Episode 437
Future Clowns of America
This week's challenge: figure out why another dumb thing is happening. (Recorded on Wednesday January 28, 2026)
January 28, 20261h 0mExplicit
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Show Notes
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 Nuttall of UKIP - Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
BBC Two series (2009-2016) - Tailscale
Mesh VPN; part of the Iron Troika - Amphetamine
macOS app to prevent sleep - AutoMounter
Keeps network shares mounted - Synology
NAS; Merlin's home server setup - TP-Link Archer AX55
The router - NextDNS
DNS with ad blocking; Iron Troika member - Cloudflare
Third member of the Iron Troika - DynDNS
Dynamic DNS; the old way - Let's Encrypt
Free SSL certificates - Passkeys
Passwordless authentication - Hide My Email
Apple's email aliasing - Linda Stone
Coined "email apnea" and "continuous partial attention" - "Are You Breathing? Do You Have Email Apnea?"
Linda Stone's original article - Claude Code as elevator music
Matt Webb on the contemplative rhythm of working with Claude Code - J. Edgar Hoover
FBI director; Clyde Tolson - Cary Grant & Randolph Scott
Lived together; "Riding the Trails Alone" - The Carter Family
First family of country music - Cowboy Carter
Beyoncé's country album - Country Music (Ken Burns)
2019 documentary series - Trypophobia
Lotus seed pods; a clown situation - Pansy Division
Queercore band; pun on Panzer Division - Reformation Iconoclasm
Defacing religious art