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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

17:35

The Medical and Life Checkup Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/09/14

The Medical and Life Checkup Episode: An Accident With Repercussions, Bounce Back, Two Weeks, Open Inboxes That Never Close, What It's All Been, What Goes On, 100 Hours of Podcast, A Day Grabbed With Two Hands.r Just a little reflection on a post-accident depression and concern which I am now definitively out of.

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20:35

The Mysterious 4AM Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/09/11

The Mysterious 4am: Big Plans for Kansasfest, The Wrong Bar at the Wrong Time, The Mysterious History of 4am, I'm Fine. No car accident is going to stop me from recording an episode! Also, you get to hear my voice modulate differently for slides and video that don't exist. The description for "The Mysterious History of 4am" from the Kansasfest program:| International Cracker of Mystery 4AM is not just a hero, a teacher, an inspiration; they're also an indication of the heights the art of software

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15:09

The Inbox Cornucopia Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/09/08

The Inbox Cornucopia Episode: Appreciating What You Have, Two Arcades Gone, The Moment of Wonder of Incoming Archive, Spam and Vandalism, The Worlds We'll Learn Of, My Favorite Stripes, Stop by the Inbox Today. An episode about my favorite current situation, the mass of incoming materials to the Internet Archive and just enjoying the stream as it goes by. This episode also invites listeners to send me questions and ideas, which I might use for future episode subjects. It's time for the feedback

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12:43

The Novel Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/09/07

The Novel Episode: A Book Never Written, The Plot, A Cleaning to Make Room For The Next Things. Time to make good on my promise of "move ahead or move on", and so here's the plot of a novel I concocted when I was in my 20s that I haven't done anything with in 25 years. It's lacking a lot of details, but it feels good to share and move on. I'll have many other projects in my future to finish.

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12:24

The Three Extraordinary Ordinary Stories

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/09/06

Three Extraordinary Stories Told Ordinarily: Russian Mechanic, Quake Logo Massacre, Nobody Lives Here, Tetris. Three stories about usual outcomes, presented simply. I found the photos we took of the Quake Logo, they're now here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157714912854851 The Tetris: http://cs.brown.edu/news/2000/04/17/tetris/ - strangely, it's been done a couple times since 2000 and the articles always insist on saying it's the "first" time. MIT has also done this sort of

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19:52

The Ultimate BBS List Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/08/15

The Ultimate BBS List Episode: 20 Years of The BBS List, What Got Me Started, The Story Everyone Knows, The Story Less People Know, The Contraption Inside, 1982 not 1983, Philosophy of Complication, Where to Go From Here, The BBS List Forever. An episode about the BBS List collection at BBSLIST.TEXTFILES.COM and what got me going on it. I mentioned a couple other nice information sites. GOT PAPERS? Is the demoscene letter collection. It's at: https://gotpapers.scene.org/ The Sixteen Colors

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17:24

The Winding Conversation Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/08/14

The Winding Conversation Episode: Watchmaking, My Pal Chris Orcutt, Our 40 Years of Talking, A Marathon of Words, Intertwined Lives, Podcast Jason, Chris' Typewriter, 15-50-80, Advice To Turn a Final Chapter Into The Middle Of The Story. Another podcast about my friend Chris Orcutt (https://orcutt.net) and our very long, near-legendary conversations we've had forever, and what that represents and inspires.

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16:45

The Three Stories Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/07/11

Three Stories: Wooden Signs and Paper Plates, Naked Man, Whipped Cream and Brotherly Love. Three short tales from my life, gathered together in a val-u-pak for the joy of others.

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20:46

The Extreme Pain Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/07/10

The Extreme Pain Episode: An Argument In The Car, I Killed You, Truly Can't Get Out of Bed, Crutches, What The Pain Means, What The Pain Was, An Airport Waiting Room, The Worst Doctor Ever, The Cure, The Fallout, A Changed Person, The Results, Poverty Charges Interest, Health Insurance. An episode about the worst pain of my life. If that's a bit much for you, I understand if you wish to skip it. Spoiler: I'm much better now! And it was a long time ago! Tay Zonday's tweet, which I think about all

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23:21

The Automatic Document Feeder Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/06/28

The Automatic Document Feeder Episode: Acquiring an ADF, How Flatbed Scanners Work, The Lie of Scanning, How ADF Scanners Work, Asking For Help, 35 Minutes, 339 Pages, 3 Books, The Non-Intuitive Parts, The Results, A Prayer. Also: Debinding And Its Malcontents. An episode about high-speed scanning on the acquisition of a lovely Fujitsu 7160 scanner acquired thanks to donations.

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13:29

The Lost Month.

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/06/21

The Lost Month. A biography of Tony Cennamo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cennamo

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17:34

The Storage Unit Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/06/16

The Storage Unit Episode: Down to Two Units, The Legend of the Information Cube, A Pile of Yes, A Tour of Screens and Magazines, Where It All Went, How the Last Two Units are Laid Out, A Pile of Props, MC Frontalot Shoot, Where It Will End, An Actual Attic, 100 Years. Here's 400 photos of my shoot in Queens with MC Frontalot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157705604332681 I mentioned several museums and archives as I always have: Strong Museum of Play, Museum of Art and Digital

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20:24

The Conspiracy Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/06/11

The Conspiracy Episode: Conspiracy Love, 1985 and Annette Arky, Playboy, Comics, Underground, Deep Underground, Ninjas, Guns and G-Files, The Muffin File, The Comfort of Conspiracy, The Mechanism of the World, The Dark Byways, A Friend Forgotten. I mention Da Muffin Papers, you can browse them here: https://archive.org/details/DaMuffinPapers The event I'm speaking of at the end is Heroku's Waza year 2013. My talk, "Time Travel from 2100: A Kit" is viewable at https://vimeo.com/61059533. A 2003

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20:31

The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/05/20

The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode: Focus Studios, Two Major Projects, The Racing Game, Mark's Dream, Car Logos, Design, 3D Studio, 2 Months, Gone Forever, Starting a Race You Don't Know How To Finish, Lessons For The Next Impossible Project. Also: No Regrets. An episode about TUNNEL VISION, an unreleased (and un-made) game by Focus Studios that I did some art design for, including making a very large and ambitious demo movie for. I asked Mark if he has any copies of this stuff around -

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25:09

The 100th Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/05/18

The 100th Episode: Start With Another Episode Please , A Little More About My Supporters, Unediting, Why This Was Started, Speech Therapy, Unintended Results, The Many Positives, Therapy In General, Where To Go Next, A Little More About My Other Supporters. The 100th episode was recorded with no editing using the on-board microphone, which hopefully leaves only the real fans of this show and others scampering to the better, less meta episodes. Thank you so much for having me get to this milestone

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19:22

The Games of the Mechners Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/05/17

The Games of the Mechners Episode: High School, David Mechner, Brother Jordan, Karateka, The Next Game, Assassin, The Rules, A Shining Moment, An Answered Doorbell, Reading Unlimited, Rotoscoping, The David in the Machine. While gathering links, I discovered the Mechners have a foundation and all the kids are on the advisory board! http://mechnerfoundation.org/ Jordan Mechner has an amazing archive of his own work here: https://www.jordanmechner.com/archive/ The Wikipedia entry for the Assassin

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16:53

The Bear Mountain Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/04/21

The Bear Mountain Episode: Hudson Valley, Rejecting Nature, Bear Mountain State Park, The Bridge, The Lodge, The Pool, The Trail, The Zoo, Daniel Carter Beard, Strange Places, Low-Slung Buildings, A Spectacular Spot, Telling The Story Beyond Yourself. The Bear Mountain Lodge/Inn has a very snazzy page: https://visitbearmountain.com/ More about the bird watching at Bear Mountain: https://parks.ny.gov/parks/13/bird-conservation-areas.aspx An overview of the museums and zoo at Bear Mountain:

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16:24

The Nightmare Space Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/04/11

The Nightmare Space Episode: A Nightmare Repeats, The Lost Great Space, The Museumsquartier, A Booth, Spaces I Have Known: L0pht CT Hackerspace, and Hack42, The Space of the Webpage, 1990s Net, Dreams From the Nightmares, Never Stop Dreaming.The Museumsquatier website is at https://www.mqw.at/en/ It is a constantly changing and flowing location, and I don't know if the actual corridor I'm speaking of has a name, but you'll find plenty of inspiring aspects to it - definitely visit if you're ever in

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19:43

The Game Ideas Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/03/27

The Game Ideas Episode: 25 Years Later, Two Game Ideas: Central Plumbing Unit, Ante Meridian: The Morning of The World. Focus Studios, Mark The Alien, The Real World, The Difficulty of Making Games Live, HK Project, Get In The Car Loser, Make Your Own Game. I mention a game called HK Project: https://hk-devblog.com/ Kowloon City is a rewarding research project in itself. Get In The Car, Loser! has a Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/938860/Get_In_The_Car_Loser/

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18:07

The Metal.Ball Episode

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It ·

2020/03/25

The Metal.Ball Episode: For the Love of a Ball, TinyMUD, MUD, Port 4201, CB Radio, Smokey and the Bandit, TinyTIM, Metal.Ball's Roll-Playing, Mystery of the World, The Metal Ball Inside My Heart The story of a special online character, who never stopped rolling into my life and represents one of the most positive experiences I've had in the realm of a world I don't belong to anymore. TinyTIM is at tim.org port 5440.

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