Haha, forgot to fix the sound so everything isn't barely audible. Everything's okay now. 

So yeah, more chiptune stuff for the videogame that doesn't exist. This is a more ambient, relaxing piece, kind of like a menu theme, and I'm taking a lot of inspiration from Anodyne here (which is a really good game that all y'all should play), hence the name.

Anodynish

memories from last last summer

every day a new way to be alive

The Gift of Ego Death

Fond

Patiently

Warby Parker (a genuinely sustainable, ingenious business model) inspired a wave of copycat direct-to-consumer brands that often suffered, failed to deliver on investor expectations, or just fully imploded. Needless to say, this hilarious trend was perfect fodder for our show.

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Sources:
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201505/graham-winfrey/neil-blumenthal-icons-of-entrepreneurship.html https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/warby-parker-neil-blumenthal-founders-project.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2016/03/23/whats-behind-warby-parkers-success/#2d8085dc411a https://marker.medium.com/why-all-the-warby-parker-clones-are-now-imploding-44bfcc70a00c

28: Failed Warby Parker Clones

Today we finish the Google Glass saga with a CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC episode! We also go BACK TO BASICS by recording in-person after Evan's GOOGLE internet was being a dummy (how IRONIC!)

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass
https://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/5-reasons-google-glass-miserable-failure-01462398#:~:text=Ultimately%2C%20the%20failure%20of%20the,be%20called%20%E2%80%9Cearly%20adopters%E2%80%9D.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/style/why-google-glass-broke.html
https://medium.com/@NishaHariSingh/google-glasss-demise-643a94259945
https://producthabits.com/unexpected-rebirth-google-glass/
https://www.google.com/glass/start/
https://www.blog.google/products/hardware/glass-enterprise-edition-2/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21121472/google-glass-2-enterprise-edition-for-sale-directly-online

30: GOOGLE GLASS (Part 2)

John McAfee founded the anti-virus company you've probably heard of. He exited that company with a net worth of over $100 million. And that's where this week's story BEGINS. It goes in some truly insane directions after that. 

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https://www.businessinsider.com/the-crazy-life-of-john-mcafee#he-began-working-at-a-company-that-coded-punch-card-systems-in-the-late-60s-this-taught-him-the-basics-of-early-computing-using-this-information-he-landed-a-job-at-missouri-pacific-railroad-where-he-helped-the-company-use-a-newfangled-ibm-computer-system-to-help-calibrate-train-schedules-4
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-mcafee-third-party-libertarian/index.html
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/31/inside-the-beltway-gary-johnson-john-mcafee-austin/
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/john-mcafee-suffers-heart-attack-guatemala-detention-center/story?id=17890926

31: John McAfee

Battlefield Earth is often cited as one of the worst films and biggest box office bombs in history- today we explore the truly bizarre history behind this film that is DEFINITELY NOT FUNDED BY THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY AND NOT A SCAM TO DEFRAUD INVESTORS.

Edited by Anne Henry

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)
The movie Battlefield Earth

Music:
Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jingle Bells by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3944-jingle-bells
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Chase Pulse Faster by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3487-chase-pulse-faster
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

38: Battlefield Earth

A website designed to help you have an illicit marital affair that requires your personal information and a substantial fee to delete your account. WhAT coULd PoSSiBly gO wrONg?

Edited by Anne Henry

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Metalmania by Kevin MacLeod
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Run Amok by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4311-run-amok
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach

41: Ashley Madison

Errant music maker of no fixed abode, making whatever suits me.

This account mostly holds my older music. Newer stuff will be posted on my bandcamp at infimace.bandcamp.com.

Anodynish

Infimace-5

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