On this show, I play one of our traditional songs from Jill Sobule; boom mikes are still attached to things; Xmas gets different as your children age; we froze our nuggets as children; I could have stayed in Chicago; turns out renting second homes by the night is cheaper; sympathies go out to Ken Nelson; Strip Mall Think Tank made me laugh with advice about caring for old relatives; Carry-On is a bad movie but kind of fun in a dumb way; who decides who gets to shout the orders? some people view the world as dangerous and I probably don't do it enough; happy holidays everyone!

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On this show, I play one of our traditional songs from American Heartbreak; home assistant had a bad update right before I really needed it working; check your backups before you need them; your smart home is a real drag when it gets dumb; I can no longer be casual about home assistant updates; I am trying out the Hoarder app but am unsure how to integrate it with Obsidian; I gave the dickheads at Open AI money for the first time; I found the boom mike stand; I sold some of grampa's silver; market timing is not fun; Pi-Hole is keeping many ads away from me; "the big retailers don't want you to have this"; beer ads and cereal ads have a surprisingly similar structure; I don't understand the pyramid scheme of ad-supported mobile games.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 20 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from FEX; turns out cheap meat brings out the crowds; we dropped The Split; we are watching and loving Day of the Jackal and Severance; we are watching and liking Lioness and All Creatures Great and Small and Bad Monkey; we are inexplicably tolerating Dune: Prophecy; the Homicide graphic novel is fantastic; the new Hellblazer series is not fantastic Amazon delivers overnight out in the country now; I do a one year retirement check-in; money is good and sequence of returns has not been a problem; keeping occupied is good; boredom is the dickhead spin on experiencing peacefulness; I don't regret retiring when I did.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 13 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Dungen; autumn is my favorite season; burning brush is fun; I was an indoor kid; Thanksgiving is overrated; my mom worked the Thanksgiving angles; Brazilian steakhouse for the holidays; the AARP cooler is disappointing; I found Steve Tibbetts without even looking hard; I don't care about "buzzy" books; Malcolm Gladwell's voice is anti-meditation; Cory Doctorow wrote his true feelings on Harlan Ellison; I was in the Harlan Ellison Record Collection for years and now I don't give a shit about him; Warren Ellis is a tough talker and I'm ever less impressed with that.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 30 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Billy Treacy and the Scope; all the information is on the task; I am way into Junior Taskmaster; I watch all English language Taskmasters but am not sold on Norway; Three Bean Salad podcast is not for me; I reiterate Slusher's Law of Podcasting; let's make transitions clear for that one dickhead with the bad review; I set up Pi-Hole in my network; I got fiber to my house; the first hour of fiber and Pi-Hole were dicey; I am trying to tidy my house 10 minutes at a time; I am working on Spanish with telenovelas and one page at a time; I am selling grampa stuff one weird coin at a time.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 18 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Amy Ray; I saw the Indigo Girls the night I turned 21; I have neither Halloween nor Xmas spirit; the chiropractor nagged me into buying proper shoes; mean time from buying shoes to covering the in dog food was shockingly short; reality competition shows are truly terrible and all the same; even good reality shows are bad; I am ridiculously excited for Junior Taskmaster; Mike Wozniak is extremely funny; I watched QI and have feelings about it; I hate "first thought theater"; we are getting fiber imminently; I am exploring LibreTime and creating tiny pirate radio stations; I've forgotten that my production workflow is in my control.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 4 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Landon Blood; children in jeopardy make me cry; redefining masculinity; being a parent is a long process of trying to make the next minute happen; people who are spreading FUD about hurricane relief efforts to score political points are the worst people alive; I ended up switching the Nabu Casa supplied remote Home Assistant connection for Tailscale; now that I'm old, my back is falling apart; Scott Edelman has a new podcast and cited me as a competent solo podcaster; it can be hard to sound conversational while talking to yourself; I had to buy myself some ubiquitous carry notebooks; I forgot how A sizes work; A4 paper may have unblocked my zine; Ken Levine's Mount Rushmore of Radio had one broadcaster I liked and three I hated; I bounce off of Tom Scharpling and the Best Show.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 25 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from JD McPherson; my podcasting workflow and process would make no sense to anyone else; I spent a little time in the less devastated part of the Hurricane Helene devastation; I don't understand what is happening with Matt Mullenweg; I am glad to be done with WordPress; I upgraded to Eleventy 3.0.0; I was happy at the Brisbane Lions winning the AFL grand final and even more at the Sydney Swans losing; I haven't earned the right to be happy at Braves success; just because Mastodon is a hippy open thing without an algorithm that doesn't mean obsessing on it is healthy; we won trivia again; I am done with being asked to take surveys; I went my whole career without a direct report.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 6 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Louise Connell; I have already been late to the new school; I read Never Get Angry Again by David J. Lieberman and found it pretty mediocre and barely useful; I still have a Headspace account; we are watching Unforgotten; we gave Taskmaster New Zealand a second chance; the amount of ANZAC content I consume has really increased; this Hyperfixed podcast needing 200k listeners to be viable is madness; I am now listening to two different Homicide: Life on the Street podcasts plus watching the show; I dropped Two Cool Moms podcast for the crazy high ad load; I am listening to a boatload of Homicide: Life on the Street podcasts and rewatching the show; the Amazon Podcast ads talking about how good it is to get podcasts ad free is puzzling.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 28 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard; I very briefly touch on the presidential debate; you can't refute the lies of people whose whole deal is that they lie with impunity; my kid asked to go to a Kansas concert; Setlist.fm helps me decide whether to attend concerts; we watched all of The Morning Show and it made me appreciative I no longer work; jobs are bullshit; the Tim Ferriss blog post about "how to have a successful" podcast is exhausting and only applicable for a very specific type of douchebag; I let my server die and did nothing; I let my tire explode and did nothing; migrating servers and moving house both involve either a lot of prep or transporting a lot of trash; I migrated my old GMail accounts to Proton doing one well and one badly; I am watching the AFL finals and barely understand the finals format; I like when games slowly get unwinnable; I need a favor from an Australian travelling to the USA this fall.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 21 2024.

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