DIY home upgrades have a way of starting with something you forgot you owned. Andy Baryer found a monitor so old it had no HDMI port. It's now a streaming TV. The garden runs on a timer. The front door has a panic button. None of it required a contractor.

May Long Weekend Can Wait (The Tomatoes Are Already Outside)

Andy hates watering. So he built a system that waters everything on a timer and never asks him to think about it again. His Gardena Movematic hose rewinds with a flick. And the new Zigbee switch near his front door does something worth knowing about: one button, every light in the house, all at once.

The Screen That Studies Your Room (And the One You Forgot in Your Attic)

Walk past the Ember Artline and you might reach out to touch it before you realize it's a TV. It studies your room, picks art to match, and disappears into the wall when you're done watching. Andy also turned a pre-HDMI attic monitor into a full streaming setup. The fix cost $40.

Topics: DIY home upgrades, smart home switches, art TV, garden irrigation, Amazon Ember Artline, Gardena Movematic

GUEST: Andy Baryer | handyandymedia.com

Originally aired on 2026-04-20

Ad creep in sports has officially eaten the event. Four hours of WrestleMania. Eighty-two minutes of wrestling. If you paid $500 for a seat in Las Vegas this weekend, the ads ran on the Jumbotron above you anyway.

Imagine paying for the sport and getting the commercial break instead. That is not a hypothetical. One wrestler arrived in a full Mortal Kombat costume. Another match was brought to you by Dude Wipes. And the wrestlers who built their careers on kids watching from living rooms appeared in ads for online sports gambling. The event was still there. It was just harder to find underneath everything else.

WWE pulled $1.8 billion in revenue last year. Sports leagues are watching those numbers, and what started in wrestling is already moving through hockey, boxing, and every sport with screens on the boards. When the money moves that fast, the ad load follows. That is not a prediction. It is how this works now.

Topics: ad creep in sports, WrestleMania advertising, gambling ads in sports, sports sponsorship revenue, Netflix sports content

Originally aired on 2026-04-20

The Strait of Hormuz crisis has turned a 53-kilometre waterway into the most consequential question in global energy. One to three ships are transiting it daily. It used to be 130.

Imagine the gap between knowing something can happen and watching it happen in real time. Western governments have war-gamed the Strait closing for 125 years. The assumption was always that Iran would fall first. It did not. And now the threat of a single homemade rocket, not a navy, not a warship, is enough to do what decades of geopolitical strategy assumed could never happen.

The historical record does not offer much comfort here. Price shocks at this scale have preceded prolonged economic depressions before, and those depressions create the conditions for conflict over natural resources. This pattern is not inevitable. But the early indicators right now, Ian Wereley says, look very familiar.

Topics: Strait of Hormuz crisis, Iran oil blockade, global oil supply disruption, oil market volatility, Strait of Hormuz geography

GUEST: Ian Wereley

Originally aired on 2026-04-20