Forrest Gump

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Breaking Bad

When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Frank Sinatra

Lake Tahoe

Notable for its clarity and surrounding mountain landscapes.

Stubb's Bar-B-Q

Nightlife · Austin

Catan

The classic resource-trading island colonizer. Sheep, wood, brick, ore — and one robber to ruin everything.

How to Get Rich

A biography book by Donald Trump, first published in 1987.

Poker Face

Dance-pop phenomenon.

More computing power than Apollo 11 fits in a USB-C charger

A modern 30W USB-C power brick contains a microcontroller that vastly outperforms the Apollo Guidance Computer, which got humans to the Moon on ~64 KB of memory.

What's a dog's favorite kind of pizza?

Pup-eroni.

Disaster Girl (Zoë Roth)

A four-year-old smirking at the camera while a house burns behind her, now an NFT auctioneer in her own right.

Super Mario 64

The blueprint for 3D platforming. Castle hub, 120 Power Stars, and the analogue stick that made an entire genre feel new.

Serial

Long-form investigative journalism that helped define modern podcasting. Season 1 reinvestigates the 1999 murder conviction of Adnan Syed.

Echo Dot (5th Gen)

Compact smart speaker with Alexa

Use a lint roller for cat shedding

A standard sticky lint roller, run gently along your cat's back, removes loose hair before it ends up on your couch. Most cats love it.

The Waterboy

Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.

Friends

Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.

Michael Jackson

Lake Travis

Popular recreation spot near Austin, known for boating and water sports.

Round Rock Donuts

Dining · Austin

Monopoly

The classic. Buy property, charge rent, ruin Thanksgiving.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

A curious girl tumbles through a rabbit hole into a surreal world of queens, tea parties, and impossible logic.

We Found Love

Talk That Talk EDM anthem.

There is a town in Norway where the sun does not set for 76 days

Longyearbyen, on the Svalbard archipelago, experiences continuous daylight from late April to late August — and continuous darkness for about four months in winter.

Why are elephants so wrinkly?

Have you ever tried to iron one?

Milk Was a Bad Choice

Ron Burgundy regretting his lunch order in 90-degree heat, used for any obvious self-own.

Super Mario Bros.

The 1985 platformer that saved console gaming. Mario must traverse the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser.

Huberman Lab

A Stanford neurobiologist offers protocols and explanations for sleep, focus, stress, exercise, and other levers of human health.

Oura Ring Gen 3

Health and sleep tracking smart ring

Use a slow-feeder bowl for fast eaters

A bowl with built-in obstacles slows your dog's eating from "vacuum" to "chew." Cuts bloat risk and the food actually digests properly.

Step Brothers

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

Two and a Half Men

A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

The Beatles

Venice Beach

Famous for its bohemian spirit and good surf breaks.

Black's Barbecue

Dining · Austin

Cards Against Humanity

The crass cousin of Apples to Apples. Read the room first.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Seven principle-centered habits chart a path from dependence to interdependence in life and work.

Telephone

Mini-movie music video.

Octopuses have three hearts

Two pump blood through the gills, the third pumps it through the rest of the body — and when an octopus swims, the main heart stops beating, which is why they prefer crawling.

What did the duck say to the bartender?

Put it on my bill.

Office Space TPS Reports

Bill Lumbergh leaning into your cubicle. "Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday."

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

EVERYONE is here — every Smash fighter ever, plus dozens of newcomers. The most stacked crossover roster in gaming.

Bad Friends

A breakneck weekly hangout that careens between absurd road stories, dueling impressions, and unhinged riffs from two of the loudest comics in the LA scene.

Outward Hound Slow Feeder

Maze-pattern slow feed bowl

Use voice memos for ideas while driving

Your best ideas come when your hands are busy and your brain is wandering — like driving or showering. A voice memo captures them before they evaporate.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.

How I Met Your Mother

A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

Aerosmith

Pikes Peak

Famous landmark with a highway and cog railway to summit.

Franklin Barbecue

Dining · Austin

Terraforming Mars

Corporate megaprojects to make Mars habitable. Long, deep, deeply satisfying.

War and Peace

Five aristocratic Russian families navigate Napoleon's 1812 invasion across more than a thousand pages.

Party Rock Anthem

Shuffling-anthem of 2011.

Tardigrades can dry into a survival tun

Tardigrades can curl into a dehydrated tun state that helps them survive vacuum, radiation, and extreme cold.

Why don't we tell secrets in a cornfield?

Too many ears around.

Star Wars Kid

Teenager Ghyslain Raza filmed himself swinging a golf-ball retriever like a lightsaber. The leaked tape became the most-watched video of its year.

Red Dead Redemption 2

The 2018 Wild West prequel. Arthur Morgan's redemption story. Possibly the most-immersive open world ever.

Prime Crime: Solved Murders

Hosted and executive produced by Attorney and Law&Crime anchor Jesse Weber, Prime Crime puts a spotlight on infamously controversial stories that have shocked investigators and the public alike. Jesse Weber takes a deep dive into the most high-profile and shocking criminal cases that have garnered national attention.

Instant Pot Duo 6 Qt

7-in-1 pressure cooker

Drink a glass of water first thing

You wake up dehydrated after 8 hours without water. 16oz before coffee re-hydrates faster, eases morning headaches, and helps morning hunger feel real not fake.