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Sources used in today's episode: Hamsters, the filthy bunch of drunks https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/alcohol-consumption-hamster-drunk/621125/ Witches finally getting their justice? https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/scotland-posthumous-pardon-for-witches-secured UFO's are back again! https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/triangluar-ufo-cloaking-abilities-returns-25838945 Words being banned for 2022: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/12/31/Banished-Words-List-2022-published/5761640966755/ World's Oldest woman beats Betty White: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/01/02/national/japanese-worlds-oldest-person/ TV for dogs? https://news.sky.com/story/dogs-tv-channel-dogtv-set-to-launch-to-help-with-stress-and-behavioural-problems-12459735 Check out our weekly comedy news podcast News Burp: https://www.thenewsburp.com Support our show and get access to ad free content, exclusive extra patreon only content and more coming! https://www.patreon.com/newsburp Subscribe to our podcast below (or anywhere you get your shows) Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3B3wDD7 Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3ir97Jj Podcast Addict - https://bit.ly/39WO6S7 Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/2ZLiM6N Player FM - https://player.fm/podcasts/news-burp Spreaker - https://www.spreaker.com/show/news-burp Get in touch with us on: https://twitter.com/newsburp Email: Shout@TheNewsBurp.com

One is a career politician who can't wait to see himself on a tv and the other is a fictional children's tv character and there's a Twitter beef going on. Are we really at the stage of having disagreements with muppets over covid vaccine information?

Deep fakes are getting more and more convincing with readily available technology and basic skills. So how long before they fool someone into believing something enough to cause some real trouble?