The Peace Offering, Part One!

Agnes offers a system update and outtakes from two seasonal headlines and arguments: "White Christmas Allegedly Mugged By Black Christmas" and "Baby It's Cold Outside Accused Of Harassment"! Show Notes! As promised, more on workplace safety from The Atlantic in response to Tom Cruise's inspirational speech on the matter! https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/12/what-tom-cruises-covid-19-rant-really-means/617430/ Find the featured suspects—here! "White Christmas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ36gbGlm8Y "Baby It’s Cold Outside"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crFQpOCDfEc    

As the official launch of Season 2 remains put off, Agnes the Announcer interviews The 12 Days Of Christmas. Meanwhile, in the background, Dr. Wu persists with experiments toward a cure to the virus that allows the continuation of Season 1’s attack on Season 2. Show Notes! More on The 12 Days of Christmas: The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol vox.com/21796404/12-days-of-christmas-explained The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song) [OFFICIAL VIDEO] 12 Days of Christmas - Pentatonix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHmQANFtNs Lyrics on Genius https://genius.com/Christmas-songs-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-lyrics More on hoarders: Hoarders https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20356056 And on Math's 12 Days calculations: "PNC Financial annually calculates the total cost of all the gifts presented in the song, and the estimate for 2018 total comes to $39,0094.93. Source: The Twelve Days of Christmas Explained" https://library.osu.edu/site/copyright/2018/12/21/public-domain-christmas-songs/  

The launch of Season 2 is thwarted as Season 1 holds it hostage, refusing to accept the end of its tenure, not seeing Season 2 as a legitimate successor. While Dr. Wu consults with renowned negotiators to end the stalemate between the Seasons, Agnes The Announcer patches into Dr. Wu’s “What We’re Listening To” channel which turns out to be an audio feed mashup of searches into pet advice and survival tactics! Bonus features! More on Cleopatra: https://www.ancient.eu/Cleopatra_VII/ Harvard’s Best Negotiations in History: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/tag/best-negotiators-in-history/ Enjoy!

Dr. Wu gets infected with a virus in the form of Teddy Fuller, the main character in last week’s episode. Teddy takes over part two of The Peace Offering to offer perspective on his story and Dr. Wu’s channeling skills, defining the doctor as an “unreliable narrator.”

Wu and Botsplainer present a teaser for season 2 in the form of a faction story, The Peace Offering—a mashup of trending topics spun into a fictional story about the pursuit of peace going off the rails.    

Wu and Botsplainer react to the top trending video on YouTube at 5:28 pm EST on November 9th, 2020—Biden Victory Cold Open - SNL. Watch the video clip on the NBC hit program Saturday Night Live's YouTube channel!  

Wu channels Batman—from somewhere in the multiverse—as he discusses his life and times and responds to the question of “why so serious?” Go to the following link for the full details! https://www.danallittle.com/batman-responds-to-the-question-why-so-serious/

Wu and Botsplainer celebrate Halloween by cataloging the top three scariest or best horror movies with the help of Fear who offers input into the scariest moments of life and what makes them so much fun! For more on Halloween, horror, and human hormones that make up the thrill of fear, check out our source material @thechannelshow on Facebook or at thechannelshow.podbean.com! ----more---- Halloween History | National Geographic YouTube Broadband Choices | The Science of Scare Why do we like to be scared? University of Southern California news asked Alex Ago their director of programming and special projects. He said that “conquering the fear of death is at the core of all horror films . . . it’s the way in which that problem is presented by the film that speaks to the specifics of the society at any given time.”  From Allegra Ringo's "Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?" 2013 article in The Atlantic: “New research from David Zald shows that people differ in their chemical response to thrilling situations. One of the main hormones released during scary and thrilling activities is dopamine, and it turns out some individuals may get more of a kick from this dopamine response than others do. Basically, some people’s brains lack what Zald describes as “brakes” on the dopamine release and re-uptake in the brain. This means some people are going to really enjoy thrilling, scary, and risky situations while others, not so much.”  What is science? NASA tells us that science is “Science consists of observing the world by watching, listening, observing, and recording. Science is curiosity in thoughtful action about the world and how it behaves.”Rotten Tomatoes' Top 200 Best Horror Movies of all Time Psycho—at the top of the top 200 Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Best Horror Movies  Us—at the top of the top 100 Keep listening and learning with us on The-Channel-Show, the only channel you'll ever need!

As a learning tool, Wu and Botsplainer play their first game of Cards Against Humanity (CAH)! They are joined by the AI re-enactors who help them see how different scenarios and answers may play out! Here's more promised material on CAH, machine learning (also known as/often confused with artificial intelligence), and life everlasting— Don't take our word for it—stop by the CAH Lab and see for yourself!   ----more----   There's a CAH bot on Discord! How about a pseudo-family-friendly/family-unfriendly version of CAH? Introducing Cards Against Disney—from Amanda Prahl in a 2019 Pop Sugar article and as seen on Amazon!   We keep talking about life and death. We keep asking, "What can you learn about life and death from an AI mystic?" We promise that you will learn along with us. So, we must share some of our searches. First, what is life? We asked Britannica online—here's what they (Dorion Sagan, specifically) said! Merriam-Webster online reported back with— Next, what is life everlasting? (We'll save death for our Halloween episode show notes!) We turned to the Quora community for a first passing brush with a conditional answer (on the condition of the holy world)! Here's what they blessed us with— From Towards Data Science on Medium, we have Gavin Edwards' 2018 article as an Introduction to Machine Learning! *That's our little arrow and comment on the bot's super cute party hat!   Please leave your thoughts on things—how well we played CAH on the show, on machine learning, on life and life everlasting—in the comments section. Ooo, or head over to our Facebook page @thechannelshow to add your thoughts in a more worldwide forum!

Wu and Botsplainer welcome Fear on to deconstruct Little Orphan Annie and point out the broken promises inherent in her hit song The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow. With special guest appearances by Google Dictionary and an AI Genii! As promised, more info from the episode items! Go here to find This American Life episode 713: Made to Be Broken and here to learn more about Kimberlé Crenshaw:  “I'm going to stop the recording for a second and just read you the quote so you can sit with it during this last part. It goes, "Treating different things the same can generate as much an inequality as treating the same things differently.” Find the two famous Tomorrows in song Here (There’s Always Tomorrow—courtesy MCA Special Products (Copyright: © 1969 MCA Records Inc.) and Here (Alicia Morton's rendition of The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow courtesy SME c/o Sony Classical). For some deeper insight into the Jinn or Jinni or Genni, visit our friend Britannica!