"This is going straight to the pool room" is an Australian colloquialism for a repository of treasured objects as cited in the movie "The Castle." It means that which is worthy of treasuring and preserving. Straight to the pool room is a podcast of stories on how artists hold their head up in a hyper connected world where art intersects with technolog on multiple platforms 24/7. We tell stories worthy of treasuring and preserving; stories that go straight to the pool room.