- the DC AM #93: “Inaccurate Prediction” PodcastSeptember 7, 2010
- Beware, Sharks In The Potomac Blog, Random, ScienceSeptember 3, 2010
- Liquid Nitrogen Gets PWNed Blog, ScienceSeptember 1, 2010
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the DC AM #93: “Inaccurate Prediction”
So sometimes when we record the show we do so before some major event, and then often post if afterwords. It makes it hard to do Oscar discussions, chats about movies that haven’t come out, and worst of all sports. So here we have this episode, where things are said, believed, and then found to not come true. Sad to be sure but you have to move on, right? Anyway, we also touch on boobie bracelets, a night out on the town in DC, a new bar review, and so so much more. So get to it, it’s not going to listen to itself.
Related Links:
Schools ban bracelets promoting cancer awareness: I love boobies.
Music:
- Soul Logistics – Bring The Pain
- Domi – Duckie
- Fugazi – Waiting Room
- Blues Traveler – Run-Around
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Beware, Sharks In The Potomac
So, for all of our DC listeners, which is most of you I’m guessing, you’ve probably driven over, canoed in, swam in, beached on, or otherwise had some interaction with the Potomac River in your life. What you probably never imagined is that in all mirth and dirty-looking water there was swimming something bigger than a few crap or large-mouth bass. That’s right, recently a fisherman actually caught, of all things, a Bull Shark. Amazing to be sure but it actually happened, and you can see the picture that proves it. Anyway, we’re keeping this in mind next time we decide to go for a dip or have some bodies we need to make disappear, you understand, just the logical things.
Willy Dean has an incredible fish tale to tell. On Tuesday, he caught a shark while on the Potomac River in St. Mary’s County, Md.
Don’t believe him? He has the pictures to prove it.
Dean put out a net Monday at Cornfield Harbor in the Potomac three miles north of Point Lookout with hopes of catching cow-nosed rays for a Solomons Island Marina biologist. When he checked Monday night everything seemed normal. But when he checked again Tuesday morning, he made a startling discovery.
In the net was an 8-foot-long shark. He said it was a bull shark. According to National Geographic, experts consider them to be “the most dangerous sharks in the world.”
Whatever kind of shark it was, Dean knows two things: it had a heck of a lot of teeth, and it didn’t go out easily.
“We had an interesting morning bringing it in,” Dean said. “It was quite a fight.”
Once the shark was captured, the next question was: What the heck do you do with it?
“I am probably going to have it mounted, maybe the head,” Dean said. “Right now, the shark’s in the freezer.”
Which means there’s no chance that this fish tale ends with the big one getting away…
Related Links:
8-Foot Shark Caught in Potomac River
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Liquid Nitrogen Gets PWNed
Sometimes we like to get all crazy informative on the DC AM. Here is one such case. We all know liquid nitrogen to be that crazy cold awesome stuff where if you want to make a cool Mythbusters episode or kill a T-1000, it’ll do the trick. But the interesting thing about it is you can actually your hand in the stuff for a brief moment before the super-crazy freeze sets in and your skin will actually come out in a form not resembling a five-pronged popsicle. It’s pretty cool and it’s called the “Leidenfrost effect” which is the same sort of thing you get when you throw some water on a boiling pan, the quick layer of steam that forms actually prevents any bonding, separating the pan and the water, or in the case the liquid nitrogen and your precious epidermis. In the future though it’s probably not smart to try this, because whether you or a T-1000 or not -320° F is probably nothing you want to joke with.
Related Links:
Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen
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the DC AM #92: “Brosploded”
Hello there fans, it’s another action packed week here at the DC AM global studios. This go around we update some tidbits about the contest, try and figure out how to have the biggest blow-out of a 100th episode ever, debate the pros and cons of various hangouts in the DC area, try and figure out how to avoid being killed if the contest is exposed to one of the contestants, and the reveal some interesting facts about British strippers and Sweden best business tactics. In all it’s a humdinger of a show, which is weird, because I’m not sure we even know what humdinger means, but it sure sounds appropriate. So go, listen, enjoy, revel in it!
Related Links:
‘One in four lap-dancers has a degree’
Music:
- Mambo Sauce – Welcome To DC
- Arcade Fire – Ready To Start
- Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked
- David Bowie – Life On Mars
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Living Like The Bible Is Rough
The Bible is one of those books, that is really long, really meaningful to a lot of people, but is for the most part bullshit… not that I want to offend all of the Bible fans that are also fans of the DC AM, but look, we said what we said, let’s move on. The point is the book is full of a lot of opposing logic, things that seem to have only made sense 2,000 years ago, and for the most part mythology masked as lesson, or possibly vice-versa. Which makes the fact that some guy who actually read the whole thing, jotted some very fine notes, and then decided to follow the whole damn thing, to the letter for a year. It’s kinda crazy, but it’s also kinda interesting so check out the brief video synopsis below.
Related Links:
A.J. Jacobs’ year of living biblically
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