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:
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
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
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/
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
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/
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/
http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/08/how-the-left-created-donald-trump/
Your logical Fallacy is: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/china-build-higgs-factory-twice-size-c8e8r8ns/
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!