Pop culture remembered, questioned, and reconnected.
Adult Education is a conversational show built around learning out loud. Recent episodes move from Eastbay catalogs and Labyrinth to underground rock, soccer fashion, Olympic snowboarding, classic rock radio, household labor, and Boston punk.
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Adult Education is a relaxed conversation show where curiosity usually starts with a memory. A catalog. A video-store rental. A radio station. A band that sounded enormous in high school. From there, the conversations open into books, subcultures, personal projects, and the way pop culture hangs around long after its moment has passed. Recent episodes show the range clearly. Art Juedes and Rick Gering talk about Eastbay, the mail-order catalog that gave young athletes access to sneakers and sports gear they might not have found nearby. Jes Battis helps turn Labyrinth into a conversation about 80s childhood, fairy-tale logic, technology, and why some movies feel hard to remake in the present tense. Professor T brings TikTok into the picture, using short-form video as a way to keep underground rock stories alive. Ryan Hendricks brings the show into soccer fashion and the launch of SmallSide, with attention to small playing spaces and community purpose. Josh Sullivan’s episode looks at Olympic women’s slopestyle snowboarding and the weather-affected event that left fans and athletes wanting better. Paul Rees anchors a trip through AOR, classic rock radio, and the backstage myths attached to 70s and 80s music culture. Jordan Carlos brings a sharper domestic comedy angle, using chores, marriage, and accountability as material for a bigger conversation about household labor. Chris Wren’s Fenway Punk story connects Boston baseball rivalry, street-level merch, hardcore punk, and Bridge Nine Records. The show’s rhythm is patient. It lets guests tell stories without forcing every answer into a thesis. That makes Adult Education feel less like a lecture series and more like sitting beside someone who followed a question until it became a conversation.
Made for: For listeners who like longform conversations about music, movies, sports culture, books, nostalgia, and the people behind specific scenes or objects. It especially fits anyone who enjoys personal context with their pop culture history.
What sets it apart: Adult Education stands out by treating fandom as a doorway into learning rather than as simple nostalgia. The show’s best moments connect everyday memories to larger stories about scenes, media, work, identity, and community.
As we get older our interest in learning seems to wane. Life gets in the way and educating ourselves becomes less important. My name is Jeff St. Pierre and I fell into that trap. Now I'm craving information. Join me for Adult Education, a podcast that aims to bring conversations with experts in all different fields so we can learn a little something new.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jeff St. Pierre turns personal nostalgia and guest experience into approachable conversations about how cultural work gets made, circulated, and remembered.
Adult Education lets Jeff St. Pierre follow his curiosity through relaxed guest conversations about working lives, creative practice, and cultural objects with personal histories attached.
Jeff St. Pierre starts with a lost locker; you end up remembering your old Eastbay wish list.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm look back at East Bay and the catalog culture that shaped a generation of young athletes.
Adult Education turns an East Bay conversation into a thoughtful look back at how a catalog brand found its way to young athletes and the kids who grew up with it. Jeff St.
A warm, thoughtful look at Labyrinth as an 80s rental favorite with lasting pull.
Adult Education circles back to Labyrinth with warm video store nostalgia, treating it as one of those 80s movies that was hard to track down and easy to hold onto. Jeff St.
A loose, memory-rich music chat built around TikTok, underground rock, and the bands that never quite leave you.
Adult Education leans on Professor T's TikTok presence to open into underground rock talk, with Jeff St. Pierre keeping it loose and personal.
A loose, affectionate conversation built from scene memory, day jobs, and road stories.
Dana Bolin comes across as a podcast host, tour manager, cowbell player, and merch worker, and that mix gives the conversation a lived-in feel. Jeff St.
A warm, grounded look at the business and craft behind songwriting.
Leah Marie Mason's conversation with Jeff St. Pierre works best when it stays close to the practical side of songwriting, where publishing deals, royalty splits, and recoupment feel concrete instead of abstract.
NPR critics Linda Holmes, Glenn Weldon, Stephen Thompson and Aisha Harris argue about this week's release.
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The host interviews Ryan Hendricks, founder of the soccer fashion brand SmallSide, discussing its launch, inspiration from TikTok, and mission to give back to communities through soccer.
This episode features an interview with Snowboarder Magazine correspondent Josh Sullivan discussing the failure of the Olympic women's slopestyle snowboarding event due to weather issues and its impact on athletes.
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Interview with journalist Ken Belson about the NFL's rise to cultural and economic dominance, based on his book 'Every Day is Sunday'.
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An interview with author Martin Reeves about the history and societal impact of the like button.
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This episode explores how the Y2K era and September 11th fundamentally changed the world, featuring author Colette Shade discussing her book on the 2000s.
This episode features an interview with musician Ray Harkins about his new hardcore band Blood Guilt, discussing how it formed, aging in the music scene, and finding new passion.
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Interview with Kevin Evers about his book on Taylor Swift's business strategy and her unprecedented success in the music industry.
This episode explores the history and impact of Lollapalooza, the pioneering 1990s touring music festival, through a discussion of a new oral history book by authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour.
This episode features an interview with journalist Jeremy Egner about the creation and impact of the TV series Ted Lasso, including its unexpected success on Apple TV+ and its three-season arc.
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