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*Note: This discusses the second book in a series of interconnected standalones. There are references to Neon Gods that may be considered spoilers to some readers.---Annabel reviewsElectric Idol by Katee Robert. Romy talks T-Rexes.---Send your answer to this week's listener question to PaperbackPleasuresBooks@gmail.com or join our discordhere!Find all books mentioned in this podcasthere.Follow us onTikTok,Instagram, andYoutube.Join us onPatreon for exclusive bonus content, including more answers to the listener question and blooper reels!---Paperback Pleasures is a podcast dedicated to de-stigmatizing romance literature and female sexuality. In each episode, lifelong best friends Romy and Annabel take turns highlighting romance novels, unpacking a genre historically underestimated due mainly to its link with female pleasure. We're here to celebrate one of the most underrated genres in literature. Let's talk romance!---This podcast discusses themes of adult romantic relationships and sex. Listener discretion is advised.
Survival horror meets dinosaurs. Regina and her team are sent to a mysterious research facility where prehistoric creatures are on the loose. Capcom's attempt to mix survival horror with dinosaurs. Released in 1999, Dino Crisis introduced players to a sci-fi thriller where Velociraptors and T-Rexes replaced zombies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Survival horror meets dinosaurs. Regina and her team are sent to a mysterious research facility where prehistoric creatures are on the loose. Capcom's attempt to mix survival horror with dinosaurs. Released in 1999, Dino Crisis introduced players to a sci-fi thriller where Velociraptors and T-Rexes replaced zombies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You ever hear of this movie? Pixar's anticipated follow-up to Inside Out? Their first EVER box office failure? Marcus certainly hadn't. We all generally agree that Pixar's standard of quality for their movies prevents them from being truly hot garbage—which is a good thing, mind you—but The Good Dinosaur lacks a fair bit of expected Pixar magic, and ends up being fairly uninteresting. Elements of its construction, like the symbolism of the River and the Storm as antagonists and the T-Rexes appearing in Act 2, are worth discussing and praising, whereas other aspects like pterodactyls and Spot leave us wanting more. Tune in when we eventually get to pandemic victim Onward sometime! Content warning: SPOILERS, strong language.
Time Ram is joined by our special guest - journalist and comedian Steven Palace - to review (or roast?) Victory of the Daleks which we have transplanted from the Matt Smith era to Jon Pertwee. In this way, we experience Schroedinger's pregnancy, stupid science, T-Rexes made from old carpet and the Teletubbie Daleks! It's all Totally Terry Nation...
Boy, do we take things for granted, or what? I mean, sure we could dedicate our precious moments toward considering the possibility of where we might be if these ant piles called cities weren't constructed before our birth, but who the heck has time to reflect on the persistence of humanity and how it scratched its way to the top of the food chain when there's malls to scope and Taco Bells to ring? I know what you're thinking, here we go again with a rant about the annoyances of a complacent civilization. But it's just that if we don't wake up and smell the couch pillow, shit's gonna get outta hand and we're going to be running from T-Rexes. At the new Jurassic Park in Texas. Where were we? Oh yes, running from ravenous, razor-toothed sprinters with a preference for anything stoned and lazy that smells like refried beans. And I can promise you that there were many a hairier poor dude back in the day who ended up a delicious buffet for wild beasts who didn't give a shit about him missing his orthodontics appointment. And you can rest assured that the main factor that kept those far more il-equipped savages taking risks by venturing beyond the safety of their comfortable cave was to create a better future for their lineage so that those offspring could have easy access to packets of fire sauce. So, please keep in mind that the food that arrives on your doorstep hot and delicious with fresh ingredients is not something you truly have license to throw a tantrum about because it came three minutes late. When your sense of entitlement proves that over population is the biggest risk to our mental and physical ability to continue comfortably as a species, try to remember that if it weren't for systems put into place for your protection, not only would you be speaking German and eating Schnitzel for breakfast, but you might be breakfast. Or you could be sent to live in Texas.
Protect yourself and your family from the perils of modern technology now with Ronin. Welcome to the Adams Archive. In this podcast we peel back the layers of official narratives to explore the intersection of advanced technology, government intrigue, and the ethics of scientific ambition. Artificial Eclipses: Uncover the startling revelations surrounding engineered celestial events, exploring the technology capable of creating artificial solar eclipses. The Dawn of De-Extinction: Step into the laboratories where the lines between past and future blur, as companies claim to possess the technology to resurrect extinct creatures. From mammoths to dinosaurs, examine the scientific breakthroughs, the dreams, and the ethical dilemmas posed by playing god with nature's design. Targeted Voices: The chilling confession of a CIA operative admitting to targeting Alex Jones sheds light on the power struggles between the state and the individuals daring to challenge it. Explore the implications of these admissions for freedom of speech, media integrity, and the right to dissent in a digital age. All the Links: For episode transcripts, bonus content, and direct engagement with the Echoes community, click here: https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams Dive deeper into our investigations and become part of the movement unraveling the mysteries of our time. ----more---- Full Transcription Adams Archive. Hello, you beautiful people, and welcome to the Adams Archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today. On today's episode, we're going to have to cover a lot of ground, starting with the fact that Julian Assange could have his prosecution thrown away, according to Joe Biden. Biden. Now we'll talk why I think he might be saying this. Maybe it has something to do with gaining popularity in a time where your dog wouldn't want to vote for him, but that's beside the point we'll read through that article together and talk through some of the more nuanced conversations surrounding Julian Assange. From there, we're going to discuss somebody of high, Notoriety within the AI community. What some people call the Godfather of AI warning about battle robots. If that sounds terrifying to you, then we're on the same page. So we'll discuss that after that. We'll talk about how plants. allegedly scream when they're being harvested. That's a terrifying visual. Then we'll jump into the Alex Jones situation. So Alex Jones, if you don't know, had the full force of the FBI, the CIA, they completely obliterated him in court. He over the Sandy Hook. It's a crazy situation that he had. I think it was a billion dollars is what they said that he owed these defendants, which is like the most egregious of all hearings in the history of the American judicial system. So there was some updates on that, which is the fact that there was an individual from the FBI. Who came out and got caught on camera in one of the, I don't believe this was actually private project Veritas, but it was very project Veritas ask in the way that it was a gay man who somebody found on either grinder or Tinder. And apparently that's the only way that you can find these people who are willing to talk about this type of stuff. Um, but we'll actually watch the video where this man from the FBI comes out and, and admits that the FBI actually, um, Went after Alex Jones to make an example of him and how you might ask. Well, we'll talk about that in just a little bit. Uh, we'll go through a couple articles about that. Then we'll talk about this new biomedical pharmaceutical company, I guess, biomedical company that's claiming that they're going to do something that has been shown rendition of this. ever, which is the fact that this company is saying it's called Colossal Biosciences. And apparently, they're going to de extinct animals, starting with a mammoth. And if that doesn't terrify you, I don't know what will. So we'll talk about the implications of that. We'll talk a little bit about the company and the people that are behind it. All of that, and then the last discussion we'll have today, and we might have one more, but if we have time, we'll, we'll talk about that. If we don't, the last thing we're going to talk about is the solar eclipse. So everybody went crazy over the solar eclipse. There was all these conspiracy theories about how there was earthquakes and all of this craziness, and there was going to be an EMP and mass chaos was going to break out. Well, it's been kind of silent since then. That eclipse just a couple of days ago. And I held my opinion on this a little bit for a reason. Cause I don't know if I believed any of these things. Some people were saying that the solar eclipses were fake and all this crazy stuff, but then I saw this article that came out. And it talks about, I think, I believe it's a Swedish or German, German article, um, talks about a technology that could be utilized to create eclipses. Hmm. That's interesting. It's called the ESA proba three, and it's a satellite, I guess, two satellites. And we'll actually read more about this together, but two satellites that essentially can cause pseudo eclipses. Why would they want to do that? Guess what? We'll talk about it. So all of that and more. And if we have time, we'll see just how far we get into this and how deep we go, but we might have a little bit deeper, darker, conspiratorial thing to discuss just after that. So all of that and more, but the first thing I need you to do before we can dive deep into those conversations is hit that subscribe button, leave a five star review, you know, I know that you know, that I know. How much I appreciate you. I think there was something in there that, that was probably linguistically correct. So I appreciate you go ahead and hit that five star review button. It takes 10 seconds out of your day. And honestly, it means a lot to me. I read every single one of the reviews. Every time I see a new review, even if you don't write anything, it just, it, it honestly makes this worth it to see that you guys appreciate it. So if you haven't yet. Back out of this podcast while you're listening to it, hit the five star button. It takes 10 seconds out of your day. And it honestly means the world to me. I would appreciate it more than, you know, and if you feel so inspired, write something down, tell me what you love about it. Tell me what I should improve about it. 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So if you want to go check those out and buy a Ronin wallet. Again, RFID blocking. You can head to Ronan, uh, ronanbasics. com, R O N I N B A S I C S, ronanbasics. com, and you can actually get a wallet that will be shipped to you like within a week, I'll get it to you. No big deal. Now the rest of the stuff, I'm still working with the manufacturers and the suppliers and helping with the design and everything, because I want to make sure that it's perfect for you. But the hat that I have in my head right now is a Ronan hat and just a couple more tweaks to go, and it will be awesome. Chef's kiss. So keep an eye out for that. Ronan basics. com. All right. That's all I got for you. Let's go ahead and jump into it. The Adams archive. I should have been a music producer in a past life. Cause I promise you both of the intros that I've made, whether it was for red pill revolution or for the Adams archive is kind of a banger, kind of a banger should have been a music producer, but here I am talking nonetheless. All right, let's go ahead and jump into it. The very first article that we're going to discuss the very first conversation that we're going to have today is about Julian Assange, Julian Assange, the leader and whistleblower who has. Unloaded a treasure trove of government and corporate corruption over years and years and years of WikiLeaks has since fled the country, fleeing for his life while the full force of the government, the FBI, the CIA, manhunt, manhunt, manhunt going after this man. And he would be put away for life, but he's been finding himself in Australia, interesting enough, um, who has been sheltering him without extradition to the United States. And now Joe Biden is saying that he's considering dropping the prosecution against Julian Assange. After a request from Australia. Now, this man should have been pardoned long ago. This man should have been pardoned by Trump. This man should have been pardoned by Obama. Right? The list goes on. This man should have been pardoned long ago. There's no reason. Somebody The only time The true case of authoritarianism is a government that cannot be questioned. And that's what Julian Assange did. He questioned the government. He questioned their intentions. And not only did he question them, but he exposed them for what they were. He exposed them for all of the corruption, all of the surveillance activities, everything that they were doing that was horrific. You know, you go to wikileaks. com Or org or something right now. I was actually looking at their archives today. There's a unbelievable list of all of these situations where the government was doing things that it shouldn't have done. From the Guantanamo Bay, uh, interrogation, what is it, enhanced interrogation techniques. Like so many of these things that were atrocious acts by our government that he exposed. Rightfully, you were doing illegal acts. You should be exposed for those illegal acts. This man exposed you for the illegal acts that you were committing, and now you want to go throw him in jail for committing, for, for, for exposing you. That's authoritarianism. That's abuse. That's abusive behavior. That isn't the act of an abuser, right? So I would say this is the best thing that Joe Biden has considered. This is the best possible thing. If Joe Biden did this one thing, I would scream the praises of Joe Biden from a mountaintop for about two minutes, but nonetheless, I would still scream is my praise from a mountaintop and it would be that Joe Biden. Pardons Julian Assange. And so let's go ahead and read this article. It says U S president, Joe Biden says the U S is considering dropping his persecution or prosecution, same thing against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. For years, Australia has called on the U S to drop its prosecution against Assange, an Australian citizen who has fought U S extradition efforts from prison in the UK asked about the request on Wednesday, as he hosted Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida. For an official visit, Biden said, we're considering it. Hmm. Interesting. Very interesting. Assange has been indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website's publication of a trove of classified U. S. documents almost 15 years ago. American prosecutors allege encouraged and helped U. S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal diplomatic cables and military files that Wikileaks Or WikiLeaks published putting lives at risk. I want you to point me to one person who died within the government as a result of Julian Assange exposing the government and their corruption. Australia argues that there is a disconnect between the US treatment of Assange and Manning. Then US President Barack Obama commuted Manning's 35 year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017. Assange's supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment, absolutely correct, who exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan that was in the public interest. Correct. Assange's wife, Stella Assange, has said that WikiLeaks founder is being persecuted because he exposed the true cost of war in human lives. Absolutely correct. She has said that his health continues to deteriorate in prison and she fears he'll die behind bars. A British court ruled last month that Assange can't be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U. S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty. Wow. The death penalty for telling the truth. What kind of world do we live in? That's so crazy that they would even consider that for exposing the truth, exposing corruption, exposing war crimes, exposing an enhanced interrogation. Right? Hmm. So there you go. That would be amazing. That would be a great precedence to set. If you find corruption and you expose corruption, you should be celebrated, not given the death penalty. Very straightforward. So I hope that happens. I will be So excited to hear if that happens. Like I said, that is the one thing that Joe Biden could do that you would hear my praise about is pardon, Julian Assange, maybe Snowden to throw him on the list, throw him on the list, and then I'll be very happy. Right. So I hope to see it happen. I hope to see it happen soon. Joe Biden is leaving office office, you know, somewhat, uh, in the near future. And that would be pretty incredible to see that that man walks free. Alright, next situation. This is quite the segue. The godfather of AI warns us of death. Battle Robots! Now, when I think Battle Robots, I don't know if you remember this, but there used to be the Battle Bots, I think, or Battle Bots Arena, or something like that, where all these kids would like, I say kids, they were probably like 35 year old nerds, awesome nerds, by the way, because the show was Sweet, but they would create these little Circular like Roomba looking things, but they would throw razor blades on them and like little mini chainsaws and like little I don't know missiles or some shit They would have saws on the side of them and like it was the craziest thing ever game show ever where they would literally physically fight these little tiny robots on remote controllers. I mean, essentially, they were like glorified little RC cars with knives, which I guess is pretty terrifying in itself. But that's what comes to mind. When I think of this, I'm sure you remember that if you are over the age of I don't know. Twenty six. Twenty seven. I think it was even on like Nickelodeon or something at one point. Like a Nick at night. I don't know. I'm gonna have to go back and watch some of those. Anyways, the technology is becoming more intelligent than people and could take over. Geoffrey Hinton says. Hmm. The world can encounter, the world could encounter major disasters before the use of artificial intelligent weapons is regulated in a proper manner according to Turing award winning scientist Geoffrey Hinton, seen as a pioneer of the AI technology. The former Google engineer who quit the company last year compared the use of the technology for military purposes to chemical weapons deployment. And I'm going to go ahead and throw this article up for you here so you can follow along with me. And if you can't see it, that's because you're listening and not watching. And if you want to watch, you can head over to YouTube right now and type in The Adams Archive and you'll find me. Maybe not, because of all the platforms, for some reason, YouTube seems to hate me the most. But head over there, you can actually follow along on the articles as I'm scrolling through these and see them with your own eyes. But if you're driving, don't do that. Just keep listening to my silky smooth voice. The former Google engineer who quit the company last year compared the use of the technology for military purposes. I just read that, uh, to chemical weapons deployment, warning that very nasty things will occur before the global community arrives at the comprehensive agreement comparable to the Geneva conventions. And I totally agree with that. I can absolutely see that happening. The third I spoke about is the existential threat. Professor Hinton said on Tuesday in an interview with the Irish broadcaster RTE News, emphasizing that these things will get much more intelligent than us, and they will take over. I'm gonna read that again. The man who essentially is called the, the man called the Godfather of AI, just said that these things will get much more intelligent than us. And they will take over. The computer scientists highlighted the impact of AI on disinformation and job displacement and also on weapons of the future. One of the threats is battle robots, which will make it much easier for rich countries to wage war on smaller, poorer countries, and they are going to be very nasty, and I think they are inevitably going to be. And we see that kind of with the way that you see drone strikes, like the drone strike thing has completely changed the war landscape that we've seen between the war in Ukraine, uh, what we're seeing in Israel, like. Drones have changed the game. You can sit back in some hut somewhere and some, you know, trailer in a military base and fly a, fly a plastic plane over somebody and then blow them up or kill them, uh, pretty wild stuff. So yeah, if you think about how much that has changed warfare. Now think about how sentient ish AI robots armed with machine guns. With immediate reaction times and unbelievable strength and perfect accuracy. Yeah, that's terrifying. One of the threats is battle robots. Just said that he urged governments to put pressure on tech majors, and, uh, especially in California to conduct in depth research on the safety of AI technology, rather than it being an afterthought there should, there should be government incentives to ensure companies put a lot of work into safety. And some of that is happening. Now, the scientists also highlighted huge benefits that AI can bring to humanity, particularly in healthcare, adding that one does not, that he does not regret any of his contributions to the technology. Despite the mounting interest in AI, several high profile picture, uh, picture figures, wow, in the tech industry have warned about the potential dangers posed by the unregulated adoption of the technology. Hinton, who quit Google last year, has waged a media campaign to warn of the risks. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co founder Steve Wozniak and Joshua Bengio, who is considered an AI pioneer for his work on neural networks, were among the top industry figures to co sign a letter last year calling for aggressive regulation of the AI sector. Now I'll stop reading that to you and tell you this, AI battle robots could be a very bad thing for humanity. like probably humanity ending or it could also be very good for war. And by good for war, you know, my stance on war by now, I think it's useless. I think, but I also think that it will not go away. War is not going to go away. So to me, I had this thought the other day. And there was an interesting little rabbit hole I found myself down where, think about this. What if AI robots were now the only soldiers in major wars? If you think about it, if their reaction time is way better, if they're literally unkillable, if they are extremely strong compared to humans, they're way faster than us, their accuracy is perfect, they have AI algorithms telling them exactly when a threat goes to reach for anything at any time. They can kill you from like, two miles away, probably like, it's just literally not going to be a fair fight. So during the time, maybe the near future, the near ish future, we're going to develop these weapons. If we haven't already, and my hunch would be that we already have, but if we haven't developed this already in the very near future, robots, AI battle bots are essentially going to take over the battlefield. Now, if they do that, and we're in wars with other countries who have essentially replaced their entire fighting force with robots, AI robots, then what if the war was entirely fought between robots? Because essentially, what you're saying is establishing absolute dominance, because if our robots can kill your robots, and our robots could definitely kill all your people, right? There's no contest, there's no conversation, right? So if our robots just obliterate China's, then China knows that we could essentially just have our robots kill all of them instantaneously or something like that, complete control, right? So, What if wars were no longer fought with people? What if they were only fought with robots in a safe arena esque type of situation? 10 on 10, let's say. 10 US robots versus 10 Chinese robots, and they just fight it out in an arena because then we essentially know we don't need hundreds of thousands of these robots. But if we could just come to a gentleman's agreement, That once the, once the octagon shuts and the robots fire, fire up their engines and whoever is the last robot standing, that country wins the war. Cause we already know the end result would be if you take that to its furthest extent, that their technology is better. And as a result of your technology being better, you could essentially kill everybody within our country, or we could kill everybody within your country. Interesting thought experiment. And I kind of just want to see AI BattleBot war arenas as a sport, like betting and like drinking on the sidelines to, you know, two different jerseys, USA flags in the background, China with their, you know, little dinky Chinese flag. And, and, you know, we're drinking beer and they're doing math equations on the sidelines. I don't know, however far you want to take that analogy. I think it's a cool one. I don't think it's the utopia that's gonna come of this, but nonetheless it's a fun thought experiment. But it does seem to make some rational sense that it could get to that point. There's a sci fi book there you could write, but if you do, at least attribute me in your, you know, your acknowledgments. Anyways, that's, that's the side tangent when it comes to AI battle bots. Uh, but that's terrifying. Robots could potentially kill us all. I don't know what I think is a bigger threat, whether it be AI or, you know, You know, nuclear bombs, the problem with that scenario that I just gave you, though, is it's not going to be nearly equal, right? There's still countries who haven't figured out nuclear bombs, right? They don't have the nuclear stockpile that we or Russia or China does. And so if we send these battle bots into, I don't know, Afghanistan or a place where they don't exactly have that much It's not fair. It's just complete dominance and control. There's nothing you can do. Go watch Terminator. You know where it goes from there. Now on a completely different note, going from non sentient metal objects that are going to act sentient and have the possibility of, I don't know. murdering us all. There's also this flip side of things, maybe equally as terrifying, which is that I came across this article the other day that said that plants scream while they're being harvested. This new study finds. Now there's something about scream and harvested in the same sentence. That just doesn't quite sit right with me. Now I'm not saying I'm going to go vegan, but I think you're given some vegans, some more ammunition. So let's go ahead and read this article. Um, I actually came across this cool website, Indy 100. com. I find a bunch of different websites to source some of my news articles and try to do some research for you guys. And this one had some, it had like the top 100 articles and discussions that are being had. Seems like a cool way to kind of source some, some interesting material and find some conversations. So check it out. Indie100. com. No association. Um, vegetarians, we're afraid we've got some news. Vegetarians, we're afraid we've got some news that you're probably not going to like. Plants emit sounds akin to screams. When they're distressed, according to a new study, I actually got it backwards in the way that I said that a little bit earlier. Yeah. I guess this is ammunition for carnivores, not vegans. It plants emit screams when they're distressed. According to a new study, I have the most terrifying visual picture in my head right now of a little baby plant, just screaming, uh, they allegedly produce clicking noises that humans can't hear without the use of scientific equipment. Research has found the research, which was published in, uh, cell back in 2023 showed that plants produce these noises in times of acute distress. Lilac Hadany is an evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University. Hadany said, even in a quiet field there are actually sounds that we don't hear, and those sounds carry meaning. There are animals that can hear these sounds, so there is the possibility that a lot of acoustic interaction is occurring. Plants interact with insects and other animals all the time, and many of these organisms use sound for communication. So it would be very suboptimal for plants not to use sound at all. That makes sense. The findings show that plants which are distressed have incredibly high pitched popping noises, while unstressed plants do not emit these noises. emit these noises. The study's definition of distressed includes plants that were having their stems cut or were dehydrated. However, it's not yet clear how the plants produce these noises. Now that we know that plants do emit sounds, the next question is, who does? Might be listening. We are currently investigating the responses of other organisms, both plants and animals, to these sounds and we're also exploring our ability to identify and interpret the sounds in completely natural environments. Comes after a new study suggests that Western industrial diets may be changing the ways that humans digest plants. As modern diets lack fiber, cellulose found in fruits and vegetables is changing. Hmm. All right. So, that's a terrifying mental image, and now I feel a little bad for, you know, all the, all the weeds that I ripped out of the, the concrete when I was in the military. Um, anyways, yeah, so now when a vegan comes to you and says, oh, you're hurting those animals. Well, just let them know that plants scream when they eat them, literally, according to this study. I don't really know where to take this from here. It just seemed pretty terrifying. And I had a lot of weird mental images of plants screaming while, while somebody was eating a, I don't know, one of them anyways, really not a ton of places to go from there, but I'm just letting you know, that's more of an FYI than a discussion piece. Now, it is a discussion piece is the fact that Alex Jones has now come out and said that he's going to be pursuing a lawsuit against the FBI and the CIA for conducting a essentially a hit job on him, including the 1 billion settlement that he was forced to make. Now, it says. Let's go ahead and see which one we should start with. Alright, it says that Alex Jones, Alex Jones joined Louder with Crowder Wednesday to discuss the massive expose by Sound Investigations, showing a CIA operator Or CIA operatives admission that the FBI and CIA vindictively targeted Jones for destruction. Jones explained the footage could significantly bolster a free speech lawsuit against the federal agencies for a violation of his civil rights, with which he's hoping tech entrepreneur Elon Musk could assist since the law firms coming after Jones are the same coming after Musk. Now I do want to look a little bit into the sound investigations because it was very very Project Veritas esque. So let's go ahead and we'll take a look at them in just a minute. But this is from Sound Investigations. If you go to Twitter it's Sound I N V E S T I G is their handle. So. Sound investig. Says breaking CIA officer, former FBI boss, uh, boss can put anyone in jail. Set them up. We call it a nudge. FBI did what we wanted with Alex Jones. He took his money away, chopped his legs off. Estimates 20 undercover FBI agents at January 6th, works with some of them now at the CIA. Whoa. Let's watch this video. You can kind of put anyone in jail if you know what to do. How? You set them up. Does the bureau practice entrapment a lot? Yeah. We get really close. We call it a nudge. A nudge. A nudge. Mmm. Sometimes you just gotta give them a quick little, just to see what happens. Sometimes you like to fuse and just wait for it to follow. Nothing. Sometimes you just gotta give them a quick little Just to see what happens. We're putting up a fake social media thing to like really get people mad. Alex Jones? Yeah, so, we were after him. You are? He did what we wanted. Which was what? Took his money away. Chop his legs off. Took his money away, chopped his legs, is a contracting officer at the CIAO. Lennis. Worked for the FBI in 2021 and 2022 in the San Diego office. Moved on to Homeland Security where he conducted asylum interviews at the southern border and now works for the CIA managing multimillion dollar contracts across government agencies and private. I work for, um, I work like this, um, I'm not supposed to tell people any job. If I say intelligence, what do you think? CIA? Yep. Oh, you work for the CIA? I do. That's incredible. That is the worst CIA officer ever. So I work in a field where you're like, not really supposed to tell people what to, what you do. But when I say intelligence, you say central intelligence. agency? Yeah. Wow, you're a tough cookie to crack. That is the nation's best my friend. Let's listen to that one more time because that was amazing. Sector Vendors. I work for, um, I work at this, um, I'm not supposed to tell people. You're not supposed to tell intelligence. What do you think? CIA? Yep. You work for the CIA? That's me. I do work for the contracting officer. So I deal a lot with, like, different agencies. We're contracting with, like, uh, Directorate of National Intelligence to do stuff. We do Navy, Army, many of them, really. I just, FBI, I used to work for the FBI, so. We went through the FBI, Abby. They're like, here, you used to work there. Oh, I'm permanent. I'm staff. I'm good. Well, why do they call it contracting? Because I do the contracting for them. I do all the legal contracts. I fly out to vendors and evaluate them. I love the agency. I like the Bureau too. The Bureau was a lot of fun. I got to do a lot of cool stuff at the Bureau. I was the guy in the back of the truck in the van. Oblenus spoke to an Undercover Sound Investigations reporter about his work experience involving near entrapment and his employers involvement with political commentator Alex Jones legal battles. As long as the Bureau is able to progress far enough to be able to put pro lifers in jail whenever they want. Yeah. You think that's on the agenda? We can, we can You can kind of put anyone in jail if you know what to do. How? You set them up. You create the situation to where they have no choice but to act on their impulse. And once they act on that impulse, then we call that entrapment. It's a fine line. Does the Bureau practice entrapment a lot? We get really close. Not officially? No. We get as close as we can. We get as close as we can to it without doing it. So they can entrap some of these pro lifers into doing things that they don't care about. Japan gang, yeah. We call it a nudge. A nudge. We call it a nudge. Mmm. Sometimes you just gotta get a quick little, just to see what happens, right? And how does that happen? You put a post out there, or you have someone fake it. Profile, say something that triggers, that we know is going to trigger one, right? Like, we, we already know your history. If we're to that point, we already know everything about you. So we're like, oh, this'll piss them off. Oh. Sometimes you like to fuse and just wait for it to follow, right? Like a railing. Like a, oh. So when a railing happens, then sometimes the bureau behind it Yeah, sometimes. So that's interesting. So he's saying essentially that they would put out social media posts to try to get certain individuals to bite on it. I'm not sure how you could put somebody in jail for a reaction to a social media post. Not sure what he would be alluding to there, but the fact that a CIA intelligence contracting officer just stated basically publicly and without any friction that the CIA conducts nudges or entrapment campaigns around people they disagree with the ideologies of That's pretty concerning Make an influence that you're influencer that you're after you like a I don't know like um I don't even know these names. Like a Fox News person, or like a Tucker Carlson, or like a Uh, oh, I'm sure he's Right. The youngest one's I think that's the loudest. Like that, what was his name? The one that said, uh, the, uh, San Diego didn't happen. Alex Jones. Yeah, so, we were after him. You are? Are you still after him? Yeah. Why? Because he's broke. He got found guilty. And had to pay like a hundred million dollars. So what, why were you after him? We're not anymore. Just to get the money for them? Yeah. Was that court case used? Was that a CIA case? Sure it was. That was an agency thing? Well, actually it was a defamation case. So it's a civil, not government. But we were looking at all of his followers, commenting, following, like, who's that gonna make us take the break? So, even though it's technically not our, well, not the agency, definitely, but the Bureau, for instance. Yeah, that's not our purview. It's a civil, it's a civil matter. But, since they got all this access to his stuff, and it's there, what can we go find? And did you find anything? I can't tell you. Oh, God. But, so, you know, it's just kind of like, you know, Realize the opportunity that you have so with Alex Jones So he's essentially saying that during the civil case. They got access to all of his documentation over the Sandy Hook allegations And I'm sure you can't point to one thing Alex Jones said that pissed off the CIA It was probably a lot of things but within that list of things was obviously that the ability to find the silliest things potential civil legal case to completely bankrupt a man who was just doing his job in trying to expose potential corruption and mass weaponization of proven tactics that have been absolutely leveraged and at least proposed to be leveraged, right? If you go back to Operation Northwoods with the CIA, they proposed and it went all the way up to the president. To conduct fake mass shootings, one literally on a military base. And they were actually going to pay people to conduct it. Right? So not faking a mass shooting, that's far more difficult than actually doing the mass shooting. Right? When you looked at the situation in Russia, what happened? They found people who were broke. Right? Maybe this was, maybe it wasn't the CIA. But maybe it was the CIA. Mm hmm. Who has a track record of potentially finding people who are in a position that they can then bribe to do an act that would be in line with what they would want to see happen to cause something that they want to cause. And then they find them on telegram and then they convince them to do the thing through words and money and enablement, right? Just a little nudge, just a nudge, right? So in the case of Sandy Hook, right? The dumbest thing they could have done, the dumbest thing anybody could have done, was try to fake it like a movie, right? That's just, there's so many loose ends. It's far easier to convince somebody who's already on a bunch of psychological medications, who's already, you know, maybe having some sort of mental breakdown, who's already talking about it on forums to just Yeah, what if this did happen? What if this showed up at your house tomorrow? What if I gave you plans to conduct that, right? Like, there's a lot of ways to do it without creating a Hollywood movie scene, right? This isn't the moon landing. Right? So this man is literally admitting here that what they did was they weaponized the government. Right? Weaponize the CIA. Weaponize the FBI. Weaponize the judicial system in order to gain insight, dirt, and knowledge. And then go after Alex Jones, cut him off at the legs, which means the judge who conducted it, the prosecutors, all of that should be appealed at this point with this new evidence. You were watching him long before anything ended up happening? Probably. It wasn't my office, but I mean, we would have been well aware of what he was doing. And the goal with him was what? Just to bankrupt him? Oh, pretty much. And we let the families do it. What? We let the families do it. Were they encouraged to do that by the Bureau? Like nudged? We don't encourage people, but like, we just say, there's no federal statute being broken. But you do have the option for a civil, for a civil case. And it's a pretty good case. In our opinion. So, oh, that makes so much sense. I have a cousin who's a lawyer. So that's a lot of these cases, they're kind of encouraged by the FBI? Yeah, like, there's nothing federally, federal law we can Interesting. Let's see. Just gonna kind of scrub through here so I'm not making you listen to this loud background restaurant. But, let's see if there's anything better. Oh, here we go. January 6th, then we'll move on. Alright, here we go. Maybe it won't. It essentially says, how many people do you think the FBI or the CIA had in the crowd? And he said, I'm talking, they maybe had 20, 20. You needed a thousand to get rid of that crowd. That's where we're stuck on here. So there you go. That's the situation. Now, Alex Jones responds to this on Louder with Crowder. Discusses this at length in an interview. Let's see if we at that. Lemme ask if you have a lawsuit planned yourself. Um, yes. Can you explain that to people so they understand what it is that you're Yes. And, and Steven, I apologize for going on and on, but, but I can just, just lemme just finish that last go. I'll get into that. My point is justice depart. IRS, uh, law firms, uh, rig courts, who are not allowed to defend yourself. This is the cocktail they've used against Trump. It's the cocktail that they're now using against everybody. And absolutely, the only reason I want to sue them is to get my name back. I don't even want money, but I want to be able to call Oblevis in. I want to be able to call their other lawyers in. I want to be able to call in the PR firms because the mistake they made was run their mouth. I mean, the lawyers in Connecticut and Texas. And by the way, the Texas Crips, the same ones suing Elon Musk, by the way, they got up at the courthouse steps when they won their cases, the judge had already found me guilty and then told the jury to find me guilty for a bunch of money. They said, our mission is to silence him. We don't want money. And that's now happening in the bankruptcy court where the judge is like, wait, the law says you can get money. But the law doesn't say you get to silence people. And so basically there's now findings about to be made public that they're dealing in bad faith. So that's an inside baseball. But, but yes, I've talked to several different civil rights law firms and I've had four conversations with four law firms, uh, since this just broke, uh, uh, I was talking to him before it broke. So in the last week, they just broke a day and a half ago. It seems like a million years ago now. And so it's a big deal. You know, it's all God. Yeah. You're opening up the mouths of these evil people to then expose themselves. The Bible says the pit they dig for you is the pit they will fall into. And so absolutely. I don't like taking on the FBI and the CIA, but if somebody's on top of you breaking your nose and punching your eyeballs out and gang raping you and running over you and backing over you, All you can do is fight back. That's why when I saw the targeting of you a few years ago, I called you. We're already friends then. And I said, listen, don't let it get to you because you're successful. You're one of the top talk shows. You're a populist. People love you. Do not, I know you're smart, but you haven't been through a lot of this yet. You've been through some stuff. I said, I know the cut of this jib. I know the signature. This is 100 percent the Justice Department, the CIA. They create the narrative. They look at things. They go, we'll take this and we'll take that and we'll make Alex Jones the guy that bullies kids and pees on graves. Exactly. And then we'll make Steven Crowder this guy that, you know, literally, uh, breaks women's necks and human sacrifices them and it's just all made up and then they just hype it and hype it to, to, to, to, to, to take what you're known for being smart and being funny. Alright, so there you go. That's his response. He's essentially going to go after the FBI and the CIA for conducting this, uh, this nudge operation, right? Uh, now, again, I think that was pretty good work. Like, I think that's some of the better investigative journalism that's come out more recently, even above what OMG is doing. Uh, what I've seen more recently from James O'Keefe, which is, you know, OMG media project Veritas is essentially dead in the water. I haven't seen a single project Veritas thing come out, uh, in probably a year since they got rid of him. Uh, but let's look, I just want to look at their, the sound investigations, Twitter account. Hopefully they're only 23, 000 followers. Uh, investigating corruption in adult industries and more. Hmm. Wow. And since they posted that, that has 6 million views on Twitter. Hmm. Very interesting. Uh, And look, they have more posts. They posted about the Pornhub, C Suite, Executive, uh, Uh, Very interesting. Okay, cool. Sound investigations. Good job. Good on, good on James O'Keefe for encouraging people to start doing this, right? That's real journalism. Absolutely incredible. Okay, let's touch on this. But before we do that, I just want to remind you that you're still here, still here listening to me. And if you haven't left a five star review, I'm watching you. Not really. 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But here's why it won't be like Jurassic Park. I like how they're already going on a PR campaign. But here's why it's not going to turn into velociraptors tearing you and your children to shreds. Here's why. Let me explain. My name is James Robinson, news reporter for SkyNews. com. Let me tell you why this is a great thing for humanity. That we're going to bring back woolly mammoths. And also saber toothed tigers. And also maybe Velociraptors. Let me, let me, give me five minutes of your time and I shall convince you, sir, that bringing back extinct animals that the world no longer was able to, to need or was able to sustain at sizes much larger than animals that we have today, in an environment that is constantly surrounded by humans that are not like they were before, let me tell you why introducing Extinct animals back into the ecosystem is a great thing. Okay, I'm listening, James. Tell me. Well, the idea of scientists bringing prehistoric creatures back to life with some clever DNA trickery might sound familiar to fans of the 1993 Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic Park. Yes, it does. But for Colossal Biosciences, a company that hopes to reintroduce extinct species such as the Dodo and the Mammoth, I like how they find like the most cuddly little stupid things that they could come up with, right? We're not gonna do those big scary animals, right? We're not gonna weaponize Tyrannosaurus Rex's, right? We're just just a little Dodo. They're stupid and harmless. That's all. Maybe a little woolly mammoth So you can give it a little belly rub But not velociraptors. We would never do that. We would never. We would never. That's a terrible idea. We would never do that, guys. We would never start an island for rich people to go hunt velociraptors. To pay us millions of dollars to go start our own Jurassic Park Island, where you could view Velociraptors, T Rexes, Bronchiosauruses, Triceratops, and, and all of your childhood dreams come true. We would never do that and monetize it for our benefit. Just dodo's. And little belly rubs for the woolly mammoths. That's all we want to do, guys. Don't worry about us. Just dodos. They were stupid to begin with. We'll start there. But for, uh, it, it says it is more than just a film script. It's a reality, and one that could be just years away. We've got all the technology we need, says Ben Lamb, chief executive of the firm. Based in Dallas, Texas. It's just a focus of time and funding. And we are 100 percent confident we can bring back the Tasmanian Tiger, the Dodo, the Mammoth. The science behind the project is simple. Work out the genes that make an extinct animal what it is, and then replicate those genes using the DNA of a close existing relative. Right? We're not God. We're just creating animals out of thin air. With our bare hands. Creating life. The very existence that maybe, just maybe, we may alter a thing or two there. Maybe make a purple woolly mammoth, because people love purple. Right? But we would never. Not the big scary stuff, guys. Don't worry about it. It's almost reverse Jurassic Park, says Mr. Lamb. Right? In the film, they were film filling in the holes in the dinosaur DNA with frog DNA. We are leveraging artificial intelligence and tools to identify the core genes that make a mammoth a mammoth and then engineering them into elephant genomes. Right? We're not, we're not filling in the DNA with frog DNA. That's um, such a huge part of this and all of the concerns have to do with the frog DNA. So we're not going to do that. Wow. Uh, that is the technical part, but there are some other practical hurdles for Colossal to overcome. Namely, once you have a mammoth cells, do you birth a real life mammoth? The answer, according to Colossal, is in the womb of an Asian elephant. Hmm. But it is a process that could take nearly two years, even after they've worked out how to do it. Each of the different projects have different challenges. The mammoth is really around gestation, which is around 22 months. The dodo gestations, it's pretty great. They said we are using surrogate chickens. The hardest part is cultivating the primordial germ cells. So after about 4, 000 years. When could we see the return of the Mighty Mammoth, a creature that fell victim to human hunting? This is our fault, guys. Let's bring him back. And the changing conditions brought about by the end of the last Ice Age. We are well into the editing phase, said Mr. Lamb. We don't have mammoths yet, but we still feel very good. About 2028. Geez. Away from the lab, led by Rona Hisoli, Colossal's head of biological sciences, there are a few issues to overcome, including where the newly returned species will live once they're born. Mr. Lamb said Who gives Who the fuck gives you the right? Mr. Lamb who gave you who gave you the right to do this? How do you how do you say? Oh, I'm gonna be the guy to challenge nature to say hey I know this happened in the past in history, but guess what? Not on my watch, my name's Mr. Lamb. I'm gonna reverse engineer the cells and become God, and start to create animals that haven't been around for thousands of years. Without any regard to how this will affect our ecosystem, without any regard to what the actual predatory aspects of this might look like, without any concern for anything other than, this shit looks pretty cool, maybe I'll do that. How is there not, and also by the way, what stops them from doing this with Neanderthals? There's a weird situation. Oh, no, all you need is a surrogate mom and we have Neanderthals back Isn't there like little people too? Like we I remember I went to the museum. I think it was in San Diego Some some museum that I was at and they had a literal like little person dwarf That was another homo sapien esque type of figure What's to stop them from doing this. With that, are we gonna bring back Neanderthals and dwarf homo, you know, homo sapien esque creatures, and just see how that works out for us. I could just see, let's go. Let's go into a new scenario. We went from battle bots to Neanderthals being regenerated into life. Maybe. Maybe let's cross them both together. The battle bots. And the only way to, to combat that is to bring back to life the strong, the, the eyebrow having Neanderthals, right? We were the reason they're gone anyways. Just bring them back. We'll see. Well, they're going to back us up. Right? If, if all hell breaks loose with the AI robots, let's just keep further experiment with us being God, you know, discount the metal God that we're creating. And let's just say, Hey, we're going to bring back the enderthals to fight off the AI robot battle bots. Maybe that's the end result. Right? But literally, do you think they're going to stop a mammoths? Do you think they're going to stop at Dodo's or whatever they said, whatever the other one was. No, they're going to do everything and anything they can, which includes. Includes dinosaurs includes other, uh, Homo sapien ask creatures like the Neanderthals, right? That is going to happen if we are going down this road. We are opening up Pandora's box. Where these scientists are acting as if they're gods, where they believe they can do whatever they want without repercussions, without government oversight, because they're moving fast enough now to where we can't as humans be able to take in the information and what they're doing and have corrective measures and, and guidelines for them to follow, which says, Hey, maybe it's not a good idea to re introduce predatory species into our current state ecosystem that haven't been around for thousands of years. Maybe that's not a good idea. Maybe it's not a good idea to create a hyper intelligent Metal figure that could break every bone in your body and has no emotions. Maybe not, you know Where do we start to put where do we start to draw the line, right? If it's not hyper intelligent godlike metal creatures, and it's not bringing back extinct creatures and developing Animals from scratch and changing their genetic makeups with with the metal God filling in the blanks Right? Like, there's so many sci fi books that I could create out of this, it's ridiculous. And most of them, if not all of them, end terribly for us. Right? We better hope the aliens show up and save our asses from these dumbass scientists trying to extinct humanity while bringing back dodo's and creating metal gods like AI. Battle bots. Jeez. Our ultimate goal is to put all the animals we make back into the wild. He says new tools in the fight to protect nature. Colossal thinks the work is not just about rewilding animals previously lost to the world. The company is currently working with Dr. Paul Ling at Baylor college of medicine to create a vaccine to eradicate the deadly. E E H V virus, which kills about 20 percent of baby elephants. It is also working closely with the university of Alaska and the university of Stockholm on radiocarbon dating of American mammoths, as well as sequencing their genome, the largest study of its type ever undertaken. Now what's interesting about this is that guess what they're getting to help convince you in their propaganda campaign, that this is a good thing. They hired the guy. There's a very famous documentarian named Teton. Not named Teaton Ridge, but James Reed, you've probably heard that name before and if you hadn't go look up his IMDB and you'll probably be pretty familiar with it. You know the Documentary that was very very famous region recently The my octopus teacher is now been commissioned to create a docu series about this medical technology company The new Jurassic Park says the company has teamed up with Oscar winning my octopus teacher James Reed's underdog films and Teton Ridge Entertainment to produce a multi year docu series about Colossal's work. The firm bills itself as the world's first de extinction company has raised some 225 million dollars in funding as it works to resurrect species like the woolly mammoth and the dodo. The announcement of the docu series comes on the heels of Colossal hiring former legendary Entertainment executive Emily Castell as chief marketing officer. Among other duties, Castell will help guide the company on its foray into the entertainment world. Teton Ridge Entertainment will finance the first phase of production with the intent of finding a distribution. Coming to a Netflix near you! The real Jurassic park. I like how every time they mentioned this, they also mentioned dodo's and woolly mammoths. Like they, I guarantee you that marketing executive CMO probably did a huge survey market analysis where they tried to figure out what are the least intimidating things that we could run our campaign on to not immediately sound the public alarms around us playing God, and that just so happens to be the woolly mammoth and the dodo. Right? Transparency is core to Colossal's missions and goals. Of course it is. So working with the right filmmakers to chronicle our journey was incredibly important. Right? So this is just a big propaganda campaign. Huge money budget, big propaganda campaign to convince you that this is a good idea and we shouldn't be sounding the alarms over this. Okay, now, the last topic that we're going to discuss today is going to be that the Everybody was talking about this week about the solar eclipse, right? There was all these conspiracy theories about the solar eclipse, right? It's going to be the end of times. It's going to cause all these earthquakes that the, all of the technology is going to go out. It's there's going to be this, there's going to be that there was all these conspiracy theories. And I didn't come out and say much about it at all. One, because I was too busy, busy building Ronan and have my head buried in the sand to sit and create content about it. Yeah. But two, I didn't really see the correlation, right? I know there's a huge buildup and it's in the air. Something's going to happen very shortly, very soon. I don't disagree with you. Uh, and side note, I listened to a podcast between Theo on Theo Vaughn's podcast, uh, this past weekend where he interviewed Tucker Carlson, probably one of my favorite podcasts I've listened to in a very, very long time. And Tucker Carlson sounds the alarm. It's the third time I've said that in like three paragraphs. It really does. Sound the alarm bells around the potential for mass EMPs causing mass chaos by an external enemy. And there's some really sobering thoughts and ideas around, get a plan in place, because when all hell breaks loose and you can't call your mom, you can't call your dad, you can't get a hold of your kids, you can't get a hold of your brother, your sister, your mother, your best friend, what are you gonna do? Do you have a plan in place? Do you have a place to meet up? Do you know where to source your water from? Do you know how to get out of the city properly? Do you know where to go hide in the woods? Do you know those things? Because if you don't, and I certainly need to put together this plan as well, but you should have a plan. You should have some food storage. You should have a way to filter your water. You should have some of those things, right? Go listen to that podcast. Really, really well done. But anyways, uh, all of these conspiracy theories around what's going to happen after the eclipse. Now. Being somewhat interested in astronomy and and the cosmos and everything that's going on in the larger universe around us This eclipse is pretty cool to me I like looking up in and seeing that and and kind of being able to feel extremely small in this mathematical equation that is reality going on around us and I appreciate being able to witness that and I think it's pretty damn cool People that shit on the Eclipse are the same people that shit on New Year's resolutions. Like, you're just, you're just lame. So, I wrote off all these conspiracy theories. And, I didn't find any of them interesting. I didn't see any one of them that convinced me there was going to be something that went down. But what I did see, after the fact, excuse me, is this article. And I saw a video about it, that was pretty well done. And it explains how the Eclipse could have potentially been artificially created. And that sounds crazy. But let me tell you how this article comes from the European Space Agency, and it says face to face with sun eclipsing proba three, there is a satellite technology rotating around the earth right now that has the capability to cause a pseudo solar eclipse. This is real technology. It's online. Look it up, the article is face to face with sun eclipsing Proba 3. And here's what it says. It says, through exquisite millimeter scale formation flying the dual satellite making up ESA's Proba 3 will accomplish what was previously a space mission impossible. Cast a precisely held shadow from one platform to the other in the process of blocking out the fiery sun to observe its ghostly surrounding atmosphere Now this should be fairly easy and simplistic to go back and see if prior to this thing being created was there a projected solar eclipse. It's just a mathematical equation, right? I'm sure somebody way smarter than me knows how to calculate it. But this should be able to be validated. I haven't done that math myself because it would take me 20 years of learning math and you know, maybe getting Neuralink in the, in the process to help me understand it. But there's probably a way to validate this. So I just haven't gotten that far, but there are some interesting names for these things. One of them is called the Occulter Spacecraft because there's two satellites that make this up. And it says, ahead of the Proba pair launching together later this year, the scientists who will make use of Proba 3 observations were able to see the satellites with their own eyes. Members of this team will test hardware developed for the mission during an actual terrestrial solar eclipse over North America. Next. April dun dun dun. The two satellites are currently undergoing final integration in the premises of RedWire near Antwerp in Belgium. They are paid a visit by Proba3 science working team, a 45 strong group of solar physicists coming from all over Europe and the wider world. Many of these experts are regular visitors to terrestrial solar eclipse around the globe, but looking forward to the new perspective Proba3 will open up on the faint solar corona. This mysterious region is important as the place where coronal mass ejections are created, vast eruptions of charged particles that trigger solar storms, as well as influencing the velocity of the solar wind, which is central to determining space weather. The satellite hardware was quite something to in close up, or in close up. I was particularly struck by how close the camera had on the coronagraph spacecraft is to the solar array. So those are the two names of it. Coronagraph? And the other satellite's name is Occulter. While the array relies on high solar illumination, the camera has to remain in complete darkness with no stray light whatsoever. It really brings it home how precisely that small shadow cast by the Occulter will need to be maintained in place. We also got to peek at the carefully machined edge of the Occulter spacecraft's disk, normally kept under protective cover before launch. Interesting. Now this is pretty long. Let's see if we can find out and explain how it goes. Exactly does what it's supposed to do. So it says there are telescopes that incorporate internal occulting discs to obscure the solar disc. The problem is that these internal occulters still experienced light spilling around their edges known as diffraction, blotting out the extremely faint signals of interest, right? So it looks like one, uh, one satellite in front of the other, both positioning itself in front of the sun and creating this. Pseudo eclipse, right? An artificial eclipse, it says. It says Damian Galeno, ESA's Proba 3 project manager, notes the best way to reduce diffraction, uh, is to increase the distance between the occulter and the chronograph, which is precisely what Proba 3 is going to do. Interesting. By definition, full scale end to end testing of PROBA3 is impossible here on Earth, but the meeting here heard how the same set of filter wheels developed by PROBA3 will be used to observe the solar eclipse over North America on the 8th of April 2024 along the Liquid Parallel Crystal Imaging Technology. The filter wheels allow observation of the corona in different polarization angles, like switching between different polarized glasses. Uh, the nice about observing during an actual eclipse is we won't need any occulter to gain insight of exactly the kind of results we are going to get back from Proba 3. Now why would they want to do this? Right, why would they want to cause proba 3? A solar eclipse. It says, uh, Assuming the sun's output influences Earth's climate, it's important to measure any variations we precisely can. Probe 3 is due for launch this autumn. Like, what's the purpose of this? Why are you doing that? Why do you want to? And here's a actual good, uh, Explanation as to what it's doing and how it's doing it and so you can go check that out Look up the article name, but the last thing I'll show you is a video here This is a two and a half three minute video that explains h
How did the Lakers screw up the Kobe statue so bad? Yep, we've got the latest on the Kobe statue saga which is feeling like the Kate Middleton picture at this point... but also why Jock Landale is the big winner in Houston (as is Alperen Sengun for not being injured, just hurt). So! for all that and everything else that happened today in the NBA... find out in today's episode of NBA Straya! Cos NBA STRAYA is here to talk out all things... NBA!! All of today's NBA GAMES are covered in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, so there's something for everyone! All the gear - the Celtics crushed it, the ANSTEY BOWL between the Mavs and Bulls was chaos, and the Raptors vs the T-Rexes in Denver... and heaps more. Plus all the usual stuff: That's Not A Knife, Old Mate No Mates, Spud of the Night, Better Than Lonzo Ball and more.... but no Magic Tweet Of The Day... sad face. There's also YEAH NAHs, the Unpopular Opinion of the Day and OUTBACK TAKEHOUSE… as well as the STRAYAN PLAYER WATCH as we check in with all the Aussies. Plus there's an ANDREW GAZE GREY MAMBA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF EXCELLENCE ! And we finish off by picking and previewing all of the NBA games for Wednesday March 13! Righto - Love ya guts, ledges! Tune in for the best daily NBA podcast in the world!! #Onyas
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Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Today we'll MAKE SENSE of THE PROGRAM- That way you think, feel and act? It's not your fault, its your program. Contact - Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense SHOW NOTES: As we move further into this new Makes Sense podcast, it's important that I continue to provide you with the base constructs, concepts and language that we will be using in later episodes. This podcast is about you transforming into a more conscious version of yourself so you can begin to see the previously unseen. My intention in this episode is to expose something to your conscious mind. What makes this challenging is that this thing I want to show you is invisible to you. In fact it often cloaks itself as you. No it's not your ego. In fact, your ego works for it. “I woke up to realize that my perception of reality was not my own but one I assumed, as a result of the information I had been consuming.” - Dragon Stop for a moment and ask yourself this question. Is your interpretation of reality, including the way you look at and respond to things, your own? Or can you acknowledge the outside forces that have played a role in it? Before you say no, can you prove that it's not possible? That the way you perceive, believe and respond are a manifestation of what you have been taught and continue to reinforce everyday with the things you consume with regularity? Welcome to the program. An excerpt from my new book MAKES SENSE, Solving the mystery of why shit happens. After a life of misfortune and suffering, French artist, Paul Gauguin painted a masterpiece in his dying days while living in exile in Tahiti. Viewed from right to left, it demonstrates the circle of life from birth to death. This powerful piece unveils the deepest mysteries of the human race and is appropriately named. Where do we come from? Where are we? And where are we going? These questions are the premises upon which we all roam this planet in search of answers as sense-making machines. When we seek the answers to unanswerable questions, we are forced to do our best to fill in the gaps and make sense of things.. In other words, we make shit up. In fact, this is the birthplace of religion, psychology, theories, and science. All representing man's attempt to make sense of things. Think about that for a second. Whatever it is that represents your foundation for your reality. What's good or bad. Right or Wrong? Just or injust? Did you come up with that? Well if you came up with it, you are pretty special as most humans are born into this world without knowing these things until they are taught to them. Why is this important? To recognize that our sense making machines have been programmed and that program is the backbone software that is controlling your hardware and virtual reality suit? Well, for starters, what if it's not accurate? I know you've been sold into the idea that it was. But what if it is not? Here you are doing your best to make the right decisions in life, choose the right path as well as stay on track and follow through with your physical, mental and financial goals. And now we are for the first time noticing a red, check engine light that's been on yet had black tape over it for years. That light, now illuminated, is suggesting that we take a look under the hood at an engine that was built by others with their own intentions for you. Perhaps different than the ones that are actually FOR YOU. It's important here to shift into a curious state of possibility thinking. Why? If you can't justify a reason to rethink or re-evaluate something due to the mere possibility that there may be another truth or better way? The idea of making changes to your regularly scheduled program will seem nonsensical. So in order to experience growth we must be willing to challenge this programming that we have received and become open to a better way. Otherwise, you will find yourself hell bent on protecting and justifying your position on things and that is the life of the herd. The majority. The popular masses that are ok with trying to get into town in a rocking chair. Because they believe in that rocking chair and that rocking chair is part of their core values etc.. This of-course gives rise to the definition of insanity. To add some color to this, it's interesting to look at the characteristics and strategies of scientists. There is no group of humans more open and curious than scientists. Why? Scientists seek the truth and seek facts. The idea of coming across something that improves or debunks their own theories excites them. Because it is the truth they seek and will let nothing deter them from acquiring it. Not even their own theories. So a nice role playing exercise to play in life is that of a scientist. Checking facts and remaining open and curious to better ones. The Operating System “We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” ― Alan Watts If you look into a baby's eyes, you'll see they have little self-awareness. The person one grows into is a mask worn over their consciousness. You'll be surprised to learn that this mask is given to them from the outside in. Once a human becomes awakened, their consciousness begins to penetrate and shine through the mask to see what it sees. Not what it's been trained to see. We come into this world as biologically conditioned structures without a self-image. However, there is much debate over the idea that we are all born prematurely. This is because a newborn baby's brain is not fully developed at birth. In a perfect world, we'd further our stay in our mother's womb for 15 months. Not a good thing at all for the mom, I know. However, the theory makes sense and unveils our susceptibility to not only learning and absorbing from the outside in. But reminds us that our brains can become permanently wired to accept all that we consume at this early phase as reality. Simply, the way things are. As we grow through life, we face the challenge of increased responsibility for ourselves. Over the next several years, I began experiencing a series of awakenings that unveiled an inefficient operating system that was not moving me forward. I became aware that I was running a program inside that was unconsciously calling the shots. This program decided what was good or bad, and what I should or should not do. What is interesting about this program is that I was unaware that it was running. I always assumed that I was voluntarily making decisions. Not the case. There was an automatic operating system that would activate in different ways in response to certain happenings, people, and scenarios. The side effects and symptoms of this programmed response system began showing up. For example, I'd find myself overeating, and saying things I didn't intend to friends and family. There was something inside me calling the shots without consulting me. SPONSOR MAKES SENSE ACADEMY: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy M.F.T.P.S.E. (The Programmers) This brings up a unique challenge. See, once a program has been absorbed, we have a fail-safe defense mechanism to protect it from anything otherwise. Its your number one employee and right hand man. Your ego. A fun analogy to use is one I call The Bouncer: A bouncer stands outside his nightclub with a detailed guest list, checking every ID. The nightclub represents your life and your bouncer controls who and what gets in and who doesn't. That's your trained ego safeguarding and preserving your programmed thoughts, feelings, and concepts labeling and judging everything it perceives. Your bouncer works closely with your VR Suit and decides who and what gets into the nightclub, and it's not open to new ways of perceiving the world. Remember, the bouncer works for you and is just doing its job. In order to consider reprogramming our intel processor and VR Suit, we must take control of the bouncer. It's like the write-protected switch on an SD card. Your bouncer, or ego, is committed and not open to new ideas. If it is protected, it cannot receive new data. I became intensely curious to identify where I received this inefficient operating system? Think about it. Whenever we buy a new car or technology, it malfunctions or breaks down. Who do we blame? Yes, the manufacturers. I was already blaming my parents for all my problems, and now I know why. They played a role in programming my operating system by teaching me to adopt theirs. They taught me the good and bad of what they were taught. I bought into it all, as most kids do, and unknowingly started viewing the world through their eyes. But I knew there was more. I couldn't blame or credit them solely for it all. I wasn't consuming and absorbing information from them alone. Who else is involved in my programming? Like a detective, I began unpacking the files of my past and evaluating where I picked up the thoughts, perceptions and concepts that controlled my mind and VR suit? My mother. My father. Oh, wait, my teachers and preachers too! Making these observations into my 30's, I recognized that I had spent over 20 years in the box of the education system. Consuming with regularity, the lessons shared by my teachers. We weren't religious, but I sure had preachers in my life. They were represented by those that spoke from a place of being right about things. People that shared concepts over and over again with my vulnerable, neuroplastic mind. Friends, family, and authority figures. I was in school, in and out of synagogues and churches throughout my life as well. Consuming and assuming their uploads were valid. All well-intentioned, I'm sure. But unconscious to the ramifications of me buying into their program. The very nature of mothers, fathers, teachers, and preachers is to nurture, guide, and protect. Some useful, some harmful, but all are well-intentioned. Nobody's perfect, right? So, I couldn't blame them as that would imply that they were at fault. In fact, I've learned through parenting my own children and mentoring others throughout my career, my goal is not to indoctrinate people to believe what I do. Or look at the world the way I do? Mothers, Fathers, Teachers and Preachers often unconsciously push their own concepts of reality onto others to simply validate themselves. If someone buys into what I think, it only validates what I think. Not them. Make sense? Traveling further into my evidence room, and placing all things on my evidence board aka my CRAZY WALL. I discovered other elements at play that were responsible for my own operating system. Now referring to our programmers as our M.F.T.P.S.E. There's the mother, father, teacher, preacher, society and evolution. The last two being the silent killers. Silent meaning we are often unaware of their influence because we don't consider these things. Remember, that which you consume with regularity, programs your mind and VR suit to assume with regularity. It's hard to register, but society and evolution represent other components of our programming. We are exposed to society daily through interactions, social media and the idiot box. That's what my grandfather called the TV. Throw in the passing on and forward paying of all things our predecessors and ancestors learned through the evolution of man dating back to the days of the caveman. Even though there are no more sabertooth tigers and T Rexes trying to kill us, our stress response systems have been wired to fight or flight in the face of anything that remotely resembles anything from the past. That's right, you've been programmed and continue to unconsciously consume and, over time, assume its programming. Now, it's become your operating system. What's interesting to note is that you've constructed a customized surrounding and strategic perception of society that validates and supports your program. This is known as confirmation bias, where we seek out and favor only the information that supports our existing beliefs. Even in the absence of them being factual. Turning our head from anything and everyone that thinks otherwise. This can lead to an illusion of reality and creates a challenge should you decide to change the way you look at things. Think about those things in your life you call your core values and beliefs? Perhaps the non-negotiables? You might even be known as stubborn or hard nosed? “The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence, but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.” ―Daniel Kahneman Rock climbers refer to that one hard move in their line that poses the biggest challenge. The Crux! The Crux in reclaiming control of our program lies with the bias we've developed over time to support that program. Confirmation and cognitive bias is the simplified processing of all information through a filter that references all past experiences and preferences. We use this filter to process perceptions, make decisions, and determine our reality. This cognitive bias can direct our focus on things that others can't see. Typically due to the fact that they are not there to be seen. Outside the realm of logic and rationale. Projecting an augmented version of reality that suits our current needs which prompts us to support that reality by focusing only on the things that confirm it and ignoring those that falsify it. In other words, we make shit up to make our story true. Even in the absence of facts. All of this, going on without you even knowing it. Almost makes you feel like a puppet, no? The programming we've received thus far becomes justified and protected by our bias, or the ego's opinion. You could even say that the ego is the master of puppets. Many refer to Descartes's famous quote, “I think; therefore, I am, " as the fall of civilization. It began a movement that prompted people to address reality and form opinions and reactions based on their thoughts. In his defense, I don't think Descartes knew how much we would be thinking about how susceptible we would be to the repetitive suggestions from our programmers. Our influential MFTPSEs. It's easy to become wired into the suggestions, opinions, and concepts we consume regularly. “Neurons that fire together wire together.” This principle is known as the Hebbian learning rule; when two neurons in the brain are activated at the same time, they become more strongly connected to each other over time. This process is called synaptic plasticity, and it is the basis for learning and memory formation in the brain. Hebb's theory also proposes that the strength of the connection between two neurons depends on the frequency and timing of their activation. When two neurons are activated at the same time repeatedly, the connection between them becomes stronger. This reminds us of the power of consistency as it leverages these neural connections where memories of the event are formed. This created a situation where people could be led to believe one thing and be close-minded to the possibility of another. Descartes also said; "Since our senses cannot put us in contact with external objects themselves, but only with our mental images of such objects, we can have no absolute certainty that anything exists in the external world.” Descartes postulated what he called the “evil demon argument.” This is where he proposed we all live with an entity, a demon, capable of deceiving us. As a result, we lose our inherent ability to process what we see, without doubting its difference compared to what we think. Hmmm. Interesting to think about this concept. That there's an evil demon, or machine, living inside our heads calling shots. As if it is a separate entity, implanted in our brains that controls and coordinates our perceptions and responses? I believe we all inherently feel there is a guest or as i call it, the "little liar,” manipulating us. The concept of the “dark passenger” is widely accepted. We have these preposterous thoughts that cause us to cringe at the very idea of others knowing of them. As Jim Dethmer describes in his drama triangle theory, we place blame on the demon or machine in our head. As if it were placed there by others. Plato's Cave Plato's allegory of the cave is a symbolic story of how humans learn to interpret reality based on what they see rather than what is. In this story, Plato described a scenario where a bunch of prisoners were constrained by chains side by side in a cave where they were forced to only look at a wall in front of them. With a fire lighting the room behind them, the projected shadows on the wall from people walking behind them, became the only thing the prisoners saw over time. After some time, these shadows became their interpretation of the world and reality. The allegory looks at our philosophical thoughts of truth and how we come to terms with it and confidently describe it. Not until the prisoners are released can they slowly begin to entertain a new reality. The narrative ponders what would happen once the freed prisoners learned of the new reality outside the cave. First, the assumption was that they would return to the cave and attempt to free the others so they, too, could see the vast new reality. Their following belief was that the prisoners still in the cave would try to kill the messenger threatened by his blasphemy. Humanity today is not much different from Plato's narrative. We are what we eat, and that's not just with food. The “S” in MFTPSE “society” reminds us of our constant daily consumption. Watch the news regularly and see how your perceptions, conversations, and reactions to everyday life shift. Follow politics or the conflict on the Gaza Strip and see how that affects your perceptions and conversations with others? I spent my whole life consuming and shaping my perceptions with a programmed operating system that I received and confirmed from my MFTPSE. My brain (software) and my VR suit (hardware) became hardwired to my unique way of looking at things. My programming was its manifestation, and my perceptions and responses were not actually mine. Not from my conscious mind but my subconscious programmed mind. I learned later that it represented 95% of the operating system. We program and support our subconscious mind with the repetitive consumption of data. Data from your MFTPSE. If you have a concept and belief system, it was created, molded and confirmed by your consumption. Those learned concepts are running on autopilot and in charge of your life. They say what you see is what you get. I agree. However, is what you get what actually is or just a manifestation of what you see. Another SNAP moment. It was all becoming clear. I began reviewing clips of every event in my life through a new set of lenses. As if I was in a library using the good old news searching system we used to call microfiche. I had been justifying my reality and potential based on something I bought into. Now? I am progressively waking up and disputing everything. All bets are off and that means that I might be wrong about a lot of stuff. Including my potential and the very resource of potential in the world. When I use the word awakening, I'm referring to the opposite of being asleep. The difference between being instinctively closed, unconscious, and unaware vs. being open and conscious and aware. When you've been programmed, your VR suit (your 5 senses) continues to process, consume and confirm your current operating system. You're unaware of it, and it validates the programming. This is the same way good and bad habits are created. Practice an activity or consume something for 60-90 days, and you not only become good at it. You become unconsciously competent at it. You don't even know who you are. That's a habit. There's something called the rule of 100. It states that an individual that spends 100 hours a year or 18 minutes a day on a discipline will end up being better than 95% of the entire world at that discipline. This awakening helped me tackle things like losing weight and keeping it off for 18 years. Rather than trying to stop the destructive behaviors, I began looking at why they were even there. We wake up one day to recognize our own inefficient operating system. It happens while running our regularly scheduled program, when some sort of glitch in the matrix pops up that suggests it is not working. We notice the insanity of our behaviors where we expect different outcomes from doing the same old things. If you don't challenge this and just go with the flow and stay comfortable, the universe has a way of forcing your hand to change. The universe is in full support of your success and fulfillment. Yet if you are sleepwalking through life, it will curb stomp you to grab your attention and make you take a look at things. Get too comfortable? Fat, lazy, depressed. Move too fast? Divorce, hypertension, anxiety, substance abuse. I experienced a series of car accidents that forced me to recognize I was moving too fast and to re-access my behaviors, priorities and the underlying reason for their existence. Or when I experienced that SNAP moment, I was forced to see that therapist and learn why I hated my birthdays. I'm sure all humans have these universal offerings that force them to see something and make a powerful distinction. However, if we're not seeking growth. We may miss or ignore them. Disclaimer: It is important to acknowledge that I was seeking growth with urgency at this time. We all want the same things in life. We want to be Happy-ER, Healthy-ER, and Wealthy-ER. I refer to humans as “seekers of the ER”. However, only those that seek with urgency will follow through and do the work. If you are learning this stuff and not moving into action, that's ok. Your time will come and it will come when you build urgency around it. I was frustrated with my lack of certainty, confidence, and progress at that time. I wanted more and began to engage in personal growth with a specific interest in neuroscience and the study of the human brain and consciousness. I became open and curious about these observations, even while in full survival mode. This is a lifelong journey, and you're welcome to join me. Are you ready to leave your concept cave? Here's the good news folks. This programmed mind of yours? Demon included. It's completely re-programmable and we're gonna talk about some strategies to execute on that in upcoming episodes and conversations with guests. However, it starts with the awareness and acknowledgement that our perceptions, thoughts and feelings have been persuaded by an outside stimulus which means they may very well not be of our own choice. Here are a few simple practices to begin the process of reclaiming control of your goals, dreams and reality. These practices are not effective by simply knowing them and feeling you understand and agree with them. They must be practiced until they begin to show signs of opening up new alternate beliefs that unveil different possibilities and outcomes of your future potential. Just say Hmmm?: When you find yourself contemplating yourself in evaluation of your willpower or motivation, just say Hmmm? Not to the thing you are evaluating, but to the very act of generating those concepts of your motivation and belief. Remember the idea of Brain Awareness Perception. Focus on your North Star: Very often when we feel “stuck” and begin contemplating our willpower, motivation and, our belief in ourselves, it's a side effect and symptom of forgetting where you were going and why? When you feel lost and confused, simply look up at the North Star and find your way back home to your goals and dreams. Practice Patience: A few words missing from most people's 2024 goal sheet are patience , agility, awareness. Again, a side effect of our programmed mind are things like entitlement, impatience and frustration. They easily trigger a contingency plan to abort and move in a different direction. Once the contingency plan is set forth, our program begins to validate the decision to abort with the excuses that demonstrate the concepts of things like self belief, motivation and willpower being precursors to our following through. Saying Hmmm, and pausing your programmed mind will help you practice patience. Remember. Truly doing the work can be exhausting at first. Not to mention frustrating as there are not too many wins associated with it at first. Making Sense of these distinctions can easily be washed away by your programmed mind and sense making machine as a waste of time if you are not ready. Perhaps showing up as you are telling yourself something like. “Ah, fuck this. We only live once and I don't want to spend my time struggling to move this mountain ahead of me. I want to enjoy my life etc..” My response to you would be “Hmmm?” If that is going on in your mind right now or later, it's normal and you can feel better knowing that most people will do the same. But right after you feel better because you're not the only one. Ask yourself why only a few individuals sit at the top of the mountain at the table of success, fulfillment and happiness? Then look at your statement of “Ah, fuck this” and see why that is? It's a game I call “DRIFTING and SHIFTING”. Drifting refers to the act of unconsciously falling back into your regularly scheduled program. The one that isn't advancing you towards your desired state. Remember, it's not your fault. You are wired to do this. But if you can learn to simply place a pause on that idea of not following through and retreating to the comfortable place called “known”. By inserting a “Hmmm?” and allow yourself to look at the idea you have from a place of logic and rationale? You'll catch yourself DRIFTING again. See, Drifting is not the problem. Drifting off-course is a normal human behavior. Life gets sticky when you are unconsciously drifting. So catching yourself drifting is where the win is. As it becomes the fertile ground to you SHIFTING. Not only shifting back on course, but shifting into a more conscious version of yourself, that can remember things like the lesson you just heard on Motivation, Self Belief and Timing, and how they are not factors in your success. It takes what I call PRACTION. A state of practicing being in action. See, you won't be good at this at first. You may find yourself drifting more than shifting. But keep at it. It never gets easy. But it does get easiER. Be well my friends. And remember. If you learned something today? Give it away. That's the only way it will stay. We hope that you will consider paying forward this podcast to your contact sphere. Strike up conversations with them about the topics and you'll find that its when we teach that we learn twice. Contact - Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense
Surprisingly, I rarely fly. I prefer overland travel, which contributes fewer greenhouse gases than planes. I've never sat next to a baby, but I pity those who have, including the parents. Send this Public Service Announcement (PSA) for the travel holidays to anyone who plans to fly with a baby. Flying with a Tiny Tornado: A Survival Guide for Parents (and Other Passengers) Ah, toddlers. Tiny humans with the volume knob cranked to eleven and the attention span of a goldfish on Red Bull. So, you're brave enough to take one on a plane? Buckle up, buttercup, because it's gonna be a flight... interesting. But fear not, weary warrior! Here's your arsenal for surviving (and maybe even enjoying) an airborne adventure with your mini-me: 1. Book Direct Flights Booking direct flights is like finding the secret passage in a video game. One entry, minimal fuss. Aim for a non-stop odyssey. Fewer disturbances mean fewer chances for your tiny traveler to unleash their vocal powers mid-air. 2. Connecting Flights Should Have Longer Layover For those facing the unavoidable layover quest, fear not! Seek connections with longer layovers—2 to 3 hours, the sweet spot for parental peace. A break for the toddler to stretch, tire out, and possibly snooze on the second leg. Just avoid layovers longer than your toddler's attention span. The purpose of more extended layovers is that air pressure may alter the ears of the baby, making them fussy. As adults, we manage to handle this change in air pressure, but babies can not. Therefore, they start screaming. If you have a longer layover, it will allow the baby to settle down. Secondly, it will give them time to stretch their body and get themselves tired. 3. Utilize Pre-Boarding Facility Get in before the stampede of luggage and confused tourists. Let your offspring claim the throne of their airplane kingdom before the peasants arrive. Just promise you won't use the microphone to announce their nap schedule. 4. Pack Baby Bag Separately Think Mary Poppins's carpetbag filled with enough snacks, wipes, and distractions to rival a Disney theme park. Diapers? Pack more than you think, then triple it. Trust us, a poopnado at 30,000 feet is not a good look. It should include: Diapers Rash cream Extra set of clothes Snacks Milk bottles Toys You should always keep extra diapers in your hand carry, even if your flight is as short as one hour. You never know when a baby might soil the diaper, which can get extremely uncomfortable. Keeping some snacks in your bag can keep your baby busy for some time. 5. Dress Them Comfortably Dress your tyke for the runway of comfort. No puffer jackets or haute couture discomfort, please. Loose-fitted clothes are the fashion-forward choice. Remember, a comfortable toddler is a happy toddler, and a happy toddler is a quieter one. 6. Book A Separate Seat For The Baby Secure a kingdom for your little royalty—a separate seat for the tiny traveler. A car seat fortress ensures safety and grants you respite from the lap-monarchy. Buckle up, little one, for the journey of a lifetime! 7. Check-In Baby Gear At Gate Leave strollers, car seats, and inflatable T-Rexes for the ground crew. Trust us; you'll have enough to juggle without becoming a circus act with a carry-on the size of a small car. 8. Bring Something For Entertainment Distraction is Your Weapon! Tablets loaded with cartoons? Check. Finger puppets that tell Shakespearean sonnets? Why not? Anything to keep those tiny eyes glued to something other than the screaming lady in seat 12B. Conclusion And there you have it, intrepid parent – a guide to turn your toddler's travel saga into a comedy of errors, laughter, and a few well-earned victories. May your flights be smooth, your snacks abundant, and your toddler's giggles the soundtrack to your epic adventure! Safe travels! More info To leave an anonymous voicemail that I could use on the podcast, go to SpeakPipe.com/FTapon You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com. If you like this podcast, subscribe and share! On social media, my username is always FTapon. Connect with me on: Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr My Patrons sponsored this show! Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon Rewards start at just $2/month! Affiliate links Start your podcast with my company, Podbean, and get one month free! In the USA, I recommend trading crypto with Kraken. Outside the USA, trade crypto with Binance and get 5% off your trading fees! For backpacking gear, buy from Gossamer Gear.
It's our last episode of 2023! First off, some new sentai leaks has the fandom in a tizzy. We share thoughts on the suits. Both our toku episodes this week involve red T-Rexes. Weird. Gotchard goes Gurren Lagann. Prince reclaims his missing Gabutyra and Racles tries to convince everyone Gira is an alien clone, but we're not buying it. Finally, we experience the Sixth Ranger arc of High School Heroes. Casters Present: Blue Gray Ultra Orange Show Notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94754662 Required Viewing: Kamen Rider Gotchard 14, Ohsama Sentai Kingohger 40, High School Heroes 05-06 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7lTz2m8E7M Feed the Castrangers and get $5 off your first order with SkipTheDishes! https://www.skipthedishes.com/r/6YaJc65HKg
After more than 18,000 runners took part in the Richmond Marathon, Half Marathon or 8k Saturday, folks donned inflatable T-Rex and T-Rex Jr. suits to scamper around a Henrico park Sunday afternoon. The Richmond Road Runners Club hosted their annual Richmond T. Rex Run at Dorey Park. "It's just a perfect way to end the weekend, race weekend, and just people out there bring their families... and just have a good time," Donnie Lane, the race's director, said. The terror (the technical term for a group of T-Rexes) galloped along the four tenths of a mile course, which organizers noted...Article LinkSupport the show
Kev and Spencer talk about Paleo Pines Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:21: What Have We Been Up To 00:14:37: News 00:37:08: Paleo Pines 01:45:09: Outro Links Garden Buddies Release Garden Buddies Release Trailer Ikonei Island Friends Pass Farming Simulator 22 Carrots Preview Garden Galaxy Autumn Update Mineko’s Night Market Patches Paleo Pines Patches Animal Crossing Lego Paleo Pines Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:31) Kevin: Welcome farmers to the harvest season! (0:00:48) Spencer: Spared no expense. (0:00:49) Kevin: Hello. See what I wanted… I would have preferred the kazoo version. Have you heard that one? The kazoo version of Jurassic Park? Oh, I’ll have to send you a (0:00:50) Spencer: I have not heard that version. (0:01:00) Spencer: Aha. (0:01:01) Kevin: link. It’s an amazing one. I’ll do that right now. But in the meanwhile, hello listeners, farmers. I’m your host, Kevin, and with me today is Spencer! (0:01:14) Spencer: Yes, they thought they could get rid of me after the last episode I was on, but I’m back, (0:01:21) Spencer: so deal with it. (0:01:22) Kevin: And why? Because dinosaurs, of course, um, we are here to talk about, uh, (0:01:32) Kevin: Heliopines and Spencer, our resident dinosaur lover, alongside me. (0:01:40) Kevin: Um, I’m also a big fan. Um, we’re, uh, we were both very excited for this one. (0:01:46) Spencer: Yeah, I remember seeing it and I was like, “Oh man, I gotta wedge my way, force my way in with Al this time again.” (0:01:50) Kevin: Yeah. (0:01:53) Kevin: Yup, yup. (0:01:55) Kevin: But before that, um, you know–oh, see, I sent you the kazoo cover of Jurassic Park. (0:02:03) Kevin: Um, but before we get into paleopines, as usual, we’re gonna cover some news and other stuff. (0:02:11) Kevin: As usual, you can find the show notes and the transcript on the website, as always. (0:02:20) Kevin: Alright, but what we- (0:02:23) Spencer: Ah, games I’ve been playing. Well, I was playing Tears of the Kingdom for a while, and then, honestly, I’ve been playing a couple mobile games, so I started playing Monster Hunter now. (0:02:35) Spencer: Are you playing that? (0:02:36) Kevin: Oh, I am not okay first off for have you played Monster Hunter not mobile version Okay Uh-huh, right Okay Okay, but you hunted some things you have familiarity, okay, okay (0:02:37) Spencer: Oh, yeah. (0:02:45) Spencer: So I have Rise, and I also have Worlds, I think it is, for PS4. (0:02:51) Spencer: I just barely scratched the surface of both of them. (0:02:55) Spencer: I think it got a little bit farther in Rise than I did in Worlds. (0:02:59) Spencer: Oh yeah, I definitely hunted some things. (0:03:05) Spencer: See, the issue with me in those kind of games is like… (0:03:06) Kevin: Uh huh. (0:03:07) Spencer: The feedback loop for that kind of stuff is actually really… (0:03:12) Spencer: I like really enjoy it, but I get stuck on like (0:03:15) Spencer: the first level, because I’m like, “Oh cool, I hunted this monster. Let me like, hunt it again. Let me hunt it again.” (0:03:21) Kevin: Uh-huh, right. (0:03:21) Spencer: I just keep on hunting the same thing over and over again, and I never end up proceeding to the next level or the next area or wherever. (0:03:23) Kevin: I mean, that’s fine. You’ve got to do that at app points. (0:03:29) Spencer: Yeah, that’s true. So I am familiar with the series a little bit, but yeah, it’s been playing a lot of now. (0:03:41) Spencer: Well, I was playing a lot of now. (0:03:42) Kevin: Oh, okay, so tell me about now, because I’m fascinated how this works, but this is by Niantic, the Pokemon Go people. (0:03:43) Spencer: kind of… (0:03:49) Spencer: Yeah, so… (0:03:53) Spencer: So basically, like, while you’re walking around, you know, there’ll just be like, monsters kind of out where you are. (0:04:00) Spencer: Um, god, I think someone pointed out… (0:04:02) Spencer: It’s almost like the movie, in that it’s our world, but the monsters have now kind of like, invaded our world. (0:04:10) Spencer: Um, so you’re just walking around, there’ll be like, lesser monsters, you know, (0:04:15) Spencer: and like, ones that would actually be like, a hunt in the real game. (0:04:18) Spencer: And, you just fight ’em, you’re kind of timed, similarly to how you would do like a, say like a raid in Pokemon Go. (0:04:26) Spencer: Um, a lot more… (0:04:28) Spencer: Intensive than Pokemon Go, if you’ll believe that. (0:04:32) Spencer: You’re still basically clicking. (0:04:34) Spencer: But you can like… (0:04:35) Kevin: Okay, sure I right you’re you’re on mobile there’s only so much you can do right uh-huh (0:04:36) Spencer: Yeah, you can like, swipe to dodge. (0:04:40) Spencer: Yeah, you can swipe to dodge, you can get perfect, like, you know, perfect dodges and stuff. (0:04:45) Spencer: Um, and then there are some combinations. (0:04:48) Spencer: ‘Cause I’m using, um, what is it, Greatsword? (0:04:51) Spencer: And you can like, kind of do this thing where you like, if you start swinging and then you swipe, you’ll do kind of that shoulder, you know, shoulder charge attack. (0:05:03) Kevin: - Yeah, yeah, right. (0:05:03) Spencer: So there are definitely like, combos and stuff that you can figure out. (0:05:06) Spencer: It would benefit from a like, tutorial, you know, like in a fighting game, you have your little like, tutorial, you know, practice area. (0:05:15) Kevin: - Right. (0:05:15) Spencer: Or something like that, ‘cause you can like, then you could figure out, yeah, training room. (0:05:16) Kevin: - Oh, okay, yeah, training room, yeah. (0:05:20) Spencer: Um, but yeah, so you walk around, you fight monsters, you collect, uh, collect different resources, your little, um… (0:05:29) Spencer: What are the little cats called? (0:05:32) Kevin: Uh, the Palicos? (0:05:33) Spencer: Palakos, yeah, you have one, so it runs around and collects resources for you. (0:05:34) Kevin: Right, right. (0:05:38) Spencer: Um, it’ll also mark monsters too, so you can like, come back. (0:05:41) Spencer: back. Yeah, it’s pretty, my understanding is it’s a little bit more leaning. (0:05:45) Spencer: towards the world’s aesthetic. So the different monsters from there and stuff. (0:05:48) Kevin: Yeah, okay, sure. (0:05:50) Spencer: It’s fun. You kind of plateau a little bit if you aren’t able to go out and get resources. I’ve needed to upgrade like my weapons for a while now but I just simply can’t find find the resources I need. So it is what it is. But yeah, it’s been fun. (0:06:00) Kevin: Ahh. (0:06:02) Kevin: Okay. (0:06:04) Kevin: Have you tried any other weapons? (0:06:09) Spencer: Well, in Rise and in World I was using Swishax, which is not in this. (0:06:14) Kevin: Right what what (0:06:15) Spencer: Unfortunately. Yeah, they left it out. So I had to go with the next best thing. (0:06:22) Spencer: They do have, you know, your like kind of daily challenges that give you experience for your rank and some of the challenges will ask of you to do things with other weapons. So they do try to like kind of get you to branch out. It’ll be like, “Oh, (0:06:40) Spencer: kill three monsters with like a hammer or something like that.” So you will inevitably have at least one of each weapon somewhat, you know, upgraded and stuff so that way those little challenges won’t be such a pain. (0:06:40) Kevin: Okay. Okay. (0:06:52) Kevin: Uh-huh okay okay I I asked because so for people who aren’t familiar with monster hunter as the name implies right you’re just out hunting monsters but there’s different types of weapons and they all play significantly differently so I wonder like is that the same here does a bow hunt player feel different (0:07:20) Spencer: They definitely do. The, you know, like the sword and shield is a lot faster. You start off with that too. (0:07:27) Spencer: So you kind of like, I think you don’t even get to choose a different weapon until you reach rank 10. (0:07:33) Spencer: Which can go by pretty quickly depending on like the area you are and you know how close you are. (0:07:40) Spencer: Much like Pokemon Go, you know, it’s a lot of it’s dependent on how close you are to like stops and other points of interest, right? (0:07:46) Spencer: So, you know, if you’re close to things like that… (0:07:50) Spencer: …you’re ranking probably go up pretty quickly within the first day. (0:07:54) Spencer: And you can get to the other weapons. (0:07:56) Spencer: But yeah, there is definitely a different playstyle to each one. (0:08:00) Spencer: You know, for as much as it is just tapping and swiping. (0:08:04) Kevin: Okay, all right, that’s interesting, but the fact that they don’t have the Switch X weapon I’ve played for Decade Plus, yeah, I know that game goes in the trash. (0:08:18) Spencer: Yeah, it was kind of a bummer when I saw that, I was like, “Oh man!” (0:08:24) Kevin: Alright, what else have you been up to? (0:08:25) Spencer: Umm, that and, oh god, this is so embarrassing for me to admit, but have you ever seen the ads for uh, that mobile game, Raid? (0:08:35) Kevin: Rage Battle Legends! (0:08:37) Spencer: Shadow Legends, yeah! (0:08:38) Kevin: Did you get your 300 free heroes? (0:08:39) Spencer: I was just, I was like, I… (0:08:43) Spencer: I did not, I just downloaded it, I was like, “What is this game about?” I keep seeing (0:08:48) Spencer: it, let me just try it, you know, if, for those of you who don’t know me, I download too many mobile games, and then my phone is just like full of them, and I don’t play them, (0:08:59) Spencer: and it’s just, it’s a bad habit that I need to stop and break, but I was like, “Whatever, (0:09:04) Spencer: they have money to hire all these famous actors to promote their game, so maybe it’s good.” (0:09:11) Spencer: And it’s not bad, I’ll be honest, you know what, it’s not bad, it is definitely a mobile game. It has everything you’d expect from a mobile game. It has… (0:09:18) Spencer: you know, timed items, rechargeable energy, you know, all the little… that bombards you with buying packs and stuff, but you know, whatever. (0:09:30) Spencer: I’m not into PvP too much, so I’m not concerned about having the best champions right away and stuff, but you know, it’s a mobile game. (0:09:40) Spencer: I don’t know what else there is to say about it. You wait for things. (0:09:43) Kevin: Okay, like okay, what do the it’s a is it a it’s it a gotcha game? I’m assuming it’s a gotcha game right to get your (0:09:52) Spencer: yeah so there are there are these like hero crystals or something I’ve only been playing it for not too long so pardon me for any any hardcore raid players out there I just called the whatever you know these crystals and you like summon heroes and stuff and you know nine times out of ten you’re summoning one that’s gonna be used for fodder for something else but every once in a while you’ll summon some epic hero or whatever so yeah it’s a gachi game (0:10:01) Kevin: Okay [laughter] (0:10:20) Kevin: Okay, are there any cool designs? (0:10:23) Spencer: » They’re all pretty cool. (0:10:25) Spencer: If you are into like, you know, very like high fantasy and dark fantasy kind of stuff. (0:10:30) Spencer: They have some good stuff, you know, like Lord of the Rings or like, (0:10:34) Spencer: I don’t know what else, The Witcher. (0:10:37) Spencer: If you’re into that kind of stuff, then you’ll probably be drawn to the aesthetic. (0:10:39) Kevin: Okay, hi, Fanny. (0:10:41) Spencer: Yeah, there are, it is a little odd, some of the designs, (0:10:46) Spencer: cuz like they lean into like fantasy of multiple cultures. (0:10:52) Spencer: There’s like a whole subset of like, you know, (0:10:55) Spencer: clearly Asian inspired fantasy people and creatures. (0:10:58) Kevin: Oh, door. Okay. (0:11:00) Spencer: Which is kind of interesting to see with more European style, (0:11:05) Spencer: more medieval style fantasy. (0:11:08) Spencer: You know, you’ll have your like, knights of the round table style knight fighting alongside like a ninja, but I mean, (0:11:17) Spencer: I can see why they have enough money to make ads like that, so it’s very solid. (0:11:22) Kevin: Yeah? (0:11:23) Spencer: I will say that, yeah. (0:11:23) Kevin: And hey, now that it’s been brought on the podcast, I’m sure they’ll approach us for a sponsorship now. (0:11:28) Spencer: Hopefully, yeah, you’re welcome. (0:11:29) Kevin: There you go, Al. (0:11:31) Kevin: I can’t wait for Al to read how much he loves rage at relations. (0:11:37) Kevin: Um… (0:11:40) Kevin: Okay. (0:11:41) Kevin: Oh, hey- (0:11:41) Spencer: What have you been playing? (0:11:43) Kevin: Ugh… (0:11:45) Kevin: Mostly- (0:11:46) Kevin: Mostly paleopines, I don’t lie. (0:11:48) Kevin: Um… (0:11:49) Kevin: This week’s been a lot of paleopines. (0:11:53) Kevin: But, uh, before that, I’m going to plug the other show, Rainbow Road Radio, (0:12:01) Kevin: hosted by my- our mutual friend Alex, and I happen to be on it. (0:12:07) Kevin: We covered Luigi’s Mansion last week, we are back from our break. (0:12:12) Kevin: And, uh, to kick off Spooktober- (0:12:15) Kevin: Well, you know, Halloween, whatever. (0:12:18) Kevin: Uh, we played Luigi’s Mansion. (0:12:20) Kevin: Um, the original for the GameCube. (0:12:20) Spencer: Oh, okay, okay, I was going to ask, didn’t they re-release it for DS, correct, or 3DS? (0:12:22) Kevin: Uh, yeah. (0:12:24) Kevin: Yes. (0:12:27) Kevin: Actually, that’s interesting because Alex played it on the DS. (0:12:31) Kevin: He did the remake, I did the original version. (0:12:34) Kevin: Um, and it’s interesting to hear those comparisons, but I will say, overall, like, that’s still a really good game. (0:12:43) Kevin: I never ha- I hadn’t played it before, actually. (0:12:45) Kevin: This is my first time playing the original. (0:12:45) Spencer: Oh wow, really? (0:12:46) Kevin: Yeah, um, so no nostalgia rose-colored glasses or whatever. (0:12:52) Spencer: I think that was the first game I got for my GameCube. That and Wave Race, yeah. (0:12:52) Kevin: But I enjoyed it. (0:12:53) Kevin: Yeah. (0:12:57) Kevin: Ooh, waveries, that’s a good one. (0:12:58) Spencer: Yeah. (0:13:00) Kevin: Um, uh, yeah, it was a launch game, I think, for the GameCube, so that makes sense. (0:13:05) Kevin: Um, I was surprised- one thing I was surprised by, because I had seen- I played the second one, Dark Moon, (0:13:14) Kevin: and I watched my brother play Luigi’s Mansion 3. (0:13:18) Kevin: So what I didn’t expect is Luigi’s Mansion 1, boy that they… (0:13:22) Kevin: Saw Resident Evil and said “What if we do Resident Evil with the Luigi?” (0:13:27) Kevin: Um, because boy that feels like a Resident Evil game, both the tank controls and the aesthetic, um, but overall very fun. (0:13:36) Kevin: Uh, so yeah, uh, check that episode out if you want more details on that, um, (0:13:36) Spencer: Mm-hmm. (0:13:44) Kevin: But yeah, aside from that, uh, a lot of the usual stuff, uh, (0:13:50) Kevin: a holly right it’s october now so every (0:13:52) Kevin: thing’s getting spooky and whatnot masters has yeah masters has Pokemon masters has spooky costumes rock sand looks great in her witch outfit Pokemon unite is getting mimic you in a week or two and Marvel snaps getting all sort of spooky cards for this season and I love the dumb monsters that they have in Marvel so I’m really happy uh but yeah that’s what I’ve been up (0:13:55) Spencer: Yeah, all the spooky updates. (0:14:22) Kevin: to like I said though a lot of paleopines I don’t think I’ve played anything else on my switch this week of the paleopines right right ok and we’ll get into wide later but before that let’s talk about the news alright first up let’s see here garden buddies. This is… (0:14:31) Spencer: Yeah, that’s been consuming my time too, as far as actual console games go, it’s just (0:14:52) Kevin: This is our previously announced game, but regardless, we have a trailer for it. (0:14:59) Kevin: Let me actually take a look at it. We have it announced for October 20th. (0:15:05) Kevin: Oh boy, that’s quite an aesthetic. I don’t remember this game at all, but these are little (0:15:16) Kevin: crops and vegetables with faces… and a bat… uh… (0:15:22) Kevin: It’s really funny. (0:15:23) Spencer: Now I watched this trailer and the voices… Man, I don’t know if they’re gonna get a cease and desist from Rare, but boy oh boy do they sound like your typical Banjo-Kazooie, uh… You know, little babbles (0:15:37) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, they do they do or for people who haven’t played rare on Animal Crossing pretty close to that, too Yeah, so you don’t remember this what is this game exactly? (0:15:45) Spencer: Yeah, yeah. (0:15:53) Kevin: yeah, because I don’t remember the trailer here, but it is releasing the 20th of October I said which oh my gosh actually that’s gonna be like almost (0:16:07) Kevin: These people are listening to this podcast. It’ll be out and it will be on Steam and on switch So you can look forward to that. Let me double check (0:16:19) Spencer: Yeah, I was curious too, because I mean, the trailer that I got here was just the release date and as far as I can tell, you’re the vegetables themselves? (0:16:26) Kevin: Yeah Yep, yeah, you are it’s a unique blend of cozy gardening simulator and mental self-care that’s Okay, that’s a lot of buzzwords The art. I don’t know how I feel about the art. I kind of like it. I kind of hate it (0:16:55) Kevin: The eyes are very (0:16:56) Kevin: Very very like Toa’i baby eyes Umm But there’s a little mushroom guy riding a frog So that looks cool Uhh (0:17:15) Kevin: heartwarming story, players accompanied by Mutzi will explore the magical world creating and building their plant sanctuary. The relaxing storyline will be filled with uplifting narration as well as unexpected twists and turns. They will make lots of friends with animals and plant creatures they encounter. (0:17:37) Kevin: So yeah, okay, it sounds like a lot, but they’re really emphasizing the de-stress and cozy feeling and whatnot, uh… (0:17:45) Kevin: I’m interested to see how this looks like. (0:17:48) Kevin: It’s definitely not your average farming game, it doesn’t look like. (0:17:54) Kevin: Just seeing, uh… (0:17:56) Kevin: From the perspective of being these little crops and things. (0:17:59) Spencer: it gives me kind of like a not to bring a prayer again but like almost like a view of a pinata vibe like you’re caring for these vegetables as like creatures (0:18:00) Kevin: Um, but, whoop. Yeah, go ahead. (0:18:03) Kevin: Yep. Yeah, it seems like that. (0:18:15) Kevin: I didn’t play Viva Pinata, and I heard it was the greatest thing on Earth, and I missed out on it. (0:18:19) Spencer: I only played it a little bit. I just… yeah. (0:18:20) Kevin: Okay. Okay, well… (0:18:24) Kevin: Regardless, people can find out more! (0:18:28) Kevin: Uh, again, October 20th. Very, very soon. (0:18:31) Kevin: Especially for the people who are listening to this. (0:18:34) Kevin: Okay, next up, we have… (0:18:38) Kevin: Ikone Island News. (0:18:41) Kevin: We have the Friend Pass release. (0:18:45) Kevin: It is out now as of recording. (0:18:47) Kevin: And so, you can… (0:18:50) Kevin: Ah! Friends… I thought it was like a battle pass. No. (0:18:54) Kevin: It is multiplayer co-op with three of your friends. You can do it online. (0:19:00) Kevin: And… Oh, what? That’s so cool! (0:19:04) Kevin: If one… only one person has the full version, everyone can play indefinitely. (0:19:10) Kevin: Um, there’s like a demo that you can find out about. (0:19:15) Kevin: Play co-op for a few hours. (0:19:17) Kevin: Uh, two hours of play, it looks like. (0:19:19) Kevin: But, uh, if you have the whole game, everyone can just play. (0:19:22) Kevin: And you don’t have to buy it or four copies to have four people playing. (0:19:28) Kevin: Uh, that is very cool. (0:19:31) Spencer: Yeah, that’s always nice when they do some kind of like, as long as just one person owns something, you know, then everyone has access to it, at least via online, you know, like connecting to each other for multiplayer or something like that. (0:19:47) Kevin: Yeah, that is cool. There is a large list of patch notes. (0:19:55) Kevin: I invite people to look at the link because they are pretty in-depth with their patch notes. (0:20:02) Kevin: But the big new other big news is that this will be launching the full 1.0 version on November 9th of this year, (0:20:14) Spencer: All right around the corner. (0:20:14) Kevin: which will only be two or three. Yeah, two or three. (0:20:17) Kevin: That’s really impressive. Wow. What a feel-good announcement. (0:20:23) Kevin: Everyone can just play together and you not having to buy the game for everyone. (0:20:31) Kevin: That’s great. And so to remind people, IKONOI ISLAND. Let me see, I don’t remember. (0:20:38) Kevin: I talk so many games, I forget which ones are which. This one is… Why is there a shark man in this? (0:20:48) Kevin: Okay, so yeah, no, it’s very Minecraft-y. Gather resources, craft tools, build your base and whatnot. (0:20:59) Kevin: So basically very Minecraft survival type game on an island. The art is cute and there’s like a shark man. (0:21:06) Kevin: That seems cool. That’s exciting though. You know, Minecraft is… or the genre, whatever you want to call it, is great for multiplayer. (0:21:16) Kevin: So this is this. (0:21:17) Kevin: It really is exciting. (0:21:18) Kevin: And yeah, November 9th, that launches on Xbox, Steam, Epic Games, and PlayStation. (0:21:26) Kevin: Yeah, alright, there you go. (0:21:30) Kevin: Good job, Ikune Island. (0:21:32) Kevin: That actually might get me to play with multiple people. (0:21:36) Kevin: Uh, that’s so cool. (0:21:39) Kevin: Next up, we have news on… (0:21:44) Kevin: Oh, do the King of Bar Mee- (0:21:47) Kevin: simulators farming simulator 22 is that a weight? (0:21:51) Kevin: Yeah, okay 22. I thought they could wind up with the years, but I guess not I’m wrong, okay Okay, so it is An expansion okay. This is an expansion that will launch on November 14th They’re adding carrots. Why were carrots not available before? (0:22:10) Spencer: That, yeah, very odd. I had to reread that to make sure that was correct, because carrots are like the most basic crop, right? In just things, in general. You got carrots, you got like potatoes, and like wheat. (0:22:17) Kevin: Uh, in life? I can’t, like, yep, yeah, yeah, that’s really surprising, um, and it’s surprising because, like, looking, all the detail they put into these other machines they’re releasing and stuff like that, um, it’s okay, but, uh… (0:22:47) Kevin: There you go, carrots, um, they’re adding a few other things, what is it, parsnips and a few other crops, but, uh, yeah, I’m curious, yeah, more machines, crops, uh, oh, and there’s, (0:22:57) Spencer: And some more machines too. (0:23:04) Kevin: yeah, there’s new machines that specifically help with these crops, like carrots, oh my gosh, like, oh, this, this is intense, like, they have real intense machine names and stuff like that. (0:23:17) Kevin: But, uh, oh, redbeat, yep, there it is. (0:23:21) Kevin: Uh, anyways, that again is November 22nd. (0:23:24) Kevin: That is the premium expansion, uh, for farming simulator. (0:23:29) Kevin: 20-20, er, just 22. (0:23:32) Kevin: Okay, next up, ah, now this is a game I do know. (0:23:35) Kevin: We have Garden Galaxy, uh, for people unfamiliar. (0:23:40) Kevin: We did an episode on it. (0:23:41) Kevin: It is, uh, you’re building a little garden, (0:23:48) Kevin: everything’s kind of randomly generated, the items you get. (0:23:52) Kevin: Um, so it’s an interesting loop of trying to expand your item and trying to get your garden and get the items you want. (0:23:59) Kevin: Um, but, uh, they’re getting an update. (0:24:02) Kevin: I am pleased to see this game, uh, continue getting support because it is a fun game. (0:24:06) Kevin: I need to go back to it probably now because on October 16th, (0:24:10) Kevin: which means when people are listening to this, it will already be out, (0:24:14) Kevin: There is getting an update with all of the other videos. (0:24:17) Kevin: Autumn themed items, we got pumpkins, jack-o’-lanterns, (0:24:22) Kevin: your fall leaves, and whatnot. (0:24:25) Kevin: So yeah, I think that’s the first set of seasonal items they’ve done like that before. (0:24:32) Kevin: Oh, no, that’s not true, they did a summer update. (0:24:34) Kevin: Either way, that actually might get me back in because I’ve been meaning to check it out. (0:24:42) Kevin: I’m sure they’ve done a lot of patches. (0:24:44) Kevin: the 10 months it’s been out. (0:24:45) Spencer: So I’m looking at this. Are you on like an island or something or are you what exactly it’s like you said Just randomly generated (0:24:50) Kevin: So, you… yeah, so it starts off… you’re basically on a floating island or set… (0:25:01) Kevin: it’s a tile-based grid-type game, right? (0:25:05) Kevin: And so it’s just floating out in space. (0:25:08) Kevin: It’s basically like an island. (0:25:10) Spencer: Okay, hence galaxy. (0:25:11) Kevin: And you’re… yeah, yeah, that’s the name, right? (0:25:14) Kevin: Yeah, Garden Galaxy. (0:25:15) Kevin: And you’re just… you’re generating items to decorate your garden, but that includes… (0:25:20) Kevin: like, new piles of terrain and land to expand your area. (0:25:27) Kevin: So yeah, it is… it’s a fascinating little game because it’s… at least when I first played it, (0:25:28) Spencer: Ah, okay. (0:25:36) Kevin: it requires some patience. (0:25:39) Kevin: I remember calling it the most frustrating, cozy, or relaxing game I’ve ever played, (0:25:45) Kevin: because the loop of how things were generated was… (0:25:49) Kevin: » Thank you. (0:25:50) Kevin: » I recommend people do check it out because it’s only like 10 bucks and it is relaxing. At least when it wasn’t frustrating. (0:26:10) Kevin: Again, that is October 16th for the autumn update. Go get your spooky garden on and whatnot. Uh, oh god, oh no. (0:26:20) Kevin: No, this next news. I don’t like it. No, that’s why I don’t like it. Go ahead. (0:26:24) Spencer: Oh, I saw it. I’m excited. You want me to announce it? (0:26:31) Spencer: Alright, well, our next thing, Animal Crossing LEGO sets. (0:26:38) Spencer: This is an audio podcast, but I’m rubbing my hands together. (0:26:41) Kevin: Can hear it I can oh we have Okay, you’re already a Lego man, okay See that’s that’s a thing right cuz I’ve managed to not dive into Lego Like it’s it’s always been there. It’s tempted me But this is the one that’s probably gonna break me I’m I’m gonna be in (0:26:43) Spencer: If there’s one thing I spend more money on than video games, it is LEGO sets. (0:26:51) Spencer: Oh yeah, I’m looking at the Rivendell set right now. (0:27:11) Kevin: So to get more specific, there’s been rumors and leaks of this and whatnot. (0:27:15) Kevin: But we have official announcements that it will be releasing on March 2024. (0:27:21) Kevin: We have a handful of sets. (0:27:27) Kevin: They are Bunny’s Outdoor Activities, Cap’n’s Island Boat Tour, (0:27:31) Kevin: Nook’s Cranny and Rosie’s House, Isabelle’s House Visit, and Julian’s Birthday Party. (0:27:36) Spencer: So, my understanding is that these sets are also modular, this is what I’ve heard through the grapevine, and they are meant to be able to essentially create your own island as if you were actually making an island in Animal Crossing. (0:27:42) Kevin: Yes. That is correct. (0:27:50) Kevin: Yes, that is correct. They come, all the sets come on this flat base or whatever and yeah, (0:27:58) Kevin: you’ll just be able to swap the positions or interlock them. You know, LEGO your way through it and whatnot. (0:28:04) Kevin: Yeah, yeah. (0:28:04) Spencer: Yeah, I mean, they’re Legos, so, like, you know. (0:28:07) Spencer: Yes. (0:28:08) Spencer: But, uh… (0:28:10) Spencer: Which makes me feel like we can expect to see more than just what’s announced in the future. (0:28:15) Kevin: Yes, so one of the kickers the there’s minifigs right of course lego that’s one of the half the fun or whatever From what I saw they’re nothing too crazy. They all look pretty standard minifigs That look like Animal Crossing characters Okay, go ahead go ahead (0:28:26) Spencer: Yeah, now I have a gripe with these minifigs, I’m sorry, but the proportions look a little off in my opinion. (0:28:41) Spencer: When you’re playing Animal Crossing, the characters kind of look very like chibi-like and they’re very small, I guess. (0:28:47) Spencer: I mean, I guess they’re not small because your character also looks like it’s half the the size of a tree, but at the same time, everything is– (0:28:50) Kevin: Yeah. (0:28:56) Spencer: everything’s pretty trunk, you know, it’s just like you kind of have a big head, a little body, (0:29:01) Spencer: and they decided to make these regular minifigs size, so now this big head is on this kind of like elongated minifig body, and I don’t know, I think they should have gone with the shorter legs personally, or something, I just think they could have made it like half-sized minifigs. (0:29:11) Kevin: Yeah Okay I guess Yeah Well, I mean yeah, this is interesting because this is the merging of two very powerful vocal fan bases, right? (0:29:22) Spencer: I realized that would be an unpopular opinion. (0:29:39) Kevin: I will say though like I played since the original Animal Crossing right and they were even more chibi like back then they got a growth spurt (0:29:47) Spencer: Oh, for sure. (0:29:54) Kevin: So, I don’t know, maybe I’m just used to it because of that, but anyways, as for the sets, (0:30:01) Kevin: we have pricings for all of them. (0:30:05) Kevin: The most expensive one is Nook’s Cranny and the Rosy House, which is 75 bucks, which is forgiving for like, no sets, let’s say. (0:30:13) Spencer: Yeah, the LEGO sets are expensive now. (0:30:16) Spencer: So, 75 bucks for… (0:30:17) Kevin: Yeah. (0:30:19) Spencer: I mean you’re essentially getting two houses, right? (0:30:20) Kevin: Yes. More or less. (0:30:21) Spencer: Every other set is kind of more of one house, so… (0:30:24) Kevin: Yes. It’s still going to look small and I’m going to feel it’s way overpriced, but am I still going to get it? Probably. (0:30:32) Kevin: I want nookscranny. Oh, it’s not actually nookscranny. It’s one of the updated versions. It’s not the little shack. (0:30:37) Spencer: Yeah, it’s not the little shack, wow. (0:30:39) Kevin: Oh, that’s disappointing. Oh, well. (0:30:45) Kevin: But yeah, I’m really scared though, like, for myself because I’m worried. (0:30:54) Kevin: That this will be the gateway and I’m going to be buying my nookcranny set and I’m like, oh, you know what? There’s that Lego Green Hill Zone with Sonic. (0:31:03) Kevin: I could just put it right next to him, you know? Sonic could visit the cranny if I wanted to. (0:31:10) Spencer: You just, you know though, like in a year from now, they’re gonna have some, I’m gonna say almost $200 museum set, and it’s gonna have blathers, and it’s gonna have different sections of the museum, and little animals that you can put in there, little octopus, (0:31:23) Kevin: No! (0:31:29) Spencer: a little fish, a little frog, you know it’s in the pipeline. (0:31:33) Kevin: Why did you- I didn’t think about that. Why did you jinx me like this? (0:31:37) Kevin: No! That’s gonna be the best one! (0:31:40) Kevin: No! (0:31:41) Kevin: We don’t have Town Hall either. That one’s gonna be big. (0:31:41) Spencer: They go, “If it’s not in the pipeline, come hire me.” (0:31:44) Spencer: Ugh, yeah, town hall. (0:31:47) Kevin: Oh, it’s gonna hurt me. Okay. (0:31:50) Kevin: But, this is just the tip of the iceberg, because we’re talking Animal Crossing, right? (0:31:55) Kevin: There is very much room for the Animal Crossing blind bag minifigs or whatever. (0:32:01) Kevin: Um, or even furniture set. (0:32:03) Kevin: Animal Crossing has a lot of items, so I could easily dip into that. (0:32:07) Spencer: Yeah, everything in Animal Crossing could be a blind bag for this set. (0:32:08) Kevin: Right? And that terrorized me? (0:32:12) Spencer: It is a little, yeah. (0:32:15) Kevin: Oh, we don’t have a K.K. (0:32:39) Kevin: So yeah, stay tuned to see my demise as I finally dive into the LEGO world, and it all ends for me. (0:32:48) Kevin: All right, so again, that is 2024, still a few months before the end of that. (0:32:55) Kevin: Okay, you know what, I have a question for you. You say you’re into LEGO, (0:32:57) Kevin: I don’t know how hardcore you are, but do LEGOs run out of stock easily? (0:33:04) Spencer: Hear me sigh as I say that, um, trying to think. (0:33:11) Spencer: So in the past I used to just, you know, back, back in the day, you know, when they were still doing kind of just their, their own sets, which they still do. (0:33:20) Spencer: I know people complain that they have like too many licensed sets now, but they have plenty of unlicensed or, you know, only Lego sets. (0:33:29) Spencer: Um, you know, I kind of just got what was there. (0:33:32) Spencer: I was never particularly looking for any kind of (0:33:34) Spencer: set. There was this Mars like Mars set that they had that I really enjoyed that I did try to get like a couple of different sets from but nothing like you know going out of my way and stuff with the advent of the internet though and being able to look all this stuff up like I am now as an adult. There are definitely sets that do you know do just disappear because they’ve sold out of them or they just stop making them. I can’t imagine them doing this with the (0:33:46) Kevin: Okay. (0:33:48) Kevin: Yeah. (0:34:04) Spencer: Animal Crossing set. You know I got to imagine that this is something that they’re planning to continue to release you know new sets for and keep updating with the old sets. For instance the Mario sets I think you can still get a lot of those you know at least if you look you might have to look a little bit harder but they’re generally like available. The set that I totally missed out on and just kick myself every time I think about it is they had a Voltron set and it came with all the different all different parts and they all like you know they all transformed into Voltron together and stuff. Yes it was and I saw that and I was like one day I’ll get it and then I just waited too long and that’s what happens but. (0:34:15) Kevin: Okay. (0:34:16) Kevin: Okay. (0:34:20) Kevin: Sure. (0:34:40) Kevin: You could, in fact, form the head. (0:34:52) Kevin: Oh, I know that feeling um well, i’m just worried because Like I said, I don’t know how the inventory issues are dealt with um in lego, but They’re drawing in the animal crossing nintendo crowd, right? We look what happened with van gogh Oh, come on Look what happened with Remember when julian was a commodity or not julian. Whatever his name was the Pat with the heterochromia (0:35:21) Spencer: Oh, yeah, yeah. (0:35:23) Kevin: And when new horizons drop If anyone could make this is the inventory problem, it would be these fans. Um, but oh boy, here we go uh but maybe the well the price isn’t even the worst for all of them, but uh We’ll see. Um I just want them to bring back by onical. That’s the only lego thing I ever really got those were cool little robot dudes (0:35:48) Spencer: Hmm, interesting. I was somewhat into Bionicle. I had quite a few, but not as much as the regular sets. (0:35:58) Kevin: All right, um, two other pieces of news album and put them on here, (0:36:04) Kevin: but I do want to mention them. (0:36:06) Kevin: I hope I, I listened to the last episode, but I hope I’m not repeating anything. (0:36:10) Kevin: Um, there have been patches dropped both for Meneko’s night market and paleo pines. (0:36:16) Kevin: Uh, last two, well, the last game I covered and the one we’re covering today, (0:36:20) Kevin: um, the Meneko’s night market. (0:36:23) Kevin: I don’t know all the details, but I’m very thankful that they’ve got these patches (0:36:28) Kevin: out quickly and, uh, and they’re already available for switch and steam versions. (0:36:34) Kevin: Um, I hope Al will find the links and maybe put them in the show notes, (0:36:39) Kevin: but, uh, go check them out. (0:36:41) Kevin: I will possibly fire up Meneko’s night market again, see how much it’s improved. (0:36:45) Kevin: Um, because I very much liked that game, just hoping for few fixes and well, (0:36:50) Kevin: they roll some out, uh, paleo pines. (0:36:53) Kevin: I read the patch notes and it’s fascinating. (0:36:57) Kevin: Uh, at least one of the items is fascinating. (0:36:59) Kevin: In general, they just kind of, you know, polished up a few edges and, and did nice things. (0:37:05) Kevin: No major updates. (0:37:06) Kevin: Um, but, uh, with that said, let’s, let’s just get on into it. (0:37:13) Kevin: Uh, let’s talk about paleo pines. (0:37:14) Spencer: Yes, paleopines. (0:37:15) Kevin: Okay. (0:37:18) Kevin: So this is available on steam switch. (0:37:22) Kevin: I don’t know what else it’s available on. (0:37:23) Spencer: I think it’s available on everything. (0:37:24) Kevin: Uh, is it? (0:37:27) Kevin: Okay. (0:37:27) Kevin: Um. (0:37:28) Kevin: So, for people who don’t know, the elevator pitch is pretty simple. (0:37:33) Kevin: It’s farming, but you have dinosaurs. (0:37:35) Kevin: Um, it’s what’s on the box, and it’s what you get. (0:37:38) Kevin: Um. (0:37:39) Spencer: It’s… exactly what you get. (0:37:39) Kevin: Yup. (0:37:44) Kevin: Alright, so let’s, before we get into the nitty gritty, what are your overall thoughts? (0:37:51) Spencer: My overall thoughts and opinions, it’s good to start off with this because I’m someone that kind of complains about things even if I like them. So I enjoyed this game. I did have a thoroughly good time myself playing this game. There are plenty of things I would change about it but ultimately this is probably a game I will come back to I might even play it after we stop talking to be quite honest. (0:38:14) Kevin: Okay, I probably will see [laugh] (0:38:17) Spencer: yeah the last episode I was on (0:38:21) Spencer: I talked about parkasaurus I don’t think I’ve touched that game since we stopped talking about it yeah but this game this game was definitely enjoyable it’s got a lot of charm you know using the dinosaurs for farming is different I guess I mean I’m not as big of a farming game player has you know you guys are so maybe this is just exactly the same you just skinned as dinosaurs but it was fun (0:38:25) Kevin: Hahaha, well there you go. (0:38:39) Kevin: » Yes, right, yeah, yep. (0:38:51) Spencer: it has a collection element to it very much kind of like Pokemon or something like that you know so it scratches a lot of different itches for a lot of different people and I feel like you can get yourself lost without necessarily doing the main kind of quest so to speak yeah there are missions that you do too in this game and you know I spent plenty of time just fumbling around doing my own thing. (0:38:57) Kevin: - Yeah. (0:39:21) Spencer: You know, ultimately that’s kind of what I like in games like this, so yeah, I had a great time playing it, great, great might be a little exaggerating, so yeah, what did you think? (0:39:30) Kevin: Mm-hmm, okay All right, um So overall it’s a definite thumbs up and recommend for me This is hard for me because I love dinosaurs very much I Was a dinosaur kid growing up. I watched Jurassic Park when I was little dinosaurs were my Pokemon before Pokemon and (0:39:57) Kevin: And so, obviously I’m heavily biased toward a game that… (0:40:00) Kevin: …explores that, but as someone who is relatively well-versed in farming games, I still think it’s enjoyable. (0:40:11) Kevin: All the points you made, I agree with. (0:40:15) Kevin: So, let’s get into the… (0:40:19) Kevin: But, overall though, I would recommend this to people to try out. (0:40:23) Kevin: If you enjoy farming games, I think there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy this. (0:40:27) Kevin: And if you enjoy dinosaurs, you will probably also- (0:40:30) Kevin: enjoy this. (0:40:31) Spencer: you might even enjoy it even more than if you were just a farming game person quite honestly. (0:40:32) Kevin: I actually agree, yes, because I do think the dinosaurs are done really well. (0:40:40) Kevin: Um, but okay, let’s start into this specific. (0:40:43) Kevin: So, I have three sections here. (0:40:48) Kevin: The bad, the good, and the ugly. (0:40:50) Spencer: OK. (0:40:51) Kevin: So let’s start with the bad. What complaints do you have? (0:40:51) Spencer: Complaints. (0:40:56) Spencer: So the biggest thing– my complaints are small things that add up, right? (0:41:04) Spencer: Accessing things. (0:41:05) Spencer: For instance, if you’re on a mounted dinosaur, (0:41:09) Spencer: for whatever reason– unless I’m just horrible at this game– (0:41:12) Spencer: you cannot access or interact with things other than the dinosaur’s interaction. (0:41:18) Spencer: So let’s say you start off with the parasaur. (0:41:20) Spencer: That’s just your dinosaur that you start off with. (0:41:21) Kevin: Right? (0:41:23) Kevin: Right (0:41:23) Spencer: And each dinosaur has a skill. (0:41:27) Spencer: They can clear debris, which is what the parasaur can do. (0:41:30) Spencer: And it can sprint. Two actions. (0:41:32) Spencer: But if you’re not doing that, you can’t interact with anything else. (0:41:38) Spencer: If you want to talk to someone, you have to get off your dinosaur. (0:41:41) Spencer: If you want to access your storage, you have to get off your dinosaur. (0:41:44) Spencer: Which just blows me away. I was like, (0:41:46) Spencer: “Come on, the person’s right there. Just let me talk to them. (0:41:48) Spencer: to them. Why do I have to get off my dinosaur? (0:41:49) Kevin: Yep, yep, absolutely, um Yeah, I I want to put just a little side note, um since we’re getting into it, uh Spencer and I are dinosaurs or nerds so we will be using dinosaur names Apologies if you if you listener might not be familiar. I invite you to look them up because dinosaurs are cool (0:41:50) Spencer: So, that would be one thing I would, you know, developers, if you’re listening, patch that, please. (0:42:17) Spencer: Indeed, and then you’ll see the name and then you’ll be like, “How do I pronounce that?” (0:42:21) Spencer: And quite honestly, we probably won’t pronounce all of them right, but it’s fun and trying. (0:42:25) Kevin: yep yes okay but um but yes that’s that’s a good point um that is annoying how you can’t talk to someone uh or gather certain points gather certain materials off foraging points and whatnot while on a dinosaur uh at the very yeah no judge say that I can kind of understand the the foraging part maybe you’re high up on a t-rex but come on (0:42:44) Spencer: That’s correct, because some… Oh, sorry, go ahead. (0:42:55) Kevin: can talk to someone while mounted on a t-rex I can say hey (0:42:59) Spencer: Yeah, I don’t really understand the decision, to be quite honest. (0:43:05) Kevin: Yeah, well, there’s a few things I don’t 100% understand, like, so there’s a handful of little things. I don’t know if they all add up to me something major, but like, one of my biggest gripes is inventory stuff. You can get big numbers of items, right? Like, you can get hundreds and hundreds of pieces of wood. (0:43:28) Kevin: Well, when you want to move between your bag and your storage or whatever, you don’t have the option of saying, “Okay, take out…” (0:43:35) Kevin: …20 or 30. You can only do the entire amount or half of it. And that’s frustrating. (0:43:38) Spencer: Yes, I was gonna ask this, I wasn’t sure if I was just like, not getting- (0:43:44) Spencer: Was there a tutorial I missed? Or if this is like, you know, just, but yeah, it’s only stacks, right? (0:43:47) Kevin: nope, or at least, I missed it too then. (0:43:51) Kevin: Yeah, you can, and what’s odd is, it exists because when you sell things at the trader or whatever, (0:43:52) Spencer: Like, I was like- (0:43:57) Kevin: you can select exactly how many you want to sell. (0:44:01) Kevin: But that’s the only time. (0:44:02) Spencer: Yeah, no, but then it’s and it gets even more deep than that because it’s Inventory management from your storage to inventory is only stacks, right? So like you have 300 wood in your storage and then you click on it and it’ll put all 300 in there but in stacks of a hundred and then now you have to go back in return 200 stacks, so you only have one stack and (0:44:23) Kevin: Yup, yup, exactly. (0:44:29) Spencer: Then when you go to sell that wood, here’s what get (0:44:32) Spencer: me. You go to sell that wood, and then you can select individually. You can select like I only sell two wood, right? And they do have a button for min and max. So like I want to sell the whole stack of wood, but they don’t have a button to increment it in tens. Also, which I feel like is something like, yeah, that really, that whole thing needs a lot of work. (0:44:56) Kevin: Yeah, it is wild and again, there’s even the trading like said it’s still missing that stacks of 10 which would be nice But the fact that that’s the only place where you can do Individual counts of whatnot. It’s baffling to me Let’s see what what other little complaints can you think of? (0:45:20) Spencer: So, I don’t know if this would be a little complaint. (0:45:25) Spencer: I don’t know where this falls on your good, bad, and ugly. (0:45:25) Kevin: Hehe. (0:45:29) Spencer: I will say there were a lot of things I was finding out about the game. (0:45:34) Spencer: I didn’t get, I’ll be honest, I didn’t get like probably end game, is there an end game? (0:45:39) Spencer: I don’t really know. (0:45:41) Kevin: I think there is. I mean, there’s the main quest. You have to find where the rest of the parasaurs are. (0:45:42) Spencer: There is, right? (0:45:44) Spencer: Yeah. (0:45:45) Spencer: Yeah. (0:45:46) Spencer: Yeah, you know, like I said earlier, I kind of… (0:45:50) Spencer: just ended up doing my own thing, which is, you know, it is what it is. (0:45:52) Kevin: Yeah. (0:45:53) Kevin: Uh huh. (0:45:55) Spencer: That’s kind of how it’s designed in the game. (0:45:57) Spencer: But so there’s a lot of things that I feel like I was finding out kind of on my own without… (0:46:06) Spencer: that would have been better maybe explained, you know, like I’ll be honest. (0:46:12) Spencer: I didn’t realize that holding what was the RZ was sprint for some of those dinosaurs. (0:46:18) Spencer: I was puttin’ around that whole area, and it was taking me forever. (0:46:18) Kevin: Yep Yeah, ha ha ha ha oh no Oh No Um, oh, that’s raw. I agree with you Um, this is a complaint I have about many games because I think it’s a critical thing to be clear and explain yourself well and whatnot Um, I am struggling to think of I had a specific example, but I can’t think of it right now (0:46:23) Spencer: It would take like a half day just to get across the place. (0:46:47) Kevin: The sprinting thing there is a (0:46:48) Kevin: prompt on the bottom of the screen, but if you don’t pay it, they don’t call it out or anything. (0:46:52) Kevin: So it’s easy to miss, because there’s other prompts that are there, (0:46:56) Kevin: and the sprinting prompt is added when you’re on the right dinosaur, (0:47:00) Kevin: but it’s not there when you’re not on it, so it’s easily missable. (0:47:04) Kevin: possible. (0:47:06) Spencer: Oh, and so here’s the thing with the sprinting thing, too. (0:47:12) Spencer: If you click on, I believe it’s just R, (0:47:15) Spencer: your character will auto run in that direction. (0:47:16) Kevin: Wait, what? (0:47:17) Kevin: I didn’t know that! (0:47:19) Kevin: She- what?! (0:47:19) Spencer: Yes, there’s an auto run button. (0:47:21) Kevin: Oh my goodness. (0:47:22) Spencer: So I was clicking auto run, and I was thinking it was the sprint half the time. (0:47:22) Kevin: Oh, there you go. (0:47:24) Kevin: Oh, case in point. (0:47:32) Spencer: And I was like, this doesn’t look any faster. (0:47:35) Spencer: I guess I don’t need to hold the button. (0:47:36) Spencer: I feel like there’s a lot of things that get fed to you at either inopportune moments or just as far as information goes. (0:47:50) Spencer: You’re just kind of like, “Huh, I could have used that information like three days ago.” (0:47:54) Kevin: Yup, there was oh the So there is I remember my example. Um, there is a help option in the pause menu and it does have some tutorials in there It doesn’t really let you know that they’re there Which is a shame because a number of them are very helpful. They explain how to use your tools The one I wanted to mentioned was the soil we’ll get into it into it in a bit but essentially how to properly fertilize and till the soil and stuff like that. (0:48:29) Kevin: That information, I didn’t realize how it worked until I happened to find it in the tutorial items in the help menu. (0:48:37) Kevin: It would have been nice if that had been called out earlier. (0:48:40) Spencer: It’s funny that you mention the soil because it wasn’t until only the other day that I was, again, I was just thumbing through the profiles of the vegetables and I was like, (0:48:51) Spencer: “Huh, they really want you to crop rotate in this game, don’t they?” (0:48:53) Kevin: Yep, yep. (0:48:55) Spencer: That would have been useful to know before I planted tons of vegetables in random areas. (0:49:01) Kevin: Yep, um, absolutely. (0:49:04) Kevin: Um, so yeah, that is a complaint, like I said, I have about many games, just lack of clarity or not explaining things well. (0:49:12) Kevin: Uh, one hopefully that can get updated because that’s not impossible to fix. (0:49:17) Kevin: Just add some more prompts at certain points, so. (0:49:19) Spencer: No. (0:49:19) Spencer: Yeah, and I will give them credit, right? (0:49:20) Kevin: Fingers crossed we get those patches. (0:49:25) Spencer: Like some games you sit through tutorials and they are like, you know, some omnipotent someone or other talking at you going, “Hit A to use the ox.” (0:49:31) Kevin: Yep, yep Yep Yeah, it does it is not very handhold be not at all you Yeah, that’s One of the pros in my book that it doesn’t really put any pressure on you in almost any way (0:49:35) Spencer: You know, and then you’re like, “Okay, like I get it.” (0:49:37) Spencer: And then you have to sit there for like an hour. (0:49:39) Spencer: Right? (0:49:40) Spencer: This game really does kind of let you play the game almost right away. (0:49:58) Kevin: And I’ll get into that later when we talk about quests I think in the more (0:50:01) Kevin: detail but one final item I wanted to add in the bad list well I guess this kind of goes in the ugly I’m not the biggest fan of the art style of the game so okay well let me be more specific I like the dinosaurs the dinosaurs look great they’re they’re very cutesy and the way they’re presented in this game where people are just hanging out they’re your pals and working with them (0:50:16) Spencer: Really? (0:50:31) Kevin: and they live on your farm they’re not intimidating or scary I think that was managed really well I think that works well and I think it’s fantastic my part problem is the people right the people also have this very cutesy art style and it’s this might just be a very personal thing but it is really (0:50:48) Spencer: Okay, okay. (0:51:01) Kevin: looks like a Disney Junior show basically that’s the way I describe it in fact I watch Bluey right so I’ve seen other ads for Disney Junior shows there is one actually called Dino Ranch and it looks a lot like this yeah (0:51:07) Spencer: Yeah, I mean (0:51:18) Spencer: Yeah, the people are, I mean, it’s an art style, that’s for sure. (0:51:24) Spencer: It’s a design choice that they made. (0:51:27) Kevin: Yeah, and everything is very saccharine, like very… (0:51:31) Kevin: Happy… (0:51:33) Kevin: No one gets angry or there’s big problems or anything like that. (0:51:38) Kevin: There’s a character who says “zippity” and it just feels very kid show… (0:51:42) Kevin: Umm… (0:51:47) Spencer: Yeah, well, eh. So there’s a couple characters. One that stood out to me as Pippin. (0:51:54) Spencer: He does kind of get a little grumpy. (0:51:54) Kevin: Yeah They they’re actually in be non-binary Which I just like a thumbs up. That’s all right. No, but I just thumbs up to the Devs for throwing that in there right and I’ll have Pippin Pippin’s a little bit of a gremlin Go ahead Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that that. (0:51:57) Spencer: Oh, sorry. (0:52:10) Spencer: Ah, yeah, but they get a little like, onry about things if you ask them to make like a, they make these, yeah, they make these like treats that, that’s basically how you tame the dinosaurs and they have like very specific, “Oh, it’s my family recipe, like don’t, we don’t screw with it” and then you ask them to make other treats and then they kind of get all upset about it instead of like, “Ah, fine, take your, take your
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And it would mean the world to me, it takes two seconds of your day and it would mean the world, like I said, so without further ado, let's jump into it. This is episode number 30, four of the red pill revolution podcast. Welcome to red pill revolution. My name is Austin Adams, red pill revolution started out with me realizing everything that I knew, everything that I believed, everything I interpreted about my life is through the lens of the information I was spoon fed as a. Religion politics, history, conspiracies, Hollywood, medicine, money, food, all of it, everything we know was tactfully written to influence your decisions and your view on reality by those in power now. I'm on a mission, a mission to retrain and reeducate myself to find the true reality of what is behind that curtain. And I'm taking your ass with me. Welcome to the revolution. All right. So episode number 34 of the red pill revolution podcast. And we're gonna jump right into our first topic today, which is Elon Musk files to back out of the Twitter deal. Crazy. I, I, I did not see this coming honest. I thought it was gonna go through. We saw all of the things that were going wild and crazy at Twitter, all of their, all hands on deck meetings. Um, all of the footage that was leaked from project Veritas, discussing all of the, you know, people jumping the metaphorical, uh, ship with Twitter, um, talking about, you know, layoffs and stuff. And now Twitter stock has Essent. Plummeted. I mean, they lost like four, uh, $4 worth of their stock, which is like billions and billions of dollars of evaluation for their company. Um, so wild. Now I have a theory about this. I mean, I think Elon Musk is smart enough to have potentially pulled this off and, uh, maybe did this entire thing on purpose to basically show the public how many bots are actually on, uh, your social media handles or on your social media networks that you're on. And I think it could have all. A a big brain plan that he had put together, but let's read this article real quick and then we will discuss it. All right. It goes on to say that Elon Musk is terminating his 44 billion deal to buy Twitter, but the company vowed Friday to still complete the deal, setting the stage for a legal battle that could lead to more turmoil and uncertainty for the social media network. This is coming off of the Chicago post. And this says after growing months of grow or after months of growing doubt that he intended to close the deal. Musk lawyer sent a letter to Twitter, arguing that he has a right to drop out of the agreement because Twitter hasn't given him enough information about the company's business. Musk file. Musk's filing was blunt about his intentions. He is terminating their merger agreement, the letter attached in the securities and exchange commissions filing Friday said, now it goes on to say that, but Twitter's board hit back at the billionaire saying that it would pursue legal action to enforce the deal. Legal experts have said it would be difficult for Musk to just walk away from the agreement. The agreement also has a $1 billion breakup. I like how they say that legal experts, like who's legal experts, who are these people? Like, yeah. They passed the bar once seven years ago, and now you paid them 500 hours to say something that aligned with your article. like legal experts. Like please define that. And maybe even tell us who they are. You know, that seems to be important. Like who are these legal experts that you, uh, are, are using to describe how, what, what could actually go down here. But it is interesting to note that there is a $1 billion breakup. Hmm. Haven't really seen that in contracts before, but I, I would ventured a bet that it, it will be pretty detrimental to Twitter's stock. I mean, it already has been immediately, immediately. It was detrimental to Twitter's stock, but it goes honestly, that Twitter has plunged into chaos since Musk announced his intentions to take over the firm in April employees, fearing layoffs in a significant change of operat. Under, uh, and under the billionaire have been looking for new jobs. As Musk has regularly aired his criticisms of the business in tweets of his own, and the billionaires moved to exit the deal leaves, Twitter's reputation and jeopardy with its future ownership in flux. And again, this is coming right after they had a basically as. CEO change, um, that P P golly, I don't know whatever the guy's name is. Um, but the, the, basically the guy who said that he vowed to have more censorship, you know, um, coming off of you going on to the platform, which was obviously a very concerning thing for a large portion of the country. Uh, and then immediately, immediately almost after that CEO change, um, which makes you think even more, maybe they had a little bit more information about it than, than we thought. Uh, but. Um, it goes on to say that it's discombobulated their whole operation, um, said Carl Tobias law professor at the university of Richmond, it's going to be tough for Twitter to weather this now. I think it's interesting. I think it's a really interesting, uh, uh, uh, thought experiment here to assume that Elon Musk could potentially be the smartest man in the world alive. I think it's pretty safe to, uh, to say that he's at least in the top 10 of intellect in the world. Now he's also potentially in the top 10 in the world for trolling , he's, he's probably on a lot of lists here. Um, but he's, you know, trolling and intellect are definitely the top tens that you can say that Elon is a part of. So. Here's my theory. I think that Elon Musk could have done this all intentionally. I think Elon Musk would have been willing to take a billion dollar hit to basically expose the entire social media world and show that it's basically at least 50% of the people that you're interacting with, or you think you're interacting with could potentially be bot. And now bots don't just mean like AI algorithms bots mean huge swarms, like big picture, big, huge call centers from like the nineties of like a bunch of people picking up the phone and dialing, you know, 500 times every two minutes. Now, picture them on social media networks with 30 phones in front of them, all running different accounts, all liking, following tweeting, the same things, all, you know, going after a single individual, all of these same people. Reporting the same account at the same time on the same tweet for the same reason. That's what the bot farming deal is. It's not, you know, computer AI algorithms all of the time. Now there is definitely a differentiation there between the bots that are out there that like you can pay for certain companies that will like follow and unfollow different accounts and, you know, send out messages on your behalf and you can do that. BS. But I, I believe the things that he's talking about specifically, the, the concern with the bots is that they're fake accounts. They're not real people, but they're also not the robots sitting on, in, on Twitter. , they're real people sitting there with 30 phones in front of them with specific political and, and, uh, financial intentions. Right. Because if you know how to, you know, if, if, if you think of it this way, and I think I've talked about this before that, you know, the, um, Youngy in theory of the collective unconscious, right? The collective unconscious is the internet. And if it's nothing else, it is social media. Right. And, and, and you can see the, where the collective swarm of consciousness goes on any given day. If you go to the trending page on Twitter, What, what is the, what is the major, you know, the humanities brain thinking of and discussing at the same exact time, right? What is everybody's mind on at each individual moment? Right. And you can see that swarm go from one topic to another day by day from, you know, the Johnny Depp trial to, you know, the shootings, to the political scandals, to this, to that, to hearings, to, you know, you can see the swarm and where it goes and where consciousness as humanity goes to specifically based on social. Right. You can go to the training page. You can see exactly what is on the collective unconscious at any given. all right. So now there's one theory that he was basically buying Twitter so that he could eventually use the data of human consciousness and that collective unconscious to eventually integrate it with his, uh, Neurolink technology. Um, Or his AI technology. That's one theory. And that's definitely a real theory, right? I, I, I think if you're going to purchase, you know, the, the, the largest amount of human thoughts ever, and be able to utilize that data, however you want. there's definitely, you know, probably a, a conflict of interest if somebody owns an AI company. I think that's fair to say. Now a different theory is that he did all of this specifically just to expose the social media companies for what they were. And to show that to, to be able to extract out. Social media companies from having to show the numbers, right? He says, how many bots do you have? It was like maybe a week after he asked for this report on how many bots they had. And now he's all of a sudden he's pulling out. Now. He says, it's because you guys didn't gimme enough data. Right. And that's fair. But what data is he talking about? He's talking about the data of the bots. He's wanting to know what, what, what percentage of your actual numbers are physical people and what are political, uh, calls, you know, um, bot farms in Russia in China, in Delaware. Um, I, I think that's a fair thing for him to want to know. So he extracted that information from them in a way that no other person on this world or planet could have done, right. He put them into a position. He backed them into a corner where he said, I'm going to buy your company. They said, no, you're not. He said, oh yes, I am. Because if you don't let me do this, it's against the best interest of your shareholders. And legally you have to do what's in the best interest of your shareholders. And prior to him knowing he was gonna close this deal, he knew the steps that he had to take. And one of those steps was figuring out the actual physical numbers of the amount of, of, uh, traffic. Through his social media network that he was looking to purchase that were real people and what was fake. And that's where it got interesting. And within a week of him receiving that report, that's when he pulled out. Okay. Now, if he did this all in a collective, uh, you know, a, a purposeful idea to go after these social media companies and to, uh, basically expose them for what they are 50% potentially of the people that you interact with on social media could not be. Real people, their intentions could be fake. Their political leadings could be fake. Their extremist violent, uh, speech could be fake, their incitement of political, uh, um, you know, uh, protests could be fake. Uh, you know, basically half the internet could be Ray apps sitting there telling people they're going into the capital on January 6th. Um, so. I don't know. I guess time will tell, we'll see if this actually goes through, you know, you, it's funny right now, if you look up Elon Musk, Twitter backs out, look it up anywhere. Google news, wherever the hell you get, what you look at, go look it up. Find some articles through a search engine. And the only thing you're gonna see on articles is not about him pulling out and why. It's just about the fact that there's legal ramifications to him doing. Which is interesting too, because Google doesn't want you to know the reason, right? The, the, the, the curated search engines don't want you to know why he actually could be potentially pulling out of this deal. They want you to know that there is legal and financial ramifications for him doing so, which is interesting. Right. So I just, I thought that was, you know, I, I tried to find the easy article initially, right? When this happened about, you know, why he was pulling out what the deal was with it, you know, just read something about it. And the only articles that I could find, at least in the first few pages all had to do with the fact that there was a potential buyout cost, um, that, you know, they were gonna Sue him that, you know, all of this craziness, but you don't actually get down to the bottom of the article where it actually, you know, eventually I found one like this one here, where it talks about why. But even this one goes on to talk about, you know, legal experts. some guy who passed the bar when he was 23 and is now 55 and works for our news company, says that he's agrees with our statement. Oh, surprise. Surprise. All right. So I guess we'll see what happens. I am hopeful that this was all intentional because the, the, the, the unbelievable amount of billionaire trolling that, that could be done that has not been done, uh, you know, this would live up to my expectations, you know, and that's an interesting thing. I, I think I heard, um, I heard it recently on a, uh, the different podcast where they were saying, uh, it, it's quite interesting to me that all of these billionaires actually play by the rules that they actually play the game. Right. Why, why isn't there more Elon Musks out there smoking weed on podcasts and, you know, given the middle finger to all the major corporations that are out there and, and building flame throwers, cuz it's cool. Like , you know, being the, um, the billionaire, the 13 year old, you. Fired to be a billionaire, wanted you to be not some, you know, uh, lame ass old dude who just does exactly what you know, his political alignments want him to do. I dunno. But anyways, I hope this was all intentional. I hope it was a long term troll by Elon Musk, cuz that would literally be the greatest thing ever. And, and I wonder what the legal, if any ramifications would be, if he said this to begin with, I was gonna buy you if you had legitimate numbers, but I knew you wouldn't so. Anyways, let's move on the next portion. Uh, the next topic that we're gonna discuss is a Ohio bill that would allow pregnant women to Sue men over unintended pregnancies. So what this is saying is that if you have a one night stand and you get the woman pregnant, she can Sue you for the baby. Now I would like to note that this is a frivolous bill that will never pass. And it's one of those that basically some random lawmaker you've never heard of this one comes from, uh, testifies, Senator Tina Mahar. Who's a Democrat, uh, testifies in a Senate committee in October 20, 21st. Um, at least that's. Yeah. So I'll read this article to you and then we'll discuss it, cuz this is crazy. It says with Ohio's new six week abortion ban in place, a democratic state lawmaker says it's time for the Ohio legislator to give consideration to her bill that holds men who cause an unintended pregnancy responsible, whether the sex that led to the pregnancy was consensual or not. Hmm. Okay. Tina Maher. Sad. Her bill would allow anyone who becomes pregnant to file a civil lawsuit against the person who impregnated to them. Even if it happened as a result of consensual sex. Excuse me. Ma'am have you ever heard of child support? it's literally what the, the whole point of that is. Yes. If you impregnate somebody, they literally have to pay you, right. Or if you get impregnated by. Most likely a man, cuz that's who impregnates people. Maybe not according to this article with pregnant people in the, the title, but you gotta pay money for the rest of the li the last 18 years. You have to pay child support for that baby. All right now, What we're finding as a theme with a lot of these democratic senators and, and, and even, you know, conservative, uh, Republican senators and things is, is they're doing these like click baby bills bills in, in laws that they're trying to pass, that they know will never have a chance ever. Of getting past there's sensational bills that have no merit to them. They're ridiculous. But they're statement bills. They're trying to get famous on social media over saying, they're gonna allow you to go to civil court over somebody impregnating you like there. I wonder I, I should be finding a list of these because there's been a lot of these bills lately in the last two to three years that normally would have, you know, taken away the legitimacy of this lawmaker. And now they're like, yeah. You know, go after the man who you consensually had sex with because the outcome of which was exactly what sex is intended for, which is reproduction. I, I think maybe if you were, if you missed sex ed class in sixth grade, you could have an argument here, but unless you have no idea how you actually wound up pregnant, like, if you were in, in a, you know, um, What's that show? Uh, I forget it it's like where she comes out of a, a, um, from a cult and she was in a host and she was like five years old. It's a comedy. There might be new girls, a new. Might be a new girl. I don't know. Um, but anyways, she, uh, you know, it's like somebody came out from a cult from underneath the earth for 35 years and all of a sudden they're just baffled by the way that recreation happens. Uh, because they thought a, a, a golden Swan dropped an egg and on your porch, uh, because they're cult leader told them. So, and now they're pregnant and they're mad about it cuz they had no idea. This is actually how you got pregnant. . And now they go to court to Sue them. Like that's the only, it it's crazy. Anyways, let's read this article a little bit longer. It says, regardless of the circumstance, I felt it was important to have that vague language, uh, due to the fact that abortion is now banned here in the state of Ohio, the vague lay language being, it would allow anyone who becomes pregnant to file a civil lawsuit against the person who impregnated them. Even if it happened as a result of consensual sex, the bill has little to no chance of receiving a committee hearing or passing the Republican held Ohio Senate. Matt Harrah's bill would allow the court, um, would allow the court. Well, they wrote this terribly. Would allow the court could order a person who it determines, causes a pregnancy. I like how they don't say man, , it's a man. If they can impregnate somebody, uh, at the point of fetal activity can be detected. Maha said that the existence of the new law makes it more important that people who become pregnant. Women have the option to file a civil lawsuit against the person who impregnated them, the man who impregnated them, regardless of how it happened. How do you think it happened? um, she said that she was disturbed by a recent news story in which a 10 year old pregnant girl was denied an abortion in Ohio and was forced to drive to Indianapolis to get one. She said many women don't even know they are pregnant at that. The urgency comes because at six weeks, not everyone knows that. Especially if you are 10 years old and pregnant at 10 years old, you don't know too much about your reproductive rights. Fair. Maybe that's a situation where, you know, maybe they wouldn't know how sex occurred. and maybe they should be able, but still child support. What are you gonna do in a civil lawsuit besides, you know, I just doesn't make any sense. A group of democratic lawmakers have introduced a package of legislation that they say, well, help parents afford the cost of raising infants and children in the state. Oh, well that seems like a better idea. Why don't we help people raise children instead of funding them to not have. The bill addresses several issues such as eliminating the sales tax families pay for diapers and creating a one time $600 infant formula tax credit to help families afford these. The bill has yet to have a hearing in a Senate committee, but Republican lawmakers have said they intend to pass a complete ban on abortion when they come back into session in November. So the likelihood of this passing is very, very slim. It's another one of those sensationalized bills that are only there for click bait. Literally we have click bait politics. Now we're moving from the fact that we have, you know, actual news articles to clickbait articles. We going now from where we have legit. Politics and policies being passed to click bait policies, trying to be passed just for cloud. This is getting ridiculous. All right. But that does lead us to our next article here, here, and this article has a little bit of a relation to the ridiculousness of this article. Um, but in a very. Sick and twisted way. So, um, the medical industrial complex. Now this is from, uh, Chicago Tribune that says she didn't want a pelvic exam, but got one anyways, while under anesthesia in many states, consent is not required. Now my wife brought this up to me. She said, this is disgusting. This is ridiculous. It, it, it basically is a, a legal option of medical rape like that doctors apparently do all the time. Like it's, it's sickening. It's, it's disgusting. It's sickening. And it's no surprise to me with the way that, you know, we see, uh, birth. In hospitals being done and things being forced on women and, um, that, that they didn't consent to just because it's, it's they're in that situation. So it says that Janine, a nurse in Arizona checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017, before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want many, many medical students to be directly involved after the operation. Janine said, as the anesthesia wore off, a resident came by to inform. That she had gotten her period. The resident had noticed while conducting a pelvic exam, she then responded by saying, what pelvic exam distress. She tried to piece together what had happened while she was unconscious. Why had her sexual organs been in inspected during an abdominal operation by a medical student later? She said her physician explained that the operating team had seen. That that the operating team had seen. She was due for a pap smear, Janine burst into tears and said, I started having panic attacks, trying to figure out what had happened. She recalled an interview. I have a history of sexual abuse and it brought up bad memories. She felt especially unnerved as a medical professional patients put such trust in the medical profession, especially on sensitive topics, such as going under anesthesia. So basically what happened is this lady went in for a surgery, a random abdominal surgery. She specifically said she didn't want any medical students, a part of this surgery and the surgery had specifically nothing to do with her reproductive system. And they brought these students in to do perform a pelvic exam for experience, not for any medical necessity for experience without the patient's consent. It says that pelvic exams, nece necessitate physical inspection of the most sense of the areas of a woman's body, the exams are typically conducted while the patient is awake and consenting at a gynecologist visit to screen for certain cancers, infections, and other reproductive health issues. But across many states and many medical institutions, physicians are not required to obtain explicit consent for the procedure. Sometimes the exams are conducted by doctors or doctors in training while women are under anesthesia for gynecology or gynecological in other operations, often the exams are deemed medically necessary, but in some cases they're done solely for the educational benefit of medical trainees. At some hospitals, physicians discuss the procedure with patients beforehand or detail at specifics, but at others, the women are left completely unaware that their bodies were going to be violated by a medical doctor. For educational purposes without consent. That's horrifying. That's literally rape that's. That's what that is. There's no other way to describe that. That is what these doctors are doing to these, to these women. It's it's horrifying. So it says there's no numbers to indicate how many pelvic exams have been performed nationwide without consent. But regional surveys suggests that the practice is not uncommon. A 2005 survey at the university of Oklahoma found that a majority of medical students had performed pelvic exams on unconscious patients. And in nearly three out of four instances, they thought informed consent had not been obtained majority. So more than 50% of medical student. Had performed these type of pelvic exams, three fourths of them. They believed there was no consent done. So more than 50% of doctors have been bummed involved. And 75% of those that were involved in these at least at least 50%, um, 75% were done without consent. The doctor believed that's horrifying. That's terrible. And that should be, and is illegal. Without the white coat syndrome that they get to wear around as if they get to touch people's body without their consent horrifying. It, it, it speaks to me like it speaks to the, to the actual medical, industrial complex, the, the way that doctors view you, if you go into a doctor and I've experienced this several times with my wife, with our pregnancies and, and having our children and, and, you know, we had two of our children at home as home birth. My wife did, and she's a boss. Um, she had two of our children at home. and, but we went in a couple times just to make sure that things were okay. We had some concerns, there were some things going on. We went into the hospital to get some type of work done. There was like terrible migraines. And when we went in, we had, it was like days and days and days that she had been experiencing this. We had given her tons of water. She had taken a bunch of Tylenol. We went in there and basically just told him, you know, we want to get an MRI. We wanna make sure that there's no real serious issues. And, um, they offered us an IV of fluids and Tylenol. You know, we said, she's very hydrated. We made sure that she drank water the entire time. She drank a ton of water and she's been taking Tylenol. So we said we don't, you know, we're really not interested in that because we know they're gonna bill us, you know, $850 for water in Tylenol. And we had already taken care of those things. We knew that wasn't the issue. But the second that we said no to those, the second that we showed that, you know, she voiced her opinion and you know, my, when they came in and said, we're gonna be doing IVs in Tylenol, IVs for fluids in Tylenol, through the IV. And I said, I looked to my wife and I said, is that what you want? They didn't ask her her opinion on it. They didn't ask her if that was okay. They didn't ask her if she wanted to pay that money for the cost of water and Tylenol. They were just gonna do it. They assumed the sale, right? When you learn sales, the big part of learning sales is, is, is learning how to speak to people in a way that they go along with what you say. And one way of doing that is assuming that they will go along with what you say. What I'm gonna do now is just take your credit card information for this. Okay, great. You don't say, would you like me now to take your credit card information? No, we don't do that because that gives them the opportunity to leave the conversation or to say no. So what doctors are literally trained to do is to come in and go, this is what we're going to do. Got it not, is this what you want me to. They just assume that you're an idiot. You have no experience that you're dumb. You have no awareness of your body or what your body might need, or what type of scans you might need. They just assume that you're dumb and they do what they wanna do, regardless of your opinion. And if you say, no, you're automatically the enemy and that's what we're seeing this, you know, rear it's ugly head with here is they're assuming that body they're like cattle to, to them. You're like cattle to them. And they assume that that body is theirs to use in whichever, which way that they want, including. touching you in places that they shouldn't be while you're unconscious, without consent at all. And that's what they believe is their right. They think they have the right to do that. And they don't. Although according to this article, it's legal in several states for them to do so many states, obviously because more than half of doctors have said that they've done it. And three fourths of the time that they've done it, they said they did not believe that there was consent. Which is just horrifying and terrifying all at the same time, because if you're a woman now and you go to get a surgery done, how are you gonna feel about that? How's that gonna make you feel to know that your doctor literally has unlimited rights to your body while you're sitting there unconscious? Even if it has to do with your private area. Like just, it's so baffling to me that, that our medical industrial system believes that, you know, and I guess they have to look at you that way. There's so many patients maybe that definitely don't have to look at you in a way that your body and, you know, your vagina is their right to, to violate, but. They look at you as if they're the expert, you're dumb, you're there because your cattle, they have to go buy a book that says, if there's this, then do this right. And they wanna check as many boxes as possible. Oh. And by the way, the medical system is designed to profit in the United States. It's the same reason that we're far, far, far down the list. Tens of dozens of, if not hundreds of companies or countries down the list, when it comes to medical positive medical outcomes or mortality rates. Compared to profitability. We're like number 112 on the list for positive outcomes for medical procedures. And we're number one on the list for profitability. And this goes back to the 1940s, right? You want to go back to the medical, industrial complex. And when this all happened was a shift after world war II. And what actually happened was they pushed out all, uh, osteo, um, yeah, osteopathic and homeopathic medicine for alopathic medicine. They basically shut down every school. Right. Theys. It was like the, um, who was it? The, uh, it's like one of the major families, um, not the Rothchilds, but, um, Uh, who was it? One of the major, large, huge multi trillionaire families with ridiculous amounts of money basically started an organization that was meant to systematize the medical learning process, because a lot of it in, in, and to be fair, a lot of medical procedures and a lot of, you know, uh, medicine prior to the 1940s and thirties was like snake oil salesman, selling, telling you that they could cure your, uh, blindness with, uh, A certain herb from their garden and they mashed it up and put it into an oil. Right. And so they could do that. There was no federal regulations for how they actually had to, um, you know, uh, there was no certifications. There was no testings. It was, there was like the wild, wild west. so what, you know, rightfully they came in and did is kind of systematized it and said there, okay, there should be some, you know, gate keeping to this. Not everybody should be able to be a doctor. You should have to go through some type of schooling to do so, but what ended up happening is they basically lobbied enough to push out all osteopathic and homeopathic medicine for alopathic medicine. And if you understand the difference between osteopathic homeopathic and alopathic medicine is alopathic medicine treats. Disease like a war that they have to win outside sources to do. So, right. There has to be some type of pharmaceutical medication that intervenes in your body because your body is not able to do these things on its own. So they have to put something into your body that will then assist because without it, a lot of things will go. And what homeopathic and osteo or homeopathic and osteopathic medicine tends to believe like a do as opposed to an MD, which is a doctor of osteopathic medicine tends to believe is that your body can do a lot of things on its own. Your body has a lot of ways to fight illnesses, um, without the need for tons of medical, inter. Right. It doesn't treat it like a war that they have to win as the doctor, they treat it as, you know, uh, um, a, some type of way that they can support your body in fighting it through natural means as much as possible. And if you need to do so, then you go address these things with a surgery or something, but you definitely try some other things first. Right. So very fair. Uh, you know, osteopathic medicine is, is the most common type of medicine when you go over to the UK. Um, and in many parts of the country and many parts of the world, osteopathic medicine is the standard same thing with homeopathic medicine. And it was the standard way prior to allopathic medicine coming in and implementing these things through lobbying. So. They came in, they implemented these things. They lobbied enough. They basically shut down all osteopathic and homeopathic schools of medicine, and basically eliminated doctors from this certain, uh, association of doctors that meant that you had merit in the medical world and they did it through this association of, of physicians. And it allowed them to basically push out everything else, but alopathic medicine. Then they started to come out with these pharmaceutical companies, you know, and then that eventually led to, you know, uh, Pfizer getting the major contract for penicillin shots through world war II, because there was a ton of soldiers who were dying from things like gang green and random shit, cuz they were shoving dozens and dozens of. Of men into a boat together that the, they didn't have the proper shoes to be on even, or any type of medical care there with them. So they were basically just shoving, uh, penicillin shots into them. And so Pfizer got the number one contract with that, you know, and this is kind of a, a side tangent on what we just talked about, but it eventually led to Pfizer becoming what it is today and vaccine schedules becoming what they are in the education system, because eventually the war ended. In Pfizer, getting the number one penicillin contract, along with several other pharmacy companies, then, uh, basically still needed to push the pharmaceutical medications that they had been manufacturing through world war II, and that eventually led to them lobbying enough to allow for a vaccine schedule in schools, in the education system. That's what started that there was no vaccine schedule prior to world war II. And the only reason that it became a thing was because these companies like Pfizer. This is factual and historical. no emotion added to this. Uh, these companies like Pfizer, who got these large pharmaceutical contracts through world war II lobbying, and eventually implementing these things so they could continue their manufacturing of these pharmaceutical medications and vaccines and did so through the education system. By making them mandatory four year 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, and 18 year olds to now have at this point 78 vaccines before the age of 18. As a part of the vaccine schedule. So that's your history lesson on osteopathic versus alopathic and homeopathic medicine. Was it all started following world war II and you'll see world war two as being like a really, really consistent theme in these large scale, um, shifts in, in the way that, of our entertainment in the way of our pharmaceutical medications in the way of, uh, You know, our financial systems, uh, you know, so many things came out of world war II. And I think that that same type of deal, these like huge, unbelievable shifts of wealth and shifts of, uh, societal beliefs and constructs. Came out of world war II. And I think we just saw that too, with the pandemic, when a hundred percent there was so much wealth exchange, there was so many large scale things and you see it with things like the world economic forum meetings, where they're getting together now and saying, how do we implement these things for the future? Right. They even at the world economic forum meeting, they, I, I watched the entirety of, of, uh, the most important conversations. But they had people like bill gates, they had all of these world leaders there. And one of the thing that they discussed there was utilizing your Google search results. When you, the first thing, when you happens, when you get sick is you go to Google and type in your symptoms. Now what they wanted to do was utilize all of the data from Google and aggregate it per county, per states, per city, per country. um, and then use that to identify outbreaks. Now, the way that they do that is by classifying all of the data that's coming in, when you search anything and then putting it together, attaching it to your identity. And now through your search results, they would know exactly when Joe Schmo down the road from you gets the sniffles and they documented who it was and how, how he did it. And now that individual, like in the case of China, with vaccine passports, for everything, not just COVID. Would now be not allowed to travel because he Googled that he had the sniffles three or five days prior. So they're gonna start to use your search results, that collective unconscious data they're going to attach it to you as a specific individual. And then they're not going to give you certain rights as a human. If you. Sneezed and you Googled it. just wild, wild. So that's one major shift that we're gonna start to see is the way that they're utilizing your personal data to implement these types of totalitarian belief systems in governmental structures, like a social credit system, like a vaccine passport and things like that. Um, so I believe we're seeing that same type of shift again, and it's only time will tell what to, to what extent we're seeing that shift in, in, in monetary, you know, uh, transitions and, and where, you know, we're seeing it right now with gas prices just skyrocketing, right? Skyrocketing. Because at the same time of the pandemic, they're trying to use the, the waters being muddied, your attention, being shifted to other things. The food shortages, the, the, you know, the gas prices skyrocketing, the, this, the, the, the vaccines, uh, you know, mandate mandates the, you know, um, large amounts of money. That's being pushed over to different countries for proxy wars. Like we're seeing all of these major shifts coming out of the pandemic, just like we saw coming out of world war II, but time will tell to the extent in which it's happening. All right now, Before we get to the next topic. Cause the next topic's the most interesting topic, which is about Bigfoot skull being found, allegedly in the Pacific Northwest. All right. Um, so we will get to that just in a moment, we're going to watch a quick video on the individual who actually found this. Now it's interesting, you know, I, I would, you know, we'll get to in the moment, but the first thing I need you to do, if you didn't do it already is go ahead and hit that subscribe button, hit the five star review. Leave a nice little review. If you're, uh, listening to this through the podcast, go and check it out on YouTube on rumble. Um, if you're listening to this on TikTok, go subscribe. Uh, because I do this on TikTok live every week as well. 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Now, back to motherfucking Bigfoot being found. so Bigfoot. Now, now this is coming from coyote Peterson. Now, one thing I would like to know is that these individuals were allegedly looking for Bigfoot, which makes this a little sketchy to me. If I stumbled across in the woods while. Going backpacking or on a boy scout strip or whatever the hell people are doing. It might be a little less sketchy to me that they found it , but apparently they were looking for this and they found a skull. He said that he, or I'll I'll read it from the beginning. It says leaking picks here before they are taken down. And before government officials try to seize our footage. This says, I found a large primate skull in British Columbia. Filmed it cut. The footage, released it on brave at brave wilderness, which is the account that you can go see the full video of what I'm about to show you guys here, uh, is at brave wilderness on Instagram. Um, you can also, it says this weekend have, uh, I have kept this secret for several weeks. Yes, I have the skull. I smuggled it through customs and TSA and is currently in a secure location, awaiting primatologist review. Damn absolutely unreal. We, he said, we thought it was a bear skull. When we first found it, I can, 100% guarantee that it is not, the skull was found partially buried underground in deep back forest ravine, after a massive storm in the, in the pack Northwest where clearly a bunch of trees in earth were disturbed. I'm sure these picks will all be taken down is probably the video by government and the state park officials. But the skull is. I don't know if it's what you all think it might be, but I cannot explain finding a primate skull in the Pacific Northwest without wondering what do you believe? Now, when he pulls up the skull, this is a huge primate skull. So if you are a, you know, Bigfoot believer, this is like the holy grail of evidence. Like everybody looks back to like the, uh, what is it? The video of the guy, like obviously in a suit, walking across the forest with some guy just so happens to be filming from a, a, a field right where this big foot walks across just casually and then like, stop. In looks , it's like the most ridiculous thing ever. Um, but this is pretty interesting, right. Even if it's not the Bigfoot, you know, I, I, I think you kind of have to understand that, you know, it's just a big ass primate, right? That's all the idea of Bigfoot is that's all the idea of like, Yeti are, that's all the ideas of, um, you know, whatever you wanna describe this thing as it's just a big ass primate. Right. And if they find a big ass primate, Whatever you want to call it, right. It could be a formally, um, extinct type of primate, you know, or maybe there's several left. And what will be interesting to see is dating on this, even if they just decided it's a big ass primate that we didn't know about this discovery. You could still say it's Bigfoot and you could still say potentially, maybe there's still some around. Um, but that would be interesting. So let's go ahead and watch this video. It's two and a half minutes long of this guy actually discovering the skull. You'll be able to hear it. Um, and you'll be able to see it if you're on YouTube and rumble. All right. So here we go with the video. We'll watch this and then we will discuss it even further. I haven't watched this yet, so I'm interested to see it just as much as you are. And here we. All right. So there's two guys walking, three guys walking through a forest prior to this, there was a bunch of drone footage and stuff that they were like kind of zooming over this area. So it seems like they were using the drone to kind of go over areas that were disturbed. Um, now they're kind of just walking up on the area that the drone had just saw the footage of what they believed could have been a skull. All right. So that's the context of this. Um, prior to this, they go into a little bit about why they're out there and what they're doing. So go over to that, you know, at brave wilderness on Instagram, you'll be able to find the full clip. All right. But let's continue with Adam. We got a minute and a half left. Cause I'm off that, like I'm. He says that could be. Ass squash scholar. The first guy says it could be a movie prop, and then he immediately goes to Bigfoot or Sasquatch or Yeti or whatever descriptive term you want to use to describe a huge ass primate that a lot of people have talked about for a long time, which like of all the mythical magical creatures that could or do or possibly have existed. A Yeti seems to be the most plausible, a Sasquatch, a big foot, whatever the hell you wanna call it, you know, there were big ass dinosaurs. Several, you know, however damn long ago, hundreds of thousands of years ago, there was big ass dinosaurs that walked this earth. Why wouldn't there be at some point in the medium area of T Rexes and humanity and civilization, as we know it today, potentially be maybe a big ass primate that's been around for a while. so let's see what else they have to say. So say somebody shot it in the head. If somebody shot Bigfoot in the head and left it. Die. And didn't go tell somebody about this. So they came and picked it up. That's the, that's a shitty mu move for humanity. If some man was out there and shot this Sasquatch and just left the body there, that's a, that's a, that's a let down. That's an L for, for the human race, because we should have known about this or this is not that, and this's just a big ass gorilla, but from the sounds of it, these guys know what they're talking about far more than I. Um, and they seem to be pretty impressed by this, but again, these guys were looking for Sasquatch to begin with. So that's where my questioning comes into play. Um, but again, I think of all of the mythical magical creatures that could have existed ever. This one seems to be the most plausible to me. Um, and we have 40 seconds left here. So we'll watch the rest of this. To you over it. It's not like somebody's gonna come up here and find it. I pick a pin. Okay. We're good. Go. Anything to do with this, whatever that is. It's not supposed to be. I left my backpack. I'm reach you guys on the trail. Uh, so foster in the backpack. All right. So that's it. That's all we'll watch. Now, if you go over to brave wilderness at brave wilderness on Instagram, um, you'll see, they have like 306,000 followers. This isn't like some, you know, random account that's posting this. That seems to be fairly confident. They found Bigfoot or in their, their words. Uh, a SAS. Um, but you know, it, it's a fairly big account and, and, you know, they have a decent following for this and I haven't, you know, looked a ton through their account, but it doesn't appear to. Completely satirical. And these guys seem to be pretty impressed by what they just found. So time will tell, I, I will be interesting. This says at the end of the video, they're basically the entirety of this video shows them like finding it, uh, how they found it, why they were out there, what they were doing and then finding it. And then as this guy shoves it into his backpack. Um, they, that he goes on to say that they smuggled it. So he says, um, he's kept it for, uh, a secret for several weeks. Yes. I have this skull. I smuggled it through customs and TSA, which probably wasn't a smart move to say, to begin with . Uh, but I smuggled it through customs and TSA and it's currently in a secure location. The waiting primatologist review. Absolutely unreal. We thought it was a bear skull. When we found it, I can 100% guarantee it's. The skull was found partially buried underground in deep backward forest ravine after a massive storm. All right. So this guy smuggled, this. The big foot skull. And then one of the guys says, what happens when they find dinosaur bones? It's like, oh, well they get to keep it. it's like this guy just, there's probably a hundred different random, uh, rich dudes with actual big foot skulls on their wall above their mantle. Um, that? They're like, uh, yeah. Yeah, we know this but I don't know. Is Bigfoot real? I think the words in the terminology that's used to describe Bigfoot. Yeah. It's probably not this like weird looking. Strolling through the forest and, you know, um, that's the Sasquatch that people have described, but there's probably a big ass PRI it out there that we don't know about. That's taller than us humans that walks in some funky looking way that could rip us apart in two seconds. Why wouldn't there be like the fact that people are more in disbelief, that there is the potential of a tall ass primate, more so than. Humongous, uh, five or 200, however damn big a T-Rex is like massive chicken. That was once around eating everything and everybody in its way, like nobody questions, a dinosaur the same way that they question Bigfoot. But Bigfoot is far more believable than a dinosaur is to me. Now I'm not saying dinosaurs aren't real but I am saying that the likelihood that Bigfoot or whatever, somebody describes as a tall ass primate. Could probably be very real, right. We find. I don't know, it's like 1200 new species of bugs a day. I don't know what the actual number is. I just made that up completely off the top of my head, but we find a shit ton of bugs. Every day. We find new fish every day. Now we've probably searched the forest far more than we've searched the ocean, but the fact remains the same. It's like however many new species a day in the rain forest is, is found. So many different species every single day, but the fact that we have, you know, we just cannot comprehend the idea that there's a tall monkey somewhere that's still around. That's bigger than us. I don't know. It seems, it seems crazy to me that it's even, uh, you know, this big of the conspiracy world is involved in a tall primate. Like, it seems like it should be more so a zoologist interest rather than a conspiracy theories interest in, in this tall primate. Um, but. We'll have to see, go to the brave wilderness and follow them and follow along on this. Cuz we'll have to see if they're full of shit. This is probably the biggest news. I'm not like big into the Sasquatch world of things but, but I would assume as far as Sasquatch, uh, evidence and, uh, you know, movement towards, uh, the realization that Bigfoot is a thing has been in the last decade. This is probably among the. Findings that could lead to this, you know, potentially being widely accepted. All right. So on that note, all of you primates out there. I appreciate you. Thank you so much for listening today. Um, I hope you enjoyed the episode. We had some quick rapid fire responses to some articles, but the bigger news is Elon Musk could have potentially set up Twitter in the one of the largest social media companies in the world, trolled them all along, and it will cost him just a. Billion dollars to do so we also discussed the fact that there was a man, um, who believes he found a large primate skull or potentially what could be term Sasquatch. Hmm. Interesting. So time will tell, head over to at brave wilderness, give them a follow follow along and see if that's all true. All right. So again, thank you guys so much for listening. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button, leave a review, press the five stars button. 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K: Go back to the original name. Yeah, it's funny because like, I think MacGuffin has like a negative connotation around it and I love it as a plot device where it's just like, there's this thing. And everyone wants it. In some cases we don't even really know what it does. There's like oh, the suitcase from pulp fiction. That's a great MacGuffin. R: That was going to be my example. K: In one of the Mission: Impossible movies, the one with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, you know, they're trying to get this, this thing from this guy. And Phillip Seymour Hoffman is this like the most terrifying crime lord in the world. And he can't get this thing. We literally never find out what it does, why they need to keep it out of his hands so badly and, and have it for themselves. But yeah we kinda conceived of this episode is talking about MacGuffin versus plot devices. So, let's be clear. All MacGuffins are plot devices, not all plot devices are MacGuffins. So as I always like to do a, you know, a little bit of history here, MacGuffin the terms often chalked up as being coined by, Alfred Hitchcock and his friend and screenwriter, MacPhail, but it actually goes back quite a bit before that there was an actress in the 1920s named of Pearl White, which I can only assume as a stage name. R: Her movies brought to you by Colgate. K: I genuinely hope that's a stage name. But she was in a lot of spy movies or action movies where everyone was chasing after something. And she was in so many of them that she started calling the items in question "weenies" because it didn't matter. And the, it was almost getting a little formulaic in her movies that it could have been, you know, like a roll of film, a document, a, a key that opens a certain, you know, safe or something. It really didn't matter what they were. It was just, you know, these suspense action inspired movies, everyone trying to chase down the same object. R: The reason that it doesn't matter is because no one actually ever really uses it. You just want to have it, right? K: Yeah. Yeah. It's frequently MacGuffin-related plots are resolved by "the real treasure was the friends we made along the way," which is one of the more infuriating endings. R: I like friends. K: Friends are great. Yeah. But like, okay. So I was going to get to this, to this later and the thing that, like one of my favorite examples of a MacGuffin that becomes un-MacGuffinned and is National Treasure That film is very rare in that they actually find and maintain hold of the treasure in the end of it, think of like, you know, like the Goonies or Pirates of the Caribbean, like Treasure Planet, they all find the treasure, but they don't really actually get to keep any of it. National Treasure really upended that by, by letting those characters not only find it, but then we find out how much money they got for it. R: And Disney's Atlantis. They did have the treasure at the end, too. K: That's true. R: They didn't tell anyone they had treasure. They just suddenly were all very wealthy. K: Yes, it was very good. So yeah, MacGuffins are by definition, it's a functionally meaningless interchangeable object whose only purpose is to drive the plot. The function of a MacGuffin is that there are characters or multiple groups of characters that want it, and they're all competing or outwitting or racing to get this object. R: The method by which it drives the plot. It creates the tension between different parties. K: Yes, exactly. Or it could be, you know, something like a treasure hunt where, you know, the MacGuffin is the treasure. So we know what its function is. It's going to make somebody rich, but it really is just there as an object to be desired. One of the fun things I learned while doing, you know, putting some notes together, researching this is it's generally accepted that one of the first MacGuffin in commonly accepted MacGuffin and literature was the holy grail, which is very common plot device for Arthurian legend. And then, you know, later tales where this is also treasure. Yes. It had religious significance, but therefore making it a worthwhile pursuit for these holy and sanctified nights. But yeah, it was functionally a MacGuffin because once you get the holy grail, what do you do with it? Well, it depends. If you're in an Indiana Jones movie or not, I know. The Arthurian knights were not not planning to make themselves immortal by that. They were planning to just get it and put it somewhere to look at it and go, it's the holy grail. Yay. So MacGuffins, like I said, it's got a negative connotation around it, I believe. And I do think that is that's very unfair. It's often treated like, well, it's just something that they had to put in there to get the characters, to act, to do something. And it's like, well, yeah, but that's a book. R: Yeah. You need a plot. K: That's how plot devices work. I think where MacGuffins get a bad rep so to speak is because they're meaningless and interchangeable. There are a lot of books, movies, TV shows where the MacGuffin is interchangeable. How many, you know, heist films have you watched where it's like, we need to get this thing in order to, you know, make this next step. And then it turns out that it's like, oh no, wait, things have changed. We need get this other thing. It doesn't have to be the same MacGuffin through the course of the story. They can change based on, you know, how the plot's moving or circumstances or the needs or wants of the characters. As I mentioned before, all MacGuffin are plot devices, not all plot devices are a MacGuffin. So that was kind of, you know, we wanted to talk a little bit about what a MacGuffin is and what it isn't thereby, what is a plot device and what its function is. K: Plot devices are basically a technique and narrative use to move the plot forward. It can be anything from, you know, characters and their actions to objects, to gifts of mysterious origins that we're not quite sure about. Now. It can be relationship, plot devices cover a lot of different things. One of them is MacGuffin. So, you know, saying like, well saying this object, it's just a plot device. Well, it might not be just a plot device. It might be a MacGuffin, but plot devices can be other things. Chekov's gun is of course a plot device. The Chekov's gun rule is if you're going to have a gun on the stage in the first act of a play, somebody needs to fire it in the third act of a play because otherwise it's just, you know, a decoration at that point. I don't like that. R: I don't think it's just that it's a decoration it's that your audience is going to wonder about it and that you don't want to distract or disappoint. K: If there's a play going on and there's a gun hanging on the wall and it's set in a hunting lodge that seems fairly normal. R: But for example, if I see somebody in a movie, pick a rifle out of their nightstand and tuck it into their belt, I know that, you know, something's going to escalate. K: Yeah, exactly. Or at least we're, we should be reading into that. Character is planning for there to be some kind of a conflict or a scenario in which they may need to defend themselves. Right. But let's talk a little bit about pot devices. As I mentioned, they're things that are intended to move the plot along. There's an endless list of things that are plot devices. And as I said, these can be anything from relationships. Like a love triangle is a frequently as plot device. Definitely one of my least favorites. First of all, they're very rarely actually triangles. They're more like two lines converging on a single point in order for there to be a triangle, all three people involved need to be having— R: So is the object of the other two's interest a MacGuffin? K: Could be, I've talked endlessly about what a ridiculous character Bella from Twilight is. And I mean, she's, she's borderline a MacGuffin. Like really, you know what, God, that's a really good thought experiment. I'm going to have to like find some kind of a summary now and go, go through this and see if like Bella is actually a MacGuffin. R: If the character themself doesn't have any agency, like the damsel in distress that you don't even see until you storm the castle in the third act. K: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And we'll get to things that can be MacGuffin that you might not think would be a MacGuffin. So one of them that I actually stumbled across that I didn't think about as a plot device is the Deus ex Machina. So Deus ex Machina it's was a commonly used plot device, especially in Greek comedies and tragedies, primarily tragedies, I suppose where an improbable event is used to resolve everything and bring the story to a conclusion, usually a happy conclusion, fun fact about the Deus ex Machina, of course, you know, it's the Latin for "God in the machine." it was because that's because in a lot of great tragedies and plays, they'd have this mechanism by which an actor portraying a God was lowered into the stage, does god things, you know, changes whatever's happening, and then that's the end of the story. So God in the machine was what was coined for that. This one I will say generally is something that writers are encouraged to avoid. It's it's not great storytelling. Like if, you know, you're lining up for the big conflict and everyone's squared off and waiting to see what happens. And then an earthquake happens and kills everyone... R: Yeah. You know, the earthquake, wasn't something that had been foreshadowed or anything like that. It's kinda like the "Oh, and I woke up and it was all a dream." K: I always say like the T-Rex at the end of the first Jurassic Park movie. R: Just shows up and chomps. K: Just shows up and is like "Raptors! Mmm!" R: A lot of people were pretty satisfied by the T-Rex if, if it had been T-Rexes in the tragedies, we could've had a whole new view of the Deus ex Machina. K: Yeah. It was a, it was a very satisfying ending and it was certainly a "whoa, holy crap. Like, yeah, I forgot. There's also huge dinosaurs running around here. Right." R: And again, so like that was foreshadowed. It was Chekov's T-Rex for your T-Rex Machina. K: It is a little bit of an ex Machina because first of all, the last time we saw the T-Rex, it was very far from the visitor center. And also no one can explain to me how it got in there. So, but you know. It's fine. R: Hey, look. If you really want to nitpick Jurassic Park, let's just talk about how the Jeep fell into the T-Rex enclosure. They did not get to a fence. And yet there were brachiosaurs. Why were they in the T-Rex enclosure? K: I thought they were outside the T-Rex enclosure along a cliff. R: I didn't see a fence. K: The geography of this is, is definitely slightly slightly suspect. But also a plot device, the T-Rex in this is, you know, serving as, as a plot device, in that it is forcing the characters to act and make decisions really. We all know that if they just sat quietly in the cars, the movie would have been a lot different. R: But the MacGuffin of Jurassic Park would be the dinosaur DNA. K: Yes. in one aspect of the plot, definitely, the Nedry plot. I would argue that that is much more relevant to everything, but like, it is a weird little side plot where this chain of events gets kicked off because of yes, the dinosaur DNA, which is not meaningful for the story. Is it interchangeable? I don't know. I would say no on that, but it definitely, for that particular part of the plot serves as a MacGuffin. K: One of the examples I always use that, you know, people point to and say is a MacGuffin, but is absolutely not, is the one ring from Lord of the Rings. It's not an interchangeable object there, isn't another, you know, another thing that they could go take and throw into this volcano, the only reason they're going to throw in this ring into Mount Doom is because it has to be that specific ring. And it has to be thrown into Mount Doom. We lose the whole story of the one ring corrupting and torturing everybody that's holding it. You know, we lose the the character development that comes from the people who have to carry this ring and what it does to them. So that's one we're, you know, I see like people saying like, oh yeah, and the one ring, the MacGuffin. Like it's not, that is not a MacGuffin. It is a plot device, but it is not a MacGuffin. R: Right. It's an object that everybody wants, but it is a carefully crafted object in terms of the story that is the foundation of the story itself. K: Yeah. The one ring, I would say, even goes so far as to serve as a theme in that story, essentially. One of my favorite plot devices is a plot coupons. Rekka also loves these. R: Like you need the blue key card and then come back with the blue key card. And then, you know, you can open this blue locked door. The idea that you need this thing before the story can go any further and it has to be this thing. But that thing is not going to come around later. It's not like that key will open another door later. It will open this one door that we need to progress, but there's probably going to be another door later. K: And again, this is not a MacGuffin because it's not interchangeable. You need that specific key. The other way to sort of integrate plot coupons into your story is there's a certain number of objects you need to collect in order to get something else. My favorite one of these is Dragon Ball. You want to summon the dragon. I believe his name was Shen. You have to collect all seven dragon balls to do that. So the story is being driven by the quest to find all of these, some in the dragon and then summoning the dragon from there typically drives the plot forward even more. It's very rarely goes the way you want it to when you're collecting, collecting things for a larger thing. It's not like a carnival where you get enough tickets, you get the giant teddy bear and then you go home. That teddy bear might kill you. Yeah. Similarly to, to plot coupons is a plot voucher which is something that a character is given or, you know, picks up on a whim or just, you know, is particularly entranced by and goes, I'm going to take this object. And then it turns out to be incredibly useful or life-saving, or exactly the thing that they needed or didn't realize the value of it. Something like that. R: This is frequently a Star Trek: The Next Generation thing where Wesley is working on this school project and that school project saves the planet later when he connects it to the war coils. K: Yeah. There you go. Yeah. it's a very common thing in especially fantasy because you know, it's this there's a lot of concepts of hidden and mysterious objects where something that you have, you don't realize that's what it is the whole time you have it. And then suddenly it's magically revealed at the end. One of my favorites. I don't know if anyone listening to this or Rekka, I feel like you may have read like the, you know, the subsequent Wizard of Oz books. R: I have not read the sequels. K: Oh really? Okay. Yeah, and um R: I always meant to, but I just never got around to it. K: They're good. They're good. I got, I got really into them and I believe it's, is it in the second book? I can't remember. And one of them were Dorothy returns to Oz and they're trying to, you know, so Oz is now without a leader and she goes off on this whole quest with this boy that she finds who he's an orphan. And he doesn't have a lot of memories from when he was younger and they go in this whole thing and they're trying R: Well that sounds like a missing king. K: Better. It's a missing queen. Because they finally turn— their whole thing is they're trying to track down this witch who may know where the heir Ozma is. And they finally confront her and she tearfully breaks down and points to the boy and says, "I turned her into a boy." Dorothy's had the queen with her the whole time and didn't realize it. So yeah, that's a, you know, that's a good, I'm not sure that really fits the plot voucher, but I'm going to say that it does, because Dorothy does go out of her way to have this boy accompany her. I think the boy's name is Pip because of course it would be. You know, somebody who on a whim picks up like a bulletproof vest or has given a bullet professed and then get shot later. Or you know, there's always like the little meek character that they give like a knife or a gun to, and say here, hold this just in case. K: And then the main character is getting strangled to death and they use it. Those are plot vouchers. Another one— and then I promise I'll stop going through plot devices here, but I, I always enjoy this—is a good red herring. Very common in murder mysteries and thriller stories and even a spy novels. You know, this is trying to divert the audience of the reader's attention away from something and draw it to something else. You know, I mentioned murder mystery. So like this would be like, you know, the whole family's gathered for dinner and the grandmother suddenly dies. And the doctor of the family declare she's been poisoned, and who would have the motive for doing this? And while you, the reader trying to sort through all of this, there becomes a character who it's to you very clear has the best motives, the best opportunity and everything. But in the case of that, being a red herring, what it's doing is it's distracting you from something that's happening in the background, where there is actually a better candidate to be the murderer, but the author doesn't want you to know that yet. Red herrings are frequently used for another plot device, which is of course the plot twist, right? Very difficult to have a plot twist without a series of very well laid out red herrings. Yeah. R: And you have to be very balanced in how you use them. So you don't tip off that they are red herrings. Like they can't be so overtly obvious, although in certain genres they are tropes and people want the red herring and they want to be the smart one who figures out who the actual killer is before the detective realizes they are after the wrong person or whatever. K: Red herrings can actually be used within the book as well. Something that the you know, antagonist of the story does, to deliberately mislead our band of noble heroes and send them off on a wild goose chase so they can continue their nefarious plans undeterred, would be a red herring used within the context of the story. That's I hope kind of a good, "This is a plot device. This is a MacGuffin," but one thing I did want to touch on was things that can be MacGuffins, but don't seem like they would be MacGuffins. Because as we mentioned, MacGuffin is need to be, you know, functionally meaningless interchangeable and lacking agency. And these don't necessarily seem like things that would check off those boxes R: Just by their inherent nature. You're going to say people as your first one. So like you would see a character and you're going to think they're going to act with some agency. They're going to try to manipulate the world around them to get what they want. But sometimes... K: Sometimes they're just MacGuffins. You know, I mentioned, I am going to go back and try to figure this out. If Bella from Twilight is actually just a MacGuffin. My— I'm going to say in some books, yes. For staggeringly, large parts of the book. Baby Yoda is a MacGuffin for a really long time in the Mandalorian. Yes, it's a sentient functioning creature that in some cases does interact with and change the environment, but he really doesn't have a lot of agency. He's just sort of, kind of getting carted around by, by the Mandalorian. R: He wants to eat amphibians. K: He wants to eat amphibians and their eggs. And everybody wants him. Everyone is trying to get this child that—the viewer see some examples of his power early on, but most of the people trying to get him don't realize that. And even, you know, up to the very end, if not like at the, you know, the end of the story so far, he's suddenly become a very involved, interactive character, altering and changing the world around him. He's still, he's an object that's handed off. R: Right. Although technically by sending the Jedi signal homing signal, yes, he does get used. So therefore—. K: Yes, he becomes a plot device at that point. R: He is no longer a MacGuffin, but yeah, for most of the season, he is. K: He's kind of a Deus ex Machina there. R: Well, okay. Is he the Deus ex Machina or is Luke showing up to take him away the Deus ex Machina? K: Spoilers for Mandalorian season two, which— R: If you care, you already know. K: Yeah, Exactly. No, I would say he's the Deus ex Machina because by that point, Luke is a function of him. He only shows up for him. Okay. He's not a MacGuffin because he's not interchangeable if you know, Han Solo showed up that wouldn't have been very helpful for everyone. I mean, you know, extra gun, I guess, but Luke's the one we really needed in that situation, but yeah. And you see this you see this a lot in video games, like the escort quests, where, you know, you just have like some silly character that keeps trying to like run into dangerous situations and you have to prevent them from doing it. That's, they're serving as a MacGuffin at that point. You know, Rekka made the example of like the damsel in distress. People can be MacGuffins for a time and then change into plot devices or then even characters. R: Okay. But when you are looking over somebody or something from a story, how do you say here's where they change? And that changes them like before they weren't a plot device? K: Where, where is the crossover? R: Well, like when you're, when you're saying like, yes, that's a MacGuffin or yes, that's a plot device. Like if, as a plot device that meant that later they did something. So then were they ever a MacGuffin? K: Yes. MacGuffins do not have to stay MacGuffins. Hmm. You can graduate from MacGuffin to plot device and plot device to character. That's what typically is going to take a person from a MacGuffin to, you know, being part of the story, be it as a character or a plot device is them acting either on their own behalf or on the behalf of the people that were basically treating them as a MacGuffin at that point. Some of the common tropes with this is them suddenly gaining a power of some kind, you know, maybe this was like this you know, child princess that needed to be escorted across the galaxy. So she could go back and claim her throne. But basically we just had to keep her hidden and locked away and make sure, you know, people keep attacking the ship and trying to stop us from getting her home. K: But then she touches a crystal that she shouldn't have. And now she's going to get them all safely home she's then, you know, not a MacGuffin at that point, she is, you know, a character or maybe on some level, a plot device, usually in order for a person to be a true MacGuffin, they have to be completely helpless: babies, children that can't take care of themselves or, oh, here's a good one. Macguffins that will—like I mentioned with Ozma in, you know, the Wizard of Oz sequel books—MacGuffins that you didn't realize were with you the whole time. And they transform into something that transcends being a MacGuffin. You know, they were cursed to just be this rock. And for some reason, someone's got the rock with them the whole time and it's a MacGuffin, but then it's, you know, we broke the curse and it's actually a person. R: Or in science fiction, you might have somebody that's like in stasis, in cryo, and you don't know why you're transporting them or why everyone keeps attacking your ship to get them or something. K: Macguffins aren't static. They don't always have to stay MacGuffin. A good example of a MacGuffin that does not stay MacGuffin is an egg, anytime, you know, there's a, a precious egg or something similar that we have to, you know, be transporting and getting to wherever it needs to hatch or something. And then it hatches probably dragons are a really good example or trope here. And then it actually hatches and turns into a dragon. Well, that dragon is not a MacGuffin because it's a dragon. R: And at the very least it changes the plot by being a hungry, now-alive thing. K: Very much so, very much. So other things that can be MacGuffins. We talked about interchangeable objects a little bit, you know, the MacGuffin does not have to be the static standard object to the whole time. It can change. It can be, you know, it's whatever the character or characters desire or need at that moment. R: It could be a relay race of MacGuffins. K: Exactly. Really, honestly it could. It really could. And then the other one that I had made a note of here is a place. So, you know, we think of the MacGuffin as an object that you're trying to hold, but it can also be a place that you're trying to get to that is, you know, maybe not, we're not sure if it's real, if it's a fabled, you know, legendary location El Dorado is a good example of that. A lot of, a lot of treasure seeking-based stories have places that sort of serve as MacGuffins. And to the clear, the treasure being a MacGuffin and the place being a MacGuffin are two different things, because the treasure—like I'll go back to National Treasure—Um they very explicitly stayed in that, that it's been moved around a lot. So they're not trying to find a specific place. They are trying to find a specific thing. They just don't know where it is. R: And once they get it, they're going to remove it from that place. K: Yes. A MacGuffin that is a place is a specific spot that you've got to get to. Maybe it's a sacred temple where you could only perform this specific resurrection spell, or maybe it's a city made entirely of gold or like Treasure Planet was a good one because you had to get to that specific planet and that specific place on the planet in order to, you know, find and access all of this treasure. R: Or in the Mummy Returns, when they are trying to release the scorpion bracelet from their son's wrist, they have to go to this temple specifically to do that. K: Yeah. So places can be a little tricky. They, they verge a little bit more on, on plot devices, but there are definitely a place can serve as a MacGuffin, especially if it's like a legendary one that nobody can really prove exists. K: By the way, if there's a lot to read on a MacGuffin is out there and you know, why they're, they're really not actually a bad, a bad thing. But conflating them, you know, conflating all plot devices and saying it's a MacGuffin is not actually accurate. K: Because plot devices are a lot more dynamic than MacGuffins. And there's a lot of different types and how they can be replied. Plot devices are a writing technique. Macguffins are a component of the writing technique. So anyway, I like a good MacGuffin. I think they're a lot of fun. And I think plot devices can be really helpful for, for writing. Again, it's something that like, there are these things that I think like they just exist. They're things that we have and things we have to, you know, have in our stories, but we talk about them very dismissively for some reason. I'm never quite sure why that is. R: I think a lot of the dismissiveness comes from people who have more of a literary mind with regard to their storytelling. K: Possibly. R: So that either they are dismissive of genre fiction entirely, or they feel like it's their duty to elevate genre fiction by eliminating tropes, which would then eliminate the genre. K: Yeah. R: Um yeah, I think that that's the perception I get anyway from the discourse I see about these things, but yeah. I definitely got the impression as a, you know, emerging writer that MacGuffins, were a bad thing. But you know, as we pointed out, there's a lot of people's favorite movies, favorite stories, favorite movies, favorite plays that are just chock full of MacGuffins. K: All of the Indiana Jones, R: Pretty much, yeah. This belongs in a museum because it can just go behind glass and stay there. But in the meantime, let's fight over it. K: They Ark of the Covenant by the way, is one of my favorite MacGuffins: the Instakill MacGuffin. By the way, this is a trope is the MacGuffin that you get. And you're finally like, "Haha I have the thing." And then it kills everyone. R: The MacGuffin that you should not mess with. K: Yes. I like MacGuffins. R: Macguffins are good. And if the advice is, "I don't know what to do in the scene," "make something blow up." Like why not use a MacGuffin to keep your plot moving forward? K: Yeah. R: There's definitely a draw in like wanting an object. People can understand multiple people wanting the same object. This is the nature of humanity. So it's something we can identify quickly and relate to and understand without spending a whole bunch of time on it. K: If you just exist in your life, you're going to come across a lot of MacGuffins. My current MacGuffin is I really want a bagel. R: But it has to be a New York bagel. So it's not just a MacGuffin. K: It has to be the everything bagel with scallion cream cheese from the place around the corner from me. And the thing is, I don't have time to go get it right now, but I really want it. And for my life, it is functionally meaningless and interchangeable, because I could very easily just go get some toast out of the fridge and that will nourish and satiate me. But it's not the thing that I desire. R: But it's not. Yeah. It's not going to satisfy you. It's just going to feed you. K: Yes, exactly. Exactly. All right. Well, I think that's MacGuffins. Thank you so much, everyone for listening. R: And we'll be back with something else that we have opinions on in two weeks. K: We have a lot of opinions. R: Thanks, everyone.
Pastor Bill: [0:20] Hello and welcome to The Berean Manifesto Season 3 episode 44; Faith, Hope, and Love for the Modern Christian. We are recording this live on Sunday the September 12th, at 1:30 p.m. Central Standard time, and if you wanted you could join us on Sundays. We broadcast this live to Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube. And you can find out which channels on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook by going to ekk.house h-o-u-s-e .house. And then you can join us and you can see our lovely faces. Not that our faces matter like Newms keeps saying. Newms would rather we not even do a video version of this but you know - that's neither here nor there and you can. Pastor Newms: [1:20] Don't you like my face. Pastor Bill: [1:22] And you can be a part of the conversation in the chat and yeah so then it becomes less of you're just listening to what we're saying and more you can actually input if you wanted to, if you didn't want to input you wouldn't have to that'd be fine too, but we would like to have as many people as possible join us live so that we get actual you know conversations going and it's not just us, you know speaking out to you but you're a part of what's going on so. Pastor Newms: [1:55] Yes more of a discussion which is what we've always tried to focus on not. Pastor Bill: [2:01] Yeah so how was your week pastor Newms? Pastor Newms: [2:04] What works pretty good it's been very busy, trying to wrap up one position and move towards the next in my professional life so it's been very very busy so, yeah that's um that's always fun and then started playing a game that I played a long time ago and, k Pastor Bill: [2:35] Wasn't that the week before last when we start playing like it now that was this week was. Pastor Newms: [2:38] It was this week and then we actually did our first Gaming With The Pastor's stream, and that was fun. It lasted about four hours till some time in the morning that is way past both our bed times because we roll. Pastor Bill: [2:59] Way back and then I stayed up another hour. Pastor Newms: [3:03] You told me 30 minutes. Pastor Bill: [3:06] Hmm it was 3 a.m. didn't we didn't reach off the game at two oh so 30 minutes then another 30 minutes. Pastor Newms: [3:10] No it was 2:30 I was like hmm how late did you really stay up. Pastor Bill: [3:17] No no I did I turned it off at three and then I was I was in bed by 3:15 which is still for me at my age just way too late yeah. Pastor Newms: [3:41] Or she switched one of the other. Pastor Bill: [3:44] Or she switched over from one to the other she says she's at a subway and I asked her to bring me a meatball sub because if you don't know that, Roxanne on Facebook and Bat-Brains on YouTube that's my wife and she's out with the girls and the Finnick today they were looking at Halloween costumes and doing some Halloween shopping because it's a big it's a big holiday for us you know. And we celebrate it as much as we can and then Biggs asked if she would bring him a meatball sub too. She said she'd meet him halfway which he's saying is Little Rock, Arkansas. Pastor Newms: [4:21] Huh it is that is the halfway point between our two places. Pastor Bill: [4:25] And I honestly hope she's joking because I don't think we can afford the gas right now to drive to little rocking. Pastor Newms: [4:33] If you're going to drive to Little Rock and she comes halfway to where we live without you, can you imagine how salty you would be when you realized she was halfway to my house and you didn't get to go the rest of the way you know I think you'd be pretty salty. Pastor Bill: [4:52] Biggs can you imagine the Uber Eats bill to drive a meatball sub from the Metroplex to Little Rock, Arkansas? Pastor Newms: [5:01] And it's not like we don't have Subway it's the funniest thing for him to request. Pastor Bill: [5:08] Hmm yeah this funny you get me a meatball sub and drive it to Nashville or halfways fine I'll meet you halfway you know. Pastor Newms: [5:19] Biggs on the upside he actually the chip issues they were having with the braking systems Nissan is over at the moment so he actually gets to return back to work tomorrow which is. Pastor Bill: [5:33] I assumed it was since I got my computer. Pastor Newms: [5:36] Well so the shortage is not over. Pastor Bill: [5:43] But better. Pastor Newms: [5:44] But better and we'll see where it ends up because at first it was the chips for the onboard computers, which caused the issue and that also caused her issue and then it was, because of a different part for the braking systems which was different and now like he's mentioning they are day to day at the Nissan here and up in Smyrna Tennessee and we will continue to pray they get all the parts they need and, no other natural disaster or pandemic, people are saying it's moved from a pandemic to a whatever the next stage is. Pastor Bill: [6:28] There's a stage after pandemic. Pastor Newms: [6:29] A pandemic is like a sudden onset and you know it's it's and then it should go away and then you have. Pastor Bill: [6:38] So they're calling it a plague now. Pastor Newms: [6:40] No no a plague is technically a type of pandemic but it's like an endemic or something like it's like what the flu is where it just never goes away it's just different all the time. I read something that I'm trying to change that to stop referring to it as a pandemic because it's not going anywhere. Which of course is frustrating to read anywhere and your video is frozen but your audio is coming through great so I'm not sure. Pastor Bill: [7:14] Yeah your your video is Frozen as well and what I'm receiving on my phone, I'm pretty sure I'm on the correct Wi-Fi. Pastor Newms: [7:24] Well you can check because we won't know though yeah an updated right as you check that's always fun. Pastor Bill: [7:29] I can't get it to there ago yeah I'm on the cellular instead of the so should be on the right thing. Pastor Newms: [7:34] Well you know yeah it's real bad quality but luckily we'll fix that. Pastor Bill: [7:40] Anyway we can't fix video and. Pastor Newms: [7:45] No but the podcast the voices will be great in even if it hiccups because of how we're doing it now technically we're not dealing with any for the podcast it's just the video isn't always perfect which happens. Pastor Bill: [7:59] Yeah the videos the only thing we're actually broadcasting right now, because or rather recording we're broadcasting the voice to the live video but then by the time the podcast comes out I record my audio now to my computer that I have leveling named Bertha, this is Big Bertha down here. Pastor Newms: [8:20] Please please please explain what Big Bertha is because when you first told me I was like that is so insensitive and then you explain to me what Big Bertha actually is not just a big lady named Bertha. Pastor Bill: [8:36] Growing up I was a fan of Super Mario Brothers and in Super Mario Brothers you find a bunch of different bad guys and one of the hostels the bad guys the species is called cheap cheap and then of these fish, and one of the fishes is named Big Bertha and she's just giant Cheep Cheep that when you're running through the level she comes up to the surface and she goes back and forth across the bottom of the screen waiting for you to fall into the water so she can then attack you. And that's Big Bertha and she's just giant fish beautiful giant fish I love her she's like my favorite hostile in all of Super Mario Brothers fandom, and so yeah so Big Bertha is this giant fish that is very difficult to, take down to defeat and you don't have to defeat her you can just jump past her and sometimes I like to just stand on a platform and watch her swim back and forth underneath me. Now on a side note they did come out with a Super Mario Brothers movie and they did cast someone as a Big Bertha. [9:52] And it was a large black woman but that's not the point nor is it what I've named my computer after I made my computer after the video game, character Big Bertha not the Mario movie character Big Bertha. [10:12] Anyway now you're looking it up why are you looking it up. Pastor Newms: [10:15] Cuz I did not remember a big oh, the bouncer at the Boom Boom bar. Pastor Bill: [10:22] The bouncer at the Boom Boom bar is Big Bertha. Pastor Newms: [10:25] That explains why I looked up one of the stickers of the cheap cheap that you were looking at has her and it because I was like who is this person sitting next to this fish in this thing that I looked up the Super Mario Brothers from 1993 is a very interesting piece of cinematic. Pastor Bill: [10:50] You pretty much have to be a fan of Super Mario Brothers to enjoy it but then also if you're a fan of Super Mario Brothers you're going to hate it so it's that whole you know the whole love-hate relationship thing. Pastor Newms: [11:04] Yeah it's a real interesting the movie, the sway is what gets me in that movie. Pastor Bill: [11:13] Of the Goombas. [11:21] And then it's fun that they D-evolved King Koopa from a human form and he just becomes a T-Rex, that's so much fun they're like straight-up were like yeah King Koopa was a T-Rex just that's what it is that's why they got those little arms and that's why so angry he just he's a T-Rex. Pastor Newms: [11:39] But they didn't have shells and he has a show. Pastor Bill: [11:43] I know I know. Pastor Newms: [11:46] It was it was too I'm like I'm not going to complain about. Pastor Bill: [11:50] Is Japanese artistic license. [11:56] Right they give him a shell because it's artistic license he can have a shell anyway that's neither here nor there how was my week well now equals. Pastor Newms: [12:03] Oh no no no wait wait wait I want to be clear I'm not mad that King Koopa has a shell. Pastor Bill: [12:12] Oh you're mad that in the movie he didn't okay okay. Pastor Newms: [12:16] I'm not I'm not like dinosaurs have to be accurate in every way they're portrayed but don't portray a thing with a shell who, you know, breathes fire and all this other stuff oh it's just a T-Rex and he's not just a t-rex t-rexes are cool not insulting T-Rexes but, he's not a T-Rex he's a Koopa that's the point. Pastor Bill: [12:47] Coopa is the king of the Koopas and then they. Pastor Newms: [12:52] And the daddy of a whole bunch of them. Pastor Bill: [12:54] In that movie they pushed real hard about the mushrooms stuff the Mushroom Kingdom and the Mushroom Kingdom. Pastor Newms: [13:00] Yeah. Pastor Bill: [13:01] The fungus part of the king that was the fungus growing everywhere yeah it was a. Pastor Newms: [13:08] He was special. Pastor Bill: [13:12] All right so how was your week Pastor Bill my week was great this is the second week in a row of has to ask myself how my week was because you didn't ask me. Pastor Newms: [13:24] I was getting a drink I'm sorry. Pastor Bill: [13:27] So my new computer came in my Big Bertha, which I've ordered it that sticker Newms found me a sticker of a Big Bertha and see I couldn't find it because I was typing in Big Bertha and I couldn't find it and it was like but you know people are stupid so he typed in Super Mario Brothers fish and it came right up. Pastor Newms: [13:50] Okay now to be clear that is not what I said what I said was, you were like I'm looking for a Big Bertha sticker I was like what the world is Big Bertha and you're like it's the fish from Super Mario Brothers you know you know I was like no I don't. Pastor Bill: [14:05] Yeah you know the fish. Pastor Newms: [14:07] Because I didn't know those things had even had names and so I Googled. Pastor Bill: [14:12] Every bad guy. Pastor Newms: [14:14] Mario enter nothing and I was like well I didn't know it was called Big Bertha Mario fish enter is it this where did you find that. Pastor Bill: [14:26] Fire that and then it was just kind of cheap cheap and I was like well that's the species but that's not what the name of that character is yeah but all of them have names every character in the Mario games has a name everyone of. Pastor Newms: [14:40] And in almost every character in almost every video game has the developers given names to which is like with a lot of movies you know extras certain of the extras have names you know that's Jon you're like why is it John because John doesn't have a single word. Pastor Bill: [15:00] So this this is a little different at the end of Super Mario Brothers 3 when you beat the game, it starts playing music "dad dad dad dad dad did" the right did it end it end the bad guys come out one by one and it gives you their name, it actually tells you what their names are and so it's not just something. Pastor Newms: [15:20] Which is kind of a cool thing. Pastor Bill: [15:22] Yeah it's not just some of the developers thought up it's something the developers were like yes we're officially in game going to tell you who these characters are. Pastor Newms: [15:31] Everything back then nowadays games are different because a lot of bad guys just it just says I'm ball put up above their head but even back then, everything was named you just didn't always know it like you were talking you were talking about your favorite Zelda, bad guy and I'm like I played the game like I didn't know the bad guy had a name who's the dinosaur bad guy like I don't know and you're like it's my favorite bad guy from this is this and I'm like, huh who from what I calm down dude anyway. Pastor Bill: [16:14] Yeah so my computer came in and I order sticker to put right here on the side of. Pastor Newms: [16:19] Yes. Pastor Bill: [16:21] So we'll take a look down and see my Big Bertha with a sticker of Big Bertha on it I'm very excited. Pastor Newms: [16:27] I understand that you are. Pastor Bill: [16:30] Yeah and so yeah so my week has been full of and first off let me say I did not know that just trying to open the box of my computer was going to be a physical workout, literally just trying to get the Box open. Was a physical workout and made my muscles sore so crazy, is it operational yes my computer's operational we use it when we streamed yesterday the day before yesterday and, yeah I've got it running over here it's recording my voice my microphones running into it and then my phone is doing my video and then I'm typing on my laptop, typing on Discord on my laptop so I've got two computers running and a phone to run my setup right now fun fun. Pastor Newms: [17:32] Yes. Pastor Bill: [17:34] So my week has been setting up a computer and downloading programs and. Pastor Newms: [17:39] What you haven't done in many years. Pastor Bill: [17:44] Yeah and running cables and falling asleep under my desk and, you didn't see that post on Facebook I went down underneath my desk to plug in some cable, and then probably 20 or 30 minutes later Roxanne found me asleep using the subwoofer down there as a pillow, um I was just asleep down there fell asleep plugging in a cable. Pastor Newms: [18:13] I typically don't use Facebook as much as I should quote unquote, because my friends are always like why I put it on Facebook and I'm like I check Facebook for like 15 minutes like Monday through Friday in the morning while I'm eating breakfast so when did you post it sorry must have got lost in all the other stuff like I'm like I don't know what's going on. Pastor Bill: [18:42] And then my shoulder was all kinds of sore from laying on the you know fall asleep on the floor. It's just a piece of plywood. Pastor Newms: [18:56] That's why I'm saying I was around when you replaced it. Pastor Bill: [19:04] I think yeah that was how my week was so now it's time for getting to know the pastors Pastor Newms it's your week to pull out a card from your deck that you say is infinitely better than my deck so. Pastor Newms: [19:19] I'll say infinitely I say better I can't prove infinite putting words in my mouth. Pastor Bill: [19:53] Any object. [20:02] One who would run the rides. Pastor Newms: [20:04] You you're the you get it to yourself so if it's a thing that has to be operated those people would be there but they would not get to enjoy the park they'd be just standing around picking their nose to you get there like an. Pastor Bill: [20:16] So I'm the only one that gets to enjoy it but but they'll be people are working. Pastor Newms: [20:19] Right and it says to yourself well it doesn't specify you can't invite someone it just says to yourself. Pastor Bill: [20:28] Hmm yeah it says object or place what Fang what I want or place what I want all to myself for one day. Pastor Newms: [20:49] That's a rough one because the only thing I can think of is my own house, because I don't get to be by myself a lot because I, so Biggs on Twitch says he would like a Lamborghini for a day, Phoenix says Disney World for a day, a tank so I just like drive around a tank for a day, I don't know I wouldn't want a sports car something I'd end up wrecking and killing myself or something I don't I don't know. Pastor Bill: [21:56] I can't think of anything. Pastor Newms: [21:58] And see the problem is it says in the world if it didn't say in the world I'd say something like the TARDIS. Because a day Define 24-hour you know what I mean like once you've stolen the Tardis you guys are tired and like I haven't gotten back yet. Pastor Bill: [22:17] You've got it the day is. [22:27] That's yeah that's funny. Pastor Newms: [22:32] Or the DeLorean same thing the DeLorean is more fun because that Mythos allows for time paradoxes whereas the doctor often doesn't, the Tardis doesn't so you could you know go back to, in time actually get Lotto numbers and change your your life as opposed to the Tardis somehow the doctor would show up and beat you for for it, Bill still trying to think we broke him this card broke him guys. Pastor Bill: [23:10] I have no idea honestly I don't know. Pastor Newms: [23:20] No I just thought of something that could actually be a thing and I would like The King The King Spa. Pastor Bill: [23:30] I've ever been. Pastor Newms: [23:31] I know but I love that place the thing I hate the most about it is there's so many people there, but just to be able to enjoy all those different saunas and the pool and the everything without people I think I would thoroughly enjoy that, how's it going I think I could get behind that yeah Final Answer yeah, that's my final answer and you still don't know. Pastor Bill: [23:57] I still just I have no idea man. That's funny. Pastor Newms: [24:13] What does that even mean. Pastor Bill: [24:15] Rayne GFG. [24:19] Are you mean emo amusement park I think it would be like a Nightmare Before Christmas themed with nothing but My Chemical Romance playing over the speakers all day long. Pastor Newms: [24:31] I was going to say like like the black parade plus Tim Burton movies plus you know that could be cool I could be. Pastor Bill: [24:40] Are not just the not the whole thing is the number for Christmas but they like like Disneyland does There's a Nightmare Before Christmas. Pastor Newms: [24:46] Yeah. Pastor Bill: [24:47] Neighborhood and there's a Edward Scissorhands neighborhood and there's like a Adams Family neighborhood you know. [25:07] I think there's a lot of us that would enjoy to go there. Pastor Newms: [25:10] I honestly think that there is some marketing potential there but it would be really, hard to pull off all the licensing and getting all of it in one place but I really think I could completely see in the paint the paint would be terrible painting everything black and keeping it black would be just awful but. Pastor Bill: [25:34] We don't spend everything black you painted all you know how that universe is now that that world is so like in Edward Scissorhands everything is really bright except for his house, everything else in the world is really bright you know. Pastor Newms: [25:51] Yeah that is true that's true. Pastor Bill: [25:55] Anyway I don't I don't have an answer to the question so. Pastor Newms: [26:01] It just sounds like you to design an amusement park now and that's where you'd want to be for the day. Pastor Bill: [26:20] Oh you're so funny. Pastor Newms: [26:23] I know. Pastor Bill: [26:24] I've got a I got enough on my plate already I'm good okay so I think we're sufficiently warmed up. Pastor Newms: [26:30] Yep we're at the 30-minute mark. Pastor Bill: [26:32] So tonight we are talking about something that we've talked about it I don't want to say recently but we've talked about it since we started doing the, the podcast in this format where we record it live being content finding contentment and living in peace and I don't know I mean like, we didn't know what we were talking about tonight until probably four o'clock. Pastor Newms: [27:07] Yeah we were we were struggling to figure it out definitely there wasn't. Pastor Bill: [27:12] And I don't I don't ever want to force an idea you know if we have to have just a hangout and then we'll have a hangout night I'm not gonna Force you know. [27:24] And so I just was listening and waiting on the Lord and listen to the Holy Spirit, which is a super abstract thing to do until I felt like I came across a subject that the Lord wanted us to talk about, and so here we are contentment and peace so the scripture that I used for the art comes from Philippians, chapter 4 and it's in verse 11, and summary 11 and then we'll go back and we'll talk about what Paul the situation Paul is talking about but this is one of those where, he was talking about specific things but then we can use that concept, to apply to different areas in our life right so in verse 11 he says and we're going to skip that first sentence it's Philippians chapter 4 verse 11 part B. [28:35] For I've learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself, okay so that's what we're talking about being content in whatever circumstances and Paul specifically we're going to jump back to verse 10 and read down through 14. [28:57] Once again Philippians chapter 4 starting in verse 10, I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because once again you renewed your care for me you were in fact concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it, don't say the set of Need for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself, I know both how to make do with little and I know how to make do with a lot, in any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content, whether well fed or hungry whether in abundance or in need I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me, still you did well by partnering with me in my hardship all right. [29:53] So basically he's saying you know you were once a financial supporter you help support my Ministry and then for a while there you couldn't something happened we don't know some happened where they couldn't support his ministry financially anymore, and it then they were again and he's basically you know making note thanking them for their financial support, um and he's going to this whole thing about you know I'm not thankful necessarily because I need it because I'm content whether I have stuff or not but I am thankful. [30:31] For your partnering with, you know because it's not about a dollar it's not about a thousand dollars it's not about the amount and it's not about what you can get with the support it's about having that support creating that synergy, so that's what Paul is talking about but we're taking that concept, and thinking about how can we apply that to our lives today how can we be content in all of our circumstances because there's a lot of circumstances to not be content about right now right, corn teens and pandemics or in endemics or whatever you want to call them now, vaccinations Force vaccinations masks forced masks, poor Australia with what they're going through I mean that's that's taken things to a whole new level, I mean even if you either side of the way you see things about mandates and pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, what's going on in Australia is is a whole new level of of interesting I have to say. Pastor Newms: [31:51] I actually don't know what you're talking about so I have to look this up later. Pastor Bill: [31:56] Okay so the government basically said you need to get the vaccine, or not leave your you not leave a certain amount of distance from your home, okay great well I still didn't curtail the spread so then they said okay well now you just need to stay in your home if you're not vaccinated okay so that's fine and then they said okay well now we're going to release a phone app, and the phone app you we want you to voluntarily take a picture of yourself, on this timetable schedule and the phone app will be able to tell us if you're infected or not. Pastor Newms: [32:33] How okay. Pastor Bill: [32:35] I don't know and now they are required to take a photo every 24 hours showing they are in their home and if they miss a check-in, then they will be issued a warrant for their arrest. Pastor Newms: [32:56] Okay that is a little interesting. Pastor Bill: [33:00] So I guess it is interesting it's a whole new level of something so. [33:08] Content being content right, and it's not a concept that's easily done it's not comes up that's easily grasped it's not something that I can say well I figured this out and I want you to, send me $29.95 and I'll send you my book on how to figure out how to be content no this is a this is a real life you know this is real life, I'm working on issues Pastor Newms is working on issues we are constantly growing and learning and figuring things out and, um I'm not going to sit here and go well everything's perfect I figured it all out, I know one thing that struck my mother from our podcast is when I said you know I'm not afraid of clowns anymore and my anxiety is one away and she's like you got to tell me how you did that, got tell me how what did you do to figure that out and I was just like I don't know I don't have some Universal answer, I just just made peace with I'm going to live until I don't need more and all of that just kind of went away, so it you know and it's just, I don't know something I'm going through I don't know how to tell you to how to do it for you. Pastor Newms: [34:32] Right. Pastor Bill: [34:39] Yes now last week we looked at second Timothy 1:7 right God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love power and a sound mind, so if I was going to give advice in this area about being content and about having peace. Pastor Newms: [35:02] Mmm. Pastor Bill: [35:02] It would be that it would be this we talked about that word sound mind goes back to being disciplined, is disciplining your mind and so my advice would be to to, obtain this this state of contentment to grasp this idea of peace and to work towards that, you need to be mentally disciplined, I know there's a pandemic what am I gonna do while most it here are my run through all the scenarios of how that's going to ruin my no no I'm not, I'm gonna go into my mind and I'm going to think about how am I going to love my family, how am I going to love the Lord and keep my mind disciplined instead of letting it run rampant off into left field right, and that's. [36:01] My advice and my suggestion on how to work on being content in whatever scenario you find yourself in, there's a lot of fear on social media right now about we're going to go into a time of food shortages and toilet paper shortage is again and it's going to be gas shortages and, it's really easy with what's going on in the world right now to have an undisciplined mind and just let it run wild. [36:34] We have to contain that, and take control of our thought life and have some discipline in that area and not you know go crazy. Pastor Newms: [37:01] Because that is definitely one of my biggest struggles is anxieties and I mean being being at peace and being content in the situation is very very hard for me, my anxieties I am constantly having to rain, it all in because if I blink wrong, my mind goes you know to 10,000 places and it's just like okay no no no and, the. [37:39] Yes Biggs just said you know he tells us not to worry and to turn it over to him because at a certain point it's like okay I can't worry about this we had some situations this week financially that you know, it's going to be your heart until we get, bounced back in in between you know there's always that unknown of in between a job and you know something hit that we weren't expecting and it's going to be interesting to figure it out but I can't, worry about it because we have everything we need we have everything, you know it's just okay this week's weird you know and so that's it is definitely something that I've definitely struggled with this week, especially more than normal. Pastor Bill: [38:41] Yeah and we're going about it's not going to make it better, it's not going to fix it like all you're doing is is literally torturing yourself by worrying about it it's not, I mean there is there is literally no situation where worry solves the problem. [39:10] Right, you can make plans you can analyze situations and you can move forward but sitting here going well I just I just don't know what's gonna happen in this could happen in that could happen and so it's just going to overtake us, that's worried but you could do the same thing as sitting that you could sit down and logically go well this could happen and if it does then this or this could happen and if it does then this, and there's that too there's two to two different things you know there's worry where you're just a victim you're the victim of the circumstances, and then there's the other where no I'm not a victim I'm preparing I recognize bad things can happen, and I'm preparing do you think that's any in any way related to the to the pessimistic and optimistic thing, the heck glass-is-half-full Russ is half empty. Pastor Newms: [40:20] I don't know so you know no I think that's just, two outlooks now if you're really stressed out, because the glass is half empty or half full I would say yes but the the thought process of is it I don't think it is. Pastor Bill: [40:45] Okay but you you've heard what I'm talking about right like now I mean obviously you have but so basically The Optimist, half you know full and the pessimist says well know that glass of lemonade is half empty, and then the realist walks up and goes guys, I don't think that's a lemonade. [41:23] Hahaha. [41:28] The realist. [41:35] I don't think that's lemonade guys. Pastor Newms: [41:37] Yeah that's um he's a something. Pastor Bill: [41:43] That's an analogy for life that's the analogy for life. Pastor Newms: [41:46] All right anyway. Pastor Bill: [41:51] I'm done I don't have anything else to say I was hoping you'd carry us for the next 12 minutes. [42:02] I went there big says he went there I did I went there I edited the jokes lightly. Pastor Newms: [42:10] You did. Pastor Bill: [42:11] That the word was implied. Pastor Newms: [42:13] You did you did I did not I was like don't do it, normally I'm you can ask Pastor Bill or anyone who knows me really well I'm the king of bleeping the wrong word when trying to censor something when you relapse. Pastor Bill: [42:43] Absolutely are. Pastor Newms: [42:44] And I'll be like I'll bleep the word in front of it or behind it and just let the middle flow and your like I did that wrong it's not what I meant to say. Pastor Bill: [42:58] What did you just bleep the word "the?" What was wrong with the worthy that you thought you had to bleep. Pastor Newms: [43:10] Did you really not say mother why did you pleat mother you love your mother why would you bleep that. Pastor Bill: [43:16] You want your brother. Pastor Newms: [43:19] Anyway. Pastor Bill: [43:22] Anyway. Pastor Newms: [43:23] First board meeting of the church just saying. [43:35] You want to know. Pastor Bill: [43:39] Practice contentment and peace. Pastor Newms: [43:41] You want to do another card and see if it's about contentment and peace. Pastor Bill: [43:44] Sure let's do another card that'll be a good closer. Pastor Newms: [43:45] All right you've been given the chance to travel into the future and see how the world will change in the next 50 years what change in particular are you interested in the most. [44:02] Now my question is is so follow-up question do we get to return. Cuz if we're just traveling and then we're stuck there I'm just going to care about Prosthetics I'm going to care about you know, things to increase and lower my pain levels. Pastor Bill: [44:38] Zadie the question was if you could travel 50 years in the future what change would you be most interested to know about. Pastor Newms: [44:50] And when I say the stock market I don't mean I'm interested in the stock market because if you then put money into the stock market you might change the outcomes but like interested in like, who's the next Google you know where do you want to position yourself in your business where do you want to position you know things like that, how to properly position yourself for the next 50 years not necessarily well I just want to make money because money is fun but money isn't everything and if you're miserable you're miserable. That's why I was reading something somewhere it's like if everyone was given a hundred thousand dollars overnight, in two weeks we'd still have, a lot of rich people in a lot of poor people and you're like it's not necessarily inaccurate. Pastor Bill: [45:45] If everyone woke up with a hundred a hundred thousand dollars richer that's what that would trigger what you call installation suddenly a loaf of bread would cost a hundred dollars. Just overnight. Pastor Newms: [46:01] Yeah and people would, people that have certain mindsets would continue to and the outcome at the end would be very interesting and like you said it would be a situation like in some countries where the dollar means nothing. Pastor Bill: [46:22] Just it's worthless. Yeah hundred thousand dollars which yesterday was worth $100,000 today it's worth $10. Pastor Newms: [46:35] It's like when you're looking for a job I have a friend who works in Tech and he was looking for jobs and he'd get offers from foreign companies to, work as an outsourcer for that foreign company that then outsources to America. Pastor Bill: [47:03] A hundred thousand what. Pastor Newms: [47:05] I did it's like wait it's like and it was like oh it's 15,000 a year and you're like oh okay no. Pastor Bill: [47:17] Yeah I can't survive off of. Pastor Newms: [47:19] I can't pay my rent on that. Pastor Bill: [47:24] But in India you'd be a rich man. Pastor Newms: [47:28] It's not that bad, it's like a third that's like 1/10, yeah anyway and I guess that also would depend on the part of India for talking about the tech sector in Mumbai that's a lot different than, you know other parts of India as well. Pastor Bill: [47:54] But I haven't been to Mumbai I've only been to Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, so Pastor Newms: [48:05] Yes. Pastor Bill: [48:09] But I like India maybe maybe if I could have India all to myself. Pastor Newms: [48:13] I would II India is definitely on my bucket list because of our friend there, I definitely want to go to India and get asked several times a year on when I'm coming to India, and I really do want to to travel to India it's probably the only country at the moment where I'm like let's go because I don't like international travel, that's a lie I don't like travel was like I don't like international travel I don't like National travel either. Pastor Bill: [48:51] If you do go you need to have your friend buy your tickets, not you buy your tickets because if you buy your tickets it's going to be infinitely more expensive than if he buys the tickets. [49:19] I loved my month in India I really did it's the only missions trip I ever went on, that like the last two weeks of the trip I was trying to figure out how I could get switched to a two-month trip from my one month and not go home at the end of the month because that's how much I loved India. Pastor Newms: [49:39] Yeah. Pastor Bill: [49:40] I couldn't figure it out. Pastor Newms: [49:42] Yeah it's definitely it's um, it is a place I would love to see I've got you know friends from a couple different of the areas of India and the way they talk about you know ones from more of like the fishing, area and you know the way he talks about the, the being able to go to a cafe that's literally on the water and you know, blah blah blah it's just there's some very interesting you can get a lot of each of the areas are very very different. Pastor Bill: [50:23] And being a pale Caucasian as long as you don't go too far north you'll be just fine. [50:34] Anything anything north of the state of Andhra Pradesh you don't want to go there as a pale Caucasian that's. Pastor Newms: [50:43] And and there certain areas the up north you don't want to go as a Christian either because they are. Pastor Bill: [50:51] Well that's that's why you don't want to go as a pale Caucasian because they, you're a Christian and the Muslims there are quite aggressive and, there have been lots and lots and lots of incidents over the years. Which let's be honest, colonizers we're paying we're paying for decades and decades and centuries of aggressive colonization, and theft of land and denigration of local populations, and yes white people did that, and I know it wasn't exclusively white people there are other races that were involved in colnization but why people led the charge, and yeah I fully understand some of the aggressive stances that are happening in the world and you know that still happen in the world I under get it I get it. Pastor Newms: [52:07] There was a time in with England where the sun didn't set on the kingdom you know because they had expanded so much you know so, yeah. Pastor Bill: [52:28] Well if you're listening to this and you enjoy, this podcast then I'm glad to hear that I hope that we're speaking into your life and, making you a better modern Christian and that you are learning how to have a deeper faith, how to embrace hope and how to love more and like I said if you want to join us on Sunday evenings at 6:30 Central Standard Time we'd love to see you in chat, and this podcast comes out every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Central Standard Time wherever you get your podcasts, and now we're going to do a little thing we call the 32nd buffer song because some of the platforms were on require a 30 second buffer. Pastor Newms: [53:20] And a side note if you want to see our face outside of the Berean Manifesto you can randomly at Pastor Newms on Twitch just saying. Pastor Bill: [53:35] Gaming With The Pastors. Pastor Newms: [53:37] Shameless plug. Pastor Bill: [53:38] Shameless plug for one of our Ministries. Pastor Newms: [53:42] We're going to be playing DCU online and enjoying it and trying to meet new people and build relationships which is fun. Pastor Bill: [53:53] Pretty soon we're going to have to get satisfactory because I want to play satisfactory. [54:03] I think it's going to be next on the list because I really want to play it okay. Pastor Newms: [54:06] We could do that okay. Pastor Bill: [54:08] 30 second buffer 30 second buffer 30 second buffer has it been 30 seconds yet, no of course not that's not how time works 30 second buffer 30 second buffer 30 second buffer you guys have a great week. Pastor Newms: [54:27] Be safe out there we love you. Pastor Bill: [54:30] Until next time. Pastor Newms: [54:34] Press the button now bye. Pastor Bill: [54:41] I'm doing where's my button I don't know that there it is.
Superheroes, Movies & Superhero Movies: A Cinema Heroes Podcast
Jurassic Park was a huge deal. Especially to people like me who were kids when it was released. So the sequel to Jurassic Park was also a huge deal. I remember my excitement level was through the roof. Seeing the trailers and knowing there were two T-Rexes and more dinosaurs was almost too much to handle. Did it meet expectations? This one was a fun episode and we hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think of The Lost World: Jurassic Park! Unfortunately, our video recording didn't work out this week so while I did upload this episode to YouTube, it's audio only but feel free to check it out here. Cinema Heroes Facebook Instagram Twitter
This week on Sound in Space it's an attack of the clones as Barry, Shiv and Andy look at a trio of DNA doubling disasters. But which got the science right and which ones were just making it up as they go along? Under the microscope today are Jurassic park - Famously this movie stated that scientists spent so long trying to discover if they could they never asked if they should but of course they should of, you're making T-Rexes like. But could they have done it in the first place and if so how close are we? The Prestige - Chris Nolan gave us a battle of magicians in this epic story of obsessions and rivalry but also threw some cloning into the mix for good measure but did Bowie's Tesla know what he was talking about or was he just pulling rabbits out of his hat. And finally - The Island. Micheal Bay promised Ewan Mcgregor a holiday to the sun but really it was just a different more Scottish Ewan McGregor wanting his organs. However is this tale of growing clones for spare parts the future? Plus the answer to last week's Fast and Furious Challenge Barry. If you want to get in touch or challenge Barry yourself give us a shout at soundinspace@theshift.ie Also if you enjoy please do throw us a review on the platform you're listening on
In this episode Adam ranks which Gen 3 Pokémon designs he likes the most and how scientists have discovered 2.5 billion T-Rexes existed on earth!
The guys talk about the blockade in the Suez Canal causing a shortage of garden gnomes and sex toys, doctors having to use a saw to cut off a man's do-it-yourself sex toy, a 48 year old woman that makes $4,200/month on Only Fans by selling fart videos, an Austrian man that argued in court that his fart towards the police was him using his freedom of expression and that he shouldn't have to pay a fine, a man that scams his way into getting paid for 15 years despite not showing up for work, a woman that was scammed out of 32 million dollars, two Tennessee woman who attempted to pay a dollar store with a phony million dollar bill, a glacier in Antarctica that has the potential to raise the sea level by 10 feet, a man that divorced his wife because she made him move 18 times due to her fear of roaches, a Taiwanese couple who got married and divorced several times to take advantage of a law that gives paid time off of work when you get married, Ted Nugent getting Covid, people dying from stowing away in the wheel well of airplanes, a woman who assaulted and bit her Uber driver, a study that theorizes that T-Rexes might have been pack hunters, and a woman whose fat cat got caught in a chimney for several days and lost seven pounds.
The gang has returned to the carnival! Salt flies off the handle, Hemlock throws a dart, and Wren sits on a throne! Then the gang is confronted with their final challenge: the beast that has been quietly forming the entire adventure. Also, they fight some T-Rexes. Enjoy! You can contact us using at therollswemade@gmail.com! Maybe Joe-Joe will read it! Cast: Wren Stephens: Emma Haney "Hemlock" Jones: Jeff Brown Salt Maximus: Danielle McManus Everyone else: Joe-Joe Louis The music that appears in today's episode is: Beginnings by Alex Mason (C) 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (4.0) International license. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/alex-mason/albion/beginning Midnight by Coven Cvlt (C) 2018 Licensed under a Creative commins Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coven_Cvlt/Midnight_1365/03Coven-Midnight-Midnight-SLC40_Soisloscerdos Rosemary's Baby Shower by Soularflair (C) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soularflair/Untitled_-_New_metal/Soularflair_-_Rosemarys_Baby_Shower Moonrise by Purple Planet Music (C) 2021 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. https://www.purple-planet.com/ Answers by Ninja16 (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (4.0) International license. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ninja16/Quantum_Jump/08_-_Ninja16_-_Answers Freeharmonics by The Freeharmonic Orchestra (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (4.0) International license. kingdom come by Tomas PhUsIoN (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/phusion/38482 Waves of Indigo by Daniel Birch (C) 2020 Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch/indigo/daniel-birch-waves-of-indigo Universe Big Takedown by Komiku (C) 2018 Licensed under the Public Domain (1.0) Universial License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku/Poupis_incredible_adventures_/Komiku_-_Poupis_incredible_adventures__-_58_Universe_big_takedown Bees by Dan Yan-Kee (C) 2019 Liocensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial Sharealike (4.0) International License . https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Classical_Lounge/04-Bees Count Your Blessings, Count your Stars by Siddhartha Corsus (C) 2018 Licensesd under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (4.0) International license. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Siddhartha/rasa-lila/count-your-blessings-count-your-stars
Will this decade be another “Roaring 20s?” A social epidemiologist and a Nobel Prize-winning economist weigh in. How many T-Rexes roamed the land throughout their time on Earth? A team of paleontologists did the math. And scientists have created the whitest paint ever, which could make a sizable difference in the climate crisis.Sponsor:StartMail, Get 50% off your first year at StartMail.com/kottkeLinks:Looking Back at the First Roaring Twenties (NY Times)Epidemiologist looks to the past to predict second post-pandemic 'roaring 20s' (The Guardian)How many T. rex ever existed? Calculation of dinosaur's abundance offers an answer (Nature)Enough T-Rexes to eat us all (Christopher Mims, Twitter) 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight (BBC)Researchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever (Earther) Ted Lasso season two trailer (AppleTV, Twitter)Kottke.OrgJackson Bird on Twitter
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Yeah, Hawaii's been in the news because it's been raining cats, dogs, elephants, and T-Rexes! So, what about rain and your wedding? I bet our recent weather report has got you a little nervous! Plus, what's with wedding insurance? Is it worth it? Or is it a rip-off? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bbq2movies/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bbq2movies/support
Between 2 Butts: The Podcast That Lets Nothing Slip Between The Cracks
Nominating this episode as the one with our most seamless transitions yet, as we all are talkin' reptiles. Becca counts the ways she loves the 1993 version of Jurassic Park, during which it comes out that Jay sides with T-Rexes over 'raptors. Tice goes over other dinosaur media that came out in the wake of Jurassic Park, including the mostly wacky Dinosaurs sitcom, and its dark, dark finale. Jay pivots to snakes, specifically cobras, as he talks about the animated film Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, based on the Rudyard Kipling novel. Jay hates Rikki-Tikki and loves the cobras, and Tice tries to connect the dots between that and his earlier T-Rex alliance...but will he be too distracted by Rikki-Tikki's mongoose boobies? Finally, we see be Tricera"tops" at Dino Trivia (which has got to be more of a challenge than winning at the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Dinosaurs lunch game).
We’re talking all things Jurassic, as we fact check Jurassic Park! Was John Hammond in over his head? Could life uuuuuuuuh find a way? And are T-Rexes eyesight REALLY based on movement? We’re digging up dinos and the truth with Kay B! Footnotes: Baby T-Rex was a cutie pie! Yutyrannus was a monstrous chicken More art of yutyrannus Deinocheirus: world's most terrifying muppet? Deinocheirus, like Big Bird and snuffleupagus had a baby Why is this feathery monstrosity not in movies??? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We’re talking all things Jurassic, as we fact check Jurassic Park! Was John Hammond in over his head? Could life uuuuuuuuh find a way? And are T-Rexes eyesight REALLY based on movement? We’re digging up dinos and the truth with Kay B! Footnotes: Baby T-Rex was a cutie pie! Yutyrannus was a monstrous chicken More art of yutyrannus Deinocheirus: world's most terrifying muppet? Deinocheirus, like Big Bird and snuffleupagus had a baby Why is this feathery monstrosity not in movies??? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
What happens when two T-Rexes feud over some maple trees.
Welcome...to Egg Mountain. We watch some dinosaurs discover family and how good T-Rexes anime fighting could be. We watch You Are Umasou! Twitter: https://twitter.com/areweebthereyet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areweebthereyet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areweebthereyet Thank you: Camille Ruley for our Artwork Louie Zong for our Themesong "stories" https://louiezong.bandcamp.com Find out more at http://areweebthereyet.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Happy Thanksgiving, fuckbuddies! Stay safe, stay put, and don't have a bird. Instead, let us regale you with stories of all fowl delightful and strange--from toddler-size T-Rexes, to pushy pelicans, to a looney bin full of turkeys! Thanksgiving 2020 is truly for the birds. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allthefucks/message
(1:45) 1999 Godzilla is so humorless yet packed with comedians, copying Jurassic Park, is this a sequel, it's not a reboot, 1998 Godzilla isn't invited because that movie is bad bad, how risky that movie was other than hiring Roland Emmerich, 2014 Godzilla(9:06) why model your film off Batman vs. Superman, Kyle Chandler is the king of the monsters, MUTOS look like Starship Trooper aliens, Godzilla as a slasher movie icon(13:35) Forrest pitch to create a worthy sequel, dumb scientists, we deserve an unpredictable Godzilla, no more eco-terrorists!, climate crisis creates King Gadoriah, why so many monsters, learn from Spider-man 3, King Kong vs. T-Rexes(29:15) Are we sure the Monsterverse is connected, do we feel bad for Kyle Chandler, why isn't he a huge star, would you be our Dad Kyle Chandler**,** could watch Charles Dance waiting in the subway, ****12 angry men & women plus Godzilla(36:05) radical pitch from Carter, Detective Pikachu is dribble, a Jarmusch Godzilla, Alpha predator, humans aren't apex predators, under the boardwalk(48:02) Godzilla POV, large monsters aren't scary (ie: The Meg), deep blue sea love, Godzilla attacks New Orleans, Mortal Kombat, Millie Bobby Brown, Green Monster joke, Pacific Rim debacle, Transformers(1:00:19) imagine getting in an Uber, only its actually a robot in disguise, a three-headed dragon alien, Marvel movies like hanging out with your friends, M. Night, news broadcasts while in a casino, find out Godzilla is attacking on our phones(1:06:40) King of the monsters a response to lack of titular character in 2014 version, tip for watching films, opposite views on trailer, Godzilla vs large Jaguar, underwater scenes(1:12:27) Deep Rising love, Godzilla almost died(1:18:14) A plea to studio execs, movies vs tv, building movie casts like drafting a team, Kyle Chandler is a star & our future dad, bad guy's plan makes no sense, sending email: "i'm worried about mom"(1:27:21) couple with opposite reviews, Early Edition with Trump tweets, Trump is our Godzilla
Craig loves dinosaurs, so Andrew let him talk for an hour about Steve Brusatte's recent book for dino devotees. Time to talk T-Rexes, Sauropods, and graphic depictions of the end of the world with our live Patreon chat.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Special thanks to the Patreon supporters who joined us in the live chat. For more info on how to participate in bonus episode recordings, head to patreon.com/overduepod.
Craig loves dinosaurs, so Andrew let him talk for an hour about Steve Brusatte's recent book for dino devotees. Time to talk T-Rexes, Sauropods, and graphic depictions of the end of the world with our live Patreon chat.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Special thanks to the Patreon supporters who joined us in the live chat. For more info on how to participate in bonus episode recordings, head to patreon.com/overduepod.
The first bedtime story for K-Boy. Little Bird wants to play soccer with the T-Rexes. But he's so small. What can he do? The T-Rexes soon find out.
This is Linux Inlaws, a series on free and open source software, black humour, the revolution and freedom in general (this includes ideas and software) and generally having fun. Linux Inlaws - a podcast about on topics around free and open source software, any associated contraband, communism / the revolution in general and whatever else fancies your tickle. Please note that this and other episodes may contain strong language, offensive humor and other certainly not politically correct language - you have been warned (our parents insisted on this disclaimer - happy mum?). Thus the content is not suitable for consumption in the workplace (especially when played back on a speaker in an open plan office or similar environments), any minors under the age of 35 or any pets including fluffy little killer bunnies, your trusty guide dog (unless on speed) and cute T-Rexes or other associated dinosaurs. Links: Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org Audacity OSX work-around: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=105586 KDEnlive: https://kdenlive.org Blender: https://www.blender.org PwC mishap: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/06/pwc_azure_squatting The Current War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Current_War Rick and Morty: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty Better Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Things_(TV_series) Pamela Adlon: https://twitter.com/pamelaadlon
For a change, The Flick Lab looks at a film that almost everyone has seen. All will be revealed, including InGen's secret human clone trials, Nedry's brain failures, Jurassic teleportation powers and how the goats are delivered to T-Rexes - all exclusively here in The Flick Lab. Jurassic Park (1993). Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Samuel L. Jackson. The Flick Lab is for podcast listeners who crave for highly detailed film analysis. The hosts are two Finnish gentlemen with professional film/art business background. New episode is released every Thursday. You can find The Flick Lab on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theflicklab/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FlickLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theflicklab/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pI-IpsWuMKKJ1pJIeXISw Hosted by Karri Ojala and Henrik Telkki. Edit by Karri Ojala. The Flick Lab theme tune by Nick Grivell (https://www.instagram.com/prodbyiof).
Legends tell of a man named Chuck Tingle that came down from the heavens to accomplish one goal: Make really weird erotica featuring creatures, men, and butts. He fights off legions of foes with his Tae Kwon Do abilities and massages his friends with his PhD in holistic massage. But I’m getting ahead of myself, let’s start at his first erotic novel...In this somewhat Dinosaur themed episode, we have a very loud intro straight from Hell, from the fabulous set of Wheel of Hell that is! Also featured, we talk about “The Repair Shop” on Netflix, how humans would domesticate dinosaurs if we coexisted, David Delooper the man who had a quest of being on 30 NBA jumbotrons in 30 days, a dino-themed game of “Conspiracy Query!” featuring conspiracies about how the dinosaurs went extinct ranging from cataracts to changes in gravity and alien abduction, a news story about a parking lot pooper that was caught in a town near Boston, and we end with some Dinosaur Eroticas in our recurring segment Amazon Erotica featuring huntresses being cornered by T-Rexes and our first foray into the works of Chuck Tingle including his “Space Raptor Butt Series” Email us at segmentcitypodcast@gmail.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/SegmentCityYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtOxbiSIX1NlSrNMLSqzFqQ
Download MP3 先週に引き続き、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」をお届けします。この11年間に配信した335本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、４本分を濃縮しました。今回は、Joeの選んだ4本の傑作エピソードをお送りします。 *** Joe's Best *** やさしい英語会話 (311) Go Carp, Go! やさしい英語会話 (240) Piano Delivery やさしい英語会話 (236) The Excitement of a Zoo やさしい英語会話 (79) Saving George *** Script *** やさしい英語会話 (311) Go Carp, Go! (Noisy Stadium Sound) Both: (the Cheer song) Carp, Carp, Carp Hiroshima, Hiroshima Carp M: Oh, this is so fun! Thanks for inviting me, Tomoka. My first Carp game ever in person! I didn't think that the fans would be so crazy. W: Hey, this is normal! Carp games are really intense! M: Yeah! Um, who's your favorite player, Tomoka? W: My favorite players are Tanaka, Kikuchi, Maru, and Suzuki! M: Ha ha! That's a lot. Who's your MOST favorite? W: Um… I love 'em all, but I guess I love Suzuki the most! Oh! Suzuki's stepping up to the plate now! Wohoo! M: Yeah, but we're pretty far out here in right field. It's kind of hard to see. Here, you can use my binoculars. (later) M: Tomoka… here's your Carp udon. Ha ha. It's funny that even the food being sold here is about the Carp! W: Yeah, and almost everyone's wearing their favorite player's jersey. Mine's 51, of course. That's Suzuki's number. M: Oh, I should get one too. But they're SO expensive! W: Yeah… Hey, who do you like right now? M: I think Johnson's pretty cool. And besides, we're both American! Ha ha! W: Yeah, I like him a lot too. Hey, this Carp udon tastes great! How's that Carp takoyaki? M: It's really good. (Sound of a ball hit by a bat) Hey, Tomoka look! The ball's coming this way. Let's get out of here! W: No way! I'm gonna catch this ball! Get out of here, Daniel! (Pushing Daniel to the side) M: Ah!!! W: Ah! I got it! I got a home run ball! M: Way to go, Tomoka! A home run ball! And thanks for pushing me out of the way! But I got takoyaki all over me! (Written by Mikael Kai Geronimo) やさしい英語会話 (240) Piano Delivery Kim and Bruce are attempting to carry a piano up 8 stories to deliver it to a client. M: (panting) Remind me again why we decided to become piano deliverymen. This lady lives on the 8th floor, and we've only made it up to the third floor! My arms already feel like spaghetti! W: It's piano delivery WOMAN! And I'll tell you why: this is all part of the four-year plan. Remember? M: Um... I'm so exhausted right now that I can hardly remember my own mother's name! Why don't you jog my memory? W: (sighs) Fine, Bruce. This is the last time I'm going to explain it to you. M: I CAN'T guarantee that. W: (huffing) Alright, the four-year plan is to work as piano delivery men... Ahem... piano delivery PEOPLE for two years in order to build up core body strength. Then, we spend the next two years training to be professional wrestlers. With the kind of strength we'll get from this job, we can become world champions! M: Wait, that four-year plan? You actually still think that's gonna work? I'm just working this job so I can see the inside of all the attractive women's houses in this city! W: You really are a hopeless pervert, aren't you? M: Hold that thought. I think my back's about to give out! W: You say something? M: Gahhhhh! (Bruce grimaces in pain and the cracking of his back is clearly audible. Bruce drops the piano and it falls down all three flights of stairs to its concrete grave.) W: What the... Bruce?! Do you know what you've just done!? You've ruined the four-year plan! M: Forget the four-year plan and just get me to a hospital! (shudders in pain) (Written by David Shaner) やさしい英語会話 (236) The Excitement of a Zoo M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. (Written by David Shaner) やさしい英語会話 (79) Saving George W: George!! Come down here!… Oh no, he can’t come down! What am I gonna do? Hmm… I better call the emergency number... (dialing phone) M: Emergency Services. Can I help you? W: Hello!? Help! My little George is in danger! M: Now, calm down. Is it a fire, or is someone breaking into your house? W: It’s an emergency. He… he’s up in a tree and can’t come down. M: OK. Where are you now? Is George hurt? W: I’m in the park…on Elm Street. I don’t think he’s hurt…He’s clinging to the branch. He’s trembling! Poor thing! He can’t come down by himself. I can’t go up and take him down either. It’s too high! M: OK. I’ll send a truck and ladder. Please don’t go up. Just stay there and wait for the truck…. Now, how old did you say George is? W: Um, he’s about three months. M: Three months?! How come he’s up in the tree? He’s only a baby! W: Well, he’s been naughty these days. He climbs up the tree every day and comes down by himself. I think he’s gone too high today… M: Huh? W: He was stuck in the rubbish bin the other day… He’s so cute. Now he can eat one tin of tuna each meal. He’s grown up so fast! M: So… he’s… he’s a kitten? W: Oh, didn’t I say that? M: No… Well, Ms., I’m sorry, but this number is for emergencies only. W: Yes. The IS an emergency! My little kitty is in danger! M: I understand. But there might be someone, some HUMAN, who is dying and needs help at this very moment. W: George IS my family and I need to rescue him! It doesn’t matter if he’s human or a cat. A: OK, OK. (in a small voice) Boy, I can’t take care of this old lady… B: You… you said I’m old? I’m not old! I’m only 83! Just send a ladder truck and help my George! Is that clear, boy? A: Yes, Ma’am! (Written by Ayumi Furutani)
Download MP3 先週に引き続き、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」をお届けします。この11年間に配信した335本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、４本分を濃縮しました。今回は、Joeの選んだ4本の傑作エピソードをお送りします。 *** Joe's Best *** やさしい英語会話 (311) Go Carp, Go! やさしい英語会話 (240) Piano Delivery やさしい英語会話 (236) The Excitement of a Zoo やさしい英語会話 (79) Saving George *** Script *** やさしい英語会話 (311) Go Carp, Go! (Noisy Stadium Sound) Both: (the Cheer song) Carp, Carp, Carp Hiroshima, Hiroshima Carp M: Oh, this is so fun! Thanks for inviting me, Tomoka. My first Carp game ever in person! I didn't think that the fans would be so crazy. W: Hey, this is normal! Carp games are really intense! M: Yeah! Um, who's your favorite player, Tomoka? W: My favorite players are Tanaka, Kikuchi, Maru, and Suzuki! M: Ha ha! That's a lot. Who's your MOST favorite? W: Um… I love 'em all, but I guess I love Suzuki the most! Oh! Suzuki's stepping up to the plate now! Wohoo! M: Yeah, but we're pretty far out here in right field. It's kind of hard to see. Here, you can use my binoculars. (later) M: Tomoka… here's your Carp udon. Ha ha. It's funny that even the food being sold here is about the Carp! W: Yeah, and almost everyone's wearing their favorite player's jersey. Mine's 51, of course. That's Suzuki's number. M: Oh, I should get one too. But they're SO expensive! W: Yeah… Hey, who do you like right now? M: I think Johnson's pretty cool. And besides, we're both American! Ha ha! W: Yeah, I like him a lot too. Hey, this Carp udon tastes great! How's that Carp takoyaki? M: It's really good. (Sound of a ball hit by a bat) Hey, Tomoka look! The ball's coming this way. Let's get out of here! W: No way! I'm gonna catch this ball! Get out of here, Daniel! (Pushing Daniel to the side) M: Ah!!! W: Ah! I got it! I got a home run ball! M: Way to go, Tomoka! A home run ball! And thanks for pushing me out of the way! But I got takoyaki all over me! (Written by Mikael Kai Geronimo) やさしい英語会話 (240) Piano Delivery Kim and Bruce are attempting to carry a piano up 8 stories to deliver it to a client. M: (panting) Remind me again why we decided to become piano deliverymen. This lady lives on the 8th floor, and we've only made it up to the third floor! My arms already feel like spaghetti! W: It's piano delivery WOMAN! And I'll tell you why: this is all part of the four-year plan. Remember? M: Um... I'm so exhausted right now that I can hardly remember my own mother's name! Why don't you jog my memory? W: (sighs) Fine, Bruce. This is the last time I'm going to explain it to you. M: I CAN'T guarantee that. W: (huffing) Alright, the four-year plan is to work as piano delivery men... Ahem... piano delivery PEOPLE for two years in order to build up core body strength. Then, we spend the next two years training to be professional wrestlers. With the kind of strength we'll get from this job, we can become world champions! M: Wait, that four-year plan? You actually still think that's gonna work? I'm just working this job so I can see the inside of all the attractive women's houses in this city! W: You really are a hopeless pervert, aren't you? M: Hold that thought. I think my back's about to give out! W: You say something? M: Gahhhhh! (Bruce grimaces in pain and the cracking of his back is clearly audible. Bruce drops the piano and it falls down all three flights of stairs to its concrete grave.) W: What the... Bruce?! Do you know what you've just done!? You've ruined the four-year plan! M: Forget the four-year plan and just get me to a hospital! (shudders in pain) (Written by David Shaner) やさしい英語会話 (236) The Excitement of a Zoo M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. (Written by David Shaner) やさしい英語会話 (79) Saving George W: George!! Come down here!… Oh no, he can’t come down! What am I gonna do? Hmm… I better call the emergency number... (dialing phone) M: Emergency Services. Can I help you? W: Hello!? Help! My little George is in danger! M: Now, calm down. Is it a fire, or is someone breaking into your house? W: It’s an emergency. He… he’s up in a tree and can’t come down. M: OK. Where are you now? Is George hurt? W: I’m in the park…on Elm Street. I don’t think he’s hurt…He’s clinging to the branch. He’s trembling! Poor thing! He can’t come down by himself. I can’t go up and take him down either. It’s too high! M: OK. I’ll send a truck and ladder. Please don’t go up. Just stay there and wait for the truck…. Now, how old did you say George is? W: Um, he’s about three months. M: Three months?! How come he’s up in the tree? He’s only a baby! W: Well, he’s been naughty these days. He climbs up the tree every day and comes down by himself. I think he’s gone too high today… M: Huh? W: He was stuck in the rubbish bin the other day… He’s so cute. Now he can eat one tin of tuna each meal. He’s grown up so fast! M: So… he’s… he’s a kitten? W: Oh, didn’t I say that? M: No… Well, Ms., I’m sorry, but this number is for emergencies only. W: Yes. The IS an emergency! My little kitty is in danger! M: I understand. But there might be someone, some HUMAN, who is dying and needs help at this very moment. W: George IS my family and I need to rescue him! It doesn’t matter if he’s human or a cat. A: OK, OK. (in a small voice) Boy, I can’t take care of this old lady… B: You… you said I’m old? I’m not old! I’m only 83! Just send a ladder truck and help my George! Is that clear, boy? A: Yes, Ma’am! (Written by Ayumi Furutani)
Conspiracies....but round two. Zoe tells Kathryn about flat earthers, the Illuminati, how Wyoming doesn't exist, the fact we have T-Rexes all wrong, and that the government is scamming us all. This is a perfect excuse to pull a fun fact for a dinner party or that hot date you have coming up this week.Don't forget to subscribe wherever you find your podcasts, follow us on twitter @collegetakespod, and submit any topic that you'd love to hear two broke college girls talk about, at collegetakespodcast@gmail.com.
Everyone's heard of T-Rexes, the twenty-foot-tall monsters that roamed the Earth back in the Late Cretaceous Period. But you may not have heard of their miniature cousin. It's a six foot tall dinosaur called Suskityrannus hazelae, and it gives us a clue about when and how T-Rexes got as big as they did. Sterling Nesbitt is the paleontologist who found the second and most complete fossil of this new dinosaur, but it took him twenty years to put this paper together. Phil Sansom asked him how. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Everyone's heard of T-Rexes, the twenty-foot-tall monsters that roamed the Earth back in the Late Cretaceous Period. But you may not have heard of their miniature cousin. It's a six foot tall dinosaur called Suskityrannus hazelae, and it gives us a clue about when and how T-Rexes got as big as they did. Sterling Nesbitt is the paleontologist who found the second and most complete fossil of this new dinosaur, but it took him twenty years to put this paper together. Phil Sansom asked him how. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Join Derek and Marshall this week as they have a spirited debate over everyone's favorite candy bar: the Twix. They also talk T-Rexes, the football team's continued struggles, and preview the upcoming basketball season. It's a good one, enjoy.
Download MP3 ８月の４週間は、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」です。この10年間に配信した310本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、毎回４本分を濃縮してお届けします。ナチュラルスピードの会話をスクリプトとともにお楽しみください。今回は、動物や人の記憶など、科学を中心としたエピソードを集めました。 *** Script *** [ (168) Cockroaches ] Situation: A married couple in the kitchen. M: Die, die, die! Oh, God, please, just die already! W: I see you have your own special way of preparing breakfast? M: A cockroach! Huge! Under that cup. It appeared out of nowhere when I was mixing eggs and milk, and it ran straight for me! W: Why are you offering it an empty cup? Tea would do better. Or coffee! I've heard they just LOVE fresh cappuccino in the early mornings! M: Well, all I have to offer it is a good stomping, with available tableware. It took, like, 3 hits for it to stop moving. Monsters! W: I bet you missed the first two times. Cockroaches can do 25 cm per second, you know. M: It's 30, not 25. And I know when I hit something with a cup… Yaiks! It's still alive! W: This is one die-hard fella. Looks like it's two-thirds were chewed off by something. And you call IT a monster? M: I can't take it anymore. We have to move. W: Huh, why? You mean, because of the bugs? M: Those are cockroaches. Bugs are cute lovable creatures, flying from flower to flower around on a sunny summer day. Cockroaches are despicable monsters with hairy legs, sniffing around the kitchen, jumping at you from the sink in the morning, and leaving their disgusting egg cases all over the place! W: Um… I think you're overreacting. The other day I saw lovely Madagascar cockroaches at the pet store. They can drink beer twice their weight, increasing in volume right in front of your eyes! And guess what - they can hiss! M: What? Hey, was that their hissing I heard in the middle of last night? W: Well, how should I put it... Yes. They were just 100 yen each! I got 5. M: Ah!!!! [ (236) The Excitement of a Zoo ] M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. [ (274) Memories Make Us Who We Are ] M: Don't you find it funny how everything we are-- our entire lives, personalities and being-- amounts to our memories? W: What do you mean? M: If you really think about it, the things that have shaped our personalities are all in the past. So it's the experiences and the memory of those experiences. W: You're making my head hurt… M: Did you know that scent is one of the most powerful memory triggers? Sometimes when you smell something it brings back really vivid memories. Try this, for example. W: (sniffs) It's a honey-scented candle? M: Yeah. Does it remind you of anything? W: Ah! Your parents' wedding! Your mum had those burning when she was getting ready. She told us that she had to smell as beautiful as she looked! M: Yeah, but that didn't last long into the reception, though. I'm pretty sure the smell of spilt beer overpowered her pretty little candles. W: Ha ha. Gross. Then what about amnesia? If all that we are is dependant on our memories, then if I get amnesia tomorrow then I won't be the same person I am today? M: Hmm, I guess theoretically that's true. But I'm not entirely sure. I do know, however, that as opposed to Hollywood's depiction, the most common form of amnesia is retrograde amnesia, which means people can't create any new memories. W: Oh, wow… Hey, I knew a joke about amnesia once, but I've forgotten it. Both: Hahaha. [ (294) What Happens When a Person Sneezes? ] M: Achoo! Excuse me. W: Bless you, Yuki. M: Ble…? What do you mean, Emma? W: Oh, you don't know? Usually, we say "God bless you," or "Bless you," when someone sneezes. I heard that people used to believe that when you sneeze your soul might shoot out of you, and then the devil could get in your body. So, we say "God bless you," in order to protect you from evils. M: I see. Thank you. Hey, there's a similar thought in Japan. People here used to think we lose our souls when someone takes our pictures. Also, they thought that the person who appeared in the center of a photo was going to die earlier. W: Really? That's interesting. Now Japanese love taking pictures anytime and anywhere! M: Ha ha… Look at this. This is my friend's Twitter. He posts TONS of pictures. And this is the latest one. W: Let me see…Oh, my gosh, he's sneezing in the center of the picture! M: Ha ha… Let's say it together… ready? Both: Bless you!
Download MP3 ８月の４週間は、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」です。この10年間に配信した310本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、毎回４本分を濃縮してお届けします。ナチュラルスピードの会話をスクリプトとともにお楽しみください。今回は、動物や人の記憶など、科学を中心としたエピソードを集めました。 *** Script *** [ (168) Cockroaches ] Situation: A married couple in the kitchen. M: Die, die, die! Oh, God, please, just die already! W: I see you have your own special way of preparing breakfast? M: A cockroach! Huge! Under that cup. It appeared out of nowhere when I was mixing eggs and milk, and it ran straight for me! W: Why are you offering it an empty cup? Tea would do better. Or coffee! I've heard they just LOVE fresh cappuccino in the early mornings! M: Well, all I have to offer it is a good stomping, with available tableware. It took, like, 3 hits for it to stop moving. Monsters! W: I bet you missed the first two times. Cockroaches can do 25 cm per second, you know. M: It's 30, not 25. And I know when I hit something with a cup… Yaiks! It's still alive! W: This is one die-hard fella. Looks like it's two-thirds were chewed off by something. And you call IT a monster? M: I can't take it anymore. We have to move. W: Huh, why? You mean, because of the bugs? M: Those are cockroaches. Bugs are cute lovable creatures, flying from flower to flower around on a sunny summer day. Cockroaches are despicable monsters with hairy legs, sniffing around the kitchen, jumping at you from the sink in the morning, and leaving their disgusting egg cases all over the place! W: Um… I think you're overreacting. The other day I saw lovely Madagascar cockroaches at the pet store. They can drink beer twice their weight, increasing in volume right in front of your eyes! And guess what - they can hiss! M: What? Hey, was that their hissing I heard in the middle of last night? W: Well, how should I put it... Yes. They were just 100 yen each! I got 5. M: Ah!!!! [ (236) The Excitement of a Zoo ] M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. [ (274) Memories Make Us Who We Are ] M: Don't you find it funny how everything we are-- our entire lives, personalities and being-- amounts to our memories? W: What do you mean? M: If you really think about it, the things that have shaped our personalities are all in the past. So it's the experiences and the memory of those experiences. W: You're making my head hurt… M: Did you know that scent is one of the most powerful memory triggers? Sometimes when you smell something it brings back really vivid memories. Try this, for example. W: (sniffs) It's a honey-scented candle? M: Yeah. Does it remind you of anything? W: Ah! Your parents' wedding! Your mum had those burning when she was getting ready. She told us that she had to smell as beautiful as she looked! M: Yeah, but that didn't last long into the reception, though. I'm pretty sure the smell of spilt beer overpowered her pretty little candles. W: Ha ha. Gross. Then what about amnesia? If all that we are is dependant on our memories, then if I get amnesia tomorrow then I won't be the same person I am today? M: Hmm, I guess theoretically that's true. But I'm not entirely sure. I do know, however, that as opposed to Hollywood's depiction, the most common form of amnesia is retrograde amnesia, which means people can't create any new memories. W: Oh, wow… Hey, I knew a joke about amnesia once, but I've forgotten it. Both: Hahaha. [ (294) What Happens When a Person Sneezes? ] M: Achoo! Excuse me. W: Bless you, Yuki. M: Ble…? What do you mean, Emma? W: Oh, you don't know? Usually, we say "God bless you," or "Bless you," when someone sneezes. I heard that people used to believe that when you sneeze your soul might shoot out of you, and then the devil could get in your body. So, we say "God bless you," in order to protect you from evils. M: I see. Thank you. Hey, there's a similar thought in Japan. People here used to think we lose our souls when someone takes our pictures. Also, they thought that the person who appeared in the center of a photo was going to die earlier. W: Really? That's interesting. Now Japanese love taking pictures anytime and anywhere! M: Ha ha… Look at this. This is my friend's Twitter. He posts TONS of pictures. And this is the latest one. W: Let me see…Oh, my gosh, he's sneezing in the center of the picture! M: Ha ha… Let's say it together… ready? Both: Bless you!
Hilary Rosen (DC strategist, CNN analyst, co-founder of “Time’s Up” legal defense fund, co-founder “Rock the Vote,” former CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, former Chief of Staff for Dianne Feinstein) joins Gleib in his hotel room in Washington DC to discuss her storied career, and all the events of the super crazy last week on earth. Including Kanye saying slavery was a choice, Trump’s possible Nobel prize, hip hop’s influence on misogyny, Tom Brokaw accused of harassment, Michelle Wolf at the correspondent’s dinner, if T Rexes were actually smart, and so much more. Follow Hilary @HilaryR
Johnny and Kevin are back watching Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs, which should really be titled ‘One or Two Cowboys vs. Hundreds of Velociraptors and T-Rexes’. Still a fun watch! Listen along as the two laugh through the bad acting, incredibly swift dinosaurs, and most awkward women skinny-dipping scene in cinematic history. One coffee and lunch special please! Get ready for lots of bad dinosaur CGI and drone footage, because in the words of Johnny, “Everyone and their mother has a freaking drone now, so why not throw some drone footage into your movie!”
It’s the TITS episode in which your mammary mates, Jen and Soph talk about the myriad ways that putting milk into a baby can go so right, so wrong and so fantastically weird. Also covered: the deeply unnerving tale of the missing maternity pad, some interspecies breastfeeding, why the term ‘family holiday’ is essentially an oxymoron and the definitive theory on how there only two types of children in this world: T-Rexes and Velociraptors. Come on in the uteran waters are… well… murky. Follow us: Instagram @motherofpodcast www.instagram.com/motherofpodcast/ Facebook @motherofpod m.facebook.com/motherofpod Email us motherofpodcast@gmail.com Hosted by Jennifer O'Dwyer and Sophie White Produced by Cassie Delaney Links to shite we're talking about: Your one-stop shop for all the boobing wisdom in the universe www.kellymom.com Breast Angels: These are the terminator tits, sterling silver nipple tassels that we both found to be a life-saver for keeping your nips smiley happy nipples during breastfeeding https://www.earthmother.ie/breast-angels-silver-healing-cups-natural-breastfeeding-support.html This is the study that we have opted to believe when it comes to boobin’ and boozin’ (please don’t tell us it’s not peer-reviewed or any such, the disappointment would kill us) https://www.laleche.org.uk/alcohol-and-breastfeeding/ Low Milk Supply: These are the lactation cookies Sophie made and ate to boost milk supply #wearenotdoctors https://www.bellybelly.com.au/breastfeeding/lactation-cookies/ Here’s a longer piece Sophie wrote for the Sunday Independent which gives a much fuller and informed (including interviews with experts!) account of having her first baby’s tongue tie corrected. It doesn't hurt the baby #wearenotdoctors https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/the-ties-that-bind-when-your-baby-is-tonguetied-30419373.html Lactation Consultants and Midwives are magical unicorns, here’s some wisdom from LC Fiona Rea on how to prepare for boobing https://www.herfamily.ie/parenthood/prepare-breastfeeding-10-gems-wisdom-lactation-consultant-246541 Here’s the support network that loads of Irish mums swear by https://www.cuidiu-ict.ie/ Here’s a whole bunch of interspecies breastfeeding, it’s a whole FUCKING THING: https://www.google.ie/search?q=cat+breastfeeding+dogs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjegebMp_bYAhUqLsAKHfg8DnAQ_AUICigB&biw=1164&bih=548 Jen’s “culture” pick for the week was oyster parties which are a crazy, real thing and pretty much a SCAM by the looks of this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/pearl-parties-are-taking-over-facebook-live-but-buyer-beware?utm_term=.xqaAA8BXwD#.tnMll6b92M Here’s all the books Sophie recommended (they’re deadly reads): Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eleanor-Oliphant-Is-Completely-Fine/dp/B06XCNPCVC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516993410&sr=8-1&keywords=elinor+oliphant+is+completely+fine+book The Party by Elizabeth Day https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Party/dp/B0728KJ7RW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516993449&sr=1-1&keywords=the+party+elizabeth+day You’ll Grow Out Of It by Jessie Klein https://www.amazon.co.uk/Youll-Grow-Out-of-It/dp/B01LXV5ISF/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516993472&sr=1-1&keywords=you%27ll+grow+out+of+it All The Good Things by Clare Fisher https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-the-Good-Things/dp/B071H4HJ5C/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516993493&sr=1-1&keywords=all+the+good+things+clare+fisher Watch the new It trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAUTdjf9rko
Psionics suck. So do Dinosaurs. We really don't want that shit in our D&D. The two of us get into a heated debate about Telepathy and T-Rexes in our worlds of Swords of Sorcery. Psionics have been a semi-regular part of D&D for decades. As have Dinosaurs. But we're not fans of either. The recent release of Tomb of Annihilation includes Dinosaur races, which has opened a few old wounds for us.
Dom & JD take a drive to Biff & Morty's Hardware Store to give you our TOP 5 GARDEN TOOL KILLS. There is also horror news, the good and bad movie of the week, sex robots, T-Rexes, and a man known only as Sex Roberts.This episode is brought to you by Amazon.com and Mechanical Ghost. It features music by Rudimentary Peni and Ghoul. It is available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud and YouTube.http://www.postmortemshow.com
Howdy! I sure hope you like the past, because this week we talk about T-Rexes way too much, learn what Darwin and the CIA had in common and discuss whether or not 300 years of history actually happened. Just as a note- something was a bit off with our mic this week so there may … Continue reading "Episode 3 – Show Us The Bones!"
Richard is joined by Andrew Birkett of Atheris Games. Andrew has been creating games since he was 17 and now 5 years later, he has one campaign successfully funded with Cul-de-sac conquest, and he talks about his latest Game, Mutant Crops. However, it wouldn't be us unless we spoke about Sock Ghosts, T-Rexes and Falling asleep at work. It was a fun chat, and we had a blast. Links of Note. Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/holeshotheroes/mutant-crops-quick-worker-placement-tabletop-game?ref=user_menu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Atherisgames/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/atherisgames Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atherisgames/ Like what you hear? Then please support us.YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC03LRG64f05w0C3Bs3aZ4sA Website - www.werenotwizards.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/werenotwizards Twitter.com - http://www.twitter.com/werenotwizards If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405 Get us on Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/were-not-wizards Get us through acast - http://www.acast.com/werenotwizards Check out our pictures -www.instagram.com/werenotwizards Music is owned entirely by We're Not Wizards and thanks to DouglasVBEmail us magic@werenotwizards.com Remember, we are many things but We're Not Wizards.
Can you smeeeeeeeell what the Foot is cooking?!?! Join as we jump off the top rope, only to land awkwardly and give ourselves a hernia as we chat to comedian, idiot, relentless storyteller and top hole wrestling promoter Jim Smallman about the worst wrestlers of all time. As you might have noticed, this is our longest episode by far - once we opened up this Pandora's box it was impossible to stop exploring. In this episode you'll find stories about T-Rexes invading hospitals, far from holy conceptions and the staggeringly broad boundaries of taste that professional wrestlers are power-slammed over in the name of sports entertainment. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde @jimsmallman @ThisIs_Progress
Download MP3 ８月の５週間は、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」です。この８年間に配信した259本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、毎回４本分を濃縮してお届けします。ナチュラルスピードの会話をスクリプトとともにお楽しみください。 今回は"Stay Foolish ... ?"をテーマに、この1年間にお届けした中から、ちょっと常識ではあり得ない行動に出る人々の登場する会話を４本選びました。かれらのあまりに「ぶっ飛んだ」言動に、夏の暑さも吹き飛ぶかも…!? （初級〜中級）The Excitement of a Zoo M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. (Written by David Shaner) A Halloween Prank Situation: It's Halloween and Robert and Carla are setting up for their annual Halloween party. W: And... done! The hallway decorations are done. This is gonna be the best Halloween party yet! M: Yeah, I totally agree. And this year's prank is gonna be twice as spooky as last year's! W: Hey, wait, wait, wait.... you're gonna do a prank AGAIN this year? (Robert is drilling holes in the ceiling, and is setting up some strange thing.) M: Well, yeah. You can't have Halloween without spooky surprises! W: Just so I'm clear: this whole prank thing isn't gonna end up like last year's, when Lenny was hospitalized for 3 months, is it? M: Of course not. W: Good. M: Yeah, I've stepped up my game from last year. Look: when the guests walk in the door, they'll trip this switch, which deploys a can of pepper spray! The can of pepper spray will spray them in their eyes, rendering them unable to see. Then, I turn off the lights and beat them up with this baseball bat! W: OK. There are TWO huge problems with this "prank". First, why turn off the lights if they already can't see because of the pepper spray? Second, how is blinding someone and then beating them with a bat a Halloween prank?? Sounds like something you'd do to your worst enemy! M: Oh, whatever. Someone like you could never understand. You never did have a good sense of humor with these things! W: That's because someone always ends up seriously hurt and/or permanently disfigured! In fact, how are you not in jail yet? M: Well, it might have something to do with the fact that I'm 12? W: Oh, yeah! (Written by David Shaner) Special Medicine M: Alright Kimmy. I drove you to this pharmacy store. Can I go home now? W: Ha Ha Ha! Don't make me laugh! You thought that was the end of your duty? That was merely the first phase! M: I don't like where this is going. Is this another one of your crazy schemes? W: Hey, if you didn't want to help me with this, you shouldn't have volunteered! You're gonna have to see my plan to its end! M: Volunteered? I volunteered because you told me we were going to go help your hot sister move into her new apartment. I didn't volunteer to get myself arrested, which is definitely going to be the result if this is anything like your other schemes. W: You have too little faith in me. We only get arrested if we get caught! M: So, this IS illegal then?! W: Just let me do all the talking. (Mark and Kimmy walk up to the pharmacy counter.) W: Hello! My name is Kimmy and this is my severely mentally impaired brother, Keith. We would like some very expensive medications so he can get better. M: (whispering) Mentally impaired? What're you talking about? W: (whispering) Just go with it... If we get these drugs for your "condition", we can sell them for twice the price or more on the black market! Pharmacist: Do you have a prescription or doctor's note with you? W: Ahem... Um, no we don't. But can't you just see how mentally impaired he is? Isn't that enough to warrant the medication? Pharmacist: Without a prescription, I can't do anything for you. W: (whispering) Mark, you're not selling this well at all, you've gotta at least try to act the part! M: This is ridiculous, Kimmy. I'm going home. If your hot sister ever DOES actually need help moving in, you know where to find me! W: Ah! Mark, you ruined everything! (Written by David Shaner) Fire Alarm Situation: Troy and Amanda are hanging out in a dark corner of their local library. W: So, I was, like, "It's totally YOUR fault, Christie, because Johnny Ferrerie would've never kissed Suzie unless Kathie Davis had been... (Troy cuts off Amanda) M: Yo-- hold that thought! Check out this fire alarm over here! W: What? You're not actually considering pulling a fire alarm in a public library, are you? The sprinklers will go off and it'll ruin my hair! M: Think of it this way: if I pull this fire alarm, everyone in here is gonna get soaking wet. Ha ha ha... (Troy has a mischievous smile) W: Yeah, exactly! Meaning: my hair and my new Louis Vuitton bag will both be ruined! M: Amanda, think about it. EVERYONE in here will be soaking wet! That includes the girls! The combination of water and a white shirt really suits a girl in a situation like this, if you know what I mean. (Starts laughing) W: Oh my gosh, Troy, you're such a pervert! M: Genius? Yes. Inventive? Yes. Pervert? No way. Um... watch this! (Troy puts his hand on the alarm, poised to pull it.) W: Hey! You better not! M: Come to me, my drenched vixens! (Troy pulls the alarm and everyone in the library starts screaming as tons of water fall upon them.) (Written by David Shaner)
Download MP3 ８月の５週間は、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」です。この８年間に配信した259本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、毎回４本分を濃縮してお届けします。ナチュラルスピードの会話をスクリプトとともにお楽しみください。 今回は"Stay Foolish ... ?"をテーマに、この1年間にお届けした中から、ちょっと常識ではあり得ない行動に出る人々の登場する会話を４本選びました。かれらのあまりに「ぶっ飛んだ」言動に、夏の暑さも吹き飛ぶかも…!? （初級〜中級）The Excitement of a Zoo M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. (Written by David Shaner) A Halloween Prank Situation: It's Halloween and Robert and Carla are setting up for their annual Halloween party. W: And... done! The hallway decorations are done. This is gonna be the best Halloween party yet! M: Yeah, I totally agree. And this year's prank is gonna be twice as spooky as last year's! W: Hey, wait, wait, wait.... you're gonna do a prank AGAIN this year? (Robert is drilling holes in the ceiling, and is setting up some strange thing.) M: Well, yeah. You can't have Halloween without spooky surprises! W: Just so I'm clear: this whole prank thing isn't gonna end up like last year's, when Lenny was hospitalized for 3 months, is it? M: Of course not. W: Good. M: Yeah, I've stepped up my game from last year. Look: when the guests walk in the door, they'll trip this switch, which deploys a can of pepper spray! The can of pepper spray will spray them in their eyes, rendering them unable to see. Then, I turn off the lights and beat them up with this baseball bat! W: OK. There are TWO huge problems with this "prank". First, why turn off the lights if they already can't see because of the pepper spray? Second, how is blinding someone and then beating them with a bat a Halloween prank?? Sounds like something you'd do to your worst enemy! M: Oh, whatever. Someone like you could never understand. You never did have a good sense of humor with these things! W: That's because someone always ends up seriously hurt and/or permanently disfigured! In fact, how are you not in jail yet? M: Well, it might have something to do with the fact that I'm 12? W: Oh, yeah! (Written by David Shaner) Special Medicine M: Alright Kimmy. I drove you to this pharmacy store. Can I go home now? W: Ha Ha Ha! Don't make me laugh! You thought that was the end of your duty? That was merely the first phase! M: I don't like where this is going. Is this another one of your crazy schemes? W: Hey, if you didn't want to help me with this, you shouldn't have volunteered! You're gonna have to see my plan to its end! M: Volunteered? I volunteered because you told me we were going to go help your hot sister move into her new apartment. I didn't volunteer to get myself arrested, which is definitely going to be the result if this is anything like your other schemes. W: You have too little faith in me. We only get arrested if we get caught! M: So, this IS illegal then?! W: Just let me do all the talking. (Mark and Kimmy walk up to the pharmacy counter.) W: Hello! My name is Kimmy and this is my severely mentally impaired brother, Keith. We would like some very expensive medications so he can get better. M: (whispering) Mentally impaired? What're you talking about? W: (whispering) Just go with it... If we get these drugs for your "condition", we can sell them for twice the price or more on the black market! Pharmacist: Do you have a prescription or doctor's note with you? W: Ahem... Um, no we don't. But can't you just see how mentally impaired he is? Isn't that enough to warrant the medication? Pharmacist: Without a prescription, I can't do anything for you. W: (whispering) Mark, you're not selling this well at all, you've gotta at least try to act the part! M: This is ridiculous, Kimmy. I'm going home. If your hot sister ever DOES actually need help moving in, you know where to find me! W: Ah! Mark, you ruined everything! (Written by David Shaner) Fire Alarm Situation: Troy and Amanda are hanging out in a dark corner of their local library. W: So, I was, like, "It's totally YOUR fault, Christie, because Johnny Ferrerie would've never kissed Suzie unless Kathie Davis had been... (Troy cuts off Amanda) M: Yo-- hold that thought! Check out this fire alarm over here! W: What? You're not actually considering pulling a fire alarm in a public library, are you? The sprinklers will go off and it'll ruin my hair! M: Think of it this way: if I pull this fire alarm, everyone in here is gonna get soaking wet. Ha ha ha... (Troy has a mischievous smile) W: Yeah, exactly! Meaning: my hair and my new Louis Vuitton bag will both be ruined! M: Amanda, think about it. EVERYONE in here will be soaking wet! That includes the girls! The combination of water and a white shirt really suits a girl in a situation like this, if you know what I mean. (Starts laughing) W: Oh my gosh, Troy, you're such a pervert! M: Genius? Yes. Inventive? Yes. Pervert? No way. Um... watch this! (Troy puts his hand on the alarm, poised to pull it.) W: Hey! You better not! M: Come to me, my drenched vixens! (Troy pulls the alarm and everyone in the library starts screaming as tons of water fall upon them.) (Written by David Shaner)
行楽の秋、お友達や家族と動物園に出かける方も多いと思います。今回の会話は動物園でデートをしている男女の会話ですが、男性はヘンなことばかり言ってデートを台無しにしたあげく、とんでもない行動に出ます。現代の動物園ではあり得ないことですが、リスナーの皆さんはくれぐれもまねをしないようご注意を...?! Image credit: Kapa65 via Pixabay. CC0 Public Domain. ↓ ↓ ↓ Download MP3 （初級〜中級）*** It's a Good Expression *** （今回の重要表現） an enclosure 動物園の檻 to make it to... に着く the T-Rex exhibit ティラノサウルスの展示 T-RexはTyrannosaurus rexの略。 to go extinct 絶滅する a government conspiracy 政府の陰謀 to fabricate をでっち上げる to take interest in... に興味を示す to be raised by... に育てられる to live off nothing but... 以外に頼らずに生きる ※to live off the land「自給自足の生活をする」 flesh and blood 血肉、肉体 ※文語的な表現。ここでは男性の大げさで見当違いな言動を強調している。 super すごく（副詞） *** Script *** The Excitement of a Zoo M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. (Written by David Shaner)
行楽の秋、お友達や家族と動物園に出かける方も多いと思います。今回の会話は動物園でデートをしている男女の会話ですが、男性はヘンなことばかり言ってデートを台無しにしたあげく、とんでもない行動に出ます。現代の動物園ではあり得ないことですが、リスナーの皆さんはくれぐれもまねをしないようご注意を...?! Image credit: Kapa65 via Pixabay. CC0 Public Domain. ↓ ↓ ↓ Download MP3 （初級〜中級）*** It's a Good Expression *** （今回の重要表現） an enclosure 動物園の檻 to make it to... に着く the T-Rex exhibit ティラノサウルスの展示 T-RexはTyrannosaurus rexの略。 to go extinct 絶滅する a government conspiracy 政府の陰謀 to fabricate をでっち上げる to take interest in... に興味を示す to be raised by... に育てられる to live off nothing but... 以外に頼らずに生きる ※to live off the land「自給自足の生活をする」 flesh and blood 血肉、肉体 ※文語的な表現。ここでは男性の大げさで見当違いな言動を強調している。 super すごく（副詞） *** Script *** The Excitement of a Zoo M: Finally, we made it to the zoo! I wanna go see the T-Rex exhibit first! W: Robbie, how many times do I have to tell you: dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. There're no T-Rexes in the zoos. M: And how many times do I have to tell YOU that that's just a government conspiracy fabricated to keep people from using dinosaurs as weapons. W: (Puts her palm over her face and sighs) OK, Robbie, OK. I believe you. Just stop talking about it already. I actually wanted to enjoy this trip to the zoo, and you're making that pretty difficult. M: Hey look! Lions! (Robbie grabs Regina's hand and makes a dash for the lion enclosure.) M: Wow! Lions are awesome! W: (giggling) I'm glad to see you've taken interest in an animal that actual exists. M: I always wished I could've been raised by lions. Living in the mountains, living off nothing but the flesh and blood of rhinos! W: Um, I don't think that's where or how lions live, Robbie. (Regina looks down at her phone to distract herself from how badly this date is going. Regina then looks up.) W: Hey Robbie what do you think of--. (Robbie is no where to be found.) W: Robbie? Robbie?! Where are you? (A few seconds later) M: I'm over here, Regina! (Regina looks over to see Robbie cuddling with one of the lions within the enclosure.) W: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE LION ENCLOSURE ROBBIE!? THATS SUPER DANGEROUS! M: Just following my heart Regina, just following my heart. (Written by David Shaner)
Jermaine and Stephen pop in to catch you up on their favorite books of the week and let you know what they really thought of Thor the Dark World before turning it over to a pre-recorded session with Jermaine and Ryan Rubio in which they discuss how Wolverine is one of the few Big Two characters to truly transcend the old adage that what comic readers truly want is merely the illusion of change! Show Notes: Comics at the Table! - Harley Quinn #0, Superior Spider-man Annual #1 and Fairest in all the Land OGN! "Bill Willingham Explains Why Fables is Ending with #150" at Newsarama.com. Acmecast #166 - the Weapon X-Files pt. 1 - for the completists out there! X-Men: Fatal Attractions - in which Wolverine's Adamantium skeleton is torn out. Civil War: Wolverine - in which Wolverine is burned down to his bare bones. Wolverine: Origin - in which the Secret Garden is recreated with superpowers. Wolverine: The End - in which Romulous first appears. Wolverine: Evolution - in which Wolverine "kills" Sabretooth. Wolverine #119 - the first of four issues comprising the "Not Dead Yet" storyline by Warren Ellis & Leinil Yu. Wolverine: Old Man Logan - in which future Wolverine guides a blind Hawkeye across an America populated by Venom-symbiote-T-Rexes and redneck Hulks. Wolverine: Enemy of the State - in which Wolverine is controlled by the Hand and turned against his allies. "Sean Murphy Knows His Wolverine ABC's" at Comics Alliance.com.
Aprillian and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. We start off with a discussion of the Scourge, good or bad? Fun! What We've Been Doing Aprillian Right after recording, I logged on to my "Scribe" because I had remembered the cooldown and I learned a new minor glyph for warriors. I'm loving it. Did some HH in Brill and Razor Hill. Sunday night I got caught up with getting everyone around to get the xp in all the pumpkins. I was alternating summoning alts on the ref and mast account and then getting fps and then doing it again with different pairs and of course getting flight paths Tuesday I got my "new" MacBook Pro. It's not the newest one, but for $1400 I got 2.5gh, 250 gig hd and 512 vram. It's big and smoking. Dual boxing with cellular modem is like buttah. Then I finally solved what I considered the Holy Grail of my Dual Boxing. I suppose when you are living alone, the sounds of WoW are not an issue. When Hubby isn't home, I usually have both computers turned on. When he's home, I put the headphones in one and put the other on silent. This is okay but sometimes I turn and look and find that one is being attacked and the sound didn't carry over. Plus on one computer I sometimes have a podcast playing. I tried cables that would join the two sounds but often I would get an annoying hum. I solved the problem with a DJ Mixer. I know it's overkill but both computers are plugged in and cued and it works great. Wed morning ER was down so I logged on to my ally toons on Dunemaul. Level 6 Dranei Warrior and Nelf Druid. Perfect opportunity to get them some levels. We did Azure Watch and Exador and then the nelf hearthed back to the Nelf starting zone and then we ran to Darnassus, so easy, and then caught the boat to Auberdine and then another boat I thought to Menethel harbor, but noo, it took us to SW, how convenient. Got them to level 10 Wed evening had Auntrillia running around Outland, ran her and Aprillian to Netherstorm and then summoned alts from Rilfire to low level toons. Love Netherstorm. Got Squashling from Treat bag on 3 alts. Ran out of soul shards. Aprillian got a quest out of Horseman in Brill is hard, due to cart, easiest is Falconwing Square. Looks like a lost a bit of what I did since Wed, so I'm going forward and try to fill in the gaps later. Saturday night, some lower level toons are finishing up the baskets in Kalimador or Eastern Kingdoms. I should probably be focusing on finishing it with Aprillian, who dinged 64, Auntrillia who dinged 65 and Rilfire who dinged 63. Downloaded and installed a mod called Multiboxer - but it has a funny side effect, it changes the tool bar to the #2 row. Ashayo Scourge attacks! - Started at 10 mins , down to 2 for disease - Necropolis hovering over towns ; epic "vs undead" gear (tough to tag ; heavy competition!) - Quests at Lights Hope Chapel. New boss in Kara Decided I'd limit working on achievements to just Ashayo. - Jenkins - LBRS - UBRS - Hallows End ; yes, including the 50 G.N.E.R.D kills. - Scholo (Stigg was going for book worm achievement) - Heroic Magisters Terrace ( nice chest peice too ) Jekle and Hiide completed Tricks and Treats of Azeroth (interesting that Blizz include Outland in 'Azeroth') Ashwhack and Asharmin also completed - went from level 36 to 38. Thanks to Aprillian for summons to BE and Netherstorm :) Ran HH so many times I lost track. Have not seen mount drop once! New discoveries - Inn keepers now sell level 70 and 75 food ; better than the old 65 food/drink - High level mobs not chasing as far/long? - Putting out the fire at Falconwing Square is *alot* easier than at Brill or Durotar - Don't need Falconwatch FP to fly Shatt to Thrallmar. Raiding & Instances - Ashield tanked Kara tonight (awesome heals by Shojobeat) Got the Arcanite Ripper (Tenris Murkblood - new boss) Also belt and gloves (was green, to horror of healer) - Jekle tried Mnt Hyjal with BiPs. Almost got 1st boss down - Rage Winterchill. Email Hey Guys... Blade here... As now you both know, I'm in the process of deciding to make the move to Earthen Ring... and full-time school plus work leaves me previous little time to play the game, let alone do anything spiffy like running a guild to any great degree. So I bit the proverbial bullet... plus... as I said to Ashayo earlier in the week... someone's gotta help get Aprillian to 70... and ol' Blade is feeling a little altruistic... To that end... I've spent what time I have had in the game this week both learning and being amazed by the new talent trees (which I will get into shortly) and avoiding the major cities like (and because of) the plague... Happy Hallow's End! Just don't kill the glowing green cockroaches... First... as per usual... a weird and wacky tip... There's an achievement that is listed under the 'Feats of Strength' for those that had pre-existing toons... I'm not sure if it's visible for newer toons, but I'm told that it's still possible to get this achievement... But it's more about the non-combat pet: The Bloodsail Parrot... See... this one's easy... don't do ANY goblin quests (Ratchet, Booty Bay, Winterspring, etc) and avoid any contact with them... that will leave you at Neutral rep with the Goblins and Hated rep with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. From there (yes, you'll have to be at least level 65 to have a hope of getting this accomplished...) open your reputations tab on your character sheet, click on the Booty Bay rep tab and click 'At War' Now kill the goblins in the towns they're in... the bruisers are worth something like 25 reputation each... any civilians are worth 1 rep each. From Hated, you have to push your way all the way to Friendly... not too far... only about 1080 (or was it 1800?) goblin kills or so... Which is why you almost want to plan this in advance... it's another 1300+ f you have to start from the bottom of Hostile. Note: this is probably NOT advisable if you want to ever a) be an engineer or b) participate in the Sunday Weekly Fishing Extravaganza... so be SURE your mind is made up... Be aware... the bruisers in Booty Bay can net you, they have rifles for ranged attacks if you get too far away from them and they hit like trucks... they can also knock back and stun on occasion... so you're in for a bit of a fight... probably a suicidal mission for any cloth-wearing players out there... I'm sure it's possible... but I'd be prepared for a little bit harder a time if you aren't on the better side of 'elite'... Also (there's more?) when you become 'Hated' with Booty Bay, a bruiser will spawn when you attack a civilian (so I'm told) making that kill THAT much harder... so be especially cautious when taking down civilians... but at 1 rep each, they probably aren't worth the effort anyway... Assuming you have the patience of a proverbial buddhist and manage through sheer force of will to get your reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers to Friendly, go and talk to "Pretty Boy" Duncan on the beach outside Booty Bay. He'll give you a quest to talk to Fleet Master Firallon who will give you a task of some difficulty... as if this wasn't difficult enough... Oh well... you've made it THIS far... time to go kill Baron Revilgaz and Master Seahorn (the two Booty Bay 'bosses' above the inn - right next to the Horde flightpath) Assuming you are successful, hit the water swimming, head back to the Fleet Master and he'll give you one of the more rare items in the game: the Bloodsail Admiral's Hat. I'm betting that it will be something of a novelty on just about any server you could play on... mostly because most people aren't insane or simply don't have the time it would take to accomplish this goal... But for those that do... they get a nifty red-and white trimmed admiral's hat with a skull-and-crossbones motif... that lets you summon a non-combat pet! The Bloodsail Parrot! On the topic of insanity... I reworked my hunter's talent tree into the new Beast Mastery tree... and it's got to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while... I beleieve I have heard on more than one occasion the 3.0 patch being referred to affectionately as 'The Hunter Patch'. Some things about the patch are good - Wolftusk's new wasp pet named 'Sikorsky'... and 'Fluffy' the two-headed white Corehound... to add to the stables with my very first-ever pet in the game... Cuddles the (used to be named 'Death Flayer' Durotar scorpid). As a frame of reference, I picked up Death Flayer/Cuddles when the pets all had their own attack speed... he was a rare and valuable pvp one, as he was considered a 'tank' (high high armor) and had poison to stop stealthing rogues... AND had a 1.6 attack speed... faster than some cats (and most other pets) way back then... So be adventurous! Play with the pet trees... and find a few pets that really suit your style of play... Oh... just one thing... If you DO happen to get yourself a Corehound pet... either outside of or from inside Molten Core.. please please PLEASE dismiss it when you're in a city... there's nothing more irritating than standing at the Auction House and watching your screen shake and tremble as some noob Hunter runs by with his newly acquired Corehound pet... for some reason, the Corehounds shake the ground when they walk... but the T-Rexes don't (and they're easily twice as big)... Ah well... to each their own, I suppose... As always, an awesome podcast guys... Blade
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