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Episode 393: Don’t Touch My Yeti

🕑 Added 2017-12-30 17:48:07 +0000 UTC

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Tyler

Atchafalaya Basin: Trucks Keep RIGHT. Truck Speed Limit: 50. Others: 60. This only exists as a function test for your cruise control and to generate enough speeding fines to keep the government's lights on.

Tyler

Oh jeeze, yeah. You're right below the 10/12 split. I'm originally from Erath. South of Lafayette. Literally where the first murder in True Detective happens and in an area with an uncanny resemblance to the tree in the cane field across the road from our property. Just a town north of the fracking wastewater hub that killed the earth and waterways around Henry and Pecan Island after Rita. Went to high school in Mandeville, then went back to get my degree at ULL, so that drive's pretty second nature to me: 10-to-12 ideal, 10-to-Causeway if 12 is fucked, 90-to-10-to Causeway if some sucking fucking trucking meth head wrecks in the lane he's not supposed to be in on the Atchafalaya Basin and fucks things up for everyone.

Stevo but not that Stevo

...too close to home (both literally and figuratively)...I'm about 2 miles from St. Gabriel (land of sketchy police activity) and not much further from the miles of chemical plants stacked like town houses in Geismar and Gonzalez. Good thing I quit smoking, right...?

Tyler

“Cancer alley”

Stevo but not that Stevo

Hahaha I live in that "40 mile radius", after growing up between Baltimore & D.C. and I agree, wholeheartedly, that driving here means risking an aneurysm every time.

Jon Pierson

Hi Guys, The Maine democratic electoral system you describe is called proportional representation. It operates in all the countries not coloured grey on the map in the attached Wikipedia article. Proportional Representation is used in democracies in an attempt to represent the wishes of the people in a country's parliament most commonly in coalition governments. Ultimately, you HAVE to compromise to get anything done. For example, without an artificial overall majority, you wouldn't get a partial judiciary... or an obnoxioius, lying sex offender as head of state. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation</a>#/media/File:Proportional_voting_systems.png

Tyler

Louisiana in Food: North of I-10 is probably shit, then you hit the bible belt and it's definitely shit. West of Baton Rouge is the Cajun badlands I'm from with an interesting rustic French cuisine. East of Baton Roue is the Creole area that blends the influence of the former with Spanish, African and Caribbean flavors. Baton Rouge has a large University with a decent football team. But nobody likes driving in a 40 mile radius of that bullshit, literally insipid city.

Tyler

No.

Stevo but not that Stevo

Wait...shouldn't that have been closed with a "Geaux Tigers"?

Stevo but not that Stevo

Opening Arguments had a pretty good segment in OA132 on how simple the questions that Petersen could not answer actually were. It's the first segment after the intro and I thought it was pretty helpful to the judicially challenged like me.

Gothic Alice

Thanks for doing the LGBT rap up, but to be clear, the courts have put injunctions against every part of the transgender military ban, and the administration decided not to appeal to keep transgender people from joining starting January 1st. We still have to wait to see what happens in terms of retention and health care. Though the injunction is a good sign that things will go our way, we aren’t out of the woods yet.

HP van Braam

"The perks are pretty nice, and we think the travel and monetary bonuses are worth the trouble of dealing with the two of us." For $2000 an hour, sure ;)

Tyler

P.S. Look out for my res next week.

Tyler

I know I'm from the badlands of the Ur-Garbage State, but don't you ever, ever talk shit about crawfish boils, fils putain à la merde! I will rip you in half, pull and eat your leg muscles, snap your thumbs back and (try to) pull out the muscle chain in one piece, and suck the spicy gut-tamale out of your whore chest cavity you ignorant ivory-tower motherfucker.