: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:16:36 — 71.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn More COVID-19 killed Geeks & Beats. While Alan and Michael are still healthy, so is the demand for business to business podcasts and a documentary series. Join The Internet’s Favourite Dad, Brittlestar, as he hogs the virtual open bar while we thank members of the World’s Worst Intern Program one last time as we talk about 8 years of The World’s Most...
The children’s musician Raffi on fighting fascism, supporting Black Lives Matter, taking piano lessons at 75, and the science of writing children’s music. Plus: why he’s not answering the Augmented Reality call on Bananaphone 2.0
: Play in new window | Download () | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn MoreRush fans don’t need to be told Neil Peart is a percussive hero, but on what would have been his 68 birthday. A Chinese smartphone maker eclipses Apple after Cupertino fails to release a new iPhone. And an American fighter pilot claims aliens have committed an act of war. Wait, what?
The lights might've gone dark back in 2015, but the new and improved El Mocambo is ready to step into the spotlight.
The world has changed since March. Here's a look at how COVID brought new life to existing technologies.
We take a deep dive into your Dad’s stereo with Grammy winner Glenn Schick. We also find out why Alan can’t listen to Classical music on Compact Disc, and discover why an audio format that couldn’t beat the CD in the ’90s may be the next big thing in the ’20s thanks to 5G.
Wasn’t Kurt Cobain’s suicide a wakeup call? TSN’s Michael Landsberg knows how to talk about mental health issues. And on what would have been Robin Williams’ 69th birthday, the geeks speak about a topic that seems to have been largely swept under the rug by the entertainment industry. Robin Williams’ passing got us talking The entertainment industry can be all flashy lights, glitter, limousines, and big homes. It could also be a dark, lonely, and depressing spot to...
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:32 — 89.9MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn More MTV is pushing 40?!? Tarzan Dan from YTV’s Hit List drops by Studio 3B to talk about those in music television who came before him, he and Alan swap tops on how to interview a rock star, and we find out how he reacted to landing in the pages of Canadian music history. MTV airing The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” to launch the network was not the...
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:26 — 26.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn Morehttps://www.geeksandbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/S07E356-The-Future-of-Headphones-is-3D.mp3 Audeze founder Sankar Thiagasamudram explains that the next big thing in audio is 3D in a way you didn’t know you were missing with your typical headphones today. The headphones of the future will be spatially aware, and adjust to your listening preferences using...
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:15 — 22.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn More What if that random joke you make turned into a party game? The Brothers Hermann of My Fake Band drop by Studio 3B to talk about kickstarting the Next Big Thing around the campfire. Plus: K-pop as the world’s conscience and a middle finger to Donald Trump.
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:13 — 36.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn More The United States might have put a man on the moon first, but it was the Russians who first sent a woman to space. The Vintage Space star and author Amy Shira Teitel joins the geeks this week on a supporters-only livestream recording session and Q&A about Valentina Tereshkova, a woman 20 years ahead of her US counterparts. Russia won the female space race 57...
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:45 — 30.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn Morehttps://www.geeksandbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/S07E353-Isolating-Richard-Crouse.mp3 Pop Life host and entertainment gadfly Richard Crouse is cramped in his spacious home office talking to celebrities in his fabulous hair while he waits for COVID-19 to pass and he can get back to making traditional television. We talk about new media and “In Isolation...
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:11 — 30.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn Morehttps://www.geeksandbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/S07E352-Mixing-and-Mastering-with-Glenn-Schick.mp3 Multi-platinum, Grammy winning mastering engineer Glenn Schick drops by Studio 3B to talk about the evolution of getting a musician’s idea out of their head and into your ears. The digital nomad whose work has crafted the sound of Justin Bieber, Drake, and The...
: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:18 — 35.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | Learn Morehttps://www.geeksandbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/S07E351-Dont-Stop-Believin-in-Crowdsourcing.mp3 Music Producer Rob Wells drops by Studio 3B to talk about his crowdsourced version of a classic Journey hit by musicians from around the world. Plus, how the introduction of Pac Man 40 years ago marked the beginning of the end of the Pinball Wizard.
