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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs

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

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 2002 because... well, you'll see, but it gave us the opportunity to reflect on a bunch of just-post-turn-of-the-century tech trends, like weird pre-smartphone mobile devices, the venerable WRT54G, all the Y2K techno-optimistic design trends, digital filmmaking going mainstream, a truly momentous March in the Linux world, the state of file sharing and music piracy, and plenty of other stuff.

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0:00.0

Who did that?

0:00.9

Who, was it Fat Boy Slim that did the song with Christopher Walken dancing?

0:05.0

Weapon of choice, isn't it?

0:06.0

Weapon of choice, yeah.

0:07.2

I think that's right, yeah. I always get him in like Oakenfold and the, the other. Moby, maybe. It wasn't Moby. No, I know it's not Moby. Moby never did anything that cool. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, like, of the early to mid aughts, kind of individual techno, I don't even have techno is the right term. They're like electronica, I think, right? Yeah, I guess that term got more generic and more broad over time. Yeah, weapon, weapon of choice is the name of the Christopher Walken. Yeah. Pretty good video. Yeah, it's pretty good. You haven't seen that. Like that, that one, that's up there with like that Jameirquai video with all the freaky bugs and stuff, but also where the room moves around him. And you show that to people and you tell them it was made when it was made. And they're like, how do they do this? What kind of like, this is all computer devoury. And you're like, Well, there's a little bit of computer devoury, but mostly it's just they put a room on wheels. Mostly a large moving room.

0:55.9

Yeah.

0:57.2

People, people like. And you're like, well, there's a little bit of computer devoury, but mostly it's just they put a room on wheels.

0:54.4

Mostly a large moving room.

0:56.0

Yeah.

0:57.1

People like Moby more than you think, although I think in my experience, nobody admits willingly to liking Moby.

1:03.6

They all seem to do it grudgingly.

1:05.3

Look, that Moby album, everybody had that Moby CD.

1:08.4

If you were buying CDs at the time that Moby album came out, then everybody owned that Moby CD. If you, if, if you were buying CDs at the time that Moby album came out, then you, everybody owned that Moby album. Play? Play. Is that the one? Yeah. I didn't own that Moby album. I couldn't name a song from that, from that album. You'd know this. There's one song. It's the, it's the, it's the, it's the one movie song that ever got radio play.

1:29.8

God, that came out in 1999.

1:31.4

Yeah. know this there's one song that's the it's the it's the it's the it's the one moby song that

1:28.7

ever got radio play god that came out in 1999 yeah that is old pre-millennial can you name the

1:35.0

song it's called play isn't it is there a song called play on play i'm not so sure about that i don't

1:40.7

know there is not okay i like that was look kids. Okay, kids these days,

1:46.2

you don't understand. In the old days, if you wanted to get a CD, a song that you liked on CD

1:51.1

quality without resorting to piracy, which was never, never CD quality. Everybody was like,

1:56.3

oh yeah, I got CD quality reps. Never CD quality rips. Nobody was downloading lossless in those days.

2:00.7

No. Um, which we'll get to on this episode, actually. But yeah, so you bought the album. You spent $17 on a CD to get the two songs you wanted. And I think it was, I think it was honey, but I could be wrong. That's the first song on the album. It's either honey or run on.

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