x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

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.

technology

All Episodes

10:22

The Workshop Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/08/03

The Workshop Episode: A Realization and Realignment, What I Specifically Do, The Joy of Sharing and Streaming, The Lessons and Conversations, My Three Potential Careers (And the One I Chose), Workshops, Planting Seeds. Some ideas on where I might go next, as well as a look back on where I might have headed.

en

15:29

The Process Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/07/16

The Process Episode: Expert or Expert on Time, The Rush of a New Project, Determining What Is Best, How I Find a Place, The Relationship of Time to Work, Why Do All Of This, A Relay Race or a Finish Line, The Process That I Believe In. Some thoughts on how I do things, the rules I follow, the pitfalls people fall into, what it's all for. It might not help anyone, but I hope it does, a little bit.

en

17:46

The 2000 New Games Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/07/12

The 2000 New Games Episode: A Fundamental Question, A New Spin on an Old Project, The Emularity, You Have to Ask MAME, 2000 Games, Slot Machines, Secret Buttons, Mahjong, Old Favorites, The Heart and Soul of an Arcade Drive, A Magic Moment That Never Ends. Recorded on the event on adding roughly 1,800 new arcade machines to the Internet Archive, and the process that goes behind it. I mention that only about 10 people probably understand how it all happens, and while this episode doesn't increase

en

14:41

The Anime Fansub Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/07/09

The Anime Fansub Episode: Wondering How I Got Here, VHS, Mechanisms, A Sudden Offer, 700 Tapes, The Source of the Source of the Source, Asking the Experts, What is Anime Fansubs, Where We Are, My Strange Little Corner. A tale of how https://archive.org/details/fansubmarine has come to be.

en

12:34

The Starting Memory Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/07/05

The Starting Memory Episode: Messing Around With Yet Another Phone Conference, A Flash of Memory, Supermarket, Rented and Unusual Machines, A Tester, Finding A Place to Stand, The Realization and the Starting Moment. Plus: Thanks for 150 Episodes. 150 episodes are a lot. I wouldn't have imagined I'd be spending years recording these memories, so I thought I'd share one of my very first.

en

14:14

The Patrick O'Malley Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/07/01

The Patrick O'Malley Episode: A Wind-Down of Focus, NE.JOBS, RAID Interview, 30 Days of Consultancy, Debt Repayment, Life Under Patrick O'Malley, The Key Jab, The Sardonic Hit, A Later Consultancy. More Testimonies, Less Obituaries. Pat O'Malley's Website is at http://patrickomalley.com/.

en

16:49

The Cancellation Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/06/28

The Cancellation Episode: Psygnosis Dreams, A Ship's Tunnel, Nintendo's Limits, Lost Between the Cracks, Infocom's Game Ideas, The Other Destiny, A Lifetime of Cancellations, Our Sine Wave. Also: A Plea for a File Folder. An episode about games, ideas, and other works that never made it off the drawing board, and some level of solace that this was the case.

en

18:20

The Toorcamp 2009 Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/06/25

The Toorcamp 2009 Episode: Everyone Tried, A Dream of CCCamp and Burning Man, Quaint Toorcon, I Was In, Silica, Missile Silos, Emmanuel, Two Kinds of People, Not Allowed, My Scariest Tour, The Police, Goodbye, I Can't Attend. My memories, hazed over 10 years, of Toorcamp 2009. Dedicated to Dan Kaminsky, who attended the camp and who I enjoyed all the time I ever got with him.

en

12:07

The Clothes Horse Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/06/23

The Clothes Horse Episode: A Terrible Teacher, The Boot, A Plain Chain Childhood, Cow Suits and Public Trots, The Inflection Hat, The Clothes I seek, An Outfit As Half the Introduction, The Substance, A Bad Teacher's Lesson. An overview of the fact I dress exotically, some of where that comes from, and a life lesson.

en

13:09

The Vintage Font Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/05/19

The Vintage Font: A Festival of Windows, Working Through Boxes, The Emotions and Feelings of Fonts, 3279-BIOS-Tandy, The Lineage of Vintage Fonts, Settling a Question By Asking the Source, Our Closing Window. Some musings on fonts on the occasion of downloading and using a variety of vintage fonts I've picked up online.

en

06:42

The Absence of Light Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/05/12

The Absence of Light Episode. Upon an anniversary.

en

16:52

The Shadow GET LAMP Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/05/05

The Shadow GET LAMP Episode: Talking Head Criticism, The Intention of BBS Documentary, Two Terrible GET LAMP Choices, The Choice Made, The Choice Avoided, A Delight for A Couple Dozen People, The Boundaries of Infinite Creation. Also: No More Plastic Disc Salesman. GET LAMP can be had for free at this URL: https://archive.org/details/GET_LAMP_The_Text_Adventure_Documentary

en

13:27

The Audio Lot Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/05/01

The Audio Lot Episode: A Craigslist Find, Everyone Comes Together, Eight Thousand Dollars, The Haul, The Cataloging, The Life of Mark Pines, A Future to Live Forever. An episode about a haul out of Connecticut that I got to play a minor part in, and which represents one of the reasons we all like to do this work. It'll be months before this bears fruit, but the results will be truly enjoyable.

en

10:02

The Morning Scans Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/04/28

The Morning Scans Episode: A Delight When I Wake Up, DPI and Depth, The Bad Old Days, The Best of Now, 2 millimeters, The Improvements, A Truly Infinite Task, A Mostly Wonderful Time, A Job Perk You Can Share. An appreciation for what we have, and yet another invitation to visit.

en

12:19

The Whimsical Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/04/24

The Whimsical Episode: A Never-Found GET LAMP Feature, The Importance of Whimsy and Extra Effort, ANSI Art, A Very Loud Flap, 100 Years Ago, 100 Years from Now, Tossing Embers from a Moving Train. The 100-Year Traveler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Soames The 100-Year Easter Egg: Trials Fusion: https://www.polygon.com/2015/6/12/8771657/report-trials-evolution-riddle-solved

en

14:05

The Tascam Portastudio Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/04/21

The Tascam Portastudio Episode: All the Access in the World, A High School Band, Music and Sound, The Portastudio, Multitrack Recording, Control of Time, 2 Albums and Singles, A Quiet Drifting Away. Also: An Actor to Remember a Friend. The music Jeremy and I did continues to have a page with links to many of the songs we made on the Tascam: http://www.cow.net/bis/

en

14:46

The Summer Romance Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/04/18

The Summer Romance Episode: Visitation, Summer, Neighborhood, Patio, Atari, A Unicorn, Artwork, Dreams, Every Day, Dinner, A Handshake. A tale of a summer romance long ago. The absolute best book on the artwork of Atari and both the people behind it and capturing the loveliness of it all is "The Art of Atari" by Tim Lapetino. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Tim-Lapetino/dp/1524101036

en

12:03

The Monk and the Sherpa

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/03/07

The Monk and the Sherpa: 40 Years with Chris Orcutt, Our Divergent Paths, The Focus, My Carnival, The Bedrock, Tales of Long-Term Friendship, Console Games, New Eyes, A Journey. Chris has a blog at https://orcutt.net/weblog/blog/ where he posts something like 3-4 times a year. If you want to get hit with a novelette every season, this is the blog for you. Naturally, his books are all for sale: https://orcutt.net/weblog/buy-books/

en

17:56

The Buried Source Treasure Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/03/03

The Buried Source Treasure Episode: An Ocean of Material. The Hidden Treasures. The Infocom Source Code. The As-Yet Undiscovered Dragon Hoard. The Wonder of These Offers. Drop Them Off, Run Away. Spells in a Cabinet. My historical source collection on Github: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories The collection of game source at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gamesourcecode

en

12:04

The Left Arm Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2021/02/28

The Left Arm Episode: Medical Malady, Shakespeare in the Park, Saxophone Guy, Weird Inflatable Couch, A Minor But Not Minor Injury, Another Arm Injury, My Limits, How I Will Be Found. A rumination on my medical limits and physical changes with age.

en

355 results

Similar Podcasts

Lead With AI

Tamara Nall

Linux in the Ham Shack

Black Sparrow Media

Data Engineering Podcast

Tobias Macey

Eye On A.I.

Craig S. Smith

Reflections

Livewire Labs