501 - Facebook Roundup: Bogus Bitcoin

Check out the episode here

"Fake News" vs. "Clickbait" vs. "Satire

Finger Circle Arrest
https://www.huzlers.com/man-arrested-after-showing-officer-finger-circle-when-asked-for-his-license-registration/
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wj8e74/searching-for-the-man-behind-the-circle-game
https://www.oddee.com/item_96578.aspx

Chocolate will go Extinct in 40 Years
https://www.snopes.com/chocolate-extinct-40-years/
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-chocolate
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/WGIIAR5-PartA_FINAL.pdf 

Facebook Privacy Content
https://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/privacy.asp#examples
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-copyright-hoax-copy-paste-copyright-facebook-message/story?id=17811357
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viral-facebook-privacy-notice-is-a-hoax/ 
https://www.snopes.com/legal/privacy.asp

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is about the Holocaust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Rainbow
https://www.snopes.com/somewhere-over-rainbow-holocaust/ 
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/life/faith/2014/12/10/somewhere-rainbow-jewish-perspective/20104523/ 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Harburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Arlen

Meth Lab
http://www.decaturalabamausa.com/departments/police-department/
https://www.snopes.com/meth-lab-alabama-walmart/
https://policelocator.com/la/east-jefferson-levee-district-police-department/

Chuck-E-Cheese's Tokens sold as Bitcoin
https://consumerist.com/2016/10/05/chuck-e-cheeses-switches-from-tokens-to-stored-value-cards-annoys-token-lovers/
https://bitcoin.org/en/
https://archive.is/ekQXW
https://www.snopes.com/chuck-e-cheese-bitcoin/

FBI Murder/Suicide
http://thedailyhaze.com/fbi-agent-michael-brown-murder-suicide/
https://www.snopes.com/fbi-agent-murder-suicide/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Gazette
https://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/


 

107 - Drugs: "Butt Hash"

Weed overdose
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=191
https://weedpress.wordpress.com/science/studies/ld50-of-cannabis/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-denver-deaths-tied-to-recreational-marijuana-use/

Not your grandpa’s weed
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=191
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/03/23/pot-evolution-how-the-makeup-of-marijuana-has-changed-over-time/#36a916635579

Ecstasy holes in brain
http://www.drugscience.org.uk/drugs-info/mdma/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006899388904519
http://thedea.org/technicalFAQ.html
Oprah Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-CI1Py-Gg
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22664303 - Seratonin and spinal fluid

LSD flashbacks and psychosis
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063972
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-trip-really-give-you-flashbacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P11OyNylbI NSFW AS FUUUUUUUUU

Toad licking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_toad
http://www.vice.com/video/the-toad-prophet-464

Jenkem
2 TV stations in Jacksonville, Florida did a piece on Jenkem, referring to it as “Butt Hash”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UsNbsjpuLc (Butt hash)
2009, Bettendorf, Iowa amended city ordinance
http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_d3d96d82-9b5a-11de-81bb-001cc4c002e0.html
Zambia-Narcotics: 'Huffing and Puffing' to a new High". Inter Press Service. August 26, 1995.

104 - Sports: Trippin' Pitchin' is Driving me Madden

Marathon
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-is-a-marathon-26-2-miles
490 BC, Phedipides, Marathon to athens, victory v persians, died
Not in the traditional olympics 776 BC to 393 AD.
Actually 40 kilometers or 25 miles
1908 olympics, Queen alexandra, lawn of windsor castle to royal box in olympic stadium

Doc Ellis
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-06-30/sports/sp-266_1_dock-ellis

Injury rates by sports
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, 2006.
Basketball (529,000), Cycling (490,000), Football (490,000), Motorsports atv dirtbikes (275,000), Baseball/Softball (274,000)

The Rudy Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wpzcWJtLys

Madden Curse
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/the-madden-curse/

Wade Boggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lpKvr1GCs
red sox, yankees, devils
Originally 50-60 beers on a cross-country flight
According to Charlie Day, 107

Gaylord Perry Homerun
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11_PressKit.pdf
http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_21427514/neil-armstrong-and-one-giant-swing-by-gaylord

Golf holes
http://www.scottishgolfhistory.org/origin-of-golf-terms/18-hole-round/

Golf acronym
http://www.scottishgolfhistory.org/origin-of-golf-terms/golf/

Tee poisoning
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20093939,00.html  
1986, 1982, Army Navy Country Club near Arlington VA, nausea, irritability, blisters, golfed for 3 days, died 2 weeks after entering hospital
Daconil 2787, Chlorothalonil, fungicide, toxic to fish and bees, not birds
10,000 ppm

UPS biking doping
http://www.livescience.com/23932-lance-armstrong-doping-tests.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/lance-armstrong-stripped-tour-de-france-titles-banned/story?id=17535635

Aaron Ramsey
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/488074/Arsenal-Aaron-Ramsey-curse-death-David-Bowie-Alan-Rickman-Twitter