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The world is so far still here, and as we enter the next Olympic season we want to chat about it. As per usual we have some opinions and we are sure you do too!If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Chinese Companies Use Facial Recognition to Remove Children Who Have Reached Gaming LimitSpirit And 

Frontier Are Merging To Create The Fifth-Largest And Probably Worst Airline Ever. Here's How The Internet Reacted - Digg

Police could no longer stop drivers for minor violations in Oregon under proposed legislation

The Dutch Vow To Throw Rotten Eggs At Jeff Bezo's Mega Yacht

Athletes Raise Concerns with Conditions at Quarantine Hotels for Olympic Games

USA TODAY Sports 'I cry every day': Olympic athletes slam food, COVID tests and conditions in Beijing quarantine hotels

Olympic teams raise concerns over quarantine hotels - ABC News

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - Latest News and Results

TIL:

TIL that in checkers it is mandatory to jump your opponent's piece if you can.

TIL 75–80% of Olive Oil sold in the US is adulterated, including major brands. Organized crime's profit margin on adulterated olive oil is 3x that of cocaine. Olive oil fraud has gone on for 4 000 years.

TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.

TIL in 1816 a volcanic event led to what is known as the Year Without a Summer, originating an agricultural disaster. The lack of horse food inspired Karl Drais to research new ways of horseless transportation, leading to the invention of the velocipede, a step torwards mechanized personal transport

Shower Thoughts:

Captain Hook is only going after Peter Pan because he's trying to stop him from kidnapping anymore kids but everybody else sees it as him being the bad guy because Captain Hook never goes after any of the kids, only Peter Pan

NFTs are the beanie babies of gen Z

Antarctica has the highest average level of education of any continent.

Vampires keep getting into relationships with mortals because they know they'll eventually get their inheritance, which is also how all vampires eventually become wealthy.

Children think adults have all the freedom and adults think children have all the freedom.

If someday we get to a 3 day work week, we’ll be defined by our hobbies not or jobs. Instead of being a lawyer who games, you’ll be a gamer who laws.

Dogs teach kids about responsibility, cats teach kids about patience and boundaries, and fish teach kids about mortality

Back again and ready to chat! Russia, video games, TIL, and much much more. How do we always end up bringing up China and North Korea???

If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

US to target Putin's inner circle with sanctions in event of Ukraine invasion | Russia | The Guardian

Sony Buys Bungie, Makers Of 'Destiny' - Digg

Harry and Meghan express 'concerns' to Spotify over misinformation - CNN

Chinese Nationalists Rage at Keanu Reeves Over Tibet Stance, Threaten ‘Matrix’ Boycott

Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal

Why I Was WRONG About Guns!  (jp sears video)

TIL:

TIL there are no more than 12 Kmart stores remaining in the US. At its peak in 1994 there were 2323 stores in the US and 2486 globally. Until 1990, when it was surpassed by Walmart, it was the second largest retailer in the US after Sears.

TIL the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body is the Stapedius muscle, which is about one millimeter (0.04 inch) in length. Its purpose is to "stabilize the smallest bone in the body, the stapes or strirup bone of the middle ear."

TIL about the French GIGN's "Faith Shot": after training, new recruits must shoot a small clay pigeon placed on their teammate's bulletproof vest with a revolver, to demonstrate the shooter's faith in their own aim, and the target's faith in their teammate.

Shower Thoughts:

Anyone you meet on the internet is male until proven otherwise

 More than a six pack of beer in the fridge starts to look like a drinking problem, but a whole wine cellar is considered very classy

Some poor soul holds the record for most consecutive red lights stopped at and probably doesn’t know it.

You can tell how bad inflation has been over the years by how much money people steal in heist movies of their times.

The irony of a cheeseburger. You've taken something from a live cow and put it on a dead one.

The person standing in front of you is technically the person standing the furthest behind you

We took some time off to be with family, work, and just let life happen, but we are back to talk about 2022 as it is now over 6% over with!!! Join us in conversation, ask some questions, and have some fun!If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Crypto YouTube Channels Suffer Unexpected Hack - Altcoin Buzz

Fake Cathie Wood Livestream Stole $200k in 2 hours and counting, damnnn

'I've already sold my daughters; now, my kidney': winter in Afghanistan's slums | Global development | The Guardian

Pig heart transplant: Man with terminal heart disease gets a transplant of genetically modified organ - CNN

TIL:

TIL that due to their high fat and low water content, pistachios can self-heat and spontaneously combust if stored inproperly

TIL, despite the Antarctic ice sheet containing 62% of the world’s fresh water, Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth, typically having little to no cloud cover

TIL It would take the energy of about 600 AA batteries to power a human for one day

Based on a 2000 calorie diet

Shower Thoughts:

Maybe superheroes wear capes to hide the zipper on the back of their onesie.

All those sci-fi stories where a guy kills himself to defeat an evil descendant of his could also be solved by cutting off his balls.

I'll bet mosquitos who bite heroin addicts, gotta wonder what the hell they just ate...

Vegans use plants and make them taste like animals, but no one uses animals to make them taste like plants

No one actually ever tells you how to get to Sesame Street

People don’t generally rest in restrooms.

Your future self is spying on you through memories

People incarcerated for crimes that are no longer crimes are being held hostage by the past

The Metaverse, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Warren, Octopi, and taxes…. Things we talk about this holiday week! Join us as we return after a few weeks off to travel and work some weird hours. We laugh, probably don’t cry, and obviously talk about showers. If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

INTO THE METAVERSE — Mint NFT now | adidas Originals

Musk hits back after Warren accuses him of 'freeloading' | TheHill

To give you an idea just how rare/deadly the KY tornado  Rotational velocity is one measure to determine the strength of rotation on radar. Only 1.5% of tornadoes have a PEAK rotational velocity above 80 knots.  This tornado had an AVERAGE velocity of 81.86 knots for over 4 hours

Elon Musk's 2021 taxes equates to over $1.5 million for every day he's been a US citizen

The world's first octopus farm - should it go ahead? - BBC News

China Ordered Amazon to Delete Reviews of Xi Jinping's Book, Reuters Reports

TIL:TIL I learned that in 2002, two airplanes collided in mid-air killing everyone aboard. Two years later, the air traffic controller was murdered as revenge.

TIL The screenplay for Elf was originally written in 1993 with Jim Carrey in mind for the role of Buddy, ten years prior to Will Farrell accepting the part.

TIL in 1986 a Russian commercial pilot made a bet with the first officer that he could land blind with curtains over the cockpit windows. He lost the bet, crashing and killing 70 people

TIL When the Body is Resting, the Brain Consumes 20-25% of the Body's Energy, and the Amount of Energy it Consumes doesn't Vary Much, even when Thinking Hard

Shower Thoughts:

People who use sign language don't have targeted ads based off their conversations.

There are 4 stages in life: 1) a babysitter was hired for you; 2) you are a babysitter; 3) you hire a babysitter; 4) a babysitter was hired for you

Someone needs to make an exact science of how to reheat things in the microwave.

Falling into a bottomless pit would kill you of starvation. (dehydration)

If Spider-Man lived in our reality, people would probably take his web remains from buildings and sell it on Ebay.

Surgery is stabbing someone to life.

Most people wouldn't eat bugs, but they are fine with eating giant oceanic tank spiders.

Lets chat before the holiday kicks off and we all need really long naps and loose pants to recover. We have some fun stuff to chat about, questions to ask, questions to answer, and are ready for a good time of discussion!!!If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

In Major Switch, Apple Will Teach You How to Repair iPhones and Sell Spare Parts

Dollar Tree hikes prices 25%. Most items will cost $1.25

EU threatens to blacklist airlines linked to border influx

TIL:

TIL In the last four years of Elvis Presley’s life, he had been prescribed 19,000 doses of drugs. In 1977 alone[the year of his death], Dr. Nicholpoulous had written 199 prescriptions totaling more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines, and narcotics to Elvis.

TIL The most expensive animated movie ever made, Tangled, cost $49,059 per second of animation.

TIL an average horse can actually produce ~ 15 horsepower (hp)

Shower Thoughts:

In space you could have double sided pizza

If they keep the Ghostbusters franchise going, eventually they'll be hunting the ghosts of the original Ghostbusters.

Han Solo and Shrek dress the same. 

Cleaning up after Clifford the Big Red Dog has never really been addressed in the books.

Deer don’t connect headlights with danger because the sun has never appeared and then smacked them at 65mph.

Not enough people talk about the insane coincidence that the sun and the moon are the same size from our view.

YT will probably remove the comment section next for the same reason it removed the dislike button.

Some trials happened this week, china probably did some more things, and we want to talk about all that and more. Join us for a fun filled time of questions, comments, laughs, and good old fashioned discussion.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Boris Johnson follows Labour call to ban MP paid adviser jobs

Poland turns water cannon on rock-throwing migrants at Belarus border

OJ Simpson's Jury Consultant Jo-Ellan Dimitrius Working with Kyle Rittenhouse

Kyle Rittenhouse, I am sorry I unfairly judged you and thought you were a racist. Full disclosure: Watching parts of the trial were both humbling and horrifying. When this happened months ago, I was a sheep. I watched  @cnn  and bought they were selling.

I hear commentators say Kyle Rittenhouse was very, very dumb to bring a gun to a riot, and I can see their point. But for context, he was still the smartest guy at the riot.

#KyleRittenhouse was the greatest trial witness ever. The prosecution showed a nonpareil breathtaking ineptitude. And then commenting on a defendant's invoking the right to remain silent. This was textbook mistrial material today. Rittenhouse will walk. http://lionelmedia.com

China wants WAR and is preparing Chinese people a fight against the USA!

An update to dislikes on YouTube

TIL:

TIL the world's largest spider by leg span is the Giant huntsman spider, which can reach up to 30cm/1 ft.

TIL that spiders eat 400–800 million tons of insects each year

TIL In 1975 Elvis went to see a movie with his gf. He was spotted by fans and they went crazy. His gf walks up and pranks the fans saying to Elvis, "Charlie, you're not using that Elvis bit again are you? Come on, you're not telling these people that you're Elvis again are you? The fans left.

Shower Thoughts:

If you’re a mother and only have sons, you’ve broken a chain of women who had daughters stretching all the way back to the start of humanity.

We have collectively accepted the standard of tying shoelaces, while there are so many other different ways to tie

A shirtless guy wearing pants is considered sexy, but a pantless guy wearing a shirt is kinda lame.

A world record on who’s been dead the longest is the only world record 100% impossible to break.

The trees cut down to make Jenga blocks are repeatedly forced to relive their own downfalls.

Most of us don't trust strangers yet we trust millions of them to do the right thing while driving on roads and public transport we are using.

It is amazing that people will actually get disgusted finding a single human hair while eating the cooked ass end of animal.

Here we are a week and a day later. World still standing, and we are still talking. China seems poised to create rules allowing their current leader to rule for life, no one can seem to agree still on social media, and here we are wanting to laugh at it all and ourselves. Join us for a fun filled time of taking life a little less serious for a moment and enjoying honest discussions without the need to always agree.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office Responds After He Hasn’t Been Seen Publicly In Days

JUST IN - Communist party leader and China's President Xi Jinping set to unveil new doctrine that could let him rule for life.

Xi Set to Unveil New Doctrine That Could Let Him Rule for Life

Tim Cook says he owns cryptocurrency, Apple ‘looking' at it for Apple Pay

Meta-analysis suggests that emotional intelligence is declining among college students

What the physics of crowds can tell us about the tragic deaths at Astroworld

Cardano's Big Plans for Africa – CryptoMode

TIL:

TIL Robert De Niro requested a live cartridge in the revolver for the scene in The Deer Hunter in which he subjects John Cazale's character to an impromptu game of Russian roulette. Cazale obsessively rechecked the gun before each take to make sure that the live round wasn't next in the chamber.

TIL, WWII code breaker and father of the Turing test, Alan Turing, died by eating a poisoned apple

TIL that Russia is one-ninth of the world’s land mass and it has 11 time zones.

TIL, the term Wi-Fi was the invention of a brand-consulting firm and has no technical meaning.

Shower Thoughts:

There is a chance that someone you know will use your death as an excuse to get out of a social obligation they don’t want to go to.

Stories usually put horns on evil or scary creatures, but in nature only herbivores have horns

If you find a $100 bill on the ground and it takes you a second to pick it up, for that brief moment you are making $360,000 per hour.

As data showing the effects of sugar on the human body become more well known, future generations will look back with horror on our practice of sending children out to trick-or-treat.

Gyms are a place where the customer works harder than the employee
The little holes in bread are yeast farts.

Well, some things happened faster than we thought after last weeks discussion. We also have some new things happening in the world that may sound familiar (cough: China). We want to talk about it and hear your take on it to. Join us live and comment, or leave your comments afterwards. Conversations is important, and ideas are healthy to discuss.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Portland Hit by Over 1,000 Shootings So Far This Year, Up From 388 in All of 2019: Police

Australia offers new permanent visas for Hong Kong nationals

Taliban says failure to recognise their government could have global effects

Australia offers new permanent visas for Hong Kong nationals

Facebook changes company name to Meta

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@punk6529  takes over w/ some amazing work from some phenomenal artists

Facebook changes the one thing it doesn't need to, is now called 'Meta'

Facebook Reality Labs - Keynote

JUST IN - Sun blasts X-class solar flare, CME to hit Earth very likely. This is the second major X-class flare of Solar Cycle 25. This X1-flare (X9 highest) can cause radio interference and lead to mid-latitude auroras.  Oct 28 UPDATE - NASA: CME to hit Earth by early October 31, on #Halloween

VeVe Celebrates Disney+ Day. Fans will be able to purchase official… | by VeVe Digital Collectibles | VeVe | Oct, 2021

Elon Musk says he will donate $6 billion if the World Food Programme proves to him that amount would solve world hunger

Rumor Spreads Online That Joe Biden Had ‘Bathroom Accident’ In Rome

TIL:

TIL George Lucas & Carrie Fisher have a secret cameo in Hook (1991) as a kissing couple who float into the night sky after being sprinkled by Tinkerbell’s Magic Pixie Dust

TIL that in 1987, several French taxi cabs were installed with a device that would shock unruly passengers in the backseat. The then new product was called "the blazing seat," and it was being marketed as a way of making taxi drivers' jobs safer.

TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.

Shower Thoughts:

Halloween night must be a very busy night for Ring servers.

Everyone has a right to be offended, but being offended doesn't make you right.

Eating a dozen cubes of sugar is considered unreasonable, but having it on a soda drink is completely fine

Passwords have probably stopped more people from entering their own accounts than hackers

The easiest way to be likable on social media is to never post anything.

"Smart" is the new "2000" of lame product naming.

Death is a universal experience nobody can relate to.

"Cat girl", "cat lady", and "cat woman" all evoke a different image

We have things to talk about, but its been a busy week. So if its more scattered than normal you know why. We want to chat about some Tik Tok happenings, Crypto, NFT (Like what is it and why do we keep seeing things about it?), probably some China happenings, banks being strange, and whatever else comes up in the comments or questions.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Tesla-Hertz Blockbuster Deal Paves Way to Take EVs Mainstream

Mastercard Partners With Bakkt to Bring Cryptocurrency Payments to the Masses

IS MASTERCARD PLANNING UNIVERSAL INTEGRATION OF CRYPTO?

October 22-24, 2021 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Yellen Describes How Proposed Billionaire Tax Would Work

SEC Gets Path to Rein In Stablecoins as U.S. Weighs New Rules

TIL:

TIL that in the 60s, the Dutch were so frustrated with the government's monopoly on TV that they built an artificial island in the North Sea to transmit uncensored television. Eventually, the Netherlands legally expanded its maritime claim and the military raided the island by air.

TIL Ferrucio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer and car enthusiast who created the Lamborghini car after Enzo Ferrari refused to entertain Lamborghini's advice on how to make his car better.

TIL children's sleepwear in the US is required to be flame resistant and self-extinguishing

Shower Thoughts:

A 100lb cat is much scarier than a 100lb dog.

Lifetime warranties really mean the company’s lifetime, not yours.

Flat-mooners don’t really get that much attention.

QR codes are the opposite of Captchas. Unreadable to humans but easily interpreted by machines

Taking off your glasses to focus on thinking is the human version of lowering graphics to increase speed

Actors start off in commercials playing someone else, but when they've really made it they return to commercials playing themselves.

Everything you've ever tasted is actually just electrons.

Babies that are born feet first briefly wear their mothers as hats.

You can't really turn off your eyes. You can just cover them up with something, but they still send signals to the brain

The world did not disappoint this week in weird and interesting news topics. It also hasn't slowed down with some older stories too. Tonight we will dive into the shipping situation, jobs, China launching nukes through space, and then launch into whatever else we want to talk about and end with some laughter. Stop by and say "hello" live, or leave a comment and listen later.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:

Union workers strike and threaten to strike to oppose two-tier wages

Democratic state Sen. Betsy Johnson will launch an independent campaign for Oregon governor

China secretly tests earth-circling, nuclear-capable hypersonic missile – report

Triple threat of factors driving shipping delays
NEW - Russia is working on a law that would force social media platforms to allow their users to disable all recommendation algorithms such as Facebook's AI-powered News Feed (Kommersant) - Deputies from the governing United Russia party are concerned that these types of algorithms are increasing the risks of social conflicts and provocations.

China mocks climate targets with plans to build more coal power plants

Netflix stands behind Dave Chappelle's 'The Closer' amid criticism from inside the company

TIL:

TIL CIA lost nine cores of plutonium in the Himalayas trying to construct a listening post in the 60s

TIL that a cricket match took place between a team of one-armed men against a one-legged team. “After much incident” the match ended in a narrow victory for the one-armed.

TIL roughly 70% of businesses in Sicily still pay protection money to the Sicilian Mafia.

Shower Thoughts:

Life is the only game where your maximum HP decreases as you level up.

Road rage would probably decrease if car manufacturers made their horns sound hilarious.

Someone needs to create grass that grows about 2 inches tall then stops.

Crystals can actually heal you if you have a salt deficiency.

The way you make a family is not family-friendly.

If a sloth clapped, it would always sound sarcastic