Look who came back! Comic Book Queers! Now they are Comic Book Queers Legacy, which I like. I still have the desire to do my Uncanny X-Cast Legacy but what I want to do, I feel like I need a script or at least, an outline, for how I want to do it. I’ll probably get around to doing it but if I did, I’l have a great time doing it.
Brett and EvilJeff have seven episodes, as of now, I’ve downloaded the first episode and I see that episode seven deals with the X-Men. In the past, I only listened to their x-men themed episodes as DC and other topics didn’t appeal to me, besides movie and television episodes that I also watched. My plan is to hear all seven episodes and get current and see if they structure their current show like their old one, where it is heavy focus on the topic at hand. If so, I’ll listen to the first parts and see if i should continue on. Worst case, I’ll just listen to episodes one, two and seven and go from there.
I rediscover them as they started following me on Twitter and I thought I should at least see what they were up to now. Apparently they have other shows in their network, I’ll probably not branch out unless they promote them on the show and they sound interesting to me.
A couple tweets down their timeline, they plug episode seven so I knew I wasn’t too far behind.
UniverseHead, is the proper name of the network, and all the shows are relatively new, no one has more than 12 episodes from what I see. What unites them is that they are all Chicago based podcasts. So that’s pretty interesting, as I’ve always been a fan of Chicago.
Stitcher has their old episodes, I’m not sure if all of the links are still active. A tad irritating that it loads five episodes at a time, instead of just a 100 at a time, as they stopped at episode 240. I had stopped well before then, as they added a new crew and I’m pretty certain that Brett and EvilJeff were no longer featured in the episodes and those were the two I liked.
I’m so excited that they are still way into the X-Men and still not that into DC, so essentially the perfect podcast for me. I’ve been really wanting a podcast that goes into the X-Men and this is going to be that podcast for me. I could maybe do without the two Iceman segment but it is silly and could be fun. They don’t make an appearance in the second episode.
The second episode describes, like the X-Cast, that they are in two different cities. Brett in Chicago and EvilJeff in Los Angeles.
I’ve also started listening to The Fighter and the Kid, mostly on YouTube, as Freddie Prinze Jr. has been on two episodes.
Thanks to UFC on FOX for hosting this video.
I’ve watched a few now but I’m hooked and I’m not even into MMA but Brendan Schaub and Bryan Callen make it seem like something I could get into and I really enjoy their dynamic.
Bryan Callen is an actor I’ve always liked when I see him in something. I had forgotten he was on How I Met Your Mother as Barney’s boss. Well, he was Marshall and Ted’s boss too, now that I think of it. He’s on the Goldbergs, too. He was really funny in Old School as well, which is true for everything he’s in. I don’t remember him from the first two Hangover films. I should check out his nine episodes of Seventh Heaven, any excuse to watch Beverley Mitchell, I say. I really need to watch that new show of hers, along with Christine Lakin and Jodi Sweetin. It is called Hollywood Darlings on the Pop channel, a channel I’ve never heard of until now. I do like all three of those ladies.
I thought I could recommend with the episode numbers but it seems like YouTube (or them, most likely) were not keeping track of it that way, from the very beginning.
Thanks to the Fighter and the Kid for hosting their own videos.
Josh Wolf joined Freddie Prinze Jr. for episode 273.
I saw the Kevin Smith episode, episode 248. This made me want to dive back into Smodcast and Tell ‘Em Steve Dave, but that would be years and years of episodes and I can’t do that. I do miss hearing Scott Mosier’s tales though. He was on FEAB (Four Eyes and Beard) with Matt Mira, another great podcast. They just had so many that I fell way behind. Sort of like what is happening with me and Fighter and the Kid.
That’s when I thought I’ll look up their other celebrity appearances but I didn’t really recognize anyone else who I really wanted to see, besides the list at the bottom of this post.
Hosted by UFC on FOX, thanks!
Except for Whitney Cummings, episode 126.
I’m not sure what happened with FOX, Bryan hinted about something in episode 274 but their production value went way up once they took ownership of the show. I guess it wouldn’t be that hard to figure out which episode the switch is made.
From there, I’ve seen episodes 274 and 275. 276 just went up (they are on episode 297 – so I’m crazy behind), and I’m trying to learn their schedule. 288 is the Bill Goldberg episode, so that’s the last full episode I saw. I want to watch 290 with Taran Killam. So I’m not as crazy behind as I thought I was.
These are two hour episodes, so it takes some time to watch them. Mostly, I watch them at night as I try to unwind and go to sleep. I usually do one hour one night and finish it the next. Or I just watched the whole episode and regret doing so when I wake up, wishing I had another hour of sleep. But that’s on me.
Watching these back to back like I have, Bryan has these facial mannerisms that I feel like I’ve incorporated, or maybe I feel like I’m about to incorporate and I have to pull back.
Schaub is pretty controversial, I guess. My main take away was his record, 10-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC, something his Wikipedia page isn’t great with. Or I didn’t understand it.
So this is the video wherein Schaub says his goodbye to UFC –
UFC on FOX
So the very first episode on their channel is 161
The Fighter and the Kid
Which makes me think that I probably shouldn’t go deep on this show either, just stick to the rivers and the lakes that I’m use to.
but now I’m just searching “fighter and the kid 161” “162” and still seeing that UFC on FOX is hosting the videos. Maybe they had an agreement to co-host a few of them?
Okay, so 171 is the final one on UFC on FOX
and 172 is the first one only on The Figther and the Kid
I’ll make a point of watching these episodes, in the proper order and see if I can get some answers that way. (Or probably not, as this became a daunting task.)
As long as Bryan is on the episode, I’ll watch these as I see there are times when one is not present. I like Brendan but Bryan is who I’m drawn to more, at this moment. Brendan also has his own show and I feel like that has to concentrate more on the fights that I’m not watching so I’m passing on that right now. Big Brown Break Down, is a great title for a show. I do like that Brendan has joined Bryan in stand-up and they have taken their show on the road, just like what happened with Smodcast.
Looking at the thumbnails of the videos on The Fighter and the Kid page, they clearly get production values at some point. I couldn’t tell when that happen, I’ll probably have to go slower in my search and see when it occurs.
Looks like 211 is the earliest with the current set
210 has an older set, at least that’s how it looks like. They put a curtain up for a backdrop.
The comment section leads me to believe that people really like Bryan over Brendan, but I don’t see where that is coming from. Not yet, anyways. I get that I like Bryan more, but I’m more familiar with him. The comments read like they rather just have a podcast that doesn’t involve Brendan.
208 has Will Sasso, from Bryan’s MadTV days. The first of the curtain era.
207 has a logo backdrop. Not sure how else to describe that background. It is a well lit room, whereas I see some that are filmed in a very dark room, like from their UFC days. This episode has David Koechner AND Josh Wolf filling in for Bryan. I thought I recognized Josh Wolf in a couple thumbnails, I have to go back and see.
He is in two non-numbered episodes!
August 28, 2015
November 19, 2015
I wish they had committed to the episode numbers, for those two Josh Wolf appearances.
I can’t tell if it is just a different camera angle and I’m not really in a place to fully gauge what is happening. Mostly, I’m just looking for a good sampling of the old shows to get a better feel on the hosts.
Episodes 161 through to 207, appear to be the same room, but with the camera angle moving slower to camera left, over time.
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I found these interesting guest hosts. UFC on FOX is so cluttered with all of their UFC related videos, that I can’t even begin to start going down that list. Shame they didn’t just always have a Fighter and the Kid page, within the UFC channel. If anyone has any episode referrals, I am clearly making a list and can add to it.
Ed O’Neill, Episode 168. FPJr told a story about how O’Neill use to box and at the gym, would straight knock some kids out who thought he was nothing more than an old man!
So I had a lot more videos to post but after watching half of the Ed O’Neill interview, I’ve decided to not go backward in time. I’ve also decided to never watch an episode that doesn’t have Bryan in it, unless Josh Wolf is the guest host (or someone else that I really enjoy). Brendan is nice enough but I’ve found out that I watch for Bryan and their dynamic.
I will say that after the Bill Goldberg episode, I did want to watch the Steve Austin episode but that was an episode of Big Brown Breakdown and I was going to earn the Steve Austin section but I’ve only gotten to the 14:28 mark, and that was weeks ago.
I’ll eventually just skip ahead to the Steve Austin section but I’ve fallen way behind on this series.
Here is the list of guest stars that I had originally found interesting enough to provide the embedded videos but now I’m just going to provide the episode number.
Michael Rapaport (176 and 232)
Dominic Monaghan (179)
Tom Papa (186)
Dr. Drew (190)
Bob Saget (191)
John McGinley (203)
Rob Corddry (213)
Pete Holmes (216)
Chris D’Elia (225 and 265)
Jeremy Pevin (234)
Rapaport and De’Elia are friends of the show so they make several appearances.
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Bryan Callen does have his own podcast, Mixed Mental Arts, with co-host, Hunter Maats
I guess I’m really a fan of Podbay FM, as I use that site for both Prinze and the Wolf and Living Between Wednesdays. They were hosting the official How I Met Your Mother podcast but it stopped when the show did and now those episodes are no longer available. I was so excited when I stumbled upon that and thought I had a new podcast to listen too but then the links were dead.
One of these days, I’ll get back into it. I’ve been tempted to just download the episodes onto my phone but knowing that there is a visual representation of the podcast, I don’t feel like I could go strictly audio with them. Especially as they have a news segment and they show images on the screen that Chen shows them. But I would listen to more episodes, if I had them on my phone.
This turn out better than I could have expected! I felt a tad out of my league but once I committed to this taking up a slew of dishes, it went pretty beautifully.
The only thing I didn’t include was mushrooms, as we’re not a fan of them. Also, I didn’t butterfly the chicken breasts as I used chicken thighs that were already pretty thin.
Instead of bowls, I use our plates, for creating the breading mixture and for the eggs. Our plates have a nice curved up edge, so I don’t worry about losing the egg over the side.
I’m getting better with breading chicken, I just recognize it is a skill that needs improving and congratulate myself on my progress. It is the little things.
With the cream sauce, we bought a small pint of heavy cream and I knew I should have put all of it in as we were never going to use the left over heavy cream. A pint, it turns out, is two cups and maybe an additional half a cup, some small difference there. I should have just used the whole pint.
For the pasta, I cut sliced the peppers (yellow and red) into small chunks. I do need to work on getting them smaller. Onions too, for that matter. I think, when it came time to mix the veggies into the pasta, I needed to stir it for maybe the full five minutes or something. They ended up mixed throughout but some of them were on the bottom of the pot and our bowls. They could have been more mixed in. I imagine more stirring or smaller pieces would fix that. That’s a prep issue I’m also working on. I’ll be impress with anyone that can prepare all of the steps within 15 minutes and it takes me like three minutes each, alone, to slice vegetables.
For breadcrumbs, I use the Progresso Italian breadcrumbs that we have plenty of left over from a previous dinner.
I cooked everything on the shorter time limit. So three minutes for cooking the peppers and onion. Three minutes with the chicken, on each side. I stirred for three minutes but I’ll change that to five minutes, next time.
I was going to slice the chicken into smaller strips but the breading was coming off with the first attempt so I ended up slicing the chicken thighs in half and letting us cut our own chicken into smaller pieces.
This was another recipe that killed our Parmesan cheese supply. Which reminds me, I used grated cheese for both the chicken and the cream sauce. That’s what we bought, so next time, I will buy shredded Parmesan cheese for the sauce, as I bet that would cause it be thicken up better and be more representative of the original recipe.
We really liked it, Walker Dennis ate the pasta, which I figure was going to happen. I have never ate at a Cheesecake factory, so I only had the one picture as a guide. I’m pretty sure my wife never had this dish at the restaurant so none of us have anything to compare the dish to, besides our personal taste.
Lots of dishes, a long prep time but all worth it in the end.
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No personal television time for me, this week. We did finish The Office Season Four, and now we’re into Season Five. Our next episode is Season Five’s Customer Survey.
We also saw two episodes of Arrow, so our next episode is Season Five’s What We Leave Behind.
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Video Game-wise. I played a slew of TMNT Legends. I unlocked Karai-Serpent, proper Baxter Stockman and Rat King. I maxed out Stockman-Fly, Leonardo, Karai and Newtralizer. So I’ve been mostly trying to get their DNA cards so I can level them up past level 30. So that was so much of a grind, and I kept imagining typing this sentence and didn’t like the idea of continuing to do all of that extra work. I’ll probably keep trying, in the mornings and at night, but it takes a lot of time and work to get 70 DNA cards (then to do it three more times!) that I’m not envisioning doing it for much longer. I enjoy the mini-missions, and such, but I’m not making much progress with unlocking other characters so I’m spending most of my time getting my main team to become competitive.
I’m on episode 59 of Living Between Wednesdays. Rachelle mention how much she enjoys playing Avengers Academy, so I gave that a chance this morning. I have Iron Man, Wasp, Loki and now Black Widow. That’s who you start with so I’m very much still just following the script. I see there is an Inhumans special event going on but I haven’t unlocked that mode yet. I also haven’t gotten to the point where I can change the settings so I can turn off the sound and music. I’m hoping the next time I log in, I’ll have those options.
I’m two episodes behind on Prinze and the Wolf, so I need to get back to that but I’m still loving my binging LBW but I can easily take an hour break (two!, now) and stay current with P&tW. I saw Eric posting that they were recording Turtle Soup 160, so I should sneak in an episode of Prinze and the Wolf before that episode drops. Which I just checked and it already dropped! So now I have to take that break. These are the problems, I enjoy having.
I’ve started a new mission on Pandora. I started the following channels, for these songs –
Weezer – In the Garage
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Missing Link
Dinosaur Jr – Missing Link
. . . And You will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead – Ounce of Prevention
Linkin Park – H! VLTG3
I only really started this late Saturday and only made three attempts on each channel but I had the hardest time confirming these were the only songs that make reference to Kitty Pryde. I’ve made far too many Music/Song posts since 2014, so I couldn’t use my own website to confirm it. As far as I could see, these still are the only songs that reference her. I was surprised how much I enjoyed Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Dinosaur Jr., also who else Pandora fills their respected channels with. In these early days, I’m mostly down voting the non-channel name songs, voting up the correctly songs and then skipping those songs so I can continue the mission. Something dumb and it kills like three minutes. Eventually, I’ll hear one of these songs on one of these channels.
That’s pretty much what I’ve been up to, entertainment wise. I saw saw Trolls twice and Secret Life of Pets, one additional time.
I just checked the Wikipedia page for Marvel Avengers Academy, they don’t have any mutants like Magik, Kitty Pryde or Shadowcat, Cyclops and Wolverine. I checked to see if they had Lockheed and they don’t even have him! For shame! I may not commit to playing this game but we’ll see how long I stick with it. Like TMNT Legends, I’m a year behind on everything. Unlike TMNT Legends, who has all the characters actively available, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get the characters I’ve missed out on from Avengers Academy. Time will tell.
I made dinner last night . . . on a Tuesday! We were not super hungry but we still needed to eat so I looked for one of what I thought was several simple pasta recipes. It took so long to locate this one. So it won by default. I’m sure the other recipes are all next to each other in our five binders of recipes. I really do need to take the time to make specific binders. Probably make it down to : chicken, breakfast, slow cooker, dessert and pasta – or something like that, I have to work on my list but that’s not a bad start. I had a breakfast, dessert and a slow cooker binder but either I started throwing items in to fill them up or those binders are one inch and couldn’t be used for much else. I should get five three inch binders and never need binders again!
This reminds me that I went through a serious basil phase and I believe one of those binders is nothing but basil recipes. I had a basil phase and a pepperoncini phase.
Onto the recipe itself. We didn’t have fettuccine so I used bowtie pasta. Turns out, they are officially called, farfalle. I’m sure that’s the first time I’ve seen that word. I used two tablespoons of garlic, as using a measurement of “half” doesn’t make any sense. I’m sure it means to use a full scoop of whichever measuring spoon and then don’t fill it up nearly as much, the second time. It is garlic, so I did two full tablespoons, as we like garlic.
Being so empowered by my garlic decision, I quickly put two teaspoons of crushed red pepper in. And even as I was putting the second spoonful in, I knew it was too much. So I would recommend only using one teaspoon of crushed red pepper.
We need using Parmesan cheese in our recipes and are constantly buying jugs of it. We’ve committed to buying the larger container of it but now it seems like we’re using it even more!
So I made it too spicy for myself and Walker Dennis, my wife liked it but next time, it should be better. I needed to drink so much, I use to handle spices back in my Arizona days but it has been a long time that I have to rebuild my tolerance.
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Denver was amazing, spent so much on food but luckily, I get reimburse for that but still, the money being spent, was on my mind. I got to see the Colorado Rockies play (and win) against my childhood team of the San Diego Padres. I’m not sure how this worked out but for a couple years, the San Diego Padres used a facility in Yuma, Arizona has a training ground. It doesn’t make sense, when I look back at it, but I’ve had others confirmed that was the case. No one knows why, as that field wasn’t amazing or anything but that was the case. So the Padres were my go-to team to root for, then I switched and root for the Cubs. Which, up until last year, wasn’t great but when you like a team, you like a team.
I’m working on a post that presents the keynote speaker’s story, as it was heart breaking to hear but she has made the most out of it. In the middle of it, I just wanted to jump on a plane and go hug my three-year-old son. I can’t believe he’s going to be four in three short months.
I need to locate the YouTube video that she referenced, as that’ll be the crux of the post, if I can’t find that then I will have to rework my post.
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While in Denver, I was able to catch up on my Doctor Who, not nearly as much as I thought I was going to do but I saw a few more episodes than I have in a long while. My next episode is Season 9’s Face the Raven, the tenth episode. So I watched three episodes. So I’m three episodes and a special away from finishing season nine and having to figure out how I’m going to watch season ten. Hopefully the Husbands of River Song is on Amazon, and for free, if not, I’ll have to figure that out too. Now that I know I’m so close, I really should buckle down and finish that.
Instead of watching a slew of Netflix, which I guess I didn’t watch any Netflix as Doctor Who is on Amazon, but still. I got crazy caught up on the Living Between Wednesdays podcast and played a slew of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Legends. I’m crazy far in that game. Pretty much, I would use up all of my energy (pizzas) and once that was done, I’ll watch an episode of Doctor Who and jump back into TMNT Legends before committing to sleeping. While playing Legends, with no sound or music, I’ll listen to Living Between Wednesdays.
I’m on episode 52 now, so I’m more than half way, which is intense! I use the website, Player FM, to download the episodes. I use that website to also listen to Prinze and the Wolf. Except, the Prinze and the Wolf has a different interface so I’m able to just leave the website, on my phone, onto the episode and click back page and go to the episode list and download the latest episode and do that, every week. Living Between Wednesdays, isn’t as easy but maybe it is because I’m not current with it. Though, I’m almost to episode 60, which is the last episode I see before having to wait the very long 15 seconds for the Pre-60 episodes to load so I can download those. So 60 has been this milestone moment, in my head, that if I can get there, I can download episodes without having to wait. It is a small thing but that wait time as me downloading five episodes at a time. I have last week’s episode of Prinze and the Wolf, and I’m sure this week’s episode is going to be uploaded soon – like today – but I’m really enjoying Living Between Wednesdays and I’m so close to my goal of 60 that I’m putting it on hold for the moment. Playing Legends, at night, as also cut into my Fighter and the Kid podcast viewing on YouTube, and I really do want to watch the Taran Kilam episode, episode 290. Which was two weeks ago, so I may be six episodes behind now. I’m hoping he talks about his wife, Cobie Smulders, on that episode.
So I’m sort of obsess with TMNT Legends but the way the energy works, I can only play it for an hour at a time. So I try to play in the morning, at lunch now and at night. Which, really, is enough. I’m at the point where I’m just grinding away trying to get my heroes stronger as I’m trying to three star missions in Chapter Four before moving onto the next mission but I have two levels at one star each and I barely earn those one stars. So I need to get my main group of five to be stronger, they are level 26 and I’m level 27 so once I get them stronger, I can try to three star them. I’m at the point where I need to get them stronger so I can unlock their level 25 moves (it makes sense if you play the game – which you should!) but I’m not strong enough to get the items to improve their skills. I’m in a weird place right now.
My main team is Leonardo, Karai, Newtralizer (my PVP team), Steranko (my four person PVP team, which I’m doing pretty well there, at the moment) and Stockman Fly. My goal is to level up Leonardo and Stockman Fly’s healing moves but I also really need to level up Karai and Sternako’s area moves. Newtralizer is just a good guy, in the game, to have as another enforcer. So that’s where I’m at in the game. I believe I have ten characters now and I’m getting closer to getting some other characters, so all the time is finally paying off. I need more Orange (Swift) and Red (Might) characters, having those characters would make the Gauntlet and the main game easier. So I have lots of goals in that game.
I’ve learn my lesson about not wasting Mutagen now, I’m only using Mutagen to get my new characters up to level 20. I’ve also started experimenting with using my T-Coins to go to the Shop and buying a DNA card for the character cards that cost below 500 T-Coins, to get me closer to several characters. You need either 5/20/70 DNA cards to unlock characters. I’ve gotten some 5 DNA card guys but their level max is 20 until you get 20 more cards but level 20 isn’t that bad, if you level up their moves quickly. Which I do like the new practice I’ve started, of getting a new characters, leveling up their one move (or two if they have them) until that move is up to the level 20 standard. From there, they need items to level up the individual move and the level 25 of the move require items that only certain levels have – and those are the levels that are kicking my butt, right now. So it is a vicious cycle I’m in.
I have a lot of thoughts with TMNT Legends. I’m super enjoying the game and I don’t mind grinding as I remember doing that with my RPG days. Which, this game has really satisfy that RPG itch I’ve been having for years now. I’m fully committed to this and it really is a fun game. I unlocked Kirby-Bat, and I have him at 20 and his one move up to 20 but he still isn’t that strong. But still, I need Orange guys and he was next up.
I’ve also started really playing the Hard levels and going for certain characters DNA, which is something I should have done from the beginning, that’s been another lesson to learn. I resisted it, before, as those levels cost 12 pizza points instead of six, and give the same items as the Normal levels BUT they provide a DNA card to a character I want, so it is sort of worth it. Plus, 12 points goes toward my overall experience instead of six, so I’m leveling up myself and then I can get my main guys up to my level and they’ll be that much stronger.
I got a couple characters while in Denver – Chris Bradshaw, Justin, Xever, Pizza Face and Pulverizer. I must have 11 characters then. I hadn’t really counted them before now.
I’m pretty proud of the progress I’ve made, progress towards getting other characters and progress in the game. I’m getting better at PVP and I’m really enjoying the special missions. I wish I could make progress on the Movie Special Mission but those foes are all level 26 and 27 and my main team is barely 26, they need to be 28 before I can stand a chance. That’s true for the Gauntlet too! They might be level 25 but a serious threat at 25.
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Since I was in Denver, we didn’t watch any of our shows together. We finally saw our first episode of the Office in a week, last night, so our next episode is Season Four’s Chair Model.
I believe that’s everything I watched or played in the past week.
I was irritated that Vudu doesn’t work on my Kindle, it makes sense as Amazon makes the Kindle and they don’t want me watching another company’s streaming device (that allows me to buy movies) so it is a direct competitor but still. I really wanted to watch Winter Solider (after listening to so much Living Between Wednesdays) and couldn’t as I didn’t have a way to download Vudu. I could have downloaded it onto my phone, but I barely have space on my phone as it is.
I’ve had Living Between Wednesdays listed under my Favorite Websites for years now. I could have sworn I check-in with the website sometime last year but it must have been early 2015. Rachelle Goguen sort of did what I thought I was going to do, and write a post regarding how the blog isn’t dead, just taking a hiatus. So I checked back from time to time, back in 2014 or something, and didn’t see anything new. I left the link as the website was still active. She was such a great voice in the comic blog-o-sphere, years ago.
Now she has a podcast with co-host and co-writer of the blog, Dave Howlett. They just reached episode 100. Which is a pretty daunting task and I really considered not diving head first into it.
But then I just finished Undisclosed Season Two and was prepared to start their season of Jamar Huggins (it is only eight episodes) just checking that, I see they either wrapped up the Freddie Gray case or taking a pause on it to start a new case of Mitchum Reeves. This paragraph is mostly there to help Future Johnster Monster to know where he needs to pick up again on Undisclosed.
After completing the journey with Turtle Soup, I know I’m able to do another long journey and I really like them. It really helps that they cover comic news – reviews/recommendations – Winter Solider news (Rachelle is amazing!) – a general topic. So once they start with the comics I stopped at, episode one deals with Secret Wars 2015’s first issue, I might have to reevaluate the mission. But probably not, as by then, I”m sure I’ll be at episode 50 or something and be fully committed by then. Plus, the general topic is the last half of the episode and the news segment isn’t all that long nor is the reviews/recommendations. Plus plus, it serves as a nice time capsule of the time. I’m so out of touch with comic news and comic television and comic film news. If there isn’t a video on YouTube about it, I don’t really have a source to stay current. Well, that’s not completely true, the Uncanny X-Cast Facebook page keeps me somewhat updated on the X-Men news and if something huge happens, they talk about it. That’s why I think Secret Empire isn’t having that big of an impact, as there hasn’t been any “shocking” discussions regarding that crossover.
To be honest, I’ve been trying to keep a list of comics I need to buy, if I’m ever so lucky to get back into the habit, but it seems like Marvel is still releasing like 50 comics too many that barely earn a seventh issue. But one never knows what title is going to hit huge, unless you first put out that comic. Thanks to Marvel Database for keeping me on track for that. I didn’t have that thought until a month ago, so it took a long time to get caught up on that task. Once I was caught up, finding out I was like 100 issues behind, also killed my enthusiasm but maybe I can get trades or something. I’ll let you know.
Anyway, that’s where I’m at with comic stuff but let’s get back to Living Between Wednesdays!
Rachelle was mostly known for her awesome segment –
Wherein she ranked the Superhunks, when she was actively doing it (it doesn’t look like she has updated it since coming back with the podcast), I was hooked and eagerly anticipating the next entry.
The blog posts about the podcast are super fun as those posts offer links or videos or images that are referenced to the episode. They are must reads for full experience but I’m sure you can get by on just the episodes alone. I’m on episode nine now, and really enjoying it. At that time, they were eagerly anticipating Captain America : Civil War.
If you are a Bucky Barnes / Winder Soldier fan, then this is the podcast for you! Get that right. Does anyone else repeat that phrase when Gordon Ramsay says it on Master Chef? “Get that right” the way he says it and how often he says it, it haunts me. I’ve checked Google and either he says “let’s” or “now” before hand but I haven’t noticed that.
Gosh, has anyone else have problems trying to make Google their default search engine? I’m in a constant state of having to change it on my laptop (I blame the laptop for this), it always wants me to use Yahoo. Have you tried using Yahoo for a search result? It looks not pleasing on the eyes. I also can’t stop Bing and that seems to also be the default app when I use Puffin, and I’ve changed that to Google as well, and it keeps reverting back. At least with Puffin, they have those handy options on the top left corner where I can click on the search engine of my choice.
I’m sure Bing and Yahoo love the fact that I search “Google” in their task bar to get to Google. Are there stats on that type of thing? I bet I’m not the only one who has to do that. Just typing “google” into the address bar, still results in a search result using Yahoo or Bing, which is even more irritating!
Yahoo
Bing
Google
Well, Yahoo and Bing are not that bad on the desktop but on the phone, there are so many ads or false results, it isn’t great. Those two sites just look cluttered to me, on the phone. The presentation isn’t great, whereas Google has only results.
Also, am I the only one that doesn’t find knee caps sexy, to be the most unsexiest part of the body? From time to time, probably is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue (otherwise known as the only issue that they publish) and I see a news report that shows images of the latest batch of super models and who is the sexiest one and what nots. My eyes will eventually go to the knee caps. There are just no good knee caps, its all bone and jagged. I may also be the only one thinking of knee caps. But it is one of those ice breaker questions, what part of the body do you find unattractive, and that’s my go-to answer. Some people don’t even have an answer, or they say “tongue,” which is a decent answer I guess. Just have an answer, so that I don’t look weird for having an answer already prepared.
Maybe I’ve attended too many meet-and-greets, conferences and team building exercises. I’ve been asked a slew of ice breaker questions over the years.
Ooof, I got way off topic there. Anyway, if you are looking for another great comic book related podcast, I have to recommend Living Between Wednesdays. They are part of my rotation now along with the Prinze and the Wolf, Turtle Soup and Daydream Nation. Well, Daydream Nation, when when I’ve legitimately heard the album – I really need to listen to the other albums that they cover. I’ve only really have listened to the Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill episode as that album was mostly all singles besides like three songs and I eventually heard them. Eric and Preston are just too hip for me. I just checked, and their latest episode is Tears for Fears’ Songs from the Big Chair and that album has eight songs and four of them were hits. So I’ll probably work that episode into my rotation too. A band I’ve actually heard of and songs I’m familiar with are all I require to listen to that show. It is a big ask though. I’ve recognize artists, of course, I’ve looked up that particular album, and didn’t recognize any songs.
Then I have Undisclosed on my back burner, I check monthly if Serial season three is ever a thing. That’s how I found S-Town, and that was a nice podcast. I like that style of podcast, that tells a story over seven episodes and we’re out.
If the Uncanny X-Cast ever releases an episode, that’ll go straight to the top of my list too.
I really keep flirting with the idea of doing a podcast, I’ve always wanted to be on the radio and I do so enjoy podcasts.
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The intro / outro song is Wordburglar’s Drawing with Words
Thanks to Wordburglar Official for hosting the video.
Warning! That song is super addictive!
I looked “Making Canadian Jam like Bernie Mirault” for you –
in case you are interested after hearing the song or the outro to any of the episodes.
In Episode 17, they address the song they use for Mitchell’s segment.
Thanks to YouTuber Obscure Unreleased Soundtracks & More 2 for hosting the video!
The song is the Mitchell theme by Hoyt Axton. I haven’t seen that film nor the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode but I really should, as apparently, it is a very beloved episode of the series.
Ryan and Eric played my fourth e-mail to the show! It is read and the follow up discussion occurs between the 25:15 to 34:30 minute marks.
In the middle of the discussion, I had the thought that this is what my e-mails should be. An item that actually sparks a lively discussion.
I felt pretty embarrassed that I had forgotten that in the Archie Adventures run, that we got plenty of Future Don and Raph together, something I had completely over looked.
Just so I can write about it here, I asked what Raphael and Donatello talk about when they are on a mission together. As those two’s dynamic doesn’t really get much attention.
There are only six different ways to break out a duo with the Ninja Turtles.
The Rarely Seen
Raphael and Donatello
Leonardo and Michelangelo
The Classic – Sharps v Blunts
Leonardo and Raphael
Donatello and Michelangelo
The Video Games – Long v Short
Leonardo and Donatello
Raphael and Michelangelo
I’m not really sure what you call that third grouping of characters, but usually in video games, me and a buddy will pick Leonardo and Donatello for their sweet longer weapons.
After they moved onto the third e-mail of the episode, I did have the thought about trios of the team but I already knew it was going to be a long e-mail. I did record a version of it, to be a voicemail, but it ended up being a full minute and some seconds, and that felt too long. Though they have had aired long ones before, and never once commented on how we should keep them to a certain length. I guess when you have two hour long episodes, extra minutes are not a bad thing. Especially if it truly adds to show content.
We’re in the middle of season two of the Nick cartoon, and I want to say that say that Raph and Don have been paired up once, maybe twice. We’re at the episode where Karai was turned into a snake. I swear, we must have missed the first half of that season as none of those episodes looked familiar.
Hulu finally updated season four, but I want to earn that season so we’re slowly working our way through season two. Walker Dennis is currently addicted to Secret Life of Pets – which isn’t all that bad of a film. Louis C.K. doesn’t even try to change his voice, so he sounds the exact same as Brendan’s dad from Home Movies. But, if you are going to hire Louis C.K., you hire him for that specific voice he has.
We’re also very slow in working our way through Out of the Shadows, which doesn’t seem like a bad movie. It is silly but so far, unoffensive, my man.
Ryan and Eric read my third e-mail on the show. They released episode 155 before I had a chance to even write this, that’s what I call some Instant Soup!
The e-mail and the following discussion happen between the 13 and 19 minute marks of the episode. I notice they added links to their bands and I really like that inclusion as it would have helped me subscribing to their bands a month earlier on BandCamp. Instead, I had to simply ask them or remember their band names – which wasn’t all that hard.
They often end an episode with one of the songs they have created and I have enjoyed the ones I have listen to and have started the albums over at BandCamp and let the songs all played.
I really enjoyed their mocking of other podcasts doing commercials for products like Blue Apron. Especially as I’m wrapping up Undisclosed Season Two, with Joey Watkins case, and Blue Apron is their most delicious sponsor. So I’ve heard ads for Blue Apron so much in the past few months. To the point, where I’ve been tempted to try out their service but I know I couldn’t commit to the service so I haven’t been tempted to tease myself with their quality food service.
Ryan also recommends to Eric to give Riverdale’s first season a try – a recommendation I fully support! Ryan was on episode four, on Netflix, when he made the recommendation. Which is pretty much the episode I was on when I started telling my wife that she should give the show a chance. It is teen melodrama but it is such good melodrama. There were times, later in the season, when I had to ask myself “Self, do you like this show for the show or would you still watch this show even if the names of the characters were different?” Which, honestly, I’m not sure I would have started the show, if it wasn’t for it being an adaption of Archie Comics, as I barely can finish the pilot to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in under a week. It takes me twenty minutes at a time, to just watch an hour of television on my own. That’s what having a cute three year old son does to me. Or trying to squeeze in the shows my wife and I watch together. If I had a working Kindle Fire, I could maybe watching a show after my job at Shopko on weeknights. But I’m probably a month away from getting a replacement one of those. Probably two months away, most likely.
The CW and CW Seed are both great apps to download, there is no signing up nor subscription service, which I really like. They don’t even add additional ad breaks, which is nice. If you do download the CW Seed app, I can’t recommend I Ship It enough, ten episodes, most are around ten minutes each (some shorter, some longer).
I’m super excited that a second season is now in the works too. I wish the songs were on YouTube, as I have to go to SoundCloud and rehear the songs there. If my phone would allow me to have more apps on it, I would keep the CW Seed on there and go to the show proper, instead, I have to use SoundCloud to relive great songs like “Even Superman Had A Day Job” and “Going On An Adventure” but honestly, I just choose Even Superman Had A Day Job and listen to all the songs – they are all winners. The shows don’t load on my phone, but on the computer, you can click on the link and start enjoying it. I Ship It is created by the amazing Yulin Kuang. I Ship It started off as a webvideo before being picked up as an original webseries.
The pilot and the series don’t have anything in common except for nerd rock, which I wouldn’t mind hearing more songs with references to the things I like. Which the Turtle Soup guys also include sweet references to things I enjoy in their songs, so it all comes together too.
I really need to watch more of Yulin Kuang’s webvideos on YouTube. The only one I have seen thus far is, Perils of Growing Up Flat-Chested –
as it stars Irene Choi, who plays Asian Annie (or Annie Kim) from Community. There is just something about teenage angst and drama that I’m a sucker for. Maybe because I didn’t really have any or that much in comparison to my peers but I’m a sucker for watching it play out in front of me on television, film and now, online.
Thanks to Yulin Kuang for hosting both of the above videos.
oh, and the CW Seed also now has Ioan Gruffudd’s (who I will always think of him as my Reed Richards – not great films but he was amazing as Mister Fantastic) Forever on it. A show that I really enjoyed and wanted a second season but ABC denied us of that. Constantine is also on there, a show I wished was better, but him being in the fourth season episode “Haunted” of Arrow, was pretty awesome. I get why his show was cancelled, it being on NBC was an odd choice to begin with, but the character as portrayed by Matt Ryan, deserved to get a second chance.
How come no one told me Freddie Prinze Jr. has a podcast!?! I quickly finished the episode of Turtle Soup (152) that I was listening to, and quickly worked my way through the two hour awesomefest that was Daydream Nation’s 15’s episode. That episode covers Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, the first CD the guys covered that I’ve actually listen too. I’m familiar with Kiss, I love the hits of Talking Heads and I’ve enjoyed most of No Doubt’s singles but Jagged Little Pill is the first featured CD that I can claim I’ve listen to.
Once I was done with those, I had to delete Undisclosed Season Two’s episode 18 and its Addendum, as my phone’s 8GBs is full and I’m really in desperate need for a SD card as I’m not eligible for a new phone until February 2018. I’m hoping for Fathers Day but I’ll get one eventually. I mostly added that note about Undisclosed so I can remember which episode I should pick back up on.
Prinze and the Wolf, I’ve listen to the first episode and his co-cost, Josh Wolf, is very fun. There are times when FPJr makes a reference to one of his films and Josh seems to jump at the chance to talk about that film, be it briefly, makes him super relate-able as I would totally do the same thing if I was doing a podcast with Prinze.
I’m not familiar with Josh Wolf, at all, but I really dig him and the two of them have great chemistry. I found myself constantly looking up Josh Wolf’s career, trying to see if I’ve ever come across him in my entertainment travels but I haven’t. There are 25 episodes, right now, it started January 2017, so I’m hoping to breeze through these. I got two weeks before the next Turtle Soup episode, so I bet I can get a slew of them done. The first episode was a tad over an hour, so if they are all like that, I should be able to do that in no time.
They even have a patreon page, which for only five dollars a month, you are treated to the bonus episodes where they read every e-mail on air. When I get caught up, I really want to give five dollars, as they are on their fifth bonus episode and it’ll be awesome to interact with the crew. But I’ve been saying that about Turtle Soup’s ten dollar level and wanting the No Homework Zone too, and haven’t done it due to other financial objections but hopefully one of these months.
The first episode gets pretty real with FPJr explaining why he doesn’t act anymore and now I feel like a real jerk for my constantly asking why he doesn’t get more work. It all makes sense now.
I found this pretty great article about Freddie Prinze Jr. that I thought some people would like. I did end up buying his wonderful cookbook, I don’t have a grill – though I do want one – so I haven’t tried many of his recipes yet. The one we tried was his Sweet Potato and Brown Sugar recipe and that was so good! It is hard to screw up that winning combination but we’ve made it a semi-regular side dish. I was trying to find a copy of the recipe to share but I guess the online food blogs haven’t sampled that one yet.
Some great stories in that cookbook too.
I forget how I came upon Prinze and the Wolf. I want to say I was looking up, again, what would have happen to Christian Slater’s character from Pump Up the Volume, Mark Hunter, and found several websites celebrating the 25th anniversary of that film. Usually, in my search, I find this website –
The ending of Pump Up the Volume, and I do love me that film, would have sparked hundreds of podcasts now. How much time would Mark Hunter have served for breaking FCC regulations? They never do explain how long his punishment would be, just that he will get arrested for it. Is he looking at a steep fine, community service, would he be released by now? So many questions!
Then I thought has Christian Slater done a podcast yet? Finally, I had the thought that I should look up a celebrity that I really adore, and of course, that brought me to Prinze. That was my fun Thursday afternoon as I went down that rabbit hole. Apparently he has done guest appearances on other podcasts but Prinze and the Wolf is his podcast, so that’s all I really need.
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Man, this post, I really miss writing for this blog. I’m sure any regular visitors – and I’m still super proud that I get as many people coming to this site on a daily basis – but without getting new comics and not really having access to my comic boxes (they are in a storage unit, for months now) I haven’t really had much need to write lately. That’s one of the reasons why so many music video posts have done, as I was saving them for milestone posts but then I started getting to the end of my comic reviews and wanted to end on those so I have quite a few of those left to do before we get back to comics.
Big Brother is upon us and I still doubt I’ll be covering Big Brother 19, but if I do, I’ll let all of you know. It was a bit of a scheduling nightmare last time to do it but who knows, we’re another year older so maybe it’ll be easier.
I do miss writing so I’ll try to see if I can come up with any other topics or such that I can throw 100, 500 or 1,000 words at to keep this thing floating.
It is also another reason why we stop being a daily blog and now I try to do a new post Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Just trying to make it all last. Turtle Entity and And So It Begins, are not daily blogs, but I go to those daily to see updates so I felt like I can do that with my blog too. I’ll keep you all updated as things changed or improve.
Here’s a great article about Freddie Prinze Jr. talking about working with Vince McMahon. I do miss my WWE days but looking at the roster, its essentially a brand new WWE with some veterans from the late 90s/early 00s that are still around, keeping it lively. So I don’t think I can go back there now either. Those guys and the mid-card guys that are now headlining the show – which is pretty impressive ten or fifteen years later, seeing people’s careers advance or stagnate from where they were before.
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I’m on episode eight of the show, and it is such a good time! My only real gripe about it is that they don’t label their file names “Episode 9” for instance, it is MONO-84. So now I have to write down the episode so that I know which one to download next, as I like to have the episode I’m currently on, and the next episode downloaded so I’m never not without content.
At the end of Episode 9, they reference Josh’s other podcast, Fairly Normal, where FPJr made an appearance on. So that might be the best episode to listen to prior to jumping into Prinze and the Wolf. I’m going to listen to it between 9 and 10.
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You may also like to see them on their appearance of Foodstirs –
Thanks to Foodstirs for hosting their own channel.
Freddie was on a previous episode with just Sarah Michelle Gellar too, which is super worth watching.
Ryan and Eric were nice enough to read my second e-mail and my and Walker Dennis’ second voicemail on the show. You can see the discussion and the voicemails from the 36 minute mark to the 40 minute mark. Took several months but I finally caught up with the show. Now that I’m caught up, I really need to do my part to keep the Foot from destroying the podcast.
Probably can only do the ten dollar one, but that gives me access to the No Homework Zone podcast and the Slack channel and more content is what I’m seeking so that’ll be up my alley. Hopefully by June, I can start contributing.
Sorry my voice is crazy high there, it was a bit off of the cuff.
Still haven’t read a new comic in eight months, I remembered to start checking comixology for new free comics on Wednesdays (Marvel is good with throwing a few up there every week). I have downloaded those but haven’t read any.
I completely forgot about Free Comic Book Day, I saw that some libraries offered comics and I should have checked to see if ours did that but forgot when May 6 came around.
It has taken me a little before Halloween 2016 to finally catch up to the episode where Ryan and Eric read my first e-mail that I sent to the show! That takes place and the discussion thereafter from 2:51:11 to 2:59:00.
I haven’t bought a comic in like six months, and in those early days, I was really getting back into the Ninja Turtles and was directed to this amazing podcast.
I’m so close to the current episode, 150, which I’m going to miss not just living in this world of Turtle Soup, after listening for so long.
