Guppy Pimps, Tripp Pants, and Debugging IE5

This week, Robbie and Adam sip on Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream and dive deep into their entrepreneurial origin stories, from childhood hustles to band life to building apps for dead platforms. They dig into selling guppies as a fish pimp, child modeling for Nintendo ads, third grade pepto menthol schemes, breeding birds that pecked themselves, mowing lawns fast, and why nipple piercings are a bad investment. Along the way, they debate pop punk band names like Superband, recording with Fruity Loops, screamo versus emo trajectories, Under Oath versus Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, fight dancing versus moshing, ticket scams at Graystone Tavern, horror game mechanics in Outlast and Dead Space, proximity chat hacks in Phasmophobia and Peak, why RV There Yet is too hard, selling Die Ants Die on the BlackBerry Playbook, device walls for IE5 through IE8, and whether scotch aged in bourbon casks is secretly amaretto.

Presented by GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/lp/whiskeyfm

In this episode:

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
• 00:05:30 Early Entrepreneurial Adventures: Fish Pimping & Child Modeling
• 00:14:48 Hot Topic Tripp Pants & The Band Years Begin
• 00:19:24 Pop Punk Covers, Recording Studios & The MySpace Era
• 00:28:49 From Metal to Hip Hop: Musical Evolution & Nerdcore
• 00:32:57 Video Game Nostalgia: From Zelda to Dead Space
• 00:39:37 Survival Horror Deep Dive: Outlast, Dead Space & Phasmophobia
• 00:50:02 Peak, RV There Yet & The Difficulty Problem
• 00:53:41 Mobile Dev Nightmares: BlackBerry Playbook & Die Ants Die
• 00:57:29 Browser Wars & Device Testing Hell
• 01:04:19 Whiskey Review: Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream

Links

• Glen Morangie A Tale of Ice Cream: https://www.glenmorangie.com/
• Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maylene_and_the_Sons_of_Disaster
• Under Oath: https://underoath777.com/
• Dashboard Confessional: https://www.dashboardconfessional.com/
• John Mayer: https://www.johnmayer.com/
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: https://www.gimmemusic.com/
• MF Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Doom
• Aesop Rock: https://www.aesoprock.com/
• Sage Francis: https://www.sagefrancis.net/
• Atmosphere: https://atmosphere.com/
• Del the Funky Homosapien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_the_Funky_Homosapien
• Fruity Loops: https://www.image-line.com/
• Analog Pocket: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
• Slay the Spire: https://www.megacrit.com/
• Zelda Ocarina of Time: https://www.zelda.com/
• Metroid: https://metroid.nintendo.com/
• Resident Evil: https://www.residentevil.com/
• Bioshock: https://bioshockgame.com/
• Fable: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fable
• Outlast: https://redbarrelsgames.com/games/outlast/
• Dead Space: https://www.ea.com/games/dead-space
• Phasmophobia: https://kineticgames.co.uk/
• Peak: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643520/Peak/
• RV There Yet: https://rvthereyet.com/
• BlackBerry Playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_PlayBook
• Palm Pre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre
• Adobe PhoneGap: https://phonegap.com/
• Califia Farms: https://www.califiafarms.com/
• React Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/
• Cascadia JS: https://cascadiajs.com/
• Clerk: https://clerk.com/

Connect with the hosts

• Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner
• Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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