Links:

• What happened to the boat.

Pizza? Is it real?

Links:

• Appetizing assorted pizza with meat products and vegetables · Free Stock Photo — Photo by Natasha Filippovskaya from Pexels
• Google Maps — This is a pizza manufacturer. It is not a pizza restaurant. The pizza is excellent, but you have to buy it at a grocery store.
• DeRango The Pizza King Racine West - Google Maps — Pizza Day? Go TO THE PIZZA KING
• Pizza Shuttle | Home — "Best time has been coming into Pizza Shuttle with our kids, our friends, and their kids. I like that Pizza Shuttle has a diverse customer base. It seems to bring people together, creates peace and camaraderie."

IT'S SUPPERTIME.
YEAH IT'S SUPPERTIME.
OH, IT'S SUP-SUP- SUPPERTIME,
VERY BEST TIME OF DAY.

Links:

• "Suppertime" from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" - YouTube
• Indian Curry Heat Scale | Dentons Local Experts — The table below covers the heat scale for the most popular Indian curries that you will find in a standard British curry house.  We love a curry at Dentons and our Indian curry hotness guide shows curries in order or hotness starting with a mild korma curry at the bottom to the vindaloo at the top of the scale.
• Photos: 'Sausage Summit' with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl in Milwaukee — 'Sausage Summit' with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl in Milwaukee
• Conveyor belt sushi - Wikipedia — Kaiten-zushi is a sushi restaurant where the plates with the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt or moat that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table, counter and seat.
• Happy Days Season 4 Closing Credits - YouTube — Arthur Silver, the story editor listed on the credits, was the original supervising producer of Full House, having held the post during a good portion of its inaugural season.
• Miss Katie's Diner - Home — Featuring breakfast, lunch, and dinner along with a full cocktail lounge. We have been told we have the best-corned beef hash and Italian sausage for breakfast. At lunch our soup, daily specials, and sandwiches are very popular. At dinner, the nightly special, meatloaf and turkey blue plate dinners, are the most popular. We also have steaks, chops and Italian specialties on the dinner menu. Our chocolate, vanilla and strawberry malts and shakes are homemade and the best in Milwaukee.
• The Famous "Bamboo Chicken" of Belize — Belizeans are known for having a colorful sense of humor which is why the local nickname for the green iguana is “bamboo chicken”.

Recorded Mid March, 2021.

Links:

• Mereological nihilism - Wikipedia — mereological nihilism says that mereological simples, or objects without any proper parts, are the only material objects that exist
• Introduction to M-theory - Wikipedia — In non-technical terms, M-theory presents an idea about the basic substance of the universe.
• Reconcilable Differences #40: Slippery Slope to Dr. Manhattan - Relay FM — The main topic this week is Free Will. While Merlin has concerns about bong talk and living in a fingernail, John quickly gets things refocused on people's garden-variety defenses of free will and where they probably come from.
• 3 drunk drivers crash into each other in Wisconsin — The Yukon’s driver was eventually located at an area hospital and charged with suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
• (20) WI State Patrol on Twitter: "Recently, a trooper in the North Central Region stopped this pickup truck for an equipment violation. On his approach, the trooper noticed the vehicle was not equipped with seats and the driver was seated in a camping chair. #YouDontSeeThatEveryday https://t.co/SLTeVTclgQ https://t.co/XzIbMlr6UY" / Twitter
• 19 Notable Figures Who Left Architecture to Follow Other Career Paths | ArchDaily — Born Alfred Matthew Yankovic, the parody artist studied at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, graduating with a degree in architecture. Yankovic's career took a sharp turn away from architecture shortly after completion of his degree, beginning a multi-decades long career in music and record production.
• Top 10 Difficult Decisions You'll Make in Life (and How to Make Them) — Life is full of big moments and big decisions. But fret not, from deciding where to live to finding your true calling, here's some advice to help you along the way.
• Opening Shots: 'Yojimbo' | Scanners | Roger Ebert — It's not about heroic samurai warriors and it's not an epic historical drama. It's about desperate times and desperate people who are without higher goals or ideals, they lack direction and like the stick they are thrown to the winds.
• The Stick (The Bodyguard) - YouTube — Yojimbo - where to go? Opening scene with "The Stick". This one does not speaks to empty chairs!
• Moby 'We Are All Made of Stars' - Official video - YouTube — I have legit been looking for this song for maybe about 10 years tops! After seeing this music video for the first time, with my own eyes, on MTV in, the year 2006, I have been searching for it ever since.
• DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) - Slow Ride - YouTube — Dazed and Confused (dir: Richard Linklater). Song(s): Slow Ride by Foghat - Low Rider by War
• Suppertime (song) | Peanuts Wiki | Fandom — Oh, it's sup-sup suppertime very best time of day. It's suppertime. Yeah, it's sup-per time. And when suppertime comes can supper be far away?
• Indian Curry Heat Scale | Dentons Local Experts — The table below covers the heat scale for the most popular Indian curries that you will find in a standard British curry house.  We love a curry at Dentons and our Indian curry hotness guide shows curries in order or hotness starting with a mild korma curry at the bottom to the vindaloo at the top of the scale.

Topics include:

• Math
• Ancient Sumeria
• Nick's Laws of Air-Flight
• Dad Law
• The history of television justice

Links:

• Barney Miller - Wikipedia
• Code of Ur-Nammu - Wikipedia
• Commutative, Associative and Distributive Laws — Not only do I debate that these are laws, but I also debate the primary supposition, which is that math is fun.
• monty python-witch scene - YouTube
• Mocha Cottage Cheese Recipe | SparkRecipes — Make this before work and take it with you--it will keep you away from those vending machines after lun

We're talking coffee. it's coffee talk. Talk coffee with us. From the Caffeefee of presidential mysteries of the past to the highly controversial mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, this is hot coffee. Be careful, the contents inside this cup are hot.

The Best part of waking up.
It's coffee talk.

Links:

• JSTOR Home — Search journals, primary sources, and books on JSTOR
• Coffee consumption and health on JSTOR — Umbrella review of the evidence across meta-analyses of observational and interventional studies of coffee consumption and any health outcome.
• Coffee Drinking: An Emerging Social Problem? on JSTOR — Is coffee bad for your health? This question has been at the center of a growing controversy in the United States which threatens to transform the widespread use of coffee into a social problem.
• Country Kitchen Restaurants | Serving Healthy Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner Every Day — For over 80 years, Country Kitchen has been a place where guests feel like they’re coming home.
• (1) Social Distortion - Born to Lose - YouTube
• Trump attorney rips off mic after questioning from CBSN anchor - CBS News — The Senate voted Saturday to acquit former President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. Following the vote, defense attorney Michael van der Veen joined CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the trial in a sometimes contentious interview.
• Amazon.com: Subscribe & Save | Save on Everyday Essentials — Save up to 15% and enjoy FREE shipping on thousands of products. Easily manage your subscriptions
• The curious, environmental case of the Keurig K-Cups (or what to do with them) – San Gabriel Valley Tribune — While single-serve coffee makers quickly deliver an energy boost, they are a pox on our environment.
• Coffee Talk (Saturday Night Live) - Wikipedia — "Coffee Talk" is a series of sketches performed by Mike Myers on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. It ran from October 12, 1991, until October 15, 1994, although Myers (who had since left the show) reprised the role once more on March 22, 1997.
• The History of Coffee — The story goes that that Kaldi discovered coffee after he noticed that after eating the berries from a certain tree, his goats became so energetic that they did not want to sleep at night. 
• Coffee in Barbados ☕ History and Coffee Recipe • Bunaa — As I said, there is not really a coffee drinking culture in Barbados.

Today, each of us will take our own unique look at these children’s games which occupy a massive place in our national and truly worldwide conversation. Maybe too large a place. So grab your glove, put on your helmet and let us diagram today’s play … a discussion, or actually three discussions, of sports.

Links:

• Blaseball — Blaseball is baseball at your mercy. Baseball perfected. Our players are inhuman. They play day and night. Rain or shine. They never grow sick. They never tire.
• Blaseball fans are taking their wild campaigns into union organizing - Polygon
• The real MVPs of Blaseball are the fans - Polygon
• Revisionist History Podcast — A Good Walk Spoiled
• Virtua Tennis - Wikipedia — Virtua Tennis (Power Smash in Japan) is a series of tennis simulation video games started in 1999 by Sega AM3. The player competes through tennis tournaments and various arcade modes. Originally released to arcades, for the home console market the game was expanded with the introduction of the campaign mode. The latest games in the series are available on all major consoles, starting with Virtua Tennis 3.
• Mario Golf: Advance Tour - Wikipedia — Mario Golf: Advance Tour[a] is a role-playing video game-styled sports game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2004.
• Cricket Rules - Cricket Rules — Welcome to the greatest game of all – Cricket. This site will help explain to an absolute beginner some of the basic rules of cricket
• The Last Dance | Netflix — This docuseries chronicles the rise of superstar Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls, with unaired footage from an unforgettable 1997-98 season.
• (17) Mikael Thalen on Twitter: "A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter https://t.co/vChc14mjM1" / Twitter

Recorded on Feb. 2, 2021.

Links:

• City Signage Permit — The size, height, and location of signs are governed by the Milwaukee zoning ordinance and the Milwaukee building code
• Rambo - It's Over Johnny - YouTube — Rambo Classic Line
• Ouroboros - Wikipedia — The ouroboros or uroboros (/ˌ(j)ʊərəˈbɒrəs/, also UK: /uːˈrɒbərɒs/,[2][3] US: /-oʊs/) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon[4] eating its own tail
• 6 Inexpensive Essentials for Reading in the Bath — However, bathing with paper brings obvious challenges, and as a veteran aquatic reader, I am here to list hacks — some I use, and some that aren’t mine – for reading in the bath while saving your books, because there are also some big joys of reading in the bath.
• Refresh Icons - — Arrows eating their own tail.
• How To Run a Meeting — A great many important matters are quite satisfactorily conducted by a single individual who consults nobody
• What is the Refresh Rate? 60Hz vs 120Hz - RTINGS.com — The refresh rate is a measure of how many times per second the TV redraws the image on the screen.

• Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Wikipedia
• So THAT Happened: Dan Aykroyd Got A Blowjob From A Ghost In ‘Ghostbusters’ | Decider — I have some bad news for you. Ghostbusters has at least one major flaw — that cringe-worthy ghost blowjob scene.
• Firehouse Headquarters 75827 | Ghostbusters™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US — cludes 9 minifigures: Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, Library Ghost and a Zombie Driver.
• Themes | Official LEGO® Shop US — Develop children’s creativity with LEGO® Classic. Sets contain ideas to help them get started, while special pieces alongside classic LEGO bricks inspire even further. And because LEGO Classic spans so many different age groups, there’s fun for all the family and imagination for every generation.
• Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil - Scientific American — The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting, but by a private investor and a good idea

Links:

• Want to look smart? Try a credibility bookshelf — Toss out your pantsuits, put aside your Ph.D.’s: In quarantine, the surest way to command expertise is to plop yourself in front of a bookshelf.
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However, we pay for this service so we figure we'd better use it. Also, we love our listeners. Season 2 of "It Will Probably Be Ok" is coming soon, but until then, I want you to enjoy this outtake from S01E11 A moral decision. It's got spoilers for the end of "Avengers: Endgame" but like, so did the 2020 Elections. **¯_(ツ)_/¯*

Links:

• That's NOT How Time Travel works! || Endgame YTP - YouTube — "I don't know why everyone thinks that, but it's wrong."
• West Coast Avengers - Wikipedia — The team is founded by the Avenger Hawkeye in response to a suggestion by fellow Avenger, the Vision, who at the time (as team chairman) wished to expand the Avengers' influence.
• "No,I don't think I will." - Avengers:Endgame Movie Clip HD - YouTube — "No,I don't think I will."
• Spider-Man: New York's Hero (Fan Film) - YouTube
• Worst Things Tony Stark Has Done In The MCU | ScreenRant — Iron Man may be the central figure of the MCU, but Tony Stark has done some pretty awful things over the course of his many movie appearances.

There were problems.

1. There was no way to know how this one would age, but we knew it would age quickly.
2. There was no way to know how we would feel about it later, but we knew we would feel differently.
3. There was no way to know that Gabe's track would be recorded by the onboard microphone in the world's cheapest webcam and therefore, make the discussion section completely unlistenable.

Portions of Gabe's side of the conversation section of this episode were re-performed in order to make them listenable.

It's an unusal episode, but at least it's short.

Links:

• Anderson Cooper's 'Obese Turtle' Viral Anti-Trump Rant Watched Over 10 Million Times
• (8) #trumpmeltown - Twitter Search / Twitter
• Roll of American dollar banknotes tightened with band · Free Stock Photo
• Thursday Morning: The president versus democracy — This is a dark and dangerous moment for American democracy.

Heads up: I know swearing is not unusual for this show. But this one seems to have an extraordinary amount of swears. Just FYI. Lots of appropriately wielded grown-up language in this episode.*

In this episode of It Will Probably Be OK, we put aside our lingering anxiety about that darn pandy and spend some quality time instead worrying about police brutality, white supremacy, and what you should do when someone orders you to go home. Let’s talk about Curfews. Do they Work? Are they simply an escalation of the police state? And what impact do they have on crime reduction?

Mini Topics

• Nick observes that in a 20-year-long mirror, the tradition of wearing a date’s underwear on the outside of their suit coat seems surprisingly weird.
• Nkenge wants to talk about egg nog -- specifically how well egg nog holds it’s liquor.

From there, we forget to come home before dark. And oh, boy. It does get dark.

Links:

• Man in Black White and Red Stripe Polo Shirt Standing Beside Woman in Black Dress · Free Stock Photo
• Grayscale Photo of Crime Scene Do Not Cross Tape · Free Stock Photo
• Alvin Cole's family's reaction to the Mensah decision - YouTube
• Brutality by Design: Wauwatosa shows that curfew policy is intended to terrorize civilian population | The Milwaukee Independent
• COVID-19 causes ‘chronic’ cognitive deficits equivalent to brain aging 10 years — Coronavirus can significantly impact brain function, causing mental decline equivalent to the brain aging 10 years, according to an alarming new study.
• Why Juvenile Curfews Don’t Work | The Marshall Project — How a ‘90s panic spawned an anti-crime measure that doesn’t make you safer.
• Arrest Of Alvin Cole Mother Reportedly Caught On Video In Tosa | Wauwatosa, WI Patch — "I can't breathe," Tracy Cole was reportedly caught on camera saying during arrest.
• Alvin Cole's mother and sisters arrested after more protests over teen's killing by police, attorney says - CNN — Tracy Cole, Taleavia Cole, Tayudah Cole and Tristiana Cole were taken into custody in Wauwatosa, just west of Milwaukee, attorney Kimberly Motley told CNN.
• Curfews “Definitely Work”—If We Define “Work” as Increasing the Possibilities for Police Violence – Mother Jones — Curfews “Definitely Work”—If We Define “Work” as Increasing the Possibilities for Police Violence
• Roll of American dollar banknotes tightened with band · Free Stock Photo

With the pandemic rearing and the US teetering on fascism, how has that changed how you seek to entertain yourselves? What are you doing now that you weren't doing before the pandy? What were you doing before the pandy that you can no longer stomach now? This is somehow more than a recommendation show. It's also a reckoning of the things that no longer bring us joy with the things we're not ready to throw out. Eat Shit, Marie Kondo.

Join three friends as they make recommendations for books, music, film, television, social media, hobbies that can help our listeners make a great escape from real life.

Links:

• nonplussed - Google Search — 1. (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react. "he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea"
• Earth's Skies Are Violet, We Just See Them As Blue — Why is the sky blue? It's a common question asked by children, and the simple answer is that blue light is scattered by our atmosphere more than red light, hence the blue sky. That's basically true, but then why don't we see a violet sky?
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives | Food Network — Friday's not the night for me for TV
• Overdub: Ultra realistic text to speech voice cloning - Descript — Overdub lets you create a text to speech model of your voice.
• Disrupting ‘The Great Gatsby’ | — The Great Gatsby is a widely taught text. For what reasons might teachers and schools include this text in their curriculum? What is the value in teaching this text? Do you have to teach this—why?
• The Silmarillion - Wikipedia — The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilliɔn]) is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977
• The Stand - Wikipedia — The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday.
• Life Kit : NPR
• Accidental Tech Podcast — Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
• Heavyweight | Gimlet
• Data asks Worf to take care of Spot - YouTube
• Unjustly Maligned | "Star Trek: Enterprise" with Pete Mele (Episode 79) — The spirit of Star Trek has seen the franchise reinvented, revisited, and even rebooted, for more than 50 years — but of all its incarnations, perhaps none is so maligned as “Enterprise”. Pete Mele joins Antony to defend Captain Archer from threats on all sides.
• Here Comes Garfield - Wikipedia — Here Comes Garfield is a 1982 animated television special based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. It was the first half-hour Garfield TV special.
• The Format - Wikipedia — Their style can be considered a mixture of indie, alternative, punk and folk music, with elements of 1960s and 1970s pop music.
• In the Court of the Crimson King - Wikipedia — In the Court of the Crimson King (subtitled An Observation by King Crimson) is the debut studio album by English rock band King Crimson, released on 10 October 1969 by Island Records.
• Jesus Christ Superstar — Daemon Records — THE JCS PROJECT WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED IN THE VIVID IMAGINATION OF ATLANTA BAND, BIG FISH ENSEMBLE’S MICHAEL LORANT. WHAT STARTED AS AN IDLE CONVERSATION EVENTUALLY SNOWBALLED INTO A FULL–BLOWN AND RATHER ELABORATE RECORDING PROJECT.
• PEN15 - Wikipedia — PEN15 is an American cringe comedy streaming television series, created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zviblema
• Woman in Red and Black Dress Standing on Green Grass Field · Free Stock Photo
• How to correctly wear a face mask to stop coronavirus spread | wusa9.com — The CDC has recommended people wear masks when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain, but a mask can be less effective if not worn properly.
• Man in Black White and Red Stripe Polo Shirt Standing Beside Woman in Black Dress · Free Stock Photo

Right now, it seems hard to believe, but someday, this pandemic will end. What does a post-pandemic world look like? On this episode of It Will Probably Be OK, we take a look at four aspects of society, and we are going to forecast how things might change in these areas after the pandemic is over, whenever that may be.

But before we jump in, we must acknowledge that health experts say we are in for a very dark winter. Here in Wisconsin, we are currently the national epicenter of Covid-19. We are seeing record case numbers on an almost daily basis and will soon see the opening of a large field hospital on our state fairgrounds. While today, we think about the world post-pandemic, we are not there yet. Wash your hands, keep a safe distance, and avoid unnecessary outings.

Links:

• Queen's College, Barbados — As an effective school, we aim for excellence and accept nothing less than excellence.
• Daniel | Daniel K | Free Listening on SoundCloud — Daniel K Australia
• Wisconsin coronavirus: State sets up field hospital for Covid-19 patients as surge overwhelms hospitals - CNN — Wisconsin is opening a field hospital at the state fair park in response to an alarming surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations that is overwhelming hospitals, Gov. Tony Evers announced.
• Where Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Headed? - The New York Times — Donald, you recently sent me an email that pretty much stopped me in my tracks. Because in it, you said that you were optimistic about the course of the pandemic. And that is not a word that I associate with either you or the pandemic. And it immediately made me think that we needed to talk.
• 10-10-220 Dennis Miller "Popcorn" - YouTube — TV :30 Client: MCI Agency: MVBMS/NY Video remains the property of Telecom*USA, All Rights Reserved.
• Insane Clown Posse - Miracles (Official Music Video) - YouTube — Insane Clown Posse's music video "Miracles" from their smash album 'Bang Pow Boom'.
• Quad City DJ's - C'Mon 'N Ride It (The Train) - YouTube — Let's throw it back to 1996, the year Quad City DJ's dropped C'Mon N' Ride It, the same year the first ever Game of Thrones was published, and Dolly the cloned sheep was born.
• Fugue state - Wikipedia — Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a dissociative disorder[1] and a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality.
• Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia — Unlike earlier games, Pokémon Gold and Silver take place in the Johto region, west of the region that the original games take place in, Kanto. However, Kanto can be traveled to later in the games.
• Panda Bear on Green Grass · Free Stock Photo — Photo by Laura Woodbury from Pexels
• Hand holding a glass ball · Free Stock Photo

Mini-Topics:
Nkenge: LinkedIn somehow gets the blame for a shady marketer's hamfisted attempt to put her in their downstream.
Gabe: It's been 60 days of quarantein. (We were not kidding about this being recoded in May.)

Links:

• "Serial" (Main Theme) - Bad Dream - YouTube
• Find the Best Scented Wax & Warmers. Home & Body Products | Shop Scentsy — This is Gabe's Scentsy Lady.
• Amway United States | Start Your Own Business | Become an Amway IBO | Amway United States — †This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
• S1 E1: Wanna Swim in Cash? · The Dream — There’s nothing as intoxicating as piles of money, unless the Feds are watching you count it.
• Multilevel Marketing (MLM) Definition — Multilevel marketing (MLM) is a strategy some direct sales companies use to encourage existing distributors to recruit new distributors who are paid a percentage of their recruits' sales.
• Close-up of Human Hand · Free Stock Photo — Photo by Pixabay from Pexels

Is it Throwback Thursday already? No! This is one of those episodes that fancy podcasters record and put them in a bank for when things get wacky. Oh, in case you haven't been paying attention to the news, things are getting real wacky here in our home state of Wisconsin.

So here's an evergreen episode, as evergreen as we're capable of making, anyway. Join us as we consider Cheesy Action Movies and why they make us feel so good.

Links:

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Invalidates ‘Safer at Home’ Order — On May 13, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued its decision in Wisconsin Legislature v. Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, et al. and declared the state’s Safer at Home Order unlawful, invalid, and unenforceable, creating a rush by local jurisdictions to issue orders to prevent the spread of COVID-19, resulting in uncertainty for businesses as to how to operate.
• Humans are the real monsters — So the Speculative Fiction protagonist is fighting one or more nonhuman entities, and is one of the major forces of his kind. Battling onward, the hero is hit with true horror: the villains aren't fighting their equals or lessers, but their own monsters, who see the hero hat through a history of violent characteristics and nefarious motivations.
• The babysitter and the man upstairs - Wikipedia — They explain that the calls were coming from inside the house, and that the unidentified prowler was calling her after killing the children upstairs.[
• IGN's Top 25 Cheesy Action Movies - IGN — Cheesy action movies stand apart from regular action films; cheeseball action movies revel in their ridiculous plots, corny one-liners, and absurd stunt sequences.
• Bloodsport (film) - Wikipedia — Bloodsport is a 1988 American martial arts action film directed by Newt Arnold. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, and Bolo Yeung.
• Double Impact - Wikipedia — Double Impact is a 1991 American action film written and directed by Sheldon Lettich, and written, produced by and starring Jean-Claude van Damme in a dual role as Chad and Alex Wagner.
• Beverly Hills Cop - Wikipedia — Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American action comedy-drama film directed by Martin Brest, written by Daniel Petrie Jr. and starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who visits Beverly Hills, California to solve the murder of his best friend.
• Hudson Hawk - Wikipedia — The film was a huge critical and commercial failure in the United States, only grossing $17 million and earning three Razzies (including Worst Picture), but overseas it was better received and grossed $80 million for a worldwide total of $97 million.
• Home - Chuck Norris — Chuck Norris's webpage beat up your webpage.
• Tango & Cash - Wikipedia — Tango & Cash is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance and Teri Hatcher. Stallone and Russell star as Raymond Tango and Gabriel Cash respectively, two rival LAPD narcotics detectives, who are forced to work together after the criminal mastermind Yves Perret (Palance) frames both of them for murder.
• The Filthy Guy — Sammo Hung is a poor village orphan called 'Filthy Guy' for his unwashed / diseased head whose ambitious landlord's son becomes king and wants to kill him
• Wu Tang Collection : SAMO HUNG in RETURN OF SECRET RIVALS - YouTube — Samo Hung is a poor village orphan called 'Filthy Guy' for his unwashed / diseased head whose ambitious landlord's son becomes king and wants to kill him as a prophecy predicts Samo Hung will replace him. Eventually Samo Hung becomes the first Ming Emperor.
• Baahubali 2 - The Conclusion | Official Trailer (Hindi) | S.S. Rajamouli | Prabhas | Rana Daggubati - YouTube — The most awaited trailer of the year is finally here. After years of wait, the second instalment to the Baahubali series is ready to hit the theatres. It's bigger, better & grander.
• Charles Bronson - Movies, Family & Death - Biography — American film Charles Bronson was best known for playing tough-guy, vigilante roles in films like 'The Magnificent Seven' and 'Death Wish.'
• Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (1984) Beverly Hills Cop - Soundtrack - YouTube — Song Axel F Artist Harold Faltermeyer
• Cheese and Wine on Brown Wooden Chopping Board · Free Stock Photo — Photo by Nastasya Day from Pexels

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Minitopics.

Nick tells us about the best ice cream he's ever eaten.
Nkenge dislikes that "new construction" smell.
Gabe plugs "You Are Not So Smart," the podcast, not the lifestyle-choice.

Recorded Sept. 20, 2020

All referenced recordings are copyright their respective artists and labels. And there are better recordings that these anyway.

Links:

• Pop Will Eat Itself - Moral Majority & Mad Bastards - YouTube — From the band's 1990 album 'Cure For Sanity', the opening tracks 01 The Incredible P.W.E.I. Vs. The Moral Majority 02 Dance Of The Mad Bastards
• BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ( Complete Original Video ) - YouTube — John Flansburgh and John Linnell are They Might Be Giants
• 189 - The Vaccine - You Are Not So Smart - Omny.fm — In this giant episode, experts on vaccines, epidemiology, psychology, and science communication explain how we created so much confusion about COVID-19, and how we can avoid doing it again when a vaccine is ready for widespread, public distribution.
• Homemade Cereal Milk Ice Cream - Lovely Little Kitchen — If you are like me and have never been to New York to visit her famous Milk Bar Bakery, you might not know that Cereal Milk Ice Cream is a thing!  And what a beautiful thing it is!
• Election Week Cold Open - SNL - YouTube — It's almost four years later, RBG just passed tonight and this is the moment I keep thinking about. "I'm not giving up and neither should you." Amen.
• The Famous Polka - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base — When played at a 1992 show in Milwaukee, WI, the venue's stage collapsed after about 75 people started dancing on it. Right before the song, Flans told the audience, "We would like to ask you for this one brief moment to disregard the fire laws. Feel free to just... come on up, and help us out with the Famous... Polka."
• Shows/1992-10-05 - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base — Flans said something along the lines of 'we didn't mean for anyone to come up on stage!' and he let everyone know that the show was continuing in a few minutes. The rest of the band eventually came out and after they started to play for a little while, the lights dimmed back down.
• Bob Marley Trench Town Rock - YouTube — One good thing about music, when it hits you fell no pain
• Don't Call it a Comeback - YouTube — Mama Said Knock You Out
• The Hold Steady- "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" - YouTube — The Hold Steady Your Little Hoodrat Friend French Kiss Records
• Music on The O.C. - Wikipedia — The use of music on FOX drama The O.C. gained much acclaim.
• Sigur Rós at Abbey Road Recording Ara Batur - YouTube — Sigur Rós on the last stretch of recording hop into Abbey Road studios to record to record Ara Batur with a 67-piece orchestra and the boys choir from the Harry Potter soundtracks.

In the space of the next sixty-ish days, Americans with voting rights will get to decide who will be our president for the next four years. Does your vote cary a moral weight? Is it fair to hold those who would vote for one thing accountable for all the other things that the candidate they voted for does? Are feelings real?

Is casting your vote a moral decision or an amoral decision?

Mini-Topics:
Nkenge: Waiting for the worms to come, the spice must flow.
Gabe: (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Links:

• (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Unicode Flipping-tables Looks
• ೯ಠಎ Unicode Angry Looks — (｡+･`ω･´)
• Doctor Who - Series 10 Unreleased Music Soundtrack - YouTube — A compilation of the best tracks from series 10 ! Hope this will get release one day...
• The Singing Towers · Murray Gold
• Dune (novel) - Wikipedia — Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award in 1966,[2] and it won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel.[3]
• walk without rhythm - Google Search — Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm
• Dune (2020 film) - Wikipedia — Dune is an upcoming epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth.

Wait, wait, wait... Positivity can be toxic? What in the seven secret herbs and spices does that mean? Join our panel of genius, buffoon, and storyteller as they unravel the ideas that drive the positivity that poisons.

Also: Mini Topics

• Nick enjoys McDonald's breakfast. So do half of his children. Maybe.
• Nkenge cannot unsubscribe from audible. Literally.

Links:

• Google just made it easier to get around a paywall with Chrome — Even Google admits that Incognito Mode is “one of the several tactics people use to manage their cookies and thereby ‘reset’ the meter count,” allowing them to keep reading an infinite number of articles for free that they’re supposed to be paying for.
• Toxic positivity is 'counterproductive and harmful' to mental health, experts say - The Washington Post — “While cultivating a positive mind-set is a powerful coping mechanism, toxic positivity stems from the idea that the best or only way to cope with a bad situation is to put a positive spin on it and not dwell on the negative,” said Natalie Dattilo, a clinical health psychologist with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
• Brené Brown on Empathy vs. Sympathy | Psychology Today — Despite your best intentions, you may be suffering from a lack of empathy. The following cartoon short from University of Houston researcher and Daring Greatly (2012) author Brené Brown's RSA talk in 2013 explains the difference:
• 'Toxic Positivity' Is Real — and It's a Problem During the Pandemic — “Toxic positivity is the assumption, either by one’s self or others, that despite a person’s emotional pain or difficult situation, they should only have a positive mindset or — my pet peeve term — ‘positive vibes,’” explains Dr. Jaime Zuckerman, a clinical psychologist in Pennsylvania who specializes in, among other things, anxiety disorders and self-esteem.
• God will never give you more than you can handle — ‘God will never give you more than you can handle’
• Amazon.com Help: Cancel Your Membership — When you sign up for Audible, your membership is set to automatically renew at the end of your chosen membership period. You can cancel your membership at any time, including during your free-trial period.
• Hotcakes with Real Butter | McDonald's — 590 Cal. Three golden brown, melt-in-your-mouth hotcakes with a side of real butter and the sweet flavor of maple.

Just after Memorial Day, we were watching people all over the world standing up in response to the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department by declaring, once again, for everyone to hear: Black. Lives. Matter.

We didn't know if we could do a show on that topic. We didn't know if we could have a conversation about something so incredibly fraught with potential to alienate, hurt, and put a potential wedge between the genouis, the storyteller and the baffoon whose conversations drive this podcast.

So we agreed, to just talk. Record some thoughts.

And then, as people started to forget, and the protests, although they continued, were loosing media coverage and helping all the streights to forget that the United States is awash in systemic white supremicy and racist policies, a kenosha police officer fired seven shots into the back of Jacob Blake.

And so we thought it would make sense to release our formative thoughts on the topic, recorded back when we were a baby podcast, just getting our feet wet and trying to feel our way out.

Things changed since this recording. If you care to know, Gabe's back at school with students starting Sept. 3.

Recorded on 08/18/2020

A storyteller, a genius, and a buffoon consider the one thing everybody who has ever lived or will ever live will face one day: Death

Nkenge organizes a frank and thoughtful discussion on the nature of grief, grieving, and death. Gabe and Nick talk about their experiences with grief and loss; there is a surprising amount of levity for such a topic. Don't skip this one, folks. It's magic.

Mini-Topics:

• Nick: Which email Nick gives you says a lot about your relationship with him.
• Gabe: Jefferson County is full of Rat Lickers.
• Nkenge: What to do then about the scourge of spam texts? What do they want from us?

Links:

• COVID-19 Dashboard
• COVID-19 Testing: Understanding the “Percent Positive” - COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — The percent positive is exactly what it sounds like: the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that are actually positive, or: (positive tests)/(total tests) x 100%. The percent positive (sometimes called the “percent positive rate” or “positivity rate”) helps public health officials answer questions such as:
• Coping with Grief: The Ball & The Box — Imagine your life is a box and the grief you feel is a ball inside of the box. Also inside the box is a pain button:
• John Lennon - God (Rare version) [Lyrics] - YouTube — I found it on some bootlegs.
• Minecraft Java Edition | Minecraft — The original version of Minecraft! Java Edition has cross-platform play between Windows, Linux and macOS, and also supports user-created skins and mods. Includes a decade’s worth of updates, with much more to come!
• Lucky Number Slevin - Wikipedia — Lucky Number Slevin (released as The Wrong Man in Australia) is a 2006 crime thriller film directed by Paul McGuigan, written by Jason Smilovic, and starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, and Ben Kingsley
• Grief Symptoms: Get Facts on the Seven Stages of Grief — The seven emotional stages of grief are usually understood to be shock or disbelief, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger, depression, and acceptance/hope. Symptoms of grief can be emotional, physical, social, or religious in nature.
• Kayleigh McEnany is the camera-perfect embodiment of Trump’s message: Everything is fine - The Washington Post — https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/08/14/kayleigh-mcenany-fashion-dress-press-secretary-white-house/

Trigger warning: his episode of “It Will Probably Be OK” contains the expression of ideas that are contrary to the recommendations of the American Dental Association.

Today, on It Will Probably Be OK, We consider social media … the good, the bad, and the ugly. Nick has been hating on Social Media since Nkenge was sneaking into chatrooms back in the day, and Gabe plays his Old Man Card (tm) quickly and new and inscrutable ways. Finally, we take a look at all the ways your favorite new media has become the same old old media, and why we still play in Facebook's walled garden.

But first:** Mini Topics**

• Nkenge experiences a jacked jack.
• Gabe explains how Loud Pipes fight cavities.

Links:

• How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era - Rolling Stone
• The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump by Rob Sears — What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry.
• The Circle by Dave Eggers — When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility
• Humanity Forward — WE ARE BUILDING THE MOVEMENT TO REWRITE THE RULES TO WORK FOR US, THE PEOPLE. IT'S TIME FOR A HUMAN-CENTERED AMERICA.
• Heygabe - YPPedia — HeyGabe remains with the Radical Dreamers, the first crew he ever joined. He washed up on the shores of Winter Solstice on the Midnight Ocean. He eventually took over as the Radical Dreamers' fifth captain. He plays a largely manegerial role in this position, attempting to establish the Radical Dreamers as a friendly crew that honors its long history with the Midnight Ocean and avoids unnessessary drama.
• Gabe Wollenburg on Untappd
• LiveJournal: Discover global communities of friends who share your unique passions and interests. — LiveJournal is a unique place where people share their life stories, give advice and exchange ideas
• Would you like to sign in? — Serving AAA Members and residents of Wisconsin.
• 84 arrests, 226 citations and 18 crashes reported in 24 hours at massive motorcycle rally in South Dakota - CBS News — South Dakota authorities on Sunday reported the first haul of crashes, arrests and citations from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the western part of the state. The annual rally started on Friday, drawing thousands of maskless riders to the streets and bars of Sturgis.
• Ironton 1-Ton Steel Manual Scissor Jack | Northern Tool — Durable frame is constructed of high-grade steel and built to exacting standards for quality and durability
• Twain | HeyGabe WW | Flickr
• Gabe is drinking a Pipe Welder Porter by The Knuckle Brewing Company on Untappd — Smokey. Best beer here. But even in the off season, Stergis is a shithole.

Mini Topics

• Nick wants you to stop and apreciate the humble O'possom, bald-tailed, snarl-toothed eater of ticks.
• Nkenge needs some help clearing out her inbox. Gabe suggests bankrupsy.
• Gabe sent a letter to the local health department.

Links:

• The Half-life of Facts — The Half-life of Facts is a good read that help puts what we think we understand about the world into perspective.
• Truth Survival in Clinical Research: An Evidence-Based Requiem? | Annals of Internal Medicine — In 2000, 285 of 474 conclusions (60%) were still considered to be true, 91 (19%) were considered to be obsolete, and 98 (21%) were considered to be false. The half-life of truth was 45 years.
• YANSS 099 – The Half Life of Facts – You Are Not So Smart — In medical school, they tell you half of what you are about to learn won’t be true when you graduate — they just don’t know which half. In every field of knowledge, half of what is true today will one day be updated with better information, and it turns out that we actually know when that day will come for many academic pursuits.
• (1) VW Commercial - Jetta - Spare Tire - YouTube — VW Commercial - Jetta - Spare Tire
• Coelacanths | National Geographic — The primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But its discovery in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated the world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe-finned fish fits into the evolution of land animals.
• NOVA | Ancient Creature of the Deep | Moment of Discovery | PBS — Three days before Christmas, 1938, in the South African coastal town of East London, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the young, black-eyed curator of the local natural history museum, got a phone call that would turn her world upside down and ultimately make her name known internationally. The events that followed that call sparked a series of urgent letters between Courtenay-Latimer and J.L.B. Smith, a chemistry professor and amateur ichthyologist at Rhodes University in the nearby town of Grahamstown. The letters chronicle the discovery she made, and he confirmed, of a creature thought extinct for at least 66 million years.
• Empiricism - Wikipedia — In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.[1] It is one of several views of epistemology, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empiricism emphasizes the role of empirical evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than innate ideas or traditions.[2]
• Rethinking Trust — For the past two decades, trust has been touted as the all-powerful lubricant that keeps the economic wheels turning and greases the right connections—all to our collective benefit.
• Declare Email Bankruptcy and Get a Fresh Start — ave you ever felt so overwhelmed by email that you wanted to just delete your email account and start over? If so, you are not alone.
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction: Tetlock, Philip E., Gardner, Dan: 9780804136716: Amazon.com: Books — argues that success is all about the approach: foresight is not a gift but rather a product of a particular way of thinking

Nkenge leads us in a conversation about the the things you wish you'd have known as you made your way into adulthood. And about the idea that Adulthood always seems so far away. What is adulthood anyway? And what does it have to do with work? And why was being a teenager so rad?

Meanwhile:
Nick thinks you should consider the parasitic nature of your relationship with Amazon.
Gabe wants you to know that there is such a thing as a magic racoon that has shapeshifting powers centered in its giant balls
Nkenge is tricked into buying a $9 can of beer, and Gabe and Nick pretend that they've never spent as much, but admit they have, and probably more.

All this, and more.

Links:

• Tanuki - Japanese Trickster & Spook, Originally Evil, Now Icon of Generosity & Prosperity. — The magical shape-shifting Tanuki is clearly a composite creature. The original evil parts come from old China and its fox lore (introduced to Japan between the 4th-7th centuries CE). The newer tamer parts, such as the big belly, belly drumming, giant scrotum, and sake bottle can be traced to late Edo-era Japan (18th-19th centuries), while the commercialized benevolent parts (promissory note, straw hat) emerged in Japanese artwork around the beginning of the 20th century.
• List of The Hardy Boys characters - Wikipedia — Fenton Hardy is a private investigator in the popular Hardy Boys novels. Father of Frank and Joe, Mr. Hardy is married to Laura Hardy, and brother to Aunt Gertrude.
• Encyclopedia Brown — Everyone’s favorite boy detective! 
• Guy Gardner (New Earth) | DC Database | Fandom — Guy Gardner is a top member of the Green Lantern Corps, and the second one to be chosen from Earth.
• (1) Shakespears Sister - Stay With Me - YouTube
• Tanuki the Tipsy Trickster: Why a Well-Endowed Raccoon Dog Is Big in Japan - Atlas Obscura
• Tanooki Suit - Super Mario Wiki, the Mario encyclopedia — First found in World 4-5, the suit transforms Mario or Luigi into Tanooki Mario or Tanooki Luigi, respectively. The suit grants the same abilities as the Super Leaf, with the added ability of turning into a statue when the player holds and presses at the same time.
• Gypsy Outpost - Coconut, Vanilla Beans, Cocoa Nibs and Cinnamon - Humble Forager Brewery - Untappd

In this episode, we dive into the world of work, and all the dumb things we did when we first got there. It's embarrassing job stories from all three hosts all the way down.

Mini Topics

• Nkenge calls shenanigans on Portland Moms, reminding us that Black moms have always been part of the BLM movement.
• Gabe promotes Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" as a prediction and a survival tool for the current political landscape.

Links:

• Download Little Brother For Free | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com — DOWNLOAD LITTLE BROTHER FOR FREE
• Blue Beetle - Wikipedia
• Did Photographs Show a Naked Woman Protesting in Portland? — A naked woman protested on the streets of Portland in July 2020.
• Little Brother (Doctorow novel) - Wikipedia — Little Brother takes place in the "near future rather than decades or centuries away."[19] Little Brother also makes use of "obvious parallels to Orwellian warnings and post 9/11 policies."[20]
• Nickelodeon Universe® | Mall of America® — Nickelodeon Universe®, the nation's largest indoor theme park, is home to seven acres of unique attractions, entertainment and dining options. Meet the Nick characters, experience spine-tingling rides, visit unique retail shops and much more!

What can we learn from Karen? What does she have to teach us? How do we exorcise the Karenonic demon? When is a Karen not a Karen? And why does Karen Karen?

Mini Topics

• Nick is not going to his 20 year high school reunion and he has no other way to find out what his old highschool buddies are doing with their lives!
• Nkenge reminds us that there is no path from student to citizen for immigrants, so making them take college from their home countries is so much pointless bullying.

Show Notes:

• This is a pretty good look at the internet history of the use of the name Karen as an insult: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager
• A clip from “Mean Girls.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXovJSCc6M0
• This is, pretty much the Karen epicenter. https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckYouKaren/
• This is a great article about how artists hate the bourgeoisie. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/25/books/class-lessons-who-s-calling-whom-tacky-petite-charm-bourgeoisie-artists-view.html #### Personality Disorders
• https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml'
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463

Not a Karen

Here be a small smattering of easy to Google stories about Amy Cooper, the racist who famously called the police on a Central Park birdwatcher and then choked her dog.

• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-amy-cooper-on-central-park-incident-301065492.html
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/06/amy-cooper-charged-with-misdemeanor-for-calling-police-on-black-bird-watcher/#1babddfc2828
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/amy-cooper-christian-central-park-video.html

Mini Topics:

• Nick enjoys the television program “Dave” on the FX Network.
• Gabe wants someone to paint his gold house.

Cover art courtesy of Taymazavalley on Flickr, who published this photo on Flickr using a Creative Commons liscence. Cool!

Links:

• Abolish Policing – Critical Resistance — Policing is a social relationship made up of a set of practices that are empowered by the state to enforce law and social control through the use of force.
• Abolish the police: What does it really mean? - Vox — “I’m sorry that the fight for justice and inequality could not be more convenient for political timetables, but it isn’t.”
• Download CR's Abolitionist Tooklit — Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex; edited by the CR10 Publishing Collective, 2008.

Mini Topics:

• Gabe talks about his dog and how very very special he is.
  
• Nkenge tells the story of responding to racists head on.
  

Links:

• BREWS | The Peak