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#TalkingHeads

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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#TalkingHeads

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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#TalkingHeads

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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#TalkingHeads

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

What are opioids and where did this crisis suddenly come from? The opioids crisis has hit the music industry after the family of Tom Petty confirmed the musician died from the pain killers he was...

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#Bladerunner2049

Every time we watch a sci-fi flick the “computer screens” drive us nuts, so we decided to find out why Bladerunner: 2049 didn’t suffer from user interface dreck passed-off as plot development. Who...

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#NowOnInstagram

Check us out on Instagram!  We’ll be posting pictures from all of our live on location episodes so you’ll feel like you’re right there with us.

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#MadeByGoogle

So we get a big-shot Google Canada person on the show and the first thing Alan does is ask Maria Cortellucci a tech support question. Eventually we get to why those language translation Pixel Bud...

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#DontStopBelievin

Everybody’s sung along with Steve Perry to Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. Probably even The Pope. You can’t go to a Karaoke bar, turn on a TV, or, as Michael found out, do a home renovation without...

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#CosplayCulture

Alan is introduced to cosplay, and his geek brain asplodes. Documentarian Jean-Phillipe Brochu of Cosplay Culture joins us via our Mexico City studio to separate the furries from the fans...

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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...

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#GordDownie

Canada has reacted to the death of The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie like there’s been a death in the family. Even if you weren’t a big fan, you were amazed at how many of his songs you knew...

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#MadeByGoogle

Google backed up the truck this week to the G&B studios and unloaded a bunch of new toys for us to play with, including it’s iPhone Killer Pixel 2 and it’s new low-cost VR headset, after our ace...

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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...

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#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...

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#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...

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#iPhone

The iPhone X is here — and you’ve come a long way, baby. We’ll speak to the senior editor of Motherboard Brian Merchant about his decade long trip through the history of the world’s most ubiquitous...

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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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#GeeksAndBeats

Make sure you’re following us on Facebook and Twitter! And while you’re at it, we’d love to have you subscribed to the Big Show and as part of the World’s Worst Intern Program.

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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...

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#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...

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#TheHorseshoe

The Horseshoe Tavern: an institution for those who are into music (or booze). We’ll introduce you to David McPherson, the author of the upcoming book on the history of the bar favoured by your...

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#Musiconomi

Doing an end-run around the music industry machine:  the former singer of I Mother Earth joins us to talk about paying musicians in digital currency and fans with digital extras — and it’s all...

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#AIrobot

AI Killed the DJ? Not quite yet but we’ll introduce you to an artificial intelligence app developer who’s making Spotify that much smarter. How machine learning is teaching the pop stars of today how...

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#sexbots

Everything you wanted to know about Sexbots but were too creeped out to ask! We’ll ask sex advice columnist Cynthia Loyst of FindYourPleasure.com and CTV’s The Social if society will ever catch up to...

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#podcast

Political protest through Photoshop! We’ll introduce you to the man behind the Twitter sensation @TrumpsTies. The music of politics: why the 1960s isn’t the decade of the protest song you think it is...