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Do By Friday

Do By Friday

Alexandra Cox

A weekly challenge show hosted by Merlin Mann and Alex Cox.

  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Bent Necklady

    We talked about the film.

    Links TK

    29 October 2026, 5:34 am
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    Ghosts of Bad Expectations

    Links

    • How Did Amelia Earhart Die? And Was She Eaten By Crabs?
    • Crew searching for Amelia Earhart plane lands at remote island infested with carnivorous crabs
    • Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 (Live at Tanglewood 1970)
    • Some Very Good Live Performances viia Merlin
    • Chicago (discography)
    • The Box
    • Illinois (album)
    • "Everybody's Mad!"
    • Sam Reich Launches Dropout America | Breaking News
    • The Musical Theater Episode! | Um, Actually
    • Nathan For You - The Price-Match Plan
    • Nathan For You - Gas Station Rebate - Daniel's Advice
    • Nathan For You - 'Smokers Allowed' Premiere
    • You Can See Everything | Official Teaser
    • Alex needed to know the size of Coconut Crabs
    22 October 2026, 2:29 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Zero Shits and Half Coffee

    Links

    • An Interview with a Very Important Motivational Speaker
    • Kimberly Guilfoyle tried to blame her money-requesting texts on AI to save her job: report | The Independent
    • Donald Trump Deciding Whether To Fire Kimberly Guilfoyle
    • Grouch | SNL
    • George Leaves A Bad Message | The Phone Message | Seinfeld
    • Misophonia
    • You Can See Everything | Official Trailer
    • The Social Reckoning – Official Tailor
    • MUSK | Official Trailer
    • How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic | KPBS Public Media
    • Alex Gibney
    • Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine - Official Trailer
    • Sexually transmitted diarrhea is morphing into a superbug
    • Dropout | Vimeo Customer Spotlight
    • Maria Bamford's One-Hour Homemade Christmas Special
    • Freemasonry
    • Shriners
    • Knights of Columbus
    • Columbiettes
    • Unforgettable Uri Geller Appearance | Carson Tonight Show
    • The B-52’s - Rock Lobster on Saturday Night Live January 26 1980
    • Bridge and tunnel
    • Junk journal
    • Readwise Reader | The first read-it-later app built for power readers.
    • Logging symptoms associated with a medication | Apple Developer Documentation
    • Saving links to Tot - All this
    • Simple wrapper for Apple Reminders API (WIP)
    • Obsidian plugin to import Apple Journal exports as Markdown notes
    • Local Apple Reminders for Codex and Claude: shared MCP tools and skills, with a self-contained Claude Desktop installer for macOS.
    • A Confederacy of Dunces Graphic Novel
    15 October 2026, 1:37 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    It's Mostly Gambling

    Links

    • 10 Minutes till Bedtime
    • Good Night, GorillaPeggy Rathmann
    • Pi-hole
    • Relay Membership
    • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    • Matthew 18:21–22
    • Where's Wally?
    • I Want My Hat Back
    • Jon Klassen
    • Dropout
    • Game Changer Animated: Brennan's "Yes or No?" Monologue
    • Make Some Noise
    • Dropout | Vimeo Customer Spotlight
    • Brennan Lee Mulligan
    • Vic Michaelis
    • Sam Reich
    • Robert Reich
    • Game Changer
    • Very Important People
    • CollegeHumor
    • Funny or Die
    • The Landlord
    • Between Two Ferns
    • Zac Oyama
    • Ally Beardsley
    • Breaking News
    • Taskmaster
    • Dimension 20
    • The Adventure Zone
    • Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures: Owlbear
    • Michael Winslow
    • Numismatics
    • Catch a Fire
    • Exodus
    • I Shot the Sheriff
    • Peter Tosh
    • The Social Reckoning
    • Chris Evans Is Having Second Thoughts | GQ
    • Chris Evans
    • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    • Knives Out
    • Rian Johnson
    • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    • Kathleen Kennedy
    • 16-inch softball
    • Social deduction game
    • Stuart Brown: Play is more than just fun
    • Mille Bornes
    • White elephant gift exchange
    • Christmas Party (The Office)
    • Junk journal
    • What is junk journaling? A free, lightly feral hobby that is perfect for 2026 | Vox
    • Wreck This Journal
    • Robert Shields
    • Bay Wheels
    • Robert Moses
    • The Power Broker
    7 October 2026, 11:58 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Stress as a DLC

    Links

    • The Magic School Bus
    • Valerie Frizzle
    • Wario
    • Thomas the Tank Engine
    • Sir Topham Hatt
    • The Railway Series
    • Wilbert Awdry
    • Island of Sodor
    • Narrow-gauge railway
    • UGK feat. Outkast — Int’l Players Anthem
    • Apollo 13
    • 180-degree rule
    • Kelvin wave
    • Sylvanian Families
    • Lawn darts
    • Curious George
    • Curious George — George Takes a Job (official clip)
    • Arthur
    • Green Lantern
    • MacWhisper
    • Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
    • Entrance of the Gladiators
    • Kenneth Parcell
    • King of the Hill
    • Nasal strip
    • Intake Breathing
    • Neti pot
    • Naegleria fowleri
    • Frank Gorshin
    • Louisiana Purchase
    • Lindsay Ellis — I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil
    • The Flop House
    • Royal Caribbean
    • Triangle of Sadness
    • Tim & Eric — Cinco Food Tube
    • Nosedive
    • Black Mirror — Nosedive (full episode; unofficial upload)
    • Melitta
    • Homes & Land
    • Mean Girls
    • Sumac
    • Availability heuristic
    • Dropout · Free videos on Dropout’s YouTube channel
    • Merlin's Shared Dropout Clips - YouTube
    • Emotional labor
    • Nickel and Dimed
    • THINK (IBM)
    • Getting Things Done
    • David Allen — The Natural Planning Model
    • Maria Bamford
    • Safe
    • Water Lilies
    • Alan Watts — The Wisdom of Insecurity
    • Gene Kranz
    • Fight Club
    • Project management triangle
    • For All Mankind
    • ZZ Top — Legs
    • Vic Michaelis
    • Very Important People · YouTube: Princess Emily — free full episode
    • Very Important People — Augbert (Dropout) · YouTube: 18 official Augbert clips
    • Game Changer · YouTube: The Sound Impression Challenge — free full episode
    • Make Some Noise · YouTube: A Celebrity’s Unflattering Wax Figure Reveal — free full episode
    • Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom · YouTube: Amy Vorpahl Simply Loses Her Mind — free full episode
    • Stefon
    • Game Changer — Count the Rice (Dropout) · YouTube: first 14 minutes — free preview
    • Game Changer — Lie Detector (Dropout) · YouTube: free full episode
    • Zac Oyama as Tommy Shriggly — Very Important People (Dropout) · YouTube: free full episode
    • Very Important People — Princess Emily (Dropout) · YouTube: free full episode
    • Brennan Lee Mulligan
    • My Mom’s Having a Baby — ABC Afterschool Special and title themez
    1 October 2026, 3:45 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Super Measles

    Links

    • I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil - Lindsay Ellis
    • Why is Cats? - Lindsay Ellis
    • A Visual History of Every Interplanetary Mission
    • Half as Interesting
    • Project Farm
    • Offhand Disney
    • The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
    • Kuleshov effect
    • Hitchcock on Editing and the Kuleshov Effect - YouTube
    • You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24
    • Kuleshov Effect / Effetto Kuleshov
    • The Dropout
    • Pareidolia
    • Coax — Channel-surf your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby server
    • Jellyfin
    • Plex
    • Early Access & Beta Releases | Plex Support
    • Infuse - Video Player for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac & Vision
    • Law And Order And Mr. Jerry Orbach - John Mulaney
    • Audapolis | Prototype Fund
    • GitHub - bugbakery/audapolis: an editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription
    • AI Transcription | Accurate Audio & Video to Text | Descript
    • Victor Garber on ‘Godspell’ and Playing Jesus
    • You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution Official Trailer
    • DARVO
    • Biblical Magi
    • Au hasard Balthazar
    • Charles and D.I.A.N.A. | SNL UK
    • Weekend Update: Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and Diana's Swan Song | SNL UK
    • Series 7 | Taskmaster Wiki | Fandom
    • Taskmaster Season 22 - Full Episodes
    • Shooting Stars Matt Lucas Supercut
    • The Young Ones (TV series)
    • Bob Mortimer & Richard toilet story | Travel Man
    • Man Down (TV series)
    • House of Fools (TV series)
    • Rik Mayall in Man Down
    • Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule (Documentary, 2014)
    23 September 2026, 10:01 pm
  • 1 hour 38 minutes
    Vacation Bottom

    Links

    • Connections — The New York Times
    • Strands: Uncover Words. — The New York Times
    • Download the Crossplay app — The New York Times
    • Interview Task: RICHARD AYOADE | Taskmaster | Season 22 - YouTube
    • The Celebrity Traitors series 2 - Wikipedia
    • Series 22 | Taskmaster Wiki | Fandom
    • The Ultimate Miriam Margolyes Experience | The Graham Norton Show - YouTube
    • Strax – Doctor Who Figure 1:10 - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld
    • Strax & The Memory Worm | The Snowmen | Doctor Who - YouTube
    • Vastra | Tardis | Fandom
    • Bella Ramsey - Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster | Acast
    • Reconcilable Differences #294: Grumpy 37 - Relay
    • It's All Too Much a book by Peter Walsh - Bookshop.org US
    • About the Film | Jazz | A Film by Ken Burns | PBS
    • Begin the Beguine - YouTube
    • Eastbound & Down - Wikipedia
    • Watch Free Live TV, Movies and TV Shows Online | Tubi
    • The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
    • Watch Movies and TV Shows Free Online - Plex
    • Emby — Your Personal Media Server
    • ‎Search results for melrin mann • Letterboxd
    • Share your machines with other users · Tailscale Docs
    • Relax with Coax
    • iStat Menus
    • “He’s 28 years old.” — A Dossier
    • UPS Systems | UPS | CyberPower
    • Uninterruptible power supply - Wikipedia
    • APC Smart-UPS - Wikipedia
    3 September 2026, 12:17 am
  • 1 hour 46 minutes
    Lifestyle Baby Reporter

    Links

    • South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs | South Africa | The Guardian
    • Alex (parrot) - Wikipedia
    • Kuleshov effect - Wikipedia
    • Sherlock Holmes and Watson Conversation in a cab 
    • A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle | Project Gutenberg
    • Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series) - Wikipedia
    • Wishbone (TV series) - Wikipedia
    • Wishbone | The Slobbery Hound 
    • Scoop (2024 film) - Wikipedia
    • SCOOPS a book by Sam McAlister - Bookshop.org US
    • Email reveals how editor ‘killed’ Jimmy Savile story – Channel 4 News
    • The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess | Ep1 
    • The Queen (2006 film) - Wikipedia
    • Spotify executive: Harry and Meghan are ‘grifters’ | CNN
    • The Mayfair Set - Wikipedia
    • Adam Curtis: The Mayfair Set (1999) 
    • The Time Tax a book by Annie Lowrey - Bookshop.org US
    • Nathan for You - Wikipedia
    • Pillows and Blankets - Wikipedia
    • Pillows & Blankets | Community 
    • Accidental Tech Podcast
    • Nope | Universal Pictures At Home
    • Predators (2025 film) - Wikipedia
    • That time To Catch A Predator kinda killed a guy. 
    • To Catch a Predator - Wikipedia
    • 'To Catch a Predator Suicide' - Bill Conradt Suicide on NBC to Catch a Predator
    • Watch The Perfect Neighbor | Netflix Official Site
    • Watch Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere | Netflix Official Site
    • J.J. Bittenbinder, Street Smarts: The safety expert who terrified audiences with his crime-avoidance tips.
    • John Mulaney - Street Smarts 
    • Paedogeddon - Wikipedia
    • Brass Eye Special - Paedogeddon 
    26 August 2026, 10:00 pm
  • 59 minutes 11 seconds
    Seasonal Chicago Honesty

    Links

    • On the final season of HBO's VEEP with the cast and creative team
    • Veep l Jonah Married his Step Sister
    • Veep - Wikipedia
    • “Sure, Jan.” 😂 | A Very Brady Sequel (1996) | The Legendary Fake Boyfriend
    • "The Brady Bunch" The Not-So-Ugly Duckling (TV Episode 1970)
    • Lloyd Hennick | VEEP Wiki | Fandom
    • Mark Gatiss’s Dream Meal 🍽️ | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Podcast
    • Sherlock and John's First Meeting | A Study In Pink | Sherlock | BBC
    • The League of Gentlemen - Wikipedia
    • Quote Origin: Everybody Has Plans Until They Get Hit for the First Time – Quote Investigator®
    • Getting Things Done - Wikipedia
    • Inbox Zero
    • Russia - Yeltsin On Campaign Trail
    • Adam Curtis - Wikipedia
    • Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis
    • The Trap | Adam Curtis Full Documentary | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom | Part 1
    • SHIFTY (2025) ADAM CURTIS complete
    • TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 1-7
    • The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)
    • Guest Host Rosie O’Donnell Makes Her Talk Show Return
    • OMC - How Bizarre (Official Music Video)
    • Chris Fleming: The one thing young people should reject if they want a rewarding life and career
    • A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library
    • All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan
    19 August 2026, 8:32 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Cockney Surgeon

    Links

    • "Hello Joe!" - The Simpsons
    • Turkish Van
    • Petfinder
    • Wheres Captain Kirk - Spizz Energi (Official Video 1979)
    • Athletico Spizz 80 - Clocks Are Big + Where's Captain Kirk + Soldier
    • VA Urgh! A Music War (1980) - Full Movie
    • "Shitting Clits" - Jonah Ryan
    • 5ives
    • Dunkirk
    • Tenet
    • Memento
    • Elizabeth Debicki
    • Celebrity Heights
    • Aimee Mann
    • Squeeze
    • Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours
    • The Night Manager
    • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    • Tom Hiddleston
    • Tom Hollander
    • Civil War - Guns N' Roses
    • Canary trap
    • Trakt
    • Merlin's Trakt lists
    • Really Good Penultimate Season Episodes
    • Great First Scenes
    • The Troubles & Northern Ireland
    • The Garveys at Their Best -The Leftovers
    • Chernobyl
    • SNL Sends Up Netflix's 'The Hunting Wives'
    • Letterkenny
    • Blue Lights
    • The Red Wedding - Game of Thrones
    • The Rains of Castamere - Game of Thrones
    • Blackwater - Game of Thrones
    • Battle of the Bastards - Game of Thrones
    • Interlude -The Righteous Gemstones
    • Aberfan disaster
    • The Troubles
    • Jacqueline du Pre & Daniel Barenboim - Elgar Cello Concerto
    • Schubert Piano Quintet D667 The Trout Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas
    • Blue Valentine
    • Blue Ruin
    • Blue Is the Warmest Colour
    • Green Room
    • Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
    • Bit Rot | American Scientist
    • Von Neumann probe
    • Solid-state drive
    • Synology
    • Relax with Coax
    • Steve Kornacki
    • It's A Wonderful Life (End Scene)
    • Steve Kornacki analyzes midterm primary election results | Kornacki Cam |
    • Kornacki tackles water spill during live election coverage
    5 August 2026, 10:11 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Multiple Magician Situation

    Links

    • Scoop
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    • Criterion Collection
    • Janus Films
    • Descript MCP overview
    • Gaines Burgers
    • Barbara Gaines
    • Mr. Coffee
    • 1981 Gaines Burgers Dog Food TV Commercial
    • Offal
    • Trotters (pig's feet)
    • Alpo
    • Roderick on the Line
    • Skeuomorphism
    • Armando Iannucci
    • Armando Ianucci Taskmaster Season 21 Interview
    • The Day Today
    • Alan Partridge
    • Steve Coogan
    • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(film)
    • Time-Turner
    • Alfonso Cuarón
    • When the wrong director changed Harry Potter forever
    • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(film)
    • Agatha Christie
    • Murder on the Orient Express
    • And Then There Were None
    • The Godfather Part II
    • Lionel Bart's Oliver!
    • Oliver & Company
    • Damn Yankees
    • When Harry Met Sally...
    • Canary trap
    • Diet Coke
    • Jim Carrey
    • Bruce Vilanch
    • Alex Cox
    • Repo Man
    • Tyrell Corporation (Blade Runner)
    • Kurt Vonnegut
    • Liz Winstead
    • Scott Forstall
    • Fun Home (musical)
    • "Ring of Keys"
    • Alison Bechdel
    • Fun Home (graphic novel)
    • Conan & Sona's Meeting With Human Resources
    • Apollo Robbins
    • Apollo Robbins TED Talk
    29 July 2026, 10:56 pm
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