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Okay, this made waves five years ago, but I've only recently heard. Its not perfect and certainly has it's own bias (which shows increasingly near end), but is amazingly successful on accomplishing a nearly impossible task - sympathetically setting the social context on why people would join the Peoples Temple and follow Jim Jones to Guyana and the Kool-Aid. It might just be the most compassionate series I've ever heard and even in the prologue you sense it's the podcast you didn't know you needed. Heavy diversions into the worldwide Communist struggle, SDS, Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc. GOD’S SOCIALIST: THE RISE AND FALL OF PEOPLES’ TEMPLE https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/gods-socialist-the-rise-and-fall-of-peoples-temple Start: https://www.martyrmade.com/podcast-parts/11-gods-socialist-prologue or https://content.blubrry.com/martyrmade_podcast/Jonestown1.mp3 Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-martyrmade-podcast/id978322714?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6bVxCGj6FBEVSmIzdzer3K&ved=2ahUKEwjFwpDK7OmLAxXBCjQIHcf_BP0QFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Onl3v7ol4q1Q3SxXGwQQB

Sorry to hear Todd, but glad there was an opportunity for goodbyes. I know the near future is going to be very tough for you and Andrew so don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Hope it’s a great one.

Not likely for anyone here, but…

Saturday was either clean the house or watch TV, so the entire season of Hijack.

^ Arnold, nearby Mercer Caves and Moaning Caverns, and Murphy's wine tasting were our semi hide from the pandemic trips. Hope you all have a blast.

Been rainy here, but trying to record the rapidly disintegrating, once great Alviso next door (I've mentioned before). Almost no remaining connection to the surrounding Silicon Valley (Polycom and TiVo once had their HQs there), except the tech bros/brogrammers who visit the TopGolf near the town border. This time with a Hassy 500cm, II 50c back and Zeiss F4 Distagon CF T*.

Good start to the season, even with Posey’s accent.

Went to The Museum of American Heritage (MOAH) in downtown Palo Alto. Easy to miss, and well, you probably want to miss, but there is a small Just for the Record: Classic Players & Phonographs! exhibit for a few more weeks (Open October 18, 2024 to March 2, 2025). Again small, but if you happen to find yourself in Palo Alto.

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Slightly less explicit here.

Let's Do It Again soundtrack by The Staple Singers and Curtis Mayfield Ex.

Watching some cool old ladies rocking

Pretty great life. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/30/marianne-faithfull-singular-icon-of-british-pop-dies-aged-78 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2025/jan/30/marianne-faithfull-a-life-in-pictures

Anyone else spend hours listening to young people reaction videos? #anyone #bueller #tobeyoungagain #fucktrump

According to the PictureThis app "This plant looks healthy!" and is 46 years old. Take that DeepSeek.

Blu-ray is dying. Long live tape. https://www.techradar.com/pro/blu-ray-is-dying-so-i-believe-its-now-time-for-obsolete-tape-to-shine-again-in-the-strangest-of-ironies

Old Timothée Dylan

Interesting. Thanks! I don't believe I've ever heard of D-VHS, but seems like an oasis of Bikini Destinations titles.

Damn. Okay, just need to buy every desired disc that may leave streaming in the next 20+ years. Wait, Sony is ceasing MiniDiscs too? Betamax is still safe though, right?