A place to relax, talk tech, and drink.

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Zac and Andrew meet at the bar for an indiscrete chat about creative match-making, enjoying conspiracy theories, how companies have become governments, the problem with literalism, playing old videogames, how Pixar took over Disney, and Thanos: Friend or Foe?

The Menu Bar: Episode 22 - The Turok Tales

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Shikhee of Android Lust sits down with Zac to discuss how she got started as a musician, the problem with algorithms, the importance of albums, how she leverages technology in her work, her experience funding projects through Kickstarter, why Google is awful, and much more.

The Menu Bar: Episode 28 - Never Forgive Google, With Android Lust

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Zac and a slightly woozy Andrew meet and discuss acupuncture, being hugged by a dominatrix, pseudoscience, synchonicity and quantum physics, the pathology of extreme’s, the secret darkside of buddhism, and how we all use Twitter to escape.

The Menu Bar: Episode 23 - Secretly The Sequel To The Secret

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Rob Sheridan visits the bar to discuss how he came to join Nine Inch Nails at 18, his creative kinship with Trent Reznor, finding happy accidents in doing things the wrong way, the inception and lasting impact of Year Zero, Trent and Rob’s role in architecting the Beats Music vision + insight into the Apple Music transition, his current comic book project &#39;High Level&#39;, and lot more.

The Menu Bar: Episode 24 - Beauty in Accidents, With Rob Sheridan

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We sit down with <a href="http://micahredding.com/" rel="nofollow">Micah Redding</a> to discuss how each of us came to our individual belief structures, Micah’s attraction to Christian Transhumanism, institutional denial, the ever present need for deeper interpretation, ways Christianity agrees with the truth of Buddhism, how religion has been disrupted, and how cooperation and conversations can spring the cosmos to life.

The Menu Bar: Episode 25 - Religion Disrupted, With Micah Redding

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We are joined by Marco Arment for a candid discussion about the state of podcasting in 2018, why podcasts should — and probably will — remain decentralized, why we should always be afraid, the problems with AR and VR, and we wrap with some advice for people who want to podcast.

The Menu Bar - Episode 26: We Should Always Be Afraid, With Marco Arment

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Zac sits down with Ben Watkins AKA Juno Reactor to discuss what turns him on creatively, the delight of collaborating with The Wachowski Siblings on The Matrix sequels, our shared love of Barbarella, and his latest album ‘The Mutant Theater’

The Menu Bar: Episode 27 - The Mutant Theater, With Juno Reactor

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Josh Centers is the managing editor of long running Apple blog TidBITS, and he joins Zac at the bar to discuss Apple’s recent iPad and MacBook event.

The Menu Bar: Episode 29 - People Seem To Be Liking iPads, With Josh Centers

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We discuss our recent injuries, what happened in Hawaii, the paralytic fear that comes with being real and honest, the stories we tell ourselves, the lack of substance in political extremism, how corporations are making government obsolete, how we cheat ourselves out of real experiences, and we ask: where do we go from here?

The Menu Bar: Episode 30 - They're Going To Get You Absolutely

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Zac and Andrew sit down to discuss that feeling of design VS chaos, mysterious coincidences, emotional openness, working with the universe as opposed to against it, and much more.

The Menu Bar: Episode 32 - Me, Here, With My Sad Box

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Мonogamy VS polyamory, whether Tinder has been a good or bad development for human relationships, and the difficulty men have with finding substantiative friendships.

The Menu Bar: Episode 31 - You Can't Just Have The Frosting

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