Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 5 2026 - Spoons, Man Download audio

On this show, I play a song from Lindi Ortega; I relate a couple of witticisms from the child and tell tales of new driver excitement; Kendrick Lamar's merch was fugly but SZA's was great; I tell the tale of mishandling a thigh cramp; Subvert.fm is my new first place to look for new show music; I explain why Baen Books and the Maximum Fun Network occupy similar boxes in my brain; the author I could not think of was Jack McDevitt, truly one of the nice guys of SF; once again I appear to be losing a fediverse account to a server meltdown; back up your Bookwyrm accounts, people; stories of real life adventurers bore the shit out of me; Steven Tobolowsky does not interest me; I would listen to a companion podcast to Scott Edelman's Eating the Fantastic that was only the food talk; unlike my father, I survived breaking my ribs.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 5 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Lindi Ortega main page
• Official video for "Murder of Crows"
• WREK Bootleg Feeds
• Subvert.fm
• Maximum Fun Network
• Baen Books
• Bookwyrm
• Wilosophy podcast
• Eating the Fantastic podcast
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast Quick Bite for May 29 2026 Download audio

On this show, I talk about why I don't love YouTube the platform and the content that lives on it.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• The Network Architect Channel
• Out of Spec Reviews Channel
• Otis Gibbs Channel
• Stephen Sharer Channel (warning: it is significantly more bullshit today than in the time I discussed)
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast Quick Bite for May 15 2026 Download audio

On this show, I tell the story of my first five weeks keeping bees.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 15 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Blackwater Beekeepers
• South Carolina Beekeepers Association
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast Quick Bite for April 12 2026 Download audio

On this show, I talk about my history with skiing, including the last week.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Winter Park Resort
• Camelback Resort
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast Quick Bite for April 3 2026 Download audio

On this show, I talk about WREK, the Indigo Girls and the oddity that is "Closer to Fine".

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 3 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• WREK 91.1 FM in Atlanta
• Indigo Girls
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 27 2026 - Daddy Needs Podcasting Juice Download audio

If you are interested in Hello Fresh, be sure to use the code egc10fm at checkout!

On this show, I play a song from Florry; I say goodbye to Veronica Walters; we have a finite number of trip opportunities with the kid; we went to San Diego and back with the most travel troubles I've had in decades; it is less effort for me to travel alone; I play another round of Promo No Go; I heard some kids say the craziest stuff; I have been listening to the All British Comedy Explained podcast; I didn't respond to The Young Ones as well as I remembered but Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and the Good Life still light me up; Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV is great; I implemented the Human.json protocon on my website, attesting who actually authors their site without any LLM; I am experimenting with the Quick Bites format for this show.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 27 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Florry the band
• Florry's album The Holey Bible on Bandcamp
• Mountain Breeze bootleg podcast feed
• Veronica Walters has passed away
• All British Comedy Explained podcast
• Human.json protocol
• My post about implementing Human.json
• My AI Statement for this site
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast Quick Bite for March 20 2026 Download audio

On this show, I talk about the rise and fall of my idea for a local honey marketplace with a side journey into a disappointing talk about technology.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 20 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Blackwater Beekeepers
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 27 2026 - How Clean Can Your Hands Be In This Dirty Dirty World? Download audio

Follow this link for the offer mentioned in the show, 10 free meals from Hello Fresh and a free knife!

On this show, I play a song from Gently Bruised; I am throwing myself an AI Tea Party; I deleted my Open AI account and disconnected everything; LLMs make everything a commodity; generative AI undermines objective truth and enables tyranny; it's easy to trick monopolists into a monopoly; AI tensions hit science fiction writers and electronics suppliers; having gotten Github Actions working, I am leaving Github for Forgejo; all my repositories are now self-hosted; Gen X gets to retire into a fascist nation; deep risks are happening; which of my possessions do I really need? I am considering getting rid of some comics; I'm not doing free labor to fill out your surveys; we aren't speaking Esperanto.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 27 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "The End" by Gently Bruised on YouTube
• Paperless
• Karakeep
• Whisper
• Charles Stross v Adafruit
• Charles Stross
• Adafruit
• Forgejo
• SSH Key Action
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 13 2026 - Who Cares What Route the Turd Took to the Punchbowl? Download audio

On this show, I play a song from The Arts and Sciences; I spent one of my best nights out seeing The Arts and Sciences open for the Indigo Girls; I am currently taking a beekeeping certification course; I will be buying two nucs of bees plus lots of gear; I believe your garb should be politically neutral in unrelated public outreach; I made a Mastodon post that got an atypically large response and yet did not enjoy it; the anti-trans talking points of today were popularized by Jeffrey Epstein 15 years ago; I got Github Actions working to build and publish this here Eleventy site; I added search to this here Eleventy site; I enjoy the Vito X Dino podcast but had to protect myself from large episode dumps; is milk violence and is that a serious position? I was and am a fan of Harvey Pekar but my one chance to meet him I chickened out; I used to work rotating shifts in a chemical factory; XMas week was the best work week of the year; I read the Harvey Pekar story "Snow Day" at work in almost the identical situation Harvey was in for the story.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 13 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Paul Melancon's Bandcamp
• Blackwater Beekeepers
• The Mastodon post that set it off
• Veronica Explains
• Adding search to Eleventy
• Vito Delsante
• Dean Haspiel
• Vito X Dino podcast
• Scotch and Comics podcast
• Archive Mode on Podcast Addict
• Harvey Pekar
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 30 2026 - Fumble Fingered Yutz Download audio

Follow this link for the offer mentioned in the show, 10 free meals from Hello Fresh and a free knife!

On this show, I play a song from Doctor Deathray; as I was upgrading the capacity of my Synology NAS I discovered I didn't need it; don't enable the trash can on your Time Machine drives on a NAS; I am using my extra capacity to self-host Mastodon; running a one person Mastodon instance is easier than I predicted; I love NTFY for notifications; I hate Apprise for notifications; I bought a Trezor hardware wallet to hold all my weird pockets of crypto; the UX of using crypto for anything sucks; Obsidian starts slow on my Android phone; Quick Draft for Obsidian solves a big problem for me.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 30 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Doctor Deathray's Bandcamp
• My self-hosted Mastodon server
• Ellijay Makerspace
• Fediback, a seemingly abandoned but still working Mastodon backup tool
• NTFY
• Apprise
• Trezor Crypto Wallets
• The exact Trezor wallet I bought
• Obsidian
• Quick Draft for Obsidian
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 23 2026 - If You're Saying Something, Say the Thing You're Saying Download audio

On this show, I play a song from Mdou Moctar; how has no one noticed I am not qualified to be an adult? the Xmas tree is the worst part of the holidays; I'm good for one thing a day; don't beat around the bush, ask what you want to ask; what good is a gas fireplace that won't light; a failure to wake up led to a positive change in my daily routine; I solved a problem with a cold call; people my age should have the skills to make a call even when you don't know exactly who to talk to; I need to worry about the small bites not the grand plans; where are my Grendel comics? the internal critic is strong in me; nothing is easier to solve than a problem you don't have to live with.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 23 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Mdou Moctar's homepage
• A 2026 Checklist
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.