Summary:

It's been a while! The boys meet in a local establishment to discuss Jody's only topic idea in a long time...'scale'; How do you scale as a human?

Recording in public made Jody self-conscious, but Matt still talks a bunch about the education system.

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Jody had to scale immediately to 2 children

• ...he's still struggling with that.

Matt scales his knowledge to N-students-per-day

• Matt might be able to adjust value of N to be inspiring or depressing how depressing this number might be.
• Jody was impressed with Matt's handling of Net Neutrality for his students
  • Matt answers with direct call to action to vote...nice way to scale that message :)
  • take opportunity to discuss NN since it went well at the Indy over the holidays

A bit of SpaceX talk led into recommendations:

• Elon tried to catch the Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat named Mr. Steven

• Matt says the boat's name is a reference to a sci-fi book series, but couldn't come up with the title at the time...
  • It's the "Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks
    • Other SpaceX boat names come from these books (like "Of Course I Still Love You" and "Just Read the Instructions"), but the origin of the good-ship Mr. Steven is unclear
• Matt had never heard of Ray Kurzweil
  • You might recognize the name as a brand of music synthesizer from the 1980s (same guy)
  • Or you might also be hoping that The Singularity Is Near and that you'll soon be able to live forever once you upload your mind into...well, something other than your body
• One of Jody's top sci-fi pics is Altered Carbon
  • Which now has new life as a heavily-promoted Netflix series
  • Jody watched immediately and recommends, even if it goes to far with the ultra-violence

Matt's new/expensive hobby...Airsoft Army LARP-ing!

• Matt's foam sword gun:
• Dr. Katz...you know what the music means

Podcast picks:

• Jody:
  • This Week in Virology (the kind that make you sick)
    • Don't judge it by the terrible intro music
    • Can be super-technical when they review virology papers, but stick around for science-communication, funding, or public health discussions
    • This interview w/Dr. Julius Youngner was a great episode
  • Malicious.life
    • This one happened to be top of Jody's feed when Matt asked for picks
    • Dig the host's great accent!
    • The 3-episode arc covering Stuxnet is a good jump-off point (Stuxnet Part 1, Stuxnet Part 2, Stuxnet Part 3)
  • Story Pirates...for the kids
  • Command Line Heroes
• Matt:
  • Omnibus, Jody & Matt's podcasting/music hero John Roderick w/everyone's Jeopardy hero Ken Jennings...what's not to like?
    • (other than the annoying house-ads)
  • Friendly Fire (another John Roderick vehicle)
  • MBMBaM (My Brother, My Brother and Me)
  • Oh No Ross & Carrie
  • I Only listen to the Mountain Goats
  • Still Processing
  • Slow Burn (a Slate.com show about Watergate)