Double Density

Tech tales and paranormal primers

About the show

Greetings cyberspace. Tune in every Wednesday as Angelo and Brian discuss tech news and issues, as well as the fads and trends of yesteryear. Stick around as they also delve into the strange world of the paranormal.

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Episodes

  • Episode 60: A Ghost-Positive Household w/ Desdymona

    June 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 11 mins
    adobe, alien, art, bacteria, creepy pasta, ghosts, microphones, podcasting, surface, tablets, ufos, voice

    This week, Brian and Angelo welcome Desdymona to the podcast to talk about her love of podcasts, creating digital art, voiceover work, and working on her upcoming podcast Calling Darkness. They then settle in for a discussion on the paranormal, discussing where Desdymona’s interest in all things strange comes from, coming from a ghost-positive household, and what makes a great creepy pasta.

  • Episode 59: When WWDC And Dinos Collide

    June 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 1 min
    ai, aliens, apple, artificial intelligence, artwork, bigelow, conspiracy, government, ios, mac, macos, memes, motivation, nsa, posters, secrets, stargates, wormholes, wwdc, youtube

    This week, Brian and Angelo take a closer look at Apple’s recent WWDC announcements, how memes don’t make money anymore, Norman the psychopathic AI, the Boring Company Not-A-Flamethrower, and burnt out YouTubers. Then in the paranormal segment, they take a closer look at weird things the government has seriously considered, including wormholes and stargates, as well as a surprising diagram hidden deep in the documents. Oh yeah, new artwork too!

  • Episode 58: The Dogman And I

    June 6th, 2018  |  51 mins 1 sec
    advertising, ai, alexa, amazon, apple, bitcoin, dna, dogma, essential, facial recognition, government, infinity war, math, movies, nessie, octopus, routers, wwdc

    This week, Brian and Angelo discuss Amazon's Rekognition project, Alexa recording your every word, how you need to reboot your router, the demise of the Essential phone, Bitcoin ruins everything, and how the math men have overtaken the mad men when it comes to advertising. Shifting over to the paranormal, after Angelo talks about seeing Infinity War, your hosts skew the discussion towards cryptids. Namely, the non-alien octopus, the Loch Ness Monster and her DNA, and finally, the Dogman.

  • Episode 57: Poltergeist Behaviour 101: The Enfield Poltergeist Case

    May 30th, 2018  |  50 mins 20 secs
    apple, applecare, enfeild, ghosts, icloud, laurel, mk ultra, new york, photos, poltergeist, tech support, the conjuring, the warrens, travel, yanni

    This week, Angelo talks about his adventure in AppleCare, Brian talks about his adventure in New York City, and in case you're wondering, they are both on team Laurel. In the world of the paranormal, MK Ultra victims are suing the Canadian government, and Angelo watches The Conjuring 2, leaving him unimpressed with the evidence for the Enfield Poltergeist.

  • Episode 56: The Dig Dug Time Theory

    May 23rd, 2018  |  55 mins 14 secs
    flat earth, nes, paranormal, podcasts, speed runs, super mario bros, trolls, video games, youtube

    This week’s episode begins with a discussion of the latest Super Mario Bros. speedrun record, and a video that breaks it down, but then quickly moves to talking about trolls of all kinds: from patent trolls to time traveling trolls, to robot trolls and student trolls. Then in the paranormal segment, Brian and Angelo look at flat earthers, before going on to talk about people listening to podcasts on Youtube, which is so scary to Angelo that it may as well be paranormal.

  • Episode 55: Chupajonesy

    May 16th, 2018  |  52 mins 26 secs
    ai, alex jones, aliens, apple, cryptids, google, imac, jobs, robots, seti, space, spam, twitter, work

    This week, Brian and Angelo celebrate SPAM’s 40th birthday, look back at 20 years of the iMac, discuss how hard it is to run the @mta Twitter account, and look at what Google has in store for us with Duplex, a more human sounding Google Assistant. Then in the paranormal section, Brian has Angelo react to a conspiracy packed podcast, which leads them to doubling down on Vegas-style odds on the things that happen in Alex Jones' life.

  • Episode 54: The Rise And Fall Of UFOland: A Raelien Primer

    May 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 1 min
    airport, aliens, apple, cults, foia, icons, macbooks, macs, ray kurzweil, raëlianism, routers, singularity, ufos, weapons, wifi

    This week, Brian asks Angelo if they talk about too much Apple stuff, and after agreeing that they do, they proceed to talk about how Apple’s laptops seem to have keyboard issues, how Apple is discontinuing their AirPort line of wifi routers, and the origins of many of the original Macintosh icons. They also throw in some Ray Kurzweil talk and a look at psycho-electric weapons for some balance. Brian presents what he has learned about Raëlianism in the first of an occasional series on alien/UFO cults.

  • Episode 53: That’s SO Canadian w/ Amber and Andrew from Into the Portal

    May 2nd, 2018  |  1 hr 29 mins
    abductions, aliens, angikuni, canada, cressie, cryptids, garageband, ghosts, haunted, lake monsters, macbook, microphones, montreal, pirates, provinces, rcmp, ufos

    This week, Brian and Angelo welcome Amber and Andrew from Into the Portal to briefly talk about starting a podcast, their tech setup, and learning about how to podcast on the fly. The foursome then continue their creepy tour of Canada that started on Into the Portal and take a look at some UFOs, cryptids, pirates, ghost ships, and hauntings. Join us as we go from Angikuni Lake in Nunavut, to Roberts Arm in Newfoundland and everywhere in between.

  • Episode 52: Cosmic Lag

    April 25th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins
    art bell, billy mitchell, broadcasting, coast to coast, donkey kong, facebook, hacking, midi, music, podcasting, privacy, simulation, space

    This week, Brian and Angelo continue their discussion on Facebook’s misuse of data, including an in-depth look at what they found in their respective “Download your Information” files. Continuing in the tech section, Brian expresses how elated he is that Billy Mitchell has received his comeuppance for cheating. The show then ends with a discussion about Art Bell, and how he influenced Brian’s views on the paranormal. Be sure to listen for the clip of Brian’s one and only interaction with Art Bell when he called into his show a few years ago.

  • Episode 51: Area 51: This is Your Life

    April 18th, 2018  |  46 mins 8 secs
    aliens, apple, apps, area 51, art bell, bob lazar, boredom, groom lake, internet, midi, secrets, twitter, ufos, x-files

    This week, the episode gets flipped turned upside-down, as Brian and Angelo start the show with a special look at Area 51. Then they make the unprecedented move of having the tech section in the second half, where they discuss Angelo's new MIDI controller, some Uber follow-up, Apple criticism, phone boredom, and much more.

  • Episode 50: A Web Ring of Cryptids

    April 11th, 2018  |  51 mins 36 secs
    aliens, anniversary, bigfeet, bigfoot, fireside, flat earth, internet, podcasts, retropie, sleep paralysis, snes, soundcloud

    This week, Brian and Angelo take a look at their favourite topics from the past year of episodes and provide follow ups and updates to everyone's burning questions, including: is Angelo still playing retro games? Did Mike Hughes launch? What are some paranormal places of significance? Is it many bigfoot or is it bigfeet? All these questions and more are answered!

  • Episode 49: I Like My Stupid Door Lock

    April 4th, 2018  |  55 mins 25 secs
    apple, cars, delonge, dyatlov, dystopian, education, greer, smart homes, uber, ufo, venus

    There can be high tech issues and low tech issues, and both were experienced this week. Stupid doors, smart homes, Apple’s education ploy, autonomous car dangers, and dystopian toilet paper rations. Then, the Dyatlov Pass claims a hiker, Venus is a UFO, and Stephen Greer and Tom DeLonge fight over mummified remains.

  • The Bytes And Strange Lights Show - Sept. 24 1999 Rebroadcast

    April 1st, 2018  |  9 mins 50 secs
    april fools, cellular phone, cobol, macintosh, macworld, nostalgia, pentium, prep shelter, rebroadcast, y2k

    Newly uncovered! Before Double Density, Angelo and Brian co-hosted the Bytes and Strange Lights syndicated radio show. Listen in to an excerpt from September 1999 – a mix of tech and paranormal topics.

  • Episode 48: A Scrapbook Of Conspiracy Theory Memories <3 w/TJ of Pints & Puzzles

    March 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 38 mins
    alex jones, aliens, apple, beer, conspiracies, cooper, data, dulce, facebook, families, gear, guest, jfk, microphones, pints, podcasting, privacy, puzzles, recording, youtube

    This week, TJ Counihan joins Brian and Angelo to discuss his podcasting endeavours, the gear he uses, and what it’s like to deal with children and the connected world. In the paranormal segment, a look at the book Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper, and how it affects and relates to the current climate of conspiracy theory.

  • Episode 47: Time Slinky

    March 21st, 2018  |  1 hr 17 mins
    alexa, apple, drones, google, government, macbook, memes, montauk, science, secrets, time travel

    Memes. So many memes. Brian and Angelo have a look at what memes are, how they’ve changed, and how people used them. They reach memeception, and Alexa laughs at them when they get there. In the paranormal segment, things go off the rails real quick as they look into the Montauk Project and the colourful personalities involved.

  • Episode 46: Boat Disclosure

    March 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins
    apple, boats, clones, glass, hoaxes, iphone, lost, nintendo, pets, philadelphia experiment, psychics, ufo, video games

    Things can just disappear never to be found again, although sometimes they come back. Brian and Angelo have a look at video games that were considered lost, although some have found their way into the public due to some industrious sleuthing. Then, in the paranormal segment, the hosts find their way to a ship that famously disappeared and then returned, with a look at the Philadelphia Experiment. Side topics include iPhone notches, Apple’s clarity problem, Part-time UFOs, government psychics, and cloned pets.