The Bob & Kevin Show

Can Facebook actually be broken up? This is the main question that Bob & Kevin try to answer this week along with a discussion of the recent sale of Slack to Salesforce for a whopping 27.7 billion dollars - we have THOUGHTS!

Lots of monopoly talk to be sure!

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In this episode, Bob & Kevin discuss some of the interesting tech innovations that have been introduced during this time of COVID-19. The focus was on innovations around Zoom meetings and OBS Studio. One of the more exciting highlights is https://obs.ninja.

Bob & Kevin shared some things they have learned from their co-workers about working from home and work-life balance.

On the lighter side of things, Bob & Kevin talked about the new feature updated from Twitter, which they are calling Fleets. Have you fleeted yet?

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In this episode, Bob & Kevin have special guest Joshua Baty-Barr from https://baty-barr.media in-studio to discuss various tech-related aspects of audio recording and engineering. We covered a broad range of topics including when to add your effects, different types of gear and software, and how the usage of social media plays a role for Josh both professionally and personally.

Some of the gear we discussed:The new MV7 mic from Shure - https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7

Avid Pro Tools - https://www.avid.com/pro-tools

Behringer X32 Mixer - https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/X32--behringer-x32-digital-mixer

and the TC Helicon Mic Mechanic - https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VTMM2--tc-helicon-mic-mechanic-2

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This week, we celebrate our first in-studio guest from Studio 1A (our midwest location)! Grant Giszewski (the last name might ring a bell for some listeners) joined us to discuss a variety of film industry technology in addition to how some of that tech can be used to enhance social video and more.

Check out some of the links we discussed in this episode:

EbSynth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERp5tMqQkwU&list=LLT9aPwlqsVrppgcRZiKYK4w&index=2

Mandalorian virtual sets: https://youtu.be/Ufp8weYYDE8

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In this episode, Bob & Kevin welcome our first paid sponsor - https://baty-barr.media to the show... well, technically, Josh has been our producer, editor, and engineer for a few episodes now, but this week he PAID US! Then, of course, we paid him to produce this week's show... LOL

Anyway, back to the episode description... Bob & Kevin discussed the recent tweets and discussions around the twitter cropper and racial bias and then shifted to the main topic of conversation GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) - a language-based General AI. Take a listen and find out all the ways it has been used thus far in a limited beta program and get our thoughts on where this tech might be headed.

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In this episode, Bob & Kevin discuss the newly released, Netflix, documentary "The Social Dilemma"  (https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224). If you have not watched it, we strongly encourage you to do so. Topics covered range from AI to social engineering and the impact that social media has on our world today and its threat to freedom as we know it.Shortly after the show was recorded, this article was posted to Medium and we think it adds some great flavor to the discussion: https://medium.com/@jeff_seibert/the-mechanics-and-psychology-behind-the-social-dilemma-719d618aa8ce As always, let us know what you thought of this episode and feel free to ping us on social media with your thoughts on this episode or any of our others - Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/bobandkevinshow.

This week Bob & Kevin discuss how Zoom fatigue has or has NOT affected them and some strategies to help reduce the potential effects of Zoom fatigue. They also discussed social media's role in the spreading of conspiracy theories, misinformation, and disinformation with a strong focus on QAnon.

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This week, Bob & Kevin discuss how, why, and if TikTok is indeed still for sale and the implications of such a sale and where Microsoft fits into the story. They also take another look at the entire "Apple App Store" thing. It appears yet another company, this time Epic games, is at odds with Apple over the very nature of how the app store makes money for Apple. Will Fortnite finally be the drivng force to change how app stores work? You will have to listen to find out!

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In this episode, Bob & Kevin take a look at cancel culture and debate if it is fact or fiction. We found some very interesting definitions of cancel culture and discussed what (if anything) actually constitutes being #cancelled.

 

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In this episode...Bob & Kevin discuss the https://hey.com/ email platform and their struggles with Apple (app store) to get and keep their app available to anyone that is interested. This brought the conversation around to "ecosystems" in general and the pros and cons of their existence.

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