dimland radio 8-3-24 show notes

21?!

My son Hayden turned 21 at the beginning of August! (Astrologers! Put you charts away!) How is this possible?! I’m too young to have a child who is 21.

TOO YOUNG, I TELL YOU!

Dumbest Thing Of The Week From About A Month Ago

*…believe this guy did something that dumb!*

On the show, I talked about the Tesla Cybertruck and some of the problems the new EV truck has been happened since it took the world by ho hum. It’s been claimed it can’t get stuck. It can. They claim the trunk lid will not close on your hand. It will.

And it looks like a stainless steel dumpster on wheels.

So, the dumb thing I saw was a fellow testing the trunk claim using his own finger. First, he tested it with a small stick (on the show I conflated another video in which a carrot was used), which broke right in half.

Undaunted, the fellow put his finger in the path of the trunk lid as it closed. It was supposed to sense the resistance of his finger and open back up immediately. It didn’t. Just as with the stick, the trunk continued to close and broke the dunderhead’s finger.

Pretty dumb.

Meme Round-Up!

This meme round-up includes an Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment™, a meme that asserts something that is not true, one that asserts several things that are true, and one that upset a friend on mine.

Could all those claims be true? Well, let’s check a calendar to start…

*Two minutes of Googling was all it took.*

OK, one of the claims was true, so my pedanticness wasn’t 100%.

However, this next meme isn’t true at all…

I shared the meme about McConnell and Facebook fact checked me! First (and hopefully the last) time that has happened to me.

It was deserved though. There were GOP leaders, including Peerless Loser, who asked the Senator from Kentucky to step down.

This next meme makes five claims. All of them are true. And, yes, I vetted them all.

*Now he’s the old man running for President.*

Claim one, two, three, four, and five. Now, I will say that Occupy Democrats sometimes put out false claims, so one needs to be careful.

*Racists used to say “Affirmative Action Hire” back in the day.*

The whole point of the DEI hire dog whistle is to allow racists, misogynists, and MAGAs to say Kamala Harris isn’t white and isn’t a man, without actually saying those things. And going deeper, I think it’s their winking way to say the N-word to their like-minded cohorts.

A friend of mine protested the suggestion he secretly wants to use the N-word. I do believe him, but my advice to him is: If you don’t want people to think you are a racist, stop using their dog whistles.

Why Are You Laughing?!

*China’s Men’s Synchronized Diving Team*

I tried to talk about this team from China and all I could hear was people laughing. I just don’t understand what’s so funny…

Waitaminute…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Buck Hill by The Replacements and The Queen And The Soldier by Suzanne Vega

Second ad break bumpers: Rock N Roll Is King by ELO and We Got The Beat by The Go-Go’s

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

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dimland radio 7-20-24 show notes

A Definitely Not Sweet Hitchhiker

Similar to the earwig on my toothbrush from a few shows ago, I started the show telling the story of an unusual and unexpected passenger that was catching a ride in my car.

Put succinctly….

THERE WAS A CENTIPEDE CRAWLING ON THE DRIVER’S SIDE SUN VISOR IN MY CAR WHILE I WAS DRIVING TO WORK!

We Live In Interesting Times

I will reiterate what I said on the show and on Facebook…

I do not want Donald Trump in the White House ever again, not even as a tourist, but I don’t want him dead. (Would I shed a tear if he die? Absolutely not.)

An error was made in my mention of the dark thought I had in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on America’s orange shit stain. I said, two inches to the right would have put an end to him. I misspoke. Two inches to the left is what I should have sad. Or maybe I shouldn’t have said such a thing. It would have gotten me kicked out of Tenacious D.

What I spent much of the show talking about was my frustration with all the conspiracy theory claims of the whole thing having been staged. It most certainly was not.

To my friends on the left who are spreading such nonsense, I want you to know that I think you sound just like the MAGAs who claim the 2020 election was stolen. Please, accept reality.

Also, I mentioned the apparent failure of the Secret Service. In doing so, I brought up Hanlon’s Razor:

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately by stupidity (or incompetence).”

I also mentioned a couple YouTubers’ takes: Steve Shives’ take and Politics Girl’s take.

It’s Not True: Humans Handling Baby Animals And Birds

A few days ago, I helped a neighbor get a scared, little baby bunny back to its burrow. When I told my co-workers of the experience, they said the mother bunny would now reject her baby because the human smell on her offspring.

This is a myth.

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First ad break bump: I Ran (So Far Away) by Flock Of Seagulls and Death Of The European by The Three Johns

Second ad break bumpers: Almost With You by The Church and Lullaby by The Cure

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

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dimland radio 7-13-24 show notes

Rain, Rain, And More Rain. And No AC

First I gave an update on the newspaper delivery situation. It’s still showing up, but so far this month only a couple times. Progress is being made, I guess.

I used the most recent delivery of the Sunday paper and my fruitless attempt to catch the attention of the deliverer, I was feet away when he dropped it on our walkway, to tell a couple stories of not heeding a closed to thru traffic sign.

The photo above shows the addition my next door neighbors made to the official sign in an attempt to let drivers know to take it seriously. It really is closed at the other end.

My neighbor has said that she has seen a reduction of vehicles having to make the turn around to get off the block.

A Cool Use Of AI

The Beatles released a new song last October. It’s called Now And Then and it was taken from a demo recording by John Lennon. It’s also being call the last Beatles song.

I may not have gotten all the details correct. I was going by memory of what I heard about the recording on one of the podcasts I listen to. But, the surviving Beatles with the help of Jeff Lynne (in 1995), Giles Martin, and film director Peter Jackson using AI, were able to separate and clean up John’s vocals. His vocals were impossible to separate from the sound of his piano in 1995, when the three surviving attempted to record a third new Beatles song, but AI made it possible.

Here’s the song. Here’s a short film about the making of Now And Then.

*“Well, hi there, hot ladies. What brings you here…Holy shit! That hand!”*

I mentioned the above photo. And I’m including it to remind you to stay on your toes and not be taken in by AI fakery. Although, this one would be difficult to mistake for a real photograph.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Star Trek’s Universal Translator

*“Your lips speak Klingon, but my ears hear English.”*

It’s a good long Pedantic Moment segment explaining that I don’t understand Star Trek’s universal translator. I accept it. I just don’t understand it.

Shelley Duvall Died And The Shining Is Still A Great Movie

Shelley Duvall was born to play Olive Oyl, which she did brilliantly in Robert Altman much underrated Popeye (1980). She may not be quite as good in the Stanley Kubrick horror masterpiece The Shining (also from 1980), but she does play terror very well.

I used this sad news to talk about how great I think The Shining is. Stephen King may not have thought it was a great adaption of his novel (he may be right, I’ve never read it), but it certainly is a fantastic film.

I love the Gold Room sequences and Lloyd the bartender, played be Joe Turkel, is so good. He has a wonderful mix of friendly yet proper politeness with an undercurrent of menace or evil.

Love it!

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Remote Control by Red Guitars and Coming Up by Paul McCartney

Second ad break bumpers: Love Vigilantes by New Order and In-Between Days by The Cure

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

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dimland radio 6-29-24 show notes

Rain, Rain, And More Rain. And No AC

While the rest of the country was baking under that heat lamp 93 million miles from earth, the upper midwest managed to suffer from rain, rain, and more rain. It really got to be so depressing. We would get a day or two with sun and then back into 3 or 4 rains of rain. Yuck.

But, as I said, the rest of America was really suffering from high 90º to 100º days. So, taking that into consideration, The rain wasn’t so bad. I guess I shouldn’t complain.

Additionally, our air conditioning went out, so the rain was much better than that hot, hot, heat would be. You see? I shouldn’t complain.

As I write this, a day or two late than I usually do, I am enjoying the nice, cool air of our newly repaired AC. Repaired just today, in fact.

What you see there is cotton from nearby cottonwood trees that has caked the AC pretty thoroughly. My dad would be on top of this sort of thing when he was younger, but in the last few years, this sort of maintenance got neglected. And I’m just a dumbass who didn’t even think about it.

One Struggled, But Told The Truth…

*The Liar on the left, the one telling the truth on the right.*

The other appeared strong and lied the whole time.

Joe Biden looked old, Peerless Loser looked orange in a debate that was horribly moderated by CNN. They let Trump lie and lie and lie. They let him not answer the questions they asked. They didn’t ask him if he could explain the the audience what a tariff is. I’d bet 200 bucks the shitstain wouldn’t know the answer.

Joe would.

But Joe looked old. He certainly should have done much better.

I don’t care. I’m voting for Joe.

I care about my country. I’m voting for Joe.

I care about my son’s future. I’m voting for Joe.

That sprayed-tanned, lying, sack of shit, mother fucking puppet of Putin needs to rot in prison for what he’s done to our country.

I’M VOTING FOR JOE!

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: That Damn Geico Gecko

*Is that a “Let’s Go” tap #17 is giving to his opponent? Lower right corner.*

There it is (above). The “Let’s Go” tap no hockey player would ever give to an opposing player. It happens in one of the computer-animated gecko starring Geico Insurance ads. Watch it here.

I also recommended that it might time for Geico to retire the gecko. It never was the best character, anyway.

No More “YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!”

Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the greatest rock band in history, has let it be known that he just can’t do the greatest shriek in rock history anymore. He has the crowd handle that duty when The Who played Won’t Get Fooled Again in concert.

He had been lip-syncing it lately. That’s my speculation! I don’t know this for certain!

I’m OK with this. Rog is in his 80s, let him rest that incredible throat.

Champion Effort

The Florida Panthers are the Stanley Cup champions of 2024! It’s their first championship! Congrats!

The series went the full seven games with the Edmonton Oilers coming back from three games down in best of seven series. Impressive.

*#97 thinking, “Why did I give him the “let’s Go” tap?!”*

The effort I mention in the headline is the play you see in the pic above. I describe it with such verbal mastery, you just have to listen!

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Heat Of The Moment by Asia and Eye In The Sky by The ALan Parsons Project

Second ad break bumpers: New World Man by Rush and Ace Of Spades by Motorhead

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

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dimland radio 6-22-24 show notes

Why I Needed A New Toothbrush

While taking the pause that refreshes in my bathroom, I noticed my toothbrush was entertaining a guest…

*There are several such photos on Google. This seems to be a more common occurrence than I thought.*

And I tell the tale of my mom’s centipede incident. I can still picture her icky dance and hear that shriek!

Seriously?

*A product from back when America was great?*

I found this in the basement at Nostalgia Zone (non-official “sponsor” of Dimland Radio). This is just wrong in so many ways.

What Should Be In Every Classroom In America?

Louisiana recently passed a law that every classroom, in every public school in its state needs to display a clearly readable copy of the Ten Commandments. This is, of course, a violation of the 1st Amendment.

If they are going put those up, they’ll have to put up other rules lists from other religions. Such as the Five Pillars of Islam, the 613 Mitzvot, and maybe even…

*The Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.*

And this…

And this (which I’m told is n at least one classroom)…

Or! Maybe just this could go in every classroom….

Movie Recommendation: Greyhound (2020)

Starring Tom Hanks, who also wrote the screenplay, is this relentless tale of an American Destroyer (one of three) escorting a convoy of ships transporting men and material across the Atlantic in the early part of WW2. I think it’s very good. Well worth a watch!

I Have to make one correction. On the show, I said there was no air cover for the convoy for 48 hours. The trailer reminds me it was 5 days! That’s 120 hours!

And Finally…

*I’m sure the rather larger actor is a fine person. He’s just playing a part.*

Mattress Firm has an unusual way of advertising their product. Judging by their latest ad campaign, they seem to be targeting the asshole market.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Whatever by Husker Du and The Puppet by Echo & The Bunnymen

Second ad break bumpers: Y.O.Y.O.Y by Cheap Trick and Watusi Rodeo by Guadalcanal Diary

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

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