Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Episodes 352
Avg. Duration 1h 11m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (499)
Since Sep 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
100%
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About This Podcast

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

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Recent Episodes

342: Faster Thinner Quieter Cooler Cheaper

Jun 07, 2026 1h 18m

Computex happened this week, and there was enough to talk about to devote this week's episode to rounding up the high points, including Nvidia's attempt to dominate the consumer Windows market with…

341: F2 Is My Most Used F

May 31, 2026 1h 20m

Question time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and…

340: Like a Bong for Your CPU

May 24, 2026 1h 10m

Brad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a…

339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs

May 17, 2026 1h 22m

After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked…

338: Everything for Everything

May 10, 2026 58m

Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases,…

337: They're 3D-Printing Shoes Now

May 03, 2026 1h 15m

We've got a project potpourri this week of things we've been getting our hands on, literally in the case of Will and his brand new Steam Controller. We talk through the ins and outs of Valve's first…

336: When Triple Redundancy Isn't Enough

Apr 26, 2026 1h 27m

After all these monthly Q&A episodes, you folks continue to send us great Qs every month, and this time around we dig into such topics as the MacBook Neo's target audience, Windows running on…

335: With Craft and Focus

Apr 19, 2026 1h 16m

It's time to fix Windows 11. OK, that might be a little ambitious for one podcast episode, but it's at least time to step through the plan Microsoft unveiled recently for improving Windows 11 and…

334: We Nailed the Math!

Apr 12, 2026 1h 11m

Friend of the show and all-around science guy Kishore Hari joins us once again, this time to dig into humanity's return to the Moon in NASA's Artemis program. We explore everything from the…

333: I Used To Do a Podcast

Apr 05, 2026 1h 4m

Brad's out this week, so Norman Chan takes the guest chair to talk us through the current state of the art in 3D printing. We cover the latest in FDM printers, whether resin printers are right for…

332: Shout Out to the 1979 Lady Kenmore

Mar 29, 2026 1h 20m

Is it time for another Q&A again already? How the months just fly by. This month we address everything from auto-generated podcast chapters and episode links to computer class-action lawsuits,…

331: More Teddy Ruxpin, Less Chucky

Mar 22, 2026 1h 12m

It's been a while since we got down to brass tacks with a tips and tricks episode, so that's what we're doing this week with a new list of tech that's making our lives a little more pleasant lately.…

330: Our E-Cores Are Better Than Your P-Cores

Mar 15, 2026 1h 33m

There's kind of a mountain of hardware news from the last week, so we're rounding it up this week, starting with Microsoft's Project Helix (a.k.a. the next Xbox), interrogating what exactly that box…

329: A Plaid Decade

Mar 08, 2026 1h 28m

We just passed the 25th anniversary of the GeForce 3, which felt like a good reason to dust off the April 2001 issue of Maximum PC. We reflect on both a quarter-century of programmable pixel shaders…

328: Shared Resources, Shared Problems

Mar 01, 2026 1h 19m

It's another glorious bounty of listener questions for the monthly Q&A, touching on a bunch of subjects like modern HDMI switchers, enormous turn-of-the-century TVs, MikroTik network gear,…

327: Two Hours of War

Feb 22, 2026 1h 4m

There's... a lot going on lately, so we're rounding up some of that news this week, starting with Discord's forthcoming age verification policy rolling out globally, with cursory discussion of some…

326: Quantumly Entangled Keyboard Switches

Feb 15, 2026 1h 9m

Magnets have been replacing potentiometers in a variety of places for a while now, especially as Hall effect and TMR joysticks have started popping up in fancy game controllers. Now magnetic switches…

325: renderDEEZ128

Feb 08, 2026 1h 44m

It's been a while since we did a deep dive on our home networking and server infrastructure (what some might call a "homelab"), so it's time for the 2026 check-in to run down what we're working with…

324: The Intel Batman

Feb 01, 2026 1h 14m

After two months of accumulated Qs, we felt we still had plenty of As to dispense, so we're wheeling back around to a supplemental questions episode this week, touching on such topics as generating…

323: Ignore All Previous Instructions

Jan 25, 2026 1h 3m

The questions piled up over the holidays and now it's time to answer them in this, the first Q&A of 2026. This month we touch on topics like the splendor Gateway 2000's cow boxes, the mystery of…

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