WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from June 13, 2022

Listener comments!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Mark and all the Techyons, particles and waves.
	6:00pm Robm: Hello fellow technoids
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonfectionists!
	6:02pm David in London: Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:02pm Franco Twinkie: Don't forget the techno impaired. Hey Mark.
	6:02pm Fredericks: Hey there Techniacs.
	🤖 6:02pm tim from washington: Hey Mark! Hey everybody else!
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi NFTechtonic fans!
	🤖 6:04pm Handy Haversack: Robm, ultradamno, David, Franco, Fredericks, tim, WHHenry: hey there! ultradamno, not sure if you heard, but Adriene will be doing a three-hour fill-in for Olivia next week before Techtonic!
	6:06pm ultradamno: Fine John Oliver segment last night on the big tech guy's anti-competitive behavior and also a great Vice (on Showtime) segment on the predatory Axie game @Handy Hiya! and no I had not, thank you!
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: Here's an all-purpose excuse: Too much traffic, please try again.
	🤖 6:07pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi Techcats!
	6:07pm Mark Hurst: @Handy @Robm @ultra @DiL @FrancoT @Fredericks @TimVonWash @Webham @Bas welcome! Thanks for joining!
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: @ultra yes the John Oliver piece is one of the items that I might mention briefly after the interview, time available. I might need to spend more time on the topic in a future show - Big Tech antitrust legislation has a real shot for the first time, but it also could fail...
	6:09pm kevlicki: Hi all! What have I missed so far?
	🤖 6:11pm Handy Haversack: Tidal currents are no joke in that river.
	6:11pm melinda: hi everyone
	🤖 6:11pm DjLorraine: Just saying hi
	6:12pm Mark Hurst: @kevlicki @melinda @DjL welcome, good to see you!
	🤖 6:12pm tim from washington: The East River - Mark's favorite place to chuck tech devices into. Coincidence that Mark chose this body of water? Hmmmmm.....
	🤖 6:12pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi Hi Hi
	6:12pm Mark Hurst: @PaulR hello hello hello
	🤖 6:13pm chresti: Hi Mark and company!
	6:14pm Mark Hurst: Hi chresti
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark. The Pad-Man game for Atari was beyond lame. What a disappointment.
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: tim, I have seen side-scan sonar of the river bottom, and it's surprisingly clean! Only really heavy things seem to stick around. Everything else is whooshed out into the Atlantic or Long Island Sound. So look for Air Buds and tablets in Flushing Bay and Coney Island!
	6:15pm Pomme d'Or: Good evening Mark & Jennifer
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @KfHP I remember it so well.
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Pomme hello!
	🤖 6:16pm Folsom: @KfHP Adventure or Yar's Revenge are the best
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Handy that's pretty cool (the side-scan, not the e-junk tumbling south along the river bottom)
	6:17pm Franco Twinkie: I think I'm sitting on a gold mine.
	6:17pm hoeg: i just finished listening to your Ethan Guttman interview, it was AMAZING, thankyou
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom agreed. Space Invaders and Combat were pretty good, too. Also the football game had surprisingly rich gameplay
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: @hoeg thanks! Glad you liked it.
	6:18pm hoeg: also HI all you lovely chatters and staffers
	6:22pm Ed: OMG - Jennifer Egan?!!
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: Evening, Hoeg! Very much agree with you on that Guttman interview. Crucial radio.
	6:23pm Mark Hurst: @Ed yes indeed
	🤖 6:25pm Handy Haversack: A Jennifer Egan interview maybe even a bigger triumph than finding a copy of the Kool-Aid Man Atari 2600 game!
	🤖 6:25pm tim from washington: Defender was my jam.
	🤖 6:26pm tim from washington: I've got to split early so I'll come back to part 2 in in the archives. Thank you, Mark! Thanks Jennifer. This is a fascinating listen. I'm looking forward to reading Candy House.
	6:28pm Mark Hurst: @TimFW thanks!
	6:30pm ultradamno: Bloomberg article about Axie Infinity, the subject of the Vice piece I mentioned earlier, which plays into some of these themes, in a cryptocurrency based pyramid scheme kind of way www.bloomberg.com...
	🤖 6:32pm PaulRobeson1922: Spying is dead
	6:32pm ultradamno: Oh, man. Philip Baker Hall has died.
	🤖 6:33pm Folsom: Mark, you ever get anywhere about interviewing Michael Chertoff?
	🤖 6:33pm PaulRobeson1922: Umm…. I’d like a word with Jennifer Egan‘s drug dealer (Character)
	6:34pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom no, tho I did try
	🤖 6:40pm PaulRobeson1922: @Franco Twinkie: Hello, Franco
	🤖 6:40pm Bas NL: Tech for connecting to the problems of others?
	6:40pm Marie: I love first person narrative novels for just that reason--love to be in another's head, so to speak
	6:41pm Mark Hurst: @Marie do you have a favorite 1st-person narrative novel?
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: Daniel Boorstin's book is called "The Image" and I have posted a link to it in the links section at left (or above, if you're reading this in the future)
	6:43pm Mark Hurst: And a link to a recent NYT story about the "BeReal" app is also posted at left.
	🤖 6:43pm PaulRobeson1922: Jefferson wrote man is a “imitative creature” in the context of children and the slavery question
	6:43pm Marie: Hi! Hm, well, I have quite a few that I love. One of them is called Kristin Lavransdattir--the story of one woman's life set in mideval Norway--it's actually never been out if print since it was first published in the 1930s.
	6:43pm Mark Hurst: @Marie thanks!
	🤖 6:44pm PaulRobeson1922: Daniel Boorstin is a reliable source!!!
	6:44pm Franco Twinkie: Pictures can enhance a literary experience - read the piece by Joan Acocella on Pinocchio in the current New Yorker.
	6:44pm Marie: Then there is Humboldt's Gift and Herzog, both by Saul Bellow. Happy to share! Thanks for this and all your work, Mark!
	6:46pm Miss G: Thank you for this interview Mark Hurst. I will listen to it again. Thank you Jennifer Egan -- I loved A Visit from the Goon Squad, and gave copies to friends. So looking forward to The Candy House!
	6:46pm be11ows: nice interview. another book i wanna read.
	6:46pm Franco Twinkie: I'm an avid reader, but I rely on my eyeballs for more than reading.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: Very interesting talk, Mark! I don't know that I have any thoughts that would fit into the chatboard, but many full mind moments over here listening to Jennifer's thoughts on her process and the struggles she's trying to evoke. Many thanks, Jennifer, for joining Mark and sharing with us.
	🤖 6:47pm PaulRobeson1922: Still one place to go… still one place to go
	6:49pm Marie: I would also suggest Islandia by August Tappan Wright--described as utopian fiction where the creates a whole new world/continent on earth and an American man travels there. It's amazing.
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: This show is turning into Booktonic.
	6:50pm Miss G: L Webhamster Henry
	🤖 6:50pm Handy Haversack: I recommend reading Mark's piece on subway reading, phones, and citizenship: creativegood.com...
	6:52pm Boulder Tom: Has Mark ever had Dave Eggars on?
	6:53pm Marie: One more great first-person narrative, to me: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
	6:53pm Miss G: Marie I also loved that Murakami novel.
	6:53pm yippie: my friend is suing google. weisner v google llc 21-2228
	6:54pm Marie: Hey, Miss G--that is my fave by him @)
	6:54pm Pete from Hoboken: Detroit is a Delta hub...but why there and not ATL?
	6:55pm melinda: wtf, I'm going to have to avoid the Detroit airport now. Or get some traveling reflectacles.
	6:55pm dale: why can't we use this surveillance state tech to stop mass shootings?
	6:55pm Ochre Ogre: THEY, scary bastards!
	6:55pm Marie: Let's use hive mind to think of a way (lawsuit) to get Fox off the air, or at least Tucker Carlson
	6:56pm Miss G: What ever happened to CV Dazzle?
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Many thanks, Mark!
	6:56pm Jim the Poet: Great show!
	6:56pm Miss G: Oh! Thank you Mark Hurst for a great show and for the links
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! One for the Cloud!
	🤖 6:57pm PaulRobeson1922: Thanks Mark & Jennifer!! Peace & LoVe ya’ll
	6:57pm Marie: Thank you, Mark
	6:57pm Franco Twinkie: David Foster Wallace was a good fiction writer, but I think his real talent was describing the real word. Read The Girl With Curious Hair, then read Consider The Lobster, then ask yourself which was more illuminating.
	🤖 6:57pm PaulRobeson1922: Still one place to go
	6:57pm Ochre Ogre: Marie- cracker carlson dont git me started!
	🤖 6:57pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:57pm yippie: there are a lot more restrictions on free speech inside airports
	6:58pm Marie: I love David Foster Wallace. "cracker carlson"--love it
	6:58pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Mark, always informative!
	6:58pm melinda: nice Willie cover
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: 'Till next week, Mark!
	6:59pm Franco Twinkie: You got it Marie.
	6:59pm Ochre Ogre: "cracker' as in honkie, heehee.
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, friends, for helping me get by...
	6:59pm ?: I 2nd that melinda
	7:02pm Marie: I have listened to this album so much (back when it first came out)
	🤖 7:03pm Handy Haversack: Girl with Curious Hair by a country mile, Franco!
	7:05pm Mark Hurst: @Marie thanks for the book recs!
	7:08pm Bea: So cool you have Jennifer Egan on! My book club is reading The Candy House!!

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from June 13, 2022

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Chatbots are now running rampant - appearing in new-model cars - as we're being told to "be nice to chatbots." Stores are using "digital price tags," which rely on surveillance to set the price to the company's liking. Meantime, Google's AI is giving wrong answers, in some cases, almost half the time. All these and more in Mark's dystopia update.
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June 13, 2022: Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House"

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The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan

Today: Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House"

• JenniferEgan.com, with excerpts of The Candy House

• The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan (2022)

• A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (2011 Pulitzer Prize winner)

• The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America, by Daniel Boorstin (1962)

• NYT coverage of BeReal (May 10, 2022): “Once a day, at an unpredictable time, BeReal notifies its users that they have two minutes to post a pair of pictures.”

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House"
Tomaš Dvořák	Game Boy Tune "Game Boy Tune" by "Tomaš Dvořák"
	Mark's intro "Mark's intro"
	Interview with Jennifer Egan "Interview with Jennifer Egan"			0:02:23 (Pop-up)
	Mark's comments "Mark's comments"			0:42:14 (Pop-up)
Willie Nelson	With A Little Help From My Friends	A Beautiful Time	Willie's 72nd album (age 89!)	0:54:04 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Mark and all the Techyons, particles and waves.
	6:00pm Robm: Hello fellow technoids
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonfectionists!
	6:02pm David in London: Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:02pm Franco Twinkie: Don't forget the techno impaired. Hey Mark.
	6:02pm Fredericks: Hey there Techniacs.
	🤖 6:02pm tim from washington: Hey Mark! Hey everybody else!
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi NFTechtonic fans!
	🤖 6:04pm Handy Haversack: Robm, ultradamno, David, Franco, Fredericks, tim, WHHenry: hey there! ultradamno, not sure if you heard, but Adriene will be doing a three-hour fill-in for Olivia next week before Techtonic!
	6:06pm ultradamno: Fine John Oliver segment last night on the big tech guy's anti-competitive behavior and also a great Vice (on Showtime) segment on the predatory Axie game @Handy Hiya! and no I had not, thank you!
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: Here's an all-purpose excuse: Too much traffic, please try again.
	🤖 6:07pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi Techcats!
	6:07pm Mark Hurst: @Handy @Robm @ultra @DiL @FrancoT @Fredericks @TimVonWash @Webham @Bas welcome! Thanks for joining!
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: @ultra yes the John Oliver piece is one of the items that I might mention briefly after the interview, time available. I might need to spend more time on the topic in a future show - Big Tech antitrust legislation has a real shot for the first time, but it also could fail...
	6:09pm kevlicki: Hi all! What have I missed so far?
	🤖 6:11pm Handy Haversack: Tidal currents are no joke in that river.
	6:11pm melinda: hi everyone
	🤖 6:11pm DjLorraine: Just saying hi
	6:12pm Mark Hurst: @kevlicki @melinda @DjL welcome, good to see you!
	🤖 6:12pm tim from washington: The East River - Mark's favorite place to chuck tech devices into. Coincidence that Mark chose this body of water? Hmmmmm.....
	🤖 6:12pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi Hi Hi
	6:12pm Mark Hurst: @PaulR hello hello hello
	🤖 6:13pm chresti: Hi Mark and company!
	6:14pm Mark Hurst: Hi chresti
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark. The Pad-Man game for Atari was beyond lame. What a disappointment.
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: tim, I have seen side-scan sonar of the river bottom, and it's surprisingly clean! Only really heavy things seem to stick around. Everything else is whooshed out into the Atlantic or Long Island Sound. So look for Air Buds and tablets in Flushing Bay and Coney Island!
	6:15pm Pomme d'Or: Good evening Mark & Jennifer
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @KfHP I remember it so well.
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Pomme hello!
	🤖 6:16pm Folsom: @KfHP Adventure or Yar's Revenge are the best
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Handy that's pretty cool (the side-scan, not the e-junk tumbling south along the river bottom)
	6:17pm Franco Twinkie: I think I'm sitting on a gold mine.
	6:17pm hoeg: i just finished listening to your Ethan Guttman interview, it was AMAZING, thankyou
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom agreed. Space Invaders and Combat were pretty good, too. Also the football game had surprisingly rich gameplay
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: @hoeg thanks! Glad you liked it.
	6:18pm hoeg: also HI all you lovely chatters and staffers
	6:22pm Ed: OMG - Jennifer Egan?!!
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: Evening, Hoeg! Very much agree with you on that Guttman interview. Crucial radio.
	6:23pm Mark Hurst: @Ed yes indeed
	🤖 6:25pm Handy Haversack: A Jennifer Egan interview maybe even a bigger triumph than finding a copy of the Kool-Aid Man Atari 2600 game!
	🤖 6:25pm tim from washington: Defender was my jam.
	🤖 6:26pm tim from washington: I've got to split early so I'll come back to part 2 in in the archives. Thank you, Mark! Thanks Jennifer. This is a fascinating listen. I'm looking forward to reading Candy House.
	6:28pm Mark Hurst: @TimFW thanks!
	6:30pm ultradamno: Bloomberg article about Axie Infinity, the subject of the Vice piece I mentioned earlier, which plays into some of these themes, in a cryptocurrency based pyramid scheme kind of way www.bloomberg.com...
	🤖 6:32pm PaulRobeson1922: Spying is dead
	6:32pm ultradamno: Oh, man. Philip Baker Hall has died.
	🤖 6:33pm Folsom: Mark, you ever get anywhere about interviewing Michael Chertoff?
	🤖 6:33pm PaulRobeson1922: Umm…. I’d like a word with Jennifer Egan‘s drug dealer (Character)
	6:34pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom no, tho I did try
	🤖 6:40pm PaulRobeson1922: @Franco Twinkie: Hello, Franco
	🤖 6:40pm Bas NL: Tech for connecting to the problems of others?
	6:40pm Marie: I love first person narrative novels for just that reason--love to be in another's head, so to speak
	6:41pm Mark Hurst: @Marie do you have a favorite 1st-person narrative novel?
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: Daniel Boorstin's book is called "The Image" and I have posted a link to it in the links section at left (or above, if you're reading this in the future)
	6:43pm Mark Hurst: And a link to a recent NYT story about the "BeReal" app is also posted at left.
	🤖 6:43pm PaulRobeson1922: Jefferson wrote man is a “imitative creature” in the context of children and the slavery question
	6:43pm Marie: Hi! Hm, well, I have quite a few that I love. One of them is called Kristin Lavransdattir--the story of one woman's life set in mideval Norway--it's actually never been out if print since it was first published in the 1930s.
	6:43pm Mark Hurst: @Marie thanks!
	🤖 6:44pm PaulRobeson1922: Daniel Boorstin is a reliable source!!!
	6:44pm Franco Twinkie: Pictures can enhance a literary experience - read the piece by Joan Acocella on Pinocchio in the current New Yorker.
	6:44pm Marie: Then there is Humboldt's Gift and Herzog, both by Saul Bellow. Happy to share! Thanks for this and all your work, Mark!
	6:46pm Miss G: Thank you for this interview Mark Hurst. I will listen to it again. Thank you Jennifer Egan -- I loved A Visit from the Goon Squad, and gave copies to friends. So looking forward to The Candy House!
	6:46pm be11ows: nice interview. another book i wanna read.
	6:46pm Franco Twinkie: I'm an avid reader, but I rely on my eyeballs for more than reading.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: Very interesting talk, Mark! I don't know that I have any thoughts that would fit into the chatboard, but many full mind moments over here listening to Jennifer's thoughts on her process and the struggles she's trying to evoke. Many thanks, Jennifer, for joining Mark and sharing with us.
	🤖 6:47pm PaulRobeson1922: Still one place to go… still one place to go
	6:49pm Marie: I would also suggest Islandia by August Tappan Wright--described as utopian fiction where the creates a whole new world/continent on earth and an American man travels there. It's amazing.
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: This show is turning into Booktonic.
	6:50pm Miss G: L Webhamster Henry
	🤖 6:50pm Handy Haversack: I recommend reading Mark's piece on subway reading, phones, and citizenship: creativegood.com...
	6:52pm Boulder Tom: Has Mark ever had Dave Eggars on?
	6:53pm Marie: One more great first-person narrative, to me: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
	6:53pm Miss G: Marie I also loved that Murakami novel.
	6:53pm yippie: my friend is suing google. weisner v google llc 21-2228
	6:54pm Marie: Hey, Miss G--that is my fave by him @)
	6:54pm Pete from Hoboken: Detroit is a Delta hub...but why there and not ATL?
	6:55pm melinda: wtf, I'm going to have to avoid the Detroit airport now. Or get some traveling reflectacles.
	6:55pm dale: why can't we use this surveillance state tech to stop mass shootings?
	6:55pm Ochre Ogre: THEY, scary bastards!
	6:55pm Marie: Let's use hive mind to think of a way (lawsuit) to get Fox off the air, or at least Tucker Carlson
	6:56pm Miss G: What ever happened to CV Dazzle?
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Many thanks, Mark!
	6:56pm Jim the Poet: Great show!
	6:56pm Miss G: Oh! Thank you Mark Hurst for a great show and for the links
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! One for the Cloud!
	🤖 6:57pm PaulRobeson1922: Thanks Mark & Jennifer!! Peace & LoVe ya’ll
	6:57pm Marie: Thank you, Mark
	6:57pm Franco Twinkie: David Foster Wallace was a good fiction writer, but I think his real talent was describing the real word. Read The Girl With Curious Hair, then read Consider The Lobster, then ask yourself which was more illuminating.
	🤖 6:57pm PaulRobeson1922: Still one place to go
	6:57pm Ochre Ogre: Marie- cracker carlson dont git me started!
	🤖 6:57pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:57pm yippie: there are a lot more restrictions on free speech inside airports
	6:58pm Marie: I love David Foster Wallace. "cracker carlson"--love it
	6:58pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Mark, always informative!
	6:58pm melinda: nice Willie cover
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: 'Till next week, Mark!
	6:59pm Franco Twinkie: You got it Marie.
	6:59pm Ochre Ogre: "cracker' as in honkie, heehee.
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, friends, for helping me get by...
	6:59pm ?: I 2nd that melinda
	7:02pm Marie: I have listened to this album so much (back when it first came out)
	🤖 7:03pm Handy Haversack: Girl with Curious Hair by a country mile, Franco!
	7:05pm Mark Hurst: @Marie thanks for the book recs!
	7:08pm Bea: So cool you have Jennifer Egan on! My book club is reading The Candy House!!

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from June 13, 2022

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