Dave Podnar
Co-Host of Sorgatron Media Master Feed
Dave Podnar has hosted 29 Episodes.
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Kevin Owens Costs CM Punk! AEW Blood & Guts Results + TKO Earnings | JPWN 11/5
November 5th, 2026 | 1 min 47 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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AwesomeCast 803: ChatGPT Revived My Dead TV Box
November 3rd, 2026 | 1 hr 45 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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Shayna Baszler Gets TNA Title Shot! MLW Championship Chaos & WWE Radio Growth | JPWN 10/30
October 30th, 2026 | 2 mins 17 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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Queen Aminata Wins AEW Gold! Ospreay vs. Fletcher & TNA's Germany Deal | JPWN 10/29
October 29th, 2026 | 2 mins 8 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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Cena & Cody on NXT! Esfinge Wins CMLL Gold & AEW Meets Skydance | JPWN 10/28
October 28th, 2026 | 2 mins 4 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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John Cena Returns to WWE Raw! Stephanie Vaquer Out & New Crown Jewel Title Match | JPWN 10/27
October 27th, 2026 | 2 mins 24 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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Shayna Baszler Signs with TNA! El Desperado Out & WWE NXT vs. AEW | JPWN 10/23
October 23rd, 2026 | 2 mins 12 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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AwesomeCast 801: AI Is Making Smart TVs Dumb Again
October 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
ai, ai decompilation, ai job interview, apollo program, apple, artificial intelligence, burger king, counter-strike, data centers, espn, flock cameras, google playgrounds, gta 6, guile popcorn bucket, hello kitty, infrapedia, internet radio, ipad mini, m6, macbook pro, mapquest, margaret hamilton, nasa, oled macbook pro, pittsburgh surveillance, pittsburgh tech podcast, pittsburgh technology, smart tv, smart tv ads, software preservation, somewhere fm, star wars, street fighter, submarine cables, super bowl, surveillance cameras, technology podcast, touchscreen macbook pro, vibe coding, video game ownership, world radio, xbox labs
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Shotzi Blackheart Signs with TNA! WWE Lawsuit Ruling & Roman Reigns' Bloodline Brawl
October 20th, 2026 | 2 mins 19 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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Stephanie Vaquer & Rusev Return to WWE! Jay White Back in AEW + Penta vs. Bron Breakker
October 19th, 2026 | 2 mins
pittsburgh, podcast
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Cody Rhodes Signs Five-Year WWE Deal, Trey Miguel Gets TNA Title Shot & MLW Last Man Standing
October 16th, 2026 | 2 mins 17 secs
pittsburgh, podcast
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800 Episodes Later: Tech Got Weird | AwesomeCast 800
October 13th, 2026 | 1 hr 5 mins
adobe alternatives, adobe creative cloud, ai coding, ai software, airport robotics, apple homeview, apple tv, apple vision, apple watch apps, artcraft, cat collector, chatgpt, dave podnar, dimension 20, dropout tv, eli manning, filmcraft, game changer, google glass, google plus, google stadia, homepod mini, jay and silent bob joint venture, katie dudas, meerkat, michael sorg, microsoft office alternatives, midjourney, normal tools, pebble smartwatch, periscope, peyton manning, pittsburgh international airport, siri ai, smart home, smarty pants, sorg, sorgatron media, street fighter ii, t-bell compass, taco bell, tech news, tech podcast, technology podcast, tecmo bowl, vibe coding, vine, xbridge
Eight hundred episodes later, the gadgets are stranger, the software is coding itself, and AwesomeCast is still here.
Sorg, Katie Dudas and Dave Podnar celebrate Episode 800 with a look at ArtCraft and the rise of vibe-coded alternatives to Adobe and Microsoft, Apple’s new HomeView smart display, Katie’s discovery of Dropout, and more than 16 years of AwesomeCast tech history—from Google Glass, Pebble and Stadia to ChatGPT, Periscope and Vine.
Plus, Chachi has gaming news, an Apple Watch can now point you directly toward Taco Bell, Cat Collector turns neighborhood cats into a real-world collecting game, Normal Tools provides a giant toolbox of simple web utilities, and Pittsburgh International Airport continues experimenting with robotics and analytics.
Get geeky, get awesome, and find more from the Sorgatron Media Podcast Network at SorgatronMedia.com.
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Ospreay Beats Okada, Wren Steals an NXT Title Shot & Samoa Joe Returns
October 7th, 2026 | 2 mins 1 sec
pittsburgh, podcast
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AwesomeCast 799: Running AI at Home, 5G Internet and Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft City
October 6th, 2026 | 59 mins 29 secs
5g home internet, adriana ocampo, ai models, apple silicon, artificial intelligence, at&t internet air, chicxulub crater, creator automation, dave podnar, dungeon crawler carl, game preservation, grand theft auto vi, gta 6, humanoid robots, iphone photography, john kane, lm studio, local ai, mac ai, machine learning, miami heat, michael sorg, mike tomlin, minecraft, nasa, new frontiers, pittsburgh steelers, pittsburgh technology, planetary geology, pocket city, private ai, protect our games act, qwen 3.5, robotics, rockstar games, simcity, sorg, star trek strange new worlds, technology podcast, telly tv, terminator 2, vice city heat, webtoon, wireless internet
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AwesomeCast 798: A Minions Router, Windows 98 Solitaire and Fast-Food Emo
September 29th, 2026 | 54 mins 26 secs
activision, boeing starliner, book it, call of duty, castlevania, castlevania 40th anniversary, commercial spaceflight, crew dragon, dave podnar, davolink minions router, gadgets, gaming news, grimlock, internet culture, katie dudas, kevin minion router, little free library, microsoft gaming, minions router, nasa, optimus prime, pittsburgh great race, pittsburgh podcast, pittsburgh technology, pizza hut, retro computing, retro gaming, solitaire, solitaire alone together, sorg, sorgatron media, spacex, symbiote studios, tech podcast, technology news, technology podcast, transformers, weird tech, wendy's emo album, wi-fi 6e, windows 98, xbox
The Minions made a Wi-Fi router — and somehow it’s actually good.
Sorg, Katie Dudas, and Dave Podnar are back for AwesomeCast 798 with a wonderfully strange collection of tech, gaming, nostalgia and Pittsburgh stories.
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AwesomeCast 797: Apple Shortcuts + Fast & Furious Coaster Chaos
September 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 8 mins
ai automation, ai generated art, ai graphics, apple automation, apple carplay, apple intelligence, apple maps, apple shortcuts, artificial intelligence, astronaut, baja sae, barbie, carplay, cody rhodes, dave podnar, ellen ochoa, engineering students, fast and furious, fast and furious hollywood drift, formula sae, guile, haas foundation, hispanic heritage month, instagram automation, ios shortcuts, iphone automation, michael sorg, nasa, nissan rogue, pittsburgh podcast, popcorn bucket, roller coaster, sae international, santa monica, siri, social media automation, sorg, street fighter, technology podcast, teenage mutant ninja turtles, tmnt, tmnt pizzeria, universal studios hollywood, waze, women in stem
Sorg and Dave Podnar dive into Apple Shortcuts’ increasingly powerful automation tools, including a shortcut that can generate Instagram captions and hashtags from a photo and prepare the post for sharing.
Then Sorg brings stories back from California: a visit to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizzeria in Santa Monica, a wild experience aboard Universal Studios Hollywood’s new Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster, and a useful Nissan Rogue CarPlay setup that let him run Waze and Apple Maps at the same time.