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Married guest editors Laura Davis and James Nokise join host Alice Fraser for episode 136 of The Gargle - the sonic glossy magazine to The Bugle, with one rule: no politics!
🔊 Wiggles deterrent
🤖 Musk's Grok AI
🙈 ApeFest eyes
🧑⚖️ Crypto fraud
🦤 Reviews
Story 1: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-02/council-wiggles-hot-potato-homeless-bunbury/103049964
Story 2: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-announces-grok-a-rebellious-ai-without-guardrails/
Story 3: https://gizmodo.com/bored-ape-nft-event-blinded-eyes-skin-burns-video-1850994930
Story 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67281759
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CONTENTS
0:00 Start
01:27 Front cover
02:39 Satirical cartoon
03:30 Story 1: The Wiggles demand Bunbury Council stop playing Hot Potato to disperse homeless people
10:05 Ads
10:55 Story 2: Elon Musk announces Grok, a rebellious AI without guardrails
17:47 Reviews
22:39 Story 3: NFT party attendees report burning eyes and vision loss from bright UV lights
26:37 Story 4: 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of one of biggest financial frauds in US history
33:36 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Debutant Pierre Novellie and Tom Neenan join host Alice Fraser for episode 135 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
💦 Quantum sperm
☄️ Asteroid container
💣 Billionaire Zeppelin
🕸 Spiderworm silk
🛌 Reviews
Story 1: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-caught-sperm-defying-one-of-the-major-laws-of-physics
Story 2: https://gizmodo.com/nasa-struggling-open-asteroid-sample-container-1850951047
Story 3: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lta-airship-faa-clearance
Story 4: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/spider-dna-silkworms-kevlar
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CONTENTS
0:00 Start
02:16 Front cover
04:45 Satirical cartoon
08:20 Story 1: Scientists caught sperm defying one of the major laws of physics
13:36 Ads
15:20 Story 2: NASA is struggling to open its asteroid sample container
21:43 Reviews
24:25 Story 3: Google founder's airship gets FAA clearance
32:32 Story 4: Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar
37:54 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Tiff Stevenson and Alison Spittle join host Alice Fraser for episode 134 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
Hunter gatherers
Landlord villains
Amish phones
Reviews
Story 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/magazine/tiktok-landlords-villians.html
Story 3: https://www.boredpanda.com/amish-smart-phones-emergency-alert-system/
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CONTENTS
0:00 Start
02:13 Front cover
04:23 Satirical cartoon
05:58 Story 1: The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
13:33 Ads
14:47 Story 2: The landlords of social media seem happy to play the villain
25:07 Reviews
31:13 Story 3: Amish men exposed as their phones rang during emergency alert test
38:02 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Alison Spittle and Kai Samra join host Alice Fraser for episode 133 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
Climate crisis beer
DNA hackers
Army puking
Therapy reactions
Reviews
Story 1: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/10/business/hops-beer-europe-threatened-climate
Story 2: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/7/23907330/23andme-leak-hackers-selling-user-dna-data
Story 3: https://gizmodo.com/darpa-concern-mixed-reality-headset-cognitive-attacks-1850925546
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CONTENTS
0:00 Start
02:04 Front cover
05:51 Satirical cartoon
06:05 Story 1: The climate crisis is coming for your hoppy beer
08:41 Ads
10:39 Story 2: Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe's genetic database
15:02 Reviews
18:46 Story 3: DARPA's a bit concerned about tactical puking attacks
23:45 Story 4: Apple's new video reactions are making therapy incredibly weird
27:35 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Dan Ilic and Tiff Stevenson join host Alice Fraser for episode 132 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
Influencer tourism
Teens love LinkedIn
ChatGPT ghostwriters
Fake kidnapping
Reviews
Story 1:
Story 2: https://www.thecut.com/article/why-teenagers-love-linkedin.html
Story 3: https://thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-ghost-writers/
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
02:03 Front cover
02:13 Satirical cartoon
03:40 Story 1: Why Vermont town is banning influencers and tourists from visiting its fall foliage
11:30 Ads
13:38 Story 2: Why teenagers love LinkedIn
20:59 Reviews
23:29 Story 3: How ChatGPT is putting ghostwriters out of work
29:26 Story 4: Man who faked his own kidnapping to spend time with mistress ordered to pay police
34:16 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Joz Norris and Ania Magliano join host Alice Fraser for episode 131 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
🐊 Swamp romp
☁️ Cloud microplastics
🤖 Meta chatbots
🚙 Kids' Court
🌼 Reviews
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
01:12 Front cover
01:21 Satirical cartoon
03:42 Story 1: Crocodile sex frenzy triggered by Chinook helicopters and thunder
08:12 Ads
10:39 Story 2: Scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
15:25 Reviews
20:14 Story 3: Meta is using celebrities to get you to like AI
25:53 Story 4: Kids' Court anti-speeding initiative hailed a success
30:48 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Tom Neenan and AJ Lamarque join host Alice Fraser for episode 130 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
🙈 NFTs worthless
🎢 Not funfair
🐑 High sheep
🦢 Swan disruption
🪲 Beetle termite
🔠 Reviews
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
02:23 Front cover
03:37 Satirical cartoon
03:57 Story 1: The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless
09:51 Ads
11:49 Story 2: Eight rollercoaster riders trapped upside down for hours
16:12 Reviews
18:28 Story 3: Herd of sheep eat 100kg of cannabis in Greece
22:38 Story 4: Swan causes London train disruption for a second day
26:09 Story 5: Beetle grows 'termite' on its back to steal food
30:29 Bye / Anything to plug?
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Alison Spittle and James Colley join host Alice Fraser for episode 129 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
👅 Fossil licking
🖼 Cursed painting
🎰 Casino cyberattack
🎙 Hasan Minhaj
🥵 Reviews
⚾️ D'Ancey LaGuarde
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
02:13 Front cover
03:03 Satirical cartoon
03:47 Story 1: Fossil licking professor wins the IG Nobel prize
09:47 Ads
13:04 Story 2: Cursed painting twice returned to charity shop sells for more than £1,600
16:47 Reviews
20:19 Story 3: Casino cyberattack allegedly caused by 10 min phonecall
25:22 Story 4: Hasan Minhaj admits to making up disturbing stories for his stand-up
33:21 Bye! Anything to plug?
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Jodie Mitchell, making their debut on the show, and returning favourite James Colley join host Alice Fraser for episode 128 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
🧫 Embryo entity
🐶 American Bully XL
🐹 Hamster wheel
🐧 Robot penguins
🐀 Drew Barrymore
💺 Reviews
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
02:48 Front cover
02:57 Satirical cartoon
03:34 Story 1: Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
08:22 Ads
09:37 American Bully XL dogs
14:14 Story 2: Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
18:43 Reviews
23:03 Story 3: How robot penguins could be the answer to bed blocking in the NHS
26:49 Story 4: Drew Barrymore brings back talk show amid writers strikes
32:16 Bye!
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Athena Kugblenu and James Nokise join host Alice Fraser for episode 127 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
Flamingo invasion
Sexy voice notes
Party drone spies
Rich people city
Burning Man
Reviews
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
02:19 Front cover
02:31 Satirical cartoon
02:52 Story 1: Flamingo invasion
09:01 Ads
09:57 Story 2: Sexy voice notes
17:08 Reviews
21:02 Story 3: Party drone spies
26:15 Story 4: Rich people city
33:15 Story 5: Burning Man
38:28 Bye / Anything to plug?
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