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Mike and Ting talk about caffeine, Mythos and SpaceX.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Not E3 2026.

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I Need To Tell You Why Coffee Makes You Poop (YouTube)

Jewel Rain Vortex

What Is Grounding and Can It Improve Your Health?

Is raw milk a superfood or dangerous fad? - BBC Food

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic

ITER - Wikipedia

Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire - his stratospheric rise in charts

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion - Ars Technica

Count Binface destroys Sky News interviewer (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about friction maxxing and AI emotions.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for TR-49.

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Can 'friction-maxxing' fix your focus? - BBC Future

Butlerian Jihad | Dune Wiki

WALL·E (2008) - IMDb

Soul (2020) - IMDb

The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen | TechCrunch

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model \ Anthropic

“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews - Ars Technica

OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances | Tom's Hardware

OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal

Mike and Ting talk about the latest Avatar, Disclosure Day and Avengers: Doomsday.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2026 Look Forward.

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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - IMDb

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Surpasses $1 Billion at the Global Box Office | The Walt Disney Company

James Cameron Explains Why 'Avatar 4 and 5' Are Still Not Sure Things

LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader That Return Of The Jedi Hasn't Made A Profit!? - SlashFilm

Disclosure Day | Official Teaser (YouTube)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - IMDb

Super 8 (2011) - IMDb

'Avengers: Doomsday' Proved "Superhero Fatigue" Is a Myth in Just 1 Day

The X-Men Will Return | Avengers: Doomsday in Theaters December 18, 2026 (YouTube)

Mike and Ting comment on each other's top Spotify tracks.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up - Part 2.

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FURFAG - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify

PITS - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify

Already Done - song and lyrics by Free Worship | Spotify

Never Meant to Know - song and lyrics by Tally Hall | Spotify

Intel Ultra 7 258V vs i7-6650U

Mike and Ting talk about their extremely cursed Spotify Wrappeds and YouTube Recaps.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up.

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Mike’s 2025 Spotify Wrapped

Ting’s 2025 Spotify Wrapped

Mike’s 2025 YouTube Recap

Ting’s 2025 YouTube Recap

Mike and Ting are taking a break.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Deltarune.

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Why I think the podcast ended : r/HelloInternet

Somehow Palpatine Returned (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about Anthropic's Project Vend and being a tryhard at Puzzmo.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Now Playing 2025.

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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) \ Anthropic

Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees | Reuters

Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon - Ars Technica

ClaudePlaysPokemon - Twitch

World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says

"Computer Says No..." | Little Britain | Lucas & Walliams (YouTube)

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - IMDb

Today's Puzzmo

GD Column 17: Water Finds a Crack | DESIGNER NOTES

Mike and Ting talk about Spaceballs 2.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Blue Prince.

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Spaceballs 2 | Announcement (YouTube)

"Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money" (YouTube)

Mel Brooks explains why George Lucas signed off on Spaceballs — with one giant caveat

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Fat (HD Version) (YouTube)

The A.I. Apocalypse - Beyond the Black Void (YouTube)

Austin Powers - fook me and fook yu (YouTube)

I Love Gold! (YouTube)

When 900 years old you reach… (YouTube)

Steve Martin - Wikipedia

Martin Shaw - Wikipedia

How to chat with Meta AI in an individual or group chat | WhatsApp Help Center

"No, I’m Singaporean": TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi responds to US Senator’s questions about China ties (YouTube)

Play A Mind Forever Voyaging Online - My Abandonware