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This week Sen. John McCain died, a former South Korean president was sentenced to twenty five years in prison and Disney agreed to pay workers a half decent wage.

Headlines are also said.

Music by @breakbeat_doc

This week your host and humble narrator talks about a story in this week news that he turned out to be very wrong about in a segment he calls 'I'm an idiot'.

There is a review of a new animation from Matt Groening that turns into one about Game of Thrones.

Ruby Rose was critised this week for not being lesbian enough and three firms in the U.K. are under investigation after one thousand tonnes of waste was sent to Poland.

Music by @breakbeat_doc

Links to stories here;

Millennial couple story - https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1824-millennial-couple-bikes-near-isis-territory-thinking-humans-are-kind-and-gets-killed

Ruby Rose story - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-45166592

Waste crime story - https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/poland-illegal-waste-uk-return-plastic-pollution-environment-agency-greenpeace-a8491201.html?utm_source=reddit.com

This week Boris Johnson freaked people out by insulting Muslims, PETA attacked a vegan burger and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones got banned from everywhere except Twitter.

Headlines are also said.

Music by @breakbeat_doc.

Links to stories:

Burger story - https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/peta-roasts-impossible-burger-for-rat-tests-suggests-patties-cause-cancer/

Tree story - https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offset.html

Info wars story - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45083684

This August 2018s episode special guest is Ste Salkeld from Grasping Nettles.

This episode covers a wide range of subjects from parking tickets to G. G. Allin and James Gunn getting fired from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and how everyone should really chill out.

Also in the episode;

Andy remembers a song,

Dave goes full 'old man',

Doc defends his lack of driving,

Ryan makes plans for the cats in the alley

and Ste explains some aspects of parenthood.

Song featured is Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe by Whale.

Intro is The Brouhaha by Beastie Boys

This week North Korea has but hasn't really started work dismantling ballistic missile sites, Steven Seagull is appointed special Russian U.S. envoy, protests in Bangladesh lead to violence and nuns are the newest members of the #MeToo movement.

Music by @breakbeat_doc

Links to stories below -

Russian gay rights - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gay-pride-russia/police-detain-around-25-gay-rights-activists-in-st-petersburg-idUSKBN1KP0EL

Steven Segallll - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-seagal/russia-tasks-hollywood-actor-seagal-with-improving-u-s-ties-idUSKBN1KP0NP

Nuns - http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/07/31/catholic-nuns-are-speaking-out-about-their-own-abuse-at-the-hands-of-priests/

This week the stories are about those boys trapped in a cave, Papa John doing a Kramer, eating oranges that kind of thing.

Links to some stories mentioned below

Music by @breakbeat_doc

Breast milk story - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html

Coal story - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/12/uk-to-pass-1000-hours-without-coal-as-energy-shift-accelerates

Oranges story - https://www.sciencealert.com/common-fruit-could-reduce-chances-of-eye-disease-macular-degeneration

Amy Story is a film maker based in Carlisle Cumbria. She runs Web Video content, links below:

http://www.amystory.co.uk/

www.facebook.com/Webvideocontent/

www.webvideocontent.co.uk/p/home.html

Music by @breakbeat_doc

Amy Story is a film maker based in Carlisle Cumbria. She runs Web Video content, links below:

https://www.facebook.com/Webvideocontent/

http://www.webvideocontent.co.uk/p/home.html

In this podcast recorded in 2014 under the name Stuff Show Andy and Amy discuss reality and characters found in the city of Carlisle.

MUsic by breakbeat_doc

Many things are discussed in this podcast. Film, games, something about Jaws 2. The brouhaha crew goes down a really deep conversation well when the subject of Honey I shrunk the kids comes up.

This week the news includes the Mexican elections, the world cup, carbon dioxide and robots.

Andy also shares a few stories about his trip to London this week.

Headlines are also said.

Music by @breakbeat_doc

Links to stories mentioned:

Janitor story - https://nypost.com/2018/06/28/students-raise-2000-to-send-jolly-janitor-on-vacation/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&&utm_source=reddit.com

Adam West story - https://decider.com/2017/06/12/adam-west-kicked-out-of-orgy-while-being-batman/

Mexican election - https://www.dailysabah.com/americas/2018/06/28/133-politicians-murdered-in-run-up-to-mexicos-elections-report

Bacteria robot - https://interestingengineering.com/uv-bacteria-killing-robot-cleans-hospital-rooms-far-better-than-humans