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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On this show, I play one of our traditional songs from American Heartbreak; home assistant had a bad update right before I really needed it working; check your backups before you need them; your smart home is a real drag when it gets dumb; I can no longer be casual about home assistant updates; I am trying out the Hoarder app but am unsure how to integrate it with Obsidian; I gave the dickheads at Open AI money for the first time; I found the boom mike stand; I sold some of grampa's silver; market timing is not fun; Pi-Hole is keeping many ads away from me; "the big retailers don't want you to have this"; beer ads and cereal ads have a surprisingly similar structure; I don't understand the pyramid scheme of ad-supported mobile games.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 20 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• American Heartbreak's "Greatest Xmas Song Ever Written"
• Home Assistant
• Raspberry Pi
• Hoarder App
• Obsidian
• Cortex Podcast
• Dick's Pawn Shop
• Network Architect Channel on YouTube
• 75 Reads Podcast
• The Eating the Fantastic interview I reference
• 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 FEX; turns out cheap meat brings out the crowds; we dropped The Split; we are watching and loving Day of the Jackal and Severance; we are watching and liking Lioness and All Creatures Great and Small and Bad Monkey; we are inexplicably tolerating Dune: Prophecy; the Homicide graphic novel is fantastic; the new Hellblazer series is not fantastic Amazon delivers overnight out in the country now; I do a one year retirement check-in; money is good and sequence of returns has not been a problem; keeping occupied is good; boredom is the dickhead spin on experiencing peacefulness; I don't regret retiring when I did.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 13 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Rioz Brazilian Steakhouse
• Hellblazer: Dead in America
• Homicide the Graphic Novel Part Two
• 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 Billy Treacy and the Scope; all the information is on the task; I am way into Junior Taskmaster; I watch all English language Taskmasters but am not sold on Norway; Three Bean Salad podcast is not for me; I reiterate Slusher's Law of Podcasting; let's make transitions clear for that one dickhead with the bad review; I set up Pi-Hole in my network; I got fiber to my house; the first hour of fiber and Pi-Hole were dicey; I am trying to tidy my house 10 minutes at a time; I am working on Spanish with telenovelas and one page at a time; I am selling grampa stuff one weird coin at a time.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 18 2024.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Billy Treacy and the Scope
• "The End" by Billy Treacy and the Scope on YouTube
• Mike Wozniak on the Taskmaster Podcast
• Junior Taskmaster
• Three Bean Salad Podcast
• Pi-Hole
• Yo Soy Betty La Fea
• geniodiabolico@bookrastinating.com is my Bookwyrm account
• My Keybase account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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