594 - Bindles and Gold Pans

<p>John and Craig look at another set of incredible news stories and ask, How Would This Be a Movie? Stories include an AI love service, an inventor with good intentions who doomed our planet, a fake Aretha Franklin, and a multi-million dollar nut heist.</p> <p>We also follow up on heroic names and answer listener questions about researching your story.</p> <p>In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig lie awake and wonder — what happens to our work after we die?</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-replika-boyfriend.html"> The Man of Your Dreams</a> by Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz for The Cut</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/magazine/cfcs-inventor.html">The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes</a> by Steven Johnson for The New York Times Magazine</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/pennsylvania-woman-found-puerto-rico.html?smid=em-share"> Pennsylvania Woman Who Disappeared in 1992 Is Found Alive in Puerto Rico</a> by Eduardo Medina for the New York Times</li> <li><a href= "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/counterfeit-queen-soul-180969340/"> The Counterfeit Queen of Soul</a> by Jeff Maysh for Smithsonian</li> <li><a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/food/nut-job/">The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts</a> by Peter Vigneron for Outside</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/style/natalia-petrzela-fitness.html"> A History Professor Takes On Hollywood</a> by Katherine Rosman for the New York Times</li> <li><a href= "https://www.workman.com/products/this-isnt-going-to-end-well/hardback"> This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew</a> by Daniel Wallace</li> <li><a href= "https://slate.com/culture/2023/04/posthumous-writing-randall-kenan-novel-survivors.html"> Posthumously</a> by Daniel Wallace</li> <li><a href="https://milanrecords.com/release/the-last-of-us/">The Last of Us: Soundtrack From the Series</a> by David Fleming