Double Density

This week, Brian and Angelo celebrate SPAM’s 40th birthday, look back at 20 years of the iMac, discuss how hard it is to run the @mta Twitter account, and look at what Google has in store for us with Duplex, a more human sounding Google Assistant. Then in the paranormal section, Brian has Angelo react to a conspiracy packed podcast, which leads them to doubling down on Vegas-style odds on the things that happen in Alex Jones' life.

Special Guest: Lollypop.

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• Forty years of spam email - BBC News

This week, Brian asks Angelo if they talk about too much Apple stuff, and after agreeing that they do, they proceed to talk about how Apple’s laptops seem to have keyboard issues, how Apple is discontinuing their AirPort line of wifi routers, and the origins of many of the original Macintosh icons. They also throw in some Ray Kurzweil talk and a look at psycho-electric weapons for some balance. Brian presents what he has learned about Raëlianism in the first of an occasional series on alien/UFO cults.

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• Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion | The Outline

This week, Brian and Angelo welcome Amber and Andrew from Into the Portal to briefly talk about starting a podcast, their tech setup, and learning about how to podcast on the fly. The foursome then continue their creepy tour of Canada that started on Into the Portal and take a look at some UFOs, cryptids, pirates, ghost ships, and hauntings. Join us as we go from Angikuni Lake in Nunavut, to Roberts Arm in Newfoundland and everywhere in between.

Special Guests: Amber Rae and Andrew McKay.

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• Roswell North | UpHere.ca

This week, Brian and Angelo continue their discussion on Facebook’s misuse of data, including an in-depth look at what they found in their respective “Download your Information” files. Continuing in the tech section, Brian expresses how elated he is that Billy Mitchell has received his comeuppance for cheating. The show then ends with a discussion about Art Bell, and how he influenced Brian’s views on the paranormal. Be sure to listen for the clip of Brian’s one and only interaction with Art Bell when he called into his show a few years ago.

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• Fact-checking Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on Facebook and data collection - The Washington Post

This week, the episode gets flipped turned upside-down, as Brian and Angelo start the show with a special look at Area 51. Then they make the unprecedented move of having the tech section in the second half, where they discuss Angelo's new MIDI controller, some Uber follow-up, Apple criticism, phone boredom, and much more.

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• Did Pentagon create orbital space plane? - Technology & science - Space | NBC News

This week, Brian and Angelo take a look at their favourite topics from the past year of episodes and provide follow ups and updates to everyone's burning questions, including: is Angelo still playing retro games? Did "mad" Mike Hughes launch and prove that the earth is flat? What are some paranormal places of significance? Is it many bigfoot or is it bigfeet? All these questions and more are answered!

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• Self-taught rocket scientist 'Mad' Mike Hughes blasts off into California sky | CBC News

There can be high tech issues and low tech issues, and both were experienced this week. Stupid doors, smart homes, Apple’s education ploy, autonomous car dangers, and dystopian toilet paper rations. Then, the Dyatlov Pass claims a hiker, Venus is a UFO, and Stephen Greer and Tom DeLonge fight over mummified remains.

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• Apple doesn't give a shit about your kids / Boing Boing

Newly uncovered! Before Double Density, Angelo and Brian co-hosted the Bytes and Strange Lights syndicated radio show. Listen in to an excerpt from September 1999 – a mix of tech and paranormal topics.

This week, TJ Counihan joins Brian and Angelo to discuss his podcasting endeavours, the gear he uses, and what it’s like to deal with children and the connected world. In the paranormal segment, a look at the book Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper, and how it affects and relates to the current climate of conspiracy theory.

Special Guest: TJ Counihan.

Links:

• Samsung’s SmartThings smart home hub has been down since yesterday for some users - The Verge

Memes. So many memes. Brian and Angelo have a look at what memes are, how they’ve changed, and how people used them. They reach memeception, and Alexa laughs at them when they get there. In the paranormal segment, things go off the rails real quick as they look into the Montauk Project and the colourful personalities involved.

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• New Entry-Level Mac Notebook Expected to Adopt Retina Display, Likely Launch at WWDC in June - Mac Rumors