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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 says his Father’s Day weekend includes clearing several storage areas at the family yard sale. An Apple IIc and an old daisy wheel printer prompt Dr. Dave and Evil Steve to debate whether vintage computer equipment is collectible or most useful as a boat anchor.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve pause the show to wish Dr. Dave's son Nick a happy fourteenth birthday, replay the “plethora of piñatas” joke for him and remember how Nick once chose a childhood nickname that followed him afterward.
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Introducing a fuller studio crew, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember when the broadcast had shrunk back to the two of them in the old bunker. Their improvised introductions of Stephanie, Jess and “Cold Stone Evil Steve” preserve the loose family atmosphere behind the show.
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Football enthusiasm leads Evil Steve to remember how out of control Dr. Dave could be in earlier years. Dr. Dave says he is older, has been married for a long time and has children who are growing up, and Evil Steve agrees that he has become much calmer, though never subdued.
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An early digital phone barely worked until its carrier mailed Dr. Dave a replacement antenna. The difference was just an eighth of an inch, a tiny fix he never forgot.
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With Jesse away, Dr. Dave introduces Mad Max and “the nutritious Dr. Dave's son Nicky” in the studio, and the brothers improvise initials and basketball jokes around the new nickname. It is a small, affectionate family moment preserved inside the live program.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember preparing for broadcasts by running at one another in the hallway, colliding and yelling while everyone else at the station wondered what they were doing. They credit the ridiculous ritual for the energy of the show and decide it should return—preferably before the microphones are live.
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Dr. Dave describes how a program about Samuel Adams sent him to his laptop to read the Massachusetts Constitution in real time, despite the amount of reading and research he already did.
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At the end of the show, Dr. Dave postpones several stories, promises the usual return and jokes that he hopes to make it back from the family truckster trip. Evil Steve wishes him a safe journey before Dr. Dave gives the familiar safe, sane and sober weekend signoff.
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The brothers mark seventeen years on air and seven years nationwide, then remember their weekend with the Pinks All Out crew at Tucson's Southwestern International Raceway. They expected television personalities under deadline pressure to be difficult, but instead remember gracious people who treated them like royalty—and joke that the crew must have mistaken them for someone else.
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Back on an old Cingular-branded flip phone, Evil Steve realizes he has not missed his smartphone much and the brothers remember the range and weight of early brick phones.
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Evil Steve apologizes for a delayed show upload and explains that he alone compiled and posted the archive. Vacation jokes and mention of their sister Michele turn a technical housekeeping note into a warm record of the family work behind DaveMason.com.
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Describing a deadline that packed several days of work into one, Dr. Dave pauses to put his own stress in perspective. His wife worked as a trauma nurse, and the pressure of chips and software does not compare with the emergencies she had to face.
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A survey calling technology work the most stressful job leads Dr. Dave to compare notes after work with his wife, a trauma and intensive care nurse. His tales of lost data or a computer he could not revive suddenly look very different beside the injury and death she confronted, giving him a humbling sense of proportion.
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While questioning what giant trade shows really offered, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember the standout pleasure of attending Comdex: driving Mercedes-Benz test cars as fast as the coned course allowed. It is a compact personal memory inside a larger piece of computing-event history.
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With Gina working, Dr. Dave, his two boys and a friend sit together clapping and cheering through a television program about Black founders, and he explains why rediscovering history gives him hope in a difficult political period.
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A song title sends the brothers back to an old dance called the Cracker Jack, and Dr. Dave carefully reconstructs its scooping motions while Evil Steve tries to remember the hop—an affectionate, visual memory made entirely through radio.
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While previewing the team’s return to the Rolex 24, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember the previous year when a fire-extinguisher handle was accidentally pressed and covered the paddock and an official. Their excitement about following the race live makes the mishap part of the show’s racing history.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve celebrate the first preseason appearance of the new Washington team, remember the old counter play behind Joe Jacoby and Russ Grimm and decide to enjoy the promising result even if it proves fleeting.
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The unusual nighttime broadcast makes room for the “official Computer Talk dinner,” as Dr. Dave and Evil Steve thank Gina’s Kitchen for a colorful homemade chicken, garlic, pasta and vegetable meal.
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While explaining the summer staff schedule, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve joke that the two of them are the only people who appear every week no matter what. The exchange moves into their family truckster jokes and Dr. Dave’s upcoming California trip before the familiar Evil Steve introduction.
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A humorous list from Gina leads Dr. Dave and Evil Steve to remember riding without seatbelts or helmets and building go karts before remembering they needed brakes. They see the contrast with 2005 as evidence that society had become far more risk averse.
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Dr. Dave casually reveals that he follows a couple hundred fountain pens online even though he rarely buys one now. When an unusually valuable pen appears for ten dollars he moves quickly, while Evil Steve jokingly asks every competing listener to wait at least ten seconds before bidding.
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After joking about the feedback Evil Steve attracts, Dr. Dave asks whether he remembers being afraid to speak on the radio. Evil Steve denies it, Dr. Dave imitates his old nervousness and then declares that the confident brother beside him is not afraid of anything anymore.
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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.
