428 - Best & Worst Movies and TV

• Ward discusses:
  
• His best & worst movies and TV seasons of the year
• Memento
• Hero
• The Prestige
• Almost Famous
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Green Mile
• Cast Away
• 30 Days of Night
• A History of Violence
• A Ghost Story
• Tár
• Pulp Fiction
• Notting Hill
• Se7en
• Barbie
• Brief Encounter
• Bloodshot
• Gray Matter
  
• The Current War
• The Last of Us
• Friday Night Lights
• Better Call Saul
• Jury Duty
• Succession
• The Bear
• The Wonder Years
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Band of Brothers
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The West Wing
• Scavengers Reign
  

427 - How to Measure a Year?

• Ward discusses:
  
• How to measure the year
• Movie or tv reviews
• 8 novels read
• Youtube video every week
• 3 cars repaired
• Ran a 5k
• Wrote 3 screenplay
• One awesome Halloween costume
• 8' tall sheet metal Sasquatch, 50s era cabinet restoration, charging station, 60 Christmas ornaments
• Plenty of unfinished projects
  

426 - What is a Man?

• Ward and Eric discuss:
  
• What does it mean to be a man?
• Love Actually (2003)
  
• Yellowstone (2018-2024)
  

425 - Can't Be Selfless

• Ward and Eric discuss:
  
• Ward's Christmas ornament project and wood turning
• Can a project be selfless?
• The Vanishing (1993)
  
• NaNoWrimo
• Playstation loophole
  
• Youtube comments
  

424 - Pay Off

• Ward discusses:
  
• NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is complete. 9 years in a row, 11 total years. 18 screenplays, 5 novels
• I've read 7 books
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Christmas project

423 - 5K Run to the Future

• Ward discusses:
  
• Running a 5k and the lack of preparation
  
• Nanowrimo ups, downs, and inbetweens
  
• Facebook Marketplace ranting and grandma
  

422 - Art or Paycheck

• Ward and Eric discuss:
  
• Stallones
• Hanks
• Howards
• Perform for the art or the money
  
• Actors
• Movies

421 - Generation Defining

• Ward and Eric discuss:
  
• Nanowrimo
• Time travel
• Movies that define a generation
  

420 - Halloweenowrimo

• Ward discusses:
  
• Grim Reaper Halloween costume
• Texas Rangers win the World Series
• Nanowrimo

419 - Almost 500

• Ward and Eric discuss:
• Eric's company
• Facebook
• Reaper costume
• No longer precious about Halloween costumes
  
• The trip that could have been
  

418 - Tuesdays to Go

• Ward and Eric discuss:
• Weekday related restaurants
• Branded podcast opportunities
• Domain names and sales
• Reaper costume
• Nanowrimo
• Broken toe

417 - This is an Ad, Only an Ad

• Ward and Eric discuss:
• Extended TGI Fridays Ad
  
• DMV, not as painful as expected
• Mystery amazon delivery
• Milwaukee
• Trivia

416 - Made in America Antique

• Ward and Eric discuss:
• Rocking chair hijinks
  
• Ward is clearing out for Halloween. Honda Pilot is done. Sonata is on the road, though definitely not done
• Reaper costume
• Netflix DVD's no more
• Youtube channel subscribers
• Where do you CNC
  
  

415 - Grim Reaper Kind of Halloween

• Ward discusses:
• Sonata project got sidelined, thinking the wrecked bumpers will get put back temporarily
• October marks the start of Halloween costuming
• This year: the grim reaper
• An original design with a huge scythe
• Ward's previous costume highlights
  

414 - Pilot Project Nearly Complete

• Ward discusses:
• The love for organizing tools
• Sasquatch complete
• Carnivale is the biggest what if in TV history
• Band of Brothers is the single greatest season of television
• Honda Pilot is nearly done. The first car project that will actually be complete
  
• Got a ton of parts at the pick and pull.
  

413 - Stop, Power Ratchet

• Ward discusses:
• Planned trip to a pick and pull junkyard for Honda Pilot parts
• Power ratchet
• Baseball
• The Flash movie from DC
• Who's the Jerk?

412 - Sasquatch Nibbler

• Ward discusses:
• Vintage storage cabinets are done. The how, the why, and a bit of history on the manufacturer
• Sasquatch project. A nibbler is awesome for cutting metal. The MVP of this project
• Crazy Marketplace story
• What We Do in the Shadows Season 5
• Who’s the jerk?

411 - This Headliner Job

• Ward discusses:
• The car project he may actually complete
• A vintage metal cabinet restoration
• The allure of the power ratchet 
• The current irritation with social media
• Selling on the Facebook market
• Watching: Justified: City Primeval, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, SeaQuest DSV, Cocaine Bear,
  

410 - I’m the Bear He’s the Cub

• Eric, Ward, and Caleb discuss:
• Awesome Caleb story at a burger bar
• Caleb's haircut schedule
• What makes a good teacher?
• Insecurities: talking to girls, looking older
• What makes a good person
• A deficiency in the education system
  

409 - I Want Low Pay and Long Hours

• Ward and Caleb discuss:
• Caleb's classroom decor
• The male teacher card
• Immaculate grid
• Baseball
• '97, '03 Marlins
• Roberto Alomar
  
• Yankees and Braves 
• Five year plan
  

408 - He Killed your Dog!

• Ward and Caleb discuss:
• The hamster situation one year later
• Pet sitting
• Civic groups and organizations
• Pretend podcast
• Trading cards
• Libraries
• Estate sales
• Pulp Fiction and the selected works of Tarantino
  

407 - Don't Trust Nice People

• Ward and Caleb discuss:
• Orientation and training isn't fun
• Faking it and nice people
• Immaculate grid
• Choosing teams for the baseball hall of fame players
• Big Daddy Weave
  

406 - Colors Edge

• VGG garage - engine swap at a car show
• Ward still has paint for the Sonata
• Ward's cord wrap for a compressor
• Vacation to Niagara Falls
• Disney vs Universal
• Great Wolf Lodge
• Car Shows
  

405 - If I Had a Million Dollars

• Car projects
• Ward has paint for the Sonata
• Import cars at Duncan's
• Matchbox 20 concert
• Does money change people?
• Lottery winning
  

404 - Flipping and Dealing

• Flipping cars and a dealers license. I don't need a license as I don't work that fast, but I was curious
  
• More earnest in my search for projects?
• Lost change sorter
• Cizin Liu: The Dark Forest, The Three Body Problem
• Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard book
• Beanie baby craze
• Baseball cards

403 - Get a Paint Guy

• Sonata project: I don't have paint yet, but I do have a paint guy. If you're painting cars get a paint guy. Only thing left now is paint
• Next project?
• Storage project
• Natural and man made wonders in the US
• Roadtrip vacation
• Mandy
  

402 - Performative Crime

• Project: closet organizer
• Automotive paint
• Kia boys and performative crime
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Veronica Mars
• A Ghost Story

401 - 100 & 401

• Sonata project no longer leaks coolant
• Milestones -  100 Youtube videos and  401 podcast episodes
• I don't like Will Ferrell comedies
• The Three Body Problem book
• Popular Mechanics
• Neil Gaiman
• Tar
• Flamin' hot
• Black Mirror S6
  

400 - Greatest 90s TV

• Fixing cars
• Go karts
• Great TV shows: The X-files, The Shield, The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Mandalorian
• Best shows of the 90s

399 - They Don't Need It

• Vice Grip Harage
• Patreon and supporting YouTubers. Do they need it?
• Sonata project update - coolant leaks and body work
• Convertibles actually are safe
  
• Halloween costume 2023 - grim reaper
  

398 - Don't Share Passwords

• Netflix password debacle
• Chat GPT
• Hyundai Sonata project
• Ward's movie reviews
• Hogwarts legacy game
  

397 - No Search Results

• The ballin Chevy Cruze
• Project update: car is getting closer to paint and I've tracked down a coolant leak
• The decline of Google search
• I always figure it out
• Future project cars!
  

396 - Harry Potter Money

• Podcast history
• Instagram and Youtube
• More on the Hyundai project
• Harry Potter
• Star Wars
• De Niro
  

395 - Car Talk

• Eric’s convertible BMW
• Ward's Hyundai repair

394 - My Name is Musical

• Saxophone repair. Is there anything Ward can't fix?
• Castaway and the fantasy of surviving extreme conditions
• Hamilton
  
• What musicals would we create?
  -Shel Silverstein
  -The Musical of Manliness
• A delivery sedan. That just seems inefficient

393 - Jury Duty

• Jury Duty Season 1
• Ward's jury duty story from episode 72
• Netflix DVD my mail is shutting down
• Hulu
• Beetlejuice the musical
• Dog show
• Serial podcast new season
• Chevrolet square bodies
  

392 - This is Me in Lament

• Fox News settles with Dominion. Will they rebrand to Fox Entertainment?
• Bud Light boycott
• I can't Youtube and Instagram at the same time
• Gwyneth Paltrow case
• Kids aren't entitled to baseballs
• History of Violence
• 30 Days of Night

391 - Teen Court on TV

• What we've been watching
• The Last of Us
• The Consultant
  
• Community
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch
• Rambo franchise
• Stallone
• X files reboot
• Golf not just as a sport, but a hobby
• Teens and cell phones

390 - Paintball

• Paint ball hobby, how long will it last
• Will it lead to airsoft
• Eric answers the question of how best to catch a paintball
• Car project: Sonata, Blazer, Nova

389 - Memory Highway

• Age rests for no one
• Thea memory that manifests every so often
• Car repair/building/tear down has been fun
• Questions that need answers
  

388 - The Oscar Classic

• The Oscars - Everything Everywhere All at Once was my pick
• Why doesn’t my best movie list get the same play as the Oscars?
• World Baseball Classic, Japan wins
• Hyundai project and junk yards
• Rambo franchise retrospective
  

387 - Friday Night Lights

• As is typical for me, I watch a movie, want to make a movie, read a book, want to write a book
• Watching Friday Night Lights the series, I really want to play high school football
• Advice

386 - Flat Tire

• Raspberry Pi problems but the podcast will continue
• Nothing like a flat tire
• News Radio series
• Advice time

385 - Pooping is Very Sensual

• Continuing the Caleb retrospective
• Youtube and Ward
• Car projects
• Various situations where we ask who's the jerk?
• 29:04Living single, with a personal maid, chef, and laundry service
• We spend a lot of time talking about poop and pooping
• Also vomiting

384 - Does Pudding Work?

• A Zoom meeting gone awry
• Watched the super bowl. A good game until the Chiefs were desperately trying not to score a touchdown
• What qualifies as junk food?
• Caleb is a teacher
• A Caleb retrospective
• Code switching

383 - The Search for the 300ZX

• I painted a trash can
• Ending a sentence with a prepsoition
• Will I ever find my 300zx?
• Advice:
  -Lottery problems
  -Embarrassed in front of an ex
  -Toxic boyfriend

382 - No Progresso

• The Blazer progress isn't much. Was going to start the next project and remember all the problems when I parked it years ago.
  
• Teaching myself to solder. Is the issue the equipment or me?
• Watched: Bull Durham, Scott Pilgrim vs the World
• Advice:
  -Visiting a messy house
  -Seat saving
  -Fake prosthetic leg

381 - The Blazer Runs

• The Blazer finally runs
• I'm not a mechanic, but I've gotten by. This is affirming
• Still have front shocks to install, digital gauge cluster doesn't light up. need to replace motor mounts
• Dazed and Confused is as close to 1976 as we are to 2006. WOW
• Got a mobile tool cart. Made a few changes, it's well worth it
  
• The Walking Dead S11 and Fear the Walking Dead S7
  

380 - Will the Blazer Ever Run

• The Blazer has been problem after problem
• A starter issue turned out to be a ground
• The fuel pump, which is new, seems to be defective
• That 90s Show
• Alice in Borderland
• Final Destination
• The 300

379 - Felt Like a Man Again

• Watched Boy Meets World, released in 1993
• The xmas ornament giveaway
• House fire
• Caleb got a fish
• His room smelled like underwater Seaworld

378 - You Can't Do a Comb Over

• Caleb is back... with a broken back
• You can't do a combover
• Fun song lyrics with your pastor
• This is not a safe space for you
• Dating apps, Caleb's dating apps
  

377 - Favorite Projects of 2022

• The my favorite projects of 2022:
  -Computer build
  -Exterior receptacle
  -Halloween costume
  -Mini-lathe; finally turned handles
  -Closet organizer
  -Youtube channel
  -My favorite project is the next project. I've been talking about a car project for a long time while willfully ignoring the Blazer. that's underway, and I have a car project right after that