Narwhals: Recent Episodes
Drew Wilson & Keiran Flanigan
A podcast about business, tech, movies, family, fun, space and other such cool stuff. Join us, Drew Wilson and Keiran Flanigan, as we share our experiences on being people that live on earth. We also chat with rad people on each show.
Drew & Keiran are joined by Erik Bye talking corporate work, app development and making things in the real world.
Adam Savage - Mythbusters
Kombucha
KidCam
Bulk Delete
Ellie's Games
Math Duel
Geography Duel
React.js
Swift
Microsoft Surface Studio
Drew & Keiran are joined by Damian Makki talking about app development, frameworks and taking a business from freelance work to product development.
Damian Makki - Portfolio
Sammich Shop
Masterclass
Firerift.com
Vue.js
SquareSpace
Drew & Keiran are back for Episode 32, talking hats, golf hats and the Nintendo Switch. If the first few minutes is anything to go by, this could be promising.
Nintendo Switch
The Legend Of Zelda
Nintendo Wii
Sega Dreamcast
Sony PlayStation 4
Microsoft Xbox One
Apple - iCloud - Family Sharing
Drew & Keiran are joined by Gabe Willis of STRGHT talking basketball, NBA, skateboards and running a small business.
STRGHT
STRGHT on Instagram
Valio Con
Instagram blog featuring STRGHT
Drew & Keiran are joined by Ashok Kamal who interviews them about what is means to be a Narwhal, whilst discussing recycling, health, poaching and the future of lab grown meat.
Ashok Kamal
Tech Coast Angels
Color - Genomics
IOD - Internet Of DNA
BackBlaze - Backup
Amazon - Cloud Drive
Dodo OmniData
Drew & Keiran are back again with episode 29, this week joined by Matt Goldman - CEO of Churn Buster talking about taking over a pre-existing product, family life whilst working and the transformation of San Diego.
Matt Goldman - @sdmattg
Churn Buster
Hook Feed
Shape
Rocketship Podcast
Crew acquired by Dribbble
Drew & Keiran are joined by Charlie Waite design experience director at GoPro, formerly Focus Lab talking about groceries, surfing and his work with GoPro designing software inside a hardware company.
Charlie Waite
GoPro
Focus Lab
GoPro Apps
Drew & Keiran are joined by Dan Martell a serial technology entrepreneur talking about freelancing, starting a company and balancing family life whilst traveling.
Dan Martell
Clarity.fm
The E-Myth
Silicon Valley
Drew & Keiran are joined by Brittany Meiling a startup reporter at the San Diego Business Journal talking about law, journalism and eternal life.
Brittany Meiling
San Diego Business Journal
Comic-Con
Industry
Downtown Works
Seed San Diego
Startup Week
Shape
Drew & Keiran are back again joined by Nathan Firth of New Rocket talking widgets, xhtml, illegal brewing and activities to replace sleep.
Nathan Firth
New Rocket
Service Now
CSS Zen Garden
Dynamic HTML
script.aculo.us
jQuery
MooTools
Booze Brothers Brewing Company
Nintendo - Switch
Cave Week
Drew & Keiran are joined by Michael Jackson - really! Discussing programming, Twitter and React JS.
Michael Jackson - @mjackson
React Training
Aeliox
Valio Con
React (Javascript Library)
Webpack
cabel.name: FancyZoom
Path
Luxe
Lets Hum
Slack
Shape
Drew & Keiran are joined by Garrett Marks - filmmaker, talking movies, film production, work/life balance and staying true to vision.
Garrett Marks
Plasso
Firerift
Firerift Commercial
Colin Trevorrow
Drew & Keiran are joined by Brandon Christopher talking startups, meet ups and cultivating a tech scene.
Brandon Christopher - Twitter
Boomr
Bird Rock Coffee Roasters
Shape
Startup Grind
Startup Week
EvoNexus CONNECT
Tacos+Tech
TapHunter
Drew & Keiran are joined by multidisciplinary designer Jed Bridges talking remote working, family life and foot golf.
Jed Bridges
Aspiration
Plasso
Arrival (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
Abstract
Wake
Invision
GoSquared
Valio Con
Drew & Keiran return after a long break, live from their fancy new studio at Plasso HQ.
Shape - Monthly gathering of makers in Carlsbad, California.
Watch Narwhals on YouTube
Cursive Labs
3D Rain Map - MeteoEarth
Cave Week
Plasso
Open Broadcaster Software
Amazon Bought Twitch
Arrival
The Last Jedi
Mark Hamill reveals surprising reaction to title
Han Solo Spinoff
Rogue One
After 8 months off the air, Drew and Keiran are back talking about all the latest: Drew's adventures traveling the US for most all of 2015 and Keiran's new body.
Back due to popular demand, Drew sings the praises of the Southern US while Keiran quietly hums the praises of the AppleWatch.
- Apple Watch
Drew and Keiran marvel in the toddler-wooing abilities of Bob Marley, discuss Drew's filmic aspirations, and disagree about eternal life.
- Boudin
- Michael Caine on Acting in Film
- Sandwich Video
- Elon Musk Wants Internet on Mars
Drew and Keiran call out Google, Nintendo, NBC, TLC, Texas, the Civil War, and anyone else who gets in their way apparently.
- Brian Williams slowjams the news
- Google Plaso VS Plasso
- TLC Final Album Kickstarter
- North vs. South
- Cats in the sky, hawk?
- No Time For Caution Resampled (Interstellar docking scene)
- T&C Surf
- Skate or Die
- King's Quest
- "Nintendo Hard"
- Deep in the Heart of Texas
Drew's Nationwide Tour 2015™ is officially underway as he and Keiran look back at ValioCon 2014, discuss tips for working with design-blind developers, and only slightly ruin the ending to There Will Be Blood (spoiler: there was blood).
- Sedona, AZ
- Take It Easy, The Eagles
- Elon Musk Donates $10M to Keep AI From Turning Evil – Wired
- ValioCon 2014 Videos
- Squares Conference
- Bradley Pitts
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- A Very Particular Set of Skills...
Drew and Keiran take a look at the latest announcements from Microsoft – before the conversation shifts to movies, naturally.
- Ray Wenderlich iOS tutorials
- objc.io
- NSHipster
- The Swift Programming Language
- Digital Ocean
- Sublime Text
- Sinatra
- Microsoft HoloLens
- Oculus Rift
- Project Morpheus
- Surface Hub
- Django Unchained
- Inglourious Basterds
- Argo
Drew and Keiran talk about photographing the night sky, traveling through said night sky, and the quiet beauty and utter loneliness of going to the movies by yourself.
- Keiran's day-job-quitting attempt at motion design
- Canon EOS M
- Manual for iPhone
- Reuk
- BulkDelete
- Harry Potter (sp?)
- Interstellar
- Cinepolis
- Contact
- True Detective
Drew and Kerian talk about whats going on at the beginning of this new year: 2015.
(First time using my new mic, its more sensitive than my last one. So audio will be better next time - no explosions!)
- Apogee MiC
- Drew's old work from 2000 - 'Emergency' - 'Undone'
Drew and Kerian talk about some work and life changes coming up among other things.
- Cursive Labs
- Spoutable
- BumbleCast
- Pictos Redux
- Apogee MiC
- Serial
- New theme song! - Fireside Camp by Drew (its actually a few months old mmm-kay)
Ashley Baxter joins us to talk about creating an insurance company and all things named Jack.
- Ashley Baxter
- Insurance By Jack
- Girl With A Camera
- Working Out - Podcast
- You Don't Know Jack - Game
- Merida - From Brave
Ben Howdle joins us to talk about his experience building products and apps, and leaving his full-time job to pursue that dream.
- Ben Howdle
- Referrral
- iHi
- iHi for iOS
- Permeate
- Permeate for iOS
- ProductHunt
- Plasso
- Ubiq
We talk about all the new shiny things from Apple this past week – we compare notes on the iPhone 6 vs iPhone 6 Plus, share thoughts on the WATCH, and expound a bit on the far-reaching possibilities of Pay. And speaking of launching new shiny things, we talk about Drew's new restaurant that opens its doors to the public in just a few days.
- iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
- Apple Store iOS App
- iPhone resolution comparisons (from PaintCode)
- AT&T Next
- WATCH
- Will Apple Keep Dreaming? by Drew Wilson Esq.
- Pay
- Stellar
- Stripe
- Plasso
- Hyperlapse from Instagram
- The Cork and Craft
- Abnormal Wine
Kyle Bragger joins us to talk about building products and companies including Exposure, Forrst and more.
- Kyle Bragger
- Exposure
- Elepath
- Keezy
- Forrst - Now called Tavern
- Thinglist
Andrew Verboncouer joins us to talk about his story as a professional Football player and working on and building for the web.
- Andrew Verboncouer
- Andrew's Highlight Video
- Design Combine - Coming to Valio Con 2015
- AttackTracker
- Humanscale Float Desk
We naturally transition from talking about legal business practices to genetic manipulation and interstellar space travel. We'll recount some of our experiences and lessons learned in setting up sole-proprietorships and LLCs, before taking the red pill and venturing into the fascinating world of the technological futurepresent.
- Firerift
- Quixly
- LegalZoom
- Clerky
- A 30 Year History of the Future (TED Talk)
- How to Live to be 100+ (TED Talk)
- Drew's Science Blog
- EmDrive
- This episode's music is: Synth Mountain by Drew
We talk money, numbers and the realities of trying to make a living making software. We share our past successes and failures and attempt to bring more transparency and insight into what its like building software for a living. We cover:
- Pictos
- Hlvticons
- Glyphish
- Quixly
- Lumo
- Screeny
- P.J. Onori - First to make an icon font.
- Pictos Server
- Plasso
- Filtron
- Footage
- Rechner
- AppAnnie
- OffOf
- Hearts
- KidCam
- This episode's music is: Synth Mountain by Drew
In this episode we welcome fellow Narwhal Jason Schuller on the show to discuss his story – from being a new parent, to his experience working for a large company, to his decision to work for himself building on WordPress:
- Jason Schuller
- WordPress
- E-Junkie
- Press75
- WooThemes
- Flippa
- Cinematico
- Leeflets
- Droplets
- Firerift – Firerift - The Enemy (Commercial)
- Pictos
- Juiiicy
- Plasso
- Stripe
- ArtSnacks
In this episode we detail how we go about building apps, from idea to launch. We talk specifically about what we use to build IOS apps and also backend web services. Here are some of the points we cover:
- Swift
- Becoming an Apple Developer
- Sketch
- Cocoapods
- Bower
- ReactiveCocoa
- TestFlight
- HockeyApp
- iBook from Apple: The Swift Programming Language
- Reddit reader for iOS called Narwhal
- Parse
- Firebase
- CloudKit
- DigitalOcean
- Git Hooks
- Heroku
- Node.js
- Amazon EC2
- Execute Book
- Side Projects Should Be Stupid
Get to know your hosts Drew and Keiran as we kickoff with the first ever Narwhals episode.
In this episode we talk about:
- Working from home
- Mixing family with business
- Keiran's projects found at aeliox.com
- Reissued
- INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY DODGER
- Heed
- Drew's projects found at drewwilson.com
- Valio Con
- Abnormal Beer
- Plasso
- Filtron