Stone Ape Podcast

Heron likes the Stone Ape format. Heron needs a technological communication update. Tom digs deeper into damn skippy. Tom gives an account of early Twitter interacting with Google. Tom recommends a documentary on J. D. Salinger and talks about publish's last hurrah. They wander through a request by Mats to produce When the Flowers Died, involving Tom reliving his drive to Silicon Valley and a drive around Tasmania. Tom draws the conversation to buying and owning houses. They rap on cannabis dispensaries. Mats gets them going on the justice system. They conclude on a familiar theme and a question for the future from Toni Ryan.

Heron asks about Tom's cat. Tom kicks off the show with a Marie Camacho question to each host. Tom moves from mail order shirts to California law. Tom offers part three of what we should do relating to currency. Let's offer multiple kinds of currency to effect different actions. Tom has been exploring hillbilly currency. YouTube stores all your public memories. Will computation equal biology? In the Santa Cruz Mountains biology has the upper hand. Chris Abbott has a question about LM conflict. From Tom's new television to buying an island presents an extreme transversing rap. Heron had a book from Tom. Tom doesn't know if he trusts Heron's taste in films. Tom returns to the failing of the 1960s social change. Heron may sound like a Constitutionalist to some. Heron wonders why suicide isn't more prevalent. Never commit a crime while writing your name in cement. Heron gets lost. Popcorn gives the blueprint. Tom is not prescribing the end.

Heron is faking it or perhaps is fracking it. Tom offers another thing that needs to change. We have computers so we don't need politicians. Tom provides a critical review of his Conscious in the Cloud series. Heron likes his tomatoes tasty. Lorraine asks a question about biological intelligence versus artificial intelligence. Andrew asks a question about Heron's past year. Tom talks about finding folks with complimentary skills. They jam on ducks and freeways. Heron wants to be cut up and fed to vultures. Tom recaps the premise of When the Flowers Died, a short story he wrote in his late teens. It was critical of the popular 1960s for not understanding inclusion or how exclusionary philosophies empower other groups. Somehow they wander into pimp culture. Heron becomes irritated at their scheduled break and starts talking about glasses. They compare Halloween costumes and chain diners. Heron talks about his four days in Vegas. Tom gives an account of prostitution in Nevada. Heron talks about his train set. T

Tom Barbalet presents the final talk at Conscious in the Cloud in response to the prior Conscious in the Cloud talk with Larry Yaeger.

Heron and Tom rap on Russell Brand. Tom raises the issue of double tap drone strikes and why young folks need to be mentored. The NSA should have done the health care website. Heron brings up room spinning experiences. Tom raises the work-a-day world versus the Amazonian folk. Joe the Drummer's question is finally asked. Tom wonders when stalking stories are reasonable and what it is like to live in the middle of no-where. Tom notes they have both missed the easy life through YouTube. Heron has a lot of recordings he's yet to put out. Tom drags Heron away from being hacked to death to explore vinyl records. Tom quizzed Heron what popular music does for him. Heron was once religious about Saturday Night. Tom returns to second hand books. Conscious in the Cloud may be changing its form. Tom provides a brief history of Biota. (Editorial note: Tom broke his streak following the recording, 59 days.) Tom raises dreaming with Heron. Heron has been talking to Tom about publishing. Tom explores the future of grocery s

Heron kicks off the show with some basics. Tom has one question for President Obama but not for his local Congresswoman. Tom provides a portrait of the insanity of health care in the US. Heron wants to know more about Tom's eyes. Tom found Heron's topic on child labor. Tom frames some parameters for listener submitted questions and they reflect that maybe they have just lampooned the listeners who have submitted questions previously. William Gibson just isn't weird enough for Tom. Forget the future. If language machines have motives where do these exist? Tom digresses into the authoritarian language machine. What role does emotions have in the language machine? Heron and Tom stumble through this question. Tom wants the Heron Stone lifestyle. Tom just can't be trailer park intelligentsia or hand-porn king. Tom doesn't want the listeners checking out Motor Club of America on YouTube. Tom asks why aren't those who're against it calling it the Unaffordable Care Act or Obama-Doesn't-Care? Tom has put his money whe

Heron hopes he offended someone but neither of them can remember what he said. Tom clearly doesn't like Australians. He hates everyone. Get used to it. What does a regular day look like in a post-Stonean world? Tom floats a flier and they discuss where the margins are in Bitcoins. Do you know the history of Apple Computer? Do you know who Ronald Wayne is? He has somehow inserted himself into computer history after about third years in obscurity. Wikipedia is like the cub scouts. Heron wants monks. When should you be a language monkey? Tom asks about the puppies. Tom wonders what the eagle monologue would be.

Tom had technical difficulties starting the call but he starts out with some disturbing photos for Heron to consider. Tom digresses into stories from the UK and an early Heron childhood story. Tom explores the NRA demographic through his YouTube analysis and from a group of about a hundred, one has come through. Heron and Tom disagree on militarism. Tom tries to explain his German experience in contrast to Heron's narrative. Heron pushes Marie's first question to the front of the topic list. New Zealand isn't that special compared to a bus station. Tom answers a question from KMO relatively solo. Peter Stempel steps up to the plate. Tom digresses into a discussion of Lord Hutton aka Bored Mutton. Tom raised capitalism and democracy. Heron gets bored with this topic and swings into a discussion of a movie he has seen recently and senses in general. With Tom's reformed mutant past, he has a lot to say about senses. Heron gives some optometrist optimism. Which sense would you opt to lose? Has Heron ruined the mo

Tom asks the listeners for more topics and throws into the Australian election. It turns out Tom is a 9/11 expert. Heron explores the military in an ideal world. They won't be taking callers going forwards. Tom wants to float a somewhat familiar name with Heron as the antithesis of the language monkey. Listeners if you like this idea, please make yourself heard. Tom tries to get Heron to explore nature and nurture. Tom offers two other components self-motivation and luck. Heron offers some exercises about how to think about something. Tom offers a dreamt solution to this problem too. Tom briefly delves into Noble Ape but returns to the Bonobo woman (Vanessa Woods). Tom throws out the comic book project and fan hate associated with Tom moving on. Tom asks how the listeners can pick up new listeners. Tom explores happiness through intellectual and genetic descendants. Tom moves the topic towards death and tomatoes. Will Heron and Tom rap in squish in the future? Maybe Ray K. too? Steve Jobs and iOS rounds out t

Heron thinks diversity is okay. Heron needs to accept his new status. They explore the brain-damaged language monkey scum. Tom offers some discussion on advanced Stonean concepts. Tom talks about a string instrument purchase and brain-damaged musicians. Tom raises a Joe the Drummer question on conformists and non-conformists. Tom discusses the dead-beat-dads of artificial life. Heron presents Tom's next artificial life persona. They explore family and Heron reveals he has a family too. Tom talks about the history of 9/11 in the context of the sanctions on Iraq. Marie asks about Mike Hastings death. Rolf Harris has fallen hard and he can't get up. A camera is important to the comic book project.

Heron admits to being a rabid language monkey for a day thanks to Time-Warner. Heron wants to get the listeners on to Teamspeak but Tom thinks Heron should go to the listeners. Tom raises a listener question on the language machine and disassociating from it. A professional frisbee Neanderthal friend of Heron's distracts the main topic for a minute or two. Tom talks about the formality of radio and when it fails, it fails hard. Tom talks about talking in squish and puts an idea out to the Stone Ape listenership. Tom answers a question from a listener about the death of VR. (Editorial note: It is Magic Alex not Electronic Alex.) Books are the topic of another listener submitted question. To be expected a comic book update moves into Heron is Breaking Bad. Tom decides to air some dirty tshirt laundry. Heron wants to emulate Charlie Mason in terms of tattoos. Heron portrays himself at 16. Tom talks about the ideas farm and the role of KS on this. What happens when you can't speak? Tom tries to call some listener

Tom Barbalet brings the C-Realm's KMO and Polyworld's Larry Yaeger together to discuss artificial life in the cloud. The audience presents questions to the three participants and the ethics of artificial life in the cloud is explored.

Erik Davis' show on the Progressive Radio Network is taken over by Tom Barbalet and KMO. The State will never be the same again.

Heron explores the crying child. Tom found a body while walking. Heron does well in trouble. Tom ponders how you unseat a monarchy. Tom received an interesting letter and wants to create Skateopia for his kind of people. They discuss reincarnation. Tom has heard a familiar story in the wild. Heron is still in rehab. Tom talks about alcohol in Australia versus the US. They discuss the archetype versus the stereotype. This becomes a three topic dive and returning to the original topic. Tom manages to throw in a Noble Ape topic or two. Tom rolls into a small comic book update and then describes dolly. They explore food porn. Heron has listened to Model Rail Radio and although he isn't becoming a railroader, he likes the style. They chat podcasting. Heron once respected Tom. Once. Tom explores the temporal nature of Noble Ape contributors. Tom is worried that Heron may be too formal to collaborate with a front person in squish. Somehow they start rapping on New York.

Heron can't combine Facebook and Skype. The eagles are nearly cruising down the highway. (Editorial note: Tom misspells Pallas cat.) They explore television versus Ray K. Heron and Tom may open the lines on a future show. Tom explores the archetype of the frequently contacting fan of Noble Ape. Stone Ape is a virus, a dangerous virus, be careful who you infect. Heron explores outsourcing components of Stone Ape. Tom is looking to optimize his audio recording and production. Tom thinks artificial life development requires idealism. Comic books however need some shared realism. Heron doesn't want to meet you. But RAW and Heron have met. Tom talks about longterm isolation and the whistleblower. Tom still finds himself watching JFK conspiracy documentaries every now and again. The topic shifts to the 7 Up series, most recently 56 Up. Heron has been to a meeting in squish recently. Tom asks questions about this experience and raises the crying child. Tom wraps up with a plug for JoeTheDrummer, Reddit and his books

Three Toms get together to discuss Reddit and artificial life, two of the Toms introduce their backgrounds, Tom Barbalet answers questions from Reddit on Noble Ape and they talk about how to create a substantial artificial life project with integrity.

Heron may soon be puppy-less. So he raises genetic perfection and talks about burning bits of his head. Tom offers the social contract relating to sexuality. Tom talks about California prisons. There has been a flood of participants for Tom's trialogue. Tom talks about Osprey books and the comic book project. They digress into employing tax professionals. Tom raises an idea versus the delivery of a product. Heron has been targeted by singlemuslim dot com too. Tom talks about re-invention through moving and through not moving. He provides a brief vignette of his life in Vegas. They talk about the artificial dichotomy between cats and dogs. Tom purchased some Ray K. They discuss Einstein as a temporal perfect storm. Tom returns to the sexual contract to offer a broader definition and talks about periodicity and fixed-times. Why do pseudonyms suck? They both suspect Marie is a pseudonym and they dig deep into 23andme. Tom floats the Zimmerman trial as a topic and the cover of Rolling Stone. Tom introduces Heron

Heron is okay. Heron provides a puppy update. He has some ideas about raising children versus raising puppies. It's stunning Tom lets him rap on this for so long. Tom must be tired. Peter Stempel should be selling foxes. No more singing John Wayne's teeth but Tom will read some Ray. They deconstruct poetry. Are there wise elderly people or did they just get disgusted with the whole thing? They explore Kevingate briefly. Also model railroaders aren't typically Swedish bikini models, Stone Ape listeners appear to be different. Tom tells of a meal in Carmel adding a little enlightenment. This podcast is brought to by singlemuslim dot com. Singlemuslim dot com breaks all prior stereotypes and identifies that women under burqa need good loving too. The second site worth plugging is joethedrummer dot com. Joethedrummer dot com presents some questions for the show. Tom asks if genocide can have any primacy or is it just a story. Heron says he doesn't care, it's part of the old story. Maybe Heron does care, he can't

Tom and K talk about professional podcasting, books and cats. Tom raises the effects of PG-13 on the zombie movie. They discuss domestic armed drones and what happened to the news.

It's hot in both the south San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles. Heron is really a nice guy. Honest. Heron likes puppies. What more do you need to know you damn language monkey! Tom is concerned that all the language monkey talk will turn new listeners off. Tom has no hope for the future but his day-to-day is full of hope. Heron can't dance with wolves. They discuss the poetry of Ray. Tom will be talking with a number of folks over the weekend and also be talking in squish. What does literacy do the the language machine? The books keep leaving the Barbalets. It isn't important how people died. Heron has no time to read 1984. Tom owes Heron a video and want to wrap the show up for a cold bath.