{"id":6252,"date":"2017-07-18T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:46:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:46:51","slug":"episode-161-no-interest-castles-dragons-swords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/podcast\/episode-161-no-interest-castles-dragons-swords\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 161: I Have No Interest in Castles, Dragons or Swords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamescroft\">James Croft<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rajdeut\">Raj Deut<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/decryption\">Anthony Agius<\/a>\u00a0as we talk the Game of Thrones Foxtel meltdown, Turnbull&#8217;s mathematics challenge, Google&#8217;s new-old products (now with 100% less drop-shipping), and more.<\/p>\n<p>Ant has a Sizzle meetup coming up! Sunday 23rd July at the Boatbuilder&#8217;s Yard in South Wharf, Melbourne, from 1:30pm. Come for the Sizzle, but stay for the Raj.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 161 - I Have No Interest in Castles, Dragons or Swords by reckonerAU\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F333710654&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/online\/social\/people-outraged-over-game-of-thrones-blunder-as-foxtel-experiences-technical-difficulties\/news-story\/070d2b0e6bfedeb8cb2aa989e8e76326\">Foxtel Now carked it when everyone got home to watch Game of Thrones\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-laws-of-australia-will-trump-the-laws-of-mathematics-turnbull\/\">The laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google are now selling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2017\/07\/google-home-launches-in-australia\/\">Google Home<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2017\/07\/google-wi-fi-is-a-mesh-network-for-your-home\/\">Google WiFi<\/a> in Australia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2017\/07\/nest-protect-nest-cam-indoor-nest-cam-outdoor-australian-price-release-date\/\">So is Nest, but it&#8217;s the old and busted model\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/7\/11\/15952654\/microsoft-windows-phone-end-of-support\">Windows Phone is cactus\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/7\/6\/15928674\/soundcloud-cuts-40-percent-staff\">Soundcloud is going broke, so I&#8217;m downloading all our episodes tonight, just to make sure we&#8217;ve got copies\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join\u00a0James Croft,\u00a0Raj Deut\u00a0and\u00a0Anthony Agius\u00a0as we talk the Game of Thrones Foxtel meltdown, Turnbull&#8217;s mathematics challenge, Google&#8217;s new-old products&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[1344,1263,472,1345,1346,183,1347,1348,43,294,1349,1350,881,353,102,302],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}