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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: YouTube Shooting - In David's backyard The automated pickup is gaining traction (story) Tinder and Bumble are going at it (story) Twitter has suspended 1 million terrorism accounts since 2015 (story) Google Employees protesting involvement in Pentagon program (story) Lawyer bots are fighting traffic tickets (story) Twitter and Facebook scanning for inappropriate content. Facebook reads your messenger text if the stuff you share is flagged (story) MIT Researchers have a read-your-mind wearable (story) Hacker steals coins from cryptocurrency Verge with a '51 percent' attack (story) Isle of Dogs Goldbergs Ozark Ready Player One 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: Someone took a photo with every mailbox in Seattle (story) How did a connected wine bottle company fail? (story) Oh Facebook, what did you do? (story) You can't really delete Facebook (story) Let's be like Elon (story) YouTube bans a variety of "how to" gun videos (story) WeWork is second biggest office tenant in Manhattan (story) Cutting "Old Heads" at IBM (story) The next wearable? On your tooth (story) What the? Byron Allen buys weather channel for $300 million (story) Google wants its publishers to get consent from users to comply with GDPR (story) "I'M GOING TO CLOSE THIS DEAL USING BUSINESS WORDS I'VE HEARD MEN YELL IN AIRPORTS" (story) 99 Percent Invisible on the history of jingles Why'd you push that button? podcast 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: Who is Mike Doughty? Space hotels are coming (story) The Great Twitter Purge - Got rid of bots and it affected Conservative tweeters (story) Police use Snapchat to solve murder (story) Bogus conspiracy theories being floated online - All designed to devalue the students' words (story) More Amazon Go Stores are coming this year (story) Ex Google engineer harassed female employees with his infamous memo (story) Tesla bringing chargers to work (story) Kylie Jenner's Tweet Wipes out 1.3 Billion of SNAP's value (story) This is Love by folks who brought us Criminal Criminal - the murder manual Mortified Guide Beyond Stranger Things Why'd You Push That Button 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: The kids from Parkland are preemptively countering agenda-driven narratives on social media (story) Talk about how technology is affecting us - Given and presented by old people Blockchain wannabe investors continue to get robbed (story) Sometimes its the old-world guys doing it (story) Living in a post text world (story) People are blaming video games again for violence (story) SF City attorney is saying Uber is thumbing its nose at the law (story) Our search for martians is being hindered by bitcoin miners (story) Drones follow you like paparazzi (story) Apple employees are smacking into glass walls in their new campus (story) A Very Fatal Murder podcast by the Onion (story) Noir Alley - Eddie Muller Audio equipment - Lavalier microphone for your phone. 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 on the show: Cygilant blows up (not in a good way) on Twitter. How to fix it (story) The robots are now opening doors. (story) How Facebook is killing comedy (story) The two years of hell at Facebook (story) Facebook lost near 3 million users under 25 last year (story) My CISO/security vendor series on Forbes (story) Outdoorsy is the Airbnb of RVs (story) Nolan Bushnell Applauds the rescinding of his game developer conference lifetime achievement award (story) Google Flights Now Predicts Delays (story) Origins of the 10000 steps a day milestone (story) Mosaic for HBO (which started as an app) (story) A Futile and Stupid Gesture 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 on the show: Amazon Go store Doomsday Clock is 2 minutes from midnight (story) Facebook to allow for ranking of trustworthy sites (story) Reviewed.com founder has launched a cooking appliance company (story) Facebook is inviting influencers to make vertical videos (story) Netflix has 118 million subscribers (story) Pirating media in China dropping dramatically due to ease of purchasing digitally (story) Why the IRS fears Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies (story) 50 Cent didn't realize he had 700 Bitcoins which are now worth millions - He completely forgot (story) Wilson - Woody Harrelson Wet Hot American Summer - 10 Years Later 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 creates an open Slack channel for The Spoon. Man passes out on Bay Bridge, says car was on autopilot (story) Man attacks self driving car in the Mission (story) Nearly 700 thousand people getting emails from Twitter about Russia bots (story) Use of Nuclear response to Cyber attacks? (story) Amazon selects the 20 finalists for HQ2 (story) Car manufacturers are tracking you (story) TWiT Sues Twitter for using audio and video (story) Latest meme: Google Arts - Painting that looks like you (story) YouTube and Facebook removing Tide Pod eating challenge videos (story) The End of the F***ing World Beyond Yacht Rock podcast Comedians in Cars getting coffee (on Netflix) Rob Cantrell's new album "Pure Uncut Joy" 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: CES 2018 Michael avoided the power outage Weirdest and worst items of CES 2018 (story) Welcome to the era of the smart toilet (story) Microsoft playing "long game" with Cortana (story) White noise video on YouTube has five copyright claims (story) 16% of households have a "smart speaker" (story) KFC Canada has rolled out the Bitcoin Bucket, an offering that can only be paid for using Bitcoin. (story) The media industry is freaking out about Facebook's feed changes (story) American Vandal 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.

We have in-studio guest and host of "The Beancast," Bob Knorpp on the show. Here's what Michael and David AND Bob talk about during the show: AWS re:Invent 2017 Bitcoin's insane rise, but you can't spent it anywhere legit (story) There's a talking drink decanter now (story) Speaking of talking tchokes, remember Billy Bass? (story) And now, of course, Billy Bass works with Alexa (story) A New York man was arrested and charged Wednesday after threatening to kill Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) and his family if the congressman did not support net neutrality. (story) NYT cutting free articles from 10 to 5 (story) Trump can spout hate on Twitter and Twitter doesn't ban him because it's newsworthy. Thus the recent defense for the recent Muslim videos. (story) Google rolling out home services for Google Assistant (story) Speaking of voice assistants, people are scooping them up for holidays, and people are shopping with them (story) Lyft employees will have to drive or support four hours per quarter (story) Randi Zuckerberg harassed on an Alaska Airlines flight (story) Vox handing out 2 drink tickets at this year's New Year's party (story) Heavyweight Podcast Jonathan Goldstein 2 Wingsuit flyers base jump into a moving airplane 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: Stocking Stuffer idea: Tesla Semi truck (story) Mashable sold for $50 million to Ziff Davis. That's just 20% of what its valuation was two years ago. (story) Other companies considering selling to big media at a song (story) Listening to podcasts at high speed - podfasters (story) Williams Sonoma is buying an AR company (story) CompuServe forums are closing down 12/15 (story) Richard Spencer and other white supremicists have lost their Twitter verifications (story) GameStop giving away XBOX 360 consoles for Black Friday (story) 13 Reasons Why Hackable by McAfee 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: Amazon is building a second HQ in North America Red Sox steal signs from Yankees with an iWatch (story, story 2) Russell Wilson is trying to build a tech company (story) Equifax announces an enormous data breach. Could affect 143 million consumers (story) Three executives sold a total of $1.8 million in stock before publicly announcing the breach. Stock fell more than 6% (story) Futurama is coming back as a podcast (story) Speaking of podcasts, companies are still raising money (story) Life in the age of facial recognition (story) How to hack Siri and Alexa with non-audible sounds (story) Social Media growing as news source (story) Origins with James Andrew Miller Michael has a skill on Amazon D4Darious 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: Twitter bots are becoming a problem (story) VMworld: VMware Cloud on AWS (story) Could it be bad? (story) Roku files for IPO (story) No more Juicero (story) You can't block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan on Facebook (story) Jim Louderback, CEO of VidCon (story) Tinder figures out how to make money: let people see who swiped on them (story) Google tied search results position to promotion of its own social network: report (story) The podcast funding bubble is getting frothy (story) SanDisk microSD can take 400 GB (that's for phones). They have SD cards that can handle a terabyte. - Much needed for 4K resolution which eats up a ton of space. Michael Dell, who was born in Houston, donates $36 million toward Hurricane Harvey relief, the largest donation to the effort. Dell hopes to raise $100 million in donations. (NYT). Trump claims he's donating $1 million. Big Little Lies American Kingpin - Nick Bilton Atypical 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.

Tear Down Show #179: We Start Juicing to Dominate the Microsoft Office World Championships Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Donald Trump's attack on Amazon (story) The right is building an alternative Internet as Google and others turn the screws on them (story) Charlottesville video by Vice was amazing and fast (story) Leaning on the YouTube and Twitch gamer community to build your successful game (story) Rapportive creator has a new email called SuperHuman (story) Messy Confusing future of TV (story) People are watching NBC's snapchat TV show (29 million in fact) (story) Microsoft Office Olympics (story) Apple investing $1 Billion in new programming. Netflix reportedly investing $7 billion in 2018 (story) They spent $6 billion. They're second to only ESPN who spent $7.3 billion (story) Ozarks Jason Bateman on Silver Spoons 13 Reasons Why 7 Mistakes Content Marketers Make When They Try to Be Journalists 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. -- Spark Media Solutions - Content is the currency for social media and search Author of "THREE FEET FROM SEVEN FIGURES: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows" available at ThreeFeetBook.com.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Story of the Year: No two butts are the same. (story) According to Elon Musk, AI is more dangerous than N. Korea (story) Video game champ just lost to an AI bot (story) Lyft will always have human drivers (story) HBO Hacker leaks more content (story) HBO was going to offer $250K bounty payment/ransom payment (story) Amazon shutting down "Netflix of Europe" (story) New Crowd Surf feature on SnapChat lets you experience concerts from multiple angles (story) Alaska's biggest newspaper just went bankrupt (story) The original MS Surface had a return rate of 17% (story) Frustrated with YouTube TV Horse heads Our own video on the spoon! (story) Skatetown USA Roller Boogie 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: Buzzfeed released a kitchen gadget! (story) The New Rules for Making it in Hollywood (story) The Tesla 3 is not as economy as they touted (story) Roomba data up for sale (story) Wisconsin Company to Implant Microchips in Employees (story) Katie Couric is leaving Oath. Who's Oath? Yahoo. that's who (story) Why sitting at your computer all day can wipe you out (story) Why create original content when you can just post commercials? That's what BI and Cheddar are doing (story) Microsoft Paint to be removed after 32 years, but no people demand it stays. (story) Prescription video games (story) Reply All - Long Distance This American Life: The Magic Show Tech conference list 19 year old magician doing card manipulation 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: Blacklist of VCs who sexually harass (story) Robots are coming for old people, and it doesn't include insurance (story) Staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is going to make you earn less over your lifetime by about 50% or more. (story) Amazon Video Direct Program (story) Amazon isn't just killing broadcast TV. Now they're coming after Blue Apron (story) And Amazon isn't done. They want to bring a bookmobile meets Internet sale to your town (story) Summer Camp to be an Internet celebrity (story) NBC launches Snapchat TV shows (story) Technology to thwart facial recognition (story) Sears going to sell Kenmore products on Amazon (story) Do not play wedding songs (story) Sneaky Pete "Go Like Hell" 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. -- Spark Media Solutions - Content is the currency for social media and search Author of "THREE FEET FROM SEVEN FIGURES: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows" available at ThreeFeetBook.com. On Facebook Blog: Spark Minute Twitter: @dspark LinkedIn Skype: davidspark

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Smart Kitchen Summit coming to Japan NYTimes Sexual Harassment by VCs article set off a flurry of responses Can we even trust the security guys? Kaspersky may have connections to Russian govt (story) David's finally cutting the cord (story) Juicero has laid off 25% of staff in wake of a really bad viral article in Bloomberg (story) In Europe, Employers can't check social media accounts (story) Drones can now go over 160 mph (story) DoNotPay - Chatbot helps with 1,000 legal issues - Same one reported on that helps you get out of parking tickets. It's completely free. Although it's only 55% successful (story) Hyperloop had its Kitty Hawk moment (story) Woman destroys $200K of art taking a selfie (video) Dennis Lehane's Since We Fell Bill Simmons and South Park guys Louis CK's 2017 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: Don't Recommend: Lock Artist All of Uber's culture crisis stories (43, no 55) (story) Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes leave of absence Amazon buys Whole Foods (story) Walmart buys Bonobos (story) E3 - Stories - Forza 7 on Oct. 3rd. 4K support. XBOX One X new console will deliver (story) Original Age of Empires coming back (story) Atari is making a console (again) (story) Robot powered burger joint is getting more $ (story) Why people watch gaming content on YouTube (story) Facebook using Artificial Intelligence to find extremist posts (story) Car of the future a living room on wheels (story) Troll Cakes (story) Orange is the New Black is back Haley Joel Osment is now a Silicon Valley star RedBull Illume Photo Contest Top 45 Free games you can play 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 GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM: Expose into the life of waiter (story) Family throws Quincenera for their cat (story) Apple releases first original TV show, Planet of the Apps (of course) (story) Uber CEO instructions for sex at Miami party (story) Uber executive obtained medical records of a rape victim of a driver, fired (story) The cab industry is about to collapse (story) An explosion of online video could triple bandwidth consumption again in the next five years (story) The U.S. ranks 28th in the world in mobile internet speeds (story) Airbnb using platform for refugees (story) Economic value of skipping college (story) Verizon to lay off 2100 after Yahoo deal (story) Al Franken on WTF Al Franken's new book, Giant of the Senate Cool site - Generate tables 99% Invisible about origins of basketball 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: Let's analyze what happens when a person crosses the line (Kathy Griffin) (story) Mary Meeker report (story) Walmart is looking to develop service that lets Walmart employees deliver products on way home (story) Cut throat world of toddler racing (story) Blue Apron going public (story) Ethiopia shut down the Internet to stop exam cheats (story) Twitter misinformation (story) Gmail rolls out phishing link detection (story) Pinboard buys Delicious (story) Veep WSJ: The Future of Everything Pancake Robot 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.