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dimland radio 6-16-18 show notes

The Big Summit Reaction

Most of the reactions I’ve seen of the big summit between the US and North Korea agreed with the notion that Pres. Trump got played by Kim Jong Un. It appears America agreed to do more than North Korea did. Kim merely made the same promise he and his father before him have been making since 1992. So, was Trump the only President to have been played?

Well, time will tell.

Here’s the opinion by Nicolas Kristoff that I mentioned on the show.

I also talked about Rope-A-Dope. I was trying to make a little comparison with the summit and the way Muhammad Ali handled George Foreman in 1974’s Rumble In The Jungle.

A Dimland Radio Science Hero: House MD

I never watched the show, but when I saw this scene I knew I had a Science Hero for the show. Having never watched the show, I don’t know if the entire series was as pro science-based medicine as this scene suggests, but this scene does hit hard at the anti-vax ridiculousness. For this scene, the writers/producers of House MD are Dimland Radio Science Heroes.

It’s Not True: The Kid In A Cage

Yes, the image does show a crying child in a cage. No, the child has not been trapped in a cage by ICE agents bent on tearing immigrant families apart. The picture is from a demonstration against the immigration policies of the Trump administration.

Snopes has the scoop.

Finding Bigfoot Ends

After 100 episodes, the Animal Planet reality series Finding Bigfoot has come to an end. The show was successful in that it went 100 episodes and in making the phrase “gone squatchin” popular. It wasn’t very successful in finding any bigfoots, though.

Oh, well. No one’s perfect.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment One: Hands On?

An ad at the end of a CinemaSins YouTube video on Everything Wrong With Ratatouille stated that at Full Sail University, a school for film-making, students get hands on experience. They gain real world experience by going beyond the classroom. Students can study online… Hang on. How do they get hands on experience online?

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment Two: Um, That’s Not Mary Poppins

The image shows a famous scene from the Sound Of Music, the text refers to a song from the Sound Of Music, but then refers to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins wasn’t in the Sound Of Music.

Three Cool Things

3) The Minnesota Skeptics had their meet up, which is always cool.

2) The Washington Capitals finally won a Stanley Cup. That’s good, because no team that represents a city or state that’s only experience with ice is as something to put in their drinks should every win the Cup. (But it would have been cool if the Vegas Golden Knights had won while in their first year of existence.)

1) The photograph above shows how a basketball could appear to be flat.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Never Follow‘ by Naked Raygun & ‘Talking Doll‘ by The Screaming Blue Messiahs

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Watusi Rodeo‘ by Guadalcanal Diary & ‘I Can’t Take It‘ by Cheap Trick

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 6-9-18 show notes

Mom, Dad, Meet Bambi…

…and they hit it with their car. They’re OK. The car is still driveable, but it’s looked better.

A Good Thing?

Last week, I made a joke about doing a “deep dive” into a political topic. The topic was the meeting between Pres. Trump and Kim Kardashian on prison reform. I made the joke by being speechless about the unusualness of such a meeting.

But the result of that meeting was the freeing of a 63 year-old woman from prison, serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug crime. Isn’t that a good thing? The woman is free after 21 years. Still some folks aren’t giving the President much credit.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment (Grammar Nazi Edition): It’s it’s not its.

Friend of the show, Craig, who helped me with the previous segment, tested me the other day to see if I was pedantic enough to catch the error on the cover of Kanye West’s new album.

As if…

Fear Of Fluoride Down Under

There are two towns in Australia. One fluoridates its water, the other doesn’t. One has a high rate of tooth decay leading to many fillings and extractions in adults and children. Can you guess which?

I also talked about the Dunning-Krueger Effect on display at the town meeting held to hear the public’s thoughts on fluoridation. I speculated on how to approach such a gather of Google searchers.

Three Cool Things

3) I participated in recording another entertaining episode of the Assault of the Two-Headed Space Mules. It may be some time before it’s released, though. I’ll let you know when it’s available.

2) A customer of the janitorial service I work for thanked me for the work I do for them.

1) Last summer’s great American solar eclipse was capture is this very cool composite photograph.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘No Self Control‘ by Peter Gabriel & ‘Alice’s House‘ by The Psychedelic Furs

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Well I Wonder‘ by The Smiths & ‘I Lie‘ by The dB’s

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

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dimland radio 6-2-18 show notes

“I’ll Get That For You.”

At the gas station the other night, the actions of one young woman left me awfully disappointed…

A Deep Dive

I’ve decided to try to do a really deep take on a certain political summit. I think it’s important to dig in and take a good look at a topic of great interest and importance. How well did I do? Have a listen.

Roseanne Cancelled

This might have gotta a little on the rambling side, as I tried to figure out if actor/comedian Rosanne is a racist. Well, I don’t know what’s in her head, but her actions were certainly racial insensitive. This is complicated. I knew the relaunch of her hit show might be a bit rocky, because the actor Roseanne and the character Roseanne are both Trump supporters. The relaunched show was a ratings success, but a late night and very ill though out tweet led to the show’s cancellation.

I thought the new show would have been a good opportunity to show why blue collar Americans might support Trump. It might have been a good way to show blue collar Trump supporters they might be wrong. It could have been another All In The Family.

Looks like it’s a missed opportunity.

Political Correctness

I mentioned a take some comedian had about some people who are so upset about political correctness. That person thought those folks were upset because they couldn’t use the N word. That might be true for some.

I did give an example of a use of political correctness that I thought was unnecessary and changed the meaning of a very famous phrase.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Tattoos Are The New Normal

After I mistakenly replayed an audio bit from last week’s show, I got to talking how the meme above (I could find the image, but not the meme) sort of represents the new normal, but it’s telling us to “Fuck Normal, Be Yourself.”

The Volcano In Hawaii: Perception Vs Reality

Someone created the image above to demonstrate how people tend to overestimate the size of big stories. It’s a perception thing. Watching the news tends to get us thinking the world is going to heck, because the news focuses on the bad stuff. There’s a lot more good stuff going on, but much of the good stuff doesn’t warrant news coverage.

Wanna worry less? Watch less news.

Three Cool Things

3) The Dimland Radio Facebook page received three likes this week! That makes 194. Have you liked it yet?

2) A brilliant person created the image above. You have to know about the drama surround the film All The Money In The World to be able to understand the joke. Well, I know the story and I think this joke is great!

1) Coronal rain is so damn cool!!!

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Eighties‘ by Killing Joke & ‘Gardening At Night‘ by REM

Second ad break bumpers: ‘One Day‘ by The Church & ‘Nothing Turns Out Right‘ by The Mighty Mofos

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

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dimland radio 5-26-18 show notes

The Streisand Effect

I started the show talking about the Streisand Effect and what the phrase means. I was laying the groundwork for suggesting that the NFL’s kneeling during the National Anthem policy might get more kneeling and not less.

NFL Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing

Players can stay in the locker room during the playing of the National Anthem, but if they are on the field they better stand to attention. If they should kneel there will be penalties and fines. That’s the new policy of the NFL meant to deal with players kneeling in protest during the Anthem. Maybe this will stop the kneeling, but I think it might actually anger the players and they’ll kneel out of spite of the rule.

The League should have just said, “Hey, it’s a free country. They can kneel if they want.” Things might have petered out, but with all this policy-making it’s just extended the life of the gesture.

But I could be wrong.

Sometimes I Choose To Live In A Different Reality

Kim Davis, the anti-gay marriage lady has written a book. MSN.com ran an article abut her new book. The headline for the article suggested a reality I’d rather live in, so I didn’t read the article in order to keep from ruining that reality.

I’ll link to the article, but take my advice: Don’t read past the headline. Life will be more funner that way.

A Dimland ARRGH!: “Perfect”

The word “perfect” seems to have become today’s “awesome”. And, although the trend is more assuming to me than an ARRGH!, this ad definitely annoys me.

A 19th Century Battle Between A Scientist And A Flat-Earther

I thought I’d tell the tale of 19th scientist Alfred Russel Wallace accepting a challenge to demonstrate that the earth is round. The flat-earther, John Hampden, offered 500 pounds to whoever could prove it. Wallace took him up on the challenge.

On March 5, 1870, Wallace proved the earth is a sphere. Hampden lost the bet and Wallace got the money. And a huge headache that lasted about 20 years.

I got my info for an article in Skeptic Magazine. You can click here to find the article. It’s part of a special section of the magazine that focused on Wallace, the co-discoverer of Natural Selection.

And Then There Were Eight

Six more families of Sandy Hook shooting victims have filed lawsuits against shit-stain Alex Jones, the blowhard conspiracy monger who has earn millions of dollars off spreading misinformation about Sandy Hook and other similar events. He claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and there were no victims and the families and friends are actors.

So, with these six families that makes eight suing Jones, plus an FBI agent has also filed a suit against the false-flag claiming asshole.

Hey. He had it coming.

Three Cool Things

3) There are plenty of strange and scary sounds in the wild. Those sounds come from sources that aren’t so strange. Here are two lynx making some very strange noises. When you hear a strange sound in the woods, it might be a lynx or fox or elk. Think those animals before you think bigfoot.

2) I stumbled upon an 1979 episode of the British TV documentary series South Bank featuring Talking Heads. Very cool!

1) Baseball on Facebook!!!

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Entre Nous‘ by Rush & ‘Waltz The Halls‘ by Game Theory

Second ad break bumpers: ‘English Roundabout‘ by XTC & ‘Rattle My Bones‘ by The Suburbs

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

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dimland radio 5-19-18 show notes

I Make A Clarification

Last week, while I was talking about it being a bad idea to have America’s National Motto “In God We Trust” displayed in public schools (it’s also a bad idea to have that as our National Motto), I speculated as to what was the prayer that was said in public schools, before the Supreme Court ruled school prayer was unconstitutional. I thought it was The Lord’s Prayer, but I wasn’t certain.

I looked into it, but I couldn’t find that there was a specific prayer, except in New York where their school students recited what was know as The Regents Prayer.

That doesn’t mean The Lord’s Prayer wasn’t said in any schools, but I couldn’t find an answer. If you know, drop me a line. drdim@dimland.com

Yanny Or Laurel

Sure, I talked about the unusual sound sensation that’s been sweeping the nation. As another example of how we need to be suspect of our senses (remember the blue/black or white/gold dress?), I talked about what happened when some high school kids looked up the word “laurel” on vocabulary.com and played the pronunciation audio file. To some it sounded like yanny, not laurel. They posted their discovery online and within days loads of people are arguing over what they hear.

It seems that people who can hear higher frequencies hear yanny, while the lower frequency folks hear laurel. The hosts of the podcast Squaring The Strange discuss this phenomenon and this site has plenty of audio links to see how the pitch affects what we hear.

I hear yanny most of the time. This is odd since I have old ears, which don’t hear the higher frequencies the way they used to. Perhaps I was primed to hear yanny. It’s weird.

Alert! Alert! Black People Are Having A Picnic! Call The Police!

Some white people, I tell ya.

One white woman decided to die on the hill of stopping some black folks using a charcoal grill in a lake park’s no charcoal grill section. Oh, the humanity! Did race play a part? I don’t know, but the woman was being awfully petty.

The wife of one of the scofflaw grillers confronted the woman and the woman just wouldn’t back down. She was pot committed, as the kids say. The wife, also a white woman, took video, in the landscape format, of the confrontation and that video provided the internet with plenty of meme making opportunities.

I think the complainer should have realized there are bigger problems in the world and minded her own business, even though she was technically correct. The picnickers were violating the rules of the park. But, come on.

I mentioned a few of the memes I saw. They were mostly pretty good and some were quite funny, but I think this one (below) is brilliant. No, it doesn’t use the complaining woman, but it’s turn about situation is great social commentary.

Brilliant!

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: That Cartoon Is Just A Demo

This Round-Up (Ahhh! Monsanto! AAAAHHHHHH!!) ad needed to be clear that the cartoon showing how to use this weedkiller is a demonstration. Really? A drawing isn’t the actual thing? Huh. Do tell.

Movie Recommendation: Mother! (2017)

This biblical allegory written and directed by Darren Aronofsky didn’t do well with a general audience. They may have found it too confusing and frustrating. I think it’s supposed to be. We are supposed to inhabit Jennifer Lawrence’s character (in fact, the camera rarely moves more than two feet from he face or back of her head) and she is confused and frustrated throughout the film.

Her much-older-than-her husband (Javier Bardem) is a poet who has been suffering from writer’s block, while she restores His home which had been heavily damaged by fire. People just show up to the house and take over and the husband welcomes them.

There’s comes a time of calm and inspiration when the husband regains His writing ability from news given to Him by His young wife. A new work of poetry is written and sent out to the world.

Then the world descends upon their house…

Three Cool Things

3) The yanny/laurel phenomenon is pretty cool and I think this image, inspired by the debate, is also pretty damn cool.

2) My wife and son gave me this VHS tape (yep, we have a working VCR) of the official MLB review of the MN Twins’ 1991 World Championship season. Cool!!!

1) And in the video, is something very super cool: The Twins could actually beat the Hated Yankees!

It’s been such a long time since…

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Saved By Zero‘ by The Fixx & ‘Candyman‘ by Siouxsie & The Banshees

Second ad break bumpers: ‘One Step Ahead‘ by Split Enz & ‘Requiem‘ by Killing Joke

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

Please subscribe on iTunes! 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.

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 like. Find out more here and here.

Images used under Fair Use.