Author: Misha

  • S2E16: What Is Randomness Good For?

    Show Notes Listener Challenge Assign chores randomly. Or you can cop out and just watch Time Bandits.

  • S2E15: Pseu Pseu Pseudo (or, Luck Outperforms Talent)

    Show Notes On Amazon: The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow Scientific American article about the Talent vs. Luck study Misha is now Mister Stochastic and Damon is now Sergeant Shuffle. Listener Challenge Get yourself a nom de game. Use our tables or make up your own. 1 Doctor 1 Random 2 Professor 2 Chance 3…

  • S2E14: The Aleatourists

    Listener Challenge: Pick 4-6 cities within driving distance (your comfort zone) and go there for a day, an afternoon, a weekend, whatever. Tell us about your trip at youraleatoricreality@gmail.com Show Notes: TBD Transcript: OK, so we did this with an AI tool, and it got the text pretty good but did not format or separate…

  • S2E13: Trevor Ward of Software Failure

    Show Notes: Figures on the Tomb music video Software Failure can also be found on Spotify and Apple Music

  • S2E12: Probability Skin (The AI Episode)

    Listener Challenge Make your own random song or poem using dice, not AI. Show Notes AI is good at being average, terrible at being random. Probably uses too much water and will ultimately make us all dumb. But it’s never going to go away so we have to learn to live with it. Bo Burnham’s…

  • S2E11: Heath Lambert of That’s So Random

    Listener challenge: Watch Mississippi River Sharks (free on Tubi) Also use Reelgood Roulette to pick a random movie based on your own available streaming services.

  • Let Luck Lick Limitations

    Dear The Randomist, My boyfriend is going through a rough time. He quit his job a few weeks ago with no plan other than “taking some time to get himself together.” Instead of getting together, he is playing video games until 3 or 4 in the morning, eating mostly fast food, and ordering games and…

  • S2E10: Munchkin Fu with Ninja Nate

    Listener Challenge: Play a game (involving randomness) with friends in person Show Notes: Episode edited by Karlo Susa Munchkin Fu from Steve Jackson Games Stranger Tales, Ninja Nate’s ice breaking and social bonding card game

  • S2E09: My Dinner With Fortuna

    Listener Challenge Choose a restaurant at random and order from the menu at random Show Notes TBD

  • Unsolicited Family Porn

    Dear The Randomist, My brother “Barney” recently went on a scuba diving trip, and afterwards his wife sent me a video that was supposed to be of the coral reef, but she accidentally (I think?) sent a video of them doing it in a hotel room. Should I let them know in case they also…