Daily Breakfast #230
In today’s show: Power failure in Amersfoort; Prison Break; Fighting over Hobbits; XBox 360 HD, IPTV and streaming audio and video; Spaghetti Pie recipe; Your rights in the Catholic Church; Faith, you and You; Mexican wisdom and Leo Laporte.
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PS: He did a really good job 
@Father R-QUESTION:Where does the track”Are you going to eat that…” for the food section come from? It sounds like the actor “Kirk” from the TV show “Gilmore Girls”.
BTW spaghetti pie sounds pretty yummy.
TVersity is a great app, i have been using it for quite some time to stream all my audio and video podcast to my living room, using a dlink dsm-520. Father may I ask a favor please release The Catholic Minute in Xvid format for me it seems the only way a video podcast will work best.
THANKS!!! keep up the great work.
Father,
this is concernig the “English for Dummies” section of your show.
It’s so fun that YOU are still trying to improve your English - to be honest: I actually started listening to the Catholic Insider in ‘05 with the intention to improve MY English skills through your show.
Anyway, I recently noticed that you always use the words “If” and “would” at the same time. For instance “If I WOULD live in the US…..”. “If I WOULD buy an iPhone”…… and so on.
I clearly remember that my English teacher always corrected us when we were using “If” and “would” in the same phrase.
So I am a bit confused right now, whether my teacher was simply wrong (since he also was a non-native English speaker) or if this combination is actually not allowed.
Maybe you could raise this issue in your show so that some native listeners might help us out ?
Thanks for your great shows - which in fact helped me a lot to improve my English - and keep up the good work.
Thurston
Thurston–
It sounds like the point your English teacher was trying to make is somewhat esoteric. I’m not sure that it’s “not allowed”…but in most cases it is probably more appropriate to use the word “were,” as in the following examples:
“If I WERE living in the US…”
“If I WERE TO buy an iPhone…”
@Jeff
thx for your comment !
…uhm, you know what we were tought (when we used the IF/WOULD combination):
“If I lived in the US…..” (instead of “If I would live in the US”)
“If I bought an iPhone….” (instead of “If I would buy an iPhone”)
Anyway, if we WOULD
dig a bit deeper into this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.
Jay I don’t think XviD format will play on an iPod or other portable devices so probably not the best format for a Video podcast. I agree it’s a great way to compress large video files though like movies though.
Shan’t we dig some more, then!
Very good point, Thurston. We are definitely getting into the nuances of the English language–specifically, subjunctive mood. Wikipedia has an excellent article on this.
Hi Father Roderick,
Sad but true story below of what happens when contests go too far…
“28-year-old Jennifer Strange from Rancho Cordova, Sacremento, California was found dead in her home just hours after taking part in a radio contest “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” held by KDND 107.9. The station promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the person who could refrain from going to the toilet the longest.
Contestant were given eight-ounce bottles of water to drink every fifteen minutes. Contestant that went to bathroom were disqualified.
The woman died from water intoxification, assistant coroner Ed Smith found. Water intoxification, or hypoatraemia, is a condition where the blood becomes over-diluted and the cells begin to swell.”
You have to wonder at the common sense of the radio stations, ok so the contestants bear the responsibility too but aren’t we putting temptation to do something dangerous in their way?