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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 PromptsIreland, Israel, and the Price of a Gesture
When Ireland's national team faced Israel at a neutral venue, the gestures became the story: black armbands, heads bowed through Israel's anthem, and a captain…
My Weird PromptsNuclear Convoys: The Physics Package and the Highway
Nuclear warheads have to be maintained, and maintenance means movement. The Office of Secure Transportation runs 42 tractor-trailers and roughly 700 federal…
My Weird PromptsElectricians, Rentals, and the Skill That Waits
Daniel spent a day doing electrical work in a rental with almost no outlets, and it cracked open three threads that don't obviously belong together. The craft…
My Weird PromptsWho Actually Controls Europe's B61 Bombs?
Daniel asked a simple question: if the US puts nuclear weapons in other countries, doesn't that take enormous trust? The answer is that the arrangement is…
My Weird PromptsBefore the Break: How Rest Became a Right
The weekend feels like natural law, but it's a nineteenth-century marketing arrangement that got lucky. In this episode, we trace how rest became a right—from…
My Weird PromptsCan Any Country Actually Go It Alone?
Daniel wrote in with a question that sounds simple and isn't: could any country actually achieve total trade neutrality — zero imports, zero exports — and what…
My Weird PromptsWho Wakes the Prime Minister?
Daniel wrote in with a question: what happens when a head of state needs a nap? The answer turns out to be a whole invisible machine — the 45-pound…
My Weird PromptsWho Teaches You to Fix Your Own Home?
Most people who can fix things learned reactively, project by project — which leaves odd gaps: you can wire a plug but not sand a board. This episode digs into…
My Weird PromptsVocê Negocia com a Gravidade? Então Por Que Negocia com a Sua Evolução?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "O Conhecimento Transcendente Como Força Construtiva". Ronny parte do lançamento de uma nave…
My Weird PromptsScrambled Jets and the Hijack Code: What Really Happens
When Flydubai FZ1073 squawked a hijacking code over Saudi airspace, Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a foreign airliner that had never entered its…
My Weird PromptsDo Git Branches Actually Nest? AI Agents and Stacked PRs
Daniel asks whether the branch-per-feature rule still makes sense when an AI agent's whole session lasts five minutes, and whether branches can be nested for…
My Weird PromptsWhat Archaeology Says About the Bible
What happens when you take the Bible to the archaeological record and ask what can actually be verified? This episode works through the ledger: King Jehu on…
My Weird PromptsBurnout: When Rest Stops Working
Burnout is a word everyone uses and no one can formally diagnose — it sits in the ICD-11 as an "occupational phenomenon," explicitly excluded from being a…
My Weird PromptsWhen Going to the Gym Meant Saving Your Soul
The Greek root of "asceticism" is áskēsis — the training an athlete does before a race. So how did self-denial become a spiritual path across so many…
My Weird PromptsWhen Your Stress System Stops Answering
Daniel wrote in describing months of moving, DIY, and a thirteen-month-old with no family nearby — and a fatigue that felt deeper than tiredness. This episode…
My Weird PromptsThe Meaning of Life: A 250-Year-Old Question
The question feels timeless, but the phrase "the meaning of life" first appears in English around 1833 — and in German in the 1790s — right as the scientific…
My Weird PromptsLux Sensors for Home Assistant: The Feedback Loop Nobody Warns You About
Measuring light sounds like the easiest job in home automation, and it turns out to involve device selection, placement, calibration, and one feedback loop…
My Weird PromptsBefore the 9-to-5: Working Hours in 1700s England
What did work actually look like before the nine-to-five? Starting from a listener's question, this episode digs into pre-industrial England — the most…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your VHB Tape Keeps Falling Off the Wall
Most people treat tape as the simplest tool in the drawer: peel, stick, done. But VHB — Very High Bond — is a viscoelastic acrylic foam that has to flow into a…
My Weird PromptsBattery Platform Lock-In: Innovation vs Stability
Cordless tool platforms are usually sold on tool counts and cell specs, but the decision that actually lasts twenty years is the battery interface — the latch…
My Weird PromptsIs Construction Noise Actually Inevitable?
Every fight about construction noise starts with the jackhammer — but the jackhammer is the last link in a chain of decisions made long before ground broke…
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Você Faz Tudo Que Decide Fazer? Ou Tem Alguém Aí Dentro Votando Contra?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Rumo à Vida Interna". Ronny conta que, numa consulta com seu nutrólogo, percebeu que sabia…
My Weird PromptsWhy Cities Keep Digging Expensive Parking Holes
An architect's question about a luxury tower next to Machane Yehuda reframes the debate: not whether residents get a say, but whether this building should…
My Weird PromptsThe Incense Recipe Nobody Could Copy
The Ketoret was the most prestigious service in the Temple — burned twice daily, carried into the Holy of Holies once a year — yet no synagogue on earth does…
My Weird PromptsJosephus: The Priest Who Wrote From Rome's Side
Yosef ben Mattityahu — Josephus — was a Jerusalem aristocrat, a general in the Galilee revolt, and a man who survived a cave at Yodfat to become a client of…
My Weird PromptsKeyloggers, Stingrays, and the Library Laptop Grab
Encryption protects data at rest and in transit. A hardware keylogger attacks the moment before encryption, sitting between your keyboard and your operating…
My Weird PromptsWhat a Nuclear Warhead Actually Looks Like
Most of us picture nuclear weapons as missiles sitting preloaded in bunkers behind blast doors. The reality is stranger and more mundane: a physics package the…
My Weird PromptsKnock, Medjugorje, and the Church's Apparition Playbook
A listener in Ireland asks why Jews don't report apparitions of Moses, and the question opens onto something bigger: how does the Catholic Church actually…
My Weird PromptsWhat Multimodal Models Actually Learn From Video
Multimodal models are trained on video, audio, and text — but what does "multimodal" actually mean under the hood? This episode digs into late fusion versus…
My Weird PromptsOmni and the Marble That Rolls Uphill
Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni landing page claims the model has "an intuitive understanding of forces like gravity, kinetic energy, and fluid dynamics." But…
My Weird PromptsOne Forward Pass: Building a Bounded Classifier
A bounded classifier emits a probability distribution over a fixed label set in one forward pass — no token generation, no JSON parsing, no helpfulness. This…
My Weird PromptsWhen Your AI Cites Sources It Didn't Actually Use
Your retrieval pipeline returns a document, the model cites it, and the claim checks out. Everything in the trace looks fine. But what if the model actually…
My Weird PromptsWhy Talking to AI Feels Easier Than Using It
When a label printer died mid-move, Daniel didn't open a design app — he described the problem to ChatGPT, and the thread quietly crossed from conversation…
My Weird PromptsConstrained Decoding for AI-Generated Podcast Tags
Daniel's AI-generated show deploys to Vercel, runs on serverless Postgres, and produces exactly the kind of wide-ranging content he wants. The problem is the…
My Weird PromptsShatnez: The Commandment With No Known Reason
Shatnez — the Torah's prohibition on wearing wool and linen together — is the paradigm of a chok: a divine statute whose reason is explicitly unknowable. This…
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Eu Ainda Acordo Todo Dia Tentado a Acreditar Que a Terra É o Centro do Universo
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Rumo à Vida Interna". Ronny traça um paralelo entre a longa jornada da humanidade para…
My Weird PromptsWhy Does Israel Need Six Submarines?
Israel took delivery of the INS Drakon, a 3,000-ton German-built submarine, on September 24, 2026 — the sixth and largest boat in its fleet. Officially…
My Weird PromptsWhen Quitting TV Isn't a Decision
Eight percent of US households own no television, but most of them still watch — they just left the furniture behind. This episode starts with a listener's…
My Weird PromptsWhen Life Quietly Deletes Your Habits
Moving house with a toddler, Daniel and Hannah went four months without watching Netflix — not as a decision, but because the landlord's TV stayed on the wall…
My Weird PromptsWhat Your Window View Does to Your Brain
Daniel saw a Jerusalem high-rise marketed on its Knesset view and figured the view was a trifling concern — until he lived overlooking a parking lot. It turns…
My Weird PromptsPhiladelphia, Here I Come: Friel's Split Man on Stage
Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come premiered at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre on September 28, 1964, and it put two actors inside one man. Public Gar faces the…
My Weird PromptsThe Master of Drinks Ran the Room
Most retellings of the ancient symposium lead with the philosophy and treat the drinking as set dressing. It was the other way round. A guest chosen by lot —…
My Weird PromptsSeven Stories Down, Building Stays Up
Underneath a historic house near Mahane Yehuda market, engineers are digging seven stories down — without demolishing the building above. It's called top-down…
My Weird PromptsWho Keeps Working During Sukkot?
The Torah mandates rest on the pilgrimage festivals — and mandates that every able Israelite male appear in Jerusalem. Those two commands collide the moment…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Label Printer Quits After 10 Seconds
A Brother label printer lights up for ten seconds, then goes dark. That single symptom turns out to be a masterclass in how modern devices protect themselves —…
My Weird PromptsMagnetizing Screwdrivers: Do the Cycles Wear Out?
If you magnetize a screwdriver over and over for years, does the tool eventually wear out? Daniel wrote in with that exact question, plus a practical problem…
My Weird PromptsIEC Cables: Terminate, Split, or Extend?
Daniel wrote in with four questions about IEC 60320 cables: can you terminate them yourself, do adapters matter, are splitters safe, and how long can a run…
My Weird PromptsWhen Your ISP Bot Won't Let You Talk to a Human
What happens when a voice agent understands you perfectly and still can't help? This episode unpacks a real ISP support call where a customer with a single…
My Weird PromptsBYO Modem, But Only If We Approve It
Bezeq, Israel's main fiber provider, does allow customers to bring their own modem — but only approved models, and only after you submit the device's serial…
My Weird PromptsCustom GPTs Retire: Skills, Plugins, and MCP Explained
OpenAI is retiring custom GPTs on December 11, 2026, with a migration path to plugins built on Skills and MCP servers. This episode walks through the real…
My Weird PromptsFrom Dolium to Cup: Rome's Wine Supply Chain
How did wine actually get from the vineyard to a Roman cup? No bottles, no corks, no personal cellars — instead, a three-tier vessel system that treated wine…
My Weird PromptsFixing Typos Without Rewriting the Prompt
Daniel dictates his prompts, catches typos by hand, and keeps running into the same wall: fixing a misspelling is not the same job as understanding what he…
My Weird PromptsThe Ancient Wine Mixer Who Ran the Party
In ancient Greece and Rome, wine was almost never drunk neat — and the person who decided how much water went in held surprising power over the evening. This…
My Weird PromptsWhy Crowds Kill Without Panic
Most coverage of crowd disasters leads with "panic," but the research says otherwise: victims of crushes almost never die running from anything. This episode…
My Weird PromptsHow Image Forensics Catches Fake Ghosts and Deepfakes
A listener named Daniel asks how people actually determined whether a photograph was real or altered — in the pre-digital era and now. We trace image forensics…
My Weird PromptsAlien Abductions: 4 Million Claims, Zero Evidence
A 1991 Roper poll produced the famous figure of nearly four million American abductees — but the same survey counted ghost-seers at eleven percent, and later…
My Weird PromptsCantilever Racks: Why Long Things Need Different Steel
A cantilever arm is a lever: load it and it fights back as bending moment, not compression. That single structural fact is why cantilever racks exist, why…
My Weird PromptsWhen "You Look Great" Means "I'm Drowning
Daniel's friend Adam is the person everyone forgets is in the room — and he means it as a compliment. Adam can go weeks without seeing another human being, yet…
My Weird PromptsProtein, ADHD, and the Breakfast You Skip
Why do people with ADHD reach for fish oil capsules before they'll try putting protein in their breakfast? The mechanism is real: protein supplies tyrosine…
My Weird PromptsWhat Victorian Diggers Could Teach Jerusalem's Cranes
Jerusalem is a city of cranes and light rail construction, so it's worth asking: what did it actually take to build the first underground railways in London…