Five Jokes: 1-13-2025
Near-Death Expert, Firefighting Aid, New Nuclear Age, The Need For Cursive Comprehension, and The Rise Of Fake Jobs
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Hey! It’s Monday in America, (I’m pushing the season 2 debut of the You Are The Genre podcast with comedian/TV writer Rae Sanni from today to Wednesday though paid subscribers already have access), and it’s my 36th BIRTHDAY! Shout out to my mom and dad for making it possible. Additionally, shout out to this awesome Hobbit-themed cake from my significant-significant other via Sugarpop Bakeshop!
If you’d like to do something in my honor, consider donating to one of the Black families devastated by the Altadena fires. And, after that… you know consider kicking your free subscription up a notch or recommending the newsletter to a friend!
Anyway, here are FIVE JOKES!
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Y’all hear about this?..
Peter Fenwick, leading expert on near-death experiences, has died at age 89. His last words were: “Oops, wrong floor.”
Mexico sent 72 firefighters to Los Angeles over the weekend to help battle the devastating wildfires across the region. Donald Trump has thanked them for bing “72 of the good ones…”
The global consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons has ended. So, it’s not just you. The real estate market is insane right now.
More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents at the National Archives are in need of transcribing and the vast majority of them are handwritten in cursive – requiring people with the increasingly rare skill of being able to read it. Finally time to put those Williamsburg hipsters who dress like bank tellers in the Wild West to the test.
Finally…
According to a new analysis, one in five jobs advertised is fake or not filled. Unsurprisingly, the bulk of those jobs are cabinet positions at the White House.
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A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE
‘98 Honda is a funny, absurd and heartfelt short film from the mind of comedian Niles Abston…
STRAY THOUGHT
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
One of my former bosses, W. Kamau Bell reminds us that Hollywood is party of America…
on living in an LA in flames, our degraded information ecosystem, and trying to put out fires now and in the future…
And upcoming You Are The Genre guests has been deep-diving into the weirdness of the present internet age with this “cybernomads” series
SOMETHIN’ MORE!
No better day than my birthday to watch Maurice on Mars!
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Happy birthday man!! I hope it's a great one. That cake is pretty incredible.
Happy birthday! As we all know, Capricorns are The GOAT! 🐐