Podcast appearances and mentions of sam joe

They thought they had a sure thing with a Halloween show that would bring in hundreds of people. They soon found out that luck was not on their side. Listen to a funny tale of a time when things didn't turn out the way they expected. Guest Joe Givan of Theater of Dreams in Castle Rock Colorado tells the Story You can learn more about Theater of Dreams at www.amazingshows.com Hosted by Bruce Kalver, Backstage S.A.M. is a production of The Society of American Magicians. To learn more about The Society of American Magicians. please visit www.magicSAM.com

Topics: -What is a sin-eater? -Jerry talked about which level of Microsoft to move to from Rackspace. -He used Emailchemy to convert the data. -Dealing with customers that purchase the wrong hardware to save a buck. -What to do when you have additional storage needs with Microsoft accounts. Jerry finds out. -After an automated Synology alert, Jerry finds out that a client moved and unplugged it without a proper shutdown. -Sam & Joe differ on their Amazon return experience at Whole Foods. -UPS Store experiences are another level of customer service.

LISTEN | It's our favorite time of the week, Show Me The Money day! Thanks to the TAB we come up with a 4-leg Multi. Sam, Joe and Neps each come up with a leg and the final one is down to you. If the Multi wins, you keep the cash! SHOW ME THE MONEY!!

Sam had a bad dining experience, but he didn't tell the server. Should he have told them? Plus, Sam & Joe played "Hallmark movie: Real or Fake." How did Sam do with the made-up movie titles Joe made up? Is it OK iin your 20s and 30s to ditch your family Christmas celebrations? Joe wants to spend the holiday with friends, but knows it may hurt his family's feelings.

Sam & Joe debated the merits of Christmas songs... like is "Last Christmas really a great song or just sad and is Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" the worst song ever? Joe thinks so, but he also loves Britney Spears & NSYNC, Apparently. Joe ran into his ex over the weekend, and he's mad because he had to starve himself as a result? & more!

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In this very festive episode, We introduced Sam (Joe's Brother), We talk about the Tiger King, Cyberpunk 2077, What we want for Christmas, Talk about a lemonade stand getting robbed, And browse Wish

Topics: -Adam Engst of TidBITS Content Network joins us to talk about Apple’s release of the M1 chips. -We talk about “One More Thing...” -Joe goes on a tear about some history of Mac.  -Joe is proud of his first generation JamBox.  -Adam is very excited about the benchmarks he is reading about the M1 chips.  -Even Rosetta 2 is showing a benchmark of 80% of native use! -Adam talks about unified memory and how the memory is built in to the M1 chip.  -Thermal capacity in the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini is discussed. The MacBook Air doesn’t even have a fan! -Sam & Joe are emotionally scarred from recent MacBook Air models.  -Adam is not impressed with the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro.  -While we were once concerned about first generation chips, everything we are hearing has us excited.  -Battery life is a notable difference that users will be most aware of.  -50 of recent Mac purchases were customers new to the Mac.  -Adam warns about issues to be wary of with Big Sur when it comes to third party backup programs like Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper.  -Time Machine in Big Sur now uses APFS. You will likely want to start your backups fresh.  -The low end MacBook Air has a 7 core CPU instead of an 8 core. Why? -Adam is going to test his new computer by dumping all his apps in Login Items to see how it responds.  -Sign up with TidBITS Content Network and have Adam and his team create meaningful content for your organization. 

Topics: -Joe had a client reach out just to say something positive about Parallels 16. How infrequently do we get those feel good calls? -Speaking of Parallels 16, Jerry has a gripe about a Parallels update that ended up costing him. -Sam wants to inject some feel good stories and talks about a free offer from a local ISP for households with educators and school age children. -Another great tool for educators is Safe You Tube, a site that lets you play YouTube videos for children, without potentially inappropriate ad content. -What happened to paper cups? -We have some follow up to the Carbon Copy Cloner Privacy Fish, from Mike Bombitch himself! -And now we have a hot air balloon from Tech Tool Pro. -Amy McKnight and others give Joe some credit for his PSA about being able to open PDFs in Microsoft Word. -Jerry is annoyed by a client that is clearly multi tasking while trying to work with him remotely. -Joe has a similar client and sees the proof with Handoff displaying multiple apps in their Mac Dock.  -While trying to work with a new client remotely, Sam seems just how difficult it can be when leaving a lot of the work to the client. -Sam & Joe have a live conversation about a potential new client that they are both in discussions with.

From a Sam & Joe’s special to a very special look at our man Snoke, the only thing that’s not on our plate in this episode is a boring time! Let’s get weird, friends! This week we’re analyzing Snoke’s soft face, telling legendary stories from Dolph Lundgren, analyzing the Star Wars film delays, and a heaping bowlful of food talk and NeedEm GotEm. Let’s go, Warheads! The Star Wars party starts NOW! It’s time for Brews and Blasters.

In this more laidback episode, we create something of a time capsule, discussing our thoughts on how lockdown has shaped communities, the role that celebrities play (or have tried to play) in a time of crisis, social distancing while shopping, lockdown drinking habits, Captain Tom Moore and clapping for carers. We also lend our thoughts to some altogether more difficult topics - gaining insight to the pros and cons of home schooling from a teacher, discussing how stoicism can help fortify the mind in a time of crisis, the role of commercialism in crisis and the potential legacy of our current plight. We're still getting used to discord so apologies for any audio errors. A great video by CGP Grey about how to live through a crisis _ Edited by Connor. Audio & music mastering / production by Nye James. Jingles recorded by Nye (guitars) & Connor (harmonica, mandolin)

Topics: -Jerry & Sam have a rare show together -Sam is short staffed for a week and, of course, everything happens at once -A discussion brews about the state of business in Connecticut  -Working remotely is something Joe is very familiar with but Sam discusses working remotely with clients that move out of state -An Apple retail store is relocating to a closer location to Sam & Joe, possibly creating new opportunities -When business is slow, Jerry has some methods of drumming up business by developing partnerships.  One example is Drive Savers’ partner program: https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/partner-programs/ -Another great podcast that Jerry suggest (and Sam won’t listen to) is “The Dream” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dream/id1435743296 -Sam was in a difficult spot training a fellow consultancy on Jamf Pro for a client.  When their newly trained employee left, the client was now left in the lurch. -Jerry talks about some red flags to look out for when meeting with potential new clients -As Sam tries to automate more in his business, he came across a Zendesk integration called Deadline, by SweetHawk: https://www.zendesk.com/apps/support/deadline/  -A tip from Jerry for after hours or automated replies to inquiries is the smith.ai web widget: https://docs.smith.ai/article/pzfvnbq5xl-how-to-access-your-smith-ai-live-chat-widget-code -Sam is exploring a similiar web widget from Zendesk: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203908456-Using-Web-Widget-to-embed-customer-service-in-your-website -Teaser for another show, Sam goes head first into Addigy functionality and finds a treasure trove of features

That's right, today is a particularly weird one as Connor digs up one of the more niche areas of modern religiosity, in the form of "UFO religions". Joe, Sam, and Nye offer up their thoughts on questions like "Why do people join cults and believe in aliens?" and "what makes religions legitimate?". From Melanesian cargo cults to Jediism and from Scientology to the Universal Church of the New World Comforter, we discuss all kinds of bizarre religions, strange cultural movements, and dangerous cults. As it was a sunny Spring morning and perfect barbeque weather, we left the window open... with no concern for our listeners. So we hope you like traffic, planes, and seagulls. Here is an article written by Connor which explores the religious nature of UFO movements: https://twobeersuntilphronesis.weebly...

Connor is joined by Nye, Sam and (a third) Joe to discuss pseudo-science, alternative medicine and superstition. The conversation touches upon a myriad of topics from game theory to the Flat Earth Society, heuristics to religiosity. As well as alternative medicines such as reiki, homeopathy and acupuncture the group discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal. The conversation briefly touches upon why these beliefs are held, their merits and detriments and their pervasiveness and their public discussion. Sam comes up with some inspired nicknames for Flat Earthers and practitioners of Reiki, Joe eats a particularly noisy pasta salad and Connor derails the conversation not once but twice. We will most likely return to this conversation some time in the future. An article by Connor: https://twobeersuntilphronesis.weebly...

Topics: -Sam is in Minnesota at the Jamf Nation User Conference -Meanwhile, he has just returned from an Apple training gig in Alaska -While at JNUC, Sam again ran into friend of the show, Chris Stout of STOUT https://stout.computer -A call to action for our listeners!  Take photos in various locations with your Command Control Power t-shirt -Sam takes a closer look at his process he recently used with a large deployment.  -He used AutoDMG for a quick restore of macOS: https://github.com/MagerValp/AutoDMG -The createinstallmedia command worked well as an offline installer of macOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 -Here are the disks that were used to backup user data: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S1PCSV5/ref=twister_B07Y17L7BZ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 -Joe takes us back in time to discuss the early encounters with Startup Security Utility on T2 computers -Sam notices a difference in the behavior of users in large, corporate environments vs the SMB clients we are used to -Joe deals with some confusion dealing with Daylite Saving while in Sedona, Arizona -The topic of time zones reminds Sam about an issue he has with his Mac auto correcting time…incorrectly -The Safari beachball bug has been plaguing Joe for a while -Sam & Joe compare keychains -After installing countless Synology NAS devices, Sam dug up a Github project which allowed for a python script to be run to do a speed test on the Synology: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli -When moving from a Windows Server to Synology, Sam had to do some Googling but found a tool built-in to Windows Server called Robocopy.  Here is an example of syntax to preserve modification dates & times: robocopy /s /e /DCOPY:T

Topics -The band is back together!   -Jerry discusses upgrading from the iPhone 7 Plus to the iPhone 11.  He is “whelmed” -Sam & Joe still haven’t pulled the trigger on upgrades -A little time is spent talking about the latest product releases.  The Always On feature of the watch isn’t blowing our socks off. -Jerry’s 2015 MacBook Pro went sideways and he had to put his skills to work on his own hardware -An old issue that Jerry experienced before was related to Automated Device Enrollment at Setup Assistant -Sam ran into an intriguing conundrum with blog posts created by our friends at the TidBITS Content Network https://tcn.tidbits.com -Joe realizes that marketing is a part of his business that he needs to incorporate more -The practice of sending using breached password combinations to gain access to secure information is called “Credential Stuffing”.  Jerry thinks Joe is talking about Thanksgiving -Clients sending passwords via email is nothing new but Joe reveals how it can also lead to the client paying for time to have their consultant now change their credentials.  He also discusses how you as the consultant can be tied to this bad practice. -Jerry shows up to a client site to do a hard drive upgrade on a Mac mini.  He heads into trouble when a keyboard he brings with him does not allow him to boot in to Target Disk Mode. -He has another story at a client site where he was troubleshooting the wrong Brother printer

Topics: -Jerry has some follow up on a show where Sam & Joe discussed friendliness with employees.  Jerry offers his thoughts on drawing a line with staff. -The topic spills over into relationships with clients -Insurance is something that Jerry is curious about amongst others in our profession.  He and Joe discuss hard numbers. -Jerry wants to know why Joe doesn’t hire people as contractors or 1099 employees -After buying a new MacBook on eBay, Jerry has noticed that the display is starting to delaminate: MacBook Retina STAINS ON DISPLAY / damaged AR coating -Joe brings up the “Rights to Repair” movement https://repair.org/stand-up -Louis Rossmann is a very vocal voice on the subject of Right to Repair https://rossmanngroup.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w -Security is a subject we commonly bring up and Joe recalls a story he heard on the Reply All podcast.  This concerning topic revolves around intercepting a phone number in two step verification by a practice called SIM swapping. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all -Jerry wraps up the show by offering up movie recommendations: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley | Documentaries | HBO https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-inventor-out-for-blood-in-silicon-valley Free Solo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/films/free-solo/ Dawn Wall https://www.dawnwall-film.com Meru http://www.merufilm.com

An awesome dance mix filled with gems that you don't often hear in a traditional wedding set. We gave the wedding standards a fresh twist and then added in some Latin bangers for our Spanish speakers. It's all about creating something uniquely tailored to our clients and their crowd!