The Death of Gadgets: Eulogy for a Gizmo

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This week while Mike was off in Japan, Jake and Holden welcome Seena Ghaznavi (from LPN’s The Foreign Report) to talk about the waning era of the gadget! From walkmans to calculator watches everything has been swallowed up by the smartphone, and we’re spreading the love for the PDAs, MP3 Players, Flip Phones, and point and shoot cameras that made us the nerds we are today! Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Whether you're pumped for pumpkin spice or hyped for Halloween, one thing's for sure.
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0:10.0	I'm Kara Klank.
0:11.1	And I'm Jackie Zabrowski.
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0:15.7	You bring us your story and we'll tell you who the bitch is.
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0:39.0	Tune in, call in, mix it up in the chat, and kick off spooky season with us at the fall
0:43.5	bitchathon 2025. See you, bitches there.
0:52.4	Here's a mouse.
0:53.8	Music The G. The mouse. Weather, the gizmo.
0:57.0	The Gizmo. The Gizmo, the gadget, the do-hicky, the thingamabob, the thingamab, the
1:19.7	thing of my jig, all of these bespoke wondrous toys and helping electronic friends
1:26.0	that we've known along the years, and now it's, you just got the phone. It's just all the phone. Hey, you need a thing. Just use your phone. It's all phone. I miss the doohickeys. I miss the gadgets. The heyday of the gadget. We're here talking about gadgets. Welcome to nerd of mouth. No, no, no. fuck that. You're listening to me. Listen, I had a Nokia 7700. It was called an
1:49.1	internet information appliance. It ran a processor at 5 megahertz and you could almost, I mean,
1:56.7	just almost look at the Yahoo front page.
1:58.8	Can't introduce our guest.
2:19.1	Ah, hi. Welcome to the Nerdow. I'm your co-host, Jake Young, with us, Holden-McNeely, and joining us. Very special guest, Sina Gazz Navi. How you doing? Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. So good to be here. This is like, this is right at my wheelhouse. Gagets? This is like,
2:33.0	Sina is the guy that ever since I'd known him, I'm like, all right, he's, he's the canary in the coal mine or he's the guinea pig. He will. The phrase in the industry is early adopter. Yes, he is the early adopter.
2:35.1	A very flattering way to say.
2:36.0	Yeah, you know what you mean? But for me, for me, it's always been like, early adopter. Yes, he is the early adopter. A very flattering way to say.
2:35.4	Yeah, you know what I mean?
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