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You'll probably never be financially secure / Least shocking weightloss study in history / Go ahead and spoil your baby

Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do

Keith Conrad
Jun 25
 
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A quarter of Americans say they would need to make $150,000 or more a year to feel financially secure

The bigger takeaway is that 32% don’t think they’ll ever be financially secure. That’s really sad/scary

Obese People See Self-Esteem Soar After Weight Loss Surgery: Study

So when people successfully do something they’ve presumably been trying to for years, it helps their self-esteem. Gosh, no, shocking, really?


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


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Tales From the Blue Line: An ER nurse's routine night shift turns unsettling when a mysterious patient with a strange injury and no shadow appears, leaving her to question reality and forever change how she perceives the unseen.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Shadowless Man

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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Golf Talk, Grit, and $4.3 Million Putts with John Dempsey

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
JJ Spaun shocks the field at Oakmont with a dramatic U.S. Open win, and John Howell and John Dempsey are here to break it all down

Golf Talk, Grit, and $4.3 Million Putts with John Dempsey

Big John Howell

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Heaven Is a Playground—The Book, the Movie, and the Memories

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander along with John Dempsey take a deep dive into Telander's iconic book Heaven Is a Playground—from its origins in a 1973 Sports Illustrated article to its 1991 film adaptation.

Heaven Is a Playground—The Book, the Movie, and the Memories

John Howell / Rick Telander

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Also Worth A Look…

  • No, You're Not Spoiling Him: Overprotecting Babies Doesn't Exist According to Science - If we learned anything from the documentary Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, it’s that kids can indeed be spoiled

  • Scientists issue stark warning after harmful creatures breed to form hybrid species: 'We have confirmed the presence of hybrid swarms' - That’s just what we need. Animals joining forces to create unholy abominations

  • Two fired after Michigan man receives $1.6 million salary in major payroll slip-up - You should absolutely get to keep that money if someone makes that mistake. If not, the people shouldn’t have been fired for making that mistake if it didn’t actually cost anything

  • Alcohol-soaked star system could help explain 'why life, including us, was able to form' - To alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems

  • Comedy and crime fighting join forces for police learning leadership skills - Wait until these people see the Police Academy movies

  • 'You can't afford not to pay me': Man kidnapped, tased, and robbed his ex-business partner after warning there would be 'consequences' for ending partnership, police say - Seems like they probably made a good decision to end that particular partnership

  • Frequent Nightmares Linked to Faster Aging and Premature Death - Or is it the other way around?

  • Three hikers found dead after they jumped into California waterfall - More proof you shouldn’t be chasing those things. TLC tried to warn us

  • Man gets stuck in chimney while trying to get his dog out of a locked building - They’re lucky they didn’t end up like Phoebe Cates dad in Gremlins

  • US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says - That’s less than ideal

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