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3 months in the making, we get into a century of Dropping Out, DIY, and the conditions of self-preservation featuring mathematician Alexander Groethendieck, artist Lee Lozano, Cormac McCarthy, Shelly Duvall, and Sarah Records. As public life become further cauterized some will declout, some join the Santa Fe institute, and some refuse to speak to other woman for 27 years. Time to find out why Groethendieck’s reasons for leaving the mathematics community, abstract financial systems and their influence on human creativity, ‘healthy disillusionment’, the hollowing out of Pax Americana, Applied Quantum Mechanics, Cindy Lee album, reason’s obscure other, ‘comparing yourself to old stories’, Kazemir Malevich: Suprematism, from Shakespeare’s Othello, King Leer, Macbeth, Industry Plant Aktion, refusing the art-world, semiotic superficially, ‘High-Energy Scattering’, Dictator to Oneself, Wim Wender’s “Perfect Days”, the infamous Shelly Duvall Dr. Phil episode, Alex Bienstock, what people learn from Wittgenstein, Bristol’s Sarah Records and the politics of C86 jangle pop, micro-science and more.

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Ex Guns N' Roses/Poison manager and OG Pawn Star Howie Hubberman comes on to talk about LA in the 1980's, antiquing, Hair Metal, Power Ballads, doing 1000 pushups a day while battling cancer, Slash’s Appetite for Destruction guitar, weird music industry shenanigans, the mafia, mud wresting competitions in the valley, hustling, and more. “There’s more vehicles, but less with actual engines in them” PRACTICAL stuff, also hilarious…topping off the interview series

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...on LARPing with artists Maggie Dunlap and Ben Werther and his recent show When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me A Song documenting mock high stakes environments of Military Simulation (MilSim) culture.

Other topics: identity construction and the fraying of the American cultural fabric, the anonymous 14th century Christian mystical text The Cloud Of Unknowing, total sculpture, non pedantic art, soft black stars, the end of intellectuals and words, readymades, LARPing as a luxury commodity item, Murderbilia, the BTK killer, fandoms forming around depravity, True Crime as female MilSim, Kantian ethics, desire for martyrdom, Davey Crockett, Neo Suprematism, why Country Music is reaching peak popularity, hair metal, The South and the east coast as The Big Other, Mike Kelley's stuffed animals from a the perspective of a child, Sam Hyde's 'active shooter' phenomenon, James Bridle, Borges, Joseph Beuys.

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2.5 hour rundown of one of the worlds most treasured resources—the Internet Archive—with digital archive legend Jason Scott of Internet Archive. We go in on the ins and outs of the collection and why preserving pre-online digital media matters now more than ever

We discuss ripping VHS tapes of Tuvalu in the 1980’s, Rick Prelinger: saving old government films, Brewster Kahle and the foundation of the archive, origins and history of the Wayback Machine, weird fetishes, how sometimes multi millionaires do good things, bankrolling poor art bands and coed sororities, Eastern European hacker magazines, why the Internet Archive is not a front, company housing, preserving offline digital culture, the cost of lost memory, dealing with forged documents, procuring and authenticating 17th century manuscripts, the repair manual library, Argentinian political radio stations, The Wave (1981), why censorship is bad: the non rage-farming perspective, "Agnostic Ingestion", crappy playbooks on how to whip people up into a frenzy, thought leaders, running from past, technical issues of preserving software, Library of Congress, 4000 3-4 hour mixes of Brazilian Dance music, ‘the heroin of online life’, countercultural house organs, + much more...very inspiring and fun convo

Me and⁠ Ben Kellog⁠ speak with writer/director Ben Hopkins (Inside (2023) w/ Willem Dafoe, Simon Magus, Lost in Karastan) on dialogue-free scripts, armageddon, and more

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Interview with Corin Johnson on the unveiling of his pink marble sculpture of Lawrence (Felt, Mozart Estate) in the Fitzrovia Chapel in London and his fascinating upbringing in the Spiritualist Church. 

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Emmalea Russo is back to analyze the new Byung Chul Han book "In Praise of Inactivity", the 2024 content creator exodus, ethereal tiredness, and more  

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