Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 495 of the podcast that ain’t stayin’ alive!
This week: mixed-up confusion; more chicken wrangling; deadlined; dumb draft; impossibly possible; unwilling participant in one’s own creativity; technically a fraud; we’re gonna Zoom; the age of formality; on the level; honorary bed; just the fax; invisible ink; the magazine not for Dave; not free Solo; R.I.P. Paul Soles; Paul Kligman trivia; score!; social media death; cash in some fun chips; outrageously old; a dose of reality; generational trauma; Napoleon hears his Waterloo; Euro trivia; be careful with your bee gees; the explained joke; let’s get together; donuts or…; overrated dessert; the Talmud was right; typical show; the Big Turk problem; a failure of marketing; the pleasures of dining out; air fryer’s delight; enjoy your balls; duck of the pool; Dork Shadows – Season of the Witch; the Beatles trifecta; heroin monster; maudlin frog; grisly gag; battered blood; our best show ever; the Casties; the penultimate farewell; and, finally, keep it easy.
Question of the week: Has there ever been a time that you’ve maybe had something that you shouldn’t – or something that you normally wouldn’t – all to youself?
Sub-question: Fill out the dessert bracket [below]. Let’s make this official!!!
As we said during the show, be sure to go check out Ed Draganski chatting about Star Wars on the Electric Jellyfish podcast! Follow this link!
That depressing video about our apparently all-too brief lives:
Binging with Babish makes up for his terrible poutine decisions:
Here is that Electric Company joke about dead people and parrots – for kids!
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Something I had all to myself: the first year I worked in Halifax, I rented an apartment in a building that had an indoor pool and sauna. The sauna was on a timer so I’d turn on the heat then go for a swim so the sauna would be hot by the time I got back to it. I never saw anybody else while I was using them. The sauna was warm before I got there maybe once? It sounds like a swanky set up, but the pool was dimly lit and the sauna was tiny. So it had the ambiance of the opening scene of a police procedural just before the killer strikes!
I was obsessed with photography as a teenager – back in the pre-digital age – and I loved developing my own photos. My school had a fantastic dark room, but access to it was limited and usually full of other students goofing around. So on Friday afternoons I used to secretly leave one of the windows unlocked.
Then on the weekend I would ride my bike up to school and secretly sneak into the darkroom so I could have it all to myself. Sometimes I would be there all day developing photos and enjoying the uninterrupted creative solitude – with a hint of criminality. This was all before schools had security fences and CCTV cameras.
Definitely some of the best memories of high school right there.
QotW: A time I had something to myself that I normally wouldn’t – through the mid-part of my teaching career I spent over a decade as Student Council Advisor, which also involved going to a 4 day long weekend conference full of hundreds of very exciting, screaming and cheering teenagers. I now have fond memories of those days, but at the time, I recall it often being a bit much for my poor ol’ ears. Anyway, the advisors from the different schools had to share rooms to keep costs down, and we were randomly assigned our roommates. One year, the conference took place at a resort that featured natural hot springs and is well known for all its various pools. Not only did I get to spend the weekend in this lovely environ, but somehow I also lucked out and got a private room, as well. Bonus!
SQ: turns out it’s cheesecake all the way.
There was this nifty invention I discovered in college called an Art-O-Graph, it was a big projector that moved up and down on an arm secured to a drawing table. When you put photos inside of the lighted interior, the mirrors and lens projected it onto the desk so you could draw over the image projected from above. The art building had two of these for student use and they were in sorry shape, waiting to use one was like the confession line at my Church. Nothing sucks more than having to draw under the pressure of time like that.
At some point, my Advertising Professor told me there was a brand new Art-O-Graph in the General Academics Building (The GAB) where all my Advertising classes were. All I had to do was ask for the key to the room from my Professor’s assistant during the hours she was in the office. I could use this pristine Art-O-Graph as long as I wanted and draw off as many things as I wanted, taking my time and no other art students ever knew. I kept this secret to myself. This room was also a storage for a ton of brand new Apple equipment, something new to the campus then but I didn’t even touch that stuff, I just drew secretly by myself in that dark room and never told another soul.
Donuts beat Cupcakes. Ice Cream cone beats sundae and donuts. Pie beats cake. Cookies beat Cheesecake. Ice Cream Cone vs. Pie. The winner….Pie!
The Loser! ME! I’m a diabetic…
Thanks for including a link to the Electric Jellyfish Podcast above! I’ve done two podcast so far and I love it. The hosts, Chad and Shannon have been very kind to accept me into their podcasting realm. Not all the episodes are about Star Wars, they do a variety of other pop-culture themed discussions, Marvel, DC or any of the new films released. Chad just invited me on because we met through a local Dallas Star Wars club back in the late 90’s. Before that, Chad and I didn’t know one another but we both grew up in the same town so it’s fun to compare many of the same experiences growing up in Mesquite. Shannon also grew up there, so it’s a good bet we crossed paths years ago! It’s great fun and you don’t have to twist my arm into talking about Star Wars for over an hour…
Donut!!! ❤️????
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