Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Fast Food Founder Buys Everyone Lottery Tickets, Holes in the Ocean Floor, Scary Algorithm Predicts Crime with 90% Accuracy

The founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers buys a lottery ticket for all 50,000 of his employees. Observers are baffled by a series of mysterious holes in the ocean floor. Perhaps most disturbingly, a new algorithm created over at the University of Chicago seems to accurately predict crimes a week before they occur -- and exposes deep biases in law enforcement. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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Headlines From The Times - Her life, her body, her death

On July 16, Gabriella Walsh carried out a decision months in the making; a process involving her loved ones and medical providers. She drank a fatal dose of medication prescribed under California’s so-called death-with-dignity law, which allows some terminally ill patients to request drugs to end their lives.

Today, we tell the story of Walsh, and hear her talk about why she decided to end her life on her own terms. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times reporter Marisa Gerber, and L.A. Times photographer Dania Maxwell

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One last trip: Gabriella Walsh’s decision to die — and celebrate life — on her own terms

Death-with-dignity movement springs back to life in California

California lawmakers vote to speed up state process for terminally ill to end their lives


 

Headlines From The Times - Her life, her body, her death

On July 16, Gabriella Walsh carried out a decision months in the making; a process involving her loved ones and medical providers. She drank a fatal dose of medication prescribed under California’s so-called death-with-dignity law, which allows some terminally ill patients to request drugs to end their lives.

Today, we tell the story of Walsh, and hear her talk about why she decided to end her life on her own terms. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times reporter Marisa Gerber, and L.A. Times photographer Dania Maxwell

More reading:

One last trip: Gabriella Walsh’s decision to die — and celebrate life — on her own terms

Death-with-dignity movement springs back to life in California

California lawmakers vote to speed up state process for terminally ill to end their lives


 

CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 08/01

Flooding death toll in Kentucky rises to 28 with dozens more unaccounted for. Wildfire rages in northern California. First grain shipment leaves Ukraine. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Take This Pod and Shove It - Catch-up & Mustard 3: Twitty City Drift

After adding 30 songs to our Ultimate Country Playlist, Danny and Tyler are back with a  new Catch-Up and Mustard! As usual with our special Catch-up and Mustard episodes, we do a quick check in, let you know what's coming up, and play some country music games! This month we are playing another round of WHO DUNNIT (as voted by our wonderful patrons over at Patreon!), and we close it out with our third installment of IS IT COUNTRY?—featuring songs from The Shins, The Replacements, Bon Jovi, and more.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Blistering pace: monkeypox spreads

As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, and the parallels with the early days of HIV. Nuclear waste has been stockpiled in supposedly temporary pools for decades; our correspondent visits the first place it is being permanently entombed. And where education is failing even amid encouraging enrolment numbers.

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Planet Money - We Buy a Superhero 8: Micro-Face: The Musical

This episode, Micro-Face: The Musical. A full concert recording of a one-of-a-kind Planet Money superhero musical, taped during our recent live show at the Roulette Theater in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Best One Yet - 🐎 “Apple + Lamborghini = iCar rumors” — Apple’s Trojan Horse. BeReal’s selfie moment. TicketMaster’s Sprinsteen price.

Apple just hired a Lamborghini vet… and we think Car Play is Apple's Trojan Car Horse. BeReal is #1 overall in the App Store right now — so naturally, Facebook is zucking it. And TicketMaster just sold tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert for over $5,000 and fans are angry — because Dynamic Pricing is Born to Run. $AAPL $LYV $META Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.