AI vs. pro gambler’s $1 million March Madness bet coming down to Duke and Houston

It’s a little like John Henry… except with gambling

I’m spending my kids’ inheritance to teach them the value of money

Setting a good example for future generations or just a typical Boomer trying to rationalize what they were doing anyway?

Auditory Anthology

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

This week’s story is Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton. On a desolate Martian plain, a discarded spacesuit stuffed with straw sways from a homing tower—left behind by a crew fleeing the silent guilt of having unknowingly ignited the slow, unstoppable destruction of an alien civilization hidden beneath the dust.

Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Colby Hall Talks Trump, Canada, and Media Distraction

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL

John Howell welcomes Colby Hall, founding editor of Mediaite.com and Peabody Award-winning TV producer, for a discussion that spanned Trump’s curious obsession with Canada and Greenland, media manipulation, and the Democratic Party’s struggles to define itself.

Constitutional Law Expert Eric Segall on the State of the Supreme Court Big John Howell Episode

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Amateurs No More: College Sports, Cash, and the End of Illusions

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER

John Howell and Rick Telander dive into the billion-dollar business of college athletics—and the increasingly blurry line between amateurism and professionalism.

Amateurs No More: College Sports, Cash, and the End of Illusions John Howell / Rick Telander Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• The Best Age to Get Married, Have a Kid, Retire - Basically, if you don’t have your act together by your mid-20’s, you’re doomed

• Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes - That’s less than ideal

• Maryland woman uses odometer numbers to win $100,000 lottery prize - Seems like a fairly Rube Goldbergian random number generator, but it’s working for her

• San Francisco park-naming contest goes hilariously wrong - You’d think the naming contests would have ended after the Boaty McBoatface debacle, but here we are

• A church in England opens its doors to pro wrestling in a bid to attract converts - Why not? Jesus took a figurative steel chair to sin and death

• Laughing gas appears to reduce depression, but researchers don't totally understand why - Laughing is good for you

• Giant Mars balloon escapes Kennedy Center plaza, rolls toward highway - That had to make for some fun 911 calls

• Man Keeps Getting Evicted from Rented Apartments Because of Pet Buffalo Calf - There are probably people who have bigger dogs than that

• Family of man who allegedly urinated on chip rack at gas station pays for damages - When you gotta go, you gotta go

• The scientist rewriting DNA, and the future of medicine - It’s worked out great in every single sci-fi story

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