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01:05:58

Spirit Stevedore

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2025/05/28

Episode LinksThe Invention That Created Global Trade - And How it Broke It - YouTubeMAERSK Container Storage Box by chunfengMakerWorld: Download Free 3D ModelsChicago Gig Alliance - The People's LobbyYARN | the "Mariah needs to sing tonight" stuff. | Parks and Recreation (2009) - S06E19 Flu Season 2 | Video clips by quotes | 6c2f6e86 | 紗FTM Trans Compression Chest Binders – TG SupplyOne Thing — Sindre SorhusWarm-Up Rituals: How Actors, Comedians and Musicians Get Ready - The New York Times

01:32:37

One Long Breath.

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2025/05/22

This week's challenge: Breathe.Episode LinksBilly Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Official HD Video) - YouTubeGreen Day - Basket Case [Official Music Video] (4K Upgrade) - YouTubeGreen Day - Longview [Official Music Video] (4K Upgrade) - YouTubeGreen Day - Bobby Sox (Official Music Video) - YouTubeSecret World of Mollusks - YouTubeThe Twisted Tale of Mr Based & WorldOfTShirts | Official Documentary - YouTubeThe Day Today - Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan - YouTubeBrian Regan-Stupid In School -

01:11:44

Hurtful Prospector Mode

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2025/05/15

Episode LinksSavannah cat - WikipediaWhen Your Cat Wants to Leave You Too...The F3 Savannah Cat | My Cat From Hell | Animal Planet - YouTubeTwo Thrill-Seeking Savannah Cats Pose Risk to Owner's Life | My Cat From Hell | Animal Planet - YouTubeI tricked Josh Seiter into an interview with The Daily Wire - YouTubeBONUS: AI therapy slopichannel - YouTubeThe science is clear: Deep breathing can be a game changer for anyone. Elite athletes agree - The AthleticArchive: The science is clear: Deep breathing

01:17:58

Increasingly Brown

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2025/05/14

Episode LinksSKÅDIS Pegboard, white - IKEAAmazon.com: Can CrushersOriginal Sin a book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson - Bookshop.org USLove Has Won - WikipediaCrumb (film) - WikipediaApple’s brilliant new shortcut helps you capture ideas before you forget themSleepaway Camp - WikipediaMy Brain Finally Broke | The New YorkerApple’s brilliant new shortcut helps you capture ideas before you forget themHold That ThoughtThe science is clear: Deep breathing can be a game changer for anyone. Elite

01:09:36

Sadness Pageant

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2025/05/08

Episode LinksRobert Prevost of the United States named Pope Leo XIV: Live updates | AP NewsNew Pope Leo XIV Bashed Trump and JD Vance on Twitter Just Weeks AgoCatholic Worker Movement – A revolution of the heartWestern Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - WikipediaUpgrade #562: Let's Break the Law - RelayATP 638: Hop, Hop, Hop — Accidental Tech PodcastMerlin Bird ID – Free, instant bird identification help and guide for thousands of birds – Identify the birds you seeCorvidae -

01:00:17

What the Can Sounds Like

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2025/04/30

This week's challenge: manipulate your data.How They Made Hagrid Big - YouTubeAutoSleep - Overview🎙️ MacWhisperBe Right Back - WikipediaWatch Be Right Back on NetflixCursor - The AI Code EditorWindsurf EditorPrompt 3Tailscale - Add-on Packages | Synology Inc.Access Synology NAS from anywhere · Tailscale Docs(Recorded Wednesday, April 30, 2025)

01:12:01

Superfluous Certainties (Bonus After Show)

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2025/04/24

We liked this week's after show, so we wanted to share it with you as a freebie. Listen to the main episode first.If you enjoy what you hear, please consider supporting the show.Next week's challenge: manipulate some data.(Recorded Wednesday, Apr 23, 2025)

01:12:38

That's Conclave

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2025/04/23

Flightless Bird Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail - YouTubeRabies | Flightless Bird - YouTubeAmerican Girl Doll | Flightless Bird - YouTubeTICKLED - Official Trailer - A Documentary About Competitive Endurance Tickling - YouTubeAmazon.com : White Board WallpaperThrowing Muses - Not Too Soon (Official Video) - YouTubeJeff Rosenstock - Not Too Soon (Throwing Muses Cover) - YouTubeYOU LET MY TYRES DOWN by TROPICAL FUCK STORM (TFS) - YouTubeAntarctigo Vespucci - Freakin' U Out

01:24:36

Tokenized Misery

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2025/04/16

Rangefinders – Optics4BirdingDalton Trumbo - WikipediaThe Best Actress Oscar Race of 1950 - YouTubeJudy Holliday - WikipediaAll About Eve - WikipediaBorn Yesterday (1950 film) - WikipediaEmma Corrin - WikipediaPrincess Diana’s Sweetest Moments in The Crown | Netflix - YouTubeThe Waste Land - WikipediaHope is The Thing With Feathers - Emily Dickinson (Powerful Life Poetry) - YouTubeHillel the Elder - WikipediaPeep Show (British TV series) - WikipediaLudwig (2024 TV series) - WikipediaIt's Time to

01:21:53

Speculative Non-Fiction

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2025/04/09

This week's challenge: Try astral projection.(Recorded Wednesday, April 9, 2025)

01:33:41

Lace It Up

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2025/04/03

This week's challenge: Try Obsidian Again.(Recorded Wednesday, April 2, 2025)

00:59:40

Not All Tree Nuts

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2025/03/26

This week's challenge: Watch Mickey 17.(Recorded Wednesday, March 26, 2025)Episode LinksMickey 17 - WikipediaWhen The Long Take Feels Like You're Inside the Movie | Vanity Fair - YouTubeWeekend Update: Stefon on Holiday Travel - Saturday Night Live - YouTubeRobert Pattinson & Director Bong Joon Ho Break Down a Scene From 'Mickey 17' | Vanity Fair - YouTubeSteven Yeun & Conan Visit A Korean Spa | CONAN on TBS - YouTube'The Pitt' E12 Reaches New Heights and 'Adolescence' Is The Best Show of the Year |

01:08:05

How to Rootkit a Woman

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2025/03/12

This week's challenge: Watch Companion (2025).(Recorded Wednesday, March 12, 2025)Episode LinksCompanion (2025) - IMDbBreaking Away (1979) - IMDb

01:02:23

A Chunktionality of Functionality

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2025/03/05

This week's challenge: try vibecoding.(Recorded Wednesday, March 5, 2025)Episode LinksA.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software - The New York Timeshttps://bolt.newRogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Terrific Transcription Updates Available in Audio Hijack 4.5Rogue Amoeba | Audio Hijack Release Notes

01:03:04

Gatekeep the Sadness

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2025/02/26

This week's challenge: notice some good things.(Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025)Episode LinksMerlin Mann - "That was good."Ruth Gordon's Unique and Defiant Journey to Oscar - YouTubeComedian Jerry Lewis made a landmark Holocaust movie called “The Day the Clown Cried.” Why can’t anyone see it?movies with really good dog actorsDemi Lovato - "I Love Me" (Emo Version)Tampopo (1985) | The Criterion CollectionBest Doula Training Online & Childbirth Education Classes | BirthWorksThe Dubious Feminism of

01:22:01

In Your Uncle's Row Boat

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2025/02/19

This week's challenge: find more unconventional fancy.Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025.

01:09:30

Self-Involved Mess

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2025/02/13

This week's challenge: move your pencil until a secret falls out.Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025.Blackwing Pencils - John Dickerson Official WebsiteAbout Us – BlackwingEvery Successful Entrepreneur Knows These 3 TipsGoon on you crazy diamond | Western KabukiThe Beginnings of American Railroads and Mapping | History of Railroads and Maps | Articles and Essays | Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 | Digital Collections | Library of CongressMagnesium fluoride - WikipediaStoat Kits Play in My Garden | Discover

00:45:52

It's not made from an actual horse.

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2025/02/06

This is a fun after show so we wanted you to have it. Just be sure and listen to e389 first.Thanks for being here.Aftershow LinksCould be rainingChallenge Do By FridayThe Real Story Behind Arby’s NameCovert Instruments - Best In Class Lock Picks & Entry ToolsWhat exactly does the cover of the album "Ghost in the Machine" symbolize? : r/ThePoliceTransmit’s icon history from PanicWhat is jawmaxxing? - Search Engine with PJ VogtBlackwing Matte Pencils

01:19:36

Entrepreneurial Ransom Note

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2025/02/05

This week's challenge: get some new challenges Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025.

01:02:26

Dumb 1935

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2025/01/29

This week's challenge: watch Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix, 2024)Recorded Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025.LinksHitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial | Netflix Official SiteHitler's Circle of Evil | NetflixThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - WikipediaConspiracy (2001 film) - Wikipedia"Conspiracy" (2001) streaming: where to watch movie online?Hitler a book by Professor of Modern History Ian Kershaw - Bookshop.org USThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a book by William L. Shirer and Ron

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