February 17, 2026

*UNLOCKED* Ingest Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

We've unlocked this bonus episode! We've had a perfect storm of illness among the entire cast and it became impossible to record this week, but we'll be back later in the week with a new bonus, and will have a new free episode next week.

Riley, Nova, and Hussein chug some down some heavy metals, talk about rare earths, ChatGPT’s OTHER other detour into porn (before curing cancer), and the slow death of neoliberalism. Then, Wired does some crucial journalism: talking to Cybertruck owners who all need to find polite ways of saying they have a “getting yelled at” fetish.

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John · February 19, 2026

He drove 5 miles in 3 days.... Me overtaking him making direct eye contact the whole time rollypollying

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Antoni Kaniowski · February 19, 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/60b3dd1c-112a-470c-aa77-1bc697d13cf7?accessToken=zwAAAZx1KZ7fkc9gs90cESpHDNOqdxvGl9E89w.MEUCIQC9QrW3V71tZ4BXNmyGHKw7aE-aZg9gEEYWh-aPF0Y4nAIgSZUm1BY13fDDGWsJ5oTX0JYhoLJ9zSDyjJPH8k2Eeyk&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=c38cc40a-19a9-472f-83c4-3b2de7d31406#comments-anchor A court will decide if bankers can be fired for demanding sleep

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Wawawawa · February 18, 2026

I already watched this when it came out but I completely forgot about the inglorious bastards bit so it oneshot me AGAIN. Also I saw a white cybertruck when I was in the US. It doesn't look like a pedo van, it just looks like you're driving a fridge. It's a really baffling design to see in person.

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Donovan Burns · February 18, 2026

Vegas is the capital of 'exotic car is business expense' dipshits so I see about seven to twelve a day on my work drive, almost all in wraps because that steel is not stainless, and they never get any less ugly.

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Nick · February 18, 2026

as a subscriber i reacted to this unlock like homer seeing Chocolate - Half Price! in the Land of Chocolate

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Man2quilla · February 18, 2026

Collision Course is the greatest album of all time

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Man2quilla · February 18, 2026

Stay sick and keep unlocking greatest hits... uh I mean get well soon

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Charlie Chignell · February 18, 2026

Get well soon homies

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Petrorenminbi · February 18, 2026

Guys today my boss’s boss talked about using Claude Code to take processes that take 3 weeks and make them take 3 days and he was dead serious and all our Gen Z employees smirked. Also yes he pronounced “processes” that way. Is he cooked or are we cooked?

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Horse Badorties · February 22, 2026

Pro-ceases?

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Borangehat · February 18, 2026

Creating a new politics where people with Tevas discriminate against people with Birkenstocks.

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H · February 18, 2026

The woke mind virus doing badness

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scara b · February 17, 2026

greg stube alert, greg stube alert, he's done something baffling and dumb https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5742250-half-daylight-saving-time-could-become-permanent-under-new-bill/?tbref=hp

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Shiv · February 17, 2026

Australian: best accent in which to hear a description of Trump sonning Starmer

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B I · February 17, 2026

Riley really has one of the most based rants in this episode on how the collapse of neoliberalism is intertwined with the collapse of politics. Unfortunately, much like that scene in bobs burgers where tina learns how to drive, we seem to firmly be in the “let the completely avoidable situation that we can all see coming happen anyway” phase of humanity, so a comedy podcast seems as good a place as any for such a top tier take.

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Michael lefsky · February 17, 2026

Did TF ever cover Peter Thiel's antichrist obsession?

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Batti1358 · February 17, 2026

yeah I think so, "Building an Agentic Temple feat. Dr. Eleanor Janega", 11/11/25

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Emiliano Rosas · February 17, 2026

Long live the Zitron Cultists

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Shiv · February 17, 2026

😊

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Jack Fennell · February 17, 2026

My dad had to deal with FDA agents semi-regularly, and they always announced that they were armed when introducing themselves. They were there to audit a company that made respirators in an industrial estate in Ennis; the circumstances under which they imagined they'd have to use their guns have never been determined.

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Kapjak · February 20, 2026

They were just hoping someone would ask to see it so they could show it off

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Matt Hope · February 17, 2026

Anecdotally everyone in Europe is suffering various plagues right now.

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Lain of the Wired · February 17, 2026

So trump 2's response to needing to make the battery is just trying to kill everyone they have convinced themselves are preventing them from making the battery who coincidentally are the only people who have traditionally been willing to actually help make the battery

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Jon W · February 17, 2026

Directly after the Melania episode. Curious.

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Donovan Burns · February 17, 2026

Ooof, Corner Späti is also out sick. Seems that there's a specter haunting Europe

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Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep · February 17, 2026

Chapo is running late too. The only conclusion is Havana Syndrome Gun

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Juji Gatame · February 17, 2026

To gain access to Chat GPT "after dark" you'll need the "Not Donkey Brained" certificate from IASIP

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Sparky · February 17, 2026

which puddle did you drink from?

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John Grischuk · February 17, 2026

Vax?