After getting to hang out in person for a long weekend, we talk about our relationship with an old friend, and how that friend is being treated these days. We also spend about a third of the episode talking about Quasimoto “The Unseen”, now one of the greats of turn of the millenia hip hop. Links, etc Music: Quasimoto “The Unseen”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Madlib, The Bad Kid Kool Kieth/Dr Octagon Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (Stones Throw Doc) On The Media: The American War on Drugs 

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Episode 51: Trees

BOOSH! It has been forever. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes of a really shitty year, here we are, giggling, waxing poetic about food and music, and ready to deliver more of what you want. What was that again? Links, etc Music: War on Drugs “Touch of Gray”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify Our Friend Rob Carmichael’s Ep Fleishers closing in Kingston Applestone Meat Co (Vending Machines) Book: Jeremy Fox “On Vegetables” Book: Josh McFadden “Six Seasons” Duo Restaurant + Pantry, Kingston Oxalis, aka Wood Sorrel 

Episode 50: On my Spring Ish

We can’t stop thinking about a certain vegetable and we dedicate an entire episode to discussing its history, science, and some of our favorite recipes. Also a new segment where MRB presents some of his deepest cuts. Links, etc Music: Khun Narin “Chakim”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Paper: History and Iconography of Eggplant - Purdue University Book: Hot Sour Salty Sweet Recipe: Best Eggplant Dish Ever Book: On Food and Cooking Book: Land of Plenty Recipe: Fish Fragrant Eggplant Book: Zahav Recipe: The Food Lab’s babaganouj Recipe: Frankies Eggplant Brain Jam: Grant Green’s Visions Bonus Jammer: Baby Face Willette 

Episode 49: The King of Vegetables

WE ARE BACK. Don’t adjust your dials or whatever doohickeys the kids are playing with these days. After a long hiatus we’re back to recording. In this episode we play a little catch up, talk about progress of The Pizza Book, and MRBs forays into creating a community. Links, etc Music: Joe Mcphee “Nation Time”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify LFO - We Are Back Fire Music Documentary Indy Hall Alex Hillman PUT THIS IN YOUR FACE: Japanese Milk Bread (NYTimes Recipe) 

Episode 48: We Are Back

Idalin is someone we’ve been trying for a while now to get on the show and talk to. Her talk at StrangeLoop this past Fall has been on our minds and a topic of conversation since. Her work in community building and outreach through technology is inspiring but her strong voice and perspective is something we feel like our community of technologists needs. We got to talk about her feelings on the tech community in general, her roots in activism and tech, and more. There was a little technical difficulty with this episode so please excuse AQ doing his shitty Ira Glass impression. Links, etc Music: Beyoncé “Formation”, Chosen by Idalin. Our Special Guest: Idalin Bobé Black Capitalism (Wikipedia) ThoughtWorks Idalin’s talk at StrangeLoop 

Episode 47: Activism and Technology with Idalin Bobé

We revisit one of our favorite subjects sandwiches, but sort-of. Are tacos sandwiches? Does it matter? They are delicious and we share some of our recent exploits and inspirations and complain about the dearth of good sandwiches in our respective areas. Links, etc Music: Dur-Dur Band “Dooyo”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Awesome Tapes From Africa The Sporkful Hot Dog Debate Tacos: Recipes and Provocations (Book) Alinea Empellon NYC Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen Toplobampo Restaurant CHI Diana Kennedy Guisados LA Pal’s takeaway (Now in Oakland) ChefSteps bagel recipe Johnny’s on 25th st 

Episode 46: Sandwiches are the best: The Tacos Edition

We finally tracked down one of our old friends and collaborators David Nolen for a chat. David is one of the few people we can talk fluently about all 3 of our primary topics with, so we caught up about David’s recent trip to Korea, ClojureScript, and experimental music and film. Links, etc Music: Nico “The End”, Chosen by David. Spotify Our Special Guest: David Nolen aka @swannodette Nico Icon (Whole File on YouTube) David and MRB’s talk at strangeloop Jeju Black Pig Jagalchi Fish Market Makgeolli David’s JSCONF Play talk ClojureScript MRB’s friends talk 

Episode 45: Ideas and Octopus with David Nolen

The same systems that cause failure are the ones that create success - so why do we blame them? We talked to Dave Zweiback, about his book “Beyond Blame” and what makes positive and healthy teams. Links, etc Music: Peter Rowan “Raven”, Chosen by Dave Spotify Our Special Guest: Dave Zwieback @mindweather Buy Dave’s book: Beyond Blame - bit.ly/beyondblame Bill Monroe George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” George Harrison VH1 Interview Peter Senge Thinking Fast and Slow John Allspaw Knight Capital Story BUY THE PIZZA BOOK 

Episode 44: Blame and Bias with Dave Zwieback

We kick of the new year discussing a topic thats frequently on both of our minds at work: Technical Debt. Where does Tech debt come from? What does it mean for different sizes of teams? Can you “fix it”? Links, etc Music: The Temptations “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify Norman Whitfield MRB’s work: Code Climate Hire AQ Dan Luu Blog Post Peter Seibel blog post/talk AQ’s blog post 

Episode 43: Technical Debt

After reflecting on 2015, we look forward to 2016 and what we want to accomplish and who we want to be. What are your resolutions for the new year? This is the last episode of 2015 and we’re feeling very grateful for every one who supported us this year. You all are dope. Links, etc Music: Taylor McFerrin “Degrees of Light”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify mrb’s pottery Hire AQ Preserving The Japanese Way Getting things Done Fogus’s 100:10:1 MBTI: Meyers Briggs 

Episode 42: Resolutions 2016

We look back on the year 2015 and talk about the things we accomplished, the world around us changing, and razor clams. Links, etc Music: Erykah Badu “Cel U Lar Device”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify How to Build a Wood Oven Between the World and Me JSCONF Last Call Papers We Love Catskills Conf Kendrick Lamar Vince Staples Rose’s Luxury Superiority Burger Floating Points Cal Pep, Barcelona 

Episode 41: 2015

We got together late night (or late for us) after a long Thanksgiving weekend to talk about music and our latest projects including gravy and bagels. Links, etc Music: Floating Points “Nespole”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Ruhlman turkey stock A Tribe Called Quest “peoples .. “ Reissue Velvet Underground “matrix tapes” Abby Denson (aq’s cousin) Hammelman BREAD Reinhart Crust and Crumb Nancy Silverton La Brea Bakery Breads Diane Kennedy Tortilla book Alex Stupak “Tacos” Mission Chinese Food Cookbook 

Episode 40: The Quiet Storm

In case you hadn’t heard, We launched a Kickstarter Campaign last week to raise money to get the first edition of “The Pizza Book” printed and in your hands. In this episode we talk to the real talent behind the book, Steve Berry, who is helping us design, formulate, and generally make the Pizza Book something awesome. We talk about his design origins, the rules of subjectivity, and of course, the book. Links, etc Music: Ours “Sometimes”, Chosen by Steve. Spotify Our Special Guest: Steve Berry, @thoughtmerchant The Pizza Book! Preorder Now Diegetic Sound Material Design Article about Sound Issues 

Episode 39: The Pizza Book with Steve Berry

We’re lucky to call awesome people who live across the ocean our friends. We especially love Mathias Meyer, CEO of Travis CI, who helped us score a hat trick of topics this episode. We talk about testing headphones, butchers in Berlin, finding balance as a manager, and how Europe is so different from the United States. Links, etc Music: Animals as Leaders “Cafo”, Chosen by Mathias. Spotify Taylor Swift ‘Bad Blood’ Video Toby Sterrett @takeo Animals as Leaders “CAFO” Video Michael Pollan “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” Mathias’s Blog Camille Fournier on BRT “This is Why People Leave Your Company” 

Episode 38: The Importance of Slack with Mathias Meyer

Why is smaller better when it comes to software and community? We talk to a kindred grumpy old man, Justin Searls about some of the finer points of building communities, open source maintership, and the good old days of when you could understand your damn video game platform. Links, etc Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson “Part 5/The Sun’s Gone Dim and the Sky’s Turned Black”, Chosen by Justin. Spotify Our Special Guest, Justin Searls (@searls) Columbus, Ohio Old Man Yells At Cloud Justin’s keynote at Ruby Conf 2014 Justin’s emoruby: emoji to Ruby compiler Steve Klabnik Test Double The Rust Programming Language MINASWAN CoffeeScript “Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller” The MEAN stack Yeoman Matthias Felleisen The Racket Programming Language John McCarthy Jewel Bots Little Bits Mitsuwa Market Graeter’s Jeni’s Ice Cream 

Episode 37: Small is Good with Justin Searls

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