College protests... (meaningful or lame?)... broken guitars... trust in low-paid workers... soldier payroll hacks... Girl Scouts banned book nooks... AI twins... and much to exclaim about.

Sort of Safe For Work, Not Safe for Home (if your kids are around).

Live(ish) from the montañas of Montana, another misadventure with your hosts Flotsam and Jetsam. This week, a full hour (sorry, maybe?) of the usual...

On the docket:

• Adorable Little Airport Ladies
• Parqhorses
• Pickle Rick Bomb Balloons
• Aid & TikTok
• Industrialized digital exploitation
• Google on going faster
• Rules and regs of brawling in the North
• Dennett v. Bukowski
• And the newest product from the Radio Rodeo Boys, "Crusties for Povvos"

And lastly, a reminder: You're made of stardust, on a flat earth, in a round galaxy. Or maybe it's the other way around? Either way, we'll see you out there.

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A good one.

This week we delve into Doom Loops in cities... celebrate German janitorial staff smuggling art onto walls of bourgeois (Ace-style) galleries... talk Asian alliances and paying more attention to nuclear armed powers with fragile governments... we're cocaining our way through the Caribbean toward Yorkshire Burritos as we talk about how to address immunity to change and the gobbledygook of tech start-up language. All while trying to hold two ideas in our head at the same time.

Adultery may soon be legal in NY... pig kidneys into humans and books with human skin covers... what "deconfliction" means in a war zone ... lethal Cessnas and beards and hipster mustaches in the military, including ultra-orthodox ones... Ace and Perri being stared at in London, but loved by cabbies... nobody cares about gay marriage (and that's a good thing) but we should care that we almost all got hacked... Richmond driving (that's a bad thing) and a reminder that Easter is a moveable feast it "transitions" according to the cycles of the moon.

This one's probably not safe for home if the kids are around.

This week, "live" from a brutalist castle with the rocket scientists...

Scott apologizes to Ryan Gosling.... how interagency collaboration probably saved lives on a bridge in Baltimore... doubling down on the art of just hanging out with no agenda... success in running computers with only our minds (is this more transformative than AI?)... security clampdowns in Hong Kong - will we see an expat evacuation?

This week's Involuntary Sponsor - Sly Clyde Cider

This week...

Suitcase curling, cheese, Trtls, middle seats, marijuana rats and marijuana, invisible nukes, the art of doing nothing, and other things.

PS Scott was wrong about the Oscars. He’ll say sorry next week. But he’s still angry about Ken.

This week we wander around the subjects of:

• Little Ace.
• Doubling the black population of Montana.
• "Prompt Engineering as a new career option.
• Roe vs Wade driving the French constitution.
• AI for protection of children.
• What is World Class (through motorcycle maintenance).
• German leaky lines.
• Non-obligatory running.
• What's too political?
• A little gratitude for the women that dominate our world.

• Lingerie coffee shops.
• Scott looks ridiculous in a trucker hat, but has joined the parole board.
• AT&T goes dead, then makes things worse.
• Does 40% count?
• Re-Elect Ace For Mayor.
• Clicky iPhones.
• Toxic empathy.
• When a bench is a couch.
• Self-Immolation at protest.
• Issues with Sinek and wooly shoes.
• Ace does Girl Dinners.

This is a Sarah McLachlan appreciation episode, among other things.

Said "Other Things":

• Locally roasted, small-batch Nespresso
• Billion $ (Power) Women
• In an era when we're supposed to care about everything, what gets relegated to the Island of I Don't Give a Shit?
• Our Short-Lived "Retail" Segment: Buc ee's, Amazon Cars, Dollar General Broccoli, & Party Towers.
• Is LA on the road to being the city of the future (again)?
• Scott as janitor, Ace as accountant, neither cool.

*cues "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan*