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Chillbooks AudiobooksThe Allegory of the Pen by Al-GhazaliJoin us for a journey through the inspiring story of the Allegory of the Pen by Al-Ghazali, one of the greatest Muslim philosophers of all time. Through a series of illustrations accompanying the reading, we bring to life the allegory's powerful message about the importance of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. Translated by Syed Nawab Ali, read and illustrated by @Poobette .
Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience the timeless wisdom of Al-Ghazali in a whole new way.
#philosophy #audiobook #islam
📙 Al-Ghazali's Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6wZrAjRwk7cLTjxD9AFYg4...2023-03-1611 min
Down The Poobette HoleBritish Towns So Rude, I Can't Put Them in the TitleWe're traveling to the island of Great Britain to explore some of the rudest named places in the UK in honor of the late Queen Elizabeth II's cheeky side. All of them would have made her blush, but she was their queen too, so put on your little boy pants and let's enjoy some maps and dirty jokes!
👍 If you enjoyed this juvenile jaunt through the UK in England and Scotland, please leave a like. If it’s too challenging to hit the thumbs up, no worries at all - just hit subscribe instead.
2022-09-2720 min
Down The Poobette HoleI Read an Insufferable 6,400-Word Profile Piece on Meghan MarkleYes, I really read aloud the entire 6,400-word article. As we meet at the crossroads of wry sarcasm and insufferable celebrity worship cringe, we will ask: on which of these two paths is this piece? What were these people paid $125M for? And why do they want to believe they're suffering so badly?
I was left basically speechless, so this is a bit of a one-off with no commentary.
The Original Article
Meghan of Montecito by Allison P. Davis, published in The Cut on August 29, 2022
To Allison P...2022-09-0637 min
Down The Poobette HoleAggressive Groundhogs, Forklift Fights and More Funny Crimes in the Citizen App🚨 The Citizen app alerts you to nearby crimes, but it's also where groundhogs terrorize neighborhoods, furries lose their fur, and nude men attack Burger Kings. Join us for our fourth trip to the weird underworld of crime!
00:00 Welcome!
00:35 The app has changed
01:08 First crime of the day
01:31 How to lose your street cred
02:22 Assault by forklift
03:10 Six women and a Nissan Sentra
04:26 Aggressive groundhog
05:01 Is this your dog?
06:10 Lost airpod
07:21 Nude man at Burger King
08:30 Stormtroopers IRL
09:23 Conclusion
Burger King parking lot image: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Select images and other content licensed through Envato Elements...2022-06-0709 min
Down The Poobette HoleA Silly Town in Belgium🤪 We're back, this time across the pond for a silly time in small town Belgium. Come to sample some Silly beer, see some Silly candidates, have a Silly Christmas, and see a very Silly workout video. And an extremely Silly town website.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! Or view the video on YouTube.
00:00 Hello
01:14 Silly, Belgium Wikipedia page (Picard!)
02:37 Town hall and flag
02:56 A message from Hot Dog With A Wand (to like and subscribe)
03:06 Google maps
03:59 Street view
05:50 The Silly town website
07:09 Silly in the news
07:53 The Silly YouTube channel
08:51 I cry with laughter
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Down The Poobette HoleIRL Fight Club: More Funny Crimes in the Citizen App🚨 The Citizen app alerts you to nearby crimes, but it's also where Fight Club happens in a grocery store basement, toads get arrested, and people upload videos of their feet. So come - let us tour some of the funniest incidents together. For the third time!
Let me know if you enjoyed the best of the Citizen app. Which crime was most funny to you?
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed!
Previous Citizen app videos with more funny crimes:
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Busted 1: WHAT DID YOU GET BUSTED FOR??
http...2022-02-2112 min
Down The Poobette HoleReturn of the Finger: Tennessee Strikes Back👉 We're back in Finger, Tennessee to dive into a treasure trove of local knowledge. We’ll meet the taxidermist mayor, explore the Buford Pusser Museum, check in on a notorious Google review of a local church, learn how to pronounce Finger, and more.
🙏Thanks again to the Tennesseans who left love on last year’s Finger video!
The previous video on Finger, TN: https://youtu.be/-Xc5Km2WIEA
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00:00 America
00:36 A little backstory
01:04 Than...2022-02-1611 min
Down The Poobette HoleWhat Is Poobette, Anyway? Let's Chat!🎉 Thank you for 200+ subs! I'm now on Spotify and other podcast platforms. You've made so many great suggestions, so let's make more zany content together this year. Leave a comment with what you'd like to see more of or suggest something new to explore with Poobette. #conversation
♥️ Follow Poobette | Website: http://poobette.com/
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00:00 Intro and announcement
01:03 What we do here
01:07 1. Road Trips on Google Maps and Reddit
02:00 2. Funny crimes on the Citizen App
02:57 3. Wikipedia clickholes
03:16 4. Craigslist dumpster d...2022-02-1306 min
Down The Poobette HoleLife's a B*tche: Small French Town vs Facebook🇫🇷 Today we head to a wonderfully named small town in France that recently went head to head against The Zuck to revive its Facebook page. We’ll explore its medieval history, revel in Google Translate working hard on its official website, and sample a local tattoo parlor in street view.
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00:00 Hello world
00:47 BBC news article about their FB page
02:41 Rohrbach-les-Bitche
03:37 F***king, Austria
03:57 The Bitche Wikipedia page
05:14 Some photos of the town2022-02-1110 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Vulcana And The Crazy Case Of Dr Crippen🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll start with a Welsh Hotel and end with a horse thief who made it to the AUS$20 note. We’ll stop by a creepy lunatic asylum, a Victorian era strongwoman with heroic achievements, and the first crimes solved with her help and wireless technology - in 1845.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:56 Hello mystery food
01:24 The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny
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Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Robert Louis Stevenson, Cooties, and The F Word🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll start with Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and end on the F word in the Supreme Court. En route, we’ll learn about Hawaii’s last king, a very wordy Masonic group that loves tiny cars, and the Military Order of the Cootie (you read that right).
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:40 Hello mystery food
00:53 Robert Louis Stevenson
09...2021-04-1223 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: JP Morgan, The Human Flies and Stanley Kubrick🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll start with an old silent film and end up with the Illuminati in less than five clicks. We’ll meet film director Stanley Kubrick and explore his unusual life, and then how J.P. Morgan made all that money - and how he spent it with his very wealthy circle of friends.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:4...2021-04-1222 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Badass Women Warriors and Weirdly Named Ohio Governors🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll start with an old small American bridge and end in the birthplace of Angela Merkel. On the way, we’ll uncover Ohio senators, heroines of history, ancient burial structures, and giant armadillos.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:49 Kirker Covered Bridge
01:24 Thomas Kirker
01:41 Quick detour to some naughty PA towns
03:21 Return J. Meigs, Jr
05:09 Othniel Looker
06:13 1757 births
06:39 Veronika Gut
07:15 Wo...2021-04-1222 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Giant Squids, Phobias, And This Hilarious Painting🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll go from whale excrement to ugliness, and I will get the giggles at one painting in particular. On the way we’ll take a lengthy pit stop amongst giant squid and cryptids, as well as famous blobs or “globsters”, and find out which celebrities have a bird phobia.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:44 Ambergris
04:22 Giant squid
08:00 Colossal squid
08:53...2021-04-1226 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: What Is A Fez, Anyway? Plus, A Fraternal Moose Order🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll go from an angry Caribbean dove to the city of Wau. En route, we’ll discover nice islands named Ambergris after whale vomit, learn more than ever about the little red fez hat, a fraternal order of moose, and the achievements of notable ethnic Dinka.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:36 Caribbean dove
01:17 Ambergris Caye (Belize)
03:58 Ambergris Cay (Turks and Caico...2021-04-1224 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: 90s Video Games And The Spam King🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll go from h3ntai to a possibly deceased writer. We’ll get nostalgic over 90s video games and toys including virtual pets. Don’t miss out on the insane internet spam crimes of Sanford Wallace, and some very strange categories in Wikipedia’s shadows.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:39 Doctor Shameless
01:41 Eroge
03:12 Koei
03:38 Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
06:52 1990s...2021-04-1221 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: How To Join Hells Angels And Secret Societies🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll go from the secret society Cacophony Society all the way to mumblecore. En route we’ll explore more seedy societies and crime syndicates and find out what it takes to be a Hells Angel, meet Canada’s answer to Billie Eilish, and explore independent film genres.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:31 Cacophony Society
04:54 Suicide Club
07:36 Secret society
08:14 Secret...2021-04-1224 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Molasses, Pepsi, And Beer Floods And Making A Micronation🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll go from flooding molasses to Wonder Bread. On the way we will explore some other floods of anything but water, explore Sweden and Estonia, e-residency and micronations, and about the epic pirate radio battles for Sealand. Thanks to AyeDunno for the suggestion and have a happy Thanksgiving!
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Let me know what you learned. Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
01:16 Great Molasses Flood in Boston, Massachus...2021-04-1226 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Are You Dead? Just Put Smoke In Your Butt🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, hold onto your butts because we are starting with tobacco smoke enemas. From there, it's dark corners of resuscitations, Iranian politics, the American Mafia, and mysterious disappearances - only to end on the epic story of the west coast’s first female lawyer.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this crazy clickhole! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point. I mispronounced Khavaran as as "Kharavan" - sorry about that. I probably mispronounced a whole lot else too. I even mistyped Addis at the end! What a mess.
2021-04-1225 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: A Poet's Cat And The Heroics of Army Dog Sergeant Stubby🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll start with a big whoopsie in Ghana and end with Sergeant Stubby, a national hero dog of war. On the way, we’ll vacation on the beaches of Barbados, learn about the Irish there, some sad poets and an unattractive cat named Foss, and a post office dog named Owney.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this clickhole! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:59 Willian Ansah Sessarakoo
06:19 Barbados
09:43 Irish immigration in Barbados
10:34 Re...2021-04-1227 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: The Many Uses of Maggots and More🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we’ll go on a gross rollercoaster of maggoty cheese to matchboxes of scabs. On the way, we’ll explore the medical properties of maggots, the achievements in medicine on the battlefield, and unexpectedly divert to Eskimos and folk illnesses.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this gross clickhole! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:53 Casu Marzu, a maggot filled rotten cheese from Sardinia
04:37 Myiasis, a parasite infestation
07:11 Maggot therapy
09:23 Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, Napoleon’s chi...2021-04-1222 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Jelly Brains and Robot Brains🖱In this Halloween Edition Wikipedia clickhole, we'll start with a LIVE brain in a jar and make our way to a creepy AI brain project, but we’ll stumble across 19th century brain doctors and experiments, hypnosis, hysteria, radiation accidents, and secret labs in the desert on the way.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed this weird science clickhole! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:36 Isolated brain
03:25 Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, physiologist and neurologist
06:03 Jean-Martin Charcot, father of neuroscience
09:13 Marie “Blanche” Wit...2021-04-1226 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Zoot Suit Counterculture, Sea Snail Trapdoors, and More🖱In this Wikipedia clickhole, we'll start with sea snails and their little trap door closures and end at the 1940s Mexican American Pachuca subculture. En route, we'll learn about crazy Swiss history, assassination by guy in bear suit, a strange language, and how John Lennon took a calligraphy class.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:36 Ranularia monilifera
01:02 Sea snail
01:32 Operculum, a trap door for sea snaIls
03:15 Friedrich Ratzel
05:01 Rapperswil, Switzerland
06:01 Helvetic Republic (nothing to...2021-04-1221 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: Radioactive Cats And A Senator Looking For Action🖱In this casual Wikipedia clickhole, we'll start with radioactive cats and other Human Interference Task Force ideas, wind our way through naughty political scandals and singing senators and congressmen, to the London underground en route to NIMBYs and Fenno's Paradox.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point. Thanks to nnhk00 for Human Interference Task Force
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:46 Human Interference Task Force
07:18 Yucca Mountain
09:59 Yucca Mountain Johnny
11:57 Jon Porter
12:35 Second Amendments
12:55 The Singing Senators
13:57 Larry Craig
14:50 Larry...2021-04-1224 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: The Dancing Plague and Game of Thrones, Ethiopia Edition🖱In this casual Wikipedia clickhole, we'll start in the epic dancing plague of 1518 and wind up in some insane history in Ethiopia that reads like Game of Thrones. Along the way we'll also explore a laughter epidemic and discover a questionably named missionary group, before wrapping up in Gondar, Ethiopia's old capital.
Thanks to nnhk00 and XSVIN for starting point suggestions! nnhk00's suggestion of Human Interference Task Force advances to the next random picker round. 👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
2021-04-1222 min
Down The Poobette HoleWikipedia Clickhole: A Tiny French Town, Elvis's Favorite Rollercoaster, and More🖱In this casual Wikipedia clickhole, we'll start in the tiny French commune of Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas and magically click our way to Elvis Presley's favorite rollercoaster, the Zippin Pippin. Along the way hopefully we'll learn something new, or at least some random trivia. 👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point.
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00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday!
00:37 Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas
00:53 Communes of the Haute-Alpes Departments
00:57 Chabestan 01:06 Communes of the Haute-Alpes Departments
01:19 Furmeyer 01:24 Communes of France
02:27 Louvemont-Cote-du-Poivre
03:13 Meuse
04:38 1930 Meuse Valley Fog
06:29 1939 St. Louis Smog
07:43 Jewel Box (St. Louis)
08:44 Bernard F. Dickmann
10:36 Moun...2021-04-1223 min
Down The Poobette HoleLiving In A Big Hole In Round Mountain, Nevada⛏ Today we explore the sanely named but still curious and purposeful town of Round Mountain, Nevada. From where to get a drink to rating internet quality, we'll explore all aspects of local life in this very organized mining town through Google Maps.
I know it's not a dirty named town, but I hope you'll find this one also interesting.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! And please make a suggestion for the next adventure.
The r/Nevada Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nevada/comments/ierrg5/i_explore_unusual_towns_via_googl...2021-02-1011 min
Down The Poobette HoleA Roadside Poke in Uranus, Missouri🍩 Nestled near the Ozarks in Missouri, Mayor Louie Keen owns the fudge out of Uranus. Via Google Maps, we'll sample the fudge in this roadside attraction that should be a real town, find out if it's possible to live in Uranus, wonder how the Mayor funded it all, and look for evidence of feuding.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! And please make a suggestion for the next adventure.
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00:00 We hit the road
00:07 An update on Sheriff Frank Loop of Floyds Knobs, Indiana
01...2021-02-0712 min
Down The Poobette HoleReaching New Peaks In Climax, Georgia🍑This week, we're out of the midwest and into the South as we navigate the rural roads of Climax, Georgia via Google Maps. We'll adventure around the Climax city website, check out Zillow offerings, wonder if people know how reviews work, and attempt to find Swine Time's best-dressed pig of 2019.
👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed! And please make a suggestion for the next adventure.
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Background music: Earl Grey by Dylan Sitts
Sad music: The Glass Slipper by Martin Kl...2021-02-0513 min
Down The Poobette HoleMore Indiana: French Lick, Arni's, and Beyond🍕Thanks for the love, Hoosiers! We're back in Indiana to check out more frisky towns such as French Lick, Loogootee, Gnaw Bone as well as Santa Claus, Correct, Toad Hop, and more. We'll casually compare Arni's to other Indiana pizzas, contemplate Pluto Water, and adventure on Google Maps.
Thank you SO MUCH for your likes, subscribes, shares, and comments. Please let me know where you think we should go next!
P.S. For those new here, "knob" is British slang for... well, a man's one-eyed trouser snake.
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Down The Poobette HoleFloyd And His Many Knobs In Indiana🍆 It's another juicy Google Maps road trip to the small town of Floyds Knobs, Indiana. We'll explore all the saucy corners of this suggestively named bedroom community outside of Louisville, including who Colonel Floyd is and what's with his many knobs. You'll be glad you came to small town America.
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Background music: Fly Shroom by Giant's Nest
Title and end card music: Eastern Shades by Matt Large
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Select images and other con...2021-02-0511 min
Down The Poobette HoleMore Kentucky: From Big Bone to Beaverlick👅 Thanks for the help, Reddit! We return this week to wrap up our tour of the funniest named towns in Kentucky. Thanks to some real Louisville locals we'll explore Big Bone Lick, Beaverlick, and beyond via Google Maps, as well as the local obsession with pronunciation and licking things.
The original Reddit thread that sparked this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/Louisville/comments/hokt5t/this_is_awesome/
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Title and end card music...2021-02-0512 min
Down The Poobette HoleWhat Did You Call Your City?!🍆 Join me on an internet road trip to small town America in Kentucky, to a questionably named town outside of Louisville. Undoubtedly the family jewel of the state, let's just say it rhymes with "senile" and only changes one letter, and yes - we find out why it's named that way.
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Background music: NEAR by SINY Title and end card music: Eastern Shades by Matt Large
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Select images and other content licensed through Envato El...2021-02-0512 min