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Fri. 07/24 - How AOL Inspired a Hamilton Song

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The hottest new app that’s sending people on mysterious adventures. A heartwarming act of charity from Washington’s newly named team. Lin-Manuel Miranda dishes on some pretty mind-blowing inspirations for some of his biggest songs. And a kitchen hack for making better homemade popcorn. Sponsors: OurCrowd, info.ourcrowd.com/goodnews Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 for a free trial membership Links: The App of the Summer Is Randonautica (The Atlantic) What Is Randonautica, the App That Led Teens to a Dead Body? (The Cut) Just 'Released': Get Your Gear (NHL) Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down His Biggest Hit Songs (Like "My Shot") (Kottke)  Before Lin-Manuel Miranda Sang About It, Here's How 90s Kids Learned Who Shot Alexander Hamilton (Digg) The Secret to Perfect Homemade Popcorn Is Aluminum Foil (LifeHacker) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the good news ride home for Friday, July 24th, 2020.

0:40.3

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:41.9

The hottest new app that's sending people on mysterious adventures.

0:47.4

A heartwarming act of charity from Washington's newly named team.

0:52.5

Lynn Manuel Miranda dishes on some pretty mind-blowing inspirations for some of his biggest songs, and a kitchen hack for making better homemade popcorn.

1:03.1

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:07.8

The latest app to experience a newfound heyday in our weird quarantine days is Randonautica,

1:15.6

quoting The Cut.

1:17.1

Randanautica describes itself as the world's first quantumly generated choose-your-own-adventure-reality game.

1:24.0

It invites you, the user, to set an intention for your quest before running off

1:29.2

toward your coordinates. The idea is that you will then manifest that intention during your journey,

1:34.5

which is to say, while randonotting. It launched in early 2020, but really took off as a form of

1:40.2

socially distanced entertainment once the coronavirus pandemic hit, end quote.

1:45.2

And it boils down to app gives you random coordinates, you go there.

1:49.4

But it's taken off in such a huge way that I tried to dive a little deeper to see what's

1:53.8

really drawing people in.

1:55.9

First, here's a little bit more on how it actually works from the Atlantic, quote.

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