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Here’s what Michael and David discuss during the show: New segment: This week in the Singularity (story) Working long hours a sign of privilege (story) Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of the Internet (story) Intense culture Netflix has created to remain competitive (story) Netflix juicers suing for higher pay and overtime (story) Yahoo's 53 acquisitions since Marissa Meyer. Most shut down. (story) Linkedin's other suitor (story) English Teacher Re-Titles Classic Poems As Clickbait In Last-Ditch Effort To Trick Students Into Learning (story) Beautiful stories about anonymous people (story) Season 3 Orange is the New Black Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insight

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Email Justice Free dinner night Call from an interviewee IMPORTANT LEAD STORY: 27 THINGS YOU CAN BUY WITH A DOLLAR (story) Ziff Davis to buy Gawker Media? (story) Gawker Media files chapter 11 (story) UberRush API (story) China building underwater space station (story) Tesla knows when a crash is going to happen (story) A neural net wrote a screenplay, and it was apparently pretty good (story) Detect if people have pancreatic cancer before diagnosed from their search history (story) Michael cancels Blue Apron Apps that help with public speaking (story) Trolling started in the gaming world (story) Google's investment in Flying cars - Disturbing or great use of displaying text? (story) Michael’s podcast with Mark Cuban Larry David maybe bringing back Curb Sunspring – Movie written by AI Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Techcrunch has an intern (story) Giant alligator on a golf course (story) Tony Fadell is out at Nest (story) Smartphone growth slowing - smartphone shipments are expected to grow 3.1% in 2016, which is a substantial slowdown from the 10.5% growth in 2015 and 27.8% in 2014. (story) Jon Stewart - can he save us from Trump (story) Zen and the art of managing smartphone photos (story) Changing model of local news. More than half are selling sponsored content, up from about 1/5th a year ago. More than half are making revenue of less than 100K a year. (story) Tribune rebrands as Tronc (story) Backlash against a selfie statue in Sugarland, TX (story) We recommend Silicon Valley again. It’s on season 3. A video by David, “Why Do So Many Corporate Videos Suck?” Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what Michael and David discuss during the show: Hungry Dog stops watching baseball game (story) Peter Thiel's campaign against Gawker. (story) Nick Denton's Open letter to Peter Thiel (story) Apple's now developing an Echo rival (story) Twitter easing the 140 character restriction with @ replies at the beginning, plus videos, and photos/GIFs. (story) Pebble Core: Another anything button (story) How Technology Hijacks People's Minds (story) The Flip Phone is continuing its comeback (story) Discussion of ethics/laziness of PR professionals - 3 recent cases. Cells Phones Cause Cancer (story) Noti-Fly - Get a text when your fly is down. (story) Let's discuss Jeopardy (story) Favorite 80's Sitcom Theme Music Dude Perfect - World Record Edition. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Michael’s friend was outside the White House and was all over the news David Hasselhoff’s financial troubles IMPORTANT LEAD STORY: teenager gets teacher cake (story) Lots of Google I/O announcements. (story) (Michael’s initial review to Google Home vs. Amazon Echo) Smart clothes platform: Working with Levis. Do you need smart clothes? (story) Other Google announcements: Google Daydream, Allo messaging, Duo a competitor to Facetime (story) Apple renames Genuis Bar to Genuis Grove, gives Silicon Valley HBO writers more material. New Hangout. Apple store in SF. (story) Google has patented sticky glue on cars to catch pedestrians (story) 85% of Facebook Video is watched without sound (story) Hey Steve Miller for Yahoo!: Take the money and run (story) YouTube prank videos that go wrong (story) Chewbacca mask lady The Internet's favorite book - You'll be surprised Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: IMPORTANT LEAD NEWS STORY: 70s Stars and what they look like now (story) What is Apple doing with podcasts? Why have they never capitalized on it? (story) Apple confirms the music erasing bug in iTunes and will update (story) Donald Trump's press spokesperson John Miller is amazing (story) Trump going after Jeff Bezos (story) Zuckerberg says they're not surpressing conservative stories on trending topics, but will investigate (story) Vine is dying on the vine (story) Return of the dumb phone (story) Finally, an all purpose Amazon button (story) France may make it illegal to send after hours work emails - They don't have a siesta or the sabbath, so this is what they have to resort to. (story) Tinder...for buddies? (story) Half of your friends don't consider you a friend. (story) An obituary: The Muppets were cancelled (story) Great videos for filmmakers. Indy Mogul, Griffin Hammond Videos on how to make a teleprompter for your iPad. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: IMPORTANT LEAD STORY: why tickling is dangerous (story) Apple Music deleting files off of people's hard drives - If this is "common" practice why is it only reported by one user? (story) Turns out Apple Music is not good. It's confusing. But it's not deleting files off the HD without explicity permission. (story) Google using romance novels to make AI more conversational (story) Trump's taco bowl tweet blows up the Internet (story) Why does every platform need an editor in chief? (story) An argument for yelling at customer service (story) Who is Palantir, and why is Business Insider still calling them a startup? (story) Why so much VR press NOW? No story, I'm just amazed that the VR pr world coordinated to raise everyone's interest in VR right now. Is it solely because of the release of Oculus? Zynga HQ worth more than Zynga (story) Budweiser themed VR headsets at Cavalier games: why? (story) Space Invaders and Sonic the Hedgehog added to the Video Game Hall of Fame. Why did it take so long for Space Invaders? (story) Did you know there's an Angry Birds movie coming out? Alan Meckler's Elevator Pitch videos United Shades of America - W. Kamau Bell - on CNN My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Available for free on iTunes - how long? Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Chandler and Joey hung out in London (story) Comcast purchases Dreamworks Animation $3.8 billion (story) Tesla has bioweapon mode on its cars (story) Future of driverless vehicles. Lobbying group with Google, Ford, Uber (story) Ready to McAfee your Car? (story) Does Google's Big Data analytics already know the outcome of the election? (story) Business Insider some type of boiler room for journalists? (story) An iPad goes on a journey, it's owner follows it online (story) Snapchat fighting for your right to take selfies in the voting booth (story) More advice from Michael? Hey Steve Miller - Don't be like Ted Cruz. Also, crack jokes like Barack Obama. Traffic lights on the sidewalk so you don't have to look up from your phone (story) The Term Sheet - Lucas Carlson - former Gigaom friend The Ip Man movies - Great martial arts films Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Creative Commons photo attribution to Sonya Green.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Prince didn't want his music on the Internet (story) Medium raised another monster round (story) SpyEye Makers Get 24 years in Jail (story) John McAfee goes behind the scenes of his viral video (story) Virtual weapons turning teens into serious gamblers (story) Yik Yak founders settle lawsuit (story) Changes in Facebook News Feed rankings (story) Staples Connect going away, Mike kinda helps break story (story) Google and Microsoft call a truce - really? (story) Holy White Hounds, Faction Radio on Sirius Podcast Rank Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what Michael and David discuss on this episode: Buzzfeed combines faces of couples using Photoshop (story) UC Davis and Chancellor Katehi try to erase "pepper spray" references from search results (story) Nest/Revolv relents, offers full refund for bricked hub (story) Uninstall Quicktime Now if you're on Windows (story) Sharp launches RoboHon, a robot...phone (story) The Textalyzer for motorists in accidents in NY (story) Apple Watch: A flop? (story) Why do we go into the office if everything is digital? (story) Mike's new segment: Advice for a colleague. This week's colleague: Steve Miller of Steve Miller Band Louis CK losing millions on Horace and Pete (story) Serial Season 2 Disrupted: Dan Lyons book about Hubspot The Warriors – The movie Season 2 of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

On this episode, Michael and David discuss: Buzzfeed blew up a watermelon with rubberbands (story) Panama Papers - THIS is the lead story - Why this isn't getting more press? (story) Children of wealthy flaunting wealth online/Instagram (story) Mashable Layoffs (story) Twitter wins NFL deal for Thursday night games (story) Fleet of trucks drove self across Europe (story) Brave Software gets cease and desist for digital ad substitution (story) What Every Web Browser Knows About You (story) Medium offers tons of new features (story) People are being less annoying on Facebook (story) WhatsApp End to End Encryption (story) Hearthstone Electric Boogaloo - Story of Cannon Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Creative Commons photo attribution to Mark Cloutier. Creative Commons photo credit to Travis Estell.

It's the first of two Tear Down Shows this week because, well, Mike didn't get the show out last week. But this one's great.. Here’s what David and Michael talk about with in studio guest and laugh track, Bill Biggar: Would you buy a $700 juicer (story) April 1st, or JV Comedy Day. Google blows it with its Mic Drop (story) Netflix goes John Stamos crazy for April Fools (story) CEOs talking bad about others is always a bad idea (story) The Amazon Dash button proliferates. It's advertising in your home. Use OurGroceries instead. (story) Mars company buys a "Fitbit for dogs" (story) We're more honest with our phones than doctors (story) The Model 3 is debuted and is killing it (story) 6 Things to ask for when interviewing for a remote job (story) Amazon Echo Dot only buyable through Echo: some problems Video creators getting screwed over by freebooting on Facebook (story) Togetherness is cancelled HBO Clip (Red Sox win World Series on Oct. 27, 2004) and the reaction in Boston Talk Like William Shatner Day Bill Biggar’s “Pinky and the Brain” promo Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Goodbye Garry Shandling – Check out Judd Apatow book and Marc Maron WTF Microsoft Tay is the best story of the week (story) The mess at Nest (story) The other side of that disturbing Silicon Valley lawsuit (story) Redbox launching video service...again (story) Netflix caps video stream quality for Verizon and AT&T customers (story) Only in Seattle: Man in tree becomes national story (story) Man arrested for not returning VHS copy of Freddy Got Fingered from 2002 (story) Google Maps Gets Wrong Texas House Torn Down (story) Dave Attell's Road Work (Watch now on YouTube) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show. Creative Commons photo attribution to Mark Cloutier.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Hulk Hogan wins $115 milliion against Gawker (story) Target launched Project Goldfish, a secretive project to reinvent retail (story) Microsoft had schoolgirl dancers at GDC (story) Evernote is killing itself. Stop it. (story) Virtual Elvis. Brought to you by the same people who bring you hologram Michael Jackson. (story) 13 Annoying Communications that Must End in 2016 (story) Soundcloud nets Sony, ready for pay music service: Begs question - do we need it? (story) Click fraud in streaming music (story) Mark Zuckerberg takes jog, gets mocked (story) The coolest LA girls on the Internet (story) Canva Noir films on Archive.org Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what you’ll hear on this episode: GM to make driverless cars. Car sharing. Changing economy for standard businesses (story) the next Elon Musk? Kyle Voigt (story) Pancake printer - ask about if I ever try to make cool shapes w/pancake batter (story) Instacart lowers pay for delivery people (story) Obama's speech at SXSW (story) End of Moore's Law (story) Sonos is struggling (story) VRTually There News Show being produced by USA Today (story) VidAngel and Movie Swap Legal? (story) Tool to move from Evernote to OneNote (story) Charlie Kaufman on WTF Love - on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.