Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Each Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form co

Episodes

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Hey, remember RSS? Friend of the show Wes Fenlon joins us for a record fourth (!!) time to reminisce

We're embarking on a two-part rundown of home video formats this week, with part one focusing on ana

232: Secret Search Engine!

2024/4/28

April concludes with another round of questions, during which we entertain the idea of inviting Q to

The time has come for our deep dive into Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 made-for-TNT movie that

This week we attempt to unpack the recent, historic security breach in the open source world, after

We're doing a follow-up Q&A this week while we sort out some scheduling hurdles on the backend, and

March's Q&A features a wide array of questions that inspired discussions about such wide-ranging top

227: A Donut of Good Internet

2024/3/24

Inspired by what's probably the most common subject we see questions about on our Discord, this week

226: shooter.exe

2024/3/17

We've got a two-fer this week, with a pair of topics that might not have filled a whole ep on their

225: The Goldblum Conjecture

2024/3/10

What makes a great tech demo? Besides killer tech, do you need theatricality? Stage presence? The ri

Book club returns this week, now that we've both read id Software founder John Romero's memoir, Doom

This month's Q&A features another bumper crop of great topics, including installing in-wall speakers

222: War of the Chatbots

2024/2/18

News has been happening (when hasn't it?) and this week we're rounding up some of the stories that c

221: Cluck to Home Screen

2024/2/11

We're pleased to welcome Tested's Norman Chan back to the show, fresh off of his first week with the

PC graphics settings have only gotten more complex in recent years, with new options around AI-drive

219: The Mark of Expertise

2024/1/28

We begin this month's Q&A with a slightly mind-bending discussion of questions that exist in a quant

218: Products People Love

2024/1/21

Will unearthed a venerable SpaceOrb 360 in his garage recently, which sent us down a rabbit hole cha

Another Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and we've sifted through the highs and lows to

216: Tactical Baking Method

2024/1/7

The seasonal metaphors continue as we weather a blizzard of great questions from you for the monthly

On the final day of 2023, Will is joined by Adam Patrick Murray from PC World to discuss the year th