Heron starts the show talking about five thousand or so unique IPs downloading the show. Lorraine asks a question about simulation and Gaia. Chris Abbott's questions are revisited. Tom has been listening to radical commentators via YouTube. Heron wants to believe Sheldrake. What about those nominal educational institutions? Lorraine wants to know the wheres and hows of artificial life. Marie offers a question on architecture. Tom raises the idea that teenagers who run away may have a good reason. (Editorial note: Tom is off by a factor of ten: between 1.6 and 2.8 million US youths ran away in 2012.) Nelson Mandela: reasonable dude? Lorraine questions transcendence. Tom raps on not quite simmered topics. Tom makes a plea to the Stone Ape listeners in the continental US that also like old cats. Tom offers the natural periodicity of work. Is Iraq the perfect society for engineers? It isn't easy to get people to listen. They revisit Heron's boyhood home. Heron gets preachy.

Tom talks with Eric Burton about Critterdrug. Tom references Eric's work through 68.

Lorraine has provided the questions this evening. Tom confesses his war on lip smacking. Heron rolls out his most disappointing comets of all time. Without a good internet connection, Heron is lost. Squish vs the matrix for intimacy? They rap about how long they can inhabit the same monkey. Lorraine gets them discussing vertebrates. Tom hasn't been sleeping - has he been sub-linguistic? Somehow they start arguing about tribal cultural myths. Tom raps on Joe Rogan and Lorenzo Hagerty's recording. Tom has been watching and listening to the Comic Book Men as a form to introduce the masses to podcasts. Is Heron cute? This enters a troubled conversation over gender differences. Lorraine asks about technology responsibility. Tom responds to a question on currency and the game. Heron reflects on post-life-insurance life. Tom visited Heron's alma mater for Thanksgiving. Heron run through his supplements. Tom raps on half-baked topics starting with life in a UK village. This gives Heron the perfect forum to conclude the show.

Heron's actually been going to the Facebook page. Thanks to the listeners promoting the show. Tom gives a critical review on Heron's appearance on KMO's Vault podcast. They rap on the occult. Chris Abbott re-asks a question. Should we feel good about living in a first world country? They return to the format of the five stupidities. What about those rascally language monkeys? Heron offers a long narrative and Tom has a historical solution. Is doing nothing part of the revolution? They explore nudity and deconstructing the system. Tom must be stopped.

Heron likes the Stone Ape format. Heron needs a technological communication update. Tom digs deeper into damn skippy. Tom gives an account of early Twitter interacting with Google. Tom recommends a documentary on J. D. Salinger and talks about publish's last hurrah. They wander through a request by Mats to produce When the Flowers Died, involving Tom reliving his drive to Silicon Valley and a drive around Tasmania. Tom draws the conversation to buying and owning houses. They rap on cannabis dispensaries. Mats gets them going on the justice system. They conclude on a familiar theme and a question for the future from Toni Ryan.

Heron asks about Tom's cat. Tom kicks off the show with a Marie Camacho question to each host. Tom moves from mail order shirts to California law. Tom offers part three of what we should do relating to currency. Let's offer multiple kinds of currency to effect different actions. Tom has been exploring hillbilly currency. YouTube stores all your public memories. Will computation equal biology? In the Santa Cruz Mountains biology has the upper hand. Chris Abbott has a question about LM conflict. From Tom's new television to buying an island presents an extreme transversing rap. Heron had a book from Tom. Tom doesn't know if he trusts Heron's taste in films. Tom returns to the failing of the 1960s social change. Heron may sound like a Constitutionalist to some. Heron wonders why suicide isn't more prevalent. Never commit a crime while writing your name in cement. Heron gets lost. Popcorn gives the blueprint. Tom is not prescribing the end.

Heron is faking it or perhaps is fracking it. Tom offers another thing that needs to change. We have computers so we don't need politicians. Tom provides a critical review of his Conscious in the Cloud series. Heron likes his tomatoes tasty. Lorraine asks a question about biological intelligence versus artificial intelligence. Andrew asks a question about Heron's past year. Tom talks about finding folks with complimentary skills. They jam on ducks and freeways. Heron wants to be cut up and fed to vultures. Tom recaps the premise of When the Flowers Died, a short story he wrote in his late teens. It was critical of the popular 1960s for not understanding inclusion or how exclusionary philosophies empower other groups. Somehow they wander into pimp culture. Heron becomes irritated at their scheduled break and starts talking about glasses. They compare Halloween costumes and chain diners. Heron talks about his four days in Vegas. Tom gives an account of prostitution in Nevada. Heron talks about his train set. Tom explores when engineering is just right and he's a dope loser. Somehow they end up talking about Carrot Top. Tom has a chuckle about Kickstarter. Tom struggles to find intellectual movements that aren't astroturf. Tom recommends Bad Grandpa. They talk about writing over recent history.

Tom Barbalet presents the final talk at Conscious in the Cloud in response to the prior Conscious in the Cloud talk with Larry Yaeger.

Heron and Tom rap on Russell Brand. Tom raises the issue of double tap drone strikes and why young folks need to be mentored. The NSA should have done the health care website. Heron brings up room spinning experiences. Tom raises the work-a-day world versus the Amazonian folk. Joe the Drummer's question is finally asked. Tom wonders when stalking stories are reasonable and what it is like to live in the middle of no-where. Tom notes they have both missed the easy life through YouTube. Heron has a lot of recordings he's yet to put out. Tom drags Heron away from being hacked to death to explore vinyl records. Tom quizzed Heron what popular music does for him. Heron was once religious about Saturday Night. Tom returns to second hand books. Conscious in the Cloud may be changing its form. Tom provides a brief history of Biota. (Editorial note: Tom broke his streak following the recording, 59 days.) Tom raises dreaming with Heron. Heron has been talking to Tom about publishing. Tom explores the future of grocery shopping and a little story about a baked potato. They wander through historical manufacturing. Tom and Heron debate World War II.

Heron kicks off the show with some basics. Tom has one question for President Obama but not for his local Congresswoman. Tom provides a portrait of the insanity of health care in the US. Heron wants to know more about Tom's eyes. Tom found Heron's topic on child labor. Tom frames some parameters for listener submitted questions and they reflect that maybe they have just lampooned the listeners who have submitted questions previously. William Gibson just isn't weird enough for Tom. Forget the future. If language machines have motives where do these exist? Tom digresses into the authoritarian language machine. What role does emotions have in the language machine? Heron and Tom stumble through this question. Tom wants the Heron Stone lifestyle. Tom just can't be trailer park intelligentsia or hand-porn king. Tom doesn't want the listeners checking out Motor Club of America on YouTube. Tom asks why aren't those who're against it calling it the Unaffordable Care Act or Obama-Doesn't-Care? Tom has put his money where his mouth is with a particular topic. If you don't have your stuff together, don't try to meet Tom to talk about stuff. Tom provides an update associated with the comic book project. Heron plans on expanding his year off. Tom explores why Heron doesn't walk through the redwoods anymore.