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The Tyler Woodward Project

I get into why the things you buy don't feel like they're actually yours anymore, usually starting with some old piece of tech I dug up. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the mild existential dread.

Hosted by well... Tyler Woodward

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    What Killed the Video Store | Greed, Not Netflix

    Aug 4, 2026 ·26 min

    Blockbuster didn't lose to Netflix—they built a hybrid rental system better than Netflix, then sabotaged it themselves over a CEO bonus. Explore how corporate misaligned incentives kill innovation, late-fee economics, and what this 2005 corporate failure teaches us about today's consolidation, platform control, and the war between access and ownership.

    Shout out to Friends Who Pretend, the actual play podcast from Nick and James: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/friends-who-pretend/id1743693947

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  2. The Hidden Cost of Internet Radio | Licensing as a Barrier to Entry

    Jul 28, 2026 ·18 min

    I ran my own internet radio station legally in 2009. Today, streaming royalties make it mathematically impossible to repeat — and here's why. From licensing aggregators to regulatory capture, this is how consolidation killed DIY streaming and what it means for anyone tired of algorithmic gatekeeping.

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  3. MySpace HTML Bug: The Accidental Self-Taught Designer Boom

    Jul 21, 2026 ·19 min

    A teenage MySpace bug turned millions of Gen X and millennial kids into self-taught coders. In this episode, I trace how a security hole became an education—and why every platform after MySpace decided personal control was a liability, not a feature. This is the story of digital ownership before the platforms took it away.

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  4. Nostalgia Storytelling At A Crossroads | Personal Update

    Jul 14, 2026 ·14 min

    A personal update on where The Tyler Woodward Project is headed—why nostalgia storytelling and analog culture matter more than ever as younger generations reject digital fatigue. This episode explains the show's evolution and why going analog isn't just a trend, it's a response to a broken tech landscape.

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  5. Radio's Forgotten Infrastructure Crisis | Why STL Redundancy Matters

    Jul 7, 2026 ·19 min

    When an STL—the studio-to-transmitter link—fails, a radio station goes dark instantly. But here's what nobody wants to admit: these critical cables are often the cheapest, most-ignored piece of broadcast infrastructure. In this episode, I break down why older radio stations built redundancy into systems nobody touches, and why modern consolidation has eliminated the backups that actually work. A deep dive into lost technologies that keep the lights on.

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What I'm Working On

Shrinkflation: Why Your Bag Is Getting Smaller

Why Your Bag Is Getting Smaller

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You're not imagining it: the bag really is smaller. In this episode, I break down shrinkflation, greedflation, and why you aren't just "bad with money." From downsized Doritos to corporate "price pack architecture," record corporate profits drove over half of recent inflation while real wages dropped. Meanwhile, the bills meant to stop it died in committee without a single vote. Cool.

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Episodes
39
Of Audio
10.6h
Weekly Since
Jan 2026

Most Downloaded MySpace HTML Bug: The Accidental Self-Taught Designer Boom

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  • 2026-08-02

    Added the RDS RadioText strip up top. It scrolls now-playing info the way a car head unit does.

  • 2026-08-02

    Reskinned the header: cover art and wordmark in the brand mark, icons off the plain nav links.

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  1. EP36: What actually killed the video rental store, and why I want to open one Everybody says Netflix killed Blockbuster. That's the clean version with a punchline. Blockbuster got to 9,094 stores partly on the back of about… Blockbuster Nights Episode Discussion Tyler · 0 replies · 5d ago
  2. EP35: Hobby Webradio is Extinct In 2009 I ran an internet radio station called Q109, Rock from Beyond the Dial. I had my own Icecast server running, and a company called SWCast… Episode Discussion Tyler · 4 replies · 12d ago
  3. Adding RSS Soon I’m gonna throw RSS feeds on here soon. Using this extension: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27687-syndication-rss-atom-feeds I still use Reeder for… Old Tech We Miss Tyler · 1 reply · 12d ago
  4. One of my favorite station launches, 97X Tampa One of my favorite radio station launches from back in the day (2000!!) was when WSUN-FM Tampa flipped from Oldies 97.1 to 97X. 97X is still around… The Frequency Tyler · 0 replies · 12d ago
  5. Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers Because of course they did. Anyone surprised? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/starlink-gets-exemption-from-fcc-ban-on-routers-made-outside… Uplink Tyler · 0 replies · 12d ago
  6. This Smarter Every Day series shows why US manufacturing is so hard Been following Destin's Smarter Every Day series on trying to make a grill scrubber 100% in America. The second video is longer than you'd expect for… Gear Talk Tyler · 0 replies · 14d ago