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: 365

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.

355: Spindly, Greebly

September 06, 2026

We're back with another hodgepodge of user-submitted topics this week to clear out some of our backlog from the summer, leading us to talk about everything from uses for a PC's real-time-clock wake feature to domain hijacking and protecting your custom email address, the origins of the octothorpe, a very cool virtual operating system museum, and lots of stuff in between.The Virtual OS Museum: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to ou...

354: The Dog Nose Knows

August 30, 2026

The Q&A returns for August with a variety of topics including pet-related tech mishaps, the contentious multimeter pronunciation debate, arcade boards and Super NES expansion chips, the return of physical keyboard phones, and an accidental grip of AI-related questions about web-scraping statistics, podcasters putting on new vocal identities, cyberattacks on infrastructure, and the growing societal backlash that might (maybe) blunt all this at some point. Arcade board cases discussed in th...

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...

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