Earth Oddity Podcast

News Links for the Week: A woman flashed a 'white privilege' card after being pulled over. Now, officers are in trouble for letting her go: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-flashed-white-privilege-card-pulled-now-officers-are-trouble-let-rcna41700 Utah man accused of causing wildfire by burning a spider: https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-marijuana-utah-salt-lake-city-36ec46aa4be...

News Links for the Week: Prosecutors seek 8 years in prison, $24 million fine after singer rejects plea deal: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shakira-tax-fraud-case-prosecutors-seek-8-years-prison-24-million-fine-singer-rejects-plea-deal Water park staff must ask men if they are pregnant at Wild Waterworks in Hamilton, Ontario: https://www.rebelnews.com/wild_waterworks_hamilton_ontario_woke_...

News Links for the Week: Woman Sues Man for $10,000 After Bad Date, Unloads on Judge During Hearing: https://www.complex.com/life/woman-sues-man-bad-date-unloads-on-judge Man Pulls Gun on Women Who Didn't Thank Him for Holding Door Open: https://www.newsweek.com/man-pulls-gun-women-who-didnt-thank-him-holding-door-open-police-1725379 Sailfish leaps out of water, injures woman off Florida coast: ht...

News Links for the Week: 53-Year-Old Man In US Sets Record For Pushing Peanut Up Mountain Using His Nose: https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/53-year-old-man-in-us-sets-record-for-pushing-peanut-up-mountain-using-his-nose-3166716 Wild monkeys steal infant, throw child off roof in tragic attack: https://www.foxnews.com/world/wild-monkeys-steal-infant-throw-child-roof-tragic-attack Lawsuit against Skittles...

News Links for the Week: World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead: https://news.yahoo.com/world-war-ii-era-boat-155931406.html A huge mass of used wet wipes has formed an ‘island’ that has changed the course of England’s second longest river: https://www.businessinsider.nl/a-huge-mass-of-used-wet-wipes-has-formed-an-island-that-has-changed-the-course-of-englands-second-longest-river-...

News Links for the Week: Conversation With AI Spooked Google Dev So Badly The Company Suspended Him: https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/12/lamda-sentient-google-ai/ Restaurant Manager Shoots at Customer After Argument Over Wait Time: https://www.newsweek.com/restaurant-manager-shoots-customer-after-arguement-over-wait-time-police-tennessee-1718665 Teens broke into $8M Florida mansion, held boxing mat...

News Links for the Week: GEICO ordered to pay woman $5.2M after she claimed she got STD in boyfriend's car: https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/geico-ordered-to-pay-woman-52m-after-she-claimed-she-got-std-in-boyfriends-car-sexually-transmitted-disease-car-insurance-human-papillomavirus-hpv Missing baby found alive more than 40 years after parents found killed in woods: https://www.k...

News Links for the Week: Aliens Created Our Universe in a Lab, Scientist Suggests: https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a40188948/aliens-created-our-universe-in-a-lab/ REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN BLAMES MASS SHOOTINGS ON WOMEN HAVING RIGHTS: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/billy-long-mass-shootings-abortion Saban offered unusual retirement package at SEC Spring Meetings: https://abc3340.com/sports...

News Links for the Week: Students ride horses to school, cite old law requiring principal to care for them all day: https://thenationaldesk.com/news/from-the-desk/conrad-students-ride-horses-to-school-montana-missoula Japanese man spends $15,000 on ultra-realistic dog costume so he can live like an animal: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10856275/Japanese-man-spends-12-500-ultra-realistic...

News Links for the Week: Couple sells home to live on cruise ships, say it’s ‘cheaper’ than mortgage: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/couple-sells-home-live-on-cruise-ships-angelyn-and-richard-burk/ Kansas police identify 'poopetrator' who allegedly defecated in Wichita beauty store; 'NOT Amber Heard': https://www.foxnews.com/us/kansas-police-defecated-wichita-amber-heard Pope Francis re...

News Links for the Week: How ‘Leonardo DiCaprio’ Scammed a Houston Widow Out of $800K by Claiming He Was Trapped in Scientology: https://news.yahoo.com/leonardo-dicaprio-scammed-houston-widow-084853052.html Edgefield County man dies of heart attack while burying woman in backyard: https://www.wjbf.com/csra-news/edgefield-county-man-dies-of-heart-attack-while-burying-woman-in-backyard/ Trump inquir...

News Links for the Week: So the $35 sculpture you got at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII: https://www.kut.org/life-arts/2022-05-04/so-the-35-sculpture-you-got-at-an-austin-goodwill-was-looted-from-a-museum-during-wwii-now-what Mexican couple has a 'Nazi wedding' in Tlaxcala, Mexico: https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2022/05/05/62730b1f268e3e55528b4570.html Man d...

News Links for the Week: 'Fictosexual' Japanese man no longer able to communicate with hologram he married: https://news.yahoo.com/apos-fictosexual-apos-japanese-man-183717067.html POLICE INVESTIGATING ALLEGED POISONING... Spiked Water Jug W/ Paint Thinner: https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/27/school-investigating-paint-thinner-poisoning-incident-baseball-game-cops-kansas-wesleyan-university/ Call of Du...

News Links for the Week: Mike Tyson repeatedly punches man who harassed him aboard JetBlue plane: https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/mike-tyson-repeatedly-punches-man-who-harassed-him-aboard-jetblue-plane-per-report/ British trainee dental nurse, 26, flies to US to marry her 'goofball' pen pal, 35, who is a double murderer on death row, after telling family she was going on holiday to Disney Wo...

News Links for the Week: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion, so it can be ‘transformed as private company’: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/14/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter-for-54point20-a-share-saying-it-needs-to-be-transformed-as-private-company.html John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, to play sold-out NY concert: https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2022/04/jo...

News Links for the Week: UFOs left 'radiation burns' and 'unaccounted for pregnancies,' new Pentagon report claims: https://www.livescience.com/ufo-report-human-biological-injuries JOE EXOTIC PENS LETTER TO BIG BEN FROM PRISON ... Can I Get Your Autograph?!?: https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/08/joe-exotic-writes-letter-to-ben-roethlisberger-from-prison-asking-for-autograph/ Wild rabid fox bites U.S. co...

News Links for the Week: Elon Musk buys 9% stake in Twitter — days after criticizing it over free speech: https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/elon-musk-buys-9-stake-in-twitter-days-after-criticizing-it/ Florida man accused of tackling deputy, kissing stepsister, attacking parents: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/deltona-man-tackles-deputy-kisses-underage-girl-and-tries-to-strangle-parents-slapped-with...

News Links for the Week: Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men's underwear: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/26/economy/recession-underwear-alan-greenspan/index.html AARP-backed social network looks to lure older users from Facebook: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/aarp-backed-social-network-looks-to-lure-older-users-from-facebook/ Meet Bex, Kawasaki’s Rideable Rob...

News Links for the Week: Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/self-driving-trucks-could-replace-90-of-long-haul-jobs Dodo DNA sequencing raises hope of bringing the bird out of extinction: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dodo-dna-sequencing-raises-hope-of-bringing-the-bird-out-of-extinction-lcsckfdx2 Alcohol-free bar in Texas fuels the growing 'so...

News Links for the Week: Senate passes bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/senate-daylight-saving-time-permanent/index.html ‘Healthy’ woman hasn’t eaten fruit or veg in 22 years, lives on chicken nuggets: https://nypost.com/2022/03/08/healthy-woman-hasnt-eaten-fruit-or-veg-lives-on-nuggets/ Jussie Smollett Asks for Emergency Release as Famil...

News Links for the Week: Gabe Newell Is Reportedly Hand-Delivering Steam Decks In Seattle: https://www.thegamer.com/gabe-newell-steam-deck-delivery/ Kentucky man wins $250K on scratch-off, celebration ends in arrest: https://www.ky3.com/2022/03/04/kentucky-man-wins-250k-scratch-off-celebration-ends-arrest/ Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein caught smuggling Milk Duds in jail: https://www.nbcnews....

News Links for the Week: Taliban calls on Russia and Ukraine to end crisis through "peaceful means": https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/02/25/taliban-russia-ukraine-crisis-peaceful-means/ Joy Behar moans Russia-Ukraine war is screwing up her Italian vacation plans: https://nypost.com/2022/02/25/joy-behar-moans-russia-ukraine-war-is-making-her-vacation-plans-uncertain/ Man 'abducted by aliens 50 years...

News Links for the Week: ‘Suspicious packages’ at Alabama courthouse turn out to be … a Taco Bell order: https://www.today.com/food/news/taco-bell-order-shuts-down-alabama-courthouse-rcna16526 Lithium-ion batteries are fueling the fire on a burning cargo ship full of Porsches: https://finance.yahoo.com/m/89f92b55-1de3-3d87-a4ec-9226cf1bc6c6/lithium-ion-batteries-are.html Student Making Home-Brewed...