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🐮 THE "WORST ANIMATION IN CHINESE HISTORY" IS A HUGE HIT
One of the most insane movie industry stories in a while. A five-year-old boy dreamed of making an animated film, and his mum spent half a decade teaching herself animation from scratch on second-hand gear to make it happen, just the two of them credited on the whole thing, no AI. It flopped so hard cinemas drew their own posters, then people started watching precisely because of how bad it looked. Now Niu Lai has exploded past $2.5 million. Sometimes you just gotta put it out there.

📚 THE AI BOOK-BUYING MYSTERY
A crazy story about millions of physical books being secretly bought up and destroyed. We get into why AI companies are spending tens of millions doing it, the Anthropic court case and the copyright loophole behind slicing the spines off, the mystery bulk orders unsettling booksellers across Europe, and how a 404 Media journalist planted an AirTag in a rare book shipment and tracked it straight to an Amazon facility.

🇰🇵 DID NORTH KOREA JUST WIN?
This has been Kim's most successful year ever. South Korea's president proposed formally ending the Korean War, Trump agreed to scale back military drills and called the North "unthreatening and respectful," and Kim now has two global superpowers competing for his attention. We break down the reported $10 billion Russia deal, the BMW dealerships, ride-hailing apps and building boom, and how the economy has grown despite decades of predicted collapse.

⚖️ THE DEAN WITHERS ALLEGATIONS: THE DEEPER STORY
We need to talk about the Dean Withers rape allegations, because there's a deeper level to all of it. We get into why there's currently no credible evidence, how the original account was deleted, the screenshots appear manipulated, and the photos appear stolen from a real 13-year-old girl in Australia who has since come forward. Plus the uncomfortable part not many are discussing: how this has become a left-vs-right political football at a real child's expense.

📱 ZUCKERBERG COULD BE FORCED TO CHANGE EVERYTHING
Social media might be on the verge of changing forever. 30 US states are suing Meta for allegedly violating child-privacy laws and deliberately making their platforms addictive, seeking a staggering $1 trillion. We get into what Meta could be forced to do if they lose, from ending like counts and infinite scroll to changing the algorithm and removing filters, and how it could set a precedent for every other platform.

🗺️ AI MAP PRINTED IN A SCHOOL TEXTBOOK
A truly baffling one. A Kentucky middle school handed out booklets full of AI-generated slop that nobody checked, including a US map that renamed Kentucky "Venecky," Louisiana "Lookoong," and hallucinated a fake territory called "Beehive." Plus a periodic table with nonexistent elements and a solar system chart renaming Mars "Marc." We get into the negligence, the parents who caught it, and what it says about AI destroying critical thinking.

🤖 AN AI JUST FIRED A HUMAN EMPLOYEE
For the first time ever, a person has been fired from their job by AI. We cover the experimental San Francisco store run by an AI agent named Luna, how it flagged and fired a worker for showing up late to 17 of 23 shifts, the humans who went along with the recommendation, and what it means if this becomes the norm.

🌊 THE BOY WHO LIVED IN A POND FOR YEARS
A heartbreaking one to end on. A 16-year-old in West Bengal has spent five years living in water, eating and sleeping submerged, because an intense burning sensation spreads across his body whenever he steps out. We cover how his family couldn't afford treatment, how a viral video changed everything, the billionaire who stepped in to airlift him to a top hospital, and the rare condition doctors suspect.

00:00 - introducing!
00:56 - Best Worst movie
03:53 - AI BOOK HARVEST
07:31 - TIRED OF WINNING
11:49 - DEAN WITHERS SITUATION
15:13 - SOCIAL MEDIA IS ABOUT TO CHANGE
16:46 - PEASANT WHISPERS
17:47 - AI SLOPSBOOKS
20:38 - FIRED
22:21 - SH*T YOU DIDN'T KNOW