268: We're Pro-Thunk Around Here

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We note the tragic passing this week of our good friend and tech reporting legend Gordon Mah Ung, with a short tribute and a bit of reminiscing about Gordon's illustrious career and the impact he made on everyone he came into contact with. Then we return to the very serious work of ranking every cable and connector in existence, with a pivot this week from numbered rankings to one of those newfangled tier lists, plus considerations of quarter-inch stereo, TOSLINK, DisplayPort, the legendary SCART, and more.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	.
0:03.0	I'm
0:04.0	. Welcome to Brad Will Made a TechPod.
0:30.1	I'm Brad.
0:31.2	Hello.
0:32.1	Hi, Brad.
0:33.1	It's a, we're going to get to ranking shortly, but I wanted to let folks on the podcast know if they hadn't heard already that friend of the show and I think multiple time guests.
0:42.6	I can't remember if we had him on once or twice.
0:45.8	And my, my good friend, Gordon Maung, who I, who was one of my mentors at Maximum PC when I started and I ended up being his boss by the end of it, which
0:54.4	was weird. But he passed away after having pancreatic cancer for a fairly long time just
1:02.7	before Christmas. This is the first episode we've recorded since then. And we're going to do a
1:08.5	like a remembrance episode over on the full nerd at PC world as I think
1:14.5	probably after CES just because scheduling is hard and if a bunch of people are out of town for
1:19.7	holidays and stuff but but I wanted to let folks here know because Gordon was on on this show he
1:24.7	was on a lot of he came on an October cast back in the tested days and um and showed
1:31.0	up off and on over the years but it has always been it has always been the person that one of the
1:36.1	people that i reach out to and talk to when i have questions about when i have when i have weird
1:40.9	things happening with computers gordon has always been the person I called.
1:44.7	So a font of wisdom, a rock.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:47.7	It's, it's like he's, he's the origin of so many things that I hold true and dear.
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