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ComputerTalk with Dave Mason
The official archive of all available ComputerTalk with Dave Mason radio shows. Spend some time with Dave. Listen to a full show or explore clips by topic.
3,475 unique clips. Each clip appears in one section. Historical conversations, not current advice. Full episodes remain available separately by date.
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Dr. Dave pauses near the end of the broadcast for an old friend in the blogging and talk-radio world who is seriously ill. He asks Dean Barnett to keep fighting, calls him talented, adds a small joke about his voice and says the friend remains in their hearts, minds and prayers.
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Opening the final segment of 2006, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve thank the listeners who make a show possible, the KVOI staff whose quiet improvements support it and the affiliates carrying Computer Talk across the country. Dr. Dave says the station was chosen carefully, that the relationship is not taken lightly and that everyone involved made the year unusually good.
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With the network studio disabled, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve run the broadcast manually, joke about needing extra arms and describe their operation as a ship patched with duct tape. Dr. Dave reduces the morning’s chaos to a personal rule: deal with what comes up and do your best.
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Reporting back after the second Kelly’s Ride, Dr. Dave praises Evil Steve’s work throughout the fundraiser, from artwork and graphics to T-shirts. Evil Steve explains that Kelly was a close friend and that once he volunteered his creative work, he stayed with it through many three-in-the-morning nights.
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Evil Steve remembers that Dr. Dave began his familiar radio introduction as an homage to Dr. Laura Schlesinger. Neither brother can reconstruct her exact original sign-off, but their attempt preserves the affectionate, slightly improvised history behind a phrase Dr. Dave had repeated so often that it simply came out automatically.
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Doris says she has not spoken with Dr. Dave in about fifteen years and reminds the brothers that they once addressed her Tucson volunteer-administrator group. Dr. Dave cannot remember what he ate that morning, but their warm teasing resumes immediately as she explains that retirement and twenty grandchildren have brought her back to computers.
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Listener Bill says Dr. Dave recovered an important file erased more than four years earlier and returned it on a disc. His playful contest entry also praises the team’s integrity, stability, fierceness when necessary and gentleness, preserving an unusually direct account of how a listener experienced Dr. Dave’s work and character.
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At the end of the guest interview, Gretchen congratulates Dr. Dave on fifteen years of Computer Talk. He answers that success is sometimes less about brilliance than persistence and perseverance until the competition is worn out.
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Caller Bob mentions that people near Ocean Springs are still boiling water and living without a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, yet jokes about swimming to work rather than complaining. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve answer with respect for the Gulf Coast community’s resilience and contrast it with the small inconveniences that upset people elsewhere.
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A caller thanks Dr. Dave and Evil Steve because listening to the program helped her through a boring outdoor job. Her brief appreciation captures the companionship the live show gave listeners beyond its technical answers.
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A listener named Sidney wins the Palm giveaway with a Christmas poem that recasts the show’s computers, software, hosts and safe holiday signoff in the rhythm of a familiar seasonal story. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve call the entry fantastic and say they plan to frame it for the studio.
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Evil Steve welcomes his brother back after a long sabbatical and jokes about fielding worried messages from listeners. Dr. Dave says it is wonderful, interesting and fun to be live again, then acknowledges that sometimes a person truly needs to step back.
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Reflecting on Pope John Paul II’s death and funeral, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve consider both his historical influence and his use of cell-phone messages and interactive exhibits. Dr. Dave is surprised to learn of plans involving St. Isidore of Seville and calls the Pope unusually engaged with the technology of his era.
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A little studio confusion prompts Dr. Dave to ask whether the show is being recorded. Evil Steve jokes that listeners never return to the archive, then quietly adds that sometimes it is all they have to listen to; calls from people relieved that the brothers are back make the exchange especially resonant in the memorial archive.
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As Lana moves on to a new job, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve thank her for her work, joke about the memoir she might someday write and explain that Evil Steve is trying the board for the first time.
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Dr. Dave's sons LT and Nick join Josh and the brothers in the studio just before Christmas. Cookies, cake, hot cocoa and children helping with production make it a lively family broadcast.
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Dr. Dave remembers Tim Russert with respect despite their political differences. Betty shares a personal story about the cap, photographs and handwritten note Russert sent her after hearing how faithfully she watched Meet the Press.
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Dr. Dave's son Nick says he missed hearing Dr. Dave and Evil Steve on terrestrial radio and is glad to have found the internet broadcast, capturing the audience side of the show’s transition.
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Woody remembers calling years earlier when Dr. Dave and Evil Steve were filling in for a local talk host and telling them they should have a nationwide program. By 2008 he says they have fulfilled half of the prediction through national technology radio, while the brothers admit their political opinions still slip through because they are inveterate smart alecks.
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Caller Ray says Dr. Dave’s earlier program was one of his first introductions to Tucson and brought back pleasant memories when its title was mentioned again.
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Caller Mark wants the live stream working so he can hear Computer Talk while cutting the grass, chats easily with Dr. Dave and Evil Steve about the car picture and browsers and then becomes the first proof that their troublesome new phone setup finally works.
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Congratulations on Computer Talk's fifteenth anniversary give Dr. Dave an opening to joke that he must have been ten when it started.
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During the show’s fifteenth anniversary month, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve notice that Dr. Dave's son LT will also turn fifteen on July 25. They joke that both the son and the radio program now know everything, creating a compact coincidence between family and broadcast history.
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On the seventeenth anniversary, Dr. Dave suddenly realizes that Dr. Dave's son LT was born only a few weeks after the first Computer Talk broadcast. The program and his son have effectively grown up together, turning an abstract anniversary into a family timeline.
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Browse by year, then month, to find the episodes from that month.
442 proposed broadcast dates, plus 2 undated entries. Dates are based on archive filenames and may be approximate. Some broadcasts survive as separate parts or incomplete recordings.
