478
Episodes
78
Transcribed
395
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2016
First episode
76K
YouTube views

About Do By Friday

A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

Publisher
Merlin Mann and Alex Cox
Category
comedy · society & culture · technology
Language
en
Explicit
Yes
First episode
25 Oct 2016
Latest episode
15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

78 of 478 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Zero Shits and Half Coffee

  2. 7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    It's Mostly Gambling

  3. 1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Stress as a DLC

Inside a recent episode

Zero Shits and Half Coffee

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I investigated, I asked another friend from grade school, I'm like, you remember these? And she's like, oh, yeah. My dad hated them. And I was like, oh, why? And it just happened to be because the place that they met, where like our area's chapter of the Knights of Columbus met, was at the rival church of my grade school. So it really was like the dads hanging out and... It didn't really provide—I mean, you know, they would do fundraisers for stuff like that, but it was exactly as you said, like that there was already infrastructure in place, so there wasn't really a connection to many other churches except for this— And it wasn't a super big like it is a super big deal. […]

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YouTube views
76,242
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.5 / 5
386 ratings
Spotify
4.6 / 5
9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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Quality
69
Social presence
0
YouTube
85
Engagement
96

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