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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Expose the Tyranny of Lies with Vivek Ramaswamy
"I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy, his spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country, that's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Today Donald Trump is going to be arraigned at a DC federal courthouse. Former President of the United States, arraigned by this feral dog by the name of Jack Smith, who is using the full force of the federal government. And Merrick Garland signed off on this. It's supposed to be an independent council, this is not an independent council, this is one of Eric Holder's lackeys, went out to The Hague. This guy has failed time and time again with his prosecutorial record. Failed with McDonald, overturned at the Supreme Court. He is perfect for political prosecutions, or should I say, persecutions. I've read the indictment multiple times, we've been through the details of this. This is a disgrace. It's a total disgrace, and I will say, I'm sensing a little bit of a change of even some of the most ardent Trump critics that I speak with and I text with. I spoke with one the other day, someone who hates Donald Trump, and I called him, I said, so, how do you feel? He said, man, I hate Trump. I said, but I don't hate him this much. He said, what do you mean? He said, man, this is so bad. This is so damaging, so dangerous. He's like, Trump's probably going to win the nomination, I'll support him in the general. He's like, I really think Trump is bad for the country, but this is worse. I was like, OK, that's an honest take. I could take that. That is progress. That is movement. And I'll be honest. Anybody who is now doing cheap shots at Donald Trump while he is under active, multi sham federal indictments, I've lost respect for you. Read the room. Understand what's really at play here. This is not the time to get in cheap shots of, oh, Donald Trump should have fired Fauci faster. Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. Get out of the way. We don't have time for this. OK? There's something much bigger going on here than policy disagreements. That might be valid. OK, personnel selection. We've talked about it. This is the whole ballgame. Can an unelected administrative state take out the leader of an opposition party? They believe. Yes, absolutely. So The New York Times, I read it, so you don't have to. It's just the lack of self -awareness here is amazing. So they go through the co -conspirators. We had John Eastman on the program and who's likely going to be indicted or unindicted co -conspirator. We don't know. This is this is the headline. First Amendment is likely linchpin of Trump defense. Allies prepare for fight over free speech after indictment calls out lies. And then it goes on to say the indictment cites a campaign of election falsehoods. Time out here. Are you allowed to believe things that the government doesn't believe? Why do we have a First Amendment? We are the speaking beings, as Aristotle would say. We have reason, dialogue, conversation, disagreement, debate. What opinions exactly need to be regulated? A free society means that you're allowed to not just disagree, but challenge. And in a free society, you're allowed to have what is deemed as wacky or goofy opinions. I don't even think what Donald Trump was espousing was wacky or goofy. For the record, I think Donald Trump was onto something huge. His gut instinct is correct. The 2020 election was a sham. From the intel agencies to the fake Hunter Biden laptop letter to the mass mail -in ballots to the Center for Technology and Civic Life to the Yul -Roth meetings with Twitter and the FBI, Donald Trump was onto something. But this indictment, and this is why when people do these cheap shots on Trump like, oh, Nikki Haley, move on, get out of the way. You're a waste of time, all right? This here is the criminalization of wrongthink. This is the criminalization and the potential imprisonment and death penalty. That's right. One of the statutes that Donald Trump is facing could potentially get him the death penalty for asking questions. Now, let's just go through the last couple hundred years. Is there ever a time where somebody challenges an orthodoxy and ends up being proven right? One of the most famous examples is Galileo. Galileo, who was basically put on house arrest for questioning, saying, hey, maybe there's something to this heliocentric theory of, nope, I'll put you in house arrest. Go into prison. Or in the 1900s, lobotomies used to be considered to be the most amazing medical breakthrough. How about as recently as the Hunter Biden laptop is a Russian disinformation? Our leader said that, or that the vaccine is safe and effective, or that lockdowns are going to help kids, or that the virus is going to kill 20 percent of our population. What's really going on here with this indictment? And what infuriates me, and I have not heard this point made, is like, OK, they're going after somebody for wrongthink. Meanwhile, not a single member of the administrative state, not a single maggot, not a single vermin, not a single one of these people have been held accountable for their lies the last couple of years, for their intentional misrepresentations, for power, for profit. And yet they're going after Donald Trump for asking questions that they don't like. And The New York Times says, well, you know, the First Amendment is likely his defense. Well, yeah. What they are trying to do is set a precedent that, I'll be honest, is even bigger than Donald Trump. They're going for a civilizational changing indictment here. Not only do they think they will be able to take out the leader of the opposition party, they want to set a precedent in what will be the highest profile case. More eyeballs on this case than I think any in American history. Maybe, maybe the Scopes Monkey trial would come closer. This is going to be, this will be covered wall to wall, every motion, every filing. And by the way, I know it's not customary. We need to demand that there are cameras in the courtroom. We need to demand it. And every one of these trials, there is not an argument not to have cameras in the courtroom, period. You're going to go lock up the opposition leader. I want it on every television. Own it, Jack Smith. Own it, prosecutors. Come on, show us what you're doing. I don't want to look at some sort of sketch by some sort of guy. No, no, no, no, no. Cameras in the courtroom. I want to know what's going on. This will make the O .J. Simpson trial look like child's play as far as the high profile civilizational impact. And that's not just one. You got documents. You got this conspiracy to defraud the United States, a bunch of silly stuff. You got the Georgia one that is looming. We need cameras in the courtroom. We need eyeballs. I thought, because democracy dies in darkness, right? That's what I'm lectured by the degenerates of the Washington Post every day. What is really going on here in this indictment is, yes, Donald Trump is part of it. But the bigger game is can they eliminate the First Amendment? And that is even bigger than Trump. That is the crux of this indictment. The of crux this indictment is the promise of the United States Constitution that our founding fathers put in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, inspired largely by George Mason, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of press and the right to peaceably assemble. Here is the key. Here is the key. And to petition the government for a redress of grievances, this entire thing, even if you think Donald Trump was on Neptune and he believed wacky stuff, which I do not. I think he was onto something. You are constitutionally allowed to challenge your government. You're allowed to believe wacky and weird stuff. In fact, that is what makes America a great country. We should applaud it when somebody asks questions of their government. We shouldn't send them to prison. The government is not the arbiter of truth. 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The Poetry Magazine Podcast
"feral" Discussed on The Poetry Magazine Podcast
"Knew everything. I mean, when I look back, I mean, they didn't. Right. But this was the attitude. Everyone knew everything and I knew nothing. And so, you know, workshops were really traumatic. You know, I would get my poems back marked up, you know, all the teachers, most of the teachers, two out of four of the teachers said, we have no idea what you're talking about. And the students, all my classmates agreed and it was traumatic. And that's why it's so, you know, it's really it's a workshop is, you know, it's just about the poem. But it's it's also, you know, how does that not affect you? Because what I was writing about, it turns out, is what they couldn't understand. So I went to these workshops and, you know, they were with people. I mean, they're people who were editors at the New Yorker. You know, there were people, you know, these two girls who worked at the New Yorker. They showed up and it's weird to say that it's so weird, but like heels. And I remember thinking they must, they must catch a cab here. Like I was just in this like weird place. Right. And so it's like, oh, my gosh. You know, and there are people who had studied with her before. And so really just that's why it's so important. I was in that space, you know, I was in that space. And I think for I went for many years and I think for a period of time, I was like, I didn't talk at all. I never made comments. You know, I just, but being in that space was important because I felt like, okay. And also she understood my work, you know, as she would, she would put hearts by, you know, stuff and yeah. So that meant a lot, but I still felt, I remember feeling like I was weird. I remember one evening and I just remember like the rooms were dark. I mean, they weren't, but that's just the route. I mean, remember, I just remember them in this way.
AP News
"feral" Discussed on AP News
"Feral. I believe, and not very nice. The Super Mario Brothers movie is coming close to making a $1 billion worldwide. It will become only the fourth film to hit that milestone since the pandemic, along with Spider-Man, no way home, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar the way of water. A gift shop worker at Disney's Hollywood studios theme park in Florida, who was arrested for taking videos under women's skirts, says he's done that hundreds of times. Police say 26 year old Jorge Diaz Vega was arrested in late March, a witness reported seeing the suspect recording a video up the skirt of an 18 year old customer at the Star Wars gift shop where he worked at Hollywood studios. Diaz Vega's charged with just one felony count of video voyeurism, but Orange County sheriff's detectives say he's confessed. Admitting he's done it more than 500 times in recent years showing them examples on his cell phone and admitting to taking the videos for a quote guilty pleasure. Disney World says Diaz Vega no longer works for the company. I'm Jackie Quinn. Donald Trump defends his push to restrict abortion rights after a rebuke, while other Republican presidential hopefuls tout their commitment before a gathering of influential evangelicals. Trump used a taped speech Saturday at the Iowa faith and freedom coalition to highlight his actions as president to try to restrict abortion, right? Like adding Supreme Court Justices that would ultimately reverse roe V wade, Trump's position that abortion restrictions should be left up to the states drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from the Susan B. Anthony pro life group. His former vice president Mike Pence used his speech to celebrate Trump's efforts and to take a bit of the credit for himself by calling the scotus appointments the most important of all the accomplishments of the administration. Hence also says he'd support a 15 week national ban while his advocacy group has pushed for 6 weeks. I'm Julie Walker. Thank
The Mason Minute
Goblin Mode (MM #4034)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. One of the struggles of being a baby boomer is to try to stay engaged with the rest of the world. So the world doesn't pass you by. At least for some of us, we try to remain connected to the current slang. The other day I saw a news story where I realized it was somewhat out of touch, at least with some slang, some urban dictionary slaying, somebody was talking about Kanye West and his latest girlfriend. The reason he supposed they broke up with her because she goes goblin mode. They're like, okay, that's a new one I'd never heard of before. Goblin mode refers to a person who was generally messy, likely unshowered and acting kind of feral, like a feral cat due to laziness or aversion to going outside. You find it in the urban dictionary you find it in tumblr. It's been around for years, but not something that ever heard before. Of course I chuckled, because there are a lot of words these days in the urban dictionary. A lot of different types of slang that you just don't hear. Most of them created through memes. Somebody just creates a word and it kind of goes viral. And we'll see more and more of that as the world starts separating into its own little tribes. And a lot of people are studying these words. Goblin mode, I'll admit. It's pretty much what I am right now.
The Mason Minute
Goblin Mode (MM #4034)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. One of the struggles of being a baby boomer is to try to stay engaged with the rest of the world. So the world doesn't pass you by. At least for some of us, we try to remain connected to the current slang. The other day I saw a news story where I realized it was somewhat out of touch, at least with some slang, some urban dictionary slaying, somebody was talking about Kanye West and his latest girlfriend. The reason he supposed they broke up with her because she goes goblin mode. They're like, okay, that's a new one I'd never heard of before. Goblin mode refers to a person who was generally messy, likely unshowered and acting kind of feral, like a feral cat due to laziness or aversion to going outside. You find it in the urban dictionary you find it in tumblr. It's been around for years, but not something that ever heard before. Of course I chuckled, because there are a lot of words these days in the urban dictionary. A lot of different types of slang that you just don't hear. Most of them created through memes. Somebody just creates a word and it kind of goes viral. And we'll see more and more of that as the world starts separating into its own little tribes. And a lot of people are studying these words. Goblin mode, I'll admit. It's pretty much what I am right now.
The Mason Minute
Goblin Mode (MM #4034)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. One of the struggles of being a baby boomer is to try to stay engaged with the rest of the world. So the world doesn't pass you by. At least for some of us, we try to remain connected to the current slang. The other day I saw a news story where I realized it was somewhat out of touch, at least with some slang, some urban dictionary slaying, somebody was talking about Kanye West and his latest girlfriend. The reason he supposed they broke up with her because she goes goblin mode. They're like, okay, that's a new one I'd never heard of before. Goblin mode refers to a person who was generally messy, likely unshowered and acting kind of feral, like a feral cat due to laziness or aversion to going outside. You find it in the urban dictionary you find it in tumblr. It's been around for years, but not something that ever heard before. Of course I chuckled, because there are a lot of words these days in the urban dictionary. A lot of different types of slang that you just don't hear. Most of them created through memes. Somebody just creates a word and it kind of goes viral. And we'll see more and more of that as the world starts separating into its own little tribes. And a lot of people are studying these words. Goblin mode, I'll admit. It's pretty much what I am right now.
Air Male with Robert Sunday
"feral" Discussed on Air Male with Robert Sunday
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Air Male with Robert Sunday
"feral" Discussed on Air Male with Robert Sunday
"There her ducklings because they had nappy ass hair. They were white. They were not black, but they had apparently been living in an RV for a very long time, so when they came in the airplane after being wild inside the terminal, mom was not putting any leashes on none of her precious little brood. So she brought her little wild ass bunch in the airplane. Before you know it, little toddlers runner around in the aircraft barefoot, you know, where people put their dirty ass feet, kid almost ran into the bathroom where people piss on the floor in the mob didn't even think twice about it. I told delays, hey. That's not very sanitary. Put some shoes on your kid and while you're at it, how about you maintain positive control of your kid? I'm trying. How's that baby? You fucked and made a kid. There was no try about that. Now it's your responsibility to fucking control that child before it becomes inmate in a penitentiary down the road. But who am I? I'm just a flight attendant here to fucking kiss your ass, right? You need to be more friendly to the children and families of the you need a fucking take a bus or get your fucking RV fix and go back home that way. Don't come over here bothering me and asking for special favors because you fucking shit out some kids. I'm not sympathetic. I'm not the person you fucking want to be talking to. Yeah, folks. It is a trip up there. But I tell you what, after four days of flying, I'm pissed. Everybody, I want to spit in your drink. I want to fucking trip your loud ass, Karen wife. I want to punch your baby in his face. That I'm just telling you, I'm not a violent person. Well, some people may disagree with me. But I'm not a violent person. But after 5 days of flying around, I'm tired of being around the human race. All I want to do is hang around with my kitties, stroke their sweet little soft fur and feed in some kibble and clean their fucking cat litter man. That's fucking peace enough for me, but I tell you what, man. So on this trip, Icarus was working right beside me. Yeah, she was loud as Asian girl. Our little China girl. She demanded to be up front with me during the boarding. I don't like to share my stage with anybody. If anybody knows who I am, Robert Sunday. He's a little bit narcissistic, but he's got feeling in heart and he does care about people. Just not everybody. But one thing I really draws my fucking fire is people want to surrogate. They want to get up on my stage and share it and out shout me. Bitch was saying hello to people before they even got in the fucking airplane. That's how hard up this chick was for attention. Thirsty, like she'd been living a desert her whole fucking life, I tell you what. Maybe that's just how they act in China, although she says she was born here in the United States, living in Ohio, but represents Brooklyn. Whatever, man, I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it. I'm going to tell you what, and then she was putting her hands on people, you know? There's a point where I got to give drinks to passengers and first class, and they got a hold up the whole boarding process in the aircraft, right? Instead of just saying, sir, would you just wait here for a moment? She'll fuck almost like put her hands on them, fucking balls pushed him halfway out of the fucking airplane. Oh my girl, we're not fucking at a Japanese fucking transit station where you gotta shove everybody into a train. I guess there's just some minor cultural differences. And I'm no race as folks. I love Chinese people. I'm not real fond of Chinese food, though. I kind of been played out. I'm more of an Indian food kind of guy when it comes to Asian food. Sog panero turned it up to 11. Yeah. Oh man. And the chick fucking just listens like an asshole. You know, you tell somebody a story and all of a sudden they become like the fucking devil's advocate, I was telling a friend telling her about a friend of mine who was really into super greens and they hadn't been sick in a long time and they didn't even catch COVID when their house was congested with it with other people. Well, maybe she was asymptomatic. I was like, who fucking asked you? My point was to tell you fucking eat some vegetables, bitch. Don't be fucking double talking my conversation, trying to find flaws in the story. Uh, fucking irritant and then fucking tell stories like a goddamn idiot, man. I asked her fucking hot as the game of craps go. And next you know it's a fucking 25 minute fucking tutorial with all kinds of sidebars. Fucking long, winded idiot. I tell you what. If you don't have a hobby, chances are it's making some really fucking bad impressions on your personality to the external world. Humble yourselves, folks, get a hobby, do something that makes you not be basic. Now we have a new product that we'd like to advertise on our show airmail. It's called royal sailor butt lube. It's the official lube for all gay dudes strap on dikes and tranny girls with new vaginas. Wanna keep that cooch nice and fresh. Royal sailor butt lube will ensure that no one will beat up your pussy or man pussy. Anyways, back to the show. Instantly misunderstood whenever I talk and I'm not sure it's 'cause I don't fucking say things right or what the fuck. I recall one time. I was having a friendly conversation with the cousin of mine and all I did was say you looked nice and from some reason she misconstrued it into I want to lick your pussy and next to you know she started telling me I was a faggot and a homosexual and a fucking incest man or something. But and I wasn't even drinking. I was pretty loose, man. I just remember having this conversation and next you know my gospels comes around and the most weird possible way. For example, you know, I have this child of mine. She's 30 years old, good kid. A little bit of strange. I think she heard the story of my ex-wife and she's taken aside. But anyway, one time I send her a present, I used to have this lemon tree. You know, and I'm the kind of snarky guy, so I sent her my daughter a box of lemons, and it said, hey, life gives you lemons. Here's a box of lemonade. There you go. And give me a call some time, kid. And about a year later, my stepdad, who happens to actually be related to my ex-wife and my daughter, long story, yes, I married my fucking step cousin. I'm not a fucking creep, all right? Not like the other cousin who I definitely don't want to fuck because we're blood related, right? But I did marry my step cousin. Maybe that's how that all fucking got started. So everyone's on guard. Oh, he wants to kiss me or slim shit. Anyways, my stepdad calls you. Hey, what's this inside here? You told your daughter to go fuck herself. I'm misunderstood as usual, and I just don't know what to do about it. Other than I'll just be more clear. Anyways, now we have this new section in our show that it's called, who is that band? And let me tell you about this band. Billy Howard Elle, he is from the band a perfect circle. He's part of the co creation of this band, started with Maynard James Keenan. At the time, Billy was a guitar tech for fishbone at the time and, you know, how rock and roll everyone kind of gets to know each other. And they did a couple of albums with the perfect circle and now Billy is gone on and done some solo stuff and I'm going to share you a little sample of poison flowers.
Leading Saints Podcast
"feral" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"He said, jokingly, if we were to start this brand new steak, what do you think will be an average marriage goal that we should have in the state per year? So I looked at my wife actually looked at me with the look that only a wife can give like, hey, you're on your own buddy. And so I thought, well, 25, that's too low a hundred, you're a dreamer, but I've always been taught this by a few of my mentors who said, when you're with mission president, when you're with stick president, will you're with the general authority. Be yourself. Don't stand up and straighten out your tie and be someone you're not. Yeah. Love that. So I said, with all due respect, other cook, I can't think of a number, but I don't think we should quantify the success of January single dolls by a number of marriages. Rather we should focus on helping them become better disciples of Jesus Christ, and if we do that, then hire sacrament attendance and hire temple attendance work will occur. And as a result, two righteous people through the spirit will fall in love and get married. That's the fruit. Of becoming a disciple in the Nodal stake. Then I sat back and I thought, and he was quiet. He just kind of looked at me and I just kind of said, well, that's just my opinion. And he put his hands on my knee and said, well done. Because you can not set goals on infringe upon other people's agencies. So then he said, I need to go do something, I'll be right back. So the man follows him, and I sat there and I looked at my wife, and I said, man, I've done it. I should have said a number. Why didn't I say a number? I should have concur. So he came back about a two minutes later, and he pull his chair forward and he said, brother chain with all the love of my heart, the lord is calling you to serve as a counselor in the newly formed young single dog steak presidency. What you accept. The spirits in the room I looked at my wife again and she was in tears and we both felt a spirit like this is what we're supposed to do. Obviously, the thought were creep into your mind as all of us do. Shouldn't they call someone that has like gray hair or a little more, you know, establish or empty nesters. So we went for a ride and it's been wonderful. I've learned a lot from my friend rob Ferrell and all the Janssen adults we get an opportunity to associate with. So you knew nothing of Robert feral at that point. He knew nothing about you. They were just sort of bringing in various individuals or considering certain people that maybe he.
Weird AF News
"feral" Discussed on Weird AF News
"The city's rat problem. The windy city has ranked number one on pest control company organs list of the rowdiest cities in the united states for six consecutive years as chicago has had the most rodent pest treatments of chicago's number one in radhia cities. I i thought for sure new york city would be. I lived there for a long time and i. I saw rats all the time in an effort to rein in the explosion of the rodents. The tree house humane society kicked off a new program which will release feral felines into areas experiencing rat problems. Well now you have a thousand. Feral cats though i mean what kind of problems do you want. You want all those rats or you want all those cats cats are better problem right to have. I'd rather have a lot of cats around a lot of rats around given that the rats carry disease and all that and they're nasty look at just nasty aman. I've seen rats run across people's feet in new york city subway more than once. That's a freaky thing to witness. I'd rather see a cat run across our feet than a rat though so after humanely capturing feral cats where they getting all these feral cats is that many feral cats chicago thousand feral cats. That's a lot so they capture them the humane society space them or neuters them places them into residential and commercial settings with rodent infestations in order to act as an environmentally friendly rodent control. I mean it's a good idea but now you have all these cats i mean. Maybe they'll release lions to capture the cats after this. What eat cats. i don't even know. Wolverines just release a thousand wolverines into the city of chicago streets to catch the feral cats afterward. The tree house humane society says only rescued cats. Who cannot thrive in a house or home or a shelter or cannot be reintegrated into their former colonies are used for this cat's at work programme after receiving approval for a working cat property and business owners are responsible for their wellbeing. Oh i see. They're not just letting thousand cats go into the streets. Why thought that that's kind of crazy. It's like if you have a piece of property or a business and you have a wrap problem you can get one of these free feral cats but then it's now you're though you gotta keep it in your responsible for its wellbeing. Here's a quote from the website of the shelter property and business owners provide food water shelter and wellness to the cats. Who work for them. In most cases our cats at work become beloved members of of the family or the team or the workplace so far the tree tree house humane society has placed over one thousand feral cats onto chicago streets since twenty twelve. You say onto the streets but like this. It's very misleading. Because you know you're giving them to a family or a business like they're going into a bodega or something right. They're not on the streets. I thought i mean maybe some of them are some of them are probably are on the streets and i wonder if it's working it says the cats will hunt and catch rodents on occasion but really their presence alone is a rodent deterrent. It says here. They are actually deterring rats with their fair moans alone. That's enough to keep them away. I had no idea the rats can just smell them and stay away. Pretty good idea any of you live in chicago. Can you confirm this rodent infestation. A very surprised to hear. Chicago's number. One i really thought some other grimy s more populated cities would be Higher ranked in the rat infestation list. But this is what we're of news is all about you learn things you know you learn guys millions of weird news. Where news for me. Weird news for you. Thank you for listening all the way till the end I appreciate all the support all the emails. I've got this week for stories. Thank you so much. A lot of weird links that you guys sent me. I appreciate it very much. This is the thursday episode meaning. Tomorrow is going to be florida friday. So if you come across any florida weird news. please don't hesitate to send it my way. My emails funny jones at g. Mail dot com. You can tweet at me at funny jones also an instagram at funny jones as well I left the number to the show. If you'd like to speak about any.
The Vance Crowe Podcast
"feral" Discussed on The Vance Crowe Podcast
"Get away with it. I don't know where we go from here. It it's gonna be fascinating election in two thousand twenty four regardless of who. The candidates are Look none of one of us have ever seen a situation in the white house as we see today everyone knows something is off. I'm not here to spout and tell you exactly what's wrong with biden. I don't know. But i can see something's wrong with the gentleman is having some trouble of some kind and yet we have to masquerade along. It's a little bit of the emperor's new clothes syndrome and to say that america has never been through something like this is is is the truth by the statements plants. Her we were kidding. You think now no but now way we somewhere we haven't been you know. We talked about the emperor's new clothes. I think you think about cnn or fox or any of these. Major news outlets. I think that we look at those anchors and we think oh that's journalist and really what we should see is. That's an actor. They've been handed a script. They are saying the things that they're paid to say if they say anything other than the lines that are on that piece of paper. Then they're going to take that actor out and put a new one in there. And and i think that like we're under some spell or some delusion. I think when people go to write the history of what this time was. They're going to be like. Why did all the people sitting in their individual houses believed that. The people on these big screen televisions were telling them the right things or things that would help them or things that were correct like. There's this weird relationship that we have with the big faces on the television. That i think our children our children's children are going to think it's totally insane. But i can't imagine i can't imagine vance if we could bring back the curmudgeon h. L. minkin we could bring back minkin today and say hey give us your opinion on what's going on or we could resurrect Chris joey joe minkin who is that. He was a journalist. That was He he his tongue was a rapier and he would hammer everyone he he he would meet you vance and sloshing dice me up and then turn in you know who's next that kind of Karma he was the holes eho but he was the a to the level of where you would actually admire him because he was consistently contrary. You know i'm talking about. Maybe you've worked with someone like this at first. You think they're a jerk and they are then you realize they're a jerk every single day every minute so okay. I can very dependable. I can get along with that person you know you know i can get along with the devil if i know how they're going to act but h minkin same thing and.
The Vance Crowe Podcast
"feral" Discussed on The Vance Crowe Podcast
"Year inside of abyan. It is an exciting time. I'm getting booked up so if you're interested you're running a conference. Go checkout vance. Crow dot com to To check it out and see if my schedule meet yours so without further ado. Let's go to chris. Bennett chris bennett. Welcome back to the podcast i. That's my in his privilege to be on here with great to hear from you. Aren sharpens iron. But i'm fixed to get better end of the stick. I meant i get filled with the sense of joy. Whenever i get to talk with you i was looking through some of your articles and one of them i knew was an issue but i actually did not have any idea how large of an issue it is. There are five million wild pigs that are eating hundreds of thousands of frogs and deer and all kinds of things. What in the hell. How did we get a wild pig population in the united states. That's causing so much destruction. I'll tell you what lance if you really want to go back in time. We know when we look back to the spanish call doors and to soda. We know for a fact that they brought how with them for obvious reasons to eat and they did so and so but the original population of wild peaks today that we have actually dates back to the soto and maybe a you know who knows pas de before that i personally don't know but i do know it goes back to soto. And so the numbers of hogs were pretty much limited to the southeast for several hundred years and in low numbers but most definitely without any question over the last fifty years. More like over the last twenty. They've exploded across the country and most states. I don't know what the actual. Usda something like thirty five to forty states. Now have some sort of wild pig presence and one of the fascinating things about this is that it's not just the level of fertility right. It's not just the station period. The amount of offspring. But it's also what they can eat they can eat any thank. Your article was saying the guy was doing.
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"Yeah like like how focused toru is on becoming friends with them as opposed to being like as opposed to seeing them as like romantic. I'm gonna marry this options. Yeah i mean. I'm sure like at some point in the series. I'm sure once it gets romantic. She's probably like oh but we're friends. What am but for now. Just kinda nice 'cause they also don't look at her as a romantic they're just like she's a girl in my life now and she's pretty cool. Yeah the plot doesn't revolve around one of them or her falling in love of like if if we get a girl of fall in love with us we'll break the cars and then they're just rooting to try like romance or as fast as possible. So it it's refreshing. Yeah we got those were cursing but like you can just we chill and yeah and it's when she most of it we don't need to like cure ourselves or anything. Yeah and it's when she hugs turned an animals. And it's not. Like ooh when i grabbed his crotch and it just becomes something like casino. I there still are other reverse harum shows that can get like ugly with the boy the boy romance characters. It's obviously much more common in standard hannam. Harem anime where it's like. All the women are going after one guy just like today so it is nice to see. Yeah i was surprised with. Just the right allie. Even in just the first three like shit. This is a character growth. We're getting back early. I like so much. That keo isn't just as shitty guy for no reason. He's shitty guy because everybody is shitty to him and he wants to be better. I was also worried this would be a nostalgia show because i know this is a lot of people's first animated because i think this was early show at yet is two thousand one so got a lot of people in so i wasn't sure if it'd be like It's good because i have fond memories of it not because it's actually good..
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"Maybe i'm being like you and he's like no. You're not too empty headed but full of innocent like january earnestness savage per to be like. Maybe i'm doing this shitty thing you do to other people i. I don't think it was meant to be lloyd intentional. Burn on her. I think she's just like you just told me this is what you do. Maybe that's what i do. And she's just scared at didn't think that much about her actions but that's also the sweep deary part offer is like no. It's just a hundred percent genuine any kindness. She gives the people as just earnest but then she talked about like yeah. My mom told me china's comes in many forms and it's like a little flashbacks of toro. Her mom at her at her dad's grave as her mom tells. Her kindness is something you have to work for and like put effort into and it comes in different shapes by different depending on. Who does it is not something that just happens naturally so you you know if you don't if you don't feel like you're were just overflowing with kindness that makes you a bad person. No that's not true. You have to put in the effort so that's a lesson at a time at the grave. That's a good bob and Basically saying like i. I put effort into it. So you know that's what you're seeing and she's like. I think you have your kindness to your kind of kinda candle. it brightens up everywhere that it's at a little bit but it's kind delicate to you know. Keep everyone at arm's distance so it's not like this shining beacon like a lighthouse and you know clearly see that it's a chord with yuki. Like she likes him. She sees the tightness that she could fix me. She knows i love candles and of course once they get the tarp over all the plants the rain stops and yeah we did it even though we're a little worse for wear shoveled from the rain like well we're here. Can we take any of these vegetables it into dinner and said well the leaks already two weeks all right done nothing. I think she's also think about the whole room and it just rains since like fried leaking but what maybe he says you know what i can get a hand in the card game. Play with everyone to gear. That'd be nice trying. Mostly attached to people reach out. They will little tender moment and Mentions is the first time she seen yuki like smile. It's like Gay just been the moby pretty boy up to this point so it's the first thing he gets an earnest wink finger guns but it's not smile just smile and then we see the get home I do like that. They're like our kind of shuffled counseling. A scene change like an angle team. They're all there perfectly backed up like soaking wet despite being in a border typhoon. No i guess we gotta get out of these lack. The they get changed. You know again just your own time. It's just like funny. They're having this like ernest like heartfelt conversation and it just pouring rain the whole time Fuck get the tarp down..
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"He's always so distant from everyone that he just he must think he's better than everyone and he doesn't want to get close to anyone. And we see that clearly hits a chord with yuki avoid. She caught out my character flaw. She's right but why you have to say and We see see you go back and kind of like peer into the classroom where everyone is and he sees all of them playing cards kia being like ha redid. The we've got the winning hand and boss bitches like yeah think again dumb ass. And that's where the all reply being like reverse pitch. You're both out. I went up. Does them one helping each other in his hand cartoonist. Like i love this this my ship.
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"Kind of snapped out more pissed off yuki than her and it's kinda let out her and the dog just sitting there doing his taxes. I don't know what he was doing his co. telling them like well if you think so if you feel that bad or deflected about living with her and feel guilty make up with her. Get over yourself. Don't go off in the mountains again. You went off to train your body for four months in the mountains. Now you got to train your social skills and this is the perfect way of doing it. how's a god like actual meaningful conversation with a side character and another character on heard so he kind of exco point of like. Yeah this is going to be your training. You're gonna have to learn to get along with people announced time by living in the house with everyone. And as he says that yuki comes back and keo slips links away of like. I don't want to be seen right now. And kia says he missile now before that kia says like a dog is gonna find someone who's willing to be your friend and you can work with. That is a who would want to be my friend. It have to be sold with some serious brain damaged person for you. And then he come. He comes any of links away. And i talked about We see tomorrow goes to work after school so we see her coming out like pretty late and on the way back to the big house we see somewhat sneaking up behind. She gets on service and swings. Hey she's by herself. It's nuts fair. Yeah she's allowed to defend herself turn. He could've literally said anything to get her attention before he was right behind her. And it's her dusky. oh She apologized for sweeter bat. Sorry i thought you were like a stalker. Something why would you think that as i sneak up one hundred quietly anadarko a but he busy ceiling. I don't think you need just if you're that matter that you just hit began and just get it all out over with what no i'm not mad at. You is well. I don't know. I guess i shouldn't have Or something to You're trying apologizing before back when he fixed the whole in the room and now you're trying to apologize. Now here's bad at it. 'cause you're a little laggy boy arch fall. Develop your emotional skills so much done. So good are few. We'll be a little anger out of this cargo pockets to so many and Yeah she kind of let them know. I always liked to from the area. My mom told me the story. You know i felt bad throws on like i'm going to be friends with the cat one day. And that's you. I'm going to be your friend. You dumb blonde.
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"One of them grabs his arm. So just reflexively Pushes the ground pulls her arm back. And i'm just like oh no not a good look but that first impression and then he jumps out the window and toru feels bad for him and she's like he must feel pretty alone since it seems like these two sugary and yuki hate him so much. I want to be his friend. I hope we can be friends. I so to. She always can fix him. she'll uae..
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"And then they start arguing and she surprise that they're talking like in their animal forms and then the dog boy. Sugar starts explaining that their families cursed and they turn into the twelve animals of zodiac plus the cat When they get stressed or are hugged by a member of the opposite sex and of course when they change back there naked. I just love how they sorta gone over that fact. It's like just a quick thing of like an. Yeah we're naked okay. We'll plot okay goodbye. You're on the to long. By what a specific curse stressed out part boeing went hugged by a member of the opposite. It's like why that. Why is that part of the curse so they can never enjoy the touch of a woman but hey cooks on you. It's romance very they have to have some fundamental fatal flaw that prevents them from feeling any sort of left right so she thinks back to like that story about yuki pushing the girl away and she's like okay that makes sense in that she gray is cheese. Cheese ing teasing. He's teasing i keo the cowboy. For being broody. And then he like blows up any punches. The table in half and it smacks tohru in the head and she likes starts bleeding a little bit and i wasn't right writing down the things they were saying to keo but right off the bat i was like damn. They're really really shitty this guy and like he's it's funny. We were talking about shady characters before we started recording. And like i like keo. I think like part of the reason he so shitty like it's his personality shore but like he's also just like relentlessly made fun of ridiculed by these two nine in an end up being shitty surprise. Yeah so i think that's what works so far. We don't see all the characters but everyone we see where like okay..
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"So he's like. Hey i recognize you from school. What are you doing at my house. And she's evasive and doesn't really answer but They're like okay time to go to school. So let's walk together and she's like ooh i'm walking to school with up so naturally Getting to school we see all Jealous girls who are in love with yuki as well and they start a costing her being like hey stay away from our man. You're not special enough blah blah blah. And then we see honda's friends come. I didn't get their names. But they've rule. I got there. Because they call one girl yankee which is like a term for like a delinquent or like a bochco and something so i i was like oh her. Name's yankee no. I looked it up. She was tall and blonde. So i was like is she like are they doing the american exchange student and she's just like oh the big tough americans gonna come. Beat us up. Yeah now the one with the blonde was reset Obtaining an honest sake hana jima in the caller was hana And they're my favorite. They're the best best girls to be. I don't care teens. Ride or die bitch and i love her but she is. Yes so captain. America and aubrey plaza as shown them in my mind Big blond girls like. Hey i'm gonna fight you. And then the quieter like bleep out what she's saying because it's so like i'll know if they're implying like she's just threatening them so aggressively that shit. We can't put this in a tv show or if she was just cussing them out these Jealous girls runaway Up names it said the honda like always talks about the like electrical like pulse vibe coming from people so she talks about electricity law so she was like i guess implying that she was going to torture them with tragedy in shock. I love i love so much. Torture me oh sorry. Go but yeah so. They are in like a culinary class..
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"It hurt my soul and animals and love but yeah Since our souls are so hurt we we need some heart content. we're gonna watch the first three episodes. i the hype now. Hey internet we're on the same page for the first time. The still don't love a lot of what you say. So but i watch so. I'm with you on this one issue in that this is a funny animal But yeah so. We begin episode one. We see Our our main character toru She's looking up at the sky and she's talking to our mom who's dead time mmediately. We've ever done any anime. I think oron still was like the third line of dialogue. it was like within the first five minutes. I know it was very quick. Yes how things up in heaven mom romance enemies. God kill him off right now. At least the mom at least the we can't have parents interacting and being like. Ooh i disapprove. That furrier parents are both alive and my love story. And they're very supportive of their son. Anyway that's true but that's why it's an amazing show so she's living out of a tent will get into why a little bit but she is Her mom is dead. her dad is dead. So she's like okay. Get a live on my own now. we'll get more context soon but She's on this property. She doesn't realize other people are living here but she stumbles across a house That has some like painted. Porcelain figures of the twelve zodiac animals from You know the deserves zodiac animals from Yeah you guys. I wanna know rat. She guys know. I can't remember. I feel like i'm a year before you i think pig pig or rat because i remember being like oh i got one of the the not as cool what everyone wants to drive in knowing just the. Yeah your european dugan okay. Yeah that's i was sheep. I also by consumer products. And listen to what the tv tells me to do. God open up that third. I but yeah. So she sees these figures and the owner of or one of the people who lives here comes out and is talking to with our She's like oh sorry. Didn't know anyone lived here. But i love your figures Weird but you left out the cat because in the chinese folk tale of these zodiac animals We get a little back story of there was a big banquet that the zodiac animals were invited to but the rat lies to the cat about when it's happening so the cat misses an gets left out desert missing out on a dinner peak anime tragedy for. I mean it's a pretty. It's a pretty big dinner. It's a banquet with god. Maybe i gotta find out that new calendar though i might be a tad just slipping through social gathering that might be made Checks out. I was worried when they said like you left out. Because i remember like five years ago there like what about that news otx signed. The oath fit cuss sandwiches. Like a a tentacle monster thing. We know we have all our mean pages set up already. You can't throw off like that but yeah we see from this building. The school's pretty boy lives here. You key he comes out and honda immediately is like who the popular hit..
Are Weeb There Yet?
"feral" Discussed on Are Weeb There Yet?
"So i never really gave it a shot but now the my tastes inanimate has matured not at all fine wine or like a fine. Gatorade put in the back of cabinet three years. It hasn't gotten better. It's just corroded through the bucket that issue but Yeah i mean i was. I know it's around the same time as on my goddess and i was delightfully surprised by the va. I surprised how much i actually did enjoy. It ended up finishing it. So i'm curious to see how this one that we go. Yeah this is a two thousand and one series and has a baby laura. Bailey believed while the early two thousands. Don't feel all to me. And i know that was twenty years ago and fucking me up right now. You told me this show is from like eighty seven. I'd be that makes sense. Not thousand anything. yeah. I mean like anytime before two thousand five. I'm like he had. That feels old now. Anything after two thousand five. I'm like yeah that was like two years ago right. I was cognizant so it has to be recent. I am still baby. I'm still young up still hip. It's gotta be new right. It's twenty some years ago. I'm twenty four before restarted. The subset. I'll tell you about a new mega reading with the main character being younger than i am and with a five.
Donna and Steve
Conchata Ferrell, 'Two and a Half Men' actress, dies at 77
"Men star Gunshot. A feral has died following a cardiac arrest. No, she was 77. Boy. I just loved her. She played housekeeper, Berta. On 2.5 men that gotten earned her a couple of supporting actress in a comedy comedy. Theories Emmy nominations. She also appeared on TV shows as far back as Good Times, E. R. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, She was in movies like Mystic Pizza, Edward Scissorhands. Krampus. Krampus Krampus. Oh, that's scary. I know. Eight Jon Cryer tweeted. She was a beautiful human bird is gruff exterior was an invention of the writers Chad. He's warm and vulnerability were her real strengths. And I'm crying for the woman. All Miss and the joy she brought to so many Isn't that beautiful? So say odd
All Things Considered
Conchata Ferrell, 'Two and a Half Men' star, dies at 77
"Funeral services are being planned for actress gunshot, a feral perhaps best remembered for her role as Charlie Sheen's sharp witted housekeeper, Berta on the sitcom 2.5 Men. Sweet whistling Geronimo. You be more like a box of hamsters just crawling. Carol died Monday of Sherman Oaks Hospital, according to Celebrity News site News website Deadline 2.5 men costar Jon Cryer tweeted that Ferrell was a beautiful human and he was fortunate to share a stage with her Charlie Sheen tweeted. She was an absolute sweetheart. She also appeared in classic films like Mystic Pizza, Erin Brockovich and Edward Scissorhands. She'd been hospitalized since May, and T. M. Z reported in July that she had fallen ill and wound up spending a month in intensive care, eventually suffering cardiac arrest that left her on a ventilator and unable to communicate. She was 77 years old.
a16z
Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups
"Today's episode is a conversation about four big trends in the tech world. Any one of these trends would be notable on its own, but we cover all four in this hallway style chat as a sixteen z general partner Chris and talks with Sept. Campfire professor of media, arts, and sciences at MIT, and now co founder of cryptocurrency platforms, Selo and Eli Gill an investor in the CO founder of Health Technology, company color genomics, and formerly at twitter and Google. This is a wide ranging survey of some of the major shifts in technology right now but it's really a Meta story of how innovation happens, which is most definitely not in a straight line. So here, the translate cover Crypto, of course, a and machine learning including GP three. You can also listen to our explainer episode on what type and what's real there on our show sixteen minutes full stack startups, which Chris I wrote about in two thousand, Fourteen and collaborative web collaborative enterprise social including RTC or real time communication within the browser, which is where the conversation begins the first voice. You'll hear his Chris followed by talking about Web RTC and then set wants the conversation turns to Crypto. So it's a lot I. You and I have been talking about this in a negative excited about it. This kind of this feeling that there's a new stack of web infrastructure things like video audio. Collaborative Video Nadia rather who's having infrastructure now that it works in a way that it hadn't in the past and that's a mocking a whole new way of interesting applications people are always looking for the next platform and what the next big platform shift is and I think I kind of May have snuck up on all of us in the form of Web RTC Web Gio and then related. API. Companies providing sound or other things that have been built on top of by. Many other companies and I think the shifted substantiate itself in two different ways and almost call it the collaborative web and then separately the collaborative enterprise and if you look back ten years, people kept talking about during the first social way everybody talking about how there's going to be a social enterprise and how every SASS product was going to be more social and collaborative in that largely failed and it feels like that shift is finally happening in part due to things like what? You see fig for example, is the first really strong example of a Web jail enabled application along you to collaborate in real time with other people. In parallel with RTC is really allowing for really interesting concurrent sessions around video and tell you starting to see that in terms of a lot of products being built around virtual office rooms, virtual conference rooms, and I really do think this is the moment where collaboration is finally being built into the enterprise world and enterprise products, and then in parallel Web Jalen. Web RTC really seem to be enabling really interesting social experiments right now in terms of new social products, you have really amazing video and audio quality. So the time lag has gone who can do things that clubhouse. There's lots of interesting video experimentation. So you can see almost like degraded forms of your other things happening in browser or so I think now is a really exciting time of innovation around this new webstock. Point sneaking up on us, we've obviously had the ability to have conference calls group audio for decades. Right. But like a club house fact that there's so low latency and you've got like the visual representation of the room means that to me it's like if you remember the old days in the conference calls, Hey, always have people talking over each other partly because of whatever thrown is remarkable how the conversation switches from person to person. The latency I mean we both houses. This was zoom right like the fact that he doesn't stutter. The fact that very rarely does. It somehow Kinda Crossover. This point of good enough where finally hitting the point our in terms of video quality and the ability to stream concurrently across multiple users in terms of audio quality were hitting that point where the web infrastructure is really supporting the ability to have extra latency. A new platform excited at the examples. But when you say platform you that means you did they'll be thousands of examples. Are you think it's GonNa? Be a whole new wave that goes? By ten years. I think like any a quote unquote platform they're going to be a handful of things that really matter. That will really be the important things on it, and then a lot of things will be experiments that fail or don't work and I don't know ten years from now, what's going to be the main setup applications? I just think it is a shift that enables a bunch of applications to be built particularly the social or collaborative enterprise. One example that I think is worth noting in terms of what's coming due to see is it's quite possible that if you. Look at virtual reality or Vr the predominant use case in the near term mackey shift to the Rouser, and so I think right now in order to experience the are you need a headset you need some cases client software etcetera in. So there's more obstacles in hurdles to be able to participate and I think one of the things I found really interesting about where to seeing what jail is the ability to suddenly create like experiences where you just drop it. Can show up and so the big question in my mind is is oculus almost like the desktop computer versus mobile devices where the desktop really helps you do powerful tests, but you can do a lot on your phone and it's sort of the mainstream use case for most of the Internet today so I think that's another thing that we'll see if it happens or doesn't happen over the next decade, but that may be one interesting long-term trend to watch relative to web RTC. In. Jail. crypto rolling all involved in this allowed, you invest in Crypto Zapped new coupons company Selo in Crypto Abbasi's been my time besting. tells. A little about why you're excited about it in the second ring on. So I'll start off with general principle that I think is true for all of the technologies that we're talking about. There are certain class of technologies that increase the expressive range of a certain medium and when you increase the expressive range of a medium. Things pop up that were not possible before because you now are playing in the new design space. The historical example that I always love to point to is in the eighteen hundreds. The invention of the metal feral in painting is the little piece between the paintbrush and the paintbrush handle and collapsible easel. Those two things together allowed people to a brave paintings outside and be start to paint with a new breastroke that them too quickly DAB, paint onto the canvas in those two. Ended up, giving rise to form of painting that we now know as impressionism, and still it's interesting to think about impressionism was a result of technological advances painting and you see that same thing with the web and the Internet in general there were technological advances in the medium of text and so all of a sudden people could send texts more quickly anybody could be a broadcaster you start putting texts together with code to create different things in that vastly increased the expressive range of texts in a way that led to all of these things that you could not predict in advance. So for example, in ninety, four, ninety, five, when the web was starting to become popular, one could not imagine that. Will one day I'll be able to press the button and order my groceries on this and have my groceries come to me. You know and so I think those are really interesting from A. Technological point of view. Why I'm excited about Crypto is that Crypto does this for money? It increases the expressive range of the technology that we know is money, and that I think we'll follow very similar to the Internet you know at the beginning of the Internet. You saw allow people to pass messages. More quickly to one another across the distance in a way that was just qualitatively different than facts, and that is the first thing that you started seeing with Crypto it has direct implications to things like remittances or making the UNE banked. But then on top of that, the second implication of the web was that anybody could become a broadcaster with youtube anybody could have their own TV station and in the context of Crypto, you have the same democratization in financial services. So you see this kind of rise in decentralized finance open finance. And third is most exciting as it allows money to become programmable in the same way that the Internet allow text to become programmable and that I think, I mean we're seeing some early things today but that's I think the aspect that we're still the earliest and it has the most legs and is the most powerful and the most difficult to predict the stage. Since we're in such an early phase
Does This Happen to You
A Love Letter to Short Men
"DOT COM and at her website Carlin Betcha. Dot Com and here is a love letter to short men. Your height is not an issue unless you make it one. It's one of the most common openers I see on dating apps a man's height. It's usually the first thing men list and sometimes height is the only thing listed. Yep just height nothing else as if those two numbers measured in feet and inches contain multitudes. I understand why it happens. We are a society obsessed with looks we treat beauty and both genders as a currency attractive people make more money are viewed as more agreeable and somehow more valuable. This is part of the halo effect, a psychology term where we assign one single trait beauty to other characteristics kindness. Personally I have never seen a woman who cares about height in fact, I find short men hot, not all of them but many. Let. Me Tell you a not hot short man's story. I recently wanted to date with a five foot five inch guy within fifteen minutes of our meeting. He ass is my height a problem. It was not until he mentioned it. I had not even looked at the height he listed on his profile. I then spent the next twenty minutes assuaging his fragile ego and explaining why many women like short men it was exhausting at one point I think he read the weariness in my slumped shoulders and tried to self correct. I'm only asking because you're right about love and sex. Sure if you went on a date with a dermatologist, would you ask her to examine the fungus between your toes? I didn't say that, but I wanted to my sarcasm is a feral beast. Then, there are the many many short guys who lie about their height. You know who you are. I once went on a date with a guy claiming to be five foot eight inches. He was five foot four inches. That's a four inch lie. If we're keeping track I wore three inch heels for that date that put me at five feet eight inches. Greeted him with a hug. This was pre pandemic days his head landed on my chest. Awkward. For most women height is not a deal breaker but lying is So. Here it is short men the painful truth your height is not the Lady Boehner killer. You think it is it your lack of confidence that makes women's ovaries shrivel up and never want to go on another date again, I have dated a lot of sexy short men and they all had one thing in common nothing to prove when Tom Cruise five foot seven inches was sexiest man alive multiple times. Did anyone add a footnote sexy for a short Guy Hell? No. When Bruno Mars five, foot five inches shakes what his momma gave him are women getting out there measuring. Sticks Adriano. then. There's Napoleon. Napoleon. Never had complex about his height nor was he even really that short you can feel his confidence oozing out of the impatient love letters. He wrote to Josephine one read a kiss on your heart and one much lower down much lower. Nowhere in that letter, will you find a postscript saying unless my height makes you not in the mood? Yet Napoleon somehow got his name attached to the height inferiority complex known as the Napoleon. Complex. The Napoleon Complex states that short men tend to be more aggressive lie more and try to compensate for their short stature by being exceptionally cruel. But researchers found the opposite to be true. One study from Nyu phone short men are thirty two percent less likely to divorce than tolman. The study also found women married to short men reported greater happiness and short men did more housework than tolman. Yes. There is a correlation between happiness and a freshly floor. Clearly short men are doing something, right? I pulled over twenty of my most dateable girlfriends for this article I asked the same question. Are you attracted to short men most had similar answer? It depends on the guy that's a nice way of saying that is not the package. It's the meat inside. So
Ask Me Another
Jane Levy and Alex Newell: Zoey's Extraordinary Zoom Call
"Oh! So what a great! Hello! That is! That makes a nice with. Commerce exactly. How's it going John? I've just turned the fan off in my office so that we can record which means we are counting down to the point when my body goes past one hundred and five and I pass out I. Know this this room to this room to is like freezing with the air conditioning on, and you turn it off and five minutes later. You are basically able to bake sourdot Brennan. Yes, and you know I I have ways of cooling fans. Air Conditioners can't use them well recording now, also I have to keep. The door closed in this room. Because let's just say I. Have A feral cat living in my office right now. So. We can't have the door open. Your that. Yeah. That's a meal. You're feral cat. Theory is that's betsy that sense? Betsy sounds okay. He's all. Right, now he's at the window and he's meowing I. Think what he's saying is help. Your. Guys. Your barrel cats. Maybe he say free food and here. Really Awesome. Sleep all day. Any Food I love it. Yeah. He's he's. He's doing great. As you know as you know, I have started taking care of the feral cats in my backyard, but the feral cats are now not in a crate. They are not in a basement. They don't have a towel over them. They are roaming freely in US recording studio. One has a skin condition and is staying with me awhile until the skin condition is soft, and it may not be solved I. Don't know I may not be solved, I'm not sure what's going to happen. Maybe he's going to be an indoor cat. Who knows at the window? Your indoor cat. Let's let's. Let's let's make it personal. It's not an indoor cat. You notice that. I'm trying not to say it because I've become too attached to this cat. While the cat does deep deep, deep, deep, deep, deep in its feral mind and heart. Can, you can see Betsy Beth. Everybody Radiator Watch I taught him a trick. Betsy. Betsy I. Do that looks at me, Really Cute, a loud noise and ahead turn studies Ya. Predator, so it looks at. The first sign of like threat approaching. I make that noise and he's like. Again. Once again we have nothing to. Show for you from the Netflix series working moms with the show's creators and stars Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg. Then we talked a longtime friend of mine comedian Baron Vaughn, and he shares with us his innermost thoughts on. Be Better, roommate, the hulk or Wolverine? But I. Really get things going with Alex Newell and Jane Levy from. The NBC Musical Dramas Zoe. Extraordinary playlist to show is about a woman who discovers she is the ability to hear people's thoughts as songs, so everyone on the show is a triple threat. They can act sing and dance, but Jonathan can. They won't their way through an asking other trivia game I hope so. I always thought triple threat was acting singing and Trivia. Would you say it's acting singing and dance interested? You know what? Maybe maybe it is. Maybe maybe Trivia is just woven in there. We'll find out. And like magic here. They are Jay Levy Alex. Newell thank you so much for being part of Ashby another. I have been watching Zoe's extraordinary playlist. Okay? No, that some of the cast are professional singers dancers like you Alex but the show features a lot of choreography that I assume you don't get a lot of time to learn. What was that like for you, Jane Yeah. There's a there's a an array of experience throughout the cast, Alex Newell comes in, and just does one kick and is like I learned it. It's fine. Under some of us who get eight rehearsals because it's a lot harder. Yeah. I do I do learn I have learned a music number. The day of but Jane has as well. While yeah, but mine are usually. My characters in every single dance number every musical number, because it comes through her superpower, but most of my choreography. If you WANNA, call it that in those numbers or just me like walking in a straight line so I can learn those on the day. You have a dance background. Don't Eugene. I danced as a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so you're not afraid of it. No I love it. I'm much more afraid of singing singing is. Really difficult for me. But she meals every time that's. After, the but but. Every time a period. Wow, thanks, Alex, but dancing is just fun and I care less about being good about good at it right? Yeah, because you can move and that's the most important thing. It's the rest of us who are when you start dancing cooper like oh no! Her dancing, Lake when we do the. Of The second episode when she was like. They were like nothing. Like dancing can. Like five steps. That's when I was in shape. So we have a couple of great games for you. Let's let's play some games. Okay so this first one. You're going to be playing against each other. We're going to go back and forth. This is a this is a game about characters every answering. This game is a famous character. Jonathan I are going to read you an excerpt of how the author described the character, and you just have to guess who is being described. Great Okay. So Alex will start with you. Here! Her stepsisters ridiculed her. AP's. stepsisters right? How many? How many. Honestly I, I wanna read the rest of it just for our listeners, and also because I did not when I, heard this description I had never heard this particular version that her stepsisters ridiculed her, and scattered peas and lentils into the
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington D.C. Now Offers Free COVID-19 Antibody Testing
"The district is offering free coronavirus antibody testing to all residents the director of the DC department of health Dr Lakhwinder Nesbitt explains what we have done is we've established a public testing site for serology or antibody testing the first location that we have this at canal park in Navy Yard and we will help to have a second option available these testing locations will only be available through the first week of July and this is for us to do what's called a feral prevalence steps survey all which allows us to be able to get a better estimate of the percent of district residents a proportion of district residents who have been expelled anyone who would like an antibody test can contact the DC department
WTOP 24 Hour News
Police identify victims of Milwaukee brewery shooting as employees ranging in age from 33 to 61
"We now know the name of the gunman in the Milwaukee brewery shooting fifty one year old Anthony feral wasn't electricians his home was searched today Milwaukee's police chief says the victims were Molson Coors brewing company employees ranging in age for I'm thirty three to fifty seven chief says they're still investigating a motive investigators searched Ferrell's home on Milwaukee's north side as they hunted for clues about why a worker one of the nation's largest breweries gunned down five coworkers before taking
60-Second Science
Feral Dogs Respond to Human Hand Cues
"Dogs began to diverge from wolves. Tens of thousands of years ago when their wild ancestors started interacting with humans over time domestication shaped canine behavior. And today dogs are especially adept at understanding cues from humans for example when a person pointed a bull a pet dog will usually approach it on crimes aims of complex slanting gestures have been dried that the dogs and they seem to be good at it. Behavioral Biologist Anita drew of the Indian Institute of Science Science Education and research. Wolves are a different story however then same experiments at done with semi-captive was was seemed to be quite batted. So there's is this fake open question of how the dogs become dogs but drew is interested in whether dogs required training to understand cues like pointing or if the behaviour is innate. Most studies have focused on pet dogs in developed countries but by drew thinks. It's a mistake to overlook how stray dogs respond to human human cues in India. You have a huge population of three dogs. They're not controlled by humans and they live on the streets for generations so we who says that the feeding dogs are very nice system which could give us imports about what dogs could have been like before the game into our homes before we made made them bots of Families for the study. The researchers approached stray dogs on the streets of several Indian cities. One experimental presented the dogs with a piece piece of raw chicken in a plastic bull about half of the time. The dogs ran away scared but the friendlier dogs at stuck around were tested for their ability to respond onto pointing and the idea was to test a need ability off dogs. You'll understand simple gestures pointing us. Then they have no training whatsoever. Whoever wants a dog proved interested? The first experimental put chicken in one of two bulls and covered both bowls a second experimental who had no Knowledge College of which bowl contain the meat and thus could not give sub-conscious Q.. Information pointed at one of the Bulls while the dog watched and then there's experiment about eighty eighty percent followed the point and went to the ball. Back declined to that result was true whether the experimenter pointed at it just momentarily or for an extended ended period of time by drew thinks. This demonstration provides evidence that training is not required for dogs. To understand complex. Pointing cues the study study is in the Journal. Frontiers in psychology. Perhaps further studies with. FERAL canines can help reveal more about what makes dogs are best friends. Apparently the even when a person and a dog have just met.
Gastropod
Dinner Plate Invasion: Lionfish, Tiger Shrimp, and Feral Pigs, Oh My!
"Episode we are all about eating invasive seating eating them yes but also figuring out what they are what makes a species invasive. And why might we want to get rid of invasive species and is eating them really the best way to do it like should we all be eating jellyfish Japanese knotweed or you know feral pigs that we shoot down from helicopters on reality. TV W. Income Boys Lock and load. We'll try any way possible to get rid of the pigs. It's very serious issue with us. Your I'd in Writing Wheel Bat. Stop the pigs from ravaging landscapes around the US and causing more than a billion dollars in damages each year. Stay tune for all that and more. This episode is supported in part by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Program for the public understanding of Science Technology and Economics Sarah Keeping as a conservation biologist at the University of Pittsburgh Joe Roman is also a conservation biologist at the University of Vermont and we asked them what seems like the most basic the question of all what makes us species invasive actually defining invasive species is not really that trivial but the basis and invasive as a species is a species that is not native to a particular location. So you have a species that's taken from its native environment to a new place and it it has been brought by humans specifically by humans. No one knows what the first invasive species was the first plant or animal that a human move to a new environment. But there is as we've been doing it for ever as long as we've been on the move and the question is does it become established right so you can think of a cow. You can bring a cow. How to a new area and knocking escape? An it's not an invasive species actually most of our domesticated crops and domesticated animals don't live outside of human cultivation and so for that reason we don't see no one talks about the wild corn population that is you know ravaging averaging the midwestern prairies because corn doesn't spread beyond farm fields. But you bring something like Norway rat into a new area is it goes beyond where it's introduced populations get high and it has an impact on native species so that would be the broad definition of invasive one that is outside of its native. Range has an impact on other species in the new area. That impact can be terrifying those rats. Joe mentioned hit on European boats as they travelled pulled around the world from the fifteen hundreds onward. They hopped off the boats onto Pacific islands. They multiplied super quickly and they totally decimated local bird and amphibian species. They just just ate everything. The rats even eight birds alive the the heads off Albatross chicks. The bird populations on the islands dropped by more than ninety percent. Invasive species have been one of the primary drivers of the extinction crisis unfortunately especially on islands thousands of bird species mammals goals lizards insects. Mollusks have gone extinct. When new species of come to these areas there has also encouraged fleas and mosquitoes is which brought disease can be really harmful to human health to it also has a big economic impact you can think of the effect of invasive on agriculture or or in parks and along our coastlines impacts on recreation and basic plants can be just as scary take Japanese knotweed? It's leafy green plant onto kind of grows up in stems like bamboo and it was brought back from Japan in the eighteen forties and sold as a quote gracious gold. MEDAL-WINNING SHRUB that grew grew with great vigor. It looks kind of pretty when you just see it in the yard there was a patch of it outside my partner. Tim's department but it grows with such vigour that I can grow through foundation on Dacian walls and floors which of course causes huge damage in the UK. Someone found it pushing through their carpet. It's such a problem. In England that some banks won't issue mortgages properties properties. That have Japanese knotweed. There's no known herbicide to kill it. And if you dig it up and try to get rid of it you have to dig three feet. Deep and then disposable disposable that Earth in a special location because the government classifies not we'd according to the same rules as low level nuclear waste in Japan. It's not such a big deal. There are lots of other native plants that are similarly vigorous that help keep it in check and there are also plenty of native Japanese pests and plant diseases. That can kill it. But we don't have any of that in Europe or North America so basically not weed is a nightmare and because it grows advised and so densely it smothers the native plants which kills them and then all the birds some frogs and butterflies and bugs. That depend on those native plans screwed. And then you end up with a giant knotweed wasteland devoid of all other forms of life more more or less experts in the UK estimate that to get rid of knotweed would cost about three billion dollars but knotweed costs the UK more than two hundred million a year already just in the damage damage causes and trying to manage it this kind of harm for many people this is what makes an invasive and invasive as opposed to just a plant or animal that originally originally came from somewhere else and his bread out in the landscape all these non native species we bring so many of them with us as we travel there exit mentally or quite often on purpose we we are continually introducing species so a human saying. Hey I like that species. I'd like to bring it here to the US so for a long time this was seen as a good thing. Right bring a new species more diversity more resources available that that we like one of my favorite stories about this involves the introduction Russian of the Rainbow Trout to the rivers of the Western. US in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds at the time. Native fish were in decline and anyway they weren't seen as quote good sport. The native fish didn't bite back when you hook them on. The line and Congress was worried that without fighting fish to catch American American men would lose vigor and variety so they set about aerial bombing the watersheds of the Western. US With Rainbow Trout literally. Early they dropped the fish from planes in the sky. Yeah A lot. Didn't make it but enough did to restore the glory. That is American manhood. Thank heavens unfortunately the introduction of the Rainbow Trout was you guessed it completely disastrous for native fish amphibians but it took a while for people to realize that invasive whereas as much of a problem as we now know they are for one we had to figure out that there was such a thing as extinction as you. Listeners might remember from episode this past fall where we talked about the concept of eating animals to extinction the scientific understanding of extinction only emerged in the eighteen hundreds and to make the leap that we were bringing animals with us on our travels either inadvertently advertently or on purpose and those new species cause others to go extinct but just took a while to grasp that that was even a possibility. What's more for a long time? The prevailing attitude was also. Hey just let the best fish or animal or plant win if Rainbow Trout were capable of out competing native fish. Then why wouldn't we want to have of rivers filled with these Al Fish instead but eventually attitude started to change so Charles. Elton wrote one of the early books about animal invasions. I'd say it was around around the nineteen thirties. I don't have the exact date but he really was one of the first ones to start thinking about this. As a science and to look at what the ecological impacts are are how species of moved around and really get an idea of what the you know what we can do. Perhaps to reverse the spread and so there's a college back to the forties and fifties who were writing a lot about invasive species but their writings didn't catch on until later when more people started seeing being the phenomenon happening and then the academic field of studying invasive species trying to figure out what the impact is and how to get rid of them. That didn't really start for another few decades. It really happened spend in the seventies and eighties with scientists who working in ecosystems where they had spent their lives doing research. They started noticing that there were these. Don't even know if they call them. Non Native But anyways scientist realized that in in whatever Houston they were in there were these species that have been introduced relatively relatively recently by humans that were becoming very dominant and causing different levels of impacts and harm to those ecosystems and so they got together in the eighties they actually formed a working group through the United Nations to start addressing some of those species today many people are a little more conscious about just introducing random new species for fun and Sport but Sarah says invasions are still actually on the rise. Thanks to accidental introductions. Where a species accidentally hitches a ride side whether it's on the hull of a ship or on the outside of an airplane or within all of the cargo and things that were shipping globally around the world where introducing producing species at unprecedented rates and that's for aquatic ecosystems for terrestrial ecosystems for plants for animals for microbes sort of all of the different organisms? Were seen an increase in. Just those number of species and I think that it is becoming problematic because invasions a function of global trade and global trade. Trade has really expanded quite rapidly in the past couple of decades today there's a general consensus that invasive species are a huge threat enter growing threat. There's something called the international sure national panel on biodiversity and ecosystem services. It's a project of the United Nations. Put out a new report in May two thousand nineteen and they listed five things as like the leading global threats to biodiversity worldwide and invasive species made that top five list for people like Sarah and Joe and their colleagues are really worried invasive. Zor a huge problem problem and also unfortunately a really difficult one to tackle and they another scientists like them have been trying to figure out the best ways to control the spread of these species or get rid of them entirely it. Does it happens. One method involves our favorite activity eating and this gets back to why we were eating jellyfish with Bud Light. There's all starts in the nineties. Joe was studying for his PhD and he was focused on an invasive species called the European Green Crab. This crab is the name implies. It's from a native to Europe in North Africa and is now found in every continent in the world except for Antarctica. Because it's too cold there. I got into the area around New York Massachusetts in the early eighteen hundreds and has since expanded its range throughout the Canadian maritimes. I could tell almost immediately when I was an area where the crab arrived or it hadn't because there was a suite of different native crabs rock crabs in that area there was abundant hield grass The says ecosystem looked very different before that species arrived low when he got to an area where the European crab had arrived all those species that yield grass and the native dip crabs. They were gone. Joe Traveling up the coast and studying these crabs. He ended up in Nova Scotia and one day he was on the shore. They're collecting crabs in north with someone else flipping rocks Fox. Like I was. He didn't really look like a biologist. He had a big white bucket and went over and talked to him and he was collecting European periwinkles which is another invasive species species that's overlaps in the intertidal with European Green Crab and it gave me an idea that I'm here was this guy was harvesting this invasive species and actually the more he took out of that area the better right the better for native species as opposed to what I do mostly as a conservation. Biologist is try to convince is people to reduce our appetites. This was just breakthrough moment. He realized wow for a change I could tell people to harvest species and eat as much much of it as they want. Normally conservationists working in a marine environment are constantly telling us not to eat this delicious fish or that delicious crustacean but joe suddenly realized what he was considering was the exact opposite. Joe New as all you listeners know from our extinction episode that we humans can be ravenous we can easily eat eight species to depth. We've done it plenty of times. The mammoth the passenger pigeon Sylvian so why not green crabs so actually that within that day or the next day I collected some green crabs and some periwinkles and cook them up at at the lodging where I was up in Nova Scotia and it was actually delicious. I'm really a chef chef but you know if you have good fresh ingredients come right out of the ocean. You almost can't go wrong especially with something like periwinkles which are snails. Because it's as simple as boiling them in there Bryan rainy and almost like eating. If you like the taste of clams really really nice taste and the European green crabs if you can find them as soft shells they're just just as good as blue crabs with typical soft-shell Yoga in the store. Except if you're pulling it right out of the ocean and and cooking up hour or two later you really can't beat. It does not a bad cook cook. Obviously but he's a conservation biologist. Not a chef which is exciting because if European green crab stays good when he makes them how delicious could they be in the hands of a professional right. So I'm thinking. Well why don't I reach out to Chefs around the country to help put together some recipes which she did and some chefs go on board and Joe Goats and press about his idea to eat invasive species and around the same time Sheth Bun ly had a crab breakthrough of his own. He he hadn't yet been in touch with Joe but one day. He was spending time out along the shoreline in Connecticut with a friend and We're flipping rocks and we saw these crabs that we've never seen before scurrying around around all over the place and we looked up what the crab was and it turned out to be an invasive species and it just made sense it clicked just like Joe Biden realized they could eat these. He could cook these he could serve these. His customers could eat as much as they wanted.
Present Moment: Mindfulness Practice and Science
Mindfulness and Fear Response
"Our guest yesterday. Returning the PUG CAST is researcher. My friend Garnish. Sevan's goodness welcome to the PODCAST. So wonderful to see you again. high-tech saw come. I'm really glad what's the here as well. I'm always so enthusiastic whenever a get to speak with you or anyone else in Sarah's lab so I just WanNa take a moment and do a shout out to everyone they're wonderful work that you're all doing thank you or so. Let's start with a little bit of background before we dive. Event the details of this new paper that you've written in for those who are listening who may not have heard my previous conversation finish. I'll have linked to that on the episode page for this episode said. Just go to that and we'll have that week for you for this. One paper said a little bit of background on the the hippocampus as it applies to the research. You've been doing here. I I liked to let the listeners. Now that the paper has received a Loto attention and it's Download the article written the last three months months off the ball off the journal Biological Psychiatic so we are happy. With the interest it old receives and of course learning and memory cameras are all hotel picks for both the field goals made attention and also feel learning and memory especially speaking of learning of learning and memory. He Pa- campus has is the center for learning. Especially the retrieval faced a bit. So let me say learning. It's remind other things but it's it's like the basis of hobbies arise so it's learning association between two most energy spawns stimulus and others to most. So it's very critical to Halloween navigate in the roles hobby functional health of me or on on healthy and it has deep aces recharge hr acquisition consolidation and retrieval. So I and association is formed between SOMOS orders phone source another stimulus and then it needs to be consolidated and it needs to be held to legit streets in case off needed so he po campuses especially a tiny teeny region in the temporal lobe campaign. Actually in both temporal lobes and it's enrolled in the table face or that's a learning experience so it's really critical region. It's the first region that deteriorates I in the aging cognitive decline associated with aging. Let's go in and for sanctioning in life so understanding understanding correctly is we'll have some sort of experience and that will trigger this cascade. These three different steps involve the hippocampus. Swear there's Oh there's an association with some condition as part of this learning experience and so in the future at some point it might be a smell. The reminds us of something. He recreates a moment or song that tells us in some way or some other kind of stimulus communist that that triggers and it may be a very pleasant trigger something wonderful smell or face or it might be something a little less pleasant something a little more unwanted and then they bring us to a little bit of what her apotheosis was and what you're studying here. I'm wondering if you could say just a little bit more about that and with hypothesis were for this. Training saw a meditation Reno that it helps makes anxiety thanks sorry. TV authors emotion regulation so. It's tremendously helpful butts me. Don't know how and there that had been mechanisms resumes That are proposed statistic emotion regulation bits memory and attention. But we don't really know walk into Bane Headphones uh-huh Mitch translates into Health benefits associated with mindfulness meditation based intervention methods. So wants to propose. Mechanisms relies on the overlap between exposure therapy and mindfulness meditation and to be able to explain. That's I I need to explain. Exposure therapy exposure. Therapy is a therapy technique. which is widely used I? It's simply as creating a eating roles creating a safe space for the individual and then making the individual retrieved that Pro King Experience. So let's say they headed feral cats and in a therapist things therapists. I will ask the artistic imaging. Cats coming Kohl's tourists sometimes so this type of an exposure situation where any individual is gradually exposed to the fear in workings to lie so as avian type of learning. It's me me time onto consider these experiences as like forgetting or modifying experience. But it's actually a new. Learning endings. saw the pierce learning laws cats. Oh my gods fears and now the new learning we'll be invaded monster. Turns will be cats safe. I kits on sale. Now it's cats all my like other circuits. Oh it's safe so it's not learning or chip changing the genius learning but the new Taco learning now the critical thing with this long long is that when we are exposed to the stimuli again at say cat again the two types of learning compete with each other. So am I'm going to call retrieve recall. The previous unhealthy won't or the healthy MOANS. Like safe or unsafe depends on the context takes Julian formation provided to me by the hippocampus. This is why people campus is really critical doing rich stable and Mahlon vehicle Overlap between Exposure Tapie and meditation. Meditation is the oil is does exactly this. As so the the memory the memory of a kid becomes safe so notice and Stimuli. We say instead of off reacting to it or so the meaning will the stimulus changes mop meeting the association it's being about changes down new pathways in his. You're saying new learning some of the old one disappears because you still have that memory that still there and when this new learning comes up it sounds like with minds lesson really curious went in the study. That with mindfulness as we know from other kinds the mindfulness studies when he puts you done There's a greater executive function control about choosing which hathaway going take. What is the choice to make this moment? Exact the exact the it's the detailed parts which memory me are going Katrina depends on. The many things bought abol attention. Only deploy so. This is also a meditation or mindfulness. Meditation based benefits come from one. Although finding to Becky's how critical this is is The recent findings associated associated with post traumatic stress disorder. So let's say veterans coming from war. They can't run. They hear will log noise they fee the culture. This is a very anxiety poking mois for them when they go through exposure tapie they can learn new association so they can say round around when they hear a loud noise. They can teach themselves that it's safe. Bought after a while. They hear it all of a sudden without the therapy sitting sitting at exit outside the tape. He's sitting they again. React to that in an anxiety provoking like they freak out again in in response to Golob noise and the reason for nets walls unexplainable tool as signs. Lots more. Recently me know that it's because the damage stay received so they people campai- and due to the pressure on the old within this call like the physical destruction of the the people come find makes it's harder for them to not learn. The New Association bought to retrieve the new association when it's necessary so this is why he Paul campus is critical healthy emotional functioning.
The Big Picture
Who’s Hosting the Oscars in 2020? No One.
"Talk about where the Oscars stand right now. First of all they came really quickly. This was a very short season a truncated season Monday morning at five eighteen. Am Pacific difficult getting those nominations and the show starts on February ninth. which is I think the shortest season in history? If I'm not mistaken which is really odd considering when you think we'd be elongating. These things over time to get it more content out of them but the academy decided earlier run time one week after the Super Bowl and we got some information this week first of all no host officially confirmed by the academy. How are you feeling about host? I feel great about this. There was no host last year. Yes it went fine. I thought the show was perfectly clean and the ratings were up and we got a good telecast so the running back now. I don't think that the show needs a host. I do think inc.. This means that the show's ratings will go down. You think it's a cause and effect from the no host rather than the fact that it's twenty twenty and no one watches live television login anymore. I think that that is certainly a factor and maybe a much bigger factor than the host. But I need to point out that last year. Think of all the panic and anxiety and emergency emergency podcast. We had to do because Kevin Hart was the host but then he wouldn't apologize and then he wasn't the host anymore and there was a popular Oscar and there was not a popular Oscar and there was all of this energy around the Academy Awards right now. I think there's actually a lot of energy around movies which is good. We're in a great time for movies. In nineteen seventeen win at the Globes and it's opening wide died in theaters is another time where another great film has hit theaters and people are fired up about going to the movies. That's all great. It's not great for an award show though because there's no ooh tension around what's going on other than who's going to win well counterpoint. There is a lot of attention tension around. WHO's GonNa win and and we'll talk more about that but I do think it'll be an interesting race? You pointed out there. A lot of excitement about movies and particularly a lot of movies that are nominated. And you know this is just a theory. But maybe if there's less hubbub or like dragged out controversy around the ceremony itself then people are just like like Oh the Oscars. Should I watch that. I don't know anything about you know. Maybe you're grabbing people in a moment of enthusiasm instead of fatigue I saw. There's someone on twitter. Make a suggestion which I thought was very clever now. I personally believe that when you have a year like this in which the movies are good in the racist interesting. But there isn't that anxiety that we're describing you need a host because the host creates narrative all his own are all her own. Someone suggested after seeing Will Ferrell present an award Wilford might be the best awards awards presenter in the history of awards because it feels like everything is he's doing is occurring to him in real time. which is the opposite of most people? Were just reading off a teleprompter but what if will ferrell was just the a Co presenter of every award and we just shuttled out a new person you know. Here's Meryl Streep and Feral you know. Here's here's Jack. Nicholson and Will Ferrell. Here's Isla Fisher and Will Ferrell. Let's keep bringing all these random. Does you know Chris Evans and welfare would have chemistry with all of them. He wouldn't be the quote unquote host. But he would just have to riff in in one hundred eighty second bites because what you're looking for as continuity a little bit of continuity of clarity a little bit of like what will this be like a little bit of anticipation in order for an narrative for sure and a name to stay like Will Ferrell is the Co host of the core pilot. Sure I love Will Ferrell. And he's probably ably wanted to comedians that I actually fat so I I would be open to that but I think that idea is a more specific version of large idea which is the ah the presenters are always the fun part. That's actually always the thing. At the end of the night where like what were the highlights of the Oscars besides the awards. And it's someone or a pair of people who had three minutes and they they made it work and what I like about the no host option is that it dispenses with the the monologue and all of the the creaky machinery and actually does give you the option of just let the presenter shine how do you think the show should open this year. Didn't we had a musical number last year. If I recall why was it a musical. It wasn't Queen With Adam. Lambert and performance of we are the champions God. I had blocked that. No I didn't until this moment. I think two years ago maybe mistake committing two years ago we had a justin timberlake performance opening it up a song for minions remember that wondering why the Oscars are seemingly always in peril. That's how they opened the show. The last two years not ideal totally blocked these out of my memory. It's like they don't happen I think that they should not start with a song this year. Talking to hear Houston believe it or not. Well I think that similar to in practice if maybe not an execution Emmy's it if years years ago where they had a bunch of people come out to the host And they did do a musical number and it was a little bit tongue in cheek about diversity. In a way that I didn't totally love love but get a bunch of famous people on stage to start because that's that that is. That's the thing that I want to borrow okay. So maybe it's maybe not nominees but presenters or just people you like to see. I'm sure you could get the. We always come back to the rock but like you can get him on for two minutes. I don't know put the endgame cast on. What do I
Nightside with Dan Rea
Whitman mother arrested in connection to 2-year-old's death
"A what my mother arrested in the death of her two year old daughter the Plymouth PA session equal Leonard is charged with reckless endangerment of a child lyric feral found unresponsive in an apartment December twenty eighth taken to a hospital where she was taken off life support and died three
Talk Python To Me
Python packaging landscape in 2020
"Chris. Welcome back to talk by thirty. He thinks how's it going. It's been a while it has been awhile how it has been since the summer of two thousand eighteen so not quite two years. But it's definitely been awhile since you were on previously. You're on to talk about. Continuous integration. Continuous delivery rate with Python. And you know that was a really popular episode. Actually I thought the topic would be popular but you came across with all all these little tools and techniques that people just love and so yeah I was really great and I will probably learn more about cool tools and techniques this time around to. Yeah sure it was a a good episodes to kind of get everything up together in a nice little summary Feral so yeah anybody. That's interested is a good one. So let's maybe fill people blend on what you been up to lately day to day. Sure if you are on the software development side but it sounds like you're on the testing and like process making sure stuff works works for the folks around you that they don't build bad software as well so when we recorded that last episode. Yeah I was mostly doing development side but I was in a small all team so I was tied into everything. Qa builds and everything. But since. Then I've transitioned to a different organization and I mostly doing Qa now 's okay tooling which is still involves build stuff but not really developing a product more developing tools to help test and release code. That's cool so you're basically basically in the developer tool space but for internally for your company not like Jimmy rains or the microphone. Like that right right and I've done that in my career. You're a lot actually like it because they can walk over and talk to my customers and tell them that you like this and they're like no it's not okay so fix it. That is super super cool. Feeling I've worked thin small offices where basically the users of the software they were a few offices or little space down and it was like all right what we need for the next week. Is this come back three or four days later. This is what I built. I know you ask for this but I think this part can be automated to. Where do you think about like either like Oh? That's amazing using her. Now what were you doing. Of course you can't do that and so on. It's that quick feedback loop is pretty cool. Yeah it just helps you. Produce something productive for people that will help their productivity. Yeah cool so well that sounds really fun and also related a little bit to what we're going to be talking about now. Yes yes so. I WANNA start really high level with our conversation. 'cause ideas we're going to dig into some of the options for for packaging python applications and I think before we even dig into the details of how we do that. Some of the cool tools out there honestly. I think we have to define what the heck that means. And it's not because we just need to be precise but I think to different people have vastly vastly different expectations and needs some tools. Completely solve that and if your your desire is different it's completely broken like imagine. I want to get my web web APP onto a server to run consistently maybe docker and coober. Netease is the perfect answer. If I have a accounting in application I want to give to accountants running a coup Bernice cluster is not the right answer right like these are really really different. So maybe what are some of the definitions of of what packaging might mean for different people. What's the spectrum out there right so even in the ORG? I'm in right now. We actually have this problem because we have a wide range of tools right so if you're building a bunch of services with sap is to help you deliver something to that's remote or let's call cloud like two people rate that might like you said that's something you might WanNa package as a docker container as as a service running an on a server which is a different deliverable. Then Dan say a double click. This icon here desktop application. That you'd want to deliver if you're one wanting to say create a log viewer. Refer somebody to help them. Process that information right and is completely different from some utility where you just want to provide a quick library or or other people to write more code using your library and all that you'd WanNa deliverable for all of that would be different in and something that makes more sense to the user in the environment that they're in different environments Yup absolutely like. I suspect you're kind of on the border at at work right because because you are working with developers so it's it's probably reasonable to say well there's arrest in point or there is a command line tool you type in the a command line and magic happens so the rest endpoint easy rate. So there's there's this gooey uses some rest. Api and you can track your execution of your tests. For example you can see how things are going. But when you're talking about the actual test you wrote the needs a library for you to access the infrastructure and a bunch of services in that infrastructure that might relate to just stuff. You need an requesting resources for testing or using other integrating with other tooling. That will help you with that rate which is then completely different from some utility. That'll tell me. Give me the list of all the all Mike compute that I have available to run tests on right. Yeah and then that utility needs to run and every developer's machine and then how you distribute that starts getting complicated.
Sean Hannity
Thor the Bulldog Wins Best in Show at 2019 National Dog Show
"A bulldog named for one top honors at the twenty nineteen national dog show we beat out two thousand other dogs to take best in show I have a knees one the toy dog category to make it to the finals other finalists were a Siberian husky a golden retriever a feral held an Old English sheepdog and the soft coated wheaten