Adam Leventhal

You know, we should make some more of those oxide and friends stickers. Like those are, those are good stickers. And we were sending them out to folks who helped with the show notes, which really appreciate it. So I'll keep on doing that in 2025.

That's right. Alan and James were very apprehensive about joining the show. James went to Guitar Center, got a microphone, brought it home, didn't like it. He was expressing his anxiety about being on the show in acoustic quality.

That's right. Alan and James were very apprehensive about joining the show. James went to Guitar Center, got a microphone, brought it home, didn't like it. He was expressing his anxiety about being on the show in acoustic quality.

and yeah alan you listen to it much james i mean we're not you know seriously and then yeah very nervous i was like alan look nobody's gonna care about this thing like nobody's gonna listen to it like it's gonna be fine it's just for us uh and it was great and it was like it was yeah that's i you know what i think sometimes you give people what they need to hear i think and i think that's what he needed to hear in that moment thank you very much okay okay you know what that sounds great yeah

and yeah alan you listen to it much james i mean we're not you know seriously and then yeah very nervous i was like alan look nobody's gonna care about this thing like nobody's gonna listen to it like it's gonna be fine it's just for us uh and it was great and it was like it was yeah that's i you know what i think sometimes you give people what they need to hear i think and i think that's what he needed to hear in that moment thank you very much okay okay you know what that sounds great yeah

But also I lied to him because it's one of our most downloaded shows.

But also I lied to him because it's one of our most downloaded shows.

Yeah. And Ben was kind of freaked out about that. He was not happy that he was being called a... I don't know. Like a sucker or whatever by this esteemed professor.

Yeah. And Ben was kind of freaked out about that. He was not happy that he was being called a... I don't know. Like a sucker or whatever by this esteemed professor.

Yeah. I mean, you know there's one more that I want to do that I've been asking for. So now I'm going to do my airing of grievances.

Yeah. I mean, you know there's one more that I want to do that I've been asking for. So now I'm going to do my airing of grievances.

It's time to air your grievances. It's been a minute now, but we, you, me, Rain, Dave, a bunch of folks, debugged a really nasty, really complicated issue. that maybe I won't even spoil, but there was a moment in debugging. You know that debugging is going great when Dave and I were like, Brian, we think that this might be a virtual memory bug of some description.

It's time to air your grievances. It's been a minute now, but we, you, me, Rain, Dave, a bunch of folks, debugged a really nasty, really complicated issue. that maybe I won't even spoil, but there was a moment in debugging. You know that debugging is going great when Dave and I were like, Brian, we think that this might be a virtual memory bug of some description.

And you said, okay, let's say you can make a bug with your mind. How would that bug work? I mean, when we're like, look, nothing is making sense. Yeah, exactly. How do we invent something that would conceivably justify it? And you're right. It did seem like... Almost like we were saying, what if the computer is haunted?

And you said, okay, let's say you can make a bug with your mind. How would that bug work? I mean, when we're like, look, nothing is making sense. Yeah, exactly. How do we invent something that would conceivably justify it? And you're right. It did seem like... Almost like we were saying, what if the computer is haunted?

You're like, okay, describe that deceased person's previous life that caused them to inhabit this computer.

You're like, okay, describe that deceased person's previous life that caused them to inhabit this computer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What are some of the episodes, other episodes that we need to go, uh, I don't, you know, if, if I knew that we would have, we would not be thinking Monday mornings about what episode we should do next. Um, I do have some like stretch goals for 2025 that I'm, and this, like, this is one of these ones, like I need you not to laugh, but I think that it's possible. So first of all, yeah, yeah.