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Five hundred episodes in, and the celebration is reading hate mail. Jay Schwedelson cracks open a year's worth of nasty unsubscribes, brutal reviews, and one dagger that reads "no one would miss this if you stopped." Somewhere between the salmon complaints and the "man card" insult, there's an actual point about why turning some people off is the cost of being worth listening to.

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Best Moments:

(00:38) Why the early hour-long interviews almost killed the show before it started

(02:04) The exact reply that goes back to every mean unsubscribe

(03:03) Pushing back on the AI environmental damage hate mail

(04:45) The weekly salmon dinner finally gets explained

(05:56) The "man card" insult that earned a permanent place in the hall of fame

(09:07) The case for doing one small thing every single week so you never stop learning