Andy Labis, Author at Entertainment Ave!

The Cubs’ Magic Number is Still Three, A TV Season is in Full Swing.

By:

The Dude on the Right
It’s been TV premiere week and I’m a wreck

for this podcast, not only because of the TV shows, but because as of doing
this podcast I saw the Chicago Cubs get swept by the Florida Marlins
leaving the Cubs’ “Magic Number” at three, their “Tragic Number” at something
like six or seven, and now it almost seems like the Cubs are leaving their fate
in the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers. And, oh yea, as the Cubs fall, so
do the New York Mets, but at least my Cleveland Indians are in!
Gotta love baseball at the end of September.

But

this podcast isn’t mostly about baseball, it’s mostly about my insane TV
viewing, re-loving “How I Met Your Mother,” new-loving “The Big Bang
Theory,” being upset at “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Biggest
Loser” for monopolizing so much of my time, and being pissed at those
dumb-asses on

“The Biggest Loser” for booting off Jerry. "Heroes" is back and
I love it, I’m liking "The Bionic Woman" but we’ll see how long that
lasts, and then tonight I’ve got "Survivor," "My Name is Earl," "The
Office," "Smallville," and an encore episode of "Reaper" to
TiVo, with some to watch now, and some to watch later. It’s Fall, I guess
I better get used to it!

Thanks for listening.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

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What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Family Outing, Watching Movies, Chicago Sports, and Breaking in Shoes.

For this podcast of “Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!”, Stu Gotz is back from traveling with the family in his tenement on wheels, we catch up on the Chicago Bears loss and the Chicago Cubs wins, and he saw some DVD’s, namely “Shooter” and “Invincible,” while I saw “Good Luck Chuck.” I bought new shoes which Stu tells me his method for breaking in, and we are both excited about the return of “Heroes” but were disappointed in the Christian dudette on “Survivor.” If we only had more time we could have talked about O.J. Simpson and Stu’s coffee palate.

Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Family Outing, Watching Movies, Chicago Sports, and Breaking in Shoes.

By:

The Dude on the Right
Stu Gotz is back from his cruising the highways and byways of these United
States with the Gotz family, in his tenement on wheels, and rejoins me for this
week’s

Weekend Wrap-Up Podcast! Stu talks a tad about his trip and his seeing "Invincible"
and "Shooter,"
while I tell Stu to stay away from "Good
Luck Chuck," even though it has tons of what Stu likes to see, namely boobs.
We also breakdown, well, I breakdown The Chicago Bears loss to the Dallas
Cowboys yesterday, and hope the Chicago Cubs can hang on and not have the worst
collapse, or at least one of them, in baseball history. Stu also tells me the
proper way to break in new running shoes, or at least his way, sadly two days
too late for the back of my heels, and we are both excited about the new TV
season starting, especially the return of "Heroes," but were disappointed in the

Christian lady who bolted from the "Welcome to Our Land" ceremony on last
week’s "Survivor."

Thanks for listening.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

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What’s New? A Movie Review of “Good Luck Chuck.”

For this movie review of “Good Luck Chuck,” The Dude on the Right saw so much potential for this movie wasted by the movie folks who just made it crude and rude. Jessica Alba was cute as Cam, and Dane Cook did okay as Chuck, and when they were just trying to be in love The Dude thought the movie was cute. Then came Dan Fogler as Stu, Chuck’s buddy, who brought a grapefruit into the mix, and suddenly the movie veered into crude territory it didn’t need to find. Too bad.

Dear The Mystery Dude and Tosh – Thank You for Springsteen!

By:

The Dude on the Right
When I went for my walks over the past weekend I got to listen to something I
haven’t been able to in years, so I’ve got to give a big shout-out to a couple
of fraternity brothers, namely our own staff member The Mystery Dude as well as
another brother, Tosh. It all stems to, back in the day, when we had to walk
to school, both ways, in the snow, and how we used to copy music and share it
with our friends. That’s right, the time of that plastic thing called a
cassette.

In any case, one of my favorite concert recordings of all time was
of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band doing the 10th Anniversary Concert
for WMMS at The Agora in Cleveland. I don’t believe I heard the original
broadcast as I was eleven years old in 1978 when it aired and really don’t
remember much of anything when I was eleven except a crush on a girl in my
sister’s class, but I ended up with a copy of the show which I really can’t
remember how I got it, either. Maybe I recorded it off of the radio during a
re-broadcast, maybe I stole it from my brother, or maybe it was God, but it is
still one of my favoritist concert recordings of all time. Then, in college,
either I made a copy for The Mystery Dude, or he borrowed my tapes to make a
copy (The Mystery Dude is a Deadhead, so tape collecting of concerts comes
second nature to him), but, as the CD world started to proliferate into my life,
suddenly all of those cassettes found their way into a cardboard box; in fact, I
still know where they all are, yet they are never played now.

Continuing on – With the other Bruce concert recordings I have gotten over
the years, well, the box set of "Live/ 1975-1985" and some live stuff from
"Tracks," every time I heard one of those songs I yearned for listening to that
show from 1978 where Bruce explains that on the way to find God (during the song
"Growin’ Up") he bumps into Kid Leo (radio DJ extraordinaire from WMMS), who was
"Prayin’ for more watts. I gotta blast this baby all the way to New Jersey."
Bruce Springsteen, always the storyteller, but I left his storytelling from 1978
in my head and in a box of tapes, and I was too lazy to do anything about it.

But then, when a group of us got together to see "The Transformers" movie,
The Mystery Dude handed me a CD jewel case and there it was, a copy on some CD’s
of the copies of the cassettes of the Bruce Springsteen concert I had given him
over a decade ago. If I have the story correct, Tosh offered to convert The
Mystery Dude’s collection of cassettes to the digital age, and made his way to
the Springsteen copy. The Mystery Dude, being pretty cool, made a copy for me,
which I proceeded to burn to my hard drive and put on my iPhone, and there I
was, walking, being transported back years and years and years, and even though
not fully remembering the origins and passing on of my tapes of the Bruce
Springsteen concert, I was still knowing every word from the broadcast, from Kid
Leo’s opening of "And welcome, to the WMMS 10th Anniversary Concert.
I’m Kid Leo, and I have the, ah, duty and the pleasure of welcoming, ladies and
gentleman, the main event. Round for round, pound for pound, there ain’t no
finer band around. Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band!", to Bruce
explaining going to Utah and driving to Reno and seeing a house an Indian had
sculptered from stuff in the desert that had a picture of Geronimo with
"Landlord" over it, and a sign pointing down a dirt road that said "Thunder
Road," to Bruce explaining "fraternity rock," and the crowd understanding in its
loudest. Damn, it was so good to hear that show again.

So, Mystery Dude and Tosh, I would like to thank you for bringing that
concert back into my life. And as I was listening, as I do every time I listen,
I still wonder who Jay Cox from Cincinnati is, and why is Bruce dedicating
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" to him?

Thinking about it, maybe I should give Tosh my box of old cassettes. I know
I’ve got a bootleg of a Meat Loaf concert in there, as well as maybe George
Thorogood, but I’m guessing The Mystery Dude was given copies of those as well,
so maybe one day I’ll relive those days. I suppose I could also get off of my
lazy ass, hook up the old tape deck, and dub them myself, the old fashioned way,
but then what would The Mystery Dude surprise me with the next time a bunch of
us get together to see a movie?

That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

What’s New? A DVD Review of “The Darwin Awards.”

For this DVD review of “The Darwin Awards” The Dude on the Right finds there aren’t many things making the DVD special, but he did find some scenes in the movie kind of funny. The problem is that he also found a lot of the DVD predictable since it’s about The Darwin Awards, so when you have a scenario of stoner dudes climbing a fence at a Metallica concert, well, it can’t be good. He also thought the film folks shouldn’t have given away the fate of Harvey (David Arquette) early in the movie because, well, not knowing his fate would have at least given way to some suspense as to how he was a Darwin Award Winner. The Dude also would have liked to have seen Winona Ryder in the shower scene rather than Jospeh Fiennes. The Dude on the Right can be a stalker sometimes.

What’s New? A Podcast of: O.J. Simpson, The Bears, The Browns, Mr. Woodcock, Once, The Emmy’s, and No Stu.

For this podcast The Dude on the Right is left alone for the weekend wrap-up, normally done with his buddy Stu, but Stu Gotz is leading the family through an adventure in their RV. The worst part is there is a whole bunch of stuff that happened this weekend, like O.J. Simpson getting arrested, the Cleveland Browns scoring a billion points, the Chicago Bears winning, The Dude seeing “Mr. Woodcock” and “Once,” and Fox bleeping Frog, a.k.a. Sally Field, and others, during the Emmy Awards’ broadcast. “We don’t know what we can really show on TV” TV has truly hit the airwaves. I guess “God damn” and “screwing” are bad words now.

O.J. Simpson, The Bears, The Browns, Mr. Woodcock, Once, The Emmy’s, and No Stu.

By:

The Dude on the Right
It’s a Monday which would normally mean it’s a Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!
Podcast, but sadly Stu Gotz is traveling in his RV, or as he calls it his
"Tenement on Wheels," with Mama Gotz, the two little Gotz’s, and the two dog
Gotz’s. Lucky him! In any case, that leaves me flying solo

for this podcast which had more things happening over the weekend than I can
fully discuss in about fifteen minutes, but I give it a try.

I’ve got football
talk about the Chicago
Bears and the
Cleveland Browns; I’ve got talk about

O.J. Simpson being arrested in Las Vegas; I’ve got talk about the
movies I saw over the weekend, namely

"Mr. Woodcock" and

"Once"; And we find out that you might not be able to say "Goddamn,"
"Screwing," or mouth the word "Shit" on broadcast TV anymore. We found
that out during the Emmy Awards last night, and also found out having an award
show "In-The-Round" probably isn’t a good idea. I just can’t believe the
Fox folks censored Frog from "Smokey and The Bandit." Welcome to "We
really aren’t sure what we can broadcast anymore" TV.

Thanks for listening.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

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What’s New? Movie Reviews of “Once” and “Mr. Woodcock.”

This weekend The Dude on the Right went to see a couple of movies. One was a current film called “Mr. Woodcock,” even though it isn’t that current since its been advertised for almost a year now. The Dude knows that when a movie takes that long to get released there are problems, and he thinks he knows how he would have fixed it. He also saw an Indie film called “Once,” and there isn’t anything that was needed to fix this one. Nope, he gives “Once” 5 stars out of 5. It’s one of the best love stories/musicals he thinks he has ever seen. And, oh yea, he says “Once“ got robbed by getting an “R” rating for using the F-bomb.

What’s New? A Podcast of: A Mean Niece, Messing with Telemarketers, and Sports – Complete with Testicles.

For this podcast The Dude on the Right thought he was done with The Plain White T’s, but thanks to his sadistic niece he is back to going nuts. And speaking of nuts, thanks to the story of an Oklahoma Sooner fan grabbing the twig and berries of a Texas Longhorn fan, he’s also worried about some of his friends who are USC Trojan fans even though they didn’t go to USC . The Dude also likes being nice to telemarketers because it tends to confuse them. He’s a weird dude.