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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Lousy Audio, Airport Travels, A Polar Express, and An Abrupt Ending

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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,
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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Fraternity Dinner, TV Talk, and Girls in Skimpy Outfits

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Back from an extended weekend of fun with old friends, well, most of this

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast is about Stu and I getting together with
friends that we have been friends with for over twenty years, mostly thanks to
our fraternity days in a place called Theta Xi. We’ve been having these
Christmas (or P.C. correct "Holiday") parties for years, and as the years are
going by, most of us don’t have the stamina to party until closing time anymore.
Instead, well, we find ourselves tired and just decide to head back to our hotel
rooms and go to bed.

The years have also brought about some change in
locations for food and drink, where
"English" has taken the place of "Hooters," for lunch on Friday, for some
reason we seem to like
"Reagle Beagle,"
and a festive dinner happened at
"Tavern at the Park"
where people came in from Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota, and places around the
world, or at least around Chicago.

We also talk about the Chicago Bears, TV (I
really like the show "Chuck,") and Stu and Mama Gotz caught up on old movies
like "Bring It On," "Stick It," and the really old (yet coming this weekend new)
"The Day the Earth Stood Still," while Stu is worried about the Jim Carrey movie
coming out, "Yes Man," namely that it might suck because of all of the publicity
it is getting.

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

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Black Friday, A Walnut Room, Painting, Gambling, Movies, and More!

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The Dude on the Right
As
we are slowly getting recording our podcast on my MacBook laptop a little more
consistent, it was kind of weird because as much as this was a long weekend for
the both of us with Turkey-Day involved, I still wonder why

our "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast is usually about the same things.

Stu,
well, with the holiday, started getting the Little Gotz’s involved in science
with a trip to the "Museum of Science and Industry" in Chicago, and then
introduced them to bad food at "The Walnut Room" while I advise people just show
up there to see the Christmas Tree and get dinner somewhere else. He also
saw the movie "Bolt" in 3-D and thought the story sucked but was good for the
kids, and Mama Gotz wouldn’t let him finish watching "Delta Farce" thanks to his
Netflix queue. He also tries to analyze an episode of "The Big Bang
Theory," and we both loved the "Naked Man" episode of "How I Met Your Mother."

Me, I tell Stu about me and my BFF having dinner with The Dude on the Left and
Trash; lunch with The Mystery Dude and Mama Mystery Dude; how I didn’t see any
movies over the Thanksgiving weekend (but am looking forward to a review of
"Australia" from The W.G.N.); how little ones are becoming gamblers; and am
thankful that the Chicago Bears loss to the Minnesota Vikings might save me some
hours from watching football for the rest of the season, although that time
might be now taken by listening to Britney Spears’ new CD, "Circus."

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

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Fireworks, Movies, Manners, and a Cheap Dude

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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!

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “Quantum of Solace,” The Chicago Bears Suck, A Crabman, and More!

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The Dude on the Right
I
think I had a more exciting weekend than Stu Gotz, but to really find out, I
suppose you’ll have to listen to

this week’s "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast.

For Stu, well, most of his weekend
was about family. He caught a movie with Mama Gotz,

"27 Dresses," a movie I watched a few weeks ago with my BFF, and Stu kind of
liked it. He also is keeping track of "Entourage" on HBO, and really isn’t
that sad that "My Own Worst Enemy" got cancelled from his TV schedule because he
thought the show blew its load way too early in the season. He did find it
surprising that YouTube booted his short video of one of the Little Gotz’s when
he got a message that his video was booted for having copyrighted material, even
though it did contain copyrighted music. so, I guess, ahh, the Wild West of the
universe might have really found a new sheriff, but I was just surprised that
Stu actually knew what an algorithm was!

Me, I prognosticated, via
Twitter, that the
Chicago Bears would beat the Green Bay Packers by a score of 96 to 3, whereas
sadly the score was almost exactly the opposite. I tell Stu how much the
Bears sucked, even though I didn’t get to see most of the game because the BFF
and I went to see, "Quantum of Solace," which I still haven’t decided if that
was a good or bad thing, and we also went to the NBC Travel Expo at Navy Pier in
Chicago and were both kind of disappointed at the representations of some
Caribbean locals we were thinking of vacationing to. I did get to see
Crabman and Catalina from "My Name is Earl," though only from afar, my BFF and I
got to admire Mike Adamle (and I so wish I had a video camera) eating popcorn,
and nothing wraps up an exciting weekend like cleaning your garage!

Sure,
there are some other things we talk about, but for those, well, you’ll just have
to listen to the podcast.

And as always, thanks for listening!

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Bubble Tea, Families, Movies, and an Injury.

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The Dude on the Right
Stu Gotz is here for our

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, where he makes fun of the fact I’ve been dating
my BFF for six months. But this podcast is not only about Stu making fun
of me, somehow we cram tons of talk of tons of things into almost twenty minutes
of a podcast.

Included in our talking is a quick discussion about bubble tea,
with me and the BFF finding
"Chill Bubble Tea"
at Woodfield Mall on the way to an early Thanksgiving family get-together where
"Mexican Fiesta" was the theme, and I am still in wonderment at the family
gatherings of my BFF because they are so different from how mine are. Of
course we talk about movies, with Stu Gotz seeing "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"
with the Little Gotz’s and Mama Gotz, at the IMAX theater at Navy Pier in
Chicago, while I got to see "Role Models" and really enjoyed it, in an R-Rated
kind of way. I was surprised to learn Stu actually knew of the movie "Like
Water for Chocolate," which I watched with my BFF thanks to my Netflix queue
(and liked it), and Stu reminds me I might want to catch up on "Entourage" on
HBO and reminds the ladies that if they want to see wieners in movies, they
might want to catch

"Zack and Miri Make a Porno," "The Piano," or

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall."

We also give our breakdown of the Chicago
Bears’ loss to the Tennessee Titans, and Stu is injured thanks to digging dirt
and playing with his Wii. That’s his Nintendo Wii, and playing with his
other Wii didn’t seem to help build up any muscles.

So much to talk about, so
little time, but somehow we cram it all in, and are both looking forward to the
new James Bond flick coming this weekend, "Quantum of Solace."

Thanks for listening!

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Making a Porno, Don’t Forget Sarah Marshall, The Elections and More!

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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."

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! No More Hooters, Football, A Chihuahua, and More!

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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.

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Chicago Sports, Stu’s Schnoz, Apples, and A Happy Faced Barn.

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The Dude on the Right
Stu
Gotz was worried about his ticker but found out it was only his giant nose, so
I’m flying solo for

this "Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, and even though my impression of Stu sucks,
and I don’t keep it going throughout the podcast (mostly because it would have
probably been really annoying), I let you know what Stu sort of sounds like
right now, or maybe not. But this is a podcast about my weekend, and like
many Chicagoans, it was a lot about sports. Sure, the Chicago Cubs
finalized their meltdown, with this year’s team securing their history in Cub’s
lore as the team that made them not win a World Series in 100 years, and the
Chicago Bears are actually looking good, and as a Kyle Orton athletic supporter,
I was happy to see him do well, but were the Detroit Lions really a good
indication of their Bear-ness? And then there are the White Sox, breathing
life into the hopes of Chicago baseball fans, or at least south-side fans, for
another game. The crappy part is that as I’m typing this, and recorded the
podcast, the White Sox aren’t doing well (in fact they lost), and I’m blaming
their losing this series on the fact that the White Sox management people urged
fans to wear black, but then gave the fans those dumb-ass, white, towels, which
you might as well just call "Homer-Hankies," or something else gay like that,
instead of refilling the order at "Bed, Bath & Beyond" for 40,000 black towels.
Blackouts only work when everything is black, and I hate to create my own
conspiracy theory, but what the hell? When the Chicago White Sox had their
original "blackout" for the one game playoff, well, fans donned their black
outfits, the fans were given black towels, and on TV it looked eerily cool,
especially with Halloween coming. Then came the playoffs, and on TV you
know what looks contrasting? People dressed in black while waving white
towels. Do you know who waves white towels? Managers in the corners
of a boxer, a boxer who is about to be pummeled beyond all recognition.
They don’t throw in a black towel; they throw in a white towel, and that’s what
the White Sox fans are flailing above their heads during this game. Black
towels are south side Chicago – White towels are lame-asses.

Enough
about sports and TV conspiracy theories, my weekend also included something way
out of normalcy for me, thanks to my BFF, and it might be something both of us
needed – a trip to do some apple picking, at some place called
The Elegant Farmer,
which plunged me into a world of wondering if people have fallen off of the
hayride, why we kept getting in line at the donut shack only to have them run
out of donuts, and I don’t care how the apple people try to sell it – hail
damaged apples look gross, I’m not putting them in my basket, and I have no idea
how I didn’t fall off of that ladder!

Most of my weekend was really about
apple picking, so I’m sorry for the baseball rant, but in a bizarre way I
thought the Chicago White Sox could actually pull off a second win, but with
those dumb-ass white towels, the White Sox fans now look like every other dorky
fan in the Major Leagues. A blackout means black, that you are a bad-ass –
white towels mean you give up.

And, oh yea, during this podcast I also tell
how I might start a new spotlight dealing with "The Biggest Loser."

This is
probably the longest synopsis for a fifteen minute podcast ever, but I can’t
believe both Chicago baseball teams sucked this bad.

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Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Lots of Movies, Sports, and Spelling Julio.

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Stu
Gotz is back for a

"Weekend Wrap-Up!" podcast, just in time to ruin the story of what I thought
was a lovely moment at dinner with my BFF, at "Uncle Julio’s Hacienda" (and you
spell "Julio" with a "J" and not an "H", and the drink I thought was called
something like "The Squirrel" is actually called
"Swirl"
, and they have way-good food), in Chicago, and he also explains that he doesn’t
know how to hang up his phone.

Dinner and a cell phone aside, the both of us
saw some movies over the weekend, with Stu not liking the Jimmy Buffett-backed
movie, "Hoot," that he saw on cable that much, my liking both

"Eagle Eye" with Shia LaBeouf, in the theater and "The Hammer" with Adam
Carolla, on DVD, and both myself and my BFF thinking "Ghost Town" with Ricky
Gervais was too long. Both Stu and I are happy the Chicago Bears won, and
Stu gives his detailed analysis of the new design of the Chicago Tribune
newspaper. Thankfully he let me take his paper because my subscription is
still on vacation hold and the store was sold out, although, since they were
actually free today, wouldn’t they have actually been free out? And me, I
also give Stu my quick analysis of my TV viewing, complete about "Dancing With
the Stars," "Survivor: Gabon," and "The Biggest Loser: Families."

Anyway, what
would a timely podcast be without my impersonation of

Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," with the both
of us amazed at Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin, though Stu was not
amazed at my impersonation of Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin.

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