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twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Thanks to the boys over at Suck My (fan) Fic for the guest presentation! Look em up!<br />
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Twitter: @Absurdist_news<br />
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Thanks to the boys over at Suck My (fan) Fic for the guest presentation! Look em up!<br />
topics include: surfer needs his beer, sports sharks, shark heist, father bonding, shark courting</p>
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Twitter: @Absurdist_news<br />
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<p>Special Agents: Christmas Grandma, Sexy Grandma, Sex toy Grandma, Dead Grandma, Gun Grandma.</p>
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twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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<p>Check out Mixed Drinks and Mysteries on all podcasting platforms and @drinks_mixed</p>
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twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Topics include: Sky wolves, lemmings, murder birds, godamn parrots (again), and Seaworld Spies.</p>
<p>Articles and Contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
Twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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<p>Topics include: Sad icecream, snitches and narcs, the Joker, round house kicking protesters, car theft.</p>
<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Topics include: dildos, bull pasta, pepsi truck, singing fish, and two for one brides</p>
<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Topics include: dildos, bull pasta, pepsi truck, singing fish, and two for one brides</p>
<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Topics include: Christmas, on hold music, pizza holdups, Justin Bieber christian rock, and congress cage matches.</p>
<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @Absurdist_news</p>
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<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @Absurdist_news</p>
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<p>website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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<p>articles and contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Topics include: micropenis, misnamed children, napkins, Foster's, getting pants'd</p>
<p>articles and contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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<p>Website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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Topics include: PETA, doughnut fries, grieving, Taco Bell lawsuit, Pizza babies.</p>
<p>Website &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @absurdist_news</p>
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<p>Topics include: Beer prescriptions, Airplane pizza orders, Jedi school, smelly food in the tube, and Apex's newest app.</p>
<p>article &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @Absurdist_News</p>
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<p>Topics include: Beer prescriptions, Airplane pizza orders, Jedi school, smelly food in the tube, and Apex's newest app.</p>
<p>article &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com<br />
twitter: @Absurdist_News</p>
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<p>articles &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com</p>
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<p>articles &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com</p>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I mean the descriptions basically all in the title. Get ready for more Florida stories and see if you can figure out which news is fake alongside Marks and Max! Always can count on Dave to give us good stories. Topics include: playgrounds, hamster balls, pitbulls, hookah smoking caterpillars, and armless Daredevil.</p>
<p>Articles and contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com</p>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mean the descriptions basically all in the title. Get ready for more Florida stories and see if you can figure out which news is fake alongside Marks and Max! Always can count on Dave to give us good stories. Topics include: playgrounds, hamster balls, pitbulls, hookah smoking caterpillars, and armless Daredevil.</p>
<p>Articles and contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com</p>
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Join Marks and Dave as they tackle Max's 5 stories all about... teens!<br />
Topics include: stealing a pizza car, living on the subway, selling a kidney, arrested for burping, and bullying potatoes.</p>
<p>articles &amp; contact: absurdistnews.wordpress.com/<br />
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      <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2019 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>mwong095@gmail.com (Absurdist News)</author>
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