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2004 studio album by Probot

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Dread Media
Episode 910 - Shaky Shivers and Blackout

Dread Media

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 62:10


This week, Desmond and Tom take in a double feature of lackluster werewolf movies: Sung Kang's horror comedy Shaky Shivers and Larry Fessenden's depressive Blackout. Songs included: "Unleash the Wolves" by Powerwolves, "Shake Your Blood" by Probot feat. Lemmy Kilmister, "Wait for the Blackout" by The Damned, and "To the Wolves" by Whitechapel. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Support the show at www.patreon.com/dreadmedia. Visit www.desmondreddick.com, www.stayscary.wordpress.com, www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com, www.kccinephile.com, and www.dejasdomicileofdread.blogspot.com.

Earth-2.net Presents...
Dread Media - Episode 910

Earth-2.net Presents...

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 62:10


This week, Desmond and Tom take in a double feature of lackluster werewolf movies: Sung Kang's horror comedy Shaky Shivers and Larry Fessenden's depressive Blackout. Songs included: "Unleash the Wolves" by Powerwolves, "Shake Your Blood" by Probot feat. Lemmy Kilmister, "Wait for the Blackout" by The Damned, and "To the Wolves" by Whitechapel. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Support the show at www.patreon.com/dreadmedia. Visit www.desmondreddick.com, www.stayscary.wordpress.com, www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com, www.kccinephile.com, and www.dejasdomicileofdread.blogspot.com.

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show
The Story of Rock and Roll: S7E18

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2024 180:02


S7E18 went out on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 25 May 2024.  It was nice to be back doing a live show and chatting to all the wonderful people on TSORR Central.  We kicked off with Metallica and ‘The Struggle Within' and the rock didn't stop for the next 3 hours. This week we played the first track in a 10-week series called Evolution.  This was inspired by an article I read and a playlist that tracked the evolution of the Foo Fighters.  I will do a track per week and then we'll do the Evolution of the next band after that.   Note that if you listen to TSORR on Google Podcasts they are shutting it down and forcing podcasters onto YouTube Music.  The problem with that, is you just can't get through the red tape, and the shows get blocked due to the convoluted licencing structures.  You can find us on plenty of other sites if this happens.  The TSORR website www.thestoryofrockandroll.com will always be able to help.  You can also always contact TSORR on Facebook, X, or Instagram.     This week's Twisted Twins featured tracks called ‘Rain'.  Once again, we had triplets, it turns out that The Cult, Dead City Ruins and Candlebox all had kids called 'Rain'.   Immortals this week came from Iron Maiden.  We listened to the title track off 1983's Powerslave.  Adrian Smith told a great story about his guitar solo on the track which was worth retelling.   The Diabolical Challenge looked at four bands beginning with the letter ‘R'.  The idea is that we have 4 albums, and you can only pick one.  This week we had: Rammstein – MutterRush – Moving PicturesThe Rolling Stones – Voodoo LoungeRodriguez – Cold Fact Artists Featured: Metallica, Nazareth, ZZ Top, Alice Cooper, Dave Hause, Kickin' Valentina, Thin Lizzy, ACDC, Slash feat Iggy Pop, Pebbleman, 12th Avenue, Pearl Jam, Accept, The Cult, Dead City Ruins, Candlebox, Theory of a Deadman, Buckcherry, Probot, Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, Live, Rob Halford, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Rush, The Rolling Stones, Rodriguez, Thundermother, Grand Funk Railroad, Megadeth, Exhorder, Halestorm, Zakk Wylde, Arch Enemy.  The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

Punky! Radio
PUNKY! - 16-04-2024

Punky! Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024


Paul is just about to go on holiday, and because we know how much you all care, we make sure to bring you nine lovely songs from J Prozac, Martin Savage & The Jiggerz, The Resignators, Sam Snitchy, Probot, Neon Kittens, Witchdoktors, CSE Art Project and Mad Ones.Voice of Jeff, Comedy Suburbs, Tony has your Facebook comments, flags, last week, Tony's Dad's 80th, murder mystery, Tinker Tailor Solder Spy, packing, From the Vaults, Tony's International Gig Guide, this week, pray for Tony, Paul is on holiday, Canaries, no Izzatwat this week, buy us a pint and a reminder of the ways you can listen.Song 1: J Prozac - ProblemsSong 2: Martin Savage & The Jiggerz – Down The LineSong 3: The Resignators – Bluebird TattooSong 4: Sam Snitchy – Ass On My FaceSong 5: Probot – Shake Your BloodSong 6: Neon Kittens – Bouncing In The RedSong 7: Witchdoktors – Before The WarSong 8: CSE Art Project – Kick In Your TellySong 9: Mad Ones – Hydra Head

Rockstar Superhero
RS #189 - Music is an Act of War with Scott 'WINO' Weinrich | The Obsessed

Rockstar Superhero

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 38:55


Scott WINO Weinrich is everything I ever wanted to be when I grew up. He's a pure soul, a fantastic guitarist and vocalist and boy... does he mean business. It's not often you get to chat with a legend but this was all the things for me. Listen to the show, buy the incredible new record and go see this electrifying unit on tour. Tell everyone. For real.Oh and to quote Scott, "Create or die!"This is Wino of The Obsessed and you're listening to Rockstar Superhero.Time Codes:1:00 What was Scott trying to say with The Obsessed?3:45 Wanting to prove oneself to the Punks7:00 The best musicians from 197411:00 Finding the right lead singer13:45 Stealing from the band15:40 Bringing in the Second guitarist16:20 The Obsessed - 'Daughter of an Echo'16:45 Giggling from ear to ear19:30 The Lifer Brigade and the Military22:30 Finally finding the bass25:30 Meeting Dave Grohl to do Probot27:00 The Obsessed - 'Stoned Back to the Bomb Age'27:50 Doing press everywhere30:20 How does Scott weather the storm of life?33:00 Money is money and art is art - Create or Die35:45 The new album hasn't leaked yet38:00 Next tour, next record'Daughter of an Echo' and 'Stoned Back to the Bomb Age' are tracks from the upcoming 2024 release "Gilded Sorrow," and are provided by Scott Weinrich, The Obsessed, Jeff Keller Management, and Ripple Music, All Rights Reserved 2024. Gilded Sorrow will be released February 16th, 2024.Interview courtesy of Jeff Keller Management and Purple Sage PR. Rockstar Superhero Podcast is a Copyright of Rob Leland, All Rights Reserved, 2024.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rockstar-superhero--4792050/support.

Weekly Album Anniversaries Recap! With Caleb The Spy.
Episode 15: Album Anniversaries for the week of 2/5 - 2/11

Weekly Album Anniversaries Recap! With Caleb The Spy.

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2024 38:15


The Probots, they are a changin! Program Notes: "The Times They Are a-Changin" by Bob Dylan and "Probot" by Probot. Plus so many more! Music by: Peg and The Rejected // "Sing It Out At Street Level"

FIVE FOR TWO
Thrash Attack - Episode 3

FIVE FOR TWO

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2024 120:30


Thrash Attack - Vol. 3 On this episode we delve deep into the Thrash genre with tracks from Hirax, D.R.I., Toxic, Forbidden, and Probot. Get ready to bang your head with Thrash Attack on WKRM. For more WKRM Pirate Radio check out the Monty's Midnight Madhouse podcast!  

Huntsman Hill:  A Music Retrospective

BABYLON FALL!!!!!     Recommended Listening   Venom “Welcome to Hell” https://open.spotify.com/album/72v57SJxlkhi5ALoBTBGH0?si=Q0IBE9oKQHyumWHTxyxFyw   Sepultura “Chaos A.D.” https://open.spotify.com/album/5r4qa5AIQUVypFRXQzjaiu?si=QuThihZCTnybx43JfWwmJQ   Motörhead “Overkill” https://open.spotify.com/album/6rfGeD9P5kyZTSwif5tOJb?si=5ofkg0ZbSzml_HntxU4qgg   Corrosion of Conformity “Eye For An Eye” https://open.spotify.com/album/6MXrcKF4lcAeIVHyAlaI4n?si=i_VPZQeuTjaTdwVyN2L1aQ   D.R.I. “Dealing With It”  https://open.spotify.com/album/6KYKPjFDSvLkx0T4SqslWd?si=2NHwL24nSLi-tDAynZZPMg   Cathedral “Forest of Equilibrium” https://open.spotify.com/album/7Kr8okQKNUYPrs6uVTNf7g?si=CKkcM0pVTOuqpK4KtnPQLg   The Obsessed  https://open.spotify.com/album/0ucCyo64TIXxDHQChDnsXF?si=XtyUzXR-QMOSjsVR8KzoDg   Celtic Frost “Morbid Tales”  https://open.spotify.com/album/44zdONTM6zSrXMJUV93BBM?si=XcsbO__3TOi4XRG4CFSKmg   Voivod “Rrröööaaarrr” https://open.spotify.com/album/3IymtaFe8M1hW6ZAl51zYQ?si=Sues7UUVQZSQdBfajs05jw   Trouble  https://open.spotify.com/album/1mfLBLvPXHOls6L0RAige5?si=jUUvZIZ7SiqUQioNTLKDNQ   King Diamond “Fatal Portrait”  https://open.spotify.com/album/0l9HvMchT9T7ZPoWBhu1Zj?si=0x3Y1yNdSamvFCpPG-dSJw   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRwAcademy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ Mid City Three:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q5N8i35?si=aVFU0HdnRzqI1UOTAfc-ig   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill

InObscuria Podcast
Ep. 208: Degrees Of Separation... LEMMY

InObscuria Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2023 84:37


This week we offer up the 11th installment of our series called, “Degrees Of Separation…” where we discuss side projects and solo releases from artists we love. It also happens to be your favorite co-host Robert's birthday… So, what better way to celebrate his 32nd b-day than by listening to some music from one of his all-time favorites: Ian Fraser Kilmister. Lemmy!!! Not much more to say about the man, the myth, the legend. A rock n' roll icon that deserves the praise.New to InObscuria? It's all about digging up obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal from one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. While we may be talking about an artist that many of you know in this episode, perhaps you are not aware of the depth of side projects and duets he had over his career. Our hope is that we turn you on to something new!Songs this week include:Hawkwind - “Lost Johnny” from Hall Of The Mountain Grill (1974)Slash - “Doctor Alibi” from Slash (2010)Headgirl - “Please Don't Touch” from St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP (1981)Probot - “Shake Your Blood” from Probot (2004)HeadCat - “Something Else” from Walk The Walk… Talk The Talk (2011)Lemmy & Wendy O. Williams - “Stand By Your Man” from Stand By Your Man EP (1982)Lemmy - “Tie Your Mother Down” from Dragon Attack: A Tribute To Queen (1997)Ozzy Osbourne & Lemmy - “Hellraiser” from Hellraiser (30th Anniversary Edition) - single (2021)Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/InObscuria?asc=uCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

The Glacially Musical Pouredcast
Glacially Musical 156: Demystifying Vinyl Pressings

The Glacially Musical Pouredcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2023 63:46


In this "chaser" episode: Nik of Glacially Musical explains the difference in the quality of different vinyl pressings of the same album, the difference in sound of remixed and remastered albums, how to collect vinyl, and the semi-scientific method Nik and Keefy used to illustrate the concepts. Keefy mostly listened to Nik and gave a little feedback. Check out our other "chaser" episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHaaolFKt7MSi752pyzx_yvjNsWvreB7 Check out our latest series on the early classics of GWAR: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHaaolFKt7PVRnNLcttjrNYXiaiy9eTD Our next series on D.R.I.begins next week! For Rock and Metal news: https://www.ghostcultmag.com For vinyl porn: https://www.instagram.com/Glacially_Musical To support the Pouredcast: https://linktr.ee/GlaciallyMusicalPouredcast Invest In Vinyl mylar inner sleeves https://amzn.to/3pPLQaA Check out one of the last interviews Dave Brockie ever did about GWAR, with Omar Cordy ("Omar...cut this") of Ghost Cult https://ghostcultmag.com/podcast-episode-41-dave-brockie-oderus-urungus-tribute-episode/ Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Beer ✅ Nik - Bell Haven Scottish Ale, Keefy - Oscar Blues Dale's Pale Ale 4:12 Vinyl ✅ Nik - Dave Grohl (@foofighters) "Probot" + The ORB and David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) , Keefy - The Beatles "Now and Then" 7 inch. 9:08 News ✅ Nik - Bands coming on tour - Judas Priest, Van Hagar/Van Halen tour, Vinnie Vincent pre-news news, The Grey Cup party for cool people 2, - Keith - Lars Ulrich of Metallica - the So What interview, The Grammy Awards Noms (Metallica, Disturbed, Spiritbox, Ghost, Greta Van Fleet, Foo Fighters, Paramore, Rolling Stones, Olivia Rodrigo, Artic Monkey's) 21:54 Shirt ✅ Nik - Pink Floyd - Keefy - Star Wars 25:01 Meat ✅ Vinyl pressings and how to choose them! All the things known and unknown! 1:02:00 Please like and subscribe! This is the "finger fudge pour: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rTtqjPgZZ7s #podcast #vinyl #vinylcollecting #craftbeer #rocknews #metalnews #beer #glaciallymusical #metallica #m72 #metontour #stlouis #family #vintagevinyl

Why Does This Exist?
Episode 102: Probot

Why Does This Exist?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2023 72:35


Chris and Rob talk about Probot: a forgotten metal masterpiece and super project from the mind of Dave Grohl. Help support the show and discover articles and more by heading on over to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/whydoesthisexist. Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/wdtepod Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/whydoesthisexist Like, Dislike, Comment and Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY23JJcBuc904cgAZpnDOiQ Know of any other weird happenings in pop culture? Let us know at whydoesthisexistshow@gmail.com.

Punch Me In
[EP59] Deep Track 17

Punch Me In

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 2:38


I am the Warlock by Probot (feat. Jack Black)

Minecraft Short Stories
The Mysteries of Minecraft Have Deepened! - 500K Special

Minecraft Short Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 29:01


Thanks to Zachariah for submitting his story! This episode of Minecraft Short Stories is the most special one ever. Not only are we celebrating 500,000 all time plays, but we are also celebrating 700 Apple podcast reviews and 50 episodes! In this episode I read two stories, first by me, second by Zachariah. Then we go through layer five of the Minecraft Iceberg by Probot. Hope you enjoy! Minecraft Iceberg by Probot ⁠Make sure to subscribe to the Minecraft Short Stories Youtube channel!⁠⁠⁠⁠ (If we reach 1000 subscribers then I will do a three (or four) way collaboration with some other Minecraft players!) To submit your stories and to sign up for my bonus content email, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠minecraftshortstories.com!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out the Minecraft Short Stories Merch!⁠⁠⁠ -------- This podcast is not associated with Mojang. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minecraftshortstories/message

The Bayesian Conspiracy
Bayes Blast 7 – Chatbot convinces Belgian to commit suicide

The Bayesian Conspiracy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 6:53


The Zen Perry Project
Ep. 53 - The Obsessed - Scott “Wino” Weinrich, Brian Constantino, Chris Angleberger, & Jason Taylor - Full Band Interview

The Zen Perry Project

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 52:25


Gathered to rehearse for several upcoming East Coast shows and a European tour this summer, Zen comes toe to toe (or more precisely couch to couch) with the iconic Stoner / Doom Metal outfit, THE OBSESSED. As a staple of the underground metal scene for decades, Scott “Wino” Weinrich has more than a few memories to share about his impressive career - from his renowned stints with Saint Vitus to his all-star collaboration with Lemmy & Dave Grohl on the latter's heavy metal side project, Probot - he's a busy guy who's bumped into a lot of interesting shoulders . With an especially rich catalog of music spanning his career, it's a treat to hear Wino's enthusiasm to be performing his Obsessed material with the contemporary line-up including the talented Brian Constantino, Chris Angleberger, & Jason Taylor. In addition to sharing their individual impressions and stories about Wino, the band talks about the touring life, breaks down the unique custom and vintage gear comprising their colossal rigs, and shares recommendations of their personal favorite bands in the business now. Support the showIntrospective interviews with artistic individuals - an ongoing audiovisual journal of Zen Perry. Behold a wall of periodically updated webpages!Official Website: https://www.zenperryproject.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/breakingnorthInstagram: @https://www.instagram.com/zenperryproject/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breakingnorthpodcastTwitter: @BreakingNorthTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/breakingnorth_Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@zenperryproject160Email: info@zenperryproject.comThanks for listening - hope you enjoy!

120 Segundos
Probot / Dave Grohl 120 Segundos

120 Segundos

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2022 2:41


El fantástico Dave Grohl, uno de los músicos que realmente influyen la cultura musical. Tanto en rock, pop y también en Metal... Si, hoy en 120 Segundos Probot, el proyecto más áspero de Grohl.

Every Album Ever with Mike Mansour & Alex Volz

This week we're discussing the one and only album by Dave Grohl's Probot. The band was a passion project by Grohl and was made to quench his thirst for metal. Every track has a different, legendary guest vocalist. Lemmy, King Diamond, Max Cavalera, Cronos, and Wino are only a few of the heavy hitters we have on this album. Even Jack Black makes an appearance. If you're a fan of metal, this one is a must.Closing track: “I Am the Warlock” from Probot (2004)Probot on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/album/7DOHlmOkTbHmrnJI80tLZD?si=Pd6G92ocSK2YV8LkHjzFMQPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/everyalbumeverMerchhttps://pandermonkey.creator-spring.com/Mike's EP:Pander Monkey on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple,Instagram:Mike @pandermonkeyAlex @motherpuncherHistory Tom's stuff:Debut album on Bandcamp, Spotify, AppleSubstackInstagramTwitterFacebook

InObscuria Podcast
Ep. 135: Headstones: Inhalin' Stoner Metal - Dos

InObscuria Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2022 94:47


Your 2 favorite grave robbers are back at the Firehouse this week to light one up and inhale some of the finest obscure Stoner Metal! Join Robert and Kevin as they dive head-first into the smokey world of fuzzed-out, trippy metal from 8 bands YOU should be listening to. Remember; if you don't cough listening to this episode, you don't get off…New to InObscuria? It's all about digging up obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal from one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. In this episode, we cover bands and songs that are Lost on most of the music-listening public. Come join the circle and get your groove on with us this week! Puff puff give… Songs this week include:Red Giant – “Chopper ” from Dysfunctional Majesty (2010)Doctor Smoke – “Reborn Into Darkness” from Dreamers And The Dead (2021)Trouble – “Revelation (Life Or Death)” from Psalm 9 (1984)Kylesa – “Crowded Road” from Spiral Shadow (2010)Blood Of The Sun – “Beyond The Cold” from Blood Of The Sun (2004)Mammoth Mammoth – “GO” from Vol. III Hell's Likely (2012)Kadavar – “Last Living Dinosaur” from Berlin (2022)Mystic Prophecy – “Space Lord” from Monuments Uncovered (2018)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Grab some swag!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shopVisit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/

Off the Beaten Clef
Blackened Whiskey Batch #127 Metallica Playlist

Off the Beaten Clef

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 64:06


Welcome to Off the Beaten Clef! This week, we are back with another playlist. But not one curated by us, by the man James Hetfield. This playlist was made for Metallica's whiskey Blackened, and this music was played while finishing their whiskey in Black Brandy Casks. We have Ben and Louie back on to sip on the Blackened whiskey and discuss the playlist for our specific batch, Batch 127. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! To find out more info on how it all works, check it out HERE. To find Blackened Whiskey near you, check HERE To listen to the Blackened Batch #127 playlist on Spotify or Apple Music Song of the Show: Kev - Mother Fucking Liar by GWAR Dil - Hell of It by Beartooth Louie - I am the Warlock by Probot (featuring Jack Black) Ben - 5 Minutes Alone by Pantera

Aperta O Play: Programa de Rádio (Radiocast)

Nesse episódio tocamos: Probot, Silvinho Da Portela, Gaviões da Fiel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 3rd Secret, Soundgarden, Igor & The Red Elvises, The Triggers, The Brains, The Go Getters, Gotas de Rap, Nanpa Básico, Granuja e Métricas Frías. Episódio 189 do Aperta O Play veiculado na WebRadio Mutante Rádio em 23/04/2022! Apresentação: Alexandre Okubo, Danilo Soares, Eduardo Ferreira e Pedro Paulo. Artwork by: Paulo Floriani.

Trick or Treat Radio
TorTR #505 - Pat Smear: American Scream Queen

Trick or Treat Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2022 206:56


Legendary podcasters move into a Canadian mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 505th Episode with a familiar voice along for the ride. On Episode 505 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by Rocky, co-host of Force Insensitive and the driving force behind the band Knowman to discuss the Foo Fighters film, Studio 666 directed by BJ McDonnell! We go off in so many directions that they can't properly be encapsulated in this summary. Just tune in and get lost in the sea of madness. So grab your Kloo Horn, oil up your chainsaw when you hear the Lumberjack song, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: RIP Taylor Hawkins, Rip Taylor, Chris Rock vs. Will Smith, getting slapped vs. having your ear bitten off, the slap heard round the world, rockstar comedians, Dimebag Darrel, Hobo Gandalf, Moon Knight, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Spring, Don't Press the Don't Button, Resolution, Brian Michael Bendis, Synchronic, The Endless, Warren Ellis, Oscar Isaac, Batman, Dr. Fate, the cupcake van, F. Murray Abraham, Khonshu, Ewan McGregor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tatooine is the intergalactic Alabama, “I like Luke”, Just for Men, Jizz music, Spokesman of the Caveman of America, worst Jedi of all time, Candy Land, Hard Days Night, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Foo Fighters, Studio 666, Pat Smear, BJ McDonnell, The Germs, The Go Go's, 45 Grave, The Ramones, Rock n Roll High School, Slayer, Exodus, Survival of the Film Freaks, Jack Bennet, BJ McDonnell, Joel David Moore, that beard wasn't built in a day, Kerry King, John Carpenter, Taco Bell, late night snacking, a Rubik's Cube of sphincters, Gojira, Jackyl, Terrifier, Molly Thratcher, Christopher Walken, Unfrozen Caveman Ranger, Lionel Richie, Rush, 2112, Will Forte, Runaway, Gene Simmons, Jared Leto, Requiem for a Dream, Morbius, Tom Petty, Sunny Day Real Estate, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Probot, Max Cavalera, Dream Widow, Chevy Metal, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Alanis Morissette, V/H/S/94, Night's End, Knowman, Black Light Clergy, and Qui-Gon Take Me Away.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)

Metal Nerdery
136: Testament The Gathering - Album Dive

Metal Nerdery

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 74:26


There's no denying that the drummer in a band can radically impact (good or bad) the overall dimension, weight, and power of a band's sonic palette. And when that drummer is DAVE LOMBARDO, and that band is TESTAMENT, and those two forces join together, it results in the most dynamically brutal album of their entire catalog.  Testament's 1999 opus, THE GATHERING, is the first and only album (thus far) to feature Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Grip Inc.) behind the drums. Now that Dave is officially back in Testament again, we can reflect on this thrash masterpiece and begin to genuinely appreciate (and anticipate) the crushing level of awesome that the next Testament album will possess. You'll want to have “King Krug” help with the uncorking (“remember when we used to gulp?”) before you get your boots and spurs ready for “riding the slug” (hey, there's a first time for everything…*gulp*) and find out “The New Core” that's been officially sanctioned for this episode by none other than “Elvis Anselmo” as you JOIN US for a dive into the brutally glorious, sonic ecstasy that is Testament's eighth studio album, “THE GATHERING”.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast app Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your Podcasts. Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Show Notes: (00:01):  #innit #STFU #wordvomit #arewerollingjimmy #theuncorking #theanticipation #squeakygoodness #climax #spokealloverit / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** #onehundredpercentuncorked #pourinitup #choppinitdown #vibratorASMR and #phonemysteries (#Skynet is #fuckingstupid!!!) #masking #magic #smokin #thisepisodesclinkyoftheepisode #FireOnTheMountain #HailAndFareWell #TaylorHawkins #trexarmsunite #clinky ***HAIL AND FAREWELL TO TAYLOR HAWKINS AND POSITIVE ENERGY AND UPLIFTING VIBES TO THE FOO FIGHTERS!!!*** #hailandfarewell #TaylorHawkinsRIP #FooFighters / A #Studio666 #moviereview #shocker courtesy of Russell… #dontdenythepowerof #Krug #ItsFine (***Go check out #DreamWidow!!!  It's like #Probot on #steroids!!!***) #continuity and the beauty of #streaming   (07:04):  Surprise guest / #segue / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #whatdidimiss (#seealsofat instead of #portly) / #SlightlyMighty #DogfishHeadBrewery #ummm #firsttimeforeverything #monkfruit ***not bad for a lite beer*** #shotgun and #beerchugging #Vergina #noswallowingforme #rememberwhenweusedtogulp #theartofgulping and #adultshit (#Parents are #ridiculous!!!) #dontworryaboutit #thosewerethedays #waitwhat (and a #newsegment:  #RussellRecalls) / #TheVoicemailSegment #asamatteroffuckingfact ***GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** #olympicgrade #didithaveodor #burpbouquet #what!? #Blessing (***Make it make sense!!!***) #markthetime #SpartanRaces and #healthconsciousness (as a choice!) #Whostherealassholehere?    (13:48):  An #email from #pissingpost regarding #TheUnending (we think, anyway)…#channelling #relaxerinfusion #dontdenythepowerof #herewego #pissingpostimpression #taketwo (#ThanksRon) / #addtreatment #foreducationalandinstrucionalpurposesonly #safer #paynoattention #gingerburger / #LEGALIZEITALREADY (and let those #dominoes fall…) #skunkfarm or a #skunkorgy / ***THANK YOU, PISSING POST!!!*** / An #email from Trevor regarding the #LegacyOfTheBeastTour ***EMAIL US AT METALNERDERY@GMAIL.COM *** / #thatsoundsprettygood #chicharron ***Check out our alternate upcoming tentative #FoodNerdery #podcast!!!*** #chunkyburps and #herewego #wearegonnareadit #ThankYou #somethinginyourbeard    (21:55) #ournewsegment ***A NEW METAL NERDERY SEGMENT!!!  WE'LL PLAY YOUR SHIT!!!*** #PoonDoom #listencarefullyforinstructions / #MetalNerderyWillPlayYourShit #WellPlayYourShit:  The artist is Salvations End:  The song is MONARCH (#SalvationsEnd) #HellAintABadPlaceToBe #Eh #fromearth #fuckyeah #badass #KingDiamondPowerProgThrash #Hail #loadsofriffs (***HOLY FUCK…GIVE US A CALL, GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK!!! LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!***) / Also, there are hints of #Nevermore and even #Sanctuary #Testamentesque and #Forbiddenesque #getsome / #jingle    (28:06):  #whatisprobrem #Fonzi / THE DOCKET:  DAVE LOMBARDO IS BACK WITH TESTAMENT!!!  HAIL AND REJOICE!!!  We're diving into 1999'S “The Gathering” (The mix is incredible…#elephantscrotumcore #TheNewCore) and the transition of Testament's sound from “Souls of Black” to more the “Low” and heavier era… / **Are you familiar with #TestamentsBlackAlbum?” ** #moredeathmetaly #moreheavy / A giant side of #extragravy / #BookEndsOfGreatness / The personnel (and relative tangentionalality to #JudasPriest and also #Sabbat) / #SkolnickTheJazzMan / #crispybois #crispyballs / #theopener and #blacklight #galaxies / #killeropener D.N.R. (DO NOT RESUSCITATE) #laypeople #inclusivepositiveASMR and the #playthings of #laythings #cantbeloudenough (***BUCKLE UP CHILDREN!***) #joyfulnoise / A “different kind” of Testament (now with #DaveLombardoChili) / The change in Chuck Billy's vocal style, and the ever important #vocalballs   (39:40):  Killer second track energy:  DOWN FOR LIFE (#killertone) / Very cool incorporation of groove with Thrash. (#ThankYou #Pantera!)

Intense Metal Mx
Dave Grohl hace metal... otra vez

Intense Metal Mx

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 9:41


Años después de su proyecto PROBOT, y en vísperas del estreno de la película STUDIO 666, los Foo Fighters se vienen con un proyecto de metal

Metal On The Brain
#014 The Ole Pot in the Sock

Metal On The Brain

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2022 85:38


Casting call for all guests for the inevitable Probot 2 album that is being hoped for as Dylan and Mikey discuss who they think would be perfect performers for the project if Dave Grohl decided to make it happen. New tracks are highlighted from Midwest ass beaters Inclination, "REAL BAY SHIT" rockers Forced to Suffer and more! Metal On The Brain - https://linktr.ee/motbww Inclination - https://lnk.to/Inclination Authors of Fate - https://linktr.ee/AuthorsOfFate?s=09 Forced to Suffer - https://forcedtosuffer.bandcamp.com/releases Flesh of the Lotus - https://fleshofthelotus.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR0tjI8hBear7Rnhf6Cvc_wK9hTdgS1wHbUIHdf-a_MU6IwJCH-R0OHaifI "Dream Widow" - dreamwidow.lnk.to/march SUPPORT: Closed Casket Activities - https://linktr.ee/closedcasket Z2 Comics - https://z2comics.com/ Abbath - https://youtu.be/YGjrORfyHJI MOTB theme music: linktr.ee/rhythmoffear MOTB logo by @thepitforge (Instagram) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/motbww/support

Rock Around The Blog
Uutiset + David Bowie: Diamond Dogs ja The Crobar Vol One

Rock Around The Blog

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2022 36:24


Taas on tarjolla apokalyptistä maailmankuvaa, muistoja Lontoon yöelämästä, rockuutisia, uutisten analyysiä ja kaikenmoista mehevää Motörheadista Dolly Partoniin. Kuunneltuina levyinä David Bowien vuoden 1974 klassikko Diamond Dogs ja lontoolaisen rockbaari The Crobarin kokoelmalevy. Studiossa Sami Ruokangas ja Juha Kakkuri. Jakson soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ULZ6jhlOf3wZAWj6ZhlJj?si=88cb1e8f752541ad Menossa ovat mukana myös Hanoi Rocks, Sami Yaffa, Rare Bird Books, Nasty Suicide, Jan Stenfors, Stenfors, Eagles, Pink Floyd, The Rasmus, UMK, Pauli Rantasalmi, Tiktak, Emppu, Emilia Suhonen, Lauri Ylönen, Desmond Child, Aerosmith, INXS, KISS, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Bonnie Tyler, Lordi, Blackberry Smoke, Cheap Trick, Motörhead, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Neil Starr, Joel Peters, John Mayall, Dolly Parton, Netflix, Rush, Alex Lifeson, Andy Curran, Coney Hatch, Maiah Wynne, Judas Priest, Andy Sneap, Hell, Glenn Tipton, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, A Matter of Life and Death, Ziggy Stardust, David Live, Young Americans, Cracked Actor, George Orwell, 1984, William S. Burroughs, Mike Garson, Spiders From Mars, Aynsley Dunbar, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Tony Visconti, Keith Harwood, Guy Peellaert, Rolling Stones, Rock Dreams, Juha Markkanen, Nana, Mick Ronson, After Life, Ricky Gervais, AC/DC, Doc Holliday, Doc Holliday Rides Again, Gary Cherone, Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, Slayer, Kerry King, Orange Goblin, Ben Ward, The Answer, Cormac Neeson, Slash, Malcolm Dome, Jerry Ewing, Cactus, Canned Heat, Alice In Chains, Corrosion Of Conformity, Monster Magnet, ZZ Top, Kyuss, Testament, Carcass, Taint, Witchcraft, Grand Magus, Electric Wizard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Down, Probot, Lemmy, Clutch, Cathedral, Municipal Waste, The Obsessed, Gentlemans Pistols, Exodus, D.R.I., Sacred Reich, Iron Monkey ja Rob Zombie.

Metal On The Brain
#002 - Howdy Pilgrim

Metal On The Brain

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 59:53


Mikey and Dylan plead for a new Probot album while checking out new tracks from Exodus, Corpsegrinder, Messa and more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/motbww/support

Free With This Months Issue
Free With This Months Issue 33 - Tom Austin-Morgan from Banned Biographies & Sham 69 selects Kerrang Reload

Free With This Months Issue

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2021 84:39


In episode 33 we're joined by Tom Austin-Morgan from the brilliant documentary podcast Banned Biographies, and new bass player for UK Punk legends Sham 69 to talk about Kerrang's Reload from September 2003.The CD's full tracklisting is -1 – Rancid - David Courtney2 – Probot - Centuries Of Sin3 – To My Surprise - Get It To Go4 – Poison The Well - For A Banaged Iris5 – A - Full Pelt6 – Funeral For A Friend - Kiss And Makeup (All Bets Are Off)7 – Machine Head - Imperium (Rough Mix)8 – Feeder - Opaque9 – Trapt - Hollowman10 – Pennywise - God Save The USA11 – Wildhearts - There's Only One Hell12 – Ill Niño - Te Amo... I Hate You13 – Sikth - Skies Of Millenium Night14 – My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday15 - Kinesis - Everything Destroys Itself16 - Arch Enemy - We Will Rise17 - Violent Delight - Mistakes18 - Nebula - MoreFind Tom's podcast Banned Biographies at www.bannedbiographies.com where you'll find brilliantly produced audio documentaries on punk & new wave bands from The Clash To Adam & The Ants, plus interviews with musicians like Rick McMurray from Ash & Gizz Butt from Janus STark & The Prodigy.Find out when he's playing live near you with Sham 69 at http://www.officialsham69.com/ Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - www.discogs.com/release/3557945-Various-ReloadHosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig PodcastsPart of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network Twitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissue Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Find our other episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com Find other We Made This shows & writing at www.wemadethisnetwork.com

We Made This
Free With This Months Issue 33 - Tom Austin-Morgan from Banned Biographies & Sham 69 selects Kerrang Reload

We Made This

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2021 84:39


In episode 33 we're joined by Tom Austin-Morgan from the brilliant documentary podcast Banned Biographies, and new bass player for UK Punk legends Sham 69 to talk about Kerrang's Reload from September 2003. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 – Rancid - David Courtney 2 – Probot - Centuries Of Sin 3 – To My Surprise - Get It To Go 4 – Poison The Well - For A Banaged Iris 5 – A - Full Pelt 6 – Funeral For A Friend - Kiss And Makeup (All Bets Are Off) 7 – Machine Head - Imperium (Rough Mix) 8 – Feeder - Opaque 9 – Trapt - Hollowman 10 – Pennywise - God Save The USA 11 – Wildhearts - There's Only One Hell 12 – Ill Niño - Te Amo... I Hate You 13 – Sikth - Skies Of Millenium Night 14 – My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday 15 - Kinesis - Everything Destroys Itself 16 - Arch Enemy - We Will Rise 17 - Violent Delight - Mistakes 18 - Nebula - More Find Tom's podcast Banned Biographies at www.bannedbiographies.com where you'll find brilliantly produced audio documentaries on punk & new wave bands from The Clash To Adam & The Ants, plus interviews with musicians like Rick McMurray from Ash & Gizz Butt from Janus STark & The Prodigy. Find out when he's playing live near you with Sham 69 at http://www.officialsham69.com/ Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - www.discogs.com/release/3557945-Various-Reload Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network Twitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissue Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/ Find our other episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com Find other We Made This shows & writing at www.wemadethisnetwork.com

Star Wars: Prototypes and Production
62. A First-Look at Hake's Star Wars Offerings in the Latest Auction Catalog (Part 2)

Star Wars: Prototypes and Production

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2021 126:10


Looking for a Luke Hoth, Bespin Guard or Probot prototypes from The Empire Strikes Back? Revenge of the Jedi proof cards? Clear bubble and incredibly rare Return of the Jedi carded figures? Uncirculated graded Power of the Force carded figures pulled from a sealed case? A DROIDS Boba Fett? A gold Darth Vader case? The 2019 HasLab TVC Jabba's Sail Barge? Hake's Auctions is the premiere pop culture auction house, specializing in Americana and treasures from the 20th century. And for Star Wars collectors, Hake's offers the chance to win some of the rarest and most desirable action figure-related items. And the pieces in Auction #233 are no exception. Join host David Quinn for a conversation with collector Matt George about the upcoming Hakes auction, as they go page by page through the Star Wars section for the first time together. Along the way, Matt shares information he learned as a collector and from researching and co-writing the essential Kenner book “Engineering an Empire: The Creators of Star Wars Toys” that will give context and insight to many of the pieces in the catalog. *Bidding for part one of the Hake's Auction closes on Tuesday, November 2. Part two ends on Wednesday, November 3. Don't forget to place your bids! If you'd like to see the items in Auction #233, visit the Hake's website: https://www.hakes.com/ And to purchase the book “Engineering An Empire: The Creators of Star Wars Toys:” https://engineeringanempirebook.com/ If you enjoy Star Wars: Prototypes and Production, please: 1. Subscribe/follow the podcast (It's free!) 2. Leave a review on your preferred podcast platform (Help me get to 500 reviews!) 3. And tell a friend (or twenty)! It would be most appreciated - you have the power to help grow the podcast! Thank you in advance! Links to the Episode on Various Platforms: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/star-wars-prototypes-and-production/id1448205460?mt=2 https://open.spotify.com/show/744L0XQhmpXn2AZeaxUhOZ https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjU2NTA4ODM3Ni9zb3VuZHMucnNz https://soundcloud.com/david-quinn-908355451/tracks https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/u4ywr-80960/Star-Wars-Prototypes-and-Production-Podcast https://player.fm/series/2473540 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-star-wars-prototypes-and-p-31050806/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/star-wars-prototypes-and-production/id1448205460?mt=

Plague Rages Podcast
Plague Rages Podcast #5: RIP Eric Wagner

Plague Rages Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 52:25


In the fifth episode of the Plague Rages Podcast, heavy metal writers Wolf Rambatz and Stephen David Stevenson-Davison talk about a bunch of junk including:1:17: Plague Rages in the year 25252:41: HOUSEKEEPING: We're moving the Album Listening Club to even-numbered episodes. Mayhem's Grand Declaration of War will go down in Episode #63:41: It's our anniversary, sort of4:45: CORRECTIONS: Transverse myelitis, Metal Church's living singers, dumb songs that have almost made me cry, and more9:25: WHAT WE'VE BEEN LISTENING TO: Steve Dave starts us off with an incredible revelation about metal and Mortal Kombat12:40: Steve Dave teases Wolf-Rayet, a new band he's working with13:09: Wolf highlights the new Hooded Menace album, The Tritonus Bell15:55: Wolf loses his mind over the new Concrete Winds album, Nerve Butcherer17:13 Steve Dave talks about the new Unto Others album, Strength18:47: ERIK WAGNER RETROSPECTIVE: Trouble's Psalm 9 and The Skull26:18: Trouble's Manic Frustration and Probot's “My Tortured Soul”29:08: Trouble's Def American years and Trouble (1990)33:45: Trouble's Plastic Green Head and Lid's In the Mushroom36:12: The tweener years and Simple Mind Condition40:08: The Skull and Blackfinger48:05: Steve Dave's impromptu list of Eric Wagner songs for new listeners:* Probot - “My Torture Soul”* Trouble - “At the End of My Daze”* Trouble - “Victim of the Insane”* Trouble - “Misery Shows (Act 2)”* Trouble - “The Wish”51:00: Eric Wagner's solo albumMusic in this episode:* Miles_Metal... 8-Bit Metal, Video Game and Film Covers - “Candlemass - Crystal Ball 8-Bit”* Rogue Male - “Crazy Motorcycle”* Slough Feg - “Uncanny”* Hooded Menace - “Chime Diabolicus”* Concrete Winds - “Noise Trepanation”* Unto Others - “Heroin”* Trouble - “The Tempter”* Trouble - “Assassin”* Trouble - “Bastards Will Pay”* Trouble - “Come Touch the Sky”* Probot - “My Tortured Soul”* Trouble - “Psychotic Reaction”* Trouble - “Mr. White”* Trouble - “Plastic Green Head”* Lid - “Lid”* Trouble - “Pictures of Life”* The Skull - “Trapped Inside My Mind”* Blackfinger - “When Colors Fade Away”* Trouble - “Mr. White” (Live in Los Angeles)* Probot - “My Tortured Soul”* Trouble - “At the End of My Daze”* Trouble - “Victim of the Insane”* Trouble - “Misery Shows (Act 2)”* Trouble - “The Wish”You can listen to a full Spotify playlist of nearly every song mentioned here.Other media:* Free Dream Sound Effects - Harp & Piano HIGH QUALITY HD HQ* Futuristic Computer Sound Effects* Sound Effect - Spin Back* Tony! Toni! Toné! - “Anniversary”* Sealab 2021 - “Uh-oh”* Wrong Buzzer - Sound Effect* Ba Dum Tss!* Mortal Kombat 11* The Immortals - “Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat)”* Mortal Kombat (1995)* That Thing You Do! (1996)* Walk Hard (2007)Citations:* “Interview Eric Wagner Trouble, The Skull” by Vlad Nowajczyk, published in Oldschool Metal Manic* “In-depth Interview With The Skull/Former Trouble Vocalist Eric Wagner” by Avinash Mittur, published in Metal Assault* “Exclusive Interview with THE SKULL Frontman Eric Wagner!” by Michael Juvinall, published in Horror PatchOur theme song was written and recorded by patrickstateman. Check out Patrick on Fiverr. Our logos and branding are by Mike Teal. You can check out Mike's work at storylightmarketing.com and miketealdesign.com.If you'd like to drop us a line, you can email us at plagueragespod @ gmail. You can subscribe to the VaccZine, our newsletter, at plaguerages.substack.com. Like what we're doing? Drop us a donation on Ko-fi. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit plaguerages.substack.com

DoomedandStoned
The Doomed and Stoned Show - WINO (S7E22)

DoomedandStoned

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2021 120:08


THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW ~Season 7, Episode 22~ This week, Billy Goate (Editor, Doomed & Stoned) and John Gist (CEO, Vegas Rock Revolution) enjoy a visit with doom metal legend Scott "Wino" Weinrich of The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, and many a legendary collaboration beside. Wino will be headlining Ripplefest Texas 2021 (August 7th), then playing in The Obsessed the following day (August 8th) at The Lost Well in Austin with The Skull. In this episode, find out: *What it was like playing with Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl in Probot *How a Wino & a waterlogged guitar saved Doomed & Stoned Fest *Haunted venues with pant-less ghosts And so much more!

PyTorch Developer Podcast
pytorch-probot

PyTorch Developer Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 13:06


pytorch-probot is a GitHub application that we use to automate common tasks in GitHub. I talk about what it does and some design philosophy for it. Repo is at: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch-probot

The Big Truth Podcast
#60 - Scott "Wino" Weinrich : Saint Vitus / The Obsessed / The Hidden Hand

The Big Truth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 119:07


In this episode Truth talks with Scott “Wino” Weinrich – vocalist / guitarist for legendary stoner / doom metal  bands such as The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, Shrinebuilder, Place of Skulls, just to name a few! The two discuss his history and music, tour stories, motorcycles  (especially choppers and his panhead), the state of the country/world, a ton of alternative knowledge / “conspiracy” stuff, and more!!! For more info on Wino: IG: @scottwinoweinrich http://www.wino-art.com / http://www.patreon.com/theobsessed As always, please hit the subscribe button if you like and support what we do! You'll get early access to new episodes! Also please leave a review!   Follow us on IG: @bigtruth For feedback, questions, sponsorship info contact: bigtruthpodcast@gmail.com For more info: http://www.bigtruthpodcast.com To support the show: http://www.patreon.com/bigtruth   The Big Truth Podcast is proudly sponsored by: - Old Bike Barn (IG: @oldbikebarn / www.oldbikebarn.com) - Manscaped (IG: @manscaped / www.mandscaped.com) – use code: BIGTRUTH at checkout for 20% off your order and free shipping!! - Law Tigers (IG: @lawtigers / www.lawtigers.com) - Choppahead Kustom Cycles (IG: @choppahead / www.choppahead.com) - Chopcult (IG: @chopcult / www.chopcult.com) - Omerta (IG: @omertamia / www.omertamia.com) - use code: BIGTRUTH at checkout for 20% off your order! - Pitchfork (IG: @pitchforkny / www.pitchforkny.com) - Heavy (IG: @heavyclothing / www.heavy.bigcartel.com) - Full Speed Ahead (IG: @fullspeedaheadshow / www.fullspeedaheadshow.com)

MMH - The Home Of Rock Radio Podcasts
Rockhammer Motorhead MAYhem with Stevie J Show 59

MMH - The Home Of Rock Radio Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 120:00


Stevie J talks to Lucas Fox, along with messages from Mikkey Dee Campbell Motorhead-Overkill Motorhead-Shoot you in the back Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons-High Rule Motorhead-You Better Swim Motorhead-Iron Horse/Born to lose Hawkwind-Assault and Battery Motorhead-Shine Motorhead-Lost Johnny Probot-Shake your Blood Motorhead-Orgasmatron Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons-We're the Bastards Metallica & Lemmy-Enter Sandman Motorhead-The Hammer Motorhead-Sword of Glory Jake E Lee & Lemmy-It's a long way to the top Motorhead-Vibrator Fastway-Girl Motorhead-Killed by Death Motorhead-White Line Fever Dichroma-War For War Leader of a down-Paradise turned into dust Motorhead-In the name of tragedy Motorhead-Metropolis Motorhead-Heroes   Motorhead, Leader of Down, Dichroma, Hawkwind, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, AC/DC, Metallica, Probot,  

The Department of Metal Antiquities
DMA #30: Dave Grohl's Probot featuring Craig of Drift Into Black

The Department of Metal Antiquities

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 80:19


Here's something I didn't know, Dave Grohl did a metal album with underground A listers singing on it. He did this back in the early aught's. I had never heard of this project! Craig hipped me to it and we spun it in 2021 to see whether or not we should spin it or bin it, but with Cronos, DRI, King Diamond, Wino, and Jack Black all making cameos...what do you think? Join us! https://driftintoblack.bandcamp.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show
The Story of Rock and Roll: S4E16

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2021 182:56


Episode 16 of season 4 started a bit differently as I was testing out the auto DJ function and instead of starting up the theme song for TSORR, it played Whitesnake.  Normality was resumed quickly and we sped through some Black Sabbath and ACDC.  I pointed out that 'Neon Knights' off Sabbath's Heaven and Hell is the song responsible for the world's greatest ever collective sigh. I am still deeply under the spell of the book Nothin' But a Good Time, the story of 80's hair metal so we checked out Girl and L.A. Guns.  We took a listen to Bob Dylan's live version of 'All Along The Watchtower' as promised last week.  The new stuff included more Smith / Kotzen and Greta Van Fleet off their brand new album The Battle at Garden's Gate.  I am raving about the tracks I have heard off the soon-to-be-released Myles Kennedy album, the track we played, 'Get Aong' is superb.  Other than that it was pretty much par for the course, The Burning and L.A. Cobra for South Africa, James Reyne, ACDC, and Jet for Aussie, Kreator and In Flames for metal and The Distillers and Stiff Little Fingers for punk.  A highlight for me was listening to 'Dreamer Deceiver', Judas Priests' masterpiece off Sad Wings of Destiny, it is a reminder once again of just how good Rob Halford is.   Artists featured:  Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, ACDC, Ministry, Scorpions, Girl, L.A. Guns, Greta Van Fleet, The Dead Daisies, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Kreator, Gorky Park, Ozzy Osbourne, Stiff Little Fingers, The Distillers, Pink Floyd, Smith / Kotzen, Jet, James Reyne, Myles Kennedy, Twisted Sister, Probot, Dokken, The Burning, L.A. Cobra, Iron Maiden, Guns 'n' Roses, Accept, Jetboy, Great White, Hinder, Judas Priest, Todd La Torre, In Flames, Kiss.  

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show
The Story of Rock and Roll: S4E14

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2021 181:18


Welcome to Season 4, Episode 14 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  The show went live at 19h00 on 8 April 2021.  We started with The Answer and a lame joke and ended with Mind Assault, a ridiculously good SA Metal outfit whose new album The Cult of Conflict is very worthwhile checking out.  In between that we heard some really great blues courtesy of Gary Moore, Dan Patlansky, and Roy Buchanan before switching to a healthy dose of 80's Metal from Skid Row, Night Ranger and Ratt.  I am currently reading Nothing But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of '80s Hard Rock by Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock so, you can expect plenty more 80's metal over the next couple of weeks.  We checked out Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, as we always do and there is also some ACDC, Metallica, Thin Lizzy, and Black Sabbath buried in here.  We dumbed down for Bloodhound Gang's ' Ballad of Chasey Lain' and  Danko Jones and then slowed down for a while with 'Plaza'  by Cold Chisel, Ian Moss demonstrating once again what a brilliant guitarist he is.  We stayed slow for a ballad by LA Guns and then went to SA's finest in the form of Johnathan Martin with 'Highway to the Sun'.  As always it was a jol, hope you enjoy it.  Artists featured:  The Answer, the Four Horsemen, Thin Lizzy, Live, Gary Moore, Karen Zoid feat. Dan Patlansky, Black Sabbath, Axel Rudi Pell, Roy Buchanan, Thunder, Ratt, Night Ranger, Skid Row, Bloodhound Gang, Billy Joe Armstrong, Slipknot, Probot, ACDC, Nazareth, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ruff Majik, Danko Jones, Sixx AM, Mötley Crüe, Stiff Little Fingers, The Smiths, Foo Fighters, Smith / Kotzen, Greta Van Fleet, Cold Chisel, LA Guns, Johnathan Martin, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Mr Big, Kiss, ZZ Top, Metallica, Mind Assault

Falatório Scena
Disco 011 - Iggor Cavalera (Cavalera Conspiracy, Sepultura, MixHell)

Falatório Scena

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2021 59:51


Hoje: Iggor Cavalera, do Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy e MixHell declara sua admiração ao Bozo (calma, o palhaço) e exalta o underground nacional; pondera sobre a possível injustiça sofrida pelo Dorsal Atlântica, traz as discografias inteiras de U2 e Coldplay para uma discussão de unanimidade, coloca o Probot em seu lugar e põe também, literalmente, um ponto final na carreira do Daft Punk. Entre derrapadas do Celtic Frost e, para a tristeza dessa apresentadora, uma firme recusa em conhecer melhor o Blind Melon, nosso clubinho de bateristas ganha corpo (lavando louça ao som contemplativo de Steve Von Till). Contribua com a discussão comentando no episódio no YouTube ou por e-mail através do disco@canalscena.com Apresentado por Maya Melchers, Disco é um podcast temático onde não tem espaço pra single: aqui, álbuns inteiros são dissecados em uma roleta russa de perguntas, daquelas que te fazem pensar “merda, tinha um disco perfeito pra responder aqui!” quando já tá em casa tomando banho. Você pode ouvir esse podcast no Spotify: https://bit.ly/scena-podcasts ou no seu player favorito: https://bit.ly/scena-podcast-player Apresentação e Roteiro : Maya Melchers Comunicação: Nata de Lima Edição: Estevam Romera Foto da Thumb: Maya Melchers Música abertura: "Boat Made of Clay" - Rick Chain Apoie o canal sendo MEMBRO aqui no YouTube ou no Apoia.se e PicPay: https://bit.ly/scena-apoiase https://bit.ly/scena-picpay Lojinha com camisetas limitadas: https://bit.ly/loja-scena Siga o SCENA no Twitter, Facebook e Instagram: https://bit.ly/scena-twitter https://bit.ly/scena-facebook https://bit.ly/scena-instagram Também estamos no Telegram: http://t.me/canalscena

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show
The Story of Rock and Roll: S4E11

The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 183:55


Episode 11 of season 4 aired on 18 March 2021 amidst national load shedding and general chaos from power outages.  It had an effect on the show with people having to drop out continually.  The broadcast itself wasn't affected but it's a real fucking pain.  We had a mellow start for a change with Rainbow and ' Catch the Rainbow' and then followed with The Wizard, the 1972 classic from Uriah Heep.  After that, it got a bit rowdier with Q5 and Slash.  It was great to hear Tank and Savage, the two invoking some good early '80's NWOBHM memories.  We paid tribute to Brisbane as Brissie has overtaken everyone as the greatest supporters of TSORR.   I am deeply grateful for the support.  In deference, we played Airbourne and The Screaming Jets and then later we some Jimmy Barnes and The Lazy's.  From there we went all over the place from The Police to Kreator, Marianne Faithful to W.A.S.P, and then some SA rarities in the form of Kobus! and Blue Scream.  There was plenty of punk with Anti-Flags 'Wake Up!' and The Distillers with L.A. Girl, which makes it about 4 weeks in a row of the wonderful Brody Dalle.  There was a nice little bit of nostalgia where we took in 3 tracks from albums released in 2006, I had good memories of MTV days at between 4 and 6 in the morning.   The highlight for me was Rammstein with 'Mehr' and Alice Cooper's new track 'Hanging By a Thread', I enjoyed the Little Steven track as well. Artists featured:  Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Q5, Kiss, Volbeat, Slash, Tank, Savage, Rammstein, Airbourne, The Screaming Jets, The Police, Marianne Faithful, Probot, Kreator, The Pretty Reckless, Lita Ford, Alice Cooper, Alice in Chains, Blue Scream, Kobus!, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Billy Talent, Anti-Flag, The Distillers, UK Subs, Guns 'n'  Roses, We Are Harlot, Jimmy Barnes, The Lazy's, W.A.S.P., Warrant, The Rolling Stones, Arch Enemy, Clutch, Little Steven, Tom Waits

EntreCruza2
ENTRECRUZA2 - Episodio 10

EntreCruza2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 64:26


Mal inicio de temporada ante Santos, donde se sigue viendo a un Cruz Azul golpeado por la eliminación del torneo pasado. En la Jornada 2 se recibe al Puebla, se juega de local y están obligados a sacar los 3 puntos para evitar una situación crítica. ¿Los refuerzos si llegarán para esta temporada? De los que regresaron al equipo: ¿Quiénes si se quedan y quiénes se tienen que ir? ¿Misa y Alexis no tienen nivel o por qué tan pocas oportunidades en el primer equipo? Las semifinales de la Copa Libertadores con un par de juegos que nos dejaron un buen sabor de boca a pesar del mal arbritraje. La NFL y sus PlayOffs después de los emocionantes partidos de comodines que se vivieron el fin de semana pasado. ¡Ya estamos ansiosos por ver el partido entre Brees vs Brady! WandaVision y Emma para disfrutar el fin de semana, además del lanzamiento en vinilo del Comfort y Música Para Volar: MTV (Un)plugged de Soda Stereo con todo y edición especial. Felicidades al cumpleañero Dave Grohl y gracias por tanta música (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Probot, Them Crooked Vultures, Queen Of The Stone Age). Y todo eso acompañado de la música de Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Gustavo Cerati (MyLove), The Smiths y Probot...brutal inicio del 2021!!!

Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine | WFMU
Eric Wagner - The Skull - Trouble - Probot - Blackfinger, Lid - Vocalist - Interview - Episode # 128 from Oct 26, 2020

Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine | WFMU

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 26:57


Interview with Eric Wagner Original Air Date = Jan 21, 2016 Link to original show with FULL songs! - "https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64707" https://www.ericwagnermusic.com https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/97801

That's Not Metal

The passing of Eddie Van Halen dominates news, there's also chat about Ghost and Avenged Sevenfold's new album developments, AC/DC's comeback, Tom Delonge's sci fi movie debut, album reviews on Idles, The Hell, Laura Jane Grace, Jamie Lenman and Anaal Nathrakh and our Album Club is on Dave Grohl's Probot project.

BLUE HARVEST: A STAR WARS PODCAST
Episode 256: From a Probot Point of VIew

BLUE HARVEST: A STAR WARS PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 74:02


A small piece of Obi-Wan info. The music of The Mandalorian. Star Wars Squadrons! Star Wars Celebration postponed. Listener emails and voice messages are discussed! If you enjoy our podcast and want to support us for as little as $3 a month then you should check out our Patreon! We post tons of bonus podcasts at: http://www.patreon.com/blueharvestpodcast Looking for a Blue Harvest shirt or mask? Find them at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/blueharvestpodcast Check out our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVaIQi3WprpT-2AHsOJbKg Enjoy our theme song? Then be sure to check out the band that was kind enough to provide the music. They are Stoned Cobra and you can find them on iTunes, Spotify or at: http://stonedcobra.bandcamp.com  

Brews and Blasters: The Star Wars Party

It's NeedEm GotEm time, folks and we have some exciting figures to discuss, some grievances to be aired, a TVC petition to be signed and maybe some live bidding on a mini saber. Let's GO, Warheads! The Star Wars Party starts NOW! It's time for Brews and Blasters. Also: Sign the petition for Hasbro to make more 3.75” The Vintage Collection figures!

RetroZap Podcast Network
Brews and Blasters 261: My Probot is Out

RetroZap Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2020


How many places do you have Star Wars figures pre-ordered? We're averaging seven.

Aperta O Play: Programa de Rádio (Radiocast)

Nesse episódio tocamos: Joy Division, Roboto, Gorillaz, Peter Hook, Georgia, Sepultura, Probot, Mike Dean, Corrosion Of Conformity, Strike Anywhere, Desalmado, Instável, Racionais MC's, Billy Idol, Chuck Berry, Foo Fighters. Episódio 090 do Aperta O Play veiculado na WebRadio Mutante Rádio em 30/05/2020! Apresentação: Alexandre Okubo, Danilo Soares e Eduardo Ferreira. Artwork by: Alexandre Okubo.

Bad Deck Breakdowns
Bad Deck Breakdowns - 11 - Rops Forced Servitude

Bad Deck Breakdowns

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2020


This month, special guest Eric Hunter shares his Rops Forced Servitude deck. Deck: 2x Arica 1x Dr. Chelli Lona Aphra 1x Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba 1x Mitth'raw'nuruodo 1x Darth Sidious 3x Emperor Palpatine 3x 4-LOM With Concussion Rifle (V) 2x Guri 2x P-59 1x Probot 2x U-3PO (Yoo-Threepio) 2x Darth Vad....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

GoatCast
GoatCast 25 Black Sabbath e os Debutantes

GoatCast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2020 120:31


Mais um podcast, comemorando os 50 anos da estréia do Black Sabbath, viemos comentar os debuts do mundo da música pesada e suas influências. The Nada (DESCULPE PELO ÁUDIO MERDA), Vinnie e Godoka comentam suas bandas favoritas, suas decepções (Black Tide, sad very sad) e divagações como sempre.

GoatCast
GoatCast 25 Black Sabbath e os Debutantes

GoatCast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2020 120:31


Mais um podcast, comemorando os 50 anos da estréia do Black Sabbath, viemos comentar os debuts do mundo da música pesada e suas influências. The Nada (DESCULPE PELO ÁUDIO MERDA), Vinnie e Godoka comentam suas bandas favoritas, suas decepções (Black Tide, sad very sad) e divagações como sempre.

GoatCast
GoatCast 25 Black Sabbath e os Debutantes

GoatCast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2020 120:31


Mais um podcast, comemorando os 50 anos da estréia do Black Sabbath, viemos comentar os debuts do mundo da música pesada e suas influências. The Nada (DESCULPE PELO ÁUDIO MERDA), Vinnie e Godoka comentam suas bandas favoritas, suas decepções (Black Tide, sad very sad) e divagações como sempre.

Rock Ladies
'Rock Ladies' (173) [T.2] - Dave Grohl, ese hombre

Rock Ladies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 66:15


Episodio número 173 del programa "Rock Ladies". Presentado por Loreto Sánchez, Blanca Acebo y Juan Acebo. Hoy continuamos con la celebración del cumpleaños de uno de los ídolos de Rock Ladies: DAVE GROHL. Porque nos habría dado para unas semana de especiales en su nombre, pero no queremos ser cansinos. En el episodio anterior dejábamos su historia en el final de su carrera con la banda Nirvana, tras la muerte de Kurt Cobain. Lo que le dio alas para comenzar el proyecto de su vida: Foo Fighters. Y cómo no, una mente tan inquieta debía también embarcarse en otros muchos proyectos como: Queens of The Stone Age, Probot o Them Crooked Vultures. ¡Dale al play y te lo contamos todo con pelos y señales!

Rock Ladies
'Rock Ladies' (173) [T.2] - Dave Grohl, ese hombre

Rock Ladies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2020 66:15


Episodio número 173 del programa "Rock Ladies". Presentado por Loreto Sánchez, Blanca Acebo y Juan Acebo. Hoy continuamos con la celebración del cumpleaños de uno de los ídolos de Rock Ladies: DAVE GROHL. Porque nos habría dado para unas semana de especiales en su nombre, pero no queremos ser cansinos. En el episodio anterior dejábamos su historia en el final de su carrera con la banda Nirvana, tras la muerte de Kurt Cobain. Lo que le dio alas para comenzar el proyecto de su vida: Foo Fighters. Y cómo no, una mente tan inquieta debía también embarcarse en otros muchos proyectos como: Queens of The Stone Age, Probot o Them Crooked Vultures. ¡Dale al play y te lo contamos todo con pelos y señales!

THRASH IT OUT
Vol 4, Bonus Track: "Probot"

THRASH IT OUT

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 100:58


A show where we listen to a heavy metal album, and then argue about it. Hosted by Antony Johnston and Brian LeTendre.

The Wet Bandits Podcast
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters w/Kevin Brennan

The Wet Bandits Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2019 86:24


To kick off our new discography on Foo Fighters--our heroes welcome back Kevin Brennan from The Fair Weathered to offer all the hard-hitting insight on Dave Grohl's first(?) project before embarking on a prolific career playing for Tenacious D, Them Crooked Vultures, Probot, Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, etc.

Appetite for Distortion
Missy Suicide talks Suicide Girls and Axl's Private Jet | Ep. 143

Appetite for Distortion

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2019 53:36


SuicideGirls.com launched September 3, 2001. The Founder, Missy Suicide, joins us to talk about the 18th anniversary of the online community. She discusses what motivated her to create this empowering site for women and the opportunities it's given. Including a music video with Probot, opening for Courtney Love, and of course Guns N' Roses on their 2006 tour.

Le Grohlcast
Episode 6 : Probot

Le Grohlcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 130:04


Toi qui entre ici, abandonne toute morosité et bienvenue dans le GrohlCast, l’émission consacrée à Dave Grohl, multi-instrumentiste hyperactif qui a participé à des dizaines de projets. Plus de trente ans de carrière passés au crible par nos deux experts Grohlement bien renseignés : Benjamin François et Stéphane Bouley. Avec ce sixième épisode le Grohlcast  … Continuer la lecture de « Episode 6 : Probot »

Phil's Breakfast Metal
33 - Bossk, Gorod, F***** & Bound, Probot

Phil's Breakfast Metal

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2018 71:29


In this episode Phil is joined by returning guest Hannah to discuss a few albums she has recently enjoying. Tracks played; Bossk – Kobe – Audio Noir (2016) Gorod – Birds Of Sulphur – A Perfect Absolution (2012) F***** & Bound – Creeps On The Street – Suffrage (2018) Probot - My Tortured Soul – Probot (2004) Hosts; Phil Wadey Hannah Contact us at philsbreakfastmetal@gmail.com Facebook page; www.facebook.com/Philsbreakfastmetal/?fref=ts Twitter; @BreakfastMetal

JAMstack Radio
Ep. #30, Probot with Bex Warner of GitHub Apps

JAMstack Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2018 16:29


In episode 30 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by fellow GitHub developer advocate Bex Warner to talk about Probot and the ways its automation tools are improving the GitHub community.  The post Ep. #30, Probot with Bex Warner of GitHub Apps appeared first on Heavybit.

JAMstack Radio
Ep. #30, Probot with Bex Warner of GitHub Apps

JAMstack Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2018 16:29


In episode 30 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by fellow GitHub developer advocate Bex Warner to talk about Probot and the ways its automation tools are improving the GitHub community.

The Frontside Podcast
105: Automating GitHub with Probot

The Frontside Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2018 47:43


Special Guests: Brian Douglas and Bex Warner of GitHub. In this episode, the panelists talk about automating GitHub with Probot. The origins of Probot are discussed, as well as making GitHub apps with the GitHub API, automating workflows with Probot, must-have Probots for every repo, and GitHub's V4 GraphQL API. References: Microstates README Probot github.com/integrations/slack github.com/marketplace/pull-reminders platform.github.community/c/integrations probot.github.io/apps/unfurl-links/ probot.github.io/docs/deployment/ probot.github.io/docs/extensions/#scheduler probot.github.io/community This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. TRANSCRIPT: ROBERT: Hello everyone and welcome to Episode 105 of The Frontside Podcast. I'm Robert DeLuca, the director of open source here at the Frontside and I'll be your episode host. Today, we're going to be discussing automating GitHub with Probot with Brian Douglas and Bex Warner. I'm really excited about this topic. The idea of automating GitHub workflows with bots is amazing. This is something that I've been wishing the GitHub have the platform support for since I even started using GitHub for open source. Just being able to have a bot to take care of certain things like somebody doesn't leave enough of a PR description and they open up a PR, you can have a bot that just responds to it and saying, "Can you provide more information?" It's pretty awesome. With me as co-host today is Charles Lowell, who is also a developer here at the Frontside. Hey, Charles. CHARLES: Hey, Robert. ROBERT: Before we get into the discussion, I like to make a tiny little announcement. We've been building a composable and an immutable state container called Microstates. I'm sure Charles can talk about this more at length, then we will in the next podcast episode -- 106, but I would like to make a small announcement that Taras who is an awesome developer here just wrapped up a month's worth of work, creating a new ReadMe to describe the vision of Microstates and what you can do with them and everything about Microstates. If you're interested in that, I highly recommend checking out the ReadMe. I'll drop a link in the show notes for you that are interested. CHARLES: If I can add, it really is [inaudible] because it isn't like any other state management solution out there. ROBERT: No, absolutely not. I've been building something with it in React Native over the weekend of the 4th of July and it's amazing. But enough about that, you'll hear about that next episode. For this episode, I want to talk about Probot with Brian and Bex. Hi are you two doing? BRIAN: I'm well. BEX: I'm good. Thanks for having us. ROBERT: No, thank you for joining. This is really exciting. Like I said in the intro, I've been really excited about this project. I do a good amount of open source, I would say and this has been really helpful in all of our repos. We have, I think like 78 open source repos on the Frontside. We have Microstates, like we just talked about and Big Test and all of those repos use some combination of Probots that people have built and it's really nice, especially with the new Checks API that has just come out. You can integrate Probot into that, right? BEX: Yes. I, actually am currently working on shifting one of our bots from using the commits Statuses API to the Checks API. ROBERT: That's awesome. Before we go too deep into it because I want to come back to that because that sounds really cool and what the integration of that is like and what changes because I'm not even really that familiar with it. I just know it was released. I kind of want to go from the beginning here. Where did Probot come from and can we get a little bit of a history for everybody that might not know what Probot is? BEX: Sure. Probot originally started out as this simple idea to make GitHub scriptable. The original idea was you have a single file in your repository that would be like a JavaScript file and it would essentially spell out how the bot would act on your repository and the goal was to make GitHub apps accessible to people because if you ever look through our GitHub apps documentation, I think it can be a little tough to get started. There's, honestly, a lot of nonsense that you have to go through in order to get set up. For one thing, the way our GitHub app authentication works is it requires a JSON web token followed by using that JSON web token to request an installation access token and that process would be really tough for new people to get started. ROBERT: Yeah, it sounds like it. BEX: Yeah, so Probot was created to abstract all of that away and handle all of that authentication automatically and simply leave you with the payload that you get from listening on web token events and in authenticated GitHub client to make authenticated API requests while authenticating as an app. ROBERT: Cool, so that's where it started like a flat JavaScript file in the root but today, you use like EMO files and a .GitHub folder. How do that kind of progress? BEX: Originally, their use case was much simpler and it quickly became clear that a single JavaScript file in the GitHub repo was not scriptable enough and not easy enough to understand. The goal was to make like an API that could make that JavaScript file really, really easy to customize for every API of GitHub and it quickly became clear that that was not really a feasible thing to do. as time went on, it turned into this way to build Node JS applications and essentially, what the configuration files you're referring to are the way in which we make it customizable because right now, there's no way to be officially supported GitHub apps channels to pass secrets because it means you're a [inaudible] and the owners of GitHub apps, so that was just a way to kind of stop that problem. ROBERT: Gotcha, okay. BEX: The actual code for GitHub apps still lives in a Node JS module basically and the configuration file just specifies how that module runs. ROBERT: Right, so they're deployed like Heroku instances, if you want, like anywhere you can host a node app. BEX: Yup. Heroku, Now, yeah. ROBERT: Interesting. BRIAN: As a reason to that, some explorations of doing serverless deployments for Probot, I think there's a couple of issues of them. I'm not sure if anybody's shipped anything like the way they at but it's pretty much it's possible to. BEX: Just a week ago, we even released a new version in which we update our core from Node JS to TypeScript and now that things are typed, we have big plans for serverless. ROBERT: Nice. That's awesome, so then you'll be able to deploy to a Lambda and off to [inaudible]. BEX: Exactly. CHARLES: Can I actually interject here, as kind of a person who doesn't really know the relationship between GitHub apps and the GitHub marketplace and what exactly a Probot is before we hear the origin story. I would love to hear a very high level view of how this ecosystem fits together. BRIAN: I think a lot of people are pretty familiar with interacting with the GitHub API and OAuth integrations. I think I've just spent a lot of time at different companies previously to GitHub, just like making calls, either to cURL or through Node JS or more recently, [inaudible]. GitHub apps itself are a way to take all the things that you had to do to make an integration to GitHub much easier. It has a lot of cool things like OAuth, scopings, so you no longer have ask for all your repos ask access whenever someone logs in with GitHub and the connection between like, "Now have gone from OAuth to Now to GitHub apps," there was a lot of, as Bex mentioned earlier, ceremony that happens to getting set up with GitHub apps and integrations that Probot is like this tool to speed up the process of getting to the point where you just want to script some automation or some sort of workflow and it gives you all that bullet play for you. I don't know if that was a good high level for you Charles. CHARLES: Yeah. I've kind of witnessed this second hand with Robert installing a bunch of things here, so let's use an example, like you did some sort of automation on our repos, Robert, where when someone files a ticket, there's this workflow that automatically adds a triage label, so that we know that this thing hasn't even been dealt with, so we really need to address that issue. It doesn't need to be as a high priority. It doesn't need to be closed as a duplicate of something. One of the different aspects that you described there, how do they fit in terms of serving this workflow onto the end user? Or was that a good example, even? BRIAN: One of the cool thing about GitHub apps and what Probot does for you is that normally, if you want to add a label to an issue, either you Charles or Robert, would have to be admin or maintainer on the team for the Frontside and you could add labels. But somebody who opens up an issue, doesn't have that ability to have write access to your content, which is adding a label. What a GitHub app does, it actually takes a spot as if you would have another user on your platform, instead of creating a dummy account or a dummy user. Probot is basically building a bot for you to then, give you the ability to add that issue. That's sort of workflow that normally would have to happen through an actual real human could not happen through a bot without taking up a spot of like, "I guess, I probably shouldn't speak so ignorant about our platform and what we actually pay for nowadays for GitHub," but I know we used to have like a limited amount of seats for organization, like that seat no longer has now taken up and now, it could be just be used a bot can do something that normally us would take. ROBERT: Right. You no longer have to create a user to do these things. BRIAN: Correct. BEX: [inaudible] within GitHub. It's sort of built in a way that apps can take a lot of power in your repositories. CHARLES: So then, what is the relationship between Probot and an app? BEX: Probot is essentially the framework for building an app. You can definitely make the equivalent of any Probot app outside of Probot. It abstracts away all of, basically, the horrible parts and leave the easy part. CHARLES: Now, I think I'm ready to participate in this discussion. ROBERT: That was perfect, though. That's a great intro because I actually didn't have a total grasp or understanding of the relationship between GitHub apps and Probots. That's really good. BEX: Yeah. Additionally, going back a second. You mentioned the marketplace before. One thing to note that is that there actually are several Probot apps on the marketplace right now. The marketplace is essentially the home for any larger, usually third-party companies that have made apps and Probot is essentially supporting some of those. ROBERT: Interesting, so then my question would then be, do you know anybody selling their Probots. Does the marketplace charge? I'm going to assume it does. BEX: Yes. ROBERT: Okay. Is there anybody charging for their Probot? BEX: Yes. There is a quite a few, in-fact, charging for it. Recently, a pretty popular example is the GitHub Slack integration, which is if you open new issues, you can have them appear in your Slack channel. That whole application was recently rewritten by GitHub. It was previously owned by Slack and that was built on top of Probot. CHARLES: And I actually remember, we upgraded to that version. It's actually way, way, way better. BEX: I'm glad you feel that way. CHARLES: I didn't know the story behind there. I was like, "Oh, I just got a lot of... Awesome," you know? Although I don't know what's the costing. BEX: Yeah, I think that integration is actually free, so that wasn't the best example. I think it's for open source projects, at the very least. BRIAN: Brandon, one of the maintainers for the Slack integration and work at GitHub, also did a really cool talk at the SlackDev Conference a couple of weeks ago, so if you're interested what were the behind the scenes. That integration is all open source as well, so if you have request or you have features that you would like to add to the Slack integration, you can pop into the repo that hopefully will show up on the show notes because I'm not sure if it's like GitHub/Slack, but I guess we'll find that out in the show notes later on. BEX: It's Integration/Slack. BRIAN: But for an example of a paid app of a non-third party, we're not talking like Travis or Circle or another one with the big names but rather, a solo dev created. It's Pull Reminders, which is on the marketplace as of today and essentially, this gives you reminders of your pull quest, so you can actually ping inside the comments and tell Pull Reminders to say, "Tell me about the pull request like next week because it's Friday and I don't have time to look at this." ROBERT: That's awesome. I've also seen the one that's kind of related, that is like you can set your out of office at GitHub, which is actually kind of a neat concept. BEX: Was that the one where we are already changing that profile photos to have the overlay or the one where is just auto-replying to messages because I've seen a couple of -- ROBERT: I think, it's just auto-replies. BEX: Okay. CHARLES: So, it can change like your profile pictures and really, not just related to repo and history related activities but everything? BEX: Anything that you can access via the GitHub API, you can almost access via GitHub apps. There's a list of end points that I specifically enable for GitHub apps because there's something such as delete a repository that there's basically, a very few circumstances under which you want to give that permission to an app. Also, to things very specific like your profile or your personal page. About a year ago, there was an official internal audit of all of the API endpoints because there are lots of inconsistencies over what was and what wasn't enabled for GitHub apps, so they went there and kind of decided, what endpoints should be enabled and what endpoints actually get enabled. Now, that list is much longer than it was a year ago. Now, it's much more comprehensive. ROBERT: That's awesome and is this for the Rest API and the GraphQL API? BEX: Yes. Probot does support both. The Rest API is the one that specifically had all of these endpoints audited. The GraphQL, since it's a bit newer, we sort of built those and more. ROBERT: Cool. I really like working with the GraphQL API with GitHub. It makes it easier than trying to do a bunch of Rest calls. BRIAN: Yeah, there's a community form, it's like a discourse form that the API team actually manages and sort of pipes in there. Again, going back to like, if there's not something in the Slack integration that you would like to have, the form, that community is actually in there, if there's something not in the GraphQL API, that you would like to see. No promises on shipping it within an x amount of time but if enough people are requesting it obviously, there's going to be some resources [inaudible] at. ROBERT: What do you mean? We're doing open source. It has to be done yesterday. BRIAN: Yeah, exactly. And that form is at Platform.GitHub.Community, just a URL to get there. ROBERT: Awesome, that will be helpful to look through and get some recommendations in there. One of my favorite things I was going to say about the new integration for Slack and GitHub is the fact that I can highlight line numbers, paste that linked in and then it just expands it and the chat in Slack. That is so nice and I use it all the time. BEX: Yeah, I love that they built that feature. Actually, the original feature that was built on GitHub to allow those line expansions in the first place, like on GitHub itself, was actually built last summer by some folks who were also a part of my intern class at GitHub last year. ROBERT: Hey, intern power. That's awesome. BEX: Yeah. ROBERT: Everyone there is doing amazing work. I'm also following along with somebody that is also an intern and it's building a weekly digest program. BEX: Oh, yeah. That's actually a Google Summer of Code student. ROBERT: Oh, interesting. BEX: So, being sponsored through Google Summer of Code by Probot as an open source support. ROBERT: Is there anything more to unpack there? That sounds really interesting. BEX: Essentially, we submitted an application for Google Summer of Code because we thought it'd be a cool way to get more people, more students, a mentorship opportunity for the maintainers, basically and we were honestly overwhelmed. We got like almost 100 applications and it ended up being a huge of a deal but we're -- ROBERT: That's a great problem. BEX: Yeah, definitely a good problem but we were really happy. We, initially wanted to accept more students but Google limited us to only two students, so we have two Google Summer of Code students working on projects and one team of women from Rails Girls Summer of Code working on Probot. ROBERT: That would be awesome. What do they working on? BEX: I'm not sure yet. They actually just started a couple of days ago but the other Google Summer of Code student is working on a background checks API to eventually do sentiment analysis of comment history of someone new to your repository. ROBERT: That's interesting. That sounds like there will be some machine learning in there. I might just throwing out buzzwords? BEX: Most likely, I think they're just using some sentiment analysis API, like the perspective API. I don't think they're actually doing that themselves. ROBERT: Okay. CHARLES: Actually, I have a couple questions. Back on the subject of Probot. How does this square with the classic mode of integration because there was a lot out there? I think the first one that I remember that stuck in my mind was like Travis and I don't know if there had to be like a special relationship between the Travis developers and the GitHub developers, that's like, they was able to make that integration happen so many years ago. I don't know how that happened. I just remember it popped up and I was like, "Woah. This is incredible," and we see kind of the integrations gets more and more rich. For someone who's got, like you mentioned a couple of the big names, is the idea that eventually those would be able to be completely supported is GitHub apps or is it they're always going to be kind of a separate track for kind of the really deep integrations? BRIAN: I wasn't around when Travis first integrated with Lyft GitHub and I think that's a really cool integration and I know they have a very nice sized team that's able to do that. I think if we zoom back out like Probot, the way to get started with Probot is that we have the CLI command, which is to create Probot app. I believe it was intentionally copied off of create React app and the cool thing about create React app and create Probot app is that they abstract all the ceremony and boilerplate to get started really quickly. It was like, what developers or smaller teams can get started with integrating with GitHub apps. I highly doubt that Travis is going to rewrite their entire application with something like create Probot app but they're definitely going to be moving towards the new API calls, which would have been like GitHub apps. Part of the Checks API that we had launched at the end of May, Travis had blog post on how their integration with the Checks API works. They're making, though they have a lot of what Legacy endpoints and a lot of Legacy integrations in the way they integrate with GitHub, they are actively moving towards a GitHub app. I don't know if I could actually comment on their status of where they are today, to be honest but actively, we want all new apps and new integrations to follow the model of being a GitHub app, so that way, out of the box, you have access to all the newer features. You have all the access to all the newer GraphQL endpoints, if you want to use GraphQL and that way, we can serve one market, as opposed to everybody who had a GitHub integration from five or six years ago, that was all piecemeal together and sort of duct tape, like we run move away from duct tape everything together. CHARLES: I see. BEX: I definitely agree that I don't think Travis is going to switch to using Probot anytime soon and I don't think most of the large companies will be doing that but I do think, there will be shift towards GitHub apps in general. For those companies that don't already have the buildings of the GitHub app started, I think that Probot could be, in time to free some of them. BRIAN: In addition to that too, Travis and Circle and all the CI integrations, they're doing a really good job. I think the cool thing about GitHub apps is what you take away all that ceremony of getting your checks to work, now we can start opening up the door of like what's the next sort of CICD thing like? There's another term or another, I guess category of applications that can now be built to improve GitHub. CHARLES: The most amazing thing about having a great platform is the apps that you don't foresee, like it just come completely out of left field and you're like, "Woah. I can't believe that's actually a possibility now." When you have started to see some of those, some Probot or GitHub apps, you're like, "Man, I didn't see that coming. That's awesome." BEX: A hundred percent. I think it's the most exciting part of Probot because I think GitHub as a platform, we all know GitHub is the largest developer platform in the world and I think the idea that developers can build on top of this platform is the most exciting idea right now. I have honestly already seen apps that really excites me. The other day, I saw this app that was definitely not near completion but it was essentially updating and issue a comment box over and over and taking response through like checking a box and then listening on that common edit, in order to specify your coffee order. ROBERT: Woah. BEX: I was like, "Do you want an ice coffee or regular? Do you want milk or sugar and cream?" and it was going one at a time. It didn't actually order you your coffee at the end but it was super exciting to watch that. You're just editing the comment. I had never seen that before. ROBERT: That's pretty slick and that's taking the API pretty far. I'm sure there were some parsing in there and each Webhook response are like, "Was this box edited or not." That interesting. CHARLES: Yeah. Actually, now that we're having this discussion is kind of like changing my mind a little bit. Robert and I were actually talking yesterday about trying to standardize on our release management and our plan was basically to have some software that was going to run inside of our CI provider and have kind of a shared library, just a little ntm package that was shared by all of our repos but I'm thinking now, man, we should really explore doing this as a GitHub app. ROBERT: Yes, please. I've had three ideas that I really want to build out as a Probot. I'm just going to list them off and then we can build them all together and take equity and you know. I'm kidding. But the two that really excite me, that I kind of want to do is one concept that we work on this open source project for our clients and if somebody from the outside that doesn't have commit bits to be able to push to master, it would be really cool if we had a Probot that after it had an approved on the PR, from the maintainer, that the person that open the PR could then tell a Probot say, "This is approved by somebody that manages this project. Can we merge?" and then the Probot would then actually merge. I don't know if that's possible. That's something that I definitely wanted to explore. Then the other one, which is less cool, would just be like if we have a couple branches on some of our projects that we want to continue and we're not ready to put it back into master but we want to continuously run the test suite against it, so the idea there would be to have a Probot that would watch for changes on master and rebase as needed and continue to run the test suite and see where you're at. Those are the two things that I'm really excited about to do with Probot but I just want to automate everything with GitHub now. CHARLES: Right. BEX: Yeah, definitely, that first idea was actually pretty viable. I'm curious to know like how you actually get those commit links -- is that what you called it? ROBERT: Commit bits are more like commit permissions, I guess. BEX: Oh, I see. ROBERT: An outside contributor. CHARLES: Yeah, we want to push responsibility to the person who is the maintainer who can approve it but actually, the way we do it at Frontside is the person who actually is making the change is responsible for merging it. Once you get approval, you still have to hit the go button and that's just going to make sure that you're taking responsibility for saying it's done but that doesn't work for open source because people coming off the internet are going to have the right to push but we would like to give it to them, maybe via an app, if there is a maintainer who's approved it. BEX: Yeah. That's definitely something you can do. I've seen quite a few apps that, essentially add outside collaborators to the repo. Are you familiar with the... I forgot what it is called, like the all contributor section, where you cite everyone in your repo and everything and who's worked on it. There was a GitHub app that would add someone automatically after they merge their first change. CHARLES: That's awesome. ROBERT: I may have seen that on React State Museum but I'm not sure. It's a repo that we've contributed to and it has all the contributors at the bottom. It seemingly just kind of popped up there. BRIAN: There's an app that, I would like to mention too that I'm pretty excited about, that it sounds trivial too and it's almost similar... Not similar but it's sort of related to what you were talking about, Rob, with your first app, which is the WIP bot, which is the work-in-progress bot. This is a pattern of whenever I open a PR and I might not ready for a merge but I want to share my code so I can get feedback earlier on, I'll type in WIP so that append to my title of my PR. What this engineer did was every time you do WIP, it's going to go into the GitHub API and actually block the PR for merging, which is a feature available to GitHub. It's nested in your settings but the cool thing about this it actually blocks the PR for merging, so you don't have to worry about getting your, sort of like show and tell code merging the master without being ready. ROBERT: That's one of the first bots that I installed on all of our repos and then you can correct me if I'm wrong, it didn't always have the ability to block the PR from being merged but with the new Checks API, is that something that was introduced? BEX: Not exactly. The way that blocking of merging works is if you set it as the required status, so you can install any sort of CI on your account and have it not being required and ignore it whenever you feel like it, so it's really up to you to make it required. Otherwise, it just isn't checked and that's true for anyone who uses the Statuses or the Checks API. ROBERT: Okay, so that's a Statuses API. Okay, sorry. BEX: Yes. ROBERT: Also, the cool thing about that that I noticed when that was rolled out was I was now able to pick and choose and use workflows on Circle CI and each workflow is broken out as a different status check. I am now required like linting and the build and the test have to pass for these browsers before it can merge, which is really cool to be able to pick and choose. BEX: Yeah. It's awesome. I know personally on some of my repos, I have a few checks that I just don't require because I know I have to make them pass. ROBERT: Yeah. Speaking specifically about the work-in-progress bot, do you know how that works? It's open source, so I am sure I can go look. I think we want to go make a PR. We had some back and forth about this, Charles. CHARLES: I actually just [inaudible] we disagree. ROBERT: Yes. Charles opened a PR and one of his first commits in the PR had work in progress and the title had work in progress and we have this this Probot on our website and it was a blog post. You know, you make a couple more commits and you're further down, you move the work in progress in the title but the PR were still blocked because the first commit on a PR have work in progress in it. I think if it's the most recent commit or if it's in your PR title with work in progress, it should block but otherwise, it should not and Charles feels differently. CHARLES: I have about six commits and the very first one have WIP in the title or in the commit message and it blocked the whole thing but I kind of felt like it actually made me go back and I had to squash it down to two commits because I actually feel that your commit history should tell the story of the development, not like it should an absolute one-to-one journal of what happens but what you are intending. I actually felt that it could help me out because there's six commits that we're kind of all over the place and just kind of slapdash together have made me kind of go back, rethink it and tell a coherent story. I think it did me a service but it was not obvious. I definitely agree with that but I was like, "Why? Why were you still blocking?" ROBERT: Do I really [inaudible] admin privileges? BEX: I would say, I am friends with the creator of the web app. His name is Gregory Mantis and he is actually got a huge work in progress PR shifting work in progress over to using the Checks API and one of the features that he's using with the Checks API is essentially this mark as now work in progress button that will add the special line, like feel free to merge or something like that into your original PR description at the bottom. If that is there, the work in progress app will no longer be blocking. It's essentially like a hard override and honestly, that's the power at the Checks API versus the Statuses API. That's really exciting. ROBERT: Because I have seen the work in progress bot to get into a weird state, where I did remove the work in progress from the title but it didn't quite update and I'm still blocked. It's okay for me because I have admin privileges but other people on the team maybe not and they might be blocked from something that's actually work in progress. It's a lot like that hard override will be probably pretty helpful. BEX: Yeah, definitely. I think sometimes, there's some confusion with that just because of the way what perks work on GitHub and the way our pages are rendered, that you may need to refresh the page before you actually see it take effect. ROBERT: Right, yeah. Overall though, I love that bot. I go weekly, probably to the Probot apps listing and just go shopping. BEX: Wow. I'm actually the person who approves all the Probot apps to the listings so that's pretty motivating there. ROBERT: It's really nice. I am not even joking when I say shopping, I go through and I open up a bunch of tabs, I read through them, "Oh, this could be useful," that kind of thing. BEX: The first app you mentioned, which was like the one that requests more info is actually one that I built, so that was kind of funny. I guess you got that from the Probot apps too. ROBERT: Yup. That one, we definitely use on a couple of our organizations and repos. It has yelled at me a couple of times because of a blank PR. BEX: It yells at me all the time. I think I get yelled at more than people who are actually doing it wrong. ROBERT: I'm a little embarrassed like, "I should do better. I need to set an example." BEX: Definitely. ROBERT: Cool. I'm curious what both of your favorite Probot app is. This ought to be interesting. BRIAN: The app that I'm really impressed with so far, that I actually only use on a junk project at the moment, is the weekly digest one and it's mainly because I built something for this in my previous role at the company but then we shift it, which is basically go through every single repo. I worked at a company called Netlify previously and we had way too many repos to maintain... Oh, sorry, to keep track of and I was moving further and further away from the backend at the time so I was unable to keep up to date with all that was changing. I built a Lambda to watch Webhooks and then give me a digest of what was shipped like issues and PRs closed. It was way over-engineered and I never actually shipped that to actually make it work. But then the weekly digesting came out maybe a couple of weeks ago and it blew me away because I was like, "This is exactly what I needed," and I was trying to make it overly complicated through like a Lambda and like a bunch of Webhooks and this person, with only a few weeks, has the scaffolding of what I needed. That's the one thing I'm pretty excited about. It was already mentioned earlier too, as well. BEX: I guess, I would say one of my favorite ones is the unfurl a link app. I think that one it so simple but so nice. I don't know. I think having that unfurl link preview is just beautiful. Essentially what it does is it listens on issue comment creation or pull request comment creation or issues your pull request or whatever and read through the text or whatever was that issue or pull request and looks for links and then, essentially unfurls them so you can get a really nice preview of what you're going to. I think that's really beautiful and just so simple. ROBERT: Yeah. I love that one too. I have that added to all of our repos. BEX: It's so much nicer. Why would you not unfurl your links when you could unfurl your links? ROBERT: Exactly. CHARLES: I actually have a question. I think it's been touched on, probably at least twice throughout the conversation. I want to actually create a Probot, how do I actually go about deploying it? What does that look like? What does it look like to deploy and maintain it? BEX: We have a page on our docs about deployment and essentially the TL;DR is you can deploy it on any normal cloud hosting service that you wanted to deploy it. There are a few things you need to specify. For example, GitHub gives you a private key that you need to create your JWT and that private key means to be passed into your hosting service however you do that and then, there's a few bits of information that need to be pass in. We have pretty intense docs about it. Honestly, I'm not a deployment person. I usually try to let other people do that and I have never had a problem going through our docs and just getting it working immediately. BRIAN: It's also mentioned that there are examples like Heroku and Now and a couple of other ones. If you have a service that you already like, it's possible it's already in the docs, like steps to how to get that deployed. BEX: Yup and any other services are more than welcome to be added to the docs. Pull request are welcome. ROBERT: Sweet. It sounds like we need to set up a hack date to create a Probot, Charles. CHARLES: Seriously, my mind is brewing. ROBERT: I guess it's not directly related to GraphQL but there's something that I've always wanted to build. For prior history to everybody [inaudible], then the podcast, Brian and I used to work at a company called IZEA and one of the things that we built and I worked on a lot was we would create a collect metrics on people's social accounts that they're connected and do that and graph it over time. This idea came from when I was building up that feature all the way back in 2013, I want to graph the change in GitHub stars. Is there an API available for me to see like weekly GitHub stars or is that something that I still have to manually store and track? BEX: There's definitely an API endpoint to get the amount of stars and I don't see why you couldn't just do that on weekly basis and compare but I don't think there's any track that change API. ROBERT: Gotcha, like a history of it. I could do this by just stealing and looking at what the weekly digest Probot is doing because there is a change in stars section in there. I was just curious if there was now an API that was available. BRIAN: Yeah, that's more unlikely. I'm going to say no without looking at all the reference documentation. I think as far as that database, it's something you'd probably have to collect on your own but it's also a good candidate for a GitHub app, where you build a service that you can actually track stars once you've installed it and then if you want to monetize it, you can actually pay for private repo or whatever stuff like that, if you wanted to. But it sounds like a great opportunity to see this in the GitHub/Probot listings. BEX: I actually just look this app really quick in our docs because I was curious but apparently, you can receive the star creation timestamps. That could be doable through timestamp usage. ROBERT: Oh, and then I just kind of loop through back and build your graph in there. BEX: Yeah. ROBERT: Interesting. All right. Well, [inaudible] I was going to do today. BEX: Yeah. But I think it's exciting to bot the weekly digest and then what you could extract from that into stargazing is that Probot scheduler, which is essentially this all Probot extension we made that triggers a Webhook on a scheduled time period because right now, the way GitHub apps works are so centered around Webhooks. It can be difficult to find a way to trigger an action on something outside of a Webhook, like on a schedule basis. ROBERT: Yeah, that would be really helpful. I can definitely see how that would be a problem, if it's very, very central to reacting to Webhooks and events that happen on the system. BEX: Exactly. ROBERT: You're just hoping that somebody comes through and creates an event at a specific time. CHARLES: Can I ask you a question about, it's definitely on topic of extending GitHub but currently, just a question about, where the line is between what you can and cannot extend? You mentioned, for example in the rewrite of the WIP bot, being able to throw out a big button that says override this merge. Are there any plans to be able to actually extend the UI in novel ways? Everything there right now is happening with API calls, with I assume, UI elements that are related but the UI elements are static. If someone wants to put a novel piece of the UI, that button is going to require an extension of the GitHub UI by GitHub itself. Are there any plans to be able to, I know it's a dangerous waters, perhaps at a limited fashion at first but maybe more so, add different interactions and the actual application. BEX: I think this is actually the most exciting future of GitHub as a platform. In the past, GitHub APIs have only specifically supporting things that you can do through the command line or you can do through GitHub's UI itself. The Checks API introduced the very first non-integration specific UI element essentially and the merge button that I was referring to in WIP is exactly that. It's essentially this button that you can change the text of it to be whatever you want and you can listen on that action and then you can do as an integration or an app, anything that you want based on that. I think that's the most exciting direction for GitHub. Because if you look at Slack, Slack is a platform that has sort of really impressive integrations in that response. Your apps on Slack can really do all of these things, use custom UI elements, so I think the most exciting features for GitHub as a platform is all of this customization and giving the power to the apps. ROBERT: Yeah, that sounds an awesome way to be able to extend GitHub without having to try and throw the feature on to GitHub developers. BEX: Exactly. I feel that a lot of the struggle right now is that there aren't these nice ways of communicating via apps because I feel lot of the apps and bots end up just commenting on issues and pull requests and taking up a ton of screen real estate as a result and I just think that that's not the way that bot should ideally interact with the GitHub platform. They should have their own space to exist and that's the feature I'm most excited for. CHARLES: Yeah. I can think of having like progress bars for CI checks and your various appointments. It's too exciting. I'm glad. That's definitely the response I was hoping to hear. BEX: Yeah. We're excited for it too. ROBERT: Basically, you all have a massive community of a bunch of developers that would want to do this and are willing to get their hands dirty on it. Enabling that community is probably the root of all Probot is about. That's super awesome. BEX: Yup. CHARLES: That's a good place to end, because gosh, it's going to be so exciting to have the millions of developers on the planet, just like surgeon to the APIs that you're developing. BRIAN: One thing to add to that too, about the whole million developers, there's a number that's been thrown out from Stack Overflow and also, some other people who are saying like there's 50 million developers, there's 24 million developers. As far as GitHub, our public user number is 28 million, the cool thing about Probot and GitHub apps is that there's a good chance that all those people that are using GitHub today are not actually developers. They're like PMs or designers and what's really cool about this, like having interactions with that kind of platform in this way is that you can now enable all the non-developers to be able to interact with your GitHub repos and start bringing more designers and PMs onto to the GitHub platform to interact with the developers. ROBERT: That is an interesting point. That is awesome and something that I'm always looking for is a different ways to collaborate with non-developers on my team because... I don't know, developers tend to think everything is always centered around code but it's not. The shifting at work that are awesome, needs a lot of collaboration from non-devs and non-dev skills. That would be really interesting to see. I'm excited for that to play out. BRIAN: Yeah. There's a blog post that was published a month ago, I think about where the design team, design system teams rather, built the integration to Figma to update their icons effectively. I just posted that in the chat to look into but they also built this as a Probot app as well. ROBERT: That is awesome. BEX: Yeah, that one is super exciting. You would have the app comment, the diff between what the old icon versus what the new icon look like and it's just such a beautiful design change to be able to see that shift. ROBERT: Man, I'm happy that this is happening. The future seems super bright. Where can we direct people to get resources to contribute, to get involved and start really going at this? BEX: Basically, Probot.GitHub.io has all the Probot stuff, /app has all the listings for apps you can install today, /docs is where the docs are, if you want to get started and hopefully from there, we link up to the necessary things that you need to do. BRIAN: Also, what I mentioned too via Probot Slack channel, there's a Slack channel as well and they do a weekly call. I think, it's weekly or bi-weekly call to actually chat with the Probot community. If you have questions, you can actually bring your questions to the team. BEX: Yeah, we call it 'Office Hours' and it's once a week and it's under our community page, where we also have a link to our Slack. We have a link to another podcast we run and basically, how to get involved in the Probot community. ROBERT: Those are really helpful resources. I do remember seeing that Office Hours. It's on Thursdays, right? BEX: Yes. ROBERT: I was going to drop in for one and then, I actually forgot. Actually, it might be going on as we talk right now in this podcast. BEX: It starts in half an hour, I think. ROBERT: That's awesome. Cool. Well, thank you Brian and Bex for having a conversation about Probot. This is really awesome. Is there anything that you would like to plug for yourselves? How people can get in contact with you? BRIAN: Yeah, I am BdougieYO on Twitter. Everything you need to know about me is there and I am happy to say hello. I'm also helping with the GitHub developer program, which is sort of getting a soon-to-be announced rebranding. If you go to Develop.GitHub.com/Program and you want to have more conversation about the API and GitHub apps on the GitHub side, you can go there to sign up. BEX: And I am HiImBexo on Twitter. You can ping me in any Probot stuff. I'd be happy to look at any Probot code. I've been looking at it for a while now so I'm happy to do that. ROBERT: That's awesome. Thank you all for having a conversation with us. This was really fun. I'm so excited about everything you can do with Probot. This is a really fun project. I'm happy that this is happening and I will make a Probot in the future. CHARLES: I'm looking forward too. Robert has been excited for quite some time and he definitely talks a lot about it and now, I have some insight as to what -- ROBERT: It's happening, I'm telling you. Well. Thank you for being here and we are the Frontside. We build UI that you can stake your future on. We are specializing in JavaScript. We can build anything that you want throw at us. We do functional programming, React testing, Vue, anything in JavaScript, we specialize in. As always if you want to suggest anything for us to have on the podcast or talk about, you can reach out to us at Contact@Frontside.io and like I teased earlier in the podcast, next episode is going to be all about Microstates, the immutable and functional state container, composable model system that we've been building, it's controls as a brainchild for the past two years. That is next episode and I'm really excited about that. It's a really fun API and expressive to build models with. Thank you, Mandy for producing our podcast and we'll see you next episode.

The Frontside Podcast
104: Blockchain Development with Chris Martin

The Frontside Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2018 35:49


In this episode, Chris Martin of Type Classes and Joe LaSala of The Frontside talk about blockchain development. Do you have opinions on this show? Want to hear about a specific topic in the future? Reach out to us at contact@frontside.io or on Twitter at @thefrontside. This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. TRANSCRIPT: JOE: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Episode 104 of The Frontside Podcast. I'm Joe LaSala. I'm a developer here at the Frontside and I'm going to be hosting today's episode. Today we're going to be associating blockchains and other cryptographically secure technologies and everything that has to do with the web and the future of the web. We have with us Chris Martin and he's currently with Type Classes. What do you do over there, Chris? CHRIS: Our goal is to teach functional programming with Types, specifically with Haskell and a little bit Nix. We do subscription video service. JOE: There seems to be, I guess a bit of an overlap between people who are into functional programming and people who are involved in this new space that has opened up, this new web, I guess and that's something that I want to talk about based on a tweet that I saw you made recently. You mentioned that there's a big section of the Haskell community that is being drawn into whatever the hot ICO is at that moment there, something along those lines. CHRIS: Some of it are bitcoin people or something else but there's definitely a weird overlap that I can't fully explain. JOE: It seems like strange bedfellows, right? CHRIS: Well, there's a couple of things that make sense, which I think the distributed systems in cryptography are kind of these notoriously hard problems. I think when somebody wants to convince their boss that they really need to use Haskell for this problem, I think they can make a persuasive argument in this case. JOE: That's interesting. There's actually, a lot of technology around blockchains around bitcoins, specifically being written in Haskell. I didn't know they were technologically overlapped like that. I guess I just thought they were two very kind of passionate communities but you're saying that a lot of the bitcoin startups that you might see coming out in any given week are actually being written with an eye towards functional programming. Is that accurate? CHRIS: I don't know about bitcoin along this bit but I think some of the people who are working for banks and trying to develop their own sort of novel internal blockchains and stuff, I think those are the people who see this. Although in the case of banks, we don't necessarily see what's coming out of them, so we can't verify whether they're actually shipping things or not. JOE: Yeah. That means there's a lot to touch on there. I would agree with you on your initial sentiment, also just to extend to say that I think personally that both communities are really evangelical. Functional programmers, people who are into functional programming, for me it hasn't clicked yet and I know that it will come into my heart. I've asked functional programming to kind of where things are starting to fall into line where I'm certain to see the world in that way but for people who have seen the light fully, I'm sure believers once monads and functors kind of enter the conversation. They don't leave. It's similar like when bitcoin first started and everybody's running about the gold standard. Really, it's just nothing. It was hard to find resources on it that did the most of the amount of screaming. CHRIS: Yeah, you're absolutely right, that culturally, they're going to attract the same group of people or the people who are willing to adopt something that's not fully fleshed out yet, people who want to take what they believe and sit in this community and try and spread it to the rest of the world. I think it's the same kind of people. JOE: The early adoption, I think is something I can consider too. I guess it's a very risk-oriented group. CHRIS: Yeah, kind of. I mean, Haskell is pretty old, I guess but -- JOE: That's fair, yeah. CHRIS: -- Some of the changes that really make it, it great and usable lately are pretty [inaudible]. JOE: That's interesting. You mentioned this idea -- we kind of skipped over a little bit but thanks, having their own blockchains and that's something that I think that maybe people not actively following this space, which is I will say, a very hard space to keep up for those of us who are actively following it. But those who may just know blockchain through the name of an iced tea company changing or some sensational news article or what have you or just through bitcoin even, but I know that it's not the blockchain. It's not a singular blockchain. It's very easy to implement the fundamental structure. It's a linked list, essentially, with the kind of a cryptographic thing that keeps from breaking that link. Those links are inserting new history, I guess the further you go back. I guess people are even exploring different data structures like directed acyclic graphs and stuff and how that could be used to map other domains but the reality is it's a linked list and you can spend up as many of them as you want and you can mine blocks based on all this different criteria. Bitcoin is a proof of work associated with the minting of a new block and that's been a problem for them as they scale as a currency but it could be a history of anything and the minting of those blocks can be based on anything. You mentioned banks, the financial kind of sector is certainly interested in these smaller private chains but do you think there's a use for that consumer market as well? How do you think that your personal blockchain or set of blockchains might be a factor in the hobbyist of the futurist life? CHRIS: Oh, wow. That's a different question than I thought. [inaudible] where you're going with that -- JOE: Where do you think I was going? CHRIS: Well, we're talking about banks and so, the question is now everybody other than banks -- JOE: Well, it could be everybody, including banks too, however you want to take it. CHRIS: Yeah. There's a much harder question, I think of what in the world we're actually saying when we are talking about blockchain, right? The notion obviously has started with bitcoin but if what you want to do is bitcoin, then you should just be as in bitcoin, so what are we talking about similar bitcoin and the general phrase people have they like to throw in here is Byzantine fault tolerance. I'm talking about any kind of system that can have multiple participants. We're used to talking about clusters of computers and making systems that can work if one of them fails, if one of them just stops working but now, we're starting to talk about how do we make systems work if one of them gets hacked, then we still have some assurances that the whole system works together as a whole. JOE: Would you consider Byzantine fault tolerance to be the defining factor of a blockchain because I feel like there's the timestamping element that goes along with it. I feel like they're kind of part and parcel, right? CHRIS: Kind of but if you're not considering Byzantine faults, if you're only talking about systems where you have benign faults, which is a machine goes down sometimes, then timestamping isn't really a problem because we can just use NTP and we all have a pretty sensible idea of what time it is. JOE: Time specifically, even just like, I guess order. I always considered sequence to be a massive part of what a blockchain fundamentally was. You have the distributed aspect of the network that gives this sort of resilience to malicious intent but not only is it protected, I guess against demolition and malicious intent by this crowd strength but also just fundamentally through the cryptographic side of it, you can't go in and insert things that didn't happen. Once that order has been said, it's been written in stone, basically, right? Because the way I understood is there were papers coming out of Bell Labs in the early 90s and those two things set as approaches to this independently and it wasn't until the internet advance so we put them together and we're able to achieve Byzantine fault tolerance through that. Is that, I mean...? CHRIS: It does help a lot, I think to buck up and think about what the state of research was in the 90s because I think that's something that a lot of people in blockchain space kind of lose sight of. You have a whole lot of people writing papers now who didn't used to be academics until a couple of years ago. It was the early 90s where we started having faxes and we started having what later turned into what's kind of known as raft. Like you said, they solved the ordering problem. Even something as simple as what we call Lamport clocks which is you have sort of a virtual timestamps and as long as nobody's malicious, if you remove the timestamp forward, then we can all have something that resembles the deterministic forward flow of time. Then, that milestone that I was like to remind people of this in 1999 is when we had the paper practical Byzantine fault tolerance. JOE: That was '99. You're talking about the... was it Castro and --? CHRIS: Liskov, yeah. JOE: Okay. I didn't know it was '99. CHRIS: Interestingly, the same Liskov that the Liskov substitution principles named for, Barbara Liskov. It's also a distributed systems research. JOE: That's swell as well. I kind of heard the concept of Byzantine fault tolerance but I never read this paper. I'm also surprised to find that it didn't come out of that same period of the early 90s and it was as far as '99. I haven't read its entirety but I did fall asleep reading it last night. You mentioned this specifically, I guess, when we're talking today, as a paper that is important. It's the work that we're trying to do at... was it Hijro, I think? CHRIS: Yeah. JOE: Yeah, so what kind of work were you doing there and what is important to you, I guess about this paper specifically, when you look at all the research that went into priming the community for the space that we are now in? CHRIS: When I joined Hijro, I got kind of a difficult and nebulous mission, which was that everyone in and around that space that was trying to sell to banks was if you said the word blockchain, you could get your foot in the door because all the banks were looking at bitcoin and saying, "Well, look, this is clearly something that's going to be big and we don't want to be missing out, so we have to figure out how this applies to us." JOE: What year is this? They were working this in 2014-ish, is that right? CHRIS: '15 or '16, I think. The question was trying to figure out what aspect of it was actually what they wanted here. What Hijro is trying to sell them, the details aren't even important for this conversation but we need an interbank solution. We needed a ledger of accounts that 'we weren't a bank so we couldn't be the one holding everyone's money and keeping track of the flow of money in our network.' We were on something that the banks were truly in charge of but we didn't want to necessarily have our platform be owned by a particular bank. We wanted to be the sort of consortium of all of our partners. JOE: Consortium is a keystone word I think here, that we should definitely come back to that. CHRIS: Yeah and people talk about, if I use the word consortium blockchain, I think sometimes in contrast with the public blockchain, with the 'free anyone can join' blockchain. JOE: Yeah. I'm particularly fascinated by this concept. That is a term that is used. I can confirm this. But you're doing that pretty early then because I feel like that concept didn't make it out into, I guess the public understanding, until recently or maybe I'm just behind at times. CHRIS: Yeah, I guess so. I don't know. When I start working on this, I just spent a couple of months trying to read papers about what was in space and I guess, the only big name that was trying to do something like this was Tendermint. JOE: Tendermint? Interesting. CHRIS: You can pick out technologies like this because the magic number is always one-third. They can tolerate Byzantine failure up to one-third of the nodes. That was a theoretical result that was reached, just sort of the best you can do. Before BFT and then BFT is one of those solutions in that category and Tendermint does something similar. JOE: That, I guess is sort of the background to this paper and it's impacting your life. I guess, what is put forth in this paper is to solve for higher tolerance. Would that be the right way to put it? CHRIS: Did you say higher tolerance? JOE: Yes. You're talking about the Byzantine tolerance is 30%, right? With Tendermint? But you're saying that they're doing something similar to that's before in the paper? CHRIS: The most interesting thing to me, I think is probably, hopefully possible to convey concisely is the rationale behind the one-third number because that took a while for me to really appreciate but I think it really clicked when it did. One of the hardest intuitions to get people to break, I don't know, way of thinking to shift, I guess is convincing people that consensus is even a hard problem because I had this conversation a lot with people that'd say, "I've got this JavaScript library here, for instance that just lets me broadcast a message to all the nodes in a cluster, so why can I just do that?" Why can't we just use one at a time to do it and if I detected someone's trying to cheat, if I get two different messages from someone that are conflicting, maybe I can just ignore them. JOE: Not in finance. That's kind of ironic, I guess that you found it difficult to get people to come to a consensus about the importance of consensus. CHRIS: Right. The basic flow of all these things is we describe them as voting systems. We have voting rounds where each time, like you said the blockchain of the ledger or whatever it is, just a linked list, so the problem of using consensus build database is we're just going to iteratively try to vote or come to consensus on what the next block is. What the next ledger entry should be? Obviously, since we don't have a synchronized wall clock to go by, we have to assume messages can come in any order. We might all sort of speak up simultaneously and propose different blocks as the next one, at which point we have to start over and retry that. But furthermore, I can send different votes to different people if I'm trying to be malicious and that's where the tricky part comes on. The rationale for the one-third number, maybe I can just try to come around to that and say it directly then, is that when we take a vote for what the next block is going to be, we need the supermajority. We need two-thirds of the participants to have all said the same thing and the rationale for that is it's actually easier to think of it backwards. Rather than saying, two thirds of the total, what we say is, "If we're going to allow some fixed number of nodes to fail, to behave maliciously --" you know, we traditionally call that number 'F' in the paper, then what we say is we need 3F+1 total nodes to be participating. JOE: I didn't know that was sort of codified into how conflict is resolved on things like bitcoin during blockchain. It's inherent, I guess. CHRIS: No. This is the total opposite of what bitcoin and Ethereum are going to do. JOE: Because I always thought it was just going to be like a majority, I guess but what you are talking about is more like how the Senate would were to pass a resolution to the constitution, like it has to be an exceptional majority. I'm starting to understand why one-third, specifically. It's 3F+1, I guess. CHRIS: The reason is because for each vote, every time I look at the results of a vote, I have to be able to assume that some number that we called F, of the people that I've heard back from are trying to cheat me. It turns out I need to be sure that the majority of the votes that I've heard back are from people who are actually following the protocol correctly and not lying. We need to be tolerant to two kinds of failure. One is that a node simply goes down and we don't hear from them and we don't receive a vote from them and then the other kind of failure is the Byzantine failure, that they're not following protocol in some way. The reason I need 3F+1 nodes is because we need to be able to make progress, even if F of these number is we didn't hear from at all because they're down and then, I need 2F+1 votes because I need to take into account the possibility that some F of these votes were from cheaters and then we need to have more honest votes than lying votes. JOE: That's pretty profound. I definitely going to finish the rest of this paper while conscious later today. I guess we're a little off with regard to math at this point and it's when you said, you spent I guess a month or so just reading papers around the time you started with Hijro and I guess did you stop because I feel like I've read just more white papers than ever thought I would outside of the academic setting, just trying to keep pace with what's been going on, particularly with regard to the web. I don't if you're familiar with like IPFS but these sort of directed acyclic graph things are popping up all over the place and platforms are even now being built on this concept. I guess, Ethereum feels impractical in a lot of ways. These dime-a-dozen tutorials, when you started talking about the global computer that is Ethereum and the blockchain and it's going to change everything in the internet and you won't have to pay Comcast like some central authority or you just pay for each transactions. The reality of it is every time you do a write against a data store have, first of all, thousands of computers go and verify that and also, you don't want to store your information on a linked list. It's not feasible for storing large data structures and it becomes very expensive for the user and for the person, if you're maintaining a smart contract for the contract itself. These are volatile, all little points of value. It's impractical. CHRIS: It's definitely a cost that you don't want to incur. In all cases, just a confirmation time is a cost you don't want to incur. JOE: Absolutely. CHRIS: There is one nice thing that that you can do in some cases, which is that people is talking about the piggybacking on these blockchains like if I have a system and I just want some extra assurance to keep it honest, then I can do things like periodically publish a hash of my database onto something like bitcoin or Ethereum. JOE: Yeah. That actually happen with anyone in financial... They do publish stuff in the paper and this was before cryptographic ledgers but to basically prove that this was the state of something, I remembered seeing this somewhere, like there would be in financial news, like there'd be some crazy number or string at the top to verify what was on the string. CHRIS: Yes. Of course, the irony there is that you really don't need some kind of blockchain if you want to do that because the fact that we're doing that before the blockchain has existed and doubly, it's funny because the first block of the bitcoin blockchain, the genesis block includes in it, I think a New York Times headline, which was intended as proof that Satoshi or whoever didn't spend years mining bitcoin prior to releasing it. It's supposed to be a proof of the time of the first genesis actually was. It's funny that we are actually already had this verification system and what that demonstrates is sort of a principle of consensus that I like to talk about which is that as you increase the time scale, consensus becomes an easier and easier problem. I think the reason why something like newspaper headlines are reliable means of a timestamp is just mostly because they're big and slow, because there's only one every day. I think the whole challenge like you said of, how a lot of systems kind of boiled down to having the white paper for bitcoin refers it describes bitcoin as a distributed timestamp server, something along those lines. The reason why you need a new technology to do that, I think so that you could have timestamps that are every of couple minutes, rather than every 24 hours. JOE: That's a very interesting take on it. I guess, the more time there is, it is easier to reach a consensus. It's just interesting to think about. It's funny as humans like the longer time passes, the less reliable memory is, I guess, less reliable history as we conceive of it, I guess. It's different when you record something than the way that you hold in the brain that sometimes I wonder how much impact that's had on. It's a little ephemeral, I guess but it's interesting. CHRIS: Yeah. I guess my statement is limited to the on-scale where we can actually fit into memory. JOE: Right, that most of the times, it's the only relevant scale, I guess, like a blockchain doesn't have use outside of our use of it, inherent to it, so it's going to be seen through that lens, I guess of our use of it. I think it is kind of profound, a thing to think about that I definitely considered. You mentioned using blockchains as adding a little bit of... how do you put it? Like truthiness, I guess, we'll say. I know that's not how you put it but adding a little bit of security, maybe around something else but the reality is you can get away with that on a number of other levels. I think that's important and interesting to think about. There seems to be this trend now talking about a blockchain as part of a bigger picture or consortium blockchain or a consortia of blockchains, right? Because a consortia would be multiple and then a consortium would be... No, a consortium would be a single grouping, consortia would be multiple groups. Basically, going back to the problem you're trying to solve with Hijro, you have multiple banks and I believe eventually, I don't know if you work on it, there was a protocol that came out of that company to unify these blockchains, like a few of them. They demoed and everything. That, I think gives you some power with regard to access control but again, I guess, that's not a thing that you really need consensus for. So, where does it fit in? Aside from things like voting and transparent finance for maybe a political cause or in the case of bitcoin, just finance in general. In bitcoin, I feel like we got Mongo DB super hard in the sense that it just got applied to every domain and it applies to very, very few. CHRIS: My boss at Hijro, Lamar Wilson really like to say that people talked about blockchain like it was hot sauce and they sort of sprinkle it on everything to make it better. JOE: That's sad. CHRIS: I guess, two answer to that one. One of the places where it absolutely captivates people's imaginations too far and doesn't work and then places where it doesn't work, so I want to start with the first here because the biggest mistake that people make is that there was this notion of tokenization that came out of Ethereum, where anyone could make a smart contract that represented something and now, also that I can trade digitally. Just like it's money or some kind of digital asset, so people want to talk about putting your car, putting your house on the blockchain or selling it there. But it's just shocking how many times I had to remind people that if I make a smart contract that represents cars and I put my VIN number on it and I transfer you my car, at Ethereum contract in an exchange for a bitcoin, if I call the police and report my car stolen, they're not going to look at the Ethereum contract, right? JOE: Yeah. Man, you're really right. People don't think about that enough. If your car is in the blockchain, your car still on the block. CHRIS: What we had realize when we're selling solutions like this is that they're great for some reasons but you need actual legal agreements to underpin things when you actually make connection to the real world. The magic of bitcoin that can't really be replicated is that the coin actually didn't need a pinning to the real world because the thing bitcoin was running was itself. It just depended on hoping that people were going to find the coin and ledger valuable intrinsically and bitcoin never really purported to control things in the real world. JOE: I guess, definitely not in the paper. There are some place that can buy in from some very specific elements of society that sort of cemented its place as useful but we don't really need to go to that road, I guess. I don't know. You know, my roommate is a lawyer and we have this conversation often and I feel like if we go down law and cryptography, we're going to be talking for too long, where we are at currently. CHRIS: Right and that wasn't your question anyway. It was just what I respond to easiest because being a critic is always the easier thing to do. JOE: I can feel you there. CHRIS: One of the interesting things that I never even found too much about but I noticed this in a couple of passing references as I was reading stuff about Byzantine fault tolerance in general is that it seems to have some application in things like flight control systems and space ships because when you think about a computer that you're going to send into space, you have two things that Byzantine fault tolerance applies to directly. One is you need a lot of redundancy. You need these control systems, maybe you have a dozen things computing the same result because you can't replace the hardware when once you shot something to space. The second thing is once you've sent something outside the atmosphere, all of the sudden, you're being bombarded with a lot more cosmic rays than you were before. Now, you actually really do this idea that computers can fail, not just by stopping but by producing wrong results. All of a sudden, it becomes a lot more real because you actually have physics slipping a bit at your computers. JOE: I don't even think you have to go as far as space if you talk about just like a fleet of something, like self-trading cards. I suppose, in domain where there is an interplanetary file system, it's good to specify the planet we're talking about. Just having worked a little bit with robots in college, they lie all the time and they produce bad data constantly, so not even bad actors just incompetent actors, I guess could definitely... This is something that has to be, I guess on our minds as we move forward as the society that has more connected devices, which I think as much as I would love to have left this conversation off in outer space, I think bringing it around to the internet of things, which is sort of where this all began months and months ago is probably a good place to stop meandering through these cryptographic weeds. You can probably put a pin in this. I think we've been talking about for a while now, I guess and just kind of trying to see what it is and where the applications are. It's constantly changing and never clear, I think is the conclusion that I've come to. I don't know. I think, just kind of shooting the breeze about it is a fitting end to a series of Frontside engagements in this space, for the time being. CHRIS: I've seen several people try to tackle the space of how to stop relying on things like Google Drive to store our data because I think a lot of us have realized that we're tired of losing all of our family photos every time a hard drive dies but a lot of people are uncomfortable with trusting Google with everything. This to me seems like a perfect opportunity for people to start building redundant systems among their home and friends. JOE: Yeah, I completely agree. I'm actively trying to do exactly that right now. CHRIS: Oh, cool. And you don't necessarily want your cluster of machines that's running on all of your family's computers to be able to go down if your 10-year old get some virus, right? JOE: Right and also, there's definitely things that you want just within your home or even just within your section of the home. I guess you could layer chains, to kind of manage those interactions? CHRIS: Sure. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by layering chains. JOE: You could have consortia in this case. If you had like a hypervisor, almost like a control notice, essentially or some type of view from above of this situation, you could say, think of it as a family scenario. We have three different houses on this call that all belong to our immediate family and cousins and whatever and it's like, me and my siblings, we have information that we all want just within the siblings. We don't want Mom and Dad to know. We don't want the cousins to know, so you could basically use like a blockchain to kind of date access to data that is held within that consortium and then the consortia could communicate amongst each other. Only the pertinent information that they wanted to allow access to at that time and then, internally of course, you could have all these different mechanisms for how you actually store that data or how you actually serve it up. It's pretty complicated. CHRIS: Yeah, I think you made a lot of sense, though. JOE: Yeah, cool. I'm hoping so. There's been some work on it out of Microsoft, actually. CHRIS: On the files storage problem, specifically? JOE: I guess this is like with a smart home and kind of just teaching devices to cooperate and ask each other. If you had a section of connected devices that maybe were related to the workflow that a human being might go through to get groceries or something and then a section that's related to doing laundry or whatever, eventually, they would learn to communicate in the laundry grouping and could say, "Hey, grocery people. We're out of soup," or something like that. It's sort of almost happened organically, I guess. I had not actually felt like I found that paper. I've only found references to it. This is where I need to get something like academic access but that was interesting stuff. I don't know how I end up here, either. This has always happening when you're talking about this domain. Anyway -- CHRIS: People's ideas, it's just sort of generally inspiring concept so people is following you everywhere. JOE: Yeah, it's heartwarming. You know, with my ICT, I could look back and see exactly where I usually came from than [inaudible], the name of the farmer who grew with. I don't know. It'd be so much easier to fake most things, really when you think about it. On that note, I hope that this conversation was... I know that there was no JavaScript and I apologize for that but I hope that our audience finds it interesting on some level and I want to thank you for your time. Chris, it was really great talking to you and getting your take on these things as somebody who's been in the industry for a while. Definitely, some fascinating points to consider and definitely, I will finish that white paper, probably this evening because it's pretty cool. If anybody in the audience has anything they'd like to ask you about pertinent to this conversation or anything else, where is a good place to get a hold of you? CHRIS: For me, it's mostly Twitter. I'm @chris__martin. I'm also at Type Classes, if you want to talk to me about our new business. JOE: Cool. This has been Episode 104, I believe of The Frontside Podcast. Frontside, we're a consultancy based in Austin, Texas and we love writing elegant, sustainable code and just producing good stuff, really. I think that's what we're all about. I think, we can agree at least, that's a core tenet of what we do and if you would like us to produce some good stuff for you, feel free to get in touch with us. Also, feel free to reach out via email if you have any ideas for future topics or any feedback about this episode. I also want to thank Mandy for producing this episode. You can catch us next week, I believe for our talk with Brian Douglas on Probot and Robert will be hosting that one, as far as I know. Thank you all for your time and feel free to reach out. This has been The Frontside Podcast. I'm Joe LaSala. Chris Martin, thank you for joining us and have a good day, everybody.

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Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2018 13:01


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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2018 61:21


Today on GeekFest Rants Carlos takes a look at some of the best Soundtrack/Scores done by Rock groups/artists.  We'll examine artists such as AC/DC, Daft Punk, and Queen.  How sometimes a great soundtrack can't save a movie.  Or how a soundtrack enhances a film beyond all expectations.  Then we are going to talk about Misfit Kenner Star Wars characters. These are toys that are not officially part of the action figure line 92-Backs but that deserve as much attention as a carded figure.  These include characters such as Jabba, the Tauntaun, the Probot, etc.  Just when you thought we were done with Kenner Star Wars, it pulls us back in.

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2018 52:08


The talented Orta Therox joins us to discuss everything from open source to ProBot automation in this episode of React Native Radio

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84 - React Native at Artsy feat. Orta Therox

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2018 52:08


The talented Orta Therox joins us to discuss everything from open source to ProBot automation in this episode of React Native Radio

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2018 40:57


Mais uma selecção de músicas que fizemos para o nosso vasto auditório. Aqui ouvem-se os Gang Green, Children of Bodom, Liege Lord, Probot, The Crown e Paul Wardingham. Com: Gustavo Vieira e Paulo Rodrigues.

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2017 50:12


The legendary voice of Trouble, Eric Wagner jumps on the podcast to talk about Trouble, The Skull, Dave Grohl & Probot, Roadburn Festival, Blackfinger and the new Blackfinger album, “When Colors Fade Away”, on M-Theory Audio. The post Episode #163: Eric Wagner (Trouble, Blackfinger, The Skull) appeared first on Danko Jones.

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017 70:48 Transcription Available


We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.

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The Changelog

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017 70:48 Transcription Available


We talk with Brandon Keepers and Bex Warner about GitHub’s Probot — GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflows. You can use pre-built apps or easily build and share your own.

Guitare Obsession - le podcast par Julien Bitoun
#44 - L'album le plus détesté des Queens Of The Stone Age

Guitare Obsession - le podcast par Julien Bitoun

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2017 63:52


Dans cet épisode, je vous parle de l'album Probot, et de Villains, le nouveau Queens Of The Stone Age qui a énervé tous les fans. Je vous parle aussi de mon obsession guitariste du moment, les quart de caisse hollow Gibson que sont la ES-330 et la Casino Epiphone. par Julien bitoun

Love That Album
Love That Album: The Compilation Edition - Episode 35 - Hard Thrash Metal

Love That Album

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2017 27:47


  Welcome to the episode 35 of LTA: The Compilation Edition.   It's 2017 and Eric is starting it off with thunder, lightning and the rumble of Hard Rock, Heavy and Thrash Metal.   Starting off with the German comp, King Solomon's Goldmine featuring 70s hard rock, Punk, Kraut Rock and even some Pop Rock. Following that is discussion of the 18 Headbangers From The 80's comp which features everything from top tier metal acts like Black Sabbath (the Dio fronted version) to Judas Priest alongside 80s pop metal acts Ratt and White Lion and assorted oddballs including Eric’s beloved King’s X.    Jumping to another type of comp Eric next talks about Dave Grohl’s 2004 project Probot. Grohl wanting a good old fashioned (read 80s) style metal record set out to record a group of songs featuring a number of different metal singers including: Lemmy, Wino (The Obsessed), Snake (Voivod) and Lee Dorrian (Cathedral).     Finally, there’s a covers album by the band October 31. Metal Massacre 31 contains 10 covers of songs that appeared on the Metal Massacre comps during the 1980s.    You can download the show by searching for Love That Album in the iTunes store or downloading streaming directly from http://lovethatalbum.blogspot.com   Send the show feedback at rrrkitchen@yahoo.com.au (written or mp3 voicemail) or join the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/lovethatalbum  

After Hate
Episode 13 HS – Le Grohlcast

After Hate

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2016 120:29


Une émission hors-série à la formule un peu spéciale, puisque Daniel laisse la place à Papa pour parler pendant près de deux heures de Dave Grohl à travers vingt titres emblématiques, que nous allons essayer de classer dans une liste ultime. Les chansons sont abordées dans l’ordre alphabétique, et la playlist finale est en fin … Continuer la lecture de « Episode 13 HS – Le Grohlcast »

Aperta O Play: Mixtape
Mixtape 031

Aperta O Play: Mixtape

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2015 59:52


Audioslave, Chickenfoot, Journey, Teenage Time Killers, The Winery Dogs, Probot, Temple Of The Dog, Velvet Revolver e muitas outras bandas em nossa Mixtape 31, faça o download agora. (clique com o botão direito e selecione salvar). Para ouvir outras músicas do artista clique nos links. 01 – Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill […]

Aperta O Play: Mixtape
Mixtape 031

Aperta O Play: Mixtape

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2015 59:51


Audioslave, Chickenfoot, Journey, Teenage Time Killers, The Winery Dogs, Probot, Temple Of The Dog, Velvet Revolver e muitas outras bandas em nossa Mixtape 31, faça o download agora. (clique com o botão direito e selecione salvar). Para ouvir outras músicas do artista clique nos links. 01 – Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song)- Mr. Big 02 – Elevate – The Winery Dogs 03 – Show Me How To Live – Audioslave 04 – Hunger Strike – Temple Of The Dog 05 – I Don’t Know Anything – Mad Season 06 – Last Temptation – Chickenfoot 07 – Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream 08 – Fall To Pieces – Velvet Revolver 09 – I Am The Warlock – Probot 10 – Reptiles – Them Crooked Vultures 11 – Any Way You Want It – Journey 12 – Egobomb – Teenage Time Killers 13 – kind of a Girl – Tinted Windows 14 – Steady, As She Goes – The Raconteurs 15 – School’s Out/ Another Brick In The Wall – Hollywood Vampires A próxima mixtape vai pro ar no dia 10/11/2015.

Aperta O Play: Mixtape
Mixtape 010

Aperta O Play: Mixtape

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2014 59:51


Queens Of The Stone Age, Nirvana, David Bowie, Juliette and the Licks, Nine Inch Nails, Them Crooked Vultures, Garbage, Tenacious D e muito mais na nossa Mixtape 10, faça o download agora.  (clique com o botão direito e selecione salvar). Para ouvir outras músicas do artista clique nos links. 01 – Stay Away – Nirvana (00:00) 02 – Shake Your Blood – Probot (03:34) 03 – No One Knows – Queens Of The Stone Age (06:32) 04 – Gods Look Down – Scream (10:46) 05 – Goodbye Lament – Tony Iommi (15:02) 06 – Bad Boyfriend – Garbage (19:43) 07 – Drag Queen – Dain Bramage (27:40) 08 – I’ve Been Waiting for You – David Bowie (27:40) 09 – Everlong – Foo Fighters (30:36) 10 – Hot Kiss – Juliette and the Licks (35:20) 11 – If You Have Ghosts – Ghost (38:05) 12 – Let it Rain – Zac Brown Band (41:35) 13 – Dog Food – Mondo Generator (45:52) 14 – New Fang – Them Crooked Vultures (48:17) 15 – The Next Big Thing – MxPx (52:01) 16 – You Know What You Are – Nine Inch Nails (54:31) 17 – Break-In City (Storm the Gate!) – Tenacious D (58:11) A próxima mixtape vai pro ar no dia 05/01/2015.

Dread Media
Dread Media - Episode 274

Dread Media

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2012 90:02


Greg Lamberson is back on Dread Media! Together, he and Desmond talk about Greg's latest installment in the Jake Helman Files, Tortured Spirits, The Julian Year TREEBook, his latest film work, and even some classic comics! Then, as if that wasn't enough, Devil Dinosaur Jr. works out some of his issues in the latest Stay Scary while covering Chillers. Tunes included: "Been Away Too Long" by Soundgarden, "My Tortured Spirit" by Probot with Eric Wagner of Trouble, "My Problem" by The Hanson Brothers, and "Cold Turkey" by Cheap Trick. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @GregLamberson, @dreadmedia, and @DevilDinosaurJr on Twitter! Join the Facebook group!

Earth-2.net Presents...
Dread Media - Episode 274

Earth-2.net Presents...

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2012 90:02


Greg Lamberson is back on Dread Media! Together, he and Desmond talk about Greg's latest installment in the Jake Helman Files, Tortured Spirits, The Julian Year TREEBook, his latest film work, and even some classic comics! Then, as if that wasn't enough, Devil Dinosaur Jr. works out some of his issues in the latest Stay Scary while covering Chillers. Tunes included: "Been Away Too Long" by Soundgarden, "My Tortured Spirit" by Probot with Eric Wagner of Trouble, "My Problem" by The Hanson Brothers, and "Cold Turkey" by Cheap Trick. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @GregLamberson, @dreadmedia, and @DevilDinosaurJr on Twitter! Join the Facebook group!

Earth-2.net Presents...
Dread Media - Episode 274

Earth-2.net Presents...

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2012 90:02


Greg Lamberson is back on Dread Media! Together, he and Desmond talk about Greg's latest installment in the Jake Helman Files, Tortured Spirits, The Julian Year TREEBook, his latest film work, and even some classic comics! Then, as if that wasn't enough, Devil Dinosaur Jr. works out some of his issues in the latest Stay Scary while covering Chillers. Tunes included: "Been Away Too Long" by Soundgarden, "My Tortured Spirit" by Probot with Eric Wagner of Trouble, "My Problem" by The Hanson Brothers, and "Cold Turkey" by Cheap Trick. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @GregLamberson, @dreadmedia, and @DevilDinosaurJr on Twitter! Join the Facebook group!

Dread Media
Dread Media - Episode 274

Dread Media

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2012 90:02


Greg Lamberson is back on Dread Media! Together, he and Desmond talk about Greg's latest installment in the Jake Helman Files, Tortured Spirits, The Julian Year TREEBook, his latest film work, and even some classic comics! Then, as if that wasn't enough, Devil Dinosaur Jr. works out some of his issues in the latest Stay Scary while covering Chillers. Tunes included: "Been Away Too Long" by Soundgarden, "My Tortured Spirit" by Probot with Eric Wagner of Trouble, "My Problem" by The Hanson Brothers, and "Cold Turkey" by Cheap Trick. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @GregLamberson, @dreadmedia, and @DevilDinosaurJr on Twitter! Join the Facebook group!

Cara B
Cara B: Probot

Cara B

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2011 64:35


Felipe y Diego nos hablan de Probot: un álbum en el que DaveGrohl, líder de Foo Fighters, nos mostraba su faceta más metalera para un proyecto que incluye colaboraciones con gente de Napalm Death, Corrosion of Conformity, Motörhead y muchos otros.