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Emergency Room Visit 2019No research. No preparation—other than life—for this week’s episode. This week I will share with you my lovely experience (note the sarcasm) at the ER and hospital with my husband because he could not breathe last Saturday. I won’t share all the nuance, the errors in recording medical history, the saying something and doing…
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RR177 Film Review Friday: Overboard (remake)2018 PG 13 1hr 52 min IMDb 5.9/10, Comedy Romance. 24% Rotten Tomatoes Comedy, Romance Starring: Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria. Director: Rob Greenberg Written by Bob Fisher, Rob GreenbergLet’s get right to the point. This remake was so incredibly disappointing. I like Anna Faris. She is adorab…
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RR176 Word of the Week: UsuryCambridge: the activity of lending someone money with the agreement that they will pay back a very much larger amount of money later; the lending of money at extremely high interest ratesOxford English: The action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.Investopedia: Usury is the act of lendi…
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RR175 Topic: Credit Cards, Inception, Interest and in general.I find myself back in the hospitality industry and am reminded of how we tend to pay for food and drink. I remember the days of Master Charge and Bank Americard Bank Americard (from Bank of America nka Visa) inception date was 1958. It had a paper consumer credit card with a $300 limit.I…
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RR174 Max Steel Film Review2016 PG 13 1hr 32 min IMDb 4.6/10, Action Adventure Family. 0% Rotten Tomatoes Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction & Fantasy Drama Starring: Ben Winchell, Josh Brener, Maria Bello Director: Stewart Hendler. Written by Christopher L. YostEvery single critic review on rotten tomatoes seemed to hate this flick for on…
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RR173 Word of the Week: Notoriety vs. PublicityI went over this word back in 2017 before the show was broken down into three segments. I want to go over it again only because I have heard folks using it again presumably thinking it is the same as publicity. NotorietyCambridge: the state of being famous for doing something, esp. something immoral or…
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RR172 Blue Light Up All NightWARNING Expletive PG-13 words damn it and GodBlue light is good for you if you want to stay awake. If you are hoping to fall asleep anytime soon avoid it. This means any source of blue light including your phone, TV, laptop, desktop and for folks north of the Arctic south of the Antarctic, American Southwest and northea…
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RR171 Friday Film Review: The DirtExpletive WARNING: "shitty" and "sucks"2019 TV-MA 1hr 47 min IMDb 7/10, biography comedy drama How? There are self-proclaimed scenes that never happened?. 40% Rotten Tomatoes Drama Starring: Douglas Booth, Iwan Rheon, Daniel Webber Director: Jeff Tremaine. Written by Amanda Adelson (screenplay)Tommy Lee (book) Mick…
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RR170 Word of the Week: ZealotTo me this word sounds like some sort of vegetable...like Brussels sprouts (yeah, it's plural). But zealot is another thing entirely; a not so good thing. More not so good than Brussels sprouts.ZealotCambridge: a person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other people have them tooZeal: grea…
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RR169 Adulting, Being a Grown-up and Arrested DevelopmentI re-watched a TEDx talk by Alan Watkins and was again intrigued by his explanation of levels of awareness and the phrase “Disease of Meaning” A lot of the talk circulates on how we handle situations in our lives as our emotional self develops. I thought it would be a good subject for today’s…
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RR168 Film Review Friday; Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of GrindelwaldPlease pardon the faux pas of my mispronouncing the name of the antagonist. Apparently I had National Lampoon’s Vacation and the Griswold’s on my mind. 2018 PG-13 2hr 14 min IMDb 6.7/10, Adventure Family Fantasy. 37% Rotten Tomatoes Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fictio…
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RR167 Word of the Week: ReciprocityThis word is a good one to remember if you would like to have a beneficial relationship. It applies to business relationships and personal ones...even when there are amorous.Definitions:Cambridge: a situation in which two groups agree to help each other by behaving in the same way or by giving each other similar a…
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RR166 April Fools' Day Origins and a couple epic pranks.WARNING Expletive: Damn itAccording to History.com16th century France the Pope switched from the Julian (4713 BC) to Gregorian calendar change from April to January but there is a problem with this theoryThe Julian calendar is still used today in manufacture dates of food items. The first two …
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RR165 Friday Film Review: Aquaman(click on the podcast title to listen)WARNING Expletives Kick Ass(sort of) S-H-I-T and M-F not said but spelled out. And the word GodEpisode 165 - Rental Movie Review: 19. 0329Aquaman2018 PG-13 2hr 38 min IMDb 7.2/10, Action Adventure Fantasy. 65% Fresh Tomatoes Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Starring: Jas…
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RR164 Word of the Week: ExtrapolateI have no idea why this word came into my head...wait I watched Orville; don't all those SciFi space travel shows talk about extrapolating data?In any event, the etymology is a little long on this one but I still break it down into layman's term as much as possible.Cambridge: Extrapolate-to guess or think about wh…
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RR163 Subject: NootropicsCould NZT be real...or some form of it? Nootropics are smart drugs. When I watched the movie Limitless I fantasized about being able to recall all my knowledge and memories at a moment’s notice when I wanted it. Now we have something called nootropics. I came across on craigslist. *** NEW COFFEE CREATING MINI and MA$$IVE IN…
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RR162 Film Review Friday: The Circle2017 PG-13 1hr 50 min IMDb 5.3/10, Drama SciFi Thriller. 15% Rotten Tomatoes Drama Mystery Suspense Starring: : Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega Director: James Ponsoldt. Written by James Ponsoldt (screenplay by), Dave Eggers (screenplay and novel)A movie about how a single company will be the catalyst in the …
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RR161 Word of the week (WOW): InverseWhen I was searching for info on if tinnitus can be mitigated by hypnosis I found a reference to an ncbi study on the inverse relationship between caffeine and tinnitus. As it turns out the article seemed to spin the story a bit on the conclusion and methodology of the study. But I was able to identify our word …
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RR160 Healing Time After SurgeryWhy does it take so long to heal? I am wondering about this since my movement it still compromised since my surgery. The body cannot multitask. If your body is fighting a bug, bacteria, or virus other repair mechanisms are compromised. I read a book that talked about how when you ingest food you are allergic or intol…
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