To begin the fourth season, Ari and I reconnect to talk about her foray into game development and programming. Part of the discussion turns towards the nature of videogame creation in recent years as the inventing of addictive mechanisms to increase playtime. We discuss how these design components have drawn criticism and regulation in several countries as well as how the content of videogames can become important as it comes closer to approximating the real world.

Recorded December 3, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

Two days before the release of BOOSMOBIL, Timothy Bright returns for a bonus episode to shed light on the changes and future of his discography. We also talk about casinos, Tobey Maguire in Spiderman, Jordan Peele films, and more. Some other notable topics also include the making of BOOSMOBIL with production by Autumn Boy, the woes of customer service work culture, and the shortcomings of Los Angeles as a music capital.

Recorded December 15, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

In this season finale, I have a casual conversation with several Industry Plant coworkers about a variety of games, Wikipedia donations, and the derivative nature of culture while mispronouncing "simulacra" at least five times.

Recorded December 2, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

Much of the media today borrows from and exhausts previously successful tropes of the past. Dr. Jeanne Ewert returns to continue the conversation about the characteristics missing from much of modern American film and television production, namely narratives that push us beyond our comfort zones and forces us to consider the traditional boundaries of video medium. The implications of anonymous writing and the use of pseudonyms in literature and social media posts are also discussed at length.

Recorded November 14, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

The topic of behaviorism has been brought up on several occasions, but this episode provided an opportunity to explore it more fully. Radical behaviorism provides a fresh (and often misunderstood) way to examine the problems of the present day on broad and individual scales. Dr. Jesse Dallery is a clinical psychologist and professor of behavior analysis at the University of Florida. He currently researches and develops technology-based approaches to promote healthy behaviors. Outside of research and clinical work, Dr. Dallery is also interested in the philosophy that underlies behavioral science and directions for its use in contemporary society.

Recorded November 4, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

I do not often cave into requests for the podcast, but in-person and digitally I was asked to speak on several topics that I've brought up in the past. Monologuing might not be for me, but for this episode my performance will have to do.

Recorded October 16, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

Finnian Hourihan, renowned aesthetician and game theorist, returns to discuss pertinent topics such as meta-moments in videogames, the tutorial of Jet Set Radio, and more.

Recorded September 29, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

Mia returns for an interesting discussion that touches on the glamorization and inaccessibility of fashion and common conceptualizations of substance use in American society.

Recorded September 5, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

Who said 10,000 hours of experience was necessary to run a podcast? Joseph returns to discuss solipsism, the origins of the podcast, The Matrix, and behaviorism. A freestyle debate about determinism and the human ability to know is also contained herein.

Recorded July 23, 2021 @ Industry Plant®

In the first episode of the new season, Dr. Louis Ritz discusses several topics that transcend the more material topics this podcast sometimes emphasizes. Of particular interest are dialogues on how we can view ourselves within the larger universe and where consciousness comes from.

Recorded July 16, 2021 @ Industry Plant®