Best The Guardian Code Podcasts (2025)

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SE Radio 692: Sourabh Satish on Prompt Injection 1:04:36

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Sourabh Satish, CTO and co-founder of Pangea, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about prompt injection. Sourabh begins with the basic concepts underlying prompt injection and the key risks it introduces. From there, they take a deep dive into the OWASP Top 10 security concerns for LLMs, and Sourabh explains why prompt injection is the top ris…

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The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN 52:17

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Would you pay $7 a month to stream CNN? Because CNN CEO Mark Thompson would like you to do that. I know, I know, I’m skeptical, too. But Thompson has been here before: At his last job, as CEO of the New York Times, he helped shepherd that company’s subscription business, which had a gazillion naysayers at the start. And now the Times’ business mode…

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Finding calm in the chaos- Polyvagal coach, Michael Allison 1:10:11

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Ever feel your body slam on the brakes at the worst moment—or light up just from someone’s tone of voice? That’s your nervous system running the show. In this episode of the Crackin’ Backs Podcast, polyvagal performance coach Michael Allison (Polyvagal Clinic / The Play Zone) shows us how to find clarity in chaos and silence within the noise—teachi…

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759 – Rodan 58:44

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This week, Ben and Eugene look at the 1956 Japanese Kaiju classic, Rodan! Or, as originally known, Sora no Daikaiju, Radon. I’m dropping a little detour here into the show notes, not directly about Rodan, but just because you may be interested. “Rodan! The Flying Monster” (1957) as it was billed in the US was distributed in association with King Br…

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The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next 56:54

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We spend a lot of time on this show talking to people who run media companies. We also spend a lot of time talking to media reporters. So here’s our one-man Venn diagram: Brian Morrissey runs The Rebooting, where he podcasts, writes and hosts events, all geared at making people in the media business smarter about the media business. If you want to …

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SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database 59:51

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Kacper Łukawski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Qdrant vector database and similarity search engine. After introducing vector databases and the foundational concepts undergirding similarity search, they dive deep into the Rust-based implementation of Qdrant. Along with comparing and contrasti…

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Leakage, Libido, and Lies: Kim Vopni Exposes the Silent Epidemic No One Talks About. 1:07:00

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“Why Are We Still Afraid to Talk About the Pelvic Floor?” We glamorize six-packs, obsess over core strength, and chase the latest fitness hacks—but here’s the shocking truth: the foundation of your health, strength, and even your confidence isn’t your abs, it’s your pelvic floor. And yet, it’s still one of the most ignored, stigmatized, and misunde…

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758 – Bugs – Hell and High Water 55:06

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Simon and Eugene look Season 4, Episode 5 of Bugs, Hell and High Water. They discuss how this throws back to earlier Bugs episodes, whether Alex commits the most unethical act seen in the show so far, and if you work on defense contracts and give your computer to a museum, whether you should check what’s on it first.…

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The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust 54:36

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The AI story is changing fast. A few months ago, it was all promise and inevitability. Now even AI boosters are asking if the numbers make sense. Ed Zitron got there early. He runs a PR firm for a living, which means he’s supposed to help people sell their stories. But he’s become best known for tearing tech’s biggest stories apart. And he’s been p…

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A Message from Fusion Patrol 13:28

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Hello and welcome to this not-actually-an-episode of Fusion Patrol. I’m Eugene, and I’m all alone here today. Have you noticed that Fusion Patrol episode numbers just keep getting higher and higher? Here we are at over 750 episodes. Our first episode dropped in April of 2010. That’s over 15 years. That’s like 30 to 60 times longer than many of the …

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SE Radio 690: Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems 1:03:44

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Florian Gilcher, co-founder of Ferrous Systems and the Rust Foundation, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the application of Rust in mission- and safety-critical systems. The discussion starts with a brief overview of such systems, and an introduction to Rust, emphasizing aspects that make it well-suited for critical environments. Florian and…

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Sleep Smarter, Live Longer: Insider Secrets from Mattress Expert Fred Kunke 1:03:50

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Are you giving more thought to the car you drive than the mattress you sleep on? Think again. We spend nearly a third of our lives in bed, and the quality of your sleep doesn’t just determine whether you wake up groggy or refreshed—it impacts your brain health, mood, recovery, performance, and even how long you live. On today’s episode of the Crack…

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757 – Children of the Dog Star – Swamp Light & Alien Summons 48:26

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Kenneth and Eugene look at episodes 3 and 4 of Children of the Dog Star.By Lone Locust Productions

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SE Radio 689: Amey Desai on the Model Context Protocol 58:36

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Amey Desai, the Chief Technology Officer at Nexla, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in enabling agentic AI systems. The conversation begins with the fundamental challenge that led to MCP's creation: the proliferation of "spaghetti code" and custom integrations as developers tried to connect LLMs to …

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Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive 39:00

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In lots of ways Guardian Media Group is facing the same problems as every other news publisher: A tricky ad environment, platform problems, looming AI threats. One big difference: The Guardian also has a $1.5 billion trust backing the non-profit, which seems way, way better than being owned by a run-of-the-mill billionaire who might want to meddle …

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Can Hypnotherapy Rewire Your Brain—and Break Bad Habits for Good? Dayana Muzinek 1:09:00

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What if the fastest way to change your life isn’t more willpower—but a better doorway into your subconscious? On today’s Crackin’ Backs Podcast, hypnotherapist Dayana Muzinek (Grace Method™ certified) pulls back the curtain on how hypnotherapy works, why it’s more than “stage hypnosis,” and how focused consciousness can help rewire cue–craving–resp…

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756 – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century – Return of the Fighting 69th

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Who’d have thunk it? Buck Rogers in the 25th Century decides to tackle issues of ageism, the mental anguish of disabilities, and questions of identity as related to the concept of “fixing” a disability. Or at least, it would have been if the production staff had given this episode much thought. John and Eugene, on the other hand, give this episode …

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SE Radio 688: Daniel Stenberg on Removing Rust from Curl 57:14

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Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult, what the project gained from the 5-year attempt to tackle bringing Ru…

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Easy Fixes! Keeping Gov't Going, Safer Mail Delivery, Live Taps at Military Funerals 8:47

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This is a bit longer than my last podcast ie. "Don't Pay China, Use that Money to Prevent US Shut Down. Visit nUSPS.com and ImpeachthePres.com Facebook.com/StateoftheUSPS My youtube page was deleted when I connected DeJoy to boEing part supplies and was going to connect with Whistleblower John Barnett who was found dead. RIP but it was YouTube.com/…

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Keep Gov't Open with Moeney MArked for China; create our own TikTok (PicPocketUSA) using Laid Off Engineers and AI 4:07

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Ask yourselves... WHY would T'rump want to GIVE China money? Reimbursement for Tariffs paid to the USA? (562)804-5625 KaRi from ThePrimeSpot.com nUSPS.com ImpeachthePres.com URL is For Sale but see where it leads!

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Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them? 34:22

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In the future, digital publishers could get run over by AI. In the present, they are deeply concerned about Google, and the prospect that the search giant is going to choke off their last reliable traffic stream. That may explain why lots of publishers are making deals with OpenAI now -- and doing a lot of grousing about Google. Ziff Davis CEO Vive…

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The Mind-Body Code to Beating Chronic Pain -Dr. Jorge Esteves 1:08:40

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Is chronic pain really “in the body”… or in the brain’s predictions about the body? Today on the Crackin’ Backs Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Jorge Esteves, PhD, DO—an osteopath, educator, and researcher whose work reframes low back pain, sciatica, and other MSK issues through the lens of predictive processing, active inference, and interoception. …

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755 – Village of the Damned (1960) 1:22:20

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This week Ben and Eugene look at the 1960 movie, Village of the Damned, inspired by the 1957 John Wyndham novel, the Midwich Cuckoos.By Lone Locust Productions

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Junji Ito vs Reboot: The Guardian Code 3:37:19

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Silksong, Resident Evil Code Veronica, 2XKO Beta, and Woolie and John go through a joyful romp through the works of Junji Ito, before facing the horror of Reboot: The Guardian Code. Download the Rocket Money app and enter my show name Versus Wolves in the survey so they know we sent you! Go to http://brooklynbedding.com/ and use promo code WOLVES a…

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SE Radio 687: Elizabeth Figura on Proton and Wine 52:17

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Elizabeth Figura, a Wine Developer at CodeWeavers, speaks with SE Radio host Jeremy Jung about the Wine compatibility layer and the Proton distribution. They discuss a wide range of details including system calls, what people run with Wine, how games are built differently, conformance and regression testing, native performance, emulating a CPU vs e…

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The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment 26:53

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When’s the last time you stayed up to watch a late night TV monologue? Months? Years? Decades? I’m not sure, either. But I stayed up Tuesday night to watch Jimmy Kimmel’s return. James Poniewozik, who covers TV for the New York Times, just caught up with it the next day on YouTube. Which underscores one of the odder parts of the Trump v. Kimmel fig…

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What Happens After the Headlines? Tennyson Jacobson on Trauma, Resilience and Rewriting Her Story 1:06:44

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What happens after you kill to survive? It was Mother’s Day, 2013. Tennyson Jacobson was home with her newborn and her mom when a man slipped through an unlocked door. In seconds, her safe world vanished—he grabbed her by the ponytail, robbed her, and disappeared. The next night, he came back. There was a fight. A knife. And by the time it was over…

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754 – Bugs – The Two Becketts

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This week, Simon and Eugene discuss ultrasonic weapons and whether they are as effective at punching holes in concrete as they are at cleaning dental guards, Ross’s suddenly discovered sensitivity to sexism and Alex being patronized for her age, and Eugene introduces his groundbreaking conception of the three eras of Britain.…

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I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath 45:00

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A year ago I got try a pair of $10,000 computer goggles from Meta. The tech was super-impressive, but you couldn’t buy them them. You still can’t. Now Mark Zuckerberg is trying a similar idea. But this time around the the tech is scaled-down, lighter and way cheaper: the new version costs $800, and you’ll be able to buy them in a couple days. Why w…

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SE Radio 686: François Daoust on W3C 1:02:36

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François Daoust, W3C staff member and co-chair of the Web Developer Experience Community Group, discusses the origins of the W3C, the browser standardization process, and how it relates to other organizations like TC39, WHATWG, and IETF. This episode covers a lot of ground, including funding through memberships, royalty-free patent access for imple…

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Ketamine Wafers, Cannabis Medicine & The Future of Biotech –Dr. Janakan Krishnarajah Unplugged 1:09:07

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How far would you go to reshape medicine? Dr. Janakan Krishnarajah has led over 100 clinical trials, transitioning from bedside physician to a biotech disruptor. On this episode, he reveals that turning point—and the early challenge that redefined his path. Next: he developed Wafermine, the world’s first sublingual ketamine wafer for acute pain—a b…

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How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash 39:10

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John Coogan knows what you’re thinking: the world does not need another tech podcast. And the world does not need another podcast featuring two dudes talking. Yet Coogan and Jordi Hays have started another tech podcast, featuring the two of them talking and… it’s a hit. In the span of a year, TBPN has become the place where tech execs go to chop up…

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753 – Children of the Dog Star – The Brass Daisy & Power Stop 53:49

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This week, Kenneth and Eugene begin their look at a new series here on Fusion Patrol — the 1984 New Zealand production, Children of the Dog Star. This time, the first two installments, The Brass Daisy and Power Stop.By Lone Locust Productions

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Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans 39:07

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Everyone agrees that the decline/disapperance of local news is a big problem. No one agrees about the best way to solve it. So let’s check in on a new AI push from Patch, the people who have been trying to do local news, online, at scale, for more than two decades. Last spring, Patch CEO Warren St. John announced that he was running local newslette…

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SE Radio 685: Will Wilson on Deterministic Simulation Testing 1:01:14

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In this episode, Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, explores Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) with host Sriram Panyam. Wilson was part of the pioneering team at FoundationDB that developed this revolutionary testing approach, which was later acquired by Apple in 2015. After seeing that even sophisticated organizations lacked robus…

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Beyond Talk Therapy: Dr. Eva Nowakowski-Sims on Psychedelics, Somatics, and Why the Body Keeps the Score 1:00:25

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Dr. Eva Nowakowski-Sims: Where Psychedelics, Trauma, and Somatic Therapy Collide She’s a PhD, a licensed clinical social worker, a certified yoga teacher, and a psychedelic-assisted therapist. She lifts weights as therapy. She breathes, moves, and guides with intention. And in a world still stuck on surface-level mental health solutions, Dr. Eva No…

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752 – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century – The Plot to Kill a City

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John and Eugene discuss the time Buck Rogers pits himself again the lamest group of assassins the galaxy can muster, and they ponder the riddle, “Why are they even a threat?” It’s the two-part episode, The Plot to Kill a City.By Lone Locust Productions

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Reboot Vs Solo Leveling 4:28:40

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Woolie's a Dad!, Queen of the Damned, Fixed, Baldur's Gate 3, Solo Leveling, and Reboot. Download the Rocket Money app and enter my show name Versus Wolves in the survey so they know we sent you! Go to http://brooklynbedding.com/ and use promo code WOLVES at checkout to get 30% off sitewide Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/VersusWolvesPodcast Full T…

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SE Radio 684: Dan Bergh Johnsson and Daniel Deogun on Secure By Design 56:43

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Daniel Deogun and Dan Bergh Johnsson -- two of the co-authors of the book, Secure by Design -- discuss the intersection of good software design and security with host Sam Taggart. They describe how following certain software design principles can help developers create secure software without needing to become security experts. They talked about ho…

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Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status 53:40

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One thing about the internet is that it lets you build really, really fast. A little more than a year ago, Oliver Darcy was an unemployed former CNN media reporter. Today he’s the proprietor of Status, his must-read media newsletter. In our conversation, we spend a little bit of time talking through the mechanics of his two-man operation, and how h…

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History in the Making: Crackin’ Backs First-Ever LIVE Show with Dr. Jason Jaeger at the Florida Chiropractic Convention. 1:06:15

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LIVE from Orlando: Dr. Jason Jaeger on Innovation, Politics, and the Future of Chiropractic On August 23rd in Orlando, Florida, history was made. For the very first time, the Crackin’ Backs Podcast went LIVE in front of a packed audience at the Florida Chiropractic Convention—and the reaction was nothing short of electric. The energy, the crowd, th…

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751 – Dr. Phibes Rises Again 1:06:06

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It’s hard to keep a good Phibes down. Would it be as hard to keep a bad Phibes down? Ben and Eugene discuss the 1972 The Abominable Dr. Phibes sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again.By Lone Locust Productions

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SE Radio 683: Artie Shevchenko on Programmers as Code Health Guardians 53:30

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Artie Shevchenko, author of Code Health Guardian, speaks with host Jeff Doolittle about the crucial role of human programmers in the AI era, emphasizing that humans must excel at managing code complexity. Shevchenko discusses these concepts and key takeaways from his book, including the three problems caused by complexity: change amplification, cog…

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Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company 57:56

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Henry Blodget can’t help himself. The Business Insider founder is starting another media business, knowing full well how difficult the industry can be. You can watch him build it in real time: Regenerator on Substack, and Solutions on TikTok, YouTube and everywhere you hear your favorite podcasts. Henry — who hired me to work at Business Insider in…

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Tough Love or Toxic Habits? A Combat Veteran’s Take on Consistency, Compassion, and Crushing Diet Dogma 1:04:40

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On this powerful episode of the Crackin’ Backs Podcast, we sit down with Brittani DaSilva, a U.S. Army veteran, registered dietitian, certified personal trainer, and founder of Freedom Nutrition, to talk about what it really takes to break free from toxic dieting and rebuild your relationship with food, fitness, and yourself. After serving in comba…

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750 – Bugs – Girl Power 1:08:46

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This week, Simon and Eugene look at Bugs, Series 4, Episode 3, Girl Power. When they discuss child geniuses being given the idiot ball, how convincingly Ed and Beckett are at getting duped, and when the Intel Pentium 7 chip came out.By Lone Locust Productions

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SE Radio 682: Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce on Refactoring from Java to Kotlin 57:23

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Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce, co-authors of Java to Kotlin: Refactoring Guidebook, speak with host Giovanni Asproni about their hands-on experiences migrating Java codebases. The episode starts by highlighting Kotlin's seamless interoperability with Java, allowing teams to incrementally adopt Kotlin without disrupting existing Java code. Duncan an…

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ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting 48:14

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The media industry has been waiting for ESPN to cut the cord for a decade. Now it’s finally happening: This week the sports TV giant will let you start streaming — without a cable TV subscription — for $30 a month. Why now? ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro is quite frank about it: Along with his boss — Disney CEO Bob Iger — he wanted to make as much money fr…

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Bladder Leaks Aren’t Normal: The Pelvic Floor Truths No One’s Telling You – with Susan Winograd 1:00:41

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Is bladder leakage normal? Are Kegels really the gold standard? And what exactly is your pelvic floor doing for you every day—whether you’re pregnant, postnatal, or neither? In this eye-opening episode of the Crackin’ Backs Podcast, we sit down with Susan Winograd, MSPT, a pioneering pelvic floor physical therapist who turned one painful moment dur…

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749 – Space Rangers – The Trial

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Kenneth and Eugene finally arrive at the final episode of Space Rangers with, the Trial.By Lone Locust Productions