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The autistic, bisexual Pakistani character Norma Khan from Dead End: Paranormal Park, resonated with a lot of people, and led the creator to get his own diagnosis. We dig into her story and why her depiction meant so much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

இந்த மகாபாரத ஒலிக்கதைத் தொடர், கங்காதேவி, தேவவிரதனின் கதையுடன் இந்த முதல் பகுதியில் தொடங்குகிறது.கங்கா புத்ரன் தேவவிரதனுக்கு பதினெட்டு வயது நிறைவுற்றாயிற்று. அன்று அவன் பிறந்த நாள். குருகுலக் கல்வி, ஆயுதப் பயிற்சிகளையெல்லாம் அவன் வெற்றிகரமாய் முடித்தாயிற்று. தாய் கங்கையுடன் அவன் கங்கையாற்றங்கரையில் அளவளாவுகிறான். தன் அஸ்திரத் திறமையை அன்னைக்குக் காட்டித் தருகிறான். அன்று, அவனை அவனது தந்தை சாந்தனு மகராஜாவிடம் சேர்த்துவிட்டு பூவுலகை விட்டே விடைபெறும் எண்ணத்தில் இருக்கிறாள் கங்கை. அது குறித்து தாய்-மகனுக்கு இடையே நிகழும் உணர்ச்சிகரமான உரையாடல்களைக் கேட்டு ரசியுங்கள்.#mahabaratam #vyasamaharshi #tamilaudiobook #mythology #deepikaarun

What do you do if your partner has a crush on a fictional character and it is getting in the way of your relationship?

Leave Fred Smoot and Michael Jenkins a voicemail at 703-726-7419 or send us an email at washingtongetloud@gmail.com ! (00:30) OFFENSIVE PREDICTIONS (17:59) ED OLIVER JOINS THE SHOW (29:22) HEADLINES (57:00) VOICEMAILS (1:04:00) FAVE FIVE The views and opinions expressed by our podcast guests and/or hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Washington Commanders or any of their representatives.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bryan and Anderson review The Invite, Hero and Breakfast on Pluto. Then the boys tip their hats to fake capitalism with Top 5 Fictional Businesses! Amazon Click-fessions Loaded for Bear New Promo Video! The Film Vault on Youtube TFV Patreon is Here for Even More Film Vault Anderson's new doc: Loaded for Bear Atty's Antiques Baldywood Newsletter COMEDY CONFESSIONAL  Listener Art: Curtis Hilmes Featured Artist: Devin Cuddy The Film Vault on Twitch Buy Bryan's Book Shrinkage Here The Film Vaulters “Kubrick is Everywhere” Shirt CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @AndersonAndBryan Facebook.com/TheFilmVault Twitter: @TheFilmVault HAVE A CHAT WITH ANDY HERE ATTY & ANDY: DIRECTED BY A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Subscribe Atty and Andy's Youtube Channel Here THE COLD COCKLE SHORTS RULES OF REDUCTION MORMOAN THE CULT OF CARANO Please Give Groupers a Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Here Please Rate It on IMDB Here The Blu-ray, US The Blu-ray, International Groupers is now available on these platforms. On Amazon On Google Play  On iTunes On Youtube On Tubi On Vudu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sketching Up. Hosts Chris Schnabel and Matt Tornetta estimate the real-world Zillow values of some of the most iconic animated houses in pop culture history.Join the Discordhttps://discord.com/invite/dYhnmwQANbBefore jumping into the housing market chaos, Chris and Matt discuss Netflix recreating Gene Wilder's voice for a Willy Wonka competition series, the growing problem of AI voice recreation, SpongeBob Day, SpongeBob alternate endings, and the Emmy nominations for best voiceover performance.Then the real fun begins: What would Wayne Manor actually cost? How expensive is Titans Tower? Is SpongeBob's pineapple secretly prime underwater real estate? Could Arnold's boarding house be a New York City goldmine? From The Simpsons' house to Dexter's Laboratory, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Addams Family Mansion, Planet Express, Bob's Burgers, the Griffin house, and more, Chris and Matt try to guess the value of fictional animated properties with wildly mixed results.If you love animation, cartoons, pop culture, fictional real estate, Zillow scrolling, SpongeBob, Batman, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and ridiculous podcast debates, this episode is for you.Follow Sketching Up:Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/sketchinguppod/Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/sketchinguppod/TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@sketchinguppodVideo edited by Chris SchnabelEpisode Produced by Chris Schnabel and Matt TornettaMusic by Kyle ScottSketching Up is a Schnabel Studios Production.Chapters00:08 Introduction & Episode Setup00:34 Gene Wilder AI Voice Controversy03:25 SpongeBob Day, Alternate Endings & Patrick Star Music08:17 Emmy Voiceover Nominations Discussion18:31 Animated House Zillow Estimates Begin20:15 Wayne Manor Estimate23:39 Titans Tower Estimate25:41 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Estimate26:51 Kids Next Door Treehouse Estimate31:18 Mystery Shack Estimate33:30 Powerpuff Girls House Estimate35:15 Dexter's Laboratory House Estimate37:47 Kent Farm Estimate40:30 Courage the Cowardly Dog Farmhouse Estimate42:13 The Simpsons House Estimate44:09 SpongeBob's Pineapple, Squidward's House & Patrick's Rock48:22 Ed, Edd n Eddy Cul-de-Sac Estimate49:18 Arnold's Boarding House Estimate51:39 Flintstones House Estimate52:47 Johnny Bravo & Fairly OddParents Houses53:57 Tommy Pickles House Estimate54:23 Jetsons Sky Pad Apartment Estimate55:48 Proud Family & Griffin House Estimates58:30 Planet Express Building Estimate59:47 Adventure Time Treehouse Estimate1:01:18 Bob's Burgers Building Estimate1:03:38 Addams Family Mansion Estimate1:08:01 Final Thoughts & Outro

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Send us Fan MailIn this one, Mike and Cody are getting into the restaurant game. NEW SITV MERCH!JOIN THE PATREON!https://linktr.ee/sitvpodAlbum art by @haileycomet_tattooHailey Comet TattooSupport the show

Callers weigh in on a fictional Packers football game, dive deep into how unreliable human memory is, criticize Jeff Hafley's defensive performance, and debate Nixon's cornerback stats and attitude. Key discussion points: - Fictional football positions and game scenario ideas from listeners - Scientific discussion on memory as reconstruction, not playback, with real-life examples - Uncle Rico calls out Jeff Hafley for defensive collapses and lack of accountability - Detailed stats and analysis on Keishan's 2024 season performance and recency bias - Listener ideas for compiling favorite Packers plays - Beer Cheese Benny shares thoughts on American pride and travel Call to action: Subscribe, rate, and review the show. Call in to 608-501-0718 to join future episodes. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: NFL Draft Grades: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ Hashmarks: https://hashmarks.io/

Callers weigh in on a fictional Packers football game, dive deep into how unreliable human memory is, criticize Jeff Hafley's defensive performance, and debate Nixon's cornerback stats and attitude. Key discussion points: - Fictional football positions and game scenario ideas from listeners - Scientific discussion on memory as reconstruction, not playback, with real-life examples - Uncle Rico calls out Jeff Hafley for defensive collapses and lack of accountability - Detailed stats and analysis on Keishan's 2024 season performance and recency bias - Listener ideas for compiling favorite Packers plays - Beer Cheese Benny shares thoughts on American pride and travel Call to action: Subscribe, rate, and review the show. Call in to 608-501-0718 to join future episodes. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: NFL Draft Grades: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ Hashmarks: https://hashmarks.io/

Who gets called a psychopath and who just refused to perform grief the right way?Part 4 of Shannon and Cathy's decade-by-decade Female Psychopath Series lands in the 2010s; a decade that gave us some of the most psychologically complex and culturally fascinating dangerous women in both true crime history and popular culture.This episode covers:True crime:Jodi Arias — the courtroom theatrics, the manipulation, the clinical picture behind one of the most watched murder trials in American historyJoanna Dennehy — Britain's rare female serial killer and what her case tells us about female violenceGypsy Rose Blanchard — Munchausen by proxy, coercive control, and an almost impossible story of survival and culpabilityKatherine Knight — Australia's most notorious female killer and the psychology behind decades of escalating violenceFiction:Villanelle (Killing Eve) — making psychopathy look like the most interesting personality on televisionAmy Dunne (Gone Girl) — redefining what a female villain could beCersei Lannister (Game of Thrones) — weaponizing every system around herRose Armitage (Get Out) — the smile that hid everythingTherapists Shannon and Cathy bring their clinical lens to the real and the fictional — unpacking what these women have in common, where they diverge, and what the 2010s' cultural obsession with dangerous women tells us about female psychology, female rage, and female power.Part 4 of 4. The Female Psychopath Series concludes here.Previously in the series:Part 1: Female Psychopaths of the 1980s (S8E4)Part 2: Female Psychopaths of the 1990s (S8E9)Part 3: Female Psychopaths of the 2000s (S8E18)Two licensed therapists — one forensic psychologist, one clinical marriage and family therapist — analyzing the psychology of real killers and fictional villains so you don't have to wonder what's actually going on.Until then... sleep safe.

Sweet 16 of Fictional Doctors with Skip Weber- h4 full 1103 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:37:01 +0000 AGuJ1QsbmQlpPG8P8sHya8mxCzExAjNX comedy,religion & spirituality,society & culture,news,government The Dave Glover Show comedy,religion & spirituality,society & culture,news,government Sweet 16 of Fictional Doctors with Skip Weber- h4 The Dave Glover Show has been driving St. Louis home for over 20 years. Unafraid to discuss virtually any topic, you'll hear Dave and crew's unique perspective on current events, news and politics, and anything and everything in between. © 2025 Audacy, Inc. Comedy Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture News Government https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-l

92%ers, Happy Father's Day and welcome to another Bonus Episode of New Heights brought to you by Expedia. To celebrate, Jason reveals the fictional father he aspires to be, and we're looking back at some of our favorite dad moments from the show.We revisit some unforgettable stories and advice from Johnny Knoxville, Nate Bargatze, Zach Ertz, and more. Shop our new merch at https://kelceclubhouse.com Watch and listen to new episodes of New Heights every Wednesday during the NFL season and follow us on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshowYou can also listen to new episodes on Wondery, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. ...Download the full podcast here:Wondery: https://wondery.app.link/s9hHTgtXpMbApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-heights/id1643745036Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1y3SUbFMUSESC1N43tBleK?si=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynwSupport the show: EXPEDIA: The one place you go to go placesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In today's r/AmIOverReacting story, OP's partner creates a fictional world in an app and within this world he is married to OP's best friend.00:00 Intro00:19 Story 1 u/SessionNovel858403:18 Comments05:47 Update07:59 Comments09:38 Story 2 u/throw_a_way_198512:40 Comments16:19 Story 3 u/TheSciFiGuy8018:00 Comments20:30 Story 4 u/plushiebear24:12 Comments26:39 Story 5 u/Busy_Manner_571029:06 Comments31:26 Outro Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's episode we ar joined by KFC, Clem & Klemmer for a draft of the greatest fictional dads of all time.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/thedogwalk

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Send us Fan MailIn this one, Mike and Cody que the guitar riffs and discuss some Rad dads. For-real for-real no-cap on god. NEW SITV MERCH!JOIN THE PATREON!https://linktr.ee/sitvpodAlbum art by @haileycomet_tattooHailey Comet TattooSupport the show

Utterly Useless is three Brothers-ish, talking random stuff, mainly movie/TV/trivia, attempting to make each other laugh or get a really-really uncomfortable, and answer life's most pointless questions. In this podcast, after the gang shares their most recent life earned "Merit Badges", we play the game of absolute randomness "Spin-the-Wheel". Then we round up the podcast with Jeremy's "Channel Surfing" segment of fun, and fantasy drafting and creating our own Summer Camp Counselors using fictional characters and then discovering the fallout of our selections. We then conclude the podcast by sharing our One Good Recommendation! This Podcast's Bookmarks Utterly Useless Intro & Quote - 00:00:00 Life Earned Merit Badge - 00:03:36 Spin-the-Wheel - 00:17:37 Jeremy's Screen Savvy Segment - 00:42:01 Summer Camp Counselor Fantasy Draft - 00:55:42 One Good Recommendation - 01:36:50  

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Happy Father's Day, gang. This Sunday, it's Dad's big day and we're going to celebrate it. Like our Mother's Day episode, this is three rounds of fictional dads. TV, Movies, and Theater dads are getting 10 rounds each. Connect with the show: DorkyGeekyNerdy.com Patreon BlueSky Facebook Spotify Discord Reddit

Happy Father's Day, gang. This Sunday, it's Dad's big day and we're going to celebrate it. Like our Mother's Day episode, this is three rounds of fictional dads. TV, Movies, and Theater dads are getting 10 rounds each. Connect with the show: DorkyGeekyNerdy.com Patreon BlueSky Facebook Spotify Discord Reddit

The 2018 depiction of Catra from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power was one that tackled big topics like trauma, redemption and queer love.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A candlemaker guards one dying flame through the night while ravenous things in the dark demand the soul of a frozen stranger. An old woman stares through a second-floor window with no ledge to stand on, and the shadow man behind her inches closer with every passing night. And a small-town officer commits a man to a psychiatric hold for claiming a five-year-old suicide was really a murder — until the same vision starts playing out in front of his own eyes.FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I have three stories in this episode for you! Andrew Pendragon pens the tale, “Candles” to start things off. Weirdo Family member Randy Hogan shares a fictional tale called “Old Woman in the Window”. And then our final story is from S.F. Barkley called “I'm a Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn't Crazy”.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:10.223 = Chandler's Candles00:19:35.808 = The Old Woman in the Window00:24:35.615 = I'm A Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn't Crazy, Part 1 ***01:03:09.029 = I'm A Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn't Crazy, Part 2 ***01:29:19.732 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“I'm a Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn't Crazy” by S.F. Barkley: https://sfbarkley.com/,https://www.reddit.com/user/Barkles52/“Candles” by Andrew Pendragon: https://www.creepypasta.com/candles/“The Old Woman in the Window” by Weird family member, Randy Hogan(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: September 10, 2020Weird Darkness gathers three works of horror fiction for Creepypasta Thursday, moving from a candlemaker's nightly bargain with the dark, to a watcher at an upstairs window, to a small-town murder reopened by a vision no evidence could explain.It opens with a candlemaker in the small town of Clovetown, the last practitioner of an inherited art he calls Chandler's candles, passed to him from his father and grandmother and kept alive mostly through monthly orders from the Catholic church down the road. His after-hours visitors come only once, telling him sad stories before they go, and on a freezing Tuesday a muddy, shivering man named Basim arrives — a wanderer whose family left Israel before settling in a Midwestern state he refuses to name. The candlemaker warms Basim with tea, tends a bruise left when local children pelted him with a rock, and sends him off with a vanilla-scented sculpted candle and a box of matches. That night the shop window shatters under another volley of stones, and Basim is found frozen to death on a bench outside. As the power fails and darkness floods the shop, ravenous shadow-creatures his family has sheltered against for centuries surround him and demand Basim's marked soul, and he survives the night only by shielding the dying flame of that single candle with his own body until dawn.From there the episode turns to a teenage boy who finds an old woman staring through his second-floor bedroom window, her face blank and dead, though no ledge or balcony exists for anyone to stand on. She returns each night after 10:30 for eight months, and the pattern eventually breaks — she appears in the living room window in daylight, then inside the house, and finally seated beside him with the same lifeless expression. A second figure joins her, a shadow man with masculine features who edges closer with each appearance, and his presence twists the old woman's blank stare into one of horror and terror. By the end, both stand within inches of the boy, and he does not know whether he will live to see another night.The episode closes with Sean Barkley, a Crisis Intervention Team officer working the night shift in rural Pennsylvania, dispatched on a freezing-rain night to a farmhouse where a man named Kevin claims to have witnessed a murder. Kevin's sister, Melissa Watson, died in that house five years earlier in a death ruled a suicide, but he now sees a recurring vision in the upstairs bedroom — Melissa pleading for her life as her husband Andrew fires a gun — and Barkley glimpses the same muzzle flash in the window. Rather than let Kevin hunt Andrew down, Barkley commits him on an involuntary hold and quietly reopens the case with fellow officer Tim, uncovering an autopsy that recorded old bruises and a broken rib never investigated, a handgun bullet buried in the mattress, and a shotgun shell hidden in an air duct. The trail leads to Virginia Beach, where a search warrant turns up Melissa's missing .380 and a destroyed external hard drive holding child exploitation material, some of it filmed in the basement of the farmhouse. Andrew is arrested and then released on bail before he is found dead in a motel room, an apparent suicide with a note only Barkley can see, and a final vision of Melissa's spirit reveals that she had drawn the investigation toward exposing her husband so that she could claim her own revenge.

From Guy Fieri to Ninja Turtles pizza, the guys debate which fictional food spots they'd love to experience.

In this episode we will learn about the development history of Shanghai Disneyland. Plus, questions on Fictional bands featured in Fox Films, Characters from The Princess Diaries, and Walt Disney! Subscribe using your favorite podcast app or listen using the link below: Podketeers.com/Quizneyland

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Diving back into the world of villainy, Mark and John discuss sociopathy and their favorite examples in film and TV.

Today on the show: Fictional and nonfictional takes on extraterrestrial life. Steven Rowley's new novel Take Me With You is about a man whose husband is abducted by aliens. The author says the premise stemmed from one he often discusses with his own husband: If you had the chance to be taken by aliens, would you go? In today's episode, Rowley speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about the novel's “willing hitchhiker.” Then, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks with NPR's Scott Simon about his new book,Take Me to Your Leader, which is a practical guide to – and exploration of – alien encounters.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedaySee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

The bones Spanish conquistadors pulled from the Ecuadorian earth were far too large to belong to any man they had ever seen, and the strange trail those giants leave behind runs straight back to the fallen Watchers of Genesis and the towering Nephilim they fathered.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AncientGiantsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mpmkprwyFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Ancient giants in Ecuador were supposedly killed by fire from the sky. Tales of giants in North America. The stories of giants living in the days of Noah. How much of these stories about giants can be believed – and how much should be considered tall-tales?CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Fictional giant story “Jack O' Legs”00:04:09.349 = Show Open00:05:14.221 = Ancient Giants, Part 100:17:20.430 = Ancient Giants, Part 2 ***00:36:02.900 = Ancient Giants, Part 3 ***00:46:36.422 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Jack O' Legs” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/emv9rr46“Giants of Yore” by GotQuestions.org: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/fu4dx579, and Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5enmwfzb, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5c2w4xbb,https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/tk4nr88n, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4bu4e4mh,https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/76wab36r, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/8j5zympd, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/tfdf8jfn(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: March, 2022

Daddy Declan is back! But... this is not the Rivals from Season 1. We have a lot of thoughts. Enjoy Emily feeling real good (maybe a little tipsy) and vocal about the first drop of episodes.This episode has the most passionate hoefirmation to grace this show.Head over to our socials and share your thoughts about the first three episodes.Send us Fan MailSupport the showConnect with usInstagram: https://bit.ly/ourIGpageTikTok: https://bit.ly/ourTiktokpageIntro and Outro music, Sexy Fashion Beat from Coma-Media 

The most petty and ill informed podcast in the world! We hear from special guest Chick Young about the time he could't do his own famous laugh and about being petrified of Jock Stein and Tartan Army app developer Jim Law talks about growing up in Stan Laurel's old house in Burnside. Scotland Curacao; Gilmour Out - Fletcher In; Penalty Shootouts; Fictional Houses and Cash XI Stuart and Tam are joined by BBC 'Icon' Chick Young and app developer Jim Law.

Hemant Mehta is adept at writing challenging but highly entertaining Friday crosswords, and we cherish every one of the seven that he has constructed. Today's had some awesome clues, including 55A, Time of day either way, NOON (

    In this episode of Top Five, we're diving into the legendary, overpowered, and wildly impractical weapons from movies, games, comics, and TV that we secretly wish existed. Some would change the world, some would definitely get us into trouble, and some are just too cool to leave trapped in fiction. So lock and load your imagination as we count down the Top Five Fictional Weapons We Wish Were Real. You can subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at Patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure The Top Five Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) At Major Spoilers, we strive to create original content that you find interesting and entertaining. Producing, writing, recording, editing, and researching require significant resources. We pay writers, podcast hosts, and other staff members who work tirelessly to provide you with insights into the comic book, gaming, and pop culture industries. Help us keep MajorSpoilers.com strong. Become a Patron (and our superhero) today. Thanks for listening to Top Five! This post is public, so feel free to share it.

In this episode of Top Five, we're diving into the legendary, overpowered, and wildly impractical weapons from movies, games, comics, and TV that we secretly wish existed. Some would change the world, some would definitely get us into trouble, and some are just too cool to leave trapped in fiction. So lock and load your imagination as we count down the Top Five Fictional Weapons We Wish Were Real. You can subscribe via Apple Podcasts. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at Patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure The Top Five Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) At Major Spoilers, we strive to create original content that you find interesting and entertaining. Producing, writing, recording, editing, and researching require significant resources. We pay writers, podcast hosts, and other staff members who work tirelessly to provide you with insights into the comic book, gaming, and pop culture industries. Help us keep MajorSpoilers.com strong. Become a Patron (and our superhero) today. Thanks for listening to Top Five! This post is public, so feel free to share it.

This morning we go over the fictional deaths that we still aren't over See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Resident Evil's Ada Wong is enigmatic, mysterious, and lives by her own rules.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In celebration or commiseration of Grogru and Mandalorian, we look at fictional children to see which one we'd adopt. Probably could have worded that one better. I can see why the first 4 minutes of the episode happens now. JD has a mental break and tries to find the ninja turtles so he can ensure his new sephew (son/nephew) can become the 5th turtle, Zammit uses his new boy to make himself look like a pillar of the community until the kaiju incident and Jackson can't stop spraying his kid with the hose. Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“If you write something you think is really fanciful today, tomorrow's news headlines might be telling the exact same story. That's the challenge of writing realism today — when everything feels so sci-fi and so dystopic.” — Fred Lunzer Boy meets girl meets AI therapist. That is the premise of Sike, the debut novel by Fred Lunzer. Adrian is a rap ghostwriter who has never met any of the rappers he writes for. After a relationship collapse, he signs up for Sike — a Facebook-style AI psychotherapy app that tracks your every move and emotion via smart glasses and guides you toward mental contentment. He meets Maquie, a venture capitalist and Sike refusnik. You can imagine the rest. Sike is a self-consciously “realist” love story set in a world where AI therapy is ubiquitous. Lunzer wanted to write AI fiction that is realistic rather than dystopian or utopian. He started it speculatively. By the time he'd finished, ChatGPT had launched and what he'd once fancifully imagined had become reality. It's the futuristic writer's permanent predicament. Make the future believable before it becomes so familiar that we barely notice it. Turn science fiction into social realism. Five Takeaways •       AI Fiction Without Dystopia: The Gap Lunzer Is Filling: Almost all AI fiction is either utopian or dystopian. James Bond loves gadgets. Most literary fiction treats technology as vaguely grubby and pushes it into genre. Lunzer's ambition: find the realism. Write about a world where AI is already everywhere, the initial fears are already past, and we've reached the same ambivalent relationship with it that we have with our smartphones. We don't know what model we have. We barely think about it. That's where the interesting questions live. •       Reality Caught Up Before He Finished: Lunzer wrote Sike speculatively. By the time he finished, ChatGPT had launched. William Gibson's observation: the future is already here, just unevenly distributed. His corollary: if you write something fanciful today, it's tomorrow's news story. Lunzer's solution to this perpetual problem is to stop writing near-future speculation and instead set the story in a world where the technology is already past its introduction — where the hype is over and the real reckoning begins. •       Realism Is the Hardest Genre Right Now: Andrew's observation: the best AI fiction is realist. Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun treats unimaginable things as taken for granted. That's the technique. Lunzer agrees — and notes that realism is particularly hard to write now because everything already feels surreal. Trump, AI, the state of the world: if you'd described any of it thirty years ago, people would have called it fiction. The challenge of the realist novelist in 2026 is to find the quiet normality inside the chaos. •       Non-Polarising AI Fiction: Lunzer deliberately avoided writing a book that slams Meta, or that is obviously pro- or anti-AI. He calls it non-polarised. In Sike, some characters love the AI therapy app, some refuse to use it. No one is obviously right. The book's thesis — insofar as it has one — is that the interesting questions about AI are not the ones about whether it's good or bad, but the ones that arise once you've stopped arguing about that and started living with it. •       The Economics of Writing: Trenches, Not Glamour: Lunzer has a day job — AI researcher at Sony. Sike was his first published novel, not his first written. Before it: a travel narrative about the Japanese restaurant industry that went nowhere, and a novel about a global pandemic finished in early 2020 and overtaken by COVID before any publisher would touch it. His verdict on the publishing world: not glamorous. A lot of books. A lot of writers. Not much money except for a few. He got an advance. Most debut novelists don't earn it back. The lesson he draws from Norman Mailer: writing a good novel is like learning to play the piano well. It just takes time. About the Guest Fred Lunzer is an AI researcher at Sony and the author of Sike: A Novel (Celadon Books, 2024; paperback 2026). He was born in London and lives in West Sussex, England. References: •       Sike: A Novel by Fred Lunzer (Celadon Books, 2024; paperback 2026). •       Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun — the key comparison text referenced in the interview. •       William Gibson — two quotes referenced: “The future is already here, just unevenly distributed”; and the observation about reality catching up with fiction. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters: 

Join host Jamie Ray and returning guest Kimmie B as they explore their Fave Five Fictional Foods—because nothing says friendship like dishing on which imaginary meals are the most delicious. The two pals pick their own lists around this tasty theme, and as always, Jamie manages to shoehorn in another horror film because apparently, he finds terror truly appetizing. In a fun twist, both Jamie and Kimmie gravitate toward Scooby-Doo inspired picks, triggering the iconic Target lady match sound effect. You could say they really nailed the snack attack. They dive into Scooby Snacks and Shaggy sandwiches, discuss how Scooby Snacks became real cookies, and explore the history of big sandwiches in comics, tracing the concept back before the Mystery Machine ever came along. Tune in for another episode of genuine passion and personal connection to the foods we love.Links can be found on our profile page and at www.linktr.ee/hulkboy. Visit & interact on Instagram (www.instagram.com/favefivefromfans), Twitter/X (www.X.com/Fave5FromFans), Facebook (www.facebook.com/FaveFiveFromFans), & our website (www.FaveFiveFromFans.com). Also, check out Plastic Microphone Studios' X & Instagram accounts ( @PMStudiosPod ) and the great stuff from Complete Disarray With Jamie Ray ( @DisarrayPodcast ), The Average Home Theater Reviews ( @AHT_Reviews), Red Dog Terrain ( @RedDogTerrain ), Sequel House (@SequelHousePod ), and more!The Average Home Theater Reviews - www.youtube.com/@averagehometheater4901Red Dog Terrain  - www.youtube.com/@reddogterrain Sequel House - www.youtube.com/@SequelHousePod #FaveFiveFromFans #FFFF #PMStudiosPod #podcast #podcasts #podcasting #FictionalFoods #Podcast #ScoobyDoo #PodcastCommunity #IndieAudio #FoodieLife #HorrorFilm

In the mid-1700s the Acadian people had been settled in the Nova Scotia region of Canada for over 100 years. When the area was transferred to the British, it was encouraged that the Acadian people take an oath of allegiance to the Crown. While many battles and political moments contributed, which is encouraged for everyone to research, the unrest in the area lead to the British forcibly removing the Acadian people from their homes and lands, causing many to be deported and made to settle elsewhere. It is do to this moment - or The Great Upheaval – that Louisiana now has the Acadiana region and the vast number of Cajun descendants. One person that can trace their roots to Nova Scotia is writer Marianne Sulser. Marianne has written a book titled “Like Snow Before Sun,” which takes a fictional approach to this time period, and a look into some real-life moments of the people that lived it. This week Marianne chats with me about her book and why she wanted to tell this story .

In this episode, we detail the vague, baseless racism-sowing media coverage and pop culture obsession with so-called "sleeper cells," a construction that has consumed post-9/11 America but suffers from one major problem: there's no evidence it exists.

Find show notes HERE. Is Fictional Magic Dangerous? What if fantastical fiction helped deepen your understanding of God?What if reading stories about magic didn't mean abandoning your convictions or your faith?What if you could read Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, AND Harry Potter... all with a clean conscience? Check out On Magic & Miracles: A Theological Guide to Discerning Fictional Magic by Marian A. Jacobs

It looks like robots are going to be intergraded into our life a lot sooner than we expected but we don't really have a lot to worry about... a flight was delayed coming to San Diego all because of a robot passenger and its battery... Today is Revenge of the Fifth so of course Eddie is getting in there with a Star Wars themed top 10, it's his Top 10 Star Wars Prequel Mistakes Today is Teacher Appreciation Day and to celebrate we break down a list of the top ranked fictional teachersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SMNTY reports on April O'Neil, and her role as a bridge between humanity and teenage mutant ninja turtles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode we are joined by Tommy Smokes and Rudy for a blind draft of something similar to the "Fight Crew" draft - except this time every round is a wild card. This is also a blind draft, as the drafters did not know the topic walking into the draft room. SUPPORT THE SHOW Chicagoland Chevy Dealers - Go to https://ChevyDrivesChicago.com to enter to win and go shop your pick at your Local Chevy Dealer today Rhoback - Use the code DOG on Rhoback.com for 20% off your first purchase through the end of this week BlueChew - When you buy two months of BlueChew Gold, you get the third for FREE with promo code DOGWALK https://bluechew.com Magnolia Pictures - See NORMAL only in theaters April 17 Kraken - Kraken's giving you $25 in Bitcoin, new users go to https://kraken.com/barstool, use code BARSTOOL25 when you sign up, deposit and trade $100 boom -- $25 in BTC. Done. Disclaimer: Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business, not a member of FINRA/SIPC and not FDIC insuredYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/thedogwalk