GDAY WORLD #168 – Fight The Jolt!
To celebrate the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF G’DAY WORLD this month I’m introducing the new new format. Helping me out today is my good good buddy Shane Williamson and his crapola microphone.
Shownotes:
Male chimps like a bit of MILF. – link
The concept of the “jolt” from Kalle Lasn’s book “Culture Jam”. – link
“Most Iraqis wish Saddam would be back in power now that they lived out the hardships of the occupation. The Americans did nothing but loot our oil and kill our people.” – link
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BACKGROUND TRACK:
Download “Somptin Happnin’” (mp3)
from “Polymorphic Convolutions”
by Various Artists
Electronic Soundscapes
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at Napster
MUSIC TRACK:
Download “Keep It To The Side” (mp3)
from “Hall of Justus: Soldiers of Fortune”
by Hall Of Justus
Hall Of Justus/ABB Records
- Buy at iTunes Music Store
- Buy at eMusic
- Buy at Napster
Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody- Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody
Its pretty natural and normal to have adrenaline coursing through our veins. The levels that we get when watching tv wouldn’t even nearly compare to that which you would get while hunting for example.
Also watching and taking part in sports gives you massive adrenaline rushes and no one has suggested that playing sports is bad for you.
On the other hand, children are easily over-stimulated and that can cause them to behave erratically and impulsively which would explain H & T acting up after playing on the xbox.
As far as the TV and depression link. I was never really allowed to watch tv as a kid or play computer games and I was diagnosed with depression when I was 5 so it can hardly be blamed on every or even most cases of depression. More like the increasing depression levels are caused by increasing stresses of normal life, increased level of divorse, expectations regarding work and education are coming way up, exposure to what is happening around the world eg war and famine.
The worlds a fucked up place. TV is the least of our concerns.
On a completely different note you might want to remind people about the G’day World birthday bash at some stage given that its in just under two weeks.
New format “To celebrate the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF G’DAY WORLD”? How do you explain the other 52 format changes?
😉
Molly
Mol – I’m erratic?
I still think you are P.L.F.W.T.S!
Molly
eGames did suck… it’s sad. But (not sure if this is because we went on the Saturday), MS had two booth babes, Sony had 2… I think there were two for Raw vs Smackdown. Anyway, when we were walking back there were 4 or 5 people outside crown handing out brochures for unwired on Segways. I think there must be something whereby you can have a Segway in Victoria, but only for advertising
There seems to be a major promo girl drought. The bike show had only a handful and most of them were on the dumpy side. I’m not talking obese but it doesn’t need to be much to make skintight lycra really really unattractive. There were three hot ones at the entire thing.
you were only paying attention to such matters for Colin’s sake… right miriam? right??? 🙂
Congrats on reaching the 2-year mark…must be feeling like 10 years…after the internet year eg. 3 months…what is a podcasting year?
Found the girls on Segways http://flickr.com/photos/longzheng/299329219/
Maybe you can find everything on flickr…
yeah… of course *cough*
On your Rumsfeld quote he said the conflict, not the establishment of a stable government. Two different things.
In regards of Iraq’s weapons in the 1980s it was from Russia(excuse me USSR), France, Germany, and USA was a distant fourth.
I have heard several interviews with Aric Sigman (http://www.aricsigman.com/) regarding the psychological effect of TV so he might be a place to start the conversation with. He is more focused on how it effects children and that is why I became interested as I have a toddler. Good chance he has good connections with experts who understand the physiological effects. He certainly talks a lot about the huge difference in kids tv shows today to 10 years ago. The number of ‘jolts’ is huge in programs targeted at young children.
I don’t think that you don’t have to feel the rush of adrenalin like you do in the movies for it to be actually occurring.
I am a huge fan of turning off the tv. I’d be keen if you explored this topic in more depth.
It took me about 10 minutes to work out where the background music was coming from…. it sounds like we did the show in an elevator!
Yeah the background music threw me off a little too.
Thought you might appreciate this clip of Stephen K Amos having a go at Bundaberg and Australian TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XY3xzIM4UM
Greatest Oil reserves by country (Iraq is #4)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html
mim that’s a great clip. I think I worked in that fruit store! I seriously worked in a fruit store in Bundy from age 10 – 15. I would go there after school, pack potatoes into 5 and 10kg bags, get paid, then blow all of my pay on the galaga machine they had. 🙂
so the consensus on the background track? don’t like it? I must say that half the reason for having it was to drown out the noise of shane’s pc fan.
Shane, re Iraq’s oil reserves, I stand corrected!
The background track was more than a little distracting for me. I spent a while trying to figure out where the noise was coming from and checking that it was definitely the podcast by stopping and starting it.
But then I’ve been known to put my ear up against the surround sound speakers to check that they’re definitely off because there was a weird background noise on the tv and it didn’t sound like it was coming from the main speakers.
background track threw me off for ages. I was looking under seats and trying to work out where the noise was coming from. I even glared hard at someone on the train thinking it was their headphones up too loud.