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Season 5

the head of a rooster

Episode 29:

“Updating your immune system”

bird flu, influenza, mRNA vaccines, measles in TX, music,

a conversation with Dr. Bill Hanage
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 #143
womans hands holding vegetables

Episode 28:

“Ask Your Grocer”

Dopesick, Brian Aldiss, Arcane

Jim and Lionel
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 #142

Episode 27:

ENCORE EPISODE: “Not Everything Ends with the Iron Maiden.”

Our conversation from two years ago

a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 #repeat
african king illustration

Episode 26:

“African Royalty Games”

Card Games, movie reviews

a conversation with Nyadenya Inyagwa
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 #141
a skeleton playing violin in a stone circle

Episode 25:

“We’re in the transportation business”

The Grateful Dead

a conversation with Dr. Christopher K. Coffman
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 #140
the front of Club Passim with stairway leading down to the door

Episode 24:

ENCORE EPISODE: “I have a Passim tattoo.”

Folk Music, World Music, Music Club

a conversation with Abby Altman
Thursday, February 20, 2025 #repeat
Bob Dylan tunes his guitar

Episode 23:

“I feel old and foolish now”

Hundreds of Beavers, A Complete Unknown, Putin’s People, Jesse Welles

Jim & Lionel
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 #139
Don White and microphone

Episode 22:

“I almost stayed in that world”

comedy, music, & songwriting

a conversation with Don White
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 #138
Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton arm in arm Clinton wiping one eye in laughter

Episode 21:

“He got his start wiping windows.”

Yeltsin, Oligarchs, Clinton, IMF, Corruption

a conversation with Matthew Roazen pt 2
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 #137
Russia EuroVision Little Big Poster

Episode 20:

“The Wild Wild East”

Russia, Moscow in the 1990s

a conversation with Matthew Roazen
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 #136
shot from tv show rogue heroes

Episode 19:

“Everything is due to accident”

The Soul of Money, After Yang, Rogue Heroes, and the fall of USSR

a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 #135
a guillotine from the point of view of its victim

Episode 18:

“Misa No Kinda Wizard!”

Luigi Mangione, Eat The Rich, Dune, LOTR

a conversation with Lionel & Jim
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 #134
dark ages nobleman on horseback leading charge surrounded by dozens of lancement on horseback their lances fanning out like a leaf

Episode 17:

“This is just doing biz.”

John Hawkwood, Robert Hughes, Terraforming as fantasy, Siberiad

a conversation with Jim & Lionel
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 #133
Jayne Mal and Zo from Firefly the TV series

Episode 16:

“The Lassiter”

Mercenaries in the Dark Ages, Prague Diaries, Firefly, Stanislaw Lem

A conversation with Lionel & Jim
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 #132
Jim Rosen Catherine Pilfrey Matthew Bellows headshots in frames

Episode 15:

“Meditation is a human thing.” ENCORE EPISODE

Meditation, Buddhism

A conversation with Catherine Pilfrey, Matthew Bellows, and Jim Rosen.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 #repeat
a fantasy setting stand off between a woman holding a map and a man leaning on a globe

Episode 14:

Outskirters

The Steerswoman series and The City and The City

a conversation with Julia Tenney & Sarah Elkins
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 #131
montgomery delaney playing a chord on the guitar

Episode 13:

“We all come from different realities”

songwriting, the political divide, disagreeing

a conversation with Montgomery Delaney
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 #130
view from the bridge of a container ship

Episode 12:

“Every second drill is a laundry room fire.”

Encore episode from season one

A conversation with David Partikian about the maritime life
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 #129
Christian Bale and Dick Cheney

Episode 11:

“Unusual in unusual ways”

the movie Vice, The Americans, Slow Horses, Azimov

a conversation with Jim and Lionel
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 #128
cute cartoon version of Cthulhu reading Hello Cthulhu

Episode 10:

“It's all fun and games until Cthulhu shows up.”

A Night In The Lonesome October, Lovecraft, Thanksgiving

a conversation with Julia Tenney & Sarah Elkins
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 #127
Eric Schwartz

Episode 9:

“Who’s gonna ---- the singer?”

music, comedy, politics, creativity

a conversation with Eric Schwartz
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 #126
Joe Frank in the studio

Episode 8:

“A face for radio.”

Video podcasting, Biking, Life Hacks, movies

a conversation with Jim and Lionel
Monday, October 14, 2024 #125
Chris Chandler reading a box that says Homeland security Cameras

Episode 7:

“We have a surprise guest.”

a conversation with Chris Chandler
Friday, October 11, 2024 #124
Jay Sefton in the play Unreconciled Jay is seated on a chair on stage speaking

Episode 6:

Unreconciled

The Catholic Church, survivors, justice, abuse of power

a conversation with Mark Basquill
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 #123
Ducky Carlisle in New Orleans

Episode 5:

“Ducky”

Music production, The Figgs, Slide, The Major Labels, Bleu, etc.

a conversation with Bleu, Shaun Wolf Wortis, and Mike Gent
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 #122
Jeff Tareila holding a beer and sneering

Episode 4:

“Back when we had no undo button”

music, Virgin Islands, music production

a conversation with writer/producer Jeff Tareila
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 #121
a park inside Peter Cooper Village in New York City

Episode 3:

“I come from a long line of orphans.”

The Bubonic Plague

a conversation with Jim & Lionel
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 #120
woodblock of printer at work in 1568

Episode 2:

“Bang on, killer virus!”

TikTok Algorithm, The Printing Press, and Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

A conversation with Lionel & Jim
Thursday, September 5, 2024 #119
DaVincis perspective drawing sketch

Episode 1:

“There was a flag on the field”

Science Fiction, vs. Fantasy, and Vanishing Point Perspective Drawing

a conversation with Jim and Lionel
Friday, August 30, 2024 #118