Man who cryogenically froze late wife sparks debate by dating new partner

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

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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Auditory Anthology

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

Tales From the Blue Line – The Vending Machine Prophecy - 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.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Vending Machine Prophecy Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Don’t Go Downstairs: Sports, Scandals, and the Return of the Mob Mindset

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.”

The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans John Howell / Rick Telander Episode

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Dave Norman on Jerry Hey and the L.A. Studio Sound

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.

Dave Norman on Jerry Hey and the L.A. Studio Sound Big John Howell Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• OpenAI & X Hit By Outages - How did you survive?

• Pranksters bypass Louvre’s security and sneak painting in - 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 - 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 - 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 - Still cranking out absolute bangers. Impressive

• NYPD Detective Pulled From Cases Over Playing a Stripper in a Rap Video - Everybody has a side hustle these days

• Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite - 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 - In fairness, I bet no one ever thought to specifically ban meat cleavers before

• City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets - Rocket was unavailable for comment

• It’s Eminen vs. ‘Swim Shady’ - It’s an Australian beachwear company. Oh come on, that’s just clever