Girl Scouts sued over alleged heavy metals, pesticides in cookies

Just in case you were wondering what secret ingredient makes them so tasty and slightly addictive

‘New Nostradamus’ made eerie prediction about an oil tanker explosion days before it happened

Given everything going on in the world at the moment, I don’t think predicting a big explosion somewhere is all that impressive. Any bold predictions you’d like to make?

A Day in the Life of a (Beleaguered) Congressional Staffer

BELEAGUERED STAFFERS W/ KEITH CONRAD, LAURA FINCH & SEAN MAGERS

Working in Congress may sound like a glamorous job—policy debates, historic votes, and rubbing elbows with power players. But the reality is often far less glamorous, most of the time you’re taking calls from crazy constituents, or worse, people like Keith Conrad

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Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD

As nurse Emily searches for a missing patient in the hospital’s abandoned west wing, she stumbles into a maze of forgotten rooms, lost souls, and eerie whispers from the past—until she realizes she might never find her way back.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Endless Ward Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• Coffee theft surges in the US as prices for the beans soar - Pretty soon they’ll just have to put everything behind lock and key, and everyone will have a store employee that goes along with you while you’re shopping

• Man found with live turtle hidden in his pants at a New Jersey airport - The turtle was said to be anxious to get back to Master Splinter and have a pizza

• Air India asks passengers to stop flushing clothes down plane toilets - No deal. I’m actually going to fly to India specifically to fly on Air India and flush all of my clothing down the toilet

• An alarming number of people are mistaking nail glue for eyedrops - It seems like you’d recognize your mistake pretty quickly. Although you’d have to guess, since you wouldn’t actually be able to look at the bottle

• Zoo Forced To Remove 5 Parrots From Public View For Swearing At Visitors - Taking angry tweeting to strange new places

• Gamer beats 'Super Mario Bros.' in 4 minutes, 54.565 seconds - I could do that. I just choose not to

• Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit - That seems somewhat counter productive

• UK Woman on Stolen 16th-Century Painting: Sorry, It's Mine - Her husband bought it in the 70’s. I say let her keep it

• Microplastics May Contribute to Antibiotic Resistance - That’s less than ideal

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