Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 230 - The One Where The Got The Better Of The Techies

In This Week’s Show, episode 230, we properly fucked up the record, so enjoy most the show!

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Otunairanga (the Maori guardian of palms and flax) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned about seagulls, they are just pigeons possessed by demons, the average seagull is three stories wide, they feed on chips and children's fear, and they can fuck right off.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that bones found on Seymour Island indicate that, about 37-40 million years ago, penguins stood about 6ft tall and weighed around 250lbs?

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

#MyLastShot

* https://www.mylastshot.org 

* https://cnn.it/2TObAOH

* http://bit.ly/2TPjo2C

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. (man dragged behind a truck in Texas by white supremacists) mentioned in the story by Steve

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kendrick_Johnson (boy found dead in a rolled-up mat in Valdosta, GA) mentioned in the story by Jenn

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallahassee_shooting Yoga studio shooting mentioned by Jenn

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings Elliot Roger, Isla Vista Killings

New Zealand’s recent shooting inspired responsible gun law changes in less than a week. Sadly, school shootings here are as American as Apple Pie…

Side note, Apple Pie’s Americanness was likely engrained during the second world war. Soldiers when asked why they enlisted, would commonly reply “for mom and apple pie.” The actual origins of Apple Pie go back to 1381 in England; an apple pie recipe was printed by Geoffrey Chaucer and included apples, figs, raisins, pears, and a pastry shell but no sugar.

Anyway, school shootings.

Recently in Delaware, there was a school lockdown that was, frankly, a shit show. "So my kids (sic) school had a genuine lockdown today," wrote Shelley Reed, mother of a 7-year-old at the school, "some whack job called in a bomb threat. Police came and everything was fine, Thank God!" All was fine, but after the event, Shelley noticed markings on her daughter's arm. Looking closer she saw, hastily written in purple Crayola marker, was “Love Mom and Dad.” When asked why the 7-year-old - just gonna keep saying that - the 7-year-old said: "in case the bad guy got to us and I got killed, you and daddy would know that I love you."

And that’s the reality of schools and childhood in America.

Fast forward to modern Columbine and nearly 20 years after the mass shooting, it’s still affecting the students. Students who, by the way, hadn’t even been born when the shooting took place. Most of the attention comes from shitty, shitty people treating the school as a tourist location. So shitty…

The more important attention is from current Columbine students. Kaylee Tyner, 17, told CNN that she was inspired by Emmett Till’s death and legacy when she began #MyLastShot.

For those unaware, very briefly, Emmit Till was lynched in August of 1955 for purportedly flirting with a white woman. A few days after the interaction two men, bristling with guns, forced their way in Till’s uncle’s home, abducted, beat, mutilated, and murdered the boy. Dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. Those accused of his murder were acquitted after a seedy-as-fuck Mississippi trial and,