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Welcome back to another episode of Kliq This! In episode #108, we're gearing up for the convention season with plenty of laughs and deep dives into the wrestling world. Kevin Nash and Sean Oliver start off with a hilarious discussion about their obsessive-compulsive tendencies when it comes to clearing their DVRs and emails. Kevin talks about his grooming routine before heading to conventions, and Sean shares his love for the show "Hotel Impossible," while Kevin dives into auction shows. The guys reminisce about Ric Flair's larger-than-life personality and influence, and Kevin reveals his plans for SummerSlam and possibly catching The Undertaker's show. Sean teases an upcoming special guest for podcast subscribers, and the guys discuss the latest news about CM Punk possibly restructuring his deal with WWE. Kevin also gives his unique take on the MJF vs. Will Ospreay match, providing an insightful review of the action. Join us for this fun and insightful episode as we head into the convention season with plenty of stories, laughs, and behind-the-scenes looks into the wrestling world. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon to stay updated with all our latest content! #KliqThis #KevinNash #WrestlingPodcast #ConventionSeason #ProWrestling #RicFlair #CMPunk #MJF #WillOspreay #Podcast Subscribe and hit the bell icon to stay updated with all our latest episodes and don't forget to like, share, and comment! Follow us: Twitter: @KliqThisPodcast Instagram: @KliqThisPodcast Facebook: /KliqThisPodcast Rocket Money-Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions – and manage your expenses the easy way – by going to www.RocketMoney.com/nash. GameTime-Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and redeem code KLIQ for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to another episode of Kliq This! In episode #108, we're gearing up for the convention season with plenty of laughs and deep dives into the wrestling world. Kevin Nash and Sean Oliver start off with a hilarious discussion about their obsessive-compulsive tendencies when it comes to clearing their DVRs and emails. Kevin talks about his grooming routine before heading to conventions, and Sean shares his love for the show "Hotel Impossible," while Kevin dives into auction shows. The guys reminisce about Ric Flair's larger-than-life personality and influence, and Kevin reveals his plans for SummerSlam and possibly catching The Undertaker's show. Sean teases an upcoming special guest for podcast subscribers, and the guys discuss the latest news about CM Punk possibly restructuring his deal with WWE. Kevin also gives his unique take on the MJF vs. Will Ospreay match, providing an insightful review of the action. Join us for this fun and insightful episode as we head into the convention season with plenty of stories, laughs, and behind-the-scenes looks into the wrestling world. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon to stay updated with all our latest content! #KliqThis #KevinNash #WrestlingPodcast #ConventionSeason #ProWrestling #RicFlair #CMPunk #MJF #WillOspreay #Podcast Subscribe and hit the bell icon to stay updated with all our latest episodes and don't forget to like, share, and comment! Follow us: Twitter: @KliqThisPodcast Instagram: @KliqThisPodcast Facebook: /KliqThisPodcast Rocket Money-Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions – and manage your expenses the easy way – by going to www.RocketMoney.com/nash. GameTime-Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and redeem code KLIQ for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today the guys discuss WTF moments in the history of technology.  Mike discusses how in 1984, the VCR (and the DVD, DVRs, and streaming) came within one vote of being banned.  David discusses how tech firms worked a fascinating compromise to name Bluetooth after a Scandinavian king who was murdered while relieving himself.  Welcome to the Quintana Show. Q has spent years in the political world so he knows how to ask questions. Watch as we bring you entertaining and insightful interviews from guests across the sports, music, entertainment, and news world. And we didn't forget you either true crime fans!

In this episode, Andrew and Julie chat with guest John Crepezzi, a veteran in the Ruby community, founder of All Aboard Bootcamp, and currently a Software Engineer at Jane Street.  Today, they discuss John's experience running a coding bootcamp, share insights on teaching programming, and emphasize the importance of community in learning.  Additionally, they explore functional programming in OCaml, highlighting how functional programming can be implemented in Ruby.  Also, John dives into the potential impact of AI, particularly language models like ChatGPT, on education and software development, and there's a discussion on resume writing for new coders and future trends in AI and automation. Hit download now to hear more! [00:01:08] Julie introduces John, her former bootcamp instructor, and he tells us about himself and his extensive experience on the Ruby community. [00:02:14] Andrew asks John about the gem he is most proud of creating, and he explains his pride in the “ice_cube gem” for recurring date math. [00:04:30] John discusses the technical challenges and community contributions to ice_cube. [00:05:25] Julie discusses her positive experience with All Aboard Bootcamp and how the bootcamp helped her connect different programming concepts.  [00:07:26] John describes his teaching philosophy for covering a broad amount of material quickly and he stresses the importance of learning to ask the right questions. He uses a metaphor from the movie “Tommy Boy” to emphasize teaching practical skills.[00:11:26] John relates the approach to teaching with the usefulness of ChatGPT and Julie expresses her preference for receiving explanations in small chunks and using bullet points for clarity. John discusses how LLMs can assist in refining questions before providing answers. [00:12:49] Andrew asks about AI's role in teaching and its potential impact. John, an AI professional,  offers his perspective on AI in the short and term, specifically its ability to understand and respond to human language. He speculates on the future of human computer interaction, where structured systems may become unnecessary as LLMs bridge the communication gap. [00:16:03] Andrew agrees with John's vision of the future, acknowledging the inefficiencies in current user flows. John compares the evolution from programming VCRs to using DVRs to the potential of LLMs simplifying interaction with technology. [00:16:55] John describes the motivation behind starting a bootcamp and the realization of the industry's selection bias towards already skilled programmers. He shares the story of how the high cost of bootcamps and their screening processes inspired him to teach a more accessible camp. [00:21:10] Julie is impressed by John's ability to manage the bootcamp alongside his full-time job, family responsibilities, and other commitments. She also talks about the final project of the bootcamp, where John acted as a project manager and provided structure and guidance. [00:23:31] Andrew inquires about what John thinks is the number one mistake new programmers make on their resume.  John emphasizes the importance of highlighting projects on a resume, especially for those transitioning from another industry, and advises focusing on the outcomes and transferable skills gained from previous experiences.[00:25:35] John considers formatting critical for resumes, suggesting less content with more white space and a clear hierarchy can be more effective than too much information.[00:26:44] Another thing John advises is keeping resumes to one page unless there's a compelling reason for more, like academic positions or extensive project work.[00:27:18] Reflecting on the bootcamp, John wishes he had sought more assistance with grading and feedback to reduce the workload. [00:28:34] John praises the students, particularly Julie, for fostering a supportive community outside of the classroom.[00:31:07] Discussing programming languages, John expresses his favor for OCaml and functional programming, arguing that functional patterns can be beneficial even in languages like Ruby. [00:32:13] Find out where you can follow John online. [00:32:58] We end with John reaffirming his love for Ruby and expresses enthusiasm for its future and mentioning his work with Eileen on Active Record and Rails' influence on web frameworks in other languages. Panelists:Andrew MasonJulie J.Guest:John CrepezziSponsors:GoRailsHoneybadgerLinks:Andrew Mason X/TwitterAndrew Mason WebsiteJulie J. X/TwitterJulie J. WebsiteJohn Crepezzi X/TwitterJohn Crepezzi GitHubice_cube 0.16.4All Aboard BootcampAbout the bootcamp (John's story)RailsConf 2023-Functional Patterns in Ruby by John Crepezzi (YouTube)OCaml (00:00) - Introduction to the Episode (01:08) - Meet John Crepezzi: Ruby Community Veteran and Bootcamp Founder (02:14) - John's Pride in Creating the "ice_cube gem" for Date Math (04:30) - Technical Challenges and Community Role in Developing ice_cube (05:25) - Julie's Transformative Experience at All Aboard Bootcamp (07:26) - John's Teaching Philosophy: Quick Learning and Practical Skills (11:26) - ChatGPT's Role in Teaching: Enhancing Question Refinement (12:49) - AI in Education: John's Perspective on Future Trends (16:03) - From VCRs to AI: Evolution of User-Technology Interaction (16:55) - The Genesis of John's Bootcamp: Addressing Industry Biases (21:10) - John's Journey: Balancing Bootcamp with Personal Life (23:31) - Common Resume Mistakes for New Programmers (25:35) - John's Tips on Effective Resume Formatting (26:44) - Importance of Conciseness in Resumes (27:18) - John Reflects on Bootcamp Challenges and Workload Management (28:34) - Fostering a Supportive Community in the Bootcamp (31:07) - John's Advocacy for OCaml and Functional Programming in Ruby (32:13) - Discover Where to Follow John Online (32:58) - John's Ongoing Passion for Ruby and Its Evolving Impact

On this week's show we discuss a video where Caleb Denison of Digital Trends, says the AppleTV is the best at streaming your video and we have a review of the Tablo TV Over the Air DVR. We also read your emails and take a look at the week's news. News: Disney Kicks Off Password-Sharing Crackdown in Canada Samsung SmartThings And Philips Hue Expand Synergies  FAST Is Making Streaming TV Look More Like Traditional TV  Netflix Reportedly Set to Raise Prices After Actors Strike Ends  Other: Dolby Atmos FlexConnect How You Stream Matters We received a couple of emails (one from Stan and one from John) this week pointing us to an article and video stating that how you stream your content affects what you see. The article is from Dark Horizons and the video is on Youtube (Apple TV Best for Netflix? Right Time To Buy a TV? | You Asked: Ep. 7).  The video host, Caleb Denison of Digital Trends, says the AppleTV is the best, although he prefers using Google TV. So how did he come to this conclusion? Some TVs or set top boxes limit color bit depth to 4:2:0, which means more color banding just because you are watching on that particular platform. Many platforms may have that setting as the default so check to make sure you have an option to change it. Without going into a ton of detail, 4:4:4 is 100% of the chroma information, 4:2:2 is 50% and 4:2:0 is 25%. If you have Dolby Vision enabled on an AppleTV you will not have an option to select a Chroma setting. It will be 4:2:2 by default. Some platforms do not allow buffering. As a result you will never achieve the full 4K you are paying for. Caleb does not say which platforms do this. But if you have 4K with a slower data rate it won't be difficult to determine if your system is buffering or not.  Another issue is with frame rate. Some will not give you 24 fps but will instead convert it to 30 fps.  So why the AppleTV? According to the host, “It's the one with the least amount of questions and just enough controls available. It also comes with the fewest number of headaches, and for that I'm willing to pay a little extra. It's not perfect, but it is the least flawed and sadly I think that's where we're at right now with streaming.” Tablo TV Over the Air DVR Over the years we have had a chance to review a lot of personal DVRs. Most of which have come and gone. Some had stand alone hardware and others required a PC. Some had built-in tuners and others required an external tuner. Today we take a quick look at a DVR that is a stand alone box no bigger than an AppleTV or Roku streaming box with two built in ATSC 2.0 tuners. That device is the Tablo 4th generation that goes for about $110.  Features: Watch, pause and record live broadcast TV from your antenna.  Record 50+ hours and never miss a moment with 128GB of onboard recording storage. Can expand up to 1000+ hours with an external hard drive Tablo lets you watch TV anywhere in your home on any smart device.  Record and watch live TV, subscription-free (Internet service is required).  Quick and easy setup. Setup Plug in power, Ethernet, and an antenna and you are ready to scan for channels. I initially had issues with  the Tablo giving me location errors and stopping the install process there. I contacted their Customer Support and they acknowledged the error and informed me of a server issue they were experiencing. Once those were resolved the process resumed without a hitch. The only complaint I had was that it took too long to download the channel guide. But I was being impatient.  Performance Once you complete the install and setup you can start watching TV and recording programs. I won't go into the details on how to do this because it's very intuitive and you've all done this before. In addition to the channels you receive over the air, Tablo has some FAST channels that include news, sports, old TV shows, and more.  You watch on your Tablet or phone and on Set Top boxes. Currently Roku, fireTV, android TV, GoogleTV, iOS and Android are supported. AppleTV, Samsung TVs, WebOS, and Vizio TVs are coming soon. Two devices can watch/record live TV simultaneously and up to six can watched recorded or streamed content simultaneously. Picture quality is good, but we are talking 1080i or 720p OTA, so don't expect the same as 4K HDR content you get from AppleTV or Netflix. The user interface is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Setting up recordings is simple. Recorded programs are grouped together based on series. Guide information is available and I haven't been prompted to pay for it which is a big plus over other DVRs.   There is no way to watch your content when you are away from home so consider that when making your buying decision. Also, a pleasant surprise is that you can record FAST channels and skip commercials. I'm not sure other devices let you do that.  In all, this is a great device if you are looking for a DVR like you used to have back in the day. You can watch anywhere in the house and, soon enough, on any device. If you want to stream your content outside your home, this product is not for you. Perhaps someday that capability will be added, but not today.  

Microsoft is killing WordPad after 28 years. Is there a workaround for using unsupported printers on a Chromebook? Should you switch to wireless charging? Plus, Scott Wilkinson talks about Oppenheimer and its dialogue, and Johnny Jet shares how he saved on his Spectrum bill!  Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years. Apple's September 12th event: iPhone 15 with a USB-C port. Driverless taxis blocked ambulance and patient later died, San Francisco Fire Dept. says. SpaceX sending iPhone Emergency SOS satellites to space. Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics course requirements for admission. What is the easiest way to pair your headphones to a TV? How can I fix my old laser printer? Are there any workarounds to setting up unsupported printers on Chromebooks? Where is Linux storing my applications on the hard drive? Scott Wilkinson and Oppenheimer's dialogue. Why are my IR remotes and receivers not working? What should one consider when installing in-home internet for a first-time home buyer? What are some recommendations for DVRs with cable? Johnny Jet and how to save on your Spectrum bill & Google's flight price guarantee. Should I switch to wireless charging my devices rather than continue using wired cables? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson and Johnny Jet Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1990 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys Sponsors: mylio.com/TWIT lectricebikes.com

Microsoft is killing WordPad after 28 years. Is there a workaround for using unsupported printers on a Chromebook? Should you switch to wireless charging? Plus, Scott Wilkinson talks about Oppenheimer and its dialogue, and Johnny Jet shares how he saved on his Spectrum bill!  Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years. Apple's September 12th event: iPhone 15 with a USB-C port. Driverless taxis blocked ambulance and patient later died, San Francisco Fire Dept. says. SpaceX sending iPhone Emergency SOS satellites to space. Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics course requirements for admission. What is the easiest way to pair your headphones to a TV? How can I fix my old laser printer? Are there any workarounds to setting up unsupported printers on Chromebooks? Where is Linux storing my applications on the hard drive? Scott Wilkinson and Oppenheimer's dialogue. Why are my IR remotes and receivers not working? What should one consider when installing in-home internet for a first-time home buyer? What are some recommendations for DVRs with cable? Johnny Jet and how to save on your Spectrum bill & Google's flight price guarantee. Should I switch to wireless charging my devices rather than continue using wired cables? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson and Johnny Jet Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1990 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsors: mylio.com/TWIT lectricebikes.com

Microsoft is killing WordPad after 28 years. Is there a workaround for using unsupported printers on a Chromebook? Should you switch to wireless charging? Plus, Scott Wilkinson talks about Oppenheimer and its dialogue, and Johnny Jet shares how he saved on his Spectrum bill!  Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years. Apple's September 12th event: iPhone 15 with a USB-C port. Driverless taxis blocked ambulance and patient later died, San Francisco Fire Dept. says. SpaceX sending iPhone Emergency SOS satellites to space. Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics course requirements for admission. What is the easiest way to pair your headphones to a TV? How can I fix my old laser printer? Are there any workarounds to setting up unsupported printers on Chromebooks? Where is Linux storing my applications on the hard drive? Scott Wilkinson and Oppenheimer's dialogue. Why are my IR remotes and receivers not working? What should one consider when installing in-home internet for a first-time home buyer? What are some recommendations for DVRs with cable? Johnny Jet and how to save on your Spectrum bill & Google's flight price guarantee. Should I switch to wireless charging my devices rather than continue using wired cables? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson and Johnny Jet Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1990 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/total-leo Sponsors: mylio.com/TWIT lectricebikes.com

Microsoft is killing WordPad after 28 years. Is there a workaround for using unsupported printers on a Chromebook? Should you switch to wireless charging? Plus, Scott Wilkinson talks about Oppenheimer and its dialogue, and Johnny Jet shares how he saved on his Spectrum bill!  Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years. Apple's September 12th event: iPhone 15 with a USB-C port. Driverless taxis blocked ambulance and patient later died, San Francisco Fire Dept. says. SpaceX sending iPhone Emergency SOS satellites to space. Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics course requirements for admission. What is the easiest way to pair your headphones to a TV? How can I fix my old laser printer? Are there any workarounds to setting up unsupported printers on Chromebooks? Where is Linux storing my applications on the hard drive? Scott Wilkinson and Oppenheimer's dialogue. Why are my IR remotes and receivers not working? What should one consider when installing in-home internet for a first-time home buyer? What are some recommendations for DVRs with cable? Johnny Jet and how to save on your Spectrum bill & Google's flight price guarantee. Should I switch to wireless charging my devices rather than continue using wired cables? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson and Johnny Jet Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1990 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys Sponsors: mylio.com/TWIT lectricebikes.com

Microsoft is killing WordPad after 28 years. Is there a workaround for using unsupported printers on a Chromebook? Should you switch to wireless charging? Plus, Scott Wilkinson talks about Oppenheimer and its dialogue, and Johnny Jet shares how he saved on his Spectrum bill!  Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years. Apple's September 12th event: iPhone 15 with a USB-C port. Driverless taxis blocked ambulance and patient later died, San Francisco Fire Dept. says. SpaceX sending iPhone Emergency SOS satellites to space. Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics course requirements for admission. What is the easiest way to pair your headphones to a TV? How can I fix my old laser printer? Are there any workarounds to setting up unsupported printers on Chromebooks? Where is Linux storing my applications on the hard drive? Scott Wilkinson and Oppenheimer's dialogue. Why are my IR remotes and receivers not working? What should one consider when installing in-home internet for a first-time home buyer? What are some recommendations for DVRs with cable? Johnny Jet and how to save on your Spectrum bill & Google's flight price guarantee. Should I switch to wireless charging my devices rather than continue using wired cables? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson and Johnny Jet Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/1990 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsors: mylio.com/TWIT lectricebikes.com

Ronnie Raviv joined Leah to try and figure out if he has any favorite things. We talk about cocktails, cocktail bars, books, TV, great meals and our friendship origin story. For someone who claims to have no favorite things, there was no lacking in conversation. Like my beloved Zouks, Ronnie is not on twitter. Show Notes Second City Conservatory  Quipfire Improv  Sally Albright Chicken Pot Pie origin story  Mexican Mule Journeyman White Whiskey Jasper Fforde  OCD TLV Taizu  Fantastic TLV  Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde Blind Barber Duck Duck Goat Aviary Rosemary Tango Sur Bar Roma Frasca Monte Verde Dear Margaret  Yom Tov Deli (Tel Aviv) Harry's Epic Israel Food Tours Transcript follows Ronnie Raviv  0:00   Hello, my name is Ronnie Raviv. And I don't think I really have favorite things, but I have a lot of things that I like a lot, and you can hear all about them. In this week's finding favorites. ----more---- Announcer  0:10   Welcome to the findings favorites Podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones. Leah Jones  0:23   Hello, and welcome to finding favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. It's Sunday, August 27. Really a beautiful, perfect day in Chicago after that brutal heatwave earlier in the week. Nice to have the windows open and to eat dinner outside today. Not too much to report other than my shoulder MRI shows a what seems to be a completely boring, small rotator rotator cuff tear. So hopefully, I will have some resolution to my shoulder pain soon. The orthopedist I saw last week said shit your shoulder is jacked. Which I think is sports for let's take this injury seriously. This week on the podcast I am talking with my one of my very dear friends Ronnie Raviv. You have heard about him on the podcast for years because he kept me company during a lot of chemo therapies and steroid Saturdays. We went to Israel on overlapping trips recently, so we just had that fabulous dinner in Tel Aviv. We talked about that a little bit. So I twisted his arm and said, Come be on a podcast. Now he does not listen to podcasts. He's not a he's not into the audio medium of podcasting. So I don't know if he will ever listen to this. But we have a fun conversation. Just sitting around bullshitting on the couch for an hour or so. And hit record. So without further ado, wear your mask. Wash your hands. Get your booster. I know a new booster is coming out soon. So I guess, wear your mask more diligently while you wait for the new booster to be available. And keep enjoying your favorite things. Leah Jones  2:43   Hello, and welcome to finding favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. And this is the podcast where we learn about people's favorite things and get recommendations without using an algorithm. Today I'm joined a rare in person interview for finding favorites. With my own personal algorithm. You do all the research that wire cutter doesn't do for me. So I don't have to do it. Yeah. What do we just found out recently? You didn't know what wire cutter Ronnie Raviv  3:08   was? No, I had no idea. You introduced me to wire cutter. Leah Jones  3:11   Right. So wire cutter is consumer a modern consumer reports. Yeah, basically. And then anytime I need a new phone. You are my Consumer Reports. Ronnie Raviv  3:23   Yeah, I would just from like the one article that I read or the one article with all the links to the other articles that I read. It it I wouldn't describe it necessarily as the modern consumer reports. I would describe it as the less nerdy Consumer Reports. So let's let's charts and figures and more. Recommendations. Leah Jones  3:49   Yes. Ronnie Raviv  3:50   It's a curated fair Consumer Reports. Leah Jones  3:57   I'm fine with him doing all the research for me. Sure. Because I am too lazy. Yeah, I would rather buy it. It'd be the wrong thing. Never return it and buy another thing. I wouldn't rather that but that's more likely how my life goes, Ronnie Raviv  4:10   right? Yeah, no, I'd much rather would buy the right thing to begin with. Leah Jones  4:14   Yes. Right. Which is why every two years when I'm a Verizon, it's time to buy a new phone. I call you with no warning. And I'm like, What phone am I buying today? Right. I've done that for 15 years, at least. Once I went away from my Blackberry, Ronnie Raviv  4:29   which I think we're all happy for. Leah Jones  4:31   Yeah. So Ronnie, usually, this is when so this is like the time of the podcast where people get to know the guest. And often we're I'm getting to know the guests because usually they are a complete stranger. Right? And you're not No, Ronnie Raviv  4:48   no, we've known each other for I was trying to do the math. I feel like 21 or 22 years we've known each other. Yeah. And we've known each other well, for maybe 18 years. Yeah, we know each other very well for 15 years. Yeah, maybe that's I think Leah Jones  5:06   that's about right. I moved here in Memorial Day 2002. Okay. And started going to open mics immediately. Yeah. And very quickly. Got to the tequila Roadhouse. RIP, RIP tequila Roadhouse and Ronnie Raviv  5:25   their crack fries. Yeah, they were surprised that were I don't know what they put on. There were so bad. Leah Jones  5:33   Well, there was my cousin's Friend's Boyfriend maybe wasn't conservatory with you? I don't remember. Okay. I think he was Greek. Okay, or he had a friend and I don't remember. Somehow I want to but one of your conservatory shows Ronnie Raviv  5:55   site. Yes. Second City conservatory Right. Leah Jones  6:00   Which quickly led to tequila Roadhouse. Yes. Ronnie Raviv  6:03   Because my many of the people I would go into group and that improv group, not only did stuff but also held an open mic. First tequila Roadhouse, then they went to Weiss fools. Yep. Neither of which are around because this is over 20 years ago. Leah Jones  6:19   Yeah. So it was a mixed bag. Open Mic. Yes. Very. So I did stand up comedy. And you were reading your as of yet unfinished novel Ronnie Raviv  6:31   as of still yet unfinished novel? Yes. And you would read a chapter a week? Yes, that was probably the most productive time because I had the actual deadline to like, do the chapter, right. But the way I write I don't outline or plan ahead, I sorta have to get into the, into the fugue state, which means that every time I sit down and write I don't necessarily remember what it was that I wrote, because I'm in a bit of a fugue state, right. And that's generally how I read books as well. I don't remember things after I just sort of get the good feeling. Yeah. And so I, so now it's just become this daunting mountain, because as the chapters pile up, every time I sit down, I have to read the whole thing to get into that flow. And it's just like, you know, if I have an hour to write, that's all well and good, but it'll take me like three or four hours just to read the thing to like, get into the meat into you know, and I don't have three or four. Let's be honest, I probably do. I just don't have the, Leah Jones  7:28   you don't have it set aside. You haven't scheduled in, right. Reread the novel, Ronnie Raviv  7:33   right? Before I read a new chapter, right? You know, so I'll like read, I like spend three hours rereading it to the right, a few pages. And then the next day, I have to like, reread a bunch to get into, this doesn't really happen. Maybe one of these days, I'll outline what I actually want to have happen. And that will help spur me on to like, Oh, now I need to read. Now I need to write this thing that happens. But I don't even know what will happen. It just sort of happens as it happens. Yeah. That's why I always wrote short stories when I was in college. Yeah, Leah Jones  8:06   I was gonna say maybe your short story guy. Ronnie Raviv  8:08   I am. But I don't like I want to write a novel. Yeah. I like I'm better suited for short stories. It's the same. It's the same thing with improv. Like, I did improv in college and we did short form improv improv games. And then and that's what I was good at, because I'm like, I'm good at that kind of quick joke thing. And then I went through the conservatory program at Second City, after many different things like twists and turns of my life and then ended up there. And I appreciate improv long form. Improv is an art form. And I sort of denigrate short form improv is just gimmicky, right? And so I don't like the short form improv as much. But that's the thing I'm better at I'm not good at the long form. So now I can't really do improv because the thing that I like, I'm not as good at writing that I I'm better at I don't like as much right. Leah Jones  9:01   But do you have? When's the last time you I don't I've never I don't think I've ever seen you do short form improv. I've seen you do sketch. Yeah. No, you haven't because I don't even know if I've ever seen you do long form improv. You have. Ronnie Raviv  9:13   I think, Okay, what if you? Well, I guess no, because it's because the seconds are the conservatory shows were more your sketch. They were born they were born out of improv to do with the improv in the class. And there was, there was a certain amount of improv, improvising on the stage. Like we make beats, we didn't have anything written out. Right. Sketches weren't, weren't scripted. But we sort of knew what was going to happen. A little more like, Curb Your Enthusiasm type. Leah Jones  9:37   I remember I guess I mostly remember your musical numbers. Yeah. White people brown line. Yes. Ronnie Raviv  9:43   I did not write that one. No, Leah Jones  9:45   but somebody asked you that you look at your watch. And somebody asks you the time and you were like, I don't know what time it is. And you put your hand down. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  9:54   You have more memory than I do. Leah Jones  9:56   I think because of the time I lived on the brow, I took the brown line about Each and every time I get on the Brown Line, I would think about the song. Yeah. So Ronnie Raviv  10:04   yeah, no white people brown line. That was that was a brilliant piece of work. I did a song that was a parody of modern gender. Yeah. That was a mouthful. It was like a victim of the new new economy or something, which at this point is like, three economies ago. Because this was in the early aughts. Yeah. It's been awhile. It's been a lifetime. It's been so long. So yeah, so the last time I did improv, I think is when my undergrad improv group. This is pre pandemic came through Chicago, they would come through Chicago, New York or LA. So every three years it comes to Chicago. And then they, they they did a little show to basically no audience is just really for us. Yeah. And then they called on the alums to come. And I thought they were gonna just kind of, we were just gonna do a quick little scene, like what we would do at reunion is like a world's worst. I like my women or men, like I like my blank or whatever. Yeah. But no, they then said, Okay, now you're going to do now, all the alarms now you're going to do a long form improv. Which, so when I was going through that group, it's called quickfire? Yeah. When I was going through it, we only did short form improv, right? Leah Jones  11:21   Because it was before UCB. It was before the Herald had New York. Ronnie Raviv  11:25   Yeah, this was this was in the mid in the early mid 90s. So we only did short form improv. And so the only reason I even knew like, luckily for me, I had gone through the second city experience. So I had had experience with long form, right. But so this was in I think, 2017. Okay. And my last experience with long form improv was in 2002. Yeah. So, and I was by far the oldest alarm there. The next oldest alarm was from the class of 2009. Okay, so the next oldest alarm was sort of complaining that they hadn't done improv in a while. had done it at like at that point. quickfire had done long form improv when they were in school. And so they had last done in 2009. You know, I had last done it before they were even in school. Leah Jones  12:22   Right before they were in grade school. Ronnie Raviv  12:25   Not quite that far, but they weren't probably Junior High. Last time I did long form improv, right. And that only by like luck, because previous to Second City, I'd only done short form improv. So I was like, I felt like it was a fish out of water, but somehow didn't. Didn't crap the bed too bad, I guess. I don't know. We did. Okay. It was only for us. So it didn't really matter, right. low stakes, no stakes, stakes improv. Leah Jones  12:50   I did. Eventually I gave in and I did the five classes at annoyance when I was managing the ice cream parlor, right? Because so many lifetimes ago, many, many lifetimes ago. Because I was so tired of people asking me if I did improv, I was like, I do stand up comedy. Sometimes, Ronnie Raviv  13:12   ironically, because literally everybody who does improv their families all assumed that their stand up comedian, right, right. Oh, do some do some stand up comedian comedy Ford's like, that's not what I do. I do improv. Okay. Well then do improv. Right? No, it's a group thing. Right. Stand up here and do improv. Leah Jones  13:27   I know. But you did have me come out once and do stand up comedy. For your parents friends. For Param. Yes, I remember that. Ronnie Raviv  13:37   I wasn't, I don't think you would not have gone without No, I wouldn't you did it. And you were brave. They were they were they were welcoming audience. Leah Jones  13:48   They were welcoming audience. You had Ronnie Raviv  13:52   you had my favorite joke, my favorite Lea joke. But it will have been we don't necessarily have to. Leah Jones  13:58   Was it about the date with a little person? No, I remember that one being Ronnie Raviv  14:02   No, it was the learning Hebrew. Oh, yeah. That you the needle pointed for me. And I still haven't hung but I will in a minute. Yeah. Leah Jones  14:10   Right. So Ronnie helped me. When I was learning the alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet. We would like go to Jack's for chicken potpie. And sometimes I would drag out these giant workbooks and make them help me with Hebrew. And when I had finally gotten really confident that I could like, kind of like know the alphabet in order. I was like, Ronnie, I have learned everything from Alif to Zion, Ronnie Raviv  14:37   which you know, translated from A to Z except it's really more like if you're familiar with the Greek alphabet from alpha to zeta, and that's like the seventh letter. Right? But Leah Jones  14:48   you know, yeah. So I for Ronnie's 40th birthday, I cross stitched him something that said met LF Ronnie Raviv  14:57   Zion Yeah, from A to zeta Right. So essentially, Leah Jones  15:00   right, I've learned everything from A to F. Yeah. Which honestly appropriate. Yeah. Because I had not learned Hebrew from A to Z like, No, probably not. I can. I can't even function anymore. I used to use my Hebrew used to be better, but everybody in English, everybody in Israel's English got way better. And also technology got way better. Ronnie Raviv  15:23   Yes. Not as important anymore. No. But I remember that crowd really liked that joke, right because it was a crowd of Hebrew speakers. Right. So they, they were all right there they that was the that was the crowd. That Leah Jones  15:36   was the only crowd I didn't have to explain the punchline to Yeah, yeah, like we just did here. Right. Ronnie Raviv  15:43   But you know, jokes are always better when you have to explain the punchline. Leah Jones  15:46   Yeah. Right. So I did improv it annoyance. But I've never performed it outside of a class. Ronnie Raviv  15:57   So that's alright. That's fine Leah Jones  15:58   with me. Yeah, it's okay. I understand it. And I understand I don't want to do it. Ronnie Raviv  16:04   Yeah. Yeah, I'm sort of I'm sure I'm right there with you. It took me longer time to understand that. Leah Jones  16:10   Yeah. That you didn't want to do it anymore. Or that or to understand it? Ronnie Raviv  16:15   Both, I guess. Yeah. Because I was in a more because they started with the short form, right, which is like the games and the, the joke Enos right. Leah Jones  16:23   The Whose Line Is It Anyway, who's that's exactly boarded for puns and jokes and dad jokes and quick thinking, right. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  16:30   Which is what we were, which is what I was really good Leah Jones  16:33   at. Yeah. So you're still really good at? Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  16:36   I think so. I'm okay that for sure. Yeah. But you know, when it comes to like, improvising long scenes where you have to like, react and have emotions and whatever, I'm not as good as that. Leah Jones  16:51   Till we met, and then comedy ended, comedy didn't really end I got transferred to London. So I was like, and you finish conservatory. And I think by the time I was back from London, I think the tequila Roadhouse might have been closed. Ronnie Raviv  17:09   I think it was around for maybe a little longer than that. But we were but they were no longer doing the open mic. Yeah. Leah Jones  17:15   Yeah. And we ran into each other at a board game. It's a bar on Addison started with a G threes. threes. Ronnie Raviv  17:23   I have no recollection of this. You know, me. I'm, you know, me. I sort of have no recollection of things. Yeah. Leah Jones  17:30   I remember it clearly, somewhat clearly. And then I recently searched my blog to see if I had when it happened. Okay. And I reference people that I'm like, I referenced someone named Jamie. And I'm like, Who the fuck is Jamie? Jamie Allen? Probably no, no. Like I was there with my friend Jeff from high school. Were Jeff from college. Jamie might have been his girlfriend at the time. Ronnie Raviv  17:52   Oh, girl. Okay. Yeah. Leah Jones  17:55   I don't know. Like, I don't know the description of the people that I say I walked in with Oh, okay. And then you watch because I moved to London and quit comedy. And we figured out like, Oh, hey, what's up? Sell your number. And so then we went for chicken Popeye. Nice. Shortly thereafter, Ronnie Raviv  18:14   yeah. Chicken. Popeye was so good. Yeah. Last, Leah Jones  18:19   so rip jacks. Yeah. And long before they were closed. Rip the chicken pot pie. Ronnie Raviv  18:23   Right. Rip that chicken pot pie. More so than jacks. Yeah. And then the Diag. Yeah, it's Leah Jones  18:28   rip. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  18:31   Yeah. But yeah, the chicken pot pie was gone long before that. And that was really the big tragedy of the whole thing. Leah Jones  18:39   Was the chicken potpie gone before your ability to process? Dairy? Ronnie Raviv  18:45   No, it was worth it. Ya know, my ability. My inability to process dairy disappeared before the dream pop. I did. But it was worth it. Leah Jones  18:53   Yeah. That's another conversation locked in my brain because it was so insane. Because you picked me up from the 14th station. And you pretended like I had any choice about where we were going to dinner. Right? Which was nice of you to pretend. Right? And then you said, Leah, you know, the type of chicken Popeye that you dream of? And I was like, I do not dream of chicken pie. I Ronnie Raviv  19:14   see. You remember this as dream of I feel like I wouldn't have put it that way. Maybe I did at that point. But I sort of always see it as you know, when you have a hankering for chicken, Popeye. And you sort of have in your mind's eye. What? You're sort of picturing like, Oh, I could go for that. Right? And then you order it. And it's like, oh, well, that's not really what I was picturing. Chicken Popeye, but it's not the chicken coop I had in my brain. Yes. This place had that chicken. Leah Jones  19:45   Yeah. And I was very skeptical. Of course, Ronnie Raviv  19:49   as was everybody I told this story to right there. Leah Jones  19:53   And you were of course correct because they they baked it an individual that you had a cross pinched on To the top of your bowl. Ronnie Raviv  20:01   Yeah. But it was just it wasn't it was beyond that it was I think it was like the way the sauce that like Allah King sauce or whatever it is. It's like the like just the chicken, the combination of vegetables, the proportions, the sauce, the flavor, the cross, like all of it. It was like the platonic ideal of a chicken about pie, right. And I had many a convert to that chicken. Popeye was good. It was great. And then the chef left and they could not recreate it. No. And then it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. And then they closed and it became a sports bar. Leah Jones  20:38   Yeah. And then somehow that was the last time we went I think was probably my 40th Ronnie Raviv  20:45   Yeah, I don't know what's been called for a while. Leah Jones  20:47   Yeah. But we went that's where we went after. That was where the after party was okay? Was Diag. Okay, because it was walking distance. So, according according to the pictures I have. Yeah, I don't I don't recall that either. No, I don't have a lot of memories. Right that night. Ronnie Raviv  21:07   Yeah, no, that and that was a bit of a blur. Yeah. Yeah. Leah Jones  21:12   Um, yeah. So that's the origin story. Yeah. Is comedy. And then happened to happen? Chance happenstance, happenstance. Yeah. Yeah. And people were listened to the podcast have heard about you, Matthew. David brozik. One of your good one of your best friends from college has been a guest. And people have certainly heard about you on steroids. Sunday. Steroid Saturday's one of my Mayo Clinic. Road trip buddies. Yeah, the OG hospital host the OG hospital husband. Yes. And you still probably wear your pen. That was that was really sweet. Leah Jones  22:02   So one of the things when we talked about favorite things, like what would you talk about? As favorite things first, you're like immediately I don't have anything. Ronnie Raviv  22:12   No, I still I've been racking my brains. And I have. I have no favorite things. I have a lot of things I dabble in and things I like, right. Like a lot of things. Yeah. I'm a fairly easygoing, sometimes guy. Usually going in a sort of very high maintenance way. Leah Jones  22:31   I joke last night about you being Sally Albright. But you are Sally Albright from When Harry Met Sally. I mean, I'm you are easy going in the way that Sally Albright is easygoing. Ronnie Raviv  22:42   I think maybe not quite that heightened. But yeah, there's just there's no, there's certainly some truth to that for sure. No, I'm, I like a lot of things. Yeah. I also hate a lot of things. But I like a lot of things. And I'm sort of, you know, generally fairly open to whatever. Is there a certain way Leah Jones  23:01   you'll eat almost anywhere as long as you can order around the menu. Which is true. Ronnie Raviv  23:06   Yeah. Because you're a lot of picky eater. Bit of a super taster. Yeah, not an adventurous Well, no, that's not true. I Leah Jones  23:14   don't think that's fair. Ronnie Raviv  23:15   You know, I'm an I'm adventurous. I just picky. Leah Jones  23:18   You are adventurous. If you trust the chef. Yeah, that's true. Because we could just talk about, we can even just talk about great meals we've had together. Yeah, we've had some good ones. Yeah. Because Thai zoo and Tel Aviv last year. Yep. And OCD. Yep. Are both to where it was where? You would? I mean, they both places where they took our tastes seriously? Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  23:49   Yeah. We said what we liked and didn't like whatever and pointed them in a direction, right? And they said, Okay, trust us, and they delivered. Leah Jones  24:00   Yeah. So I think if the chef can't deliver at that level, you are less adventuresome. Right, for sure. Or you will amend the menu to make something better than they have on them. And yeah, Ronnie Raviv  24:13   well, I mean, I try not to be as annoying about it as Sally. I try to, I generally try to say, just eliminate these one or two things that I don't like. And also like if there's like a thing that I have to eliminate five things. I'm not going to get that thing, right. I'm gonna just get the thing like okay, I can have this like just take out the raw onions and avocado and I'm good. Yeah, you know, just like the things I don't like. I don't try to like have them do a concoction. Except for if there's mac and cheese on the menu and there's chili on the menu. That's a thing where things have to be put together. Yeah, because that's amazing. Chili Mac is the best thing ever. And I don't know why any restaurant that has chili and then has mac and cheese does not have Have a chili Mac. Yeah, option. It's silly. Leah Jones  25:03   Yes. I do think we have to get the purchase doesn't have Mac and mac and cheese right? Ronnie Raviv  25:09   I don't believe so they have an amazing chili. Chili was so good. Chili was so good, but I did not see mac and cheese. Yeah. Leah Jones  25:16   So we'll have to get it to go and then take and then go to the mac and cheese. Max. Yeah, yeah. Be like don't worry. We have purse chilly Ronnie Raviv  25:28   we got chilly to go. Leah Jones  25:30   Yeah. Um, I don't know, do you wanna talk about with CD? We could. Or something? Ronnie Raviv  25:37   Oh, no, I could. I could. I could throw this back on you. Okay. I mean, the name of the podcast is finding favorite. Yes. So find my favorite. What's my favorite? Leah Jones  25:51   Well, your favorite liquor right now is Mezcal. True? That is? Yes. It's Mezcal number is affirm. Number one. This Ronnie Raviv  26:01   girl is affirmed. Number one, but with a huge caveat. Like the bartender was mixologist. Whatever has to be Mezcal is pickier. It's harder to blend. Okay, well, so if I don't trust the bartender, I will fall back on tequila, which is easier to deal with. But if the bartender is really good in Moscow, they can do a better job. Leah Jones  26:29   Right. So the the Mezcal meal has been your go to cocktail this summer? Ronnie Raviv  26:37   Yes. If I again, if you trust them, trust them. Otherwise, I'll go with Mexico meal because that's a lot more right. Reliable, Leah Jones  26:46   yeah. But I don't know when that because not you were never really you're not really a Gen drinker? Because that's a little too aromatic. Yeah. But for a long time, it was like vodka or rum, but like tequila, I feel like is new on like, in the last five years has gone up your list? Ronnie Raviv  27:11   Well, I think it probably was, realistically, it was there longer than that. Maybe afraid. Like I figured, because I'm like, I don't love the taste of alcohol, like vodka is my thing. And I like you know, and if you go to a bar that doesn't have anything, like you go to a like, an event, right? And all you know, they had the most basic stuff, then I'll get a vodka cranberry, right, you know, splash soda and some wine. Ronnie Raviv  27:40   But if there's a place that and then for a while, I was like, oh, but if you have ginger beer, I'll do a Moscow Mule. Yeah. And then I discovered the Mexico mule. And that is so much better than the Moscow Mule. Right. And then I was also like, at that point, I was like, But wait, but also if there's a margarita, I will go for a margarita. Yeah. And it's like, well, maybe, you know, really the only vodka drink I like is the vodka cranberry. And I like the Mexico mule as my fallback, right? You know, my my go to and I like the the the margarita, right? Maybe, maybe tequila is my favorite. And so then I'm like, You know what, maybe I want to kill a guy and I didn't know and then like, and then I discovered the Moscow Mule. And I'm like, wow, that elevates the, the Mexico mule to a whole new level. But you go to a bar that doesn't know what they're doing a Moscow Mule is gonna be hit or miss. Yeah. Leah Jones  28:33   I also I mean, mezcal has come into its own in America in the last few years. So Ronnie Raviv  28:38   it's more popular. You it was there, there were times where you there are a lot of bars that still don't have it. Yeah. Leah Jones  28:44   And they also suspect as you and your friends as like all of our paychecks have changed. And our base level to Keela has changed in our houses. Like in the I think there's like grote, we're older. We're middle age now. So we're not getting like the cheapest tequila and none of your friends have the cheapest tequila in their house and and so like I also think there's something to be said for like access to better quality. Yeah, I Yeah, that's a killer you were introduced to at 21 You probably want to drink today. Ronnie Raviv  29:25   Maybe or maybe it's about the mixers the quality of the mix. Like ginger beer just really solves a lot of problems. Yeah, alcohols in general. But also think that vodka is a much, much more consistent thing. So you know, there's bad gin and bad tequila and certainly bad Moscow. Yeah, vodka. It might be mediocre you know, but But by the same ticket there's excellent tequila is an excellent Moscow's right and excellent gins. And there's not really an excellent vodka. Maybe there's a few I have a very Leah Jones  30:00   nice vodka right now. Ronnie Raviv  30:02   Exactly a very nice vodka. Leah Jones  30:04   It's a Polish. It's the buffalograss. Polish vodka. Ronnie Raviv  30:08   Very nice vodka. It's not an excellent vibe. But it can't be excellent because there's just not enough complexity there. Right? It's like the best vodkas are the ones that taste least like anything. Right? Like the bad vodkas are the ones that like tastes a little bit like gasoline and the ones that the excellent bikers are the ones that taste less like gasoline fare, whereas tequila has the complexity of the brown liquors that I don't like right without being the brown occurs and I don't like Leah Jones  30:34   right, because the brown look, error is not on my favorites. No. Ronnie Raviv  30:40   But it's not just a bitter there's it's just that gasoline, turpentine sort of alcohol it tastes Yeah. And I don't know there's the peatiness I don't know there's something the barrel. Yeah. Because I because journeyman, we're plugging so many should get. You should get all sorts of free stuff. Leah Jones  30:57   Oh, I don't link to all of it. And they they give me nothing. Yeah. But Ronnie Raviv  31:02   journeyman, in three oaks, Michigan. They have a white whiskey Leah Jones  31:10   that's aged in glass, Ronnie Raviv  31:13   or it's not aged. They distill the whiskey but then they don't agent in the barrel, maybe a moonshine? No, it's whiskey, right? But it just doesn't have that PD. Yeah. Woody, barely taste or whatever it is that I don't like about it. That makes an excellent mule. And they also have this drink called OCG. The old country goodness, it's like an apple cinnamon, nice cider that they do either straight up or is a frozen slushy. And it's really, really good. It's good. Yeah. So with a white whiskey, that's the only whiskey to drink. Unless it's like a really, really cool, complicated, right drink where the whiskey sort of really balanced out by other stuff. Like get at the aviary. Yeah, plug plug plug. Leah Jones  32:05   Right so that the aviary and like less so the violet hour or what's the one on Damon? Ronnie Raviv  32:16   Violet hours on Damon? Oh, what's Leah Jones  32:18   the other one on Damon? closer to me? Damon on LinkedIn. Victor or Victor Victor bar? Ronnie Raviv  32:24   Yeah. Just like the sticks. Used to be Yeah. Leah Jones  32:28   So you do you also have I would say also a favorite thing of yours is a well crafted complex, very Ronnie Raviv  32:35   well crafted. Interesting cocktail. Yes, I do like that. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Well crafted, interesting cocktail or fantastic. In Israel. Yeah. Or bellboy? Right? In Israel in Tel Aviv, Leah Jones  32:53   Imperial. Ronnie Raviv  32:55   Imperial was good. Like Ultra. Yep. also has very good cocktails. Leah Jones  33:04   Yeah, I do Ronnie Raviv  33:05   have one Barber has good cocktails. Yep. There's another place that has had really good cocktails. I can't remember. There's a lot of places with good cocktails. Yeah. Leah Jones  33:17   So I think that is I think, like if you're in a new city, not that you go to new cities often, right? No, I don't if you are returning to a city. So like my friend Dave. He uses hardrock cafes as like, an excuse to go to a city. He collects going to them just because it gives him a reason to put a city on his itinerary. Ronnie Raviv  33:41   In and of itself, that's a terrible excuse. But if it gets you to a new city, it gets you there. But it's terrible underlying excuses. Leah Jones  33:49   Check off boxes. Yeah, right. There's a list you can check out against the list. Okay. So that is not, you know, not implying it is. So if you are returning to a city you've been to before Tel Aviv, New York. Chicago, I think you will seek out a new interest. Like you will seek out a cocktail bar. Yeah. Something to do. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  34:16   I'm usually if I'm if I'm there on my own. No, that's not true. I'm usually there with somebody. Visiting somebody seeing somebody. Yeah. So I will get from them. What's the good? What's the good cocktail, right? So I went to business. I went on business to Copenhagen. And so I made sure that our business contacts told me where the good cocktail bar Leah Jones  34:39   right was. Yeah, yeah. So all right, so there I've already found Mezcal and fancy pants cocktail bar, Ronnie Raviv  34:51   Fancy Pants cocktail. Yes, girly drinks, girly, girly drinks. Leah Jones  34:56   I was just reading an article this morning about how sometimes men to freak out when they're served something in stemware and will like make the bartender put it in a rocks glass. Oh, my Ronnie Raviv  35:08   friend Bob hates coupe glass. Really? I don't like martini glasses because martini glasses are stupid. Because they spill everywhere. Right? But a coupe glass that doesn't spill as much as a little bit because it's up to the rim. Yeah, but no, my friend Bob hates Kool Aid. He like will reject cocktails if they come in. Like he's not if they come to him that he won't reject them. But he was like, sometimes if you if you remember his he'll say, Is that coming to coupe? Like, oh, and then I want it? Leah Jones  35:33   Yeah. I mean, I will sometimes say like, is it up or on the rocks? And I will often ask for something that's served up to be served on the rocks. Yeah. But that's because I love ice. Right? Yeah, that's a whole different thing. And not because I hate Well, it's I love ice. I will drink it way too fast and a coupe. Like if there's not ice in it. It's just might as well just be a shot. Right? So Ronnie Raviv  35:57   I don't know why I feel myself to ice. I do a good job of sipping when it's in the coupe glass. Yeah. Something about the coupe glass. Not that I love it or hate it and anything else but something about it always. Like if it's in a tall glass. I will down that like nobody's okay. Yeah, I'll go and like down. Yeah. Whereas in the coupe glass that's like, oh, it's like I can see the whole thing. And I can sort of take little, little dainty sips and none of Leah Jones  36:25   its hiding behind the ice. Right. Exactly. Exactly. And they're not served with a straw. Ronnie Raviv  36:30   Which I never use. I very rarely use. Yeah. Only if it's like, really, really like impossible. Like it's piled high with ice and other things like, like sticking out of the rim. Leah Jones  36:43   Like the so we had a drink at fantastique in Tel Aviv with Ronnie Raviv  36:48   Chuck flowers, electric flowers, look them up on Google, which are Leah Jones  36:53   I have smuggled them home. They're in my purse. Ronnie Raviv  36:57   They're crazy. Yeah. It's just this little. It's like It's like almost I don't know how to describe it. It's Leah Jones  37:07   not quite a thistle. Yeah, because it doesn't. It doesn't poke you hurt, right? It's kind of like Ronnie Raviv  37:15   it's like the dandelions like the inside of the puffball. Dandelion. Yeah, before it's opened. No, after after it's open. When you've blown all the puffs off. It's like the round ball. It's a little bit bigger. And it's a little bit fuzzy, Leah Jones  37:28   right? Oh, you know, it's kind of like a pussy willow. Like the Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  37:34   but yellow. Yeah. And you bite into it just a teeny tiny little, tiniest, tiniest amount. It's bitter, and it's not great. And it doesn't taste good. But you just the tiniest amount just a little tiny nibble, like Alison Wonderland noodling on, nibbling on it and mushroom, just the tiniest little nibble. And then for the next, depending on how big the nibble was. 1015 minutes. Your tongue feels like it's constantly licking a nine volt battery. And as you drink something, it enhances that. Yes. And it's really, really interesting and cool and different and bizarre. Yeah. And unpleasant and pleasant at the same time. Leah Jones  38:18   I think you have been telling me about it for like four years. Ronnie Raviv  38:21   Yeah. And you and you still didn't quite picture it in your head. Leah Jones  38:25   No. Even in my mouth. I did not. It was so in SAM. It was you are as giddy right now as you were in the moment. So wonderful Ronnie Raviv  38:35   to see. For the look of a horror and shock on your face of like, what is this? What am I done? What is happening to my insides in my face right now? It was so awesome. Leah Jones  38:49   It was so weird. Yeah. And then it was right like a tequila based drink with a lot of ice. Yeah, a lot of drama. Oh, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  38:57   There was a plan sticking thorns. I'm all sorts of stuff. It was. Yeah. I think the drink was called like, dangerous. Something deep something like danger in the world in the name, Leah Jones  39:06   right. But it was very, it was it was very fun. Ronnie Raviv  39:12   Yeah, yeah. It was really, really tasty drink, too. Yeah. Leah Jones  39:18   I think that was the I think you did a better job or I got whatever. Oh, might have a good and plenty, isn't it? Ronnie Raviv  39:25   Well, yeah. Because you wanted something that tasted like licorice. Leah Jones  39:29   Yeah, but it was such a literal interpretation of tastes like licorice. It was was good. And plenty is melting in the bottom of a whiskey drink Ronnie Raviv  39:37   with some bitters that you could inject with? Yeah, syringe? Yeah. Leah Jones  39:42   It was dramatic and creative, but not delicious, right. I mean, it was fine. Yeah, it was but I'll never order it again. Ronnie Raviv  39:50   No. My drink was better. But honestly, the best drink was the one that we went with the electric flower. Yeah. Leah Jones  39:59   Was very funny. It Ronnie Raviv  40:00   was just for the gimmick would be fine. But it was not just a gimmick. It was a really, really good drink. Right. Really well balanced with the gimmick. Yes. Leah Jones  40:06   Yeah. So that was that's That was great. And I had gone to loutra earlier in the weekend in Tel Aviv and had some very nice cocktails to I don't remember what they were. Because it was all tequila. Yeah. And Ronnie Raviv  40:24   very few Mexican restaurants in Israel. Yeah. A little surprising. Yeah, but I mean, just from like, the palate like you would think like spicy foods and right. Cilantro. Yeah. It's like all these things. Oh, yeah, it's all rice. You'd think that it would be really popular in Israel and for some reason. There aren't that many of them Leah Jones  40:50   for many years. When I would like check a huge bag instead of checking a small bag or three Ronnie Raviv  40:57   small bag, three medium sized. Leah Jones  41:01   Um, and I would take like my friend David, when a trash bags like Benji and tall Tali both wanted like, El Paso taco seasoning. Like my friends were like, bring me like envelopes of taco seasoning. And American trash bags. And American toothpaste. And aspirin. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  41:24   And then what would you bring back? Israeli ketchup? And my friend who is a modern Orthodox would ask me for Doritos, because Oh, because they're kosher isn't Israel. They're kosher. Leah Jones  41:39   I I remember, early trip bringing you back like olives. Ronnie Raviv  41:44   Yes, you brought? Yeah, but now you can get them. Yeah. I still have those olives and pickles because they were the wrong ones. They're the cracked olives that are bitter, as opposed to the sort of the more the Arabic olives that are bitter as opposed to the kibbutz olives that I like, and it was the the cucumbers in vinegar instead of in Brian. Leah Jones  42:11   I still I still have entries been at minimum 10 years that I gave you those possibly longer Ronnie Raviv  42:20   I think more like eight but yes, it's been a while. During the probably not. They're not. I'm moving in six weeks or so. Leah Jones  42:28   Yeah, I will sneak in and take them and throw them out for you. You're not moving them? Ronnie Raviv  42:36   Probably not. But it's against my religion to throw food away. Leah Jones  42:40   I understand. I understand that. Ronnie Raviv  42:42   I know. I know. It's possible I gave the olives to my mom because she does like those correct olives. Yeah, but none of us like the pickles and vinegar. Brian, Leah Jones  42:52   it's also sweet of you to wait eight years to tell me that I brought you the wrong thing. Ronnie Raviv  42:57   No. It was like it was so sweet of a gesture I'm not gonna I didn't have the heart to tell you know, beggars can be choosers I don't like the free thing you got me. Leah Jones  43:09   Um, when my nephews were of a certain age, which is much younger than they are now I would bring back I would go to the shuk and Jerusalem and buy like all of the fake Kinder eggs like I would go to the Kinder Egg store that had like all the off brand unlicensed Kinder eggs Ronnie Raviv  43:30   because they were legal here for a while. They're still Leah Jones  43:31   illegal here. Ronnie Raviv  43:32   I thought they weren't I thought they just thought they figured out how to because now you can buy it now they just buy them but they suck. Right because they don't have because they they've been protected for the litigious American mark. Yes. Leah Jones  43:43   So there were times when I would like have an entire layer of Kinder eggs and bootleg Kinder eggs for the kids of Leroy, Illinois, for the O'Briens and the DeVivo is to have like a Kinder Egg Unboxing party at my sister's house. Nice. Yeah. Leah Jones  44:12   Okay, other favorite things of yours. You consume a lot of TV for someone who is not a TV critic. Ronnie Raviv  44:21   Right? I do. I used to consume a lot more admittedly. I consume less nowadays. Yeah, still consume a lot. Leah Jones  44:28   Right? For sure. When we met you had three VCRs. Correct. Ronnie Raviv  44:32   And then you worked on a client on the TiVo account and the TiVo account. And so I got a TiVo that can record six things at once. Yeah. Which I still have. Yeah. Actually, no, between those I had a DVR I had like a I had a Windows Media DVR that could record four things at once. Yeah, but the hard drives kept going out. Yeah. And then I got the TiVo. I have that to this day. But now I'm not going to have cable in my new place. Right? So I'm gonna have to figure out what's going on with that whole new era. It's a whole new era. Yeah. Because YouTube TV isn't going to quite do it for me, but I'm not sure that ATT DirecTV is going to do it for me, but like, I can get you like I can get internet for sort of free because the building has internet, but I don't know if it's reliable enough, and it won't have the 18 T. Like, I'd have to pay extra. So do I want to pay the extra it's a whole big thing that I have to Leah Jones  45:30   sort of figure out it's, it's going to be a major lifestyle, it is going to be a major lifestyle change. But how what is your origin story with TV? Like, how did you become? When did you go from one to two to three visa like when I've only ever known you as someone with a huge queue of TV to watch, but I don't know why you watch so much TV. Ronnie Raviv  45:56   I don't either. Um, because it's good escapism, I always like watching TV. Like I had a TV, I got it, I got a small little TV. Like, I don't know, like a 13 inch TV or something for my Bar Mitzvah that I had in my room. So I'd watch TV there sometimes. And then I took that to college, and then we would watch Whose Line Is It Anyway, like we'd all crammed right, and we didn't have cable, freshman and sophomore year. So I would like take speaker wire and toss them out the window, click attach to the rabbit ears in hopes of getting a decent signal on. Because that's how old we are Lea. And so yeah, so I was watched that and then and then I guess maybe after college I started recording things on on the VCR so I wouldn't like because, you know, I'm I have friends who will not have plans because they want to go do something they want to watch TV or something. So I would like record whatever because why not? And so maybe a little bit after college that started but then it really was in earnest it during business school. That's when I collected sort of like a second and maybe even my third DVR. VCR. Yeah. In business school. So I could record things but not miss out on social occasion. Right. And also, there's an additional advantage of that is because if there's an hour long show that you record, you can zip through the commercials and watch it in 45 minutes very efficient. So yeah, so I think it's, I'm all about if you if I had to pick a favorite thing would be efficiency. That's which is really the polite way of saying lazy. But yeah, so it was really the efficient thing to do. Leah Jones  47:50   Right. And when and when, like comedy so much of it wasn't right. Yeah. I mean, classes might have been during the day, but like so much of comedy was Yeah, evenings and yeah, Ronnie Raviv  48:01   so I wouldn't be never home but I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to miss out on things. Like you know, I'm, I'm a very much a homebody, right and need an inordinate amount of me time, right? I don't like having plans day after night after night after night after night after night. Right? Even if I'm enjoying all those plans it just like I get stir crazy. I need my time. But I don't want to be the kind of person who misses out on plans with friends. Because Oh, no, I have to watch this at home. Right? That's I feel like, you know, that's You can be addicted to the thing, but not make it ruin your life. Right. So, yeah, so I just like started recording anything that was vaguely interesting. And I would watch it. Yeah. And my bar for vaguely interesting is pretty low. Right? Leah Jones  48:51   It's not reality. No, I Ronnie Raviv  48:52   don't I don't do reality TV. And I don't like shows about unpleasant people making bad decisions. Leah Jones  49:02   It's a madman. Ronnie Raviv  49:03   Yeah. Madman Breaking Bad. I watched a few episodes and like, succession. Haven't you watched that? Yes. Like at this point, I kind of know, oh, this is a show about shitty people making bad decisions, right? I'm not gonna like it. Because if it's a good person making bad decisions, okay, if it's a shitty person making good decisions, like an antihero kind of a thing. You know, like a Dexter or whatever, fine. But if it's like a crappy person who's making bad decisions and gets in trouble for their bad decisions, like I'm not gonna root for them to get out of trouble. Like you just you do this yourself. Yeah. Why do I care if you get out of it? Leah Jones  49:38   That's how I felt. I feel like I watched the pilot of girls. The TV show it was on HBO. Lena Dunham. Yeah. Adam Driver. Yeah. And I think I watched the pilot and I was like, Oh, I agree with the parents. This show is not for me because I think the parents should be kind Putting her off. And then I think that was like one of like five episodes of the whole series that I ever watched because I was like, No, I think I think she should be cut off and have to like, figure it out a little bit better. Yeah, I Ronnie Raviv  50:13   think that was on during the years that I didn't have HBO. Yeah. Because I had HBO for many years while I was, you know, when I first moved into my apartment, because for some reason, the cable company screwed up and it wasn't scrambled. Great. So I had free HBO and Showtime and then one day they caught on and they re scramble them and it's not like I could pick up the phone and call them and say Hey, how come he scrambled the free Why am I free cable that I'm not taking away? Yeah, so I you know, watch the first several seasons of sopranos and the first couple seasons of Kirby enthusiasm, and then I lost HBO so then I didn't watch those shows anymore. Well, sopranos Leah Jones  50:51   was on Sunday nights right before the tequila Roadhouse. Open Mic. So sometimes people would watch it at kill Roadhouse in the front and the bar and then go to the back for the open mic. Yeah, maybe I recorded it. Yeah. Right. You're gonna have to find a whole new system. Ronnie Raviv  51:10   Yeah, well now so they all it's streaming DVR, so you could just have hit it, but from what I read, they're not good about time shifting. Yeah, like in my current on the on the TiVo, I can say, okay, record this show, like when it supposed to be but then keep recording for another, you know, three, five minutes, another hour and a half. Like if there's a baseball game on before a football game before? And they're gonna like start it late. I can just keep recording. Yeah. But now with these online, these these streaming DVRs. You have to sort of set to record the show after it because he can't like extend the show. They don't know well enough, and but you might be able to go back and I don't know. It's a whole complicated thing. Yeah. I'm gonna have to figure out yeah. So yeah, TV is sort of a favorite. Yeah. But again, okay. I have a lot of things I like but none of these are my favorites. The the cocktails is probably the closest Yeah, but like people ask me, oh, what's your favorite show? If you watch too much TV? I don't have a favorite show. Just like I watch a lot of shows. Yeah, I don't favorite. Yeah, efficiently. I don't have a favorite though. Yeah. I have a bunch that I like. So I like more or less, where I'd be hard pressed to even say what those are. Yeah. I also like with books, I watch a TV show or a movie or a book. And I get the good feeling of it in the moment. And I appreciate it. I enjoy it in the moment, but then asked me what it was about. Right. When I'll have a tough time. Yeah. I just like it goes out of my head. I'm like, Oh, I remember I liked that book. What's it about? I don't know. What happens and I don't know. I just remember that it came away thinking it was a great book. Leah Jones  52:49   Do you ever come away thinking it's a bad book? Yeah. Okay. Ronnie Raviv  52:54   But I'll still read it. i There's only there's only, I think, two books on my list that I have started and not finished. Which are Moby Dick. And gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Which is weird, because there was a time period where I was when every book I was really enjoying and reading. Everyone was describing it as pinching ask. And I'm like, well, it's weird that the one book that I didn't finish is by Thomas Pynchon. But all these bitchiness, yes. I liked Leah Jones  53:30   I thought you were gonna say Moby Jack, either because you have told me before or because in the airfare she is sentence to live until she finishes the most boring book in the world. Ronnie Raviv  53:46   Book airfare and I don't remember. I have no, Leah Jones  53:49   not in airfare. It's it's further along in the series. Ronnie Raviv  53:53   I've read the whole series, and I have no recollection of what you're saying. This is what I'm talking about. Right. No recollection of these things? Leah Jones  53:58   Yeah. It is. It's one of my top topics I recommend to people. Ronnie Raviv  54:06   It's a good it's a good series of books. Yeah, sure. Leah Jones  54:08   Especially if people are readers. You're rewarded for being a lifelong reader. Yeah. And in his books, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  54:16   And there's good wordplay. And there's just clever. Yeah, yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah, Jasper Ford is very good. Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to eventually reading the sequel to my favorite book of his the great. The shades of grey shades of grey. Yeah. Not to be confused with 50 Shades of Grey, right. Shades of Grey is an awesome book. Again, don't ask me what it's about because I don't remember. I just remember thinking it was an awesome book. Let me tell you what I know. I know. It's I vaguely know it's like some people can't see certain colors, but some people can see certain colors, but not all of them. But then some people can like the more of the spectrum we can see. I don't remember what it signifies. But I just remember there are people who can like see greens and People can see reds. And there's like, sort of, but I don't really remember anything beyond that. Leah Jones  55:04   The it's the caste system is based on how much how colorblind, you are right with the people with the best cut the best vision at the top, and the most limited vision or at the bottom. Ronnie Raviv  55:18   But even the best limit, even the best vision, it's like, you only see one spectrum of colors, Leah Jones  55:23   right? And it's a coming of age story because of the age 16. You take the test, right? You're allowed to live without a caste until you're 16 or whatever. And then you take the test. And it is is the protagonist, I believe is realizing that if his parents are who his parents are supposed to be, he should not be able to see what he can see. Right. So they his mom stepped out to get his to get the kid better vision of a chance of a better future. You don't remember any of that that Ronnie Raviv  56:06   part? I don't remember. Yeah, no. No, I like read the book I enjoyed in the moment. And then I just come away with a good feeling. Leah Jones  56:14   Yeah. No, I'm excited for the sequel to Yeah, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  56:20   Yeah, it was really? Yeah. Because for a long time, it looked like he wasn't gonna do the sequel because it didn't sell that well, even though it's his best book, like by far. Yeah, the goal is because all of his books are good. But that one is the best book by far. Leah Jones  56:32   I think I've heard about him a lot during this current war in Ukraine. Why is that? Because a detail you don't remember from the era fair, right, is that the Crimea, the Crimean War has been ongoing for 20 years. Okay. Everybody in the UK eventually fights in the Crimean War, and it's unending. Ronnie Raviv  56:54   Yeah. I bet you remember something about the Crimean War? Yeah. Leah Jones  56:58   And so when it when it was annexed ahead of the war, a couple years ago, I was like, this Jasper Ford, like, actually, psychic, because it was like that. There was something wild that happened with Amazon and Kindles and like the deleting of content. And, you know, you don't really own your digital content. And so it was like Crimea, digital content going away, and something else and I was just like, what is Jasper Ford on? Like, how can he, as a futurist, and a science fiction writer have such a clear vision of where things are going, Ronnie Raviv  57:43   especially since it was written in such an almost absurdist fantastical way? Like nothing here is even remotely close to reality, right? Leah Jones  57:52   Yeah, I forget what your airfare is from. Ronnie Raviv  57:59   The 80s? Maybe? Oh, no. Like when it was published, or when published? Oh, like takes place in like, what feels like the 80s? Yeah. But I think it was, yeah, I Leah Jones  58:09   think I'm looking at my early aughts. I'm looking at my bookshelves as if it's there as if I haven't loaned it out for the 50th time, right. I've given it to so many people. Ronnie Raviv  58:19   I mean, I can Oh, takes place in alternative 1985. Right. Publishing 2001 According to Google, July 19 2001. So So pre 911, but Leah Jones  58:34   yeah, a pre Kindle. Ronnie Raviv  58:38   Yeah. You know, yep. Leah Jones  58:42   Amazon was only Amazon existed. But barely, barely. And only for books. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Cocktails, efficient TV watching. chicken potpie. That doesn't exist anymore. Right. Trustworthy chefs. Yeah. So which dinner do you think was better? tysew or OCD, OCD by far? Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  59:09   I mean, he was great. But OCD was amazing. Yeah. OCD was some of the best food I've ever read. Leah Jones  59:13   I was so nervous. I got so anxious that week, leading up to it that we oversold that we had oversold it. Ronnie Raviv  59:22   No, no, no, no, I wasn't nervous about that. I knew no matter what it was going to be good and fun and an experience and interesting. Yeah. And what was all those things, but it also was delicious. Yeah. Leah Jones  59:34   It was it was just a remarkable. Yeah. And every bite with one exception was phenomenal. For me. There was just that one salad. That was a little too sour. The chard? The chard, lettuce, chard greens. Yeah. And like the lemon sauce. Ronnie Raviv  59:55   Oh, yeah. You have you have a thing with sour right now. Leah Jones  59:58   Yeah, yeah. I made a face. I made a face when I tried it and I saw the staff see me make the face. And I was like, Oh, it was like unintentional, right? Because everything had been so perfect. Yeah. And even that one I appreciated but like just my Ronnie Raviv  1:00:16   I'm just off, ya know, just hit your jaw. Yeah, sour in the sour spot. Leah Jones  1:00:20   I mean hard in the sour spot. I still am thinking about the the freeze dried parfait the cloud? Oh, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:00:30   Which you would think that the top layer of it would be the melty part would be the melt in your mouth part. And the bottom layer would be sort of like the, but it was the opposite for me. Like the bottom layer was the stuff that melted and disappeared in your mouth like candy. Almost. It wasn't. And the top layer was sort of like it crunched down like those like, green plant. You know, the green Styrofoam look really thick. Yeah, Styrofoam stuff. Leah Jones  1:00:57   I know. You're talking about floral, floral Styrofoam. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:01:01   Yeah, so it was like it's sort of that just got dense. So I would, I was expecting that top layer to just melt away like cotton candy. But it got dense. Yeah, and really good. And the bottom stuff, which was like more ice creamy sort of that. I figured it was going to just be like sort of become liquid and it just sort of disappeared. I don't know how Yeah, that was that was really good. Leah Jones  1:01:22   Yeah. And then like cuz it started with like, that was like a celery. Grenada. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:01:30   And the creme brulee that mean made out of potatoes. Yes. With like little potato chips on it like yeah, like shoestring potatoes, but sweet. Yeah, that was and what was the ice cream with that? Leah Jones  1:01:45   It wasn't it was non dairy. I think it was salted like a salted caramel maybe. Ronnie Raviv  1:01:50   I feel like it was also something that was savory. Yeah. Like a savory like some of you would expect to be savory but they made it a sweet Yeah, ice cream. Yeah, potatoes, but like some like not potato ice cream. But like some other kinds of something like turnips. Yeah, like something. Yeah. Leah Jones  1:02:08   And now they've already changed. We were we went for the smoke and fire menu. They're already on a new menu. And it's like, Ronnie Raviv  1:02:22   yeah, we have to we have to go back. Right. So good. It was so good. Leah Jones  1:02:25   I think Thai zoo because it was so I think Thai zoo is what unlocked for us. Like, we can have a nice time if we don't have plans. Yeah. So Thai zoo was like a friend of your cousin's got us a last minute reservation. It's hard. it hard to get reservation but not impossible. Like OCD, right? We went a year ago. And it was they interviewed us at the beginning of the meal. And we were like, Yeah, take it away. Like what they ordered for us. Yeah. And my only the only thing I told them about me was like they serve like whole fish like racinos like whole fish. And I was like, I don't face. I can't deal with a face. I'm already embarrassed thinking about how to eat that in public. Right. So like, I don't want the full fish. But other than that, like, I'll try anything. Yeah. And that was such an amazing dinner because it was just like, didn't know it. We didn't know what we were gonna do. Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  1:03:29   we didn't know what to expect. Yeah. Yeah, we were very good at the sponge. We've had incredible luck with the spontaneous. Yeah. dinners in the last few months. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, like your birthday was awesome. Leah Jones  1:03:44   We couldn't if we had planned if we had made all those reservations, it wouldn't have worked. Ronnie Raviv  1:03:48   No, we couldn't have planned that. Yeah, the one thing we did plan like we did plan Yes. But we just decided to skip it at the last minute. Yeah. And go completely plan LIS Yeah. To like the most the busiest part of town for like restaurants like where you can't get reservations for anything. No. And we just went to four different places all without reservations. And ended up being we just went from place to place to place all within like a block and a half. Yeah. Leah Jones  1:04:21   Because that's all I could do at the time right? Yeah, blind barber for drinks. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:04:28   And then Duck Duck go duck duck go for a last minute dinner right Open Table reservation Yeah, yeah, that Leah Jones  1:04:34   we did make a reservation but then like literally just walked across the street. Two minutes later. Yeah, we looked Ronnie Raviv  1:04:39   looked like oh, look, they have a table. It's 15 it's six. Let's go. Yeah, we put our name down. Yep. Went Leah Jones  1:04:46   and then and before every stop. We've went to aviary and tried to get an aviary Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:04:54   So tried to start the evening at aviary. We were denied because it was closed for private event. Yeah. So We went to get drinks at blind Barber. Yeah. And we went to dinner. Then we tried to go back to a beer. Yeah. And we're denied again. So then we went to to get dessert. Leah Jones  1:05:08   And we said, where would you go for dessert? And they told us about rosemary. This Croatian restaurant. Yeah. It's like what do you have now been for dinner? And I have not been Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  1:05:15   it is. Really good. Yeah. Leah Jones  1:05:20   So then we just like so rosemary, also very hard to get a table at Ronnie Raviv  1:05:24   like I've looked. Yeah. And I might, it's not an easy get. Leah Jones  1:05:28   But we just waltz in. And they Ronnie Raviv  1:05:30   sat us like, at the kitchen. Yeah. Like, at the counter at the kitchen. We were the only ones and yeah, had dessert there. Leah Jones  1:05:38   So we have like three, we ordered two. And they brought us a third because it's my birthday. Yeah. So we had these amazing desserts there. Ronnie Raviv  1:05:45   And as soon as they pop them down, we get a text from the aviary saying okay, you can come over Yeah, so we just download desserts and went wander over the aviary and had a nightcap there. Yes. A really good evening. Leah Jones  1:05:57   It was a fun night. Yeah. Yeah, so we've had good luck and we had good the night before your birthday party. We went to Frasca. Ronnie Raviv  1:06:06   Yeah, fresca, fresca. Braska fresco Frasca? Yeah Leah Jones  1:06:10   oh my god, we ordered so much food we Ronnie Raviv  1:06:12   ordered so much. Leah Jones  1:06:16   Delicious. Got it got a table right before it started to rain again. Right before everybody from the patio had to come inside. Yeah. Tremendous luck. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:06:28   A few other like one or two other places to that we just lucked out on. Leah Jones  1:06:32   Yeah, like we went to Tango sore after we saw Oh, yeah. Heimer. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:06:35   And that's like, yeah, we're just like, hey, let's walk towards your car, and then maybe go drive somewhere. It's like, oh, or we could go into here, right. Oh, and then. Oh, and a few months before that we had we went to Barbara Roma. Yes. Where my friend is my friend's husband is the headshot. And so we went there and just like got a table there. Also not a particularly easy get that's pretty popular place. Leah Jones  1:07:01   Because it was a day after Ronnie Raviv

"The Midnight Special was one of a slew of late night music shows that proved people would stay up late to watch something they liked. This was before DVRs and not many had VCRs. Plus it was one of my favorites."

Welcome to another off-the-wall Tuesday released on a Thursday! Jason McCarthy and Travis Napper dig deep into the go-home RAW for SummerSlam. Friday nights Smackdown what we liked and what left us scratching our heads, hoping for more. Aew Dynamite what worked and what didn't, and a tirade from McCarthy about the online treatment of Taya Valkyrie. Plus, Collision and why would shouldn't sleep on it and set your DVRs. Summerslam Predicitons at the end of the show pick alomng with us can you beat Jason or Travis? Plus, our very own Travis Napper is interviewed by #WBNS #10TV. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/snapmareproductions/message

Welcome to another off-the-wall Tuesday released on a Thursday! Jason McCarthy and Travis Napper dig deep into the go-home RAW for SummerSlam. Friday nights Smackdown what we liked and what left us scratching our heads, hoping for more. Aew Dynamite what worked and what didn't, and a tirade from McCarthy about the online treatment of Taya Valkyrie. Plus, Collision and whyyou shouldn't sleep on it and set your DVRs. Summerslam Predictions at the end of the show pick along with us can you beat Jason or Travis? Plus, our very own Travis Napper is interviewed by #WBNS #10TV. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/snapmareproductions/message

Welcome to another off-the-wall Tuesday released on a Thursday! Jason McCarthy and Travis Napper dig deep into the go-home RAW for SummerSlam. Friday nights Smackdown what we liked and what left us scratching our heads, hoping for more. Aew Dynamite what worked and what didn't, and a tirade from McCarthy about the online treatment of Taya Valkyrie. Plus, Collision and why would shouldn't sleep on it and set your DVRs. Summerslam Predicitons at the end of the show pick alomng with us can you beat Jason or Travis? Plus, our very own Travis Napper is interviewed by #WBNS #10TV. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/snapmareproductions/message

Rick has been on a carnivorous diet since August 1983, a practice he adopted after breaking his arm falling through a carport his father was building. The only break in his carnivorous regimen occurred between January 1993 and July 1993, when he experimented with a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. However, after contracting a severe flu, he returned to his carnivorous ways. His formal education culminated in a college degree in electrical engineering, though he never ventured into that profession. In 1995, he embarked on a business journey with two friends, establishing an IT and networking venture. The business, however, met an unfortunate end when it went bankrupt in 2000. Undeterred by this setback, he collaborated with a friend from 2003 to 2008 to launch a business in the security cameras and DVRs sector, but he had to step away when the business ran out of funds in 2008. In the interim, between 2000 and 2013, he served as an instructor at Miami Dade Community College, teaching electronics and computer repair. Between 2014 and 2020, he put his professional endeavors on hold to take care of his ailing mother. Since the end of the Covid pandemic, he has been engaged in a variety of odd jobs, mostly concerning equipment repairs and property cleanouts. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Trailer and introduction. 00:02:16 Desperate teenager adoptsRisk-taking meat-only diet. 00:05:24 Positive mental and physical effects from diet. 00:09:39 Taller in high school, grades improved too. 00:12:19 Long-term carnivore diet, tried vegetarianism, got sick. 00:15:30 "Sustainability: Carnivore diet eliminates waste, easy process" 00:20:42 Physical work in various fields, including repairs. 00:22:22 Man's unique carnivore diet gains popularity online. 00:28:04 Rarely breathless. 00:29:08 Resilient person handles challenges without frustration. 00:32:43 Limited access to grass-fed meat; reliance on sales and hunting. 00:36:23 Believe it or not, the carnivore diet works. 00:41:13 Duck eggs and meat: better than chicken. 00:44:41 Rarely sick, even with recent virus cases. 00:48:11 No digestive problems, regular trips to the bathroom. 00:51:10 Rarely bothered by negative comments online or in person. 00:53:09 Risk-taking can lead to meaningful change. See open positions at Revero: https://jobs.lever.co/Revero/ Join Carnivore Diet for a free 30 day trial: https://carnivore.diet/join/ Carnivore Shirts: https://merch.carnivore.diet Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://carnivore.diet/subscribe/ . ‪#revero #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #HealthCreation   #humanfood #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree  ‪

As you may recall, Leno had retired from The Tonight Show and moved on to his own NBC primetime series, The Jay Leno Show, in Sept. 2009. But when it failed to catch on in its 10 p.m. time slot, the network announced in January 2010 that it would shorten The Jay Leno Show to a half-hour, and move it to 11:35 p.m—the time slot The Tonight Show had held for nearly 60 years. O'Brien's Tonight Show would therefore have been pushed back to 12:05 a.m., which was effectively the time slot O'Brien had been keeping warm on Late Night with Conan O'Brien for 16 years. "I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it," O'Brien said in a statement. "But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the internet a time slot doesn't matter. But with The Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more." Unfortunately, NBC would not budge, so O'Brien decided to say goodbye to The Tonight Show. On Jan. 22, 2010, as the Tonight Show band played a rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird," O'Brien signed off, making his stint as host the shortest of all time. Seeing as O'Brien has been killing it for years with his late-night TBS show, Conan, it's hard to believe that just 10 years ago, he was dealing with what Entertainment Weekly deemed the biggest "late-night disaster" of all time.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tradepaperbacks/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rangerryan/message

0:00 - Life14:00 - OceanGate19:50 - #Scandoval32:10 - Below Deck / Kardashians43:40 - Jury Duty45:00 - And Just Like That55:00 - WGA Strike / Succession61:43 - Cast BiosWe rush back into the podcast game with the energy and excitement of a thousand unionizing whales to cover some life catch-up and culture catch-up before tackling Charity's men cast bios. Including the Scandoval of it all, shared Below Deck obsessions, Kardashian observations, even the unicorn beauty that was Jury Duty. Then we do a quick “Tinder swiping” style cast bios preview, deciding quickly where we reach a point with each man to decide to swipe left (BYE) or right (HI). Talk to you all again next week, set your DVRs for 9 pm Monday nights.Support the show

This episode of Discussion and Drinks, Jimmy and Mike recap their show from last Friday, the performances, the crowd and the heat!  They also discuss television watching habits growing up in the 80's and 90's and how “kids these days” just don't understand the struggle they faced as a youngster with no DVRs, Streaming, etc.  Quotable shows, preemptions, VCR timers, Fleshlight and so much more!Get some more helpings of BIMP at http://www.patreon.com/baconismypodcastFind everything else BIMP:Twitter: @BaconisMyPodInstagram: @BaconisMyPodFacebook: www.facebook.com/baconismypodAnd of course our website: www.baconismypodcast.comWant some visual Bacon is My Podcast?Check out this episode and all others on Strangerhood TV on YouTube.www.strangerhoodtv.com and make sure to check out all the other great content on the channel!Get additional BIMP content at www.patreon.com/baconismypodcastWe're proudly sponsored by Manscaped and when you use the promo code BACONPOD at manscaped.com you'll get 20% your entire order!We'd like to introduce our new sponsor, Mythical Beards as well!  Use the promo code BACON15 for 15% off at mythicalbeards.comDon't forget to use the promo code BACON at our sponsors NativeBlendClothing.com, DrinkWildBills.com, PodDecks.com and GrillYourAssOff.com the best deals on your order!#podcast #baconismypassion #strangerhoodtv #youtubechannel #youtubepodcast #cravingstrange #somethingheavy #betterthanradio #baconismypodcast #poweredbypoddecks #manscaped #drinkwildbills #grillyourassoff #mythicalbeards ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In today's podcast we cover four crucial cyber and technology topics, including: 1.        Criminals abuse unpatched DVRs systems 2.        Criminals make over a million abusing DEFI firm Level Finance 3.        T-Mobile announces breach impacting hundreds 4.        MindGeek ceases adult content delivery in Utah  I'd love feedback, feel free to send your comments and feedback to  | cyberandtechwithmike@gmail.com

It's hard to not overreact to the first week of Duke basketball-- and yet overreact we do. Never you fear, however: I am here to help you understand whether your small sample size reaction is justified or completely out of line. We talk Jaylen Blakes, Christian Reeves's redshirt, Flip's start to the season, the quality of Duke's defense, and more. I also discuss how weak the ACC is for the second straight year-- and I preview the Duke-Kansas game to the best of my ability given the small sample we have from both teams. Per usual, please shoot any and all feedback to @DukeBetter, and I'll hope to improve with Episode 17. And if you haven't, please set your DVRs to record In Merry Measure, airing on Hallmark Channel this holiday season, written by yours truly. As always, #DDMF and #GTHC.

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It's time for The (British) Open, and they're playing the “old course”! Set your DVRs, folks!

Liv Morgan not only wins Money in the Bank... she also pins Ronda Rousey to become the new WWE Women's Smackdown Champion. Austin Theory wins it on the men's side and nobody is happy. Wardlow win the useless TNT title and Jon Moxley retains his AEW title. I hope yall set your DVRs for this one!

Osman Baig (@OBtoojiveforyou) of Bullets Forever joins for two different mock drafts of the lottery in one episode! First, we ran through the 1st 14 picks based on what we could see as likely outcomes on draft night based on the latest reporting. Then, we went through and made the 1st 14 picks based on what we would do if were the GM of those teams. Plus, a few other names we are higher on than consensus. The 2022 NBA Draft takes place on 6/23 at 7:30pm on ESPN so set your DVRs! Presented by Betonline.ag!

It’s the end of an era. Apple announced this week that it has ended production of the last iPod-only device it was still making, the iPod Touch. Apple debuted the original iPod in October, 2001, and has sold an estimated 450 million iPods since. Existing stock of the iPod Touch is available while supplies last. And: The Staircase is an HBO Max miniseries based on the 2004 French docuseries of the same name and the true story it tells. Colin Firth plays Michael Peterson, a man accused of murdering his wife. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: George Pérez, Who Gave New Life to Wonder Woman, Dies at 67 Working for both Marvel and DC, he created comic book series that brought superheroes together, and was co-creator of The New Teen Titans. Ric Parnell, Real Drummer in a Famous Fake Band, Dies at 70 The central characters in the mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” were comic actors, but Mr. Parnell was an actual professional musician. In Conversation: John C. Reilly The actor thinks audiences just want to be surprised. He’d do (almost) anything to oblige. Fred Savage is fired from ‘The Wonder Years’ over allegations of misconduct ‘Sex Education’ actor Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black lead in ‘Doctor Who’ ‘A Strange Loop’ earns a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Warhol’s ‘Marilyn,’ at $195 Million, Shatters Auction Record for an American Artist At Christie’s sale for charity, the glamorous silk-screen beat out Basquiat’s skull painting that had set a record in 2017. Elizabeth Olsen: ‘Throwing Marvel under the bus takes away from the talented crew’ The reluctant star is returning as the witchy Wanda in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’. She talks to Jacob Stolworthy about superhero film flak, her famous sisters’ advice, and why she rarely watches herself on screen Marty Friedman on why streaming listeners are skipping guitar solos: “Solos often have an obligatory existence – they must be there for a deeper reason” The former Megadeth man says guitar solos are often included to meet a quota, rather than because the song actually requires one FIFA and EA Sports End Decades-Long Video Game Partnership The demise of a relationship that produced one of the most popular games of all time will mean risks for soccer’s governing body but few changes for consumers. “Succession” actor James Cromwell super-glued himself to a Starbucks counter as part of PETA’s vegan milk protest The PG-13 Rating Has Become Meaningless Marcelo dropped from Lyon first team for “farting and laughing” in dressing room - sources I Toot, Therefore I Am A new philosophy paper attempts to answer a crucial question: What makes a fart a fart? Bad Special Effects Are A Choice Percy Jackson creator Rick Riordan rips complaints about casting the TV series The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for? New York Times Changes Today’s Wordle #324 Answer Amid Abortion Controversy What might reverse late-night TV’s decline? “If someone’s already watching something on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, why would they set their DVRs for 1:30 a.m.?” Traipsing Through the Vaster Wasteland On Netflix, HBO Max, and thirst in the desert. Christopher Walken To Play The Emperor In Dune 2 Disney Copyrights Targeted in Bill Proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley The company would lose its copyright to the original design of Mickey Mouse if the law is passed. This Is Spinal Tap sequel confirmed for 2024 with original cast Double ’Tap! Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls are set to return to cinema screens for one final show GUESTS: Raquel Benedict: Claims to be the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction, and she’s the host of the Rite Gud podcast Carolyn Paine: An actress, comedian, and dancer, and she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance Bill Yousman: Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode!Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com Like the show? Support the show and get bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/justprowrestlingnews I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, April 13, 2022. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode right now wherever you get your podcasts. (STINGER: AEW) Two title matches are on tap for tonight's Dynamite. Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus defend the AEW Tag Titles against reDRagon. Plus, Samoa Joe challenges Minoru Suzuki for the Ring of Honor TV Title. A couple of new matches were just added to tonight's card: CM Punk vs. Penta Oscuro…and Marina Shafir makes her Dynamite debut against Skye Blue. Also tonight..Eddie Kingston, Santana & Ortiz vs. Chris Jericho, Jake Hager & Daniel Garcia… Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee vs. Powerhouse Hobbs & Ricky Starks… And MJF vs. Captain Shawn Dean. Dean beat Rohit Raju on last night's Dark. Tony Khan tweeted Tuesday that TBS has granted an overrun for tonight's Dynamite - probably just a couple of minutes. But the show will go past 10 PM Eastern so adjust your DVRs accordingly. (STINGER: NJPW) AEW's Wheeler Yuta, who holds the Ring of Honor Pure Championship, will wrestle a dark match before New Japan's Windy City Riot pay-per-view on Saturday. Chris Dickinson revealed Tuesday that he has signed a contract with New Japan Pro-Wrestling. (STINGER: WWE) Pretty Deadly are the new NXT Tag Team Champions. They won a gauntlet match for the vacant titles last night. Cameron Grimes is still the North American Champion. He pinned Solo Sikoa with the Cave In after former champ Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams got involved. They laid out Grimes after the match. Mandy Rose beat Dakota Kai to retain the NXT Women's Title. Von Wagner beat Ikemen Jiro, who filled in for Kushida, who was attacked by Wagner backstage. Xyon Quinn beat Draco Anthony. The latest main roster star to visit NXT is Natalya. She attacked Cora Jade. Bron Breakker revealed his father, Rick Steiner, is back safe at home after being abducted by Joe Gacy and Harland. We also learned that NXT UK's Nathan Frazer is coming to 2.0. Former Ring of Honor Women's Champion Rok-C has a new ring name - Roxanne Perez - and she is set to make her WWE debut on Friday night's NXT: Level Up. The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer reports Rey Mysterio missed Monday's RAW due to “a medical issue”. Major League Wrestling announced Jacob Fatu and Mads Krugger will meet in a Weapons of Mass Destruction Match at its Kings of Colosseum TV taping in Philadelphia on May 13th. NWA play-by-play man Joe Galli says he's stepping away from local news to join the company full-time. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for ______. Our next update comes your way ____, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~~~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~~~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

Listen and subscribe at www.JustProWrestlingNews.com Like the show? Support the show and get bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/justprowrestlingnews I'm Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Wednesday, April 13, 2022. This update is brought to you by the Wrestling Mayhem Show. Check out the new episode right now wherever you get your podcasts. (STINGER: AEW) Two title matches are on tap for tonight's Dynamite. Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus defend the AEW Tag Titles against reDRagon. Plus, Samoa Joe challenges Minoru Suzuki for the Ring of Honor TV Title. A couple of new matches were just added to tonight's card: CM Punk vs. Penta Oscuro…and Marina Shafir makes her Dynamite debut against Skye Blue. Also tonight..Eddie Kingston, Santana & Ortiz vs. Chris Jericho, Jake Hager & Daniel Garcia… Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee vs. Powerhouse Hobbs & Ricky Starks… And MJF vs. Captain Shawn Dean. Dean beat Rohit Raju on last night's Dark. Tony Khan tweeted Tuesday that TBS has granted an overrun for tonight's Dynamite - probably just a couple of minutes. But the show will go past 10 PM Eastern so adjust your DVRs accordingly. (STINGER: NJPW) AEW's Wheeler Yuta, who holds the Ring of Honor Pure Championship, will wrestle a dark match before New Japan's Windy City Riot pay-per-view on Saturday. Chris Dickinson revealed Tuesday that he has signed a contract with New Japan Pro-Wrestling. (STINGER: WWE) Pretty Deadly are the new NXT Tag Team Champions. They won a gauntlet match for the vacant titles last night. Cameron Grimes is still the North American Champion. He pinned Solo Sikoa with the Cave In after former champ Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams got involved. They laid out Grimes after the match. Mandy Rose beat Dakota Kai to retain the NXT Women's Title. Von Wagner beat Ikemen Jiro, who filled in for Kushida, who was attacked by Wagner backstage. Xyon Quinn beat Draco Anthony. The latest main roster star to visit NXT is Natalya. She attacked Cora Jade. Bron Breakker revealed his father, Rick Steiner, is back safe at home after being abducted by Joe Gacy and Harland. We also learned that NXT UK's Nathan Frazer is coming to 2.0. Former Ring of Honor Women's Champion Rok-C has a new ring name - Roxanne Perez - and she is set to make her WWE debut on Friday night's NXT: Level Up. The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer reports Rey Mysterio missed Monday's RAW due to “a medical issue”. Major League Wrestling announced Jacob Fatu and Mads Krugger will meet in a Weapons of Mass Destruction Match at its Kings of Colosseum TV taping in Philadelphia on May 13th. NWA play-by-play man Joe Galli says he's stepping away from local news to join the company full-time. That's JUST Pro Wrestling News for ______. Our next update comes your way ____, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review.. I'm Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening. ~Full run down at www.justprowrestlingnews.com ~ • • • • • wwe #wrestling #prowrestling #smackdown #wwenetwork #wweraw #romanreigns #ajstyles #NXT #raw #njpw #wwenxt #SethRollins #TNA #johncena #RandyOrton #wrestlemania #ROH #WWF #summerslam #tripleh #aewdynamite #professionalwrestling #aew #allelitewrestling #aewontnt #DeanAmbrose #nxt #KevinOwens #wwesmackdown 

We recall some shocking plot developments that took us by surprise ... and mourn the fact that watching things months after the fact on our DVRs means it's hard to be shocked anymore. Mentioned: The Extra Hot Great Canon episode on a Melrose Place twist [http://previously.tv/extra-hot-great/ehg-082/].

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Today we discuss what the Zero Trust Security posture is all about. Should you be using it? // Quantum computing will have a devastating impact on the cyber infrastructure. // DVR botnet is making its way around... Better be prepared! // Tune in today to hear this week's latest cyber happenings! // Music: You and Me - https://spoti.fi/2YC7WQq

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CANCER!    Get ready for money! And friendship! And maybe even a surprise party! But please pretend to be surprised even though Susan just spoiled it for you. Cancer is going to have a wonderful birthday month full of travel; Susan even forgoes her usual Covid safety warnings to encourage you to get to some thickly forested mountains ASAP.  In other exciting news, Venus and Mars meet up this month for their one rendezvous per year, and all of the signs will benefit from their canoodling. Laura and Alex discuss this exciting reunion, Susan's party planning tips, and her social media posts from late June teasing a surprise for her readers. What could it be?! The gals had ideas, but of course, it turned out to be something they never would have guessed. And as always, Laura and Alex break down Susan's forecasts for Taurus and Scorpio.  Laura and Alex discuss the following at these timestamps:  Note from Susan Miller: 08:35 Cancer: 14:23 Taurus: 20:14 Scorpio: 26:28 Share your own thoughts on Susan Miller's Astrology Zone with us by emailing astrologyzoned@gmail.com. Links: Set your DVRS and find your cable channel guide so you can watch “Star Signs with Susan Miller” on Turner Classic Movies. As promised, this link takes you to a photo of heartthrob Steve McQueen (and more information): https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021392/spotlight-star-signs-with-susan-miller (https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021392/spotlight-star-signs-with-susan-miller)  Help Laura reach the full potential of her Susan Miller legacy by buying her romance novels: http://lauralovelybooks.com (http://Lauralovelybooks.com) Listen to Laura's other podcasts, The Mermaid Podcast and You're Doing Great, at: http://mermaidpodcast.com (http://mermaidpodcast.com) and http://fairybossmother.com (http://fairybossmother.com) Hear Laura talk about her television picks on TV BFFs at: https://audioboom.com/channels/5051822 (https://audioboom.com/channels/5051822) 

Bad ads waddle like a porcupine and make lots of little points. Good ads charge like a rhinoceros and make a single point powerfully. This is true regardless of your choice of media. Ad budgets are like that, too. When universities ask me to address their Advertising & Marketing majors just prior to graduation, I always warn those young “advertising experts” never to give advice to friends or family members who are involved in a local business. “This is because everything you have been taught assumes you will go to work in marketing for a Fortune 500 company, or for an advertising agency that places the media for large, national brands. You have not been taught how to grow a local business.” And then I ask their professors – in front of the students – whether they agree or disagree with what I just said. One hundred percent of the time, without exception, every professor has agreed with me. Most of the time, they start nodding their heads in affirmation when I say, “…everything you have been taught assumes you will go to work in marketing for a Fortune 500 company…” The most dangerous of these Fortune 500 concepts is the idea of a “media mix.” The widespread belief about the value of a “media mix” has caused small business owners to sprinkle their ad budgets across several different media because they are worried they are going to “miss” someone. After all, “Not everyone listens to the radio.” “Not everyone watches the news.” “Not everyone looks at billboards.” “Not everyone blah, blah, blah.” Advertiser, you can't afford to reach everyone. You've got to choose who to lose. Would you rather reach 100% of the people and convince them 10% of the way, or reach 10% of the people and convince them 100% of the way? Repetition is effective. Repetition is effective. Don't be a porcupine. Be a rhino. If you sell a product or a service that most people will need sooner-or-later and you suspect you've been sprinkling your ad budget, “a little bit here and a little bit there,” try spending 80% of your ad budget on a single mass media and the remaining 20% online. The choice of mass media is up to you, but it's hard to go wrong with local broadcast radio or television newscasts. People rarely record the TV news on their DVRs. They watch it live. The same is true of live sporting events. By the way, in case I forget to tell you this later, repetition is effective. “Wait a minute,” you say, “you told me to be a rhino and not to sprinkle my budget, but now you're telling me that 20% of my budget should be spent online! What's up?” Google is the new phone book, so you must have an online presence. Properly used, mass media will make you the provider that people think of immediately and feel the best about, but the first thing those people are going to do when they need what you sell is go online to look for your phone number, or your store hours, or your street address, or at your online reviews. You've got to show up when your customer is looking for you. There are instances – particularly in the home service categories – when it makes sense to use geotargeting. If time and energy are an underutilized resource, the placement of door hangers and lawn signs and the slipping of flyers under windshield wipers are old-school techniques that still pay big dividends. This is what I call, “shoe leather on the sidewalk.” The geotargeting of neighborhoods can also be done online, and geofencing will even allow you to target the people who enter and exit a specific building. Cool, huh? “But what if I sell a product or a service that only a tiny percent of the population will ever want or need?” Friend, that's when you bet your entire ad budget online. But make sure that your gross profit margin will allow you to spend 25% to 33% of total top-line sales on advertising, because when all the shouting is over, that is what you're likely to spend. (Meanwhile, those local...

You ever plan on watching a new show, but for one reason or another, you put if off until you eventually forget to watch it altogether? Well, Brain Slug's here to make sure Syfy's new show “Resident Alien” isn't one of them, because it really is one of the best shows out there right now! So boot up those DVRs, pick up the comics, and tag along as we discuss why this show resonates so deeply with us. We also question whether Alan Tudyk is actually an alien living among us or not… we're pretty sure he is.  

On this episode of The Game of Nerds Podcast, we are chatting about a show I've NEVER seen, Neighbours. The Queen of the Ramsay Street Gossip and our very own, Lindsey Bannister, sat down to talk to us about the hit Australian soap opera that's been going on since 1985! In the seven years, I've been running The Game of Nerds the top five searched fandoms always changed with what is popular or about to come out. Once Lindsay started reporting on Neighbours in 2017 that all changed. Neighbours has consistently been in that top 5 every month since then, and that just flat out amazes me. What I've come to realize though is that Neighbours doesn't really get that much coverage. Over the past 4 years, Lindsay has created a home for Neighbours and it's fans at The Game of Nerds. While it would be impossible to talk about all 30 years in a single episode, we did talk about the history of the show and why it's such a hit with fans. It all started with three families on Ramsay Street. The series deals with hard-hitting soap opera storylines and has ridiculous nonsense weaved in-between. Yes, actors have died, left the street, or got amnesia (this is a common occurrence in the series). But the series has been known to bring back characters years later, sucking in fans once again. It's the equation that clearly has made this series a cult classic. Neighbour fans can watch when they want and never really be out of the loop. It's the kind of show that gives you the drama but also the laughs. When asked if it could be compared to anything else, it really can't. The series originated in Australia in 1985, but once it crossed over to the UK, it only got bigger. This is how Lindsey got attached to the series. It was just what you did every day after school. You did your homework and before dinner, you watched Neighbours together as a family. This was well before the time of DVRs and on-demand, so if you missed a big episode, you hoped you had a friend who recorded it on their VCR. While this series may not be a household name in the United States, the series has launched the careers of some of our favorite Hollywood celebrities like Russell Crowe, Margot Robbie, and Liam Hemsworth, to name a few. At the peak of the Neighbours hype, there were books created and even a board game. The series has created a passionate fanbase online where people come together to talk about episodes and even poke fun. Neighbours started out as a very white neighborhood and, over the decades, has blossomed into a series that showcases different people of colors and lifestyles. The LGBTQ community is very involved with this series because of the characters and stories it's done. Once again, making it a series that is relatable to a variety of demographics. Before the pandemic, the cast was even doing special meet and greets with fans which was a lot of fun to attend. Thankfully, the pandemic has just made the community grow closer together because of the large fan base online. It's always daunting to take on a new series, especially one that has been on for 30 years. Lindsey assures fans that you can jump into Neighbours at any point. Yes, it will take you a couple of episodes to get bearings, but it's pretty easy to figure out. Neighbours are extremely easy to watch if you don't live in the United States. It's available on sites like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. If you live inside the US, there is only one place to watch Neighbours, and that's Tubi. You can create a free subscription with them to watch the most recent 25 episodes. While it's not all 5,922 episodes, it is a great place to start. We hope this podcast episode gets you to check out all the Ramsay Street gossip sometime! Guest Information Lindsey BannisterTwitter: www.twitter.com/squeaky_the_pinInstagram: www.instagram.com/squeakythepinNeighbours Content on The Game of Nerds: https://thegameofnerds.com/category/television/neighbours/ More Neighbours Content

Megan and Wendy recap and review Hallmark Channel's A Winter Getaway starring Brooks Darnell and Nazneen Contractor. One question: What happened to the chili dog lunch? Email the show at meganandwendy@gmail.com. A Winter Getaway stars Brooks Darnell as Joe and Nazneed Contractor as Courtney in this movie about mistaken identity and how that affects a budding romance. News and Notes for A Winter Getaway This movie was originally going to be called Love in the Alps and also Love in the Rockies. A Winter Getaway was actually filmed in Banff, Alberta. The gorgeous Fairmont Banff Springs Fairmont was used for the last scene as well as when we watched Joe and Courtney eat lunch after heli-skiing. Brooks Darnell commented that he was happy to see Hallmark move in the direction of creating stories with people from diverse backgrounds. You can read the full interview here. This movie drew some criticism about the sound level of the music which made it difficult to hear character dialogue. Joe cautions Courtney that hitting the computer doesn't usually actually make the computer work better in A Winter Getaway. Get the FRNDLY app here to stream this and all other Hallmark movies! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brooks Darnell (@sincerelybrooksdarnell) Hallmark Channel's New Year, New Movies Schedule Joe reacts to Courtney's story of a difficult client. Here is the schedule of new movies available on the Hallmark Channel. Set your DVRs and watch along with us! Click the links below to catch up on our bonus episodes. Taking a Shot at Love A New Year's Resolution  Two for the Win  A Winter Getaway - this episode! Snowkissed - January, 30, 2021 We will continue our bonus Girls Gone Hallmark episodes through the end of February as we recap and review Hallmark Channel's Love Ever After line up! You can expect episodes to be available on Thursdays in the main podcast feed for Long Story Short with Megan and Wendy. Joe tells Courtney that he's falling in love, not that he's in love. Missed the Countdown to Christmas reviews? You can find them here. Join our private Facebook group! Search Long Story Shorties or click here.

Megan and Wendy review and recap Hallmark Channel's newest movie Two for the Win in today's brand new bonus episode. Each had not a lot to say for their favorite segments, "Uh-Oh!" and "Did You See That?" What might that say about their thoughts on the movie? You might be surprised. Email the show at meganandwendy@gmail.com. Megan and Wendy recap Hallmark's Two for the Win in a brand new podcast episode. Mentioned in this Episode You can listen to the new and improved versions of our recaps for A Nashville Christmas Carol and Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing. You can expect more reviews and recaps of Hallmark Channel's Love Ever After movie line up through the end of February 2021! Do you believe Kayla when she tells her sister that she's happy as is? What is Two For the Win About? Two for the Win stars Trevor Donovan and Charlotte Sullivan as long-time friends reunited when Kayla (Sullivan) is hired to coach Justin (Donovan) after an injury sidelines him from downhill skiing. This is one of our favorite quotes from Two For the Win News and Notes Hallmark Channel's newest movie in the New Year, New Movies line up was filmed on Mount Pakenham in S.W. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The movie was based on the novel Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan. Trevor Donovan did his own skiing. Get the FRNDLY app here to stream this and all other Hallmark movies! Hallmark Channel's New Year, New Movies Schedule But why is Justin skiing on the bunny slope? Kayla has her reasons. Here is the schedule of new movies available on the Hallmark Channel. Set your DVRs and watch along with us! Click the links below to catch up on our bonus episodes. Taking a Shot at Love A New Year's Resolution  Two for the Win - this episode! A Winter Getaway, Saturday, January 23, 2021 Snowkissed, Saturday, January 30, 2021 Missed the Countdown to Christmas reviews? You can find them here. Join our private Facebook group! Search Long Story Shorties or click here.

Megan and Wendy welcome fellow Hallmark Channel movie lover, Cally from Hallmark's The Spot, to recap and review A New Year's Resolution. The girls and their guest break down what they liked, what they wished for, those obvious "Uh-Oh" moments familiar to all Hallmark movies and several funny observations in "Did You See That?" Originally scheduled to air in 2019, Hallmark Channel inexplicably pulled this movie from their line up. But why? Wendy will tell you. Email the show at meganandwendy@gmail.com. A New Year's Resolution stars Aimee Teegarden as Kelly (Julie Taylor from Friday Night Lights all grown up) and adorable Hallmark Movie regular Michael Rady as Tom. Will Kelly's demanding work schedule allow her to keep her resolutions in the new year? Can Tom uncover the fraud happening at his company? Is there any doubt these two fall in love along the way? Get the FRNDLY app here to stream this and all other Hallmark movies! Where You Can Find Our Guest Cally can be found at her Hallmark's the Spot Instagram and her blog of the same name where she reviews A LOT of the Hallmark movies. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hallmarks The Spot

Because it was so fun, Megan and Wendy are back again to review and recap Hallmark Channel's New Year, New Movies! In today's bonus episode, the girls have a lot to say about Taking a Shot at Love. Find out what they liked about it, what they wished would have been different, their favorite segment "Did You See That?" and, brand new for 20201, a new segment called "Uh-Oh!" Email the show at meganandwendy@gmail.com Taking a Shot at Love stars Alexa PenaVega and Luke Macfarlane. Can Jenna (PenaVega) help rehab a professional hockey player's injury (Macfarlane) with ballet? News and Notes for Taking a Shot at Love This Hallmark Channel movie debuted in January 2021 as one of the New Year, New Movies. Taking a Shot at Loved was filmed in Canada but was set in the real-life town of Avon, CT. Fun Fact: Avon, CT was named the third-safest town in America in 2005. This makes sense now why Jenna can leave a key to her home under her doormat all the time! The movie's writer, Julie Wolf, actually lives in Avon, CT. Mentioned in today's episode: Cally from Hallmarks The Spot and her Instagram One of our favorite quotes from Taking a Shot at Love! What is Girls Gone Hallmark? Girls Gone Hallmark is what Megan and Wendy are calling the bonus episodes of the podcast where they review and recap Hallmark Channel's movies! Who doesn't want to live in a coffee commercial? New Year, New Movies Schedule One of the best scenes in Taking a Shot at Love Here is the schedule of new movies available on the Hallmark Channel. Set your DVRs and watch along with us! A New Year's Resolution Saturday, January 9, 2021 Two for the Win, Saturday, January 16, 2021 A Winter Getaway, Saturday, January 23, 2021 Snowkissed, Saturday, January 30, 2021 Join our private Facebook group! Search Long Story Shorties or click here. Get the FRNDLY app here to stream Hallmark movies! Missed the Countdown to Christmas reviews? You can find them here.

The Bootstrap Marketing Subgroup chatted with Prof Dan Ariely, author of numerous books explaining the vagaries of human behavior and choice. Subgroup lead and BootRap Producer, Brian Massey interviewed Dan about his research and book, Predictably Irrational, and how these insights could be used in marketing and pricing. Brian provides a summary of the book in the first section and the interview begins at: 8:44. Topics covered include: Decoy Model, the power of comparison; social vs market exchange; price anchoring and Starbucks; TiVo v DVRs; fe/male differences in purchasing; the challenges of focus groups and bad data; anti-depressants vs placebos; the importance of moving marketing earlier in the product-creation process; design for physical AND cognitive differences; how the 2008 mortgage crisis was created by short-circuited human decision-making; how credit cards separate consumption from experience; Gucci, Prada & fakes; why consuming gas is stressful; the pain of pain; how lawyers should charge for their services; and much more. Dan also provides advice on how to appreciate the pain associated with the entrepreneurial journey. The conversation ends with a fascinating puzzle, the answer to which reveals our own proclivity to being "predictably irrational!" BootRap ATX is produced by Brian Massey of the Intended Consequences Podcast.

Darkness Radio uncovers The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch with guest Dr. Travis Taylor a NEW series on History Channel! Monsters, Portals, Shadowy Figures, Strange Energy, UFOs and more finally explored with total honesty. The series features a team of scientists and experts who conduct a daring and thorough search of this infamous 512-acre property located in Utah's Uinta Basin in an attempt to find out the ‘who?' ‘what?' and ‘why?' behind more than 200 years of UFO and paranormal related mysteries. Few have ever gained official access to Skinwalker Ranch, and none have ever been able to bring cameras onto the property for a television series, until now. Set your DVRs and watch The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch series premiering on Tuesday, March 31st at 10/9c. For more information check here: https://www.history.com/shows/the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch Support our sponsors for great deals! Do you experience stress? Or have anxiety…Or chronic pain ...Or have trouble sleeping at least once a week? You're NOT alone! Feals is a better way to feel better. Our premium CBD will keep your head clear and help you feel your best. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/darkness and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

...Why is Nancy Grace so successful? What is the point of her new Oxygen joint, Injustice With Nancy Grace, a show that complains about the very rushes to judgment in which she usually specializes? Does she make these grand banal pronunciamentos about pure evil at home, like after she walks through a spiderweb or something? Lani Diane Rich is back to help me tackle those questions. Later, we preview Who Killed Garrett Phillips?, and while we may not get an answer to the titular question, we CAN tell you with authority that Liz Garbus's latest project is a well-structured, organized, suspenseful, and deeply compassionate look at a case's interminable toll on an entire community. This one doesn't air 'til next week, so you may want to put a pin in this podcast for now...and go set your DVRs, because while this one's maddening too, that's thanks to effective storytelling. Oh, and also idiot cops. Clichés, bad law-enforcement math, and much more in The Blotter Presents, Episode 104. Get even more true-crime content reviewed: support the pod/site on Patreon, and sign up for the newsletter, Best Evidence! SHOW NOTES Injustice With Nancy Grace: https://www.oxygen.com/injustice-with-nancy-grace Who Killed Garrett Phillips?: https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/who-killed-garrett-phillips/about A Dangerous Son: https://amzn.to/2lKZ9YE (or try HBO Go) All of Lani Diane Rich's projects at Chipperish: https://chipperish.com/ And don't forget, we've got an actual tipline! 919-75-CRIME Special Guest: Lani Diane Rich.

Oscar-winner Charles Ferguson takes on the fall of the Nixon White House for the History Channel. Set your DVRs; it's good!

One week with FuboTV The HT Guys have officially joined the ranks of the cord cutters with Braden opting to cancel his Cable TV service entirely. We have been working on trimming the cord for a while, but this is cold turkey… Was cold turnkey. Braden quickly found something lacking and turned to fuboTV to fill that missing hole in his home theater. Cutting the Cord It isn't a shock that the big thing missing in Braden's life after quitting cable was live sports. We've talked at length about how easy it is to cut the cord now. Almost everything is available these days via streaming on services like Netflix and Hulu and the apps every network has for their own content like CBS, ABC, HBO, Food Network, you name it. Almost everything - except for live events like news, sports, award shows, etc. If you don't care about those, you can cut the cord and not miss a beat. But if you do care about them, or as was true in Braden's case, you realize after the fact how much others cared about them, there are the somewhat new live TV streaming services available to help bridge that gap. If live sports is your thing, fuboTV is definitely one you should investigate. FuboTV is completely centered around sports. Although you can get a bunch of other non-sports channels, it is evident from the first screen that the whole purpose of the service is to meet the needs of sports enthusiasts. In Braden's home of soccer fans, it has been a huge hit. FuboTV As a streaming offering competing with DirecTV Now, Sling TV, Playstation Vue and the others, FuboTV is a decent offering. There is one primary pricing tier, $39.99, one upgraded tier at $44.99 and a couple add-ons for specific language content or premium networks. For that primary tier of $40 a month you get 88 live channels, 30 hours of cloud DVR and some extras like up to 3 days to replay any game you missed and forgot to record, etc. For a sports streaming service there is one giant, glaring hole though: they don't offer ESPN, any ESPN variant, or any Disney owned network for that matter. Can you get all the sports you want without ESPN? That's debatable. Using FuboTV If you're a sports fan, you'll be good with how fuboTV is setup and structured. Everything in the app runs thru the lens of a sports viewer. If that isn't you, you'll find the interface a bit cumbersome and disjointed. Beyond that, the guides on streaming services in general tend to be a little clunky. Navigation is difficult without channel numbers and easy ways to jump around. The guide is usable and intuitive on fuboTV, but not easy nor innovative. You can't hide channels from the guide either, which would allow you to personalize and optimize somewhat. It doesn't set the bar by any means. Recording shows is easy. And searching for content to watch is very simple as well. The quality of the video is decent. With a really good bandwidth connection it can look every bit as good as a typical HD channel on cable (assuming you don't have them side by side for comparison). But the bottom line is that the streams can be good enough that you forget you're streaming them. Fast forward and Rewind are much clunkier for streaming content than for locally stored content on a DVR, across any streaming service. That makes the whole viewing experience a bit more of a chore. This isn't unique to fuboTV, but it doesn't escape it either. There are a few other little annoyances worth pointing out. One is that you get up to 30 hours of cloud DVR, but not all content is recordable. You may pull up the details on a show only to see that you don't have the option to record it. This is likely contractual, but not a limitation found on any traditional DVR. If you can see the channel, you can record it. And although the ability to search for stuff to watch in fuboTV is really easy, and they actually have a lot of good content available, there are limitations. For example, we found Deadpool available to watch for free on demand via FXX. This was great. Like having Netflix but included in the price. Bonus. However, you can't fast forward or rewind. So if you can watch the whole movie in one sitting, you're set. If you want to watch half now and finish the other half later, you're out of luck. Cost is another issue. Because Braden was using Tivo and not the Cable company DVRs and boxes, he was paying about $80 a month for whole house DVR on 4 screens with HBO. The $40 reduces the savings from cutting Cable in half. If you're paying more every month for cable, obviously your saving would be more dramatic. But fuboTV also charges extra for the Family option that allow you to stream simultaneously on different devices. So you'll have to pay up to get TV on, say, 4 screens. If you're streaming more, and your provider charges you more for increased bandwidth consumption, that could eat into your saving as well. Conclusion If you decide to cut the cord and realize you really miss live sports, fuboTV is a dream come true. That is, assuming you don't need ESPN. If you're looking for a way to replace live television from a Cable or Satellite provider, fuboTV probably isn't the droid you're looking for. The great thing is that you can try it out for 7 days totally free and totally risk free. If you don't like it, you quit and pay nothing. Braden loves it for filling the missing live sports need, but he'll more than likely quit it and try a few others to see if there really is a legitimate Cable TV replacement available via streaming.    

Ben Pearson joins us for the first official episode of /Film Daily. In The Water Cooler, we talk about Snowfall and Orange is the New Black.  In The News: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming' Director Jon Watts Not Confirmed for the Sequel How Thor Ragnarok Will Change the MCU ‘Game of Thrones' Season 7: First Three Episode Titles and Synopses Revealed In The Mailbag: Mich Sineath asks “Television is on fire - not just with great shows, like GLOW, Preacher, and Game of Thrones, but also with companies like Netflix and Amazon joining the fray - it's almost too much. What's your take on the television industry today, and where do you think it's heading? And also, for fun, what's on your DVR? In the Spoiler Room, we talk to Ethan Anderton about the meaning behind the Spider-Man: Homecoming's end credits scenes. You can find all that and more at slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (rss). This podcast is published every weekday, bringing you the most interesting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.   We're still very much experimenting with this podcast, please feel free to send your feedback to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

Live TV Streaming Options We have friends, and you probably do as well, who are constantly asking about options for cutting the cord or otherwise reducing their high monthly cable or satellite bill. We have experience with a couple of the options, but not all of them. In an effort to better serve those friends of ours that need our help, we decided to compile a “compare and contrast” on the three main options available today: SlingTV, Sony Playstation Vue and DirecTV Now. Feature Comparison   SlingTV Playstation Vue DirecTV Now Starting Cost $20 $40 $35 Channels 30+ 45+ 60+ iOS yes yes yes Android yes yes yes AppleTV yes yes yes Roku yes yes no FireTV yes yes yes Chromecast yes yes yes PlayStation no yes no Simultaneous Streams 1 (3 at higher tier) 5 2 Local channels yes* yes* yes* Cloud DVR beta yes no * not in all markets. Some markets may get a national feed or only on-demand content. Sling.TV When SlingTV hit the market, it was revolution. The first of its kind. Since then many more very similar offerings have followed, but there's something to be said for being the first to market. Dish has more experience than any of their competitors. May not matter too much anymore, but in a brand new market, the spoils often go to the player who works out all the kinks the fastest. Sling TV has just added a beta of a cloud based DVR option, making the service a bit more compelling. Sling's DVR only gives you 100 hours of total recording time. Better than nothing, and similar to what you get from many cable and satellite DVRs, but being a cloud service, we'd expect a bit more storage. PlayStation Vue Sony jumped into the fray with a very compelling offering right out of the gate. The were the first to offer a cloud based DVR to augment the service. SlingTV's answer to the cloud DVR at the time was to just store all the shows for a short time after they aired. If you missed an episode, you could still catch it the next day. If you missed it the next day, sorry. Hopefully Hulu's got it. PlayStation Vue's cloud-based DVR will store your shows for up to 28 days. You can record as much as you want, but if you don't watch in 28 days, you'll be off to Hulu or buying episodes at Apple, Amazon, or waiting for the full season to hit somewhere like Netflix. Better than one day, but again, being a cloud based service, you should be able to get more storage than that. DirecTV Now Not to be outdone by their longtime rival Dish Network, DirecTV came to the table with DirecTV Now. Also a very compelling offering right out of the gate, DirecTV has a couple of unique twists that may set it apart for some of the audience. For example, if you have AT&T for cell phone service, you can stream DirecTV Now to your mobile devices without it counting against your bandwidth limits. If you have AT&T and watch a lot of TV on the go, that could save considerable amounts of money on your monthly bill. Unfortunately DirecTV Now still doesn't have a DVR option, putting it way behind the others in that area. But wait, there's more… While there are three options available today, there are many more coming very soon. So far two have been announced as official offerings: one from YouTube and one from Hulu. We can see some compelling features to both of those. Hulu, for one, with their giant catalog of TV content, could build a very interesting offering when combined with live TV and a cloud DVR. Beyond those two, rumors abound that companies like Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Walmart/Vudu are working on live TV streaming services as well. This market could be very crowded by the end of 2017. Of those “rumored” to be working on a Live TV service, Amazon seems like they're quite close. If you sign into Amazon Prime Video, you already see a listing of available “channels” you can watch right there from within your Amazon account. They are mostly premium channels you can subscribe to like Starz and HBO, but extending this concept to include live channels if you subscribe to them shouldn't be too much of a stretch. Amazon already has the full array of new and catalog content, like a mashup of Netflix and Vudu. And Amazon has storage figured out (the recent S3 outage aside), so a cloud-based DVR should be a no-brainer. Compare and Contrast One of the most important factors for deciding which service is right for is what channels you get for the money. Ideally you get the most channels for the least money, but you also need to make sure you're getting the right channels - the ones you actually watch. Playstation Vue and DirecTV Now offer over 40 channels with their base subscription tier. Sling TV only has 30 channels in the base tier, but it costs significantly less at only $20 per month. If you're a CBS fan, you'll need to augment any of the services with the CBS All Access service since neither DirecTV Now nor Sling carry CBS at all and PlayStation Vue has some local CBS news feeds across the country, but coverage is spotty and not the full CBS network. As an aside, for those in need of CBS content the CBS All Access service comes in two flavors. There's a $6 per month option that gives you access to live streams of your local CBS affiliate and on-demand access to over 8,500 catalog episodes with limited commercials. When you watch the live stream, of course you watch the same commercials as everyone else. There's also an upgraded $10 per month option that provides the same live content but removes commercials from the catalog episodes. None of the streaming services in our round-up offer any commercial free content options. Channel availability is where waiting a little while could pay off. YouTube TV will be the only one to include all of the major broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and even the CW. DirecTV Now and PlayStation Vue have ABC, NBC, and Fox, but Sling's $20 entry level plan doesn't offer any of them. None of them have the CW. If you step up to the $25 plan with SlingTV, they throw in Fox and NBC for you, and you're still paying at least $5 less than the others. YouTube TV will also one of the few services to stream CBS, removing the need to add the additional CBS All Access service, saving you $6-$10 per month if you're a big CBS fan. Device support is another big consideration. If you're all-in on Roku, that removes DirecTV as an option for you since they don't currently support Roku devices, while SlingTV and Playstation Vue do. Likewise if you want to use your Playstation 3 or 4 console as a set-top box for watching TV, the Playstation Vue service is your only option right now. All of them will run on your phone or tablet - unless you have a really obscure phone or tablet, like an old blackberry or w Windows phone. They'll run on your computer, AppleTV or FireTV. We don't know if that will always be true if Apple or Amazon add competing offerings, but it's true right now. The last big deal that many don't think about before signing up is how many streams you can have going at once. With SlingTV at $20, you can only watch 1 thing across all your devices. If you're single, live alone, are at college, etc, that may work out fine. If you have multiple people who want to watch TV at home (or on the road) you may run into problems. Dish can be upgraded to 3 simultaneous streams if you're willing to pay for it. DirecTV Now gives you 2 simultaneous streams, regardless of what subscription tier you pay for and Playstation Vue allows 5 devices, all of them can get their own stream. But if you have more devices, you're out of luck. Another YouTube differentiator is their take on the cloud DVR capability. YouTube lets you record as many shows as you want, simultaneously. No limits. That's not only better than all the other streaming services, it's better than any satellite, cable or IPTV provider as well. Everything  gets saved to your cloud DVR and they'll let it sit there for up to nine months do you have plenty of time to binge those episodes over the summer. There are no storage limits so if you even think you might have a vague interest in something at some point later, just record it. It won't hurt you. Conclusion Device support, channels available, cost, simultaneous streams, there are so many factors in choosing which service is right for you, it's nearly impossible to pick a single offering as the best one in all circumstances. And with so many more options on the horizon, the right one for you may not even be available yet. We recommend you take a look at: what devices you have that you'll want to watch TV on, what channels you want to watch, and how many different people will be watching at once. Take that combo to each service and see if it matches. If you get one match, you're done. If you get multiple matches, pick the least expensive option and you're done. If none of them match you can either change your expectations or wait a while to see if any of the newer offerings do match what you need. The great news is that none of the services require any form of contract, so there's no risk of lock-in. You sign up whenever you want and are free to quit the service whenever you want as well, without any penalties. That means you can try one, see if you like it, and if not, quit that service and switch to another. In most cases, you won't need to change hardware or anything major. You just delete one app, install a different one, and you're ready to go. In fact, they all offer free trial periods, you could run a trial of all three simultaneously and keep the one you like the best. When Hulu or YouTube come out, try them out and switch if you prefer the newer offering. Freedom and flexibility like that is pretty refreshing considering the lock-in issues we've always had to deal with in the past.

Is Your TV Spying on You? Much has been made about a recent complaint filed by the FTC and the New Jersey Attorney General alleging that while you've been watching TV on your Internet connected Vizio HDTV, unbeknownst to you, it has been watching you back. As Ara and Braden are both owners of Internet connected Vizio televisions, they are both victims of this snooping. But what did Vizio actually do? Is it a terrible invasion, or not really that big of a deal? Are other manufacturers doing the same thing? Let's dive in and find out. The Complaint According to ftc.gov (the below is a direct quote from their website): “VIZIO, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers and sellers of internet-connected “smart” televisions, has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers' knowledge or consent. The stipulated federal court order requires VIZIO to prominently disclose and obtain affirmative express consent for its data collection and sharing practices, and prohibits misrepresentations about the privacy, security, or confidentiality of consumer information they collect. It also requires the company to delete data collected before March 1, 2016, and to implement a comprehensive data privacy program and biennial assessments of that program. According to the agencies' complaint, starting in February 2014, VIZIO, Inc. and an affiliated company have manufactured VIZIO smart TVs that capture second-by-second information about video displayed on the smart TV, including video from consumer cable, broadband, set-top box, DVD, over-the-air broadcasts, and streaming devices. In addition, VIZIO facilitated appending specific demographic information to the viewing data, such as sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education level, home ownership, and household value, the agencies allege. VIZIO sold this information to third parties, who used it for various purposes, including targeting advertising to consumers across devices, according to the complaint. According to the complaint, VIZIO touted its “Smart Interactivity” feature that “enables program offers and suggestions” but failed to inform consumers that the settings also enabled the collection of consumers' viewing data. The complaint alleges that VIZIO's data tracking—which occurred without viewers' informed consent—was unfair and deceptive, in violation of the FTC Act and New Jersey consumer protection laws. The $2.2 million payment by VIZIO includes a payment of $1.5 million to the FTC and $1 million to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, with $300,000 of that amount suspended.” Our Take When we first heard the news, we thought it was dire. There are, or have been, Vizio TVs with built-in support for video chat apps like Skype, so they have cameras built into them as well.  We thought that perhaps Vizio was using the camera to actually spy on you in your home. That might even be what you thought as well if you read the title of this segment without listening to the show or reading the text. But that isn't the case. That's just a sensationalized headline to attract attention. Yes we're guilty of that. Sorry. Ok, not Sorry. It turns out that Vizio wanted to suggest content for you to watch based on other things that you have chosen to watch yourself.  Seems harmless enough right?  Well, your HDTV doesn't actually know about everything that could possibly be suggested, or the relationships between different shows so it could make the recommendations on its own. To know that, it had to tell Vizio servers in the cloud what you were watching, so the servers could make the relationships and let the TV know what it should suggest for you. On a pure technical level, it sounds quite reasonable and we totally understand why Vizio would do something like that. But from a privacy level, it is super, super creepy.  Watching the news? OK cool, no problem. Vizio knows. Who cares? Watching some adult oriented content? Vizio knows that too. They know what you're into. Staying home all day to watch Anime when you should be at work? Yup, Vizio knows that as well. They were tracking everything. But that's not the worst part. If the data was anonymized and scrubbed after it was used, that would be one thing. Creepy sure, but not terrible. But they went a step further. In addition to tracking your viewing habits, they also had data on your sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education level, home ownership, and household value. How did they get that data? Because they had your IP address. They knew who you were. Oh, but wait, it gets worse. Not only were they tracking all this info, viewing habits and demographic data, but they were then turning around and selling this information to other third parties. And of course they would. It's valuable data. What are the viewing habits of millennials? Older dudes like the HT guys?  Young kids in grade school?  Valuable information. But who were the giving all your info to? You don't know. And they certainly didn't ask you before selling it off. Vizio's contracts with third parties prohibited the re-identification of consumers and households by name, but that wouldn't be a difficult relationship for anyone to make. Warning, this is where we put on our black helicopter, conspiracy theory hats and go a little crazy. But think about who could be consuming this information? What if you work for a large corporation with deep enough pockets to buy the data just because they wanted it. And that corporation wanted to know what you're watching at home on the TV. Or what if someone was trying to sue you or otherwise put a legal action against you and they wanted to know what you were watching. Or someone wanted to blackmail you for some reason. Or social engineer you to steal secrets or information. They just pay Vizio enough and they can immediately find out what you're into. Had Vizio simply used the information in an anonymous way to make show recommendations, and scrubbed the data when they no longer needed it, that would be one thing. And probably a minor thing - a non-event to be honest. But you tack on the demographic data, and the fact they were selling it to unknown entities (unknown to you the viewer at least) and that gets super creepy. We aren't accusing Vizio of being malicious or doing anything nefarious, but what they did and how they did it was a clear violation of their customers' privacy and trust. It was wrong. The funny thing is that the premise behind taking the data in the first place, the promise of content offers and suggestions, never worked. The suggestions never materialized. So the question is, if the so-called “Smart Interactivity” feature that needed the data never even provided the promised program offers and suggestions, was it ever even planned to, or was Vizio simply using that as cover to mine all of this juicy data from your HDTV?  Were they trying to get the suggestions to work and just never got it right, or did they just want the data, so they made up a bogus feature to give them an excuse to take it? Unfortunately for Vizio, they got caught. But looking at what they were doing, we wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other smart TVs, smart set top boxes or streaming players, and DVRs were doing the exact same thing. Hopefully they'll see this case and clean things up voluntarily before they get caught too. But if not, hopefully the FTC will dig a little deeper to see what each of those devices is tracking about you, and what they're doing with that information.

Tens of thousands of US soldiers from California are being forced to repay bonuses they were given ten years ago to get them to re-enlist. Some served multiple combat tours, and they face fines, wage garnishment, and tax liens if they don't repay bonuses of up to $20,000. Also: Battle for Mosul could turn into Shia-vs.-Sunni war; Iraq's Turkmen want independence; mass executions in Mosul by ISIS; UN abandons plan to evacuate wounded from Aleppo; Russia unveils Satan-2 nuclear missile; and Internet of Things security hole allowed DVRs and home security cameras to crash the web.

Funky Kong - Paul Rust, Pamela Murphy, and Dan Lippert check into a video game rehabilitation center on this week's improv4humans with Matt Besser! They'll also hear a first time concertgoer's experience, get to the bottom of a grandma scam, and try to keep their cool around a cool kid's above ground pool. Plus, we hear some hiking tips from a human by the name of Joey. Humans, watch Matt Besser & Rich Fulcher's Adult Swim infomercial parody “In Search of Miracle Man” November 10th-14th at 4am. Program your DVRs now humans. LA: Head over to the brand new UCB-Sunset for a LIVE improv4humans on Saturday, November 29th. Get tickets at http://www.ucbtheatre.com/ ! Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy  Improv Manual , Matt Besser's new comedy album at  mattbesser.com , and Dragoon's new album at  dragoongalaxy.bandcamp.com !

Paul Rust, Pamela Murphy, and Dan Lippert check into a video game rehabilitation center on this weeks improv4humans with Matt Besser! Theyll also hear a first time concertgoers experience, get to the bottom of a grandma scam, and try to keep their cool around a cool kids above ground pool. Plus, we hear some hiking tips from a human by the name of Joey. Humans, watch Matt Besser & Rich Fulchers Adult Swim infomercial parody In Search of Miracle Man November 10th-14th at 4am. Program your DVRs now humans. LA: Head over to the brand new UCB-Sunset for a LIVE improv4humans on Saturday, November 29th. Get tickets at http://www.ucbtheatre.com/ ! Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy Improv Manual ,Matt Bessers new comedy album at mattbesser.com , and Dragoons new album at dragoongalaxy.bandcamp.com !See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.