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What do almonds, minimizing suffering, pesticides, pollen patties, and nut allergies all have in common? Find out on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Where Have All the Honey Bees Gone? Project Apis 2025 Colony Loss Information Project Apis 2025 Survey 'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession Chapters: (0:00) Intro/Follow Up (0:52) Where are all the Honey B...

Amuldeep’s favorite Punjabi songs with English artists, the start of Candidates Tournament 2026, and more this week at the Time Sink! Admirin’ You Hass Hass Mundian To Bach Ke Beware of the Boys Symmetry Sapphire Sapphire [Remix] Ranjha Palpita Tell Me Candidates Tournament 2026 Fabiano Caruana Javokhir Sindarov Chapters: (0:00) Intro (0:26) Punjabi English Music (18:24) Candidates 2026 (41:01) Ou...

Afcon is at it again, automating micro managers, the controversial new addition to the criterion collection, studio Ghibli, the OG internet outrage, and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Show Notes: Afcon Zoroastrianism Goodhart’s Law The Criterion Collection KPop Demon Hunters Watership Down Isle of Dogs Wall-E Fantastic Mr. Fox Flow Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio The Fabulous Baron Mun...

The finale of the Best of the Best theme arrives with a bang as the movie for this month is The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather is one of the most influential and highest acclaimed films ever winning 3 out of 10 nominations including of course Best Picture at the 45th Academy Awards held in 1973. “Look how they talk about my movie…” Show Notes: Marlon Brando’s Best Oscar Win Marlo...

Tragic deaths at the Grand Canyon, Amuldeep’s insane childhood, dark mysterious, and more this week at the Time Sink! Grand Canyon Deaths Sacred Datura (0:00) Intro (0:11) Grand Canyon Deaths

What makes a Country? Is France really just Paris? Why is Russia considered European? Our answers and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Show Notes: World Density Map America Suez Canal Suez Canal Blockage Jakarta Dhaka Brazil São Paulo Brasília (0:00) Intro/Follow Up (00:19) World Density Map (30:24) Outro

Razer AVA, gooner games, making love with your AI girlfriend, and more this week at the Time Sink! Razer AVA (0:00) Intro (0:24) Razer AVA

Our second entry into the “Best of the Best” theme is the first Best Animated Picture: Shrek! This was awarded in the 74th Academy Awards held in 2002. What are you doing in my swamp?!... And not already listening to the pod! Shrek (0:00) Intro/Follow Up (8:47) General Consensus  (13:39) Recommendations  (14:40) Spoilers! (56:22) Ratings

Friday the 13th, The Super Bowl Game, Half-time show, and ads, Discord’s asinine decision, and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Show Notes: Super Bowl LX slides Super Bowl LX Kendrick Lamar Bad Bunny Rihanna Dunkin’ De-aged Ad Xfinity Jurassic Park Ad Amazon AI Death Ad Discord assumes everyone is a teen Discord Response on X (0:00) Intro/Follow Up (0:51) Super Bowl LX (38:11) Discord A...

Brainrot Wikipedia, crashing the plant market, seedless fruits, defining flowers, and more this week at the Time Sink! Xikipedia Xikipedia Bluesky Xikipedia Algorithm Xikipedia GitHub I accidentally crashed the rare plant market Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen Panama Disease - Killing Bananas  Flower Cosmic Crisp Monsanto Where Have All the Honey Bees Gone? (0:00) Intro (0:35) X...

How alive is the dead internet theory, how much AI is too much AI and not enough Human, where to draw the line with Social Media and the Internet, all this and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Daniel Naroditsky Dead Internet Theory Hideo Kojima Social Media Ban (Austrailia) YouTube (0:00) Intro (0:17) Decedent vs Decadent (1:49) The Dead Internet Theory (41:25) Social Media bans (1:05:2...

Starting off the awards season by looking back at previous Academy Award winners for Best Picture and Best Animated Picture for the theme “Best of the Best”! The first entry into this theme is a brutal look back into American history with 12 Years a Slave. The Best Picture winner of the 86th Academy Awards. Join us in our discussion of this brutal, depressing, and legendary film. 13th Amendment Ar...

Suspicious words in media, Daniel Naroditsky’s official medical examiner report, parasocial relationships, African geography, Senegal beating Morocco in AFCON, and more this week at the Time Sink! Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Tom and Jerry Scene Tom and Jerry (2021 American film) Official Report for Daniel Naroditsky Daniel Naroditsky Vladimir Kramnik FDA and Kratom 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Re...

An apology to KSI (sort-of), Worlds 2025, Powerpoint Presentations (trust me), all this and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Diamond Pick Hamza's Presentation League of Legends TFT Faker KT T1/SKT HLE (0:00) Intro/Follow Up (0:12) Diamond Pick (10:17) Worlds 2025 Powerpoint (38:40) Outro

Another year, another: new year, new us, and more this week at the Time Sink! Hajj Umrah Why It's Hard to Estimate and Easy to Mislead About Water Use by AI - Hank Green (0:00) Intro (0:43) How 2025 Went  (20:23) Goals for 2026, Baby (1:01:28) Outro

The fate of iRobot, what does it mean to be “neutral”, Wikipedia’s main purpose, all this and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! iRobot Bankruptcy   CAIR and 42 Organizations Call on Wikipedia to Oppose Censorship on Gaza Genocide Jewish Agency Article Wikipedia discussion on Reddit Talk:Gaza genocide/Archive 22 Dan David Prize Kurzgesagt Video (0:00) Intro (0:19) iRobot Follow Up (8:53)...

Where? To the Movie Plug’s review of The Polar Express of course! The finale of the Holiday season Movie Plugs is ending with an animated children’s movie that you might’ve watched. We’ll see you next year in 2026! Just a Polar Express Trailer (0:00) Intro (17:10) Spoilers / Memorable Scenes (45:49) Scores / Final Thoughts

Rise of AI causing prices to go up, Amuldeep’s journey from Spotify to YouTube Music, The Game Awards, and more this week at the Time Sink! Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business Graph 1 Graph 2 Graph 3 Ram Prices STEAM Frame YouTube Music Spotify Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 The Game Awards Megabonk Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer (0:00) Intro (0:18) Ram Prices on the Rise...

Saying goodbye to the Panels app, saying hello to the new r/art mods, checking out the 2025 Chess World Cup and the Head of FIDE, all this and more on this week’s visit to the Time Sink! Panels shutting down r/Art Chess 2026 Candidates Tournament Women’s World Cup 2025 Chess World Cup 2025 CBI Tweet on Magnus Emil response (0:00) Intro (0:17) Panels Update (15:20) r/Art Final Update (22:53) Chess...

Reddit moderator shenanigans, sad status of the failed Sony game: Concord, CS2 skins update ruining billions in investments, and more this week at the Time Sink! r/Art Screenshots r/Art Drama r/Art Artist gets banned Clash of Clans Concord Concord Fan Project Secret Level CS2 skin update ‘rug pulls’ collectors (0:00) Intro (0:20) r/Art Drama  (21:39) Concord (47:28) CS2 Skin Update

Following the Holiday theme, Wes Anderson’s homely, feisty classic, Fantastic Mr. Fox is in the Time Sink: Movie Plug for this month! This year we are thankful that at least one movie exists for the Thanksgiving theme. Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox BTS   Arlan’s Letterboxd Review

It’s the official Season 1 Premiere of Time Sink! We got Minecraft, we got corporate conspiracies, we got reminders that there are some seriously rich people out there, all this and more on this special visit to the Time Sink! Far Lands or Bust! iRobot Justin Baldoni Blake Lively Burqa Ban Wikipedia Omar Suleiman

The Movie Plug rises from the dead (we were never gone in the first place) as we talk about the icon Frankenstein (and his monster) on this special Halloween episode! This is the first in our Holiday’s Theme! Cinemassacre’s Frankenstein Review   VeggieTales Frankenstein   Arlan's Letterboxd Review

YouTube not showing subscriptions, Google Translate failing, ChatGPT, once again, proving it’s the king of LLMs, and more this week at the Time Sink! Google Translate ChatGPT Google Gemini GitHub Copilot

A box office bomb turned cult classic, the Time Sink is plugged with Treasure Planet. Listen as we rattle the stars. Shownotes: Arlan’s Letterboxd Review