From News Sidequest from Keith Conrad <[email protected]>
Subject Lonely kids have a new friend in Skynet / Can your employer make you donate something dear to you? / You can only …
Date July 16, 2025 12:00 AM
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Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends [ [link removed] ]
Has anyone thought about starting a business where you just talk to people? About anything? I should stop giving away these million dollar ideas
A frequent flyer needed a kidney transplant to live. This Delta employee gave him one [ [link removed] ]
At this very moment right now United is looking through their HR files to see which employee they’re going to volunteer to donate an organ to a passenger. Regardless of your employer, it might be a good idea to read the find print of your employment agreement
More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…
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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales from the Blue Line: A man's promising first date takes a bizarre turn when the charming woman he met begins sending him strange texts that lead him to a shocking and impossible truth about who she really is.
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Andy Shaw on Trump, Media, and the Future of Politics [ [link removed] ]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WITH JOHN DEMPSEY
This week on What Does It Mean?, John Dempsey reconnects with a longtime friend and Chicago media legend: political reporter, columnist, and former head of the Better Government Association, Andy Shaw.
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Pete Rose, Perfectionism, and the Price of Redemption [ [link removed] ]
THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
Long before Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter was indicted or your cousin could bet on Little League from his phone, Pete Rose was baseball’s original gambling pariah. Now, posthumously reinstated and potentially Cooperstown-bound, Rose’s legacy—and the sport’s relationship with vice—is back in the spotlight.
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Also Worth A Look…
Court of Appeal confirms it isn't possible to kill a person who is already dead [ [link removed] ] - Yeah, that tracks
AI could create these new jobs despite gloomy forecasts, experts say [ [link removed] ] - AI is like any new technology, it’ll probably end up decimating some jobs but it’ll also create enough new ones that it’ll probably just about be a wash
US inflation rises as tariffs drive up prices [ [link removed] ] - Who could have predicted this?
Retired Army officer pleads guilty to sharing classified info on Russia-Ukraine war on dating site [ [link removed] ] - How did that come up in the text chat?
Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature [ [link removed] ] - We’re not sending our best and brightest to Congress
Nick Cannon to Launch Podcast Giving Relationship Advice [ [link removed] ] - Maybe he needs a producer
Bizarre 12-sided object dating to Roman Empire baffles scientists: ‘A cosmic symbol’ [ [link removed] ] - You just thought about the Roman Empire. Re-start the clock
Overturned milk truck creates 'significant spill' on New York road [ [link removed] ] - It’s nothing to cry about…
Commodore 64 Returns with FPGA-Powered Remake, Coming This Fall Starting at $299 [ [link removed] ] - I look forward to firing up Jupiter Lander again
Study finds no link between aluminum in vaccines and autism, asthma [ [link removed] ] - Huh… imagine that. Where do vaccines go to get their reputation back?
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