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On this show, I play a song from Jill Sobule who we say goodbye to and remember fondly; I saw Jill open for Warren Zevon; my child no longer has any living grandparents; bad driver school was surprisingly not terrible; hopefully $5 at the weird store will keep me from breaking my big monitor; the Deliberate Noise Network is being sunsetted; the kid and I went to see Kendrick Lamar and SZA in Charlotte; Tikka Shack in Charlotte is like a Chipotle of Indian food; Bank of America stadium has no roof; I preferred SZA's performance to Kendrick and I way preferred her merch to his; we like Pineville NC and that is the better Super G Mart; calling the kennel led to Jack Johnson hilarity; I finally figured out how to optimize my trash can; my footy gear has arrived; my beating of the system was really a loss to the system.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast for May 16 2025

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Jill Sobule's Main site
• The Deliberate Noise Network
• The Grand National Tour
• Tikka Shack
• Whitewater Center
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Valley Lodge; we stayed in the Washington Heights part of Charlotte; we fought the weather to white water raft; Player 1Up still lives in Rock Hill; a car charger at the VRBO changes things; Rust Desk helped the previous show get produced; I fried the blade controllers of my lawnmower; we shopped at a weird Amazon leftovers store; the Audi integration in Home Assistant now turns on my climate control; I am using Immich and Dawarich for self-hosting photos and location data respectively; I am using the Nginx Proxy Manger so I don't have to remember port numbers.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast for May 2 2025

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Valley Lodge World Headquarters
• "Come Back to Bed" by Valley Lodge on YouTube
• Pole Volt
• Rust Desk
• Replacing Ryobi ZT480e blade controllers
• Coastal Bin Store
• Home Assistant
• HACS
• Audi integration with Home Assistant
• Self-Hosted Podcast
• Immich
• Dawarich
• Portainer
• Nginx Proxy Manager
• Pi Hole
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Last Stand; me and the kind went to Monster Jam; we saw a play about Atlantic Beach; the kid and I had a week on our own; the house always feel different when any being is subtracted; the batteries in my Ryobi lawnmower died; I am doing the LiFePO4 conversion; I am trying to not be scared by mechanical and electrical work; I got an old gas mower working again despite professional advice that it was impossible; I got a ticket and opted for the intervention program; inability to find my social security card led to changes in my life; organize by category not room.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast for April 25 2025

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "Just a Number" by Last Stand at YouTube
• The Black Pearl play
• Rob the Engineer's YouTube channel
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from SMALL; I discuss our trip to Devils Fork State Park; the old dog is in the endgame; the EV charging was the best experience so far on an road trip; we kayaked, hiked, saw waterfalls and generally experienced nature; we now own walking sticks; while waiting for a table at an unfamiliar restaurant, always look at the menu; I hate driving on mountain roads and that goes 10x for doing it at night; Walhalla SC is a surprisingly nice little town; the geology museum at Clemson is surprisingly cool; the Boox Note Air 4C got its first shakedown to positive results; don't Syncthing to an SD card on Boox devices; turns out I could Samba to my house from the woods via Tailscale.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 28 2025.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "CCII" by SMALL at Bandcamp
• Devils Fork State Park
• Circle K EV Charging
• Eclectic Sun Outfitters
• Keeowee Toxaway State Park
• Walhalla SC
• Shuga Bears
• Clemson University Geology Museum
• Tailscale
• Syncthing
• Astro File Manager
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from SMALL; I discuss my disappointing experience protesting; getting leftists on the same page is impossible; I walked out on Ralph Nader; I discuss the idea of moving money in and out of stocks in response to economic conditions; I poorly convey some of the ideas of Paul Merriman; your written investment plan is important; it is a very American idea that your value is tied to your productive capacity; we bought king cake during lent; I am using Hoarder App routinely to transmit and save any URL of value to me; while the kid was at prom, we saw the Yale Brothers; Chris Cornell's death seems even more sad than most rock and roll deaths; I'm not buying any more subsidized hardware.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 14 2025.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "Surveillance" by SMALL at Bandcamp
• Ellijay Makerspace
• Analog Revolution
• Sound Investing Podcast
• The article I reference about dealing with your stocks in a down market
• Hoarder app
• Yale Brothers podcast
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Blacklite District; the rest of the family went to see Blacklite District; I squandered a day alone; Maria Bamford is on to something with the early shows; instead of doing my list I watched Soundgarden videos; Backbeat Media has been loyal to me so I am loyal to them; I unsubscribed from Sound Opinions because I stopped caring about the podcast industry; going viral only makes me nervous; let's talk poop; I've started listening to Chris Gethard's Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People; I miss Piranha Press and especially the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children comic; some of my issues were bought in New Jersey; I learned the hard way an insight about organization; the zine is moving again; I have realized that my family history isn't interesting to me.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 7 2025.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "I Try Today" by Blacklite District on YouTube
• Blacklite District official site
• Jackie Kashian official site
• Beautiful/Anonymous
• The Download from Sounds Profitable
• Chris Gethard
• A Bad Idea I'm Definitely Going To Do by Chris Gethard
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Robin Coomer and Phil Clevenger; I learned the hard way that there are garage-ready refrigerators and not garage-ready refrigerators; forced thawing led to an impromptu meat feast; a little math will tell me if a whole house battery backup will pay for itself; Meidas Touch is both rocketing in popularity and useless to me; I don't need comforting via lies; no more Sorkin for the love of god; I hopped off the Echo Frames train and onto the Razer Anzu train; any northeasterner could have handled the situation better than me; Shell Recharge sucks and they enshittified good Volta sites when they bought the company; I am free of Electrify America; I used a Tesla magic dock charger and it was fine.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 28 2025.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• "One Hundred Days" at the Secret Songs Bandcamp
• Robin Coomer Homepage
• Phil Clevenger's Bandcamp
• Yolink set of sensors and hub I bought
• Anker Solix home backup power
• Meidas Touch
• A. R. Moxon aka Julius Goat on Mastodon
• Razer Anzu smart glasses
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from the Killdares; we again watched a Superbowl; write down your ideas for pete's sake; don't tell me the current terrible news; I just can't avoid every company with dickheads in positions of power; whose responsibility is unpronounceability; George Hrab lost me on his Podcast Hall of Fame speech; I'm listening to Scott Sigler's behind the scenes podcast; writers like to pretend to be tough; I was indifferent to seeing Wicked but really liked it; The Recruit and The Night Agent are plot sudoku shows; Raised by Wolves was interesting but got very bad very fast; Happy Valentines Day!

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 14 2025.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• The Killdares homepage
• Irish and Celtic Music Podcast
• Hollywood and Levine podcast
• Geologic Podcast
• Scott Sigler Podcast
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Kevn Kinney; I don't like fiction audiobooks but I am planning on listening to the Patti Smith memoirs; good riddance to Facebook; Facebook is only good at the weak ties; I needed a connection to my high school friends and Reloadio; what happened to butterscotch? the Ohom charger base died of static electricity; I am experimenting with Haiku OS; I am sticking a toe in contributing code changes to Haiku OS; Illuminant provided an NNTP server way to interact with the fediverse; I love the concept and installing the project is really hard.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 24 2025.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Kevn Kinney page at the Drivin n Cryin official site
• Kevn Kinney and Pete Buck play "Macdougal Blues" live
• Rageboy aka Chris Locke
• Reloadio
• This mug charger died in less than a month
• Haiku OS
• Illuminant
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play some audio from Man or Astroman? ; I have been deleting dead people from contacts but Andre Pope was difficult; Paul Merriman discussed the odd view of reality in a criticism of him; Bean Dad lives and I want to rebrand him as "Father Legume"; I discuss how I am handling the street theater political lectures in public; I am now in the Ohom and Nespresso world; podcasts are being finishing in my backlog which makes me happy; AI can't make creative choices; my Jellyfin is running again; I don't know who Melanie Blatt is; Lioness Season 2 sucked; Taylor Sheridan shows are all about the speeches; Missing You sucked; modern TV and cinema are full of cliche shots that you can anticipate; I'm just learning about the overturned convictions of the 1980s Baltimore homicide department.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 17 2025.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Man or Astro-man? official site
• Buy Spectrum of Infinite Scale by Man or Astro-man? at Bandcamp
• Sound Investing episode about small cap value
• Karsten's blog post referenced in the show
• Roderick on the Line podcast
• More to Come podcast
• Skull Funk Radio podcast
• Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything podcast
• Hollywood Gold podcast
• Jellyfin
• 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.

On this show, I play one of our traditional songs from Jill Sobule; boom mikes are still attached to things; Xmas gets different as your children age; we froze our nuggets as children; I could have stayed in Chicago; turns out renting second homes by the night is cheaper; sympathies go out to Ken Nelson; Strip Mall Think Tank made me laugh with advice about caring for old relatives; Carry-On is a bad movie but kind of fun in a dumb way; who decides who gets to shout the orders? some people view the world as dangerous and I probably don't do it enough; happy holidays everyone!

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 27 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Jill Sobule's "Jesus was a Dreidel Spinner"
• Strip Mall Think Tank Podcast
• Carry-On on Netflix
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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