AirWreckRadio

On this episode of AirWreckRadio Cory wonders why it is that the least informed social-media users are often the loudest. Stacey explains that it’s the Dunning Kruger Effect at work.

In the news this week, the Saudi Government murdered an American journalist and President Donald J. Trump says that they said they didn’t, even though American intelligence agencies say they did. A man like our President is unable to use intelligence, and that is also an example of the Dunning Kruger Effect at work.

Closing things up, it appears that the world’s oldest living thing, Pando, an 80,000 year old tree, might finally be ready to throw in the towel. Cory is rightfully upset by this, but Stacey thinks maybe 80,000 years is a pretty good run. Why is this happening? We don’t know, but you’d better believe there are a million headlines out that that include the phrase “Scientists Stumped.”

AirWreckRadio: The less you know, the more confident you can be that you know more than you know!

On this episode of AirWreckRadio Stacey shares some thoughts he had while doing some “enhanced” mathematics . For example, what exactly does your mouth do differently to pronounce “pah” instead of “bah”?

In the news, Amazon has decided to start paying it’s low-wage workers something closer to a living wage after Bernie introduced the Stop BEZOS act, which would make employers like Amazon and Walmart pay higher taxes to cover the costs imposed by their under-payed employee’s government subsidies. This is a situation that unfolded in the background while the nation was busy watching our new Supreme Court Justice lie his way into a job for life in front of a complacent Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee who decided that a partisan win was more important than having a Justice who believes in the rule of law.

Closing things up, a PAC called #FireTedCruz in paying for some really great attack adds against Ted Cruz, the Texas incumbent boot-licker who’s wife President Trump insulted in the high school hallway that was the 2016 election coverage, and whom now spends his time raising money for that same President Trump’s re-election fund. C’mon Texas!

AirWreckRadio: With a name like that, it’s gotta be good!

On this episode of AirWreckRadio, Stacey wonders: would a prequel of “The Goonies” even make sense? Seriously, who on One-Eyed Willy’s crew built that organ, where did they get all the bones, and who reset the traps after Chester Cobblepot tripped them? And how did One-Eyed Willy convince his crew to join him in his suicide pact anyway?

In the news this week, the stock market is “crashing” and all the millionaire pundits are panicking. For real, working-class people like us, though, it’s business as usual. Can’t stock up on ammo when you gotta work a third of your life away to keep the kids fed, watered, and sheltered.

Closing things up, Donald Trump, the President of what used to be the greatest nation in the world “wrote” an opinion piece in USA Today, where he was able to publish all sorts of bold-faced lies about the democrat’s “Medicare for All” plan, while also omitting serious facts, like the fact that Medicare for All would save American tax-payers around 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

AirWreckRadio: The best* a man can get!

*best is subjective, and even we don’t believe that!

Hey all, it’s our last episode EVER!!! (of Season 6 that is) On this Episode Stacey kicks things off talking about some serious flaws in the Neal McCoy song, “Rednecktified,” a fun little country jam that he definitely enjoys, but is also sort of endemic of the pride of fools these days.

In the news this week, the NSA has made a plea for more whistle-blowers to come forward and blow some whistles. Great news for anybody working for the NSA who is also looking for a lifestyle change to living out their days in a hotel in Moscow, or some foreign embassy somewhere. What a deal!

Also in the news, Pop icon Taylor Swift appears to be responsible for a surge in voter registration after she urged her 112 million followers to register to vote. Not generally fans of TaySwift, but today we say, “good on ya!”

Also, also in the news, Trumps ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley has resigned form her position. We don’t know why. We suspect something gross, but we also certainly believe that her job has got to be one of the worst self-enriching jobs in the country these days.

Closing things up, baby pigs in tiger clothes. Really?

AirWreckRadio: Really!

Hey everybody, here at AirWreckRadio we know that the headlines can seem doom-and-gloomy, especially after 2 years of perpetual doom-and-gloominess! That’s why on this episode the boys pretty much say “F-it!” and have a lighthearted conversation about Stacey’s girl’s name, parental discretion, an tacos! It’s a real good time! (at least, we had fun.)

AirWreckRadio: At least we had fun!

On this episode of AirWreckRadio Cory’s back! Yay! The show is funny again! That’s not to say that Stacey isn’t funny, it’s just hard to be funny talking about the news by yourself. The boys start things of talking about Grand Theft Auto Online, where Stacey was recently blown up by a random fratboy named Beerchugger69. The boys wonder where Beerchugger69’s parents went so wrong that their boy though that was a cool Xbox Live handle.

In the news this week, Brett Kavanaugh still looks guilty AF of being a sex-monster, but that’s probably not gonna stop “republicans” on the Senate Judiciary Committee from confirming him to a live long seat on the nations highest court. How’s that for “family values”?

Also in the news, Michigan’s most hurtfully-corrupted bureaucratic agency, the Department of Environmental Quality, has approved a plan to allow Nestlé Corp. to pump nearly twice as much water from public sources into tiny plastic bottles as they we previously allowed. This decision comes in the face of tremendous voter outrage, with over 80,000 comments against the proposal vs. 75 in favor on the DEQ public forum website. The Department of Environmental Quality, you might remember, is the same agency that insists it did nothing wrong when it allowed the Republican-led state government to poison the entire population of the city of Flint, Michigan to save $50k in the State’s budget for 2015. That decision has since cost the country nearly $400 million, and the crisis still looms large. In our opinion, the DEQ should be gutted, and its staff should be replaced by people who think that the Department of Environmental Quality should operate in such a way that ensures environmental quality, but what do we know?

Lastly, the ESA released a photo taken by the Rosetta probe shortly before the probe’s hard landing on comet p67/Churyumov–Gerasimenko back in 2016. The mission was almost a complete success, with the probe traveling for a decade through the solar system in a complex orbit around several planets before it could catch up to, then orbit, then land on the comet, but that doesn’t stop Fox News from insulting the mission in their coverage of the photo.

The photo, by the way, is awesome, and we are the first human beings in history to be able to look at a comet from its own surface.

AirWreckRadio: Special thanks to the @ScienceOnTop podcast for teaching Stacey how to say “Churyumov–Gerasimenko”

On this episode of AirWreckRadio Stacey goes it alone, again! He starts us off on a tangent about the one glaring issue with the plot of Back to the Future III that nobody is talking about! That issue? The plot is driven by the assumption that there is no gasoline in 1885, which is almost true, except for the full tank of gas in the DeLorean that Dr. Brown was in when he was sent back to 1885. That car is there separate from the one Doc and Marty are tinkering around with throughout the movie.

In more serious matters, Judge Kavannaugh and his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, faced questioning in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Republicans did there questioning through a female proxy, Rachel Mitchell, so that they wouldn’t have to be seen themselves bullying an alleged sexual assault survivor so close to election time. Ms. Mitchell is a sexual abuse prosecutor, which, in Stacey’s opinion, is a bad look.

Also in the news, Coca-Cola is looking to get into the marijuana industry as sales of it’s 132 year old product line slag. Though in favor of marijuana legalization, Stacey shares his reticence over Old Capital gaining early entry advantages into this new market. He also questions whether or not we really need to put canabanoids into every single product where they might fit. It’s early days for legal weed, and much data crunching is sure to come.

AirWreckRadio: You got the right one, Baby!

On this episode of AirWreckRadio the boys take a day off! Here to stand in for them is their past-selves!

Way back in 2016, Cory and Stacey had tried to re-brand AirWreckRadio as The Model Citizen Project, and during that time, they covered the Flint water crisis in Flint Michigan. Remember that? It’s still going on. Cool.

This episode is that coverage. Join us on our most bogus journey to a time when there was an adult in the White House and Governor Rich Snyder (R) (Mi) was at the center of one of the worst, most expensive, and most easily avoidable infrastructure disasters in history, all to save a paltry $50k of the State’s budget. Way to job Governor Snyder. Way to job.

AirWreckRadio: We’ve never poisoned an entire city!

On this episode of AirWreckRadio the boys kick things off talking about how Stacey feels he was bamboozled by scotch maker Glenffidich, who sold him a bill of goods along with three tiny pours of Glenffidich 12, 15, and 18.

In the News this week, America’s most household-named adult film star says some outright funny stuff about America’s most household-named tabloid celebrity! Also in the news, Dane County Supervisor Shelia Stubbs had the police called on her while canvasing for her campaign on Aug. 7. Why? Because she’s black, and some racist ignoramus doesn’t think people like her belong in his community. This happens a lot, and it really doesn’t look good on anybody.

Also, also in the news: Speaking of white people looking bad, Ralph Taylor runs an insurance company in Washington State where he has been attempting to qualify his business for Disadvantaged Business Status, a program designed to help people of color and women-owned businesses. The trouble is, Taylor is whiter than President Trump’s Klan rallies, and he’s got the DNA test to prove it. Now, he’s suing the state because he thinks 4% Sub-Saharan DNA makes him disadvantaged. We think maybe something else in his life has made him disadvantaged, but his insurance company probably shouldn’t get any aide because of it.

Closing things up, it looks like Captain Cook’s famous ship, The Endeavorerer, may have been located of the coast of Rhode Island, where it was scuttled during the American Revolution. Now the battle is on to see what country gets to keep it. It was used to “discover” Australia, it was built by the British, and it was found by Americans, and all three say it should be theirs. The British claim, however, is exceedingly ironic, and the British Empire has been notorious for keeping other culture’s artifacts against the will of those cultures.

AirWreckRadio: It’s not Eric Radio!

This episode of AirWreckRadio starts of following an age-old tradition: Epic Technical Failure! But the boys won’t let a little thing like a broken soundboard stop them from providing mediocre newsfotainment to the masses!

In the News this week, a white guy who was a 17 year old rich white kid with a reputation for binge drinking in 1980, back when sexual assault was almost completely ignored has been credibly accused of attempted rape. Hard to believe, right? Now, 38 years later that rich white kid is trying to be America’s Next Top Justice. But we should all take it easy, because President Trump says Brett Kavanaugh didn’t do it, and President Trump would never not lie about something like that. Republican’s say even if it did happen, it was so long ago it shouldn’t matter, but what SHOULD matter is that if it did happen, Brett Kavanaugh has perjured himself before the Senate, and should therefore be inelligible for consideration for a seat on the nation’s top court.

Closing things up, Stacey saw a bumpersticker that made him laugh out loud! Either Stacey or the driver of that creepy van is showing a lot of hubris, and only time will tell!

This and more on another technical-failure wrought episode of AirWreckRadio!

AIrWreckRadio: The President probably wouldn’t like this show!