This week Michael talks to himself about The Godfather Trilogy, being in Jersey for Christmas, how nothing is better than Breaking Bad, the glasses frames racket, where hip hop samples come from, and the music he’s listening to.
This week (recorded 11/1/15) I rant to myself about San Francisco’s crap subway (aka BART), the bicycles on BART, dicks that don’t give up their seats for ladies, the lack of hustle in SF commuters, spineless SF drivers, people not wanting to pay for good design, the World Series, and New Jersey. This episode opens with a clip from A Streetcar Named Desire.
This week (actually 3 weeks ago) Michael and Bryan discuss gay rights, bulls%#t American exceptionalism, space exploration, enrichment through the arts, and the book The Martian by Andy Weir.
This week Michael and Bryan discuss the summer, hearing loss, brown noise, ten years of podcasting in iTunes, Cavs-vs-Warriors, stadiums & cities, OS X El Capitan, edits on DailyExhaust.com, martinis & breasts, the Confederate Flag, and the power of symbols.
Apple introduced podcasting to iTunes 10 years ago this month.
Prior to that, when someone wanted to cast a pod, they didn’t know how to.
My friend Byran and I have been casting pods for a little over a year on a semi-regular basis on Weekly Exhaust. Sometimes talking continuously for an hour isn’t as easy as it seems but I think we’ve gotten a lot better at it. It’s actually kind of fun.
After we finish our Skype call, I take the audio files into Garageband and edit them. For a while I was starting each episode with the sound of the exhaust from a classic car, now it can be anything: an old FM radio clip from the 60s or a piece of dialog from a movie we talk about on that episode.
In way, it brings me back high school, when I used to make mix tapes for myself or a girlfriend. I didn’t just slap songs back to back and call it a day. No, I had figured out how to hook up my VCR into my stereo so I could put snippets of movie dialog between each song (listen to the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction to get an idea of what I’m talking about).
Weekly Exhaust is also the only podcast I know that updates it’s cover art every episode (not that I’ve listened to every single podcast).
Cheers to podcasting.
This week Michael and Bryan discuss Bryan’s new book, The Blasted Lands, Bryan’s bet on the Republican dark horse presidential nominee, and Mike’s Creed Tweet to Kevin Rose.
This week Michael and Bryan discuss the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, the Spa-Francorchamps, Mike’s Siri Timer gripe, Apple Watch drop tests, Bryan’s mid-life crisis, and the dismantling of cable television.
This week Michael and Bryan discuss drag-and-drop in OS X, Apple Watch, controlling notification settings, the cost of keeping updated with tech, iOS performance on older devices, archiving old Flash websites and old video games, the new Daredevil series and Bryan’s second book, The Blasted Lands.
Listen Now (and subscribe on iTunes)
This week Michael and Bryan discuss “Bryan” and “Brian”, toilet seats, Bryan’s personal movie awards at missiletest.com, the Apple Watch, Bryan’s distaste for Safari on his iPad, the criteria for an Apple “flop” versus an Apple “success”, iPhone notifications, Game Center, the suckiness of Facebook, Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna and space exploration.
Listen Now (and subscribe on iTunes)
This week Michael (little Mike) and Bryan are joined with special guest Michael Mulvey Sr (Big Mike). Big Mike recounts his experiences at AT&T in the ’70s & ’80s including his work with DARPA, the first fiber optic networks and all sorts of other nerdy stuff like propagation delays and attenuation standards. Big Mike also explains why your land line telephone (usually) never goes down when the power goes out. Michael and Bryan also discuss the films Boyhood and Dazed and Confused, as well as best practices in project management.
Listen Now (and subscribe on iTunes)
This week Michael and Bryan discuss Bryan’s computer woes (again), Palm V’s and Dope Wars, dirty snow in NYC, Apple’s supposed plans to make a car, self-driving cars, subways, Bill Murray, and the Oscars. The episode opens with the exhaust from a 1970 Ford Gran Torino King Cobra Boss 429.
Listen Now (and subscribe on iTunes)
This week Michael and Bryan discuss John Wick, Guardians of the Galaxy, synthetic diamonds, car racing season, Bryan’s bricked PS4, developers & designers working together, accurately estimating freelance jobs, restaurant websites, miscreant Wikipedia editors, global warming, the shortsightedness of humans and rental cars. The episode opens with the exhaust from a Porsche 356 Sebring.
Listen Now (and subscribe on iTunes)
This week Michael and Bryan are joined by special guest RJ Dugan. They discuss the graphic design profession, the value of great copywriters, lazy templated design pattern trends, using the Bootstrap framework, Flash banner ads, low-fi rock n roll, punk rock, f!#king disco, how unaffordable cities are, the Philly-to-NYC commute, digital dashboards in cars and pixellated Affleck c#$k.
Listen Now (and subscribe on iTunes)
