In this episode Gabe talks about using Descript AI Video Editing, about his love of Detective Media, and about how Dragon's Dogma II forced him to pay attention, so we should all try and focus on one thing at a time.

00:00 Welcome and Topics
01:12 Editing Workflow Experiment
02:55 Using AI for Video Edits
04:27 Ethics and Tradeoffs
06:38 Detective Picks and Favorites
09:45 Noir Nights and Memories
15:16 Modern Crime and Smartest Guy
19:23 Escaping the News
21:05 Gaming and Attention Drift
23:24 Dragons Dogma Focus Mode
26:28 Single Tasking Takeaway
29:08 Wrap Up and Next Steps

Stuff in this issue:
The 'Burbs (2026 - Cr. Celeste Hughey)
The 'Burbs (1989 - Dir. Joe Dante)
Poirot (Books, Movies, Television - 1920-present - By Agatha Christie)
The West Wing (1999-2006 - Cr. Arron Sorkin)
Knives Out (2019-2025 - Dir. Rain Johnson)
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996 - Dir. Renny Harlin)
The Long Goodbye (1973 - Dir. Robert Altman)
The Long Goodbye (1953 - By Raymond Chandler)
The Thin Man (1934 - Dir. W. S. Van Dyke)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022-present - Cr. David E. Kelley)
Hap & Leonard (2016-2018 - Dev. Jim Mickle and Nick Damici)
Hap and Leonard (1990-2025 by Joe R. Lansdale)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002 - Dir. Don Coscarelli)
Sherlock Holmes (Books, Movies and Television - 1887-present - Cr. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Columbo (1968-2003 - Cr. Richard Levinson and William Link)
Dragon Warrior (1986 - Enix/Nintendo)
World of Warcraft (2004 - Blizzard Entertainment)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018 - Ubisoft)
Control (2019 - Remedy Entertainment)
Dragon's Dogma II (2024 - Capcom)

There is only one topic on this show. It is the title. Nothing to say here other than WWE is lame and made me edit this way too many times because of a glimpse of Ric Flair. Wooooo.

00:00 - Intro
03:00 - Terms
07:30 - Structure
17:23 - Match Psychology
25:43 - Gimmicks
34:28 - The Dusty Finish

Things in this Video:
The Bulwark @bulwarkmedia
World Wrestling Entertainment - WWE (Not tagging you jerks)
National Wrestling Alliance - NWA( @nwa - but look up the old stuff)
All Elite Wrestling - AEW ( @AEW )
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre - CMLL ( @VideosOficialesCMLL )
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide - AAA ( @luchalibreaaatv )
New Japan Pro-Wrestling - NJPW ( @NJPWGLOBAL )
Pro-Wrestling Noah ( @noah_ghcENG )
Total Non-Stop Action - TNA ( @tnawrestling )
Ring of Honor - ROH ( @ringofhonor )
Also, this audio version has a clip of a song by Action Bronson - (https://baklavafleamarket.com/)
And a little clip of Dusty too.

Then All The Pro-Wrestlers (All of the footage was gleaned from the greatest place for research on the internet: Internet Archive - go give them love https://archive.org/):

Greiner
Eugene Sandow
Joseph "Toots" Mondt
Dick Shikat
Ric Flair
Harley Race
The Shiek
Chief Jay Strongbow
Vince McMahon
Primo Carnera
Jim Londos
Fritz Von Erich
Pedro Morales
Ramon Torres
Dusty Rhodes

In this episode, Gabe talks about this being a video zine (again), then talks about the illusion of teams in politics, how fun Spider-Man 2 (the video game) is, and interviews Mel LLanas about herself (but mostly roller derby).

00:00 - Intro
00:08 - Zine Ramble
04:58 - The Illusion of Teams
33:44 - Spider-Man 2 (The Video Game)
45:10 - Mel LLanas

Things I talked about this episode

The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner
Spider-Man 2 (Insomniac - 2022)
The Traitors (NBC - 2023-Present)
Ron Funches (https://ronfunches.com/2025/)
Roller Games (https://www.youtube.com/@RollerStars)
@Midnight (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%40midnight+with+chris+hardwick)