Persian Podcast

A Shelf in the Closet Broke Under Me Iman Nezhadahad on RawCast, Sixteen Million Downloads, and What It Costs to Build a Media Empire With Two People — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP12 He was recording the third episode when it happened. He was sitting on a shelf inside a built-in closet —

I Wanted the Guest Thinking About What to Wear, Not Whether to Come Farshad Negahdar on Running a Podcast Like a Business, Retiring a Professional Identity, and Leading a 53-Year-Old Company Through Its Hardest Year — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP11 Three things converged. A desire to build a network of executives who

The Side of Me I Didn’t Have the Courage to Be Mozhde Mohammadi on Mojdegani, the Character She Invented and Who Then Took Over — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP10 She was seven or eight years old, standing in front of her father’s turned-off camera, pretending to host a television show. She wanted

That Door in the Wardrobe Had Opened for Me Khashayar Noor on Fandom Podcasting, the Economics of Fan Communities, and the Institutional Gap Nobody Is Filling — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP09 I’ve made less money from the industrial engineering degree I got than I have from Harry Potter. Khashayar Noor says this

It’s Like a Child With Nine Parents The Nashta Team — Kiarash, Saina, Seyed, Chakavak, Mahdi, Sara, Reza, Farinaz & Rasoul — on Turning a Friend Group Into a Daily News Podcast — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP08 The idea started with buying land up north. A group of nine friends who had

I Am Not Radionist — Radionist Is Not Mine Ramyar Manouchehrzadeh on the Economics of Cultural Projects, Selling an IP With No Formula, and the Obligation of a Transitional State — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP07 Seven years. Roughly a hundred and fifty thousand listeners who wait, twice a month, for the next

There Is No Algorithm — Only People Saman Dadmandian on Adamizad, Hidden Motivations, and Building a Podcast That Breaks Every Rule — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP06 Two wars. An internet blackout lasting weeks. The events of Dey and Bahman. Three weeks of near-total shutdown. In those seven months, a podcast with no

We Haven’t Been Late by a Single Minute Marzieh Sadeghi & Amin Ardani on Fikshon, Ghessehgu, and Building Two Podcasts From a Wedding Loan — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP05 It started with a tweet. In the spring of 2019, Marzieh Sadeghi — who had studied Persian narrative literature and was running a

I Might Have Been the Bat Hesam Moghaddam on True Crime Podcasting, the Narrator Who Takes No Sides, and the Archive No One Knew Existed — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP04 I think about this often, Hesam Moghaddam says toward the end of this conversation. The idea that I could have been Khafash

All History Is Contemporary History Alireza Banijani on Paragraph, the Art of the Historical Narrative, and Growing Up in a Tradition That Didn’t Know Podcasts Existed — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode PP03 Alireza Banijani came to history because he didn’t like it. That sentence is the center of everything this episode is about.