My wife and I rarely watch news. We watch a local news in the morning and that’s it. My News diet is dedicated to only watching it when something major happens that can’t be captured with words on a page. This was of course a direct result of my fellow countrymen’s obsession with Trump. I even gave up the “funny” news shows that I so loved because I’m just tired of being upset or outraged. I still know and understand how screwed up this country is and all of its problems but giving up watching the news gives me a more balanced idea of what is good and bad.
With you on morning, Joe. But we still watch it! When I started watching Joe and Mika, 15 years ago, they had more guests that they didn’t pull out of a can. Better questioning. Many more diverse, viewpoints – although I think that is in part because both sides are afraid to endanger their base by being seen on a hostile net work.
Love the TML. Glad you’re still doing it. This one sheds some important light on your worldview. Lester Holt, NPR, etc. hence, the flippant “Florida banning books” comment. They’re not banning books--doc. They’re doing what schools should do and that is protect children from pornographic text and imagery. That type of book has crept back into the schools and Florida is right to rein it in. Of course, the highly biased outlets you listen to (when you’re not taking a week off from the news) give you only one view of the world. Force yourself to listen to Tucker for ONE week and then go back to Scarborough. Can you? Or is listening to someone like Tucker so totally anathema to you that it’s impossible to watch? None of these talking heads are right all the time--but turn off Lester and NPR for just long enough to listen to more traditional views? Might be a good idea to give your news world some balance. I respect you as a highly intelligent person. I do believe you’re so married to some of the traditional news outlets that have proven, time and again, to be wildly biased (Russian collusion, Cov Cath kids, Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation, COVID from “raccoon dogs” and not from the lab right in the same town--just to name a few) that you might benefit from giving just something different a look. Substack has some excellent real journalism from people like Bari Weiss. Give it a look!! Thanks for the TML and hopefully reading my comment. Best to you.
Regarding You, this new season that just came out is set in England and even worse. I like Penn Badgley but netflix needs to cancel this series ASAP. One of my faves is John Prine. Although not sure he would be considered a folkie.
TV is your life: It isn’t everyone’s cup of blood, but there is no better ensemble of quirky characters crafting ways to hurl and unfurl the f-word than the world-weary, arrested adolescent undead of “What We Do in the Shadows.” They’ve elevated it to an art form. Insult. Invective. Adjective. Exclamation. Wicked funny show.
Do they throw in some TBL homage too? Strange I've never noticed Doc speaking of any things Dude before, 'specially now learning of this new #@$%ing fetish, what with there being 26o bombs dropped innit
Not you grok 'The Big Lebowski' cultism and features such as Dudeism and the Dudeist Priesthood to which you may aspire to be credentialed as ordained?
Cat Stevens...for me it was "Silver Spoon". It made me cry as a young mother when my son was young and his dad left when he was 6...mine left when I was 4. Dads weren't around for those dad times. I still cry when I hear the song. I gave my son everything I could, ...the silver spoon...but never another dad.
it’s a shame when someone i respect is so gullible to believe fake news and then share it to promote his “team”. clearly you are not avoiding news if you are spouting non sense on book bans that even left USA today debunked. embarrassed
The IRA/Koch/GQP/Murdoch social media echo chamber culture war fascists don't think so, as you see scripted parrot rhetoric like this everywhere trying to gaslight that haha tut tut there's nothing to it you spineless witless leftist jackals tut tut ha hee haw nothing to see here disinfo misdirectional propaganza. Gov Bakker on Steroids in FLA poured million$ of his own reelection scampaign cashola into local school board races emulating the previous Tea Party fake grass roots astroturfing tactics employed previously by Koch, Jeff Yass, Dick Uihlein, Mercers, McMahons et al
USAToday is more milquetoast mainstream to anyone not from the delusional frightwing echo chamber. CRT & AA studies disclusions count as per se 'books bans'
The baseball game was a real bore. I watched maybe half and gave it up. I was tired of doing crossword puzzles. How do they pick the U.S. Team? Or did they just form a club and pick themselves? It would be nice if this continues if they would at least have one person from each team so people might want to watch it for a reason, if only to cheer on their one hero. A dud in my estimation.
Normally here Doc would channel Jimmy Dugan and give you the ol' Crash Davis loving labor of languid liplocks pep talk and lament how chicks dig the luxurious long ball and all that ... but since he's gone all zen all the sudden, my Rx is see if you can dig up the old & obscure B&W William Bendix classic 'Kill the Umpire' and give that a twirl
During the 1970 NBA season, I was fortunate enough to work as a locker room/bench manager for the Royals. The Knicks came to town and I worked their bench. That group of guys were, hands down, the friendliest, most professional team i saw all year. These days I can’t remember where I put my keys but can name every player on the Knicks 1970 roster.
Side note…I also watched Pistol Pete wheeled through the crowd to the team bus in the Hawk mascot costume crate to avoid the adoring fans crowding the locker room door.
This was also the first non-local NBA team I became compelled by. Didn't they consume the sports world in setting an all time consecutive wins (2o?) streak that year?
* it was 18 in a row, part of a 23-1 season start record that GSW surpassed around 5 seasons ago. The '71/2 Lakers soon obliterated the record with 33
Sitting watching the horses eat, red tail hawks flying and coyotes howling. 74 years old at the end of the month and blessed by Mother Nature every day. Don’t watch television and read books every evening. No news. This is the good life, Doc.
I was a big fan of that Knicks team with Willis Reed. My guy was Clyde Fraizer. In 1970 my dad dropped a friend and me off at Cincinnati Gardens to watch the Knicks play the Royals (I was 12 years old, imagine that today). I was disappointed to find out Fraizer was back in NY with the flu. Nate Archibald lit them up for 48 points and the Royals won. Bill Bradley was on Dan Patrick this morning and he shared some great stories of that team and his Converse All Star high tops. BTW, DP has shared the fact that he was also at this game back when he lived in Mason.
How many late night broadcasts from the west coast did I thrill to Dom Valentino's call of the exploits of Nate the Skate (Nate's on the gallop, he stops ... pops .. he scoooress!), Sam Lacey, Tom van Arsdale, Jumpin' Johnny Green, Connie Dierking & the immortal Luther Rackley, Stormin' Norman van Lear ...
People forget Bob Quick and Luther Rackley were a year apart at Xavier, so they definitely played together for a few years. Both went on to play in the NBA. In fact, Quick had a reasonably distinguished career. He was tough around the basket and a decent scorer per minutes on the floor. The Rack Man was a lesser piece on a couple teams. Never reached his full potential in the NBA, but a solid college guy. Those Cousy teams were a sad imitation of what the Royals had once been. Cousy singlehandedly wrecked the Royals. He and Oscar hated each other.
Dom Valetino must have been on some not yet illegal drugs. I swear, the guy would scream like a banshee who just sat down on a tack the whole game. I felt like I was in the back room of a nasty high stakes poker game among some rough mafia boys whenever he called a game, waiting for shots to ring out from the inevitable gunfight that was about to break out.
I was much more a fan of Catlett's Dickey/Batts teams than anything X circa that era. I was also 11 or 12 during that '69/7o season so you'd have been oh so much more erudite and urbane than little ol' creeker from back wilderness bluegrass me
Us grown ups can be very tolerable of you youngsters......if you behave.
BTW, I started listening to Royals games when I was little on an old clock radio that was the only radio I had as a kid. I vaguely remember listening to them playing Syracuse one night, crackling in over WLW. I got to go to games when I was maybe 8 or 9. Saw all sorts of historic figures of the early NBA. Was lucky enough to see the dynasty Celts of Auerbach and Russell et al play a number of times. Best example of real teamwork I've ever seen. The Gardens was a mammoth concrete block and steel behemoth of a structure, the parking was largely on mud with a little gravel thrown on top, and the location nearly impossible to get to easily, as I-75 wasn't built until the mid 60s. It was like going to a strange, mysterious temple in the middle of nowhere. Everything about the location was wrong.
My mom's older sister's husband aka my uncle worked for Chrysler and we'd drive up to Lima and later Springboro where they lived for holidays in the '6os. I have a 1st cousin(once removed)-in-law from around there claims he backed up Hank Finkel for Don Donoher at UD which is about as far back as I remember being aware of those logistics. We used to take the Augusta Ferry gettin' to Coney Island
I didn't watch a pitch of the WBC final, preferring to be with Sally; it's probably why we've been married 32 years, 12 days, 1 hour and 55 minutes as I type. Father and Son was one of my favorite Cat Stevens songs growing up, the other being "Wild World." Thank you, sir, for sharing with us OGs.
I'm 62 and I have more contentment in my life than ever.
Genre aside, Cat had/has one the most remarkable voices.
My wife and I rarely watch news. We watch a local news in the morning and that’s it. My News diet is dedicated to only watching it when something major happens that can’t be captured with words on a page. This was of course a direct result of my fellow countrymen’s obsession with Trump. I even gave up the “funny” news shows that I so loved because I’m just tired of being upset or outraged. I still know and understand how screwed up this country is and all of its problems but giving up watching the news gives me a more balanced idea of what is good and bad.
With you on morning, Joe. But we still watch it! When I started watching Joe and Mika, 15 years ago, they had more guests that they didn’t pull out of a can. Better questioning. Many more diverse, viewpoints – although I think that is in part because both sides are afraid to endanger their base by being seen on a hostile net work.
Love the TML. Glad you’re still doing it. This one sheds some important light on your worldview. Lester Holt, NPR, etc. hence, the flippant “Florida banning books” comment. They’re not banning books--doc. They’re doing what schools should do and that is protect children from pornographic text and imagery. That type of book has crept back into the schools and Florida is right to rein it in. Of course, the highly biased outlets you listen to (when you’re not taking a week off from the news) give you only one view of the world. Force yourself to listen to Tucker for ONE week and then go back to Scarborough. Can you? Or is listening to someone like Tucker so totally anathema to you that it’s impossible to watch? None of these talking heads are right all the time--but turn off Lester and NPR for just long enough to listen to more traditional views? Might be a good idea to give your news world some balance. I respect you as a highly intelligent person. I do believe you’re so married to some of the traditional news outlets that have proven, time and again, to be wildly biased (Russian collusion, Cov Cath kids, Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation, COVID from “raccoon dogs” and not from the lab right in the same town--just to name a few) that you might benefit from giving just something different a look. Substack has some excellent real journalism from people like Bari Weiss. Give it a look!! Thanks for the TML and hopefully reading my comment. Best to you.
Doc, quick note… I read somewhere just yesterday that Cat is releasing an album in the next few months. It should be interesting to hear.
Regarding You, this new season that just came out is set in England and even worse. I like Penn Badgley but netflix needs to cancel this series ASAP. One of my faves is John Prine. Although not sure he would be considered a folkie.
TV is your life: It isn’t everyone’s cup of blood, but there is no better ensemble of quirky characters crafting ways to hurl and unfurl the f-word than the world-weary, arrested adolescent undead of “What We Do in the Shadows.” They’ve elevated it to an art form. Insult. Invective. Adjective. Exclamation. Wicked funny show.
Do they throw in some TBL homage too? Strange I've never noticed Doc speaking of any things Dude before, 'specially now learning of this new #@$%ing fetish, what with there being 26o bombs dropped innit
(NSFW)
https://youtu.be/gU2ZgaQ_H-Y
Not catching up to “TBL.” Pro favor, explica.
Not you grok 'The Big Lebowski' cultism and features such as Dudeism and the Dudeist Priesthood to which you may aspire to be credentialed as ordained?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudeism
Cat Stevens...for me it was "Silver Spoon". It made me cry as a young mother when my son was young and his dad left when he was 6...mine left when I was 4. Dads weren't around for those dad times. I still cry when I hear the song. I gave my son everything I could, ...the silver spoon...but never another dad.
it’s a shame when someone i respect is so gullible to believe fake news and then share it to promote his “team”. clearly you are not avoiding news if you are spouting non sense on book bans that even left USA today debunked. embarrassed
Brian has never heard of a joke.
The IRA/Koch/GQP/Murdoch social media echo chamber culture war fascists don't think so, as you see scripted parrot rhetoric like this everywhere trying to gaslight that haha tut tut there's nothing to it you spineless witless leftist jackals tut tut ha hee haw nothing to see here disinfo misdirectional propaganza. Gov Bakker on Steroids in FLA poured million$ of his own reelection scampaign cashola into local school board races emulating the previous Tea Party fake grass roots astroturfing tactics employed previously by Koch, Jeff Yass, Dick Uihlein, Mercers, McMahons et al
https://www.salon.com/2022/02/08/whats-behind-the-right-wing-book-ban-frenzy-big-money-and-a-long-term-plan/
USAToday is more milquetoast mainstream to anyone not from the delusional frightwing echo chamber. CRT & AA studies disclusions count as per se 'books bans'
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/usa-today-2/
The baseball game was a real bore. I watched maybe half and gave it up. I was tired of doing crossword puzzles. How do they pick the U.S. Team? Or did they just form a club and pick themselves? It would be nice if this continues if they would at least have one person from each team so people might want to watch it for a reason, if only to cheer on their one hero. A dud in my estimation.
https://youtu.be/eEoP_qVbTiA
Normally here Doc would channel Jimmy Dugan and give you the ol' Crash Davis loving labor of languid liplocks pep talk and lament how chicks dig the luxurious long ball and all that ... but since he's gone all zen all the sudden, my Rx is see if you can dig up the old & obscure B&W William Bendix classic 'Kill the Umpire' and give that a twirl
During the 1970 NBA season, I was fortunate enough to work as a locker room/bench manager for the Royals. The Knicks came to town and I worked their bench. That group of guys were, hands down, the friendliest, most professional team i saw all year. These days I can’t remember where I put my keys but can name every player on the Knicks 1970 roster.
Side note…I also watched Pistol Pete wheeled through the crowd to the team bus in the Hawk mascot costume crate to avoid the adoring fans crowding the locker room door.
At age 70 I know two things…
1. I don’t know nothin’.
2. I don’t have to know nothin’.
Thanks Doc for making my life better.
This was also the first non-local NBA team I became compelled by. Didn't they consume the sports world in setting an all time consecutive wins (2o?) streak that year?
* it was 18 in a row, part of a 23-1 season start record that GSW surpassed around 5 seasons ago. The '71/2 Lakers soon obliterated the record with 33
Thanks, Bobby. Ditto.
Sitting watching the horses eat, red tail hawks flying and coyotes howling. 74 years old at the end of the month and blessed by Mother Nature every day. Don’t watch television and read books every evening. No news. This is the good life, Doc.
If you're lucky enough to have horses to watch, you have reason to be happy! That would make my life a much better one for sure.
I was a big fan of that Knicks team with Willis Reed. My guy was Clyde Fraizer. In 1970 my dad dropped a friend and me off at Cincinnati Gardens to watch the Knicks play the Royals (I was 12 years old, imagine that today). I was disappointed to find out Fraizer was back in NY with the flu. Nate Archibald lit them up for 48 points and the Royals won. Bill Bradley was on Dan Patrick this morning and he shared some great stories of that team and his Converse All Star high tops. BTW, DP has shared the fact that he was also at this game back when he lived in Mason.
How many late night broadcasts from the west coast did I thrill to Dom Valentino's call of the exploits of Nate the Skate (Nate's on the gallop, he stops ... pops .. he scoooress!), Sam Lacey, Tom van Arsdale, Jumpin' Johnny Green, Connie Dierking & the immortal Luther Rackley, Stormin' Norman van Lear ...
People forget Bob Quick and Luther Rackley were a year apart at Xavier, so they definitely played together for a few years. Both went on to play in the NBA. In fact, Quick had a reasonably distinguished career. He was tough around the basket and a decent scorer per minutes on the floor. The Rack Man was a lesser piece on a couple teams. Never reached his full potential in the NBA, but a solid college guy. Those Cousy teams were a sad imitation of what the Royals had once been. Cousy singlehandedly wrecked the Royals. He and Oscar hated each other.
Dom Valetino must have been on some not yet illegal drugs. I swear, the guy would scream like a banshee who just sat down on a tack the whole game. I felt like I was in the back room of a nasty high stakes poker game among some rough mafia boys whenever he called a game, waiting for shots to ring out from the inevitable gunfight that was about to break out.
I was much more a fan of Catlett's Dickey/Batts teams than anything X circa that era. I was also 11 or 12 during that '69/7o season so you'd have been oh so much more erudite and urbane than little ol' creeker from back wilderness bluegrass me
Us grown ups can be very tolerable of you youngsters......if you behave.
BTW, I started listening to Royals games when I was little on an old clock radio that was the only radio I had as a kid. I vaguely remember listening to them playing Syracuse one night, crackling in over WLW. I got to go to games when I was maybe 8 or 9. Saw all sorts of historic figures of the early NBA. Was lucky enough to see the dynasty Celts of Auerbach and Russell et al play a number of times. Best example of real teamwork I've ever seen. The Gardens was a mammoth concrete block and steel behemoth of a structure, the parking was largely on mud with a little gravel thrown on top, and the location nearly impossible to get to easily, as I-75 wasn't built until the mid 60s. It was like going to a strange, mysterious temple in the middle of nowhere. Everything about the location was wrong.
My mom's older sister's husband aka my uncle worked for Chrysler and we'd drive up to Lima and later Springboro where they lived for holidays in the '6os. I have a 1st cousin(once removed)-in-law from around there claims he backed up Hank Finkel for Don Donoher at UD which is about as far back as I remember being aware of those logistics. We used to take the Augusta Ferry gettin' to Coney Island
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I didn't watch a pitch of the WBC final, preferring to be with Sally; it's probably why we've been married 32 years, 12 days, 1 hour and 55 minutes as I type. Father and Son was one of my favorite Cat Stevens songs growing up, the other being "Wild World." Thank you, sir, for sharing with us OGs.
Your post makes me think of Meatloaf for some odd reason
https://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw