22. Podcast
We were going to call this podcast "Podcastism,\u201d which means nothing \u2014 even to us \u2014 yet we wanted to mark this as somehow different from what this (Baffling Combustions) is as we explore the nature, origin and future of this medium that took off with the introduction of the iPod in the early \u201800s and shows no sign of sunsetting (unlike its initial vehicle of transmission). Highlights include riffs around the \u201cperfect podcast\u201d (this might be it!), 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY, William Burroughs (the \u201ccut up\u201d method), the exigencies of Ambitheism (Sparrow\u2019s religious homebrew), Rodney Dangerfield and John Cage. This podcast was recorded a few days after the death of the sage Ram Dass on December 22, 2019 (before our world turned upside down).