Heat Stroke episodes:

• March 31, 2021#26: Interview with Veterinarian Extraordinaire: Claudia

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  "Singaporean fruit bat monkey dogs"

  "They did quite well once they started getting oxygen."

  Tilting the dog is a diagnostic technique

  "Do I look smart to you?"

  "The beatnik sophisticate"

  Claudia questions James's podcasting technique

  Writing the medical record is challenging, but rewarding

  Claudia wanted to be a mechanic

  Airbag vests for horse riding, but not for motorcycles because, fashion

  Lithium Grey

  Bicycle helmets are for suckers

  "Well when I was in China..."

  Doing research on Asiatic Black Bears (Moon Bears) for Animals Asia

  James and Claudia conspire to kill all those awful humans

  Video taping bears for stereotypic behavior

  Quid Pro Quo - I'll give you veterinary advice if you give me your professional advice for free too

  Claudia was raised in an animal hospital barking at dogs

  Veterinary medicine is way more efficient than slow human medicine

  James would rather go to a veterinarian than a 'human' doctor

  Advice for people looking to be a vet - spend time doing it

  Good vets know how to do a physical exam (but they don't teach that in school)

  Horses are cool and Claudia loves them

  Dogs think they run the house, but who has the credit card?

  Damn Yankees

  What is with Ben Affleck? How can you like him?

  Anal Sacculectomy - made Claudia nervous, but her mentor made it easy

  Alameda East - E-Vets

  "No, I'd LOVE to hear about you!"

  Claudia's film career

  Be your best on set, or you won't be asked back

  Interdisciplinary teams

  Best case: physical exam - X-ray - bloodwork = lymphocytic leukemia. Diagnosis in less than 24 hours

  X-rays are magic, almost as good as ultrasound

  Some of the smartest people don't test well

  Advice for pet owners - create a budget for your pet! Vaccines, preventative care, and micro chip

  Claudia standing on her head in class because she didn't read the directions

  Patrick Stewart's Ice Bucket Challenge

  Don't misgender the animal

  Claudia gives the worst answer ever

  ...more

  

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• March 24, 2021#25: Interview with Amarjit Singh

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  Christopher and Amarjit - friends since 8th grade

  High school used to be better

  Losing fingers is just part of growing up in Arizona

  Free doughnut! Oh, Crispy Cream... forget it.

  Amarjt's spicy Chai Tea

  Ten Gurus - basis of Sikhs

  Amarjit's travel tips for India

  Guru Granth Sahib

  Ek Ong Kar Sat Nam

  Sikhism - no hell, just self realization

  Singh for men, Kaur for women - way to dismantle Indian caste system

  The Golden Temple feeds 100,000 people a day

  "If it changes, it dies"

  "The soul is perfect" so don't try to change it, just realize it

  Self realization is a process of subtraction

  Slide projector / remove slide to see white light (consciousness) = self realization

  A "colorful person" is really just neurotic

  "Are you saying I'm neurotic?" "No, you're not that colorful."

  Sikh Warrior

  Crossed swords - one to be the warrior of the soul, the other to be the warrior of world/politics

  India not really masking up (this is before spike in April)

  Indians have a different sense of personal space

  Big red X on your house if you have COVID in India - caused many suicides

  COVID response is speeding up current trends

  Kids aren't learning personal skills

  Zoom and masks both stifle communication

  Classrooms are now silent

  BSA to the rescue - the opposite of Idiocracy

  We all impact the 'Collective Consciousness'

  Amarjit's Bodhi Tree story - kid is getting all the leaves. Amajit lets go and leaves start falling on him.

  Amijit's first retreat - He gets bullied

  "Who is the first victim of your anger?"

  Don't be clever with people, be generous

  Fight fire with fire? Maybe try water.

  Aversion or Attachement

  Are facial expressions cultural or innate?

  James channels the GGs

  Amijit's podcast - The Story of My with Amarjit Singh

  All the way from India just for this podcast

  Psychedelics? Oh, yes. Mushroom yogu, but nothing compared to meditating in a cave for 10 hours a day 40 days.

  ...more

  

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• March 17, 2021#24: "Very Heterosexual Looking"

  Do you tip the delivery robot?

  What does a delivery robot do with an undeliverable pizza?

  Too costly to make people

  Christopher is afraid of maps

  Christopher thinks the lightbulbs are listening to him (they probably are)

  "Your eating habits are really not very interesting to me."

  'Smart' devices are listening to your confidential corporate info through your remote workers

  Our kids use their fancy smart devices for:

  lights

  music

  weather

  alarms

  reminders

  math

  Uber's "Cupertino Mode"

  Liberals hate Tesla (good for environment) but love Volkswagen (bad for environment)

  Google and Amazon replace The Stasis

  "James time is over."

  Your monitor can see you! Click this link to see what it is seeing right now!

  Cheerleader mom deep-fakes the cheerleading squad to make room for her daughter

  Colorado has a "Day Without Meat" and Nebraska looses its shit

  70's and 80's TV shows were terrible, but the show intros were fantastic

  James drew naked people is collage and learned the human body is not always beautiful

  "Very heterosexual looking."

  Miami Vice intro (Jan Hammer and bikinis)

  PSA: Miami Vice pilot was good, the rest of the show was awful

  MASH intro

  Modern shows are so much better, but their intros suck

  Knight Rider intro

  Knight Rider's intro narration: "Knight Rider: a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist..."

  Battle Star Galactica intro extended https://youtu.be/WtUxDbWcVTc

  Battle Star Galactica intro narration: "There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens."

  Buck Rogers intro extended - https://youtu.be/BINijYepahA

  CHiPs intro

  OK, Christopher was right, James watched CHiPs because of Eric Estrada

  Magnum PI (the only good show of the 80's)

  Top ten best tv shows from the 1980's by IMBD

  The A-Team intro

  The A-Team intro narration: "In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit..."

  Tom Selec makes James feel small

  The Fall Guy intro

  Get Smart intro is a work of comedic genius

  MacGyver intro

  ...more

  

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• March 10, 2021#23: "Godlet" - Interview with Tim Johnson

  Tim Johnson

  Whiskey or vaccine?

  James threatens Christopher with unpleasantness if you doesn't get the vaccine

  Where is the best Mexican food to be found?

  Christopher wears his cowboy hat in London

  The English eat asparagus with their hands, but they eat tacos with a knife and fork

  We argue about how to use a knife and fork

  English eat weird

  Chopsticks

  "Who wants to eat their food with tweezers?"

  "Everyone having knives is just too dangerous."

  Forks as weapons

  Women don't like eating in front of other people?

  "I understand why you don't want them to have knives."

  Tim is a "getting better" cook

  Are artists good cooks?

  Tim is such a good painter that sometimes his own paintings make him hungry

  James brings 'cognitive sciences' up again...

  James is getting high off the hazelnut coffee

  Tim and Christopher are better cooks than James

  Californian light is magical

  "The finished product is the residue of my thought process."

  "Don't worry, it's just art. You're not going to hurt it."

  We're too tough to take medicine (except whiskey)

  Tim's favorite artist is Thomas Hart Benton

  "Holy crap this thing is little." (Stary Night is smaller than you think)

  Paintings are better in person

  Italy is a good place to see art

  Painting is process and problem solving

  "Do you see yourself as god?"

  "You're a little god."

  State of mind of riding a motorcycle and painting is basically the same (in the zone)

  Tim was born to be wild

  "The question was a lot more shallow than the answer."

  Boxer-briefs

  "Sometimes I don't wear anything."

  "I want to get one, but they look scratchy."

  "The best podcast we've done today."

  ...more

  

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• March 03, 2021#22: "The Pre Cryogenically Frozen Biden"

  "Outsider" Architecture

  Greek homes "grow over time"

  Christopher wants to build a straw-bale home with mud covered walls

  Navajo fever

  Joe Rogen Dr. Hotez

  Feeding America's Hungry Children

  Feed My Hungry Children

  Caring Coalition

  Can't give money? Give your time.

  It's bad for James to interact with humans (for him and them)

  Apple TV +

  Christopher occupied Wall Street

  James goes all ways (Apple, Android, and Windows)

  Sony doesn't mix well with others

  Apple has the dumbest names

  Christopher hates big TVs

  Rose Gold and Space Grey are not colors!

  Benny Hill was cheap and sad, but funny

  Apple TV + is the new HBO (not an original observation)

  Charles Schulz - Li'l Folks

  YouTube is music

  Foundation Series Coming to Apple TV +

  Christopher doesn't respect one-liners

  Christopher, The Sopranos was not a documentary

  Netflix is slowing becoming the new cable

  Microsoft Christmas ad "In their own prison cells." - saddest thing I've seen

  NFL owners are like a diversity rainbow. Of white. And old. And male.

  "The pre-cryogenically frozen Biden."

  "Vaccined"

  Trump vaccine plan vs Biden vaccine plan

  And we discuss the EU

  CANZUK

  Can-Nada

  Mexico - the 51st state

  "I swear to God I don't put anything in the coffee."

  A flag is not a rainbow

  Glucose? Couscous?

  Christopher: "Do you remember when we used to talk about flags?"

  James: "Yes."

  Christopher: "What happened to that?"

  James: "You."

  ...more

  

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• February 24, 2021#21: "Artists and cooks are the two worst spellurs on the planet." - Interview with Mike Swaine

  Mike Swaine designer and saver of trollies

  Lost wallet found in Antarctica

  "A recording of our tedious conversations."

  Crawdads, everywhere

  Water-skying the canals

  Canals are off limits except for dead bodies

  Drainage ditch or canal?

  Arizona Falls

  Canal coffee

  SuperBall Ad

  1947 - suspicious barn fire takes out trolley service

  1887 - trolleys start

  "Chlorophyl hadn't even been invented yet."

  Mule driven trolleys

  "If James is wrong, Christopher owes James $100."

  First trolley line - 7th street to 7th Ave along Washington, then Up 7th street to fairgrounds

  Trolley museum booted out of Hance Park to make way for a skate park and moved to Grand Ave

  Disney horse-drawn trolley

  Trolleys converted to tiny homes - Millennials didn't invent tiny homes

  Two old trolleys found in trailer park

  PHXTrolley.org

  Rosson house

  Costco Pizza

  Pizza cheese

  "It might even be legal."

  The best Mexican food is in... Italy

  Artists are good at cooking?

  "You're not lying, your just wrong. Again."

  "Artists and cooks are the two worst spellurs on the planet."

  Is presentation (on the plate) important?

  One of NINE sibling?

  Mike's self portrait

  "You can edit your face."

  Genrad (General Radio)

  Mike had a type setting company but sold it all when he saw the Macintosh

  Press Type guitar

  James gets off on code

  1980 Linus Screen Composer ($40,000?)

  Trolleys of Venice Beach

  Moses Hazeltine Sherman

  Venice Beach paved over their canals

  The rolling blackout didn't really role...

  Dark or Milk chocolate? Milk chocolate. This conversation is over.

  "You can say 'ding-dong', but not 'boob'?"

  ...more

  

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• February 17, 2021#20: "Hey everybody, this is my probation officer!" - Interview with Allen Henry

  Allen Henry - Probation Office

  James's of panic moment

  James doesn't know the difference between probation and poral

  "I've had enough of this, just send me to prison."

  PSA - Phone Change-over

  James complains about the mug

  Turns out, getting arrested is expensive

  Scottdale runs on DUIs

  Equal opportunity spewers

  Real Colors - Personality Assessment

  Gold, Blue, Green, and Orange

  Christopher is an Orange

  Christopher's "Pow Wows"

  James is Green

  "I like the idea of people, just not people..."

  "We're not making Easter eggs here."

  Tea tipper?

  "As colors go, you're a Californian."

  Greens don't get caught

  White collar criminals should just be hanged

  There are no Robin Hoods, just hoods

  What, the chair isn't included?

  Oranges commit crimes

  It's just a matter of time before Christopher ends up in jail

  It's not Christopher, it's "Kissy"

  The Brightening

  How to speak to and hear people better

  As a teacher, Christopher did well with the problem kids because, well, he was one.

  Ankle bracelet kids

  They don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care

  Christopher doing home visits in the hood

  "That's downright brilliant."

  Allen telling Mike Tyson's what to do

  What does ear taste like?

  Muhammad Ali hugs Christopher

  "Hey everybody, this is my probation officer!"

  Allen didn't need no sidearm

  Smooth or crunchy?

  ...more

  

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• February 10, 2021#19: Take Your Vaginas and Your Penises and Go Home

  James thinks Christopher should wear a dress. A kilt is not a dress.

  Great Kilt - a survival tool

  "What the hell is a loincloth?" "A cloth made from loins?"

  "The Italian size."

  James thinks the Black Knight scene in The Holy Grail was faked

  From dumbbell reading level to advanced literature

  "Those lazy Medieval people and their people cranes."

  My 600 Pound Life

  Coca-Cola ad

  Murals in Phoenix:

  Redemption Church Alhambra mural by Carlos Rivas

  Day of the Dead + Basketball = mural

  Public art anchors the time and place of a community

  And then we talk about ART...

  London Elephant Parade

  WE define "Art"

  Mineko Grimmer - 1987 "The Point" installation art at El Camino College

  James doesn't go to see art, he makes it come to him

  James Turrell

  James sticks his head into the art

  Christopher wants you to touch his paintings

  Art is ephemeral and only silly artists think their stuff should last forever

  Eurotrash Girl

  Oversized Popeye. Is it art? No.

  Con Artists

  Thomas Kincaid vs Jeff Koons (twitter pole?)

  The art world is rotten from the top down

  Damien Hirst's dead shark

  Computer generated art?

  England - shark on the roof

  Film is the best art form

  We don't like Christo

  Dumb

  Phallic is always a thing

  "Take your vaginas and your penises and go home."

  ...more

  

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• February 03, 2021#18: Interview with John Fitzsimmons - Magician Extraordinaire

  John Fitzsimmons native Arizonian Magician

  Small talk it too big an idea for us

  I don't like correcting Christopher because it takes too long

  Audio problems

  John is a (licensed) pyro

  Zoom Magic

  Easley's Fun Shop

  Magically curing learning disabilities

  We were all in the slow class

  Drink it through your nose

  Guinness World Record - Most costumes tried on in eight hours

  Top 10 sexiest women

  Social Media's impact on magic

  Vanishing Ink

  Social media not great for Magic

  Five years to create a trick - it takes a lot of work to do stuff

  James has mug shame

  Brain Games - Seeing what's really there - magic and painting trick you

  Hypno-disc

  Seeing Jesus

  Pink light ruins the Rubik's cube trick

  Moonwalking with Einstein

  Solve a Rubik's Cube - John: 1 minute 15 seconds, James: 10 years

  The Gong Show

  The unknown comic (Gong Show)

  Fozzie Bear

  "You can't have gotten this far in life without wearing dress."

  Christopher has 25-30 hats

  John has invisible hair

  "I only have one wig."

  "A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician." - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Carnac the Magnificent

  John is a magician just as an excuse to make stuff

  Super Thought Uploading Psychic Infused Dynamic Hat

  John magically leaves

  Comedytrickster.com

  ...more

  

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• January 27, 2021#17: The Last Thing You Need to Worry About is Toilet Paper

  Christopher teaches his kids to be rock stars

  Christopher: the failed architect, James: the failed painter

  Christopher becomes disillusioned with architecture when he realizes there are not enough beautiful women in the field

  Phoenix's architecture and more:

  Metro Center

  The Pyramid On Central

  Phoenix Financial Center

  U of A Biomedical Science Partnership Building

  Tempe is ugly

  Frankford is ugly

  James is ugly

  MP3.com & lala.com

  James listens to... Enya and so does Christopher!

  Natural Wonders

  Kitaro

  Far and Way

  Pontiac Fiero

  Christopher has army green eyes, except they are blue

  Boston Legal - Captain Kirk and Odo (inside Star Trek jokes?)

  Benson

  4400 desperately trying not to get cancelled. And Failed. And ruined itslef in the process.

  Jumping the shark

  Christopher doesn't respect old people anymore because he is one now

  Engineering is the application of science

  Christopher is tired of science changing

  Don't confuse science with science journalism

  "The last thing you need to worry about is toilet paper."

  Women fighting over toilet paper

  Has religion or science has done more harm?

  Hydroxychloroquine?

  Science becomes useless as it becomes politized

  "We talk to much - that is a scientific fact."

  Coffee technology just can't do it better than a simple French Press

  Kuerig cups are more environmentally friendly than Starbucks

  James whining again about being cutoff

  Christopher cracks himself up

  "Little pods of stake."

  ...more

  

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