Sunday, October 20, 2019

566 - Information Anxiety, No Earthly Way Of Knowing Which Way Enterprise Is Going, Gypsy Ways

(rough spot there...entries were such a mess I just gave up for a while)

[8:43 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I listened to a podcast that brings on people in the science and psychology fields, one episode dealt with the thought process that even though we're in the safest times and statistics prove that, many if not most people in the west feel more unsafe than ever.

The reason is because our brains, while often compared to computers, are not computers and are un-evolved and incapable of handling and processing data like a computer.

You show someone a line graph that proves violent crime is down consistently since 1985.. then they flip on fox news and see a gang shooting and a terrorist bomb plot.. their brain focuses on the most sensational of the two.

They didn't mention this but i feel it's because we're so used to being unsafe, like historically and evolutionarily, that we don't know what to do when things are genuinely safe, so we just invent things to worry about
[8:43 AM] 
I agree
I believe the phenom you are describing above is just available information being fed to a non-comprehending mind.
Mrs. Silver sums it up rather well. 
"There were always shootings and floods and fires and gangs and missing kids.  But people grew up with 2-3 channels and news that came on 3x per day and if you didn't see it, it wasn't there. And a lot was kept local and never made national or even state level news.  Now it's 24 hours a day all over the world and people just see all of it and don't think about how BIG the world is."
(roughly...I'm more verbose)
[8:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes, I agree with that

I also think that, previously, the news could lure you with fluff and local stuff

With competing news stations one had to one-up the other

Over many years that led to what we have today

I recall roughly the time they started doing those ridiculous teasers

"There is something in YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW that could KILL YOU!  Tonight at 11."

It was something like carbon monoxide

Maybe news/media shouldn't be "for profit" or there should be a state/non-profit alternative, like a PBS but for straight-up news with data and facts and not just anecdotal sensationalism

Even maybe taking other channels' info and dissecting it.

Like "Fox News reported blahblahblah - here's the straight dope." 

There are websites like Politifact that do that but it's just a small website and I've even seen them skew and show bias at times
[9:02 AM] 
Some say Fox currently is "State News"...ugh
Here's one: E. Coli panics...
Would we really have them without this kind of sensational info?
We watched a Mythbusters about leaving your toothbrush too close to the toilet.
HORROR!
You're on death notice right there, man!
So they put up 15 pairs of them all the way from right over the toilet to the far end of the bathroom, and then had a pair sealed in another part of the building.
Brushed with them all for a month
Tracked all bathroom use, and type, on a clipboard for all the staff.
They never got ill during the experiment.
They tested them all after it was done.
They all had an e. coli colony of roughly the same size – including the isolated and protected ones.
(guest bacteriologist) "I could have told you it wouldn't make any difference...but it was interesting anyway."
[9:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh
[9:13 AM] 
They one-upped it some time later with "double dipping chips"
It was a total wash
INCLUDING putting the dip IN THEIR MOUTHS and spitting it back out. 
[9:14 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol
[9:14 AM] 
Same culture.  They even did it twice because they felt they contaminated batch 1



[9:27 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

That show “Enterprise”

The theme song sucks
[9:28 AM] 
Like the Star Trek "Enterprise"?
[9:29 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yeah, that flop of a show
[9:34 AM] 
...
It ran from 2001 to 2005
A lot of shows never go that long.
[9:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Well it does not have the right feel

I'm into it right now

But that theme song is horrible
[9:37 AM] 
I'm not sure what happened to me with it
I liked the idea
I watched several episodes of season 1
And then...didn't get back.
[9:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Jesus. That theme song is horrible
[9:40 AM] 
Oh
I don't remember it at all
[9:40 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I have to skip it every episode

Other Star Treks I can listen to their themes
[9:40 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It sounds like a "We are the World" type charity anthem
[9:40 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Michael Bolton like
[9:41 AM] 
Dub on “Sanford & Son”.
[9:41 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

That would be better

lol
[9:41 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's like a Rod Stewart cover and Rod Stewart is terrible

Some throw-away song he did for the Patch Adams soundtrack lol
[9:42 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I kinda understand it based on the lyrics, but it is just not a Star Trek song
[9:42 AM] 
The Enterprise theme has lyrics?
[9:42 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yep

Its an actual song
[9:43 AM] 
It worked for Firefly
Lexx too, though that was in an alien language...we used to sing that one out loud.
[9:43 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's like a ballad
[9:44 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

they just made a really bad choice

It does not go with flying through space at all
[9:45 AM] 
Now I must hear it...
(sends reminder)
[9:45 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I will literally try and overplay it in my head with the Next Generation song because I feel like I'm going to die when i hear it.


It would be better if they played Cherry Pie with the ship flying through space
[9:54 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol
[9:54 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Actually that would have kicked ass
[9:54 AM] 
That would be bizarro
This opener shows the sinister progress of Humanity from early days and their relentless progress into space, and to Hell with anyone in their way.
(watched the montage...didn't listen to the music.  Wanted some context for picking songs)
[9:55 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I've never dubbed before

Anybody got stuff to do it?
[9:55 AM]  
This needs to be done. 
"10 Unlikely theme songs better than the Enterprise theme."
[9:56 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

X Gon' Give It To Ya
[9:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

WOW
[9:56 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

With a montage of space scenes
[9:56 AM] 
"Mama Said Knock You Out”?
Good lyrics for a explorer/battleship
[9:57 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

All this goes great in my head with the Enterprise flying through

Dead or Alive
[10:03 AM] 
Sounds like we'll need more than 10
[10:03 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Whip It
[10:04 AM] 
(end of video) "#10 - Anything."  [3 dozen snippets]
[10:05 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Du Hast


WHAT IS LOVE

ship flying cut to the crew bobbing heads to one side
[10:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The Cars - Moving in Stereo (space montage in slow motion)
[10:10 AM] 
"Imperial March", Empire Strikes Back
[10:10 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

ANDD IIIIIIIEEEEEEIIIIIIIII

will always loooooove youuuu-OUOOUU-ohhh

Every episode ends with Bakula picking someone up and carrying them off screen
[10:11 AM] 
Hehe
Bringin' back a classic!
[10:12 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Al shows up, pulls out quantum remote
[10:14 AM] 
Seen that gag I think.  He's not the captain at all...he's Sam Becket and can't get out of Archer's body
[10:15 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

lol
[10:15 AM] 
REM "Stand" would do for this montage
[10:15 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes
[10:15 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Hell, Rocket Man would be better.
[10:15 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

how about The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today

Could have an extended opening scene version since that song is like 26 minutes long
[10:18 AM] 
Earth Below Us”
The beat matches the picture shifts...4-3-2-1 as eras change.  
Oh
Willie Wonka "No Earthly Way of Knowing"
I like that... :D
[10:24 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

nice

then it ramps up to warp speed

for the scary part
[10:25 AM] 
Veruca Salt's (character) “I Want It Now” might do too
"I want the world!  I want the WHOLE world!" 
"AND I DON"T WANT TO SHARE IT!!!!"
[10:25 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I liked Veruca Salt

The band

They did the song "Seether"
[10:27 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Detachable Penis by King Missile to be extremely odd

Yet would still be better then the song they picked

OK, decided to try one:

First you open this... Wonka

Turn it up and set it to 2:12

Then you open up this... Enterprise

Mute it

Start Wonka. At the word “OFF!”, start Enterprise.
Some interesting match-ups :-)  --  Mr. Silver




[2:50 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Anytime you hear weird news out of Romania or from somewhere else where the suspect or assailant is identified as "Romanian", there will be Romanians in the comments or where-ever else to point out that they were gypsies, not "real" Romanians.

Which is probably true

There was a local story of some town near Connellsville that was told they'd be housing some Romanian refugees in the area.

Next thing they know people are parking cars in their front yards and butchering chickens in the middle of the sidewalks.

"Oh BTW, they're gypsies"

[3:01 PM] 
"The public pooping is a Christmas tradition called Caganer in the Old Country."
"It's July!!!"
"Ah!  But the Old Country is on the other side of the world."
"It's Summer and July there too!"
"Ah! But WE keep Christmas in our hearts ALL ye-"
"That's it, I’m calling the cops."
[3:08 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Lots of gypsies in Spain, as it turns out

They call 'em "gitanos"
[3:09 PM] 
There was an 80s trend in “gypsy jeans”???
[3:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Extra deep pockets, good for stealin'
[3:10 PM] 
They do look pretty rustic-cut on viewing them again after this long. 
It's NOT stealing! 
...
Anything laying around unattended is a gift from God
Man...those were ugly-ass jeans.
[3:12 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah they are

Mom Jeans

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