Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Booking Overview

A host-led technology and computing discussion show focused on hardware, gaming, consumer technology, and technology history, with occasional long-form interviews featuring established tech-media personalities, creators, and specialized hobbyists. Credible pitches include accessible experts in computing, hardware, gaming, digital preservation, and consumer technology; booking difficulty is likely low, although the show appears to rely on a selective, relationship-driven guest pool.

Metrics

Episodes: 363

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

techpod@content.town

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Host

Brad Shoemaker - Video game journalist and technology commentator known for long-form discussions of games, computing, and technology culture.

Will Smith - Technology media personality and editor known for commentary on consumer technology, computing, and digital culture.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Practical expertise in computing, hardware, gaming, consumer technology, digital preservation, or specialized technical hobbies; established technology-media creators are also a fit.

Required Achievements:

Established technology-media work or a recognizable specialist practice, Hands-on experience with technical projects, restoration, preservation, or consumer technology

Recent Guest Discussions

Steve Lin - Arcade And Pinball Restoration, Video Game History, Hobbyist Preservation, Learning Technical Skills, Watch Repair, And Model Trains.

Vincent Caravella - Search Engines, Network-attached Storage, Email Services, Home Electrical Work, And Consumer Technology.

Recent Topics

Computing, Hardware, Gaming, Electronics, Technology History

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

353: Notes About Notes

August 23, 2026

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 support a shared knowledge base for a team of a couple dozen people. Meanwhile, Brad has done a survey of apps targeted at the individual end user, with the goal of fully owning the data and controlling how and where it's synced. We round up everything we've d...

352: Tell the Robots to Eff Off

August 16, 2026

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 questions about just how long this practice has been going on, and we also look at some emerging novel techniques for defeating web scrapers taking fresh training data. We also touch on the California Extreme arcade and pinball show, including obscure proto...

351: if Name == "Will Smith" { Grade = "A" }

August 09, 2026

Brad and Will reconvene this week to talk about their recent adventures in the real world. Brad returns from the Vintage Computer Festival West once again with a recap of this year's highlights, including projects to resurrect everything from classic America Online to obscure software distribution kiosks from 1980s Japan, panels with some fun details about things like the creation of Ethernet and programming heroics on the Atari 2600, plus some Quake deathmatch against today's youth. And Will...

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techpod@content.town

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