Well here we are! The FINAL podcast for 2015! I want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the listeners and downloaders and sharers and all the arti...sts and labels who send me material! Also to wish you ALL a merry festive season and all the best for a happy new year! MysDiggi intro / DJ Mo Fingaz - Sweet Dreams 2. Terror Bliss - The Big Cypher ft Mystro, Rhymesskeemz, Ophqi, Tenchoo 3. K9 ft Mic Dark - Just Us 4. Verb T & Illinformed - Forgiveness ft MoreOne & Smellington Piff 5. MoreOne - Turn Back 6. Yes King - Crunch ft Mystro, Ayak, Baby Chann & Tor 7. 2SHY MC - Random 4oughts Freestyle 8. The Prophecy - Up N Funky 9. Jazz T - Legends Of The Decks ft Ramson Badbonez 10. Benny Diction & Able8 - So Damn Music ft Zaman & Gambit Ace (Pete 1st Blood Remix) 11. Minority Association - Dragoness, Lioness Short and sweet podcasts highlighting material from new projects and a few older tracks that I was feeling and felt deserved some air. If I'm feeling it I will include it, simple as.

If i don't include it please don't take it personal, if everybody liked everything there would be no point in having djs! /djlokuk Follow me on twitter: @MPCLoK If you sense some magical vibrations coming off of High Street this weekend, there’s a good reason for it. Piff the Magic Dragon (the world’s funniest performing magic dragon and America's Got Talent finalist) will be showing off his hilarious brand of magic at the House of Comedy. The magic dragon/magician/comedian/YouTube star is one of the top magical comedy acts in the world, and he's been selling out shows both stateside and in his homeland across the pond.You may have seen him on America’s Got Talent (he probably set a record for eating snacks during the show and managed to steal a kiss from Heidi Klum), or maybe from his time on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, in which case you already know why you should be going to see Piff this weekend. Just ask yourself: When else will you get to see a magic dragon perform?“I’m a genuine magic dragon, so it’s not like I had a whole lot of career options,” Piff says.

“I decided to use my magic powers for good, not evil, because I’ve always loved being on the stage and making an audience laugh.”This weekend will be the dragon’s first time performing in Phoenix, although he’s already a big fan of Scottsdale. Piff and his assistant, Mr. Piffles (the world’s only magical chihuahua) have been touring the country recently in addition to their weekly Monday through Wednesday shows at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. But all the success might be starting to affect the dynamic duo a little bit.“It’s already going to Mr. Piffles’ head,” Piff says. “He wants his own dressing room. He won’t carry his own bags. He won’t keep the accounts anymore. He’s becoming a real diva.”Of course, no matter how big Mr. Piffles’ ego gets, Piff realizes holding Piffles back wouldn't work. It would be cruel to withhold such a rare creature from the eyes of the public.“When you’ve got the world’s only magical chihuahua, it’d be a shame to keep him off the stage,” Piff says.

“He’s pretty well-behaved for the most part. He’s only gone to the bathroom while on stage a few times, so the odds of it happening in Phoenix are pretty low.”From helping Penn & Teller work out ideas for “stuff that’s never been seen before” to making it to the finale of America’s Got Talent, Piff likely has more experience on big stages than many comedians, magicians, and dragons combined. Heisenberg T Shirt NycThese days, Piff can look back on all of it fondly.“Rent Travel Trailer Beaumont TxAmerica’s Got Talent really looked out for us, and we had a lot of fun on that show,” Piff says. Can You Lose Weight On Beyaz“Because I didn’t mind if I won or not, I could do what I wanted. I could eat snacks, kiss Heidi, get the Golden Buzzer from Neil [Patrick Harris], and meet Howard Stern.

I was really excited to meet Howard, that was a highlight for me.” Oddball Comedy Fest: Dane Cook, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Jefferies Speed Killed My Cousin The Sound of Music As for the future, Piff and Mr. Piffles (although the billing may soon be switched, if the chihuahua has his way) are breaking out a Christmas special (called “Piffmas”) in Vegas immediately after their shows in Phoenix, and then there are plans for a television show. For now though, you can expect a show unlike anything you’ve seen before at House of Comedy.“We’re all about the live shows,” Piff says. “It’s a fun, unique thing. It’s our favorite thing to do, so we put all of our effort into it. People can expect a lot of magic, a lot of laughs, and only a little chihuahua peril.” Piff the Magic Dragon will be at House of Comedy December 16-20. Tickets cost $28.95 and are available (along with more info) through House of Comedy’s website.In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning.

A team of psychologists has rigged it so that skill, brains, savvy, and luck�those ingredients that ineffably combine to create success in games as in life�have been made immaterial. Here, the only thing that matters is money. One of the players, a brown-haired guy in a striped T-shirt, has been made �rich.� He got $2,000 from the Monopoly bank at the start of the game and receives $200 each time he passes Go. The second player, a chubby young man in glasses, is comparatively impoverished. He was given $1,000 at the start and collects $100 for passing Go. T-Shirt can roll two dice, but Glasses can only roll one, limiting how fast he can advance. The students play for fifteen minutes under the watchful eye of two video cameras, while down the hall in another windowless room, the researchers huddle around a computer screen, later recording in a giant spreadsheet the subjects’ every facial twitch and hand gesture. T-Shirt isn’t just winning; Initially, he reacted to the inequality between him and his opponent with a series of smirks, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of the inherent awkwardness of the situation.

�Hey,� his expression seemed to say, �this is weird and unfair, but whatever.� Soon, though, as he whizzes around the board, purchasing properties and collecting rent, whatever discomfort he feels seems to dissipate. He’s a skinny kid, but he balloons in size, spreading his limbs toward the far ends of the table. He smacks his playing piece (in the experiment, the wealthy player gets the Rolls-Royce) as he makes the circuit�smack, smack, smack��ending his turns with a board-shuddering bang! Four minutes in, he picks up Glasses’s piece, the little elf shoe, and moves it for him. As the game nears its finish, T-Shirt moves his Rolls faster. The taunting is over now: He’s all efficiency. He refuses to meet Glasses’s gaze. His expression is stone cold as he takes the loser’s cash. For a long time, primatologists have known that chimpanzees will act out �social dominance with a special ferociousness, slapping hands, stamping feet, or �charging back and forth and dragging huge branches,� as Jane Goodall once wrote.

And sociologists and anthropologists have explored the effects of hierarchy in tribes and groups. But psychology has only recently begun seriously investigating how having money, that major marker of status in the modern world, �affects psychosocial behavior in the species Homo sapiens. By making real people temporarily very affluent, without regard to their actual economic circumstances and within the controlled environment of a psych lab, the Berkeley researchers aim to demonstrate the potency of that one variable. �Putting someone in a role where they’re more privileged and have more power in a game makes them behave like people who actually do have more power, more money, and more status,� says Paul Piff, the psychologist who designed the experiment. The Monopoly results, based on a year of watching inequitable games between pairs like Glasses and T-Shirt, have not yet been �released. But Piff believes that they will support and amplify his previous provocative research.

Earlier this year, Piff, who is 30, published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that made him semi-famous. Titled �Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior,� it showed through quizzes, online games, questionnaires, in-lab manipulations, and field studies that living high on the socioeconomic ladder can, colloquially speaking, dehumanize people. It can make them less ethical, more selfish, more insular, and less compassionate than other people. It can make them more likely, as Piff demonstrated in one of his experiments, to take candy from a bowl of sweets designated for children. �While having money doesn’t necessarily make anybody anything,� Piff says, �the rich are way more likely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people. It makes them more likely to exhibit characteristics that we would stereotypically associate with, say, assholes.� These findings, in combination with a researcher eager to promote them, reverberated online.