Reverend Campbell presents 9sense Episode 17 October, LVI A.S.

9sense Episode 17 October, LVI A.S.

9sense Episode List, Year LVI A.S. Episode List / / 9sense, Creature Feature, Hooters, Infernal Informant, Plants, Reverend Campbell, Superman, The Devil's Advocate, Todal Environment

Welcome to episode 17 October, LVI A.S. of Reverend Campbell’s Satanic podcast 9sense. 9sense is a Satanic perspective of our modern world.

1. The Devil’s Advocate

Time Stamp: 9:05

  • Improve Your Total Environment: Plants
    • The Top 7 Health Benefits of Houseplants
    • https://www.swansonsnursery.com/blog/health-benefits-of-houseplants
    • Many houseplants absorb toxic substances such as formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene, found in man-made materials that are known to “off-gas” pollutants into the air in your home, school, and office. In addition, a study done at Virginia Tech led researchers to conclude that houseplants can reduce indoor dust by up to 20%. In effect, houseplants are efficient air cleaners. 
    • NASA has done extensive studies of the role of houseplants in cleansing the air, hoping to capitalize on these benefits for future space stations. Their studies have shown that certain houseplants are exceptionally good at cleansing the air (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930073077). NASA recommends having 15-18 houseplants for a 1,800 square-foot house. While not all of us have room for quite that many plants, even just a few can be effective. Dr. Virginia Lohr, a professor of horticulture at Washington State University, suggests that filling as little as 2% of the room with plants will make an impact.
    • Multiple studies have proven that indoor plants keep you healthier and happier, offering both psychological and physical health benefits that include:
      • Improving your mood
        • Plants also increase oxygen levels in the air by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen during photosynthesis. According to a Seattle Times article, you can maximize your benefits by placing plants “in your ‘breathing zone,’ within 6 to 8 square feet of where you normally sit or lie.”
        • A positive effect of this increased oxygenation can be to improve our mood, energy, and mental focus. In fact, studies have found that when people were allowed to have indoor plants in their office space, their work performance improved! No wonder so many new tech offices are including indoor spaces reminiscent of forests and tropical oases. Not only are they beautiful, they also help people feel better and work better.
      • Reducing fatigue
      • Lowering stress and anxiety
        • Humans have a strong connection to nature and bringing nature into your immediate surroundings makes you calmer, more content, and as we’ve seen, more focused. Outdoor activities like forest bathing and nature walks are shown to improve levels of stress and anxiety, and living with indoor plants can do the same. There are studies going on now that are testing to see whether having plants nearby in a hospital room can actually help patients better manage their pain.
        • Just having plants around you will obviously offer psychological benefits but the act of caring for your plants can also help decrease stress and anxiety. So next time you’re watering your plants, slow down, take a few deep breaths, and really focus on what you’re doing. Admire your plants’ leaves and flowers; touch them; maybe even talk to them! It will help both you and your plants thrive.
      • Improving office performance and focus
      • Boosting healing and pain tolerance
      • Minimizing the occurrence of headaches by improving air quality
      • Easing dry skin and respiratory ailments due to dry air
        • Indoor plants improve air quality in other ways as well. Plants release water vapor into the air, which increases humidity, and this can help improve respiratory and skin health by offsetting the drying effects of heating systems. This can be an incredible benefit to those with respiratory issues, headaches, and allergies.

2. Infernal Informant

Time Stamp: 25:00

  • Hooters employees are pushing back against new revealing uniforms that include shorts so short that they’re ‘like underwear’
    • https://www.businessinsider.com/hooters-employees-are-pushing-back-against-new-revealing-uniforms-2021-10
    • Some Hooters employees are speaking out on social media against a new uniform they say is too revealing.
    • Several staffers took to TikTok this week in a series of viral videos about new shorts that are so short they’ve been described as “like underwear.” In the videos, employees are airing their grievances with the skimpy uniforms and comparing the length to their previous shorts, which are considerably longer. 
    • “Soooo Hooters got new panties. I mean shorts,” wrote one TikTok user. “Love my job but don’t love wearing undies to work,” wrote another. 
    •  The restaurant chain — which is known for its “craveable food and wings, cold beer, sports, and of course, Hooters Girls” as the company states on its website — has long faced criticism for its sexualization of women. Critics have called out the chain for outfitting employees in revealing uniforms and requiring certain hair and makeup standards. 
    • “It is an entire job based on sexual harassment,” Brittanny Anderson, chef and owner of Metzger Bar and Butchery and a former Hooters Girl, told GQ in 2018. “You are paid to be sexually harassed and objectified. Everyone at Hooters is aware.”
    • Founded in 1983 in Clearwater, Florida, the company has been the subject of several lawsuits over the years. In 2019, a Michigan employee sued the company for weight discrimination after she was told her 132-pound frame did not meet the brand’s aesthetic requirements.
    • Hooters pushed back against the suit, telling Reuters it was baseless and that it doesn’t enforce weight requirements.
    • In 2013, a staffer was awarded $250,000 in a racial discrimination lawsuit after she was told “Hooters prohibits African-American Hooters Girls from wearing blond highlights in their hair,” according to the lawsuit. The company reportedly maintained it doesn’t have different standards based on race.
    • The company also settled a class-action lawsuit for gender-based discrimination in 1997, ultimately setting precedent using a legal loophole to allow Hooters to continue to exclusively employ women. 
    • Today the company has more than 420 locations across 42 states and 29 countries operating as franchises owned and operated by Hooters of America, LLC. Additionally, there are 25 Hooters restaurants that function as part of the Original Hooters Group, which are owned separately but use similar branding.
    • A representative for Hooters did not immediately respond to Insider’s request to comment, though told NBC News that the uniform change was rolled out to select locations in Texas before expanding to other stores owned by Hooters of America, LLC.
    • Restaurants owned by the Original Hooters Group have not introduced the shorter shorts, and employees are still wearing their regular uniform.
    • “The ‘Original’ Hooters Restaurants located throughout Tampa Bay, Chicagoland, and Manhattan … will not be changing their iconic uniform of orange shorts and white uniform tops that has made the brand universally famous,” the spokesperson told NBC News in an email statement.
    • Further, the spokesperson said the decision to debut the smaller shorts came as part of a “collaboration with Hooters Girls” in Texas where the uniforms “have received overwhelmingly favorable reviews from both Hooters Girls and customers.”
    • Some employees have defended the uniforms on TikTok and shared their enthusiasm for the new shorts, including one TikTok user who said she’s been making “way more money” since she started wearing the new uniform and another who wrote in a caption “Am I the only Hootie that loves the new shorts???”
    • In a follow-up post shared on Friday, TikTok user @sick.abt.it shared that after her initial video went viral, the CEO of Hooters contacted her directly to tell her she could continue to wear the old shorts. 
    • “Couldn’t have done it without all of you #hootersgirl,” she wrote in the caption.

3. Creature Feature

Time Stamp: 40:28

  • Superman’s motto gets a modern update: ‘Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow’
    • https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/16/entertainment/superman-new-motto-dc-fandome-cec/index.html
    • Superman’s iconic motto, “Truth, Justice and the American Way,” is getting an official update for the first time in decades.
    • “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow” will be Superman’s new motto, a change that was announced Saturday by DC Chief Creative Office and Publisher Jim Lee, during DC’s FanDome. (CNN and DC Comics are both part of WarnerMedia.)
    • “To better reflect the storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor Superman’s incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a better world, Superman’s motto is evolving,” Lee said. “Superman has long been a symbol of hope who inspires people, and it is that optimism and hope that powers him forward with this new mission statement.”
    • This isn’t the first time recent comics have edited the “American way” part of the motto. In the first edition of “Superman: Son of Kal-El,” which features the son of Lois Lane and Clark Kent, Jon, as the new Superman and was published in July, Jon states that he stands for “Truth. Justice. And a Better World.” Saturday’s announcement establishes a more canonical change for the classic motto linked to Clark Kent’s Superman.
    • Even though fans may associate the “American way” catchphrase with comics, the phrase actually goes back to Superman’s transition to radio in the 1940s and TV in the 1950s.
    • As Erik Lundegaard wrote in the New York Times, when the radio show made its debut during World War II, “We were all fighting for the American way. Why shouldn’t Superman?”
    • But in the decades since, filmmakers have toyed with the phrase’s usage.
    • In the 2006 movie “Superman Returns,” Daily Planet editor Perry White asks about Superman, back after a long absence: “Does he still stand for truth, justice, all that stuff?”
    • More recently, the 2013 movie “Man of Steel” portrayed Superman as having a tense relationship with the US government, which approaches the notion of an alien visitor with extraordinary powers warily, asking how one can be certain he won’t act against the country’s interests.
    • “I grew up in Kansas, General,” Superman, played by Henry Cavill, says. “I’m about as American as it gets.”
    • The new motto isn’t the only change the Superman universe has seen in the last week. On Tuesday, it was announced that Jon Kent is bisexual. In the fifth issue of the DC comic series “Superman: Son of Kal-El,” Jon Kent will confirm his sexuality, after falling for Jay Nakamura, a male reporter, DC announced.
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