Friday Mini Crush Special: Quarantined with Noel

what was it? The velvet gold mine, the smooth crushed velvet throat. What was the west? It was old smoky velvet, old smokey velvet. And there he is, that's a nice painting in your room, Noll. Well thanks man. My friend, my friend Nick Benson a k A. Admiral Turbot. He does a lot of art for Run the Jewels, does their tour shirts and posters. Um, he did that, and I you won't believe this, Chuck. I screwed that to my wall myself without measuring it. Doesn't it look perfectly square?

It looks perfectly square. And what you should do, knowls Um is you should take a picture of that and then post it when we release this bad Boy tomorrow. You got it. In fact, maybe that can serve as the artwork for this episode, okay, or it could just be like my weird kind of must hair head, uh, you know, off to the side of this painting in the background. But well we'll we'll work shop it. Yeah, absolutely, chuck. Um,

so just full disclosure. I can't see you, which seems unfair, but you know, it is what it is, what it is on motherfucker let me I coulbat my goddamn camera activates. Hey, some a little halo of light hovering over your head there and some some Christmas string lights there. It's very nice. It's very nice. You know. It retrofitted the band room, which was just a matter of sort of rearranging some things to form a folk corner. Yeah yeah, um, actually not a folk corner. It's a real corner and then

a folk corner. It sort of looks like you're in a booth at a restaurant. Oh God, wouldn't that be nice, wouldn't that be Yeah? Sorry, remember remember restaurant, Remember restaurant, Remember fun Remember boy, have you had the thing that's happened yet? Where you're watching like television and you see some people congregating or shaking hands and you're like, oh, oh, that's weird. But yeah, yeah I was. I've been watching Cheers a lot instead of going to my neighborhood bar.

I've been watching a lot of Chumper Food. It's kind of nice. It's a very pleasant show, don't you think, Well, you know, you want to go where everyone knows your name? No, they do, they do, and you know their names too. There's there's what's his name, There's Ted Danson, There's Sam Malona. Sam, who's the skinny nerd guy with the glasses who's always getting into mischief. Uh, skinny nerd guy. Yeah, there was like he were suspenders. Um, there was an episode where

he like did a gambling scheme. Like he's sort of like a trickster. I don't know. So is he a a very occasional guest? He's an occasional guest. Is his name Harry the guy from a night Court? That is exactly who it is, Yeah, Harry. What's his name? Harry Styles? Yep, Harry. Yeah, that's that totally that guy. Have you seen his version of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel no, but I bet it's awesome. I like his solo record. I don't know anything about the guy, but it was fucking great. He did it.

He was in one direction. He's a boy band guy. That's I know. That's why I gave him no considerate thought before the other day. Well, I mean, look at Justin timber Lake, you know, I mean his solo career was pretty interesting. J T broke out, didn't he? He really really did. And you know it's funny, is uh what's it? Lance Bass, you know, who is one of the in sinkers. He does a podcast for the network with Anna Hostne from l l A. They do like,

uh like like will you accept this rose? Which is I guess it is like the Bachelor or something a Bachelor recap show. They do a Bachelor recap show with Lance Bass. Yeah, wow, this is I didn't know that. And that's on our very own Network's on our this very network. You know. No. I was about to say, you can't buy that kind of free advertising, but you can. You could buy advertising on movie Crush. That would cost

about twelve dollars. Yeah, these days passive ads through the roof. Wait, do you know something I don't know, No, I'm kidding. I just you know, no, No, I I don't know. I I just wonder, right, like I mean, with with with with buying stuff and restaurants and things kind of taking a dive. I wonder if ads are gonna take a dive to I don't know, I don't know, I'm

being I'm being alarmist. Well, no, no, every industry is going to take a hit, including our very I mean, podcasting is great in a way because it doesn't require a crew, you can move fast, you can do it like this remotely. Um, we're really set up for this. But oh yeah, advertising is going to take a hit across the board for everything, I'm sure. But again, you know, the overhead for podcasting is so low and we're able

to keep going. And honestly, the thing that I take some comfort in is the fact that doing this ship is giving people some comfort. Am I hearing from people on social like you know, we've heard from in the past just saying like thanks for keeping me saying during my you know, assembly line job or truck driving long

haul truck driving job. But now more than ever, it's like thanks for being there and sharing your you know that you're in the same boat, because we are absolutely in the same boat as literally everyone else, the great equalizer. But I'm just glad that boat is not a cruise ship. No ship, you know what I'm saying. Can you imagine

any worse and being stuck on a cruise ship? Know that that even before everything kind of got super crazy, that whole story about the folks that were quarantined on that ship for like was it like a month and they had like food slid to them, like under the door and things. It just it's a nightmare fuel And now that's all of us, basically, I mean, luckily I can.

I'm a pretty good cook, so I don't have like a you know, an attendant that's sliding me, uh you know, like m R. E s under my through a slot in my door. But well, well I'm happy to share my attendant. Yeah, send them over to you. Uh, you've got a Valet Chuck podcast of Valet. I have been wearing the apron again though, which is good because I used to cook a lot, so this has been kind of nice. Yeah, what have you been cooking? I've been grilling some stuff. I've been cooking some uh pasta meals.

Nothing too fancy yet because I can't just because you know, when I cooked, I would go out the day of and get the groceries I needed for that meal only. So now I'm I'm piecing together what we have in the house. Sure, um, I probably have spent about five hundred dollars on groceries in the last two weeks, in various little spurts. You know, I'll go like and get what I what I need, and then go back and

get more. I realize it's sort of a bit of a stress Habit allows me to get out of the house, and somehow stocking up on things is comforting in some way. So I kind of tried to back off on that little because now I don't have room in my freezer or a pantry. But I've been doing a lot of soups and stews and then I'll and then I'll freeze a bunch of it, which is nice for later, so you don't just eat it all in one night. And then I've been doing a lot of Indian food, like

big batches make a good curry. I should I should whip that out. It's a fun one and it's a good way to use like vegetables that you have left over in the fridge to keep them from going bad or whatever. Anything in there. Yeah, throw it, throw it all in there, and the little Grandma sala a little ginger ginger lasts forever to ginger roote. You just keep it around, man, so long. What's the one spice that

tumeric turmeric? Yeah, yeah, good, get that on your fingers, though, you're gonna be yellow for days, totally yep, like that yellow bastard in the White House. Just kidding, he's great. Know, we're not gonna we don't want to get politically, we don't, I know, we don't. I just I will just say brief talk about shifting the bed man. I mean, like it's I feel like we're in a third world country with all this ship like a you know, it's just

the way it's handled, it's just been. And then then the whole like double speak of like no, no, we had an under control from the start. Everything's fine, everything's fine. That's been the worst part. I mean, I think I don't lay this at the feet of one person. I think all of our leaders have failed this. Uh, the whole nature of our system. And if there's a silver

lining to this, and we talked about this. We did this stuff that Don't want you to Know episode yesterday about this an update because we did a COVID nineteen episode before the ship truly hit the fan that was just kind of a primer on like what it's all about, you know where, And then we did one yesterday that you know, knowing what we know now being where we are now, and we did a like worst case scenario, and then we did kind of like a uh, what's

the word, like sort of a silver lining, Yeah, silver lining, and and then the big takeaway was this is kind of exposing the rot at the core of a lot of institutions in this country. And like the I don't know, I know, no one wants to hear this soapbux ship, but I think there is gonna be some change. Uh. There can't not be, you know, so I think so uh it is Uh, it would be very much like America to forget everything and go right back to normal. But what I think is going to happen is it's

gonna be normal for a long long time. I think it will be waves of this and periods of self distancing instituted over the next couple of years, probably really good Atlantic article that went, Yeah, that was the one that's a man. That's a good read. It's sobering, but it's but again, it's not all doom and gloom like. It's very measured and very thoughtful. I recommend you guys check that one out and to give you a little bit of cold water in the face. But also, you know,

there's some some hope there of course, you know. Yeah, and I think there's gonna be a lot of good art uh and um entrepreneurialism that comes out of this. I mean, this is the time, people, this is the time to work on that novel or to write that script, or to make that music, or to knit that sweater. Uh. You know, if you have time on your hands right now. I don't know, a lot of people are busy with other thing things, especially parents. I know that drill, but

use the time you got. This is our is our advice. I've been rediscovering the joy of playing guitar and making ambient kind of soundscapes on the guitar um really really like you know, it's just something I've been so busy and not taking a step back and realizing, oh, you know, how how how little time I spend doing things for me. They're actually like things that I used to really totally a huge part of my life and and I've kind of like let them lapse and now I'm you know,

it's nice. It's nice to be able to do that. We were texting, uh was it last night about that? And I've been using you know, we got I have this little home recording setup that I've never really played around with for two years, um for situations like this, and so, uh, since it was just out of the case. That's all it takes in all sometimes is it's out

of the closet and sitting on a desk. I was up the other night doing little drinking and it started start recording some music and I was just going around and finding songs that I know and love and trying to do a little who's to spend on it and adding layers of harmonies and things. And uh, it's just past four hours and I was totally forgot about everything else but that. Yeah, you've got a little isotope spire that's kind of a mobile multitrack. Think it's got some

effects in it. It's nice. It's a really fun little toy. Um more than a toy. I mean, it's a tool. It's but it's like battery power. You can be or you can plug it in. It's great for wonderful, you know, just laying down some demos. It's really really cool device. And I was, uh, I didn't have this idea and like decided to set everything up. I just had it in my office upstairs. So it wasn't in the basement studio,

wasn't using these great microphones. I just did it in my room with the microphone built into the spire and it sounded okay. It's got a great little stereo pair Mike set up on it, and um, it's it's it's made for that for sure. Like it's it's definitely you know using uh it's meant to be minimal and allowing you just kind of like to take the inspiration and just run with it. It's awesome, Chuck. I'm making a lot of like weird noise soundscapes, and you know, I'm

into the synthy stuf. But I've been getting away from this since and getting back into picking up a stringed instrument, you know, uh, letting the letting them strings ring. So I have a lot of fun. How your fingers feeling on the old left hand. They're good, They're they're they're

coming back, and my my chops are coming back. Like I've been doing scales, and I've just been kind of like, you know, like I made a beat in Ableton and just like and lay down a baseline and just like jammed with it for like fucking an hour and just just like you know, noodling around with delay and doing kind of like psychedelic e smashing pumpkins kind of leads, you know, like I can I can uh smell the bong hits wafting from your window. All right, everybody, we're

gonna get it started in earnest. Uh. This is We're just gonna do a couple of little social studies social studies movie crush, then finish it off with the stream nets because imagine everyone is streaming everything right now. But all the other day I just posted and this is an even movie related but I took a hot shower after a long walk with my family, and I brought a beer into the shower, which is one of my

favorite things to do. And I just it is at times like these, you really, at least I hope people are able to really um, really enjoy those simple, small pleasures in life more than ever before. And I sat in that steamy shower drinking that cold beer and almost started crying. In fact, I might have started crying, to be honest, And it was wonderful. So I asked the movie crushers, I said, a cold beer in a hot shower is a true gift. What is one of your

simple life pleasures? And I'm gonna read through some of these because it just it brought a smile to my face reading these from other people. I can't wait to hear. Do you have one goal that you can bark out? Yeah? I mean I really love cooking. I really love the zenness of preparing a good meal and like prepping everything in advance and having everything kind of laid out in

an organized way. Uh yeah, well no, more and more just the pre zen plus right huh uh you know, because then when you have it all laid out, you can just toss it all in and just go like like spring into action with the actual cook of it. So I really there's something about that that's very calming to me and uh and really gets me in a nice headspace. That's great. No, And that is meson plus by the way, what you were just describing what you put it on the plate though, No, no, no, no no.

Meson plus is everything in its place. So it's all your your prep and having everything all laid out perfectly and chopped up. And that's called your mes on plus. It's a pre cooking ritual. Not ritual, but sort of rule of thumb. Very good, you learned something new every day, I know. No, that was a little a moose bush for you, my friend. I love it. It's very delicious, all right. So we're gonna start off with Aaron Snell here,

he says, because this is right at my alley. In fact, we've got a little good discussion going on this post sit down, turn off the lights, put on headphones, and listen to an album front to back the headphone albums, he said. Kid A by Radiohead is one of his favorite ones. That's a good headphon er. That used to be my ritual. No, when I would get in a record by one of my favorite bands upon release, I would carve out two hours at the end of the day too to listen to it at night by myself

in a darkened room on headphones. Did you have the big like beefy headphones, you know, like the seventies style. I'm picturing you like sitting on the floor, cross legged with them plugged into your tuner and just your hands on the side of the headphones, just vibing out. Is that exactly how it went? Well? Yeah, But I mean I'm talking about as an adult. This wasn't a childhood ritual. So no, no, I know, I'm still still the aesthetic colds. True, it does? It does. I love my over ear headphones.

That's the only way to go, although I am using an earbud now just because I gotta hear my own voice. It's convenient. How are you can't You can't hear yourself can you? Oh? Yeah? Yeah? How do you do that? Through sky So I'm well, I I've got I'm actually recording UM into my computer, so I'm recording into Adobe Audition,

which you could also do if you want to. And then I you can set Skype so I have audio interface, so my mic is going into my computer, and then you can set the input on Skype to be my mike. So I'm hearing myself through Skype and you're also hearing me through this Mike see you're actually that's that's me. Well, ship I am. I have one ear button so I can hear you and here myself, so I have to well we can, we can, we can troubleshoot this chuck.

We can. It's a work in progress, all right, all right, No, I just took a picture of the screen because I want to show people. Yeah, you're you're sweet little set up. Thanks man? Alright, what yeah, so let's continue here. Colin Jones says, I don't want to be weird. I have a number of feet things. Number one walking around barefoot on a freshly cleaned house floor. Number two heated floors in the winter. Yes, sir, what is that? Is that

a thing they do like in the where it's very cold? Uh? Floors? I actually know when we read it our house I have. We have heated floors in our master bath now in our sunroom, because our master bath lore is hollow underneath. There's like a big space underneath in our house, and so you know, that makes things colder, like the bridge effect, like a bridge wal ice over because there's nothing underneath it. So the upshot of that is our bathroom floor is

the most frozen cold ass thing on planet Earth. Yep, so we sprung for the old heated floor in the bathroom and it's been a life changer. I bet that's nice. That's great. Uh. And then Colin Jones finishes up at this with st shearing, sheer ling, sheer ling lined slippers. Okay on a chilly day, cheer ling. So is that like a lamb's wool thing or something. I hear the words sheer I'm assuming it's some sort of wool. I don't know, I think so, Okay, right, this guy must

be from like the Midwest. These are these are all things that are very alien to me. Well, or like looking Ireland or something also possible. Mike Selling Jr. Says first ten seconds after crawling into bed, blankets still settling around you and the day's stresses easing off. That's nice. The muscles start to relax and for that brief moment nothing else matters. Wow, it's nice. Janet Duffy fitting a

piece and a puzzle. First sip of coffee after taking the dogs for a walk and commenting on the movie Crushers page and having someone like it. That's very nice. I would think you'd take your coffee before you walk your dogs. That's interesting. It's a very specific ritual. I like it. Yeah, so all some people don't want to get all caffeinated, or some people have to pee right after they drink coffee. It's a good point to make, Chuck.

Becky Harris Trainers says, definitely time with my kids. Uh. Andre Shampoo says I told my friends about shower beers and they had never heard of it. Oh my god, people get on that. It's the best. Do you ever drink a beer in the shower? And no, I've never had a beer in the shower, Chuck, do you drink beer? I like beer. I like a good beer. Yeah. Well, next time you have a moment, take a hot shower and take a cold beer in there. The water gets isn't it get water? E though? The water would get

in the beer? And no, well, I mean a little bit. You gotta be smart. You can't just hold it under the stream. You gotta take a little side sip, kind of lean out truck him and then take it side second. Here comes the side sip sip. All right. We had to sing at some point, we did. Old pal Vanessa Lopez says, the smell of the ocean a cup of tea in my favorite mug and the way it fits in my hand so perfectly. Vanessa, please never break that mug. I was about to say, I try to get too

attached to mugs ephemeral, you know, yeah, I respect. I used to use loose sunglasses until I bought nice sunglasses and now, and then I found that i'd take better care of them. You know, I did too, and then I lost my nice sunglasses too. So well, you know, you need to go back to the CBS. So oh I am, oh I have chuck, I I this is why I can't have nice things. Uh, Karen Slump, he is one of our old friends, says The smell in the air after a summer rain so earthy, indistinct totally.

I went for a little walk yesterday and uh, the neighbors have like this whole big yard crew doing a big old grass cutting and they were just like freshly cut, kind of squashy grass clippings everywhere, and it was so strong it almost made me like like it was almost too much. She was almost overwhelming, but it was very pleasant. Um. That's that's sort of the mixed bag sort of sad

thing about this whole thing. Is like the weather is just now getting really beautiful here in Georgia and spring is springing and are you are you taking walks though? Like I mean they were allowed to take walks, right, and that's all. It's My whole neighborhood is walking man like never before. And everyone is being very respectful and crossing the street or being cool. But everyone's talking and waving. It's got a very communal field. It's nice, I think.

So I went to a park with a friend of mine. Um, we you know, we kept our distance, but there were these there was this little circle of old ladies, um, sitting in their lawn shares, uh, perfectly six ft apart, having like a little social distancing party and playing music out of this one old lady's house. And Cabbage Town the really funky part of Atlanta where a lot of old stoner ladies live apparently. So yeah, totally. Uh let me see, I'll have to move there one day when

I'm an old stoner lady. Uh Sabrina Grogan says. Seeing that first tiny version of a vegetable in the garden then watching it grow every day, it's lovely. Yeah, we just Ramsey are lovely, super producer built me uh and my my roommate Frank a planner box, really really nice cedar planner box, and then delivered it and put it together with us. Uh and and now we have tons of like little we kind of we didn't we didn't

plan them from seed. We kind of got the mid the little baby ones, so they're already a little bit of growth there. But yeah, we've got a nice apocalypse garden going. Sweet. I love it. Joyce, I'm sorry, Joss Burns says, surrendering to the overwhelming lust I feel when I smell a nectarine then biting into it. She said, I'm fruit toast intolerant and fruit makes me sick. So it's literally a forbidden fruit thing. But it's nectarines are worth it. Wow, be careful, Yeah, seriously, let me see here.

Paul Morris loves fitting a fresh three D printed object that he is designed to interface with, something that I have measured in real life and having it fit perfectly. Oh sure I can see that that. That's satisfying to me just hearing about it. Yeah. Absolutely. Charles Martinaker is one of our old pals. Here is very sweet. Rolling over to my wife's side of the bed on the rare occasion that she's up before me. Something about the hint of her relaxes me back to sleep. Oh that's nice.

Our oldest the pals, Rebecca Robe and big shout out to Rebecca, who was uh, who was doing great. She's been going through um some some struggles here with with a medical issue, and she's on the other side of things and we could not be more ecstatic about that, she says, having her back scratched and a good cigar. M hmmm, and a good cigar. I love that Robes is a cigar smoker. Interesting, I've never had a cigar never in your life. I'm not like a nice one,

you know. You know. We should smoke a cigar one day. I would do that with you, Chuck, I would. I don't smoke cigars very much at all. Maybe it happens once a year when someone I know is an aficionado, uh, and they will share one with me, and I never refuse it because it's a it's more about the the communal spirit. Oh yeah, it's like the breaking of bread almost with another human. I can see that. It's very nice.

Let me see here, Christina Han going back to sleep after a significant other's alarm clock wakes you up snuggled with the knowledge that you have no alarm today. That's great, you know. I found don't even have to set an alarm anymore. It's pretty cool, dude. I haven't set an alarm for years. Yeah. My brain just wakes me up and around the same time, even if I've had a night of like heavy drinking, my brain still like I'm

never her like I always wake up one time. You know what and all, I've said this before and stuff you should know, but I didn't know if you knew that I have a natural alarm clock. I can tell myself what time to wake up before I go to sleep, and I'm honest to god, no ship within like five minutes of that. Wow, and now I'll wake up kind of anyway. But this was even before um my daughter came along. I would be able to say, like, all right, get up at seven, and I would wake up within

six fifty five to seven oh five. That's a pretty cool trick, Chuck. It's pretty amazing. Uh, let me see here. And the irony is of a very nice alarm clock. Now you know, I have a really nice bedside radio. It's like by this company called Tivoli, and it's like, it looks kind of modern and like interestingly the designed, but it doesn't have an alarm clock. It's not really like it's it's got like a bluetooth, it's got full radio. It's a really nice thing. Doesn't have an alarm clock.

That's weird. You know, I use my phone, so who needs it. Yeah. I state at a hotel that had a cool alarm clock, and I was like, oh, I'm getting one of those, because it's the same deal. You get Bluetooth. It's got it's got a little soft glowing light on the back of it if you want. It's nice. One's cool. I think there's another model of the Tivoli that does have an alarm clock, with this particular one doesn't.

But I do like it very much. All right, let me see here, Laura Chenowa says, a breakfast that includes a bacon and black coffee. Right up my alley, lady, Dylan Thomas. The first night of newly changed sheets. Yeah, totally press sheets, nothing like it. You know, I just washed my duvet. I've washed the cover and then I just washed the actual duvet and now I gotta put it back in the cover. That's the only part I don't like. But I love that. I love the feel

of it. It's very, very comforting. Yeah, putting a duvet cover on is not easy or fun. It's not the most fun. There's a good trick where you can turn it inside out and just roll it into its a little sheath tricks. But but I have to look it up on YouTube every fucking time. It's like folding a fitted sheet. There's that trick too, but I just always end up doing the old watting it up. Just wad you get halfway through it in wad? Yeah, just get frustrated.

Let me see you're justin. Kirshner says, drinking a beer that I brewed, watching the sunset after dinner with the wife. He's all sounds so nice, everybody. Baco Randy's welcome top fan says, dunking cookies in a hot cup of coffee or tea, Staying in bed on a cold and rainy day. Oh man. Amanda Wright says, the sound of rain on a tin roof, thunder in the distance. Wow. Janet white House Baptista, one of our old pals, says, sitting at

the fire pit and watching the sunset. Let me do a couple more of these here, Zach Mgoch says, naps with my infant son on my chest. It's very sweet. Uh, Lee Leonard says, a recliner, three fingers of bourbon and a smoke. Three fingers. That's a nice drink. That's a big one. How many fingers you go? No? Um, all of them? I love fistful, A fistful of bourbon. Oh dear, Oh, you know, I don't think I updated you. I did a couple of mini crushes with Emily and updated everyone

on Red Dead Redemption. But I finished the game and um, but I finished spoilers. I actually haven't finished it. Well, I finished it too early. I didn't see it coming. I wish they would have literally had a countdown clock saying like, hey, by the way, you're about to be done, so go do other stuff if you want to do it. Okay, you still you can still wander all right? Or no you can't. You have to start over. Usually when you beat those games, because he's some kind of bonus. Oh yeah,

I guess he probably dies. He died in the last one. How else get that move? How that game end? Yeah? No, it's true. Should I get the first one? Yeah? Red Dead two, well, the original one I think is only on like original PlayStation maybe or PlayStation two. And then then Red Dead two was on PlayStation three, and that one, that one was the game changer where the world got

really expansive, and then this one. I've been playing a game called Borderlands that is just kind of a cartoony goofball, kind of uber violent but in cartoonish way shooter game, and it's a lot of fun. Well, I started playing a game called Control that it's just I can't get into it yet. It's one of those games that starts you out with a central mystery that you have to figure out, and it's just I don't know, man, it's

not drawn me in. So then I popped in and loaded up Call of Duty World War two, and so that's what I've been playing. I never played a Call of Duty game. You're shooting them that in the Nazis. Yeah, it's pretty fun. Yeah. My my game is is similar as a mechanic to a game like that. You can

throw grenades, You've got like different guns. The thing is cool about Borderlands is the game literally generates thousands of possible weapons using an algorithm that all have different statistics and different like you know, names that are generated randomly, so there's like no end to like the types of you know, a variety of weapons that you'll get kind of realize you know which ones suit you best, and you can kind of become one that like you know,

uses more pistols or shot guns or whatever. It's a lot of fun. I quite enjoy and if anyone out there wants to game, um, I would love to. I would totally game with anybody. Oh do you have like a name you can say, yeah, you're gonna get in? Um, what would be like if anyone's playing Borderlands? I think I'm the Cubists. Uh, the Cubists, Yeah, because as the Bells my band. I had a band called the Cubists, and I think that was a name that wasn't taking. I don't even think I had to have a number.

It was just th H E C U B I S T S. That's great. That's a good band name too. Nice work, thank you. Uh. There used to be a game no Ale years ago on. I think it was the Nintendo sixty four called tur Rock the Dinosaur Hunter. Sure, I remember remember that game. I remember the concept of it. I don't remember the existence of it. I don't really

remember what it was. Like. God Truck was great, and it was the one that had all these crazy weapons, um like little minute miniature nuclear bombs and stuff that you chants. There was kind of kind of jokey. It was kind of like, well, not jokey. I just remember really loving it. I mean there was no no, it's it's sort of a future e it's on the uh the in sixty four tur Rock Dinosaur Hunter and Yeah. When I hear you say tur Rock, I think of some kind of caveman character, but that's not what it

is at all. He's more of like a dinosaur tracker and and hunter. Yeah, it was great. Um like those The two games for me for the It's sixty four days were Tar Rock and obviously uh well there were really three Tour Rock and Golden Eye with the all time great games, and the Tony Hawk. For some reason, I got really into the Tony Hawk, like one of the first versions of his kind of street skate game.

Remember when they put out Mortal Kombat games for in sixty four and there was no blood, They like just removed the blood. Yeah, because Nintendo is always clean. Nintendo doesn't have really yeah, and that's their deal. They've always been like, I don't think I knew that blood list. And and then there's no like mature in Nintendo games. Well you know, I mean, I'm a liberal hippie, but i'd love I love blowing a Nazi up. You know.

Oh yeah, who doesn't love? You know? That's funny that actually tur Rock was rated M so maybe I'm wrong about that, but I do remember distinctly there was a version of the Mortal Combat games for Nintendo that had all of the blood removed. That is a thing that happened. Wow, who knew? All right, let me let me do. Let me run through like ten or twelve with these quickly because there's so many good ones. Everyone just go read it will make you feel better. Uh. Carly Patavan the

petit says, yes, shower beers, where it's at. Scott A Barta says, sprinkling salt. It's the final touch over a dish, so satisfying. Oh yeah, like the salt bay. Remember that meme with the salt bay. He was He's like, he's like this guy from Italy or Spain, I think, and he um makes these as a restaurant, and he makes these big, big steaming plates of meat and t bones and crazy massive hunks of meat. And he does this

move right here. He sort of crooks his elbow, his hand his elbow and very daintily sprinkles it as this matt like magic dust. Uh, it's the whole thing. You look up Salt Bay. Sometimes it's very very funny. I love it. Uh, let me see here, Old pal Alex Glasnovich says, looking up in the night sky and noticing the moon is stupid huge and just gawking in awe at it. Oh, boys are very nice. Let me see here, all old friend Gino van Valen says, watching the chickens

take dirt baths. Oh god, I'm so jealous. I want to see a chicken dirt bath. I love a good dirt bath. That's a good band name to dirt bath. Yeah, it's pretty good. Let me see here. Melinda Becalao says, watching the waves come and go at the beach, so relaxing, Sierra rain right up my alley. QP mayonnaise mixed with a cheap dollar store Louisiana buffalo wing sauce ioli to

die for Ali Aola. I made a good aolie with a little lemon zest and in some chipotle peppers that I kind of chopped up in some garlic and uh yeah, just with a little bit of Dukes Mayo and you mix it all up and uh it's sort of a lemony, spicy treat. Wonderful, all right. Those are great simple pleasures everyone. Uh it is really really nice to read those. It makes me feel better just just reading what you people are enjoying doing. So I'm gonna leave that post up

and I encourage folks to read it and contribute. Maybe we'll read more of them in the coming weeks when we have nothing else to do. Totally alright, No, let me see here. We're gonna move on. I had to. I had to reload my page here because even though I'm plugged into the internet hardwired, things are still going wacky. Mhm. I I wonder. I feel like it's possible that internet bandwidths are being really really tested with all these people at home working from home and strength all that. Mind's

why I could do though, yeah I can. I can never make sense of it, all right. So I'm stealing this from the movie Crushers page with permission from Emily McGuire, who has a hot Cup of Coffee conversation starter icon next to her name, and she says this. Annie recently said her first celebrity crush was Brendan Fraser and it definitely awakened the eight year old and me. Who was

everyone's first celebrity crush? Older? You have one? Yeah, I was Christina Ricci on the show before I was age appropriate. I think we're probably close to the same age. And when she was Wednesday Adams in the Adams family, did it? I really had had had the hots for her. All right, that's a good one. I think I've said mine before too. It was Christine McNichol, who, uh, it turns out is gay, and I'm not sure what that even means about me. I'm gonna have to go to a therapist and work

all that out. What was she? I don't know who that is. Just look her up. Christie McNichol, she was. She was a you know, she's sort of a tomboy, uh little heart throb. Back in the seventies. She had a brother named Peter, and she was in uh, she was in a bunch of like kind of teen movies at the time, and I just I just thought she was so cute. You know why, because she was and she still lives. Uh, let me see here, Sarah Lenberg says Mark Hambell. For me, I loved Luke more than

Han for some strange reason. Carrie mcquaide says Jason Bateman. Yeah, Bateman's he's crushable. Skylward says Brendan Fraser as well. Uh oh, Brendan Reese, Man, you ain't lyon Jennifer Connolly. When she was in that movie Geez, which is the one with Frank Wayley where she was stuck in a target with him. Career Opportunities I think was the name of it. She's she's gotten more beautiful. Uh, with age as well, I think. Let me see here, Jessica Hanson says Devon Sawa. Sawa,

I don't know this person. Yeah, he was in the Final Destination movies and as a young child, he's kissing a young Christina ricci Nole. You're gonna fight him, Yeah, totally. What is he in now? He was in something recently like he's obviously he's older now and he looks completely different. He got really buffum, what is he in man. He looks totally different than he did when news. He's a really buff, beefy looking dude. I don't think I know him at all. He was such a sweet looking Dawson's

Creek kind of boy. He had like a part down the middle. You know, did you ever saw this? Do you never saw this? Final destination movies, everyone just dies and he's in. He's in the fanatic that terrible looking uh m, fred Durst directed movie A Stalker, and Devin so is the the object of his stalker career decisions. Nicole c really says Orlando Bloom, specifically legoless Orlando Bloom. Yeah, he's a He's a dream He's a dream boat for sure. I rewatched The Two Towers the other day and it

was it was. It's great. It holds up except I will say that the smigel uh gullum effects they don't hold up quite as well on the small screen. If it really feels like they're sort of like wrestling with the air and there's this weird kind of like yeah, a little bit that just the edges don't quite line up right and it's a little Yeah, it was a while ago. It was groundbreaking at the time. Oh gosh, it's and like I said, they're fantastic movies, don't get me wrong. And so much of it is, you know,

practical effects. But that's the you know, he was such a central character. He's in it a lot. Yeah, Dave Crottres says Daisy Duke. Yeah. I think there's a lot of boys in the seventies that thought the same thing. Uh, Margarita Sadomago. One of my favorite new names for me. It was Leonardo DiCaprio and Titanic. I was probably around seven years old. Did you have a crushtion all? Another one on Lena Leona Nardo? Leonardo? Uh, you know, I

really like Titanic. Thinking back on it, maybe I did have a bit of a of a crush on video I did. I always felt like he never seemed age appropriate for anything that he was, and he always feels too young. And I think I've said that a million times in the show. But um, oops, uh, my phone just frank, Hopefully you guys didn't hear that. I think it was in my headphone, so we're good. Um, But I watched Titanic an ungodly number of times when I was quite young. Yeah, I don't know what it was

about it that I loved so much. I think it was. I think it was the romance element. Yeah, I just didn't fully accept that or acknowledge that at the time. Sure, let me see here. Ryan Townsend says too that I still have major crushes on or Sama Hiake and Rachel Weiss. Bethielman says Paul McCartney. Tammy Bartel's is Michael J. Fox as Alex Alex P. Keaton. Of course that's a good one.

Jason Crabtree says Roquel Welch one million years BC schwing old friend Austin Handler says Linda Carter, the original wonder Woman. Yeah she was. She was very crushable for you, was Raquel Welch? Actually? In I think I'm more to know her as like a bombshell celebrity type person. But what what what movies was she in? Well, I mean he's talking about the one he just named. I think was like a caveman thing. She played like a cave lady, uh, wearing a skimpy bear. Yes, yes, but I mean she was.

I don't think Roquel Welch was ever regarded as the greatest actor in the world, but she was. She was in a lot of stuff. Boy, if you talk about from those days. Uh, and Margaret Man young and and Margaret she's still beautiful, Yeah for sure. Uh are we focusing on people's looks too much by doing this? It's okay, have crushes, right, Crushes are fine, Okay, heaven Line, says Ethan Hawk, Robert Shawn Leonard and Josh Charles All in

Dead Poets Society. Yeah, I bet there are a lot of young girls that thought those guys were super cute. Randy Rodriguez says Winnie Cooper. Uh, Dannika mckeller from Wonder Years, of course, Charlie Baker says Anah Lumsky. Yeah, my girl, Yeah, she was all she was all of Our Girl six or so. I never saw that movie. Spoiler alert. McAuley culkin gets killed by bees. That's what I heard. I know how it ends. I was too old for that movie. What year did that come out? Check that I was

probably ninety one or something like that. Let's see, Yeah, I'm guessing, let's see if I'm right. I'm usually pretty close. And then there was My Girl Too, which did not have McCauley culkin in it. For obvious boom. Yeah, I was a sophomore in college. I was not going to see my girl. Let me see you here, Hannah o'mary, says Joseph Gordon Levitt. And that TV show that he was in when he had the long hair, Third Rock, Third Rock. I never saw that show, but about it.

Great French Stewart is a delight. Uh, let me see here Ethan Yavin, our old fish head friend, says Kelly E fucking Palski. Oh god, yes, wait he was Kelly Kapowski. She was in Saved by the Bell. Oh, Tiffany Aberthesen. Was that who that was? No? I think it was the It was the other one, the one from Show Girls. Uh, let's see Kelly Kelly Kapowski. No, it was Timmy. You're right, Tiffany was Tiffany Yep. Yeah. She was kind of tailor made for young boys to crush out on. Very true.

You know that big brown hair, so big, so brown. She always had a ponytail too. She always had like a serious side pony. Was that a thing? Uh? Yeah, at the time, a side pony was a thing. Never, I never was a van theesonen th h E I S S E N maybe I put the I first. You can never get there, right, Okay, yeah, let me see here. Jennevan Balen says this. I'm not entirely sure he was first, but I totally had a letter writing campaign for Polly Shore to beat my in your prom date.

Didn't work. Alison Crouch says Rop Machio, Sorry about that, No, what you know, I always I said, damn it, Polly, you gotta come through for the fans, you know, and go to promy. Christopher Curely says Gina Davis in Earth Girls Are Easy. Yeah, Gina Davis is still crushable. She's great and uh, you know she was on Bull's eye with Jesse Thorne in the office that day. Was very excited about Gina Davis coming in. And I think that his quote was, Gina Davis is exactly how you would

hope she would be. She's like everybody's cool aunt. Oh yeah. Our pals Kristen and Caroline Um interviewed Gina Davis at an event because they have this show Late Unladylike and yeah, they interviewed Gina Davis and I have following their stories and they were they were really really freaking out about how excited they were. Yeah, of course, who wouldn't be, She'd be a dream guest. Uh. Lennya Barnett says, I loved to mel Gibson. I was obsessed with him. I

don't remember when it started. And this was what has been obviously pre problematic mel Gibson. Yeah, he turned into a real piece of work, didn't he? Oh my god? Yes? Is he? Is? He uncancelled? Yet he he sort of had a mini comeback, a micro comeback. I mean he's doing stuff. Um, but you know, the demean have to support the guy. Dan Fuchs says three words farah Fawcett Majors majors. That's when she was married to Lee Majors, Lee Majors. Is he from them? The six million dollar man?

That's him? Oh cool, I got it right. Something before your era I've never seen. Is that the one where they say we have the technology? Uh, I don't know. Let's there was like a catchphrase from the no I don't think so No, that sounds familiar though. Oh here you go, Romeo Fuqua Noel, says Christina Ricci as Wednesday Adams. So you and Romeo are parking your cars in the same garage. Oh look, Scott K. Hill, Christie McNichol. There you go, buddy. I knew there would be someone else

out there. You got a couple of uplikes for that too, you know, I looked, shut up and I I'm not familiar with her at all. Any of the stuff she's in. She was in like a Carpenter's Christmas Special and like that sounds about. She was in The Bionic Woman, which I never saw, which small part probably is that a movie or a TV series? Bionic Woman was the TV counterpart?

Just six million Dollar Man, That's right, that's what I thought. Yeah. Interesting, Well, there was a very special movie in the seventies called Little Darlings that which was about girls in summer camp exploring their their early teen sexuality. So I was not allowed to watch that movie, which it's kind of appropriate somehow. Uh. Don Castellano says, eight year old me loved Rex smith Man. I remember that guy. These are also good. Everyone first, rushes.

Julia Robertson says, uh, River Phoenix, hold the front door, Chuck, we have the technology is from the six Million Dollar Man. Oh is it real? Steve Austin astronaut, a man barely alive gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology, We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man.

Steve Auston will be that man better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster. Yeah, And you know at the end there when they do the better, stronger, faster, it's like better, and then it shows him doing something stronger, and it shows him lifting something and faster, and then it shows his weird slow motion run which was supposed to be fast. Yeah. I love the logic behind that. So he's going so fast

that it looks like he's going really slow. Well, they couldn't do it, you know, you still can't do super fast running. That's great. That's why the flash like Superman Flash, like they're doing better than they ever have, but it still just looks kind of corny and dumb. Yeah. You you as the viewer, have to be included. You have to like be along for the ride. Otherwise it's just

like a blurred It's not any fun for anyone. Yeah, And I think the one that did it best now that I think about it is uh An x men yep. Because what they would do was they would just show up in real time. They would just show a poof and a reappearance, and then they would show the slow most u yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And from American Horror Story was frozen there. Oh, it's wonderful. That was a very clever device. I agree. It is the only way

to do it, you know. Uh. Emily Newton says Leaf Garrett was spinning on my Hardy Boys record player outshining Shawn Cassidy all day long. Yeah, Leaf Garrett, h Quincy Brown. This was one for me too, Elizabeth Shoe Karate Kid era or any era for me, but yeah, she was great. Uh, let's do a few more of these. Christian Bale and Empire the Sun that's from Mysa McKeon. Ash Clever says Alicia, Silverstone and Clueless. Yeah for me, it was at least

Silverston and all those Aerosmith videos. It was really steamy Aerosmith video. It was her and Steven Tyler's daughter be getting really yes steamy. Uh. I always thought that was a little weird, but boy, that was twelve year old thirteen year old Noel had a field day with those. Yeah, that's that's t m I um. I still have a big thing for Live Tyler. That never went away. Oh,

she's gorgeous. Uh, let's see our old buddy, the danger of n Gail Kuntz says, I was four or five years old, Peter Vinkman, not Bill Murray because I had no idea who this Bill Murray fellow even was? Yeah Vinkman interesting. Heath Ledger that comes from Amanda Coolah. Yeah, Heath Fledger, he's he's. It was highly crushable. L I b uh. And let's finish up here with Uh, how about this one? Catherine Gould says David Bowie, after watching Labyrinth, then fell in love with a man in the music.

Not bad taste for an eight year old. Oh definitely, Uh, totally agree. Yeah. I was about to mention his absurd bulge in that movie, but then he said, hey, eight year old, and I walked it back. But then I didn't walk it back at all, did I chuck? Oh no, because that's the first thing I thought too. Wasn't that big Satini bulge so ridiculous? Al Right, nil um, we're gonna do stream this now, we're gonna talk about what

we've been watching lately. And I'm gonna go ahead and start this off while you get your list together Emily and I finished, I'm not okay with this. Uh, it's great, and I gotta say it really gains momentum and gets much better as it goes on and has one of the best uh endings and finales that I've seen in a while. It was really really terrific. It's a series. It's a series. It's very quick nol. It's got like geez, I want to say, seven episodes and they're like twenty

five minutes long. You can binge it in a night. I really really love the young woman. I can remember her name, but who was? Who was in the movies? And um everyone, And it's really good. A couple other things. I just I think she's she's kids going places, she's got a good vibe. I like her a lot. She's in some music videos that I dug as well. Uh. The other thing, yeah you should. The other thing I'm watching is Dev's just started that a few nights ago

and I'm think we're through four or five episodes. I didn't know that was out yet. That's the guy that did D s x X Makina and uh, like Alex Garland, he's awesome. I can't wait to see this. It's good. No, it's um, it's really good. I mean, I mean we're through I think four or five episodes and he's written and directed all of them, so he may do the entire series. I'm not sure. It's right up youre alley. It's that kind of really moody, atmospheric sci fi, superstylized,

lots of cynthy tones. It's it's total Alex Garland all the ways. It feel like it's going places or do you think it's gonna be more mystery than it knows how to? Uh answer, Oh, it's going places. I like it, And I even managed to get over Nick Offerman as someone other than Ron Swanson. Uh, it's it's good. I like it. It's kind of a nice distraction right now for sure. And then the crushers said to watch it because asked everyone. I was like, his, dev's good. Should

I go there? And everyone round me was like, yeah, it's pretty great. Oh yeah, no, I mean I I I just had no idea was even out. Uh so what you've been watching, bud? I? Um, it's one of these shows that I like, two of them actually that I started when they first came out, and kind of I fell off and it wasn't because they weren't good. I just there's so much other stuff and you know, things going on. But um, I revisited Better Call Saul um and just got so into it, like binged the

whole thing. Uh And then like even like the season four wasn't on Netflix yet, so I like bought it on Amazon and binge that, and now season five is out and I'm just buying it an episode at a time every week and streaming that and it's just fantastic, really great on song. Well, it's almost like I rewatched Breaking Bad too after I've finished what was available a Better Call Saul before the new season started, and Breaking That is so depressing. I kind of forgot how heavy

and just like dire and dark it is. Better Call Saul has a lot of the same like magic and the same like really great character development, but it's way less depressing, which is a it's a lot more fun and kind of like mischievous and like there's definitely some heavy stuff, but compared to Better Called, compared to Breaking Bad, it's just a little bit more of a fun watch. It doesn't that doesn't just drag you down. So that

one new season is is ongoing. I think it's just foshed episode five yesterday, and another one that I watched a few episodes of and then didn't continue. Um is uh Ozark and I am. I am fully on board. I've been binging that. I just finished season two and now season three is coming out on Friday tomorrow. Yeah.

So yeah, wonderful show. Wonderful show. It is heavy and it's it's dark, but it always keeps me guessing, and it's just I love the characters and they're such despicable people, but you just kind of want to you know, you want to do you want to see what what they're gonna do next, and like how much deeper they're going to dig themselves into this hole? You know, I know it's um, yeah, you're invested in that family and them being okay, but they make bad decisions sometimes and it's uh,

but they're trying to be smart too. I love the show. I can't wait, and you know, I'd say every show almost, but we're also still barreling through this great season's new seasons of better Things and high Maintenance and always recommend those those are great. I need to do High maintenance. You've you always recommended to me, and I've never seen a second of it, but it seems right up my alley for sure. Bless you know, I should leave that in there. You know, it was it was too much

of overlap. We we have to leave it in. That's I did. I did do the vampire sneeze you guys. Um, can I leave away from the mic and I sneeze crooks? You know, Yes, that's what I'm doing. I do that part internally. I I tend to do the vampire cackle within my my mind. Um, yeah, that's all right. There's some good stuff out there, Chuck, There's some good stuff out there. And uh, I'm really glad we've got a new season of Ozark because uh, I'm I missed it already.

I really really really enjoyed that. Yeah, I can't wait. Shot right here in Atlanta, of course. Yeah, a lot of like a Lake hartwell and a lot of the fishing kind of areas where there's a lot of like there's you know, there's a lot of sailing community here in Georgia, like Flowery Branch and these ideas where there's tons of people that you know, docked their boats and uh, there's yeah, it really I recognize there's actually a gas

station scene. No, it was a Tac area where they're eating dinner at this Tac area and I I, I absolutely recognized that place. And I've been too. It's always fun when you see a spot that you've actually like eating app Yeah, your favorite places, remember restaurants, Chuck, all right, dude, Well that's it. Uh, I think we've been going for fifty three minutes. That's a nice robust Friday mini edition. Yeah, depending on what happens here, we may do more of

these for Friday as well. You know, it's like I always say, it's always the highlight of my day, a great way to start off the day. And um and I can you know, I think we could both use the conversation n to be able to share it with all the crushers out there. And uh, I agree, I always, I always, I always enjoy it. Good stuff, buddy, So thanks for listening everyone, Thanks for I guess you're welcome for us inviting you into our homes literally for a change.

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