37 episodes
Conversations with People Who Hate Me Night Vale Presents
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- Society & Culture
Dylan Marron explores what happens when online feuders step out from behind the keyboard and get to know the human on the other side of the screen.
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Episode 32: Trash
In the summer of 2017 journalist Katie Herzog wrote a piece that was widely criticized. Ultimately she found herself at the bottom of a social media pile-on. 3,000 miles east of Katie, a woman named Robyn Kanner joined that pile-on tweeting “ur just trash.” In this episode, taped live in front an audience, Katie and Robyn meet onstage for the first time to discuss what happened between them, and the unlikely twist that brought them closer than they would have ever guessed.
If you’d like to be a guest on this show fill out the form at conversationswithpeoplewhohateme.com
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Emily Newman & Mark Stoll (associate producers), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Phillip Blackowl (logo designer), Mindy Tucker (logo photographer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals. Additional credits for live show: Dustin Flannery-McCoy (field recording), Ben Altarescu & Alan Kudan (live recording). -
Empathy is not Endorsement
Host Dylan Marron shares his 2018 TED Talk “Empathy is not Endorsement.”
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Episode 31: High School Reunion
Dylan speaks to Carl, an old high school classmate, about something Carl wrote online seventeen years ago - before social media as we know it was even invented.
If you’d like to be a guest on this show fill out the form at conversationswithpeoplewhohateme.com
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Phillip Blackowl (logo designer), Mindy Tucker (logo photographer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals. -
Episode 30: Easy Target
Dylan speaks to Brian, a stranger who called him a gay slur.
If you’d like to be a guest on this show fill out the form at conversationswithpeoplewhohateme.com
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Phillip Blackowl (logo designer), Mindy Tucker (logo photographer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals. -
Episode 29: Bob The Drag Queen
Celebrated drag queen & winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Bob The Drag Queen chats with James, a stranger who tweeted “I really really really don’t like Bob The Drag Queen.”
If you’d like to be a guest on this show fill out the form at conversationswithpeoplewhohateme.com
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Phillip Blackowl (logo designer), Mindy Tucker (logo photographer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals. -
Episode 28: Hypocrite
Jesse called Dylan a hypocrite. Dylan admits he may be right.
If you’d like to be a guest on this show fill out the form at conversationswithpeoplewhohateme.com
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Phillip Blackowl (logo designer), Mindy Tucker (logo photographer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals.
Customer Reviews
This podcast saved my sanity
Literally.
I’m depressed and neurotic, and I work on that constantly. After a serious bout of cyber bullying/harassment about my patient advocacy (for myself and others), I was feeling very low and worthless.
Listening to the different points of view you present so well on your show allowed me to see that people don’t always mean the cruel things they say, or there is more nuance behind their words.
Like one of your episodes says: Hurt People Hurt People.
While I may never know the reasoning behind their jabs, I can let them go peacefully knowing they most likely had nothing to do with me.
Thank you for that.
Very Disappointed
I am an avid listener and long time fan but I have grown frustrated with not addressing the harmful things people say. The detransition article has so many harmful claims in it and constantly uses the wrong terminology like “born into a gender” and to focus on the other transgender guest’s mental health and addiction problems was extremely problematic. Katie said multiple times there was constructive criticism about her piece and yet we never heard about it or why it was so harmful to center a story like that while transgender people fight for their right to live every day. Not to mention it wasn’t even discussed how her piece was such a medicalized point of view and so many trans people live in the world without seeking HRT or surgeries.
Best Show Ever
This show is just everything. I reference it a lot when talking to others about empathy, listening to each other, etc. Dylan’s quote: “Empathy is not endorsement” is written large on my glass office wall for students to see as they walk past. In a country where we are so divided it is a breath of fresh air to see someone trying to bridge the divide. Dylan is making the world a better place.
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