Brad Shoemaker & Will Smith

Ep. 67 - Cheddar Popcorn in the Chicago Style

On this month's Patron exclusive episode, we talk about an incredible gift a listener made, our Halloween plans and decorating strategy, the inflatable Halloween decoration Will chose to gut in ord...

Ep. 66: Control Panel of Control Panel Fame

This month, Brad and Will talk about adventures with Linux, building games with interesting status effects, getting the youth interested in metroidvanias, the ghosting of Switch 2 screens, why a wo...

Ep. 65 - Enamored With the Little Professor

On this month's Patron episode, we discuss good Linux partitioning strategies, how to pick a good song for Fortnite taunting, Fuser hacking, drag soldering, the real problem with Gen Alpha (and als...

Ep. 64 - It Rode Like a Living Room

On a wide ranging Patron episode, Brad and Will discuss classic cars, bad gas, good tomatoes, and a new front on the "Is it a sandwich?" wars of the mid-2010s. Enjoy!

Ep. 63 - The Johnny Wood Theory

In this half-of-a-heatwave episode, we discuss the benefits of only being visible from the torso up at work, the best Switch 2 screen protectors, advances in fancy webcams, clean vs. dirty Windows ...

Ep. 62 - Probative or Prejudicial

This week, we attempt to find out who the courtroom giggler was, we dig into the benefits of Blocky and reverse proxies, discuss damaged goods, and take a select group of questions from the Discord...

Ep. 61 - More of a Crotchal Issue

The year of Linux continues! Will and Brad talk over making the switch, discuss Easter 2.0 and the dangerous proliferation of Easter-themed candies, and take a trip back in time to the summer of 20...

Ep. 60 - Who Can Plumb the Mysteries of Windows

On this month's definitively not rambly cast for Patrons, Brad & Will discuss the mysteries of Windows Game Mode, btrfs vs. zfs, the proper way to pronounce Ghibli, and much much more. Enjoy! <...

Ep. 59 - You Down With the ROP?

This month, it's a wide ranging conversation about finding weird bugs, fixing weird bugs, making new benchmarks, the sweet spot for a good monitor, putting your TPM to good use, and a whole lot mor...

Ep. 58 - Underpants Should Not Have Pockets

This month, Brad and Will discuss Secure Boot and UEFI booting, the benefits of lifting your PC off the ground, and the thing from the title, I guess.

Ep. 57 - Cheese and Crax

In this festive end-of-year Patron episode, Brad and Will discuss holiday lighting, the time it wasn't DNS, school lunch pizza, and the right number of sausage balls to consume in a year.

Patron Ep. 56: Pie for Breakfast!

It's Black Friday and the guys are here to talk about dealing with old cables, old podcasts, and an ill-advised last-minute tier ranking.

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Ep. 55 - Can't Beat George Canon

This month Brad and Will discuss the seemingly unwise process the internet came up with to revitalize an old ultrawide monitor, the new iOS hearing test for AirPod Pro 2 owners, the problem with St...

Ep. 54 - That $400 Ikea Couch Will Outlive Us All

This month, Brad and Will talk about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and how it's affected our families, and Will's families strategy for COVID isolation in a small house.

Ep. 53 - Just As Blue As Ever

Topics this month include the end of Anandtech (RIP), Brad getting Black & White running on a modern PC, KB5041587, even more apps, and the bad bad thing that AI did to Will.

Ep. 52 - The Podcasting Superposition

This month, Brad and Will chat about the perils of living walking distance from a Costco, the miracle of the $1.50 hot dog and soda, taxis driven by robots, a bit about how Will's preview of Star W...

Ep. 51 - Let's Do It Live!

Brad's still on location, so this month Will did a special, live edition of the Patron Q&A. Topics include the real meaning of Canada Day, the coolest tech at Disney parks, tips for working rem...

Ep. 50 - The 50th Episode Spectacular!

This month on the Patron episode, we discuss ripping old game cartridges, finding easier ways to provide power around the house, a bit more on the Comma.ai self-driving car business, and flea marke...

Ep. 49 - That Five Nanometer Magic

This month, Brad and Will discuss moving from Intel to AMD, what an episode about Will's new Ionic 5 would look like, 40Hz mode coming to the Xbox, the PS5 Pro, Helldiving, and a whole lot more. 2024-05-01 01:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 48 - Reputable Microfiber

It's Patron-episode time again! This month, the lads discuss the relative merits of different microfibers, AI demos at GDC, 13900k problems continuing, an update on the MiSTer N64 core, and Dragon'...

Ep. 47 - My Daughter, the Slime Rancher

This month's Patron episode details Brad's ffmpeg streaming mad science, a bit about Will's work at PC World, and a little bit about Will and his daughter's slime making experiments. 

Ep. 46 - Ridiculously Tall Skinny Monitor

This month we chat about ongoing projects: Will's learning to use his Keyboardio Model 100 and tackling a new kind of keyboard with Rocksmith, while Brad is kicking off what's sure to be a long-run...

Ep. 45 - Forgive Me Mario, For I Have Sinned

This month, we discuss holiday treats and tricks, sighting Steam Decks in the wild, the merits of a center-cut bone-in shortcut, the problem with third-party Apple Watch chargers, the best travel c...

Ep. 44 - The Deshrouding Zone

This month, Brad and Will discuss whether deshrouding GPUs is a good idea, what the last days of a game's Early Access launch entail, Brad's shift to Intel, the right scheme for colored USB cables,...

Ep. 43 - A Gun That Shoots Windows

This month, Brad finally finds a good reason to give up and install Windows 11, Will finds out that night photos are so much better with the iPhone 15, and we turn even more Qs into As. En...

Ep. 42 - 200 More Episodes

Brad and Will take a trip down memory lane to celebrate this momentous occasion, talking about the origins of the podcast, what we thought we were making versus what we've made, and ponder what the...

Ep. 41 - The Duck Is No Anakin

This month, we chat about Wwill learning Wwise, Brad's HDMI CEC adventure, and Will asks Brad a lot of questions about Starfield. Enjoy! 

Ep 40. - The Great Southwestern Poolbug

This month, on the Patron exclusive episode, we talk about karma and nuisance insects, setting up a dead simple VPN with Wireguard, cleaning electronics with goo, the right time to upgrade to DDR5 ...

Ep 39. - A One-Fish Sesh

This month on the Patron-exclusive episode, we talk about museums, learning to code, the psychic benefits of catch-and-release fishing, the amount of time we'd spend in the Air & Space Museum g...

Ep. 38 - A Killer Two-Minute Knock Knock Joke Set

This month, we're talking about Gigabyte motherboard vulnerabilities, surprise requests to shoot an elementary school talent show, using Filmic Pro, Brad testing real podcast production on his new ...