Episodes

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June 5, 2020

Episode 350 – Clear 2 Go COVID-19 Screening App

what is going on? This is the IT in the D show. Episode 350. We are, we got a great guest this week. Mike, Willis’ one of the founders of clear to go. And there’s a cool new app. That’s helping companies stay safe when they’re bringing people back, uh, from this Kobe madness, um, which is very timely, uh, and should be a great, great conversation. Uh, and speaking of which obviously, um, we, we all acknowledge what’s going on in the chaos in the world. Hopefully our show can give you a little b...
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May 28, 2020

Episode 349 – Binging During Quarantine, 90 Day Fiancee and More

Hey, welcome to the one and only IT in the D show. This is episode 349 happy Memorial day to everybody listening. Hopefully you didn’t give him a moment of silence today to all the men and women that have made the ultimate price and certainly our freedoms appreciate it. Um, it is because of people like you that we can be the self-entitled jerk wads that we are and we need, we appreciate from our homes. I think this is what our 10th or eighth edition of a foreign team, uh, something like that. Ye...
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May 21, 2020

Episode 348 – Facebook Avatars and the Latest Online Distractions

What is happening? Welcome to the one and only it in the D show in your house version. This is episode three 48 broadcasting live from our homes. This is Bob, the sales guy. That is Dave the geek. I do the Twitters is doing the Twitter is find us online @itinthed.com and do us a favor, give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold. Yeah. And again, as for usual, we’re usually, this is where we usually talk about the events and stuff we have coming up. Ther...
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May 21, 2020

Episode 347 – Getting Back to Work, Unemployment Issues

Hey, what’s going on? This is a one and all the it in the D show broadcasting live from our respective houses. This is Bob the sales guy. It’s quarantine day again. That is David. Randy. I do the Twitters is doing the Twitter. Find us online it in the d.com where you’ll find all the things. And for episode three 47, we’re just going to be, uh, we’ve got about 20 stories on tap and uh, and see what happens. It feels like Groundhog’s day against, like there’s nothing really new going on, but there...
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May 9, 2020

Episode 346 – Clone Wars, The Mandalorian, Happy Star Wars Day

Let’s talk Star Wars and more for Star Wars Day. The Clone Wars wraps up with an amazing set of episodes, the Mandalorian documentary drops, and more… What is going on? This is the it and the D show. Episode 346 broadcasting live from our quarantine homes. Bob, the sales guy and then h. We are not going to be as heavy this week. Good topic one bed top. We’re back to our good old fashioned drinks. No guests. Just a bunch of cool stories and talking. A lot of clone Wars. Yes, Dave, you may fire o...
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May 2, 2020

Episode 345 – Fred Brown, COVID-19 Coronavirus Data, Science, Projections

Every now and then, we get a little serious… and this is one of those times. This episode isn’t really served justice by just listening to it, given the number of graphs, charts, and tables involved during the conversation. We encourage you to hit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ITinTheD/ and catch the video at https://www.facebook.com/ITinTheD/videos/168007971161634/ in order to really get the most out of this episode. We’re joined by Fred Brown, an infectious disease expert with...
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April 21, 2020

Episode 344 – JVS Human Services, Job Search and Networking in a Coronavirus World

Tonight we’re joined by Jason Charnas of JVS Human Services to chat about some very real issues facing a lot of people right now. With many business shut down, and futures uncertain… how do you go about finding a new job during these crazy times? What will networking look like on the other side of this chaos? What should your resume look like? What should you be working on in order to be ahead of the enormous number of people currently looking for jobs so that you can be the one to succeed? All ...
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April 15, 2020

Episode 343 – Mike Zapcic and Ming Chen, Podcasting During Quarantine, Comic Cons

Tonight we’re joined by our friends from New Jersey – Mike Zapcic and Ming Chen from ASharedUniverse podcast studios, as well as AMC’s Comic Book Men, comic cons around the nation, and all sorts of other places. It’s always a great time when we get to hang and chat with them, so listen in as we talk about the shared pain of shutting down our podcast studios during this pandemic, movies, tv shows, our opinions about the future of comic cons, when things might start getting back to “normal”, and m...
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April 8, 2020

Episode 342 – Essential Industries, Bars and Restaurants, Making Drinks at Home and More

Week two of the stay-at-home version of our podcast, and we’re diving in on what is and isn’t an essential industry, pondering if the bar and restaurant industries will ever recover, and of course the news, events, and information that caught our eyes over the past week… Speaker 1: Hey, this is episode 342 of the one and only IT in the D show. We are broadcasting live from our respective rooms. Apparently we have a Corrine pod and we need to come up. We need to come up with a good name. The po...
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April 1, 2020

Episode 341: Week 1 of Quarantine… Tiger King, Binge Watching, Zoom Chaos

Week one of our socially distanced show as we’re all hanging out in our respective houses. Listen in as we chat about what we’re binge watching and how we’re keeping our sanity and more… Speaker 1: Hey, this is episode 341 of the IT in the D show live from our living rooms in our basements and we’re in our six feet of isolation, I guess. Whatever you want to call it. Speaker 2: How’s just yeah, there’s one, there’s a good 20 miles between us. Uh, all three of us at this point in time. So I t...
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March 28, 2020

Episode 340 – Managed Way, Internet Saturation in the age of COVID19

Welcome to the quarantine, did not shut down, the central studios. Here we are the IT in the D show. This is episode 340 the show must go on guest this week include Reese Sarah, he is the COO of managed way. We’re going to be talking about if we’re going to be running out of internet cause that’s been a hot topic of late and a again, nice timely guest talking about the things that we care about deeply. Why is okay now I can hear me. That was weird. Sorry. I was like, I’ve got to get some of them...
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March 19, 2020

Episode 339 – C3 Technology Advisors, Coronavirus in Michigan, Events and Bars Closed

Here we are a few days into the coronavirus chaos in Michigan. Bars and restaurants closed, and so we’ve had to cancel our monthly networking event for the first time in 13 years… but our guest couldn’t have possibly be more timely as we dive in to discuss remote working, doing things effectively while remote, how to keep yourself on track and rolling… C3 is at: https://c3techadvisors.com/ Live from the quarantine studios here at podcast Detroit. This is the it and the D show. We made it all th...
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March 16, 2020

Episode 338 – Detroit Test Bash, Coronavirus COVID-19 Chaos

Unfortunately, the event we had someone in to discuss tonight has already been canceled.. the first such victim at the time to the COVID-19 chaos that’s erupted all around us since then… IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ ...
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March 6, 2020

Episode 337 – Exceptional Academy

Hey, this is episode 337 of the one and only IT in the D show. Guests this week include Dave and Steve with Exceptional Academy. They are doing training programs for disabled people but they’re not just training programs. We’re talking CCNs and upper-echelon IT training programs. They’re getting people with autism and other severe disabilities gainfully trained up and employed. IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.li...
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Feb. 27, 2020

Episode 336 – United Shore Career Fair, Over 300 Open IT Jobs

Well, if you’re looking for a new job in the information technology field, you’re probably going to want to keep this event next week in mind. Listen in as the CTO and lead recruiter talk about the upcoming job fair for United Shore’s open IT positions… Details at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/united-shore-it-career-fair-march-4-2020-registration-91911982213 Speaker 1: Hey, what’s going on? This is episode three 36 of the it and the D show guests this week include Jason Bressler. He is the CTO...
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Feb. 21, 2020

Episode 335 – Anthony Michael Hall, Playing Catch Up

Listen in as we resume some semblance of normalcy as we dive into the news, events, and items that caught our eyes over the past week, and then our interview with Anthony Michael Hall… IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On the web: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/ O...
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Feb. 15, 2020

Episode 334 – Ming Chen, Augie, Eddie, Astronomicon Recap, and a Complete Trainwreck

This episode brought to you by the life lesson of “Dave should not drink on an empty stomach with bartenders”. Our post-Astronomicon episode is… definitely a departure from our norm. No stories, just diving in with Ming Chen, Augie from Whiskey in the Jar who stopped by, Remy from the Tales from the Barside show that hung out in the studios after his own show was done, and a miraculous appearance by our buddy Eddie who finally left his damn house for once… I’d say listen and enjoy but, well, Dav...
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Feb. 5, 2020

Episode 333 – Banking Security, Face the Consequences

We always love our chats with Adrian, not just because he’s got phenomenal insights into internet and banking security, but he’s also one of those people who always has about eighteen irons in fires at any given point in time from a creative perspective, and that lends him some rather unique insights into what he knows, what he doesn’t know, and what he stumbles across in his endeavors that apply to multiple areas of his life. So listen in… Face the Consequences is at: https://www.facebook.com/...
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Jan. 28, 2020

Episode 332 – Astronomicon, Fundraiser for Wildlife in Australia

Well, it’s almost time for our first con of the year, so let’s dive in with the Astronomicon crew to talk about their third annual event, and then there’s a fundraiser for Australian wildlife threatened by the fires Friday night over at Whiskey in the Jar… Astronomicon is at https://www.astronomicon.com/ The Outback Give Back is at https://www.facebook.com/events/2495538064053334/ Wave’s invoicing solution is at http://www.waveapps.com/ITintheD The BankUnited $54,000 giveaway can be entered by ...
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Jan. 21, 2020

Episode 331 – MEDC Entrepreneurship Programs, Smart Zones and More

MEDC (the Michigan Economic Development Corporation) returns to our show to chat about entrepreneurship opportunities, grants, smart zones where you can get additional incentives and benefits to get businesses off the ground, and a whole host of other topics that are vital to the changing Michigan economy and they’re doing to keep our economic engines moving as times change… Find their programs at: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/ Wave’s invoicing solution is at http://www.waveapps.com/ITinthe...
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Jan. 15, 2020

Episode 330 – Caston Thomas, Internet Advisor, Dave Sucks at Event Scheduling

IMPORTANT NOTE: due to Dave not paying attention, the networking event this month is on the 23rd at Detroit City Distillery. We know, it’s always 3rd Thursday… he screwed up, it’s a thing, move on. That being said, tonight we’re joined by Caston Thomas to chat about our recent appearance on the Internet Advisor show, as well as an upcoming seminar series he’s doing about securing iOT devices and networks that you probably want to pay attention to… Happy patch Tuesday. This a special recording o...
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Jan. 10, 2020

Episode 329 – More Star Wars, Guinness World Record Online Gaming Guild

Welcome to our first episode of 2020, and we kick things off talking a little more Star Wars (because why wouldn’t we), as well as diving in with James Allison… who’s not only a geek and can talk sci-fi with the best of us, but has the distinction of being a Guinness World Record holder for the longest running online gaming guild, so we naturally have a lot of questions and it’s a pretty interesting chat about the entire process and what he had to go through… Hey, welcome back. Thank you for cl...
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Dec. 24, 2019

Episode 328 – Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Reviews and Commentary

Most of the gang returns from last week’s predictions episode to see how our thoughts ahead of time matched up with what the movie brought us, as well as our thoughts on the movie overall and what might be coming in the future… IT in the D On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-in-D-91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD Podcast Detroit is at: On...
Dec. 17, 2019

Star Wars Rise of Skywalker Predictions, The Return of Bob, Ann Arbor Meetup Changes

Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, hits theaters on Thursday, and so it’s time for our traditional round-table discussion with our panel to chat about predictions, thoughts, fears, and more when it comes to the impending release. We also chat with Greg 1 and Greg 2 who are taking over the Ann Arbor meetups for us in 2020. The panel: Dave, Bob, Randy, artist Dave Santia, Jamie Mouton, wrestler Dickie Bronson, Greg 1, and Calvin Moore. Plus, check out this event Friday for a fundraiser...