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The Best/Worst it Will Ever Be

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John and Craig look at three extraordinary news stories and ask, How Would this be a Movie? Stories include the United Healthcare CEO assassination, a small town’s process for licensing fortune tellers, and a harrowing I.V.F. mixup.

We also follow up on AI, Flightplan’s source material, Craig’s Belfast accent, and answer a listener question on the order of surnames for writing partners.

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Links:

  • The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
  • The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
  • OpenAI’s controversial Sora is finally launching today. Will it truly disrupt Hollywood? by Wendy Lee for LA Times
  • I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies by Jason Koehler
  • A timeline of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and search for his killer by Michael R. Sisal and Cedar Attanasio for Associated Press
  • How do you license a fortune teller? by Paul Debole
  • An I.V.F. Mix-Up, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice by Susan Dominus for NYT Magazine
  • Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground by Stu Horvath
  • Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe by Manasee Wagh for Popular Mechanics
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  • Outro by Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)
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