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AwesomeCast 775: Artemis 2 Returns, Amazon Luna Shuts Doors, and Someone Put macOS on a Wii?!

April 15th, 2026  |  1 hr 2 mins

amazon luna, apple silicon gaming, arab american history month, artemis 2, cloud gaming, dave podnar, digital ownership, geek podcast, ipod, m1 macbook pro, macos on wii, mike sorg, mythic app, nasa, nest, nintendo wii, overcast, pittsburgh podcast, podcast transcripts, podnar, pothole data, retro weather channel, rise mascot, smart cities, sorg, tech podcast, technology news, tony fadell, waymo, windows games on mac

Sorg and Podnar are back with a packed AwesomeCast covering the successful Artemis 2 splashdown, the story behind the mission mascot RISE, a wild macOS-on-a-Wii experiment, Mythic for running Windows games on Mac, Amazon Luna’s latest bad news for digital game buyers, Waymo using pothole data to help cities, Overcast adding podcast transcripts, and a Retro Weather Channel experience that taps straight into cable nostalgia. Plus, Dave’s Arab American History Month spotlight features Tony Fadell, the tech mind behind the iPod and Nest.

AwesomeCast 774: Artemis II Moon Mission, AI Chatbot Risks, Apple TikTok & LEGO Zelda

April 1st, 2026  |  1 hr 1 min

3d printing, adobe illustrator, ai chatbots, ai sycophancy, animation tools, apple tiktok, artemis ii, article analysis, awesomecast, awesomecast 774, browser extension, chachi, channelsurfer, chatgpt, claude, dave podnar, deepseek, digital vs physical games, epic games layoffs, etsy shop, finder mascot, gaming news, geek culture, gemini, great deku tree, heinz ketchup, heinz verified, hidden figures, kalpana chawla, katherine johnson, katie dudas, lego zelda, moon mission, nancy grace roman, nasa, nintendo, ocarina of time, patricia cowings, pittsburgh podcast, plastic fun time, project turntable, sorg, stanford study, tech podcast, vera rubin, whats up with that, women’s history month, xbox

This week on AwesomeCast 774, Sorg, Katie, and Dave Podnar talk about the upcoming Artemis II moon mission, the surprisingly useful Heinz Verified restaurant map, and Chachi’s growing 3D printing Etsy shop. They also dig into a Stanford study on AI chatbot sycophancy, check out the What’s Up With That research assistant browser extension, react to Adobe Illustrator’s new 2D-to-3D Project Turntable, explore Apple’s TikTok mascot strategy, and get excited about LEGO Ocarina of Time sets.

AwesomeCast 668: Taters in Space

January 3rd, 2024  |  Season 11  |  58 mins 19 secs

apple, augmented reality, bandwidth, cats, diy, electronics, enterprise technology, fitness, future tech, gadgets, gaming, health, live streaming, nasa, platforms, set up, smart watches, social media, software, space, technology, video, virtual reality

AwesomeCast 651: Big Sonic Bada Boom in the Blue Sky

August 8th, 2023  |  Season 11  |  58 mins 44 secs

ai, ai adoption, audiocraft, banking, beeper, carplay, evs, gm, health, ios 17, messaging, nasa, premiere pro, quiet supersonic jet, sorg, supersonic travel, transcript feature, whistle pet tracker, x plane

Welcome to Awesomecast! In this episode, we dive into supersonic travel's challenges and solutions with the X plane. NASA's 'quiet' supersonic jet, iOS 17 CarPlay updates, AudioCraft's AI, Beeper's messaging, GM's EVs powering homes, Premiere Pro's transcript feature, AI adoption hurdles in banking and health, and Sorg's Whistle pet tracker news. Join us for tech insights and more!

AwesomeCast 448: Fries On Top

June 5th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

360 video, app store, apple, apple announcement, apple clips, apple health, awesome cast, awesomecast, bluetooth, control center, cuphead, excel, forced perspective, iphone, itunes, kennywood, mac, mac os, mac pro, microsoft, nasa, podcast, pornhub, r-truth, shhhhh, side car, superhero, tech, tech talk, technology, tesla, wi-fi, wifi, wwdc, wwdc19, wwe

Sorg is away – so Katie, Chilla, and Producer Missy are going to play! This week, Katie takes control of the helm as we talk this week in tech news.

AwesomeCast 425: 5 1/4" Bigguns

December 11th, 2018  |  54 mins 53 secs

25th birthday, 8-bit, advertising, amazon, app, apple watch, arrest, avengers, awesomecast, canada, chilla, doom, doug engelbart, ecg, echo, echo dot, fire, florida, giphy, hipster, huawei, iphone, john romero, mariokart, marvel alliance, nasa, nativity, nintendo, nintendo switch, retro, sorg, starry night, tech, technology, tony stark, truedepth, universal keyboard, update, van gogh, vr

We’re winding down to our year-end episode, but before we get to the year in review, Sorg and Chilla are sharing some of the week’s tech news.