AwesomeCast: Tech and Gadget Talk

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by Mike Dougherty of the Mikey and Big Bob Morning Freak Show on KISS 96.1 in Pittsburgh to talk about how they're applying social media to their old school radio industry, even to the point of doing a social media training video for the company. We also delve into Fox insisting you're not getting Avatar on Netflix, what the Kicks...

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by AJ Kuftic and Mulango Akp-Esambe of Mangtoons.com once again as the group gets geeky over recent turns in their phone experiences. Chachi gets into his recent throttling at the hands of T-Mobile, AJ tells us about his new Android experiment, what Mulango thinks of Lady Gaga and the Amazon 99 cent albums deal, we talk about Apple not helping poor...

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are in the studio for the first time with Will Rutherford, or "DJLunchbox" of our Wrestling Mayhem Show sister program and ThoughtfulRiot.com! We tackle Netflix for Android, and the new places Chachi can watch The League, Sony's return to online service and what you can get for your trouble, what has happened to Sony's stock in the video game industry, phone...

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are set to celebrate 50 episodes of AwesomeCast! This week, we welcome back our first guest Uncle Crappy Mike Pound with all of his "real journalist" know how, as well as the first in studio appearance of "Fatherspoon" Doug Derda of ShouldiDrinkThat.com! We tackle the new iOS subscriptions with Conde Naste, the latest from Google i/o and the new features comi...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg welcome Christopher Whitlatch to the show! Chris is Manager of Marketing and Communications for the Pittsburgh Foundation, including work on PittsburghOnVideo.org, who have been big supporters of the show! We talk with him about his work with non-profits in the area and applying social media, POV, and more. We also answer our first major mai...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg plow through the meager news pickings of the week. Chachi finds another reason to strongly dislike Sony and their Playstation efforts, we map out the anatomy of a near week long online service down time, white unicorns (iPhone 4), and much more. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg welcome Dan Greenwald of the Comic Book Pitt to the show for all of the post Pittsburgh Comicon talk as the crew talks about trends and cool things from the weekend as Sorgatron Media sponsored their first booth at a Con! We also talk about the updates coming to us in Final Cut Pro X, the fall of FlipCam, Jesse Jackson Junior's love/hate rel...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg welcome John Chichilla back to the show, and into the studio to show off some of the cool toys he gets to play with on a daily basis. We get hands on with iPad travel gear, wireless keyboards, home automation techniques, and compare the Motorola Xoom with the iPad 1 and 2. This and we touch on Chachi's continued hate for Sony gaming products...

Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined by our first invited female to the show! (stop the hate mail!) Cynthia Closkey of Big Big Design joins the show and brought a bag of awesome with her! We talk about the real life effect the disasters in Japan will take on our shiny gadgets, especially the iPhone. Is Apple losing it's hold with crazy cooks like Sony spilling it's beans? We ponder if...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined again by AJ Kuftic of AJ Eats to talk tech! We get into WWDC, and what it takes to be amongst the Apple Dev Elite. The good and bad of Cloud Computing as Amazon launches Amazon Cloud, and the perils of Gmail and Netflix downages, and is the promise real? And we take a reflective look back at Radio Shack and the crazy things they d...

Rob de la Cretaz is gallavanting about the Northern Hemisphere, so it's up to Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg to survive their encounter with Scott Simmons, the Creative Director of Pittsburgh's own Scarehouse as we talk about their success as one of the best haunted houses in the nation, and how thay maintain that using social media outlets, Groupon, and the lessons learned over the years....

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg get back to basics. This week, we talk about the latest from Japan, and how technology has been effected, and has been helping the situation after maybe the biggest earthquake ever. We touch base on the iPad 2 launch, talk about bandwidth caps, and why their happening, Internet 2, the sequel, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebo...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg see the return of Mulango Akp-Esambe of Mangtoons.com and Carbon Copied Squared. We talk iPad 2, the Android overtaking Blackberry and what that means, Malware hitting the Android, and being taken away, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouT...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are joined once again by Norm Huelsman of the wildly exciting StromHuelsman Podcast, and newly transistioned to his new position at Loud Mountain. We also get to varying degrees of wildly speculation for the yet to be announced iPad 2, Rob talks Sorg onto the Thunderbolt cliff, and we discuss the future of cloud gaming, and more! Join the Aw...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and AJ Kuftic and Michael Sorg are getting awesome, and getting spiteful? The crew dissects their takes on Twitter vs UberMedia, Apple vs Publishers, Detroit vs RoboCop, Developers vs Mobile Gamers, and Sorg vs Android! Check out our cohosts Rob and Mike in their cameo on The Baristas Episode 4! * Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to fo...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Michael Sorg are preparing for their Jeapordy winning robot overlords as Watson stares Alex Trebek in the eye. We also talk about the problems with Sony, and if we think they'll ever do anything cool again, the FCC, Anonymous, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as w...

Rob de la Cretaz, Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker, AJ Kuftic and "Uncle Crappy" Mike Pound are taking the show on sans Sorg as they talk about AOL's latest acquisition in Huffington Post, The Daily, and just what should be done with the supposedly for sale Myspace? Please support our friend at www. ChachiPlays.com as he games for 24 hours February 11 -12 for Make Room for Kids and the Mario Lemeiux Found...

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg, Tony "Chachi" Walker and AJ Kuftic tackle the revolts and results of the week as we talk about the upheaval and internet disconnect and dissonance in Egypt, the bad idea that was the Galaxy Tab, smartphones are your life, Netflix vs Hulu vs Amazon, Chachi takes on JK Rowling, and much, much, more! Please support our friend at www. ChachiPlays.com as he games for 24 hou...

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg, Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker and AJ Kuftic tackle a slow news week with glimmers of hope for a Duke Nukem Forever release date, Mashable honoring the WWE, Android and iPhone talk, Kevin Smith's attempt at Indie 2.0, and the rise, and fall, and rise, and fall again of iDOS for iPad. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video...

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are back in their respective studios and joined by Walt Ribeiro of ForOrchestra.com, who we first got the chance to meet back at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3. We talk about his growth and time doing the Weekly Music Lesson as part of Revision3 Beta, and the transition to his new gig. We talk about King of Kong to hear Chachi geek out, a Pac Man real...

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are live at the Sharp Edge Bistro on Penn for the 5 year party for the Wrestling Mayhem Show! We're joined, in part, by Doug "Fatherspoon" Derda of ShouldIDrinkThat.com, another almost 5 year old Podcast, and Mulango Akpo-Esambe of Mangtoons Studios and Animation What? as we discuss all the latest in technology post CES, which is almost forg...

Rob de la Cretaz, and Mike Sorg are joined in the studio by Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker of ChachiSays.net who should be around more often as we venture into 2011. We are also joined on Skype by John Chichilla to talk iPads, all of the tablets and 3D speculations of this week's CES, real Angry Birds, novel uses of Twitter in New Jersey, and much more! Join us in person and online when we go live 1/11/...

Rob de la Cretaz, and Mike Sorg are joined in the studio by Tony "Chachi" Walker of ChachiSays.net to bring you greating tidings and cheer! We talk about Delicious's exagerated demise and it's alternatives, Rob fights his computer to conquer Google Body Browser, Word Lens, the future of iPhone gaming with Unreal, what we thought of Tron Legacy and the 3D Experience, and we look at 2010's top gadge...

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are online, and rejoined by AJ Kuftic once again, who joins us in studio! We run the line of tons of news and talking points for the week, including the latest in the WikiLeaks/OpenLeaks saga, Smurfy hackers, Mortal Kombat lameness, dealing with denial from the upcoming Mac Store, teaching our parents tech, and a little techy throwback. Please excuse the geekery. Oh,...

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are in studio! Together! And we're joined on the couch by Robb Myers, and via Skype by Richard Colvin, both of Pittsburgh-based Alphalab startup No Wait to demonstrate their weeks old app live on the show! We also go Google crazy in the news as we cover the new Chrome WebApp Store, Plants vs Zombies, ChromeOS netbooks for all, Nexus S, eBooks, Groupon, new Facebook p...