dimland radio 12-1-18 show notes

I Saw Dana Gould

The fellow in the back and I are stunned into silence by Dana Gould's amazing ability to sign a poster.

 
Well, I did. He performed at the Acme Comedy Club. He was very funny.

I (once again) recommended listening to his podcast, The Dana Gould Hour. I gave a few reasons why I enjoy it so much. And I told him that his is the only podcast I listen to in which I never feel compelled to speed through his ad reads. He suggested a possible reason for that...

Oh, Boy. Would you Guys Stop Doing This?

There's some fakery going on here.

The internet keeps getting filled up with lies about this guy. And I keep having to tell the internet that there's plenty of actual bad stuff about him that can be used to try to convince others to not re-elect him, you don't have to make stuff up.

 

Does the president having improper feelings for his daughter? I don't know.

 

The maker of this meme wants us to think he does. Sure, it might just be a joke, but there are some people who will think the middle and lower right photos aren't fake. They are.

 

Even the images that haven't been doctored can look wrong when just the right moment is chosen and the "Trump wants to bang his daughter" text is added.

 

The images came from the 2016 Republican National Convention. Ivanka Trump gives a speech and introduces her father. Watch the last 30 seconds on this video and the moment looks completely innocent.

 

It's All About Timing

It may seem odd but drawing images can be subject to timing and pacing. These three images all have the same problem in that they flow awkwardly and that throws off the timing. The "punchline" comes at the wrong place.

 

In the comparison of Democrats and Republicans, which I drew because I couldn't find the original, the punchline comes in too early. In the two Wonder Woman images, the same joke is ruined by the punchline coming in visually before the set-up.

 

The Democrat should be on the right for this to flow properly.

Hannity should be on the right and Wonder Woman's image should be flipped.

Ditto.

Don't you agree? Of course you do.

And Still No Decent Photograph Of Bigfoot

 

 
I spotted the above image on the Monster Talk Facebook page. It shows a deer that appears to be fleeing from a flying squirrel. It's an eerie, yet cool image. And it must be a rare moment and still a photo was captured.

 

However, to this day there is still no decent photograph of bigfoot. Maybe some day.

 

Speaking Of Photographs Of Bigfoot

 

"Stop, Lady! Or I'll shoot!"

Could this illustration (above) by Mort Kuntsler for an article in a 1960 edition of True Magazine have been the inspiration for the bigfoot costume that was probably used in the Patterson/Gimllin film from 1967? (I heard about this article on the Squaring The Strange Podcast)

 

We can't say for certain, but the bigfoots in the two images do share an interesting feature in common: Pendulous breasts.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment And ARGH!: Recycling PSA On The Radio

I didn't have the audio for this Public Service Announcement for recycling when I recorded the show, but you can listen to it here. I hate these sorts of ads. A repeated phrase, multiple voices, kids' voices, and the ad doesn't even tell you what it's about until three quarters of the way through. I hate that!

 

And, kids, you ain't growing up. You are no longer useful in your present state, you will rounded up, destroyed, and made into something else. That's not growing up.

 

Three Cool Things

 

It's true.

1) Speaking of bigfoot pictures, someone on the internets put the above images of Amelia Earhart and Patterson/Gimlin's bigfoot together and made a truthful observation. It's brilliant and funny. And that's cool.

 

2) NASA's Insight lander has successfully landed on Mars. Thus continuing our robot invasion of our red neighbor. COOL!

 

3) November's daily drawing challenge of Crystalvember has come to an end. That might not be cool, but helping a Facebook friend have something to look forward to each day while dealing with a serious illness was very cool.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'I Ran (So Far Away)' by A Flock Of Seagulls & 'No Self Control' by Peter Gabriel

Second ad break bumpers: 'Seven Seas' by Echo & The Bunnyman & 'This Is The Day' by The The

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

That's it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

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Images used under Fair Use.

dimland radio 12-9-17 show notes

A Couple Entertainment Notes

I start off by mentioning that the Fox network seems desperate for me to watch their live TV event of the musical version of A Christmas Story. I'm not a big fan of the musical genre and there is no way any version of one of my favorite holiday movies could ever be as good as the original. Only the original has Darren McGavin.

 

And I talked about the outrage I felt at a click-bait site that listed the 10 Best Singing Drummers. Whoever put it together listed Karen Carpenter lower than Peter Criss of KISS. He certainly isn't a better singer and I don't think he's even a better drummer.

 

Jim And Andy

 

 

 
There's a Netflix documentary called Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, which gives audiences a behind the scenes look at Jim Carey making the film Man On The Moon, the biopic of comic, performance artist Andy Kaufman. Carey decided to go deep into the method and "channel" Kaufman and Kaufman's very caustic character Tony Clifton.

 

Carey comes off as quite the jerk to his co-workers, but his performance is pretty damn good in the film.

 

Pedantic Moment: Jim Carey's Method Acting Stopped Short

 
Jim Carey's method didn't go all the way. Andy Kaufman got lung cancer and died. Jim didn't get lung cancer and he's still alive. Some method actor he is.

 

It's Not True: The Amish Don't Vaccinate And Don't Get Autism
 

A claim by anti-vaxxers is that the "fact" that the Amish don't vaccinate and don't get autism, therefor vaccines cause autism. Well, vaccines don't cause autism. And the Amish do get vaccinated and they do get autism.

 

Of course, if the anti-vaxxers accept that fact they would just say, "See? Vaccines cause autism."

 

They get to not accept the truth about the Amish, vaccines, and autism and claim vaccines cause autism. If the do accept the truth, they still can claim vaccines cause autism. They can have it both ways.

 

Sigh. 

 

Yeti DNA Samples

 

Last week's Pedantic Moment (better than this week's) had to do with a headline stating that DNA alleged to be from yetis turned out not to be bigfoot. (Well, duh.) Well, I thought I should report on the story from which that PM came.

 

The DNA wasn't yeti or bigfoot. The DNA came from bears with one sample being from a dog.

Is This A Perfect Example Of Mansplaining?

A Facebook friend claimed Norman Rockwell's 1959 illustration The Jury Room (see above). The Facebook friend claimed this illustration is a perfect example of mansplaining. I asked, "If the lone hold-out was a man, would it be mansplaining or just splaining?"

 

What do you think?

Top Three Cool Things Of The Week

Here are the Top Three Cool Things from this week, all related to the space documentary The Farthest: Voyager In Space.

3) The amount of computing power used in the Voyager Project is equivalent to an object you might have in your pocket.

 

2) The planetary alignment that makes the mission possible in the shortest amount of time happens once every 176 years.

 

1) The gold records with lots of information about us and our little planet will last a very, very, very long time. Very long. Very, very.

 

Movie Recommendation:The Farthest: Voyager In Space

It's streaming on Netflix, so watch it as soon as possible.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Rock N Roll Is King' by ELO & 'One I Love' by REM

Second ad break bumpers: 'Girls On Film' by Duran Duran & 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

That's it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

Please subscribe on iTunes! Just search for Dimland Radio in the podcast section. And if you could leave a good rating and a positive review it would be awesome.

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.

dimland radio 12-2-17 show notes

More Mad Mike

I named Mad Mike Hughes a Dimland Radio Science Zero last week and talked about his intention to jump a California ghost town in a steam-powered rocket he made himself. But! The government stepped in and told him he needs to get the proper permits to perform his stunt. Mad Mike thought he had a new way to get around the permit problem by changing his launch and landing area to private land, but the Bureau of Land Management told him he still needs the proper permits.

 

As of this writing, the stunt has still not been performed. Stay tuned.

 

Dimland Radio Science Zero: A Few UK Water Companies

I had another Dimland Radio Science Zero to bestow this week. Two weeks in a row? Yep.

 

This Zero was too good not to do. In the UK there are some water utility companies that have engineers using dowsing techniques to find water mains. That's right. Dowsing.

 

Sigh.

 

Pedantic Moment: Yeti DNA Used To Find Bigfoot?

 
One of the Minnesota Skeptics shared an article about scientists testing material claimed to be yeti DNA. Not surprisingly the DNA does not show those creatures are real. The pedantry was raised by how the headline was written:

 

"Scientists DNA tested nine 'yeti' samples. They didn't find Bigfoot."

 

Can you guess what I got pedantic about with that headline?

 

A Dimland Radio ARGH!

Of the non-skeptical, non-scientific ideas in the world few get my goat more than the anti-vax notion. Anti-vaxxers believe vaccines cause autism. They don't. Just try to convince an anti-vaxxer though.

 

Well, I spotted an image on Facebook indicating that as the number of vaccinations increased over the years, the number of autism diagnoses increased. They are making the correlation the vaccines are causing autism. Correlation does not necessarily mean causation.

 

 

I decided to add a little something to that image and get that out on the internets. Please feel free to share it. 

 

OK, It May Not Be All Men, But Lately It Sure Seems Like It

 

I dove into this whole rash of sexual harassment and assault claims against famous men of power. I hope I didn't get in over my head, but I did voice my concerns over the lack of due process. I'm troubled by the way an accusation seems to be all that's needed to prove guilt. People's careers and lives are being turned upside down on the basis of accusations.

 

I brought up Pres. Bill Clinton and Justice Clarence Thomas, comparing the public's reactions to those accusations to today's accused fellows. I noted that at least one defender of Bill Clinton twenty years ago is today thinking that President maybe shouldn't have been defended and should have been forced to resign. 

 

It's a mess, but I remain hopeful that we as a society will come out of this being a better society.

The Artist Versus The Art

 

I talked about the difficulty of appreciating art by very flawed artists. I'm not certain I could give up the art of some of these artists. I even talk about the likelihood of not giving up the art of my favorite artist, Pete Townshend.

 

It's difficult.

Top Three Cool Things Of The Week

Here are the Top Three Cool Things from this week.

3) A YouTuber named Swede Mason has made a quite disturbing, but nonetheless cool, video mash-up of Talking Heads and Pres. Trump.

 

 

2) Dimland Radio's Facebook page was up to 189, now 190 as I write this.

 

1) Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast is spearheading a crowd funding project to finance a documentary to expose how the media abuses and misrepresents science in the pursuit of ratings. If you have the means, I suggest you give this project your financial support.

 

Movie Recommendation: None

 

I ran out of time, so you are on your own this week.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Tape Your Wife To The Ceiling' by The Suburbs & 'Heat Of The Moment' by Asia

Second ad break bumpers: 'Epic' by Faith No More & 'Public Highway' by Luxuria

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

That's it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

Please subscribe on iTunes! Just search for Dimland Radio in the podcast section. And if you could leave a good rating and a positive review it would be awesome.

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.