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Polio	313
Riots	-632
Dumb People	-739
The Apple Watch	-960
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This month’s bonus show is a spicy one where 50% of the show’s hosts think outcomes are related to justifications. Plus we have a lively debate about what a huge piece of shit The Apple Watch is. Those may or may not be my opinions. Only one way to find out! Plus, Dick brings in a solution with a twist, like some kind of fruity cocktail.

Regarding the Martin Luther King quote I mentioned on this episode, I couldn’t find it and I think it’s probably a misattributed quote I read somewhere.

Update:

Though Martin Luther King was fundamentally opposed to violent protest, he has this quote about riots:

“A riot is the language of the unheard.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Finally, here are some sources mentioned:

Wikipedia – 1933 Wisconsin Milk Riots
Wikipedia – 1919 Race Riots of Chicago
Patch.com – One of the first drive-by shooting incidents during the Chicago Riots
New York Times (1919) – New York Times article about the fires set during the 1919 riots
New York Times (1919) – The Haynes Report and Gov. Lowden’s study

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Euthanasia	976
Monkeys	454
Guns	344
Retirement Homes	155
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Way back in Episode 22, I mentioned my vile hippy neighbor who sprayed water inside my car window. In this month’s bonus episode, the saga continues–and this time, with audio! I brought in a recording of her assaulting the neighborhood with her megaphone of stupidity. Go vote up hippies. The hippy threat is still there and our roads still have pot holes that need to be filled. Why doesn’t anyone other than me connect the dots?

Also, Dick finally tells us his story about how he and his “life coach” changed California gun laws (hint: go vote up slacktivists). And I discuss a humane alternative to breathing.

Finally, here are some sources mentioned:

The Biggest Problem int he Universe – Episode 22
Wikipedia – Euthanasia
Telegraph – Nazis first euthanasia “patient”
GlynnDevins – Retirement home listicle
ABC News – Retirement homes can sometimes be awful, but the abuse numbers are conflated

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Soap	788
Anonymous Comments	401
Addresses	298
Oculus Rift / Virtual Reality	80
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I have some dire predictions about a dystopian future hellscape where the world is ruled by a class of virtual people guarded by patsies and machines who enslave dumb people to produce raw materials to feed our brains. Illustrator Clay Rodery made the kickass thumbnail for this. I seem to be the only person who sees the full potential benefit and risk of “Oculus Rift” or similar technology.

Also, want some facts about soap that are probably from the CDC, NHS.UK or other government website that Dick simultaneously cites but doesn’t trust? Here’s Global Soap, an organization that sends soap to people.

Last bonus episode, we played Biggest Problem Bingo that listener @CallDaCopsIDGAF made, but a number of you were too lazy to make your own card, so another listener, @Subtlebots, created randomized version of it. Just click “New Board” at the top to play along. The current board is updated with references to this episode. It’s pretty badass:

http://nathanc.me/bpbingo

The incredible thumbnail was created by: Clay Rodery, Illustrator. http://www.clayrodery.com/

And finally, here are some sources mentioned:

Global Soap – http://www.globalsoap.org
Wikipedia – A boring, but important page about addresses
CDC.gov – When and how to wash your hands, written for 3-year-olds, or the only people who would Google something like that.
Wikipedia – Ignaz Semmelweis

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Encrypting Everything	813
Abortion	657
Lesbians	653
Time Travel	-217
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In this episode, I make the case that lesbians have helped move the civil rights movement forward with lesbian porn as gateway to tolerance. Also, one of Dick’s solutions gets shot down in a single word, which may be a record. Here’s the webcomic I referred to in the episode (though I’m not sure the source is “kuvaton.com”):

Also, I finally tell the story of how I inferred that my dad has never received a blow job. Plus, want to stop crime? Abort the fetus at the source. Abortion is the solution!

Here’s the bingo card we mentioned from Episode 37, sent in by @CallDaCopsIDGAF if you want to play along at home. If you win, give yourself a compliment or post that you won below and someone else will compliment you:

And finally, here are some sources mentioned:

Pew Research Center – Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage — Thanks to my lesbianism-as-a-gateway-to-tolerence theory
Cosmopolitan – How men and women watch porn

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Genetic Engineering	1238
#freethenipple	674
More Nudity (International Genital Index)	461
Rude People	-196
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In this episode, Dick takes the wine-tasting challenge because he thinks that, in general, the more you pay, the higher the quality you receive in life. So I put him to the test in a double-blind wine-tasting challenge. The wines tested were:

A – Failla 2012, Pinot Noir, $35.99
B – Folk Machine 2013, Pinot Noir, $18.00
C – Pinot Evil 2011, Pinot Noir, $7.99
D – Folk Machine 2013, Pinot Noir, $18.00
E – Hey Mambo 2011, Red Blend, $9.99
F – Failla 2012, Pinot Noir, $35.99

We doubled up the two most expensive wines on the list to see if Dick could either determine that he was drinking the same wine twice, or if he could determine which wine was most expensive. He passed with flying colors, if those colors are varying shades of gray. The “Hey Mambo” was the only non-Pinot Noir tested and was thrown in because it’s one of my favorite wines and consistently gets praise from people I’ve served it to. True story: I received a text from the host of the dinner party I mentioned in this episode the day after we recorded, and she raved about this wine. I gave the taste-test to two other friends after airing this episode, one of whom correctly picked the wines in order, and both loved the red blend too. Dick thinks it tastes like cigarettes.

And here’s The Biggest (annoyed grunt) in the Universe that we played from this episode:

And finally, here are some sources mentioned:

Glamour Magazine UK (NSFW) – Kiera Knightley Poses Topless

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Income-based Fines	1046
Malala Yousafzai	888
Beer	614
Ask for a raise	300
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In this, our second ever bonus episode, we talk about a real-life badass who took a bullet in the face by the Taliban to stand up for what she believes in. Suri Cruise wears makeup powder on her face. Malala wears gun powder. Here’s the ABC News clip with a helpful 3D graphic in case you couldn’t visualize a bullet going through a child’s face.

And here’s the full clip of Angelo’s mom angrily ranting about Dick being a dick:

Dick still fails to phrase his solution in a way that neatly fills in the blank, “The biggest solution in the universe is: __________.” And speaking of Dick, here’s the CBS News article about the easiest way to get a promotion.

But enough nonsense about beer and raises to make money so you can buy more beer, here’s the meat & potatoes of this episode: the guy who was fined $962,000 for driving 180mph (290 km/h). And it turns out that although this hasn’t reduced instances of speeding or petty crime, Finnish drivers don’t mind income-based fees because it’s about equity, not about crime reduction. Poor people shouldn’t be punished harder for the same crime. Unless that crime is against me, in which case their punishment will be doled out in two equal parts with my left and right fist right into their stupid criminal mouths.

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Nuclear Power	1526
Kicking Ass	1456
Meat	1350
Surge Pricing	-941
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To commemorate the launch of The Biggest Solution in the Universe, we’ve included a supercut of our first-ever unpublished pilot (one of the “lost 6″ episodes). I also called Dick out for being too much of a (|) for not taking my hot sauce challenge, so he finally stepped up to the plate and here’s part of the aftermath:

Listener Brad N sent in this fan art with his prediction of what happened. We finally settled the debate once and for all in this episode:

Here are the astounding stats on how 15 shipping containers are polluting more than every car in the world combined and how shutting down one nuclear plant has set California back by 20 years of carbon emissions. But if you want to read about a real solution to the world’s problems, here’s that Live Science article about how meat was necessary for the development of mankind. And here’s a killjoy article shitting on Dick’s nuclear solution.

But enough pseudo-solutions (pseu-lutions?), here’s that Daigo clip of him kicking ass in Street Fighter III:

And finally, if you want to have your own hot sauce drinking contest with your friends, and then try to read the shameless ramblings of an entitled millennial dipshit, here’s her obnoxious Uber review.

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