193: What was previously my discretionary time

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

cortex has a new job and was hard to track down and we had a few months of missing each other. We found some time on August 14th and tried to play catch-up. Runs about 97 minutes.
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not_on_display did the mixing on this one and I think it hopefully sounds better than last time?
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