{"id":6478,"date":"2023-10-18T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2023-10-18T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:29:56","slug":"episode-727-podcast-mcpodface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2023\/10\/18\/episode-727-podcast-mcpodface\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 727: Podcast McPodface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.sproutsocial.com\/uploads\/meme-example.jpg?resize=372%2C249&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"372\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1Gu\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_100\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6478-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep727_231018.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep727_231018.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep727_231018.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep727_231018.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep727_231018.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Feedback<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QOTW: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=802495605214563&amp;set=a.740221581441966\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What idiotic trend throughout the years can you happily say you\u2019ve never participated in?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>On This Day In History for October 18, 2023<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the 291st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was on this date in 320, that Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observed an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also today in 1851, Herman Melville&#8217;s Moby-Dick was first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">October 18, 1922, The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) was founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On October 18, 1945, The USSR&#8217;s nuclear program received plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That same date in 1954, Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Soviet probe Venera 4 reached Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet on this date in 1967<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 years ago today, NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch took part in the first all-female spacewalk when they ventured out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz, Frederick August Otto Schwarz, born on this date in 1836.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic, Beatrice Helen Worsley was born 102 years ago today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chuck Berry, the American singer-songwriter and guitarist was born 97 years ago today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American actor and director, George C. Scott, born on this date in 1927.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erin Moran, American actress was born on that same date in 1960.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listener Birthdays<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18 &#8211; Megan Enloe<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19 &#8211; Russell Pearson (Ninereeds)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20 &#8211; Mike from near Des Moines, Iowa<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21 &#8211; Daniel Ebdrup Jensen (D. 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