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Do It Or Else Podcast
by Ryan Sedgwick & Dustin Graham
Do It Or Else Podcast is the premiere weekly challenge podcast produced in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia.Every week, Ryan and Dustin, participate in weekly personal challenges to enrich their lives... hopefully. Through successes and failures, the boys research the history of the challenge topic and hope that they will somehow become better people because of the struggles experienced.Join in on the fun, the tears and the laughs. Follow us on Instagram @doitorelsepodFollow us on Twitter@doitorelsepod1Leave a challenge idea or feedback724-DO-IT-POD724-364-8763
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Challenge 73: Geo cache me outside
the boys try geocashing and dicuss the history of the activity and some of its roots.
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Challenge 72: Mirror Finished Japanese Aluminum Foil Ball
The boys are back yet again to try their luck at making something beautiful. Honestly the challenges don't really matter and you know that. Why do I even type this part?
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Challenge 71: Single Serving Swerving
The boys take on a listener submitted challenge this week. Eat the suggested serving size on food packaging. Apologies for two things 1) Poor audio quality this episode. Its been a minute and we made a couple simple errors. 2) Long breaks between episodes. This is the new normal get used to it.
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Challenge 70: Drunk Graffiti
Dustin paints and Ryan looks out for the cops.
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Challenge 69: Friends In Low Places
By playgrounds from Dustin and houses from Ryan .
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Challenge 68: The Boys get Vaxed
You talk about this with everyone else. Now talk about it with the boys.
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Challenge 67: Take Me Out To The Ball Game
We beat the Cubs and had a great time.
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Challenge 66: Get Huge on Clubhouse
The boys try out the new all audio invite only social network.
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Challenge 65: Hydrate
the boys drink enough water
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Challenge 64: Make A Knife
This week things are all messed up. Listen as the boys cut up and make the best of their so called knives.
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Challenge 62: The Chopstick Challenge
We said it in the summary and we'll say it again. This is the most controversial challenge in the show's history. Ryan & Dustin use chopsticks for an entire week and somehow break the fabrics of space and time by releasing episodes out of their natural order! How will the show ever recover!!!! WHAT'S THE NEXT CHALLENGE?!?!!
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Challenge 991: EMERGENCY
Dustin is behind an abandoned mexican restaurant in Idaho. But whats behind all of this?
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Challenge 63: Teach Your Dog a Trick
This week the boys try to teach their dogs new tricks with varying degrees of success. We learn a bit about Rin Tin Tin. NOTE: Don't WoRrY AbOuT CHALLENGE sixty2 its none of ya business
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Challenge 61: Sea Shanty Challenge
Ryan & Dustin try to write their own "sea shanty" songs. seashanty The Wellerman -Tik Tok Video
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Challenge 60: Rank Your Favorite Movies by Rating
Challenge 60: Rate your favorite movies. G: ??? PG: ??? PG-13: ??? R: ???
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Challenge 59: Develop a Skincare Routine
Ryan & Dustin, develop their own new skincare routines after Ryan, confessed last week he doesn't wash his face.
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Challenge 57: The McRib Episode
Ryan's challenge this week is to eat the limited time only, McRib Sandwich. The boys talk about capitalism, socialism, commodity meats, sauce and french fries. This episode is available for a limited time only, just like the McRib. Listener, Brian, submits a challenge to the voicemail line. 724-DO-IT-POD Ryan doesn't like "The Boys" tv show.
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Challenge 56: Read a Book "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne"
Ryan & Dustin review their experiences reading the book "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne" The book covers one of World War 2's bloodiest battles for the US forces during the Battle of the Bulge from December 19th, 1944 - January 17th, 1945. This book is sourced from from hundreds of interviews from the soldiers themselves. Listen as we discuss this very dense book.
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Challenge 55: Field Trip Challenge
Vist the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park yourselves. It's free, it's beautiful and it's interesting. Native Americans first came to middle Georgia, during the Paleo-Indian period hunting Ice Age mammals. Many different American Indian cultures occupied this land for thousands of years. Around 900 CE, the Mississippian Period began. They constructed mounds for their elite, which remain today. Ryan & Dustin walk the park's trails and explore the monuments. The boys learn about the history of the land and people that came before us.
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Free Guided Meditation for Positivity
Spend a few minutes finding your center while you have s'mores with Peacefulness and Calm by the lake of positive thought.
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Challenge 54: Meditation Challenge
Meditation is important and is being proven to improve well being overall when regularly practiced. Ryan & Dustin want to see what this is all about.
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Challenge 53: Pumpkin Cannibal Challenge
THIS CONTENT IS NSFW AND SHOULD BE CONSUMED RESPONSIBLY Do you like Pumpkins? Do you looooove Pumpkins? Do you paint your jack-o-lanterns instead of carving them with a knife beacuse you could never hurt a pumpkin? Well this might not be the podcast for you if you answered yes to any of the above questions. This is pumpkin violence like you've never experienced.
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Challenge 52: Ghost Hunting
Ryan & Dustin, attempt to learn about ghosts and how to best communicate with them. Next Challenge: Put a Pumpkin on your head and eat pumkin things.
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Challenge 51: Sleep 8 Hours a Night
This week's challenge has Ryan & Dustin, attempting to get 8 hours of sleep each night for the week. Learn a few interesting facts about sleep and the differences between Ryan and Dustin's sleep hygiene. NEXT CHALLENGE: GHOST HUNTING
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Challenge 50: Juice Cleanse
On this episode, Ryan & Dustin, attempt to complete a 3 day juice cleanse using the "Master Cleanse" protocol. Master Cleanse Recipe: 2 tbsP organic lemon or lime juice 2 TBSP organic Maple Valley Syrup 1/10 tSP cayenne pepper 8 oz spring or purified water ** Drink 6 to 12 glasses per day ** Learn about our struggles with this challenge. NEXT CHALLENGE: Get 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night
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Challenge 49: Play Senet
This week's challenge is a little easier but more mysterious... in a fun way. Ryan and Dustin, play the oldest board game known, Senet. Is it just a game? Is it a way to speak with the Egyptian afterlife? Is it the downfall of Egyptian youth?!?! Find out now! Next Challenge: Juice Cleanse
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Challenge 48: Maker Challenge
On this listener submitted challenge - Ryan and Dustin attempt to make 7 things in 7 days. Learn a little about the forgotten arts & crafts competitions in the Olympics and the origins of dice used for gambling, board games and fortune telling. Ryan & Dustin discuss the things they made throughout the week and where things came together or fell apart.
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Challenge 47: Experiment With Magic Berries
Cortny, Ryan's lovely girlfriend, bought him some magic/miracle berries. Miracle Berries on Amazon Ryan & Dustin learn a little about the berry that crossed the globe from Africa, to the Phillipines to Atlanta, GA, and how they alter your tastebuds in the sweetest way possible. Watch our taste tests on YouTube - Do It Or Else Podcast Channel NEXT CHALLENGE: Listener submitted challenge by listener and superhero Shaun Scruggs, "Make something new every day of the week". Check out Shaun's IG page Hound Dog Wood
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Challenge 46: No Social Media
No Social Media. No Facebook. No Instagram. No Snapchat. No nothing that will connect you with other people when media is involved. Learn a few "INTERESTING FACTS" about social media and what happens when you deactivated your facebook account. That full study can be found here Standord University: The Welfare Effects of Social Media Learn about the very first social media service, a chat room called Talk-o-matic
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Challenge 45: No TV Week
On this challenge, Ryan and Dustin, forego TV for a week. No netflix. No movies. No moving pictures. Ryan discusses an intersting fact about the father of TV, Philo T Farnsworth and Dustin completely misses the point and over shares many facts about the first black classical composer.
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Challenge 44: Desperately Seeking Neowise
Ryan and Dustin attempt to see the comet, Neowise, with their naked eyes during the last moments of the comet's fly-by. Ryan interviews the comet, Neowise. It's real. Dustin is scared of cows.
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Challenge 43: Time Analogies
This challenge has Ryan & Dustin learning about time and trying to come up with original ways to understand time. How do you perceive time? Are you early? Are you late? If you're listening to the podcast while on your commute are you just passing the time? Think about your own time and what you plan to do with it.
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Challenge 42: Belly Flop Challenge
This episode we explore the world of professional belly flopping - aka shallow water diving. Learn about the world record holder in shallow water diving "PROFESSOR SPLASH". You can learn more about Professor Splash by checking out his website and his amazing feats of human flight and flopping. PROFESSOR SPLASH WEBSITE Ryan & Dustin visit Fort Yargo State Park to flop their way to greatness. Visit the Do It Or Else Podcast - YouTube Channel to see Ryan and Dustin get hurt.
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Challenge 41: Make a Fancy Drink
On this week's episode - Ryan and Dustin make some fancy drinks. Mocktails and Cocktails galore!! Learn about the history of the Olde Fashioned, Orange Julius and the Manhattan. Listener & Super-fan, Seattle Zach submits some cocktail recipes as well. Old Fashioned: 1/2 teaspoon sugar 3 dashes Angostura bitters 1 teaspoon water 2 ounces bourbon Garnish: orange peel Orange Julius: 1 cup milk (whole, 2%, or skim) 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 6-ounce can frozen orange juice concentrate 1/2 cup sugar (or sugar substitutes, check package for equivalence) 1/2 cups ice Manhattan: 2 ounces bourbon or rye 1 ounce sweet vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters 1 dash orange bitters Garnish: brandied cherry LISTENER SUBMITTED RECIPES By: Seattle Zach "A Kevin" Muddle - 1/2 oz simple syrup - 3 mint stalks 1 oz Cynar 1 oz Bourbon 3/4 oz Lemon Juice 1 oz Orange Juice Shake/Strain into bucket glass Cocunt Lime Martini: 2 oz Vodka 1 oz Key Lime 3/4 oz cream of cocnut 1/4 oz simple syrup Combine in shaker w/ ice and shake for 30 seconds. Strain into cocktail glass and garnish w/ lime slice.
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Challenge 40: Hot Dog Eating Contest
On this episode, Ryan and Dustin, have a friendly hot dog eating contest. On July 4th, 2020 - Joey Chestnut set a new world record at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY. Learn about the history of professional eating and the amazing feats of food from 2 of the sport's most popular masticating athletes, Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi. Wait there's more! Bonus Mitch Hedberg jokes at the end.
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Challenge 39: 200 Tweets in a Day
On June 5th, President Trump set a personal record by tweeting and retweeting 200 times in a single day. Ryan and Dustin, attempt to match that benchmark on Twitter with this very difficult challenge. Ryan also shares some history on the founding of the social media giant, Twitter. Dustin confesses that he might have COVID-19. You can see Ryan's twitter storm at @rysedg and Dustin tweeted using the show's defunked handle @doitorelsepod1
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Challenge 38: Birdwatching
Ryan and Dustin spend some time in the backyard and around their neighborhoods looking for those magical, winged creatures we call birds. Ryan used the Birds Near Me App available for download for free. Dustin used the National Audubon Society: Field Guide to Birds, Eastern Region available for purchase from Amazon.
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Challenge 37: Get Good at Hula Hooping
The humble hula hoop. Ryan and Dustin challenge themselves to get better at hula hooping. A classic toy from the 50's that has yet to fall out of style. Right up top, the current unrest in America is discussed as well as the reasoning behind our delay over the past 2 weeks. If you want to get straight to the challenge - skip ahead to the 17:30 mark. Hula hooping. We've probably all hooped at one point. Can you win a hula hoop contest? Can you win a hula hoop contest after a few margaritas? We answer those tough questions on this episode.
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Challenge 36: Write a Commencement Speech
Challenge 36: Write a Commencement Speech On this episode, Ryan and Dustin, were challenged by listener, Zach, to write commencement speeches to all of the graduates of 2020. Taking inspiration from those that have spoke before, the boys do their best to write commencement speeches. Graduates, are you looking for advice from two strangers? Then you'll probably like this episode.
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Challenge 35: Detail Your Car
On this episode, the boys learn about cars and all the different ways to wash cars and clean the details. Ryan picked this challenge because in his old age, he has really gotten into cleaning videos on YouTube. Especially The Detail Geek The boys clean their cars and make some short videos for your viewing pleasure. Videos are going to be posted to Do It Or Else Podcast - Instagram and Ryan's YouTube Channel
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Challenge 34: Non-Dominant Hand Challenge
Ryan and Dustin try to use only their non-dominant hands this week. Learn a little about left-handedness and what that means to the brain. There was a "Left Hand Olympics" on Instagram live that will forever be lost to the sands of time and the memory of those few that saw it happen. We also somehow get into "Quarantine Dreams" again and explore what may be causing them.
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Challenge 33: Predictit.org Challenge
Ryan's challenge pick involves [Predict It](www.predictit.org) a pseudo-gambling website focuesd around the world of political news and events. Ryan and Dustin invest using their own short term vs long term strategies. Who wins? Who loses? NEXT CHALLENGE: Use Your Non-Dominant Hand
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Challenge 32: Bad Movies In Quarantine
30 Underrated Films to Revisit in Quarantine Dustin picked this challenge. The challenge involved sitting around and watching some movies that were written up with the headline as "Unexpected Movie Masterpieces to Watch in Quarantine - Some were blasted by critics, some flopped at the box office, and all are ripe to attain cult-classic status". Listen to us fumble through 30 movie reviews. It's awesome.
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Challenge 31: Do Some Krump Dancing
Krump Dancing is a modern dance that is challenging and rewarding. Ryan and Dustin learn about the origins of Krumping. They attempt to grasp the basic steps through dance tutorial videos like an adult. A virtual dance battle takes place and Ryan absolutely destroys Dustin with his Krumping, so much so that he destroys himself. Introduction audio clip taken from documentary available on YouTube - Dance and Human History
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Challenge 30: Write Fan Fiction
This episode the boys challenge themselves to write their own fan fiction stories and share them with the world. It's funny. It's weird. It's sexy. It's scary. Anything can happen when it's fan ficiton.
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Challenge 29: Win a Round of "Call of Duty: Warzone"
Challenge: Win a Round of "Call of Duty: Warzone" Published by Activision, the Call of Duty franchise has changed the possibilities of first person shooter video games. Year after year, new video games are released. Conveinently released during the peak of COVID-19 shelter in place orders across the country, the free-to-play video game, is taking the nation and the globe by storm to incredible reviews. Ryan and Dustin talk a little about the Call of Duty franchise as well as their experiences trying to play the highly competitive and sometimes stressful video game.
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Challenge 28: Don't Use Toilet Paper (Quarantine Edition)
Day 10: The world has gone crazy and everyone is worried about their butt and how to wipe it. This week, the boys go without the paper ordained to be used only on the holiest of holies. No Toilet Paper Challenge!!!
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Challenge 27: Don't Touch Your Face
This week, Ryan and Dustin, go a whole week without touching their face... or at least they try to. Ryan and Dustin speak with a Doctor of immunology (Ryan's sister-in-law), about the COVID-19 outbreak. The boys find out, it's hard to not touch your face. Really hard. Just typing this makes me want to scratch my face.
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Challenge 26: "Sign Guy" Challenge (ft. a shameless plug)
Ryan challenges Dustin to make a carboard sign and promote the podcast. Shameless plugs... that's what this episode is all about. But when do signs go too far? Find out on this week's episode.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do It Or Else Podcast is the premiere weekly challenge podcast produced in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia.Every week, Ryan and Dustin, participate in weekly personal challenges to enrich their lives... hopefully. Through successes and failures, the boys research the history of the challenge topic and hope that they will somehow become better people because of the struggles experienced.Join in on the fun, the tears and the laughs. Follow us on Instagram @doitorelsepodFollow us on Twitter@doitorelsepod1Leave a challenge idea or feedback724-DO-IT-POD724-364-8763
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Ryan Sedgwick & Dustin Graham
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