Ira Glass

Yes.

This week, scientists at Texas A&M University come up with a clean and efficient way to clean up oil spills at sea simply by using blank.

Caveman gut biome.

No.

By using fire tornadoes.

Oh.

What?

So if an oil spills at sea, you can either let it spread to the coastline, that's bad, or you can set it on fire, which is just as bad because of all the pollution.

But researchers have shown that if you can set it on fire and then spin the flames with massive winds into a giant fire tornado, it solves the problem efficiently.

It takes less time with less pollution.

Sure, it also implodes the whole world, but it looks sick as hell.

Also, did Shane do well enough to win?

Well.

In just a minute, our panelists will predict what will get the birth rate back up.

Now that we know it was smartphones that destroyed it.

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