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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.
190 clips, strongest first.
Dr. Dave says he enjoys showing up for holiday broadcasts and questions promoting a show as important if its hosts decide the holiday audience is not important enough to serve. He and Evil Steve acknowledge that a weekly program demands fewer hours than daily radio, but they remain live together on Christmas Eve Eve.
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A contest entrant writes that she first listened without understanding much beyond the brothers' banter, but that their advice gradually entered her everyday computer use until she felt empowered. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve answer with humor, name her the winner and celebrate her connection to the show.
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A listener praises the brothers’ relationship. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve answer with affectionate behind-the-microphone teasing and compare their rapport to the American Chopper family.
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The Christmas giveaway winner submits a homemade “Evil Steve and Dr. Dave” song about listening every Saturday, needing computer help and remembering to back up. Dr. Dave and Evil Steve call it unprecedented and solid gold, then close their Christmas Eve Eve show by celebrating the singer and her entry.
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Joey remembers Dr. Dave helping him by phone and then calling again two hours later to ask whether the fix worked. Dr. Dave accepts the compliment with humility, saying he is not always that good, while Joey insists that he was that day.
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On Pearl Harbor Day, Dr. Dave resists romanticizing the wartime generation as superhuman. He describes ordinary men and women, many from hard lives, who understood duty and fulfilled it; their willingness to do what was needed leaves him humbled and grateful for the world their sacrifice preserved.
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George says he has listened since the show was on Crystal Radio and still makes a point of tuning in every Saturday. Dr. Dave thanks him for years of loyalty and closes with the brothers' familiar teasing warmth.
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A listener’s question about how far old radio signals have traveled prompts Dr. Dave and Evil Steve to revisit Computer Talk’s origin. Dr. Dave rejects the 1991 date they had repeated, remembers being on the air one or two years earlier and jokes that they are “accurizing” history and have been doing better longer than they realized.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve read a giveaway entry from a listener who says Computer Talk made him look smart after he began listening in 1991, kept him company after a move to Maryland and matched their Redskins loyalty. They praise the entry for showing that he understood the show, keeping it concise and making it rhyme.
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After a six-month hiatus, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve return to the Computer Talk bunker. Dr. Dave delivers the familiar introduction without missing a beat, says it is in his DNA and the brothers immediately settle back into their old rhythm with jokes about access codes, flat tires and spike strips.
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The addition of KJAA in Globe and Superior, Arizona, lets Evil Steve announce that Computer Talk is now literally a global radio show. Dr. Dave welcomes the new audience while the brothers work out the station frequency together on air.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve announce that listeners are hearing their first show run solely from a Linux automation computer. They celebrate the early success, acknowledge the work each brother put into different stages and compare processing their accumulated sound files with opening a storage room and discovering how much has quietly collected over the years.
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Seventy years after the Normandy landings, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve thank the people who went into extraordinary danger because the work had to be done. They connect that courage and sacrifice to the life America enjoyed afterward and to the different forms of courage future generations would need.
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The guest congratulates Dr. Dave and Evil Steve on fifteen years of Computer Talk and tells them millions of people are grateful. After saying goodbye, Dr. Dave explains that the real delight of the family-tree project was seeing both of his boys laughing out loud and hopping around together over what they discovered.
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At the end of the Palm discussion, Phil McClendon congratulates Computer Talk on fifteen years. Dr. Dave answers that after fifteen years he is still not done talking and still has more to say.
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The studio wishes Mad Max and Patrick happy birthday and teases them about their ages. It preserves an affectionate moment among people connected to the program.
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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve credit his son LT with keeping the program moving and handling details listeners never hear. A missing sounder gives a glimpse of that work in the studio.
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Before a major Redskins game, the brothers pause to mark one year since Sean Taylor's death and remember how the team responded afterward, then return to hopeful game analysis.
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A collage of vintage voices introduces the Dr. Dave Mason radio program, and Dr. Dave immediately tells Evil Steve how much he loves the new piece, praising his work and joking that any defect is a feature.
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A network failure leaves the show on backup equipment while staff rush around the studio, adjust levels and report a degraded feed; Dr. Dave and Evil Steve narrate the stress, apologize to affiliates and keep the program moving.
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A listener praises the show's mix of technology, humor and social insight, comparing Dr. Dave's flair to Elvis. The brothers answer her affectionate message with their usual self-deprecating jokes.
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At the close before Veterans Day, Dr. Dave sets aside product talk to thank veterans for their service and wishes listeners a safe weekend.
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On what unexpectedly becomes Stephanie’s final regular show, Dr. Dave and Evil Steve thank her for her attitude, work ethic, professional contribution, phone work and even the way she divided the studio pizza. They say they will miss her while wishing her onward and upward at school.
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Before Thanksgiving, Dr. Dave names the people and work he values: his family, wife, friends, listeners, the evening race and the unknown programmers whose tools help others.
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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.
