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dimland radio 9-4-22 show notes

Cool Thing: Nature Proceeds Undaunted

Way back in 1974 (or thereabouts), a storm blew a large branch out of the tree in our backyard. Two other large branches that were growing from the trunk at the same place as the fallen branch looked as though they, too, might be in danger of coming down.

Dad cleaned up the debris from the yard and, as he did so, he puzzled over how he could prevent more branch loss. He hit upon the idea of tying the two branches together with a heavy chain.

So, he climbed up there and installed the chain. It worked. Well, at least it seems to have worked. The branches haven’t come down, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the chain was responsible.

Nearly 50 years later, Dad still lives in that house, alone now that Mom is gone. (I miss her so much.) And the hackberry tree is still there and so is that chain.

*Incredible! Might those two parts of the branches continue to grow toward each other and completely engulf the chain?*

Nature continued to do its thing and the tree continued to grow. It has grown right around that chain. Only a small portion of it can be seen. The rest is now inside the tree.

Nature is really something.

Timing Is Everything

At work we printed up some shirts for the son of Clyde Bellecourt, a founder of the American Indian Movement. The design on the shirt was to honor the senior Bellecourt who died fairly recently. We did a fine job on the shirts, if I say so myself.

*These guys would not write a racist song, would they?*

The son wasn’t able to pick up the shirts, so he sent the fellow who made the design. The artist, himself, is also Native American.

Everything went fine. He was very happy with the shirts. But, there was a song playing on my computer. It was from my Spotify playlist and it was a Beatles song. John Lennon’s The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. The song isn’t about Native Americans in any way, but Bungalow Bill is awfully close to Buffalo Bill.

Not the most terrible song that could be playing, but of all the songs on my playlist…

I Have A Bet!

My longtime listener knows how much I hate the New York Yankees. They have been beating up on my beloved Minnesota Twins for the last 20 years. Especially in the postseason.

Over that time, the Twins would play the Hated Ones twice a season, a series there and one here. Six to seven games total and for years the Twins have only managed to win one of those games each season.

The good guys have their one win this season, so the four game series this week in New York should be a sweep for the Bronx Bastards. I mentioned as much to a coworker and the bet was on. Three dollars are on the line.

As of this writing, the Twins have lost the first game.

One down, three to go.

Dr. Oz Goes To The Grocery Store For Some Crudité

In an effort to reach out to the working and middle class voters of Pennsylvania (a state in which Oz never lived until very recently, when he decided to run for US Senate), TV’s ~~doctor~~ quack thought it would be a good idea to slum it and go to a grocery store himself. His wife had sent him to get crudité.

He succeeded in showing how out of touch he is with the common people. Crudité? You mean veggie tray? Who calls it crudité? Rich people do.

I had heard the word before on HBO’s Mr. Show. I thought it was made up (Pedantic Moment – All words are made up!) to sound like saying crude in French. Watch this and you’ll see what I mean.

A Scientist Plays A Little Joke On The Internet

*The scientist’s tweet claiming this slice of meat is a distant star. He was joking.*

Using a picture of a slice of chorizo, a kind of lunch meat, a French scientist played a joke on the internet. He shared the image and claimed it was an image of a star captured by the James Webb Telescope. The internet was fooled for a time, but the scientist came clean.

This brought up the notion of whether or not scientists should play little jokes like this on the unsuspecting public. Does this harm the public’s trust of science?

I dunno, but it led me to talk about…

Juno, James Webb, And Jupiter!

I took my listener through some of the human experience with Jupiter. From ancient peoples observing a star wandering through the night sky to Galileo using a ~~crudité~~ crude telescope to spot four of Jupiter’s moons to the discovery of the giant red spot, and then to the beautiful images from the Juno space probe and James Webb Telescope.

We have come a long way! Thank you, Science!

It’s also pretty cool how much parts of Jupiter resembles Van Gogh’s The Starry Night.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Head Over Heels by The Go Go’s and Bone Machine by Pixies

Second ad break bumpers: My Kingdom by Echo & the Bunnymen and Love Is A Stranger by Eurythmics

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

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dimland radio 8-20-22 show notes

Night Walks With Edna

Each night, I take our new dog, Edna, for her evening walks. (Usually two of them.) And I’ve noticed a couple of interesting things.

One is that, at this time of the year, the grass in the nearby walking park is literally crawling (or hopping) with frogs and toads. Edna had been going after something, but, it being dark, it took me a while to figure out what it was. But I did figure it out.

Now Edna needs figure out that when she gets on of those night critters in her mouth, which she sometimes does, they don’t taste so good.

*“Birds. Let’s turn those little mistakes into* birds.”

The other interesting thing I have noticed is that a neighbor likes to watch Bob Ross nearly every night. You know Bob Ross, don’t ya? He’s the US Air Force veteran who found a television career teaching people how to paint. Sort of. I mean, he’s not exactly one of the old masters. He ain’t no da Vinci.

But, he seemed like a nice, calm, and friendly sort of fellow. His painting show was very relaxing, so maybe my neighbor watches him to settle down for bed.

Cool Thing: The Ghost Of Roy Orbison?

You gotta keep your eyes open. You never know when you’ll see something cool.

Case in point, the other day we were driving home from work. It was an overcast and rainy day, which was perfect for making the illusion (?) we saw.

In the windshield of the pickup truck behind us was an excellent reflection. There was a ladder strapped to the top of the truck that created an interesting image in the windshield: It was the “ghost” of Roy Orbison!

Pretty cool!

Heaven, Grandma, Masturbation, & Neelix From Star Trek: Voyager

I had some thoughts about heaven. The thoughts were inspired by a meme on Facebook and an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Both had to do with the afterlife. The meme reminds people who believe that grandma (and Jesus) watches over them at all times, even when they masturbate. Mmmmhhhmmmm

I did get serious for a bit, when I considered if heaven might exist and are dead loved one (and Jesus) watch over us. Heaven is supposed to be complete joy and contentment for all eternity. Yeah, you have to worship God the whole time, but you don’t care. You are in complete bliss. It’s heaven, after all.

But, if it’s true that you watch over your surviving relatives, how blissed out are you going to be when you witness them going through a tragic event?

Heaven don’t sound so hot now, does it?

*Neelix, well-portrayed by Ethan Phillips*

And then I talked about the Star Trek: Voyager episode titled ‘Mortal Coil’. The main story is about Neelix being dead for more than 18 hours and, apparently, he didn’t experience the afterlife during those 18 hours. Neelix had a crisis of faith after that.

I speculated on what I might say to him.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Somebody Got Murdered by The Clash and Come To Milton Keynes by The Style Council

Second ad break bumpers: Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) by The The and New World Man by Rush

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

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dimland radio 8-13-22 show notes

Alex Jones Called Out For Perjury

*Judge Maya Guerra Gamble: “This is not your show.” Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERS*

I was mistaken in my suggesting that liar Alex Jones stopped lying once under oath. Well, the judge saw things differently.

Defund The FBI?

The fact that I’m a middle-aged white guy limits my ability to have a full understanding of what life is like for minorities living in America. But, within those limitations, I do understand that the simmering anger in our society sometimes boils over. In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by the police (and so many others before him), the simmering anger boiled over.

While I don’t condone the destruction and looting of businesses and the burning of a police precinct, I can understand (in a limited way) why it happened. Minority communities, especially black communities, want to be heard. They want justice. They want a fair shake. And there doesn’t seem to be much progress.

In the last couple years, we have heard the call to Defund the Police. The call is to rethink policing. It is to take some of the funding the police receive and reallocate them to agencies and professions that can take over the marriage counseling, drug abuse intervention, dealing with folks with mental illness. The police have had to do all that.

Not surprisingly, Defund the Police isn’t popular with conservatives, Republicans, and, yes, Democrats. Pres. Joe Biden is not in favor of it. Neither is Q-Anon mom, Christian Nationalist (isn’t that a Nazi?), Trump-cultist, and the definitely not too bright Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a not big fan.

Oh, wait! She is now. She’s all in on defunding the FBI. Why? Because they dared execute a search warrant on Fearless Loser’s mansion in Mar-a-Lago.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town

*That’s Kenny – cross-armed and throwing attitude.*

It was a hit for Kenny Rogers & The First Edition in 1969. It had been recorded by Waylon Jennings (1966) and Johnny Darrell (1967), but the Rogers’ version is probably the best known. The song tells the story of a young man, paralyzed in Viet Nam, rendered unable to meet the “wants and the needs” of his young wife, who can’t stop from going to town in search of some lovin’.

It’s a sad song about how war creates many victims. And this young man is quite frustrated at his inability to give his wife the lovin’ she needs. His frustration has him saying:

“And if I could move, I’d get my gun and put her in the ground…”

Can you guess why I might be pedantic about this song?

Electric Vehicles Are Coming, Like It Or Not

*That is the plan, but it will take some time.*

For the life of me, I cannot understand all the fear of the electric vehicle. Do these folks work for the oil companies?

The horse and buggy industry must have sounded much the same when the gas-powered cars were taking over.

They are coming. Fossil fuels are going to become a thing of the past. This will happen.

That fact doesn’t stopped the EV-fearful from continuing to make the same old and updated arguments. Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.com just did a podcast on those old arguments. Check it out here.

A Movie Recommendation (Sort Of): The Way West (1967)

It’s an ok movie. But it’s interesting in its addressing, at least tangentially, marital rape. A young husband wants some action from his even younger wife, but she’s just not ready. He almost rapes her, but he stops himself and goes off to have sex have the quite flirtatious Mercy (played by Sally Field). She was ready. Very ready.

The trailer gives you a taste of the typical racist treatment of Native Americans in films of that era. Plenty of Italian and Greek actors playing them still.

And I think they may have actually killed a cow!

Still it was ok.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Sixty Second Interval by The Vapors and We Care A Lot by Faith No More

Second ad break bumpers: The Model by Kraftwerk and Soul In Isolation by Chameleon UK

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

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dimland radio 8-6-22 show notes

Alex Jones Lies And Loses. Finally

*That look you make when you realize your bullshit has caught up to you.*

A Texas jury found against conspiracy theorist king Alex Jones in a lawsuit brought against him by the parents of Jesse Lewis, a 6 year-old who was murdered in the Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting in 2012. Jones took to his massive internet platform to spew his usual conspiracy bile. He claimed the deaths of 19 grade schoolers and six adults was a hoax. A false flag meant to convince the American people to give up their guns.

The families of those killed that day had to endure the shitheads who eat up Jones’ bullshit calling and harassing them, because it was all a hoax. There were no dead child. The whole thing was a lie, because Pres. Obama wanted to end the Second Amendment. All this on top of the unbearable grief they were already going through.

Jesse Lewis’ parents decided to take Mr. Jones to court. And the vile, windbag lost.

In two decisions, tin-hat Alex was ordered to pay nearly $50 million!

It’s a good start. And there are still other family members of the other victims.

I had said he sang a different tune in court once he was under oath, but it seems he was perjuring himself. The judge even called him out on it.

I Still Don’t Buy Into The Whole Karma Thing

Lots of people on the social media took to saying Alex Jones had just been visited by karma. Weeelllllll….

*“Ha ha ha! No karma for me, comrades!”*

While I do accept that habitual liars and criminals do eventually get caught, I think it has more to do with there being more opportunities to catch them than there is some mystical, metaphysical universal force that makes sure these serial baddies pay for their badness. I don’t buy that the universe has some need for comeuppance.

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who subjugated his people by keeping them poor and terrorized. Many millions of people were sent to his gulags. And many, many millions died because of him. Did karma get him?

Nope. He stayed in power until has death in 1953. No comeuppance. No karma.

Quotes On The Internet

On my social media, a friend shared the image of VP Kamala Harris that you see on the left. The word salad text in the image is difficult to decipher exactly what is being said. And the suggestion is that Harris said it.

Try as I might, I can’t find any source to confirm that she actually made that meant to sound profound statement. When I said as much in my comment on the friend’s post, a response came suggested that I couldn’t find it because it didn’t fit my narrative.

Perhaps. But the meme apparently fits the narratives of the person who posted it and the one who chastised me on my narrative, so they didn’t bother to look for a source to confirm the meme’s claim. They don’t like her, the statement is stupid word salad, so, of course she must have said it.

I am willing to accept she said it, but I need a valid source citation. I told them that. I’m still waiting for a source.

And just to be a stinker, I included a word saladly, stupid statement made by Fearless Loser (see below). It won’t fit their narrative, but…

He did say it. Here’s a source.

To be fair, Loser was asked about why Lincoln succeeded and why Nixon didn’t. The Coup Attempter’s answer about Nixon was much less incoherent.

I Guess Ask Can Be A Noun

I was bewildered as to when he word ask, a verb, started being used as a noun. Was it something recent or does this go further back. I asked Facebook.

It turns out that using ask as a noun does go back. The article in this link also goes back to eight years ago. So, it’s not a recent phenomenon.

Looks Like Fauci Was Right

Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID 19, has been pinned down even more strongly to having emerged from the wet market in Wuhan, China and not from the virology lab. Virologists have long said the virus wasn’t made in a lab, but that doesn’t rule out that a natural virus being studied in the lab couldn’t have leaked out.

Two recent studies provide very strong evidence the virus got into the world through the wet market. I’m sure Sen. Rand Paul will still blame Fauci.

*“Admit it, Dr. Fauci! You built a virus factory inside that wet market in China, didn’t you?!” “Jesus! Senator! You are such a putz!”*

Two Recommendations!

Both recommendations are related to The Beatles and Paul McCartney.

First:

Second:

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: My Son’s Birthday

*My son Hayden’s birthday was on Monday.*

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Certain Things Are Likely by KTP and Black Haired Girl by The Alley Cats

Second ad break bumpers: A Pagan Place by The Waterboys and Dirty Mind by Prinnce

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

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dimland radio 7-23-22 show notes

Live From The Basement Of Nostalgia Zone

OK, not exactly live. I prerecord my shows “live to laptop”. No editing. I do it as though it is a live radio show. And for the last three weeks, I’ve been recording the show in the basement of Nostalgia Zone in Minneapolis.

Nostalgia Zone is a comic book and collectibles store that I’ve been working part time for a few years now.

I told the story of how three fairly value X-Men comics had gone missing. They were eventually found, but if you saw how much stuff we have in the store, you would understand how books can go missing. The photo above showing my podcast recording setup and the photo showing the basement area behind where I sit for my recording will give you an idea of the mess.

*Good thing everyone who works here is relatively thin.*

I also talked about having fun with my Spotify at the store. The band The Cramps was mentioned. If you’ve never heard of them, here they are in concert from about 1980. Do you think you can handle watching the entire song?

The All-Star Game Was Fine, Except…

*Hey! There’s Byron Buxton! Right behind Shohei Ohtani!*

This year’s All-Star Game was entertaining enough, but I was rather annoyed by it as well.

I go into more detail on the show, so I won’t belabor it here. I was annoyed by how the announcers keep encroaching more and more on the game. I know I might be arguing the slippery slope fallacy here, but over the years the announcers have been conducting more and more in game interviews. They are even talking to plays while they play.

The All-Star Game is just an exhibition game. It doesn’t count. Just for fun. It’s the Leagues chance to showcase some of its best (or in some cases most popular) players. So why not talk to players while they are playing. I annoys me because we’ve seen this need for some much access creeping into the regular season games. Those do count.

Who did the announcers interview while playing in this All-Star Game?

The National League went up 2-0 in the 1st inning. That lead held until the 4th inning when the American League scored three runs making the score 3-2 in their favor. 3-2 was the final score, extending the American League All-Star Game winning streak to nine years in a row.

It was Giancarlo Stanton of the Hated Yankees who tied the game with a two-run homer. Next up was Minnesota Twin Byron Buxton and he sent the ball into the seats and put the American League up by 3-2.

Buxton’s home run was the game winning run.

I would think a home run that wins a game ought to be considered more valuable, at least a little bit, than a home run that ties a game. Wouldn’t you agree?

MLB Didn’t Agree

The All-Star Game MVP was to be announced when they came back from commercial break after the game was won by the American League. Would Buxton be the MVP in his first appearance as an All-Star?

Of course, not!

As I had predicted to a coworker during the commercial break, the League gave the MVP to the Hated Yankee. Gah!

Once I calmed down and read and listened to other reactions, I realized that giving the award to Stanton made sense.

I still disagree, but I understand.

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Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bumpers: Shout To The Top by The Style Council and The Cutter by Echo & The Bunnymen

Second ad break bumpers: Paralyzed by Gang of Four and Who Dunnit? by Genesis

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

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