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dimland radio 5-13-17 show notes

Technical Problem Forced Hiatus

The laptop needed a new hard drive, so I was unable to record the show. That put me on hiatus for a couple weeks. Fortunately, we still had some money from our tax refund and my wife has the know-how, so the laptop wasn’t down for too long.

Dimland Radio ARGH!

You’d think the argh would be about the tech problems, but it’s not.

This argh has to do with a couple of the podcasts that I listen to and extraneous noises. Noises that could be avoided with minimal effort. I realize that there are noises that occur on my show such as cars or motorcycles rumbling by or the occasional fireworks explosion, etc. But I do my best to prevent the noises I can prevent: shuffling paper, tapping, shifting the chair.

So, it really annoys me when I listen to a podcast, which is edited, mine is not, and there are noises that could be avoided. The one in particular that gets under my skin is the sound of ice clinking in a glass. The sound made when a host is drinking an iced beverage.

There are two podcasts guilty of this. Both have two hosts and both, as I said, are edited. The editor must surely hear all that clinking being done by one host as the other is speaking, right?

Advice to podcasters: Do not drink iced beverages in glasses while recording your show. Your listeners can hear the clinking.

ARGH!

Dimland Radio Science Heroes: Steve Spears, Brad Williams, & Gayle From DC

Steve and Brad host the very popular podcast Stuck in the 80s. On a recent show, the topic of anti-vaxxers came up. The two hosts and their guest co-host, Gayle from DC, all voiced their disappointment with such anti-science sentiments. Brad’s family was needlessly touched by the low herd immunity in large part caused by the anti-vax message: Vaccines cause autism. They do not!

Brad was willing to talk privately with listeners of the podcast who had their misgivings about vaccines. Steve was less accommodating.

The three of them are correct in their support of vaccination, quite probably the single greatest development in medical science.

Speaking Of Anti-Vax

Minneapolis currently finds itself the center of a measles outbreak. As of the recording of this show, there are more than confirmed 50 cases. This outbreak is mainly affecting the local Somali-American community, its children in particular, and has been reportedly linked to anti-vax sentiments.

Where anti-vaxxers go, vaccine preventable diseases follow.

Stephen Fry A Blasphemer?

Stephen Fry was almost a victim of some kind of new Inquisition. In 2009, the Irish government passed an anti-blasphemy law. It’s intent was to protect minority religions in a predominantly Catholic country. But, I always bristle at the idea of limiting free speech.

In 2015, Fry was a guest on an Irish television show hosted by Gay Byrne. Byrne, an apparent believer in God and an afterlife, asked Fry, an outspoken atheist, what he would say to God, should it turn out Fry was wrong, when he arrived at the Pearly Gates.

“Bone cancer in children?” was part Fry’s critical response. He went on to call God, if there is one, “capricious,” “mean-spirited,” and “stupid.” This was greeted with a bit of eye-rolling on the part of the show’s host.

It was also greeted with a formal complaint lodged by a viewer under the blasphemy law. What century is this?

Irish authorities began an investigation. The punishment is for those found guilty is a hefty fine. I suppose that is an improvement over burning at the stake.

The investigation was short-lived. The authorities cited the one complaint wasn’t enough to warrant looking any further into the matter. So, Fry is off the hook.

Although the fellow who lodged the complaint loses points for doing so. He does get a few back for his reasonable response, “I did my civic duty in reporting it. The guards did their duty in investigating it. I am satisfied with the result.”

The Mandela Effect And The JFK Assassination

In psychology it’s called confabulation, people are so certain their misremembering of something that evidence to the contrary seems absolutely wrong. “They were called Berenstein Bears when I was a kid!” Actually, they were always the Berenstain Bears. Folks are just remembering it wrong.

Nelson Mandela did not die in prison, yet many people remember it that way. This, too, is confabulation, but it has led to the popular naming of the phenomenon as the Mandela Effect.

I, myself, have fallen victim to the Mandela Effect. In fact, it affected me during the show while I was trying to demonstrate that the last three words of Queen’s ‘We Are The Champions’ are not “of the world.” I had thought it was and it was so ingrained in my thinking that it came out wrong in my demonstration. I wish I could say I planned it, but I didn’t. I’m glad I caught it right away, though.

The proper reaction to learning you have fallen victim to the Mandela Effect is, “Oh, that’s what it is? I always though it was something else. I guess I was wrong.” And then incorporate the correct information into your memory banks.

The incorrect reaction is, “Oh, wow! We must be connecting with a parallel universe in which the way we remember that thing happened that way.” Or, “They are trying to change history!”

Paranormal believers and conspiracy theorists appear to react in those two ways, respectively.

For instance, memories of the JFK assassination seem to have some confabulating going on. People are discovering the car the President was shot in had three rows of seats and six people in it, not the two rows and four people as they remember it.

Three rows, six people. If you thought there were less rows and people, you were wrong.

This wrong memory seems to be due to reenactments, made over the years since the event, of the assassination using the wrong style of convertible. I can only guess as to why the wrong style was used. It may have been out of convenience or the exact car wasn’t available. I don’t think it’s an effort to change our history.

It was always three rows and six people. We are just remembering it wrong.

This led me to finding out there is someone else on whom to place the blame for President Kennedy’s murder. Of course, we should all know it was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone who was responsible for the horrendous act; but, conspiracy theorists don’t want to accept that explanation.

Nope. Oswald was a patsy, at most. The real person responsible, according to at least one conspiracy theorist, was Jackie Kennedy. That’s right. She took the kill shot. It’s so obvious when you slow the Zapruder film down and enlarge it. Jackie was mad at her husband for sleeping around and she decided to kill him in the most public way she could. But she didn’t want to get caught, so she hid the handgun. Which you can see in the film…

Oh, I have got to be kidding!

Well, I’m not. That idea is out there. Way out there.

I won’t to link to the conspiracy-mongering videos, but you can go to YouTube and search “Mandela Effect JFK assassination” and you should be able to find a couple videos discussing the ludicrous ideas. Be warned! The video about Jackie being the assassin spends four minutes repeatedly showing the President’s head exploding.

Movie Recommendation: None

Too much other stuff to talk about, I didn’t have time. You’re on your own this week.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘No Language In Our Lungs‘ by XTC & ‘I Want You Back‘ by Hoodoo Gurus

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Analog Kid‘ by Rush & ‘Mammoth Gardens‘ by Game Theory

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 4-22-17 show notes

My Wife Should Take Your Next Selfie

My wife is an artist and she has a particular talent for taking selfies. She’s done many of them, but she doesn’t show them off. She’s barely shown me any, but what I have seen are brilliant. The images are well composed, hard to tell they are selfies, and she looks great in them.

The other day, she was in the bedroom taking a few selfies, when I came in to give her a little cuddle. I suggested she do a selfie of us. She snapped a few shots and below is the best of them.

Yep. It’s a selfie.

I compared this picture of the two of us to the work of two photographers who worked with The Beatles very early on. Astrid Kerchherr, a photographer, was the girlfriend of Stuart Sutcliffe, an artist and very early member of The Beatles. He left the band to pursue his art. However, he died young of a brain aneurysm, the cause of which is unknown, but it is believed by some to have come from a head injury suffered in a fight after a gig with the band. Kerchherr was one of the first photographers to document the Fab Four (five in those days with Sutcliffe) in their period before Brian Epstein and Ringo Starr.

Kerchherr in a self portrait with Sutcliffe.

Robert Freeman is the photographer responsible for the photograph used on the cover of The Beatles’ second album: With The Beatles (or Meet The Beatles for the American version). The black and white image of the four mop tops is iconic. I think the image my wife made of us is a kind of combination of both those two photographers’ work.

The iconic cover by Freeman.

If you’re considering doing a selfie, you should have my wife do it for you. Of course, she’ll have to be in the picture with you.

Memorial Service For Ed

Two weeks ago I talked about the loss of a distant family member. Ed was just 44 years old, when cancer took his life. On this show, I talked about the Celebration of Life service, which was very well done and so very moving. Ed’s friendship and loyalty and good nature really touched many people deeply.

I also made sure to mention the friends and family who have helped Ed and his wife Dawne through the final stages of his life. They really stepped up and went all out for Ed and Dawne. I was so impressed by their efforts.

United Airlines Had A Little PR Problem

Of course, you’ve all heard of the fellow forcibly removed from a NOT overbooked United flight. It was a full flight in which some customers had to eventually randomly “volunteer” to give up their seats to four United Airlines employees. One of the four passengers, David Dao, refused and we all know how that went. Dao has a pretty strong case against the airline.

United Airlines is changing their current policy that customer is always expendable. We’ll see how that works out.

But, I started to go on a rant about the amateur video of the incident. I think two videos surfaced and were featured on the news and both were in the foul, disgusting, awful, sickening, disorienting, frustrating portrait (vertical) format! Yes, I started to rant, but I stopped myself. Listeners have heard this rant before and I realized that my beef isn’t with the amateur videographers. (Well, some of it is. I mean, it’s not that difficult to turn the smart device 90 degrees, so that the video is in landscape.)

My beef is with the designers of those smart devices. I know there are apps that people can use that formats video in landscape no matter what angle the camera is held. But, we shouldn’t need an app. These devices ought to be set with video being in landscape by default. If a person wants to make in vertically formatted video (why would anyone want to?), they would need to change the default setting.

So, Apple, Samsung, Sony, and all the rest of you smart device designers…I’m talking to you. Get on it!

Alex Jones Is A Performance Artist?

Alex Jones, internet sensation whose syndicated radio show is on Z Talk Radio (check the show schedule page), is a apparently performance artist. This is according to his lawyer, who is trying to win a child custody battle for the false flag-claiming, conspiracy theorist, bag of hot air. So, does this mean Jones is full of shit? Well, we already know that.

But is he admitting it now? Well, not on his show, he isn’t. Apparently, only in court.

Steer Clear Of Demonic Knick-Knacks

According to former New Age/Hindu dude turned Christian evangelizing YouTuber, Steven Bancarz, people should remove all demonic symbols from their houses. This includes crystals, tarot cards, and other fairly obvious items. But, your house should also be rid of any yoga related material: books, mats, videos, exercise equipment, and, I suppose, yoga pants. (Mmmmm yoga pants.) And all items that are related to Hinduism have to go, as well.

Why? Well, these items are all portals through which demons can move into your place of dwelling and mess with your life and, presumably, property values.

I have a demonic item in my house (probably a lot more than just one). My demon statuette stands on a shelf in the living room. So far, he’s been an ideal guest. We don’t even have to feed him.


Your show host and his demon.

Talk About The Ten Commandments

I talked about both the 1956 classic film and the rules that Moses…er…God wrote. Well, neither of them wrote them, as the whole Exodus story never happened. There were no Hebrew slaves toiling away in Egypt, so there was no great purge of a massive labor force, no walking through the Red Sea, and no wandering around the wilderness for 40 years.

Be that as it may, there is a movie (more than one) of this nonexistent historical event. Cecil B DeMille’s epic classic The Ten Commandments stars Charlton Heston, Yul Brenner, Yvonne DeCarlo, Ann Baxter, Edward G Robinson, and Vincent Price. The production, set design, and cinematography are beautiful. The music by Elmer Bernstein is powerful. And the special effects are pretty good for 1956.

The dialogue is…ridiculous! The way the characters talk in the film is so pretentious in its poetic nature. Every character is a poet, from Pharaoh on down to the slave walking straw into the mud pits to make bricks. It’s so over the top and so not the way human beings talk.

I love it!

I mention a few of the more ridiculous moments in the film. Especially good, I think, is the reaction of a group of sisters when they see Moses sleeping in the bushes. “A MAN!”

I also talked about the Ten Commandments themselves. I noted the first four all pertain to God. That seems a bit needy to me. I suggested swapping three of those four out for the following:

Thou shalt not own slaves.

Thou shalt not rape.

Thou shalt not abuse children.

Those seem fairly obvious to me, but they didn’t occur to God.

Movie Recommendation: The Ten Commandments (1956) & Secretary (2002)

What other movie could I recommend after having so much fun with it on the show?

Weeeeellll, I did mention a little BDSMish film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader. This 2002 film is pretty saucy. I fondly recall a certain spanking scene. Now I’m not necessarily into that kind of thing, but the scene was rather…enjoyable. From what I hear, having not seen it myself, Secretary is far superior to that 50 Grey Shades movie.

So, depending on your mood, these could make for an interesting (and long) double feature.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Buck Hill‘ by The Replacements & ‘Raspberry Beret‘ by Prince

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

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

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dimland radio 4-15-17 show notes

Not Talk About Meh Beer On This Show

I started the show by promising I would not mention the whole beer thing again. No mention of Rolling Rock or pilsners or Summit Extra Pale Ale or my boss getting me meh beer. That was my promise to my listeners and, to my readers, I make the same promise:

There will be no mention of the things I mentioned in the preceding paragraph anywhere in this entire post. No one mention.

This space has been intentionally left blank.

A Sliver Of Slack

Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary, suffered “foot in mouth” disease when he mentioned Hitler and chemical weapons when saying what a bad guy the President of Syria is and that Russia shouldn’t align themselves with him. But he made the mistake of bringing up Hitler and he was wrong. Hitler and the Nazis were using chemical weapons in the genocide attempted during the Holocaust.

My slack was given because Spicer was right to shame Russia for backing such an evil guy. But, as I said, just a sliver.

Why Didn’t Hitler Use Chemical Weapons In Battle?

Well, there is some indication there was, at least, one use of chemical weapons against Soviet troops and civilians in 1942. But why didn’t the Germans use chemical weapons during the Allied Invasion on D-Day?

According to Hermann Goering, it was because of horses. The Germans used horses extensively to transport equipment. This was due to the low supplies of gasoline. The Germans couldn’t come up with a gas mask that the horses would tolerate, so they didn’t use chemical weapons on D-Day.

This means that had the Nazis figured out how to make a gas mask that horses didn’t mind wearing, the invasion would have gone much differently, possibly even fail.

There are other speculations about the Nazi’s reluctance to use chemical weapons in this interesting article on FactCheck.org.

SNL, Louis CK, Tig Notaro, And A Party Clown

A recent episode of Saturday Night Live had host Louis CK in a skit in which he hires a children’s party clown to come to his house and entertain him. Just him. That’s the first joke of the skit and I just ruined it for you. Sorry.

But, fellow comedian Tig Notaro had already made a short film using the same premise. And in her earlier version, she too ruins the first joke by saying upfront to the clown gig booker that the clown is just for her.

Notaro’s version is much longer than SNL’s by about 10 minutes. Still the similarities are undeniable. The material does appear to have been ripped off by SNL. However, I think SNL’s is the funnier of the to sketches.

This site has links to both sketches. You decide which is funnier.

A Modern Pterosaur Expert?

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles from the age of dinosaurs and have been extinct for tens of millions of years. But there is a modern pterosaur expert who has taken to the internet to expose the truth that the beasts yet live! Well, they did during the American Civil War anyway.

Now, I’m not certain if this fellow is a Poe and is putting us all on. He seems to be on the level, though. His website has an “Official Announcement of a Joint Declaration.” He, a modern pterosaur expert and a missile defense physicist agreed, by phone, that an old photograph of Union soldiers posing with a dead pterosaur is authentic.

The “expert” says another photograph alleging the same think is a hoax, but the one he touts is the real thing.

Well, I went over a few problems I had with his real thing.

Movie Recommendation: Fail Safe (1964)

With the recent bombings carried out by the Trump Administration and everyone on edge about the impending nuclear war, I thought a nice movie about a miscommunication between American Strategic Defense and a US Air Force bomber squadron, leading to the President and the US Defense Department’s desperate attempt to avert an unintended nuclear attack against Moscow would put my listeners’ minds at ease. I’m such a stinker.

Directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda as the President, Fail Safe has many similarities to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. However, Fail Safe isn’t a satire. It’s deadly serious. And very thought-provoking.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Let’s Go Down To The Woods‘ by The Screaming Blue Messiahs & ‘Vanishing Girl‘ by The Dukes of Stratosphear

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Into My Hands‘ by The Church & ‘Ace Of Spades‘ by Motorhead

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

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dimland radio 4-8-17 show notes

Meh Beer Days Continue And Almost Get Worse

The boss attempted to give me another 12-pack of Rolling Rock. This time I couldn’t be adult about it and just accept the generous offer. I mean, had I accepted it without cluing him in on how meh I think that beer is, I might be getting Rolling Rock every time he feels generous.

So, I leveled with him and he exchanged it for the beer he used to get me: Summit Extra Pale Ale.

Phew.

Sad News

I broke from the lightness of the beer topic to mention that my extended family got a little smaller Friday morning. My brother-in-law’s brother-in-law (not me, obviously) or my wife’s brother’s wife’s sister’s husband, Ed, died after a 14 year battle with cancer. I hope I don’t sound too glib with my description of his relationship to me, but Ed had a pretty good sense of humor and I think he would have appreciated it.

He was a good guy. I liked him right away. He was a sports fan (he liked the Detroit, his hometown, teams) and he liked Star Trek and Star Wars, so what’s not to like about the guy?

He was 44. Much too young.

A Little Evolution Talk

“If [humans are] from apes, why are the apes still here?” ~ misunderstander of the Theory of Evolution, Stephen Baldwin

It’s a very common question asked by people who don’t have an understanding of the basics of evolution. In short, humans are apes. We and the other Great Apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) are all cousins. We all came from a common ancestor.

Actually, along the twisting branches of evolution, there are several common ancestors as we make our way back to the main common ancestor to all of the Great Apes. Chimps and bonobos are the most closely related, so their common ancestor existed relatively recently. As we keep going back through the evolutionary lineage, the common ancestor for humans turns up, further back in time there’s one for gorillas, and even further back is the one for orangutans.

Here, watch this clip. You’ll hear Baldwin make the common error and then Dr. Richard Dawkins will explain why there are still apes.

Einstein, God, NdGT, And How Inquiry Stops

The above graphic popped up on Facebook the other day. I know Einstein has made some ambiguous statements about God, but he’s never stated he believed in a god that listens to prayers, rewards with Heaven, punishes with Hell, works miracles, and fixes football games. As I understand it, Einstein’s god was more like the awesomeness of nature and physics.

But even if he believed in an all-knowing, all-powerful, invisible man in the sky, so what? It wouldn’t have lessened his contributions to science and the world. History is filled with many great scientists who also believed in some kind of god.

It seems the Christian types are saying, “Einstein believed in God, why don’t you?”

Well, Einstein was brilliant, but he could still be wrong.

That led me to talk about a talk given by Neil deGrasse Tyson about how great scientists of the past, including Isaac Newton, carried the football of science forward until they reached the limit of their knowledge or abilities. At that point, they would appeal to God. Sort of like saying, “I can’t figure this out. God did it.”

NdGT’s point was when those scientists would turn to God their work was done. The football was left on the field until another scientist with more knowledge, better equipment, mathematics, or other tools to apply science came along. That scientist picked up the football and moved it forward until their limit was reached. And so on, until NdGT got to Pierre-Simon Laplace.

I’ll let Dr. Tyson tell the story (by the way, NdGT doesn’t use the football analogy, that was my contribution):

Getting back to that Einstein quote. I couldn’t determine whether or not Einstein actually said it. What I could find was a 1997 article in the Wall Street Journal written by Jim Holt. As far as I can tell, Holt is the source of the quote, even though he says the quote comes from Einstein. Hey! Cite your source, pal!

This link will get you to the article. Scroll down to Stefan Mertens’ comment. He includes the whole text of Holt’s article.

Movie Recommendation: None

Sorry, you are on your own this week.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me‘ by Rosanne Cash & ‘No Self Control‘ by Peter Gabriel

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Seen And Not Seen‘ by Talking Heads & ‘Y.O.Y.O.Y.‘ by Cheap Trick

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.

dimland radio 4-1-17 show notes

I Don’t Believe The Universe Wanted Me To Get My 5 Bucks Back

I was able to be charitable the other day. An elderly woman in front of me in line at Popeye’s realized she didn’t have as much cash on hand as she had thought. She let me go ahead of her as she scanned the menu board to see what she could get for her four dollars.

Well, I had some cash, so, after I placed and paid for my order, I handed her five bucks.

A week after that my boss paid me back the $15 the company owed me. He gave me an extra five bucks. He was not and is still not aware of my charitable moment. There are those who believe the universe or their god wanted me to get repaid.

Well, I don’t. It’s just a coincidence.

But, I would sure like there to be a whole lot more coincidences from which I end up five bucks ahead.

Hint, hint, Universe!

The other part of the story was about her reaction. The cashier remarked about how nice the gesture was and the lady thanked me. Then she praised Jesus and remarked on how God is good about half a dozen or more times.

Yep. For those of you keeping track of the thank you’s. That’s one for the atheist and, at least, six for God.

I-85 Bridge Collapses After Exposure To Uncontrolled Fire

In Atlanta, a bridge on I-85 collapsed after it was exposed to uncontrolled fire. 9-11 Truthers ought to take note that the fire to which that bridge was exposed wasn’t hot enough to melt steel, but it was hot enough to weaken the steel and concrete of the bridge so that it collapsed under its own wait.

Just like the WTC towers and Building 7.

I also mentioned this video of a metal worker showing how steel doesn’t have to melt to lose its structural integrity.

Pedantic Moment: This Space Left Blank?

Our mortgage holder sent the notice that our escrow was short and our payments were going to increase. It was up to us: The amount could increase by $50 a month or $20. To get the smaller increase, we’d have to pay a certain amount by the end of March. Oh, joy.

I was preparing the payment and I looked at the back of the remittance slip. It was blank. Well, no it wasn’t. It had the following sentence:

“(This space has been intentionally left blank.)”

Um. No, it hasn’t.

I speculated how corporate think made that Pedantic Moment possible. I even did some acting.

Texas Congresswoman Has An Idea That Could Be Real Money-Maker

Texas Representative Jessica Farrar proposed a bill intended to expose the double standard women face when it comes to reproductive rights and health care. Her bill proposed a fine of $100 be imposed on men each time they masturbate.

She’s a Democrat, so, of course, Republicans pushed back. One Republican Congressman, Rep. Tony Tinderholt, suggested Rep. Farrar take some high school biology classes. This is the same fellow who “proposed a bill that would charge abortion providers and women receiving abortions with murder.”

I speculated on the possibility that Rep. Tinderholt isn’t on board with the science of evolution. Perhaps he, too, would benefit from taking a few high school biology classes.

I also did a little calculating. If Texas could somehow enforce the $100 fine, and if we assume that the average number of times of self-abuse (or love, depends on how you look at it) per man is one a day, and if we just go with males ages 15 – 69, the number I came up with is pretty big. I calculated the amount of the fines per year would be close to $300 billion dollars! The state budget for Texas for 2016/2017 is approximately $210 billion.

She may be on to something, Rep. Tinderholt!

Apparently, The All-Knowing God Can Be Fooled

If you listen to the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe (SGU), as I do, and you are up-to-date on the shows, as I am, then you would have heard guest “rogue” comic Joshie Berger. Joshie was raised in a very strict Jewish community and had to live by all those very strict rules.

Joshie eventually became an atheist.

When he appears on the SGU, he takes over the Science Or Fiction segment with his Jewie Or Fiction. He picks true items demonstrating the crazy rules some in the Jewish community live under. Two are real, one in fiction.

Those that practice the strict rules have come up with a loophole that, seems to, fool God. One of the real rules has to do with not having any bread in the house during Passover. The Jewish family can’t be certain to get rid of every crumb, so a Goy (a non-Jewish person) is contracted to buy the ownership of all bread in the Jewish household. The beard and bread products are not removed, they just are owned by a Goy.

That way if God should drop by during Passover and sees bread, the homeowner can say it’s not their bread. And God’s fooled by that.

Joshie gives more details on the show. It’s unbelievable.

Movie Recommendation: None

Sorry, you are on your own this week.

Music heard on the show…

Dimland Radio opening theme song: ‘Ram‘ by The Yoleus
First ad break bumpers: ‘Games People Play‘ by Alan Parsons Project & ‘Away‘ by The Feelies

Second ad break bumpers: ‘Generation‘ by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry & ‘Apeman Hop‘ by Ramones

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.