Some chinwag involving the swirling mass that is the information age where every thread can be followed; valentine's day and present giving; how many why questions are enough; being greedy with time, economics and addiction; vampirism as addiction; Guy Clark (I believe) on Heartworn Highways dropped the excellent idea that one "should not drink a barrel of whiskey just because there is a barrel of whiskey there"; the products around us and what can be done to avoid the worst excesses of the pollution done by the small build up of toxic things* ; convenience; politics and reality as a fiction and the psychedelia of the narratives; Ned Price raking their evidence over the coals; Olympics and the purpose of it, (I realise I did not attribute the author of the thought around why there wont be a war during the olympics and it was from the No Agenda podcast); the outward movement of people from the cities; going off grid; city life versus country life; community-led district heating systems; smaller communities and the pace of life; insurance and some other stuff. The tune at the end was Pink Lady from Pamela Wedgwood's Jazzin' About. 

*This is perhaps an idea that could be refocused on many aspects of life, especially ones media consumption