ORly Radio Show 87 - The Best Thing Since Sliced Chocolate!

ORly Radio Show 87 - The Best Thing Since Sliced Chocolate!

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 87 for Friday December 11th, 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 David O'Connor and guest Fred Sims!

The Show is sponsored by hogswallow.wicked-clever.com

Errata: 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 thought that Tammy Faye Bakker was in the video with Jim Bakker, I was wrong, she is dead. Whoops. I guess Jim has a type… thanks to Andrew Duncan of the Kentucky Fried Freethought podcast for that catch.

RANT Segments & Headlines:

1. Jimmy Carter’s Cancer has gone into remission and he will live to build many more houses for the poor. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jimmy-carter-cancer-gone_56645d5fe4b08e945fefd786

2. We do not live in a hologram, at least there is no evidence that suggests we do. http://gizmodo.com/fermilab-experiment-finds-no-evidence-that-we-live-in-a-1746130140

3. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/woman-stabbed-at-florida-gallery-as-bystanders-stood-by-thinking-it-was-performance-art/

4. http://onlineathens.com/national-news/2015-12-09/florida-burglary-suspect-eaten-alligator-after-fleeing-police

5. Pharma-bro says he would have actually raised the price of Daraprim even higher, had the internet and congress not tried to eviscerate him over the mater. He also bought the super rare one of a kind $2,000,000 Wu-tang album that can’t be shared for 88 years! http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/12/turings-martin-shkreli-regrets-5000-price-hike-says-it-wasnt-high-enough/ http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/

6. Ben Carson is threatening to leave the GOP following a report that senior Republican officials met to discuss the party’s strategy in the event of a brokered convention. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262916-carson-brokered-convention-would-destroy-gop

7. Sanders Files First Senate Bill In History To Legalize (recreational) Marijuana http://www.occupydemocrats.com/historic-sanders-files-first-senate-bill-in-history-to-legalize-marijuana/

8. Quantum computer by Google and NASA is more than 100 million times faster than a regular computer chip https://richarddawkins.net/2015/12/quantum-computer-by-google-and-nasa-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip/

9. http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/08/how-the-left-created-donald-trump/

10. Your logical Fallacy is: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

11. http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/china-build-higgs-factory-twice-size-c8e8r8ns/

12. http://www.ipp.mpg.de/3984226/12_15

13. http://nerdist.com/japan-is-selling-sliced-chocolate/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Red Shirts - John Scalzi http://amzn.to/1NxW4vM

David’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2A002Em8Yw CONDOM ICE CREAM.

Fred’s:  Gillian Flynn (Sharp Objects, Dark Places, Gone Girl) Http://www.amazon.com/Gillian-Flynn/e/B001JP3W46  & STAR WARS!

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 32 - Wait for it...

ORly Radio Show 32 for Friday November 14th, 2014 - Wait for it...

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

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Philae Sends Back First Images, But Problems Mean Its Mission Could Soon Be Over: Philae probe drills into comet, turns toward light

URLs: http://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-sends-back-first-images-problems-mean-its-mission-could-soon-be-over

URLs: http://news.yahoo.com/european-probe-plants-thermometer-comet-090840001.html

Item: Net Neutrality Video that is WRONG.

URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCj4y36UKM

Item: Sounds from rosetta

URLs: http://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-comet-sounds-lot-predator

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: DC Judge Forces Woman To Have Cesarean & She Dies - 5 Shocking Injustices Against Pregnant Women

URLs: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/09/1343580/-Shocking-Examples-Of-What-Women-Have-Lost-Pre-Post-Midterms-And-How-We-ll-Fight-Back?detail=emai
Item: School board yanks Christmas from calendar after Muslims ask for their own holiday off
URLs:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/school-board-yanks-christmas-from-calendar-after-muslims-ask-for-their-own-holiday-off/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: Holy @#$%! Underoos Are Back, Adult-Sized, And Better Than Ever!

URLs: http://io9.com/holy-underoos-are-back-adult-sized-and-better-t-1658506481

Oh, Florida…

Item: 'Florida Woman Caught Stealing Liquor by Hiding It Up Her You-Know-What'
URLs: http://www.balleralert.com/forum/topic/show?id=2015113%3ATopic%3A1888760
Item:Change Your Name Or Lose Your Driver's Licenses
URLs:http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/florida_to_legally_married_same_sex_couple_change_your_name_or_lose_your_driver_s_licenses

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/common-mythconceptions-worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods/
Don’s: http://io9.com/xkcd-animates-the-philae-comet-landing-and-its-adorable-1658135493

Ann’s:  www.suntecsolarenergy.com

David’s: #LoveIsLouder