Season 5, Episode 36 (#149):

photo by Elaine on Flickr

Jim touts the fun of assembling furniture from Ikea. His coat stand was BONDSKÄRET and the lamp was VIDJA. Lionel scores a victory in pinpointing the very first Ikea store in the USA from memory. Jim talks about an audio documentary he's been listening to in audiobook format called Light On: How understanding consciousness helps us understand the universe by Annika Harris. Lionel interrupts with a story about his exploration of quantum computing by 3blue1brown on Youtube. Jim brings it back to his reflections on the books which tie in well with his own personal experiences in meditation. Annaka's hypothesis is that consciousness is a fundamental element in the universe.

Lionel says he's been listening to Malcom Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast about the Olympic Games in Berlin under Hitler. We talk about how the Olympics and much of how we experienced events changed with those Olympics and World War II.

We finish by planning some future podcasts and another bike trip.