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By the time July 4, 1976 had rolled around, a lot of people had put a lot of effort into crushing the whole thing into a bureaucratic logjam. A lot more people had made sure not one single American had the option of forgetting, even for a moment, that it was the BICENTENNIAL AND EVERYBODY BETTER AMERICA REAL REAL HARD STARTING RIGHT NOW, GOT IT?!? By that point, chiropractic medicine had begun to ease into a slightly less quackery-intensive version of itself (don't worry, it was still pretty batshit). Learn about both on today's Madness Madness, now brought to you in color!

It's easy to forget the days before fertility treatments that yielded between four and thirty babies per pregnancy. It's even easier to forget 1934, since most of us weren't born yet. You know who WAS born in 1934? The Dionne Quintuplets! As was the case for a great many Depression-era babies, things didn't go as well as they could have. Speaking of the number five and the year 1934, a guy named Philip Kives WAS FIVE YEARS OLD IN 1934! After spending several years as a child, Kives went on to form K-TEL records, which is a memory bomb that'll blow your mind if you're older than 42 or so. JUST THE HIIIIIITS

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss a potpourri of ideas and Kris shares a story from way back in high school about popularity, luck, and a skunk. We also dwell on some absurdities we’ve encountered in life in general and within the Information Technology world. We also discuss Do Not Resuscitate Orders, and AI triaging patients, and quickly conclude that fact that death cures all diseases – what could possibly go wrong? 

This week on Madness Madness we're out here lookin' for starters, but all we can see is a bunch of jackoffs. First off we take a surprisingly thought-provoking journey to the '80s and '90s for a look at the Church of the Subgenius, a cult that wasn't actually a cult from the heady days of heavy 'zine-ing! Straight out of Dallas, very close to our home base in central Oklahoma, this one got us right in the Gen-X Nostalgia part of our brains, the part that makes us think about how if we wanted to hang out with people in the '80s and '90s we had to get in a car and drive around to places where we thought people might be. It's a total mind fuck, friends over 40. Next, we ask the question everyone must confront at some point: If a high school doesn't have a building, classes, a field, or a coach, is it strictly ethical to have them play one of the highest-ranked teams in the country on national television? Is it even loosely ethical? You might still remember the memes, folks: It's Bishop Sycamore "high school," a baffling fraud that turns out to be an incredibly depressing reflection of the nation's fundamental racism! A hoot and a holler, I tellya. Join us, won't you?

This week we're throwin' a party! A POLITICAL party! Under the smug, starfucking veneer of leader Daisaku Ikeida, a Japanese Buddhism rip-offshoot called Soka Gakkai that is also a political party? With like 20% of the vote?!? I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation (there isn't). We're also partying down in an abandoned secretarial school, in Paris! That's thanks to Thierry Tilly, a run-of-the-mill creep who bled a family of French aristocrats dry, and if you're not noting any sadness in this sentence, you're not imagining things. Hon hon! Bread! Also this week we realize our podcast's long lost tag line: "Something to look forward to; and something to do."

It's a potpourri day and some pretty interesting "stuff" to talk about.  Starting with the decision from New Zealand to begin a process that will eventually, if it works, end smoking in the country.  But lost more from electric vehicles to shipping containers to diversity issues.  And of course, a possible hint of encouraging news on the Omicron front.

It's a potpourri day and there are lots of stories here to choose from.  A  Reuters study on Amazon and the information it collects on you; what's Canada's favourite password; why are fewer kids being born; is there a maple syrup shortage, real or artificial - which Xmas tree will you choose; and a lot more.  

FraGue Moser-Kindler spricht mit Olivia Mitterhuemer über Tanz, ihre Crew Potpourri, Flavourama, das Leben als freischaffende Tänzerin, das neue Tanztheaterstück 4 A.M. und Ratschläge für die nächste Generation.
Ihr findet Olivia im Internet auf potpourri.dance oder auf Instagram.
Tickets für das Stück 4 A.M. bekommt ihr auf der Homepage der Argekultur Salzburg.

On today's episode of Public Resource Issues, Dave, Nastassia, and The Rest talk about a bunch of beverage concerns; how to clean the world's oldest beer out of a cold plate; the illegality of making real root beer;  the provenance of fat-washed cocktails, and much more. 

Plus, mushroom farming;  the ethics of handling herbs at public gardens; some Searzall updates; and the all-important question of who matches with which Disney Princess. 

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