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‘funny,’ not funny
Conversations about books, music, films, history, tech, and culture. Jim is a songwriter and leader of the band Jim’s Big Ego. He is also an author of The Wakeful Wanderer’s Guide series. Lionel Cassin is an IT security specialist and a voracious reader of Science Fiction and History. They enjoy lively conversations and are now sharing those with you. We are an independant podcast and we rely on your support. Subscribe at patreon.com/jiminfantino for as little as $3 per month for live webcasts…
Episodes
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“Anything you can pick up and bring to life” | A conversation with Amy Robinson
Amy Robinson is our guest on the pod this week. Amy is a creator of puppets, an engineer, a mom person, a creative thinker and maker of things, and a knower of…
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“We fill in the blanks” | Lionel & Jim
Thank you to Patron Sarah Elkins for suggesting the book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood to us. We spend most of our time trying to suss out the…
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“The radical notion that women are people” | A conversation with Julia Tenney
Julia Tenney joins us again with a conversation about feminism and science fiction and what makes a science fiction story feminist. We discuss Starhawk…
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“The Naked Man & the Grill” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim talk about Riverside.fm, our podcasting platform, Claude Shannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon, Lionel’s new home full of…
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“Trust begets trust, action inspires action.” | a conversation with Dar Williams
Dar joins the pod to tell us about her experience writing What I Found In A Thousand Towns, her songwriting and creative process, her experience in Beacon New…
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“Midnight in the Threshing Room” | Phil Broikos tells us about A Day In Music
This interview was mind blowing. Phil is creating 24 hours of music 5 minutes at a time and it's amazingly good. Lionel and I talk with him about his very…
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“The whole huperchild problem” | a conversation with Lionel & Jim
From man hole covers to equal protection under the law, Lionel and Jim go to town over subjects in which they have little to no expertise. They go down the…
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“But that's how I always pronounced it!” | A conversation with voice over artist, Walter Dixon
We were graced with the voice over artist Walter Dixon on our podcast. We discuss the process of narrating an audiobook, the days of radio and cutting tape…
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“There's something in space & it's flipping us off.” | A conversation with Julia Tenney
Julia to the rescue! There are too many books and authors to list here, but we cover a lot of new possible reads. Julia also brings some worthy shows to our…
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“Everything will always never be the same again” | a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim discuss Mastodon, social media, or lack thereof, USB alarms going off in Lionel's headphones, and modern modes of communication. They talk…
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“She who must not be named” | A conversation with Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim discuss the novel Uprooted by Naomi Novik the novel The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins the novels Anathem and Snow Crash by Neal…
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“Every second drill is a laundry room fire.” | A conversation with David Partikian about the maritime life
David decided after graduating NYU in the late 80's that he did not want a traditional desk job. He joined the Seafarers International Union as an…
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“The Book of Mom” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and I talk about my upcoming lecture on Speculative Fiction and Society, Laurie Anderson, why agriculture may have been a bad idea, and more.
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“That which does not kill us, really really hurts." | Jim & Lionel
Lionel and Jim discuss a lecture by Nick Weaver of Berkley regarding crypto currency and blockchain from the computer security perspective.You can view the…
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“The Art of Telling Truth with Lies” | A conversation with Chris Chandler
We had a nice sit down with the intrepid Chris Chandler who joined us from a park bench near his current home in Austin because there was construction going on…
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“Only an inch on a map of the world.” | A conversation with Bob Loy
Bob Loy is Director of Orchestra Personnel and Librarian at Opera Philadelphia. We discuss classical music in the time of the pandemic, production of…
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“A penny for your email” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim discuss Jim’s exodus from Spotify, Napster, the business of music, the DMCA, common misused words like non-plussed, fixing the mess that…
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“It's like wearing your cockring to meet the pope. Actually, it's worse.” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim discuss the French Toast Alert System, Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Disposessed, William Gibson’s The Peripheral, Jim’s adventures…
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“In My Cult” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim discuss finding office space, The Rings of Power, Tolkien and England, Station Eleven HBO adaptation, The Expanse finale, Company Email, and…
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“Why haven't you already drilled a hole in my head?” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim talk about the dawn of broadband and the internet in Texas and New England, invasive technologies, Jim’s novels, and more.
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“I could go on...” | Lionel & Jim
In this episode, Lionel and Jim talk about Mark Bittman's new book Animal, Vegetable Junk.
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“Don't recommend anything to Lionel.” | Lionel & Jim
Lionel and Jim discuss Lionel's new purchase, Station Eleven, Foundation, and other books and movies you should never recommend to Lionel.
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“More wives and no beer?” | topic: Topic: American Nations by Colin Woodard | Lionel & Jim
Thank you to Julia Tenney for suggesting the name of our podcast.In this episode, Lionel & Jim discuss American Nations & Union by Colin Woodard, Distraction &…
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“It's Pump Six.” | topic: Topic: Hitler's American Gamble by Brendan Simms | Lionel & Jim
Our first episode. We talk about the book Hitler’s American Gamble by Brendan Simms, Jimi Hendrix, & Paolo Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories.