Brian Threlkeld

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@Eric_Alterman Alas, these may be a step up for the roster . . . .

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@AllOfItWNYC @WNYC I’m glad in the discussion of film scores there was mention of Elmer Bernstein, one of my great favorites. My wife and I especially love the music of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but he still did so •much• superb work!

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@Politic56721677 @Sumo_Jason Hōshōryū is a talented wrestler. But the Yokozuna Promotion Council and the Sumō Association should have had the composure to wait for a wrestler to show the stuff to win two consecutive yūshō, full stop. Going a couple basho with no yokozuna on the dohyō wouldn’t kill sumō!

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@Politic56721677 @Sumo_Jason While I’m no particular fan of Hōshōryū, I don’t share the antipathy of many. But I do think his promotion credentials were thin. Of the four yokozuna in the last 70 years promoted after a 3-basho run that started 8-7, he’s the only one who didn’t follow that with 2 actual yūshō.

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@BrianLehrer @Gladwell Gladwell’s capsule description of how tipping points work recalls the process described in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (others have surely pointed this out). Would he care to observe any important •distinctions• between those two models?

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@BrianLehrer @WNYC Yes, Congress added “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, & formally authorized “In God We Trust” for banknotes in 1955, BUT, the motto had first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864. (Congress replaced “E pluribus unum” with IGWT, as the official motto of the U.S., in 1956)

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@BrianLehrer So, do your guests have any thoughts on issues related to or implicated by that divergence in presentation, and difficulty in diagnosing girls (and presumably women)?

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@BrianLehrer Our daughter suffered severe emotional health problems in her mid-teens; we finally hospitalized her, and she was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and ADHD. The staff told her that ADHD, esp., presents differently in girls than boys, making diagnosis in girls difficult.

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@RonFilipkowski Perfect: Looks like a Stratton Oakmont commercial.

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@ZachLowy A certain forward: “Pepe first . . . .”

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@AllOfItWNYC @BethWhitehouse1 @WNYC Interesting, the affectionate remarks on capybaras. They always bring to mind the lovely 1966 children’s book, “Capyboppy”, by the former Disney animator Bill Peet, about his family’s adoption of a capybara. It’s warm and funny, but also a cautionary tale about a wild animal pet.

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@AllOfItWNYC @closefunkel @KennKaufman @WNYC A great pleasure to hear Kaufman discuss birding and its history. I think he’s on the mark in identifying what was novel, and still stands out, about Audubon’s illustrations of birds, is the vitally intense drama that he filled those illustrations with.

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@BrianLehrer @WNYC For the caller concerned that her unmown lawn wasn’t attracting honey bees, AND regarding the advice to plant native species: those strategies may be attracting •native• — i.e., non-honey bee — pollinators.

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@RonFilipkowski Many here are too quickly impressed with that venire member. She needs to remember to use the subjunctive form.

•Then• she’d be perfect.

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@BrianLehrer @michaelwwaters I think about my middle name, “Brian”, all the time—because I use it all the time! I •never• go by my first name, “Anthony”. My parents always wanted to call me Brian, and liked Anthony for a MN, but my surname begins with T, and they didn’t want my initials to spell anything

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@QuirkyResearch @footballzebras Stroud’s block attempt at the crossbar was NOT “after a rule change”; it was BEFORE the rules change that barred such blocks. It was perfectly legal in 1970. As QuirkyResearch notes, there was only ONE such successful FG block in NFL history, by Baltimore's R.C. Owens in 1962.

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@KevsHobbies @footballzebras Such a block had happened in the NFL only once: the Baltimore Colts wide receiver R.C. Owens blocked a Washington field goal attempt at the crossbar, in a 34–21 home win on 8 Dec. 1962.

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@KevsHobbies @footballzebras It •used• to be legal to block a FG attempt at the crossbar, but the NFL amended its rules sometime after the early 1970s to forbid such a block. It would be called an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty, and the referee could award the score.

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@AllOfItWNYC @WNYC (4) At last, he struggles out, in barely more than a whisper, “Oh . . . I see . . . .”

It’s a serious contender as the funniest half-minute of silence in movie history.

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@AllOfItWNYC @WNYC (1) One of Gene Wilder’s very best scenes is in Woody Allen��s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.” He’s playing a Park Avenue physical in a posh practice, who gets an unusual appointment in his office:

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@AllOfItWNYC @WNYC (3) And in all of that dead air, as the physician gazes, stupefied and horrified, at Mr Milos, every few moments glancing from side to side, you can just see the wheels spinning in his mind, searching for something to say, and finding everything utterly inadequate.