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Hey, everybody, it's Mango here, and I have great news.

My friends, Dana, Zarin, and Jason, people I really love,

are back with their show, very special episodes. There's a brand new season, and if you

aren't familiar with the show, you need to get familiar because I'm a huge fan, and I know

you're going to love it, too. Jason was actually the editor-in-chief of Mental Floss, the magazine I started, so I know you're going to love it too. Jason was actually the editor-in-chief of

Mental Floss, the magazine I started, so I know him from forever ago. Dana used to write for us,

and Zarin, we worked on this amazing show called Black Cowboys Together. They're really sort of like

this supergroup. Anyway, they bring you one incredible true story, like the real crime that inspired two

young comic artists to create Superman or the secret spy operation that ran out of a doll shop

in New York City during World War II, all sorts of insane and incredible history like that.

And if you've ever wondered if the truth is stranger than fiction, this podcast

is absolutely your answer. So check out the new season right now and subscribe to very special

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Guess what, Gabe? What's that, Mango?

So, cartoonist Charles Adams is best known for creating the endearingly morbid Adams family,

which I know you and I both know about. It kicked off a whole new genre of macabre humor in the U.S. But something I never realized before this week is that the Adams family didn't appear that often in his work.

In fact, out of the more than 1,300 comic strips that Adams published in his lifetime, only about 150 of them featured his famous family.

That's a pretty impressive restraint on his part.

For a lot of creators, it feels like once an idea hits like that, the impulse is to go back

to the well over and over again to really milk it.

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