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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

by Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
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Today: #107 in Technology on our combined chart.

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Episode releases
#83#110#137#163#190Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#107Episode released Oct 18: 361: The Definitive Hoth LevelEpisode released Oct 25: 362: Bigger Sample Size Better
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Oct 27#107#96#93
Oct 26#93#75—
Oct 25#172#169—
Oct 23#180#177—
Oct 21#135#128—
Oct 20#110#98#80
Oct 19#104#84—
Oct 15#176#173—
Oct 14#133#133#95

Latest episodes

  • 362: Bigger Sample Size Better

    October 25, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    The year's most horrifying crop of questions has arrived (accompanied by some fun spooky usernames), and we bare our fangs as we address such topics as: 5AM air travel hacks, what to do with decommissioned Ring cameras, extending your…

  • 361: The Definitive Hoth Level

    October 18, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Inspired by the recent 30th anniversary of the Nintendo 64's release in North America, we decided to do some reading this week and try to gain at least a layperson's understanding of how the system worked under the hood. Join in for a…

  • 360: The Bridgestone Affair

    October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    Brad's on the road this week, so we shook up another potpourri of mini-topics to discuss, including DIY VR mods, the questionable wisdom of working remotely on a brand new laptop, backing into creating a site-to-site VPN, a those…

  • 359: Potatoes From the Sky

    October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    This week we round up some news items that have caught our interest in the last few weeks. Google and Walmart have rolled out a backyard drone-delivery program for small orders. Valve is beta testing a unique ultra-low-latency video codec…

  • 358: It's a DE-rail, Not a DB-rail

    September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    It turns out we haven't answered all the questions that have ever been asked yet, so we figured we'd take a few more from you, the listener, this week, covering topics like cell phone signal strength and the way your carrier prioritizes…

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  • 357: Drag Your PC Into the Back Yard

    September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Following up on our bonus Steam Frame episode earlier this week, Tested's Norman Chan stops by to go much deeper on Valve's new standalone headset, unpacking topics like the pros and cons of pancake optics, local Alyx versus streamed Alyx…

  • 356 Extra! - Steam Frame Edition

    September 14, 2026 · 25 min

    Valve sent us a review unit of their new standalone VR headset, the Steam Frame and we're here with first impressions, after testing it for about 40 hours over the course of a week. We talk about the FEX x86 to ARM emulator, how well it…

  • 356: Small Team, Big Thinking

    September 13, 2026 · 59 min

    This week we sat down with the 2018 documentary General Magic, about the early '90s startup of the same name that was full of Macintosh veterans who were way ahead of their time about mobile computing, online communications, and a lot of…

  • 355: Spindly, Greebly

    September 6, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    We're back with another hodgepodge of user-submitted topics this week to clear out some of our backlog from the summer, leading us to talk about everything from uses for a PC's real-time-clock wake feature to domain hijacking and…

  • 354: The Dog Nose Knows

    August 30, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    The Q&A returns for August with a variety of topics including pet-related tech mishaps, the contentious multimeter pronunciation debate, arcade boards and Super NES expansion chips, the return of physical keyboard phones, and an accidental…

  • 353: Notes About Notes

    August 23, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    It's been a while since we checked in on note-taking apps and ways to wrangle their data, and a lot has changed with our personal use cases on that front. Will has gone deep on Notion's relational capabilities and seen how well they can…

  • 352: Tell the Robots to Eff Off

    August 16, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    We reach into the grab bag again this week for a selection of topics we hope will delight and/or inform. On the AI front, Twitch stepped in it this week with a belated ability to opt your streams out of use in Amazon's AI training, raising…

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About the show

Each Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form conversations about virtual reality, space travel, electric cars, refresh rates, and a whole lot more. Support the pod on Patreon: http://patreon.com/techpod