Interesting If True, the weekly comedy podcast for beer-swilling, joke-telling, stories, quizzes and mysteries!
Interesting If True
Claim This Podcastby Aaron, Jenn, Jim, Shea & Steve
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Interesting If True, the weekly comedy podcast for beer-swilling, joke-telling, stories, quizzes and mysteries!
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March 26, 2023
Interesting If True - Episode 97 - The Second Poke, Take Two
<br /> Welcome to Interesting If True, the podcast that sticks our sharp voices right into your ear-y meridians.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I'm your host this week, Aaron, and with me are:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I'm Shea, and this week I learned there is no winning at parenting, only damage control.<a id="post-56204-_lat6rcogoinu"></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Acupuncture recently stuck itself back in my life. Heh, needle puns. So I’m going to get right to the point and … umm… No, first I’m going to do a recap but I couldn’t find a acupunctuating way to say that… haaaaa<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Check out episode 53 for our complete intro into acupuncture.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Briefly, from episode 53’s intro:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Acupuncture was initially described in the Shi-Chi text, cerca 90 B.C.E., it describes 11 “mo” or vessels that hold chi. About a hundred years later there are 12 mo and chi flows in the body. Over the next two thousand years the 12 mo turn into hundreds to thousands depending on who you talk to - because there is no standard. In the early 1900s China, like the rest of the world, became focused on the industrial revolution of the western world and sought to adopt western, science based, medicine (such that it was at the time).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Chinese Communist Party all but outright rejected traditional medicine:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Our men of learning do not understand science; thus they make use of yin-yang signs and beliefs in the five elements to confuse the world… Our doctors do not understand science: they not only know nothing of human anatomy, but also know nothing of the analysis of medicines; as for bacterial poisoning and infections they have not even heard of them… We will never comprehend the ch’i even if we were to search everywhere in the universe. All of these fanciful notions and irrational beliefs can be corrected at their roots by science. 1<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> And so yes, chi is an irrational belief and that is the last official quote that will be based on reality.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Traditional medicine — again, not yet TCM, we haven’t made it to that branding yet — was on its way out, from 1927 to 1936 the Chinese Journal of Physiology has nothing to say on the topic.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Acupuncture, plainly, is a theory of healing — not a medical science — based on philosophy not results, processes, or even simple observations.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The foundation of acupuncture is the belief that one’s chi or (Qi if you want to be correct or charge an iPhone) needs tending. Under normal, desirable conditions your chi flows through your body freely along pathways in the body called meridians. Think of this as the Force flowing through a Jedi’s Force-circulatory or Force-lymphatic system. Illness, then, is caused by chi blockages or imbalances, and not the cool kind Ty Lee or the Kyoshi Warriors can inflict — and yes, I am shamelessly reusing my Avatar jokes from episode 53, they’re that good… according to my mom, who says I’m very funny indeed.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The “treatment” if you will, is to insert a now-tiny, ultra-thin, needle into the body where the meridians overlap to improve the flow or balance of your chi because… needle. I want to step aside and note though that thin needs are kinda new, back in the day, this was probably done with a medical ice pick or surgical grade splinter.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> This is, obviously, nonsense.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Despite thousands of years and many times many more attempts to analyse it no one has ever proven the existence of, much less their ability to manipulate, chi by any name. Raki, cupping, dry needling, and all of their ilk are, at best, magical-thinking nonesnse and at worst, a tragically poor substitute for actual medical intervension.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> There’s a reason Randi’s millions went unclaimed.
February 5, 2023
Interesting If True - Episode 96: The Re-Re-Re-Launchening
<br /> Welcome to Interesting If True, the podcast that is back after a wee bit of a break… <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I'm your host this week, Shea. I'm Aaron, and this week I learned I should be doing my homework...<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> This week's drink: Space Bloody Orange from Ace cidery <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Crazy Headlines of 2022<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> May: Pecker Plants <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Apparently, back in May, the Cambodian government asked people to stop picking a rare carnivorous plant and if the poaching continues this plant has a very real chance of going extinct. The reason behind the carnivorous bouquet is the flowers' unique appearance of male genitalia, Nepenthes holdenii also called the Penis Fly Trap. Cambodian environment ministry wrote on Facebook: “What they are doing is wrong and please don’t do it again in the future.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> “Thank you for loving natural resources, but don’t harvest them so they go to waste.”<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/penis-plants-cambodia-nepenthes-b2081969.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/penis-plants-cambodia-nepenthes-b2081969.html</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> June: See ya later Alligator <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The end of last June in a tiny town in southern Mexico, Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa sealed his nuptials to an alligator with a kiss. The age-old ritual in San Pedro Huamelula, now mixed with Catholic spirituality, involves dressing the alligator or caiman in a white wedding dress plus other colorful garments. "We ask nature for enough rain, for enough food, that we have fish in the river," said Sosa.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The seven-year-old reptile, referred to as a little princess, is believed to be a deity representing mother earth, and her marriage to the local leader symbolizes the joining of humans with the divine.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> As trumpets blared and drums provided a festive beat, locals carried the alligator bride in their arms through village streets as men fanned it with their hats.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "It gives me so much happiness and makes me proud of my roots," said Elia Edith Aguilar, known as the godmother who organized the wedding.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> She said that she feels privileged to be entrusted with carrying out the ceremony, and noted she spent a lot of time fretting over what the bride would wear.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "It's a very beautiful tradition," she added with a smile.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/mexican-mayor-weds-princess-alligator-in-age-old-tradition/">https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/mexican-mayor-weds-princess-alligator-in-age-old-tradition/</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> July: I turned 35 and that sucks. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> August: Captain Maryland<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> He wields a mallet, carries a crab-shaped shield and wears a belt of Old Bay. Some say he is quicker running sideways than forward and has a super pinch grip! It’s Captain Maryland!! Clark Rogers, “Defender of Maryland” and superhero in disguise, has always been fascinated by cosplay.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Ever since he was a young boy, he could be found at countless comic conventions, watching as his favorite television personalities strode by, capes billowing and costumes gleaming. As Rogers, a recently retired firefighter, grew older, he wished to create a superhero of his very own — one on a much smaller scale, dedicated to his beloved home state of Maryland.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Thus, Captain Maryland was born.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Every superhero needs an origin story, and Rogers explains that Captain Maryland gained his superhero powers after eating radioactive crabs from the Chesapeake Bay near the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant. The seafood gave him the powerful pinch of a cra...
August 6, 2022
Interesting If True - Episode 95: Aron Ra Spectacular!
Aron Ra & Lilandra try to catch them all then Patrons learn about the time he fought the ocean! It's a bucket of chuckles!
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