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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

Total: 273

By the time you hear this ep, Daylight Savings Time will have departed for another year, so DST is n

It's the most horrifying Q&A episode we've ever recorded! This month we field Qs about such topics a

110: The UPC of the Beast

2021/10/24

Will's daughter recently had her first encounter with a corded telephone, which got us thinking abou

109: A House of Lies

2021/10/17

It's been nine years since Will's last big house cleanup, and the time has come once again to discus

108: Deez Network Servers

2021/10/10

Well, this was one heck of a week. On Monday, Facebook experienced a historic outage of its infrastr

Will Smith, this is your life! Or at least one month of it, specifically November 2009, when you pub

106: That's So USB!

2021/9/26

Our monthly Q&A episode is all over the place in September, addressing such wide-ranging subjects as

105: The Hardest Lift

2021/9/19

Health science writer and noted swole woman Casey Johnston joins us this week to talk about the conv

104: Get the Good out of It

2021/9/12

Bang for the buck! There's no greater feeling than finding that one product that's way, way better t

This week we're joined by Google's director of open source, Chris DiBona, to talk all things softwar

102: My Little iPad Pillow

2021/8/29

On this month's Q&A ep, we debut some wild new cold-open technology, and then get on with the busine

101: Big-Dot-Little

2021/8/22

This week we recorded a grab bag about some disruptive current events going on in various tech space

100: The Spiteful Fork

2021/8/15

Drama alert! Our long-promised scene drama episode (vol. 1) is here to explore community kerfuffles

99: You Wanna Be Elite?

2021/8/8

We recently found a Hackers-sized hole in Brad's filmgoing history, so we're killing two birds with

98: The Fox Knows What's Up

2021/8/1

Question time is here again, and this month our answers address topics like these: why anyone is sti

Ever wonder what it's like to try your hand at small-batch manufacturing overseas? Keyboardio's Jess

96: National Ground Beef Day

2021/7/18

We enjoyed Will's birth-year episode so much a few weeks ago that we're back with a look at the nota

This week we're joined by Will's friend Ben Brown, longtime online software developer, to talk about

You knew we couldn't resist doing a Windows 11 episode, and indeed we're here to talk about the whol

93: Missives From the Void

2021/6/27

This month's Q&A episode features Qs (from both email and our Discord) that got us chatting about su