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Cool Stuff Daily

Mon. 07/13 - Is This Podcast Cake?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Why is everyone talking about cake? How to watch the brightest comet in a few decades. Are we looking at a future without tooth fillings? Look through someone’s window on the other side of the world without leaving your house. And, a gift to us from Sir Patrick Stewart on his 80th birthday today. Sponsors: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/REPORT FitBod, Get one month free at Fitbod.me/goodnews Links: These Illusion Cakes Are Giving the Internet an Existential Crisis (The Mary Sue) 24 Hilarious Cake Memes That Really Made Me Laugh (BuzzFeed) How to Watch Comet Neowise's Spectacular Show | Smart News (Smithsonian Magazine)  How to see comet Neowise (Washington Post) Comet NEOWISE from ISS, July 5th…  (Seàn Doran, Twitter) View from the ISS (Bob Behnken, Twitter) Comet captured streaking across Stonehenge night sky (BBC) Scientists Have Developed a Genius Method That Actually Regenerates Tooth Enamel (Science Alert) window-swap.com Sir Patrick Stewart marks his 80th birthday with 80th Shakespeare sonnet, of course (Mashable) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.7

welcome to the good news ride home for Monday, July 13th, 2020.

0:41.0

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.6

Why is everyone talking about cake?

0:45.8

How to watch the brightest comet in a few decades?

0:49.8

Are we looking at a future without tooth fillings?

0:54.2

Look through someone else's window on the other side of the world without leaving your house

0:59.1

and a gift to us from Sir Patrick Stewart on his 80th birthday today.

1:05.0

Here are some cool things from the news today.

1:09.4

If you noticed a lot of people online over the weekend and today making jokes about cake

1:15.1

and about things that are not cake, allow me to explain.

1:19.5

On July 8th, Cooking Outlet Tasty tweeted a compilation video from Tuba Gekyll of Red Rose Cake.

1:26.8

The video showed what appeared to be everyday objects being

1:29.9

cut into and revealed to be cake. Now, I know that doesn't sound that spectacular. We've all seen

1:36.2

a kind of realistic looking fondant cake before. And even when I just saw a few thumbnails,

1:41.1

I was like, eh, whatever. But when I finally watched the video, it did blow my mind a little.

1:48.0

Some of the items featured included a potted aloe vera plant, a push bottle of lotion,

1:54.0

used soap with bubbles, toilet paper, a steak dinner, even a crock, like the shoe.

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