The Fringe – The Nexus: Recent Episodes

The Fringe – The Nexus

The Fringe is a collection of before and after show ramblings and actually intentional musings that are unstructured.

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Brian struggles to find an archived version of a product page before reviewing his bike.

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Ian tries out a new recording setup, which allowed him to keep recording Brandon after Brandon stopped his. See if you can spot the transition point!

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With the expectation that he would be publishing an episode about Distance Learning in September 2020, Ian conducted a series of interviews with educators during the summer. Unfortunately, by the time he published the episode in June 2021, most of that content was irrelevant. But if you are interested in a snapshot of how we were all feeling in summer 2020, here are the unedited interviews!

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Not knowing what number the parent episode was going to be, Brian recorded himself saying every number they could imagine so Ian could edit them into the intro if needed.

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A long Fringe as the PodKitters catch up and hang out. It might be a good one!

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The PodKitters + Zac talk and prepare for the show!

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Preshow banter, you'll have to listen to find out, I can't remember, and we only recorded yesterday (as Brian is typing this).

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Meghan learns something new about Ian while they record their review of The City We Became.

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Something about notes apps. I'm editing this two weeks later, I can't remember what we talked about, but the title is excellent!

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Shenanigans ensure. No drugs were consumed during the recording of this episode, I promise.

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Ian and Ryan chat before the show about the notes and various phone-y things.

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Commiserating about losing recordings before starting the show.

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This long Fringe is filled with lots of fun talking about stuff (who really remembers anyway), Dark (the Netflix show, you should watch it), and music.

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The full, unedited interviews with all the guests from TED 55.

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The PodKitters prepare for the show! It's a good episode so I hear.

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The PodKitters catch up with sheltering-in-place, preparing for the show, and probably some banter somewhere.

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Ian and Rebecca make an unexpected connection late in the recording of The Extra Dimension #53.

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Brian has fun with Snap Camera while the trio prepares for the show.

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Before the show, Crystal and Ian try to figure out how technical they can get in an audio format.

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Your classic pre-show banter, featuring the aftermath of Brandon spilling coffee.

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We dive in to Ryan's holiday card site and then discuss budgeting!

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The PodKit trio talks about Redux, something about DAWs in there too...

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A very brief Fringe where Ian and Naomi talk about their breakfasts, as well as PodMN and the baffling proliferation of local sports podcasts.

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The full interviews from The Extra Dimension #47: Eco-Friendly Technology.

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Brandon got a new microphone!

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There were audio problems when trying to record PK52, so we stopped recording and are releasing this stand-alone Fringe episode!

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Steve updates everyone on how his farm is doing.

BONUS PODCAST AT 19 MINUTES!

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The story about why Ian is naming Android 10 "Quiche."

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Brian and Ryan talked about Apple stuff before the show talking about Apple stuff.

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Before the phone swap, Lilly almost gets cold feet.

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Your standard pre and post show banter for PK51!

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Ian and Melody work on the doc, work through Skype problems, and talk about why St Paul has such terrible roads.

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Ryan tries to get Ian burpy before the show.

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Steven has so many babies.

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During Matt's Four Days of Continuous Jubilee and Celebration, Ryan takes him to IKEA, MOA and Minnehaha Park. But it's almost 100 degrees!

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Brian and Brandon share a microphone, and the trio prep fro the big PK50!

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Ian and Brian almost forget to do a clap before they stop recording.

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Before the show, Matt and Ryan talk about sorting algorithms, such as the new method to remove stuff from one’s home.

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We discuss the class and then Matt tells Ryan all about Wellsfargo credit cards.

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John has good advice for the education system, Ethan talks about motorists honking at the mayor, and Mike has some really good insights about building online identities that didn't make it into the main episode.

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Matt buys 210 booster packs of Pokemon cards - and tells Ryan all about his adventures in making a complete set.

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Before the show, Matt tells Ryan about pokemon. This becomes a trend.

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Before the show, Ryan shares with Matt a CSS library and a book he definitely won't read.

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Matt and Ryan discuss hours and hours worth of agony, and then Matt explains all about toys to Ryan.

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Matt tells Ryan what to write in the show notes.

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Brandon and Ian have a few tangents during the show, including cursed trips to Seattle and discussing Anker's brand strategy.

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Matt buys chocolate bars and realizes the error of his ways.

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Ian is excited to try the new studio for a recording location and Ryan buys - surprise - a phone!

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Steven gives an update of all the critters at his farm, and Andrew talks about biking and mowing his lawn.

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Before the show, Matt and Ryan talk about installing the latest Linux, discuss code and then review popular programming languages.

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Before the show Matt looks up microphones while Ryan talks about the paywall.

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Andrew offers Steve and Rachel some dinner, then eat, and talk about lawns offices.

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Before the episode begins, Matt talks about Ryan's legacy of Jewelry Boxes and Art.

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Matt talks about learning more after class because the professor was desperate.

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In which Ian learns about Tim Time.

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Before the show, Matt doesn't contribute to the show notes.

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Andrew bought a new house, and Steve's goat shelter got blown over.

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We talk about the Unpopular opinion: ReactJS Twitter thread.

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Before the show, Ryan's sick and Matt doesn't remember the rules so Ryan has to mute him occasionally.

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Before the show, Ryan says hello - mentions the sickness from the future in the past, and then after, talks about one more annoying aspect of the physical S10+. (Bonus content about REAPER editing in the latter half.)

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Matt tells Ryan about class before the show, and mentions... chicken hut.

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The studio sounds weird and Ryan recalls his declaration of independence.

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Matt broke his setup, probably due to linux, the greatest operating system in the world.

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When you're recording with someone remotely, make sure that everyone knows that they are expected to record their end of the audio. Totally unrelated: Ian and Andrew had to do a second take of the backup segment.

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Matt does not know many politicians.

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Another PodKit pre-show!

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Matt discovers that position matters in many things in life.

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Andrew talks about this house he's buying, and Steve talks about the time he bought a shack.

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It's a bit chilly in the studio.

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Ian and Kharme record after school, which means they were interrupted twice by custodians.

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After a long time, Andrew and Steve catch up on what's going on, read the show notes, and go through what didn't make it to the show.

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The Podkitters prepare for the show, this time only three weeks after the last one!

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Brian and Aron before/after recording the iPad Pro (2018) episode of Second Opinion.

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The audiobook (hopefully) sounds nice and polished when it's published, but there are a lot of hiccups along the way. Chapter 2 was a particularly rough recording, with lots of unfamiliar names to say and a scratchy throat to deal with. We probably won't publish many of these blooper reels, but this one was special.

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Pre/post show shenanigans for PK44.

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Ian, Quentin, and Gwen struggle to clap at the same time, Quentin becomes a turtle, and Ian talks about a weird dream he had.

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Ryan gives us some words of wisdom before reviewing the Google Home Hub.

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Brandon and Brian can't contain their excitement, and basically review 1Password before they officially started the episode.

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Elena got more in-depth than the general audience of The Extra Dimension needs, but it's all here on the cutting room floor!

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Ian and Mary's conversation goes all over the place as they set up to record. There are also lots of tangents from the core episode that made their way into the Fringe.

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Preshow shenanigans!

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Brian and Ryan talk about everything before the show, hopefully the show is still interesting.

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Ian and Brian discuss ringtones, wedding cards, and stickers before starting the show.

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While dining on salad, Andrew and Steven review shownotes and block ads, before going off on reminiscing about olden times with Windows 3.1 and vintage games.

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A Fringe to rival the classics! Some good memes and YouTube poop gets shared, Brian talks in detail about his musical tastes and stage lighting, and we take some dives into Buck's digital footprint.

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Steve researches Raspberry articles, and Andrew talks about how hot it's been.

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Ian and Ryan have a Core idea for the Nexus 7th anniversary event!

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The PodKitters talk about dogs, Twitter peeps, and React before the show.

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Steven (and his wife) talks about how all the many types of critters break out of his farm, Andrew and Steve review the show notes, then talk about trails.

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In which Ryan has strong opinions about audio encoding, and Aron forgets to start recording until we clap.

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Social Security Numbers are hopelessly broken. YouTube videos with kinetic text. Brandon’s dog Tessa. Brandon learns about memes.

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Before the show, we talk about unicode because Apple abused unicode to "market" the new iPhones.

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A wild dog appears!

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This one isn't family friendly!

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Ian has been working on some behind-the-scenes stuff for the network, and he wants your feedback on them!

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Ian and Daniel chat about cats wrestling on keyboards, microphones melting motherboards, and many other things.

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After Steven fiddles with his microphone settings in his shack, Steven and Andrew review the shownotes while Ian drops by.

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Ian, Amanda, and Frank talk about the challenges of recording with multiple people in the same room, the difficulties of Greek names, fast food that's so bad it's good, and of course Ian messes up and hits the spacebar.

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Brandon tries to start the show, and Brian says "Hold On."

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A challenging room results in much fiddling with the microphone.

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Andrew and Steve (and Rachel!) read show notes, and watch some Pittsburgh Dad. Afterwards, Andrew tells what he's been up to with Twentieth Century.

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The PodKitters talk about itty.bitty.site, inner sourcing, and share a few laughs. This is a juicy Fringe.

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The PodKit crew tries out the time.is trick for the first time!

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Ian has a new bike, Cotton Bureau is celebrating their 5th year anniversary, and Westworld is too tempting to talk about before the official review begins.

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Brian is on a serious time constraint, so he and Ian waste very little time on The Fringe.

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Truly, a Fringe to remember! Longer than the episode it accompanies, Mike and Ian end up talking about USB-C for a long time, and Ian reveals his unusual preferences for units of measurement.

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Before the show, Paul Horn shows up, and then Brian dictates his tweet-notes to Ryan as he creates show notes in real time.

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After talking about the show stuff, Andrew and Steven talk about futuristic text, Amazon, server room missles, and old game graphics.

Also, this episode contains an old show recorded moments before Andrew started building his computer last year. Forward to 26 minutes into this Fringe.

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Ian comes up with a brilliant idea for compensating for the fact that he is unsure what episode number the Second Opinion is.

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Ian and Betsy sort the show notes, then complain about teachers patronizing other adults like they were children.

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Ian has some ideas for a network-wide fundraiser.

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After explaining how to do a joke, Andrew and Steve prepare for the show.

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Ian and Ian chat for a while. Then Mike shows up, but doesn't start recording right away. Enjoy hearing two thirds of a conversation!

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Everyone made it to the studio to record this quarter's episode of PodKit!

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Steve talk about Bitcoin, and Andrew is still trying to find a reasonably priced GPU.

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Ian and Ryan put their Computer Science degrees to good use by failing to troubleshoot Skype, relying on guest David to install Chrome on his computer so they can use Hangouts instead.

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Even when he isn't reaching for the keyboard, Ian can't avoid hitting the spacebar. Luckily, they were right at the beginning and didn't lose much.

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Brandon confuses us with blueprints from the past and present, and more.

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Ian struggles to organize the show notes before Brian arrives. Ryan talks a bunch about JavaScript something-something, despite the fact that Brandon isn't there.

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Steve enjoyed his porkchop, but Andrew isn't a fan of sour kraut, which reminds Andrew of his Berlin trip. Steve talks about his shack, and possible fake crime in GTA. They start talking about personal stuff around 21 minutes in.

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Andrew and Steve read the news and talk about themselves. Some.

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Ian and Ryan sit down for a nice, long triple recording session.

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The Extra Dimension episode this Fringe is attached to was a practice round for Ian's plan to make an audiobook. Please give him feedback on what went well and what he can improve on!

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Andrew and Steve get together to do a podcast in who knows how long.

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Harkening back to when this network was fun and not too serious, Ian, Brian, and Ryan stay in the studio way too long and goof off for a really long time.

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Before the show, Brian a TV and will buy some speakers, and Ryan and Brandon talk about React.

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Pressed for time, Ian and Mike quickly get set up to record a review.

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In which an alpaca judges, Ian talks about possible audio book plans, and Ryan helps Ian encrypt his website again.

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Ian and first-time guest Aron Braggans complain about USB-C. Aron isn't happy with the Macbook implementation, Ian isn't happy with the Pixel 2 implementation.

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Brian teaches Ian the different names of storage sizes when counting in base 2 and base 10, and later they puzzle through the various Unicode and Emoji version numbers after looking at Brian's website.

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Conversations are had, listen to find out more! 😉

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While doing some last-minute research, Ian ends up watching a video about online voting in Estonian. Ryan learns some new things about Audacity.

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Ian and Betsy are dangerously close to starting their review before they officially start their review.

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Ian talks about how the second year of Second Opinion went, and what the plan is for the future.

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Steve talks about his trail camera (not trial camera) and his numerous partitions, and Andrew goes on a tour of his home town/county.

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The PodKit trio catch up and prepare for the show.

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While setting up, Buck is reminded of a thought experiment he learned about. Decker helps calm him down about it.

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Recording in a school is risky, even if it is several hours after classes end.

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Andrew looks at Road Redemption DLC, and Steve tries to find a game he remembers from way back when.

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Ian and Ryan almost can't stop themselves from talking about the main topic before starting the show proper.

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Most of this Fringe was lost when Brian's computer crashed shortly before the main show started. That's the Fringe for you!

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This short episode is the result of some major issues when recording PK32.

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The Nintendo Switch review was VERY long before Ian edited it down. This Fringe contains several subjects that were discussed, but were ultimately not focused enough to keep in the final version.

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Amazingly, Ian didn't have to go to the bathroom during this Fringe!

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Brian and Ryan prepare for the latest Apple event Nexus Special.

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Ian had so much footage from his trip, he didn't feel like going through and cutting out the parts that appear in the main episode. So you can listen to hours and hours of crappy audio from his phone if you want to!

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Brandon tells Ian about CGP Grey's podcast, we get a peek at technical problems that happened during the episode proper, and we discuss archive file formats. Exciting stuff!

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Brandon struggles with Fedora, and the usual shenanigans happen.

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Pay no mind, this is a test post to see if our CMS can handle MP4 files.

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Ian and Ryan sat down for several hours to record four Second Opinion reviews all in one sitting! This episode is the combined Fringe of all of them.

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Brandon, Brian, and Ryan discuss naming conventions in JavaScript, Bootstrap 4, UIkit, easter eggs, and other shenanigans!

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Ian and Brian talk about their tendency to over-edit episodes they care about.

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Before the show, Ryan remembers the good old days of studio based podcasting with Ian.

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Ian and Ryan waste no time getting around to recording the show, but still manage to find time to make fun of Brandon's crazy schedule. After the show, Ryan tries to give Ian advice on how to set up his website.

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Ryan found a developer in the wild! Listen to the post-fringe for Ryan's Developer hour!

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Along with the usual show prep, Andrew talks about his bike riding, Steven installs uBlock Origin to keep his laptop cool, and Andrew renews his blog's TLS certificate. Also, some Youtube was watched later.

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Ian and Ryan both have unconventional recording setups. They talk about Ian's home-buying process, wonder how Audacity works on Macs, and unfortunately stop recording before having a really good discussion about how to find podcast collaborators.

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Andrew types into the show docs, while Steven reads, then they watch the trailer to Agent 426.

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Brian tells Ian about an 11 hour video by PBS. Later, Ian and Brandon completely fail to stay on-topic.

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Andrew eats strawberries, while Steven talk about Raspberry stories.

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As with every triple-ender, the call starts with 15 minutes of troubleshooting microphone systems.

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Andrew hunts for the Windows Vista shutdown sound, and explains Road Redemption to Steven.

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Before the show, Brian has a party parrot, and we hangout a bit before the show for the first time successfully in months.

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Brandon and Brian try to figure out what is a Second Opinion, and Brandon types. A lot.

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After Steve plugs in his microsoft, he and Andrew discuss mechanical keyboards, game stories, podcast topics, and daylight savings time.

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After figuring out Skype for the first time in a while, Andrew and Steve talk about keyless entry to cars, keypads, and automatic colorization.

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Brian and Ian discuss some of the latest download numbers for the network, since Ryan recently gave them access to the Podtrac data.

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Despite refusing to be on the actual review, Caleb Buck shows up during the Fringe with some comments and theories about Rogue One.

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Andrew talk about how PC gaming is dead, Steve explored Firefox changes, talk about video games and Firefox extensions. Also, Youtube was having problems.

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Setting up for recording at Ian's house is still not second nature.

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Brandon and Brian discuss science-fiction books, producing the show, our websites, and Brandon's sad quadcopter.

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Setting up a double-ender is a lot harder than expected. Ian has to troubleshoot on the fly, and Ryan has the brilliant idea of recording a merged version as well as a backup.

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Andrew and Steve discuss a few news articles on the show, and how they use laptops.

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Before the show, Brandon talks about his experience in SMJC and CSCI, among other things - plus - t-shirts at the end!

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Buck and Decker set up a rudimentary, temporary studio in their office at home. Let's hope it sounds good!

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Fresh off a three-hour live stream, Ian, Brian, and Ryan talk for three more hours!

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Ryan shows off his new Pixel phone and looks at some possible smartwatches. Meanwhile, we revisit a time-traveling technique we haven't seen since the golden age of ATN.

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Andrew talks about his journeys, then watches a few Youtube videos with Steven, while both talk about show topics.

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Brandon, Brian, and Ryan talk about some stuff, probably peerjs and a new watch for Ryan? 🤔🙄😒

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Brandon Johnson and Brian Mitchell talk about mechanical keyboard, Thunderbolt 3, and more while preparing the show notes for the October 2016 Apple Event (NS49).

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After strugging with Skype, Chris is finally able to hear Andrew and Steve, then they start reading 101 ways that your project is doomed.

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Ryan, Brian, and Brandon talk about the Mary Berry Backeoff, HipChat, and who knows what else before and after the iPhone 7 review.

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Brian, Ian, and Stella spend 40 minutes wondering where Brandon is before the show.

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Ryan struggles to hunt down the source of the buzzing in our headphones, while Ian looks for advice on teaching the basics of a CMS.

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Ryan and Ian look forward to Google's October 4th event while ranting about the disappointing communication apps they recently launched.

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Steven reads about flat earthers, Andrew talks about arrowheads, and make some comments on the show notes.

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Ian, Ian, and Ryan discuss the handling of mail stuff, and nearly stay long enough for Buck to get drunk from exhaustion.

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After eating, Andrew and Steve mention the new iPhone, an alternative file browser, Steam, Steve's games on Steam, and Steve starts to download something from Steam.

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Organizing six people for a podcast episode is quite the challenge.

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During the Fringe, the news breaks that Marco is including ads in Overcast and we all go crazy.

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Brian and Ian struggle to work with Ryan's studio setup while Brandon waits for them to call him.

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During and after dinner, Andrew talks about struggles with setting up VPNs, and Steve reads some Linux trivia, then both enjoy some Pittsburgh Dad.

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Brian works on the Nexus CLI tool and we all would love nice cameras.

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Among other things, Roxie throws up in the studio in the middle of an episode recording.

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Steve talks about how his Ubuntu broke (not Windows 10), Andrew explains how one would remotely unlock a booting server, Steve downloads his Google takeout, and live blogs on The Fringe, then finds out why no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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In the middle of talking about things, Andrew talks about the music on the podcast, Steve looks at the things you can do without JS, then talk about SSH.

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After the show, Ian notices changes in the studio.

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Andrew explains his allergies, Steve updates his laptop, and then mention the Brexit.

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Before the WWDC special, Ryan and Brian wonder, "where's the hardware?"

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Brandon tries to remotely print to Brain's printer and Ryan discusses work things of course!

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Ryan shares all sorts of great Java-knowledge!

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We talk microphones, mixers, and audio, virtual machines, and some planning on reinstalling a Digital Ocean server.

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Andrew shows off Twentieth Century's new heatsink, and Steve wonders what exactly is 1984.

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Steve has a suggestion about the Dremel, Chris crashes, and Andrew talks about Linux distros.

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Andrew wonders where the recorded files are and plays with the Dremel, and Steven stays calm.

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Ian and Ryan discuss the new Nexus 6P in the studio, among other things.

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Before the show, @tech4789 turns into @_BrianMitchell_!

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Chris talks a lot, then falls asleep, and eventually leaves, while Andrew cooks food, and Steve tries to scan QR codes.

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A really silly experiment by Ian R Buck.

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Steve enjoys the food, and Andrew talks about Diablo.

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The after show is fantastic, with a sort-of-PodKit like experience!

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Ian arrives early to check out Android N.

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Andrew and Steven play with the echoy acoustics in Andrew's new, mostly empty apartment, then figure out how to speed test his new 150 megabit FIOS, only to be thwarted by every laptop having 100 megabit NICs.

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Matt's in The Fringe like the good old days -- alas -- the Studless Show has been retired as well.

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Chris abuses words, Andrew renews his server's certificate, and Steve does what Steve does.

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Before the show, Ian and Ryan chat about some other things. Like USB-Type C flash drives -- they exist!

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Andrew finally identifies a robot, Steve tests his mic, and talk about Chris after the show.

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Ian and Ryan discover all of the Twitter analytics!

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You know what, just Delete Your Google Account. This is the way of Max.

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Andrew and Tom Chris talk about games, and all three catch up on things going on, like Basselhof going to Disneyland, along with the normal background catch up on podcast topics.

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Ian asks Ryan about how he uses Twitter and they shock themselves with these revelations!

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Before the show, there is lots of talking... about something. Oh, by the way, "this is the fringe."

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Steve and Andrew talk about topics for the show, followed by Fallout 4 spoilers.

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Before the show, we regroup and plan that we will do, and Brian and Ryan chat for a little while afterwards about programming tests.

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Before Ian arrives, Ryan and Matt discuss Star Wars and super lasers.

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A short fringe, dedicated to those faithful listeners. Actually, we just recorded the title. Listen to PodKit #16 for the full episode!

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Before the show, the Ian's record some snippets, and later, Dave calls.

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Andrew and Steve talk about lately happenings (and some not so recent hangar massacres), eat, and pre-discuss show topics.

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Ian and Savannah enter the studio, Ian shows his Nexus 5X, Ryan shows his Nexus 6 and Matt has a USB Type C cable, also, something about Star Wars.

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Matt's in the studio when the Ian's arrive. A light bulb goes missing.

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Andrew plays the parents game, and Steve talks about the Munchkin Card Game, and other things.

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On the fringe, we talk about Swift and compilers, LLDB and LLVM, and after, Code in the Dark and more.

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Ryan, Brian and Brandon discuss OS and Intel's processor cycle, and Matt's new fancy computer.

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Ian Buck arrives to record Second Opinion while Ryan is recording the fringe with Brian from PodKit!

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Andrew and Steve eat dinner while discussing podcast topics, and watch a few Youtube videos, mostly Betamax commercials.

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Before the show, we discuss Matt's favorite browser, gold in food, Pushbullet and so much more.

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Andrew and Steve share a pizza, watch some LoadingReadyRun videos, and talk about 3D printers, and other show topics.

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Before the show, Ryan and Ian discuss their recent Nexus Player purchase, among other things.

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Ian, Savannah, and Ryan chat before the big show. Ian finally made it.

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Andrew plays with Google Now, Steve looks for Easter Eggs for Google Now, and Chris interrupts the show.

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Before the show, Ryan shares his updated timer code, everyone wishes they could go to MinneWebCon and we avoid being hacked.

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Before the show, Ian and Ryan hangout and reminisce about old times.

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Ryan recounts the audio troubles, Brian is on WiFi and Brandon is drinking soup.

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Brian and Ryan hangout a bit before the episode discussing various twitter bots and things.

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Steve and Andrew talk about the TSA master key leak and printing, the Ashley Madison hack, noisy monitors, and grapes.

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Andrew shows Steve how to download Ubuntu updates faster, watch some videos mentioned in the podcast, then watch LoadingReadyRun.

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While Chris naps on the drugged couch, Steve drinks some Cherry Coke and gets very talkative about his Steam account, and Andrew describes the things to do in Star Citizen.

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More on that photo booth design from last week and fun things about recruiters.

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Andrew talks about his new laptop and Steve brings up the differences between Windows UIs.

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Before the show, Ryan asks for web design advise, the gang discusses fancy web trickier at UMN's landing page, a Moodle Conference, and after, hardware from Intel and Nvidia, new repositories and more! It's almost like it's own entire show!

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After watching some Youtube vids, Andrew accuses Chris of getting high off Andrew's couch, and Steven laughs at it all.

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On The Fringe, we discuss the joke sale Amazon hosted and comparison to Black Friday, some network trouble before the show - and what Chrome+Hangouts does to Linux, and more.

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Before the show, Ryan brings up the Rust WarGame and everyone decides to party.

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Ryan talks more about the future of the CMS, and his disdain for Node, among other things.

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Steve sounds different and draws his brother into the conversation, and him and Andrew talk about show topics.

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Ryan wears his Daring Fireball shirt before the show, and we chat about Brandon's international adventures.

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Before the show, Andrew and Ryan gather some of the news from E3.

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Before the special, Ryan meets Snuffy and Brian finishes his ice cream.

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Andrew and Steve talk about potential stories before the show.

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We hangout a bit before the show, and we organize our notes and plan a bit shorter episode.

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While waiting for Brian, Ryan and Brandon discuss APIs, login methods, movies, and more.

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Andrew points out his new router, and Steven brings up alternative firmware for cameras.

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Ian and Ryan listen to Periscope HQ give a special shout out to Android users, and prepare for the special about Google IO.

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We experience linux audio troubles - apparently updating causes settings to revert defaults, among other things.

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Ryan, Brian and Brandon hangout and prepare before the show.

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Instead of working on Eight BIt, Ian and Ryan decide to hangout and record a brief Project Fi TED instead.

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The Ian's prepare for the show with a guest, and after, the strobing begins with Matt and concludes with a fake Studless.

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Andrew and Steve watch Portal-related and Kickstarter project videos.

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Welcome to the Decker Needs Food Show, and we summarize what happened at BUILD 2015, among other things, like discussing game spoilers.

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Before the show, bodies in the trunk, among other things.

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Andrew and Steve read stories, then talk about adventure games after the show.

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Matt and Ryan play Guild Wars for a bit while the Ian's prepare for the show, and after the show, Matt explains a strange buying policy at the local appliance store.

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Chris complains about his laptop not working, Andrew grosses him out about threatening to take a shirt off, and Steven just enjoys it all.

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Matt demands 15 more minutes so Matt and Ryan can finish dailies, Ian eats pizza that leaves crumbs and Ian plays a game while in an Alaskan vortex. After the show, Ryan discovers why the input audio volume is always changes, and then shares an observation with everyone.

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It's one of those days. The Ian's are in studio and Ryan has had too much Dayquil.

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Andrew explains what The Fringe and all the nicknames of the network to Chris, and Steven writes a blog post, followed by a minute of unnerving silence.

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Where is Ian Decker! Oh, he is half an hour away. Let's play Guild Wars.

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YouTube creates the future of TV with unrelated videos suggestions, Wikipedia's random article service is great, and of course, something about the good old days of ATN #101.

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Andrew talks about getting his DSLR, and Steve join in talking about Google and hating Modern UI Skype.

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Decker is a bit late, so Matt entertains Andrew, Buck and Ryan, among other things.

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Matt gives away his meat and Ian likes shoujo manga.

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Steven asks about what's been happening at church, while Andrew installs Linux and uninstalls uTorrent.

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Is this the show? Ryan talks about podcasting before and after the episode about podcasting, and his love and disdain for The Verge after.

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Matt says no, Decker has a booze talk, Ryan chides the district, and sometimes you mess up, sometimes you regret what you have done. That is now.

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Lamentations of a dance not taken, and after, torsion, all night long.

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Andrew says he saw the Notepad++ Charlie edition, and Steve apparently has a Lenovo laptop.

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Ryan explains the story of Matt's sausage affair, among other things.

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Ian Buck tells us a story of deer in the woods and deer at the alter, among other things.

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Andrew and Steve prepare for the emergency Raspberry podcast.

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Ryan leaves Ian and Ian to write their notes and eat while he gets the pizza, and twizzlers are getting snipped. Plus, a brief episode of the Studless show afterwards!

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Ryan explains some of the metadata for The Extra Dimension and JPM prepares for his great episode.

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Steve tells about how cold he is, and Andrew talks about mechanical keyboards.

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Ian Decker reveals he uses Macs, Buck reveals he lets random girls into his room while others sleep on the bed, and afterwards, Matt and Ryan record the second episode of The Studless Show (remember -- read the eight volumes to ascend).

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If you manage to get there, listen to our new episode of The Studless Show, with Matt and Ryan, after The Fringe of Eight Bit.

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Warning: this fringe is long - it is out of order and it is hilarious. The Ian's and their guests talk about all sorts of funny things.

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Steve and Andrew play the Oregon Trail, the Internet Archive's collection of DOS games, Steve's favorite naval battle game, and Andrew talks about old hardware after the show.

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This is The Fringe to listen to, with banter from Matt and Ryan before Andrew and Steven appear, and so much more.

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Ian Buck tells us about the time he left his edible underwear at home in his room while a German exchange student was occupying it, and more. Plus, Matt stops by to make noise!

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Ryan figits with his sound settings, Andrew prereviews his gadget, and then they talk about Ars Technica for a bit.

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Before the show, the Ian's adopt a Spongebob song, and after, Ryan's boom is drooping.

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We discuss branding and massive threads of computerized innuendos before the show, and after, Ian Buck discovers that 99 comes before 100.

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Steve talks about The Stanley Parable with Andrew, then talk about jpegs, CPUs, silencers, and HTML9.

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Decker's mic is strong, and it hears the infamous question, "Why!" and later, Matt appears to say hi and toot his horn.

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Ian and Ryan discuss developer-y things and the strange world of Barbie memes, and more about processors, devices and apps afterwards.

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Andrew and Steve discuss mice that don't work, Stanley Parable, World of Tanks, and microphone noise.

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Before the show, Ryan asks Buck about his Nexus 6 review impressions, and after, Buck ponders going near a black hole, among other things.

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The Ian's work on the notes a bit before the show, and Ryan shares a tea-story about Matt.

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Steven and Andrew talk about cats, whether or not the Ubuntu website has "Linux" on it, and a little bit about Dell.

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It's not 1992 anymore, it's 1982 now. Before the show, Ian Decker discusses Nic Cage and his likeness to Disney Princesses, among other things. After, it's all about smells, apparently.

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When Ian Buck publishes his blog post, it crashes his computer so we wait in silence for a bit, and then listen to some creepy song.

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Andrew gives a spoiler alert, and Steven talks about a deer he almost got.

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Ian Buck and Ryan talk about regex, redirection, the show note parser, and later, Ian and Ryan also chat about the good old days when the Nexus 5 just came out.

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Ryan gathers a few notes before the show and after, Brian and Ryan chat about getting an Apple Watch.

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Ryan forgets to turn the mixer on before the show and together, they gather the notes. Ian cannot experience The Verge search button. Later, Ryan has to run to class.

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Ian Decker eats burnt popcorn before the show and Ian and Ryan discuss the problem of needing to know how it works.

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Ryan and Matt actually record a show and Ryan even prepared before hand. All Matt can say is: the mail. man, the mail.

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Andrew gives another Chris installment, then discusses games with Steven.

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Before the show, Ian gives JPM a rundown of how Eight Bit works and figure out the latest dreaming episode opening.

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Ryan and Matt sit through the entire Windows 9 -- wait -- it was renamed to Windows 10 -- announcement, live, on The Fringe. Warning: because this was recorded in the daytime, it's one of those days.

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Before the show, Decker explains his file loss woes on campus and after, Putnam and Matt drop in and make noise.

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Andrew tries to fix Steve's microphone, and Steve delivers another Chris installment.

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Ryan mentions a Twitter inquisition and tells the tale of Matt's squirrel poaching, and Buck hates his borrowed laptop.

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Ian and Ian share their Steam Accounts again, and then Ian walks away while Ryan and Ian discuss Google's need for a Presentation remote.

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Matt tries to stop Ryan from adding show notes after having not written any himself.

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Steve talks about his Raspberry Pi shenanigans, Andrew figures out what a Bug-A-Salt is, and both discuss open source project names.

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Before the show, Ryan and Brian experience audio issues with fake computers.

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Before the show, Ryan and Ian talk about Destiny and after, Decker plays some music.

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Ryan and Ian wait for Sonja and Ian, and after the show, Ryan mentions a train killing a guy and how the University tracks us all.

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Matt decides to add a new segment about Knots and then Matt begins another new segment on shopping for absurd junk on Amazon.

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Ian Buck wanted to make a test call with Ryan and ian in preparation for future episodes of Eight Bit. International latency will not stop us!

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Matt tries to login into something without LastPass, Ryan shows off his new PS2 emulator and Matt and Ryan discuss many Guild Wars 2 problems.

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Steve goes to get a mic, and Andrew gets familiar with Steve's surroundings.

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Matt briefly reviews the notes and then suddenly has to play Guild Wars for a few moments, and then the show begins.

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While hunting for show articles, Steven talks about World of Tanks and keyboards, Andrew wonders about Internet speeds, then both watch some LoadingReadyRun.

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Matt and Ryan discuss the regional Aquatennial and Matt shares some work stories.

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Steven watches a Strongbad Email, and Andrew talks about the games he's been playing.

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Ryan and Matt add some show notes before the show, and Matt catches a sudden case of tinnitus.

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Ian Buck wonders where Ryan is and discovers a magical device and Buck and Decker briefly prepare for their last episode until sometime in fall.

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In the fringe, Ryan mentions how there is no news this week, and Matt tries to read the news that does not exist.

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Andrew complains about Ryan's microphone noise and the mic setup, then talk about PC hardware, then mitigation techniques against deletion.

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Matt and Ryan listen to a story about the LG G3 and then Ryan rants about the Snapdragon and Qualcomm failures.

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Ryan finds Brian at the last minute and we chat a bit before about his new iPhone jailbreak and after the show about a fire truck near his dorm.

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Steven talks about his Ubuntu installation, Andrew talks about the things he ripped out from his laptops, then they watch Team Fortress 2 videos.

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Ian Buck and Ian Decker are on time and while they begin talking about some camp stories, they decide to actually record their show.

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Matth actually writes some show notes in studio for a change.

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Andrew and Ryan wait for Matt, they talk about game things before the show and about their recent lives.

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Matt discovers that this is a long episode and cries in agony.

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Andrew, Steven, and Chris navigate microsoft issues, then talk about Kickstarters, Raspberry Pi articles, and closures.

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Brian Mitchell joins Ryan via Hangouts for a late night WWDC recap before the show, and after, Brian shares his stories of working at a small ISP.

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The show notes are ready and the show begins.

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Ian and Savannah wait literally hours for Ian while Ryan gallivants around town with Matt, and when Ian Decker finally appears, he is tired and he has a cold, but he pulls through to record the last show of the season.

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After days, Matt and Ryan finally sit down for their show - no T-Mobile, no Eight Bit, no more Fireheart Rise.

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Ian brings Sonja to the studio, Ians organize the notes, and even more talk about Transistor because Ian decides to put Ryan's review on Steam.

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Andrew explains the tropes of The Nexus, Ross Nover explains The Jamie Noguchi System, and Steven find a tank, among other things.

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Ian Buck tried to find Ian Decker. Ian Decker could not be found. And thus, there was Ryan and Matt became the guests.

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After the show, Ian Buck appears suddenly and Ryan's mom finds Ryan's missing credit cards.

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Before the show, everyone gathers notes, Ryan cleans the studio and suddenly decides to be on the show, and after, we are educated on the ways of the Old Spice Guy.

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Ryan upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and we totally sound different, right? Matt makes some noise with the microphone booms, the MacBook Air begins melting, Matt learns how to spell "longer".

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Andrew talks about Skype recording software, and Steven reads Andrew's blog.

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Ian Decker plays a game of League before the show and Ian Buck gets ready by screaming and yelling about his tie.

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Ryan and Matt gather some last minute news.

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Ian, Ian and Katie gather and even Putnam stops by to talk about an old Atari gaming system.

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Matt needs to make a quick trip to the T-Mobile store, and then everything goes downhill from there,

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Andrew talks about show topics, his mom calls, and Steven discovers Good Old Games.

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Matt and Ryan look for a few more show notes before beginning, but pretty much fail. Oh, also, that is how you spell Nike and illustrious is a pretty uncommon word in today's parlance.

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Ian Decker arrives early in studio, while waiting for Buck to shower and eat, Ryan and Ian play a little bit of Guild Wars 2.

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Decker breaks his toe nail on something, Buck buys Guild Wars 2 and later, Matt invades with an army of Naziponies.

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Matt and Ryan join on a Sunday afternoon to record. Since it's so early in the day, we travel to Germany and try to locate a German Dominos to satisfy Matt's insatiable hunger for Dominos which has been deemed as no longer a treat by many a person.

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Steven and Andrew talk about keyboards, monitors, games, videocards, and pranks (but not necessarily in that order).

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Ryan's a little late, but then Ian Buck and Ryan talk about Google's TV strategy or lack thereof.

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Ryan was so busy he forgot to prepare the show notes and Matt's experimenting with Ryan's auto-text message reading app.

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Matt makes a surprise visit to explain to Ryan how to burn flags, Katie looks up jewelry and Ian really wants to see some comic book movie show thing.

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Matt talks about his truck, learns how to spell and more.

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Steven talks about his new graphics card, and Andrew drags him into a multiplayer 2048 game, then talk about Unreal Engine 4 after the show.

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Matt tells Ryan about the truck: it's still not working, and admits he didn't prepare at all for this episode.

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The Ians bring Rachel (the Nexus 4 girl) over and suddenly need collect their links, or as Buck says, "gatekeeping". After the show, Ian and Ian record their manly voices to get a voice actor position.

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Ryan's a bit early to the call, Buck looks at cell phone coverage and after, Decker explains his Spring break plans and Ryan is disappointed he cannot send an emissary to 5by5 World Headquarters.

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Matt and Ryan listen to fixing the "WiFi", and look for a Chromebox and Cosmos.

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Andrew and Steve talk about daylight savings time, shownotes, the previous ATN fringe, and Windows sounds.

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Before the show, Decker explains to Austin the way Eight Bits works, Ryan explains the Paul Horn story yet again, and after, we get to look at your what?

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Matt snapes the chair's back, finally, and we discuss how the sun revolves around the earth and how Andrew Bailey likes being talked to in the third person when he is not here.

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Sonja meets Sarah, an experiment conducted by Ian Buck and Ian Decker.

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Ryan and Matt go on an adventure to the depths of the Internet hidden behind one photographer's flash.

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Decker threatens to eat on the show which Buck hates, and after, Decker decides to tickle Sarah.

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Ryan threatens Matt to put malicious content in the front, Matt listens to Andrew's recent podcast with the impression that nuts were involved and at the end, Matt's really tired.

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Andrew and Ryan talk about gaming, character encodings, and cloud storage.

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Ian Buck begins the show after numerous pushbacks and we find the post office man attempting to saw the studio in half, among other things.

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For about two hours (before time compression and truncation), Ryan tries to type up the notes and Matt talks about work.

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Ian Decker returns from aboard and tells us stories before the show, briefly, and then Sarah pays him a visit after the show for chocolate.

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Matt coughed in the fringe and then Ryan explained something relatively pointless about WordPress taxonomies, cores and pagans.

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Sam and Ian discuss the latency of echos in their microsofts and after the show Sam reveals some connections he has with a famous YouTube celebrity.

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Ryan finds a free U2 song on iTunes, Matt and Ryan work on some show notes, and Ryan again explains some reasoning behind yet another computer.

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Andrew talks about Fallout: New Vegas, and Steven talks about his Raspberry Pi.

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Before the show, we deal with some audio issues and then after we talk about games surprisingly and then setup a Gravatar for Katie.

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Ryan explains his odd class schedule to Matt, Matt shows Ryan a book from 1924, Matt plays his favorite rap song and after the show, Matt mugs Ian's show notes.

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Ian Buck and Ryan discuss the new monitor in the studio to enable the future, and Ian Decker brings his own guest, Sarah!

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Matt comments briefly on some minor studio changes, prepares the pizza and Ryan discovers code he wrote six months ago to be competent beyond his expectations.

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Andrew and Steven talk about programmer jokes and GPUs, mostly.

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On Saturday, expecting to record Eight Bit, Ian Buck turns on Sasha only to find no Ian Decker. On Sunday, both Ians unite and find Katie. There is much eating, much entertainment, and much sarcasm.

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Ryan explains the schedule reshuffle, Matt eats popcorn and ponders whether or not the scratches he sees in his classes are really in his eyes.

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Matthew opens a bottle and Ian and Ryan chat about things before the annual CES special since he is returning to Morris.

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Ryan tries to play SphereChess for the first time and Ian Decker discovers his monitor has travel damage.

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Matt and Ryan gather a couple notes and mention a couple things about analytics from the Google's insane counting schemes.

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Ian Decker arrives first and then Ian Buck appears. They discuss some of their listener feedback, Ryan mentions his mixer dreams and a mouse teleporter. After the show Matt comes in to tell us about the Putnam's game night.

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Ryan looks for more show notes at the last minute and Matt looks for another horrible flag to buy.

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Martin gets to see the studio for the first time and Buck recounts the Paul Horn story yet again and Decker reads something really long at the end of the show.

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Ryan listens to the NSA 60 Minutes special and Matt and Ryan engage in a fruitless discussion on the topic of those duck people.

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Andrew and Ryan complain about Skype, Steam, take tours around their respective cities.

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Matt looks for show notes before the show and Ryan attempts to fix website bugs but it doesn't work.

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Ian Buck tells us about his contest win via unpopular social media and Decker finds Sarah after the show.

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Ian and Ryan comment on the new Nexus 5 update to the camera: it takes pictures, and they gather some last minute show notes.

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Sam talks to Ryan before the show, Matt appears and we discuss the future of the network and our eventual acquisition.

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Ian Buck arrives early, Ian Decker beings Sarah and after the show, there's a very unique story.

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Buck and Decker get ready before the show by adding a few notes. Pretty uneventful - THUNDER.

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Matt and Ryan discuss Sam, Guild Wars, inject some Supercut, Ryan's attempt at giving his phone an external microphone and how YouTube is just broken everywhere now.

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Andrew, Matthew, and Ryan figure out connection issues and how to do a podcast.

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Matthew and Ryan gather a few more show notes and Ryan tinkers with the CMS because that's his job, while the storage drive full of more than 300 GB of raw podcasting audio is getting drained.

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Buck and Decker wait for Roth, then compile their show notes, and then after the show, a great discussion on the network and other fascinating topics unfolds.

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Ian Buck shows off his new Nexus 5 and Ryan inquires on how Ian likes it so far, Ian Decker eats an egg roll and the show notes are gathered all in a new hangout client.

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Matt and Ryan chat about licensing with BSD before the show and then stumble upon a long winded Pokemon video-rant-thing. Did we mention this is the 400th episode of The Fringe? Because' it's not.

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Andrew takes Twentieth Century for another spin, then he and Steven talk about things on Steam, and discover some cool Firefox features.

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Ian Decker decides to go off to a musical event leaving Ian Buck behind, then a while later, while Matt and Ryan are playing Guild Wars, they decide to do the show!

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Matt shows off his new model Gundam and Ryan toys with a multiple process browser while writing the show notes.

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Matt and Ryan discuss events at Murray and all about a huge commercial for Gundam model kits, as well as talking about that Apple news.

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Ryan tells Ian to do the show right and Decker writes his show notes before the show and after Decker tells us a joke about a Scotsman.

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Matt and Ryan gather stories from the slow news week and Ryan discusses his disdain for the lack of named arguments on his recent midterm.

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Andrew fumbles around with his mic, and Ryan wonders what the dog is barking at.

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Matt begins his first solo-production and Ryan suddenly appears, Ian Decker takes a drink and wears a dress among other things.

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Matt and Ryan prep for an action pack show, talk about their week and have a few laughs.

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Andrew and Chris briefly discuss show topics, and deal with a screaming kid.

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Ian Decker talks about the Drag show and Ian Buck and Sam Roth talk about the Holofoil problem.

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Before the show, Ryan and Matt compile some show notes, update an iPad and talk about building a new machine for the studio because Ryan can.

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Andrew and Steven get ready for the show and discuss private keys and daylight savings time.

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Matt tells Ryan about a mischievous Pork-u-pine, rant a little on the oddity that's Valve's pushing and play an ancient Universe clip.

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Ryan mentions a new AMD graphics card that Ian somehow miss, Decker doesn't realize it's dinner time and eats and then we find Urban Dictionary.

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After Ian figures out how Skype has audio settings set as, Andrew wonders if he's ever interviewed Ian and talk about GPUs a little bit, while Ian gets familiar with the show topics.

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Ian Buck plays Audiosurf before the show, Ian Decker plays some game after the show and Ryan tries to setup the Touchpad again.

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Before the ATN #94, Brian Mitchell installs the Hangouts plugin, we watch Ian Buck eat, search long and hard for Andrew Bailey and eventually, discover that Matt is actually alive after he returned from hunting.

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Andrew and Chris talk about the LoadingReadyRun Kickstarter and domestic happenings.

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Ian Decker reveals that he has a Twitter account and after the show, Matthew toots his horn at Decker.

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Matt and Ryan gather the show notes and try to fix a buzzing board before At The Nexus #93.

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Andrew explains how RASPBERRY! works and how his platform at work uses SOAP, and Steven talks about how he wants to use a Raspberry Pi as a FM radio transmitter.

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Brian and Ryan discuss some points of the Apple event before the show to get ready.

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Before the show, the Ians look at embarrasing Street view photos and Katie shares a poll, what kind of gamer are you?

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Matt and Ryan recompile a few show notes, discuss remembering names and try to find country music.

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Before the show, we gather some show notes to falsify our believability while we listen to our old favorite, Neon Pegasus, how Matt's finding a girlfriend and more.

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Chris says that he has to hurry up, so Andrew and him do.

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Ian Decker joins Ryan in the studio before Eight Bit #43 and Ian tries remote desktop with four monitors from Morris.

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Before the show, Matt and Ryan discuss fan noise, odd names, and watch a couple funny videos that parody service advertising among other things.

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Andrew wakes Chris up (again). Then they talk about what's going to be on the show.

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Ryan catches up on the news he missed during the weekend while trying to write the CMS and Matt shares his problems with Google Docs.

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Ian, Ian and Rachel find the studio and begin the fringe and Ryan walks into his own house and finds podcasters, Ryan shows off the Chromecast and the Ian's tell the story of their roll-in.

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Andrew eventually presses record, and Chris tries to connect a laptop to his WiFi.

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Before the show and as per instructed, Ryan and Matt initiate a call to Dave but don't find him, suddenly run off an play Ingress and return, find Dave and then deal with show notes or the lack there of.

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Chris and Andrew talk about StarCraft Universe, then Chris turns it all morbid.

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Ryan reveals MegaPokemon and finishes this week's Guild Wars 2 event content and Matt battles LastPass issues.

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Chris discusses quad cores and games, and Andrew gathers show notes.

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Ryan talks about Newegg's package deal for the AMD 220w CPU, Matt talks about his hero Adam West and we watch a review on RWBY.

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Matt talks about his defibrillator plan among other things and Ryan recounts his "catastrophe".

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Andrew talks about everything breaking and Chris looks for a way to stress out his CPU, then he turns off its fan.

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Ryan and Matt talk about licensing, what is known as "to blow your own horn", javascript and HTML5 video and audio players and then they watch some ancient Apple computer ads.

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Matt and Ryan discuss the event a little before the show, and look over the good old days from middle school marketing.

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Andrew and Chris yell at each other for a bit, then Chris talks about his new computer, and Andrew weaponizes the backup script.

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Matt reviews his Siracusa lineage, watches this absurd AT&T commerical hundreds of times, reads about Guild Wars 2, and Ryan discovers the first halfway decent game footage of Final Fantasy 15 before ATN #85.

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Chris talks about his new computer case, then joins Andrew in talking about the Steam Sale.

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The Putnams storm the studio with pizza and Mountain Dew, and we discuss various things concerning the 80's.

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Chris eats some "bread and butter" while Andrew scrambles to add things to the show docs.

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Ian Buck sets Ian Decker's new HTC Thunderbolt with his favorite Android apps before the show and

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Ryan and Matt talk about Matt's twitter history, July 4th events, some recent events like Egypt and Russian explosions.

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Ryan and Matthew think they sound the same, Matt shares some comics and Ryan tries to filter his history before At The Nexus #82.

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Ryan talks about a little media PC-server he'd like to build and Matt discusses his desire for a co-host.

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Andrew and Chris talk about games, Kickstarter stats, and a few other things really quickly.

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Ryan and Matt talk about Ryan's dad's birthday, some recent owl pictures, distro-rankings, new t-shirts from our favorite critic and so much more before ATN #81.

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Chris looks for a Kickstarter, then talks about a $90 game beta on Steam, and Andrew talks about meeting gamer girls and gamer pastors.

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Ian shares his biking story, suffers a doomclock experience, some meta-discussion, and more.

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Chris wonders what an LED lightbulb is, Ryan explains what will be on this week on the network, and Andrew talks about new show ideas.

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Ian shares a very disturbing video and Ryan shows Ian his latest javascript project before Eight Bit #40.

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Ryan and Matt look for stories in this slow news week and Matt discovers the beveled edge of a bluray disc.

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Andrew calls Chris on his real phone, some woman gets lost, Matthew is paranoid and armed, Ryan explains how to use audio equipment, and Chris tells what anime he watches.

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Ian and Ryan wait for the other Ian to show, Ian caughts into the 'microsoft' before EB #39 and after, Ian shares his crazy side a little more.

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Before ATN #78, Ryan talks about Yahoo's need to buy Hulu, Matt's need for the Rockford Files.

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Andrew yells at Chris while Chris eats, then they talk about games, pinball, LoadingReadyRun, Windows support, among other things

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Ian and Ryan talk about his jump started car before the show and Ian Decker finds a guest.

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Matt learns about his potential future wife, Sofy, while Ryan is basically delirious during the job hunt and so much more before At The Nexus #77.

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Matt, Ian and Ryan chat about a dinosaur before the show and talk about the Xbox One, and then we decide we're hungry and go to a high school.

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Chris steps out of his chair and steps on his cats and Andrew and Chris talk about the new Xbox One.

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Ian Buck laments his lost Nexus 7 and is overjoyed over his new one, and meanwhile the studio desktop has a doom clock experience before Eight Bit #37.

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Ryan and Matt get the news together from this week's slim pickings, due to Google IO, and among other things, chicken skin, 'youth group' and more, before ATN #76.

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Ian and Ryan planned out the show by talking about what they liked and didn't like about the Google IO keynote, and Ian gets lubricated -- again.

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Andrew and Chris talk about games, Steam, games on Steam, Kickstarter projects, and LoadingReadyRun videos.

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Ian Buck locked his key in the car and gets his desktop ready for the ride of its life -- Linux Mint, and while Matt gets his fish seasoning at Menards, Ian and Ryan listen to music.

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Ryan and Matt talk about Amazon Prime and engines shipped in two days, AMD and Intel motherboard bundles and dresses -- prom dresses. (Hint, Hint.)

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Andrew and Chris talk about 10 hour loops of random songs, little bits of stuff, then complain that they are just too tired.

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Ian and Andrew discuss the PC Gamer podcast and their archives, a guy jumps in Ryan's well and more before EB #35.

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Before the show, we talk about Domino's new live camera feed and Comics Day, and then after, we literally raid Dominos.

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Listen to Chris eat some dinner, Andrew plays last week's CS intro, and then both laugh at "official" Blood Dragon merchandise.

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Before EB #34, Ian Buck, Ian Decker and Alex Gunness play Minecraft and talk and after, Ryan discusses the studio setup with Alex.

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Ryan and Matt talk with William for the first time in a year, Matt screeches, Ryan's blog traffic spike because of Java and more before At The Nexus #73.

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Ian and Andrew talk about being hipster (or not), having a smartphone, music on Control Structure, Jonathan Coulton, and Mars.

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The Ians and Kayla talk about their Minecraft mining expedition among other things, lingering over shows and relationships and talk about them sugus, and Ryan mentions his burnt out USB drive server.

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Listen to Andrew and Chris prepare for the show, a thunderstorm, hail, and shipping your pants.

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Ian Buck and Ian Decker look for a guest before the show, Ian tells Ryan about software and development and after the show, Ian oogles all over expensive swords.

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Ryan suddenly begins the fringe, try to fix audio issues that are baffling and eventually discover the best ad for Kmart ever.

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Andrew and Chris talk about personal finances, Raspberry Pi, monitors, and Christopher Titus, among other things.

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Ian Buck was lost, then found, we discuss the new wave of Pokemon (or Pokemans as all the adults in our childhood called it) and more before EB #31.

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Ryan and Matt chat before the show about HP's board member bail out, 5by5's new studio that looks literally amazing and something about a Jellyfish.

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With a chorus of overhead aircraft, Andrew talks about cleaning his apartment and Chris talks about getting new stuff at work. Then they talk about Steam, games, free drive space, and what do talk about on the show.

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Ryan and Matt look for the best of April Fool's before the Nexus Special #17.

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Ian Buck, Ian Decker, Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl join in studio before EB #30 to chat about all of the April Fool's jokes, computer cases, comics and so many innuendos that you'll be impressed.

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Ian Buck suddenly appears as a surprise guest on the Fringe, Ryan plays Daft Punk, Matt tells us about Ax-Man and Matt downloads a new linux distro and previews Sam's favorite video.

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Listen to Kyle's connection cause epic feedback, how we set up both Skype and Google Hangout, and how long we play games.

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Ian Decker shares his laments his week, Ian Buck decides it's "okay" to leave a girl in the room with the others while gets water -- he was wrong, and have you seen Snakes in a School?

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Matthew and Ryan discuss the Buck Event before the show and the infamous conclusion to this season's most promising anime, Robotics;Notes, after ATN #68.

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Ryan discovers Ian's Chromebook, John chats with us for a while before the show and after, Ian plays some Mass Effect game on his Nexus 7.

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Sam Ebertz is here and he's awake, and Matt tries to fill Ryan's window with snow and Andrew Bailey discusses podcast mechanics and an easter egg with Ryan.

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Andrew, Chris, and John get to know each other, talk about cars, Chicago, and website backends.

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Ryan shares his progress on the Playboard, Sam Roth realizes he's on the "innuendo' show and Ian Decker torments us with bleep!

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Matt makes a drink of tile cleaner and koolaid and Ryan plays some of his favorite anime opening theme songs.

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Chris is wondering how to download the Internet, and Andrew talks about Civilization 5.

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Ian Buck has his brother as a guest along with his brother's friend, Ian Decker finally makes it onto an episode and we all compare ourselves to our competitors.

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Ryan and Matt claim it's just one of those "weeks" and why midterms, projects and girls are conspirng to be the downfall of Ryan.

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Listen to Andrew coach Chris about how to yell "RASPBERRY!", and listen to Chris eating sushi.

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Ian Buck discovers he has been watching movies at less than acceptable frame rates for years and is angry at the world and Katie accues him of harboring nefarious things at his Camp Site.

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Sam talks about his bookmark to show note tool and Ryan works on his speedtest tool in javascript.

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Ian Buck begins shirtless just for Ryan, and we all discuss Ryan's pending decision on private lessons, and finally something about a bus.

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Andrew and Chris discuss The Universe, episodic content, threatening to wear pants, and literature.

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Before Eight Bit #24, Ian Buck barrages Ryan with show notes and a discovery is made: Windows 8 has a auto-save print screen tool via Windows + Print Screen.

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Before the Episode 19 of The Universe, Sam Ebertz and Matthew Petschl talk about Han Solo returning in Star Wars 7 and watching a guy eat a jar of Mayonnaise, while Ryan was crying in the corner.

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Ryan and Matt discuss the upcoming CMS changes and explore the wonderful world of Sam's away from keyboard status.

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Two turians do a sound check, followed by a discussion about what's nearby, taxes, and nukes.

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Ryan is completely ambiguous and Ian Decker has an extraordinary mustache that floats, and Ian Buck shares his body with us yet again.

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Matthew plays insane music from Soviet Russia and plays with the studio cat, and Ryan develops his heart show for Megan.

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Ian and Ryan discuss Ryan's introduction of his Nexus 4 and Sam talks about phones more than we do on the gadget show.

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Andrew explains the shows on The-Nexus to Chris, some introspection on their own show, podcasting shirtless, former roomies, and games.

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Matt and Ryan get ready for the show and Sam is over there trying to break his VMs before the longest and possibly best At The Nexus ever.

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Just some pre-podcast banter and dinner/breakfast.

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Ryan call Microsoft to re-activate Windows 7 on the Skype laptop after wiping Windows 8.

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Ian, Ian and Ryan wonder where the guest is and then find Sam Ebertz's new website, and Ryan has trouble with the skype laptop.

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On an epically long lead in to At The Nexus #60, you can hear Sam's distant Japanese voice, Matt's streaming and Ryan rage quitting the podcast.

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After fumbling around with the mic, Andrew and Chris discuss games, the chances of The Elder Scrolls MMO succeeding, and what in the world a co-host is. Andrew also expresses his evil side, and Chris talks about his Indian roomie.

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Ian and Ian invite Alicia onto the show, Ryan becomes "studio guy" and shares a new upcoming show.

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Matt and Ryan discover the joy of live monitoring and Ryan tells Matt about Reaper.

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Ryan, Ian, Ian and Andrew chat before and after the show about Pokemon, video cards, "chinese" and strange Pittsburgh-lingo.

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Matthew and Ryan talk about stuff before the At The Nexus #58 and suddenly find a cat in the studio.

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Ian Buck and Ryan Rampersad chat while they gather news about CES for the Nexus Special #15: CES 2013 episode.

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Listen to Ian and Ian with guest Josh discuss podcast practice, laughing at a ghost a room away and so much more when a light is shined in your face.

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Ryan plays an OP from seven years ago and Matt tells us his new plan for domino's.

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Listen to Ryan tell Matthew about benchmarking his server, Andrew and Ryan talking about web fonts, and Matthew walking away from the mic.

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Hear the frivolous pursuit of topics before Nexus Special #14 along with an impressive stink bug attack with Ian Buck, Andrew Bailey, Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad.

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Ian Buck and Ian Decker decide to record this show without shirts, Ryan sighs so hard, and we have a legitimately great time.

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Sam Ebertz and the studio crew discuss how to remove dry erase marker from a vinyl sheet when it clearly states to only use wet erase.

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Matt shares a pokemon video, a story video and Ryan reads the winter preview for next season.

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On this special edition of The Fringe with Ryan and Matt, we go quickly setup for the next upcoming show and then suddenly experience a disaster and magically reconvene eight hours later after At The Nexus #55 to rant about Sword Art Online and eat pizza.

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Leif Park Jordan, guest of Ian and Ian, discusses DOTA 2 and then plays ridiculous videos and shares funny comics after Eight Bit #16.

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Listen to some guys cleaning up some stuff in the studio, along with Andrew's rant against podcasts-on-podcasts and gun free zones.

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Ian and Ian along with Ryan listen to some ridiculous video before EB #15 and Ian, Ryan and Matt discuss Windows and other things after the show.

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Matt falls in love with a spammer and his still smoking hat before At The Nexus #54, and more stalking than you can imagine of a genius and an impressive spammer.

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Listen to Chris fumble with his mic, Andrew instructing Chris in the art of the podcast, and listen to both of them reminisce about being roomies.

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Ian and Ryan talk about his fixed computer, screens and domain names before and after Eight Bit #14.

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Ryan and Matthew screw things and watch a video on a 3D printer among other things before At The Nexus #53 and have a party when Sam suddenly breaks in.

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Listen to Andrew fumbling with his mic and explaining lots of stuff, Ryan instructing Matt in the way of the podcast, and Matt ordering pizza, mon!

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Ian Buck shares his terrible Asus motherboard, his Nexus 7 purchase and Ryan mentions the Fringe-Fringe before Eight Bit #13.

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Matt and Ryan hangout in the studio talking about fascists before ATN #52.

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Ryan briefly mentions the site updates he's made over the last few days.

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Ian Buck and Ian Decker briefly join Ryan and Matt in the Nexus Studio 001 before Eight Bit #12.

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Andrew Bailey and Ryan Rampersad talk about At The Nexus totally faking its end, Andrew's the pwnerer inspired bit about ATN ending, and their recording equipment.

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Ian discovers the depth of Ryan's treacherous lies and Ian and Hayden giggle profusely.

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Ryan and Matthew discuss their long absence from the network and why they left for so long.

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Ryan briefly talks about the last ninety days on the network and the extraordinary first year of podcasting here at The-Nexus.

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Before and after Eight Bit #10 with Ian Buck, Ian Decker and guest, Kyle Schaplowsky.

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Before and after At The Nexus #49: You Threw An Exception.

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Preshow banter between Ian, Ryan and another Sam on the network.

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Brian Mitchell and Ryan Rampersad discuss some topics before At The Nexus #45.

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The website has been updated with a new look; you need to update your feeds and follow us on Twitter and Google+ if you haven't already.

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Ryan Rampersad and Sam Ebertz of The Universe review the book, Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding. Sam and Ryan generally liked the book, rating it 3.5 and 3.7 stars out of 5, respectively.

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What would Sam Ebertz and Ryan Ellis along with host Ryan Rampersad want on a deserted island. The short answer is a Kindle.