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[mindme]

Fact: V was a HUGE sensation in Korea when it aired back in the 1980s. Huge. 30something Koreans still talk about it.

No they believe it's a soon-to-be true story, too?  Or, is that strictly an American obsession?

Btw, you could easily do an entire episode on the bat-shit craziness that is David Icke.  I loved how your guest assumed he meant reptillians = Jews, until he finally recognized -- nope, this guy really is that insane.

Yeah, I mean really you take the protocols of the elders of zion and scratch out jews and write in Reptoids and that's what Icke argues. But consensus is he really is BAT SHIT CRAZY and when he says space lizards he really means space lizards end of story.

[mindme]

New ep: interview with Charles "Chuck" Morrison of the Irreligiosophy podcast. He stops to talk about his favorite Hardy Boys book The Purloined White Salamander Letter. No wait. He stops in to talk about a conspiracy involving the highest ranks of the Mormon church and a mad bomber! Another super fun time ride.

http://www.yrad.com/cs/

[Nigel]

New Conspiracy Skeptic popped up on my iTunes tonight.  Something to listen to on my drive tomorrow morning.  Hurrah. 

[mindme]

Thanks for the bump Nigel. Yeah Unplugged #8. Brett is back to chat about some basic economic type topics that usually form the core of your conspiracy types: gold standard, China's ability to ruin the economy, etc.

[stands2reason]

Sounds like fun. Gotta love a metallic standard. Paying people to dig metal out of the ground, and then put it back in the ground, in a vault.

[seaotter]

Great show. I was pretty drunk last night, but I remember thinking it was good.

[stands2reason]

One thing that I was wonder when you guys were talking about those dumping scenarios: does that stuff really happen? And one a large enough scale to cause real damage?

[JoelWhy]

One thing that I was wonder when you guys were talking about those dumping scenarios: does that stuff really happen? And one a large enough scale to cause real damage?

Dumping definitely happens, but certainly not to the point where the Saudis are buying every person a car.  (Although, I am keeping my fingers crossed.)  The WTO has lots of regulations prohibiting dumping, but I'm sure it still happens.

As for causing damage, I think it does damage, but I don't think it causes economies to collapse or anything.  If Germany were dumping cars in the U.S., it would probably hurt domestic car manufacturers, but it's not like it would cause our entire economy to go belly up or anything.

[mindme]

What Joel said My car example was more of a thought experiment about where maybe we have to stop thinking about "me" and think of "us" or "we". Russ Roberts from the EconTalk podcast always says in economics we have to stop thinking of "we"... thinking of economics as a collective, organized action.

[mindme]

A new unplugged it up with SGU forum's own Nigel St. Whitehall. He also does a blog called Skeptical Review. Nigel knows the JFK conspiracy cold. Check out his blog here:

http://www.skepreview.com/

He's promised to get his wife to review our performance on CS. Normally he reviews CS himself but to avoid a conflict of interest he's getting his harshest critic to do a guest review. Can't wait!

[Nigel]

My wife was in stitches over me mixing up Godot with Guiteau with Czolgosz.  Tough audience. 

[stands2reason]

Good episode.

[mindme]

Thanks Stands!

[Chew]

Yes, very good episode, but Nigel, if that is his real pseudonym, speaking off the cuff made a few very minor errors and in a few cases could have expanded on a few details that left unaddressed could lead the uninitiated to incorrectly infer something else.

These details only matter if you participate in discussions with JFK conspiracy theorists. Those of you who don't can just skip the rest of this post.

David Lifton, not Lipton, wrote the book about JFK's wounds being altered.

The head shot happened between Zapruder frame 312 and 313, not the earlier frames Nigel mentioned (the alleged missed shot probably happened in the 150-160 range).

The stretcher bullet (the "magic bullet") that dislodged from Connelly's thigh and fell onto the stretcher was found after Connelly was transfered on to the emergency room stretcher. Connelly's first stretcher was then moved by an orderly from the emergency room out into the hallway and pushed against a wall, which caused the bullet to roll off the stretcher and was found by the orderly.

These are piddling details, I know, but if you don't get every piddling detail absolutely... well, you know how it is.

Please don't flame me for being petty.

[mindme]

Yes, very good episode, but Nigel, if that is his real pseudonym, speaking off the cuff made a few very minor errors and in a few cases could have expanded on a few details that left unaddressed could lead the uninitiated to incorrectly infer something else.

These details only matter if you participate in discussions with JFK conspiracy theorists. Those of you who don't can just skip the rest of this post.

David Lifton, not Lipton, wrote the book about JFK's wounds being altered.

The head shot happened between Zapruder frame 312 and 313, not the earlier frames Nigel mentioned (the alleged missed shot probably happened in the 150-160 range).

The stretcher bullet (the "magic bullet") that dislodged from Connelly's thigh and fell onto the stretcher was found after Connelly was transfered on to the emergency room stretcher. Connelly's first stretcher was then moved by an orderly from the emergency room out into the hallway and pushed against a wall, which caused the bullet to roll off the stretcher and was found by the orderly.

These are piddling details, I know, but if you don't get every piddling detail absolutely... well, you know how it is.

Please don't flame me for being petty.

Ha. No problem Chew. Thank you for the corrections. A podcast is sometimes just two people talking and not trading google links. So when you're trying to recall details you read the night before it's not 100% accurate. Like I suggested Woody's dad shot a judge. No, I was wrong and it was a cop.