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Benni joins Matt as they discuss their past band history, on stage failures and web synthesizers.

Susan of Eclectic Readers Book Club guest hosts with Lyons to talk YouTube Red, why eBooks haven't taken over the world, and how "normal" people listen to podcasts.

CD Baby raises their processing fee, Billy Joel loses his mind on stage, and we take a look at the new Guitar Hero Live. As always we have great songs to share for our Picks of the Week!

Someone is already working on The Legend of Zelda Maker. Twitter announces polls. Google brings ad free videos with the poorly named Youtube Red. And why haven't ebooks killed regular books?

It's fall! Shelby and Polly are back to discuss favorite fall activities, all the tv shows they're watching (or not), and how excited they are for the Gilmore Girls revival on Netflix. Oh, and there might be some goats in this episode too. Also, special guest Carolyn joins to discuss Fear the Walking Dead.

Audiophiles are flocking to reel-to-reel as the new vinyl? Matt finds an audience in China, and as always we have great songs to share for our Picks of the Week!

Super Mario Maker is amazing, Twitter's Moments raises some eyebrows, and mobile is not a neutral platform, but neither was the web, really. Lyons nearly dies on air.

What were presidental and congressional elections like in the pre-internet era? What were the clichés and labels of political discussions of the time? This and much more discussed as we examine politics in the mid-20th century.

We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a classic Hispanic author. We’re not sure if we like being in a dream-like state while following the Buendia family. Ursula is awesome, the women are great, and the men kinda suck.

Matt files his first copyright infringement claim, and feels conflicted about it. Also, how to write better lyrics? And what DAW should you learn how to use? This week's POTWs include tracks from Wild Nothing and Bright Eyes.

Twitter can be used for group DMs but why? Lyons finally plays The Last of Us and there is a bit of a love fest over it. And is design ever going to be automated?

Polly is back and she's married! In her absence, Shelby finished watching True Blood. Now, Shelby and Polly are reunited for a recap of Polly's wedding before they dig into the insane amount of Fall TV they are each watching. Some good (Life in Pieces and Quantico), some bad (Bastard Executioner and Minority Report), and everything in between. At one point in the recording, Polly sounds like a robot for no reason.

Are we seeing the beginning of the end to the loudness wars? Also, behind the scenes with Spotify's human-yet-auto-generated Discover playlists. As always, listen to the end for our song picks of the week! This week: Minors and Cloud Control.

Are pro tablets really happening? Everyone seems to think so. Facebook ups it's publishing game. And Amazon takes it's streaming ball and goes home.

We take a good, hard look at all the various services that will put your music in iTunes, Spotify and everywhere else. Which ones offer the best deal to release your music? Also: What would we do without '4 chord songs' in our lives? A listener's tweet sparks our conversation.

BlackBerry (might be) dead for real. Pebble releases a round version. iOS9 fragments 3D touch gestures between devices. And the ad-block conversation from #85 is concluded... for now.

Shelby is joined by Likely Story's midwest correspondent Carolyn as they talk the highs and lows of the Emmy Awards, Shelby going to D.C. with the Pope, and how Carolyn almost went to jail.

Headphones! What kinds are there? Which are the best? We discuss some of our favorites. Also, the Guitar-jo pickup will turn your electric guitar into a banjo. A new FXplain segment explains how synths work, and as always our Picks of the Week bring you great songs that are also posted to our Spotify playlist.

Lyons shares his parting thoughts on the Apple Magic Mouse. The morals, ethics, and technology of content blocking are all on the table as Mike and Lyons break down the right to privacy, the right to survive, and the implied contract.

Many of us in the Midwest grow up with California dreams. So this podcast is about what this dreaming consists of, where it comes from, and how it is or is not achieved. Some people do make this dream come true. Some people make it to Denver or Alaska, but two of the four of us, Matt and Justin, made it all the way to San Diego and L. A., with some detours.