Posts By Dan Whelan
0 Episode 51 – No news about the iPhone 5!
Breathe a sigh of relief! There’s no discussion about the iPhone 5 on “Buffering …” this week! Instead, we focus on everything you may have missed as the world waited to see what Apple was going to offer this year.
Adam and I had a great time this week, pairing up two of my childhood friends who had been on before separately, but definitely needed to be in the Frank Oz Memorial Studio at the same time. As a group, we discussed a bit of news, where a lot of services had updates, but not discussable topics. The new episode will be available tomorrow, right here.
Until then, it’s time for this week’s Mic Check! For our 51st Episode, the Mic Check rambles all over the place, making sure everyone gets their two-cents in about SOMETHING. We touch upon parents on Facebook, a light touch upon 9/11, and the laziness of consumers. So make sure to listen to this week’s Mic Check, while you wait for the new episode to launch tomorrow!
0 Episode 50 – 09/04/12 feat. Emily Schnobrich & Maggie “Gooey” Whelan
Emily and Gooey joined Dan and Adam in the studio celebrate the taping of the 50TH EPISODE! To keep up with appearances, they also talked about streaming media! The four went into depth about musicians getting paid for having their content available for streaming, and artists who are opting out. They also chatted about additional news, and taught Emily how to play Movie Bluff.
Taped at The Frank Oz Memorial Studio, Minneapolis, MN on September 4, 2012.
Check out photos and this week’s bonus tracks by clicking here.
0 Episode 50 – EPISODE 50!!!
We made it to 50 Episodes! In just under a year! That means we’ve generated MORE THAN 100 HOURS of content between episodes and bonus tracks! (It also means we only took two weeks off this year)
So here’s a fictitious toast from us to you for joining us in the Frank Oz Memorial Studio for 50 episodes so far, and hopefully another 50 in the coming year! Cheers!
Okay, now that we have that out of the way, it’s time for this week’s Mic Check! You can actually hear us toasting to 50 episodes at the beginning, and from there, the conversation is all about celebrations! We recount things like new and old anniversaries, and hit tons of great random tangents.
You can find the Mic Check by clicking here. You can also find the new episode tomorrow by clicking here. We’ll also have the post-episode bonus track available this weekend! You’ll find it by clicking here.
0 Episode 49 – 08/28/12 feat. Shelby Lano & Jason Snyder
Jason and Shelby joined Dan and Adam in the studio as the first duo of new guests the gents had in months, and they even talked about streaming media! Jason and Shelby talk about what they’re currently watching/listening to online to give everyone context into their streaming media backgrounds, and then the quartet banters off into the sunset. They also discus some recent news loosely affiliated with streaming, including the Apple vs. Samsung verdict and an overview of Redbox Instant’s approach to competition. From there, Dan and Adam teach their new guests how to play Movie Bluff.
Taped at The Frank Oz Memorial Studio, Minneapolis, MN on August 28, 2012.
Check out photos and this week’s bonus tracks by clicking here.
0 Episode 49 – Fishy Soundbites & Those Summer Nights
Right. It’s Thursday and that means it’s time to post a “Buffering …” Bonus Track!
This week we had two FIRST TIMERS! Shelby Lano and Jason Snyder joined Adam and myself in the Frank Oz Memorial Studio, and there was a definite synergy within the group as we chatted throughout the taping.
I’m gonna keep it short today and just point you right at the EPISODE PAGE, where you can find the MIC CHECK that has been posted today, as well as tomorrow’s NEW EPISODE!
0 Episode 48 – 08/21/12 feat. Molly Kamph & Caity Shea Robertson
Molly and Caity join Dan and Adam and get existential all over the studio, seamlessly including streaming news. They talk about the top ranked Netflix movies, according to IMDB, changes coming for Hulu users, and apps developed by musicians. Plus, we learn all about Caity’s Monkey Daycare, and Molly dissociates herself from Obama app hackers. As a bonus for your ears, they wrap it up with a great round of Movie Bluff.
Taped at The Frank Oz Memorial Studio, Minneapolis, MN on August 21, 2012.
Check out photos and this week’s bonus tracks by clicking here.
0 Episode 48 – Fat Digital Monkeys for Sale
Happy Thursday, everyone!
It’s time to swing into everything we created this week! Obviously, Thursday’s are dedicated to Mic Check releases each week, but we can also tease that which occurred during Tuesday’s episode taping, like how we had Molly Kamph and Caity Shea Robertson on this week (Yes, we had posted a picture on our Twitter feed that we’d have Nick Johnson on this week, but he was called away at the last minute for work, and Caity was kind enough to sit in). So Adam and I had a great time with Molly and Caity, and everything got nice and abstract to get us from news story to news story before we got to Movie Bluff.
Make sure to listen all the way through this week’s episode, as we have our first ever “Buffering …” Celebrity News segment after the end theme.
Right. Enough stalling. It’s time to get you some Mic Checks. During this week’s Mic Check, we wandered all over the spectrum of abstract conversation, hitting upon dictators, Caity’s monkey daycare, and marsupials (as well as some of our dream marsupial hybrids). You can find it on this week’s EPISODE PAGE. Or by clicking HERE. Or HERE. So now I guess that answers why the fat orangutan has been watching you the entire time you’ve been reading. Enjoy!
0 Episode 47 – 08/14/12 feat. Jake Pullis & Matt Walstead
Jake and Matt join Dan and Adam and test the first episode without the futon, plus something about streaming news. Matt expresses his delight in Disney’s available programming on Mexico’s Netflix (plus it has Inglorious Basterds … in Portuguese). After that, Adam chats about how he uses the new PS3 Netflix feature, Netflix Max. And there’s also an attack on the Amazon.com User Interface. At the end, they play a pretty awesome round of Movie Bluff.
Taped at The Frank Oz Memorial Studio, Minneapolis, MN on August 14, 2012.
Check out photos and this week’s bonus tracks by clicking here.
0 Episode 47 – “The Internet”, circa 1998, and Cat Grandpa!
Happy Thursday, folks!
We broke from tradition this week and removed the guest futon from the studio set up to see if we could find a better way to place our guests. Sure, we just changed to a few spare kitchen chairs, but we also covered them in fuzzy blankets so that it’d seem like they were lined with Muppet fur … which, as I write it, sounds a lot more horrifying than I had intended.
BUT we had a great time, despite the seating switcheroo, with Jake and Matt this week. Between the four of us, we worked with a vast collection of pop culture knowledge and happenstance experience to give us some great, and RANDOM conversations throughout the evening.
You’ll definitely catch this during the episode, which’ll be available tomorrow, but you can get your fix now by listening to this week’s Mic Check! The conversation started out discussing previous incarnations of, and memories linked to, AOL, and old-timey Internet, but, then it began to meander, as it does. Definitely keep an ear open for Cat Grandpa as you listen!
Here’s a link to the episode page so you can check back when the episode is released tomorrow!
0 Episode 46 – 08/07/12 feat. Maggie “Gooey” Whelan & Tom “Wheels” Whelan
Gooey and Wheels join Dan and Adam to see what happens when three Whelans have microphones, plus a bit of streaming news. On this week’s show, they hop all over the place, talking about a few news stories that Dan unearthed, plus the cloud, streaming documentaries, and why Wheels left Facebook. From there, Dan, Adam and Wheels teach Gooey how to play Movie Bluff.
Taped at The Frank Oz Memorial Studio, Minneapolis, MN on August 7, 2012.
Check out photos and this week’s bonus tracks by clicking here.
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