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Monday's Interesting Headlines
Episode 532
Sunday, 16 November, 2025
Welcome to Simple Joe. I’m glad you’re here. On this episode of Simple Joe for Monday, November 17th, 2025, I kick things off with a wild fact about sea cucumbers that can liquefy and regrow parts of their own bodies, then share the weather for my friends in or near Naples, Maine, and back home in Cincinnati while I’m recording on the road from Madrid, Spain. I talk about bouncing between hotels and trying to keep the show going while traveling to Manchester and Chester, then celebrate birthdays for Shelby Foote, Rock Hudson, Peter Cook, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Rachel McAdams, and Tom Ellis. I mark the patent for the Heinz ketchup bottle and wonder why ketchup explodes every time you open it, and I run through today’s celebrations: National Homemade Bread Day, National Baklava Day, Guinness World Record Day, National Hiking Day, and National Black Cat Day. For Monday’s Interesting Headlines, I share five quirky stories — a Japanese town deploying a giant robot to scare off bears, a farmer setting a Guinness record with a six-foot broccoli stalk, a bumblebee-sized pollination robot, a Welsh dog using a digital soundboard to ask for treats, and scientists developing reusable “jelly ice” cubes that never melt — and invite listeners to vote on which one I should dig into on Thursday. I wrap up by asking you to share the show using #SimpleJoeIsMyFriend, reminding us that we don’t need more junk as the holidays approach, and that memories are always better than stuff. Email me at joe@thesimplejoe.com or send me a text at 513.399.6468. Just say hi, I would love to hear from you. You can get Simple Joe T-Shirts and other cool stuff at thesimplejoe.com/store Check out what I'm reading at thesimplejoe.com/reading If you share the show on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, please use #simplejoeismyfriend; you might get a free t-shirt!
