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Recently, my five-year-old kid saw a DeLorean, and he thought it looked really cool.

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I told him it was in these really cool movies called Back to the Future.

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He asked me what the movies were about, and why they were called Back to the Future . This audio is me trying to explain thfrist two films to him. It’s actually kind of hard to explain these movies to a five-year-old! (Well, it was hard for me.)

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Below is a quote from my ridiculous explanation.

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 When he goes back in time, the car kinda runs outta gas, and he has to find a way to get more gas to make the car go back to his present, which is the future in the past where he is, which is very confusing.

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Over on the Disquiet blog, Marc Weidenbaum will post 30 seconds of an interesting sound he encounters just going about his day. (This one is of buzz saws.)

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Today, I was walking to the park with one of my kids, and I noticed this small thumping sound, which turned out to be acorns from the oak trees dropping to the ground. I liked the sound and recorded 1:00 min of it. There are is also the sound of lawn mower and birds in the background.

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I just made an influences page here (you can see it at the top of the site in the navigation bar). I plan to keep adding to this as I think about who and what have influenced me.

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However, when I look at it now, I notice something I think is significant that helps me not be overly focused on making things perfect: Most of the stuff the people on this list make isn’t super polished/overly produced.

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Of course, there are some things on this list that do have a rather high production value to them, such as Bella Freud’s videos, and Ezra Klein’s podcast, but these things constitute the minority rather than the majority of things on this list.

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Hello,

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This is the second field note I’ve recorded and posted to the new From78 site (hosted via Micro.blog). I used a small wireless mic and my iPhone’s voice memo app to make the field note. If it sounds good, I plan to do more things like this.

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The idea is to record stuff in the fly, as a kind of field note. Then, later, use those off the cuff field recordings as source material for a From78 podcast.

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