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- 2 weeks ago1h 38m
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
- 3 weeks ago1h 46m
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
- Aug 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
- Aug 5, 20261h 1m
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 <a href="http
- Jul 29, 20261h 9m
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 <a href="https://
- Jul 22, 20261h 0m
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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers_(miniseries)
- Jul 15, 20261h 23m
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 <a href="https://en.
- Jul 9, 20261h 12m
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.
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