dimland radio 3-3-18 show notes

Pedantic Moment: Pres. Trump A Nowhere Man?

Do those lyrics seem off to you? They do? That's because the person who put this image together had to make a change in order for this to be insulting toward the President. There are a couple lines that have been changed, but the one that had to be changed for sure was, "Isn't he a bit like you and me?"

 

What?! Oh, no. This is supposed to insult him, not suggest he would have anything in common with us.

It Was The Short Change Scam

 

While in line at the register at the grocery store, a fellow in front of me pulled off the Short Change Scam on the young, inexperienced cashier. I wasn't paying attention as the scam began, but I did eventually see something was up. I wasn't able to stop it and I'm not sure how I would, but I did speak up for the kid with his manager.

You can learn about the Short Change Scam here.

A Cool Coincidence

 

I believe in coincidences. I don't think the universe is trying to tell me something when I think of a particular TV show theme song (Lost In Space) and, a couple days later, a friend asks if I can identify that same theme song. If the universe is trying to tell me something having to do with that theme, I have no idea what it could be.

 

It's Not True: KFC Can't Say "Chicken"

 

Hard to read, I know. Sorry. Best image I could find.

There's an odd conspiracy theory that been going around the internets every since Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants started calling themselves KFC in 1991. I spotted the meme above detailing the "real" reasons for the name change. KFC doesn't use chickens. No, they use "genetically manipulated organisms" (it was early on, so the meme maker probably hadn't heard the term genetically modified organisms yet), which the government says can't be called chicken.

 

For crying out loud. It's not true. On the KFC website the word "chicken" is used multiple times. And the original name is still at the top of every page.

Crisis Actors

 

Answer: No, it's not.

It's one of the newer conspiracy theories. The crisis actor. People who "they" send in to fake or over-dramatize major events, such as mass shootings. It's ridiculous and disrespectful and needlessly cruel to those whose lives have been ended or touched be these tragedies.

 

Skeptic Bob Blaskiewicz gives a good overview of the crisis actor conspiracy here.

 

Top Three Cool Things Of The Week

Here's Three Cool Things from this week.

 

3) True, the stamp on the container is not giving an expiration date, but I still think it's cool that someone had a little fun with this 250 million year old sea salt.

 

2) I spotted this live concert video of Cheap Trick from 1977. It's nearly 22 minutes of some damn cool rock.

1) This will undoubtedly just be cool to me, but I've been encouraging old art school friends to post pictures from back in the day on Facebook. A few have shown up. Very cool!

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Inside A Fireball' by Hunters & Collectors & 'Still Ill' by The Smiths

Second ad break bumpers: 'Ahead' by Wire & 'Love Is For Lovers' by The dBs

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

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dimland radio 10-10-15 show notes

Interesting Science News Item...

I hadn't been able to get to this the last couple of shows, but I did this week. There's a small town in the Dominican Republic in which a number of boys are born appearing to be girls. When those boys reach the age of 12 or so, they get their penises and testes. It's a strange occurrence in which nature delays their sexual development.

 

The boys are called guevedoces which translates to "penis by 12". Nature sure can be strange.

 

I speculated as to how this might relate to the nature versus nurture debate.

It's Not True: Same Woman At Four Mass Shootings

 

Conspiracy theorists are a bit nutty. Have you ever heard that before? They will find evidence no matter how bad to justify their belief in some conspiracy no matter how outlandish. They engage in anomaly hunting and they are very good at it.

 

One anomaly some of them have convinced themselves of is that there are "crisis actors" who participate in these mass shooting events we've been having waaay too many of here in the US. These "actors" add to the perceived reality of the event by acting as grieving relatives of those who have been killed. So, that the country will be moved to allowing Obama to take our guns.

 

Well, the conspiracy nuts believe the same grieving "crisis actor" can be seen at four recent mass killings of innocents. Look closely at the images of this woman for, oh, 0.005 seconds and you will see that she is actually four different women.

 

Four different women grieving at four different tragedies.

Snopes came to the rescue on this one.

 

 Nostalgia Zones Blogs

I talked about the two latest blog posts I did for Nostalgia Zone. One was a parody ad about Jarts, the lawn darts game that might not have been a great idea. Large, heavy, metal-tipped darts you throw in the air - what could go wrong?

 

 

And then I blogged about a Halloween sound effects record we had when we were kids. It's called 'Monster Mash: Sounds of Terror' and I even played a few tracks from the album. Most tracks on the album were fairly tame. But then they included tracks that covered being possessed by the devil, burned at the stake, buried alive, and being decapitated by a guillotine. You know, for kids!

Movie Recommendations: None

 

Ran out of time, so you're on your own this week.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Cuts You Up' Peter Murphy & 'I Believe In You' by Don Williams

Second ad break bumpers: 'Almost With You' The Church &  'Something Against You' By Pixies

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
 
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.