How Your Language Might Determine Your Personality And Why You Should Go Road Trippin’ With Granny
Dating a bilingual person? You just might get a two-for-one deal! In this episode, we talk about the death of Adobe (nee Macromedia) Flash, multilingual people with multiple personalities (maybe), a really unusual (but super wholesome) road trip, and how trees help the environment in a way that directly impacts both regular people like us and society at large.
This Episode’s Highlights:
- How the language you speak can determine what type of personality you’ll have — kinda
- Worried about the climate situation getting worse? How about some good news ‘bout things that are actually better now?
- And what’s the best thing to do if you have an 85-year-old-or-older grandparent lying around? Take ’em on road trip o’course!
- All of that plus today’s secret link and the feel-good featured track is comin’ at ya right now
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Time Stamps
- 00:00 … Episode Preview
- 00:38 … Welcome to the Show
- 01:23 … The Death of Adobe Flash (and why it mattered)
- 02:37 … If you know this sound, consider yourself old
- 03:54 … Why Steve Jobs didn’t like Flash
- 04:38 … The beginning of the end for Flash
- 05:14 … What happens now to all the stuff made with Flash?
- 07:20 … What role does language play in determining your personality?
- 12:48 … The effects of language on how you perceive the world
- 15:06 … Different types of languages and cultures and how they perceive time
- 18:35 … How well do you really know your city?
- 19:51 … Grandma Joy and Brad Ryan’s national park road trip across America
- 22:13 … How many national parks does the United States of America have?
- 24:39 … Good news: there are now more trees today than 100 years ago! How that happened and what some countries are doing
- 27:42 … What exactly do trees do for the environment and how do they benefit us?
- 30:10 … Featured Track of the episode
- 30:35 … Episode Wrap-Up, Secret Link, and a parting thought from John Steinbeck on comparing yourself to others
Episode Highlight ⚡
- An 89-Year-Old Grandmother Is Visiting All 61 National Parks With Her Grandson
- This grandmother had never seen the ocean or mountains. So, her grandson is taking her to all 61 U.S. National Parks
- Grandma Joy’s road trip interrupted but bond still strong with grandson
- Grandma Joy’s Road Trip on Instagram
Key Links 🔑
- Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest | Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash
- The Internet Archive | Website | Internet Archive to preserve Flash content for posterity with Ruffle emulator
- Change of Language, Change of Personality? | How the Language We Speak Affects the Way We Think | 6 Useful Facts About Time in Different Languages and Cultures
- National Park Foundation | How Many National Parks Are There?
- More Trees Than There Were 100 Years Ago? It’s True!
- A 10 Billion-Tree Plan Is Restoring Pakistan’s Lost Forests
Secret Link 🕵️♂️
Think what you will about Amazon (the company), but this is just plain beautiful.
Featured Track 🎶
This episode’s featured track is “Under Repair”, a steady, jangly, reverb-tinged pop single with an exceptionally powerful vocal hook, released by Imago back in 2006. Then-vocalist Aia De Leon left the band in 2013, and the Imago have had a number of different singers stand in as lead singer in her place since then.
The Complete 750ml Featured Tracks Collection 😎🎧🎙
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