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Each episode, our hosts, Chris (jazzsequence) and Gary (binarygary) are given a topic they know nothing about in advance, and attempt to carry on a conversation about it. Hijinks ensue. It's the Balderdash of podcasts.
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Episode 10110110: Avocado Prices and Oppenheimer
In this episode, Gary, Chris, and Allison chat about Gary’s Ground Control bot and his motivation challenges due to not seeing launches from his new place. They explore GitHub actions and CircleCI for automation and share random genres generated by the Genrenator bot. They also discuss avocado prices in Canada, misconceptions about moving to other countries, and the movie Oppenheimer.
This description was written by ChatGPT.
* Ground Control Bot
* GitHub repo
* Genrenator
* Genrenator Slack Bot
* Progress Bar
* Patchstack
* WP Scan
* WP Vulnerability Monitor GitHub Action (GitHub)
* Oppenheimer (IMDb)
* Episode Transcript (generated by Otter.ai)
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Episode 10110101: Claude
Back from our hiatus, in this episode we discuss the challenges of providing tech support for parents and other relatives. We experiment with Claude.ai to explore AI capabilities and humor. Also, Allison’s Reading Corner: The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller, Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, Happy Place and Beach Read by Emily Henry and My Best’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix.
* Claude.ai
* The Wild Edge of Sorrow (Storygraph)
* Come As You Are (Storygraph)
* Happy Place (Storygraph)
* Beach Read (Storygraph)
* My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Storygraph)
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Episode 10110100: The Ted Lasso Episode
In this episode we chat about Florida and how things were 3 years ago. Also, the impact of Ted Lasso and the series finale [SPOILERS] and invincible teams, Sweet Tooth, Apple TV’s show production pipeline, Star Wars stuff, career mode and note-taking apps.
* Ted Lasso (Apple TV)
* Sweet Tooth (IMDb)
* Schmigadoon (Apple TV)
* Star Wars Rebellion (Steam)
* Star Wars: Dark Forces (Steam)
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Episode 10110011: Taking a picture of your phone from your phone
Gary gets existential, continuing the conversation started last week about wisdom and woo ✨. Also board games.
* Last time on Binary Jazz… 😂
* Osho Zen Tarot (Amazon)
* The Gift of Fear (Wikipedia)
* Parks (BoardGameGeek)
* Wingspan (BoardGameGeek)
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Episode 10110010: Too Stressed Out: The Allison Tarr Story
In this episode, we talk about commencement speeches and what they’re even for, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso as a means to discuss homosexuality on television and TV parent tropes in general. Also: questions for Catholics.
* This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech (YouTube)
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wikipedia)
* Once More With Feeling (Wikipedia)
* Ted Lasso (Wikipedia)
* Apocrypha (Wikipedia)
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Episode 10110001: Aunt Arctica
In this episode we move from microphones to electric cars to horse costumes. Also, jokes! (Like as a topic, not just, like, we tell a bunch of jokes.)
* Donut for Slack
* HyperX Gaming Headsets
* The Best Gaming Headsets (Wirecutter)
* Hyundai Kona Electric
* Jokes
Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.