What The Frock?

Is the protest  formerly known as CHAZ about to get "Red Pilled?" How do we even have a clue as to what to believe about what is going on? If we keep on "Doomscrolling"  we end up driving ourselves crazy trying to figure out what is going on in the glorious Peoples Demokratick Repulick of #CHOP, or anywhere else for that matter.

Facebook Memes are another part of the problem. Just because a given meme says that somebody you don't know and that you have never met said something that you like to believe that they would say or what you think that they might think, doesn't make it so.

Rod has an interesting BEER of the WEEK, and Dave finally catches up to the Chicken Pot Pie episode in The BINGE.

It's a busy week ahead as Rod heads out to Southern California for a major family event.

SOME SHOW  NOTES:

Science by Press Release

The CHOP Webcam #1

TWITTER #CHOP LIVE

The world will end today or in six months. There is bad news because of this: it means that we will have to go through another Presidential election. We will also tell you the good news because of it!

A  recent article from a history site he follows has Dave contemplating more of the issues we face as a society. The big question is how do we overcome the "Lost Cause" Mythology that permeates the discussion?

Rod has your Beer of the Week but The Binge, a mainstay segment of the COVID  lockdown, is less than scintillating this week.

We've Got the  Patrick Krebbs Memorial Listener Of The Week Award and we have The Weekly Wisdom with Which We Leave You...

Other Show Note  Links:

The "Lost Cause" Myth

John Brown's Body (Song)

Gwyneth Paltrow Has a New Candle (Not Discussed on this show, but since  we know about it, you should too...)

There was a rumor floating about the bowels of the interwebs that the Hells Angels AND the Mongols were both on their way up I-5 to "take care of" the CHAZ. Like so many things on the interwebs it turned out to be a white rabbit hole that went nowhere.

That said, there is still a lot more to unpack about the CHAZ, or CHOP, as they prefer to be called. Is there an actual "solution" to the CHAZ? If there is, what might it look like? Or does it even matter?

The Beer of the  Week is not the one Dave is drinking, although it is similar. It is the Slo Brew  A-Slo-Ha, which is something of a surprise as Robo's well-known disdain for IPAs had the oddsmakers looking in another direction.

And DNR announces the Listener of the Week award, which is named after the memory of their greatest listener...

The boys are looking for ways to survive the ongoing stress created by the Coronavirus pandemic. While Rod is used to staying home, Dave's family is most definitely not and they want to go to their favorite place to go out to eat. Which locally is still closed, but a hundred miles away, it's open. Albeit in the most  COVID-19 way possible. Meanwhile, Sir Isaac Newton may have found the preventative medicine that we all need to protect ourselves. Yes... even while he was discovering gravity AND inventing calculus,  he found the time to cure all your ills! And if they can get anybody to listen, the boys are ready to shill for ToLo's!

Others seem to no longer care about the virus as protests flow across the nation. Jean-Jaques  Rousseau once explained that it is not possible for a majority to organize itself for anything. Minorities (not just racial) are able to organize much more effectively and thus have always driven the social and political changes in history. We need to be having a full and frank discussion, including what are the deepest problems in the nation without assuming that because we don't agree on everything that we are mortal enemies. While some seem determined to stop any level of conversation, we will be wise to listen to Voltaire's warning. Because that, along with Rousseau's warning, is how evil men and women co-opt entire civilizations.

Space Force is entertaining both the boys, mostly because of John  Malkovich, who one of the three figures of Dave's Actorhead. All of it brought to you by All Natural and Homeopathic ToLo's!

Diamond & Rod are joined by   Bill Mick from WMMB-AM in Melbourne, Florida, where American just launched her first astronauts into space from US soil is almost a decade. Bill generally has a front-row seat for launches and as a long time Floridian, he also knows Florida Man personally.

He is also a former Police Officer, so as D&R come back to Earth, the discussion turns to the riots across the country over the death of a black man at the hands of a white cop in Minneapolis, MN. The discussion isn't as much about the "what" that is happening, but a look as to why it is all happening? Is it really as simple as racial bias and animosity? Could it all have been prevented? and if so, what could have done that or possibly would do it going forward?

Will there be a 2020 Baseball Season anywhere but in South Korea? The answer is YES, but only on Dave's computer.

Rodbo has your "Beer of the Week," and in the binge-watch portion of the show, Dave watched ALL of "Upload" last Monday, but has moved back to his love for Baseball, while Rodbo has launched into the Space Force. We also learn that Bill HATES Steve Carrell and Will Ferrell. Mostly because of a horrible podcast...

SHOW References:

Police Unions and the Problem of Police Misconduct

Myths and Truths About the Office of Police Conduct Review

COVID Monkeys

Did you know that the US Government values a human life at $10 Million? So in the time of COVID, the argument goes, your freedom is worth $10 Million? Or have we gone so far afield of where we should have gone that there’s really no way to put a value on our lives anymore? The models were off, but models (except for Cindy Crawford) are pretty much ALWAYS wrong, but it’s looking more and more like the ones used to eviscerate the economy were as wrong as six rabbits*.  Nobody seems to have the same concern over the rise in suicides and motor deaths that they have over people going back to work or walking about without a mask.

Rod is watching a show about life after death... kind of... While Dave took a friend’s recommendation and turned on Kim’s Convenience. For some reason that defies any reasonable explanation, he also watched snow pisser. Ahem… Snowpiercer…

*That is an old Oklahoma way to say that they make no sense, just like the saying.

After a really rough day, the boys sit down and ponder if a short film by Kevin James is truly representative of the world to come, post-COVID?  Around the country people are being arrested - yes, arrested - for not complying with orders to stay inside. Perhaps the boys can look for some inspiration from somebody who has been through all of this kind of thing before? Luckily, there is just such a man. He is (or was) one  Samuel Peyps (Peeps), MP (Castle Rising) and the Chief Secretary to the  Admiralty, responsible for getting the Royal Navy up to speed for the 2nd  Anglo-Dutch war (Spoiler Alert: the Dutch won) and for keeping a rather racy and detailed journal during the Great Plague of 1665. Yes, Sam made it through and gives us a great look at how to comport oneself whilst all around are  (literally) dying. The key is to buy a new suit...

Our only listener in Mississippi gives us ten (eight, actually) reasons to live in Mississippi. And the regular  Binge-Watch section of the show has some mild surprises.

SHOW NOTES

Out of Touch - a Short Film by Kevin James

A  tourist arrested in Hawaii

The  First Pandemic Blogger - Samuel Peyps

Visit and follow the Facebook Page

As the pandemic mutates from actually being about a virus into mere virtue signaling, Karen would like to see your manager...

Dave is watching real, live baseball, just not  MLB baseball, while Rod has gone to seek Valhalla.

In the ongoing debate over what is speech and what is propaganda, it is the humble McRib Sandwich, a tangy BBQ  flavored hunk of more or less meat that reminds us that not all conspiracy theories are equal...

Ellul's discussion of Propaganda as referenced by Dave

The  Weird History of the McRib Story they talk about

The  Kentucky Derby Triple Crown Showdown

The lesson of the greatest  American Western film ever made is that the legend is more important than the actual facts about what happened. Of course, this whole idea of moral pandemic has been studied before. In 1973 an English (nationality, not discipline) professor by the name of Cohen came up with the five characteristics of moral panics. Pretty much all of them are familiar to us and to the Karen's of the world who want you to know that if you don't do things as they wish, they will use social media to make sure that everybody knows how bad a person you are...