We want to take IMHO up a notch. This is a place where we look for something new in old stories and something old in new ones. Along the way we hope to smile, laugh, and learn something as we try to connect the dots on the elusive leopard we call life. <br/><br/><a href="https://radagastbrown.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">radagastbrown.substack.com</a>
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We want to take IMHO up a notch. This is a place where we look for something new in old stories and something old in new ones. Along the way we hope to smile, laugh, and learn something as we try to connect the dots on the elusive leopard we call life. <br/><br/><a href="https://radagastbrown.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">radagastbrown.substack.com</a>
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May 31, 2026
So Cute that It Will Takeover Your Life...
<p>Martin and Kouji use Ted Chiang’s short story The Lifecycle of Software Objects as a platform to discuss the concept of personhood, inequity, and the political process. Along the way, Martin admits to failing the Turing Test and hunting culinary heretics.</p><p>If you find this conversation interesting, and even if you don’t, look for Ted Chiang’s collection of short stories, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538034/exhalation-by-ted-chiang/">Exhalation</a> where this story resides. You can probably find it if you search on the story title from some errant English class that didn’t lock down their site. But I think he is an author worth having on your bookshelf, even if your bookshelf is in the cloud.</p><p>Four AI songs help you get through the meandering. Do you find them amusing, or annoying? Please subscribe and leave your thoughts in the comments section.</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to In my professional opinion... at <a href="https://radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 1, 2026
You Only Live/Kill/Die/Knock/Mock Twice?
<p>Martin and Kouji use the 1967 James Bond film set in Japan to discuss ecological disaster, class conflict, and the true meaning of power in LOTR. </p> <br/><br/>Get full access to In my professional opinion... at <a href="https://radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 15, 2026
If Life Is a Simulation, Who Should Write the Game?
<p>This episode allows Martin and Kouji to flex their nerd gaming muscles. Hear Martin seethe over my shallow grasp of legacy graphic engines. I attempt to return serve with an origin story of Halo, but it is too little too late… game, set, and match Mr. Killman.</p><p>The foundational piece of media for this conversation is a 30 minute stand alone episode in Apple TV’s Mythic Quest called <a target="_blank" href="https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/a-dark-quiet-death/umc.cmc.1lq91xrf07nyf61iezzgchyct?showId=umc.cmc.1nfdfd5zlk05fo1bwwetzldy3">Dark Quiet Death</a>. Aside from providing fertile material for my AI songs, the episode is one of my favorite pieces of television. If you don’t have Apple TV, spend the $3.99 to watch this show, but you can still listen to the song and get the gist of the show.</p><p>We discuss the tension between creativity and commercialization. It is a fine balance that is hard to nurture and even harder to maintain.</p><p>Is there any piece of media that you would like to see deconstructed in my professional opinion? Let us know. And definitely let Martin know if the AI songs bring joy into your life.</p><p>Some notes for the not-so-nerdish, I don’t think Martin’s RPG hobbies are rocket propelled grenades, they are role playing games.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to In my professional opinion... at <a href="https://radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">radagastbrown.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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