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Interview w/ Chief Historian At The Center for Brooklyn History, Dominique Jean-Louis + Top 5 Jokes Of The Week!
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PODCAST: You Are The Genre
Chief historian at the Center for Brooklyn History, Dominique Jean-Louis, joins me on the You Are The Genre podcast!
TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!
Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.
MONDAY: 1-27-2024
Much needed rain gave relief from ongoing L.A. wildfires, but officials warn of resulting hazardous waste, toxic ash runoff and mudslides. Bright side: We have a new group of superheroes called the Mid-Level Mutant TV Writers.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 1-28-2025
In a slate of several bills restricting reproductive rights and divorce, Oklahoma senator Dusty Deevers suggests anyone making anything even vaguely pornographic should go to jail. Yet another tragic case of a politician using policy to work out their own personal issues. You don’t have to be a quantum physicists to see that Mr. Dusty Deevers has a bit complex stemming the fact that his parents gave him what is clearly a porn star name.
“Dusty Deevers” sounds so porny that if you typed it into a porn star name generator, it would come back to you with:
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 1-29-2025
The Doomsday Clock, established in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to signify how close the world is to global catastrophe, is now 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been. And just like that, our only hope as a species is atomic daylight savings. “It’s an hour BACK this time, right?.. Right?!”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 1-30-2025
The White House received more than 7,400 requests for credentials one day after saying it would open press briefings to content creators, influencers and podcasters. So, if you really want to know why so many drones were hovering New Jersey, subscribe to Vance In My Pants, the only official J.D. Vance podcast behind the White House patreon paywall.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 1-31-2025
The FDA approved a painkiller designed to eliminate the risk of addiction associated with opioids. For those still concerned, the company is beta testing a batch of the pills to be packaged with the label:
[read the other jokes from that day here]
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