The New Mutants First Trailer

Posted by John Klein III on October 20, 2017
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I’m so out of touch that I didn’t realize I was supposed to be expecting the first trailer for The New Mutants film, out in April 2018.

Thanks to 20th Century FOX for hosting their own video.

I saw this was an option to view yesterday but didn’t have the time to watch it, where I was at. So I looked up any information about the trailer, before hand, so I would know what to look for.

I found Kevin Melrose’s article on the Comic Book Resources.

http://www.cbr.com/new-mutants-movie-trailer-analysis/

Nothing ground breaking that you couldn’t get from watching it yourself.  Besides knowing how the actors and where you may have recognized them from, which is pretty handy.

I hadn’t realized Charlie Heaton was cast as Cannonball, off of his successful appearance in Stranger Things.

What got me all types of excited was Chris Brown’s comment on that article about young Illyana’s plush friend.

Could that be Lockheed!?!  At the very least, enough of a representation so if they do hint some sort of winter time mindscape, that the plush animal can become “real” and be a cat sized flying dragon named, Lockheed.

We watched the trailer and I had to keep rewinding it on Youtube as I kept missing the exact second so that my wife could see the plush friend.

It is a microsecond within the 1:40 second mark.  I saw the “There is Something” and “New” so many times!

This morning, while drinking my V8, like an adult, I was thinking about how exciting it would be to finally getting Lockheed on screen.  Magik and Lockheed, finally being represented in film, is going to be amazing!

April 13, 2018, I’m getting pretty pump!

What helps is that we’re talking about taking Walker Dennis to movies now.  Our plan is to see Disney’s Coco and see how that goes.  The Alex Foundation partners with Cinemark 8 to have these special Sensory Friendly screenings and we feel those would be a great way to slowly introduce him to the movie going experience.

http://collider.com/the-new-mutants-trilogy-horror-movies/

Apparently, this is supposed to kick off an entire trilogy of horror films.  Which I imagine the next one, that is supposed to have Warlock and Karma in it, will take place in Legion’s mind, another horror element.  Be awesome if they could get Dan Stevens to be in that film, maybe commit a season to setting up that film.  Two franchises, who wouldn’t want that!?!  They’ll want to include Rachel Heller too, I know I want that.

Josh Boon, who directs the film, and co-wrote it with Knate Lee, is influenced by the Bill Sienkiewicz’s run on New Mutants, written (of course) by Chris Claremeont.  The article sites the run as being from 18 – 31, and 35 – 38.

What would the third film be?  They can’t go to Asgard, unless they can!?!  FOX should give Disney the Fantastic Four rights so FOX can borrow Asgard, then the three main New Mutants storylines could be properly represented.

No, they won’t go to Asgard, they will probably go to Limbo, the fourth storyline the New Mutants do.  “Crazy teen hi-jinks” would probably be the fifth one, where they fight the teen rival team of the Hellions.

Legion is supposed to come back in February, I have to renew our subscription to FX, by then.

2018 is going to be a big X-Year!

February – Legion Season 2
April – New Mutants
June – Deadpool 2
November – Dark Phoenix

Plus, Gifted second half of the season, should be airing still.  We’re caught up on all three episodes and it is pretty good. I keep thinking about how Natalie Alyn Lind was Dana on The Goldbergs, Adam’s first girlfriend.  Apparently, she was on Gotham too.   A show that I think about catching up on.  But who has the time for all of these shows?  I’ve been impress that we’re keeping up as good as we are.  Waking up early to get The Voice and Dancing with the Stars out of the way, has really helped.

Gifted is only ten episodes, so it may be done by December.  We’re actually at the ten weeks before the end of the year mark, and those are going to go fast, so yeah, all the episodes should have aired by the end of the year, unless they delay a few to get into January.  Though they only have to air seven more, so that would give them time to air all of them before Christmas, when television watching goes down.  Well, besides the highly anticipated Doctor Who Christmas episode and various other Christmas themed episodes, specials and movies.

Let’s hope that Marvel can get behind this gravy train and release some actual product!  I’ll straight by two Lockheed plush animals, just give me the opportunity already!

Heck, they put Lockheed on anything, I’m buying that nonsense.  Then, Dani can bring that version of him outside of Illyana’s head and boom!  Lockheed is in existence in the film proper.  So easy to write!

Then, of course, we have to get Lockheed and Ellen Page’s Kitty Pryde together and have the most fun film of all time!  Get Anya Taylor-Joy (who looks great as Magik) for a buddy movie for the ages!

I Googled “Anya Taylor Joy Ellen Page Lockheed” and found this website –

https://www.inverse.com/article/37430-new-mutants-trailer-x-men-cameo

Alex Wong wrote an article for Inverse, talking about the connection too.

I was hoping to see some fun fan art that put those actresses together.  Did you know that Taylor-Joy is 21 and Page is 30?  I didn’t until I looked it up.  Ellen Page still looks super young so they can still buddy it up in that film.  It’ll be awesome, do it FOX!  Do it!

 

Justice League’s Heroes Trailer

Posted by John Klein III on October 18, 2017
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Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures for hosting their own trailer.

I still haven’t seen Wonder Woman, there has been hints that I might get the BluRay for Christmas.  I’ve heard nothing but good things.

I need to rewatch Batman v Superman again, mostly from the actual fight to ending, as that’ll be the parts I’ll want to see again.  That and the gorgeous Gal Gadot’s scenes from earlier in the film.  Her face is flawless, or super smooth looking, I don’t know, there is something simply attractive about her.  Maybe I’ll just watch the Batman / Bruce Wayne scenes, if only there was a supercut of just that, as that way, I get to see the mini-trailers for Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman, too.

My main takeaway from the trailer was the Heroes (We Could Be) song.  A song I first heard the Wallflowers perform for the 1998 Godzilla soundtrack.  Then, I was pretty surprised to discovered that it was a David Bowie song.

Thanks to emimusic for hosting the video.

I’ve never been a big fan of David Bowie, outside of Jennifer Connelly’s Labyrinth.  I wasn’t exposed to his music, he’s been mostly a legendary name and a character in history that I’m aware of his personality more than his music.  To the point where I didn’t even know the Wallflowers were doing a cover for a song.  I don’t think anyone mention that, way back in 1998.

Thanks to Wilson Mellizo for hosting the video.

Not only do I associate that song with the Wallflowers, first, but I also associate it with 2001’s Moulin Rouge!

Thanks to norm316 for hosting this video.

The Elephant Melody is my favorite song from the film, and the scene I’ve seen the most.  I recall recording this off of MTV or VH1, as the video was super popular.  I would rewatch it so many times, as the concept of it, blew me away.  Who knew that taking one line from 15 songs would meld so well together.  This was years before Glee would popularize (to me) the concept of mishmash-ing songs.

I historically run pretty cold on Nicole Kidman.  To the point where I say I’ve only liked her in two films, 1995’s Batman Forever (her hottest role) and Moulin Rouge!  I just don’t gravitate to her films.  I’ve seen Far and Away (in high school), Practical Magic (it was on ABC Family), Eyes Wide Shut (for Kubrick and LeeLee Sobieski – it was age appropriate as she’s apparently only a year younger than me), The Others (that I hated, like Patch Adams hated), Golden Compass (my wife liked the books and we were promised a trilogy that never came).

She’s apparently going to be in Aquaman as Queen Atlanna (see what they did there?)

She hosted Saturday Night Live once, way back in 1993.  With the Stone Temple Pilots as the musical guest.  She’s between Rosie O’Donnell and Charlton Heston.  Remember when Rosie O’Donnell was way into Tom Cruise?  That’s my Rosie O’Donnell knowledge, that and she lends her voice to Tarzan’s buddy in the Disney film.

Thanks to DC and MARVEL for hosting this video.  She’s so great in that film.

There, I took you from Justice League to Batman, it so is a full circle.

Sunday Dinner : Crescent Chicken Rolls

Posted by John Klein III on October 16, 2017
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http://www.latestfood.com/2013/11/crescent-chicken.html

This was a rather simple dinner.  It needs a side, next time, I’ll make rice with it.

The dinner went right as my son, Walker Dennis, helped me make it and he hasn’t asked to help in a month or so.  I’m not sure what made him stop cooking with Dada but I miss the little guy being at my side.  We enjoy a nice tall can of Arizona Sweet Tea.  I enjoy one, even if he doesn’t ask for some but it is nice when I drink from the can and he enjoys his share in his Tumbler.  And by share, I mean, the bulk of the drink.

My son had a great time with unfolding the jumbo crescent rolls.  He also liked making the soup.  I had cooked the chicken with a sprinkling of rosemary.  He wanted to try the rosemary and with the reminder of the sample, put that into the soup.  Not like it changed it at all but he made that bold choice.

I’m not sure if it needed two cans of cream of chicken soup or two cans worth of milk but I would have liked more soup.  I feel like two of each, might be a tad much.  My son really liked the soup, so that’s good to know.  It doesn’t really taste all that bad, on its own.

We went with Pillsbury jumbo rolls and Campbell’s soup.

I thought the rolls tasted pretty great, I just wanted more soup.  My wife and son thought it was okay, remarking that it needed a side.  We ate all eight of them so no left overs for us.

. . .

This weekend started our October weekends being quite busy.  We had plans to watch the seven Arrow episodes we needed, so we can watch season six live but we didn’t watch any episodes.

I misread Netflix’s episode count for The Office’s fifth season.  At first, I thought it was only 23 episodes so we marathon-ed the entire Michael Scott Paper Company, but we still have a couple more episodes before that season is over.  Our next episode is Cafe Disco.

My son and I are 20 minutes into Riverdale’s first episode of season two.  So far, pretty good.  We watched it in two sittings of ten minutes so I need to power through and watch the rest of it.  He’s having some rough nights, going to sleep on his own, so it has cut into our television watching.

I’m on episode 74 of Living Between Wednesdays.

I’ve cooled down on TMNT Legends, this weekend, as I only really logged to visit the shop, play my PVP games and attempted to unlock Splinter, which is going to take forever as I still only have my four turtles and two of them are Leonardos.  My main team still isn’t strong enough to beat the two levels I’m working on, enough to three star both levels and I really don’t want to move onto new levels until I’ve gotten those two levels three starred.

Lots of Halloween and Fall activities are coming up and we’re excited for and ready for Halloween to be over as it is taking up some of our time but once we’re at the events, they are pretty fun.

https://www.facebook.com/MontanaGhostbusters/

The Kleins also met the Montana Ghostbusters!  That was pretty cool.  Once we left the Fallfest, which is getting smaller each year, our son kept seeing ghosts and wanting us to call the Ghostbusters.  Which is super cute.

Bragging Rights : Marvel Legends Build A Figure Juggernaut – Kitty Pryde

Posted by John Klein III on October 13, 2017
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My wife was sweet enough to ask me what Kitty Pryde merchandise do I not own, and while showing her my “Wishlist” tags on this site, she noticed that I still had this toy listed as a Wishlist item.  I told her that I do a follow up “Bragging Rights” post when I actually received the item.  There isn’t a way to check the post or something like that, to show that I now own it.  Well, I could edit the original post, but then, that doesn’t pump the original post or something.  Plus, it gives me another post, and that’s always nice.

What isn’t nice though, is that I never got around to bragging about my awesome wife buying this for me!  I think what stopped me was that I wanted to take a picture of my dorky self with it, and use that image for it.  The year prior, so two Christmases ago, my wife got me the Kitty Pryde Marvel Bishoujo Statue and I had her take a picture of me then.

Last year though, I had a phone that allowed me to take selfies and I could have done it myself, awkwardly holding this toy in one hand and a camera in the other.

My lame excuse was, I should have just asked her to take the picture of me and moved on.  I’ve had plenty of time, I just didn’t do it.

Now ten months later, I’m finally getting around to writing this post.  I’m an arse.  And a jerk!

 

Sunday Dinner : French Onion Chicken Noodle Casserole

Posted by John Klein III on October 12, 2017
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http://www.plainchicken.com/2014/09/french-onion-chicken-noodle-casserole.html

So it finally happened.  I made something that just wasn’t good.  Which has killed my buzz for writing this post.

I had notes on our recipe so I clearly made this before, but we couldn’t recall how it went.  Which should have been a sign.

My only note was that instead of using one 6 ounce jar of French’s French fried onions, I should two of those, to add that much more crunch.  Which, didn’t seem that bad of an edit.  Apparently, I made this before I adopted my happy face system of putting either a happy or sad face in the upper right corner of the recipe.  So I knew I made this over a year, maybe two years ago.  So it was worth a second attempt.

My wife didn’t like it and Walker Dennis also didn’t care for it, and he’s a big fan of pasta.  It was a huge miss. Which, of course, made eating it the next day, not great.  Which, we didn’t do.  Some items taste better, the next day, but they usually start off tasting pretty good, to begin with.

I’m not sure what happen, besides that I followed the directions and everything was cooked right.  Maybe we’re not big french onion dip fans.  I couldn’t find a refrigerated French Onion Dip, that was sour cream based.  So I had to buy a packet of french onion dip, and mix that with a 16 ounce container of sour cream.  Though, I did think we should have mixed two packets of dip into the container as I thought the mixture was going to get lost in there.  It tasted okay, as a dip, and the dip directions only state one packet is necessary for a 16 ounce container but it could have been more favorable with two packets.

Luckily, I always start dinner early and usually have pizza money in case a dinner goes south, so twenty minutes later, we had something good to eat and I had left overs that I didn’t quite enjoy.

. . .

I wished we had more Office episodes that we’ve seen, I feel like we only saw a couple of them, so far this week.  Our next episode is Season Five’s Golden Ticket.

No new episodes of Person of Interest, as we’re trying to marathon Arrow’s fifth season so we can stay current with the new season.  I’m not sure how we’re going to do that with wanting to keep Supergirl and Flash on the CW.  It seems like a lot of work to watch our ABC comedies (Black-ish, Goldbergs and Modern Family).  Over at FOX, we’re watching Brooklyn Nine Nine.  If only the Voice wasn’t two episodes and I wish I was enjoying Jennifer Hudson but maybe by the time we get to the Battle Rounds, someone would have talked to her about calming down or being watchable.  Dancing is being a great this season, but I’m glad they are sticking to the one episode a week format.

The Fall season is always the hardest to try to squeeze in our television watching, especially with me working two jobs.  Our transmission completely died on us, so now we have that bill and the mechanic told us that our gasket head is slowly leaking, so there goes our tax refund, for next year.  I was so looking forward to not working a part time job, which that job is nice, but not having to rely on it for that additional income, and be an adult and simply live on the one income and be home more in the evenings.  Plus, our son isn’t napping during the weekend, so we are losing our television time there.  It’ll be different if we could watch our shows, at night, but he’s so loud and playful that I don’t want to watch a show that I enjoy, by barely listening to it.  Which only really is The Office and This is Us that I really want to watch, those and Person of Interest, as we’re in the last handful of episodes, and I want to see see.

I just looked up Supergirl and apparently her show started last week, so now we’re two behind!  Good grief!  Flash came back on Monday and Arrow premiere’s tonight, so we’re not crazy behind on two of the three CW shows.

Our next episode of Arrow is Season Five’s Fighting Fire with Fire, nowhere near episode 23, where we need to be.  Probably going to stick with Flash and Supergirl and miss out on Arrow and we haven’t even attempted Legends of Tomorrow.

Riverdale came back last night, so I’m behind on that show too.  If only I could watch television and not on my Kindle.  If I had a choice between watching a show on my Kindle and playing a game on my Kindle and enjoying a podcast, I’m choosing game and podcast, as that’s two things instead of one.  I need to commit to watching an episode and then game/podcast, I just have to get there first.  I guess that’s what Riverdale will be for me.  I don’t want to fall too far behind on that.  Season two is going to have 22 episodes, which is super disappointing.  That show had at least two filler episodes to hit 13 so I can only imagine how 22 is going to feel.  These CW shows could have one or two less episodes and I’ll be completely fine with that.  I’ve heard the Marvel Netflix episodes are like that too.  Like, three or four more episodes than they really need.

Speaking of podcasts, I’m current with Turtle Soup and finishing the latest episode of Prinze and the Wolf, at lunch today.  Turtle Soup 161 had a Kitty Pryde reference, so that’s pretty great.

My wife was showing me how far behind I am with Kitty Pryde related merchandise, I should create Wishlist posts for those items, just so I can be more aware of them.  I’m so out of touch with comics and such.  If I can get current with Living Between Wednesdays, I’m on episode 72 now, I’ll have a better feel of what is happening in comics and related news.  Though neither of them are big X-Men fans so I won’t be updated on the key series I’m most committed too but I’m not all that committed to it now, anyway.  I suppose the word would be most “interested” in.  I am going to Comixology and still downloading the free comics of the week, but I’m not even current on my comics wishlist, I must be two or three months behind.  I’m also not even reading those free comics.

I gave up on Avengers Academy as they did two special events, Inhumans and the current Halloween one, and I’m not where I need to be to even attempt those so that was a crushing defeat.  I tried Marvel Puzzle Quest, but when I’m not using Storm, I don’t think I fully “get” that game.

I’ve retried Simpsons Tap Out but that game is daunting and I couldn’t reload my previous Springville, so that killed my buzz for that game.  Plus, they are running their own Halloween event so I didn’t want to establish a new city and stay current on Halloween, so I stopped before even really starting.

I’m just mostly looking for a game that I can play while waiting for more lives in TMNT Legends.

Which I’m still super into TMNT Legends.  I got my main team to level 34, which feels great that most of them are no longer locked at level 30, so I lost like a week finally getting them to three stars.  I’ve gotten a few additional characters, I’m using way too many T-Coins so I have to re-evaluate how I’m going to use them.  Mostly, I’m just using them, in the store, towards characters I don’t have, instead of using them to get characters to their next star point.  Which I didn’t really do, besides my main team of five – Steranko, Stockman Fly, Leonardo, Karai and Newtralizer.  I unlocked 80s Leonardo, so now I finally have a third turtle, two of the same turtle but still.  Those two Leos and 2012 Donatello, makes up my third.  I really want a Raphael and a Michelangelo.  Doesn’t matter what outfit, I just want one each of the turtles.  Especially with that Splinter special event wherein only the turtles can fight him and I don’t get many tries with just two turtles.  There sets of turtles are – 2012, 80s, Larp outfits, Vision Quest outfits, Current Movie Versions and Original Mirage Turtles.

I have April O’Neil now, Shredder, Dogpound, Mondo Gecko, Hun, Muckman, Mutagen Man and, Karai Serpent.  I’m getting close on a few others.  I got several of my previous characters up to their second star, so I can get them to level 30 and now they have two moves, making them very useful.

They have been teasing an update with a slew of characters – Shinigami (who I have to keep relooking up, as I don’t recognize her), Usagi Yojimbo (who I adore), Alopex (who should be fun, though I wish we could get Ninjara, but that isn’t ever going to happen), 80s Shredder and Kang, April Kunoichi, Super Shredder (I imagine 2012 version and not Secret of the Ooze), Armaggon (who I really like) and the Space Turtles from season four.  We’re in the middle of season three’s rewatch, which I needed as I didn’t really pay that much attention during my first run through.  They just came back to New York and got Splinter’s mind back.  I recall the last episodes pretty well but I’m really looking forward to season four.

. . .

I finally had a moment this past weekend and got our recipe cookbooks under control.  Two three inch binders of dinner/lunch/app recipes.  Got Breakfast and Dessert, both in two inch binders.  Now I just have to keep these binders updated.  Which I’m already behind on doing.  We already need another three inch binder, as I’m sure we’re going to fill up that one in no time.  Breakfast and Desserts should probably be in three inch binders, as well, but those are like five dollars each!  I’m hoping the office gets some banged up ones and I can reuse those as they don’t need to be in great condition.

That’s me this week!  Dinner for next week should be really good, I’m hoping.

I’m also thinking of participating in No Shave November and National Write a Novel, which I’ve really been wanting to do it but never have the thought to do it until mid-November or early October (so I’m already in the same boat I’m always in).  I’m hoping remembering to not shave, makes me remember to write a novel.

The Fighter and the Kid Podcast

Posted by John Klein III on October 4, 2017
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6AbsTfBMQ_dHjtipwh3bZg

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Schaub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Callen

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.

I’ve tried to look it up :

http://mmajunkie.com/2016/01/brendan-schaub-ive-been-banned-from-ufc-now-because-i-dont-fall-in-line

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.

. . .

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.

. . .

Bryan Callen does have his own podcast, Mixed Mental Arts, with co-host, Hunter Maats

http://mixedmentalarts.co/

If I wanted another daunting task, I would start this podcast.  Not go backwards but just start at the latest episode and try to keep up.

http://podbay.fm/show/552184090

They are on episode 266.

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.

 

Sunday Dinner : Doritos Nacho Cheese Taco Bake

Posted by John Klein III on October 2, 2017
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Dorito Casserole

This was a huge hit!  My wife went back for thirds!  She claims it is the best thing I’ve made, in a long time.

I pretty much stuck to the recipe, we added an onion, as we like onions.  Someone had started eating some of the Nacho Cheese Doritos, so if I had my way, I would have open the bag myself and used half on the bottom and the other half on top.  I was told that the person didn’t eat that many of the chips but it felt like only half the bag was available to me.  Which, at first, I didn’t mind as I knew we bought the large back of Doritos.  Not the family size (or is it party size?) bag but the traditional large bag.  Then I looked, and those are the 9.75 ounce bags.  So yeah, I would have preferred to use an entire bag and not one that was already opened prior to me needing it as a pretty crucial cooking ingredient.

I should have checked first, which I do with all recipes now, and I also recognize that those bags are 30% air, so it was most likely, hardly eaten.  But still, I’ll never know until next time I make this.  Which probably will be soon.

We also used Cheddar cheese and next time, I’ll go with the Mexican-blend, to give it that taste I’m sure the recipe wants.  Cheddar is nice but the combination of Monterey Jack, Cheddar, Asadero and Queso Quesadilla cheeses, can’t be beat by regular Cheddar!

This was a real joy to prepare as well, everything went smoothly.  I might not crush up the chips, as finely as I did, it might be nice to have larger pieces of chips as the finer chips became a big clump on the bottom.  Pretty tasty but not that much of a crunch.

 

. . .

I got to watch six more minutes of Asset’s second episode, so that wasn’t great.  Also not great, I had two excellent chances of watch two episodes of Doctor Who and I just played TMNT Legends, instead, so that was dumb of me.  I got April O’Neil and Hun unlocked, so that’s nice but I should have watched those episodes instead.

I’m in the middle of episode 66 of Living Between Wednesdays, still loving the heck out of that podcast.

They had Sean Jordan, the Wordburglar, as a guest.  He was talking about his latest music video, Channel Halifax.

Thanks to Worldburglar Official for hosting his own video.

It reminds me of Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind, or rather, those amazing parody versions of that song.

Halifax looks amazing, if I ever do my World Tour of Canada, I’ll have to make sure I visit that city.  Lots of great recommendations in his song.

Rachelle mentions her love for Winter Soldier, quite often, to the point where I’m starting to really like him, more than I did before.  I guess I took him for granted, but I haven’t really read many of his adventures.  So I have spent some time on YouTube, watching some Stucky videos.  Then she mention how Winter Solider / Black Widow (Winter’s Widow) is Marvel’s Batman and Catwoman.  Which made me think that YouTube must have tribute videos for that couple.  YouTube did not disappoint!

So I found one video that used Ed Sheeran’s Afire Love and now I love that song, so much!

Thanks to YouTuber Diamond Tributes for combining the song with Prison Break.

Thanks to YouTuber Claire Brown for hipping me to the song to begin with.  She only used half of the song and the title “then the devil took your memory” didn’t help me at all!  But it was enough to find Ed Sheeran’s song, that man is very talented.

Our next episode of The Office Season Five is The Duel.

Our next episode of Arrow is Season Five’s Bratva.

Our next episode of Person of Interest Season Five’s The Day the World Went Away.  We’re in the final four episodes, so we might try to marathon these, if we get the chance.  They have been doing done-in-ones with some mythology sprinkled within the episodes but the way Sotto Voce ended, it feels like we should be in for one stellar race to the finale.  I’ve already gotten two elements spoiled so I’m mostly waiting to see how that plays out.

That’s pretty much what I did last week, entertainment wise.

Blippi

Posted by John Klein III on September 29, 2017
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If you allow your children to be on YouTube, you probably have heard of Blippi.

So the other day, I wanted to learn about who Walker Dennis’ current obsession is.  By current, I mean, like a six month love affair.  Blippi essentially replaced Bounce Patrol in our house.

Thanks to these two wonderful articles, I know a bunch more about the man and the character.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4581172/Meet-Blippi-veteran-turned-children-s-viral-superstar.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2017/05/09/top-youtubers-blippis-billion-plus-view-empire/#4d24c1b53248

I went from being slightly annoyed at hearing the same music and seeing the same visuals (over and over, again) to having a new appreciation for him, now that I know he’s really Stevin John, a veteran US Air Force serviceman.  Good for him for being inspired to make better entertainment for his nephew and now is making crazy money and having world wide recognition, is super impressive.

We got our son this sweet pair of headphones, so I rarely hear the music but it isn’t really that bad.  It was more of an issue of hearing the same 30 seconds of something, without context, and on repeat.

According to YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/BlippiVideos/videos?sort=p&view=0&flow=grid

Garbage Trucks for Children with Blippi, is his most popular video.

The ones Walker Dennis has watched the most, is the videos where Blippi goes on field trips.

Like, to the Ranch

Or, to the Trampoline Park (his current favorite video)

Or, learning about the letter B with  Handles Franklin, a Globetrotter.

I’m pretty sure the very first video I noticed him watching, and me learning the lyrics, was to the Excavator Song.

Thanks to Blippi for hosting his own videos.

I’m sure my son will eventually move on to another YouTube personality, eventually, but he’s really into Blippi right now.  Even when he was into his car crash videos (a very short phrase, but we still have to crash our grocery cart into things, from time to time) he was still watching Blippi.

There are other videos my son watches, on a regular basis, but I haven’t felt compelled to figure out what their deals are, yet.

 

 

Patricia Skolnik – Citizens for Patient Safety

Posted by John Klein III on September 27, 2017
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At the CLEAR Conference at Denver, they had Patricia Skolnik as the keynote speaker.

http://www.citizensforpatientsafety.org/bio/

She told us about the tragic story of her son, Michael and what she did about it.

Here is the documentary that she referenced in her speech –

Thanks to YouTube user, solidlinemedia, for hosting the video!

If you don’t have time to watch the video, here is a quick summary of it :

http://www.citizensforpatientsafety.org/michael-skolniks-story/

The theme of the speech was “Can a Conversation Save a Life.”  It is all about how doctors and nurses should make sure there is a real exchange of thoughts when discussing one’s medical treatment.

People were crying in the conference room.  At one point, I wanted to just get on a plane and go hug my own son and just hope he never has anything this tragic happen to him.  Luckily, his doctor, Dr. Danielson, is amazing and super forthcoming and tells us additional information that we hadn’t even thought to ask yet.  She’s pretty great.

Because of what happen to Michael, Patricia worked extremely hard and got the Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act passed.

Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act

For all physicians who hold an active or inactive license issued by the Colorado Board of
Medical Examiners prior to December 31, 2007, you will have to comply with the
requirements of the Michael Skolnik Transparency Act beginning with the May 31, 2009
renewal period. Licensing is the responsibility of each physician and, in accordance with
the Act, you will be asked to provide information regarding, but not limited to, medical
licenses ever held, current and active board certifications and specialties, affiliations with
hospitals and health-care facilities, business ownership in any business whose mission
relates to providing health-care services or products, employment contracts related to
health care, disciplinary actions, actions against medical privileges, criminal conviction
or plea arrangements, and resolution of medical malpractice claims. For more
information, please go to the CMBE website at http://www.dora.state.co.us/medical/
Also, the Office of Professional Risk Management will be providing information on
resolution of medical malpractice claims which have occurred while you have been
employed by the University of Colorado, and UPI will be providing information
regarding current independent contractor agreements of which it is aware. However, it is
your responsibility to collect all of the requisite information in order to maintain your licensure.

I used this link to get that copy, as the website wouldn’t work as a link here.

www.ucdenver.edu/…/Michael%20Skolnik%20Medical%20Transparency%20Act.pdf

She was even able to get it amended twice more, once to include nurses and a second time to strengthen the act on patients benefit.

That’s the thing about this case is that it really puts you in her place.  If a doctor, that a good friend recommended to me, told me that my son had 48 hours to live and really needed an operation, what would I do?  Is 48 hours enough time to even get a second opinion?  Most doctors have extremely filled schedules and this doctor made a special appointment to see her son.  It is in a field that I have no real reference point for.  One would hope that your doctor well tell you everything but it is hard to know what to ask.  She had this great line about how she didn’t even not know what she knew to even ask about.  When it comes to our health, especially after a bad diagnosis, it is hard to think of questions while your mind is swirling around about the future.

Patricia highly recommends bringing someone with you to all of your doctor appointments, so that they can ask questions on your behalf, or to remind you of your own questions that you may forget at the end of the session.

It was nice that this session was at midday Thursday, as it was a nice ice breaker for the rest of the conference as everyone had a reaction to the subject material.

The Act is only for Colorado but various states have passed similar acts.

It really was a very powerful presentation and I’m still thinking about it, nearly two weeks later.

Sunday Dinner : Cheesecake Factory Louisiana Chicken Pasta

Posted by John Klein III on September 25, 2017
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Cheesecake Factory Louisiana Chicken Pasta (Copycat)

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.

. . .

 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.

. . .

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.