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 4, Episode 30: “The king of the bad guys”
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Discussion of Bram Stoker ’s Dracula starts with Jim trying to do a Boston Brahmin accent , and talks about his daughter’s inexplicable accent when she was younger. They [...]
a conversation with Jim & Lionel
Season 4, Episode 29: “Erratica”
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Jim opens with a thread sent regarding the previous episode on Frankenstein. They incongruously launch into a debate about artificial sweeteners. We get back on track discussing the Transcendentalist movement and what came after, as written about in [...]
a discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with Sarah Elkins
Season 4, Episode 28: “Homunculi, homunculus”
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Sarah Elkins joins us to discuss the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley . We start with a Filk song to the tune of Funiculi funicula . [...]
a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Season 4, Episode 27: “The Mind Bind”
Monday, February 19, 2024
After some audio problems at the start, we start talking about Valentines Day and the variety of items available and not available at Trader Joes, and not unlike the olds that we are, we stop just short of listing all [...]