dimland radio 1-18-20 show notes

Let It Snow

It wasn't the biggest snowfall we've ever gotta in the Twin Cities, but the timing did make it tricky. I decided to do my Friday night job over the weekend. That job is cleaning an office building. Mentioning that led to...

Tales From The Janitor's Closet

This segment was pretty much just me going on about some things office workers do that make janitors grumble. There always seems to be at least one person determined to make the janitor's job harder. the jerks.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Good Will Hunting

We watched Good Will Hunting a couple weeks ago. It's a good movie. Oh, sure, he's a math genius, but Good Will doesn't know how to mop. As if! 

And I suggest a possible career path Good Will's best friend, played by Ben Affleck, might pursue.

Sports!

 

I mentioned last week that the Minnesota Vikings were (note that, were) in the playoffs. They managed to beat the New Orleans Saints and move on to San Francisco to take on the 49ers. I predicted the Vikes would lose. They did. 

Well, at least they won't lose the Super Bowl. 

A Dimland Radio Science Zero Or This Can't Be What Gwyneth's Vaj Smells Like

 

Goop, the website designed to extract money from the gullible, has a new product. It's a scented candle that Goop claims smells like their leader's vagina. It's called 'This Smells Like My Vagina'. The vagina in question belongs to America's princess Gwyneth Paltrow.

How does Goop come up with these ideas?

But it's a misrepresentation. It's just some perfume, not the smell of Gwen's genitals.

I imagined how a particular customer might have been disappointed by the bait and switch. 

Cool Thing: Behind The Scenes Photos From Harry Potter Movies

 

The Harry Potter movie series (and books) are among my favorites. So, I thought it would be of interest to share this site which shows some of the behind the scenes magic. It's cool.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: Electric Lash by The Church & Love Vigilantes by New Order

Second ad break bumpers: Seven Year Ache by Rosanne Cash & O.K. Wait by Naked Raygun

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

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

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dimland radio 12-21-19 show notes

The Unpleasantness

 

Pres. Donald John Trump has been impeached.

Well, the majority of the House of Representatives voted to impeach him, but there's an opinion out there that the impeachment process isn't complete until the Articles of Impeachment have been presented to the Senate.

 

I'm confident the Articles will make their way to the Senate and the Senate will hold a show trial and acquit Donald John Trump. And he will be re-elected. Sorry, that's just how I see it.

 

I took some time to explain the impeachment process.

Noah Feldman, Barack Hussein Obama, And A Troll On Facebook

A Trump supporting troll took some glee in the technicality law professor Noah Feldman put forward about the impeachment process is not complete yet, because the Articles haven't been handed over to the Senate. Yet.

 

Folks tried to convince him he was wrong, but he wouldn't budge and he wouldn't cite sources. He did mentioned he posted a citation elsewhere on his page. So, I dug and found out about the technicality. I told the troll I accepted the technicality.

 

It took a little convincing, but he realized I wasn't arguing with him. He apologized, but he had taken exception to my needling by saying he was a Russian bot. I thought we had a breakthrough.

 

But then I put a question on my Facebook page asked why people who insisted on referring to the previous president as Barack Hussein Obama, but weren't calling the current one Donald John Trump. There were suggestions of racism and Islamophobia.

 

Then the troll reared his head again. Name calling and insulting his way to being unfriended and blocked. I'm sure it made his day.

Mentioned On The Show

This being my Christmas show, I thought I should make some sort of mention of the holiday. So, I mentioned my blog on Warehouse Find, the official blog of Nostalgia Zone. Click here for some holiday cheer.

 

Also mentioned was an op-ed piece posted on Christianity Today's website calling for Pres. Trump to be removed from office. Click here.

 

Also, also mentioned the Stuck In The 80s podcast did a recent examination of two albums released in 1979: The Clash's London Calling and Christopher Cross' debut album. Click here to give the show a listen.

 

It's Not True: Another Supposed Gotcha From A Moon Landing Conspiracy Nut

 

The photo above was shared and a conspiratorial question was asking about who took the picture of Neil Armstrong descending the ladder to the lunar surface.

 

The answer is very easy and should be obvious. Do you know the answer?

 

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: The Decade Isn't Over

The '10s may be about to end, but the decade still has a year to go.

I was moved a bit by an argument suggesting there's the numerical decade (counting 1 to 10) and the historical decade (counting 0 to 9).

 

Well, I did say the '10s may be over, but the decade still has year to go. I covering both the numerical and the historical. Aren't I?

 

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: Ram by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt & Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives

Second ad break bumpers: Silver And Gold by Burl Ives & Christmastime Is Here by Vince Guaraldi Trio

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.

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dimand radio 12-7-19 show notes

OK, Boom... Er... Um... Hm...

 

    

The above video clip is from the classic TV cop drama Dragnet. It's from the show's second run (1967-1970) on television and it shows the two lead characters Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) lecturing a group of teenage boys. They lay into the boys pretty well about true hardship, outrage, and changing society.

 

The video was shared on Facebook as a way of showing how kids today don't have a clue. And it struck me as ironic when connected with the whole "OK, Boomer" phenomenon. Think about it. Who is being lectured here? The teenagers are Boomers.

 

Every generation thinks the following generations just don't get it, I guess. And yet we muddle through somehow.

I took a few minutes mentioning how some things have improved since Joe's sermon. Traffic fatalities are way down. Especially when you compare the number of death as a percentage of the population and the number of miles driven per fatality. Way down!

They even touch on how vaccines have worked. Oh, they don't say it explicitly. They point out how the kids aren't familiar with have neighbors having to put their houses under quarantine due to infectious diseases that were far more common when Joe and Bill were kids. Polio is mentioned as a rarity. Mastoid scars are mentioned as being less common. (I had to look that up. Here's what I found.)

People Do The Dumbest Things

I don't know if Goop has endorsed this yet, but it's just stupid enough to be right up their alley. It's perineum sunning. There are people who will lay up in the sun and position their naked selves in such a way that the sun's ray will get to where it doesn't normally shine.

 

Don't ever underestimate the foolishness of humans. And don't risk sunburning your naughty bits. It's dumb.

Joey Skaggs

The whole sunning your butthole story got me hoping it was some hoax being played on the gullible news media. (It still might be, but I'm not certain.) I thought of Joey Skaggs, an artist who made it his mission to fool the news media and expose their shortcomings in vetting some outlandish claims.

 

Skaggs had news outlets believing he ran a brothel for dogs, developed a vitamin using cockroaches, and that he was a priest riding a bicycle with a confession booth on it so he could take people's confessions on the street. Each hoax would hook the media, they would report it, and then he would let them know they had been hoodwinked.

 

Skaggs is a hero!

Seven Books I Love (Or I'm Fond of)

 

Facebook had a book challenge in which participants were to share the cover of a book they love, without any further comment, and invited others to share their favorites. Here are my seven:

 

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment Bonus: Reading Or Listening

It's a matter of splitting hairs, I know, but does listening to an audiobook mean that you are reading it with your ears? I don't think so.

 

Three Cool Things

 

1) The Who's new album dropped Friday and it's good. Really good!

2) The documentary that revisits the tragic event in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979, in which 11 kids died trying to get into Riverfront Coliseum to see The Who aired and is available on YouTube. Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and their longtime manager Bill Curbishly are all interviewed in depth for the first time since the accident.

 

3) The Who announced they will be returning to Cincinnati to perform in concert for the first time since that tragic night. The concert, a portion of the proceeds will benefit a scholarship fund that had been set up in honor of three Finneytown High School students who lost their lives in the crush that night, is set to take place April 23, 2020. Cool!

 

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Heaven's Falling' by Cheap Trick & 'Achin' To Be' by The Replacements

Second ad break bumpers: 'No Self Control' by Peter Gabriel & 'Date With A Vampyre' by The Screaming Tribesmen

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.

Images used under Fair Use.