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Newspaper embraces AI a little too much / Someone might be cloning Abe Lincoln / Young American men are super lonely

Your News Sidequest is AI content-free

Keith Conrad
May 23
 
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Newspaper apologizes for AI-generated summer reading list with nonexistent books

Obviously this newsletter contains no AI-generated content

Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction

Unless you’re going to clone Lincoln, owning something with his blood on it just seems a little on the creepy side


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
Born on Jupiter, built like a weapon—Quest Mansard can survive anything… except the truth of what he really is.

The Jupiter Weapon By Charles L. Fontenay

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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Colby Hall on Jake Tapper's book "Original Sin" and the State of Cable News

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
Colby Hall is the Founding Editor of Mediaite.com. He is also a Peabody Award-winning television producer as well as a terrific dancer and preparer of grilled meats. BJH and Colby discuss the different reactions (and non-reactions) of various cable news networks.

Colby Hall on Jake Tapper's book "Original Sin" and the State of Cable News

Big John Howell

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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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Also Worth A Look…

  • Younger American men lonelier than counterparts in other nations: Gallup - This is an interesting stat to me, since other countries… at least for the most part… also have access to the internet. So what’s causing this?

  • United Airlines flight returns to Hawaii after concerning message found on bathroom mirror; FBI investigating - When they find the person who did this, they should have to give refunds to all of their fellow passengers. Maybe a little extra for the trouble too

  • News anchor Olivia Jaquith completes broadcast while in labor - Taking multitasking to exciting new levels. “This just out…”

  • A Twister Killed Her Sisters. Now, a Move Into Meteorology - Isn’t that basically the plot of the movie Twister?

  • New Minor Planet Spotted Past Pluto, One of the Largest Distant Objects in the Solar System - Before any feelings get hurt, this clearly isn’t big enough to be a legit planet

  • Norway homeowner wakes up to find 440-foot ship ran aground on his doorstep: "It's a very bulky new neighbor" - Looks like his ship came in *puts sunglasses on and walks away*

  • Biologists Engineer Spiders to Spin Glowing Red Silk - Real life echoing the plot of Andor season 2

  • Kentucky couple each lose an arm while clinging to each other when devastating 170 mph tornado tears them apart - That story is equal parts tragic and adorbs

  • Scientists warn if a 1,000-ft ‘mega-tsunami’ spurs from an active fault line it could wipe part of America off the map - Well there’s another thing I didn’t know I needed to be worried about

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