Weekly Ramblecast 241: Tims and Als (Patreon)

This might be one of our widest ranging rambles yet, covering everything from 19th-century undersea telegraph cables to drone warfare in Ukraine, old Hollywood history, chaos in the NFL, the corrosive effect of betting on everything constantly, what to do with a thousand-dollar board game, and... just how powerful was the One Ring, anyway?

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(00:00:00) Start of show(00:00:54) The paid YouTube experiment(00:09:29) Jon Bois, not just for sports anymore!(00:18:10) Undersea cables are cool in any era(00:19:46) A chilling look at drone warfare in Ukraine(00:28:36) Hijinks in the NFL(00:35:56) Conflicts of interest kind of don't exist anymore(00:41:45) Polymarket is going to destroy society(00:47:02) Green Day is playing the before-time show(00:48:47) The Bloodborne board game dilemma(00:53:59) What's the business of board games actually like?(00:59:15) Gotta be careful giving valuable things away these days(01:03:12) Pokemon fans DNI(01:03:50) Content and bye!