Weekly tech commentary, antennas, and honest creator numbers.
Lon Seidman turns his YouTube channel into audio, mixing weekly technology commentary with long interviews. Episodes range from over-the-air antennas and cable cards to NASA engineers at Kennedy Space Center and the economics of being a creator.
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Lon Seidman makes technology videos, and this feed carries the audio. The spine is a weekly wrap-up. Around it sit longer interviews with the people who build, sell, and explain the gear. Topics stay close to the ground. Cable cards get an episode after a TechHive article about Spectrum writing to subscribers who still use one, which turns into a short history lesson about community antenna television and a live demonstration of a signal sitting at 129 megahertz on the wire. Another episode picks apart a YouTube experiment spotted on Reddit and reported by Neowin, where some viewers were told to upgrade to Premium to watch above 1440p. Seidman does not pretend to neutrality there. He pays for Premium, likes it, and still thinks YouTube has never built an affiliate program for the creators who could sell it. The creator-business thread runs through the whole show. He puts his analytics on screen: watch hours per video, subscribers gained per upload, the live streams that cost him subscribers on YouTube while working well on Amazon. One episode asks the audience directly whether the wrap-up should continue, citing a Matt Koval video about the lifespan of a creator as the thing that started the conversation. Ownership is a related preoccupation. Prompted by Twitter turbulence, he lays out an indieweb approach built on a personal blog, a link blog at links.lon.tv, and RSS feeds that push posts to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, so a suspended account never takes the archive with it. Field reporting rounds it out. He traveled twice to Kennedy Space Center hoping to watch Artemis I lift off, and both times the mission scrubbed, so the episode becomes interviews instead: a radiation experiment flying on the mission, crew feedback from two years of ISS testing, and a protective material heavy on Earth that still carries its inertia in orbit. Tyler, the antenna man, arrives after years of viewers demanding it in the comments, and delivers the kind of specificity that makes cord cutting actually work, down to why white indoor coax fails outdoors and why a better antenna on a junk cable stays a junk install. The tone is patient and plainspoken. Seidman explains without condescending, cites where he got something, and tells the audience when a poll is not scientific. Episodes close the same way, with thanks to the supporters who fund the channel a dollar at a time.
Made for: Cord cutters, over-the-air television tinkerers, and gadget-minded listeners who want a calm walkthrough of how the technology actually works. Also useful for independent creators curious about the business side, since real analytics get shown rather than described.
What sets it apart: Seidman treats his own channel as a subject, publishing watch hours, subscriber counts, and poll results instead of speaking abstractly about the creator economy. The interviews go where the story is, from an antenna specialist's cable specifications to a scrubbed Artemis I launch at Kennedy Space Center.
This is the official Lon.TV podcast. You'll hear audio versions of my weekly wrapup show and interviews with people behind some of the most interesting technology companies past and present! These are audio versions of the interviews I post on my YouTube channel at lon.tv.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Lon Seidman treats consumer technology as a set of systems worth understanding before they disappear, fail, or take control away from their users.
One minute it's quad-shield coax; the next, NASA engineers are explaining radiation vests.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical case for keeping content where it can stay under your control.
Lon Seidman uses this weekly wrap-up to make a clear case for keeping content in a place he controls, with Twitter drama and the appeal of moving away from major platforms as the backdrop.
Artemis I's scrubbed launch still leaves a clear, practical look at the hardware and shielding work.
Lon Seidman's Kennedy Space Center dispatch stays focused on the Artemis I launch attempt and, even after the mission is scrubbed, keeps its attention on the engineers and scientists doing the work.
A practical antenna discussion that gets specific about cables, reception, and why digital TV is less forgiving.
Lon Seidman frames over-the-air cord cutting as something viewers can actually work through, while Tyler the Antenna Man adds a clear origin story and enough detail to keep the advice grounded.
A Spectrum letter leads into cable cards, bandwidth, and the fading role of customer-owned TV hardware.
A Spectrum cable card letter turns into a compact look at who gets to control the path into television. Lon Seidman uses his HD HomeRun Prime to show what cable cards made possible: receiving cable programming without renting the provider's box.
A self-audit of a weekly tech show that uses channel metrics to explain why the format is under strain.
Lon Seidman turns the weekly wrap-up inward, using his own analytics to show why the format is struggling and to question where the show should go next.
A practical guide to copyright risk for creators, anchored by a public-domain NASA example that still gets blocked.
Lon Seidman uses this weekly wrap-up to trace the copyright pressures independent creators face online, with attention to the DMCA, Content ID claims, and takedowns.
PC hardware talk with real builder context.
Gen X tech talk with rough edges.
Candid UX talk from the working room.
Tech power, platform culture, human fallout.
Tech news with the tabs still open.
Tech policy argued among old friends, swearing included.
Lon Seib discusses his project to decentralize his content and consumption using RSS, and shares updates on his blog and YouTube channel.
Lon Seidman reports from Kennedy Space Center on the scrubbed Artemis I launch, featuring interviews with astronauts and engineers, and promotes a sponsor.
Lon Seidman interviews Tyler, the Antenna Man, about his YouTube channel and the world of over-the-air television antennas.
CableCARD lets Lon Seidman watch Comcast TV without renting a cable box, using an HD Home Run Prime on his network.
Lon Seidman opens Lon.TV Podcast by saying the weekly wrap-up has "not been great lately" and that he wants feedback on where it should go next.
Lon Seidman discusses live streaming setups for hybrid workplaces, recommending Zoom as a simple platform for hosting streams.
Lon Zeib discusses the importance of owning your digital content and shares how he set up a blog to decentralize his online presence.
Lon Seidman explains what RSS is and how he uses it daily for efficient content consumption.
Lon Seidman discusses the history and features of Telegram, including its founders, privacy controversies, and its rise as a social media platform.
Lon Seidman breaks down copyright basics for independent content creators ahead of a guest lecture at the University of Hartford, covering the 1996 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, platform terms of service like YouTube's Content ID, and fair use.
Lon Seidman interviews Major Nelson (Larry Hryb) about his career at Microsoft and the evolution of his role as the face of Xbox.