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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 178: Culture of Sincerity

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fear of deadbeats, fear of karaoke, fear of secret crushes, and fear of doorbells

    • Deadwood: The Movie
    • Chernobyl
      • Chernobyl’s Cars Paint a Fascinating and Grim Picture Of Soviet Life
      • China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare
      • Mixing Chatroulette with Tinder Is the Horrifying Future of Online Dating
      • Facebook wants to help make your secret crushes come true
      • The Doorbell Company That’s Selling Fear
        • Neighbors
        • What a “Minimal Turing Test” Says About Humans

          • Cutting Room Floor

          • D&D stats for Bugs Bunny (15th level illusionist), Donald Duck (10th level berzerker), and others

            • We Give Thanks

            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
              • 31 min
            • Episode 177: The Big Clapper

              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robots that want to clap, robots that want to live, and robots that want to deliver coffee

              • GoT After Action Report
              • The Guts Game
              • BigClapper does away with tedious clapping, happiness
              • New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life
              • Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
              • "Would You Rather Be a Dog or a Ghost?" Is the Perfect Party Question

                • Cutting Room Floor

                • Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts
                • Windows 95 Phone
                • Watch This Hilarious Bitcoin Explainer Generated by an AI

                  • We Give Thanks

                  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

                    • Editor's Note: Gunnar knows he misused the term morphology in this episode. He meant physiology, and we can all agree to look past it.

                    33 min
                  • Episode 176: The Argument Dilution Effect

                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk

                    • Dave tries Jabbrrbox
                    • Gunnar organizes Todoist by Meeting
                    • D&G This Week in Irony: Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him
                    • Google Play malware used phones’ motion sensors to conceal itself
                    • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
                    • The Argument Dilution Effect: How Drug Company Ads Downplay Risks
                    • How to Read 80ish Books a Year (And Actually Remember Them)
                      • The Weeds Podcast

                        • Cutting Room Floor

                        • Watch Scientists Express Their Research in Interpretive Dances
                        • Hot or Not for fake people
                        • Human Blinders Block Out Distractions

                          • We Give Thanks

                          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                            • 42 min
                          • Episode 175: Happy Quit

                            This week Dave and Gunnar talk about old school propaganda optimization, new school propaganda optimization, new school ad experience optimization, and new school, new school email optimization

                            • The Umbrella Academy: X-Men meets Hitchhiker's Guide, directed by Wes Anderson
                            • Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh
                            • Introducing 'Happy Quit', where Chinese smokers are text-spammed into nicotine abstinence
                            • New village loudspeaker campaign aims to spread ideological message
                            • A government propaganda app is going viral in China
                            • Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It's Building a Big Ad Business From It.
                            • Inbox Zero or Inbox Infinity?
                              • Don't Reply to Your Emails
                              • How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day
                              • Gmail Priority Inbox

                                • We Give Thanks

                                • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                  • 36 min
                                • Episode 174: Success Is a Powerful Excuse

                                  This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Walmart, Amazon, Spanish phrases we should be using, and AI-generated phrases we should be using?

                                  • Cleveland Somehow Named Fifth Best American City for Nightlife in New Report
                                  • Pufferfish and Empathy and Curiosity
                                  • Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature
                                  • Amazon: What If You Thought of Doing Manual Labor for Us as More of a Workout
                                    • Lyft Thinks It's 'Exciting' That a Driver Was Working While Giving Birth
                                    • Prime and Punishment: Dirty Dealing in the $175B Amazon Marketplace
                                      • Monopsony
                                      • 20 Spanish Phrases You Should Be Using
                                      • These AI-generated fortunes are just as mysterious as the real thing
                                        • See list here

                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                          • 20 Animal Bands That Look Like They Are About To Drop The Hottest Albums Ever
                                          • Music from the Fibonacci sequence
                                          • DOOMBA: Generate DOOM levels of your house with your Roomba
                                          • H/T JMH: Progress bar for your life remaining

                                            • We Give Thanks

                                            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                            • Jan Mark Holzer for letting us know how much time we have left
                                              • 26 min
                                            • Episode 173: Digital Nomad

                                              This week Dave talks with Camille Tuutti about her metamorphosis from DC resident to digital nomad!

                                              • Camille in D&G #153
                                              • Digital nomad
                                              • Visit Knoxville, TN
                                              • Playa del Carmen
                                              • Cancún
                                              • Independent George

                                                • We Give Thanks

                                                • Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star!

                                                  • Special Guest: Camille Tuutti.

                                                  40 min
                                                • Episode 172: My Favorite Things, Part 3

                                                  This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 3)

                                                  • HP Chromebook x2
                                                  • uBlock Origin
                                                  • Firefox for Android
                                                  • Runtastic v Runkeeper
                                                  • Xiaomi Mi Band 3
                                                  • Google Fit
                                                  • Dark Sky
                                                  • Google Voice
                                                  • LastPass
                                                  • 1Password
                                                  • Duolingo
                                                  • Video Speed Controller for Firefox and Chrome
                                                  • Just Press Record
                                                  • Sleep Cycle

                                                    • We Give Thanks

                                                    • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                      • 40 min
                                                    • Episode 171: My Favorite Things, Part 2

                                                      This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 2)

                                                      • Google Calendar and Goals
                                                      • Todoist
                                                      • Headspace
                                                      • The Eisenhower Decision Matrix
                                                      • Gmail Priority Inbox
                                                      • Google Inbox
                                                      • Boomerang for Gmail
                                                      • Grammarly

                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                        • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                          • 23 min
                                                        • Episode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1

                                                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1)

                                                          • Todoist
                                                          • Remember the Milk
                                                          • Day One
                                                          • IFTTT
                                                          • Google Home
                                                          • KornShell
                                                          • Nest Doorbell
                                                          • Feedly
                                                          • OverDrive
                                                          • The Economist
                                                          • Blogtrottr
                                                          • Libby
                                                          • PocketCasts
                                                          • BeyondPod

                                                            • We Give Thanks

                                                            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                              • 24 min
                                                            • Episode 169: Pushing the Envelope

                                                              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Chinese industry helping the Chinese government, the Chinese helping US state governments, some dude helping himself to UPS’s mail, and some other dude being no help to American Airlines

                                                              • Powering IT’s future while preserving the present: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
                                                              • Red Hat Continues Drive for More Secure Enterprise IT, Re-Certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux for FIPS 140-2
                                                              • At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
                                                              • The Lawfare Podcast
                                                              • State Govts. Warned of Malware-Laden CD Sent Via Snail Mail from China
                                                              • Change-of-address scam moved UPS corporate headquarters to tiny Rogers Park apartment, feds say
                                                              • Pushing The Envelope: How American Airlines Can Become The Amazon Of The Sky And The Next Uber

                                                                • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                • 30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies
                                                                • 30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns
                                                                • A Flickr Pool Dedicated to Control Panels

                                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                                  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                    • 40 min

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                                                                  David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.