Below Deck Sailing Yacht is sinking and Cocktail Hour Memories Part 2

Below Deck Sailing Yacht is running into the rocks

They missed on the casting of 2 key roles on the crew - the captain (I think) and the Chief Stew (for sure).

The preexisting relationship of Paget and his GF - is also a bad mix for this show. We don’t know their history, we’re not invested in their relationship “making it”. A couple nagging each other consistently isn’t great for “Below Deck” dynamic - that’s a very “Real Housewives” Energy.

The Charter Guests haven’t been compelling yet either (Cindy’s take). The guests help to stir the pot, and they haven’t done so, yet.

Cindy also said, “It’s got a Southern Charm Savannah feel to it.”

Unrelated observation - My Parents neighbors leave their Christmas lights on “all year” - and it really messes with your brain. 

Cocktail Hour Memories Part 2 

Love is Blind on Bravo - preview 

Cocktail Hour Memories, Red Sox losing Mookie is the worst & a near death experience

Cocktail Hour Memories and disliking the Red Sox ownership fiercely 

Places listening: France, US, Australia, Egypt, Canada, Russia, Indonesia, Ireland, Ukraine 

Paris, Springfield Mass, Sydney, Cork, Cairo and Toulouse

Andrew Patterson is back - first time in 2020 and man has he seen some changes since we last had him on the Freestyle 

Red Sox ownership - Jeremy Johnson felt this “reset” while painful to the fans and Mookie is ultimately something that makes sense - where do you come down on the Mookie Betts Trade?

Cocktail Hour Memories - one of the most daunting gauntlets of a wedding for the people getting married, is the cocktail hour. 

Which stinks cuz the best part of the wedding is the cocktail hour. 

Andrew only went to the cocktail hour - and he was sober - so any good stories from cocktail hour?

Andrew’s 2020 off to a crazy start — tell us about it. 

Christmas Past Songs from 2009 Podcast

Christmas Past (2009 Pop Song Redux) 

The return to podcasting after surgery begins

Places listening - Heavy in France, especially Paris thanks to Deezer podcast service 

We’re also on Spotify now so subscribe 

Places listening France has been number 1 for 2 weeks. USA 2, UK 3, followed by Canada, Pakistan, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Seychelles (Say Shells), Poland, Peru, Netherlands, East Timor aka Timor-Leste, South Africa, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Tanzania, Lithuania, Sweden, Bahamas  

25 countries on 6 continents — tell your friends doing research on Antartica that we want to go 7 for 7 

Little know fact - New Zealand is part of a submerged continent and Italy is also part of a submerged continent that smashed into europe and was most buried beneath it. Welcome to Plate Tectonics 

Top Cities: Paris by a mile followed by Tampa, Karachi, Georgetown (cayman), LA, Miami, NYC, Nairobi, Cairo, London, Walpole Mass, and Las Vegas  

Lightning round: Only in Boston’s twitter feed had a list of Billboard’s 2009 top songs - immediate reaction to them

#19 Kiss me thru the phone (garbage from Usher, he’s better than that)

#18 Live your life (Fire)

#17 I know you want me (Our introduction to Mr Worldwide, Mr 305, Pitbull — aka Mr. 1234 uno dos tres quatro

They skipped 16

#15 knock you down (can’t remember it)

#14 Use somebody (KOL’s coming out party was def in 2009)

They skipped 13

#12 Dead and Gone (can’t remember it)

#11 You belong to me (taylor swift’s coming out party in 2009 as well)

They skipped 10

#9 Heartless - can’t remember it

#8 Single Ladies (FIRE - prob most popular song on this list)

They Skipped 7

#6 Right Round (can’t remember it)

#5 Love Story (T Swift Killing it)

#4 I got a Feeling (Looking back, Black Eyed Peas we jumping the shark soon after 2009)

#3 Just Dance (Lady Gaga blew up in 2009)

#2 Poker Face (Like I just said Lady Gaga blew up in 2009) - this song is fire still

#1 Boom Boom Pow — this song looking back, was the beginning of the end for Blacked Eyed Peas magical run

Take aways - Taylor Swift, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon were the Big Pop Music winners in 2009 - and they all kept it rolling