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Supervillains, past and present, show us exactly why real
life is stranger than fiction.

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Warning: We have some bad words in this episode. Sometimes random s*** just happens.

Welcome back to the Ink Sink! We’re taking a stroll
through some of our favorite “stranger than fiction” stories today (a spiritual successor to our first Stranger Than Fiction episode which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/9K4XteCYGR4.)

Our sources for this episode:

• “‘Uh-oh’: psychic’s prediction of ‘sense of loss’ for Trump unnerves Fox News host” from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/03/donald-trump-psychic-jesse-watters-fox-news
• (This is somehow 100% real) “Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting” from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-federal-wildlife-trafficking-charges-part-yearslong-effort-create
• “Nefarious Intentions and Persecuted Victims: On the Rise of Conspiracy Theories” from LitHub: https://lithub.com/nefarious-intentions-and-persecuted-victims-on-the-rise-of-conspiracy-theories/
• “Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe” from New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/science/pliny-archaeology-skull-vesuvius.html
• “‘Everybody Is a Bit on Edge’: Sailors Trade Tips on
  Steering Clear of Orcas” from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/world/europe/orcas-attacks-boats.html
• “Hundreds of 19th Century Americans Tried to Conquer Foreign Lands. This Man Was the Most Successful” from History.com: https://www.history.com/news/manifest-destiny-william-walker-filibuster-nicaragua-mexico-invasion
• “Journalist questioned by police because car crash reports were so ‘in depth’” from the Press Gazette: https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-question-journalist-in-depth-crash-reports/

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:51 Stranger Than Fiction?
02:36 Fox News’ Tarot Reader Has Unexpected Message
06:13 Supervillains Are Into Sheep Now
10:51 Shakespeare’s Secrets Revealed!
14:30 Did an Ancient Greek Eagle Kill a Man With a Turtle Bomb?
20:17 The Orcas Fear the Death Metal
25:40 Manifest Destiny + Drunk Louisianans = Central American Conquerers?
30:06 British Reporter Too Good at Job, Police Suspicious
32:19 Thanks for listening!