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ACCIDENTALLY INTERESTING · Saturday · 3 hr 30 min

EP.016: Wasted Longpork

Episode 16 goes out live on Halloween with a caboose barbershop and a farewell to No Agenda, which signed off after 19 years. A PS5 jailbreak opens the first big question: who owns the games you paid for? It covers Sony's firmware leash, the end of game discs in 2028, GTA 6's code in a box, and the Stop Killing Games fight in Brussels and Sacramento. A Ukrainian drone simulator and a Purdue drone that chases runners through the woods lead into the long history of the military-entertainment complex, from ARPANET's Maze War and Marine Doom to America's Army, Army recruiting on Twitch, and spies in World of Warcraft. A former New Hampshire lawmaker and her partner get the Wood Chipper Award. Mark Wahlberg's Mossad joke resurfaces, and a cruise-for-life ship strands its residents in Cambodia. Then the week's fear porn gets stacked up: bases planning for 90 days off the grid, stockpile warnings, a Russian Bulava launch, air defense on a barge at Mar-a-Lago, Army mass-grave drills and Global Thunder. It ends with Warhound, a CIA-backed startup that plans to clone and gene-edit war dogs, and the Army's 1960s Super Dog program that came first.

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Episode 16 goes out live on Halloween with a caboose barbershop and a farewell to No Agenda, which signed off after 19 years. A PS5 jailbreak opens the first big question: who owns the games you paid for? It covers Sony's firmware leash, the end of game discs in 2028, GTA 6's code in a box, and the Stop Killing Games fight in Brussels and Sacramento. A Ukrainian drone simulator and a Purdue drone that chases runners through the woods lead into the long history of the military-entertainment complex, from ARPANET's Maze War and Marine Doom to America's Army, Army recruiting on Twitch, and spies in World of Warcraft. A former New Hampshire lawmaker and her partner get the Wood Chipper Award. Mark Wahlberg's Mossad joke resurfaces, and a cruise-for-life ship strands its residents in Cambodia. Then the week's fear porn gets stacked up: bases planning for 90 days off the grid, stockpile warnings, a Russian Bulava launch, air defense on a barge at Mar-a-Lago, Army mass-grave drills and Global Thunder. It ends with Warhound, a CIA-backed startup that plans to clone and gene-edit war dogs, and the Army's 1960s Super Dog program that came first.

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