Podcast appearances and mentions of matt adrian

Raise the Rent - says young farmer Matt Adrian when it comes to your mental health. Find out just what that means in today's episode. Listen in to learn more about Matt's struggle with mental health and depression as a farmer and how he utilized tools to overcome, find hope and reach his goals. Stress & Crisis Help for Farmers: https://www.mda.state.mn.us/about/mnfarmerstress/copingstress Minnesota Farm & Rural Helpline: 833-600-2670 x 1

A quick bonus episode this week, with Matt & Adrian discussing their favorite Aliens in science fiction and beyond. We revisit some books we've read for the pod, talk about some classics, and hit on a few under-represented gems. We hope you like it!  A bit late, sorry about that! Quarantine time is weird. I'll try to get around to listing everything we talk about later but I want to get this out first: if there's anything in particular you'd like to get a link to, let me know at @spectologypod on twitter & I'll get it to you. We'll be back next week with our post-read of The Tea Master & The Detective with Julia Rios!  --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Chat with us on twitter at @spectologypod, send us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submit the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! To find links to all the books we've read, check us out on Bookshop. Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Last week, anticipating this week's shutdown of major US cities, Matt & Adrian sat down to talk about the ways we're working through our own social distancing boredom for a special edition of "things we like". What are some of the best movies, games, and other activities to spend doing when going outside has become difficult or even dangerous? Check out this episode to find out, and of course a list of most of what we mentioned is below. And finally, please do take this seriously! If you're not already removing yourself from public spaces and gatherings, do so. Wash your hands, wear a mask if that's recommended & available in your locality, and be aware not just of your own health, but of how you might affect the health of those around you. And if you're bored, hit us up on Twitter at @spectology, we'll likely have an increased schedule of podcasting for a while, and might even do a few live online events if enough people want to hang out and chat about science fiction books!  Things we like: * 7 Wonders Duel (iOS / Android) * Code Names Duet * Tabletop Simulator * Technology Connections Juke Box * Shenzhen I/O  * The Nand Game * nand2tetris * Armadillo Run (not ball) * Little Women * The Incredibles (also on Disney+) * rifftrax * Blank Check Patreon * DuoLingo Podcasts * Easy Languages youtube channels * The History of Ancient Egypt lectures * Assassin’s Creed Black Flag * Minecraft * Diablo III --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Chat with us on twitter at @spectologypod, send us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submit the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! To find links to all the books we've read, check us out on Bookshop. Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Matt & Adrian sit down for a chat looking back at 2019—which books ended up being our favorites, which episodes did we like, and how did we do in terms of diversity of authors, genres, and guests? A big thanks to everyone who has stuck with us for two years now! Or who have just begun listening—we hope you'll stick around. In addition, we were asked by a listener on Twitter (@spectologypod) to talk a bit about our favorite fantasy books, so we do that at the end. Here's a list of everything we mention (amazon links are affiliates): * Bear Daughter by Judith Berman (now back in print!) * The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein * The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie * Finna by Nino Cipri  * The Deep by Rivers Solomon * The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley * The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip * The Dying Earth (now published as Marizan the Magician) by Jack Vance  * The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf * Lord Dunsany * Arthur Machen * The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers * The Cradle series by Will Wight * Jade City by Fonda Lee * The Tensorate series by JY Yang * Monkey (an abridged translation of Journey to the West) by Arthur Whaley * The Worm of Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison  * The Ghormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake * The Nightland by William Hope Hodgson --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Chat with us on twitter at @spectologypod, send us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submit the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Join us as we reflect on a few of the novels we've read for the podcast so far, and imagine what they might look like as on-screen adaptations. Matt & Adrian play executive producers, coming up with concepts for the adaptations & directors, writers, and actors who might work on them.  Time stamps for each: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Matt): 2m33s The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Adrian): 13m05s Player of Games (a Culture novel) by Iain M. Banks (Matt): 25m26s Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Adrian): 31m19s This was a fun & somewhat silly episode, we hope you enjoy! If you have your own fancasting for these or any other books we've read, let us know by tweeting @spectologypod or emailing us at spectologypod@gmail.com, we'd love to hear them.   --- If you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Coming at you in person, Matt & Adrian sat down in the same room to record an episode about Colson Whitehead's post-apocalyptic literary novel, Zone One (https://amzn.to/2MR1hZT). We loved this book, and had in particular have a lot to say about its relationship to other apocalyptic literary fiction, the ways the novel discusses, analogizes, and interacts with depression & PTSD, and New York City in literature and reality. Other works mentioned: * Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead * White Noise by Don DeLillo * Cosmopolis, dir. by David Cronenberg * 10:04 by Ben Lerner * California by Edan Lepucki * Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson * Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel * The New & Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott  (Links in the shownotes at spectology.com if they don't show up in your podcatcher. All amazon links are affiliates.) --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Chat with us on twitter at @spectologypod, send us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submit the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

For today's episode, Matt & Adrian read an essay about Chinese Science Fiction by Chinese SF author Ning Ken, and talk about it. The essay, published as "Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre" on LitHub (https://lithub.com/modern-china-is-so-crazy-it-needs-a-new-literary-genre/), outlines a subgenre of SF that (supposedly) doesn't exist in English, and discusses why it's so important in China. We take the conversation far afield pretty quickly, asking what makes a genre, whether Ultra Unreal works exist in English, how relevant these works actually are in Chinese SF, and who ultimately gets to define genre. Adrian rants a little about one particular author who annoys him online when he talks about genre, and Matt has very reasoned and smart things to say about whether it's even a good idea to argue about genre in the first place. As always, the essay is an interesting one, and we hope you'll read it in addition to listening to us argue about it. In addition, here are some other related works to the conversation: - Follow-up essay by Josh Feola & Michael Pettis- "Folding Beijing" by Hao Jingfang- Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (see also the 18.x episodes of this podcast)- The New & Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott (see also our 4.x episodes)- Sorry to Bother You, dir. Boots Riley- "Welcome to the Future Nauseous" by Venkatesh Rao As always, links at spectology.com if they don't show up in your podcatcher. We'll be back next week (Oct 1st) for our Waste Tide post-read, then October 8th we'll have the post-read for our horror-themed October novel. --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Chat with us on twitter at @spectologypod, send us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submit the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

This is the first in a new series of episodes we're calling "Critical Conversations", where we take a critical work & discuss it in-depth. This time, Matt & Adrian discuss the article "Critics: Endgame" by Soraya Roberts & published in Longreads (https://longreads.com/2019/05/03/critics-endgame/). Roberts asks what the purpose of pop culture criticism is in 2019, when fascism is ascendant and global warming is killing the planet, particularly criticism that is itself fandom. It's a critical essay which is critical of criticism, which ends up being a vital way for us to being talking about what we do on the podcast. Is it all too meta? Maybe! But it's the kind of thing we love talking about, so maybe you'll enjoy hearing us talk about it (and if not, we'll have a new pre-read next week so stay tuned for that). A few of the resources we mention in the episode:  * "Stay in your lane" originator: https://twitter.com/prisonculture  * Matt's current favorite critic: http://andrewbatson.com & his twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewbatson  * Adrian's current favorite critic: https://uninterpretative.blogspot.com & their twitter: https://twitter.com/Benladen & their patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benladen/overview. * Another critical work about art vs. criticism we touch on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaTDKDaj2M & his twitter: https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd 

What goes around comes around on the wheel of karma, so this month Matt & Adrian talking about the new novel from past guest Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever (https://amzn.to/2Jl9X94)!  We discuss a number of books, movies, TV shows, and RPGs in the general space opera subgenre. Here are some of the most relevant. If the links don't show up in your podcatcher, they will be available on the show notes at spectology.com.  - Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max - Journey to the West - Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny - Ten Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse (see our 10.1 & 10.2 episodes) - Iain M Banks (see our 1.1 & 1.2 episodes on his Use of Weapons) - Gnomon by Nick Harkaway (see our 5.1 & 5.2 episodes w/ Max as a guest) - The New Space Opera & TNSO2, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan- Sufficiently Advanced (RPG) - Ghibli Fest 2019 (particularly Princess Mononoke) - Neon Genesis Evangelion (on Netflix)  --- We'd love to hear from you (tell us your definition of space opera!), either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Welcome to our final episode on Ted Chiang's newest short story collection, Exhalation (https://amzn.to/2X5A0JW). Matt & Adrian start by going through all of the stories in this collection, then go really in-depth on a few specifically, just like we did with Exhalation in our last episode (https://www.spectology.com/e/152-exhalation-post-read-re-reading-stories-philosophy-of-mind-the-heat-death-of-the-universe/).    First 30 minutes: Intro, 2-3 minutes on each story, listing our favorites 29m 10s: "The Lifecycle of Software Objects": Mental & legal frameworks for how to relate to AI 1h 01m 14s: "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom": Character development & moral thought experiments 1h 17m 02s: "Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling": How technology changes our cognition & identity 1h 29m 04s: "The Merchant & the Alchemist's Gate": Discussing the medieval Islamic setting 1h 37m 19s: "Omphalos": Short stories as jokes, young Earth creationism 1h 42m 53s: Discussing the structure, endings, & morals of these stories 1h 48m 43s: Wrap-up & outro   --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

James Carder, LogRhythm’s CISO, Joe Murdock Cyber Security Program Lead at Red Rocks Community College, and Matt Adrian, a current Red Rocks student, discuss Singapore’s Cyber Defender’s Discovery Camp as our feature interview this week. News from: CDOT, UCCS, SecureSet, Swimlane, Optiv, Webroot, Security Pursuit and a lot more! There’s something about a train… that’s magic Investigating a train from Pueblo to Ft Collins. UCCS has been doing a facial recognition program on campus. Four Denver companies building a new research campus in Antartica. Deets on the Colorado coding boot camps. Are vets the solution to the security staff gap? Swimlane raises a B round. Optiv is a strong number 2 in IR. Webroot talks machine learning. Security Pursuit asks the big question - will biometrics get rid of passwords? Support us on Patreon! Fun swag available - all proceeds will directly support the Colorado = Security infrastructure. Come join us on the new Colorado = Security Slack channel to meet old and new friends. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. If you have any questions or comments, or any organizations or events we should highlight, contact Alex and Robb at info@colorado-security.com This week’s news: Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel Colorado Department of Transportation seeking proposals for 173-mile Front Range passenger rail line Colorado students unknowingly photographed for facial recognition study 4 Denver companies chosen to build a modern research campus in Antarctica Inside Colorado coding boot camps: Who reaps the benefits? A cybersecurity worker shortage in Colorado has the industry tapping veterans to fill the gap Swimlane takes 23m in B round Optiv Security Recognized with Second-Highest Score in Current Offering Category for Cybersecurity Incident Response Services in Independent Analyst Report What Defines a Machine Learning-Based Threat Intelligence Platform? | Webroot Security Pursuit blog - Will biometrics replace passwords? Job Openings: Ping Identity - Manager of Product Security Ping Identity - Jr. Product Security Engineer Nexthealth - Chief Information Security Officer Bank Of America - Sr. Information Security Officer Alteryx - Sr. Cyber Security Engineer Great West - Architect Security Tri-State Generation - Cyber Security Engineer I, II, III or Senior MedKeeper - Information Security Engineer Department of the Interior - Senior Advisor - Information Assurance (Cyber Security), Industrial Control Systems City of Arvada - IT Security Specialist Upcoming Events: This Week and Next: IAM Meetup - IAM Networking Event - 6/4 Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC) - 6/4-6 Techstars West Slope Startup Week - 6/5-8 Splunk Meetup - First Thursday @ Top Golf - 6/6 First Friday! Cybersecurity Social & Mixer - 6/7 ISSA COS - CISSP Prep - 6/7 (and several more weeks) CTA - CTA 101 - 6/12 SecureSet - HACKING 101: INTRO TO WIFI WITH WOMEN WHO CODE - 6/13 FAIR Institute Colorado - Chapter Meeting - 6/14 Other Notable Upcoming Events ISC2 - Secure Summit Denver - 6/28 Denver CyberSecurity Conference - 7/31 View our events page for a full list of upcoming events * Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at carrrladams@gmail.com. Check out his other voice work here. * Intro and exit song: "The Language of Blame" by The Agrarians is licensed under CC BY 2.0

To celebrate having been at the podcast for one full year, Matt & Adrian are joined by Kevin Kelsey of Heradas.com as we make our most self-indulgent pick yet: Dark Eden, by Chris Beckett (https://amzn.to/2TRcpX0). Join us for a somewhat self-reflective episode on why this is one of our favorite books, and why we think everyone should read it. It has linguistics, it has sociology, it has long time scales, it has survival in a harsh world, it has society building, it has a page-turning story, and it is probably the book we've mentioned the most on this podcast without actually reading and talking about it in its own episodes. Kevin joins us to help us ground the conversation for folks who haven't read the book yet, and in a few weeks we'll all three dig into the rich thematic depth of this novel. Some other works mentioned include: - Chris's Q&A on the SF Book Club subreddit - Chris on his history being labeled disabled - NK Jemisin's review of Dark Eden in the NY Times - Review by a juror on the Arthur C. Clarke award- Our own episodes on Children of Time, Romie Futch, Gnomon, & Semiosis - Ice by Anna Kavan - The Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss - Lord of the Flies by William Golding - And if you're in the UK, pre-order Beckett's new book, Beneath the World, A Sea  (As always, links are at spectology.com if they don't show up in your podcatcher.)  --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Join us for a fun & punchy look back at Spectology's first year in books. Matt & Adrian discuss the favorite books we read in 2018, some of our favorite episodes to record, and just generally have a good time while reflecting on what a wonderful year we had together & with you all. Major thanks goes out to everyone who has helped us so far! Our guests in 2018: Tobias, Britt, Max, Ellie, Kevin, & Charlotte. Dubby J & Noah Bradley for providing music & art to us. Seth for hosting me on his podcast. And of course anyone who has told a friend, submitted us to reddit, tweeted about us, or just listened to some of our episodes. We're so lucky to have such awesome listeners, and we're looking forward to reading another dozen books in 2019! We've got a great list of books and authors coming up this year, I can't wait to share them all. As always, you can find us at @spectologypod on twitter, or email us at spectologypod@gmail.com. We'd love to hear your favorite moments of our from 2018! 

Happy New Year! Matt & Adrian are back to talk about one of Matt's picks. Ten Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse (https://amzn.to/2Vw3CM8) is a classic of Japanese science fiction which was just recently (2011) translated and published in English. It tells an epic story that begins at the beginning of the universe and ends at its end. This episode, Adrian & Matt discuss Japanese science fiction in various media, how Japanese & Anglo SF influenced each other, and how disasters can create communities amongst those who live through them.  Books & movies mentioned include (links help support Spectology): * Ten Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse* Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny * Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke* The works of David Mitchell * The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov* L'incal by Jodorowksi & Moebius* Neon Genesis Evangelion * Akira  Some links for further reading:* Japanese SF: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/japan* Top 10 SF novels of all time: https://www.sfwa.org/2011/09/top-ten-japan-all-time-best-sf-novels/* Haikasoru (Mitsuse's publisher): http://www.haikasoru.com* Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter* Eight Dog Chronicles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansō_Satomi_Hakkenden  --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

For October, Matt & Adrian are dipping their toes into the world of Horror, reading Victor LaValle's novella The Ballad of Black Tom. The Ballad of Black Tom is a retelling of one of HP Lovecraft's most egregiously racist short stories, "The Horror at Red Hook", from the perspective of a black man living in Harlem who gets wrapped up in NYC's magical underworld. It won or was short listed for a number of top SF, Horror, and Fantasy awards due to its compelling characters, comfortable prose, and ratcheting tension. In this episode, we discuss our own histories reading HP Lovecraft and other Weird/Horror authors, how our perceptions of racism in these stories changed over time, and get into the history of why Lovecraft in particular became so popular.  Content warnings are due for the book & this episode. The book has some shocking racist police violence in it, and this episode we discuss Lovecraft's racism & xenophobia head-on, including reading some passages from "The Horror at Red Hook". Resources for this episode are below. Links are available on our webpage (spectology.com) if they don't show up in your podcatcher. - The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle- "The Horror at Red Hook" by HP Lovecraft (in the public domain)- The Weird, a short story collection by Ann & Jeff VandeerMeer- Searching for Zion by Emily Raboteau (LaValle's wife)- How to Adapt Lovecraft in the 21st Century video essay by H. Bomberguy- Pseudopod, a horror fiction podcast --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Hey, teens! Jordan is still in Japan but we’ve thought of a way to fill the gap he created by funny deleting his “Just Say Me” audio: we’ve fed the script of that Secret Life episode into Botnik Voicebox, an app that takes a text file and creates a predictive text keyboard, and with it we can create a script for a dramatic reading of what you all missed! Sam is joined by friends of the show Stephanie, Matt, and Argyle, and we’re all going to learn about motorcycles. I mean, masturbation.Sam (Ben, Grace, George, Jesse) https://twitter.com/posistress Stephanie (Amy, Madison, Kathleen, Henry) https://windfallisland.tumblr.com/ Matt (Adrian, Alice, Jack, Dr. Bink, Jimmy) https://twitter.com/mattgcn Argyle (Ashley, Ricky, Lauren, Joe, Anne, Donna) https://twitter.com/Argyle_FunkPatreon: https://patreon.com/juergenit

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Amy interviews Matt Adrian about his new book THE MINCING MOCKINGBIRD GUIDE TO TROUBLED BIRDS. Learn about the book here: http://bit.ly/UcjCCB