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Have you ever wondered why some things happen? Have you further considered exactly what kind of control other entities have over your life? I've done the same, as I'll share in this Episode 290: The Agency of Mushrooms.  Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/09/episode-290-agency-of-mushrooms.html

Have you ever wondered why so many of your friends feel things in general have deteriorated over the years? Worse, has this been happening more and more at the same time the talking heads seem happier and happier about how bad things were, but how great things are now? You're not alone. I explore possible factors that explain this split in opinion in this Episode 289: Time Bandits and The Curse of Bigness.  Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/09/episode-289-time-bandits-and-curse-of.html

How good is online search?  A better question might be how good could it be if the suits in the executive suites let it get good?  We may never know, sadly, and that's the topic of today's Episode 288: On The Tips of Our Fingers. Find the Show Notes page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/08/episode-288-on-tips-of-our-fingers.html

It's one thing to reduce the weight of our things with new materials and construction techniques. It's quite another, though, to lighten them so much that their functional lives are compromised, leaving one with useless junk. I explore all-too-often tension between long-lived and lightened in this Episode 287: The Ephemeral & The Ethereal. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/08/episode-287-ephemeral-ethereal.html

We've all heard the saying: never meet your idols.  Well, folks, let me give you one very real example of a fallen idol in this Episode 286: The Great Granny Patches Gambit. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/07/episode-286-great-granny-patches-gambit.html

Why do so many of the companies that provide us with stuff need to be ginormous?  For that matter, why must too many of them outright abuse their workers?  I look at this just a bit in this Episode 285: Laboring Upstream On the River of Shit. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/07/episode-285-laboring-upstream-on-river.html

Has anyone ever wondered what might happen if untruths both large and small continue to be used by people to sell shit, perhaps in diabolical ways, and "increase engagement"?  Actually, several have, years ago.  And now we're close to living that dystopia, on which I comment in this Episode 284: Bath Bombing the Internet. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/06/episode-284-bath-bombing-internet.html

In this Bonus Episode I read excerpts from former President Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 Commencement Address to the graduates and staff of the Sorbonne in France (referred to by some as the "Man In The Arena" speech). Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/06/bonus-episode-teddy-roosevelts-1910.html

I completely realize that my insistence on correcting other people's mistakes is a complete mistake on my part.  Still.  I do it.  For me, forget about capital, and concentrate on usufruct.  It's something I do here in this Episode 283: Privilege Requires Usufruct! Find the Show Notes at:  https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/05/episode-283-privilege-requires-usufruct.html

Modern advertising and military propaganda efforts share quite a few common elements.  How many they share should surprise and even shock us all.  I explore this topic in this Episode 282: Many Voices Make Lies Work.  Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/05/episode-282-many-voices-make-lies-work.html Find the Show Notes for Episode 34: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2015/06/episode-34-reiteratively-repeated.html

Using computers that can more or (mostly) less function as if they were "intelligent" is all the rage today, especially in business.  Why hire a person when a machine can do the job?  Others are goofing around with these machines as well, including my own brother.  I explore some of his recent goofs in this Episode 281: My Brother's Experiment. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/episode-281-my-brothers-experiment.html

Definitions can be difficult sometimes, especially when the word you are floundering to define doesn't really have a concrete definition, but rather a multitude of different applications and associations.  It's best then to define something with double negatives, as I try to demonstrate in this Episode 280: Sky Father The Uncrumbly. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/episode-280-sky-father-uncrumbly.html

Categorizing certain things is important.  Over-categorizing them, though, can be more damaging to one's understanding than not categorizing things at all.  Lately, I've realized that categorizations have impeded understanding our world to the point that perhaps we should just jettison certain categorizations altogether.  Hence, Episode 279: Why Capitalists Don't Exist. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/03/episode-279-why-capitalists-dont-exist.html

I've mentioned before that advertising often takes advantage of those it targets psychologically, triggering latent vulnerabilities in all of us.  Maybe it's more than just psychology, though, that makes ads tick.  I explore one possibility in this Episode 278: The Magical Manipulation of Desire. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/02/episode-278-magical-manipulation-of.html

Sometimes, the difference between entertainment between two countries is profound due to cultural differences.  Today, I'd like to suggest that there are differences well beyond culture that affect two peoples, even those separated by a common language, in this Episode 277: Ratcheting the Ridiculous. Find the Show Notes Page at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2026/02/episode-277-ratcheting-ridiculous.html