Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the podcast that reveals itself!
This week: enter laughing; tree stories; Ian teaches us about English Teacher; garden plot; musical cheers; Peanuts dimension; dizzy for Melendez; jazz for kids; bad characters; representation comedy; Futurablah; past it; hot potato; under the skin; reading lisp; money, money, money; donate the great; Ian and Dave yap about Dog Day Afternoon; eye the jury; beat the Heat; nose job; former pole; out of Reacher; bored straight; Lumet list; movie snobs; marred by the mob; PS envy; state of Emergency; SCUBA do; Mantooth, Mantooth, and nothing but Mantooth; Hanks for the memories; better than it needs to be; fixer downers; Revelation revelations; Top 5 Songs of Revelation; straight to Hell; Questions of the Week – Sneakers respond; checker out; sit-com Superman; mourning zoo; do the math; early streamers, and, finally, all hail the end.
Top 5 Songs of Revelation
- Blind Willie Johnson – John the Revelator
- Spoon – The Beast and Dragon Adored
- Blondie – Rapture
- No Fun – Here Comes Jesus
- Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Question of the Week: What is something you’re proud of having fixed?
Sub-question of the Week: What is your favourite Satanic song?
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This year with the help of a YouTube video, I fixed a panel of “stacked stone” rock veneer that had come off the side of our house. It was fairly heavy and the place where fell off had two levels under it — a concrete porch and a dirt flower bed. The tricky thing was finding the right combo of boards to prop it up while the construction adhesive was setting. As a bonus, I was able to use the same adhesive to fix a folding chair with a backrest that kept falling off. This summer, I also replaced the caulk around the back door. From YouTube, I learned you have to pull out the old caulk and backer rod and then insert some new backer rod into the gap to hold the new caulk in place while it hardens. Which led to me going to Home Depot and asking “Where can I find some backer rod?”
My favourite single demonic reference in a song is “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me…” which aptly captures the dread of damnation the singer feels in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But while it was the lead-in to that most excellent head-banging section as immortalized in the Wayne’s World movie, for overall song I have to go with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” with its equally awesome fiddle instrumentals.
Aaaaand there’s Louise stealing my southern thunder with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. Realizing it’s a more traditional southern tune belonging to Georgians, it has a fixed place here in Texas as well and can be played by the slightest drop of a cowboy hat. Taking ownership even further, Charlie Daniels was born in North Carolina and died in Nashville, Tennessee, so the entire thing is a shared southern experience anyway. Good one Louise, I do have a backup…
Great episode! I love the return to the music even if Dave threw it together during his lunch break. I’ve been know to do my own share of damage while eating at work on many occasions, sometimes it’s the best way to work…
I’m kind of forbidden to take on any home repair work, I lost the trust of others after burning a hole in the carpet wiring a light kit for the garage and puncturing a main water line while nailing moulding to the wall. This was two separate incidents with no third strike to speak of and no help from YouTube either. My spirit comedian is Oliver Hardy, so with that mentioned I think you get the picture. If I’m proud for something I’ve built, I can take credit for a few projects that simply involved building a shelf space for a custom area with no water or electricity involvement. I’ve mentioned it on here before but I did successfully build a “topper” for my media center that was wide enough for my television to fit on. Using custom shelf sectional cubes and one single long shelf, this did the trick.
Years ago, Dr Pepper was selling off all our obsolete G3 computers for $150.00 each! I purchased one and took the thing to Micro Center for help from the Apple guys there. Micro Center is one of those developer computer warehouses where you can buy all the parts you need for a computer and upgrade it yourself for less money than buying a new computer. The Apple folks there were terrific and gave me a list of exactly what I needed to convert my $150.00 G3 into a faster, usable Macintosh Power PC. What they had in stock I bought from them and then I ordered the rest. Once again, before YouTube, I was able to exchange the guts of this machine with better and faster graphics cards, mother boards, processor and RAM, almost like a brand new computer. I had help, but I figured out the rest myself and saved a lot of money. I don’t think they design Apple computers like this anymore but this was a worthwhile project that gave me a computer to use for another five or six years.
Mentioned by Louise above was “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” so I’ll follow up with a backup I had in mind. I was never into heavy metal or any of the hair band stuff, “Running with the Devil” by Van Halen is about as close as I’ll get with that and even then I’m not a huge fan. Let’s go with something a little more folksy, like George Harrison’s ukulele tune “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” I know it’s not written by Harrison but it’s one of my favorites of his, I think it would make a great end credits song to a movie.
Guess what? I wrote this on my lunch break…and it’s over now because the food is gone and so is this post.
So this Sneaker is signing off…Best to all!!