The Bob Cesca Interview: Hal Sparks

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Hal Sparks — One of my favorite human beings returns to the show today. This time we talked about Hal’s childhood, what fuels his energy, and a behind-the-scenes look at his Megaworldwide streaming show. Plus Trump’s short-circuits, the 2024 election, and so much more. You should be watching Megaworldide – infotainmentwars.com. You can catch Nerd Halen’s tour schedule here. Meantime, don’t forget to support this podcast by subscribing us on Patreon – bobcescashow.com. Music by Firefall covering The Doobie Brothers.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 24, 2024 • 3:21:44pm

A jury trying two people in relation to the resale of tickets to a range of events at inflated prices has heard the lengths to which Ed Sheeran’s management has gone to combat the secondary ticketing market.
Statements from Sheeran’s manager Stuart Camp were read at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday at the trial of Lynda Chenery and Mark Woods, who are charged with fraudulent trading in relation to the activities of the firm TQ Tickets Ltd.

Mr Camp explained how Sheeran’s concert tours had a strict ticket pricing policy aimed at “keeping ticket prices accessible for as many people as possible”.

He said the demand for tickets was extremely high and they could be sold at very high prices but “we don’t want our tickets to be beyond some people”.

Jury hears how Ed Sheeran’s team tried to beat touts at sold-out concerts (The Standard)

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 24, 2024 • 3:25:31pm

Doofus FAFO, Spanish authorities not amused.

Airline passenger could face a $120,000 bill after fighter jets were scrambled when he joked about blowing up the plane

Aditya Verma was going on vacation to Spain in July 2022 with friends on an easyJet flight.
Per the BBC, he said on Snapchat: “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).”
He’s facing public-disorder charges in Spain after the country’s air force scrambled jets

$103,000 will go to the Ejercito del Aire for the F-18 scramble.

Romantic Heretic Jan 24, 2024 • 3:25:41pm

CL’d

re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter

Not all of them.

Tucker Carlson is coming to liberate Canada from the tyranny of Justin Trudeau.

That my country allows a drug dealer enter is sad. That the premier of a province will appear on stage with him is sickening.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 24, 2024 • 3:43:02pm

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teleskiguy Jan 24, 2024 • 3:46:35pm

Heard from the kid’s Mom (the one that hurt himself yesterday), some bumps and bruises but he’s gonna be fine.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 3:47:49pm

re: #5 teleskiguy

That is good to hear.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 3:54:01pm

From downstairs:

re: #165 Jay C

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No way I could work on Bee without looking at the Grid, especially once reaching genius. I need to know how many additional words there are and not be frustrated searching for totally invalid combinations. YMMV Other people enjoy different challenges.

GlutenFreeJesus Jan 24, 2024 • 3:59:39pm

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Vicious Babushka Jan 24, 2024 • 4:04:13pm

Here is what I did all day:

Mastodon

teleskiguy Jan 24, 2024 • 4:08:08pm

silverdolphin Jan 24, 2024 • 4:09:31pm

Nanome is a company that uses AR/VR tools to permit researchers to actively and collaboratively examine, in real time, large protein structures.

Nanome: The Ultimate Interface for Science

Check about 60 seconds in.

I spent most of my career dealing with mutating protein molecules so I dealt with 3d representations a lot. Seeing what these people have is amazing. And they are excited about Apple Vision Pro (I expect that have an active development department). It solves many problems they have had problems with.

Think about what it would be like to have a collaborative meeting in a virtual world where 3D representations of the products/research can be manipilated. And you do not see avatars of people but the actual people. God, I would have loved to have had that.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 4:10:37pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

They look gorgeous.

A Cranky One Jan 24, 2024 • 4:14:39pm

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 24, 2024 • 4:18:29pm

Goddess above. WTF is this shit? His culture war B.S. blew up his National campaign, and yet he keeps pushing his crap at the State level. Yeah, it’s a Twitter embed, but that’s were my Community is, so suck it up.

Floridians - take a look at the 3 bills in DeSantis directed Florida legislature

Note the second one HB1

And pay attention to the last 2 sentences

“not only in schools, but also 🆘at home and on 🆘personal parentally-approved devices”

Outrageous overreach pic.twitter.com/ya10ajmgX9

— CathyNotToday2 (@Cathy2NotToday) January 24, 2024

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 24, 2024 • 4:23:20pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle highlights a divide.

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This can clearly go one of two ways.

Wordle 950 3/6

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SibData, full house, clear split: 3,3,5,5,5

(((Archangel1))) Jan 24, 2024 • 4:31:08pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 24, 2024 • 4:32:56pm

re: #14 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

But yet they scream bloody murder if we even SUGGEST stronger gun laws.

darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 4:35:39pm

I’ve been caramelizing onions for the last two hours. Going to add some sherry, fresh thyme from the garden and beef broth in a bit and toast some croutons when I cook the cheesy crab toasts I’m taking to happy hour across the street.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 24, 2024 • 4:40:47pm

Melanie, the chart-topping folk singer of “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” who performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969, died on Tuesday. She was 76.

Billy James, the singer’s rep, confirmed her death to Rolling Stone, but did not provide a cause of death. “We are heartbroken, but want to thank each and every one of you for the affection you have for our Mother, and to tell you that she loved all of you so much!,” the children of the singer born Melania Safka wrote in a statement.

“She was one of the most talented, strong and passionate women of the era and every word she wrote, every note she sang reflected that,” the statement continued. “Our world is much dimmer, the colors of a dreary, rainy Tennessee pale with her absence today, but we know that she is still here, smiling down on all of us, on all of you, from the stars.”

Melanie, ‘Brand New Key’ Folk Singer Who Played Woodstock, Dead at 76 (Rolling Stone)

Vicious Babushka Jan 24, 2024 • 4:42:21pm

re: #16 (((Archangel1)))

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I literally screamed. Zeddo is like all “what’s wrong? what’s happened?” and I’m like “Somebody made a meme about me!” & he’s like whut? you screamed like you were stabbed!

gocart mozart Jan 24, 2024 • 4:50:56pm

“the dark triad nihilists want to destroy your alberta beef, they can’t handle creation. all they want to do is burn that alberta beef down, to take revenge on God for cursing them with the condition of Being, by attacking this meat, the offering that made abel so beloved. and so https://t.co/MRv7bnDNeo pic.twitter.com/fqtacVwJPg

— dr caitlin green (offense archaeologist) (@caitlinmoriah) January 25, 2024

aatharuv Jan 24, 2024 • 4:51:29pm

re: #14 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Goddess above. WTF is this shit? His culture war B.S. blew up his National campaign, and yet he keeps pushing his crap at the State level. Yeah, it’s a Twitter embed, but that’s were my Community is, so suck it up.

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Ron DeSantis: Wants to _Mandate_ ”Conversion” Therapy Coverage by insurers.
Chris Christie: _Banned_ ”Conversion” Therapy when he was governor.

Christie certainly had plenty of flaws, but he was the most reasonable of the Republicans running.

EPR-radar Jan 24, 2024 • 4:58:30pm

re: #22 aatharuv

Ron DeSantis: Wants to _Mandate_ ”Conversion” Therapy Coverage by insurers.
Chris Christie: _Banned_ ”Conversion” Therapy when he was governor.

Christie certainly had plenty of flaws, but he was the most reasonable of the Republicans running.

Christie was just a giant gaping asshole, as opposed to being a giant gaping asshole whole is also a bigot, rapist, traitor, omni-corrupt etc. That’s why he’s one of the best Republicans around (talk about a miserably low bar).

Unabogie Jan 24, 2024 • 5:00:36pm

re: #23 EPR-radar

Christie was just a giant gaping asshole, as opposed to being a giant gaping asshole whole is also a bigot, rapist, traitor, omni-corrupt etc. That’s why he’s one of the best Republicans around (talk about a miserably low bar).

Even worse, Ron is not actually a true believer in any of this stuff. Does Ron care enough about other humans to worry about their genitals? No! He’s just an amoral monster who is happy to hurt people if it gets him what he wants.

Vicious Babushka Jan 24, 2024 • 5:07:56pm

re: #16 (((Archangel1)))

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 5:08:40pm

re: #24 Unabogie

Even worse, Ron is not actually a true believer in any of this stuff. Does Ron care enough about other humans to worry about their genitals? No! He’s just an amoral monster who is happy to hurt people if it gets him what he wants.

DeSantis is a racist, so it would not be surprising if he also believed in the rest of this.

Unabogie Jan 24, 2024 • 5:14:23pm

re: #26 Hecuba’s daughter

DeSantis is a racist, so it would not be surprising if he also believed in the rest of this.

See I think DeSantis is happy to be racist, but I think Trump is a deeply bigoted racist while DeSantis uses racism to further his evil intentions elsewhere. I could be wrong, and both of them are evil, yet I see differences in their motivations.

darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 5:18:54pm

Turns out the dogs like cheesy crab toasts. I should have made more to take to the neighbors.

EPR-radar Jan 24, 2024 • 5:22:57pm

re: #27 Unabogie

See I think DeSantis is happy to be racist, but I think Trump is a deeply bigoted racist while DeSantis uses racism to further his evil intentions elsewhere. I could be wrong, and both of them are evil, yet I see differences in their motivations.

I think the main difference between Trump and other Republican candidates is that Trump is an authentic pig-person, resentful to the core.

Other Republicans always seem to need the secret decoder ring when pandering to the GOP base.

Cheechako Jan 24, 2024 • 5:31:58pm

Currently we’ve gotten almost 4 FEET of snow on the ground, the streets are covered in packed snow, and the street drains are nowhere to be seen, and we get this as our forecast:

…RAIN AND RISING FREEZING LEVELS THROUGH THE WEEKEND…
After a 2 day break, a warm front will cause precipitation to
track back into the region from south to north on Friday. A wind
shift to the south at all levels will allow warming temperatures
through the northern inner channels Friday into Saturday.
Meanwhile, snow/freezing levels will steadily rise. By Saturday
morning freezing levels over the City of Haines will likely have
risen to around 2,000 feet, while the Juneau area will have risen
to nearly 3,000 feet. During Sunday, these values top out at over
3,000 feet for Haines and over 4,000 feet for Juneau and
surrounding areas.
Rainfall totals over this 3 day period are likely to exceed 2
inches across all of SE Alaska and may exceed 4 inches in Juneau.
Rainfall will come in surges with heaviest rates currently
expected on Sunday.

Does anyone know where Noah put the plans for the boat?
(Oh, it’s already started to warm up.)

Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 5:35:08pm

re: #27 Unabogie

See I think DeSantis is happy to be racist, but I think Trump is a deeply bigoted racist while DeSantis uses racism to further his evil intentions elsewhere. I could be wrong, and both of them are evil, yet I see differences in their motivations.

No — he’s a real racist. tampabay.com

He fought to keep former felons from voting. You could argue that his views were just because he thought it would harm his electoral prospects — that his support for Dennis Prager and Christopher Rufo and his efforts to undermine teaching about the evils of slavery were just to appeal to his base. But I don’t really think that flies — he is a native born Floridian in a state that was part of the Confederacy. Given his behavior over the years, there is no reason to believe that he is anything other than an actual racist, as opposed to pretending to be one.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 5:52:01pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

Here is what I did all day:

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so beautiful and I swear I can smell those loaves! ❤️

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 5:54:17pm

re: #14 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Goddess above. WTF is this shit? His culture war B.S. blew up his National campaign, and yet he keeps pushing his crap at the State level. Yeah, it’s a Twitter embed, but that’s were my Community is, so suck it up.

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So he’s taking his anger out on vulnerable people. DISGUSTING!

Who’s next on ilDuce’s list to do that to?

teleskiguy Jan 24, 2024 • 5:54:22pm

Skiing with the kids again tomorrow. I get to ski with them four days next week.

It’s all very amazing and humbling.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 24, 2024 • 5:55:22pm

re: #33 Joe Bacon ✅

So he’s taking his anger out on vulnerable .

That’s basically the wingnut M.O.

Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 5:58:41pm

Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 6:00:24pm

re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s basically the wingnut M.O.

He’s hoping to have a second chance at the prize — in 2028, when Trump will not be running for election (because of the GOP assumption that there will still be elections even if Trump wins in 2024).

teleskiguy Jan 24, 2024 • 6:03:01pm

Mastodon

jaunte Jan 24, 2024 • 6:05:10pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Our system doesn’t appear to be made for humans.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 6:07:18pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

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Disgusting.

May Karma strike back at Marky Mark when he least expects it.

Unabogie Jan 24, 2024 • 6:08:06pm

re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter

No — he’s a real racist. tampabay.com

He fought to keep former felons from voting. You could argue that his views were just because he thought it would harm his electoral prospects — that his support for Dennis Prager and Christopher Rufo and his efforts to undermine teaching about the evils of slavery were just to appeal to his base. But I don’t really think that flies — he is a native born Floridian in a state that was part of the Confederacy. Given his behavior over the years, there is no reason to believe that he is anything other than an actual racist, as opposed to pretending to be one.

I certainly won’t die on this hill. He’s a terrible human being and I don’t personally think it makes a person worse to be an authentic racist vs an opportunistic one. In many ways, I consider pandering to racists when you’re not one to be a bigger evil. But I am open to the idea.

teleskiguy Jan 24, 2024 • 6:14:18pm

Mastodon

Yeah. Let’s cook the planet some more and take more fresh water out of the system.

jeffreyw Jan 24, 2024 • 6:17:28pm

Mastodon

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 6:19:14pm

Charlie Jerk’s next target—Hospitals.

On his ThoughtCrime podcast, Kirk, while breaking away from a script for at-home health meds, revealed that he plans to attacks the American hospital system in an upcoming show. Kirk instructed his MAGA Republican audience not to visit hospitals for their medical needs:

“I have a whole, I’m not there yet unfortunately because it’s still ongoing. I’m going to a whole show on the things I’ve learned in the American hospital system. You do not want to go to a hospital. You do not want to go to a hospital, everybody.”

meidastouch.com

Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:21:28pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

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Here in the US, I suspect no publicly traded company would act any different.

Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:22:54pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

Shrek (2001) - Some of you May Die, But it’s a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make

teleskiguy Jan 24, 2024 • 6:24:53pm

Mastodon

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 6:29:21pm

JC1 Jan 24, 2024 • 6:37:21pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

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I’d be shocked if he was an actual Meta employee and not an outside contractor. If he was an employee then something got screwed up somewhere. Benefits are generally excellent at tech firms, and Meta can afford it.

Edit: read the thread and he was apparently a Meta employee. Pretty awful.

coin operated Jan 24, 2024 • 6:38:29pm

re: #49 JC1

I’d be shocked if he was an actual Meta employee and not an outside contractor. If he was an employee then something got screwed up somewhere. Benefits are generally excellent at tech firms, and Meta can afford it.

Xitter, on the other hand…

Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:38:51pm

Don’t know if you can read nextdoor.com, but the story goes they find this pup:

in their back yard. They go looking to see if it belongs to anyone and then put it in the garage with some blankets and tell people they can’t keep it, and then the next day more blankets, and then they bring it inside and then the girls name it and then it’s theirs.

sizzzzlerz Jan 24, 2024 • 6:45:06pm

re: #51 Belafon

Don’t know if you can read but the story goes they find this pup:
in their back yard. They go looking to see if it belongs to anyone and then put it in the garage with some blankets and tell people they can’t keep it, and then the next day more blankets, and then they bring it inside and then the girls name it and then it’s theirs.

And the pup is all “everything is going to plan”.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 24, 2024 • 6:52:40pm

re: #45 Belafon

Here in the US, I suspect no publicly traded company would act any different.

Capitalism…fuck yeah!

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