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Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"An attempt to take all the invasive species out of my garden and so i don't know you're fighting english holly you've got another you've got a common enemy. Yeah but in in that sense she and i are both invasive species here so what you know. What kind of tree is more. None of us are related to the original. I knew or chatham islander visitors to washington. State's heroin this never eaten a seal. Which kind of feels like Like an oversight now. You can find ken on twitter at ken. Jennings you can find me on. Patriotic john roderick. You can email us here at the omnibus project gmail.com. You can support the show. And this show is a topic picked by a supporter. Thank you marry. You can start the show at patriotic dot com slash omnibus project. You can discuss the show with other future links and discuss all of our shows and all of your crazy personal or if not crazy all of your interesting personal crazy. All the manifestations of your mental illness a you're you're betting wires at anywhere in social media where the word future link appears and you can email us. I'm sorry you can mail us. This is we're talking about mail now. Real mail and i don't mean m. a. l. e. m. i. l. po box five five seven four shoreline washington. Nine eight one five five. It looks like you're opening the mail right now. Yeah this is interesting. I mean the kentucky colonels are continuing to send us. Did you actually fulfil your kentucky. Forgot i should. I need to give to the because they're really talking about the good works. They've done this year in two thousand twenty one. They've awarded two million dollars in grants. Two hundred seventy four nonprofits but they have a shortfall of millions of dollars. And you know what. I'm going to go. I'm gonna go give right now. Part of it's really changed me being kentucky colonel differently about the greatest kentucky my contribution is part of that two million dollar endowment and i think your contribution is going to be part of the next to well. I gave my nation. When i first when i first got the letter. I a rope ladder in a ymca in lexington now with your name on it. The the the honorary kentucky. Colonel john rodericks memorial rogue ladder and kathy sent us i guess. Her family does yearly drive between their home in missouri and summer place near donner lake so he could drive right. It's a long drive and on.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"What we think of is a surname we think of it as just a worldwide convention that the first name is the given name and the second name is the surname. But as you've mentioned the family name but as you've mentioned it's different in hungary and east asia There are all over. You know in russians have patronymics where your last name is just middle name that means like son of and then your father's name in iceland. That is the surname fig. This is daughter in spanish. Speaking culture people have two different last names gabrielle garcia marquez and one is your father surname and one is your mother's oh and which comes. I think it's father than mother. Oh interesting and father gets retained. Let's not kid ourselves still much. She still patriarchal culture. So gabriel garcia marquez's children. Were there any would have the last name garcia not marquess keep garcia and then their mother's name. Oh how cool. If i understand correctly i mean. The reason i'm named john roderick is because the welsh. The welsh were son of john son of roderick roderick son of john and i think in my family pre english administration they just traded five or six different names. And this was the problem because even in small town in wales. You've got roderick son of john who was son of roderick. Who is son of john. How do you tell the who tell them. All apart. i think when the the the british census came in. And i i always picture a guy sitting at a desk and all these coal miners lined up. And they're walking one know. Walk up to the ten. What's your name roderick son of john. All right you're john. Roderick autry rodrick john and just write it down in a book and then it it enters into history in the domesday book. I must be true. You can't follow my family history. Past that moment there is no following the genealogy in wales you just get to that first day and you can read and writes how and ruined ruined and you know you can see through the mist to roderick son of john but the first person to enter into the world is is john son of roderick yet the lack of opportunity for confusion just the fact that you know. Fewer people is probably what kept middle names from becoming common in medieval europe. One guy named jeffrey cedric. You're good albert. There can't be more than one calvert And so it was just cities or towns that necessitated this in italy in thirteenth century italy. There started to grow a fashion for giving children to given names at birth and it was actually for religious reasons rather than reasons of convenience. These people wanted to give the child the name of a saint to show their religious devotion also presumably to protect the child to bring the child the favors of saint ignatius or whoever but there's also the long-standing tradition and maybe deep-seated human need to pass along something of your heritage. So you wanna give the child a family name and if you want to give the child family name antecedents name. The obvious solution is well. Why not one of each. And that's what became popular then and Name in the middle. Yeah i think usually the family name first and the saints name in the middle and even though they were religious they never you know. These were not middle initials although you'd think they would have been following the examples of jesus h christ. What's h holy. The there's an object of the for hallmark because god cared enough to send the very best offer. That's lovely but these were not initials yet but as you pointed out. There's a certain kind of aristocratic or aristocratic air to a three person. Three named person. Yeah or maybe in the case of your daughter a four or five days person yeah The person who wants to add the the suffix like the third like your friend richard bullet griffin or whatever his name was you or me this is why my son is not the fourth because he's not named kenneth. I'm not i'm not against name kenneth. It's fine. I don't know if i would. It's not my top ten. Yeah it's a little bit aged. Well it's the is a child's name the problem well. It's like a british a british child's kenneth. I'm not an engineer for the bbc. Like i'm not doing sound levels for the kinks right now. My name kenneth. How many levels name. It doesn't have a serb before it. You shouldn't be named kevin. But it's extremely posh. I mean the poshness for instance. The poshness of brian eno form. He's already entered into the omnibus as the as the developer of oblique strategies. Brian enos full name is brian. Peter george saint john the teast de saal ino pretty posh you judge the poshness in the length of the knee and the number of times that you have like a french french conjunctions or the number of times that the french articles in the name la or hyphen popping up in the middle of the name very very very poor hyphen is what shows like. In actual terms of income that comma would show. The number of comments would show how much money you have right but but in terms of names. It's definitely the hyphen. The hyphen is the poshest. Punctuation mark. the piano player of keen. Tim rice hyphen. Oxley has a very posh name. Also tim rice oxley the because he couldn't go by tim rice or tim. Oxley both also pretty posh the but that's a recent development middle names were not or a profusion of millions. We're not a hallmark of aristocrats in the uk. In the year eighteen hundred the turn of the nineteenth century Only ten percent of british subjects had a middleman emmy middle name at all let alone seven it did not spread there at all like you know. It started in italy by time in the nineteenth century. Almost half of french people had a middle name. Typical and it was largely men. You know this was true. Ancient rome as well. You know women would only have to name. Slaves only have one. It was a marker of state so in these patriarchal societies it was largely male though not entirely And it was not until the early nineteenth century. The custom spread to britain and And i think like most new additions. It started in the upper classes. There was a a fad for example of giving.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"That very welch. What if i was your old west author like morgan john roderick It's pretty good multiple. Names go back to the way wait. What's your middle name. Wayne the ws for wayne. Serial killer kim w jennings. I've seen that. And i'm the third and i did not advance when previous kenneth we jennings pass. Oh you're kenneth wayne jennings the third you never put that on your checks. I don't the same reason. That richard winfield garnett the third use it. Oh i thought it sounded important. That's why you objected to that because it applies directly to you. Yeah yeah i would i would. I would have moved up to junior now. Yeah but requires my dad to decide. He wants to be senior. Also he's keeping the to that forces you to keep the three. No he's still junior junior. But that's what forces you. He likes to say that you know. Because i'm always ken jennings in the president. He's ken jennings junior. It's really been a it's not identity crisis and possibly time travel paradox for him. He's he's sounds like the the son of his own son. It's bill gates is a junior. Yes but what The way they differentiated is that His father called himself william gates senior. And that's that's one you don't your father could just become senior. He could if he believed in your manners. Agent of chaos. Everybody moves up one. All the time doesn't that sound better. Ca kenneth wayne jennings senior. You'd be you. He be Just aspiring his whole life to become a senior break out of that junior mole he goes from sounding like a serial killer cowboy to sounding like a bank president kenneth wayne juniors seniors get used less for the first of the name can just leave it off. He's the original. Wash it he. After he's the right man it would be a rhetoric him to call him senior was. He lived his whole life without being a senior until had a child. Change your name just because you named a kid after you you. Don't you already named a kid after you. You've definitely got an inflated sense of yourself. Yeah you know the the tendency to name children after ancestors after their after their genealogical legacy or heritage is really at the core of what created middle names. 'cause morgan is the Is a family name. is that right. Yeah family family surname. Yeah you know. The romans had three names often guys. Julius caesar in they would be. There would be a pre norman which was like your personal name. Guys was julius. Caesar's equivalent of john. Ken and then. Julius is your noman your family name. Oh that that was the equivalent of the surname and the third name which is often what we remember today in the cicero or whatever that was called the cog newman which originally it was kind of nickname later it became kind of supplemental hereditary name to distinguish different branches of the family. You know how you would you know. I have this problem today. i just. I had my brother's family visiting me. That's the that's also the jennings's and then my parents came over from scam to go to the ball game with us a neighbor the jennings is too so i can't tell my sister had the jennings's were staying with us. I because i'm the jennings's so you can say the olympic jennings says or the utah jennings right exactly so. This was. The roman cognitive carcinoma became kind of the equivalent of that. Or if you did something awesome in your life your cognition could become a sign of that like if you wanna battle you could become magnus maximus or something. So your dad is ken. Jennings junior you. Are ken jennings jeopardy jeopardy us is a do you have a do you ever use. No i mean there are some that rod roderick long winters. There's some there's some nicknames that people might apply to me but i'm not going to adopt a myself and as a result you can have. It became fashionable because fads always sprawl to have multiple cog no mona. Where if you accomplished multiple things you would just keep adding names and this seems a little odd to us to have the family name in the middle and then a series of kind of descriptive or delimiting titles. But it's this is the exact same system that's used today and a lot of east african cultures action so it's apparently. There's something intuitive about it. Classroom these bantu people did not get it from reading about cicero well. In hungary the last name is first and that's true in korea to yeah and And china and japan as well. Oh the last name is i really. Oh i didn't realize that. About japan and china. I mean you can say it in. It's commonly anglicised especially for japanese. People would say well t- chiro suzuki but but if they were saying it in the old fashioned way the date of way they would say suzuki each year. You put certain. I i did not know. Maybe that's part of the asian ethos of putting family before self. You literally do it. 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Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Digman regan. Interestingly navien as i think about it it's often the letter c c thomas. How actor and my only got my own uncle. See calvert knutson did he. But he went by cal. He went on his desk. His his little nameplate would say see calvert city kelp recruits and. That's that's how he signed everything. And that's how he That's how his name appeared on all. Corporate correspondent was like those all. Wpa postseason it'd be like see old faithful. See the grand canyon. See calvert canoed the letters e in this case c. calvert. And i i mean calverton alone is kind of a fun name that you don't hear that often you might dig a calvert. I don't know very many children named cal you know. It's one of those names kind of went away. I knew a calvin my age. But i've never met a calvin younger than me but calvert. I know i understand you saying most cows are not calvert. Right there. Calvin they could potentially be mahan. 's or cal callaghan. It'd be a good girl's name. Eldrick celtic if there was an nba player kendrick. I wouldn't no. I wouldn't buy sheldrakes with x with an x but yeah and ask your doctor. Celtics is right for you but Yeah that's interesting i. We unfortunately gave my daughter several names which will probably talk about more. But i've i've suggested to her a couple of times that she start her name with a with a a single letter period and then some some subsequent name and so far she's rejected. I think it's because it does seem kind of like a boy thing. Yeah the junior and senior. The junior in the third thing. That so bothers tom. We're not gonna probably get into that much. Although i do agree that it's his. I was able to corroborate his finding which. I don't think i was aware of that. It's not in common usage. Really anywhere else. In the i mean maybe canada which is american north. We call it but the the uk an ireland. And i don't think even australia new zealand used junior and senior. My dad was a junior and never ever used it. And if you mentioned it to him he would. He would scowl scowling. But i had a friend in in high school. Richard winfield garnett the third and i used to really object to him calling himself the third because my understanding was that you had to have had to have the the first dodi you you had always well. It'd be alive at. It'd be alive at the same time right and his grandfather had died. And i said that makes you richard. Winfield garnett the second and he was like no no no. The third looked into the etiquette on this. There's no there's no formal definition miss manners actually believes in your finding but everybody moves up is but that's just proof that you miss manners are agents of chaos. Because that's insane. I learned why. Why should i use my name anytime. Someone of a different generation dies. That's absolutely insane. All of this is made up anyway. It is yeah why not make up a convenient version rocket like keenum. That's not how etiquette rules work. He's it's intended to be more complicated. Not less the But i do. I am interested in the subject of middle initials and You know to get into why there are see thomas owls and L ron hubbard's and and whatnot out there in the wild eight. Just a whitney browns. Just running wild hunt in the woods of new england. somewhere You you do have to understand how middle initials originated. Oh how middle initials originated before. We can fully appreciate how first initials yes. The initials because middle initials are fairly modern invention. Oh middle names are surprisingly modern. You have a middle name. That's you'd never use or oh well i mean. When i was young. I was known by all my family members as jon. Morgan and they never said the one without the other jon morgan. Because there were other. John's no there were no. Oh well the john's from the earlier generation so okay so this is something interesting. Well interesting to me. That'd be unprecedented for omnibus. Go ahead all the john's in my family at the age of majority. Turn to jack's so they were john's as boys and then became jacks. What happened in the night It like the to ferry. I think it was when they stopped wearing short pants and stopped needing a hook to lace up their boots. But i had. I had to uncle. Jack's both who of whom had been known as john as children and so in my family. John is thought of. I mean although it's are proper names it's thought of as a child's name and then you migrate jack. I was known as jon. Morgan jon morgan. And they're still family members to call me that that somebody yelling for you as a child. Jon morgan jon morgan. Mary hartman. Jon boy it does sound like somebody yelling to one of the waltons to fetch some water or to to feed the hands. And i think some of it was derived from kind of kennedy's version of john junior but then somehow. When i became a grown-up i did not get to be jack. I wasn't. I didn't transfer to jack and part of it. Was that the jacks were still alive. The old the older generation. It's peter pan syndrome. You never grew up. Well that to some what you could decide to be jack at some point. I and there are people that that. Call me jack. But it's just a it's kind of a. I don't know a romantic name. But i what happened. Was i lost morgan. So people in my family stopped calling me. Jon morgan except for the the truly old ones pricey. Your wikipedia calls you jon morgan. It does because i. yeah. Because i'd never i'd never. I'd never seen you seen that. On a checker a weird your house is full of weird plaques with your name on it and none of them have that middle name or initial jon morgan. Well i am your john. M rodrick john roderick right in the language of middle initials and i think maybe at one point when i was twenty one i briefly styled myself as j morgan roderick yes the first time i the first time i put my name in the phone book well actually the first time. I put my name in the phone book. I said i called me myself. John ignatius rodrick because i was an insufferable eighteen year old. You just read a confederacy of dunces. Or you didn't wanna get phone calls. You both yeah. I mean it was just. It was like a gnome gnome phonebook. I is a weird middle. Initial it really. You don't trust somebody. Who has i mean if somebody has an xs middle initial. You're like this guy's terrific xavier. Yeah but if somebody has is a middle initial you really wonder what went wrong. Can i jennings well. Yeah but catholic you could be. You could be a jesuit ken. Ken ignatius roderick. No but j m j. Morgan roderick seemed because morgan is a good. That could be a good name. Could have been known as morgan sure. I'm kind of a morgan. Wouldn't you say morgan roderick. Sounds like what is that very welch. What if i was your old west author like morgan john roderick.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Probably already know that in order to keep this academic project we're doing the omnibus going. In our time. You know we needed a source of outside funding. Yes and you. And i just want some corporation to step up weyerhaeuser omnibus our. I love it. You pronounce that. We're hauser texaco. How you've lived in the northwest your most of your life. You don't know how to pronounce weyerhaeuser. Is that right warehouse warehouse. It's gotta why though. Yeah but it's a don't say silent. why warehouse. I'm a stickler for the y you can. You can like dip down into the y. A little bit weyerhaeuser. But it's just saying. I'm gonna d. l. us island why weyerhaeuser warehouse. But yes. yes. I keep thinking that there's got to be some corporation that is also dedicated to the preservation of of history. That may be otherwise. Lost a time that could underwrite the show at the level of. Whoa what. what would we say. Well how how much would it cost for us to sell our souls to to a major corporate. 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It'd be out in fact There are there's at least one couple coup got married as a result of meeting on my lap. Yeah a couple of a couple of visit you you. You spread your legs. A little and they slid into each other and history was made one of them was a rather large fellow and one of them was a more dominion to the sized fellow. And i you know. And i was definitely santon. That was like you know. The more the merrier. So you know. Sometimes i'd have eight or nine people kind of all sitting on top of me. All sort of have a wiggling. It was a good time. The crazy thing is before they sat down on your lap. That christmas eve they were both straight. That's right and they looked at each other. It's a christmas miracle. They looked at each other across a crowded lap. And they're just the romance sparked and they're married to this day there they're happily still fact. I see one of them in in our book group. Is that why there is a prominent gay bar. On capitol hill called john roderick slap. John roderick slaloms. There has to be a story. I thought every time. I walked by oriental. Yes kind of a sort of a daddy leather bar now but yeah. It was originally christmas. Themed around any roxana. You know it. It did happen late at night in bars i had. They would put a big thrown originally at the crocodile. And then it moved around. And i would sit there and i had my santa suit on and they would just lineup and i was never happier. Frankly never happier in my line to santa privileges from john. You can suggest a topic for omnibus to cover and we will collaborate. So i if we get a list that feels like homework. I don't. I don't like i don't know about you. I like guidance. But like an assignment i like. I like some strictures. But i don't wanna feel like i'm writing a report for you a few times. People have made suggestions and in researching those suggestions. I found a different show. And i feel like that qualifies. They gave me a prompt. And i a leopard in germany. Funny place where we could do it of yellow out. I think we if we discussed the suggested topic off iran. But these are these are patriotic perks. for our supporters. And so we want to make it clear to everyone listening that it's actually really great and we totally take your idea in it and it makes the show better and so we have a queue of people who have given at the washington level this year. We're we're knocking out there. They're show ideas. And here's here's what. We received from one tom the dignity. I don't know if i'm saying that right. i'm digging. There may be a silent. You like the y. And weyerhaeuser is that. Where's the where's the you in that between the d. And the i d d do Tweeden do weeknd. Tom dewey dean and it could be french doin. Y'all when y'all tom do aletha rights. I have one thing that has always bugged me this idea for a show top. He only has one thing that bugged him play. If only we had a serena life as tom from ireland forty things in this room that bugged me. I'm irish but have a keen interest in north america. What is it with names. i'm talking about what is it with. us names. I'm talking about things like using the initial of the first name with the full second name for example. See montgomery burns this example. Right right right. I get particularly riled up by something like tom digging in the third or tom digman junior. This isn't found in the rest of the anglo saxon world to the best of knowledge. I'd like to know the origin of this. This feels like a male thing too but are there female equivalents your sincerely t joseph.
Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"He's very interested. In like millenarian movements and apocalyptic movements were disproven immediately. Are there a lot of people that are well. I guess there are hundreds of millions of people that are interested in true as we also on the left behind show like like half of america just assumes that there are very specific predictions about the end of the world that are inevitably going to come true in that you should make bad art about. I'm always fascinated that there aren't more leon fest. Inkers like a failed prophecy. Seems like a thing that we should be teaching in the schools. The problem was all the cases are in the distant past which is a difficult for a social psychologist to study because records are fragmentary like he writes about Sabotage which is seventeenth century jewish messianic movement which which ended abruptly when the sultan of constantinople the ottoman sultan captured the guy at the self proclaimed messiah and forced into convert to islam troy. Jail didn't do it that the movement kept going but Of the forced conversion islam really cut down his shirt. You your interest. Sure it for the in america. Most famously you've got the miller rights of the nineteenth century these. I guess started in ohio preacher who read one particular verse of the bible and said hey if this number of i two years and if this scripture was actually from the the year five eighty seven as i now believe that means the world will end in around eighteen forty three eight hundred forty four depending on how the of the jewish calendar right and people went nuts for this new englanders stopped planting their crops and the ones with crop stopped harvesting their crops because why bother eighteen forty three to forty four and to the world right there and i don't want our listeners. Probably don't remember what you're the world ended. It's probably to them. The difference between actual data eighteen forty three is rounding air but spoilers the world did not end in eighteen forty three or forty four right and the movement abruptly fell apart but there are no social psychologists around. It'd be like hey what's with you guys right. This was before bo peep. You followed halley's comet into outer space. That was the eighties. Hail comet hale bop bop and the heaven's gate the heaven's gate cult right right and so back then one thing. We may not remember about the early days of the saucer is there was a weird religious overlay to us there because people it was all a blending it seems like a john roderick show at the time there were just a whole lot of surging currents of rosa cruzan ism christian mysticism diaz affi and is that. Is that an impression of me john. what's he sounds tinged but this is This is what's happening to people who were into religion. And know maybe the apocalyptic angle or maybe the just the mystical angle suddenly find themselves getting more and more this and you would think an opposite impulse to either be getting more and more mystic and getting into a cult stuff or getting more and more science and getting into the saucer men but in fact often. It's all one thing. Wow i just assumed that it was all airforce. Pilots were always like a science based cult. Nah methodists okay. It was paul. Go on putting wacky f scott fitzgerald and his. But you didn't expect that his declining years no one's dead already. Yeah there were no second acts that guy because of all the cocktails now in his nineteen forty five or nineteen thirty six essay. The crackup he famously road the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold to opposed idea in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. You've brought out. That was that was fitzgerald. I that that feels like something that you see stenciled on the wall in elementary schools now facebook memes may be interpreted that quote i only have. I read intelligence to oppose ideas in mind and keep going. I mean it does feel a little bit like a counter to people shouting both sides at boomers as a way of saying okay boomer. The of both sides in scare quotes. It's a counter argument to be able to understand not only the virtues of your own opinion but the other ideology and the opposing right you can. I mean it doesn't mean that you see you ascribe to opposing viewpoints. But just that you can hold two of them in your mind without coming apart. And i think that's how it's often used in fitzgerald's essay in context. He kind of sees it as a dichotomy between different parts of the mind between for example realizing that things are bad and yet still having hope or working to make them better like there's a the emotional or spiritual component to your to your goals despite the gloomy factuality in my case not believing in ghosts on one hand and also leaving the lights on anytime. I spend the night in vermont farmhouse while the core gets used to show. The human mind is a complicated place where you can't pretend you have some over arching architecture. The architecture may in fact be the illusion that in fact you have all these weird impulses many of which contradict right and your just trying to whoever the you is whatever. The overriding conscious is just trying to create some sense of order out of that. That gets you functioning. Unfortunately fitzgerald uses that language that my my dad's family always used a first rate a first rate intelligence which just sort of discredits the whole because it feels. They were all extremely racing. Just ever -nology so festinger is very interested in this idea of how these two what happens. When these two too inconsistent ideas collide the are sure that the world is going to end on a certain date in eighteen. Forty three and then spoilers. The sun comes up on tuesday right on january first nineteen or eighteen forty four and for a while by the way the miller. I ended up pushing kicking the can. They're like well the jewish calendar very confusing. Maybe it's december. Okay now taking forty four. But the jewish keller is very confusing in our in our defense So there was a lot of this and it ended up the end result of this whole thing was the movement class. But we got seventy adventists out of it. Oh thank goodness. Dentists movement is kind of the the remnants of militarism and they're still kicking the can down the road. Apparently the calendars very computerworld. They think they've left behind that kind of Specific kind of millenarian ism. But but yeah i mean. That's the thing about prophecy. It will eventually be falsifiable. We do have adventist future. Ling's because we've heard from them. They're all in loma linda and they gather every saturday. No not saturday. Gather every sunday which is just a regular day and they listened to the show right now..
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"Surf. Yeah that look at that lens. Snell lens would be appel drone. It's true if only a guy named snell had Up with your so good at that seeing pailin drums ever see. It's really a evolutionary biology provided that skill to our hunter gatherer. Ancestors if you can see if you can see a and rome in the wild right think about how much easier that makes foraging for food. Yeah about how many puns. You could come up with sitting around the prehistoric campfire. A you and i've been on a cruise ship together but have you ever spent any other time at sea. Not that much antarctica as you know right and that's a long choppy voyage so that was about about two weeks about Not that much time at seattle of next to the sea for most of my life right. Is that stolen valor. No i mean. I think growing up in the north west. You have a if you were here before. It became just a tech hub. We were much more connected to the sea. Don't you feel like in the in our childhoods. Yeah you would. You could see the you could hear the sound. yeah boats. Boats played a bigger part in the. Yeah regular people here have little sailboats. Yeah you you heard the foghorns. You heard the leg horns here on the ferry a lot. I mean. I guess you could still be on the ferry a lot.
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"And i just had the same experience in it. Which is we both look for our copy of goodnight moon and found that it had been called at some point. I went upstairs and asked her. Where's your where's goodnight moon. And she was like that's for babies she she senator goodwill not me but also the kids have heard it a hundred times. Probably bike you. You're like why. Do i even own this in my psyche. Yeah and when you. When we couldn't find it i think i said don't worry i know it. It's a fairly recent addition to the cannon it was written in nineteen forty seven and only sold six thousand copies. It was a it was It probably sold less in the year. It came out than any subsequent year. In fact i do not remember from my childhood. Do you i do. And i'm on. The part of the second generation raised in having been written in nineteen forty. Seven boomers are parents could not yours but parents have people. Our age could have grown up being held asleep by goodnight moon. And we were. My dad was in our in. Our kids are well. He could have been weld asleep by that or by his contracts affects But it was It was not a hit. At first it was the kind of thing that it kinda snowballed like for many the new york public library the chief the head librarian there or at least the head children library and carol more famously. Hated it And refuse to shelve it so the new york public library would not have a copy of this of now what you would think of is the greatest children's book of its aim so this is This is the moby dick of children's literature. Because it's yeah can't appreciate at the time sixty years after its yes sounding except that it's not the moby dick because it's only one hundred thirty two words long it's hard to think of a more a less moby. Dick minimalistic repetitive children's book. And maybe that's why. Maybe that's some you know it's often spoken of as if it's it's got some almost mystical appeal in connection to children that just transcends anything about the words or the pictures like there's something incantatory about it the way it can kind of produce sleep and change mood. I'm surprised that it has one hundred and thirty two words. I wouldn't have guessed it had that many that counts repetitions. Those are not hundred thirty. Two distinct words i see. That's the total length of the book. If you put in a word processor high. C and moon is forty of those work. Good night i think is used as one word and it's half of them But yeah it's often it's often. It's often discussed how you just the way. It appears to connect with kids on this weird psychological level that an adult can't even understand that as a result it's far from even though it's far from its success in nineteen forty seven today it sold forty million copies it's been translated into dozens of languages and Spawned dozens of ironic parodies goodnight ipad and so forth. I've had. I've had a few those gotten a few of those as gifts. You know when you're young dad. People are like oh. Here's your young dad handbook. You're like yeah and you know. Good night moon really appeals to the child whereas you'd go the f. to sleep. Yeah the jillian selling go the after sleep whenever that was ten years ago. That's clearly apparent joke. On other parents ha- that has nothing to do with the experience of childhood or bedtime. At all i have a. I have a personal relationship. With adam months bach the writer. How author of go go the sleep. How do you know them. I was hosting a series of author interviews at bumper shoot and he was one of the authors who came through. He had written a book at the time called. Rages back and ray children's book. No you know he he He is an author and was reading adult books and so we were up on stage together. And i had i had. I don't think i met him before he came out on the stage and he sat down and he went to columbia. He's a whole you know like a like a one of these people that if you read his bio he seems like a certain kind of author you're about to encounter on stage and came out sat down in the chair and the way he speaks yo so then you know like i was seeing. I took this dude. And i was like what. Say what and so he talked for a while in answer to that. My first couple of questions and i was so befuddled. Are you doing a bit well. So i said to him. What are you doing in front of us big audience and he was like what do you. What are you talking about. And i was like. Why are you talking by. He's keeping a real john and then we had this whole conversation about like yo. That's where i'm from dog. I'm from the you know. I was like are you though i mean. Didn't you columbia. Art go to rutgers. And he's like yo yo but is from the main streets of elizabeth new jersey or something. I don't know. I my sense is i. Don't honestly i don't know i'm surprised. That columbia university didn't beat it out of him but for whatever reason. I thought that he would be very offended by this experience of me. Like kind of interrogating his his. He's a jewish guy. You know from Cringing a little already. I wasn't there but he didn't mind so the next time he was coming through seattle he was giving a talk at a at townhall about his subsequent book. And he was like y'all want that rodrick dude back and so he like asked me and i i was his interlocutor at that event. To let the record show. You're doing kind of the hand things you probably did when you were in the White fresh crews. I'm doing the beastie boys like yo yo but then he realized i think that his his serious adult books did not do because he wrote go the f. to sleep like in an afternoon to source like it'd be funny. That's it's why when celebrities write books. They're always children's storybooks. Yeah because you can. You can do it in six hours. But he's subsequently written seriously just go to sleep was his follow up and then you have to effing eat and then seriously you have to eat and then f. which is what i'm saying now instead of the word. What a good dan f. Now there are two of you which presumably is about having a second child to have a gift for the second baby shower if you gave them go to sleep the first time and then his most recent humor book is field guide to the jewish people which he co wrote with. Adam allen's weeble an dave berry jewish person. I've ever cloth from miami though he's observed them in their habitat but anyway i thought he was extremely charming guy. I don't even mind when that happens to like you know what your publisher wants to sell another six million books so you know go with god. Yeah now you really have to effing eat but continue to go after sleep. I'm super happy for him. He's like a like super nice guy. I wonder if he's still is like. Is it like your think dinner. A go after sleep story. Yeah rogue one. I mean this type of thing. You could write these books on the bus right. And but i don't know what when we talk about. Good night moon. How much child. Psychology behind the book. it's the author lived to see her success. Yes except well not really. Actually you know the the author was successful in her lifetime. Lived a fascinating life. We'll get into margaret wise brown but she also also died. The book didn't even get into the new york public library until nineteen seventy. Two librarian had to retire that book the gatekeeper whereas margaret wise brown was respected children's author..
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"To send in your suggestions for show suggests sutton who and love canal. That's gonna be one. show one. Show love canal. Sutton who love kyle backed with sutton. There will be the for the rest of my life i will. I will have those two just burned. Because they've been on my list for three years. It's like the dr seuss book something. Here's a who you could mail us. Physical items please mail us all your nixon era memorabilia to omnibus project. Po box five seven four four shoreline washington nine eight one five we'll critique it will rank it on a scale of one to ten we will Decide if it's some if it's one of america's Ten most endangered of garbage river. Garbage pieces you could find. Fellow future links in our era spy looking for the future links group on facebook or read it discord. Or what have you The best way to support the show however as always is with the patriots and of our tens of thousands of listeners but somewhere north of somewhere around fifteen hundred of them i think actually financially support the show every month without which none of us would end. The rivers would light on fire. And you wouldn't even know anymore. We are deeply grateful for that support. You know. Ken is a Internationally or rather nationally famous Millionaire count canada whereas but the thing about him being is a nationally famous billionaires that he really silos his industries so for instance when he and i go to tacos. He's like well over here. A millionaire but here at the taco restaurants. I just a regular guy who only has five dollars and that's how i away with paying no income tax. That's right that's that's how tough mc in is when he takes his band loaded out he's like well is this how he manages to not pick up the tab yeah well no duff is very generous but when you know it's important to him that when loaded tours they are on their own merits and so you know when he's in guns and roses i see. He's getting flown from show to show on solid gold jet but in in loaded he wants loaded loaded zone industry to pay their way but he also wants a tour bus because he's definitely kicking so it ends up. The loaded is always stretched really at the airport. He always says i'm doug mckay from guns n. Roses welcome to the porta seattle. He never says cagan from voted a band named after my favorite kind of baked potato. What do i say at the airport. You sam john roderick. Hi this is. John roderick from donaldson from the long winters from the long winters. Make sure you don't leave your baggage unattended on the airport concourse you. You should have one of those. I should replace you. They're like johns out of.
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"Going life is a rich pageant. It was it was in eighty six. But now if you go to cleveland. Cleveland has partly as a result of well trying to clean up the coyuca. 'cause it's still somewhat of a of a river endanger but they've cleveland has kind of largely de industrialized or at least tried to the part of that is a lot of cities have taken these inner harbor cores and tried to draw visitors in taking them the coolest part of town. Yeah cleveland re bland rebe rebranded and also rebranded the area as the flats which they mehta like tried to make a bustling clubbing rock and roll. Cool kid part cleveland cleveland. A big town still But up river on the koya yoga. There's this really kind of beautiful national park on either side of the river of that's full of bike trails and it's actually you know conveys a kind of wild river vibe. Although it's downstream of these king rust belt towns up river so so the cleanup worked. The cleanup largely worked. Although the kogas still has has some issues including i think the the river bottom is a is a epa disaster site like there are still all kinds of awful heavy metals and stuff. I mean they continued to dredge the river. And they dredge it now. The rivers twenty seven feet deep. Where if it were left alone it would be one foot deep and full of spawning fish. Tugboats have to up their bottoms though. Yeah but so. It's a a superfund site but also now a place of of river walks in a superfund site us. That's the superfund back in superfund. All of this culminates. Ken in the koga last year. Being designated as america's river of the year every year we have a river we have a river of the year and the river of the year is the river that's made. It's kind of like student of the year It's the river. That's made the greatest progress. How i most improved yeah. Nba has that so the river of the year would be in. America would be The missouri every year. If it weren't for the fact that the you know what can you say about the missouri year after year So every year a new river gets gets this. Honor gets the white ribbon and it was the coil. Hogue alasdair people's sexiest river alive. Yeah and that's the that's the idea. It's it's okay. This is yeah this. I'm reading this given by american rivers which is Which is a major rivers nonprofit yet who who announced the g. o. June wall recording. This is national rivers. Month what are you doing for national rivers month going to go to slippery rock oregon and slipped down a rock very slippery. Rock in oregon. I'm gonna just like the koga on fire will. This show will not air until after river mud next year. Makes you celebrate okay. This is kind of knew this. The started in two thousand nine hundred ninety. I guess it was started in two thousand. Nineteen with the announcement of america's river of the year. Oh that's the fiftieth anniversary of the qualifier. There we go. Hey last year. It was the deller. But i guess for the last thirty four years. American rivers has announced their ten most endangered rivers boy this year. Oh the snake endangered. Oh well i should also say a salmon. The koga was also extensively dammed in the twentieth century to generate power during. The you know the the boom time of hydro-electric damning and now a lot of the dams on the koyo and that you know the dams just increased the kind of slow moving slugging sludgy rancid -ness of the river. Ninja turtles though. Oh interesting yeah but a lot of those dams are now getting torn down as part of the of rivers movement. So some of your. We're going to in our lifetime. See a lot of those. Koga dams consigned to the damn bin of history today. Damn wastebasket of history the this year. The raccoon river is the ninth most endangered river. I have never heard of the raccoons apparently a small iowa river which has been contaminated by factory farms. Oh sure all the possibly have raccoons all the the. The the poop and the antibiotic comorans drinking water is now full of whatever awful stuff gets used in these factory farms so hormones hormones from cows are giving puberty is now starting at age four into moines here so thank you american rivers for bringing visibility to all the problems of the raccoon river completing fire. Thank you future links in the dozens for suggesting readjusting the coca river fire. You can now be alone. And that includes the klay hugger river fire slash fires entry three. Oh nine is four three zero two certificate number one two three nine eight in the omnibus. Hopefully we continue to progress as a species and much as we cleaned up our rivers. Clean up the sluggishness of our skies. And other gonna say oh. It's very sludgy. Do you feel like we can clean up. Well we have to take down the dams. Wait no don't take down the dams on the internet build more dams for dan more dams and less sludge but in our day we were on social media at omnibus project. I'm ken jennings. You can find john roderick especially on his patron you can email us at the omnibus project at gmail.com.
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"The fire in writes us from train wheel right the fire and fifty two caused like what would be now. Millions of dollars in damage it Burned up some suck. It's going to go to the ed and it'll go to the wooden docks one thing and that's what happened right in front like the whole waterfront. It it was. It was a big task for fee but luckily the rock and roll hall of fame. Wasn't there not there. They had the national folk and bluegrass hall of fame in eighteen. Even that it was the yeah. It was like crooner hall of fame jug band burned. No one no one noticed her care but this was. This was the height of the industrial age tried. This was when manufacturing was king. There's a famous photograph of a factory in texas where they powered. It was a power plant that was powered by burning old batteries and smoke. That's coming out of this thing. I think texas power grid still work from what i read in the papers thrown old batteries. You know burnt people were burning tyres. It was and also absolutely no regulation in terms of cleaning up the world as reagan. We call it the good old days the good old days but it wasn't it was only ten years later that that silence bring was published. And we've re referenced that a couple of times in the omnibus the the dawning realization that we were making the world uninhabitable and in with technology. It wasn't just like it wasn't just like previous nature movements which is like. Don't shoot the little deers. And don't pick the little flowers or even more european like go back to nature to find your essential. You're you're native. Essence now the now the metaphor poison poisoners. It was accurate. It was accurate. There was a there was a survey of the koya hoga during this period where it was it was revealed that no life there was nothing alive like jupiter. Yeah no microbes nothing. The only life that they could find was a an algae called a silla toria which was growing on above the water on the pilings of various peers. But it would die in seconds as soon as the water sloshed. Under any you know everybody that worked around. There was like if you fall in the river. you go to the hospital and so you know and you could see like visibility in the river was a question of inches right if you like even. Put your hand in the river. You couldn't see your fingertips so this was true all across the united states but the koya hogan the hooker was not yet a symbol of it. Silence bring in the the sort of early environmental movement. You know this. This gained in gained in popularity in nineteen sixty eight Us sorry washington. Senator henry jackson scoop. Who was. Who was my father's mentor. One of my father's mentors went to law school with my not mentor friend. She was there. Were friends what am i talking about mentor. They were the same age they were. They were pal so they all went to my dad and are their wives my mother they were all the deliver of pork to the state of washington. The united states senate and they did a lot of dancing. You know it was it was. It was a high old time. He's a sponsored hearings in the senate in sixty eight about creating kind of a national environmental program. How interesting yeah and this was. I didn't realize that was yeah. This was there was no. epa the there was no epa. there was no i mean. Environmental protection was only just becoming a national question. A sense that like wait. We can't we can't just have local municipalities. Try to clean up the hudson. That's in your lifetime. Yeah that we think of the environment. As a i mean it really shows screw that in john roderick lifetime. The discovery came that environmental cleanup might be large scale problem. That's right and it. Was you know it was only just before i was born. That it even occurred to anybody and silent. Spring of course was talking about You know heavy metals in you know appearing in wildlife and pesticides yeah the bird eggs killing verdicts but but the idea that we couldn't live in cities anymore because they were choked with pollution was pretty new at this point and probably driven by like the the assumption of affluent suburban americans that of course cities are hell holes as god intended. Right has got intended right. That's how come we can live in the suburbs right about this time. Cleveland elected its first black mayor. Carl stokes that's early for a major city. That's that's right before andrew young young and he was a he was a progressive and a real powerful voice. His brother louis. Stokes was elected to the congress during the same period. So this is you know. It's all like thinking like the to the congress like you're you're the music man or something elected. Congress did the congress. It's gotta be like eighteen seventies before it left the ukraine and the two of them. And so carl stokes as part of his program for cleveland because he was colorful and and you know and civil rights era like big city mayor. He started to draw attention to the the pollution in the koyo hogan has one of his major platforms. Like we need to. Cleveland is an absolute disaster area and in order to make it a habitable place again. We need to direct attention to pollution in the river and he was a he was in his brother was kind of sponsoring this kind of legislation and then disaster strikes in on june twenty second nineteen sixty nine. Which weirdly is a after. A couple years of carl stokes. Actually cleaning up the coca. They had implemented local policies about dumping. They'd been working hard to to to clean up. The river still sparked from a passing train falls on a on a greasy matt. Same old same old and the river catches fire and it here we go there. All the fire is is nowhere near the extent of the fire. Fifty two burns one railroad bridge and makes it like it. Ruins one railroad bridge kind of scorch is another. There aren't any photographs of it because by the time someone with a camera race down there was already under control out. these fires. Put themselves out or do you. Kind of have to trucks were dispatched. Yeah you get out there the fire department kind of porks on it. I don't know what you do you pour water on. There's already water all over it. You probably throw sand at. I don't know.
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"Comes with being able to to hit a sticky fast to key curveball or whatever a pitcher has to have on the mound is an macho. I think what i do as baseball players swaggart country boys i would pick. I would find a really sexy couple. Pick their sexy baby. And then i'd be charged because it'd be a dumb baby and then as the region i'd be. I'd be sitting eating cherry tomatoes in a fur coat until and then trying to burn my son and oil people will love. The sexy baby sexy. You'll never care that you're the power behind the three. Exactly sexy baby just rolls around hanging out with with With white rappers. And i'm the one that's Pulling the strings it sounds pretty. Don't you want to hang out with harry and meghan or whatever. Your sexy baby's doing you don't care. Oh percent. Do i want to hang out with celebs kept you kept you off. Epstein's playing sure did yeah hanging hang on celebs. Never it's never as good as it seems but in the unlikely event that social media still exists. Facebook and twitter and instagram are archived at omnibus project. Our respective handles our names. Ken jennings and john roderick. Although you can find me now mostly on patriot on slash john roderick dot com slash. Get that paper. I i would like to email us at the omnibus project at gmail.com. You can email us our congratulations and other and also all of your here. Fact checking send us pictures of your good-looking babies for application purposes. You can support this show by sending us the golden urn or its contents as long as its contents are gold to patriots dot com slash rodrick. Actually if you're going to send us the earn you would send it to po box..
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"Which is how they got ta lebron's but luckily a different monk had a dream where he saw a very a monastery With distinctively curved winding path around it to a little house with turquoise eve's now we're talking told me more turquoise i just realized this guy is literally reading the tea leaves. The te'o eve's -til eve read the tea leaves. If you want to know the future. I to take you off the topic but the people that sold me my house painted my eve's gray just the ease. Well not painted the house gray They painted the house red barn red while i've just given it away. Anybody that's in my neighborhood. Now's gonna know where. I live but find the barter at house with the Gray they painted under the eaves. They painted them gray. And you know it's a mid-century house so it has bigger eaves and Degrees back then. Yeah they did. There was bigger bigger. Eaves is one of the ways you can tell people in old photographs but am realizing that the gray eaves are like kind of a drag. But i'm trying to figure out what color what's an exciting color to paint under your eaves. That doesn't seem a little bit like overmuch. Tibetan buddhism has the answer turquoise eve's it would be auspicious because in this case when the search parties headed up to the province of ondo They were undercover by the way. This is like when you're trying to buy arms out from farmers so they're not saying hey we're looking for the next dialogue. Who can help there just like we are poor wandering itinerant monks. Please shelter for the night. This is cool. And they wind up at a village in the dot com district where they find a house that matches the appearance and may have heard that. There's a kid the right age you know. It has to be someone who's been born since the death of the previous thirteenth dalai lama right. They didn't skip thirteen by the way as bad luck. It's a kid. That's that's old enough to be the dalai lama. But it doesn't have to be the dalai lama but old enough that you can take it from its mother. You don't want to take a four-month they're not going to kidnap. And you know it just occurred to me right now. How similar this to the christmas story and luke you've got a bunch of astrologers wandering the countryside trying to deliver gifts to a chosen baby right They they know vaguely direction to follow. But that's about it. You know fellow wandering star or in this case the character meaning amdahl this. This must be this. Must be a very deep archetype. Old old man looking for a baby are deepen our souls. Yeah it's something from from oldest india. If old men are looking for a baby that's how you know that's a good baby in our culture. Now that's not as popular. It's true old. Men looking for a baby is kind of a bummer. I mean it definitely makes you side with the baby but it gives you very bad feelings for the old man. And i think maybe we should wait that the boy that they've heard about was actually born two and a half years after the thirteenth dollar lama died but apparently that is not the logical problem. The dioramas taking care of business up upstairs she spent some time in the bardo. The limbo like state between lives in tibetan buddhism is that a groovy place like in What's the what's the one. Where the kid the dea pixar film where the kid is like roman around as the guy that doesn't want to die. Oh it's the new one soul and the like the jazz musician finds himself in a big cloud city full of little babies. This place is very groovy. it's instead of babies. It's full of buddha's yeah. You get visions of different kinds of of buddhas with all in great glory and color and representing different buddhist virtues. And then there's a choose your own adventure book by you know depending on which of the buddha's you focus and meditate on which of the colors of lights you look at you'll come back into different life. They say that you can even look at the at the last door that you look through. You will see in to your next life and in fact you will see your parents going at it and that's how you know you see that's a that's a a fertile landing place for your next arrival but i'm correct in saying that there are no lady buddha's well that's another point Up until now there have been no female dolly long dalai lama. And let's leave it there for moment. Okay when the search party undercover search party gets to this village. They find the little boy and he's they didn't know same. He's just dressed as like a servant they don't even know he's from the household but they're immediately miraculous manifestations he he seems to recognize one of the monks whom he would have known in his past life as the thirteenth dalai lama. If you can get your mind around this and he calls him like he referred to as a law that he uses a lhasa accent. Like an accent from town the caveat from town so it'd be like you go to the country to try to find the next whatever and he's like forget about it in here so he's got a regional accent that that his predecessor would've had but not the people around rattler. He's raised Over as they observe him over the next few visits at one point he asks for their row. He asks for a set of rosary beads around somebody's neck. And actually those were beads. That belonged to the previous dialogue. Okay and in fact. That's the test you do. You offer the child different objects to see if he can pick out the ones that he would have owned in his past. Life feels like this is sort of a weschler test for children right right. Here's a picture of a moose looking at his mommy in the bathroom. What emotions does this make you think of. What is the baby moose. Think of right now and in this case they would show him a ritual drama and something else and he would know this drum. That belonged to me when i was last here. This walking stick was mine. But i wonder how i wonder what. The percentage of correct answers it is. What's the mendoza line. Because sometimes he's got to get get it wrong right and just pick the more colorful nafis really the guy right. This is not that different from. There's a korean custom you do. I think when a child is like a hundred days old called on dole cianci. I think where you show the child and this is. I think kind of a common architecture in asian culture you show the child a bunch of objects. You know the baby you you know. There's a calligraphy brush. And if he picks up the brush she's going to be a smart kid. Oh does if he picks up the bill. He's going to be rich if he picks up food. Fat kid is to be. He's in the three kinds of people. There are smarts and fat. So it's like it's like a like a lot of asian schools determine whether you're a carpenter a lawyer before actually determines whether you get to go to the good cram school right. No that's not true today. There's maybe more modern options different colors of rice cake and video games right for you're gonna you're going to be a twitch streamer. This is fantastic. Anti he picked up the head. But the.
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"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"It's very unclear. What's going to happen but i was going to tell about. My friend is because he's on the board of these international nonprofits. He's hippy or do-gooder is he. A religious do-gooder hippie do-gooder I would say religious. You know maybe maybe a religious now but you know. He's a guy with a family money and time to spare so he's on seattle boards. God i wish that was me and it seems like maybe just wants the the flights to wherever they fly to. That's all i want more than he cares about measles or whatever. Put me in first class and send me to a board meeting. That's all. I really wanna send me to davos. But as a result you know. He's he's heard the dalai lama speaking last couple times. He was in town whenever that was. he's heard. The dalai lama speak a couple of times and maybe met with maybe chatted with him after come on and his his take is that the dalai lama is quite dim. That everyone just assumes because he's a Rubik old tibetan man in an orange robe that he's going to be full of not just A puckish personality but also deep enlightenment and wisdom and in fact that it's just a hearing him you get the sense of. He's just a vapid he's just somebody who's been the dalai lama since he was too. Wow you know that thing where you where you look at old pictures of robin williams. And you're like oh. He was catastrophically depressed for decades. We never knew it. Because we thought oh robin williams like lol is a good time up there but if you look at pictures of him for twenty years he has the face of some he has the. The shark is of someone who cannot Who's looking into the abyss. When i think of the dalai lama's cherubic face. I always thought that it meant. He was in contact with the bliss. But you're saying he's just potentially he's just just dumb. That was this. Guy's opinion. And i want to hasten to say i don't necessarily share that what he told me that i was like. Yeah i i guess i could see that i mean. He won a nobel peace prize. But it was. It was nineteen eighty nine and they just gave it to him for For being persecuted for not being the tiananmen square massacre. basically like. Let's give the nobel peace price. Somebody anti chinese communist party. I know that you are well as a man of faith. Do you recognize that as someone gets closer and closer to god they appear stupider and stupider is that like i think like isn't wisdom that's inconceivable right holy fools and hasn't suffered i mean he did have to flee his homeland. He's had a had a right because he had a rough time in the fifties seem. It's been pretty great for him for sixty years or so. I had to flee my homeland. But it's only because the because the music of alaska parking tickets that and and because you know music and allows like oil soapy smith went down to the mine and you know there's no like rock and roll bad metal bands. Oh so many there's one called. What was it like three fist punch or something. That became quite popular. I really yeah. Big big fifty punch. I think they should all have alaskan names like all the they should be called black glacier or something no black glacier left alaska metal walrus with an over the wall reuss. But i read the i read. The dalai lamas nobel prize read his holiness nobel prize speech. And on your own man. Just yesterday i was like you know what my buddies always saying. The dalai lama is probably a huge dummy. And i don't want to. I don't want to believe the worst about someone so i read some interviews. I and i've seen him on. Tv kind of just smiling and looking wise. And i'm like that's what i would do if i didn't know go up. Which is kinda smile. Him look wise. Guys got fifty years of practice would make a terrible podcast but the smiling looking wise with kenan john but he does The the nobel prize beaches good. I mean obviously that could be written but no interviews seems insightful. I don't buy it actually. He's that he's not smart. Yeah i i feel like he's probably the best dalai lama of in my lifetime. Yeah right right. Easily top five dalai lama along nineteen thirty five. Of course. how old was he when he became the dalai lama. I think he was too when he was. He's how talking about just having one employer your whole life. Why do you think that this is so fascinating to to the west end to steven seagal. Like what is the steven skull being separate from the west. He's your your main idea of a buddhist. There are there are more or less likely to go have died black care and are a dubious martial artists but i mean there are religious patriarchs around the world. You don't care about the patriarch of constantinople. No they're said there probably seventy denominations that have more people than tibetan buddhism more adherence than tibetan buddhism but the dalai lama just resonates with us. Let's be honest. a lot of it is politics. You know he's been a political symbol since nineteen fifty. Whatever talk fifty nine when the chinese invaded tibet. One toback got annexed and and as a result like a. Hollywood costs a lab in your lifetime in mind. Not just steven seagal. But richard gere and all the rest deeply concerned brad pitt. Yeah and scorsese. Scorcese made a a a dalai lama bio-pic after he got done making the last waltz. He went right over. And it's in his bio-pic cannon with jake lamotta and howard hughes. I go So yeah we're fascinated by him and really cheap beyond the politics. I would say the secret. Sauce is the reincarnation osha. Sure right the fourteenth dalai lama so this says here that there are six and a half million tibetans and that appears to be global. Which is roughly most of them. Probably into just by. Well no there are a bunch in china and india. Oh oh right. Because it's all in china for i was like. Oh they're six point. Three million of them in china I'm not going to take a position on that. But that is the number of people in israel right. that's the same number of people in israel as are in a wait. No not in not the people in israel. I'm sorry the jews in israel right there nine nine million people in israel but six million of them are jewish. And i don't know what borders were using. We're not gonna talk about that either. Okay so you're making that comparison to show oh just to show. Well i guess that this is. We are just as interested in jewish or more interested in in israeli politics than we are in tibetan. The same reason. It's a flash point with right not just ethnic religious and in the case of china tibet ideological winner. Mormons gonna gonna start some big fight in in the mountain states and and direct more excited international attention. We in this analogy would be annexed. The utah would be annexed by california colorado vail annex by vail and we fought our wars in the nineteenth century. We did get annexed. Yeah and you were a flash point until we could have in the free state of honor. What i'm saying. Say fifteen years but it would have been the free and independent state of Desert stretching all the way from from montana me he co right but no president. James k polk. Let's say or somebody else. Sure it was poke says sending the troops and and put us down and that's and know there was no doubt the dalai lama in this case did not flee to flee over the border torino lay down to arizona city colorado northern arizona. No in day. The woman's played nice. They were assimilationist. They decided we're going to do. You're boring monogamous marriages. If you twist our arm president possibly pull. That's they called. News traveled slow president to talk ish. But i think i think you've really gotten us in. The reincarnation is the main thing Around the year fourteen hundred a columba sail the ocean. Blue even before that on influential tibetan. Abbot founded a new school of buddhism. Called look Which was kind of a. It was kind of a reform movement. It was like buddhism has lost. Its way things used to be pure used to be about the used to be about the enlightenment man. So he's going to bring it back to his roots and he brings back yellow hats which was kind of what the what the monks war in the older pure times that. He's harkening back to indian buddhism more traditional to wear red hats so to this day. Gallup buddhism is key. I don't want to say that's the theological different. Yeah i i wish i could communicate the raised eyebrows. That i'm the buddha is displeased when we were red hat's john is this like in nineteen sixty eight when people started wearing striped suits and and straw boaters like we're bringing back the style of the twenties. I think it's more like mel gibson..
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"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"That's the thing you know. His brother was laid in his grave by a yankee. There's yankee is in the tune but he swears by the mud below his feet. That you can't raise a caine backup when he's in defeat and that concludes union. Dixie entry. One three six eight dot easy two zero four six certificate number two seven three three zero in them nimbus future links in the unlikely event that social media is still exists in your era facebook. Twitter and instagram are archived at at omnibus project. You can find. Ken jennings on the internet at ken jennings and will be hard pressed to find me on the internet at john roderick although you can find me at patriot dot com slash genre. I was saying you're like one of those servers. That has an air gap. Like i can tell you something. I know it cannot get on the internet. That's right you can tell me all your secrets in and you don't have to say like don't post this because it's like i'm not gonna where what i don't even have a connection i posted on my on on my own discourse you had your own little whole server. I do my own server. People have to your neighbors have to come in and plug in ethernet connection in your blog but then people you know people from my from my discourse could they also tend to well. They're not all on the internet most of them. Now we're just inside our little. Our little ended garden. Who did you tweet do. You can find us via email at the omnibus project gmail.com. You can email us things. There you can emails corrections and tell us about your experiences with noam chomsky. You can support our show. That is omnibus at patriot dot com slash omnibus project. We are a an.
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"john roderick" Discussed on Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
"Think of of all the uses that we have for oil a lot. Those uses a lot of a lot of the heavy lifting of oil was performed by whale oil for a couple of centuries salad dressing listening delicious oil vinegar but well oil lit our homes. Not just in the form of like candles made of of sperm whale wax. As as i like to call it the way away. But you know the the and not just oil in lanterns. But but oil in the sense of an industrial lubricant. Oil was one of one of the ways that the industrial revolution happened. And all these fantastic machines that were that were You know building building steam punk flying machines and and cotton gin and whatnot panama canals. They were all lubricated with oil and the source of that oil was wales how we found the the greatest animal and we literally grounded up and put it into machines and built a terrible new civilization on the back of that. That should have been omen right there. It's all the whale ghosts in our in our plants and mills and refineries. That's probably the discursive all our endeavors. Since then that's why new bedford is one of the largest cities in the world. New bedford is a league-leading metropolis. Just it's just all the whale. Ghosts giants shimmering wail goes. Ooh i mean that is what whale song sounds like they're talking. We think it's a ghostly knows but noise but they're just saying you killed us and we're like ooh..
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"Social media. You don't have to send us your photos. Flavors john and i each have one now. Thanks to roy. And also you don't have to send us any moose moose nuggets you can send your you know if you have a four leaf clover murph. You have more than one. Pass it along. Redistribute the luck yes send a salami to your boy in the army but we're good and send a four leaf clover to somebody in prison. We got a couple of postcards today to the po box ramon from chile. Arom says i noticed you get a lot of mail from the us. And he just wanted us to know we We have a fan in chile. This is required a thousand and ten chilean dollars in stamps to get here. So thank you for your sacrifice. Ramon does he have a return. Address wearing chile is he. Santiago apparently is down. He never been. It's penguin and arctic postcards. You have been there. I have been there. Does that count as as sheila. I've seen chile. Because i've seen across the mountains interior go but i never actually crossed the border who he wanted to shout out jim at tamburlaine blog for turning him onto omnibus. Ramon read on and read on jim. And here's a postcard. I don't understand this. The theme is the discourse pen pal group to send postcards to my pen. Pals is that the discourse group i think over at a patron dot com slash john roderick They were they. they initiated. A hey everybody send postcards to one another and somebody must have rolled the dice and gotten on bus. It's some i can't read. Their names starts with a d. Maybe dawn or a day. Fifty knots. But i can see why he didn't want to write out his full name He or she says. Even though i know you're a minimalist when it comes to. Pj's is it dawn d. a. w. n. I don't know if it is or not. We have heard from don before. This is just a dna squiggle. But it's somebody who is sending you a postcard. That's on the ad for like fifty zero ad for pre shrunk pajamas to me shares. Not to us both know this is addressed to you. I'm just reading your mail. Thanks thanks bro. So there you go but thank you. Thank you for sending us those those many things listeners. From our vantage point in your distant past we have no idea how long our civilization survived. We hope and pray that no catastrophes and in fact for the never comes but if the worst comes soon this recording like all our recordings maybe our final. What a light. Cheery final entry that would be. That would be fun. Just went out on forty four overs in the bombs from but at providence allows. We hope to back with you soon for another..
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'Bean Dad' John Roderick apologizes, says can opener story was 'poorly told'
"Which i speak from being dad we last left being dad the musician podcast john roderick. He had been hounded off the internet to do his tweet about making his eleven year. Old figure out how to open a can of beans by herself. Well not hounded bean. Dad admits he shamefully caved. He needed to face the music in an apology on his website. Being dad writes quote. Id activated my twitter. Yesterday in a panic he went on to say my story about my daughter and the can of beans was poorly told. I didn't share how much laughing we were doing how. We had a bowl of pistachios between us all day as we worked out the problem. We're that we both had a full breakfast together. A few hours before in other words he didn't levin it with some hand holding to tell people it's okay it might have seen serious. There might have been tension at the time in my conveyance and yes. Tension is a form of drama. But what. I really needed to do as a sure. The audience that a nine year old didn't have to go six hours between meals. He went on to add my friend. The story with me as the asshole dad. Because it's my comedic persona and my fans and friends know it's a bit. Well not just his friends or fans because of the screen shots. I saw just a snapshot in time but the tweets were getting a lot of love here. The first one said yesterday my daughter nine was hungry. And i was doing a jigsaw puzzle so i said over my shoulder. Make some baked beans. She said how like all kids do when they want you to do it. So i said open a can and put in the pot she brought me the cannon said open it how with a can opener is said incredulous. She brought me the can opener. And we both stared. I realized i'd never taught her to use it. Most cans now have pulled tops. I felt like a dope. What kind of apocalypse. Father doesn't teach kid how to use a manual. Can opener all right. Those are the first to post. I read and from the screenshot. I saw that second. One had ninety eight comments and one point seven thousand likes you know ratio getting ratio it online. It's it's when there are more comments than likes and supposedly this means that people are calling you out. You're getting your come up clearly. It wasn't the case with bean dad. His intended audience seem to like this story ratio. Really meeting was by the way cause some quotes questions a call for engagement. So they're going to get more comments. And some in groups will like others really horrendous tweets because looking at a lot of cunanan type tweets assailing a blameless georgia election worker. Hundreds of people like those. They were barely comment. That apartment so being dad was i rewarded for his story. As as i read it. I think he should have been there. Were delightful little grace notes quote. I told her stories about some of the great cans. I'd open to over the years. She rolled her eyes. We talked about industrial design. And what a funny little device. The opener is and the tone really gets no crueler than that. There are some tough love but also a lot of love love quote. I've been tempted many times along the way to guide her hand and wanted her to experience the magnificence of the can opener so much. I couldn't stand the suspense. Neither of us likes baked beans that much. The cupboards are bare so it seemed like a paltry reward for this work. It's a nice story. It uses twitter well. Bean dad was sale. And ken jennings got involved and the podcast. My brother and my brother and me dropped bean. Dad's music as their theme song. Right and so now being dad apologizes writing. I've conjured an abusive parent that many people recognized from real life. I am deeply sorry for having precipitated. More hurt in the world for having prolonged exacerbated by fighting back and being flippant wind confronted and for taking my twitter feed off line yesterday instead of facing the music which the parents i modeled didn't exist and which no one had to grow up with a parent who tortured them physically or emotionally would never intentionally make light of those experiences. And i'll never underestimate again. The pain i caused with some poorly chosen words and bhai acting defensively when challenged. Hey who am i to tell a person. You shouldn't be sorry for hurting someone else's feelings you should be sorry for hurting someone's feelings as a general rule and there was also some older content dredged up in the being dead deep dive some ironic racism that being dad should absolutely apologized for ironic. Anti-semitism that i say about i was put off though by the entire tone. Jose seemingly forced confession a public square rending of nature. To it in fact i hated that it needed to be done but i guess been dad. Thought it did. He wanted his career. Or at least it's twitter feedback. I object to the abject nature of it. But that's how he thinks he's going to get on with his life. I did think that this was an example where we have all heard ourselves by so demonizing the conditional apology. The if you were offended or to anyone. I may have offended. We treat that now is if so facto in sincere because often in the past that has been but now you can't even try it because it will without exception be interpreted as adding further insult to the original wrong and being dead knows. You can't do that so he didn't try to do that or else. It would have undermined all his efforts. But i say this is exactly the case where you might wish to say if my exaggerated character of the gruff dad reminded you of your actually hurtful father well to those in that camp i really am sorry about that and i think that would have been a sincere apology but it could have been a conditional apology which no longer exists. Those have been defined as non apologies. I don't wanna be overly dramatic about any of this in stating that. Huge parts of our society are now subject to the victims veto but it does seem more true than it ever has been before pendulum. Guess it needed to swing a bit. It swung quite a bit more than. I'm comfortable with than i think. Art should be comfortable with or even self expression. I mean these. Little wounded grievance sparrows huddled together alert to any sign of predators. They're not even fully birth. I think of them as hatchlings in a spotty incubator blinking on and off they must be attended to at all costs again. It is not the death knell of a once robust culture. We will survive. I can't say right now however we're thriving on