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People aren't having kids / Get ready for Catholic aliens / What was your biggest mistake at work?

Can't imagine why

Keith Conrad
Oct 28
 
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People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world’s economy

Or, maybe that decision is being made for them. If it costs $250,000/year to be able to own a house and have a family at the same time, that’s just not going to be an option for many people

Pope Leo’s astronomer says he would baptise an alien into Catholic church

It’s nice to see the Catholic Church being so welcome. That wouldn’t work out so well if it was the aliens for Signs though… but then again it would be pretty nutty for an alien race that gets killed by water to visit Earth anyway


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
The Shoddy Lands by C.S. Lewis - An English professor’s momentary distraction during a boring visit from a former pupil and his fiancée hurls him into a terrifying, shoddy alternate reality that reveals the shallow, self-obsessed world inside the young woman’s mind.

The Shoddy Lands by C. S. Lewis

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander take aim at what might seem like a niche topic — bad behavior at the Ryder Cup — but turns it into something much bigger: a diagnosis of America’s national mood.

The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans

John Howell / Rick Telander

Episode

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Inside Operation Greylord: The Undercover Mission That Shook Cook County

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WITH JOHN DEMPSEY
John Dempsey sits down with Terry Hake, the man who became the federal government’s key undercover operative in Operation Greylord, one of the most significant judicial corruption investigations in American history.

Inside Operation Greylord: The Undercover Mission That Shook Cook County

John Dempsey

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants Makes $70,000 Mistake After Accidentally Setting Off Emergency Evacuation Slide - Biggest oops you’ve made at work? I once walked off from work with a commercial log, but I just brought it back the next day and things were fine

  • Flight delays in US to grow worse, transportation secretary warns - That’s less than ideal

  • Gmail Passwords Confirmed As Part Of 183 Million Account Data Breach - Even less ideal

  • OpenAI Says over a Million People Talk to ChatGPT About Suicide Weekly - That’s a problem, but it’s even more of a concern that there are plenty thinking about it who don’t talk to anyone/anything at all

  • Ohio lawmaker proposes comprehensive ban on marrying AI systems and granting legal personhood - Glad to see our elected officials focusing on the truly important issues

  • Microsoft Teams will start snitching to your boss when you’re not in the office - Not cool, teams. I thought you were on our side

  • Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing. Research finds they’re sturdier than stiff containers - Seems like good information to have, since the world is going to Hell in a handbasket

  • New Jersey officer stopped at ATM and pizzeria instead of investigating double-murder - You have to be well-fed and have plenty of cash for tips if you’re going to investigate a double-murder

  • Iowa woman wins her second big lottery jackpot in six months - That hardly seems fair

  • Woman Admits To Booty Call Arson Attack - People shouldn’t make plans if they aren’t going to follow through

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