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Brodie Keane
Chief overthinker
Will argue any position with total confidence and zero preparation. Owns the microphone. Has never read the show notes.
@brodie.talks
A culture & comedy podcast
Aside
Three friends, one hour, zero agenda — overthinking the internet, bad movies, and snacks since 2019.
Listen wherever you already are
Latest episode
We ranked every cereal and lost two friendships
EP 312 · 1:04:30
21:54
1:04:30
New episode every Friday.
Culture · Comedy · Weekly
Aside
Brodie · Priya · Marcus — since 2019
312
Episodes & counting
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Downloads a month
4.8★
Average rating
24
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As heard on
- The Margin Weekly
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- The Daily Digress
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- Overheard Quarterly
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Fresh from the studio
Latest episodes
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EP 312
EP 312
We ranked every cereal and lost two friendships
A breakfast bracket that started friendly and ended with Marcus leaving the room.
1:04:30
Feb 13, 2026
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EP 311
EP 311
Priya watched a 2-hour movie about a sandwich
She has notes. She has so many notes. The sandwich was, allegedly, fine.
58:12
Feb 6, 2026
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EP 310
EP 310
Is a hot dog a sandwich? (Year six of this fight)
We promised to never do this episode again. We are people of weak character.
1:11:48
Jan 30, 2026
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EP 309
EP 309
Brodie tried to explain crypto and we all aged
Forty minutes in, nobody knew less. A genuine achievement, honestly.
1:19:05
Jan 23, 2026
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EP 308
EP 308
We let a horoscope make every decision for a week
Mercury was, by all accounts, doing something. Priya missed a flight.
56:40
Jan 16, 2026
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EP 307
EP 307
An entire hour about the gas station near Marcus's house
It has a surprisingly good taquito situation. We refuse to elaborate further. Listen.
1:02:17
Jan 9, 2026
What even is this
About the show
Aside started in 2019 in Priya's apartment, on a microphone Brodie bought "for streaming" and never used for streaming. The pitch was simple: three friends, one hour a week, and absolutely no plan. That is still the entire pitch. We have not improved.
Every Friday we get on mic and follow a conversation wherever it wants to go — a thread we found at 2am, a movie that should not be two hours long, a snack one of us is being weird about. There are running bits. There is a recurring segment where Marcus reads his Notes app aloud. There is, occasionally, a point.
It is a hangout you can put on while you do the dishes. Six years in, the dishes are very clean and we have somehow recorded 312 of these. Thank you for being weird with us.
New here? Start with these
A friendly on-ramp into six years of nonsense.
The three friends
Your hosts
Three distinct flavors of being slightly wrong about everything.
PR
Priya Rao
Resident film critic
Watches the bad movie so you do not have to, then watches it again because she is not finished being mad about it.
@priya.has.notesMV
Marcus Vela
Keeper of the Notes app
Quiet for forty minutes, then says one thing that derails the entire episode. Knows a gas station you should hear about.
@marcus.notes.app"I put this on to fold one load of laundry and finished the entire episode standing in front of a closed dryer. No regrets. Just three friends and me, motionless."
Come hang out
The Aside crowd
Six years of inside jokes and an alarming amount of cereal opinions. Pull up a chair.
The Aside Discord
9,840 members · 14 channels · zero rules that matter
Live episode threads on Fridays, a #snack-court for settling food crimes, fan-made bracket polls, and a #marcus-notes-app channel that has fully taken on a life of its own.
Leave us a voicemail
+1 (555) 0199-ASIDE
Sixty seconds. A question, a confession, a wildly incorrect take. The best ones open the show.
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"Hi, it's Renata, I just want it on record that a hot dog IS a sandwich and your show has caused a rift in my marriage."
0:47 · played on EP 310
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"You said the gas station taquitos were a six. They are an eight. I drove there. I am calling from the parking lot."
0:33 · played on EP 308
Wear the nonsense
The Office Mug™ mug
11oz · the lore, ceramic
"Zero Agenda" tee
soft cotton · XS–3XL
Snack-carrying tote
canvas · holds many grapes
Reasonable questions
Before you hit play
How explicit is the show?
We are marked explicit, mostly for the occasional swear when a movie is genuinely insulting or a cereal ranking gets heated. There is no shock-value material — it is a hangout, not a dare. If you would not mind your friends talking the way friends talk, you will be completely fine. Roughly PG-13, with feeling.
Can I send in a voicemail?
Please do. Call +1 (555) 0199-ASIDE and leave us up to a minute — a question, a strong opinion, a story you cannot tell anyone in your real life. We listen to every single one. The best land in the cold open of a Friday episode, and yes, we will absolutely say your name on mic if you let us.
Do you tour / do live shows?
We do — 24 live shows and counting, usually a short run each spring and fall. Live episodes are the same format, just louder and with a crowd weighing in on the cereal bracket in real time. Tour dates go to the newsletter and Discord first, always. If a city wants us, the voicemail line is also a perfectly good way to ask.
Where's the merch?
The shop link lives in the footer and in every newsletter. Right now it is the Office Mug mug, the "Zero Agenda" tee, and the snack tote — small batches, restocked when we remember. New drops are tied to running bits, so if an episode goes viral, expect something dumb and wearable about it within a month.
How do I get a shout-out?
Easiest route: leave a great voicemail or post in the Discord — both get read on air constantly. We also shout out new newsletter subscribers in batches and anyone who sends a genuinely unhinged snack recommendation. You do not need to pay for it, you just need to be a little bit interesting. We will do the rest.
One hour. Every Friday. Zero agenda.
Hit subscribe in whatever app you already have open. New episode lands Friday, like clockwork, like a snack you forgot you bought.
Next episode drops Friday — 312 of these and we are not stopping.