Show #600!
Two sows ago it was Dimland Radio’s 14th Anniversary of being a thing. Now this show is number 600! The milestones just keep coming!
Well, you can relax. Those are the last milestones until next year.
There’s Something Else About 12 Angry Men
I have talked about the great jury room drama 12 Angry Men (1957) on a few occasions on my show. In real life it would be a mistrial and the great one shot of the jury members coming into the deliberations room. That one shot is done really well.
A correction: On the show, I said Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) didn’t speak during the one shot scene. He does. Not much though, just a couple of polite if somewhat curt responses to a couple fellow jurors.
Watch what the kids call a oner (long scene, all in one take, not edits or cuts) here. It’s great.
One thing that had me curious for a long time was that the oldest jury member (played by Joseph Sweeney) refused water when offered after he got a bit worked up. Why not have some water? It’s hot. He got excited and upset and then woozy on his feet. Have a cup of water, old man.
I found a possible answer. The main clue came from that oner scene.
I also praise character actor Jack Warden (Juror #7) who had a quiet and subtle reaction when looking at his comb after just combing his hair.
Too Many People Are Falling For AI Generated Fakery
These photos are all AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated and each of them has fooled many, many people on the social media. Right now AI has telltale signs of its fakeness, but it is going to get better. When it does, we are doomed.
It’s Not True: Snake Stockings
As a skeptic, I do a lot of party-pooping on the social media. People just don’t think critically enough about stories they pass around.
A meme about a husband breaking his wife’s foot with an iron stick (sticks are made of wood, aren’t they?), because she had worn her snake print stockings to bed and, waking up to see a snake in bed, the husband lashed out.
Well, it’s not true. Click here to get the truth.
Reiki Is Bullshit
People don’t have a life force, aura, energy field, whatever. People can’t heal disease by waving their hands around over a person (therapeutic touch) or by lightly touching them (reiki).
It doesn’t do anything, except maybe the placebo effect, which doesn’t deal with the problem, especially if the problem is an actual illness.
What’s most disturbing about this bullshit is that nurses are being taught it in some nursing schools.
Sigh.
Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus
First ad break bump: Into My Hands and For A Moment We’re Strangers by The Church
Second ad break bumpers: Constant In Opal and A Fire Burns by The Church
Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle
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