Jen’s business, cooking school, pirates, and showing your value… through baking00:04:39 - Post-layoff experiences, first jobs, the DQ Q, and the Subway vs. Dairy Queen feud 00:07:32 - Pop-up sales and pickups, family help for the farmer’s markets, and hobby bakers00:11:49 - Establishing credibility, TikTok mysteries, doomscrolling, and the cute winter boots00:16:31 - Social media uses, Ben’s uses the wrong word, the definition, and complex origins00:20:45 - Boy George, the sourdough starter class, and committing bacterial cultural genocide  00:23:48 - Brewing beer, kefir, the puke juice, food fermentation, and atmospheric sensitivity 00:28:48 - Inclusions, flavor and texture, managing the variables, practicing, and bulk baking00:32:02 - Patience and precision, loaves now and then, focus on one recipe, and repetition00:34:40 - Maintaining multiple cultures, ancient grains, waking up the starter, and bacteria 00:38:15 - Understanding the science, utilizing teaching experience, and creating the class00:41:41 - Students sharing results, protecting the workbook, and feeding or teaching people 00:44:14 - Thoughts on doing what you love for a living, and a monetizing hobbies push segue 00:48:47 - That time pinball was illegal in Chicago—where most pinball machines were made 00:50:36 - Leave it to John E. Cassidy, TV theme songs, illegal free games, and back to Neil   00:53:27 - Crystal Lake is partially to blame, arcade player gender divides, and console culture 00:56:26 - The industry becoming more inclusive, not just for nerds anymore, and streamers 00:58:58 - Webkinz, Cooking Mama, Animal Crossing, and the Easy-Bake Kitchen PC Playset01:03:04 - YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY, Skylanders, and getting two talkers together 01:05:39 - Final thoughts, exploring the old ways, War lyrics fact check, and be open learning