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Episode 9: The Rode to Casting
July 11, 2020

With a full crew in this episode, Donovan talks about his experiences with his new Rodecaster Pro mixer as well as using his iPhone SE 2 (2020) for the last couple of weeks.  Both devices made him immediately regret the purchase but he eventually came ...

Episode 8: Read It Before You Tweet It!
June 27, 2020

Sam and Donovan (sans Oliver and Shae) take on the week’s tech news stories.  But first, Sam gives an update on the state of his move-in, and Donovan discusses his new iPhone SE (2020) plus a funny story involving a Crock-Pot. On the tech news front,

Episode 7: Spies Like Us
June 20, 2020

Sam and Donovan man the show discussing Sam finally moving into his new home (it took long enough!), and a question from the So… deck. In tech news, Microsoft ups their game with Microsoft Teams, an academic exercise in eavesdropping using sound vibrat...

Episode 6: Pwned Brain
June 15, 2020

Oliver brings a sense of the outdoors and nature as he joins the rest of the gang from his backyard.  Topics discussed on the show – Update on Internet Archive’s Temporary National Emergency Library is more temporary than first intended,

Episode 5: Betty White on an Emu
June 08, 2020

With the full crew in attendance, topics that are discussed (after a bit of just shooting the sh*t) — Internet Archive being sued for posting copyrighted works, Google faces a lawsuit because of Incognito, AMC (and theaters in general) may be in troubl...

Episode 4: Quantum Distancing
June 01, 2020

The crew (minus Oliver) are back to discuss warrantless access to your browser, and search history; GE sells off their 129 year old lighting business; the state of social media, Section 230, and Trump; Google admits they have issues with some of their ...

Episode 3: Crop Dusting
May 25, 2020

The full crew is back discussing the epitome of living in the South, Microsoft admits it was wrong about open source, the Joe Rogan Experience moving exclusively to Spotify, Netflix doing something that’s out of character for a subscription based servi...

Episode 2: Forever Home
May 18, 2020

Donovan, Sam, and Shae (Oliver had a prior appointment) discuss permanently working from home with the announcement from Twitter that employees could work from home, forever, if their job allowed for it.  Google Play Music is shutting down this year; m...

Episode 1: The May Love Bug
May 11, 2020

For their first episode of SouthGeek News, Donovan, Oliver, Sam, and Shae discuss the May 4th anniversary of The Love Bug pandemic that started on May 4, 2000.  Oliver and Donovan both being in the broadband industry at the time don’t have much of a re...

Episode 0: Here We Go Again!
May 06, 2020

SouthGeek News has its roots in a wide variety of previous podcasts, specifically the origin of the first podcast that Donovan ever did — The SouthGeek Ramble & Review.  It went for 63 episodes before life changes made him make some difficult choices…o...