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Hello there. I'm George Franklin, and I'm going to take a look at how even the best and brightest people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions.

And what we can learn from them. This is Dare to be Stupid.

This time on Dare to Be Stupid, the only thing worse than a get-rich quick scheme is a

Save the World Quick Scheme, and we're all falling for it.

When lazy brains have good intentions, we start choking on our aspirations.

In the 1996 episode of The Simpsons titled Muchapoo About Nothing, the residents of...

Wait, I'm sorry, this is a terrible way to introduce a subject.

Ahem, hello.

Today I'm going to tell you a story about recycling.

Now then, in the 1996 episode of The Simpsons titled Muchapoo About Nothing, the residents of

Springfield are horrified

to see a lost brown bear wandering their city streets.

This cartoon bear, drawn just as endearingly and go gougly-eyed as any of the jaundest

main cast, picks it trash and sniffs at things confusedly while the townspeak go hysterical

with wide-eyed terror. Within minutes the bear is tranquilized and hauled away without incident.

Rather, the incident occurs afterwards when Homer hauled away without incident. Rather,

the incident occurs afterwards when Homer leads an angry mob to City Hall to demand that Mayor

Quimby do something about the town's intolerable bear problem. They had seen a live bear, for

ostensibly the first and only time, and now wanted a solution to the crisis. Soon the city is under

constant surveillance by official Bear Patrol

helicopters and Bear Patrol branded stealth bombers are always at the ready. The remaining

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