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Burnie and Ashley discuss Scottish weather forecast, Austin's rain defense system, Penn State's fraternity drug ring, Van Wilder, National Lampoon, wikipedia high fives, and the Boneless Couch era begins.
also the accompanying meme I made
Burnie brings up college football a lot which I understand since he went to Texas but I’m not sure if it’s from growing up in the northeast in PA, Go Birds. But if I watch a sport I want to watch the best players play? Vast majority of college players don’t sniff the pros. The argument also that it’s more pure and players don’t get paid is now something of the past as well. Is it due to the lack of major football schools up here? Outside of Penn State and Rutgers it’s pretty meh. I feel like the sentiment of mostly similar to this thought process up here as well unless one of those schools is your Alma Mater.
What is the draw especially if you didn’t attend said school?
Burnie and Ashley discuss Snapdragon, emulation, printing issues, the Han Kuang war games, cameras to people, highest August gas prices, Collge Football Preseason poll, and the Grantown On Spey Remakery.
Burnie and Ashley discuss who is cooler, influencer degrees, YouTube's new requirements, D23, Xmen casting, Starfighter, Zootopia 3, and other D23 announcements.
Edit: WARNING this post inclues jokes try not to take it personally. Visual media is a multi trillion dollar industry obviously it has value.
There has been useless content creating degrees for decades, it's called film school lol
Now it's just very very very short film school
Hey everyone!
I have a 6 month old. She’s super cute, but not really ready to watch TV yet.
I’m preparing my media server full of 90s shows. Shows my wife and I grew up with.
Here’s what I got so far.
•SpongeBob
•Jimmy Neutron
•Reading Rainbow
•Blue’s Clues
•Bill Nye The Science Guy
•Sesame Street
•Arthur
•Scooby Doo
•Tom & Jerry
•Looney Toons
•Thomas the Train
•Clifford
•Recess
•Dragon Tales
I’m sure I’m missing some, but this is what I’ve loaded on to her own personal playlist for when she’s a toddler. She can have the remote and watch things that are new for her, and nostalgic for Mom & Dad.
What old shows do your kids watch, or do they all prefer Bluey and other shows?
As a student of ASU I’d like to say this program is extremely porn brained and weirdly predatory. These programs will hook people up to wiesel’s on campus who scout newly arrived freshman to “make content”. Put that together yourselves… This will only get the university in trouble. There’s already x pages about who’s arriving and when and where they’re pledging. It’s gross.
My ex-boyfriend is a big fan of the podcast and a regular listener. He told me that he heard about the Isle of Skye from Burnie and Ashley mentioning it in an older episode. He said it'd be a beautiful place to visit while in Scotland for the first time. We went today and he popped the question and now he is my fiance :)
He wanted me to say thanks for putting it on his radar after catching up to the latest episode on our Scottish road trip.
Burnie and Ashley discuss co-parenting apologies, our community experts, Apple Maps making a comeback, windmill talk, construction talk, Polymarket betting on wildfires, and Chinese bullet trains.
Good Morning!
Burnie asked a general question today, musing on the idea of why wind turbines get so much hate.
First off, I’m personally a huge fan of renewable/clean energy. Solar, Wind, Water, Geothermal, Nuclear, etc.
The world still runs on fossil fuels. Infrastructure for renewable energy is on the rise. It was nice to near them chat about their new EV and how pleased they were at the faster charging batteries, and the availability of charge locations in Scotland.
Wind Turbines are a great source of clean energy, but it requires a lot of materials and maintenance to keep them running!
Here’s some of the downsides to wind turbines.
• Homes in surrounding areas that can see the wind turbines typically drop in value. The noise, and shadow flickers can be irritating to residents.
• The amount of space wind turbines take up is substantial. They are large, and eat up a lot of farmland space.
• Consistent Maintenance. Since the turbines spin, they still use oil, plastics, and have to constantly be checked on. Repairs can be costly.
• The Wind Turbine’s blades are typically made out of fiberglass. This material is hard to recycle. It can’t be melted down and easily reused. So while the energy is renewable, companies often produce a lot of waste replacing turbine parts. In Sweetwater Texas there is 30 Acres full of wind turbine blades. The recycling project was abandoned and 3000 damaged blades sit… This a similar story all over the world.
If you’re looking for a show that touched on Wind Turbines, the show Landman on Paramount has a great scene. This clip got me doing a deep dive into Wind Turbine research a few years ago. Here’s the clip.
Edit: Getting flack in comments for the clip being from Landman. I haven’t watched the show. Saw the clip on instagram and it made me curious about Windmills and what not. It’s a dude from a fictional show, with an oil bias shit talking windmills. I understand it doesn’t have credible sources, peer reviewed studies, blah blah blah.
No energy source for electricity is perfect. They all have flaws. I just wanted to touch on some of the broad reasons why people hate on windmills.
Thanks for reading my little spiel.
-CalvinP