Author: Andy Labis

Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up: Technical Issues and Movie Talk.

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The Dude on the Right
In our headphones, as we were recording this podcast, both Stu Gotz and I
thought it sounded like crap.  I bitched and moaned and wasted precious
minutes bitching and moaning about how bad this podcast sounded, even to the
point that I forgot to mention two very important things I learned in the
morning.  Now, listening to the replay, the podcast sounds fine, I suppose,
except for my not being able to let it go that it sounded lousy in my
headphones.  I so think I might have OCD.

In any case, Stu and I talk
about our weekend, my catching of a couple of movies, namely "Just
My Luck" and "Keeping
Up With the Steins," and Stu figures he’ll probably go see "Over
the Hedge" next weekend, rather than be damned to hell by seeing "The
Da Vinci Code."  Me, I’ll be damned to hell because I plan on seeing
"The Da Vinci Code" on Saturday, and then my hell will be sitting in a theater
full of kids on Sunday as I try to catch "Over the Hedge."  Oh, it’s so
complicated.

We also talk about the influence about a President’s speech and
Oprah, and why is the President having a speech when we already know everything
about it, and it comes up during sweep’s week in May.  I questioned whether
Oprah or the President would win out, but it seems the folks at ABC, or Oprah,
decided to move her special up a week, probably much to the chagrin of the
millions of women who will have to throw out tons of food they bought for the
"Legend’s" parties they were going to throw.  Can you get the hint I’m a
little perturbed  at the President having a speech that, at the time of my
writing this, I can already read a transcript of what he is going to say, before
I can hear him say it, and his messing up my TV season finale viewing?  I
wonder if his TIVO is all screwed up like mine seems to be right now.  I
better not miss the end of "How I Met Your Mother."

Okay, I started getting
off on a tangent.  This podcast is about Stu and my weekend wrap-up, and
some ramblings, and my obsessing how the podcast sounded horrible in our
headphones.  Anyway, Stu and I had interesting weekends.  Okay, maybe
not interesting, but we both got through our respectives.

Thanks
for listening.

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

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Podcast Contributors From Around the World, or At Least One, Hopefully, and Will it be “Oprah” or “President.”

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The Dude on the Right
Well, it appears that President Bush really doesn’t give a damn about his

approval ratings, which have been plummeting lately, because he has
scheduled a brief speech for tomorrow evening, Monday, May 15th.  The
speech is about

things we have already heard or read about, at least if you pay attention to
the news, so why he has decided to delay my Monday evening TV watching, I really
don’t know.  In any case, so far, according to my TIVO box, Fox and NBC
have given in and will give the President his do, thereby delaying my switching
between "Deal or No Deal" (which is very close to jumping the shark), and "24,"
but the interesting thing will be for ABC.  Their choice:  "Oprah. 
President. Oprah.  President.  Oprah.  President."   My
guess is that the ABC folks will call Oprah and ask for her permission to delay
her special, because, well, Oprah is always right, and millions of Oprah
disciples have already made their

party plans.  My other guess is President Bush’s next approval ratings
will drop a couple of points, especially if Oprah gives the okay to delay her
party.  Really, you’re a member of the Church of Oprah, have all of your
congregation at your humble home, geared up to watch
Oprah
Winfrey’s Legend’s Ball, which actually took place a year ago, 
complete with recipes direct from

Rachael Ray, and there is President Bush talking about Mexicans jumping
across our border.  What a downer.  I suppose only tomorrow night will
tell.

Presidential politics aside, I saw one great movie this weekend, "Keeping
Up With the Steins," and one not-so-fabulous movie, "Just
My Luck."  But more important than those things, I think I’ve also
figured out a way to invite listeners to be a part of our podcasts, namely via
Instant Messaging.  No, typing IM’s back and forth during a podcast would
prove pretty boring, but most, if not all IM programs now have talk capability. 
I’ve only messed around with it a little, namely between a couple of computers
at home and two different AOL accounts, but it seems to be working.  What
I’m asking for now is if anyone out there in internet-land wants to be a guinea
pig in my "The Dude on the Right Podcast Contributors From Around the
World" experiment.  Okay, that’s a pretty long title, but quite
simply I’m looking for someone out there in internet-land, at this point with
AOL and talk capability, although I think is will also work with Skype, Yahoo,
Messenger, and Google Talk, although I haven’t tested those yet, wanting to see
if you want to be a part of our podcast.  If that’s you, I ask you e-mail
me at
podcast@entertainmentavenue.com.  I’d rather keep the podcast about
something simple, like "American Idol" or movies, so also leave a topic you
might want to talk about.  There does seem to be some latency issues
(delays back and forth, just like those satellite feeds you see on the news),
but it might be fun to try.  I’m still looking at a way to accept phone
calls, but right now, this looks a hell of a lot easier with a hell of a lot
less wires.

May sweeps is wrapping up and summer is upon us.  "Survivor"
finishes tonight and if things are right with the world, Terry will win. 
"American Idol" fans  booted of Chris so it will interesting to see if
there is a ratings backlash, or a Chris voting backlash (I think Elliot might be
back in the running to win).  Jack Bauer has almost saved the world again,
and with summer should come a new "Big Brother," although "Dancing With the
Stars" has moved from a summer guilty pleasure to the normal TV season. 
Sadly Beth
Ostrosky, Howard Stern’s girlfriend, says she has opted out of the next
"Dancing…" series.  Oh well, I guess we’ll see what the summer TV season
will bring, and I’m sure I’ll get hooked on something.

Alright, let’s wrap up
this blog.  If you are interested in being a part of one of our podcasts
and have everything hooked up for AOL IM talk capability, e-mail me.  I
think the President will win out over Oprah, but we’ll see.  Right now I’ve
got to go and fold some laundry and get ready for the "Survivor" finale. 
Terry deserves to win, although Cirie would be a funny person to win, especially
with her complaining about looking under leaves in the first episode. Alright,
enough babbling.  I’m done.

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

What’s New? The Dude on the Right’s “American Idol” Analysis for May 9th.

For this podcast, The Dude on the Right has one suggestion for Katharine McPhee – quick smiling and losing the attitude of the song every time the boom camera comes in for a close-up. You change from “singing” the song, to “just singing” the song. He see’s Taylor and Katharine as the final two, but for this week’s episode, rather than a Paula Abdul saying, someone else had the “Saying of the Week.”

The Dude on the Right’s “American Idol” Analysis for May 9th.

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The Dude on the Right
I’ve been calling this type of podcast all kinds of things, but, and of course,
I realized what I should call this with only a couple weeks left for the show
this spring, but it’s really "The Dude on the Right’s ‘American Idol’ Analysis."  It’s not a re-cap, it’s not a wrap-up, it’s what I think about the singing, and that’s an analysis. Oh well, I’ll have to remember this next year.

Anyway, this one is for the show on May 9th, where we already know the shocker of all
shockers, that Chris got the lowest number of votes and is going home.

As much
as I still love Katharine, she is still driving me insane with her mugging for
the boom camera every time it swings towards her.  A sad song, a
sentimental song, a song with attitude – it doesn’t matter, when that boom
camera comes her way, it’s time to sing with the biggest smile on her face you
could ever see.

This podcast also has my favorite Paula Abdul sayings of the
week, but she doesn’t have my favorite saying of the week.  Nope, this
week’s favorite saying goes to, no, wait, you’ll just have to listen.

Thanks
for listening.

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

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Drowning, Natalie Portman, Inventing, and a Nephew Dilemma.

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The Dude on the Right
This podcast entry is all about dilemmas.  So I’m working on getting this
podcast posted before "American Idol" starts, I get the audio portion uploaded,
and then my cell phone starts singing "Margaritaville" to me.  Since most
of my friends have their own song on my cell phone, I know it’s
Trash. 
As much as my podcast dilemmas are waiting for the world to hear, I now had
another one:  Do I take the call and maybe have to go back and catch up
with "American Idol" and get this posted, or Do I let the call go to voice-mail
and talk to her later?  An hour and some change later, here I am, catching
up with tonight’s "American Idol" episode, of which I see my Mom has already
e-mailed me her comments, and working now to get this podcast posted while
watching my singers try to belt out Elvis tunes.

In the end, her call led to a
larger intro paragraph rather than "I have some dilemmas with this podcast. 
Please listen and give me your opinion!", and I haven’t talked to Trash in quite
a while, so it was good to hear from her.  I just have to remind her of my
TV viewing schedule, and I still can’t believe I gave up, live, "American Idol"
for her.  Oh well.

So, this podcast has topics like my waiting for a
phone call from Natalie Portman, drowning in water, doing some inventing for a "phoner"
podcast, and most importantly, and this is where I need your help, what the hell
am I supposed to do about my nephew?  It’s a problem many Uncles might
have, but I need your advice.

Thanks for listening, and I really welcome your
advice on this matter.  It’s a matter most of us uncles have with our
nephews, and our nieces, so please, let me know what to do.

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

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Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie, Mia Hamm, and Wynona Ryder. They All Have Something in Common.

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The Dude on the Right
Here in Chicagoland this weekend, we had some fabulous weather.  Saturday
was just a tad cool, but today, Sunday, it was a perfect spring day.  So my
choices of the morning were "It’s a beautiful day!  I know what I should
do, I should sit in a movie theater for a couple of hours!  That would be a
great way to enjoy the weather!" or "It’s a beautiful day!  I know what I
should do, I should get out, maybe take a nice walk and smell the flowers! 
That would be a great way to enjoy the weather!"  Well there wasn’t any
flower-smelling, but I skipped the movies (my choices were "United 93" or
"Friends With Money") and did get to enjoy the weather a bit.  But there
was still some work to do, namely finishing our latest episode of "Stu & The
Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You!" where we did some talk about Tom Cruise and
"Mission:
Impossible III."  That’s posted for your viewing pleasure.

As nice a
day today was, my weekend started out in fabulous fashion.  I decided to
figure out who my "Celebrity
Love Match" was, and I was very much pleased at the women who would love me. 
At the top of the list was Natalie Portman, followed by Angelina Jolie, Mia
Hamm, and Wynona Ryder.  I have to say that I find all of those dudettes great and I was pretty excited, waiting for them all to fight over me, until I thought about this a
little bit.  Natalie Portman is a reported vegetarian, so I’m wondering
what she would think about my propensity for a decent porterhouse steak once in
a while.  I have no idea how Angelina Jolie ended up as a match, although
maybe since she’s a mom now, well, she wouldn’t try to have me carry around a
little vile of her blood.  I’m thinking Mia Hamm really wouldn’t be too
proud of my work-out schedule, and being Catholic, would I have to convert to
Judaism for Wynona?  I was supposed to try and work on some movie previews
this week, but I think most of my week might be spent trying to track down the
new love’s of my life.  I just hope that by the time I find Angelina she’s
already had the baby and has any extra pounds she might have put on worked off. 
Oh, and I hope she has her eyesight back because who knows what she sees in that
Brad Pitt dude.  Just look at the size of my hands and feet!

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

What’s New? Stu & The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You! Mission: Impossible III

For this episode of “Stu & The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You!,” “South Park” fans called for a boycott of all things Tom Cruise, but one of the reviewers just couldn’t resist the pull of Tom Cruise and gave “Mission: Impossible III” 3 out of 5 stars.