Tea: Yiwu Sheng Puer. Damon talks about going to PAX. Michael talks about spy technology. Also: Michael calls Damon a lush, Damon threatens to slap Michael, Kenny G, nuns, D&D, liquids on electrical equipment, not knowing how to speak languages, gamification, fake movies, carbon paper, technology in the US presidential election, encryption, and Leonard Nimoy’s birthday.
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Show notes
- The tea ware we used for this episode
- Info and images about the Yiwu region in Yunnan province, China
- PAX (Penny Arcade Expo, NOT Latin)
- Child’s Play and more on Wikipedia
- Dragonflight convention
- Everway, and one of Michael’s products for it
- Obduction, now launched!
- Through the Woods and the demo download
- Trollhunter
- Stonehearth
- A review with more details about Japanese: The Game (there is indeed a pronunciation guide)
- The Justice Pitcher — Episode 4
- Not to be confused: 简体字 (jiǎntǐzì, “simplified Chinese characters”) vs. 贱蹄子 (jiàntízi, “lowly wench”) — different written characters, and different tones, but the same phoenetic syllables.
- Willapa Bay Oysters documentary
- Spy: The Secret World of Espionage
- Spy (BBC reality TV show)
- Argo on IMDB
- Microdot
- Insectothopter
- Charlie the robotic spy catfish
- TURN: Washington’s Spies
- Bone conduction
- Dead drops
- Tech and the Presidential Race
- One-time pads
- NSA hacking tools leaked (Washington Post story)
- Kryptos, the sculpture
- The Voynich Manuscript — 15th century, not 13th. An article about the 10 words.
- Video about the DMCA “illegal number,” and also a good intro to the importance of keys in cryptolography
- New York master key story
Our theme music was written by Lisa Purdy.
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