The Dude on the Right is back from his weekend in Lorain, Ohio, a city where both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are making campaign stops, but The Dude didn’t stay long enough to see either of them. Instead he got back to the Chicagoland area as quick as he could so he and Stu Gotz could put together a new episode of their “Weekend Wrap-Up Podcast!” The Dude would have liked to have stayed to see Barack speak and Hillary flash her crazy-eyes, but instead he gets to listen to Stu not stop talking (maybe Stu should be a politician?).
But because Stu wouldn’t shut up this podcast is all over the place, including talk about The Academy Awards and who should have won an Oscar, movies like “The Ex” and “Be Kind, Rewind,” buying a meat slicer, “Saturday Night Live,” starting a porn site, a non-bachelor party, Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel calling Stu in the middle of the night, and Mama Gotz almost falling out of bed. At least The Dude got to tell Stu that Jimmy Kimmel is fucking Ben Affleck.
So many things are in this podcast, and probably a few more. Go ahead, give it a listen.
Author: Andy Labis
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Oscar Talk, Who’s Jimmy Kimmel “F”-n, and Stu Won’t Shut Up.
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The Dude on the Right
For this blue (and I’m not talking sad, I’m talking bad language) episode of our
"Weekend Wrap-Up Podcast!" Stu Gotz just doesn’t want to shut up (nor keep
it clean), not that there’s anything wrong with that. What it does do,
though, is lend this to a podcast of topics just about everywhere and anywhere.
We give our wrap-up of "The Academy Award" broadcast, how some missed out on the
coveted Oscar, and both Stu and I thought it was really cool that they let
Marketa Irglova come back out and give her speech for winning the best song
Oscar for "Falling Slowly" from the film
"Once" after the band cued her and Glen Hansard off the stage after Glen
spoke. We also discuss fashion, which is scary, and found it funny that
John Stewart slammed
"Norbit" even though it was up for an Academy Award.
Stu saw a couple of
movies over his weekend, one via his Netflix, namely "The Ex," the other without
Mama Gotz, namely "Be Kind, Rewind," and lets me know what he thought of them,
while I tell Stu about the joys of buying a meat slicer. There’s also talk
of the return of "Saturday Night Live" with a fake commercial called
"Annuale" that Stu said nearly had Mama Gotz fall out of bed (we both found
it very funny), and I have to admit I was wrong because it was Fred Armisen who
was doing the Barack Obama impression during the opening, not someone new,
although I still think Darrell Hammond doing Jesse Jackson doing Barack Obama
would be better.
I did hip Stu to the fact that Jimmy Kimmel has figured out
how to get back at Sarah Silverman, namely because
Jimmy
Kimmel is fucking Ben Affleck, and we find that Jimmy has the star power
Sarah only wishes she had. Stu also wants us to start a porn site because
that’s where the real money is, only I have trouble with the domain name he
wants to buy. Finally, since Stu still can’t stop talking, he now hates
Jim
Cantore from The Weather Channel because Jim woke the Gotz family up at
three in the morning just to tell him about an upcoming Winter Storm Warning and
not a tornado.
Thanks for listening! And Mom, get well soon!
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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There Are Still Too Many American Idols for Me to Care.
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The Dude on the Right
As a fan of "American
Idol" I have to agree with my mom that there are still too many contestants
for me to really care. Sure, they trimmed it down to 24, twelve dudes and
twelve dudettes, but after watching the dudes do their singing yesterday, I
could care less about them. The dudettes are tonight, but other than
checking out which ones are doing the smart thing, namely trying to look hot as
well as sing well, I don’t think I care about them, either.
The other thing,
and maybe I’m wrong about this (go ahead, correct me), but I don’t think they
used to start right off the bat with a theme, at least not for the top 24.
I always thought that, at the beginning, they let the kids pick any song, from
any genre, from any time period, as long as it was on the approved "we’ve got
the rights to this" list, to kind of show what these people thought they could
sing well. Instead the boys were dropped right into the fire, with it now
being 60’s week, where most of the dudes seemed to struggle because A) They
didn’t seem to realize they were suppose to make it their own, nor 2) I’m
guessing most of them had no idea how to make it their own, what with now being
with the band and all. The judges kept blasting them for singing the song
as the song was originally done, but I didn’t think that, at this stage, most of
our twelve dudes would be comfortable enough saying something like "Hey, band
people, I’m singing Elvis’ "Suspicious Minds," but I want it done in a hip-hop
style that maybe Kanye West would do. I don’t really know what that means,
but since I have to make the song my own, and you’re the band, well, you figure
it out." Some of the dudes did okay, I don’t think anyone sucked that bad,
but it seems odd, at this early stage of the competition, for the contestants to
have to reconfigure classics (and oh, by the way, the folks at "American Idol"
need to look at a calendar because Danny’s version of "Jailhouse Rock" belonged
in 50’s week, as it was released in 1957, I believe) into something
contemporary.
We’ll see how the ladies do tonight, and after yesterday I can
probably guess there might have been a lot of scrambling, with maybe one of them
saying "I am now doing "Baby Love" by The Supremes, and you better figure out
how to make it sound like a version that Amy Winehouse would do." Somehow
I don’t think that would actually happen. My guess is the judges will be saying
the same thing as yesterday, with maybe a couple girls, hopefully the
good-looking ones, somehow making the song their own.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Podcast of: Lindsay Lohan is Naked, TV for Kids at Night, and Idols on iTunes.
The Dude on the Right was happy when he read Lindsay Lohan was getting naked, but for this podcast he states that he doesn’t like Lindsay trying to copy Marilyn Monroe, that she should be her own woman. He’s also frustrated because he ruined most of the animation of his and Stu’s animated review of “Sweeney Todd,” questions the decision to run a show geared for families, namely “My Dad is Better Than Your Dad” at a time-slot when the kids should be getting ready for bed, and wonders who will be buying “American Idol” performances on iTunes.
Lindsay Lohan is Naked, TV for Kids at Night, and Idols on iTunes.
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The Dude on the Right
With the Gotz family running through the winter cold bug, Stu didn’t want to
take a chance and infect me (Thanks, Stu!), so I’m flying solo in what normally
would be a "Weekend Wrap-Up" podcast.
Instead, this podcast starts with much jubilation as
Lindsay Lohan has finally gotten naked for the rest of us to see!
Sure, I
could probably fill the entire podcast of my analysis of Lindsay naked, but to
change things up a bit I also question why the NBC show
"My
Dad is Better Than Your Dad" is on at 9PM on the east and west coast when
its target kid audience should probably be getting ready for bed, I give my
analysis of NASCAR’s Daytona 500 from Sunday, and I also wonder who will
actually be buying performances of the "American Idol" contestants via iTunes.
And, oh yea, in giving you my weekend wrap-up I did see
"Jumper" and
"Definitely, Maybe," but my weekend also resulted in my tale of animation
woe as I pretty much blew-up all of my work on our upcoming animated review of
"Sweeney Todd," mostly because I’m an idiot.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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I Don’t Think Mom Will Need a T-Shirt
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The Dude on the Right
As I continue to use my blogging for some psychotherapy in dealing with the
death of my father last month, a couple of strange thoughts hit me the last
couple of days, some now dealing with my Mom, brought on by the death of my Dad.
And as bizarre as this sounds, I’m wondering now what should be put in her
coffin. Since she’s still in the land of the living, I suppose we should just
ask her, but hopefully she won’t need a t-shirt.
Here’s the thing: Even with
my Dad’s many health issues, he always seemed to just soldier on, but with Mom
being diagnosed with lung cancer a few years back, and sorry, no offense Mom,
most of those in my family figured Dad would stick around and Mom would be the
one to go first. But Dad had other plans, because he always had to do things his
way, and last month his time on Earth was done. As we finalized his official
obituary (I’m still working on my version), we also found/wanted some things
buried with him.
In the couple of days following his death, as we were going through things,
we found his wedding ring, which he never wore as long as I could remember, but
it was stowed away, separately, distinctively, in his box of cufflinks. It was
decided Dad would be buried with his wedding ring on, and from my perspective,
to make sure, in Heaven, he remembered he couldn’t pick up other women.
It was also decided that Dad would be buried with a puzzle, because he liked
doing puzzles. We debated about burying him with an old puzzle he had already
completed, or a new puzzle for him to work on. So there, for him, is a puzzle of
the Chicago skyline that I gave him for Christmas but he never got a chance to
work on.
And as his official obituary stated, Dad enjoyed eating chocolate. One of his
favorites was a coconut/chocolate concoction called a "haystack." Back in Lorain
there was a chocolate/candy company called "Faroh’s" that had the best
"haystacks." They were made with long strands of coconut draped in tasty
chocolate, but sadly they aren’t there anymore. Dad did have some "haystacks"
left with him, even though the newer version from another supplier look like
turds with white speckles, and I have to admit, I snuck a few out of the box
before I left the rest for him for his eternity. Though not as pretty as the
Faroh’s brand, they were tasty. Sorry, Dad, I couldn’t resist.
But it wasn’t until the other day when I realized Dad had something of mine,
for the rest of forever, and it’s simply a t-shirt.
I normally don’t wear t-shirts but with the colder winter we have been having
this year, and my wanting to be a little more stylish, on colder days I started
wearing a white t-shirt, and with the pending passing of my Dad, I packed my
arsenal of four, white t-shirts for the trip back home. It wasn’t until the
other day when it was cold outside, and I was looking for a t-shirt, that I
realized I was one short, and that Dad was wearing my t-shirt. Forever.
You see, like most people dealing with the passing of a parent, there is
always that awkward part of what to have them wearing in their coffin. Dad
wasn’t a suit man and definitely not a jean’s man. His general attire, before he
become bedridden when it was just easier to stay in a hospital gown, was a dark
pair of slacks, usually blue, a t-shirt, and a flannel shirt in the winter,
something lighter in the summer. We found the pants, found a nice shirt, but
couldn’t find a crisp, white t-shirt in his dresser, so I gave Dad one last gift
– a t-shirt.
It was weird when it donned on me that Dad was buried with my t-shirt. It
didn’t make me sad, just seemed weird. I hope Mom won’t think it weird when we
ask her if she wants anything buried with her. I doubt she’ll need a t-shirt,
but when that time comes, I might just bring a spare one anyway.
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Movie Review of “Definitely, Maybe.”
The Dude on the Right has turned in his guy-card. Yup, we find in his movie review of “Definitely, Maybe” that The Dude got weepy, even during a scene that was telegraphed from miles away. He does think it is a great date movie, but is sad the with Ryan Reynolds entering the realm of being a more serious actor, odds are there won’t be a “Van Wilder: He’s a Professor Now.”
What’s New? A Movie Review of “Jumper.”
The Dude on the Right thinks “Jumper” had the potential to turn itself into a movie about a new superhero, and he tells you how in his movie review. Sadly, though, for The Dude the movie just turned into a movie about a dork with a cool power, looking to get his girl. Maybe the book the movie was based on was better, but The Dude doesn’t read so that really doesn’t matter.
What’s New? A Podcast of: Why Johnny Fairplay Might be Gone, Goodbye Josiah, TV is Almost Back, and Getting Howard Stern off the Air.
The Dude on the Right is here for his Valentine’s Day podcast, and he doesn’t talk about love. Instead The Dude gives his analysis on Johnny Fairplay being booted from “Survivor: Micronesia” last week, feeling bad for Josiah who’s back living in his car after “American Idol,” and being happy some of his favorite TV shows will be back, soon. He is also worried that Howard Stern might be off the air soon recalling the movie “Spies Like Us” and the government looking to shoot down a “broken, spy” satellite.
Why Johnny Fairplay Might be Gone, Goodbye Josiah, TV is Almost Back, and Getting Howard Stern off the Air.
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The Dude on the Right
First, to our dudette listeners, Happy Valentine’s Day! To our dude
listeners, it’s Thursday.
Anyway, TV has, or will be soon, kicking back into
gear, and
during this podcast I give you my reason why Johnny Fairplay looked to get
his butt off of the island as soon as possible in last week’s "Survivor:
Micronesia." I was also sad to see that Josiah is probably back living in
his car after being booted from "American Idol." The good news is that
some of my favorite shows, like "How I Met Your Mother," "The Big Bang Theory,"
"My Name is Earl," and "30 Rock," will be back on the air in a little over a
month!
Also on my topic of discussion is a potential government conspiracy
coming in the next week or so. It has to do with trying to shoot down a
government spy satellite, the movie "Spies Like Us," the Sirius and XM Satellite
radio merger, and the government’s, I mean radio industry’s, last chance to get
Howard Stern off the air. I’ll just tease it with this: Sirius has
three satellites in space, I think. The government has three shots to take
down the spy satellite. Hmm?
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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