I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have another chat with Tested co-founder and FOO VR CEO Will Smith, about sweet tobacco, Kool-Aid Hookahs, Steve Martin’s BanjoWorld, harmonicas, Virtual Goldblum, Neil deGrasse pedantry, Sesame clocks, spider players, and odysseys.
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