IT in the D

For Episode 407, we had a great conversation with friend of the program  August Gitschlag . While he may be the Clerk for the City of Clawson and had a long running stint with the City of Hamtramck, we chatted with August more for his charity work. Magnum 8 Presented by Bacardí Magnum 8 presented by Bacardí at Whiskey in the Jar  in Hamtramck. It’s time to rock Hawaiian shirts, the shortest...

This show, we had a great chat with musician, producer, web developer, and overall great guy  Tommy Onyx . Tommy chatted with us about being in the music industry and touring the world with  Charm Farm  and also producing a global hit and touring with  Inner City . He is also a huge blockchain fan, talking about the rise and stall of the  NFT  industry, which we still...

This week, Bob and Randy were joined by Patrick Garrity , VP of Operations at Blumira . We could have talked for hours, but we jumped around talking fun stuff like his 750k follower TikTok account being cancelled, and his love for skateboarding. We finished up by talking shop: data privacy tips and best methods of being secure, or at least having the visibility when you are not. Also in this episo...

In Episode 404 “Podcast Not Found”, we chatted with  Scott Wiemels , CEO of Digital Transformation Agency  24G . First, we chatted about their  amazing office , the old Thunderbird Lanes, where they actually kept 10 lanes and all of the rental shoes and bowling balls. We then dove into some amazing projects they’ve done including implementing  AR at a Walmart shareholder...

This week’s guest is Gregg Garrett, founder and CEO of CGS Advisors . Before the conversation with Gregg, Bob talked about his experience visiting The Relief & Resource Co. , a speakeasy inside El Topo restaurant in Fenton, Michigan; and Randy talked about his experience back in the cinema seeing Black Widow. Don’t miss Bob’s life-changing popcorn butter hack. Gregg and Bob then dove in...

For Episode 402, we were lucky to be joined by  AJ Kuftic , Digital Product Strategist at  Expedient . We got right into the latest ongoings in movies and TV and AJ dropped the bomb that he hasn’t watched a single MCU movie, but we forgave him and moved on. We also talked about the worst movie ever made. No, not Leprechaun in Space,  The Tomorrow War . The  Kaseya breach...

Nick Britsky, Digital Director of Hour Detroit and Detroit area cocktail creator behind NickDrinks.com joins Bob and Randy to talk about local bars and booze. Other topics from this episode: Bob liked the movie Nobody (2021) and Randy hated Killerman (2019) . Trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Disney Reportedly Replacing Kathleen Kennedy with Jon Favreau as Lucasfilm Head Micros...

Neil Nosakowski, CEO of High Score eSports , joins us to talk about the new gaming lounge opening in The Hawk Farmington Hills Community Center . Also, Bob watched some bad movies— Hostel III (2011) and Wrong Turn (2021) —and we talked about these stories of the week: Kevin Smith’s fictional fast-food chain Mooby’s is coming to Detroit via vegan-friendly pop-up Google Hangouts Is Now G...

In Episode 399 of The IT in the D Show, we talked to  Jason Yeager , CEO of  Tenacity . We talked to him about building a company from scratch, getting bought, and doing it all over again with a new start up, all during the pandemic. We also got into talking about philosophies around the cloud, what exactly the cloud is, and when is the best time to use it. We also had a little fun talki...

Jason Bressler, CTO of UWM, joined Bob and Randy to talk about what it’s like to work in IT, strategies for landing a tech job, building and leading a tech team, and staying organized. (Apologies for my bad audio. I swear I know how computers work. —Randy)

Jer Staes of Daily Detroit is back! Topics included movie and television news and reviews, TVs making money from ads, a meat industry cyber attack, and Amazon Sidewalk. Jer also shares some of his favorite new patios in Detroit. Visit Daily Detroit for what to know and where to go in Metro Detroit.

Tom Lawrence of Lawrence Systems joins us to talk about hackers, masks, and details on his YouTube projects like The Homelab Show and how he organizes his content himself. (Sorry for Randy’s audio issues–he’s working on it.)

Caston Thomas has a new role at a healthcare cybersecurity company called MedSec . He joins Bob and Randy to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware and other tech news stories.

Ming Chen and Mike Zapcic (from “I Sell Comics” , “The Ming & Mike Show” , A Shared Universe PodcaStudio and “AMC’s Comic Book Men” ) join Bob and Randy to tell stories about Dave Phillips, who passed unexpectedly a month ago. https://www.facebook.com/157577407718107/videos/360562685361036

In this episode, the guys talk about the latest movie and TV news, a tempting offer to go without a computer or smartphone for 24 hours, a man who found shrimp tails in his cereal, a microchip shorting affecting many industries, and much more.

Damn we sounded like a bunch of grumpy old men in this one. Which… well, I guess we sort of are.

Fred Brown is back again to discuss COVID-19 vaccines and mutations.

Wandavision Wrap Up, Dave and The Whicked Pickle, Eminem and Cancel Culture

This week we talk Superbowl ads… both the best and worst that happened, the split decision about the halftime show, outages with the Ring camera systems, a Tesla recall, Amazon pocketing $62 million in tips meant for drivers, EA bringing back their college football game, Michigan State Police using Signal to keep messages away from FOIA requests and logging, and, of course, the 81 person org...

Jason Collier is… well, was as of the time of this episode… a police chief and ordained minister in a small town in Texas who not only was married with four kids, but managed to have multiple other women on the side… and it all fell apart when one of them changed her Facebook profile photo to a pic of them as a couple… and one of her friends recognized him and knew his wife...

So what did BarStoolSports have to say about the great Detroit Coney debate?  What the hell is “brushing”?  People in Michigan are pent up and horny, apparently… which could make the restaurant and bar openings on 2/1 an interesting spectacle to watch play out.  All that and more this week!

This one ran suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper long, and so we had no choice but to break it into two parts.  This is part two, which contains the rest of our chat with Fred Brown, our resident infectious disease expert, to dive in on the latest with COVID-19.  The vaccines and distribution of them.  The variants and mutations that are hitting the public and are even here in Michigan now. As always with th...