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dimland radio 6-15-24 show notes

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Guess What I Found

Guess what I found! or Guess what I found?

Is it a question or a command?

George Hrab, on his show The Geologic Podcast, talked about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), lapdog of the Orange Stain on America, tried to make a few jokes about his skipping out of Texas to vacation in Cancun, when the state was overwhelmed by a nasty cold snap a couple years back.

He shared an image of himself standing by the sign of a restaurant called Cancun Grill. Part of his comment on the photo was: “Guess what I found!”

*Don’t quit your day job… Wait, do! Do quit your day job, Ted!*

HIGH-larious.

George remarked that the douche used an exclamation point instead of a question mark. Geo thinks it should be a question mark.

I agree. Not with the punctuation, but that Cruz is a douche.

Good News For Reality

Alex Jones, The Epoch Times, and Dinesh D’Souza all received a heavy dose of reality. I’ll let CNN’s Alex Wagner fill you in…

Conspiracy theorists having reality catch up to them.

If I believed in karma, I might say it’s a bitch.

Peerless Loser Returns To The Scene Of The Crime

*“What are you all waiting for? This little mushroom isn’t going to suck itself!”*

Look at them. Practically lining up to fellate the Orange One. Just over three years ago, these people were running for their lives from the mob that asshole sent after them and now they give him a standing ovation.

It’s up to us, kids. The GOP has gone insane, the Courts won’t save America. We need to vote blue across the board.

Joe and the Dems ain’t perfect, but they’re not the ones trying to destroy American democracy.

What Do I Want To Do For Father’s Day?

*My dad and me at my mom’s birthday celebration in 2019.*

My mother died on Father’s Day in 2019. This was the first Father’s Day without my father.

So, what did (it’s past the holiday now) I want to do for Father’s Day?

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Little Red Corvette by Prince and Primary by The Cure

Second ad break bumpers: Cheeking Tongues by Wire and Bonneville by The dB’s

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 6-8-24 show notes

Two Years In The Family

It’s been an eventful two years with our little girl Edna. A couple of tough moments, but we all survived. And we couldn’t be more happy to have her in our family.

Minnesota Has A Champion!

*PWHL’s first ever Walter Cup Champions is from Minnesota!*

The MN Twins last won the World Series in 1991. The MN Vikings have never won a Superbowl. The MN Timberwolves have never won a NBA Championship. The MN Wild have never won the Stanley Cup, nor did the MN North Stars before them.

The MN Lynx have won FOUR WNBA Championships! The last one was seven years ago. They are due!

And now Minnesota has a new champion: The Professional Women’s Hockey League Minnesota Team! (The league is so new, none of the teams have a name yet.)

It took exactly one season for the women to show the men how it’s done.

Congratulations!

TikToker Thinks They Found A Scandal

A woman discovered an inflatable kiddie pool at Goodwill, priced at $15, still had an old Target price sticker on the package. Target’s price? $6.00!

The outrage! She took to TikTok to announce her find. How can this be allowed? Why doesn’t someone crack down on this? Why doesn’t she just shop at Target?

There isn’t some grand chicanery going on here. What the TikToker found was a clearance item that didn’t sell at Target, which had been donated to Goodwill and Goodwill put a $15.00 price tag on it.

Oh, the humanity!

Guilty On All 34 Counts!

There is some justice left in America. Perennial crook, Donald Trump, was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, in order to cover up hush money payments to a porn star, in order to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter they had together, while Melania was at home with their newborn son. This can also be considered election interference, because had Stormy Daniels not kept quiet it might have affected the outcome of the 2016 election.

Of course, Peerless Loser claims nothing happened and the payments were part of a nondisclosure agreement. But as Columbo might say…

And, of course, the MAGAs are crying like a bunch of babies. And the Republican Party can no longer call themselves the party of law and order and the party of personal responsibility. Oh! They’ll still call themselves that, but they are a joke. They are in a cult.

*He may not have actually said this, but I’m sure Randi would agree.*

Please, don’t vote for Republicans. And especially, please please please, don’t vote for Trump. Do you really want the clown again? This time it won’t end in four years. If he gets back in the Oval Office, he ain’t leaving.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: I Want You Back by Hoodoo Gurus and Desperately by Don Williams

Second ad break bumpers: Here Is The News by ELO and One Day In Your Life by 54-40

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

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dimland radio 5-25-24 show notes

It’s That AI Again

Yes, I know. I’ve been talking about AI a lot lately, but things are happening and people are being fooled. And creative people are being ripped off.

*Either the girl has a messed up hand or the boys is also holding severed fingers in his hand. Oh, wait. No, it’s AI again.*

I mentioned the above photo. It’s pretty convincing until you look at the anomalous fingers in the boy’s left hand. AI still isn’t very good at rendering hands.

I appreciate the sentiment of the image. I just wish it was real.

Then I moved on to a more recent AI generated phenomenon. Songs. AI is making songs now. And this one has been fooling people for the last month or so…

*Shouldn’t we have heard of this before about a month ago?*

It’s fake, of course. It seems pretty authentic though, but there is no way such a song could have existed without having raised quite a kerfuffle in the days of the FBI investigating Louie Louie for dirty words.

That hasn’t stopped some people from thinking it’s real.

It ain’t. It’s AI-generated.

As are virtually all of the songs at this YouTube channel. (View at your own risk.) The songs you’ll find, posted in the last month or so, are either sexually explicit or scatological or both.

*Some sex and poop obsessed person told AI to make this.*

YouTube needs to make a rule that all videos produced by AI need to be labeled as such. Is hat too much to ask?

Columbo. Did The Character Really Have A Wife?

Yes. Yes, he did.

There are some Columbo fans who think his wife, who is never seen in any of the episodes, was just a tool he used to set the murderers at ease or off the guard until he could get them in his trap.

I have three pieces of evidence I pointed to on the show that, I think, make it clear he had a wife. Either that or he was out of his mind.

Here are three pictures from scenes or situations in a couple episodes (Now You See Him… & Troubled Waters) that I think prove Columbo did indeed have a wife. I won’t go into depth here. You’ll have to listen to the show.

Counting them down…

*#2 – The captain (on the left) confirms Mrs. Columbo is on board the ship.*

*#1 – Why would he pretend to talk to his wife? The murder hasn’t been committed yet.*

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Book About UFOs by Husker Du and Achin’ To Be by The Replacements

Second ad break bumpers: Above It Now by Figures and After The Lights Go Out by Urban Guerrillas

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

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dimland radio 5-18-24 show notes

Goodbye, Mom & Dad

My siblings, their spouses, my uncle, his lady friend, my son, my wife, and I all said our final goodbye to Mom and Dad. There cremains had been in Mom and Dad’s (now my wife and my) house since mom died in June 2022 and Dad died last October.

On Tuesday, May 14th, we brought them to Fort Snelling National Cemetery for their internment. They received a military honors, including the Three Rifle Volley. It was very moving.

Time to move on.

I will miss them so much.

21 Films That Should Have Won Best Picture, Fargo, & The Mandela Effect

I could have sworn the Coen Brother’s masterpiece Fargo (1996) had won the Oscar for Best Picture, but it didn’t. It lost out to The English Patient.

Was it the Mandela Effect or did I just misremember?

You know me. Which do you think I would say it was?

I also talked a little bit about some of the other 20 movies that didn’t win Best Picture.

I Can’t Act

*Adults pretending to terrified by a giant monkey, which doesn’t really exist.*

Any picture for any scene from any movie would be showing the same sort of thing: People agreeing to pretend together. Kids do the acting thing, too, but they’re kids, who cares about them?

Anyway, it was the picture you see above that really struck me about the whole acting thing. I don’t think I could do it, because I just don’t think I could get past feeling silly.

Acting is a fine profession. It’s art and actors are artists. So, don’t go thinking I’m putting them down. Obviously, actors are able to get past the silliness. Even while acting silly.

Not me.

And Then There’s This Asshole!

*The presumptive GOP Presidential nominee, Donald J Trump.*

It’s sure to be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think Peerless Loser really things the fictional character, serial killer, cannibal Hannibal Lector is a “wonderful man”. I think he was attempted to be sarcastic, but he’s not very good at it.

This opinion can be added to my other unpopular about the human stain on our country. I list them on the show.

Back To Normal

Last season saw my beloved Twins finally, after more than 20 years, win a season series against the Hated Yankees. The Twins won the series 4 games to 3.

Maybe they finally shook the pinstripe fever.

Nah. The Evil Empire waltzed into the Target Field last week and swept the good guys at home.

Gah! I hate those guys!

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: Communication and Rough Boys by Pete Townshend

Second ad break bumpers: Crashing By Design and Brilliant Blues by Pete Townshend

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

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dimland radio 5-11-24 show notes

A Dimland Radio ARGH!

Maybe I should print this out and put it on my neighbor’s windshield.

I may not have played the sounder I normally play for my ARGHs, but what I witnessed Saturday morning was definitely argh worthy.

A neighbor is a litterbug.

Mere feet from her trash can by her garage and she still dropped trash in the street.

DON’T LET YOUR DOGS EAT GRAPES!!

*Our little Edna in the hospital. Note the IV tube.*

Thankfully, my wife thought to check if dogs can eat grapes after Edna had about a grape and a half. (Yes, we should have checked first. We know. Thanks.) Had she not thought to check, our little doggie could have gotten very sick a day or two later and it might have been too late.

It’s quite a tale, which I won’t go into here. That’s why you need to listen to the show.

One thing I didn’t mention on the show is how it must have seemed to Edna. There she is, eating some yummy grapes, and, the next thing she knows, she’s being rushed to the hospital. Then she’s stuck there for a couple days with a tube stuck in her.

Edna: “What the hell?!”

Me: “Look, little one, those grapes were not good for you and we don’t want to think about what might have happened.”

All Christians Are A La Carte Christians

*I think the print on the shirt is really a print on the shirt.*

First, learn how to spell. There’s an apostrophe in don’t.

Second, familiarize yourself with The Lord’s Prayer. Pay particular attention to that forgiving trespasses part.

It’s A Red Light, Asshole!

*The arrow is pointing to a pedestrian who just barely got out of the way.*

It made the Twin Cities local news when video surfaced of a pedestrian narrowly escaping being hit by an asshole who ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle and a tree.

I have no empirical data or statistics to back this up, but it seems as though more drivers are treating the first couple seconds of a red light as stopping optional. I been noticing it more and more lately. And I know of at least two intersections on my daily commute where it’s more likely to encounter a red light runner.

A friend has been noticing this, as well. In fact, he has been advising people to not just go right when the light turns green for them. Wait to make sure no one is just blowing through the red.

How To Make This Meme Even Better

Sure, it’s funny, but it’s even funnier if you read it in Werner Herzog’s voice.

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus

First ad break bump: She’s Calling You by Bad Brains and All Gone Away by The Style Council

Second ad break bumpers: Voices Carry by Til Tuesday and The Analog Kid by Rush

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

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