Hi-Fivin the Universe

"Hi-Fivin the Universe"

With guest Mike "Geepaw" Hill of Helping Geeks Produce

Alex Harms @onealexharms

Mike Hill @geepawhill

• 1:44 Astor Piazzolla, New Tango


• 5:04 "Oh my gosh! They're pottery dorks!"


• 6:12 "What makes you a nerd isn't what you love. It's how you love it." (Paraphrased Wil Wheaton)


• 6:58 "I'm in it. I'm so engaged in it that I disappear from my own view."


• 11:45 "being in fear feels to me like it stops up the works."


• 13:40 "My focus is not on the fear."


• 14:55 "When you push back in time on Jazz, all roads lead to Louis Armstrong."


• 15:18 "Hello, Dolly!"


• 18:05 "I'm just gonna stand up, and I'm gonna play the shit out of this! ... It comes through. You can hear that."


• 22:10 "He's hi-fivin the universe. He's celebrating for the sheer exuberant joy of 'I'm alive, and I make sounds!'"


• 24:03 "How do I get there? How do I do that? ... Here are the things that get in the way of geek joy..."

West End Blues, by Louis Armstrong