Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the podcast that made that internet question its own existence!
This week: remote control; snow trouble; in the bleak mid-winter; grump credentials; house music; Koy to the world; writers in the storm; Taylor’s version; the mother of all mothers; cast offs; adulte terrible; it’s a low-down dirty shame; a fowl radio play; funny pages; Mad man; dog ends; clones of comedy; ice capades; cold comfort; we can be beer-oes; back to the dogs; expensive tastes; play school; Peter and the Pig; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; bad beginning; videophilia; the Wizard of Aw’s; tenement sympathy; law and border; sing out, sister; ass warfare; and, finally, ice warriors.
Question of the Week: What’s the coldest weather you’ve ever experienced?
Sub-question of the Week: Would you have rather discovered Eddie Murphy or were friends with Michael Stipe?
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I’m not sure what’s in it for a person who discovers somebody. Bragging rights? A Wikipedia mention? I’d rather have a friend. A friend who’d tell me everybody hurts…sometimes. Just not all the time. Sometimes he can tell me to stand in the place where I live while he hangs out in the corner…or in the spotlight, whichever he prefers.
The coldest I’ve been was in Halifax where the temperatures dropped down to -20 C. I still have the cozy London Fog winter coat I bought to get me through the chilly weather there. It seemed pricy at the time, but amortized over 30 years, it turned out to be a good investment. I wore it snow shoveling this week and was almost too warm!
At the Emmy awards, presenter Ken Jeong made a funny callback to the Golden Globes when he blamed his nurses for leaving instruments in a dude that died after he operated on him.
Three years ago was the coldest I’ve ever been in Texas with a February Wintergeddon that lasted an entire week. We were snowed and iced in all week while struggling with power outages, below zero temperatures (Fahrenheit) and frozen plumbing. Luckily we made it through by being smart and listening to all the winter warnings like dripping the faucets and wrapping up any outdoor outlets. This was a serious ordeal for us Texans since we’re nowhere near equipped for those temperatures, so when it was announced a week ago that that same event was repeating itself this past week, everyone went back into action. It did get cold, really cold but no snow accumulation thank God. Today it’s back into the 50’s (Fahrenheit) but there’s another blast coming for the weekend. All this does nothing good for me, I’m better wearing shorts and a T-Shirt and not struggling to stay warm. Six months from now we’ll all be laughing about this whole thing.
Being from Chicago originally, we would go back to visit in the Summer but one year we went in January for my Grandmother’s surprise 85th birthday. THAT was the coldest I’ve ever been, I remember it being -12 degrees (Fahrenheit) which to you guys would be -24 Celsius. It was so cold at the place we gathered for my Grandma’s birthday, they let everyone smoke inside, the wind felt like razors on my exposed skin outside. That’s when you’re basically running from one place to another or from the car to the nearest open door, that was outrageous.
I guess I’d like to have discovered the stardom of Eddie Murphy as I have no knowledge of who Michael Stipe is. I was on the Eddie Murphy bandwagon years ago when he first burst onto the scene, I think I saw 48hrs. every weekend for almost a month, we couldn’t get enough of him back then. The place my buddy and I worked at (our first job re-melting lead for check printing plates) had a guy in the print shop who looked so much like Eddie Murphy it was unreal. He knew it too and could do a dead-on impression of Murphy to go along with the likeness. Those were fun guys to go along with such hard work.
Stay warm everyone who has fallen under the winter grip of ‘ol Snow Miser! Remember to keep your gas tanks full and let the animals inside!
Best from a chilly Big “D”!!
Imperial measurements make a certain kind of chunky sense for the most part: a piece of string *that* long, a cabbage *yay* heavy, a way to run *so* far… but seriously, how on earth has Fahrenheit clung on this long? With Celsius you get two clear fixed points of freezing and boiling… dead easy. With Fahrenheit… what, zero is where? All is chaos! I’m confused. Actually I’ve still got beef with feet and inches since being forced to grapple with long addition and scale drawing in my time in a US ar Hite tire office. Yipe. That time was the coldest I’ve been- a toasty-for-Canada -11C in NYC. We dove into a cinema and watched films back-to-back to keep warm. Here in the UK it’s a crisp and pleasant -3 at the moment- a welcome improvement on the last few weeks of weather just enough above freezing for the damp to chill your bones.
On the other question – just wanted to add that my partner got in a muddle recently and thought that Eddie Murphy was the lead singer of Queen.
Keep it toasty,
Peter