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The grey side-gilled sea slug (Pleurobranchaea maculata) might look unassuming, but it holds the title of Aotearoa's New Zealand's most toxic creature.
The gang goes to a tavern and meets a blast from the past. Eugene drinks. Aani does a dance. Paul Beenis casts a spell. Spoons Rango is strangely quiet this episode. Ambience used from: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelGhelfiMusic/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUGy8GD5oY4EX9awX4FSqBw https://www.youtube.com/user/SonCurran/featured
Your heroes give a no-frills recounting of the Kenosha incidents, then give their take on how this will impact the campaigns. Albert and Bob each bring a political ad to the table for Show-and-Tell. (with thanks to Adrian Dominic Walther and Dr. Delight for the intro/outro song)
Welcome back to Six Minute Sex Ed, the podcast that helps people talk about sex, relationships, and growing up. Created and hosted by Sex Education Teacher Kim Cavill. Find her at www.teaandintimacy.com - https://twitter.com/sexposparenting - https://www.instagram.com/sixminutesexed/ This week’s episode is Level Two, making it perfect for tweens, teens, and adults. I’m going to change the way you think about HIV. Resources: https://www.prep4all.org/news/remdesivir https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/remdesivir-gilead-science-coronavirus-covid-treatment-cost https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-time-to-seize-drug-patents/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/us-buys-up-world-stock-of-key-covid-19-drug https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/02/powerful-law-gives-hhs-right-to-control-remdesivir-manufacturing-distribution/?utm_content=buffer14d1d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter_organic https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/30/624045995/rising-cost-of-prep-a-pill-that-prevents-hiv-pushes-it-out-of-reach-for-many https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/podcasts/the-daily/hiv-aids-truvada-prep.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma2FvPTi5uQ The national institute of health, a government body, led the taxpayer funded research that developed PrEP, an HIV prevention drug, and Remdesivire, an anti-viral that shows early promise in fighting Covid. Gilead Sciences, a massive pharmaceutical company, enjoys government sanctioned exclusive patent protection on both of those drugs. The CDC estimates over 1.1. million Americans need PrEP and can’t get it because Gilled charges $2400/month when it costs less than $6/month to make. Gillead made 3 billion dollars in profit off PrEP in 2018. Gilead is going to charge $3200 for Redesivire, even for people with private insurance. If remdesivir were sold at the cost of production, it would cost $10, not $3,120. This is Gilead’s business model: take a drug developed largely with taxpayer funds, get an exclusive patent on production from the US government, then charge obscene amounts of money for it. That creates a viral loaded class of people who need the drug, the majority of which are black and brown. Our federal government could solve both these problems tomorrow. Legally, they could be be co-owners of the patents for both drugs and could execute what’s called “March in orders” and seize the patents. They could immediately allow for generic manufacturing of both drugs, increasing the accessibility of the treatment and driving down the price. But the government does nothing. On a global scale, accessible PrEP, combined with the right public policies could end HIV, just like we ended Polio. But we don’t. We don’t. That’s why every time a young person asks me, “Why don’t we have a cure for AIDS?” I think of Jeff McConnell, the HIV positive sociologist who died in 2014 and his question to his friend, Dr. Grant, “If we discovered a way to end the HIV epidemic, would we?” I think of him because the answer, so far, is no.
On this episode, Dave officially becomes a Cookery Shuffle Guy and starts the show for us. It went...well! We talk about ASMR, your most personal part of the body, and being naked on TV. As always, thanks for listening! Follow Joe's new photography Instagram: @sharkey_photogtraphy Follow the podcast on Twitter: @CSGpod Joe's Youtube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCgyapDVvbCC9ecucdMLciwg Follow us on: Twitter - @joeshark5796, @benstemak, @nickjventura, @dshark101 Instagram - @secretagentsharkey, @benjamakosy, @nickjventura, @_davidsharkey_
Black Mirror is back and still scaring Julian about the roll technology plays in his life. Jeremy is fine, and mumbling: I told you so.Let’s get the worst part over with: there are only three episodes. I know it’s crazy, but remember the first two seasons only had three or four episodes and we didn’t seem to mind. In an interview with creator Charlie Brooker, he mentioned Bandersnatch had another five hours of content, which he considered part of this season. Unfortunately, Bandersnatch was so dull, dry and boring I couldn’t make it through fifteen minutes of it while waiting two hours for a delayed flight. If you’re thinking of watching Bandersnatch, don’t. Avoid.While we only have three episodes, there are some heavy hitters this season. Anthony Mackie (Falcon from the Marvel Universe), Andrew Scott (Moriarty from BBC’s Sherlock) Topher Grace, and Miley Cyrus all star in their own episodes. And surprisingly, Cyrus delivers.The first episode explores men’s sexuality and alternative relationships through the internet. The second episode destroys the idea of privacy, with an unsettling display of a social media company having more power and information than law enforcement. The last episode is centered around the cult of celebrity and how technology can even steal someones humanity and create work without them.The pixels make an appearance again, one of the most mysterious parts of the Black Mirror universe. Episode three also seems to have a trend of delivering a happier ending with a heavy theme.Critics have not bee kind to Miley Cyrus, but she was pretty good in Episode three: “Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too.” She pretty much played a depressed person of herself, searching for her musical voice. My only real concern is that the episode started to run dry.. And this isn’t Miley’s fault, but we’ve touched in all of these themes already. We’ve been warned about big brother in Arkangel Season 4. The USS Callister explored consciousness and the ethics behind the pixels. We’ve dealt with sex and relationships before in Season 4.Finally, there was no awesome WTF moment. You know what I’m talking about. I’m talking the pig, I’m talking about the woman in jail, and the black museum. Yes, you could say the Anthony Mackie episode had it but eh, not really.This has been a solid (hopefully last) Black Mirror season. Watch.A lot of TV shows have a hard time moving into Season three because they’ve usually squandered their time in Season two and stretched themselves too far. And sure the handmaid’s stitch is getting a little old, but what’s not getting old is the war of handmaids against the Men (and sometimes women - Aunt Lydia anyone?) of Gilled.But Season 3 feels different because we get stuck on the enigma of one of our newest characters: Commander Lawrence, played by Bradley Whitford (West Wing, Get Out) is the man who helped create the system. Forget the Waterfords, people go to Commander Lawrence’s house to meet him, not the other way around. But what’s so unusual is that he doesn’t do the ceremony, he allows June to read arguing that “she is smart and can do more good for the world outside of Gilled than in.” But on the flip side, he humiliates her, he is actively fighting the rebellion in Chicago and calling women “commodities.” You should watch just to figure out what he’s actually all about.Season 3 seems to want to point out to all of us that there is a real slippery slope out here. We see how fast June falls into the handmaid’s lifestyle, we even see how some of the women have cracked under pressure (Janinie, oh Janinie) and we see how subtle misogyny helped create this system. Handmaid is trying to tell us that we are capable of such evil, disguised as a God Complex. Season 3 is worth watching because we are past the shock value of how much more cruel can we be to women and now fully into how much do we value women. Sure, we are a long way off from stitching someone’s mouth shut, but we silence women everyday by not taking sexual assault seriously, denying them proper care in the emergency room, and every time we pay them less than men.Watch.