Episodes
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Postscript: Extinction Event [August 9, 2020]
Heron is working with the same gentleman in Hungary from the last recording. They provide mutual updates. Heron was abusively spamming which caused this recording. Tom wants to know about Heron's lighter interests. Heron is no longer an aged degenerate. What about leaving the US? What happened to...
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Reunion: Throw a Monkey Brother A Strange Instrument [October 12, 2018]
Things have changed for Heron in terms of virtual space and health. Things have changed for Tom too. Tom got a lot of hate mail when Stone Ape ended. Heron hasn't left the US yet. Tom and Heron are in opposite positions once again but they are both reading the same kinds of books. Heron doesn't...
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Simulcast: Noble Ape Sub-Project: the Mushroom Boy [April 2, 2018]
Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about the Mushroom Boy sub-project.
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Simulcast: Noble Ape Sub-Project: Noble Warfare [April 2, 2018]
Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about the Noble Warfare sub-project.
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Simulcast: Early Morning Weather Development [April 1, 2018]
Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about what he's working on at 3am.
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Simulcast: Why is Noble Ape Free? [March 31, 2018]
Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about why the software and documentation is free.
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Simulcast Long Funk 4. High Desert War Games [December 27, 2017]
Tom is puzzled by the few war gamers who live in the High Desert around Victorville, California. To subscribe go to http://www.longfunk.com/
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Simulcast Long Funk 1. Introducing the Format [December 9, 2017]
Tom introduces the podcast by discussing his many podcasts and what he has learnt from all these recording. To subscribe go to http://www.longfunk.com/
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162. Socratic Method [November 24, 2016]
Tom reflects on the feedback from listeners and Heron's interpretations. They explore Heron's Gendo Earth Calendar. Tom thinks the RV nomad YouTube community could be a market for Heron's calendar. Tom explores a militant group on YouTube that he can't access. Tom has given up on paper books but…
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161. Donald [November 9, 2016]
Heron works through some of his thoughts on the president elect. Tom gives some contrary points and talks about the kinds of analysis needed through this process. The Rolling Stones gave their permission for something so interesting. Would a rational person be president? Winter will impact…
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160. World Star Philosophers [October 19, 2016]
Tom explores the potential riots of San Jose and talks about a distant relations. Tom moves to a discussion of story rewriting with medications. Heron won the Sixties. Tom provides two YouTube resources for people with similar interests. Heron is introduced to World Star. Tom is a little bit old...
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159. Amputee Riot [September 23, 2016]
Tom has a created character for his YouTube toy soldier persona. Heron has seen the Weiner movie and the Woman Who Wasn't There. Tom wants to decompose some ideas. They discuss this idea of hierarchy in simulation. They discuss porn discoveries on others computers with some insights into Heron's...
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158. Compulsion [September 9, 2016]
Tom points out Heron is one step from Monty Python. They discuss Weiner. Tom stayed up to buy newish phone technology but really more disk space. Heron reminds Tom about a book topic. They discuss Youtube and the Internet Creators' Guild with a brief digression into subtitled rapping. Tom gives a...
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157. Live from the Hermitage [September 2, 2016]
Tom discovers there is an Earth out there. They briefly discuss Mexican food. Heron wants to explore the hermitage of the mind with a short exploration of Heron's former bad coworker. Can there be a good title to a book? Tom ponders some philosophy from Eminem. They discuss the paradoxes of San...
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156. Gang Prevention is Not Gang Prevention [August 26, 2016]
Heron is reading on things that Tom has not. Heron asks a question which produces an exploration through exhaustion. Tom turns the conversation to iNfant with some discussion on Bob Mottram's potential return. They discuss the abstract idea of collaboration. Tom beings a long narrative about how…
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155. Technical Word Jive [August 5, 2016]
Heron hasn't fully recovered. They talk about mutual health issues. Tom raises an issue which will cause him to make changes in the Stone Ape feed - what does loyalty, friendship and respect really look like with podcasts? Heron floats an idea of a computer simulation of the hearing and speech of…
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154.5 False Flag Feedback [July 22, 2016]
Heron has a quick film recommendation. Tom explains the recording last week in the context of Lorenzo Hagerty's podcast and some blunt listener feedback that was sufficiently eloquent to be considered Tom's own feedback presented as someone else's feedback. Heron presents a miracle and Tom is...
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154. Accidental Gardener [July 15, 2016]
Tom insisted on Skype and he asks about Heron's health. They try to discuss the commercialization proposition in California and why it is different than legalization/decriminalization. Heron likes being pain-free and film-recommendation-free. Tom went to a party/salon in the Santa Cruz area: it...
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153. A Man Who Has Never Embarrassed Himself to Us [July 8, 2016]
They are recording on Teamspeak. Heron has to kick out the video game players to record a show. They explore live video. Heron wants to explore their new audio platform. Tom raises some listener feedback and wants to see some listener responses. Tom questions Heron's hypochondria. Heron notes the...
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Please Support Stone Ape [July 4, 2016]
This Independence Day I am looking to increase awareness about the independent podcasts I produce. Please consider promoting Stone Ape today as a truely independent podcast. Please click this link http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html and promote a recent show you particularly enjoyed. Many...
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152. Pain and Irony [July 1, 2016]
The show starts with a mutual reboot of computers to try to improve pretty bad audio. Heron has a question for Tom about Noble Ape (for those reading along http://www.nobleape.com/man/philosophic.html too). Elections are so important. Tom starts the exploration of Brexit starting with Vegas 2007....
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151. You are Thinking of Ecstasy [June 17, 2016]
Tom is in his podcasting room. Heron has a film recommendation. Tom is taking a seminar and losing his memory. Tom wonders what the benefit is in reading primary sources. Are we living Children of Men? Tom is happy to be defective and he has been busted. Tom continues the trapping narrative....
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150. Green Study Survey Company is a Terrorist Group [June 10, 2016]
Tom plays pick this film topic. Heron has been thinking about fortresses of fascism. Tom is about to launch a new podcast. Tom asks why Heron isn't making money from his ideas and provides a San Jose Police Department update (with audio). A piece missing from the previous recording is added back…
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149: Minnesota's Polite TSA [May 27, 2016]
Tom introduces his trip. They talk about UK migration. Tom talks about his time in Leeds and Manchester. They discuss stately homes in the UK. Tom explains his deteriorating mental state. They explore the idea of the Alamo and listener Andy's perspective on Stone Ape. Heron has some choice words...
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148: Epistemological Chicken [May 6, 2016]
Heron might be able to touch-type soon. Tom talks about strange excuses for murder. They talk about Dear Zachary. They discuss OJ in LA. Tom has a confession for Heron and likes the sympathy of listeners. Tom has pushed aside the previous radical of a social group. Tom deconstructs the...
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147: Equal Time for Litter [April 22, 2016]
Heron has been pondering his health. Heron wonders about spam. Tom identifies coal mining porn. Tom recommends 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father' as the worst documentary of all time. Tom is going to Hell and talks about productivity. They discuss a missed participant. Tom tries…
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146: Pathologically Defective Bolinas [April 15, 2016]
They spend a minute talking about record stores and news agents. Tom explores Heron's broader audience of clown sushi fetishists. They share a battery problem story. Tom raises if organized religion can ever be inoffensive. Tom has changed his gardening practices. Tom recommends the Intelligence...
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145: If Bill Exists, He's an Idiot [March 25, 2016]
Heron has been having problems with Skype. Heron isn't doing this for you. Heron has found a potential investor but Tom remains skeptical. Tom has been investigating how to do this music thing. Tom is postponing the trip to the UK but built a greenhouse to improve his circumstances. Tom has been...
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144: The Old Neanderthal Ball [March 4, 2016]
Tom has woken in an alternative universe for a single issue at least. Heron hasn't collected the check from the most money he has made on Gendo in the past fifteen years. Tom ponders the genetic origins in the pattern of the narrative form with a long wander narrative about a cat thrown in. They...
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143: Prepubescent Playboy [February 26, 2016]
Heron thinks we all fit on spectrums. Tom turns the conversation to post-politics. Heron keeps one light bulb around for one purpose. They discuss the impact of pedophiles. Tom has been exploring audio options and accents. What happened to Heron's YouTube experiment? Tom is enjoying working on…
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142: Bikini Sumo [February 4, 2016]
[Editorial note: This recording was full of technical difficulties that have been removed - hopefully it won't sound too choppy.] Tom asks about Heron's new use of Google Hangouts. Briefly Tom explains a listener's predicament then back to the Hangouts discussion. Tom talks about another…
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141: Short Comings [January 22, 2016]
Heron gives a movie recommendation. Tom provides some feedback on previous Heron recommendations. Heron recommends a nemesis of Tom's and they agree about artificial life. Tom tackles the blue elephant in the room. What about trusting people?
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140: Twenty Cents Man [January 15, 2016]
Heron is exploring a new direction. Tom talks about a repressed memory. They continue to explore Heron's new direction. Heron finds Tom's response strange. Tom offers a topic of a random listener in Australia. CSB provides some great material with the Freedom Girls. Tom talks about the community...
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139: In the Key of A F... F... Fraud [January 8, 2016]
Heron has questions about data and the Internet Archive. Heron gives a hypothesis associated with sexuality: Tom disagrees. Tom returns to a topic from last week and talks about learning Arabic from an iOS app. Tom is done with being jaded. Heron asks Tom why he bothers. Tom describes a...
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Special: Technical Difficulties [January 2, 2016]
Tom tried to get Heron a signed book. Heron has been reflecting on his former love of coke (as in the cola). Tom finds a belated birthday gift. They explore people who don't use technology and look at different aspects of the medical profession.
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138: Christmas Sloth [December 25, 2015]
[Editorial Note: No summary intro to get the show out on Christmas Day.] Heron has some film recommendations. Tom raises the internet has changed choices for young people. Heron gets cheesy. They both recommend the Incredible String Band. They discuss both Hof(f)mans. Tom introduces the Guerrilla...
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137: Capitalism in the Key of A [December 4, 2015]
They start with questions from CSB. Tom decides to tackle CSB's question about creating art first. They dig into creating music and what has changed. Does a relationship kill productivity? They explore the second CSB question about health care in the US (or at least Tom frames it that way). Heron...
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136: Wonder in Windmills [November 27, 2015]
Hacking into Heron identifies the changes in scab technology. Tom has been pondering wonder and using the iPad Pro. The neighborhood is starting to get to Tom. They explore some extended theories about the Google bus and utopia. Cue the wine glass discussion as Tom wants to explore what gifts not...
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135: Ripping Open the Caterpillar [November 20, 2015]
Tom proposes a slight format change. They discuss a listener question associated with escaping the caterpillar. Tom offers some listener correspondence. Tom starts with the broad topic for the evening associated with the future. There is a digression into copyright and King Crimson. Heron…
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134: One of the Evil Elves [November 13, 2015]
Heron has been reading Autobiography of a Yogi and has some thoughts about it. Heron outlines Gendo for new listeners and Tom gives some deconstructions. Tom takes a little diversion through WWII military items into the listener question. What is the morality of change? Tom provides tips on...
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133: Saving the US Economy One Simulated Ape at a Time [October 30, 2015]
Heron wants to whine about life. Tom has been rescuing kittens and thinking about Chilean listeners. Tom talks about principles in podcasting and KickStarter. How about distinctions in various communities? Is the future a fabrication? Tom breaks down how open source saved the US tech economy.…
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132: Please Play This Audio at Target [October 21, 2015]
Heron has changed his mobile and had a chunk of his face removed. Zombified Tom wanders through time management. They explore what's to hate about people in particular us in our past. Tom tries a take through some technology. Tom is disgusted with the new Playboy but the Target hack is spot on.…
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131: Humanitarian Bombing [October 2, 2015]
Heron broke 170 pounds. Tom reflects on an interview and the political establishment of San Jose. Tom kicks off a topic on false memories. How do you move to the unknown? Tom had a re-awakening through a single mouse click.
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130: Jagger and the Whale [September 18, 2015]
Heron had a day of funk. They cast their minds back to 1935. Tom's community has been taking time. Heron had to pledge his elegance. RIP Wiccat. Harold and Maude provides some insight into Tom's childhood. Arson science and the weather are very similar. Van living narrative has captivated Tom.…
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129: Smoking a Cigarette with the Mouse Head Off [September 4, 2015]
Heron doesn't like being in a group. Should listeners embody this recording? Portland provided some interesting listeners. Tom breaks down some ideas about YouTube. Periscope has gender specific experience. What should the role of police be? Heron returns to a historic dolphin narrative. Heron in...
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128: Please Rage-Quit on Facebook [August 20, 2015]
Tom gives a recap about the previous week's recording. Please rage quit the podcast on Facebook. Please. Metaphysics is defined by Tom at least. With a slight detour through music. Satires of science come through insects going forwards. Can Tom make a point without referring to specifics? We'll...
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127: the End [August 14, 2015]
Editorial Note: Some listeners may find the content of this recording disturbing. Could Tom's professional life contradict Stonean metaphysics? Wolfram is a pensive driver. Can't escape the believers. With a brief interlude of a community meeting gone haywire. Sometime stories have no moral and…
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126: Defunct Wienerschnitzel [August 7, 2015]
They start with the usual vaudeville. Tom raises a listener comment about Tom's patience and Heron's irascibility. Let's embrace that we are in the majority associated with complete distrust of the current political system and have a discussion about what should replace it. Heron provides a…
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125: Windy Moody and His Monkey [July 30, 2015]
Heron still has friends in the Patriot and Christian communities. Periscope will occasionally be used with these shows. They interpret Alan Watts on YouTube. Tom has been trucking the west coast or the south western part. YouTube legends Captain Love and the Mad Hippy are much missed in Vegas...
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124: Steve [July 16, 2015]
Heron wants people to like him. Tom talks about his renovation and his cat's exploration of a mirror. How about dealing with those hippies. Tom and Heron discuss Heron's luck and the many Toms. What about the world of those who graffiti with spray paint? Tom decompresses the social contract of...