Robot Pizza Van, Funny News

A glitch breaks Facebook for a minute, Elon Musk deleted his Facebook accounts, and Offroad take a look at the data Facebook has about him. There's a story from the beginning of this year when Facebook glitched out for a minute and told people that there was nothing new to see, no new posts... nothing. That was a simpler time. Elon Musk has deleted his Facebook accounts including one for SpaceX, Tesla, and one that kind of looks like his personal page. Then Offroad downloads the data that Facebook has gathered about him and tells you what's in it. Oh, and maybe somebody bit Beyonce. Music by Uncle Milk For more information visit www.robotpizzavan.com

'Be a choice' is today's catchphrase, Owen Wilson says 'wow' a lot, you can send your name to the sun, the oldest message in a bottle, and cyborg body hacks... this week on the Robot Pizza Van. Owen Wilson says 'wow' in his movies so often that people have started to notice. Now there are numerous public gatherings for fans to say 'wow' like Owen. Wow! Then, NASA is sending a mission to the sun's atmosphere and you can send your name along. Maybe they will drop them all into the hellish furnace of the sun. Then, then, the oldest message in a bottle has been found. I wonder what it says. No, I know what it says. I'm just adding to the suspense. The last story today is about cyborg hacks you can currently do to your own body like the brain lace, magnetic finger tips, RFID chip implants, or an arm that detects earthquakes. Music by Uncle Milk For more visit www.robotpizzavan.com

The news this week: Alexa's creepy laugh, Grumpy Cat wins in court, fortune cookie numbers win the lottery, and the $1,600 Uber ride. Amazon's smart device, Alexa has been laughing at random times during the day, sometimes during the middle of the night. Amazon finally acknowledged it. Then, Grumpy Cat wins a copyright lawsuit against a coffee business that had misused his likeness. After that, someone played the lucky numbers from inside a fortune cookie and won the lottery, including surprising information about fortune cookie numbers. Finally, the Uber ride that cost a sleeping man $1,600 and his struggle not to pay it. Music by Uncle Milk For more information visit www.robotpizzavan.com

Killer whales, also known as orcas, can imitate human speech. They can imitate a lot of things. Orcas are the parrot of the sea. Then, A Swiss university is the first to offer a degree in yodeling. They should have called it Yodel University. Employees at Apple's new "spaceship" headquarters building keep walking into the giant glass walls. And the last story is about the #Lastman contest, a competition to see who can go the longest without learning who won the Superbowl. Music by Uncle Milk For more info visit www.robotpizzavan.com

Did the military use secret advanced technology to render a navel destroyer invisible? Well, that's what I heard. This week we look at the Philadelphia Experiment, where the story came from and where it's going. We also talk about a material made of nano-tubes that absorbs 99.9% of light, making it the darkest artificial material, and we talk about the delivery robots that we've been seeing around town. Music by Uncle Milk Support us on www.patreon.com/robotpizzavan

Hundreds of grackles gathered at a petrol station, a Starbucks on Yosemite, a UFO at the latest SpaceX launch, and a court case to prove Bigfoot exists. All this and more on Robot Pizza Van's 52nd episode. Let's see, that's one episode a week... 52 divided by... carry the one... It's been a year! Music by Uncle Milk Subscribe, rate and review especially on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2 or Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/robotpizzavan Call and leave a voice mail at 510-629-1233 or email us at robotpizzavan@gmail.com

This weeks funny and/or weird news: Mutant crayfish clones are showing up all over the world, "As Slow As Possible" is a very slow song, Kentucky Fried Chicken is serving Gravy Cocktails, McDonald's french fries might cure baldness, and if you sedate a plant it seems to lose consciousness. Music by Uncle Milk Subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts, especially on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2 www.robotpizzavan.com www.facebook.com/robotpizzavan @robotpizzavan www.patreon.com/robotpizzavan or email us at robotpizzavan@gmail.com

Offroad, Rygar and Borg watch some Slow TV. What is Slow TV you ask? That's not what you asked? Well someone asked! No, no, you're right. I'm just trying to explain what this episode is about. Slow TV is a genre of really long broadcasts where the pace of the action is very slow. Some examples include uninterrupted, unedited footage of a seven hour train ride, twelve hours of burning logs, and the thirteen hour National Knitting Night. I think that there are a few other short news bits also. Support the show! www.patreon.com/robotpizzavan Give us a review on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot…d1212719431?mt=2 www.robotpizzavan.com Music by Uncle Milk

A smart salt shaker. Smalt, that's more fun to say and it's the actual name of the product. Then it's on to a different story where we learn that mice are evolving to live in the city. City mice. Cmice? It doesn't work the same as smalt. Finally we check out a band called the Virtual Currency Girls. Music by Uncle Milk You can support this podcast and get access to extra stuff at www.patreon.com/robotpizzavan Give us a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2 Call and leave a voice mail at 510-629-1233 or email us at robotpizzavan@gmail.com www.robotpizzavan.com

A pound of marijuana is sent into space and then returns to earth. At first a PR stunt but now a business idea. Sometimes it's easier to list off a bunch of questions. What happens when you send marijuana into space? What happens when a person smokes it? Will people buy space weed? What if aliens steal your space-stash? Music by Uncle Milk You can support this podcast and get access to extra stuff at www.patreon.com/robotpizzavan Give us a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2 Call and leave a voice mail at 510-629-1233 or email us at robotpizzavan@gmail.com www.robotpizzavan.com

Robot Pizza Van is a comedy podcast. Normally we're just reading funny news stories from the internet, but this week we're flying an alien UFO around. Borg pilots the spaceship as Offroad plots a course for adventure. We have a surprisingly good internet signal here in deep space. The first story is about Asgardia, a group of people who have gathered together to start the first space nation. They have launched a small satellite with the hopes of establishing a physical presence in space and eventual recognition from the United Nations. Then we read a story about a cigar shaped asteroid that scientist have confirmed is definitely NOT an alien spaceship. Hmmm... Music by Uncle Milk Subscribe, rate and review especially on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2 or Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/robotpizzavan Call and leave a voice mail at 510-629-1233 or email us at robotpizzavan@gmail.com

Borg travels through time to the beginning of the episode in order to tell us not to read a particular funny news story. We do read some other funny stories first. One story is about how your house might be bugged and what you can do about it. There's another story about lifelong best friends who discover they are actually brothers. We finally do read the forbidden story, even though Future-Borg warned us not to. The story inexplicably drives people to do crazy things. It's so dangerous that we send Borg back to the beginning of the episode in order to stop us from reading it. Music by Uncle Milk www.robotpizzavan.com Subscribe and give us a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2

We had so many unusual musical genres knocking on our door last week that it spilled over into this week's show. Let me introduce to you the 8 that jammed their foot in the door when I tried to close it: Space Disco, Nintendocore, Chiptune, Yacht Rock, UK Garage, Simpsonwave, Black MIDI/Impossible Music and ancient Indian Classical Raga. Next week we begin our new Season 2, so keep an eye out for new and exciting things. Music by Uncle Milk www.robotpizzavan.com Subscribe and give us a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2

In today's modern world there are so many different musical styles and genres that it can be hard to keep track. Luckily, Robot Pizza Van has gathered some of the more unusual of them for you to take note of. You have a paper and pencil ready, or was that just a figure of speech? First we listen to Lowercase which is a style of extreme ambient minimalism. It's like turning up the sound on something that is usually quiet. Then Vaporwave is a style of music that reminds me of the soundtrack to software of the 1990s. We also listen to a kind of music called Noise. The people who play this music call it that. I'm not making a judgement. Hey, time for a new paragraph! Speedcore is like techno music played real fast. Then there's Cringe Pop. That's when it's so bad it's good. It comes around full circle. One, two, three, four, five... ok, then throat singers, we listen to some throat singers. And finally, the seventh and last unusual musical genre that we check out is Seapunk. It is much like the above mentioned Vaporwave with the added benefit of everything being sea-themed, including mermaids, shipwrecks and cool haircuts. Help us get some visibility on iTunes by giving us a rating and review here https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2

Nobody learns any lessons and the bad guy wins at the end. Amidst the protests of co-hosts Rygar, Borg, and some supernatural surprise guests, Offroad makes sure that this is not a Very Special Christmas Episode. Just a regular old episode. Yep. Pen spinning is a thing that we've all done. You haven't? Pick up that pen there and hold it like you're going to write something. Now flip it around your hand without dropping it. Ok, now... pen spinning is a thing that we have all done, but some people take it to another level. There is an entire pen spinning competitive world with international championships. Then we look at some 'funny news of the past' including a scientist who invented bullet proof wheat (make a joke about lasagna here, maybe something about lasagna replacing body armor?) and edible ink on hot dogs (hot dog-vertising). And although we try not to, in the end... I guess we all learn a little bit about ourselves. But you should listen anyway. Music by Uncle Milk www.robotpizzavan.com Subscribe and give us a review on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-pizza-van/id1212719431?mt=2