We had some difficulties, technically speaking, so the YouTube is broken into two parts. Part I is here, and Part II is here.
This week, we discuss two better podcasts than ours, one of which we’ll make for you (for a price)! William’s school uniform fits, but it’s still itchy, and Tony makes a correction (gasp!). Then we get down to the serious work of proper citizenship. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Do you think it was appropriate to change the namesake of Johnson County, IA, without asking for widespread public input? –Beth
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I think it was just a trap to get you both to say Johnson a lot
Oh no! Now we’re going to be edited out of context, and then canceled???
I think you hadn’t addressed my original question from the angle I was wanting, and Tony probably said that I should ask again if I still had a question about it.
Johnson county is now named after the first African American woman to earn a PhD at University of Iowa. While this woman was a pioneer in her field/higher education, she was not so remarkable that UIowa had chosen to name a building or program after her, but now the county is attributing the county namesake to her? It just felt a little (I’m not sure of the right word I’m looking for here) convenient(?), weird(?).
Ken Burns – yes, there’s an effect named for him in some editing software that moves over still photos and gives them some movement and life. Fun fact – I kind of met Ken Burns. He was the Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade the year Iowa went to the bowl game (2016). A very small group of us went to look at the floats being built and didn’t realize we needed tickets, so we asked a Rose Parade guy if he could help us out. Well he absolutely helped us out, and got us on a private VIP tour for free. Briefly, our tour group (of 4ish people) merged with Ken Burns and his family’s VIP tour (of 8ish people). I suppose I was more in the same air space as he was, rather than we actually met, but it was still pretty neat. On that same trip, I also met Tom Arnold – we chatted for about 10 minutes and he showed me pictures of his new kid who was born less than a week before. I’m not a big Tom Arnold fan, but it was really cool to have such a normal, human, new-dad conversation with a celebrity. We did not get so close that people asked if I was his daughter, which is what happened when I met Dan Gable. If you’d like to hear more about celebrities I’ve met, please write the hat, or invite me to IHOP breakfast.
I agree that there’s something about seeing a celebrity in person that’s… awe inspiring, maybe? Regardless of your feelings about them.
I’ve said it many times, but I was absolutely star-struck to see Alan Thicke ahead of me in line at a restaurant, even though I’m not that big a fan. It was just so surreal to see the man from the TV box in real life. 🙂
Did we cover the county topic to your satisfaction this time? 🙂
Yeah, that was sufficient.