120: Bridey Goes Big Apple, Adios to Joel, Welcome to Cap'n Jim, Teller of Tales

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Ranger Rick sent us some background info on Buckminster Fuller, who apparently invented a lot of words when he wasn’t designing geodesic homes or Dymaxions.

https://ade3.medium.com/three-words-invented-by-buckminster-fuller-d8002645226d

Bridey Thelen-Heidel, who you heard two weeks ago, just announced she has been selected to read her works on Listen to Your Mother, which is playing just a block off Broadway. Yes, the Big Apple! More great news for Bridey.

https://listentoyourmothershow.com

We got a voice message from VV#1, who explains to Del that the mer in mermaid is French, meaning sea. Mystery solved. Further, she gives him the bad news that TMB is already in use, meaning text me back. She suggests TMBS. You get the idea.

Dave stumps Del with an object that’s part of a larger object. The answer is the earth’s inner core. According to USA Today and other news outlets less rigorous than TOB, the core has stopped spinning and is reversing direction. This was a misunderstanding of a scientific article that said the rotation rate was slowing, which could shave up to one millisecond off our year.

A shout out to good friend Joel. Dave had breakfast with him today to wish him farewellas he sells his winter place in FL and is looking at the sunny CA desert as his new winter stomping grounds. Met him here in FL when he joined Dave’s writers’ group. It was clear early on that he was a more gifted writer than the rest of us. When that group broke up, he and I and our friend Laura [also at breakfast] met from time to time to critique each other’s work and have a never-ending lunch afterward. Dave calls Joel and Laura his adopted bro and sis. Good luck to you Joel, as you ride into the sunset. We’ll miss you

Sea Stories with Cap’n Jim

Dave met Jim a couple years ago and being an engineer, enjoyed his bridge-building stories. inevitably Jim would dredge up sailing and flying stories from his past that were far more interesting. Jim has promised to come back and share his stories with us.

Next week another amazing story about people helping Ukrainian refugees.

Closing music courtesy of Gabriel Records in Nashville. Pretty dazzling performance for a 9-year old playing from memory.

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