Friday, December 23, 2022

Friday, December 16, 2022

374 - Three Turbos and Nitrous



  • Eating food off the sidewalk during the summer
  • Installing an exterior receptacle
  • Eric's new Civic

Friday, December 9, 2022

373 - The Milk Plopped



  • I've been hoping for a Youtube comment since i started posting again
  • Throwing food away because of the date
  • Had a situation where milk plopped into a bowl
  • Installing an exterior receptacle. not sure why I didn't earlier
  • Annual holiday suggestion

Friday, December 2, 2022

372 - NaNoWriMo



  • NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is done
  • That's on top of 20 movie reviews for the month of November, another 10k words
  • Giving away handmade Christmas gifts
  • Ward may have a car project coming up
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Friday, November 25, 2022

371 - 5K to Freedom



  • Nanowrimo
  • Ran a 5k, placed 2nd in my age group
  • Movies watched: Blonde, Don't Worry Darling, Casino, The Munsters

Friday, November 18, 2022

370 - Building With Words



  • Nanowrimo is not all the different from building a costume
  • Blazer project
  • Refrigerator shelf repair
  • Movies watched: Papillon, Crimes of the Future, See How They Run

Friday, November 11, 2022

369 - Youtube Journey



  • Ward started posting again to Youtube in 2021 after a four year hiatus
  • A look back at Ward's Youtube adventures and his most popular videos
  • Frasier with Kelsey Grammer
  • Quick microwave repair
  • Harbor Freight isn't all bad
  • Eric's car projects

Friday, November 4, 2022

368 - Halloween Ep



  • Ward's Halloween Eredin Breac Glas build is done. Has some issues. 
  • Eric attended a Halloween wedding
  • Nanowrimo. Ward is on track with the word count and has five script ideas
  • Blazer update: no good news

Friday, October 28, 2022

367 - No Celebrating



  • Halloween update on The Witcher's Eredin Breacc Glas
  • The gauntlets are awesome, still a lot to do
  • Celebrating in sports
  • Computer blew up, mobile life?
  • Eric's ongoing car projects... turbo BMW?

Friday, October 21, 2022

366 - Shows Are Too Long



  • Halloween update on The Witcher's Eredin Breacc Glas
  • Baseball playoffs
  • Ted Lasso
  • Shows are too long, too many episodes
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Dahmer
  • Derry Girls

Friday, October 14, 2022

Friday, October 7, 2022

364 - Groans Age You Ten Years



  • Rod has a grandkid
  • Age catches up with you
  • Baseball: Pujols, Judge, Ohtani
  • Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco
  • Lance Armstrong, the greatest cheater of all time
  • Blazer project
  • Halloween project 2022
  • Nanowrimo.

Friday, September 30, 2022

363 - Tom Brady's Face



  • Can I tell people I'm a screenwriter since I've written 11 or 12 screenplays. No
  • Queen talk and royalty
  • Baseball talk
  • Tom Brady
  • Eye surgery
  • Aging
  • Wooden mallet

Friday, September 23, 2022

362 - If They're Dead It Didn't Count



  • We've been going this podcast since 2015
  • Will TGI Fridays run an ad?
  • Long live the Queen
  • Shop lighting project
  • Blazer Project
  • Eric's car projects

Friday, September 16, 2022

361 - Sexy Christian Singles



  • Ward's ongoing Youtube project
  • Ward's blazer project
  • The double standard in the teaching profession
  • Caleb is connected, too connected even. The woes of his girlfriend search
  • Moviepass is back with very few details and many tiers
  • Subs in the truck

Friday, September 9, 2022

360 - Living That Brad Pitt Life



  • TGI Fridays: Can we be their official podcast?
  • Duncan's in Blacksburg, VA
  • Caleb's IQ test, results still pending
  • Leonardo DiCaprio isn't looking for a meaningful relationship
  • Adam Sandler versus Nicholas Cage
  • Halloween weddings
  • Revisiting Eric and Ward's first collaborative project

Friday, September 2, 2022

359 - Jimmy Buffet Top Songs



  • The Beatles are back
  • Eric and Rod tried pickle ball
  • Jimmy Buffet: One hit wonder or genre creator
  • Tatis, Judge, Pujols
  • Homeland TV series
  • Upcoming IQ test for Caleb
  • Advice time: unhappy marriage; age difference in a relationship; long lost kid

Friday, August 26, 2022

358 - Freaking Uncle Joey



  • Four hosts
  • Full House or Fuller House
  • Shows you've quit: Prison Break, Family Matters, Friends, Big Bang Theory
  • Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad
  • House of the Dragon
  • Vice TV and 90s talk shows
  • Oceans 11. Will it make you question your masculinity?

Friday, August 19, 2022

357 - I Can't Even Get It Up



  • Picnic table repair
  • Eric's car project
  • Caleb's project...
  • The Bear tv series
  • AMC+ and their marketing tactic
  • Primal tv series
  • Advice column:
  • Bathroom... stuff
  • A wedding
  • Yard sales

Friday, August 12, 2022

356 - It's Just the Angle



  • Caleb explains why he's not balding
  • Is Caleb a superficial, cougar hunting, elbow rubbing, genuinely nice guy? Yes!
  • Wood turning - Ward turned handles for files
  • The Captain and Derek Jeter

Friday, August 5, 2022

355 - I Built a Computer



  • Ward always wanted to build a computer. now he has
  • He walks through the process, and it was easier than expected

Friday, July 29, 2022

354 - The Walking Dead Problems



  • Picnic table update
  • Baseball minute
  • Fear the Walking Dead
  • House of Gucci
  • Advice time:
  • My friend shared photos of my house
  • I want my boyfriend to move in but not his stuff

Friday, July 22, 2022

353 - Where's The Motivation?



  • No momentum, no project updates
  • Many upcoming projects
  • Computer build
  • What I've been watching: Fear the Walking Dead, Adventure Time, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Mist, X-men
  • Advice time

Friday, July 15, 2022

352 - Making Whoopee



  • The dating game
  • Ward's picnic table project
  • Epoxy pour table
  • Answering life's questions:
  • Mom and daughter pregnant at the same time
  • Raising kids, saving money
  • High school 'athletes' and slipping grades
  • My wife and daughter boss me around?

Friday, July 8, 2022

351 - I Buy It for the Logo



  • Podcast ideas and aspirations
  • Louis Vuitton bags, Jordan shoes, Gucci belts
  • Eric reveals he's a bag man
  • LinkedIn is a veneer
  • Ward's mini-lathe project
  • Caleb cat sitting
  • Caleb tries to restart the when do you feel like an adult conversation only to be thwarted
  • Caleb's screwups are a reflection of Eric
  • Rumble strips. No, traffic counters

Friday, July 1, 2022

350 - The Autism in My Pants



  • Basement project
  • Does Ward vacation at the beach? If so does he wear slacks and a button down shirt
  • Disney design
  • Caleb's a fount of Disney knowledge
  • Deferred baseball contracts
  • Steroid using baseballers
  • The Rock Dwayne Johnson movies

Friday, June 24, 2022

349 - In the Mood for Love



  • Vying for a mother's love
  • Caleb's job situation
  • Merits of an IQ test
  • Eye exams
  • Clothing critique
  • Don't litter
  • Yacht rock radio

Friday, June 17, 2022

348 - I Felt Like a Man



  • Caleb's back
  • A little education on the crusades, 12th and 13th century
  • Basement project
  • Hamsters and water bottles, again
  • Locked out of a client's home, and that will make you a man
  • When do you feel like an adult?
  • Car show

Friday, June 10, 2022

347 - Fantasy Football is No Joke



  • Why we're here
  • Rod's great podcast idea: 2-3 minutes of arguing a topic. Hot button issues, silly premises. Each person argues a side at random
  • Selling stuff on social media again
  • Cheers - Ward made it through 9 of 11 seasons
  • Don't buy a couch
  • Baseball in the news: Tommy Pham and Joc Pederson
  • New show segment: answering questions about a housewarming party and a landlord shutting off water

Friday, June 3, 2022

346 - Depp Heard Trial



  • A little bit of politics as we discuss a previous episode
  • We can all return to our lives. The Depp Heard trial is over, well this one. 
  • State of the podcast
  • Uvalde. Can anything be said that hasn't before?
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Friday, May 27, 2022

345 - Finding Your Passion



  • The question. What is an NPC?
  • That time Ward found a random pizza in his  car and ate it
  • Is Ward over the Marvel universe? Does the Dr. Strange Multiverse matter?
  • Star Wars is back with Obi Wan
  • The TV show Atlanta and the creative freedom it has
  • HBO's Winning Time, neat story, great characterization of Larry Bird, but the screen effects are annoying
  • Eric's personal challenge update
  • Kids and life lessons. Finding your passion

Friday, May 20, 2022

344 - Hyperfest



  • Hyperfest at VIR
  • Eric's truck projects
  • Ward's past and future prop projects
  • Ward's new basement project-make a display case/area
  • Sketchup projects - Ward's designing a bowling alley

Friday, May 13, 2022

343 - Building a Bowling Alley



  • Wanted to read more this year, I have been
  • Going to model a bowling alley for fun
  • Still watching Cheers, still enjoyable
  • Dr. Oz, the TV personality, former doctor, is running for senate in Pennsylvania where he doesn't even live
  • What I've been watching

Friday, May 6, 2022

342 - Let It Be Cereal



  • Closet project done, and now I've had time to use it.
  • Replaced a water pump
  • Yakuza 0 video game
  • Netflix: dropping all episodes at one or one episode a week
  • We Own this City - from creators of The Wire
  • The Outer Range
  • Cereal box - how do you store it?

Friday, April 29, 2022

341 - Hedgehogs and Cameras



  • Got a hedge hog
  • Speaking of pets. We know someone pet sitting a hamster
  • Travel
  • Trip: hiking the Grand Canyon
  • Ring camera.

Friday, April 22, 2022

340 - The Batman



  • Majority, minority, and choosing words
  • Ward's closet project is in the final stages
  • Air tags and tracking
  • Rod's closet project
  • Eric's woodpecker feeder
  • The Batman movie discussion with plenty of spoilers
  • The state of super hero movies
  • Cheers tv show. Surprised at how good this show is
  • Baseball and analytics. It's stealing some magic.

Friday, April 15, 2022

339 - Ten Year Movie Rewatch



  • I'll rewatch a movie 10 years
  • A school superintendent lied to the FBI about sending threatening messages. Why?
  • Looked at a Jeep project
  • Movie watch: Turning Red, Tombstone, Leviathan

Friday, April 8, 2022

338 - Will Smith Slappers



  • Closet organizer progress has been slow, but  it's starting to look like the final product
  • Will Smith's not afraid to break the law if he dislikes a joke
  • It's spring, my batting cage is up, go karts are out
  • Pro basketball player Brian Scalabrine told a heckler "I'm closer to Lebron than you are to me."
  • It's easy to forget how skilled even lesser tier pro athletes are
  • Movie watch: Mass, Men in Black, Ocean's Eleven, Death on the Nile

Friday, April 1, 2022

337 - Days of Thunder and Racing Movies



  • Rod is back, or is he
  • Rod's accident
  • Sealed deck. Better to go wood deck or composite?
  • Sleep schedules
  • Days of Thunder. If you cut out everything that's not racing, it's a really good movie
  • Racing movies: 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, Rush, Senna
  • Stallone: Frank, That Is documentary
  • Reminded of this by American Crime Story: Impeachment. Why my family changed churches when I was a kid
  • Locker don't need locks if you have the honor code
  • Salvage history cars

Friday, March 25, 2022

336 - Baseball is Back



  • Baseball is back. Are there fans that ditched the sport because of the lockout?
  • Spring Training has started and teams are rushing
  • Tom Brady is gone, he's back, he's...
  • Mail from old tenants, where do you put it
  • TGI Fridays
  • Eric's burger challenge
  • Dopesick- what a show
  • Jeff Foxwrothy, where has he been the past twenty years?
  • The Batman
  • The Book of Boba Fett
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi series
  • The Clone Wars

Friday, March 18, 2022

335 - Family Friend Found



  • Iinstalled an alternator. The most difficult part was lining up the bolts for the reinstall
  • Update on the missing family friend
  • I want to build a steamer trunk but have nothing to put in it
  • American Crime Story: Impeachment

Friday, March 11, 2022

334 - The Shield Turns 20



  • The project update: background. I was going to start on my closet organizer at the start of the pandemic, but wood prices had gone up substantially. I started it this week and discovered  prices are higher now than at the start of the pandemic.
  • I want to build a toilet paper holder. Was going to do solid wood just to try to be one of those real wood workers
  • The TV series The Shield came out 20 years ago

Friday, March 4, 2022

333 - Ted Turner



  • The project updates. Next larger project will be a closet organizer
  • Ted Turner, incredible what he's done in his lifetime. Donated a billion dollars to pay the US's UN fees. Bought in on uhf TV stations before it was  thing. Bought the Atlanta Braves for a dollar. At one point the largest land owner in the US. Started CNN. Created the Captain Planet cartoon. In the national sailing hall of fame
  • What I've watched: I Want You Back, Gravity, Last Night in Soho, Uncharted, The King's Man

Friday, February 25, 2022

332 - Anti Work



  • A day off does wonders. It just feels different
  • Antiwork is a critique of work. The balance of power in the last year has shifted. Employees have more power
  • I see it as a movement to inform employees of their rights
  • Few small projects, fixing toys, fixing ornaments
  • What I've watched: Dumb and Dumber, Antlers, Kimi

Friday, February 18, 2022

331 - Being Productive is Top Tier



  • Former co-host Rod had a table saw accident
  • NPR - Car Talk. NPR is posting a best of from the Tappet brothers. Great show whether you like cars or not
  • Eric's problem with NPR
  • Ward wants to read more, so does Eric
  • Ward is currently reading The Three Body problem by Liu Cixin being productive is top tier
  • Video games
  • Red Dead Redemption 2

Friday, February 11, 2022

330 - A Tale as Old as Phone



  • Without a phone for only a couple of hours made me feel naked
  • Our first phones
  • Reliance and over-reliance on phones
  • Mecum car auctions
  • Domain has sold
  • Hyperfest at VIR

Friday, February 4, 2022

329 - The Case of the Missing Neighbor



  • A mysterious case of the missing friend
  • Domain update
  • Ward has watched Mission: Impossible movies, X-files movies, Fringe, Old Henry, Unforgiven

Friday, January 28, 2022

328 - Domain No More



  • Eric gets a spray can mixer
  • Car projects and car deals
  • Learning to hammer and dolly
  • Honda Helix paint job
  • Ward made a vinyl/metal poster
  • Video games
  • Spider-man: No Way Home
  • Update on the domain name, I'm selling

Friday, January 21, 2022

327 - Feeling a Little Tender



  • Little bit of snow in the area. The only thing better in snow than a kart is an atv
  • Caleb got a retainer... again
  • Pain on a scale of 1 to 10
  • The worst days
  • Eric pulls out the crystal ball
  • Best days
  • Update on domain sale
  • Burger places, pizza places

Friday, January 14, 2022

326A - Favorite Projects of 2021



  • Favorite projects of 2021:
  • Finished dust collection system 
  • Return to Youtube
  • Scorpion costume
  • Fixing everything that annoyed me on my truck (almost)
  • Sliding door replacement
  • Paint can mixer.

326 - Best TV Shows 2021



  • Best TV Shows of 2021:
  •  Teen Titans Go!
  • Search Party
  • Arrested Development
  • Mare of Easttown
  • Stranger Things
  • Midnight Mass
  • Seinfeld
  • Succession
  • Fargo

Friday, January 7, 2022

325 - Best and Worst Movies 2021



  • Best movies I saw this year: 
  • The Departed
  • The Informer
  • The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • In Bruges
  • The Terminator
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Ghostbusters
  • Unbreakable
  • Before Sunrise
  • Before Sunset
  • The New World
  • Donnie Darko
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Fight Club
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Luca
  • The Place Beyond the Pines
  • Drive
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Casino Royale
  • AlienThe Green Knight
  • The worst movies:
  • 10,000 BC
  • Mortal Kombat (2021
  • )Mortal Kombat (1995)
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Fatale
  • Cosmic Sin
  • Cry Macho
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