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Episode 356: Politics or Gender or Iron Man

The boys wrap up a big year—a huge year—with an unintentionally thematic episode about feelings, expectations, nostalgia, and the black boxes of life, technological and otherwise.

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Patriot (TV Series 2015– ) - IMDb
Fortitude (TV series) - Wikipedia
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part One) - The New York Times
Gyroscope V1.10 – Gyroscope
iPad Pro — What’s a computer — Apple - YouTube
Apple Is Ready to Ditch the Mac | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
Daring Fireball: Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X
Reconcilable Differences #29: Six Fax Machines - Relay FM
To wit: Merlin can't contain his fascination and admiration with how John's rationality and long view of history has colored and redirected his own conceptions about what the future holds.How does John evaluate and interpolate new technology? How should inchoate cultural vectors inform our thinking? Why do some kinds of change take such improbably more time than others? And how much do we really want to learn about cannibalism?
GRIFFIN'S Top 5 Games of 2017! - YouTube
038 - Why Are There No New Christmas Songs? — Reasonably Sound — Overcast
Watch Saturday Night Live Highlight: Tales of Fraud - NBC.com
To beat President Trump, you have to learn to think like his supporters - The Washington Post
dwelling on scandal too much can be counterproductive, then the focus must be elsewhere.
Seinfeld - Kramer wants to cancel his mail
Thrill Rides | Six Flags Great Adventure
Looking for thrills? Well, you've found them. In fact, you've found some of the fastest, tallest, wildest, gut-wrenchingest rides in the country-including a few record-breakers.
Merlin Mann on Twitter: "I feel like I've got a 5000-word essay about the levels of emotional engagement in this #DoctorWho in me. You're so lucky I don't have a Me… https://t.co/oWzdCCTsEt"
I feel like I've got a 5000-word essay about the levels of emotional engagement in this
Yass Cat Vine 5 Minute Loop - YouTube

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