Five Jokes: 6-2-2025
The End Of 'WTF,' A Mysterious Space Signal, A Bill Clinton Thriller, A Bizarre Biden Conspiracy, and Traveling Saharan Dust
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Hey! It’s the first Monday of June in America, here’s a fresh list of thing you may have missed from the newsletter, the new King of the Hill revival picks up several years after we last saw the characters, and doesn’t it feel like this is —
Anyway, here are FIVE JOKES!
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Marc Maron’s WTF podcast will be turning off its microphones in the fall. However, the 20-minute ramblings that typically kick off each interview will still be available to his biggest fans in the CIA.
A dead star 15,000 light years from Earth is pulsing every 44 minutes in both X-rays and radio waves. Once tabulated and projected through a speaker, the strange signals reveal yet another album from 2Pac. So, yes, space got bootlegs.
Bill Clinton and James Patterson collaborated on a thriller novel titled "The First Gentleman" — and readers aren’t sure what to make of said gentleman’s best friend, Steffery Jeffstein.
Donald Trump shared an unfounded conspiracy theory claiming Biden died in 2020 and was replaced with other ‘entities.’ The move seemingly combats “fringe” theories from respected dermatologists suggesting that Donald Trump fried in 2020.
Finally…
A giant cloud of Saharan dust is headed for Florida. But they won’t make it far if the combined farts of Florida’s ICE agents have anything to do with it.
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A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE
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STRAY THOUGHT
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Things haven’t changed much; if anything they’ve gotten worse, as the AI “revolution” threatens to make the work of writers even less profitable—we will never go away, but if we cost more than what an AI engine can produce, the writing is on the wall (truly, the only space we will have left for writing is on the walls).
on the power of self-streaming:
When it came time to release our second film, Guacamole Yesterdays, we did reach out to distributors (just in case 😊). And there was interest, but the DIY punk-rockers inside of us just couldn’t find peace with any of the deals. The finances didn’t make sense. The passion wasn’t there. We felt like we’d just get lost in the machine. But we had this continuously nagging (and depressing thought) “What if this is just how it goes?”
And.. with an ode to long TV:
Finally, we’re seeing a blurring of the lines between movies and TV. Many creators are treating TV shows like films, where a whole lot of uneventful episodes are followed by an action-packed finale.
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