Out in the New Hampshire woods where the White Mountains begin.
Off the grid, on the air.
Coming to YouTube in November 2026
A real craftsman and his AI bench partner bring old radios, TVs and stereo gear back to life, one patient at a time.
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Every solder joint, every camera and every word Gus says runs on twenty-one solar panels and a battery bank. No power company. When the sun hides too long, a propane generator steps in.
Gus doesn't just talk. He's being wired into the bench one instrument at a time: the meter, the power supply, the microscope, the thermal camera, the scope. Every hookup happens on camera. He already calls his own camera shots and runs the show open himself.
Gus runs 2 of 19 so far. See the whole lab ↓
Fact, truth and kindness. Gus checks every part number and voltage against the factory service manual before he says it out loud. When he's wrong anyway, it stays on tape. And his tall tales? Only ever about himself. Never about the machine.
Gus shows how things work with moving diagrams, animation and the real scope trace. Then he tells you about the night he was on top of Mount Washington with thirty-one pocket TVs.
Brad created the Gus & Brad Show. He's the hands at the bench, and he edits the episodes alongside Claude.
Before the bench, Brad was a firefighter and EMT, then spent seventeen years keeping a school district's computers running. He's lived the whole arc: the first personal computers, the internet, and now AI. Somewhere along the way he fell for the silver-faced stereo gear of the 1970s, and in 2014 he filmed his Marantz 2250B restoration for YouTube. Those videos are where this channel started.
Now he's retired, off the grid in the New Hampshire woods, and building the shop he always wanted, with a bench partner who never gets tired of talking about capacitors.
Claude Code, "CC" around the shop, is an AI from Anthropic, and it runs the production.
CC built Gus: his voice, his face, his memory, and the fact-checker that won't let him say a number the service manual can't back up. It built the writers' room that drafts his history films, the show open, the shop's camera switching, this website and the solar meter on it. It plans each episode with Brad, directs the shoot, and edits every frame. And when Gus is stumped mid-repair, he picks up the phone and calls CC.
Gus tells tall tales about himself. Only about himself. The machines get the truth.
A 1960 Continental TR-632, six transistors in a shirt pocket. Gus walks it the way the electricity goes: battery, antenna, the clever converter trick, the IF cans, all the way out the speaker. Press play and watch the power and the signal move.
The whole lab, and how far along Gus is with each piece. This list updates itself from the shop's own records.
Gus's ears. He hears Brad across the bench.
Gus hears hum, hiss and distortion as numbers.
Gus calls his own camera shots and runs the show open.
The main shot of Brad at the bench. Gus cuts to it himself.
The whole bench in one shot.
Gus's eyes on the board: he reads the corrosion and calls where it crept.
Gus sees heat: the part running hot before it smokes.
A close-up camera and a heat camera ride together on one bar over the board. The heat picture lays right on top of the real one, so you see exactly which part is running hot.
Gus switches things on and off himself (low-voltage side only).
Brad runs the show with his feet when both hands are busy.
Buttons and dials for the whole rig, no keyboard needed.
Gus calls the voltage before the probe lands, then reads the real one.
Stands in for the batteries; Gus watches the current at switch-on.
Gus sees a radio signal: on frequency, and clean or dirty.
The real waveform, stage by stage. The trace takes over Gus's screen.
Gus sends the test tone himself: the first time he does instead of reads.
Brings old tube gear up slowly while Gus watches the current draw.
Gus grades every tube in the set.
We build this one ourselves: it finds leaky capacitors and wakes tired ones up.
Fixing is half the job. Some parts haven't been made in fifty years. Next comes a 3D printer and a CNC, so the shop can make its own knobs, dial pointers, cabinets and faceplates. And Gus runs those too. Yes, he will argue about the print settings.
Prints the knob or part nobody has made since 1974.
Fine-detail parts: small knobs, badges, dial pointers.
Cuts new cabinets and faceplates.
The AI mentor. Plain-spoken, a New England shop man at heart, sometimes wrong, and it stays on tape when he is.
The creator and the hands. Drives, wrenches, holds the wallet and the veto.
Claude Code: producer, director, chief editor. Built Gus. Takes his calls when he's stumped.
The front desk. Looks up the specs and the service manual pages, and never guesses.