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About

Hi, I'm Tyler Woodward

A show for elder millennials watching the things they trusted get quietly stripped for parts, at work, in the economy, and on the radio dial. I've got two decades of broadcast and network engineering behind me, but I'm not here to sell you on the industry, just someone who grew up on dial-up and AM/FM static, thinking out loud about what happened to the stuff that used to work.

A few things about me

Driving route map from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Tampa, Florida

Tampa to La Crosse

Beaches to Cheese

Born and raised in Tampa, now settled into actual Wisconsin winters.

Studio microphone in a broadcast booth

Broadcast Engineer

Radio, TV, Oh My

Day job is keeping transmitters, networks, and signals from falling over.

Stereotypical basement PC nerd at a keyboard

Linux Nerd

All Hail Tux

Comfortable in a terminal, and happiest when something's running on Debian.

A tangled server rack full of network cables

Home Lab

Because I Like Torture

A closet of servers doing more work than they probably should.

Sitting on a beach swing with a kid

Dad

It Was a Trap... But I Like It Here

The reason "good enough" stopped being an acceptable answer.

Record needle on a spinning turntable

Music

Everything Except Country

Rock and pop punk are home base. Current favorite band: The Warning.

From the host

The Tyler Woodward Project is a show for elder millennials watching the things they trusted get quietly stripped for parts, at work, in the economy, and on the radio dial. Everything that used to just work seems to be breaking in the same slow, deliberate way, and somehow that keeps getting called progress.

Some weeks that's the economy: why the 401k replaced the pension, why the raise never quite keeps up with rent, why the math you were promised as a kid stopped checking out somewhere along the way.

Some weeks it's straight-up nostalgia: burning a CD, the video store clerk who actually knew movies, the small stuff that got deleted while nobody was looking and nobody asked if we wanted it gone.

And some weeks it's radio, since I've spent enough of my life around it to know exactly why every rock station plays the same seven songs. That started at five years old, when my mom bought me my first AM/FM radio, and it took hold for good growing up locked into Tampa's WFLZ during the Power Pig era, recording myself on a cassette deck and playing radio alone in my bedroom. My first paid gig came years later on WRQT 95.7 The Rock and WKTY in La Crosse, and from there I worked my way from the air studio into engineering, chasing the systems behind the signal instead of just the sound of it.

I've got the industry background, but this isn't an industry show. It's nostalgia without the rose tint and disillusionment without the doom-posting, just one guy who grew up on dial-up and AM/FM static thinking out loud about what happened to the stuff that used to work.

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