2025.07.30: Scale Problems
Added 2025-07-30 10:48:01 +0000 UTCBurnie and Ashley discuss the Russian earthquake, the Richter scale, magnitudes, the danger of alert fatigue, erroneous nuclear warnings, Reagan's open mic gaffe, Alien:Earth, and zombie vampires from space.
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Good morning! My mind goes to Die Hard 4 for Timothy Olyphant because that's the first time I ever remember really seeing him. Great bad guy in that. Love him in everything though from Justified to The Mando!
Aaron Hunter
2025-07-30 14:36:22 +0000 UTCGood Morning! Today’s episode truly made me feel small, and insignificant in a worldly scale. It’s very humbling that we live on an unpredictable rock in space, that sometimes decides to have events that could wipe out portions of the population. Two rocks rubbing together might be the funniest way to describe an earthquake! Thanks for the insight on how the Richter scale works. I had no idea that going up .1 inside a range was a whole number for the previous range… Timothy Olyphant was fantastic as Cobb Vanth in the Mandalorian. He just was the perfect cast, for the Spaghetti Western side of Starwars. I mean, I get why Ashley likes him. He’s got that laid back, badass Aura thing going on. In terms of one menacing alien, or thousands of menacing aliens it comes down to credible threat level. Make the antagonistic force make sense. When a villain is truly a menacing threat, they can carry the movie. So in the theme of today’s episode, the antagonist needs to be scaled correctly to whatever style movie it is. For instance Predator is great as a solo villain, menacing and overpowered. 100 Predators that are getting killed left and right by the protagonists makes them feel weaker as villains. Stay safe out there everyone, in regard to the earthquakes! Typically there are aftershocks… Thanks for making my hump-day, 30 minutes better!
Calvin Post (WigglyAssassin)
2025-07-30 11:10:54 +0000 UTC
