Friday, December 31, 2021

324 - Big Time Barry



  • Will we sell the domain?
  • Facebook friend request etiquette
  • Baseball Hall of Fame ballot
  • ebay is no longer an auction site
  • Ads on podcasts are increasing rapidly

Friday, December 24, 2021

323 - The Matrix of Selfless Giving



  • Caleb passed pre-calc
  • Allergy test
  • The Matrix: Resurrections
  • Went to a hockey game
  • Caleb has goals, an interest in mail, and a hatred for caroling
  • Selfless giving
  • Hair issues
  • Hypothetical family situations

Friday, December 17, 2021

322 - Win Win Car Project Plan



  • Anime. Death Note, Demon Slayer, Avatar
  • Future project: spray paint can spinner
  • Downspout repair
  • Eric's workshop upgrades
  • Eric's car projects
  • Eric and Ward hatch a win-win car project plan
  • Wikipedia does not need my money

Friday, December 10, 2021

321 - Our Netflix Venture That Could Have Been



  • Nanowrimo is complete. Does Ward take it to the next level in 2022?
  • Ward finally uploaded all the Scorpion Youtube videos
  • The culture shift of Christmas
  • The price of latex gloves
  • Ecto 1and Ecto 1A are different cars?
  • Ward loves his movie review website. Not even going to say the name, it's not for you. it's for Ward
  • Our Netflix venture could have been a contender. We had a blog, a podcast, news...
  • Fargo season rankings 1,3,4,2

Friday, December 3, 2021

320 - Make Me Want to Hulu



  • Nanowrimo wrapping up
  • Project- fitting a plywood bed into a classic truck
  • Instructables Scorpion Costume
  • Hulu free trail
  • Homeland
  • Black Sails
  • Fargo
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • Casino Royale

Friday, November 26, 2021

319 - Throwing the Football



  • Nanowrimo
  • Project- dog bed repair
  • Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers QB lies about his immunization status and it's just a cost of doing business

Friday, November 19, 2021

318 - NaNoWriMo



  • NaNoWriMo is ongoing. Ahead of the curve
  • Ward's been watching while writing: Southland, Palm Springs, Nomadland, Counterpart, Homeland
  • Game of Thrones erased itself from pop culture with such a  terrible final season
  • What will Ward's project after NaNoWriMo be?

Friday, November 12, 2021

317 - Go Atlanta



  • Scorpion costume is done. A few things Ward wishes he had more time for
  • Already thinking about next year's costume
  • NaNoWriMo has begun. This will be Ward's 6th year in a row
  • Atlanta wins the World Series. Last win was 1995

Friday, November 5, 2021

316 - The Batman Movie We Truly Need



  • Scorpion costume: painting, working on mask. top half skull is complete, weathering begins soon
  • Haunted houses
  • Dune 2021 from director Denis Villeneuve; 2021 vs 1984
  • Batman with Pattinson - we figured it out. Make it a mentally disturbed man who just thinks he's Batman. Can be a big reveal at the end
  • Nanowrimo and what I'm going to write. Ward does 50k words of screenplays instead of novels, so thats 3 or 4 ideas

Friday, October 29, 2021

315 - Funko Pop Chet Hanx



  • The Alec Baldwin shooting tragedy
  • Scorpion costume progress - lot of sewing, re-dyeing. Wondering if taking a week off to watch baseball playoffs was a good idea
  • What's wrong with youth of America. A Halloween costume party sports jerseys
  • Pitting my costumes against each other: Ghostbuster vs Mandalorian
  • Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros World Series. Braves last World Series was 1999
  • Chet Hanks or Chet Hanx or Chet Haze
  • We need a Funko Pop Chet Hanx

Friday, October 22, 2021

314 - An Episode About Nothing



  • The Xmas shopping gift shortage
  • Scorpion MK11 costume update-chain, bought new material for the tabard
  • Seinfeld on Netflix
  • The Sopranos
  • Friends
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark - remake and original
  • Youtubers on a roof with a safety harness not connected to anything

Friday, October 15, 2021

313 - Why Rockstar



  • Scorpion MK 11 costume update: creating cords for pauldrons, dyeing leather
  • Squid Game seems a bit overrated
  • Nick Bargatze - a deadpan comedian. check out his stuff on Netflix
  • Adam Savage Tested - One Day Build proton pack
  • Revisiting Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Rockstar's not making new games

Friday, October 8, 2021

312 - Dye Leather



  • Scorpion update- tabard that didn't dye strip, belt started- added a skull. Shoulder pauldrons- the cord took way longer than expected, but it looks pretty accurate. The skull turned mask, thought I messed up. It's going to be a lot of work.
  • Dyeing leather, learned a few things on that. Use lots of acetone
  • The call of the void- the urge to hurl yourself in front of a train, to jump from a great height. I thought i was just weird, and I never told anyone, but turns out rather common.
  • Nutty Putty cave in Utah. Closed after a man got stuck and couldn't be freed in 2009. I don't like stories about getting trapped in small spaces
  • Promising Young Woman
  • Cry Macho

Friday, October 1, 2021

311 - Join Me for Midnight Mass



  • Truck update: LED interior lights, upgraded exterior door handles
  • Scorpion MK11 progress- listing components, taking stock of what I have and need, creating paper templates.
  • Last year with the Mandalorian I refined the process, this feels like a continuation
  • Midnight Mass- incredible show. It's a one and done miniseries. The pacing, direction, the way this slowly unfolds. Religion plays a big part in it, but this leaves interpretation open ended.
  • Going to watch Squid Game next.

Friday, September 24, 2021

310 - Halloween 2021



  • Fixing what annoys me about my truck part 2: door handles-dealing with GM's cost cutting measures of cheap handles, maybe compass rear view, installed ac control, installed door jamb switch, waiting on led lights
  • Halloween 2021: Mortal Kombat 11- Playing as Scorpion since the first game, making a few changes to the outfit
  • Updating my email subscription services across all my sites. This podcast had a lot of fraudulent looking subscribers

Friday, September 17, 2021

309 - Truckin and Rockin



  • Fixing what annoys me on my truck: Started as a safety inspection check then fixed headlight aiming, faded taillights, dim interior lights, door jamb switch, crack in grille, ac controls
  • Painting shelves for my son's room. Not happy with the paint's coverage. Also really makes me want to get a sprayer
  • Cleaning up metal cabinet, thinking about trying vinyl wrap it
  • Batman Begins vs The Dark Knight
  • Blue Ridge Rock Festival

Friday, September 10, 2021

308 - Meet at My Murder Cabin



  • Facebook Marketplace no shows happen, but Ward had a guy no show then reported and blocked him. Facebook needs to step it up. Ward was reported without cause
  • Want to meet at my murder cabin? Where to meet up to complete a Facebook transaction.
  • Halloween ideas
  • Ghostbusters lego
  • The Mandalorian
  • Stranger Things
  • Ward installed a sliding door. The old one didn't lock, didn't have a handle, didn't slide well
  • Twin engine go kart
  • Eric's scooter
  • Ewan McGregor's show Long Way Round on Apple tv

Friday, September 3, 2021

307 - Auctions and Projects



  • S10 blazer project
  • Eric's Jeep project and welding
  • Ward's go kart project is wrapped. Seating the tire bead was not easy
  • Ward's Youtube channel is still going
  • Ward has a merch store, not really sure why
  • An easy mod yielding a lot of convenience. Center console mod
  • 300zx auction
  • Eric's truck projects

Friday, August 27, 2021

306 - I'm Heading to Youtube



  • My return to Youtube. Why? My plans
  • Updating a kids room
  • Best sitcoms of all time according to Rolling Stone

Friday, August 20, 2021

305 - What is a Music Album?



  • Go kart Avenger project
  • Interstate car battery, I got 7 years out of a 5 year battery
  • Fixed my storm door
  • Favorite music albums. How I listen to music has changed. I don't buy albums anymore. My taste in music has changed

Friday, August 13, 2021

304 - Baseball Trade Talk



  • Last week Ward started pulling out the Blazer interior, this week he decided to knock out a few lingering projects
  • Reassemble a go kart project. It's been disassembled, and just painted
  • Fixing a downspout extender nuisance
  • Ward loves his shop; painting a go kart, cleaning upholstery, sewing shorts
  • Halloween ideas: Foot Locker employee; what will Ward be
  • Stranger Things
  • The Walking Dead
  • Baseball trade talk.Rizzo and Gallo to the Yanks. Bryant to Giants. Scherzer and Turner to Dodgers. Berrios to Blue Jays. Soler, Duvall, Rosario, Richardson to Braves,. Baez to Mets

Friday, August 6, 2021

303 - Spinning Off



  • Summer classes are done and Caleb is back
  • Covid talk is back
  • Moneyball, Peacock, de Niro Pacino
  • Frasier reboot, how can reboots succeed?
  • Odenkirk
  • Our wish for a new Breaking Bad spin offs

Friday, July 30, 2021

302 - Toon Time



  • Started cleaning up the blazer, pulled out the seats, going to have to move it inside to beat the summer humidity, painting my sons go-kart
  • Favorite animated series of the 2010: Phineas and Ferb, Teen Titans Go!, Gravity Falls, The Simpsons, Futurama- Rick and Morty

Friday, July 23, 2021

301 - Getting Projects



  • Project updates: taking care of nuisances around the house, bought rechargeable batteries to solve my dead flashlight problem, batting cage poles, thinking about the blazer that's been sitting, mightmake some videos on that process, ordered last piece of hose to complete dust collection system
  • Start following a lot of Youtube car repair/build videos. rich rebuilds, goonzquad, b is for build
  • Don't wait, do it now. Chores around the house, why save it for the weekend? Keep kicking the can down the road.
  • Don't block entrances in car lines
  • Baseball all star game.

Friday, July 16, 2021

300 - Work Rant



  • Project updates: Ward's doing nothing, Eric's truck is road worthy
  • Cosby
  • Is it a job or occupation? Ward rants about work. It's not a unique rant. This is how business are set up, to increase profit and exploit employees.

Friday, July 9, 2021

299 - Winning the Crypto Lottery



  • Caleb and math is like oil and water
  • Winning the crypto lottery
  • tax advance child credit. trying to opt out of that is an exercise in frustration
  • Let Him Go, Gone in 60 Seconds (both versions), No Sudden Move, Coherence, Orphan Black, Kim's Convenience

Friday, July 2, 2021

298 - Movie Factors



  • End game of this podcast. Is anyone listening?
  • What factors into wanting to see a movie? Director, studio, actor, logline?
  • If people in a region share chracterisistc, why can't people born in a certian month share characterisitcs?
  • Baseball minute.

Friday, June 25, 2021

297 - Everyone is Selling Something



  • Projects: gokarts and the lack of projects
  • Living off the grid: Samurai Carpenter bought land on an island, only access is by boat, building a house.
  • Apple phone latest IOS, ugh
  • Everyone selling something, chasing that influencer status
  • With my ongoing video project, I'm not promoting anything. It's for an audience of me

Friday, June 18, 2021

296 - Project Cars



  • The struggles with solo episodes
  • MoviePass complaint from FTC. They were actively preventing paying customers from using the service.
  • Selling stuff on Facebook
  • Projects cars truck.
     

Friday, June 11, 2021

295 - The Friends Reunion



  • The Friends reunion. It's pure nostalgia, but it doesn't try to tackle anything deep.
  • I must have started watching sometime in season 2, that's when i first saw episodes i remember.
  • The Fresh Prince reunion.
  • Other reunions needed: The X-files, Saved by the Bell, Home Improvement.

Friday, June 4, 2021

294 - Rekindling an Old Flame



  • Dunkin Donuts
  • Caleb's 21st birthday bash
  • How people perceive Caleb
  • A project for personal growth

Friday, May 28, 2021

293 - Cover Those Toes



  • Pinky and the Brain, which one was the genius and which one was insane? Will we ever know?
  • Month of no meat personal challenge
  • Ward's videos
  • Woody Harrelson
  • Marvel movies
  • Kirsten Dunst
  • Honesty; how honest with friend, acquaintances
  • Privacy, how private are we
  • Foot fetish; the point where the episode goes around the bend

Friday, May 21, 2021

292 - I'm Watching



  • Project update, not much happening
  • Watch the 3 Thor movies, Ragnarok is easily the best
  • I've watched: Melancholia, The Age of Adaline, Mortal Kombat, Without Remorse, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Fireworks, All About My Mother, Onibaba, Cronos, Bullit, I Love Lucy

Friday, May 14, 2021

291 - Challenge



  • Fight Club - the Gen X anthem
  • Maintaining an interest through a challenge - at work, social organizations, at whatever 
  • I'm always trying to refine whatever I do, to make it better more efficient
  • Even in projects the fun part is figuring out the puzzle

Friday, May 7, 2021

290 - Please Don't Disclose



  • Government released UFO footage
  • Kids playing Among Us IRL
  • Wegmans - they sell groceries
  • NDA's, Pre-nups, and Non-competes - Guess who's getting married
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Car talk.

Friday, April 30, 2021

289 - Find the Loophole



  • Microphone warranties these days
  • Caleb and math. Caleb's advice, find the loophole
  • Best picture Oscar nominated movies
  • Has a movie every made you hurl? Dead Alive and Blair Witch came close
  • Jaleel White, remakes, reboots, Saved by the Bell
  • Screech is dead

Friday, April 23, 2021

288 - Them There Video Games



  • Ward heard someone searching for his Youtube page in real time
  • The Sony PS5 sales ruse is effective
  • Video games, Fortnite and the future
  • Substitute teaching on Zoom

Friday, April 16, 2021

287 - Project Instagram



  • Arrested Development is incredibly funny
  • Project update: Dust Collection
  • Ward still has the Blazer, Eric is working on the square body
  • Ward's Instagram project: Eric's thoughts, favorite videos, the reason, blowing up on reels, getting a video removed

Friday, April 9, 2021

286 - Social Experiment



  • The Amazon saga and their indifference to customer service
  • Social experiments: wearing the same thing everyday to see if anyone notices. Challenging social norms and painting my finger nails
  • Ward did dress up Miami Vice style
  • The word love has become meaningless in modern English
  • Search Party Seasons 1-4

Friday, April 2, 2021

285 - The Antagonist



  • Project update: Finally finishing dust collection system
  • Implied nude scene
  • Expecting a lot of movies to come out this year with. Guessing next year will be light
  • Antagonistic side
  • Bureaucracy in the workplace; the larger the company the more good intentions get muddled

Friday, March 26, 2021

284 - Numbers Make You Stupid



  • Caleb and banks
  • School's are lowering standards at a rapid pace, hear it from Caleb
  • Ward's project update: vlogging
  • Regional dialects
  • Caleb is OBSESSED with little people
  • Letterkenny series
  • 10,000 BC movie
  • Neil Patrick Harris
  • Toby Maguire

Friday, March 19, 2021

283 - Tears of Defeat



  • Cop Rock
  • Caleb's here and yet he wasn't supposed to be
  • Local school superintendent saga
  • Constipation story due to McDonalds quarter pounder
  • Vaccine
  • Texas Representative Ted Cruz Cancun ordeal
  • Seattle Mariner's Kevin Mather zoom call with a local rotary club

Friday, March 12, 2021

282 - I LIke the Obscure Nickelback



  • Ward dresses left to right
  • Which way do you tilt your head to eat a taco, which hand is your dominant
  • Ward made a string of vlogs in 2015, lasted all of a month. Is it time to get back?
  • Eric's monthly challenge meditation, up next no meat
  • Caleb expanding his food palette
  • Obscure album recommendation: Low Roar, self titled debut album from 2011 and Young Mountain from This Will Destroy You in 2005
  • Caleb likes the obscure Nickelback stuff
  • Jonah Hill

Friday, March 5, 2021

281 - Get Off the Court



  • Terminator 1 over Terminator 2
  • Baseball spring training
  • Covid times
  • Dentist
  • Caleb adulting at DMV
  • How to respond to criticism
  • Parents teachers
  • Recess and elementary school sports

Friday, February 26, 2021

280 - Amber is the Color of My Energy



  • I have neighbors, and I've never seen any lights on after nightfall. Not that I check often.
  • Watched the Informer, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things - great movies
  • My movie review website, especially recently has reached it's ultimate goal. I didn't know this was the goal when I created it. I use it as a quick reference guide for my thoughts on movies. I love it. Roughly 1800 movies reviewed on the site.
  • Virtual Among Us game night
  • Super bowl/superb owl

Friday, February 19, 2021

279 - Tuna From the Can



  • Catchy openings
  • Are the elderly the next big market for CBD.
  • Gorilla Glue Girl. A woman ran out of hair spray and used Gorilla Glue spray adhesive on her hair. Her hair hasn't moved in a month. She's started a kick starter and plans to sue Gorilla Glue. 
  • I'm surprised how quickly Game of Thrones disappeared from pop culture after being such a juggernaut. Little less than two years.

Friday, February 12, 2021

278 - House Slytherin



  • Has anything good ever followed, "Hey, what's the age of consent in this state?"
  • Psychologist's couch Part 2
  • Helping someone with a new radio. He can't figure out how to access EQ presets. I figure it out in seconds, he looks at me like I'm a wizard. Maybe it's a generation thing,
  • If I don't spend at least a little bit of time in my shop everyday I feel unproductive.
  • I had a podcast catchphrase and I forgot about it. I think I ended episodes with "I will talk to you in the future, and you can count on that." I don't remember how I opened the episode. It's the future and I'm talking to you? Should we open with more dynamic introductions? I'm Ward - House Slytherin... Godfather I.
  • JK Rowling did Hufflepuff dirty, Slythrin too as far as that goes.

Friday, February 5, 2021

277 - I Don't Engage Them



  • One of the podcast regulars got Covid and it's not Caleb
  • Local vs national news
  • Bench dog project. A complicated solution for a problem that already has a simple solution. Developing the concept was fun, actually building less so because I know I'm over complicating 
  • Police Blotter: Justified or Not
  • Baseball Hot Corner: Hall of Fame, Hank Aaron, I Had a Hammer 
  • Among Us 
  • Covid corner
  • Psychologist's couch

Friday, January 29, 2021

276 - Not Knowing is the Lesson



  • Toilet time: rules and regulation
  • Ward's small project to do something good in the world. The outcome is different than expected, but fitting. The focus isn't what happens trying to do something good in the world, but the desire to do good
  • The Social Network
  • Kill Bill

Friday, January 22, 2021

275 - I've Never Been Rich But I Hear it's Fun



  • Caleb saving for a Tesla
  • Calebs new side job - house sitting
  • Cereal talk and breakfast routine
  • Personality quiz. Ward is a fictional villain

Friday, January 15, 2021

274 - Top Movies and TV Shows of 2020



  • Year End Review - Ward's top movies and top tv shows from the year
  • Top Movies: Jojo Rabbit, Parasite, Contagion, The Social Network, 1917, Hamilton, Gattaca, Queen & Slim, Fiddler on the Roof, V for Vendetta, Heat, Interstellar
  • Top TV: 11.22.63, The Handmaid's Tale, Giri/Haji, The Wire, Halt and Catch Fire, Lost, Doom Patrol, Cobra Kai, Mr. Robot

Friday, January 8, 2021

273 - Practice Cleaning a Litter Box



  • Any resolutions?
  • Biscuitville isn't junk food it's breakfast
  • Eric's planned monthly behavioral modification experiments
  • Luxury cars
  • Caleb driving
  • Car talk
  • Caleb's wants hands on experience cleaning a litter box

Friday, January 1, 2021

272 - Make Me Some Waffles



  • The thought of being trapped in  a car wash, maybe
  • Sleeping through class
  • Nodding off while driving, that's a scary thing
  • Calebs embarrassing story. A four hour zoom meeting
  • Record your sleep on the phone
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Harry Potter
  • The Mandalorian Season 2
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