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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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Troy calls from Liberal, Kansas, supposedly to discuss Google, then asks his girlfriend Liberty to marry him over the radio while she is in the shower listening to the show. Liberty answers yes once she can finish the shower, and the brothers celebrate what they believe is a first for Computer Talk before Dr. Dave says simply, “I love our listeners.”
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve discover during the live broadcast that their production computer has died. With the server still carrying the show, they troubleshoot aloud, consider switching to a best-of program and turn the technical failure into memorable radio.
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After working to repair the studio, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve discover live that they can hear caller Mark while he cannot hear them, test the wiring on air and reluctantly redirect the audience to email.
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Caller Mark describes how easily he and his father saw one another across a PC and Mac, and Dr. Dave recognizes the larger gift for families unable to travel across the country before everyone exchanges warm Christmas wishes.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve preview a week filled with bizarre events and explain why those events belong on Computer Talk. They call it reality radio because the show reflects their real life and what listeners hear is what they genuinely get.
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A caller checks in during a broadcast troubled by microphone problems and says he still listened all the way through. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve answer that they make those failures a feature, and the caller agrees that the mishaps make the show more entertaining before joining the brothers in another sound quality joke.
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Previewing the memristor interview, Dr. Dave says this is why he loves his work: the show can spend real time on an important development that a general newscast may reduce to thirty seconds. Rather than read words while their eyes glaze over, the brothers want to get into the subject, enjoy it, know it and learn it with the audience.
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Marine veteran and author James Brady joins the brothers for Veterans Day and the Marine Corps birthday. Among his funny and painful stories is a recurring answer to why Marines fight: for the person beside them.
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Evil Steve describes the motorcycle ride his friend Randy created after losing his wife Kelly, inviting listeners to honor her and raise money for children with type 1 diabetes while Dr. Dave promises the event a lasting place on the website.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve invite listeners to Kelly’s Ride, explain that the motorcycle fundraiser honors their friend Kelly Bond and supports the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and describe the community gathering they planned to join.
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Dr. Dave briefly steps away from the technology news to pay tribute to Angie LaGorse, calling her a wonderful woman, a dear friend and a second mother to him. He sends love, prayers and a simple rest in peace to her family and friends while remembering the birthday she nearly reached.
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A listener tells friends that Dr. Dave and Evil Steve are the only people on radio who truly understand computer security. Dr. Dave appreciates the praise while acknowledging how difficult it is both to understand the subject and explain it in plain language.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve send their hearts, minds and prayers to Gulf Coast listeners, point people toward relief organizations and explain why they will also give the audience its regular Computer Talk program. With radio among the few services some listeners still had, they hope familiar conversation can offer a little normalcy and evidence of light beyond the immediate devastation.
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A returning caller reminds Dr. Dave that he bought one of his computers. The brothers remember Dan for a different skill: operating a backhoe with the precision of someone sculpting the landscape.
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Evil Steve relays a listener's report that a computer other experts could not repair now works flawlessly after Dr. Dave's Test and Tune. Dr. Dave calls the generous feedback humbling and says this is exactly the kind of service they try to provide.
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Regular caller Mark brings his retired father Fred onto a three-state conference call to ask about a computer he built. After the answer, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve realize it is the show's first father-and-son call, linking Mississippi, Florida and Tucson.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember agreeing to anchor Election Night 2000 for one evening, then returning day after day as the result remained unresolved. Thirty-seven days later they finished a radio program they had named History on Hold, which Dr. Dave calls one of the most enjoyable things they did on the air.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember agreeing to cover the 2000 presidential election for one evening and remaining on air for 37 days. Their story leads into a memorable warning that an “unsinkable” assumption can be more dangerous than the technology itself.
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Caller Kevin says the brothers met him after hours on a weekend, arranged pickup of two failed drives and returned the recovered material on a larger drive within three days. He calls the data priceless and says everything is running well, offering an unsolicited glimpse of the care behind Dr. Dave's consulting work.
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During a difficult caller’s explanation, Dr. Dave loses the incoming audio and finally tells the audience he has been doing his best to follow without hearing consistently. The second-hour opening credits the engineer and lets listeners hear the relief when the phones work again.
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Dr. Dave thanks veterans from the bottom of his heart and rejects the idea that people outside combat zones are second-class service members. Fuel, food, tracks, ammunition and even paperwork support those in danger, while every person who joins accepts that they may be called to risk a life.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve send their thoughts and prayers to listeners and affiliates preparing for a major Gulf Coast storm. Their serious wish that everyone stay safe turns into gentle banter about people trying to surf dangerous waves.
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Dr. Dave recounts a report that Steve Jobs personally called the father of a teenager killed during a fight over an iPod, offered sympathy and invited him to call if Apple could help. The account preserves a human moment within the period’s rapidly growing consumer technology culture.
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After listeners ask why July has only one archived show, Dr. Dave explains the unusual two-week break and reflects on a decade of Saturdays before joking that no substitute could reproduce what the brothers do.
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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.
