Do By Friday

Merlin Mann and Alex Cox
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Jun 1, 2017 • 1h 15min

The Corner of Dingle and Dingle

This week's challenge: read something by Ron Jonson Show Notes Bob’s Burgers - Butts , Anus, Art Crawl - YouTube Nest cams back from the dead with new home monitoring device - The Verge Brian Regan- You Too! - YouTube D.A.R.E. America Nearly Half of Donald Trump’s Twitter Followers Are Fake Accounts and Bots Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy - YouTube Lara Trump’s controversial pet issue - POLITICO Save the Wetlands Steve Koczela on Twitter: “Modern politics in one chart: Last day of search traffic for Covfefe in red, Paris Agreement in blue. Here’s what the pins that Sheriff Clarke wears actually mean - The Washington Post Precious One 12 Week Fetal models Humans vs. Zombies Trump rode golf cart while G7 leaders walked through Sicily | TheHill Trump, home all alone - CNN.com The Italian Job Mini Cooper Scenes - YouTube Tainted buffet at Jacksonville strip club blamed after severe diarrhea incident on stage Fake News Story About Strippers Getting Diarrhea From Tainted Shrimp Duped The Internet Did a Tainted Buffet Cause a ‘Severe Diarrhea Incident’ at a Strip Club? | Snopes What Is Meow Meow, the Drug That Made a Teen Cut Off His Genitals? - Rolling Stone Jon Ronson - Wikipedia The Psychopath Test - Wikipedia So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed - Wikipedia The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right” Jonah Lehrer - Wikipedia Malcolm Gladwell - Wikipedia The Tipping Point - Wikipedia Michael Lewis - Wikipedia Moneyball - Wikipedia The Big Short - Wikipedia Guns, Germs, and Steel - Wikipedia Hidden Brain : NPR Freakonomics - The hidden side of everything Freakonomics | The hidden side of everything Tom Wolfe - Wikipedia New Journalism - Wikipedia Gonzo journalism - Wikipedia Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia Dr. John Ioannidis Exposes the Bad Science of Colleagues - The Atlantic This Power Generator Runs on Saltwater | Popular Science Publication bias - Wikipedia Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations » Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable Clay Shirky Jon Ronson | This American Life Jack Hitt | This American Life Alex Blumberg | This American Life Alix Spiegel | This American Life Lulu Miller | This American Life David Sedaris | This American Life When Patents Attack! | This American Life The Giant Pool of Money | This American Life 129 Cars | This American Life Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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May 26, 2017 • 1h 28min

The Bentley Boys

This week's challenge: watch some superhero movies. Show Notes Apple designer Marc Newson made a $12,000 hourglass filled with nanoballs that are apparently too beautiful for words - The Verge Apple’s New Campus: An Exclusive Look Inside the Mothership | WIRED Bentley Motors Website: World of Bentley: Mulliner: Personal Commissioning: Bentayga Falconry by Mulliner What is CBD Hemp Oil? | Medical Marijuana Inc. No Matter Where Donald Trump Goes, Burned Steaks Will Follow | Vanity Fair Tips for Leaders Meeting Trump: Keep It Short and Give Him a Win - The New York Times Google’s New System Tracks Credit Card Transactions to See If Its Online Ads Are Working | Inc.com Heritage House ’76, Pro-Life Supplies for the Pro-Life Movement SnakeBite Causes $89,000 Hospital Bill for North Carolina Couple | Time.com The Kids Are All Right (2010) - IMDb Hoodie Hoop - Home “Rules of Business” – Stewart Butterfield – Medium Did Disney Ruin Pixar? - The Atlantic Trump used to be more articulate. What could explain the change? Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia The Backfire Effect – You Are Not So Smart Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - IMDb Logan (2017) - IMDb Iron Man (2008) - IMDb The Dark Knight (2008) - IMDb How Age of Ultron Nearly Broke Joss Whedon — Vulture Edgar Wright Here – The official blog of director edgar wright Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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May 19, 2017 • 1h 13min

People Have Died Here

This week's challenge: try powders. Show Notes Obama’s Beach House Caffeine Overdose Killed South Carolina Teen, Coroner Rules Death Signs The Cards Against Humanity Sign on Twitter My Family’s Slave Trump gets 2 scoops of ice cream, everyone else gets 1 Trump’s Mental Health Trump Wants ‘Goddamned Steam,’ Not Digital Catapults on Aircraft Carriers Better Get Me Roger Stone: Official Trailer The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right” Bohemian Grove The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin Your Shitty Kid Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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May 12, 2017 • 1h 16min

The Milky Boys

The challenge: watch The Social Network. Alex Jones’s Media Empire Is a Machine Built to Sell Snake-Oil Diet Supplements Episode 06: Charlie Warzel discusses shocking weed revelations from Alex Jones’ custody hearings — Stoner — Overcast
 Caveman True Paleo Formula Ristretto - Wikipedia David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong - YouTube Real life 'blue man' Paul Karason dies aged 62; turned blue after drinking colloidal silver ... - WorldNews SMALT-The smart home device that elevates your dining experience Why Every Home Should Have Centerpieces — SMALT-The smart home device that elevates your dining experience After Trump fired Comey, White House staff scrambled to explain why The Social Network (2010) - IMDb
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May 5, 2017 • 1h 12min

White King Screamy Face

This week's challenge: have a drink. Show Notes Clash Royale Hulu TV Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Trump Walking Away from Dickerson Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling Reducing Racial Profiling on Nextdoor | Nextdoor Blog How Nextdoor reduced racist posts by 75% Racial Profiling: Definition | American Civil Liberties Union WATCH: Alex Jones holds bonkers press conference to rip reporters — and warn about ‘human animal chimeras’ This Monologue Goes Out To You, Mr. President - YouTube The Backfire Effect – You Are Not So Smart You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal Dung midden - Wikipedia Phenylalanine - Wikipedia Cappuccino Zevia Why McDonald’s Coke Tastes So Great Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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Apr 28, 2017 • 1h 5min

Google Saudi Prince Airplane Falcons

This week's challenge: use NextDoor. Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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Apr 7, 2017 • 1h 45min

U-Haul Lesbian Moment

This week's challenge: cry. Here are this week's show notes, but they contain SPOILERS. Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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Mar 31, 2017 • 31min

Jimmy Jack’s Fried Sauce Palace

This week's challenge: call in from Harry Potter World. Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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Mar 24, 2017 • 1h 45min

Metal Nature Shit

This week's challenge: use your voice. Show Notes The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 184, With Special Guest Merlin Mann Grandmaster Flash breaks down Netflix’s new series “The Get Down.” | Mother Jones Here comes the Judge! - YouTube Naughty panda babies wrestling with basket and piles of leaves - YouTube Planet Earth II | New Series | BBC Earth | BBC Earth cordyceps (Parasitic Fungi) - YouTube Did Mike Huckabee’s Son Kill a Dog? Mike Huckabee’s 2008 Myspace Page Is Still Up And Still Amazing - BuzzFeed News Still - Meditation Timer & Tracker on the App Store Omo, Simply Meditate on the App Store Missing Richard Simmons HOUND Voice Search & Assistant on the App Store An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple Siri’s Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask | WIRED The little-known iPhone feature that lets blind people see with their fingers Marco’s Apple Rant on ATP Roger Stone’s Nixon Tattoo Why Was Steve Bannon’s Hot Tub Allegedly Filled with Acid? Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.
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Mar 17, 2017 • 1h 43min

The Ennoblement of Water

This week's challenge: meditate like a venture capitalist. Show Notes PodcastMenu Lucky Peach Magazine The Magazine MOLD Gorilla Mindset Periods in the Bible Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Hitler Was ‘Blitzed’ on Cocaine And Opiates During The War, Author Says : Shots - Health News : NPR [David “Avocado” Wolfe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wolfe_(nutritionist) Matthew Bischoff Tommy Maranges Philosophy Bro Amazon.com: Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective Pause App Pacifica App Subscribe to Do By Friday in iTunes, Overcast, or via RSS.

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