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Ah Spring is in the air and so our thoughts turn to rebirth.  When what has rotted to the core and decomposed to earthworm food becomes the rich fertile ground from which new life may spring! The miracle of rebirth is all around us!  Look at the trees, the bees, the flowers, and Mark Foley!  He's now a power player in Florida politics! Don't say Gay bills are simply the GOP protecting parents' rig...

Drugs are big business.  The most recent UN estimates place total retail sales of illegal drugs around $320 billion or roughly 1% of the entire world's GDP. That means there is a lot at stake when drug cartels set up shop.  They run themselves like corporations, with hierarchies, distribution models, business strategies, and public relations campaigns. A Mexican drug cartel employed the PR tactic...

It took Facebook and Twitter five years to reach 100 million users.  TikTok reached 100 million users in 9 months.  Chat GPT took 64 days.  As Bill Gates proclaimed, The Age of AI is here. Sort of.  It's here but Humanity isn't quite sure what it is or what it means for our future.  We do know that it means big money for corporations, huge changes in the way we work, and that it will raise issues...

We're not very good at social media, and as it turns out neither is Elon Musk.  He bought Twitter and ran it into the ground almost overnight.  The wunderkind boy genius is really just a rich boy from an emerald mine owning family who loved sci fi as a kid and has aspirations for being the father of the future of mankind, helping to bring equality to humans and humanity to the stars. Unless you wo...

J.M. Roth was a cop who offered free legal advice online: if you want to run down a Black Lives Matter protester who is marching in the streets, follow these rules.  And then he gave the step by step process for how to beat the legal charges for intentionally running a human being down with your car. Without even going any further you can bet that J.M. Roth was not his real name, brave people alwa...

It's an Encore episode just in time for the 2023 Oscars!  Let us take you waaaay back in time, all the way back to last year, March 2022, when a certain actor slapped a certain comedian and shook the world.  You know the Oscars are going to mention the slap - so here's a friendly recap of what happened to get you ready for Hollywood's biggest night!   If you haven't heard, Will Smith slapped Chris...

It's an open secret that children work for next to nothing and don't complain a lot.  That's why they make great workers, only it's kind of illegal in a lot of countries to employ children.  But don't worry because corporations have found the wonder of willful ignorance and plausible deniability, two factors that mean they can hire companies that in turn hire other companies that hire subcontracto...

OK so here it is: Ballet is boring and stupid.  But not to Marco Goecke!  He takes his ballet as serious as sh*t.  He is a German Ballet choreographer and he recently smeared dog poo in a critic's face who had dared to criticize his work.   He's got a lot to say about how this critic hounded (ha!) him for years and he just happened to have a bag of dog poo in his pocket and maybe this wasn't his b...

It's an Encore episode! Elmo and Zoe are friends.  Rocco and Zoe are friends.  Rocco and Elmo are not friends because Elmo cannot be friends with a rock.  At least according to Elmo.  Elmo had it one day in 2004 and lost his cool on Sesame Street over Zoe saving the last cookie for Rocco to eat (because rocks don't have mouths and why are we explaining this, you get it, rocks are rocks).  Elmo ref...

Brock Turner had it all: A scholarship to Stanford (it's not Harvard but they try!), all-American boy-next-door good looks, a real shot at Olympic gold swimming for the US Olympic team - his life was one that many people would envy.  Everyone believed him to be a super nice guy on his way to do super nice guy things - like represent America in the Olympics and win some medals and then graduate fro...

Alan Turing was a British mathematical genius, known today as the Father of Artificial Intelligence.  He famously broke the Nazi's "Enigma Code," a discovery which helped end WWII.  His work for the British government was top secret, so when he was arrested for being gay, he couldn't pull the "but I'm a hero card" to save himself.  He endured two years of chemical castration before killing himself...

In this encore episode we take you to the fabled land of Utah and revisit the world famous Skinwalker Ranch!  Skinwalker is a ranch in Utah recently owned by a billionaire who wanted to study the paranormal.  Before that, the ranch was owned by a different billionaire who was studying flying saucers.  Before that, it was owned by a nice ranching family who did not care for UFOs or the paranormal,...

Graza is a startup company that really understands olive oil - and apologies.  The company launched in January 2022 and by December they had over 35,000 orders for olive oil.  It was a tiny bit more than the 5-person company was prepared to handle, but they tried!  The orders were mostly gifts and a number of shipments arrived after the holidays and some of the bottles were dented.  If that wasn't...

Not Hollywood exactly, but one of the most important filmmakers in Hollywood!  Steven Spielberg apologized for the role his movie, "Jaws," played in turing public opinion against sharks.  Back in the 70s people didn't know that sharks were important to the ecosystem, or survivors of every apocalypse to ever hit the planet Earth, or gentle kind creatures who don't kill humans as often as toilets or...

It's a New Year but same old slander and muckraking for UK tabloids!  This time "The Sun" apologized for an article written by Jeremy Clarkson where he said he hated Meghan Markle more than some serial killers.  He would like to see her paraded through every street in England, naked, with crowds of people shouting "shame, shame" and throwing excrement at her.  He was referencing a Game of Thrones...

Newsflash: doctors are people and they have feelings.  Sometimes they make mistakes and feel bad about the errors and apologize.  In some States, those apologies are admissible in court as evidence.  California recently passed a law that allows doctors to express human feelings of regret and to say things like "I'm sorry that your mother died because I forgot to sew her back up and all her organs...

Russ and Phylis have been victims of Christmas pranksters since 2016.  One year the baby Jesus was stolen out of their nativity scene, later returned thanks to the miracle of faith and a very passive aggressive 3-foot-tall sign that Phylis posted on the front lawn.  Another year baby Jesus was stolen and never returned.  In 2019 the merry pranksters struck again, stealing the entire nativity scene...

So it's come to this, an Italian Bishop told a group of school children that Santa Claus did not exist.  The Church has resorted to lies to win the war against Christmas!  The Bishop's assistant apologized and explained that the Bishop meant to remind everyone of the true meaning of Christmas (again, lies). The War on Christmas has some deep roots, the commercial versus the religious aspect has tr...

What are satanic sex purses and how much do they cost you ask?  Well Balenciaga, the fashion house, decided to turn some teddy bears into purses and dress the bears in S&M gear, mostly leather harnesses and chaps because teddy bears aren't hard core into S&M (this is a science fact that everyone knows). Then they had some little kids stand on some beds and hold the purses.  People freaked over the...

Kristallnacht - heard of it?  It's The Night of Broken Glass, the night many historians say was the start of the holocaust.  It's the night when the Nazi party ran wild in the streets, terrorizing innocent civilians.  91 people died and 30,000 innocents were arrested and sent to the camps. What better way to commemorate the start of the holocaust than with a delicious crispy chicken sandwich from...

Snoopy is cooking Thanksgiving dinner and everyone is invited!  Jellybeans and toast for all - including Franklin, the only black kid in the world of Charlie Brown and Peanuts!  Franklin gets a seat at the table all by himself as the other kids crowd around the opposite side of the table.  Some people see this moment in the show as emblematic of the black experience in America: included but exclud...

FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange and "somehow" lost a bunch of digital money which means now they are in a lot of real world trouble.  Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder and head of FTX and he laid out a big apology on Twitter (yes, it's still up and running).  He's sorry for losing billions and billions of dollars and he's working to make things right. What is Cryptocurrency, where did it come from...

Nothing says "remember our fallen heroes" like a dinner menu!  At least, that's what The Clubhouse at Aquia Harbor thought when they created a Sunday Seafood menu with 9/11 themed menu options like the "Pentagon Pie" or the "Flight 93 Redirect" (it's a hot crab dip).  In September of 2022 the Clubhouse wanted to remind people of the importance of September 11th and mark the occasion of the 21st an...

As it turns out, Kanye has issued many public apologies.  Across the years he has been a never-ending wellspring of "sorry I said that." In our most unfortunate story to date, Ye speaks volumes about his inner worldview while sharing his most recent apology story with a group of reporters in a parking lot.  He's been on an apology tour for antisemitic remarks and no one around him has the courage...

Everything is recorded these days.  Every. Thing.  But that was a newsflash to 3 members of LA's City Council when they met behind closed doors to talk about redistricting.  And boy did they talk.  They talked about "the blacks," and "the jews," and Armenians and those "tan feos" Oaxacan people who live in Koreatown.  They mock a fellow council member who is gay and compare his 3-year-old son to a...