Earth Oddity 288: Quit Treading

News Links for the Week: New state laws for 2024 impact guns, pornography, taxes and even fuzzy dice: https://apnews.com/article/new-state-laws-guns-pornography-fuzzy-dice-86da1fccd5717e9ec234863bf1f9f037 Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison early after serving time for the murder of her abusive mother: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-early-serving-time-murder-abusive-rcna131423 U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/us-intelligence-officials-determined-chinese-spy-balloon-used-us-inter-rcna131150 Woman comes home to find her driveway stolen: https://www.wafb.com/2023/12/30/utter-shock-woman-comes-home-find-her-driveway-stolen/#lqrigrftvtn442of0m Two alien abductions happened in the same night and place for the first time in history: https://www.indy100.com/news/two-alien-abductions-mississippi-pascagoula-river Four men charged over theft of $6 mln gold toilet from English palace: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/four-men-charged-over-theft-6-mln-gold-toilet-english-palace-2023-11-06/ Visit our brand spanking new home on the web @ www.earthoddity.net!!! We would to thank Cajun Curl Original Spice for their support! For some spice that's extra nice that taste spicy but doesn't feel spicy, check them out over at www.cajuncurl.com. Special thanks to Silencyde for providing the music! Check out his music on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/silencyde or on his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Silencyde and on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Silencyde/ Like what you hear? Please consider joining our Patreon. Sign up at the $5 dollar level and get access to Earth Oddity Extended where you get an extended version of the show and an all exclusive show once a month! You can find that at www.patreon.com/earthoddity.