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Hosted by Sean Bugg · society · EN
Politics, books, culture, and LGBTQ issues from award-winning journalist and author of Boy Does World, navigating the back half of life. www.backhalfbugg.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchPolitics, books, culture, and LGBTQ issues from award-winning journalist and author of Boy Does World, navigating the back half of life.
The Back Half Podcast is hosted by Sean Bugg. The show has published 11 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Landyn Pan: Trans Fitness, Body Image, and Gender Euphoria" (4 May 2026, 43 minutes), "Growing Up Southern" (26 February 2026, 53 minutes), and "Flashback to Amazing" (3 February 2026, 12 minutes).
The Back Half Podcast publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 11 episodes.
Booking probability for The Back Half Podcast is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Back Half Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Back Half Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.
Sean Bugg hosts The Back Half Podcast, a society podcast with 11 episodes published.
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The Back Half Podcast
<p>Landyn Pan (they/them) is a transmasculine, non-binary fitness and nutrition coach whose mission is to help queer and trans people build strength, confidence, and long-term, positive relationships with their bodies...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>Born in the South just after the end of Jim Crow, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the legalization of interracial marriage, Sean Bugg and Trey Graham discuss growing up as gay white Southern boys...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>Welcome to Flashback, where we revisit the age of New Wave science fiction and fantasy — the stories that came after the Golden Age of Science Fiction and before cyberpunk conquered the world.</p><p>This episode...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>Some of us caught the bug early, others later in life, but once you fall in love with reading books there’s no going back from a lifetime of stories.</p><p>But habits do change over time. Perhaps our tastes move from...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>Don’t have the time to read the newsletter? Here’s the podcast version you can listen to anywhere! And, if you’re more visually inclined, I’m also on YouTube:</p><p>As they say, like and subscribe!</p><p><p>The Back...
Episode #6
<p>In this episode, Marshall Boswell (author of Understanding David Foster Wallace) joins Sean Bugg to talk about Infinite Jest, its enduring place in American literature, Wallace’s position as an avatar of Gen X, and...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>This episode we Flashback to 1981, when the Space Shuttle first took flight and Analog magazine took a victory lap for science fiction and science fact. Too bad that victory lap included fantasies of a militarized...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>In this episode, we’re on another Flashback, this time to September 1981 and Amazing Science Fiction Stories. By the late 1970s, the famed first science fiction magazine had hit new lows, cutting costs and corners...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>And here we are with the third episode of The Back Half podcast and other episode of “Flashback,” examining the science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing that shaped me as a kid. This time I’m looking at the...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>I’m back with the second episode of The Back Half podcast, this time a "Flashback" to the November 1982 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Content warning: Disturbing mental imagery of Scientology founder L...
The Back Half Podcast
<p>Welcome to the first episode of The Back Half podcast, kicking off with an audio version of my piece on The Word for World Is Forest for those of you who prefer getting your words aurally. There’s more to come and in...
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