To Feel Better, Take the Smart Out of Smartphone

Any tips for enjoying the comforts of modern technology while keeping the Doomscrolling to a minimum?

Couple made to sit with corpse on plane for 4 hours

It’s not as fun as they made it seem on Weekend at Bernie’s. Worst experience you’ve ever had on a flight?

The Fallout from USAID’s Shutdown

BELEAGUERED STAFFERS W/ KEITH CONRAD, LAURA FINCH & SEAN MAGERS

What happens when the federal government takes a sledgehammer approach to budget cuts rather than a scalpel?

Beleaguered Staffers News Sidequest Podcast

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Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD

Late-night chaos in the ER takes a supernatural turn when Nurse Sarah begins hearing calm, precise medical orders from a doctor no one else can see—leading her to uncover a long-buried hospital legend about a surgeon who never stopped saving lives, even after death.

Auditory Anthology Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Podcast

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Also Worth A Look…

• Chimps prefer peeing together, 600 hours of study shows - They still don’t want to stand next to each other at the urinal, just like humans. Great conversation starter: “What do you do for a living?” “I spent 600 hours watching chimps pee”

• Florida woman anoints JetBlue planes with oil after recent flight incidents - I mean… honestly it probably couldn’t hurt

• String of Train Heists Involves a Fortune in Nikes - Trump’s bringing back tariffs, now there are train robberies. We really are going back to the 1890’s

• Family Dollar Worker Attacked During Attempted Toilet Paper Heist - Apparently we’re already back to revisiting the Great Toilet Paper Panic

• Omaha grad's lost ring turns up in Missouri garden 44 years later - They didn’t miss it all this time either. Now it just serves as a reminder of their poor financial decisions

• Pierced by Cupid’s Sedan, Woman Forgives and Marries Motorist Who Accidentally Ran Her Over - The most painful meet cute in history. If that’s not a Hallmark movie in a couple of weeks, they are truly falling down on the job

• Surgeons first in world to perform open heart surgery on baby mid-delivery - Taking multitasking to strange new places

• Woman keeps losing contact lenses, but doctors find 5 of them — behind her eyeball - They always turn up in the last place you look…

• Prosecutor says golden toilet was stolen from English palace in ‘audacious raid’ - Interesting… who do we know that has a fondness for gold toilets?

• Hamas Official: Our Raid May Have Been a Mistake - Really? You think?

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