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This is horrible why do I even like sports power rankings
What's on your list?
Sep 25
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Matt Crossman
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The joy of heavy machinery
Or confessing my secret jealousy of the guy who operates a crane.
Sep 18
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Meet the scientist who paddled the entire Mississippi River looking for microplastics
What she found was shocking
Sep 11
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Matt Crossman
On painting a school bus to look like a viking ship so a racecar driver nicknamed the Polish Viking could drive it in a school bus…
What did YOU do on your summer vacation?
Sep 4
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Matt Crossman
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August 2025
Bonus edition: An oral history of Katrina with National Guard soldiers
I suggest you make time for this.
Aug 29
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The greatest engagement story ever told
No, not THAT one. Or at least not only THAT one.
Aug 28
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The greatest cockroaches in my daughter's freshman year dorm room story ever told
Or at least the best one that happened this week
Aug 21
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A three-day adventure a billion years in the making
Plus the greatest Door Dash story ever told, or at least the best I heard while moving my daughter to college
Aug 14
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Matt Crossman
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Taking off, landing, and the joy in between
On getting #dadweepy as college approaches
Aug 7
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Matt Crossman
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Riding shotgun on an archaeological expedition
That might be more than you can imagine under that dirt you're standing on
Aug 1
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Matt Crossman
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July 2025
On shoveling pig s---, yes, literally
I don't want to brag, but I got to drive a skid loader for this piece.
Jul 24
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Matt Crossman
Right time, right place, right training
What happens when you apply what you have learned under great distress
Jul 17
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Matt Crossman
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