The Gargle

Worm revival | Floating colony | Eyeball scanning

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August 03, 2023 6:01pm

45m

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


HOW TO SUPPORT THE GARGLE


  • Buy tickets to The Gargle Live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Tue 15 and 22 August - go to https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/live
  • Advertise YOUR business on The Gargle with an Alice Fraser ad read. Contact hellobuglers@thebuglepodcast.com
  • Pre-order the D'Ancey LaGuarde Reader book here! http://l8r.it/DHhG


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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