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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 13d

I hope you’ve all had a chance to listen to these new ‘picnic potluck’ style episodes. they have a grab bag quality but themes emerge in a cool way. now, has the theme always been regret? anyway free on the patreon and worth listening to. not 9 hour episodes! 1 hour! www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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Anime Sickos Podcast @animesickos.bsky.social · 10d

Our new live comedy show GENIUS NIGHT: A NIGHT FOR GENIUSES was a total triumph. Watch it for yourself and see.

Genius Night: A Night for Geniuses - September 2025

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 11d

It’s at the heart of it. We been sayin’

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Ep. 29 - The Swarm

This week it’s fourteen conversations about one thing. We do a little research on the symptoms of fascism and begin to feel like an expendable character in the first act of a horror film. Plus: TED ta

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 13d

I hope you’ve all had a chance to listen to these new ‘picnic potluck’ style episodes. they have a grab bag quality but themes emerge in a cool way. now, has the theme always been regret? anyway free on the patreon and worth listening to. not 9 hour episodes! 1 hour! www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 13d

i love that we were emphasizing the link between fascism and tech culture psychosis way back when. This is a classic in Adam’s humble opinion.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 20d

in this ep. one of us exclaims “81!” like it’s the most faint-in-church shocking thing ever and one of us explains why he got a tattoo of the phrase “lust demon santa” & how he hopes to use time travel to erase the tattoo and our convo about it. www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 23d

I’d date you

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We know just what Bethany means.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 24d

what comes to mind when you hear the phrase “body count’?

that’s where we start things.

adam keeps talking about how this one is a “certified banger.”

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 25d

why so looking back?

we're in our heads about the past — wondering about whizzing back into the kingdom of regrets, shattering the laws of thermodynamics in the process.

oh and — the thing that happened that you totally forgot about? don't worry about it. if it were important, you'd remember it.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 28d

is the use of a typewriter these days a fetishistic fedora-worshipping-esque abomination or a way to connect to something that might actually matter? only nick can lead us in such an inquiry. www.patreon.com/posts/137654...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 28d

dear lord

As a result of preorders, Mr. Kirk's "Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life" was the second best-selling title on Amazon on Friday. The book will be out in December.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Sep 1

time to:
- dwell in the silences
- interrogate your nostalgia
- charge your phone (?)

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yo come over! We got some of the master's tools and we're gonna wreck his shitty house hahaa

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Aug 29

here's another talk we want to share with you.

it's a few chats that all kind of converged around some form of nostalgia.

that, and trying to suss out what impediments in our lives are bc of our phones, and what might be just good old-fashioned self-defeat.

oh and tamagotchis — remember those?

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Aug 29

a white thirtysomething man lies upon a hardwood floor surrounded by vintage typewriters, and he has his hand behinds his head (which is sheathed in a wool cap) and he has a shit-eating grin, and he stares above him where the heavens would be — but in this particular photo it's you, the viewer, that he's staring at, and something about his whole vibe seems to say: "i'm that guy. that typewriter guy. the one whose very existence as a type in the world exists as a kind of typewriter-repelling mythos amongst the reasonable."

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Aug 18

that moment when you’re in your car at a red light and there’s a person standing on the median hoping you will help them out with some cash…

how do you feel? how do you handle it? and what should you do exactly?

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phantomwifi @phantomwifi.bsky.social · Aug 13

This was really good, and I recommend it. It made me feel better somehow, even if it made me feel like a semi parasocial freak. I saw a really dim light at the end of a really narrow tunnel

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Aug 11

In a word, we're back. Join us for a round table on the right way to whistleblow, the ethics of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and the famous James Earl Jones quantum leap in Godfather Part 1. Up now, and free for all on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/136097...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Aug 11

In a word, we're back. Join us for a round table on the right way to whistleblow, the ethics of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and the famous James Earl Jones quantum leap in Godfather Part 1. Up now, and free for all on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/136097...

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Democrats start turning a big crank and out of a loudspeaker comes the first notes of "Fight Song"

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Jun 18

DON DRAPER: "We quiero many things. Work, dignity, solidarity, safety, love. But this guy--"
(Taps drawing of Diego Luna as Cassian Andor as Che)
"There's only one thing he quieros."

PEGGY: "Ownership of the means of production?"

DRAPER: "Ownership of the means of production."

Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · Jun 18

Found the one weird trick to save the country. We need more communists in advertising.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Jan 31

7 years ago, we snuck an AI conversation in the middle of this episode (which is otherwise about level-headed atheist redditors who think they've glimpsed the paranormal).

though hype then was vanishingly small compared to today's radioactive levels, we think it still holds up.

41:44–1:10:38 here

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Colin @yesitscolin.bsky.social · Jan 3

Jon Hamm from Mad Men standing in front of a sign during an advertising pitch meeting. The sign says "Blow yourself up in a car"

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