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Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn"t know where we"re ending up at the end.

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All Episodes

17:25

The Data Dirigibles Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/10/02

The Data Dirigibles Episode: Prehistoric TEXTFILES.COM, The Cry of the Leech, TEXTFILES.COM Comes to Pass, Downloading Archives, Downloading More Archives, Kilo Mega Giga Tera, TEXTFILES TIME CAPSULE, What Persists, The Unpretty But Surviving Clump, Slash Internetarchive, Slash Internet, Software Capsules, Ace and I Ride High An episode about my idea that the future is just massive balls of data, floating airships of content that float slowly through our virtual sky. Let's see if I'm right

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14:42

The ScanTailor Dance Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/09/25

The ScanTailor Dance Episode: A Small Project That Is Huge, The Endless Pages, Crop and Rotate, The Search for an Application, Best and Abandoned (and Best and Worst), The Experience of ScanTailor Advanced, The Missing Mentor, Before Applications, The Dance of Software Destiny. I have learned way too much about ScanTailor in a few days, and I thought I'd share how it felt before my brain tells me it's not good to revisit dark passages of memory and I forget. Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is

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15:26

The Monotony Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/09/18

The Monotony Episode: My Boring Day, The Crushing of Monotony, How I've Always Adored Repetition, Engagement and Disengagement, Long-Form Information, Temporary Domain Expert, Advice on Handling Monotony, A Web of Friends. Plus: THE ANALYTICS. Some thoughts about handling long form repetition, considering that's all I've been doing since forever and onward forever still. Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is supported by Patreon subscribers. You can check out episodes before anyone else and help

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10:17

The Arcade Documentary Arcade Interview Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/09/11

The Arcade Documentary Arcade Interview Episode: Getting Down to Union Bridge, Eric and Stephanie, Zach, ARCADEDOCUMENTARY.COM, Being The Dream Interview, Always The Last, A Closing Moment. Thoughts as I do an interview for the Arcade Documentary being done by Zach Weddington, "Arcade Dreams" (also called "Arcadia" in some places), which I gave my domain to: https://arcadedocumentary.com Eric and Stephanie run SAVE POINT in Union Bridge. Here's the address: https://savepointmd.square.site/ Jason

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16:47

The Last (?) Computer Shopper Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/09/04

The Last (?) Computer Shopper Episode: Drawing The Line, Ups and Downs, My Hot Glue Enemy, Stresses and Delights, BBS List Highlights, The Ever Forever Scanning. Some last big mentions of the Computer Shopper scanning project, because otherwise this becomes a series of episodes about Computer Shopper and that's not very enjoyable for anyone. The Computer Shoppers are growing here: https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper I expect to do 2 a week. (Maybe more but it's really a tough process.)

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13:21

The Video Content Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/08/28

The Video Content Episode: What Is Even On Video; Commerical Tapes, Recordings of Individuals and Events, Television, The Meaning, Loss Versus Lossless, 40-Year Delay on a Dream, The True Nature of Television, The Hope of Doing It Right. A meditation of what video content ends up being, now that I'm several thousand tapes in. Here's hoping I can do a few thousand more! Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is supported by Patreon subscribers. You can check out episodes before anyone else and help me

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15:51

The Amusement Part Defunctland Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/08/21

The Amusement Park Defunctland Episode: Listening to too much Defunctland, Lessons Learned from the Amusement Park Historians, The Unique Situations of Roller Coasters, The Common Threads, The Lessons and Inspirations. A bit of a love letter to Kevin Perjurer's Defunctland series, a youtube series which brings together, especially as time goes on, a really deep and rich overview of very well-researched stories of rides and amusement parks. https://www.youtube.com/@Defunctland Two that represent

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13:57

The Long Drive Hard Drive Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/08/14

The Long Drive Hard Drive Episode: A Common E-mail, An Offer of DVDs, A 800 Mile Drive, The Wawa, Fugue State and Explainer Videos, There and Back Again, The Process. Someone offered me an attic of DVDs. I said yes. And then I drove 800 miles to get them. Here's what that's like. Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is supported by Patreon subscribers. You can check out episodes before anyone else and help me with various bills and debts as they arise by joining up at

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14:45

The Aboveground Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/08/07

The Aboveground Episode: What the Aboveground Means, The Cloak and Cosplay, The Risks Without Risks, Hacker Conferences, The Tech Industry, The Hidden Cost of Underground. Some thoughts on a concept I've been mulling about, regarding "The Aboveground", a cosplay version of being underground used by certain groups, usually for some gain, to bring the delusion of lawlessness and lack of limits, when in fact needing and depending on those limits to succeed. I also made a blog post: The Great

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14:19

The Computer Shopper Aesthetics Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/24

The Computer Shopper Aesthetics Episode: Last Thoughts On the Project, Every Major Step, Considerations of Contrast, Size and Intimidation, Impossible Perfection, Resting Easy. One last set of consideration about all the aspects of the Computer Shopper Scanning Project before I do whatever it is I'm doing 200 times. Finished issues will be here: https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper This podcast is supported by Patreon and other sources. Supporting the podcast helps with Jason's medical debt

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12:03

The Atari Hotel Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/21

The Atari Hotel Episode: The Atari Hotel, Bought and Bought and Bought and Bought, The Concept Drawings, The Drawn-Out Death of Atari, Livery, Hotels, Entropy, Concepts, A Breath of a Seed, The Real Atari Hotel. As of this writing, the Atari Hotels are still being advertised at https://atarihotels.com/ I took photos of my trip through the TWA hotel and the album is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72177720307661452 Photos of the sketched-out Atari Arcade concepts can be seen

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13:44

The Tiger King Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/17

The Tiger King Episode: Finally Watching Tiger King, Spoiler Alert, An Overview of the Three Seasons, Big Cats and Shady Deals, The Spectacle and the Madness, What Kind of Documentary, B-Roll, Too Funny to Fail. An overview of the documentary series "The Tiger King", which has three seasons (eight episodes, five episodes, three episodes) and what it feels like to me, watching it from the point of view of someone who cares about documentaries.

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13:15

The Logistics Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/14

The Logistics Episode: The First Computer Shopper, The Hidden Logistics, The Simplest Part, Hot Glue, Orientation, Wayward Pages, Boxes and Checks, Gaming Alexandria, A Future Stack, The Logistics of Empathy. A recognition of how very little of scanning is scanning, and how hard everything but the scanning is, and how if Logistics does its job, you never once think about it. Thanks to Gaming Alexandria for being part of this project.

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15:38

The Mike Berlyn Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/10

The Mike Berlyn Episode: Mike Berlyn, Memories of Mike, The Greatest Love Story, GET LAMP's Shaky Start, Final Approval. Plus: The Archives. On the loss of Mike Berlyn, some links: The Infocom Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNLWy7rwH4 Mike's Interview Page for GET LAMP: http://www.getlamp.com/cast/20060225berlyn/index.html Mike and Muffy Berlyn Archive: https://archives.museumofplay.org/repositories/3/resources/219

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11:29

The TEXTFILES.COM Machine Good Times Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/07

The TEXTFILES.COM Machine Good Times Episode: A Moment of Reflection, A Previous Moment of Darkness, The Quarter Century of Hosting, A Shifting Window, The Role TEXTFILES.COM Has Played, ARCHIVE.ORG vs. TEXTFILES.COM, a Heartfelt Thank You. Recognition of how the TEXTFILES.COM replacement machine is working so well, and an additional recognition of the context of a hosted machine existing so many years across time in one of the most shaky mediums imaginable.

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16:01

The Unusual Look Back Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/07/03

The Unusual Look Back Episode: Suburban Horse, Warehouse of Broken Dreams, Pennsylvania Pinball, A Mythical Warehouse, Tomb of Arcade, Compuserve Documents, The Nature of Hope, An Infinite Relay Race. A knockaround set of thoughts about things that were only weird when I look back at them. The photos I took of the pile of vintage equipment and software before I was ejected from the facility is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157632915159115

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14:13

The Computer Shopper Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/06/30

The Computer Shopper Episode: A Small Billing Situation, Computer Shopper's Unique Place, The Listings and the Ads, A Happy Life, The Decline and Loss, A Reminder and an Opportunity, Coming Together, Debinding, The First and the Last Scan. A little bit about the comes-out-of-nowhere Computer Shopper scanning project now underway, where I'll be digitizing thousands of pages and materials across the next months out of a multi-hundreds eBay purchase.

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12:48

The Strike Manual Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/06/26

The Strike Manual Episode: The Mother of All Manuals. The Assignment. How Many Broom Strokes. Friends of Friends. The Honored Transcription. After-School Activities. Two Weeks Later. A Moment to Make Things Right. A tale told out of school of the best typing assignment I never completed.

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12:47

The Momentary Fall And Empire of Paper Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/06/23

The Momentary Fall And Empire of Paper Episode: A Sudden End For a Phone, Bits of Paper, The Units of Communication, Unexpected Archives, The Wonder of That Which Remains, Digitization and Gatekeeping, Glory and Wonder, A Catalyst or a Threat, The Joys of Every Day. A small reverie on the aspects of digitization and how wonderous it was that things worked out like they did in the 20th century for the digitization by the 21st. Plus: A Eulogy for the phone I've had all through this podcast, who held

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11:39

The Cassette Digitizer Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2023/06/19

The Cassette Digitizer Episode: Building a Tascam 122 Mk III, The Era of Cassettes, Previous Attempts, Why Cassettes Are Important, My Audio Era Before the Video One, Where The Process Is, The Future Paths, The Joy Of The Cassette Pile. I am finally moving on to digitizing audio cassettes at high quality! Here's some of my thoughts on that. One of the main destinations will be this collection: https://archive.org/details/cassettetaperecordings

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