PODCAST
We were going to call this podcast "Podcastism,” which means nothing — even to us — 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 ‘00s and shows no sign of sunsetting (unlike its initial vehicle of transmission). Highlights include riffs around the “perfect podcast” (this might be it!), 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY, William Burroughs (the “cut up” method), the exigencies of Ambitheism (Sparrow’s 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).