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Global investigations from the BBC. Uncovering gripping stories from around the world and telling them episode by episode. Delve into a World of Secrets. Latest season: The Child Cancer Scam. Your child is critically ill. It’s the worst news you can get. But to make the situation even more awful, you struggle to afford the care they need. So when someone tells you a foreign sponsor can help raise the money, you’ll do anything. You make a video: your child begs for help from strangers online. ...
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Cloud Posse holds public DevOps “Office Hours” every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related. These “lunch & learn” style sessions are totally free and really just an opportunity to talk shop, ask questions and get answers.Register here: cloudposse.com/office-hoursBasically, these sessions are an opportunity to get a free weekly consultation with Cloud Posse where you can literally “ask me anything” (AMA). Since we're all engineers, ...
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Awfully Salty

Bobby, Bryan, Greg, Joe

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Comics, Video Games, and Movies. All in about an hour. Podcasts are audio only. Pants are optional. Subscribe to Awfully Salty on iTunes, Google Play, & Stitcher!
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Mind Gap

2 East 8th Productions

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For years Doug Cochrane and Justin Strandlund have been good friends and frequent improv partners. They share a love of debating any topic, although their discussions usually come back around to two things: movies and space. Their most infamous debate involved a 2 hour discussion (while at work) about the actual possibility of time travel and it's potential ramifications on mankind; this included a full diagram drawn on a wall-sized whiteboard. Time well spent. MindGap is what happens when t ...
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The Power Hour

The WrestleCopia Network

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We take a look at this week in wrestling. The good, the bad, and most likely the awful. You can pretty much expect explicit language on this program given the current state of the business. Plus, Missy Does the Mail (oof, she better be careful of paper cuts). All of that, and more… This morning… on The Power Hour!
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The Cārvāka Podcast is a series of long-form conversations hosted by Kushal Mehra. The podcast covers a wide range of subjects where Kushal speaks with a wide range of guests to talk about sports, philosophy, public policy, current affairs, history, economics, etc.
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Targeting AI

Informa TechTarget

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Hosts Shaun Sutner, TechTarget News senior news director, and AI news writer Esther Ajao interview AI experts from the tech vendor, analyst and consultant community, academia and the arts as well as AI technology users from enterprises and advocates for data privacy and responsible use of AI. Topics are related to news events in the AI world but the episodes are intended to have a longer, more ”evergreen” run and they are in-depth and somewhat long form, aiming for 45 minutes to an hour in d ...
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SaveItForThePod

SaveItForThePod

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This is awkward. How do I describe this podcast? Ill try my best. "3 friends in Philadelphia sit around and talk about random things for an hour a week." Wait. Thats awful. Let me try again... Ahh, screw it. Thats good enough. #SAVEITFORTHEPOD
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Leveraging AI

Isar Meitis

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Dive into the world of artificial intelligence with 'Leveraging AI,' a podcast tailored for forward-thinking business professionals. Each episode brings insightful discussions on how AI can ethically transform business practices, offering practical solutions to day-to-day business challenges. Join our host Isar Meitis (4 time CEO), and expert guests as they turn AI's complexities into actionable insights, and explore its ethical implications in the business world. Whether you are an AI novic ...
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Trashmash

Alex, Danny, and Greg

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Alex, Danny, and Greg skim the fimly surface of the internet and scour its grimy corners in search of the strange and laughable. For an hour or so, whenever we’re able, we convene to share our findings and riff on them. Occasionally our friends join us as guests to present their own perspectives and revel in the filth.
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The Tuesday Night Comedown

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Join Liam and James for an hour or two of random chat about whatever comes up. Recorded live in McCawley's Bar in Sea World in Shenzhen. Feel free to come along and join the audience! We suggest listening to Episode 2 onwards as Episode 1 sound quality is awful! Come back to it in the future if you like the podcast! Support us on Patreon - www.patreon.com/tuesdaynightcomedown Connect with us - [email protected] Facebook - The Tuesday Night Comedown Twitter - @TuesdayNightCD (Yes ...
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Your weekly dose of everything going on in the world from the unique perspective of "Guys In Shorts." The guys tackle everything from sports to entertainment in this backyard BBQ style podcast. So, whether you're grabbing a brew, lathering up with sunscreen, or cruising down the 5 at three miles per hour, the “Guys in Shorts” have you covered on everything you need to know in the world today!
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Drew and Nick Show

Drew and Nick Show

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A podcast with friends. One’s a bartender, and the other is…well, also a bartender. After leaving his long, yet unfortunate career as a morning radio show host, Drew Mitchell gave the middle finger to anything promising ahead of him in exchange for a chance to make something of himself through this lackluster, at best, podcast. Then there’s Nick Amoroso, the second wanna-be headliner of the show. Nick, in short, is akin to the sharpest crayon in your childhood trapper keeper, but like only s ...
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What’s up! I’m Sheri Matthews and I’m super pumped you’re here. ADDICTION, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, LOSS, GUILT, FEAR, CANCER – Any of those words resonate? YEP! I get ya! Well I hope this podcast can shine a little light in your life. Rule #1 is we can’t be to damn hard on ourselves. Life is fucking crazy enough without us making it even crazier. Rule #2 is you got to live life one day at a time. Might sound a little cliche, but it’s the truth. Be present, show up present, stay present. We only ...
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In this monologue, Kushal talks about the trend of competitive bigotry in India. Whether it is Bajrang Dal goons attacking Christmas celebration or Islamists pelting stones at Hindu processions or Christians trying to convert Hindus using fraudulent methods India has a system where politicians encourage bigots for votes. Is competitive bigotry a so…
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This cross-post episode from the Future of Life Institute podcast features Luke Drago, co-author of The Intelligence Curse and co-founder of Workshop Labs, in conversation with Gus Docker. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Aadit Kapadia on the upcoming BMC elections on January 15th 2026.Follow them:X: @ask0704#bmcelections #bjp #shivsena #uddhavsena #shindesena------------------------------------------------------------Listen to the podcasts on:SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kushal-mehra-99891819Spotify: https://open.spotify.co…
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📢 Want to thrive in 2026? Join the next AI Business Transformation cohort kicking off January 20th, 2026. 🎯 Practical, not theoretical. Tailored for business professionals. - https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/ Learn more about Advance Course (Master the Art of End-to-End AI Automation): https://multiplai.ai/advance-course/ Is Google about to outpace O…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Darshan Maharaja and Kirk Lubimov about the tragic death of a 44-year-old father of three who died after waiting in hospital to see a doctor. Prashant Sreekumar was complaining of severe chest pains. They also talk about the death of a student Shivank Avasthi from University of Toronto who was shot near Universit…
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In this podcast, Kushal chats with The Sangha Show as they discuss how the Khalistanis are trying to repeat the same immigration scams in Australia and New Zealand that they used to seek asylum status in North America. This behaviour is leading to some pushback from the residents of those countries and is ruining the image of the hard working and i…
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After never receiving the money raised in their children’s name, mothers are finally confronting the scammers and demanding answers. Now is the time to ask why. Where is the money? Season 10 of World of Secrets, The Child Cancer Scam, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service. Please note, the image is being used for illustrative purpose…
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The investigation into why millions of dollars promised to families with sick children never reaches them moves to Israel. There we find misleading addresses and more questions than answers. Who is making these online campaigns which claim to help desperate parents? New ones keep appearing, but the story’s the same. Season 10 of World of Secrets, T…
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Emmett Shear and Séb Krier debate whether today’s AI alignment paradigm—focused on control and instruction-following—is fundamentally flawed. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.org/s26…
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📢 Want to thrive in 2026? Join the next AI Business Transformation cohort kicking off January 20th, 2026. 🎯 Practical, not theoretical. Tailored for business professionals. - https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/ Learn more about Advance Course (Master the Art of End-to-End AI Automation): https://multiplai.ai/advance-course/ Is your business ready for a…
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In this podcast, Kushal chats with Tushar Gupta about the recent Aravalli Hills controversy where everyone was accusing the central government of completely destroying the mountain range by allowing mining on the ranges at higher limits. This podcast is an attempt to separate the fact from fiction.Follow Tushar:X: @Tushar15_Substack: https://open.s…
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Kathleen Fisher and Byron Cook dive into automated reasoning and formal verification as tools for building truly secure software systems. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.org/s26-tcr…
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In this podcast, Kushal talks with Abhijit Iyer-Mitra about a very basic questioni.e should intelligence aencies influence cinema? It is a known fact that has been reported in many books of the role of the American intelligence agency CIA indirectly investing and influencing multiple movies for propaganda and other covert motives. The Pakistani ISI…
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📢 Want to thrive in 2026? Join the next AI Business Transformation cohort kicking off January 20th, 2026. 🎯 Practical, not theoretical. Tailored for business professionals. - https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/ Learn more about Advance Course (Master the Art of End-to-End AI Automation): https://multiplai.ai/advance-course/ Is your AI strategy quietly …
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In this podcast, Kushal and Aadit talk about the recently concluded T20 series where India beat South Africa 3-1. They also talk about the ongoing ashes where Australia have already regained the urn as they lead 3-0. They also talk about the T20 squad announced by India for the upcoming T20 Would Cup.Follow them:X: @ask0704#IndiavsSouthAfrica #Gaut…
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A mother from Ukraine signs a contract, hoping that it will help her young daughter. Viktoriia has a brain tumour: her story is plastered all over social media despite her family’s request that the video they made isn’t shared. Olena says she wasn’t given time to read the contract properly. When we look more closely, it makes for shocking reading. …
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A woman called Isabel pushes a little girl to send videos from her hospital bed. It’s part of a recruitment drive for sick children in Colombia to take part in campaigns. What does she know about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that appear to have been raised? It’s money the family never saw. Who was she working for, and what can she tell us a…
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📢 Want to thrive in 2026? Join the next AI Business Transformation cohort kicking off January 20th, 2026. 🎯 Practical, not theoretical. Tailored for business professionals. - https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/ Use code: LEVERAGINGAI100 to save $100 on registration Learn more about Advance Course (Master the Art of End-to-End AI Automation): https://mu…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Abhijit Iyer-Mitra about the current state of affairs in Bangladesh where a Hindu man was lynched by a mob and protests have erupted all over again.Follow Abhijit:X: @Iyervval#BangladeshProtests #OsmanHadi #SharifOsmanHadi #BangladeshUnrest #DhakaViolence #BangladeshPolitics #StudentUprising #SheikhHasina -------…
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This year-end live show features nine rapid-fire conversations to make sense of AI’s 2025 and what might define 2026. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.org/s26-tcr. New York Assemblym…
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It's time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin kick things off by figuring out why Doug is so adverse to hanging stuff on his walls. Doug then rightfully brags to Justin about going to the dentist for the first time in over a decade and having zero cavities. Flossing FTW! This leads to a discussion on the importance of staying o…
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This year-end live show features nine rapid-fire conversations to make sense of AI’s 2025 and what might define 2026. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.org/s26-tcr. Zvi Moshowitz maps…
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As videos of other sick children pleading for money are found online, we find out more about the man behind the camera. And it becomes clear that there’s a complex network of organisations registered in Israel, the United States and Canada, exploiting families who just need help. Season 10 of World of Secrets, The Child Cancer Scam, is a BBC Eye in…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Kamlesh Singh about all the noise around the movie Dhurandhar. A section of the society has accused the movie makers of indulging in propaganda. This led Kushal to chat with Kamlesh to look at a core question, should movies indulge in propaganda? Have movies always done propaganda? Is it unique to India?Follow ka…
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Generative AI and agentic AI tools are only as good as the problem that they are used to solve. In some cases, using generic AI tools can help with non-specific issues. However, Raj Shukla, of enterprise AI platform vendor Symphony AI, says the future of AI technology will focus on vertical applications and open models. In this Targeting AI episode…
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📢 Want to thrive in 2026? Join the next AI Business Transformation cohort kicking off January 20th, 2026. 🎯 Practical, not theoretical. Tailored for business professionals. - https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/ Learn more about Advance Course (Master the Art of End-to-End AI Automation): https://multiplai.ai/advance-course/ Claude Code sounds intimidat…
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that looks to override AI state laws in favor of a national policy. Titled "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence," it directs the Department of Justice to establish an AI Litigation Task Force and challenge "cumbersome" state laws. It also asks the Secretary of C…
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Seven-year-old Khalil from the Philippines has cancer. His family hope making a campaign video might save him, because they desperately need help to pay for his treatment. But the shoot is demanding, exhausting. Khalil even has onions put in front of his eyes to make him cry. For his mother Aljin, it’s a last-ditch attempt to help her son. But desp…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Harris Sultan about the terror attack at Bondi beach Sydney where a father and son duo started firing randomly on Australian Jews who were celebrating Hannukah. Follow Harris:X: @TheHarrisSultanYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PakistaniMulhidUrdu#bondibeach #islamism #pakistan------------------------------------…
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Andy Masley on AI energy and water use unpacks common myths and brings an Effective Altruism lens to the debate. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.org/s26-tcr. You’ll get memorable he…
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Is AI finally ready to do your job — better, faster, and cheaper? In this week’s Leveraging AI news recap, host Isar Meitis unpacks a flurry of groundbreaking developments in the world of artificial intelligence — from the release of GPT-5.2 to jaw-dropping advances in recursive self-improving AI (yes, it’s as intense as it sounds). Whether you lea…
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In this monologue, Kushal talks about The Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2025. This bill is scheduled to be tabled for a discussion in the eight session of the sixteenth legislative assembly of Karnataka. Kushal reads this bill verbatim and then showcases the conceptual problems in this bill and the concept of hate speech …
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It's time for another Mind Gap Podcast! This week, Doug and Justin share how they spent their Thanksgivings. The dorks then discuss the uncomfortable, and oftentimes unnecessary, icebreakers that precede team meetings. Doug shares a specific instance that happened recently and how he may have misread the room. The dorks then spend a bit of time jus…
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In this episode of the Targeting AI podcast from AI Business, host Esther Shittu interviews Oren Michels, of 2024 startup Barndoor.ai, an AI data and access management vendor, about how to effectively secure enterprise agentic and generative AI systems. The approach is different from traditional cybersecurity paradigms designed to prevent outside i…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Tushar Gupta about an order by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs that talks about the constitution of a working group on Urban Governance Reforms.Follow Tushar:X: @Tushar15_Substack: https://politypolicy.substack.com/#urbangovernance #urbanreforms #municipalreforms #policyupdate #electedmayor-------------…
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Max Tegmark and Dean Ball debate whether we should ban the development of superintelligence in a crossover episode from Doom Debates hosted by Liron Shapira. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://mat…
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Your child is critically ill with cancer. It’s the worst news you can get. But to make the situation even more awful, you struggle to afford the care they need. So, when someone tells you a foreign sponsor can help raise the money, you’ll do anything. You make a video: your child begs for help from strangers online. But it comes to nothing. You wai…
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Sanjay Lazar about the Indigo flight cancellation crisis and the overall handling of it by Indigo and the government of India.Follow Sanjay:X: @sjlazarsBooks: https://amzn.in/d/8wL4ZyF#indigo #indigocrisis #FlightDelays #FlightCancellations------------------------------------------------------------Listen to the …
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What if your best-performing marketer didn’t sleep, worked 24/7, and only cost $20/month? That’s exactly what Michael Stelzner, founder of Social Media Examiner and Social Media Marketing World, has built using Claude Projects from Anthropic — and in this episode, he breaks it all down. If you’re a business leader, you’re in the content business — …
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In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Nikhil Mehra about the controversy surrounding the ban on wearing Hijab inside the educational premises i.e the classrooms at St Rita’s Public School in Ernakulam’s Palluruthy and Vivek Vidyalaya and Junior College at Goregaon, Mumbai. Is the freedom of the institute more important or is the students right to rel…
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Is AI building the future — or inflating the next great tech bubble? This week’s episode of Leveraging AI peels back the layers of billion-dollar optimism and uncovers the quiet panic sweeping the AI giants. From OpenAI’s internal “Code Red” to Anthropic’s cautious warnings, host Isar Meitis walks you through the pivotal shifts shaking the foundati…
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Marek Kozlowski, Head of the AI Lab at Poland's National Information Processing Institute, discusses project PLLuM (Polish Large Language Models). PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.or…
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In this monologue, Kushal talks about privacy in the current day and age. Privacy is buzzword that gets peddled every now and then by wannabe internet libertarians. The latest advent of wannabe libertarianism was the outrage around the Sanchar Saathi App where we had the government starting with a nnouncement and ending with a complete roolback. Bu…
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In this episode of the Mind Gap Podcast, Doug and special co-host, Eric Drezner, dive into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, discussing favorite monsters, homebrew creations, and the challenges of DMing. They share personal experiences and the joy of friendship through gaming. The conversation then shifts to a critical analysis of doomsday devices i…
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