It took me until the age of 26 to stop subscribing to mythological dogmas that my parents and ex wife are still subscribed to and because of that, are worried about my soul's eternal wellbeing and consider me to be lost all because I don't believe that a mythological deity sacrified his mythological son because I'm a horrible person for simply being human.
Right there with you, extracted myself in my mid 20s. It gets better with time, even with a 96% religious family. On the other hand, one of my fellow atheists has now gone conspiracy brained flerf, so life is full of twists.
I went all the way until mid-thirties but I was a borderline Baptist. we never took it serious anyway 😂 .. I did choir I did weekdays Bible School, was the Deacon for years😂 .. on mission I went to visit the "crime scenes" overseas. IM DEFINITELY OUT! ✌️I'm wit u "the reasonable"
How do you view your ex wife before, during and after marriage? I presume you loved her at one point... did the love change when you "awakened", or did she leave when you were "lost"?
I saw some old western recently where the cowboys fanned a Gatlin gun indiscriminately at a bunch of charging Native Americans. They were falling off their horses left and right, but not one horse got hit in the hail of bullets.
They used to fall, but it killed too many horses, so it was outlawed. You will see individuals fall but they are trained to do it in a safe and humane way. I'm fine with that kind of lack of reality because it means they aren't harming a horse just for a movie.
Scotty didn't calc the formula for transparent aluminum. Star Fleet had been using it for a hundred years before Scotty was born. Scotty learned the formula at Star Fleet Academy The guy that "invented" transparent aluminum was the guy Scotty gave the formula to in the past. It's a temporal paradox. 🖖
Among many other false beliefs, my mother convinced me that if I didn't eat my bread crusts I would never have curly hair like my brother. He was my favorite person, and she exploited that to control how I ate.
The pointless mania of pushing children to eat crust is one of the emptiest exercises of parental/lunchperson/teacher power. There is no reason why, and in fact in other cultures it is commonplace, to remove bread crust before crafting a sandwich for example. Children do not “need” the crust; a sandwich is not “wasted” or “wasteful” because a crust is removed.
I spent my entire childhood terrified of getting into a snake bed of water moccasins when swimming in a lake, only to learn as an adult that snakes don’t do that.
When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to go swimming until an hour after eating because it was thought that you could get stomach cramps. I always suspected that it was total crap, and sure enough, it turned out to be false. The claim was first published in a Boy Scout handbook in 1908, but nobody knows where the authors got that idea from.
Besides never saying goodbye at the end of a phone call, movie characters almost never seem to say thank you, and, on the rare occasion when they do, the other person never says you're welcome.
25:14 As long as we're correcting errors: "...it's not pristine opaque water..."? Did you mean the opposite of that, as in, "transparent"? Opaque means you *can't* see through it (light doesn't pass through it). If You have opaque water coming out of your tap, you are in some real trouble.
I loved Mythbusters. They made it entertaining to debunk these long held bogus beliefs. Their whole show was based on scepticism and science. I believe Adam and Jaime are atheists as well.
That was interesting. I just found your show a couple weeks ago and listen to about 2 or 3 a day. I'm not even an atheist, just hate Abrahamic religions. Helped ruin my life but I'm okay now. I want all religion out of schools and government and tax the churches and organizations! I keep it simple. I think there is more to life than we know but I have no idea what. If I did know I wouldn't force others to know. Live and let live. God Is Not Great is one of my favorite books. Glad to know you can suspend your disbelief to escape once in a while.
Actually... There is a LITTLE something to the whole "connection between getting cold and catching a cold" thing - if you go from a hot environment to a cold one, then back and forth again REPEATEDLY, you can put enough stress on your immune system to make yourself more susceptable to developing a cold. I got one of the worst summer-season colds of my life while working in a SWELTERING warehouse and had to frequently go into the front office which the girls who worked in there kept at near icebox temperatures to get shipping orders (I always had to wait in there long enough to develop chills - only to then go back to the Hellish heat of that warehouse and do the work that would eventually require me to go back to the fridge again).
Indeed, ill dressing for cold temperatures will contract the blood vessels in the mucus of your respatoiry system that fends of infections. Less blood transported to the mucus means less oxygen and nutrients for the mucus to do it's job, apart from that every chemist ought to know that lower temperature means lower reaction time. Hence when going out into the cold for longer periods, dress for it. If you still happen to work there, I advice to hang a warm coat for yourself just outside the front office. If you happen to generate enough heat, for instance when running a marathon, you don't need to wear that much insulation. It's what all people living in arctic climates will tell you: wear many layers so when you have to be active, you can strip off one or more layers so you don't start sweating so your clothing will keep it's insulation properties.
I worked in the ER and one pet peeve I have is, people saying a full moon makes people crazy. And people saying, MUST BE A FULL MOON! I'd tell nurses and doctors, you have a science degree!
I love that Seth mentioned Crank and Chev Chelios calling his girlfriend while falling because that call was shown again in the sequel but from her point of view and the only thing she hears is "Shhpsssshsshpsshhhssh"! 🤣
I was in the catholic regime in Australia from birth. Some things that occurred to me back then but didn't ask about were, Jesus was a jew & we follow him but we are catholic. Jesus wears long robes and we wear jeans. We are in country Australia and Jesus was in the middle east. And the ritual of mass was just silly. So I feel lucky that I was never sucked in.
As a Swedish kid I didn't wear warm clothes in winter.. but sadly it wasn't so much that I was a sceptic but rather that my natural state is rebelling against authority. That anti authoritarian streak did help me resist religious indoctrination while my sceptic ability grew.
Just FYI: about 10-15 years ago, scientists looked again at this "old wives tale" and found out that, hey, it's actually not wrong: 1. being cold dampens your immune response. 2. cold viruses can multiply much better in a colder nose than in a warm one. And when your body is cold, your nose is even colder. All these grandmas and mothers who had been called dummies who didn't know how viruses work had noticed a true correlation all along, even though they didn't know the concrete mechanism. This is actually an example of how prejudice among scientists towards "silly women telling old wives' tales" made them overlook that the then scientific model of how infection works had been woefully incomplete.
@@TheFeldhamster I very much doubt the scientists concluded anything based on what "silly women" thought or didn't think. A study showed little to no correlation between getting a cold and being cold.. and the media ate it up. Later studies have, like you said shown that to be wrong in most scenarios. Clearly the flu and other similar diseases spread more in winter, so there had to be some correlation. 3. The third point in your list should be that we tend to be indoors a lot too and that gives the viruses better chances of spreading, so it's partly the cold and partly secondary effects of the cold.
I have a hypothesis that virus infections spread easier in winter because our immune systems are not as efficient when we have less sun light - after all do we really not meet indoors and on public transport as often in the summer to a significant degree?
Sorry Seth, St Patrick is not looking to be Scottish but Welsh. Historians are still arguing about this but there was a Welsh speaking community in Strathclyde or he could have been kidnapped from Wales itself, the jury is still out on this. By the way I am biased being Welsh myself. As always loving the podcast. Gyda chariad.
Yes. I'm pretty sure St, Patrick was a pre Anglo-Saxon Briton, which descendents would probably be the Welsh. I'm not sure if the terms Scottish or Welsh would have applied at the time, though.
I have to defend Indiana Jones 4. The entire series has ALWAYS been pulpy nonsense, and it's intentional. See: magic facemelting ghosts coming out of the Ark of the Covenant.
There was a movie that I never saw, I think starring Samuel Jackson, and I didn't see it because the premise was something I could not believe. It was that movie where the entire premise was based on the false claim that "humans use only 10% of their brain power."
probably about right.....the bit of your brain that is 'you' is probably about 10%, 10% for the sub-con, then the other 80% is busy keeping the body kickin.....Only bit that isn't really needed, is the 'you' bit.
My favorite movie series (LOTR) requires me to suspend my knowledge of reality. I thought of all the scientific laws that must be ignored to watch Dr. Who. I was watching Jurassic something with a friend of mine that had 20/20 vision and she was complaining that it was hard to get into the movie bc the CG wasn't that good. It was one of the few times I actually appreciated not having very good vision. It looked good enough for me. 😉
I’m a radiation safety professional, as part of being in industrial hygienist. Defusing nukes and also surviving a blast in a refrigerator really “chap my ass”. I have a very good friend who is a nurse…. She can’t watch medical drama shows for the same reason.
Good stuff as always, was cool to hear you talking about decibel levels and inaccurate silencer usage in action movies. Also, You probably get this all the time, but you could totally be Jeff Goldblum's cousin 🤣 Thanks for all the good content. Signed, a fellow bible belt state atheist (MO)
This was good. Made me snicker all the way through! What I learned from movies...anything more than a fender bender will result in an explosion and total immolation of the car and all contents! And if it goes over a cliff, it doesn't even have to hit the ground! If something explodes in space, the blast is always a ring, not a sphere, and the ring ALWAYS comes directly at you...every single time! I think it was the movie "Con Air", where the plane crashes onto the Las Vegas Strip, and slides for 5 minutes before finally coming to a stop; like the Energizer bunny, just keeps going and going...! LOL!
Watching medical dramas when you have worked in hospitals. So much of it is absolute BS. Watching crime dramas when your husband works in forensics (he did forensic toxicology). He constantly picked it apart. He always said that he wanted CSI's mass spec library. Yes it's possible to analyse that paint scraping and discover it came from a 1958 Oldsmobile BUT you have to have all those paint samples in your analysis library for the test samples to find a match.
I watch the actors' chests and eyelids.😂 I finally just watched the final scene of The Walking Dead and when Rosita closes her eyes and then showed her a moment later, she really did look still and dead, unlike someone just work eyes closed. I was impressed! I watch to see if the actors can play the 🎸🎷 🎹 🎻 too! Look like they can operate! I watch for all that stuff too!😂
People thought reefer would make you into a sex fiend. But then, in those days, they thought jitterbug/ big band jazz would do the same thing. Then in the 50s, it was rock and roll that would pervert you.
How did Goldblum's computer have an OS compatible with the aliens' mainframe'? I'm always fascinated by how silent airplanes are mid air, werever you are in the okane. Why do all explosives in dilms always have a big clock with big red numbers? And storms at sea, don't get me started. About food: Chicken tikka masala was invented in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow, Scotland.
My husband is Deaf and when he's thinking to himself in the car (maybe he's calculating mileage or directions), his hands are in the cindole between us and I can watch his hands moving and fingerspelling to himself. He talks in his sleep though. I'll have to pay attention to his hands. I have dreams where I sign and on occasion I sign to myself or do it when I'm under stress. I'm hearing but use sign for over 30 years. A couple of times I've forgotten English (coming out of surgery and signing where's my husband while the nurses grabbed my hands and someone speaking to me and it sounded unintelligble and I was looking at their hands to sign whatever the hell they had said, then had to ask them to repeat when I realized I know English - I had been only using sign language up to the point any was caught by surprise when a stranger spoke to me!) - that it happened at all surprised me. Up until then I couldn't understand that my dad would need sometime to get used to using his native language when he went back home to visit his family. I was always like, how can you forget your native language as an adult? Well you can!
I’ve worked in many many fields in my life and have learned so much stuff wrong with movies myself. Like elevators, digging holes, and my favorite fire protection systems. I used to drain that water before a repair or install. It’s black and smells like marsh water. Worked that job about 8 months. Did a CIA building in northern Virginia and we had to put unions in between every room so you couldn’t tap the pipes to spy.
The special edition of The Abyss came out just a few years after the original...it's not new by any means. It's so old I first saw it on laserdisc. But yeah...the ending(s) of that film really drag it down. I'll add to this the bogus notion espoused by movies that a nuclear meltdown is the same as a nuclear detonation. On the other side, I'll point out that everybody watching a horror movie thinks they'd manage the situation better than the people in the film, even though the characters are panicked and terrified, and the audience is sitting comfortably out of danger and are better equipped to make cogent decisions in a way those in the story very likely could not.
I can’t watch a Jurassic Park movie. I had been a systems integrator for years and systems aren’t susceptible to the kind of stuff their software guy did. I agree Seth there’s little or no chance we’ll see aliens from other planets anytime soon, but when we do I doubt we could identify their computer system, much less make a virus for it, it’s like writing a TCPIP socket for an AS-400 without having seen or known about the existence of AS-400’s beforehand.
Star Trek IV: Of course it would be easy for Scotty to create a schematic for transparent aluminum on a 1980s Mac - he's well known as a miracle worker!
With regards to Independence day, our tech was supposed to be reversed engineered alien tech. Hence, the Mac worked. What's wrong is the aliens don't have virus protection. 😂
If I can add one to the list: speaking from experience, RPG’s do not fly in slow-mo spiral fashion. They’re rocket powered, medium range controlled explosions… It’s a boom, a weird fizzle noise coming at you, and when they miss… you hear a second boom, about 1-2 seconds later.
❤Ooohh yeah! The "OMG my life is a lie!" Moment ...classic mindjob'n! Come to Cincinnati SETH! Please man it's the only thing I'd attend is ur shyt brotha! I NEED THIS! H3LL schedule anywhere in the Tri-County area bro. The religious r in these centres speaking all the time. Book CINCI ... its a major northern axis point btw❤
The thing with people running down the middle of the street while a car is chasing them in movies always drove me crazy! I would always be like "Get off the road! Run through the yards! Jump a fence! Put as much stuff between you and the road as fast as you can!" You will never out run a car on a paved surface, i don't care how fast you are.
I have skydived many times. Without actually skydiving the closest you're going to get to the noise is riding a motorcycle at 125 Mi an hour with no helmet. Good luck making a phone call.
Henry VIII was not eating turkey legs. Turkeys are a new world food. He was probably eating goose, swan, or another large bird in the painting--but it wasn't turkey.
Movie and TV chases. A few days ago I saw an old TV show where the bad guy was driving away while the hero was still in the house. The hero was on the bad guy's tail within seconds after getting into his car. The person chasing always knows which way the other person turns even if he can't see the person he is chasing. Unless, of course, the plot calls for him not to know. Just for everyone's information, daddy long legs are not spiders.
My husbands 'comfort' movie is "The Martian". He watches it everytime its on. I told him there was no atmosphere on Mars, therefore no storms and it really bummed him out.
It's more likely the coloring added that causes the problems with hyperactivity. I grew up with someone who was sensitive to red #40. She would be bouncing off the walls if she ingested any.
The firing of a gun. Fallout 4 intro when the guy shoots your wife/husband with a baby in their hands after awakening from cryostasis. My first words were "that baby is now def" that whole game was illogical but still enjoy it.
I will go outside in a t-shirt without a coat If it's still in the 40s, and I'm only outside for a couple hundred feet. To much hassle to deal with the coat in a warm store.
I saw the Indian Crystal Skull in a theater with a friend who was just gaga over Indy movies. I was belly laughing from the moment that fridge was airborne. My friend was SO upset! But then, I'd already embarrased him earlier by guffawing at Shia LeBoef's Wild One drag.
One other thing. Getting conked on the head and being unconscious for even a moderate length of time is a HUGE deal. It usually means brain damage and/or bleeding into the brain that often means surgery is necessary. It also means that the casualty is not going to remember events before the injury. The longer the person is unconscious, the more memory they will lose. I am watching a series where a police detective was chasing a suspect and the suspect slipped while on a cat walk. They were quite high up. The detective could have saved the suspect, but he let him fall. The suspect fell but lived but in a coma. Then, the suspect regains consciousness. The detective is worried that the suspect will tell on him and he will be charged with manslaughter. My first thought during this is, "Don't worry dude; he is not going to remember your letting him fall."
Amazing to think that most of these were shown to be, or more apt, not to be true on the show 'Mythbusters'. Which I'm a huge fan of. If that show was still around, I'm sure they would have got to the rest of them on this list.
Fresh perspective on what being born again means. As Mormon (read BofM twenty times besides Doc of Covenants and Pearl of blah blah nine times) attended temple services every week for years. Released one Sunday this organization was not about Jesus but is a social political organization. Then became involved in Christianism. Heard excellent live rock music at worship and was treated to a University course (philosophy department) that demonstrated Mormonism false. Finally was baptized and confirmed Catholic and recited the rosary daily and attended mass every day. Now an atheist -- at least in agreement with atheist spokes people -- it is realized the source of (personal) unhappiness was believing in Jesus. That is being born again!
Re: Independence Day. According to Patton Oswalt, there was a scene cut from that movie that would have explained that AND the apparent technoogical jump the world underwent after WW2 - ie: that we recovered and reverse-engineered some alien tech that became our phones and computers. I don't know if that's true, but I wish it was.
In a cave with zero light getting in from outside, lighting a single match WILL light up a whole tunnel, and I've seen it demonstrated firsthand...so I'll have to disagree on that one.
I am 16 minutes in... Sheesh Seth! I mean...for Pete sake! Aren't there some truths we just don't need to know?!? sheesh. If I keep listening, you will my entire day... (I am not so smart)
I knew that I was being lied to when we rescued Exxon executives from a middle east conflict. I was really convinced when I worked in corperate America, I heard lie after lie.
Bagpipes were likely introduced into Scotland (Fairisle Island ) by the Spanish sailors of the El Gran Griffon which was ship-wrecked there. This ship had been part of the Spanish Armada and had escaped northward from the great battle in the English Channel. The tartan kilt was also from The Spanish Armada. The original Spanish bagpipes are called "Gaitas" and are mostly found today in Galicia, northern Spain. Sixteenth century Spaniards depicted on some oil paintings in Granada are wearing tartan kilts.
I have a few comments: Re: the sprinkler system- it depends on the system. Where I was working, the head technician who was replacing the sprinkler system, said that the old system was like the system that you described. It would spray a black (or dark brown) liquid. (I had never thought of that before.) However the new sprinkler system had compressed air in the pipes rather than water. So when the sprinkler was activated, the air was released, and fresh water rushed in and was sprinkled. I worked with someone who always wore shorts. He said that when he went from the car to the mall, he wasn't in the cold that long, so he had no problems. He said the biggest benefit of going out in -20C was the looks he got from people who couldn't believe what they were seeing. (He said he kept pants and a warm coat in the car in case they were needed.) Someone told me that it was ok to go out in the cold with wet hair. It just froze, and didn't make me cold. It sounded so ridiculous that I had to try it. Providing it was cold enough, it worked! It froze instantly, and a couple seconds after going outside, I put on my hood and was warm and happy. For some reason, the ice never melted. It went straight from ice to water vapor. It worked if it was -15C or colder. If it -5C or warmer, it didn't work. It didn't freeze quickly enough. My hood would get wet, and I'd be cold and miserable. I don't recall between -5 and -15.
I would love to see a movie with realistic treatment of such things as how loud a gun shot is - especially in closed spaces, the proper time to use and aftermath of CPR, cups with liquid, not staring at the passenger of the car you're driving, etc
I'm definitely the kind of person who people hate to watch movies with, too, so I knew a lot of these already. Which meant I got to feel smugly intelligent for most of them and happily surprised at the remainder, so it was a fun time~
"High-octane gasoline" is not "more power". It contains less BTUs. It's harder to ignite. High performance engines make more power by squeezing the air/fuel mixture more than other engines. But if the fuel ignites BY ITSELF too soon, damage occurs. So various octane increasers are added, taking the place of gasoline, watering down the fuel so it won't go off so easy. Two common things used for this purpose were lead and WATER. It's not the fuel, it's the engine. Please note that fuel sellers deliberately and continuously promote this very wrong assumption for marketing purposes, and it has taken hold.
I can willingly suspend my disbelief if it's a good story with good acting, but I watch bad Indie horror flicks and - yeah - not so much. But I do like parodies of bad movies. One of the best thrillers I've ever watched was "Failsafe" from the 60s - had me riveted and probably had a lot of flaws, but it grabbed me. Fun podcast! Thanks Seth.
My husband is 6'4 and basically the hulk [for reference I'm 5'2, 130lbs give or take and more inclined for muscular build than most female born and identifying people ..even before we met and moved into the woods to build our house with the most minimal fossil fuel usage as possible within our ability and control; which was about 2 & 1/2 years ago. At that time, I was unable to lift our 7gallon propane tanks into the Jeep when they were full--- our solar setup became capable of handling the well pump in the beginning of this summer, and by then, for over a year, I was the main one carrying the tanks up our very steep hill from Jeep to generator, a 5 gallon tank in each hand or both arms for the 7 gallon, with our property gaining 452ft in elevation at around 4000 ft above sea level, to really hammer home the incline/core strength involved especially in -temp winters], and he, yes the husband from the beginning of this run on sentance and the hulk in question, dug BY HAND with a pick axe and spade, the 10x8 ish sqft pit for the 1200gal potable water tank, at almost the highest point on the property because our running water is gravity powered... the absolute feat of strength that took lacks English descriptives that can do justice to explain to anyone inexperienced with digging a hole deeper than a foot or so, depending on environment [barring the beach I'm not savvy on digging in sand but to be fair running is hella harder in sand so 🤷] People think we do everything easier, cheaper, faster, etc in these modern of days, but I urge rethinking of that lazy line of intellectual processing.. what was once done using energy from our bodies, brains, and simple tech assistance, is all still expensive energetically but at the expense of the future generations and planetary capacity for sustaining existence, which though statistically is most likely one of many life hosting planets in the vast expanse of space, practically and to the best of our observatory capacity however, this is all we know to be alive. And at least as far as we can observe, no other viable environment has even the potential to sustain lifeforms as complex as have evolved on Earth. Energy is neither created nor destroyed and our hubris has world leaders gaslighting and PR branding us into our fossil fuel expenditures hitting record highs with zero signs of reduction all greenwashed and semantically packaged to allow for complacency, cognitive dissonance, preformitive liberalism, apathy, Armageddon acceleration, or any combination which allows Western imperial war machines to keep burning the future for profit and the impossibility of infinite growth. And to complete this unhinged rambling, I have found quite a few fossilized corpolites [poo, but i live in the PNW where no technical dinosaurs lived. I think pl-a-something-o-saurs swam when where I'm sitting was under the ocean.] It looks like poo it's just rock solid and glittery 😂😂. I was kidding when i found it and said it was poo but it really is lol Also this is why i can't have nice things....i have to sorry ...of course rats could be autistic , autistic is just 'processes and experiences sensory input sequentially, at different paces, with dynamic hyper/hypo/combination sensitivity, expresses and interprets interactions at face value, increasing vulnerability for being manipulated, misunderstood, missing non verbal ques, subtext, or social rules relying on either to pick up on, or otherwise learn, which results in a lack of social/emotional reciprocity during interactions which until recently was chalked up to lacking empathy, but is known now to be a combination of sensory overload and bottom up processing along with the higher risk of being bullied, punished, etc and increased chances of suffering from PTSD, CPTSD, misdiagnosis [especially afab with adhd born before the mid to late 90s as prior to 2014, only males could be diagnosed as autistic or ADHD and both wasn't considered possible [IMO thats all due to capitalism baby; and perhaps a dash of systemic racism, pinch of medical misogyny, and a healthy sprinkling of good ol American individually responsible for bootstrapping our own health through meritocratic earned prosperity and blessings in the form of health wealth and normalcy] our benevolent country doesn't want to enable folk with legitimate claims to disability aid or workplace accomodations including protection from discriminatory treatment, or termination, and having to provide health benefits beyond minimum liability credit allowed to full time able bodied [don't forget psychologically 'normal'/emotionally 'regulated'] employees already having put in 90 +days of hours uninterrupted by illness injury inability incompetence or incompatibility with company procedures, coworkers, etc. I'm actually done now despite using the word unhinged 3 paragraphs of this sentence ago. I always appreciate Seth's insights and validation as a fellow thinking atheist and critical thought advocate. Clearly this one fired me up as debunking evangelical WTF notions of historical events/accuracy and deplorable pseudoscience/pop psych mutations leaking out of fascist pipelines and incell forums and into general dialogue as if any rando that honestly thinks ancap holds weight in ideological terms, or that 'neoliberal marxist' exists as more than an oxymoronic facepalm has used the logic and reason so upheld by these feelingless facts they hear from their debate bro devotionals... Is a passion of mine, to say the least, which is an understatement as bold as claiming facts and feelings are ever separate occurances. I never even completed my long winded description of what being autistic is, which i am, autistic, also I have ADHD if that wasn't apparent, and am recently diagnosed as a my millennial woman in my thirties. Apologize if I misrepresented autistic folk with a more debilitating spectrum of traits than myself and if my limited understanding is harmful to anyone non verbal, or affected by additional disabilities requiring more supportive care than I, I did not intend anything more than excited explaining to increase empathy for neurodivergecy. Inention doesn't guarantee effect though so, I welcome critical counters to help my mind grow and my understanding expand. If anyone actually read this entire essay, damn, thank you for validating my interaction with this speech. It's been a blast on my end, and I hope you've gotten to laugh as deeply as I have, as its healing, uplifting, and most definitely a necessary part of a full life😅
Seth isn’t the issue with coffee and dehydration because of the diuretic qualities of the caffeine? At least that’s what I’ve heard claimed - of course liquids are consumed but the diuretic properties force the urination of the equivalent amount of liquid plus additional fluids
I was 61 before I finally walked away from the hypocrisy. Hard to face most of my life was a lie.
Better late than never. Welcome!
Me to,,, 63 uggg 😊!!
This is good news! It shows that age is not a limiting factor when it comes to new realizations.
It took me until the age of 26 to stop subscribing to mythological dogmas that my parents and ex wife are still subscribed to and because of that, are worried about my soul's eternal wellbeing and consider me to be lost all because I don't believe that a mythological deity sacrified his mythological son because I'm a horrible person for simply being human.
Right there with you, extracted myself in my mid 20s. It gets better with time, even with a 96% religious family. On the other hand, one of my fellow atheists has now gone conspiracy brained flerf, so life is full of twists.
I went all the way until mid-thirties but I was a borderline Baptist. we never took it serious anyway 😂
.. I did choir I did weekdays Bible School, was the Deacon for years😂 .. on mission I went to visit the "crime scenes" overseas. IM DEFINITELY OUT! ✌️I'm wit u "the reasonable"
@@rickc2102I'm not even going to weigh that difference. Choose a category..Yes I'll take "Popular conspiracies" for $1000 please 😂
How do you view your ex wife before, during and after marriage? I presume you loved her at one point... did the love change when you "awakened", or did she leave when you were "lost"?
So what mythological dogmas did you replace them with?
I saw some old western recently where the cowboys fanned a Gatlin gun indiscriminately at a bunch of charging Native Americans. They were falling off their horses left and right, but not one horse got hit in the hail of bullets.
They used to fall, but it killed too many horses, so it was outlawed. You will see individuals fall but they are trained to do it in a safe and humane way. I'm fine with that kind of lack of reality because it means they aren't harming a horse just for a movie.
Gatling gun
"It is possible to die laughing"
Well, yeah! I knew that already from Monty Python and the funniest joke in the world.
John Cleese has a story of a man who died laughing watching "A Fish Called Wanda", Kevin Kline asked, "which line, exactly?".
Scotty didn't calc the formula for transparent aluminum.
Star Fleet had been using it for a hundred years before Scotty was born.
Scotty learned the formula at Star Fleet Academy
The guy that "invented" transparent aluminum was the guy Scotty gave the formula to in the past.
It's a temporal paradox.
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Just seeing two of the words together is enough to send you mad...
Yea.Eric Idle singing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life as he is being crucified
Among many other false beliefs, my mother convinced me that if I didn't eat my bread crusts I would never have curly hair like my brother. He was my favorite person, and she exploited that to control how I ate.
Funny. I was told I couldn't learn to whistle if I didn't eat my crust.
The pointless mania of pushing children to eat crust is one of the emptiest exercises of parental/lunchperson/teacher power. There is no reason why, and in fact in other cultures it is commonplace, to remove bread crust before crafting a sandwich for example. Children do not “need” the crust; a sandwich is not “wasted” or “wasteful” because a crust is removed.
I used to eat crusts but then got too impatient and lazy to bother.
The Royal family have crusts cut off and probably other British Toffs
All because "the crust has the most nutrients," when it's really just more cooked, so probably less nutritious, if anything!
I spent my entire childhood terrified of getting into a snake bed of water moccasins when swimming in a lake, only to learn as an adult that snakes don’t do that.
When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to go swimming until an hour after eating because it was thought that you could get stomach cramps. I always suspected that it was total crap, and sure enough, it turned out to be false. The claim was first published in a Boy Scout handbook in 1908, but nobody knows where the authors got that idea from.
Besides never saying goodbye at the end of a phone call, movie characters almost never seem to say thank you, and, on the rare occasion when they do, the other person never says you're welcome.
Seconds cost money is that why
I thought it was just an American thing.
And nobody locks car doors in the movies.
25:14 As long as we're correcting errors:
"...it's not pristine opaque water..."? Did you mean the opposite of that, as in, "transparent"? Opaque means you *can't* see through it (light doesn't pass through it). If You have opaque water coming out of your tap, you are in some real trouble.
The Mythbusters covered the daddy long legs myth and how hard it is to dig a shallow grave to dump a corpse.
I loved Mythbusters. They made it entertaining to debunk these long held bogus beliefs. Their whole show was based on scepticism and science. I believe Adam and Jaime are atheists as well.
Seth makes my life bearable. Thank you for existing Seth and thank u for your show. Yes u are a great thinker
"Have you ever noticed, when you have to hide the body.... in a movie..." Nice save, Seth.
That was interesting. I just found your show a couple weeks ago and listen to about 2 or 3 a day. I'm not even an atheist, just hate Abrahamic religions. Helped ruin my life but I'm okay now. I want all religion out of schools and government and tax the churches and organizations! I keep it simple. I think there is more to life than we know but I have no idea what. If I did know I wouldn't force others to know. Live and let live. God Is Not Great is one of my favorite books. Glad to know you can suspend your disbelief to escape once in a while.
Actually...
There is a LITTLE something to the whole "connection between getting cold and catching a cold" thing - if you go from a hot environment to a cold one, then back and forth again REPEATEDLY, you can put enough stress on your immune system to make yourself more susceptable to developing a cold. I got one of the worst summer-season colds of my life while working in a SWELTERING warehouse and had to frequently go into the front office which the girls who worked in there kept at near icebox temperatures to get shipping orders (I always had to wait in there long enough to develop chills - only to then go back to the Hellish heat of that warehouse and do the work that would eventually require me to go back to the fridge again).
Indeed, ill dressing for cold temperatures will contract the blood vessels in the mucus of your respatoiry system that fends of infections. Less blood transported to the mucus means less oxygen and nutrients for the mucus to do it's job, apart from that every chemist ought to know that lower temperature means lower reaction time.
Hence when going out into the cold for longer periods, dress for it. If you still happen to work there, I advice to hang a warm coat for yourself just outside the front office.
If you happen to generate enough heat, for instance when running a marathon, you don't need to wear that much insulation. It's what all people living in arctic climates will tell you: wear many layers so when you have to be active, you can strip off one or more layers so you don't start sweating so your clothing will keep it's insulation properties.
Some of my favorite movies have big plot holes, but I like them anyway. This was a fun podcast.
Totally, sometimes entertainment is independent from feasibility.
I worked in the ER and one pet peeve I have is, people saying a full moon makes people crazy. And people saying, MUST BE A FULL MOON! I'd tell nurses and doctors, you have a science degree!
I think that most people are really being facetious when they say that…
Why’d you stop working in the ER and what was your role?
I love that Seth mentioned Crank and Chev Chelios calling his girlfriend while falling because that call was shown again in the sequel but from her point of view and the only thing she hears is "Shhpsssshsshpsshhhssh"! 🤣
I was in the catholic regime in Australia from birth. Some things that occurred to me back then but didn't ask about were, Jesus was a jew & we follow him but we are catholic. Jesus wears long robes and we wear jeans. We are in country Australia and Jesus was in the middle east. And the ritual of mass was just silly. So I feel lucky that I was never sucked in.
As a Swedish kid I didn't wear warm clothes in winter.. but sadly it wasn't so much that I was a sceptic but rather that my natural state is rebelling against authority. That anti authoritarian streak did help me resist religious indoctrination while my sceptic ability grew.
Just FYI: about 10-15 years ago, scientists looked again at this "old wives tale" and found out that, hey, it's actually not wrong:
1. being cold dampens your immune response.
2. cold viruses can multiply much better in a colder nose than in a warm one. And when your body is cold, your nose is even colder.
All these grandmas and mothers who had been called dummies who didn't know how viruses work had noticed a true correlation all along, even though they didn't know the concrete mechanism.
This is actually an example of how prejudice among scientists towards "silly women telling old wives' tales" made them overlook that the then scientific model of how infection works had been woefully incomplete.
@@TheFeldhamster I very much doubt the scientists concluded anything based on what "silly women" thought or didn't think. A study showed little to no correlation between getting a cold and being cold.. and the media ate it up. Later studies have, like you said shown that to be wrong in most scenarios. Clearly the flu and other similar diseases spread more in winter, so there had to be some correlation.
3. The third point in your list should be that we tend to be indoors a lot too and that gives the viruses better chances of spreading, so it's partly the cold and partly secondary effects of the cold.
I did the same thing every winter in northeast ohio, my mom was so mad when I went out in light clothes, and I always wore long sleeves in the summer!
@@patrickmcelrath4962I'm from north east Ohio as well. I'm born and raised just west of Cleveland.
I have a hypothesis that virus infections spread easier in winter because our immune systems are not as efficient when we have less sun light - after all do we really not meet indoors and on public transport as often in the summer to a significant degree?
I was thinking the same. But along with insufficient sunlight the body being cold could lower the immune system as well.
In the movies, a killer is coming for you, and you can't drive away..... because you have a flat tire.
🤦♂️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏼♀️. They can drive on the flat, man. Haven't those script writers ever watched any police pursuit videos????
Sorry Seth, St Patrick is not looking to be Scottish but Welsh. Historians are still arguing about this but there was a Welsh speaking community in Strathclyde or he could have been kidnapped from Wales itself, the jury is still out on this. By the way I am biased being Welsh myself. As always loving the podcast. Gyda chariad.
Yes. I'm pretty sure St, Patrick was a pre Anglo-Saxon Briton, which descendents would probably be the Welsh. I'm not sure if the terms Scottish or Welsh would have applied at the time, though.
Great show! Love love trivia. I’m a retired RN and my husband is a PA. Nobody wants to watch medical movies with us 😅
I have to defend Indiana Jones 4. The entire series has ALWAYS been pulpy nonsense, and it's intentional. See: magic facemelting ghosts coming out of the Ark of the Covenant.
Exactly! Crystal skulls are just as bizarre as magic stones, lost arks, and holy grails.
It's like riding a roller coaster. The thrill is that something will go wrong, but it's really rare that it does.
Cornwallis didn't surrender at Yorktown. He called in sick and let his subordinate handle his dirty work.
There was a movie that I never saw, I think starring Samuel Jackson, and I didn't see it because the premise was something I could not believe.
It was that movie where the entire premise was based on the false claim that "humans use only 10% of their brain power."
Lucy? Sounds like it, but no Jackson, that was Freeman.
probably about right.....the bit of your brain that is 'you' is probably about 10%, 10% for the sub-con, then the other 80% is busy keeping the body kickin.....Only bit that isn't really needed, is the 'you' bit.
Lucy is the one. Loved the movie but unrealistic and rife with bad information.
My favorite movie series (LOTR) requires me to suspend my knowledge of reality.
I thought of all the scientific laws that must be ignored to watch Dr. Who.
I was watching Jurassic something with a friend of mine that had 20/20 vision and she was complaining that it was hard to get into the movie bc the CG wasn't that good. It was one of the few times I actually appreciated not having very good vision. It looked good enough for me. 😉
I’m a radiation safety professional, as part of being in industrial hygienist. Defusing nukes and also surviving a blast in a refrigerator really “chap my ass”. I have a very good friend who is a nurse…. She can’t watch medical drama shows for the same reason.
This is my favorite podcast that debates religion. I am learning immensely from you. Send you love from London, the UK ❤
No swimming for at least an hour after eating !!!! lol
The movie "Hackers" is like the patron saint for hackers. There's even a special day for it, in hacker circles.
Worst hacking: That NCIS episode where Abby and Tim hammer away together, on the same keyboard.
And in normal use, NOBODY uses a mouse.
I liked Hackers for it's nineties nostalgia, but it really was pretty silly.
Sounds like a lot of conspiracy. 🤣 🤣 🤣 It took me 50 yrs before I finally labeled myself an Apatheist, that is I don't know, and I don't give a damn.
Loved the light hearted look at stuff we never thought to think about!
And brown is a magical colour, it is a major colour in nature, it is a protective colour of skin and it is one of my favourite. 😀
Mine too, but I agree with Seth that it might muck up a rainbow a bit!
Awa❤
Good stuff as always, was cool to hear you talking about decibel levels and inaccurate silencer usage in action movies.
Also,
You probably get this all the time, but you could totally be Jeff Goldblum's cousin 🤣
Thanks for all the good content.
Signed, a fellow bible belt state atheist (MO)
This was good. Made me snicker all the way through! What I learned from movies...anything more than a fender bender will result in an explosion and total immolation of the car and all contents! And if it goes over a cliff, it doesn't even have to hit the ground! If something explodes in space, the blast is always a ring, not a sphere, and the ring ALWAYS comes directly at you...every single time! I think it was the movie "Con Air", where the plane crashes onto the Las Vegas Strip, and slides for 5 minutes before finally coming to a stop; like the Energizer bunny, just keeps going and going...! LOL!
I'm still told not to go out w/o a coat or with my hair wet - I work for elderly people and they still want to mother "young" me and I'm 60 years old!
Watching medical dramas when you have worked in hospitals. So much of it is absolute BS.
Watching crime dramas when your husband works in forensics (he did forensic toxicology). He constantly picked it apart. He always said that he wanted CSI's mass spec library. Yes it's possible to analyse that paint scraping and discover it came from a 1958 Oldsmobile BUT you have to have all those paint samples in your analysis library for the test samples to find a match.
Fossilized dinosaur poop? Pure coprolite!
Unrefined dolomite
I watch the actors' chests and eyelids.😂 I finally just watched the final scene of The Walking Dead and when Rosita closes her eyes and then showed her a moment later, she really did look still and dead, unlike someone just work eyes closed. I was impressed!
I watch to see if the actors can play the 🎸🎷 🎹 🎻 too! Look like they can operate! I watch for all that stuff too!😂
People thought reefer would make you into a sex fiend. But then, in those days, they thought jitterbug/ big band jazz would do the same thing. Then in the 50s, it was rock and roll that would pervert you.
Those darn Flappers!
True and what I find hilarious is there's many fundamental penticostals that say Taylor Swift is evil 😅😅😅😅
Peter Hitchens still thinks that, and pot always leads to sociopathy or at least depression.
@@vls3771They're perverts...
How did Goldblum's computer have an OS compatible with the aliens' mainframe'?
I'm always fascinated by how silent airplanes are mid air, werever you are in the okane.
Why do all explosives in dilms always have a big clock with big red numbers?
And storms at sea, don't get me started.
About food: Chicken tikka masala was invented in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow, Scotland.
In cavalry battle scenes, have you noticed none of the soldiers' horses get shot and killed while thousands of bullets are whizzing around?
My husband is Deaf and when he's thinking to himself in the car (maybe he's calculating mileage or directions), his hands are in the cindole between us and I can watch his hands moving and fingerspelling to himself. He talks in his sleep though. I'll have to pay attention to his hands.
I have dreams where I sign and on occasion I sign to myself or do it when I'm under stress. I'm hearing but use sign for over 30 years. A couple of times I've forgotten English (coming out of surgery and signing where's my husband while the nurses grabbed my hands and someone speaking to me and it sounded unintelligble and I was looking at their hands to sign whatever the hell they had said, then had to ask them to repeat when I realized I know English - I had been only using sign language up to the point any was caught by surprise when a stranger spoke to me!) - that it happened at all surprised me. Up until then I couldn't understand that my dad would need sometime to get used to using his native language when he went back home to visit his family. I was always like, how can you forget your native language as an adult? Well you can!
I’ve worked in many many fields in my life and have learned so much stuff wrong with movies myself. Like elevators, digging holes, and my favorite fire protection systems. I used to drain that water before a repair or install. It’s black and smells like marsh water. Worked that job about 8 months. Did a CIA building in northern Virginia and we had to put unions in between every room so you couldn’t tap the pipes to spy.
Yes, I did learn a lot from this episode...there were a few that I did know. Thank you for airing this show.
You can get instant hot water with a recirculation pump. Great investment. I highly recommend.
The special edition of The Abyss came out just a few years after the original...it's not new by any means. It's so old I first saw it on laserdisc. But yeah...the ending(s) of that film really drag it down. I'll add to this the bogus notion espoused by movies that a nuclear meltdown is the same as a nuclear detonation. On the other side, I'll point out that everybody watching a horror movie thinks they'd manage the situation better than the people in the film, even though the characters are panicked and terrified, and the audience is sitting comfortably out of danger and are better equipped to make cogent decisions in a way those in the story very likely could not.
Thank you Seth for the fire alarm clarification… no one gets this! And yes we computer people do shake our heads…
I can’t watch a Jurassic Park movie. I had been a systems integrator for years and systems aren’t susceptible to the kind of stuff their software guy did. I agree Seth there’s little or no chance we’ll see aliens from other planets anytime soon, but when we do I doubt we could identify their computer system, much less make a virus for it, it’s like writing a TCPIP socket for an AS-400 without having seen or known about the existence of AS-400’s beforehand.
Star Trek IV: Of course it would be easy for Scotty to create a schematic for transparent aluminum on a 1980s Mac - he's well known as a miracle worker!
With regards to Independence day, our tech was supposed to be reversed engineered alien tech. Hence, the Mac worked. What's wrong is the aliens don't have virus protection. 😂
Has anyone ever left their car keys in the sun visor of their car?
Not quite a popular belief. Maybe more of a movie trope...
A nice, light episode! No death cultists, or disc-earthers, or genocide apologists. Fun stuff.
If I can add one to the list: speaking from experience, RPG’s do not fly in slow-mo spiral fashion. They’re rocket powered, medium range controlled explosions… It’s a boom, a weird fizzle noise coming at you, and when they miss… you hear a second boom, about 1-2 seconds later.
❤Ooohh yeah! The "OMG my life is a lie!" Moment ...classic mindjob'n! Come to Cincinnati SETH! Please man it's the only thing I'd attend is ur shyt brotha! I NEED THIS! H3LL schedule anywhere in the Tri-County area bro. The religious r in these centres speaking all the time. Book CINCI ... its a major northern axis point btw❤
Funfact, the oxygen produced by photosynthesis doesnt come from co2, it comes from h2o q:
The co2 goes into the energy resources
uh, update, winter air is dry, causing tiny fissures in nasal passages, where viruses get in
The thing with people running down the middle of the street while a car is chasing them in movies always drove me crazy! I would always be like "Get off the road! Run through the yards! Jump a fence! Put as much stuff between you and the road as fast as you can!" You will never out run a car on a paved surface, i don't care how fast you are.
I have skydived many times. Without actually skydiving the closest you're going to get to the noise is riding a motorcycle at 125 Mi an hour with no helmet. Good luck making a phone call.
thankyou Seth, always fun to listen to you
Henry VIII was not eating turkey legs. Turkeys are a new world food. He was probably eating goose, swan, or another large bird in the painting--but it wasn't turkey.
Rice does not harm birds, contrary to what Ann Landers says.
I watched Bullitt last month, and though I know nothing about police procedures, it seemed like an honest and sincere detective movie.
Movie and TV chases. A few days ago I saw an old TV show where the bad guy was driving away while the hero was still in the house. The hero was on the bad guy's tail within seconds after getting into his car. The person chasing always knows which way the other person turns even if he can't see the person he is chasing. Unless, of course, the plot calls for him not to know.
Just for everyone's information, daddy long legs are not spiders.
My husbands 'comfort' movie is "The Martian". He watches it everytime its on. I told him there was no atmosphere on Mars, therefore no storms and it really bummed him out.
It's more likely the coloring added that causes the problems with hyperactivity. I grew up with someone who was sensitive to red #40. She would be bouncing off the walls if she ingested any.
The firing of a gun. Fallout 4 intro when the guy shoots your wife/husband with a baby in their hands after awakening from cryostasis. My first words were "that baby is now def" that whole game was illogical but still enjoy it.
I will go outside in a t-shirt without a coat If it's still in the 40s, and I'm only outside for a couple hundred feet. To much hassle to deal with the coat in a warm store.
You make me laugh Seth LOLOLOL Ps-perfect title for video!
I saw the Indian Crystal Skull in a theater with a friend who was just gaga over Indy movies. I was belly laughing from the moment that fridge was airborne. My friend was SO upset! But then, I'd already embarrased him earlier by guffawing at Shia LeBoef's Wild One drag.
For me, growing up in the UK with Scottish parents, a 'daddylonglegs' was always a cranefly, not a spider.
Critical thinking has to be taught in all schools at all ages.
Yes I'm that guy now...can't watch anything without picking out the bloopers 👍
One other thing. Getting conked on the head and being unconscious for even a moderate length of time is a HUGE deal. It usually means brain damage and/or bleeding into the brain that often means surgery is necessary. It also means that the casualty is not going to remember events before the injury. The longer the person is unconscious, the more memory they will lose.
I am watching a series where a police detective was chasing a suspect and the suspect slipped while on a cat walk. They were quite high up. The detective could have saved the suspect, but he let him fall. The suspect fell but lived but in a coma. Then, the suspect regains consciousness. The detective is worried that the suspect will tell on him and he will be charged with manslaughter. My first thought during this is, "Don't worry dude; he is not going to remember your letting him fall."
Amazing to think that most of these were shown to be, or more apt, not to be true on the show 'Mythbusters'. Which I'm a huge fan of. If that show was still around, I'm sure they would have got to the rest of them on this list.
Fresh perspective on what being born again means. As Mormon (read BofM twenty times besides Doc of Covenants and Pearl of blah blah nine times) attended temple services every week for years. Released one Sunday this organization was not about Jesus but is a social political organization. Then became involved in Christianism. Heard excellent live rock music at worship and was treated to a University course (philosophy department) that demonstrated Mormonism false. Finally was baptized and confirmed Catholic and recited the rosary daily and attended mass every day. Now an atheist -- at least in agreement with atheist spokes people -- it is realized the source of (personal) unhappiness was believing in Jesus. That is being born again!
Re: Independence Day. According to Patton Oswalt, there was a scene cut from that movie that would have explained that AND the apparent technoogical jump the world underwent after WW2 - ie: that we recovered and reverse-engineered some alien tech that became our phones and computers. I don't know if that's true, but I wish it was.
In a cave with zero light getting in from outside, lighting a single match WILL light up a whole tunnel, and I've seen it demonstrated firsthand...so I'll have to disagree on that one.
Whenever I am disarming a nuclear weapon, I just flip the off-button.
There was a great book in the 80’s called “Roman solders don’t ware watches” movie bloopers that ware great
There is a Viking movie where one of the Vikings was wearing a wrist watch.
Seth I look at the chests of the "dead" actors too!! Always fun to see them move 😄
I am 16 minutes in... Sheesh Seth! I mean...for Pete sake! Aren't there some truths we just don't need to know?!? sheesh. If I keep listening, you will my entire day... (I am not so smart)
finished it. This episode will have made my day. :) Thx Seth!
I knew that I was being lied to when we rescued Exxon executives from a middle east conflict. I was really convinced when I worked in corperate America, I heard lie after lie.
Bagpipes were likely introduced into Scotland (Fairisle Island ) by the Spanish sailors of the El Gran Griffon which was ship-wrecked there. This ship had been part of the Spanish Armada and had escaped northward from the great battle in the English Channel. The tartan kilt was also from The Spanish Armada. The original Spanish bagpipes are called "Gaitas" and are mostly found today in Galicia, northern Spain. Sixteenth century Spaniards depicted on some oil paintings in Granada are wearing tartan kilts.
I was way too old when i stopped believing that men had one less rib than women.
This is despite seeing anatomy in books and on TV.
I have a few comments:
Re: the sprinkler system- it depends on the system. Where I was working, the head technician who was replacing the sprinkler system, said that the old system was like the system that you described. It would spray a black (or dark brown) liquid. (I had never thought of that before.) However the new sprinkler system had compressed air in the pipes rather than water. So when the sprinkler was activated, the air was released, and fresh water rushed in and was sprinkled.
I worked with someone who always wore shorts. He said that when he went from the car to the mall, he wasn't in the cold that long, so he had no problems. He said the biggest benefit of going out in -20C was the looks he got from people who couldn't believe what they were seeing. (He said he kept pants and a warm coat in the car in case they were needed.)
Someone told me that it was ok to go out in the cold with wet hair. It just froze, and didn't make me cold. It sounded so ridiculous that I had to try it. Providing it was cold enough, it worked! It froze instantly, and a couple seconds after going outside, I put on my hood and was warm and happy. For some reason, the ice never melted. It went straight from ice to water vapor. It worked if it was -15C or colder. If it -5C or warmer, it didn't work. It didn't freeze quickly enough. My hood would get wet, and I'd be cold and miserable. I don't recall between -5 and -15.
I would love to see a movie with realistic treatment of such things as how loud a gun shot is - especially in closed spaces, the proper time to use and aftermath of CPR, cups with liquid, not staring at the passenger of the car you're driving, etc
"Copland" and the series "Fringe" did the gunshot thing well, where the person couldn't hear a thing for some time.
Open Range has a accurate gun shots, it's been a while since I've seen it but i believe they get the smoke right also.
While it’s not a good idea, I could see a panicked person running down the road.
When a female character is lost or imprisoned for a very long time yet somehow grows no leg or armpit hair.
And her hair is almost always clean, even though she hasn't been able to wash it for weeks!
Regarding the shower thing Seth, look into an instant hot water heater or a good recirculating water system.
I'm definitely the kind of person who people hate to watch movies with, too, so I knew a lot of these already. Which meant I got to feel smugly intelligent for most of them and happily surprised at the remainder, so it was a fun time~
Is it just me who finds it odd that there's an ad for a prayer app on this post?
Instant hot water... have a recirculating pump system installed in your house.
"High-octane gasoline" is not "more power". It contains less BTUs. It's harder to ignite.
High performance engines make more power by squeezing the air/fuel mixture more than other engines. But if the fuel ignites BY ITSELF too soon, damage occurs. So various octane increasers are added, taking the place of gasoline, watering down the fuel so it won't go off so easy.
Two common things used for this purpose were lead and WATER.
It's not the fuel, it's the engine.
Please note that fuel sellers deliberately and continuously promote this very wrong assumption for marketing purposes, and it has taken hold.
I can willingly suspend my disbelief if it's a good story with good acting, but I watch bad Indie horror flicks and - yeah - not so much. But I do like parodies of bad movies. One of the best thrillers I've ever watched was "Failsafe" from the 60s - had me riveted and probably had a lot of flaws, but it grabbed me. Fun podcast! Thanks Seth.
My husband is 6'4 and basically the hulk [for reference I'm 5'2, 130lbs give or take and more inclined for muscular build than most female born and identifying people ..even before we met and moved into the woods to build our house with the most minimal fossil fuel usage as possible within our ability and control; which was about 2 & 1/2 years ago. At that time, I was unable to lift our 7gallon propane tanks into the Jeep when they were full--- our solar setup became capable of handling the well pump in the beginning of this summer, and by then, for over a year, I was the main one carrying the tanks up our very steep hill from Jeep to generator, a 5 gallon tank in each hand or both arms for the 7 gallon, with our property gaining 452ft in elevation at around 4000 ft above sea level, to really hammer home the incline/core strength involved especially in -temp winters], and he, yes the husband from the beginning of this run on sentance and the hulk in question, dug BY HAND with a pick axe and spade, the 10x8 ish sqft pit for the 1200gal potable water tank, at almost the highest point on the property because our running water is gravity powered... the absolute feat of strength that took lacks English descriptives that can do justice to explain to anyone inexperienced with digging a hole deeper than a foot or so, depending on environment [barring the beach I'm not savvy on digging in sand but to be fair running is hella harder in sand so 🤷]
People think we do everything easier, cheaper, faster, etc in these modern of days, but I urge rethinking of that lazy line of intellectual processing.. what was once done using energy from our bodies, brains, and simple tech assistance, is all still expensive energetically but at the expense of the future generations and planetary capacity for sustaining existence, which though statistically is most likely one of many life hosting planets in the vast expanse of space, practically and to the best of our observatory capacity however, this is all we know to be alive. And at least as far as we can observe, no other viable environment has even the potential to sustain lifeforms as complex as have evolved on Earth. Energy is neither created nor destroyed and our hubris has world leaders gaslighting and PR branding us into our fossil fuel expenditures hitting record highs with zero signs of reduction all greenwashed and semantically packaged to allow for complacency, cognitive dissonance, preformitive liberalism, apathy, Armageddon acceleration, or any combination which allows Western imperial war machines to keep burning the future for profit and the impossibility of infinite growth.
And to complete this unhinged rambling, I have found quite a few fossilized corpolites [poo, but i live in the PNW where no technical dinosaurs lived. I think pl-a-something-o-saurs swam when where I'm sitting was under the ocean.] It looks like poo it's just rock solid and glittery 😂😂. I was kidding when i found it and said it was poo but it really is lol
Also this is why i can't have nice things....i have to sorry ...of course rats could be autistic , autistic is just 'processes and experiences sensory input sequentially, at different paces, with dynamic hyper/hypo/combination sensitivity, expresses and interprets interactions at face value, increasing vulnerability for being manipulated, misunderstood, missing non verbal ques, subtext, or social rules relying on either to pick up on, or otherwise learn, which results in a lack of social/emotional reciprocity during interactions which until recently was chalked up to lacking empathy, but is known now to be a combination of sensory overload and bottom up processing along with the higher risk of being bullied, punished, etc and increased chances of suffering from PTSD, CPTSD, misdiagnosis [especially afab with adhd born before the mid to late 90s as prior to 2014, only males could be diagnosed as autistic or ADHD and both wasn't considered possible [IMO thats all due to capitalism baby; and perhaps a dash of systemic racism, pinch of medical misogyny, and a healthy sprinkling of good ol American individually responsible for bootstrapping our own health through meritocratic earned prosperity and blessings in the form of health wealth and normalcy] our benevolent country doesn't want to enable folk with legitimate claims to disability aid or workplace accomodations including protection from discriminatory treatment, or termination, and having to provide health benefits beyond minimum liability credit allowed to full time able bodied [don't forget psychologically 'normal'/emotionally 'regulated'] employees already having put in 90 +days of hours uninterrupted by illness injury inability incompetence or incompatibility with company procedures, coworkers, etc. I'm actually done now despite using the word unhinged 3 paragraphs of this sentence ago.
I always appreciate Seth's insights and validation as a fellow thinking atheist and critical thought advocate. Clearly this one fired me up as debunking evangelical WTF notions of historical events/accuracy and deplorable pseudoscience/pop psych mutations leaking out of fascist pipelines and incell forums and into general dialogue as if any rando that honestly thinks ancap holds weight in ideological terms, or that 'neoliberal marxist' exists as more than an oxymoronic facepalm has used the logic and reason so upheld by these feelingless facts they hear from their debate bro devotionals... Is a passion of mine, to say the least, which is an understatement as bold as claiming facts and feelings are ever separate occurances. I never even completed my long winded description of what being autistic is, which i am, autistic, also I have ADHD if that wasn't apparent, and am recently diagnosed as a my millennial woman in my thirties. Apologize if I misrepresented autistic folk with a more debilitating spectrum of traits than myself and if my limited understanding is harmful to anyone non verbal, or affected by additional disabilities requiring more supportive care than I, I did not intend anything more than excited explaining to increase empathy for neurodivergecy. Inention doesn't guarantee effect though so, I welcome critical counters to help my mind grow and my understanding expand.
If anyone actually read this entire essay, damn, thank you for validating my interaction with this speech. It's been a blast on my end, and I hope you've gotten to laugh as deeply as I have, as its healing, uplifting, and most definitely a necessary part of a full life😅
I 🧂 the water for taste!😂
Seth isn’t the issue with coffee and dehydration because of the diuretic qualities of the caffeine? At least that’s what I’ve heard claimed - of course liquids are consumed but the diuretic properties force the urination of the equivalent amount of liquid plus additional fluids
That was a fabulous show 👌 enjoyed it a hell lot 😁