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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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32:53

Three Days to a Bomb: Iran's 60-Day Window

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2026/06/20

Iran's 60-percent enriched uranium stockpile means the hardest enrichment work is already done. This episode breaks down the physics, day by day: how many SWU it takes to reach weapons-grade, how fast Iran's declared centrifuges can deliver it, and why a sixty-day monitoring gap is twenty times longer than the actual breakout sprint. We walk through the cascade halls at Natanz and Fordow, the real meaning of the IAEA's verification data, and what a bad-faith actor can accomplish when no one is

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36:13

Drug Interaction Alerts: Why Doctors Ignore 90% of...

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2026/06/20

Drug interaction databases flag millions of potential conflicts daily, but clinicians override roughly 90% of those alerts. This episode explores why — using the specific example of low-dose amitriptyline combined with Lexapro, a combination that triggers red-flag warnings for serotonin syndrome but is routinely prescribed by gastroenterologists for gut issues. We examine how experienced doctors develop clinical judgment that goes beyond database literalism, how pharmacists triage alerts into "phone

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31:58

Singulair's Black Box Warning: What's the Real Risk?

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2026/06/20

Montelukast (Singulair) was a seemingly safe, widely prescribed asthma drug for over two decades — until the FDA issued a boxed warning in 2020 for serious neuropsychiatric events. But what does the absolute risk actually look like? This episode breaks down the numbers behind the headlines, examining large observational studies that put the risk at roughly four additional cases per thousand patients. We explore who might be most vulnerable, what a practical monitoring protocol looks like, and why

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36:33

Why 7 Meds Is Safer Than You Think

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2026/06/20

When you're taking seven daily medications—from asthma inhalers to ADHD stimulants to blood pressure pills—it's natural to wonder if your body can handle the load. But as this episode explains, the fear of "polypharmacy" is often based on a misunderstanding of how drugs actually work. Your liver doesn't process medications as one pile of chemicals; each drug has its own metabolic pathway, like planes using different gates at an airport. The real danger isn't the number of pills—it's specific

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32:35

The Late-Phase Asthma Trap: How to Actually Escalate

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2026/06/20

Asthma attacks don't always hit immediately. The late-phase response can strike 4-12 hours after trigger exposure, driven by inflammatory cells slowly invading airway tissue — not just smooth muscle constriction. In this episode, we break down why standard "use your rescue inhaler" advice often fails, how the SMART approach (single-inhaler maintenance and reliever therapy) addresses the gap, and a practical 4-phase escalation plan based on GINA 2024-2025 guidelines. We cover peak flow thresholds,

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33:21

Hermes vs OpenClaw: Mobile-to-Server AI Frameworks

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2026/06/20

The Hermes agent framework is pulling developers away from OpenClaw at an accelerating rate. But beneath the surface question of which framework wins lies a harder problem: can you run complex, long development sessions with sub-agents and bash output from a mobile interface? This episode unpacks the three key reasons for the migration—development velocity, architectural flexibility, and native MCP support—and explores why neither framework has fully cracked the mobile-to-server interaction problem

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27:54

How to Stay Alert Without Burning Out

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2026/06/20

Daniel is moving apartments with a one-year-old while navigating the chaos of active strikes, a broken ceasefire, and government messaging he can't trust. In this episode, we break down a four-principle system for staying informed without letting the information eat your whole brain. Learn how to decouple monitoring from consumption, time-box your news intake, find a trusted triangulation partner, and schedule your tuning-out. If you've ever felt the pull between staying vigilant and staying sane,

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30:09

How to Safely Recover from Hypothermia

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2026/06/20

When you're shivering under blankets after ignoring the cold too long, your instinct is to take a hot shower. That instinct is wrong — and potentially dangerous. This episode breaks down the physiology of hypothermia as a spectrum, not a binary condition. You'll learn why passive rewarming beats active heating for mild cases, how afterdrop can cause cardiac events, and why the protocol flips completely for severe hypothermia. From the "umbles" of mild impairment to the paradoxical undressing of

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23:34

The Room Planning Tool Gap: DXF Support Without the...

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2026/06/20

A listener asks: is there a genuinely likable room planning tool that handles real DXF import and export, runs in the browser, and doesn't try to upsell you every five minutes? We put the contenders through four axes: browser-based, real DXF support, sane pricing, and likability. Floorplanner, RoomSketcher, Planner 5D, HomeByMe, and Coohom all fail on at least one criterion. Onshape offers full DXF support on a free tier but demands CAD expertise. Sweet Home 3D emerges as the surprising winner —

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29:59

Source-Restricted vs. Open Retrieval: How to Lock...

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2026/06/20

The terminology around "closed corpus" and "open world" LLM retrieval is a mess — and the stakes are high. A model blending your documents with its own training data can turn a contract review into a malpractice suit. This episode unpacks the real distinction: source-restricted versus open retrieval, and why it's a per-generation decision, not an application-level toggle. We walk through concrete cases in legal, medical, and compliance work, then survey how LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and the Anthropic

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32:58

The Islamabad MoU: A Clause-by-Clause Skeptic's...

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2026/06/20

Is the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding a genuine peace deal or a diplomatic trap? We take a skeptical, clause-by-clause look at the document signed by President Trump and Iranian President Pezeshkian. We break down the 60-day negotiation clock, the front-loaded concession of lifting the naval blockade, the mysterious $300 billion reconstruction pledge from unnamed "regional partners," and the nuclear paragraph that defers every hard question to a "satisfactory framework." Discover the

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31:32

Triage When Everything Breaks at Once

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2026/06/20

When a roof leak, a failing server, a dissolving lease, and a regional security crisis all hit at once, how do you even know where to start? This episode unpacks the art of impromptu disaster recovery when multiple systems collapse simultaneously. We explore the National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework on cascading failures, the emergency medicine triage sieve, and why the first step in any stacked crisis is doing nothing for sixty seconds. Learn how to sort urgency from

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28:53

Your Backup Is Probably Corrupted Right Now

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2026/06/20

Daniel learned the hard way that a silently degrading ZFS pool can fill your backups with corruption for weeks before you notice. This episode breaks down the pre-backup health check workflow: using zpool status and scrub results to gate backups, the difference between ZFS checksums and SMART monitoring, notification systems that actually get your attention (from Pushover to PagerDuty), and the uncomfortable question of whether to pull the plug immediately if you're running without RAID. We explore

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32:12

How to Pick an SSD That Won't Die in Your Home Server

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2026/06/20

Your home server's ZFS pool is degrading. The checksum errors are climbing. You need to replace the failing drive — but buying the wrong SSD could silently fail in a year and take your entire pool with it. This episode breaks down what actually matters on an SSD spec sheet for server workloads: random IOPS at low queue depths, TBW endurance ratings, and whether power-loss protection is worth it. We compare specific models like the WD Red SA500, Seagate IronWolf 125, and Samsung 870 EVO, and explain

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32:44

What's Inside Your Walls: Studs to Sheathing

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2026/06/19

Ever wondered what's actually behind your drywall? This episode breaks down the basic anatomy of a building, from wall studs and joists to rafters and trusses. We explain why a stud finder might be lying to you, what happens when you drill into a wire, and how the layers of an exterior wall differ from a simple interior partition. Whether you're hanging a shelf or just curious about how your house is put together, this is the foundation you need.

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29:51

How to Run Ethernet Through Walls (Without Tearing...

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2026/06/19

Most people skip straight to buying cable without ever asking how it gets from point A to point B. This episode walks through the actual infrastructure: how to find existing conduits (smurf tube, electrical raceways, HVAC cavities), what you can do yourself versus what requires a licensed pro, and how to pull cable without destroying your walls. From tone-and-probe kits to fire-rated risers, fiber vs. copper, and the one mistake that turns gigabit into 100 Mbps — this is the episode for anyone

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31:04

Dash Cams in Israel: Storage, Battery & Evidence Setup

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2026/06/19

If you drive in Israel, the question isn't whether something will happen to your car — it's whether you can prove you weren't at fault when it does. This episode breaks down the practical reality of dash cam ownership for the evidence use case. We cover why storage endurance matters more than camera resolution, how to handle parking mode without killing your car battery, and why a forward-only camera leaves critical gaps in your coverage. From high-endurance microSD cards to hardwire kits with

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34:04

Blind Spot Mirrors: Which Type Actually Works?

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2026/06/19

Aftermarket blind spot mirrors promise better visibility, but they often fail — literally falling off in car washes or flapping loose on the highway. In this episode, we break down the two biggest questions: can you get them professionally installed, and which type — overlap or top-mount — actually provides the best safety? We cover the real reasons adhesive failures happen (hint: it's almost never the product's fault), how VHB tape works on a molecular level, and why a US regulation from the 1960s

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28:26

What Actually Works in a High-Rise Fire

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2026/06/19

Most people's instincts about high-rise fires are wrong. In this episode, we break down the defend-in-place doctrine that fire codes actually mandate — and why evacuating can get you killed. We cover practical steps: sealing your apartment against smoke, staying low, navigating blind, and the controversial question of whether escape hoods are worth buying. If you live in a high-rise apartment building, this episode could save your life.

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32:50

How Drowning Really Works (It's Not What Movies Show)

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2026/06/19

Hollywood shows drowning as splashing and shouting — but the reality is far quieter and faster. In this episode, we break down the instinctive drowning response, why a child in a bathtub faces the same risk as someone in the ocean, and why the rescuer's first instinct to jump in can be fatal. We cover the modern "reach, throw, row, go" hierarchy, the critical difference in CPR for drowning (rescue breaths first, not compressions), the cold-water exception that buys precious minutes, and the hidden

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