My mind is blown. I wish I was sleeping right now.
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Apparently "Bedtime Procrastination" is a thing / Teacher gives up after kids seem to be getting dumber / All of us a rule followers

My mind is blown. I wish I was sleeping right now.

Keith Conrad
Jun 5
 
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Study identifies personality traits associated with bedtime procrastination

How terrible does your life have to be that you’re putting off sleep? Have you not done it before? It’s amazing. It’s where I’m a Viking.

This young US teacher just quit with a serious warning to America — says kids ‘can’t even read’ and she’s lost ‘faith’ in some of them

The process of dumbening continues


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: A coma patient who hasn’t spoken in five years suddenly sits up and warns a night nurse about something that will happen tomorrow—at the river, at exactly 2:14 p.m.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Patient in 4A

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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Waylon, Lujack: Birthday Surprises from Legends

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
John Howell opens the DAT vault to share a once-in-a-career morning from 1998, when Waylon Jennings and Larry Lujack both surprised him with birthday phone calls live on-air.

Waylon, Lujack: Birthday Surprises from Legends

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…

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  • Researcher reveals his plan to save the planet by detonating a nuclear bomb on the ocean floor - What could go wrong?

  • Victoria's Secret Says It Will Postpone Earnings Report After Recent Security Breach - Who could have expected that Victoria’s Secret would have such trouble keeping things concealed?

  • Ellen Pompeo Says She Was Detained by TSA over Sunflower Seeds - I’m glad they kept that monster off of the airplane

  • Florida Weatherman Warns He Won’t Be Able to Accurately Predict Hurricanes This Summer Because of Federal Budget Cuts - That’s less than ideal

  • He Was Playing Disc Golf—Then a Tiny Hammerhead Shark Fell from the Sky - Every single one of you laughed at Sharknado. Who’s laughing now?

  • Huge 400-pound alligator captured in North Carolina on 'suspicion of being a dinosaur' - Is it me or are the alligators getting more brazen?

  • Pet Zebra Remains 'On the Loose' in Tennessee After Escaping Home and Causing Chaos on Interstate - 21st century equivalent of the OJ chase?

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