Our 40th show! We didn't make a big hullabaloo about it, so... here's the notes:

• December 12th you'll be able to pre-order the long-awaited Optimus-103 Keyboard. Still no word on price or when it'll ship, but you can give the Russian developers money
  
• The Wii came out today and there have already been 2 reported dead
• The president of Universal says all iPod owners are thieves - and he wants a $1
• RIAA, in yet another lawsuit, now has to justify their $750 per song fee
• For only $30, you too can have your very own, very creepy Personal Pasta Singer
  
• Our tech toy is the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player, available now
• And our movie review for this show is Mission: Impossible III, which we both liked even though we both don't like Tom Cruise
  

Oh - and we're giving a quick shout-out to Lockjaw for featuring us in his latest show, which can be found here: http://thepodcastjunkie.com/

• New Browsers
  Firefox 2.0 and IE 7
• Web Rage
  The Internet is all the rage, especially in Britian
• Relakks
  Company in Sweden that lets you dial in & surf from overseas
• Fried Coke
  Little tiny balls of fried coke goodness
  
  

Tech Toy

• uBreakUp.com
  When you're too lazy or spineless to break up with the one you (don't) love

Movie (okay, so this one's a TV show)

This episode is brought to you via the magic that is Skype and WireTap Pro - which is why the audio quality is, uh, different.

Anyway, here are our topics for this show:

• The latest Apple rumor is that they are, in time for Christmas this year, updating the MacBook Pro line to include the new Core2Duo processors - and Sethran rejoiced greatly
• Some time next year, Daewoo will be selling a voice-activated microwave. We have to ask... WHY???
• It's official! Google is purchasing You Tube for $1.6 Billion in stock. There are a couple of twenty-somethings that are so drunk right now!
• A Ukrainian scientist has invented a condom that plays music during sex, and again we have to ask... WHY???
  
• We both have shiny new Samsung LCD TVs:
  Sethran has the LNR377D, available exclusively at Sam's Club
  
  Bozric has the LNS4051D, available everywhere else
  
• And our movie for this episode is X-Men III: The Last Stand, available now on DVD
  

• Microsoft has released the Xbox Live Vision, a web cam peripheral for your beloved 360
  
• Yahoo, after much success with the personalized DRM-free song, has decided to expand the concept to an actual album... anyone know who Jesse McCartney is?
• J Allard, Microsoft uber-dork, says the iPod is the Pong of Digital Audio
• iTunes is now selling movies... and they sold 125,000 in their first week!
• Intel announced that, rather than 1st Quarter of 2007, their Core 2 Quad chips will actually ship 4th Quarter of this year - and they're smokin'!
• Viewsonic debuted their new iPod-enabled monitor, only you can't use your iPod directly with the monitor
• IF you have an iPod AND you like to party, don't leave home without your very own iBreath iPod Alcohol Breathalyzer
  
• Bozric already has one of the new 8GB iPod Nanos - and loves it

And what show would be complete without a movie review or two:

• Lucky Number Slevin - we both loved it!
  
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - also an excellent movie
  
  Someone please convince Robert Downey, Jr. to stay clean and sober!

You'd think we were a bunch of flippin' noobs at this recording stuff! Seth & I met for lunch today with our handy-dandy mobile recording gear and recorded Episode 36... again.  But are you listening to all the juicy goodness of one of our podcasts?

No.

You are not.

The batteries in the recorder died at the end of the "show." This time, I actually have what we recorded, but because the batteries were weak, the audio levels all tanked - they're so low (how low are they?) Lindsey Wagner would have a hard time hearing it.

So, we'll try again... but I'm thinking we'll skip ahead to Episode 37.

Hang in there!
Boz

P.S. Buy a shirt or something.  ;-)

Well, we realize it's been pretty much an entire month since our last show. It's been a hectic month, too... I had the entire lower floor of my house replaced, flooring-wise, and we had a death in the family. So... yeah. It's all good.

Anyway, Sethran & I hooked up tonight via Skype and were recording what was going to be Episode 36 with a program call WireTap Pro. About twenty minutes in... *POOF*

WireTap Pro just closed itself and sent our show into the netherworld. Which sucks. It was good. All about the new Apple announcements, with the iPod, the Shuffle, the new Nanos, the redesigned store.

Gone.

<sigh>

We'll try again later this week for a replacement Episode 36, but I didn't want to leave you, our loving subscribers, in the dark.

That's just how I roll.

L8R!
Bozric

Episode 35 turned out to be a little longer than normal, as we just break the thirty minute mark... but's it's just chocked full of Brothers Green goodness. And here's the info to prove it:

• Sony Mylo - if you want to help Sony rule the world and try to regain their "hip" factor, you'll want one of these
  
• Apple announced they are teaming up with the teamsters - Ford, GM & Mazda are all going to be including iPod integration with their 2007 line of vehicles
• The Opera browser for Nintendo's DS is spreading from Japan to Europe in October
• Firebox has released their line of virtual "Tamagotchi"-like boy/girlfriends. Get yours now for only $38!
  
• A Japanese farmer has grown square watermelons - and they're a steal at $83 a piece!
  
• MyTunesRSS is a nifty little program that's supposed to allow access to your iTunes library via the net, anywhere... but Boz couldn't get it to work - at all
• Drano Liquid Gel Max does work - if you have a clogged drain, get it!
• We both liked the movie V for Vendetta
  
• The Aquaman Pilot is now available in iTunes
• Bozric hated The Net 2.0 and won't let Sethran watch it
  

We announced in the last show that we don't really edit our episodes once we start recording. We did receive an inquiry as to where the outtake at the end of every episode comes from. They're actually from other recordings. We typically turn the mics on as soon as they're set up and record a bunch of crap that only serves as a mic level check - not meant for public consumption, except in very small quantities. Hence, the outro snippet. This show, for example, we were discussing the finer points, or lack thereof, of Hardee's new Milk Shake commercials. Thanks for asking!

I've heard of Europe.

We'll make an announcement about the store in the next show, but we thought we'd let those of you who actually visit our site in on the news early...

We have a Gift Shoppe now!

It's linked in to the site in the "Links & Such" section in the upper right, but if you don't want to expend the energy to move you mouse, here's the link as well:

http://www.cafepress.com/brothersgreen

This show was recorded using our Fostex recorder from the comfort of my upstairs' sectional... which actually caused more technical issues than when I hook up everything into my mac. Go figure.

Anyway, here's this show's list of topics:

• Microsoft finally admits they're developing Zune
  
• Yahoo is now selling non-DRM mp3's and Seth bought one
• MPAA hoped Shawn Hogan, CEO of Digital Point Solutions, would settle for $2500 when they threatened him with a lawsuit. He said he'd see 'em in court. Go Shawn!
• Wendy's adds new flavor to Frosty lineup after only 37 years
• Wizmark - coming to a urinal near you!
  
• This week's tech toy is Bozric's new Motorola Q
  
• And finally, our review of Matador, on DVD everywhere
  

Be Spontaneous Later

It's our one year anniversary!!! Who'd have thought our attention span would have lasted this long?

This is a special Mobile-cast. We recorded in Boz's car at Kroger using our portable mixer/recorder. We know the audio quality isn't quite as good as usual, but let us know what you think.

Mobile-cast. Brought to you by creepy guys in cars everywhere.

We cover the following for your enjoyment:

• Apple News and Rumors -- New Nano Next Month?? iTunes movie rentals??
• If you love your news and want to watch it like old episodes of Saved by the Bell, then Amazon's new "News on DVD" is just for you
• Who knew kids had the answers all along? A federal court in Tampa uses Rock, Paper, Scissors for key decision
• If your mail is late, it could be in Berlin
• This week's tech tip is TrendMicro's Housecall. Free online virus scanner for PCs
  http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
• And instead of a movie review, we give our 2 Lincolns on Metroid Prime Hunters for the Nintendo DS
  

He has a surly deposition.

Sethran has moved into his temporary apartment, so I managed to wrangle him into recording a new episode. See the effort I go to for you, our loving audience?

Anyway, here's our list of topics for this show:

• Net Neutrality - big business hates it, you want it and Sethran gets up on his soap box... calling for you to annoy your senators. Here's where you can find more info:
  http://www.eff.org/congress/
  And if you want to listen to a clueless Senator Stevens:
  http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/497
• Ricoh has created an optical component that reads AND writes ALL disc formats - Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, DVD & CD!
• Sethran likes the new UV Bikinis, available for only $190 US
  
  
• Lexar recalls 66,000 jump drives - is yours one of them?
  
• Sethran, back on his soap box, rants against the evil that is Yahoo's Music Service
• Bozric's Mac Tips of the Week (not quite as preachified as Sethran's soap box) - how to put your OS X Macintosh to sleep in 2 seconds and a quick four-finger keyboard shortcut for shutting it off
• We have two tech toys this episode, first is Sethran's Extreme Mac AirPlay2 - he really likes it
  
• Bozric review's ColorVision's Spyder2Express Monitor Calibrator - he really hated it
  
• Our movie review this week is for Bloodrayne
  

Ya got a little blubber on yer face.

New episode only a week after the last one - ha HA! But before you break out into your happy dance, the next episode will be at least two weeks from now... maybe three... depends on how long it takes Sethran to get moved.

Anyway, here's our list of topics for this show:

• Sony has decided to push back the launch date for it's much bally-hooed BluRay players, but Sethran has decided he likes HD-DVD and doesn't care
• Students in New York are using "no-hear" ring tones to text each other during class. And they wonder why US students are some of the dumbest worldwide
• 70-year-old shoplifter tries to resist arrest by gumming police officers
• Running naked man seeks matrimony, gets shot at instead
• European DS Lites stolen in Hong Kong, $1 Million Hong Kong Dollar reward offered ($1.25 US)
• We give you our much anticipated, long-winded review of Nintendo's DS Lite
• Movie review of the week:
  Underworld - Evolution
  

We made it to Episode 30!!! And we appear to be back on some semblance of a schedule. We discuss the following for your listening pleasure:

• Net Neutrality takes a hit - You can thank your local Republican
• The Pirates Bay's Back - And there's gonna be trouble
• Court Judge caught playing solitaire during a trial...Oops!
• Gamers shoot people - In the FACE!
• God saves his people, well, all except the stupid ones
• Nintendo DS Lite: Seth has it, Boz wants it
• Movies, Movies, Movies:
  Hoodwinked - Good
  
  
  The Island - Good, if you can get past the nose
  

I'm on a Mexican Megaphone

Hiya Gang!

Just a quick note to let you know that we've migrated the Brothers Green to a new host company, LibSyn, for both the website and the podcast files.

If you are subscribed through iTunes, you might notice that all the episodes will be showing up in your podcast section as available for download. This is a necessary evil, unfortunately. And, on the off-chance that you don't feel like re-listening to our older shows, you can select the older episodes, right-click 'em and tell iTunes to "clear" - this will effectively remove them from your list/library.

Why, you ask, are all the older shows back in my podcast subscription list? We had to nuke the Feedburner feed to get it to point to and sync'd up with the new location. A one time occurrence, unless something goes horribly, horribly wrong. But it won't, right? Cuz we're using modern technology!

So there you have it. Just another example of the great efforts we, the Brothers Green, go to on your behalf to bring you the super-high quality production value podcast that you have come to know and love. Excuse me, I'm getting a little misty-eyed.

-Boz

Hey - where have you guys been?!? We've been waiting on everyone to come back so we could do another episode. Glad you're all back! Here's our long overdue latest episode:

• Net Neutrality and you... the government is actually trying to help us for once!
• Symantec's AntiVirus Security Hole will leave you incredibly vulnerable. Use AVGFree instead!
• Microsoft wants everyone to start using their new format, WMP, instead of JPGs, okay?
• Pirates promise better copies of DaVinci Code and MI:3 by first of June
• New Trojan, Erazer-A, deletes your movies, music and images... kiss your porn goodbye!
• A German man who tried to commit suicide using a train has to pay for repairs to the train after he broke it
• Nintendo's DS Lite comes out June 11th, we're both excited about this, but Sethran is MORE excited
• Movie reviews for this episode:
  Ultraviolet - SUCKS!
  
  
  Ron White - You Can't Fix Stupid...  and you can't make it funny!
  

I would really like one, please!

Surprise! We're a week early this time... Sethran sold a washer and dryer in my neck of the woods, so we decided, hey - why not?!?

Here's this week's laundry list:

• Professional Video Gaming - it's not just a dream anymore!
• Microsoft announces their final 3rd quarter results... uh, they made money
• The Browser Wars are back, thanks to 4 zealots known as Explorer Destroyer
• Sony's updated the PSP firmware, yet again
• Sony has come up with a new iPod/iTunes killer... again... for the third time
• Dima Komissarov's USB "Flashbag"
  
• We discuss our new microphones, the AudioTechnica DRXC1 and the MXL 990
• I discuss two movies, since Sethran is too busy with his mad pimp lifestyle,
  Memoirs of a Geisha, or The Hooker Falls in Love
  
  
  Fun with Dick and Jane, which really wasn't that fun 
  

Twenty-Eight!

Okay, so we are on a bi-weekly schedule. Just gives you more time to savor the juicy goodness of each episode, no?

Right, so anyway... this week we ramble on about the following:

• Symantec vs. the IRS - guess who'll win?
• Kopp vs. Blizzard - he doesn't have a leg to stand on legally, but that didn't stop his lawyer!
• Windows 98... R.I.P.
• Iceland found out that volcanoes are hot
• A new study shows that 80% of automobile collisions are caused by stupid people
• A Kenyan man who tried to commit suicide now faces trial for his failed attempt
  

Oh - and we have two movies this week:

• Crash, excellent but NON-Family-Friendly flick
  
• Zathura, also excellent and Family-Friendly flick
  

And, we have listener email... again!

The cow says, "MOO!"  

So, we seem to have fallen into a two-week release schedule. Hmm... Well, it's not intentional. Sethran and I just never managed to coordinate our schedules over the past week or two. Plus he's sometimes really lazy about driving the 40+ minutes it takes to get to MY house. And there you have it.

But more importantly, here's what's in store for this week's episode:

• Napster has finally found a way to make money selling their crap - banner ads! (everybody hold their breath)
• Jerry Taylor, Manager for the city of Tuttle, OK, is a complete moron
• Apple has released its beta of Boot Camp, allowing you to safely and easily dual-boot your Intel Mac
• Parallels' Workstation 2.1 Beta allows you to install any X86 OS to be installed on an Intel Mac
• Sony is discontinuing UMD movies for the PSP, Jimmy crack corn
• India has developed a male contraceptive that kills sperm AND inflates the scrotum - so... sign me up!
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is now available on DVD
  

Last week we recorded episode 25. But it was bad. So this week we recorded episode 25. With new microphones. Here's what's in store:

• Sony announced (a week ago) the PS3 will be out in November and they're adding a bunch of crap into the PSP
• DRM kills your MP3 player's batteries... s-l-o-w-l-y
• Micro$oft announced that Vista, the new OS that never was, has been postponed. again. for the first time. ever
  
• Star Wars TV will start filming in 2008, will start appearing on your TV in 2008 and will run for at least 100 episodes - go hug a wookie
  
• Sethran likes his Halo 2 headset so much he's using it with his cell phone
  
• Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire is good for big people, bad for munchkins
  
• Our new mics rock!

Our fan has told us that we are better when we record live, so that's what we've done again, this week... and here's what we discussed:

• Adobe has decided to release Creative Suite 3 this year after all
• McAfee released a virus definition update that killed Excel
• Vista, if it ever gets released is having even more stuff stripped out of it
• Microsoft's Origami was finally revealed to the world, and no one noticed
• IUsedToBelieve.com - go add your own silly childhood belief
• Hauppage Hippolog - it records TV and stuff even if you can't pronounce it
• Murderball - Sethran liked this documentary
  
• Waiting - Nobody liked this movie
  

I'm healthy and Boz is home. The perfect combination for a podcast.

Boz figures out how to use his (musical) keyboard to drive the sound effects. I'm sorry. And our magic word for the day is "Microsoft". So drink up!

We cover the following:

• Napster takes responsibility for their losses. Just Kidding! They blame Microsoft.
• Microsoft declares: "Game discs are dead!" Long live the Game Disc!
• Microsoft's Origami Project. Touch me!
  
• Our Ebay PSA -- be careful!
• Orb.com -- It's awesome and FREE!
• We review Doom -- Shhhh. Rock's the badguy.
  

Hi there little buckaroos! Sethran is out sick this week, so rather than go two weeks without any type of show, here I am all by myself (all by myself).

My short list of topics for this week include:

• My trip to the Biltmore Estate, where my daughter got a firsthand view of animal husbandry
  
• iTunes sells its one billionth song to Alex Ostrovsky and then promptly names its first born after him
• Apple has announced a special media event for the 28th and the rumor mill goes into overdrive
• Logoquiz.net - it's a fun little diversion... see if you can beat my score of 161800 (post your score in the comments section)
• I purchased a handheld GPS device, but don't know how to use it yet
• Finally, I toss you my 2 cents on Serenity, now available on DVD
  

Recorded Live Via iChat!

So, I didn't feel like making the drive to Murfreesboro, sue me. Anyway, we talk news, products, movies and such. All with a healthy dose of our opinions. Oh, and Boz is wrong...twice.

• Widow PC's Behemoth Laptop - as big as Boz's Bigma (19")
• iTunes approaches 1 BILLIONS DOWNLOADS!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!!
• Napster has a "secret plan", but you didn't hear it from us (oh, and they are losing money hand over fist)
• Review of the Intec Wireless AV Switch (Hated it!)
  
• I stop watching TV long enough to review The Legend of Zorro (furniture beware)
  
• And our new ongoing Listener Mail segment (notices it's not plural)

Back again for episode 21. I personally thought it would be a shorter show, since the news this week was slow. Buzz... 28 minutes flat this week. So, what in store you ask? Here:

• Sethran's heard about a new hack for his PSP that only requires buying a $50 game
• Apple's possible lawsuit from a deaf back-water dork
• Microsoft might (or might not) be making a portable gaming/music/movie device that would leverage the Xbox brand... well, IF they make one, that is
• Amazon.com is offering some lame-o 20-year-old movie as an HD-DVD & Blu-Ray preorder, shipping March 14th
• Palm Treo 700, according to Seth, is great AND it locks up... just like Windows!
  
  
• SmartDisk's FlashTrax is Boz's new toy - he loves it even though he doesn't know ANY of the specs
  
  
• Boz reviews the piece of crap known as the CompUSA USB 1 Port Print Server (it's NOT good!)
  
• Our movie this week, Stealth - we both liked it
   
  
• Viewer, er, Listener Email... yep, we've gotten a SECOND email

Here we are at the big 2-Oh! It seems like just last week we were in our teens. Ah...good times.

So, this week we discuss:

• Blu-Ray Backed by Netflix and Porn
• Avoid Intelliflix.com
• LeiasMetalBikini.com
• Warez Bust in Europe
• Google Video Sucks
• Microsoft still profitable
• $6000 to boot Windows on Intel Macs, Red Hat gets you nothing Free
• Sing it with me: Humuhumunukunukuapuaa, That's Our (almost) State Fish
• Netgear Storage Central
• DOA4 review
  
• Viewer Mail? No, but we do have Listener Mail!!

This week's show is just chocked full of news, news and more news, a quick product review or two and, of course, a movie review. So... pretty much like every other show.

Right then. Here's the breakdown:

• Disney is in talks to buy Pixar, which would make Steve Jobs a Disney board member
• Imation is acquiring Memorex and will probably be merging their two catalogs of products
• A new, if not somewhat questionable, study out that states that using cell phones does NOT cause tumors
• There's a new world's record for solving the Rubik's Cube - you can sleep easy now, Penny
• Konica Minolta announced their not just quitting film cameras, they're quitting cameras all together!
• Gmail FINALLY has a "delete" button, now I can trash 1.5 GB worth of old email!
• Nintendo Revolution, due out Thanksgiving, to sell for $300... or will it?
• Digital music sales are expected to triple this year, coming in around $1.1 billion
• Sethran bought Sony's Location Free Pack, but hasn't taken it out of the box
• I talk about my new camera lens, the Sigma "Bigma" 50-500mm Telephoto Zoom lens
  
• We review Jet Li's Unleashed DVD and collectively decided that it's, uh, okay
  
• A bonus tech tip from Sethran - you can use a regular camcorder a/v cable to connect your 5G iPod to your television
  
  
  

Mmmm... Stew!

A dozen and a half episodes knocked out. Whee! This week we're experimenting again... using Apple's iChat and the latest release of Garageband - aptly named Garageband 3. It's killer for podcasting now!

So this week we're live via web chat. You'll probably notice that the audio quality is slightly less than what we typically spew out. Still, we discuss the following:

• The last week of 2005 broke the records for music downloads... someone call Guinness!
• Steven Spielberg's BAFTA SNAFU - who knew England wasn't DVD Region 1, anybody?!?
• Levi's iPod Jeans, @ $200 per pair, these babies probably WON'T be turned into Daisy Dukes
• Nikon is discontinuing their film cameras, unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool pro
• Microsoft quietly killed their support for Windows Media Player in the Macintosh world
• Xbox 360 only supports HD-DVD, unless Blu-Ray is better
• My new Akai 20" LCD TV/DVD Combo, hung nicely on my bedroom wall
• Our movie this week is Crash, available at your local rental shop
  

We'll see about recording live, in person, again next week... unless one of us is feeling lazy again.

I'm a scientist. No.

We're back! Off for almost a complete month, can you believe it? So what do we have to talk about for this first episode of 2006, you ask? Well, we're a couple of Chatty Cathys, so... a lot! Our longest episode yet in fact, coming in at thirty-three minutes. Here's the breakdown:

• Toshiba's HD-DVD stand-alone player and the Xbox 360 add-on HD-DVD player
• The upcoming MacWorld with possible announcements regarding possible upgrades to the .mac accounts and an early launch for the new Intel Macs?
• Philips' Entertaible
  
• Google announces they will be peddling videos
• Target's new lawsuit involving a litigious customer, a digital memory card and home porn
• James McAlla, email spammer supreme, gets his comeuppance
• Sethran's review of the Sony PSP (pronounced pssp)
• And our review of the movie The Wedding Crashers, now available on DVD
  

Hopefully you've got a half hour to kill and feel like listening to us to do so. And don't forget to use the comments section of this entry to post your holiday stories. We're curious to see if any one out there hates Christmas more than Seth.

I hate (fill in the blank)

Our last(?) show before 2006. Since we didn't have a show last week, this episode is almost 30 minutes. During that extended time we talk about the following:

• NBC Universal's additions to the iTunes stores (good gift idea for Sethran)
• Creative's Zen Vision M, the latest in a long line of failed iPod Killers (Warning: link to site contains annoying background music!)
• How to use MSCONFIG, with easy to follow screen shots available at NetSquirrel.com (additional info from Black Viper, now available at MajorGeeks.com)
• Firefox web browser hits 9% saturation point, shooting for 10% by year end
• ICANN considering using single letter domain names now (look for a.com coming soon?)
• Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has to buy his Xbox 360, too (just not wait in line)
• Sethran bought a Sony PSP, but we're not talking about it
• Logitech's 360 Harmony Remote (can you tell we like these things???)
  
  
• Fantastic 4, now available on DVD
  

So, there you have it, this year's final episode... or is it?

It's intuitive to me!

Seth & I have a little less free time this time of year, holidays and all, and didn't get a chance to hook up for a show this week. Additionally, we'll probably only record one more episode before the end of the year. Once the end of the year holidays have passed and things have settled back down to a more normal level, we'll be back to a weekly show. Until then, Happy Holidays!