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Weekly Ramblecast 194: The Week of Zeke
🕑 Added 2025-02-25 19:00:10 +0000 UTCTopics rambled about this week include the algorithms eating everyone's brains, Severance, that new "budget" iPhone, Microsoft's mysterious new phase of matter, famous people going off the deep end, and Alex's very large, one-year-old cat.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:03:21) The Technology Connections connection
(00:08:13) The Final Fantasy X Ending Reactions Industrial Complex
(00:14:01) Indie Web indexes like indieblog.page
(00:16:08) Our phone bills are getting so cheap
(00:20:22) The power bill, not so much
(00:26:57) That budget iPhone isn't so budget anymore
(00:34:10) Microsoft's new FOURTH PHASE OF MATTER
(00:39:52) Brad's way into Severance
(00:45:03) Famous people going off the deep end
(00:46:53) Tom Cruise chat
(00:55:49) Vinny's watching Slow Horses
(01:01:10) Wild happenings in reality television
(01:07:48) The reality TV government
(01:10:50) Zeke update
(01:13:23) Content and bye!
Comments
Sina Toossi
Great episode and great job hosting Brad!
Brian Streleckis
Evangeline Lilly wasn't fired by Marvel. She was still in the third Ant-Man movie two years ago. You could be conflating her with Jonathan Majors (also in third Ant-Man, fired for different reasons) or Gina Carano (fired from Star Wars for different reasons).
Pantalones Johnson
Found Sundar Pichai’s Patreon account. Seriously though, F*ck google. They aren’t getting a dollar from me.
Townshend
Thanks for sharing that info with us, that the provider in question is Mint Mobile. Ridiculous that they didn’t say it on the podcast.
Chris Paoli
I also recently switched to Mint Mobile. One month in, service has been excellent and, with the yearly plan, my wife and I are saving $1500 annually on our phone bill. So dumb I stuck with the expensive carriers for that long.
Dan Schwartz
There's maybe one show on prime that I am ride or die with, so the second it gets cancelled I'm going to drop that whole suite of features.
Townshend
Talk about tech companies taking advantage of us…
Townshend
Absolutely egregiously selfish to spend weeks talking about wanting to switch mobile providers to save money, getting recommendations from your audience, finally switching providers and experiencing SICK savings, and then being too scared to share the name of the company with thee rest of the audience that helped you to begin with. Because you’re afraid of spoofing? What does that even mean? Just share the name, the rest of us are struggling financially (more than the three of you) and could benefit from the information. This is absolutely infuriating.
Harith
YouTube Premium is worth it, and there’s a cheaper “Lite” plan coming soon, too.
anotherheadforhydra
I absolutely view supporting creators and independent artists directly in a completely different light than mega corp subscriptions. I’ve canceled subs out of principal that are a 1/10 the cost of an average Patreon tier.
Brian Streleckis
Ooh, I'm still on the lowest tier, yet I have access to this upon release as opposed to a week later.
Incredibleplum
I've been cutting back from all services including Amazon Prime and I am setting a limit of streaming services to 1 at a time. I'm waiting for my wife to question my patreon expenditure lol. I would rather support the co tent creators I like but I don't know that she would see it that way.
Shane
Can't get used to the new Ramble music...
