Grace and I have a long chat about this and that. First, food: Purim treats; a strategy for making virus-safe yogurt; building your food stash. Then, reading: we’re reading The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin together. Paul discusses other books he’s been reading, including: the Lockwood & Co. series by Jonathan Stroud, Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, Goliath by Max Blumenthal, and others. We give a special shout-out to Detroit Specials Used Books. Finally, we discuss the very long, tedious, and frustrating process of trying to safely get health care from a medical practice that won’t take either precautions or accountability.
I’d like to recommend Detroit Specials Used Books.
I mentioned the following books and authors:
Due to misfiring synapses and numerous interruptions by Potts children while we were recording, I was not able to bring to mind the name of writer Simon R. Green, but I want to mention him here, as I intended to bring up his work when I discussed the Lockwood & Co. series. I enjoyed all twelve Nightside novels, also “low fantasy,” and the first few of his Secret History novels, but particularly relevant to this discussion are his Ghost Finders books that follow a team from the Carnacki Institute as they battle supernatural incursions in the present day. That said, be aware that I don’t consider Green’s writing to be very good; I had to give up on the Ghost Finders books after the second. But I do appreciate the way his works make frequent references to the works of others!
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Grace and I have a long and rambling conversation. Topics: how we accidentally wound up with 450 pounds of Hubbard Squash; becoming better prepared for disruptions in the availability of foods; the state of infectious diseases and the public health response; DOGE and the biggest conflict of interest in history.
Here is a direct link to the MP3 file, which should work with most browsers.
The Podcast feed is here.
This episode is also on YouTube here. It is audio-only. Note that because I often use brief clips of copyrighted music, YouTube may insert ads or block viewing in some locations (for example, some episodes can’t be viewed in Cuba). Even if a video can be played now, there is no guarantee YouTube won’t change these permissions in the future.
The Podcast episodes playlist on YouTube, which should show all available episodes, is here.