Conversations about books, music, movies, shows, tech, culture, and more. 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 with each other and interesting guests and are sharing those exchanges with you.
A podcast about technology, music, and speculative fiction.
Hosted by Jim Infantino and Lionel Cassin
a conversation with Dr. Bill Hanage
Season 5, Episode 29: “Updating your immune system”
bird flu, influenza, mRNA vaccines, measles in TX, music,
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Dr. Bill Hanage is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. His research and teaching focus on the epidemiology of [...]
Jim and Lionel
Season 5, Episode 28: “Ask Your Grocer”
Dopesick, Brian Aldiss, Arcane
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Jim starts by sharing his excitement about his new super minimal reading glasses, wallet, and bank account. Lionel talks about how music gear reviewers are almost always biased toward the gear they are sent for free. Jim [...]
a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Season 5, Episode 27: ENCORE EPISODE: “Not Everything Ends with the Iron Maiden.”
Our conversation from two years ago
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Lionel and Jim discuss email woes, Bitcoins and Blockchains by Antony Lewis, Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson, more Neal Stephenson, The Cloud, Jim’s reading of Chromaspace Conscript by Megan Alnico, the nature of money, and Jeff Bezos’ yacht (again. ) [...]
a conversation with Nyadenya Inyagwa
Season 5, Episode 26: “African Royalty Games”
Card Games, movie reviews
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
We welcome Jim's friend Nyadenya Inyagwa to the podcast to talk about his interests and ventures. We touch on a bunch of video stories at first, following some discussion about the homeless situation in Boston and Cambridge. This [...]