Summary:
It's been a while! The boys meet in a local establishment to discuss Jody's only topic idea in a long time...'scale'; How do you scale as a human?
Recording in public made Jody self-conscious, but Matt still talks a bunch about the education system.
Jody had to scale immediately to 2 children
- ...he's still struggling with that.
Matt scales his knowledge to N-students-per-day
- Matt might be able to adjust value of N to be inspiring or depressing how depressing this number might be.
- Jody was impressed with Matt's handling of Net Neutrality for his students
- Matt answers with direct call to action to vote...nice way to scale that message :)
- take opportunity to discuss NN since it went well at the Indy over the holidays
A bit of SpaceX talk led into recommendations:
- Elon tried to catch the Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat named Mr. Steven
![Mr. Steven boat pic](http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/6c3afe71-db94-5fe5-864d-4cdfbb4ca8ee/content-1519233535-b12e43s.jpg)
- Matt says the boat's name is a reference to a sci-fi book series, but couldn't come up with the title at the time...
- It's the "Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks
- Other SpaceX boat names come from these books (like "Of Course I Still Love You" and "Just Read the Instructions"), but the origin of the good-ship Mr. Steven is unclear
- Matt had never heard of Ray Kurzweil
- You might recognize the name as a brand of music synthesizer from the 1980s (same guy)
- Or you might also be hoping that The Singularity Is Near and that you'll soon be able to live forever once you upload your mind into...well, something other than your body
- One of Jody's top sci-fi pics is Altered Carbon
- Which now has new life as a heavily-promoted Netflix series
- Jody watched immediately and recommends, even if it goes to far with the ultra-violence
Matt's new/expensive hobby...Airsoft Army LARP-ing!
- Matt's foam sword gun:
![airsoft gun](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MRXjo7220qkrGrZ-BvpJ_tWP4N3niVhBzN7Sgpa6bQVC5PLZZxDIA5V1LCeiL9JODWQlJ1PAfDu80kfwhNOeoB52iQj3t2-HxckN8Bipe9yi5NTadBItA674pJLyjO0pt45jrwIiiDd-8wACdvZn5shtni_7PwOY-kBi9QkUai3FTcAqdzGPrsK223vMkYuKAP7ey_OGBWLxEnFltX__cfJ7qbMW8pU9fnNzoty3Sob3GdywkVGz9OggFZK1u6WI3C8i5NhcmcG46KASFWdbagW2JR_fNoPKY6Xu6aS7-B5dOueFV4P4QqFF7JWkmnGL5iRASjyhVOcHHJoCB__Qs6WNgTkM8pmbK7oioHzAGg26INQn9-Yt6kO_la4iziiBmDFohQP0f1hLCeeeE-ruyXZqINVpxlUPjiONzJjOoDEvy_a0L-4UU9tF4-y3l_HBfcCrDbuDyFQx2wnrEYBYc218TASvNzwOKj26iNLO-TBpQ35dypqg5RL6w2FZX5z3u9Cj-25EJtsbb96AQ-zi5Pg1PI3DFLEUL1GGBayia_XdCwLXsn1TazowODO6iQPo51gcY_Y9Vbe0dvxqkJIgRQOoLHljWjVpS2viRVj9=w1265-h949-no)
![airsoft larping](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Mo3HwiRxeRSD36CBlH3o_XeTmkGTUqjPB9BUBf8zMymBXnsrmqQPp05SNcKCfUa-BeocVHv0mBuSYi7Jsr3dyLaGUwrvbARArnA-fsuxsnCx9Y1dekMu3Zg9hmxV3KNlfsAxcfCiqghhLhUlflJcp7TbNQvbosm1D2eQDJdjyjrq3U3_REJ3d_lTmu1s33xffd-NrT5ay1bqZpMWlA0K2th9y6j3ktwV3nN4kGGgmKQkLWhN9BRKWjXWWJyXsf7adJi6QRAIEEpiOarKZEuVBiNEhcFRg_zMnBRuoyQ5vv8NkVhmcBvgYUyPoDY7zWTEwlaOWif-55c6CKpdwWbr3LDOU47Ce2RjPQQ3NVvez2v4iNJYz5f5yFvybS2JjnrwxHqLJLrdDEzJ30elurD65LCfoxOOuZyr1dDbpyUxTrIRSOy_awDAM4Jf1DuqlzvCU-MYsre1CAqzETgqf46HHW3N0mY1-zTlqvnXQ8xEG1JDAtstA598_8cT2Wr_NVaISjPUYbe284UDYnf9XVSrUR2q3UV-JhToy8a4eofq_1ZW22fKvsQz-WxNR8_CRsuUTKG95UW1zOcQuZtk5Wq5Rga-L7KiqJ4j7iGXMng4=w960-h640-no)
![airsoft larping relaxation](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tbtw71xfLNdpxCNbaRvWmgjI4QeorEoc9SAef8oARnim3BvfUWjDLyoDuAx2vNb8da3ZpKEiTIPv2jaaPJB4VzGwWDpOJEFvHNxh303qtn-AUB3VF9FlpyPtgWwwsZDevYmbOEczeGqALkNz_rS_fe6J9RMsLLN-Z1R645DESXi6WyZXiCxu1ilGc_7imDOvTU7tw1SNggzcGfM5WWPhTIDfDiOQEsWNa3zsnp7Nbnse0huc-j8nD1NtNQ-seGZKQpJPSYuuYrmR9vJCw-jkTP2F0mJxcEcaM-y4DftnEJwqEXQdaTIksJKq0L68FO2BbLStQeQ4Ke94vUxXf7s1MC6UTwPsN2wcqXaxikWBLTHXO4uokNTxXpf8E5gzHcpiBjHyM0-8pGEl9JoF5AU9hiQN1Y5l5pC6d4-n-Na7_RUGE_b0eTaJ6GzfQiwnxmLkF4SryrFJKOS61Q-IGdkekcVKfqX9n27MaZKtDF0TlKPu8V5d1lGSKx-N9LjPShGw4j-BbA6pRYMwsG3SgQ5oEw-Tg5fWd-FINOg8AkFb2ismre5iGVuWDUuywVw5JFs7m7STIwk80Jg_tJtXRp4U87FADsAtXYeayW0kmB97=w713-h949-no)
- Dr. Katz...you know what the music means
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