Do By Friday

Merlin Mann and Alex Cox
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Aug 6, 2025 • 1h 38min

Blender Brain

LinksBill Hader's Killer Lorne Michaels ImpressionMindhunter is the serial killer drama the world should have tuned into, not Dahmer | British GQThe only actor who’s been in ‘Hamilton’ the whole time is still having a blast - The Washington PostMiguel Cervantes on Saying Good-Bye to Hamilton After 2,013 Performances | PlaybillRuss Mason - Prep Rap '81 - YouTubeSheena Easton - 9 to 5 (Morning Train) - YouTubeDolly Parton - 9 To 5 - YouTubeMaginot Line - WikipediaChesterton's fence - WikipediaInside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Townhouse: Birthday Letters, First Edition ‘Lolita’ and More - The New York TimesHearing Test - Mosquito ringtone TeenBuzz - YouTubeThe Mosquito - WikipediaMatt Rife Is the ‘Legal Guardian’ of the Real Annabelle DollWerner Herzog on Chickens - YouTubeRadiolab’s RejectionBaby SharkRaining Tacos - Parry Gripp & BooneBum - YouTubeThis is Water - David Foster WallaceMeditation Now or Never by Steve HagenBuddhism: Plain & SimpleTitlesYou Can’t Wipe Off That GayBuzzfeed Berkley ThingsHerzog’s Chicken HypnosisBlender BrainTheater of the Obvious
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Jul 31, 2025 • 1h 5min

Business Casual Immunity

Here's the several videos Alex and Merlin didn't have time to watch:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4Rx_vdLM94Q7wRqxPzJ6ZgUJTwWsxAd
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Jul 30, 2025 • 1h 55min

Four Internet Person Theory

Main Show LinksNoise-to-Noise Ratio | FlickrDownstream #99: Stephen, If You're Listening... - RelayTralfamadore - WikipediaDoes everything need to be an ad? – Six ColorsThe Days (Japanese TV series) - WikipediaCapitalist Realism - WikipediaJenny Agutter - IMDbEquus (film) - WikipediaThe Most CHAOTIC Moments EVER In The Taskmaster Studio | Channel 4 - YouTubeMike Wozniak's Farting Task Shock | Taskmaster Series 11 - YouTubeTaskMaster.Info - Obsessively documenting the international Taskmaster franchise.The Disney songs of Imagineer X Atencio - YouTubeDisneyland's Missing River Will Reshape The Park's Future - YouTubeGo Away Green - WikipediaResort Channel Archives - RetroWDWTitlesMy Private ApparatusDiscount BatemanPremium Tsunami PresenterSwedish Survival ButtsThe Banshees of Ed SheeranFour Internet Person TheoryMy Disaster WorkRecorded  Wednesday, July 30th, 2025.
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Jul 23, 2025 • 1h 12min

Tassels All the Time

This week's challenge: Step into the Criterion closet
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Jul 16, 2025 • 1h 52min

To Buy Us Menses

This week's challenge: Do a superhero pose. (Recorded Wednesday, July 16, 2025)
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Jul 10, 2025 • 1h 31min

Pussing in an American Car

This week's challenge: Learn more about commonplace books.
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Jul 3, 2025 • 1h 30min

The First Toyota

James Cameron on the OceanGate sub disaster | 60 Minutes Australia - YouTubeWatch Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster | MaxSteve Coogan’s Closet Picks - YouTubeHamlet 2 - WikipediaZen Flesh, Zen Bones - WikipediaP: Best Water Reminder App for Apple Watch and iPhoneChroniclingDaytumThat's One Smart Bird | Animal All-Stars - YouTube@are-we-art-yet on TumblrMerlin Mann: "Horsin' around." — BlueskyAlex Cox: "You merely adopted the slop. I…" - MastodonMerlin Mann (@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social) - MastodonMerlin Mann: ""Please give the capybara a ch…" - Mastodon
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Jun 25, 2025 • 1h 21min

The Sweat & Chafing Vertical

Found My Place - Blog - Song: "Just Fine"MailChimp Ad - Serial Season 1 - YouTubeHow MailChimp’s irresistible “Serial” ad became the year’s biggest marketing winSiracusa on Toasters — Liss is More"I want fat hands and I'm gonna dance": Tom Cruise on how Tropic Thunder's Les Grossman got so gross - YouTubeWhy Tom Cruise Demanded Dancing And Fat Fingers For Tropic Thunder | CinemablendTOM CRUISE Dance Scene | TROPIC THUNDER - YouTubeThe Best of Car Talk : NPRBest Safari Ad Blocker for iPhone, iPad & Mac | Magic Lasso Adblock1Blocker - The Most Beautiful & Powerful Safari Ad Blocker for iPhone, iPad and MacGuardian Firewall - Guardian FirewallTailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure NetworksThe Power of Lume | Use Lume for Private Parts to Smell Better Longer - YouTubeRed, White & Royal Blue (film) - WikipediaWe need to talk about Lume Deodorant... - YouTubeFifteen Million Merits - WikipediaLast Exit to Springfield - WikipediaThe Simpsons - Where's My Burrito? - YouTubeThe 100 Best TV Episodes of All TimeThey Have The Plant, But We Have The Power (folk song) - YouTubeAlexander Skarsgard as Werner Herzog in 'Documentary Now' Is a DreamSoldier Of Illusion @ Documentary Now - YouTubeMurderbot (TV series) - WikipediaThe Suicide Squad (film) - WikipediaThe Gilded Age (TV series) - Wikipedia'Born Fighters' 1979 Documentary Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds & Rockpile - YouTubeLaibach - WikipediaThe Leftovers-1x01-Opening Scene - YouTubeIndomitable Spirit - Mr Show - YouTube
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Jun 18, 2025 • 1h 10min

Ideological Manscaping

Kea - WikipediaMeet the clever kea, New Zealand's endangered Alpine parrot, whose curiosity - and taste for meat - gets it into trouble | Discover WildlifeHave We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? - YouTubeEp. 583: "Disproportionate Event Horizon" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannA Conversation With Vice President Vance - YouTubeHave We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? - YouTube“It makes for a very unpleasant atmosphere.”Merlin Mann5ives | Merlin's Lists of Five ThingsLife In Hell Books : Matt Groening - Internet Archive
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Jun 11, 2025 • 1h 20min

Vegetables of Obligation

Episode LinksReconcilable Differences #262: Everybody’s Got a Tunnel - RelayMerlin's Wisdom ProjectGary Gulman: The Great Depresh | Watch the Movie on HBO | HBO.comSix by Sondheim - Wikipedia'Pee-wee as Himself' Director on Gaining Paul Reubens' TrustWhen Natasha Lyonne Made Her Debut on 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'Pee-wee as Himself - WikipediaYunchan Lim – RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

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