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Welcome to ANI In The Air, online and around Baltimore.
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This is your daily podcast briefing of the goings ons, ins and arounds, arts and ideas at Bay School.
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Also it's Monday, so it's Millions Monday.
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Today was our first day of being fully online due to the high COVID numbers.
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We have over 6%, I think it might be like 6.7% positivity rate.
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And like 33 cases per 100,000.
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So those are versus our threshold numbers of 5% and 15 per 100,000 respectively.
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So, yeah, that's the numbers.
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Anyway, we had our Monday announcements at 11.05.
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Had a little bit of a technical problem.
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Apparently Discord limits chats with video enabled to 25 people at most in a room.
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So we blocked inadvertently a number of people from our community from being there.
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Presumably what we will do in the future is to use Zoom, which doesn't have quite that problem.
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So we'll see about that and we'll talk about it.
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Got school meeting tomorrow at 1.
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So hopefully you all can come out to that.
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Might be on Zoom.
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And it'll all be posted in Discord.
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Anyway, the announcements was there'd be a Minecraft kind of experience.
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At 2 o'clock, I think it happened and looks like it sounded like it might have gone well.
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There was apparently our outdoor tent was put back up on Minecraft.
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So that sounds fun.
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Hope that was well attended.
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We also have planned for this week.
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I plan to try out some role playing games.
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Dungeon World, Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m. in the Library Voice channel.
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And Amazing Tales at 10 a.m. on Thursday.
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I made a little text chat called RPG Dice for that kind of information.
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Dungeon World is, you know, probably mostly for teens and Amazing Tales would be for mostly younger kids.
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But anyone who wants to do whatever is more than welcome.
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If a lot of people want to do it, we'll see how it goes.
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It doesn't really scale very well for large numbers because it's very much narrative and conversation.
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And so everyone kind of getting equal share of talking kind of limits the ability there.
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But we'll see what happens. We'll see what shows up.
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And certainly people can attend and watch at the very least.
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What else?
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I believe Caroline went to a student's house and socially distanced managed to do some sun printing.
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The cyano tape or something.
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So that sounded fun.
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Also the admissions clerks, which I am one of.
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Caroline's the other.
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We had an interview today and that went well.
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Hopefully we can actually start having being in person soon and then proceed with enrollments there.
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It'd be nice. All right.
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What else? Oh, yes.
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This was not announced, but it should have been. Article Club will be meeting on Thursday at 1 p.m.
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So that's nice. I believe it's on.
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Well, it's in the discord channel, Article Club, and it is a flying cars and the declining rate of profits.
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So it's an article by David Graber from 2012.
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And it's.
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Looks like a very interesting and fun article, which is.
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You know, talking about, well, the lack of flying cars, I assume.
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I don't haven't read it yet. Looking forward to reading it, though.
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All righty. So that's all that my brain dump can do for the day.
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So for those listening to this, if you have things that happened during the day and you want me to tell our community about it on this podcast, please let me know.
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You can just discord me. I don't know what the proper word message.
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And.
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Yeah. So also, I would be happy to do kind of a podcast interview with anyone who wants to talk about what they're doing or what they're experiencing.
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And I want to put it out there. I'd be happy to talk with you.
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So just let me know. All right. Millions Monday. It's going to be a brief one I want to.
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So. I have started to do.
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Kind of meditative laughing exercises in the contemplation room at around 150 p.m. I did that today.
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It's really both good exercise and good sort of mental stress relief and keeps the brain kind of limber.
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I believe a lot in laughter. So I thought Millions Monday would be appropriate to ask just how many people are laughing right now.
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So. There's about eight billion people on this planet. And.
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You know, the basic question for a problem of this kind is what percentage of the day do you spend laughing?
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So a kid might spend like half the day laughing. Grumpy old businessman might spend very little the day.
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I'd like to think that most people spend a good fraction of the day.
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You know, maybe the whole day is a little hard to gauge, so just a typical hour.
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Maybe throughout a whole hour might be a minute of laughter and we're kind of awake for, say, 18 hours.
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That's about 18 minutes. So let's just say 20 minutes.
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So a third of an hour. And so a day is 24 hours. So.
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Let's see. So what is that of a day? One and seventy fifth of a day.
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Whatever. So let's say seven point five billion divided by seventy five.
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Sounds like. So seven point five billion is seventy five hundred million.
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And so divided by seventy five is just one hundred million. So maybe one hundred million people laughing right now.
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Isn't that nice? I think that's nice. So.
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Of course. One might have all sorts of other emotions that you could perhaps do the same thing with.
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But I like laughter. So I like to think of a hundred million people laughing right now.
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Sounds so nice at this very moment, this very instant.
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All right. Well, that's enough for today. Got a little long.
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Thanks for listening. And hopefully I'll be able to keep this going throughout this online transition period.
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I've already done 40 some days. And so why not just keep on going?
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Have a good one and keep a smile on if you can.