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The Topical episodes
- Frustrated Political Scientist Patton Oswalt Attempts To Explain Gerrymandering Without Help Of Visual Aids
OPR election expert Patton Oswalt attempts to explain the controversial practice, but this time on a podcast. Will he be able to show voters how gerrymandering affects their ballot without using any of his usual charts or maps?
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11 min - Health Experts Determine College Social Distancing Guidelines Still No Match For The Jasonator
Hear why even the strictest protocols may not be enough to prevent the spread of The J-Dog with a case full of brewskis.
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8 min - Conservatives Hopeful SCOTUS Majority Will Bring Days Of On-Demand Cervical Cancer Detection To An End
Hear why many Christian pro-life groups are celebrating what they believe could be the judicial power needed to stop pap smears and HPV tests for good.
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9 min - High Crime Rate Leading More Inmates To Consider Moving Out Of Prison
Hear where the nation’s incarcerated plan to flee in order to start a safer, quieter life.
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8 min - Report: Friends Don’t Really Think Of You As Part Of Group
Hear why the people you thought you were closest with actually don’t feel similarly at all.
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9 min - CDC Reclassifies Majority Of Covid-19 Deaths To Being Personally Murdered By Barack Obama
Hear why top health officials now believe most of the 200,000 fatalities in the U.S. can be attributed to violent underlying conditions brought on by our nation’s 44th president.
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9 min - L’Oréal Introduces New Smudge-Proof Lipstick Able To Withstand Getting Hit By Bus
L’Oréal’s new FaceSmash collection guarantees not to blotch or smear even after you’ve been pancaked by a 20-ton bus hauling ass down the highway. But is it too good to be true?
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8 min - Scientists Discover Dangerous Link Between Book Learnin’, Back Talk
Hear why increased exposure to highfalutin books in fancy-type settings could cause you to get a little too big for your own britches.
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8 min - Finland Ended Homelessness: Why Trying To Show Us Up Like That Comes Off As Insecure
Because, like, we could totally end it tomorrow if we also wanted to be a bunch of tryhard suck-ups like Finland.
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9 min - Report: Amtrak Loses $100 Million Annually To Route Interruptions Caused By Mustachioed Villains Tying Kidnapped Damsels To Railroad Tracks
Find out how often your local route is disrupted by train conductors unwittingly barreling over screaming lassies as they wave their dainty handkerchiefs in the air for help.
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About The Topical
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The Topical is the daily podcast from The Onion and Onion Public Radio, and the only podcast brave enough to ask: What if the news had sound effects? Join host Leslie Price each day as he barely…
scratches the surface of all the day’s top news stories. Journalism isn’t dead. It's using its dying breath to beg you to listen to The Topical. New episodes published every weekday by 5 a.m. Eastern time.
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