ALL EPISODES

Tyler digs into why phones, earbuds, and even video games are suddenly going backward, dumb phones, wired earbuds, and vinyl are all trending up while smartpho…

Ever notice your chip bag feels lighter but somehow still costs the same? Tyler's had it with companies calling that inflation when it's really just shrinking …

Tyler takes a trip down memory lane through video rental stores, sparked by a random Nova Scotia reunion and his kid watching a video store simulator game on Y…

Tyler breaks down why running a small internet radio station went from a fun hobbyist project in 2009 to a legal and financial minefield today. He walks throug…

Tyler digs into the one MySpace bug that accidentally taught a whole generation how to code: that infamous About Me box that let you paste raw HTML and CSS to …

Tyler hits pause on the usual format to explain why he's blowing up the show again. He walks through the moment he realized his supposedly personal podcast had…

The STL, or studio to transmitter link, is the unglamorous connection that keeps a radio station on the air, and when it fails everything goes dead silent even…

Plex just tripled its lifetime pass price and put remote streaming of your own files behind a paywall, so this episode digs into what it actually takes to swit…

iHeartMedia just laid off hundreds of on air staff this week, wiping out local radio in markets like Springfield, Erie, and Spokane. Tyler traces how the 1996 …

HD radio hijacking happens when a distant station's digital signal takes over a local frequency the moment that local station's own HD signal goes dark. Tyler …

HD radio was pitched as the FM upgrade that would save terrestrial radio from satellite and streaming, but two decades later most listeners have never heard of…

Spotify decides what counts as a stream and there is no outside auditor checking the number that decides how artists get paid, unlike broadcast radio which use…

For over 40 years, a radio signal in the UK has been quietly switching household heating systems on and off. It's called the Radio Teleswitch Service, and it's…

The entire podcast industry runs on one tiny XML tag that nobody owns. The enclosure tag is why podcasting stayed open when everything else got platformed, and…

There's a tiny data protocol still riding inside FM signals after all these years, and it's the reason your car's dashboard knows what song is playing. RDS and…

Cable news channels have the staff, the brand recognition, and news gathering operations most radio stations can only dream of. Instead of building real audio …

The fight over AM radio isn't really about whether you listen to it. It's about what happens when the land under a tower is worth more than the station on it. …

Ted Turner died on May 6, 2026, at 87. Most tributes will focus on CNN and the billion dollars to the UN. But the moment that mattered most for broadcast histo…

Most of America's radio stations no longer have a chief engineer, and nobody notices until a tower goes dark or the FCC fines start piling up. One station sat …

The FCC's public file used to be a dusty binder in your lobby. Since 2018 it's a searchable, timestamped online record anyone can dig through, and the politica…

"Moving a file three feet shouldn't require a round trip to a distant server. LocalSend is a free, open source app that moves files, folders, and text directly…

"You walk into a big box store with full bars and walk out to a flood of missed notifications. It's not your phone and it's not your carrier. It's physics and …

Your phone call might have traveled 22,000 miles through space with zero protection, and someone with an $800 satellite dish could have heard every word. A new…

"Local stations are going dark across the country, and blaming streaming only tells half the story. Media consolidation, voice tracking, and corporate cost cut…

"FM coverage maps look bold and confident, but the actual audience listens six feet off the ground, weaving between buildings and hills where signals get chewe…

"The FCC put foreign-manufactured consumer routers on the covered list, and if your facility is running one of those boxes in a mission-critical spot, it's tim…

"I stopped waiting for the "Ugly's Electrical Reference" of networking and built my own. When you're standing in front of a switch at 11 p.m. and need the exac…

"A nearly 100-year-old radio news network is going dark on May 22, roughly 700 affiliates are affected, and the radio news team is gone. This isn't a relic bei…

"I hit a point where rereading the same sentence three times stopped being funny and started being exhausting. I'm almost 40, and I finally decided to get eval…

"YouTube Music blurred the words to your favorite songs and called it premium. This episode digs into the decision to cap free lyric views and sell the unblur,…

"Canada is shutting down Weather Radio Canada, and the timing could not be worse. Those 162 MHz VHF transmitters are a quiet 24/7 public safety backbone, and t…

"Before infinite feeds, there was Channel 99: a scrolling list of what was on, and you sat there waiting for your channel to come back around like it was a sma…

Your dishwasher doesn't need a firmware update to clean plates, and your oven shouldn't require an account to roast dinner. This episode is about the gap betwe…

Windows 10 support ended, and Microsoft's answer is hardware requirements that sideline perfectly capable machines. There's a smarter path than buying a new PC…

"Your TV is not just a screen. It's an ad tech computer with a giant display, and it's hungry for your viewing data. Automatic content recognition fingerprints…

"Your laptop shouldn't feel like it's wading through syrup, and the fix is usually storage, not a new machine. This episode untangles the acronyms that confuse…

"Forget the hype cycle. This episode breaks AI into pieces you can actually use: the broad umbrella term, machine learning underneath it, and generative tools …

"You asked for a library and got a shopping mall. This episode digs into why search results slid downhill: crowded ad units, affiliate-heavy pages, and AI summ…

"Ever scroll past the same joke, the same cropped video, and replies that don't quite sound human? This episode digs into why the web feels hollow without buyi…

"You type an address, hit enter, and a page shows up. Or it doesn't, and you have no idea why. This episode walks through everything that actually happens in b…

"Full bars, and Netflix still buffers. The problem isn't your internet plan, it's the air you share. Wi-Fi is radio, devices take turns talking, and a busy eve…