Like you, the Gang had a ‘filling’ Thanksgiving and joked about Dan Akroyd’s famous Saturday Night Live skit, Rovco’s amazing new kitchen tool, the Super Bass-o-Matic ’76, and TV’s WKRP in Cincinnati’s bit, the turkey drop. (Watch the videos at the bottom of this post).
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Tom & Smitty Play the Blues by Smitty under a Creative Commons License
The Podcast
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Story Links
Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- J.J. Hill-inspired fund seeking millions to back small businesses
- App Design For An Equity Stake
- Target
- The hard part is ahead for Digi International’s rookie CEO
- Accidental historian: New Brighton teen captures Minneapolis in the 1970s
- Mall of America store will turn you into a ‘3-D selfie’
- Slack chooses Minneapolis as one of four cities for its first ad campaign
Other Top Tech Stories
- Apple
- WordPress.com Gets a New Face and Joins the JavaScript Age
- Kickstarter has no clue how Welsh drone startup raised £2.3 million then imploded
- Google built (and then cancelled) a “Star Trek Communicator” prototype
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- TIP: Encrypt your files before they are uploaded to your favorite cloud storage provider.
- Providers:
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: iFetch
- Tim: Raspberry Pi’s latest computer costs just $5
- Graeme: Delta Private Jet Card
- Steve: Infinity: a computer that’s never obsolete
Upcoming Events
- Mobile Twin Cities event: IoT for the Holidays, Tuesday, Dec. 1st, 6:00pm BuzzFeed Office.
- Educelerate North’s ”Holiday Gathering & Happy Hour”, Monday, December 14th, The Local
- MinneAnalytics does Marketing Analytics – again! (MAMA2), January 22, Medtronic Mounds View Campus
Another round of great stories this week along with Phil’s Cool Thing of the Week: the 
Yes, “virtual” is a thing and it is getting closer to reality, especially with local Minnesota startups like 
We cover many stories this week including the inspiration for this week’s show title: 
No, the zombie apocalypse has not yet happened but eavesdroppers, black-hat hackers, and other miscreants are coming for you. Our Security Tip of the Week reveals a new way you’ll be able to stay safe so don’t be scared. Happy Halloween!
The Gang recorded this week’s show at 
Guest: Justin Grammens
We cover multiple tech stories from around Minnesota and elsewhere, but our guest this week is the CEO of the hot startup 
Clay Collins – CEO, 
As a former radio guy Phil knows acoustics. This week he was kind enough to podcast from the office bathroom, so he sounded great
We jokingly tweeted and mentioned earlier this week that we’d invited the Pope to be on this week’s podcast now that he was in the United States, but unfortunately his spokesperson said he had politely declined. We got a bunch of retweets, emails and mentions from listeners and now wish we’d actually asked! (Thankfully Phil was on a White House tour so he could photobomb the President and Pope).