Everyone’s favorite bystander wasn’t able to make it this week, but we have a special guest!

Introducing our special guest host: Arnab!

Follow-up

Jason bought a 2015 13″ MacBook Pro

Michael is waiting for the Skylake update due later this year

Arnab is in the market for a new laptop

Mike’s thoughts on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Jason dreams of a Surface-like device from Apple

Trailer talk

Halo 5

Trailer 1 – Spartan Locke Ad

Trailer 2 – Master Chief Ad

Jason’s gripes with the Halo storyline

#HUNTtheTRUTH

Xbox One vs. PS4

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

Spectre (Sceptre?) Teaser Trailer

Has the Bond series gotten too serious?

Daniel Craig on how Austin Powers affected the Bond series

Kingsman

Furious Seven

Vin Diesel’s bold prediction

Did Paul Walker’s tragic death affect reviews?

 Walking Dead

Our thoughts on the season finale and what’s to come (Spoilers)

Walking Dead spinoff talk

Amazing Race

Discussing Jenny’s performance on the show so far

New product announcements

Amazon Dash button

Boxed delivers wholesale to your door. Enter 7BBEV for a discount of 15.00 on checkout!

Microsoft Surface 3

Pencil by FiftyThree

April Fools’ Day

Google’s pranks – com.google (now elgoog.im) and PAC-MAN

Law firm makes joke out of work/life balance

‘Chute’ app supposedly protects your phone from shattering when dropped on the ground

Jimmy Kimmel’s iPhone selfie prank

Full House is coming back (maybe?)

Girl Meets World is apparently a thing (?)

What shows would we want remade?

Reddit’s ‘The Button’

Hopefully better than the button from Lost

Our (late) Final Four predictions

Jason is officially the worst at sports predictions

On this week’s episode:

Follow-up:

Force Touch trackpad

Wired’s article on “bumpy pixels”

Twitter launches Periscope app

Is Meerkat in trouble?

Will it become filled with copyrighted/inappropriate material?

We pour one out for Qik and ICQ

The Jinx

Our impressions on Robert Durst and the documentary

Moye’s problems with filmmaker Andrew Jarecki

The Jinx’s mismatched timeline

The justice system

Admissibility of the audio tape

The handwritten letter

Is the opening sequence a rip-off of True Detective?

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Theme song

Moye and Jason pour one out for Arrested Development

The show’s use of diversity

Is the show actually racist?

Is the show secretly linked to The Americans?

The Americans and Parenthood (and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) related too?

Game of Thrones

Upcoming seasons will contain spoilers for unreleased books

X-Files is coming back!

Should Chris Carter just move on?

Thanks Netflix?

Is this another sign of Hollywood’s reliance on bringing back old shows?

Our favorite candy bars

On this week’s episode:

Follow-up:

xkcd: Students

Apple Watch

Which size to get?

Apple Watch sizing comparison

Which strap(s) to get?

Jason rationalizes his future Apple Watch purchase

Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband

MacID unlocks your Mac with your Touch ID

Android Wear to support iOS devices?

ForceTouch Trackpad impressions

Impressions from The Verge

Selfie sticks are old news. This is the future.

George R.R. Martin hints that the latest Game of Thrones book may be finished by this summer

George R.R. Martin still uses LiveJournal!

Xanga is still around (somehow)

Walking Dead

Jason is playing through the Telltale games

Walking Dead overload?

Overkill is making a new Walking Dead game

Spinoff TV show will not remain a prequel

Brief Season 5 discussion

Television talk

Our homework is to watch The Jinx and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt so we can discuss next week

Housekeeping

We plan on splitting up into two separate podcasts in the (near?) future

Nintendo announces partnership with DeNA to develop mobile games

Nintendo also announces next console, codenamed ‘NX’

Mike is excited about the news

‘Pixels’ trailer

Pixels short film from 2010

We posted a support page with an Amazon search bar for you to use (and support us in the process)

On this week’s show:

DARRELLE REVIS!

Apple’s ‘Spring Forward’ event

Apple Watch thoughts

Jason is not impressed

Jason sells his Pebble

Which model is Mike getting?

Apple’s confusing naming of their watches

Jason’s dream for future Apple Watch

New MacBook thoughts

About as powerful as the 2012 MacBook Air

Apple’s confusing naming of their laptops

Comparing it to the first-generation MacBook Air

The cloud!

Thoughts on pricing

Force Touch trackpad

Jason is intrigued but skeptical

New keyboard 

Jason’s mental budgeting of money

WSJ: Apple testing pink color option for next iPhone

Recurring (re-occurring?) nightmares about school

Moye’s moving and classroom-related nightmares

Jason’s exam-related nightmares

The naked dream

Dreamcast?

Follow-up

Wirecutter’s choice for best selfie stick

Movie/TV talk

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Devil’

Annabelle

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Game of Thrones

We have a special guest this week!

Introducing our special guest host: Justin!

Follow-up

A $70k Apple Watch for Jason to lose sleep over

Comparison to Vertu phones

Mike gives an update on his Crucial RAM

Pebble Time Steel

Comparison to Apple Watch

Tipping at Cochon Butcher (and other quasi-sitdown restaurants)

Growing the Beard

Star Trek: TNG

Fresh Off the Boat

Tesla battery update

Should Ja get an iPad?

iPad as a laptop/Kindle Fire replacement

iPad or MacBook Air

Wi-Fi iPad vs. Cellular iPad

Mike’s couch (again)

TV talk

Moye’s reasons for not watching House of Cards, Frozen, and Fresh Off the Boat (and pretty much anything else good)

House of Cards Season 3

Moye has another podcast??

HBO reportedly launching ‘HBO Now’ in April for $15/month

Apple’s ‘Spring Forward’ event

Our predictions (yes, we know this is being posted after the event actually took place)

Whoa, two episodes this week! All caught up (for now). We’re recording a new episode tonight that should be out… someday.

On this episode (recorded on Feb 25, 2015):

All the things!

Our apologies for being so late (actually Mike apologizes the most for not editing the podcast). Episode 13 should be following later tonight, so prepare your ears.

This week (which was actually recorded on Feb 11, 2015, so if we sound really out-of-date and not topical, this is why):

Our TV extravaganza!

Walking Dead, Parenthood, Better Call Saul, Fresh Off The Boat

This week:

Follow-up

Super Bowl XLIX (unfortunately)

Mike gets his couch refund for correctly picking the Pats

Moye doesn’t even watch

Katy Perry’s costume

Hot Dog on a Stick

Fresh Prince of Bel Air scene

New Jurassic World trailer

Karen watches Jurassic Park for the first time

Our backlog of video games

Last of Us

Tomb Raider

Bioshock Infinite

Achievements

Are games too long?

The Walking Dead

DLC for Bioshock Infinite

Jason tries Kitchensurfing

Impressions

Should you tip?

Oxt

Is this solving a problem that doesn’t exist?

Using an iPad as your main computer

What Jason wants out of his iPad

Photography on the iPad

What a huge difference 2GB of RAM makes

Karen’s LINE x LINE Kickstarter project

On this week’s episode:

Follow-up

Moye’s take on Serial (people are still talking about this, right?)

Is it better to put an innocent person in jail or let a guilty person go free?

How to Get Away with Murder

ABC brands Shonda Rhimes lineup TGIT

Who is this Shonda Rhimes? (link provided since you probably don’t know who she is either)

Spoilers revisited

The Wire

Graph TV ratings

Graph TV chart for The Wire

How to skip through a TV series without getting lost

Lost

Lost Rewatch

Our thoughts on the series

Battlestar Galactica

Binge watching shows: yay or nay?

Game of Thrones

Our thoughts on the series (and Moye’s thoughts on the books)

Will George RR Martin (or whatever) finish the books in time? 

Game of Thrones companion books

Will the TV series pass the books?

The Wire

Is Omar’s scar real? Yes (no link because I still don’t want to Google it)

Jason is scarist

Jason’s badass scar

How Tina Fey got her scar

#vaccinegate – the two non-doctor hosts discuss vaccinations

Two doctors have a heated debate over vaccinations

Airpnp app – an Airbnb-like app for renting private bathrooms for emergencies

Google Docs app on iOS doesn’t auto-generate hyperlinks

#3??

Mike’s love for 1980’s references

Mike’s Amazon Echo impressions

Moye announces Amazon Moye?

Possible privacy issues?

Will the next Apple TV offer similar “always on” Siri features?

The Talk Show Ep. 108 – John Gruber and Ben Thompson discuss possible new Apple TV at the 01:39:37 mark

Garrett Murray on Video and iOS Rotation Lock

Vertical videos

Mike’s most regrettable purchase

NO RAGRETS!

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection for $400

Dell 4K display

5K vs. 4K – the difference 1K makes

Is Touch ID getting worse?

Jason and Moye discuss the declining performance of Touch ID on their phones

BGR article on “improving” Touch ID performance

Listener feedback from our friend, Will

Mike missed the boat on Microsoft HoloLens and the clear similarity to the glasses from Back to the Future 2

Apple Watch is coming out in April

Super Bowl picks!

Mike picks the wrong team (I’m going to edit this later if I’m wrong)

 

One more thing: it would be incredibly awesome if you checked out Karen’s awesome Kickstarter project! Your support is very much appreciated!

On this week’s episode:

Introducing our new co-host: Moye!

Follow-up

Selfie sticks!

The Oatmeal on selfie sticks

Mike’s Hue lightbulbs

Mike and Jason both order a 27″ Dell 4K monitor (impressions next week!)

Travel deals

JetBlue’s $32 promotional fares

$800 for 2 roundtrip flights to Milan

New Rock Band rumors

Harmonix posts a survey hinting at a new Rock Band

Features we would want in a new Rock Band

Endless Setlist

Moye’s thoughts on fizzy water

Clearly Canadian (still exists!)

More Rock Band talk

Rock Band: Harmonica Edition?

Rock Band DLC returns!

Moye loves the keyboard

The band’s (possibly) coming back together!

Jason sells his Xbox 360 … and is racist and ageist

Our favorite podcasts

Our thoughts on StartUp podcast

Our thoughts on Kickstarter

Why Moye doesn’t like Kickstarter

Veronica Mars Kickstarter project

Zach Braff Kickstarter project

Using Kickstarter for marketing purposes

Potato Salad Kickstarter project

Moye hates on Zach Braff

Microsoft’s Windows 10 event

Microsoft HoloLens website, promotional video, and on-stage demo

HoloLens vs. Google Glass

Jason envisions a world where HoloLens means the end of pants

Will HoloLens be a success?

Nokia 8210 (from Charlie’s Angels)

Danger Hiptop

Cortana coming to Windows 10

Will Siri come to the Mac?

Video game talk

Mike plays Halo 2 Anniversary

343 Industries apologizes for issues with Halo: The Master Chief Collection by promising access to a remastered Halo 3: ODST 

 Blue Apron