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01 Dec 2024

The Maya Worshiped Turkeys

The Maya worshiped turkeys, Thanksgiving and Black Friday had a bizarre history, and weird news about ancient history: all this and more on this latest edition of Edge of Wonder with Rob Counts.

Strange turkey facts and Black Friday shopping data kick off this Thanksgiving special. Then hear a Thanksgiving ghost story that’s more than 120 years old, what scientists are saying about alien civilizations using artificial intelligence (AI), and new discoveries about ancient civilizations on Earth.

Most interesting of all, Rob did a deep dive on the Maya people. The Maya revered turkeys so much, they may have worshiped them. But the details are even more shocking, indicating that the Maya culture was much more advanced than we’re led to believe.

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25 Nov 2018

This Video Is Advertiser Friendly

After learning that new YouTube videos featuring swear words are being demonetized or at least experiencing cuts in pay, Chris Ray Gun accepts the challenge of generating strictly “advertiser friendly” videos of current, racy news accounts.

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Paul Joseph Watson also touches on modern advertising in the wake of Black Friday. The big thing now: Re-branding conformity as authenticity.

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04 Dec 2014

The Real President Or Imposter?

“Following the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama said we are a nation built on the rule of law,” Jodi Miller reports. “Then Secret Service agents wrestled him to the ground and said, ‘What have you done to the real President Obama?'” Miller also takes a look at Black Friday shoppers, Chuck Hagel, U.N. Peacekeepers, Ray Rice and Obamacare in this edition of NewsBusted.

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28 Nov 2012

Rove Holding Out for Victory

This just in…The GOP is already making plans for the 2016 campaign. “However, Karl Rove believes Romney can still win 2012,” says Jodi Miller. She also discusses Black Friday shopping, Susan Rice as a possible Secretary of State nominee and the mid-life crisis for male chimpanzees in this edition of NewsBusted.

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23 Nov 2012
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Walmart Hatred

On Black Friday, a timely day to resurrect this episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit, defending Walmart against the political stooges, unions, anti-capitalists, competitors and Left-leaning activists aligned against the retail chain.

This is one of the best takedowns ever of Robert Greenwald, the lockstep propagandist masquerading as a documentary filmmaker, who created Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, among other works. Greenwald assails Walmart for opposing unions, but as Penn & Teller note, he’s never used union crews on his low-budget, agitprop movies. It brings to mind what William F. Buckley once told a detractor, “I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.” (Caution: NSFW, owing to language and nudity) H/T iOwntheWorld

UPDATE: A nationwide boycott against Walmart fizzled out today. Shoppers came out in droves, and as few as 50 Walmart employees — out of a workforce of 1.3 million — staged walkouts. A union-backed group, Our Walmart, was leading the fight and garnered plenty of media coverage, but apparently its support was all Astro-Turf.

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23 Nov 2012

Liberals Destroy More Jobs

Kudos to liberals. They’ve taken down another US corporation, and relegated the iconic Twinkie to the dustbin of history. Now, they are pushing wildcat strikes at Walmart on Black Friday — the biggest shopping day of the year. Alfonzo Rachel says Liberals won’t rest until the American economy is totally destroyed. But he wonders, in this ZoNation, why they value laziness and poverty over hard work and success. H/T PJTV

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22 Nov 2012

Black Friday No-No’s

Preparing to go off toe-to-toe with the desperate deal-seekers and shop on Black Friday? The Wall Street Journal‘s Quentin Fottrell says it can make some sense to fight the mobs on Black Friday, but not if you’re wanting to buy electronics, the hottest toys or other select items he singles out.

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