Best Connor Randall Podcasts (2024)

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Have You Encountered "The Bruised Man"? Terrifying True Ghost Story Special 1:38:37

1d ago1:38:37

1:38:37

Can you hear the whispers of the people in the walls? As an invisible force infiltrates their home, Greg and Dana go into hiding, sharing some of their most terrifying true ghost stories to pass the time. See us on tour: https://www.newkirktour.com/ Join the museum: https://www.patreon.com/paramuseum Get HOP merch: https://planetweird.store/ Visit …

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Pyramid Power: We Tested Ancient Alien Technology 2:28:44

8d ago2:28:44

2:28:44

Do the ancient pyramids hold psychic technology from outer space? In this episode, we discover the truth for ourselves by putting Pyramid Power to the test! Plus: Greg embraces public humiliation, Dana consults her impractical archangels, and Connor does his best Aleister Crowley impression. Polish up your copper headgear, because it's time channel…

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Pancakes from Outer Space: The Weirdest UFO Encounter 2:01:11

22d ago2:01:11

2:01:11

In a stunning 1961 UAP encounter, Wisconsin plumber Joe Simonton was handed hard evidence of extraterrestrial contact: four greasy "pancakes" from outer space. Then, the evidence disappeared. In this episode, Greg and Dana track down Project Blue Book's missing faelien flapjacks, accidentally uncovering a bizarre conspiracy poised to rewrite UFO hi…

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Tarot for the Dead: Divining the Secrets of the Devil's Deck 2:41:08

1M ago2:41:08

2:41:08

We're back! In the season two premiere of the Haunted Objects Podcast, a possessed tarot deck terrifies television viewers, but the devil’s in the details. Plus, we give YOU a reading with the haunted deck, Dana reveals her secret tarot techniques, Greg embraces chaos, Connor learns about computers, and Keelin swears she knows what a shopping mall …

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Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon 27:17

3M ago27:17

27:17

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

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Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das 36:56

4M ago36:56

36:56

Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

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Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw 31:58

4M ago31:58

31:58

After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

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Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz 31:22

5M ago31:22

31:22

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

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To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes 39:41

5M ago39:41

39:41

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

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Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker 35:01

6M ago35:01

35:01

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

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Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis 37:15

6M ago37:15

37:15

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

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Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas 33:55

7M ago33:55

33:55

FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

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The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson 34:14

7M ago34:14

34:14

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

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Rust Never Sleeps: Tonic with Lucio Franco 36:24

7M ago36:24

36:24

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

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The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole 43:02

8M ago43:02

43:02

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

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Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin 33:11

10M ago33:11

33:11

Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into…

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Postgres for Everything: Tembo with Ry Walker 32:03

12M ago32:03

32:03

Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the m…

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Automation for Technical People: n8n with Jan Oberhauser 40:04

1y ago40:04

40:04

Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thr…

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The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa 32:20

1y ago32:20

32:20

Glauber Costa (@glcst) is the founder of Turso and the co-creator of libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of the database engine library, SQLite. Most people believe that SQLite is open-source software, but it actually exists in the public domain and doesn’t accept external contributions. With their big fork, Glauber and his team have set…

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We Recovered UFO Crash Debris from Area 51 2:06:25

1y ago2:06:25

2:06:25

Ready for a bombshell? We've obtained genuine UFO wreckage from Area 51. Yes, for real. In the season finale, we're sharing the incredible true story behind the UAP whistleblower who discovered these top secret metamaterials, digging deep into never-before-seen surveillance from the heart of Groom Lake, and asking for your help in solving a metalli…

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Rethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben Fiszel 26:49

1y ago26:49

26:49

Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in …

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Vector Search for Humans: Marqo with Jesse Clark 34:17

1y ago34:17

34:17

Jesse Clark (@jn2clark) is a co-founder of Marqo, the end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine. Vector search has exploded along with the rise of generative AI models, so Marqo’s arrival has had excellent timing. The project has quickly grown to almost 3000 GitHub stars, despite being less than a year old. Jesse and his team weren’t exactly expe…

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The Other Atlantis: Exploring Mount Shasta's Lost Civilization 1:29:36

1y ago1:29:36

1:29:36

When Greg and Dana are called in to weird-up a popular cable tv show, they receive an artifact with strange powers: the ability to locate a lost civilization. In this episode, we strap on our mystical amulets and head to California in search of the Crystal City of Telos! Plus, Connor returns from Magic Camp, Dana teaches us discernment, and Greg ai…

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From Orchestration to Building Applications: Conductor with Jeu George 33:48

1y ago33:48

33:48

Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and was originally developed at Netflix. Jeu also co-founded Orkes, a company which offers a cloud product based on Conductor. Tune in to find out how Conductor has evolved into an open-source, battle-tes…

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We’ve Been Cursed! Deadly Hexes, Witchcraft, and Mormon Bigfoot 1:14:47

1y ago1:14:47

1:14:47

Have you ever felt hexed? You just might be! In this episode, Greg and Dana discuss a particularly nasty cursed object meant to cause the slow and painful demise of its intended target. Fortunately, Dana has some witchcraft up her sleeve. If you've ever wondered how to destroy a curse, we've got you covered. Plus, Greg embraces the power of the pro…

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Opening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia 29:35

1y ago29:35

29:35

Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTo…

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Teenage Ghost Hunters Cheat Death in a Haunted Cemetery 1:25:34

1y ago1:25:34

1:25:34

Gather 'round the campfire, because it's ghost story time! In this episode, Greg shares a haunting tale from his teenage ghost hunting team while we explore one of parapsychology's most puzzling mysteries: the apport phenomenon. Plus, Dana's treasure pleasure is triggered by Uri Geller's golden alien egg, Karl shares a bizarre untold story from Hel…

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How to Join the Illuminati: Infiltrating a Secret Society 1:26:18

1+ y ago1:26:18

1:26:18

Can you keep a secret? In today's episode, we sneak into Bohemian Grove and discover the shocking truth about the Illuminati, reveal skeletons in closets (and under floorboards), and undergo an initiation with Ke$ha. Plus, Dana's snooping backfires, Connor's magical past catches up to him, and Greg inducts you into the world's most powerful secret …

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Becoming a Psychic Spy: Remote Viewing, the CIA, & Uri Geller 2:27:39

1+ y ago2:27:39

2:27:39

Warning: this podcast may unlock your psychic powers! In this episode, we dig into recently declassified CIA documents that suggest psychic phenomena are real... and that famed mentalist Uri Geller was a spy. Plus, Connor defies the brotherhood of magicians by revealing well-guarded secrets, ghostly activity manifests in the studio, and Greg & Dana…

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Aura Goggles: Psychic Powers and the Dicyanin Conspiracy 1:50:57

1+ y ago1:50:57

1:50:57

Do you know what color your aura is? In this episode we discover the unseen horrors of the spirit realm by strapping on a pair of century-old "aura goggles" and gazing at Greg's crusty energy field. Plus, we break down the science behind auras and reveal how to see them yourself, Connor investigates a mysterious chemical compound called dicyanin th…

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Open-Source Runtime Security: Falco with Loris Degioanni 33:36

1+ y ago33:36

33:36

Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastructures. Loris is the founder and CTO of Sysdig, and co-creator of Wireshark, the legendary open-source packet analysis tool. Today, Loris talks about all these projects and more - tune in to learn abou…

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Tears of Fire: Curse of the Crying Boy Paintings 2:22:14

1+ y ago2:22:14

2:22:14

During the 1980’s, a series of mysterious fires ripped across England, each with one eerie detail in common: every charred home contained the same painting, all untouched by the flames. In this episode, we investigate the curse of the infamous "Crying Boy" paintings now housed in the Newkirk Museum of the Paranormal. Plus, we phone Kindred Spirits'…

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Decoupling Authorization: Cerbos with Emre Baran 29:02

1+ y ago29:02

29:02

Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows developers to decouple authorization logic from core code into its own centrally distributed component. Easier said than done, perhaps - but Cerbos is secure, intentionally simple to implement, and develo…

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Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark: Hunt for the Mokele-Mbembe [Part 2] 1:01:25

1+ y ago1:01:25

1:01:25

Did Noah save the dinosaurs from extinction? We conclude our two-part series on the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe with a visit to a creationist museum, Keelin shares banana diet tips from Congo Bill, and Dana gets traumatized by a terrible 1980’s movie about humpin' in front of dinosaurs. Saddle up your brontosaurus and prepare to take the Bible lite…

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Cosmonic and WebAssembly with Liam Randall and Bailey Hayes 37:17

1+ y ago37:17

37:17

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Liam Randall (@Hectaman) and Bailey Hayes (@baihay) of Cosmonic, the platform-as-a-service environment for building cloud-native applications using WebAssembly. Bailey is also on the steering committee for the Bytecode Alliance, which stewards WebAssembly. In 2021, Cosmonic donated their WebAssemb…

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Dinosaurs Live! Hunt for the Mokele-Mbembe [Part 1] 1:08:39

1+ y ago1:08:39

1:08:39

Do dinosaurs still walk the earth? Some scientists believe it. In this special two-part episode, we trek deep into the heart of the Congo's impenetrable jungle in search of the Mokele-mbembe. Along the way, the gang relates to soft nerd people, Connor embraces his inner-dinosaur, and Keelin continues her quest to become the world's greatest cryptoz…

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Haystack and Intelligent Search with Milos Rusic 30:32

1+ y ago30:32

30:32

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Milos Rusic (@rusic_milos) to discuss Haystack, the open-source NLP framework for leveraging Transformer models and building intelligent search systems. Milos and his colleagues at deepset were early contributors to Hugging Face’s Transformer models, and began building pipelines for searching large document …

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UFOs in the USA: Presidential UAP Disclosure 1:30:43

1+ y ago1:30:43

1:30:43

If extraterrestrials asked you to run for president, would you? Gabriel Green answered the call, and became the world's first presidential candidate to campaign on a platform of UFO disclosure... in 1960. In this episode, we shed light on Gabe Green's long forgotten political career, Connor explains how aliens control the CIA, Dana wonders why alie…

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Cube and the Semantic Layer with Artyom Keydunov 23:39

1+ y ago23:39

23:39

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) talks with Artyom Keydunov (@keydunov) about Cube, the semantic layer for building data applications. Cube helps engineers bridge data warehouses and data experiences, and provides access control, security, caching, and more helpful features. The project began in open-source and has evolved quite a lot over the last few …

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Unmasking "The Cracking Man", a Possessed Clown Doll 1:45:02

1+ y ago1:45:02

1:45:02

Are you afraid of clowns? Maybe you should be. When a “do not open” sign is ignored, a woman finds herself haunted by "The Cracking Man", a frightening clown doll with a noisy presence. In this episode, Greg dates a Christian clown, Dana stumbles into paranormal ASMR, the gang cracks a cursed doll case, and Connor digs up a terrifying true story of…

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Remembering Jeff Meyerson with Erika Hokanson 18:42

1+ y ago18:42

18:42

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Erika Hokanson (@erikawh0) remember the life of Jeff Meyerson, creator of the influential podcast Software Engineering Daily. He passed during the summer of 2022. Still, his work lives on - thousands of episodes, talks, music, a book, and a community of dedicated listeners and engineers whose lives were touched by Je…

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We Took Jeff Goldblum Bigfoot Hunting (Yes, Really) 1:12:34

1+ y ago1:12:34

1:12:34

We encountered a mythical creature in the forest... and took him Bigfoot hunting. In this episode, we recount the time we took actual movie star Jeff Goldblum on a quest to track Sasquatch in the California Redwoods. Put on a silly hat and join us as the gang practices their Bigfoot calls, Connor takes a huge whiff of Sasquatch Pheromones (and lose…

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Testcontainers and Confidence with Sergei Egorov and Eli Aleyner 40:33

1+ y ago40:33

40:33

We’re kicking off the new year with a conversation between Eric Anderson (@ericmander), Sergei Egorov (@bsideup) and Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner). Sergei and Eli founded AtomicJar to maintain Testcontainers, the family of open-source libraries that allow developers to write and run integration tests locally, and treat them as unit tests. Testcontainers …

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Analyzing a Ghost's Handwriting 1:52:46

1+ y ago1:52:46

1:52:46

The dead speak! Well, they write, actually. In this episode, we analyze the ectoplasmic product of a 200-year-old séance: the paranormal penmanship of a ghost. During our exploration of the afterlife, Dana discovers feminist pirate poltergeists, Connor comes out of magical retirement, Greg summons dead goldfish with his toes, and the gang has an ex…

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Defending the Mothman: High Strangeness Holiday Special 1:43:54

1+ y ago1:43:54

1:43:54

Ever been so scared you dropped a baby? In this holiday special, we crush on the best high strangeness movie ever made: The Mothman Prophecies. Along the way, Connor offends Indrid Cold, Greg demonstrates how to drive ultraterrestrials crazy, Dana has trouble talking to ghosts, and we learn why West Virginia's official monster is a queer icon. Slat…

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Opening The Dybbuk Box at 3AM (Gone Wrong!) 1:42:21

1+ y ago1:42:21

1:42:21

Said to contain a powerful and terrifying entity, the Dybbuk Box has been striking fear into Travel Channel viewers, Haunted Museum visitors, and Post Malone fans for years, earning a reputation as the "Most Haunted Object in the World". Unbeknownst to most, the dastardly demon box holds a dirty secret. In this episode, Greg and Dana reveal how the…

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Examining Evidence from History's Most Famous Alien Abduction 1:11:57

1+ y ago1:11:57

1:11:57

In September of 1961, on a desolate mountain pass in New Hampshire, strange lights in the sky heralded the introduction of a new, more terrifying type of extraterrestrial encounter; one where stolen memories, painful medical experiments, and regression hypnosis replace friendly visitors from Venus. In this episode, we examine one of the rarest arti…

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The Dark Mirror's Reflections of Death 1:12:56

2y ago1:12:56

1:12:56

Greg and Dana share the frightening history of The Dark Mirror, a pitch black scrying mirror that terrifies all who dare to gaze into it... but why? In this episode we share our deepest fears, revisit the time we used a gigantic haunted mirror to crack a ghostly case in Gettysburg, and discover that scientists are planning to pull Bloody Mary out o…

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Mito and Smarter Spreadsheets with Nate Rush and Aaron Diamond-Reivich 30:21

2y ago30:21

30:21

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Nate Rush (@naterush1997) and Aaron Diamond-Reivich (@_aaronDR) to talk about Mito, the open-source spreadsheet that generates Python code for data analysts. Mito is a Python library and acts as an extension to a Jupyter Notebook. Tune in to find out how the Mito team is bridging the gap in data science betw…

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The Amityville Plank's Lingering Horror 1:35:25

2y ago1:35:25

1:35:25

Does the Amityville Horror live on? Greg and Dana discuss a haunted plank of wood in the Newkirk Museum of the Paranormal: an actual piece of 112 Ocean Avenue. In this episode we stan Jodie the Demonic Pig, argue about spooky ghost children, and reveal surprising, brand-new information from an eye-witness source who claims that the world's most inf…

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