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September 4, 2025 74 mins

Happy Thursday Geoffs!! This week Madison had us cracking up with some gallows humor, and Spencer has a WILD scandal that just broke in the UK that has us concerned about the funerary world over there. We’ve got an obituary for a gal with some strong opinions, one that got it all wrong and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!

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Sources:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crisis-control/202006/in-praise-gallows-humor

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/for-media/press-releases/press-release-09-26-11-is-gallows-humor-in-medicine-wrong/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence#Martyrdom

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8b7f9y/til_that_saint_lawrence_was_executed_in_a_giant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More

https://thetudorenthusiast.weebly.com/blog/the-execution-of-sir-thomas-more

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3229742/

https://comicnurse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Gallows_Humor_in_Medicine.pdf

https://gapscience.com/cracking-the-case-of-gallows-humor/

https://havokjournal.com/culture/military/why-gallows-humor-is-essential-in-the-military/

https://www.lexipol.com/resources/blog/first-responders-and-gallows-humor-when-joking-becomes-harmful/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2769536

https://bigthink.com/thinking/gallows-humor-philosophy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/widowers/comments/r6lp36/gallows_humour/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/12786735/?article=9d1f9348-a55f-4ef9-b06f-76c9d39b0931&terms=sexy

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1044418524/?article=e87991c4-bb7f-426e-ad27-31b49f3ce010&terms=halloween

chuck e cheese mascot arrested

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-chuck-e-cheese-mouse-mascot-arrested-credit-card-fraud-theft-tallahassee-police/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpt7CMfauj8

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