About this episode
Matt Lieb and Vince Mancini join host Alice Fraser for episode 123 of The Gargle - the glossy magazine to The Bugle's audio newspaper for a visual world.
All of the news, none of the politics!
Worm revival
Floating colony
Reviews
Milk thief
Crypto eyeball scanning
Kids face scan
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CONTENTS
00:00 Start
01:42 Front cover
04:12 Satirical cartoon
04:27 Story 1: Scientists wake up a 46,000-year-old roundworm
06:54 Ads
08:15 Story 2: OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus
14:59 Reviews
25:38 Story 3: Real estate agent fined $20k for drinking someone else's milk straight from the jug
29:27 Story 4: Worldcoin: the cryptocurrency that wants to scan your eyeballs
35:49 Story 5: ESRB wants to scan kids' faces to enforce game ratings
41:18 Bye / Anything to plug?
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