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The American Dream is getting super expensive / The job market really sucks unless you're an AI bot / Don't sneak into Antarctica
What does the American dream look like to you? (Other than very expensive)
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The 2025 American Dream Will Cost You $5 Million
This is going to be the new version of that yearly news story about the host of the 12 Days of Christmas. What does the American dream look like to you?
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The Job Market Is Hell. Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired
It’s not just young people. It’s basically anyone out there looking for a job. It’s tough out there in the streets
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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
A routine geological event spirals into a continent-altering cataclysm, forever transforming the American landscape and the lives of millions.
The Great Nebraska Sea by Allan Danzig Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar |
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Panic on the Airwaves: Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, and America’s First Viral Hoax
AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
Big John Howell welcomes back bestselling author William Elliott Hazelgrove to discuss his book Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America. The conversation dives deep into the infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Panic on the Airwaves: Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, and America’s First Viral Hoax Big John Howell |
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The Mascot Distraction: Smoke, Fire, and Trump’s Culture War Playbook
THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
Big John Howell and Rick Telander tackle everything from Trump’s resurrection of racist mascots to the enduring grift of American demagoguery.
The Mascot Distraction: Smoke, Fire, and Trump’s Culture War Playbook John Howell / Rick Telander |
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Also Worth A Look…
US Influencer Pilot Released from Chile's Antarctic Base With 3-Year Ban - I’m sure he’s already counting down the days until his 3-year ban expires
Oregon man won ‘$5K a week forever’ in 2012, spent cash like he was set for life — but Publishers Clearing House went bankrupt. Now he might lose home - You hear about lottery winners losing everything and it’s tough to feel sorry for them. This guy may not have made the greatest financial choices, but he did them believing the income would be there. That’s tough
Pig kidney transplant success leads to new clinical trial at Massachusetts General Hospital - I think I saw Pig Kidney Transplant play at Lollapalooza this summer
NBC/SurveyMonkey Poll Finds Trump at 43% Approval as Vaccine Support Stays Overwhelming - People love a good comeback story, but they’d rather not extend that to Polio
How Taylor Swift and her fans made science cool again - Is there nothing she can’t do?
Police Find Lost Plushie While Teaching Boy a Valuable Lesson: ‘There are great people in this world’ - So shines a good deed in a weary world
Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug - You just know there was some kid who was getting the blame for that and will never get their reputation back
Rural Texas roadside gas station stunned after selling one of the winning $1.8B Powerball tickets: ‘Nobody believes it’ - People don’t spend a whole lot of time talking about what it means for the store that sells the winning ticket
Man arrested after driving child-size pink Barbie Jeep - It’s gets you from Point A to Point B
Two dead after getting flesh-eating bacteria from eating raw oysters - Well, there’s another thing I didn’t know I needed to be worried about
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