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Did you know ... ... that the Ottoman Navy procured the Akhisar-, Antalya-, and Demirhisar-class torpedo boats from foreign countries as a diplomatic measure, instead of ordering warships for their capabilities? ... that a 32-year-old NFL rookie lied about his age in 2001? ... that the 1986 Greek constitutional amendment elevated the prime minister into a "parliamentary autocrat" by stripping away most powers of the president? ... that Byzantine commander Conon was killed by his own soldiers because he was accused of trafficking in and profiteering from their food supplies? ... that, in the 1936 Liechtenstein general election, the Patriotic Union received over 40% of the vote, but won only four of the fifteen seats? ... that VTuber Nekomata Okayu stars in two romantic visual novels? ... that the Gulf Coast Parkway, intended to supplement the storm surge-prone U.S. Route 98, was only built along roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) of its planned 36 (58 km)? ... that Swiss sculptor Oscar Wiggli used the sound of hammer blows in his electroacoustic compositions? ... that jerk off instruction content has been described as "a masturbatory trance experience"?

In a world full of information, three passionate hosts come together to bring you the news that matters most. Join them as they cut through the noise, share diverse perspectives, and deliver thought-provoking discussions on the stories shaping our times.   With insightful analysis, engaging conversations, and a commitment to keeping you informed, this podcast is your go-to source for understanding the issues of the day. Tune in for the latest updates, meaningful dialogue, and a fresh take on current events—because staying informed has never been more important.

Step right up my friends, it's time for another episode of NEWS, and this news is from America's Last Newsroom. Once or twice a day we get asked, what makes news news? There is no answer for that so often times, we ignore the request to define news. If we had patience, or interest in helping anyone with a question, we'd instruct you to go to the library. Any library would do. Next step. Get a library card. It should only take 5 minutes. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes, if Sheila is out on lunch. Once Sheila gets back, and you get your card, walk to the nearest help desk (not Sheila's desk) and then ask for reference help. Once the help desk librarian gives you a location for reference, walk to that location, do not run. Begin your search for an etymology dictionary. Do not use the entomology dictionary, use the etymology dictionary. Once you're using the correct etymology dictionary, flip the hopefully thousands of pages to the back and look for the letter N. Now, the word news, it should be in there, but it starts with an N and then the next letter is an E. Keep looking until you find N-E-W. New is not the word you're looking for, you're looking for N-E-W-S. Ok, now that you've found the page number in the index of where N-E-W-S is, flip to that page. You'll most likely accidentally read N-E-W but, again, that's not the word we want. We want N-E-W-S. The definition, or entomological definition should say something like: late 14c., "new things," plural of new (n.) "new thing" (see new (adj.)); after French nouvelles, which was used in Bible translations to render Medieval Latin nova (neuter plural) "news," literally "new things." Ok, that's step 1 in answering "What makes news, news?" Wait, did I say entomological? I meant etymological! Reread that part, it's etymological not entomological. Phewf! My mistake!!  We will begin step 2 at a later date.

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Ever been to church? I have. What a place to be! It's got everything. Water, wine, books, pews, microphone, songs, music, and last but not least, God. This is one of the reasons church is so cool. The microphone part. The hosts of America's Last Newsroom also have microphones, and songs, and water, sometimes wine, no pews, songs, which are music, and God. You're probably wondering, God? Yep, he's here. Wait, i mean, she's here! Yes, that's right, God is a woman. I bet you didn't know that! Yep, it's controversial, but it's true. If you disagree, please email [email protected]

The show description writer has been on summer vacation. I'm his fill in. Did you know that 60% of all timber harvested in North America before 1980 was destroyed in wood-waste burners? Me either! Here's another one. Did you know that the Indian government declared Vishwasrao Chowgule to be the wealthiest person in India in 1976 based on wealth-tax statistics? Hah! I didn't! Did you know that, in the Old Norse saga version of the story of Sir Percival, the nature of the Holy Grail is never explained? I did know that. One fact I did not know is that that Giorgio Valensin wrote an opera while working as a banker in Florence. Reminds of that one time when I was walking down the street and a guy shouts at me asking "hey did you know that the Cook Opera House transitioned from opera to vaudeville to cinema before ending as a venue for strippers and dirty comics?" I was like, sir, I did not know that. He said, "why don't you tell me a fact and see if I know it!" I really wanted to stump him, so I asked him ... did you know that singer Kanako Wada washed the uniforms of her college's rugby team while she was a student? ..... but you want to know the f****d up thing? He did know that. I don't know who he was, but he knew that fact. I should have asked him if he knew that Carrie Smith, the leader of the 1933 Funsten Nut strike, was known for picketing while holding a Bible in one hand and a brick in the other. He probably wouldn't have known! Ahh well.  http://www.americaslastnewsroom.com tips at americaslastnewsroom.com

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The Holden Commodore (VE) is a full-size car that was produced from 2006 to 2013 by Holden, the former Australian subsidiary of General Motors. Dubbed Holden's "billion dollar baby", the car was available as the Holden Berlina—the mid-range model—and the Holden Calais, the luxury variant; utility body styles were marketed as the Holden Ute. Succeeding the VZ series, the VE was the first iteration of the fourth generation of the Holden Commodore, a series of automobiles built between 1978 and 2020. Unlike its predecessors, which used Opel-sourced platforms adapted to mechanics and sizes that would suit the local market, the VE was the first Commodore entirely designed and developed by Holden in Australia. To minimize export redevelopment costs, features such as a symmetrical centre console housing a flush-fitting hand brake lever facilitated the conversion to left-hand drive. The VE was internationally badge-engineered as the Chevrolet Lumina, Chevrolet Omega, Bitter Vero Sport and Pontiac G8. Holden introduced the VE body styles in stages, beginning with the sedan in July 2006. Before this, the company stated they would manufacture two parallel generations of Commodores until the launch of the station wagon and utility. Variants by Holden's performance vehicle partner, Holden Special Vehicles, were released soon after the sedan's debut alongside the long-wheelbase WM Statesman/Caprice models. The VE Ute entered production in 2007, coinciding with the unveiling of the Sportwagon concept car. The production version of the VE Sportwagon—which shared its 2,915 mm (114.8 in) wheelbase with the sedan instead of the extended wheelbase from the Caprice, like previous models—was introduced in July 2008. Named the 2006 Car of the Year by Wheels, the VE frequently ranked as the annual best-selling automobile in Australia over its production run. Holden introduced updates to the VE as model year (MY) changes. Typically subtle, these recurring changes involved alterations to colours and trim, increased standard equipment and reduced fuel consumption. More noteworthy adjustments have come in the form of a smaller 3.0-litre V6 engine for entry-level versions and "Series II" styling revisions in September 2010.

It's that day again, it's podcast day. Let it be known that today is the podcast comes out. Always on a Thursday, this week it will once again be released on a Thursday. Thursday, aka Donnerstag, because Donner means thunder, and Thursday is really Thor's Day, or Thursday, is probably the best day for our podcast to come out. Why Thursday? Not sure, Devon said, let's release the podcast on Thursdays. I'm sure it has something to do with his schedule. Our schedules are none of your business, so don't ask any of us about those, just know that Thursday, or Thor's Day, is the podcast day. Let's raise a glass, to Thor!

Three figures tumbled out of a dusty station wagon at the edge of a misty pine valley, their sneakers crunching on gravel still warm from the day's sun. One carried a half-deflated yoga mat under his arm like a battle shield. Another clutched a thermos of herbal sludge that smelled like regret and lawn clippings. The third dragged a cooler rattling with electrolyte packets and mysterious unmarked jars.They claimed the creaky wooden lodge as their kingdom for the season. Dawn brought them to the dew-soaked meadow, legs folded like pretzels gone wrong, eyes squeezed shut while a distant gong hummed. Breaths rose and fell in ragged unison until one snorted at a mosquito and the circle dissolved into giggles that echoed off the hills.By midday the wrestling began. It started innocently enough—one tried to demonstrate a "grounding pose" and ended up shoulder-tackling another into a patch of wildflowers. Soon it was ritual: shirts optional, victory declared by whoever pinned the other while reciting made-up mantras backward. They rolled through dandelions, limbs flailing, laughing until their ribs ached, then collapsed in sweaty heaps to stare at clouds shaped like question marks.Evenings found them cross-legged again on the lodge porch, candles flickering as they attempted deeper silence. One night the tallest of the trio swore he heard faint bleating inside his own skull. "It's the anniversary," he whispered, eyes wide. "Thirty years since that Scottish sheep took the world by storm." The words hung strangely in the air. Suddenly the meditation deepened into absurdity: they visualized perfect copies of themselves sprouting from petri dishes, woolly and confused.The next morning they built a shrine from twigs and old socks—an effigy of a sheep with button eyes. During the afternoon grapple, the smallest slipped on a banana peel someone had mysteriously left in the grass and landed nose-first in the shrine. He rose covered in lint and pine needles, bleating triumphantly. The others tackled him in celebration, a writhing pile of limbs chanting cloned nonsense syllables until the sun dipped low.As fireflies blinked their lazy codes around the meadow, the three lay panting on their backs, chests heaving, staring at the same stars they'd ignored for years back in the world of buzzing phones and endless emails. One reached out and playfully noogied his friend's head. Another countered with a half-hearted headlock. The sheep effigy watched over them, slightly lopsided, woolly witness to whatever this summer was becoming. Far off, another gong sounded—real or imagined, it didn't matter. They breathed together once more, ready for tomorrow's inevitable tumble.

What a world we live in, eh? Sometimes it's hard to believe that this is the world we live in. In this episode's description slot—yeah, the one that's supposed to hook you with timestamps and guest bios—let's just cut the crap and wrestle with what quantum reality actually means before our brains melt: the Copenhagen crew insists measurement collapses the wave function into crisp probabilities, turning the universe into a dice-rolling observer-dependent haze where "reality" only snaps into focus when looked at, no hidden variables allowed. Counterpunching is the Many-Worlds gang, screaming that nothing collapses—every possibility branches into its own parallel reality, so Schrödinger's cat is both alive and dead forever, just not in your branch, making the cosmos an infinitely splitting deterministic tree with no special role for consciousness. Then Bohmian mechanics sneaks in with pilot waves guiding particles along definite paths through a non-local, deterministic universe that respects hidden variables but laughs at relativity's speed limits. Throw in objective collapse models that say the wave function randomly fizzles on its own at large scales, QBism treating quantum states as pure personal belief updates, and the relationalists insisting everything is just correlations between systems with no absolute state at all. Is the universe a participatory illusion, a vast multiverse vending machine, or a hidden clockwork conspiracy? Tune in to this weeks episode where we discuss none of this and the boys focus on much more benign aspects of reality, like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the teen cigar club from Massachusetts, and Air Canada's best pilot.

The hosts put on a good show, I will give them that. I do listen to the episodes. They're good. These guys know what's good, and what's funny. Sorry, I have a phone call ... brb

Well here we are again. Still can't believe the hosts of this podcast haven't read any of these descriptions I've been writing. It was fun to reminisce last week, in the podcast description, about my old technical writing days. I'm thinking of doing more creative writing, but I'm not sure what I should be writing, creatively. I guess romance novels are popular. I was at Target and walked down the book aisle (btw, slim pickin's these days ...) and most of the slop they had was romantic novels based on romance. Seems like something I could do. Imagine that, "guy who wrote the manual for the Sanyo answering machine is now writing raunchy romance!" The guy's back at the writing workshop wouldn't believe it. Anyone remember Readers Digest? I've eaten a few of the issues, and let me tell you, very hard to digest! I wrote that for Readers Digest jokes about 30 years ago, they rejected it. My career, outside of the Sanyo answering machine technical instruction manual, has been a career of rejection. Anyway, good ep. Lots of laughs.

You think this podcast description stuff is easy, don't you? I've said this before, but I'm employed as a podcast description writer. I have a PhD in technical writing and here I am, writing podcast descriptions. This is the only show the hosts forgot to tell me what I should be writing for podcast descriptions, so I use this description space to vent. This shit isn't easy, podcasting descriptions. You're probably wondering how I got into this game, right? Well, back in 1990 I was commissioned by Sanyo to write the translation of the owners manual and warranty card for the TAS 3450 Sanyo Answering Machine, which was known as having one of the most detailed, yet elegant owners manuals in all of electronic goods. I'm not talking elegant like, Carol Alt, Kim Bassinger, or even Princess Diana, I'm talking elegant in the technical sense: achieving maximum clarity and impact with minimal complexity. My work on the TAS 3450 really caught everyone's attention in the industry, and I went on to have a very successful technical writing career. Fast forward to 2026 and I'm writing descriptions for America's Last Newsroom, and NYTimes The Daily, and many many more. The difference between America's Last Newsroom and The Daily is unbelievable. Every time I've submitted a podcast description to The Daily, which is every day, they send back copious amounts of notes and changes that need to be made. America's Last Newsroom has never once read what I have written and approve it within seconds, making me think it's some sort of automated system they have (i'd love to know, maybe I could write a manual about that system). Never once have they opened an email, read my work, or even given positive feedback. So here we are, I get to use their show description as a diary, and you get to understand how technical writers are now writing podcast descriptions. I know no one reads this. Even you, why are you still reading? There's no information in here about the podcast ...