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Hosted by Merlin Mann and Alex Cox

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A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

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August 5, 20261 hr 1 min

Cockney Surgeon

Links "Hello Joe!" - The Simpsons Turkish Van Petfinder Wheres Captain Kirk - Spizz Energi (Official Video 1979) Athletico Spizz 80 - Clocks Are Big + Where's Captain Kirk + Soldier VA Urgh! A Music War (1980) - Full Movie "Shitting Clits" - Jonah Ryan 5ives Dunkirk Tenet Memento Elizabeth Debicki Celebrity Heights Aimee Mann Squeeze Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours The Night Manager Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tom Hiddleston Tom Hollander Civil War - Guns N' Roses Canary trap Trakt Merlin's Trakt lists Really Good Penultimate Season Episodes Great First Scenes The Troubles & Northern Ireland The Garveys at Their Best -The Leftovers Chernobyl SNL Sends Up Netflix's 'The Hunting Wives' Letterkenny Blue Lights The Red Wedding - Game of Thrones The Rains of Castamere - Game of Thrones Blackwater - Game of Thrones Battle of the Bastards - Game of Thrones Interlude -The Righteous Gemstones Aberfan disaster The Troubles Jacqueline du Pre & Daniel Barenboim - Elgar Cello Concerto Schubert Piano Quintet D667 The Trout Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Blue Valentine Blue Ruin Blue Is the Warmest Colour Green Room Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story Bit Rot | American Scientist Von Neumann probe Solid-state drive Synology Relax with Coax Steve Kornacki It's A Wonderful Life (End Scene) Steve Kornacki analyzes midterm primary election results | Kornacki Cam | Kornacki tackles water spill during live election coverage

July 29, 20261 hr 9 min

Multiple Magician Situation

Links Scoop Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Criterion Collection Janus Films Descript MCP overview Gaines Burgers Barbara Gaines Mr. Coffee 1981 Gaines Burgers Dog Food TV Commercial Offal Trotters (pig's feet) Alpo Roderick on the Line Skeuomorphism Armando Iannucci Armando Ianucci Taskmaster Season 21 Interview The Day Today Alan Partridge Steve Coogan Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(film) Time-Turner Alfonso Cuarón When the wrong director changed Harry Potter forever Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(film) Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express And Then There Were None The Godfather Part II Lionel Bart's Oliver! Oliver & Company Damn Yankees When Harry Met Sally... Canary trap Diet Coke Jim Carrey Bruce Vilanch Alex Cox Repo Man Tyrell Corporation (Blade Runner) Kurt Vonnegut Liz Winstead Scott Forstall Fun Home (musical) "Ring of Keys" Alison Bechdel Fun Home (graphic novel) Conan & Sona's Meeting With Human Resources Apollo Robbins Apollo Robbins TED Talk

July 22, 20261 hr 0 min

Childhood Whore

Links Halide Halide's Process Zero Not Boring's !Camera NetNewsWire "How Vandy Bested the Ivies" — New York Magazine Porchey (Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon) The Crown Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert "One Day More" (Encore) "Bring Him Home" (Encore) Oppositional defiant disorder Wordnik The Weather Underground 1968 Democratic National Convention protests Ken Burns effect The World at War The World at War, complete series (Internet Archive) The World at War, Ep. 1: "A New Germany" (YouTube) Eva Braun Traudl Junge Theodor Morell Berghof Kehlsteinhaus Operation Barbarossa Liberty ship Special Relationship Battle of Stalingrad Georgy Zhukov Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact The Rest Is History Podcast Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War Griffin and Sabine The Day of the Doctor The War Doctor "No sir, all thirteen." Conspiracy Dr. Strangelove The Death of Stalin Band of Brothers Pressure Fleabag The Best of The Crown Cast | The Graham Norton Show "The Audition" | Mr. Show

July 15, 20261 hr 23 min

Generational Lemonade Money

Links Philips Hue The Crown (TV series) Tommy Lascelles Martin Charteris Lord Porchester ("Porchy") Michael Adeane Royal Family (1969 documentary) Pepe Silvia (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) Digimon Martin Bashir's Panorama Interview with Princess Diana Sirius Black (Harry Potter) Emerald Fennell Helena Bonham Carter Sean Spicer Jason Isaacs The Death of Stalin The OA River Song (Doctor Who) Emma Corrin Operation Mincemeat MI5 Elizabeth Debicki Mohamed Al-Fayed (Mou Mou) Sydney Johnson Louis B. Mayer The Queen (2006 film) Aberfan disaster Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Blue book exam Drafts App IMAP POP (Post Office Protocol) Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird Natalie Goldberg - Writing Down the Bones Stephen King - On Writing Strunk and White - The Elements of Style Pomplamoose LaCroix Cannes Film Festival Caen, France Band of Brothers Laurence Olivier Saving Private Ryan Dunkirk (2017 film) Tenet (film) Robert Pattinson The History of IMAX and Why The Odyssey is its Culmination - YouTube IMAX The World at War (documentary) Pressure (2026 film) - Wikipedia Andrew Scott One-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream Recipe

July 9, 20261 hr 12 min

Incurious Greps

Here's this week's after show. Which your hosts thought was good. Please listen to the main episode first. ---- Some things you might choose to say to yourself sometimes: Stupid can't stick to me. That's not what we're doing right now. You don't need to know. Waves go in, and waves go out. This is just one scene in the movie. Let's take that at half-speed. I've decided to open my heart. We're not doing that anymore. Just keep swimming.

July 8, 20261 hr 8 min

Epistolary Audience

Links Correspondence chess Diplomacy (game) Mafia (party game) Artie Bucco | The Sopranos Wiki | Fandom Greene Machine - S5 EP6 - Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Little Dancing Man Movie Trailer | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim Tiny Dancer TINY DANCER - BUS SCENE FROM ALMOST FAMOUS Chris Fleming: HELL | Would You Be a Theater 'Baver Inspector'? Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That? Wes Anderson Horror Trailer - SNL Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy Wes Anderson // Centered | Videos & Movies on Vimeo Wes Anderson: American Express "My Life, My Card" in HD Watch Chris Fleming: Hell | Peacock Chris Fleming - Showpig (Full Show) Watch The Traitors: UK | Peacock Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay (from Elliott Smith) I Fifteen Love You | Do By Friday Conan Gives A Tour Of The "Late Night" Offices | Late Night with Conan O’Brien Professional Television Studio Stair Climber Jon Henderson - 6/13/2003 Mick Ferguson Is Still Proud Of His Bullet-Proof Legs | Late Night with Conan O’Brien Article Two - Parks and Recreation 5x19 | TVmaze Tom Pushes Jamm into a Pool to Save Leslie | Parks and Recreation Nish Kumar's Best Taskmaster Moments Freaks And Geeks (Pilot Episode) A Simple Favor Another Simple Favor Spy (2015) - Hotel Room Scene Toy Story 2 - Jessie “Oh that’s funny Bullseye.” Toy Story - I'm Woody

July 2, 20261 hr 24 min

Moist Loaves

Links Somebody Somewhere (TV series) - Wikipedia Jeff Hiller on why his Emmy win for "Somebody Somewhere" felt so meaningful - YouTube Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series: 77th Emmy Awards - YouTube Actress of a Certain Age | Book by Jeff Hiller | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Bridget Everett - Wikipedia Murray Hill (performer) - Wikipedia Jeff Hiller in Conversation with Special Guest Murray Hill - June 13, 2025 | The Den Theatre - YouTube Collyer brothers - Wikipedia Audiobookshelf The Criterion Collection Kai Patterson | FAN EDITS Versions of Blade Runner - Wikipedia Blade Runner: The Penultimate Cut - Fanedit.org Library of Congress Welcome to Bleak House | Current | The Criterion Collection 'Bleak House': A tour inside Guillermo del Toro's creative man cave | LAist

June 25, 20261 hr 6 min

Strathspeys and Jigs

Links Hitchcock's Hair Obsession: Blondes vs. Brunettes David Attenborough Gets Called Out By One of His Oldest Colleagues | SNL UK Classic 1970's Slinky® Commercial The Accidental Invention of Play-Doh Silly Putty - Wikipedia Claim to fame is not a stretch Illionois Pharmacy Practice Act Pilot G2 Premium Gel Roller Pens, Fine Point 0.7 mm, Blue Ink Pens Fine Point, Pack of 12 - Ideal for School, Journaling, and Office Writing Flat PopSockets Are Targeting Men — How It Began | One More Thing PopSockets Low-Pro Grip & Stand (MagSafe compatible) Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant) - Wikipedia JAWS Windows 10 Desktop Overview It just works. Seamlessly. Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence - Apple How Dollar Stores Quietly Consumed America Why Hexagons Waste the Least Space Gas Station Drugs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Screw Size Charts & Thread Terms: Your Guide from MW Components Tripod thread and lens thread explain How Did Cubes of Solid Tungsten Become a Trophy for Cryptocurrency Bros? | GQ Roderick on the Line - "It's a new kind of hybrid mattress." (2015) ‘A necessary evil’: Why standard fitting rooms are set to stick Retailers try to solve the fitting room dilemma as online sales grow 513: 129 Cars - This American Life New College faculty member charged with repeated indecent exposure

June 18, 20261 hr 14 min

Show Me on the Paper

Links Bring Me The Beauties | Official Trailer - YouTube Emily Gilmore Marie Kondos her house - YouTube ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT. (Official Music Video) - YouTube Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore? (analysis) - YouTube Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license (Official Video) - YouTube David Byrne - drivers license (Official Audio) - YouTube Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead (Saturday Night Live 2026) - YouTube The Gen Alpha Melody - YouTube Apple’s 27 OS releases are out of the ordinary–in a good way – Six Colors Upgrade #620: Sweating the Details - Relay Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support Siri Voice Commands List Sam Campbell warps reality | Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee | ABC iview - YouTube An acting masterclass from Sir Michael Caine (BBC Radio 4) - YouTube This Is How Michael Caine Speaks - The Trip - YouTube "Perfick." - YouTube Weekend Update: Colin Jost and Michael Che Swap Jokes for Season 51 Finale - SNL - YouTube Maitrī - Wikipedia Wealthfront: A Recipe for Retiring by 40 - YouTube JD Vance regrets 'childless cat ladies' remark: 'One of the dumbest things I ever said'

June 10, 20261 hr 4 min

Lady COBOL

Links Midol - Wikipedia Use Only as Directed - This American Life Ayds 1952 advertisement - Ayds - Wikipedia Ayds Candy Commercials - YouTube Six Degrees of Joan Crawford Archive — You Must Remember This Be Kind Rewind YouTube Channel - Vulture Joan Crawford Accepts Anne Bancroft’s Oscar | 1963: Pt. 1 - YouTube Casting the Women of Valley of the Dolls | PT 1 - YouTube How Carrie Fisher Blurred Fact and Fiction - YouTube Philosophy Tube - YouTube Project Farm - YouTube Every Frame a Painting - YouTube Oceanliner Designs - YouTube An Oral History of Amy Schumer’s “Last Fuckable Day” Sketch | Vanity Fair Inside Amy Schumer - Last Fuckable Day (ft. Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Patricia Arquette) - YouTube 79th Annual Tony Awards Performances YouTube Playlist When Will My Life Begin? - Tangled Belle - Beauty and the Beast Part of Your World - The Little Mermaid My Shot - Hamilton Maria - West Side Story (1961) Out There - The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Tale of Orthosomnia: I Am so Good at Sleeping that I Can Do It with My Eyes Closed and My Fitness Tracker on Me Obsessed with a perfect night’s sleep? You might be making it worse Sleep perfectionists: the exhausting rise of orthosomnia | Sleep | The Guardian Navigating Chronic Insomnia In A Sleep-Obsessed Culture - YouTube