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Adam & Karan's Travel Tips 1:00 to 13:00
1)Pack Light
2)Pack extra Underwear and socks 7:10 ratio 7 nights to 10 pairs of both
3)Pack your Travel Toiletries
4)Don't Bring Guns on the Plane
5)Download your Airlines App- you never know when you can't print something
6)Beware of TSA screening Procedure Don't be "THAT" Guy
8)Consider Travelers Insurance- Contact your Credit Card company and know how they can help you travel.
Where has Adam been? 13:00 to 18:00
Egypt!
Layovers in London & Frankfurt
NC,SC,
California
Boston is the worse!(jk bean town we love ya)
Chicago: 18:00 to 20:00
Shout out to Garib Nawaaz the dopest food in Chi-town
Shout out to Harold's Chicken 20:00 to 22:00
Where has Karan been? 22:00 to 32:00
Domestically all over
NY Pizza > Chicago Deep Dish
Italy 32:00 to 37:00
Layovers 37:00 to 40:00
1st time in Delhi [Graphic Story - Trigger warning) 43:00 to 46:00
Adam & Karan's TSA incidents 46:00 to End
Halloween Episode:
What got ABVIUS into Spooky stuff: 0:00 to 12:00
Goosebumps
Video Games
The impact of music on horror media
Tori's Horror Memories 9:00 to 12:00
Ghostwriter
Goosebumps
Asif's Tales of His Favorite Holiday HALLOWEEN! 12:00 to 14:00
Metal Gear Solid spooked Asif
The Conjuring
Tales of the Crypt
Poltergeist Movies
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Exorcism Movies
Scary Dreams 14:00 to 26:19
How our mind perceives fear
ABVIUS Nightmares
Horror Movies & TV 26:00 to 34:00
The Babdook
The Conjuring
Insidious
Stranger Things 34:00 to 42:00
IT
It Follows
Final Destination
Paranormal Activity
Ghostwriter Conspiracy
SPOOK- TACULAR SERIAL KILLERS 44:00 to The End
Honorable Mention goes to Dexter Morgan
Tori's List: 44:00 to 1:10:00
H.H Holmes
Karan's List: 1:10:00 to The End
John Wayne Gacy
Jeff Dahmer
Thug Behram
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Tori's Trek
Tori's Travel to Italy 00:00 to 09:20
Uffizi Museum
Vatican CIty
Trekk through Belgium 09:25 to17:00
Bruxels
What did it feel like when those tires hit the tarmac? 17:30 to 26:00
Excited! and it is a small World!
French and Dutch as National Languages.
Lisbun to Bruxels - Tori experiences Customs!
Adrenalin is a Hell of a drug
....Food Lion
Stella, Waffles, Chocolate 26:00 to 42:00
The water is sweeter
Beer taste better
SHots!SHots!SHots!
Mr. Mime. was Caught
Cathedral & MiM in Bruxels
Musical Instruments Museum
A Dirty Gerdy
"Friets" French Fries
Street Waffles, Crepes, Street Food
Speculaas/Speculoos
The Journey Home 42:00 to 47:00
The train stop of where the 2016 Bombers struck Arrived at Airport
The trek to Italy Artwise-Italy 4.1/ 5 Soggy Mangoes
The Trek to Belgium Enetertainment- Belgium 4.45/5 Soggy Mangoes
Places of National Tragedy Abroad 47:00 to 51:00
The Best Cheesecake Ever
Shout Out to Papa Johns in Kyoto
Traveling tips for Faisal: 51:30 to End
Don't Overplan
Asif's Process in Planning
Visualize where you're going
Having a Guide or Definetly helps
Being aware of your destination especially when travelling alone
Pros and Cons of Layovers
Plan your Finances Accordingly
Please go travel if you are able too.
Intro to ABVIUS Globe Trekkers 00:00 to 02:00
Asif Treks Japan 02:35 to 08:35
Booking, Flying Traveling
Landing in Tokyo 08:35 to 14:53
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka
Osaka is the Kitchen of Japan
Kyoto 14:53 to 16:00
Food! and Octopus Balls 16:00 to 21:00
Stories from the People of Japan 21:00 to 28:00
infrastructure
The Bullet Train
Blue zone
The Japanese People. 28:00 to 37:50
Entitlement & Japan
Societal/Familial Guilt in Asian Countries
How did you feel when the plane landed? 37:50 to 40:00
Tokyo 40:00 to 46:40
The little things in Japan 46:40 to 50:25
Traffic & Pedestrians.
The Trek Back Home 50:30 to 51:45
Mount Fuji & Yushida Trail 51:45 to End
Asif Gives Trekking Japan 5/5 Soggy Mangoes
Adam’s Favorite: 2:13 to 20:00
1) The Phantom Tollbooth By Norton Juster
2) Kitchen Confidential By Anthony Bourdain
3) The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine By Steven Rinella
4) Auguste Escoffier Author
5) Guns, Germs, and Steel By Jared Diamond
Tori’s Favorite: 20:00 to 38:00
1) The Boxcar Children By Gertrude C. Warner
2) The Berenstain Bears by The Berenstains
3) Shel Silverstein Shout out to the author
4) Harry Potter By J.K. Rowling
5) Goosebumps By R.L. Stine
6) The Martian By Andy Weir
7) Everything is Illuminated By Jonathan Safran Foer
8) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay By Michael Chabon
Faisal’s Favorite: 38:15 to 52:40
1) Tao of Jeet Kune Do By Bruce Lee
2) Forrest Landry Author
3) You Can Read Anyone By David J. Lieberman
4) The Gospel of Hip Hop By KRS One
5) Good Clear Sound by Hamilton
Karan’s Favorite: 53:10 to 1:14:00
1) Man’s Search for Meaning By Viktor E. Frankl
2) The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
3) Walden By Henry David Thoreau
4) Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut
5) The Lord of the Rings By J.R.R Tolkein
6) Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan
The Blockbuster Episode
:30 to 6:00 Tori's Oscar Speech
[4:00 to 5:00] The Ice Tray with Asif
6:50 to 18:30 Asif's Top 5 Movies
18:40 to 41:50 Tori's Top 5 Movies
42:00 to 46:00 Faisal's Top 5 Movies
46:30 to 56:49 Adam's Top 5 Movies
56:50 to 1:14:00 Karan's Top 5 Movies
Adam: “Here’s my first ever bread I baked...here is the crumbshot”
Karan: ***Coughing*** “I *cough* Choked on the crumb…”
00:00 to 05:00 Week Round up with the gang
5:00 to 09:00 Adam’s Don Buri Experience
09:00 to 22:00 Diner Discussion ABVIUS’ favorite RVA Diners
22:50 to 29:00 Breads and Cheese-steaks
29:00 to 33:00 Onion Rings
34:00 to 41:23 Chai, Coffee, Cafe
E3 (3:30) Adams Highlights
(4:15) Karan’s Highlights (17:35) https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2017-ps4-boss-explains-why-sony-wont-do-cross-p/1100 -6450938/
Tori’s Highlights (24:50)
Faisal (35:00)
Mentioned atmospheric VR Horror game name correction: "A Chair in a Room: Greenwater"
VA Primaries (50:30)
00:00 to 18:00 Scrubs is gone from Netflix along with Other Netflix shows. Hulu v. Netflix v. other streaming services
18:00 to 21:50 Television/Scrubs/Friends Moves Jungle Book/ Doom!
26:50 to 35;50 The Happening in Richmond:
-Nightngale Ice Cream- http://www.nightingaleicecream.com/
-Gelato Celesti now open on Boulevard
-TT Lounge has Competition-Kung Fu Tea
35:50 to End CIty Planning and Development
Manchester-Legends Brewery New apartments being built
Scotts Addition- Breweries and Ball Parks
Churchill- CUP A COFFEE IN THE MORNING- Captain Buzzy's
VCU Expansion and development of the City
1:00 to 18:37 Faisal’s Conspiracy Theories
-Big Pharma & Alternative Medicine
-Techniques of Living well
-Altria
-Kevin Trudeau- “More Natural Cures Revealed”
18:47 to 25:00 Adam’s Conspiracy Theories
-Pokemon Conspiracy
-Ditto--Mew Theory
25:10 to 34:10 Tori’s Conspiracy Theory
-Moonlanding was a Hoax!
-Flat Earthers
-Kubrick Directed the Moonlanding
34:20 to 47:00 Karan’s Conspiracy Theory
-9/11
-Pearl Harbor- FDR
-JFK
2:00 Adam out for this episode, The Rock!
2:10 Asif’s Recap
Wedding
Drones UAS tech
4:00 Ghost in a Shell- Soggy Banter
7:40 Jackie Chan Governor’s Award
10:00 Tori’s Recap
Freelance Filmin’
Soggy Squad Films
Tori’s going to Europe!
John Wick!
Key & Peele
13:30 STUMBALANNDDD!!!
13:40 More John Wick!
17:30 Resident Evil 6 VR
18:50 Faisal’s Recap
New Job Woop!
New Phone Galaxy 7 Edge
Phone tech/software
23:00 Android tech/software
28:50 Stranger Things
29:00 Pathfinder/D&D explained to Asif
30:00 Tori’s Star Wars Campaign.
33:30 Karan’s Recap
Julio Fernandez
35:46 Open Outdoors Challenge
37:00 Soggy Recap
Women’s March
Trump Inaugurated
40:00 Travel Ban
41:00 Super Bowl LI Tom Brady MVP
42:00 Betsy DeVos
44:40 Nasa Discovers New Planets
48:00 James Webb Telescope
50:00 Oscars Oops!!
What is a legacy episode? One may ask. Well ABVIUS listeners, let us tell you. Legacy episodes are the thought ghosts of the past made corporeal, they are the wisdom of ancients, coming to guide us. THEY ARE basically episodes that were recorded in the past that we drop as bonus or supplementary entertainment! These are the snippets of our past, before ABVIUS was ABVIUS.
Shoot the Shit 1:50 – Faisal
Comics
New Tech pick ups
Next gen console rumors
17:50 – Adam Shoot The Shit
Getting back into competitive gaming
Comics
29:00 Karan Shoot the Shit
Comics
What is the value of a thing?
34:50 Asif Shoot the Shit
Asif was painting the bathroom
OKC Game
X-Men Movie
Movies vs comics | animated vs live action
43:00 Heath Ledger Joker Vs Jared Ledo Joker
Adam Thought Block
44:30
57:07 Nick Cannon calls out any battle rapper for $100,000
Is Murda Mook a legend? 61:20
65:30 Why mainstream rappers enter battle rap
Adam: "You had to jerk off the controller in order to charge the sword"
Adam: "Ahhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhh eehhhh ahhh........... uhhhhhhhhh ehhh"
Karan: "Go Make Wudu you Harami"
3:00 Run The Jewels 3 and Other Hip Hop Hombres
7:30 Golden Globes & Other Film Foolery
14:00 to End- Nintendo Switch
Quote of the episode: “So they’re liiike, organic, non gmo like jerkoff to the trees kinda shit?”-Karan
Asif: “I Thought In N Out was like the cookout of the west coast.”
Adam and Karan Simultaneously: “NONONONONONONONOONONO”
3:00 Rousey getting routed.
11:00 UFC rundown
18:00 Adam talks about In N Out
29:00 Food Spots we like in RVA
36:00 Faisal’s cheesesteak compendium
40:00 Top 5 spots in RVA from the gang
60:00 A single place you would take a friend if they hadn’t been to RVA before?
QUOTE (Quote of the Episode):
“You can build a hi-fi, 1080, hot off the press, best shit, and in about 5 years you’re still gonna have to upgrade your shit. Arright maybe 10 years ‘cause I don’t know how hi-fi you’re gonna get…..Then you got people like Adam rockin a Blackberry for like 700 years.” ~ Karan
“Thass real legacy right there” ~ Faisal
“Fuckin Dinosaur” ~ Asif
1:30 – What was 2016 like?
Presidential Election
Deaths
Vine
David Bowie dying
Anton Yelchin
Mohammad Ali
9:20 – US Grappling Tournament
Karan’s Dojo Revolution BJJ dominated the competition
Karan wins a silver medal
Revolutionbjj.com
20:10 – Asif’s workout program
25:00 - Goal oriented motivation, success, and resilience
31:30 – Movies
Loving – 4.5 “Soggy mangoes” ~~ Asif
Rogue One – Women Lead
35:45 – Culinary Arts
39:00 – Handmaiden
Moonlight – 4.8 “Soggy Mangoes” ~~ Tori
Swiss Army Man
45:00 – Music
Hamilton
Hamilton Mixtape
Culinary Foods
50:44 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s art
54:20 – Video Games
New Street Fighter 5 Characters and how the game is balanced
Adam’s Street Fighter tips
The video game developer community and how they respond to the market and community demands
What is the ABVIuS decision between consoles and PCs this generation?
Mid generation consoles
We are all having fanboy/girl identity crisis
The diversity of styles of games that require different levels of hardware and artistic creativity
75:10 New Nvidia graphics cards
80:45 – Nintendo Switch Virtual Reality
Quote of the Episode - Asif - “We used to be obssessed with...balls” Karan - You can be homo. Its ok to like balls...Full Homo...Full Homo… What where you obsessed with? Asif - “Balls...The blue balls were the best”
Moment of Silence for OSU –
We talk about fun memories and disdain of the snow.
Sports:
NFL Rams VS Titans Super bowl
Cowboys winning streak
Packers on the upswing
NFL reprimanding players for making political/social statements
News
Tomi Lahren vs Trevor Noah
Trumps presidency as it relates to race relations – the rise of race crimes
What is President Obama doing about it?
Fake news
Gaming
New KLG Gaming Lounge in Richmond
Games we are looking forward to. What we are playing now.
Pokemon Sun & Moon
The Last of Us
New Street Fighter
Marvel Vs Capcom
Nintendo Switch
“Netflix Television Web Series” vs traditional tv
The Defenders
How to raise children with video games and technology
How technology and video games affect face-to-face behavior and social skills
Do video games influence children?
Is our technology making us less social?
What are the human benefits to gaming, and simulation technology?
What will gaming be for our children?
How we would raise children in a new era of technology
Maladaptive cognitions predict changes in problematic gaming in highly-engaged adults: A 12-month longitudinal study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=cognitions+predict+changes+in+problematic+gaming
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/05/503581220/fake-or-real-how-to-self-check-the-news-and-get-the-facts
“Quote of the episode: “ That’s like a super reductionist, idiot version, because I have no idea.”-Karan
“Is it productive to use your first amendment, if it is something that heals the soul of the people?”-Faisal
Episode 2 Timestamps & Description and Intro: Heavy shit episode
0:00: Introduction
1:00 TRUMP HAS BECOME PRESENT
2:00 The gang talks about conservatives
8:00 Pokemon Sun and Moon: How we stack up
11:00 Adams 20 second review On Pokemon
15:00 UFC: Alvarez Fight
25:00 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them/Movie Talks
30:00 ABVIUS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
35:00 Morality of terraforming
47:00 Thanksgiving Traditions
56:00 The protests (in RVA and other areas)
63:00 A conversation about groupthink and civil organized disobedience.
68:00 Why do people protest?
70:00 Protests as safe spaces
The Arts:
Fantastic Beasts and where to find them
Wall-E
Sports:
UFC
NFL
News
Trump has risen
NASA AND SPACE
Protests
Gaming
Pokemon
November 7
“Quote of the episode: “I feel like we some well rounded nerds.”-Faisal
Episode 1 Timestamps & Description and Intro: POLITICS EPISODE
0:00: Introduction
1:00 Highlights of the weekend
2:00 The gang talks about conservatives
5:00 the evolution of our perspectives on social justice
9:00 Propoganda
15:00 A case for Levar Stoney
16:00 RVA Mayoral Race and local politics
20:00 UFC talk
28:00 Football, WORLD SERIES CUBS
30:00 What are we watching? (The Get Down, Luke Cage, etc)
40:00 CREEPY HOLLOW
50:00 COMMUNING WITH NATURE, WE ARE TINY TINY HUMANS
54:00 Adam talks about Anthony Bourdain
65:00 Then and Now, how time has changed our childhood homes.
Sports:
UFC
NFL
Cubs World Series
News
The rise of Trump