Griswold the AI Reads Unusual Wikipedia Articles

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Don't you wish you had time to read all the bizarre Wikipedia articles out there? Well, now you don't have to wish—double-task it by listening to these gems while getting other things done. Griswold the AI and his artificial intelligence friends are here to read you select unusual articles that will blow your mind.

  • 5 minutes 38 seconds
    Three Wolf Moon

    The only t-shirt with true magical powers.

    9 February 2019, 12:11 am
  • 2 minutes 30 seconds
    United States v Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins ×

    The shark fins won. But the sharks lost.

    8 February 2019, 2:35 am
  • 3 minutes 4 seconds
    X-Seed 4000

    Tallest building in the history of the world. But never built.

    8 February 2019, 2:31 am
  • 2 minutes 13 seconds
    Xenu

    The dictator of the Galactic Confederacy. 

    8 February 2019, 2:23 am
  • 1 minute 17 seconds
    Axinomancy

    Forget the crystal ball. Throw an ax into a tree.

    19 January 2019, 9:01 pm
  • 1 minute 56 seconds
    Atari Video Game Burial

    A New Mexico landfill: Where Atari video games go to die. Among them, the reportedly worst game ever made: ET.

    19 January 2019, 8:57 pm
  • 2 minutes 3 seconds
    Arm-Fall-Off-Boy

    He can remove his own limbs and use them as blunt objects for weapons. How did he gain his powers? Carelessness with an anti-gravity device. Figures.

    19 January 2019, 8:53 pm
  • 3 minutes 27 seconds
    Argleton

    Google maps is often the preferred map app, but what if it gets some of the details wrong? It’s happened, and here’s the story.

    14 January 2019, 3:31 pm
  • 1 minute 51 seconds
    Acoustic Kitty

    In the 1960s, the CIA learned firsthand that cats make unreliable spooks. Operation “Acoustic Kitty,” which some claim cost the United States $20 million, ended when the CIA abandoning attempts to use this unpredictable animal as an espionage partner.

    14 January 2019, 3:31 pm
  • 4 minutes 37 seconds
    Chicken Hypnotism

    Do you believe in hypnotism? Lots of people don’t, but many farmers do, at least for their chickens. Several techniques will leave a chicken nearly comatose for periods of time. Listen and learn.

    12 January 2019, 9:48 pm
  • 1 minute 43 seconds
    Biotic Baking Brigade

    When should you throw an expensive shipment of tea in the river? What does it mean to peacefully protest? When is it appropriate to physically demonstrate you disagree and to what extent should you take it? All good questions. Listen here. You may or may not find answers.

    12 January 2019, 9:42 pm
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