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The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single Wikipedia article about it, and pretend we're experts. Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.
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The FIFA World Cup
1w ago00:40:29Tap to summarizeThe FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 during and shortly after World War II. The reigning champion is Spain, who won their second title at the 23rd edition of the competition, the 2026 World Cup, by defeating the holders, Argentina.[1] https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/world-cup-finals-uruguay-the-bolivian-team-carrying-the-news-photo/79029909 Donald Trump can break FIFA World Cup protocol with repeat of embarrassing moment - The Mirror https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/26225797 https://www.reddit.com/r/classicsoccer/comments/1q66wik/the_infamous_battle_of_santiago_chile_v_italy_at/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUBDWxaBJig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArR7Wk2R8tw
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Vivos xPoint and Failed Utopias
2w ago00:44:22Tap to summarizeVivos (also known as The Vivos Group) is a California-based company that built underground shelters designed to withstand future disasters and life-extinction catastrophes.[1] Robert Vicino founded the company. Shelters 10,000-square-foot (0.093 ha) have been completed in Indiana, 575 bunkers each 2,150 square feet across a former military base in[2] South Dakota, and others are in the process of construction.[3] As of September 2022, Vicino stated that the company has approximately 100,000 members, of whom more than 1,000 have bought space in one or more of the Vivos shelters.[4]
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NFTs
3w ago00:41:06Tap to summarizeA non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. They typically contain references to digital files such as artworks, photos, videos, and audio. Because NFTs are uniquely identifiable, they differ from cryptocurrencies (which are fungible, hence the name non-fungible token), and as a result they cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided.[1] Their ownership can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded.
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Pixelon and the $16 Million iBash
4w ago00:33:04Tap to summarizePixelon was an American dot-com company founded in 1998 that promised better distribution of high-quality video over the Internet. It was based in San Juan Capistrano, California.[1] It gained fame for its extravagant Las Vegas launch party, followed by its sudden and violent decline less than a year later as it became evident it was using technologies that were, in fact, fake or misrepresented.[2] Its founder, "Michael Fenne", was actually David Kim Stanley, a convicted felon involved in stock scams who was "on the lam and living out of the back of his car" when he arrived in California two years earlier.[1][3] In the year 2000, Pixelon began to fire employees and reduce its operations until its bankruptcy.[4][5] Pixelon ousted their management team and filed for bankruptcy in June 2000.[6]
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The King of the Ferret Leggers
Jul 800:32:58Tap to summarizeFrom: https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/essays/ferret-legging-outside-classic/
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Assata Shakur
Jul 100:31:43Tap to summarizeAssata Olugbala Shakur (/əˈsɑːtə ʃəˈkʊər/ ə-SAH-tə shə-KOOR; born JoAnne Deborah Byron, July 16, 1947[a] – September 25, 2025) was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army.[3] In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general.[4] She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.
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James R. McClintock
Jun 2400:39:01Tap to summarizeJames R. McClintock, with Horace Lawson Hunley and Baxter Watson, built the submarine Pioneer at New Orleans in 1861 to defend the city against Federal forces. The three men later constructed two submarines at Mobile, Alabama, the second of which was named H.L. Hunley. This vessel was taken to Charleston, South Carolina, in August 1863. On 17 February 1864, after two fatal accidents, the refurbished H.L. Hunley became the first submarine to successfully attack an enemy warship when she sank USS Housatonic off Charleston.
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The Byford Dolphin Incident
Jun 1700:33:57Tap to summarizeByford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Energy. Byford Dolphin was registered in Hamilton, Bermuda,[3] and drilled seasonally for various companies in the British, Danish, and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. In 2019, Dolphin scrapped the rig.[5] The rig was the site of several serious incidents, most notably an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as critically injuring another dive tender.[6]
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Billionaire Bootlickers (4 Op Eds)
Jun 1001:04:51Tap to summarizeAOC's Billionaire Bull Session, Did Steven Spielberg earn his wealth? What about Oprah? Jay-Z? By Matthew Hennessey, Wall Street Journal You can earn a billion dollars, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a low opinion of human potential., Editorial Board - Washington Post I don't resent Bezos. I'm rooting for billionaires like him. | Opinion, Nicole Russell- USA TODAY Billionaires Rock, We ought to build statues of them, not chase them from state to state. By Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal
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News of the World
Jun 300:42:47Tap to summarizeThe News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations.[4] It was established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies.[5] The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969, it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. In 1984, as News Limited reorganised into News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, the newspaper transformed into a tabloid and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun.
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