Three Years of Exploring Washington State: A Look Backward With Todd Phillips Our Podcast Producer
Todd Phillips, the producer of the Exploring Washington State Podcast, is our guest for episode 250, which also marks the show’s third anniversary. The podcast started in May 2020, and Todd is the only person who has worked on all 250 episodes.
Scott and Todd go back to their freshman year at Central Washington University in 1980, and they once shared a house in Ellensburg with Michael Wansley, the show’s most frequent guest. Scott recalls the one album all three roommates could agree on: Toto IV.
They trade the episodes that stayed with them: Archie McPhee, which sent Todd off to order a rubber chicken; geologist Nick Zentner explaining that the rocks of the Enchantments started out in Baja California; Pat Cashman and Almost Live; and Howard Behar on how the Frappuccino almost didn’t get out of the gate at Starbucks. Todd also picks the accordion makers at Petosa and the SPARK Museum in Bellingham.
Todd explains what producing the show looks like from his side of the waveform, then looks ahead. He’d like more destination episodes, more cider makers and farmers markets, and a few of the state’s more eccentric personalities. Both of them name dream guests, Edgar Martinez and Gary Larson among them.
Podcasts: “I have to admit, podcasts are not a medium that I enjoy.”
(Todd Phillips)
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Founder and editor of Explore Washington State, which he started on Anderson Island in 2010. A lifelong Washington resident who has lived in Tacoma, Ellensburg, Olympia and Seattle and now calls Wenatchee home, Scott curates every place we recommend and answers reader questions himself. He also hosts the Exploring Washington State podcast.
