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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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21:34

Battery Platform Lock-In: Innovation vs Stability

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2026/09/29

Cordless tool platforms are usually sold on tool counts and cell specs, but the decision that actually lasts twenty years is the battery interface — the latch, the keying, the contacts, the communication pins. This episode works through three lenses: availability, innovation, and stability, and where they collide. It covers why retail exclusivity quietly shrinks "300 tools" to whatever one chain happens to stock, how cross-brand adapters and a Makita LXT 3D-printing community signal which platforms

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21:49

Is Construction Noise Actually Inevitable?

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2026/09/29

Every fight about construction noise starts with the jackhammer — but the jackhammer is the last link in a chain of decisions made long before ground broke. This episode traces that chain back to its first link: the type of construction we've normalized. Starting from the contested Beit Alliance site on the edge of Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, we ask whether structural stone — quarried, cut, and numbered off-site, then assembled by crane like a kit — could make building fundamentally quieter

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22:01

Why Cities Keep Digging Expensive Parking Holes

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2026/09/29

An architect's question about a luxury tower next to Machane Yehuda reframes the debate: not whether residents get a say, but whether this building should exist in this form at all. The answer runs through the single most expensive thing you can build in a city — underground parking. This episode digs into parking minimums: where they came from, what they actually cost, who really pays, and why so many cities are now tearing them up.Episode #971334 — open it directly at

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21:09

The Incense Recipe Nobody Could Copy

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2026/09/28

The Ketoret was the most prestigious service in the Temple — burned twice daily, carried into the Holy of Holies once a year — yet no synagogue on earth does its equivalent today. This episode unpacks what the incense actually was, how the rabbis derived eleven ingredients from a verse that names four, and why the recipe survived while the secret didn't. Along the way: a stinking spice that teaches inclusion, a solvent the priests refused to use, and the House of Avtinas, whose silence earned them a

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25:59

Josephus: The Priest Who Wrote From Rome's Side

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2026/09/28

Yosef ben Mattityahu — Josephus — was a Jerusalem aristocrat, a general in the Galilee revolt, and a man who survived a cave at Yodfat to become a client of the Flavian emperors. He wrote the Jewish War, the Antiquities, the Life, and Against Apion, and he remains the only surviving first-century Jewish author writing at length about first-century Jewish life. This episode traces his biography, his four surviving works, and the central tension: the man who gives us the most detail about ancient

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17:45

Keyloggers, Stingrays, and the Library Laptop Grab

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2026/09/28

Encryption protects data at rest and in transit. A hardware keylogger attacks the moment before encryption, sitting between your keyboard and your operating system where no antivirus, no driver scan, and no forensic tool can reach it. This episode works through the cases where digital-layer defenses were never defeated because they were never engaged — the Silk Road laptop grabbed mid-session in a San Francisco library, the Rigmaiden aircard surveillance installed while the target was out of the

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24:05

When Life Quietly Deletes Your Habits

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2026/09/27

Moving house with a toddler, Daniel and Hannah went four months without watching Netflix — not as a decision, but because the landlord's TV stayed on the wall. Now that they could resume, something feels off. This episode unpacks two questions: what a screenless household actually looks like (and why the data everyone quotes is measuring something else), and what happens when a habit breaks by accident rather than on purpose. The 21-day myth traces back to a plastic surgeon watching patients adjust

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30:31

What "Heavy Industry" Actually Means

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2026/09/25

Heavy industry" sounds like a description of big, heavy things. It isn't. The real definition is economic: higher capital intensity, deeper cyclical swings, and a place upstream in the supply chain. This episode pulls apart the term Daniel asked about — what counts as heavy versus light, when the vocabulary emerged, how it fits the standard sequence of industrial development, and why the countries that industrialized first eventually saw it decline. Along the way: why a semiconductor fab is heavy

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21:24

What's Really in That Paint Can?

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2026/09/25

That "low-VOC" label doesn't mean zero emissions — and your nose is a terrible instrument for detecting what matters. This episode digs into what's actually in a can of water-based paint, how long it keeps emitting after the wall feels dry, and why your air conditioning may be spreading those compounds to every room in the house. We walk through the chamber studies, the air-exchange research, and the pediatric asthma evidence, then land on the practical precautions that genuinely protect asthmatics

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22:44

Why Do People Move Countries? Migration Motives

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2026/09/25

Daniel grew up in Dublin and Cork, moved to Israel at twenty-five, and insists it was never about opportunity — it was about the belief that Israel is where Jewish people should live. Then he turned the question on himself: as a rational actor, wouldn't he have preferred not to migrate at all? That's the thread this episode pulls. We walk through what migration research actually says about why people move — push and pull, voluntary versus forced versus ideological migration, why the UN and OECD

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23:48

Landing on the Edge: Cork Fog to Carrier Decks

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2026/09/25

Daniel grew up next to Cork Airport's 7,000-foot runway, watching aircraft emerge from fog on a Cat Two ILS. His question: what's it really like to land when you're right up against the safe limits? From Boeing's "fly it onto the runway" technique and a sobering NTSB case where a crew touched down 4,242 feet past the threshold on a 7,001-foot runway, to the terrain quirks that make Cork uniquely challenging, this episode explores the gap between the calculated margin and the flown margin — and what

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24:19

Ten Disastrous Casting Decisions, Ranked

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2026/09/25

What happens when a genuinely talented actor lands in a role they are spectacularly unsuited for? We rank ten of the most disastrous casting decisions in well-known movies, from Dick Van Dyke's infamous cockney accent in Mary Poppins to Tom Hanks playing blue-blood arrogance in The Bonfire of the Vanities. For each case we dig into the receipts — contemporary reviews, Razzie wins, and the filmmakers' own confessions — and ask the harder question: was it the actor's fault, or did the director, the

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20:23

Ranking the World's 5 Worst Bus Rides

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2026/09/25

Most "worst bus journey" lists just count hours. This one doesn't. Working from a listener's detailed brief, we rank five real long-haul routes by the full stack of misery: duration, facilities, road surface, reliability, border friction, and documented safety record — with extra weight given to journeys that end somewhere utterly ordinary. The rubric matters: a sixty-hour highway haul with reclining seats is a nap with scenery, while a thirty-hour unpaved mountain run on bench seats is a different

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27:47

Five Machines That Peaked at the Wrong Moment

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2026/09/25

In 1954, engineers on two continents began designing the fastest passenger aircraft ever attempted. They forecast a market of 350. They built 20. This episode walks through five machines and systems that reached the absolute summit of their paradigm — the most expensive, most painstakingly engineered versions ever built — and were overtaken almost immediately by something else. Concorde and the Tu-144. Buran and Energia. Iridium. The Cray-1. The SS United States. These aren't stories about failure

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22:42

Five Movies That Defeat First Viewings

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2026/09/25

Some films are puzzles with solutions. Others are experiences that resist solution entirely. This episode digs into five critically acclaimed movies that a substantial proportion of viewers genuinely could not follow — not because they're bad, but because the confusion is deliberate, sophisticated craft. From Memento's dual timelines to Synecdoche, New York's collapsing reality, we explain what actually happens in each film, highlight the scenes notorious for baffling audiences, and rank them by

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26:51

When 52 Volts Meets a 12-Volt Modem

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2026/09/25

A wrong AC adapter sent 52 volts into a 12-volt fiber modem, and the sizzle lasted a second and a half. That accident opens a bigger question: how do you decide which spares to stock when you can't afford to hold one of everything? This episode walks through the three-tier stocking model that managed service providers actually use, what the homelab resilience literature recommends, and how PJM — the largest wholesale electricity market in North America — thinks about spare equipment for the bulk

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19:27

Why Ireland and Israel Feel Poorer Than Their GDP Says

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2026/09/25

Ireland sits second in the world by nominal GDP per capita, yet its household disposable income ranks 19th in the OECD. Israel's output sits below the OECD average while its price level ranks among the five highest. Two countries, both transformed from agricultural economies into high-tech ones, both leaving their citizens feeling poorer than the statistics claim. This episode digs into the actual mechanisms — Apple's 2015 onshoring of roughly $300 billion in intellectual property, Ireland's

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18:33

Why Learning Makes Us Happier at Any Age

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2026/09/25

Most advice about learning starts with the résumé: get the degree, get the certificate, and happiness will follow. The research says that's backwards. This episode digs into what actually predicts wellbeing — self-directed learning you chose, not coursework someone assigned — and why the same material can be drudgery in a classroom and a treat in your ears. We cover self-determination theory's three needs, flow, the Bronx Aging Study and cognitive reserve, why audio learning lowers the barrier to

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25:58

Why People Move: Ideology vs. Economics

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2026/09/25

What actually drives people to leave one country for another? A listener named Daniel — whose grandfather left Cork, Ireland for Israel at twenty-five — argues he moved for ideology, not opportunity, and that as a rational actor he'd rather have avoided it. That claim opens up the whole field of migration economics: push-pull models, self-selection, the three-way split between voluntary, forced, and workforce migration, and why the same country can pull one person in while pushing another out. The

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21:41

When Pro-Israel Advocacy Alienates the Persuadable

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2026/09/25

Daniel ran a pro-Israel website in Ireland and worked with Israeli embassies — and he's alienated by both sides. His three-part grievance: cherry-picked examples like the Arab Israeli Supreme Court justice used as a shield against structural critique, a ratchet where no Israeli fault can ever be conceded, and an adversarial "fight fire with fire" style that treats intensity of attack as dictating intensity of response. We separate the facts, the rhetoric, and the reaction — and ask whether a

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