February 19th, 2009 by CK

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Announcement: Thursday February 26th’s Episode 80 of Sound Check will be recorded on Skype in a conference call format. If you want to be a part of this, please email info@check12check12.com and leave your name, website address, and Skype name so you can be added to the Roster for the show. This is a FREE call for all those that have Skype! Come and join the Sound Check on the 26th!!!

It’s kinda funny that I have made it 4/5’s of the way to the 100 Episode mark. I am glad that through all the ups and downs that a podcast can take, we are still spitting out great content and awesome audio. The following episode has 11 segments to it. The show has a bit of everything in it from thoughts on housing a 200 pound primate to some Apple tech and some talk about a pen that is close to spy quality. Also, odd news is great this week as well. Enjoy.

Show notes for Episode 80 February 19th, 2008

• My thoughts on the economy and what is happening in the world.
• Travis the Chimp and some snake talk (funny)
• Islamic beheading/Is this the ultimate crime to commit now?
• What’s in my email? Moveon.org wants my money for what? More donations? STOP
• Tech – We discuss the Pulse Smart Pen by Lite Scribe and what it can do and who it is good for.
• Dell vs. Apple – Is Dell trying to keep up with Apple? Tech talk is on!
• Guitar Hero Metallica and the mistake on the cover art on on the new game.
• Twitter…Do we care if you are in the shower? Not really. Tweet to compete!
• Oscars picks
• Music news - Sirsy in CT on 3/6 I will be there. Listen in for more info!
• Odd news – Porn on the Cambridge Tourism website and a Guinness Book record is broken, (PICTURE LINK HERE) and not by another person. You have to hear this.
• (Addition links Mentioned) Senator Buttars and Rush Limbaugh

In the last section of the show, we mentioned if you had a “What if? question about that piece. If you do, please send an email over to ck@check12check12.com with your funny comments. We will read them on the show.

Follow me on Twitter for all my update at www.twitter.com/check12check12 and I promise that I won’t tweet that I am eating cereal.

If you want to be a part of the show, follow the instructions at the top of this post and I hope to see you on future shows. We are on our way to 100 Episodes..be a part of the action!

Best

CK

February 19th, 2009 by CK

I talked about this movie at the end of Episode 80, and I am disturbed and interested all at the same time to see this. I like the vintage look to the film and the music that is in this clip. I hope that the movie delivers on the big screen.

Filmmaker Morgan Dews was very close to his grandmother Allis, but it wasn’t until after her death in 2001 that he became aware of an astounding archive she’d amassed throughout the 1960s. Filled with startlingly intimate and candid audio recordings detailing her family’s increasingly turbulent lives, the collection also contained hundreds of silent home movies, photographs and written journals. Using only these found materials, Dews has fashioned a searing family portrait that affords fly-on-the-wall access to one family’s struggles amid an America on the verge of dramatic transformation. Must Read After My Death follows Allis, her husband Charley and their four children in Hartford, Connecticut. Charley’s work takes him to Australia four months each year, so the couple purchases Dictaphone recorders as a way to stay in touch throughout Charlie’s extended absences. A modern woman at least a decade ahead of her time, Allis struggles against conformity –against the conventional roles of wife and mother. She finds the recordings cathartic and, with the family’s cooperation, incorporates them into their everyday existence. When the family turns to psychologists and psychiatrists, their strife increases and the recordings turn progressively darker — even desperate. All the while, Dews employs the family’s many home movies and the seemingly placid, typically American facade that they convey, as visual counterpoint to the raw and sobering tape recordings.

This write up is courtesy of Yahoo Movies at  www.movies.yahoo.com

CK

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February 19th, 2009 by CK

TGIF… If you haven’t noticed, I am posting a video on Friday’s to get you through till I have the show ready to post. This is a classic one with a “load” of adult humor in it. It should go over well with the gamers who play the Wii.

February 12th, 2009 by CK

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Announcement: Thursday February 19th’s Episode 79 of Sound Check will be recorded on Skype in a conference call format. If you want to be a part of this, please email info@check12check12.com and leave your name, website address, and Skype name so you can be added to the Roster for the show. This is a FREE call for all those that have Skype! Come and join the Sound Check on the 19th!!!

Every time I look back at where this show was and where it is going amazes me. I remember when I was using a phone to call in to Talkshoe to record this show with a rigged headset plugged into the cordless phone. The audio quality wasn’t great, but then again the first 10 or so shows weren’t great either. It is all trial and error here, but one thing that I have brought to the table if high quality audio and a product that has now hit Episode 79.

At this point in the show, I have a full studio with all the bells and whistles that produce all that you have heard over the past 30+ shows. As of this show, we changed it up and went and recorded this show in a format that was totally new. We did this podcast on a Skype conference call. You will hear that people sound great, two people can talk at once and it sounded at some points as if the guests were across the console and in the same room. It was great to see that the advances that we are taking in this show are paying off.

As I usually do, I want to thank Chaz, Eric, Brett, Patrick and Paul (who maned the chat for us during the show and listened live) for being with us for the first of many future episodes on Skype. Thank you.

This episode is some what special. We recorded over 2 hours of audio and I went through and pulled the main segments that made up the show. Their are 7 parts to the show, and as you listen…You will see that they are all made up to produce 43 minutes of great audio. Enjoy the show.

Here are the show notes for February 12th, 2009

• Part 1 Opening by The Break Mission
• Part 2 Opening Rant
• Part 3 Michael Phelps and the $100,000 dollar bong
• Part 4 Our Apple talk of the week and some ITouch talk about JaJah (Voip) app
• Part 5 Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman and our thoughts (video below)
• Part 6 Follow up on the Grammy’s and some discussion
• Part 7 Wrap up…Red Sector A (For all the fans of your our favorite Canadian Rock Band!)

If you haven’t heard the show, this one is just shy of 45 minutes and I ask just one thing of the listeners…Please listen to the whole show and leave a comment and let us know what you thought of the length, content, and the guests on the show. Again, we continue to be grateful for the support that the show is getting from around the globe from the most northern parts of Russia, to just off the coast of South America. Thank you for listening.

Be well,

CK

February 12th, 2009 by CK

This is just a little of what went on last night on Sound Check… Joaquin needs to get off the ride that he is on…This is as close to going to a nude beach and asking where the coat check is…wow.

Be well,

CK

February 5th, 2009 by CK

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Announcement: Thursday February 12th’s Episode 79 of Sound Check will be recorded on Skype in a conference call format. If you want to be a part of this, please email info@check12check12.com and leave your name, website address, and Skype name so you can be added to the Roster for the show. This is a FREE call for all those that have Skype! Come and join the Sound Check on the 12th!!!

Tower: SC1212 Please proceed to for take off… please divert to runway 29A

1212: Roger that, O/29-er, heading for 29 Albert – clear for take off

Tower: 1212, Enjoy your flight!

That is what we did…

We are still packing these shows with a lot of information and seeing many opinions getting bounced around. It is great to see that people are still downloading the show from Talkshoe and the RSS feed over there. For a place site that isn’t our main feed we are still getting triple digit downloads from there.

Make sure you read the announcement above the player for information on Thursday Feb 12th’s show. We will be doing it on Skype and NOT on Talkshoe.com.

This was a show that was nothing further from running to the store, only to find out that you forgot your money and on the way home you had to take an alternate route because a tree fell across the road. Put it this way, I was all over the road…(this show should be titled with something to do with a (PUI) Podcasting Under the Influence! The only influence here was the topics. Enjoy the show!

Here are the show notes for February 5th, 2009

• Opening song – Tax Man, Mr. Thief, Cheap Trick
• Welcome to the Arctic Chill that is New England, and Florida
• Groundhog Day, NY vs. PA.
• Super Bowl talk…
• Stimulus, Time is of the essence…
• My rant on useless spending and the coupons that WE are paying for all the people that can’t afford cable….great. (lol)
• Also, did the government ever give you money when Cable was introduced and you had to start PAYING for TV? They gave you nothing….
• Would you rather the Stimulus Bill or have the government give you 5-10K to spend for every citizen? Leave a comment and let me know!
• Should shareholders be the ones to choose (vote) if top exec’s get HUGE bonus’s?
• Brett weighs in on Bank of America and the possibility of the bank being nationalized because of all the bad debt.
• Unemployment and new jobs…
• President Obama to address the nation Monday 2/9 @ 8 pm EST
• Follow up on Army suicide report for the month of January 09.
• Not working, well bid for your next job at www.jobaphiles.com
• Craigslist
• US Airways flight 1549 honored at the Super Bowl
• www.utterli.com and my Weather-Photography group-Join in!
• Shepard Fairey (Obama poster) being sued by the AP for Copyright Infringement? Do you think that he should be? ** Also as a follow up on Shepard at the time of this posting, he was arrested at the start of his exhibition in Boston – for more info, CLICK HERE.
• Phelps and the bong…role model talk…
• TECH
• Apple – Is their a possibility of a network television in the future for Apple? LINK
• XBox 360 users and NetFlix – win/win for both Co’s Netflix has over 1 million XBox subscribers and they have streamed over 1.5 Billion minutes of media. (wow)
• Circuit City (story and a read) LINK HERE
• Back Burner topics for next week Ipod Touch and VOIP, and some photography conversation.
• Canon 5D Mark II Eric talks about the video that was shot with this camera. LINK
• Movies
• He’s just not that into you LINK
• Coralina LINK
• Pink Panther 2 LINK
• Push LINK
• DVD pick for next week “Miracle at St. Anna’s by Spike Lee
• Odd News
• Bill Gates releases mosquito’s into the audience at the TED Conference – LINK
• Super Bowl Porn, nice job Comcast!!

Thank you to everyone that downloads the show and supports Sound Check on a weekly basis. I am working on something new that I think you all will like, so keep tuning in for the announcement! Coming Soon!!!!

Be well,

CK