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Aug 2023

27m 37s

Earworms, Mugshots and Scams

SHIT YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT

About this episode

On today's episode of The Shit Show podcast:

All the new and crazy scams we're seeing lately
A woman had a LIVE WORM extracted from her brain
The aftermath of Trump's mugshot
The NZ green party, explained

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