Pesca Random Offense Plus

Pesca Random Offense Plus

Author: Ethan Strauss August 7, 2025 Duration: 1:02:45

House (of Strauss) keeping here. My Random Offense with Mike Pesca is up, file included in this email.

Subscriber Craig T. Schwerin thoughtfully built off my “LLMs will be Ozempic for Golf” post.

Sarah Hepola pod was just recorded, that’s incoming.

In the meantime, I’ll be chatting about green WNBA dildos on BCC, so sign up for that.

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