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This week: Skype’s the limit; the loan arranger; flu moves; test dept.; Tim bits; guest who; I’m O.J., you’re O.J.; happy birthday to Harvey Kurtzman; Help Trump Humbug; we attend a Mad Monster Party; the gorilla in the room; salty Peanuts; corridors of powers; makin’ Meatballs; to big to be small; the big Eastie; spiritually old; garbage time; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; turn on Fawcett; we blame Dave too; sticker shock; rock’n’roll loafers; suffer little children; talkin’ sheet; chronocomedy; and, finally, 8-1-1’s a joke.
Question of the Week: What are going out as for Halloween?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s your favourite three-digit number?
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Before the Q&A, I sure hope David feels better, I’ve never heard him so under the weather before…but I’m sure I’ll have this answer by the time you read it on the podcast.
Our office does a Halloween contest but it’s in competition with the rest of our parent company, so it’s likely to be lame. We have to pick themes and vote on them and then compete with all our other locations worldwide, or rather the ones who celebrate Halloween. Personally, if the opportunity presents itself and I have a reason to dress up outside the office, it’s more than likely Indiana Jones or Captain Kirk. This is only if I still fit into my Starfleet uniform of course. I could go as the older Kirk who according to Star Trek myth, wore a girdle under his uniform, but I don’t own a crimson Starfleet film uniform. Or a girdle.
Hey gents,
Hope that David is feeling better! A while back, Ian made an astute observation that if a character coughs in the first third of a movie, they will 100% be dead by the end, usually with some blood hacked onto a handkerchief along the way.
So I sincerely hope that there have been no blood-spotted handkerchiefs in the Dedrick washing machine this week and that Dave is not being recast in the next episode.
Maybe that is a future question: what actor would most seamlessly be cast as David Dedrick if he quit Sneaky Dragon for either contractual or mortality related reasons? It would be akin to the two Darrens in Bewitched. (Apologies anyone under 50 who does not get that reference.)
Thanks also for the Just Sneak It sticker!
Whoa…I’m back. Fell asleep at the wheel on that last post. Don’t really have a favorite 3-digit number and at the risk of revealing my PIN number I’ll just go with the always popular 007! (NOT my PIN number). How many times was there a countdown in a James Bond film that he defused the situation with seven seconds left to go? I remember “Goldfinger” the best, weren’t there other times? It seems like a James Bond tradition. I can’t help but think of that on-screen scenario any time I’m watching a timer countdown, I think as it gets to 007, “This is where James Bond cuts the red wire or Felix reaches in and just turns the damned detonator off…”
Makes you wonder if 008 were on the mission, he’d have an extra second to spare.
I’m wide awake now, so I’ll just see myself out this time.
Peace and joy to all my fellow Sneakers and Sneaklings…
During the run up to Halloween and well into November, I will be dressing up as The Mystery Mulcher. My mom wondered if we could mulch the leaves that drop from the boulevard trees to use in our gardens. So I ordered a Black and Decker Leaf Blower, Vacuum and Mulcher. It has this backpack you wear – much like a Ghostbuster – that collects the leaves as the vacuum sucks up and mulches them. I follow the manual’s instructions to wear eye protection, rubber gloves and sturdy footwear. The motor’s loud, so I also wear ear plugs. The process kicks up leaf debris and dust, so I wear a mask. It’s quite the disguise.
On Halloween night itself, I will be giving out candy either as Happy Voter or Angry Voter depending on the result of our provincial election on October 19th. I voted at an advance poll today. They asked me to confirm I was over the age of 18. Made me laugh.
I hope Dave is feeling better and that his cough has cleared up. It was interesting to gage how funny he found Ian’s jokes by how hard he hacked. Happy Thanksgiving, Sneakers!