Category: Movie Reviews and Stuff

By:

The Dude on the Right
Last week I blamed Mama Gotz for not letting Stu be able to have time to do a
podcast with me, so for

this "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, well, Mama Gotz decided to show up and kick
my ass.  Okay, she didn’t want to kick my ass, but she does make a guest
appearance to talk about Christmas at the Gotz’s, which is nice.  But since
Stu and I are the stars of the show, we don’t give Mama Gotz much air-time, so
instead Stu and I talk about an asshole who pulls up in his Maserati at
Starbucks, and a lot about Christmas.  Stu and the family saw "Bedtime
Stories" with Adam Sandler, I saw chick-flicks with my BFF, and I tell Stu about
some of the gift exchanges my BFF and I had for Christmas.  I question Stu
if it’s appropriate for Santa Claus to show up during Christmas mass, Stu
wonders what someone bought at Walgreens, I’m bummed the Chicago Bears suck, but
through it all we don’t talk about Oprah not pumping her own gas.

With this
being our last podcast of 2008,
thanks for listening!
And from Stu Gotz and me, ’nuff said, and that’s it for this one!  Happy
New Year!

By:

The Dude on the Right
I’m blaming Mama Gotz for Stu not being able to join me for a

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, and I’m sure much to the delight (sarcasm
implied) of our staff member,
The
Mystery Dude, I’m flying solo.  I don’t really change much of what I
was going to talk to Stu about, with such topics as alternate meal plans for
your Holiday dinner table, seeing the movie

"Yes Man," how cold it is here in Chicagoland, and Christmas is coming! 
Hooray!

I also wanted to discuss with Stu the myriad of movies opening this
Christmas weekend, with the likes of "The Curious Case of Mork from Ork," umm, I
mean, Benjamin Button, "The Spirit," "Valkyrie," "Marley & Me," and Adam Sandler
finding a desire to make a children’s movie, so he has "Bedtime Stories" coming
out.  What would a podcast from Illinois be without more talk of our
Governor, Rod Blagojevich, and even though the Chicago Bears didn’t play as of
podcast recording time, it’s still football season so why not some Bear talk,
too?

I am saving a "Why didn’t I think of that" moment for my next podcast
with Stu, so you’ve got that to look forward to.

So much
more, Holiday wishes to all of you, and as always,
thanks for listening!

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

By:

The Dude on the Right
Our
"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast gets off to a smashing start, with my not
being able to speak and Stu Gotz reminding me that it was a Honda in

"The Day the Earth Stood Still," but for some reason my headset starts
going haywire, thus leading to some strange sounding audio and an apologetic
ending.  But in the meantime we did get to talk about some things.  I
got to tell Stu about my trip to New Jersey where I used my iPhone as my
boarding pass, how People Magazine is disgusting, and while he tells me about
his trip to
Enchanted
Castle with the Little Gotzes, well, I let Stu know that I’ve been there
as well when I was in college.  Stu’s weekend was all about being with Mama
Gotz and the Little Gotzes, with said trip to the Castle, but even more in step
with Christmas was a ride on The Polar Express, a train ride in Illinois to The
North Pole, or maybe just Aurora, complete with Santa and some hot looking
elves.

Since our podcast is cut short a bit, I was unable to tell Stu about my
watching "It’s a Wonderful Life," nor give a shout-out to my BFF’s sister and
family, nor let Stu know that I have a visitor for part of the week, who likes
to do my hair and it’s not my BFF.  I guess the picture here will have to
do.

So much
more, a little less, but as always,
thanks for listening!

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

By:

The Dude on the Right
Stu
Gotz is here for

our "Weekend Wrap-Up! Podcast" and he started grumpy, but now is just
perturbed at me because I’m too cheap to take a quick Apple class to get our
podcast to sound better with the two USB headsets I’m trying to use.  Me,
I’m just stubborn, and yes, I am cheap.

My cheapness aside, myself, I skipped
the movies with my BFF, instead catching the end of the Magnificent Mile
Festival of Lights Parade, where maybe our vantage point was crap for float
viewing, but if you want the perfect view for the fireworks, I know the spot and
I’m not telling.  Stu didn’t catch a parade, didn’t take the little Gotz’s
to see "Bolt," but his seeing

"Quantum of Solace" did lend us to some James Bond talk.  On the
funnier front, Stu revisited "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," while I have
Netflix viewing to catch up with, including "Tropic Thunder!"

There
is a little talk about The Chicago Bears and their leading the division yet
still sucking, Stu ponders his Twitter
Tweets, manners, and a way to help save the environment because you only
wipe your butt with one hand.

Stu, being the Scuba man that he is, lastly
reminisces on the ending of the YMCA Scuba Training, with a little but of
animosity.

Neither of us know if we will see "Transporter 3," "Australia," or
"Four Christmases" at the movies this week for Thanksgiving, but did enjoy
Justin Timberlake in a black unitard on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago.

Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for listening!

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

By:

The Dude on the Right
After re-listening to

our latest "Stu & The Dude Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, it doesn’t sound
as bad as I thought it might, though there is a slight echo, being recorded on
my new MacBook and all, but there are still some microphone issues, some sound
effects issues, and issues of shutting up Stu Gotz at times that I still need to
deal with, but for about 18 minutes we have a bunch of topics to cover as
quickly as we can.

Sure, there is a brief discussion about

the passing of Mom on the Right, but as sometimes happens for us, especially
over the weekend, movies seems to be a part of our lives, so I saw "Zack and
Miri Make a Porno" and Stu liked, via Netflix,

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" sans the wiener.

Stu and Mama Gotz didn’t
get to see a movie, but they did hit some places for the kids over the weekend,
namely a place with jumpy stuff for the kids at a birthday party, and someplace
called "Space Golf"
where Stu wonders if the people who run the place bought too much over-priced
sci-fi crap.  It does, though, give a new place for my BFF and I to
continue our miniature golf competition.

TV talk also proliferates this
podcast, with talk of "My Name is Earl" and "South Park," and what would a
podcast on the eve of the Presidential Election be without talk about the
Presidential Election, or in Chicago, voting early and voting often.

It was
great to talk with Stu again for a podcast, even if there were some audio
issues, but as Stu comments about
Studs Terkel,
it ends up obvious that neither of us read many books, but we do watch TV and
both liked

John McCain on "Saturday Night Live."

Thanks for listening!

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

By:

The Dude on the Right
Stu
Gotz is back!  That’s right, he’s here in all his nasally glory for another
episode of our

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast.  With Stu back he tells of a birthday party
for one of the Little Gotz’s, complete with a trip for a group of little tykes
to see "Beverly Hills Chihuahua."  Stu mentions if he liked the movie and
also if it good for kids, that even though he saw it a while ago he didn’t think
"Speed Racer" was that bad, and hated the ending of "How to Lose Friends and
Alienate People."  Movies aside, I tell Stu about my and the BFF’s
experience at Hooters which was simply supposed to be a to-go order of ten
medium flavored wings which turned into a forty minute odyssey resulting in two
giant orders of cold fries, two orders of blue cheese and celery, two large
glasses of water, ten wings that had no sauce whatsoever, and a feeling that the
BFF and I will not be visiting, at least not together, a Hooters anytime soon.

And if that isn’t enough for fifteen minutes of conversation, Stu and I also
discuss Mama Gotz wanting to sell Beanie Babies on eBay, guns for kids, a fake
e-mail about Barak Obama dealing with The American Flag and The National Anthem
(come on people, use

snopes.com), and, ever so briefly, we talk about movies that will be opening
this weekend.

Thanks for listening!

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