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 Lionel & Jim
Season 5, Episode 19: “Everything is due to accident”
The Soul of Money, After Yang, Rogue Heroes, and the fall of USSR
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
We discuss the making of video clips for promoting our podcast and the futility thereof. The unruly beard is disparaged. Lionel brings up an episode of CSI where a civil war re-enactor was killed and found to be [...]
a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Season 5, Episode 18: “Misa No Kinda Wizard!”
Luigi Mangione, Eat The Rich, Dune, LOTR
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Do billionaires deserve our empathy? We passively mention the Brian Thompson murder, and Jim’s portrayal of The Vengeance in his books. Do we need the profit motive to create new drugs and medical treatments? Cialis, Viagra, and [...]
a conversation with Jim & Lionel
Season 5, Episode 17: “This is just doing biz.”
John Hawkwood, Robert Hughes, Terraforming as fantasy, Siberiad
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Lionel and Jim discuss a myriad of subjects this week with a subtile common thread. We move from Jim's recent experience with jury duty to return to discussing the novel The Devil’s Broker by Frances [...]
A conversation with Lionel & Jim
Season 5, Episode 16: “The Lassiter”
Mercenaries in the Dark Ages, Praugue Diaries, Firefly, Stanislaw Lem
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Lionel and Jim talk about the book "The Devil's Broker" by Frances Stonor Saunders and about mercenaries and what happens when peace breaks out and they don't get paid. We also discuss Laurie Anderson, [...]