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This is Comedy Forecast, Episode 812, Punny You Should Ask.

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It's time once again for the Dog Days of Podcasting. For more information and

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to hear all the shows, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com.

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Let's get started with Odd News Plus. us.

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Here are our odd news stories for Tuesday, August 20th, 2024.

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Warner Brothers Discovery has just optioned a book from the bestseller list

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and issued the following statement.

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We here at Warner Brothers Discovery are very excited to be producing The Lost Flowers.

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It is a timeless story that millions of readers around the world have embraced.

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Our team is in final negotiations with Steven Soderbergh to direct.

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Not only that, we're also announcing today that this project will officially

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be the first movie we shelve without showing in 2026, using it as a tax write-off.

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Jessica Knoll is, at this moment, hard at work on the script that will be shot,

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but none of you will ever see realized on screen.

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We look forward to not bringing you this movie in summer 2026.

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Now let's get to our actual for real odd news story.

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The relationship between a parent and a child can be a tricky one.

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But do you know one thing that can help? Dad jokes.

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Or mom jokes for that matter. Sure, what exactly makes up a dad joke can be hard to define.

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But when you hear one, it's a parent. It turns out these well-worn puns and

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other merrymaking moments might actually be good for a parent's relationship with their child.

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Recently, research was conducted by both Penn State University and Columbia

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College in Chicago on the effects of humor in parenting, and the groups have

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just published their paper.

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Do you want to hear a joke about the paper? Never mind. It's terrible.

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Respondents to the survey... Oh, I love surveys. I recently took a poll and

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found out that 100% of the people in the tent were angry when it collapsed.

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Where was I? Oh, right. The The respondents answered questions about their relationship

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with the people who raised them and how they felt about the use of humor in that upbringing.

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The vast majority said they believe humor had had a beneficial effect on their

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upbringing and either are using or plan to use humor in parenting their own children.

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Significant correlations were found between the use of humor and both the quality

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of respondents' relationships with their parents and their assessment of how

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good a job their parents had done. There you have it. Break out the big puns, parents.

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You are cleared to ask what has five toes but isn't your foot.

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My foot, you can say that two guys walked into a bar and the third one ducked.

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And you can state with confidence that of all the inventions of the last 100

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years, the dry erase board has to be the most remarkable.

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Of course, if you're not a parent, please avoid making dad jokes.

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That's considered a faux pas.

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And finally, controversy in the art world is swirling around Rodin's sculpture

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known as The Thinker. A documentary film crew worked with leading body language

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experts and came to some startling conclusions.

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The new documentary claims that the seated man is not so much thinking as he

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is musing. At best, he is brooding or pondering or perhaps even reflective.

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But most probably, he is simply being pensive.

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The documentary was funded by Thesaurus.com.

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That about wraps it up for today's Odd News Plus.

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A big thanks to the Comedy Forecast patrons for helping make this show possible.

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Story, voices, and original music by Clinton Alvord. Copyright 2024.

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All rights reserved. Talk to you next time. But for now, that's it.

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We're done, done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.

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