After Things Podcast

The Earth shook–twice!! What’s more dangerous: earthquakes or tornados? How dangerous would an extended solar flare be today? SpaceX updates: Raptor engine test and a caught fairing. How much is acceptable cell phone camera image processing? Another deepfakes Pandora’s Box is opened. Unsupervised machine learning (Word2vec) may find science discoveries just from reading other research papers. Doc in a…robot box?? Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Spider-Man: Far From Home Justin: The Cave from Kenny Beats Brian: Spider-Man: Far From Home Bryce: Utada Hikaru Laughter in the Dark 2018 now translated on Netflix

What techniques and routines do we use to get going? Are you better planning to create or creating in the moment and editing later? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: The Richest Man in Babylon Justin: No One Left to Fight #1 Brian: Long Long Man and What We Do in the Shadows Bryce: Chernobyl

NASA’s going after Thanos with nuclear power. Electric aviation? Could you get a podcast on a floppy disc? Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Moss (Oculus Quest) and Strange Angel Justin: Brian and Justin are going to be on Andrew Heaton’s new podcast Brian: Documentary Now! season 3 Bryce: Super Mario Maker 2

Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra, is a new payment method in an internet of microtransactions. Does that offset the tracking and centralization? Also, is there value to purging an email list? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Scrivener and Justin: Anthony Jeselnik: Fire in the Maternity Ward and Brian: Toy Story 4 and Bryce: “834.194” by Sakanaction and

World’s greatest rocket launch again…yawn! How much will the world’s biggest airplane sell for? Throw out your clocks! Get scared!!! Why so many UFO sightings lately? The certainty of conspiracy theories. Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Isaac Arthur on YouTube and Justin: Documentary Now! Season 3 and Brian: Defunctland and Bryce: Neon Genesis Evangelion and

Justin’s long talked-about historical podcast, “Raise the Dead,” is in an alpha phase and he sent it to Andrew and Brian. How is that process of noting and what can each person give in feedback? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.” Pick: Andrew Heaton’s Patreon

Magic tragedy in India. How can you do “risky” things while being appropriately safe and practiced? Preserved and discovered after 40,000 years. Andrew’s got a confession. Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Star Trek: Discovery Justin: Black Mirror Brian: 12 Angry Men Bryce: Aggretsuko

“Listener” “Arthur” wants to know how to get over anxiety to finish projects, not just start them. How do you monetize a service that gets more expensive as it gets more popular? Fleshing out what Andrew can do with Audiomatic. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Veep Justin: The Handmaid’s Tale Bryce: Chernobyl

A big loss in aerospace. Protests at Tesla over price shifting. Tourism at the ISS. Space crime in space. A heart-warming story of amputation. With E3 this week, what are gaming trends we can expect? Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” Picks: Andrew: Oculus Quest and Google Live Transcribe Justin: Game of Zones Brian: Good Omens Bryce: Black Mirror

Listener Salina has a question about pen names. When and how do you use one, especially for copyright? Is there space for making content in or for VR? Spoiler alert: almost certainly yes. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.” Picks: Andrew: Chernobyl and Necroscope Justin: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience Brian: Andrew Heaton’s 2020 Presidential Candidate Blowout! Bryce: The Act