We’re all about the environment in this episode! Carbon foot-things, repsychos, and other important ecological terms! Also, we talk about other things, including several movies. You love movies, right? No? Well, then… the environment thing.
Also, we take the lights down low and get a little serious about our relationship, near the end. Don’t worry, it all works out…
And once again, we crowd-source some stuff to you all. It’s about the podcast, so we need some input. Speak up!
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This is what William got to discover just before the episode began.
And this is what the last question was about.
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I LOVE the idea of putting the questions in the episode description. Just putting the question up doesn’t let us know what your take on it was. Also, it gives much easier reference for the topics covered in the episode. Excellent idea!
I totally agree with Beth Alpha here and will go one further, asking that somebody (anybody?) goes back to put all the previous questions into the prior episodes.
William, if the human race is going to become extinct in say, 20 years, for what purpose do we need to work hard to conserve natural resources for future generations? What if all animal life on the planet also went extinct?
I don’t consider myself good at math. All the individuals I think of as “better than math than I am” happen to be male, but I don’t think I think of them as better at math BECAUSE they’re male. I would guess I’ve taken more math courses than the average person, both that are math focused and others that rely on math to reach their non-math-for-the-sake-of-math objectives.
Well, presuming we’d somehow know said extinction is inevitable in said period of time…
Let me answer your question by first asking a question of my own: If everyone learned for certain that the Earth only had 20 years left before all life on it ended, what would be the point of parents doing the “hard work” of continuing to parent their children? Shouldn’t they all just give up?
Sadly, I do think, if such news was delivered, more of that kind of thing would happen than most would like to admit. But keeping it the context of a thought experiment, I think we can all agree that giving up on parenting would be an absurd notion under such circumstances. And the reason we nearly all see it this way is because we nearly all recognize that parenting is a labor of love. Parents don’t parent solely for what they think the end result will be. There are all kinds of other joys along the way that make every second worth it. So much so, in fact, that if a parent knew that she/he only had 20 years left, she/he would likely put more attention and “hard work” into parenting, not less. After all, how better to spend one’s last days on Earth?
Likewise, folks who are today the most passionate about being conservationists would give you many reasons for what they do, most of which would still apply even if they thought the world was going to end in their lifetimes. For a partial list: they enjoy the beauty of wild places untamed by human development; they enjoy knowing that at least a few animal species other than humans are allowed to live in their natural habitats; they enjoy eating foods grown without chemicals because they taste better and make them feel more nourished; they enjoy knowing they’re only using what they need, even though they could easily use more; they enjoy the peace of mind and simplicity that usually accompanies living a sustainable life…
The list could go on. But really, forget about passionate conservationists for a moment. Wouldn’t TONS of people want to spend at least a bit of their withering time on Earth visiting the wild places that they know are about to disappear forever? Furthermore, if, upon hearing that there were only 20 years to go, some folks took chain saws and started cutting down an old forest just for fun since “it doesn’t matter anymore anyway” — wouldn’t most people find this objectionable, because they’d actually like to enjoy that forest with some of the rest of the time they have left?
Point being… I don’t think I’m actually alone in thinking like this. Yeah, I suppose if a person sees their conservation efforts as “hard work”, they’d see no point in doing it anymore if they somehow knew it wouldn’t achieve the specific goals they’d been aiming for. But for some folks these efforts are rife with every-day meaning and don’t feel like work at all. For them, the work for the last 20 years might become even more meaningful, not less.
Agreed that it would be good to have a list of questions that have been answered but I think it would work better as a single page collecting all of the questions together as opposed to adding it to the individual show notes.
I likewise had to explain Rickrolling to my parents. My Dad experienced a thing where he was doing some HAM radio stuff and this guy kept coming on saying that my Dad’s broadcasts was “spattering” onto his frequency. Dad would apologize and cut down his power. After this happened several times, he asked the guy what his frequency was. The guy told him and when my Dad went to check out that frequency, he heard somebody broadcasting the Mighty Mouse theme song on a loop.
This strikes me as the HAM equivalent of Rickrolling, but my Dad was mystified by the experience and didn’t understand my explanation of “Dude be trollin’.”
In the end I went with that it’s a “made ya look” prank, and he got it just fine after that.
Adaptation, Being John Malkovitch, En Bruges, 7 Psychopaths… Seriously bold statement there.
Don’t mix it up! 7 Psychopaths is Adaptation, and En Bruges is Being John Malkovitch.
Also, remember, I’m talking about the relationship of the films to each other, not to the earlier set of films.
Also, also, I feel like we’re spelling a couple of things wrong here…
Oh, we always are.
I would say that the Werewolf thing is also a metaphor for puberty.
Changes in the body you don’t understand, mood swings, hair growing out of places you didn’t even know you had places…
I do like the idea of putting the questions in the Blog. I don’t think it would be spoilery.
I always intend to misunderstand Tony.
“I would never do that.”
“That’s my point.”
LOL!
Dance my puppets, dance!
I’ve not seen Snow White & the Huntsman, but oddly enough do have a minorly amusing story about it. When it was first announced, one of the local theaters had a 7 foot tall, three-sided display/advertisement for the movie in the concessions area. While waiting for a friend to get their snacks, I noticed somebody had drawn a pencil thin mustache and goatee onto on the Charlize Theron/Evil Queen.
Tony: Where was Sleep Walk With Me playing? I’ve been kind of interested in it, but hadn’t noticed it hitting anywhere local.
Seven Psychocats Trailer
Arrow: I think you nailed that one Tony, on the arrow head. *bad-dum-dum*
Producer: Congrats on the 5K!
Joining a gym and getting up earlier just to go to it? Who are you and what have you done with Tony?
Wow, I’ll also be checking out Netflix to add some movies to my queue.
Dent: I’ll bet it was Ezzie who snuck in and dented your computer when you weren’t looking as payback for all the times you bad-mouthed her on the podcast. Side note: will you be naming the dent in your computer Arthur?
Dune reference FTW!
Code Talkers is Tony’s goto XKCD; mine would be Exploits of a Mom.