Best of the Week!

NEW PODCAST! + Sci-Fi Fuel + Jokes & Yub Nub

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• Latest Posts:

  • New Podcast Teaser + Sci-Fi Fuel!

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • Yub Nub Returns!

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Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!

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LATEST POSTS:

• I released the trailer my new podcast, You Are The Genre!

  The first episode drops Monday, but paid subscribers can listen a now!

  [Eliza Cossio] Is The Genre

• Over at

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  (my alternate newsletter), I send weekly updates to fuel your imagination. Check out the latest edition of Sci-Fi Fuel here!

  

TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!

Each weekday, I send five topical jokes. Subscribers (yes, you!) have voted on what made them laugh the most. Here are the top 5!

Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.

MONDAY: 1-8-2024

• Though his actually birthday has never been revealed, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is believed to be turning 40 since the U.S. government lists his birth year as 1984. “We won’t know for sure until we see what gifts he receives,” said one U.S. government official. "“If it’s gift cards, he may still be in his 30s. But if it’s foot cream… well, the sky’s the limit.”

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 1-9-2024

• France has its youngest ever and first openly gay Prime Minister. His DMs are blowing up at such a rate that scientists are now inspecting his phone as source of quantum energy — urging millennials to “Stay horny so that we can power the entire globe.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 1-10-2024

• Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. Publishers have released a list of derivative A.I. generated books to avoid, including:

  • You Know Why The Bird Cage Yodels by Mayan Calandrelou

  • The Meme-O-Morpheus by France Cofvefe

  • Fahrenheit 7/11 Jay Raspberry

  • Mopey Dicks by Bonham John

  • White Guy on a Sand Planet by Jorge Lucas

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 1-11-2024

• A Florida school district has pulled three dictionaries which define words like “sex” off of library shelves. Most students reacted with, “I already know what sex is, but what the heck is a library?”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 1-12-2024

• In an extremely rare natural phenomenon, two different cicada broods will explode from the ground at the same time this year. Experts call it the Republican National Convention.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the most recent batch of Top Five Jokes!

BEST OF THE BEST!

Vote on your favorite joke among the top 5 — that way I can email the “Top Jokes of January” in next month’s letter.

Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Yub Nub is the Star Wars focused podcast that I co-host with Greg Iwinski and Jim Fagan. After a long few months, we’re finally back!

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