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Bars, bowling alleys and movie theaters cost too much to run and visit. Americans have run out of places to hang out and we’re paying with our health [ [link removed] ]
Best ideas for free things to do out there in the world?
‘True Love’ Comes With A Salary Requirement: $106,417 [ [link removed] ]
That’s a very specific number. I guess if you had to find one of those free activities listed above, you probably don’t have the salary to qualify for dating
More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…
Auditory Anthology [ [link removed] ]
SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Maiden Voyage - Chapter One: The Artifact [ [link removed] ] - When a mysterious, unyielding artifact—made of an impossible extraterrestrial material—begins responding to a precise frequency, senior researcher Chen Liang realizes his team isn't just analyzing an unknown object; they are waking something up.
On the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret: an ancient, non-human artifact. Hidden amongst twenty-two thousand passengers and stalked by an elite foreign intelligence network, the team must execute a precise, high-stakes tradecraft operation in international waters. One wrong move could blow their cover and trigger a confrontation that could break the global order.
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New chapters post ever Sunday, and will be available to Auditory Anthology paid subscribers [ [link removed] ]
Also Worth A Look…
Grades, Pressure, Fear Of Failure: How Our Education System Wires Teens For Lifelong Anxiety [ [link removed] ] - My experience was actually the opposite. After years of being stressed out by school and then adding work to the college experience, when I got into the real world and only had a job to worry about that seemed like a breeze
Americans get married after how many months? How engagement times have changed over the years [ [link removed] ] - I guess Misty and I were an outlier. We were only engaged for about 6 months before we got married, and that was even with the COVID shutdown
Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers’ faces, lawsuit claims [ [link removed] ] - I guess motivation by humiliation is one strategy
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras [ [link removed] ] - I’m sure that’ll win her back. Good thinking. Sadly this isn’t just a police camera issue, there are enough privately owned cameras out there that are hackable and could produce the same result
Preflight Sermon Gets Plane Preacher Kicked Off Alaska Airlines Flight [ [link removed] ] - I’m not sure I think of a worse time to try to win people over to anything than when they’re crammed into an airplane together
TSA finds stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger’s suitcase at an Alabama airport [ [link removed] ] - They were in a checked bag. Imagine the fees that would have racked up
Pilot issues ‘flying saucer’ alert over London airport as mystery disc passes jet [ [link removed] ] - I hope the pilot got on the PA system and told everybody to take a look
French student pleads guilty and is fined for a straw-licking stunt in Singapore [ [link removed] ] - He licked a straw and then put it back. The fine is only $500. Not enough. We’re trying to have a society here
Archaeologists found a skeleton wearing an amulet that may change the history of Christianity [ [link removed] ] - It’s pretty amazing that we we’re still learning things about time periods when there were fairly detailed written records
Iowa Woman Busted On Lawn Mower OUI Rap [ [link removed] ] - Friends don’t let friends drink and mow
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