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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 order to revive a treasured classic, and the benefits of cheesy popcorn. Thanks for supporting the pod...

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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 workday soft serve kicks ass, how much we love frozen custard, and more.

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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 also Brad), and a lot more. Enjoy!

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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!

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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 11, and ways you can tell when it's DNS. Enjoy!

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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.

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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 2005, when Revenge of the Sith was in theaters.

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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!

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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 more

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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.

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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.

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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 Steam Family sharing, and a bit more about Brad's folks in North Carolina.

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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.

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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.

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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 Wars: Outlaws worked, the fan remake of Tie Fighter, how we'd feel about being stuck on the ISS, and ...

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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 remotely, 3D printer safety and you, and Lane Kiffin. Thanks for supporting the show!

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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 market regrets. Enjoy!

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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.

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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's Dogma 2 drama. Enjoy!

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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. 

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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-running feud with grub. 

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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 charger strategies, getting a phone for your kid, and the appeal of a modernized JRPG. 

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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, the merits of CarPlay, and a whole lot more. 

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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. Enjoy!

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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 world could look like after we complete another 200 episodes (well, 198, by the time most of you he...

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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! 

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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 memory, and more! 

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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 given the opportunity, the size of the Super Star Destroyer Executor shooting model, and more. Enjoy!...

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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 PC, and Brad's "offending" USB port. 

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