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Sorry guys. Deb came home with a memory card reader for me after mine broke. Also I think this is one of the funniest episodes we've ever done. If yo udon't like it, at least skip ahead to minute 44 for a VERY funny bit. 

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matt

lets go deb! bout time u pulled ur weight around here

PrinceVocalFry

Speaking of reading books, Sean, there's a great chapter in the book "Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald about the relationship between Roger Casement and Joseph Conrad. I highly recommend the chapter and the book in general. It's a semi-autobiographical book about the natural history of capitalist imperialism told as a kind of research-memoire of a walking tour the author took after a nervous breakdown. It shows a lot of unexpected and evocative threads connecting the Silk Road, the end of the Qing dysnasty, British Imperialism, Rembrant, Descartes and Thomas Browne, with the silk industry and the silk worm itself as a metaphor for literary culture, trade, and ecological destruction. The author himself deals a lot with German guilt and was highly influenced by Walter Benjamin. The chapter on Roger Casement is excellent.

PrinceVocalFry

Here's one of his haunting re-workings of Thomas Browne's Burial Urn: "There is no antidote, he writes, against the opium of time. The winter sun shows how soon the light fades from the ash, how soon night enfolds us. Hour upon hour is added to the sum. Time itself grows old. Pyramids, arches and obelisks are melting pillars of snow. Not even those who have found a place amidst the heavenly constellations have perpetuated their names: Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog Star. Indeed, old families last not three oaks. To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten."

Anonymous

Sound is low

cognitive todd

almost every ep is mixed too damn low, not even trying to be dick but can y'all please try to mix a little bit better or at least louder

cognitive todd

much obliged! seriously wasn't trying to be a dick or meet mike in a diner or whatever, i do sincerely love the pod