Author: Crowhill Report

I enjoy DailyWire podcasts and listen to them regularly. The content is great, but their technology has a few problems.

The publicly available (free) version teases an additional 30 minutes that’s only available to DailyWire+ members. That’s a smart business model, which in my world is called a freemium.

You can listen to the free version through your regular podcast player, or you can get the DailyWire+ app and listen to the full version.

Unfortunately, the DailyWire+ app is not a good podcast player. (1) You can’t download the episodes. You have to stream them. (2) If you only listen to half of it, and come back later, it doesn’t remember where you left off. (Unless, I think, you leave the app on the whole time.)

I usually choose to download the free version to my podcast player. Streaming doesn’t work well for me, especially on long drives where cell coverage can be spotty.

At the end of the free version, they say “come on over to the member’s block,” but … that doesn’t work. If I listen to an episode on Podcast Addict, then go to the DailyWire+ app, there’s no good way to pick up the show at that point.

So here’s some free advice to DailyWire tech people.

1. Allow users to download podcasts in the DailyWire app.
2. Keep track of where people are in the podcast, so when they come back they can start at the same place.
3. Provide a simple way to skip right to the member portion for people who have already listened to the free portion.

Just saw an ad for an electric lawn mower. I know it saves the world and all that, but there’s one simple problem.

When your gas mower is out of gasoline, you add some gas and you’re good to go. It takes about a minute.

If your electric lawn mower is out of juice, you have to charge a battery for several hours.

This is the main problem with electric whatevers. Before they will catch on, they need a quick recharge option.

We’ve been told a very partisan and twisted version of the events of January 6, and now Tucker Carlson is revealing a (probably equally) partisan and twisted view of the events.

The biggest revelation from Carlson is that lawyers for Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman, were not given the tapes that Carlson is now showing. Those tapes should have been in evidence at the man’s trial, and it’s horrible that the lawyers weren’t even able to see them.

It seems to me that his conviction should be overturned and whoever kept those (possibly exonerating) tapes under wraps should be punished.

I’m glad Carlson is releasing these tapes, but he sounds a bit like the mainstream media, standing in front of a bunch of fires pronouncing the BLM protests “mostly peaceful.”

Maybe once the tapes are out for all to see we can get a more accurate picture of what actually happened that day — rather than the manicured version that promotes a particular point of view.

I don’t like it when somebody takes a male character and puts a female in that role. E.g., a female Sherlock Holmes, or when people want to create a female James Bond.

Write your own character!! Or are you saying that it’s impossible to make a compelling female character without borrowing a successful male character? Surely not.

So when I saw that Netflix had a show about the first female lawyer in Italy — who was also a detective — I gave it a try. It’s called Lidia Poet.

It has some unnecessary sex scenes, but the first episode was enjoyable.