Episode 298: RIP Dave Brubeck and Susan Luckey, shout-outs, origins of “over a barrel” and “break a leg,” movies (Bet: Lincoln; Stennie: none), What’s Up With That?, New Favorite, Stennie’s Generic Review, Bet’s Lowlight, Dumb Thing Stennie Did, Thing That Doesn’t Fit, Interesting Fact, Earworm of the Week, TV Commercials, Fuck Offs and You Rules.
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra. “Movies” bumper by Duke, “New Favorite” bumper by Krizzer.
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YOU’RE BACK! YAY!!
I so missed you guys. I’ve been tearing through TV shows and podcasts while madly trying to catch up on my Draw Every Day Project (which I never should have called “Draw EVERY Day” since I’m 3 weeks behind) and I’ve gotten sick of all of my other favorite podcasts…
Speaking of podcasts and TV shows, I also finished the second season of “Murder One” which I still maintain is a perfectly good season. I think the first season was so different in format that it’s like comparing apples and oranges. Season 2 was definitely less innovative and enveloping, but I think the storytelling, itself, was pretty damn solid. The big plot twist in the basketball player case is still high on my list of the best ever moments on TV. I still find it funny that Bochco was trying to do an over-arching plot line in the mid-90s, while nearly 20 years later, it’s the standard structure for TV shows. Everybody has an over-arching plot line now. I love it, honestly. I’m a little puzzled as to how TV producers could think this was a bad idea. I mean, give people a reason to come back, religiously, to see every episode? Why would they think THAT was a good idea?!?!
Glad the electric cigarettes are helping you move away from full-on cigarettes, Sten! What ever helps, I say…
We have Delish here in NYC–I thought that was only a Duane Reade thing…
Sorry about locking your keys in your car, Bet–I haaaaate being on the opposite side of a door from my keys. I haven’t done it for well over a decade, but the longer I go without doing it, the more scared I feel that I’m going to any day now.
I’m so glad you guys are going to quit the cigarettes. I’m not trying to get on a soap box, (and this is really depressing, so feel free to not mention it on the show) but my step-dad is slowly dying of cancer right now (has been for years) and seeing him deal with it and seeing my mom deal with him is all the deterrent I need to stay away from smoking anything. I reconsidered alcohol and I now drink, from time-to-time, but cigarettes? No. The world would seriously seriously seriously be a suckier place without Stennie and Bet and every day I think about my step-dad and wish I could go back in time and demand he stop. Damn, I’m on a soap box >_< Sorry…
Back to less depressing stuff: congrats on the Roku, Sten! I'm hoping to talk my mom into one. The guy at the Geek Squad is trying to convince her to get an Apple TV so she can wirelessly connect her MacBook Pro to the HDTV so she can more easily show my step-dad things she wants to show him on her computer. But I think that a Roku would be way more useful to her. ATV can't do Netflix or Amazon, right? Just sharing her screen seems like something that isn't worth buying an ATV for…. at least, to me it isn't…
OK, enough out of me–must get back to drawing…! I have 41 more to go before the end of the year! ARG… If anyone wants to follow along, you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram (I'm mrthepete), Flickr, or watch the time-lapse videos at http://youtube.com/thepetecom or on Viddy. I think everything cross-posts to Facebook, too. I'd love to know what everyone thinks of my drawings, btw.
So good to have you ladies back in my ears!!
When there’s a natural disaster, when the bad guys get the best of the good guys in a war, when the twin towers were blown to bits..we grieved, and then, to show our “spirit” we moved on, went forward, one foot in front of the other, and kept living…
Today, that seems barely possible. Laughing and smiling? Not possible. Barely breathing, have to remember to do that, but when I do, it makes me well up…as though my lungs and my tear ducts are connected..
It’s not fair, it’s not right, it is what it is, and I hate it, and I feel helpless. And so angry..not sure who to be angry with….we all seem to be victims in this one….
Hug your loved ones close, when they go to school, when they go to work, when they go to the movies…
Fuck.
We’re not sure if you will be doing a show tonight or, if like us, you will be just for the distraction. Janet’s working a jigsaw, Zippy’ s sleeping by the backdoor, I was in the kitchen doing “step one” of making Peanut Butter Balls and of course, Pinto was laying in the kitchen, hoping for something to fall his way, and, we were listening to the podcast. We are all caught up now, having listened to several episodes while driving to, from and around the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley. Great company you two were (and are). We will try to keep up now so that we can leave timely comments!
I struggled with plantar fasciitis, too, for years, too, and I found that the more I walked, the better it got, which made those short walks to the copier at work, very painful. If I have a flare-up, I take an anti-inflamatory like clock work and in general, as I get older, I find that I just always have to have on good shoes. I basically wear different styles of KEENs everywhere these days.
I think we could add another permanent F-O to the internet commenters and that would be, guns.
Peace everyone!
Because I continue to suck ass, I haven’t finished listening to this weeks show. Not that I haven’t missed you terribly, because I have. I miss you both very much – almost as much as I miss Bet’s parents!
Anyhow, I just wanted to say HI and that I’m thinking of you.
Have a happy podcast!
Omg! I’m so far behind. I’m finally listening to episode 298. Madness! Hope you are relatively well, and hopefully I will catch up soon. Ta-ta, I’m off to play the grahnd piah-no.