ORly Radio Show 96 - No Religion Required Returns!

ORly Radio Show 96 - No Religion Required Returns!

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 96 for Friday February 12th, 2016 - 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 Fred Sims, and the hosts of No Religion Required.

Errata:

From Previous Shows: 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

Welcome back, No Religion Required!
http://noreligionrequired.com/ 

RANT Segments & Headlines:

  1. On this Day in History: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

    1. Abraham Lincoln born - 1809

    2. Charles Darwin Born - 1809

    3. Garnet preaches to House on slavery and Civil War - 1865

      1. -The Rev. Dr. Henry Highland Garnet, former slave and first African American to address the US House of Rep

    4. Release of US P.O.W’s from Vietnam begins - 1973

    5. President Clinton acquitted on both articles of impeachment: perjury and obstruction of justice - 1999

    6. GM records record loss, offers to buyout all 74,000 US hourly workers - 2008

  2. http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/08/racist-florida-republicans-attempt-to-ban-abortion-in-order-to-save-white-culture/

  3. Bernie Sanders wins 2095 write in votes in New Hampshire Republican primary  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/11/bernie-sanders-won-2095-votes-in-the-new-hampshire-republican-primary/

  4. Wikipedia may be building search engine afterall http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/wikipedia-may-be-building-a-search-engine-after-all-1

  5. Congress skeptical of increased Saudi commitment to ISIS fight in Syria https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/12/congress-skeptical-of-increased-saudi-commitment-to-isis-fight-in-syria/

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Science Bitches!

  1. NASA wants you to become a 'telenaut' who explores Mars with virtual reality http://www.techinsider.io/nasa-telenauts-vr-2016-2?utm_content=buffer27810&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti

  2. The End of Science as We Know It? http://the-daily.buzz/the-end-of-science/3/ , http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/was-i-wrong-about-8220-the-end-of-science-8221/

  3. Gravity comes in WAVES now? http://www.iflscience.com/space/gravitational-waves-observed-first-time

The Good:

  1. The final occupier of a remote federal property in Oregon surrendered to law enforcement Thursday, ending a nearly six-week standoff that tore apart a rural community, captivated a national audience and left one militant dead. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-standoff-ends-david-fry_us_56bcd753e4b0c3c550506be6
    But they left presents, because of course they did. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/militants-warn-authorities-about-booby-traps-left-behind-at-oregon-reserve/

  2. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/12/want-viagra-not-without-note-wife/80294772/

The Bad:

  1. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/02/11/conservative-pastor-preaches-that-women-should-be-banned-from-voting-and-confined-to-their-home-video/

The Ugly:

  1. http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/08/racist-florida-republicans-attempt-to-ban-abortion-in-order-to-save-white-culture/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Fred’s: http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/v10#capture-the-in-between-moments

ORly Radio Show 95 - How US Elections Wonk PT2 News, Delegates & Primaries

ORly Radio Show 95 - How US Elections Wonk PT2 News, Delegates & Primaries

Due to issues with the live stream and handling them in the middle of the show, you can skip to the second intro to the show at 7 minutes and 8 seconds. Or listen to us flounder through the woes of live production. Your choice!

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 95 for Friday February 5th, 2016 - 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 David O’Connor, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Ren Cowen.

Errata:

From Previous Shows: 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

RANT Segments & Headlines:

  1. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/jailed-oregon-militants-have-extensive-criminal-histories-many-arent-even-allowed-to-carry-guns/

  2. http://www.clickorlando.com/education/florida-house-passes-bill-to-allow-guns-on-college-campuses

  3. On this Day in History:

    1. The Southern Pacific Railroad completes its transcontinental “Sunset Route” from New Orleans to California - 1883

    2. Immigration Act passed by 2/3rds vote despite President Woodrow Wilson’s veto - 1917

    3. United Artists Created by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford - 1919

    4. Hitler urges Mussolini to fight harder in face of British press into Libya -1941

    5. General Manuel Noriega indicted on U.S. drug charges - 1988

  4. Twitter Ups efforts to thwart terrorist tweets: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/technology/twitter-account-suspensions-terrorism.html

  5. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/03/465404486/army-marine-corps-generals-say-women-should-have-to-register-for-the-draft

  6. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/us-make-rape-legal-group-plans-worldwide-anti-woman-event-in-43-countries/ http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/roosh-mens-rights-activsts-meetups/?fb=dd

  7. Transgender Girlscout stands up to bully who wouldn’t buy cookies from “boy in dress” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/02/transgender-girl-scout-stands-up-to-bully-who-wouldnt-buy-cookies-from-a-boy-in-a-dress/?tid=a_inl

  8. https://www.facebook.com/quartznews/videos/1103849949648706/ (autoplay)

  9. http://www.mediaite.com/online/man-ejected-from-hole-in-plane-was-actually-the-bomber-who-made-the-hole/

  10. http://jezebel.com/senator-wants-women-to-take-pregnancy-tests-before-drin-1551823948

-BREAK- GSoW - PSA

Science Bitches!

  1. http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/guinea-worm-track-become-only-second-disease-history-be-globally-eradicated

  2. http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-release-awesome-360-degree-interactive-video-mars

  3. http://phys.org/news/2016-02-leiden-physicists-entangle-rotating-photons.html

  4. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/trees-regardless-size-all-break-same-wind-speed-here-s-why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_allometry

  5. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/02/04/an-ant-species-that-never-gets-old/

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The Good:

  1. http://www.armytimes.com/story/entertainment/2016/02/04/lieutenant-creates-military-themed-game-rival-cards-against-humanity/79783394/ http://kck.st/1o1OlAY

  2. https://www.facebook.com/gary.yourofsky/videos/938772706177978/   http://fortune.com/2016/02/02/lab-grown-memphis-meats/

-BREAK- Fallacy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof

The Bad:

  1. Coin Tosses?! Seriously? Yeah.

  2. Dan Fincke’s take on the last few decades of American Politics. https://www.facebook.com/danfincke/posts/10153903154734764  

  3. http://deadstate.org/ben-carson-people-who-advocate-for-separation-of-church-and-state-have-schizophrenia/

  4. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/powell-rice-received-sensitive-info-through-private-emails

The Ugly:

  1. http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/02/verizons-mobile-video-wont-count-against-data-caps-but-netflix-will/ Because profit margins.

  2. http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/breaking-john-kerry-almost-beaten-up-in-rome-for-fostering-the-expansion-of-isis/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: http://paracosmpress.com/npc/ Noisy Person Cards is a party game designed to help you develop new character voices.

Fred’s: Deadpool PSA’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZEP6glW4AQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0T8dLAyT6I

David’s: Diet and exercise/http://doom.com/en-us/

Mike’s: Samsung Level U Bluetooth Headset http://amzn.to/1PZ28hY

Stephen’s:  Jonathon Young Music:  https://www.youtube.com/user/jonathanyoungmusic

Ren’s: http://www.disruptorbeam.com/games/star-trek-timelines Android/iTunes game - Star Trek Timelines

Acknowledgements:

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

Danger Zone (from Top Gun) // Jonathan Young POWER METAL COVER

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

ORly Radio Show 92 - Follow the Money

ORly Radio Show 92 - Follow the Money

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 92 for Friday January 15th, 2016 - 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 Michael Robinson and Fred Sims.

Errata From Previous Shows: 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

RANT Segments & Headlines:

  1. On this Day in History:

    1. 1913 The first telephone line between Berlin and New York is inaugurated.

    2. 1919 Peasants in Central Russia rise against the Bolsheviks.

    3. 1936 In London, Japan quits all naval disarmament talks after being denied equality.

    4. 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life in prison for her failed attempt to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.

    5. 1992 Slovenia and Croatia’s independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is recognized by the international community.

    6. 2001 Wikipedia goes online.

  2. -BREAK- GSoW - PSA

  3. We have lost David Bowie and Alan Rickman this week to cancer, they were both 69.

  4. Since he wasn’t invited to the GOP debate, rand Paul went on the Daily Show and drank bourbon http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rand-paul-appears-on-the-daily-show-to-debate-and-drink-bourbon/

  5. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/13/462940239/al-jazeera-will-shutdown-its-american-network-in-april

  6. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/robot-wars-rebooted-bbc-two-7171002

  7. http://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-will-test-freeze-dried-poop-pills-as-a-weight-loss-treatment

  8. Manatees are off the endangered species list.

  9. http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/weird/2016/01/11/police-woman-bites-off-part-walmart-workers-finger/78660194/

  10. http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-bust-myth-that-our-bodies-have-more-bacteria-than-human-cells-1.19136

  11. http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-juno-spacecraft-sets-solar-power-distance-record

 

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The Good:

 

 

  1. http://www.wftv.com/news/ap/business/wal-mart-to-shutter-269-stores-154-of-them-in-the-/np5pf/

  2. http://www.occupydemocrats.com/300000-low-income-louisianians-gained-healthcare-today-as-bobby-jindal-is-replaced-by-democratic-governor/

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

 

The Bad:

 

  1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/12098469/Oil-price-crash-means-petrol-could-become-cheaper-than-bottled-water.html Russian oil output hit a post-Soviet era high in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency. Saudi Arabia has urged Moscow - which is not a member of Opec - to pare back on production to help rebalance the world’s oversupplied market.

The Ugly:

 

 

  1. http://fusion.net/story/255458/donald-trump-campaign-jam-pensacola/

  2. Let’s talk about #yallqaeda Burns, Oregon.

  3. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/01/heavily_armed_security_detail.html

  4. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/15/1470464/-Oregon-standoff-protestor-arrested-after-driving-federal-vehicle-into-the-town-of-Burns

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

 

Andy’s: Topic Tuesday http://www.orlyradio.com/canwefixitorg/

Fred’s: The Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka. http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Kosmatka/e/B00638I7RG

Acknowledgements:

 

 

 

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

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

ORly Radio Show 91 - #yallqaeda

ORly Radio Show 91 - #yallqaeda

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 91 for Friday January 8th, 2016 - 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 Michael Robinson and David O’Connor.

Errata From Previous Shows: 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

Into the wayback machine: Back in March on Show 49, with A Play On Nerds, we discussed the weird interplay with letters to Iran and how the GOP was playing a dangerous game of chicken with the State Department. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton penned an open letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. http://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8182063/tom-cottons-controversial-letter-to-iran-explained  This week that information resurfaced with a little more analysis that included a breakdown of the roughly million dollars of campaign contributions he received during the week of the kerfuffle. We’re not saying he’s been bought by the interests of a foreign power (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), we’re just saying that freedom of speech in the form of campaign contributions is out of hand…

As a followup, http://www.bipartisanreport.com/2016/01/03/shocker-republicans-quiet-after-obama-got-iran-to-surrender-its-entire-nuclear-stockpile/

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RANT Segments & Headlines:

  1. On this Day in History:

    1. 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.

    2. 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

    3. 1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

    4. 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

  2. Happy Birthday to Stephen Hawking who is 74 today. One of my favorite quotes “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

  3. And A Happy Birthday to Kim Jong Un! whom has reached early thirtysomething: And what do you get the dictator that has everything? The Hydrogen Bomb. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/06/qa-why-is-north-koreas-hydrogen-bomb-test-such-a-big-deal/

  4. First Public Address By Paul Ryan, marks the 62nd time the GOP has attempted to repeal Obamacare. Also the 62nd time they have had nothing to replace it with and failed.  (Autoplay video) http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/politics/obama-vetoes-obamacare-repeal-bill/index.html

  5. http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/8/10737264/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-water-landing-announced

  6. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/father-of-bristols-newborn-daughter-sues-for-child-support-so-sarah-palin-goes-bonkers/

  7. http://winningdemocrats.com/trump-tells-crowd-to-steal-coats-from-protesters-before-throwing-them-out-in-the-cold-video/

  8. Israeli TV reporter stabbed demonstrating 'knife-proof' vest http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35249191

  9. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160105/08100533246/with-fixed-costs-fat-margins-comcasts-broadband-cap-justifications-are-total-bullshit.shtml

  10. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/health/google-cardboard-baby-saved/index.html

  11. http://qz.com/581024/nasa-tested-a-3d-printed-rocket-engine-and-it-worked/

  12. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gisela-mota_56891ea9e4b0b958f65be3b8

-BREAK- GSoW - PSA

The Good:

  1. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ted-cruz-produces-mothers-birth-certificate-after-both-parents-found-on-canadian-voter-list/

  2. The President’s Gun Control Executive Action. And his tearful address. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35236630  (Video)

The executive actions include:

  • Background checks for all gun sellers, overturning current exemptions to some online and gun show sellers

  • States providing information on people disqualified from buying guns due to mental illness or domestic violence

  • Increased workforce for the FBI to process background checks, hiring more than 230 new examiners

  • Congress being asked to invest $500m (£339m) to improve access to mental healthcare in the US

  • The departments of defense, justice and homeland security exploring "smart gun technology" to improve gun safety

  1. The GOP Freaks out, and of course gun sales skyrocket because people don’t know what words mean.  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/i-would-check-that-podium-for-a-raw-onion-tantaros-criticizes-obamas-tearful-address/

http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/02/china-clamps-down-on-coal/

https://youtu.be/2ips2mM7Zqw Bang Bang Bang by Big Bang.

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

The Bad:

  1. http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/texas-governor-proposes-nine-constitutional-amendments#.omd7AjbALz

  2. http://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-saudi-arabia-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-iran-following-attack-on-embassy/

The Ugly:

  1. Let’s talk about #yallqaeda Burns, Oregon.

  2. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/03/militia_occupies_malheur_national_wildlife_refuge_in_oregon.html

  3. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/i-didnt-come-here-to-shoot-i-came-here-to-die-oregon-militia-occupiers-fess-up-to-local-reporters/

  4. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/04/461950205/gunmen-hold-federal-building-in-oregon-as-convicted-ranchers-seek-pardon

  5. http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/oregon-terrorists-dont-plan-siege-very-well-put-out-plea-for-snacks-and-supplies--ZJglh9sRjx

  6. http://audubonportland.org/news/audubon-society-of-portland-statement-on-the-occupation-of-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge

  7. http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-monitoring-situation-oregon-national-wildlife-refuge/story?id=36075007 (Auto Play Video)

  8. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2012/08/21/ruby-ridge-carved-niche-history

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/inflatable-sleep-hoodie-hypnos_568a74c5e4b06fa68882c43f

David’s: Deadpool movie!

Michael’s Clive Barker’s Mister B. Gone, Horchata, Fallout 4, Pusheen Plushie!

Acknowledgements:

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

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