My current project with iHeartMedia is In Retrospect, a series that examines pop culture history in order to understand the present. I sound design, edit, and engineer on the show.

Episodes release every Friday.

I am on the team at Puddle Creative, creating podcasts for our clients.

Each week, I receive raw audio and edit, mix, and publish multiple episodes, frequently on a same-day turnaround.

I have edited new episodes of The Important Thing since 2022. The podcast is hosted by Michael Lopp and Lyle Troxell.

From 2019 through 2022, I worked on Next Question with Katie Couric as an editor, sound engineer, and associate producer. During that time, I recorded and edited at least one episode per week.

We also produced two special multi-part documentary series — Turnout and Abortion: The Body Politic.

I edited seasons four, five, and six of the Netflix podcast WeAreNetflix in 2021 and 2022.

Initially, my role was to receive already-recorded interview audio and deliver edited, publishable episodes. In seasons five and six, I started sitting in on all recordings, writing narration for the host, and shaping episodes based on multiple interviews, documentary-style.

A special series of Next Question with Katie Couric, Abortion: The Body Politic examined abortion rights in America, just as Roe v Wade was in process of being overturned in the Supreme Court.

I edited, sound designed, and mixed the series.

Published in 2022.

A special series of Next Question with Katie Couric, Turnout examined the accessibility of voting access in America.

I edited, sound designed, and mixed the series.

Published in 2020.

I edited the Netflix podcast Watching With…, which featured audio commentary tracks, in 2019 and 2020.

As I edited each episode, I ensured that the filmmakers’ commentary synced up with the films in the final version of the podcast audio.

I contributed a chapter in the book Mormonism and the Movies, published in 2021 by BCC Press.

I edited a dozen episodes of the weekly Netflix podcast The Human Algorithm in 2019, where employees shared what they were watching on Netflix.

I recorded Jon Fasman as he walked, ate, and interviewed his way across the borough of Queens.

Published Dec. 31, 2018.

While McKenna Denson was was training as a Mormon missionary in the MTC in Provo, Utah in 1984, she says the MTC president, Joseph Bishop, raped her in a basement room.

In 2017, she confronted Bishop in person and recorded their conversation, where he can be heard admitting to sexual misconduct with multiple women throughout his time as a high-ranking church leader.

Bishop denies the rape allegation, but a Brigham Young University police report shows that he told officers that while he served as president of the MTC, he asked a young sister missionary to expose her breasts to him in a basement room.

In this multi-episode series, I investigated Mormonism’s #MeToo movement.

The influence of the Walt Disney company on Mormonism is real — and the reverse is also true, with Mormons having played significant roles at the company going back to its very beginning. 

What is it about Disney culture that makes it so compatible with Mormon culture? Or is it the other way around? And is that a golden Moroni on top of Cinderella's castle?

Turns out, taking a close look at the relationship between Disney and Mormonism offers an opportunity to understand each one in deeper ways.

Published May 11, 2018.

The formation and maintenance of a personal identity can involve a lot of difficult inner work — and even the most rigorously defined ones can be messy, contradictory and full of holes. And when personal identity comes into contact with the identity of a community, the resulting friction can pressure one side or the other to evolve — or break.

Published May 2, 2018.

I co-hosted and sound designed a series of movie reviews with Gina Colvin on her podcast A Thoughtful Faith.

On The Cheeky Mormon Movie Review, we applied a critical and analytical lens both to the films we discussed and to Mormonism as an institution and culture.

Published in 2017 and 2018.

An angry, sincere, messy, Mormon testimony, as well as a conversation with artist Brian Kershisnik on his painting, “Wrestling the Angel.”

Published Oct. 14, 2017.

I spoke with some of the 17,000+ attendees at the first LoveLoud event in Orem, Utah. The festival was founded by Imagine Dragons lead Dan Reynolds with the intention to “bring people together, to ignite conversation and dialogue within a community about what it means to truly love and accept our LGBTQ youth,” Reynolds said at a press conference.

Published Aug. 27, 2017.

A renowned scholar of Japanese literature, Van Gessel is the primary English translator for the work of Japanese author Shusaku Endo, having translated seven Endo novels so far, with his eighth on the way. Gessel served as a literary consultant on Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Silence.

Published Feb. 5, 2017.

Fairly astounding and somewhat forgotten, the story of Mykel and Carli Allan is equal parts inspiring and tragic. The two sisters, whose parents have lived in Utah County for more than 20 years, hold a legendary place in Weezer lore: The band and their intense fan base truly wouldn't be what they are today without these two sisters. Theirs was no ordinary fandom.

Published Oct. 10, 2016.

I spoke with Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr.

Also included is my audio essay manifesto explaining how I came to understand that the Broadway musical genre was, in fact, for me.

Published Sept. 2, 2016.

This episode of Radiolab was created during my summer internship at the show. I contributed production assistance and research.

Published Sept. 12, 2013.

This episode of Radiolab was created during my summer internship at the show. I contributed production assistance and research.

Published Jul. 31, 2013.

I created, produced, and hosted The Porch, a live storytelling stage show in Utah, between 2011 and 2016.

I created The Pixar Podcast between 2010 and 2018. The show ran 143 episodes and included interviews with filmmakers like Don Hahn, Pete Docter and Michael Giacchino, as well as in-depth analysis of Pixar films. The podcast was included in a best-of list published on The Verge.

If you were a listener for any amount of time, I sincerely thank you. I hope some of my work going forward will continue to interest you.