About the show
Circuit Breakers started with a simple frustration: tech news either talks down to you or drowns you. Hosts Lena Park and Marcus Reid — a former chip engineer and a longtime tech reporter — translate the week’s biggest stories into plain English without sanding off the interesting edges.
Each episode opens with three headlines that matter, spends twenty minutes on one story that deserves depth, and closes with a lightning round of gadgets, apps, and predictions the hosts will happily be wrong about on the record.
Standout episodes
Three listener favorites that show the range.
Ep. 87 — “The Chip Shortage Is Over. The Chip Drama Isn’t.”
Lena traces where every GPU actually goes, from fab to data center, and explains why your graphics card still costs what it costs. The deep dive that doubled the show’s YouTube audience.
Ep. 81 — “We Read 400 Pages of AI Safety Docs So You Don’t Have To”
A genuinely useful tour of what the major labs promise, what they publish, and what neither covers. Quoted in two national newsletters the week it aired.
Ep. 74 — “Gadget Graveyard: Live”
The first episode taped before a live studio audience — eulogies for dead devices, a folding-phone stress test, and the lightning round that broke the hosts’ scoring system.
How Hushroom produces it
Recorded weekly in Studio A with three 4K angles, finished on our five-day post pipeline, and shipped with nine vertical clips per episode. Growth runs on guest swaps with adjacent tech shows and a title-testing ritual that lifted click-through within two months.
“Hushroom made us sound like the shows we used to look up to. Our listeners noticed before we told anyone we’d switched studios.”
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