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Lead Balloon Ep. 64 - The Wikipedia Prank: Why the Internet Mistakenly Thought the Movie Good Luck Chuck was Based on Ben Kollenbroich
In a world where people still believed what they read on the Internet, a man from Fort Atkinson was punked into Internet infamy. 15 years ago, if you had googled Ben Kollenbroich’s name, you would have discovered that his life story was the inspiration for “Good Luck Chuck,” a mid-budget, critically-panned romantic comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba. That’s not REMOTELY true, however. In fact, Ben Kollenbroich was just a regular 25-year-old guy in 2010. There certain
Dusty Weis
Oct 2223 min read


Lead Balloon Ep. 63 - A.I. Podcast Host Invasion: Inception Point's Business Model & the Podcast Industry's Reaction
"It spits in the face of all the real human work," says award-winning podcast host Ronald Young, Jr.
Dusty Weis
Sep 2436 min read


Lead Balloon Ep. 62 - Modernizing the Way We Communicate About Road Closures (Especially During an Emergency) with Map Apps, feat. Scott Oppmann from ArcGIS
Local municipalities and DOTs need to get with the times. Most people get travel information about road closures from Google Maps, Apple...
Dusty Weis
Aug 2020 min read


Lead Balloon Ep. 61 - Will Wikipedia survive Artificial Intelligence? And Can A.I. Survive Without Wikipedia?
Is ChatGPT killing its own Golden Goose? Wikipedia readers consume nearly one billion articles per day from the online encyclopedia. In...
Dusty Weis
Jul 3031 min read
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