ORly Radio Show 78 - The Nope, The Dope, and the Pope.

ORly Radio Show 78 - The Nope, The Dope, and the Pope.

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 78 for Friday September 25th, 2015 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen with my usual suspect Michael and an unusual suspect Ophelia Falls.

You can find Ophelia here: http://opheliainthedark.tumblr.com/

Michael is over here: http://fathergrigorivonklaussen.tumblr.com/

Errata From Last Week: We make mistakes. Please, if you find one, pause the podcast, and send us a note. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone it in 470-222-6759  Last week I took the day off. If you don’t want me to do that anymore, follow the links to support the show. I sure appreciate all of you listening, but boy, I do get tired.

A shout out to one of our listeners that realized we can get text messages. They said, “This past show was amazing.  The addition of Ophelia was the bee’s knees.  I hope she plans to come back. The three of you together is awesomesauce. I didn't want the show to end. Keep up the great work,  you guys really are great.” And that was the best news of all. Thank you, and to all the listeners and voyers out there. This show is for you.

RANT Segments & Headlines:

-BREAK- GSoW - PSA

The Good:

  1. Pope Francis has been on a whirlwind global tour and has just shaken the USA. Let’s talk about that for a few, because it’s important.

  2. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/24/443081898/the-10-most-political-moments-in-pope-francis-address-to-congress

  3. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150925/PC1002/150929593/1021/pope-teaches-congress-timely-lesson-in-graceful-disagreement

  4. http://www.occupydemocrats.com/pope-francis-to-conservatives-if-im-a-liberal-so-was-jesus-3/

    1. The video of his address (50 minutes) can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/us/pope-francis-congress-speech.html

    2. The Transcript can be found here: http://time.com/4048176/pope-francis-us-visit-congress-transcript/

The Bad:

  1. Pharma meets Wallstreet as a former hedge fund manager buys a rather old medicine patent and jacks the price per pill over 5,000% overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750. What a douche bag.

  2. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/price-gouging-pharma-bro-under-investigation-for-corporate-looting-fraud-and-stalking/

  3. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/ex-hedge-funder-buys-rights-aids-drug-and-raises-price-from-13-50-to-750-per-pill/

  4. http://usuncut.com/news/us-drug-prices-in-the-us-are-literally-insane-when-compared-to-other-nations/

-BREAK- Fallacy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ambiguity

The Ugly:

  1. John Boehner is resigning at the end of October. Why? Tea Party pressure over shutting down the Government again, over defunding Planned Parenthood… Or so it seems.

  2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/25/boehner-resigns/

  3. VIDEO http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/speaker-the-house-john-boehner-resign-next-month

  4. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/25/nyt-john-boehner-to-resign-from-congress/

  5. Mitch McConnell is now being suspected to also abandon the sinking ship. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/25/politics/boehner-mcconnell-jindal-conservative-tea-party/index.html

  6. Bobby Jindal Portrait http://wonkette.com/593143/bobby-jindal-happy-to-call-brown-people-names-if-he-can-be-president

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson http://amzn.to/1NSybTp  

Mike’s:  Elderscrolls Morrowind overhaul http://www.ornitocopter.net/morrowind-overhaul/

Ophelia’s:  Fight Club 2 through Darkhorse Comics https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/27-002/Fight-Club-2-1


Acknowledgements:

Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

PSA: Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia - GSoW https://www.facebook.com/GSoWproject

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Orly Radio Show 42 - 42, the Meaning of Life, or about how many senators believe in climate change.

ORly Radio Show 42 for Friday January 23rd, 2015 - 42, the Meaning of Life, or about how many senators believe in climate change. Science is still true even if you don’t believe in it...

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike, David, and Don!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Why 42 for the meaning of life, the universe and everything?

According to Douglas Adams himself:

What is the most ordinary, workaday number you can find? I don’t want fractions on the end of it. I don’t even want it to be a prime number. And I guess it mustn’t even be an odd number. There is something slightly more reassuring about even numbers. So I just wanted an ordinary, workaday number, and chose 42.

In another interview:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/310/why-did-douglas-adams-pick-42-as-the-ultimate-answer

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: 3 Minutes to midnight.
"The clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty—ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization."
URLs: http://thebulletin.org/clock/2015
Item: The King is Dead - King Abdullah has passed on. Now what?
URLs: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-22/oil-surges-after-saudi-media-reports-king-abdullah-s-death.html
URLs: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/breaking-saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-dead

Item: Senate agrees climate change is real, but not on its cause, in Keystone amendments
"To express the sense of the Senate that climate change is real; and human activity significantly contributes to climate change."
In the end, just 50 senators voted "yes" on this question.* But 49 senators voted "no." The amendment failed to pick up the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster and was rejected.
In conclusion, the Senate is pretty clearly a hoax.
URLs:http://cir.ca/news/keystone-pipelines-status
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7868677/senate-climate-vote

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Israeli PM Netanyahu and Speaker Boehner conspire to make life difficult...|
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7866089/netanyahu-boehner-congress
URLs:  http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/22/obama-meet-netanyahu-trip-washington.html
Item: GOP lawmakers declare ‘all-out assault’ on marriage for same-sex and atheist couples in Oklahoma
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/gop-lawmakers-declare-all-out-assault-on-marriage-for-same-sex-and-atheist-couples-in-oklahoma/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Illinois cop caught dozing in patrol car tells student ‘it’s now illegal’ to record officers (Which it is not…)
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/illinois-cop-caught-dozing-in-patrol-car-tells-student-its-now-illegal-to-record-officers/  
Item: It's over: Why the Palestinians are finally giving up on Obama and the US peace process
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/22/7324107/palestinian-abbas-peace-process

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: House Republican leaders withdrew a controversial anti-abortion bill late Wednesday night after a contentious dispute arose over a rape reporting requirement in the measure.
URLs: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/22/bickering-gop-aborts-anti-abortion-bill-rape-reporting-provision.html 

Oh, Florida...

Item:  Bear hunting may return to Florida - Proposal comes after recent rash of attacks in Orlando area
URLs:  http://www.clickorlando.com/news/bear-hunting-may-return-to-florida/30878646
Item: A Teenage Boy Impersonated A Doctor For A Month In A Florida Hospital    
URLs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/a-teenage-boy-impersonated-a-doctor-for-a-month-in-a-florida
URLs: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/doogie-howser-wannabe-busted-786450

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Douglas Adams. There. I said it.
David’s: http://www.gotenna.com/
Don’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Frequency_Allocations_Chart_2011_-_The_Radio_Spectrum.pdf 
Mike’s: Friends on Netflix

 

ORly Radio Show 12 - Masturbation Waterboarding Boehner

ORly Radio Episode 12 for Friday June 27th, 2014

Hosts: Andy, David, Michael, Don, and Ann!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology

Item 1: Widespread impacts of neonicotinoids 'impossible to deny'
URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27980344
Item1.5 http://www.salon.com/2014/06/26/bee_friendly_plants_sold_at_wal_mart_home_depot_actually_contain_bee_killing_pesticides/

Item 2: New York City, parents do not have the right to send their unvaccinated kids to school if another student has a vaccine-preventable illness, according to a Brooklyn Federal District Court
URL: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/24/5837968/court-ruling-parents-dont-have-the-right-to-send-their-unvaccinated

ITEM 3: Ice sheets may have already passed point of no return
URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229752.600-ice-sheets-may-have-already-passed-point-of-no-return.html

Humanities

Item 1: GUESS WHICH COUNTRY DOES THE MOST GOOD FOR THE PLANET?
URL:  http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/23/guess-which-country-does-the-most-good-for-the-planet/

Item 2: Obama says US should have paid maternity leave
URL:  http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/25841932/obama-says-us-should-have-paid-maternity-leave

Politics

Item 1: Nigeria atheist Bala 'deemed mentally ill in Kano state'
URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28010234

Item 2: Reid, White House warn GOP not to shut down the government (again)
URL: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/reid-white-house-warn-gop-not-shut-down-the-government-again

Item 3: Another brick in the impeachment wall
URL: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/another-brick-the-impeachment-wall

Item 3: John Boehner Says His Plan To Sue Obama Is 'Not About Impeachment'
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/john-boehner-obama-impeach_n_5529923.html
URL2 Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/neil-cavuto-michele-bachmann_n_5531279.html
Audio Response from President Obama.

Potpourri

Item 1: Comedian Bill Cosby's remarks form the basis of a 'We Can't Blame White People' essay.
URL: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/cosby.asp

Item 2: Ebola epidemic in West Africa 'out of control' There have been 567 cases and 350 deaths since the epidemic began in March
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/23/health/ebola-virus-outbreak-west-africa/index.html

Entertainment/Reviews/Picks

Andy: Encyclopedias, OLD encyclopedias
David: Learn something you don’t know how to do. Get an idiots guide. Learn!
Michael: House M.D. 
Don & Ann: The IT Crowd