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Scary movies and haunted houses: Researchers study how the brain responds to fear [ [link removed] ]
Mostly by voiding their bowels
Listening to or playing music over 75 linked to up to 39% reduction in dementia risk, study finds [ [link removed] ]
Time to create a dementia-avoision [ [link removed] ] playlist
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 - Cargo Shorts Bigfoot [ [link removed] ] - A small-town TV reporter’s quiet late shift is hilariously interrupted by a local family reporting a bizarre Bigfoot sighting near the highway, sparking a town-wide debate over whether the creature was eight feet tall or simply a six-foot-three basketball player in khaki cargo shorts.
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The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans [ [link removed] ]
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.
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Inside Operation Greylord: The Undercover Mission That Shook Cook County [ [link removed] ]
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.
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Also Worth A Look…
Dictionary.com reveals ‘6-7’ is its 2025 Word of the Year [ [link removed] ] - I think I’m going to be boycotting the dictionary
Uber plans to offer autonomous taxi rides in San Francisco starting next year [ [link removed] ] - How anxious are you to hop into a car without a driver? I just don’t see this ever really being a thing. Not because the technology won’t be able to handle it but because people won’t be able to handle it
United Airlines Flight to Chicago Delayed More Than Four Hours After Flight Attendants Start Fighting [ [link removed] ] - The first rule of the United Airlines Flight Attendant Fight Club is you don’t talk about United Flight Attendant Fight Club
Attention Lapses Due to Sleep Deprivation Coincide with a Flushing of Fluid From the Brain, Research Reveals [ [link removed] ] - I think we should start calling them “Brain Flushes”
Woman knocked out by duck while riding SeaWorld coaster [ [link removed] ] - That’s definitely a new one
Thieves Dressed as Workers Take Safe, $3M in Jewels [ [link removed] ] - What’s with all of the incredibly elaborate heists lately?
Town in Canada May Sell Its Name, Residents Revolt [ [link removed] ] - “Welcome to Duck Lake, brought to you by Carl’s Jr.”
Obesity on Decline in US as GLP-1 Use Skyrockets: Gallup [ [link removed] ] - Yeah, it’s all great now until you hit the ten year mark and all of your skin falls off
WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later [ [link removed] ] - Well I hope none of the messages were time-sensitive
Russia Shoots Down Its Own Helicopter—For the Fifth Time [ [link removed] ] - They must really hate that helicopter
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