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Peace Through Conversation: Michelle Khare's Week Learning FBI Crisis Negotiation
In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare spends a week with the FBI field office in San Diego and the San Diego Police Department to learn the tools crisis negotiators use to de-escalate
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Beating Final Fantasy X Without the Sphere Grid, Aeons, or Mix
Final Fantasy X has several powerful systems: the Sphere Grid for developing characters, the aeons that Yuna summons, and Rikku's Overdrive "Mix." This video is a playthrough that reaches the ending w
10:52CalorieMate LIQUID Bursts Out of the Fridge to Deliver Nutrition to a Game Creator Absorbed in Work
This video is a playthrough of CalorieMate LIQUID FOR GAME CREATORS, available on Steam, played all the way to the ending with commentary voiced by A.I.VOICE's Kizuna Akari. The player controls a Calo
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Men vs. Women in the Wilderness: How Strategic Self-Elimination Won a $500,000 Survival Challenge
MrBeast dropped five men and five women into the wilderness on opposite sides of a dividing line. Whichever team kept a member out there longest would win $500,000. The challenge ran for about 70 days
16:04Shapez 2 Let's Play: Delivering Shapes Until Retiring as Factory Manager
This is a let's play video of Shapez 2, a game about building factories and delivering shapes, played from the very first delivery all the way to the completion of a fully automated "Make-Anything Mac
18:33Inside the FAA Academy: Michelle Khare Tries to Keep Planes from Colliding
Air traffic control is often described as one of the most stressful jobs there is. In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare travels to the Federal Aviation Administration Academy in Oklah
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Rapid Robotics' Jordan Kretchmer on Scaling Robot Deployment Through Software and Vision
Jordan Kretchmer came to robotics without an engineering background, after more than a decade in marketing technology. In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, recorded at Rapid Robotics' workshop
14:24Playing Slash Quest, a Game Where You Only Rotate and Move Forward, All the Way to the End
In this video, the commentator plays Slash Quest, an action game in which you "can only rotate and move forward," through to the ending in a VOICEROID let's play format. The controls are extremely sim
19:30Ten Minutes to Decide: Michelle Khare in a Nuclear War Simulation
Michelle Khare walks onto a film set built to look like the White House Situation Room. She plays the President of the United States, and she has been told that nuclear missiles are on their way. She
17:56Seven Days Stranded in a Cave: How MrBeast's Crew Reached the Glowworm Chamber
Jimmy (MrBeast) and his friends Karl, Mack, and Shawn rappel hundreds of feet into a cave system and commit to living underground for seven days. Jimmy describes the cave as running "over five kilomet
46:34Jim Carr on Rebranding a Machine Shop, Leading Through 2008, and Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
Jim Carr has spent decades at CARR Machine & Tool, the shop their father founded in 1972. On this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, recorded at the company's new facility in Elk Grove Village, Illi
47:29FF3 with 0x EXP Boost: Clearing the Game with One Lv8 Character and Three Lv1 Characters
This is a let's-play video that clears the Pixel Remaster version of Final Fantasy III while gaining almost no experience. The speaker introduces the game as the origin of battle systems carried over
32:15Two Strangers, a Nuclear Bunker, and a $500,000 Countdown: 100 Days of MrBeast's Offers
MrBeast (Jimmy) built a bunker 40 feet underground and put two people who had never met, Hugo and Rayne, inside it for 100 days. If both stayed the whole time, they would split half a million dollars.
35:25Clearing FF2 with Growth and Gil Earnings Set to 0x: A Let's Play
This is a record of a full playthrough of the Pixel Remaster version of Final Fantasy II, using the newly added boost feature set to "0x gil earned, 0x for all growth elements." The commentator prefac
18:19Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus Boss Fight Playthrough to the Ending: Defeating Yokai with Aerial Combat and Daruma
This is a playthrough video of Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus, a 2D action game inspired by Japanese folklore, played through to the ending. The streamer enjoys the hand-drawn world while walking through
1:03:32Why Josh Liebman Thinks Every Business, Including Manufacturing, Needs a "Hospitality Mentality"
Manufacturing Happy Hour host Chris Luecke recorded this episode in person for the first time, over chicken wings and beer at Tunes, a bar in Chicago's Southport Corridor near Wrigley Field. The guest
13:53An Elden Ring Playthrough Video That Keeps Defeating Bosses in One Hit: From the Main Game to the DLC's Final Boss
This video is a challenge run in which bosses in Elden Ring are defeated in a single hit, with commentary voiced by Kizuna Akari. At the start, the narrator says they will introduce the game, which ha
41:26Fifty YouTubers, One Cube, and a $1 Million Prize Won by Bluffing
MrBeast's premise is simple. Fifty of the biggest YouTubers, together representing about a billion subscribers, stand inside a cube bordered by a red line. Anyone who steps on the line is eliminated.
23:46Taking On 12 Major Bosses in Shadow of the Erdtree at Level 1 with No Armor
This is a playthrough video of Shadow of the Erdtree, the DLC for Elden Ring, completed at level 1. Calling himself "out of his mind," the player imposes a set of restrictions: no armor, no summons, n
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How Public-Private Partnerships Can Fund Long-Term Climate Solutions
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Elle Miller asks how the world can pay for climate programs that are expensive, risky, and slow to deliver returns. Miller's answer is publ