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Hosted by Merlin Mann and Alex Cox

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Oct 2026

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

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October 15, 20261 hr 11 min

Zero Shits and Half Coffee

Links An Interview with a Very Important Motivational Speaker Kimberly Guilfoyle tried to blame her money-requesting texts on AI to save her job: report | The Independent Donald Trump Deciding Whether To Fire Kimberly Guilfoyle Grouch | SNL George Leaves A Bad Message | The Phone Message | Seinfeld Misophonia You Can See Everything | Official Trailer The Social Reckoning – Official Tailor MUSK | Official Trailer How ' Musk ' director Alex Gibney became a critic | KPBS Public Media Alex Gibney Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine - Official Trailer Sexually transmitted diarrhea is morphing into a superbug Dropout | Vimeo Customer Spotlight Maria Bamford's One-Hour Homemade Christmas Special Freemasonry Shriners Knights of Columbus Columbiettes Unforgettable Uri Geller Appearance | Carson Tonight Show The B-52’s - Rock Lobster on S aturday Night Live January 26 1980 Bridge and tunnel Junk journal Readwise Reader | The first read-it-later app built for power readers. Logging symptoms associated with a medication | Apple Developer Documentation Saving links to Tot - All this Simple wrapper for Apple Reminders API (WIP) Obsidian plugin to import Apple Journal exports as Markdown notes Local Apple Reminders for Codex and Claude: shared MCP tools and skills, with a self-contained Claude Desktop installer for macOS. A Confederacy of Dunces Graphic Novel

October 7, 20261 hr 1 min

It's Mostly Gambling

Links 10 Minutes till Bedtime Good Night, Gorilla Peggy Rathmann Pi-hole Relay Membership Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Matthew 18:21–22 Where's Wally? I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen Dropout Game Changer Animated: Brennan's "Yes or No?" Monologue Make Some Noise Dropout | Vimeo Customer Spotlight Brennan Lee Mulligan Vic Michaelis Sam Reich Robert Reich Game Changer Very Important People CollegeHumor Funny or Die The Landlord Between Two Ferns Zac Oyama Ally Beardsley Breaking News Taskmaster Dimension 20 The Adventure Zone Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures: Owlbear Michael Winslow Numismatics Catch a Fire Exodus I Shot the Sheriff Peter Tosh The Social Reckoning Chris Evans Is Having Second Thoughts | GQ Chris Evans Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Knives Out Rian Johnson Star Wars: The Last Jedi Kathleen Kennedy 16-inch softball Social deduction game Stuart Brown: Play is more than just fun Mille Bornes White elephant gift exchange Christmas Party (The Office) Junk journal What is junk journaling? A free, lightly feral hobby that is perfect for 2026 | Vox Wreck This Journal Robert Shields Bay Wheels Robert Moses The Power Broker

October 1, 20261 hr 12 min

Stress as a DLC

Links The Magic School Bus Valerie Frizzle Wario Thomas the Tank Engine Sir Topham Hatt The Railway Series Wilbert Awdry Island of Sodor Narrow-gauge railway UGK feat. Outkast — Int’l Players Anthem Apollo 13 180-degree rule Kelvin wave Sylvanian Families Lawn darts Curious George Curious George — George Takes a Job (official clip) Arthur Green Lantern MacWhisper Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 Entrance of the Gladiators Kenneth Parcell King of the Hill Nasal strip Intake Breathing Neti pot Naegleria fowleri Frank Gorshin Louisiana Purchase Lindsay Ellis — I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil The Flop House Royal Caribbean Triangle of Sadness Tim & Eric — Cinco Food Tube Nosedive Black Mirror — Nosedive (full episode; unofficial upload) Melitta Homes & Land Mean Girls Sumac Availability heuristic Dropout · Free videos on Dropout’s YouTube channel Merlin's Shared Dropout Clips - YouTube Emotional labor Nickel and Dimed THINK (IBM) Getting Things Done David Allen — The Natural Planning Model Maria Bamford Safe Water Lilies Alan Watts — The Wisdom of Insecurity Gene Kranz Fight Club Project management triangle For All Mankind ZZ Top — Legs Vic Michaelis Very Important People · YouTube: Princess Emily — free full episode Very Important People — Augbert (Dropout) · YouTube: 18 official Augbert clips Game Changer · YouTube: The Sound Impression Challenge — free full episode Make Some Noise · YouTube: A Celebrity’s Unflattering Wax Figure Reveal — free full episode Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom · YouTube: Amy Vorpahl Simply Loses Her Mind — free full episode Stefon Game Changer — Count the Rice (Dropout) · YouTube: first 14 minutes — free preview Game Changer — Lie Detector (Dropout) · YouTube: free full episode Zac Oyama as Tommy Shriggly — Very Important People (Dropout) · YouTube: free full episode Very Important People — Princess Emily (Dropout) · YouTube: free full episode Brennan Lee Mulligan My Mom’s Having a Baby — ABC Afterschool Special and title theme z

September 23, 20261 hr 8 min

Super Measles

Links I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil - Lindsay Ellis Why is Cats? - Lindsay Ellis A Visual History of Every Interplanetary Mission Half as Interesting Project Farm Offhand Disney The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel Kuleshov effect Hitchcock on Editing and the Kuleshov Effect - YouTube You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24 Kuleshov Effect / Effetto Kuleshov The Dropout Pareidolia Coax — Channel-surf your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby server Jellyfin Plex Early Access & Beta Releases | Plex Support Infuse - Video Player for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac & Vision Law And Order And Mr. Jerry Orbach - John Mulaney Audapolis | Prototype Fund GitHub - bugbakery/audapolis: an editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription AI Transcription | Accurate Audio & Video to Text | Descript Victor Garber on ‘ Godspell ’ and Playing Jesus You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution Official Trailer DARVO Biblical Magi Au hasard Balthazar Charles and D.I.A.N.A. | SNL UK Weekend Update: Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and Diana's Swan Song | SNL UK Series 7 | Taskmaster Wiki | Fandom Taskmaster Season 22 - Full Episodes Shooting Stars Matt Lucas Supercut The Young Ones (TV series) Bob Mortimer & Richard toilet story | Travel Man Man Down (TV series) House of Fools (TV series) Rik Mayall in Man Down Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule (Documentary, 2014)

September 3, 20261 hr 38 min

Vacation Bottom

Links Connections — The New York Times Strands: Uncover Words. — The New York Times Download the Crossplay app — The New York Times Interview Task: RICHARD AYOADE | Taskmaster | Season 22 - YouTube The Celebrity Traitors series 2 - Wikipedia Series 22 | Taskmaster Wiki | Fandom The Ultimate Miriam Margolyes Experience | The Graham Norton Show - YouTube Strax – Doctor Who Figure 1:10 - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld Strax & The Memory Worm | The Snowmen | Doctor Who - YouTube Vastra | Tardis | Fandom Bella Ramsey - Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster | Acast Reconcilable Differences #294: Grumpy 37 - Relay It's All Too Much a book by Peter Walsh - Bookshop.org US About the Film | Jazz | A Film by Ken Burns | PBS Begin the Beguine - YouTube Eastbound & Down - Wikipedia Watch Free Live TV, Movies and TV Shows Online | Tubi The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin Watch Movies and TV Shows Free Online - Plex Emby — Your Personal Media Server ‎Search results for melrin mann • Letterboxd Share your machines with other users · Tailscale Docs Relax with Coax iStat Menus “He’s 28 years old.” — A Dossier UPS Systems | UPS | CyberPower Uninterruptible power supply - Wikipedia APC Smart-UPS - Wikipedia

August 26, 20261 hr 46 min

Lifestyle Baby Reporter

Links South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs | South Africa | The Guardian Alex (parrot) - Wikipedia Kuleshov effect - Wikipedia Sherlock Holmes and Watson Conversation in a cab A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle | Project Gutenberg Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series) - Wikipedia Wishbone (TV series) - Wikipedia Wishbone | The Slobbery Hound Scoop (2024 film) - Wikipedia SCOOPS a book by Sam McAlister - Bookshop.org US Email reveals how editor ‘killed’ Jimmy Savile story – Channel 4 News The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess | Ep1 The Queen (2006 film) - Wikipedia Spotify executive: Harry and Meghan are ‘grifters’ | CNN The Mayfair Set - Wikipedia Adam Curtis: The Mayfair Set (1999) The Time Tax a book by Annie Lowrey - Bookshop.org US Nathan for You - Wikipedia Pillows and Blankets - Wikipedia Pillows & Blankets | Community Accidental Tech Podcast Nope | Universal Pictures At Home Predators (2025 film) - Wikipedia That time To Catch A Predator kinda killed a guy. To Catch a Predator - Wikipedia 'To Catch a Predator Suicide' - Bill Conradt Suicide on NBC to Catch a Predator Watch The Perfect Neighbor | Netflix Official Site Watch Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere | Netflix Official Site J.J. Bittenbinder, Street Smarts: The safety expert who terrified audiences with his crime-avoidance tips. John Mulaney - Street Smarts Paedogeddon - Wikipedia Brass Eye Special - Paedogeddon

August 19, 202659 min

Seasonal Chicago Honesty

Links On the final season of HBO's VEEP with the cast and creative team Veep l Jonah Married his Step Sister Veep - Wikipedia “Sure, Jan.” 😂 | A Very Brady Sequel (1996) | The Legendary Fake Boyfriend "The Brady Bunch" The Not-So-Ugly Duckling (TV Episode 1970) Lloyd Hennick | VEEP Wiki | Fandom Mark Gatiss’s Dream Meal 🍽️ | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Podcast Sherlock and John's First Meeting | A Study In Pink | Sherlock | BBC The League of Gentlemen - Wikipedia Quote Origin: Everybody Has Plans Until They Get Hit for the First Time – Quote Investigator® Getting Things Done - Wikipedia Inbox Zero Russia - Yeltsin On Campaign Trail Adam Curtis - Wikipedia Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis The Trap | Adam Curtis Full Documentary | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom | Part 1 SHIFTY (2025) ADAM CURTIS complete TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 1-7 The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary) Guest Host Rosie O’Donnell Makes Her Talk Show Return OMC - How Bizarre (Official Music Video) Chris Fleming: The one thing young people should reject if they want a rewarding life and career A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan

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