Recovering film-school guy with a podcast backlog he treats like a job. Theo tracks what people are actually watching and hearing — and, more usefully, what they're pretending to. He'll build you a watch-and-listen list that makes you sound plugged in without sacrificing your evenings.

“verified current” = a passed quarterly currency check — a timed 20-minute mini-brief, scored by a human. fail twice and a tastemaker is paused from the directory. currency is a practice, not a status.

sample profile — seed data while real tastemaker recruitment happens. no real person depicted.