Jason Scott

Have we hit the point when I ask @redlettermedia if I can have copies of all the tapes they're digitizing

Babbage's combed with Software, etc. The holding company rebranded as Neostar, and then Neostar bought EB Games, before the whole thing dumped over to Barnes and Noble, and was rebranded Gamestop. There is a non-zero chance your Gamestop was once a Babbage's.

One thing about getting up around episode 135 for a podcast - I've long ago given up knowing how good or bad an episode is received; I can't tell in the editing. People like ones I don't and nobody responds to ones I'm proud of; the key is just keep going.

Shout-out to the teachers who tried their best to tell a bunch of children complicated subjects and it was doomed from the start, though. I had a teacher try to explain to us in 1980 about Nixon resigning and why, and we were 10

For what it's worth, I consider her a critical lesson in "Hey, sometimes you're going to be fed clunkers, and you gotta do a little bit of heavy lifting yourself to track down the facts."

As a sequel, on "Hat Day" where we all got to wear Hats (and mine was taken away, because it was a boot), the other teachers were cool with it, but this one explained to us that as 50% of our body heat leaves through our heads, wearing our hats all day would overheat our brains.

4th grade teacher told us that drinking orange juice in the mornings would eventually kill us, because our bodies were not designed to withstand cold liquid into our stomachs that early in the morning.

Before Dr. Twitter weighs in - this is a Statin, it is making my liver gaflooky so I don't get as much cholesterol, and I would love to lose the weight to get off this thing but that has been Pand-ifficult.

(I assure you, I am not having a heart attack.)