S04 E08: Red Flag Flaws

The Freecast

Episode 08.

Show Title: Red Flag Flaws

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matt Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary (used for RSS & iTunes Summary): On this Episode of The Freecast the Red Flag Law gets a hearing in Concord, deregulation spikes sales in CBD, HIV may have a cure, and Dover says no to a private music venue.

News

• New owners of greyhound park want 100 percent employee owned casino
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/seabrook-greyhound-park-owner-describes-vision-for-employee-owned-casino/article_d82f3841-dc81-58f3-8df3-6d21950e8d31.html
  • https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employeeowned-company-work-44184.html
• Red Flag Law hearing today (MC)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/both-sides-brace-for-battle-over-red-flag-law-today/article_ed375c77-964c-5254-9807-98500b3a2849.html?block_id=664688
  • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/lawmakers-with-pearl-necklaces-at-hearing-on-red-flag-bill/article_ef9156c0-db59-59e9-9bd2-e028f50aa103.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
• Deregulation sees spike in CBD sales (Nick)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190303/cbd-products-growing-in-popularity
• Portsmouth’s Zagster bike rentals have net cost of $49K (MC)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190305/portsmouths-zagster-bike-rentals-have-net-cost-of-49k
• Second man may be cured of AIDS virus after transplant (MC)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/zz/news/20190304/second-man-may-be-cured-of-aids-virus-after-transplant
• Music venue run out of private home (Nick)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190304/popular-home-music-venue-shut-down-by-dover

Events

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Dover - 1st Thursday

NH History

• Mt Monadnock
• • 3165 ft
  • 1,000 ft taller than any other peak in over 30 mile radius
  • 2,150 ft prominence
  • It is so isolated that American geologists use Monadnock as a term for a mountain or hill that rises abruptly compared to the rest of the landscape
  • • It’s like Erebor
  • Monadnock derives from an Abenaki term, loosely translated as “the mountain that stands alone
  • The earliest recorded ascent was in 1725 by Captain Samuel Willard and his fourteen rangers. They camped out there to lookout for indigenous americans.
  • Strange records
  • • Garry Harrington, hiked Monadnock 16 times in 24 hours
    • Larry Davis, hiked the summit daily for 2,850 days (7.8 years)
  • 3rd most popularly hiked mountain in the world at 125,000 hikers a year
  • The summit is barren, this isn’t because of a natural tree line, but because there were fires set by settlers sometime between 1810 and 1820 that raged for weeks destroying all the trees and the top-soil
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a long poem about the mountain, which is one of his most famous poems, called “Monadnock”.
  • Other Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller visited the Monadnock several times and wrote about it.

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