dimland radio 6-30-18 show notes

It's Hot

 

Well, it's summer and it's hot. And humid. I hate hot and humid. I hate summer.

Another City Decide Tooth Decay And Mouth Pain Is Great 

A couple weeks ago I talked about two neighboring towns in Australia. One fluoridates its water, one does not. The town that does not fluoridate its water has a far higher occurrence of tooth decay, fillings, and extractions.

 

Another city, this one in Canada, has chosen to give into fear of fluoride and their children are suffering for it. This one is Calgary.

 

Shame on you, Calgary.

Hit Parade Is A Great Podcast

I listen to several podcasts and Slate's Hit Parade hosted by Chris Molanphy is one of my favorites. Its a music history podcast that is really engaging and fascinating. It is excellent and the latest episode is right in my musical wheelhouse.

My Son's Baby Teeth

My wife and I did what we thought was a good job brushing and flossing our son's teeth when he was a toddler, but some brown stains on his front teeth. We asked his doctor about those stains and found out we were doing something wrong.

 

Lots of caps and fillings fixed him up, but we felt as though we'd let him down. 

A Dimland Radio Argh!

It's a minor Argh, but it still gets under my skin. Or should I say it's a pain in the neck?

 

Younger folks seem to not realize that when a person has been killed by hanging we say they have been hanged, not hung. I hear it said incorrectly on virtually every episode of The Dollop podcast.

 

Astrology IS Just Damn Silly

This could also be an Argh, but it's just so ridiculous. It's nearly as silly as believing the earth is flat to believe the orbit of the planets in our solar system could have any affect on us. And not just the orbit, but they way the orbit appears to move has an affect.

 

At times, six of the other planets in our solar system and Pluto appear to move in the opposite direction of their respective orbits. It's called retrograde. But it only looks that way from earth, because the earth is also orbiting the sun.

 

I read an article warning us of a bumpy summer becomes of planets in retrograde. It's just plain silly.

Three Cool Things

 

 

 

3) This YouTube video showing some of the best crowd reactions at baseball games. Most moments are shown twice. Once from the TV coverage, once from amateur video. Most are very cool, except the last moment when the crowd was cheering the death of Osama bin Laden.

2) A Facebook friend brought the Bible Word Locator site to my attention. It's loads of fun.

1) And there's Hot Dog Water! It claims to be a health product with fantastic benefits. But that's not what's cool about it. It's actually a product meant to demonstrate the too good to be true claims of typical "snake oil" products.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Talk Talk' by Talk Talk & 'Can't Get There From Here' by REM

Second ad break bumpers: 'Head Over Heels' by The Go Go's & 'Telephone Operator' by Pete Shelley

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 6-23-18 show notes

Eeeeewwww!

 

Not my elbow, but it did look like this.

 

My right elbow had been bothering me for a while over the past fall and winter, but it had gotta better for a while. Then the elbow swelled up in the last few weeks. It didn't hurt quite as bad as it did before. It ached a little and felt tight, because the skin was being stretched, but it was really annoying. And, with it being short sleeve season, it was very unsightly.

 

I finally went to my doctor and he drained it. Phew.

Koko The Gorilla Has Died

The internet was saddened this past week when it found out Koko the gorilla who had learned a few words in American Sign Language had died. There were headlines stating the kitten-loving primate had "mastered" sign language.

Sigh.

 

Never underestimate the laziness of some journalists. Koko could make some signs, but there are plenty of folks in the science and psychology fields that have doubts that she really understood language, let alone mastered it.

John Rael, of SkepticallyPwnd, has blogged about her dying and the reaction and he included a video he produced, in which he acts out Koko communicating with her keepers.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Odd Censoring Of Gilbert Gottfried

There's a video on YouTube of Richard Belzer interviewing Gilbert Gottfried. Gottfried tells a shortened, but still just as vulgar, version of the infamous The Aristocrats joke. There's an odd bit of censoring in it.

Speaking Of Bias

I noticed something about an article in the March/April 2016 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. (My apologies, but I cannot link to it.) The article, written by two Cornell University psychology professors, explained how people can easily spot bias in others, but not so easily spot in in themselves.

I noticed what I thought was some bias in the article, in part based on the 2000 Bush vs Gore US Supreme Court decision, that the authors didn't spot. 

Movie Recommendation: The Aristocrats (2005)

 

 

This may not be for everyone, but if you enjoy a good, nasty, dirty, disgusting, taboo-laden joke then this documentary is for you.

 

Three Cool Things

 

3) It may have been disgusting, but the draining of my elbow was also pretty cool.

2) The Belzer/Gottfried interview covers more than that disgusting joke and it's very interesting and cool.

1) I've completed two more illustrations for Nostalgia Zone, the comic book and collectibles store I do some work for. These two (see above) turned out pretty good.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'New Year's Day' by U2 & 'Second Guessing' by U2

Second ad break bumpers: 'Walking On Your Hands' by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry & 'All Gone Away' by Cheap Trick

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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dimland radio 6-16-18 show notes

The Big Summit Reaction

Most of the reactions I've seen of the big summit between the US and North Korea agreed with the notion that Pres. Trump got played by Kim Jong Un. It appears America agreed to do more than North Korea did. Kim merely made the same promise he and his father before him have been making since 1992. So, was Trump the only President to have been played?

 

Well, time will tell.

 

Here's the opinion by Nicolas Kristoff that I mentioned on the show.

 

I also mentioned a video montage demonstrated how Fox News folks did an about face when it came to our President talking to the North Korean dictator. Click here to enjoy the 180.

 

I also talked about Rope-A-Dope. I was trying to make a little comparison with the summit and the way Muhammad Ali handled George Foreman in 1974's Rumble In The Jungle.

A Dimland Radio Science Hero: House MD

I never watched the show, but when I saw this scene I knew I had a Science Hero for the show. Having never watched the show, I don't know if the entire series was as pro science-based medicine as this scene suggests, but this scene does hit hard at the anti-vax ridiculousness. For this scene, the writers/producers of House MD are Dimland Radio Science Heroes.

 

 

It's Not True: The Kid In A Cage

Yes, the image does show a crying child in a cage. No, the child has not been trapped in a cage by ICE agents bent on tearing immigrant families apart. The picture is from a demonstration against the immigration policies of the Trump administration.

 

Snopes has the scoop.

 

Finding Bigfoot Ends

After 100 episodes, the Animal Planet reality series Finding Bigfoot has come to an end. The show was successful in that it went 100 episodes and in making the phrase "gone squatchin'' popular. It wasn't very successful in finding any bigfoots, though.

 

Oh, well. No one's perfect.

 

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment One: Hands On?

An ad at the end of a CinemaSins YouTube video on Everything Wrong With Ratatouille stated that at Full Sail University, a school for film-making, students get hands on experience. They gain real world experience by going beyond the classroom. Students can study online... Hang on. How do they get hands on experience online?

 

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment Two: Um, That's Not Mary Poppins

The image shows a famous scene from the Sound Of Music, the text refers to a song from the Sound Of Music, but then refers to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins wasn't in the Sound Of Music. 

 

Three Cool Things

 

3) The Minnesota Skeptics had their meet up, which is always cool.

2) The Washington Capitals finally won a Stanley Cup. That's good, because no team that represents a city or state that's only experience with ice is as something to put in their drinks should every win the Cup. (But it would have been cool if the Vegas Golden Knights had won while in their first year of existence.)

 

    

1) The photograph above shows how a basketball could appear to be flat.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Never Follow' by Naked Raygun & 'Talking Doll' by The Screaming Blue Messiahs

Second ad break bumpers: 'Watusi Rodeo' by Guadalcanal Diary & 'I Can't Take It' by Cheap Trick

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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dimland radio 6-9-18 show notes

Mom, Dad, Meet Bambi...

...and they hit it with their car. They're OK. The car is still driveable, but it's looked better.

A Good Thing?

Last week, I made a joke about doing a "deep dive" into a political topic. The topic was the meeting between Pres. Trump and Kim Kardashian on prison reform. I made the joke by being speechless about the unusualness of such a meeting.

 

But the result of that meeting was the freeing of a 63 year-old woman from prison, serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug crime. Isn't that a good thing? The woman is free after 21 years. Still some folks aren't giving the President much credit.

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment (Grammar Nazi Edition): It's it's not its.

Friend of the show, Craig, who helped me with the previous segment, tested me the other day to see if I was pedantic enough to catch the error on the cover of Kanye West's new album.

As if...

 

Fear Of Fluoride Down Under

 

There are two towns in Australia. One fluoridates its water, the other doesn't. One has a high rate of tooth decay leading to many fillings and extractions in adults and children. Can you guess which?

 

I also talked about the Dunning-Krueger Effect on display at the town meeting held to hear the public's thoughts on fluoridation. I speculated on how to approach such a gather of Google searchers. 

 

Three Cool Things

 

3) I participated in recording another entertaining episode of the Assault of the Two-Headed Space Mules. It may be some time before it's released, though. I'll let you know when it's available.

2) A customer of the janitorial service I work for thanked me for the work I do for them.

 

 

1) Last summer's great American solar eclipse was capture is this very cool composite photograph.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'No Self Control' by Peter Gabriel & 'Alice's House' by The Psychedelic Furs

Second ad break bumpers: 'Well I Wonder' by The Smiths & 'I Lie' by The dB's

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.