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Explore " nanny state" with insightful episodes like "JD Rucker Show, January 18, 2024", "Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) - Wow, It's Just Like 1984", "The Flyover View, January 20, 2023 | Heartland Politics, News, and Views", "Should governments be more like nanny states and make all decisions for us?" and "Scotland's Fall (feat. David Robertson)" from podcasts like ""JD Rucker Show", "Cinematic Doctrine", "The Heartland POD", "The TNT Talk Show" and "Into the Pray"" and more!
Episodes (8)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) - Wow, It's Just Like 1984
MOVIE DISCUSSION:
Kathryn joins Melvin in discussing an early English adaption of George Orwell's ground-breaking, genre-defining, and highly-influential novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this semi-live BBC rendition, one whose controversy is as historic as it is ironic, Kathryn and Melvin discuss not only the impact of this adaption but also the debilitating hopelessness and powerful insight that only Nineteen Eighty-Four can offer.
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 16-minutes of Kathryn playing "Would You Rather" except, in the theme of 1984, whatever option Kathryn chooses for herself means the opposite happens to Melvin! Hilarity ensures! (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- This version of Nineteen Eighty-Four is a combination of pre-recorded and live-stage performances streamed to its original audience, and thus includes some interesting quirks that Melvin finds endearing and fascinating.
- Kathryn begins by explaining the complicated history behind this particular adaption of Nineteen Eighty-Four, including the controversy surrounding its initial screening.
- For insight (and giggles!), Kathryn reads a collection of quotes from reviews criticizing the content and tone of this adaption of Nineteen Eighty-Four upon its release.
- Melvin briefly compares this adaption of Nineteen Eighty-Four with the later released Michael Radford version, stating his preferences, and what works so well in this adaption.
- People were so disgusted with the tone and content of Nineteen Eighty-Four that cast and crew members had even received bomb threats.
- Pondering the myth of the Mickey Snow-Globe. Or, as it's known; Snow-Globe Gate.
- Discussing the iconography of the Snow-Globe.
- Discussing the monologue on language destruction and thought control delivered by Syme in the film (which is an extra fictional essay in the book).
- Discussing the oppression of power and Big Brother.
Recommendations:
- Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut (1999) (Book)
- Papers, Please (2013) (Video Game)
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The Flyover View, January 20, 2023 | Heartland Politics, News, and Views
Host: Kevin Smith Dives into the weekly news most impactful to the Heartland
HEADLINES
- Oklahoma Charter School earns coveted largest abuse of taxpayer funds 'in the history of this state' award.
- Tulsa World - https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/state-auditor-to-lawmakers-epic-charter-schools-mismanagement-is-largest-abuse-of-taxpayer-funds-in/article_7d9f6fc4-83a6-11ec-9c66-836dae32ab96.html
- The Oklahoman - https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/government/2023/01/11/epic-charter-schools-scandal-to-be-prosecuted-by-oklahoma-ag-gentner-drummond-after-oconnor-dropped/69796742007/
- Decade Long Water Rights Battle Sees Supreme Court Decision
LIGHTNING ROUND
Missouri
- Missouri Governor Mike Parson Embraces Build Back Better Programs in his State of the State Speech
Arkansas
- New bill that would require adults to present proper identification before viewing pornographic content online in the state.
- Retail customers in Arkansas to be compensated for any excess solar generation.
Pennsylvania
- Gov. Josh Shapiro signs first executive order, removing a four-year degree requirement for state government jobs.
Oklahoma
- Poultry pollution in the Illinois River watershed
Nebraska
- Education funding decisions.
Iowa
- House File 3 targets SNAP
- Iowa Hunger Coalition - https://www.iowahungercoalition.org/protect-snap/
Wisconsin
- Constitutional Amendment to raise bail
Indiana
- Private hands seek to pilfer from public schools.
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“Change The Conversation”
Outro Song: “The World Is On Fire” by American Aquarium
Should governments be more like nanny states and make all decisions for us?
In this show, the boys discuss whether we the population are so busy getting on with our day-to-day lives, then shouldn't we let the government make more and more decisions on our behalf?
Don't governments know what's really best for us?
Like a nanny state, where they take care of almost "everything"?
So we the people can get on with what is important for us and not have to deal with the more complex issues of government?
Or should the governments have LESS involvement in our lives, so leaving the decision-making in our hands rather than theirs? And should we have more of a say in decision-making that is made in government for the bigger issues being faced?
So we choose perhaps monthly with referendum whether we agree or disagree with certain decisions that the government make.
Or do the majority of people, simply don't care either way?
What are your thoughts on this subject? Do you agree or disagree with Tony and Tayo on this subject?
Tune in and listen to the discussion - and please let us have your thoughts on this
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Scotland's Fall (feat. David Robertson)
*Apologies that there was a slight technical problem with the podcast recording this morning. This is now sorted and you can download the track again directly from http://podcast.firebrandnotes.com/
This week on Into the Pray we are very grateful to talk with David Robertson (aka The Wee Flea), former senior minister of St. Peter's Church in Dundee and now Director of Third Space in Australia.
David and Nick produced some videos a couple of years back about some critically important issues relating to both the Church and the socio-cultural disintegration that we are all witnessing today. (You can find those via Nick's YouTube channel).
In today's podcast, David says, "Scotland has descended and secularised quicker than any nation in history."
If this is true - and it may well be - the British Church need to recognise that a proportional response of humility, repentance and prayer is the gracious, God-given order of the day, not harking back to previous times in our history where a genuine call to repentance may or may not have been issued or nationally observed.
During the reign of King George 73 years ago, marriage still meant in British law what God says it means, millions of people hadn't been torn limb from limb via the horrors of abortion and our children weren't being told that they could select their gender or experiment safely with pornography - we have to get real!
David and Nick may not quite see eye to eye on the place and responsibility of the Church in this particular conversation but they do both agree that until we corporately "come to the end of ourselves" (the exact focus of the book, Body Zero) there can be no hope for reformation, renewal or revival.
You can read David's blog here: https://theweeflea.com
You can find our more about Third Space here: https://thirdspace.org.au/third-space/about-us
Please let us know what you think!
Until next week,
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David Davenport: California Chips Away at Individual Freedom
California has decided sodas are the new tobacco, with five bills introduced in the legislature to limit sales. If they pass, you won’t be able to buy sodas larger than 16 ounces, you won’t find them in check-out lines, and there will be extra fees.
New York introduced a bill banning large sodas and it was blocked by a judge. While it was in effect the data showed people actually bought more sodas. And there are very different interpretations of the effects of a soda tax.
But the real issue is individual freedom. Isn’t drinking a soda your decision, not the government’s? If they are dangerous to health, isn’t education the answer, not regulation?
The nanny state keeps regulating us more and more at the cost of individual freedom. What’s next: banning meat and dairy products in school lunches? Oops, that bill has been introduced in California also.
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David Davenport: California Chips Away at Individual Freedom
California has decided sodas are the new tobacco, with five bills introduced in the legislature to limit sales. If they pass, you won’t be able to buy sodas larger than 16 ounces, you won’t find them in check-out lines, and there will be extra fees.
New York introduced a bill banning large sodas and it was blocked by a judge. While it was in effect the data showed people actually bought more sodas. And there are very different interpretations of the effects of a soda tax.
But the real issue is individual freedom. Isn’t drinking a soda your decision, not the government’s? If they are dangerous to health, isn’t education the answer, not regulation?
The nanny state keeps regulating us more and more at the cost of individual freedom. What’s next: banning meat and dairy products in school lunches? Oops, that bill has been introduced in California also.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Think Like a Skeptic, with Cara Santa Maria and Dr. Steven Novella
Trust no one! StarTalk All-Stars host neuroscientist Heather Berlin investigates skeptical thinking with Cara Santa Maria and Dr. Steven Novella of "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe" and new comic co-host and skeptic Ari Shaffir.
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