You’ve likely seen comedian Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix stand-ups or even caught her live on tour. Now, she’s the late-night host of CBS’ After Midnight, a spiritual successor to @midnight that pokes fun at what captures the internet’s attention.
Each episode, expect a low-stakes competition between three witty guests from the world of entertainment, comedy, music and beyond. You must be 18 years or older to sit in on the live audience.
Taping Times: Typically Mon–Wed, Sun at 3:15pm
Location: Paramount Studios 898 N Gower St, Los Angeles
I had this list of podcasts that I was listening to way back when and finally decided to update it. But it seems appropriate to SAVE the list I had from 2012 because damn… most of these don’t even exist any more.
Maximum PC No BS Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/maximumpc/1337 If you like Windows & PC hardware, this podcast is for you. A favorite of mine, listening to the Maximum PC podcast is like hanging out with your friends. Some people ramble, others go off on tangents, some talk about stuff they did the other day, others talk about the state of technology. They cover stuff that was reviewed in the magazine but more importantly they let Senior Editor Gordon Mah Ung rant – and rant he does – about basically anything and everything. Listening to Gordon rant is like having the little voice in the back of your head have a turn at the microphone.
KOXM Radio – The Official Xbox Magazine Podcast http://oxmpodcast.podbean.com/feed/ Ryan McCaffrey, Official Xbox Magazine editor runs this podcast and talks about Xbox gaming from the magazine’s perspective… well, sometimes. See, I keep going back and forth on this podcast because the host sometimes talks minimally about Xbox instead going off on some story about his iPhone or something completely unrelated to the podcast topic, otherwise wasting my time with things I’m not even remotely interested in. Hey Ryan? Reign it in or get a co-host to help you reign it in, like Paul Thurrott does with Leo Laporte.
Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrotthttp://www.leoville.tv/podcasts/ww.xml And then there’s the big daddy of podcasting. Paul Thurrott’s Windows Weekly podcast along with Leo Laporte, TWIT network founder & CEO runs the most successful tech podcast for Microsoft technology in the world. Reviewing all things Windows and a lot of things “Microsoft”, Paul uses his decades of experience to weigh in on the importance of some things and the hype of others. Windows Phone 7 users will want to definitely subscribe as Paul’s a big fan of WP7.
WPCentral Podcasthttp://feeds2.feedburner.com/WmexpertsPodcast The creation of Daniel Rubino, aka Malatesta, the WPCentral podcast was always informative and a very interesting 3rd party look at Windows Phone. Malatesta tends to break news stories quicker than the other phone sites because he focuses exclusively on the Windows Phone platform. Recently, they started podcasting more frequently and regularly… I’m sure the Nokia launch had something to do with that along with the fact that Windows Phone cracked 3.6% marketshare… and rising.
Tech News Todayhttp://leo.am/podcasts/tnt Yes, I listen to this daily. I like Tom Merritt and I admire him in the same way I have come to admire Leo Laporte. Not for their understanding of technology which often times is shallow (and especially not for his fanatical love of Google), but more for their incredible skills as broadcasters and notable achievements in such broadcasting roles. Being a host is not an easy job AT ALL and I am always in admiration of their ability to transition, smooth over, and otherwise push forward. Iyaz Acktar is not only a great commenter, he’s brilliant and adds great color on all things legal, being a law school graduate. Now if only I could get an audio filter for anything Sarah Lane says…
Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio This isn’t obviously a ‘tech’ podcast however I think it appeals to the same audience in many ways because it’s thoughtful and insightful. Stephen Dubner carries on the Freakonomics torch past the books he co-wrote with Steven Levitt, “Freakonomics” and “SuperFreakonomics”. Every topic discussed on the show is backed by economic statistics, direct interviews, and reveals unlikely linkages between things like the motivations of public school teachers & Japanese sumo wrestlers. Easy to listen to and entertaining to think about, this is one of my favorites.
PC Perspectivehttp://www.pcper.com/rss/podcasts.rss Ryan Shrout, renown PC hardware expert and master of gaming rig components, continues to run his long-time podcast on the latest hardware, the most recently published benchmark tests, and the plans that hardware manufacturers have for evolving their product lines. Always on the spot for improvements to components from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and other major label manufacturers, this is an IT person’s must listen to podcasts. Note that this is a different podcast that what is published by TWiT’s podcast network run by Leo Laporte. Ryan does a podcast called This Week in Tech Computer Hardware (TWiTCH) on that network that I also subscribe to but I think PC Perspective is better in some respects.
What The Techhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/Whatthetechgfq Andrew & Paul Thurrott talk openly about all thing techie, with a major on Microsoft related subjects being that Paul’s an expert on the subject. This is a more free form discussion compared to the Windows Weekly podcast Paul does with Leo Laporte and can be more diverse and thus sometimes more interesting. I listen to it when I can but I usually start with Windows Weekly because they talk about more timely matters but on the other hand, I don’t find myself facepalming like I do when listening to Leo’s “WTF?” type questions so often times, What The Tech is less aggravating to listen to.
There’s a thread on Mastodon talking about how folks should add “quote” marks and “commas” to their passwords to fuck up the .CSV files that they’ll be dumped to when the service you use is inevitably hacked, owned & exfiltrated of user account data.
Someone posted this & I’ve been chuckling all morning at the ingenuity of some folk in the InfoSec scene:
We can at least hope that the world’s children have teachers who are patient enough to share — and be allowed to share — clear and fact-based historical knowledge.
Ranking of my most-to-least favorite live action Star Wars content. (Feel free to follow or unfollow based on your delight or anger with my preferences 😜)
BEST S1: Andor M1: Rogue One E4: A New Hope S1: The Mandolorian (All) E5: Empire Strikes Back E7: The Force Awakens E6: Return of the Jedi S1: Obi-Wan M2: Solo S1: Ahsoka E2 Attack of the Clones E1: The Phantom Menace E3: Revenge of the Sith E9: The Rise of Skywalker E8: The Last Jedi S1: The Book of Boba Fett WORST
Interestingly, I’ve noticed that the 3 pivot points for EVERYONE are: ✅where the Prequels rank ✅where Andor/Rogue One ranks ✅where The Last Jedi ranks
Generally, it seems everyone hates Book of Boba Fett & The Rise of Skywalker… and has Empire & New Hope very high.
BTW: For those still on the haterade for JJ Abrams & The Rise of Skywalker, have you gone through Trevorrow’s original “Duel of the Fates” script? Holy crap, what the hell was that?
I think if more people saw what was almost on the horizon with Trevorrow, they might think more kindly of JJ Abrams. As I tell people who I have this conversation about TROS & Abrams: “Welp… HE TRIED. He had a crap script, a ton of executive notes from Iger on down, no time & something like 12 rewrites.”
Mike Schur (Creator of The Office, Parks & Rec, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99) on the #Rodgers/ #McAfee/ #Kimmel controversy:
“Every year here, a lawyer comes to talk to you to explain ‘this is what you can do, this is what you can’t do’ & not a joke, the #1 example of a thing you CAN’T do is assert someone is a pedophile if they’re not a pedophile. It’s the #1 example the lawyers use.”
There’s a lotta things you can get away with insinuating… BUT YOU CANNOT SAY SOMEONE’S A PEDOPHILE.”
It’s absolutely verboten. And that’s why #Kimmel isn’t making jokes about this: This isn’t a joke. This is essentially the worst thing you can say about someone.
So I don’t care how much “power” #PatMcAfee has, I don’t care how much #AaronRodgers talks about freedom of speech (which, like most things, he doesn’t seem to really understand)…
YOU CAN’T DO THAT.
So this is going to end. I’d be shocked if this had legs from Aaron’s or Pat’s side becauseyou’re exposing yourself to not just legal liability but all sorts of things if you claim what he is claiming.
And I don’t know that they’re going to walk it back necessarily because those two guys aren’t rly in the walk-it-back-business as far as I know…
BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO GO ANY FURTHER.
Because it would be the height of stupidity to try to turn this into some kind of freedom fight.
And BTW, yeah McAfee could leave… but I don’t think he’d leave & have Rodgers on to talk about this more because then he’s personally liable for whatever happens after that…
… so I think this is going to be over very quickly, not just because of the corporate dynamics at play but because the thing Rodgers did was abiut the STUPIDEST POSSIBLE THING you can do as an individual.
Epilogue: Mike Schur’s theory on Aaron Rodgers:
“My theory is, I think Aaron Rodgers thinks that maybe his career should have gone better & that he should have more Super Bowl victories & he’s just sad it’s ending.
And I honestly think that if Mike McCarthy had been a slightly better coach or if Ted Thompson had been a slightly better GM, none of this would be happening.
Like if Aaron Rodgers had 3 Super Bowl rings, none of this would be happening.”
Steve Ballmer could buy another NBA team w/ just his annual dividends from $MSFT.
But instead the Ballmer Group’s invested in: ✅ $425M to support children’s mental health research ✅ $300M to help communities of color fight injustice in Detroit (Steve’s hometown) ✅ $217M to fight climate change ✅ $50M for low income children ✅ $42M for Black-led non-profits … and much more.
Our community rec center needed to redo the damaged hardwood of the basketball court so we went to #SteveBallmer (owner of the #NBA Los Angeles Clippers & major supporter of children) w/ hat in hand.
“How much?” “Well, $10k but it serves a community of 25k with… [sternly holds up a finger] “How much for all of them?” “Excuse me?” “How much for ALL the community centers in LA?”
And folks, that’s why every community center court in the City of #LosAngeles is emblazoned w/ the #Clippers logo.
I was a MASSIVE fan of the Late Late Show. I had a newborn back then & took the evening & late night shift. I had the same routine every night: ✅ Eat Bay Cities Deli sandwich ✅ Feed, burp, change & rock baby ✅ Watch Craig Ferguson
It was one of the happiest times of my life. Now watch Craig talk about how he got the show.
A quick clip from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on “How successful companies continue to be successful”:
It’s true. At Microsoft, we genuinely advocate for new ideas. Not all work but the culture under Satya is there to shield employees from “not invented here” syndrome.
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