Welcome Davide Andrea, author or The Electronic Connector Book! And many thanks to Blues for sponsoring this episode of The Amp Hour! Get 10% off your next order in their online store for a development kit by using the code AMPHOUR.

• Davide is an engineer working on Battery Management Systems at Elithion
• He got into writing and editing books via a postcard sent to him after he gave a talk
• For many years he was an editor at Artech house
• He works on Lithium BMS systems for large setups
• How do young engineers learn about connectors, but for tribal knowledge within larger companies?
• Digikey catalog is a good search for connectors overall
• Industrial cinch by Harting
• Should you design a custom connector (“no”)
• Davide also built and maintains an online tool for finding connectors called Identiconn
• Fretting is when vibration causes a connector to fail
• Davide had to go to Bell Labs docs to look up some specs
• Chris remarked that Identiconn is a McMaster (Carr) style browsing experience
• Vendors divide based on how the fields are set up, because that is actually logical for them selling parts. It’s harder for finding/discovering components though.
• On distributor sites, the connectors are grouped by how they were bought
• Chris asked Davide about things that have gone wrong in his career with connectors
• FFC doesn’t connect back into the socket after the tab is ripped away
• ribbon cable vs ffc, CIC vs FPC
• IDC – insulation displacement connector
• Davide has filled in with generated terms where there are no defined language for a family/type of connector, such as with “bump idc” connectors
• “dual beam?
• Chris and Davide did a joint search for the high density CM4 connector that mounts the Raspberry Pi module to another board
• Gender of connectors (note: there is a great discussion about the historical nature of using gender for connectors in the book)
• Pin vs plastic gender
• Shrouded vs enshrouded
• gaziatea (sic) – poem from the 1800
• USB type A connector
• Self mating
• APC7 – self mting connector
• Anderson connectors
• TNC BNC search
• PFFE for the dielectric on a BNC/TNC
• Magnetic connectors with pogo pins
• Example connector from Hyte
• Crimps were designed in the 50s

• The source of having so many power connectors is … imperialism? tahiti / fiji / nz all have different connectors
• Why antennas are male/female is…money? And regulatory silliness via the FCC
• Davide has also written about and is working on lithium ion batteries
• A sodium ion battery book (self published, unlike the LiIon books) should be out next year
• The Connector Book is self published. Your purchase directly supports Davide’s work…and you get the web tools for free!
• “peak lithium”
• What is required when refining sodium for batteries?
• The voltage range and charging needs are different for Sodium Ion. For instance, the range goes from 4V to 2V
• Find Davide on his various websites, on LinkedIn, on StackExchange, and on reddit

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• Dave has been reverse engineering 10 pin connector from the ultrasonic gas detector he got in a recent mailbag
• Intrinsically safe
• Executive Decision
• Dave is deciding between discrete logic vs micro
• Chris recommends the RP2040 and utilizing the PIO (kind of doing both)
• Die shots of the RP2040 W
• 74HC164 datasheet
• “Richer than Bill Gates’
• Back to school – Triple Lindy
• Chris is currently reading Accelerando
• Dutch town installs secondary traffic lights on the ground for texters
• Tour from temporary labor workers inside of the Digikey fulfillment center
• LCSC “wireless antistatic wristbands”
• JayCar warehouse video
• Stacey Higgenbotham reported on how Helium isn’t making much money. Are any of you being targeted to utilizing the connectivity from the Helium network?
• Nordic Semiconductor is recruiting a RISC-V designer. Interesting what this implies about other chip companies hiring RISC-V designers. Espressif’s new chip line are mostly RISC-V.
• We have been talking about RISC-V for a few years now, but the project started in 2010.
• Google and Skywater announced they’re moving down to a 90 nm node. Chris recently found out Skywater is a former Cypress Semi fab.
• Semtech (owners of the LoRa IP and makers of chips) are buying Sierra Wireless (a cellular module maker). Uh…why?
• Google starts testing AR glasses
• Meta lost 2.8B on the metaverse last quarter…

Thanks to Kate Ter Haar for the photo of the matches

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• “Time is a (flat) circle“
• Dave has been making videos about jellybean components, the latest about references and regulators
• PCB requirements
• Pricing pressures
• There was a fire in the Eurocircuits Hungarian factory. Chris was told about the DFM tool from past guest Joris
• Digikey was mentioned in a recent episode of Planet Money talking about the runway in Thief River Falls
• Wendover Productions talks about How Ocean Shipping Works
• Digikey location on a map
• Chris recently took a train to Washington DC
• Dave warned Chris about doing electronics on public transport, as someone was recently arrested for messing around with a vintage camera
• Adrian Studer from episode 450 makes an AIS receiver
• Differential front end for AD2
• Analog Discovery Pro
• What kind of scope can I get for $30k?
• Rochester Electronics
• Most expensive component? Molex tool for 1.8M
• New part from Renesas, a low logic size FPGA
• Shared on Twitter from former guest, Steve Leibson!
• Hard logic cores inside of FPGAs? Chris talked with Brian Faith of QuickLogic about this
• Dave getting a Digikey catalog in a Swiss Air mail sack
• This amazing mechanism:

23→00 pic.twitter.com/TUVKo8A10P

— K.$uzuki (@BellTreeNursing) November 9, 2021

• Sting operation where they manufactured their own smartphones
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 
• Thunder Below by Gene Fluckey (recommended on the Smarter Every Day sub series, which was awesome)

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Thanks to Housing Works Auctions for the pictures of Beanie Babies

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Today’s episode is sponsored by Mouser Electronics. They have been writing about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it impacts electronics designers, such as our listners. Paul Golata from Mouser Electronics talks with Chris during the ad break about how AI is changing the world for the better. To check out the free resources, including an eBook about AI, go to TheAmpHour.com/mouserai

• • We have discussed telepresence before
  • Chris was able to check out an X Ray machine at mHUB
  • Chris’s first job was a co-op at Audiopack. This is where he met past guest Dave Young.
  • Audio is an odd field. Dave did a bunch of videos with Doug Ford before about the field.
  • Bird RF was another of Chris’s past co-op jobs…but never learned RF while he was there.
  • Chris got his assembled boards back
  • EEVBlog video about optimizing for one machine
  • Video on reflowing QFN
  • Domestic vs international assembly costs
  • $4K hand pick and place machine
  • Chris interviewed Stephen Hawes on the Contextual Electronics Podcast, who is building a DIY pick and place
  • Mike’s Electric Stuff has a great PnP setup because he knows to re-use parts so often
  • Mike also recently did a teardown video about an underwater radio
  • Chris recalls a talk about underwater electronics from 2017, from Nic Bingham
  • Pu pu platter
  • Chris recently got back from travel and posted a bunch of new Instagram photos
  • Dave has been posting more to Instagram as well, lately.
  • KiCon will be happening in a modified form this year. It will be a developer conversation on October 3rd. Submit questions on social media using the hashtag, #AskKiCadV6
  • For the 3 mistakes with layout video, Dave was attempting to install the Digikey library, but did not end up finding the part he wanted.
  • SnapEDA created a KiCad plugin
  • Check out this awesome photo of an optics table

When your experiment’s optics table has optics tables pic.twitter.com/vADJLSrJW4

— Dr. Cℏarles D. Brown II (@CDBrownII) September 8, 2020

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• Dave had some strife switching his workstation over to Win10. Chris had some strife with…talking this week.
• The 121GW Kickstarter is live! (wasn’t during recording). It uses the Hycon HY3130 multimeter chipset.
• Psychology of crowdfunding campaignsHackaday is putting out a new journal
• Autodesk just laid off 13% of their workforce
• Digikey releases an atomic footprint library for KiCad!
• The dangers (and historical context) of “bottom view” of footprints
• KiCad 5.0
• There’s a room at FOSDEM 2018 for Open CAD projects
• Colin Furze AMA
• List of Electronics youtubers over on the EEVblog forum
• Coin cell challenge
• Amazon announced their version of FreeRTOS at the Re:Invent conference
• Jack Ganssle (Embedded.com? EEtimes? Can’t find a link with Jack talking about it) has done RTOS surveys and a large percentage “roll their own”
• Tesla unveiled a large truck. How the hell will they charge that thing?
• Silicon is “Unforgiving,” Says Apple’s Chip Chief Johny Srouji (duh)
• An internet of things flop means some connected lights won’t work anymore
• Solid state battery technology from uTexas, with R&D lead John Goodenough (great name!) Thunderf00t did a video about the “perfect battery”
• An interview with a toy designer.

Thanks to the manchester library for the picture of magazines

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• Martin Lorton is thinking about selling off his stack of gear. Chris is excited for the opportunity serendipidy might bring.
• Dave got an email about how to find a new job. One way is to just email, using a tool like Email Hunter. However you should be very cognizant of the person’s time you are emailing.
• Louis Rossman made a cryptic video about the future of his channel. It might turn out ok. Chris hadn’t heard of him until Louis did a popular AMA.
• The Juno probe has gotten to Jupiter and was successful!
• The Megaprocessor is awesome. 43.2K transistors. Should people learn processors? Maybe. But there probably isn’t time for the general EE audience.
• Rudolf Kalman has passed away. If you don’t know, Kalman Filters are present in many sensor applications these days.
• EAGLE was bought by Autodesk (for an estimated $20M, no official numbers). Autodesk has a large suite of tools now:
  • Fusion
  • Inventor
  • Tinkercad
  • Circuits.io
• Adafruit did an interview with Dave and Chris’s former co-worker (worked with both of them individually!). Matt didn’t answer all the questions.
• Chris thinks a CAD tool is like Religion. You’re not changing without a “Catalyzing Change Agent”
• Circuit Maker continues to lack features, but Altium finally reduced the price on Circuit Studio, which puts it into competitive territory.
• Surprisingly, Chris still recommends learning KiCad (using something like Getting to Blinky)
• Our episodes will start uploading to The Amp Hour youtube channel. This will allow deeplinking of the audio.
• Dave has been releasing videos of his chat with Karsten about space electronics.
• We will be having a call in show next week! Email feedback@theamphour.com if you’d like to join in on Skype.
• Chris will be in Chicago from the 15th to the 17th! Get in contact if you’d like to hang out (chris@theamphour.com)
• Limor did an interview with the CEO of Digikey.
• The Daredevil Camera is a fantastic use of paralleled signal processing!
• Dave had forgotten he already made a video about orders of magnitude back in video 286!

Thanks to CGPGrey for the image of the bottles

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• Standing out during a first impression is the best way to get to the interview.
• Chris was at a job fair at MIT where he met someone (Matt) that he interviewed and then saw again recently at the Hackaday Boston event. Matt had a machine that could output code onto tape and Chris printed, “The amp hour rocks”
• The Hackaday Prize is due in a few days…get your entry in! Last year’s winner (SatNOGS) took the money and started a non-profit.
• Former regular guest of the show Michael Ossmann designed the badge for CCCamp this year, the Rad1o.
• There was a cool badge at the Open Hardware Summit a few years back designed by Wyolum. This year’s OHS will have a badge by Parallax.
• Dave will be at the Sydney Maker Faire this coming weekend.
• How do you find out about new parts?
  • The Digikey product index started calling out the “new” parts (not sure on the timeline).
  • Chris used to watch the datasheet.com RSS feed for ChipReport.tv. 
  • The /r/nicechips subreddit can be a source of new components to explore.
  • Karl and Cory do “Part of the Podcast” over on The Sparkgap podcast.
• COTW! The TPS65982 is a power management chip for USB 3.0. Dave is considering putting this on the uSupply project.
• Chris and Dave are both pumped about The Martian moving coming out. Chris also recommends Ready Player One, which is another nerdy Sci Fi movie. Apparently Speilburg (who is directing) is trying to get Gene Wilder out of retirement to play one of the characters.
• Dave is interested by the recharge road. This will be different than Qi charging, used by more and more consumer level devices. 
• Other interesting stories:
  • Samy has another fantastic hack for intercepting garage door openers.
  • Tony is hacking a Dash (STM32) over at Adafruit.
  • The Intel Pentium Pro has a vulnerability.

Thanks to Ford Buchanan for the shot of the Gonzo figurine.

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• Chris has road-tested the portalab! There isn’t enough lighting, nor time in the day to work on it.

• Does solder have an expiration date?
• Dave is going lead-free in his lab.
• Flux pens can be nice, but pricey. No clean flux isn’t worth it.
• In the late 80s, there was a push to use citrus cleaning solvents for boards (PDF).
• The TSA also went through Chris’s Portalab case. They were met with this note:

• Chris was still in San Francisco for SolidCon (you can see the schedule here). It’s meant to be a conference for the crossover of hardware and software.
• Videos should be online eventually. Dave doesn’t understand why people would speak at conferences without someone taping it.
• On interesting protocol that Chris learned about was MQTT, a lightweight way for machines to interact. This is what Facebook uses for their notification.
• A similar topic was covered by Peter Semmelhack and Stacey Higgenbothom on the Internet of Things Podcast. The new platform (vs protocol like MQTT) is called dweet.io.
• The “hard” part of hardware is the manufacturing and distribution side of things. Brady Forrest of PCH Int’l and Highway1 gave a talk about how there is “No China Button”.
• During the meetups on non-conference days it was crazy to see how much ferver there is over hardware (and really tech in general). Quirky is opening a new SF office and hiring up to 60 hw engineers.
• Outside of SF, Tony Hsieh (the Zappos guy) has invested $10M in US manufacturing (specifically in Las Vegas).
• Another investor, Renee DiResta of OATV, gave a presentation about the state of hardware startups and revealed the cost of labor in Mexico are falling past those in China.
  [tube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICzDD9O1PU[/tube]
• Dave was impressed by the growth of hackerspaces/makerspaces (where do they go when a big city has them?).
• Chris’s favorite presentation was by Nadya Peek, a PhD candidate in the MIT Center For Bits and Atoms (Neil Gershenfeld‘s group). The talk focused on modular machines building reconfigurable tools for manufacturing.
• If you’re interested in the building your own Portalab, there is a lower cost case offered by Digikey.
• Mentor and Digikey are pairing up for a low cost CAD tool. At first glance we didn’t realize the $300 price tag only gets you schematic capture. Boo.
• We ARE excited for the new feature from the CERN folks, working on KiCad. The push and shove router is now released (whatever that means for KiCad)
  [tube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCG4daPvuVI[/tube]
• The “Never trust the autorouter” t-shirt is now available for sale on teespring.
• Can solar roadways work? There is a crowdfunding project raising money for further research. Chris and Dave agree that feasibility on a large scale road would take a long time to implement.
• Another group at SolidCon was the Makani wind turbines/kites.
• Chris made a comparison between the derision that smokers receive and people wearing Google Glass. There are a wide range of reactions.
• NASA is giving amateurs the chance to recover a long lost satellite out in orbit.
• TI is auctioning off the first microchip that Jack Kilby made. It is expected to sell for $1M+.
• Chris has been doing field research and hardware people are still cheapskates. Are any of our listeners a counter point?

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Another surprise episode? We must be really bored around here!

• Dave’s Kickstarter is almost over (as of posting this)! He crossed the $100K mark and will likely be shipping over 1500 units. Awesome!
• Dave also finally wrote a blog post about his experience with the uRulers.
• The EEVblog forum was kicking this morning talking about whether to allow deleted comments.
• This is a similar argument to the need for lab notebooks (and the rigor associated with keeping them). It’s a matter of historical record vs being an information source.
• This is happening in 2014:

• Dave has been building uCurrents for the early batches:
  [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7WdK6oym4[/tube]
• Revision tracking, especially with in-situ engineering changes can be very difficult (different reels, bodge wires, etc).
• Chris has been using GitHub commit numbers and could theoretically continue to track changes in the CAD program and then putting a sticker with the new commit number.
• Dave is getting his own Digikey part number. We think it should end in -NERD instead of -ND.
• The Kickstarter campaign doesn’t account for currency issues (which usually fluctuate +/- 5%).  This can impact any overseas project.
• Can you get sued if you are willfully ignorant of a patent? What about if you mistakenly step on a patent claim?
• We have a new site design! (duh) It should be easier to comment on stuff and see when there are new comments. Use it!
• The new site prominently displays our logo by Rachel Rivera of Radcastle.
• You can now buy t-shirts of The Amp Hour logo as well! Not as cheap as the teespring campaign because they’re being printed “on demand”.
• Ruckingenur II is a game about reverse engineering hardware. It’s quite fun!
• The Mooshimeter is a high voltage DMM/datalogger that will isolate you because it’s a headless unit (using a smartphone or similar).
• There is also a kickstarter project for a 10 Ghz Sampling scope. Note the differences between that and a real time scope. The nature of the design allows for a PIC micro to be used for the ADC.
• Alan Wolke has a new video about circuit construction techniques
  [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH110yjYZ2g[/tube]
• IEEE Spectrum has an article about the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Kits. Dave says the RPi and Arduino are not kits because it’s cheaper/easier to just build assembled boards (whereas it wasn’t always that way for small run products).
• Dave has lots of planned additions for the lab including some dedicated benches and new toys.

Thank you to all of you who listened in 2013…we’re looking forward to 2014! Not much will change around here and we’ll have lots of new interesting guests on the show to give greater perspective of the world of electronics. If you still enjoy what we’re doing around here, please tell your friends!

Thanks to the San Bernadino County Schools for the picture of the Yarn Yak!

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• Chris has a new project and affiliation — ChipReport.tv! (Links at the end of the video to subscribe)
  [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSEgID1zQc[/tube]
• The “Still Untitled Adam Savage Project” on Tested.com is pretty good!
• Shahriar from The Signal Path super-cools an LED…and it changes color! Awesome!
• Temperature can affect your designs…but do we really need to worry about it?
• Tom LeMense might say so, having worked on automobile designs.
• The Olympics have started! There are some cool engineering design questions regarding timing and video.
• Analog Devices and Digilent released a DMM/Oscilloscope board for relatively cheap (esp if you’re a student). Dave doesn’t like it.
• Even though Chris would argue this is a further push towards using off the shelf tablets for scopes, the Antipasto Hardware Blog says to utilize custom Android tablets, if at all.
• Some butthead is buying up all the copyright to Heathkit schematics and is pursuing any left online.
• Digikey now has a schematic tool built in…but why doesn’t it interface to CAD programs?
• Do you watch the financial health of a company when making decisions to design in a part? ST Micro is running out of cash.
• There is a database of chip logos that can help you find out which chips you’re looking at.
• Mike’s Electric Stuff has a video of entire boards with rebadged chips from a military computer:
  [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55z_0BYb5is&feature=plcp[/tube]
• ARM is working with TSMC to develop sub 20nm designs…does this mean ARM might make a chip one day? What stops them?
• Tektronix is accepting feedback on their products via a new site…and want video reviews?
• Duane Benson of Screaming Circuits is writing articles detailing his first impressions about learning FPGAs. 
• Erin “RobotGrrl” has a great video showing a timelapse of a curvy board layout. Mesmerizing!
  [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDO5W7bX03E[/tube]
• Dave used to do tape layouts by hand!
• If you’re doing a manhattan technique build, there is a great technique for creating “islands” on the copper clad.

That’s all for this week. If you enjoy the show, we would love it if you gave us a review on iTunes! It really helps new people find the podcast. Or tell your friends! Thanks!

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• Jeff Keyzer and Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren just put out a comic book called “Soldering is easy!”. Great resource for those just starting out and a preview of a book to be published later this year.
• Jeff will be at the Bay Area Maker Faire next month, teaching classes.
• He also will be at the Choas Communication Camp in Germany later this year (the place where the Hackerspace was born).
• Chris found out about all this from the Hackerspaces Mailing List.
• Dave is unabashedly asking people to vote for him in the Tektronix Scope Contest! Dave’s video is about the piezoelectric effect in probes.
• Henrik (@hspalm), one of our WOTW alums, writes in about his new project to characterize DIY shipping costs. Could be a good launchpad for a wiki-type site and drive some change at these organizations.
• Digikey has a new community that seems destined to flop right out of the gate.
• Instead, they should try to be more like AVRfreaks or BeagleBoard, which are more targeted and detached from the company.
• Electric Vehicles
  • Chris had the opportunity to hear Bob Simpson, of EVdrive.com, talk about his conversion and upcoming business venture.
  • New idea is V2G or Vehicle-2-Grid, uses cars as load balancing while they are parked in the garage. Don Tuite has a good rebuttal to the practicality of this in a recent Electronic Design article.
  • Why doesn’t the Toyota Prius have plug-in capability?
• Dave is putting up new lighting in the lab. LED for total lumens needed is still impractical. Dave went with fluorescent to cost and light output.
• And finally, in the WTF column, the US Navy is working on a new  lighting scheme: a laser weapon! Good gravy!

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As a reminder for those interested, the 555 Contest ends tomorrow, March 1st at 11:59 pm EST! Get your entries in now!

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• Shoutout
  • Another Ham-like video podcast called Amateur Logic. We like it! Thanks to the queen of science videos (Jeri) for the link!
  • Dave got scooped! Afrotechmods did an AWESOME video about ultracaps. He arc welded a coin!

  http://www.youtube.com/v/EoWMF3VkI6U

• ShoutDown
  • Even though it’s Chris’ favorite news source, NPR recently used Dave’s Kindle teardown video without attribution! Booo.
• WotW
  • Frank from (cold!) Finland
    • View 1 of the bench
    • View 2 of the bench (-1 point for not being in the shot!)
  • Nathan from ASoberNewt (website, not a place)
    • The bench by itself
    • And Nathan in the shot while in the garage
• Follow Up
  • More about last week’s discussion about PhD’s: they only make 3% more on average than those with a Master’s, according to a recent article from The Economist. Monetarily, PhD’s don’t seem worth it (though they may be otherwise)
• Discussion Points
  • Is there a competitive advantage to being a squeaky wheel? Dave’s new videos got good responses from DigiKey and Maxim.
  • Matt from the Antipasto Hardware Blog talks at length about the need for continued innovation in the Open Source Hardware Community.
  • In the US, they are opening up the FM bands for the first time to non-commercial enterprises. Can Dave and Chris buy their way onto the airwaves?
  • There is also more talk about the Nearfield Communication capabilities of cellphones in the near future, as led by Google. There’s an open standard, but how much will be accessible to the user/hacker/maker?
  • More tech executive foolishness. Some were caught “consulting” while holding a high ranking position in a company. What a bunch of dopes!
  • Dave doesn’t want to work anymore. He would much rather retire now and do electronics as a hobby, who’s in?

An early submission from @wa7iut:

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• • The Pantyhose Screen!

• Events
  • Chris will be at ESC Boston
  • And the Open Hardware Summit!
  • Dave is going the BrizTube!
• Shoutouts
  • Shoutout from Jason! Thanks!
  • Thanks to Jon from Freetronics for the Arduino kit! Having tons of fun with it!
• Tech News
  • Hynix will begin production of the HP memristor
  • Digikey is huge! One billion dollars!
• Tech Discussions
  • Jim Williams: Analog Badass
  • Modularity in practice at Buglabs
  • Talking SPICE simulators and mentioned the experience of Flying Flux
• Rants
  • Iranian walking robot
  • Clay Shirky’s book about Cognitive Surplus
  • Dave’s followup to the calling out the IEEE about their Kindle review
  • Dave’s experience with Digikey reminds him of the Tenacious D song The Government Totally Sucks!

They’re not in order, but hopefully all of the links are included that we mentioned. If we’re missing any, please let us know in the comments.

And finally, thanks to the folks over at The Conversations Network; The Levelator seems to have cured ALL of our sound woes! Holy moly was it easy and effective at making us sound good! Many thanks to George Graves for giving us the heads up!

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