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    Haha, cutting brakes in movies is always stupid. Who gets up to full speed on the highway without using their brakes once?

     

    THIS is the thing that bothers me. I've never had my brake lines cut, but I had a shitty old used car whose brakes just died one morning, and I noticed it before I got out of my driveway because what driveway is set up where you can just hop in your car, hit the gas, and GO? Let alone what neighborhoods is there where you can reach and merge onto a major road without once tapping touching your brakes?

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    I love this movie. All my friends who were in computer science loved this film, so much so that we would do an annual film showing.

     

    It was dicussed in the podcast good hackers vs bad hackers. In the real world, good hackers are known as "white hat" who do pentration tests of systems in order to make them more secure while "black hat" hackers are those who purposefully hack for personal or monetary gain.

     

    It's also worth mentioning that the general premise of the film is based on reality. One could actually make free phone calls through pay phones by blowing a whistle from the Captain Crunch cereal box into the receiver. Incidentally, the man who discovered this, John Draper, was a friends with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. There is also a well known case of a hacker, Kevin Mitnick, who got arrested and was also banned from using computers although he was caught and tried after the film was released so maybe the judge was inspired by the film. The scheme the villians use has also been done many times as well.

     

    And finally, June maybe has more reason to be afraid, because the hackers who broke into the Jeep did it while the driver was going down the highway at 70 MPH.

    http://www.wired.com...l-jeep-highway/

     

    Hack the planet!!

     

    In that article, there's a detail that MIGHT assuage some of June's concerns - it wasn't two guys going "look how easily we can do this," it was two experts who'd spent two years doing research.

     

    Less comforting to her might be the account of the FBI agent who hacked a commercial flight in midair through his onflight video console - http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/

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    Nay!

     

    Of the fiscal quarter!

     

    TBH I paused the episode and now I'm just listening to Dan Deacon while I do the dishes

     

    Fuck that, best episode of the semester! (Is that longer than a fiscal quarter? My escalation might be off)

     

    I listened to this episode once on the way to work. At work I listened to Dan Deacon's NPR tiny desk concert and the Adult Swim USA video he did with the Off the Air guy, then found out Adult Swim did a special project where they got a different animator to make a music video for each song on his new album (When I Was Done Dying has a gorgeous one). Then I listened to this episode again on the way home.

     

    I don't want to come off as to gushy, but this episode filled me with a serene happiness that I would abuse if it were a drug. Definitely keeping an eye out for Dan Deacon tickets next time he comes to NYC.

     

    Also the Bryan Bacon scene had me laughing like an idiot.

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    Only halfway through, but I am loving everything about this episode. So happy to finally be seeing Betsy Sodaro regularly again. I feel like she was gone for much too long.

     

    Also, in case anyone was interested, I'm pretty sure this was the article Huskey(?) mentioned:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/longing-for-the-innocence-of-playboy.html?_r=0

     

    If I ever bump into him, I've got my conversation starter!

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    So everyone freaks out when there's no Android app, but now that it's out, there's no acknowledgment?

     

    Well I, for one, as one of those who whinged, would like to say thank you to whoever's responsible. I wasn't expecting much, but this seems great. It functions and lets me download episodes! What more could I ask for?

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    I'm not proud, but I spent about two hours arguing with my orthodox aunt over Kim Davis yesterday on Facebook. The validation of the discussion on this episode totally compensated for the shame I feel over becoming the sort of person who argues politics with family on Facebook.

     

    Also, I guess I should say something about how funny the episode was, but this show is so consistent that that seems like a granted.

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    I am another Android person who downloads pods to listen to in the car. For all that Earwolf offersI find $4.99 a month to be a fair price point, however I am dismayed that in its current form it is indeed a step behind what I currently get for free using the Player FM app.

     

    You can't take out the ads on Hollywood Handbook! They are absolutely part of the show.

     

    Ms. Muffin summed up my situation precisely. I have no problem with the price, and have already signed up, but I also don't have an iPhone, and I can't stream during my commute, and so I download the episodes every morning on Podcast FM. It's literally the second thing I do every day after turning off my alarm. I would also be very sad to lose the Reality Show Show and Hollywood Handbook ads, to say nothing of the ads on Spontaneanation and CBB.

     

    Losing the archive also just FEELS bad. Long story short, I was unemployed and depressed for most of 2014, and specifically having 100+ episodes of new shows to listen to really helped. I started off with HDTGM, listened to every one at least twice, and then burned through all of improv4humans however many times. I learned about almost every comedian I enjoy through Earwolf shows, by hearing someone new on an episode, and then going to listen to older appearances. I wouldn't know who Stephanie Allynne, Betsy Sodaro, Joe Wengert, Pamela Murphy, Neil Campbell, Paul Rust, etc... were if I wasn't able to dig through their appearances in the archives. And, being unemployed at the time, having access to all of this for free when I was completely broke was a huge help in making me feel less shitty every day.

     

    I want to make it clear I'm excited for the new shows (including a Wild Horses show? what?!), and the old albums, and I'm happy to pay. The problem is that even after I give you my money, my access to content is still restricted in comparison to before this announcement. I lose the ability to download old episodes, I can't listen to the exclusive content I'm paying for when I would most want to, and I lost all the old ads (Earwolf being the only place where that's a complaint).

     

    This complaint isn't just to vent frustration. I believe that Earwolf sincerely does care, and that they will be interested in solving the problems that seem to be fairly common across a not insignificant portion of your listenership.

     

    I just don't want less Earwolf in my life. It's a really silly thing that means a lot to me.

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  23. Posted

    Another broke commuter with an Android phone here voicing my concern. I didn't care about the live episodes being available, since I had already bought them all, but as soon as they announced that new Gourley/Tompkins podcast, I was ready to sign up for this - before realizing I had no app to download. Then I saw there was a site, so I signed up there and... there's no way to download the episodes.

     

    I have a 40 minutes subway commute each way every day, and I have spent every one (alright, maybe 99%) of those rides listening to (again, 99%) Earwolf podcasts. I got into these shows specifically because I could download them, and this goes back beyond this commute. Even driving back and forth from school (2.5 hrs) between 2010 and 2013, I would listen downloaded episodes because I had a shitty phone that would freeze when streaming. Having access to the old episodes was also a major factor, since I'd always go through the backlogs of podcasts I'd never listened to to check out episodes with guests I knew I enjoyed. That's how I started listening to improv4humans, Hollywood Handbook, and the late Professor Blastoff (the first two of which I've listened to every episode now, many of them twice). Since I've caught up on these now, and listen to each episode the day it drops, I still manage to run out of new episodes to listen to through the day, and as a result still download and relisten to old episodes regularly. Yesterday I listened to Lance Bangs' UTU2TM, and I listened to two Reality Show Shows the day before that.

     

    I'm also worried about their touting 'ad-free' episodes. For the longest time, the ads were an equally entertaining part of the podcasts, which I thought was the whole key to their effectiveness (if I had any money to spend, I'd be throwing it at MeUndies thanks to PFTs efforts). But what with the corporate takeover, is this signaling a shift to more controlled advertising? The kind you want to skip?

     

    I guess, looking at what I've written, I'm realizing that it's more my problem than theirs the unreasonable amount of content I consume, but I just wanted to throw my voice in with the rest of the concerned here. I recognize how much amazing free comedy Earwolf has provided me, and I'm fully ready to give them my money, but I don't want these podcasts to get caught up in the corporate DRM/proprietary bullshit that drove me away from iTunes and Apple in the first place.

     

     

    Whinging aside - man! what a great episode! Always glad when PFT can drop by the studio, it's just a shame he so often has to leave halfway through.

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