Initially, we had the idea that if we didn’t learn anything else interesting from this search, it could have been an opportunity to talk about the concept of th

Initially, we had the idea that if we didn’t learn anything else interesting from this search, it could have been an opportunity to talk about the concept of the Metaverse. Tyler was actually taking that concept somewhat seriously, the idea that we had fallen in between two multiverses. We even reached out to a quantum physicist from Caltech to talk about it. Now that would have been an episode to remember. In all seriousness, it was a great episode. I wish they could have tracked down the guitarist from Trinidad and Tobago who also remembered the song and posted about it on an obscure guitar forum. Lots of people are talking about songs from the analog/early digital era not making it to the streaming world. This is a big issue for a lot of the music I listen to, mostly indie stuff from the 80s and 90s, much of it from local scenes. Even if it made it to CD, the likelihood of indie labels or rights holders doing the required legal, bureaucratic, and technical steps to make the recordings available on Spotify, Apple Music, or other streaming services is slim. I know one Boston-area band whose single major label album (from 1990) is on streaming services, but the earlier stuff from indie labels in the 1980s (including their best-known material) didn't make it. One of the band members is now a lawyer, and I asked him why I couldn't get the band's songs from Apple Music. He indicated it would be a huge pain from the perspective of getting former members who don't get along to sign the paperwork, and questioned whether it would be worth it financially considering the paltry payouts offered by streaming services to artists (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/oct/31/best-streaming-service-mp3-pays-artists https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/oct/31/b...).