I have a wacky approach to Halloween costumes, but here's hoping my out-of-the-box thinking can save you some stress! Enjoy my take on the costumes to beat for 2025, including some 90s nostalgia.

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Anna Hall just became the second American in history to win the women's heptathlon at the World Track and Field Championships, after the legendary Jackie Joyner-Kersee (who STILL holds several hold records!). It's all about heptathlons, decathlons, and the people that love them.

Anna Hall wins heptathlon world title, creates club with Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Nick Zaccardi, NBC Sports, Sep 20, 2025)

Heptathlon (World Athletics, accessed Sep 20, 2025)

Let Women Decathlon (official, accessed Sep 20, 2025)

What is a Decathlon? Every Sport in the Event (Josh Wilson, Sports Illustrated, Aug 2, 2024)

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Rupert Everett is pulling pints at a village pub in Wiltshire, and it's not even for character research. It's part of a community effort to keep the place alive. British pubs are special places!

Star at the bar: Hollywood actor pulls pints at pub to help save it from closure (Phil Norris and Laura Harding, Gloucestershire Live, Sep 2, 2025)

A Guide to British Pub Etiquette (Active England Tours, accessed Sep 13, 2025)

British pubs have their own set of rules. Here's what you need to know (Will Noble, CNN, Jun 12, 2025)

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Somewhere off the coast of Scotland, thousands gather on a tiny island every year for the most serious stone skipping you've ever seen. We're talking measuring tools, aerodynamic rocks, and a grand finale called the Toss Off. But that's just the start—because once you learn there's a global debate over what makes a skip count, things get surprisingly intense.

Cheating scandal rocks world stone skimming championships (Benjamin Russell, BBC Scotland, Sep 15, 2025)

Stone Skimming Is a World Champion Sport—And a Model for Spaceships (Ella Benson Easton, Atlas Obscura, Oct 19, 2023)

Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art. Kurt Steiner Wants the World to Find It. (Sean Williams, Outside Online, Sep 20, 2022)

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A heist! At Walt Disney World, a man robs a Disney Springs restaurant in full scuba gear, then dives into the lake to escape. From there, we plunge into a world of underwater crime, where the thieves truly work under pressure

Suspect in swim mask robbed restaurant at Disney Springs, leaving locals astounded (Michelle Meredith, WESH NBC News, Sep 16, 2025)

Disney Springs restaurant robbed by man wearing scuba gear: report (Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, Sep 16, 2025)

Norwegian diving duo sentenced over thwarted $26 million cocaine import plot (Media release, Australian Federal Police, NSW Police Force and Australian Border Force, Aug 14, 2025)

Man Tried to Smuggle Drugs Underwater in Scuba Gear (Tessa Berenson Rogers, Time, Aug 20, 2015)

Disney Springs Scuba Robbery: Burglar Swam to Restaurant to Steal Over $10,000 (Shannon Ace, WDW News Today, Sep 15, 2025)

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Two tourists took a forbidden dip in Venice's Grand Canal—and let's just say, the city was not having it. We chat about the engineering marvel that birthed Venice and why, besides it being illegal, you absolutely should NOT swim in those canals.

Trust me.

Tourists banned from Venice after illegally diving into canal (Kathleen Wong, USA Today, Sep 15, 2025)

Is Venice Sinking? Here's What You Need to Know About the Floating City (Shayla Martin, Jun 16, 2025)

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What happens when your fine is based on your fortune?

In Switzerland, a wealthy driver got slapped with a $110,000 speeding ticket — for going just 17mph over the limit. We're heading into the world of income-based traffic fines, where a fast car plus a fat bank account equals a whole lot of francs. From Finland's "day fines" to the biggest ticket ever issued, this episode asks: should justice scale with your salary?

A driver faces up to $110,000 in fines for speeding on a Swiss street. But he can afford it (CNN / AP, Aug 13, 2025)

Finnish businessman hit with €121,000 speeding fine (Jon Henley, The Guardian, Jun 6, 2023)

Here's something to look forward to: there's a new Girl Scout cookie flavor on the horizon! If you were an enterprising Girl Scout, where would you set up your shop? (Hint: aim hiiiiiiigh.)

The Girl Scouts unveil new cookie inspired by a popular ice cream flavor (Chrissy Callahan, NBC News, Sep 10, 2025)

Cookie Flavors (Girl Scouts, accessed Sep 14, 2025)

Girl Scout sells 300 boxes of cookies outside marijuana dispensary in 6 hours (Scott Stump, Today, Feb 7, 2018)

Chrissy Teigen and Daughter Luna Take Dog Petey to 'Sell Cookies' — and Give Him an Adorable Hat to Wear! (Esme Mazzeo, People, Feb 18, 2024)

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Nuns on the run! First up: three Austrian nuns in their 80s who straight-up ran away from their Catholic care home and broke back into their beloved convent. Then we head to Spain, where another group of excommunicated sisters started a restaurant to fund their standup with authority.

Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps (Bethany Bell, BBC, Sep 13, 2025)

How to Become a Catholic Nun (A Nun's Life Ministry, accessed Sep 13, 2025)

Mutiny on the menu at the restaurant run by heretical nuns (Isambard Wilkinson, The Times, Aug 1, 2025)

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Albania just appointed an AI-generated minister -- is this a harbinger of things to come? With AI radio and podcast hosts, maybe a government official was inevitable...

Albania's prime minister appoints an AI-generated 'minister' to tackle corruption (Llazar Semini, AP, Sep 12, 2025)

Albania appoints world's first AI-made minister (Politico, Alice Taylor, Sep 11, 2025)

Albania appoints AI bot 'minister' to fight corruption in world first (Al Jazeera, Sep 12, 2025)

An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months (Emma Roth, The Verge, Apr 25, 2025)

5,000 Podcasts, 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up's Plan (Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, Sep 9, 2025)

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