The Relentless Picnic - Ep. 18 - Happy Nation

Ep. 18 - Happy Nation

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06/28/17 • 107 min

The Relentless Picnic

Chaos reigns! The Relentless Picnic emerges victorious after the heinous destruction of our National Caverns! Justly! Jurassic Park, )))Ace of Base(((, Future Trump Scandals, Groundhog Day, and yet more dredging at the limit of human intelligence.

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Ep. 17 - The Cave

Like the man said: We're chained to the earth like a silent slave; trying to break free out of death's dark cave. Bones in South Africa, hoarding in New York City, and finally, a dispatch from our friend Matt Tice as he takes heavy fire, and glimpses reinforcement, on the front line of life. - "Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa." (Sept. '15): https://elifesciences.org/articles/09561 ; - Map of the Dinaledi cave, from the above: http://bit.ly/2rEtSHw ; - "The Lonely Death of George Bell," by N.R. Kleinfield in the NYT (Oct. '15): http://nyti.ms/2rS04rU.

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Ep. 19 - Get In

We're trying to get at the allure of permanent consequences, the moral underpinnings of hitchhiking, and the secret greenhouses of your text-based relationships. Whither goest thou, America? And can you get us there before bed, we have to be up early? LINKS/SOURCES: a relationship beset by far-left podcasts: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/877017208161009664 ; "The End of the Open Road: The Inside Story of How Hitchhiking Died," by Molly Osberg (May '15): http://bit.ly/1E2bL9f ; "The death of hitchhiking is a modern tragedy," by Anne Perkins (Sept. '16): http://bit.ly/2coPqSr ; "An Informal History of Hitchhiking" by John. T. Schlebecker, The Historian 20:3 (May 1958), pp. 305-327. ; CNN on the Michelle Carter trial: http://cnn.it/2umrpUe ; Court documents, from the state: http://bit.ly/2vpiCxA ; and from the defense: http://bit.ly/2ts2biL