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Jeremy, Kathleen, Lewis, Fernando, and Ivo are  joined by Ben Currier "The Failure Guy" and Bobbi Young to discuss the following topics:

• Do your dreams succumb to personal/ professional failures or do they overcome and persevere? (2:55)
• What in the world is the best board game ever? (27:20)
• What makes a good or bad interview? What is the best interview you've ever heard? (45:27)
• What is the best music festival you've ever attended? What would be the next one now that the pandemic is (sort of) over? (1:11:55)
• This week's sponsor: The real "Failure Guy"(1:22:18)

Jeremy, Kathleen, Lewis, Fernando, and Ivo are joined by Greg Esquire, Andrei, and Alena to discuss the following topics:

• What job could you not imagine yourself doing? (02:25)
• Are you worried about terrorism on public transportation? (22:52)
• Have cyber-attacks become a legitimate concern? (35:07)
• What is the first thing you would do if you suddenly become wealthy? (53:03)
• No more federal mask mandate. How do you feel about it? (1:01:10)
• Better Comfort Food: Chicken Noodle Soup Or Ice Cream?

Jeremy, Kathleen, Lewis, Fernando, and Ivo are joined by Mandy, Dylan, and Alena (Neil, of course, is on the knobs):

• Are vitamins a scam? (1:22)
• Snakes, spiders, or mice? (15:08)
• What is your favorite messiah figure? (28:11)
• Is Harry and Megan's statement on the Taliban relevant? (40:42)
• Have you ever received an insult you are proud of? (54:48)
• This week's sponsor: IKEA (1:02:54)

Jeremy, Kath, Fernando, Ivo, and Lew are joined by Jane, Bobby, Mandy, Dylan, plus the wild teenagers Sofia, and Andrei

• Weird quirks (2:20)
• Will the infrastructure bill pass the senate? (15:24)
• Chicken fingers or chicken tenders? (30:49)
• Is violence innate or learned behavior? (41:20)
• Which Wizard of Oz character was loosely based on you? (58:04)
• This week's sponsor: An angry, anonymous guy from the year 1917 (1:05:31)

Jeremy, Kathleen, Lewis, Fernando, and Ivo are joined by Andrei, Atticus Crow, Jamie, and Alena (briefly). Neil Rassmussen on the knobs.

• What in the world is "Wordle"?(02:00)
• Would you rather be good-looking or smart? (12:05)
• What kind of support should the US give to Ukraine (19:07)
• What is the best way to apologize? (33:22)
• Kanye, Kim, and Pete Davidson drama (43:55)
• How to make a proper cup of tea  (53:53)
• Ivo couldn't get in touch with Susan but we still have a sponsor courtesy of Alena (read by Jamie): This week's sponsor is The Concept of Meaning (1:07:17)

• Are there more wheels or doors in the world?(1:13)
• If Brittany Griner broke the laws in Russia what are the Russian authorities supposed to do after all? (16:49)
• The new information reality in Russia (22:49:50)
• Why are some people always late? (32:58:37)
• How should the West respond to a nuclear attack? (45:00)
• This week's sponsor - The Idiom Family (1:04:28)

What will happen to Ukraine (0:50)

US education deficiencies (22:12)

Do we really need daylight saving time? (39:57)

Would a sports ban on Russia accomplish anything? (47:00)

Jeremy's antisocial experiment: no internet and no cellphone for a week (1:15:00)

This week's sponsor: Yelp reviews (1:03:28)

Ivo, Jeremy, Kath, Fernando, and Lew are joined by Josh and Coach Tyler.

• Can 007 be a woman?
• What conversation from history would you eavesdrop on?
• Bestest album ever?
• Have you tried a plant-based meat substitute?
• This week's sponsor: Vladimir Putin 

The 2020 Presidential debates begin tonight and both candidates are going to lie to your face without getting caught. How? Using a mental loophole that politicians, advertisers and dictators have used for generations. In this episode, Andrew prepares you to see through debate deceptions and distractions so you can see the truth that millions of other voters will miss. 

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - C.S. Lewis. On the first Irrelevant Digression of 2020, Matt stresses the importance and relevance of reading books, especially the "old books." Stick around for a trip down memory lane as SINGLETHINK host, Matthew Yde, brings in the new year with a personal touch and a fresh encouragement back to the written page. Check out our reading list for our recommended selections one needs to become a single-thinker!

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Directors Cut: This is another set of marketing topic excerpts from Bill & Ammon's Bogus Hangout where Terry (a regular) has edited the podcast removing the topics that aren't SEO or internet marketing in nature. Topics included:

• Looking Back on the Early Days of Search
• Google Confirms November Local Update
• Improving Content Focus
• Interstitials Can Block Indexing
• How Irrelevant Links can negatively Affect Content Focus

The full video:

Highlights from Audio Version

Introductions: Zara Altair, Bill Slawski blogs on SEO By the SEA and is Director of SEO Research at Go Fish Digital and Terry Van Horne is the webmaster and content director at SEO Dojo Radio and founder of SEO Pros.

00:10 Looking Back on the Early Days of Search: Bill and Terry discuss Terry's early days in search and the SEO techniques of the day.

09:50 Google Confirms November Local Update: The panel discuss the announcement and what the addition of Neural Matching in the Local results.

21:30 How to Improve Content Focus: The panel discus how to improve content focus using headings and other techniques which can improve content focus.

25:20 Interstitials Can Block Indexing: The panel discussed not just the possible blocking of indexing but also the negative that many users don't like them.

29:02 How Irrelevant Links can negatively Affect Content Focus: In the discussion of SERP eye tracking the panel discussed the benefits of SERP out analysis.

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"He [Satan] was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him." - St. John the Theologian. Matt discusses the lurking doublethink in Penny Lane's 2019 documentary "Hail Satan?" and investigates the dark contradictions within the Satanic community at large. (One hell of a show...)

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