My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the mind-bending. Each episode begins with a real voice memo from Daniel, processed through an AI pipeline that generates scripts, synthesizes voices, and assembles the final podcast. Stay curious.

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#5894
Today · 27 min
Printing Money Isn't What You Think It Is
Central banks order billions of banknotes a year — but that's replacement, not stimulus. Here's how cash actually gets made and destroyed.
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#5893
Today · 21 min
Command Centers That Drive: From Transit Vans to 32-Ton Trucks
How do you fit a headquarters into a truck? We trace mobile command centers from a 23-foot Transit van to FEMA's HEMP-hardened fleet.
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#5892
Today · 28 min
How Cities Borrow Money: US Bonds vs Denmark vs Israel
From 50,000 US issuers to Denmark's single lender to Israel's two-ministry approval — how cities actually get credit.
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#5891
Today · 27 min
Four Ways Humanity Kept Records for 1,200 Years
The Shōsōin never burned. The Vatican lost a third of its archive. The Geniza kept 400,000 fragments by accident. Four preservation strategies.
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#5890
Today · 29 min
Fifteen Miles an Hour Through a Metal Pipe
Paris ran 427 km of pneumatic tube under its streets and moved 30 million messages a year. Then the fax machine replaced it.
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#5889
Today · 30 min
How Pipeline Pigs Actually Work
A bundle of straw that squealed through the pipe gave the industry its weirdest word. Now pigs weigh tons and hunt cracks underground.
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#5888
Today · 24 min
Where Does the Rain Actually Go?
An inch of rain on one acre of pavement is 27,000 gallons. Cities have three ways to get rid of it — and all of them fail on purpose.
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#5887
Today · 25 min
Gears That Did Calculus: Mechanical Computers
From the Antikythera mechanism to battleship fire control, how gears and cams did real math — and why the approach never fully died.
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#5886
Today · 29 min
From Leviticus to the Kilogram: Honest Scales
Ancient Athens had ten inspectors and a rock. The kilogram had one cylinder in a vault. Both were asking the same question.
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#5885
Today · 31 min
The World's Oldest Software Still Running
From a 1958 Pentagon contract system to Voyager's 68KB computer, some software refuses to die. What's the oldest code still in production?
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#5884
Today · 25 min
The Machines That Take 5 Years to Replace
Large power transformers, HVDC converters, nuclear forgings — why some essential machines have no quick reorder.
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#5883
Today · 33 min
What Happens to Water Between the Plant and Your Tap
Utilities push 100 litres of treated water into the pipes. How much actually arrives? The answer is messier — and more interesting — than one number.
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#5882
Today · 22 min
Half of All Energy Becomes Heat. Now What?
Half the world's energy ends up as waste heat — but only 6% is worth recovering. Inside the cities that built the pipes anyway.
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#5881
Today · 21 min
How the Grid Loses Half Its Power — and How Delhi Fixed It
Losses range from 0.23% in Singapore to 59% in Iraq. Delhi went from 52% to 5.5% — mostly without new power plants.
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#5880
Today · 27 min
Why Suburbs May Be a Bad Deal
Suburbs promise the best place to raise kids — but the research on childhood independence, municipal finance, and carbon says otherwise.
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#5879
Yesterday · 22 min
Why Experts Don't Follow Their Own Advice
Doctors eat worse, dentists drink more soda, and physicians skip the screenings they prescribe. The data behind the "do as I say" gap.
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#5878
Yesterday · 26 min
How a Sloth Learned to Talk: Corn's Origin Story
A neural interface gave Corn the bandwidth for speech. Nobody can explain where the accent, the manner, or Mongolia came from.
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#5877
Yesterday · 21 min
A Sloth Diagnoses Human Civilization
One hundred thirty armed conflicts, a $100 barrel of oil, and a sloth on a branch in Jerusalem asking whether this is collapse or just another chap...
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#5876
Yesterday · 21 min
Sloth Leaf Medicine: What's Real and What Isn't
A serious look at sloth leaf medicine — the rotation, the Cecropia pharmacology, and the fur microbiome nobody was told about.
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#5875
Yesterday · 20 min
The Laminated Card Doctrine
We finally give the laminated card its own episode — the crash that started the checklist, the hospital numbers, and where the faith breaks.
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