For this podcast of Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!, The Dude on the Right and Stu Gotz get into the fall TV season, both liking the new show “The Big Bang Theory” yet wondering if most of America will get it. Stu tells of his weeping at the passing of Flower on “Meerkat Manor,” and The Dude lets Stu know if he should go to the theater and see “The Kingdom.” They both have more TV talk, chat a bit about the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cubs, and The Dude tells Stu about a “not so happy” birthday for a Mom.
Category: General Musings
Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “The Big Bang Theory” and More TV, The Cubs and More Sports, and eBay Dummies.
By:
The Dude on the Right
On a dreary Monday, after a Chicago Bears’ loss, nothing brings joy to my heart
like chatting with Stu Gotz about our weekends
for our podcast. Thank God Stu was around to actually participate, so we
chat a lot about new TV, especially "The Big Bang Theory," a little about
"Chuck," Stu got weepy at Flower’s death on "Meerkat Manor," and
I’m getting sucked into "The Bachelor" again.
On the movie front I
regale Stu with my tales of seeing "The
Kingdom," while he gives his breakdown of his Netflix viewing of "The
Darwin Awards." It also being the Monday after a Bears’ game we also
talk some sports, especially since the Chicago Cubs won their Division and are
in the playoffs. Stu also gets worked up a lot, especially about a stupid eBay
bidder and helping an elder with a computer, so he drops a few F-Bombs here and
there, but just feel lucky that you didn’t get to see him scratch his balls.
Thanks for listening.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
 |
Subscribe Here      |
The Chicago Cubs New Magic Number is 22? And I’m Still a Geek.
By:
The Dude on the Right
So last night, with some help from the Milwaukee Brewers, the Chicago Cubs
finally clinched the National League Central Division and now it’s time for the
playoffs. Yay! The thing is that now, what is their new "Magic
Number?" The news stated it was 11, but isn’t that wrong in Magic Number
lore. It’s supposed to be the combination of wins of your team with the
losses of the team you are up against to advance to the next stage of the
season, at least that’s my understanding, so even though the Cubs need to win 11
games to win The World Series, isn’t the Magic Number to win it all actually 22?
In any case I do know that with the Cubs in the playoffs, well, my TV viewing is
being thrown into even more turmoil than it was last week, especially since two
new shows, after watching them and reflecting on an event last week, reminded me
of something.
Even after being 2 scores old, I’m still an insecure geek.
And fine, go ahead and insert the word "nerd" for "geek" if you prefer.
The
two shows I’m talking about are "The
Big Bang Theory" and "Chuck."
In "The Big Bang Theory" this smoking hot dudette moves into the apartment next
to a couple of uber-geeks, actually surpassing me in the geek-dom of being a
geek, but there he was, the one dude, doing all he could to impress the hot
dudette. And in "Chuck," Chuck is a nice guy, implanted with the spy
secrets of the government, and a smokin’ hot government agent enters his life to
at first find out what he knows, faking to be interested in him, and Chuck gets
his hopes up. The basic part of the story is the same: Geeky guy is
interested in the hot girl but doesn’t know how to be cool enough to work it.
So how did this remind me of my geek-dom? It was last week and Stu Gotz’s
buddy was turning 40 (what a great age). To celebrate, Stu set up a small,
lunch, get-together including Stu, Mama Gotz, Stu’s buddy and the buddy’s wife,
and me, at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Orland Park, south of Chicago. We
all end up at the bar and the bartendress is very cute, with a great body, great
butt, nice boobs, and a perfect smile. You would look at her and say
"Dude, she is so out of your league." As lunch went on a question came up,
namely who was the girl who turned into a blueberry in "Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory," and none of us could remember. As the conversation
between the couples went on (mostly about kids and their houses), I took out my
iPhone, Googled "blueberry girl in Willy Wonka" and announced "Her name was
"Violet Beauregarde." Somehow "iPhone" came up in the conversation and the
cute bartendress pretty much denounced anyone who would buy an iPhone, that she
wasn’t a gadget girl, and that her cell phone was older than the hills but she
knew how to send text messages. As a geek, pretty much everything she said
also indicated "I’ve got no shot in hell with her." But then Stu’s buddy
said something to me, something like "Dude, dare her to let you text her."
I shook off his suggestion, then he said something like "Dude, then let me dare
her to let you text her." And I shook him off again. He seemed
flabbergasted, kinda like "Why the hell not?", and after we left, and after
seeing "The Big Band Theory" and "Chuck," I realized I should have taken him up
on his offer to try and get her phone number. Even after all of these
years I was still an insecure geek, and what’s the worst that would have
happened, other than she lets me text her, her Ultimate Fighting boyfriend sees
a weird text on her phone, he hunts me down, and he beats the living daylights
out of me? At least I would have had her phone number.
So, I don’t have the
cute bartendress’ phone number, I still have my iPhone that isn’t bricked and
somehow has my personal ringtones even though I upgraded to Firmware 1.1.1, and
I think I have come to realize that I will always be a geek.
Or maybe just a
nerd.
Is there a difference? (No comments from you, Sis.)
That’s it for this one!
I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
What’s New? A Podcast of: The Cubs’ Magic Number is Still Three, A TV Season is in Full Swing.
For this podcast The Dude on the Right is screwed up in the head because his Chicago Cubs can’t seem to clinch their division, and with the Fall TV premier week, well, The Dude has a lot of shows on TiVo to catch up with, new shows he loves (“The Big Bang Theory“), old shows he still loves (“How I Met Your Mother“), and is a little perturbed at “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Biggest Loser” for taking too much of his TV time, even though he likes them. TiVo scheduling is almost more important for him right now rather than watching shows when they actually air, like “Reaper.”
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!!!
|
|
Subscribe Here |
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!!!
|
|
Subscribe Here |
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 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!!!
|
|
Subscribe Here |