I know. I got an email from the podcast saying that he was on there. Haven't got around to it yet. So many podcasts, so little time. Thanks for the heads up though!
In reply to this comment by kymbos:
You're probably way over this, but Marc Maron had Conan on his WTF podcast: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/teamcoco/posts/162766160448646

I'm seeing Marc later this month at the comedy festival here in Melbourne. Looking forward to it.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Yes, I would recommend him if you're into cynical, neurotic, angry comedy that only a Jew can provide. That all may sound pejorative, but I mean it in an endearing and honest sense. If you're into that kind of comedy, he's definitely worth seeing.

You're probably way over this, but Marc Maron had Conan on his WTF podcast: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/teamcoco/posts/162766160448646

I'm seeing Marc later this month at the comedy festival here in Melbourne. Looking forward to it.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Yes, I would recommend him if you're into cynical, neurotic, angry comedy that only a Jew can provide. That all may sound pejorative, but I mean it in an endearing and honest sense. If you're into that kind of comedy, he's definitely worth seeing.

^ yeah, I was gonna put "Jean-Pierre Jeunet is an awesome director... even without Marc Caro.

Yes, I would recommend him if you're into cynical, neurotic, angry comedy that only a Jew can provide. That all may sound pejorative, but I mean it in an endearing and honest sense. If you're into that kind of comedy, he's definitely worth seeing.

Here's some stuff, just in case you didn't look him up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0IP9fQu9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThVrcnIRV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npinfttlj-c

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Marc Maron is coming to Melbourne for the Comedy Festival this year - would you recommend seeing him? I only heard of him because of that interview he did with Louis CK not so long ago...

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
O&A are sophomoric, but so am I. Also, their show is a great forum to hear a lot of my favorite comedians. Bob Kelly, Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Patrice O'Neal...and my favorite on the show, Jim Norton. If it wasn't for these rotating guests and Jim Nortons residence, I don't think I could listen to the show.

Oh and just so you guys know, Anthony was playing good cop, I don't think he gives a shit about Donald Rumsfeld.

Marc Maron is coming to Melbourne for the Comedy Festival this year - would you recommend seeing him? I only heard of him because of that interview he did with Louis CK not so long ago...

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
O&A are sophomoric, but so am I. Also, their show is a great forum to hear a lot of my favorite comedians. Bob Kelly, Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Patrice O'Neal...and my favorite on the show, Jim Norton. If it wasn't for these rotating guests and Jim Nortons residence, I don't think I could listen to the show.

Oh and just so you guys know, Anthony was playing good cop, I don't think he gives a shit about Donald Rumsfeld.

O&A are sophomoric, but so am I. Also, their show is a great forum to hear a lot of my favorite comedians. Bob Kelly, Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Patrice O'Neal...and my favorite on the show, Jim Norton. If it wasn't for these rotating guests and Jim Nortons residence, I don't think I could listen to the show.

Oh and just so you guys know, Anthony was playing good cop, I don't think he gives a shit about Donald Rumsfeld.

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^undefined:
Good stuff. The part about the "most beautiful woman in the world" sounded really familiar though. Marc Maron has me paranoid about joke stealing.

welcome to my world! You know how annoying it is when you notice stolen jokes and either you can't remember the origin or if you can, nobody gives a shit? I've heard that "look like a lesbian" bit on separate occasions as well.

I do goddamn believe this is what you're talking about: http://videosift.com/video/Mitchell-and-Webb-Best-Man-Cuts-Through-
The-Shit
This guy is not terrible, but brilliant? Gervais is brilliant. This guy? Nah.


Gervais is outstanding, so are most of the comedians I love so much. To me this guy is just starting out, and he's brilliant. And thanks for the promote blanky

>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^undefined:
Good stuff. The part about the "most beautiful woman in the world" sounded really familiar though. Marc Maron has me paranoid about joke stealing.

welcome to my world! You know how annoying it is when you notice stolen jokes and either you can't remember the origin or if you can, nobody gives a shit? I've heard that "look like a lesbian" bit on separate occasions as well.


I do goddamn believe this is what you're talking about: http://videosift.com/video/Mitchell-and-Webb-Best-Man-Cuts-Through-The-Shit

This guy is not terrible, but brilliant? Gervais is brilliant. This guy? Nah.

>> ^undefined:

>> ^undefined:
Good stuff. The part about the "most beautiful woman in the world" sounded really familiar though. Marc Maron has me paranoid about joke stealing.

welcome to my world! You know how annoying it is when you notice stolen jokes and either you can't remember the origin or if you can, nobody gives a shit? I've heard that "look like a lesbian" bit on separate occasions as well.


I kind of think we're getting confused with actually stealing someone's joke and touching on the same subjects.

>> ^undefined:
Good stuff. The part about the "most beautiful woman in the world" sounded really familiar though. Marc Maron has me paranoid about joke stealing.


welcome to my world! You know how annoying it is when you notice stolen jokes and either you can't remember the origin or if you can, nobody gives a shit? I've heard that "look like a lesbian" bit on separate occasions as well.

>> ^dag:

Good stuff. The part about the "most beautiful woman in the world" sounded really familiar though. Marc Maron has me paranoid about joke stealing.


Yeah. It was done a lot better by mitchell and webb

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Good stuff. The part about the "most beautiful woman in the world" sounded really familiar though. Marc Maron has me paranoid about joke stealing.

Ah..."Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" -Euripides. It has been my personal experience that those who do not believe in evolution are not so much resistant to the idea as they are ignorant of it, as you said. You can explain to him that evolution is the product of math, and that's it. As one allele is favored in the environment, it increases in frequency. In fact, you could also explain that evolution may also occur through something as simple (and unarguable) as migration. If more individuals with blond hair enter a population, the population evolves because the frequency of the blond allele increases.

In regards to the age of the earth, you could discuss some geological facts that are in obvious support of an ancient earth:
1) Fossils (Previous types of organisms have existed. Extinction has occurred. We know the rate of extinction and the rate that speciation occurs - these all indicate an earth that is billions of years old)
2) Vestigial structures (Previous useful structures can lose their function through time - lots of it)
3) Modern Gemonics (The more closely related two organisms are the more similar their DNA is, the more genes they have in common and therefore the more morphologically similar they are. We know the rate of mutation, which means we know the rate of the formation of alleles in a population. For humans, the rate of mutation is about 0.0000001 mutations per base pair per generation (very slow - and this is for all mutations, not just for positive ones). The formation of new species usually takes millions of years due to this slow rate coupled with natural selection.
4) Biogeography (A single species separated by the movement of continents evolves at the same discussed rate. We know how fast continents move (theory of plate tectonics: 2 - 10 cm/year). We know many organisms were separated by continental drift (Many separate (but very similar-looking) species are found in currently separate geographical areas that were once together - primates in Africa / South America, for example or the flightless birds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratite - for marsupials: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Courses/bio303/contdrift.htm)

I hope this helps!

Marc

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
Hey, you seem to know your way around science so I have a question for you (asking several people actually):

I have a friend who is fairly intelligent and open-minded, but is also a young-earth creationist. While there is quite a bit of evidence showing the planet to be much older than 7000 years, I'm trying to find something that is fairly obvious and can't be dismissed as easily as, say, radiometric dating.

Needless to say, he doesn't "believe" in evolution, but I think many of his positions are the product of misinformation. I wouldn't believe in what he thinks evolution is either, but for now I just want a clear way of showing a skeptic that the earth is much older than the christian bible seems to indicate.

Any insight?

Yes, it's expected but not okay.

~~
1. It's... to be expected because our two party political system is structured so that whomever has more money in a better drawn district gets re-elected.

Re-election = Power
Power = Money
Money = Re-election

The Citizens United ruling allows for multi-million dollar contributions from anonymous donors which means Big Corporation has only further entrenched itself within the Branches of Government.


2. There's... no accountability [*Mark Stevens notes at 16:20] because Congressmen don't actually represent their so-called "constituents".

No Politician or Government Official has an obligation to answer for the laws they enact or the policy actions they take.

They don't have to respond to your angry phone calls or letters.
They don't have to fear being replaced for years.
They simply pass the problem on and "step down" to become lobbyists.


3. If... you disagree, that's fine. However..

Refuse to pay, you'll be met with violence.
Resist that violence, you'll be imprisoned or murdered.
~~

The Power Elite: Politicians, Bankers, Administrators, Military run the show.

You can't expect them to provide We the People with what we want..
..because it's in direct conflict with what they need to do to retain their power.


* http://www.videosift.com/video/Incredible-Talk-with-Marc-Stevens-on-the-Legal-System

>> ^Tymbrwulf:

>> ^Yogi:
That's how elections work in this country.
You say this like it's expected and OK. That kind of complacency and expectancy is what's wrong here.
Why is it that I always read about people saying "oh this is just how it works" even though the people I end up talking with about it don't agree with it at all? Who the hell does the actual voting, then?
Granted this is all purely anecdotal evidence and obviously people from other parts of the country that I'm never going to meet are going to have these views but, I mean, is there NO accountability/responsibility anymore?

Ohhh thanks for the information. Been wanting to figure out some way to contest these fines and such. All the problems I have had of late have been on the local and state level too, so all these conservatives that are like "give power back to the sate" only have part of the idea, principles of liberty have left all levels of governance. Sorry about your tickets man, that is teh sux!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Let me reach into my bag of statist apologist replies and see what I can find... If you would've just played by the rules. Pay your fair share. It's the law! That's because of deregulation or tax cuts. Driving is a privilege. And so on.

That really sucks, GeeSuss. Traffic violations should be done away with. Or at least kept at a reasonable penalty. In a matter of three weeks, my fiancée and I got two parking tickets that were $65 and $55. That's an incredibly high cost for parking on my neighborhood street. That's right, in front of my own home I got those tickets.

There's a guy who has beaten a shitload of these types of tickets using the legal system to show the hypocrisy of traffic court. He's got a bunch of free information (and some court scripts that cost money) on his site: http://marcstevens.net/

I've also posted a couple of his videos. http://videosift.com/search?q=marc+stevens


In reply to this comment by GeeSussFreeK:
Tell me about it, I got a ticket for driving without insurance about 5 years ago right as I was moving. I forgot about it and it has ballooned into over 4 thousand dollars in fines that I have to pay before they will let me renew my licensee; the licensee I need to keep the job I need to pay the fines for the ticket I got half a decade ago...FML, and FTG (fudge the gobment!)