I Love You So Much: The Austin360 Podcast

Jane Ko, the creator of the popular food blog and Instagram account A Taste of Koko talks about her strong work ethic has brought her success as an ambassador (and official Austin tastemaker) to local restaurants. Jane also fills us in on her new, free texting service where she offers recommendations for fun and dining in Central Texas. Elsewhere on the show, pop critic Joe Gross reveals the winners nad losers of the summer movie season (yay, "Wonder Woman!" Not so much, "The Mummy.") In Webb Report, Eric Webb breaks down whether we're dazed and confused over the effort to rename Robert E. Lee Road to Robert Plant Road. And we conclude as always with recommendations in A Toast. More info: austin360.com/loveaustin360.

Business is booming in the small town of Smithville, and for the first time in more than a decade, the population last year increased. Addie Broyles chats with Amy and Steve Simmons of Amy's Ice Cream at their restaurant, Honey's, about why small town life is attracting entrepreneurial and artistic Austinites. Elsewhere in the show, co-host Omar L. Gallaga visits Austin-based Treehouse to learn how technology and sustainability can benefit your home-improvement projects, and co-host Tolly Moseley introduces an Advice for Austinites segment about how to find attractive, interesting dates if you’re over 50.

This week, Meredith Walker, the co-creator of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, joins in to discuss the youth-empowerment site. The former “SNL” writer also joins in for this week’s recommendations segment, “A Toast.” Elsewhere in the show, we go on location with fitness writer Pamela LeBlanc to get to the bottom of the real temperature of Barton Springs Pool (spoiler: It’s not 68 degrees). On the Webb Report, Eric Webb discusses a recent story making the rounds about whether millennials are killing everything good in this world (spoiler: They are not). And we conclude as always with recommendations in A Toast. More info: austin360.com/loveaustin360.

This week, American-Statesman reporter Ben Wear joins co-hosts Omar L. Gallaga and Addie Broyles to remember humor columnist John Kelso, who died last week. We reminiscence on what made Kelso so characteristically Austin and his legacy. Parenting columnist Nicole Villalpando talks back-to-school shopping deals and tips. Alisa Weldon of Well+Done Design discusses her personal journey in a coffee with Addie. And Eric Webb grosses out Omar and co-host Tolly Moseley with an OKCupid survey about the best Austin bathroom in which to have sex. Seriously. More info: http://austin360.com/loveaustin360

Austin Mayor Steve Adler drops by to discuss a new effort to help Austin’s homeless population and how he got involved in a viral online debate over all-female Alamo Drafthouse screenings of “Wonder Woman.” Co-host Tolly Moseley and American-Statesman audience development manager Jackie Stone discuss their mutual passion for aerial dance. How to dress for work and play in the 100-plus-degree Austin heat is debated. On the Webb Report, Eric Webb shares harrowing tales of Texas fishing monstrosities. And we wrap up with “A Toast,” recommendations of things we love that you should be checking out. More info: http://austin360.com/loveaustin360

Rudy Hernandez of Austin's Heel/Face Wrestling joins co-host Addie Broyles for a quiz on famous Texas wrestlers in this bonus episode of the "I Love You So Much" podcast. Play along!

Al and Lexi Lenhart, the owners of Austin’s Wrestle Circus, talk about the evolution of the indie wrestling circuit in Texas with co-host Addie Broyles. Sam Deats, the Austin director of the new Netflix animated series “Castlevania,” reveals how Powerhouse Animation worked with writer Warren Ellis on the project. Architect Richard Weiss gives us updates on his music projects and pays tribute to the late Bill Collings, for whom he designed Collings Guitar Factory. On the Webb Report, the recent parody Chili’s location-that-wasn’t on East Sixth Street is discussed. And we wrap up with “A Toast,” recommendations of things we love that you should be checking out. More info: austin360.com/loveaustin360.

This week, Forklift Danceworks artistic director Allison Orr visits the show to discuss the group’s newest show, “Bartholomew Swims,” which explores the relationship with public swimming pools, with co-hosts Addie Broyles and Tolly Moseley. Austin360’s Joe Gross interviews Andy Serkis, the actor behind Gollum in “Lord of the Rings” who now stars as Caesar in “War for the Planet of the Apes,” and special-effects wizard Loe Letteri. Joe, co-host Omar L. Gallaga and reporter Phil Jankowski predict what might happen on the new Season 7 of “Game of Thrones.” Parenting writer Nicole Villalpando shares tips on keeping families sane as the summer heat gets worse. And we wrap up with “A Toast,” recommendations. More info: austin360.com/loveaustin360.

Aaron and Stacy Franklin come in to chat about their barbecue empire, why nobody gets to skip the line at their popular restaurant and what their family eats when they’re not eating brisket. Music writer Deborah Sengupta Stith discusses what it’s like to attend a concert in virtual reality. Gustavo Sorola and Bethany Feinstein from Austin’s Rooster Teeth Studios give a preview of this weekend’s RTX Austin convention, which will bring 65,000 downtown. Eric Webb’s Webb Report reveals why “Spider-Man” was so formative. We wrap up with “A Toast,” recommendations of things we love that you should be checking out. Find it in iTunes or at austin360.com/loveaustin360.

In our debut episode, "Fargo" and "Legion" showrunner Noah Hawley on balancing family life here with TV projects, novels and films; Pam LeBlanc on her Year of Adventure, Andrea Ball competes in a quiz about Wikipedia nicknames for the city of Austin and Eric Webb talks Kirsten Dunst in The Webb Report. Plus A Toast recommendations! More info: http://austin360.com/loveaustin360

Pop-culture interviews, lifestyle discussion and events talk from Austin360 featuring hosts Tolly Moseley, Omar L. Gallaga and Addie Broyles.