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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

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

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The questions piled up over the holidays and now it's time to answer them in this, the first Q&A of 2026. This month we touch on topics like the splendor Gateway 2000's cow boxes, the mystery of the ENIAC, whether a shed qualifies as off-site backup, what the heck volt-amps are (and how calculus is involved), the glory days of multi-user computing, what tech today's kids will be nostalgic for in 20 years, using LLMs for troubleshooting and command line assistance, and more.

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0:00.0

Brad, we got a really good email this month.

0:02.5

Oh, good.

0:02.8

I love that.

0:03.2

It was the perfect time of the month for it.

0:05.0

I'm going to read the first paragraph and then I'm going to get you to guess what you

0:10.1

think the subject line is.

0:11.4

Okay.

0:12.9

Hearing Will's saga with the neglected raspberry pies and Brad's hard won lessons about

0:17.7

power draw made me smile.

0:20.0

There's something universally relatable about home tech solutions tripping us up,

0:24.2

even when we think we've planned for everything.

0:26.5

It's this blend of practical experience and curiosity that got me thinking about how your

0:31.0

audience might really appreciate a conversation with Tracy McNeil.

0:35.7

Tracy's entire career centers on solving tough problems in health care technology,

0:39.2

especially in women's health, where overlooked challenges are everywhere.

0:42.2

She drove Materna Medical from early stage to a fast company world-changing ideas finalist

0:46.7

by focusing on fundamental issues in OBGYN care.

0:51.2

Now, you have any idea what Tracy McNeil's pitch is? We get, we get, just to be

0:59.8

clear, we get like a hundred of these a week now. Wow. Of these AI generated. Yeah, I was going to say,

1:05.8

I was going to say our, our most reason episode didn't get you thinking about anything writer of

1:10.7

that email because you're not a human and you don't think you're a large language model.

1:14.7

Yep.

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