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July 2026
The DailyThe Onion’s Latest Joke: Taking Over InfowarsA genuinely strange and consequential media story: The Onion buying InfoWars out of bankruptcy to parody it, return proceeds to Sandy Hook families, and 'retrain people's brains' on what the brand means. Ben Collins and Tim Heidecker are unusually clear-eyed about what they're doing and why.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
The VergecastWe finally have a Trump Phone | The Vergecast LivestreamA hands-on autopsy of a phone that shouldn't exist, revealing what modern smartphone hardware actually costs to build right — and why branding alone can't fake it. The Trump phone becomes a perfect accidental case study.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
Life KitElevate group conversations with a ‘magical question’Priya Parker reframes small talk as a learnable craft, offering a precise framework for questions that reveal character without demanding agreement. The concrete examples and the host's own vulnerability make the theory immediately usable.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
The Economics of Everyday Things53. Food TrucksA clean, reported breakdown of why food trucks are harder than they look — permits, margins, weather, and the grinding math of 177 burritos netting $300. Useful whenever the 'low overhead' myth comes up.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
The Next Big Idea DailyIn Defense of SunlightTwo science writers reframe the invisible forces running your body — sunlight and hormones — not as threats to manage but as fundamental inputs you're systematically starving yourself of. Practical and paradigm-shifting in equal measure.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50The DailyWhy Americans Will Get Less Help Paying for CollegeA clean, historically grounded explainer on how boundless federal lending quietly inflated the cost of higher education — and why the fix may hurt the very people it claims to protect. Essential context for anyone navigating the system or watching it break.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
The 404 Media PodcastThe Tokenpocalypse Is HereA granular, sourced breakdown of how the AI-spend boom is already reversing — with leaked audio, internal memos, and the delightful absurdity of IBM Bobcoins. The caveman plugin angle alone earns a bookmark.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
10% Happier with Dan HarrisThat Background Hum of Worry in Every Important Conversation — Here’s What It Is and How to Quiet It | Claude M. SteeleSteele names the unnamed background static in every high-stakes cross-difference interaction — and then actually explains how to turn it down. The seeing/welcoming/supporting framework is immediately actionable.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50Life KitHow to clean when it’s the last thing you want to doCasey Davis reframes cleaning as an act of self-kindness rather than moral obligation, dismantling the shame spiral with practical neurodivergent-friendly tools. The Five Things Method is genuinely usable on a bad brain day.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
Yoga Biz Champ with Michael JayNEW DATA: What Boutique Fitness Can Teach Yoga Studios About RetentionRare episode that translates hard behavioral data into concrete studio ops — the five-visit threshold alone reframes how to design an intro offer. The four-segment customer breakdown gives language and numbers to a retention problem most studios only feel.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
Membership Geeks Podcast with Mike Morrison475 – This is Why People Aren’t Joining Your Membership…Morrison cuts through the noise with a deceptively simple diagnosis: most membership sales problems aren't sales problems at all. The framework is clean, the logic is tight, and the actionable fix is genuinely underused.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50Get MichaelFilter
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