Hucklebug, Episode 135: Granny’s health report, RIP Socks Clinton and the Late Night With Conan O’Brien Show, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Little Miss Sunshine, Miller’s Crossing, No Country for Old Men, My Man Godfrey, Bet: none!), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, Mike’s First Lines Lyrics Quiz!
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Lee Rocker, Clifton Chenier, and Frank Sinatra. Also: “Heaven on the 7th Floor,” Paul Nicholas.
Damn—hucklebug.com wasn’t coming up for a bit and now I’ve forgotten some of what I was going to say!
(I’m sure you’ll survive!)
Yay! Glad to hear Granny’s feeling better!!
I agree with Sten about Red Dwarf series 7 & 8, though I still managed to enjoy series 7 quite a bit. However, 8 turned me into a gibbering, drooling, coma victim about half-way through when Siskita and I tried to watch it again (for the first time since the 1990s). Now I cringe when I see Robert Llewellyn Twitter to us about how funny the RD specials will be. And I’ll be watching, too. I just hope (like you) that they don’t suck.
Oh and we don’t have stable jobs—Si’s been temping a bit and I’ve been doing a tiny bit of videography on the side. Also, I cashed in my IRA—“luckily” thanks to the economic crash, I had lost all of the few profits I had taken so I paid no tax on what was left (just the contributions). Oh, the irony.
So, if anyone needs light clerical work done or copy writing or other writing done, email Siskita and myself, respectively.
OH yeah—I don’t mind the mono version of the podcast because I’ve been listening on my iPhone’s built-in speaker.
Great show guys! Seemed shorter for some reason.
Good luck with the not-swearing, Stennie! You are a far braver person than I!
Happy Birthday Betster! I’m sorry Granny still isn’t all better, but I’m glad she’s on the mend.
I didn’t watch the Oscars either. I was stuck at SFO. From what I’ve heard, I haven’t missed a thing.
Why did you fuck off Beyonce?
WTF is with that bumper music?
Nicholson plays the clarinet in “The Missouri Breaks.”
Gotcha.
First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BET!!!
Bet, rather than continuing to lock your screen door (with full knowldge it can’t be opened) you should just leave your keys in the house. That’s a far easier way of locking yourself out. You’ve been doing it the hard way.
Stennie, I’m sure you’re better at crock pot cooking than I am. I can’t seem to make anything in one I like. Let us know how the chocolate thingy turns out. Better yet, mail us some on dry ice.
I think a you-rule should go out to Obama when he told corporate executives last week that people were tired of them looting the bail-out money and he wasn’t going to tolerate it. Nothing may change but it was sure nice to hear him say it anyway.
I’d personally rather see my tax money spent on ME rather than my neighbor. Actually, I’d rather see YOUR tax money spent on me too.
By now stennie has been 2 days curse-free and I can already feel a disturbance in the force. This could bring on the end-of-days.
I liked the mono HB better although when Bet was talking over Stennie it got a little garbled. Maybe it was just me because even life seems garbled to me sometimes.
That’s okay, Duke, my tax money is spent on you. I know it isn’t spent on me. I’m still looking in vain for one of these incentives I qualify for. What bugs me more than the idea of bailing out people who thought they got lucky and got a special deal with interest-only mortgages at the top end of their incomes is all the dumbass pork in this bill. I think there are over 8000 earmarks. I’m completely unclear where all the money for every social project on the planet and all the bailouts is going to come from. Oh yeah, and he’s going to balance the budget too. I know y’all love the guy, but Obama’s totally drinking the happy juice and someone better go catch this guy with a butterfly net.
It’s funny you think Nick-the-child-not-the-cancer’s hair is so dark. To me, it’s pretty darn light. The lighting on those shots were a little dark, but it’s kind of a medium brown and it’s golden/copper in the sun. He doesn’t have my hair at all. It’s also pretty wispy, and I can’t believe I’m contemplating finding baby conditioner for my little boy.
I’m sure crock pots can do desserts (they do breakfast and oatmeal), but it just doesn’t sound right. I suppose stewed fruit things would work well. I googled some recipes, and I found this one:
http://www.thatsmyhome.com/slowcooker/rasfud.htm
Here’s my question—how much extra work is this than just sticking the batter in a pan and just baking them up?
I only got one of the first lines, the gimme that was the Cars.
I hate to add insult to injury, but I’m pretty sure 1976 was “She’s Gone” by Hall & Oats, not anything by Boz Scaggs. You were in the right (musically gentrified) neighborhood: blue-eyed soul. Good guess, but, wrong.
Happy belated BD to Nick TCNTC and Bet.
Errata: Conan O’Brien moves in June. Also, The Tonight Show will leave Stennie’s hood to be filmed at Universal Studios. Triumph the Insult Dog is always good for a chuckle. I’m also glad they showed the old-timey baseball clip for his farewell. It’s a classic: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2916155
If ever you need a topic, how about more MOVIE MASHUPS? I could be inspired to draw up some more, and I’m sure other listeners would join in.
So, which version of Das Boot are we supposed to watch? The 209 minute director’s cut? Or the 293 minute uncut version? Or should I just drive my car into an embankment?
P.S. I may just skip that one if you don’t mind and focus my energies on This Is England.
As I listened to the beginning of episode 134, the wind began to pick up. It felt like a tornado was coming. The electricity went out for a few seconds and my pool cover became a catch all for free-falling branches. The wind storm lasted for nearly an hour and I decided to put off listening to 134 until I was out of my home. You gals are extremely entertaining, but I like my house just the way it is.
This isn’t so much a topic as a suggestion: do something once a month that you’ve never done before. I don’t mean skydiving or somethign that drastic, but something doable. I took a cooking class from the chef of my local vegetarian restaurant. I made apple risotto with wild mushrooms in a ginger tomato sauce. It was actually edible which is an accomplishment for me. I also signed up for piano lessons as I have always regreted giving up the lessons when I was a child. Heidi and Bet, what things would you like to do that you’ve never done? Cooking class? Art class? Nude yoga? Singing lessons? Carpentry? Is there a hobby you’d like to take up? What about learning another language?
Another vote for the mono version of the show.
P.s. Excuse typos as I’m Vpn-ing this from a cab.
Quiz results! I got 4.5 for Bet, 4.5 for Stennie, and 1 for Mr. Middlebrow. Perhaps for the next quiz you guys should give me a list of 20 songs to use. The answers:
1964 Suspicion – Terry Stafford
1965 I Go To Pieces – Peter & Gordon
1966 What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted – Jimmy Ruffin
1967 My Cup Runneth Over – Ed Ames
1968 I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You – Bee Gees
1969 Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells
1970 Spill The Wine – War
1971 Sweet City Woman – The Stampeders
1972 Go All The Way – The Raspberries
1973 Shambala – Three Dog Night
1974 Be Thankful For What You Got – William DeVaughn
1975 They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play) – The Spinners
1976 She’s Gone – Hall & Oates
1977 Heaven On The 7th Floor – Paul Nicholas
1978 Groove Line – Heatwave
1979 Chuck E.‘s In Love – Ricki Lee Jones
1980 Steal Away – Robbie Dupree
1981 Shake It Up – The Cars
1982 ‘65 Love Affair – Paul Davis
1983 She’s A Beauty – The Tubes
And on the subject of character actors and My Man Godfrey, how about a hand for Grady Sutton? He was the poor schlub whom Irene picks out to marry during the dinner party, and had supporting roles in a few W.C. Fields films. I thought I remembered seeing him in old 1950s/60s tv shows like Andy Griffith or something, but I can’t find anything like that in his credits. I’d always pictured Bet and Grady hooking up.
Mono version = better. Bet and Stennie’s voices are closer to the same volume.
The problem for me with Mike’s lyrics quizzes is that half the songs are from before I was born, and the other half are from before I was old enough to listen to the radio. The only song I guessed right was “My Cup Runneth Over.” and I only knew that because it was a rehersal song in a musical theatre class I took years ago. I need more songs from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Then again, you’d probably still choose bands from that era I never listen to.
I guess we just don’t have the same taste in music. Actually, I don’t know why I listen to this show, since we don’t like the same music, I don’t watch tv, and I almost never watch movies. Hmmm….I guess I just think you guys are hilarious! You could talk about progamming your vcr (remember those?) and I’d laugh my ass off.
That’s it. I’m going to come up with an all Showtunes lyrics quiz. I bet you’ll get a lot more right, and at least I’ll know all the songs!