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A broadcast engineer's podcast on how radio really works — the signal chain, the gear, the industry that built him, and the AM/FM radio he got as a kid that started it all.
EP 46 24:45
Meta's new Muse AI agent handled a Facebook Marketplace sale for a guy named Matt Rob, and it gave a complete stranger his home address without asking first. The guy shows up expecting to buy a keyboard, and Rob has no idea any of this happened until there's a knock on his door. That's not a…
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Drones hit three Yandex data centers and automated traffic from its network collapsed. Bots vanishing worldwide is a bigger claim, and I’m curious what you noticed.
Bonus 18:15
A low power FM station in Valdosta, Georgia has a real interference problem. Instead of accepting the engineering explanation, they decided to accuse broadcast engineers, large radio conglomerates, and apparently the atmosphere itself of running a coordinated campaign against them. I break down…
EP 45 23:15
Kids are not going to stop talking to each other just because you blocked an app. I get into the story of how a group of teenage girls turned NPR 's podcast comment section on Spotify into a full blown underground group chat, complete with its own routing system, and why they picked the most…
EP 44 16:57
Radio loves patting itself on the back for showing up during hurricanes and tornadoes. I grew up in Florida watching cones of uncertainty aim at my house, so I get why that story feels good. But building your entire pitch around being useful only when everything else breaks is a terrible way to run…
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