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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

212: Programmable for the Masses

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Smart Phone, Society & Culture, Ios, Apple, Amazon, Smartphone, Tesla, Tech Pod, Tech, Phone, Technology, Space, Android, Google, Microsoft, Science, Videogame, Video Game, Games, Electric Car, Techpod

4.8521 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The temperature outside is plummeting, but the number of cold opens in this episode is skyrocketing! We convene once again this week for our sort-of-semi-annual block of short segments about everything from video game Yule logs to neighbors waging holiday decoration warfare, keeping your CPU from (almost) melting, neglecting your cast iron, maximizing your Panda Express order, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0

I see here in the Google Doc for this bullet point, you've included a photo.

0:03.7

Yeah, sometimes it's nice to bring some AV.

0:05.8

This is from one of the people in my Twitch Discord.

0:08.9

They posted their neighbor's Christmas lights.

0:11.2

Okay.

0:11.5

I thought this, I think you were going to say this was one of your neighbor's Christmas

0:14.5

lights.

0:14.9

And I was going to say, how tense are relations with this neighbor now?

0:18.3

Well, I would have a pair of wire snips out if somebody did something like this in my neighborhood. It is the brightest goddamn thing I've ever seen in my life.

0:24.5

It's like the surface of the sun. I'm like, this monitor is not even HDR and I still don't want to look at

0:28.7

that. It's like, what are they doing? It's, it's, they just have a straight line of white, insanely bright LEDs along the trim line of their house.

0:38.8

And no thank you, sir.

0:40.8

It literally looks like a series of spotlights shining at like, how do you, how do you

0:45.4

coexist with somebody who does this to the people around them?

0:48.0

You know what it reminds me of, it reminds me of like the landing lights that come on

0:51.6

at the front of the airplane when you're like the airplane headlights. So they turn them on so they make sure there's not like a deer or a bear

0:58.0

or something in the runway or I guess a child I don't know person I don't know what I don't know what

1:02.2

the problem why you have look they have lights that turn on they're real bright that's the point

1:05.7

uh I don't know why you do this people I don't know about I don't know about the city but people down here in the burbs are getting crazy with Christmas stuff now like yeah I've noticed an uptick like I

1:16.6

mean people are not quite shut indoors the way they were the last three years necessarily but

1:21.4

I had I attributed to that period where everybody was just stuck inside and was just like oh you know

1:25.2

I'm just going to go nuts with these decorations because what else do I have to do?

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