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Man who cryogenically froze late wife sparks debate by dating new partner [ [link removed] ]
If you froze your wife, it’s with the expectation that one day technology will advance allowing her to come back, right? Also, it’s “Til death do us part” and technically, she wouldn’t be “Dead,” right? Walt Disney was unavailable for comment
Elementary students given ‘tickets’ for saying ‘6-7’ by Indiana school resource officers [ [link removed] ]
No freedom of speech for those kids. You can’t yell “fire” in a crowded movie theater and you can’t annoy Baby Boomers by randomly shouting 6-7 constantly
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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales From the Blue Line – The Vending Machine Prophecy [ [link removed] ] - The night shift at the hospital is dramatically altered when the staff discovers that the old, untrustworthy vending machine, an office joke, starts dispensing eerie and hyper-specific fortune tea bottles that accurately predict everything from missed birthdays to patient emergencies on their floor.
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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…
OpenAI & X Hit By Outages [ [link removed] ] - How did you survive?
Pranksters bypass Louvre’s security and sneak painting in [ [link removed] ] - The Louvre is not having a very good end to 2025. I’m picturing a group of students on a once in a lifetime field trip seeing a copy of dogs playing poker
Man who found gold bar fortune buried in his garden will likely get nothing [ [link removed] ] - I guess the lesson is if you find something in your backyard, you should sell it and let the poor schmuck who bought it take it to a historian
From guardrails to potholes, AI is becoming the new eyes on America’s roads [ [link removed] ] - Judging by the image ChatGPT drew me of a person with 12 fingers, I’m not sure that fills me with a huge amount of confidence
Long-lost Bach pieces performed for first time in 300 years [ [link removed] ] - Still cranking out absolute bangers. Impressive
NYPD Detective Pulled From Cases Over Playing a Stripper in a Rap Video [ [link removed] ] - Everybody has a side hustle these days
Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite [ [link removed] ] - This is interesting to me, because if you wanted to figure out a way to torture me, one option would be forcing me to eat Vegemite
Passenger Gets Through Airport Security With Meat Cleaver [ [link removed] ] - In fairness, I bet no one ever thought to specifically ban meat cleavers before
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets [ [link removed] ] - Rocket was unavailable for comment
It’s Eminen vs. ‘Swim Shady’ [ [link removed] ] - It’s an Australian beachwear company. Oh come on, that’s just clever
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