ABSTRACT
The Vocal Fries is a popular linguistics podcast, with over 400,000 downloads, over 100 patrons on Patreon (https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003096078/8b1d31b3-3777-440a-91c0-cca0acb4bfed/content/www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod) and nearly 7000 Twitter followers. In this chapter, Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa describe how they started the podcast, the types of topics they cover, the day-to-day creation of each episode and the benefits of interviewing non-linguists not only for their show, but also for our understanding of language.
