This week's challenge: find more unconventional fancy.

Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025.

This week's challenge: move your pencil until a secret falls out.

Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025.

• Blackwing Pencils - John Dickerson Official Website
• About Us – Blackwing
• Every Successful Entrepreneur Knows These 3 Tips
• Goon on you crazy diamond | Western Kabuki
• The Beginnings of American Railroads and Mapping | History of Railroads and Maps | Articles and Essays | Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
• Magnesium fluoride - Wikipedia
• Stoat Kits Play in My Garden | Discover Wildlife | Robert E Fuller - YouTube
• Tiny Baby Stoat Has The Best Reaction When She Meets Someone Like Her | The Dodo Little But Fierce - YouTube
• Rite in the Rain Official Site | Shop All Weather Products
• GLORYFIRE Waterproof Tactical Notebook Brown (5pcs) – GLORYFIRE®
• Maruman MNEMOSYNE Notebook 8.27 x 5.83 Inches (A5), 5mm dot grid
• How Metric Paper Works & The Whole of the Universe - YouTube
• Blackwing Audition Pack - Set of 4 Pencils | Blackwing602.com
• “Shitty First Drafts”
• Bird by Bird_
• The Artist's Way
• Writing Down the Bones
• The First Page is Profound
• How to find your pencil sharpener.
• The historical cost of dancing medicine

This is a fun after show so we wanted you to have it. Just be sure and listen to e389 first.

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• Covert Instruments - Best In Class Lock Picks & Entry Tools
• What exactly does the cover of the album "Ghost in the Machine" symbolize? : r/ThePolice
• Transmit’s icon history from Panic
• What is jawmaxxing? - Search Engine with PJ Vogt
• Blackwing Matte Pencils

This week's challenge: get some new challenges

Recorded on Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025.

This week's challenge: watch Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix, 2024)

Recorded Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025.

• Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial | Netflix Official Site
• Hitler's Circle of Evil | Netflix
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Wikipedia
• Conspiracy (2001 film) - Wikipedia
• "Conspiracy" (2001) streaming: where to watch movie online?
• Hitler a book by Professor of Modern History Ian Kershaw - Bookshop.org US
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a book by William L. Shirer and Ron Rosenbaum - Bookshop.org US
• The Rest is History 295: The Rise of the Nazis - YouTube
• The Rest is History Politics US: January 6th | Inside the Fall of Trump’s First Term (Part 1) - YouTube
• Wannsee Conference - Wikipedia
• Loudermilk on Vocal Fry
• Blondi - Wikipedia

This week's challenge: Watch Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009).

• Trailer for Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
• Opinion | Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented Me - The New York Times
• Thomas Flight - "Why Were David Lynch's Movies So Strange?"
• "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it."
• The Joan Rivers anecdote
• ‎Some Good Movies About Making Art, a list of films by Merlin Mann • Letterboxd

Recorded on Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025.

This week's challenge: make a no-coding app.

Recorded on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025.

This week's challenge: play Balatro.

(Recorded Wednesday January 1, 2025.)

This week's challenge: something involving Valley of the Dolls (1967).

(Recorded Wednesday December 18, 2024.)

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Links

• IMDb: Valley of the Dolls (1967)
• Casting the Women of Valley of the Dolls | PT 1 - YouTube
• Tickled (2016) - Reference View - IMDb
• Flightless Bird: Rabies — Armchair Expert
• Flightless Bird Podcast
• Podcast Notes – Six Colors
• More Podcast Workflow Tweaks – Six Colors
• Merlin’s Post – BlueSky
• Lipsynca – Lip Sync Performer
• The Rest is History Podcast

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