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Our headline story for the day is all about angry bees. It turns out that the venom from angry bees is "more desirable" for medical properties than the venom from "docile bees." More views on the news include: A currency war is raging in the Balkans over Nikola Tesla, more supply issues hit McDonald's, grocery stores are having a hard time stocking shelves, how clean needles rely on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, cacti are the most illegally trafficked houseplant, climate change pushes winemakers north, and a treasure chest of Al Capone's belongings are going to auction.

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Our headline story for the day is the GM and Ford are battling each other in the courts. Why is that? It all has to do with the name the companies are giving their self-driving car systems. More views on the news include: Aldi is hiring 20,000 US workers, air taxis are coming, the mulberry tree is making a comeback, the simple phone, troops deployed on the border with Belarus, and how a coin shortage is causing stress on the laundry system.

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Our headline story is the big 500 person, celebrity-filled birthday party for former US President Obama at Martha's Vineyard. This tone-deaf party is a massive display of the fact that the political elites think they can do whatever they want while telling us we should do better with COVID. Other stories we look at include the fact that spacesuit delays will push back our next moon landing, supply chain shortages hit our school cafeterias, your cat is killing your plants, Levi's back away from cotton, the EU is increasing spending on private jets for elites, Kenyan camels could cause the next COVID pandemic, and not as many people can connect themselves to the Mayflower as we previously thought. 

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Doctors around the world are quitting at a rapid rate. Let's take a look at two examples (Myanmar & Nigeria) to understand why this is happening. Also in the news: alcoholic mountain dew, the German Green Party wants to align with the US, the battle over cod in Norway, and remembering the time Meriwether Lewis was shot in the butt.

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Today we take a closer look at one of my favorite eras of music, bubble gum music! It might seem silly but bubblegum music is directly responsible for modern electronic music. Don’t worry, I explain how the two tie together in this episode. Let’s take a closer look at four bands that shaped bubble gum music.

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A look at how the solar panel industry is actually one of the largest polluters, McDonald's is running out of paper bags, we are searching for a missing bottle of whiskey from the Trump era, Polish doctors get a four Euro raise, and more.

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A new study shows that coffee might actually give you dementia, but that's ok because coffee futures are soaring due to frost hitting Brazil. Over in Sweden, a forest war is raging between the conservationists and the loggers and you'll be surprised to learn that logging trees might actually help the environment compared to the alternatives. Detroit is importing 300,000 bees in their new initiative to add 12 million bees to the city. Whoops, looks like they got the wrong bees and now they are killing the native bees, spreading disease, and attacking humans. US Senator Tina has introduced a bill that will waste $15 million dollars on something that we already know is unconstitutional and - oh - happened in the 1800s. Wells Fargo, in an attempt to recover from their fake accounts scandal, is completely erasing their history and it's a disaster. San Fransisco has decided that the best use of taxpayer dollars is on $20,000 Gucci trash cans. And, dino nugget mania is sweeping across the world. Take a listen to hear my views on the news.

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Today we take a look at a murder still shrouded with mystery over 75 years later. Greedy land developers, the Mafia, the Nazis, Voodoo, and British Royalty all come together in the murder of the millionaire Sir Harry Oakes. What happened? Who did it? Listen to learn all about it.

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300,000 words that land in you in jail in North Korea (and some things that can even get you the death penalty), virtual racehorses sell for $45,000, New Jersey's "no whip" rule, Olympic antics, and China does what is good for China. Here are my views on the news.

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