With Angelo on vacation, Brian is joined by his wife Steph for a nostalgia-filled episode that covers topics like their recent wedding and how tech has helped their preparations, P2P file sharing services, IRC, message boards, instant messenger memories, scary movies, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, haunted houses and Ouija board usage.

Special Guest: Steph W..

Links:

• Steph's first Double Density Appearance — The first segment Steph appeared on.

This week, Brian and Angelo discuss Brian's recent nuptuals, Angelo's continuing facination with magic, Jony Ive's departure from Apple, and then they bring back their Alien Cinema segment to discuss Jeremy Corbell's Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers.

Links:

• Apple Sans Ive | TechCrunch
• The Lazar tape and excerpts from the Government Bible : Gene Huff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Area 51 Revelations, Alien Implants, & Nanotechnology - Shows
• Bob Lazar - Biography & Interviews | Coast to Coast AM

Angelo discusses his new hobby some more, Brian suffers a glitch in the matrix, and Angelo tries to scare Brian with some haunted wedding venues.

Links:

• 12-Year-Old Girl Took Uber To Downtown Orlando Without Parents' Consent And Killed Herself
• Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells - CNET
• The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews
• 8 Haunted Wedding Venues For Couples Who Love All Things Creepy
• Haunted Wedding Venues That Will Give You Chills | Reader's Digest

This week, Brian is flumoxed by the minutae of Angelo's package tracking, Brian talks about his Not Alone appearance, and then the duo has a look at WWDC. The paranormal segment finds our hosts discussing Apple's alien facination before heading into a major discussion on if the world is ready for an extraterrestrial visit.

Links:

• Not Alone - All Things Mysterious & Unexplained
• The good, the bad, and the pricey: Apple's WWDC announcements - Six Colors
• The Navy Says UFOs Are Real. UFO Hunters Are Thrilled - VICE
• Brookings Report - Wikipedia
• Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact - Wikipedia

Brian and Angelo welcome Daryl Baxter to talk about video games, WWDC hopes and dreams, the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, and the creepy things about the sinking of the Titanic.

Special Guest: Daryl Baxter .

Links:

• Daryl Baxter
• The Titanic and the Paranormal | Mysterious Universe

This week our hosts tackle ransomware middlemen, Nintendo franchises and their hip-hop equals, tea accounts, the search for Noah's Ark, and how to credibly report a UFO.

Links:

• The Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers
• Nerds On Hip-Hop on Twitter
• How Tea Accounts Fuel the James Charles YouTube Feud - The Atlantic
• From Noah's Ark to the CIA: Conspiracy or Bureaucracy? | Mysterious Universe
• How would you avoid seeming like a UFO nut and losing credibility when trying to report a UFO sighting? : UFOs

This week, the duo reminisces about their first Amazon purchases, how neighbours are spying on each other, how hard drive prices are going down (bigly surprise), and what happens when Google thinks your phone number is Facebook tech support. Then, Angelo gets to talk about a topic that is near and dear to his heart: magicians and skepticism. Learn about how Houdini debunked early spiritualists, and how his work has continued today with James Randi, among others.

Links:

• Fear-based social media Nextdoor, Citizen, Amazon’s Neighbors is getting more popular - Vox
• Why Are Montréal Staircases on the Outside? – À nous Montréal
• Google Thought My Phone Number Was Facebook’s and It Ruined My Life - VICE
• 512GB SSDs' Price-per-GB Estimated to Fall Below US$0.1 and Hit an All-time Low This Year End, Says TrendForce
• Houdini's Skeptical Advice: Just Because Something's Unexplained Doesn't Mean It's Supernatural - Scientific American
• Arthur Ford hoax - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
• Why Magicians Are a Scientist's Best Friend | WIRED
• Meet the King of the Internet Skeptics - VICE
• Project Alpha - Wikipedia
• Chris Ramsay - YouTube
• Xavior Spade - YouTube

Do you use subtitles? Did you ever play Solitaire on Windows 3.0? Do you buy from shady sellers on Amazon? Are you listening to this podcast from an alternate universe?

Links:

• Why Everyone Is Watching TV with Closed Captioning On These Days
• Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning – OneZero
• Windows Solitaire inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame | Ars Technica
• Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top Of The Marketplace
• Evidence of ripples in the fabric of space and time found 5 times this month - Axios
• Avengers Endgame Time Travel Rules and Logic Explained | Den of Geek
• Hugh Everett: The man who gave us the multiverse | New Scientist

This week the duo spend some time talking about podcasting and what an app like Luminary means for the medium, before Brian laments upon the fact that his next computer may not be one made by Apple directly, but may instead turn out to be a Hackintosh. Moving into the paranormal, the Navy's changing regulations about reporting UFOs is discussed and then Brian brings some patents to the table, as the classic black triangle UFOs are the topic du jour.

Links:

• Twitter: Marco Arment talking about Luminary
• Daring Fireball: All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts
• Clip sharing with Overcast – Marco.org
• How to Make a Hackintosh Laptop
• U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs - POLITICO
• US Navy patents anti-gravity aircraft which looks like an alien UFO | Metro News
• US4019699A - Aircraft of low observability - Google Patents
• UFO sighting: Black triangle UFO over London used cloaking device ‘We were SHOCKED' | Weird | News | Express.co.uk
• Why Do Black Triangle UFOs Exist? What is Their Function? , page 1

The Samsung Fold hot takes write themselves. Brian found some embarrassing search terms on a work computer a few years ago. The GPS system that helps govern New York City is facing its own personal Y2K. Attention spans are shortenting, hence the short sentences. In UFO news, is science starting to listen? Conspiracy theories seem to have gained traction - why is that?

Links:

• New York City Has a Y2K-Like Problem, and It Doesn’t Want You to Know About It - The New York Times
• Global attention span is narrowing and trends don't last as long, study reveals | Society | The Guardian
• The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen
• What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?  | The New Yorker