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Guppy Pimps, Tripp Pants, and Debugging IE5
About this episode
This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream and dive deep into their entrepreneurial origin stories, from childhood hustles to band life to building apps for dead platforms. They dig into selling guppies as a fish pimp, child modeling for Nintendo ads, third grade pepto menthol schemes, breeding birds that pecked themselves, mowing lawns fast, and why nipple piercings are a bad investment. Along the way, they debate pop punk band names like Superband, recording with Fruity Loops, screamo versus emo trajectories, Under Oath versus Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, fight dancing versus moshing, ticket scams at Graystone Tavern, horror game mechanics in Outlast and Dead Space, proximity chat hacks in Phasmophobia and Peak, why RV There Yet is too hard, selling Die Ants Die on the BlackBerry Playbook, device walls for IE5 through IE8, and whether scotch aged in bourbon casks is secretly amaretto.
Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm
In this episode:
Chapters
00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
00:05:30 Early Entrepreneurial Adventures: Fish Pimping & Child Modeling
00:14:48 Hot Topic Tripp Pants & The Band Years Begin
00:19:24 Pop Punk Covers, Recording Studios & The MySpace Era
00:28:49 From Metal to Hip Hop: Musical Evolution & Nerdcore
00:32:57 Video Game Nostalgia: From Zelda to Dead Space
00:39:37 Survival Horror Deep Dive: Outlast, Dead Space & Phasmophobia
00:50:02 Peak, RV There Yet & The Difficulty Problem
00:53:41 Mobile Dev Nightmares: BlackBerry Playbook & Die Ants Die
00:57:29 Browser Wars & Device Testing Hell
01:04:19 Whiskey Review: Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream
Links
Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream: https://www.glenmorangie.com/
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maylene_and_the_Sons_of_Disaster
Under Oath: https://underoath777.com/
Dashboard Confessional: https://www.dashboardconfessional.com/
John Mayer: https://www.johnmayer.com/
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: https://www.gimmemusic.com/
MF Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Doom
Aesop Rock: https://www.aesoprock.com/
Sage Francis: https://www.sagefrancis.net/
Atmosphere: https://atmosphere.com/
Del the Funky Homosapien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_the_Funky_Homosapien
Fruity Loops: https://www.image-line.com/
Analog Pocket: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
Slay the Spire: https://www.megacrit.com/
Zelda Ocarina of Time: https://www.zelda.com/
Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/
Resident Evil: https://www.residentevil.com/
Bioshock: https://bioshockgame.com/
Fable: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fable
Outlast: https://redbarrelsgames.com/games/outlast/
Dead Space: https://www.ea.com/games/dead-space
Phasmophobia: https://kineticgames.co.uk/
Peak: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643520/Peak/
RV There Yet: https://rvthereyet.com/
BlackBerry Playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_PlayBook
Palm Pre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre
Adobe PhoneGap: https://phonegap.com/
Califia Farms: https://www.califiafarms.com/
React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/
Clerk: https://clerk.com/
Connect with the hosts
Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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