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dimland radio 1-14-23 show notes

Heart Attack Snow

*That’s mine old, gnarled, knobby-knuckled hand.*

I realize that to people living in Buffalo, NY 11″ of snow (see photo) is laughable, but here in the upper Midwest it’s a real pain in the ass. Or the chest as it turned out for me.

No worries! I just overexerted my 58 year-old self, but it is called “heart attack snow” for a reason.

Be Careful With The Speculation

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin was tackled during the January 3rd game against the Cincinnati Bengals. He got up. Adjusted his helmet. He collapsed.

What in the world happened?

Anti-vaxxers jumped online to blame vaccines, the COVID vaccine in particular from what I can tell. Settle down, asswipes!

There is speculation by medical experts, which is still speculation, they don’t know for sure what caused Hamlin to go into cardiac arrest and they haven’t examined him. They speculate he was hit in a particular area of his chest at a particular moment during his heartbeat cycle, which through off the electrical system of his heart and led to his needing immediate medical attention. The condition that seems the likely explanation is commotio cordis.

Is the speculation on target? Probably. It sure weren’t vaccines.

And Now – Sportsball! Vikings Postseason Preview

I think my Facebook post on January 8 gives you a good idea of how I felt the Minnesota Vikings would do in the playoffs this year:

As I write this, the big Wild Card Game weekend is wrapping up. How did the Vikes do?

Tune in next week.

Preview of next week’s MN Vikings segment: Well, at least they won’t lose the Super Bowl.

A Nice Collection

I work (and record my show) at Nostalgia Zone Comics and Collectables in Minneapolis. Quite often people come in to sell their old comic books. That’s how we get our stock. Most the stuff that comes in is OK, often nothing major. But every once in a while…

A fellow came in with a collection of a hundred or so books. Some good stuff in there. Items from the ’60s and ’70s. Two books in particular stood out. See below…

Yep. That’s how they were priced out by the boss. And they are sold already.

A Dimland Radio Science Hero: Dr. Harriet Hall

This segment started out with me reminding my listener that famous people do not die in threes. I gave three examples to get the listener excited, then listed off more people who had died recently.

Dr. Harriet Hall, the SkepDoc, was one of the people who died recently. (And those asswipe anti-vaxxers claimed she died from the vaccine. Gah! Shaddup!)

Dr. Hall did so much for the world of skepticism by taken on the dubious claims of alternative medicine. She wrote articles (here’s one), gave speeches, and did a video series on that specific realm of pseudoscience.

Living or dead, Dr. Harriet Hall is a Dimland Radio Science Hero.

Graham Hancock Is A Crank (And A Dimland Radio Science Zero)

“*Mainstream archeology just won’t listen to me!”*

Netflix has a popular, new pseudohistory “documentary” series hosted by ~~journalist~~ crank Graham Hancock. Hancock has been spouting nonsense, unsupported by any good evidence or actual archeologists, about his incredulousness about ancient people (almost exclusively brown-skinned people) being able to build all those ancient wonders without the help from Alanteans or aliens or whatever for decades.

I’m not saying he’s a racist. I don’t know what’s in his heart. I am saying he’s a crank. And his series isn’t archeology.

Again, I’m not saying Hancock is racist. I’m saying the nonsense he’s pedaling has a racist component to it. Brian Dunning mentioned it in a general sort of way, not specific to Hancock on a recent Skeptoid podcast. Ever wonder why these cranks don’t seem to question the architectural achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans? Hmm. Interesting.

Movie Recommendation: Jojo Rabbit (2019)

This movie made me laugh. And it made me cry.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Shaken Not Stirred by Red Guitars and Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat

Second ad break bumpers: Sleepless by King Crimson and She’s On It by Beastie Boys

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

That’s it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

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dimland radio 12-31-22 show notes

Greta Thunberg Wins The Internet

I had never heard of Andrew Tate until he foolishly attempted to take on environmental activist Greta Thunberg in a battle of wits on Twitter. Tate is some former MMA fighter, women-hating troll who was recently reinstated to Twitter by billionaire buffoon Elon Musk. One of Tate’s first actions after reinstatement was to brag at Thunberg about how many cars he owns. She responded in the best way to such overcompensating machismo:

*If you don’t know how to read Twitter, Thunberg’s response comes before Tate’s attempted trolling.*

But, it didn’t end there.

Tate couldn’t just slink off and lick his publicly received wounds. Nope, he posted a video of himself with pizza delivery and said he wouldn’t be recycling the boxes. After posting the video, Romanian police arrested Tate and his brother on sex trafficking charges. (Romanian law enforcement has denied the pizza boxes in the video helped them locate the dipshit, as had been claimed on the internets and which I stated on the show).

Still, Greta got the last word in the exchange:

And Now – Sportsball!

*Phase one of Gut Punch 2022/23 complete.*

I tried to keep it brief, because some of my listeners ain’t that into sports, but I had to mention a possible devastating way in which the MN Vikings will end up punching their fans in the gut this year.

You have to understand, the Vikings have been punching their fans in the gut since their first Super Bowl appearance in 1970. And that is actually the only season the Vikes have won it all. You see, the Super Bowl wasn’t the championship game yet (that would happen in 1971). There were two leagues then and the Vikes won theirs in 1970.

But, no one cares. They lost the Super Bowl that year (and three more times after that), so the perception is they have never won it all.

Each time since 1977, the last time the Vikes were in the Super Bowl, whenever the team seems set to get back to the big game, they find a way to punch their fans in the gut. There have been way too many gut punches for me to get into here.

This year will be not different.

The MN Vikings will punch their fans in the gut again and on the show I go over the predicted by a co-worker scenario for this year’s let down.

As of this writing, phase one of Gut Punch 2022/23 has be completed. The Green Bay Packers beat the Vikes (embarrassingly at that) on New Years Day.

Oh! I forgot to link to a couple videos relating to the Vikings’ unbelievable comeback victor over the lousy Indianapolis Colts. First is the Vikings Vet Line that started at halftime, when the Vikes were down 33-0 and stays with the game showing the hosts and the fans witnessing the comeback. Second is YouTuber Tom Grossi’s fan reaction to the comeback game.

Don’t Get History From Hollywood

*Cool looking, sure, but just how accurate?*

I’m sure most people know this already, but you shouldn’t rely on Hollywood for accurate historical information. Still, I thought it would be fun to check on the “history” depicted in The Untouchables (1987) and the Netflix series Peaky Blinders.

One scene in The Untouchables shows the judge in Al Capone’s tax evasion case instructing the bailiff to switch juries with another case being tried at the same time. It had come to Eliot Ness’s attention that the Capone jury had been bribed and he (ahem) convinced the judge to take action, leading to the defeat of Chicago’s most notorious crime boss. Yay, Untouchables!

My pedantry takes hold whenever I watch that scene. Surely, it would be a mistrial. However, the jury switch did happen, just not how it was depicted in the film.

*Also, cool, but historically accurate? Not hardly!*

And the Peaky Blinders? Oh, boy! I say more on the show, but here I’ll just say there was a gang of street toughs in Birmingham, England in the years after the First World War who called themselves Peaky Blinders. And that’s about all that the series got historically accurate.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Shaken Not Stirred by Red Guitars and Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat

Second ad break bumpers: Sleepless by King Crimson and She’s On It by Beastie Boys

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 12-24-22 show notes

Christmas Show

I speculated on the Northern Hemisphere bias when it comes to Christmas, more accurately the northern Northern Hemisphere bias, the part of the world that experiences typical winter weather (snow, ice, and cold temperatures). It seems to me that all the imagery of Christmas is permeated with all the cold stuff.

But, Christmas happens at the beginning of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Are the images on their Christmas cards all about the cold weather? I’ll try to find out.

I also noted that, to my eye, Christmas decorations look better surrounded by snow.

But, Cricket. What of cricket?

I talked a little bit about cricket on last week’s show. Or rather I talked about how little I knew about it.

Well, my friend Craig stepped up and sent me a YouTube video that attempts to explain the game to baseball fans.

Hey! I’m a baseball fan!

And I must admit, the game looks interesting…

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: An Old One, A Failed One, And A Weird One

*Just look how little surface there is on the right side of that mountain peak.*

The old Pedantic Moment dealt with something I noticed as a child, earning my pedantry badge for the Well Actually Club. It involved the fact that that goods laden sled should have plummeted off the mountain long before the Grinch’s heart enlarged.

Then there was this fail. The fail was on my part. (I should lose that pedantry badge.)

Sure, I got it right when correcting the spelling of due. (Do? Gaaaaah!) But, the L was correct. I was thinking the word should be pumping, because a pump must be involved in an automatic car wash, right? No, another pedant pointed out the word was more likely supposed to be plumbing. (Gaaaaah!)

The weird one involves my iPhone’s texting feature. You know how it provides predictive text options. It’s checking on what you are writing and tries to guess what word or phrase you might type out next, to help speed up your messaging.

My wife and I were playing with out texting feature to see if all the holidays or big life events had a fun bit of animation. (“Happy New Year” does. As do “Happy Birthday” and “Congratulations”. Try them!) I tried out Fourth of July. Look at what my iPhone predicted…

Sure Hope Stranger Things 4 Gets Better

My friends on Facebook assure me that the popular Netflix series does indeed get better. Amy and I are two episodes in and the quirky factor feels a little overdone. And there are other moments and characters that just haven’t landed well with me.

Most of the new characters are just plain annoying, especially Eddie, the Dungeons & Dragons game-master drug dealer, who thinks he’s such a cool rebel. Gah. I really hope he gets less annoying.

And some of the regular characters are a little too quirky.

We’ll give it time.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives and It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams

Second ad break bumpers: Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt and Christmastime Is Here by Vince Guaraldi Trio

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 12-17-22 show notes

Cricket?

Most of what I know of the sport cricket comes from Monty Python and 70’s UK sit-com The Good Life (or Good Neighbors as it was called in the States). Which is to say I know next to nothing about the game that influenced the greatest game invented by you humans: Baseball.

Boy! Do I miss baseball.

Don’t worry sportsballers, I didn’t talk much about the sport. I actually talked more about that British sit-com, which I love so much. It’s the aforementioned The Good Life, which tells the story of a married couple who decided to drop out of the rat race of life and become as self-sufficient as possible on their suburban home in upper middle class Surbiton. Hilarity ensues.

Although I like the lead character on The Good Life (Tom Good played by Richard Briers), he can be a bit of an asshole from time to time. I guess that’s something we are all capable of.

But, cricket. What of cricket?

A friend from Australia shared an explanation of the game. I think it clears everything up nicely. Have a look…

Changing The World?

Big science news has dropped. It appears physicists, who have been trying for decades, have cracked the nut that is getting more energy out of fusion than what goes in. This could be very, very big.

We have nuclear power which is based on fission (splitting atoms) since the 1950s. It’s a good, safe, reliable way to produce energy that will not contribute to global warming. However, there is the whole radioactive waste to deal with.

If science could do the opposite, joining atoms to produce energy instead of splitting them, that would be even better. It would be fusion and fusion would be even safer than fission. If physicists could figure out how to make it work, getting more energy out than what is put in, that would be, as the kids say, a game changer.

Fusion produces no radioactive waste.

The problem for the longest time was more energy was put in than came out. Until now! And that’s what the big announcement was about. Physicists have made it work. Now the engineers need to scale it to work for powering car, cities, and the world.

It’s exciting news, but it seems likely that it will take some time, perhaps a couple decades, before we will be fully able to benefit from fusion.

YAY! SCIENCE!!

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story

I talked quite a bit about this Netflix series. It’s a dramatic series that examines the life and horrific crimes of Jefferey Dahmer. With a great cast, the series gives an insight on the systemic racism and homophobia of law enforcement, we get to learn about one particular victim (Tony) who came so close to actually having a relationship with Dahmer, we see Jeffery’s parents (especially his father) struggle to understand what their son had done (but maybe his dad did understand a little), and we learn about a woman who kept ringing the alarm, but the police just wouldn’t listen.

And, of course, there is Jeffery. He’s mostly a deadpan, blank slate. He barely shows any emotion most of the time, except when he was giving in to his compulsion.

A slow burn at times, hard to watch at others, but completely fascinating.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Bull Rider by Johnny Cash and Something To Believe In by Ramones

Second ad break bumpers: That’s Entertainment by The Jam and You Better You Bet by The Who

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 12-10-22 show notes

My Foot Has Seen A Doctor

I finally saw a foot doctor. The foot is improving. He took care of a couple thing and told me, “Indoor Shoes, young man.”

It will still take some time to heel completely. In fact, I’m not certain my foot will return to its pre-this round of plantar fasciitis condition. But I am glad it isn’t hurting as much as before the visit. It was horrible.

So, indoor shoes it is. With proper over-the-counter insoles, that is. And looser fitting shoes to avoid an ingrown toenail.

It will still be a literal and figurative pain in the foot for a while, but it is getting better.

Scam Email And Masturbation

I received an email at work attempting to blackmail me. It stated that it had video of me “happily masturbating” to porn on my laptop.

Oh, really? I don’t recall a time, at any point in my life, that I masturbated happily. Besides this email is obviously bullshit.

I went over a few of the telltale signs that it was a phishing scam. I didn’t fall for it.

*Not looking so happy, is she? But, she also still doesn’t very shameful.*

It’s Not True: Facebook Charging Next Year

And an old hoax is making its rounds on the social medias again. It’s a message warning that Facebook will charge its users starting next summer, unless people post the warning message. The hoax also claims that if you declare publicly that you do not give Facebook permission to use your photos, messages, comments, etc and they will leave your stuff alone.

Yeah, well, it’s not true.

Well, I Guess Ties In Baseball Do Happen… Exceedingly Rarely

The last time it happened was in 2016. It was late in the season and it was a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The score was tied when weather prevented any further play, but because the outcome of the game wouldn’t affect the postseason possibilities for either team (the Cubs were way in and the Pirates were way out), it was decided the game would not be completed later, so it remained a tie.

Baseball Reference does show the records of those teams (Chicago, Pittsburgh) having a tie that season, but other sites just show the record being one game short of 162, the number of games in the regular season.

Dimlandfest or Dimlandapalooza

Other than switching The Who and Ramones positions, this three-day music festival, created through Instafest app, is right up my alley. But it would be. It came from my Spotify.

It would be awesome. One friend said of all the Instafests he’d seen posted this was the first he would be interested in seeing. Still, some Facebook friend had to criticize it as being bland and needing some spice, or at least a little ketchup.

Sigh.

GET VACCINATED! GET BOOSTED! GET BOOSTED AGAIN! And if you have been vaccinated, THANK YOU! It would also be a good idea to get your flu shot, too.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Bull Rider by Johnny Cash and Something To Believe In by Ramones

Second ad break bumpers: That’s Entertainment by The Jam and You Better You Bet by The Who

Closing song: Angler’s Treble Hook by $5 Fiddle

Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Just search for Dimland Radio in the podcast section. And if you could leave a good rating and a positive review it would be awesome.

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You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you’d like.