Overview

Alan is going through the stuff in his parents house and it leads to a great discussion on visiting the past. This could be through books and video, but new methods like using VR.

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Stephen: Brewer here. I think I almost chose that one too. I’ve got that one on my list.

[00:00:08] Alan: that’s I’m. I’m just back from a long time in California. I was there for the longest time. My I mentioned before, four listeners joining late. My father passed away in February. My mom is in a memory care facility.

I go out there once a month to visit with her and make sure she knows that she’s loved. We also have been working on the house. They had a beautiful house in an area called Heney Hills and Oceanside, and they had, they were, they are, or were 89. So they have a lifetimes accumulation of stuff.

And I take, after my parents, they have, they had lots of books. They had a house filled with interesting stuff. And unfortunately the exercise of getting ready to maybe sell the house is, are we gonna sell some things? We who’s gonna take what home. We actually had the brothers together for the first time in months.

And we did the divvy two days ago, we actually, I had taken pictures of all kinds of stuff in the house and posted them, sent them up to everybody. So everybody could go through and say, Of all the paintings. These are the ones that I want of all the paintings, sculpture China books music, all that kind of stuff.

The reason that I’m, presenting the library today is because my dad had tons of stuff and I guess a little bit like me eclectic taste. He wasn’t just a science fiction fan. He had science, he had war history. He has had he loved maps. And so has a whole bunch of Atlas and geography and geology books.

I know they’re very different, but his taste ran to both and the heartbreaking thing is I already have grown up. I got lots of books. I took. So good thing about, how my brothers worked it out is that we are different enough that there was hardly any contention, there wasn’t, oh, everybody wants the magic coffee pot or whatever else it might be.

So I have their insights, the pred Botanica and by have meaning. We had to actually rent containers. We had to do research into the U box and the pod and the Zippy shell and all that kind of stuff, and find out who moves to Bloomington where my brother is and who moves to where I am. My older brother didn’t want that much cuz he just moved to a smaller house in Florida and is not looking to outc crowd himself.

You know what I mean? But like I’m really to. Because I really want the encyclopedia. Botanica it’s a very cool thing. There’s a book called the, no, it all, that where a guy actually read it from start to finish and then to be the smartest man in the world, that kind of thing.

These are the encyclopedia. One of the first things my parents bought when we were young was the EB.