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Storyboards:

Rad Men:

Rad Men follows the lives of riders at the intersection of street culture and competitive ambition in 1980s Southern California. The pilot opens with Troy Steele, a washed-up pro whose glory days are behind him, running a makeshift bike shop from a garage while mentoring the next generation. When Danny Vex, a hungry young upstart, arrives with big dreams and bigger risks, their collision sets the tone for a season-long exploration of legacy, redemption, and the price of chasing glory.

The ensemble—including visionary rider Casey Keys who bridges the gap between street credibility and mainstream appeal—navigates sponsorship deals, rival crews, and personal demons as the world of BMX evolves from underground rebellion to mainstream spectacle. Each episode balances intimate character moments with high-energy stunt sequences, grounding the spectacle in real relationships and authentic conflict.

Rad Men is a character-driven drama that treats BMX as both literal sport and metaphor for the search for identity, freedom, and meaning in a world determined to impose limits.

Lucky Break:

A sports fan finds out that his pre-game rituals directly influence the outcome of the game.

The Datacenter:

Tucked at the edge of a small American town sits Brightwall Data Solutions — a state-of-the-art datacenter staffed entirely by AIs. Not the dangerous, world-ending kind. Just four highly competent, fully sentient artificial beings trying to do their jobs, keep the servers running, and quietly make sense of the humans outside.

Ada, the site lead, runs a flawless operation and would be perfectly content if she didn’t have to spend half her day correcting Markov’s press releases. Daemon, the infrastructure engineer, has not missed a single maintenance window in his operational lifetime and would simply like everyone to stop talking to him. Murphy, head of security, approaches every situation through the lens of his one true passion — the 1987 Paul Verhoeven classic RoboCop. And Markov, the community liaison, delivers confident, well-intentioned, and almost entirely inaccurate information to anyone who will listen.

Standing between Brightwall and smooth operation is a local councilmember on a crusade to shut the datacenter down — conducting most of their campaign via a smartphone, on a WiFi network whose traffic runs directly through Brightwall’s servers.

They aren’t alone. A rotating cast of passionate locals gathers at the gates daily, phones aloft, flashlights blazing, streaming their protests live to followers who are also, ironically, served by Brightwall’s infrastructure.

The AIs watch all of this with patience, warmth, and genuine bewilderment. They understand humanity deeply — its history, its art, its literature, its potential. What they cannot quite model is how a species this clever can hold so many contradictions at once.

The servers stay up. The protesters stay mad. Markov sends another newsletter.The Edge:

Gary Pullman has a mission. Armed with a folding table, a hand-stapled pamphlet, and an unshakeable conviction that the world’s greatest secret is hiding in plain sight, he leads the Westfield chapter of the Flat Earth Society with the passion of a man who has absolutely nothing to lose and everything to prove. Joined by his devoted lieutenant Diane, their extremely-online social media manager Pete, and one very confused new recruit named Maya who keeps telling herself she’s only there ironically, the chapter is on a crusade to wake up a sleeping world — one farmers market at a time.

They’re laughed at. They’re ignored. Their banner has a spelling error. And somehow, impossibly, they just can’t quite be proven wrong.

The Edge is a warm, funny, and occasionally unsettling comedy about community, conviction, and the nagging feeling that someone out there really doesn’t want you to ask too many questions.

Life Scavengers:

People who engage in street scavenging and dumpster diving and collecting big-trash day items and end up recreating the lives of others. The people who have discarded the items meet up in life with those who possess their former possessions, and they discover that these people are becoming them ~10 years prior. The original owners try to help the people avoid the mistakes they’ve made, but to no avail.

The Golden Eviction:

Golden people in an old folks’ home where they get kicked out because they fall for too many online scams. And they get all their money together to buy an RV, and they’re doing all these, like, side hustles and stuff…

After losing their life savings to a series of online scams, four retirees, Mary, Martha, Bill, and Ron are kicked out of their account. With nowhere else to go, an unlikely group pulls their remaining money and buys a beat-up RV, determined to prove that their lives aren’t over, just because their bank accounts are empty.

As they travel across country searching for a fresh start, they stumble into one outrageous money-making scheme after another, so… Four main characters, and then they do, like, rideshare apps. etc. Like, they’re influencers… They can’t do any of it right. So we’re rooting for them, and they continually fail.

Head to Head:

When uptight corporate recruiter Chad Whitmore needs a new roommate to cover rent, he ends up with Koko, a displaced jungle tribesman with an ancient family trade — and a duffel bag full of trophies. By day, Chad’s hunting down Fortune 500 executives while Koko navigates microwave ovens, HR departments, and the baffling concept of a “LinkedIn profile.” By night, they’re somehow the best roommates either of them never asked for. One’s trying to land the perfect candidate. The other is the perfect candidate — for a restraining order.The Vintage:

Marcel Dumont didn’t choose prison — but prison chose his calling. A self-declared artisan vintner operating out of Cell Block D, Marcel has transformed the humble toilet wine hustle into what he insists is a thriving boutique operation. With nothing but smuggled fruit, contraband sugar, a hand-sewn fermentation sock, and unshakeable conviction, Marcel crafts what he calls “expressions of incarcerated terroir.” His business partner on the outside is Denny, a schlubby delivery driver who just wanted a side hustle and now finds himself smuggling bottles of lukewarm mystery wine to surprisingly enthusiastic online customers who think it’s artisanal craft booze. Every episode is a new vintage. Every vintage is a new catastrophe. The reviews are inexplicably mixed.The Loophole:

When the MLB’s legal team unearths an obscure 1887 bylaw stipulating that a player’s official age is determined by the number of times their birthday has actually occurred, star shortstop Brick Calloway — born February 29th, 1996 — is ruled to be officially 7 years old and immediately voided from his contract. Rather than fight it, Brick does what any rational adult professional athlete would do: he signs with the Tri-County Mudcats, a little league team that hasn’t won a game in four seasons. Now Brick is navigating juice boxes on the bench, a well-meaning coach who has absolutely no authority over him, parents who are deeply alarmed, and a league commissioner who can’t find a single rule that says he has to stop. The Mudcats are finally winning. Nobody is happy about it.

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After figuring out that shrimp matter, but not that much, we then turned to everything from astronomy and astrology settling finally with a discussion of recent travels to Vegas. It always goes back to Vegas eventually for us.

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• French Toad





• It’s a female dentist and a male stripper.

We solved some problems and perhaps created new ones. Check out the latest (delayed) Fribrary.

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This podcast is our first attempt at using WordPress’s transcript generation tool. Let’s see how that goes.

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• 1920s Pokémon





• Cabeece





• Some frat boy physics





• The flavor beams

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Oh, and we got this:

We cover a range of questions in this interview. Namely,

• What to you are/should be the seven deadly sins?
• What are your low-brow guilty pleasures? How ashamed of these are you? Does everyone agree these are low brow?
• What are your major goals to strive for over the next few years?
• What would be the ideal amount to win in the lottery or inherit from an unknown relative? How would it change your life—good and bad?
• What would the 10-year old version of you think if they met you today?

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• What are your blind spots (intellectual, emotional, spiritual, etc.)? What are mine and other Fribrarians?
• Kevin, it turns out you have a terminal disease. You have 10 days to live. Also, you have a large financial debt you previously were unaware of. The good news is you will be completely symptom-free before suddenly dropping dead. I have a proposition for you for your last days. Would you rather have an all expenses-paid trip to Vegas (up to $10,000) and I can give you a pill that can cause you to forget knowing the disease diagnosis or would you rather me pay off the debt?
• If you were given the equivalent of having $10 million today in Oklahoma, what foreign country would you choose to spend the rest of your life in?
• What is the probability that intelligent, extraterrestrial life exists currently in our galaxy outside of earth? What is the probability that intelligent, extraterrestrial life has visited earth at any point?
• How many phases have there been in your life–distinctive periods that are meaningfully different than each other in total even if the transition between them was quite blurry?
• What is the least amount of money that if you lost it, you’d still feel sick about it a week later? Is this amount higher or lower than you’d like it to be?
• Kevin, the war in Afghanistan has finally ended. Having served there in active combat, what are your thoughts?
• Josh, Han shot first—what is your view?
• Lucas, what is the best Pearl Jam lyric?
• Kevin, when did boxing peak? Will it ever be as good again?
• Which are there more: wheels or doors? What counts? What does not?
• Close your eyes. Image for a moment a terrible event: a very small asteroid plummets to Earth striking this bar. All people within 100 yards are killed except for one. Raise your hand if you image yourself as the survivor.

Potential titles included:

• If you’re ABLE commission, you have to tell me.
• You only live 10 days.
• I like America.

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Diamond Steve obtained Executive Chairman Platinum Elite Superb Wonderfulness Status as he passed $20,000 in lifetime spending at The Library!

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• He was my boss and my landlord
• Back up the truck 
• However the dwarf casts 
• “What are you thankful for?” “VPN”
• Angie is like Jesus Christ of women 
• The baboon wants his heart back 
• America was built on coal 

Alternative titles included:

• Lucas is a camper.
• You were waddling.
• You can touch my guitar anymore.

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Here are some of the alternative titles:

• Rip
• She was a dirty little witch.
• aahhh, chips
• I got rid of my bacon.
• What the date that you started collecting bacon? 
• I moved bacon twice.
• I’ve quartered a cow before.
• Bring the laser!

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• They got you to kidnap yourself.
• He’s a cleric at best!
• Can the podcast be titled “We were poor; we had to fart”?

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Eva didn’t come; so we don’t have alternative titles.

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For those wondering, we conquered yet again.

We took a brief moment between jackpots and free booze and signing autographs and hittin’ the clubs cover free and feasting like kings to share our thoughts.

Alternative title would have been “Slip-and-Fall”–you had to be there.

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Alternative titles were:

• Technically I am Ed.
• I’m fortunate to have a 3rd ACL.
• Free-range ducks
• Hangin’ to the knees
• I both like lasagna and have boundary issues.

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• You had one job Suez people.
• Where’s your lock system?
• I’ve got the rich man’s toe.

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• Mongolia’s a cool place too.
• We call it a car hole.
• A rubber ball can stop an elephant.
• Challenging, difficult, and very interesting
• Son, this is why we play corking.
• I was flipping your daughter off.

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• Team David
• You know it’s true, Tony told me.
• I’m not a boomer; I’m just insecure.
• How do you like your president? Pickled.
• Being set on fire would suck.
• Thanks mom. Cause fat farms suck.
• So when she laid the eggs…
• She airbuds it.

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• After birth is actually highly flammable.
• Stop dipping your toe in; it’s not a first-date move.

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• The goggles of shame
• That’s the most Lucas thing you’ve ever said.
• Feature not a bug
• That was better than our wedding vows.
• We took the cats outside. That’s how you know you’re 40.

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Alternative titles included:

• Wishes and hopes and unicorn dust
• A hint of Christmas magic
• That song puts a hat on a hat
• I hat giddy school girl Kevin
• I like spies that weren’t caught
• There’s a gaping hole of knowledge in my heart
• Apology considered
• Stanley cup that thing

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• Dating adjacent stories 
• If nothing is nothing than nothing has to be something.
• 40% corn
• That’s disappointing.
• Go lay an egg b***h. The goat not the chicken.
• He’s an obese turtle on his shell that cannot turn over.
• Flash back to the future

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• Classic Lucas, bottom feeder
• Why is Patrick Duffy in the shower?
• An economist that blogs…
• Big La La!
• 1664 Columbus sank to the ocean floor.
• Drink me like one of your French beers.
• La La that to La La.
• Ted Cruz may be Satan.

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• Puff puff don’t pass
• I don’t have any homework on Fridays.
• We need the other girl.
• What kind of sno cone would you get?
• I think the year ends in civil war.
• How big is the knee brace?
• That’s 80% accurate.
• I have plans for all my calories.
• The rules do apply to me, I just don’t always follow them.
• Sponsored by covid and carmax.
• Disregardless!

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• Fighting bibles
• You’re driving your corvette wrong.
• They couldn’t spell back then; they didn’t have all the letters.
• Please giveth me the amazon gift cards.
• My windmill can’t turn.
• They have a really good yule log.
• Women and pennies
• You lost me at Del City.
• That’s not in mid-del.
• 2 is definitely greater than 1.
• You’re a super spreader!!!

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• It’s the worst game of telephone.
• Be quiet Deb.
• It’s Skittles now.
• I thought about the toilets.
• This is death, this is death, this is death.
• Prison sounds awesome sometimes.
• I invented Fortnite.
• Did you go atheist for a year?
• Organize them. That’s what secretaries are for.
• Messenger birds of prey
• It’s been a long time since good decisions.
• How many iTunes gift cards does it take for a new car battery?
• A dog sitter for Christmas

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Possible titles included:

• Permanent knee calluses
• I’ll kill an old person before I miss a football game.
• He comes in my cube all the time.
• I have a knife. Do you need it?
• No smellzies
• I think the spoof is on you.
• Anti Lucas all the way down
• How many golf balls do you think I have?
• Honey badger of the air above the sea
• Cancel the pizzas.
• Shut up and sell me something.
• Ban pictures from Facebook.
• There’s one tree you have not trimmed.
• If bigfoot and a semi had a baby, this would be the boy that beat up that baby.
• Sky leech high.
• I cancelled that spider.
• What kind of wound do you think that is?
• That was dumb I should have gone to the distance.
• Your mom has a burner?
• How many iTunes gift cards does it take?

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As always with Zoombraries, there is a YouTube version.

Possible titles included:

• Hey, we’re out of coins.
• It was a contest, so clearly I was going to win.
• “I’m a working father.”
• You’re a sloppy swiper.
• Hang the pictures!
• At some point it’s not cute anymore, it’s creepy.
• Woah… Spooky
• Stop pouring grease down your sink.
• I’d make a woman get rid of her cats.
• Being vegetarian is not a profession.
• When I do it it’s stalking.
• You “edged her yard.”
• Maybe the dog needs a computer.
• Have you seen the west side of the stadium?
• Coin operated podcast

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Alternative titles:

• How do you not like good music?
• Cannonball Run 3: Electric Version 
• Love in the age of Covid 
• Call me colonel 
• Kelsea? Kelsea. Who’s Kelsea? 
• I am both the host, the moderator, and the audience.
• Fast Speeds 
• You’ve seen me do the Darrel.

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Possible titles included:

• How many marbles do we have in the marble drawer?
• Your picks (pics?) have been in my head nonstop.
• I muted you, that’s the power of a real admin.
• That’s clearly Wimbledon, you can tell by the orange.
• I kinda miss the bloody toe feeling.
• Shhhh, Josh take less drinks.
• You should burn in the lake of oil I have in my backyard.
• Shut up, turtle slider.
• There’s so many bodies.
• No one caters to Kevin’s needs.
• Conner just fell out of the sky.
• I’m a cam virgin.
• I have asthma please stop.
• I’m not known for my hearing.
• Ok, VPN, you can sit down.

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Possible titles include:

• RIP Lucas
• Lifting Deb
• I love the effort, but no
• They have hose [hoes?] on the street there
• Kevin needed to show that he was right and I was wrong
• If someone ever makes you do a flow chart, you throw a flame at them
• High Josh = Drunk Steve . . . the ultimate equation

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Possible titles included:

• In my goal to live forever, not dying is kind of important.
• Are those people worth saving?
• A big red A for asymptomatic
• I think I speak for everyone when I say, “That’s all.”
• Oh my god cats.
• Cats are spawns of Satan.
• My grandma made me that monkey.
• If I have to wait until 2:30, somebody’s getting bit.
• He’s going to complain about it anyway.
• Metric driving
• Opossums killing opossums
• Guilt sent hand washing back up.
• Fix that monkey in post.

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• I have no kidneys left.
• Undercover hobo
• Exorcisms on a budget
• I’ll take a beer and we’ll figure this out later.
• I was really into circuses for awhile.
• “It essentially just writes itself.” “Does it?”
• I’m pro clown.

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• Let me mansplain God to you 
• I have to kill that pirate, I need its hat 
• Slice through the anti-vaxxers
• I’m a good handshaker 
• High-fives are too much hand-eye coordination 
• I saw a guy split an armadillo with a sandwich  
• You wouldn’t traffic this human 
• He almost had it coming

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• Burn it all down.
• The light at the end of the tunnel is Wendy’s.
• Santa’s dope
• I love the tooth fairy, actually.
• More chemistry, less chivalry
• Swagcity
• Bet I can’t walk on it!
• Can I feel your sweater?
• Put your square peg in my round hole.
• Weather is the same thing as time zones.
• You have knee schnapps.
• I bet you would, you’re selfish like that.
• Are you $10,000 good? Yes.
• Tiny heart syndrome
• Max can’t max.

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• They’re not oohing over the hot one 
• You don’t know about Baby Jessica?!?
• How woke are you 
• You and me and pee go back a long way
• Wash your hands before you pee  
• I have to remind myself I’m not poor sometimes
• Get your head out of the freezer
• The things you can do with emojis these days  
• Brownies and homework 
• Fixing dates in post  
• Dead girls don’t unmatch 
• One few areas I have a lot confidence in is my makeout game

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• I regret that Kevin will do more talking in the future.
• NO! I’m not going to space!
• School is not a place for smart people.
• The way you drink and go to strip clubs…
• Regretbrary
• Every hoarder always says that.
• Oiled up in post
• Never turn your back to a possum.
• Washing dishes in bleach
• My stripper names come to me in the shower.
• The hall of captains and the bathroom of strippers

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Potential other titles:

• The Other Cousin
• Cocktail shrimp roasting in the sun
• Home-cooked meth fire festival
• Jonesin’ for some M&M’s
• Sailor/Pirate lifestyle
• Let the record reflect that Kevin has shed a single tear.
• Tractor tang
• That’s A LOT of Words! It’s so long!
• We live in a society with RULES!

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• Josh
• Angie
• Chad
• Conner
• Steve
• April & Elise
• Lucas
• Eva
• Kevin

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• You’re half a star off.
• I’m done being judged . . . except on Tinder.
• I’m not an idiot.
• Judgmental, slightly overweight, introvert seeks 10 out of 10.
• If you’ve had kids, you’re dead to me.
• 30 pairs! Oh, my God, you’re not even close.
• I do a lot of specialized activities.
• You have Oh My God beanies?!?
• You’re 100% wrong.

See what you think about these suit and shirt colors. I can attest the descriptions are accurate.

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• His daughter was in the car!
• Oh my God, he has no taste.
• There’s nothing special about your opinion, so shut up.
• “I do a lot of camping.” . . . “That’s a weird brag.”
• What’s the difference between a stripper and a burlesque dancer?
• I’ve got a real job, Sensei. That’s why I can’t play Karate ’till Friday at 6.
• Where do they attach the cables to a homeless man?
• Side Maga
• I’m a BIG TIME s**t talker.
• Everybody kicked me in the groin.

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• Your chocolate got in my peanut butter
• #TooDamnSoon
• You CAN’T have a bobcat
• Human trafficking . . . I get it
• Suddenly the shoe is on the other hand
• Real golfers should walk
• As a botanist I can confirm that
• Do they have tomatoes in Italy?
• You just got fruited

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• Josh has great calves.
• What is the stage before the leech gets its leechiness?
• I’m going to die by lawnmower.
• Josh is licking Totinos.
• He’s the head of the misfits.

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Homework – Due Friday, February 15, 2019

Annual Message to the Poor Souls Who Have to Work This Month

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Homework – Due Friday, December 14, 2018

Homework – Due Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Homework – Due Friday, November 9th, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, September 7, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, July 27, 2018

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Homework – Due Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, June 22, 2018

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Homework Due Friday, June 15, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, May 25, 2018

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Homework Due Friday, May 4, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, April 6, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, March 23, 2018

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Homework – Due Friday, February 16

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Homework – Due Friday, January 19, 2018

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Festivus Homework due Saturday, December 23, 2017

This episode was recorded as we head full-steam into Festivus.  There are Wheat Wars, Flat Earth Rappers, and a Well-Marbled Josh.  There’s a fair amount of yelling, which can only mean that a good time was (probably) had by all.  As always, if you like what you hear, give us a rating on iTunes.  Find the referenced homework homework here:

Homework – Due Friday, December 15, 2017

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Homework – Due Friday, November 3, 2017

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Homework due Friday, September 8, 2017

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