Latest episode Episode 108

Maybe Go Fix Those

Friday, 06 Nov 2026 1 hour 29 minutes Transcript

Scott's brother Keith joins him for a pumpkin ale, a tribal pale ale and an hour and a half of Claude giving Scott homework, dead keyboards, LibreOffice, old military planes, Keith's Claude brain learning to dream, American short-term thinking, and how to beat the English at darts.

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