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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

16:43

The Atlantic Festival Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/12/05

The Atlantic Festival Episode: A Very Long Drive, A Quid Pro Quo, Getting Back on the Horse, The Real Staff, Late Arrival, Rehearsals and Clarifications, Booties, A Short Relief, Out The Door, Respect, Twitter Spaces, Money and Time, A Turning Away, An Appreciation. About my presentation and appearance at Atlantic Festival 2022 and how it all happened. My short presentation is on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=j9YQUo3dUvg

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14:50

The Stress Management Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/12/02

The Stress Management Episode: Recognizing Stress, How Fast Things Change, Mitigating Responsibility, My Air Travel Issue, Your Place in Time, Rarity And Prototype, A Track From and Into Fog. A hopefully-helpful essay on stress, and how to do your best to avoid the pressure when faced with it. I'm answering the question because it comes up a lot. If you have other questions you want me to answer in this fashion, hit me up.

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11:55

The Luna City Memory Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/28

The Luna City Memory Episode: Vintage Quarters, The Vector Dream, The Rise of Luna City, The Family Days and Personal Visits, The True Artistry of Luna City, The Downfall, The Power of Luna City's Memory. I've discussed Luna City and Vector Dream before, but I wanted to touch on how important it stands, even as a memory, to so many people and how inspiring it is to have been this effective at its intentions, looking back across years. Much love to Peter Hirschberg.

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12:24

The Longest Nap Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/24

The Longest Nap Episode: Arriving for Thanksgiving, The Nap, A Sleeping Beast, Why Was I So Tired, A Balance at Work But Also Overbalanced, Pushing So Hard, The Riptide. Also: A Stood-Up Date. Have you ever had a nap so epic you remember it 20 years later? Or make a podcast episode about the philosophy behind it?

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15:07

The Transient Hardware Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/21

The Transient Hardware Episode: A Prayer, A Realization, The First Openings, A Deeper and Deeper Misunderstanding, Two Technical Friends, Occasional Upgrades, A Different Person, Each Machine, And Now, A Finished Task. A rumination on me and my relationship to computers, especially hardware, as a break from tackling a short-lived card installation program. (I finished recording, went back, and it was all working properly.) Sometimes, you really do just need a break.

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13:24

The HOPE Transplant Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/18

The HOPE Transplant Episode: Going to HOPE 2022, A Sketch History of 2600 and HOPE, Hacker Cons, Podium Drink, Hotel Pennsylvania, St. John's, A Good Experience, My Only Hacker Con, The Foundation. Some thoughts on attending HOPE 2022 in St. John's University in Queens NY and how happy I am they're keeping the events going. There was a presentation I gave and I'll link to the talk when it comes up.

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12:33

The Rock Tapes Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/14

The Rock Tapes Episode: A Link To An Auction, The Results of the Victory, Digitizing VHS Tapes, Bootleg Culture, Not a Phone in Sight, The Purpose of a Bootleg, The Easy Process, The Endless Music Ahead. You can enjoy the Diamondhead collection here as it grows: https://archive.org/details/diamondheadtapes

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14:16

The Return of TEXTFILES.COM Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/11

The Return of TEXTFILES.COM Episode: A Problem Worse Than Thought, Remote Work, Saint Spencer, I Was Once Spencer, Replacing The Machine, The Overkill Beast, The Specs, Fixes and Improvements, SCENE.ORG, Bitsavers, Stone Oakvalley, A New Day for TEXTFILES.COM, Forgotten Love, A Bright Future. It turned out the problem with the TEXTFILES.COM was a bit more than I expected, but luckily, it all got fixed in the end. Here's the process and the progress, and what got better. TEXTFILES.COM is at

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15:26

The Inside Out Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/11/07

The Inside Out Episode: A Long Thought in a World of Quick Takes, Growing Up Online, The Inside Out Problem, Solutions If Any, Infinite Friction, A Stunning Plan, My Own Private Inside Out. A particularly thorny and weird consideration I've been mulling out for years, trotted out into a podcast for others to finally here. As downer as it sounds, I'm doing quite fine.

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15:37

The TEXTFILES.COM Downtime Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/08/29

The TEXTFILES.COM Downtime Episode: A Strange Voicemail, E-mails, Downtime!, Considering Loss, Host Loyalty, A Simple Job, Bringing it Back, a Momentary Skip, The Meaning of It All. Plus: Ignore the Letters An article on the occasion of the unexpected downtime of TEXTFILES.COM. Here is an interesting situation for the Patreon backers of the podcast - the machine is actually still down. After editing the episode, I discovered catastrophic disk errors and while the machine can come "back", the disk

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18:35

The Secrets From The Future Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/08/08

The Secrets From The Future Episode: Fun But What About Projects, Faces in AI, MC Frontalot, Damien Hess, Focus and Exacting, A Midjourney Music Video, Key Phrases, Banned Words, Interesting Limits, Shipping to Frontalot, A Final Work, The Fake First. Also: QUESTION BEDTIME. The tale of using my Midjourney account to illustrate an MC Frontalot song. The result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVm8oZx9WSM Images from the MC Frontalot video:

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19:12

The Midjourney Descent Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/08/01

The Midjourney Descent Episode: Where It All Goes Wrong, The First Few Notes, What We've Already Changed, What Is Coming, Nightmares and A Shifting Lens, The Role of the Artist, Drawing People Wrong, What Art in Prompts. What goes up, must come down - some thoughts on what Midjourney and products like it could bring to the world, and some stirred memories long ago of what art even has been to me. This is the second of three episodes about Midjourney.

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16:01

The Midjourney Ascent Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/07/25

The Midjourney Ascent Episode: Not a Pitch, A Long Forgotten Feeling, Text to Image in A Few Sentences, The Moment of Power, The Sharing of Friends, The Excitement, A Small Chat, A Hope For More Moments. An introduction to the Text to Image generator MidJourney which I've been spending some time playing with, getting in while the getting is good, before it all comes crashing down. This is the first of three episodes about the situation.

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16:03

The Basquiat Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/07/18

The Basquiat Episode: Visiting the Museum, The Phases and Rooms, The Nightclub and Giftshop, Lessons Learned, What is the Purpose, Ice Cream Machine, Inspiration from Logistics, A Strange Lesson Learned, The Real Work of Art. Some thoughts after walking through an exhibit of the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988).

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29:54

Pop.

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/07/15

A Chat with Dad.

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16:16

The Prank Call Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/07/13

The Prank Call Episode: An Early Call, The Disappointed Monk, Phones and BBSes as Refuge, Learning Voice Skills, An Eternal Battlefield, The Landline Stare, Middle Distance, Holding Your Own, A Breakdown Of The Disappointing Challenger, Inviting The World to Prank, A Welcome Second Prank Call. A rumination on prank calling and the unspoken rules within, as well as why people know my number. Some time ago, I compiled the many hours of recorded prank calls people had uploaded to the Internet Archive,

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19:01

The U-Matic Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/07/11

The U-Matic Episode: A Brand New Brand Old Format, The Tapes of Mark Pines, Broadcast Quality, Working But Not Working, A Street Corner Transaction, The First Steps, Success, The Unintended Bought Pain, Integrating U-Matic, A Cave of Wires. Some thoughts on the event of the reception of a U-Matic tape machine into my workflow and the near-miraculous situation that I haven't broken it yet.

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13:56

The Boundary Check Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/06/13

The Boundary Check Episode: Why I Like Frameworks, Limits, The Edge of What I Thought Computers Could Do, ASCII and High Code, Magic Tricks, A Non-Existent Friend, Custom Sprites and Characters, Frames, Boxes, Music, Art, Being Comfortable In The Box, Being Aware of the Box, Finding a New Box. Also: Explaining the NES. Some ruminations of how much I really fall into boundaries and limits rather than trying to constantly upend structure, and where that might come from. I do still dream of how to do

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13:13

The Limited Time Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/06/06

The Limited Time Episode: Under the Weather, Goals, Plans, Assessments, Considerations. Ends Are Always Messy, Roller Coaster Lifespans, Plans, Priorities and the Legend of Cheese Hands. A quick self-assessment of priorities and goals in life; an affirmation what has happened and what will happen.

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13:13

The WJST Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2022/05/30

The WJST Episode: Airchecks, Mike Schweitzer, Special Days, Radio Transition, The Discovery of WJST, Songs in the Air, Rubber Tubes, Reel to Reels, Baking, Digitization, The Miracle Flight of Jet Radio Audio, Jet Music Everywhere. And: Justifying The App. Some discussion of WJST radio, a collection of easy listening for the air, collected and digitized and listenable right now at https://archive.org/details/chriscromwelltapes as well as many related materials from the same group. The Mike Schweizer

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