[Kzyxtalk] Zotz!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Zotz!

/The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm, but just in case… we're gonna 
get a bomb." -Tom Lehrer/

Marco here. Here's the recording of last night's (9pm PDT, 2025-08-08) 
8-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP 
Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on 89.3fm KAKX 
Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0656

Coming shows can feature your own story or dream or poem or essay or 
kvetch or announcement. Just email it to me. Or send me a link to your 
writing project and I'll take it from there and read it on the air.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not-necessarily radio-useful but 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, 
such as:

Get your kids their shots on the scientific 
evidence-based-medicine-recommended schedule. Get your pets their shots. 
Get your own shots. Immunity you get because of vaccines is better than 
immunity after catching disease, because you don't have to suffer or 
spread disease. Some of them, like measles, actually remove your 
immunity to other diseases. Vaccines never do that.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-children-get-so-many-vaccines.html

Intelligence correlates to a high brain to body mass ratio. This works 
across all intelligent animals. Among birds, say, a species with heavier 
brains relative to their body weight are likely more clever. Fish, 
monkeys, everything. When a human drives a car or truck or backhoe, it's 
an extension of the human body, so your brain-to-body-mass ratio goes 
down, and that explains it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBGtsuU4xj0

The Big Lebowski but only the swears. Before this cut, the only swear I 
remembered from the movie was the one famously bowdlerized to /This is 
what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Donny./ I just hear 
right past swearing, I guess. It's like a story that Charles Tyler, born 
in Britain, once told me: His father would often begin a sentence by 
barking, "Attenerit!" Charles thought that was something you just say to 
alert for attention. When he was twelve he finally realized his father 
was saying "At any rate..." Swears are like that; they don't have to 
mean anything. They can be seasoning, or punctuation. They can be funny 
and true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2ZgaQ_H-Y

Speaking of which: Carsie Blanton – Rich People. (via Ron)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD_eZg70Ms0

And how children of a self-absorbed parent often struggle to find a 
strong sense of self. This perfectly describes the world of the children 
in The Umbrella Academy, raised by a man who is literally inhuman. 
Though that is a spoiler, it's not much of one. The show is terrific. 
Four years, 36 episodes, total. But this, first:
https://laughingsquid.com/missing-strong-sense-of-self/

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org, https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com