Rockstar Podcast - The Business Parent Cast

Episode 158 - Lorenzo and Mariano return for another run of our long standing podcast, dating back to 2007! We rekindle our nonsense and discuss mostly politics, covid and how its affected us. Bonus is now you can watch the episodes on our Rockstar YouTube channel  - Hope You Enjoy!

Episode 157 we sit down with Annie Silvestro, Children's Book Author. We talk about many topics which include the story behind Annie's book "Bunny's Book Club", where she grew up, her time at the great University of Georgetown, how she ended up a Children's Book Author, her day life in Finance, reading to kids at Book Stores, #cats, conversations with kids and the randomness it brings, summer readings plus and minus, apparently lorenzo who does not read worked at Barnes n Nobles and worked on a book design, the insanity of the Harry Potter book releases, reading a book with it in hand vs kindles and other devices, the interactive experience of reading to your kids, a wolf who ate a rabbit, visiting old school book stores and much more! If nothing else, go buy Annie's books, its the least you can do! Annie Silvestro - Hope You Enjoy!

Episode 156 is a hot mess. The audio is coming through a tin can, Lorenzo screws up Garage Band, Aggie has to leave because 45 minutes we still couldn't fix it so Kevin from The Bell Cast sits in all while our guest, an alumni of Rockstar Podcast, Marc Pickard of CB Tech Support sits in patiently watching all this unfold. We talk about if Irish people watch Hockey, the mishaps of Lorenzo and Kevin and podcasts and then we get a bit more serious with topics like Digital Manipulation from the Ted Radio Hour which includes Kayla the Talking Doll, Mariano using #DuckDuckGo, Lorenzo's marketing plan for #DuckDuckGo and his plan to get them to send him a big check, the parallel of YouTube vs the old school of watching Saturday morning cartoons, are we getting spied on by devices and platforms, Kevin admits he loved #ChatRoulette, Mariano cant deal with #RingTechnology and his #Amazon packages arriving, Mariano vs Lorenzo in the Data Privacy Wars, is #VPN security really secure or is it just more secure than non-vpn, Lorenzo parlays the Angels on #DraftKings and it didnt work out so well and in closing we probably piss of most people with talking about the #GoVote campaign and its process until Voting Day so we tackle what should be some new solutions for Voting Day and making it a National Holiday and #WolfBlitzer is tired at 2am, give him a break, #BattlestarGalactica, #Y2K, is Kevin getting a dog, the #stopandshop robot and so much more! This is a hot mess of an episode!

The saga of the Italian Nonna (Lorenzo) life continues with Part 2: The Toaster Oven Dilemma. Then we take on more relevant topics. One being about a Ted Radio Hour episode about Digital Manipulation provided by Mariano ( Episode Here ). One of the topics in this Ted episode is about political manipulation citing #Brexit and the US Presidential Election of 2016 and 2020 via Facebook and other Social Platforms. We also learn that Magnesium is totally legal, as per Aggie Law Firms. The segment we reference is from Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla - We also talk about Insta restricting ages of seeing #WeightLoss images, targeted advertising, giving humans to many excuses and blaming Facebook and Social, how #MarketingPeople understand #Marketing a bit differently than the general public, #cambridgeanalytica, the integrity of #journalism, opinion based news media vs @andersoncoooper of #cnn. Carole's link to the podcast Hope you enjoy!