Nosedive

This episode, hear me geek out about Presidential politics with my good friends Kenneth Gee and Nikolas Mendes where I lay out my case on the three main ways that a Presidential candidate can lose an election.

Follow Kenneth and Nikolas on Instagram! At @kennyjesus123 and at @nikolas_mendes

For more updates on this podcast, you can follow this podcast on Instagram at @nosedivepodcast.

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This episode, I sit down with Mary Beth Tinker, the plaintiff of the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, defining how First Amendment rights are interpreted regarding students and teachers in schools. In our discussion, we talk about her story in how her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, her current advocacy for First Amendment rights and children's rights in the fifty years since the Tinker ruling, ...

This episode, I sit down with Lana, the mysterious host of the local reality competitive dating account, Love is Blind UCSC, and take an inside look at what it takes to facilitate the account, and follow contestants through the process of being on the show.

You can follow Love is Blind UCSC on Instagram at @loveisblinducsc

Slide into my friend's dms! @nikolas_mendes

Thank you Gabi Feingold for provi...

This episode, I sit down with Caine Monroy, subject of the viral short film "Caine's Arcade" to talk about his journey in creating his own cardboard arcade, getting his first customer in a documentary filmmaker, going viral when he was nine years old, the immediate aftermath of the film's popularity, what he's up to now, and what comes next in the future for him.

You can follow Caine on Instagram a...

This episode, I sit down with Lorri Carey to talk about her journey with ALS, living with the disease for the past sixteen years despite being given two to five years to live after her initial diagnosis, how it's led her to advocate for ALS research throughout her life, and how that led her to start her podcast sharing stories of inspiration and positivity.

Go listen and subscribe to her podcast I’m Dying to Tell You,...

This episode, I sit down with Annie Coulson, an incoming NYU Tisch School of the Arts sophomore, to talk about one of her great musical passions, the spoons. In doing so, we also talk her upbringings in Maryland and how that has brought her to New York, her time settling in to the Big Apple, as well as giving me my own private lesson in playing the spoons.

You can follow Annie on Instagram at @annie_coulson and you can fol...

This episode, I sit down with two science minded friends, as we talk about their curiosity in the paranormal and how their mutual love for the strange and unexplained has led them to create their new podcast, Eclectic Stories of the Paranormal, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more spooky and interesting stories, make sure to give their podcast a listen and follow them on Instagram at @es...

This episode, I sat down with two black activists, Kalkidan Alemayehu and Michael Brent IV, two of the most astute, unfiltered minds that I know, to talk about race, a topic that is going to be uncomfortable, but a topic that has to be uncomfortable for the betterment of society and this country. In our discussion, we talk about what has happened over the past two weeks, what has institutionally  led to this movement, how non-black...

This episode, I sit down with two graduating high school seniors and look into their shared passion of tech decking, the difficulties of starting a club around it, and how it has strengthened their friendship for the coming years.  

 If you wanna see some more sick tech decking, you can follow their club on Instagram at @techdecksociety. For more updates on this podcast, you can follow this podcast on Instagram at @nosediv...

This episode, I shift my narrative three hundred miles north to my second home of Santa Cruz, where I talk one of my former professors, Caren Camblin, and look into and experience her guilty pleasure, the Hallmark Channel. In doing so, we talk about her podcast dedicated to her guilty pleasure and look into her other obsession of "book detectiving." 

You can listen to her podcast “No Helmet Required,” on Apple Po...

This episode, I dig deep into my obsession with theater and the arts, looking at its current state in the public education system. In doing so, I sit down with colleagues of mine, currently entrenched in the arts from an educational standpoint, and look into how much it has impacted their individual lives and how it has inspired each of them to advocate for the arts. 

Written and edited by Ryan Loyola. 
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Welcome to the podcast, where I, Ryan Loyola, take a plunge into the obsessions that captivate each one of us. You know the sort. The fascination that riveted you from the moment that you first learned about them. The one continues to tick at your brain until you can know every shred of information there is to learn about it. Join me as I go off the deep end in investigating the obsessions that continue to allure us, because it’s t...