Advertise on podcast: Do By Friday

Links Spider League on Late Night: Tim Robinson, Brooks Wheelan and Zach Kanin Talk Battle of the Spiders - YouTube Do By Friday Fiverr Songs I Think You Should Leave - Hot Dog Car I Think You Should Leave - Brian's Hat Adventure Time - Card Wars Jeff Foxworthy - You Might Be A Redneck If...(1993)(Music City Tonight 720p) - YouTube 45 Seconds with Fouracres - SNL UK "You're Not Our Natural Born Son" Opening of The Jerk - YouTube Lucia Keskin (Chi WIth A C): Tiny things and boiled pasta | Off Menu Podcast - YouTube Taskmaster Shorts Chris Fleming on Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - YouTube Chris Fleming “Lightly Toasts” Seth in His Comedy Special; Reenacts Their New England Upbringings - YouTube Chris Fleming on Nightmare Stand-Up Gig, Jacob Elordi Kissing Jimmy & Being in a Super Bowl Ad - YouTube Chris Fleming and Drew Barrymore Share a Kiss in Wacky Game of Bingo! | The Drew Barrymore Show - YouTube Chris Fleming: Showpig  Chris Fleming: Hell | Peacock Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace | HBO Max The Roches - Hammond Song - YouTube The Roches (1979 album) The Testament of Ann Lee Sybil (Schreiber book) - Wikipedia Sybil (1976 film) - Wikipedia Dissociative identity disorder Songs from the Big Chair — Tears for Fears God's eye (craft) Sand mandala Bill Paxton Bill Pullman Paxton or Pullman?

Links What's the difference between Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and Diet Coke? George Michael - Careless Whisper The Simpsons — "Team Homer" The Office — "Fun Run" Deep Dish Swift (Chicago Swift conference) Blackmagic Design cameras Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive AP Bio (NBC/Peacock series) Sam Campbell — TEDx "The Humpty Dance" — Digital Underground Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker Simon Willison's Weblog Gavin & Stacey Last One Laughing Taskmaster Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full Episode - YouTube

Links Video Heaven (2025) — dir. Alex Ross Perry Lucia Keskin (Chi With A C) doesn’t learn ANYTHING the hard way | Off Menu Podcast - YouTube "Difficult difficult lemon difficult" - YouTube Jury Duty Todd's Chants - Jury Duty Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie Nirvana the Band the Show (TV series) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie Movie Clip - Hardware - YouTube The Testament of Ann Lee Space Ghost Coast to Coast Difficult difficult lemon difficult - In the Loop Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Blackberry (film) F for Fake F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay - YouTube Sam Campbell Wanted To Be Diane Morgan’s Servant on Last One Laughing - BBC - YouTube George Fouracres - What Kind Of Irish Is Your Grandad - SNL UK - YouTube Kathy - SNL - YouTube I’ll Never Buy A Low Quality Phone Case Again! $1,300 Phone Ruined! - YouTube Spotlight (film) Doubt Ben Hur Snails and Oysters Scene in Spartacus Gore Vidal and Bill Buckley face off, 1968 DNC The Lifelong Feud Between Truman Capote and Gore Vidal, Explained | Vanity Fair Irma Vep (TV series) Going Clear — dir. Alex Gibney Repo Man — dir. Alex Cox Ex Machina — dir. Alex Garland HyperNormalisation — dir. Adam Curtis Hamlet 2000 Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh Hamlet with David Tennant Technology Connections — CD series Technology Connections — LaserDisc series

You should watch this episode on YouTube if you want to understand most of what’s happening. Links Relay Challenge Coin The Power Broker Breakdown Wrap-Up - 99% Invisible Robert Moses Sam Campbell Wanted To Be Diane Morgan's Servant on Last One Laughing - BBC - YouTube "In the Year 2525" -- Zager and Evans "In the Year" Futurama Parody Nick Lowe "Cruel to Be Kind" -- Nick Lowe Carlene Carter _The Body Keeps the Score_ -- Bessel van der Kolk _You're Wrong About_ - The Year of the Bimbo No Such Thing as a Fish The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 443, With David Pogue Cydia WidgetSmith Fantastical Obsidian CARROT Weather Overcast Readwise Reader Parcel Ivory Tapestry Mango Baby Long Play Drafts Day One FlightRadar24 Gentler Streak Pokémon GO YNAB (You Need a Budget) Pocket Casts 1Password Kagi Proton Mail Libby ‎BookPlayer App - App Store Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Descript The Social Network (2010) - Full Expanded soundtrack (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) Operation Mincemeat Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend

Share your homescreens here: https://forms.gle/QxVwL2S1Namvsinz9 Links Not even wrong - Wikipedia Wolfgang Pauli - Wikipedia Ep. 620: "Blown Glass Float" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann Jargon File Resources Koala Baby Changing Station - YouTube Best Philomena Cunk Moments - YouTube Lucia Keskin (Chi WIth A C): Tiny things and boiled pasta | Off Menu Podcast - YouTube Autoclave - Wikipedia Scullery maid - Wikipedia Pantryman Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster Capstan (nautical) - Wikipedia How an 18th Century Sailing Warship Works (HMS Victory) - YouTube How an Early 20th Century Steam Ship Works - YouTube Triangle of Sadness - Sails (2022) - YouTube The Titanic's Best Lifeboat - 99% Invisible Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron - YouTube The Amazing Evolution of Lifeboats: From Titanic to Today! - YouTube Paregoric - Wikipedia Syrup of ipecac - Wikipedia Battery Daddy® - Store, Organize, and Protect ALL Your Batteries! Blackwing - Pencils and tools for a balanced life Jury Duty (2023 TV series) - Wikipedia Jury Duty S1E1 Full Episode "Voir Dire" | Prime Video - YouTube It's All Too Much a book by Peter Walsh Getting Things Done a book by David Allen and James Fallows

Links Oscar the Grouch's cousin, Herkimer Monster Battle of Oriskany The Rest Is Entertainment Graham Norton Show The Claudia Winkleman Show – Trailer QI 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive SNL March 7th hosted by Ryan Gosling Washington's Dream - SNL Mikey Day on Heidi Gardner Breaking During Beavis and Butt-Head Sketch with Ryan Gosling - YouTube Bill Hader Skipped 'SNL50' Because Anxiety, Had Migraines, Vision Loss Inside SNL's Iconic Studio 8H Tom Shales — Live from New York Chris Fleming: HELL - Trailer ⁨Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace⁩ LUDO'S Broken Bride: A Rock Opera Werner Herzog Grizzly Man (2005) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Burden of Dreams (1982) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) My Best Fiend (1999) Klaus Kinski Radical Dreamer (2023) Free Solo (2018) Like Stories of Old — "The Inner Chronicle of What We Are" (YouTube) Like Stories of Old — "When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie" (YouTube) The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton The Westing Game — Ellen Raskin Stargirl — Jerry Spinelli ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) How To Ban Conversion Therapy Pavlok wristband Shiatsu Lactic acid Wake Out app Apple Fitness+

Links Knot (unit) - Wikipedia Matthew Walker knot - Wikipedia Knotter Notes - YouTube New molecular knot is most complex yet - Science News NAUGHT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster Pizza Hut Take Fans on a Trip to the Past - The New York Times Blondie - Dreaming - YouTube Last One Laughing UK Season 2 | Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube Alan Carr and Bob Mortimer stand out in Last One Laughing season 2's hilarious brand-new trailer - Digital Spy 8 Out of 10 Cats - YouTube Epstein island Pokémon Go stop removed after fan outrage - Polygon Chonk - SNL - YouTube The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins | TED - YouTube A Chorus Line (1985) - Dance: Ten, Looks: Three Scene (4/8) | Movieclips - YouTube CARROT Weather for iOS and Android The Body Keeps the Score a book by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. - Bookshop.org US Buddhism Is Not What You Think a book by Steve Hagen - Bookshop.org US Opinion | This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma - The New York Times What Went Wrong Podcast | The Behind-the-Scenes Drama Behind Your Favorite Films A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series) - Wikipedia How To Ban Conversion Therapy | Philosophy Tube - Nebula Philosophy Tube - YouTube

Links NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE Final Results | 2025 Sanrio character ranking Official Website Badtz-Maru | Hello Kitty Wiki | Fandom Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview - BBC News Scoop (2024 film) - Wikipedia Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2025) Official Trailer - Uma Thurman South Devon Pike Adventure | Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer | Gone Fishing 605 "The Pokémon Company Group Reveals 2026 Pokémon Day Plans, Including Pokémon Presents Video Presentation Celebrating 30 Years of the Brand" - The Pokémon Company North America Official Press Site “I've missed an old website of mine, so it will be back soon.” - Bluesky Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise Seven Dwarfs Costumes Through the Years | Disney Wiki | Fandom David Naughton - Makin' It - 1978 Dr. Pepper - "I'm a Pepper" TV Commercial 70's MASH - The Last Supper (1970) The Greatest American Hero Theme Song | 1981 Moist and Worried - Corner of the Sky #25 - The Incomparable Homes & YoYo (1976) Master and Commander - Russell Crowe observes a walking stick. Kākāpō - Wikipedia Kakapo: Flightless Parrot | Benedict Cumberbatch | BBC Earth Kea - Wikipedia Parrot Bites Off Car Antenna New Zealand's Meat Eating Parrot

LinksBilly Preston: That's The Way God Planned It Official Trailer - YouTubeThe Paragons - "The Tide Is High" - YouTubeBlondie - The Tide Is High - YouTubeThe Number Ones: Blondie's "The Tide Is High" (Stereogum)I've Never Seen A USB-C Charger This Good! - YouTubeIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Chirping - YouTubeOff Menu_ podcast - Lucia KeskinLinksys WRT54G: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source (Tedium)Aldus Pagemaker - The Interface Experience: Bard Graduate CenterDesktop Publishing: The PageMaker Revolution (Computer History Museum)https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/306Butterick's Practical TypographyLibrary of Congress Classification - WikipediaMLA Style CenterThe Chicago Manual of StyleThe Remarkable Story of Roget's Thesaurus (Merriam-Webster)Guardian style guide: A | Information | The GuardianDavid RemnickDavid Remnick once suggested 'reconsidering' New Yorker's diaeresis! - The Washington PostEustace TilleyThe True History of Eustace Tilley (The Comics Journal)The Elements of Style, by William Strunk--A Project Gutenberg eBookThe Elements of Style PDF

LinksMarty Supreme | Official Trailer (A24) Josh Safdie's new film about a ping-pong hustler, starring Timothée Chalamet.How A24 Created a Viral Marty Supreme Spectacle (Vogue) The jacket drops, the Balenciaga collab, and the marketing machine behind the film.Orlando (1992, Sally Potter) Tilda Swinton as Virginia Woolf's time-traveling, gender-shifting nobleman — this week's mini-challenge.Watch Orlando free on Tubi Go watch it. It's right here.Quentin Crisp Plays Queen Elizabeth I in Orlando; Merlin imprinted on that image.Tony Zhou, "Edgar Wright: How to Do Visual Comedy" (Every Frame a Painting) The video essay that made everyone realize Wright is doing something nobody else does.The Wicker Man (1973) The original folk horror — the thread connecting Hot Fuzz, Midsommar, and The Witch.Off Menu podcast Florence Pugh's episode, in which she reveals she does not drink water.Off Menu — Lucia Keskin (Chi With a C) BAFTA-winning comedian, discussed in the member show. "The quietest guest we've ever had."Claire Foy had intestinal worms from filming The Crown (Yahoo News) The truly disgusting reason she no longer drinks caffeine.Man throws shoes at Bush They all throw their shoes.Sarrasine — Balzac (Project Gutenberg) The Balzac novella about a sculptor who falls in love with a castrato — the text Barthes famously dismantled.S/Z — Roland Barthes Barthes's semiotic disassembly of Sarrasine — Merlin's "oh f**k you, you should read Sarrasine" recommendation.Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach — Kessler & McKenna (U of Chicago Press) The book that changed Merlin's life in a 1988 Gender Studies class: what if there weren't just two genders?Gender Trouble — Judith Butler (PDF) The definitive text — Alex's rec that Merlin bought a beautiful copy of and still hasn't read. Here's a free one.Who's Afraid of Gender? — Judith Butler (Bookshop.org) Butler's newest book — the one Alex was actually talking about. Why are we weird about gender again?"A Question and Three Answers" — Merlin Mann Three perspectives on one question about being trans in America.Claude Code (Anthropic) Alex is getting into it and making $200; Merlin's teaching his to not watch Tommy read the paper.Good Time (A24) The Safdie Brothers' sweaty Robert Pattinson thriller — context for understanding what Safdie does.Uncut Gems (A24) Adam Sandler in a diamond district panic attack — the other essential Safdie before Marty Supreme.The Curse (Paramount+) Safdie and Nathan Fielder's deeply uncomfortable TV series.Ricky Jay Magician, card sharp, actor, historian of the unusual — referenced during the shoe-throwing bit.Baby Driver — Opening Titles / Coffee Run (feat. "Harlem Shuffle") The scene that is its own argument. Edgar Wright syncing every footstep, every door, every beat.Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, "Bellbottoms" The song that opens Baby Driver and never lets go.Ayoade on Top — Richard Ayoade (Bookshop.org) Ayoade wrote an entire book about the Gwyneth Paltrow movie View from the Top. It's called Ayoade on Top. Of course it is.Olivia Colman is hooked on Ayoade's book premise | Graham Norton The specific clip — Ayoade explaining View from the Top to a delighted Olivia Colman. Truly one of the great things.Can I Ask You a Question? by Jennifer Venditti (A24 Shop) Venditti's casting book — the woman who found the faces for Good Time, Uncut Gems, and Marty Supreme.Billy the Kid (2007, Jennifer Venditti) — watch free on Tubi The documentary that led to her casting work with the Safdies.Defunctland, "Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History" A feature-length orchestral documentary about EPCOT Center that has no business being this good.Defunctland, "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History" Bonus Defunctland for the curious.

LinksPatton Oswalt - KFC Famous Bowls - YouTubeReconcilable Differences #279: I Promised Myself I Wasn't Going to Be Excited - RelayJeremy Renner Official - WikipediaThe Rock Diet - What Dwayne Johnson Eats in a DaySeries 7, Episode 7 - 'The perfect stuff' | Full Episode | Taskmaster - YouTubeDon't Blink! | Blink | Doctor Who - YouTubeBlink (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia"The Stallone Tangent" - Episode #133 - The Flop House Podcast - YouTubeI Fifteen Love You | Do By FridayDBF Episode 62: I Fifteen Love You : r/DoByFridayMerlin Mann’s Taskmaster Starter Episodes - YouTubePrompt 3iTerm2 - macOS Terminal ReplacementDrafts MCP Server for Claude/AI Integration - News & Updates - Drafts CommunityClaw: macOS app for Claude CodeSynologyCleanShotMacWhisperNora’s Wu-Tang Tattoo on The Leftovers: The Story Behind ItChappelle's Show - Wu-Tang Financial (ft. RZA and GZA) - Uncensored - YouTubeDigital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Official Music Video) - YouTubeRobert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, by Kay Redfield Jamison (Alfred A. Knopf) - The Pulitzer PrizesRobert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire a book by Kay Redfield Jamison - Bookshop.org USU.S. Citizens Testify Against ICE Agents in Minneapolis - YouTubeRenee Good’s Brothers Give Emotional Testimony on DHS Tactics - YouTubeTubi - "Orlando" (1993)Next week's challenge: watch Orlando (1993)

LinksThe Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis as Professor Kelp / Buddy LoveHank Azaria on Professor Frink Based him on Jerry Lewis in The Nutty ProfessorTropic Thunder Simple Jack; "you went full [redacted]"Be Kind Rewind Video essays on women in film historyStewart Lee British comedian; Paul Nuttall of UKIPStewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle BBC Two series (2009-2016)Tailscale Mesh VPN; part of the Iron TroikaAmphetamine macOS app to prevent sleepAutoMounter Keeps network shares mountedSynology NAS; Merlin's home server setupTP-Link Archer AX55 The routerNextDNS DNS with ad blocking; Iron Troika memberCloudflare Third member of the Iron TroikaDynDNS Dynamic DNS; the old wayLet's Encrypt Free SSL certificatesPasskeys Passwordless authenticationHide My Email Apple's email aliasingLinda Stone Coined "email apnea" and "continuous partial attention""Are You Breathing? Do You Have Email Apnea?" Linda Stone's original articleClaude Code as elevator music Matt Webb on the contemplative rhythm of working with Claude CodeJ. Edgar Hoover FBI director; Clyde TolsonCary Grant & Randolph Scott Lived together; "Riding the Trails Alone"The Carter Family First family of country musicCowboy Carter Beyoncé's country albumCountry Music (Ken Burns) 2019 documentary seriesTrypophobia Lotus seed pods; a clown situationPansy Division Queercore band; pun on Panzer DivisionReformation Iconoclasm Defacing religious art

LinksTLC - "Waterfalls" Alex was four.No Such Thing as a Fish QI researchers' podcast; Merlin's been listening for yearsNo Such Thing As Debreadtion — No Such Thing As A Fish — Overcast The episode Merlin mentionedKen Burns' Jazz Episode 9 "The Adventure."TLC - "Unpretty" Merlin's favorite TLC song.Dead Drop Spycraft term for passing info without meetingKen Burns' Baseball Source of the Lincoln "tiredest" quoteA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms New Game of Thrones spinoffWhy Are Icelandic Horses Not Called Ponies? (Iceland Mag) Pony-sized but Iceland said it's a horseShip of Theseus (Khan Academy video) The philosophical paradox behind "Thesean Horse"Saint John Coltrane Church (KQED) Yes, there's literally a church for this albumJohn Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965) The album that inspired the church"Is he quare?" Comedy repetition referenceHarry Enfield British comedian; "Is he queer?" sketchPaul Whitehouse The other half of the old men in the clubI Spy books (Walter Wick Studio) Merlin's analogy for how Claude Code sees things"40, 45 Years" - Stewart Lee The callback kingClaude Code (Anthropic) The AI tool Merlin won't shut up aboutRik Mayall: Lord of Misrule 2014 BBC tribute documentary; narrated by Simon CallowThe Young Ones (IMDb) What you most likely know Rik Mayall fromThe Young Ones - "Bambi" / University Challenge (YouTube) Fry, Laurie, Thompson vs. the ladsNell (1994) Merlin's first memory of Liam Neeson as a leadNell (1994) Trailer "Can't abide a canna peas," is a line Merlin feels like he remembers Jodie Foster's Nell sayingScotiabank Saddledome: Building Design Say it soft, and it's almost like praying.Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Bob and Paul's fishing showGame of Thrones - "Fire and Blood" (Fandom) Season 1 finale; Daenerys and the dragon eggsLucy Liu on the "Dragon Lady" Stereotype (NextShark) "I could have been wearing a tuxedo and a blond wig"The Slop Hash Merlin's project to get you excited about making something cool."I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings Stress a different word, get a different sentence.The Butterfield Diet Plan (YouTube) "The results have been increbidle"The Night Left Eye Burned Down Andre Rison's Mansion (Investigation Discovery) It started with sneakers in a fiberglass bathtubMemento Mori "Remember you will die"Anterograde Amnesia The condition from Memento — can't form new memoriesOne Hundred Years of Solitude García Márquez's masterpieceKieran's very good post "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father was discovered and taken by ICE."Hammer A tool so durable it works across timeCottaging: History of the Term (Idiom Origins) How they got John Gielgud, Wilfrid Brambell, and poor Brian Epstein.Brian Epstein (Beatles Bible) Beatles manager; arrested 1957, blackmailed for years, died a month before decriminalizationClarke's Three Laws "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"Ducking Stool Chair on a stick for dunking witches and scoldsRoget's Thesaurus (Project Gutenberg) Category 1: Existence12 Facts About Taking of Pelham 123 (Mental Floss) They fictionalized the dead man's switch to foil copycatsThe 36-Hour Day (Johns Hopkins Press) Read it before someone you love has dementiaSome folks I love and admire do come off sounding a little like the same people who loudly hated Little Richard and disco music. Honestly, sometimes it's legit difficult to notice when we've gotten more emotionally invested than we'd realized in seeming right. And that shit is a LOT to decide to carry forever. 🐘

LinksGround loop (electricity) - WikipediaHallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models - PMCGraze: Custom Feed Builder for Bluesky · GrazeServerless Statusphere: a walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer PlatformAT ProtocolHow to Transfer Your ChatGPT MemoryWorks for ChatGPT Data - Google DriveStewart Lee - WikipediaStewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - WikipediaStewart Lee vs The Internet - Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - Series 3 Episode 1 Preview - BBC - YouTubeEnglish Arrested for Being English? Stewart Lee's Humorous Take on British Culture | TikTokStewart Lee S4E6 - Childhood - YouTubeStewart Lee S3E3 - Satire - YouTubeStewart Lee - [1/2] Give It To Me Straight, Like Pear Cider That's Made From 100% Pears - YouTubeStewart Lee - [2/2] Give It To Me Straight, Like Pear Cider That's Made From 100% Pears - YouTubeStewart Lee On The Challenge Of Stand-Up - YouTubeComedian Stewart Lee on why he won't tour Trump's America - YouTubeStewart Lee in Conversation with Alan Moore - YouTubeJerry Springer: The Opera - WikipediaTaskmaster Origins - Rare Footage of the First Ever Show! (Edinburgh 2010) - YouTube

LinksI am the mucus man. | Do By FridayPlayboyPenthouseOui (magazine)HustlerGentLiquid IVImodiumMr. Microphone By Ronco (Commercial, 1978) - YouTube"Supply is limited" scene from The Simpsons (TV Episode 1992) - YouTubeThe Simpsons: Sending Our Love Down The Well - YouTubeROYGBIV - WikipediaStewart Lee - WikipediaStewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - WikipediaStewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - YouTubeStewart Lee - Emigrants - video DailymotionLazy Comedy Slags - 28 years old - YouTubeI'm Alan Partridge - WikipediaMortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - WikipediaThe future of being trans on the internet | The VergeNetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOSLumberjanes - WikipediaMallory Ortberg Accidentally Inspired A New Episode Of 'Black Mirror' By Making Fun Of The ShowNext On "Black Mirror" - The ToastBrian Regan - Big Yellow One's the Sun - YouTubeBrian Regan - The Emergency Room - YouTubeMBMBAM / Adventure Time: Curse A Real Sword - YouTube