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Awards Chatter
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"It is really such an, because we all were like, this play is so boring and that's, but we didn't get the, once you get to the third act, you look back and realize how precious it was. We just thought, this is boring and then we're all sitting in a graveyard. This is crazy. And I so found out that Our Town is performed somewhere in the United States every night. So I had this idea that I was gonna go see Our Towns at different schools, not every night, but as many as I could. And so I started doing that. I was gonna, I still might do something with that. But I found, I just enjoyed the performances of these kids and I thought, should I do a sketch comedy show with kids and kind of run it like SNL? Simon Rich and I had once asked Lorne Michaels to hire a child to be in the cast because we were always having Nassim Padrad or Bobby Moynihan come in as a six foot tall child. So we asked him if he would hire an actual kid because it would really fill these spots whenever we have a scene with a family and he was not interested in that. And I so thought it could be really fun. I was also a big fan of movies like The Sandlot or Searching for Bobby Fisher, that it was kind of all kids and took kids very seriously. So then I was working with my good friend and writer from Saturday Night Live, Merica Sawyer, and we started talking about this Carole King album, Really Rosy, which was like a thematic album for kids, but also it's really good music. We were talking about Free To Be You and Me and these kind of records that we had as kids, like Harry Nilsson's The Point. And it was, you had like pop stars doing these groovy things for children. And we thought, let's do one of those. And we did. And nothing has ever come out exactly like I pictured it, except for that.
The Grid
"bobby fisher" Discussed on The Grid
"And once it's done, it's done. It's a really important for sure. You know, you're doing the work of what a whole team would do. By the way, one other test connection in your book every time I read bubble factor, probably because of the capital B and the capital F and the R and the number of letters, I kept seeing Bobby Fischer. I was like, every time I read it, I was like, Bobby, Fisher. It's funny how your brain has these weird heuristics. People who are very good readers, you know, you can put typos into books and very good readers won't spot them, because we just see all the words and we immediately assemble them into what makes sense to us. I would like to thank everybody helps us on this book. Because we're self published, we do rely on people to step forward and agree to proofread and stuff. And it's really hard to the number of people who are prepared to give their time for this stuff. I do give them acknowledgments in the back of the book, but I would like to say, it's amazing. It basically takes a village to help two village idiots write a poker book. And this sort of bore this out. We sent this book out to so many proofreaders and also content experts and they all came back with great suggestions. And then other people have bought the book and they immediately leave review on Amazon. And we know from past experience, that's vital. Even if your book is setting pretty well, if there are no reviews going up, Amazon kind of knows that, well, that's just his mates behind the book. The reviews really help as well. And we're very, very lucky. We've gotten so much support from people who are interested in people who have born our previous books. And I saw a lot of tweets by cat. You know, editing the book. And by the way, the bubble actor in MTT tournaments was something that I really liked in the book, even though it wasn't a super extensive part of your book, and most of it focused on final table and ICM. And I actually spotted a new interview with Barry that he wasn't sure that you should insert that section. I'm really glad that you did..
SPORTS GOOFS
"bobby fisher" Discussed on SPORTS GOOFS
"Together all right. It's okay it's okay. it's okay we're all here. We're all in this together now. So that's going on with impact eight w we're slide. I haven't talked about them in the last couple of weeks because stopped crazy about. They've they brought in a lot of new guys. Damn brian's new but he's bryan danielson now they got see a pond malachi block. They got bobby fisher. Used to wb. I just don't see what the end result was. I feel like the last big thing they did was the savage vara winning the title off of mirrow. Amirah husband solid even postseason that tunnel but we have full gear coming up as he seal the card. Yeah yeah yeah. I get behind hangman. Page winning because i feel like a given. Aws just gonna postpone. But i've kind of felt like some steam has been lost a little bit parv. It has because a habit preempted to saturday. Night and friday nights Given the baseball series as going on the playoffs base but now hockey so now hockey so they've they've lost some steam into it our feel that we'll talk more about them in the coming weeks. The only thing i would highlight is the fact that hangman page definitely build on. So i know ken. he's going to get up adult prolong it and the other thing that they're doing is they're doing the role title eliminator for somebody become number one contender and my problem is right. Looked at who was in there like doug. There's people who do not have to be there. Jon moxley bryan danielson. All that but dustin rhodes former knows us. You don't need to be there. I if you wanna really put some stars in their stars in there but i don't know unless your whole processes out we're just trying to do something to give a fair shots or to give a new opportunity or just get fresh faces which i can understand what is known for just the same matches over now again a lot lately to have another title change mad bitches. Going super crazy is the tweet that i saw there. I thought it was for some nelson. Yeah it's a different thing so we have that and let's just go straight. Let's giveaway know annex in end it with The main russell. Halloween havoc right now. There is not one there is not into but there has been three title changes. What we have is now. We have new women's tactic chapters toxic attraction would jc. Jane and g dolan were part of state. Will many rose winning. The women's sacchi champions from yoshi arrives stark. Okay title has been hotair or whatever manny rosebud gonzales gonzales. Getting attacked by cota or dakota incurred to go to chi or Her former friend who cost out so now you have a stable. Has all the gold. Do i liked together kind of because i have a woman stable that has all the championships and it just feels very rare in modern day. Rustling seen that in some quite some time. So different let. I don't know. I told you when vincent that was interfering Know they were going to be the ride for a while there. We go from a show that i watched weekly to like a youtube show. 'cause i know how this is you just build it up again..
National Day Calendar
"bobby fisher" Discussed on National Day Calendar
"Welcome to October 9th, 2021 on the national day calendar. Today we celebrate a soft spot for wool and a warm spot in the Cold War. In 1974, the sci-fi classic Doctor Who cast a new actor in the lead role. Costume designer James atchison was given the task of creating a unique look for the doctor. He thought the costume should have a scarf. And he asked his friend begonia Pope to knit one. Atchison dropped off several balls of yarn and went on his way. Begonia began knitting and because she wasn't sure how long the scarf should be, she didn't stop until every last inch of yarn had been used. The result was a ridiculously long scarf that was about 18 feet long. This colorful accessory became the trademark look for Tom baker's incarnation of Doctor Who, an I love yarn day, express your own textile taste, and don't be afraid to go over the top. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union seemed invincible at the game of chess. For decades, every single world championship was won by a Soviet player. When an American named Bobby Fisher made it to the championships in 1972, the whole world was watching to see what would happen. Fisher lost the first two matches to the reigning champ Boris Spassky, and it looked as if the Soviet streak would continue. Then Fisher staged one of the greatest comebacks in the history of competitive chess. His performance was so impressive that the crowd broke out into applause after his win. Even spasky gave Fisher a standing ovation. A national chess day celebrate the ultimate game of strategy that can still bring the world together. That must have been something to watch. It was. And the big thing is that the crowd broke out into applause. That doesn't happen at tournament chess. Oh, I bet it doesn't happen in the Soviet Union. Especially in the Soviet Union. Right? Hey, tomorrow is national angel food cake day. Toasted. With strawberries. I'm Anna deavere. I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we celebrate every day. See you tomorrow.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"That didn't make any sound and no audience. There are people who think that fisher's antics up to this point were all designed to psych spassky out based on how things went from here. It might just have worked. After spotting spassky the world champion a full two games fisher managed to win game three his first ever win against paschi. He tied game four and one game five game. Six was one of the greatest games in chess. history fisher never before used an opening. Move called the queen's gambit in fact he was quite vocal about how it was a bad opening move the soviets purposely never bothered to prepare for this because they thought it was out of the question that he would ever use it fisher crush spassky so bad that at the end of game six spassky was amused smiled and applauded fischer after this fisher had the lead in the championship was in the bag. Spassky won only one more game. The match ended after game. Twenty-one the final score of twelve and a half to eight and a half fisher returned to the united states celebrity. He was on the cover of sports. Illustrated your peter on the tonight show. And he received over a million dollars in endorsement deals and he turned every one of them down. It was the last public chess tournament. That bobby fisher participated in for over twenty years. He became increasingly paranoid recluse he began spouting conspiracy theories and he spent years on the run from american law enforcement. Many people believe he may have suffered from schizophrenia. In nineteen seventy. He was stripped of the world championship because he refused to defend it. After fisher was no longer the champion the soviet chess machine went right back to dominating the world of chess. They own the world championship for another thirty years. Bobby fisher actually played. Boris basket again. In nineteen ninety-two serbia. Where he beat him again. Seventeen and a half to twelve and a half. Even after he stopped playing competitively he appears to have never lost his genius for chess. After the serbian match he stayed with the pulgar family which i did a previous episode on. He spent several weeks helping to teach the polgar sisters in nineteen eighty one. He briefly stayed with a canadian. Grandmaster named peter bias. Fisher played seventeen games with him and beat him in all seventeen. Bobby fisher died in two thousand eight before his death however there were rumors of him appearing online playing chess. Under an assumed name grandmaster nigel short was beaten eight games in a row online by someone. He believed to be bobby fisher given his level of play and knowledge of other grandmasters. Boris basketball is still alive today. At the age of eighty four. He is the world's oldest surviving world champion. The world chess championship was the first of two great competitions between the united states and the soviet union in nineteen seventy two in chess. United states beat the soviets at their game in the other competition. The soviets beat the americans their game that happened to be on a basketball court. But that is a story for another episode associate producer of everything everywhere daley thompson. Today's five star review comes from listener. Christopher over at podcast republic. They right fantastic podcast. That keeps it informative but still keeps charming personality. I've learned a lot by listening to this. Podcast a listener from sweden toxic maquette. Christopher i've been able to explore quite a bit of your country traveling from down to mama i've even had the pleasure of tasting drumming on the island of ova served up by the su- strumming king himself. And don't worry. I won't hold so strumming against you. Remember if you leave a review or send me a question via email or social media you too can have it read on the show..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"World chess champion. Save for one all came from the soviet union russia. In fact you can take it back. As far as nineteen twenty seven where the champion was a russian who fled to france because of the communist revolution. Soviet chess was a machine. They recruited bright players withheld a very young age. The soviets took chest seriously and treated it as a sport. Not a game. Soviet chess players would be rigorously trained and studied games of pass grandmasters. It would also analyze drill and opening moves and they would be able to constantly practice against some of the best players in the world coming into nineteen seventy two the reigning world. Champion was boris. Spassky spassky was a product of the soviet system. He was a world junior champion. And two time soviet champion he played for the world championship and lost to fellow. Soviet tigrayan petrosian in nineteen sixty six and then beat him for the world championship in nineteen sixty nine. Not only with spassky good. But he had the entire soviet chess system behind him spassky challenger in nineteen seventy two was american. Bobby fisher fisher. Couldn't have been more different than spassky. Bobby was born in chicago and raised in brooklyn by a single mother. He never knew his father. But later investigations showed that it was probably hungarian. Mathematician physicist paul nominee fisher was a chess prodigy. You learned the game at the age of six from chess. Ed purchased at a local candy shop. His sister quickly lost interest in the game and his mother didn't have time to play so he put play most of his early games against himself that year. He found a book on chess when his family went on vacation and he studied it religiously fisher became consumed with chess so much so that it worried his mother eventually. She tried to put a classified ad in a local newspaper to look for other children to play chess with bobby but the paper didn't know how to classify it and rejected. It fisher eventually found his way to chess. Clubs in new york and began to quickly excel in nineteen fifty-six he.
H3 Podcast
"bobby fisher" Discussed on H3 Podcast
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Alchemy This
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Alchemy This
"My five okay fucking rules. Look who's drinking fucking doing here. I know you are. I know you are which one of us tinkle what you wanna. You is very guard Gardening all the fairies unionized anymore. So we don't have a leader for me. What do you want out work hard. Don't you don't look at my hands. A lot fills calluses feel those. The hell is going on. What's up sticking to the ocean chris. But he's just pissed over the office. You know what grant this is it man this okay okay so i know that you dog walk. Could you possibly also take out my cat at the same time. Take your cat up our walk if you could just walk the dog and the cat and just for the longest amount of time or you lincoln so much. It's it's a twitch from stress. If we're being completely honest how much time can you take my pets. More walks hours. I do usually eight. Eight is pretty good. Eighths good but eight days is great. Think about that. Thank joe but good for it. My husband does. He's he's locked it in. He's locked he's union at utterly deletion. Oh this is not what is like a belt okay. I'll take this wonderful so you're gonna take the animals all right. I don't need this shot glass. I don't need this possible because right now. My ice cream cone has far too many scoops and at the end of the day. You try to lick one and then seven balls fall off and then you're left with no ice cream and you're unhappy because the little bit at is melted into the cone is now soggy through and you can't even enjoy the crunch of the cone because now it's just a soggy piece of what feels like paper plate and i don't want to eat that i was here for ice cream. But now the ice creams on my feet and my feet are cold. And there's a rat licking them and the rats gonna give me a bite in. It's gonna give me a disease. And then i'm gonna die. Is that what you want or can you just take the animals for eight days or rip a metaphor. But i'll just take your cut up and dog dog know. Look i'm feeling better. Okay i have a coffee. Little kalou in their little bailey's and the no no that's got me into trouble. The beginning appear if you don't have a coup lula much do much like my friends. Yeah what do you what do you like. Most about me Yeah drink void that to my lips. What you like about me just your white. You're starting to appear this year disappearing to your both disappearing. Hello you're still in his interview right now. All right So looked over your resume before fee for you. Are you say different name grant. You are longshoreman. who was fired for antagonizing fairies. Is that correct. That is correct. I'll be honest with you. I'm here with the third name For the third chapter of my need names chess right chest is a of sport named the top chess player in the world. Bobby fisher. He's long but he's not he's nate grey's any fake. He's fake right. No he's real. But he saw jesus right. This is exactly why we love you because you don't know the sport at all just because the test guys just people get a little aggressive somebody who has a little authority coming in and setting the law. Do what you want out there. Cores me yeah because yeah all right yeah all right. Oh shit now home zone. Tina thank you so much for coming tonight You only have to take care of the baby just lulu tonight weird and everybody else. Go there out and we're going to go out. We're finally getting out. We're going to go out and you're going to be here and you're gonna take care of lulu and we really really thank you. Thank you okay okay. All right yeah. I could do that. Cool but i still get the same hourly wage right. You're still going to get paid hourly. You could even be paid daily if you want to if you wanted to date right if you if you're cool with the day rate it won't be the same as union. I know you're not in the babysitters union it's not going to be as high but i'll there's there's you oh yeah cobb order. The babysitter and i was like no snacks. Goldfish gulf corp- down please. Chocolate milk chocolate mill. Plays conaco quite. Just wanna get this union fence. Babysitters club loaded the get her out of here. Get out of here. That book and that's set of movies ruined our union. All right. that's right. Yeah we're hard working babysitters and everyone i mean. They think that a baby should've asked to be a teen girl. That pisses me off. It completely. Flipped the stereotype. Oh baby babysitter. is greg carson. Everybody been a member since nineteen seventy six. Now these six when babies actually need to be set now those beers with the tablets in the phone. Yeah they'll look at the kid right greg. That's just hold onto your thoughts and we'll get to all the agenda and we also have stephanie stiglitz's here. everybody stephanie. Sticking here right welcome. That's what we have the the the people who've been here forever and we have new peoples stephanie. Looks like is it. Okay that i'm a teenage girl or no. Of course you. As long as you're team i'm actually not eighteen. I'm just babysitter. I love this. Is it get around..
Mornings with Keyshawn, Jorge & LZ
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Mornings with Keyshawn, Jorge & LZ
"Us right through into commercials. Asking my teoma question. That's a question but it was thirty seconds ago. jay. I apologize afterwards. When you hear somebody say patrick mahomes. I get animated. You need to get back in the studio for this traveling two weeks. Yeah cool out there. Temps and all that stuff is people just outside. Walk around like you're sweating. You're sweating through your shirt. How is that comfortable in. The morning is at about one hundred and ten where we at right. Now i think right. Now we're around eighty five eighty five or jd five. Yeah it feels like the all your internal organs are cooking a slow from they tell you but it's but it's a dry heat doesn't matter you know like monica. Here's the point. After games out here in phoenix right after a big game you go outside. What do you see monica. It's supposed to be dark right. Just like thousands of people people milling about how you create. You don't see. Nobody see the heat coming in air of the payment. I'm like damn that's layers. Are you speaking of phoenix. We have another robert in phoenix. Actually so let's stay in phoenix robert. Good morning you're doing all right. So robert i they will. They will welcome to phoenix man. It's a We actually got rain on saturday. So it's actually a hugh heat now so but vouch for Chris paul and cenex. I think when it's all said and done if we're able to get the championship. I say it over and over Booker's are most in earth. Booker's our best player. Chris paul's or most important player. So i think he'd go down to the phoenix personally. Good way to put an end to think about it this way. The way joe holiday described the the box when he said that jaanus is the sole but middleton is the heart Is i mean. Is chris paul the heart and booker the soul. Like would you. How would you put if you were going to describe the sons in the same way. I think i would flip. I think booker's the heart. And chris is so i think you see i. I think i think. Cpi three is like the the brain i think is the brain operate and endeavour art and soul. Though here's y'all not really going on. Now he's just it's different because cb is like analytical. He's the one that is the mastermind. Yeah no i behind positioning the pieces. Right whereas devon booker. If you're looking it's like he's a great like bobby fisher and then devon booker is like the queen devon booker almost pilot pieces on the board. I would like to introduce you as the thyroid gland. Like jason guy that you ask them you ask him a multiple choice question and he wants to write in the answer because none of these answers make sense on the test. That's why it's so. Let me something that makes sense. Would you like to go to north carolina. Why because yes. You do a trick question. So north carolina to address something with you. John hey how you doing. What's up john. I just wanted to brush up on jay williams on what he just said going back to the last caller If he goes back to nineteen eighty three here. Remember that it was dr jason doctor. Jay was the one who couldn't get the get. Couldn't get past the lakers when they bought over Moses malone way with a beat. The lakers the same situations but crispell so as not chris paul steam just like it wasn't moses malone team doctor james team and this here's devon booker but then one piece that's needed to get past them doesn't make it your team it just helps you make better but let me say i like your example. Actually let me ask you this. How many times is devon booker. Been to the playoffs. Like there is playoff. History between moses malone dr j. devon booker never been to the playoffs to the looked and i give you the final. You know what i mean. That's a huge jump i understand. It's a huge jump. But in today's basketball you add one piece and it's a huge jim. We could take a look at where just adding Adding jrue holiday. Look at the difference in milwaukee. There's plenty of situations like that j. around the whole entire. Nba i just disagree with that point and i understand what you're saying about them not getting there but in today's basketball you add a key piece. That takes you someplace where you've never been and we can take a look at the atlanta hawks when you take a look at a whole bunch of teams that have made jumps throughout the year by just adding this one piece. I i you. John i do hear you. I think this is a very interesting argument. But i think position makes this one. Just a little bit different. And signs of jay's point right before we took your call c. p. three orchestrating and sort of the brain of all of this to the next level but i do hear you on that point. I hear you. But monica thing. About like if you're eric bledsoe Your home run. It'd be like right. Yeah like i was with two sons. That didn't work out. I was with milwaukee so yeah that critical piece. That's a game changing piece. Where your organization do how they game change a piece but c. p. three i mean the bucks have always been the best regular season team over the last several years. They just couldn't get over that hump in the playoffs. We've never talked about phoenix. Being the best regular season team. We never even talked about phoenix being top five in the west yet alone now a team. That's in the finals that finished with the second best record in the nba. That's a monumental piece. Yeah it's not like they were again you go back to the raptors. With d'amato rosen. And kyle our. They were running into a wall every year every year they make that trade they bring in why they get over that wall. Finally that's not. Fa phoenix wasn't running into a wall every year until they finally made a trade that. Got them over the hump. They were a team. That was still kind of on the rise and then you add this piece. That gets them to that next level and boy did they get to that next level they are in the nba. Finals is a fun conversation about chris. Paul let's get back to talking about what's actually going to happen on the court. Starting tonight came one of the nba finals. But the concern is of who's not going to be. There expected not to be there. And that is yana. A who is doubtful for the game. The level of concern of whether or not he will have an impact on this finals. We'll discuss that next. Keyshawn j. will zubin. Espn radio siriusxm channel eighty and of course on the.
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
"bobby fisher" Discussed on What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
"Like unexplained deaths and was making inferences from the nineteen eighteen flu pandemic that killed his grandfather that to to extrapolate what he thought was the truth. Italty rate what was actually happening and so in february before there was a single death in the us reported he gaza's gathered his family together and he says i think they're going to be two hundred thousand eight hundred thousand deaths in the us of the next twelve months. We need to get supplies now and today stock up mosques about a detergent all these things a month before anybody else figuring out the bay should be clearing out the stores of mosques everything else and he put himself basically in isolation in laguna beach has beautiful him with his with his wife and pretty much didn't see anyone except for you would see his kids outside with with a mosque. Because he's he was eighty eighty five eighty six at the time. And so you think about that. That's an incredibly logical approach to life way of thinking how do i. How do i survive catastrophe. How do i avoid being being blown out of the game. How do i rationally myself. How do i analyze the data for myself. Not believing what the experts tell me which is which is exactly what he'd done with gambling as well. Everyone said. will you come in blackjack. You can't relate you can't be the casino and he said well let me study the evidence for myself and so i think what you're seeing with all of these investors is this independence of mind whether they're looking around a a what works where they can get the best information that they're trying to play games that they can win where they have an advantage. Avoid games whether going to lose so you have bought buffet famously. Said heck how do you had you be bobby. How do you beat bobby fisher. And he said plan anything other than chats and so so they have this very rational very pragmatic way of thinking about life. Manga says again.
REALITY OF REALITY
"bobby fisher" Discussed on REALITY OF REALITY
"I mean that's just to get into who he is. But he freed bobby fisher from jail and got him extradited to like i think iceland or something never ended the dying doing living in sambas. She calls himself a problem solver. He's a problem solver. Very interesting man so i told him the whole story about how i came here and i'm looking for my next movie. He goes. wow that's unbelievable. And he skype s- this guy who lives in the south of france old man who lives in the south of france in a in a seventeenth century home and He says hey. I got director here from canada. Who said he's looking for his next story and they both start laughing and then john's has opened the cupboard. And i opened the cupboard in its stacked with state of the art Film equipment like three brand new five days a entire lens kit everything that you could possibly want to make a movie. And he said we've been looking for director. Which are the guardians desert their movie. He the the man that he introduced me to that. I went out to go. Film is A unbelievable man with an unbelievable story and his parents were kidnapped by a guardian in new york city. And they're fifteen million dollar state was bequests tred. And so that's what turned me on to the guardianship and that was before any of the characters in my film even knew a guardianship was i don t. That's the craziest story ever. But did you really go to belgrade with zero plan. Because god told me that's where my next story was. I got i. When i say god i say god god i just wanted to clear. Is liz explain the unexplainable bad you know. It was giving into the intuition of something bigger than ourselves and leading me and and it changed my life because you know i- full-time faces issue. Well that's the thing so you know your style and especially in. This film is kind of vigilante journalism. Kind of in the in the footsteps of like a michael moore was that your intention. I mean it was that sort of by designed like once you fell into this world. You realize like i'm so passionate about writing. These wrongs like i have to be a part of this. Because you are. You're you're kind of friends center as an advocate for these people in the film. I think i've always been interested in social justice. That's always been my.
Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"I would deserve woody. So you gotta wookey. Then you gotta woody and then you got a deep blue and then you've got a professor asks but you know who's gonna win in a sweep mr scott vinci mr scott vinci for choices. Going up on the mount rushmore. I didn't see it common but you didn't predict this. You gotta think about your phone. That was always. I was my my Poker face would turn into a chess face in this bobby fisher because i mean. He's like the poster boy is like the orval. Redden bacher jess this carlson. Who was like the new up and comer and here and he's a model and and he's a model. Oh my god. Can you believe that it would be amazing. If he was just great. Add like they probably expect them to just stand there but he's just like what are we starting amid. Or what if he can only. Oh what if they they ask him to walk the runway in his aac. I needed to be diagnosed. I can only go to to step up when i should have gone with. I beth. Harmon the character from gambit and thomas a current chairman boxing. So well thank thanks. Got vinci Remind our audience where people can find you on social media on instagram at scott bought Scott la scott be ot la and scott vinci Scott nci on tiktok. That's wonderful will seek him out because he's a very funny dude and you know i'm just. I'm just happy on this episode about chess. we've got to talk about real steel and i'm speed racer. I feel just really just going to go into the week. Just feeling like super. He's has another episode. All all the sixties nineteen sixties cartoons What are the top four four. Hey l. a. We'll we will do anything for good topic right here. So thank you scott. You might have to return to be a guest on that it is your curse it sh- occurs. This has been the mount rushmore of real and fictitious. Chessplayers is always jeff. I'm richard i michael and scott. Ooh no it's ever done. That is overdone that tape this bread two hundred and fifty three episodes ever law..
Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"I love the idea that he i mean it's not like shoebox idiots that's been established star wars canon. Just because he's big in harry doesn't mean that he's an idiot But it can buy millennium falcon. So i can't. I can't do that now there you go. But obviously he's got some anger issues. And i think that's something that we see. In depictions of chest throughout fiction is the person who loses a chess and gets inherently very angry. We'll see this with another one of our choices Coming up. But i just i just love. I love the idea. The chess is supposed to be something. That is such a such a logical in dispassionate practice. Yeah yet so many times in enrages people whatever they could beat by someone especially if it's they'd who they don't consider to be on their level and and you know i think chewbacca with his with space chest would feel that way go ahead. I'll a robot. I'll play this guy in the c. three. Po is so condescending to his his good pal rtd to. he's just like oh let the wookey win. He's just what what is winning or losing me into any to us who have no life. We have no feelings. We are subservient to man and to wookey. Just it's fine with what he don't worry about it. You're you're okay. If you look at that scene where they're playing in the money in balcon it looks like the example of the first augmented reality Chessboard were the visas. Are like air in front of you moving. But they're not really there. I i love the. I would love to read the instruction manual back then because i. I don't know the names of those four armed monsters. Whatever but it's not like king of queen seven or you know thing. I do appreciate that hun is obviously not a a a a player of of degeneracy. He's not a player of space chess. This is something he totally keeps around for chewy to tinker around with. He's he's not back there just like playing with. He's he's got other things to do. He's got other things on his mind. But can you imagine. Jewish is back there every day every night. Just trying to get this thing to do what he wants wants to happen. And it's just the thing like this is the game that landau colorado input here to impress space babes and be like a cocktail before a colt forty forty ability. Okay all right cool. That's awesome choice. Scott what is your second choice. Well my second choice. I'm gonna go with The new grandmaster champion right now. His name is magnus carlsen. He's norwegian. And when bobby fisher became the grandmaster at fifteen he was the youngest..
Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"Would they have been who they were because if they were kind of normal they wouldn't have the aberration that led them to be the winner of their thing in their field. Do you know what i'm saying. Yeah yeah. I think if somebody like michael mike tyson. Were he not a person who has a talent for for violent would have fared much better he would have just been at. Yeah he would have just been a champion pigeon razor and that's it Taught elocution perhaps where he the the skill that gives them success in this. The domain of their profession is one that does not give them success outside of that domain. That's a i also wonder. Hey why didn't you play the game in your brain. A few moves ahead and realized you ready for this chest. People are i think just blows are so notorious for thinking a few steps ahead. You're always living in many moves down the porn. Why didn't you know that this wasn't going to suit you once once you succeeded at it. So he also had the hottest of hot takes which was nine eleven. That was good. Oh well that's a heartache. Right there yeah. That's that's a spicy hot take. Yeah that's spiciest of the hot takes. All i did not know that his politics or yeah he had i mean he was anti-semitic even though his mother was jewish You know he was made lots of antisemitic comments throughout his life. Yeah said that nine eleven was a a good thing. was arrested in japan because he was using a revoked passport to try to get on a japanese airline flight. He was someone who had he was a very complex person. Let's put it that way. Yeah and i think. I think that he is you know whether or not i think the question is whether or not his the pressure's that were put on him at such a young age kind of turned him that way or if he would have been that way no matter what yeah you know. It's kind of nurture versus nature. Russian. it's fascinating yeah. I think we may discuss more individuals who found this profession or found success. Who whose intellect was such that they may have found torment in almost any they. They're in may have been a thing that brought them into conflict with the world no matter what they did professionally. I would also wonder if maybe chess was enough of world to escape into that may have even held off some of that aberration for you know some sometimes. I wonder if michael mike tyson had not been able to beat people up inside. The rain would happen more outside of the ring. So yeah it was just a good thing or a bad thing so very interesting okay. Why don't we move onto mike. Lynn richard for their first choice. Okay i'll go first. Michael if that's okay and i will go with bobby. Fisher was great. You fool you fell into my trap. Art punk rock waiver on the same team. And so what are you doing. Great and all it was he undefeated. I don't think so. You know who an undefeated chest player. Chewbacca chewbacca got jerick. Chess two different things aren't they. They're basically are basically the same. It's based jess jeff. Okay and he's undefeated because you have to let the wookey win okay because otherwise he will rip your arms off bobby fischer's and get a pull your arms out of your sockets when he loses exactly. I love this choice. Because i would love to see to baca competing at the at the park on a sunday with little men with the pigeons flying around speed chest. All the other putters. I love the way..
Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Mt. Rushmore Podcast
"Wash questionable taste no. I'm not exactly brilliant. I think it's just one of those things where It helps exercise the mind you know. They're like oh games. Help keep young. You don't you don't do these brain things you're going to deteriorate into your old age and i'm kind of think of it like that it might. Yeah i just wanna do something. You know that taxes my mind a little bit and i think jess one of those things right on okay. Cool note for for a while. I was really getting into like thousand piece. Jigsaw puzzles through like some app on my ipad. And then i figured out a way to game the system by just stacking all of them on top of each other and then i would like clear thousand piece puzzle in like three minutes and as like. Oh yeah this is. I'm just a dumb person stacking them like you can like move. You can move to pieces over to the board but if you put them on top of each other they'll start automatically linking up. Oh wow because that. I realized i i'm. I'm never playing chess. I'm eating puzzles. Cheating at jigsaw puzzles. I don't know what i would do like in terms of just card games are just playing chess or whatever so i gave it all up in his like to stop playing games altogether. You're just go back to bubble bobble love. That game goes you need the cunning and the where without a play chess. Oh yeah. I think well we can discuss the aspects of that. We've learned from chess while we discuss our choices so our guest always go first. So what color is the chess. Piece it goes. I white always goes i. You are white in this case mr scott vinci so you will be the first person to make a move here in this mount rushmore of fictional chess players and real real because One fictional actually. The other three are real nice. What's your i well. The first one is bobby fisher heard of him just because he's the guy you've heard of even if you haven't played chess you know his name he's like the icon chest like before and then The second one. Oh we'll do one at a time. Okay so yes so. Tell us why. So you picked bobby fisher. Because it's kinda the michael jordan of chess at least through to contemporary audiences and he even is mentioned in the name of a chess movie about a chess player. Who's not bobby fisher in searching for bobby fischer. So he's like so ubiquitous matched with the game. Do you know anything. About actual bobby fisher. Because i can't say that. I do you know i know a little bit He well. He died in two thousand eight in the head. A emit up this game called fisher random chests which they say is like a chess variant of like where they put all the pieces randomized on an oh well on a board and i think they have to like play it out after that but i think he was kind of a little I wouldn't say reckless but Recluse but like Almost like the j d salinger of chest. Somebody who's who's a who's life in the spotlight after being becoming famous for chest did not please please to that. Suit them. so yeah. I think that was a big part. I think he was. He was tormented inside. Yeah i think that's very very attractive whether it's real or fictional very attractive. Character arc for people is that person who accomplishes something that many people wish they could but then we see how it does not deliver a happily ever. After for that person they find themselves tormented a bit by the spotlight that they're it makes you wonder like if they were kind of normal..
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"bobby fisher" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"And. Listen to man is about to say. Yeah let's everybody listen. The usa radio network presents the greatest radio programs of all time. Cbs radio workshop dedicated to man's imagination. The theater of the mind this is classic radio theatre wanna get away from it. All be i in peace and war mcgeown by the unexpected. The unexpected the unexpected. Now here's your host white cops. We had to the movies for another screen guild theater presentation this one on the title. Hollywood sound stage as it was broadcast sixty nine years ago. Today january seventeenth thousand nine hundred fifty two the ox bow incident starring edward. Arnold and charlie ruggles steak joining us on this sunday. Seventeen january we have three hundred forty eight days remaining until we get to twenty twenty to james madison randolph. The grandson of thomas. Jefferson became the first child born in the white house in eighteen. Zero six c. 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Its first session on this date in nineteen forty-six and in one thousand nine hundred eleven thieves stole more than two million dollars from brinks. The brakes car company in bob armored car company in boston the great brinks robbery b. fifty two bomber collided with a casey one thirty five straddle tanker over spain on this date in nineteen sixty six dropping. Three seventy kilotons rogen bombs near the town of palomares and another into the sea convicted murderer. Gary gilmore executed on this date in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven. Buy a firing squad. I simply accepted a sentence that was given to me. I've accepted sentences all my life. I didn't. i had a choice in the matter when i didn't accept it. Every bite jumped up to start with. It seems that The people especially the people of utah. They want the death penalty. But they don't wanna kyushu's when the became a reality might have to carry one out start backing off on it. I took him little serious and they sentenced me to death just to ten years or thirty days in the county jail or something. I thought you were supposed to take them serious. I didn't know it was joke. Execution of gilmore ended a ten year moratorium on the death penalty in the united states. Back in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven. Ooh on this date in one thousand nine hundred eighty two temperatures fell to the lowest levels in over one hundred years in numerous cities back in one thousand nine hundred two cold sunday. In nineteen ninety-one operation desert storm began early in the morning hours as iraq fired scud missiles into israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke israeli retaliation throughout the entire sky. There are flashes of light it appears to be some sort of anti-aircraft fire a couple of Flashes on the horizon now. Something is definitely underway. Here pumping is going. On liberation of kuwait has begun in conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners. The united states has moved under the codename operation desert storm to enforce the mandates of the united nations security council white house. Press secretary marlin fitzwater before that reporter. Gary gilmore a magnitude six point. Seven earthquake hit northridge california on this date in one thousand nine hundred ninety four a year later a magnitude seven point. Three earthquake hit near kobe. Japan causing extensive property damage. Sixty four hundred people killed in the great hanshin earthquake in one thousand. Nine hundred ninety. Eight jones accused president bill clinton of sexual harassment and in in that same date. Matt drudge broke. The story of the bill clinton monica lewinsky's affair on his drudge report website. Matt drudge has become far more to the left sense that occurred and on this date. What was it. Twenty years ago faced with electricity crisis california used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people passing away on this date in history. President rutherford b hayes back in eighteen ninety three also doodles weaver beadle bomb actor richard krona virginia mayo. Journalists art buckwald chess player. Bobby fisher author screenwriter. Eric seco don kirshner fine record producer. And the man responsible for willie and the hand jive johnny carson. The johnny otis show. This is the birth date of benjamin franklin film director. Mack sennett actor noah berry gangster. Al capone earthquake kit board on this date as was bedell fast soon. Sherry lewis troy donahue muhammad ali. The greatest back and andy kaufman and some people wonder we. Is he dead or alive. I guess somebody like andy kaufman. He'll always be alive because some of the stuff he did. You know what is older than sliced bread. The lovely and talented betty white nineteen nine years old today actor james earl jones not far behind ninety maury povich who still says you are not the father at eighty two singer. Chris montez the more. I see you seventy eight years old paul young time. You go away paul. Young sixty five steve harvey sixty four years old the bangles susanna sixty two actor comedian. Jim carey smoking. Fifty eight michelle obama fifty-seven kid rock fifty years old and actress. Zooey day. chanel. His forty-one those just a few of the people who celebrate the seventeenth day of january as their birthday. And this happens to be your birthday. Hi we're the four freshmen. And we just wanna say sixty. Nine years ago january seventeenth nineteen fifty two hollywood sound stage on a sunday classic radio theater. Here's some great news if you missed the deadline to sign up for health insurance or more importantly if you sign up for a plan that you're just not happy with you.
The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast
"bobby fisher" Discussed on The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast
"The schizophrenia. Study there are studies. Were these games sharpton. Cognitive skills in children reduced symptoms of adhd and depression and possibly prevented dementia. Although you could find evidence that just about any activity that's absorbing challenging has those effects. Yeah but why do so. Many chess masters have schizophrenia. I looked into this encountered eight including some of the most prominent figures in chests. His these players rose to the top. I only have their careers. Derailed by symptoms of psychosis are in some cases. A clear diagnosis of schizophrenia. Take bobby fisher the prodigy. Who left a dent in the iron curtain. When he beat the top soviet player bar spassky in nine hundred seventy two during that match fisher started to show signs of psychosis although with all the cold war politics that surrounded the tournament. It was hard to tell how much of that was reality. Based he thought the soviets were following him bugging his room and even trying to control his brain by sending signals through his tooth fillings. He was also extremely distracted by sounds lights. Which is an early sign of schizophrenia. The inability to filter out irrelevant information. That breakdown is dramatized. Rather nicely in the two thousand fourteen film pawn sacrifice fisher was twenty nine years old in one thousand nine hundred seventy two which is kind of at the tail. End for onset of schizophrenia. Usually schizophrenia begins the late teens or early twenties but it can begin in the late twenties and when it does cognition is usually spared and more intact. The late onset also gives the person time to accomplish things in life before the illness takes hold after his historic win against the soviets. Bobby fisher went into hiding. He was sometimes found wandering in the middle of the night unshaven disheveled and ranting about jewish conspiracies. He spent the rest of his life believing that he was being persecuted by an international jewish group and that the holocaust was a money making invention now just because of belief is false does not make it delusion and certainly there are subculture with these kinds of harmful ideas about jews. A common but bobby fish did not belong to such a subculture. He was jewish boy. Who grew up in new york city bobby fischer is just the most famous example of this decline palm offi. The nineteenth century champion who's creative energy helped shape. Modern chess also developed paranoia and bizarre behavior. Any slight twenties. Wilhelm stein it. The first world champion was hospitalized with psychosis. He believed he could play. Against god through wireless telephone and this was long before the first phone so we found eight chess champions. Who developed signs of schizophrenia. And nearly all of these were late onset cases. The coincidences enough. That a few researchers have looked for common cause so far. They've found that chess masters are more likely to be born in the winter months. Which is a known finding in schizophrenia. So we think that's because viruses are more common in the winter. Months and in utero exposure to a virus can alter brain development in ways that put people risk for schizophrenia. Left handedness is also more common chess grandmasters left. Handedness is likewise more common schizophrenia. In one study forty percent of people with schizophrenia were left handed which is four times the rate in the general population. Dodder or i can. What do you think is the connection between schizophrenia and chess ability. The genes for mental illness often have a positive side. We see that in bipolar disorder where they bring higher rates of creativity and leadership skills both in the patients when they're not an episode and their relatives. My sense is that schizophrenia. Also comes with gifts but that we rarely see the fruits of those strengths because the illness comes on so early and the negative symptoms are so devastating. You're only going to see those remarkable gifts in late onset cases like you do with these chess masters. What else say those strengths. In the relatives of people with schizophrenia out. Expect you would although. I'm not aware of any studies of that. But you know it is notable that our dean stein. James joyce and the philosopher bertrand russell. All had a child with schizophrenia. I talked with nancy andreessen about this once. She's a schizophrenia researcher. And she believed that schizophrenia carried with it creative strikes so she went to the i wo- writer's workshop to look for signs of mental illness in these world class writers but what she found was unexpected. There were high rates of bipolar disorder. But not of schizophrenia. In that group still. She thought there was something. There and that people with schizophrenia may have more creative abilities in abstract or scientific fields which is where the chest connections speculatively fits in your thinking. is that. There's something about the mind in schizophrenia. That lends itself to chest talent rather than that playing too much chest. Colds schizophrenia. For the most part yes. But i wouldn't recommend tournament chess to prevent schizophrenia. Remember in the schizophrenia study. They played chess two hours a week. Not ten hours a day. There's also evidence that video games can have mental benefits but only one played in moderation the new video game that's fda cleared for adhd shuts off after twenty minutes of play competitive chess players also deal with intense physical symptoms of stress during these long matches. It's enough that there are measurable changes in their heart rate and blood pressure while they play and the surges and noradrenaline and corticosteroids go on behind the scenes. They're really not good for the brain. That your patient. The one that said glen to mean improved. It's chess game has ever been used to test the cognitive effects of medications. Yes i put up this study here from two thousand seventeen. It's called methylphenidate modafferi caffeine for cognitive enhancement in chess. This one got a lot of back then because it came out at the same time that a doping scandal shook the chess world one in ten tournament chess players in germany admitted to using cognitive enhancers to improve their game. But let's take a closer look at this study because the story gets complex they randomized thirty nine competitive cheer players to play against a computer after taking one of three stimulants methylphenidate ritalin body milligrams divided into two doses Vigil bull hundred milligrams. Oh caffeine four hundred milligrams. That's equivalent to six shots of espresso and is considered the upper limit of safety for daily caffeine. The players then battled against the computer in a series of ten games. The games would time so the human had only fifteen minutes to play the result was that madonna finagle and methylphenidate caused the players to lose more games because they ran out of time. Caffeine had no effect on performance when the games that will loss to the clock were eliminated these stimulants slightly. Enhance the play. The effect was equivalent to the advantage. The white player has in making the first move a five percent edge those paradoxical results illustrate the complexity of trying to use medications to enhance cognition. You might gain in one area while damaging another in this case. The stimulants made the chess players. Think more about their moves but they deliberated too much at the expense of the clock. And you need to know about these complexities fine. Tuning stimulants in adhd. If the dose is too high the patient might feel over-focus like they can't shift out of work mode they may say. They've lost their spontaneity their creativity or in the case of standup comedians. I've treated their sense of humor. We're going to cover that an upcoming issue on stimulants and creativity the queen's gambit taken some creative license with psychopharmacology put what about their decision to cast a woman in the role of chess grandmaster online edition. We.
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The Chess Grandmasters Extreme Workout
"I. How did you get on the chess? Beat in the first place? So I get really interested in these really need sports that. People are super invested in Ashwari. Kumar is an international features writer for Espn Lake if you're going to which. Of People Are Watching these chess tournaments that you wouldn't even know where that's happening in. Iceland. Or Finland, and so I had this curiosity so I was thinking so Bobby Fisher was such a huge part of chests in the US what Ron Labor is tennis. What Jack Nicklaus's to golf? That's what Bobby Fischer is to chess. Bobby Fisher of the United States will finally meet Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in Belgrade Yugoslavia, but the chess championship of the world plus a purse of one, hundred, thirty, eight, thousand five hundred dollars, the richest prize for a head-to-head confrontation in any sport, but boxing. So who is the next Bobby Fisher? So I went to Saint Louis last year to sort of figure out what is going on in the chess world, so saint Louis has sort of become this chess capital of the country. Let's start with the basics here. What is a chess grandmaster? And what does it take to become one? Usually what happens? Is this International Chess Federation F. And they have this point systems so chessplayers. Lead different tournaments in accumulate these spines that. Gets them to a certain level of expertise, and they are then title the grandmaster, which is in fact, the highest I do that. A chess player can be awarded by International Chess Federation usually these. Players between the age of ten and fourteen, and so they go through these rigorous tournaments one after the other parents take them all over the world. And the get the title by around thirteen fourteen, and then they start to perfect the art of being perfect, just player. So you mentioned Bobby Fisher. Who is probably the most famous chess player all time? Actually is definitely the most famous chess player of all time. Who are the stars of the field today? The poster by of chess is at the moment Magnus Carlsen. Calzon is the best in the world. The youngest number one ever and no one can explain to you how he does what he does. It seems to come from another world, which is why he's become known as the Mozart of chess. He's from Norway. He sort of had this. Has this bad boy live to him? He's like interesting. He'll drop these nuggets about other players. You make jokes about his opponents. He talks trash social chicken. How do you not? He's GonNa do the same. Yeah the lack of comas is astounding. And quite disappointing. He talks acts. Yeah for sure sorta like that kind of Worcester wise. He's called the golden boy of chess. And then this. Is. Bobby Ana crew art, there's this Chinese grandmaster Ding Laren and then USA's Wesley so and Kara Nakimora. Really Good Armenia has live on Romanian so these are some of like the famous players at the moment that go up against each other all the time. So I the grandmaster that you decided to focus on with your story, the one who lives in Saint Louis is actually Italian. His name is Fabiano Caruana. Who is in? How did he get here? Fabiano Caruana is the number two seed in the world. He's an Italian American chess grandmaster. He became a grandmaster at fourteen years of age, fourteen years, eleven, months, and twenty eight to be exact, and he at that time was the youngest grandmaster in the history of Italy in the United States. E was sort of beg to be the next big thing in in US chess and he came back now. He has an apartment in Saint Louis. He lives there and he sort of boot. BOOT his life from scratch, and he was never like the big personality like Norris Magnus columnist. He's the guy that will is very chill loves video games and let us work to the talk to his justice stories about that call in the next Bobby Fisher like the next big thing. He's the one person that can actually dig down. Magnus, Carlsen in the world championship and become the next world champion. So what does? Chess match in a grand masters tournament. Actually look like. How does it play out? Okay so two grandmasters shake each other's hands. sit down across from each other is chessboard. This o'clock next to them that the are constantly looking at. This goes on for at least six hours right every day, and so during these six hours, the brain has to have most oxygen supply. Which means your heart is functioning three times faster than on any given. And because of that sustained higher blood pressure, and sustained higher level of activity by the heart and the rain, the body goes through intense physical. Energy lost during. A chess game that lasts six to seven to sometimes eat hours said.
BrainStuff
Why Doesn't Alcohol Have Nutrition Labels?
"Today's episode is brought to you by Oregon. You know, when something goes wrong at home, and you just freak out, I have definitely had my moments especially when it comes to pests ants in the mirror. Nara, cockroaches hanging out around your bubble bath and uninvited rat, a your daughter's birthday party. Don't let pests ruin the moment, get an organ tech out to your house tomorrow. Bill, protect your time and your temper. Visit organ dot com slash brain to save fifty dollars on your first general pest service with the promo code pod. Fifty. That's P, O, D, five zero Orkan home is where the bugs aren't. Welcome to brain stuff production of iheartradio. Hey, brain stuff. Lauren Vogel, bam here if you feel like you can't even consider consuming a candy bar without being confronted with its chlorine content. You're right. The same thing goes for just about every piece of packaged food you see in stores, plus every bottled canned or carton beverage a nutrition facts label depicts detailed info on the amounts of fat sugar. Sodium and more found inside. But while your favorite breakfast, cereals sodas and sandwich fixings are subject. This type of in-your-face transparency, you may have noticed that booze is typically off the hook residing behind fact labels. So what gives the answer lies in the powers that be while the food and Drug administration or FDA regulates the safety of you guessed it food, including non alcoholic beverages? It doesn't govern the alcohol industry that honor belongs to the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau or TB an agency that doesn't require labeling while beer wine and spirits companies aren't league. Alie mandated to print, the nutritional info on their products. Consumer advocates have been calling for the TB to change that. And it has sort of in twenty thirteen the agency made nutrition labels optional for alcohol, but somehow, experts don't feel the move was bold enough Johns Hopkins public health researcher Sarah Blake told vox in two thousand fifteen many adults take in a tremendous amount of calories from alcohol, and they have no idea. She should know her work revealed that the average American regularly consumes four hundred calories a day from alcohol alone. A pint of PA contains about two hundred fifty calories a glass of red wine has about one hundred twenty five and a shot of liquor has about one hundred. The reasons behind the disparity in label requirements between the FDA and t t b goes back to prohibition when the ban on the production and distribution of alcohol in America came to an end congress passed the alcohol administration act of nineteen thirty five which eventually led to the establishment of the t b but its rules around labeling have historically been a bit. Messy substances. The people might be sensitive to, like, sulfites have to be labelled, but other ingredients, do not wines, contain fourteen percent, alcohol, or more have to display alcohol content while wines from seven to fourteen percent. Don't have to list, alcohol content, if they're considered light or table. Oh and wines with less than seven percent alcohol. Those aren't regulated by the TB at all. Those are under the jurisdiction of the FDA, and so they're required to display nutrition facts. Labels confusing. Isn't it? A few brands corona light, Guinness Heineken, and course, light do put calories and some nutrition information though. Not the ingredients on their bottles, or packaging, but it's typically very small print or hard to find you might even have to look on the bottom of the six pack to find it who looks their Bud Light on the other hand began voluntarily including obvious, leibels listing its beers calories fat carbohydrates and protein per serving, as well as other ingredients in February of two thousand nineteen since then and Heiser Bush's added similar labeling to some of its other Bud Light line beers, including Bud Light lime, Bud Light orange, and Bud Light lemon tea change is brewing though. At least in the beer industry industry leaders, including Anheuser Busch Miller Coors, Heineken USA constellation brand beer, division, North American breweries and craft brew lions which together produce more than eighty one percent of the volume of beer, sold in the United States have agreed to voluntarily displayed nutrition facts by twenty twenty. Today's episode was by Michelle Constantinople ski and produced by Tyler clang brain stuff is a production of iheartradio's. How stuff works ruinous lots of other well labeled topics. Visit our home planet has two forks dot com and for more podcasts from my heart radio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. This week on ephemeral. You do the math. I think they're two million plus spreads of our work in the collection. I don't even think about brain can hold them. Any emphasis tough to comprehend it. And we got four thousand every year I didn't really as much. To intellectual passions as a teenager, and they were crossed puzzles, and chess. So I thought I would love to be able to be a Professional Chess player or cross greater for a living. I tried chest but by age fifteen or so was clear. I was not going to be the next Bobby Fisher. So I thought, well, okay. Maybe, maybe I'll be the Bobby Fisher us. 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Pardon My Take
Golden Knights put on surreal pregame show for NHL playoffs
"Yeah our goal is bryn hopi i've been hopi guy since day one so to remind everyone hank bubba and i have a future on the washington capitals so we're hurting just as much as pfc right now sorrows for ourselves we almost got in the shower where we should actually mention that we're in charlotte pf these new york's skype show but we yeah we we were so upset about the capital's letting us down yet again almost showered wow yeah would have to be pretty upset to take a shower well no we almost shower together with our clothes on yeah as usual that's standard operating procedure for us on road trips so the the stanley cup finals are playoffs have started we've had the las vegas nights basically acted out cirque du soleil slash game of thrones season ten on ice before their first game that's fucking weird like that was we should've all it was one of those things where like okay let's give some franchises to las vegas she'll be cool until they get a national stage like oh this is fucking weird like none of us are on now yeah this is this doesn't play hey i got one for your nights verse kings what is searching for bobby fischer oh nice fisher still alive no died right before even bowie yes his soul has been dead for about thirty years yes and then bobby fisher turned into like a hard conspiracy theorist oh yeah oh he's a bad guy back real bad dude we also had ryan whitney who by the way spitting chiklis has added are other good friend paul bissonnette business ryan whitney was dead on the boston bruins look like a wagon they shit pumped the toronto maple leafs that one was a tough one any other games that stuck out to you before we get to mba playoffs well i just want to say that that the ficiating in the playoffs has been subpar to say the least up until now he got guys out there just playing good clean hockey good clean playoff penalties inder gained game is conduct for shoving guys heads into the boards and knocking them out almost killing them hockey did that happen us it happened to us also happened in maple leafs bruhns.