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Mar 17, 2015 1 hr 15 min

Episode 44 + LIVE #4

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Episode 44 Transcript courtesy of Laurie Foster The Biggest Problem in the Universe – LIVE #4 of 4: Vote on the problems below: Well-Intentioned Idiots 4749 The Huffington Post 3390 Unsolicited Advice 2662 Smart Phone Fact Finding Fuckheads -176 Kid Prison -697 See All the Problems... jQuery(document).ready( function($) { console.log('test'); $('.voteup').click(function() { var problem_id = $(this).data("id"); console.log(problem_id); var data = { action: 'problem_vote_up', problem_id: problem_id, solution: false, }; var me = $(this); var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php'; var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-content/plugins/big-list/vote_handler.php'; jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) { console.log(response); obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); console.log(obj); $('.votes-'+obj.problem_id).text(obj.votes); }); return false; }); $('.votedown').click(function() { var problem_id = $(this).data("id"); console.log(problem_id); var data = { action: 'problem_vote_down', problem_id: problem_id, solution: false, }; var me = $(this); var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php'; var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-content/plugins/big-list/vote_handler.php'; jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) { obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); console.log(obj); $('.votes-'+obj.problem_id).text(obj.votes); }); return false; }); }); Here’s the article that this week’s problem was based on: http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dancing_man Dick, the contrarian-in-chief, did his best to defend party girls. I go into a lot more detail on my website with relevant tweets and sources: The final live episode that we recorded at YouTube Space is available here: LIVE Episode #4 Thanks to us for sponsoring this episode. Here’s a link to the bonus episode we played clips from at the top of the show: Bonus Episode 5. Also available on iTunes. Sources: Maddox – The Dancing Man and the Cult of Well-Intentioned Idiots Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone article with editor’s note

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