Category: Television Shows

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The Dude on the Right
First off, for this podcast, as you listen and I say “Wallow in misery,” or
something like that, please replace the word “Wallow” with “Rejoice.” Sure, it’s
mean, because it’s making fun of Hillary totally losing it on “The Bachelor,”
but her dismissal is why I watch the show.

But this podcast isn’t all about TV shows probably no one watches, I also do
my review, or rather a discussion, about Apple’s release of Mac OS X, called
Leopard. Since I don’t have an Apple computer, although I always think of
getting one, it really doesn’t mean much to me, but I do have an iPhone and hope
it might add some new stuff, although one of the new stuff I would like is for
the iPhone calendar to easily synch with the Google calendar, and since that has
nothing to do with an operating system I guess I’m dreaming.

I also am starting to stress about Halloween coming next week, and give you
some quick stories about Drew Carey hosting “The Price is Right” and how I hope
Paris Hilton’s latest setback doesn’t put her back on the road to partying.

Here’s to your partying, and Paris’ not!

Thanks for listening.

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

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The Dude on the Right
No, I won’t let the Ellen DeGeneres dog crap go away either

for this podcast, and I’m in the camp of the "Mutts & Moms" folks. Ellen
never needed to put this issue out in public, and even mentioned during her
crying on her Tuesday show that things would be edited, but did anyone else
notice that there didn’t seem to be any editing? But if you think Ellen’s
problems are large, how messed up must Britney Spears be that now the Judge has
taken away all of her custody rights.  Sadly, though, The Rat Pack is
officially dead. Long live The Rat Pack. Joey Bishop outlasted Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford, and I
doubt there’ll ever be another group like them again.

And lastly for this podcast, Go Tribe!

Thanks for listening.

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

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The Dude on the Right
After the events of yesterday I was going to blog about Ellen DeGeneres
and her dog fiasco, but since the audio is really the key I figured I’ll wait
for my hopeful podcast tomorrow to fill you all in on my feelings about Ellen. 
The dumb part is that I didn’t tape today’s episode of "Ellen" to see if she had
anything new to say so I suppose I’ll have to do some investigating tonight.

Other than Ellen the other news of today was that President Bush said we
might have World War III if Iran developed a nuclear, or is that nucular,
weapon.

But that’s not important either.

What is important is that this week
new episodes of "The Price is Right" returned to the airwaves, with
Drew Carey now hosting instead of Bob Barker, and at this point in
time I’ll just say, "I guess we’d better revisit this in a month or two."

I
asked for my mom’s first impressions but she didn’t see it yet.  I also
asked her if dad watched it and what he thought of it, but she pretty much
acknowledged dad doesn’t like Drew Carey, and once dad has something set in his
mind, Drew could come off as the greatest game show host ever and my dad would
still not like him.  Mom still has yet to report back if dad even watched
the new episodes.

But I TiVo’d the second episode with Drew, and all I can say
is that you can tell Mr. Carey is trying to feel his way into being the host of
the show, and for me, it’s not working right now.  But I suppose that
shouldn’t be a surprise.  Hell, he is taking over for Bob Barker.

The
first problem I had was that Drew Carey tries a little too hard to relate to the
contestants and sometimes seems to talk too much.  He hasn’t come up with
that smoothness Bob Barker always seems to have with the contestants, no matter
how loopy the players seem to be, but that might come in time.  The second
problem I had was the camera work seemed a little choppy, and this kind of
surprised me especially with the history of the show.  The third problem is
Drew doesn’t seem that comfortable explaining the games which should be second
nature no matter what stage you are at hosting.  And the fourth problem I
had was Drew’s wireless microphone, with that big box on the bottom, looked
stupid compared to Bob’s sleek one.

Since I’m usually doing stuff during the
morning and don’t watch "The Price is Right" until I visit the old homestead
because dad is a fan, as an un-regular watcher Drew Carey has a lot of work to
do to get his familiarity with the show down, and I guess that’s why I started
this blog with a mention that maybe we should revisit Drew Carey’s hosting of
"The Price is Right" in a month or two.  There is some potential for Drew,
but in my weird observation he just needs to quick trying too hard, don’t try to
relate to the contestants, and just kick back, relax, and let the show be "The
Price is Right."  The contestants usually know the show, and you don’t need
to care that much about them.

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

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The Dude on the Right
I’m throwing out the invitation to maybe be a part of

a Thursday podcast since sometimes doing them solo just makes me lonely, so
go ahead and listen for the details.

And as exciting as that is, it’s not
nearly as exciting as my letting you know if you visit Chicago in the future you
might wonder why your bottled water is more expensive that a soda pop, and if
you live in Chicago you probably already know about Mayor Daley’s planned water
tax.  Weather has also been a big part of stories for the last week in
Chicago, with runners dropping during The Chicago Marathon last Sunday due to
the heat, and suddenly it’s fall here, with temps tonight maybe getting into the
30’s.  Mother Nature, she’s a bitch sometimes.

Today also seemed to be a
day of denials in the entertainment industry as I talk about rebuttals in the
camps of Pamela Anderson, Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie & Jon Voight, and Bobby
Brown.  So many people are getting things wrong, but at least we know for
sure that Wayne Newton is off "Dancing With the Stars."

Thanks for listening.

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

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The Dude on the Right
Dear Major League Baseball, The Chicago Cubs, TBS, and whomever else set the TV
schedule for the upcoming baseball Divisional Series,

Thank you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
And let me write it again – Thank you!

I would like to thank you for scheduling the first two Cubs games for the
Divisional Series at a time when there is pretty much no way in hell I’m going
to watch, and even more importantly at this stage of my Fall TV season, I won’t
miss any of my old favorite, nor new favorite TV shows. Yup, you scheduled the
first two games on Wednesday and Thursday nights, to start at 9PM CDT. Sure,
first pitch is supposed to be at 9:07ish PM, or so someone said on the radio
this morning (and out of sheer curiosity I might try to sneak and see when that
first pitch actually gets thrown tomorrow night, probably during a commercial
break of a new episode of "South Park"), but even in the best of chances it
would be a major miracle for the games to finish by 11PM, and even a minor
miracle for them to finish by Midnight. As much as I love the Cubs I don’t have
the late nights available for these two games unless I wanted to be a zombie at
my morning meetings on Thursday and Friday, and besides, if the Cubs do win both
games, the game that really matters will be at 5PM on Saturday evening, where
hopefully the Cubs will clinch their series at The Friendly Confines of Wrigley
Field!

Also, with those games not starting until after 9PM, I’ll have no conflict
with my normal slate of Wednesday nor Thursday night TV viewing and TiVoing.
I’ll have no worries of missing "Bionic Woman," "Survivor," "My Name is Earl" &
"Smallville" (both on TiVo delay), "30 Rock," and anything else coming along
those two nights.

And sure, as a transplanted North Coast resident (Lorain, OH – Represent!), I
am also cheering on the Cleveland Indians, but my mom pretty much figures the
New York Yankees already have that series wrapped up, so I figure why bother
watching. Even so, their games are actually early enough they have the potential
to be over by my TV time anyway.

So, again, baseball and TV folks, Thank you! I didn’t want to watch the
Chicago Cubs anyway!

Sincerely,
The Dude on the Right

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

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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!!!

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!!!