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
Jim & Lionel
Season 5, Episode 23: “I feel old and foolish now”
Hundreds of Beavers, A Complete Unknown, Putin’s People, Jesse Welles
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
We begin by talking about Hundreds of Beavers and move into Jim’s experience with the Raw Diet and Johnny Gottado. From there we talk about food delivery and inactivity. We talk about A Complete Unknown [...]
a conversation with Don White
Season 5, Episode 22: “I almost stayed in that world”
comedy, music, & songwriting
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The amazing, wonderful, comedian, storyteller, songwriter, performer, author, and great friend to have, Don White joined us this week to talk all about his process, his art, and his life as a student of the craft. We begin talking [...]
a conversation with Matthew Roazen pt 2
Season 5, Episode 21: “He got his start wiping windows.”
Yeltsin, Oligarchs, Clinton, IMF, Corruption
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
In this episode, our guest Matthew Roazen returns to talk to us about his time in Russia, and gives us a lesson in what was happening in Russia during the 1990s and early 2000s. Matthew explains the rise of [...]
a conversation with Matthew Roazen
Season 5, Episode 20: “The Wild Wild East”
Russia, Moscow in the 1990s
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Matthew Roazen, lawyer, and Russian history & linguistics expert, who lived in Russia for 16 years talks about his time in Moscow during the 1990s and 2000s. This is part one of a 2 part conversation with Matthew about [...]