Our annual end-of-year post-mortem episode is here, and boy do we have feelings about this past year! Hear Kate, Pam, and Brian try to make sense of life in 2025 with their singular song selections. Plus, we talk about Bay happenings that gave us hope, and in honor of Select Five's fifth anniversary, we shout out some of the amazing things our past guests have accomplished this year.
Select Five 2025 Selections:
Little Simz - Free/2025 (Brian's pick)
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow/2025 (Pam's pick)
Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray/1987 (Kate's Selection)
Jwalt - Ballers Ballad/2025
Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go/1973
Listen to our playlist to hear the songs we talked about plus many others we loved in 2025
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Our annual end-of-year post-mortem episode is here, and boy do we have feelings about this past year! Hear Kate, Pam, and Brian try to make sense of life in 2025 with their singular song selections. Plus, we talk about Bay happenings that gave us hope, and in honor of Select Five's fifth anniversary, we shout out some of the amazing things our past guests have accomplished this year.
Select Five 2025 Selections:
Little Simz - Free/2025 (Brian's pick)
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow/2025 (Pam's pick)
Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray/1987 (Kate's Selection)
Jwalt - Ballers Ballad/2025
Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go/1973
Listen to our playlist to hear the songs we talked about plus many others we loved in 2025
Ep. 37: Journalist Walter Thompson's Many Brushes With Musical Fame
Select Five
1 hour 2 minutes 1 second
9 months ago
Ep. 37: Journalist Walter Thompson's Many Brushes With Musical Fame
It’s not often that you get to meet your favorite musicians—unless you’re Walter Thompson. Walter is a San Francisco-based tech journalist, writer, and the host/creator of the Fund/Build/Scale podcast. He’s also had the good fortune to have met many music stars throughout his life. In this episode Walter talks us through five songs that bring to mind his most interesting encounters, and along the way we learn about his childhood love of great pop composers, his brief residence at Burt Bacharach’s Long Island motor lodge, the importance of having a “Cool Aunt” in the family, and what it was really like to work for Thomas Dolby.
Walter's Selections:
Dionne Warwick - "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" (1969)
Claude Bolling & Jean-Pierre Rampal - "Baroque and Blue" (1975)
Thomas Dolby - "Screen Kiss" (1984)
Public Enemy - "Bring The Noise" (1988)
Luscious Jackson - "Ladyfingers" (1999)
Listen to our previous episode with Walter here
Select Five
Our annual end-of-year post-mortem episode is here, and boy do we have feelings about this past year! Hear Kate, Pam, and Brian try to make sense of life in 2025 with their singular song selections. Plus, we talk about Bay happenings that gave us hope, and in honor of Select Five's fifth anniversary, we shout out some of the amazing things our past guests have accomplished this year.
Select Five 2025 Selections:
Little Simz - Free/2025 (Brian's pick)
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow/2025 (Pam's pick)
Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray/1987 (Kate's Selection)
Jwalt - Ballers Ballad/2025
Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go/1973
Listen to our playlist to hear the songs we talked about plus many others we loved in 2025
