Stone Ape Podcast

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 Hong Kong? Heron wants to plug Soft White Underbelly and Tom agrees this is worth a look. They diverge on Facebook. Final thoughts?

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 like transcripts.

Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about the Mushroom Boy sub-project.

Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about the Noble Warfare sub-project.

Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about what he's working on at 3am.

Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about why the software and documentation is free.

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/

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/

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 is frustrated by game artificial intelligence books. Tom offers a few film reviews. They discuss heavy narrative in film in particular, Shine. Heron announces his retirement from the Stone Ape podcast. They discuss the reasons behind it exploring the recent divergence. If you are interested in an ongoing narrative of the ideas discussed here, Tom will continue with Short Funk http://www.shortfunk.com/ and http://www.nobleape.com/ and Heron is available through https://www.facebook.com/heron.stone and http://www.gendo.net. Thank you for being a listener. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#162

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 Heron's migration plans. Tom talks about email protocols and leaves with an interesting footnote. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#161

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 and a little bit slower. Old gum tastes okay. They discussed decentralized self-organized communities. Tom wonders what politics means to people and he will be subversive to middle-schoolers. Tom offers the human condition to talk at length on simple ideas. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#160

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 life turning point. Heron outlines Earth expelling humans. They discuss the many theories of Nick Bostrom and intelligence independent from humans. Tom talks about Morro Bay experiences and recommends Joseph R. Pietri's books, the 15 Ounce Pound and the King of Nepal. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#159

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 long and winding story about battle rapping and appealing to young people. They digress into a political discussion that closes the recording. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#158

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 Jose and men who maintain mistresses. Tom offers the idea that language could be a programming language. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#157

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 he got in to City Hall. Tom found a fascinating book about World War II. Tom gives one film recommendation that he can not actually recommend. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#156

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 a baby. Tom believes humor is a good test for success. Tom shouldn't have talked politics with his coworker. Heron is an adult who likes his wine glasses. Tom talks about Malaysian photo travel logs. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#155

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 becoming more mellow. They digress to Dating Naked and sexual programming. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#154_5

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 yielded a fulfilling conversation. Tom sped-read the new 9/11 report but he doesn't appear to be an Organized White Person for Black Lives Matter. A garden discussion concludes the recording. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#154

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 huge body of blab. They continue to add to the archive. Tom outlines his Saturday and what going back to Australia means. http://www.nobleape.com/stone/archive.html#153

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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. Things digress rapidly. Heron likes a particularly curious candidate. Tom finalizes the Brexit discussion and mentions the Stone Ape Twitter account @stoneapecast for promotions. Tom explores the police helicopter and the logic behind not announcing any information. Tom laments his ongoing trapping of baby animals and the deterioration of his mind. Tom discusses a recent finding of others in the strangest setting. Heron and Tom have different meet-up experiences. Tom presses Heron more on his new girl.

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. Science protects you from bullets.

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 in associated with flying. Twenty years of Noble Ape is coming up. Tom explains the molesting of Saturn. What can be done about apathy? Tom talks about Patreon as a failing method. Tom takes a fraudulent call. Heron raises capitalism briefly. Tom wants to know what to grow. They explore travel, Monty Python, longevity and Eddie Murphy. Tom asks about listener feedback and Tea's new YouTube videos.

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 for the world. Joe the Drummer's feedback is explored. Heron wants to get new listeners. Tom formally introduces Andrew Lees into the discourse and Heron's obsession with spambots. They remind themselves about middle America. Heron is divided through brain chemistry. Tom gives Heron a model to make money.

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 systematizers and WWDC. Tom reflects on meeting one of his seminal mentors. The pushing of air can be powerful. What about those digital books? Tom talks about popular music in terms of levels of musicians. They discuss touring for musicians. Heron points out a tipping point. Tom thinks reading is very dangerous. [Editorial note: the sequel will be out sometime up to 2020.] Tom outlines some of the folks he will be meeting.

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 to talk about gardening. Heron wants to talk about his rustling. Tom wonders about litter and finding a word. They discuss the ratios of vocabulary and tertiary education. Tom thinks classical music is dying at an exponential rate.

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 Unclassified podcast. Bill Clinton reminds us what war criminals sound like. Brace yourself for the latest San Jose update. Music has been copyrighted. The Gorilla of Code may fall flat. Heron is a Skype jinx. Tom explains Bolinas. They discuss vlogging and twenty years of Noble Ape. They conclude with taxes.

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 reflecting on aging and time [Editorial Note: Robert Mitchum Goof Butts for those in relationships, NSFW]. Tom laments the lack of high culture music that isn't entrenched with propaganda. They stop for a cat/wine break. Tom returns to music and genetic-based health analysis. They discuss Ted Cruz's love of brunettes and prostitutes. Tom gives a short restaurant review.

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 discuss shepherding, turbulence and taxes. Tom offers the meeting of the deceased minds. Dissecting listeners along their reading interests takes a number of turns. Tom raises the Aquatic Ape and the Stoned Ape hypotheses. Tom's brain has changed a little bit but the mind is still not going anywhere. Tom tries valiantly to explain a concept about gestalt learning versus team learning. They touch on considered speaking and then there was a crash. They return to listener feedback. Tom raises Heron's journals and owning digital media.

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 the Mushroom Boy.

[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 listener's podcast. They discuss Tom loosing his memory and being stood up. Tom wants more information about the post-Stone universe. Heron derails a basic discussion of authoritarianism, then talks sumo and TV-less-ness. Tom talks about Australian music of the 1980s and 1990s. Heron isn't showing his keyboard. The recording ends prematurely due to technical difficulties.

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?

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 meeting. Tom's laptop is a difficult friend. The pie plate is back! They explore Heron's new career some more. This episode had to conclude with a theme from our favorite pre-butterfly candidate. Brace yourself.

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 neighborhood wasp attack. They rap on creating a community. Tom reflects on mind over matter. Heron explains his camping plans. Tom proposes a Youtube format for Heron and returns to Bob Dylan. Heron brings up records as nonsense to him (once again). Heron sets Tom a test.

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.

[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 of Code. They explore migraines. Tom deconstructs #stonersloth. Heron's gift is an ongoing topic. Tom wanders into the Stone Ape t-shirt and creating non-profits. Heron talks about his desert trip. Tom talks about joining the Salon forum.

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 wants to start adding sound effects. Tom explores a particularly curious narrative and how he has relaxed over the past week. Tom discusses the film, Spotlight, and wedding politics. Tom concludes the recording Gendo-style with some rap music he did find while in Malaysia 'Chopped and Screwed' so it is remotely intelligible.

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 to get Heron. What about holidays? Manson is always under the surface. Tom explores the music machine. They review online communities. Tom dissects what wonder actually means and takes a meandering conversation through how wonder may not be possible to manufacture. Tom revisits a topic that was unusable previously. They are somewhat divided on listener contributions to the Stone Ape Facebook page.

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 digresses into his upcoming surgery and projects. Tom outlines the reliance on others. They explore what they get out of Facebook. Heron kicks off a discussion on wine glasses. Tom explains how he saved himself from organized crime this week. Tom talks about a listener video on YouTube and interactions with law enforcement. Do not mess with elderly Australian women.

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 recreating Vietnam in your backyard. They rap about forgotten nuances.

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. It's a complex thing blood.

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. Tom gives a not bombing Syria and San Jose update. Tom puts in a plug for the Astoria Railroad Preservation Association and does his patented Bernie Sanders impersonation. Logic Pro provides Tom something more. Heron appeals for listener contact. Heron's condition concludes the recording.

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.

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. Are atheists Heron's people? Tom delves into Heron's prior lives with a brief interlude on the Republican debate, Mr. Bean and Vietnam.

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 Disneyland coming to KickStarter very soon. There have been distinct periods in this conversation. Pasha Bumchik is worth watching if you like degradation of a dubious society.

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 have to wait and see. Taking it back to 2007 to the near future. Heron is optimistic. Tom is asked about Tom Ray.

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 are neither happy nor sad. Tom meanders through a recent Short Funk with a Stone Ape twist on it. Is there a meta-narrative in Stone Ape? Some experiences transcend language.

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 little interlude about the listener comment. Tom gives an interlude on the street including the local weed-mart. Amazing how many of Heron's associates Tom has stalked online. Mad Magazine is such a favorite topic but this take traverses both familiar and new ground.

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 Penthouse suites. Tom provides some anecdotes from his time in Vegas. Are Tom and Heron really more like Cecil the lion than any other modern thinker? Heron provides an update to his MeetUp experiences. Tom digs into basic canine education. Taste and smell so disgusted Heron last recording, it had to be raised again with references this time. Tom continues to question the legitimacy of the current political system.

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 creating content. They lampoon the current political system. With a brief interlude on why Periscope will not be used in the near future. Tom wants to be a hippy for marriage advice. The Periscope Posse asks Heron about meditation. Be careful what you experiment with.