A Tourist Tried To Feed a Black Bear in Tennessee and Lived To Tell the Tale in an Act of Careless and “Mind-Blowing” Behavior

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BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA – 2025/09/04: An American black bear (Ursus americanus) is walking at low tide along the shoreline at Cameron Cove in Barnard Harbor, Princess Royal Island, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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There are two simple rules when it comes to black bears: Pretty simple, right? However, some people are still unaware of this, including a group of visitors to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Someone from the city, located next to the Smoky Mountains National Park, where an estimated 1,500 black bears live, recorded a woman blatantly disregarding these […]

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Influencer Raises $1.5 Million To Help 88-Year-Old Army Veteran Retire From His Grocery Store Job

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Influencer Raises $1.5 Million To Help 88-Year-Old Army Veteran Retire From His Grocery Store Job

The power of social media and the internet on display In the many stories that I’ve written, I’ve often touched on the negative aspects of social media. The disconnection, the overwhelming negative discourse, and the consistent comparison that people put themselves through… sometimes you wonder if it’s all even worth it? But then you see a story like this, and not only does it give you the feeling that social media’s existence garners some positivity, it also lets you know […]

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Pat McAfee Says Ernest Has Helped Him Record 7 Songs, With The First Titled “Dookie” Dropping Tonight

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Pat McAfee Says Ernest Has Helped Him Record 7 Songs, With The First Titled “Dookie” Dropping Tonight

Pat McAfee has got himself a song coming out… and a country music artist and producer helped make the sports personality’s vision a reality. In case you didn’t know, Ernest (whose full name is Ernest Keith Smith) is one of the most talented music makers in all of Nashville. He’s a singer, songwriter, producer and label owner that has over a dozen No. 1 hits to his name. Every big name in country music wants to work with him. And […]

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The Lyrics Only Todd Could Write

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Todd SniderTodd Snider photo by Melissa Clarke The Lyrics Only Todd Could Write When we lost Todd Snider, we lost one of America’s most important writers. Though he never gained the mainstream recognition or fame that other top-echelon lyricists amassed in their lifetimes, his influence on the now-mature class of Americana songwriters that followed him by […]

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Afton Wolfe – Ophiuchus

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I’ve noted before that I’m a fan of concept albums. I have not seen anyone embrace it quite the way Nashville-by-way-of-Mississippi resident Afton Wolfe did on his newest record, Ophiuchus. Each of the 13 songs is associated with one of the 12 well-known signs of the zodiac, plus one for the lesser known Ophiuchus. Then, […]