Author: Evan Neal

Can we recommend that you grind metal while drunk in the twilight hours?  Legally, no.  Can we recommend that you NOT do that?  Morally, no; it’s your life!  Soon the day will come where you can buy a voicepack from a person of your choosing and have them read you sweet nothings as you drift off to dreamland.  Maybe I can finally have a conversation with someone worth talking to.  *gasp*  Discussions on Apple potentially losing its hold on the image of what it means to be cool and artistic, Titans vs Titians and what it means for gaming, plenty of FATchat, and the good and the bad of medical knowledge from YouTube.  More in the show notes as always, hope you enjoy the show!

-Evan

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Song of the Week:  Thrice – Stand and Feel Your Worth

This week there is a lot of good news for the environment this week with new developments in suppressing methane production, conversion of CO2 into ethanol fuel, and a trifecta of solar developments from the savior of the human race.  Sloppy (cheap) engineering practices come to light leading to a formidable army of IoT devices capable of taking down several websites for a short period of time.  Our high hopes yet inevitable disappointment regarding the new Star Trek [web-]series coming in 2017 and why Russians are awesome at everything.  Plenty more in the show notes and as always, hope you enjoy the show!

-Evan

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Show Notes:  https://goo.gl/mOXImZ

 

Song of the week:  Memphis May Fire – Letting Go

Worst.Porno.Ever.  One step closer, two steps back.  Advancement in fusion reactor comes as gov’t funding ends.  Samsung Galaxy Note 7’s deemed so dangerous that it is now a federal crime to take them on to airplanes.  Marvel continues to shit on DC, and a couple of time travel movies that don’t suck.  We realize that some of you feel our shows run a bit long.  I get it.  But only in a great country like the USA are you allowed to have such wrong opinions and carry on with your life.  ‘MERICA.  There is actually a lot more in the show notes so please check it out; you won’t be sorry!

-Evan

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Show Notes:  https://goo.gl/B9OkoU

Playlist of the week

(told you, MIKE.)

Evan: I made a new folder with some diet stuff. IOPanel / Evan / Be Less Fat.  In case you guys want to have your minds BLOWN

Mike: I want to have something blown
HEYYYYO

Evan: Okay, just for that I’m going to make you the star of next week’s intro.  Remember this moment.

Happy Indian Culling…err Columbus Day!

When you play God, creating and destroying civilizations on a whim, you need only ask one simple question, “Would you like my seed?”  For the combat ready among you, James gave us a demonstration this week of what he likes to call “tactical podcasting.”  The CEO of Boeing takes aim at SpaceX claiming they plan to beat Elon Musk to Mars.  We also talk about Comcast extending their hosing umbrella aka data caps, the NSA locks away probably their most productive employee in recent history, possible major developments in the treatment of Alzheimer’s, Star Citizen’s journey to a release date 4 years behind schedule, and certain side effects of drinking your meals.  More links in the show notes, though honestly not a ton; we can do better.  Hope you enjoy the show.

-Evan

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Show Notes:  https://goo.gl/2XMYVX

Song of the Week:  Thank You Scientist – Absentee

Did you know that .com stands for .commerce?  As in the U.S. Department of Commerce?  I sure didn’t; until tonight that is!  This week we talk all about what you need to know to be barely familiar with three new interwebs goings on.  A short lecture asking folks to stop demonizing clowns.  Clowns are people too after all.  Really really creepy people.  We also talk about the money grab that’s going around these days by turning movies into TV shows and how they basically suck.  Hacking is once again in the news and gaming is all over the freakin place.  Hope you enjoy the show!

-Evan

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Song of the week:  For Today – Resonate   I will miss these guys a lot.

This week we spend a lot of time talking about blue lines and how they effect our lives and the lives of our countrymen.  Have a few laughs and let out a lot of sighs after seeing some comedic interpretation of the figureheads for both sides of a horrible two party system.  It has also recently come to light that despite what the documentary WarGames has led us to believe, hacking into your school systems computer and changing your grades is really not a thing.  Shame.  If you’re interested in distinctly ’round’ pictures then SnapChat is coming out with a product for you!  But wait, there’s more!  If you promise to tell your friends and give up all of your rights to your content on social media we’ll sell you a second device for double the price!  Hard to pass up a deal like that.  More jibber jabber from the three of us on a segment we call “Fat Chat” aka YUM Update (heh, Linux.)  And as always lots more cleverly named links in the show notes, and some plainly named links too.  Hope you enjoy the show!

-Evan

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Song of the week:
Calvin Harris – Let’s Go (feat. Ne-Yo)

It’s pronounced kumquat.  What the hell is a quat?  Okay okay nobody wants to say it but if you have to ask what a kumquat is then you suck at cooking.  This week we recant a tale of a fateful trip of a ship that was thought to be long lost but was found straight chillin in the Arctic circle.  Uber and Lyft are shooting for the stars and aiming to have their own fleets of self driving vehicles by 2020 if not sooner; will it be a good idea in hindsight?  Audible Channels (free with Amazon Prime) are a great source of concise news if you don’t have time to read or get tired of clickbait (*cough* BuzzFeed *cough*) online articles.  MSI likely spends way too much money on something that is more or less a gaming laptop with no screen.  We come up with ideas for the future of VR that we’re incapable of implementing, talk ad nauseam about losing weight and hint at how crazy Dan Aykroyd just might be.  As always check the show notes for links and full stories.  Hope you enjoy the show!

-Evan

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Show Notes:  https://goo.gl/apU7MI

Motivational Metalcore Song of the Week:
For Today – Determination

Episode 27, 27 x 2 = 54, 54 years of pain and anguish for anyone who defies the will of our new robot overlord, Atlas.  This week we not only welcome our new nightmare fuel from Boston Dynamics but now you can wake up from the nightmare of a coma using ultrasound, as if your brain was pregnant.  Neat!  For those of you who wish to run from our one true God, Atlas, you can put your hopes and dreams into the theoretical EM drive which works but kind of shouldn’t, so it’s getting tested, for reals.  Run away, heathens.  Run away to space.  There are a couple of super rad USB hacks out, so protect your ports if you can, which you can’t, so why bother trying.  Terminator Genisys is cool, games are cool, drug companies are awful, what’s new.  Enjoy the show!

-Evan

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Evan’s song of the week:  Jared Dines – Demogorgon
(Jared is a Youtuber I watch and he has a lot of good and fun metal/music related videos, he is releasing a solo EP and this is his first song.  Enjoy)

We shed a single tear as we wave goodbye to Project Ara.  I can’t think of a worse tragedy in the last 16 years.  This is truly devestating.  BU08028 is a promising up and comer for all of your burned monkey tail problems, confirmation of NSA getting caught red handed and being total dicks, sketchy certificate authories, video game developer fan appreciation at a new high – take notes everyone other than Bethesda, Youtube: Your convenient online SJW safe space, and some fun things about travel, space ships destroying space ships, and “The Clarkson.”  Hope you enjoy the show and as always check out the show notes for links and more fun!

-Evan

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Thank you to our good friends Tim and Eric for joining us on such short notice.  We love you guys.  For your health.

Evan’s song of the week:  Wage War – Twenty One

With 2/3 of “the crew” on vacation in sunny Outer Banks working on their base burns we bring you a short but sweet (and slightly sour) episode.  Do you make vague, leading, attention whore posts on Facebook?  Fuck you.  Now that that’s off my chest you can enjoy our conversation about steak, NSA hacks, natural disasters in two places, kinetic weaponry, and your new career as a highly skilled tube bender on Mars.  You like bending tubes, right?  Hope you enjoy the show.

-Evan

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Show Notes:  http://goo.gl/jHEZha

Unrelated song of the week:  Amor – No Relief