CultCast #165 - Do you flex, bro?

This week: a curiously equipped mystery van has us wondering if Apple’s working on self-driving autos.  Plus, we review all that  Apple Watch apps can’t do; Sorkin’s Jobs’ biopic gets a cast, and not everyone is thrilled; Apple’s plans for a global “data command center”; and Macho Man Randy Savage helps us answer listeners questions in an all-new Get to Know Your Cultist.

 

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We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a huge thanks for all the great music you hear in today's show.

 

On the show this week

Erfon Elijah - @Erfon

Buster the luster Hein - @bst3r

Leander KaHaney - @lkahney

Alex "Not Kip" Heath - @AlexEHeath

 

This week’s links

Mr T wants you to treat your mother right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo&spfreload=10

 

Leander wants to you go to the Spandau Ballet with him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U&spfreload=10

 

Macho Man Randy Savage is the cream of the crop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q&spfreload=10

 

And he wants you to SNAP IT TO A SLIM JIM!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxp_3000h_U&spfreload=10

 

Tesla should “borrow” from this handy prototype Apple Watch app

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MZCKBNgxc

 

Mystery Van Could Be Apple’s Entry In Effort To Develop Driverless Vehicle

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/02/03/mystery-van-could-be-apples-entry-in-effort-to-develop-self-driving-vehicle/

 

Why the Apple Watch’s first apps might disappoint you

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/310733/apple-watchs-first-apps-might-disappoint/#7zh5GERi8Qm3Mf1Y.99

 

Everything Apple Watch apps can’t do

http://www.cultofmac.com/305778/everything-apple-watch-apps-cant/

 

Meet the official cast of the Steve Jobs movie

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/310397/meet-official-cast-steve-jobs-movie/#wlgULkFb0DZmqoFf.99

 

Apple’s failed Arizona sapphire plant will be $2 billion data ‘command center’

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/310834/apples-failed-arizona-sapphire-plant-will-become-2b-data-command-center/#CB9FLwLMLPkisewT.99