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THEY SAID THEY WOULDN’T! But then they did. Apple with the new touchscreen MacBook. Does it matter? (No iPhone Duos in class just yet!) But WOW are they expensive!

Chinese class a go go! Whoops! Forgot about Tuesday’s class! Building up a Chinese course for myself!

It’s the end of October, time for some stories. What shall we read? (The Baba Yaga and Vasilissa the Fair)

Oh, and the No Agenda Show is ending. Last episode will be today, Thursday October 29th.

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Hope you have a great one!!

00:00 Episode Preview and Greetings

00:40 Rolls Royce and October Markets

03:34 End of No Agenda Show

06:25 Nationalism and the Mbappé Debacle

10:27 Listening to the Final Episode

11:52 Apple Touchscreen MacBook Pro

15:38 Why Large Storage Matters

18:54 iPhone Duo Impressions

21:30 Claude in the Terminal

25:12 Cloud AI vs Local Models

26:18 AI Dashboards for Folders

29:00 HSK5 Chinese Dashboard

34:20 Focus and Discipline in Learning

35:00 Halloween in China

37:02 Yearly Halloween Reading Tradition

39:17 Gogol and Russian Folktales

42:04 Chekhov, Turgenev and Pushkin

43:40 Nietzsche and Zarathustra

45:09 Audiobook Expectations

46:50 Sign-Off and Show Links

47:36 The Baba Yaga

53:49 Vasilissa the Fair