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2 years ago

On Podcasts: Outliers Revisisted

On Podcasts is a segment in which we discuss podcasts as an art form.

Let's talk about Gladwell

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The Irrelevant Return

2 years ago

WE BACK

If you want more stories in that "Irrelevant Style" check out El Pochcast here: https://pnc.st/s/el-pochcast

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Malcolm Gladwell's Worst Idea

Or Why You Shouldn't be scared of having bad ideas

2 years ago

A Truly ridiculous take by a supposed genius and how I can use that same logic to prove everyone is Mexican.

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The Derrick Rose Rule

2 years ago

What's the cost of Hope?!

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Back to Supersonic

The Story of The Concorde

2 years ago

The Fastest and coolest passenger airliner ever was developed in the 1950s. When did we stop pushing?

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How To Be A Successful Podcaster

Or how Spotify is killing podcasts

2 years ago

I've been doing this for 6 years now, here's three easy ways to make money from podcasting.

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Double Rainbow All The Way

2 years ago

RIP Paul Vasquez 🌈🌈Episode Notes

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Hank The Tank is Truly Magical✨

truly magical

2 years ago

How the carelessness of a privileged class can wreak havoc on a place as evidenced by a fat bear and backlash to a truly stupid tweet.

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OR4 Did Nothing Wrong

2 years ago

OR4 Did Nothing Wrong

The origin story of where the show's sign off comes from

Please read: The article referenced "A Very Old Man For a Wolf"

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The Kansas City Virtue Signalers

2 years ago

The Kansas City Virtue Signalers

The Nfl is Dumb, but this is REALLY dumb.

Read this: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/2/1/21115858/super-bowl-chiefs-kansas-city

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When Essential Became Low Skill

What work is valued and why

2 years ago

When Essential Became Low Skill

There is no such thing as low skill work.

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Trendy Christmas Gifts

The gifts that barely gave and immediately stop giving

2 years ago

Trendy Christmas Gifts

Instead of putting thought into it just get what everyone else wants!

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Stove Top Stuffing

2 years ago

Stove Top Stuffing (Re-release)

Why work so hard when it doesn't get any better????

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Panama Disease

3 years ago

Panama Disease

Unlike Havana Syndrome this bad boy is REAL and it's causing a mass extinction right before our very eyes.

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Charles Barkley Doesn't Have a Ring

THE NBA IS BACK!

3 years ago

Charles Barkley Doesn't Have a Ring

I'd rather be like Chuck than like Mike.

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Booing At El Grito (Re-Release)

3 years ago

Booing At El Grito (Re-Release)

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Texas State Flag (Re-Release)

3 years ago

Texas State Flag (Re-Release)

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Oxbow Lakes

Or the stupidity of "flip flopping"

3 years ago

Oxbow Lakes

Nature is change. Changing one's mind about everything is what is SUPPOSED to happen. Never stop changing.

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The Biggest Loophole In America

3 years ago

The Biggest Loophole In America

aka How to Get Away With Murder(in theory, not really) NOT The TV show.

Here's the essay in full: The Perfect Crime by Brian C. Kalt

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Why You'll Never Be Wealthy / Buy Borrow Die

3 years ago

Why You'll Never Be Wealthy / Buy Borrow Die

Just don't earn an income....DAS IT.

The Death of the Income Tax (or, the Rise of America's Universal Wage Tax)

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The Flag of Nepal

Another Flag Episode because the masses call for it

3 years ago

The Flag of Nepal

Easily the coolest national flag.

JUST LOOK AT IT!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nepal#/media/File:Flag_of_Nepal.svg

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Blow It Up

Gotta Nuke Somethin

3 years ago

Blow It Up!

Stories of when nobody stopped people from blowing things up for some reason...

Alex Wellerstein's Modest proposal: https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/963433378098884608

Exploding whale news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

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Dam Dismantling

Or how I learned to stop worrying about what I'm gonna do with my masks

3 years ago

Dam Dismantling

In 1921 the San Clemente Dam was built. 20 years later it was useless. 70 years later it was dangerous. Then it was dismantled. We built a WHOLE NEW lifestyle this past year...but it's not gonna hold. Gotta start thinking about dismantling it.

CAAM Water video about the Dam Dismantling here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNANijh-7sU

The book I mentioned is "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by Jenny Odell

End music is "Expressing Thanks (Outdoor Mix)" by CUATRO CUATRO CERO, available here: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Ln4F1nHLvVUo1Vj66OabE?si=wSb1gw_6TrCVgjGX2iWjXw

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Why Do This Show?

A special 100th episode

3 years ago

Why Do This Show?

100th episode! BTW the first episode is still on the feed if you wanna listen.

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It's The Grass's Fault

That excuse still works even in the Premier League

3 years ago

It's The Grass's Fault!

You ever screw up while playing sports so bad you can't help but blame SOMETHING else? Maybe it's sweaty hands, or the sun in your eyes, or...the grass. Well, that excuse still works at the top level of the World's best soccer and it costs a big amount of money to address.

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