Episode 136: Going to California
On this week’s SlightlySauced, we hear all about Tyler’s recent trip to San Fransisco and Dana’s recent trip to Los Angeles. That’s right, we are some well-travelled motherfuckers. We also get listener email from somebody who isn’t Ernie, Liam, or Dharmesh. It’s very exciting.
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- Meet the Thousands of People Ready to Die on Mars
- Applications Open for Mars One the First Human Space Colony
- Excavated skull suggests Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism
- How to Land an A330 Airbus: And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man by James May
- VICE on YouTube
- With today’s technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I?
- Growing Plants On Mars
- Boudin Bakery San Fransisco
- Turner Classic Film Festival
- Griffith Observatory
- TCL Chinese Theatre (Formerly Grauman’s)
- Dana on Conan O’Brien
- Classic Movie Moments (Dana’s Girlfriend’s Blog)
- Nine Inch Nails’ 20-year old ‘Broken’ film is too violent for Vimeo
- Soundworks Collection (Behind the Scenes Music and Foley for your Favourite Films)
- Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
- USS Intrepid Museum, New York City
Send us an email, and Dave will make up a theme for you too!
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Episode 135: The Mars One Project
On this week’s SlightlySauced, we discuss the Mars One Project, a privately funded effort to send a crew of colonists to Mars. The catch? It’s a one-way trip. Sure, there are great opportunities for science and exploration and symbolism, but in order to grasp them, crew members have to give up everything and everyone that they’ve ever known and trust their lives to each other and the project. Would you sign up? Would we? Listen in to find out.
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Episode 134: From the Archives - Bullet Control
Everything went really wrong this week and we just couldn’t get a show together. As consolation, we’re re-releasing Episode 80: Bullet Control. It’s a great discussion about whether or not we should enact stronger gun control legislation, and features a friend of ours who happens to be a gun collector. We’ll be back next week with brand new content. Enjoy!
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Original Show Notes:
On this week’s SlightlySauced, we talk about guns. Big guns, small guns, machine guns, and handguns. Our discussion covers gun collectors; sport and trophy hunting; whether or not guns and ammunition should be regulated, and if so, how. All that, some listener email and a voicemail message. It’s a great show!
Links:
- Caroline Cossey (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cossey
- Caroline Cossey Images http://img6.bdbphotos.com/images/huge/t/p/tp5rk6l7v8wq7wv.jpg
- UW’s Laser-themed Logo http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/images/2009/0724UWlogomarketing.jpg
- Some Laser-themed pictures of kids (laserportraits.net) http://laserportraits.net/
- Chris Rock on Gun Control (YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuX-nFmL0II
Should guns be more or less strictly regulated? Let us know!
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Episode 133: Conversation Starters
This week’s SlightlySauced covers a wide range of fascinating topics! No seriously, we started reading listener email and got so deep into tangential conversation that we never actually got started with the article that we had intended to share. Nevertheless, we covered a lot of funny and interesting ground, so grab a beer and give us a listen.
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- Email from Dharmesh
- An explanation of mennonites and religious hiring practices in small towns
- Temporary foreign workers at Royal Bank and Manulife
- Outsourced IT is the bane of everyone’s existence
- The ins and outs of ordering ergonomic keyboards
- The keyboard/mouse set that Jon and Dave were on about
- What happens when the internet goes down
- The challenges of setting up meetings when working with people dispersed around the globe
- Letter from Ernie
- Infusing vodka with cherries, skittles and/or jolly ranchers
- The complexities of auto-erotic asphyxiation in the workplace
- If movies were real 3
- Actually sending human skin to people, Ilse Koch: The Bitch of Buchenwald
- Breastmilk jewelry on etsy
- VSauce: Why Don’t We Taxidermy Humans?
- Coming back early from vacation in case of family emergencies
- Can you tickle yourself?
- Getting a membership to the Louvre/Modern art sucks
- What’s in a name? Capitals and ampersands, it turns out.
- The evils of interpretive video clips and crappy visual art.
- Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?
- Let It Be… Naked
- The Grey Album
- The Streisand Effect
- Embarrassing Beyonce superbowl photo
- Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 3 (Spoilers not included)
- Daenerys Targaryen: Wrong For Dragons, Wrong For The Realm
- Joffrey Baratheon: Where Is The Birth Certificate?
- Robb Stark: The Biggest Celebrity in The North
- Teacher accused of fondling student says she doesnt like to touch black children
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Episode 132: We drink. We swear. We don’t f—ing smoke
On this week’s SlightlySauced, we discuss the contentious hiring policies of an Ottawa-based software development firm. Momentous Corp. refuses to hire smokers, and the Canadian media is sliding down a slippery slope demanding to know what group will be targeted next. Does the company have the right to refuse to hire people based on traits and habits that are non-essential to the work at hand? If so, could they also fire people based on those traits? Are smokers a protected class in Canada? All this and more, when we get SlightlySauced.
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- ‘We drink. We swear. We don’t f—ing smoke’: Firm’s ban on hiring smokers leaves people asking ‘Who’s next?’ (The National Post)
- SlightlySauced Episode 62: Light ‘em Up
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Episode 131: Men at Work
This week’s SlightlySauced is all about home improvement! Not the sitcom with Tim Allen, but the gender issues that arise when men don’t possess the skills necessary to fix their own homes. Are the guys around the table a bunch of sissies? Or are they comfortable with their ability to pay others to do their manly work? Grab a beer and find out when we get SlightlySauced.
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How Manly are You?
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Episode 130: The Gamblers’ Fallacy
This week on SlightlySauced, we talk about casinos. Lately, it seems as though the Ontario provincial government has a thing for building gambling houses, and we figure that it may have something to do with the fact that they’re broke. Does Waterloo Region need a casino? Will it attract people who aren’t currently travelling to Elora or Niagara to gamble? What of problem gambling and the supposed rash of broken homes and ruined lives that it allegedly leaves in its wake? All of this and more when we get SlightlySauced.
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Would you Go to a Local Casino?
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Episode 129: From the Archives - Polygamy for Me and You
This week’s SlightlySauced is a re-run! Don’t worry though, it’s over a year old, so if you’re a new listener, you’ve never heard it before. And if you’re not a new listener, stop complaining, because it’s a great episode.
Original Show Notes:
On this week’s SlightlySauced, Tyler returns to a lively discussion about Polygamy. Is it inherently damaging to society? Should we prevent consenting couples from joining in multiple marriages? And what of the isolated communities of Polygamists throughout Canada and the Western United States?
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Episode 128: Mein Eyes!
On this week’s episode of SlightlySauced, Tyler regals us with a story of one man attempting to acquire contact lenses. It’s funny, disgusting, touching, and ridiculous. Afterward, we discuss commonly misused phrases and odd misconceptions. Jon thinks that ponies are baby horses, and everybody else misunderstands the meaning of colour blindness. It’s a great show, so grab a beer and get SlightlySauced with us.
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Episode 127: Two Loud Earbuds
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is allegedly leading the way on a new health crusade against earbuds that are too loud. We dissect the situation, ask whether or not legislating against lifestyle choices is ok, and talk about the plight of fat people and smokers in modern society.
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