This Week in Fun (Audio): Recent Episodes
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Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent cover this week's fun facts in an irreverent look at the news.
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Dating site ban, Weight Watchers floor collapses, sex doll stops suicide, street-walking taxes, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Robotic Christmas, BAC record, emergency ride, funeral home drunks, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Texting your target, DWI obesity, a toilet restaurant, choir students at Hooters, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Very remote lodging, chewing gum, jailhouse pot, that's a lot of cheddar, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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A virtual wife, Goodwill ganja, porno research, clean toilet seats, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Daddy Klingon, Bug poo, Oprah ending show, ugly crime, bionic butt, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Pothead calls 911, wedding brawling, fake kidnapping, self-identifying as a terrorist, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Axe lacks effect, Yelp fights, fat recruits, Blockbuster slasher, bad teeth, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Sneezing paralysis, a May-September romance, Colonel Sanders, Halloween, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Lay-Z-Boy DWI, sex workers gone green, tweet beat, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Sex leads to social networking, tweet beat, Leo Laporte drops in, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Leo Laporte
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Sober depression, prophylactic attraction, a rare Xbox, raccoon attack, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Taxi vomit, rat-killing TV, karaoke gone bad, a frootless effort, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Gay on Facebook, driving while texting, metal detectors, Paul Kirk, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Banana sex, Gollum, buttery bridges, man-eating birds, pee helps tomatoes, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Pigeon vs. Internet, spamless Middlesex, robbery dating, accidental porn, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Poo Girl, Burning Man, Google gets simple, Japanese Kit Kats, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Jessica Biel malware, Internet people, Beyoncé, when cows attack, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Mindless Twitter babble, gamers are old and fat, briefcase toilet, old man attacks bad drivers with bricks, and more.
- Tweet Your Prayers
- 40 percent of Twitter messages 'pointless babble': study
- Briefcase Toilet
- Man Pretends to be Disabled to Get Diaper Changed
- Woodstock Generation Still Getting High. A Lot.
- UK UFO Sightings Spiked When Blockbusters Released
- Brick-weilding old man attacks traffic violators with bricks
- World's largest cupcake, another one for the dumb record books
- Brit bought wife jewelry every time he cheated, added up to 300k pounds, daughter sold at auction
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Action figures, UFC training, Italian Lotto, Cuba's out of T.P., when otters attack, and more.
- Man Goes Nuts After Mom Throws Out Action Figures
- Man throws rocks at five people and tells them he was preparing for the Ultimate Fighting Championship and "he needed to practice getting knocked out so he could prepare.
- Thousands Fly To Italy to Play Lotto
- Cuba Almost Out of Toilet Paper
- Woman Attacked by Otters
- Cucumber Thefts Baffle Australian Police
- Laziness Epidemic in Britain
- Nanobees Sting Tumors to Death – But at What Cost?
- Finnish people need a hobby
- Belarus keeping their schoolchildren safe from cell phone radiation
- Thai temple helps drug users beat their addictions through vomiting
Tweet Beat
- "C-Murder" or "I'm an avid Birder"
- "Hate Group" vs. "Feel Like Poop"
- "Mermaid" vs. "Get Laid"
- "Damon Weaver" vs. "Have a Fever"
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Gaydar, Super Glue, lonely on Facebook, Nurse of the Year, and more.
- Gaydar is Real
- Man's Wife and Three Lovers Superglue Penis To His Leg
- Is It Time For Walking Helmets?
- World's Most Expensive Whiskey
- Facebook Wants You to Stay Lonely
- Coffee Shops Pull Plugs on Laptop Users
- Man Downloads Child Porn, Blames Cat
- Guy sues Oprah for 1 Trillion dollars, totally reasonable
- PSA urges citizens to pee in the shower to save water
- Fake nurse awards herself "Nurse of the Year", people believe her
- Man watches 84 hours of "Friends" back-to-back, breaks world record
- Guy who spent 6 years in prison for robbing a New Jersey bank arrested for robbing same bank
Tweet Beat
- "I need a smoke" or "Clinton joke" (from Dave Randolph)
- "34 Million on Food stamps" or "I have cramps"
- "Drinking wine" or "Ben Stein"
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Italian GPS blunder, cult-like startups, tweet libel, online dating, Megan Fox, and more.
- Tourists Miss Island After GPS Blunder
- New Startup Sound More Like a Cult
- Libel Suit Filed Over Single Tweet
- Online Dating Sites Lie About How Many People Use Them and Get Married
- Megan Fox Most Popular Woman Men Would Like to Buy a Date With
- U.S. May Require Anti-DWI Locks on Vehicles
True or Poo
- Live in a cave as a professional witch
- Heavy-set yarn thief
- Thai disease game show
Tweet Beat:
- Harry Potter or Welcome Back Kotter
- New Jobs or Lou Dobbs
- Hit the Sheets or Sarah Palin's Tweets
- High Score or Michael Moore
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Broken space toilet, Japanese trains, same name marriage, a big credit card bill, and more.
- Somebody Broke Toilet on Space Station
- Japanese Train Workers Use Software to Practice Smiling
- Transformers Fan Drank Gasoline to Gain Energy
- Son and his Furry pal plot to kill parents, have his penis bitten off
- Kelly Hildebrandt is marrying Kelly Hildebrandt
- Man gets quadrillion-dollar credit card bill
- Tasered guy bursts into flames (submitted by Tony Colonello)
Tweet Beat
- Bin Laden's Son or I've got the runs
- Henry Louis Gates or Jon & Kate
- National Mall or Ha LOL
- Gordon Liddy or P. Diddy
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Pissed cops, drunk drivers, ATM pepper spray, Topless Nuns, and more.
- iPhones Used to Dodge Speed Traps, Sobriety Checkpoints. Cops Pissed
- Accused Drunk Driver Left Beer On Trunk
- Topless Nun
True or Poo
- Tiger Woods loses his pride
- Origins of the "green room"
- Facebook party and riot police
Tweet Beat
- Ivanka Trump or Take a dump
- Ron Paul or Volleyball
- Everybody Wins or Gay Porn Twins
- Outrageous Attacks or Goldman Sachs
- Planet of the Apes or Moon Tapes
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: David Prager
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Martin in SF Chronicle, Digital Rubik's Cube, dumb dictionaries, bad French tourists, and more.
- Murphy-Goode Chronicle Article
- Digital Rubik's Cube
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary is officially dumb
- Expedia study ranks French as worst tourists, Japanese best
True or Poo
- Man's Penis Tattoo Exonerates Him
- Woman Shot While Taking a Crap
- Urine Powered Cars
- That crazy hot dog eater wins 3rd championship at Coney Island contest
Tweet Beat
- Lindsay Lohan or Sasha Baron Cohen
- Sheila Jackson Lee or Have Sex With Me
- Too Much Drama too much Obama
- Gary Vee or HIV
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Web time strains marriages, porn scares kids, snack food for sex, and more.
- Too Much Time Online Strains Marriages
- Man Blares Porn To Scare Off Kids
- Toy Plant For Lonely Japanese
- Oral Sex For a Box of Chips
- Cheetohs Used In Assault
True or Poo:
- A Chinese farmer dug a 50ft wide, 16-meter wide hole inside his house to go fishing.
- A school named after Donald H. Rumsfeld.
- Restaurant where people pay what they think is fair.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Employer privacy invasion, Google catches muggers, girl falls asleep while getting tattooed, and more.
- City of Bozeman asks for applicants Internet passwords
- Maybe Trying To Avoid This
- Google Street View Camera Catches Muggers
- Fun, Interactive Map of Meth Labs in Tulsa, OK
- Girl Falls Asleep During Tattoo
- Dress Lights Up When Phone Rings
- Cell Phone Saves Man's Life
- Only 50% of Country Music Fans Have Internet Access
- True or Poo
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Facebook name grab, Crunchberries aren't real fruit, prison time for underwear theft, and more.
- The Digital TV Transition
- Millions Grab Facebook User Names, Leaving Others In Their Dust
- Judge Dismisses Suit Claiming Cap'n Crunch 'Crunchberries' Aren't Real Fruit
- No Company Vacations for Googlers This Year
- A Really Goode Job - View Applicant Videos: Who do you like?
- Ohio man sentenced to 9 years in prison for stealing underwear...
- Hundreds of snakes take over police station
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Twittering into a tree, anti-piracy puppy, prosecutor prosecuted, boy booty boosts business, and more.
- Man jogs into tree while using Twitter
- Anti-piracy pup sniffs out 35,000 illegal DVDs
- Miami-Dade prosecutor charged with punching pizza delivery woman
- Wanted: Male Prostitutes at Nevada Brothel in Hopes of Boosting Business
- "Space Headache" a New Type of Astronaut Affliction?
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Hoarding golf balls, the penta-kidney man, Scientology fail, avian larcenist, fowl assault, and more.
- starbuckseverywhere: man wants to visit all starbucks in the world
- Late golf crazy man hoarded 40000 balls
- Indian man lives with 5 kidneys
- Wikipedia bans Scientology edits
- Kea parrot steals Scottish passport
- Man Uses Live Swan to Beat up Victim
This Week in Fun Squarespace contest candidates:
- "TWiF," By Aaron from New Zealand
- "TWiFfed," By Anton from Denmark
- "Freq," By Travis from Redmond, Washington
- "TWiFans," by By Shane from Ireland
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Geek lovers, Internet bacon, face snails, heavy momma, video games, and more.
- Geeks Are Better In Bed
- Enough with the Bacon Already, Internet
- Utah Boy Breaks Record For Most Snails on Face
- 550 pound Russian Woman Gives Birth To Healthy Baby Boy
- More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies
- Soldiers Fall in Love with Robot Brethren
- Soldiers Find Mates Back in US on Online Dating Sites
- Twittering Toilet
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Kanye angry at Twitter, a 104 year old isn't, Indian dad refuses to wash, Jay Spieden joins the fun, and more.
- Kanye West slams Twitter over impostors
- British woman, 104, joins Twitter
- The cat with more than 500,000 Twitter followers
- Dirty fridge evacuates building
- Adam Lambert Way Ahead Of Kris Allen In eBay Memorabilia
- Indian dad avoids washing for 35 years: report
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Jay Speiden
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The debut of True or Poo, a cash filled backpack, iSnort for your iPhone, Kevin Rose reinvents the mail slot, and more.
- Elderly man mistakes card for noisy neighbors
- New Hampshire boy finds, returns cash-stuffed backpack
- 'Swine flu party' a bad idea: US health official
- iSnort
- Cocaine user demands consumer rights
- Play him off, keyboard cat.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Kevin Rose
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Indiana Jones trivializes nuclear threat, Jedi police, YouTube midwifery, McCurry lawsuit, and more.
- Foreign minister says Indiana Jones movie trivializes nuke threat
- Force is strong for Jedi police
- Pa. Woman, 85, Loses Scooter In 'repairman' Scam
- '90-year-old in 8mph mobility scooter takes wrong turn and ends up on highway
- Wal-mart employee steals electronics, then posts them for sale on employee bulletin board
- McCurry lawsuit leaves bad aftertaste
- Footprints in Wood Tell Story of Buddhist Monk's Prayers
- Russian survives drinking 8 bottles of Vodka
- Father delivers baby son after watching YouTube childbirth clips
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Martin's therapist speaks out about Sarah, Kazakhstan to build alien embassy, baby shaker app, a Ziploc surprise, and more.
- Martin's therapist comments on Sarah and Martin's relationship
- Kazakhstan: Government to build UFO base and alien embassy
- Dimethyltryptamine gnomes
- World record texting contest results in a $26,000 phone bill
- Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls
- No toilet? No bride.
- 'Miracle' bra saves Detroit woman from robber's bullet
- 'Baby Shaker' game pulled from Apple's iPhone App Store
- Wal-mart employee steals electronics, then posts them for sale on employee bulletin board
- Kindergarten Teacher Sends Bag of Poop Home With Student
- Maine town seeks way to get rid of dead cow stuck below river waterfall
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Kutcher's millions, Oprah, The Pirate Bay, mother-daughter twins, mile high urine, and more.
- Ashton Kutcher Beats CNN to 1 million
- Oprah's On Twitter
- Twitter Makes Us Indifferent To Human Suffering
- Half Of Viewers Don't Understand TV Weather Reports
- The Pirate Bay Founders Guilty
- Swedish Museum Puts Pirate Bay Server on Display
- 50 Year Old Mom Spends 10,000 Pounds on Surgery To Look Like Daughter
- Man Jailed For Urinating On Woman During Flight
- One-eyed Filmmaker Rob Spence to Fill Eye Socket With Wireless Video Camera
- Surgeon's Find Fir Tree Growing Inside Man's Lung
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Hot chilis in the eyes, a glass of wine, tofu love, burglars on TV, Yelpers, and more.
- Insane Indian woman enters Guiness World Records for eating chilis (and smears chili seeds in her eyes).
- Glass of Wine a Day Can Lead To Shakes Later in Life
- Tofu lover can't get her vanity plate
- Woman with object fetish marries Eiffel Tower
- Bakery Starts Using Twitter
- Twittering The Passion of the Christ Trinity Wall Street tells the Passion of Christ in 140-character posts.
- Woman Sees House Being Robbed Live On Internet
- Yelp To Let Business Owners Comment Publicly on Reviews
- MA State Rep wants people over 60 banned from nudity and porn
Tweet Beat:
- "Obama's Bow" or "ShamWow"
- "Glimmers of Hope" or "Jesus vs. Pope"
- "Desert of Godlessness" or "I'm a Mess"
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Welcome TechTV stalwarts, and my old friends, Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent as our newest podcast on TWiT. Watch them record live at 3p Pacific/6p Eastern/2000 UTC at http://live.twit.tv or listen to the show as a podcast.
Chuck Norris Facts, Facebook helps you work, meeting strangers on Omegle, and more.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Ian Spector
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Had a great time with Martin via Skype and our in-studio guest, Lisa Bettany!
Solid show all around. The best part? Talking to Leo after we were done with the "show" about making TWiF a full-fledged audio podcast NEXT WEEK, with video on the way! Hooray! Patience is a virtue. I'm so grateful to work with such a bunch of fabulous nerds.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Lisa Bettany
My goodness, I can't believe we've already had our tenth episode anniversary! It's a beautiful thing. Martin wasn't able to be in studio this time around, but I think it worked out pretty well via Skype. Enjoy the magic, plus some behind-the-scenes setup beforehand!
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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I feel like Martin and I are really starting to hit our stride, plus it's always a bonus to have Leo chime in during the show. Oh, and if you're unfamiliar with Tweet Beat, it's a little game we used to play when I was a guest on Martin and Jay Speiden's show, Internet Superstar. Those were some days, I tell ya!
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Leo Laporte
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Leo and the TWiT team don't have the resources to edit and host our TWiF episodes just yet, so the awesome folks at odtv.me have been archiving them for us. The only problem is that the start/stop time of the show is a little off since we got going later than expected and weren't telling anyone exactly when to hit "record". I'll figure out a way to rectify that in future shows.
But here's the good news: we've gotten so much positive feedback and requests for more, regular episodes of TWiF that we're going to try to bring the show to you on a weekly basis, starting this Friday, January 30th, at 3 PM PST at live.twit.tv! Set your calendars, bitches! And hey, thanks for the support! I'm really pleased with the response so far.
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
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Martin and I had so much FUN with TWiF #1 that we decided to shoot another "show." (what can I say... we love to hear ourselves talk)
My friends, I present to you... This WEEK in FUN #2 with bonus guest: the lovely and talented DemoGirl!
Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent
Guest: Molly McDonald