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This week: free BJs; Anus is a biblical name; knock-off Dukes; mo’ power; small hog; easy as falling off a bike; juicy puke; men’s club; hot chips; the name game; the 9-1-1 one; untravelling; ALF help; castaways vs. monkeys; beach blanket bungle; tribal gathering; overwhelmed; Empire state of mind; rat finks; dollars and pence; down in the basement; not a careers day; retail insanity; double dealing; poor decisions; ignorance isn’t bliss; competent kids; the book of all knowledge; arts pyramid; inevitable ends; middling success problems; going it all alone; Top 5 Food Songs; dead presidents; outer space; suburban chickens; beaver dogs; logic problem; reluctant elephant; cultural stockyards; four eyes of the world unite; Mozart advocate; thrifty finds; a new Sneaker; cartoon in, cartoon out; and, finally, muctose crenelations.
Top 5 Food Songs (as suggested by Chris Roberts)
- The Beach Boys – “Vegetables” – Hawthorne, CA, 2001 – 1:54:05
- Michael Hurley – “The Slurf Song” – Have Moicy!, 1976 – 2:00:06
- The Mothers of Invention – “Call Any Vegetable” – Absolutely Free, 1967 – 2:06:55
- Mason Williams – “The Tomato Vendetta” – Hand Made, 1970 – 2:22:00
- The Turtles – “Food” – Present the Battle of the Bands, 1968 – 2:29:42
Question of the Week: Have you ever had a false memory?
Sub-question of the Week: What is a real thing that happened to you, but no one believed you?
Thanks for listening.
Eine kleine Muzik from our favourite Mozartologist, John H.!
And we’ll counter with a little “country classical” as Williams describes it – also one of his great “Them Poems”:
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Congratulations, Laurel, on the birth of your grandson! And a very Happy Birthday to Dave. I hope you enjoyed your sundae on twosday!
Thank you, Louise! Happy Belated Birthday to YOU!
And, yes! Happy Birthday to you, too, David!
A very Happy Birthday to you David! I hope you had the day off. If you have any cake left, please eat a slice for me. Are you 55 or 56 now? If it’s 56, you’ve caught up with me!
Any false memories have been generated usually within my immediate family as generational in-jokes. For example, YEARS ago I swear my Mom told me one morning that she had a dream I was a donkey, that’s my memory. My Mom still swears up and down that I had the dream and in my dream she told me she had a dream I was a donkey, it’s all on me…she had no such dream. It sounds complicated but it’s not, more like some stupid deleted scene from “Inception” but it’s an on-going family joke that will never die…false memory or not. And it’s just one of many false memory inner-family accusations that we have against one another.
I posted on Facebook a photo of the famous Duke Boys, John Schneider and Tom Wopat I met at a local Fan Expo in 2015. Nice guys and easy to meet, I didn’t get my photo with them since you have to pay a photo-op fee, so I just met them and stood back to take a photo of them from a bit yonder. The General Lee was downstairs in the main lobby but they were upstairs when I met them. I’d have paid a week’s salary to see those two go downstairs and get in that fucking car and peel out of the lobby while honking that “Dixie” horn. I loved that dopey show too….
Schneider & Wopat:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159598915677567&set=p.10159598915677567&type=3
I also posted an autograph I received from Sorrell Booke, aka “Boss Hogg”. Back in 1982 or 1983, my buddy and I went downtown on early New Year’s Day to watch the CBS broadcast of the Cottonbowl Parade in Dallas. The emcees were Marla Gibbs from “The Jeffersons”, one of the Landers Sisters, Audrey I think and Sorrell Booke from “The Dukes of Hazard”. I was lucky enough to snag an autograph from Booke and somewhere there’s a photograph to prove it as he’s signing the piece of yellow paper for me, but it’s buried somewhere.
Sorrell Booke’s autograph:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159598912277567&set=p.10159598912277567&type=3
Speaking of not having a photo to prove something that’s happened to you, I cannot prove that I met Sir Roger Moore in the O’Hare Airport in Chicago, but I did. Many are skeptical and even though I had nothing for Moore to sign or conveniently have a camera to take a photo, I was enthralled by the moment. It was the early 80’s and I had travelled to Chicago by myself to stay for a few weeks with relatives. I was on my way back to Dallas and in line to check in before boarding. As I was waiting to check in a rather tall man in front of me wearing tinted glasses and a tweed cap was puffing on a small cigar. He noticed me staring and turned a 180 to face me. I confessed I was staring at him because of his resemblance to Roger Moore. He smiled and said, “I get that a lot, especially by those closest to me.” Silence…wait, what does that mean? OH! that voice! It was… He extended his hand and said, “Roger Moore, pleasure to meet you.” Oh God, I was frozen as I shook his hand. He asked me where I was from, I told him Chicago. “So where are you going then?” he asked. “Uhhh, Dallas…where I live actually, I’m from here originally.” Then he went on about how much he liked Texas and the South and how beautiful the women were from there. This was very much as I’d imagined he’d be, a smooth British gentleman. Then he had to turn and check in at the counter and he wished me a safe trip. I’ll admit he looked a lot older than he did onscreen but as soon as he spoke, it was as if 007 was standing before me. Moore is my 007, the one I grew up with and even today if I had to pick only one James Bond to meet by chance, it would still be Moore. I’m glad it was and I’m glad he was charming because very few are in public and desire to be left alone.
Everyone stay safe and be kind to one another!! And Ian, increased healing to you…you’re still one of the funniest men in the entire pod-verse!
Ed, the Dukes of Hazzard are one of those defining shows for a whole generation or two. Everyone around here watched the Dukes. Everyone either wanted to be Bo, Luke, and Daisy or date Bo, Luke, or Daisy. It was a cultural phenomenon.
If you were to ask my husband what one of the best parts of our honeymoon was (besides the honeymoon stuff), he’ll tell you that it was when we stopped at Cooter’s Place and he paid $10 to get to sit in the General Lee and have his picture taken. Ben Jones runs two different museums in Tennessee that are filled with Dukes of Hazzard memorabilia: https://cootersplace.com/
A couple of years ago, John Schneider came to our town to promote a movie of his that was showing at a nearby drive-in. It was a knock-off of Smokey and the Bandit. Anyway, he had accepted the invitation to lead the Christmas parade with the General Lee, unfortunately the parade was postponed due to storms, but even that resulted in something kinda amazing. He agreed to let the police department “chase” him through town in a one-man parade. They pulled him over and tried to arrest him, but he took off and circled through town and made the General Lee spin around street corners.
Here’s the newspaper’s FB post announcing the change of plans: https://www.facebook.com/261003036478/photos/a.10151088038331479/10157581659576479/?type=3
A radio station live-streamed the chase on their FB page: https://fb.watch/bnplKMNqGi/
And John Schneider did a live stream of his one-man parade on his FB page (and mis-pronounced our town’s name): https://fb.watch/bnpyAiP1RC/ And despite what they say in the video they didn’t follow the full parade route because parade route goes by our library. My staff and I stood out in the rain at the library only to see him spin around a curve up the road and go back through now and not by us. 🙁
I really don’t expect anyone to watch through the livestreams since they are only interesting to people who live here, but they do prove that this happened.
Congratulations, Laurel; and a very happy birthday with many happy returns to Dave!
There have been many occasions where I remind someone of something they said, and they say that they never said that. False memory on my part or selective recall on theirs? I’m not sure, but it sure is annoying.
I have, and have had, relatives who make up stories to make themselves sound more impressive. If you mention racing, they will tell you they used to drive formula race cars when you know it is clearly not true. Some people do have lives like Forrest Gump where they meet a lot of people and have unique experiences; while some people want to be respected or accepted so bad that they continually invent stories. There may be some truth, but there may also be a lot of falsehood, and it is hard to tell which is which sometimes.
Having had several people like this in my family, it has resulted in a majority of relatives not believing anything that anyone says even when true. I have had some cool opportunities in my life; but I learned early on that unless you can immediately produce documented proof of said experience, keep your mouth shut. And even then, it is probably better to keep your mouth shut because you will either get accused of making up the proof or of being a show off.
That said, I have no reason to doubt any of the sneaky community’s stories. I enjoy when Ian or Dave share little stories of the fun elbow-rubbing that they have done. Edward always has some great experiences to share, as well!
Thank you, Crystal! 🙂
Hello all!
And Happy Birthday, David! I think you said you were working on your birthday Tuesday, but hopefully you celebrated somehow, and are still celebrating all week!
I want to thank you, David, for covering so kindly for my dumb faux pas last week. I sent the email asking you to find my response to Chris Roberts’ comment… and totally weirdly had typed in the wrong Episode number. All my fault and you didn’t let on a bit while poor Ian was searching through time and space to find it! Mea culpa, mea culpa! If I’d not just returned from work, and in a hurry not to miss your recording, and if I’d had my dinner… why, maybe I might have edited the PS email a bit before sending it off!
Anyway, on to Q’s of the week! The one apparently false memory I have is that there was a tall lilac hedge along my grandparents’ driveway for a long period of my childhood. I thought I’d brought lilacs in for vases when I lived a summer with them at age 19. No one recalls these grand shrubs but me, and my one remaining aunt on that side of the family says there was no such hedge! She is perfectly sane so I guess I have to believe her, but I don’t like it. Maybe that fits in with Question 2 as well, sort of.
My new grandson’s name is Kai and, as you guessed, David, rhymes with “eye”!
Take good care, Ian, David, and everyone!
Congratulations, Laurel! Since you were claiming to be evil the other week, I guess that makes you a wicked grandmother now. Cool!
A friend of mine has a son called Kai, and just after he was born she sent the following text from the hospital: ‘Kai is so beautiful and he loves my boobs. Will send photos later.’
I’m still waiting.
And happy birthday, Dave! Hope you managed to get a decent break and enjoy some quality time with your lovely family. Fast work in coming up with that food top 5 – I loved it!
When you asked that Covid question a few weeks back, I reckoned I was tempting fate by answering, and, sure enough, tested positive on Sunday, the same day as the Queen. This means I now have two things in common with Her Majesty – the other being that we’re both paying her son’s legal bills! Ah, satire…
The good news is, thanks to those wonderful scientists and health workers out there who developed and delivered the vaccines, I’ve had a really mild dose. No worse than a bad cold, with a few aches and pains and a deeper level of lethargy than usual, which is saying something. It’s now Thursday and I’m feeling fine again, though laying low as I’ll still be infectious.
Hope all is well with fellow Sneakers!
Hey,
Been a long time, really bad year start (another one).
Is that here that I heard about superhero multiverses destroying the core of the tragedy by annihilating stakes because of multiverse power resurrection ?
Speaking of super heroes and hearing the last news of the world. Where are they ?
Because the baddies I quite fathom who and were they are. But the rigtheous heroes fighting facism and saving the world….Heeelllooo….. Is anybody there…. Hellllooooo????
Good music choices. And you knew that the turtles ended into the mothers ? If I may say so.
Zappa, Miles Davis, if past day composers refuses to die, they knew how to surround themselves with the best available musicians of their time too.
Bahhhayyyeeeiiii !