ORly Radio Show 57 - I Literally Can't Even Rationality, 'Merica

ORly Radio Show 57 for Friday May 8th, 2015 - I Literally Can't Even Rationality , 'Merica

Welcome to ORly Radio 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 joined by my Usual Suspects: David and Jessica
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

RANT Segments

I Just Don’t Know

  1. Rationality in America

    1. Thanks in part to the overuse of "literally," Merriam-Webster says the word can now mean its exact opposite.  http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_literally_now_also_means_figuratively_newscred

    2. People are afraid of non-believers, “their presence challenges fundamental defense mechanisms that protect people from fear of death.” http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-atheists-terrify-believers

    3. A woman in Nebraska has filed a seven-page lawsuit naming "homosexuals" as the defendants, and "God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ," as the plaintiffs. (Don’t worry the judge refused the case.) AND 57% Of Republicans Say Dismantle Constitution And Make Christianity National Religion http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/nebraska_woman_sues_all_homosexuals_in_federal_court_because_jesus_literally AND http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/25/57-republicans-dismantle-constitution-christianity-national-religion.html

Weird  

  1. Not just another day at the beach, A couple is facing up to 15 years in prison after being found guilty Monday of having sex on a Florida beach, according to court records. http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/sex-on-the-beach

The Good

  1. Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Was Never Authorized By Congress http://www.wired.com/2015/05/breaking-news-federal-court-rules-nsa-bulk-data-collection-illegal/

  2. 10 year old math genius is going to college: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/09/africa/esther-okade-maths-genius/index.html

  3. Miley Cyrus starts LGBT charity Happy Hippie: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05/miley-cyrus-homeless-charity_n_7213444.html

The Bad

  1. Texas Republicans denounce Pre-K as ‘a Godless environment’  http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/texas-republicans-denounce-pre-k-godless-environment and

  2. Faith healer sues atheist video blogger for using science to expose him on YouTube as a ‘swindler’ http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/faith-healer-sues-atheist-video-blogger-for-using-science-to-expose-him-on-youtube-as-a-swindler/

    1. http://www.gofundme.com/SRGLegalFund

The Ugly

  1. In Washinton D.C. - http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/hobby-lobby-on-steroids-house-votes-to-overturn-dc-law-so-employers-can-fire-women-for-using-birth-control/

  2. Several D.C. organizations are rejecting a law that bans discrimination over employees' reproductive choices http://www.salon.com/2015/05/07/antiabortion_groups_vow_to_keep_firing_women_for_using_birth_control_even_though_its_illegal

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Gorrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia https://www.facebook.com/GSoWproject 

David’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk

Jess’s: All of the Whose Line ever! http://cwseed.com/shows/whose-line-is-it-anyway/

Acknowledgements:

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

ORly Radio Show 45 - VD & Friday the 13th

ORly Radio Show 45 for Friday February 13th, 2015 - VD & Friday the 13th

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

Errata From Last Week: POEd.  Scientists pledge to increase interference with the Church in the Guardian - Satire. Darn. Should have known by “Hugh Briss”, spokesperson for FFS http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/feb/04/scientists-pledge-to-increase-interference-with-the-church
“FFS then went on to reassure any people alarmed by their intentions that none of them are likely to occur because FFS is entirely fictional, so don’t actually exist. “Not that that’s ever made much difference in this context,” Dr Briss admitted.”

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity.
URLs: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html
URLs: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314009381
Item: To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
URLs:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html
Item: HPV vaccine highly effective against multiple cancer-causing strains
URLs: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-hpv-vaccine-highly-effective-multiple.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Federal judge will consider whether marijuana is wrongly classified as non-medical drug
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/federal-judge-will-consider-whether-marijuana-is-wrongly-classified-as-non-medical-drug/
Item: Woman Gets Prison For Scrotum Attack
URLs: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/woman-sentenced-for-brutal-scrotum-attack-342091
URLs: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/scrotum-sentence

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Bush releases hundreds of thousands of emails from his Governorship. Chaos ensues.
URLs: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/13/politics/bush-emails-redacted-secretary-of-state/
Item: South Carolina Republican State Senator Thomas Corbin: Women are 'a lesser cut of meat'
URLs: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/13/1364254/-South-Carolina-Republican-Women-are-a-lesser-cut-of-meat
Item: New York City, once notorious for high crime, broke a record on Thursday with no murders reported for 10 straight days - "Everybody is behaving," said Sergeant Daniel Doody
URLs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/12/new-york-city-no-murders-10-days_n_6669524.html |
Item: People have sex in a box. Talk about it in front of a live studio audience. Because REALITY TV.
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/21/sex-box-a-reality-show-where-people-have-sex-in-a-box-on-tv-is-a-real-thing-for-2015/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Woman Makes Yogurt From Her Vagina, Says It Tastes “Sour, Tangy, and Tingly”
URLs: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/02/vagina-yogurt
URLs: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-make-breakfast-with-your-vagina
Item: 17-Year-Old Receives World’s First Penis Reduction Because His Football-Shaped Penis Stopped Him from Having Sex
URLs:http://www.lovebscott.com/news/say-what-now-17-year-old-receives-worlds-first-reduction-because-his-football-shaped-stopped-him-from-having-photos

Oh, Florida...

Item: Police: Man arrested with weed in his butt, crack in his mouth.
URLs:  http://www.alligator.org/news/crime/article_3228e58c-b344-11e4-93bc-c7064b2952d6.html
Item: Some Floridians are keeping windows rolled up at DUI checkpoints
URLs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/11/florida-dui-warren-redlich/23236797/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: No Religion Required (http://noreligionrequired.com/) moving to Secular Media Group (http://secularmediagroup.com/)
David’s: http://www.gosunstove.com/
Jess’s: #blackcosplay for super awesome black history month


ORly Radio Show 35 - #WeCantBreathe

ORly Radio Show 35 for Friday December 5th, #WeCantBreathe

Is America broken? Or is it just being exposed more for the way it has always been?

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

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Why Orion's launch is the best news for humanity in a long time - the four-person capsule will be set to carry a crew to an asteroid and then to Mars, and NASA predicts they’ll land on the Red Planet by mid-2030.
URLs:http://sploid.gizmodo.com/why-orion-launch-is-the-best-news-for-humanity-in-a-lon-1666887643
http://www.sciencealert.com/breaking-nasa-is-sending-humans-to-mars
Item: Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone.
URLs:  http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-f8C11529186
Item: Group trying to get crowdfunding for Warp Ship!
URLs: http://www.openminds.tv/group-attempting-crowd-fund-space-warp-technology/31073

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: 11 year old Brit,  Ramarni Wilfred, scored higher on his IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
URLs: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-smartest-schoolboy-11-year-old-boy-4056609
Item: Eric Garner. no justice.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407
URLs: Jon Stewart Vents Complete Frustration with Justice Following Eric Garner Decision http://www.forwardprogressives.com/surreal-segment-jon-stewart-vents-complete-frustration-justice-following-eric-garner-decision/
Broken Window’s Police Theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Rand Paul: 'What The F**k Are You Talking About?'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/jon-stewart-chokehold_n_6273864.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/nypd-cop-who-choked-eric-garner-wasnt-indicted-but-man-who-recorded-the-incident-was/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: CDC Warns That The Flu Season May Be A Bad One
URLs: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/04/368438117/h3n2-cdc-warns-that-the-flu-season-may-be-a-bad-one
Item:The Republican Party's top priority is to raise taxes on the poor. Literally.
URLs: http://theweek.com/article/index/272922/the-republican-partys-top-priority-is-to-raise-taxes-on-the-poor-literally

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: What was fake on the Internet this week: Dog whisperer death and the Zodiac Killer
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/05/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-dog-whisperer-death-and-the-zodiac-killer/

Oh, Florida...

Item: Starting on Jan. 5, judge rules, gay couples can legally marry in Florida
URLs: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2014/12/03/starting-on-jan-5-judge-rules-gay-couples-can-legally-marry-in-florida
Item: DeLand police: Man, 44, stole 6.5 pounds of cow tongue from Walmart
URLs: http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/12/1/cow_tongue_arrest.html

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Kahlua Peppermint Mocha! OMG good!
David’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAJIVSLqK4
Don’s: Cheese bread

ORly Radio Show 7 - Antibiotics, Vaccinations, and Idiots.

ORly Radio Show 7 for Friday May 23rd, 2014

Introduction Script after “Rocket” Music: "Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Hosts Andy and the usual suspects: David and Michael.

Errata From Last Week: Quantum computer, both exists and does not exist, just as you would expect. http://www.isi.edu/research_groups/quantum_computing/home

Science / Technology

Item 1: Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm

Item 2: Tonight's meteor shower could bring up to 1,000 meteors per hour, which are large enough to stir up radio waves
URL: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/23/tonights_spectacular_new_meteor_shower_can_be_seen_and_heard_heres_how

Item 3: Vaccinations… Kill Cancer?
URLs: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html
*read this* http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/15/measles-vaccine-cancer-mayo-clinic/9115363/ http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxic-myths-about-vaccines/
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm
The Antivaxer side: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/01/27/mercury-in-vaccines-was-replaced-with-something-even-more-toxic.aspx

Humanities

Item 1: Gay Marriage All over the place    
URL: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/gay-marriage-states-legal-map

Politics

Item 1: Florida Lawmaker Says Common Core Will Turn Kids Gay
URL:http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/05/19/3439163/state-rep-common-core-gay/

Item 2: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): 3-year-old immigrants don’t deserve legal status if they can’t pay taxes and blasted President Barack Obama’s administration’s efforts at comprehensive immigration reform, saying that the president was “complicit” in sex trafficking by “luring” children into the United States who couldn’t even afford to pay their own taxes.
URL: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/20/louie-gohmert-3-year-old-immigrants-dont-deserve-legal-status-if-they-cant-pay-taxes/

Entertainment/Reviews/Picks

Through the Wormhole is slated to return on June 4.
http://mashable.com/2014/05/23/morgan-freeman-on-helium/

Item 1: Andy: Lantronix xPrint Servers
iOS Apple: Lantronix xPrintServer Home Edition for iOS Printing - XPS1002HM-01-S
Android Cloud Print: Lantronix XPS1002CP-01-S xPrintServer Cloud Print Edition

Item 2: Mike: Insideous http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591095/

Item 3: Mike:Wildstar MMORPG http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/ 

Item 4: David: Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1)

Potpourri

Item 1: Minnesota Just Became the First State to Ban Anti-Bacterial Soap
URL: http://gizmodo.com/minnesota-just-became-the-first-state-to-ban-anti-bacte-1579074417

Item 2: New Yorker has filed a 22-page handwritten suit in a Manhattan court for two undecillion dollars. The sum, written as two followed by thirty-six zeros $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
URL: http://www.newser.com/story/187083/ny-man-sues-for-every-penny-on-earth.html
URL: http://www.theguardian.com/law/shortcuts/2014/may/19/worlds-largest-lawsuit-suing-city-new-york