Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 578 of the podcast that celebrates adversity!
This week, Jason Dedrick joins Ian and David for our annual Boxing Day boxtacular! They mulled wine about: Vice-Dedrick; conversation therapy; optical belts and suspenders; repetition breeds contempt; comforting spam; Nazi adjacent; “He’s a potato”; Force hole; one-time offer; consciousness spectrum; his Wickham ways; Dave crushes on Carmilla; ride the Twitter wave; the rogues Tate gallery; paradise lost; germs get in your eyes; the old normal; cold patter; ran out of bulllshit; magic isn’t real; cunning stunts; jugglers juggle; back to Yule days; is it a Christmas movie; Hugh Grant didn’t love, actually; Dave’s Gambit; off-colour mysteries; Jason’s Christmas Nuts saga; Top 5 Songs – Phone Numbers; rhymes in times; bad numbers; virtual family; cannery salmon; Santa got lost in Texas; toots sweet; take me to the pilot; and, finally, giggle, dammit.
Top 5 Songs – Phone Numbers
- Etta James – “842-3089 (Call My Name}” – Call My Name, 1966 – 2:18:31
- The Partridge Family – “Echo Valley 2-6809” – Sound Magazine, 1971 – 2:24:51
- The Marvelettes – “Beechwood 4-5789” – Please Mr. Postman, 1961 – 2:30:47
- The B-52s – “6060-842” – The B-52s, 1979 – 2:35:39
- Wilson Pickett – 634-5789 (Soulsville, USA) – Atlantic single b/w “That’s a Man’s Way”, 1966 – 2:42:43
Question of the Week: What was your first time flying on an airplane?
Sub-question of the Week: What is a New Year’s resolution you actually kept?
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Question #1 – I think the first time I went on a plane was when I was maybe 7 or 8. My dad worked in the aviation industry and had a friend who had his own plane. I remember it was likely a 4 seater as my brother and I sat in the back seat so there had to have been two chairs, although it was possible we were both strapped into the same seat and it was just a two seater. More significant was that the plane was missing the door, so the fact we were wearing a seat belt was fairly important. Neither of us fell out. The wind was so strong it pretty much ripped my shirt off. All my buttons were undone.
Questions #2 – I got nothin’.
About the magic thing, I’m on Team Jason, leaning (or, more honestly, reclining) toward not liking magic that much. I think I’ve always found it kind of sexist (and I’m not usually overly sensitive to that sort of thing) but more so, what I don’t like is when people put themselves in positions of superiority as the holders of information. Outside of my day job teaching school, which is pretty much about disseminating information and then assessing whether any of it had been absorbed/attained, I also work in a related field and am very involved in the examination process. I think, following the old knowledge is power adage, and have observed that some examiners, rather than simply testing what has been taught as part of the curriculum, love to set themselves up as the knowledgeable/powerful figures by preparing questions that are very niche as a way of being justified for not having to give full marks to the candidates.
I get that a magic show is just another form of entertainment and I should let the moment just wash over me and marvel in the skill involved, but for whatever reason, I really struggle to enjoy a magic show.
Growing up, I knew our telephone was on the TRINITY exchange. But by the time I was telling people my phone number, no one was using the prefixes anymore, just the numbers. So I wonder if “Echo Valley 2-6809” was already anachronistic when it was sung on The Partridge Family. Maybe the songwriters were looking back on their own youths. In the world of the show, Keith writes the band’s songs. In one episode, Keith thinks Danny plagiarized a tune he wrote night before. Danny claims Keith stole it from HIM. But in a merry mix-up, it turns out Danny heard it in his sleep because the walls between their bedrooms are so thin. Reuben was a busy record company rep before he became the band’s manager. Danny hounded him mercilessly to get their demo record some air play.
My first time flying was a trip I took with my grandmother in 1977 to visit my aunt and uncle in Ontario. There was a smoking section and the flight attendants pulled a curtain across it once “no smoking” sign had been turned off after take-off. I remember they gave us moist towelettes before they served a hot meal. None of this sad bag of pretzels they serve you these days.
Happy New Year Gentlemen! And to the always great Jason Dedrick! I look forward to Jason, I really do, you three have an awesome chemistry and the Boxing Day shows never disappoint.
I remember the airline was American Airlines but I’m having difficulty remembering the year. I was probably around 7 or 8 years old if I had to guess and like Jason mentioned, I got to visit the cockpit up at the front of the plane. I think it was to show first time fliers that everything was in control and ease any doubt that these huge machines could fly. The reason I remember it being American Airlines was because they gave me a pin with little wings and an “American Airlines” logo on it, I think I still have it put away somewhere. We were most likely flying to and from Chicago and all I can remember thinking was that these giant machines can fly with their powerful engines but how in the world can a huge ocean liner float?
I’m proud to say that although I fought off COVID over Christmas and I’m just now recovering from a nasty stomach flu, I have kept my blood sugar levels between 121 and 140 over the holidays! My resolution was to keep my sugar levels as low as possible with diet, exercise and weight so my A1C for 2023 will be even lower than it was in 2022. I kept the resolution throughout 2022 but I know I can get it lower as we move into the New Year. I even got my weight below 200 lbs. over the holidays, I haven’t weighed that low in years!
As for an alternate resolution, stop fighting in toxic social media posts. I think I lasted all of two weeks into 2022 before I broke that one, maybe I’ll just pass on that this year.
Ian! Nail on the head, Brother! I have a close family friend named Diamond Jim who is a magician, we’ve known him for almost 40 years and he still tells the same hammy jokes! I guess it’s worse for me because I hear the same stuff over and over from him over the years but to his new audience I guess it’s hilarious. I also think that they’re too enthralled over his magic to really rate his humor and it may be part of his “misdirection” tactic. He’s a very good magician though and I still don’t know how he pulls off all those tricks. He’s awesome and makes a great living at it.
Quite a few years ago, Diamond Jim called me at work on a Friday afternoon and asked me if I had plans for the night. “What’s going on?” I asked. Jim was planning a poker game at his home that night and asked if I wanted to join for an even four players. “Are the other guys coming over magicians by chance?” I asked. “Yes they are”, Jim replied. “Are you out of your fucking mind Jim?! Do you really think I’d play poker with three magicians?” He laughed and then I told him to call my Dad instead, he’d enjoy the challenge.
Thanks to you guys for another great wrap-up to 2022 and for all the great episodes throughout the year. It can only get better in 2023!
Hi,
Happy Goodyear or Michelin or Toyo for Dave’s WRX sake.
I’m kind of sad.
Monday, I saw a photo of Ken Block popping up at the end of The Guardian news front page, hey cooooo.. errrr, no, not cool at all.
The news of his passing away took me a bit by surprise. I followed him loosely on Youtube since I discovered one of the Gymkanas, I think the San Fransisco one. I always checked ken’s or Hoonigan’s video when they appears on the Youtube home. And Pastrana’s one too. And Followed last year the Subaru’s Launch Control youtube series, where Travis tried to behave as a team member and Ken challenging them as an independent.
They were the two outsiders in Rally. I wanted to refer to those two in this very comment section for some times.
Travis is a mad dog, He has got more broken bones than he has bones. His a child, a bit on the hyperactive side.
Ken was more of a composed person, always making his big eyes when speaking. A cool, guy on the reserve side, but what a driver.
His series where his sixteen year old daughter, Lia, beat the hell of a lot of powerful youtube cars, in drag races, with her dad 1000hp Unicorn was quite enjoyable too.
I don’t know why but is death touch me more deeply that it should have. Not a very good start for 2023 (amongst other so so news)…
I hope that you and the all sneakers, the DC one’s excepted, are starting it in a more joyful way.
Byyye