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Do By Friday
by Merlin Mann and Alex Cox
A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.
Episodes
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Zero Shits and Half Coffee
Links An Interview with a Very Important Motivational Speaker Kimberly Guilfoyle tried to blame her money-requesting texts on AI to save her job: report | The Independent Donald Trump Deciding Whether To Fire Kimberly Guilfoyle Grouch | SNL George Leaves A Bad Message | The Phone Message |…
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It's Mostly Gambling
Links 10 Minutes till Bedtime Good Night, GorillaPeggy Rathmann Pi-hole Relay Membership Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Matthew 18:21–22 Where's Wally? I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen Dropout Game Changer Animated: Brennan's "Yes or No?" Monologue Make Some Noise Dropout | Vimeo Customer Spotlight...
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Stress as a DLC
Links The Magic School Bus Valerie Frizzle Wario Thomas the Tank Engine Sir Topham Hatt The Railway Series Wilbert Awdry Island of Sodor Narrow-gauge railway UGK feat. Outkast — Int’l Players Anthem Apollo 13 180-degree rule Kelvin wave Sylvanian Families Lawn darts Curious George Curious George…
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Super Measles
Links I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil - Lindsay Ellis Why is Cats? - Lindsay Ellis A Visual History of Every Interplanetary Mission Half as Interesting Project Farm Offhand Disney The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel Kuleshov effect Hitchcock on Editing and the…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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…
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Epistolary Audience
Links Correspondence chess Diplomacy (game) Mafia (party game) Artie Bucco | The Sopranos Wiki | Fandom Greene Machine - S5 EP6 - Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Little Dancing Man Movie Trailer | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim Tiny Dancer TINY DANCER - BUS SCENE FROM...
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Moist Loaves
Links Somebody Somewhere (TV series) - Wikipedia Jeff Hiller on why his Emmy win for "Somebody Somewhere" felt so meaningful - YouTube Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series: 77th Emmy Awards - YouTube Actress of a Certain Age | Book by Jeff Hiller | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster…
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Strathspeys and Jigs
Links Hitchcock's Hair Obsession: Blondes vs. Brunettes David Attenborough Gets Called Out By One of His Oldest Colleagues | SNL UK Classic 1970's Slinky® Commercial The Accidental Invention of Play-Doh Silly Putty - Wikipedia Claim to fame is not a stretch Illionois Pharmacy Practice Act Pilot…
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Show Me on the Paper
Links Bring Me The Beauties | Official Trailer - YouTube Emily Gilmore Marie Kondos her house - YouTube ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT. (Official Music Video) - YouTube Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore? (analysis) - YouTube Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license (Official Video) - YouTube David Byrne -...
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Lady COBOL
Links Midol - Wikipedia Use Only as Directed - This American Life Ayds 1952 advertisement - Ayds - Wikipedia Ayds Candy Commercials - YouTube Six Degrees of Joan Crawford Archive — You Must Remember This Be Kind Rewind YouTube Channel - Vulture Joan Crawford Accepts Anne Bancroft’s Oscar | 1963:...
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The Biggles Protocol
Links Borpus | Do By Friday SNL Trump Impressions - YouTube Donald Trump 2012 Tweets About Kristen Stewart | PS Celebrity Good Time | Official Trailer HD | A24 - YouTube Good Time (film) - Wikipedia Harold Hill Sings "Seventy-Six Trombones" in THE MUSIC MAN (1962) | TCM - YouTube Monty Python…
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Dried Grudge
Links Godzilla - YouTube More Cowbell - SNL - YouTube Bachman–Turner Overdrive - Wikipedia Audiobookshelf Get This Potato In The Golf Hole Without Touching The Green - YouTube And Away... Audiobook by Bob Mortimer Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Audiobook by Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse Bob...
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Legs Is Gone
Links Oh, Nice Things Are Nice - YouTube Bob's Burgers - "Heist Things Are Heist" End Credits - YouTube Miniature People Waiting – Realistic Figures - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld Merlin Mann: "Miniature People Waiting – Rea…" - Mastodon On Permanence: Barbara Shawcroft’s ‘Legs’ and the...
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Food and Swords
Please watch this space. Full dossier coming soon.
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Butt Thorn
Links “I know it when I see it” - Wikipedia Antonin Scalia - Wikipedia Clarence Thomas - Wikipedia Mycroft Holmes (Gatiss) | Baker Street Wiki | Fandom Zizing 'Em Up: Hughes brothers molded early on by Toronto's hockey culture | NHL.com Spotlight (film) - Wikipedia Toy Story 3 | The Incinerator -...
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Factory Settings Mustache
Links Loopback Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Off Menu — Amy Gledhill episode Off Menu — Florence Pugh episode Off Menu — Amanda Seyfried episode Off Menu — Maisie Adam Off Menu — Bob Mortimer Off Menu — Claudia Winkleman Mean Girls (2004) Fleabag (the play) Edinburgh Festival Fringe…
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A Beautiful Escalation
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...
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Coke Fight
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…
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Lemon Difficult
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...
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Coxmas 2026
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...
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My Little Pantryman
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...
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The Pitiless World
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 -...
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Bonus Dog
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…
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Not the Horse's Problem
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...
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Enthusiastic Horse
Links Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It Official Trailer - YouTube The Paragons - "The Tide Is High" - YouTube Blondie - The Tide Is High - YouTube The Number Ones: Blondie's "The Tide Is High" (Stereogum) I've Never Seen A USB-C Charger This Good! - YouTube It's Always Sunny in...
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Theymaphrodite
Links Marty 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...
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Your Session Crashed
Links Patton Oswalt - KFC Famous Bowls - YouTube Reconcilable Differences #279: I Promised Myself I Wasn't Going to Be Excited - Relay Jeremy Renner Official - Wikipedia The Rock Diet - What Dwayne Johnson Eats in a Day Series 7, Episode 7 - 'The perfect stuff' | Full Episode | Taskmaster…
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Future Clowns of America
Links The Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis as Professor Kelp / Buddy Love Hank Azaria on Professor Frink Based him on Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor Tropic Thunder Simple Jack; "you went full [redacted]" Be Kind Rewind Video essays on women in film history Stewart Lee British comedian; Paul...
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Backpack Full of Stones
Links TLC - "Waterfalls" Alex was four. No Such Thing as a Fish QI researchers' podcast; Merlin's been listening for years No Such Thing As Debreadtion — No Such Thing As A Fish — Overcast The episode Merlin mentioned Ken Burns' Jazz Episode 9 "The Adventure." TLC - "Unpretty" Merlin's favorite…
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Recursive Hallucination Loop
Links Ground loop (electricity) - Wikipedia Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models - PMC Graze: Custom Feed Builder for Bluesky · Graze Serverless Statusphere: a walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform AT...
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Shiny Boob Beaver Book
Links I am the mucus man. | Do By Friday Playboy Penthouse Oui (magazine) Hustler Gent Liquid IV Imodium Mr. Microphone By Ronco (Commercial, 1978) - YouTube "Supply is limited" scene from The Simpsons (TV Episode 1992) - YouTube The Simpsons: Sending Our Love Down The Well - YouTube ROYGBIV -...
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I am the mucus man.
Late Night with David Letterman - "Camping With Barry White" (May, 1983)
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A Considerate Dancer
Links Nurse Ratched - Wikipedia Ratched (TV series) - Wikipedia Sarah Paulson - Wikipedia Blue Lights (2023 TV series) The Now Habit a book by Neil Fiore - Bookshop.org US Getting Things Done a book by David Allen and James Fallows - Bookshop.org US Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring…
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Three-Eyed Raven of His Dreams
Links Ep. 1. "Shifty: The Land of Make Believe" (Adam Curtis, 2025) - YouTube Adam Curtis on the BBC, Politics & AI - YouTube Adam Curtis - Wikipedia HyperNormalisation - Wikipedia Can't Get You Out of My Head (TV series) - Wikipedia Shifty (TV series) - Wikipedia SHIFTY – A brand new Adam Curtis...
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Basic Beaver Information
Links Mule Skinner Blues - Wikipedia Jimmie Rodgers - "Blue Yodel No. 8" (1930) - YouTube Jimmie Rodgers – Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) Lyrics | Genius Lyrics Carter Family - Wikipedia It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - YouTube Carter Family picking - Wikipedia The Carter Family…
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Pure Information
Links "Defying Gravity" - Wicked 20th Anniversary Edition | WICKED the Musical - YouTube Les Miserables 10th Anniversary "Dream Cast" [1080p Upscaled] - YouTube Guinness book of world records : McWhirter, Ross, 1925-1975 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Celebrity Heights…
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Gratitude is My Kink
Links President Trump Delivers Remarks at McDonald's Impact Summit - YouTube Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich - Wikipedia US election: Donald Trump sorry for obscene remarks on women - BBC News Big Mac Index - Wikipedia Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape - Wikipedia No One Shows Up to Peter Brady's...
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A Break from Myself
Links Tapas - Wikipedia Tokyo's highest-end Teppanyaki ? - YouTube Churrascaria - Wikipedia A Benihana Christmas - Wikipedia Domo 77 - Aurora Restaurant - Aurora, IL | OpenTable Spaghetti Warehouse - Wikipedia Kapok Tree Inn: Historic Clearwater Dining Adventure 1958-1991 Bosco Sticks 1970s…
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Immune to Narrative
This week's challenge: Find a new use for a button.
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J.J. Crumbletops, O.B.E.
Links Five ideas I’ve had for family theme restaurants | 5ives Lawn darts - Wikipedia Vintage Retro J A R T S Missile Game Box, NO TARGET Empty Box Only(See Desc.) | eBay Rules to Jarts: Slip 'N Slide - Wikipedia WHAM-O Backyard Water Slides Are Dangerous For Adults And Teenagers | CPSC.gov…
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Opportunity Gobbler
Links Merlin’s Game Changing Calipers: Amazon.com: iGAGING Absolute Origin 0-6" Digital Caliper, IP54 Stainless Steel, SPC/USB Output Port, Inch & Metric Modes, Case, Manual : Industrial & Scientific Screwed Up Filament Clip V2 - Save Your Spools! by ZombieHedgehog MakerWorld: Download Free 3D...
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You Were Made On the Good Day
Links Mary Mallon (Typhoid Marry) Humblebrag : the art of false modesty : Wittels, Harris : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Double Fantasy - Wikipedia John Lennon Double Fantasy - YouTube Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia Word of the Day: Zaftig | Merriam-Webster The…
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The Box of Unknown Weight
Links Quotes to get right. #runx · GitHub “People aren't supposed to look back.” Reconcilable Differences #270: We Inflated Our Pants - Relay Valley Girl (1983 film) - Wikipedia York Steak House - Wikipedia The Awards for Advertising American Ads - YouTube Merlin's Happy Place - YouTube Edward...
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A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.
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