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Top AI Chatbots Fail Teen Mental Health Safety Test [ [link removed] ]
That seems less than ideal. There was a time when parents debated when to let their kids use social media… probably still do, actually… so now when do you let them use ChatGPT?
Musk Predicts AI Will Make Work Optional, Money Irrelevant [ [link removed] ]
The richest man in the world thinks money will be irrelevant. Interesting. If work actually was optional, what would you be doing with all of your time?
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
The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson [ [link removed] ] - Bored with the comforts of 25th-century civilization, a famous adventure novelist and his bride convince a drunken friend to use an experimental teleportation device, the Cosmic Express, to send them to the primitive, wild jungles of Venus, where their romanticized notions of “back to nature” are instantly and miserably crushed.
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Don’t Go Downstairs: Sports, Scandals, and the Return of the Mob Mindset [ [link removed] ]
THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander dig into the essential hypocrisy at the heart of modern sports culture: every league, every network, every commercial break insists gambling is entertainment, until someone gets caught. Then, suddenly, it’s “a serious violation of trust.”
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Dave Norman on Jerry Hey and the L.A. Studio Sound [ [link removed] ]
As I Was Saying with Big John Howell
John Howell sits down once again with longtime friend and trumpeter Dave C. Norman for an insider’s conversation about Hey’s life, sound, and legacy.
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Also Worth A Look…
Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials pick better passwords than Gen Z – but they’re all still bad [ [link removed] ] - My password is 1-2-3-4-5…
White House says President Trump does not want to execute lawmakers [ [link removed] ]- What a time to be alive…
Fluoride in drinking water does not negatively affect cognitive ability — and may actually provide benefit, study finds [ [link removed] ] - Where does fluoride go to get its reputation back?
1642 Calculator Pulled From Auction in France [ [link removed] ] - Even back in 1642, people used their calculator to spell “BOOBS”
Bar bans late-night ‘single’ drinkers [ [link removed] ] - Maybe single people drink. We don’t know. Frankly, we don’t want to know. It’s a market we can do without
Man Wins ‘Lying Flat’ Contest by Laying on a Mattress for 33 Hours Straight [ [link removed] ] - Now there’s an accomplishment to be proud of
Man undergoes surgery after 8cm by 6cm ceramic cup gets stuck up his bottom by ‘accident’ [ [link removed] ] - “It was a one in a million shot, doc”
Bald Eagle Dropped a Cat Through Car Windshield, Driver Says [ [link removed] ] - Who had “Bald Eagle Attacks” on their Bingo card for November 2025?
AI-powered robot dances for Putin days after another Russian robot stumbles [ [link removed] ] - I guess we’ll see if robots accidentally fall out of windows in Russia too
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