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

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

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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

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/florida-woman-arrested-allegedly-supergluing-222822376.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH_UnCCU51071D0hFfZ9PJgYn8K-2b7pCMHCDwVlAvm-uEjtbHzWMBkJpVdJjy5NFJ3yZE4mFDtnLrTZxZYQ_HYisY9ItOlUBQeo-c5tPqmYVY7jTd0Jud_XpZgn43S92o1_DERjmQg6wpkO_R0ZoGV3PKH-Bas3WQpGh9BDjH-I

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https://www.thefarewellguide.co.uk/how-funeral-directors-regulated-uk#:~:text=How%20Are%20Funeral%20Directors%20Regulated%20in%20the%20UK%3F,subject%20to%20routine%20mandatory%20inspections