ORLY-EP0114B - New Normal

June 23, 2016

ORLY-EP0114B - New Normal

Welcome back to ORLYRADIO #114b recorded Friday JUNE 17th, 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 my usual suspects: Stephen Griffith and Daniel Atherton.

Science Bitches!

Four new element names are on the table http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/four-new-element-names-are-table

Law & Order:

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Good Ideas:

DA https://www.positive.news/2016/society/politics/21462/brexit-debate-yields-unexpected-potential-positive-political-change/
Social media 'outstrips TV' as news source for young people http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36528256
DA http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/us/utah-republican-is-unlikely-star-at-lgbt-vigil-for-orlando.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

-BREAK- GSoW - PSA

Bad Ideas:

Personal Picks:

Andy’s: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-dance/2016/06/17/hamilton-performance-comes-pbs-fall/yLXiX00L7mzr1sjUKIY0vI/story.html?event=event25
Stephen’s:
Fred’s: Stigma Tattoo Bar https://www.facebook.com/events/100393700391077/102361333527647/?notif_t=admin_plan_mall_activity&notif_id=1466051654296658

Daniel’s: http://www.orlandocitysc.com/

ORLY-EP0113B - Sleeping people don’t want tea

June 15, 2016

ORLY-EP0113B - Sleeping people don’t want tea

Welcome back to ORLYRADIO #113b recorded Friday JUNE 10th, 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 my usual suspect, Daniel Atherton.

SCOTUS Stuff

Good Ideas:

Bad Ideas:

Personal Picks:

Andy’s: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlefield-1-ea-was-concerned-kids-didnt-know-ww1/1100-6440385/

Daniel’s: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/multimedia/calendar/

Acknowledgements:

Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
PSA: Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia - GSoW https://www.facebook.com/GSoWproject

ORLY-EP0107A - Poverty, History, and Science

April 30, 2016

ORLY-EP0107A - Poverty, History, and Science

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #107a for Friday April 29th, 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 my usual suspects, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

Audience Feedback From Previous Shows:

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From LissaP: I'm listening to your show and the lack of investment in Civics was just mentioned, so I'd like to clarify. It has been widely recognized that the deficit in people's understanding of the workings of the government has grown. In an effort to deal with that, in the state of Florida at least, Civics is a mandatory class in middle school, just like Government always has been in high school. (I didn't take Civics as a kid; it was expected to be embedded in various social studies courses, whether it actually was or wasn't.) Now,, the methods that are used to prioritize and emphasize a given subject area can be faulted, of course, but Civics has been given prominence recently. It has an EOC (end of course exam) that must be passed or the course needs to be retaken. This test score is given so much emphasis that it actually weighs pretty heavily in the calculation of school grades, proportionally speaking. This ensures that student mastery of the content is important to the school. And the test itself is quite rigorous. Now, it takes time to see the fruits of any educational initiative in the real world, but we're trying. My 2¢.

Thanks again for the help LissaP and keeping us up to date! You too can straighten us out, shoot a message and we’ll read it on the air. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone or text 470-222-6759

RANT Segments & Headlines:

Poverty: Talk is free. Ideas are free. Networking with people and collaboration is the right way to bootstrap. Even Donald Trump needed a loan from Daddy Warbucks to get started, so, my advice
Make long term plans. It is damn hard to get out of the hand to mouth mindset without a plan. It can be meager, but start at retirement and work backwards. Start at like 70, then 60, then 50, 40, 35.... Each one must build to where you want to be at the next level.
Once you have a plan, you can make informed incremental change.
As an example. Tax time, you get a refund, what will you do with next year's return? Will you buy the better items that will help you save more day to day, like the boots? If you plan now, next year will be better and the year after that even better.
Long term goal planning is the best advice I can give anyone from anywhere in any class. How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time, and it's going to take a while.
1 In 4 Americans Have PTSD-Like Symptoms From Financial Stress
In an analysis of data from 2,011 survey respondents, researchers at Payoff discovered that 23% of respondents were experiencing symptoms commonly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to their finances. Among Millennials, the number is 36%.
Among other things, survey respondents were worried about being homeless or were routinely late on payments. Others denied the severity of their debt or the reality of paying it off. People’s behaviors were irrational and motivated by denial and avoidance, leaving them less able to plan or manage their financial lives. “It was just this cluster of negative financial behaviors and fear,” Buckwalter says. “And when you look at the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, it lines up with what we were seeing—the denial, the avoidance, the hypervigilance, the nightmares. It was all there.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kateashford/2016/04/22/financial-stress/#6c352efd645c

This Week in History:

Sources: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

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http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to-wealth/

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Science Bitches! Approx 30 minutes

ORly Radio Show 49 - A Play On Nerds

March 12, 2015

ORly Radio Show 49 for Wednesday March 11h, 2015 - A Play On Nerds

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

Special Guests: Jarman Day-Bohn and Steve Bauman from A Play On Nerds Podcast

We’ll talk about the origin of their show and the evolution of their hilarious segments over 35 episodes. Then we will get them to step into our world of outrage politics.

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: VOX: 7 Scary Facts About Antibiotic Resistant “Superbugs” - We could be doomed and that’s not hyperbole.
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8178879/what-is-antibiotic-resistance
Item: Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links
URLs: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530102.600-google-wants-to-rank-websites-based-on-facts-not-links.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: NY elementary school bans homework, tells students to spend time on other pursuits
URLs: http://kdvr.com/2015/03/05/parents-outraged-after-school-bans-homework-tells-students-to-spend-time-on-other-pursuits/
Item: Isis: Muslim preacher calls for demolition of pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza
URLs: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-muslim-preacher-calls-demolition-pyramids-sphinx-giza-1491363

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Conservatives Now Say They Hate Spock After Obama Praises Character
URLs: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/06/cant-make-this-up-conservatives-now-say-they-hate-spock-after-obama-praises-character/
Item: 47 of 54 US Senators play a dangerous game of chicken with Iran and the POTUS with a condescending letter and tweets to the Iranian leadership.
McCain's breathtaking defense of signing the Iran letter: "I sign lots of letters"
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8182063/tom-cottons-controversial-letter-to-iran-explained
http://news.yahoo.com/150-000-sign-treason-petition-us-republican-letter-195011270.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/republican-unity-shatters-after-backlash-to-iran-letter/
Just being Cheeky?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-scrambles-the-wake-sabotage-fiasco

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Play Cards Against Humanity Online With Anyone For Free
URLs: http://toyland.gizmodo.com/you-can-now-play-cards-against-humanity-online-with-any-1690772752
Item: Georgia trash man gets 30 days in jail for 5 a.m. pick up
URLs: http://news.yahoo.com/let-sleep-georgia-trash-man-gets-30-days-213758415.html

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida, officials ban term 'climate change' - “Deputy General Counsel Larry Morgan was giving us a briefing on what to expect with the new secretary,” Byrd recalled. Morgan gave them “a warning to beware of the words global warming, climate change and sea-level rise, and advised us not to use those words in particular.” In a February press conference, Scott unveiled $106 million in his proposed budget to deal with the effects of rising oceans. But $50 million of that is for a sewage plant in the Keys, and $25 million is for beach restoration, which critics say is hardly a comprehensive plan to protect homes, roads and infrastructure.|
URLs: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article12983720.html
http://fcir.org/2015/03/08/in-florida-officials-ban-term-climate-change/
Item: An apartment complex near Disney has voided its renter lease agreement that called for tenants to pay $10,000 fines for posting negative reviews on social media.
URLs: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-apartment-reviews-negative-20150310-story.html

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Kickstarter: Rubber Band Machine Gun! It Arrived. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11447722/rubber-band-machine-gun-0
Mike’s: Sid Meier’s Starships http://store.steampowered.com/app/282210/
Jess: #HeForShe / heforshe.org / Emma Watson is a goddess
Jarman: Audio Book: Storm on the Horizon: The Zone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glitzy Gamers Twitch Channel - A Play On Nerds - Skill Focus: Burlesque

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