iPhone owner? A new study shows 2 out of 3 of you are doing better than 75% of the population. We explain. Eric Alper drops by the studio with his latest isolated vocal track: Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime. We’ll learn how the band developed its style, and that one of the most important songs of the 20th century wasn’t much of a hit. Plus: our Facebook Live on Michael’s Back Deck show has date.
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iPhone owner? A new study shows 2 out of 3 of you are doing better than 75% of the population. We explain. Eric Alper drops by the studio with his latest isolated vocal track: Talking Heads’ Once in...
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iPhone owner? A new study shows 2 out of 3 of you are doing better than 75% of the population. We explain. Eric Alper drops by the studio with his latest isolated vocal track: Talking Heads’ Once in...
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iPhone owner? A new study shows 2 out of 3 of you are doing better than 75% of the population. We explain. Eric Alper drops by the studio with his latest isolated vocal track: Talking Heads’ Once in...
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#OpioidCrisis
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#Bladerunner2049
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#MadeByGoogle
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#DontStopBelievin
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#CosplayCulture
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#TrumpPsychology
Donald Trump promised us we’d finally know what we know about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. But did you, for a second, believe it was going to happen? Michael grabs his tin...
#GordDownie
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#MadeByGoogle
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#Polyphonic
Rising YouTube star, Noah, of Polyphonic drops by the G&B studios to deconstruct deconstructing musicians and their music. The reason Blade Runner 2049 can’t replicate the success of the...
#Cannabis
The life of rocker Tom Petty. He and the Heartbreakers make it into the Top Ten Songs about weed. The musician was an admitted pot head. We’ll talk to Randy Rowe of the Grow Up Conference about the...
#FenderGuitars
The man who made Rock & Roll the sound it is today never played the guitar. Leo Fender’s widow Phyllis and biographer Randy Bell join the geeks to talk about what made Fender unique, how she...
#iPhone
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#TechnologyofAffairs
Technology is making cheating that much easier, but it’s not the gear that’s making us unfaithful. Cynthia Loyst of The Social and FindYourPleasure.com on the old-fashioned reasons for high tech...
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#SmartHomes
You don’t want a smart home, you want an intelligent home. We’ll tell you why your house bares almost no resemblance to the home of George Jetson with Patrick O’Rourke of Mobile Syrup. We’ll bring...
#PornHub
Pornhub’s Alex Klein drops by the G&B Studios for a deep dive into her pornography analytics to learn how the data drives sex trends. We’ll also look at the business model, who pays for porn, and...
#TheHorseshoe
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#Musiconomi
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#AIrobot
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