103.9 FM, W-O-Z-O Radio, Knoxville. Ladies and gentlemen, digital free thought radio hour. Hello and welcome to the digital free thought radio hour on W-O-Z-O Radio 103.9 LP FM right here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Today is Sunday, March 14th, 2021. I'm Larry Rhodes or a doubt or five. And as usual, we have our co-host Wombat on the line with us. Hello Wombat. Hello everybody. How are you today?  Yeah. For the radio audience. They was using a filter made and looked like a puppet. Okay. And whether it's today or as our guests are George one and two and Scott. Hello all. Actually, it's a, what is it, Brooklyn? Oh, Brooklyn. Brooklyn and Buffalo. Buffalo, Buffalo. That's right. Okay. Radio, digital free thought radio hours, a talk radio show about atheism, free thought, rational thought, humanism and the sciences. And conversely, we'll also talk about religion, religious faiths, gods, holy books and superstition. And if you get the feeling you're the only non-believer in Knoxville, why are you just not? There are several atheist free thinking and rationalist groups that exist right here in Knoxville. And we'll be telling you more about how you can connect with them right after the mid-show break. If you'd like to interrupt, interact with us during the show, go to Facebook, search for our digital free thought radio hour page and use the messaging function to send us questions or comments. Wombat, what do you have for us today as far as topics go? I want to talk about a really interesting thing that was brought up in last week's show when Boudreau bought up the idea of pick farmers and how religion was thinking about like, hey, you know, there's the argument could be made that back in the day, you don't want to have gay pick farmers. You just want to have pick farmers. And he was sticking it out. And I just thought it was the funniest analogy that he was coming out. We all, we eventually came to something a bit more concrete, but it did touch on something a little more interesting, which was why does religion have an issue with gay people in the first place? Like what is the rationale behind it? And if it's not pick farming, like what is like the actual reason for it? And so I want to go over that along with a bunch of other topics today. But I do want to touch bases with how everyone's been doing since the last time we've talked. Buffalo, we'll start with you. Have you been? How's daylight savings time treating you? You look perfectly clocked. And I think is the right word for it. It's been fine because my wife changes the clocks. Otherwise, I wouldn't be talking to you. Nice. Nice. But yeah, no, I've been fine. Been breaking out a little bit. Both my wife and I have had both shots. And so we're, but when we, we've been to two restaurants in the past year and that was all in this past week. But we call them up and ask them what time they have a huge number of people there. And so we're beginning to re-enjoy going and eating out. Nice. Are you sort of missing the opportunity to not go outside anymore? Like there's no longer an excuse to just be like, ah, but I can totally skip that bar mitzvah. Or I could, I don't have that person move anymore. Like, isn't that, wasn't that a great excuse? I don't know. I think since I'm retired, I don't spend that much time out in public anyway. So I guess I really hadn't thought about it that way. Fair enough. No, we've, we've just, we've enjoyed being able to get back out and see the grandkids a little bit more and that sort of thing. That's good. It's an issue of choice. Now you can choose to go out. Yeah. Scott, we'll throw it up at you. What new music or weird gadgets or stuff that you got now going on? Oh man, we've got all kinds of gadgets. Hold on a second. Oh, okay. Okay. You've got the button. Got the new sequence. Oh, oh, that's a new thing. That's brand new. Oh yeah. That looks cool. Okay. So it looks like a keyboard. It's a keyboard with buttons on the top. It's very, very. It's called a sequencer, the Arturia keystep 37. But yeah, I've released a album. It's distributed all over the place. Amazon, iTunes, everything like that. You can get it also on, of course, my band page. So I've been doing that and the remixes for old C.C. Peniston is coming out soon. C.C. Peniston was an old dance music artist in the 90s. Okay. So we worked out a licensing deal and actually releasing that soon and then other stuff. So yeah, the music is really keeping me excited and busy and all of that all week long. So I got the same question for you that I got for Buffalo. Now that, you know, we are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel as far as COVID is going. Are you going to feel sad that you won't have as much time to just be processing and buying stuff and setting up your music anymore? Now you're going to have to go outside and actually do things like interact with people. Oh my gosh. Right, right, right. You want to make your music. What's going on? How do you feel about that? Well, that's the fun thing is that this gave me the opportunity to really just get my little arsenal together and get my clan together, force me into that, into that mode. So now the groundwork is laid. Nice. Hopefully as, you know, we'll be able to do outdoor functions.  And that's the plan. I want to definitely get out there and perform and all of that good stuff again. So Scott, what's the name of your album before we move on? Yeah. Collapse reality. Okay. Collapse reality. So it's like an electronic music, like different genres of electronic music is what I'm exploring on that one. So it's a little jet. There's a lot of jazzy sort of chord progression with it. Nice. And then there's also some really strict dark electronic. There's some melodic electronica. Yes. Different, different little flavors on that, on that record. It's always a hard thing to describe what your music sounds like with words. Isn't it? It's just like, uh, so, you know, if Dave Matthews went to third grade in, in New York, it would sound like that mixed with like lemonade and it's like, what are you talking about? It's like, oh, you got to listen to the song to understand. It's like, oh yeah, I see, I hear it. I feel your pain. And we'll have you happy to play your end of your music on the show. Just let me know, send me something and we'll be able to play during the break. No doubt. George, how you been since last week? I heard you got on a fight. Yes. We'll have three things to mention. So I'll try to make them all real fast. Okay. The first one is, um, I've gotten my COVID shots. My second one three weeks ago. And, um, I want to report that I had side effects, uh, 24 hours after the second shot. And the side effects went away 12 hours after that. Fantastic. And the side effects that I had were pretty much what's going on on the CDC website.  Which, which, which vaccine did you get? It was a Moderna. I got Moderna too. Yes. Um, the second thing I want to mention is that, uh, right before I came to join you people, I was listening on YouTube to box Easter oratorio. And I regard like many other musicians, I regard Bach as the ultimate composer of all time. And, um, Bruno Mars. If no, no. Okay. We have opinions. And among musicians, it's virtually unanimous in my experience, Charlie Parker. By the way. And, uh, if I were alive in the, I guess it was the 17th century and I went to church and listened to Bach every week. I would not be an atheist. And that's, that's where I'm at. The third thing was that, yes, last Sunday, I was at a local meeting in my rural county of progressives. And I was attacked. I, um, I inadvertently stuck my stick, my, my, um, I stuck my innocent stick into somebody else's beehive. Okay. And that person attacked me and that person happens to be a psychotherapist. You just call that person a psycho and then try to make it okay by saying therapist afterwards immediately. So she's a psycho bank teller. It's like the moral mean thing to say. The moral of this story is that if, if you're in therapy and you start feeling really bad about yourself, start thinking about where the therapist is at.  Yeah. You got to be aware, be aware of that. You got to browse for the right therapist. Okay. I hope I'm not dominating the conversation too much. So I'm stopping. Out of five. I want to throw it out at you. It looks like you're eating food.  What's going on? Did we catch you by surprise? You did. I was caught off time by an hour due to daylight savings time, but I had changed all the clocks in the house except the living room. And I was on the living room and I was looking at the clock. So he got me. I'm lucky enough to have a cat. Still eating. My alarm clock is my cat. And so like, I have switched to daylight savings time automatically. It will ring. And my cat's like five minutes later, I should have food coming out of my automatic food disposal. He runs straight to it. And he's just like, I already got fed an hour ago. Shouldn't I get more food? It's like, no, no, no, no. He starts biting. I was up at seven. I just didn't keep an eye on the time. No, I got my second Moderna shot this week. I also had side effects. Chills. Chills were the worst. But for about 24 hours after I got it and for another 24 hours, I had them. So it wasn't too good. Let me tell you it's over now. I got my shot. I even posted the video on the internet. My second Moderna. And I didn't get a single symptom. I feel really bad because you're supposed to get symptoms. As you should. I was looking forward to getting sick. I called ahead to work ahead of time being like, I can't show up to work, guys. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, Tyrone. You got to stay home. I'm like, cool. I got my bed ready to go. I had like, I went grocery shopping.  I was like planning food out perfectly for like building antibodies. I was ready to get sick, got the shot, come home. Nothing. And I was just like, well, this is disappointing. My only complaint is I wish I was sicker. So I got a sore arm. So at least I knew that was working. But for the most part, nothing. I was ready to go to work the next day. We're different ages. And that might be the key here. Yeah. There's a tiny, tiny, tiny person at our job who got the shot and was completely devastated. And I'm like, it's the same volume for me and my giant arm. What was her, what was his or her age, Tyrone? Uh, younger than I am, maybe like in the late 20s. And so I was like, it's weird that the same volume of shot goes into every, every different phenotype of person. But it works. And I'm happy. Can you imagine the distribution system if that was a consideration? Well, for some reason, and I don't mean this in a bad way. They put all the old people first and I'm like, okay, that's great. That's great. That's great. But they're the old person by shot is the same as the young person shot. And it's just like, maybe there's some sort of thoughts. I got the Pfizer and I'm 77 and I didn't feel a thing. So I don't, I don't think the ages, I wonder, and I've read this, that what might be a factor is how you, how constantly you tickle your immune system. So if you get out and you walk in the woods and you breathe in spores and you give out lots of things for your immune system to normally attack it, it may be better prepared for an attack by an artificial. One of the good reasons for children to play outside. That's right. And not to cover the cat box at night. Not to cover the cat box at night. This is this is a new one. Guys, let's get into the topic of the show. We're going to be talking about why do, why do we think? Oh, I got everybody, right? I did get everybody right. Great. I did.  And so the reason why we were talking about that yesterday was we were trying to come up with an idea for why religion tends to like make enemies of certain groups of people and they have a thing for gay people, which is like its own thing. Larry, doubt or five, what do you got? Well, the earlier religions are religions from 3,000, 2,500 years ago. Their leaders were preachers. They were cultists basically. They were pure, pure than the average man. They, they had certain strictures amongst there. So man and woman, nothing shall be against the joining of those two. Man on man love is not good. So they wrote the book basically. And now we're living 2,500 years later under the thumb of long dead preachers. And you know, all you have to do is look in Leviticus and several other places, Deuteronomy in the Bible to find out that they just don't like gays and don't want to have people do anything in that vein. So they were probably, they probably were chasing their fantasy at the same time. Maybe could be. Oh, that's a spicy cake. That's a spicy cake, Buffalo. I want to come back to that. But Larry, I feel like that explains the how we've come to have religion that hates gay people. Some guy wrote it in the book. Why did they target them in the first place? Why do you think that was the case? It's just the purity of their cult and their devotion and the direction it's supposed to take. Why? Who knows? Doesn't it say in the Bible, man shall not lie with a man? Yeah, that's what I'm referring to. Where's that come from? Some guy wrote that in a book somewhere. Why do they write that? Where is that in the Bible? Google search will tell you. I don't know. I think it doesn't really matter. I think it's Leviticus. Yeah, maybe. Buffalo, I'd like to go back to that spicy point that you made. You said they were potentially envious. Like what was going on there? What was that mind? Not envy. They had a secret fantasy that they were practicing while they told everybody not to practice it.  And if you think about like, where is it that, and when Rome took over Greece and then began to foster what we now have as Christianity, like the bedrock of people relationships were not so marginalized as you can only have man and woman. Like that is a fairly novel concept in the culture of humanity. Maybe in the last like, around maybe say 5,000, maybe I would say 3,000 years where it started people being like, hey, this is the best way. This is not the best way. These are the ones that we're going to need to punish. These are the ones we don't need to punish. So I think there may be some groundwork there because I would not be surprised. Native Americans, they call them two spirits. Man and a woman in the same body. George, what do you got? You know, I've been thinking while you're talking that in a world where they're divided into us and them, there are people who have a lot to gain from attacking them. It gives them more power. They focus other people this way. And so it's important for them to have a them to point fingers at. They'll create one if they don't have one. They'll create one if they don't have one, maybe. Yeah.  And I think that's what makes them the easy target because they were a minority that didn't have a voice, that were easy to target and would have no chance of propagating in the future. Just on the basis of how things work. And so it's like, there's a great group to target that we don't have to worry about in the long term. And while we target them, people will flock to us because they are an easy target. Scott, I want to make one last point before we jump to you, but I'm thinking the reason why they do that is the SMM mortality. Because if it wasn't gays, it'd be Jews. If it wasn't Jews, it'd be Saxons. If it wasn't Saxons, it'd be albinos or women. It would find a group of people regardless to support the ideology of we are the good side. They are the bad side. Join us because we have this basal human programming that wants to be on the good end. And we know how to do that. We need to find something to demonize or attack. We have a really unfortunate system where it's like we want to know where the tigers are in the jungles. And we are so desperate to know where the threats are that we're willing to overlook our commonalities and exercise empathy so that we can make sure that we are on the side that is observant of a threat because that makes us feel safe. And that is a problematic situation that religion loves to strive on itself on. Scott, what do you think about that? And what's your opinion? Well, I was just thinking here that not all religions condemn homosexuality. Very true. Like, for example, in Buddhism and Hinduism, homosexuality is never directly forbidden in any text. But there is a range and at particular times, Buddhists and Hindu cultures may have looked at homosexuality as a defilement or some sort of disobedience to nature, some kind of genetic fallacy or something. But this isn't really expressed in the text themselves that they base those religions on. But I think that most of what you're going to find with homosexuality being like a sin or wrong is in these Abrahamic religions where they even have concepts of sin.  We call him Dr. Josh. And he was saying that actually, even in the Abrahamic religions, that was homosexuality and prostitution was a norm. It was called temple prostitution and Judaism. And male prostitutes would be in the temple doing that. And then it just evolved over time politically to kind of get rid of that practice and condemn it and call it like a sin. But it was an ever-evolving thing. So even in Abrahamic religions, homosexuality was always considered bad at some point in time. George, you want to weigh in? Yeah, I just have a question. Where are Unitarians in all this and coming right after that? Is Unitarianism, is that a religion? You know what? I would say it's definitely a congregation that has a philosophy or a dogma that's more about accepting different points of view. It's not as straightforward as standard-feet forms of theism. But if you're an atheist, you can go to Unitarian and have a really good time. And they're very open with gay people, too. And so it might be worthwhile just to have that. That's a good point, George. Larry, what do you think? I'm going to say that they leave the dogma, as it were, up to the individual. You can believe whatever you want. They're all about interfaith congregations. The one thing that they do agree on, Unitarian Universalists, is that everybody is going to heaven no matter what you believe. I mean, no, that's it, really. I did not know that. So have a good time. Get together. Be with your fellow man. Don't worry about what they believe. Follow your own conscience. Can I join? No, hold on. Anybody can join. So the Unitarians in Kentucky, I only went to one Unitarian church, so it's not representative of everybody. But the ones I was there did definitely have Christians there. But every single person I talked to was atheists when I just asked them flat out. They're like, yeah, I'm an atheist. So that's cool. That's why I went the first time everybody told me that atheists were welcome. And what's really funny was the very first time I went, they had a going way. It was spring, so I had a lot of people moving out after school. So what they do is they let a person or two give a sermon in their own faith before they leave. So what did I get the first time I went? Baptist Christianity. No way. Which is my own upbringing. So it wasn't much different than at least a lecture, but everybody else was nice. OK, that's cool. Scott, I do want to throw something at you. Yeah, I don't think Buddhists have documented anything against gay people, though their appreciation of women, at least in their structure, their culture, is not one of esteem. And so we always look at, hey, if I say Buddhist monk, you're not thinking of a woman. You're not thinking of a woman to shave that. There's a reason for it. And so it's like, it's a different brand of targeting. But while the topic of the show was why is it against gays, I don't think there's really any group that benefits from just a complete, equilateral, non-blaming ordination of any kind of group. I would even say this, just as a weird point. The deaf community, not the whole deaf community, but there are aspects or fringes of the deaf community that will look down on a deaf person who just got a cochlear implant, which is a surgery that allows a person to hear again. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of mistrust, because similar to like, well, I don't want to get into even more weeds, but there has been a history of people testing on people who have disabilities in non-moral ways and inhumane ways. And the deaf community was brunt of that, especially for the mistreatment of just being called dumb.   There's been a lot of mistreatment against that culture that's been ingrained and internalized. And so when science finally comes back after a period of time of very bad mistreatment and says, hey, we figured out a way to cure you, that is, one, something that's very offensive to a lot of deaf people, because it's like, hey, this is my identity. What do you mean you're curing my identity?  It's like, I would be immediately affronted by that. But there's also the idea of like, hey, I just want to be able to communicate with people. I want to be able to, I still learn sign language. I'm still deaf. I still have my family. But now I can hear. It's like, oh, but now you're one of them now. You're one of the hearing people now. I would have thought that. That is a thing. And it's really unfortunate. It's not a reflection of the entire community. Absolutely not, in fact. But it is a thing.  My mom's hard of hearing. So coda means child of a deaf adult. You are seen as less deaf. Or there's a tiered bracket of you're not as exceptional as a deaf person who, who can't hear in both ears and no sign language and doesn't talk. Like there are levels in place. Gallaudet University had this really big fiasco where their new Dean was a person who could speak, but was a deaf woman. Like she was deaf woman, but she also knew how to talk. And the school kicked her out of the position just because she was a speaking person, because she wasn't deaf enough.  And levels, levels of being oppressed, like levels of victim, victim identification. Striations, dude. Yeah. Striations. That's a good word for it. And we need to get out of that. Oh, Scott, what do you think? I was just going to say what you seem to be pointing to. Is the fact that every human institution, including all religions, have some form of social codification involved in it. It's almost like it always comes hand in hand with a human institution. Whether that be a political organization or even a humanist organization, even all sorts of human institutions have these social codes that they go by. And it's just so interesting. But that just kind of points again to how religion, if we were to get it back to religion, religion is just a human organization. It's just a human institution. It's a product of a human mindset. It's a big plan. It's a big plan that has many sects. That's right. But it's such totally marked as a human product. Like when we say, here's a spiritual thing that brought down from us. By the way, I'm going to wear the Santa hat. You're the tier one people. You're the tier two. It's like, that's what humans do.  That is a human thing that we always tend to do. And so you've got to credit or discredit whatever you want to put it. This is brought out very well in an evolutionary sense in the book Sapiens by Harari. Where he puts us all in the context of human evolution. We needed clans. We got clans. And we still have now many, many more different kinds of clans. And we probably will always have them. Yeah. I agree. Well, hopefully we can at least have them not be as big a part in the way how we think and see each other. Like we can still have them like we have eyebrows, but we may not need to use them as a way to determine value in each other. And I think that's the most important distinction. Larry. I like that. What we're talking about is some self knowledge in a way. You know that one thing that I would like to see is that everybody on this planet understands themselves. Yeah. You know, I'm working on it myself. It's a never ending process to learn to love yourself and know yourself. And if it was easy, everybody would do it. A lot of people are not doing it. And a lot of people aren't doing it. So, and we can't do it for them. But at least we can do is make sure that, you know, we can, we can start with ourselves. And I think that's the important part. Now the word humility is appropriate here. And I wonder as a biologist, I wonder how humility ever came to be. Hmm. Yeah. That seems like a weird thing. And what does it even mean? What's the definition of humility? Well, I guess. Let's make that a topic to the future. We got to take a break. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Hello and welcome back to the second half of the Digital Freethought Radio Hour. I'm Dr. Fiven. We're on W.O.Z.O Radio 103.9, LP FM, right here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Today is Sunday, March 14, 2021. Now let's talk about the atheist and freethought groups that you can join right here in Knoxville. There is the Atheist Society of Knoxville, or ASK. Founded in 2002, we're under 19th year. Ask has over a thousand members and we have weekly Zoom meetings that you can participate in to join the group or just want to come in. Find us on Facebook by looking for Knoxville Atheists or just do a Google for Knoxville Atheists and you'll come across this. Another large freethinking group here in Knoxville, the rationalists of each Tennessee. 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Everyone's so great on this show. I love it. So we're going to be going over what was it, Larry? What was what? Listener fan mail. Oh, that's right. He's still getting used to daylight so we're going to give him some time. Anyway, we got this picture that was posted to our messenger group. It said Pope Francis holds landmark meeting with Iraq's top cleric, Sistani. And I made the comment that this was the greatest meeting of people playing pretend of all time. And Bruce had a great, great question that I thought put me in my place a little bit too. Because he asked, do you think the Pope is actually pretending God exists? Or do you think the Pope genuinely believes God does? Or some other option? And I was like, you know what? You're right. I can't get into the Pope's mind. I can't figure out what he actually does believe. But I can say from the consistency of his actions and along with other Popes in the past that they do not meld well with what is being purported in the modern interpretation of Catholicism in terms of what they support and what they don't support. There's a lot of really, there's a really great history of notoriously bad Popes or notoriously corrupt Popes and destruction and destruction and warring Popes and just very downright disgusting Trump murderous. It's so bad. So bad. It's a really, really, really bad collection. It's really, really bad Pope. But as far as I'm aware, I just haven't found a lot of consistency between, hey, love everybody. You're everyone's brother and sister. And we all should get along with each other. And there's, there's bad people that we can help, but we will do so in the best way possible. And we should use our money to be able to support the poor and all this. We don't see that. We don't see that. I think he needs a better Habadish, you know? Maybe he needs like a bigger hat. Maybe. Yes. The other guy's got a big beer hat. Yeah, there's the problem. That's the problem.  It's like, well, I have tons of people will clean my clothes for me. It's like, what's going on here? What, what are the thought processes? The difference is the beard. So the guy in black has a suit catcher. Ah, there you go. It's weird also this little box in napkins is like the most important box in napkins right now. It's just like this box, a tissue graduated to be able to sit between these two people. Yeah. And what's more surprising is they both theoretically worship the same God, but everything else from there on down is different. Yeah, it's a weird situation that we're in. Scott, I'd love to get your feedback on what you think about the Pope. Do you think he's pretending God exists? Do you think he genuinely believes God exists or is it some other option? Well, generally, I would just grant people, if they say that they believe something, and just as a rule of thumb, always grant people whatever they say, you know, because I can't read their mind. Your mind is already what you believe, right? Yeah. So I would just grant that he believes in God and Catholicism and stuff like that, even, even despite the behavior because of things we know about how the brain works and how we do, other than what we say we believe. It's all an after story for our behavior. But as far as his belief, I don't know. I would say I don't know, but I'll just grant him that he believes in God. Sure. You know what? I can give him the leniency of, sure, you believe it, but it's also, but it is also a question of, why do you believe it? And if your book is reporting, everybody should believe this? Why is it that you don't have a reasonable reason for why you believe this as well? And it would seem to me that if you cared about what your book believes, especially as the leader of a figure that's trying to spread Catholicism across the world, that you should have a good reason to be convinced that it's true. And if you're not working on that and any meaningful capacity over the last thousands of years, there is a problem with your Conductor because you don't seem to be meshing well with what it is you are representing. Doesn't walk the wall. Yeah, that was always going to be a problem with me. Buffalo, do you have any final thoughts on this? Yeah, again, I bring back the biology argument of the normal distribution curve, the Gaussian curve, and I think that you've got to have people at the extremes. And so you can have a murdering pope and you can have a very loving pope, not that I think this one is, but I don't question his actions because I think they are humanist reactions or they can be construed in that way. And so he's different from many of the men that have preceded him. So in what area of human history is that not the case? So I think he's close to the end of the distribution curve that is so more pure thinking. And so I guess I would give him the benefit of the doubt from that point of view. I think Larry has a philosophy where it's like the more you're exposed to just the variety of different people and you try to appease general public in general, the further you're pulled away from your specific dogmatic ideology, which makes you more in kind with how we want to treat each other and less involved with how your book wants you to treat other people. The better kind of a person you are, the farther you leave your dogma behind. And I wouldn't make the argument. In fact, I would support the argument that this is the most worldly pope that we have. I mean, he's traveling the world, he's shaking hands with people, he's meeting people, he's shaking presidents and stuff like that. He has access to people and information more so than any other pope in history. And we might be seeing that rubbing off on him compared to anyone else. But hey, weird thoughts. Buffalo, I'd actually like to go off of what you were saying in the first half of the show before we go into any other topics. You were talking about humility as a potential genetic defect, right? Like, why is there any evolutionary advantage to humility? Before we begin, maybe George, would you like to define what you think we mean about humility? And we'll just do a quick review of what we think, what we mean by humility. I'm at a loss for words for that. But I'd love to hear what your definitions are. I would say humble ability to separate yourself from your ego, ability to learn at the deficit of maybe what your self-confidence wants you to purport that you are. You can learn things and be open in a way, even if it's self-deprecating and maybe puts you on a lower tier. Scott, what do you think about that definition? Larry, don't look it up on the internet. I know, I see, I see him. He's like Google.com to find humility. I feel it. I feel it, Scott. Humility is sort of like being genuine to your limitation. Oh, I love that. That is a musical way of putting it down. That's your name of your next album there. Genuine to your limitations by dump shine. Okay. Yeah, I love it. Buffalo, what do you have as humility? I would agree with what Scott just said. But what my puzzle is, since I try to bring everything down to an evolutionary basis, I mean, what would have led to this in the creation of the human mind? I wonder what is the purpose of humility? At this point, I would just say it's a counterbalance to the necessity of knowing where one's place is on the ladder with other people. That somehow nature requires that, a balancing sort of idea. But I don't have it all figured out. I feel where you're going with that. It's like the seesaw to what we were talking about in the first half of the show. We need to have striations. We need to have strata of people. We need to have people of value here, here, and here. And humility is like, that doesn't really matter. None of these things are illusions. And if I'm there, I don't want to be at the top. I exist equally with everybody else. I'm not any better than anyone else. There's a humility. I think it adds to an ecological balance is what it does. And in the case of biology, to me, in biology, usually we know the least probably about ecological systems because they're so complex, they're so integrated. But they really represent a balance. And to me, the counterpoint in humankind is empathy. And to me, humility leads into empathy. And it probably has an ancient purpose in our wiring, in our brain. Larry, I'd like to get your definition of humility. And then we can get to Scott's question real quick. What do you got? No, just like I said, George, that was very, very well put. I don't know. I think it's recognizing your humanity or your membership in humanity and its many imperfections. Perfection's a big part. And going from there. Scott, what do you think? What was your... Yeah, I was going to say it seems to be, again, a social component to humility. Like people like humble people.  And if you're always talking super smart or super, you know, uber special, people tend not to like you because it sort of makes them feel bad within themselves. Where were you for the last four years? That's right. You're not paying... I have some thoroughly information to show you. That's a weird point, though. That's kind of paradoxical because I do feel like I've experienced directly... In my younger years, hearing a lot of people talk very... I used to think atheists were arrogant, which is the opposite of humble because they seemed to know that religion was crap. And so...  So there's a social component to it. But then again, they really like people, like leaders that are very, you know, arrogant. So I just don't get it. It's almost like there's some sort of contradiction there. Man, you're raising some really great points. I have an offhand analogy. Let me just try to condense real quick. If self-esteem was a limited resource, we would... And we all had to share from the same pool of self-esteem. Humble people are ones that we would like to have around us because they would be taking less of that resource compared to the ones that we need, right? And in the same aspect, we tend to look at people who are boastful... I want to say braggadocious. I'm not even sure if that's an actual word. I feel like it is. It's one of those weird third-grade... Yeah, I'll understand that anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like just terrible, jerk-like, but magnanimous people. They look like they have so much self-esteem that I don't need this pool of limited self-esteem resources. I will just hang out with this guy. So there's the appeal of, hey, if I just hang out with this very confident person, I can feed off of their confidence and I'm part of them. I'm part of that group. Likewise, there's the idea of I like being around humble people because that means potentially more self-esteem for me. But I also feel like on the true benevolent point of view, the true benevolent point of view, there is the idea of we laud loud confident people a lot, but they tend to outshine the people who do the best work, which are the cautious, humble, thoughtful, critical thinking leaders that we have. We can always say a Mussolini hit there at Trump. We can name them off the top of our head, but we are very rarely to bring up a Kennedy or Obama or Hamilton. I know he just had a Broadway play, but no one will talk about Hamilton before then. No one's saying anything about Hamilton before then. But we tend to forget the quiet people who do a lot of good work in the shadows or at least don't make a big show of it. And we tend to at least remember the really loud people, at least as a warning signal for what to stay away from. The enterprise of science seems to be grounded in humility. Absolutely. Yeah. How many scientists can we name off the top of our head that like made half the things that were around right now? You'd have to.  It's true. I think, Buffalo, I'd love to get your feedback on this. We're both scientists, right? Do you think you would only garner worse attention on your articles if you went out with every article? Be like, and I'm the best scientist to ever science ever. This is the best article. No one else knows. It's like, oh, you were just asking for more. You're asking for more. Never going to take it again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To my experience in science is as the braggadocious scientists are usually left behind pretty quickly. Yeah. Because they're not trusted. And for good reason. And for good reason. Yeah. My question always is, you know, in matters of science, when somebody describes an experiment, I say, well, what were the controls and how many controls were there? And to me, that represents humility in science. Yeah. That you don't really know. So you really should be careful. I also get weirded out whenever someone names a variable after themselves. I don't know if you ever see that. But it's just like, why are you naming this thing after you? Like, oh, come on, man. Just call it pi. You don't have to be Mr. Brandon's pi. Like, we don't have to call it Brandon's pi. Just call it what it is. Come on. We already have words for things. I'm just searching for immortality. There you are. It's always better when you have, for example, an element named after a scientist who's already dead, passed away, and we're just going to honor this woman or man. That's great. But there are a lot of elements that were discovered that are like Berkleyam, California. And Harvard's trying to come up with one, two. And it's like Harvardian. It's like, oh, stop. Stop. Don't do that to science, man. Who cares about your school? Let's just use these as milestones to honor great advancements moving forward and not tuition rates that you want to have and what is inherently a really, really bad education loan system that I don't want to get into right now. Anyway, fun topic, fun topic, fun topic I want to get into is things, well, we got 10 minutes left, things that you know you can do better than God or things that you know you can do that are more impressive than God. And this was a short list that came up with Bruce. We'll go to Larry first. The idea behind this list is can you name something that you think you can do in a more impressive manner than God? Larry, we'll go to you first. Good things. Oh, true. Go for it. The first thing, show up. All the time 24-7, I'm here. And he hasn't shown up a single time in my 70 years. Number two, write a better Bible. If you go to my blog, digitalfreethought.com blog, I have a book that says what the Bible should have looked like. Depending on, you know, if it was acting like an omniscient of all powerful God or as some micromanaging warlord, which is what it looks like. But anyway, that was my two cents. Show up. That's a great one. Write a better Bible. Number two, George, what do you got? I'm better at being humble than God is. Better at being humble. Better at... I'm writing these down. Being humble. Are you saying you're the most humble? I am the most humble person. He's the best humble person in the world. It's always hard to be the most humble person in the world. I feel like... I used to be champion. I used to be arrogant, but now I'm perfect. I'll tell you this. If I was a God, I'd be a trickster God. And the only thing I would do is I would randomly give people trophies that say most humble 2020. Or 2021. I would just randomly give one person a random trophy. And I'd be like, I wasn't even trying to get this trophy, but I guess that's the point, right? Oh, okay. Oh, I guess I'll put it on my shelf. And then it disappears. Like, seriously, put the trophy anywhere to show other people it's gone. It's gone. That's the way how it operate. I have too much fun. Buffalo, what is your thing that you know you can do more impressive than God? Well, I don't believe in God, a God or... I didn't ask that question. What can you do more impressive than pick your guy? I got you, but that's my purpose.   But the question is, what can you do better? Can you please have fun with this obviously hypothetical question? What is your thing you can do better than God? Who is not nature? Who's obviously a caricature that we are referring to as a group of apes? What is your thing? Yeah, okay, okay. Pay less attention to history because history was what bogs down religion. Pay less attention to history. Pay less attention to history. That's an interesting one. So what do you mean by that?  And while they strive to modernize, to evolve, socially evolve, they can't because they need to fill the pews. And so there's a contradiction there. So I think if they... Well, I'd have to think this through a little bit more, but I don't think I can do anything. I consider myself to be a learning person, not a knowing person. Okay, it sounds like your takeaway is like, hey, I am future-minded. I can look forward to things in the future. I can be, you know, not necessarily opportunistic, but what's the opposite of pessimistic in the sense that you're looking forward progressively and trying to... Optimistic. Is that optimistic? Okay, well, that's what I meant by connotation. You're not judged by the past. You're looking forward to the future. And I think that is in fact a nuanced, better thing than a God can be. I want to get to Scott. I want to get to Scott. And then with time left, we'll go to George. Scott, what's your thing that you do better than any God? I'm not as needy as God. Not as needy. Oh, good. I don't need worship. I don't need to be demanding. Fantastic. That's true. Very, very true. I can't tell you how important that actually is. That is a great thing. And I would say anything that demands worship isn't deserving of worship in the first place. Yes, indeed. George, what's your point? I'm a better atheist than God. Should I pry? What do you mean by that, George? You want to rely on it? I am so God-like. I don't have to justify my words. I don't have to define them. Oh, well, there we go. Where was your humility thing? Didn't you give us theater and being humble? I'm so humiliated. My two things were, one, I can admit I'm wrong and apologize, which isn't something that you get a lot from God. Typically, when God performs an accidental or a purposefully accidental plan, accidental genocide, he's like, okay, well, here's a rainbow. And I'm like, we still got dead families and there's water everywhere, God. It's like, okay, okay, well, here's twice as many pigs. Here's an extra wife. I'm like, no, no, no, no. You can't tell me Bryant me. You can't cheat on me and then give me a diamond ring afterwards. It's like, no, this is, you need to apologize. We need to have some admission that you are wrong and face me person in person and look me in the eyes and apologize. I can do that. And I've done that many times. My second point is I can make a better pork sandwich. Yeah, all about that. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. You don't get that a lot.   I don't think I would just create anything. I wouldn't need, feel the need to do that to someone just being. So I'm not saying lying. I'm willing to pick up other people's trash, right? Like I'm willing if I see like a water bottle on the ground and there's a trash can nearby, I'll pick up the water bottle and I'll throw it away.  And I'm looking forward to actually doing that again, to be honest with you. But it goes back to the idea of, you know, if you saw like a seal with like fishing line, you know, wrapped around its body and cutting into its skin, there's a group of people who just go to beaches just to free the pollutants that are wrapped around marine life, including seals and stuff. And it's like, one, why have a system where, you know, there are animals that are suffering needlessly, innocent creatures needlessly suffering? And two, why isn't a God automatically vaporizing that kind of pollutants on these innocent animals? It's human beings who are going out. And yeah, human beings created the pollution, but there are also a group of humans that are also going out and trying to resolve that as well. And I feel like that's better a person that recognizes there's a problem and trying to fix a problem that they are in part involved in creating than a being that's all powerful and choosing not to do anything whatsoever. And I feel like that makes, in a large part, humanity better than a lot of the God claims that have been purported or presented to us. Larry, we're running down to the bottom of the show. I'm going to do a quick rundown. Dub Shine, where can we find your stuff at? Please go to dubshine.bandcamp.com and check my album out, man. It's called Collapse Reality. And it's brand new. And I'm excited about it. You've got to be more excited when you say that. I know, right? Take two. You just say I'm excited. There you go. There you go. Get in my album today. Yeah. I just put out a new song. I'm really, really happy with it. It's called Invincible. And for a long time, I've been making music that's been skewing towards different genres. But like I found, like I really do like the mix of, and here's the weird word salad that we're going to come up with. But like African world beats meets Dave Matthews meets Everclear. Sort of like 90s staple rock mixed with African beats at the same time, too. It's a very weird mixture. And there's some shown in Japanese rock, anime rock in there, too. A little bit of it. He was like, oh, but it welled so well. It feels like it's so fun. I loved it. I loved it. I appreciate it. George, you had mentioned the book Sapiens. Where can people get that book at? Or what is the, who wrote that book? His name is Yuval Noah Harari. Nice. And just Google his sapiens. It's an excellent book. Nice. It puts a lot of things into perspective. Geology, biology, human. Well, it's entitled, the subtitle is A Brief History of Human Kind. Very cool. Very cool. Nice. George Brooklyn. You got anything you would recommend? You had mentioned that you got in a fight with someone. How did you get over the fight? What were your tips? I haven't gotten over the fight. Boy, I was going to say something and I have forgotten. I'm too old. All right. I'll share some wisdom with you, George. We'll see maybe if this helps. Whenever I get an argument, even if it's like a very non-volatile argument, just like a silly thing someone told me, I always remember something that my mom used to say where she would look in a rear view mirror and there was a little message that says objects in rear view are larger than they appear. And takes distance before they get back to the regular size. Right. And that's a lot of the times when I argue with someone, it's like, ooh, I'm so upset. When I'm looking, am I seeing it for what it is? Or am I looking in that rear view mirror? You know? And I feel like a lot of people should just recognize that. A little bit of time puts everything to perspective. Doubter five, I have a really serious problem. Listen, I went to the drug store and I said, do you guys have any atheism here? And they're like, we don't have any atheism here. I'm like, what's going on? Am I even in the right store? It's like, no, you got to go to the library. So I went to the library and they're like, do you guys have atheism here? I was like, no, we only have books here, sir.  And then I went to grocery stores. I was like, do you have any atheism? Like we got bananas. And I'm like, I'll take a banana. But I'm still looking for atheism. And I don't know what it's all about. What can I do? Help me out. Well, when I'm in the drug store, there's plenty of atheism there. Matter of fact, I've taken my book, and I assume that's what you're referring to, to the library locally and offered to give them a few copies for the shelves, and they would not take it. Gas. They said, no, it's got to go through a process, which is just an excuse for saying, we don't want to put atheist books on them. The Knoxville Library shelves. They have one or two by Dawkins or Hitchens, but those are widely circulated bestsellers, and they feel obligated, I'm sure, to put them there. But I'm a local artist, and they're supposed to put local artists on there. They won't take my atheist book and put it on the shelf. Anyway, it's called atheism. What's it all about? And it's available on Amazon. If you have questions for the show, you can send them by email to askanatheistatKnoxvilleAtheist.org. We'll answer them on future shows. If you're having trouble relieving religious beliefs behind, you can find help at recoveringfromreligion.org. If you're watching this on YouTube, be sure to like and subscribe. And this has been your last episode so far of the Digital Freethought Radio Hour.  Even mine. Don't worry about it, because the time to worry about it is when they prove that heavens and hells and souls are real. Until then, don't sweat it. Enjoy your life, and we'll see you next week. Say bye, everybody. Bye, everybody.


This is my team, a star-studded cast of amazing elite players. But there's a catch. There's always a catch. My goal is to go as far as I can in head-to-head seasons and potentially win a Super Bowl. But every single time my opponents score a touchdown, I must remove one elite player from this team. So hopefully we can play absurdly good defense all the way up to the playoffs and we can salvage as many positions as possible. Additionally, I will not be allowed to choose what position is replaced. I'll be spinning a wheel and that wheel will land on a position and that position will get replaced with a silver player. If only one touchdown is scored, but I land on quarterback, then I'll have to take Josh Allen out. And mainly Bayley Zappi's coming back in. I'm actually already 2-0 in this season. I'm gonna use that handicap actually. I think this means that we'll get closer to the playoffs quicker, which I assume you guys would like.  So let's hop in. 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Hit the link in the top of the description and use my code MMG.  Vessie, thank you for continuing to sponsor my videos, guys. Enjoy the rest. Really, I just gotta keep out of the end zone. I can actually lose. Losing doesn't even matter. Like I can lose 3 to 0. And it doesn't matter nearly as much as him scoring. I could win 42 to 35. And that's gonna ruin this team. So we gotta play defense. Shit, I just blitzed Ronnie Lott. Did not mean to do that. All right, definitely a pass. Oh my god, look at the scoreboard. The scoreboard's like invisible. And he just bombed me!   It's invisible. That kicker accurately describes EA. All right, strategy. Run the ball, chew the clock. Oh, nice. All right, let's try to go right back to beast mode. Ooh, I like that. I like that. Great stiff arm, beast mode. Let's go right back up the middle. Let's run right behind Iron Mike. Chew the clock so that we can't get as many touchdowns scored on us. Get our first down. I'm everything I hate.  Marky Mark, Marky Mark. Ooh, that's a tight window. Nice catch. Oh, wait a second. He just left. Oh, it's man coverage. I like that, though. Beast mode, great row. Get through him. All right, we got to call a big boy play here. I feel like Mark Andrews does get open here. He does. Damn. Honestly, I kind of panicked. I felt the pressure and I just panicked. He ran this earlier. That's not open. Oh no, yes. Fourth and 11, he's got the right side. Oh, he missed. I got bailed out right there. He was going to keep moving those chains. He might have scored. Man coverage is hell. We know that. But Justin Jefferson is pretty damn good at beating man coverage. So I'm going to let Justin Jefferson make a great route here. Ooh, what a throw, Josh Allen. Under pressure. He's running a man blitz every single time. I'm hoping Juju can get around this.   Just run man blitz all day every day and there's nothing I can do about it. All right, we're looking for Jay Jedis. I think Jay Jedis is my savior here. If I've got a shot, oh, he's not even open. He just switched his own. Dude, this guy is just boxing me like a fish, honestly. The only good thing is he only has one touchdown and I get ball at half. And this challenge is removing an elite every single touchdown scored on me, not winning every single game. So that's good news, I suppose. Oh no, please no, dude.  Took him three seconds to score by just throwing a Hail Mary. All right, doesn't really matter how we slice it. This doesn't feel like a very winnable game to me. I don't have the brain power to beat this kind of main coverage right now. I just got to play to let up as few touchdowns as possible. That has to be my game plan here. I just see how much clock I can physically milk and just lose. Usually I trust Justin Jefferson here, but I don't know, this hasn't been as effective. All right, hey, we did this last time, we'll do it again. Fourth and one, I need a yard, baby. I think Marshawn's the guy for this. I think we go Marshawn for one yard. No, he ran commit. Damn, he's just got my number on everything. I'm on that. Let's go, baby. All right, he must be one time, he's not going to moss me twice. So we got the ball back exactly what we needed. All right, we just got to keep chewing the clock. Hey, okay, Beast, damn, man. I'm literally in hell.  Oh, put me out of my misery, dude. Hey, great route. Great route, Jay Jettas. That's what I'm talking about, baby. Hey, there's Justin Jefferson. Beauty, beauty. Just keep ticking away at this clock, baby. Let's go. This used to work. Oh, it still does. That's a big first down, baby. Keep chewing the clock. We got this, boys. All right, we can hold the two touchdowns. That's pretty good. I will kick my onside though, just to see if we get it.  He has two touchdowns in this game, two hail Marys. One was entirely my fault, and the other one was I just got mossed. Respectfully. Come on, baby. All right, beast mode to the one. Ball came's almost over, baby. We're almost to the promised land. There he is.  It wasn't even beast mode. It's DeMarco Murray came in. All right. Wait a minute. I'm going for it, baby. We got to see if it's possible. Oh, we got it. Cortland Sutton. Hey, didn't pick up a dump. Gigi's my opponent, dude. That guy played really tough defense. But guess what? It's only two touchdowns. That's a win. I mean, it's not a win, but it's pretty good. Only two touchdowns means only two wheel spins. I think our team's going to survive through this. All right, boys, spin one. I even made it hard on myself. I made D-Line and O-Line their own spin. Oh, wait. And I still got clutched up, didn't I? Oh, all right. So save these means I could do either. I think we keep Roddy Lot, because Roddy Lot is so good. Let's get Grant Delpit out of there, I suppose. So in for Grant Delpit.  Save these one of the worst. I think quarterback's probably the worst, but save these in corners are really, really important. I'm actually going to go Tyson Anderson here.  But if you compare that to Tariq Carpenter, who's got 73, at least we got a shot to stop somebody here. All right. And that's two spins for two touchdowns. Let's see what's the next thing I got to replace. Not half back. Full back. Oh, that's okay. Wait a minute. So Santa Horvid, that's fine. Going into this second game though, I'm hoping to get either a rage quit or just like a true shutout here. He's got Von Miller, Joe Mixon, and I can't see the third guess. I wouldn't know, but we still got our core top three. So I'll be all right. Jet sweep. Oh, it's a fake jet sweep. Wait, wait. Oh, that wheel is so open. That's a pretty nasty route, dude. First in 10. Let's get on the quarterback. Oh, right over the middle. Right over the middle. Throw it. Throw it. Throw it. I know you want to. Oh, big hit. No way you're up. No way he got through. Hey, good play, Fred Warner though. We're going to take him down. Oh, he's going to run it again. Warner. Oh, I think we got him. Fourteen inches. Let's go. I feel like he's going to go like QB Sneak. Oh my God, I'm so right. See if I can just stop him with Fred Warner in the gap here. Oh, he was going to go QB Sneak. We're just going to go right at him. Right up at the middle, right at him and start chewing the clock. Second and seven. I'm going to stick to the stretch. I think I can get a yard here. He is up close to the line, but wow, just barely got around that. We'll probably be able to get the first quarter out of the way here. Score and get ball half.  If we can clock and manage this well, this game is all ours. Good blocks. Good enough blocks. Third and five. Pretty big pickup here. Keep this drive alive. Oh, his user's there, buddy. Miss. I still like this play. I don't think he's in man coverage. Big fan of this play. It's just so good against so many different, so many different coverages. This will take us to the two minute warning, actually, all the way.  I feel like a dickhead. I'll run cross buck. I rarely run this play. Cross buck. Ooh, hard cut. Oh no, he didn't switch on. It's actually better. If I can put up points here, that's actually better because I can chew more clock like this. I want to get sacked actually. Yep. Might not get my touchdown, but I'll be able to get a field goal. He has to use his last time out. This feels really unorthodox, but I think to win this challenge is best I can. I think that was the right call. In fact, he might actually be leaving Justin Jefferson open here too. Oh no, he's leaving Tyreek open. He's leaving Tyreek. Oh wait, no, that's man coverage. Just kidding. He's not leaving anybody open. All right, that's fine. Fourth and goal. We'll chew the clock. Kick a field goal. And that should be money. Harrison Bucker, great kick. 37 seconds left to three point lead. I give up all I have. Touchdown would have been nice, but I think I leave the door open for him to score a touchdown. In this scenario, he can't realistically score a touchdown. Nothing open. Nothing open. Nothing open, Fred Warner. A money or a warrior. I might get a touchdown. No way.   Didn't get my two point. Didn't really matter. It's still two possession lead. We take over with the ball here. I'm so sorry, Bean Fiddle, but I need the shutout.  I literally might have to get on the mic and apologize. I can't tell him right now. I mean, he kind of knows, but I don't want him to know my game plan. Nearing the end of this game, I'm gonna hop on the mic and I'm just gonna literally apologize.  Why are you so fast? Oh my God. Beesball was on his feet there? That was a first? Cut it back. Oh, Josh.  Dude, I think Mark Andrews can, because this is man cover, I think Mark Andrews just gonna moss this guy. Oh, just kidding. We'll go underneath. Keep it simple, hard cut, right? We're looking for our boy, Justin Jefferson here. Actually, I think Juju's wide open. I'm just gonna look at Juju here.  He was kind of there, not really. I should have let that develop a little longer. I do turn the ball over. I still have a lead, but I just didn't want him to get a touchdown. All right, second and 10. Does he hand it off? No. Halfback? No. Bruce Smith. Bruce Smith just activated Unstoppable Force. He's gotta get this ball off quicker. I throw halfback. That's us. That's us. Let's go. Oh my God. It's Tyson Anderson.  Tyson Anderson. Silver Tyson Anderson, dude, I'm so proud of him. Okay. Nice run, Beast Mode. Fourth and five. Can I get there? Can I get there? Juju. That's clutch. That was big clutch right there. I'm gonna get on the mic with Bean Fiddle now.  Yo, is something sexy? How we doing? Yo, are you chewing clog? Bro, I literally was...  I'm doing a video right now, which is I start with an elite team every single time that my opponent scores a touchdown. I remove an elite from the team and I'm trying to make it to the Super Bowl.  I'm literally so sorry.  I saw your subscribers. I felt like an extra dickhead. Nah, don't worry. Don't worry. I understand.  So if you want to shout out to anybody out or just say something. Hi, um... Go Giants? Okay. Yes. You guys might win the NFC East. We will. I believe. Hey, I appreciate it, bro. I'm sorry again. All right. See you, bro. Peace. Wow. Hey. Let's clap it up for the boy. Big dump. We don't have to mess with the team at all. No, she's keep going, baby. Eric Allen, DeMarco, Murray Keith Jackson. I can do that. All right. I've got a new strategy for this game. I'm gonna try and give him a rage quit. I'm gonna play lights out, lock up defense, and I'm gonna try to score so much and so quickly that he quits. And that's a shout out too, because if you're gonna quit, you probably don't have any touch-ups. Not entirely sure what this play is. I think it's a run, though. Okay. Good, good, good. I got the dig over the middle. Oh! Ho, ho, ho, ho. Yup. Oh, we're on T-bowl. Let's go. DeMarco Davis, big one. Second and 22. Drop back for the tight end. That's mine. Come on, baby. Can we house it? Oh, we can. Oh, we can. This is what I'm saying. Rage quit. We're getting rage quit in this one. Big hit. Oh, no. It's Tyson Anderson. Oh, that was Ronnie Lott. Shit. Nice play. Big hit. Dude. AJ Brown is killing me. Third and nine. Yes, sir. Yes, sir! Two picks, sixes. Sorry, T-bowl. Come on, you gotta quit now, bro. In fact, you know what I shouldn't have done? I shouldn't have show-boated. I think I might have pissed him off to the point where he wants to beat me now. Can I make this work as a question? This is a blitz. I can throw Marshawn. Just barely. Ho. His user read that like a book.  Ooh, nice window. Dude, AJ Brown is a break tackle machine. Lester Hayes just glitched for that tackle, though, so now we're even. He's chewing clock. That's actually pretty awesome. He's doing my job for me. I'm going to go low. Oh, my God. No, no. Damn. All right. There's a touchdown.  And not converting them. I think the meta here would be to go down at the 10, so I can use this entire clock even through his field goals. It is still man. That means Justin Jefferson is going to be open. Great catch. Now I'm going to send Mark Andrews up the middle here. There's going to go, oh, playmaker throw attacks.    He didn't even just miss the throw. He threw it to a defender. Oh, that sucked. Good tackle. See what he goes with here. First and 10. Oh, he just chucks one up. I'm going to try and get him to rage quit. Beauty. I don't believe that. I think I can still get a field goal. Thank God. All right. Wait, I got to make this though. This is a pretty tough field goal. That hook it a little bit too much. What is going on? Dude, this game has been so hard. All right, Tariq. You want to get a little good return here? Good hard cut. Oh, that was such a good hard cut. I just didn't have the speed. Looking for Justin Jefferson.  I literally just held RB and it just, this is literally the worst game I've ever had. Wow. This one like really hurts my brain. There's the run play. Oh my God. We just stuff it fourth and inches. He's not kicking a field goal. No way. I'll take that. That's huge for us. Can't tell this is a zone or really what this is. I like that a lot. What? It's Mark Andrews in one-on-one. Oh my God. This is so horrible. Absolutely must keep him out of the end.   Ooh, I saw that a little late. Nice move. Good touchdown. That's tough. Getting too aggressive with my blitzes. He's in zone. Beauty. We're going to come out of Saints Fork and I'm going to throw a suggestion to Jefferson for a touchdown. Fuck, it's going to use a two-minute warning.  If this didn't use the two-minute warning, it'd be so much better. But that's a beauty still. If that didn't use the two-minute warning, it would have been a lot, lot better. I just ran a man blitz and he just went for this many yards on it. Go get that zone on it. This is one of the luckiest guys I've ever played, but it still isn't over. Oh, you got to love that. You got to love having a chance, right? Oh, horrible ball. Horrible ball. Josh Allen is really struggling today.  Yep. No way. I'm going to try and get in the rage point. This has been one of the worst games of my life. This team's about to get real rough after this. All right, dude. I think it's five touchdowns because they had two field goals, right? Halfback. What do I do this to myself? All right, our new halfback is Keyante Ingram. Tight end. Our new tight end is like Andrew Ogletree. He's got 69 speed, subbing out D-line. I'll just sub out Jonathan Allen. That'll keep our team okay for a little bit. I'm going to go Oteeta Ogbanya. All right, boys. We need a massive bounce back game here. Our team just got depleted a little bit here, so we're really going to need something. O-line. If I'm replacing O-line, I guess I'll go right guard. I feel like I used that the least. Lesidus Smith. Welcome to the team, baby. All right, boys. Our new team still has Josh Allen, who I'm tempted to just bench anyway. But we have Keyante Ingram, Xander Horvath in the backfield. We've got a new right guard, a new tight end. Downgraded to an 82 overall. Only one loss left. Wish me luck. Let's get to her ball. Oh, no. No. You did not just get a fur. All right. I just want to give up. I don't want to play. Jesus Christ, man.  Do you think Ogletree beats the man coverage? Oh, he's not even in man. He's in zone. It's covered four. Ogletree. Those blocks are so good, you can't help but run it. Crazy enough, the run plays are great. With Keyante Ingram. Although that's fourth and four. That might not have been the smartest play call. Let's see who's open. Who's going to get this? Oh, Tyreek. Nice diving play. Here we go, boys. Here we go. Here we go. He's got nothing. He's got nothing. Oh, it's a savage. This is covered four. Oh, no. Wait, what is this? I don't know, but I got just so. Oh my God. Hit the camo gritty. How did that turn into a touchdown? Can I do better on my two point conversions? Arby. Oh, that's a bad ball. Wow, it's like one day I'd learn my lesson about two point conversions. Right over the middle, Keyante. Dude, she broke a tackle. Can we just give it up for Keyante Ingram? This one is all but in the bag. Let's just keep playing this well, and we should be all right here. Ogletree Mawson. All right. I'm never speaking ever again. I'm winning. He won't score touchdowns. It doesn't matter. I want to cry. Oh, okay. Jay Jedis. Jay Jedis. Come on, save me. Save me from Al. You're so close, buddy. You're right there. I know you have it in you to pick that off next time. Come on. No, no, no, no, no. That's so open. Save me at home. Wait, I shouldn't be taking this out. Wait, yes I should. Come on. Let's go. All right, we're looking for Justin Jefferson. This play has been so money for us this whole time. I need it once more, Justin. I need it once more, Justin. Big snag to the 46. Don't need to use my time out. Let's go again, Justin. Oh, no, that's P. Oh, he doesn't get hit. He's so open. It's a bad throw still, but if he doesn't get hit, he's open. I'm so glad to be put out of my misery. Get me out of this game in this format. Didn't make the playoffs. Got my losses. I'm out. All right. Well, the video's over, though, so that's good news for me.  So thanks for watching as always, boys. I'll see you in the next video. Peace.


It's that time of year just before the start of spring training that the Reds caravan hits the road to travel more than 3,300 miles with stops in five states over the course of four days. Today they made their stop in Pikeville. Broadcasters Chris Wells, Jeff Brantley, General Manager and President of Baseball Operations Dick Williams, pitcher Drew Storen, catcher Chris Oakey, and Reds Hall of Famer Eric Davis all made the trip down 23 to visit with Reds Country. Following the autograph session we caught up with some of the fans within the community and members of the caravan. As in most cases like to be a community partner and do things that benefit the community and we are a sponsor for the Reds throughout the season to broadcast the games so have tremendous number of Reds fans in East Kentucky so we just like to be a part of you know to put this event on as well. Every year it's really special I mean you know whether the team has had a good year or a bad year you really wouldn't know it by when we go out on the caravan whether it be a radio stop at one of the affiliate stations or one of the big mall stops that they're open to the public people I mean they come out of the woodwork to see the Reds players to see the former Reds players to see the general manager and they always are loaded up with a lot of questions. Born and raised in Cincinnati so I grew up with it in my blood I know how important it is this whole area it's one of the few things that unites us as a region and the Reds are important to a lot of people and you get reminded of that when you come out and see all the you know the fans and the in-off season wearing their colors. It means a lot to them you know they never really get the chance to see any Reds players come here so I think the caravan is really a good cause for the community and I think we should just keep on doing it


When we started no-tilling we certainly needed different equipment. We needed the kind of planters that had a lot of down pressure to get the seed in the soil. We were dealing with a pretty hard soil at that time and when we first started no-tilling we were dealing with a lot of residue. We worked through all this and as we no-tilled longer and as the microbes in the soil started working better we saw the residue become less of a problem and we're switching to different things like using rye as a cover crop in the fall and then coming in and planting into that standing rye and it's not the equipment it's the way the soil is growing and reacting and we've turned the soil into a lot softer medium than it used to be. It used to be we needed all this down pressure to get the seed in the ground and now it's not really a factor hardly at all. We've created a soil with the aggregate stability that's softened it up and we can get really good seed placement without a tremendous amount of down pressure. So the equipment is important but at a certain point and the more important part becomes how are you managing the soil, how are you changing it and creating the structure that's conducive to the plants to grow. Livestock integration is one way to ease out the financial risk. So if I'm going to dedicate some acres to a cover crop if I've got some livestock or my neighbor has some livestock that we can bring in there and generate some revenue off of it from grazing it that helps offset the risk of just planting it from a soil health standpoint.


But isn't it amazing that our brains helped us to crack the genetic code? They have helped us to fly to the moon and yet we don't understand how they work. I want to understand how these 86 billion make us who we are by studying four of them. Now how can four neurons get us anywhere? So in neuroscience we have powerful methods to study the activity of single neurons at the highest detail and we can study large networks of thousands and millions of neurons but the larger the networks the lower our resolution and this has led to a problem. We are struggling to explain the activity of the networks based on what we know about the single neurons because neural networks are more than the sum of their parts. They are like a good football team. You can't explain the success of a football team only by the individual players because there are interactions and there is synchronous activity and these emergent properties are crucial for the success of a team and neural network activity. But to quantify these emergent properties and networks we need to study the team of neurons at the highest physiological detail and here our methods currently limit us to single neurons or maximum two cells and these don't capture the interactions but four would change everything and I'm not the only one who thinks so. If we could measure four neurons at this high detail we could understand how the interactions and synchronous activity contribute to the network performance and to achieve this I want to use the patch clamp technique. It provides this high detail and we routinely use it in the lab to study single neurons. I want to quadruple our equipment and target four neurons at the same time and not in any brain tissue but the most accessible and best characterized there is the retina in the eye. So my vision is to establish the world's first four cell patch clamp recordings to help understand the 86 billion that drive our every thought and action by quantifying emergent properties in small networks that are the building blocks of the brain. Thank you. So I know I have many many questions about the brain but we've only got time for two so let's pass it over to our judges. If you were now thinking what would be the first answer you were looking for by assuming that you will manage to develop this what would be the first thing you will be looking for. Yes because as you see we're developing a technique so we can apply to many different things but the first thing I want to look at is synchronous activity networks because we know that in the brain and the retina neurons respond in synchrony part of the time. We know this can be good or bad depending on the network state but we actually don't know how it translates to networks. It has only been measured in pairs of neurons and they only have one connection so we have no idea how this translates to larger networks and I for the first time can measure it in four neurons that have six connections so we can see how it actually translates to larger or small but larger networks than one connection. Just another quick one how far you are in developing this. Yes so you have to imagine this whole patch clamp technique a bit like juggling. Every ball you add every neuron you add makes matters exponentially more complicated but what I have done in the last half a year I have got reliable two neuron recordings and like in juggling I will add one ball at a time and add neuron three and four in the next couple of years to come. Perfect. Well thank you very much for the questions from the judges. Thank you very much Anna.


Aaron D. Daylan may who's still not in the lineup any update on his status overall? No, I mean he's kind of waiting second opinion talking to him today Does feel like the last couple of days being down has helped him So I'm hopeful for tomorrow But we'll see we'll see What are the options there because he did have a court of zone shot during the all-star break You had mentioned the orthotics. Is there anything else? Yeah, so he started taking medicine They're doing some things, you know orthotics and shoe-wise like that Hopefully kind of put him in a good position to create a little bit of relief. So You know, hope hopeful on something tomorrow When when do you get to the point where you feel as though you can't play short when you need to make a decision? Yeah, we'll probably make that decision sometime tomorrow or the next day of saying Yeah, it's beneficial to take the next Now seven days or so or Or we're ready to go. So and I really don't have a lean either way on it Other than I'm holding out some hope that he can be in there tomorrow You have uh, Gonzales and right field judge in center field tonight Will we see marwin in right a little bit more considering the way Hicks has kind of struck? Um, not necessarily. You know, I got locaster over there. We'll continue to talk roster and stuff Each and every night But just felt like I wanted to get marwin in there tonight and hopefully provide a little bit of a spark for us June all the way to the left Hey, erin garret last night said that the team needed a spark for you. What does a spark look like? points You know, we just need a score right now. It's been a challenge for us obviously over the last week Um, you know, we've had some games where we've had opportunities We haven't been hitting the ball a lot of the ballpark As much as we normally do. So on those games where you do get People on base and we've had a handful of them Even though, you know, we've we've had definitely a few where we've been shut down haven't had much in the way of opportunities Last night we had a couple good opportunities.  So we just got a you know Focus on trying to you know win pitches win at bats and uh you know And know we'll break through there's a lot of moving pieces right now in the clubhouse between new guys coming in and guys who are injured How do you kind of manage the the culture of a clubhouse as there's a bunch of just things happening all at once on top of Where the team is from a production standpoint It's consistency. It's who we are You know, we try and talk about it But try and live it all the time that no matter what's going on in the course of the season, you know, we try and remain We're human, you know, so we you know, we Things are going great.  How are we approaching this guy this team this lineup? um So not much changes in that regard and you know, I I think our guys do a good job of that Michael Aaron yesterday, um Hicks seemed really down and distraught after the game Maybe that's not the right word. Is he a playable player for you right now? Or is it best to just let him sit? Yeah, he's a playable player. I mean he has to be you know, especially Potentially being short if not having dj on the bench today. So yeah And um, you know, he and I have spoken Um try and support him. You know yesterday was obviously a very difficult day. It's been a difficult stretch and season um That's all part of it and we got a You know kind of rally around him and get him prepared and in the best Space that we can to to help us win a game you sense that he's lost faith in himself And have you lost faith in him? I don't I don't know that lost faith in himself. I think frustrated and you know searching for answers about you know His struggles and his season a little bit. So And definitely sensed his um You know disappointment sadness yesterday and you know, he's wearing that. Um, so You know the uniform's heavy for him right now and It is for different people at different times throughout the year in different ways So you try and tap into that and support that and and uh get him ready as best you can


Hello, my name is Tim Cerowitz with the Linux Foundation. In this video, we're going to learn how to gain access to two cloud nodes to run the labs for the Kubernetes classes. The basic flow is, first, we're going to install Putty, then we're going to log in to the Google Cloud and deploy to instances. In a separate video, I will show you how to use Amazon instead, similar but distinct, either way, you would need Putty. Of course, this does work if you're from a Windows environment. If you're on a Linux laptop natively, which I hope you are, or a Mac, then you could just use a terminal and the SSH command. This video is definitely aimed at people using Windows as their local machine and then accessing the Linux systems online. The first step is to get Putty installed on our local Windows machine. Let me bring that up and then you can see I have a browser here and I'm going to go to Putty.org. Then where it says download Putty, we're going to download the two different packages. The first one is the Windows installer for Putty itself. This is the tool that we'll use throughout the labs to gain access to our nodes. I'm going to save that and then I'm going to scroll down and look for PuttyGen. This will help us generate the keys that we need or convert from a pen key to a PBK key, which is the type of key that we need to gain access to our nodes. I'm going to go ahead and download PuttyGen as well. Looks like it finished here, so I'm going to double click on the installer, allow it to run, go through the typical setup process. In this case, I also want to have a shortcut on my system as well for Putty just because I'll be using it, just because I'll be using it quite a bit and it's there. There's a finished page that shows you how to do stuff and more information as necessary. Now to get PuttyGen working, this is the basic PuttyGen information. Just go ahead and click on generate. Once you move your mouse, it's using random location information to generate this key. In the key component, we're going to swap that out and we're going to put the word student there. That's our username inside of our lab student. You could have a passphrase. For ease of use, I'm not going to have a passphrase in my case. Then I'm going to go ahead and say save private key. Are you sure without a passphrase? Yes, I'm sure without a passphrase. In this case, I'm going to put it on my desktop and I'm going to call this LF class and save. On my desktop, behind these windows, I can then find the new key. In fact, let's just go ahead and see if we can find it here someplace. There it is, LF class. Now that we have LF class, we can close up PuttyGen. Now it's Putty. Here's my desktop. There's Putty. This is what Putty looks like. This information, we need to get at least some of it from whatever our cloud provider is going to be. For example, the IP address. What we're going to do is let's go ahead and create something called master. I'm just going to call it master. I can click save and then by selecting it, I can load that profile layer. So master, I'm going to go down to where it has SSH and then auth, LF class, and then open and verify that indeed that PPK is showing up right there. Then go back up. There's other things you can change like how the title looks like. For example, I might put master here and appearance. You can change color. We'll probably do that on our secondary terminal. Go back up to session and let's save what we've made the changes. We will eventually need to put the IP address in here. But until then, let's go ahead to cloud console.cloud.google.com. Now the first time you log in, it will ask you a series of questions about your credit cards and paying for everything. So I won't go through that. That should be fairly straightforward. But once we've added our credit card information, the dashboard should look something like this. So the first thing we need to do is set up a new VPC. So upper left hand side, the menu area, and then scroll down to VPC network and over to VPC networks. When that comes up, you should see some default information. We're going to select the create VPC network button and give it a name like LF class, for example, for my LF class. Then name, give it a name like LF class, the region. Now I'd probably choose something close to me or perhaps something inexpensive. So US central, for example, the address range, other information. You should be able to just click on create at this point, and look, there it even stops me. So you need to put some sort of address range in here. So 10 dot, let's see here, 10 dot 2 dot 0 dot 0 slash 24. That would give me 256 nodes in that network or I could do it slash 16. It's internal, so it's not affecting the outside world and then create. And soon I should have a class show up. Now that depends on a lot of things how fast it is, but eventually this should become bold and I should be able to select it. I'm going to select it and create a firewall rule. It's taking a while, so let's go over to firewall rules. So we're going to click on create firewall rule. We're going to name like LF class for my LF class. Then the network, by now it should have popped up and there's an LF class. I just made that a second ago. Then we see ingress, we're going to allow and all ports and protocols. So in this case, you can say all instances on this network, the IP range and allow all. We have the zeros there to allow all and we have a new for class that is going to allow everything and it's over here, it should say LF class. So that's where our VPC is and we see that indeed we can also look at firewall rules here and all traffic is allowed on all IP ranges. Now that we have our VPC set up, we can go ahead and spin up a node. So we're going to go to compute engine and then VM instances will set up our master node and then a worker node. So we select create and we're going to give it a name like master. The location, that's the region that you'd like it to be running in. Of course, I just created my VPC in central. So central there, for example, then the series type, we're going to leave that as just kind of a general N1, then we're going to change this to be N1 standard two, which is two vCPUs and 7.5 gig of memory. We're going to change the disk. So click on change there and we're going to choose in Ubuntu and then in Ubuntu 18.04 and I'm going to make the disk a little bit bigger. We don't need a lot of space, but just in case, I'm going to up the disk to be 20 gig in size and select that. Then down here, it has management security, networking and sole tenancy. So under security, you select that, you'll notice it says enter the public SSH key. Well, this would be one of those places where we want to paste our SSH key. The putty gen is a way of getting that. So putty gen and let's try that. Let's try that again and load LF class open. And we can see here all the information that we need. We copy all of it and paste. So now we picked up that student that was in the comment field and then that way it will line up with what the lab exercises have. So then networking, we can see it goes to the default network, but we want the LF class network instead. And at that point, we can click on create. It should spin up an instance. The instance name will be tied to the, I should say the host name, is tied to the instance name. So we'll be able to see that when it comes up with an IP address. The IP address is right here, so I'm going to take that information and paste it into our putty information. So copy, put it under host name, paste. And again, it's the master setting. I'm going to go ahead and save it first and then open. Now it takes a little bit to start. So it may not be quite ready yet, but let's just see here. You know, I think we were faster than the node spinning up. It won't always update. So if it doesn't come up after a couple of seconds, go ahead and close the session and then start putty again. That's putty gen, putty, master, load and open. This time it says the server's key is not cached because we haven't connected to this instance before. And we're going to say yes, connect. And it says log in as, so log in as the username student. And there we are. We're logged in and we look at our prompts, student at master in this case, and we can continue with the lab exercise. Now we may need a secondary node. So we're going to come over here and select master. That's the name itself is a link. And there's a create similar option. I'm going to change the name to be worker. Just double check the end to is the size of two CPUs, 7.5 gig of memory, 1804 LTS. We see that under security, it has the same SSH key. And under the network, it is the same LF class. So we click create and that one should come up. Now we can leave this one running. You can see there's a right click on the terminal in here and there's a new session or save session, change session. I'm going to go ahead and start putty by itself. And I'll start off with master and I'm going to load it. But then I'm going to change this to be worker and then save. So now I have a master and a worker. And I'm also going to change the colors just so that I can keep them distinct from each other in a little easier way. So cursor text, we're going to modify that to be some sort of red color there. OK, and now that that's we have a color set, we're going to go back up to session and we need to swap out the IP address. The new IP address is up so I can go ahead and use that copy first. Copy, paste, and let's save it and then open and see if it works. Again, we haven't connected to it yet. So yes, I'd like to connect in there. And we see now we have a new session against student. And if you look, the prop says worker. So student worker, student at master. Now, the as you type, it should have been a different color. If it's not what you want, you can come in here and go on change settings. And you should be able to change the colors and some of the other settings. You know, the student, a worker, student, master, there's different ways of doing it. But I usually like using colors. I'm not sure why it's it's not using the color that I'd like. So modify and red, OK, apply. The product is changing, but the text isn't something I'll have to look into. But at this point, then I can use them as much as I'd like. When you're done, don't forget to come in here and select all of your nodes and then delete. So it says it will also lead to two booths. That's important. We want that. We don't want to be paying for any storage. It'll take a little bit to shut down. In the meantime, you can go to billing and see more information about how much is costing you and make sure there's not being charged for anything else. You can always come back in here to Compute Engine and then disks. And hopefully those will get shut down there shortly so that I'm no longer using them. That should get you started in accessing the labs for Google Compute Engine for the LF classes. I'm also going to have a video on how to use Amazon. Thanks very much.