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Season 1

Dec. 21, 2022

BONUS: Picking Up Pickleball: Take A Whack At It

It all started with two dads in the summer of 1965, desperate to find a solution to find a way to keep their kids entertained. The dad did a lot of thinking and then improvised on an idea. They took …

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Dec. 14, 2022

A Bruised Bear, Deniers Be Damned, Geniuses They’re Not

As we get ready to see 2022 come to a close, I wanted to share three stories that I thought were, unexpected. The first is a about a small country that stood defiant against a giant bear and punched its …

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Dec. 7, 2022

New Jersey Man Walks 29,826 Miles Around the World With His Dog

Tom Turcich, from New Jersey, sets a Guinness World Record becoming the tenth person to walk around the world. So what? The 'so what' part is he wasn't alone. His companion, shall we say, was different. He took his four-legge...

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Nov. 23, 2022

Mastodon, An Alternative To Twitter

Elon Musk took over Twitter on Oct. 27, 2022. Time to pop the champagne corks and celebrate. What should’ve been a day of celebration has turned into anything but. Currently the state of Twitter is chaotic. Twitter users are ...

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Nov. 16, 2022

Elizabeth Learns Lessons Of Life With Her Dad, While Sailing

Elizabeth’s begins her story by remember her dad asking if she would do him a favor. Her dad’s favor was if she would be able to take care of his prize possession, his 34-foot Hunter boat, for a couple of …

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Nov. 9, 2022

The Pros And Cons Of A Four-Day Working Week

Over the past two years, we had to deal with COVID-19 and all of the underpinnings it brought with it. As we started walking out of this virus nightmare, our society had time to rethink what they wanted in their …

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Oct. 26, 2022

Rethinking Just-in-Time Supply Chain, For The Possible Next Time

American shoppers, in part, contributed to the breaking of the Supply Chain. The USA is a nation of impatient consumers. We’re geared that anything can be delivered to our homes, 24 by 7, with the click of a mouse button. …

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Oct. 12, 2022

Pandora's Social Media Digital Box, Caution: Algorithms Are Inside

Despite the ongoing breaking news covering the misuse of information and the public's relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, it's hard for people to put their mobile phones away, even for a minute. We f...

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Oct. 5, 2022

BONUS: Liz Cheney Lost Her Election But Actually Won

About two months ago, against the back drop of the Wyoming skyline, Liz Cheney, conceded her loss to her opponent in the state’s U.S. representative Republican primary. The overwhelming defeat for Liz Cheney was more than a r...

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Sept. 28, 2022

Climate Change Is Happening, It's No Longer A Theory!

The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt, creating a harrowing future in which floods, fires, and famine displace millions, species ...

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Sept. 21, 2022

BONUS: A Beer Run Covering 9,000 Miles

The year was 1967, and John Donohue took off to make a beer run for some of his friends in his neighborhood. Now one would think, what so special about a beer run? Well, this wasn’t your typical beer run …

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Sept. 14, 2022

We Interrupt This Program For Breaking News! Is It Really?

Why is there so much "breaking news" on TV? The label "breaking news" is an overused marketing message used to increase audience size or hold an audience longer. Viewers suffer from viewer fatigue from a constant blitz of "br...

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Sept. 7, 2022

BONUS: Canada And Denmark Fight Over An Island with Liquor, Not With …

There’s this island that lies between Greenland and Canada. It’s not really an island perse. It’s more rock than anything else. What makes this rock interesting is a dispute between Canada and Denmark. The discussion involved...

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Aug. 31, 2022

A Sports Bar Not Just For Women, But A Bar For Women’s Sports

This is the story of Jenny Nguyen, who decided one day that it was time for women to have a bar. This wasn’t just any bar which we’ll soon find out. What makes this story even more interesting was that …

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Aug. 17, 2022

France's Future Farmers Have Tech Shrewdness, and Want Weekends Off

Modern farms and agricultural operations work far differently than those a few decades ago, primarily because of advancements in technology, including sensors, devices, machines, and information technology. Today’s agricultur...

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Aug. 3, 2022

Kenichi Horie, Sails The Pacific Ocean Solo, And He's 83!

Sailing solo across the world's largest ocean once should be enough of an achievement. But 83-year-old Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie felt compelled to do it again. On Saturday, June 4, 2022, he set a record by becom...

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July 20, 2022

The Electoral College Is A Ticking Time Bomb. Seriously!

The United States Electoral College process is a loaded gun pointed at our system of government. Yet, we continue to play Russian roulette with our democracy every four years. The question is, why? supporting links 1. Avoidin...

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July 13, 2022

BONUS: No Harm, No Foul Is No Defense For Donald Trump

The Jan. 6th committee has provided a timeline of events leading up to and after the Jan 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol. Arguments have gone back and forth on whether there’s enough evidence to prosecute Mr. Trump. Even if …

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July 6, 2022

Putin Starts A War, And At The Same Time Increases World Hunger!

On Feb. 24th of this year, Russia started its special operations war with Ukraine. As the war unfolded, Putin soon learned he had miscalculated the strong resistance of the Ukraine people. Another miscalculation was what the ...

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June 22, 2022

Elizabeth Holmes Had A Motto: Fake It Till You Make It

On January 3, 2022, biotechnology founder Elizabeth Holmes, was convicted of defrauding some of her blood-testing company’s biggest investors. At its peak, her startup, Theranos, was valued at more than $9 billion and, by 201...

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June 8, 2022

How Fast Can You Run From the Vaccine, And Why Take The Risk?

The science is precise: COVID vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death from the coronavirus, and vaccine mandates effectively promote widespread vaccinations. Still, we batt...

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June 1, 2022

BONUS: The "Great Replacement Theory": A Deadly Doctrine

It's happened again. In a synagogue in Pittsburgh of 2018. At a Walmart in El Paso. Now, it's happened yet again at the Tops Friendly Market store in Buffalo. All three of these shooting incidents that took place were the …

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May 25, 2022

Pregnancy From Rape. Did You Know "It's An Opportunity"?

So, let’s see. Inflation is on the rise. The Ukraine war could get to a nuclear state if Putin has his way. Wall Street is struggling. The Florida governor has attacked Micky Mouse. Apple’s iPod is going the way of …

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May 11, 2022

Jose Andres, Fights With A Spatula Instead Of A Gun

As the Ukraine war continues, people worldwide have come to their aid. Countries have provided military aid, as requested by President Zelensky. Another group came to provide aid, but they brought a spatula instead of a gun. ...

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