The Onboard NIC Crew

Episode 9: St. Swiven's Day Bleach Beverage

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:25:00 -0700

Happy belated St. Swiven's Day, and happy spring break to everybody who happens to be on one of those! The Crew cut a phat show last Saturday, and a certain producer decided to tarry in posting this delicious bit of podcastery...until now! This particular episode is focused primarily on three things: 1) The emergence of yet another iPad, and various levels of interest in acquiring this fruit-flavored slate; 2) Mass Effect 3, how it fits within its own trilogy and how it stands up on its own; and most importantly 3) WHAT'S THAT APP? action!

Feeling like telling us we rule, or suck? Go ahead and write us at onboardniccrew@gmail.com, or start some shit on Twitter @onboardnic.

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Episode 8: ArbyQuest

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:43:00 -0800

On this crisp, clear edition of the Onboard NIC Crew, we get directly to the bottom of Mobile World Congress (not Conference), attempt to comprehend the mindflaying insanity that is a Start Button-less Windows OS, and debut the exciting new feature, "What's That App?" Lauren also returns after a long and lonely exile to lure away Sean and Auston, like a succubus, to a local Arby's. There's also a bit where Jeff bought a Gameboy Micro, and was then cut off when gremlins carried him away from his computer and gave him a stern talking to about wasting his money. It got crazy. Hell, considering how generally incompetent the management is, it's amazing that you're even reading this.

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Episode 7: Mouth Sploosh

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:41:00 -0800

On this week’s passionate episode of The Onboard NIC Crew, Auston foretells the coming of the Samsung Note, Sean drops flow for a Razr with a keyboard, and Jeff uses the phrase “simple blowjobs.” The Crew also speculates on how much iOS Apple will put into Mac OS X 10.8, waves goodbye to Kodak as it swirls around the toilet bowl of shitty tech companies who stopped innovating, and unanimously agree that Pokemon is simply Call of Duty’s multiplayer stripped to its most basic elements. We also celebrate both our second ever episode with a listener question (thanks to bobhope32), and the sighting of that rarest of portable tech devices: the Kindle DX. Stay tuned for a butchering of a greeting to our Turkish listener, and some homoerotic poetry read nervously to Sean (thanks to LostLove223).

Questions or complaints? Email a friendly analyst at onboardniccrew@gmail.com, or yell at us on Twitter @onboardnic.

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Episode 6: Itchy Butt Paper CPU

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:28:00 -0800

On this provocative edition of The Onboard NIC Crew, Sean returns from a near-fatal illness to avoid conversation about his new job, Auston abandons our green robotic friend for an iPhone 4S, and Jeff ponders theological Manwich meats. The Crew spends an inordinate amount of time on the Kindle Fire (what could almost be considered a review), the consolidation of the tablet market, more doom and gloom for Research in Motion, and then promptly elects to visit a local Taco Bell. We also managed to invent the Itchy Butt architecture for processors, so that was neat. Furthermore, we field our first ever listener questions! Special thanks to Sara, Clark and Greg for giving us something to talk about.

Questions or prayer concerns? Direct them to our analysts at onboardniccrew@gmail.com, or start some shit on Twitter @onboardnic.

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Episode 5: The Canadian Government Exposed!

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:06:00 -0800

We're back after a long and unexpected hiatus to bring you more quality podcast content for your earholes! This episode is down to only two members of the Crew, yet they still manage to cover everything from iBook publishing to Android OS on various tablets. Auston gets a surprise Toshiba Thrive on his doorstep, and Jeff explains the wonders of America's hat. We also chew the fat on the SOPA/PIPA legislation, and conclude with a little discussion of Wizards of the Coast's latest reboot of Dungeons and Dragons. Sorry about the shorter episode; expect more when our gang isn't half sick.

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Oh shit!

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:59:00 -0800

We spent a good chunk of this evening pre-recording our show before we all went away for the holidays, but unfortunately that show vanished into the ether due to the unusual way Mac OS X handles guest account files. Hopefully we'll have something for you guys in the way of content over the next few weeks, but right now we're all reeling from the kick in the balls we just got. "It just works" my ass.

In the meantime, send us your questions! In fact, it was announced on the now dead show that we're doing a very special Onboard NIC Crew contest! It will work like this:

1. Write a question for the show to onboardniccrew@gmail.com.

2. You're officially in the drawing for $10 in vidya games on Steam or GoG.com!
3. We'll announce the winner on New Year's Day.

How's that for a contest? Yeah, we are the best.

Episode 4: Return of the Space Fetus

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sun, 4 Dec 2011 23:36:00 -0800

The Onboard NIC Crew goes to the mat on hard-hitting issues like cartoon birds, Verizon being the worst company on the planet, yelling into old cameras to kill dudes instead of using guns, inbreeding being a pretty cool thing, cute old Korean men dancing, and the pornography phone. In terms of mobile technology and nerd things (you know, the stuff you're here for), we talk a lot about cellular service providers coming and going, the inevitable (and stupid looking) 7 inch iPad, an update to the 3DS for taking 3D videos of your junk, and an explanation of the plot of David Lynch's "Dune" as told by a guy who knows nothing about Dune.

Questions or concerns? Try writing our friendly email analysts at onboardniccrew@gmail.com, or to start some shit on Twitter @onboardnic.

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Episode 3: X-Ray Vision Spectacular

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:56:00 -0800

On this week's crisp, clear episode of the Crewcast, Jeff explains why everybody is a hooker, Sean complains about shopkeepers with messed-up faces, and Auston finds an app for seeing through women's clothing. Of more interest to the geeks in the audience will be an extensive overview of Modern Warfare 3, skepticism about the Kindle Fire, praise for the Nook Simple Touch, slavish praise of Skyrim, and some thoughts about why this console generation has been the longest to date. The Onboard NIC Crew would like to send out a special thank you to our friend Lauren for stopping in briefly today.

We'd also like to invite all of our listeners (both of you) to send in any questions you may have to our friendly email analysts at onboardniccrew@gmail.com, or to start some shit on Twitter @onboardnic. Thanks for sticking with us for three episodes!

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Episode 2: Passin' The Gravy

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Sun, 6 Nov 2011 00:28:00 -0700

This week's episode sees The Crew pit Ice Cream Sandwiches against Mangos, complain about too many Apples, and ramble for quite a while about Battlefield 3. Also included in this episode is beer sampling, encouraging signs from Hewlett-Packard, a washing machine trying to destroy the house, and a few husky attempts at singing the Skyrim theme. And, for some reason, gravy.

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Like competition? Suck it up and buy a Windows Phone.

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:15:00 -0700

I have yet to take the plunge into Smartphoneland. In my pocket you’ll find a Verizon-branded LG Cosmos (as in, the first one). I speak about smartphone industry as an outsider. It gives me a perspective that adopters of that technology have lost. I see an exciting industry that only truly cracked open about four years ago with the original iPhone. Since then we've seen carriers and OEMs consolidate, litigate and imitate one another with some exciting results. One of these is a potential future where I will have only two choices for my smartphone operating system: iOS or Android.

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Episode 1: Ray Romano Meets The Medic

onboardniccrew@gmail.com (Auston Goya, Jeff Rud, Sean Wagner) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:44:00 -0700

On the inaugural episode of The Onboard NIC Crew, we discuss recent developments in the Ubuntu community, Intel's push for app development, bulldoze on AMD, compare living and dead computer people's philanthropy moxie and wax philosophical on Team Fortress 2.

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