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Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from IHeart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts and and how the tech are you up? So it's Memorial Day here in the United States, and that means we're off, and I'm currently out of town as you listen to this. But I wanted to bring you an episode anyway. So this is an episode that actually aired just a couple of years ago. February 15th, 2021 is when it originally published.

It's titled How Medieval Warfare Led to the Lawnmower.

And yeah, this is one of those examples of me going back in order to tell a story and just keep going back over and over again to kind of find out, well, what's the genesis for this technology?

And arguably, in the case of the lawnmower, it's medieval warfare.

I hope you enjoy, and I hope for those of you in the United States celebrating that you have a happy and safe holiday.

I'll chat with you again at the end.

While I've been recording shows from my home for nearly a year now, I still occasionally

get reminded about how things can be different from when I was working in the office.

The most part, things are kind of like this is the normal now.

However, at the office, there is no chance that my dog will be barking in the background

while I record.

And so far, I think I've mostly avoided having him show up on episodes of tech stuff,

but only because I've edited around it. Keep telling him if he

wants to be on a show, he should get his own podcast. I'm also scared that if he does that, he'll get

way more popular than me. You're also not likely to hear other extraneous noises at the office, because

there, our studios, or recording studios, are all in rooms that don't have a

window to the outside world built into them.

Though you can still occasionally pick up sounds of folks who are chatting in the office

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