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'NEPO, Baby!' interview podcast launches October 22 with Matthew Broderick
A new interview podcast, 'NEPO, Baby!', hosted by Jake Robards and Emily Wachtel, premieres October 22, 2026 with Matthew Broderick as the first guest — an explicit conversation about growing up adjacent to Hollywood.
By The NEPO, Baby! launch was announced via EIN Presswire on October 20, 2026; PodSubs summarised the announcement and the show's Apple Podcasts listing. · Published · Announcement date
A new interview show is taking the entertainment industry's favourite whisper and putting it on the record.
'NEPO, Baby!' was announced on October 20, 2026 via EIN Presswire, premiering Thursday, October 22, 2026 in audio and video. Hosts Jake Robards and Emily Wachtel — both from Hollywood-adjacent backgrounds themselves — open the show with actor Matthew Broderick as the launch guest. The premise is a candid conversation about what it is really like to grow up next to the industry: access, pressure, expectations and the assumptions that follow. Future guests named in the announcement include members of the Mellencamp, Bacon and Arkin families. The show is produced by Shake Left and Better Late Productions.
The 'nepo baby' discourse has been one of entertainment's longest-running conversations; a weekly long-form interview dedicated to it is a bet that the audience wants more than the hot takes.
WHY IT MATTERS
Topic-locked interview shows keep winning because they remove the listener's decision cost: every episode is the same conversation from a new angle, and the premise is the pitch. For independent interviewers, 'NEPO, Baby!' is a case study in format discipline — a single question, guests who answer it from different lives, and a title that does the marketing work.
'NEPO, Baby!' premieres October 22, 2026 in audio and video on major podcast platforms.
Announcement date: October 20, 2026.
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