It may be our geekiest podcast yet as we somehow chat about the new Span and Memory value types in C# 7.2 and all the optimized goodness that they bring to .NET applications! We also dive through James's not so optimized code to see how it could take advantage of these new structures.

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• What's new in C# 7.2 | Microsoft Docs
• C# - All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay
• C# 7.2: Understanding Span | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9
• NuGet Gallery | System.Memory 4.5.0-preview1-26216-02
• Caboodle/Compass.android.cs at master · xamarin/Caboodle
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• Trinspo: Travel Inspiration Podcast
• The V Spot: Vegan Podcast

Bee Venom Therapy...The Impossible Burger...Pre-maturely born babies...what do all of these have in common? All of them are surrounded by controversy for various reasons in the animal or human rights industries, and all of them are discussed in this episode. Sometimes even people of the 'same group' have differing opinions, and we're here to explore that with these topics. At the end you decide...where do you stand?

**Warning- this episode does contain explicit talk regarding pre-maturely born babies completing their growth cycle outside of the womb.

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• Bee venom therapy for Arthritis on MedicineNet.com
• Vegan Actor Alan Cumming Requests Plant-Based Options On Set of New Show
• Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)
• FDA, Hampton Creek, Impossible Foods, and Animal Testing - The Good Food Institute
• Animal Testing on Plant-Based Ingredients Divides Vegan Community
• Beyond the Headlines: A Clarification Regarding Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods | Blog | Beyond Meat
• The Agonizing Dilemma of Animal Testing - Impossible Foods
• Bee Venom Therapy for Arthritis
• Vegetarians Are Really Fucking Mad At Chrissy Teigen Right Now
• Expert Says Dairy Industry Will Vanish in 10 Years
• SeaWorld Orlando Orca Suffers Serious Injury To Dorsal Fin - The Dodo
• An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans could be next - The Verge
• Orca Male and His Mother Kill Calf In Rare Infanticide Case
• Artificial wombs are coming. They could completely change the debate over abortion. - Vox
• McElroy Shows - Sawbones
• Non-GMO Sustainable Food Ingredients Made in the US - PURIS

That is right 50 episodes! We did it!!!! We reflect on the last year, what brought us to this point, and why we love each other so much. Motz breaks down Ready Player One with his full review, Danny is heading off to the Pro Chess League, and family stuff happens again!

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• My Review Of Ready Player One
• PRO CHESS LEAGUE - Home
• A Brief History of "Lil" Rappers in Hip-Hop - DJBooth

Samantha and Heather discuss the parallels of life and travel. Samantha's trip to Copenhagen, love of cardamom, and time with hipster Danish sailors. The flight that changed origin country, and the sounds of a city.

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Special Guest: Samantha.

Welcome to Trinspo, a new travel podcast with a mission of inspiring travel via storytelling. This week we give an introduction to the podcast and to host Heather Walicki, as well as where to find us.

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James is back from GDC, the Game Developers Conference, and he has games on his mind! We take a look at the state of game development for .NET developers in 2018 and at some of the large announcements from GDC. James also sits down for our first interview with Shaun Peoples from Durham Games to talk about their upcoming iOS and Android game Foodie Trucks that is built with Unity and C#.

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This week Dani and Katt decided to get political and explore a lot of grey area after seeing on social media that someone can not have voted for Trump and be a vegan. It was another case for the vegan police to take away someones vegan card. But can't one separate their moral and political views in such a way that it is two different things for them? Regardless, shouldn't we set differences aside, educate, and accept people to join forces in the fight for animal rights?

**Disclaimer- these are only our opinions and views based on what we saw and think, not that of the network.

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• Non-Humans First Declaration | Combating Human Supremacy in The Animal Rights Movement.
• In Defense of the Non-Humans First Declaration | Non-Humans First Declaration
• Animals shouldn’t take a backseat to ‘intersectionality’ | Non-Humans First Declaration
• 269 Life
• Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers
• Trump Veganism: A Political Survey of American Vegans in the Era of Identity Politics
• U.S. Lifts Ban on Some Elephant and Lion Trophies - The New York Times
• Edie Falco Kicks Off International Vegan Speaking Tour
• Trump Administration Eliminates Animal Welfare Rule

Motz and Danny chat about Apple's new initiative to get the iPad into more schools, we break down the Pro Chess League and praise the hometown hero Caruana as he heads to take on our boy Carl! Danny also describes the state of premium chess learning that is currently happening.

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• Microsoft XNA - Wikipedia
• BREAKING: Caruana Wins FIDE Candidates' Tournament - Chess.com
• The 5 biggest announcements from the Apple education event - The Verge
• A.P. Bio - NBC.com
• Chess Master Tips for Hutch with Danny Rensch - YouTube

This week Apple announced their brand new plan for bringing the iPad to classrooms with a brand new cheaper iPad, new software, and a new SDK for developers to create content. We breakdown the entire event with our thoughts on if their plan will work.

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• The five biggest announcements from the Apple education event - The Verge
• Apple’s new, cheaper iPad is very, very familiar - The Verge
• Apple and Logitech announce $49 Crayon stylus and keyboard case that work with the iPad - The Verge
• iPad - Apple

Yes! Half way to 180 episodes! We are back for lightning talks covering not 6 but 7 different topics this week! We take a quick recap of web assembly, but jump directly into Flutter, React Native, source control, serverless computing, progressive web apps, and more.

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