Strange News: The Onion vs. Alex Jones, Pasta Heists, AI Zuckerberg, and More

About this episode

The hosts discuss various strange news topics including The Onion's acquisition of Infowars, pasta heists, and Mark Zuckerberg's AI avatar.

In this week's strange news segment, Ben, Matt and Noel discuss: the Onion's all-but-certain acquisition of Alex Jones's Infowars, pasta heists and pasta surveillance, zoonotic threats on the horizon, fuel concerns in the EU, and the hilarious fact of Meta/Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg creating his own AI avatar to skip meetings. They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben, Matt, Noel

Topics covered

• strange news
• pasta heists
• AI
• Zoonotic threats
• fuel concerns
• Meta
• Alex Jones

Keywords

• strange news
• The Onion
• Alex Jones
• pasta heists
• AI
• Mark Zuckerberg
• Meta
• Infowars

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Onion, Infowars, Meta

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