Episode 13 - Does Dan have Fuller Dreams? (11/5/17)

Episode 257: In Victoria, B.C., on the rainy evening of Friday, September 29, 1899, on her way home from work alone, forty-four-year-old Agnes Bings walked across a railroad bridge, cutting through the Songhees Reserve as she did every other night without incident. This night, however, would be her last. Someone took her life somewhere during the 20-minute walk between her bakery on Store Street and the Bings family home on Russell Street. The next morning, Agnes Bing’s body was discovered. She’d been strangled, and her body mutilated. Her slaying has never been solved, although there have been a few suspects, interestingly including the world’s most famous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, whose 1888 crimes also remain unsolved. Sources: HISTORY OF DOWNTOWN VICTORIA | LIVE SITE Home | Victoria Canada’s Jack the Ripper Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records Relating To The Murder of Agnes Bings | PDF Historical police records give a glimpse into Victoria’s seamier side | Times Colonist The British Colonist 1858-1961 Agnes Bings (1855-1899) - Find a Grave Memorial Murder & Mutilation In Victoria - Jack The Ripper Forums - Ripperology For The 21st Century Unlocking the Dark Secrets of Victoria - Monday Magazine Coroner Inquests in BC around the time of Agnes Bings’ Murder Seeing Dead People E23 — Mrs. Bings Meets a Madman The History of Garrick’s Head Pub | Victoria, BC, Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The happiest of New Year’s greetings to you gentle audience! An episode about holidays is in store for you upon this hour! This time, we are joined by REAL HUMAN BING Melanie Peck to break down an important subject that’s only a bit late… Christmas! What’s it like to celebrate it in China? What are the traditions we have created? Does Santa Claus exist? Not only that, but we break down all the bad Netflix Christmas movies for you. Are any of them classics you must watch every year? (Spoiler, no.) Next, we check in on, as is our tradition, our New Year’s resolutions and get really depressed about making goals and failing… Anyways! We end off with our favorite resolution of every year, Picks of the Week! Jingle on Bings, jingle on. End Notes: "The Grim Dystopia of A Christmas Prince" (Jenny Nicholson is better at making jokes than us…) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsHT1fYouYU Esquire’s Ranking of all Netflix Original Christmas movies, we somewhat agreed with these… (Christmas Chronicles is bad, but it’s not the third worst!) - https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/g25383267/all-netflix-original-christmas-movies-ranked/ Illumination Entertainment is mediocre. It sands off it’s edges to be as inoffensive as possible. (Grinch 2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjInxtfVJNI Into the Spiderverse is great guys, the hype is real. - https://film.avclub.com/superhero-dimensions-collide-in-a-funny-gorgeously-psy-1830700647 God of War is GOTY good? - https://www.polygon.com/best-games-2018/2018/12/21/18149534/god-of-war-game-of-the-year-2018 Maybe Mel won’t have to wait that long to see new Reba after all… - http://theboot.com/reba-mcentire-new-tv-show-2018/

BONUS POD! What’s your opinion on the Myers-Brigs test? Does it reveal hidden depths to your personality? Or is it a bunch of bogus invented by two non-trained bored writers? (Warning: the writer of this episode title is biased) Along with RHB, Melanie Peck, we took the famed 16 personalities test and looked into how it applied to us. We also argue over the validity of the test as well as personality tests in general. Take it yourself! Tell us what you think! Regardless of what the results are, you’re all still human bings to us! End Notes: Take the test yourself! - https://www.16personalities.com/ Learn why it’s meaningless! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5pggDCnt5M, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A

BONUS POD! Hi all you Real Human Bings! Won't you be my neighbor? In this bonus episode of Real Human Bings, we talk about a very human emotion, and a very Bing emotion, anger. With other Real Human Bing, Melanie Peck, we discuss emotions and how to deal with them. Additionally, we delve into differences in educational systems between North America and China. Which group is more spoiled? We have our own opinions, but let us know what you think! Endnotes: If you're interested in a book about Chinese society and its youthful generation... - https://www.amazon.com/Young-China-Restless-Generation-Country/dp/1250078814 Won't You Be My Neighbor? - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/movies/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review-mister-rogers.html Mister Rogers 1969 Senate Hearing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9uIJ-o2yqQ Johnny Costa covers Mister Rogers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx-ncTtaOJY