Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
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 ...
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- Norman Chan2 eps
- Kishore Hari1 ep
- Vinny Caravella1 ep
Also: Wes Fenlon, Florence Ion, Adam Patrick Murray, Steve Lin
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- 🇺🇸United States · TechnologyHOME#10714K to 76K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Technology#941.3K to 6.9K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Technology#105670 to 3.5K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Technology#127347 to 1.8K
- 🇸🇪Sweden · Technology#70323 to 1.7K
- Per-Episode Audience
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18K to 95K🎙 ~2x weekly·364 episodes·Last published 4d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
36K to 189K🇺🇸80%🇬🇧7%🇨🇦4%+6 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
20K to 104K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/25/26 |  362: Bigger Sample Size Better | 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 devices' lives in these uncertain times, home VPN options in a world of rapidly increasing security issues, choosing a monitor refresh rate, Halloween candy rankings, the AI-driven Eternal September, whatever happened to the Optimus keyboard, launching your own CubeSat, and a bunch of other stuff. | 1h 24m 35s | ||||||
| 10/18/26 |  361: The Definitive Hoth Level | 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 mostly structured discussion about the N64's unique hardware architecture, the forward-looking 3D graphics techniques it used years before Nvidia's Geforce, the origins of SGI's involvement in the consumer games space, the hype around Rambus, and a bunch of other stuff. | 1h 08m 33s | ||||||
| 10/11/26 |  360: The Bridgestone Affair | 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 vibe-coded clones of Adobe apps like Photoshop and Lightroom, high-tech tire technology, baby's first attempt at Nix (or in this case Lix), and a bunch of other stuff. | 1h 12m 36s | ||||||
| 10/4/26 |  359: Potatoes From the Sky | 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 for Steam Remote Play. A recent circuit court decision may have wide-ranging precedent for copyright penalties around AI training data. And the Dutch government is the latest in Europe to pursue its digital sovereignty by moving from Windows to... NixOS? Seems like a lot to talk about! | 1h 04m 33s | ||||||
| 9/27/26 |  358: It's a DE-rail, Not a DB-rail | 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 your traffic, ARM vs. x86 in the context of efficiency, how much vibe-coding is going on in OSs and drivers right now, open source wearable devices, how to store a Nintendo Switch for the very long term, the long and mysterious legacy of the D-subminiature standard, and more. | 1h 12m 28s | ||||||
| 9/20/26 |  357: Drag Your PC Into the Back Yard | 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, a headset with hot-swappable batteries, prescription lens inserts, FEX x86-to-ARM translation, and more. We also wrap up with a holistic look at the entire Valve hardware ecosystem now that all the pieces are in place, pondering what it might all mean for the next Steam Deck and beyond. | 1h 10m 49s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 |  356 Extra! - Steam Frame Edition | 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 works with local and streaming VR as well as playing 2D games on a big, giant virtual monitor. | 25m 11s | ||||||
| 9/13/26 |  356: Small Team, Big Thinking | 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 other stuff. Were they really trying to make the iPhone more than a decade before the iPhone? Did they seriously invent early precursors to USB, Java, and emoji long before those things became commonplace? Why did they fail so catastrophically? Join us as we discuss the movie to ponder these and other questions about a really heady, innovative era of computing. | 58m 56s | ||||||
| 9/6/26 | user-submitted topicstechnology+5 | — | PCoctothorpe+1 | — | real-time-clockdomain hijacking+5 | — | 1h 15m 44s | ||
| 8/30/26 | pet-related techmultimeter pronunciation+4 | — | Super NESphysical keyboard phones+3 | — | pet techmultimeter+4 | — | 1h 09m 44s | ||
| 8/23/26 | note-taking appsdata management+3 | — | Notionpandoc+1 | — | note-takingNotion+5 | — | 1h 18m 21s | ||
| 8/16/26 | AIweb scraping+3 | — | MacBook ProTwitch+1 | — | AI trainingTwitch+5 | — | 1h 11m 59s | ||
| 8/9/26 | vintage computingtechnology+4 | — | Vintage Computer Festival WestAmerica Online+2 | Los Angeles | Vintage Computer FestivalEthernet+4 | — | 1h 28m 51s | ||
| 8/2/26 | hobbieslearning new skills+5 | Steve Lin | Video Game History Foundation | — | hobbiesskills+5 | — | 1h 19m 16s | ||
| 7/26/26 | Q&Apopcorn+4 | — | — | — | popcornunder-volting+3 | — | 1h 02m 58s | ||
| 7/19/26 | paid search enginesNAS hard drives+3 | Vinny Caravella | Fastmail | — | Vinny CaravellaWill+5 | — | 1h 42m 40s | ||
| 7/12/26 | retro gaminggame recompilations+4 | Wes Fenlon | N64PSX+4 | — | retro gamesN64+5 | — | 1h 15m 28s | ||
| 7/5/26 | Steam MachineValve hardware+4 | Norman Chan | Steam MachineTested+1 | — | Steam MachineValve+4 | — | 1h 23m 55s | ||
| 6/28/26 | GoogleAI+4 | Florence Ion | PC MagMaterial Podcast+4 | — | GoogleGemini+4 | — | 1h 12m 50s | ||
| 6/21/26 | handheld gaminggaming consoles+3 | Adam Patrick Murray | Intel's new GPU-first handheld processorAnalog Pocket+2 | — | handheld gamingIntel GPU+3 | — | 1h 05m 47s | ||
| 6/14/26 | AppleWWDC+4 | — | SiriLiquid Glass UI+3 | — | AppleWWDC+4 | — | 1h 13m 09s | ||
| 6/7/26 | ComputexPC hardware+4 | — | RTX SparkRGB mini-LED monitors+6 | — | ComputexNvidia+6 | — | 1h 18m 40s | ||
| 5/31/26 | printer technologydigital rights+4 | — | SIGGRAPHICQ | — | printer dotsUSB microscope+4 | — | 1h 20m 23s | ||
| 5/24/26 | CPU coolingliquid cooling+4 | — | CPUheatsink+4 | — | CPUheatsink+5 | — | 1h 10m 13s | ||
| 5/17/26 | tech trendsscience perspective+4 | — | WRT54G | — | 2002tech trends+6 | — | 1h 22m 27s | ||
| 5/10/26 | technologypolitics+4 | — | HDMI 2.1AMD+1 | — | canary trapspolitical databases+5 | — | 58m 01s | ||
| 5/3/26 | 3D printingtechnology+3 | — | Steam Controller3D printer+2 | — | Steam Controller3D printer+3 | — | 1h 15m 23s | ||
| 4/26/26 | Q&Atechnology+5 | — | MacBook NeoWindows+4 | — | MacBook NeoWindows+6 | — | 1h 27m 38s | ||
| 4/19/26 | Windows 11Microsoft updates+4 | — | Windows 11WSL2+1 | — | Windows 11Microsoft+6 | — | 1h 16m 46s | ||
| 4/12/26 | NASA Artemis programMoon exploration+5 | Kishore Hari | NASA | — | Artemis programMoon+6 | — | 1h 11m 30s | ||
| 4/5/26 | 3D printingFDM printers+3 | Norman Chan | — | — | 3D printingFDM printers+3 | — | 1h 04m 25s | ||
| 3/29/26 | Q&Atechnology+4 | — | 1979 Lady Kenmore | — | podcast chapterscomputer lawsuits+4 | — | 1h 20m 31s | ||
| 3/22/26 | technologytips and tricks+3 | — | Teddy RuxpinUSB video capture dongle+7 | — | Teddy RuxpinUSB video capture+5 | — | 1h 12m 42s | ||
| 3/15/26 | hardware newsgaming+5 | — | Project HelixXbox+9 | — | Project HelixXbox+6 | — | 1h 33m 49s | ||
| 3/8/26 | GPU technology3D rendering+4 | — | GeForce 3Pentium 4 RD-RAM+2 | — | GeForce 3Maximum PC+5 | — | 1h 28m 38s | ||
| 3/1/26 | listener questionstechnology+5 | — | HDMI switchersturn-of-the-century TVs+5 | US | HDMI switchersMikroTik+5 | — | 1h 19m 46s | ||
| 2/22/26 | age verificationcybersecurity+3 | — | Steam MachinePlayStation 6+2 | — | DiscordNotepad+++5 | — | 1h 04m 21s | ||
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Chart history for Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
Peaked at #63 in Ireland, currently #63 in Ireland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | — | #63 | #63 | — |
| Finland | — | #65 | #65 | — |
| Sweden | — | #70 | #70 | — |
| Denmark | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #94 | #94 | — |
| Norway | — | #101 | #101 | — |
| Canada | — | #105 | #105 | — |
| PT | — | #106 | #106 | — |
| United States | — | #107 | #107 | — |
| SG | — | #120 | #120 | — |
| Australia | — | #127 | #127 | — |
| TH | — | #127 | #127 | — |
| IS | — | #141 | #141 | — |
| RO | — | #166 | #166 | — |
| PL | — | #174 | #174 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #179 | #179 | — |
| South Africa | — | #181 | #181 | — |
Chart Positions
17 placements across 17 markets.
Chart Positions
17 placements across 17 markets.