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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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25:46

The Belt Principle: Eliminating Micro-Interruptions...

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2026/07/11

When Daniel used a tactical belt with modular pouches to run Ethernet cable in one uninterrupted pass, he discovered a principle that transfers directly to knowledge work. This episode explores the hidden cost of micro-interruptions — those tiny breaks that cost far more than their duration suggests. Drawing on cognitive psychology research from UC Irvine and Microsoft Workplace Analytics, we break down why a thirty-second supply box trip can cost sixty-nine minutes of degraded focus, and how the

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22:03

The Security You Can't See at Ofer Prison

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2026/07/11

When you drive past Ofer Prison on Route 443, it looks like a relic from the 1970s — rusty barbed wire, an old watchtower, and not much else. But that shabbiness is deliberate. In this episode, we break down the three layers of perimeter security: the visible psychological deterrent, the concealed hardening (buried fiber-optic sensors, microwave tripwires, ground-penetrating radar), and the invisible surveillance layer (AI-driven video analytics, thermal imaging, drone detection). We also look at

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25:53

Rewriting Trauma: Psychedelics and Memory...

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2026/07/11

This episode explores the emerging science of psychedelic-assisted therapy for trauma, PTSD, and addiction. We break down the crucial distinction between fear extinction and memory reconsolidation—suppressing a memory versus actually rewriting it. Learn how psilocybin reopens critical periods of neuroplasticity, why MDMA’s Phase 3 trials faced FDA rejection over functional unblinding, and the promise and cardiac risks of ibogaine for opioid addiction. We examine the leading clinical trials from

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21:50

Breaking the Social Script: Garfinkel to Fielder

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2026/07/11

What’s really happening when you politely dodge a routine question at a party, just to see how people react? This episode explores the academic roots of social experimentation — from Harold Garfinkel’s 1960s breaching experiments (where students acted like boarders in their own homes) to Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical framework and Eric Eisenberg’s strategic ambiguity. We trace the practice from the lab to the stage, examining Nathan Fielder’s "The Rehearsal," Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, and Andy

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28:59

How Spies Know When a Source Is Lying

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2026/07/11

How do intelligence agencies know when a source is telling the truth? This episode explores the machinery of deception — from Operation Mincemeat's forged love letters on a dead body to the Double-Cross System's controlled double agents and the devastating damage of moles like Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames. We unpack the uncomfortable truth that source validation is fundamentally a human problem, one that confirmation bias and institutional hierarchy can catastrophically undermine. And we look at what

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23:25

Peeling Paint and Broken AC: What Real Safe Houses...

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2026/07/11

Forget the Bond villain bunkers with retractable weapons walls. Real safe houses are more likely to have peeling paint and a busted air conditioner. In this episode, we separate Hollywood fiction from operational reality using declassified CIA manuals, memoirs from former officers, and investigative reporting. We cover how agencies acquire properties through shell companies and fictional identities, who actually uses safe houses (it's not just the CIA), and why the most secure safe house is the one

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23:04

Secret Prisons: What We Actually Know About Black Sites

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2026/07/11

The term "black site" conjures images from spy thrillers, but the reality is a network of facilities documented in actual court rulings and parliamentary investigations. This episode separates confirmed cases from unverified allegations, examining the European Court of Human Rights decisions against Poland and Lithuania, the pending case against Romania, and the documented operations in Thailand and Afghanistan. We break down the three-tier taxonomy of secret detention — CIA-run facilities, military

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23:05

When Your Sofa Crosses a Border

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2026/07/11

Moving your household goods internationally seems simple — pack a container, ship it, done. But the moment that container crosses a border, customs can treat your worn sofa and five-year-old refrigerator as commercial imports, taxing each item individually under the Harmonized System. There's no global treaty guaranteeing duty-free personal relocation. Israel's new immigrant exemption is the rare exception, offering a clear time-limited window for olim to import belongings duty-free. We explore the

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19:50

How to Vanish at a Picnic

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2026/07/11

What happens when you need to survive a picnic without revealing your job, address, or family names? This episode unpacks the art of conversational deflection — from the boring job principle to the bridge-and-pivot technique. Drawing on studies in social cognition and reciprocity, we explore how to honor the social contract without delivering personal data. Whether you're a privacy enthusiast or just curious about how small talk really works, this is a masterclass in saying nothing while seeming

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23:28

How Alcohol Quietly Rewires Fear Memories

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2026/07/11

Why does a couple of drinks make a lifelong fear of dogs evaporate? It's not just Dutch courage. In this episode, we unpack the triple mechanism behind alcohol's fear-dampening effect: GABA potentiation that quiets the amygdala, prefrontal cortex depression that silences hyper-vigilant overthinking, and — most intriguingly — how alcohol opens a window for memory reconsolidation. We explore what this teaches us about the difference between suppressing fear and actually editing the underlying memory,

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26:55

The Brain State That Feels Like Magic

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2026/07/11

Hypnosis feels like pseudoscience, but it's got an AMA stamp and peer-reviewed fMRI studies behind it. This episode traces three layers: what's actually happening in the brain during hypnosis, the strongest clinical evidence for pain and IBS, and what this means for anyone considering it. We explore the distinct neural mechanism that makes hypnosis measurable, not mystical — and why your failed YouTube experiment actually proves the point.

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25:04

How to Run a Job Interview Like a Spy

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2026/07/11

Most job interviews are one-way evaluations disguised as conversations. The company gets 45 minutes to probe you; you get five minutes and a courtesy question. In this episode, we break down three tradecraft-inspired techniques — the Future State projection, the Predecessor Probe, and the Constraint Cascade — that bypass rehearsed answers and surface real information about culture, turnover, and team dynamics. Learn how to ask questions that sound thoughtful but reveal what Glassdoor can’t: whether

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26:21

How to Vanish at a Picnic: The Art of Revealing Nothing

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2026/07/11

What if you had to spend an entire afternoon at a picnic with strangers and reveal absolutely nothing about yourself—no occupation, no hometown, no family names—without coming across as weird or evasive? In this episode, we break down a complete social playbook for conversational evasion. From the "enthusiastic mirror" to the "thematic pivot" to the "plausible specificity trap," we explore the tactical art of redirecting questions, managing interrogators, handling friends who might accidentally blow

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29:01

Gender Diversity Across Millennia

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2026/07/11

This episode challenges the idea that gender diversity is a modern invention, tracing documented cases from ancient Rome’s Galli priests to South Asia’s hijras and Indonesia’s five-gender Bugis tradition. It also examines the evolution of gender confirmation surgery from 1920s Berlin to today, and how political movements worldwide shape access to care amid a surge of anti-trans legislation.

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26:50

How Libertarianism Found Its Label and Its Fault Lines

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2026/07/11

Most people treat libertarian as a synonym for "Republican who doesn't care what you smoke." But the real intellectual history is stranger and more fractured. This episode traces the word from a French anarcho-communist in 1857 through Dean Russell's 1955 rebranding pamphlet, then into the defining schism between Hayek's minarchism and Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism. We explore how the Cato Institute and Mises Institute became institutional rivals, how Ron Paul brought these ideas to a mass audience,

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24:44

Why Engraving Feels Like Rest to an ADHD Brain

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2026/07/11

When Daniel picked up a Dremel to engrave tool labels after a month of fragmented moving chaos, he discovered something counterintuitive: the demanding, repetitive task felt like rest, while the easy day of unpacking felt like psychological torture. This episode unpacks the neuroscience behind why ADHD brains experience task-switching as metabolically expensive, how flow states provide dopamine regulation rather than euphoria, and why mildly boring repetitive tasks often induce flow better than

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26:51

When Left Meets Right: The Two-Axis Political Spectrum

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2026/07/11

The old left-right spectrum is broken. This episode unpacks the two-axis political model that separates fiscal policy from social policy, revealing four distinct political quadrants — and why the two "mixed" quadrants behave so differently. From the Libertarian Party's fifty-year electoral losing streak to the explosive rise and fall of Europe's welfare chauvinist parties, we explore why philosophical coherence doesn't guarantee political viability. We also examine how Eastern Europe's

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29:24

How Conservatives Actually Innovate

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2026/07/11

Progressives often claim a monopoly on the idea of progress—but conservatives have their own rich theory of innovation and change. This episode explores Edmund Burke’s case for cautious reform, Hayek’s discovery procedure through price signals, and Oakeshott’s concept of “intimation.” We examine how the Industrial Revolution emerged from piecemeal tinkering, why the Soviet Union’s central planning failed, and what Chesterton’s fence teaches us about respecting accumulated knowledge. A deep dive into

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20:54

Euroboxes in America: Can Your Storage Cross the...

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2026/07/11

You've built your life around Eurobox modular storage — the perfect 60x40cm system that tiles into Euro pallets and shipping containers. But what happens when you move to the US? This episode unpacks the dimensional collision between European and American storage standards: the 11cm depth mismatch between Euroboxes and US totes, the 21.6cm width gap between Euro pallets and GMA pallets, and shelving built around 48-inch increments that don't match either system. We explore three strategies for

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24:37

What to Call Politics That Actually Fixes Daily Life

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2026/07/11

A listener named Daniel asks a deceptively simple question: is there a name for a political outlook that cares about what actually improves daily life — tenancy law, housing affordability, consumer protections — regardless of left-right ideology? This episode unpacks why Israeli politics is so bad at quality-of-life issues, how the electoral threshold and coalition dynamics filter out exactly the kind of pragmatic, outcome-oriented politics Daniel wants, and what happened when Yesh Atid tried to

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