. But we did 10/20/30, and a quiz, and Fri/Sun, and we did talk a lot about music, naturally. So download, follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Claire and Jen for interning. Credit to Lana Del Rey and Liza Minnelli.

118: The Art of the Spiel

Farmer Lisa is on the show, Lisa Miskelly. She’s our College Farmer. We have a farm. It’s called LaFarm. A good amount of the episode is thus about Farmersonly.com. But there’s also a quiz and 10/20/30 and Fri/Sun and there’s still the call to follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. Thanks to Michelle for producing and Claire and Jen for standout intern work. Credit to The JBs and Weezer.

117: Farmers Only and Also People Who Aren’t Farmers

It’s a member of the cabinet for our season premier. VP Greg MacDonald, of Enrollment Management, takes time away from enrolling for an afternoon in studio. He’s Canadian, we learn that. He’s in charge of who gets into college, sort of. He’s affable too, a really affable guy. Before that we catch up on a few summer things, and during that we have a 10-20-30 question and a quiz, and after we get into election politics, only barely. Do follow us on twitter @somelaterdate, like us on Fb, rate us on iTunes, and subscribe. You can follow our guest too @G_MacDonald. With thanks to Ben G. for producing and Claire for interning. Credit to Sylvan Esso and Bruce.

116: Old MacDonald Had An Enrollment Management Division at a Small Liberal Arts College

B.R. Cohen and Simon Tonev talk with guests on the internet&#39;s premier podcast about small college life. Based at Lafayette College&#39;s WJRH, the show is set in academic culture but usually not about it. Michelle Polton-Simon is our producer. Follow us @somelaterdate and find us on Facebook.

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