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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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It's that time again for more of your questions, and this month we discuss medical equipment conducting secret data collection, dangerously fast CD-ROMs, what we'd want in a brand new operating system (assuming we'd even want one), open source software made by big-box retail chains, OLED vs. LCD TVs, impassioned views on McMaster-Carr, whether or not to invest the effort to digitize all your documents, the difficulty of preserving online content for coffee table books, and more.

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0:00.0	Okay, Brad, I'm breaking precedent.
0:02.5	Oh, that's what we do here, right?
0:05.2	Carebear, look, no laws will contain me, is what I'm saying.
0:09.1	But Carebear suggested we should read the entirety of this Arizona state law as a cold open.
0:15.1	It is House Bill 2477, an act amending Title 41, Chapter 4.1, Article 5, Arizona revised statutes
0:24.4	by adding Section 41-8-8 relating to state emblems. Text of bill begins on next page.
0:32.8	Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Arizona, Section 1, Title 41, Chapter 4.1, Article 5, Arizona revived statutes is amended by adding section 41-860.08 to read, Pluto is the official state planet.
0:47.9	What?
0:48.3	Period.
0:49.0	Oh, man.
0:50.1	I think they just, I think, uh, what's his name, discovered Pluto at level, level observatory in Arizona, right? Okay. It's one of those state pride things then. Uh-huh. Take my Pluto as a planet from my cold dead hands. I guess they don't call it a, they could have made it the official dwarf planet of Arizona. That's true. That's true. Like first in dwarf, but you know, like Pluto is what, ninth in planets, but first in dwarf planets.
1:12.3	Yeah, Lord of all dwarf planets.
1:20.0	Although actually, I think one of one of the many arguments against Pluto's planethood is that it's not even the biggest dwarf planet in the solar system.
1:20.7	Oh, right? Because one of the ones in the, in the asteroid belt is bigger, right?
1:25.7	Like, Aris is Aris one of them?
1:28.0	Yes, Aris is the most massive and second largest known dwarf planet in the solar system.
1:33.3	I think Ceres and the asteroid belt is also bigger than Pluto.
1:37.2	I could be wrong about that.
1:39.3	So, um...
1:40.3	Pluto is just kind of mid a lot of ways, frankly.
1:44.5	Wow.
1:44.7	I'm not going to stand for this Pluto slander.
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