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Everyone would rather spend time with their pets / Google finally solves a problem / The Pope might take up a new sport

Have you met people? They're the worst

Keith Conrad
May 15
 
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People prefer spending time with pets over loved ones when stressed, survey says

That makes a lot of sense. Especially since for some people the loved ones might be the cause of their stress

Google has a solution for those ‘unpaid toll’ text scams

If it’s anything short of a cruise missile strike, I don’t think it’s harsh enough


More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…


Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales From the Blue Line: When Tom begins dreaming about deadly accidents—before they happen—he’s forced to confront a terrifying connection to strangers who never wake up.

Tales From the Blue Line - Dreams Before Dying

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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Blocking Jurko, Smoking Cubans, and Belichick’s Mermaid Muse

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander return to their favorite cigar-scented studio to talk about everything except politics. The conversation swirls from charity softball heroics and Beatles trivia to a truly baffling public image makeover by one of football’s most famously stone-faced coaches.

Blocking Jurko, Smoking Cubans, and Belichick’s Mermaid Muse

John Howell / Rick Telander

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Breaking Down the Fantasy Behind "Liberation Day" and Trump’s Tariff Promises

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
John Howell breaks down Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” promise to replace income taxes with tariffs—and shows why the math just doesn’t work. Howell explains how even best-case scenarios leave the U.S. deep in deficit territory.

Breaking Down the Fantasy Behind "Liberation Day" and Trump’s Tariff Promises

Big John Howell

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Pope makes deal with Sinner for tennis racket - This guy is already winning people over

  • Study Confirms 5G Radiation Does Not Harm Human Skin Cells - Conspiracy theorists hardest hit… not that it will stop them

  • She Was Fired for Being Too Attractive And the Court Said That’s Okay - Same thing is constantly happening to me

  • Coyote caught digging hole near grave in California cemetery in wild video: ‘Maybe he’s hungry’ - Someone apparently got buried with their collection of encased meats

  • Woman hangs by her hair for 25 minutes to break world record - Rapunzel was unavailable for comment

  • Flying duck caught on speed camera could be repeat offender - That duck feels the need… the need for speed

  • ‘I feel like an idiot’: Two Ontario men lose more than $150,000 to psychics - The only thing the psychic could see coming was a potential mark

  • ‘Outlaw’ biker with nunchucks, gun tangles with troopers on Long Island parkway when his ride loses power - If he wasn’t an outlaw before, he certainly is now

  • Morris, the alligator in 'Happy Gilmore,' dies at over 80 years old - RIP

  • Great white shark bites seal in first sighting of the season off Massachusetts - Matt Hooper was quoted as saying “This was no boating accident”

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