Podcasts by Brad

4: A Bomb That Sits on Your Stove from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.421139

This week we had the brilliant idea of talking about food tech while we were starving. Pressure cookers! Air fryers! The Maillard reaction! N-nitrogen dewars? Roto-stators? Do people really put sug...

8: The One Where We Go Dark from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.402677

The best reference material I found on quantum computing (It's a comic).

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12: I Have a Website! from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.383436

You ask and we answer! This week, we tackle relevant tech topics like chicken farming, vaporware, drive-by-wire, upgrading a 486 to a 586, and what will definitely be the final email about cooking ...

16: Heavy HDMI from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.367293

Will and Brad turn Qs into As in another mailbag edition of the Tech Pod. Topics include getting hands-on with Half-Life: Alyx, next-gen console minspecs, why there's never a queue to watch Watchme...

20: It's Like a USB Condom from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.354034

Information security is more important than ever these days, so it's time to talk best practices, from two-factor authentication to Yubi keys, password strength, drive encryption, financial securit...

21: WINDOWS ON TRIAL from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.348395

Don't miss Will's old magazine reviews of Windows 2000 and Listen

24: The Mad Max Threshold from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.337591

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25: Put a Doober in the Wall from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.316189

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29: Have Laser, Will Cut from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.308758

In this grab bag of an episode, we cover topics ranging from ground loop isolators to the MiSTer, fixing holes in air mattresses, modern uses for 3D printing, an in-depth primer on coronavirus t...

33: Prudiest Common Denominator from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.301355

By all accounts, Apple is moving its laptops to ARM sooner than later. What's this transition going to mean for existing MacOS software? How many days straight will your new MacBook run on batte...

38: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.290740

It's time for infosec episode, the sequel! Will recounts the hackery he's dealt with since our initial podcast about online security a few weeks ago, then we grade the big tech companies on thei...

42: It’s Only a Mistake if You Don’t Learn from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.282261

This month's email episode contains some of your own tech horror stories, from melted carpet fibers and shutting down a whole town's Internet to causing seven-figure production stoppages. Also: ...

46: The Suborbitable Caterpillar from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.273107

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeemails this month address questions like: Where the heck are the color e-ink readers? Can we imagine a world without DNS? What in the world is a sputtering target? Want a quick 'n ...

47: Key-Hoarding from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.269023

This week we very carefully lower ourselves into the unthinkably deep rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards. If you've ever wanted to know your MX reds from your blues, tenkeyless from 65%, keycap...

51: The Man With the Spatula from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.258686

Last week Brad and Will got to attend a virtual deep dive on Nvidia's new 30-series GPUs, and in this ep we attempt to break down all the new ray-tracing optimizations, DirectStorage capability,...

55: Five Altairian Dollars a Day from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.244182

Brad just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time (and Will reread it for the eleventy-thousandth), and now we're here to discuss the book's cheeky sci-fi Anglicisms and cavalie...

59: How You Know You're Living in the Future from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.199816

We've both tumbled down the Home Assistant rabbit hole, so this week we recorded an informal trip report on this sprawling open-source home automation system. Why would you want to replace your com...

60: Forgiveness, Not Permission from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.196174

Big AMD energy this week. PC World's Gordon Mah Ung has gotten his hands on the new Ryzen 5000 series chips, and now he's here to tell us all about AMD's latest attempt to take the CPU crown (we...

64: That Cheapskate Cumulonimbus from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.185668

The time has come to discuss 5G and the latest cellular data specs (largely because Will got an iPhone 12). We get into his hands-on experience with 5G speeds, the differences between low, mediu...

68: The Treacherous World of Magnetic Flux from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.171286

We're kicking off 2021 with a trip back to... 1985? Yes, we sat down with a vintage episode of the Computer Chronicles to reflect on the hard disk's momentous arrival on the personal computing s...

73: Thirteen Issues a Year from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.154282

Will used to work for a tech magazine. Brad always wanted to. We both read more than our fair share back in the day. So let's talk about magazines! In this ep we look back on those mammoth issue...

77: Big Shoutout to Thumbscrews from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.145402

The urge to rank is upon us again, and this time we're looking to put together a list of the best advancements in hardware over our 25-year history of building PCs. Can modular power supplies st...

81: A Cube of Cold Opens from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.100492

What is this week's episode about, you might ask? Why, it has a delightfully floral scent, almost like... a potpourri. You could say it's sort of a buffet, offering a little something for everyo...

85: Hey, They've Got That Baseball from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.091110

Six-ish months since launch, the next-gen consoles are now officially current-gen, so we thought it was time for a check-in on the state of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X platforms. How has...

86: 42U or Bust from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.086721

Very special guest Vinny Caravella joins us this week for a wide-ranging chat about his years of video production, juggling cameras in the early days of Whiskey Media, a love letter to analog si...

90: CONTROL MY MONITOR from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.075437

Reinstalling Windows: no one enjoys it, but everyone has to do it eventually. This week, we spend some time chatting about the ways this timeless ritual has gotten better (or worse) over the yea...

94:"Naked Corporate Opportunism" from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.064501

You knew we couldn't resist doing a Windows 11 episode, and indeed we're here to talk about the whole shebang: virtualized security and the controversy around CPU support, the good (better windo...

98: The Fox Knows What's Up from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.053736

Question time is here again, and this month our answers address topics like these: why anyone is still using big ol' ATX, our favorite flea market finds of the past, drop shadows under mouse cur...

99: You Wanna Be Elite? from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.049762

We recently found a Hackers-sized hole in Brad's filmgoing history, so we're killing two birds with one stone this week by making him watch the movie, and then recording an ep about it! Join us ...

103: A Watershed Moment in Copyright Litigation from 2023-12-12T19:16:44.039460

This week we're joined by Google's director of open source, Chris DiBona, to talk all things software licensing. Topics include corporate sponsorship of open source developers, how Google mainta...

107: The Kick-Ass Stamp of Approval from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.997122

Will Smith, this is your life! Or at least one month of it, specifically November 2009, when you published an issue of Maximum PC that included a review of Windows 7, speculation about ray traci...

112: Here Comes Manhattanhenge! from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.987599

By the time you hear this ep, Daylight Savings Time will have departed for another year, so DST is naturally what we're chatting about this week. We clear up some myths and history about DST's o...

116: Nano on Both Sides from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.979367

The holidays are here again, and with them, the need to gift. This week we offer an informal not-a-gift-guide chat about gift giving and receiving, including topics like how to pick thoughtful g...

119: The Sardine Warlord of the Wasteland from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.970642

New year, new set of listener questions! This month's Q&A has us addressing CES survival strategies, how to lose 77 terabytes of data overnight, the wisdom of dumping irradiated water into the o...

120: What Comes After from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.966800

This week we avoided traveling to Las Vegas for CES and instead tried to absorb all the news coming out of the show from the comfort of our desks. Listen on for some loose chatter about goggles-...

Special Episode: Enter the FOSS Pod from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.958675

Hey, we're launching a new spinoff podcast alongside the Tech Pod! It's a biweekly show about free and open source software called The FOSS Pod (which we think is extremely on brand), and this h...

126: Welcome to the Question Store from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.949611

Another round of your questions meets another round of our answers this week, with queries about delayed eating habits, the "break-even" point on fixing or replacing old appliances, the mystery ...

129: Main Character Territory from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.941537

Will sure had a wild, weird week on Twitter following last week's, uh, historic showdown at the Oscars, and now he's here to decompress. What were the first 24 hours like? How close did he get t...

133: The Lady and the Samba Problem from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.902298

Queeeeeestions and aaaaaaanswers. This month we field Qs from you, the listener, about better electric vehicles versus better mass transit, the mysteries of the L-shaped desk, extreme climate-ch...

134: Another Lane Disaster Waiting to Happen from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.898851

This week we're putting ourselves to the test by bringing a list of PC and tech peeves, and then passing judgement on our own complaints. Do we have a legitimate grievance, or are we just being ...

138: Crank: The Unofficial Game of the Movie from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.890638

We've been mulling the idea of donning our game dev hats and attempting to make our own little Playdate game as an educational exercise, and this week we commit ourselves to this task publicly w...

142: Flanders Is Dead. Long Live Neddy from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.882451

Will's longtime home server Flanders has finally given up the ghost, and now he's streamlined his life by moving to an integrated Synology box. After significant hands-on time, we get into the i...

146: Nothing Beats Parachute Day from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.872714

A grab bag, a smorgasbord, a potpourri -- whatever you call it, we've assembled another batch of micro-topics to wend our way through. This time around, precision German podcasting plugins, Will...

150: Things You Plug Into Your TV from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.864752

We're thinking a lot about the ways you receive and watch TV this week, with a look back at the last 20-ish years of set-top boxes beginning with the venerable TiVo. Remember paying a monthly fe...

Special FOSS Ep: OctoPrint With Gina Häußge from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.856523

This week, we're checking back in with the FOSS Pod--now that we're several months (and more than a dozen episodes) into its run--by presenting our recent chat with Gina Häußge, founder and main...

154: Gas Station Tri-Tip from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.852121

Will and family just did the Southern California theme-park circuit, so this week we had a casual chat about some of the more technical aspects of visiting Disneyland and Universal Studios in 20...

157: Cereal's Dark Legacy from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.777202

This week we decided to do something radically different and "record" a "podcast" to answer some of your "questions." In the course of doing so we revealed shocking details about breakfast cerea...

161: Get Stretchy from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.767986

Brrr, is it cold in here? It's time to deliver our semi-annual Cube of Cold Opens: Holiday Edition, with short and pithy conversations about cramming your Fortnite homework, that loud phone life...

165: I Don’t Believe in Adverbs from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.759078

On our first show in 2023, we rejoin our epic task of ranking all of humanity's software. Will we actually start putting things in order this week? Or will we get sidetracked by our love of dot ...

166: Someone Else's Cables from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.755365

It's (belatedly) time to answer more of your questions, and this time you posed Qs that resulted in As about an iPhone without charging ports, cured meats, hyphy dark roast, favorite classic scr...

170: The Robots (Hopefully) Aren't Coming from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.746505

Artificial intelligence, machine learning--whatever we're calling it, it sure is in the news a lot all of a sudden. Everything about the use of AI feels uncanny enough lately that we sat down an...

174: Weaponized Smurfing from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.736224

Remember when pop-up ads looked like they were part of Windows XP? Dark patterns are all around us, even when we don't realize it, and this week we cover a wide range of these insidious methods ...

178: Windows on Top of Windows from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.693064

It's been several months since Will needed a laptop and bought an M2 iPad Pro, keyboard, and pencil instead, so we figured enough time has passed to decide if that was the right move or not. In ...

Special FOSS Ep: Raspberry Pi With Eben Upton from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.689074

Each of us are on overlapping mini-vacations this week, so we're debuting a brand new episode of the FOSS Pod in the feed. Enjoy!

With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the ...

182: The Healthy Kind of Nihilism from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.679686

We're delighted to be joined this week by Katie Mack, noted astrophysicist and author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), to talk about, well, how to think about the end of all ...

186: Cutting Matt from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.671027

This week we're rounding up another handful of lifehacks-that-aren't-lifehacks, ranging from unexpected uses for barcode readers to apps that reduce food waste, a shocking truth about surge prot...

189: A Long Time in a Short Time from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.662916

There's a lot going on lately (isn't there always?), so we did a roundup of some recent news stories this week. Canada is now requiring Google and Facebook to compensate news producers whose sto...

190: A Mishmash Mismatch from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.659138

New competition is springing up in the microblogging space by the week these days, and to one degree or another, all these new services are attempting to reduce the centralization that led to th...

194: All I Want Is Simple Determinism! from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.649128

We're back this week with the mythical three-peat of updates on topics we've discussed either recently or in the distant past. First, following up on last month's patron episode, we dig into our...

198: Insert ASCII Shrug™ Here from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.639117

We're back this week with another round of hot tips for making your computing life less annoying, including super secret UI settings, methods of bending digital voice assistants to your will, a ...

202: The Puritanical Wrath of the Universe from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.604873

A crisp Fall batch of questions has found its way to the show this month, as we attempt to deliver answers about such things as trusting your devices with your biometric data, whether to color-c...

203: Don't Mess With Big Encyclopedia from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.599359

Following on from our consideration of Google's many terminated products in episode 74, we turn our attention to another graveyard this week, one with a big "Microsoft" on the sign. The company'...

207: When Magazines Were Phone Books from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.589514

We're firing up the time machine again this week for another visit to the era when computer coverage was "printed" on "paper" in bound volumes called "magazines." This time, we take a look at th...

211: The Drier, the Burnier from 2023-12-12T19:16:43.579066

A cornucopia of great questions graced our podcasting table this month, and from it we drew such topics as (not) mixing and matching your RAM, fishing for game saves in AppData, an appreciation ...

212: Programmable for the Masses from 2023-12-10T08:00

The temperature outside is plummeting, but the number of cold opens in this episode is skyrocketing! We convene once again this week for our sort-of-semi-annual block of short segments about eve...

210: TWELVE HUNDRED MEGARAYS from 2023-11-26T08:00

Will's been fortunate to spend a chunk of time with the new Steam Deck OLED, and now it's time to talk through both his firsthand impressions and the list of small-yet-significant upgrades Valve...

209: Please Show the Hamster Guy Some Respect from 2023-11-19T08:00

It's nearly Turkey Day here in the US once again, so it's time to discuss another round of tech we're thankful for, which includes such topics as the year USB-C finally happened (for real), free...

208: Don't Be Mean to Racoons from 2023-11-12T08:00

We've been thinking about troubleshooting lately (because it feels like we've all been doing a lot of it), so in this ep we did a formal rundown of how we approach solving technical problems, bo...

206: A Bunch of Ferrets Is Called a Business from 2023-10-29T07:00

October's terrifying batch of questions hits us like an airborne jack-o-lantern this month, as we discuss topics like: why it's RGB and not RYB, the origin of the computer "wizard," the ethics o...

205: More Than a Drip, Less Than a Gush from 2023-10-22T07:00

This week we're doing some follow-ups on recent episodes to fill in a few blanks. Spurred on by the PS5's Spider-Man 2, we wanted to talk about the recent advent of gaming at 40Hz, and that led ...

204: Science Cookies?? from 2023-10-15T19:24:10

We've got a pleasantly floral potpourri this week, mainly focused on Will's trip report from this weekend's Bay Area Maker Faire, the first time the DIY science and tech show has been held since...

201: Core 1 Ultra Extreme Plus+ from 2023-09-24T22:41:43

Intel held its annual Innovation event this week, and our friend Adam Patrick Murray from PC World was there. Now he's here to fill us in on all the details about the company's big shift to Mete...

200: Bump to Squirt from 2023-09-17T07:00

Sometimes the events are so current we can't help discussing them, and such is the case with this week's act of self-immolation on the part of Unity and its relationship with the many developers...

199: MAKE ROME from 2023-09-10T07:00

Will dons the game developer hat again this week for a deep dive into how a game gets built. No, not the coding and design and art and all that -- we mean how a game gets literally built into a ...

197: The Pigs Go Ham from 2023-08-27T07:00

Another piping-hot batch of questions is here straight out of the oven (where "the oven" is Discord and our inbox), and we do our best to deliver answers about amassing a collection of Allen wre...

196: HDMI Kablammo from 2023-08-20T07:00

Since Brad just went through the new-TV-buying-and-setup process (for someone else), we decided it was time for us to look past our classic plasmas and take stock of the modern TV landscape. In ...

195: In Our Bendy Phone Era from 2023-08-13T07:00

Our friend Wes Fenlon is back, this time to talk about his experiences daily-carrying Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip series of foldable smartphones. By interrogating such topics as whether glass is rea...

193: The Bob Ballard Fan Club from 2023-07-30T07:00

It's that Q&A time again, so in between waxing philosophical about meteor showers and shipwrecks, we take a few of your questions this week, about the etiquette of color-matched bidet installs, ...

192: Straight Out the Bunn from 2023-07-23T07:00

Will gets to dispense his considerable knowledge of coffee this week as Brad gets into cold brew and consuming way too much caffeine, with a medium-bodied discussion covering the cherry-esque fr...

191: WINNER: NONE from 2023-07-16T07:00

We're dusting off the ol' projector this week for a discussion about the 1983 nuclear-warfare classic WarGames (which Brad had never seen!). Did you know the original movie had nothing to do wit...

188: Full-Time Lego Broker from 2023-06-25T07:00

As one social media platform after another lights itself on fire, we spend a good chunk of this month's Q&A thinking about other ways to use (or just get off of) the Internet, plus field some ot...

Special FOSS Ep: Pine64 With Lukasz Erecinski from 2023-06-18T07:00

Due to travel and other scheduling, we're debuting a brand new episode of the FOSS Pod in the feed this week. Hope you enjoy!

Pine64 is one of the most ambitious open hardware projects aro...

187: Certified Volumetric Environment™ from 2023-06-11T07:00

Our friend Norman Chan of Tested.com seized the chamfered aluminum ring this week by not only getting invited to the Apple Vision Pro reveal event but also getting to actually try the thing. Nor...

185: That's Nana's Prerogative from 2023-05-28T07:00

The last Sunday of the month heralds questions such as these: What's Amazon going to do with data on the layout of your house? Are the Netflixes of the world going to fight back against VPNs eve...

184: Not the Out-of-Box Experience from 2023-05-21T07:00

Now that we're both on new PCs in the last six months, it's time for us to run through some of our experiences and offer a few (hopefully new) tips for anyone else building a machine. Join us as...

183: HiroProtagonist Loves an Inhale from 2023-05-14T07:00

We're going to start taking the occasional look at a product that changed everything in its respective field, starting this week with the game console that redefined how consoles work in the onl...

181: Hatch Watch Is On from 2023-04-30T07:00

Our month-ending Q&A is here again, with a bevy of emails and Discord questions pertaining to subjects such as these: scanning and 3D-printing precision parts, parental controls on your kid's fi...

180: Chowder'n Cookies from 2023-04-23T07:00

Spring is in the air, flowers are blooming, and the potpourri is back. In our latest floral pouch of podcast topics, we get into the IP camera setup Will is using for his bird cam, Stream Deck a...

179: The World’s Largest Graphics Card from 2023-04-17T00:04:14

Yes, Brad built a new PC. Seriously! For this momentous occasion, we got together to talk all things PC-building, starting with some early impressions of the new build and then heading off into ...

177: Five Thou Tolerances from 2023-03-26T07:00

Another month's worth of questions has accrued, and so this week we dispense answers about being the family tech support, silliness with Imperial measurements, gigantic patches for games, recurr...

176: Phone Blasters in DOS Land from 2023-03-19T07:00

Tech news is getting a little too surreal for us lately, so we're taking a brief trip back to a simpler time. This week we go through the very first issue of Boot (later Maximum PC) from 1996, w...

175: Short Analog, Long Digital from 2023-03-12T08:00

Our desks have evolved since the last time we talked about our personal workspaces (Brad has even achieved the elusive Cord Zero), so we're doing an updated check-in to talk about the current ge...

173: Splinter Cell in a Kayak from 2023-02-26T08:00

Brad spent a whole bunch of time in the PlayStation VR 2 this past week, and given Will's previous life as the proprietor of a VR-related business, we're pairing hands-on (or maybe face-on) expe...

172: Orange Ricky&Smashboy from 2023-02-19T08:00

Some scheduling switcharoos mean we're doing February's Q&A episode one (1) whole week early! This month we field Qs about public Unix servers, noisy hard drives, the desirability of your own ph...

171:"Gratuitous Stroke" from 2023-02-12T08:00

This week we're thrilled to be joined by Marcin Wichary, author of the upcoming and extensively detailed history of the keyboard, Shift Happens. We get into all kinds of typing-related subjects ...

169: Don't Trust Alberta's Lies from 2023-01-29T08:00

You sent some serious Qs for this month's Q&A, which got us talking about the intermingling of control schemes in online shooters, the best sci-fi robots, the absurdity of discount medical care,...

168: It's Cool to Be Cool from 2023-01-22T08:00

It was a pretty heavy week for a variety of reasons, so we decided to discuss a variety of shorter topics this week to try to take it in, starting by touching on the mass layoffs sweeping the te...

167: We Can't Give Them the Heads from 2023-01-15T08:00

Will does the unthinkable this week and PODCASTS WITH HIS BOSS, as Stray Bombay head Chet Faliszek joins us on the one-year anniversary of the release of The Anacrusis to talk all things running...

164: Truly Lawless from 2022-12-25T08:00

Here at the tail end of 2022, are we nuts enough to attempt to rank every piece of software ever written? OK, not quite, but we're going to do our best to assemble a list and put it in an order....

163: JWST (Just Wonderful Science and Technology) from 2022-12-18T08:00

Our friend Kishore Hari becomes our first three-time guest by joining us this week to run down some of our favorite science and tech stories of 2022, including the latest developments in nuclear...

162: Storage Wars from 2022-12-11T08:00

Will's recent clean-slate PC build and newfound abundance of extremely fast storage got us thinking about all things storage. So this week we had a top-to-bottom chat about our current storage s...

160: Gelatinous Soup Tube from 2022-11-27T08:00

We're thankful for the copious bounty of questions sent in by you this month, which got us talking about all kinds of stuff. Stuff like our love of treehouses (and mushroom soup), mouse pad tech...

159: It's Good Brain from 2022-11-20T08:00

Techsgiving is here again, as we wax thankful about some of the stuff we love in our own specific nerdy spheres. Join us for some chill discussion of everything from defying gravity (under the d...

158: Twitastrophe from 2022-11-13T20:19:10

Elon Musk's Twitter disaster has been impossible to look away from, and since we probably owe some amount of our careers to everyone's favorite social media platform, we had to spend this ep run...

Special Ep: Don't Pull the Frenulum from 2022-10-30T07:05

Brad is feeling under the weather this week, so we weren't able to turn Qs into As, but we did manage to find a classic Halloween episode of the Patron cast deep in the Tech Pod Vault. Brad and ...

156: The People's Benchmark from 2022-10-23T07:00

It's been too long since PC World's hardware expert Gordon Mah Ung dropped by, and what better occasion than the big launch of new CPUs from both AMD and Intel? Gordon runs down all his recent e...

155: Cyberplunk from 2022-10-16T07:00

The sizable slab of silicon known as the Geforce 4090 has landed in Will's computer, so this week we did a deep dive on his experiences with it so far, ranging from basic performance to impressi...

153: A Time for Questions from 2022-09-25T07:00

Summer may be over, but we're still here and ready to answer the hot questions from you, the listener. This month we field everything from automating household chores to HDMI-CEC woes, that time...

152: Three Pfizers to the Wind from 2022-09-18T07:00

This past Friday EVGA made the shocking and abrupt announcement that it's exiting the GPU market after two decades of making Nvidia cards. We drew on Will's many years of reviewing PC hardware t...

151: A Dynamic Island Getaway from 2022-09-11T07:00

The annual Apple event has come and gone, and we're here to run down the goings on with the latest iPhones, Watches, and AirPods. Learn more about satellite SOS and crash detection, privacy conc...

149: The Rhythm Nation Test Suite from 2022-08-28T07:00

We're doing some navel-gazing on this month's Q&A with a bevy of questions that came in about this very podcast: the business of hosting and advertising, research and production work, how we cho...

148: Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Foo VR Story from 2022-08-21T07:00

Hey, did you know Will ran a VR animation company before we did this podcast? By popular request, this week we talk through the history of Foo VR start to finish, touching on all kinds of topics...

147: Why Thread Matters from 2022-08-14T07:00

Together, Matter and Thread are the new software and networking standards that promise to make all of your home automation and IoT gear work together, regardless of manufacturer. After Home Assi...

145: Fat Stacks of DIMMs from 2022-07-31T07:00

Look, it's getting harder to think of intro text for a Q&A episode -- but it's ever easier to record one with so many great Qs! This month we tackle our fantasy space missions, a bidet breakdown...

144: The Anamorphic Squinch from 2022-07-24T07:00

Brad's birthday has come and gone, which gives him the privilege of choosing our next tech year in review. This time, the banner year of 1997, which saw everything from Dolly the cloned sheep to...

Special Ep: A Flickr Group for Martian Photographers from 2022-07-17T07:00

With the James Webb telescope in the news and Will convalescing from COVID-19, we're bringing back one of our favorite patron-exclusive eps this week: the first appearance of our friend Doug Ell...

143: The Ol'Dirty Bastard Adapter from 2022-07-10T07:00

Will and family have made their annual month-long pilgrimage to the desert once again, so this week we ended up having a free-wheeling conversation about portable tech and working on the road. T...

141: Poor Pour Pore Technique from 2022-06-26T07:00

It means being bad at researching how to use a spout. Oh, right, this is a Q&A episode! This month we discuss the potential of open smartphones, Fermi's paradox, French toast supremacy, electron...

140: Wes and Norm Were Right from 2022-06-19T07:00

Will got his hands on his very own Steam Deck and he's bursting at the seams to talk about it, so we're back with a follow-up to our first Deck ep with an updated trip report. How has compatibil...

139: Grill Drama Is Real Drama from 2022-06-12T07:00

As summer heats up, we're cooling things down with another (now-semi-annual?) cube of cold opens. Thrill! to the long and sordid tale of Will's Stripe fraud saga. Chill! at the campsite mishap t...

137: Emails Qs Are Qs Too from 2022-05-29T07:00

It seems like it was only last month that we answered our last batch of questions, and yet here we are with another one. This time we address subjects like getting squashed by an asteroid (or me...

136: The Hubble-ub from 2022-05-22T07:00

Part two of our 1993 retrospective is here, with our consideration of the following: Power Computing's Macintosh clones, Apple's first Newton, the proving of Fermat's last theorem, happenings in...

135: This Machine Is a Server!! from 2022-05-15T07:00

On the occasion of Will's birth we're back for another year in review, this time taking a look at the year he went off to college, 1993 (or at least as much of it as we can fit into one episode)...

132: The Coldest Open from 2022-04-24T07:00

With Will briefly trapped in the great frozen north(ern California), we got together for a chilly, scrappy two-fer this week with a couple of short topics. First we chat about Panic's Playdate, ...

131: Booth by GWAR from 2022-04-17T07:00

It's time for another visit with Stewart Cheifet and the Computer Chronicles. This time we're heading back to 1995 for a computer games special that includes Microsoft's ill-fated DirectX event ...

130: The Last Home Button Standing from 2022-04-10T07:00

Well, we're only about *check's Apple Watch* a month late to the most recent Apple event, which we're using as an excuse to talk about a whole range of topics like: the (potential) death of mill...

128: An Elevator Named Otis from 2022-03-27T07:00

The monthly questions came in, and now the answers go forth, pertaining to such topics as these: weirdly named folders on our desktops, regrettable usernames, paltry American downstream speeds, ...

Special Episode: Return of Manhattanhenge from 2022-03-21T02:37:12

The United States Senate proved to be full of Tech Pod listeners this week as it passed a measure to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. But wait, did they pick the right time? This week we're...

127:"fear, sex" from 2022-03-13T08:00

Will just happened to watch a whole bunch of Star Trek: TNG when he was laid up recently, so we got together this week to decidedly NOT talk about Best of Both Worlds, Measure of a Man, Darmok, ...

125: A NUC With a Screen from 2022-02-27T08:00

It's a little reunion this week as our Steam Deck-equipped friends Norman Chan (of Tested) and Wes Fenlon (of PC Gamer) join us for a deep dive into Valve's new handheld after a couple of rigoro...

Special Episode: FOSS NAS Solutions from 2022-02-20T08:00

Building a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we're looping back around and checking in on the current state of FOSS-y network attached st...

124: The Year of the Grid from 2022-02-13T08:00

That pleasantly floral scent you're detecting means it's time for another potpourri ep! This time we dive into the nitty gritty of our podcast workflow and Brad's forthcoming adventures with XLR...

123: Not a Positive Outcome from 2022-01-30T08:00

You have questions, we have answers about what we thought was cool in 2021, a couple of our war stories working in media, repairing a classic flip clock (and other old gear), the ins and outs of...

122: Hashtag Octothorpe from 2022-01-23T08:00

Microsoft's mind-boggling purchase of Activision this week prompted us to look back on other tech acquisitions large and small over the last two decades. Herein, a chat about the big winners, th...

121: Notepad Dark Mode?!? from 2022-01-16T08:00

Will just successfully shipped his first game, and Brad has spent years asking questions about shipping games, so this week we met in the middle with a freewheeling chat about some of the techni...

Holiday Special: Abit, Are You Listening? from 2021-12-26T08:00

This week we're reaching deep into the vault for the holidays and unlocking one of our favorite Patron-exclusive episodes, featuring dramatic readings of some of our most excruciating old posts ...

118: #TidyDeskLife from 2021-12-20T00:22:56

The weather is getting frigid (at least some places), and that means one thing: it's time for us to deliver another cube of cold opens. This time around we tackle everything from long-term Chris...

117: A Turnip Cures Elvis from 2021-12-12T08:00

We had such a good time talking about Hackers a few weeks ago that we're back with that other seminal '90s computer crime movie, Sneakers! Join us for a deep dive into the movie's stellar and su...

115: Deals on Wheels from 2021-11-28T08:00

This week we're thankful for our listeners and the many questions they provided to this Q&A ep, which got us talking about topics including how we research a new tech project before diving in, u...

114: That's One Spicy Pillow from 2021-11-21T08:00

This week Apple announced an effort to begin offering service manuals, replacement parts, and other self-repair services to its customers. Who better to discuss this landmark move than iFixit CE...

113: Three Prongs Bad, Two Prongs Good from 2021-11-14T08:00

We've been holding video game controllers for most of our natural lives, and now we're attempting to put them in a qualitative, ordered list; a sort of "ranking," if you will. In this ep, we go ...

111: Flanders Is Running in a Degraded State from 2021-10-31T07:00

It's the most horrifying Q&A episode we've ever recorded! This month we field Qs about such topics as: how to teach your kids to view Internet content and influencers with a critical eye, our ho...

110: The UPC of the Beast from 2021-10-24T07:00

Will's daughter recently had her first encounter with a corded telephone, which got us thinking about other technologies that are on the way out or have already vanished from society. In this ep...

109: A House of Lies from 2021-10-17T07:00

It's been nine years since Will's last big house cleanup, and the time has come once again to discuss... THE PURGE (of all his stuff). In the interest of general decluttering, this ep is a rambl...

108: Deez Network Servers from 2021-10-10T07:00

Well, this was one heck of a week. On Monday, Facebook experienced a historic outage of its infrastructure that impacted services used by billions of people. On Tuesday, a new Windows came out. ...

106: That's So USB! from 2021-09-26T07:00

Our monthly Q&A episode is all over the place in September, addressing such wide-ranging subjects as the fastest Internet we've ever used, surviving bear attacks, why they're so stingy with the ...

105: The Hardest Lift from 2021-09-19T07:00

Health science writer and noted swole woman Casey Johnston joins us this week to talk about the convergence of exercise and strength training, food science, mobile tech, and the Internet. What's...

104: Get the Good out of It from 2021-09-12T07:00

Bang for the buck! There's no greater feeling than finding that one product that's way, way better than it should be for the price--or modifying it yourself to eke out that extra little bit of w...

102: My Little iPad Pillow from 2021-08-29T07:00

On this month's Q&A ep, we debut some wild new cold-open technology, and then get on with the business of addressing subjects like the future of movie theaters, putting OnlyFans on the block cha...

101: Big-Dot-Little from 2021-08-22T07:00

This week we recorded a grab bag about some disruptive current events going on in various tech spaces. Intel is finally making a real push into the GPU space, and also getting excited about the ...

100: The Spiteful Fork from 2021-08-15T07:00

Drama alert! Our long-promised scene drama episode (vol. 1) is here to explore community kerfuffles new and old, with conversations about Ubiquiti's no-good-very-bad week, pfSense's self-immolat...

97: How to Survive the Chipocalypse from 2021-07-25T07:00

Ever wonder what it's like to try your hand at small-batch manufacturing overseas? Keyboardio's Jesse Vincent joins us this week to address that very subject in a broad discussion of his company...

96: National Ground Beef Day from 2021-07-18T07:00

We enjoyed Will's birth-year episode so much a few weeks ago that we're back with a look at the notable events in tech, science, and culture of 1979 now that it's Brad's turn. Slap this tape in ...

95: The Pirate Radio of Podcasts from 2021-07-11T07:00

This week we're joined by Will's friend Ben Brown, longtime online software developer, to talk about the Internet old and new. Topics include Ben's grassroots efforts to resurrect the Finger pro...

93: Missives From the Void from 2021-06-27T07:00

This month's Q&A episode features Qs (from both email and our Discord) that got us chatting about such topics as: the ARPANET, passive-aggressive email signatures, pre-microprocessor computing h...

92: Carmackology from 2021-06-20T07:00

id Software's Quake came out 25 years ago this week, and it also changed both of our lives. In this episode we wax nostalgic about the astonishing legacy of technical innovations Quake brought t...

91: Professor Will’s Magical Sensorium from 2021-06-13T07:00

It's been a big week around these parts--Will helped reveal a new game at E3, and Brad helped launch a new online media property--so we did a potpourri episode touching on a bunch of the technic...

89: Don't Mix the Soaps! from 2021-05-30T07:00

If you're looking for our monthly Q&A ep, you've found it! This time around we consider such listener-provided topics as questionable soap-on-soap interactions, discerning frame rate by eye, dot...

88: It Just Makes the Lithium Angrier from 2021-05-23T07:00

Spurred by Will's first month with a Chevy Bolt, we present an episode on electric cars and attempt to answer questions such as: How weird is it to drive without braking? Can you check the car's...

87: With a Name Like Deke... from 2021-05-16T07:00

In honor of Will's birthday, this week we traveled back to the heady days of 1975 to see what was big in science and tech in the year of his birth. Our impromptu retrospective features everythin...

84: On a Cleaning Jag from 2021-04-25T07:00

Email time! In this month's Q&A, we talk about Spring cleaning and strategies for organizing electronics with limited storage space, overusing ellipses and other Internet chat habits, long-lost ...

83: The Best One Is the One You Can Get from 2021-04-18T07:00

Kishore Hari--Tested.com correspondent, noted science communicator, and steak-product connoisseur--rejoins us for a check-in on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic one year after his first appear...

82: A Hundred Pounds and Razor Sharp from 2021-04-11T07:00

Ultra-wideband support has been making its way into phones for a couple of years now, but... what the heck is it? This week we attempt to demystify this old wireless technology being adapted for...

80: That's a Sewer Diamond! from 2021-03-28T07:00

Like Spring, emails are upon us once again, and this month we talk about such listener-provided topics as the stagnation of flash memory, a Starlink trip report, some of the downsides of PC-buil...

79: A Subsidiary of Starko Industries from 2021-03-21T07:00

What the heck is going on with modern video game controllers? That's the question we're trying to address this week, with Joy Con and DualSense analog stick drift, unresponsive Xbox face buttons...

78: The One With the Racing Stripes from 2021-03-14T08:00

This week our quest to find consensus on the best advancements in PC-building reaches its end. From the USB superposition to the class warfare of fancy motherboards, the baffling duality of the ...

76: Hell or Palo Alto from 2021-02-28T08:00

Listener emails return after a brief hiatus, and this time they bring chatter about the correct Windows taskbar positioning, the latest PlayStation VR news, where we think AR might be going, "bi...

75: The Right Right-Stuff Stuff from 2021-02-21T08:00

This week we're joined by Adam Rogers, Wired senior correspondent and author of Proof: The Science of Booze, to talk all things alcohol. Topics include millennia-old fermentation practices, the ...

74: Mining for Computronium from 2021-02-14T18:36:40

Google's "pivot" away from first-party Stadia development seemed like a good cue to spend an episode not only pondering the future of the company's game-streaming service--including third-party ...

72: The State of the (Virtual) Union from 2021-01-31T17:52:15

It's time for a check-in on the health of VR, including the latest in headsets and controllers, standout games and productivity software, the open-sourcing of Tilt Brush, our amazement that Wind...

71: Curiosity and Perseverance from 2021-01-24T18:46:37

Friend of the podcast Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab stops by to give us the lowdown on the newest Mars rover Perseverance, set to land on the red planet in just a few weeks, plus a...

70: Executed By Google from 2021-01-17T14:00

Time for some 2021 emails! This month we talked about dearly departed Google products, how to fix a broken USB port (or whether you should even try), how we got started doing this, why your TOSL...

69: The Gravest Day from 2021-01-10T14:00

We were unable to turn our attention to anything but the week's horrifying events in Washington, D.C., so for this episode we had a freewheeling chat about... well, everything, including some pe...

67: Nog Ambitions from 2020-12-27T14:00

With 2020 (finally) drawing to a close, we look back on a few of our favorite tech things, big or small, from this challenging year. From advances in medical science to ways to stay social from ...

66: That Classic Chonk from 2020-12-20T14:00

Our last email ep of 2020 addresses such topics as: how to trust Google search results (or not), bad tech habits we just can't shake, how to get and stay digitally organized, the worth of extern...

65: Visionary or Villain from 2020-12-13T14:00

Product design is on our minds this week, starting with the industry-redefining research that led to the production of modern, psychologically optimized junk food. Have the same sensibilities no...

63: Brad and Will Build a Dream House from 2020-11-29T14:00

While we're nursing our meat hangovers, we took a cue from last week's email about future-proofing your home to chat about 21st-century home ownership, including the thermodynamically efficient pas...

62: PEMDAS for Monitors from 2020-11-22T14:00

Our Fall cornucopia of emails contains such succulent questions as: How future-proof should your new smart home be? To prebuilt PC or not to prebuilt PC? Where are all the HDMI 2.1 accessories? ...

61: The Bad Kind of Complexity from 2020-11-15T14:00

On this busy week we threw together a delightful potpourri of different topics, from gadget repair to drilling through PCBs, lust for 4k TVs (or not), making the lightest mouse in history, the h...

58: Lil'Doppler Redshift from 2020-10-25T13:00

On this month's email show we talk about our love of astrophysics, a PC that could last you forever, bad interface design in consumer electronics, why e-ink screens aren't everywhere, Android lo...

57: Everything's Bigger in Texas from 2020-10-18T13:00

All these new PC hardware announcements have us feeling nostalgic again, so we took another trip down memory lane to talk in-depth about the '90s 3D accelerator boom. The rise and fall of 3dfx! ...

56: TressFX Vs. HairWorks from 2020-10-11T13:00

This week, we couldn't resist talking about the newly announced Zen 3 CPUs from AMD, along with the tease of their upcoming Big Navi-based graphics cards, plus a bonus segment on that PlayStatio...

54: Lack Rack! from 2020-09-27T13:00:14

The emails cometh, and bringeth with them questions and tips about why nobody can order a 3080 or PS5, the eyeball-saving properties of red nightlights, rounded vs. angular phone design, consume...

53: The Mass-to-Volume Ratio from 2020-09-20T13:00:22

Nvidia bought ARM. Nvidia bought ARM! It's one of the biggest semiconductor deals in history, so we dive deep into what it all means, from some basics on CPU architecture to the implications for...

52: It's an App Basket! from 2020-09-13T13:00:23

Playing video games remotely has gotten surprisingly good lately, so this week we decided to sit down and figure out the what's what of home game streaming. From older options like Steam Link to...

50: Two Is One, One Is None from 2020-08-30T13:00:16

Our 50th episode doesn't quite have 50 emails, but it's close: tune in for listener mails about bugout bags, evacuation tips, data over HAM radio, the resilience of municipal fiber, and very, ve...

49: Proto-Prepping from 2020-08-23T13:00:10

With the latest round of California wildfires heavy on our minds, this week we ended up with a wide-ranging conversation about what to take with you when you evacuate, climate change, PCs as spa...

48: Grip Is Good from 2020-08-16T13:00:08

Following up on our software unitasker ep from a few weeks ago, we're now moving into the physical realm. This week we run down a few of our favorite devices, trinkets, and doodads that make it ...

45: No-Tonsil-Stone Zone from 2020-07-26T13:00:05

PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon stops by to talk about turning an old PC into a new router. Why would you want to roll your own router in the first place? What are your hardware and software options to do...

44: alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die from 2020-07-19T13:00:11

In these trying times, we thought a nostalgic little walk down memory lane might be nice. Join us as we look back at the '90s Internet, from PPP connections and .plan files to Gopher, IRC, and W...

43: Sigh Ops from 2020-07-12T13:00:02

This week we run down a few of the common and not-so-common software tools that make our lives a bit easier. From text-syncing to task-scheduling, audio management and phone automation, we hope ...

41: The Great Simian Mathematician from 2020-06-28T13:00:21

Another Apple episode already? Yeah, we didn't expect it either until WWDC brought such a bounty of new stuff to talk about. In addition to ARM-based Macs, somehow iOS managed to be the most int...

40: Gigantic Flaming Luminous Orb from 2020-06-21T13:00:06

Oh, the horror! This week we recount some of the tech disasters from our past. From near-miss electrocutions to ruined prototype hardware, PC-building boondoggles, all-night server restores, and...

39: The Eternal Optimist from 2020-06-14T13:00:12

Things are rough out there, so this week we recorded a free-wheeling episode about tech-ish self-care strategies for things like exercise, meditation, lighting, and so forth. Plus: Will's making...

37: Mr. Reginald Edit from 2020-05-31T13:00:31

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can s...

36: The Frankencoder Liiiiiiives from 2020-05-24T13:00:08

With everyone trapped indoors, streaming video on the Internet is an especially good way to connect with people right now. This week we did a broad survey of practical streaming tech, from hardw...

35: Every Polygon Is a Pixel from 2020-05-17T13:00:04

With the advent of another generational Unreal Engine tech demo, it's time to have a live watch party and then mull over what the UE5 tech means for asset creation, real-time lighting, and other...

34: My Other Computer Is a Datacenter from 2020-05-10T13:00:07

Friend of the pod Brian Fitzpatrick of Tock Inc. and ORD Camp stops by to talk about the early days of big data at Google, shipping 1500-pound rack servers, working on widely used open-source so...

32: Bless the Drive from 2020-04-26T13:00:03

Time for another Q&A! This week we discuss listener-submitted emails about the ultra-sandboxed future of Windows 10X, a short mouse retrospective, waiting for the right time to build a new PC, e...

31: Virtuals on Virtuals on Virtuals from 2020-04-19T13:00:04

This week we reach into our grab bag of homebound projects to chat about the tech stuff we're up to lately, from Will's ray-traced camera obscura and adventures in Behringer mixing to Brad's eff...

30: The Neighborhood Software Pirate from 2020-04-12T13:00:11

Special guest time! Digital Eclipse's Mike Mika joins us to talk about the early days of programming video games, how not to get murdered by your arcade machine, reverse engineering classic game...

28: Low Bidet-lability from 2020-03-29T13:00:01

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27: The Week That It Happened from 2020-03-22T13:00:05

Microsoft and Sony dumped a treasure trove of Xbox and PlayStation hardware specs this week, and we do our best to break down the APIs and SOCs, ponder ultra-fast flash storage and ray tracing, spe...

26: Come On Downe to Dongle Towne! from 2020-03-15T16:00:02

Here's Will's ridiculous portrait ultra-wide monitor: https://imgur.com/a/yy3EJNp

23: Some Real Karen Energy from 2020-02-23T15:01:14

Q&A time! On our latest emails episode we cover topics like Raspberry Pi media servers, backing up old Nintendo games, dystopian uses for biometric data, COM ports in 2020, Will's travails with Net...

22: Like a'70s Oldsmobile from 2020-02-16T19:26:19

Our super-definitive ordering of every Windows concludes with the all the modern ones: XP and SP2, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. Remember the Start Screen? Remember WinFS? Remember hooking your unpatch...

19: The Codec-sperts from 2020-01-26T18:30:08

It's that time again: emails! We're computer-heavy this week with questions about our favorite PC cases and understanding video formats, but we also make time for silicon wafers and diamond-resin g...

18: A Cave for Your Hard Drives from 2020-01-19T21:54:45

This week we're getting NASty... network-attached storage, that is. From wi-fi-enabled USB drives to Synology to FreeNAS and beyond, this episode is a wide-ranging deep dive on network storage opti...

17: Jimmy Dean Organic from 2020-01-12T20:49:12

Another Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and while we dodged the Vegas bullet this year, we still read all the news: Bluetooth LE audio, fake pork, Sony's fake car, Intel's possibly rea...

15: Bob Iger Will Eat You from 2019-12-30T01:10:33

A new decade is nigh, so what better time to look back on the tech trends that defined the twenty-tens... teens... whatever. From smartphones to 3D movies, home laser cutters to endless payments of...

14: It's Just Math from 2019-12-22T21:37:12

This week we dip our toes into the wild world of ray tracing, from the physical basics to emerging APIs, a brief history of GPU design, what the ray tracing solutions might look like in the new con...

13: Tech the Halls! from 2019-12-15T20:14:15

Programmable lights: www.twinkly.com

Homebridge: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

11: Spatchcock Central from 2019-11-24T18:24:50

The annual giving of thanks is almost upon us, so Brad and Will sat down to chew the well-rendered bird fat about a few of the technologies they're thankful for, from noise-canceling headphones to....

10: The Corgi of Cars from 2019-11-17T18:48:29

That self-driving car GIF

9: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access from 2019-11-10T17:00:02

Apologies for the crackling in the audio! A recording snafu forced us to use a backup recording that wasn't as high quality as we would have liked.

7: Singularities All Around Us! from 2019-10-27T17:00:01

The technological singularity may or may not be looming in our future, so we attempt to get to the bottom of singularities past and present, quantum intelligence, civilizational collapse, and other...

6: Spray the Frame Hose from 2019-10-20T17:00:09

This week we crack open the time capsule with the first episode we ever recorded, about screens! From their humble origins with the first analog TVs to modern ultra-fast gaming monitors and adaptiv...

5: Punch a Couple of Nuns from 2019-10-14T01:35:46

This week, we talk about supply chain. Why did the iPod Nano beget the iPhone? What's the big deal with batteries? What does the Gmail launch have to do with supply chain? Find out the answers to t...

3: 340 Trillion Trillion Trillion from 2019-09-29T18:04:06

Here's the mid-'90s memo outlining the use of private address ranges like 192.168.0.0 for internal network use. If you happen to be Robert G. Moskowitz, we'd love to chat!

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2: Captain Crunch's Electric Car from 2019-09-23T00:24:37

Batteries power everything from phones and laptops to cars now, but it feels like the technology is lagging behind. Brad and Will talk about different types of batteries and how they work, share so...

1: We're Gonna Need JNCOs For That from 2019-09-15T22:00:31

Brad and Will contemplate their own mortality while discussing this week's Apple event. Topics include Apple's newest iPhones, Watches, iPads, and services. There's also at least one banger of a se...

0: Sweatpants Tech Podcast from 2019-09-12T17:23:24

On this inaugural episode, Brad and Will share their technological origin stories and why they've always loved tech. Hear the reason they're making a podcast, the stories of their first PC builds, ...