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Learn how to build a simple estate plan and lend or repay family money without hurting your relationships. What’s the first thing to do when creating an estate plan? What’s the smartest way to handle loans between friends or family? Hosts Sean Pyles and Elizabeth Ayoola break down estate-planning basics like wills, revocable trusts, living wills/advance healthcare directives, and durable powers of attorney — tools that can ensure your wishes are carried out and help your loved ones avoid probate. They also share when to update your documents, how beneficiary designations can override your will, and three simple to-dos to get started without feeling overwhelmed. Then, mortgage and student loans writer Kate Wood joins Sean and Elizabeth to answer a listener’s question about paying a loan back to her parents. They explore how family loans and lending circles work, why it’s important to put agreements in writing (and when notarizing helps), and the impact informal loans can have on your credit. They also weigh different ways to set money aside, comparing high-yield savings accounts with taxable brokerage accounts invested in ETFs and considering timelines, growth potential, and tax trade-offs. Want us to review your budget? Fill out this form — completely anonymously if you want — and we might feature your budget in a future segment! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScK53yAufsc4v5UpghhVfxtk2MoyooHzlSIRBnRxUPl3hKBig/viewform?usp=header In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: estate planning, will vs trust, revocable trust, living will, durable power of attorney, healthcare proxy, advance healthcare directive, probate explained, beneficiary designation vs will, update beneficiaries after marriage, how often to update a will, intestate meaning, avoid probate, family loan agreement, lend money to family safely, informal lending, lending circle, saving circle, notarized loan contract, pros and cons of family loans, protect relationships when lending money, credit score and informal loans, high-yield savings accounts, taxable brokerage accounts, ETF basics for beginners, repaying parents for college, fiduciary roles in estate planning, power dynamics of lending to friends, writing a repayment schedule, when to use a trust for minors, and retitling assets into a trust. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email podcast@nerdwallet.com . Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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219. Set Free 18:21

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This counts why not www.americansouthwest.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/american-southwest/sets/set-free?si=18cec97407b14114a957804c3e815f0f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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218. PREVIEW Timeless World Forever w/ Graham Hunt 1:27

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Full episode *HERE* Graham Hunt comes on fresh off the release of his excellent new album Timeless World Forever to talk about songwriting, philosophy, collage, and more.

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217. PREVIEW A History of Grids Pt. 2 - The origins of boxes and cardboard, Agnes Martin 16:50

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Preview, for full episode + more consider subscribing here *** This episode focuses on the history of the box. From the humble cardboard box to Agnes Martin’s tranquil grid paintings, this episode explores how containers—literal and figurative—have shaped our modern world. M. Treverton & Son: invention of the paperboard, Robert Gair and the pre cut cardboard box, The Container Corporation of America, Louis Sullivan and the rise of the skyscraper, Montgomery Ward and the foundation of modern logistics, Jacques Tati’s “Playtime”, iRobot, Cubism's fractured space, Froebel’s Kindergarten gift method, Joseph Albers, Erik Andersen’s Opus 90, and the creeping enshittification of designs and systems. www.patreon.com/c/contain…

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Autodidacts, Aphorisms & How to Play Guitar - Matt Baldwin and Ben Schecter 1:40:59

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Musician, writer, and therapist Matt Baldwin joins filmmaker Ben Schecter for a conversation on Matt’s cult-classic How to Play Guitar zine series— a collection of sharp, philosophical reflections on creativity, learning, relationships, and survival in a modern world. Self-taught artistry, the roots of autodidact culture, V. Vale and ReSearch, the strange corporate creep into psychedelic therapy, Joun Fahey, Blake, Blue Cheer Preorder the book here…

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215. Sly Stone from 67-until Now w/ Chris Stroffolino Preview 17:34

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Poet and musician (ex Silver Jews) Chris Stroffolino comes on to talk about the life and work of Sylvester “Sly” Stone as we try to trace parallels of his time to our current social climate - from his optimistic, utopian Family Stone days to his dark masterpiece “There’s a Riot Going On” through his withdrawal into disenchantment and drugs + stagflation, the dawn of hope, and more. Also David Berman tales, Shakespeare, Ishmael Reed, teaching, Oakland, CA, overcoming disabilities, the impossible weight of Sly’s position on the vanguard, AI, Walk Hard: A Dewy Cox story, and more. RIP Sly Please consider supporting the project on Patreon…

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Preview 212. A History of Grids Pt. 1 - Bricks to Typography 6:16

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For full episode and all deep dive episodes please subscribe Part one of a two-part deep dive into the grid and how it has quietly shaped our personal and social realities throughout history. From the invention of the brick to the birth of the spreadsheet, tracing the grid’s influence across architecture, urban planning, culture, and technology.Starting with the brick-“equal parts mortar and module,” tied to the proportions of the human hand—and follow its logic through systems like the tablet, gridiron city plans (like Mohenjo-daro), maps, musical notation, ledgers, the screen and the moveable type, setting the stage for digital forms to come.Along the way, we talk Le Corbusier, the Swiss grid system of Josef Müller-Brockmann, the design of Instagram, and Lotus 1-2-3. This is a mellow research-based episode on how grids both liberate and constrain the ways we live, think, and create.Cited: Hannah B. Higgins The Grid Book…

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First Part Yankee Doodle Foxtrot: Psych Folk and Rock Gems w/ Calvin LeCompt 42:56

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Calvin LeCompte (The Uline Catalog on NTS) comes on to give an expert primer on 60's psych folk, lo fi, and outsider garage and talk about the making of his excellent upcoming record Yankee Doodle Foxtrot Pietro Scaruffi, deep Youtube gem digging, human index projects, rejecting soulseek, The Haunted, analog tape hiss, the best 4 track cassette recorder, Yamaha MT8X, Korg CR4, writers block, trot EP, breakup music, the unknown Bicentennial, AI, hypnogogic pop: revisited, James Ferraro, Ferris Wheel (band) - Supernatural Girl, audiophile quality, 60’s lingo, Charles Broom, community, Farewell Ye Guilded fog,…

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Preview 211. Influences: Out of Hand 8:29

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Full episode, support, and archive: patreon.com/contain Influences episode, raw and recorded over a month on a phone about stuff that we love, one being Gary Stewart's trembling country classic Out of Hand, + what makes music have soul, and why no one can play like Chuck Berry anymore, noise-canceling tech, Graphic design traps, Pontiac Firebird interiors, Xavier Le Pichon (RIP), Geophysical fragility, Kojeve and tariffs + more…

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Ep. 210 — Something that lasts (S6 intro) 2:02:34

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Barrett and Alex open Season 6 and talk about how the project is shifting, how to make a life out of the things you produce, and offer some guidance based on our experience of running a weird, uncompromising project Music interspersed and a duo mix at the end For all episodes and more please visit: patreon.com/contain ZeeoRYc8U39n7uDd5fgE…

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PREVIEW The City Writes Back: Tunnels, Tattoos, and the Sociology of Graffiti w/ Klub 2020 9:45

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The City Writes Back: Tunnels, Tattoos, and the Sociology of Graffiti w/ Klub 2020 For full episode, general support, and more please visit patreon.com/contain

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First Part 208. The Code Beneath the Code: Philosophy, Altruism, and Tech Cult Logic w/ Vincent Lê 1:02:01

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Full episode up on Patreon n this episode, philosophy professor and AI safety researcher Vincent Lê joins us to explore the strange philosophical roots of Effective Altruism, the Z1zians, and Silicon Valley's culture at large. Rather than rehashing the usual narratives around EA, E/Acc, and AI alignment, we dig into their shared intellectual DNA—from the cringeworthy utilitarianism of Peter Singer to the mimetic theories of René Girard, and even The Office as an unlikely ideological text. We also touch on the Westall UFO sighting and its eerie relevance, Franco "Bifo" Berardi’s reflections on cognitive capitalism and collapse, the “infobrain,” the cult of rationalism, and the surreal logic of AI-driven extremism as LLM's talk like a therapist. Plus: exit strategies, neocameralist fantasy worlds, and the political theology behind technocratic acceleration. Subscribe to Vincent's blog here…

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207. Feast of Snakes (Morality and Metamorphosis) * First Part* 38:47

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Full episode, archive, and support: Patreon.com/contain Experimental episode on two controversial but relevant fiction books: House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1978) and Harry Crews' A Feast of Snakes. They explore grotesquerie, madness, and Dark Psychedelia through the lens of Rhodesian Zimbabwe and Rural American South (Mystic, Georgia), along with Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Catherine Malabou: Reawakening: Différence + how to look at nothing, morality, transformation, Kool Keith's 98 year old refrigerator and more…

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Preview 206. The Art of War w/ Darnell the Artist 1:41

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Full episode available on Patreon: patreon.com/contain Interview with Anthony Darnell, aka Darnell the Artist , known for his daily social media posts of cryptic and hallucinatory artwork based on conspiracy theories, politics, and his military experience. He shares his experiences in the US Marine Corps, using art as therapy, PTSD, the GI Bill, conspiracy theories, and more. This is Anthony's first spoken interview.…

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Unlocked 205. Consumer Protections (Right to Repair) w/ Louis Rossmann 1:23:26

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The state of right to repair and how corporations try to undermine consumers with legendary activist and electronics technician Louis Rossmann . patreon.com/contain 2/24/25

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204. Dreams in a technocratic age Preview 3:50

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Full Premium Episode on Patreon On the upending political/structural/technological situation, maintaining faith in strange times, broken dreams, etc. Archive, 1/28/25

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First Part 202. Cartoons Will Never Die (Preview) w/ Mike Bilandic 35:05

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Originally posted Jan 1, 2025, first part only bc of Spotify Music AI takedown BS Episode about cartoons and how they shape the world around us with Mike Bilandic + his article How Fred Flintstone Became One of America’s Greatest Cultural Exports Eurodance music with Smurfs and Flintstones, the purpose and legacy of Dexter's Lab, Hanah Barbera, Casimir Spaulding aka Glo Mula, Glo Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Iceberg: Fred infiltrating fashion, loukos_por_trenzinhos_ofc , cartoon imagery on legalized weed and gray market dispenseries, Degentrificartion, 1960's, a history of drugs and cartoons, Street artist Kenny Scharf making a Flintstones and Jetson's religion, Hugus who painted 50 Rick & Morty murals in NYC, Latino love for Loony Tunes, Cartoons in the hood and in rap music, Teletubbies: total psychedelic illiteracy, the Smurf conference at the start of Covid: first super spreader event, Turmoil in the Toy Box, cartoons in the age of AI, the NFT Ape effect, Florence Fang and the Flintstone's House (1976) Edit by Alex Talan…

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201. Outer Space and Network Cities w/ Fred Scharmen Unlocked 1:30:03

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This New Year we're going in on all things space-relevant and the weird development of libertarian Network States with Fred Scharmen , author of Space Forces. Topics: Biocosmism in Russia, the project Concept Country , Bitcoin City, Nick Land Acknowledgement, mini singularities in the 1970's, astral exploration, lines by decade, science beyond earth, van stripes of the 1970's as cultural signifier, the broken future of Elon and Cyberpunk, why there is no libertarianism in outer space, Title V, The O’Neil Cylinder, "a world where many worlds are possible", Maoist tech Venture Capitalists, Ivan Chtcheglov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Is Utopia different from the Real?, Is there an Outside to Utopian thinking?, the trash on the the International Space Station, Article V, Envoy of Humanity, the international court (ICC) beyond earth, quaalude colonialism, the ant farm Cadillac graveyard ranch, ecstatic desolation, the art of Rick Guidice and Don Davis, getting people in architecture into space futures…

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PREVIEW BONUS Megalopolis #Long2014 Utopia Special w/ Millennial Amenities 2:35

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Full episode on the ideas and sociology of Megalopolis, his hypothesis on the Long 2014, the past decade of slop, and why utopian thinking is good David Graeber, Elective Affinities by Goethe, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler, Nixon shock/OPEC crisis, Axial Age, The Lord of the Rings - Boris Groys , Sports Gambling, Linux, Creative Commons movement, "This was made for me"…

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Episode 200 - The Abstraction Episode - Pt A Preview 36:16

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200th episode special on the history and future of abstraction in social life, art, and more. For full 4hr20 minute episode: Part A Part B Patreon.com/Contain

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199. Democracy of Free People w/ Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt 1:33:36

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Ok this is a big one: Professor Emeritus of Leisure Studies and author of Free Time and Age of Experiences Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt joins for a lively discussion on the possibility of leisure and freedom in the age of experience. Other subjects: Jeffersonian Democracy, taking Eugene McCarthy to the airport, the spark of poetic creativity, Frank Lloyd Wright, UBI, the heart of the work ethic destroyed, work as religion, the future of work and automation, craftsmanship, the history of shortening labor hours, Rexford Tugwell and The Brain Trust, overproduction into consumerism, towards experiences over commodities, the appreciation of community, faith, and love.…

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Preview 198. Laruelle, Elections, Non-Empiricism, and the Story of Art 25:02

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3hr30 min tribute to the non-philosophical thought of François Lauruelle... full episode Francois Laruelle was a French philosopher who developed the concept of "non-philosophy." His work influenced facets of the project (particularly The Spectre of Finance Punk ) through his critiques of traditional philosophical systems that prioritized the material and empirical over abstract theorizations + his non-historical/non-mystical encounters with science, art, and spirituality through his mediations on the One (the Real). He sadly passed away last week so it seemed fitting to do an episode on him and try to bring forth some of his ideas a bit in reference to the state of things and ask some pretty broad "what if questions" using the Non-Philosophy magnifying utensil. What would he think of Country Music and barbecue...…

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197. What Is The Value of Music w/ Callahan and Witscher 1:49:31

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What happens when two experimental music veterans go full Smashmouth? Callahan and Witscher's new album Think Differently answers just that-full of wry introspection on the conditions of music, it's value, and despite misreads by music journalists as being "irony poisoned"-comes across as uniquely sincere in a way most things don't. We talk about the album, what is the value of a critique? flexing on critics with pure musical chops, nu-fluxus, low-brow messaging, the rise of "tastecels", the value of humor, sleeping on floors and slogging it out on the road, why you can't stop creating, destroying your life, going to shows you don't want to, Fairport Convention, and attempt to answer the question: "What is the value of music?" Buy think differently from Post Present Medium Here…

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PREVIEW 196. Lost City of the Future: The Columbus Indiana Story w/ Matt Shaw 31:38

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For full full episode, music, and to support the project subscribe Here Architect/author Matt Shaw comes on to discuss his new book American Modern on the anomaly of Columbus, Indiana: a futuristic small town designed by a who's who of architects (Saarinen, Pei, Robert Venturi, Girard) almost entirely bankrolled by progressive Christian industrialist J. Irwin Miller. This is a history of that town and the rise and fall of independent-funded public works in America Music from the new release by Desvelada & Sprælle…

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PREVIEW - 195. The Experience Economy Pt. 1 & 2 36:25

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For full 6 hour episode and more deep research excursions subscribe to our Patreon Part two of the experience economy episode, this one focused on the history of experience design, the combinatorial arts, and independent value creation in order to advance some solutions to the problems politics can only scratch the surface of. Topics: the rise of Kill Tony and interactive cringe comedy, Baby Invasion/Edglrd by Harmony Korine movie review, first person shooter w/ Burial Soundtrack, John Ruskin’s Pathetic Fallacy, art market crash, “Total Work” - German Christian philosopher Joseph Pieper , DeSano’s pizza University. The Take Back Your Time organization, Leisure Capital, UX, Feng Shui, Leibniz’s understudied dissertation on Combinatorial Art, exploding pagers in Lebanon: Pandora Box, Value Capturers, Dorthe R. Christensen, The European Commission, Comic-Con, the rise of AirBnB, Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age, Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt’s book on the Eudaimonic Tech + more...this is a continuation of part A 🎩 up now…

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PREVIEW 194. Gold Fever in the Coup Belt and the American Dreamscape w/ James Pogue 42:31

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This is a preview, for full 3 hour episode: patreon.com/contain Writer/journalist James Pogue comes on to discuss his recent stint in central Africa as it undergoes one of the biggest gold rushes in human history plus: contracting Malaria in a CAR prison and your hotel getting shot up, diamond heists, geiger counters, JD Vance and the Anti-American NatCon right, the Wagner groups activities in the Sahel, the strange reconfiguration of the political spectrum, the return of gold, pastoral industrial policy, Bernard DeVoto and the end of the Wild West, the American Experiment from a left wing anarchist perspective, the legacy of Thomas Sankara, + much more Continuing on the subject of natural resources and geopolitics Read James's recent articles here…

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PREVIEW 193. The Oil Episode (Fossil Fuels, Abiotic) w/ Jed (Spouter) 15:33

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This is a preview, full episode: patreon.com/contain Episode all about oil, maybe the most important and controversial substance in the world and how it came to dominate our history and take over our planet Abiotic oil theory, climate change, is oil fake, the origin of the term fossil fuels, did Dinosaurs even exist, artificial scarcity, Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia, 'sentient oil', Soviet Neft Dashlari city built on water, wildcatters, creation of new cities, the history of fracking/new carbon extracting technologies, algae resetting the earth w/ oxygen, geological timescales, Clint Murchison Jr./Dallas Cowboys, WWI/WW2/Cold War, Baku, trucks that last forever, Patillo Higgins, The Regime of Disposability, Ahriman, Thomas Gold's hypothesis, L Fletcher Prouty Jed is a researcher and typewriter refurbisher. For more information on oil go to Jed's Substack Music by Barrett and Alex Coolwater…

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Episode 192. Dropout Piece: De-influencing in the 20th Century 6:28

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Up now on Patreon (3hr20h) 3 months in the making, we get into a century of Dropping Out, DIY, and the conditions of self-preservation featuring mathematician Alexander Groethendieck, artist Lee Lozano, Cormac McCarthy, Shelly Duvall, and Sarah Records. As public life become further cauterized some will declout, some join the Santa Fe institute, and some refuse to speak to other woman for 27 years. Time to find out why Groethendieck’s reasons for leaving the mathematics community, abstract financial systems and their influence on human creativity, ‘healthy disillusionment’, the hollowing out of Pax Americana, Applied Quantum Mechanics, Cindy Lee album, reason’s obscure other, ‘comparing yourself to old stories’, Kazemir Malevich: Suprematism, from Shakespeare’s Othello, King Leer, Macbeth, Industry Plant Aktion, refusing the art-world, semiotic superficially, ‘High-Energy Scattering’, Dictator to Oneself, Wim Wender’s “Perfect Days”, the infamous Shelly Duvall Dr. Phil episode, Alex Bienstock, what people learn from Wittgenstein, Bristol’s Sarah Records and the politics of C86 jangle pop, micro-science and more.…

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Preview Don't Fear the Reaper w/ Howie Hubberman 5:59

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Full episode here Ex Guns N' Roses/Poison manager and OG Pawn Star Howie Hubberman comes on to talk about LA in the 1980's, antiquing, Hair Metal, Power Ballads, doing 1000 pushups a day while battling cancer, Slash’s Appetite for Destruction guitar, weird music industry shenanigans, the mafia, mud wresting competitions in the valley, hustling, and more. “There’s more vehicles, but less with actual engines in them” PRACTICAL stuff, also hilarious…topping off the interview series…

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190. Eternal Platitude w/ Dan Spencer 2:12:13

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Continuing down the "I ain't reading all of that" interview series with a very special guest bound to be a cult household classic Dan Spencer is a musician and songwriter who released my favorite album of the year Return To Your Dark Master. He’s also a longtime Contain listener (to my surprise) and a very knowledgable and thoughtful guy who went from Mortuary school to playing the CMA country fest and Bonnaroo. We talk Nouveau Roman literature, Peter Greenaway, and slipping obscure interests into songwriting sessions with Post Malone and Brad Paisley. Other topics: the hidden Universalist sects of the Appalachias known as the ‘No-Hellers’, how the modern music industry works, vampires, being around death in the Mortuary, the promise of Utopia and communities forming around it, Brian J.L Berry, listening to the Sun City Girls on acid in the sun, blood covenants, Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, Djent Country Music hybridization factor, keys to lyrics, quitting drinking, primitive Baptists, Dickey Betts (RIP + SKYDOG), a brief history of Cookeville, Tennessee, and much more Listen to Return To Your Dark Master and see Dan on tour…

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Pt. 1 189. MilSim, True Crime: Cloud of Unknowing w/ Ben Werther and Maggie Dunlap 1:01:56

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First Half, full 2 hr+ episode here ...on LARPing with artists Maggie Dunlap and Ben Werther and his recent show When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me A Song documenting mock high stakes environments of Military Simulation (MilSim) culture. Other topics: identity construction and the fraying of the American cultural fabric, the anonymous 14th century Christian mystical text The Cloud Of Unknowing, total sculpture, non pedantic art, soft black stars, the end of intellectuals and words, readymades, LARPing as a luxury commodity item, Murderbilia, the BTK killer, fandoms forming around depravity, True Crime as female MilSim, Kantian ethics, desire for martyrdom, Davey Crockett, Neo Suprematism, why Country Music is reaching peak popularity, hair metal, The South and the east coast as The Big Other, Mike Kelley's stuffed animals from a the perspective of a child, Sam Hyde's 'active shooter' phenomenon, James Bridle, Borges, Joseph Beuys.…

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PREVIEW 188. Hippos In Tanks Story w/ Travis Woolsey 10:08

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PREVIEW 186. Wayback Machine w/ Jason Scott (Internet Archive) 27:44

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Preview, for full episodes and more subscribe here 2.5 hour rundown of one of the worlds most treasured resources—the Internet Archive—with digital archive legend Jason Scott of Internet Archive . We go in on the ins and outs of the collection and why preserving pre-online digital media matters now more than ever We discuss ripping VHS tapes of Tuvalu in the 1980’s, Rick Prelinger: saving old government films, Brewster Kahle and the foundation of the archive, origins and history of the Wayback Machine, weird fetishes, how sometimes multi millionaires do good things, bankrolling poor art bands and coed sororities, Eastern European hacker magazines, why the Internet Archive is not a front, company housing, preserving offline digital culture, the cost of lost memory, dealing with forged documents, procuring and authenticating 17th century manuscripts, the repair manual library, Argentinian political radio stations, The Wave (1981), why censorship is bad: the non rage-farming perspective, "Agnostic Ingestion", crappy playbooks on how to whip people up into a frenzy, thought leaders, running from past, technical issues of preserving software, Library of Congress, 4000 3-4 hour mixes of Brazilian Dance music, ‘the heroin of online life’, countercultural house organs, + much more...very inspiring and fun convo…

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187. UCLA Protest Report - Rave New World x Contain 57:58

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In this collaborative episode between Contain and Rave New World, Michelle and Barrett make it to the UCLA student protest encampment just hours before it was violently shut down by the authorities. Slipping past plywood barricades into the graffiti-bombed "liberated zone," they discover an anxious scene of protestors gearing up for a confrontation with the police, as snipers prowl the roof and police helicopters whirr overhead. Through conversations with a contrasting cast of characters--from a conservative YouTuber to a communist cowboy, Muslim-American students and a Jewish activist--this episode presents a kaleidoscopic view of the chaotic, complex reality unfolding in-real-time.…

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Preview 183. Inside w/ Ben Hopkins (Inside, Simon Magus) and Benjamin Kellog 8:59

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Me and ⁠ Ben Kellog⁠ speak with writer/director Ben Hopkins (Inside (2023) w/ Willem Dafoe, Simon Magus, Lost in Karastan) on dialogue-free scripts, armageddon, and more For full episodes, resources, and more support the project on ⁠Patreon⁠

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Preview 179. Lawrence of Belgravia / Book of the Dead - Corin Johnson 6:56

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Interview with Corin Johnson on the unveiling of his pink marble sculpture of Lawrence (Felt, Mozart Estate) in the Fitzrovia Chapel in London and his fascinating upbringing in the Spiritualist Church. Full premium episode on Patreon

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Preview 178. BCH (F.T 4) - In Praise of Inactivity w/ Emmalea Russo 17:08

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Emmalea Russo is back to analyze the new Byung Chul Han book "In Praise of Inactivity", the 2024 content creator exodus , ethereal tiredness, and more ***Full premium 3 hr episode on Patreon ***

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Buckminster Fuller - No More Secondhand God 1:03:49

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Reading R. Buckminster Fuller's No More Secondhand God and seeing how it holds up in today's omnicrisis. bio : https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/biography/

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Ebenezer Group News Hour: Flannery Group, Haiti, Kurt Campbell/Nuland Replacement 1:26:40

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New show where Barrett and Alex (Coolwater) untangle geopolitics, news, and twilight as a neo-exotica PI themed music duo. Graphic by Anson Nguyen Music by the Ebenezer Group w/ The Rockford Files Subscribe/Support ******************************************************** Haiti, Jimmy BBQ Shevalier G9 Pierre Esperance NGOs Indigenous Symbolic power vs. Skyscraper building power Victoria Nuland resignation and replacement by Kurt Campbell, democratization of industry/backyard nuclear, SV Flannery group/California forward farmland purchases for new city, Gaza, Comely: danger of control through professional credentialing orgs, Oathtakers…

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Preview 183. Native American Computation: Indigenous Biodiversity, Anarchy, Code-Talkers, and Global Village Coffeeshop 18:25

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Full 3 hr episode on Patreon Part III of the non-cybernetics series focused on the little explored contributions of American Indian knowledge systems to the development of computation and algorithms. Mickey Newbury and songwriting, Navajo code-talkers during WWI/WWII, variations in native dialect, coyotes and stardust, sustaining genetic diversity, tricksters and their influence on probability studies, AIM takeover of the Fairchild semiconductor plant, indigenous anarchy and post-politics, Claude Shannon-Weaver method applied to Ojibwe scrolls, The Iroquois Confederacy as a model for the US constitution: symbolism of the arrows, the suspicious rise of Global Village Coffeehouse and tribal aesthetics in the early 90’s, the vanishing native, the phrase “standing on business”, KB’s postcard snail mail network, Marcel Mauss, Bataille, and the potlatch economy as a precursor to the feedback network, biodiversity in agriculture, multi-colored corn harvests, + more…

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181. (First hour) 21st Century Non-Cybernetics: Game Theory, Double Bind, Psychonics in Russia, a History of 'Thinking Machines' Pt. 2 1:04:20

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This is the first half-for full 3 hour episode as well as resources, extra documents, and more plz subscribe HERE Episode on the history of non/anti-cybernetics (Game/Automata/Double Bind Theory) developed in the UK, US, USSR, and China and what that means for us today: cognitive autonomy, surveillance, breaking out of the cyberculture, etc. Throught the 20th century complexity studies were conducted globally by social psychologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in capitalist and socialist countries alike, and despite them all adopting the same trendy word at one point or another: "Cybernetics", that wasn't exactly what they were all just doing. And they certainly weren't aiming for the same outcome of streamlined logistical matrices--and depending on the cultural, social, and national context, sometimes aimed for the opposite!…

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180. (Preview) 21st Century Cybernetics PT. 1: A History of Feedback Loops 1:04:01

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First hour, for full 3 hour episode, show notes, documentation, and more consider supporting here Part one of a series on Cybernetics of the Future aka "how smart people end up dumb". Instead of retreading well-told examples of the 20th century we go to Leibniz, Yuk Hui, U/ACC, Muller, Ampere, etc. to figure out its ambience and omnipresence in culture, politics, the human (?) spirit, and more. Not another Reddit Rundown of Project Cybersyn: this episode looks at a comprehensive view of the Feedback Loop and its place in general history (I Ching to creator burnout to shock jock pseudo-vitalism) starting with: Brunella Antomarini's excellent essay Translating Rationalism: Leibniz and Cybernetics, Tek Lintowe's amazing rant on Being Raw, Cliodynamics, Leibniz debunking both Newtonian Mechanism and Spinozist Nominalism, China's One Child Policy, didactic fashion shows, a history of mechanism…

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177. A History of Volcanoes: JMW Turner, Theory of Color, Starting Over 2:20:23

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This episode dives into the mythological, religious, scientific, and natural geologies of giant lava-spewing cauldrons spanning centuries as well as their place in the history of art. JMW Turner', Goethe's Theory of Color, JW of Derby's Vesuvius, baptism and Christian conversion of volcanoes, "Vamp" aesthetics, Milo Rau: Theater of Democracy, Sakurajima adventure, resolving the Neptunist vs. Plutonist schism, Leibniz's view of the earth as a cooled incandescent star, Volcanoes: home to Gods and Demons, Maurice & Katia Krafft, Dolomeiu: Geologist Pimp…

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176. 2024 DesertIslandmaxx - Best Of Preview 4:55

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175. Archive Fever - Ruby Justice Thelot Unlocked 1:47:35

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The internet is tedious, impersonal, rarely goes anywhere. Cyber-ethnographer/professor Ruby Justice Thelot comes on to talk about Checkpoints--a new book which charts the 10 + year history of an extended forum beneath a Youtube video loop of the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack full of personal stories of tragedy, triumph, and major life events that one day vanished without a trace. A history of digital and physical libraries, the shock of deletion, the age of recuperation, file corruption, non-online human digital media, and more.…

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Preview 174. Free Time III: Dissonance, Leisure, and Change in Showa-era Japanese Art, Post-War Satellites, and Today 39:03

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