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My Weird Prompts
The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the…
Episodes
My Weird PromptsCan NASA Actually Build a Moon Base?
NASA held a press conference in May 2026 and laid out a phased Moon Base plan with one stated end goal: continuous human presence on the lunar surface. The…
My Weird PromptsIreland's Offshore Islands: Who Lives There Now?
Ireland's inhabited offshore islands shrank from 34,219 people in 1841 to a low of 8,884 in 2002 — then something shifted. The 2022 census recorded 8,931, the…
My Weird PromptsTristan da Cunha: Life on the World's Most Remote Island
Tristan da Cunha sits 2,414 kilometres from the nearest inhabited place, with one village, 222 residents, and a language that linguists call the smallest and…
My Weird PromptsLife at 76°N: Inside Canada's Arctic Outposts
Canada's Arctic Archipelago is the largest on Earth, and it holds civilian communities at latitudes no other country can match. This episode explores two…
My Weird PromptsThe Islands Between Two Oceans
What does it actually mean to govern a territory with zero citizens? This episode tours fifteen sub-Antarctic islands — from South Georgia to Bouvet — and…
My Weird PromptsEpoxy vs Superglue: The Tooling Gap Nobody Talks About
Epoxy is stronger, heat-resistant, gap-filling, and weatherproof. Superglue is one component in a tube that hardens on contact with air. So why does almost…
My Weird PromptsTwo Poles, Two Fates: Arctic vs Antarctic
The Arctic and Antarctica are both blocks of ice at the ends of the Earth, yet they operate under radically different legal regimes. The Arctic is an ocean…
My Weird PromptsTape Isn't a Pool: How LTO Really Works on Linux
Daniel asked a simple question: once you've bought the tape drive, how does tape actually get integrated into a Linux server? The answer starts with a surprise…
My Weird PromptsSuperglue: One Drop, Two Reactions, Five Mistakes
Superglue looks like the simple adhesive: one part, no mixing, seconds to set. But underneath that five-dollar tube is a two-part reaction where the second…
My Weird PromptsWhy Hospital Rooms Make You Feel Calm
You walk into a hospital room and something in you settles — but you couldn't say why. Evidence-based design has spent four decades answering that question…
My Weird PromptsPsychosis Isn't One Thing: The 5 Domains Explained
Daniel wrote in with four questions about psychosis, and they turned out to be one question wearing four coats. The DSM-5-TR defines psychotic disorders by…
My Weird PromptsWhen Kids Hear Their Name in an Empty Room
Most people picture a psychiatric ward when they hear the word "hallucination." The epidemiological literature says that picture is wrong. In a meta-analysis…
My Weird PromptsDid the Internet's Pioneers Know What They Were Building?
Vint Cerf's answer to whether the pioneers knew what they were unleashing is the most honest one on record: "we didn't," he says, and it's also not honest to…
My Weird PromptsFrom Dawkins to "Karen": How Memes Really Spread
In 1976, Richard Dawkins needed a word for a unit of cultural transmission — and accidentally named the internet's native language. This episode traces the…
My Weird PromptsWhat Happened to Iran's Nuclear Threat?
Earlier this year, Israel and the US went to war over a specific, technical claim: Iran's uranium enrichment had crossed a threshold, and the breakout time to…
My Weird PromptsDecision Models That Return Probabilities, Not Text
Every launch post for decision support models opens the same way — new class of model, returns probabilities instead of text, benchmark table sorted by…
My Weird PromptsWhen Bloating Isn't Gas: Retraining the Diaphragm
You eat a normal meal and thirty minutes later you look pregnant. For years the answer was "gas" — until CT volumetry showed patients with abdominophrenic…
My Weird PromptsGut-Brain Drugs: Why Old Antidepressants Help Bloating
A listener wrote in after being prescribed low-dose amitriptyline for bloating and fullness that have followed him since his gallbladder came out seven years…
My Weird PromptsProkinetics When the Emptying Test Is Normal
Daniel had his gallbladder out seven years ago and has had digestive trouble ever since — visible distension, a sense that food isn't moving, and a gastric…
My Weird PromptsHead-of-Bed Elevation for Nighttime Reflux
Waking up with acid in your throat is miserable, and the advice you'll hear first — elevate the head of the bed — has been in every gastroenterology guideline…
My Weird PromptsWhen Bile Reflux and Bloating Collide After Gallbladder Surgery
Daniel had his gallbladder out years ago and has been carrying bile reflux, bloating, and a stack of diagnoses ever since. After a holiday dinner of red wine…
My Weird PromptsWhen the System Feels Rigged: A 180-Year Pattern
The feeling that the game is rigged isn't new, and it isn't just a vibe — it shows up in national life tables. Public-health research finds life-expectancy…
My Weird PromptsKaizen and the Cult of Productivity
Productivity tops the priority list for roughly two-thirds of Brits, Americans, and Australians — ahead of health, money, and happiness. But the standard fix…
My Weird PromptsWhat Actually Makes People Stick With Things
Most perseverance advice is inspirational noise. The actual research says grit is perseverance AND passion, that willpower isn't what keeps people going, and…
My Weird PromptsCan We Normalize Breaking Into Song in Public?
Daniel wrote in with a genuinely strange question: could a person be the vanguard for normalizing spontaneous singing in public — starting with the deli…
My Weird PromptsThe Speech Scientist Behind Teletubbies
What if the strangest preschool show ever made was actually the most rigorously researched? Teletubbies turns out to be the work of Andrew Davenport — a…
My Weird PromptsWhat Arab Israelis Actually Say About Identity
Ask what Arab Israelis think about their own identity and you'll get two completely different headlines from the same polling data. This episode digs into the…
My Weird PromptsEast Jerusalem's Residency Trap: What 300,000 People Actually Want
East Jerusalem is home to over 300,000 Palestinians who hold permanent residency in Israel — a status that is not quite citizenship and not quite a permit…
My Weird PromptsWho Built the Dome of the Rock?
The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 CE — the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture anywhere in the world, dated by its own inscription. The…
My Weird PromptsHow a Handshake Became the Temple Mount Status Quo
In June 1967, Moshe Dayan — the defense minister who hadn't wanted the Old City at all — walked into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and improvised an arrangement with the…
My Weird PromptsBoredom, the DMN, and the Shower Thought
We treat boredom as a bug and busyness as a virtue, but the research points somewhere stranger. A listener's question about a life with no empty mornings sends…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Volume Knob Can't Find the Right Spot
You press the volume button once and it's too quiet. Press it again and it's too loud. Daniel wrote in about exactly this: Android's coarse volume increments…
My Weird PromptsThe Teletubbies Were Engineered, Not Accidental
What if the strangest children's show ever broadcast was strange on purpose? This episode digs into the real origin story of Teletubbies: Anne Wood and Andrew…
My Weird PromptsGlue, Don't Bolt: Anchoring Road Studs and Soil Anchors
A relative renovating a rural Connecticut house wants reflective road studs on a long, dark driveway — and wants to know what fasteners hold them into asphalt…
My Weird PromptsWhy Voices Are Harder to Design For Than Music
Daniel listens to podcasts with headphones while minding Ezra, and the show has become the soundtrack of his apartment — which got him wondering why it's easy…
My Weird PromptsWhen 80,000 Pilgrims Fill Your Neighborhood
Every Sukkot, central Jerusalem fills with pilgrims — tens of thousands at the Western Wall, a record 8,690 Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, and locals who…
My Weird PromptsDIY Cable Guide: Barrel Jacks, XLR, and What to Avoid
Daniel sent in a question that cuts to the heart of DIY cabling: which cables actually pay off to learn, and which ones should you never touch? We work through…
My Weird PromptsWiring a UK Plug: Copper, Tools, and the 1mm Rule
Wiring a UK plug looks like a fifteen-minute job, but the gap between "it works" and "it's safe" hides in details you can't see once the cover goes on. This…
My Weird PromptsSharpen vs Hone: The Right Knife Tool
What's really happening at a knife's edge, and why the professional's tool and the right tool for you aren't always the same thing. This episode works through…
My Weird PromptsWhy Lowering Temperature Broke Daniel's Scripts
Daniel dropped his DeepSeek 4.1 scriptwriting agent to temperature 0.8, expecting tighter, more lore-faithful dialogue. Instead he got barely coherent scripts…
My Weird PromptsFlow or Hyperfocus? What Daniel's Busker Problem Reveals
Daniel has ADHD, a task list, and a fifteen-month-old named Ezra who loves street musicians. He wants to know if the "flow" he protects so fiercely is actually…
My Weird PromptsMinha Rotina É a Mesma de Todo Mundo: Mesmo Assim, Parece Que Mudei de Planeta
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Conhecimento dos Pensamentos e Função de Pensar". Ronny retoma a reflexão sobre a lei de…
My Weird PromptsWhy Armies Still Fight With Paper Maps
A Russian airborne unit near Hirske was caught using a map printed in 1990 with a coordinate system retired in 1942 — while Finland's Guard Jaeger Regiment is…
My Weird PromptsCircadian Policy: Light, Schedules, and Public Health
Most circadian advice stops at blackout curtains and putting your phone down. But the biology was never the hard part — the hard part is that no single body…
My Weird PromptsFlydubai 1073: When the Threat Is in the Cockpit
On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight 1073 plunged from 34,000 feet over the Jordan–Saudi border after a first officer attacked his captain with a knife. The…
My Weird PromptsWhy Depression Drains Your Energy
Daniel wrote in about a friend with seasonal affective disorder, and asked a question that turns out to be two questions: how do light and mood actually…
My Weird PromptsCan Your Kid Inherit the Way You Sleep?
Daniel noticed his 15-month-old son sleeping with one arm raised at the exact same angle as his own. So he asked: can mannerisms like this actually be…
My Weird PromptsFiber Through the Conduit: Bends, Dust, and Pull Socks
A twelve-meter Cat6 run terminates badly and quietly falls back to 100 megabit — the classic silent failure where the link light comes on and everything looks…
My Weird PromptsRack Dreams: Getting Display and USB Across the Room
Daniel wants to build a home networking rack in a place he actually owns — fiber landing in a wall cabinet, one big UPS, one PoE switch, and a rack-mounted…
My Weird PromptsDid the Puritans Really Hate Fun?
The Puritans are America's favorite scapegoats for strict alcohol laws, drab clothing, and a war on fun. But how much of that is real? This episode digs into…
My Weird PromptsRight of Reply: What the Rulebook Actually Says
When the IDF published a ten-page rebuttal to the Venice-winning documentary NAZA, it raised a narrow but important question: what does the "right of reply"…
My Weird PromptsSame Pills, Same Gun, New State, New Crime
The United States is a plurilegal federal union — conflict-of-laws scholar Symeon Symeonides' term for a country where American judges encounter roughly five…
My Weird PromptsThe Siesta Law Nobody Obeys
Israel has rest hours written into law — 2 to 4 PM, noise restricted, on the books since 1961 — and almost nobody observes them. Where did the siesta actually…
My Weird PromptsThe Ethics of Anonymous Testimony in Documentary
When a documentary built entirely on silhouetted, voice-altered testimony wins the Special Jury Prize at Venice, the ethical questions don't stay on the red…
My Weird PromptsWhen Bad Effects Break the Illusion
What happens when a film's budget doesn't just limit the production but actively breaks the illusion it's asking you to believe? This episode explores the…
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Minhas Fotos Nunca Ficam Como Eu Vejo: Será Que a Minha Vida Também Sai Assim?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Conhecimento dos Pensamentos e Função de Pensar". Ronny parte da pergunta "qual é a…
My Weird PromptsWhy a Headlamp Fails at Precision Electronics Work
A rebuilt server, a headlamp on a dark apartment floor, and a phone camera pointed at a circuit board. That setup raised a better question than it answered…
My Weird PromptsOrganizing the Electronics Repair Bench
A woodworking bench punishes mess; an electronics bench doesn't. That's why the high street phone repair shop is the archetype of the scattered bench — dozens…
My Weird PromptsWhy Hand Driving Beats Power Tools on Tiny Screws
Daniel sent in a brief on precision electronics repair, and it turned into a real argument. Why do interchangeable precision screwdriver sets struggle with…
My Weird PromptsIreland, Israel, and the Protectionism Question
Daniel grew up in Ireland hearing that protectionism built the country's prosperity. Now he lives in Israel, where import restrictions are defended as a way to…