Off The Hook (low-bitrate)

Making noise, an update on Alex's health, entrenched politics, failures of leadership, doctors punished for speaking out about inadequate protective gear, delivering supplies to those who need them, listener phone calls, 5G cellular towers being attacked.

An update on Alex's health, increasing protective measures, disturbing projections, weird noises, getting through this together, artificial software locks preventing ventilator repairs, it's census day, listener phone calls, 2600 meetings cancelled, Manu Dibango has passed away.

This week's show is coming from four different locations, an update on Alex's health, how others are dealing with social distancing, New York is the epicenter of the outbreak now, WBAI is running with a skeleton crew, panic over the signal, rating the presidential response, dangerous advice, listener feedback, technology solutions to the health crisis, technology failures.

Two-hour show, taking the pandemic seriously, Alex is on the phone from Pennsylvania, worrying symptoms, the New York state coronavirus hotline, testing criteria, Rob and Gila are on via Skype, mass transit is practically empty, panic buying, tracking Google's coronavirus website, "hackers" registering scam domain names, comparing the Spanish flu with the current pandemic, listener phone calls.

Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin discuss their project to generate every melody that can possibly exist in an attempt to end music copyright lawsuit claims, more businesses and schools are shifting to online work due to coronavirus fears, the LinkNYC project is in trouble, more coronavirus domain names registered.

Taking precautions against the coronavirus, remaining NYC payphones to be removed, history of NYC payphone ownership over the years, the last bastion of anonymous public utility use, redboxing, the rise and fall of payphones across the US, calling a payphone, listener phone calls, profiting off of the coronavirus.

Fundraising show, customize Waze with OTH panelist voices, Iowa's right to be forgotten act, Jason Torchinsky - senior editor of Jalopnik - is on to discuss a case where Tesla remotely removed features from a car after it was sold to a third party, listener phone calls.

Fundraising show, an experiment comes to fruition, Emmanuel and Kyle discuss their trip to Schefferville in northern Québec, an experiment with SMS, the Iowa caucus app failure.

The NYC subways are a mess, Emmanuel and Kyle are in Montreal, Montreal's aggressive snow removal techniques, Alex finally arrives, Emmanuel and Kyle discuss a seminar they participated in at McGill University, community radio in Canada, Glenn Greenwald charged with cybercrimes in Brazil.

Technical problems, more information about the upcoming HOPE conference, Google drops support for digital magazines, listener phone calls.